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SKIMS Bemina MSK Kishtwar conducts door to District Samba achieves 100% coverage Hospital Continues door campaign on ‘How to Deal recovery trend, 15 under social welfare pensions with Kids during COVID-19’ saMBa, MaY 27: department receive time - more discharged 6616 new cases ly monetary assistance. In its endeavour to The department has pro - with Recovery rate reach out to all the de - sanctioned under various vided assistance to 74 cas - serving applicants and es under State Marriage moving above 84% enroll them under vari - pensions schemes, 22520 Assistance Scheme ous pension schemes (SMAS) for the year 2019- srInaGar, MaY 27: Social Welfare households provided 20. Under Pre Metric Department in district scholarship scheme for Fifteen (15) more COVID-19 pa - Samba has achieved relief, 6616 new school going students, tients admitted in SKIMS Bemina 100% enrolment under scholarship was sanc - Hospital for treatment were discharged pension schemes of all beneficiaries added tioned in favour of about today after successful completion of the eligible applicants. 4926 students amounting treatment. It included Seven (07) from District Social Welfare ex - gory have been provided Rs 51.49 lakh in the dis - District Anantnag, 04 from Budgam, 02 Office, Samba has added isting beneficiaries regu - one time additional assis - trict. In addition to this from Bandipora, & leach from Kargil, 6616 new pensions cases larly. Furthermore, same tance of Rs. 1000 in two under ICPS, 58 children Pulwama. With this the number of under various schemes category beneficiaries equal installments for the belonging to orphan cate - and released monetary COVID-19 recovered patients moves to have also been credited month of April and May gory have been provided assistance to the desti - 189 out of total COVID positive admitted two months advance as - 2020 through the DBT financial assistance under tute, poor, old aged and sistance. DSWO further mode. Similarly, the sponsorship programme patients numbering 225 with an overall other socially and eco - revealed that to clear the Department has credited by the department. Nearly recovery rate of 84% at present. Among nomically backward and pendency, about 6616 Rs 1000 each into indi - 101 Panchayat- wise list the admitted patients a large number of deserving beneficiaries. new pension cases have vidual accounts of the has been formulated COVID positive pregnant women have While elaborating on the been sanctioned in favour beneficiaries belonging which is kept with been managed and till date 10 deliveries efforts and the procedure of the eligible beneficiar - to widow and PHC cate - Sarpanches of the pan - conducted including 04 major surgeries adopted for quick results, ies of the district includ - gories. The Social Welfare chayats. The issues re - for child birth (LSCS). Besides this the District Social Welfare ing 3140 in the month of department Samba is garding inactive bank ac - SKIMS Medical College Testing Lab Officer Samba said that March 2020. committed to the socio- count, nonpayment of his office had to work pension due to incorrect tested 524 samples belonging to KIsHTWar, MaY 27: the parents to help children feel Simultaneously an economic upliftment of round the clock during account number besides Districts of Srinagar, Budgam and all of safe, keep healthy routines, manage amount of Rs. 1000 per vulnerable sections of so - Covid-19 lockdown and regular updation of the them were negative. Till date the newly On the directions of District their behaviour and build resilience. head has been credited ciety particularly during despite all odds, the DSW list regarding reporting Development Commissioner She talked about the ways to address into their respective ac - Covid-19 outbreak and established COVID Testing lab at office has provided Kishtwar Rajinder Singh Tara, the children’s fear as children relay counts. Under PM Garib the department has taken of death cases and new SKIMS Medical College Bemina has per - monthly assistance un - District level Centre for Women, on their parents for safety be it phys - Kalyan yojna (PMGKy), the responsibility to make entries are being sought formed 4038 tests and at present having der different welfare Mahila shakti Kendra (MSK) on ically or emotionally. “Parents a special assistance the process convenient out on priority with active testing capacity of 500. COVID-19 schemes and credited the third day of door to door awareness should recognise their child feel - scheme, all the benefici - and ensure all the benefi - involvement of PRI rep - same into accounts of all Lockdown: Campaign provide awareness re - ings, their likes dislikes, encourage aries under Old Age cate - ciaries registered with the resentatives. garding how to deal with kids during their good behaviour and give them this Lockdown arisen out of emer - rewards for it as no one knows how Free Distribution Tribal Welfare gent situation of COVID19 pandem - and when this pandemic will last so 1633 migrant labourers dispatched to ic. The campaign was headed by we should help each other and of Ration under Forum thanks DC Women Welfare Officer, Roohie should engage our kids in this time Shamma accompanied by the of crisis,” she added. Katra Railway station from Samba Atmanirbhar Baramulla for timely District Co-ordinators Hina Jan and District Coordinators Shanu Shanu Rana. Rana and Hina Jan also aware the Migrants hailing from Chattisgarh dispatched Bharat Programme help While addressing the parents, parents on how to teach their child Kick-Started in B'la Women Welfare Officer said that about social distancing, hand wash in 55 buses for their train to home district BaraMuLLa, MaY 27: BaraMuLLa, MaY 27: the spread of Covid-19 makes it routine, benefits of hygiene and tough for families to keep a sense of good touch and bad touch and in - saMBa MaY 27: In a significant move to The Tribal Welfare Forum District calm. But it is the responsibility of dulge them in creative play. provide assistance to the mi - Baramulla today welcomed the decision District administra - grant families in the wake of of Deputy Commissioner Baramulla Dr tion Samba today sent COVID-19 lockdown, G. N Itoo for helping the nomadic Gujjar Picking of Button Mushroom migrant labourers to Authorities in Baramulla to - & Bakarwal Community amid COVID19 Katra for their further day Kick-Started free distri - lockdown by providing free dry ration inaugurated at Lalmandi, Srinagar journey to their home bution of essential ration states. Over 1633 persons kits and other protective equipment at srInaGar, MaY 27 items among these families all from Chhattisgarh under the recently launched large in the district. District President were sent in a fleet of 55 Tribal Welfare Forum Baramulla Ch Mushroom cultivation is a cottage industry can be taken up as part time Atmanirbhar Bharat pro - buses from the 3 different gramme. The drive was Mohammad Aslam while thanking the enterprise by all sections of society. Mushroom sector can generate addition - dispatching points in the was provided with them the complete process of launched on the directions DC Baramulla for playing a proactive al income to the growers. This was disclosed by Director Agriculture district. Deputy Kashmir Altaf Aijaz Andrabi while inaugurating picking of Button for travel. dispatching of the inter - of Deputy Commissioner role in helping the poor tribal communi - Commissioner, Samba Assistant Road state migrants. It was also Baramulla Dr G N Itoo. Mushroom Demonstration at Demonstration Cum Training Centre Rohit Khajuria informed ty in various forms said that from several Transport Officer, informed that more such Pertinent to mention that, Lalmandi, Srinagar. Director stressed upon the officers to encourage the that breakfast, tea and days, we got many reports that DC Rehana Tabassum and efforts shall be taken in under Atmanirbhar Bharat farming community of district Srinagar to add the activity of Mushroom cul - snacks were provided to Baramulla directed field functionaries Assistant Labour coming days to ensure initiative every migrant tivation in order to increase income. On the occasion Director was informed the stranded people while to assist this Nomadic Community in the Commissioner, Samba smooth and proper tran - worker shall be provided that 200 number of poly bags have been laid out in the centre and approxi - packaged food and water form of dry ration, distribution of masks mately 300 Kgs of Mushroom harvest is expected. Amil Khateeb oversaw sit of interstate migrants. free 10 kg rice . and other medical assistance. We wel - come this gesture of the district admin - istration in general and DC Baramulla endeavor in particular towards making Extra Measures are taken to contain COVID-19 Pandemic: DC Kulgam Baramulla COVID19 free, he further added. He along with district Vice- KuLGaM, MaY 27: place satisfactory infra - and more than 7000 tests measures the DC Said that PMGKAy 25656 quintals of the district apart from this President Ch Imtiyaz Ahmad further re - structure for remedial have been conducted at under NFSA 42848 under rice have been distributed 26504 LPG refills have quested Deputy Commissioner to start Having experienced a measures. Udhampur ,Channani, JKFES 4000 AND amongst the rationees of been distributed . seasonal/mobile schools for tribal com - surge in the number of He said that the sudden Samba, and Jammu of UT munity at different Bakhs in Baramulla Corana positive cases the surge can be accounted to a returnees. The contact district so that poor children of G&B district administration large influx of returnees tracing of 2013 persons community could benefit from formal Kulgam are taking exrtra from other parts of India to have been already done. education. Further, they requested DC measures to contain and the district. He said that as The Deputy Commissioner that amid COVID19 scare and subse - manage the spread of NOV - many as 6000 UT returnees Showkat Aijaz Bhat assert - quent lockdown medical assistance EL Corona infection, as of has reported in the district ed that the administration should be provided for health checkup now the total number of out of which 202 are cur - is trying to ensure mini - through mobile doctors teams as this COVID-19 positive cases in rently under administra - mum collateral damage to shall keep the district safe. They also re - district Kulgam is 227 with tive quarantine and re - people on account of quested the Animal and Sheep 22 recoveries and 3 deaths. maining released for home COVID-19 pandemic . He The Deputy Husbandry department for proper assis - quarantine after having said that people are been Commissioner said that tance and treatment of their live stocks. been tested and declared furnished with regular sup - Kulgam with 03 covid-19 The forum complemented DC negative. Pertinent to men - plies of food, water and isolation wards, 01 covid- tion here that among the medicine besides benefits Baramulla and said that we will convey 19 centre, 7 hospital quar - UT returnees the number of to the target groups this feeling of the community to the state antine centers and 12 positive cases is 81. A total through various centrally Govt. as well as central ministry of tribal covid19 wellness/care cen - of 5803 tests have been and UT sponsored welfare affairs. ters, the District has put in conducted at DH Kulgam schemes. Detailing out the Glimpses of Future 6 Edit/OpiniOn JAMMU THURSDAy MAy 28, 2020 Glimpses of Future Respect the ‘sword arm’ ESTABLISHED IN 1986 BY : BHoPInder sInGH Metaphorically defying the worst instincts of our societal regressions, The grim reality is that our distortions and perceptions, a 26- Fiscal stimulus won’t work armed forces run the risk of giving in year-old soldier, Sepoy Aurangzeb to societal and political passions from the Kashmir Valley, was ab - without fulfilling their reciprocal du - ducted and killed by Pakistan-sup - rom a fiscal viewpoint, the government has struck a good ty to address the institution’s own ported terrorists. Poignantly, his fa - deal. Fiscal Stimulus announced by the government will not concerns. Reassurances of trust, ther ensured that his brothers, too, Fcost much to the government. Alas, the package will not pro- confidence and power are