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Vol. 13 No. 16 RNI NO. DELENG/2008/25465 New Delhi, Tuesday, 1 June, 2021 [email protected] 9971359517 12 pages. 2/- Marking 7 years at helm, PM flags Covid fight: 10-fold rise in oxygen stocks, testing surge Simmi Kaur Babbar New Delhi .WITH THE NDA produce around 9,500 metric tonnes per country today, and that 20 lakh tests are Government completing seven day,” he said. carried out daily as opposed to a few years at the helm Sunday, Prime The Prime Minister said that while on one hundred tests per day earlier. So far, more Addressing the Minister Narendra Modi hand, empty tankers were being flown than 33 crore samples have been tested, he focused on the country’s fight to oxygen plants by the Air Force, the said. against Covid, which he Government was pushing to build The Prime Minister said that despite the 77th episode of described as “the biggest oxygen plants across the country. devastation of the pandemic, the pandemic in the last hundred “Along with that, oxygen, oxygen agricultural sector achieved record years”, thanked “Covid concentrators and cryogenic tankers produce. “The farmers produced record Mann Ki Baat, warriors”, and pointed out that from abroad also are being brought into output and this time the country went on to India is now producing over 10 the country,” he said. procure a record amount of crops. This times more liquid oxygen than During the radio programme, Modi time, in many places farmers have got more the Prime in normal times — from 900 interacted with four Corona warriors: than the minimum support price (MSP) for metric tonnes a day to 9,500 Dinesh Babulnath Upadhyay, an mustard. Due to the record food grain metric tonnes. oxygen tanker driver for 15 years who production, our country has been able to Minister also Addressing the 77th episode of hails from Hasanpur village in UP’s provide support to every countryman. Mann Ki Baat, the Prime Jaunpur; Shirisha Gajni, a locomotive Today, 800 million underprivileged Minister also thanked farmers pilot of Oxygen Express, and part of an denizens are being provided free ration in thanked farmers for enabling the Government to all-female team; Prakash Kandpal, a lab this hour of crisis,’’ he said. procure a record amount of crops. He listed manufacturing industrial oxygen are technician for the past decade at the Speaking about the last seven years of the the key initiatives of the Government, located in the eastern parts of the country… Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences in Government, Modi said: “When we for enabling the including rural electricity connections, In confronting this challenge, the country Delhi who is involved in Covid testing; and observe that now India moves ahead not infrastructure, financial inclusion, water was helped by cryogenic tanker drivers, the Group Captain A K Patnaik from the with the thought and pressure of other availability in homes and health insurance. Oxygen Express and Air Force pilots…Our HindonAir Force station. countries but with her own conviction, then Government to He pointed to a “new confidence of peace warriors are transporting this oxygen to far- Group Captain Patnaik, who joined the we all feel proud. When we witness that and development” from the Northeast to flung corners of the country,’’ he said. interaction with his 12-year-old daughter, is now India gives a befitting reply to those Jammu and Kashmir. “The nation salutes these soldiers of ours, among those from the IAF who have been who conspire against us, then our procure a record “When the second wave came, the demand these warriors of ours for the work that they lifting oxygen tankers and liquid oxygen confidence soars. When India does not for oxygen surged all of a sudden…this was have done…You can guess for yourself, in containers from domestic and international compromise on the issues of national amount of crops. a very big challenge…delivering medical normal circumstances we used to produce destinations. security, when the strength of our armed oxygen to remote parts of the country was 900 metric tonnes of liquid medical oxygen The Prime Minister, further, pointed out that forces increases, we feel that yes, we are on indeed a huge task… Many plants in a day. Now, it has expanded to generate there are 2,500 testing labs across the the right path.’’ more than 10 times the normal output and Safdarjung Hospital Attempt to impose saffron agenda: Kerala Nitin Gadkari right man in wrong party, his doctors to protest against CM moves resolution in Assembly to remove Lakshadweep administrator powers being curtailed: Congress's Ashok Baba Ramdev tomorrow New Delhi. The Resident Doctors’ Association Thiruvananthapuram.Kerala Chief New Delhi. Maharashtra minister and senior had kept all decision-making powers in its of Safdarjung Hospital announced that it will Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Monday tabled Congress leader Ashok Chavan on Sunday hands but was now blaming the state hold a ‘black day’ protest on Tuesday against a resolution over the current political unrest praised Union Minister and Nagpur MP governments after the Covid-19 outbreak Baba Ramdev’s remarks on allopathy, which brewing in Lakshadweep. The resolution Nitin Gadkari, saying he was the "right man spiralled out of control."The price of petrol have led to a long stand-off between the demanded the removal of new Lakshadweep in the wrong party". But Nitin Gadkari's had reached Rs 100 per litre. Some 12.21 medical fraternity and him.It began with administrator Praful Khoda Patel. powers, as a minister, are being core people have lost their jobs. The per Ramdev disparaging the allopathic system as a The resolution, which has been moved against continuously curtailed,Ashok Chavan said. capita income of Bangladesh is now higher “farce” and alleging that Covid patients had a series of measures adopted by the When asked whether he had any favourite than that of India. The policies of the Centre died because of allopathic medicines rather minister in the central government, Ashok have devastated the country," Ashok Lakshadweep administrator, states that "In Chavan claimed.The Maharashtra minister than oxygen shortage. The Safdarjung resident the name of promoting tourism, the culture Chavan said "good words" could be spoken doctors’ protest will be part of a nationwide about Nitin Gadkari who, despite alleged the Centre had a discriminatory and essence of Lakshadweep itself is being curtailed."Addressing a virtual presser on attitude towards Maharashtra on all fronts. negated."It adds that the people of the Union ideological differences, maintains "dialogue with other parties".Not the Modi government completing two He also attacked the BJP over the Maratha territory are themselves raising concerns elaborating much on the assertion, Ashok years of its second term, and seven overall, quota issue, and asked the ruling party at the over attempts to "encroach upon their Chavan said, "He [Nitin Gadkari] is the Ashok Chavan attacked the Centre over a Centre to come up with a solution after the cultural and specific features". right man in the wrong party. He has a range of issues, including job loss, and said Supreme Court, on May 5, struck down a The resolution tabled by CM Vijayan states positive approach towards Maharashtra but it failed to handle the coronavirus pandemic state law granting reservations in jobs and that the Lakshadweep administration is his powers are being continuously effectively.Ashok Chavan said the Centre education to the community. "officially sabotaging the basic responsibility of protecting the lives of people".Claiming that the atrocities being committed in Lakshadweep are worse than Thought I saw a prophet in action: CJI remembers Soli Sorabjee during colonial rule, the Kerala CM has urged the Centre to ensure that the interests New Delhi. The Supreme Court on medical oxygen to coronavirus patients. timeline for completing the vaccination ‘black day protest’ called by the Federation of of the people of the UT are protected.While Monday asked the Centre that several The matter was adjourned on Monday as would be faster.The Supreme Court Resident Doctors’ Association on June 1.“The presenting the resolution in the assembly, state governments are now issuing globalthe court gave 2 weeks' time to the Centre asked on Monday, “Are you asking the vitriolic, disgraceful and derogatory statements Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan said that the tenders to procure vaccines, is this theto file an affidavit with its response to the state to pick up and compete with each of Mr Ram Kisan Yadav are equivalent to Centre is "trying to implement saffron central policy on vaccine procurement. questions raised in the hearing regarding other?”\To this, Mehta said, “It's belittling the sacrifices made by the Covid agenda and corporate interests in The court also observed that till date, the the country's vaccine policy.Several factually wrong to say that states are warriors, many of whom have laid down their Lakshadweep"."It began with painting Centre has failed to submit a national states are issuing global tenders to competing with each other. It's not the lives in the line of national duty. Secondly, his coconut tress saffron and now it has reached policy document on Covid vaccines.procure foreign vaccines for Covid-19 situation that some states pay more and baseless, unscientific and illogical claims have a stage where the livelihood, culture of the The Supreme Court also questioned the and is this policy of the central get more vaccines.” potential to create a sense of fear and panic in people is being affected," he said.This is the logistics of picking up and distributing government," the Supreme Court bench However, the Supreme Court cited the case the public and it may derail the GoI’s first-ever resolution that has been moved in vaccines and why the government is not asked Solicitor General Tushar of Maharashtra and said, “We are seeing Vaccination campaign. Despite multiple the House after the second Vijayan supplying for the 18+ age group as well. Mehta.The Centre had earlier said that a spectacle now where municipal representations, no action has yet been taken government came to power achieving a The Supreme Court bench headed by the entire eligible population of India corporations and states are issuing global against him,” a statement by the RDA read.As resounding victory in the April 6 Assembly Justice DY Chandrachud was hearing a would be vaccinated by the end of 2021. tenders. Is it a government policy that part of the protest, residents posted in Covid polls. suo motu case related to supply of Mehta informed the Supreme Court that each municipal corporation and state will and non-Covid essential workstations shall essential medicines, vaccines and the Centre is in talks with Pfizer and be left to their own devices and procure work wearing black-coloured bands, with the Yogi Adityanath government others and if it succeeds, then the global tenders?” demand for an “unconditional public apology. prepares for COVID-19 third wave, begins training for skills lab New Delhi: The Yogi Adityanath-led government has started preparing for the Stunned by unilateral order, won’t release COVID-19 third wave and has begun training its doctors in Uttar Pradesh. The authorities have commenced the preparations in a COVID-19 hospital in Noida's Sector 39 for skill lab and treatment of coronavirus- chief secretary’: Mamata to PM Modi infected children. Gautam Budh Nagar Nodal officer Narendra The recall order came hours after Bengal, without any volition/option of the had issued an order to extend his service for Bhooshan started it, wherein, the western UP Mamata Banerjee skipped a officer, without meeting any of the pre- 3 months as Chief Secretary, beyond 31st doctors will be given training in the first conditions of the Indian Administrative May, 2021, for the purpose that he could phase.In each phase, 24 doctors and staff Cyclone Yaas review meeting with Service (Cadre) Rules, 1954, and other serve the state severely affected by the nurses will be trained for three days and the PM Modi, preferring to meet him applicable laws under reference. The second wave of the pandemic of Covid-19 training will be held in six phases. unilateral order/directive is legally (like the rest of the country) in critical A Dummy training has also been introduced for briefly at the Kalaikunda air base in untenable, historically unprecedented and times, which has further been devastated the first time, whereas, an RMNCH Bengal after his helicopter landed wholly unconstitutional,” Banerjee wrote by an extremely severe cyclone,” Banerjee (Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and in the letter. stated.The chief minister also wondered The chief minister added, “I therefore whether the order had anything to do with Child Health) lab has also been Kolkata.West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata established.Earlier on May 16, Uttar Pradesh humbly request you to withdraw, recall, her skipping the review meeting at Banerjee on Monday wrote to Prime reconsider your decision and rescind the Kalaikunda. CM Yogi Adityanath had said that the Minister Modi saying she was “shocked and government is already preparing an action latest so-called order in the larger public meeting with PM Modi, preferring to meet “I really do not understand what happened stunned” by the “unilateral order” from the interest. The government of West Bengalhim briefly at the Kalaikunda air base in between your allowing extension to the plan to effectively check the third wave of Centre and won’t be relieving Chief coronavirus. cannot release, and is not releasing, its ChiefBengal after his helicopter landed before officer as Chief Secretary a few days back on Secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay. Secretary at this critical hour, on the basis of leaving for another meeting. 24th May, 2021, after Centre-state He had stated that it is feared to be affecting “I must confess that I have been shocked and children more and said, "Every district our understanding that the earlier order of The Centre had, on May 24, approved a consultation to enable him to serve West stunned by the unilateral order dated 28th extension, issued after lawful consultation inproposal by the state to extend his tenure by Bengal in these times, and your unilateral administration has been asked to prepare a May, 2021, sent to us by the Government of dedicated hospital for women and accordance with applicable laws, remainsthree months till August 31.On Saturday, order (4 days later) issued in contradiction to India, asking us to release Alapan operational and valid. The latest order is also Banerjee alleged that the Centre was the extension granted by you. The unilateral children."We have 2,220 ambulances of 102 Bandyopadhyay, IAS, Chief Secretary, West service which are dedicated for women and clearly in violation of applicable laws and pursuing “vendetta politics” and said that order also does not provide any details, Bengal, so that he may join the Government against public interest: it is in any case ab PM Modi and Union Home Minister Amit reasons and/or particulars as to why Central children and for their emergency services of India on 31st May, 2021, the normal date besides providing them telephonic initio void.” Shah were trying to create problems for her deputation of Alapan Bandyopadhyay is of his superannuation. The unilateral ‘order’ The recall order came hours after Mamata government at every step. required suddenly. Does it have something to consultation from these hospitals," Yogi comes without any prior consultation Aditynath had said. Banerjee skipped a Cyclone Yaas review “Only a few days back, on my request, you had do with our meeting at Kalaikunda on 28 th whatsoever with the government of West kindly allowed, and the Government of India May, 2021?” Banerjee asked. 2 New Delhi, Tuesday, 1 June, 2021 NATIONAL THE SIKH TIMES NEWS BOX Liquor shops in Uttar Pradesh town: Delhi High Court refuses to put stay No Covid vaccine certificate, no sale on Central Vista construction New Delhi .Liquor sellers in Saifai, a town in Uttar Pradesh’s Etawah district, have put New Delhi .HOLDING Central Vista Project sovereign functions of parliament are also government had also contended that up posters outside their shops saying to be of national importance, the Delhi High going to be conducted to be there and the the DDMA on April 19 has permitted alcohol will only be sold to those with a Court on Monday dismissed a petition public is vitally interested in this project. construction activities during curfew Covid vaccination certificate. which had sought a stay on the construction “The legality of the project has been upheld where labourers are residing on-site. They claimed that the area’s Sub-Divisional taking place at Central Vista Avenue during by the Hon’ble Supreme Court,” added the “Such attempts are going on since the Magistrate has instructed them not to sell the peak phase of Covid -19 pandemic and court. inception of the project under one liquor to those who did not receive a shot, imposed a cost of Rs 1 Lakh on the It further noted that the work at Central pretext or the other and in one name or ANI reported. “We’re selling liquor only petitioner. Avenue has to be completed before the other,” the union government had after checking the vaccination certificate The division bench of Chief Justice D.N Patel November and said time is essence of the said in a reply to the petition, while of the customer,” a shopkeeper told the and Justice Jyoti Singh said the work at contract. “The work has to be completed arguing the case deserves to be news agency. Central Vista Avenue is part and parcel of within time-bound schedule,” the bench dismissed with “exemplary costs” on However, Etawah District Excise Officer the work at Central Vista Project and of vital said, adding once the workers at staying at the ground “that it is an abuse of the Kamal Kumar Shukla said: “No such order public importance. The construction of the site and “all the facilities have been process of law”. has been issued. The SDM might have Central Vista Avenue Redevelopment provided, COVID-19 protocols are Senior Advocate Siddharth Luthra, asked the liquor sellers to motivate people cannot be seen in isolation, it added adhered to and COVID-19 appropriate representing the petitioners, had to get vaccinated.” “Since the workers who are working at the behaviour is being followed,” there is no argued the petitioners are in no manner project are staying on site, there is no reason for the court to stop theof the workers who are being exposed to the seeking to overreach the Supreme question of issuing directions to suspend the project.