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NEWS BOX Poll Body Removes Senior Cop In Mamata Banerjee's Security No notice for payment of service tax/GST to be issued to lawyers: Orissa HC The Orissa High Court has directed the GST Commissioner to issue clear instructions to all officers in the state that no notice demanding payment of service tax/GST will be issued to lawyers.

New Delhi. The Orissa High practicing advocates. The conceded before the court that no Kolkata: The Election Commission of India Court has issued clear petition was filed by advocate notice ought to have been issued to (ECI) on Friday removed a senior police instructions to the GST Devi Prasad Tripathy after the practicing advocate in the first officer posted in the security of West Commissioner and all officers in documentary evidence was place. He also sought time to seek Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, the state that no notice sought from him to prove his instructions when the bench asked an official said. The step against Asoke demanding payment of service claim that he was a practicing him whether clear instructions had Chakraborty, an officer on special duty tax/GST will be issued to individual lawyer and does not been issued by the department to (OSD) in an ex-cadre post in the rank of lawyers rendering legal fall under the provisions of all the officers involved in the superintendent of police, is believed to services. GST or service tax. The bench enforcement of the GST regime. have been taken because of "security In an order, the bench headed by observed, “With reference to a Lawyers attending the hearing also lapses" which led to Ms Banerjee's foot Chief Justice Dr S Muralidhar notification dated June 20, told the bench that notices had injury in Nandigram last month, he said. and Justice B P Routray said that 2012, the service tax liability of been issued to them too by the "He is removed from the post with practicing advocates should not an individual advocate is NIL department handling GST. The immediate effect," the official said. Ms have to face harassment on for legal services rendered to bench went on to observe, “It Banerjee suffered the injury after a fall account of the department any business entity located in appears that despite knowing fully while campaigning in her constituency issuing notices, calling upon the taxable territory. However, well that advocates are not liable to Nandigram on March 10. Since then, she is them to pay service tax when the department insists that the pay service tax or GST, notices seeking votes for her party sitting on a they are exempted from doing burden to prove this lies on the continue to be issued to them by wheelchair.The poll panel earlier so. In this process, they also petitioner.” The bench also the GST Commissionerate.” The suspended Ms Banerjee's Director have to prove that they are stated that Additional Solicitor matter will be taken up for further Security Vivek Sahay following the General PK Parhi had hearingonApril22. incident. The poll body, in an order, also attached Ajeet Singh Yadav, Superintendent Of Police of Counter Supreme Court issues Insurgency Force, to the Howrah Police Vaccine Wastage Area Of Concern For Commissionerate, "in view of the sensitivity of the assembly election in notice to NIA on Thwaha Howrah district in phase 4" on Saturday. Faisal's plea against bail Boys discover dormant projectile weighing Centre: National Health Authority CEO 8 kg while playing cricket near Chennai Speaking at an event organised by the Public Affairs Forum of India (PAFI), Mr Sharma said cancellation in UAPA case Chennai. In a shocking incident, a group of The Supreme Court has youths unearthed an unexploded projectile India has manufacturing capacity but that does not mean vaccine wastage can be allowed. while playing cricket at a ground in New Delhi: The wastage of coronavirus entire vaccination process and issued a notice to the Periyapalayam on the outskirts of Chennai. vaccine has been an area of concern for reducing hesitancy. On a question on National Investigation The incident took place on April 7 when a few the government, National Health accelerating the country's vaccination youths found an unexploded projectile Authority CEO Dr Ram Sewak Sharma drive, Mr Sharma said the supply of Agency on the petition of while digging the ground to fix stumps for said Friday, suggesting that consolidating vaccine, capacity to vaccinate and the cricket game. The boys had initially smaller vaccination centres into larger demands are crucial determinants. The Thwaha Fasal against a started hitting the projectile with their bats ones can help address this issue. theme of the PAFI Dialogue was Kerala High Court order until some people in the vicinity stopped Speaking at an event organised by the "COVID vaccination and the National them. Soon after, the projectile was Public Affairs Forum of India (PAFI), Mr Digital Health Mission (NDHM)". Mr dismissing his bail petition. discovered, residents in the area alerted the Sharma said India has manufacturing Sharma also highlighted the change in police. Fearing the projectile could explode, capacity but that does not mean vaccine the Co-WIN digital platform from the police informed the bomb squad. On wastage can be allowed. He stressed that being a supply-driven response in the inspection, it was found out that the vaccination aims to cover people who initial phase of vaccination of frontline projectile was a foot long and weighed 8 kg. need it and not those who want it, with the workers and healthcare workers to It was suggested that the projectile might have responsibility to prevent wastage lying being demand driven since March not exploded when the shell was fired. with state governments and local Co-WIN portal initially, but they were 2021, where the citizen can register and However, it can explode if not handled authorities. "The wastage of vaccine is an ironed out in a couple of days and now "we book an appointment schedule. This change properly. The projectile has been handed area of concern. We are lucky to have have a very scalable system and there have in digital system delivery is requisite for over to experts to inspect and destroy it later, manufacturing capacity of vaccine but it been no glitches since March 1". "We also accelerating the speed of COVID-19 according to police officials. does not mean we can waste the vaccine. tackled the issue of security and business Vaccination in the country, he said. Talking Local management can reduce that part," he continuity aspects. Now, the government has about the global validity of the digital Jharkhand HC postpones RJD chief Lalu said. involved the private sector in a big way so all vaccination certificate issued by the Prasad's bail plea hearing by a week He also stressed on the need for the hospitals empanelled under the government, Mr Sharma said, "The WHO is New Delhi. The Supreme Court on Friday consolidating smaller vaccination centres. Ayushman Bharat or the Central working on a standard which is called as Fast issued a notice to the National Investigation New Delhi. The Jharkhand High Court on "There are other minor details like the need to Government Health Scheme or other private Healthcare Interoperability Resources Agency (NIA) on the petition of Thwaha Friday postponed bail plea hearing of sector groups have been roped in the (FHIR). They are designing and working on Fasal against a Kerala High Court order consolidate vaccine centres into larger dismissing his bail plea in the UAPA case former Bihar Chief Minister and Rashtriya centres and if that happens then vaccination vaccination program and that is why we have the format of the digital certificate including Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad by a been able to scale up to such large numbers," various aspects that a digital certificate against him. The bench comprising Justices wastage will also reduce. Wastage takes Navin Sinha and Ajay Rastogi has asked NIA week. The bail plea was moved in relation to place generally in the last vial. People at he said. Mr Sharma said the private sector should contain and digital verifiability of has a huge role to play in the entire same. India since the beginning has aligned to respond within three weeks. Thwaha Fasal the fodder scam case. The high court times not turning up after getting and Shuaib, who are students of journalism postponed the bail plea to April 16 after the appointment is also an issue," he said. Mr vaccination process, ranging from to it. As soon as they come up with the standard, we will be in full. and law, respectively, and CPI(M)'s branch Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Sharma said there were some glitches in the mobilising and creating awareness about the committee members, were arrested by NIA sought time to file its reply on the matter. on November 2, 2019 under the Unlawful The case relates to unlawful withdrawal of Rs Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) for their 3.13 crore from the Dhumka treasury during DCW rescues 16-year-old Jharkhand girl after social media plaint alleged Maoist links. the 1990s in Bihar. Lalu Yadav’s lawyer Senior Advocate V Giri, appearing for Fasal, Kapil Sibal alleged that the CBI was New Delhi. The Delhi cognizance of the stated that he was in custody since November deliberately delaying the matter. He said, Z 2019 and was granted bail in September last "When papers and documents were served The Delhi Commission for Women fake Aadhaar card (DCW) has rescued a which was made for year. However, after the Kerala High Court to CBI beforehand why did they not bother cancelled Fasal's bail plea, he was forced to to come prepared?" RJD spokesperson Commission for minor girl from Channa the minor girl. DCW Market in Delhi’s Karol Chairperson, Swati surrender again in January. Fasal had moved Smita Lakra said while the party has faith in the Supreme Court, challenging the Kerala the judiciary, it is upsetting to see how on Women has Bagh. The 16-year-old Maliwal, said a High Court's judgment which set aside bail each fresh date the CBI, some way or other, hails from Gumla racket is being run granted to him by the NIA Court in Kochi. rescued a 16- district’s Palkot area in by placement prolongs the bail plea hearing. She alleged A division bench of the high court, however, they want to keep Lalu Prasad behind the year-old girl Jharkhand. The agencies, who bring did not cancel the bail of another accused bars for “political reasons”. On behalf of the commission took minor children to Allan Shuaib, considering his young age and RJD chief, his counsel Devashri Mandal from Delhi’s cognizance of a tweet and Delhi on the pretext health. Additional Solicitor General S V had filed a bail application in the Jharkhand then rescued her after an of job opportunities Raju, the counsel for NIA, told Supreme High Court arguing that he has completed Karol Bagh. immense effort from a house in that it was easier for her to get a and lucrative salaries. They are Court that bail had been granted to the other half of the sentence awarded to him. The Karol Bagh. The tweet was job. She was told that if anyone either not paid or kept as help at a accused only on medical grounds. He added plea also mentioned his poor health The minor was posted from an account in asked her what her age was, she very low salary. Last year, the that Kerala High Court was right in condition. On February 19, the court Jharkhand. Both Jharkhand and should say 18. The victim was DCW helped the Jharkhand cancelling Fasal's bail. NIA had in course of rejected the bail plea as Lalu Prasad had brought to Delhi Delhi Police were tagged in the working at the house for the last government rescue many girls the earlier hearings stated that a large amount fallen short by 1 month and 17 days to tweet. four months. The victim told from Delhi. "I am happy that of incriminating material had been seized complete half of his sentencing. After on the pretext of The minor was brought to Delhi on DCW that she wanted to go back DCW, with its 24 hours from Fasal during his arrest. This included completing the said period in jail, he once the pretext of a job offer. A fake to her home. The DCW has kept functioning social media as well books on Maoists along with articles, again sought bail in the court. Lalu Prasad a job offer. Aadhaar card was also made so the victim in a shelter home. The as ground team, rescued the pamphlets, and multiple documents that has so far been convicted in four out of five commission also took minor girl," said Maliwal. support Maoist ideology. cases related to multi-crore fodder scam. He has already acquired bail in three other cases of the multi-crore rupees fodder scam. Swine flu spread through imported pigs: Mizoram Minister Mukhtar Ansari spends sleepless nights at Aizawl. Mizoram Animal Husbandry and Veterinary minister Dr K Beichhua on Friday said the prevailing swine flu, which claimed more than 400 pigs in the state was believed to be spread through illegally Banda jail battling mosquito attack, heat imported pigs from outside the state. The minister on Friday convened a meeting with officials, representatives of NGOs and pig Uttar Pradesh's dreaded don-turned-politician, Mukhtar Ansari, who has been lodged at the Banda jail, is having sleepless nights at rearers to review the outbreak of swine fever at Lungsen village in Lunglei district. the prison. After spending the past few years at a jail in Punjab, Mukhtar Ansari is now battling mosquitoes at the Banda jail. He told the meeting that the government has banned the import of pigs and other pig Banda. Uttar Pradesh's dreaded don- from Punjab. The police made a products from other states and foreign turned-politician, Mukhtar Ansari, 900-km journey from Rupnagar to countries since last year. He said that African who has been lodged at the Banda the Uttar Pradesh town in the Swine Fever (AFS) is highly suspected to be jail, is having sleepless nights at Bundelkhand region to bring back the cause of the death of pigs at Lungsen the prison. After spending the past MukhtarAnsari. The Uttar Pradesh village. Beichhuah reiterated that the few years at a jail in Punjab, government has said a team of government is making effort to contain the Mukhtar Ansari is now battling doctors from the Banda Medical outbreak at the earliest. He added that the mosquitoes at the Banda jail. College examined Mukhtar Ansari government will also take necessary Mukhtar Ansari, who has already at the Banda jail and found no measures to ensure that a Veterinary Officer spent two nights at the Banda jail immediate health issues. Mukhtar (VO) is posted at Lungsen village. after his return from Punjab, is also Ansari is under strict vigil at the jail unable to cope with the heat. that has been covered with CCTV According to a veterinary department Compared to Punjab where and drones. His family has official, at least 320 pigs have died due to an Mukhtar Ansari was lodged since expressed concern over Mukhtar unconfirmed disease highly suspected to be 2019, the temperature in Uttar Ansari’s safety in UP, expressing ASF since March 21. Besides, 115 pigs also Pradesh is over 10 degrees more. apprehension about possible died due to unknown disease in four villages Mukhtar Ansari was brought back to attempts to eliminate him. The in Mamit district, he said. Meanwhile, the the Banda jail early on Wednesday Bahujan Samaj Party MLA from government on Thursday declared two morning in an ambulance, which Mau faces trial in Uttar Pradesh in localities Edenthar Veng and Armed Veng in was part of a convoy of gun-toting several cases, including attempt to Aizawl as "infected area".. policemen, who brought him back murder and murder. 3 New Delhi, Sunday, 11 April, 2021 STATE THE SIKH TIMES

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NEWS BOX Will take steps to stop No talks since January 22: Govt shaken despite ‘love jihad’, says Uttarakhand CM Tirath pretending to ignore us, say farmer unions Singh Rawat Haridwar Uttarakhand Chief Minister Farmer unions are planning the next phase of the agitation mindful of the fact that Tirath Singh Rawat on Friday said that he was concerned about the prevalence of “love jihad” in the state, adding that he was government seems ready to play the waiting game to tire out the protesters. going to take steps to stop the same. Ludhiana JANUARY 22 was the last time am, April 10 to 8am on April 11. has made it possible as we are the Rawat was speaking at the VHP kendriya farmer unions had a meeting with the Union Government is delaying talking to us common people who are fighting for our margdarshak mandal in Haridwar. Top government over farm laws. For 77 days intentionally due to which farmers are rights and we have no vested interests VHP leaders and saints attended the now, there has been no formal discussion getting angry. But this aandolan is like political parties.”Jagmohan Singh, meeting and discussed the issue of “love between the two sides. But farmer unions are spreading fast in the whole country. working group member of the All India jihad” at length.Revealing that he had planning the next phase of the agitation Summers are ahead so shanties have been Kisan Sangrash Coordination recently held a meeting with police mindful of the fact that government seems made by farmers to stay put. Now we are Committee (AIKSCC), said, ‘’Farmers officials on the issue, Rawat said the state ready to play the waiting game to tire out the doing several meetings in different states are sitting on borders since November has fewer cases of “love jihad” as the state protesters.Famer leader and SKM member apart from having morchas only at borders. 