naturally would don the “uniform” of the vide any survival support or economic stimulus either. An econo- vested in the “sword arm” of the na - Indian Army. Inadvertently, he tion ie, the armed forces as part of a slapped the wasted, misplaced and my growing at a good rate needs no stimulant from the govern- societal consciousness. This is espe - ignoble energies of conversations ment. Credit provided by banks and demand generated from cially true in a participative democ - outside garrison towns. Like all GDP/income is sufficient drivers of growth. The stimulus is need- racy like India, where the mandated Government institutions, the armed ed when growth slows down or gets upended. In such difficult “restraint” and “dignity” of the “uni - forces, too, have their own concerns times, governments are expected to provide extra demand push form” is underpinned by its apoliti - that primarily involve two realms. cal, external-facing, non-interfering First, the annual budgetary alloca - and banks extra credit. The nationwide lockdown announced in and patriotic service, which is tion and second, the non-financial March to contain the spread of novel Coronavirus has knocked Constitutionally subordinate to the and incalculable realm of izzat (hon - down Indian economy causing a loss of Rs 20 trillion to the GDP will of the people as manifested in a our) that encapsulates the soul of sol - and rendering over 10 crore workers jobless. Economic pain has civilian Government. Odd aberra - diering. Despite the uber-muscular fallen disproportionately on small businesses and their workers. A tions and derelictions that are attrib - political posturing of the dispensa - part of jobs might be permanently lost as reflected in utter despera- utable to individuals or at worst a tion that naturally posits the “Indian group of individuals aside, the “insti - equally divided from the Kashmir But this idyll comes under threat soldier” in an emotive context, cold rning to their villages. These busi- tion of migrant labourers retu tution” retains its sheen as a shining Valley and Jammu plains). They op - whenever the fundamental coordi - statistics of the annual budgetary al - nesses and workers needed fiscal support to survive the catastro- and working example of the “idea of erationally combine and defend nates of the armed forces stray from location towards the defence forces phe and revive their businesses. The stimulus was additionally India.”The inherent composition of India’s sovereignty from any hostile the course. When increasingly inter - tell a different story and lay bare needed to generate consumption and investment demand. The the armed forces seamlessly weaves intent from across the border. The nally committed, it is being accused power preferences. It is true that government announced an Rs. 1.7 lakh crore package on March soldiers and regimental denomina - culture, training and ethos of this in - of political leanings. It even gets in - salaries and pensions consume a tions of India’s myriad ethnicities stitution are such that societal “di - volved in matters beyond its tradi - sizeable component of the Budget. 27th. Jan-Dhan bank accounts of 20 crore women were credited and diversities. They could theoreti - vides,” that sweep just across the tional roles, rectitude and traditions. However, this is a matter of require - with Rs. 1000 an additional foodgrain was also provided. While it cally have an Infantry Brigade in the iron-clad cantonments, usually have Such optics and the accompanying ment in terms of boots-on-ground, did provide support to suffering workers, it was too small and did sweltering deserts of western India, no echo, tolerance or acceptance murmurs weaken its institutional given the fractured relationships not reach millions of migrant labourers. No other fiscal support which is represented by a Naga bat - within the barracks. Therefore, in steel, which has survived various dis - across the border. Importantly, nei - measures were announced for businesses and workers in the next talion (from the North-east), Madras every opinion poll after poll, the sonances and uprisings like the ther are the salaries, pensions, work- battalion (“Thambis” from South) “Indian soldier” emerges as the most Dravidian movement, North-eastern life balance or other material where - 50 days. Migrant workers, after spending their savings and losing and a Jammu and Kashmir Light “revered” in the imagination of the insurgencies or even the Jammu and withal for the soldiers better than ll hopes, started walking hundreds of kilometres. Businesses, a Infantry battalion (soldiers almost citizenry. Kashmir imbroglio. Respect on page 7 with their back broken, kept waiting for lockdown to be lifted. Prime Minister announced a bazooka of Rs. 20 trillion stimulus on May 12. This was to be accompanied by a good dose of reforms. The package delivered by the Finance Minister falls well short of high hopes raised by the Prime Minister. More than 50% of the econom- Karachi crash lessons ic package consists of liquidity measures. Liquidity is neither credit nor stimulus. Liquidity ensures that financial system keeps func- BY : aBHIJIT BHaTTacHarYYa Nevertheless, things obviously didn’t go as planned and the plane tioning and does not freeze. Liquidity measures, however, are the The fact that the plane crashed crashed one kilometre from the flavour of the season. RBI’s liquidity support to banks and govern- into a row of houses raises the funda - Karachi runway. So what went ments, of about Rs. 8 trillion, was announced in March and April. mental dangers of highrise buildings wrong? Man or machine? Let’s see These liquidity measures have proved dud so far. The banks have near the airport. There are two im - the machine first. According to returned more liquidity to RBI by depositing Rs. 8 trillion. The portant factors in flying. Ponderable Jane’s All the World’s Aircraft, the and imponderable. The man and ma - largest liquidity measures announced by FM envisages clearance Airbus-a320-214 is a time-tested chine interface constitutes the pon - sturdy craft, being the “first subsonic ing payments of DISCOMs. Government-owned of outstand derable factor while the weather and commercial aircraft to have compos - NBFCs- PFC and REC- would provide loans of Rs. 90000 crores to unforeseen scenarios on the flight ites for major primary structures and DISCOMs to clear dues of generating companies like NTPC and path are imponderable. If an aircraft a centralised maintenance system.” other suppliers. Clearing bills is no stimulus. It would only substi- crashes it would be categorised ei - Also, being equipped to fly-by-wire tute creditor A by creditor B. In another measure, the Government ther as an avoidable or an unavoid - (FBW), “The system incorporates able accident by the investigators. flight envelope protection features to promised guarantee to a government SPV to raise loans of Rs. So, how does one categorise the a degree that cannot be achieved 30,000 crores to buy investment-grade papers of NBFCs, HFCs Karachi air crash of May 22? with conventional mechanical con - and Micro-Finance Institutions. Such announcements have long Avoidable or unavoidable? To do so, trol systems. Its computers will not gestation period. When will the SPV be created, when will it raise one has to re-construct the Lahore- allow the aircraft’s structural and loans and when will it buy such papers? It may not see the light of Karachi PIA flight 8303. aerodynamic limitations to be ex - day. The other measure was to make some more assets eligible for Manufactured and sold to China ceeded by the pilot.” Southern Airlines in 2004, the Though slightly technical, the craft was airworthy. Second, the pilot Was the rate of descent and the speed the Rs. 45000 crore scheme of partial risk guarantee announced in Airbus-a320-214 was acquired by above description would give the was competent to fly. Third, the of approach mismatched owing to a Budget 2019. This programme has not taken off in the last one Pakistan International Airlines readers some idea pertaining to the craft, after take-off from Lahore, re - faulty gauge or faulty reading? Was year. It is unlikely to come to life with his new stimuli. (PIA) in 2014. With a maximum failproof system of Airbus-a320 fly - tracted its undercarriage without there any catastrophic attack on the take-off weight of 77 tonnes, the ing control, which is the main instru - any glitch. Fourth, no emergency cockpit crew by someone? Was it hit Lahore-Karachi flight certainly ment in the hands of the pilot, for a message (so far) appears to have by something like a US-made couldn’t have had a full load as it was safe landing. No doubt the flight data been reported anywhere en route. Stinger, shoulder-fired air-to-sur - carrying just 100 people instead of recorder (FDR) and the cockpit voice Then what happened while descend - face missile, the type of which the the usual 140. Covering a distance of recorder (CVR) will be the most cru - ing? Why did the pilot suddenly call Afghan Taliban used against slow China at it again 1,050 kilometres approximately in cial instruments that will help deci - out Mayday (international call for and low flying aircraft of the Soviets 90 minutes certainly wouldn’t be a pher the last minutes of the aircraft urgent assistance) at the last minute and then against the US Air Force? big deal for an aircraft like this, par - leading up to the accident. yet, cer - so near the ground? Why didn’t the The main cause for concern is the ticularly on a clear day. tain things are clear. First, the air - undercarriage of the aircraft open? Karachi on page 7 Rethink hospital SOPs
BY : deBansHu roY that all ER doctors will have to treat any symptomatic patient as a poten - Once the lockdown ends, hospi - tial Corona patient and pre-emp - tals would have to work on a hybrid tively wear PPEs at all times. In the model to manage COVID and other absence of extra room for separate diseases at the same time. And the ERs, frequent disinfection would be time for operational planning is required for the shared set-up to now. Every once in a while we have a prevent disease transmission. Black Swan event that changes our Once the patient is stabilised, world forever. In December 2019, transport to the designated wards we all witnessed something of a sim - needs to be segregated as well. Unusual aggression in Ladakh, the worst since Doklam, shows our ilar magnitude, which at that time Separate lobbies, elevators and neighbour is bent on arm twisting us in a post-pandemic world. China is seemed to be just another disease preferably separate wings of the becoming as vindictive as the US in getting its way with the world or coun- outbreak. Since then, we have spent hospital would require to be ear - tries that are dependent on its still viable factory floors. And it has chosen upwards of five months with the dis - marked for COVID patients. Within to get aggressive with India at a time when the latter is struggling to recover ease globally, experienced thou - the wards, to maintain adequate dis - from the Coronavirus pandemic that not only originated in the former but sands of deaths and witnessed the tancing between patients, the gener - was manipulated to keep the world in the dark. So the latest face-offs be - collapse of economies due to extend - al wards that we now have, would tween Indian and Chinese troops at Ladakh, the worst since Doklam, the ed lockdowns. Now, governments see a reduction in the number of constant stoking of Nepal’s belligerence over a border road and our neigh- around the world are keen on firing beds. If the severity of symptoms in - bour’s decision to fly out its citizens from India, ostensibly to save them up the economic engines but they al - creases, the patient would be trans - from the viral spread here, are certainly more than just niggling misbehav- so understand the need to do that ferred to the Intensive Care Unit iour, they are arm twisting and coercive tactics to get India to bow down. while respecting the limitations im - transmission if not managed prop - process flow of a patient’s journey (ICU), which is the most sensitive And they clearly signal that the famed Wuhan spirit, the informal dialogue posed by COVID-19. The rules of the erly. Currently, the focus