BENGALURU  THURSDAY  APRIL 02, 2020  `6.00  PAGES 16  LATE CITY EDITION LOCKDOWN LIFT IN SIGHT AS IRCTC OPENS ONLINE RESERVATION SYSTEM TRAVEL SITES RESUME AIR BOOKINGS IRCTC had shut down online booking of rail tickets after PM Narendra ■ “The shutdown is only till April 14 night. Booking can’t be stopped RLY, AIRLINES START BOOKINGS Modi announced a nationwide lockdown on March 24. “As we have clear beyond that,” said an Air India official. In the unlikely event of `3,928 indications from the government the lockdown will not be extended, we further lockdown, passengers can reschedule the trip The move comes after clear indication from the Centre that the have resumed sale of online tickets,” an IRCTC official said, adding that ■ Bookings are also open on private airlines and travel portals COST OF A CHENNAI-DELHI NON-STOP 21-day national lockdown will not be extended beyond April 14 this will help passengers plan their travel in advance such as MakeMyTrip and Yatra from April 15 onwards FLIGHT ON APRIL 15 ON YATRA.COM

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1.5K FROM K’TAKA J&K 1 TABLIGHI VIRUS LOAD ALL EFFORTS ATTENDED JAMAAT 48 UTTARAKHAND ANUSHA RAVI @ Bengaluru JAMAAT ATTENDEES DELHI 53 48 ARUNACHAL PRADESH THE Karnataka State Health De- IN QUARANTINE 48 UTTAR PRADESH 1 partment on Wednesday pegged RAJASTHAN 11 81 BIHAR ASSAM 17 TO TRACK ITS the number of people who re- turned from Delhi’s Nizammud- din Tablighi Jamaat at a stagger- JHARKHAND 1 ing 1,500. By Wednesday evening, 6 15 19 MADHYA PRADESH 1 71 WEST BENGAL the State Government had BELAGAVI DHARWAD KALABURAGI 1,500 GUJARAT screened 800 of them and the pro- PARTICIPATED FOOTPRINTS 101 CHHATTISGARH cess of tracing, screening and Cabinet secretary tells chief secretaries to quarantining the rest is under 45 25 from Mysuru of them 50 ODISHA way. Of the 800 screened so far, INFECTED trace all who participated in Nizamuddin attended advised home swab samples of 143 people have religious meet; PM to speak with CMs today event quarantine 252 MAHARASHTRA 1,030 TELANGANA 21 6 been sent for testing. DEAD “About 1,500 people, who attend- 5 from M’luru attended ed the congregation between EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE @ New Delhi March 8 and 20, returned to Kar- 3 under observation 1085 ANDHRA PRADESH 70 UK extends nataka in batches on different in home quarantine doc work visa WITH the threat of Tablighi Jamaat’s Nizamuddin congregation dates. We are monitoring those 2 1,500 KARNATAKA 1 In a relief to participants spreading the deadly Novel Coronavirus across the who have returned less than 14 foreign doctors, country looming large, Union Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba on days ago more closely, since their media in Bagalkot that only about including from Wednesday ordered all authorities to be firm in tracing and taking 1,103 TAMIL NADU 190 India, whose incubation period isn’t over. All 342 people from Karnataka took 395 KERALA 1 action against the Jamaat workers. of them have been sent to govern- part in the congregation. 376 new cases visas were set CASH FOR Gauba directed the states and Union Terri- ment-supervised quarantine,” Karnataka is compiling its lists India registered 376 cases of to expire in POOR SOON tories to launch on a “war-footing” the contact Health and Family Welfare De- of those who attended the Tab- the virus in the last 24 hours. October, the UK tracing of all participants of the congregation, partment Additional Chief Secre- lighi Jamaat in New Delhi based The spike is primarily due to has extended With reports of the adding that intensive tracing of all contacts the deadline by poor and tary Jawaid Akhtar said on on inputs received from the Union Class 10, 12 exams IOC tack on purchases the fallout of the Tablighi must be ensured in a fool-proof manner. Jamaat congregation in Delhi one year vulnerable sections Wednesday evening. Government. The attendees are only for 29 subjects IOC has declared force majeure Prime Minister Narendra Modi may also The number is a whopping said to have returned in three of the society speak to the Chief Ministers on Thursday to “It has been decided that on crude purchases from Saudi Wimbledon facing hardships in jump from Tuesday when the batches. “Their travel history is 7 more in Noida hotspot cancelled take them on board to deal with the uphill the board conduct exams Arabia, Iraq, UAE and