26. We spent the entire winter on roads. is “devbhumi” (land of the gods) and has Rakesh Tikait said, ‘’Yes, we have had no This is how it is spreading in the country. A Now summer has also started, but the blessings of saints. “Hence it (love talks with government after January 22. parliament march in the first fortnight of farmers will do harvesting as well as jihad) is not much here but it prevails. I Now we are busy in making the entire May is an important programme for which will be at morchas. Yes, they have not have expressed my concerns about it. I had country aware of these deadly farm laws. we are yet to decide an exact date.”is not a political platform, we are farmers of called us after January 22 even once. a meeting four days back and took a report This aandolan is spreading in the whole Gurnam Singh Chaduni, president of the the country and we are the ones who have But a number of times we did get messages of all the districts… I am concerned and country now and is not limited to one or two Haryana BKU, who was in Punjab on April made a difference to BJP. We are continuing to reconsider the government’s previous certainly I am going to take some steps into states alone. Let government remain busy in 8, said, ‘’In Haryana, BJP is trying hard to our protest against farm laws and we will offer of holding of farm laws for 18 months. this,” Rawat said. their election works. Hum lamba aandolan instigate farmers to get violent. Our aim is to continue spreading awareness. Irrespective However, we cannot settle for anything less Presenting a resolution, Ramchandra Das chalane ko tayaar hain…(we are ready for protest against BJP-JJP leaders in a peaceful of the poll results of 5 states, our protest is to than repeal of laws. This government agreed from Chitrakoot termed “love jihad” a the long haul).Tikait said, “Government manner, any violence will be helping BJP as continue till the laws are not repealed.” before the media of not amending electricity conspiracy. Giving an example of a woman wants this struggle to get violent. People get it will entangle farmers within Haryana and He added, “We have a major program ahead. act, but now they are bringing it in officer, he said if highly educated women tired…but we are continuously appealing government will try to lift morchas from During the first fortnight of May, we will be Parliament. Who can trust them! We will can be cheated, then the saint fraternity people to maintain peace.”Dr Darshan Pal, borders. So our continuous appeal to farmers marching towards Parliament. Date is yet to continue with our programmes as should be concerned about ordinary coordinator of SKM, said, “Now we are is stay peaceful. I am moving in different be decided. Moreover, the pace of struggle normal.”Jagjit Singh Dallewal, president of people.He also claimed that certain web chalking out a plan to how to continue the parts of the country, doing rallies. Let them will depend on the results of poll bound BKU (Sidhupur) that farmer unions were series on OTT platforms were conspiring morcha at Delhi borders for the coming arrest me if they want, but that will not stop states on May 2. If BJP feels the heat, our indirectly approached to consider the against religious places and months. As harvesting is going on for wheat me from telling people about these black morcha will get intensified on its own. If government’s earlier offer.Now tractors are saints.Ramchandra Das also sought growing states, we have issued appeals to laws.”Rajinder Singh Deep Singh Wala, they perform well by chance… even then we coming back to Punjab and instead sheds are support for Yati Narsimhanand, the urban people and even farmers who don’t general secretary of Kirti Kisan Union, said, will intensify our struggle. Now BJP is taking their place at Tikri and Singhu controversial priest of Dasna temple in grow wheat to be part of this morcha. Our 24 “It appears that the government is ignoring feeling heat in Haryana, Western and eastern borders. Farmers are taking fans, ACs as Ghaziabad which was in the news after a hours traffic jam at KMP will be done from 8 us but inside, it is completely shaken. SKM UP. In fact, SKM is the only platform which well to protest sites. 14-year-old Muslim boy was assaulted for entering the temple to drink water. Busy tourist season in Kashmir At the meeting, the VHP also passed a resolution demanding that the Centre and Rollback of fertiliser price hikes unlikely as Valley, ‘good bookings after state governments free Hindu temples and shrines from their direct control. On the many years’ issue of Char Dham Devasthanam Board Srinagar After suffering a setback Bill of Uttarakhand, under which all Centre keeps subsidy rates unchanged over the last few years following shrines in the state have been brought the killing of Hizbul militant under the state government, saint New Delhi There is no change in the subsidy companies to sell to farmers at Rs 37,500 per Burhan Wani in 2016, the Centre’s Ravindrapuri said he had warned former rates for di-ammonium phosphate (DAP), tonne on a no-profit, no-loss basis. That is decisions on August 5, 2019, and CM Trivendra Singh Rawat that if the law muriate of potash (MOP) and complex close to Iffco’s new MRP of Rs 38,000/tonne the Covid-induced lockdown last was not withdrawn, he will not continue as fertilisers, despite companies significantly for DAP.Companies are in no position to sell year, the tourism sector in the CM. Subsequently, the saints at the meet hiking prices over the last few weeks. at the old rates, when the subsidy has been kept Valley has been witnessing a busy demanded Tirath Singh Rawat announce The Centre has decided to extend the existing at last year’s level despite global prices of both tourist season since heavy snow in the withdrawal of the law. nutrient-based subsidy (NBS) rates of 2020-21 product (DAP) and inputs (sulphur, ammonia, January — with the blooming of for the current fiscal as well “till further rock phosphate and phosphoric acid) shooting tulips in spring signalling the onset orders”, said an office memorandum from the up,” said G. Ravi Prasad, a fertiliser industry of peak season.“We have seen such Qaeda-linked outfit’s Department of Fertilisers issued Friday. This expert. good bookings after many years. chief among seven effectively also rules out any rollback of the The 50%-plus spike in MRPs of non-urea Suddenly when it snowed on recent price increases in non-urea fertilisers, from below $400 to around $540 per tonne fertilisers, according to him, could lead to a December 15 last year, Kashmir militants killed in J&K even as the Union Minister of State of since October. worsening of imbalance in nutrient use by was among the first tourism Chemicals & Fertilisers Mansukh Mandaviya The second is NBS rates that were last fixed on farmers. In 2020-21, retail sales of urea touched destinations to open, so that helped Srinagar AT LEAST seven militants, has said that companies will not charge the April 3, 2020, at Rs 18.789/kg for N, Rs a record 350.42 lakh tonnes (lt). That accounted not just the economy but also including the chief of the Al-Qaeda affiliated higher prices “vartaman samay mein (for 14.888/kg for P, Rs 10.116/kg for K and Rs for more than half of the 677.02 lt sales of all enhanced people to people contact. militant outfit Ansar Gazwat ul Hind (AGH), now)”Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative 2.374/kg for S. Based on these rates, the fertilisers. With the basic MRP of urea Most of the big hotels have clocked were killed in two separate encounters in (Iffco) Wednesday raised its maximum retail subsidy on DAP, which contains 18% N and remaining unchanged at Rs 5,360 per tonne—it 70 per cent bookings till June even South Kashmir on Friday, according to J&K price (MRP) for DAP from Rs 24,000 to Rs 46% P, works out to Rs 10,231 per tonne. The was last raised inApril 2010—farmers may end as increasing Covid numbers are Police.While AGH chief Imtiyaz Shah was 38,000 per tonne. The country’s largest nutrient subsidy on MOP (60% K) and 10:26:26, up applying more of this already overused expected to give little setback since killed along with another militant during an seller also steeply hiked the MRPs of its likewise, are Rs 6,070 and Rs 8,380 per tonne, nitrogenous fertiliser.Meanwhile, Iffco has a lot of tourists this year were encounter at a hideout inside an orchard in complex fertilisers with different nitrogen (N), respectively. clarified that the new MRPs will be applicable coming in from Maharashtra,” said Tral area of Pulwama, five others were killed phosphorous (P), potash (K) and sulphur (S) At $540/tonne and Rs 74.5-to-the-dollar, only on its fertilisers moved from its plants Mushtaq Ahmad Chaya, chairman in an overnight encounter at a mosque where combinations—from Rs 23,500 to Rs imported DAP costs Rs 40,230 per tonne in after April 1. The old stocks already dispatched of J&K Hoteliers Association and they were hiding in Shopian, police said. 35,500/tonne for 10:26:26, Rs 23,700 to Rs Indian ports. Adding 5.5% customs duty and and lying with retailers—estimated at 11.26 mentor of the Kashmir chapter of 36,000 for 12:32:16 and Rs 18,500 to Rs 27,000 other charges of Rs 3,500 (stevedoring, lt—will continue to be sold at the earlier rates. the PHD Chamber of Commerce IG (Kashmir Zone) Vijay Kumar told reporters and Industry. at a press conference in Srinagar that of the for 20:20:0:13.The unprecedented price jumps bagging, insurance, secondary freight, storage, The only hope for farmers now is the Centre interest, selling expenses and dealer margins) In the last weekend of March, the five militants killed in Shopian, two were were inevitable for two reasons. The first is a announcing higher NBS rates for 2021-22, steep rise in international prices of fertilisers as takes that to almost Rs 45,950 per tonne. maybe after the ongoing Assembly elections in Boulevard Road in Srinagar along affiliated to the Hizbul-ul-Mujahideen, one Deducting the Rs 10,231 subsidy and adding the Dal Lake was bustling with to the Lashkar-e-Toiba and two others to the well as raw materials and intermediates. The West Bengal. landed cost of imported DAP alone has surged 5.5% goods and services tax would allow people, and as Holi and Shab-e- AGH.“We had sent in a militant’s brother Baraat coincided, shikaras had a urging him to surrender last night, after field day — charging upto Rs 1,200 sending the imam of the mosque where they for an hour’s ride instead of the were hiding. This morning, we sent his Maharashtra enters weekend of curbs, 2 usual Rs 100. The Tulip garden was parents but still he refused to surrender,” IG thrown open to the public last Kumar said. Thursday, and has recorded as Subsequently, he said, the “forces resorted to many as 50,000 visitors on a single tear smoke shelling inside the mosque and ministers say may need full lockdown day.Most hotels, not only in fired through the window, trying not to Srinagar, but also in neighbouring Mumbai As Maharashtra headed into a weekend to be heading in that direction. If cases continue well, the state is also facing the issue of vaccine Gulmarg, Pahalgam and Sonmarg lockdown, two senior government ministers on to rise and we exhaust our beds we will have no shortage. In the next 5 to 10 days the patient are fully booked till the end of June, Friday spoke of the possibility of an extended option but to implement a lockdown,” Tope count is going to jump from 5 lakh to 10 lakh as per a representative of the J&K lockdown in view of the fast rising cases of said.A two-three-week lockdown with tough and things will get out of hand,” Wadettiwar Hotel and Restaurant coronavirus infection and the stretched restrictions would give the state time to ramp up said.“I have told the CM that unless we have a Association.Ahsan Chisti, Deputy healthcare system in the state. its health infrastructure, he said. strict lockdown for three weeks it will be Director of the Tourism Health Minister Rajesh Tope said Maharashtra The Minister clarified that there was no difficult for us to break the chain of Department, stated, “Everyday seemed headed towards a lockdown; Relief and immediate threat of the healthcare system transmission,” he said.Wadettiwar said his idea during January and February, more Rehabilitation Minister Vijay Wadettiwar said collapsing. “When hospitals are overwhelmed of a strict lockdown was to shut all shops and than a thousand tourists have the time for such a step was already here. and when there is dearth of doctors, we will only allow home delivery of essential landed into Srinagar. The last two to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray will hold an need a lockdown. For now we have not reached commodities.He said Saturday’s all-party three months have given us all-party meeting on Saturday to build that point,” he said.Relief and Rehabilitation meeting would attempt to build consensus on hope.”Zaffar Rayan Baba, who consensus on the steps needed to break the Minister Vijay Wadettiwar, however, said the this issue. Sources in the Chief Minister’s operates a travel company called damage the mosque”. Three civilians and at chain of transmission. A complete lockdown situation in Maharashtra was precarious, and Office said that the meeting would review the Baba Travels in Srinagar, claimed least four security personnel were injured will also be discussed at the meeting.“I am not that an immediate lockdown was needed.In the impact of the restrictions so far, and discuss “the last time we saw such activity during the encounter.Among the five in favour of a total lockdown but the state seems present situation we are facing a shortage of whether the state needed harsher restrictions or and such heavy bookings was in militants killed, four have been identified as oxygen, there is a shortage of remdesivir as a complete lockdown for the next few weeks. 2011-12”. Shopian residents, Muzamil Manzoor, Adil Ahmad Lone and Basik Ismaiel Bakshi, and Tral resident Younis Ahmad Khanday. The identification of the fifth militant is being ascertained, police said. Need no advice on country’s internal affairs: Venkaiah Naidu In the Tral encounter, the second militant killed has been identified as Zahid Ahmed Jammu Vice President Venkaiah strengthening industry-institute Koka, a resident of Shopian.Seven AK-47 Naidu said Friday that no external linkages and urged graduating rifles and two pistols were recovered from interference was needed to solve management students to work with the site of the encounters. With these two the problems in Jammu and farmers to improve marketing of encounters, and the elimination of the seven Kashmir (J&K) and that the UT is farm produce.He called upon terrorists, the group AGH has been fully an integral part of India. national institutes like IIMs to wiped out once again,” J&K Police DGP, Addressing the third and fourth offer innovative courses and Dilbag Singh, told TheIG Kumar said that convocation of the Indian Institute diplomas based on new market Shah, who was an active militant since July of Management (IIM), Jammu, realities and demands of the fourth 2019, was tasked with attacking the here, Vice President Naidu did not industrial revolution.He also Amarnath Yatra on the national highway. “It name any countries but said those stressed on the need for re- is a soft target but we will make sure that the giving advice to India should look orienting higher education in tune security arrangements for the yatra are into their own affairs. “No other with the realities of the world. He foolproof,” he said. country for that matter has any also underlined the importance of business to interfere or make developing a mindset that 15 Corps Commander Lt General D P Pandey encourages innovation and and GOC Victor Force Maj General Rashim comments on the internal affairs of another country,” he said, adding institutional reform that fosters Bali were also present at the press that “We believe in democracy and creatiity and promotes excellence. conference along with Kumar. “This year, civilization.”“…if you are really Speaking on the occasion, UT’s recruitment figures are less and I am sure the civilised, you are not expected to Lieutenant Governor, Manoj way security forces and civil administration interfere in the affairs of other Sinha, talked about changing are working here, recruitment will decrease countries,” he said.“I advise some market trends and increased in the coming years. We will provide them friends who are trying to give business management challenges. with the opportunity to surrender but anyone unsolicited advice to confine “Some people from our he said, adding “we should be progress. He emphasized on the need to put who picks arms against the state will be themselves to domestic problems. neighbourhood are trying to create guided by the spirit of national “If you have tension, you can’t pay more focus on up-scaling of neutralised,” Lt Gen Pandey said.With the We are capable of taking care of problems and disturbance as they integration and we should put our attention. This has to be emerging skill sets so that Human two encounters, the number of militants our problems, they need not worry don’t want our country to nation first”Speaking about the understood by all. That’s why Capital can be prepared and killed in 2021 has reached 31, including 28 about us. I am very clear about progress,” he said.“We should not situation in J&K, Vice President peace is very much required,” he developed to fill the Skill Gap as in the south Kashmir region. this,” he added. allow their attempts to succeed,” Naidu said peace was needed for added.Naidu also pushed for per the demand. New Delhi, Sunday, 11 April, 2021 DELHI-NCR THE SIKH TIMES 5

