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Vol. 13 No. 22 RNI NO. DELENG/2008/25465 New Delhi, Monday, 7 June, 2021 [email protected] 9971359517 12 pages. 2/- Performance review of UP BJP MLAs underway TMC supremo Mamata as party gears up for assembly election Banerjee introduces ‘one post, one person’ system Bharatiya Janata Party's UP leadership has decided to carry out a performance review of the MLAs to understand their ground connect. Sources said the result of the review is crucial as the party will decide on ticket distribution based on the evaluation.

party might consider them give preference while giving tickets.According to sources, MLAs who will be ranked in the average category will get a clear signal from the party Kolkata: The All India Trinamool changes in the organisation leadership they will have to spend the next six Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata soon.”This decision comes in the months to drive forward the work done by Banerjee introduced the ‘one post, wake of ensuring smooth functioning them and spend maximum time among the one person’ system in the party of the party at the organisational level following a working committee and and the state government. While the Lucknow. The Uttar Pradesh wing of Bharatiya on the basis of the feedback of the organisation people. They will also be asked to improve their image among the public or else they may organisational meeting held on state ministers will not be allowed to Janata Party has started working on its strategy but also involve private agencies. The party Saturday(June5). hold the position of district for the 2022 assembly elections.The central will prepare the performance report of the not be considered while distributing tickets. leadership has now decided to prepare a MLAs based on the organisation's feedback The party, however, will give another chance to Party chief Banerjee introduced the presidents, the latter will also not performance report of the UP MLAs. The and the independent agency's report. the MLAs, who fall in this category to improve system to prevent party leaders from hold any position in the government. future of the candidates will, however, depend The party has decided that the performance their image. Sources added party will holding more than one posts in the The party had called for a meeting of on the reports of their performances. It is clear report of the existing MLAs will be kept in contemplate other options for MLAs who fall state government and in the 21-member working committee, first that the party will focus on ticket distribution three categories -- excellent, good and in the unsatisfactory category. o r g a n i s a t i o n a t t h e s a m e such after winning the assembly on the basis of their output. average. If sources are to be believed, MLAs The report is expected to arrive in the next one to time.Confirming the development, elections in the state. Banerjee met Sources said that BJP will take the performance with 'excellent' reports will not only be given two months. The central leadership, too, will party senior leader Partha Chatterjee the ministers, senior leaders and report MLAs from booth-level to district-level tickets but also a bigger role at the party level take timely feedback from MLAs on various said, “We have introduced the one MLAs, district presidents virtually. through the organisation in UP.The and in the coming elections. MLAs with a occasions so that the election strategy can be post, one person’ system in the party. Election strategist Prashant Kishor performance report will not only be prepared good report, too, will share the same fate. The made. We are going to make further also attended the meeting. CM Stalin flags 'delay' in setting up AIIMS in Environment suffered most since 'If pizza and burger can be delivered at BJP came to power in UP: home, then why not ration?’: Arvind Akhilesh Yadav Kejriwal asks Centre over stopping Delhi Tamil Nadu, asks PM Modi to intervene New Delhi. Samajwadi Party president govt's doorstep delivery scheme Chennai .Flagging 'avoidable delay' in belonging to the southern districts of AkhileshYadav on Saturday accused the BJP setting up of All India Institute of Medical Tamil Nadu as well as neighbouring government of making tree plantation drive a New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Sciences at Madurai, Tamil Nadu Chief states", he said.The Centre has "joke". He alleged that the environment has Kejriwal on Sunday (June 6, 2021) slammed Minister M K Stalin on Saturday sought appointed a president, an executive suffered the most ever since the BJP came to the Centre over stopping the Delhi Prime Minister Narendra Modi's director and some committees for the power in Uttar Pradesh.On World government's doorstep delivery scheme and intervention to facilitate immediate institute but it is also learnt that the Environment Day, Yadav said that the BJP asked if pizza and burger can be delivered at measures to establish the facility.The panels do not have clear authority to government has been making false claims home, then why not ration. Centre should immediately take up execute a project of this size, the Chief and the "trees have been growing only in He also commented on Centre saying that the measures, including appointing a team of Minister said.Meanwhile, due to this government files".Concrete steps were taken AAP government did not seek the approval officers to commence work, Stalin said in a avoidable delay, there are also reports regarding environmental protection by the and said, "Legally, we don't need their letter to Modi.Requesting the Prime that the option of starting the institution Samajwadi government, he said. It had set a approval but we did so to avoid any dispute." Minister's personal intervention, Stalin said temporarily at some other location is the state government is willing to extend all also being considered. It is felt that this Guinness Book world record in tree "We took approval from Centre five times for institution has already been transferred to plantation while ponds were dug and green cooperation needed for the immediate the union government by the state. may further delay the project." Stalin implementation of doorstep ration delivery commencement and early completion of the requested that a dedicated team of officers parks developed in the Bundelkhand region, scheme," Delhi CM stated. He said that the "However, except for the putting up of a he added."In Uttar Pradesh, the BJP doorstep ration delivery scheme should be project. compound wall, there has not been any with adequate financial and administrative Recalling that the foundation stone for powers may be appointed immediately and government runs tree plantation campaigns implemented across India otherwise ration physical progress in the establishment of every year. But to date, it has not been able to establishment of AIIMS at Thoppur in the institution.' The expeditious setting up measures taken by the Union Ministry of shops will act as super-spreaders of COVID- Health to finalise and commence the give details about where and how many trees 19. "I request PM Narendra Modi with Madurai was laid by Modi on January 27, of the institution is necessary for providing 2019, he said the land for the prestigious construction work immediately. have been planted in which year during his folded hands on behalf of Delhi's 70 lakh quality tertiary healthcare to the people reign, and how many saplings planted are poor people, please don't stop this scheme. It left. In fact, the environment has suffered the is in the interest of the nation," he most ever since BJP came to power," he said. said.Kejriwal added that there should be no politics over matters meant for the country's BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari and his brother The Samajwadi Party chief alleged that the benefit. BJP government has squandered the budget under the cover of tree plantation drive."Its latest claim has been planting 30 crore Karnataka to cancel SSLC booked for allegedly stealing relief material saplings this year. If we go by the claims of exams? See what CM the government, there should have been a New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) former Municipal Chief Soumendu Kolkata Police, Bera was part of a criminal forest growing in every house. The BJP, Yediyurappa has to say leader Suvendu Adhikari and his brother Adhikari of Kanthi Municipality, conspiracy with Chanchal Nandi and a few which plants the seeds of hatred and lies, are Soumendu Adhikari have been booked for Government tripal whose estimated value others and allegedly organised a fake job playing with the environment and have made allegedly stealing relief material from the is around lakhs of rupees, was taken away racket sometime between July and tree plantation a joke," he said.The forest Purba Midnapore's Kanthi Municipality from municipality office godown by September 2019. wealth is facing danger. The imbalance in office in West Bengal. forcefully and illegally opening locks," the The complainant Sujit Dey had approached nature has increased, as a result of which heat The police said that an FIR has been lodged complaint read. The FIR also mentioned the duo seeking a job. that the BJP leaders used armed central is increasing, he said. He added that there is a against the Adhikari brothers on the "The duo reportedly promised Dey with a job shortage of different resources and a change complaint submitted by Ratnadip Manna, a forces in the alleged theft. Earlier on in Irrigation and Waterways Ministry. The Saturday, Suvendu Adhikari's close aide - is also seen in the season cycle."Chief member of the Kanthi Municipal accused persons allegedly took Rs 2 lakh in Minister Yogi Adityanath can make any Administrative Board, at Kanthi Police Rakhal Bera was arrested for allegedly exchange of the job. However, the duping people with fake promise. Bera was claim he likes but the Niti Aayog has exposed Station on June 1. complainant claims that the accused the reality of where the state stands," said "On 29 May 2021 at 12:30 pm as per direction arrested by Manicktala police station based persons misappropriated the entire amount on a complaint of Sujit Dey.According to Yadav.Yadav stressed that environmental of Suvendu Adhikari and his brother and and did not provide a job in return," he said. protection is indispensable for the earth. New Delhi: Assuring the anxious parents and students, Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa said that Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC) or Class 10 examinations will be held only if the COVID-19 pandemic comes under control. Delhi preparing for 37,000 cases a day during Class 10 exams are scheduled to be held in the third week of July. The CM also told reporters that SSLC students and their parents need not panic over the third Covid wave: CM Arvind Kejriwal announcement of conducting exams in July, IANS reported. Simmi Kaur Babbar "As the minister (Education minister) has New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on virus, we will try and procure it. In case they say a already stated, no student appearing for Delhi Chief Saturday said the government has made medicine does not help in the treatment, we will SSLC examinations will be failed," he preparations to deal with a possible third Covid-19 make people aware about it," said stated. Further, he asserted that the exams Minister Arvind wave that could peak at 37,000 cases a day."At the Kejriwal.Kejriwal also said that he held a six-hour will be held only if the coronavirus peak of the second wave, 28,000 cases were meeting with officials and experts on Friday to reported on one day. On the basis of our prepare a comprehensive plan for a third wave of pandemic comes under control. Kejriwal said consultation with experts, we are assuming that On Friday (June 4), the Karnataka government the coronavirus.On May 27, the Delhi government during the peak of the third wave, there might be set up a 13-member committee to prepare an announced that second year pre-university that the 37,000 cases. Keeping this number in mind, we exams (PUC exams) have been cancelled, will ramp up our beds, oxygen capacity and action plan for a possible third wave after adding that SSLC exams will be held in July. government has medicines," he said.In an online briefing, Kejriwal assessing the current status and projected "We are not holding the PUC exams this year. announced the setting up of a paediatric task force requirement of health infrastructure such as made hospitals, oxygen plants and drug The grading will be based on their and two genome sequencing labs as well as a plan of 420 tonnes to tackle the possibility of another performance at the district level assessment preparations to to ramp up oxygen capacity in Delhi.The oxygen crisis. We have spoken to Indraprastha Gas supplies.Another eight-member expert committee in the first pre-university examination," paediatric task force will give recommendations Limited and asked them to create a 150-tonne was set up to devise a strategy for mitigation and Karnataka Primary and Secondary deal with a on protecting children during the third wave. oxygen production plant," the chief minister management of the third wave.Delhi has been Education Minister S Suresh Kumar said, Based on its advice, the government will set up added."Delhi is not an industrial state and doesn't reeling under a brutal second wave of the pandemic adding, “No student will fail in class 10th possible third ICU and oxygen beds.The two genome sequencing have its own tankers but we are buying 25 tankers that has swept the country and claimed many lives. and 12th. Evaluation will be according to labs, which will identify variants of the virus, will in order to prepare for the third wave," Kejriwal The acute shortage of oxygen at various hospitals grades." Talking about the paper pattern, come up at the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Hospital and said.The government will also create a buffer stock added to the crisis. Kumar said that SSLC exams will have one Covid-19 wave the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS) multi-choice question paper for of important medicines and private hospitals will From April 19, both daily cases and the single-day in Delhi.Kejriwal said the government is buying 25 also be given instructions to do so, he added. death count rose sharply with over 28,000 cases mathematics, science and social science and that could peak oxygen tankers and putting up 64 oxygen plants in one more question paper for languages. The "We will create a team of doctors and experts to and 277 deaths recorded on April 20. This went up the next few weeks to ensure Delhi doesn't face assess which medicines are required for multi-choice question paper for 40 marks at 37,000 cases a another oxygen crisis as it did during the second to 306 fatalities on April 22. On May 3, the city will be easy and straight and there will not be wave."We are creating an oxygen storage capacity coronavirus. If they inform us about a particular registered a recod 448 deaths, according to official any indirect questions," he added. day. medicine being effective in the treatment of the data. 2 New Delhi, Monday, 7 June, 2021 NATIONAL THE SIKH TIMES

Bihar: Physically challenged man beaten to death in Punjab, Haryana, HP, J&K, Ladakh to give tap water Begusarai for drinking water connections to each rural household by 2022