“This a motivated petition preferredinfection on a daily basis. Centre in a written Court judgement permitted the Central Tests on mixed vaccines work of Central Vista Avenue by the petitioner and is not a genuine Public reply has said the petition deserves to be Vista and the prayer to stop the construction Redevelopment Project,” said the court, Interest Litigation,” said the court, whiledismissed with “exemplary costs” on the was limited to construction during the peak may start in a few adding the DDMA in the April 19 order has imposing a cost on the petitioners.ground “that it is an abuse of the process of phase of pandemic. not prohibited construction activity where The petition filed by Anya Malhotra, alaw”. “When we came to your lordships, we were weeks labourers are residing on-site.The court on translator, and Sohail Hashmi, historian andCentre had sought dismissal of the petition afraid their dereliction was going to lead to May 17 had reserved its judgement in the documentary filmmaker, stated that they are and termed it as “one more attempt” to stall an Auschwitz on the gardens of Central New Delhi.India may soon begin testing the case. Stating that the whole Central Vista concerned by the “super spreading potential the project. It had also argued that the PIL Delhi, on the gardens of India Gate,” Luthra feasibility of a regimen that mixes two Project is an essential project of national and threat” posed by the continuing was a facade to “satisfy some kind of a argued on May 17. different Covid-19 vaccines to see if it importance, the court on Monday said construction at the project site and the plight helps boost immune response to the virus. vanity in mind of certain individuals”. The The testing may be carried out both using vaccines that are currently available in the Centre looks to finetuning country, and those that are in the pipeline, Govt credit scheme for oxygen The Indian Express has learnt.Work is vaccine strategy: expected to begin “in a few weeks”, according to Dr N K Arora, chairman of the plants, banks to give Covid loans studying single-shot Covid-19 working group under the National Technical Advisory Group on New Delhi.As a part of its push to bolster the interest in the next 36. scheme ECLGS 4.0 provides financial effect to mixing doses Immunization (NTAGI).Approximately economy amid the second Covid wave, the The Union Finance Ministry has also support to the critical healthcare sector, and eight vaccines may be mixed and matched Government Sunday expanded the scope we hope that the banks will go all out in as part of the process, Dr Arora said. These removed the current ceiling of Rs 500 crore of the Emergency Credit Line Guaranteeof outstanding loans for eligibility under disbursing the loans in a quick and timely New Delhi.The Government plans to review include the three vaccines that are currently the impact of its decision to extend the approved for use in the country, Serum Scheme (ECLGS) to provide more relief toECLGS, subject to maximum additional manner. It would have further helped if a small businesses, bring the aviation sector higher allocation would have also been interval between Covishield doses once it Institute of India’s Covishield, Bharat assistance to each borrower being limited collects data from a newly proposed Covid Biotech’s Covaxin, and the Russian made under its ambit, and provide a concessional to 40 per cent or Rs 200 crore, whichever is made under this scheme. FICCI had credit facility of up to Rs 2 crore in loans requested that the quantum be doubled to vaccine tracker platform that it will launch Sputnik V.Clinical testing as part of the lower. shortly, The Indian Express has learnt. The exercise may be carried out by for health facilities to set up oxygen Since there is a loan cap of Rs 200 crore per Rs 6 lakh crore,” he said. data, sources said, may also help the collaboration between bodies like the generation plants. company, the new scheme should be able to “These initiatives taken by all the PSU banks Government decide whether to approve a Indian Council of Medical Research and The overall size of ECLGS, however, has accommodate a large number of stressed by coming together…is a significant step single-dose regimen for Covishield. the companies that developed and been kept at Rs 3 lakh crore, out of which entities, bankers said. in the right direction to mitigate the The data from the new platform is expected to produced the vaccines. The tests will study about Rs 45,000 crore is left to be Under the ECLGS scheme to help companies financial impact due to Covid resurgence be analysed around August, sources said. factors such as whether vaccines based on sanctioned. Those who have alreadytide over the liquidity crunch resulting on all affected segments of borrowers,” Covishield, which is the main Covid vaccine in different platforms can be given together, availed loans under the scheme can get from the Covid curbs, banks provide SBI chairman Dinesh Khara said. use in India, accounts for nearly 90 per cent of and which vaccines to administer in the additional assistance of up to 10 per cent of additional loans to existing borrowers “Stressed sectors are already well known, the 208.89 million doses administered since first and second doses.“We are looking for outstanding dues as of February 29, 2020. without asking for extra collateral. To like civil aviation and tourism…(the) civil January 16. India has also been using Bharat a combination of vaccines that provide Simultaneously, public sector banks haveencourage banks, these loans are fully aviation sector definitely needs a lot of Biotech’s Covaxin in its vaccination drive better protection. At the moment, the announced that they are joining hands toguaranteed by the Government against support at this point of time,” Indian Banks while Russia’s Sputnik V, which had obtained vaccines used are providing protection offer standardised loans to healthcare credit losses.The scope of the scheme had Association (IBA) chairman Rajkiran Rai approval for emergency use, is being against severe disease, but they are not facilities and individuals under the Covid been expanded thrice before. The scheme said. administered to fewer people as part of a pilot providing protection from infection and loan book proposed by the RBI and the will be valid till September 2021 or till the Addressing a press conference Sunday, rollout. transmission of the virus to the extent that ECLGS. we would have liked,” Dr Arora said. guarantee amount of Rs 3 lakh crore is Khara and Rai said PSU banks will offer “A platform is being established where three Under this initiative, borrowers will be able exhausted, while disbursements are unsecured personal loans to individuals for sets of administrative data in terms of to avail a tenure of five years in the revised permitted till December 2021. Covid treatment at a concessional rate of diagnostic data, vaccine data and the overall Govt’s Year 8 begins with ECLGS scheme — as against four yearsWelcoming the latest move, FICCI president interest — for SBI, the rate will be 8.5 per disease data are to be harmonised. Based on earlier — with repayment of interest onlyUday Shankar raised the need to increase cent. These loans will start at a minimum of that, we will look at vaccine effectiveness, for the first 24 months, and of principal and the limit of Rs 3 lakh crore. “The new Rs 25,000 and can be repaid over five years. reinfections and trends as vaccine coverage dented public trust, some increases,” Dr N K Arora, chairman of the Covid working group under the National doubts within Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation New Delhi .Marking its seventh anniversary (NTAGI), said. in power at the Centre, the ruling BJP enters UP: Bulandshahr police probe meat Discussions on the need to study the its eighth year grappling with two effectiveness of Covid vaccines began in unprecedented challenges within: one, a March-April, according to Arora. Before this, dent in public trust in the government India had not been tracking the effectiveness during the second Covid wave and, two, the seller’s death ‘during raid by cops’ of vaccines it was administering in a real- first chipping of Prime Minister Narendra New Delhi.Bulandshahr police have initiated Police also said that the family did not lodge world situation.The idea is to study aspects Modi’s Teflon coat.The sharply falling a probe into the death of a meat seller that a complaint earlier and it was following like breakthrough infections following Covid curve and the safety net announced allegedly occurred during a police raid the death they alleged that Qureshi died vaccinations and the severity of infections for children and a section of the next of kin earlier this week.According to the family of from police action.All of us were sleeping post-immunisation. “This will give an idea of may have brought some respite but many 43-year-old Aqil Qureshi, he was allegedly when the police came. It was around 1 am. how long you are likely to be protected from senior party leaders The Indian Express pushed off the terrace on the night of May They had surrounded the house from all the disease after immunisation… It will also spoke with underlined the enormity of the 23 as a police team came to nab him. directions and had entered from the rear tell us the impact of increasing the interval challenges ahead. between doses on vaccine efficacy and Police have denied the allegations, saying side. They hit him with sticks and rifle “This is the lowest period for us since we took butts. Policemen threatened to throw him whether there is a need for modification either that Qureshi succumbed to injuries which by increasing or decreasing the interval,” charge in 2014,” said a senior leader in he sustained during a jump.“On the from the roof and they did it. They abused charge of key states.The lingering grief of and threatened us as well,” said Qureshi’s Arora said, adding that the data will be intervening night of May 23 and 24, a police reviewed “two to three months later”.Another those who lost their loved ones, the ongoing team from Khurja Nagar Police Station had sustained from jumping in order to escape. daughter. vaccine crisis, the economic uncertainty aim of the review is to understand whether a gone to investigate Aqil Qureshi who wasA probe has been ordered under SP Rural,” Qureshi is survived by his wife, four single dose is effective, a source close to the and, more importantly, the very public wanted in several cases. The police went to said Circle Officer (Khurja) Suresh Kumar. daughters and a son who reside in spectacle of mismanagement – from development told The Indian Express on his house and the family members told them According to police, Qureshi was admitted to Bulandshahr. The deceased had been condition of anonymity. “An argument being families helpless and hapless to WhatsApp that he was not there. The police team selling meat in the Khurja Nagar area where videos of the party declaring a Modi victory a local hospital under a different name placed is that other viral vector vaccines have returned. We were later told he had been initially. He was referred to Aligarh and was he had a shop.Police claimed the accused single-dose versions, and this might work for over the virus – all mark out the long haul admitted to a hospital due to some injury had a criminal history of illegal slaughter the party faces. later admitted to a private hospital in Delhi Covishield too, which started out as a single- which prima facie appears to be one he where he passed away three days ago. among other offences. dose vaccine,” the source said. Supreme Court pulls up Centre on Covid vaccines, asks if policy is to make states compete

New Delhi The Supreme Court on Monday asked the with Pfizer and others and if it succeeds, then the that the Centre is making arrangements to get vaccines Centre that several state governments are now issuing timeline for completing the vaccination would be for those above 45 years and leaving the logistics to global tenders to procure vaccines, is this the central faster.The Supreme Court asked on Monday, “Are you states for people under 45 years." policy on vaccine procurement. The court also observed asking the state to pick up and compete with each "Also what about people with comorbidities in the 18-45 that till date, the Centre has failed to submit a national other?”To this, Mehta said, “It's factually wrong to say age group," asked the court.The Supreme Court further policy document on Covid vaccines. that states are competing with each other. It's not the questioned how is the Centre addressing the digital The Supreme Court also questioned the logistics of situation that some states pay more and get more divide and its constraints in rural India. SC Tushar picking up and distributing vaccines and why the vaccines.”However, the Supreme Court cited the case Mehta said, "Every village has a services centre. If I'm a government is not supplying for the 18+ age group as of Maharashtra and said, “We are seeing a spectacle villager who doesn't have a cellphone, the common well.The Supreme Court bench headed by Justice DY now where municipal corporations and states are service centre will register me and then I will get Chandrachud was hearing a suo motu case related to issuing global tenders. Is it a government policy that vaccinated."You must keep your ear to the ground. You supply of essential medicines, vaccines and medical each municipal corporation and state will be left to their keep saying digital India, but see what's happening. A oxygen to coronavirus patients.The matter was own devices and procure global tenders?” poor agricultural worker from Jharkhand, who works in adjourned on Monday as the court gave 2 weeks' time to “Compare the budget of the Mumbai municipal supplying vaccines for the population below 45 years. Rajasthan, has to go back to Jharkhand to get the Centre to file an affidavit with its response to the corporation with that of some city municipal"Our question is what is the rationale. For the registered," asked the court. questions raised in the hearing regarding the country's corporation in a UP or Bihar or any other state. The population above 45 years, we will supply vaccine, but To this, Mehta replied, "No. Registration is where he stays. vaccine policy."Several states are issuing global tenders BMC budget is more than that of some of the states.Are for under 45 years, states are left to make Registration is so that tracing can be done if you have to procure foreign vaccines for Covid-19 and is this you allowing as a policy for the municipal corporations arrangements," observed the court. one dose or two doses." policy of the central government," the Supreme Court to open tenders,” asked the Supreme Court.The It further added, "Your rationale for doing this was that the "We are asking how are you answering the digital divide. bench asked Solicitor General Tushar Mehta.The Supreme Court also asked if there is any policy rate of mortality is higher for above 45 years. In the How are you ensuring that migrant agricultural Centre had earlier said that the entire eligible population guidance about negotiating vaccine prices and second wave of the pandemic, it's not merely the above labourers who are going from one state to the other are of India would be vaccinated by the end of 2021. Mehta questioned the vaccination pricing policy.The Supreme 45 age group that is affected. Those under 45 years are getting vaccination," asked the court. However, Mehta informed the Supreme Court that the Centre is in talks Court further questioned the rationale behind not also suffering."The Supreme Court asked, "Why is it objected and said it's a policy decision. 3 New Delhi, Tuesday, 1 June, 2021 STATE THE SIKH TIMES