NEWS BOX One more Kaushal gang member held Relief to commuters: Ambience Mall Gurgaon: The Special Task Force (STF) of Haryana Police arrested a member of Kaushal gang in the city on Friday. The accused was wanted in several cases and underpass likely to open by May 15 carries a reward of Rs 5,000 on his head. Deepak alias Deepu was wanted in multiple cases, including murders. accused was Gurgaon: The much-awaitedAmbience swing ever since we cleared the toll arrested from Sector 10. According to STF Mall underpass on the Delhi-Gurgaon gates that were falling in the alignment officials, the accused was on their radar for expressway is expected to be opened of the underpass. A gas pipeline is some time. Deepak has been produced for commuters by May 15, the falling in the alignment and we have to before court and sent to three-day custody. National Highways Authority of India work around it with extra care. We are In November, two henchmen of jailed (NHAI) has said. The U-turn targeting completion of construction gangster Kaushal — Rohit (23) and underpass is nearly 95% complete and by April 30. Once that is done, we’ll Satender Pathak (30) — were arrested after a will be ready by the end of April. need some time for the finishing work shootout. Rohit, the prime accused in the NHAI has directed the project contractor and to restore the toll gates that we had murder case of Congress leader Vikas — RK Contractor — to ensure that all shifted towards the Delhi side,” said an Chaudhary in Faridbad, died during the construction work is completed by RK contractor official. “By May 15, treatment at hospital. April-end and the underpass is opened commuters can expect to use the for the traffic latest by the second week underpass that will decongest the Now, GMDA to get EDC of May. “We have directed the expressway,” the official added.The contractor to set this month-end as contractor said work came to a from builders their target to finish the basic standstill for over a month due to delay construction work. Thereafter, they in the shifting of three toll gates at the Gurgaon: After several delays in the payment can take a few days to make the Sirhaul toll plaza.Last month, TOI had of external development charges (EDC) by underpass ready for traffic. We are reported that even after a year of the department of town and country hoping that the underpass will become repeated follow-ups with the South planning (DTCP), the metropolitan operational by the second week of May Delhi Municipal Corporation development authorities of Gurgaon and bring relief to commuters in the (SDMC), the civic body had failed to (GMDA) and Faridabad (FMDA) will now city,” said a senior NHAI entertain NHAI’s request to shift the be getting them directly from developers. official.According to the contractor, toll gates. It was only in January that The decision was taken at the GMDA the excavation work is almost SDMC submitted the cost estimates authority meeting held in Gurgaon on complete. “Our work has been in full for the toll shifting. Friday under the chairmanship of Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar. “We have decided that the EDC charges will go to the metropolitan authorities in these two Schools may take full fee, but can’t hold back results cities and wherever the next such body is Local businesses in mind, constituted,” said Khattar. Gurgaon: The state education ruled that the fee that schools in directive also clarified that any The move comes after several complaints and department on Friday allowed Punjab and Rajasthan should reduction in fee announced by representations by GMDA to the state private schools to charge full fee for collect for the 2020-21 academic schools during the lockdown last focus on Covid behaviour, government highlighting the delays in EDC the 2020-21 academic year and the year should be “equivalent of the year does not mean that the amount payments by DTCP. Khattar said GMDA next session, but warned them fees amount notified for the has been “waived” but only that will receive around Rs 250 crore in EDC against debarring any student from academic year 2019- 2020”. It had parents have been given more time this year.Gurgaon MP Rao Inderjit Singh online classes or withholding exam said the fee could be collected in six to clear it.“Schools have the right to no night curfew for now hailed the development and said, “We have results over non-payment. monthly installments between charge complete fee. But, schools been raising the issue of EDC for a while The late evening order to district March 5 andAugust 5 this year. cannot force parents to pay up by withholding the results of students Gurgaon: The city reported more recoveries to 63,234. The now and I appreciate the state government education officers clarified that all The court, however, had made it than 700 Covid-19 cases for the recovery rate stands at 92%. So taking this decision for the benefit of previous directives by the state amply clear that “the management or debarring them from classes. We government regarding school fee shall not debar any student from hope these orders will finally allay second day in a row on Friday. far, 368 people in the city have Gurgaon and the region. However, unlike neighbouring succumbed to Covid, of whom The meeting also saw discussion on GMDA’s are being stayed and any school that attending either online classes or the confusion over school fee,” said has provided online/offline classes physical classes on account of non- an education department official. Delhi, Noida and Ghaziabad, 283 had comorbidities. There budget. The budget for 2021-22 has been which have all announced a were no deaths on Friday. estimated at Rs 1,848 crore, whereas the would be allowed to charge full fee. p a y m e n t o f f e e s , The schools welcomed the move, Over the past one year, parents and arrears/outstanding fees including saying it would help restore the night curfew, senior officials Active cases now stand at expected receipts for the year are around Rs schools had on multiple occasions the installments referred to above, harmonious relationship with said there were no plans to 4,591, of whom 4,258 are in 1,200 crore. “There is a shortfall of around locked horns over the issue of fee and shall not withhold the results of parents that had soured because of announce similar restrictions in recovery at home.“As we have Rs 600 crore and we are looking at avenues because of lack of any specific the examinations of any student on the lack of clarity on the fee issue. Gurgaon or any other part of over 4,000 patients in home for financing the gap,” Khattar said while order.The latest government that account”.While the Supreme Parents, meanwhile, expressed Haryana as of now. The isolation at present, our teams talking to the media after the meeting. directive is based on a Supreme Court’s order was for the states of concern. They said many of them assessment, they said, is that are monitoring each case on a Sources said the gap will be covered by Court ruling for the education Punjab and Rajasthan, the Haryana were still reeling under the steps like night curfew are daily basis. We are sending EDC.For the previous financial year, departments Punjab and Rajasthan. government has decided to economic repercussions of the temporary measures and the teams to check patients’ oxygen GMDA had estimated a budget of Rs 1,653 On March 13, the apex court had implement them too. The Friday lockdown. spread of the pandemic could be levels and also to ensure their crore whereas the estimated receipts were effectively contained by strictly health condition doesn’t turn around Rs 1,173 crore. “The expenditure as enforcing Covid-appropriate critical suddenly,” the CMO well as the receipts for the previous year behaviour. said. Allaying fears about non- were less than expected due to the 100 illegal structures razed at Chief minister Manohar Lal availability of hospital beds, the pandemic. The actual income in the Khattar, who was in Gurgaon on CMO said, “At present, we previous year was Rs 287 crore, while the Friday, reiterated his earlier have adequate beds for Covid expenditure was around Rs 450 crore,’ said position against night curfew or patients and we will further a senior GMDA official.The meeting also shopping complex in old Ggn lockdown in reply to queries increase the bed capacity.” saw approval granted for new projects in the from reporters on the sidelines 13,000 more get vaccine city, including the urban forest in of the GMDA meeting that he A total of 12,967 people over the Sikanderpur which the chief minister said Gurgaon: In a major crackdown on chaired. age of 45 years, meanwhile, got will be funded by corporate social encroachers, the Haryana Shahari Vikas “We have not sent any proposal vaccinated on Friday. As many responsibility funds. The construction of a Pradhikaran (HSVP) on Friday removed for night curfew or weekend as 210 session sites were set up flyover at Bakhtawar Chowk was also more than 100 structures from Jail Land lockdown. People need to in the city — 153 at government approved. Khattar also reviewed the status shopping complex in old Gurgaon. understand the importance of facilities and 57 at private of ongoing infrastructure projects in the city According to the officials, the encroachers had Covid behavior. We have asked hospitals. Meanwhile, 240 and said several projects, including blocked the entire corridor of the market MCG and police to impose healthcare workers and 836 redevelopment of Huda City Centre, complex with tin sheds, advertising boards penalties for not wearing masks frontline workers also got the Mahaveer Chowk and Umang Bhardwaj and some had even constructed a wall in the in crowded areas,” said chief jab on Friday, taking their total Chowk will be completed and launched by corridor. Some of the shopkeepers had medical officer Dr Virender tally to 52,089 and 34,941, August this year. These projects have been encroached upon the parking area in front of Yadav.A senior Gurgaon respectively.Private hospitals in delayed significantly due to several reasons, their shops and converted it into their administration official added, the city plan to focus on including the pandemic.Asked about the personal parking. Some of them had “If night curfew is imposed, it creating camps at housing city metro project, Khattar said its detailed extended their shops, while others had will severely hamper the societies and offices to boost project report has been sent to the central installed additional booths, officials said. businesses of several industries the vaccination drive. “Our government for approval and once the An HSVP team of junior engineers Anand in the city. Even though Delhi response has been very approval comes, the government will start Prakash, Lalit Hans and Sandeep Lot along and Noida have imposed night encouraging with corporates. work on the ground immediately. This was with around 50 police personnel and JCB curfew, there are no such We have conducted four camps GMDA’s eighth meeting since its inception machine started the demolition drive and directions for Gurgaon from the with 50 to 100 people coming and FMDA saw its first ever meeting on removed all encroachments. “This was one state government.” forward for vaccination on an Thursday. “We hope that through regular of the major demolition drives in recent time The 703 fresh cases recorded on average. We have 10-15 more meetings, we will be able to speed up in the Jail complex where so many Friday took the overall case camps at offices in the pipeline. development in the two cities,” the CM said. encroachments were removed in a day,” said load since the beginning of the We are setting up camps at SBI, Lot.The market complex had many vacant pandemic to 68,193. A day Panasonic, Airtel and Pristyn. YEIDA scouts for event plots of HSVP reserved for constriction of earlier, Gurgaon had reported We are also conducting camps mgmt firm for airport shop-cum-office.“The encroachers had 741 cases, the highest single- in the community centres, made temporary and permanent structures day spike so far this year. societies and clubs,” said Arpita project launch on the land,” said Lot, adding that all these The health department said 567 Mukherjee, vice-president Greater Noida: The Yamuna Expressway structures were removed. He said the drive patients recovered on Friday, (operations and head), Max Authority has begun looking for an agency against the encroachments at market will taking the total number of Super Specialty Hospital. to handle a series of events slated for this continue. year, the launch of the Noida International Airport sometime in July this year being the biggest draw. The Authority will also launch the Film City project later this year. Though dates of the events have not been finalised yet, the Authority has started work in the Turn away those without masks, shopowners told background.Shortlisting of an event management company that has handled at least five big-ticket events which have been Noida: Along with barricading the Noida-Delhi by 9.30pm on Thursday.As many as 30 FIRs presided by the top dignitaries of the country borders to debar the movement of commuters have been lodged against 70 people across is currently underway.Officials said the between the two cities after 10pm, police have different police stations of GB Nagar for agency has to do branding and event gone stricter with the imposition of the 10pm- violating restrictions under Section 188 of the execution expecting a turnout of 25,000 to 5am curfew in the district and increased CrPC, officials said. The action continued on 30,000 people. The agency needs to have a penalisation of those not sporting masks. Cops Friday as well and as many as 6,006 people full-fledged catering staff with chefs having have also directed shopkeepers not to sell items were issued challans for venturing out without experience of working at 5-star properties. to those coming to their outlets without wearing wearing masks and a fine of over Rs 6 lakh was YEIDA CEO Arun Vir Singh said, “Several masks.Police have made it clear that travel collected from them. Similarly, 30 FIRs were key projects are going to be launched during between Noida and Delhi won’t be allowed lodged against 77 persons on Friday, officials the second half of 2021. A number of VIPs will participate in these events. Also apart except for those engaged in essential services said.Additional DCP (Noida) Ranvijay Singh from the Jewar airport, Film City, Toy Park like doctors and other healthcare staff between said most of the people engaged in essential and MSME park are schemes that have 10pm and 5am. Led by senior officers, services would continue to remain exempt from attracted investors from all over the country. including the additional commissioner, the restrictions. “At 10pm, the borders will close Arranging for logistics, resources and Noida police have started a public address for commoners and those travelling without services during the events will be outsourced system in the markets and other public places any engagement in any essential service. Those to the empanelled agencies.”The agency will asking people to wear masks, use sanitizers and involved in transport of essential goods, heath be given the task to conceptualise, design, maintain social distancing.Penalisation against and paramedical staff, and those wanting to execute, manage and recycle the items that those spotted without a mask has also been travel to airports to pick and drop can show are used while hosting the ev- ents. Apart increased and on Thursday, a massive drive was their tickets. Food delivery boys will be from site preparation, erecting temperature- launched against those not sporting the same. allowed to move too. The idea is that people controlled pandals, preparing the helipad, As many as 3,364 challans were issued against shall not move without any valid reason.”On accommodation for PM, CM and other VIPs, landscaping, parking, toilets, welcome desk, offenders and a total of Rs 3.36 lakh was Friday evening, however, there were reports of security paraphernalia and emergency collected as fine. Most shops in markets like several people roaming around at busy places healthcare will be the responsibility of the Atta market, Sector 18, Godavari market and like the Atta market and Brahmaputra market agency, officials said. Ganga shopping complex were made to close without wearing masks. New Delhi, Sunday, 11 April, 2021 EDITORIAL THE SIKH TIMES 6 When Left Feels Right Poles apart An emerging global divide The Indian government’s rescue and recovery is necessary for the system since their restiveness package against the pandemic has been among constitutes a threat to it that can no longer be the most niggardly in the world, amounting, contained by resorting to a diversionary, neo- shorn of ‘window-dressing’, to no more than 1 fascist discourse against the ‘Other’. Two, the big per cent of the gross domestic product. Other corporates of the third world would shift their third world countries have done better, but not activities even more to the global plane away from much better. By contrast, advanced countries stagnant local economies without feeling have unrolled generous rescue packages. The constrained by such stagnation. This would mean United States of America, even under Donald an end to the recently-achieved de-segmentation Trump, released a package of $2 trillion, of the world economy. During colonial rule, roughly 10 per cent of its GDP; the Joe Biden metropolitan capitalism had brought about a administration has announced a further $1.9 segmentation of the world economy: labour from When the forces both from the Left and the Right trillion, of which about $1 trillion constitutes the ‘south’ was not allowed to migrate freely to the are getting aggressive and blinkered, when it has transfers to the people. Altogether, the US ‘north’ (it still is not), and capital from the ‘north, become difficult to exchange ideas with some would be spending 20 per cent of its GDP on although allowed to migrate freely to the ‘south’, semblance of affability, the long-established such packages (although not in a single year). never actually did so, except to areas like mines liberal values of tolerance, difference and dissent The European Union, too, has had substantial and plantations that refurbished the colonial have prompted freedom-loving people to rescue packages during the pandemic. pattern of international division of labour; and converse through disagreements intrinsic to a These packages have meant significant fiscal In fact, Biden’s rescue package has elements that are non- capital from the ‘south’, hemmed in by racial robust democratic system. Why then should the deficits. The International Monetary Fund encouraged transitory and will endure even after the pandemic. We discrimination and a hostile colonial environment, faced State feel a certain sense of disquiet at resistance? enhanced government expenditures during the pandemic may be witnessing, in short, a revival of State intervention protectionist barriers in the ‘north’. The ‘north’ and the The Black Lives Matter Movement or the farmers’ and, hence, implicitly larger fiscal deficits, not just in the in demand management in the advanced countries under ‘south’, therefore, got segmented. The ‘north’ developed protests are striking examples of the stamina of advanced countries but even in the third world. This has the cover of the pandemic. This is excellent news, for high-productivity manufacturing; its labour market, made resistance movements to safeguard the basic given rise to a belief that it has abandoned its usual otherwise workers suffer through mass unemployment relatively tight by massive migration to the ‘new world’, human right of equality. Slavery, industrialization insistence on ‘austerity’ in these special times. Oddly, just to satisfy the caprices of finance that is opposed to allowed a rise in workers’ wages. The ‘south’, stuck with and today’s scourge of neoliberalism have been however, according to an Oxfam study, recent IMF loans such State intervention. (Joan Robinson, the renowned producing primary commodities, had its workers earning confronted by a resurgence in public opposition to to third world countries have almost invariably enjoined economist, had called the view that fiscal deficits should subsistence wages, placed amidst vast labour reserves the fervour of the Far Right, thereby replicating ‘austerity’ upon the borrowers. Oxfam found that of the 91 be eschewed or restricted in all circumstances the created by the destruction of craft production through the the drive for participatory democracy through loan agreements signed by the IMF with 81 third world “humbug of finance”). The problem arises when we have ‘drain of surplus’ and through competition from imports. opposition to the rise of capital, consumerism, and countries after March 2020, as many as 76 encouraged or governments stimulating economic activity in the Neoliberal globalization effected some de-segmentation, the free market economy. required ‘austerity’ measures. These included cuts in advanced countries while governments in the third world as capital from the ‘north’ at long last located plants in the However, it is worrisome to see Left intellectuals public expenditure, including public healthcare are forced to adopt ‘austerity’. A growing developed ‘south’ to take advantage of the latter’s low wages for glossing over, if not wholly condoning, the expenditure and pension payments. They imposed wage- world and a languishing third world, one may think, producing for a global market. But, if there is violence that comes out of resistance. State freezes or wage-cuts that would reduce the incomes of cannot possibly co-exist as the former is bound to pull up protectionism in the ‘north’ against non-traditional violence is to be condemned; but does it doctors, nurses and other workers in public healthcare the latter. But Trump has already introduced exports from the ‘south’, and if the latter experiences automatically follow that resistance violence is to facilities as well as cuts in unemployment benefits and protectionism in the US (which had started in a small way stagnation and, hence, stagnant markets, then we shall see be commended? This is a moral dilemma that sick pay. Such measures have been standard IMF even under Barack Obama) and other advanced countries a re-segmentation of the world economy, with the neither Hannah Arendt (On Violence) nor other prescription for decades. Their incorporation into loan are likely to emulate the US. This means that the working people of the ‘south’ consigned to acute distress. liberal minds confront squarely. agreements even during the pandemic suggests that the relocation of activities from the ‘North’ to the ‘South’, Even in the heyday of neoliberal globalization, as the But in his seminal work, Violence and the Sacred, IMF not only discriminates between rich and poor exemplified by the shift of manufacturing to China and of Indian case testifies, there was an increase in the poverty René Girard argues that the need for disagreement countries but also that when it comes to the latter, its pious services to India, that had characterized neoliberal ratio despite extraordinary growth. It does not follow, is both sacred as well as an imperative for the pronouncements signify nothing. It is not just the globalization till recently, could well be coming to an end. however, that the cessation of growth would mean a evolution of democratic institutions. In an over- discrimination during the pandemic that is worrying; what A boom in the advanced countries then will not pull up any reduction in poverty. The poverty-engendering factors regulated political system with symptoms of a low is of concern is what happens afterwards. The world third world country via this route and income under neoliberalism, namely the undermining of petty trust government, the only remedy lies in the capitalist economies have, for long, been saddled with compression imposed on the local population through production, especially peasant agriculture, will continue defiance of the official discourse and the massive unemployment (which was only aggravated by anti-inflationary policies in the third world would ensure to operate even as the growth-rate collapses, which will doublespeak of the State narrative. This defiance the pandemic), although this fact is camouflaged by that prices of primary commodities supplied by it do not only aggravate poverty and unemployment further. The can be transformative with the creation of social, reduced worker participation rates because of the rise too much and have only limited growth-enhancing three new farm bills in India, introduced in the midst of cultural and intellectual spaces of fair play and effects. Such a global divide, if it occurs, would break acute distress, make this clear. The IMF’s discriminatory justice with a deep commitment to equality. As ‘discouraged worker effect’. Now, even after the from what we have been witnessing under neoliberalism behaviour thus portends great distress for the working Jacques Derrida points out in Specter of Marx, the pandemic abates, the advanced countries are unlikely to go back to a regime of fiscal rectitude such as that in two important ways. One, the distress of workers in the people of the ‘south’, not just during the pandemic, but ghost in Hamlet is like Marx, haunting human advanced countries would be somewhat ameliorated. This civilization whenever fundamental rights are demanded by finance capital and articulated by the IMF. even afterwards. threatened. Progressive radical thinking, with its substantial impact on history, has been responsible for the birth of the institutions of democracy that we enjoy today. Time to act: Second Covid wave Governments have the potential to translate social movements into legislation. It is possible that the Readers' Speak: Congress demands independent probe into Rafale deal progressive government of Joe Biden is keen on seizing the moment through its perception of the Sir — In this second wave of Covid-19, the virus is of over one lakh cases. The Centre has already historical context. We in India, too, have much to spreading at a faster pace than last year, and the health warned the people about the gravity of the situation. learn from this and the Occupy Wall Street ministry has alerted the people that the next four weeks While people were thoroughly scared by the first protests, a clarion call to a commitment to equal are going to be critical (“Get ready”, April 7). Now outbreak of this novel virus strain and tried to follow opportunity. Liberal action on the insensitive who is to be held accountable for this situation? The containment measures undertaken by the relationship between the police and the citizen, on common citizens as well as the authorities have government earnestly, now it seems that they have the criminal justice system, on extremism and brought this plight upon the country. As lockdowns become complacent with regard to following racism will depend on the sway the new and strict restrictions were lifted, most people began to protocol even when they know that such behaviour generation of activists has on the ruling party. flout the norms that should have been followed. risks their own lives and jeopardizes the health of The pursuit of social and economic justice calls for a Further, the vaccination drive gave the people a false others. The rapid spread of the virus in different parts more robust, impartial and self-respecting system sense of safety; they seemed convinced that if the of the country is truly a cause for concern. The at a time when the Left stands discredited across remedy is already available then the malady cannot be situation must be remedied immediately. The pace at the world. Political parties committed to a fatal any more. which the vaccination drive is being conducted must democratic manifesto remain spineless without Election campaigns in some states saw leaders and party be increased. More people should be considered for the involvement of the Left with its inherent workers completely ignoring all Covid protocol, since inoculation — the age group covered must be their aim was to amass votes rather than caring for the people is indeed crucial. Lockdowns can break the expanded from above 45 to above 30 now. Those who are ability to establish a critical interface with middle- economic spine of the nation; the only alternative is to of-the-road liberalism. Likewise, in the absence safety of the people. Rules were allowed to be flouted not following Covid prevention rules should be penalized during religious festivals — congregations took place at follow safety measures sincerely, keeping in mind that since the casual approach of some people towards this of a sturdy liberal centre, the Left would decline to negligence is equal to imperilling oneself, one’s society, autocracy and sectarianism. It is time, therefore, various places — simply in order to appease the electorate crisis may prove to be costly for a large part of the and the nation as a whole. Sir — The second wave of population. Sir — The gravity of the situation with respect to reclaim the Left as the critical constituent of a along the lines of religion. Now the Centre is emphasizing Covid-19 appears to be more dangerous than the first as to the second wave of Covid-19 can be gauged from the democratic structure whose presence is vital to the need for ‘people’s participation’ in controlling the second wave of the pandemic. The cooperation of the the number of active cases is rising at a rapid pace. This comparative time taken for the spike in cases. moments of crisis and challenges. week, on several days, the country recorded a daily spike

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Giving its judgment in a clutch of PILs filed before it, the know of Waze’s plan to plant a car with gelatin was removed a year later because of Bombay High Court has very correctly directed the CBI sticks and a threat letter near Ambani’s house? Waze’s gaffe in mishandling an to inquire into the accusation by ousted Police Waze, an Assistant Inspector, could not have insane plot to part Ambani from his Commissioner Param Bir Singh against the state Home conceived of this plan. Did Param Bir know money! Param Bir had helped Minister that the latter had summoned two junior that Waze arrived and left his office in the Fadnavis in the past by addressing a officials of the Crime Branch and demanded that they Commissioner’s compound in a Mercedes car? press conference in his capacity as collect Rs 10 crore per month from liquor bars and other If he knew this, what was his advice to Waze? ADGP (Law and Order) to justify the such operators and deposit the money with him. Did he know that Waze operated from a room arrests of the left-wing intellectuals The accusation may be true, though figures could be in a five-star hotel? If he did not know these in the Bhima-Koregaon case. In the exaggerated. It is not uncommon for Home Ministers in facts, now established in the NIA’s normal course, this press meet should Maharashtra to summon Inspectors and instruct them on investigations, was he truly in charge of have been called at Pune and ‘official’ matters. All instructions should be channelised matters? His control over a former ‘encounter addressed by that city’s then Police through the CP, but no CP has the gall to tell the minister specialist’ reporting to him alone was lax! Commissioner, Dr KK Venkateshan. that he should not break the chain of command. Param Sanjay Pande, the senior-most IPS officer in the Obviously, Fadnavis reposed more Bir himself, when he was a middle-ranking officer, used state, known for his scrupulous honesty, was trust in Param Bir, who was not to visit the office of the ACS (Home) and remain closeted entrusted by the Home Minister with some directly involved in the there for lengths of time. delicate inquiries concerning his IPS investigations. Sharad Pawar’s The court felt that the CBI was an ‘independent’ body. That colleagues. He now alleges that Param Bir had meeting with Shah, if it did happen, is in stark contrast to the opinion of the SC which had requested him to close one such inquiry, and would necessarily touch on the famously dubbed the agency a ‘caged parrot’. The Pande says that he has recorded this allegations of the demand for a agency will surely book Anil Deshmukh because the BJP conversation. This revelation has added fresh monthly pay-off made by Param Bir is hell-bent on toppling the coalition government in grist to a drama which shows no sign of against Deshmukh. The NIA had got Maharashtra. But will it also expose Param Bir if he, too, subsiding. What can the public make of this involved in the investigation of the had been a collaborator before he was fired? Will it also sordid affair involving crucial players in the car with the gelatin sticks by floating expose the sins of the City Police’s Crime Branch after its security management system of this specialist’, Pradip Sharma, in 2017, when Param Bir was a tale of an Islamic terror cell set up in Commissioner brought in Sachin Waze to be his hatchet metropolis? Should the politicians and the police leaders CP, Thane. Param Bir’s penchant for gun-toting police Delhi’s high-security Tihar Jail. The CBI, controlled by man? Param Bir is back in the BJP camp now, after his be allowed to play around with people’s lives? Rashmi officers was known to his colleagues and even to the the Centre, has been asked by the Bombay High Court to diatribe against Deshmukh. That would provide the Shukla, another senior IPS officer in her capacity of public. The first joust between Pawar and Shah was won inquire into the demand of the pay-off. All cards fall protection he needs. Param Bir has some difficult Commissioner (Intelligence), had intercepted by Sharad Pawar. After getting his nephew Ajit off the neatly into Shah’s hands! And Sharad Pawar knows his questions to answer. How did Waze get reinstated after conversations between IPS and state service officers hook in the multi-crore irrigation scam, a farce was task is cut out for him. If he is about to strike a bargain 13 years under suspension? Why was he posted in the with the Home Minister where postings and cash for enacted in Raj Bhavan by waking the state’s Governor at with the BJP to topple the Shiv Sena-led government, the Crime Branch instead of being put on Covid-related transfers had been discussed. Rumours about this were the crack of dawn to swear in a BJP-NCP government, fate of Param Bir will again hang by a thread. He is a duties, on which excuse he was sought to be reinstated? floating around police circles. Now, it is in the public with Ajit as Deputy CM in the Devendra Fadnavis-led clever operator, but politicians thirsting for power and Why was he given independent charge of the crime domain. If it is true that NCP supremo Sharad Pawar had coalition government. It lasted till lunch was served that revenge are a dangerous lot. If Param Bir has to face the intelligence unit, a position normally held by a senior met Amit Shah in Ahmedabad, prior to checking into same afternoon. The Director of the Anti-Corruption combined might of a Sharad Pawar and an Amit Shah, Inspector? Why was he allowed to report to the hospital for gallbladder surgery, the Waze saga could Bureau who had obliged both Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar the battle will take a one-way trajectory. The public and Commissioner instead of his hierarchical superiors? take a more dramatic turn. Waze’s benefactor Param Bir was Param Bir, the very same who was later elevated to the police of this city are waiting with bated breath. The There are some more tricky questions! Did Param Bir had taken back into service another dismissed ‘encounter the prized post of Police Commissioner of Mumbai. He politician-police-criminal nexus needs to be broken. New Delhi, Sunday, 11 April, 2021 FILM THE SIKH TIMES 7

‘Dear behen’: As Swara Bhasker turns 33, Big Bull actor Abhishek Bachchan’s sarcastic reply to Twitter user who said Scam SonamSonam Kapoor, Kapoor, 1992 is ‘far superior by miles’ KareenaKareena Kapoor wish their Veere Di Wedding co-star bhishek Bachchan’s The Big Bull has opened to a mixed critical response as it premiered on ADisney+Hotstar on Thursday. As soon as the film was released, many people on Twitter started giving out their reviews — while some were warm, some were nasty. One person went on to questioning the actor’s acting skills and compared Abhishek’s film with Hansal Mehta’s Scam 1992 starring Pratik Gandhi. “As usual @juniorbachchan doesn’t disappoint you with his 3rd rate so called acting in a poorly scripted & badly filmed #TheBigBull @pratikg80 & #Scam1992 are far superior by miles,” wrote a user on Twitter. Abhishek, who is known for his befitting yet subtle replies on social media, replied saying, “Hey man, as long as I’ve not disappointed you, I’m happy. Thank you for taking the time out to see our film.”Abhishek also got an endorsement from niece Navya Naveli Nanda had shared a poster of the film on her Instagram Stories, and wrote, “Yay out today,” adding, “The one and only Big Bull Abhishek Bachchan.”On his film being constantly compared to Hansal Mehta’s Scam 1992, Abhishek Bachchan had told indianexpress.com, “It is human nature to want to compare, and I think it’s fine. But, I have noticed that, I’d say almost 95% of the discussions of the comparison of both the products stopped the day our trailer came out. Because, I think the audience saw the trailer and realised that both actually have quite a different approach. So, just watch the film and take the decision for yourself. I was happy to know that the entire discussion, which was prevalent at a particular time, but not after the tler came out.” Rimi Sen: ‘I was furniture wara Bhasker is celebrating her 33rd birthday in Goa. Swara, who is working and not vacationing, has been in Dhoom, Phir Hera Ssharing a few photos and videos from her trip to give a glimpse of her working birthday to her fans and followers. Swara is presently shooting for her upcoming film Jahaan Chaar Yaar with director Kamal Pandey and actors Shikha Talsania, Pheri, Hungama, Golmaal Meher Vij, and Pooja Chopra. Swara shared a video from her birthday celebrations on social media with the caption, and other comedies’ “Birthday surprise! My parents & colleagues organised a Swar celebration, on the eve of my birthday, in advance so I get surprised! And boy was I surprised!! I’m the luckiest person in the world to have the Her friends and colleagues from the film aBhask e ang r r industry including Sonam Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Aahana Kumra and others took to social media on Friday to wish Swara on her special day. Sonam took to Instagram to share a few ie3drhn h r 3r bi t day photos of the two from her wedding functions and wrote in the caption, “Dear Behen, we just spoke a day before and I realised in Goa she as shot for that our friendship is a godsend. Sakshi, Bindiya and Chandrika… of every person you’ve essayed, my favourite hercmngfil up o i m remains the one you are off-screen. May your voice only amplify with time, love you lots. Happy happy birthday, Swaru. Jah aa n C haar @reallyswara.”se parents, this family & these friends.”On the work front, Swara was last seen in the web series Flesh, Yara. Rasbhari, Bhaag Beanie Bhaag and Aapkey Kamrey Mein Koi Rehta Hai.