2021-22.This year's budget is more water supply now. Under the ? Punjab, Haryana, Himachal than four times the allocation to these mission, the state is planning to Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and states and UTs in 2020-21.In Haryana, provide 8.87 lakh households out of 31.03 lakh households, only with tap water connections in Ladakh will provide tap water 17.67 lakh (57 per cent) had piped 2021-22.Out of 18.16 lakh rural connections to all rural households water connections before the households in Jammu and announcement of the Jal Jeevan Kashmir, only 5.75 lakh (31.7 per New Delhi. Aphysically challenged person by the end of 2021. Mission on August 15, 2019.Under cent) households had piped water at Badepura village in Bihar's Begusarai the Jal Jeevan Mission, 10.24 lakh supply before the mission. In district died on Friday after he was beaten rural households have been provided these 21 months, 4.30 lakh (23.69 up for drinking a glass of water. Chote Lal New Delhi. Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh tap water connections in 21 months. per cent) households have been Sahani, the deceased, breathed his last There has been a 33 per cent increase provided tap water connections.In during treatment at the Patna Medical will provide tap water connections to all rural households by the end of 2021, the Jal in tap water connections. A total of Jammu and Kashmir, 10.05 lakh College and Hospital. 28.34 lakh (91.32 per cent) rural (55.7 per cent) rural households Reportedly, the incident took place when Shakti Ministry said on Saturday.The ministry said, "It has been decided that in homes in Haryana are getting tap with tap water connections. are getting tap water supply. The Chote Lal, 50, had gone to a nearby pond water supply now.The ministry said 5,150 government has planned to provide tap in his village for fishing. Being thirsty the five northwestern states and UTs -- A total of13.08 lakh (76.7 per cent) rural Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, villages, 68 blocks and eight districts in water connections to 4.91 lakh households while returning, he drank a glass of water Haryana have full tap water supply andhomes in Himachal Pradesh have tap water in 2021-22 and to 3.27 lakh households in from a pot that was owned by a man named Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh -- supply now. The state is also planning to implementation of Jal Jeevan Mission will eight more districts have more than 90 per 2022-23.Despite challenges like difficult Dinesh Sahani.“While Chote Lal was cent of houses with piped water connection.provide tap water supply to every rural terrain, adverse weather and sparsely be expedited and every rural household will household of all 18,079 villages by 2022. drinking the water, he was spotted by The ministry said that Haryana has planned to located habitations, Ladakh has planned to Dinesh Sahani and his son Dipak Sahani. be provided with tap water connections by In Punjab, only 16.78 lakh (48 per cent) rural 2022, instead of by 2024. provide tap water connections to 2.61 lakh provide tap water connections to 28,788 They brutally beat him up using batons. households in 2021-22 and to the remaining households had tap water supply before the households in 2021-22 and 11,568 The victim somehow reached home with The ministry has allocated Rs 50,000 crore in start of the mission. In the last 21 months, this year's budget for the Jal Jeevan Mission 1.48 lakh households in 2022-23.At the households in 2022-23.In Ladakh, only the help of other villagers," a news agency time the mission was launched, out of 17.03 9.97 lakh rural households were provided 1,414 (3.2 per cent) homes had a tap water quoted Raghvendra Kumar, in-charge of that aims to provide tap water connections with a tap water connection. to rural households by 2024. In order to lakh households in Himachal Pradesh, only supply before the mission began. In the past the local Chauhari Police Station said. 7.62 Lakh (45 per cent) had a tap water There has been a 28.7 per cent increase in the 21 months 2,760 (6.4 per cent) households “As his condition deteriorated, his wife achieve this target, it has also approved a last 21 months. A total of 26.75 lakh (77 per central allocation of Rs 8,216.25 crore in supply. In these 21 months, 5.45 lakh (32 have been provided with tap water Mithilesh Devi took him to Sadar hospital per cent) households have been provided cent) rural households in Punjab get tap connections. Begusarai for treatment on Friday. The doctors at the hospital referred him to PMCH as his condition continued to be Hypocrisy': Hardeep Singh critical," Kumar said.Since Chote Lal and Two more arrested in Assam doctor assault case his family were very poor, the villagers Puri slams Congress for collected money for his treatment and sent New Delhi. The Assam Police on the relatives of the deceased him to the PCMH where he succumbed to Saturday arrested two more people, patient brutally beaten the doctor its criticism of Centra his injuries. The villagers stood beside the including a woman, in connection identified as Dr Seuj Kumar family again as they contributed for his with an alleged attack on a junior Senapati.A video of the incident Vista project cremation. doctor at a Covid care centre in the also went viral on social media “We have arrested the main accused Dinesh Hojai district, taking the total where some people were seen number of arrests to 28 so New Delhi. Union minister Hardeep Singh Sahani. The other accused is at large," the attacking the young doctor and Puri on Saturday slammed the Congress for police officer said. far.Earlier in the day, Chief kicking him.According to reports, Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma opposing the Centra Vista Avenue Dr Seuj Kumar Senapati had redevelopment and new Parliament building met the assaulted doctor, to enquire reached Odali Model Hospital for Delhi government starts free about his health.He also held a projects. He also accused the Congress his Covid-19 duty around 1:30 government in Rajasthan of constructing 160 discussion with a delegation of the pm on Tuesday. distribution of food grains to Assam state branch of the Indian "luxurious houses" for MLAs at a cost of Rs "The relatives of the patient 266 crore. non-PDS beneficiaries Medical Association on several complained that the patient's issues of doctors welfare, Taking to Twitter, the Union Housing and an enquiry into the allegations, the report is condition was serious. When I Urban Affairs Minister alleged that building New Delhi. The Delhi government has started particularly the security of on-duty saw the patient, I found that he had already doctors.Recent incidents of attak against expected to include the needful preventive bylaws have been flouted by the Rajasthan free distribution of five kg food grains to and punitive action taken in the matter.The died. The relatives then immediately government for constructing the "luxurious non-PDS beneficiaries, Food and Civil doctors by the beleaguered relatives of vandalised the furniture at the hospital and patients have raised a lot of concern about commission has also sent a copy of the Supplies Minister Imran Hussain said on complaint to the secretary, Union Health & attacked me," Dr Seuj Kumar Senapati Saturday.The five kg food grains include the safety of the healthcare workers in India. Family Welfare Ministry, to initiate said.According to the complaint, having four kg wheat and one kg rice. These are attached media reports, the incident being distributed free of cost to those On Friday, the National Human Rights necessary measures to ensure the safety and security of the frontline health workers happened after the Covid patient had died. beneficiaries who do not have ration cards, Commission (NHRC), India, had called Allegedly, some of the frontline medical the minister said in a statement. for an action taken report from the Assam in the country.A young doctor was brutally beaten by a mob and relatives of a Covid- workers, doctors, nurses and ward boys "The non-PDS ration is being distributed from chief secretary, the director-general of managed to escape but also got hurt. All of designated schools from 10 am to 4 pm with police and Assam government after taking 19 patient after the patient died had at Odali Covid-19 care centre in the Hojai them are deeply traumatized by the weekly-off on Sunday. The fair price shops cognizance of the case. The NHRC has incident. are open on all seven days to provide free of demanded a report within 4 weeks.Besides district of Assam.According to reports, cost ration to National Food Security (NFS) after a Covid-19 patient died at the centre, beneficiaries from 9 am to 1 pm and from 3 pm to 7 pm without any weekly off," houses" for the legislators."Congress Hussain said.The non-PDS beneficiaries opposed ongoing work on Central Vista include unorganised workers, migrant Monsoon likely to reach Odisha, Jharkhand, Avenue & new Parliament but its govt begins workers, building and construction workers work on 160 luxurious houses for Rajasthan and domestic help."This distribution is MLAs for 266 cr. Building bylaws flouted. being carried out from one school in each of parts of Bengal, Bihar by June 15: IMD 28 mtr tall building allowed as a “special 280 wards of Delhi," the minister said. case” against a 15 mtr rule. Special Case of The city government also stated that each parts of Maharashtra, most The IMD has also predicted a Hypocrisy!," Puri tweeted Saturday.Last school identified for the distribution of non- month, Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri PDS ration has been provided a login id and parts north interior Karnataka, normal rainfall in June. It said password for entering the stock for record- parts of Telangana and that the country is unlikely to had said that a false narrative is being created keeping and for the purpose of registration Andhra Pradesh, other parts witness a heatwave over the over the Central Vista redevelopment plan at the site. of Tamil Nadu and central next five days."No heatwave and asserted that it is not a "vanity project", Bay of Bengal and some parts conditions are likely in the but a necessity.The Central Vista also got a of northeast Bay of country over the next five green flag from the Delhi High Court that 9.27 lakh severely acute Bengal.However, a lull is days," it said.Maximum imposed a cost of Rs 1 lakh on the petitioners expected in the rainfall temperatures of more than 40 who wanted a stay on the ambitious but malnourished children activity on June 7-8, said degrees Celsius were recorded contentious project.Congress leader Rahul Rajendra Jenamani of the at many places over west Gandhi had also attacked the Union identified till November last National Weather Forecasting Rajasthan and at isolated government last month over the central vista Centre of the IMD. places over Uttar Pradesh, redevelopment project, terming it a "criminal year: RTI wastage". He had asked the dispensation to "But a low-pressure area is Haryana, Saurashtra and New Delhi. More than 9.2 lakh children in Kutch in Gujarat and focus on people's lives amid the coronavirus expected to form in the Bay of pandemic.The redevelopment of the Central India are ‘severely acute malnourished’, Bengal by June 11. This will Odisha.The highest maximum with the most in Uttar Pradesh followed by Vista, the nation's power corridor, envisages New Delhi.The India Bengal and Bihar by June 15. help in the progress of the temperature of 43.2 degrees a new Parliament building, a common central Bihar, according to government data, Meteorological Department monsoon and it is likely to Celsius was recorded at Banda underscoring concerns that the Covid The IMD said the southwest secretariat, revamping of the 3-km Rajpath (IMD) on Saturday said the monsoon has reached more advance into Odisha, in east Uttar Pradesh on Friday. from Rashtrapati Bhavan to India Gate, new pandemic could exacerbate the health and southwest monsoon is likely to Jharkhand, parts of West Meanwhile, many parts of the nutrition crisis among the poorest of the parts of central Arabian Sea, Prime Minister's residence and office, and a advance into Odisha, Karnataka coast, Goa, some Bengal and Bihar," he was country, including north India, new Vice President Enclave. poor.An estimated 9,27,606 ‘severely Jharkhand, parts of West quoted as saying by PTI. are experiencing rainfall. acute malnourished’ children from six months to six years were identified across the country till November last year, the Women and Child Development Ministry said in response to an RTI query from PTI. After receiving flak, Delhi govt hospital revokes order Of these, Uttar Pradesh counted for 3,98,359 and Bihar 2,79,427, according to the figures shared by the ministry. Ladakh, Lakshadweep, Nagaland, Manipur and barring nurses from using Malayalam at work Madhya Pradesh reported no severely malnourished children. New Delhi: After generating flak from the Except for Ladakh, none of the anganwadi Highlights centres in the other four, including Madhya nursing union, Delhi government Pradesh, one of India's largest states, ?A formal order withdrawing the hospital has now revoked its reported any data on the matter, according controversial circular where it had to the RTI reply.The World Health circular will be issued soon. The directed its nursing staff not to converse Organisation (WHO) defines ‘severe acute matter is being investigated and in Malayalam."A formal order malnutrition’ (SAM) by very low weight- withdrawing the circular will be issued for-height or a mid-upper arm action will follow," Medical soon. circumference less than 115 mm, or by the The matter is being investigated and action presence of nutritional oedema. Children Director Dr Anil Agarwal said. will follow," Medical Director Dr Anil suffering from SAM have very low weight Agarwal told PTI. Delhi Health for their height and are nine times more ?On Saturday, the Nursing department issued a memo to Govind likely to die in case of diseases due to their Ballabh Pant Institute of Post Graduate weakened immune system.The Women Superintendent of the hospital Medical Education & Research and Child Development Ministry had last had asked its nursing staff to use (GIPMER) in connection with its recent year asked all states and union territories to order which directed nursing staff to identify SAM children for their early only Hindi and English for communicate only in Hindi and English, referral to hospitals. The figure of 9,27,606 following complaint against usage of came following that exercise. communication or face 'strict Malayalam language, ANI reported. The worry is that the numbers could not just action'. Sharing a media report on the issue, be an underestimation but also rise in view Congress MP Rahul Gandhi tweeted on of the ongoing pandemic with fears that the ?G B Pant nurses' association Sunday, "Malayalam is as Indian as any third wave could impact children more than other Indian language. Stop language refrain from using Malayalam saying Ramchandani told PTI that the complaint others.There is a rise in unemployment, president had said that "the union discrimination!" On Saturday, the Nursing 'maximum patients and colleagues do not was registered by a patient to a senior there is a rise in an economic crisis which is Superintendent of the hospital had asked bound to have repercussions on hunger and disagrees with the wordings used know this language' which it said causes a officer in the health department, regarding its nursing staff to use only Hindi and lot of 'inconvenience'. Expressing use of Malayalam language at the hospital, when there is hunger there will be English for communication or face 'strict malnutrition. in the cir displeasure at the circular, G B Pant while adding that "the union disagrees action'. Further, they asked the nurses to nurses' association president Liladhar with the wordings used in the circular". 3 New Delhi, Monday, 7 June, 2021 STATE THE SIKH TIMES

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NEWS BOX Monsoon arrives in Maharashtra; conditions Tikait, Yogendra Yadav, Chaduni lead sit-in at favourable for advancement Mumbai. The southwest monsoon arrived in Haryana police station for release of farmers Maharashtra on Saturday, bringing showers in some coastal parts of the state, an India Tohana.Scores of farmers led by Rakesh two farmers --Vikas and Ravi Azad -- resorted to unruly behaviour and smashed Meteorological Department (IMD) official Tikait, Gurnam Singh Chaduni and who had been arrested by the police. the windscreen of his SUV.Farmers, said.The progress of the monsoon is as per Samukta Kisan Morcha leaderYogendra But the government was not ready to however, accused Babli of publicly using our expectations, said Shubhangi Bhute, Yadav on Saturday night staged a sit-in withdraw the case against them, said abusive and threatening language. director of the IMD''s regional centre. at Sadar police station in Fatehabad here Yadav."When we asked the police Protesting farmers had on Wednesday said "The southwest monsoon has arrived in demanding the release of fellow administration about the status of these they would gherao all police stations across Maharashtra. It has officially reached up to farmers. two farmers," Yadav said, they were the state on June 7 if MLA Babli did not Harnai port in coastal Ratnagiri district and They had also sought the registration of a told farmers can come after two days tender an apology by June 6. Several farmer its actual line is spread till Solapur and some case against local JJP MLA Devender for holding talks on this issue."We groups in the state have been opposing the parts of Marathwada, followed by some Babli for allegedly hurling abuses at have come here not to listen and we public functions of the BJP-JJP leaders. parts of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh," she them. Babli later expressed regret for came here for resolution of the issue," Earlier addressing the gathering at the grain said.It is expected to bring showers to these uttering "inappropriate" words against said Yadav. With the Haryana police market, farmer leader Tikait said their regions, she added."Conditions are farmers. remaining “adamant” on its stand, agitation against the farm laws would favourable for further advancement of the In a short video clip released on social Yadav said farmers have decided to continue till the government repeal these monsoon," she said.A few days back, the media, Babli said he forgives those stage a 'dharna' here till their issue is laws and enact a law on MSP. IMD had predicted that monsoon is likely to people for whatever they had done with resolved."We will continue to sit in a He asserted that the government would have to him on June 1. was deployed at the police station. Talking to peaceful and democratic manner," withdraw the three farm laws. “The be normal in north and south India, above- the media at the Sadar police station normal in central India and below-normal in “I uttered some words which were not asserted Yadav. Women along with the government of India will have to withdraw appropriate. As I am a public representative, premises, Yadav said the issue of release of farmers were also staging a sit-in at the these black laws. Be it in 2022 or 2023. The east and northeast India.Quantitatively, the two farmers has not been resolved yet. monsoon seasonal (June to September) I take back all those words and express regret police station.Farmers said they would laws will be withdrawn in 2024. It is a (over it),” said Babli.Earlier, Tikait, Chaduni "There is a deadlock in talks between us and mobilise more people at the police station guarantee,” he said, asserting that the rainfall over the country as a whole is likely the police administration," said Yadav. and would also make arrangements for food to be 101 per cent of the Long Period along with protesters gathered at the police agitation would continue till 2024. station in Fatehabad here, demanding the "We raised two issues and the first one was that and water for protesters. Farmer leader Talking about the alleged “adverse” impact on Average (LPA) with a model error of plus or we wanted those who have been arrested Chaduni earlier had said "false" cases minus four per cent, it had said. release of two farmers who were arrested the implementation of these laws, he said over the gherao of Babli's residence. should be released and if they cannot release registered against farmers should also be one day the grains would be “locked” in the They also sought the registration of a case them then we should be put behind bars," withdrawn and a case should be lodged godowns of big people and traders. Haryana gets response from against Babli for allegedly hurling abuses at said Yadav, adding that farmers were there to against Babli for "hurling abuses and SKM leader YogendraYadav also slammed the Malta-based firm on them.Tikait, Chaduni and their fellow court arrest. The other matter related to misbehaving with them".On June 1, the central government. “In this one year, protesters first assembled at the grain market alleged misbehaviour of Babli stands Jannayak Janta Party legislator had faced a farmers have made them realise that they international tender for Covid- here and then marched towards the police resolved as the legislator has tendered an protest by a group of farmers who showed understand everything and they (Centre) station to court arrest.A heavy police force “apology” to farmers, said Yadav.Yadav said black flags to him and raised slogans. Babli cannot befool farmers. 19 vaccine Babli had not lodged any complaint against had alleged that some of the protesters Chandigarh. The Haryana government has received an expression of interest from an Proposal of premarital international pharmaceutical company headquartered in Malta to provide up to 60 Amartya Sen's comment on Modi govt counselling for couples: million doses of Sputnik V vaccine to the After plan scrapped, Goa state, it said on Saturday.The state had floated a global tender for Covid19 vaccine purely political: Bengal BJP minister to approach CM shots through the Haryana Medical with more data Services Corporation (HMSCL) on May "I' am not that arrogant to state that Sen has ? 26.The tender was closed on June 4, but no The BJP's West Bengal unit hit grown old and requires counselling. But Panaji.Goa Law Minister Nilesh bid was received during the period, the out at Nobel laureate Amartya we must not forget his comments before Cabral’s plan to introduce government said in a statement.However, Modi became the PM. Whatever he has mandatory premarital counselling the Pharma Regulatory Services Limited in Sen for his remarks that the spoken against the PM and the central for couples registering for marriage Malta has given an expression of interest to government are purely political," has been snubbed before it even the HMSCL to provide doses of Sputnik V Narendra Modi government's Bhattacharya told reporters. He can give took shape, with his own party, the vaccine manufactured by the Gamaleya schizophrenia led to the Covid- suggestions, as well as say things as ruling BJP, one of the harshest Institute and the Russian Direct Investment everyone has that right in a democratic critics of the idea. Cabral now plans Fund (RDIF), it said.Sputnik V is one of the 19 ravage. country, the state BJP spokesperson to approach Chief Minister Pramod three vaccines approved by India's drug said.India was better placed to fight the Sawant with more data to get him to controller for use in the country. pandemic because of its pharma consider the proposal again. Kolkata. The BJP's West Bengal unit on manufacturing prowess and also higher As per the offer made by the firm, each dose Saturday hit out at Nobel laureate Amartya Sen the entire world. immunity levels, the noted economist had said According to government data, the of the vaccine will cost Rs 1,120, the for his remarks that the Narendra Modi At a programme in Mumbai on late Friday while speaking at an event organised by the Goa Department of Registration statement said.The firm has given a government's schizophrenia led to the Covid- evening, Sen had said that India's "confused" Rashtra Seva Dal.Sen's remarks came in the had received 423 applications for timeline of 30 days to supply the first batch 19 ravage, claiming that the economist's attack government focused on taking credit for its backdrop of the second wave of the pandemic cancellation of marriage – a of five lakh doses, followed by 10 lakh was purely political.State BJP spokesperson actions, rather than working to restrict the seeing the number of officially reported cases procedure that follows the grant of doses every 20 days till the supply is Samik Bhattacharya also said that he cannot spread of COVID-19, resulting in topping over 4 lakh a day and over 4,500 a decree of divorce or annulment of completed, against a letter of credit issued keep on criticising the government in front of schizophrenia that led to massive troubles. deaths daily. marriage by a court — between in its name, the government said. January 2020 and May 31, 2021. In the same period, a total of 11,052 Chhattisgarh: 9 district marriages were registered in the state. collectors among 29 officers Telangana to start free diagnostic centres in 19 Cabral had pointed to the rising number of divorces while transferred proposing mandatory premarital Raipur.The Chhattisgarh government district headquarters and major govt hospitals counselling for couples. Three days transferred 29 IAS officers on Saturday. after Cabral’s announcement on The collectors of nine districts, including May 31, the BJP opposed the idea the capital Raipur, were changed as part of Health department officials said that 57 types of tests would be conducted at and asked Sawant to nip it in the the reshuffle. bud.Goa BJP president Sadanand Raipur Municipal Commissioner Saurabh these centres, which include investigations for Covid-19. Tanavade had said, “What is the Hyderabad.The Telangana government will which include investigations for Covid-19. counselling by the government Kumar, a 2009-batch IAS officer, has been going to do? Your parents and made Raipur collector. erstwhile collector start diagnostic centres in 19 district The list includes blood and urine tests as well headquarters and in major government as medical investigations for diabetes, elders are the biggest S Bharatidasan (2006 batch) has been counsellors.“According to my made Special Secretary to the Chief hospitals from Monday, with the move hypertension, cardiac ailments, orthopaedic information, 0.18 per cent of Minister and Director of Public Relations paving the way for people to get many diseases, liver, kidney and thyroid-related X- people get divorced (in Goa). And (DPR). diagnostic tests, including for Covid-19, ray.The CM said that besides the common it’s not the case that people get Taran Prakash Sinha, the erstwhile DPR, has done free of cost. tests, certain special investigations which are married today and get divorced been made collector of Rajnandgaon While treatment for Covid-19 is free at expensive would also be done at these tomorrow. Some get divorced 25 district. He will replace Topeshwar Verma, government hospitals, patients often have to centres free of cost. He added that the test years after marriage. This who has been called to the Secretariat and get several medical tests done at private reports will be delivered directly to the (compulsory premarital given transport and food departments. diagnostic centres which charge hefty fees, registered mobile numbers of patients. counselling) will make no The District Collectors of Dhamtari, Korba, increasing the financial burden on the Rao further said that very expensive equipment difference,” he had said.Sawant Bemetara, Koriya, Balrampur, Janjgir- economically backward people. with state-of-the-art technology has been had said that the government was Champa and Mungeli districts have been Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao had installed at these centres. Such costly not keen on considering the replaced. earlier directed health officials to set up the equipment has been available till now only in proposal for now.Cabral told The diagnostic centres at identified places so that at major government hospitals. private hospitals and in major government Indian Express that he has had a eligible beneficiaries can get a battery of tests “Medical investigations for different diseases hospitals like Gandhi, Osmania and NIMs, discussion with Sawant and the Mob Enters Paramilitary Camp done, including blood and urine analysis, are an important part of treatment now. Now, he added. proposal has been scrapped for In Manipur After Man Killed In tests to determine diabetes and hypertension, Covid patients have to undergo a lot of tests. Among the testing equipment that have been now, but he will gather more data as well as for diseases of liver, kidney, The government doctors write prescriptions installed are fully automatic immunoassay on the issue and submit it to the Firing: Police thyroid, lungs and even cancer, free of cost. but patients often have to go to private clinics analyser, five-part cell counters, fully CM.Cabral said, “We will not go At a Covid review meeting on Saturday, Rao to get tested, spending a lot of money. This automatic urine analysers, machines for ahead with it at this stage. I cannot has led to heavy financial burden on the ECG, 2-D Echo, ultrasound, digital X-Ray, go against the decision of the Chief said that the cost of diagnostic tests leads to Minister. And as law minister I can heavy economic burden on the people and poor,’’the CM said. CT scan and other imaging testing units. These equipment work very fast and produce only propose this, it will still have therefore government diagnostic centres Health department officials said that 57 types to go before the cabinet if there has should be set up at district headquarters and of tests would be conducted at these centres, 400 to 800 reports per hour. to be a change in the law. Children orphaned by Covid in Tamil Nadu count