PUBLIC NOTICE NAME CHANGE My client Vijay Kumar Sankla S/o I, KANTA W/O LATE EX-253563 Sh. Late Kanhiya Lal R/o H.No. L- Elgar Parishad Case: JWO SURENDER SINGH PURI 1-207-A, G/F Gali No. 4 Near R/O 1/91, SADAR BAZAR, Budh Bazar Sangam Vihar, New DELHI CANTT-110010, have Delhi, South Delhi, Delhi-110080 Activist Stan Swamy Tests changed my name from KANTA has disowned and debarred their to RAVI KANTA PURI for all son Rohan Sankla and his wife namely Priya from their all mov- future Reference. able, immovable properties and Positive For Coronavirus have no relation with his in future NAME CHANGE anybody deals with them it will be own his/her risk. Mumbai: Jesuit priest and activist Stan Swamy, an accused in the Elgar Parishad- I, KIRAN KUMARI SPOUSE OF NARENDRA KUMAR Maoist links case, has tested positive for coronavirus.Stan Swamy, 84, who is suffering NO 14824323Y RANK HAV/MT. ADVOCATE NAME JAYANT KUMAR SINGH from Parkinson's disease and several other ailments, was shifted from the Taloja CHAMBER NO.655, R/O VILL+POST UDHADIH, prison in neighbouring Navi Mumbai to the Holy Family Hospital on May 28, follow- SAKET COURTS TEH.- BHAGALPUR, DISTT. NEW DELHI-110017 ing the Bombay High Court's orders.Stan Swamy was tested at the private hospital and BHAGALPUR, BIHAR 813213 (M): 9210489848 his result came out positive for the coronavirus on Sunday, his lawyer Mihir Desai have changed my name from said.Mihir Desai alleged that this was a result of "criminal negligence" on part of the KIRAN KUMARI to KIRAN Taloja prison authorities, who failed to provide adequate care to the inmates and con- SINGH. and my D.O.B. PUBLIC NOTICE 25.10.1981 vide affidavit sworn duct their RT-PCR tests timely.On May 28, a bench of before notary Sanjeeb Lahkar of Notice is hereby given that WE, Justices SS Shinde and NR Borkar directed the state prison NAME CHANGE Tansukia, Assam 28.05.2021 ACHEY LAL GUPTA S/O authorities to ensure Stan Swamy was shifted from the I, stuti patti W/o Ekansh patti GULAB CHAND GUPTA R/O residing at d-72, gali no-3, HOUSE NO. W1/178, GROUND Taloja prison to the hospital, after Mihir Desai moved the dayanand block, shakarpur, delhi- NAME CHANGE FLOOR, MAJDOOR KALYAN bench seeking an urgent hearing.Stan Swamy had been in 110092 have changed my name I, Srinu Thamarala Army No. CAMP, OKHLA, PHASE-2, the Taloja prison hospital since his arrest in the case in to STUTI CHAURASIA for all 14840528X Rank - SEP S/o OKHLA INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, October 2020.Mihir Desai had earlier moved a vacation future purposes. Himangshu Sahoo Persently SOUTH DELHI 110020 & KIRAN Posted & Residing at Unit 5017, GUPTA W/O ACHHE LAL bench led by Justice SJ Kathawala, seeking medical aid and ASC BN, Kanchrapara Military Station, Post - Kampa, P.S. - Bizpur, GUPTA R/O HOUSE NO. S bail for Swamy on health grounds.At that time, the bench NAME CHANGE 28/129 AMAR JYOTI CAMP, said while the issue of medical bail would be decided later, I, Navpreet Kaur D/O Service No. Dist - North 24 Parganas, West Bengal & Permanently Residing at OKHLA INDUTRIAL AREA, Stan Swamy could be shifted to the state-run J J Hospital in JC431889L Sub. Balwinder PHASE-I, NEW DELHI-110020, Singh, 13 Punjab Jind Village Vill - Cheemalapalli, Post - Kondakarla, Tehsil - Atchutapuram, have separated/debarred our dis- Mumbai for treatment.Stan Swamy, who was then present Hardan Post Dadiala Nazara Dist - Visakhapatnam, Andhra before the court via video-conferencing refused to get Tehsil Batala Distt. Gurdaspur, obedient daughter "ACHEY LAL Pradesh Pin - 531033 have GUPTA" aged about 19 years, admitted to the J J Hospital, saying he had been there twice State Punjab-143505, my father changed my Wife name Army Record/Part-II Order my who is residing separately from earlier already but found no relief. He had said that he Thamarala Rajeswari Date of Birth our house, We have name NOVPREET KAUR which from 24/09/1991 to 05/06/1992 for would rather die in prison than go to the J J Hospital.Stan disowned/disinherited her from is wrong but my correct name is all future purposes. Vide affidavit Swamy had told the HC that his mental and physical health NAVPREET KAUR, vide Affidavit No. 2456 dated 06th April 2021 our moveable and immoveable declined steadily while at the Taloja prison. He had urged No. IN-DL80154387135222T before 1st Class Judicial Magistrate properties. If any person's deal the HC for interim bail. Advocate Mihir Desai had told the Delhi. dated 29th day of May 2021 at Barrackpore Court in presence of with any consideration amount before Sub-Divisional Magistrate they have sole responsible. bench that considering his ill health and co-morbidities, Ld. Advocate G.M.Nabi Swamy was at the risk of contract- PUBLIC NOTICE ing the coronavirus infection.Stan PUBLIC NOTICE My client Ashwni Kumar S/o Late It is informed to the public at large Swamy had said he was also wor- Sukhbir Singh, R/o E-247, Street that my clients Sh. Nand Lal ried about his co- inmates at the No.6, MCD Office, Sangam Gupta S/o- Sh. Genda Lal Gupta( hospital.On both the hearings, the Vihar, New Delhi-110062, has Aadhar Card No. 244830 NIA's counsel, Additional Solicitor disowned and debarred their son 089560) and Smt. Sushila Devi General Anil Singh, and the state's Mohit Kaushik and his wife name- W/o- Sh. Nand Lal Gupta ly Varsha Kaushik from their all (Aadhhar Card No. 4984774 counsel, Y P Yagnik, objected to movable, immovable properties 00520) Both R/o- H.No.-V-63, advocate Mihir Desai's and have no relation with his in Sector-C, Bhagwati Vihar, Uttam request.They had said the state future anybody deals with them it Nagar, West Delhi, Delhi-110059 will be own his/her risk hereby declaring/ debarring/ dis- could not be expected to bear the NARENDRA KUMAR owning and have severed all their cost of Stan Swamy's treatment at ADVOCATE the private hospital and suggested CHAMBER NO.655, SAKET relations with their daughter Mrs. COURTS NEW DELHI-110017 Neelam (Aadhar Card No. he may be shifted to the J J 937371181940) W/o Sh. Anil Hospital. The bench led by Justice Prasad and her husband as well Shinde, however, permitted Stan THE SIKH TIMES as her child/children from their Swamy to be shifted to the Holy lives, properties and estate, Family Hospital after Mihir Desai Edited, Printed, Published moveable or immoveable situat- Owned by Simmi Babbar ed at Delhi or outside of Delhi said the cost of treatment would be because their bad conduct as borne by Swamy and his aides.The N - 31, Dr. Mukherjee Nagar Delhi-110009 well as they are not under the Elgar Parishad case is related to Printed at Qaumi Patrika Printing control of my clients and already inflammatory speeches made at a Press, A-4/A-144, Tronica City married and left the house of my conclave held in Pune on December (Loni), Ghaziabad (Uttar Pradesh) clients with her own free will and Corporate Office: desire. If anybody deals with the 31, 2017, which, the police claimed, above named person/s then my triggered violence the next day 5, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, Press Area, ITO, New Delhi clients will not be responsible/ near the Koregaon-Bhima war Editor-in-Chief liable for any act, deed and thing memorial located on the outskirts Gurcharan Singh Babbar done by above named person/s of the western Maharashtra Mob : 9654077232, 9971359517 in any manner since today. city.The police have also claimed Website : www.thesikhtimes.in Sudhir Kumar, Email : [email protected] Advocate the conclave was organised by peo- 228 & 297, Gajanand Block, ple with alleged Maoist links. RNI No. DELENG/2008/25465 Tis Hazari Courts, Delhi-110054 New Delhi, Tuesday, 1 June, 2021 DELHI/NCR THE SIKH TIMES 4

Haryana STF seizes 8.5kg of opium, 5 held Gurgaon holds Haryana’s first vax session

Gurgaon:The special task force (STF) of the Haryana Police seized 8.5kg opium from Kaithal and Kurukshetra districts and for transgender community, 190 take jabs arrested five persons on charges of drug trafficking. A Haryana police spokesman said that in the first case, an STF team acted Gurgaon: The state’s first vaccination session in society and it is the same scenario when it on a tip-off and recovered 3.5 kg opium for the transgender community was held in comes to the vaccination process.” There are from the possession of three persons near the city on Sunday and 190 people were more than 750 transgender people in Cheeka in Kaithal. The arrested accused inoculated. The vaccination drive was Gurgaon and the health department plans to were identified as Ajay Ram, a resident of conducted at the government school in carry out more such drives in the district in Jharkhand, Harbans Singh and Ramjeet Dundahera and Covishield was the coming days. “We aim to organise a Singh, both residents of Punjab. A car was administered. similar session next week to inoculate those also recovered from the accused. “I had tried getting the vaccine from a private who could not get the vaccine on Sunday. In the second case, the STF received a tip-off hospital on April 29. I got an appointment We also vaccinated some sex workers at the about a truck going from Delhi towards through the Aarogya Setu app but I was session site,” said Dr Virender Yadav, the Chandigarh with a large amount of opium. turned away at the centre. They did not cite chief medical officer, Gurgaon. “People Police intercepted the vehicle and any particular reason for not inoculating from these segments often face recovered 5kg opium from two accused me,” said Nirvair Kaur, who is also known discrimination. Some of them find it near Shahabad in Kurukshetra. Initial as Kiran Sakhi (48). “I feel privileged difficult to book slots and get the vaccine. probe revealed that both the accused used today,” said Nirvair, a member of an NGO. That is why we decided to organise a special to buy opium from Jharkhand and sell it at The session started at 11 am on Sunday. Gori session. It is the first such vaccination site in higher prices in Uttar Pradesh and Haryana. from old Gurgaon said: “It was an honour for the state,” he added. The arrested accused were identified as us because we got the vaccine at a special Asked about the experience, a sex worker who Irshad and Mohammad of Jharkhand. A session. We all were very happy. I have been got the jab at the site on Sunday, said it was a case has been registered against the very scared and I hardly travel these days. I smooth process. “Usually, people ask for accused under relevant sections of the am relieved that I could get the vaccine.” many documents, which we fail to produce. NDPS Act and further investigations are Gori added that some of them even Here, we just had to show our Aadhaar cards on. celebrated after getting the jabs and danced and we got the shots. Also, many of us find it to the tunes of popular songs. Asked if she difficult to register on the Co-WIN portal. NHM workers to protest from had tried to get the jab earlier, the 26-year- Most of us have mobile phones, but we do old said: “I had tried twice but I was asked to not understand the registration process very June 1, seek safety net leave the centres despite having well. Internet access is also an issue for appointments. We always fail to earn respect many of us,” said Lata (name changed). Gurgaon: National Health Mission (NHM) workers in Haryana said they will go on a state-wide protest from June 1 as their demands regarding payment of salaries and safety nets remain unheard. The stir will be Out of car with a hookah, carried out in phases, they said. Covid-19: Curbs extended in In a state-level meeting of all the workers, man lands in jail including contractual doctors, auxiliary midwife nurses, medical technicians and Ghaziabad: A 19-year-old youth ambulance drivers, the union leaders was arrested on Saturday night for expressed their displeasure over Haryana, but malls & hotels to open allegedly performing car stunts in “deafening silence of the government” front of Govindpuri police post. A over their repeated demands for payment of video of the incident was uploaded the salaries and safety net. “We are GURUGRAM: The Haryana banquets and conference rooms will on social media a couple of days frontline workers. We demand that our government on Sunday extended the stay hut for guests. Restaurants will back and since then, it has been basic employee rights be met. Our lockdown across the state by more also not be open for dining, Malls in widely shared. colleagues have been getting infected with than a week till June 7. In an order the city said they would now According to police officers, the the virus at an alarming rate. We have no issued on Sunday, the government calculate the number of visitors they incident happened almost a month medical coverage. We do not get any said though the positivity rate had can allow according to the area. “We ago and at the time of recording the provision for separate stays,” said state come down, the restrictions must will take the total area and then video, policemen deployed in the president of NHM Karmachari Sangh continue to bring down the fatalities. calculate the number of people that area were out on patrolling duty. In Rehan Raza. In the phased protest, the In the new set of guidelines, malls have can be allowed inside. We welcome the video, the youth can be seen workers will organise a one-day event to been allowed to open, but with the government’s move and it should coming out of a car while smoking not be difficult to implement the rule pay tribute to all employees, who died due restrictions on the number of visitors. hookah. The car is in the middle of at all,” said Aman Bajaj, a member of to Covid. “The workers will hold Yagna in The timings of shops have also been a road and loud music can be heard. all the 22 districts and take a pledge to fight extended till late in the afternoon. the MGF Metropolitan Mall Association. Haryana has now been The video had been shot at night. for their rights and ensure that their However, restaurants and bars will Later, police lodged an FIR and families get compensation,” said Raza. In only be available for takeaways and under lockdown for around a month. The first lockdown was announced arrested the youth. He is from phase 2 from June 2 to June 7, the workers deliveries. Cinema halls will continue Govindpuri in Modinagar and will hold meetings outside hospitals and to remain shut and so will eateries in in early May and has since been extended by weeks. The restrictions studies in Class 12 at a private healthcare centers. The workers will the malls. The lockdown order follows school, police said. Munendra an announcement by chief minister are being seen as the major reason protest outside residences and offices of Singh, SHO, Modinagar, said: Manohar Lal Khattar earlier in the behind the fall in Covid numbers. On BJP leaders, MLAs, and BJP party officers “The accused had uploaded the to submit a memorandum to the CM and the day. “That although the Covid May 1, Gurugram had 38,561 active and other commercial areas have continued to video on his Instagram account two PM. In the third phase — from June 8 to positivity rate has come down, cases. As of Sunday, the district had wear a deserted look even as some of the 1,727 active cases. Gurugram deputy days ago. June 14 —, the NHM workers will launch however the mahamari alert suraksha Haryana needs to continue to bring the rate of fatality relaxations have eased. Malls will stay open commissioner Yash Garg said he had directed pol khol (expose the government) from 10am to 6pm. However, only one visitor his team to ensure the restrictions are followed campaign. During this, the workers will further down,” the order stated. Standalone Funds not in, Chilla shops, which had last week been divided into per 25sqft area will be allowed. The malls have strictly. highlight the “deficiencies” of the been asked to design an app that will help them flyover work may be government in not just handling the Covid odd and even categories, can stay open through Like the earlier phases, police will carry out the day except during the night curfew (10pm- regulate the movement of visitors. “Malls shall random inspections in the city to ensure people crisis but also the “hypocrisy” attached 5am). Other shops will now be open from 9am develop apps to regulate the movement of are following the Covid safety protocols. delayed by 6 months with their [government] claims. “In case of to 3pm. Although many shops were allowed to people,” the order mentioned. Theatres, Gurugram police has already booked more than non-action during these phases, we will open last week itself, only those dealing with restaurants and bars inside malls will stay shut. 100 people through May for breaking Noida: Work on Chilla elevated suspend work for two days. We will essentials saw some footfall. Sector markets Hotels, too, have been allowed to open, but lockdown norms. road, which will connect Mayur observe self-isolation days on June 22 and Vihar in Delhi to Mahamaya June 23,” said Hari Raj, district president of flyover in Noida, is expected to get the NHM Karmachari Sangh. delayed by six months — from its December 2021 deadline to mid- Stock up on kids’ drugs: Docs to hospitals 2022. Officials said that the state GNIDA to set up solid waste government has not released funds to the tune of Rs 302 crore despite mgmt centre Noida: After remdesivir, tocilizumab and vial of IVIG costs anything between Rs 8,000- inflammatory medicines and steroids that several letters from the Noida amphotericin B, doctors and officials in Noida 16,000 and a paediatric patient may need up to could be used for children. They are used for a Authority. Greater Noida: GNIDA plans to set up a have sounded an alert on the availability of a 10 vials. Similarly, methylpred is a steroid that broad spectrum of four diseases, which The work on the Rs 605 crore project, solid waste management centre ranging few other medicines that can be used for can be given to children in some cases. The includes MIS-C. which is being built on a fifty-fifty children recovering from Covid. The doctors alert is based on an assumption that children are “These anti-inflammatory medicines are used not partnership between the Noida between 1,500 and 2,000 sqm area in have asked hospitals to keep adequate stock of at a higher risk of contracting the infection for treatment of the infection-causing collaboration with United Nations Authority (through UP Bridge intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) and duringthethirdwave. pneumonia, but the post-infection sequel. It has Corporation Ltd) and the state Development Programme (UNDP) and steroids such as methylpred. “We are asking But many doctors have raised questions on this been used for the treatment of Kawasaki government, is already delayed due HDFC Bank. At the centre, dry waste hospitals to stock up on these medicines so that assumption, saying children are among the disease and arteritis, among a few others,” said to the pandemic where only 36% of will be segregated and processed into a there is no last-minute rush. We have seen that healthiest lot and have the least comorbidities. Dr Amit Vij, intensivist at Sharda Hospital. pile work and 3% of pile cap material recovery facility (MRF). It will as cases start to increase, important medicines As of now, doctors are focusing on the Narendra Bhooshan, the nodal officer for completed. “The authority has also process and dispose of waste used in the treatment of Covid become treatment of multisystem inflammatory Covid control in the district, said, “Some of the spent around Rs 74 crore so far. colllected from homes. The authority unavailable and are sold in the black market. syndrome in children (MIS-C), which happens doctors have flagged these medicines (IVIG, While the state government has will develop an application that will This often happens because