of all within the hospital system to see unit and needs utmost infection- game have to be rewritten, factoring control care. ICUs need to be sepa - China on page 7 healthcare activities has been how each element needs to be adapt - in social distancing, hand hygiene, Corona-management, not just be - ed to the virus. A patient enters the rately allocated for COVID patients. meeting and greeting etiquette and cause there is a spike in cases but al - hospital system either through the Like in ERs, other patients in the all other measures under the Reich, so because patients suffering from Emergency Room (ER) or outpa - ICU already have multiple severe H I S T O R Y T H I S D A Y while we are still finding a cure. other diseases are not visiting hospi - tient department (OPD). Going for - conditions they are struggling with While a lot of these changes will tals either due to the lockdown or ward it will become extremely im - and almost always have a cocktail of happen over the medium to long- due to the fear of contracting the portant to redesign ER operations. lifestyle diseases, all of which in - II crowned term, some sectors need to reinvent virus. Consequently, many clini - In the light of hospital-acquired in - crease the chances of fatality if in - 1896 : Czar Nicholas their operations immediately and cians are also reporting that patients fections (HAIs), the presence of a fected with the virus. Thus, not only Nicholas II, the last czar, is crowned ruler of Russia in the old the one industry which is in the eye who have missed follow-ups for highly-contagious virus can severely will ICUs need to be separate, equip - Ouspensky Cathedral in Moscow. Nicholas was neither trained nor in- of the storm is the healthcare indus - chronic lifestyle diseases are coming expose all other patients coming ment like ventilators, in an ideal sit - clined to rule, which did not help the autocracy he sought to preserve in an try. Hospitals are both, a complex with advanced symptoms due to dis - with non-Corona emergencies. So, uation should not be transferable era desperate for change. Born in 1868, he succeeded to the Russian multi-stakeholder system catering continuity of care. But with the lock - to prevent the ER from becoming a between COVID and non-COVID throne upon the death of his father, Czar Alexander III, in November to a plethora of different health con - down measures slowly being ta - seeding point for the virus, it will be ICUs, given the high chances of in - ditions and the centerpiece of epi - 1894. That same month, the new czar married Alexandra, a German-born pered down, we have to work to - essential to separate ERs for Corona fection portability. For all these lo - demic disease clinical response. princess who came to have great influence over her husband. After a peri- wards thinking of managing all pa - and non-Corona cases and triage cations, OPDs, ERs, wards, eleva - However, when all who need care tors, ICUs, Operating Rooms (ORs) od of mourning for his late father, Nicholas and Alexandra were crowned tients in all healthcare set-ups. Let and preferably establish a person’s rush to hospitals for treatment, the and so on, all the staff serving the czar and czarina in May 1896. As the ruler of Russia, Nicholas resisted us imagine a world where Corona non-COVID status before allocating infection density in these buildings COVID patients would require PPEs calls for reform and sought to maintain czarist absolutism; although he and non-Corona patients are treated an ER. Not only does this seem a can alternatively amplify disease in the same hospital. We will use the daunting task, also consider the fact Rethink hospital on page 7 1896 on page 7
Printed, published and owned by Prem Nath Sharma, Printed at Glimpses of Future Press 63 Padha Street, Purani Mandi, Jammu. Chief Editor Prem Nath Sharma, Associate Editor : Rajiv Sharma, Ph. 2546079, Fax 0191-2547240, RNI NO. 43798/86, email : [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Glimpses of Future 7 natiOnal JAMMU THURSDAy MAy 28 , 2020 Delhi Police to file 15 more Mosques, Churches likely to open along charge sheets against 294 SKM government under PS Tamang with temples from June 1: Karnataka CM foreigners for attending Nizamuddin event completes one year in office Press TrusT of IndIa due to COVID-19 induced Press TrusT of IndIa Bengaluru, May 27 lockdown will be opened Press TrusT of IndIa and fine-tuning. "We have new delhi, May 27 Gangtok, May 27 from June 1. The standard been able to serve the peo - Karnataka Chief operating procedure The Delhi Police will file 15 ple with utmost sincerity The Sikkim Krantikari Minister B S yediyurappa (SOP) is likely to be put in fresh charge sheets against 294 and dedication and will Morcha (SKM) govern - on Wednesday said along place, that needs to be fol - foreigners for attending a religious continue to nurture the ment led by Prem Singh with temples, mosques lowed at temples once congregation at Nizamuddin seed of overall develop - Tamang completed one and churches too are like - opened for public. Markaz here in violation of visa ment," he said. With year in office on ly to be opened for devo - However, official sources conditions and indulging in mis - Sikkim too coming in the Wednesday. Exactly a year tees from June 1, and his had said, the decision of sionary activities amidst the grip of Covid-19 pandemic back on this day, Tamang government was awaiting opening temples will be COVID-19 outbreak in the country, after keeping it at bay for was sworn-in as the chief permission from the subject to Centre's guide - officials said on Wednesday. more than two and a half minister of Sikkim after he Centre in this connection. lines on the next course of The charge sheets will be filed months since its spread in had led his party to a stun - The Chief Minister al - lockdown. The national in Saket court against the 294 for - India, the chief minister ning victory in the state as - so said he has written to quired, we are waiting for lockdown enforced by the eigners belonging to 14 countries, urged the people against sembly polls over the then the Prime Minister re - it, our efforts are on in this Centre to stem the spread including Malaysia, Thailand, panicking saying that his five-term Chief Minister garding reopening of ho - direction. We have to start of Coronavirus since Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and government was well Pawan Kumar Chamling- tels. "Temples will open living with COVID-19 and March 25, and in its several African nations, police equipped and ready to led Sikkim Democratic from June 1, for hotels steps need to be taken to - fourth leg now, is slated said. Earlier on Tuesday, the city in a Facebook post, SKM founding president tackle the situation. On pri - Front (SDF). The celebra - and others we want per - wards it, he added. till May 31. On the lack of police had filed 20 charge sheets thanked the people of said. Tamang said that his orities of his government tions on completion of one mission from Delhi, from yediyurappa's statement food and accommodation against 82 fo reigners. A large congre - Sikkim for giving a man - government was people during the remaining four year in power has been the Prime Minister, I have was in response to ques - facilities for people com - gation organised by the Tablighi date for 'Parivartan' and youth- centric and the years of the current term, muted largely due to coro - written a letter, the expec - tions raised by some sec - ing from out side and dis - Jamaat in the Nizamuddin area of (change) and new possibil - doors remained always he said that the future will navirus pandemic in India, tation is that mostly we tions about opening tem - tant places, without ho - the national capital in March had ities. "The responsibility open for Sikkim and its be full of possibilities and including Sikkim, with the will get permission," ples and no mention tels, yediyurappa said, he emerged as a major hotspot of entrusted on us has en - people. Dwelling on his ex - slowly but surely all the state government pulling yediyurappa said. about mosques and has written a letter to the coronavirus in the country. Some couraged and inspired us periences during one year promises made to the peo - all its resources and man - Speaking to reporters churches. Hindu religious Prime Minister, once per - of the participants, who were later to provide our people with in power, the chief minister ple will be fulfilled. "I as - power to contain the dead - here, he said, "once we say institutions and charita - mission is received, they tested positive for coronavirus, the best (governance) they said that the journey thus sure you that together we ly disease. Taking out time temples can open, ble endowments (Muzrai) will be allowed to open. had travelled to their home states deserve with transparency far has been challenging as can emerge victoriously from his busy schedule, the churches and mosques Minister Kota Srinivas Responding to a question across the length and breadth of being the hallmark (of the well as satisfying with and set an example for the 52-year- old chief minister, should also open, there Poojary on Tuesday a af - regarding opening of the country. More than 25,500 SKM government)," the some systematic changes world," Tamang said. will be no restrictions on ter meeting with the CM malls and cinemas, he Tablighi members and their con - them. In our country law and senior officials had said, "all those will de - tacts have been quarantined in the is same for every one. but said, temples in the state pend on centre's permis - country after t he Centre and the state for all this central govern - that were closed for devo - sion, I cannot take deci - governments conducted a "mega Contn. from Page 6 ...... ment's permission is re - tees for over two months sion." operation" to identify them. Arunachal govt equipped to handle possible spike Karachi ...... way the distressed craft could not be controlled during the scent? No doubt the Karachi crash probe result will take last few minutes, at a low height and slow speed, while time to come out. No doubt the world will be keen to study in COVID-19 cases as more people return: Khandu aligned with the landing instrument. It has been reported and take note of the findings to avoid the recurrence of that three unusual things happened. The pilot of the such air disasters in the future. But the stark reality is: A Press TrusT of IndIa not to panic even if there is a rise in the crashed aircraft allegedly ignored three warnings from the qualified pilot, flying an airworthy aircraft, on a hot but Itanagar, May 27 number of COVID-19 cases in Air Traffic Controllers (ATC) about the plane’s speed and clear day, crashed on the outskirts of the landing strip, Arunachal in the future. I assure that altitude before the landing and assured the ATC that he thereby killing 100 plus passengers and destroying several Arunachal Pradesh Chief the state government is well prepared was satisfied and would “handle the situation.” Later, the homes. Instead of the runway, the plane ran over the roofs Minister Pema Khandu on and equipped to handle any situation undercarriage didn’t open and the engine malfunctioned. of human dwellings. In a way, it was an avoidable landing. Wednesday said the state government with regard to the virus," he said. The first point to ponder is why did the pilot ignore the In another way, the aircraft behaviour at the last minute is is fully equipped to handle a possible "Right from the institutional ATC’s three warnings on speed and altitude? Was he over - puzzling. Only time will tell who is to blame for the crash, spike in COVID-19 cases as more peo - quarantine facilities to the dedicated confident of his aircraft or his flying skills? Second, were the man or the machine? However, the fact that the plane ple return from other states. Khandu, Covid Care Centre and Covid the glitches reported later related? If the undercarriage is crashed into a row of houses serves as a grim reminder- in a video message, said his govern - Hospital, the state is capable of tack - retracted on take-off from Lahore but doesn’t open before cum-warning to all as it raises the fundamental dangers of ment has put in place a robust mecha - ling any situation that may arise in the touch-down at Karachi, it could be owing to lack of proper highrise buildings near the airport. India, too, has faced nism with all the standard operating future," the chief minister said, ap - maintenance on the ground. If so, human error led to the this problem, from time to time. India does have laws procedures (SoPs) to prevent the pealing to people of the state for their mishap. However, if the engine malfunctions after a 90- against such real estate development. But are laws being spread of the virus. "I request people cooperation. minute flight, just before landing, again it raises the same followed in letter and in spirit? Is it time to look afresh at question. Why now? Why not before, while on cruising our aviation and aviation-related development laws height, or take off, or at a higher altitude, before its de - around airports? Now is as good a time as any. Contn. from Page 6 ...... 