Imphal: One person was shot dead allegedly by a staff of the Assam Rifles in a village in Manipur's Kangpokpi, triggering a mob to on govt's financial assistance for a secure future enter a camp of the paramilitary force in the area, police said on Saturday. Chennai. Vibin, 14, holds his seven-year-old jab."Sharadha's husband's pension of Rs the Tamil Nadu government’s guidelines, virus.Shivraj’s sister-in-law S Rajathi said, Posts on torching of an Assam Rifles vehicle brother Samuel Ebanezer's hand and keeps 7500 is the only monetary support that the necessary steps to check their eligibility is "We didn't tell Sri Bama about her husband's are being circulated on social media, but it him by his side, ensures that the little one family has for now. And they are hoping that underway.” death, hoping that she will come back for the could not be confirmed by the authorities. wears his mask right. The siblings’ world fell the government-assured assistance will helpOf the 61 children who have requested children. But she too is gone now. The The victim was fired upon on Friday night apart when in the month of May, their parents pay for the school fees of the two children.financial support, 20 have already been children are not able to understand what is and he died of his injuries on way to a succumbed to Covid-19. Jhon, a relative of the kids, said, "The given basic assistance with the help of happening and they keep asking about their hospital in state capital Imphal early Dhanraj, the children's father, died of Covid on application for the kids' financial support NGOs, added Sundar. parents’ death and ask if their mother has Saturday, senior police official P May 15 at a government hospital in from the government has been submitted. In the district of Vellore, siblings Deepeshraj gone to the same place as their father.” Goulungmuon Singsit said.It is still not Coimbatore and just three days later his wife This support announced by the governmentand Prithviraj, nine and seven years of age In the state of Tamil Nadu, 159 children have clear what led to the incident in the village. Jayanthi too was claimed by the deadly is a relief for us and we are hoping that the respectively, are yet to comprehend the been identified as those who have lost one or virus. The next week, the children lost their government will roll out this support as both parents. 16 children lost both their The police official told news agency PTI that untimely death of their parents. The two, maternal grandmother as well. quickly as possible."Among the 91 childrencurrently in the custody of their relatives, parents while 143 lost a single parent, said a following the shooting incident, a group of in the district of Coimbatore who have lost a report released by the National Commission villagers reached the local Assam Rifles After braving three losses, Vibin and Samuel still search for answers to where their parents are now under the care of their paternal parent, Vibin and Samuel are the only two to disappeared to. for Child Protection. camp and demanded that the force hand grandmother, Sharadha. In her sixties, have endured the loss of both caregivers. Their father Shivraj, who was working at a The state government had earlier announced over the accused to them.The situation was Sharadha now has the responsibility of Coimbatore Children protection officer R that children who have lost both their parents tense in the area till Saturday morning but state-owned liquor shop in Vellore, was raising two young boys. She feeds them, sits Sundar said, "In Coimbatore, we have foundhospitalised after complaining of will be given Rs 5 lakh as deposit, which will the police brought the situation under with them and when she speaks of her son that of 61 families 91 children have been be given to the child as a lumpsum when they control, Mr Singsit said.The Assam Rifles breathlessness. He tested Covid-positive and and daughter-in-law, says, "We couldn’t identified under the government announcedthree days after being admitted, Shivraj died turn 18 years of age, along with interest; for spokesperson could not be reached for identify in time. They were sceptical about scheme and 51 children are in need ofdue to Covid. His wife Sri Bama, too, turned those minors who have lost a single parent, a comment. vaccination and didn't take the immediate monitory assistance and as percritical and a day later succumbed to the deposit of Rs 3 lakh will be granted. New Delhi, Monday, 7 June, 2021 DELHI-NCR THE SIKH TIMES 5