we are not ready during the recovery stage. “We have already methylpred, remdesivir and tocilizumab) as been getting updates from the track garbage disposal. The first phase for the sudden surge. There was a shortage of ordered IVIG and some steroids to be used for important and will be needed for treatment. We Noida Authority, it has not released of the waste centre will be established remdesivir during the first and second wave. If children. The problem is that IVIG is an are asking all our hospitals to procure them and the funds” said Rahul Sharma, it happens again, it would be unacceptable,” expensive drug and could lead to problems like keep a stock.” GIMS issued an advisory on senior manager (work circle 2), and operated by HDFC bank for four Noida Authority. While the years under its CSR initiative. The said a senior health department official. hoarding if its requirement increases Sunday, saying MIS-C, associated with Covid, IVIG has been gaining importance because it is suddenly,” said Dr Rakesh Gupta, director of is a condition where the organs, such as heart, foundation stone laying ceremony authority has directed the health one of the few medicines used for reducing GIMS in Greater Noida. Doctors agreed that lungs, kidneys, brain, and eyes, can become for the 5.5-km-long stretch over department to prepare a detailed Covid-related inflammation among children.A IVIG and methylpred were among the few anti- inflamed. Shahdara drain was. evaluation report, including identifying the land area, at the earliest to start the project. “Plans are underway for decentralised In a first, Gurgaon to open walk-in sites for 18-44, Covaxin shots to be given waste management, remediation, construction and demolition waste, community toilets, centralised waste to would be required and Covaxin shots would Gurgaon. However, there will be no sweeping etc. For this, we will set up a be administered at all centres, officials have vaccination sites for the 45-plus category on waste management centre of 1,500 to said. It will be a one-day exercise and the Monday, the officials said. On Monday, a 2,000 sqm area to process dry waste. target is to inoculate 7,400 people. For the vaccination session will also be held for While land for the waste management past few days, people in the 18-44 years age people with special needs at Pataudi centre will be given by GNIDA, group could get jabs only at private centres government hospital and 200 slots would be necessary directives have been given to or at drive-through sites. available. The inoculation drive will start at Due to limited number of vaccine doses 10 am. Meanwhile, the health department the health department to come up with available with us, we are planning to has vaccine stocks that will last only till an evaluation report at the earliest,” said inoculate the first 200 people who reach Monday. “If we do not get a fresh Narendra Bhooshan, CEO of GNIDA. each site. Police and civil defence teams consignment by Monday, then we will have The waste centre will be managed by would be deployed at these centres. to discontinue the vaccination drive HDFC bank under their CSR drive for Residents will be given tokens and only completely,” Yadav said, adding that they do the first four years and assistance of those with tokens would get the jabs. We not have any information about when fresh UNDP teams will be provided. held a meeting with all medical officers in stocks are likely to arrive. “Garbage will be transported to this Gurgaon and they have been briefed about Earlier also, the inoculation process had to be centre, segregated here and further sent crowd management and vaccination put on hold because of vaccine shortage. On for disposal,” said Deep Chandra, protocols for Monday. It is the first time that Sunday, 3,884 people in the 18-44 years age ACEO of GNIDA. Bhooshan added that walk-in vaccination sessions are being held group got vaccinated in Gurgaon. As many Gurgaon: For the first time in the city, people health department will conduct the walk-in in the city for people in the 18-44 years age as 1,260 people who got the jabs during the the waste centre will function on the in the 18-44 years category will be able to get vaccination drive and 200 people in the age group. No prior registrations would be day were in the 45+ category. A total of 29 lines of the economically sustainable vaccinated at 37 government centres without group would be inoculated in each of the 37 needed for Monday’s exercise,” said Dr healthcare and 92 frontline workers also got model (ESM) of UNDP. any prior registration. On Monday, the session sites. No registration on Co-WIN Virender Yadav, the chief medical officer, the vaccine. New Delhi, Tuesday, 1 June, 2021 DELHI-NCR THE SIKH TIMES 5

Chennai martial arts teacher detained after woman accuses Pune: PMC as a separate entity likely to him of sexual assault Chennai The police have registered a case against a karate and judo instructor based on a complaint from a woman, who alleged have ease in restrictions from June 1 that he had sexually assaulted her seven lockdown rules based on the Covid-19Thus, the PMC is likely to relax restrictions essential items along with essential items years ago.The woman had joined Hi While declaring ten situation. The select municipal and extend the timings of operation of through e-commerce. Some traders of non- Impact MMA & Self Defence Martial Arts corporations should have a positivity rateessential category stores from 7am – 11am to essential items had sought action against e- School in Chennai to learn Judo under municipal corporations as equal to or less than 10 per cent, and 7am – 2pm. This includes grocery stores, commerce for delivering items despite Kebi Raj. separate entities within their occupancy of total oxygen beds availablefruits and vegetable stores, bakery, shops restrictions put up by the civic body. In her complaint, the woman said Kebi Raj should be less than 40 per cent to introduce selling poultry, meat and sea food, optical However, the civic body is likely to allow the touched her inappropriately while she was district management relaxation in lockdown restrictions.stores, agriculture equipment and monsoon- delivery of non-essential items through e- returning from an event. She alleged Kebi authority, the state Positivity rate below 10% related items. commerce. Raj threatened to kill her if she dared to Non-essential category stores Public movement restrictions speak about the incident to anyone. government has empowered Accordingly, the PMC positivity rate has been well below 10 per cent in the last week The decision on allowing operations of non- The citizens will not be allowed to move freely She later filed a complaint on May 29, after the civic bodies to have their and has been further reducing every day.essential category shops, which are stand- after 3 pm. The movement would be only for which a case was registered against Kebi Raj under sections 354, 509, 376 r/w 511 of lockdown rules based on the The weekly positivity rate last week was alone shops and not inside shopping centres medical and other emergency purposes or for IPC and Tamil Nadu Prohibition of 7.69 per cent, and the daily positivity rateor malls, will be taken by the civic home delivery services. Thus, the citizens Harassment of Woman Act.An Covid-19 situation. has not extended above 10 per cent in the administration. However, their timing moving out without any valid reason after 3 investigation in connection with the case last ten days. should not be more than that of essential pm would face police action. has been initiated.On Sunday, the Flower Occupancy of oxygen beds is around 40% category stores and will have to be kept Limited attendance in offices Bazaar All Women Police arrested a 59- With the state government declaring Pune Around 40 per cent of the oxygen beds are closed on weekends. “The traders have been All government offices, except those involved year-old athletics coach of a sports Municipal Corporation (PMC) along with occupied in city hospitals of the PMC. Thedemanding to extend the timings of essential directly in corona work can function with 25 academy in Tamil Nadu's Chennai for other nine municipal corporations demand for oxygen beds is slowlycategory stores and allow the opening of per cent attendance. The authority can allow allegedly sexually harassing young considering a higher population of one decreasing. According to the dashboard, thenon-essential category stores. They are for a higher percentage of attendance if there trainees.The action was taken against the million as separate administrative units for PMC has 3,992 of the 7,235 oxygen bedslikely to be started due to the improved is a request from the concerned head of the accused, P Nagarajan, based on a framing their lockdown rules, the city is vacant in city hospitals. In addition, there are Covid-19 situation in the city. However, the office. complaint lodged on Friday by a girl aged likely to have some relaxation in the 224 ICU beds and 143 ventilator beds traders would be asked to strictly follow Restrictions in rural part about 19 years. The girl lodged a complaint restrictions than that in other parts of the state available for the treatment of Covid-19 Covid appropriate behaviour and help The villages adjoining the PMC boundaries are against Nagarajan after allegations of due to the slowdown of Covid-19 infection. patients in the city hospital. The civic contain the spread of viral infection,” said a likely to continue having the existing sexual harassment by his former trainees While declaring ten municipal corporations as administration is further scaling up the civic officer. restrictions as the positivity rate of rural surfaced on social media. separate entities within their district number of oxygen beds in the city. Relaxation in restrictions on e-commerce areas continues to be above 10 per cent, and Following the registration of the complaint, management authority, the state government Essential category stores The PMC is likely to allow delivery of non- fewer oxygen beds are vacant. Nagarajan allegedly swallowed sleeping has empowered the civic bodies to have their pills and was admitted to the Government Royapettah Hospital. He was taken to a court after he was discharged from the 25 Punjab MLAs, ministers to meet Congress hospital. Bengal post-poll violence: 3,000 junior doctors in Madhya Calcutta HC appoints 3- Pradesh go on strike amid panel in Delhi over feud within state unit member committee for Chandigarh At least 25 Congress MLAs and government as well, prompting the Congress COVID-19 pandemic ministers from Punjab, including cabinet high command to depute three senior leaders to victims' rehabilitation ministers Charanjit Channi and Sukhjinder control the damage.Navjot Singh Sidhu has Bhopal Nearly 3,000 junior doctors in Kolkata The Calcutta High Court on Madhya Pradesh on Monday struck work, Singh Randhawa, will meet on Monday a been critical of Amarinder Singh after the three-member committee, formed to resolve Punjab and Haryana High Court last month Monday appointed a three-member barring COVID-19 duties, to press for their committee for the rehabilitation of demands, including free treatment for them the infighting in the Punjab Congress.The quashed a probe into the Kotkapura firing case. and their families if they contract the panel was formed by Congress president Sonia Sidhu, a former minister in the Punjab post poll violence victims in coronavirus infection. Gandhi after a section of party leaders government, had also repeatedly attacked Bengal.The court has entrusted the expressed discontent over the handling of the Amarinder Singh over the alleged delay in committee to coordinate with local MP Junior Doctors Association president police and ensure the safe return of Arvind Meena told PTI that their members 2015 sacrilege issue and subsequent firing justice in the 2015 sacrilege issue.Amarinder were abstaining from work at the Out incidents in Kotkapura in Faridkot. Singh had also slammed Navjot Singh Sidhu all those who have not been able to Patient Departments (OPDs), the In-Patient Congress's high command had summoned all for continuously attacking him over the return home due to post-poll Departments (IPDs) and other wards of party MLAs and ministers, including the rebel sacrilege issue, calling the Congress leader's violence in the state. The various health care facilities. MLAs, to meet the three-member panel during outbursts "total indiscipline". committee will report to the court. “If the written orders (complying with the the next three days. At least 25 MLAs will meet The committee is led by Rajya Sabha member "The people have a right to go back to demands) are not released by this evening, the panel today (Monday) in Delhi. Amarinder Singh is also likely to meet the Mallikarjun Kharge with All India Congress their homes and live peacefully. It then we would be compelled to withdraw Congress leader and MLA Navjot Singh Sidhu committee on Friday.The Punjab government's Committee general secretary in-charge of is the duty of the state to ensure that from COVID-19 duties across the state will be among the other leaders who will meet alleged failure to fulfill the election promises PunjabAffairs Harish Rawat and former MP J P law and order is maintained," the from June 1,” he said.They have demanded the panel on Tuesday. Chief Minister has sparked dissidence within the party and the Aggarwal as its members. court ordered.The order was passed that beds for junior doctors serving by the five-judge bench of acting COVID-19 patients be reserved in separate Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal and areas in case they contract the infection, he Justices IP Mukherji, Harish said.“Treatment should be free for such Tandon, Soumen Sen and Subrata doctors as well as their kin. We also need a World No Tobacco day: ‘Covid pandemic led to rise Talukdar.The committee will hike in stipend,” Meena said. consist a member each from the He said their association comprises around National Human Rights 3,000 members from six medical colleges in number of smokers wanting to quit’ Commission, the state human in the state.Earlier, the junior doctors went rights commission and the state on a strike on May 6, but resumed a few legal services authority. hours later after the state government Pune. With medical practitioners warning that 2019, India had the second-highest number The persons who are allegedly not assured them that their demands would be Covid-19 symptoms are much worse among of tobacco consumers from ages 15-24 being allowed to go back to their met.While the state government promised smokers, the pandemic has seen a rise in the (nearly 2 crore). The country witnessed the number of people wanting to kick the habit. highest increase of young male smokers in homes are required to 24 days ago that our demands would be met, communicate with the West Bengal nothing has moved since, Meena claimed “The proportion of people who call and this age group since 1990. Globally, the register for quitting is much higher, so the number of smokers rose to 1.1 billion in Legal Services Authority and demanded that the government release (WBLSA) on the official email of a written order fulfilling their demands. number of people seriously wanting to quit 2019, with tobacco smoking causing 7.7 has increased. 90 per cent of callers calling million deaths.Dr. L. Swasticharan, the WBLSA. The committee shall during Covid are because of the health Additional Deputy Director General and then contact the concerned the Sachin Pilot in Gujarat might concerns around the disease,” Dr. Pratima Director (EMR) in Directorate General of police officer of the locality to Murthy, Professor of Psychiatry and Head of Health Services, Ministry of Health and ensure that persons are allowed to resolve Congress’s Rajasthan the Department at the National Institute of Family Welfare, Government of India, go back to their houses, the court Mental Health and Neuro-Sciences said, “Every time we want any information directed.According to a petition crisis. But why is the Young (NIMHANS) Bengaluru said. Also, the people who were at home during the about the numbers or the outcome of the filed in the high court by BJP leader Dr Murthy was speaking at a webinar ‘Tobacco lockdown were worried about exposing their cessation program, we have to go back to the and advocate Priyanka Tibrewal, Turk wary? Cessation in India: Policies, Practices and children to tobacco smoking. That was very state government and ask for the numbers. We over 200 people were forced to Challenges’, that highlighted the importance think it should be recorded in a digital form, encouraging, the other thing that happened kind of an MIS. So, we have developed an MIS leave their homes due to post-poll Gujarat. The Congress high command is of tobacco cessation policies in the country and during Covid is that the number of people who violence in Bengal and have not looked at different modalities of cessation and we are trying to incorporate it into the reportedly scouting for a point man in had actually quit was very high. As many as system. The ministry is planning to launch it been able to return due to Gujarat to strategise, handhold and being practised along with the challenges three fourth of all who called to quit said they fear.Earlier this month, the high faced. The webinar was organised by Salaam soon. He further added, Up until now, we have supervise the party’s electoral campaign for had given up and nearly about 40% had quit in court sought a report from the November-December 2022 state assembly Mumbai Foundation, Narotam Sekhsaria one month. This is the double of what we a way of collecting numbers through paper- Foundation and LifeFirst on the occasion of based reporting.”And Dr S K Toke, from Bengal government on the postpoll polls. The search for a new party general would see in the pre-covid times.”This year’s Pawana hospital in Pune, emphasized on the secretary or in-charge has become urgent on World No-Tobacco Day, observed on May World No Tobacco Day theme is ‘Commit to violence that rocked West Bengal 