Kuwait, accessing state had traced 79 returnees. being collected to ascertain how for only main subjects as refinery run rates have been 7 new coronavirus patients in Wimbledon task of tracing all participants and those who Health minister B Sriramulu, ear- many returned in the last 14 Gautam Buddh Nagar in the foodgrains, the have come into contact with them. that will be required cut down following lockdown organisers Cabinet Secretary lier on Wednesday, had told the days,” Akhtar added. P3,4,5 last 24 hours, total cases 45 During a video-conference call with Chief for promotion and may and oil market crash. A force scrapped the asked states to be crucial for higher majeure is an event outside oldest Grand Secretaries and DGPs of all States and Union education,” the CBSE said. reasonable control, which 3.2 lakh quarantine beds Slam tennis implement the PM Territories, the Cabinet Secretary also asked Also, all class 1-8 students prevents IOC from performing Railways setting up 3.2 lakh tournament for Garib Kalyan the State and UT authorities to ensure that no State COVID tally climbs to 110 to be promoted contract obligations isolation and quarantine beds the first time Yojana within the other religious groups are holding congrega- next week. “This tions anywhere in the country and strict ac- will involve large KARNATAKA EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE @ Bengaluru tion be taken against them if found doing so, cash transfer to COVID-19 COUNT sources said. Many of the jamaat attendees KARNATAKA recorded nine new positive cases beneficiaries,” have reportedly gone into hiding in various Total cases till for the Novel Coronavirus on Wednesday, taking officials said parts of the country, complicating matters. Wednesday 110 the total to 110. Of the nine, five are related to The country’s seniormost bureaucrat also the Nanjangud case, where a 35-year-old man ordered registration of cases against foreign Tablighis for viola- (Patient 52) working with a pharmaceutical tion of visa norms, according to sources. Gauba shared the road- 9 company and with no travel, had tested positive map for the intensive contact tracing of Tablighis. “Tracing all Total for coronavirus. Also, there are 15 contacts of the participants of the Nizamuddin Markaz is the top-most prior- recovered Patient 52 who have tested positive so far, mak- ity, and the state governments must not lose time,” said a senior patients ing it the largest cluster in the state. government official. P7,8,9 Meanwhile, a 67-year-old woman (Patient 11), who had returned from Dubai via Goa on March S GURUMURTHY WRITES ON TABLIGHI 3 9 and had chronic kidney ailment, was dis- Myanmar nationals settled in Hyderabad, who went to Narketpally for religious prayers flouting lockdown restrictions, JAMAAT - ITS OTHER, EVIL SIDE P7 Total deaths charged on Wednesday. P5 being taken to a hospital in Hyderabad for coronavirus tests on Wednesday | VINAY MADAPU Centre drops anti-virals from recommended list SUMI SUKANYA DUTTA @ New Delhi

THE Centre has asked doctors treating severe patients of coronavirus to stop administering anti-HIV drugs and instead put them on a combination of anti-malaria drug Hydroxycholoroquine and antibiotic Azithromycin. In the revised guidelines on the management of Cov- id-19 patients, the Union health ministry said, “no spe- cific antivirals have been proven to be effective as per currently available data.” Earlier it had recommended using the Lopinavir-Rito- navir combo for patients with acute respiratory distress. “One of the drug is Hydroxychloroquine (Dose 400 mg twice a day for 1 day followed by 200 mg twice a day for 4 days) in combination with Azithromycin (500 mg once a day for 5 days),” said the guideline. “These drugs should be administered under close medical supervision, with monitoring for side effects.” However, they are not rec- ommended for children aged less than 12 years, pregnant and lactating women. Sources said the revision in medication came following a study published in the New England Journal, which said the anti-HIV drug combination did not work in 199 patients analysed. Another study from France said the anti-malarial and antibiotic combination helped 78 out of 80 patients analysed. Union govt expands scope of J&K domicile policy