ZShahid Kapoor's wife Mira Kapoor is doing a Mira Kapoor imi Sen is eyeing a comeback but she isn’t seasonal cleanse Mira Kapoor desperate for work. “If I make a comeback today, for "detox, RI’ll do it out of interest and for a memorable experience that I didn’t get at that time,” says the actor health benefits plans a ‘seasonal cleanse’, who chose to retire after being a part of several hit films and for a kick in early 2000s. Rimi sat for a candid chat with indianexpress.com, where she looked back at the of immunity" Bollywood the way it was, elaborated on why she believes she didn’t struggle enough, and shared how and would be she revisits her movies today. following the What kept you away for 10 years? principles of I never craved for attention or was fond of glamour. I’m a ShahidShahid Kapoor Kapoor simple person and didn’t always want to be in front of Ayurveda for camera. In school also, no one knew my name. I was the same. like a back bencher. I just feel uncomfortable with the feels she is so pretty to attention. But you need to be visible today. How comfortable are you in the age of social media? ‘even need a cleanse’ That time I wasn’t mature. I was young, aggressive, I was hahid Kapoor’s wife Mira Kapoor is questions on her equation with Shahid. getting a lot of work and I used to go with the flow. I planning to undergo a seasonal She shared she likes the actor’s role in the was there only for money. It was a very mechanical cleanse by giving a twist to the fasts movie Kabir Singh and also said she thing for me. I wasn’t even a graduate so it was difficult S for me to even get a job. All I knew was acting and this for the upcoming Navratra festival. She is prefers food over her husband. Mira and doing it for “detox, health benefits and for Shahid often get cheeky on social media profession sort of chose me. a kick of immunity” and would be and express their love for each other. The You worked with the biggest stars in films like following the principles of Ayurveda for couple tied the knot on July 7, 2015. They Hungama, Baghban, Dhoom, Phir Hera Pheri and the same. But, husband Shahid feels she is were blessed with a daughter, Misha in Golmaal. Did these films give you what you so “pretty” that she doesn’t need a 2016, and welcomed son Zain in 2018 On expected or deserved? “cleanse”. the work front, Shahid will be next seen in I feel I wasn’t even deserving of what I got. I did a lot of On Thursday, as Mira shared a video on the sports drama, Jersey. The film is music videos. I did a commercial with Aamir Khan. Instagram inviting her followers for scheduled to release in theatres later this Then I signed Hungama. So it was all luck for me. But I “Modern day fasting for a seasonal year. The actor is also set to make his was getting only comedy films. I did Dhoom, Phir Hera cleanse ??”, Shahid commented on it. The digital debut with Raj Nidimoru and Pheri, Hungama, Golmaal and I had the role of actor wrote, “Why would someone that Krishna DK’s yet-to-be-titled quirky furniture in all of them. That time the film industry was pretty even need a cleanse. ????” thriller for Amazon Prime Video. male dominated. Today content is the hero. Back then, Recently, Mira answered several hero was the only hero! New Delhi, Sunday, 11 April, 2021 WORLD THE SIKH TIMES 8

Prince Philip A "Heck Of A Guy": Biden Washington: US President Joe Biden Myanmar junta attacks again as paid tribute to the late Prince Philip on Friday as a "heck of guy" who "never slowed down" over his long life. Speaking to reporters in the White House, the president said he and his wife Jill Biden sent condolences to spokesman defends crackdown Queen Elizabeth II. "He was a heck of a guy," Biden said, Yangon. Security forces in Myanmar cracked according to numerous social media posts.At praising the prince's service to Britain down heavily again on anti-coup protesters least 614 protesters and bystanders have been and the Commonwealth, and recalling Friday even as the military downplayed killed by security forces through Thursday, the prince's "bravery" in WorldWar II. reports of state violence. according to the Assistance Association for Biden also noted Prince Philip's charity Reports on online news outlets and social Political Prisoners, which monitors casualties work and being a "champion of the media said at least four people were killed in and arrests. environment." Bago, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) At a news conference in the capital, Naypyitaw, "I think he's going to be missed, northeast of Yangon, in an attack by a spokesman for the ruling junta defended the particularly in the United Kingdom. government troops and police that began actions of the security forces. Ninety nine years old and never slowed before dawn and continued sporadically until Brig. Gen. Zaw Min Tun, when asked about down at all, which I admire the devil after dark.The Bago Weekly Journal Online reports that automatic weapons have been out of," said Biden, who at 78 became said a source at the city’s main hospital, fired at protesters, replied that if that were the the oldest person inaugurated as whom it didn’t name, believed about 10 case, 500 people would have been killed in president in January. people had been killed.It was the third attack just a few hours.He challenged the death toll this week involving the massive use of deadly issued by the Assistance Association for Earlier, Biden issued a statement saying: force by security forces to try to crush active "From his service during World War II, Political Prisoners and said the government’s opposition to the Feb. 1 coup that ousted the tally was 248. He also said 16 policemen had to his 73 years alongside the Queen, elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi.On been killed. and his entire life in the public eye -- Wednesday, attacks were launched on Prince Philip gladly dedicated himself Asked about air strikes carried out by opponents of military rule in the towns of government jets on territory held by guerrillas to the people of the UK, the Kalay and Taze in the country’s north. In both from the Karen ethnic minority in eastern Commonwealth, and to his family.” places, at least 11 people -- possibly including Myanmar, which reportedly killed at least 14 some bystanders -- were reported killed. civilians, Zaw Min Tun said the aerial raids China Hits Alibaba With Huge Security forces were accused of using heavy especially in Kalay, where defenders called demonstrators espousing civil disobedience. allowed more exact targeting than ground weapons in their attacks, including rocket- themselves a “civil army,” and some were Violence by security forces was also reported attacks which would have caused more deaths. $2.78 Billion Fine For Market propelled grenades and mortars. The equipped with rudimentary hunting Supporters of the Karen charge that the army is allegations could not be independently Friday in several other areas, including rifles.Most protests in cities and town around Loikaw, the capital of Kayah sate in the east, carrying out a ground offensive as well, Abuse: Report confirmed by The Associated Press.Some of the country have been nonviolent, with including the use of artillery. the protesters used homemade weapons, where live ammunition was employed, Shanghai, China: Chinese regulators have hit e-commerce giant Alibaba "You Will Be Greatly Missed": Harry, with a massive 18.2 billion yuan US Congress To Probe Trump Ally Over Sex-Trafficking Allegations ($2.78 billion) fine over practices Meghan Post Tribute To Prince Philip deemed to be an abuse of the company's dominant market position, Washington: A US congressional ethics That probe centers on Gaetz and Los Angeles: Prince Harry and wife Meghan Markle's state-run media reported on Saturday. panel said Friday it has opened an fellow Floridian Joel Greenberg, a foundation Archewell paid tribute to Britain's Prince Xinhua news agency said the State investigation into the actions of Matt former tax collector in Seminole Philip following his death Friday as speculation Administration for Market Gaetz, a Republican lawmaker who County who was indicted last year builds about their plans to attend the funeral.The Regulation had assessed the fine after faces allegations of sex trafficking and on a federal child sex trafficking foundation updated the archewell.com website so concluding an investigation into having sex with a minor. charge. that it just displayed a single message without any Alibaba that began in December. The House Ethics Committee said in a According to the New York Times, drop-down menus or links to other pages."In Loving The investigation and fine centred on statement it was aware of allegations people close to the investigation said Memory of His Royal Highness, The Duke of Alibaba's alleged practice of requiring Gaetz "may have engaged in sexual they believe Greenberg met women Edinburgh, 1921-2021," read the message in white that merchants who wish to sell their misconduct and/or illicit drug use, through websites and introduced on a dark background.” wares on its popular platforms do so shared inappropriate images or videos them to Gaetz, who had sex with Thank you for your service... You will be greatly exclusively, avoiding rival e- on the House floor, misused state them.The DOJ is also investigating missed," it added.Philip, the longest serving royal commerce sites. identification records, converted whether Gaetz had sex with a 17- consort in British history, died peacefully in the The size of the penalty was determined campaign funds to personal use, and/or year-old. morning at Windsor Castle, west of London, after regulators decided to fine accepted a bribe, improper gratuity, or With the scandal swirling, some Buckingham Palace said in a statement.His death Alibaba four percent of its 2019 sales impermissible gift, in violation of the ethics probe is a ramping up of legal Democrats have called on Gaetz to immediately fueled speculation about when Harry of 455.7 billion yuan, Xinhua said. House Rules, laws, or other standards of step down.”End the disgrace now, conduct." exposure for the 38-year-old, a third-term might return to Britain for his grandfather's funeral Alibaba and other leading Chinese tech congressman from Florida who until @RepMattGaetz. Resign." tweeted House and whether Meghan, pregnant with their second companies have come under pressure Gaetz, one of the House members most loyal recently was seen as a rising star in the Democrat Gerry Connolly on Friday. child, would join him. amid growing concern over their to Donald Trump during his presidency, has Republican Party.In recent weeks US media A group of female Gaetz staffers meanwhile influence in China, where tech-savvy not been charged with a crime.He has The couple, also known as the Duke and Duchess of reported that the Department of Justice -- has come to his defense, writing a statement Sussex, live in Los Angeles following their decision consumers use leading platforms to denied the allegations and claims he is the during Trump's presidency -- had opened its Thursday saying they experienced "no hint communicate, shop, pay bills, book victim of an extortion scheme.The of impropriety" by the lawmaker.On every to quit frontline royal duties early last year.They have own investigation into accusations that yet to publicly say whether they will attend the taxis, take out loans and perform a committee also announced in an unrelated Gaetz may have broken federal sex occasion he has treated each and every one range of other daily tasks.Alibaba in statement that it was investigating another of us with respect," they wrote. "Thus, we funeral. If they do, it would mark their first return to trafficking laws and been involved in a Britain since their explosive interview with US talk particular has been under scrutiny Republican congressman, Tom Reed, amid scheme to recruit and pay women for sex. uniformly reject these allegations as false.” sexual misconduct allegations.For Gaetz, show superstar Oprah Winfrey last month. Man Claiming To Be At Capitol Riot Wanted To Bomb Amazon Data Center: FBI Pendley's planned target was an brought a gun with him when he came to Justice Department Amazon Web Services building in Washington on Jan. 6, but left it in his car Ashburn, Va.,authorities said. when he realized others were not officials said Seth Aaron According to a criminal complaint, carrying firearms because of the city's Pendley came to the attention of strict gun laws, according to court Pendley, 28, who's planned authorities after someone alerted the papers.On Thursday, Pendley met with since last October, when co-founder FBI to ominous posts he had made on a the undercover agent in Fort Worth, Jack Ma criticised Chinese regulators target was an Amazon Web website called MyMilitia.com. As the Texas, and took from him a number of as being behind the times after they FBI investigated further, they found devices that he was told were explosives, expressed growing concern over the Services building in Pendley had claimed online to have and was told how to detonate them, push into loans, wealth management been at the Capitol on Jan. 6, but said he according to an FBI affidavit filed in the and insurance by Alibaba's financial Ashburn, Va., authorities did not enter the building, and shared case. After placing the inert devices in arm, Ant Group.China has been video that seemed to indicate his his car, Pendley was arrested. seeking to rein in runaway personal said. presence outside the building, After the arrest, Pendley admitted "to debt and chaotic lending, and upstart according to court papers. He told one having orchestrated the plan to attack the Ant's growing profile -- and Ma's rare Washington: A Texas man who boasted about associate online that he had kept a AWS data centers" and a subsequent public criticisms -- have been viewed being on the U.S. Capitol steps during the Jan. piece of broken glass from the Capitol,posts to the FBI, this individual may have search of his home found a sawed off as a challenge to China's state- 6 insurrection has been arrested by the FBI and the papers said. saved the lives of a number of tech workers." AR-style weapon, notes and hand-drawn dominated financial sphere. accused of planning to detonate a bomb at a The case highlights a growing concern among Shortly before his arrest, Pendley allegedly told maps about the planned attack, wigs and data center outside the District of Columbia in law enforcement and terrorism experts that the the undercover FBI agent that he wanted to masks, and "a pistol which had been painted to Heart Disease, Drugs Not the hopes that doing so would cripple not just insurrection could inspire further domestic attack the Amazon data center because he look like a toy gun," according to the Internet traffic but also the FBI, CIA and other terrorist attacks, and officials praised the believed it provided computer services to affidavit.Pendley was charged with "Direct Causes" Of George government agencies, officials said Friday. unidentified person who first alerted them to major U.S. government agencies, and that an attempting to destroy a building with an Justice Department officials said Seth Aaron Pendley's online posts. attack on the building could take down most of explosive, which carries a potential 20-year Floyd's Death: Doctor Pendley, 28, was arrested Thursday after he "We are indebted to the concerned citizen who the Internet in America, as well as harm prison sentence. He remained in custody after allegedly attempted to take material from came forward to report the defendant's government operations and anger "the making an initial court appearance Friday in Minneapolis: George Floyd had heart someone he thought was an illicit supplier of alarming online rhetoric, said Prerak Shah, the oligarchy."Pendley also claimed in that Texas and could not immediately be reached disease and had consumed drugs but explosives, but who in fact was an FBI agent. acting U.S. Attorney in Dallas. "In flagging his secretly recorded conversations that he had for comment. they were not the "direct causes" of his death, the doctor who conducted the autopsy said Friday at the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin. NASA Space Helicopter Andrew Baker, the chief medical Volcano Spews Ash, Hot Gravel On examiner for Minnesota's Hennepin County, told the jury that Floyd's cause of death was "restraint and neck Ready For First Mars Flight compression" while being subdued by police.Chauvin i facing murder and Caribbean Island Of St Vincent. Washington: The helicopter that NASA has placed on Mars could manslaughter charges for his role in make its first flight over the Red Planet within two days after a Floyd's May 25, 2020 death, which St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda: Ash volcano was spitting onto balconies and evacuation orders came out but things successful initial test of its rotors, the US space agency said occurred during his arrest for allegedly and hot gravel rained down Friday on roofs."Stone falling on people house, were calmer Friday. Friday.The current plan for the first-ever attempt at powered, passing a fake $20 bill. the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent, like rain," he said.The 4,049-foot La "I can feel and hear rumbling here in the controlled flight on another planet is for the four-pound (1.8 The 45-year-old Chauvin, who is white, after powerful eruptions from a volcano Soufriere -- French for "sulphur mine" - green safe zone. We can see a huge ball kilogram) helicopter, dubbed the Ingenuity, to take off from was seen in a video taken by a that had been dormant for decades sent - had not erupted since 1979 and its of smoke. Keeping calm as much as Mars' Jezero Crater on Sunday at 10:54 pm US eastern time bystander kneeling on Floyd's neck for thousands of panicked locals fleeing to largest blow-up happened over a possible and praying," Punnett said (0254 GMT Monday) and hover 10 feet (3 meters) above the more than nine minutes as the safety.The initial blast from La century ago, killing more than 1,000 Friday.As of early Friday afternoon, surface for a half-minute, NASA said."The helicopter is good, Soufriere, the highest peak in Saint people in 1902.It had been rumbling for handcuffed 46-year-old Black man most of the people in the red zone had it's looking healthy," said Tim Canham, Ingenuity operations complained repeatedly