31.She said: “Our counsellors shifted from connection between tobacco use and risk of after the recently concluded account of the demise of Rajiv Satav, who Quit’. During the webinar, the panellists laid respiratory disease. “As cigarette smoking is was looking after the party’s Gujarat affairs. centre-based counselling to home in emphasis on how the Covid-19 pandemic led assembly elections. In response, lockdown, so we were able to exploit one of the most common forms of tobacco use the TMC government told the Several names are doing the rounds, namely to a strengthening of resolve among tobacco and the earlier the exposure to this risk factor, Kamal Nath, BK Hari Prakash, Mukul technology to make sure whatever calls landed users in their commitment to quit (tobacco).As Calcutta High Court that there was on our system were diverted to the counsellors, greater is the level of decline in lung function,” Wasnik, Avinash Pandey, Mohan Prakash, per the Global Burden of Disease study, till he said. no post-poll violence in the state. but 10 Janpath’s most preferred choice is and they were able to run it from their homes. reported to be Sachin Pilot, former Rajasthan Congress chief who had raised a banner of revolt against Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot in July 2020. Sachin Pliot’s youthfulness, acumen, oratory skills, energy and ability to blend complex Maharashtra village records first Covid- caste matrix scores over other contenders. A closer look would reveal another game plan. If Pilot is given a role outside Rajasthan, the ongoing political crisis would get resolved on its own.However, in Jaipur, the Pilot camp is incredulous. There are several 19 case since outbreak of pandemic reasons for it. Firstly, neither the Gandhi trio Sonia-Rahul-Priyanka nor the AICC general Pune. Kharatwadi village in Walva taluka of sarpanch Prithviraj Kharat said, “People live secretary in-charge of organisation, KC Sangli district in Maharashtra had been able in vast acres of farm land here. It is not a Venugopal, has directly spoken to Sachin to keep the novel coronavirus at bay since the congested place. There are farms owned by Pilot about “Mission Gujarat 2022.” outbreak of the pandemic last year. the villagers where they have built their own Secondly, 10 Janpath has done precious little However, things changed fast in the last few houses and stay with their families.” to fulfil “truce” promises made to Sachin days when five members of a family tested He added, “We had carried out a Covid-19 Pilot in August 2020 when a rebellious positive for Covid-19.Sagar Shinde, the Sachin Pilot and his supporters, camping in awareness campaign and asked the villagers Delhi and Haryana, had returned to government medical officer at Nerle, said, to get tested if they developed any Rajasthan.The peace formula had many “In the last few days, five Covid-19 cases symptoms. The villagers either go to the elements, including a measure for have been detected in the village. This is the primary health centre or to private doctors rehabilitation of MLAs, loyal to Sachin first time since the outbreak last year that the for treatment.”Shinde said the primary Pilot, in the Gehlot cabinet. Ten months have village has witnessed five cases. All of them reason why Kharatwadi thwarted Covid’s passed but Ashok Gehlot, a three-time chief are from the same family.”Kharatwadi had entry is that it tested every individual who minister, holding 38 portfolios in Rajasthan shot to fame during the Lok Sabha elections was seeking entry into the village.This government including home, finance, PWD, when the farmers from the village had started last year when people were returning rural development, tourism, has not found openly supported Raju Shetti, who heads the from Mumbai and other places. time or felt a need to expand his council of Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatna. The We conducted tests and quarantined them. ministers.In some ways, Ashok Gehlot’s village is surrounded by a river on the three Even if their tests were negative, we kept refusal to accommodate the Pilot camp, sides.Shinde said while Kharatwadi had not them in isolation in a facility set up in the rather Gandhis’ inability to direct Ashok registered a single case to date, its two village. We conducted over 1,000 tests at that Gehlot to implement August 2020 peace neighbouring villages had recorded over 100 positive,” he said.The village has a Facebook here. You can also join our time. Though no one was found positive, formula, may dissuade Pilot from accepting cases in the same period. “We have population of only 1,278 people. Express Pune Telegram channel here. they had to undergo mandatory quarantine any role outside Rajasthan including conducted 300 tests so far throughout the “Mission Gujarat 2022.” – Stay updated with the latest Pune news. When asked as to how the village has been before entering the village,” he added. year. And now only five of them have tested Follow Express Pune on Twitter here and on successful in keeping the virus at bay, New Delhi, Tuesday, 1 June, 2021 EDITORIAL THE SIKH TIMES 6

Twada privacy privacy, Demolition squad sadda privacy? India’s archives and the Central Vista project In Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression, documents are stored before being Jacques Derrida wrote, “[e]ffective catalogued. The records of Repository The battle between WhatsApp democratization can always be measured by number 1 and the Cartography section are and the Government of India is this essential criterion: the participation in and very old and, naturally, most of the access to the archive, its constitution, and its records are very delicate and brittle. The a hoot too, only sadly so, given participation.” These words, rather Oriental section in the NAI is already premonitory and prudent, further shake the grappling with such issues as that it is we, the people, and our intellectual conscience at a time when the administrative apathy and intellectual privacy that is at stake Annexe building of the National Archives of negligence that have grotesquely stunted India along with the National Museum and the its functioning. The factors contributing Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts are to this indifference are numerous. The ready to be demolished. This move by the non-acquaintance of archivists and of Centre is to make way for the Central Vista new scholars with Persian, Sanskrit and project that proposes to build a new Parliament Urdu records, most of which are in the building and new residences for the prime Shikasta script, is a principal problem. minister and the vice-president. The problem has been confounded The demolition of the NAI Annexe building further with the NAI’s decision to acquire entails a serious risk involving the transfer of manuscripts and documents in regional historical records from old repositories to new, languages especially after 1950. temporary storehouses. It has invoked Consequently, the holdings of the NAI resentment among various sections of society either as gifts or donations from various trusts, families, have increased enormously without a — in India and abroad — as archives are not only central and individuals or are bought by the purchase committee corresponding rise in expertise of archivists in those to the scholarly enterprise but also markers of active civic of the Indian Historical Records Commission. The scripts and languages. This restricts their engagement Oriental Division, another important part of the NAI, with these records. The end result of this gap between When Rushdie created Reverend Mother Naseem, endeavour in a democratic society. Meanwhile, the Union preserves around 1.3 lakh Persian, Arabic and Urdu acquisitions and available expertise has led to the locking the all-knowing mother in Midnight’s Children minister of culture, Prahlad Singh Patel, has assured that who could enter her daughters’ dreams at will, he the main Lutyens’-style building of the NAI that houses documents in the form of manuscripts, parwanas up of some of the rare documents in Persian, Urdu, wasn’t thinking of end-to-end encryption. We, the the ‘majority’ of the repositories will not be affected by (permits), farmans (royal decrees), and bai’namas (sale Arabic, Sanskrit, Prakrit, Tamil, Malayalam, and Modi readers, weren’t worried either. It is not a very the Central Vista project and, hence, resistance against the deeds) and various official Mughal documents from the (records from Maharashtra). The transfer of these records improbable situation, as mothers and daughters all demolition is unnecessary. The NAI, the largest period ofAurangzeb (1657-1707) to ShahAlam II (1759- in the absence of staff possessing linguistic skills is not over the world and across generations will tell repository of historical documents, has been serving 1806), one of the major transitional periods in Indian only an onerous job but also portends intellectual alarm. you. Only, in this case Rushdie’s mastery had scholarly and intellectual needs of the country for the last history. In this context, it must be noted that some important series taken the sting out of realism, made it magical and 130 years. It came into existence in Calcutta in 1891 as the Since Independence, the NAI has been expanding and of documents that were recently acquired and kept in the elicited the good laugh. The privacy battle Imperial Record Department with a staff consisting of preserving public records of the post-1947 period as well, Accession section in the basement of theAnnexe building between WhatsApp and the Government of India one keeper and eight clerks. Following the transfer of the covering major episodes in the formative years of are still awaiting cataloguing. Some of them — six lakh is a hoot too, only sadly so, given that it is we, the colonial capital from Calcutta, it was shifted to Delhi in independent India. These include documentations related documents pertaining to the pensions of freedom fighters, people, and our privacy that is at stake. 1911 and was later rechristened the National Archives of to major political happenings, such as the transfer of ten lakh claim files of post-Partition immigrants from That is all India on August 30, 1947. As a custodian of public power from the British, attainment of Independence, Pakistan, a huge bulk of military records and those of the It is hilarious because on one end of this privacy records, it preserved various government documents Partition, property claims of Partition immigrants, Archaeological Survey of India — need to be catalogued tussle is the Facebook-owned messaging from different spaces and times. The holdings of the NAI rehabilitation, integration of the princely states into the to augment further research in these fields. Additionally, platform, all sanctimonious, invoking right to constitute the records and treatises of the East India Indian republic, framing and adoption of the Constitution newspapers like the Jam-i-Jahan Numa, the first printed privacy. And on the other end is the ruling BJP, Company, the records of various departments of the and the liberation of colonies from France and Portugal. It Urdu newspaper in India that is preserved in the NAI, are demanding a change in the way the app is government of colonial India placed under the governor- evolved from a colonial organization of record-keeping yet to be catalogued. The dearth of regular staff and the encrypted, all in the name of cracking down on general that include public/general/home department for administrative convenience to a postcolonial vastly diminishing capacity of archivists to read the fake news. Union information technology (1764-1879, 1881-1946), residency records (1801- repository of historical documents/rare manuscripts and languages and scripts in which the materials are minister Ravi Shankar Prasad even said: “We are 1954), foreign consultations (1860-1905), the governor- an institution of knowledge-production in India. The NAI preserved are two most visible reasons for such a lapse. not seeking the content of the WhatsApp message. general’s secretariat’s records (1890-1949), among other complex has two portions: the old Lutyens’ building and The demolition of this building, therefore, would put We only say who started the mischief. And if it has documents. The NAI’s cartography section houses more the Annexe building, which would be demolished. The innumerable such documents at the risk of getting lost or come from abroad, who picked it up in India first. than one lakh maps, including some rare and confidential old building serves as the administrative block and damaged on account of being mishandled by That is all.” maps related to various parts of India and 30 other accommodates Repository numbers 2, 3 and 4. These inexperienced hands. The documents also face a larger Under the Carpet countries, such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bhutan, three repositories house the documents of the post-1857 menace: of being damaged by environmental threats or Such a song and dance about privacy, such Myanmar, Nepal, Tibet, and China, from as early as 1600 period. TheAnnexe building houses Repository number 1 falling prey to microorganisms, termites and white ants if complicated legal wrangles. Almost all countries AD. The NAI also has a private archives section, which (preserving documents from 1748 to 1857 in a regular physical conditions like temperature, humidity and have legislation about privacy, around privacy, has in its custody an extensive collection of private papers series), the Oriental section, the Private Archive section access to light are not maintained at standard levels in the continuously evolving stratagem to puncture of historical significance. These papers are acquired and the Accession Records section where newly-acquired new storing places. privacy. There is even a day earmarked for data privacy and it is celebrated in the United States, Canada, Israel and 47 European countries. To get Hello, Goodbye. See you, Sometime. back to the WhatsApp-GoI tussle and its laughability, mind you, earlier this month You made of me a deity, of me, a prancing unbridled thing without a care, of me virginal and of my careless velocity Facebook came under fire for removing/restricting pro-Palestine posts on Come, you gone one, do come. Feel at home. This is where am. This is not how I look like. This is not the shape of Instagram and Facebook. In April, it hid posts you belong. In the elements, in my elements. Do not my course. But this is the course of the shape I am now. with the hashtag “ResignModi”. It will not do to think me water alone. I am water but not water alone. I Look at me. But don’t look at me. I am not me. I am now forget how the Adityanath-led BJP government in am many things. So many that I have lost count. So many what you made of me. You cannot bear to look? But of Uttar Pradesh has been cracking down on posts that you shall have to count. For you have made me this course you cannot bear to look. Who can bear to look at flagging Covid-19 treatment related complaints countless thing. You are the one. You believe it is I, but how you look in my waters. Look into my waters, and or pleas for help. When a man in UP’s Amethi you it is who it is. My maker. You it is who made this don’t shut your eyes. Look, and you shall see yourself. tweeted saying he needed an oxygen cylinder, an thing of me that I did never begin as. I began as a stream, But who can bear to look at themselves, when it is my FIR was lodged against him. And reportedly, the you made a river out of me. Glory be! What a river. A waters they are looking at themselves in? They do say, IT ministry working on instructions from the river of what things! Save me, save me from myself, don’t they, that it is tough to see your face in boiling home ministry had Facebook and other social from what I have become. Or what you made of me.You waters? My waters are boiling. Look at me. Or don’t media platforms remove posts critical of the made of me a deity, of me, a prancing unbridled thing look at me. You can’t look at me. Before you come to Centre’s handling of the pandemic. This is the without a care, of me virginal and of my careless look at me, much before your gaze arrives upon me, you same government that pulled up Delhi CM Arvind velocity, a thing such as no other thing, a thing that will see things that will drive you away from me. The Kejriwal for live-streaming his meeting with PM arrived and was gone, and thing that never ceased, not to approach to me is no longer an approach, it is a Narendra Modi on the state’s Covid- arrive, not to depart, and a thing that forever shone of prohibition. I do not have a bank, or banks; what I have carbons you abandoned in hapless palpitating souls, all of preparedness. Reverend Mother Naseem pristine things, such a thing I was. on either side is bankruptcy. Look at what used to be my And what a thing you made of me. A deity. The licence it. That is what you made of me. Deity, Maa, Benevolent banks and you shall understand. It is all dead currency, breached her daughters’ dreams, true, but she did Receptacle of Effluence, I am, now, Effluence. I have not act on the information. She contained the became all yours, the responsibilities all mine. All your wasted stuff, of no use any longer. Or perhaps there is use, licentious things you came and lumped onto me, all your received enough. Look at me. But don’t look at me. I may but it is not use that I may be able to explain to you. Will secrets within her person, kept swelling in the no longer look the shape of a river. Not here. Not now. I process, becoming dangerously stretched. filth, your lies and your sins, your excretions and converse with dogs and vultures if I were to explain the exculpations, the blood you drew, the sweat you extracted, may look some other shape. But that’s only now. Look at uses of things that now lie on my banks. I am to learn their Rushdie, rather cleverly, called the chapter ‘Under me. But do not look at me. This is not me. This is not who I The Carpet’. the tears you wrung from unconsoled hearts, the noxious tongue.