1896 ...... China ...... lacked the strength of will necessary for such a task. The striking workers in demanding socialist reforms, and between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister countries and prevent hostile takeovers. And four, India disastrous outcome of the Russo-Japanese War led to the Nicholas II was called on to abdicate. On March 15, he re - Narendra Modi, has all but evaporated. Clearly, the eco - cancelled orders for Chinese test kits as they were faulty, Russian Revolution of 1905, which Nicholas only dif - nounced the throne in favor of his brother Michael, nomic concerns of both nations and geopolitics had made switched to South Korea and other nations and is even sup - fused after approving a representative assembly–the whose refusal of the crown brought an end to the czarist them tolerate each other on optics. The reasons for China’s porting a global impartial probe into the Wuhan contagion Duma–and promising constitutional reforms. The czar autocracy in Russia. Nicholas, his wife, and children were impatience are not difficult to understand. Of course, there that is expected to reveal ugly truths about official mis - soon retracted these concessions and repeatedly dis - held at the Czarskoye Selo palace by Russia’s Provincial is the anger about India being a stumbling block in its im - management. That China is hitting back at countries solved the Duma, contributing to the growing public sup - Government and in August moved to Tobolsk in Western perialist Belt and Road Initiative, which is nothing but spearheading the growing narrative against it is evident port enjoyed by the Bolsheviks and other revolutionary Siberia under pressure from the Petrograd Soviet, the buying out smaller or weaker countries in the region by un - from the way it is targetting Australia over barley tariffs. groups. In 1914, Nicholas led his country into another powerful coalition of soldiers’ and workers’ councils that dertaking massive projects and sucking them into eco - And now that COVID-19 has sent us into an economic tail - costly war–World War I–and discontent grew as food be - shared power with the Provincial Government in the first nomic servitude as they fall into a debt trap and cannot re - spin, China has found our weak spot to up its stakes. came scarce, soldiers became war-weary, and devastat - stage of the Russian Revolution. pay loans. But recent triggers are many. First, there is the The Chinese troops this time have gone beyond the oc - ing defeats at the hands of Germany demonstrated the In November 1917, the Bolsheviks led by Vladimir extreme discomfort over the abrogation of Article 370 and casional skirmish, frequently pelting stones, amassing ineffectiveness of Russia under Nicholas. In 1915, the Lenin seized power in Russia and set about establishing reorganisation of Jammu and Kashmir that converted troops, building camps and injuring Indian soldiers. Be it czar personally took over command of the army, leaving the world’s first communist state. In April 1918, Nicholas Ladakh into a Union Territory. Direct Central intervention the confrontations at three outposts in Ladakh or at the Czarina Alexandra in control at home. Her unpopular and his family were transferred to yekaterinburg in the in Ladakh meant that New Delhi could not only monitor Nakula Pass in Sikkim, our men in uniform have been out - court was dominated by the Russian mystic Rasputin, Urals, which sealed their doom. Civil war broke out in development, infrastructure and road building here better numbered as they have been conducting recces as part of who replaced the czar’s competent ministers and officials Russia in June 1918, and in July the anti-Bolshevik but keep an eye on the sensitive Himalayan border that normal patrols according to established protocol. But the with questionable nominees. “White” Russian forces advanced on yekaterinburg dur - China has been challenging over decades with incursions Chinese have disregarded norms and assumed battle- In March 1917, the army garrison at Petrograd joined ing a campaign. and staring down at our men. China looks at India’s recent ready manoeuvres. What is worrisome is that they are connectivity efforts, particularly the Darbuk-Shayok- pushing into newer areas which are far away from the Line Daulat Beg Oldie (DSDBO) Road, with some suspicion, of Actual Control (LAC) and hence not disputed like the Rethink ...... considering the easy access it could give to the Karakoram Galwan river valley, the ‘Finger’ areas of Pangong Tso and pass and enhance the supply and replenishment links to Demchok in Ladakh and Nakula Pass. In fact, there has at all times. Additionally, all such environment that has the industry and the nation as a whole. This is a much- troops stationed here. A weakened Ladakh would give it been no confusion over Galwan ever since the 1962 war but come in contact with COVID workflows will have to be needed transition for the industry, which has been plagued the strategic advantage and hence keeping it hot would it looks like China is threatening to change the situation on sanitised frequently. All such operations would have an by HAIs, anti-microbial resistance and other issues arising mean cessation of development and retaining the pre - the ground according to its claimed positions. Clearly, the impact on the cost of care. Hospital visits will also get im - from poor infection control in hospital settings. While the paredness advantage of the Chinese forces. Second, there eyeball to eyeball confrontationist attitude is meant to in - pacted. Visiting hours might be reduced or completely global HAI is pegged at seven per cent for developed and 10 is the growing US-India strategic partnership, one which is timidate India and warn it that any change in global diplo - done away with and a move towards virtual visits might be per cent for developing countries, for India different stud - strong-arming China’s domination of the South China Sea macy and trade partnerships wouldn’t save it should China encouraged. The role of the family member as an informal ies under different settings of ICUs, ERs, OPDs and so on and one which could see some US businesses shift bases reignite the 3,488 km boundary it shares with us. The caregiver to help the patient with tasks like feeding, going have seen numbers touch anywhere between 20-30 per here from China post-pandemic. It will, therefore, do Doklam standoff lasted 73 days, this one is sparking to the washroom, brushing, walking and so on, will be com - cent. These are completely avoidable hospital stays and po - everything to challenge a new and exclusionary power hotspots along the Himalayan border. It is obvious China pletely lost and such tasks might require support from the tential causes for death, which can be mitigated by proper alignment in the region. Third, as China is on an acquisi - wants to foreground contentious boundary issues now that nursing staff. This adds to the workload of the already thin disinfection and sanitisation practices of facilities and de - tion spree of businesses and banks in COVID-hit it has been hemmed in on other frontiers and faces a dip - staffing line due to the rostering of staff dedicated to vices. For too long we have neglected these issues with a economies of the world, India stalled it by amending its ping market in India. The Wuhan spirit has been contami - COVID care. The second entry point for patients into hos - false sense of security and patchy actions and policies to foreign direct investment (FDI) rules to mandate nated and only diplomacy and hard bargaining over mutu - pitals is the OPD. This is the trickiest part since confirma - cover small breaches whenever they happened. The pan - Government approval for all investments from “border” al needs can perhaps save the day. tion of Corona status is post-testing. Thus, any patient with demic brings with it an opportunity to reflect upon these symptoms of influenza-like illness can be COVID or non- choices and use this as a time to rethink the way we manage COVID. Additionally, many Corona-positive patients are hospitals wherein infection control should be a top priority Respect ...... asymptomatic at the time of testing and thus if they are at - for the ergonomics of such institutions. While the industry those of other Governmental colleagues (the dishonoured soldiering in the Indian armed forces has had its own élan, tending the OPD for a separate health event, they might is on the brink of a shift in operations because of the pan - spirit of incomplete OROP as promised haunts till date). righteousness and flavour. It survived the Nehruvian neg - still be in a position to spread the disease. demic, it needs time to readjust its bearings for the same. The point on modernisation need not be belaboured as it lect and the subsequent political penchant for postured Then there are hospital activities that are not patient- As we wait for social mobility to resume after May 31, routinely faces delays or downsizing (take the example of frugality, regional passions and social unrest as the can - facing, yet need focus, like training of staff on Corona-spe - the clock is ticking for hospital managers to figure out how Rafael) with brazen impunity. Much was made of the struc - tonments brook no affliction. Today, literally, the canton - cific management and ramping up supervision of adher - to keep their doctors from getting infected, treat their pa - tural changes like theatre commands, two-front capability ment gates have been opened and the risk of societal and ence to protocol, since the fallout of non-compliance under tients and ensure that profits are maintained. At the mo - and jointmanship among others. But so far, the only no - political passions infecting the able-bodied is a grim reali - these circumstances, is fatal. While there is no denying the ment, patients have been denied services by smaller nurs - tional change has been the appointment of the Chief of ty. Indeed, the slide in the institutional narrative ensued importance of all these measures, the main concern for any ing homes under suspicion of COVID. There is a trickling Defence Staff. This is potentially a game-changer as it can immediately after independence but the bare-all societal manager at this point is how much these measures will af - crowd visiting hospitals. But once we ease the lockdown, bring the much-needed security gravitas to the policy ta - virus today threatens to infect the psychological character fect the bottomline and what proportion of the same will be social mobility will come back to near pre-COVID times. bles, raise institutional concerns and address the reckless of this institution. Its “voiceless” nature is necessary but passed on to the patient? Add to this the current drying up That is when the fear of hospitals bursting at the seams be - invocation and requisitioning of the armed forces in inter - ironically, its undoing as the silent ramrod posture, irre - of revenues since the lockdown began on March 25. The comes real. Patients rushing to clinics, weighing their bur - nal strife. In parallel, it could also sensitise the armed spective of the challenges faced by it, is being taken for OPD footfall has been reduced to a trickle. Consequently, den of other diseases with the chance of contracting forces to governmental constraints and requirements. So granted. It clearly