that he "can't Vincent and the Grenadines, sent months before it finally blew.It is now been moved to safety, the Caribbean plumes of hot ash and smoke 6,000 likely to keep erupting for days or lead, in a press conference."Last night, we did our 50 RPM spin, breathe."The video touched off Disaster Emergency Management where we spun the blades very slowly and carefully," he said. protests against racial injustice and meters (20,000 feet) into the air Friday weeks, scientists at the University of the Agency said. The plan for Sunday is to have it rise, flying only vertically, hover police brutality in the United States morning, the local emergency West Indies, in Trinidad and Tobago, Royal Caribbean International and and around the world.The cause of management agency said.A second, tweeted."Once there is one explosive and rotate for 30 seconds to take a picture of the Perseverance Celebrity Cruises said they were rover, which touched down on Mars on February 18 with the Floyd's death is a central element in smaller ruption took place Friday eruption it is likely others can occur," sending two ships to assist the Chauvin's high-profile trial being held afternoon, belching out a 4,000-meter- the university's seismological research evacuation effort. helicopter attached to its underside.Then the Ingenuity will be lowered back down onto the surface. in a heavily guarded Minneapolis high ash cloud, the University of the center said.Prime Minister Ralph "Scared out of their wits" The flight will be autonomous, pre-programmed into the aircraft courtroom.Prosecutors are seeking to West Indies Seismic Research Centre Gonsalves started issuing evacuation Gonsalves said two more ships from prove Floyd's death was due to said."Evacuation of people in the red orders late Thursday for residents in so- because of the 15 minutes it takes for signals to travel from Earth cruise liner company Carnival were to Mars, and also due to the demanding environment of the asphyxiation and have called several and orange zones to safe areas called red zones, home to some 16,000 also on their way.Those evacuated medical experts in recent days to continues in earnest. Heavy ash fall has people on the biggest island in the distant planet.Mars is hard not only when you land, but when would be taken to shelters elsewhere in you try to take off from it and fly around, too,"said MiMi Aung, bolster their case.Chauvin's defense halted the process somewhat since archipelago. The total population of the the island chain or other Caribbean claims Floyd's death was due to his visibility is extremely poor," the chain is about 100,000."Persons living territories that have offered assistance, Ingenuity project manager.She explained that the planet has consumption of the illegal drugs National Emergency Management in the 'Red Zones' are strongly advised such as Barbados and Saint Lucia, significantly less gravity than Earth, but less than one percent fentanyl and methamphetamine and Organization said on Twitter. to pack a quantity of personal items, according to local media. the pressure of Earth's atmosphere at the surface.The makes it underlying health conditions.Baker, Video posted on the website secure your homes and animals; and be necessary for the Ingenuity to be able to spin its rotor blades who conducted the autopsy on Floyd news784.com showed people walking ready to be evacuated immediately," Philmore Mullin, director of Antigua and much faster than a helicopter on Earth in order to fly."Put those and signed his death certificate, was police said in a statement after the Barbuda's National Office of Disaster along a street toting duffel bags and Services, told AFP the twin island things together, and you have a vehicle that demands every input questioned about his findings by suitcases, the air a choking cloud of eruption.Zen Punnett, who lives on the be right," said Aung.NASA captured the test of the rotors in a prosecutor Jerry Blackwell and 18-mile long island, said people nation was ready to receive evacuees gray ash.In another video, a man picked from Saint Vincent. short video shot from the rover just a few meters away, showing Chauvin's attorney, Eric Nelson. up bits of "very hot" rocks that the panicked Thursday night as the what looks like a small drone. 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largely theoretical and by rote. Further, encouraged to think about their short and students lack exposure that they need to long-term goals, and choose a career that CareerCareer effectively navigate their careers. This is intersects with their interests and because most students, even at tier I strengths. Approximately, 77 per cent colleges have worked their way there. graduates quit their job within one year of Most of them do not get the guidance graduation. Students should research they need back home because their about the organisation they would like to parents did not get similar join based on interest and ensure they have To avoid quarter life crisis, identified six common world and not just text-book problems, manage opportunities.While it is heartening to the skills that match the offered roles. youngsters should choose a areas that need to be time efficiently, awareness of business ethics) see the first generation of college Secondly, students must be ex posed to career that intersects with their worked upon before The ability to make a good first impression graduates, it work internships through-out their college interests and strengths ? students graduate and (be presentable) experience so that they can College is considered one of the pursue their first job. Ability to secure a job experiment, gain mentorship, and best times in a student's life. This is irrespective of (e.g., resume, learn practical skills on the job. Our However, a student from Delhi their career path, and interviewing research conducted at HBS shows that University joked with me about outside core technical almost 50 per cent of students at top something that stuck. He said that knowledge: undergraduate universities in India while in his father's generation, people Life vision (identifying do not secure work internships face a mid-life crisis, in his generation, longterm goals for career in their college years, which he is experiencing a quarter life crisis. and life) makes their first job the first It began with not being able to get his Good communication time they have ever dream job after scoring close to 100 per skills (both written worked. cent in his class XII board exam. and spoken) Thirdly, this will require In a country where parents celebrate The ability to work a mindset change for their child's achievements, why do smart (solve real organisations too. over 60 per cent of Organisations need to our graduates feel be willing to mentor anxious about young talent if they their want to stop future? As complaining about our part of my nation's work-readiness research crisis. Not only MBAs, conducted as an but undergraduate interns independent project at Harvard can be an organisational Business School (HBS), I found that investment that makes even graduates from recognised business sense. Interns get educational institutions in India and discrete projects done in a short face major gaps, resulting in networkin time-frame at a low cost. The them being unprepared for g skills internship serves as a two-month their careers.Key gaps in The challenges: interview, providing a talent pipeline campus to career This issue begins with for full-time hiring. transition: the pressure students have to If the work-readiness crisis in India is Organisations face when they pursue educational comes with not addressed it could lead to large-scale and students in paths that do not interest them. It is worsened its fair set of challenges. The under-employment and disillusionment the research set with the learning methodology, which is solution: First, students need to be amongst the youth.

3. Don't get personal: There will be times when a colleague Tips to win messes up with your happiness and you just want to give them a piece of your How often should mind. Do not do that. This will not only make you look bad in front of your boss's eyes but will also make space for more rivalry. People tend to remember about the insults and arguments meted against you taake breaks? them even though for you it was just a matter that you chose not to give enough importance. There is always that one person at work who problem. Productivity can suffer when one 4. No angry mails: is always seen lounging around the pantry or water cooler, sipping on endless cups of doesn't utilise the peak productivity hours. coffee and chatting with whoever comes by. The key then, is to be clear about where you Everyone wonders how this person gets any stand and change the way you spend your OfficeBeOffice it the need for power, position, money breaks. "Break time provides a unique work done and yet, they fly through or simply greed, office politics can crop in appraisals successfully year after year. Then opportunity to network with your any form and can create havoc in your life there are organisations that have strict colleagues, building and nurturing if not dealt well. guidelines for breaks, but this isn't received relationships, creating awareness about Let's face it office politics is everywhere well by employees either. After all, other businesses and understanding inter and no one can escape for its vicious everyone has a different style of working dependent functions, etc. So, instead of clutches. But that doesn't mean that you and productivity peaks at different times for being closed to the idea, one can choose to can't fight it or stand up against it. One has different people. Balancing time at the desk utilise it effectively too. Ultimately, it is to deal these things calmly and PoliticsPolitics and time away from it might seem like a about working smart," shares Jagjit Singh, diplomatically. So here are few tips that face it and fight against it or simply leave it. Before sending any correspondences via simple matter but the will help you stand against these office email think through it a hundred times. ideal ratio is actually politics and still be loved by all. 2. Don't take sides: We fall in major problems when we start Though in anger you might feel you are quite difficult to come 1. Acceptance: taking sides. It's good to have opinions but doing the right thing but to never known by. A war is half won when you accept and never under any circumstances take sides as it when the same mail might be used against "It is really difficult to acknowledge it. If you are being involved will ruin everything. When you find yourself you to demean you or make you the bad find an ideal ratio as or dragged in office politics, firstly accept caught in a situation like this then focus on person in front of all. Same goes for social such, but I think about 4- and acknowledge it. Then start analyzing your business objectives and don't take side media posts too. Be extremely careful. 5 hours of work calls for who are the root cause for them and how with either of them. Place them on a common 5. Know the real culprit: a 30 minute break," can they be dealt with. Be aware that after communication platform and ensure open Know who the trouble maker is and always suggests Abhimanyu this point too, you have a chance to either communications among all parties so that no maintain a safe distance from that person Bhosale, founder-CEO, one can claim that they didn't utter those and if you can make peace with that person Live Health. "Overall, words. nothing better than that. Indians are relatively very hard-working and the ratio of work to leisure is less than the global average. But I think it is the culture that matters; Indians have a lot of overall festive breaks and the overall happiness index in most urban cities is quite good," he adds. As Bhosale says, balancing is very subjective to a person and it depends on how the person likes to chief people officer, PwC India. relax. According to Kiran Iyer, sr. manager, Singh sums it up, "For the millennials, it is HR, Healthenablr India Pvt Ltd, the ideal no longer about being told when to take a ratio of work time and leisure is 90 120 break or what the length of the break is going minutes work with 15 20 minutes leisure to be. break. It is about what you need to accomplish If you happen to work with people who everything else will fall into place." Thus, enjoy taking frequent breaks while you there's no need to overthink a break unless it prefer a single long break, it can pose a starts to reflect on your output at work. New Delhi, Sunday, 11 April, 2021 BUSINESS THE SIKH TIMES 10

NEWS BOX Alibaba fined $2.8 billion Interest rates fall, but deposits shine on; grow 11.4% in FY21 on monopoly charge in going forward as RBI is committed to China Despite over a 100-basis ensure easy liquidity and low repo rates,” Beijing Chinese regulators have fined e- said Sandeep Bagla, CEO, Trust Mutual commerce giant Alibaba USD 2.8 billion on point decline in interest Fund. However, real interest rates have charges of violating anti-monopoly rules. remained negative after adjusting for The ruling Communist Party is tightening rates, bank deposits inflation levels. Retail inflation was at 5.03 per cent in February 2021, which is higher control over China's biggest e-commerce and surged by 11.4 per cent than one year term deposit rate of 4.9 per other internet companies and has warned them cent. “The real interest rate on the short end not to use their industry dominance to stifle during the financial year of the curve will remain severely in the competition.The State Administration for negative for some time penalizing the Market Regulation announced Saturday that ended March 2021, as savers. One hopes that this does not affect Alibaba was fined for "abusing its dominant the savings rate materially,” said Dhiraj position" to limit competition in online against 7.9 per cent in the Relli, MD &CEO, HDFC Securities.On the retailing.Alibaba is the world's biggest e- previous year. other hand, the bank credit growth has commerce company by total volume of goods continued to be propped up by the retail segment and by disbursements under sold across its platforms. Mumbai Despite over a 100-basis point ECLGS scheme, which had been extended decline in interest rates, bank deposits further till March 31, 2021. These have been India's exports surge by surged by 11.4 per cent during the financial further supported by various regulatory year ended March 2021, as against 7.9 per measures by the RBI in the form of interest 297% in first week of cent in the previous year. However, credit Bank of India’s one year FD rate has fallen to grow by 10.5 per cent in the ongoing rate cuts and CRR (cash reserve ratio) growth declined to 5.6 per cent in FY21 from from 5.90 per cent to 4.90 per cent during the fiscal.The increase in deposit growth during exemption on credit disbursed to new 6.1 per cent in the previous year, according to year after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) the period under review could be supported MSME borrowers. As per the circular dated April Reserve Bank of India data. slashed policy rate – repo rate – by 115 basis by outflows in equity mutual fund primarily February 05, 2021, the RBI has exempted Total deposits increased by 15.45 lakh crore to points to 4 per cent since February 7, 2020. due to profit booking by investors, says a banks from keeping CRR requirement Rs 151.13 lakh crore in the year. Time However, the decline in repo rate failed to report by Care Ratings. Moreover, as on against loans disbursed to first-time deposits (fixed deposits) rose by Rs 13.01 boost the bank credit which showed a lower March 12, 2021, the liquidity surplus in the borrowers of MSMEs. Growth figures for lakh crore to Rs 132.51 lakh crore while growth rate of 5.6 per cent — a rise of just Rs banking system stood at Rs 5.7 lakh crore. year-end March 2021 would have the benefit demand deposits (savings bank) jumped by 5.80 lakh crore — to Rs 109.51 lakh crore in The liquidity surplus can be primarily of lower base of previous year end since that Rs 2.44 lakh crore to Rs 18.61 lakh crore. FY21 as corporate investments remained attributed to deposit growth outpacing credit was the period of beginning of lockdowns The rise in deposits has come despite a 100 sluggish. GDP which contracted by 23.9 per growth persistently, it said. and disruption of activities, including basis points decline in deposit rate. State cent in the June quarter of FY21, is expected “Interest rates are likely to remain range bound lending, Care Ratings said. Direct tax New Delhi. India`s goods exports posted a 297.2 percent increase (year-on-year) in the Gold prices remain stable after a minimal rise receipts beat last first seven days of this fiscal to $6.79 billion and by 8.42 percent (YoY) over the In metro cities, 22-carat gold is priced at Rs 45,570, while in Mumbai it is priced at Rs 44,570. Meanwhile, in Bengaluru, the 22-carat gold is priced at Rs 43,510 and in fiscal RE by Rs corresponding period of 2019-20. Imports in Kolkata, it is priced at Rs 45,450. In Pune, the gold is priced at Rs 44,570, while in Nagpur, the gold price stands at Rs 44,570. the first week of 2021-22 (April 1-7) 40,000 crore increased 244.2 percent to $ 9.66 billion and decreased by 0.65 percent (YoY) over 2019- New Delhi. After a surge in prices on April 9, the New Delhi The Centre collected a 20 during the week. gold price remained stable with a minimal net amount of Rs 9.45 lakh crore as direct taxes in 2020-21, up Rs The data showed that the export of engineering increase in gold rates of Rs 10 per 10 gram and Rs 100 per 100 gram. The price of 22-carat gold 40,000 crore or 4.4 per cent from goods showed an increase of 209.65 percent the revised estimate (RE) (YoY) over 2020-21 and of 8.4 percent YoY stands at Rs 44,570 per 10 gram and Rs 4,45,700 per 100 gram. When it comes to 24- presented in the Budget on over 2019-20. Exports of gems and jewellery February 1, thanks to improved and petroleum products also increased. carat gold, it is priced at Rs 4,55,700 per 100 collections in the second half of the The US and China accounted for most of the gram and 10 grams of 24-carat gold is priced at year, especially in the fourth rise in exports during the seven-day period. Rs 45,570.In metro cities, 22-carat gold is quarter. Had the government not The imports included petroleum crude and priced at Rs 45,570, while in Mumbai it is been liberal with refunds — up Rs products and electronic goods. UAE and priced at Rs 44,570. Meanwhile, in Bengaluru, 78,000 crore or 42 per cent on year China accounted for a large part of the the 22-carat gold is priced at Rs 43,510, and in at Rs 2.61 lakh crore — the net increase in imports.The data showed that Kolkata, it is priced at Rs 45,450.In Pune, the collections would have been even some of the increase was offset by the gold is priced at Rs 44,570, while in Nagpur, the higher.This, coupled with revenue decrease in imports of silver, fertilizers, gold price stands at Rs 44,570. In Chennai, it is from ‘Union excise duties’ likely crude, and newsprint. The country's exports priced at Rs 43,800 and in Hyderabad, the 22- being higher than the respective and imports in April last year were impacted carat gold price is Rs 43,510.In Mumbai, the RE by Rs 30,000 crore, would by the situation created by COVID-19. 