New Assam chief minister is ushering in a new work culture DELHI DIARIES: Edged out Ram Madhav says Central Vista a matter of 'pride and necessity'; in Kerala, Congress a divided house The re-elected Bharatiya Janata Party-led government in Modi government. Recently, he argued firmly in as the riverbed along his constituency is Assam has hit the ground running. With the first-time favour of Modi’s pet project, the Central Vista. now dotted with such shallow graves. chief minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma, sticking to his Critics have been slamming Modi for going Steady rise there-is-no-tomorrow work schedule as in the past, most ahead with the ‘vanity’ project, instead of using The recent poll debacle has left the of his cabinet colleagues, too, are seen trying to match his the money to save lives threatened by the Congress further divided in Kerala pace. The new set of ministers are travelling much more pandemic. Madhav, in one of his articles, termed where a massive campaign is on to than their predecessors, holding regular review the Vista project a matter of “pride and replace the state party president, meetings, setting deadlines and fixing responsibilities to necessity”. He is even liking and re-tweeting Mullappally Ramachandran. The man- meet their targets. Few also act tough in front of the posts by BJP leaders, some of whom are said to in-waiting to replace him is the Lok cameras. This is not all. With ministers working without have played a role in shunting him out. In Sabha member, K Sudhakaran, whose keeping an eye on the clock, the workload of senior another article on the completion of two years of stock has been rising within party ranks bureaucrats has also increased. Deputy commissioners Modi 2.0, Madhav devoted the majority of his since the run-up to the state polls. Once and designated additional deputy commissioners, too, words to shower praise on Modi’s leadership; popular mostly in northern districts, have reportedly been asked to be proactive. They have but in conclusion, he sought to advise that the Sudhakaran — who, like his arch rival, been tasked with visiting hospitals during odd hours PM should put “greater focus on decentralism Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, hails every day to ensure that Covid-19 patients get proper and cooperative federalism...” Here, Madhav from Kannur — has been garnering care. Senior doctors are on night shift for Covid duty. seems to have erred badly, since the Opposition enough support in the southern districts Sarma himself visits hospitals at around 2-2.30 am, and has already been accusing Modi of centralizing mainly on account of his fiery oratory even calls up hospital managements across the state at power and being dictatorial towards states. skills and courage to play hardball odd hours to get feedback on the Covid situation. Break the silence against a strong Communist Party of Government insiders say that they have not seen such The Shiv Sena, often attacked by the BJP for India (Marxist). Yet there are those who energy before and hope that this dispensation ushers in compromising on its ideology by joining hands feel he would be too much of a shift from the right work culture, something the state has always with the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party,sangh parivar’s beloved, Yogi Adityanath, is chief the party’s previous chiefs because of his brazen style of lacked. A man in a hurry, Sarma’s avowed goal is to has hit back hard by asking for the views of the RSS minister. Photographs from Prayagraj, Kanpur, Unnao functioning. But only the Congress rank and file know ensure Assam’s place among the top five states in the chief, Mohan Bhagwat, on the dead bodies floating in theand Varanasi were used the world over to stress the how badly they need to rejuvenate the party and not leave country. The journey started on May 10, the day he took Ganga and buried in the sand on riverbanks. The Shivenormity of the Covid crisis in India. But the UP any vacuum for the BJP that has been waiting in the oath. Most hope this is not a false dawn. Sena leader, Sanjay Raut, expressed outrage at government remained in denial and avoided any debate wings for long. Tread carefully Bhagwat’s silence on the disposal of bodies without last on the violation of religious code. Some commentators Footnote Edged out of the BJP, Ram Madhav appears to be trying his rites being performed, saying that it should be a major from the RSS-BJP ecosystem tried to offer silly Although many have been seeking a change of leadership best to remain relevant and possibly bounce back. The concern for Hindus. ‘It is as important an issue as Ram reasoning like bodies being buried in sand or thrown in in Karnataka, citing inadequate Covid management, the former high-profile BJP general secretary was dropped temple in Ayodhya. Why is RSS chief silent? Is he not the Ganga were not new practices and happened in the pandemic seems to be helping the CM, BS Yediyurappa, in a party reshuffle and shunted back to the parent body, speaking on such a critical religious issue because of past as well. But nobody bought that logic and saw this as hold on to the chair. At 78 years, the Lingayat strongman the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. His exclusion was politics reasons?’ Raut asked. What the Shiv Sena is failure of the ‘Modi-Yogi double engine’. The has already crossed the age barrier to be either sent to seen as a reflection of the current regime’s annoyance trying to point out is that the RSS cannot be treated as the Opposition has started using this as a major political some Raj Bhavan or consigned to the dreaded with his style of functioning. However, instead of representative of Hindus and that all its activities are plank to puncture the BJP’s Hindutva politics, arguing margdarshak mandal that stalwarts like LK Advani were sulking, Madhav seems to be striving to please the guided by political considerations. Even BJP leaders that the party failed to come to the rescue of Hindus as dumped into. With the support of some diehard loyalists bosses. Madhav has been regularly writing newspaper have not spoken a word on the bodies strewn on the well. That the PM had said that he was called to Varanasi in the cabinet, Yediyurappa seems set to be cruising for articles, aimed at hailing and defending the Narendra riverbanks. This happened in Uttar Pradesh, where the by Ma Ganga is also being highlighted by the Opposition now. New Delhi, Tuesday, 1 June, 2021 FILM THE SIKH TIMES 7

Salman Khan’s father Salim Khan on Radhe: AnushkaAnushka ‘Not a great film at all’ SharmaSharma interrupts alman Khan’s father and veteran screen writer Salim Khan has reviewed some of his son’s Sfilms, including the recent Eid release, Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai, which he says he did not like. In an interview with Dainik Bhaskar, Salim Khan said, “Radhe is not a great film at all, but Virat Kohli’s commercial cinema has a responsibility that every person can get money. From artists to producers, distributors, exhibitors and every stakeholder Instagram chat with fans, should get the money. The one who buys the cinema must get the money. Due to this, the cycle of cinema making and business goes on. On this basis, Salman has performed. Stakeholders of this film are at asks ‘Where have you kept advantage. Otherwise, Radhe is not that great a film.” Salim Khan, however, also had word on Salman’s previous movies. “The film prior to this Dabangg 3 was different. Bajrangi Bhaijaan was my headphones?’ good and totally different,” he said in the same interview. Radhe, also starred Randeep Hooda, Disha Patni, Jackie Shroff, Sangay Tsheltrim, Gautam Gulati and others. The film had a hybrid release in theatres and ZEE5’s pay per view service ZEEPlex simultaneously. The movie received mostly negative reviews, and even became Salman Khan’s lowest-rated movie on IMDb. A statement from Salman’s legal team, DSK Legal clarified on Thursday, that the superstar is suing Kamaal R Khan aka KRK for defamatory claims in his Radhe review. KRK said that here on, he will not review any of Salman’s films. Sneha Ullal’s bridal shoot photo sparks irat Kohli was answering fan questions on Instagram stories when his wife and actor Anushka Sharma barged comparisons Vin with her own question. Virat is currently under quarantine. “Where have you kept my headphones?,” asked Anushka. Kohli replied, “Always on the side table next to the bed love.” again: ‘Aishwarya Kohli answered several questions from fans. For instance, when a fan asked what does he do in free time he replied, “Relax and Rai’s Xerox copy’ watch some nice tv shows with Anushka.” Another fan had asked Virat, “What is the meaning of Vamika. How is she? Can we see a glimpse of her please.” Virat explained the meaning of the name, saying that it is another name for the Hindu goddess Durga. He also explained the rationale behind not sharing many pictures and videos of the baby on social media. “No we have decided as a couple to not expose our child to social media before she has an understanding of what social media is and can make her own choice,” he said. Earlier, Virat had opened up about the “life changing” experience of parenthood. In a video shared on the official Twitter handle of his IPL team Royal Challengers Bangalore, he said, “It’s been life changing. It has been a connect which has been different from anything that both of us have experienced before. Just to see your child smile, it can’t be put in words. I can’t express how it feels from within. It’s just been such a blessed and amazing period.” Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma, lovingly called Virushka, married in 2017. MeeraMeera ChopraChopra neha Ullal is again being compared to Aishwaya Rai Bachchan. After the actor, denies getting vaccinated by Swho debuted with Lucky: No Time for Love opposite Salman Khan in 2005, shared a few pictures from a bridal shoot on her social media fraudulent means as govt platforms, people have started calling her “Aishwarya Rai’s Xerox copy” and compared her look from Ashutosh Gowariker’s historical orders probe love drama Jodha Akbar (2008) starring Hrithik Roshan. he Thane Municipal Corporation matter and recommend action if there is Even when Salman Khan cast her for Lucky: No on Sunday ordered an inquiry after any wrongdoing,” Malavi added. Meera Time for Love, people had observed her striking the BJP alleged that actor Meera Chopra denied procuring Covid-19 T resemblance with the Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam Chopra was vaccinated against vaccine by fraudulent means. In a COVID-19 out of turn at a civic health statement, she said that no fraudulent actress. The elegant pictures that Sneha has centre, operated by a private firm. The means were used by her to get shared on her Instagram page have received a lot BJP had, on Saturday, claimed the actor vaccinated. of appreciation. Many Instagram users was given a photo ID card identifying “We all want to get vaccinated and we all commented on Sneha’s pictures saying that she her as a supervisor by the private firm, are trying our best to do that. Similarly, I looks like Aishwarya Rai’s doppelganger, some which enabled her to get vaccinated at also tried trying asking help from people people have called her an “ethereal beauty like TMC’s Parking Plaza centre under the I know and after 1 month of trying I was no other”, while others went on a nostalgia trip “frontline worker” priority category. able to get myself registered in one of the and wrote how the actor “always reminded us of “TMC commissioner Vipin Sharma has centres,” she said. “I was just asked to a young Aishwarya Rai”.After debuting opposite ordered an inquiry under the deputy send in my aadhaar card. The ID that has Salman Khan, Sneha tried but failed to impress municipal commissioner (health) to been floating on social media is not find out if this woman actor got mine. I was asked for my aadhaar card audiences with films Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron and vaccinated out of turn. for registration and that’s the only ID I Aryan, and then focused on Telugu films where The report has to be submitted in three gave. No ID is valid until it has your she saw success. Some of her work in the Telugu days,” TMC spokesperson and DMC signature. I myself, saw that so called ID film industry include Nenu Meeku Telusa, Sandeep Malavi told reporters. “There card for the first time, when it came on Ullasamga Utsahamga, Maratha Kaja and more. are news reports that Meera Chopra was Twitter. I totally condemn such practices However, she took a break in 2015 and made a vaccinated at a centre in Thane. The and if any such ID has been made . comeback with Zee5 web series Expiry Date last inquiry will look into all aspects of the year. New Delhi, Tuesday, 1 June, 2021 WORLD THE SIKH TIMES 8

UK to scrap vaccine passport Naftali Bennett, right-wing leader and self-made plans: Report London. Britain plans to drop COVID-19 passports as a legal requirement for large tech millionaire, who may unseat Netanyahu events, The Daily Telegraph reported on Sunday. The UK officials working on the review into COVID-19 status certificates believe there is no chance the law will be Naftali Bennett, self-made tech millionaire and a former ally of Prime Minister Benjamin changed to mandate their use within the Netanyahu, may finally end the era of the longtime premier. UK, the report added. A government spokesman said in an emailed Jerusalem. Naftali Bennett, Israel's likely next defence as well as of education and the stopped, even for a second." The statement to Reuters that the COVID-19 prime minister, is a self-made tech economy in various Netanyahu annexation plan was eventually vaccine certification review is still in millionaire who dreams of annexing most of governments. A former leader of Yesha, scrapped when Israel formalised ties process and no decision has yet been made. the occupied West Bank. Bennett has said the main settler movement in the West with the United Arab Emirates. There has been mounting concern over the that creation of a Palestinian state would be Bank, Bennett made annexation of parts Analysts see little chance of it being prospect of vaccine certificates voiced by suicide for Israel, citing security reasons. But of the territory that Israel captured in a resurrected under Donald Trump's the UK's Conservative Party, as well as the standard-bearer of Israel's religious right 1967 war a major feature of his political Democratic successor, President Joe opposition lawmakers and civil rights and staunch supporter of Jewish settlements platform. But as head of a so-called Biden, if ever. Nonetheless, groups. In April, Prime Minister Boris said on Sunday he was joining forces with his government of "change" that will include Palestinians are likely to regard Johnson also signaled the ethical issues political opponents to save the country from left-wing and centrist parties, while Bennett's elevation as a blow to posed by COVID-19 vaccine certification. political disaster. relying on support in parliament from hopes of a negotiated peace and an The son of American immigrants, Bennett, 49, Arab legislators, following through on independent state, the long-standing Tarzan actor Joe Lara among 7 is a generation younger than 71-year-old annexation would be politically diplomatic formula that Biden Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, unfeasible. Bennett said on Sunday both studied law at Jerusalem's Hebrew favours.After Israel in March held its presumed dead in US plane Israel's longest-serving leader. A former the right and left would have to compromise University. In 1999, he formed a start-up and fourth election in two years Bennett, who commando, Bennett named his eldest son on such ideological matters. Born in the then moved to New York, eventually selling leads the far-right Yamina party, said a fifth crash after Netanyahu's brother, Yoni, who was Israeli city of Haifa to immigrants from San his anti-fraud software company, Cyota, to vote would be a national calamity and Washington. All seven passengers aboard killed in an Israeli raid to free hijacked Francisco, Bennett is a modern-OrthodoxU.S. security firm RSA for $145 million in entered talks with the centre-left block that a plane, including Tarzan actor Joe Lara passengers at Uganda's Entebbe airport in religious Jew. He lives with his wife, Gilat, a 2005. forms the main opposition to Netanyahu. An and his diet guru wife, are presumed dead 1976. Bennett has had a long and often rocky dessert chef, and their four children in the POLICY advocate of liberalising the economy, after it crashed in a lake near the US city relationship with Netanyahu, working affluent Tel Aviv suburb of Raanana. LikeLast year, as Netanyahu’s government sought Bennett has voiced support for cutting of Nashville, authorities said. between 2006 and 2008 as a senior aide to the Netanyahu, Bennett speaks fluentAmerican-to press ahead with West Bank annexation government red tape and taxes. Unlike some The small business jet crashed at around then-opposition leader before leaving on accented English and spent some of hisand settlement building in the final months of of his former allies on the religious right, 11:00 am local time on Saturday, shortly reported bad terms. Bennett stormed into childhood in north America, where histhe Trump administration, Bennett, then Bennett is comparatively liberal on issues after taking off from the Smyrna, national politics in 2013, revamping a pro- parents were on sabbatical.defence chief, said: "The building such as gay rights and the relationship Tennessee airport for Palm Beach, settler party and serving as minister of While working in the high-tech sector, Bennett momentum in the country must not be between religion and state in a country. Florida, Rutherford County Fire & Rescue (RCFR) said on Facebook. The plane went down into Percy Priest Lake, about 12 miles (19 kilometers) south of Nashville. Scores of children abducted from British intelligence The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed seven people had been aboard believes Covid-19 lab the plane, CNN reported. By Saturday night, operations had switched from Islamic seminary in Nigeria leak theory 'feasible': search and rescue to recovery efforts, RCFR incident commander Captain Report Joshua Sanders told a press conference. Kano. Gunmen kidnapped scores from the Salihu Tanko way for criminals to "We are no longer in an attempt to (look) for of children from an Islamic Islamic school. One of collect ransoms. Since London. British intelligence live victims at this point so we're now seminary in central Nigeria, the school's officials, December 2020, before agencies now believe it is recovering as much as we can from the officials said, the latest in a string who asked not to be the attack on Sunday, 730 "feasible" that the Covid-19 crash site," he said. On Sunday afternoon, of such incidents plaguing the named, said the children and students had pandemic began with a coronavirus RCFR said on Facebook that recovery populous African nation. Some attackers initially took been kidnapped. On April leak from a Chinese bio laboratory, operations had found "several 200 children were at the school in more than 100 children 20, gunmen known a media report said on Sunday, components of the aircraft as well as Niger state on Sunday during the "but later sent back locally as "bandits" prompting Vaccines Minister human remains" in a debris field about attack, the local government those they considered s t o r m e d G r e e n f i e l d Nadhim Zahawi to demand that the half a mile wide. Operations would tweeted, adding "an unconfirmed too small for them, U n i v e r s i t y i n WHO must fully investigate the continue until dark and resume Monday number" were taken. The those between four and northwestern Nigeria and origins of the deadly virus. morning, RCFR wrote. Lara played abduction came a day after 14 12 years old". kidnapped around 20 The origins of the Covid-19 remain a Tarzan in the 1989 television movie students from a university in The state government, in students, killing a widely debated topic, with some "Tarzan in Manhattan." He later starred in northwestern Nigeria were freed a series of tweets, said member of the school's scientists and politicians the television series "Tarzan: The Epic after 40 days in captivity. the attackers had possible". staff in the process. Five maintaining that the possibility of a Adventures," which ran from 1996-1997. Niger state police spokesman released 11 of the pupils who 'Bandits' students were executed a few lab leak of the deadly virus exists. His wife Gwen Shamblin Lara, whom he WasiuAbiodun said the attackers were "too small and couldn't days later to force families and Western intelligence, including