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THE Centre’s new domicile policy for Jammu and Kash- mir to include anyone who has stayed over 15 years in the Union Territory has regional parties up in arms. Accord- ing to the redefined domicile rules, those who have studied for a period of seven years and appeared in Class 10 or 12th examination in J&K are also eligible for domicile rights. Only those with domicile rights can apply for govern- ment jobs in J&K. “Talk about suspect timing. At a time when all our efforts & attention should be focused on Cov- id outbreak, the government slips in a new domicile law for J&K,” tweeted National Conference leader and former CM Omar Abdullah, who was released recently after being detained for seven months. J&K Apni Party president Altaf Bukhari said the order is unacceptable. He said the Centre’s order reflects a cas- ual exercise carried out at bureaucratic level. ALMANAC TODAY MIN MAX Sunrise 6.15 am Thursday 02/04/2020 Year: Sarvari Ayana : Uttharayana Ritu: Vasantha 0 350C Sunset 6.31 pm Chaitra Shukla Navami 8:50 pm 21 C Masa: Paksha: Tithi: Nakshatra: Moonrise 12.57 pm Punarvasu 2:10 pm Moon in Kataka Rashi Rahukaala: 01:30 pm to 03:00pm WEATHER FORECAST Gulikakala: 09:00 am to 10:30 am Yamaganda: 03:00 am to 04:30 am WATCH Sunny Moonset 01.15 am

BENGALURU THURSDAY 02 02 l04l2020 newindianexpress com Sood warns of vehicle seizure, annoys citizens Karnataka DG& IGP warns people to walk to shops for essentials; residents say not everything available easily

EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE IFFATH FATHIMA @Bengaluru @Bengaluru EVEN as confusion over the issue of vehicle THE state police chief reiter- passes has barely settled down, the Karnataka ated the stern warning that ve- police department’s decision to seize all two- hicles on roads - except those and four-wheelers, if people ignore lockdown plying with regard to essential regulations, has not gone down well with Ben- services - will be seized. galureans, with many saying that it is an illogi- Since Monday, Bengaluru cal move, and makes no sense if one needs to city police have seized over use a car or bike during emergencies, including 6,200 vehicles under the Na- procuring daily provisions. tional Disaster Management Bangalore City Police Commissioner Bhaskar Rao Act and have warned that this city police has tweeted, “Bangalore city police has already would continue until April 14. already seized 5,106 two wheelers, 181 three wheelers, The warning was first issued seized (many 263 four wheelers. people are moving with the on Sunday with police seizing vehicles) silliest of excuses, respect lockdown. Walk to vehicles as a warning and re- people are your grocery shop.” leasing them later in the day. moving with Citizens say that not everything is available Meanwhile, Director General Volunteers assist police in preventing motorists from violating lockdown rules in the silliest of on hand, and some people may not be able to and Inspector General of Po- Bengaluru on Wednesday | VINOD KUMAR T excuses, walk far. lice Praveen Sood tweeted on respect Omar Shaikh, a resident of Platinum City, SPARROWS BACK IN CITY lockdown. Wednesday, “This is not an Reiterating that groceries vehicles seized.” told TNIE, “For people in Peenya 1st Stage, just House sparrows which are a rare sight in Bengaluru, take advantage of the April Fool’’s prank. Two/ four and other essential goods were Walk to your one supermarket is open. That supermarket Even police in Mysuru, Hub- unusual quiet around City Market on Wednesday | NAGARAJA GADEKAL wheelers are banned from use available, Sood said that people balli-Dharwad, Mangaluru and grocery shop. has a big crowd or their stock is generally de- till the 14th of April. We will can walk to stores in their Belagavi commissionerates are Bhaskar Rao, pleted. We have to go 5km away to Yeshwanth- SEIZE your vehicle if you neighbourhood to buy seizing vehicles to ensure peo- Commissioner pur. How can we walk so far? My father is bed- CEASE to ignore this lockdown essentials. ple stay indoors. ridden and mom is not well, I can’t leave them regulation”. Bengaluru Police Commis- The police are also fed up at home alone for a long time. Police are not Cargo train off to Howrah Police have repeatedly ap- sioner Bhaskar Rao said with public, who come up with It’s a allowing us to come out of our apartment. This draconian rule. pealed to the public to stay in- “Seized vehicles will be re- different incredulous reasons is insane,” Omar said. timings. When our EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE @Bengaluru doors. But many people, espe- leased only after April 14 and it every time. “It is surprising Prime Minister Tara Krishnaswamy, a central Bengaluru Senior Divisional Commer- cially youngsters, roaming may not happen in one day. It that people are not ready to and Chief resident, said, “It’s a draconian rule. When our cial Manager, Bengaluru Rail- around on their two-wheelers also depends on the number of stay indoors even for their own Minister have Prime Minister and Chief Minister have as- TO cater to the need to trans- way Division A N Krishna is still a common scene. good. Despite requesting them assured us sured us that people can go out for essential port essential commodities on Reddy told TNIE, “The wag- Sood told The New Indian not to venture out, people find that people supplies, why this rule? How can pregnant account of COVID-19, the ons carried hatchling eggs, Express that the move was an new reasons to come out,” a can go out for women, the disabled and senior citizens walk? South Western Railway mangoes, water melons, pep- appeal to the public to make the traffic police inspector said. essential People can’t stock up on everything. If they flagged off its first special per and medicines.” lockdown effective. “The cen- The central government has ordered There have been several alle- supplies, why want to buy a water can, how can they carry it? parcel train from Yesvantpur The Yesvantpur-Howrah Bi- tral government has ordered the lockdown and we are facilitating gations about police excesses this rule? This rule is illogical and unreasonable.” to Howrah at 1 pm on Wednes- weekly Parcel Special will the lockdown and we are facili- it. I appeal to the public not to use since the lockdown began. Tara How can we walk to fetch everything, asked day. This is the first timeta- run four trips upto April 11 on tating it. I appeal to the public their vehicles unless there is Many residents took to social Krishnaswamy, Aditya Rao from Jayanagar. “If we have a vehi- bled goods train to be Wednesdays and Saturdays not to use their vehicles unless emergency media to complain about police Citizen cle, we can visit grocery and medical stores in launched in SWR as luggage via Jolarpettai, Chennai, Gu- there is emergency,” Sood said. Praveen Sood, K’taka DG&IGP assaulting people. one trip. This is a ridiculous decision.” trains always run only to open dur, Duvvada and Bhadrak.

EXPRESS READ Covid-19 affects stem cell donation Govt to supply food Elective cancer treatment put off for 2 to labourers EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE has posed a lot of challenges for @Bengaluru patients with hematological- Bengaluru: Karnataka weeks, only emergencies allowed: Kidwai oncological conditions and in labour secretary Captain WITH the whole country under need of a blood stem cell trans- Mannivannan on Monday EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE as possible. Those developing “In case COVID-19 affects lockdown since March 25, life- plant. In the case of unrelated issued an order under @Bengaluru breathing difficulty, bleeding, cancer patients, the outcome saving services such as those blood stem cell transplants, a Section 69 of the Disaster abdmonial distension, difficul- could be very bad. Hence we pertaining to the treatment of lot of logistic support is need- Management Act to supply RADIOTHERAPY and chemo- ty in swallowing and severe have advised to postpone all cancer patients and other ed. The current situation has food to constrution therapy patients can postpone pain, should visit the hospital kinds of elective treatment chronic conditions have been impacted transportation of workers. The department elective treatment for two and get examined by doctors. till April 15,” he said. hit. tically reduced due to the fear blood stem cells.” has identified 438 weeks to avoid exposure to We have also kept the hospital The institute has 4,000-5,000 According to a release from factor. This affects patients suf- However, health experts have construction sites in the the novel coronavirus, the ready to treat emergency cas- patients and employees. It has DKMS BMST (Bangalore Medi- fering from life-threatening confirmed that there is no evi- city and 55 camps in Kidwai Memorial Institute es,” director of the institute Dr has seen a 90 per cent drop in cal Services Trust), an organi- diseases”. dence that the