seems to be partaking and venturing into barely any admissions have happened and hospitals, espe - Coronavirus. We do expect the virus to reach the ranks of far, only the flow of unilateral governmental constraints a lot of unmandated and undesirable directions that seek cially the smaller ones, are struggling to keep their doors other infectious diseases wherein the treatment can be and requirements (to the discomfiture of traditional moor - to milk its historical equity and professionalism. This with - open. One Ernst & young-FICCI study reports a 70-80 per managed at the ICUs at worst and prevented by vaccina - ings) is visible. The more critical flow of the reverse, ie ad - out a sense of reciprocal duty to address the institution’s cent drop in footfall and about 50-70 per cent drop in rev - tions at best. But that time is yet to come and till then, hos - dressing defence concerns, is either invisible or inaudible. own concerns. Any political appropriation or leaning of the enue in late March. Additionally, a large number of big hos - pitals would have to work on a hybrid model to manage The so-called “reforms” also pertain to the domain of cost- “uniform” will nail its fate akin to the policing forces. The pital chains also relied on international patient traffic for COVID and other diseases at the same time. There will be cutting by way of experiments like a three-year short-com - national and institutional leadership needs to visibly their profits as medical tourists accounted for anywhere more deliberations and fine-tuning of industry practices. mission or lateral intake from Central Armed Police Forces maintain its preferred “distance” and “concern” in the between 10-25 per cent of their total revenue. In a situation Some old practices will be jettisoned and new ones adopted for a seven-year tenure. While this may statistically fill the same enthusiasm as it invokes requisitions and explains of complete uncertainty of when international travel will for a new world. Till we reach that time, the healthcare in - shortages in the staff and even expose many in the civil and governmental constraints. The proverbial “glint in the bay - begin again, that revenue stream will remain in limbo. dustry will see some rapid, step ladder shifts in operations. CAPF to the “military experience,” it does not add speciali - onet” has been retained for decades as the necessary “spit There is an indubitable increase in costs anticipated for The Government will have to hand-hold this transition so sation, quality or seriousness in the officer as this intake and polish.” Decorum and motivation have been ensured hospitals to simply be able to open shop under regulatory that the industry does not crumble under pressure while comes with limited tenure. To use the armed forces as a with no unnecessary drama or distractions. If the critical - conditions for Corona and manage both COVID and non- health access and equity is maintained and technology “training school” may be a matter of pride for their un - ly-required modernisation, parities and promised guaran - COVID patients in the same facility. There is also an unde - catalyses this change. How this happens is yet to be seen matched standards to those who gain “limited” exposure tees are not possible, then condescending political niable need to move to a higher commitment to the stan - but the window of time available for planning is fast clos - but it adds limitedly to the institution itself. The calling of shenanigans or creative misuse are even worse substitutes. dards of infection prevention and control for the virus in ing. Glimpses of Future 8 wOrld JAMMU, THURSDAy, MAy 28, 2020 Donald Trump threatens to ‘close down’ In Wuhan, swab samples are being mixed to carry social media after Twitter fact check out quick group tests Washington May 27 Trump and his campaign law — or be treated more like angrily lashed out Tuesday publishers, which could face Wuhan May 27 President Donald Trump after Twitter added a warning lawsuits over content. Chinese health authori - on Wednesday threatened phrase to two Trump tweets The protections have ties in Wuhan carried out social media companies with that called mail-in ballots been credited with allowing mixed testing of nose or new regulation or even shut - “fraudulent” and predicted the unfettered growth of the throat swabs of residents to tering a day after Twitter that “mail boxes will be internet for more than two check for Covid-19 so that added fact checks to two of robbed,” among other things. decades, but now some millions of samples could his tweets. The president Under the tweets, there is Trump allies are advocating be tested in quick time, lo - can’t unilaterally regulate or now a link reading “Get the that social media companies cal media reports said. close the companies, which facts about mail-in ballots” face more scrutiny. And he Between May 15 and 25, would require action by that guides users to a Twitter repeated his unsubstantiated Wuhan medics tested more Congress or the Federal “moments” page with fact claim — which sparked his than 6.5 million residents, a state media report said, adding at least 218 Communications checks and news stories latest showdown with Silicon among them were found to be asymptomatic. The current nucleic acid Commission. But that didn’t about Trump’s unsubstanti - Valley — that expanding tests are being carried out after Wuhan where the coronavirus emerged stop Trump from angrily is - ated claims. mail-in voting “would be a late last year opened up on April 8 after a 76-day lockdown. Wuhan, a city suing a strong warning. Trump replied on free for all on cheating, for - of 11 million people, was badly affected by the outbreak, accounting for Claiming tech giants “si - Twitter, accusing the plat - gery and the theft of over 50,000 infections and around 3,800 deaths. lence conservative voices,” form of “interfering in the Ballots.”“Big tech gets a huge mass testing is part of China’s efforts to fortify against a potential Trump tweeted, “We will 2020 Presidential Election” handout from the federal “second wave” after a cluster of cases emerged in a residential communi - strongly regulate, or close and insisting that “as presi - government,” Republican ty earlier this month. To carry out the tests in time, health workers col - them down, before we can dent, I will not allow this to Sen. Josh Hawley told Fox lected and mixed 10 to 20 samples and carried out a single test on them; ever allow this to happen.” happen.” His 2020 campaign News. “They get this special If the collected sample was positive, each individual was tested again to And he repeated his un - manager, Brad Parscale, said immunity, this special immu - identify which person was positive. An unnamed medic told the Caixin substantiated claim — which Twitter’s “clear political bias” Trump did not explain his who have alleged bias on the nity from suits and from lia - news website that the authorities believed that the approach works well sparked his latest showdown had led the campaign to pull threat Wednesday, and the part of tech companies, have bility that’s worth billions of as long as the testing follows procedure. control agencies have used this with Silicon Valley — that ex - “all our advertising from call to expand regulation ap - questioned whether plat - dollars to them every year. approach before and trial testing is usually conducted in advance to set a panding mail-in voting Twitter months ago.” Twitter peared to fly in the face of forms like Twitter and Why are they getting subsi - minimum concentration level for testing,” the staff member told Caixin. “would be a free for all on has banned all political ad - long-held conservative prin - Facebook should continue to dized by federal taxpayers to “This is the only way to speed up the process, otherwise Wuhan cannot cheating, forgery and the vertising since last ciples on deregulation. enjoy liability protections as censor conservatives, to cen - test as many samples within such a short time,” Peng Zhiyong, director of theft of Ballots.” November. But some Trump allies, “platforms” under federal sor people critical of China.” the intensive care unit of the Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, told state media. The largest single-day number tested was on May 22 when 1,470,950 nucleic acid tests were performed. local health commis - Covid-19: China’s sion said the tests are being carried out free of charge. Priority was given to residential compounds that had previously reported infections, as well industrial firms profits as old and densely populated compounds. fall in April but at slower pace Pandemic creating ‘lockdown Beijing May 27 generation’ as one in six Profits at China’s industrial firms fell at a slower pace in April, helped by improvements in automobiles and electronics, but the econo - youths stop work: UN my faces persistent pressure as activity and demand remains weak after the coronavirus Geneva may 27 working hours worked globally outbreak. Profits at China’s industrial firms in during the second quarter of 2020 April fell 4.3% year-on-year to 478.1 billion The Covid-19 pandemic has compared to the final three yuan ($67 billion), after plunging 34.9% in caused surging unemployment months of 2019 -- the equivalent of March, the statistics bureau said on worldwide, but has hit young 305 million jobs. ‘Massive in - Wednesday. China’s economy has shown workers especially hard, forcing crease’ - But while all age groups patchy signs of recovery as it reopens after sev - more than one in six people aged are suffering, the UN agency eral weeks of tough virus containment meas - under 29 to stop working, the UN pointed to recent data from a ures. But fallout from the pandemic, which said Wednesday. range of countries indicating “a paralysed business activity and triggered the In a fresh study, the massive increase” in youth unem - first quarterly economic contraction on International Labour ployment since February, with record, is expected to keep earnings under Organization warned that the nov - young women particularly hard- strain for most of this year. For the first four el coronavirus crisis has dispro - hit. In Canada for example, the months, industrial firms’ profits fell 27.4% The spaceX falcon 9, with the crew dragon spacecraft on top of the rocket, is raised onto Launch Pad 39-a at Kennedy space center portionately affected young peo - overall jobless rate rose six per - year-on-year to 1.26 trillion yuan, compared in cape canaveral, fla. Two astronauts will fly on the spaceX demo-2 mission to the International space station scheduled for ple, and could impact upon their centage points from February to with a 36.7% slump in the first three months. launch on May 27. work opportunities and career op - April, but for young men it swelled Automobiles, special-purpose equipment, tions for decades to come. by 14.3 percentage points (to 27.1 electrical machinery and electronics indus - “I don’t think it is giving way to percent) and for young women it tries notched up significant recoveries in prof - hyperbole to talk about the danger ballooned by 20.4 percentage its in April. Twenty three out of 41 sectors sur - South Korea sees biggest jump in of a lockdown generation,” ILO points to 28.4 . Similar trends veyed posted growth last month versus eight chief Guy Ryder told a virtual were seen in the United States and in March. However, the overall profit outlook press conference. “As we recover a range of other countries, the re - is not optimistic as market demand has still coronavirus cases in seven weeks from the pandemic, a lot of young port said. The ILO said it did not not recovered, industrial goods prices remain people are simply going to be left yet have enough data to determine behind. Big numbers,” he said, low, and pressure from costs are still high, Zhu seoul May 27 from the densely populated Seoul ing infected was low. Social distanc - the overall youth unemployment warning that “the danger is... that Hong, an official at statistics bureau, said in a metropolitan area. It was the ing rules have been relaxed in South rate since the crisis began. But in a this initial shock to young people statement. data from factory activity to trade South Korea reported its largest increase since 