Out of focus? Street cams come Empathy versus impact: When you have a choice to make under cops’ scanner Gurgaon: By Chandana Agarwal The the tough situation, they may arrive at “what”. Let the pandemic has got us to re-evaluate many not have any more marketing golden circle define the Gurgaon: The CCTV network for things — people, beliefs, priorities, the budgets for the year. They do not reason you exist, he says. surveillance and traffic monitorin6g in causes we support, definition of success, want to reduce agency fees but Increasingly this will find Gurgaon has now come under the scanner political beliefs, strength of human to justify that they do want the greater relevance than ever of the Gurgaon police. At a recent meeting relationships, cultures of companies and so agency to be standing with before in the “never with top GMDA officials, the Gurgaon on…It got me thinking about how we judge them, thinking of what they can normal”. Experts are police commissioner raised concerns over people, is it basis of the intent of any action? do to motivate the trade, to predicting that patterns of the ability of the CCTV cameras to read the Has it changed? And what about brands — reassure their employees of consumption and purpose number plates of vehicles at several what do we expect from brands with their support and to keep the are going to be very locations in the city, TOI has learnt. Though empathy? How do they talk? What do they brand current in the consumers’ different when we re- a committee has been constituted to do differently? Will they be expected to mind. She decides to give it her emerge. Accenture says examine the shortcomings of the CCTV redefine purpose? all and starts working overtime companies and brands will system in the city, GMDA officials say Let us see an example. Take two people in through her illness, taking on do good to replace consumer some cameras had focussing issues, and the senior management — one of them, say the work of colleagues or insight departments with matter has largely been resolved. manager A, almost stops daily work, shuns nursing the family that is human insights. And instead As of now, more than 1,000 artificial meetings and is constantly on the helpline unwell, she has no bandwidth of measuring the number of intelligence-enabled CCTV cameras have trying to amass resources for the affected for volunteering because she people taking an action, it been installed at 201 locations under the employees and their families. Her energy is believes that being part of the w o u l d d o good to smart city project. These cameras are amazing, the whole system is energised, she leadership team, she should and understand the context in connected to the integrated command and rolls up her sleeves and is monitoring the opportunity for us to be seen as a sensitive will save every team members’ job. There isbrand. Let’s try and get content out right which they are doing so and why they are control centre through an optical fibre work, using all the management principles evidence to suggest that people are more doing so. Whether we want to or not, the network. A team of cops regularly monitor of allocation of work, being proactive, now.”After all, the relevance of such work is focused on their basic needs now. Therefore,heightened when it is done in the moment. reality is that our expectations from people, the feed from these cameras for any keeping efforts updated, encouraging the health and safety are the top concerns and brands and companies have gone through a violations and issue them challans. The The earlier me would have been quick to volunteers and standing like a rock for job security also comes in the top three. reset. As we grapple to come to terms with process of issuing challans is also being judge them, the new me sees it differently. I people affected. There is absolutely no From that perspective, manager B is the changing situation and our growing automated. But with the number plates not question that as a leader, this person has see that they are both being supportive in being visible, the Gurgaon police claim that empathetic and purposeful too.ways that they know best — one is trying to anxieties, the question no longer is whether empathy and her intent and impact of action Let us extend the argument to company the consumers find the brand proposition the project hasn’t been as effective so far. is felt by everyone. Now, let’s look at give relief in the immediate, the other is “The commissioner of Gurgaon police said cultures and see how they treat their partners. making sure that the position of the agency is relevant but whether the brand is making the manager B. She realizes that these are tough One client called me and said, “I know we consumers feel relevant about what they that it was not possible to read vehicle times not just for the agency but for the strengthened in their system and the agency number plates/detect crimes at various are all going through stress. I have told my is better poised to win additional business. think, how they feel, what they say and what clients as well. Their supply and demand has team to go easy on timelines. If you still face they do. (The author is President, 82.5 junctions where cameras were provided slowed down, their people have been Simon Sinek has been saying this for the under the CCTV project,” according to a an issue, let me know, we will work around Communications, North, The Ogilvy affected. The content they had created for longest time in the context of brands. He has copy of the minutes of the meeting. GMDA it.” The other called and said, “This is the Group) IPL may not see the light of day and owing to been asking us to start with “why” and then officials, however, said that the committee has already carried out inspections at the sites of the cameras and the matter has been largely resolved. “It was an issue of focusing the cameras for better picture A pit in every ward to trap rainfall, recharge water table quality. We were still in installation mode City schools mark World when the matter was raised. It has now been GHAZIABAD: A month ahead of the overseeing the cleaning Environment Day online resolved,” said a senior GMDA official. arrival of monsoons, the Ghaziabad ponds in Bambeta, Municipal Corporation (GMC) is Sadarpur, Dohai, Morta, Noida: Schools in Noida on Cook ‘blackmails with spy cam working on creating groundwater Raeespur and Sadiqpur Wednesday came together online to recharge pits in all its 100 wards to villages, said, “We have dug celebrate World Environment Day. videos’ replenish the district’s eroding water up the pits in several Principals, students and teachers table. villages. We are working on from various schools participated Gurgaon: A family in DLF-2 has gone to the The rainwater recharge pits are being dug cleaning up the ponds, but it in exchanges on the need to will take time. For police after being allegedly blackmailed by up to help collect monsoon rain and conserve nature and build immediate remedy, the a cook they recently removed from the job address the depleting water table. sustainable schools to help “Several pits have been dug up ahead of recharge pits would serve as improve the ecosystem of the with videos he allegedly recorded by reservoirs of rainwater to placing spy cameras in the house’s monsoon to collect rainwater which can academic buildings. “Schools ultimately recharge the water table of the correct the local water should be the first place where washrooms. Tej Bahadur Sujikar (25), table.” Tanwar has cleaned a originally from Nepal, had been working at region. We plan to dig up at least one pit children learn to conserve the in each ward, possibly in a park area. dozen polluted water ponds elements and on this day we want to the house for the past two years and would in Greater Noida and a few live with the family. His employers claimed This will serve to collect rainwater and encourage all students to actively recharge the water table,” Mander Singh in Ghaziabad. According to he had begun “acting weirdly”, which take charge of conservation of land, Tanwar, GMC commissioner said. the reports of the Central water and air,” said Preeti prompted them to remove him from work on cleaning up seven of its 146 ponds that it Ground Water Board (CGWB), the water table on May 15. Over the next few days, Sujikar After 19 years of a Supreme Court order that claims can now be recovered. Water Sanghwan, principal of Cambridge asked Ghaziabad to clean up all its polluted in Ghaziabad has depleted 12 meters in the past School. “This is the first such city- allegedly sent his employers multiple conservationist Ramveer Singh Tanwar, who is four years. WhatsApp voice messages, claiming he water bodies, the district is currently working wide event after months of had video clips of members of the family in lockdown and online classes, the washrooms. “Between May 29 and meeting of minds and exchange of June 2, he sent us several voice messages ideas is important,” she said. The on WhatsApp. He said he had placed event was also attended by cameras in our bathrooms and would members of the Centre for Science Active cases near 600, Noida and Environment (CSE). upload videos of female members on social media if we did not pay him a hefty amount,” the complainant said. After the News anchor voice messages, the family checked all the bathrooms in their house but could not find honeytrapped, 5 held any camera. They suspect Sujikar might & Gzb step closer to unlock have taken the cameras along while Noida: Five persons, including two leaving. The complainant said Sujikar was women, have been arrested for Ghaziabad: The reducing number of active allegedly honey-trapping a news treated as a family member and had access cases has raised hopes of the unlock process to all areas of the house. None of them had anchor and extorting Rs 25,000 starting in Noida and Ghaziabad this week. from him after threatening to any inkling that he had sneaked into the Active cases in Ghaziabad came down to 631 bathrooms and hid cameras there. On the upload online a few of his on Saturday while in Noida, it was 610. As per objectionable pictures. The news basis of the complaint, a case has been state government’s directive, curfew will be anchor (25) said he had met one of registered against the cook under Section lifted in districts with less than 600 active the women during a photography 384 (extortion) of the IPC at DLF Phase 2 cases. So far, curbs have been eased in 61 of event at a mall six months ago and police station. “The case has been the 75 districts of the state. exchanged phone numbers. They registered and we are trying to track the Ghaziabad chief medical officer NK Gupta said started talking and developed a accused,” police spokesperson Subhash that in the past 5 days the district has liking for each other. Boken said. A police officer said it was also registered a decline in active cases. “From On June 3, the woman called the possible that the accused did not place any 1,025 active cases on June 1, it came down to news anchor to a vacant plot near cameras in the washrooms but was just 631 on Saturday. This has brightened the Sector 44 and took him to her threatening his previous employers to pay prospect for lifting of the curfew in the rented flat at Sun City apartments, up with false claims of being in possession district. However, a decision in this regard where another woman was already of videos that invaded their privacy. will be taken by the district magistrate (DM) present. The trio allegedly drank once the active cases are below 600. Given the beer at the flat and the two women trend, it is likely next week,” Gupta said. started getting intimate with the Murder accused who gave cops Newly appointed DM RK Singh said that a news anchor. The three other the slip for 4 years held decision will be taken after consulting the accused — Sonty, Lucky and state government. “Once active cases are Kuldeep — barged into the room below 600, a decision will be taken keeping and started clicking pictures and Gurgaon: A proclaimed offender wanted in the state government in loop. I will review the recording videos. They snatched over two dozen cases of murder, attempt to situation once I take charge completely,” to the lockdown which was necessary at that and the total discharged so far is 54139. A total the man’s wallet containing Rs murder, robbery, snatching, possession of Singh said. In Noida, active cases were 947 on 25,000, his phone and the keys to illegal arms and assault was arrested by the time. But since cases are on a decline now, we of 13,340 people were vaccinated on Saturday June 1, which came down to 843 the following hope that the curfew is lifted soon,” said across 62 government centres in Ghaziabad. his Honda City. Aazad Singh crime branch of Gurgaon police at Sector Tomar, the SHO of Sector 39 police day and on Saturday, it was 610. Anirudh Vasistha from Vaishali Udyog Vyapar 55 crossing on Friday. Gautam Budh Nagar on Saturday registered 43 station, said the accused had Meanwhile, the trader community, which was Mandal. Ghaziabad on Saturday reported 25 new Covid cases and two deaths. About 12,294 Bisamber alias Pehalwan (43), a resident of the worst affected due to the lockdown, initially demanded Rs 2 lakh from Baliwas village, had been evading arrest for new cases and one death and with this total people were vaccinated in Noida and Greater the anchor and beat him up when he expressed hope that the curfew will be lifted case so far has reached 55,218 and toll 448. In Noida on Saturday. four years. Police said he used to buy soon. “Our business has suffered the most due pleaded inability to pay so much. weapons from Meerut in UP to commit the last 24-hours 64 people were discharged crimes and also used to sell them to other criminals. Bisamber has over two dozen FIRs filed against him and has been to jail around 11 times over the past decade. He No RWA elections for a year, Lagoon flat owners write to PM was part of different gangs and worked for gangsters like Sandeep Gadoli, Mahesh Gurgaon: A group of residents in in the Supreme Court against the Attack and Binder Gujjar. He was declared Ambience Lagoon has written to builder, the residents claimed. a proclaimed offender by the district court Prime Minister Narendra Modi, “Several election officers have been of Gurgaon four years ago and had been seeking his intervention in a dispute appointed by the district registrar, changing his hideouts frequently to evade regarding the RWA elections in the but they refuse to show up and arrest. Police said Bisamber had come to condominium. The residents said conduct the elections. When their Gurgaon to commit another crime when the they had been requesting the district term expires, the term is either crime branch arrested him on Friday after a registrar and the state officials for a extended or a new officer tip-off. “Every time he came out of jail on year to hold the elections to the appointed,” said Sanjay Lal, former bail, he committed more crimes. He had governing body of the RWA, which vice-president of the association. formed his own gang a few years back and has been pending since June 2020, When contacted, a member of the ad- had started threatening rival gangs,” ACP but their pleas have fallen on deaf hoc committee refused to comment (crime) Preet Pal Sangwan said. The ACP ears. on the matter. Meanwhile, Ratan said Bisamber had bought two illegal The residents alleged that the district Deep, the appointed returning weapons from Meerut and was planning to registrar’s office has been using the officer, said, “I was appointed by the snatch a few vehicles in Gurgaon and hide pandemic as an excuse to delay the district registrar in April. During the in UP when he was arrested. He was also polls. In June 2020, the district lockdown, it was not conducive to planning to sell a few illegal weapons in the registrar had appointed an ad-hoc conduct the election process. Even city. “He had bought weapons illegally for committee without consulting RWA the society was under LOR (large Rs 10,000 each and was planning to sell members, they alleged. Since then, outbreak areas) till a few weeks ago. them for Rs 60,000 each,” Sangwan said, the panel has been derailing the The election will be held under the adding that several cases are expected to be process and functions arbitrarily, supervision of the committee solved with his arrest. refusing to implead in the court case constituted by the district registrar...” New Delhi, Monday, 7 June, 2021 EDITORIAL THE SIKH TIMES 6

Help out: Kamala Summer bonanza in the United States Harris calls Modi American Diaries: Harry Potter store opens in Flatiron district in Manhattan; Memorial Day in the US; Florida high school’s sexism Summer’s much anticipated this time around. After with vaccine aid being cooped up at home for almost fifteen straight months, people can finally do the things they love and regain the lost human connection. This summer, many traditional events that were cancelled last year have returned and new ones have popped up. Movie screenings, concerts, food festivals and live arena sports have resurfaced as well. While local music festivals are popping up, the larger American festivals are gearing for a September launch. Milwaukee’s festival, Summerfest, which is one of the largest music festivals in the world, said it will take place over the first three weekends of September. Coachella, postponed twice already, will be held next in 2022. Sir — It is a relief that the vice-president of the In New York City, Broadway shows are estimated to United States of America, Kamala Harris, called resume in September. The famous Shakespeare in the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, to tell the Park plays will return in July and the Tribeca him that the US would share some of its Covid-19 Film Festival is slated to launch in June. Chicago’s vaccine stock with India. Given that the Indian famous music festival, Lollapalooza, also returns in government has made a royal mess of the July with A-list musical guests. It typically brings in vaccination drive in the country, it is high time we 100,000 attendees per day who watch multiple received some help from outside for the health and musical performances and enjoy local Chicago bites safety of the vast swathes of the population who at the downtown Grant Park location. It is a much are yet to receive even their first doses. The anticipated event for Chicago-dwellers, almost occasion, however, calls for reflection upon the synonymous with summer, outdoors and fun. Pride fact that the Indian government, which loves to Month, which kicked off on June 1, is also back with boast about its achievement, cannot even a bang this year with blended virtual and in-person celebrations all over the country and people vaccinate the people of the country on its own. Sir summer was not just for Harry Potter fans; even diehard has lost in service as well as honour those who still serve — In a shocking move, through an amendment to expected to take to the streets with parades, floats and rainbow colours. Friends fans had a chance to rejoice with the launch of the today. the Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1972, Friends: The Reunion, bringing back all six cast members Shameful conduct the Central government barred all retired officials Reel magic and with special guest appearances from other supporting Recently a Florida high school’s yearbook photos of the in intelligence and security-related organizations To add on to a hopeful summer this year, the world’s largest cast. The host, James Corden, mentioned that Friends has female students were altered to hide and cover their chest from publishing any material “which falls within and much anticipated Harry Potter store opened in the been watched one hundred billion times across the globe area, while pictures of the males — including of boys the domain of the organization” before clearing it Flatiron district in Manhattan recently. The store spans and now for the first time after 17 years the cast was wearing just speedo swim shorts — were left untouched. with the current head of the organization 21,000 square feet; intricate details of what it holds were united on television for the two-hour special. The action was met with ridicule and shock. The school’s concerned (“Pension ‘gag’ on security officials”, released on the Harry Potter Fan Club app before the Hit the streets June 3). launch. The store is sectioned off into 15 themed areas. dress code also is much more restrictive towards girls. Unlike last year’s more subdued, Covid-inflicted Memorial Many stated that the school is body shaming and The move perilously overextends the scope of Merchandise ranges from wands, robes, chocolate frogs Day, this year was marked by optimism as various states sexualizing them. The school’s response seemed to service and pension rules, deals a blow to retired to your own Hogwarts acceptance letter. You can interact slowly lifted Covid restrictions and more than half the indicate it was confused about the uproar. Most US officials’ fundamental right to free speech and with actual movie props such as Hagrid’s boots, an potentially weakens democratic discourse in interactive wand table and even a ‘moving’ staircase. adults have been fully vaccinated. The American schools have dress codes. In 2014, some students from a India, as those who have the most experience on There are plenty of photo booths and photo opportunities Veterans Center describes the event as a “moving N e w J e r s e y h i g h s c h o o l c r eated a sensitive subjects are effectively barred from throughout the sprawling space. The story also has a timeline of American history” that draws on traditions #IAmMoreThanADistraction to protest their dress code. commenting on it, except with the government’s section with a multiplayer virtual reality game called from past parades, going back to the beginning of the Several hundred online petitions to change traditional and approval. It also reinforces the impression that the “Chaos at Hogwarts” where you go exploring inside the holiday just after the Civil War. The National WWI sexist dress codes still exist. regime is not comfortable with dissent and magical castle. Another one, “Wizards Take Flight”, will Museum and Memorial in Kansas City hosted its first Footnote criticism, even when it comes from those who let players ‘fly’ on brooms and battle death eaters. The ever hot air balloon festival and in Washington, DC, Ever heard of a retirement home for animal statues that used have served the Indian State with great distinction store is free to enter but will use a virtual queuing system. bikers took to the streets keeping with the tradition since to be on display in various playgrounds? An aardvark, a and patriotism. Retired officials of security “It’s been a really tough year in a lot of people’s lives. We 1988 where motorcycle groups would ride the streets in frog, a camel, and two dolphins will be sent to a park organizations must, of course, exercise the utmost have a giant Fawkes the Phoenix hanging over our memory of the troops who are classified as ‘Prisoner of referred to as the ‘NYC Parks Home for Retired responsibility given that they have had access to entrance at Fifth Avenue and I sometimes see that as a bit War’ or ‘Missing in Action’. In New York, Staten Island’s Playground Animals’ by the city’s parks department. “sensitive information” that may imperil the of a sign for the store — a phoenix from the flames,” said 102nd annual Memorial Day Parade was back. The They will not be touched up to keep their charm intact for “sovereignty and integrity of India”. But the Karl Durrant, a Warner Bros. vice-president. But this celebration serves to remember both those the country park visitors to relive their nostalgia. revised rules widen the scope of restrictions and will create a sense of fear among them. Given India’s generally opaque security set-up, the refusal to declassify files, rules of secrecy and Power is knowledge stringent norms of access, retired officials are a key source of information and insight. After years Books by a chief minister and a yoga teacher in a university syllabus can revolutionize the philosophy course of being in a regimented bureaucracy, they can The love of wisdom shows itself in many guises, to the past in order to prove India’s superiority and finally share this expertise with other citizens. At a depending on what the words ‘love’ and ‘wisdom’ mean inspire a Bharatiya Janata Party brand of time when dissenting voices within the system at different times to different people. Wisdom to some is nationalism. Thus Ganesha’s head is proof of find it hard to take positions, a distinctive view idiocy to others, and love, again, may look like hate. The plastic surgery, Gandhari’s children come from from outside would only help the State evolve a Greek name for the love of wisdom was ‘philosophy’, a stem cell and test-tube birth technology, Vishnu’s more considered policy approach. These officials term much tortured in recent times. But even then, chakra is a guided missile and so on. Besides have spent their entire professional lives students generally associated university courses in inspiring a contrived patriotism, such myth- safeguarding India’s security. Rather than philosophy with the study of inaugural thinkers and making devalues serious scholarship and aims to threatening them with docked pensions, they modes of thinking that attempt to understand human stifle critical thinking. should be trusted and given the space to express existence. Or they did so. Now the received notion of A revealing example of efforts to destroy learning their views. Sir — The recent amendment to the philosophy is being revolutionized. The Chaudhary based on reason and a scientific approach is the pension rules is yet another blow to the integrity of Charan Singh University of Meerut has introduced in inclusion of a book by a businessman and yoga a healthy public discourse in the country. If the undergraduate philosophy course two books by teacher in a university syllabus just after he Central intelligence or security organization Ramdev and Yogi Adityanath respectively, reportedly proclaimed allopathy to be a ‘stupid science’. The officers fail to follow the new guidelines, their at the Uttar Pradesh government’s recommendation. sequence of events is dangerous, especially in the pensions can be withdrawn or withheld. Pensions There was a committee to determine the curriculum, but context of the countrywide protests by doctors are given for the services rendered by government since the UP government is Mr Adityanath or, officially this was the need of the times. Is the need of the times against Mr Ramdev’s comments in the midst of the servants to the country. Linking them to post- speaking, Mr Adityanath is the chief minister of UP, the political or intellectual? The times are intriguing enough, pandemic. The ayurvedic company he endorses was retirement conduct is immoral. It is also against recommendation of his book is more an order to celebrate with political force manifesting itself as love of wisdom. selling a product claimed to be the first proven cure for the fundamental right to free speech enshrined in his stature as teacher and philosopher. The teachings of The wisdom being touted is that of ancient India, but of a Covid. Students will be learning from his book how yoga Article 19 of the Constitution. At a time when Socrates and Plato should fade away beside the special kind. There is no serious discussion of ancient cures illnesses, and about hatha yoga practice from the dissenting voices are being curbed, and ordinary philosophy of a saffron-clad politician and a saffron-clad Indian systems and subjects of knowledge in the regime chief minister’s book. Yoga as one of the six systems of citizens have to go to court. businessman since, as the university’s dean of arts said, led by Narendra Modi; the focus is on thrilling attributions ancient philosophy demands serious study.