24-carat gold is priced at Rs 45,570, and in likely allow the Centre to rein in Pune, it is priced at Rs 45,570, Nagpur is Rs the fiscal deficit at a level slightly First since FY99: Fuel 45,570. In the national capital, the price of 24- lower than the RE of 9.5 per cent carat gold is priced at Rs 49,270.In Bengaluru, (RE) of the GDP, at the RE levels consumption shrinks gold is priced at Rs 47,470, and in Chennai, the of expenditure and other revenue 24-carat gold rate is Rs 47,780. In Hyderabad, weighed down by a jump in the US Treasury per ounce by 11:16 a.m. EDT (1516 GMT), after streams. The National Statistical New Delhi India’s fuel demand contracted by the 24-carat gold price is Rs 47,470. In Kolkata, yields and a rebound in the dollar, but bullion declining as much as 1.4%, having hit its Office in the second advance a massive 9.1 per cent in the financial year a 24-carat gold price is Rs 48,150. estimate predicted a narrower ended March 31, the first in more than two was still on course for its first weekly gain in highest price since March 1 at $1,758.45. For Internationally, gold slipped more than 1%, three weeks. Spot gold fell 0.7% to $1,743.73 the week, however, prices were up about 0.9%. contraction in nominal GDP of 3.8 decades, as a stringent lockdown imposed to per cent in FY21, against a 4.2 per curb the spread of the pandemic pummelled G-secs worth Rs 11k cr remain Loss default guarantee fund unsold in 1st auction of Fy22 to aid solar pump buyers Mumbai: Government securities (G- According to bond market players, the cent fall estimated earlier; if this secs) worth nearly Rs 11,000 crore RBI’s commitment in its policy Kolkata: SwitchON Foundation along with Punjab National holds true, it would have a further remained unsold in the first gilt announcement on Wednesday in Bank (PNB) has set up the first ‘loss default guarantee fund’ salutary effect on the fiscal auction of fiscal 2022. This indicates a which it assured to contain any abrupt to offer finance to the marginal farmers for buying solar numbers. Robust GST collections economic activity, government data revival of the tug of war between spike in yield for the longer term paper pumps. in recent months have brightened showed.India consumed 194.63 million traders, who want higher yields, and eased pressure on the medium to long “This partnership creates an ecosystem to encourage a large- the prospects of the Central GST tonnes of petroleum products in 2020-21 as the central bank which wants the end of the yield curve. However, the scale deployment of solar pumps. This is a unique agreement collections being higher than the RE.According to provisional compared with 214.12 million tonnes opposite. Similar actions were seen shorter end (tenure of up to seven between a private not-for-profit organisation and a leading demand in the previous year, according to during the last four months of the years) of the curve is expected to go up figures of direct tax collections for public sector bank to set up a guarantee fund, which is FY21 released by the Finance the latest data released by the oil ministry’s previous financial year. slowly with the use of longer term otherwise, usually set up by government bodies,” said Vinay Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell variable reverse repo for liquidity Ministry Friday, net (post-refunds) On the positive side for the government Jaju of SwitchON Foundation. corporation tax collections stood (PPAC).This the first time that the fuel bond market, the benchmark yield on absorption, they said. consumption has contracted since 1998-99, The basic aim of the fund is to help unbanked small marginal at Rs 4.57 lakh crore and personal the 10-year gilts closed marginally In its bimonthly policy meet that ended income tax, including security the most historical year for which softer at slightly below the 6.02% on Wednesday, the RBI had said that farmers without any collateral. A senior PNB Official of the Kolkata Zone said: “This novel joint initiative will provide transaction tax, at Rs. 4.88 lakh government data is available. The demand level.In Friday’s G-sec auction, Rs liquidity operations will continue to crore. The break-up of the pre- contraction was led by diesel, the most- 10,926 crore worth of bonds maturing ensure orderly market conditions. As finance for purchasing solar pumps for farming that will promote clean energy under different subsidy schemes of the refund direct tax mop-up is: consumed fuel in the country.12 per cent to in 2026 remained unsold (also called part of the same, the RBI will hold “Advance Tax of Rs. 4.95 lakh 72.72 million tonnes while petrol demand devolvement), RBI data showed. variable rate reverse repos of longer government.” crore; tax deducted at source shrank 6.7 per cent to 27.95 million tonnes. Through this auction, the government maturities. Also, to ensure orderly The foundation will be conducting farmer sensitisation, (including Central TDS) of Rs. was set to borrow Rs 32,000 crore in evolution of the yield curve, it was awareness drive and due diligence before finalising the 5.45 lakh crore; self-assessment LinkedIn says user data total, spread over bonds of four decided to buy G-secs from the disbursal of each loan. In east India, 96% of the farmers are tax of Rs. 1.07 lakh crore; regular scraped and put for sale: different tenures. However, the lower secondary market G-sec Acquisition small and marginal and “irrigation is essential to pull these assessment tax of Rs. 42,372 borrowing because of the unsold Programme (GSAP). The central bank farmers out of poverty, but they are overburdened with crore; dividend distribution tax of Report bonds of five-year tenure was partially had said under GSAP, it will buy G- Rs. 13,237 crore and tax under offset through higher borrowings of Rs secs worth Rs 1 lakh crore during recurring diesel prices and high electricity bills,” said Surajit Chakraborty of the foundation. other minor heads of Rs. 2,612 BENGALURU: Personal data of about 500 5,927 crore through three other bonds. April-June 2021. crore”. FE million LinkedIn users have been scraped and put online for sale, according to a report. This accounts for about two-thirds of the professional networking company’s user base.Data — which includes a user’s name, Pentagon defends Navy ship asserting emails, phone number, workplace information, and links to social media accounts hosted on the platform — have been exposed, according to Cyber News, which navigational rights inside India's EEZ first reported on the breach.This comes days after data of Facebook’s users was up for sale on the dark web.LinkedIn said data has been Washington The Pentagon has defended its spokesperson John Kirby on Friday Kirby said that it is the responsibility of scraped but denied it was a breach. “We have Navy asserting its navigational rights within said: "I can tell you is that the USS the US to uphold the freedom of investigated an alleged set of LinkedIn data India's exclusive economic zone without John Paul Jones, a Navy destroyer, navigation and the rights and freedom that has been posted for sale and have taking New Delhi's permission, calling the asserted navigational rights and and lawful uses of the sea recognised determined that it is actually an aggregation move "consistent with international law". freedoms in the vicinity of the in international law. of data from a number of websites and In an unusual move, the US Navy announced Republic of the Maldives by The MEA in its statement said: "India's companies. It does include publicly viewable that on Wednesday it conducted a freedom of conducting innocent passage stated position on the UN Convention member profile data that appears to have been navigation operation in Indian waters through its territorial sea in normal on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) is scraped from LinkedIn. This was not a without prior consent to challenge India's operations within its exclusive that the Convention does not authorise LinkedIn data breach, and no private member account data from LinkedIn was included in "excessive maritime claims", triggering a economic zone without requesting other states to carry out in the what we’ve been able to review,” the reaction from New Delhi, which on Friday prior permission". Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and company said in a statement.Scraping is the said it has conveyed concerns to Washington Earlier, announcing about the on the continental shelf, military process of using bots to import publicly through diplomatic channels. operation, the statement by the 7th exercises or manoeuvres, in particular viewable data from websites. It’s not clear The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) also Fleet said, "On April 7, 2021 (local those involving the use of weapons or how many Indian users’ information was contested the US Navy's 7th Fleet statement time) USS John Paul Jones (DDG explosives, without the consent of the compromised. India is the second-largest of April 7 that the freedom of navigation 53) asserted navigational rights and coastal state."The USS John Paul market for the company in terms of users, at operation (FONOP) by the guided-missile freedoms approximately 130 Jones was continuously monitored 71 million, after the US, which has more than destroyer USS John Paul Jones "upheld the nautical miles west of the conference said: "That's consistent with transiting from the Persian Gulf 150 million users. LinkedIn declined to rights, freedoms, and lawful uses" of the sea Lakshadweep Islands, inside India's towards the Malacca Straits. We have provide any specific numbers around international law." recognised in international law by exclusive economic zone, without requesting "Again, we continue to maintain the right, conveyed our concerns regarding this that.“Any misuse of our members’ data, such challenging India's "excessive maritime India's prior consent, consistent with passage through our EEZ to the government as scraping, violates LinkedIn terms of indeed the responsibility, to fly, sail, and service. claims".When asked about India's reaction international law."Kirby in response to a operate in accordance with international of the USA through diplomatic channels," over the US Navy's move, Pentagon question from reporters at a Pentagon news law," he said. the MEAadded. New Delhi, Sunday, 11 April, 2021 SPORTS THE SIKH TIMES 11 IPL 2021: It’s a bit of a shoulder niggle - Chris Lynn reveals reason behind Hardik Pandya not bowling vs RCB New Delhi Ahead of the IPL 2021, Mumbai Indians bowling HIGHLIGHTS coach Shane Bond had said that Hardik Pandya was coming in the tournament as an all-rounder. With just 160 to defend in the season opener versus Royal Challengers Chris Lynn said that Bangalore (RCB) on Friday, Hardik Pandya was expected to play an important role for the 5-time champions. Hardik Pandya did not But the 27-year-old stayed away from any sort of bowling bowl against RCB action as RCB won the match by 2 wickets on the final ball of the 20th over.Much to the surprise of everyone, Hardik because of shoulder Pandya was seen using underarm throws while fielding at the boundary ropes. The on-air commentators were also niggle curious after witnessing a relay-fielding courtesy Hardik's underarm throw.MI opener Chris Lynn has solved the /So you don’t want to mystery for everyone and revealed the reason why his teammate did now bowl.“I’m not a hundred percent sure throw your eggs in one but it’s a bit of a shoulder niggle. I think Hardik Pandya, not bowling is maybe more precautionary. He’s played a basket and risk injury: fair bit of cricket leading up to this tournament, in which he has to play (minimum) 14 games as well.“So you don’t Lynn want to throw your eggs in one basket and risk injury. The physios and the staff doctors will treat Hardik if there’s /Hardik Pandya had something wrong.“He is a huge factor with the bat but if he gets bowling, then it adds another dimension to the team. bowled 9 overs in the We might have been missing the sixth bowler tonight but it’s early stages in the tournament. I do believe if Hardik is final ODI against bowling then it brings out confidence in his batting as well. So fingers crossed we’ll see him with the ball sooner rather England than later,” Lynn said in the post-match press conference. Zidane hopes Lionel MI vs RCB: Not ideal, the 1st game could be my last - Wrestlers miss out in Messi’s 45th ‘clasico’ Almaty, coach still on the is not his last Chris Lynn on running out Rohit Sharma in season opener way from Delhi Barcelona Lionel Messi is set to play his 45th – New Delhi. On a slow wicket in But anyhow, it was a spur-of-the- Chennai, Mumbai Indians (MI) were moment thing, happens in the game. and possibly final – “clásico” match against New Delhi When India’s Greco-Roman wrestlers off to a watchful start and team's It would have been nice (if the runout Real Madrid. were fighting for a spot in the Tokyo Olympics, captain Rohit Sharma was just getting didn't happen); he was striking the The star status of the Barcelona forward, whose ball nicely, and we were 10 or 15 runs their coach, Georgian Temo Kazarashvili, was contract expires this summer, has been built on in the zone when a mix-up with his still on a flight from Delhi to Almaty, where the opening partner Chris Lynn led to his short in the end. numerous titles and scoring records, as well as He would have definitely made a Asian qualifiers began on Friday. his exploits in one of soccer’s top rivalries. run-out dismissal.On the final Kazarashvili was expected to reach Almaty around delivery of the 4th over, the hard- difference, but there were plenty of But not even Real coach Zinedine Zidane wants factors in this game tonight, not just midnight Saturday, several hours after his wards Saturday to be Messi’s last chance to torment hitting Australian placed the ball the run-out," Chris Lynn said in the were already knocked out of the tournament. But Madrid.I don’t want this to be the last ‘clásico’ towards covers and charged down the post-match press conference.Later, that isn’t all.The women’s wrestlers, who will for Messi,” Zidane said on Friday. “Hopefully pitch for a run before deciding against Chris Lynn took two catches, one begin their quest for a place in the Olympics on he stays at Barcelona. He’s good there and it’s it. Rohit was halfway down the pitch "Look, obviously I was a bit nervous, no which helped MI see the back of Saturday morning, too were scheduled to reach also good for the Spanish league. We know how by then as Virat Kohli capitalised on the doubt about it. (It was my) first game for Glenn Maxwell, who was looking to Almaty at the same time as Kazarashvili – good a player he is.” opportunity to send his dangerous Mumbai, and it was the first time I was finish the game early for Royal meaning, they will have to step on the mat barely Messi, who turns 34 in June, was frustrated in his counterpart back in the pavilion.A batting with Rohit as well. It happens in Challengers Bangalore (RCB). attempt to leave Barcelona last summer. He hours after reaching the host city and without pressure on the face of Chris Lynn, the game of cricket as well. I thought there The match went down the wire but AB de proper sleep for two nights.Wrestling Federation said in December that he will decide his future playing in his first match for the 5-time was a run, and then obviously there wasn't Villiers and Harshal Patel held his nerves when his season is over and he can walk away of India assistant secretary Vinod Tomar said the champions was visible. He tried to make a run. But yeah, if I had been able to run to win the match with a single off the last reason for them reaching at the last minute – or in for free if he wants. Since then, Joan Laporta amends and scored 35-ball 49, the most by past him and sacrifice my wicket, I ball of 20th over.Lynn was playing in has returned to power as the club’s president Kazarashvili’s case, after the event – was the any batsman in his team on Friday's IPL definitely would have done that, but it place of South African Quinton de Kock, with the goal of convincing Messi to sign wasn't the case.”As I said, it happens, but who is currently serving the mandatory 7- travel restrictions caused by the pandemic. another contract, but the player remains silent. 2021 season opener.However, the 31- Raj Malik, the father of national champion Sonam, year-old feels that his 'not so ideal' yeah, I put just a little bit more pressure on day quarantine period after arriving in Messi has scored in a “clásico” a record 26 times myself. It's not ideal, running out your India earlier this week. The southpaw has said the team left from Delhi early Friday starting when he netted his first hat trick for mistake can make his first match for MI captain in the first game. The first game been team's first choice wicketkeeper and morning. “I spoke to Sonam in the evening before Barcelona at age 19 in a 3-3 draw with Real in the last one as well. could be my last, who knows? (laughs). opener from the last few seasons. she took her connecting flight. By the time she 2007.For a decade, the six-time Ballon d’Or will reach her hotel after completing all winner fed on his personal rivalry with formalities, it will be around 3 am. And early Cristiano Ronaldo, with both stars exchanging Saturday morning, she will have to be at the goals and stellar performances to lead their Every single time Rahul Dravid screamed, venue for the weigh-in followed by competition,” sides.Barcelona coach Ronald Koeman hopes Malik said.India has sent a five-member that Messi can end that drought and deliver a women’s team for the qualifiers. Apart from victory that would lift his team into first place Sonam, others are Seema Bisla (50kg), Anshu before current leader Atlético Madrid visits he would say, ‘Why am I doing this?’ Malik (57kg), Nisha Dahiya (68kg) and Pooja Real Betis on Sunday.After this weekend, there New Delhi Every time Rahul Dravid would his latest monikerAn instant hit, the video from the Karnataka dressing room, and I (76kg). Sonam, Anshu and Seema are considered will be eight rounds left in the season. scream, every single time he screamed, he raked in millions of views across social was at the receiving end. “Innu ondu Run decent bets to secure an Olympic quota in Almaty, “I hope that Messi can prove decisive because we would cover his forehead with his hands. media within hours. On the day a new IPL ide kano (there is one more run)”, but how much the rushed travel arrangements need him to play at his best and for Barça to also Like ‘What am I doing? Why am I doing season kicked off with two heavyweight referencing the tense 1998 Ranji Trophy affect their performances remains to be seen. show its best version,” Koeman said. “For our this?’” laughs Ayappa KM, director of the franchises led by India’s biggest stars, semifinal against Hyderabad.Tanmay Tomar said the federation ‘found it difficult to book attack, our passing game, and to create scoring commercial that has the famously tranquil ‘RahulDravid’ and ‘Indiranagar’ were Bhat, who wrote the commercial along flight tickets’.“Earlier, there used to be a direct chances, we need Leo.”Messi leads the league former India captain lose his head in among the top trends on Twitter. with his colleagues at the comedy outfit flight to Astana. But because of the pandemic, with 23 goals this season. After a shaky start Bengaluru traffic. “A guy out of his All India Bakchod, gave a behind-the- “I think the biggest victory here is that Rahul that option was not available. We managed to get under Koeman, Barcelona has found its stride comfort zone… That was so entertaining Dravid looks like a seasoned actor,” says scene glimpse on Twitter. and is undefeated in 19 straight rounds, to watch.” Ayappa. “Let’s be honest, he is known for Against nature 10 seats for a flight on April 7. So, we sent the six including a run of nine consecutive wins on the The Wall. Jammy. Mr Dependable. The his cricketing skills much more than his “Rahul Dravid is one of the nicest, politest Greco-Roman wrestlers who competed on road in the league. commercial for a credit card bill payment acting skills. So it was very nice to see the people I’ve had the pleasure of meeting. In Friday, three referees and Greco-Roman chief app has added another entry to Dravid’s feedback, that somewhere we’ve the brief few hours, he taught me how to coach Hargobind Singh,” Tomar said. “The next iconic nicknames: ‘Indiranagar ka communicated the dark side of Rahul correct my batting stance (I do all my flight we got was for Friday morning. The rest of Harshal’s spell made the Gunda’.The ad begins with a ‘Cred’ user Dravid that doesn’t even exist!” cardio while batting in the nets), was kind the team, including the Greco-Roman foreign admitting the benefits of the app may Dravid’s dark turn even took Indian cricket’s enough to share the most fascinating coach and the women wrestlers, took that flight.” difference, feels Virat Kohli sound “ridiculous, like saying Rahul angry young man by surprise. “Never seen cricketing insights and most pleasantly Other women wrestlers competing only in Asian Dravid has anger issues.” It then cutaways this side of Rahul bhai,” tweeted India surprising was his incredible curiosity. He Championship, which will be held at the same to a manic Dravid challenging fellow captain Virat Kohli with an exploding head asked about punchlines, and delivery, and venue, will leave from Delhi on April 13, Tomar drivers, throwing coffee, gleefully emoji.Former Test player and Karnataka the science behind writing and directing wrecking rear-view mirrors with his bat, teammate Dodda Ganesh posted, “The last comedy. Incredible experience. What an said – that is one day before their draw and two standing through the sunroof and shouting time Rahul Dravid shouted like this was, absolute legend. (sic)” Tanmay posted. days before the competition. AB de Villiers is timeless: Lara, Hayden laud RCB star

Chennai Royal Challengers Bangalore skipper Virat Kohli was all praise for after match-winning 48 vs MI in IPL 2021 opener Harshal Patel’s match-winning bowling performance in Chennai on Friday, terming New Delhi Legendary batsman and Virat Kohli and Glenn Maxwell, him their designated death bowler in this /AB de Villiars hit former West Indies captain Brian who batted ahead of de Villiers at edition of the IPL. Lara said AB de Villiers’s ability to No. 4, stitched a 52-run stand. Harshal’s 5 for 27 was the reason RCB were a 27-ball 48 to control the game and accelerate However, RCB went from 98 for 2 able to restrict MI to 159 for nine in the IPL when needed helped Royal to 122 for 6 in a span of 4 overs.De opener, which is something that even losing help RCB beat MI Challengers Bangalore gun down Villiers held his composure and captain Rohit Sharma admitted. 160 on a tricky pitch in Chennai took on the best death bowlers in “We brought Harshal in a trade from Delhi. He by 2 wickets on against Mumbai Indians in the IPL the business to help RCB open is relishing the responsibility and is clear Friday 2021 opener on Friday.Heaping their account in IPL 2021 as early with his plans. He was the difference today. rich praise of the South Africa star, as the opening day.Matthew He is going to be our death bowler. As a /De Villiers took who has retired from international Hayden pointed out that AB de captain you want players with clarity, and he cricket, Brain Lara said AB de Villiers’s calculated assault against has that,” Kohli said at the post-match press 12 runs from Villiers is timeless. Since retiring Jasprit Bumrah turned the game on conference.About AB de Villiers’ 48 off 27 from international cricket in May its head for Royal Challengers balls, Kohli said that the South African still Jasprit Bumrah’s 2018, the former South Africa Bangalore when they needed 19 intimidates the opposition.The opposition captain has only played franchise- runs from their last 2 based T20 tournaments.In the lead smashed the likes of Trent Boult I suppose he is keeping fit and ready overs.“Absolutely remarkable gets nervous about AB. We have depth in the penultimate over and Jasprit Bumrah, taking 12 runs for it. At this stage, when you lost batting which we want to utilize. AB is up to IPL 2021, AB de Villiers did performance from ABD. To just /Earlier, Glenn not have any competitive action from the penultimate over from the Virat Kohli, RCB needed him to have the presence of mind, when to probably the only one in the team who is so with his last outing being the IPL leading India pacer to help the come good. He was explosive at the go and when to hold back... the versatile. And he does it on slow wickets Maxwell hit a 2020 play-offs in the UAE last year. Bangalore side go past the finish right time, he controls the game. He rotation of strike and clean striking what not many can do.”MI captain Rohit However, de Villiers looked in line.De Villiers hit 48 from just 27 came in after Glenn Maxwell as of the ball.“The mark of a great wouldn’t mind losing another opening game quickfire 39 as auto-pilot mode from the word go. balls, smashing 4 boundaries and 2 well, he controlled the game and got player is how they take on other sixes in a special knock in Chennai. them home,” Lara told Star Sports. as long as his team goes on to win the Coming into bat after Virat Kohli’s great players. Jasprit Bumrah is one tournament, but admitted that they were 20 RCB successfully exit in the chase of 160, AB de “He is timeless. He has got the De Villiers’s assault against Bumrah of the best death bowlers, he has runs short.“Winning the championship is Villiers took after the Mumbai experience. IPL is the only form of sealed the deal for RCB’RCB were been for quite sometime in this important, I guess, not the first game. chased 160 Indians bowling attack. He cricket he is playing at the moment. cruising towards the target when tournament. 12 New Delhi, Sunday, 11 April, 2021 CareerCAREER THE SIKH TIMES

added. Using data from interviews with ex- employees, Gajendran and his co-authors found that among employees who quit, the quality of the boss-worker relationship is positively related to higher salaries and greater responsibility in a worker's next job as well as the goodwill they feel toward their former company."If you're making people happier, it should stand to reason that they're more committed to the organisation. But the numbers don't bear that out," the authors said.So why do workers leave despite having such a high-quality relationship with their manager? "What we find is, if you have a good manager, they're going to invest in you, they're going to develop you, you're going to become a better, more competent employee, which also means you're more in-demand as a worker," Gajendran noted. You could move up in the organisation but that path may not always be available."Managers also might not want you to go up internally because then they're losing a valued employee. So it means you're attractive to employers in the outside job market," the professor pointed out. That is why people leave good managers, precisely because good managers invest in and develop their employees. They typically get a better job with more responsibilities at their next employer.While that scenario might leave managers in a bind, Gajendran's research finds that there's a silver lining to valued employees leaving good managers.They are more likely to be open to a reunion with the NotNot justjust badbad organisation as a so-called 'boomerang employee', but they could also be a good source of information for the organisation," Gajendran emphasised."Our paper also shows that even employees who are leaving can be valuable somewhere down the line," Gajendran said.As a result, companies need to pay closer SuperiorsSuperiors a source of future business or as a back- attention to the "off-boarding" channel source of information," process.According to the paper, it also Gajendran said in a university statement. helps if managers at least make an "Therefore, thinking of ex-employees as a overture to retain employees, even if they people shun good bosses too strategic constituency is something more think it's unlikely they'll accept the offer organisations should start doing," he to stay. important strategic assets in the future, f you thought that a bad boss triggers information to boost their career ahead, an provided they leave on good terms. employee exodus, you are probably Indian-American professor has found. "If you have a good relationship with an Iwrong as workers leave good bosses According to Ravi S. Gajendran, professor of employee who's left to join a client or How to remain fit at work too and use friendly terms as a source of business administration at University of Illinois competitor, you can leverage that future business or get key market at Urbana-Champaign, an organisation's former relationship and potentially use them as employees -- or "alumni" -- can potentially be urge to overeat increases during lunch time. - Eat small portions of Should you consider taking a healthy snacks like ragi chips, nuts, fruits, popcorn, healthy oat biscuits, at regular intervals if there's too much time between your meals. Avoid overindulging, though. Do not Sabbatical?Sabbatical? combine stress with eating; generally, abbatical goes a long way to help people tend to overeat rejuvenate one's life and career. sabbatical is a great opportunity to renew professionally and evolve into a satisfied Sedentary lifestyle is one of the worst due to stress. Also, have lots of water. Preeti was getting bogged down by outcomes of modern lifestyle.Being - Try walking as much as possible. Take her mundane routine job. Her, and well-rounded individual. Such an opportunity can be used to address aspects chained to your desk, work stress and the stairs, walk during your lunch break. If otherwise, successful career was working till late, including odd hours, can you take your vehicle to work, park it getting monotonous. Finding a way of burnout or exhaustion, investing time in rebuilding one's self. Such de-stressing of lead to a risky future with regards to slightly away from your office so you out of the boredom, she took a health. Here's how you can make small have to walk, regardless. Stretch as much sabbatical for one year and spent it the fatigued mind and soul can be done by engaging in hobbies and interests that changes in your lifestyle, without as possible and walk as and when you get with her parents in a sleepy and exercising. the chance to. quaint town in Himachal Pradesh. A might have taken a back seat, volunteering for social causes or even reading or - Pay attention to what you're eating. Avoid - If need be, resort to reminder apps on year later, Preeti returned, feeling junk food as much as you can and avoid your phone that will send alerts for you to much rejuvenated and energised. teaching to fine-tune one's craft." Normally, once we start working, we don't ordering from outdoor eateries as much as take breaks in order to rest your eyes, go Like Preeti, you may also take a you can. Do not skip breakfast else, the for a stretch, take a walk and so on. break and get a whiff of fresh air to get enough time to renew and upgrade our escape the monotony and infuse skills and competencies.As the focus is fresh life in your work. Today's purely on doing day-today work, one's Corporate philanthropy highly demanding job schedule and output can quickly and without realising work load are most likely to create a become stale. One may even end up losing sense of lethargy or monotony in the energy and effectiveness one had at the impacts employees positively start. V Krishnan, executive director-HR, one's working life. A sabbatical from philanthropy brings in a positive impact on Employees care about impact and they the hustle bustle of the city life helps to professionals." Dabur India Ltd says the objective of taking a employees of businesses that actively partake respond more positively to donations to recharge yourself. A sabbatical allows us to review our sabbatical is key to serve the purpose. "If the in corporate giving, says a study.Giving But a sabbatical is somewhat more than a accomplishments and shortcomings, fix purpose of the sabbatical is to improve your enhances a business's quick break. It is a prolonged break from priorities and set goals in our life. It also helps knowledge and gain skills that help you in reputation and strengthens a one's professional job. It gives us the us strike a perfect balance between our performing your roles better and also add value business's efforts toward personal and professional lives. Rajeev to the organisation, it's a win-win situation," corporate social responsibility space and time to introspect on our and also benefits the personal and professional lives and Bhardwaj, VP HR, Sun Life Financial Asia Krishnan notes.Professional success is a Service Centre maintains, "A sabbatical can combination of competency, energy, drive and employees, the study said.The evaluate ourselves. It gives us room to way that firms choose to take a quick look at our career and long- make a positive difference in one's life, but a ability to reach out and achieve closure. deploy those funds has a huge term goals that are often neglected, thanks lot depends on how an individual puts it to use. During a sabbatical, one can look at these impact on the degree to which to the kind of pressure we need to undergo If taken positively, a sabbatical can turn out to components and hone these elements to giving affects employees, the in our professional life. be the turning point of one's life. One gets become a better professional and human being, findings showed.Just saving is Sanjeev Agrawal, vice president, valuable time to take stock of their life, asserts Bhardwaj. "With changing times, not enough operations and human empowerment, understand what they are doing and what they employers are also more receptive to anymoreMyUniverse"Specific would like to do. Once clear about all these employees who have taken breaks as against a ally, the impact is stronger Impetus Infotech (India) Pvt Ltd says, when firms donate to a few big "With job pressures on the rise in modern aspects, one can be at greater peace with one's few years ago. In fact, the concept of self and not afraid or apprehensive of the sabbaticals is gaining more and more and visible targets rather than times, many employees are opting for to a wider range of charities breaks to rejuvenate themselves. unknown." acceptance across the industry," he adds. chosen by the employees larger, more strategic and more centralised Find out how to save huge on CV fuel A sabbatical helps you come back as a themselves," said Emily Block, researcher Sabbaticals provide one such opportunity targets, revealed the study, published in the costMahindra RisePower in your pocket. successful professional with a pronounced from the University of Notre Dame in and help them address their personal Journal of Business Ethics.To examine how Trade anytime, anywheretion for a sabbatical freshness in spirit, creativity and energy . It's Indiana, US.By coupling donations with issues, pursue their hobbies, acquire new corporate philanthropy affects those inside all about self-renewal and self-growth. So go opportunities to volunteer, organisations can skills and be more fulfilled. If used is typically one year and it leaves a deep the organization, the researchers analysed enhance the positive impact on employees, judiciously, sabbaticals can help impact on our personal attitude if taken in the ahead, take that break and discover yourself, three years' of data on the attitudes of an the study revealed. individuals to emerge as refined right perspective. Bhardwaj suggests, "A all over again! average of 14,577 employees in 53 offices.