53 infections Korea and facilities such as muse - survey of people aged 29 and un - will last a decade or longer. have underscored a weak outlook for China biggest jump in coronavirus infec - were announced on April 8. An out - ums and churches have reopened der, it found that globally, over 17 “People will be permanently and the global economy. Beijing has stepped tions in seven weeks on break at a warehouse of e-com - while some professional sports -- percent of those who were working scarred by the immediate effects of up tax and credit relief for virus-ravaged com - Wednesday, driven by a fresh clus - merce firm Coupang in Bucheon, including baseball and soccer -- when the pandemic hit had been the pandemic.” Even before the panies since February, but it has refrained ter at an e-commerce warehouse on west of Seoul, has seen 36 cases so started new seasons earlier this forced to stop. And those who have crisis, the global youth unemploy - from massive economic stimulus for fear of Seoul’s outskirts, as millions more far, the KCDC added. “It is suspect - month, albeit behind closed doors. continued to work have mean - ment rate stood at 13.6 percent in rekindling debt risks. The uncertainty stoked pupils went back to school. The ed that the basic regulations were More than two million students re - while seen their working hours cut 2019 -- far higher than for any oth - by the pandemic has forced China to drop its country has been held up as a global not enforced at the warehouse,” turned to classes on Wednesday, as on average by 23 percent, the er group -- while some 267 million growth target for gross domestic product model in how to curb the virus and said vice health minister Kim Gang- part of the phased reopening of study found. The report warned young people were neither em - (GDP) for 2020 for the first time since such has rushed to contain new infec - lip. “If quarantine rules are not im - schools. Some high schools were that young people are facing a ployed nor in education or train - annual goals were set three decades ago. tions as life returns to normal. But plemented at workplaces, it could forced to turn back pupils shortly “triple shock” from the crisis, ing (NEET). Overall, the ILO study Earnings at China’s state-owned industrial officials announced 40 new cases lead to a dreadful result of a mass after resuming classes last week which is not only destroying their said it expected the coronavirus firms were down 46.0% year-on-year for the Wednesday -- taking its total to infection.” But officials said the over concerns of new virus cases in employment but has also disrupt - crisis to obliterate 10.7 percent of first four months. 11,265 -- with most new infections possibility of parcel recipients be - their neighbourhood. ed education and training. Situation at Sino-India boundary ‘stable and controllable’, says China
Bijing may 27 der troops, and between our “For some time now, the China has so far not released diplomatic missions”. Indian army has crossed in details about the situation on China on Wednesday said “Between the two coun - Chinese territory in the west - the ground. the situation at Sino-India tries, we have good border-re - ern and Sikkim sections of the had denied being the ag - boundary was “stable and con - lated mechanism and commu - China-India border, obstruct - gressor in a statement to the trollable” and indicated bilat - nication channels. We are ca - ing the normal patrol and op - Hindustan Times on May 19. eral negotiations were on at pable of resolving related is - eration of Chinese border “For some time now, the diplomatic and military levels sues properly though dialogue troops and attempting to uni - Indian army has crossed in to de-escalate tension between and consultation,” he said at laterally change the state quo Chinese territory in the west - border troops. The Chinese the regular ministry briefing of border control. China has to ern and Sikkim sections of the foreign ministry said it was on Wednesday. take necessary countermea - China-India border, obstruct - firm about protecting its terri - He neither confirmed nor sures,” the foreign ministry ing the normal patrol and op - torial sovereignty. Indian and denied a question on reports, statement said. eration of Chinese border Chinese soldiers are said to be which said China had de - Tensions have flared be - troops and attempting to uni - locked eyeball-to-eyeball at ployed more than 5,000 tween border troops this laterally change the state quo four locations along the line of troops at the flashpoints. month; in Naku La, in north of border control. China has to actual control (LAC), which Zhao said China was fol - Sikkim, where 150 soldiers take necessary countermea - experts said could escalate in - lowing the “important consen - were involved in a tense clash a sures,” the foreign ministry to a standoff more serious in sus” reached by the two lead - day earlier, and also near statement said. nature than the one that ers of India and China and was Pangong Lake in the Ladakh Tensions have flared be - chilled ties in Doklam “…strictly observing the agree - sector. tween border troops this (Donglang in Chinese) in ments between the two coun - While not sharing details, month; in Naku La, in north 2017. tries”. “We are committed to Beijing has allowed state-con - Tensions have flared between Indian and chinese border troops this month; in naku La, in north sikkim, where 150 sol - Sikkim, where 150 soldiers Reports say thousands of safeguarding our territorial trolled media to publish com - diers were involved in a tense clash a day earlier, and also near Pangong Lake in the Ladakh sector. were involved in a tense clash a troops have been amassed by sovereignty and security and ment pieces blaming India for day earlier, and also near both sides in an evolving situa - safeguarding peace and stabil - the current situation. between the two sides,” Long been clearly and definitely leaders of India and China and Pangong Lake in the Ladakh tion. ity in the border areas. Now, “India in recent days has il - Xingchun, president of the aware that the Galwan Valley was “…strictly observing the sector. “Indian soldiers have Answering a question on the China-India border area legally constructed defense fa - Chengdu Institute of World region is Chinese territory. But agreements between the two also deliberately instigated whether talks were on to de- situation is overall stable and cilities across the border into Affairs wrote in the nationalis - according to media reports, countries”. “We are commit - conflicts with their Chinese escalate the situation, foreign controllable,” Zhao. China has Chinese territory in the tic and state-controlled since early May, India has ted to safeguarding our terri - counterparts. If India failed to ministry spokesperson, Zhao so far not released details Galwan Valley region, leaving tabloid, Global Times. been crossing the boundary torial sovereignty and security stop such provocations as Lijian said: “I think we have about the situation on the Chinese border defense troops Long added that unlike line into the Galwan Valley re - and safeguarding peace and soon as possible, it will impact established border-related ground. no other options but making previous standoffs, the latest gion and entering Chinese ter - stability in the border areas. on Beijing-New Delhi ties - mechanisms and diplomatic had denied being the ag - necessary moves in response, border friction was not caused ritory”.Zhao said China was Now, the China-India border and may even exceed the sort channels. This includes the gressor in a statement to the and mounting the risk of esca - by accident, but was a planned following the “important con - area situation is overall stable of intensity of the Doklam communication between bor - Hindustan Times on May 19. lating standoffs and conflicts move of New Delhi. “India has sensus” reached by the two and controllable,” Zhao. standoff,” he added. Glimpses of Future
9 spOrts JAMMU, THURSDAy, MAy 28, 2020 In Brief BCCI confident ICC won’t commit India to play opening Test at Brisbane harakiri by taking away 2021 T20 WC if tour of Australia goes ahead - Report Not considering new delhi may 27 start the global cricketing last tour, when India won new delhi may 27 ing else in terms of con - economy and hence very its first ever Test series on any change in tribution. Anyone The high profile tour of crucial. According to a re - Australian soil. On papers, the ICC propped by such people the Indian cricket team to port in The Australia, as The second Test is Ranji format, says vs BCCI tax battle will also be unaccept - Australia is something that mentioned by Fox Cricket, scheduled to take place in seems to have taken a able.” everyone associated with the venues for the four Test Adelaide which is going to Saba Karim murky turn after the Earlier, a BCCI offi - the sport has a keen eye on. series have been finalised. be a day-night affair. If all ICC Business cial in the know of de - new delhi May 27 Not just because of the fact ALSO READ: ‘He is an goes according to plan Corporation (IBC) re - velopments said that it that these two teams have entire package’: Ian then this will be India’s fused to hand the is sad that at a time BCCI GM Cricket Operations perhaps one of the biggest Bishop heaps praise on second ever day night Test Indian board an exten - when the world is fight - Saba Karim on Wednesday denied rivalries in modern day Indian bowler and first on foreign soil. sion in finding a tax so - ing the coronavirus reports about changing the format cricket, but also because of India, apart from play - The report also men - lution. The ICC has in pandemic, such emails of Ranji Trophy, India’s premier do - the amount of money that ing the regular Tests at tions that the BCCI has fact threatened that have come in and there mestic cricket tournament. Reports is riding on this series. Melbourne and Sydney, agreed to play three ODI in they can take away the body and believe that the ICC down the path is an attempt to put the were doing the rounds that the With all cricketing ac - will play the opening Test Australia in January 2021 2021 T20 World Cup if they will not commit of harakiri. If they take Indian board under board is mulling a change of format tivities halted since March in Brisbane, where they and Cricket Australia is in the board fails to pro - harakiri by taking the this step, I assure you pressure. due to the coronavirus for the Ranji Trophy which would have never secured a win. discussions with the vide the exemption. But global event away from that the BCCI would “I fail to understand pandemic, this high profile eventually see a considerable Virat Kohli’s team had Indian board to include BCCI officials believe India. still be laughing when how this is happening at tour is expected to kick change in the number of matches avoided the Gabba on the two more matches. that prudent ICC “It is not the ICC, the pieces fall, but the this time when every - being played throughout the season. Directors will not take but some vested inter - ICC would be worse for one is coming to grips But Karim said he wasn’t aware of any step that hurts the ests that come up with the wear,” the official with the pandemic. This this. “No, we haven’t send any pro - game. this story from time to said. is a complete and total posal (to change the format of the ‘Can’t play both at the same Speaking to IANS, a time. Most of the ICC “It is time for the failure of the ICC lead - tournament). I am not aware of any BCCI official said that Directors are prudent ICC to move away from ership and is a clear in - such thing and have not done that,” the Indian board has and pragmatic and they people who merely dication that change is Karim told IANS. full faith in the directors would not permit these bring disputes with BC - imminent,” the official time,’ How Yuzvendra Chahal In the current format, Ranji of the international vested interests to lead CI to the table and noth - said. Trophy is played between four groups: Elite Groups A and B having prioritised cricket over chess nine teams each, Group C having 10 and the Plate Group consisting of 10 ‘He spoilt his name,’ Mohammad Kaif on why Greg his mind to concentrate on one. teams. Five teams qualify for the “I