A common thread POLITICS OF PLAY | Gandhians North and South Three remarkable Indians died in a single and recuperation in the summer of 1936. stopped to take — unnoticed by the man himself — a week in May. All were greatly influenced by Six years later, Doreswamy played a series of quite wonderful snaps of Doreswamy boarding Mahatma Gandhi, though each expressed leading part in the Quit India movement a bus, these reposted on Twitter after his death. For all its his ‘Gandhism’ in different ways and in in the princely state of Mysore, spending other achievements, the Gandhian movement in different geographical settings. One was in a long time in jail as a consequence. In independent India has never paid adequate attention to his eighties, the second in his nineties, the the 1950s and 1960s, Doreswamy the threat posed to the Republic by the rise of Hindutva third had lived for more than one hundred worked in the Sarvodaya movement, majoritarianism. (Sunderlal Bahuguna himself sailed years on this planet. So while we mourn their focusing on land redistribution. quite close to these murky waters, associating with the deaths we must also celebrate their lives. However, when the Emergency was Vishwa Hindu Parishad on occasion.) In this regard, H.S. The first of these Gandhians to go was promulgated in 1975, he abandoned Doreswamy was a sterling exception. His last campaign, Sunderlal Bahuguna of Uttarakhand social work for activism, which resulted which he undertook at the age of one hundred and one, (picture). When the Chipko movement in his now being jailed by the was against the immoral Citizenship (Amendment) Act. began in the upper Alaknanda valley in government of independent India as he Inspired by the exemplary courage shown by students 1973, Bahuguna already had several had once been jailed by its feudal and (particularly female students) at Delhi’s Jamia Millia decades of social work behind him. The colonial predecessor. He was released Islamia in the face of police repression, the centenarian initial Chipko protests had been led by after a few months, and spent the rest of Gandhian decided to make a public statement himself. In Chandi Prasad Bhatt, in Bahuguna’s words his life working for a more humane March 2020, he placed himself under a shamiana in an the ‘mukhya sanchalak’ (chief organizer) of social order in his home state. open space where, along with thousands of other friends the movement. Inspired by what women and I first met H.S. Doreswamy in the late and admirers, I went to meet him and hear him speak. As men had done in the district of Chamoli, Besides, their orientations were different, but 1980s, when I took part in The Hindu reported, Doreswamy held the CAA to be Bahuguna brought the idea of Chipko to his own home complementary.After the protests of the 1970s had led to demonstrations led by him against the environmental grossly discriminatory, “antithetical to the founding terrain, the valley of the other great branch of the Ganga, a rapid decline in commercial felling in Uttarakhand, destruction of the Western Ghats by the military- principles of our nation”. “The Muslims here chose to be the Bhageerathi. Here he organized protests against the Bahuguna took the message of Chipko across the industrial complex. Already in his seventies, he was an Indians,” he said. “They cannot be asked to prove their felling of green trees, going on long fasts in the forests. Himalaya. Bhatt, on the other hand, focused on grass- impressive presence; tall, erect, always ready to lead a citizenship now.” Opposing the regime’s discriminatory I first met Sunderlalji in Calcutta in 1981. I was just roots reconstruction within Uttarakhand, mobilizing procession or go on hunger-fast. Like Sunderlalji, he had policies, observed Doreswamy, “doesn’t make me anti- beginning my doctoral research on Chipko, and he had women and students in successfully reforesting hillsides a special way with the young, his accessibility and sense national. We need to differentiate between the come to the city to talk on this very subject. He was a made barren by what one Chipko activist described to me of humour drawing them closer to him. My most recent government, the state and the nation.” Both Sunderlal captivating, compelling speaker, switching between as “andhadhun katai”, the reckless felling of trees by meeting with H.S. Doreswamy was in March last year. In Bahuguna and H.S. Doreswamy were activists who were Hindi and English with ease (doubtless he was even more contractors in collusion with the forest department. the intervening decades I had, of course, followed his entirely comfortable being in the public eye. They were captivating and compelling in his native Garhwali). Two Both Bahuguna and Bhatt inspired many younger Indians work closely. He was verily the conscience of Karnataka, quite happy to express their thoughts if a microphone years later I did a spell of fieldwork in the Badyar valley, to take to a life of service and activism. Matching fearless in taking on land sharks, mining companies and, were placed before them, and fluently and wittily too. interviewing peasant women who had worked with Sunderlal Bahuguna in energy, courage, intelligence and not least, corrupt politicians. Through his eighties and Both were also extremely photogenic. Rather different in Sunderlal in a major protest he had led there. In the charisma was a Gandhian who died five days after him. nineties he retained his zest and commitment, raising his character and temperament was a Gandhian who died course of my research I came to admire both Chandi This was H.S. Doreswamy of Karnataka. He was a voice against social and economic injustice, all the while just after Bahuguna and just before Doreswamy. His Prasad Bhatt and Sunderlal Bahuguna. Journalists and decade older than Bahuguna, and thus had an even longer refusing to take any favours from the state. He never name was K.M. Natarajan. Gentle, self-effacing and academics in Delhi were quick to take sides, promoting record of service. As a student, Doreswamy met Gandhi owned a car, preferring to use public transport. The hence much less well-known than the other two, he one or the other as the ‘real’ or ‘true’ leader of Chipko. In when the Mahatma came to Nandi Hills for a spell of rest photographer, K. Bhagya Prakash, seeing a ninety-one- admirably embodied the Gandhian spirit in his own truth, both had played vital roles in the movement. year-old Gandhian waiting at a Bengaluru bus stop, home state, Tamil Nadu. New Delhi, Monday, 7 June, 2021 FILM THE SIKH TIMES 7 Akshay Kumar shares tips for Covid-19 TigerTiger Shroff, Shroff, appropriate behaviour, DishaDisha Patani Patani and Krishna post adorable pics to wish

ollywood actor Akshay Kumar has joined The Ayesha on 61st birthday Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce B& Industry’s (FICCI) latest campaign ‘Corona Ko Harana Hai’. The actor shared an awareness video on social media where he lists the five ways to safeguard yourself from the coronavirus. In the video, Kumar is accompanied by two kids who are names ‘Saiyyam’ and ‘Savdhani’. The two kids narrate the do’s and don’t’s one must follow after contracting the Covid-19 virus. The Good Newws actor concluded the video with the slogan, ‘Har ghar ne thaana hai, Corona ko harana hai’.’ “Sharing some important tips on COVID appropriate behaviour which are a must even after vaccination in order to fight this pandemic. Please watch and take note #CoronaKoHaranaHai @ficci_india @iaaindia #IndianBroadcastingFoundation,” Kumar captioned the video. FICCI has also roped in actors Arya, Chiranjeevi and Punit Rajkumar to spread awareness in regional languages. Kumar, along with his author wife Twinkle Khanna, has been contributing towards the Covid-19 relief work. They have donated hundred oxygen concentrators to an organisation. Recently, their fundraiser campaign Help India Breathe had reached its goal after collecting Rs 1 crore. On the work front, Akshay Kumar has Atrangi Re, Ram Setu, Raksha Bandhan, Prithviraj and Bell Bottom in the pipeline. Z yesha Shroff is celebrating 61st birthday today (June 5). On Ayesha Her kids, Tiger Shroff and Krishna Shroff, took to Shroff's 61st AInstagram to wish her on her special day. Disha Patani, birthday, who is Tiger's rumoured girlfriend and is often seen with Kangana Ranaut on Covid- Ayesha, also posted a photo of herself with the birthday girl on Tiger her Instagram story. Shroff, TIGER SHROFF, DISHA PATANI AND KRISHNA 19 recovery: Virus gives Disha SHROFFWISHAYESHA ON BIRTHDAY Tiger Shroff wished his mom on her birthday with a photo of the Patani and two of them. He wrote, "Happy bday maaamaaa.. lv u sooo fake sense of recovery, Krishna much @ayeshashroff," followed by many heart emojis. Krishna Shroff Shroff shared a family portrait and wrote, "My whole heart," followed by a heart emoji. She also shared a video with her mom beware of relapse wished her where she is seen kissing the birthday girl. Disha Patani, who is with often seen spending time with Ayesha Shroff, wished her on her pictures. It special day with a picture. She wrote, "Happy b'day to the most beautiful @ayeshashroff(sic)." Disha's birthday wish also has a is also heart emoji. Ayesha and TIGER SHARES PARENTS OLD PIC ON THEIR Jackie WEDDING ANNIVERSARY Along with Ayesha's birthday, June 5 marks her and Jackie Shroff's Shroff's wedding anniversary as well. Tiger wished his parents wedding on their wedding anniversary with an old black-and-white photo. He wrote, "Happy anniversary mommy daddy. So lucky anniversary to have u (sic)." Ayesha Shroff is the wife of Jackie Shroff. The today. couple tied the knot on June 5, 1987. They have two children - son Tiger and daughter Krishna. YamiYami Gautam Gautam ollywood actor Kangana Ranaut took to her Instagram handle and shared a video detailing Bher experience with Covid-19 and her ties the knot with Uri director recovery process. She emphasised that Covid-19 gives a false sense of recovery and those recovering should rest properly. Sharing her experience of fighting the virus, Kangana said, “I am here to talk about my experience of recovering from coronavirus. Covid-19 is like ‘sardi-zukaam’ – (common cold) as I had told you all earlier, that has been my experience, but while fighting and recovering from Covid, many shocking AdityaAditya Dhar Dhar things happened to me, something I’ve never experienced before. I have always seen that when attendance. While Yami opted for a red saree you are ill, once you start recovering, it is a perpetual for her wedding, Aditya sported an ivory journey forward. But, in the case of coronavirus, it is sherwani for the occasion. Along with the a fake sense of recovery.” She added, “Only after a photo, they wrote, “In your light, I learn to day or two of testing negative for corona, I felt I love- Rumi. With the blessings of our family, could do everything, like working out and shooting we have tied the knot in an intimate wedding with colleagues and talking to friends, as I could do ceremony today. Being very private people, we earlier. But when I stepped out to do those things, I celebrated this joyous occasion with our immediate family. As we embark on the started feeling like there was a relapse, I was not journey of love and friendship, we seek all your really well. I was again bed-ridden, and at a point, I blessings and good wishes. Love, Yami and felt like I couldn’t get out of bed. My throat was bad Aditya.”As soon as Yami broke the news of her again and I felt feverish again too.” The wedding, several colleagues congratulated the Manikarnika actor added, “This virus is quite actor. Vikrant Massey commented on her post, unpredictable, as it attacks our body we don’t know “Bahut bahut bahut badhaaiyaan Yami ji and how our body reacts as it is a genetically modified ollywood actor Yami Gautam has tied the Bhai sahab. ?? Incredible. God bless you virus, and mutes our natural body response. Many knot with director Aditya Dhar. The both!!!! Dher saara pyaar!!! ??.” people are even losing their lives because of it.” couple made the announcement by “Congratulations yami ??” wrote Bhumi “Hence it is very important to have a full recovery. B Pednekar. Yami Gautam and Aditya Dhar While fighting the virus I’ve spoken to many sharing a photo from their wedding ceremony. worked together on the 2019 film Uri: The doctors and I have realised that one should not Going by the photos shared on Instagram, Yami Surgical Strike, directed by the latter. Aditya underestimate resting during the recovery period. and Aditya’s wedding ceremony was a simple also won a National Award for the movie and is So continue resting and getting better,” she affair with only close family members in now looking forward to his next film The concluded. New Delhi, Monday, 7 June, 2021 WORLD THE SIKH TIMES 8