in Armed gangs are terrorising the government to pay a ransom. married in 2018, was the leader of a arrived on motorbikes in Tegina walk" very far. In a later Twitter inhabitants in northwest and Britain, at first considered there Christian weight-loss group called Weigh town and started shooting thread, the state added the Fourteen were released on was only a "remote" chance that it central Nigeria by looting Saturday. Local press said that Down Ministries. She founded the group indiscriminately, killing one governor Sani Bello had directed villages, stealing cattle, and had leaked from the laboratory, in 1986, and then in 1999 founded the resident and injuring another, "security agencies to bring back the families had paid a ransom where research is conducted into taking people hostage. Such totalling 180 million . Remnant Fellowship Church in before kidnapping the children [the] children as soon as seizures have become a frequent bat-derived coronaviruses, Brentwood, Tennessee. She is survived including one closely associated by two children from a previous with Covid-19. But there has since marriage, according to a statement posted been a reassessment, and a lab on the church's website. Canada mourns 215 children after remains found at indigenous school escape is thought "feasible", The Sunday Times reported, citing Covid lockdowns saved millions forcibly enrolled in these schools, sources. China's Wuhan Institute of where students were physically and Virology (WIV) is near the of lives by reducing bacterial sexually abused by headmasters outbreak's known epicentre of > Canada flew its flags at and teachers who stripped them of Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, infections: Oxford University-led their culture and language. Today where the virus first emerged in late half-mast Sunday to those experiences are blamed for a 2019 and became a pandemic. study high incidence of poverty, More than 170 million confirmed alcoholism and domestic violence, cases have since been confirmed mourn for 215 children worldwide and at least 3.5 million WORLD. An Oxford University-led study as well as high suicide rates, in their communities. Ottawa formally deaths reported. "There might be has suggested that bacterial diseases like whose remains were pockets of evidence that take us one pneumonia, meningitis and sepsis, may apologized in 2008 for what the have been reduced by the lockdowns discovered on the commission later termed a way, and evidence that takes us imposed due to Covid-19 in recent times. "cultural genocide" as part of a another way. The Chinese will lie Can$1.9 billion (US$1.6 billion) either way. I don’t think we will Co-authored by Professor David Murdoch, grounds of a former municipalities, including the economic an infectious disease expert and Dean of settlement with former students. "I've said ever know," said a western metropolis Toronto, announced they would before that the residential schools was a intelligence source familiar with the University of Otago, Christchurch, the boarding school. also lower their flags. study says that global lockdowns cut short genocide of our people. Here's just another UK involvement in the the spread of deadly invasive bacterial The discovery of the children's remains, some as glowing example of that genocide in practice: investigation. Agencies are diseases and potentially saved millions of young as three, sparked strong emotions undocumented deaths of children," the national believed to have few human lives. throughout Canada, particularly in the chief of the Assembly of First Nations, Perry intelligence sources in China. The most common illnesses caused by Toronto. Canada flew its flags at half-mast indigenous communities. A specialist used Bellegarde, said Sunday on the news channel Gathering data there has focused invasive bacteria - pneumonia, meningitis Sunday in mourning for 215 children whose ground-penetrating radar to confirm the CTV. Bellegarde noted there was still much on trying to recruit on the dark web, and sepsis - are the reasons for deaths remains were discovered on the grounds of a remains of the students who attended the work to be done to identify the remains, find where Chinese employees can worldwide, especially among children and former boarding school set up more than a school near Kamloops, British Columbia, the their families and examine the sites of other share secrets anonymously without older adults. Like coronavirus, these century ago to assimilate indigenous peoples. Tk'emlups te Secwepemc tribe said in a residential schools. He said the federal fear of being caught, the paper said. pathogens are also transmitted via the "To honour the 215 children whose lives were statement late Thursday. The Kamloops Indian government "does have a responsibility to Citing US diplomatic sources, the respiratory route. Reportedly, in 2016 taken at the former Kamloops residential Residential School was the largest of 139 make sure that these resources are in place to paper said there were concerns that itself, 336 million cases of lower school and all Indigenous children who never boarding schools set up in the late 19th century, get the answers." Ceremonies to honor the if the origin could not be respiratory invasive infections were made it home, the survivors, and their families, with up to 500 students registered and young victims took place or were to take place determined, “this could happen reported worldwide. 2.4 million people I have asked that the Peace Tower flag (in attending at any one time. It was operated by throughout the country. About 100 people again and we are one wet market or were believed to have succumbed to death Ottawa) and flags on all federal buildings be the Catholic church on behalf of the Canadian gathered Sunday in the Mohawk community of bio lab away from the next due to the illnesses. The study has flown at half-mast," Prime Minister Justin government from 1890 to 1969. Some 150,000 Kahnawake, near Montreal. spillover”. discovered that all countries have Trudeau said on Twitter. Several Indian, Inuit and Metis youngsters in total were witnessed a reduction in invasive bacterial infections between January and May 2020. Compared with the previous two years, around 6000 fewer cases were reported on Egypt bets on ancient finds to pull tourism out of pandemic average in every country, the study said. It further noticed that illnesses caused by invasive but non-respiratory bacterial Egypt continues to battle the coronavirus, and is struggling to get its people vaccinated. They need visitors species did not decrease, showing that to come back in force to inject cash into the tourism industry, a pillar of the economy. Covid-19 lockdowns had not significantly disturbed the disease reporting methods. Cairo. Workers dig and ferry wheelbarrows Egypt continues to battle the problem now is that we don't know how For streptococcus pneumoniae, infections laden with sand to open a new shaft at a coronavirus, and is struggling to get its we can possibly wow the world after went down by 68% within four weeks of bustling archaeological site outside of Cairo, people vaccinated. The country has, up this," he said. If they don't, it certainly Covid-19-imposed containment measures while a handful of Egyptian archaeologists until now, received only 5 million won't be for lack of trying. In April, and by 82 per cent at eight weeks. supervise from garden chairs. vaccines for its population of 100 Zahi Hawass, Egypt's best-known However, infections due to streptococcus The dig is at the foot of the Step Pyramid of million people, according to its Health archaeologist, announced the discovery algalactiae did not go down. According to a Djoser, arguably the world's oldest pyramid, Ministry. In early May, the government of a 3,000-year-old lost city in southern Times of India, the researchers of the study and is one of many recent excavations that announced that 1 million people had Luxor, complete with mud brick believe that the reduction in cases of are yielding troves of ancient artefacts from been vaccinated, though that number is houses, artifacts and tools from invasive respiratory bacterial infection was the country's largest archaeological site. As believed to be higher now. In the pharaonic times. It dates back to due to low person-to-person transmission, some European countries reopen to meantime, authorities have kept the Amenhotep III of the 18th dynasty, instead of disruption of medical care or international tourists, Egypt has already publicity machine running, focused on whose reign (13901353 B.C.) is disease reporting. The investigators have been trying for months to attract them to its the new discoveries. In November, considered a golden era for ancient stressed vaccination against these diseases archaeological sites and museums. Officials archaeologists announced the other coffins at the same site, the necropolis Egypt. That discovery was followed by with the relaxation of Covid-19 are betting that the new ancient discoveries discovery of at least 100 ancient coffinsof Saqqara that includes the step pyramid. a made-for-TV parade celebrating the restrictions. "These results clearly will set it apart on the mid- and post- dating back to the Pharaonic Late Period and "Saqqara is a treasure," said Tourism and transport of 22 of the country's prized royal demonstrate that Covid-19 containment pandemic tourism market. They need Greco-Ptolemaic era, along with 40 gildedAntiquities Minister Khaled el-Anany while mummies from central Cairo to their new measures reduce the transmission of other visitors to come back in force to inject cash statues found 2,500 years after they were announcing the November discovery, resting place in a massive facility farther respiratory pathogens and associated into the tourism industry, a pillar of the first buried. estimating that only 1% of what the site south in the capital, the National Museum of diseases. economy. But like countries elsewhere, That came a month after the discovery of 57 contains has been unearthed so far. "Our Egyptian Civilization. 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Indian shares open lower ahead From bank cheques to EPFO-Aadhaar linking, of GDP data Bengaluru: Indian shares opened lower on check 5 rules that are changing from June 1 Monday as investors awaited gross domestic product data for the fourth quarter, with economists being pessimistic after a harsh second wave of Since these rules are going to affect your everyday life, it is important to know more about COVID-19 hit the country last month. The NSE Nifty 50 index shed 0.34% to these changes in details. 15,381.35 by 0401 GMT, while the benchmark S&P BSE Sensex slipped New Delhi: Several rules that have a major the employees to verify their PF 0.43% to 51,188.99. impact in the lives of common man are going account. If by June 1, the employees fail to change from February. These rules range to do so, then they may suffer several The Nifty 50 index closed at a record high from stringent bank cheques rules to EPFO- losses --one such being that the on Friday, with both the indexes posting Aadhaar linking to name a few. Since these employer contribution to the PF weekly gains of around 2% each. India`s rules are going to affect your everyday life, it account may also be stopped. A statistics ministry will announce the GDP is important to know more about these notification in this regard has also been data at 1200 GMT, with economists changes in detail. released by EPFO. Income tax’s e-tax saying the country`s economic growth Bank of Baroda cheque payment rules filing site The official e-tax filing site of likely picked up in the January-March As per Bank of Baroda notification, stringent the Income Tax Department will not quarter from the previous three months, rules of cheque payment is going kick in work from June 1 to June 6 because the but expressed pessimism about this from June 1. Bank of Baroda has said that tax department is moving to a new quarter after a harsh second wave of from June 1, the bank is going to make modern platform. The IT department's COVID-19 hit the country last Positive Pay confirmation mandatory. new website month.Mortgage lender HDFC Ltd and Under this, if the payment of more than Rs 2 http://INCOMETAX.GOV.IN will kick software services firm Infosys Ltd were lakh is made through cheque, then the start on June 7. the top drags to the Nifty 50, losing 1.48% customer will have to confirm again. The YouTube Tax and 1.44%, respectively. Investors` transaction will be completed only when this Though not applicable to all the sentiment has improved in the recent days process completes. Otherwise the cheque YouTubers, however if you are an due to a steady decline in daily COVID- will be cancelled. Indian YouTuber, gaining views from 19 cases in India. Last week, the country EPFO-Aadhaar link US audiences for your, you will be reported its lowest daily rise of cases in According to the new EPFO ??rule, every liable for a 15 percent tax on your more than a month. In the broader Asian account holder should have his or her PF earnings (for the said viewership) by rates will come into effect from June 1, market, shares were trying to extend their account linked to the Aadhaar Card. It will the video making platform. Civil Aviation Ministry on Friday (May 28) according to an official order by the recent rally to a third week in the hope that be the responsibility of the employer to ask Costlier AirTravel has increased the lower limit on fares of U.S. jobs figures show the expected domestic air travel by 15%. The revision of ministry. revival in hiring in May and keep the global recovery on track. US records show Iran oil cargo Petrol, Diesel Prices Fuel prices touch fresh R Baskar Babu: ‘Blanket landed one month after ship record highs, check rates in metro cities moratorium may not be seizure the answer; could impact credit culture’ SINGAPORE: A cargo of 1.033 million The fuel hike today has pushed petrol and diesel prices to record-high levels barrels of Iranian crude oil landed on US across the country. New Delhi: R BASKAR BABU, shores in March, data from the US Energy CEO, Suryoday Small Finance Information Administration (EIA) showed, New Delhi: Petrol and diesel rates several cities in Rajasthan, constantly on the rise? Bank (SSFB), spoke to GEORGE the second shipment of Iranian oil to be were yet again revised on Madhya Pradesh and MATHEW on the impact of Covid imported into the United States since 1991. Fuel prices differ from pandemic, especially collections Monday by the oil marketing Maharashtra. Here is The cargo was registered in EIA data released state to state depending and repayments by customers. late last week for the month following the companies. Fuel prices have looking at the price on the incidence of Edited excerpts: witnessed sporadic rise in the last difference of diesel and seizure by US authorities of the Liberian- local taxes such as VAT How has the second wave of Covid flagged tanker Achilleas, which was few days. petrol in four metro cities and freight charges. pandemic affected the bank’s transporting Iranian crude. Petrol price was increased by 29 on May 31, 2021. Rajasthan levies the business? Are you seeing a decline The EIA gave no other details on the Iranian paise per litre and diesel by 24 Check petrol, diesel prices highest value-added tax in repayment or collections? We cargo, and the agency could not be reached paise a litre in the national in your city, here is how to (VAT) on petrol in the have been able to shore up our for comment outside of US office hours. capital, according to a price do it country, followed by capital consistently and maintain Monday is a holiday in the United States. notification of state-owned fuel In India, petrol and diesel Madhya Pradesh and high liquidity. Although it is The United States last recorded Iranian retailers. The hike has pushed prices are revised daily in Maharashtra. The difficult to ascertain the impact of crude and petroleum imports of 3,000 petrol and diesel prices to record- the morning at 6 AM. excise tax levied by the the second wave at this point of barrels per day for October 2020, EIA data high levels across the country. Anyone can easily check the rate site of the petrol pump near you. Central and state government Rates had already crossed Rs time, as an immediate observation, showed, also oil Washington had seized Petrol price in Delhi rose to Rs of petrol and diesel by sending an one of the reasons behind fuel it has impacted our collection under its sanctions programme. Refinitiv 94.23 a litre and diesel to Rs SMS to 9224992249. All you 100-mark in several cities in price hike. Fuel rates in the efficiency in April 2021, which fell Eikon shipping data showed that the 85.15 a litre. In Mumbai, petrol need to is type RSP Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and international market determine to 81 per cent from 87 per cent in Achilleas discharged its cargo at the US price climbed above Rs 100 to Rs Petrol Pump Dealer Code and Maharashtra and with the latest the rates of oil prices in India. March 2021. During the first Gulf port of Galveston in March. The 100.47 a litre and diesel to Rs send it to 9224992249. You can increase, price in Mumbai too When global fuel prices go up, lockdown, we all (including seizure was in line with tough economic 92.45 per litre. Rates had already find the RSP code of your was inching towards that level. OMCs hike prices in the country. industry participants) were sanctions imposed by Washington on crossed the Rs 100-mark in locality by visiting the official But why are fuel prices unprepared, which led to some Tehran over its nuclear programme and the degree of panic and apprehension. US designation of a number of Iranian We have been proactive in this groups as terrorist organisations, phase, citing the risks to continuing decades of rancour between the Govt extends emergency credit scheme for MSMEs; employees. We trust that the mass two nations. Iran rejects US accusations of inoculation drive by the Central wrongdoing. Iran has been in talks with and state governments will lead to world powers since April, working on steps Civil Aviation sector to be eligible under ECLGS 3.0 significant improvement in the that Tehran and Washington must take on next 3-4 months. sanctions and nuclear activities to return to After the catastrophic loss of life, we full compliance with the 2015 nuclear pact. interest in 36 months thereafter saw a ray of hope with the will now be able to avail a tenure introduction of Covid-19 vaccine Most family-owned companies of five years for their ECLGS loan in H2 of FY21. Similarly, on the i.e. repayment of interest only for business front we were back on the remain bullish on FY22 ? 