played my first nationals of Chess in quarter-finals from the top tier Chappell wasn’t as respected as John Wright 1998 and at that time I was playing cricket (Elite Group A and Group B). Two as well. you can’t play both sports at the teams qualify from the second-tier new delhi may 27 Australia, won the famous Wright had a turbulent tenure, same time. For Chess, you need 10 – 12 (Elite Group C) and one team from Natwest Trophy final in 2002 with his fallout with then cap - hours of training and then 6 – 8 hours for the lower-tier (Plate Group) for the Former India batsman and reached the final of the tain Sourav Ganguly becoming cricket was getting very difficult. So, when quarter-finals. However, according Mohammad Kaif has explained World Cup in South Africa a the centre of storm, and later I came back from the World Cup, I told my to reports, a proposal -- to split the the difference between the year later. with India’s dismal World Cup father I will focus only on cricket.” Chahal Elite teams into five groups instead coaching styles of John Wright Chappell, who succeeded campaign in 2007, which saw told S Badrinath on the show Mind of the current three -- was sent be - and Greg Chappell, the first two Wright had a turbulent tenure, them get eliminated from the Masters by MFORE on Star Sports. fore the outbreak of coronavirus. foreign coaches of the Indian with his fallout with then cap - group stage. “People respected Reports have surfaced that not finding The report said that in the new for - cricket team. tain Sourav Ganguly becoming John Wright because he coordi - sponsors somewhat played a role in mat likely to be adopted by the BC - Kaif, who played his cricket the centre of storm, and later nated well with the players and Chahal leaving behind a career in chess. CI, each Elite group would have six under both coaches, weighed in with India’s dismal World Cup let Ganguly the captain to lead However, as Chahal has become an inte - teams, while the Plate group would on the topic and feels Chappell new delhi may 27 gral part of India’s limited-overs setup, consist of eight (the top two from the campaign in 2007, which saw the team from the front.” would have been better off as the legspinner reckons there are certain previous season will be promoted to them get eliminated from the Kaif is not the first cricketer India’s batting coach rather India legspinner yuzvendra Chahal similarities between cricket and chess be - Elite Group E). The teams that fin - group stage. from that era who is not a fan of lieving patience plays a key role in both than taking charge of overall “Chappell could have been a Chappell’s methods. has revealed the difficulties he faced as a ish on top of the five Elite groups youngster in balancing chess and cricket these sports. coaching duties, and that his in - good batting coach. But he Harbhajan Singh in the past would qualify directly for the quar - and the circumstance that led to him pick - “In chess you require a lot of patience ability to understand the spoilt his name, as he could not called the former Australia terfinals. The three remaining spots ing up cricket as a career. as every match is about 6 – 7 hours and Indian culture did not work in in the last eight would be identified run the team properly, he cricketer “a man with a double Chahal, before carving a career for you’re playing sitting at one place without the best interests of the team. from playoffs featuring the five sec - couldn’t understand the Indian face” and had recently termed India in cricket was a brilliant chess play - speaking much. Similarly, in cricket you Wright was appointed ond-placed teams and the Plate culture and lacked good man- the Chappell era as the “worst er, participating in Nationals and repre - sometimes bowl so well but don’t get wick - winner, said the report. The 2019- coach of the Indian cricket management skills and hence days of Indian cricket. This was senting India at the World youth Chess ets. So, you have to be patient and keep it 20 Ranji Trophy season saw team from 2000 to 2005 and didn’t prove to be a good after Chappell revealed that he Championship. But as the ventured into in your mind that you are bowling well and Saurashtra clinching the trophy in during his tenure India regis - coach,” Kaif told Times of groomed MS Dhoni by asking cricket, Chahal struggled to strike a bal - you’ll probably get wickets in the next front of empty stands as the coron - tered Test wins in England and India.Chappell, who succeeded him to “play along the ground.” ance between the two sports and made up spell,” he mentioned. avirus outbreak had started taking its toll. All cricketing activities have been suspended in the country post that and it is believed that cricketing ‘Only few are brave’: Virat Kohli, action could resume in the country with the 13th edition of the IPL, but only after the government gives the go-ahead. Yuvraj, Suresh Raina lead birthday Dhoni said I’d bowl wishes for Ravi Shastri to Sachin in middle new delhi may 27 with Shastri and wrote on his you joy and happiness. Stay Twitter handle: “Wishing you blessed.” overs: How CSK Cricket fraternity on lots of happiness and a very hap - Team India’s chairman of se - Wednesday turned to social me - py birthday Ravi bhai. Have a lectors Sunil Joshi also wished captain turned IPL dia to wish India head coach Ravi good one and see you soon!” Shastri on social media and his Shastri on his 58th birthday. Former India all-rounder tweet read: “Wishing the head of 2010 final, India captain Virat Kohli and yuvraj Singh also took to social Indian men’s cricket team, narrates Jakati Test vice-captain Ajinkya media to wish Shastri and his @RaviShastriOfc a very happy Rahane were one of the first to post read: “Happy Birthday sen - birthday. Stay safe stay healthy.” new delhi May 27 wish Shastri on his special day on ior. Have a great day. Best wishes Shastri played 80 Tests and Twitter. cheers.” 150 ODIs for the country, scoring Many believed the relation be - Kohli uploaded a picture of Out-of-favour India batsman 3,830 and 3,108 runs respective - tween Sachin Tendulkar and MS himself and wicket-keeper-bats - Suresh Raina wrote: “Happy ly in the two formats. He was also Dhoni was one of the main reasons man Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Birthday @RaviShastriofc. Have a fine spinner as he scalped 151 behind the bonding of India’s World laughing with Shastri, and his a good one Ravi bhai.” and 129 wickets in Tests and Cup-winning team in 2011. There tweet read: “Many seem confi - Left-arm spinner Kuldeep ODIs respectively. were also reports that Tendulkar dent but only few are brave. yadav uploaded a picture of him - Shastri was also part of the had played a pivotal role when dortmund's raphael Guerreiro, center, touches elbows with Julian Brandt celebrating after scoring his Happy birthday Ravi bhai. God self and Dhoni with Shastri and Indian team that created history Dhoni was picked as India’s limited- side's second goal during the German Bundesliga soccer match between Borussia dortmund and bless. #throwback.” wrote: “Happy Birthday in England by lifting the 1983 schalke 04 in dortmund, Germany. overs skipper following Rahul Rahane too shared a picture @RaviShastriOfc Sir. Wishing World Cup. Dravid’s decision to quit. The two stalwarts were the pillars of India’s success in the last decade. That bond only got a break during April- ICC Board Meeting: T20 World Cup to be postponed to 2022, October window for IPL- Report May of each year from 2008 on - wards due to IPL. As true profes - new delhi May 27 safely concluded that India will be Already, the 2016 World T20 tax re - sionals, their only goal was to outdo touring Australia at the end of the bate issue has been referred to the each other when Dhoni’s Chennai The postponement of this year’s year as members are likely to give tribunal. The deadline to get tax ex - Super Kings took on Sachin’s T20 World Cup in Australia to 2022, more precedence to bilateral en - emption was December 2019 but it Mumbai Indians. In 2010 IPL final which might open up a window for gagements to recover from the fi - is understood that the BCCI can when CSK still weren’t as invincible the lucrative Indian Premier League nancial losses incurred during the hardly do anything when it comes to as they are now and Mumbai were in October, is expected to be for - pandemic. The board member also the country’s existing tax laws. “If far from being the tournament’s malised when the International said that it’s not only about the they didn’t change it in 2016 World most successful side, Dhoni, the Cricket Council’s all-powerful board countries but also about broadcast - T20, why would they change the rule CSK captain, plotted the dismissal holds a tele-conference on ers Star Sports, which incidentally in 2021. And also the tax exemption of Sachin, the MI captain to turn the Thursday. holds rights for both the ICC events is primarily on waiver of import duty tide of the match. 10 years after that The decision, if it is formalised, as well as BCCI’s ‘India Cricket’ of broadcast equipments. final at the Wankhede Stadium in owing to the COVID-19 pandemic rights and the IPL rights. “We can understand that ex - Mumbai, former CSK spinner will give members a chance to chalk “There are a few questions that emption is required in Australia but Shadab Jakati revealed how Dhoni’s out their bilateral blue-print in the need to be asked. The commercial here Star has a fully operational set- tactics won Chennai their maiden coming months. viability of having a T20 World Cup up with all production equipments. IPL title. Sachin hit the first ball of “There is a good chance that in February-March 2021. Before Why do you require exemption?” the the over for a boundary but in the postponement of World T20 will be that, an IPL in October-November BCCI official asked. Will ICC then next ball, his mishit landed straight decided during Thursday’s board window and another IPL in the deduct the tax waiver amount from “With Chris Nenzani, BCCI will tion should be in such a manner that on the lap of the long-off fielder. meeting. Whether there will be a for - March-May window,” a BCCI insid - India’s revenue share? Only time only believe when he puts pen to pa - all foreign players coming in might Three balls later Jakati got the wick - mal announcement or not is the er privy to the broadcast deals said. per,he added. need to go for a mandatory 14-day will tell as the global body gets a new et of Saurabh Tiwary(0) to bring question,” an ICC board member “So we are looking at three big- The organisation of the Indian quarantine. chairman in two months. CSK on top. It was the same game told PTI on conditions of anonymi - ticket tournaments in six months. In Premier League will largely depend In that case, when do they ar - Process to elect next chairman where Dhoni set up Pollard’s dis - ty. “There is very little chance of this current economic scenario, that on India’s COVID-19 situation dur - rive? Also when India tour The process of nomination to missal, who was threatening to take World T20 going ahead in this situa - will be a very bad call,” he added. ing that time but with the central Australia, they might also have to elect the new chairman will start the game away from CSK, by placing tion. I don’t think either Cricket He also listed the bilateral en - government trying to bring in nor - quarantine themselves which means soon. While England and Wales a mid-off as well as a long-off. “In Australia or the top boards will gagements that the BCCI will agree malcy, the cash-rich league could the team needs at least three weeks Cricket Board’s former chairman that particular match, he got Pollard mind,” he added. PTI had reported to. get a five-week condensed window before playing the first Test. Colin Graves is the favourite, tables out placing [Matthew] Hayden right on May 15 that ICC’s Events “India is most certainly going to to go ahead. Tax Exemption for 2021 T20 could well turn as BCCI president behind the bowler. He did quite a Committee -- led by Chris Tetley -- Australia and England is coming for Some of the issues that BCCI as World Cup Sourav Ganguly might throw his hat few things. He used to know which might present multiple options and a five-match series in India. As far as well as all other stakeholders will be The ICC Board is also likely to in the ring. While there has been no bowler to bring on at what time. one of the options that members are South Africa T20 series is con - dealing with include, limited or no discuss the issue of tax exemption formal announcement from the BC - Basically, he was a captain who likely to seriously contemplate is cerned, let Cricket South Africa de - spectators as per ICC regulations. for the 2021 World T20 in India as CI, treasurer Arun Dhumal in a re - knew how to get the best out of the shifting the tournament to October- cide where they stand as far as ICC Limited number of venues and BCCI has sought more time due to cent interview to PTI said that players at the right time,” Jakati November, 2022 while India hosts policy matters are concerned,” the increase of double-headers could be the lockdown in order to get a clear - “Ganguly has the credentials” to be - said. its edition in 2021. It can also be source said. the way forward. Also the organisa - er picture from the government. come one. Glimpses of Future 10 EntErtainmEnt JAMMU THURSDAy MAy 28, 2020 BJP MLA files complaint Trending Entertainment News Today Richa Chadha on being called Crime Patrol actress Preksha against Paatal Lok producer Mehta commits suicide in Anushka Sharma for morphing an 'anti-national', John Abraham to remake Ayyappanum Koshiyum Indore, Madhya Pradesh his pic with Yogi Adityanath