Finance leaders from Group of 7 ‘There is stuff’: Enduring mysteries trail US report on UFOs countries agree on global tax deal The US government has been taking a hard look at unidentified flying objects. A report summarising what the US knows about UFOs is expected to be made public this month. London . The top economic officials from the world’s advanced economies reached a Washington. The blob, captured on distant, an investigation and public have been nearly impossible to keep breakthrough on Saturday in their years- fuzzy video by Navy pilots, seems to skitter accounting of phenomena that the that secret. Elizondo has accused the long efforts to overhaul international tax just above the ocean waves at improbable government has been loath to talk Defense Department of trying to laws, unveiling a broad agreement that speed, with no discernible means of about for generations. “There is discredit him and says there’s much aims to stop large multinational companies propulsion or lift. “Oh my gosh, man,” one stuff flying in our airspace,” more information that the US has kept from seeking out tax havens and force them aviator says to another as they laugh at the Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of classified. “We live in an incredible to pay more of their income to oddity. “What ... is it?” Is it a bird? A plane? Florida, one of the senators who universe,” Elizondo said. “There’s all governments. Super drone? pressed for the probe, recently told sorts of hypotheses that suggest that the Finance leaders from the Group of 7 An extraterrestrial something? The US Fox News. “We don’t know what it three dimensional universe which we countries agreed to back a new global government has been taking a hard look at is. We need to find out.” Congress live in isn’t quite so easy to explain.” minimum tax rate of at least 15 per cent that unidentified flying objects like this one. A late last year instructed the director But Michael Shermer, editor of Skeptic companies would have to pay regardless of report summarising what the US knows of national intelligence to provide magazine, is skeptical. The science where they locate their headquarters. The about “unidentified aerial phenomena” — “a detailed analysis of unidentified historian, a longtime analyst of UFO agreement would also impose an additional better known as UFOs — is expected to be aerial phenomena data” from theories and other phenomena, said he’s tax on some of the largest multinational made public this month. There won’t be an multiple agencies and report in 180 seen too many blurry images of companies, potentially forcing technology alien unmasking. Two officials briefed on days. That time is about up. The supposed alien encounters to be giants like Amazon, Facebook and Google the report say it found no extraterrestrial link intelligence office wouldn’t say convinced by still more blurry footage as well as other big global businesses to pay to the sightings reported and captured on this past week when the full of blobs from airplanes. This is a time, taxes to countries based on where their video. The report won’t rule out a link to document will be out.something else — whether more prosaic than he notes, when several billion people goods or services are sold, regardless of another country, according to the officials, The bill passed by Congress asks the a military rival or, you know, more cosmic. worldwide have smartphones that take crisp whether they have a physical presence in who spoke on condition of anonymity intelligence director for “any incidents or “Right now there are a lot of unanswered images and atellites precisely render detail that nation. Officials described the pact as a because they weren’t authorised to discuss it. patterns that indicate a potential adversary questions,” Democratic Rep.Adam Schiff of on the ground. “Show me the body, show me historic agreement that could reshape While the broad conclusions have now been may have achieved breakthrough aerospace California told NBC this week. “If other the spacecraft, or show me the really high global commerce and solidify public reported, the full report may still present a capabilities that could put United States nations have capabilities that we don’t know quality videos and photographs,” he said in finances that have been eroded after more broader picture of what the government strategic or conventional forces at risk.” The of, we want to find out. If there’s some an interview. “And I’ll believe.” Mick West, than a year of combating the coronavirus knows. The anticipation surrounding the chief concern is whether hostile countries are explanation other than that, we want to learn a prominent researcher of unexplained pandemic. The deal comes after several report shows how a topic normally confined fielding aerial technology so advanced and that, too.” Luis Elizondo, former head of the phenomena and debunker of conspiracy years of fraught negotiations and, if to science fiction and a small, often weird that it befuddles and threatens the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat theories, said it was right for the government enacted, would reverse a race to the bottom dismissed group of researchers has hit the world’s largest military power. But when Identification Program, said he didn’t to investigate and report on the potential on international tax rates. It would also put mainstream. Worried about national security lawmakers talk about it, they tend to leave believe that the sightings were of a foreign national security implications of sightings to rest a fight between the US and Europe threats from adversaries, lawmakers ordered themselves a little wiggle room in case it’s power’s technology in part because it would captured in now-declassified videos. over how to tax big technology companies. Rishi Sunak, Britain’s chancellor of the exchequer, announced the agreement and hailed it as a deal that would make the Burkina Faso: Over 132 civilians killed in worst militant attack in years global tax system “fit for the global digital age” and would ensure “the right Turkish air strike kills at companies pay the right tax in the right The United Nations said Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was outraged by the attack, whose places”. victims included seven children. least three in refugee camp in Iraq, several Five killed in east China knife OUAGADOUGOU: The death Ousseni Tamboura later told toll from the worst militant reporters. The United Nations others injured attack attack in Burkina Faso in recent said Secretary-General Antonio years has risen to 132, the Guterres was outraged by the Mosul: A Turkish air strike killed at government said on Saturday, attack, whose victims included least three people on Saturday at a after armed assailants laid siege seven children. camp for displaced people in overnight to a village in the Despite the presence of thousands northern Iraq, said Rashad Kelali, a jihadist-plagued northeast. The of U.N. peacekeepers, attacks by attackers struck during the night Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party jihadists linked to al Qaeda and official. on Friday, killing residents of the Islamic State in West Africa`s village of Solhan in Yagha Sahel region have risen sharply The strike on the camp housing province, bordering Niger. They since the start of the year, thousands of Kurdish refugees also burned homes and the particularly in Burkina Faso, from Turkey took place three days market, the government said in a Mali and Niger, with civilians after Turkish President Tayyip statement. bearing the brunt. The violence Erdogan warned Iraq that Turkey It declared a 72-hour period of in Burkina Faso has displaced would "clean up" a refugee camp Beijing. A deadly knife attack in eastern national mourning, describing more than 1.14 million people in by armed Islamists in the Sahel overpower the civil defence post which it says provides a haven for China on Saturday killed at least five the attackers as terrorists, just over two years, while the region to over 500 since January, and engage in collective Kurdish militants. An Iraqi security people and left 15 injured, according to although no group has claimed poor, arid country is hosting according to Human Rights punishment against the rest of official, who spoke on condition of local police. Authorities in the city of responsibility. Another 40 some 20,000 refugees from Watch`s West Africa director, the village - it`s a pattern we`ve anonymity, confirmed an air strike Anqing in Anhui province received a residents were wounded, neighbouring Mali. The latest Corinne Dufka. "The dynamic is seen everywhere this year," had killed and injured people in the report on Saturday afternoon that a man government spokesperson attack pushes the number killed the jihadists come in, they Dufka said. camp but did not give any details. had stabbed pedestrians on the street with Turkish forces have stepped up a knife, according to a statement by an attacks on bases of the outlawed Anqing district police station on its Weibo Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) social media account. inside northern Iraq over the last The attacker was arrested and the injured year, focusing their firepower and were taken to the hospital for treatment, Biden turns to Obama to help incursions mainly on a strip of police said. The reason for the attack was territory up to 30 km (19 miles) not immediately clear, and the case is inside Iraq. Erdogan said on under investigation. A blood bank in Thursday that Makhmour, a camp Anqing called for people to donate to the injured, saying its blood reserves were 180 km south of the Turkish border boost health care enrollment which has hosted thousands of running low, according to a local newspaper report. Chinese law restricts Turkish refugees for more than two the sale and possession of firearms, and political world and the health care decades, was an "incubator" for mass attacks are generally carried out with system await a Supreme Court ruling militants and must be tackled. The knives. Perpetrators of similar attacks in on the law’s constitutionality. The camp was established in the 1990s the past have been described as mentally Zoom call was recorded on Friday when thousands of Kurds from ill or bearing grudges against society. > President Joe Biden afternoon and released Saturday as Turkey crossed the border in a Biden’s weekly address. The Health movement Ankara says was turned to his old boss, and Human Services Department said deliberately provoked by the PKK. UK considers options after in a report that nearly 31 million have The PKK, designated a terrorist former President Barack obtained coverage in 2021 as a result organisation by the United States highest daily Covid-19 cases of the law. That’s considerably higher and European Union, has fought an Obama, on Saturday to help than the more than 20 million estimate insurgency against the state in recorded that’s commonly cited. The Biden mainly Kurdish southeast Turkey him encourage Americans administration has launched a special since 1984. More than 40,000 London. The UK government on Saturday sign-up period during the pandemic, people have been killed in the to sign up for “Obamacare” draw attention to the six-month expanded conflict. Makhmour was targeted said it is considering options around a enrollment period that closes Aug. 15. and Congress passed a big boost in subsidies planned end to lockdown on June 21 after for private health plans sold under the law. But by Turkish air strikes a year ago, health care coverage. Meanwhile, the government released a report although there were no reports of the country recorded the highest number of that claims that nearly 31 million Americans that alone doesn’t explain the increased daily COVID-19 cases in just over two coverage. The report says 11.3 million people casualties at the time, but a senior — a record — now have health coverage Turkish official said it was now a months. The UK recorded a further 6,238 through the Affordable Care Act. are covered through the health law’s coronavirus cases on Friday as England's R marketplaces, where subsidized private plans priority for Ankara. Waving the “We did this together,” said Obama, whose Kurdish flag and chanting "our number, or the rate of infection, continues administration established the health are offered. An additional 14.8 million are to rise and the latest government numbers Washington. President Joe Biden turned to his covered through expanded Medicaid, the voices are voices of freedom old boss, former President Barack Obama, on insurance marketplace. “We always talked against occupation", dozens also show another 11 COVID-19 related about how, if we could get the principle of report adds. All but a dozen states have deaths. Saturday to help him encourage Americans to accepted the law’s Medicaid expansion, which marched in Iraq`s Kurdish sign up for “Obamacare” health care coverage universal coverage established, we could then "Of course officials are drawing up other mainly serves low-income working adults. province of Sulaimaniya later on during an expanded special enrollment period build on it.” The White House effort to Saturday to denounce the Turkish options but we are still expecting to be in a spotlight the expanded enrollment and claim And 1 million are covered by so-called basic in the pandemic. Biden used his weekly health plans, an option created by the law and incursion. "They are killing place to go ahead on June 21," a UK address for a brief Zoom chat with Obama to strong numbers for the health law comes as the government figure told Sky News'. Options offered in a limited number of states. innocent women and children ... under discussion are said to include retaining the wearing of face masks in certain settings and continuing the work from home advice, even as the hospitality New England’s success against Covid-19 could be a model sector opens up. However, the government maintains that there is "nothing in the data" New England is giving the rest of the country a possible glimpse into the future if more Americans get vaccinated. The six-state region to suggest ending lockdown should be delayed. The number of COVID-19 cases in has among the highest vaccination rates in the US and is seeing sustained drops in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths. the country is now at its highest since Boston. For Dr Jeremy Faust, the moment he more Americans get their shots. Covid-19 incredible change over such a short March 25, when 6,397 were recorded, and realised the pandemic no longer dominated cases, hospitalisations and deaths in the period of time,” said Dr. Tim Lahey, the spike is largely down to the Delta his workday came over Memorial Day region have been steadily dropping as an infectious disease physician at the variant or the highly transmissible weekend, when he didn’t see a single more than 60% of residents in all six states University of Vermont Medical B1.617.2 variant of concern (VOC) first coronavirus case over two shifts in the have received at least one dose of the Center in Burlington. Public health detected in India. UK Health Secretary emergency room at Brigham and Women’s vaccine. The Deep South states of experts say the rest of the country Matt Hancock said that a rise of cases was to Hospital in Boston. Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi, in could take some cues from New be expected as the country came out of Kerry LaBarbera, an ER nurse a few miles comparison, are the least vaccinated at England as President Joe Biden lockdown. "We always expected cases to away at Boston Medical Center, had a similar around 35%, and new cases relative to the pushes to get at least one vaccine dose rise as the country was opened up, the realisation that same weekend, when just two population are generally running higher into 70% of American adults by July critical thing is the impact on the number of patients with Covid-19 came through her there than in most of New England. 4, dangling the promise of free beer people who end up in hospital for any given unit, one of the busiest in New England. “The Nationally, about 50% of Americans have and other goodies. One thing the number of cases, said Hancock. "That link past year and a half has been like going received at least one shot. In region appears to have done right: It has been broken by the vaccine, but it hasn't through a tornado or something terrible,” she Massachusetts, health officials this pastin about eight months. New Hampshire is was generally slower than other parts of the been completely severed yet. That's one of said. “You’re holding on for dear life, and week determined that none of the state’saveraging about a death a week after peaking country to expand vaccine eligibility and the things that we're watching very then you get past it and it’s like, ‘What just cities and towns are at high risk for the spread at about 12 a day during the virus’s winter instead concentrated more on reaching carefully, and it's too early to say what the happened?’” Massachusetts and the rest of of Covid-19 for the first time since they surge. And Vermont, the most heavily vulnerable groups of people, said Dr. decision will be ahead of June 21, but we'll New England — the most heavily vaccinated started issuing weekly assessments lastvaccinated state in the US at more than 70%, Thomas Frieden, a former Centers for make sure people know in good time," he region in the US — are giving the rest of the August. In Rhode Island, coronavirus went more than two weeks without a single Disease Control and Prevention director said. country a possible glimpse of the future if hospitalisations have hit their lowest levels reported coronavirus death. “It’s an under President Barack Obama. New Delhi, Monday, 7 June, 2021 CareerCAREER TECH THE SIKH TIMES 9

to be rich in a few hours. Whoa! Enquire, enquire and enquire In case, the salary hasn’t arrived on time, we all put on our interrogation hat. We ask our co-workers whether they have received the salary or not, and can actually feel each other’s pain. Many of us do not think twice before marching up to the HR’s desk and enquiring about it. It becomes difficult to concentrate on work and finally, our cell beeps! For the next few hours, we have no complaints from life and the world seems a better place. Oh, the bills Now starts the calculation game. We think about all the pending bills, EMIs and rent to be paid. We make a rough calculation of the ballpark amount and estimate how much we can manage to save and splurge this month. Now, it is the time Some of us have been eying that designer bag or smartphone since months and now, it is the time to buy it. This purchase is the real reason why we actually slogged for the entire month and it takes just microseconds to rush to the cart of your online dating app and place the order. The deductions The moment we spot there have been any unnecessary deductions in our salary, we feel a whole new set of emotions. We feel duped, furious, angry, manipulated, annoyed at the same time and the entire 66 thoughtsthoughts universe looms to be conspiring against our happiness. We calculate innumerable times to The important day confirm our doubt and secretly curse our workplace, Let’s be honest—the day we receive our salary is right? we all have on the day different from all the other days of the month. The wait begins Whether we are feeling gloomy, irritated or Fast forward to 15 days—we have made the big dejected for no reason, this day has the surreal purchase, paid the bills and are done with other power to lift our mood and make us hopeful about expenditures. We have no idea where half (or even life. Reading the text message of the salary being more than that) of the salary has disappeared from our credited in our account brings a smug smile on our account, and we still have the weekend plans to go Our salary gets face, isn’t it? Here are the thoughts we have on this shopping, partying and travel. Life becomes no less special and the most anticipated day of the month. than a battle and all we can do is to wait for that day. How the day starts The monthly cycle continues… Most of us wake up with thought of receiving our salary and that gives us the motivation to go to office. During the office hours, we keep checking our phone for that text message and thinking about our plans for the evening. Credited After all, we are going Women prefer

The difference between the genders can be partially attributed to women feeling more comfortable in Jobs smaller competitions. The researchers found consistent gender differences in the preference for smaller versus larger that have fewer competitions across a variety of different competition contexts. For instance, one study examined women's and applicants men's real decisions to enter a small (10 competitors) or large (100 competitors) word- formation task competition. The results indicated that 53 percent of women but Women prefer smaller only 41 percent of men preferred the small competitions, whereas men competition. "This research by no means blames women for seek larger competitions, gender inequality but rather uncovers a novel environmental factor that might contribute to which are typically associated inequality, beyond the well-documented effects of gender biases and discrimination," Stephen with higher monetary Garcia, associate professor University of rewards, the study said. Michigan. When applying for a job, women seek positions with fewer applicants than men - a factor that could partly explain why we see fewer of them in the corporate boardrooms, new research suggests. The size of a competition - such as the number of applicants to a particular job or the number of people vying for a monetary reward - shapes who enters the competition. Women prefer smaller competitions, whereas men seek larger competitions, which are author from University of Michigan in the US. typically associated with higher monetary "The gender difference in preferences may in part rewards, the study said. explain pay gaps and the underrepresentation of "These patterns of findings can contribute to a women in particular fields or at the helm of large better understanding of gender inequality in the organisations," Hanek noted. workforce," said Kathrin Hanek, the study's lead The findings appeared in the Journal of Applied Psychology. New Delhi, Monday, 7 June, 2021 BUSINESS THE SIKH TIMES 10