100% guarantee cover to the first 24 months with recovery path in Q3 of FY21, while repayment of principal and we ended the fourth quarter with a MUMBAI: The worry about economic loans up to Rs.2 crore to interest in 36 months thereafter; strong performance. Although we uncertainty notwithstanding, Indian hospitals/nursing (iii) Additional ECLGS assistance are not yet out of the woods, with family-owned businesses are upbeat about of upto 10% of the outstanding as the second wave hitting us harder their prospects in 2021-22. homes/clinics/medical colleges on February 29, 2020 to than other countries, we continue In a study of over 100 family-owned for setting up on-site oxygen borrowers covered under ECLGS to work towards the state of businesses by Executive Access India, 1.0, in tandem with restructuring normalcy in partnership with all conducted exclusively for TOI, 64% generation plants, interest rate as per RBI guidelines of May 05, employees, customers and all stakeholders of the bank. However, companies said they are optimistic in their been made under the Emergency Credit Line 2021; outlook for the current financial year. A capped at 7.5% under EGLS 4. (iv) Current ceiling of Rs. 500 Cr. of loan due to the uncertainty created by Guarantee Scheme: the second wave, we will have to majority (51%) of such businesses see (i) ECLGS 4.0:100% guarantee cover to loans outstanding for eligibility under ECLGS 3.0 opportunities for growth in the domestic to be removed, subject to maximum wait for a quarter to understand the up to Rs.2 crore to hospitals/nursing incidental impact on business. market with the focus on expansions, while homes/clinics/medical colleges for setting up additional ECLGS assistance to each 22% are contemplating diversification and Where’s the stress coming from for on-site oxygen generation plants, interest borrower being limited to 40% or Rs.200 10% looking at growing business overseas. a small bank like SSFB? Do you New Delhi: On account of the disruptions rate capped at 7.5%; crore, whichever is lower; Executive Access India MD Ronesh Puri caused by the second wave of COVID 19 foresee a spike in non-performing (ii) Borrowers who are eligible for (v) Civil Aviation sector to be eligible under assets (NPAs)? Our gross NPAs, as said, “Indian family businesses feel the pandemic to businesses across various ECLGS 3.0 Covid crisis will soon pass as vaccination restructuring as per RBI guidelines of May of March 2021, were 9.4 per cent, sectors of the economy, Government has 05, 2021 and had availed loans under ECLGS (vi) Validity of ECLGS extended to 30.09.2021 compared to the proforma gross gains steam. They are more optimistic further enlarged the scope of Emergency or till guarantees for an amount of Rs.3 lakh (64%) and feel Indian businesses have 1.0 of overall tenure of four years comprising NPAs of 9.3 per cent reported in Credit Line Guarantee Scheme. The of repayment of interest only during the first crore are issued. Disbursement under the December 2020. huge resilience and are quick to adapt. following amendments and inclusions have scheme permitted up to31.12.2021. They feel supply chain constraints are 12 months with repayment of principal and temporary and will not impact business as there has been huge learning on the same since last year.” Nevertheless, there is unpredictability about the near future and EPFO, govt bodies can’t revise claims once resolution plan approved: NCLAT 79% of the companies surveyed felt this could be the biggest pain point. You have successfully cast your vote Emami As per rules of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), EPFO dues are a part of workmen salaries and dues, which are accorded the highest Group’s director Aditya Agarwal said, “I priority and are to be paid in full by the resolution applicant when bidding for the company under corporate insolvency resolution process. do believe that the inherent instinct for survival is very strong in Indian family New Delhi . The Chennai Bench of and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), NCLAT held that since the government or any local businesses. The business is an essential the National Company Law EPFO dues are part of workmen provident commissioner authority, guarantors and part of the family and they will do whatever Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) has salaries and dues, which are had quoted a certain sum, other stakeholders,” the it takes to sustain it, even if it means ruled that once a resolution plan accorded the highest priority and the same was considered by N C L AT h e l d . T h e working doubly hard for small earnings.” for a debt-laden corporate entity are to be paid in full by the t h e b i d d e r s w h i l e Chennai Bench also said According to the study, cash crunch, which is approved, even government- resolution applicant when formulating the resolution that once the plan is was a big constraint last year, does not bodies like the Employees bidding for the company under plan, which was then approved, all claims appear to be a major concern this year with Provident Fund Organisation corporate insolvency resolution approved by the National made by any persons or only 9% of the responding companies (EPFO) cannot revise their process. The Chennai Bench of Company Law Tribunal authorities stand terming it is as a worry, even though claims. NCLAT, however, held that since (NCLT). Once the said e x t i n g u i s h e d . “ N o economic uncertainty is the top challenge The case relates to insolvency the regional provident resolution plan is person is entitled to mentioned by 68% of the respondents. In proceedings against GVR Infra commissioner of EPFO had, approved, a revision inAuthority (NCLT) the claims as initiate or continue any the advertising and marketing sector, Projects Limited, which had not while filing the claim with the claims cannot be permitted as that proceeding regarding a claim that however, 50% respondents see cash crunch provided in the resolution plan paid its EPFO dues since April resolution professional, quoted a would mean changing theshall stand frozen and will be is not part of the Resolution as a pain point in FY22. Irrespective of this 2014, including interest and certain sum, the same cannot be structure of the approved plan Plan,” the Bench said. EPF is a concern, advertising and marketing players binding on the corporate debtor damages, even though the same revised later, even if the total dues once again.and its employees, members, statutory due paid to every said they want to expand their business in outstanding is higher than the employee working in a corporate India and oversees. was deducted from employees “Once a resolution plan is duly creditors, including the central share. As per rules of Insolvency sum quoted. In its judgment, the approved by the Adjudicating government, any state organisation. New Delhi, Tuesday, 1 June, 2021 SPORTS THE SIKH TIMES 11

IPL 2021: Kyle Jamieson Pat Cummins reunites with pregnant wife, David unsure of participation when tournament resumes in UAE Warner greeted by daughters after exiting quarantine New Delhi. On being asked whether he would be available to play for Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) when IPL Pat Cummins embraced his pregnant wife after coming out of hotel quarantine on Monday. David Warner, who had set 5 alarms on his 2021 resumes in UAE, Kyle Jamieson said phone, was greeted by his daughters outside his residence. that he had "no idea really". Notably, the BCCI recently announced that New Delhi. Australia cricketers, including fast Riders before the IPL was suspended on the remaining 31 matches of the IPL 2021 bowler Pat Cummins and former captain May 4 due to positive Covid-19 cases in the will be played in UAE as hosting the Steve Smith, were allowed to exit the 14-day bio-bubbles of franchises inAhmedabad and suspended season will be difficult in India mandatory hotel quarantine on Monday after Mumbai. KKR camp reported 3 positive due to the monsoons. The 14th edition of arriving from the Maldives following the Covid-19 cases, including two which were the cash-rich league was suspended due to suspension of IPL. reported before the suspension of IPL 2021. second wave of coronavirus pandemic in Meanwhile, David Warner reunited with his India. Several players and support staff Australia players, support staff and officials, a family and his daughters gave him an tested positive for the deadly virus even contingent of 36 members, arrived in emotional welcome at his residence. inside the highly secure bio-bubbles. "To Australia from the Maldives earlier this Warner's wife Candice took to social media be fair I have no idea really. That news month and were asked to be in hotel to share clips of their daughters greeting the came out couple of days ago, we have not quarantine across various cities. The former Sunrisers Hyderabad captain. had any conversation about it. Our mind is Australian contingent was not allowed to Warner was keen on getting back home as he on the Test against England and the final travel back home directly from India due to a shared a photo of his alarms. against India. Don't want to look too far travel ban imposed by the Australian ahead," Jamieson told reporters on Sunday. government amid rising Covid-19 cases in The left-handed opener had set as many as 5 India. The ban was lifted on May 15 and alarms for Monday morning. "Never wanted Further, the 26-year-old talked about the Australia players were flown home on a an alarm or 5 to go off so badly," Warner upcoming 2-Test series versus England the chartered plane arranged by the Board of wrote on social media. Warner stepped following World Test Championship Control for Cricket in India. In a video that down as captain of SRH midway during IPL (WTC) final against India from June 18 in was shared by Australian journalist Chole- 2021. He was replaced by Kane Williamson. Southampton. Jamieson, who has played 6 Amanda Bailey, Pat Cummins can be seen Incidentally, Warner was dropped for their Tests till date, said that he was excited coming out of his quarantine and greeted by final league game before IPL 2021 was about playing at the Lord's for the first time get home was a relief, and now we're out of BCCI confirmed over the weekend. It his pregnant wife. It was an emotional suspended. Fast bowler Jason Behrendorff, in his career. New Zealand face England quarantine, I can't wait to get home and see remains to be seen if overseas players will moment for the couple as the two embraced who was signed as replacement by Chennai from June 2 at the venue. "It is my first trip my family," Behrendorff told Australian make themselves available for the remainder each other. Cummins, sporting a mask, was Super Kings, also reunited with his family in to England. I am playing cricket for first media. The remaining matches of the IPL of the season which is set to be played before seen getting out of quarantine on Monday. Australia. "It's always tough being stuck time at Lord's. If I get distracted by will be completed in the United Arab the T20 World Cup. somewhere, and knowing that we're able to something in two three weeks time then I Pat Cummins played for Kolkata Knight Emirates in September and October, the would end up not being in great shape." "I am just trying to be as mindful as I can around this Test and enjoy. Who knows if it French Open deletes tweet on Naomi Osaka media boycott ever happens again for me. So just focusing on this Test and Edgbaston and then the Copa America final (against India). It is not going to go after backlash: Making a player feel guilty is not good away or come any closer so I will take care of this one first." without a host after Pat Cummins embraced his pregnant wife after coming out of hotel quarantine on Monday. David Warner, who had set 5 alarms on his phone, was Nick Hockley appointed chief greeted by his daughters outside his residence. CONMEBOL suspends

executive of Cricket Australia understood their mean, these particular players are tournament in assignments". The social a great look for tennis but making a Melbourne. Cricket Australia on Monday media post came hours player feel guilty & humiliating Argentina appointed Nick Hockley as its new chief after Naomi Osaka was her is NOT a good look for a tennis executive officer almost a year after he was fined USD 15,000 for not fed," Stubbs tweeted. recruited on an interim basis, during which attending a press Osaka had said before the start of he oversaw the conduct of the high-profile conference after her first- French Open 2021 that she would tour by India amid the COVID-19 round win at French Open not be attending press conferences pandemic. Besides the India tour of on Sunday. Osaka was also during the clay-court Grand Slam. Australia, he was also in charge of warned by the group of Osaka said she is ready to face successfully delivering the domestic Grand slam organisers that fines for not honouring media competitions in a complex situation she would face expulsion assignments. "I'm writing this to brought about by the global health crisis, is she continued to boycott say I'm not going to do any press which badly affected CA’s original cricket media assignments. during Roland Garros," Osaka New Delhi. The South American calendar. Notably, the Roland said. "I've often felt that people Football Confederation CA said Hockley has served with distinction Garros said it tried to have no regard for athletes' mental (CONMEBOL) said on Sunday as its interim CEO since his appointment engage with Osaka in a bid health, and this rings true that Argentina would no longer last June after the departure of Kevin to understand her problem whenever I see a press conference host the Copa America, throwing Roberts. Wiser after his experience as the but that the World No. 2 or partake in one," she added. the troubled tournament into doubt cricket body’s acting CEO, Hockley is did not respond to their Osaka started her French Open just 13 days before it was due to hoping to build on the momentum. “I am New Delhi. French Open organisers Roland Garros account posted a sub- calls.Slamming the campaign with a 6-4 7-6(4) win kick off. The tournament between under no illusion about the importance of were slammed on social media tweet, appreciating the likes of Roland Garros, former doubles over Romanian Patricia Maria Tig 10 South American nations was cricket to the lives of so many Australians, after the official account of Roland Rafael Nadal, Kei Nishikori, world number one and tennis and participated in the courtside scheduled to be held in Argentina nor the magnitude and responsibility of this Garros posted a tweet, mocking Aryna Sabalenka and Coco Gauff pundit Rennae Stubbs said the post interview. She later wrote on and Colombia between June 13 and role,” Hockley said in a release issued by Naomi Osaka's media boycott. attending press conferences at the was "humiliating" for Osaka, "I Twitter: "Anger is a lack of July 10 but Colombia was removed CA. “Leading Cricket Australia is the understand your attempt at making understanding. Change makes as co-host on May 20 and greatest privilege of my working life and I The tweet was deleted later after Roland Garros. French Open backlash on Twitter. captioned the post: "They a point but this isn't a good look. I people uncomfortable." Argentina has now followed due to am committed to doing all I can to making a what CONMEBOL said was “the positive contribution to the game and the present circumstances". community.” Raised in Birmingham, CONMEBOL did not disclose the Hockley held senior positions in the IPL-based Australian players reunite with family after 2-week hotel quarantine in Sydney nature of the circumstances that led organising committee of the ICC Cricket to the decision but Argentina is World Cup in Australia in 2015 and 2012 felt nice to breathe some currently suffering from a surge in London Olympics and Paralympic Games. fresh air. Behrendorff said it Covid-19 cases. was "tough" being stuck in “CONMEBOL is analysing offers > IPL-based Australian cricketers India and he was "relieved" from other countries that have Gareth Bale aims to replicate have finally reunited with their to be home. "It was nice to shown interest in hosting the know that we were getting continental tournament,” it said in a 2016 display as Wales family home that's for sure," short statement. “Updates will be > The players, support staff and Behrendorff said. "It's announced soon.” Copa America is announce Euro 2020 squad always tough being stuck scheduled to be played between commentators from the country somewhere, and knowing June 13 and July 10. South completed their 14-day hotel that we're able to get home American teams are already was a relief, and now we're training for the tournament and two quarantine in Sydney out of quarantine, I can't rounds of World Cup qualifiers are > IPL 2021 is set to resume from the wait to get home and see my starting this week. family." The Board of Like other continental tournaments, third week of September in UAE Control for Cricket (BCCI), Copa America was initially to halt in the Maldives for almost a fortnight paid for the flights and scheduled for 2020, but the Covid- due to ban of direct passenger flights from accommodation of the Australians in the 19 pandemic forced its Covid-hit India to their country. Pat Cummins, Maldives and Sydney. The BCCI recently postponement. But difficulties London. Robert Page’s Wales confirmed their Steve Smith and David Warner were among 38 announced that the remaining matches of the mounted as the virus continued to 26-man squad for the European New Delhi. Australian cricketers have finally players, coaches, officials and commentators IPL 2021 will be held between Septmber and strike the region hard and vaccine Championships, which begin on 11th June. completed their mandatory 14-day hotel to be released from quarantine at Sydney's October in UAE. It added that the tournament rollout remained slow. Argentina is Captain Gareth Bale said they “would love quarantine in Sydney and have reunited with Marriot Hotel. Many of the players had not was being shifted to the Gulf nation as the facing a surge of coronavirus to replicate” the side from four years ago, their family for the first time after the IPL 2021 seen their family since heading to the IPL in monsoons in India will make it difficult to infections, with strict lockdown which reached the semi-finals of Euro 2016 was postponed on May 4. early April. Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) stage the remaining 31 matches. BCCI is yet to measures imposed last weekend in France. Wales have been drawn in Group The Australian involved in the cash-rich league pacer Pat Cummins and his pregnant partner announce the fixtures and the participations of amid a seven-day average of A along with Italy, Slovakia, and tournament could not fly back directly and had Becky Boston had an emotional reunion, while overseas players in the resumed season are also 35,000 cases and 500 deaths. Switzerland. They begin their group Chennai Super Kings (CSK) fast bowler just not confirmed. campaign against Switzerland in Baku, Azerbaijan on 12th June, before they take on Slovakia at the same venue four days later. England Tour: This itinerary is weird, what will India do for 42 days after WTC final - Dilip Vengsarkar Wales then face a daunting trip to the Stadio Olimpico in Rome to face Roberto Mancini’s Italy on 20th June. Uncapped Former India captain Dilip Vengsarkar has called the 42-day gap between WTC final and Test series Cardiff City youngster Rubin Colwill is the surprise inclusion in Wales’ squad for Euro vs England "absurd". What will Team India do for one-and-a-half months? Vengsarkar has asked. 2020. Goalkeepers: Wayne Hennessey (Crystal Palace), Danny Ward (Leicester New Delhi. Former India captain Dilip have any cricket for one-and-a-half Sri Lanka for 3 ODIs and as many City), Adam Davies (Stoke City). Vengsarkar has called Team India's itinerary months, and then you play the Test T20Is. Travelling in the Covid-19 Defenders: Chris Gunter (Charlton for the England tour "absurd" and "weird". series. Even if Pakistan and Sri Lanka times has become difficult and Athletic), Ben Davies (Tottenham Hotspur), Notably, after landing in England on June 3, visit England for limited-overs series in scheduling matches and making Joe Rodon (Tottenham Hotspur), Ethan India will face New Zealand in the World July (England host Sri Lanka for three logistical arrangements even more. Ampadu (Chelsea), Chris Mepham (AFC Test Championship (WTC) final from June T20Is and three ODIs in June-July and India is listed on UK's travel "red Bournemouth), Neco Williams (Liverpool), 18 in Southampton. Virat Kohli and his boys Pakistan for three ODIs and three T20Is list" but the Indian team's cricket Connor Roberts (Swansea City), James will then have to wait for 42 days before in July), why can’t they have the tour has been granted an expemtion Lawrence (St Pauli), Rhys Norrington- playing their first Test against England from England-India Tests immediately after from the government. "The event Davies (Sheffield United), Ben Cabango August 4 in Nottingham. the WTC final? "Is the team coming back has now been granted an exemption (Swansea City). Midfielders: Aaron Vengsarkar, the chief selector when India won after the WTC final and then going back? by the UK government as outlined in Ramsey (Juventus), Joe Allen (Stoke City), their last Test series in England in 2007, has What are they going to do for those one- T h e H e alth Protection Harry Wilson (Liverpool), Daniel James also raised objection on Sri Lanka and and-a-half months? Even if they (Coronavirus, International Travel (Manchester United), David Brooks (AFC Pakistan touring England for white-ball schedule county matches, one-and-a-should continue playing Tests rather than and Operator Liability) (England) Bournemouth), Jonny Williams (Cardiff matches in June and July. "What are they half months is too long a period to play have a gap. Why are Pakistan and Sri Lanka Regulations 2021, released on 17 May City), Joe Morrell (Luton Town), Matt going to do in those one-and-a-half months? county matches. This itinerary is weird. Ifplaying T20Is and ODIs in between? That is 2021," the ICC had said in a release on Smith (Manchester City), Dylan Levitt I am really surprised with the scheduling. there is no cricket for one-and-a-halfabsurd," Vengsarkar told News18. During Saturday. In fact, players are being put under (Manchester United), Rubin Colwill What kind of a tour is being organised? How months, it is strange.the same period a second Indian side quarantine even before boarding the flight to (Cardiff City). can you have a Test match now and you don’t If India is there to play Test matches, they consisting of white-ball specialists will tour the touring nation. 12 New Delhi, Tuesday, 1 June, 2021 BeautyBEAUTY THE SIKH TIMES

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