In a sad turn of events, actress Preksha Mehta who was seen in many episodes of the crime show, Crime Patrol ended her life in Indore. It seems she was depressed due to the lockdown. This happens days after casting di - rector and actor Manmeet Grewal ended his life by hanging at his residence in Kamothe, Navi Mumbai. Preksha had worked on shows like Meri Durga and Laal Ishq as well. It seems she killed herself on Monday but the body was dis - covered by her father on Tuesday morning. It It’s Tuesday and we are exchanged a T-Shirt shirt with become a tradition as old as Aayush Sharma, Sohail Khan's seems she has left behind a suicide note but did here with our trending enter - a crew member. It looks like he time itself. In fact, such is its son as also a s ome friends like not reveal the actual reason. As per SpotboyE, tainment news today. Esha didn’t have enough clothes for impact that the symbol of the Jacqueline Fernandez, Waluscha Rajeev Bhadoriya, the Hira Nagar police sta - Gupta, Kartik Aaryan, Richa the events he had to attend superstar waving to his fans De Sou sa and rumoured girl - tion in-charge was quoted as saying, "Preksha Chadha, John Abraham, Salim that evening. So he decided to gathered below his home is friend Iulia Vantur. BollywoodLife was a TV actor and was in the city since the lock - Khan, Salman Khan and oth - wear a T-Shirt of one of his etched in all our psyches, re - recently got in touch for an Insta down. We are investigating the case further to ers are a part of our top enter - crew members. The showbiz gardless if we're a fan of him or live chat with the fun-loving, know the reason of her suicide." It seems the in - tainment news today. So read world can be quite maddening not. Sadly, this year the actor lively, gorgeous and talented definite lockdown has affected her immensely. on to know more about today’s with last-minute surprises and could not take some time out Esha Gupta to discuss her life Preksha was trained actor having done theatre newsmakers. Kartik Aaryan is shocks as seen in the video, to even be with his family on during lockdown, career this for years. She left behind a heartbreaking note one actor who is sharing and sometimes celebs come up Eid, leave alone wave to his fan far and what lies ahead. True on Instagram that read, "Sabse bura hota hai videos and pics on his with their o wn hacks. ‘I spoke and follow his tradition as he's to form, the actress never sapno ka mar jaana (The worst thing is when Instagram amidst this lock - with him on the phone' Salman been stuck at his Panvel farm shied away from whatever we dreams die)." Actress Richa Tiwari who has down, and we must say that Khan eme rging on the balcony house ever since lockdown be - quizzed her with, answering worked in projects like Toilet: Ek Prem Katha most of them are quite enter - of his Galaxy apartment to gan along with a few other each query of ours, laced with a and Judgementall Hai Kya paid an emotional taining. He recently shared a wave to everyone gathered family members like sister combination of candour and tribute to Preksha who an alumni of the throwback video in which he outside his home on Eid has Arpita Khan, brother-in-law, charm. Madhya Pradesh School Of Drama.
Shehnaaz Gill's brother Pritam Chakraborty bereaved as his Shehbaz reaches Amritsar to be father passes away at 86 with his dad, Santokh Singh Sukh in the legal matter were held on Sunday in Amboli. His close family members attended the The controversies surrounding Paatal Lok re - funeral. "Given the coronavirus fuse to end. The web series was in the news recently spread, the entire family was re - for allegedly hurting the sentiments of people from sponsible and all the religious for - Nepal. Now, the show is in trouble again. Uttar malities were done with minimal Pradesh MLA Nandkishore Gurjar has filed a com - attendance of immediate family," plaint against Anushka Sharma. This is because the the source further added. It is in - show used his photo without taking his permission. deed shocking and our thoughts Paatal Lok used a version of the image. Some of the and prayers for the family. Pritam faces used in Paatal Lok including that of MLA had always kept his personal life Gurjar were not edited. This hasn’t gone well with under wraps. Talking about music, him. It is believed that in his complaint, Gurjar has earlier in an interview, Pritam had said that the show is trying to malign the image of opened up on the training of would- the BJP and is also "anti-India". Anushka Sharma be musicians with IANS saying, "I spoke about the show while talking to us in a previ - have noticed that in India, we do ous interview. She said, “Honestly, when you're not groom musicians well to take making a show you are telling a story at that time, things professionally. yes, we focus you are not thinking about it becoming the best. on our vocalists a lot, but there are you are just trying to stay true to the story and you other artistes too, like instrumen - are doing anything in your capacity to be able to talists, composers and lyricists. back that 100% and do it honestly. So, no we never Once we identify the talent, groom - looked at it that way we are very happy with the ap - ing and nurturing is important. On preciation we got and for people calling it the best the work front, Pritam has been web series India has ever produced. I think the hap - Renowned Bollywood music com - condition. A source close to the com - composing songs for Kabir Khan's piest moments for me is when I have got calls from poser, Pritam Chakraborty's father, poser-singer revealed the cause of his multi-starrer sports film, 83 that is so many people with whom I have worked with and Prabodh Chakraborty breathed his last father's death saying, "Pritam, his frontline by Ranveer Singh. He also from filmmakers and others who said that they've on Sunday, May 24. He was battling mother and sister were with Prabodh has Alia Bhatt, Ranbir Kapoor and been inspired by the show. They felt like they've two serious diseases and succumbed to Chakraborty in the hospital till the end. Amitabh Bachchan starrer been inspired to do something and I think that is them at the age of 86. As per a report in He was suffering from Parkinson's and Brahmastra. Pritam will also be com - something which is the best part as that's what used Mumbai Mirror, late Prabodh Alzheimer's. This is indeed one of the posing music for Aamir Khan and to happen to me when I used to watch something Chakraborty had been hospitalised for saddest news. The report further states Kareena Kapoor Khan starrer Laal really amazing. I used to watch it and get inspired.” the last two years owing to his medical that the last rites of Pritam's father Singh Chaddha. WTF Wednesday: Mayur Verma and Devoleena Bhattacharjee's
Shehnaaz Gill is one of the most popular contestants of social media spat is as pointless as it can be Bigg Boss 13. The singer-actress has earned millions of fol - lowers all over the world. Her father, Santokh Singh Sukh The lockdown has meant that the Devoleena Bhattacharjee also got in - was recently accused by a woman of sexual assault. An FIR whole of India is living the Bigg Boss life. volved. Some nasty fans made a hashtag was filed against him. Now, her brother Shehbaz Badesha But fans of the epic season of Bigg Boss 13 KamLeena and started trending it. has flown down from Mumbai to Delhi to be with his par - are still stuck in the war mode. We don’t Morphed pictures of Devoleena and KRK ents. It seems he drove down from Delhi to Amritsar in a know if it is because of the lockdown or is it started doing rounds on Twitter. It looks friend's car. In the mean time, Santokh Singh Sukh has ap - because of the tremendous impression like the recent turn of events has been fu - pealed to the higher authorities to do a thorough enquiry their favourites have made on the show. elled by this matter. into the matter. His father has also written to some of the The show got over more than three Devoleena Bhattacharjee liked a VM top cops of the state, as per reports. As per local channel, months ago, but some contestants are made on the wedding of Shehnaaz Gill and Shudh Manoranjan, the investigation is on in the case. making news due to hullaballoo on social Mayur Verma. The two are good friends. Santokh Singh Sukh will be presenting all his evidence in a media. Devoleena Bhattacharjee has Some haters of Shehnaaz Gill had made couple of days. The channel also said that Sidharth Shukla somehow become one of them. Her state - the video. By liking it, Devoleena irked was in constant touch with Shehnaaz Gill and her family. It ment that she did not like Sidharth Shukla Mayur Verma who has filed a cyber com - seems he assured them that he is taking care of Shehnaaz and Shehnaaz Gill’s chemistry in Bhula plaint case against her. The annoying part Gill who is now in Mumbai. The channel reported that he Dunga did not go down well with is that Maharashtra Police and cybercrime did a couple of video calls with Shehnaaz Gill's mother too, #SidNaaz fans. They slammed her for be - cell is being tagged in such matters. The in order to assure her that she is fine and doing well. The ing apparently jealous of the success and country is going through a huge crisis and woman who hails from Jalandhar in Punjab has alleged popularity of the idols. Not one to take the cops are working in the frontline along that Santokh Singh Sukh sexually assaulted her at gun - crap, Devoleena Bhattacharjee hit back at with doctors and nurses. Even if some of point. She said that she had gone to his home to meet her the trolls in an equally vitriolic manner. them watch Bigg Boss, they surely do not friend, Lucky Sandhu. It seems Lucky and she were in a re - Later, some celebs came out in her support have the time to think over fandom wars lationship and he left her after a bitter fight. She has alleged slamming online bullies and harassment. especially when there are bigger battles to that when she went there, Santokh Singh Sukh was seated They included some Bigg Boss 13 contest - be fought. While fans should exercise outside his home. He told her to sit in his car as he would ants, including BFF Rashami Desai. some restraint, even celebs have a respon - take her to Lucky. Then, he stopped the vehicle near Rohi Surprisingly, people who were not even a sibility on how to behave. Mayur Verma Bridge in Beas City and sexually assaulted her. She filed the part of Bigg Boss 13 got embroiled in the who was not even a part of Bigg Boss 13 has case three days after the reported incident. Santokh Singh controversy. Kamaal R Khan who made a also taken to the matter like a moth to a Sukh has said that he has the CCTV footage of his inno - comment on the matter supporting flame. cence. 11 LOCAL ""* ) *'(- "-
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