Big news for crypto investors! THIS country is all set to make Indian Railways cancels 6 special Bitcoin legal tender New Delhi: El Salvador`s President Nayib Bukele said on Saturday (June 5) that he will send a bill to Congress next week to trains, check complete list here make bitcoin legal tender in the country. "In the short term this will generate jobs and help provide financial inclusion to thousands outside the formal economy," South Eastern Railway SER has cancelled special trains between New Delhi and Bukele said in a video shown at the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami. Bhubaneswar for the month of June. Strike, a mobile payments app that launched in El Salvador in March, said in New Delhi: Taking a view of the rising Covid- 02856 New Delhi-Bhubaneswar Special a statement that it welcomed the 19 cases in the country, the South Eastern cancelled on June 13 and June 20 Meanwhile, legislation and was working with the Railway (SER) on Saturday (June 5) has the SER has extended the frequency of Hatia- country to make using bitcoin technology decided to cancel special trains between New Yesvantpur Special from Weekly to Bi- a success. “This is the shot heard round Delhi and Bhubaneswar for the month of weekly. Here’s the complete list of trains the world for bitcoin," Strike founder and June. whose frequency have been increased: 02835 CEO Jack Mallers was quoted as saying at Here’s the complete list of cancelled trains by Hatia-Yesvantpur Special will now run on the Miami conference. "Adopting a South Eastern Railway: 02823 Bhubaneswar- Tuesday and Sunday 02836 Yesvantpur-Hatia natively digital currency as legal tender New Delhi Special cancelled on June 11, June Special will now run on Thursday and provides El Salvador the most secure, 14, June 17 and June 18 02824 New Delhi- Tuesday. Besides SER, other regional efficient and globally integrated open Bhubaneswar Special cancelled on June 12, railways have also cancelled several special payments network in the world," Mallers June 15, June 17 and June 19. 02823 trains in the past few months as a result of low said. Bhubaneswar-New Delhi Special cancelled occupancy due to the surge in Covid-19 in on June 11, June 14, June 17 and June 18 India amid the second wave of the pandemic. 02824 New Delhi-Bhubaneswar Special In May 2021, a host of trains run by the Indian After Twitter suspension, Koo cancelled on June 12, June 15, June 17 and Railways stood cancelled. The Northeast June 19. 02825 Bhubaneswar-New Delhi Frontier Railway cancelled 31 pairs of aims for focussed Nigeria push Special cancelled on June 16 02826 New Intercity Special, Passenger special and Delhi-Bhubaneswar Special cancelled on Express special trains. Meanwhile, The New Delhi. Microblogging site Koo, which June 18 02855 Bhubaneswar-New Delhi Western Railway discontinued 19 special is being pushed as an Indian alternative to Special cancelled on June 12 and June 1 trains till further orders in May. Twitter, is considering a focussed foray into Nigeria after the country banned Twitter on Friday. Nigeria’s decision to suspend Twitter in the country reportedly came as a result of the Worries over jobs, general economy pull 8th month in row GST US-based social networking platform deleting a tweet by President mop-up tops Rs 1 lakh cr; Muhammadu Buhari for violating rules. lockdown impact muted “@kooindia is available in Nigeria. We’re consumer confidence to all-time low in May thinking of enabling the local languages there too. What say?” the company’s co- New Delhi. Indicating a lower-than- founder and CEO Aprameya The current situation index (CSI) dropped to 48.5 in May from 53.1 in March, according to a survey by expected impact of localised Radhakrishna wrote on Twitter. Back in the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). lockdowns in the second wave of India, too, the Bengaluru-headquartered the Covid-19 pandemic, gross GST (Goods and Services Tax) company has expanded its presence in the Mumbai. Hit by disruptions indicated that the overall been in the negative backdrop of Twitter’s run-ins with the collections in May (for sales in caused by the second wave of the economic situation index territory since July 2019, April) topped Rs 1 lakh crore for Central government. In the last almost six Covid-19 pandemic across the contracted to (-) 75 in May as fell to a new all-time low months, the Centre asked Twitter to the eighth month in a row. country, consumer confidence in against (-) 63.9 in March. as consumer perceptions At Rs 1.02 lakh crore, it is lower than remove several tweets and suspend the current period — which has Employment level index too on general economic accounts it deemed unlawful. Twitter did April’s record collections of Rs been in the negative territory fell to (-) 74.9 in May from (-) situation and employment 1,41,314 crore, but still high not comply with these requests on all since July 2019 — fell to a record 62.4 in March. As per the scenario lowered further,” despite most states imposing strict occasions leading to friction between the low in May 2021. government data, India’s real the survey added. It was restrictions to break the chain of two sides. As per the Centre, Twitter is yet The current situation index (CSI) GDP contracted by 7.3 per cent c onducted through transmission of the infection. to comply with the new IT rules for digital dropped to 48.5 in May from for 2020-21. Consumers don’t telephonic interviews “Collections above Rs 1 lakh crore media intermediaries. Last month, Koo 53.1 in March, according to a expect a recovery in the situation round. “This was driven by during April 29 to May 10, 2021 pertaining to the transactions in the announced a $30-million fundraise from survey by the Reserve Bank of as the future expectations indexsharp fall in expectations on in 13 major cities. As per another month of April indicate that the marquee investors, including Tiger India (RBI). Consumer (FEI) moved to the pessimistic general economic situation, RBI survey on inflation economic impact of the lockdowns Global, at a time Indian authorities have confidence declined as the territory for the second time employment scenario and expectations, households’ has been much lower than been turning the heat on Twitter. The second Covid wave intensified since the onset of the pandemic.household income over one year median inflation perception for expected. A close watch is required fundraise saw Koo’s valuation jump and states announced According to the survey, FEI horizon.” “Consumer the current period rose by 150 on the next month’s collections to nearly five-fold to $100 million. In its lockdowns. The sharp rise in declined to 96.4 in May 2021 confidence for the current period basis points from the survey’s determine the extent of the impact statement announcing the fundraise, Koo infections led to disruption in from 108.8 in March, with signs weakened further. The current previous round. “Median on GST collections FY22,” said M said that the proceeds will be utilised consumer activities. The survey of deterioration compared to last situation index (CSI), which has inflation expectation. S Mani, Senior Director, Deloitte mainly to strengthen engineering, product India. and community efforts across all Indian In the corresponding month last year, languages on the application. i.e. May 2020, the GST collections Radhakrishna had also said: “We have had stood at Rs 62,009 crore. Last aggressive plans to grow into one of the Petrol, diesel rates hiked again, petrol year, after the nationwide world’s largest social media platforms in lockdown was announced in the next few years … Tiger Global is the March, GST collections had dipped right partner to have on board to realise to a record low of Rs 32,172 crore selling at over Rs 100 in THESE states in April (for sales in March). this dream.” On Saturday, Nigerian telecom operators blocked access to Subsequently, it took six months Twitter in the country In response to the crossed the Rs 100 mark in for the GST collections to recover ban, Twitter said: “We are deeply several other cities in and cross the Rs 1 lakh crore mark concerned by the blocking of Twitter in Rajasthan, Madhya in October at Rs 1.05 lakh crore. In Nigeria. Access to the free and Pradesh, Maharashtra, Leh, a press statement Saturday, the ? Per litre petrol is retailing at Rs Ministry of Finance said, “This #OpenInternet is an essential human right Andhra Pradesh and parts would be the eighth month in a row in modern society. We will work to restore 95.03 in Delhi. of Telangana. Per litre that GST revenues have crossed ? 1 access for all those in Nigeria who rely on ? Diesel is being sold at Rs 85.95 a petrol prices in Madhya lakh crore mark. This is despite the Twitter to communicate and connect with Pradesh’s capital city, fact that most of the States have the world”. litre in the capital city. Bhopal, increased to Rs been under strict lockdown due to ? Petrol prices have crossed the Rs 103.17 while the per litre the pandemic.” Subsequently, it FM stresses on faster claim rate of diesel surged to Rs took six months for the GST 100 mark in Rajasthan, Madhya 94.50. Likewise, in collections to recover and cross the disposal for Covid workers Pradesh, Maharashtra, Leh, Andhra Rajasthan’s capital city Rs 1 lakh crore mark in October at Jaipur, one-litre petrol is Rs 1.05 lakh crore. In a press New Delhi. Finance Minister Nirmala Pradesh and parts of Telangana. selling at Rs 101.59. statement Saturday, the Ministry of Sitharaman on Saturday reviewed the However, petrol prices are Finance said, “This would be the progress made under an insurance scheme Delhi.Coming to Mumbai, the petrol price at their peak in Rajasthan's eighth month in a row that GST for health workers fighting Covid-19 and is on the fire since it topped the Rs 100 mark Sri Ganganagar. One litre petrol is now revenues have crossed ? 1 lakh crore mark. This is despite the fact asked insurers to accelerate the on May 29. On June 6, per litre petrol is retailing at Rs 105.33 in the district, and if the disbursement of pending claims under the trend continues, we may see petrol prices that most of the States have been New Delhi: Petrol and diesel prices were again selling at Rs 101.25 while diesel prices under strict lockdown due to the Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana jumped to Rs 93.30 per litre. A day before, touching the Rs 110 mark. Other cities where (PMJJBY). During a virtual meeting with increased on Sunday (June 6). With the new petrol is retailing at above Rs 100 include pandemic.” The absence of a revision in place, per litre petrol is retailing at petrol and diesel were retailing at Rs 100.98 stringent nationwide lockdown has top officials of insurance companies, she and Rs 92.99. Also read: Petrol breaches Rs Andhra Pradesh’s Vizag and Telangana’s stressed on the importance of streamlining Rs 95.03 in Delhi. Meanwhile, diesel is being Adilabad. It is important to note that the been a silver lining, given that it has sold at Rs 85.95 a litre in the capital city. In 100 mark in Mumbai, check prices in your ensured industrial economic the process and documentation city highest VAT on petrol and diesel is levied in requirements under the schemes so that comparison, petrol and diesel were retailing Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, activity continued even if at a the claims are disbursed speedily, the at Rs 94.76 and Rs 85.66 per litre in Besides Mumbai, per litre petrol prices have Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. reduced level. The Indian Express Finance Ministry said in a statement. Insurers highlighted steps being taken for faster settlement of claims including reducing claim processing time to 7 days Driving License not linked to Aadhaar yet? Here’s how to do it or face consequences from 30, end-to-end digitisation of the claim settlement process, claim documents transmission via email/App among others. The Finance Minister If you are also planning to link your Aadhaar Card with your Driving license, then you observed that under the insurance scheme just have to follow a few simple steps. for health workers launched under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Package New Delhi: The Centre has made it mandatory 3. Then you have to go to the drop-down linked the two important (PMGKP) scheme, a total of 419 claims to link Driving License with Aadhar Card. and click on the 'Driving License' documents then you won’t have been paid as on date, amounting to With the decision, the government is aiming option. be able to use many online Rs 209.5 crore disbursed in the account of to curb the duplication of driving licenses. 4. Here you will be asked for your services such as apply for a their nominees. To address the issue of If you haven’t linked your Aadhaar with your Driving License number. Enter that learner's license, renewal delays arising out of states sending Driving License yet then you may have face number. of DL, and change of documents, Sitharaman said that a new issues while availing services from the 5. After entering the number, you have to address in DL. Therefore, system has been put in place whereby a Regional Transport Office (RTO). In such a click on the option of 'Get Details'. it’s requested that you simple certificate from the district situation, if you are also planning to link 6. Enter your Aadhar number and mobile should link your Driving magistrate (DM) and endorsed by the your Aadhaar Card with your Driving number. License with your Aadhaar nodal state health authority will be license, then you just have to follow these 7. Click on the option of 'Submit'. Card as soon as possible to sufficient to process these claims. Claims steps: 8. Verify your Aadhar with an OTP. benefit from the made under Covid health insurance have 1. To link the Driving License with the Aadhar 9. Entering an OTP will ensure that the contactless services rolled shot up to Rs 22,955 crore with 14.82 lakh card, you need to visit the official website of process of linking your Aadhaar with out by the Road Transport customers submitting their hospital bills the transport department of your state your Driving License will be ministry due to the https://parivahan.gov.in. pandemic. Additionally, an as on May 14, with the number of completed. mandatory to link your Driving License with infections rising rapidly across the 2. After this you have to click on the option of Aadhaar card has also become necessary for Consequences of not linking Driving License Aadhaar Card a few years ago. If you haven’t the verification of a Driving License. country. 'Link Aadhaar'. to Aadhaar Card The Centre had made it New Delhi, Monday, 7 June, 2021 SPORTS THE SIKH TIMES 11