COVID-19 virus Bengaluru rural district. The said in a press statement on C Ramachandra said. footfall due to the pandemic. sation working with patients of Donors are also unable to can be transmitted via blood, Karnataka Construction Wednesday. It is not necessary that all However, some people still blood cancer, and blood disor- travel to hospital or collection bone marrow, or stem cell prod- Workers and Other Building Cancer patients have low patients rush to the institute turn up for minor issues which ders such as thalassemia and centres, the release added. ucts, the release added. Workers Welfare Board immunity which heightens and increase the crowd. is not required, he added. related ailments, “The situa- Dr Sunil Bhat, senior con- “We urge people to register (KarBWWB) will supply their susceptibility to infec- tion has affected blood stem sultant in paediatric hematol- themselves as potential donors cooked or uncooked food tions, including Covid-19, It is necessary to avoid coming out of the house as far as possible. Those developing breathing difficulty, bleeding, abdmonial cell transplant procedures. The ogy, oncology and bone mar- through the recently launched for the next month. which could pose a threat to distension, difficulty in swallowing and severe pain, should visit the logistics for transporting blood row transplantation at online registration link,” said The Board should also their lives, the release said. hospital and get examined by doctors. stem cells and donor collec- Narayana Health City said in a Patrick Paul, CEO, DKMS establish a control room “It is necessary to avoid tions across borders have dras- release that, “The pandemic BMST Foundation India. and helpline. coming out of the house as far Dr C Ramachandra, director, Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology

THE PHANTOM Test your number crunching CROSS WORD skill with our unique puzzle PETER VIDAL SU KU 02 nd April : Did you read the news that we have discovered a planet just DO like the Earth, about four million light years away? My problem is what sort of astrology they have with a completely different sky! Not that it matters, of course. We’ll never be able to visit, at least, not without a high-velocity time-machine. And that’s not very likely!

ARIES (Mar 21 - Apr. 20) LIBRA (Sept. 24 - Oct. 23) There are some wonderfully Planetary conditions are powerful planetary turbulent, indicating upsets indicators, most of which in your psychological favour Arien qualities, these being a ‘weather’. The best way in which you can mixture of good humour with self- help yourself is to disengage from HI AND LOIS interest. Suddenly the whole world whatever source of controversy is should look like a reasonably bothering you and take the long-term friendly place, in a strange and view. Also, remember that other people unpredictable sort of a way! might just be right! TAURUS (Apr. 21 - May 21) SCORPIO (Oct. 24 - Nov. 22) You may be tempted Warning signals continue in to try your luck, but the fact the financial sectors of your is that gamblers usually lose. solar chart, so you must EASY Solutions to Yesterday’s puzzles This is why the same planetary factors maintain a proper sense of decorum when that urge you to take a risk, also urge it comes to questions of cash. You are ■ Fill in the grid you to double-check all details. If you better off than most people at the with digits in such are determined to go ahead, it moment, in the sense that they will be BEETLE BAILEY may be possible to arrange some more dependent on you than you on them. a manner that every row, every column sort of fall-back position. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23 - Dec. 22) and every 3X3 box GEMINI (May 22 - June 21) Everything seems to hinge Increasingly, this is a around your need for status accommodates the time for a spot of raw and prestige. The problem is digits 1 to 9, without ambition. What do you that such things have to be earned repeating any. really want do to? Who do you really through consistent and long-term want to be with? Once you have this effort, whereas now you do seem to be ■ Each sudoku has a unique solution that can be little lot figured out you can begin in danger of risking a few short cuts. If to make your dreams come true. you leave out the difficult bits, then it’s reached logically without guessing. You might even emerge much wiser, unlikely that you’ll make the