Sri Lanka players refuse to sign India vs New Zealand, WTC Final: Man to man, reduced pay contracts but ready to take part in England tour IND looks the better team, says Dilip Vengsarkar New Delhi. Sri Lanka's leading cricketers refused to sign new pay contracts within the new deadline of June 3 that the country's Dilip Vengsarkar said India "looks the better team" than New Zealand ahead of their ICC World Test Championship final at the Ageas board provided on Saturday but said they are ready to play in the upcoming tour of Bowl in Southampton starting June 18. England. A lawyer representing the cricketers said they did not agree with a Mumbai. Former cricketer Dilip team, man to man, India looks the better new performance-based pay scheme Vengsarkar feels India seem a better team," Vengsarkartold Khaleej Times. designed by a cricket board panel that team than New Zealand as both sides "Of course, Trent Boult is a world-class included former head coach Tom Moody. get ready for the inaugural ICC World bowler and Kane Williamson is a "Players refused to sign annual and tour Test Championship (WTC) final in world-class batsman. But India is a contracts until the pay dispute is resolved," Southampton later this month. Both more all-round team. We have got lawyer Nishan Premathiratne said in a teams will lock horns at the Ageas Bowl quality spinners (Ravichandran statement. Sri Lanka are scheduled to tour cricket stadium from June 18. Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja), we have England this month for three one-day New Zealand are preparing for the WTC got quality fast bowlers (Jasprit internationals and three T20I matches. The final with a two-Test series against Bumrah, Ishant Sharma, Mohammed statement said that the players are ready to England that started on June 2 while the Shami and Mohammed Siraj) and play the matches without contracts. "Even Indian team is in the middle of its hotel quality batters as well." Vengsarkar, when players are refused pay, they will play quarantine in Southampton. 59 Tests who averaged nearly 43 in Test cricket for the country because that is their main have been played between the two in England during his playing career, objective." Under the proposed pay teams till date with India winning 21 also said that India needs contributions structure, former captain Angelo Mathews matches as compared to New Zealand's from each and every player in the and current Test captain Dimuth 12 while 12 games ended in a draw. But summit clash. "There are talented Karunaratne suffered the biggest cuts with the Kiwis crushed India the last time players in the (Indian) team. Virat the annual retainership ranging between they met in a Test series with New Kohli, Rohit Sharma, they are world- USD 70,000 to 100,000. Star batsman, Zealand winning 2-0 at home in class cricketers. "But it is also Dananjaya de Silva was set to be the February 2020. However, Vengsarkar important for other players to chip in, highest-paid at $100,000. Mathews's still backed India as he believes that you know, because you can't depend annual fee fell from $130,000 a year to Virat Kohli has the more all-round team only on two players. If you are playing $80,000 while Karunaratne was offered than Kane Williamson. "If you compare Test match cricket, everybody has to $70,000, a drop of $30,000. When the new the New Zealand team to the Indian contribute," Vengsarkaradded. pay plan was unveiled last month, players said it was "non-transparent" and urged Sri Lanka Cricket to not hold them at gunpoint. Players also accused the board of violating confidentiality by publicly disclosing their India vs New Zealand, ICC WTC Final: I would play both proposed salaries. There was no immediate reaction from the board, but it has said that England players to take a players could earn more under the new knee at Euro 2020: We performance-based scheme formulated R Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja, says Maninder Singh with the help of former captain Aravinda de are totally united on it, Silva and Moody. Maninder Singh is confident that spinners Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja can play a crucial role for Team India if they says manager Gareth Naomi Osaka to fans after both play the ICC World Test Championship final against New Zealand in Southampton later this month. Southgate French Open 2021 pullout: New Delhi. Former cricketer temperatures will soar. So if Maninder Singh still believes they Maninder Singh urged the it is going to be the way it is should be picked on "recent New Delhi. England players will take Thank you for all the love Indian team to play both their then moisture won’t be that form". “Jadeja’s recent form with a knee at the European Championship despite fearing an Paris. Naomi Osaka thanked her fans for frontline spinners be effective. The pitch will the bat has been exceptional. He Ravichandran Ashwin and dry out and spinners will has worked on his batting a lot. He adverse reaction after the anti- their support after the four-time Grand racism gesture was booed by their Slam champion earlier this week Ravindra Jadeja in the ICC start getting purchase and gives you an extra option of World Test Championship both are spinners are of having another bowler. The own fans before a warm-up game withdrew from the French Open, citing against Austria. Fans had been shut mental health issues. The Japanese final against New Zealand good quality,” Maninder confidence of scoring runs has later this month. Pitches in told Hindustan Times. rubbed off on his bowling. out of England matches since 2019 superstar initially said she would not England tend to assist seam THE SPIN TWINS IN "Ashwin is a class act. Ashwin has until the 1-0 win against Austria in attend the tournament's mandatory post- and swing bowlers more than ENGLAND improved a lot and he can now get Middlesbrough, where the pre- match gesture was met by loud match press conferences, which she said the tweakers therefore, this year and therefore, wants to Ashwin and Jadeja are the you wickets on any track, which booing that was swiftly drowned put undue pressure on players. playing two specialist spinners in see Ashwin and Jadeja in the most successful active spin- was not the case when he first out by the applause of others. The 23-year-old world No. 2 later a Test match is not something that playing XI. “If I was in the team bowling duo in international started touring overseas. But now, England midfielder Kalvin announced she would not compete at all most teams prefer to do but management, I would play both cricket with a combined tally of with the experience he is a Phillips, who was on the bench for and revealed she had been suffering from Maninder Singh thinks Ashwin and Jadeja. They can be a 629 wickets in Test cricket alone. different bowler,” he said. Wednesday’s match, said he was bouts of depression for several years, differently. huge factor. There is going to be But the two have an ordinary Mininder Singh also urged India left “confused and disappointed” leading to an outpouring of support. "Just The former India left-arm spinner wear and tear anywhere as the Test record in England with 14 and 16 captain Virat Kohli and coach by the jeering. want to thank you for all the love," she feels that spinners will get some match progresses. wickets, respectively. Moreover, Ravi Shastri to "keep motivating" help from the Ageas Bowl wicket "I keep talking to my friends there Ashwin and Jadeja haven't played Ashwin in particular. “It depends “I think I was just happy that the boos wrote in an Instagram story. "Haven't been got cancelled out by the fans on my phone much but I wanted to hop on due to the hot summer weather (in England) and they say it has together in an overseas Test match on the team management. On conditions in the United Kingdom become hot, these summer in England since the 2014 tour, but Kohli and Shastri... cheering in the end, but I don’t here and tell you all that I really appreciate think it’s a great situation, it," she said. The International Tennis especially for us players,” said Federation has promised a comprehensive Phillips, who is Black. “The team review on how players and media interact spoke about it together and we during tournaments, saying it takes mental Ishant Sharma, Mohammed Shami and R Ashwin make it came up with the conclusion that, health issues extremely seriously. It is regardless of what goes on around, unclear whether Osaka will return to the we’re still going to participate in game in time for Wimbledon, which to Ian Chappell's current top five best Test bowlers' list the kneeling and I think that’s a begins later this month. Osaka is one of the great idea.” The final warmup best-known and most marketable players onside when he is bowling to the right- match before Euro 2020 — against in the game, and in the past has used her handers and that really just shouldn't Romania on Sunday — is also position to call attention to issues of police happen. Yes, he is a fine bowler but I being played in the northeast town violence and racial inequality. > Ian Chappell picked R Ashwin, think Ashwin is a better bowler," of Middlesbrough. “In essence, Chappell said while replying to Sanjay people are booing their own team,” Ishant Sharma and Mohammed Shami Manjrekar, who doesn't think Ashwin is England manager Gareth Circus ring: Floyd Mayweather in his best current Test bowlers' list one of the best in the business in Tests. Southgate said Saturday. “I don’t ASHWIN NOT AN ALL-TIME really understand that. If you don’t returns to fight YouTube > South Africa's Kagiso Rabada and GREAT? agree with the situation then sensation top-ranked Aussie quick Pat Cummins Former India batsman Manjrekar recently perhaps you don’t have to applaud said that Ashwin's lack of five-wicket or you don’t have to do anything. also made it to Chappell's list “But to boo your own team is a very New Delhi. The rebranding of Floyd hauls in SENA countries and record > outside the sub-continent is the reason strange response in my mind. I Mayweather Jr. takes another Chappell also described why he wanted to gauge that the players unconventional turn Sunday night. why he cannot be called an all-time picked Ashwin ahead of Australian Cummins. All three Indian bowlers will be in great of the game. Ashwin has picked were happy to continue. I think Mayweather is a retired five-division world there’s an acceptance that this champion and perhaps the best boxer of the off-spinner Nathan Lyon action soon when they face New Zealand in the 409 wickets from 78 Tests at 24.69 with 30 ICC World Test Championship final at the five-fors. He averages 21.89 with 286 wickets gesture, if you like, is waning in its past 30 years. But his life after boxing, impact because we’ve been going mostly as the head of his promotional Ageas Bowl in Southampton from June 18. from 47 games at home as compared to228 scalps at 31.18 from 31 matches outside India. now for a season.” Southgate said company, did not quite satisfy. The allure of “Ishant’s record in the last I think I went back to he thinks about his players and their the ring is not easily put aside. the start of 2018 and looking at some stats and "When people start talking about him as being New Delhi. Three Indians have made it to Ian one of the all-time greats of the game then I journeys when he takes the knee. “I Consequently, at age 44, he returns to the ring his record is extremely good,” Chappell told think those people (who boo) under conditions that will not recall any of Chappell's list of the top five bowlers currently ESPNCricinfo. Chappell also described why have a few problems. One basic problem I have active in Test cricket. The former Australian with Ashwin is that when you look at SENA should put themselves in the shoes his great exploits in the ring. He will face he picked Ashwin ahead of Australian off- of those young players and how YouTube personality Logan Paul in an captain named Ravichandran Ashwin, Ishant spinner Nathan Lyon in his list. "I think Ashwin countries, Ashwin doesn't have a single five- Sharma and Mohammed Shami in his pick of wicket haul there. "And the other thing when that must feel,” he said. “If that was exhibition at Hard Rock Stadium, home of is a better bowler than Nathan Lyon. Have a their children, if they’re old enough the Miami Dolphins. “I don’t look at is as a the current-five best bowlers in red-ball look at Nathan Lyon's strike rate, you are in the you talk about him running through sides on cricket, along with South Africa's Kagiso Indian pitches that are suited to his kind of to have children, how would they fight; I think my opponent looks at it as a 70s and I am going back to 2018. "Nathan feel about. fight,” Mayweather said during a media Rabada and top-ranked Aussie quick Pat Lyon, to me, I think runs get scored through the bowling is that in the last four years. gathering Thursday in Miami Beach. “I look at it, for one night, I’ll be entertaining the people. I do it when I want to. We’re going to go out there have fun Sunday and give the Roger Federer mulling withdrawal from French Open 2021: I don't know if I am going to play people what they want to see.” The enviable pay-per-view stripes Mayweather earned Roger Federer played out his longest tennis match in the last 18 months when he prevailed in a 4-set thriller during his unblemished 50-fight career and Paul’s reported 29 million followers on his against Germany's Dominik Koepfer to move into the fourth round at the French Open 2021 on Saturday. social media platform helped move the event to a football stadium. The Paris. Roger Federer might have to pull without spectators on Court Philippe grass-court portion of the season. Mayweather-Paul marquee is supported by out of the ongoing French Open 2021 in Chatrier due to a coronavirus curfew. Federer even acknowledged additional bouts involving former world Paris if his knee cannot handle the Federer, who is playing just his third recently that he has zero chance of champions. TV and other viewing options rigours of the tournament anymore, the event since the 2020 Australian claiming the trophy this time will require a $50 price tag. Mayweather and Swiss tennis legend said after his Round Open, is scheduled to face Italy's around in Paris; instead, he is Paul are to box eight, three-minute rounds. 3 match victory on Saturday. Federer hoping to tune up his game to be There will be no scoring. Each can win only Matteo Berrettini in the round of 16 by knockout, technical knockout or prevailed in a marathon four-set thriller on Monday. "I have to decide whether ready to challenge for a disqualification. Another feature is the against Germany's Dominik Koepfer to or not to continue playing. Is it too championship at Wimbledon, floating weight limit. Paul will be allowed to move into the fourth round of a Grand risky to keep putting pressure on the where play begins in late June. The weigh as much as 190 pounds. The heaviest Slam tournament for a record-extending knee? Is it a good time to rest?. 20-time Grand Slam title winner Mayweather weighed for a boxing match 68th time. "Every match I have to reassess the has always said Wimbledon is his was 151 pounds for his super welterweight The 7-6 (5), 6-7 (3), 7-6 (4), 7-5 win saw situation and see the next morning in priority this year. He is chasing a title fight against Miguel Cotto in 2012. The Federer play the longest match in his what state I wake up and how my knee is when he lost to Novak Djokovic in the ninth title at the All England Club where 5-foot-8 Mayweather began his career in the career in the last 18 months, since the two doing," added Federer, who will turn 40 Australian Open semifinals. In addition the action starts on June 28. He is also 130-pound junior lightweight division. surgeries on his right knee last year. "I on August 8. This is only the second time to last year's absence because of the knee scheduled to play the warm-up grass “You never worry about height or size, it’s don't know if I am going to play," said that Federer is taking part in the Roland issues, he withdrew in 2016 citing a bad court tournament in Halle beginning on about skills,” Mayweather said. “And that’s back, then sat out the clay-court circuit June 14, the day after the French Open one thing about Floyd Mayweather. Federer whose 3hr 35min match ended Garros since 2015, he hadn't appeared on after midnight in Paris and was played the Grand Slam stage since Jan. 30, 2020, each of the next two years to focus on the ends. 12 New Delhi, Monday, 7 June, 2021 Tech&CAREERCareerCareer TECH THE SIKH TIMES "Observing" people are high in mind-reading motivation (MRM) which can lead to many social benefits, including better teamwork. • Individuals high in MRM enjoy speculating on others' thoughts based on the potentially hundreds of social cues they might receive. 'Mind reading' can herald better TeamworkTeamwork

behaviour, their non-verbal signals, to with an identifiable source - a try to figure out what they're thinking," spokesperson or an ad focusing on said Melanie Green, associate company values - that is, someone professor in University at Buffalo. whose perspective they can try to Individuals high in MRM enjoy understand," Green noted. speculating on others' thoughts based On the other hand, low MRM people on the potentially hundreds of social seem to pay more attention to ads that cues they might receive. are more impersonal, like those that Those low in MRM dislike or have just discuss the product - a message no interest in doing so. that does not appear to come from a MRM is about the motivation to particular person or group. engage with other minds, and is Green and her colleagues think there If you like to observe whether the distinct from the ability to accurately might be a difference in how much person sitting next to you is interpret others' cues. people enjoy or were motivated to rhythmically drumming his fingers "We didn't measure ability directly in speculate on people's thoughts in because he's anxious or if someone is our study of teamwork but the research situations where there was no preoccupied because she's gazing off suggests that just the motivation to situational need or institutional into the distance, make sure to use this understand others, and presumably the pressure. It could be as simple as a bus talent at the workplace . behaviours that go along with that passenger considering the thoughts of According to an interesting study, motivation, appear to lead to benefits," those across the aisle. such "observing" people are high in Green added. "This hadn't been previously mind-reading motivation (MRM) In addition to facilitating considered from the standpoint of which can lead to many social benefits, cooperation and better teamwork, individual differences," Green stated including better teamwork. people high in MRM also consider in a paper published in the journal MRM is a newly coined term for the people in great detail and have a Motivation and Emotion. practice of observing and interpreting nuanced understanding of those The concept of MRM has been bits of social information. It is the around them. developed by Green and her coauthors tendency to engage with the mental Those high in MRM seem to develop Jordan M. Carpenter at the University states and perspectives of others. richer psychological portraits of those of Pennsylvania and Tanya "We're not talking about the psychic around them. Vacharkulksemsuk at Haas School of phenomenon or anything like that but "High MRM people are more drawn Business, University of California, simply using cues from other people's to and pay more attention to messages Berkeley. Work so you can leave the office earlier every day

How many of us are office Ramadhar Singh, professor of lost time and productivity . clock-watchers, who count the organizational behaviour and human Avoiding meetings: minutes before we log those resoiour and human resources It's said that meetings are one of the minimum work hours and then management. "It works on the concept biggest detriments to productivity , mainly leave our workstations? Well of people wanting free time. So if you because they can be too long, lack clear Picking up foreign then, today should be right up your do your job, you get that free time. But purpose and leave too much room for alley as it's Leave The Office Earlier that requires clarity of one's job. employee distraction. Try and accomplish Day . But that doesn't mean you've got Questions like, `What can I do?', `What the same goals or tasks via e mail , phone a free half-day . What is does mean is are my tasks?' and `What are my or web-based meetings. But if you must languages is the in thing that you need to increase your performance areas?' need to be have one, try a standing meeting, as it is productivity so that you can leave work answered. We are giving individuals said to be shorter and more productive. earlier than usual so that you can have freedom, but that requires clarity , Taking regular breaks: for students this season more free time on a weekday. which is usually ambiguous in The origins of leave the office earlier organizations," he says. Moreover, Taking scheduled breaks (say , every 90 minutes), during which you step away Are vacations all about whiling away time? No, has completed his Class XII, to join French day people now have phone and internet The occasion was the invention of access everywhere, so there is no from your workstation, can help imp rove say these youngsters in the city, who have zeroed classes. He says, "Learning a language opens concentration, as well as help prevent in on some interesting pursuits this season. up a whole new world for me. As I am waiting Laura Stack, a specialist in employee demarcation between home and work, productivity, who observed that he adds. back ailments related to sitting for too Picking up a foreign language seems to be one of for my admissions, I thought I would learn the long. the hot favourites among them, thanks to the language during vacations to make use of my Americans work an average of 49 How you can increase hours a week, and, more importantly , Avoiding heavy lunches: travel industry and its job prospects, among time in the best possible way." While the your productivity many others. French classes have three levels and costs 350 hours a year more than most A heavy lunch will make you fatigued, There are ways that human resource A useful pastime around `11,000 for the preliminary stage, it Europeans. The day was therefore thereby leading to deceased levels of management experts and Dev Narayanan, a third semester BSc student, also has interactive sessions, which include started as an incentive for employees to concentration and productivity . Instead, organizational psychologists say you says that he wishes to go to Europe for further speaking, writing, reading and listening skills. complete tasks before schedule and snack on foods high in protein, fibre and can increase your productivity so that studies, and has opted to learn French. He says, When you speak of languages, how can Arabic thereby make a conscious effort to antioxidants you can finish your allotted tasks early , "As French is one of the most spoken languages be left behind, asks Mohammed Aslam PS, a B increase their efficiency and or get more done during your work Making the most of your in Europe, I felt that learning it will be helpful for Com student. He found Arabic so alluring that productivity so they could go home days. Some of them include... me to communicate." Dev, who practises French he even started penning poems. earlier than usual. This means that the commute: Use the time you take to get to work to for three hours every day, adds that there could Technology to the rescue prospect of leaving work earlier is Not multi-tasking: not have been a better idea to motivation for an employee to perform The ability to multi-task has been answer emails and to plan your day. constructively utilise his time. Further to higher maximum potential. hailed as a boon to productivity, but Make use of WiFi enabled vehicles in the studies in German is free in Germany How beneficial is this concept psychologists have contradicted this, city, like buses and cabs, to do this. unlike English, says Delton Fernandez, The idea of Leave The Office Earlier saying instead that attempting to do who has completed MA in Multimedia. Day is to emphasize one's productivity, several tasks at once can result lead to He adds, "Even adults attend these and not time, some thing that has come language classes. So, it becomes a about with the advent of capitalization, platform to enhance one's socialising globalization and outsourcing, says abilities as well." Since Germany is a hub of firms for mechanical engineers, Harikrishnan V, a B Tech student, decided to pursue his higher studies in that country. The German classes He explains, "Knowing the language can be Interestingly, youngsters can also learn these a boon for an aspirant. Apart from the token languages on online platforms. Reshma registration fee, you are asked to pay literally Ramesh, a BSc student, learnt Korean from an nothing when you join a course." With each online website during her vacation. She says, passing day of learning German , the realisation "The next time I watch my favourite Korean dawned upon Sonu Elizabeth George, a BSc series I can Hear You, I won't need the Nursing student, that it is very easy to learn a new subtitles," she laughs, "A few of my friends language. She proudly says, "I can now speak suggested this particular website, which is free German with much ease. It is my desire to work and has sessions to enhance our knowledge of in Germany and Austria that drove me to the the language." Reshma is now anxiously classes." waiting for her next vacation so that she can Just for the love of languages learn Spanish next, and says it would help her However, it is the sheer love for learning a new when she finally gets to visit her favourite language that has inspired Tom Anthony, who destination, Spain.