most of if a little bruised! the easy bits! ACROSS DOWN CANCER (June 22 - July 23) CAPRICORN (Dec. 23 - Jan. 20) BLONDIE 1 Shades of Paris (7) 1 Assumed to be risen, though The reason for colleagues’ One important factor in your 4 It’s lucky most anchors have still in bed (3,2) off-hand behaviour and chart, I haven’t mentioned so more than one (5) 2 Iran says it’s uneasy about an partners’ unsympathetic far this week, concerns ancient neighbour (8) attitudes is not that they are uncaring. overseas travel, and a certain 7 One may win it by a head (4) Rather, you should realise that they may adventurous streak in your personality 8 Girl compelled to take a job (8) 3 As mean perhaps as Jack (6) be suffering from the weight of their which could see you wandering to a far 10 Good story about a Spaniard can be 4 Priceless old weapons employed by own emotional burdens, and unable to corner of the globe, or at least developing forgiven (10) no-one in particular (10) pay full attention to yours. adventurous elements in your daily life. 12 Quiet seaman gets by looking scruffy (6) 5 One has a lot of fun with it (4) LEO (July 24 - Aug. 23) AQUARIUS (Jan. 21 - Feb. 19) 13 Use fan wrongly and it becomes 6 Leave scribbled note offering lift (7) According to a All your instincts and dangerous (6) 9 Patient for carrying (10) strologers, each hunches should prove 15 A capital asset in the main fight (10) 11 Fabric obtained for ready manifestation of life correct, but that’s not a great contains the seeds of its exact opposite. deal of use if other people refuse to LOCKHORNS DENNIS THE MENACE 18 Certainly no favourite money only (8) This was never more true than today, listen or take any notice. In social with society (8) 12 They would like a hand (7) so whatever extremes of feeling or engagements, go for change and 19 The right conclusion? Tear it up (4) 14 Different conclusion for experience you hit, realise that excitement: you could be attracted to things could change at any moment. people who like to take risks. 20 A gesture one doesn’t care to make (5) a capital goddess (6) 21 Concern of an eleven yet 16 Sort of field familiar to an Irishman (5) Every problem presents you with a PISCES (Feb. 20 - Mar 20) new opportunity. to be organised (7) 17 Lead when I get out of step (4) An unexpected turn of VIRGO (Aug. 24 - Sept. 23) events may come as a Today’s most interesting welcome salvation. Press planetary aspect could have ahead with the very un-Piscean task of YESTERDAY’S SOLUTIONS an influence that far building up your reputation. Once again, 1 Queer Street, 9 Inspire, 10 Noise, 11 Hats, 12 Interest, 14 Needed, 16 Better, 18 Wreathed, outweighs anything that happens this people at work may be overstepping the Across: week, propelling you into fighting for mark. But what are you going to do 19 Peon, 22 Least, 23 Eardrum, 24 Charioteers. your beliefs and principles. Do not shirk about it? If you tell them what you Yesterday’s Down: 2 Upset, 3 Evil, 4 Seeing, 5 Rendered, 6 Evident, 7 Wishing well, 8 Deuteronomy, your duty, but stand up for what you really think then you may not be 13 Testator, 15 Eyewash, 17 Hereto, 20 Error, 21 Free. know to be right. prepared for the consequences. Private distilleries supply around 20,000 litres of sanitiser to the state government daily as part of their corporate social responsibility (CSR ) initiative. According to the Excise Department, they are producing 66,000 litres of sanitiser every day, of which 20,000 litre is given to the government.

BENGALURU THURSDAY 03 02 l04l2020 newindianexpress com Govt to help farmers, procure agri produce State will also get 7 lakh litres of excess milk every day from KMF to distribute among the poor

EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE ficers to place special empha- “Earlier, certain vegetables @Bengaluru sis on taking measures to help and fruits such as tomatoes, farmers. In the past few days watermelons, musk melons THE state government an- many farmers have dumped and grapes were exported to nounced a number of meas- agriculture produce on roads other states, but due to the ures on Wednesday to help and many have even left it lockdown there was drop in de- farmers who are in distress without harvesting as they mand,” he said, adding that the due to the countrywide were not sure of even earning government was finding alter- lockdown. what they invested. natives such as processing of After chairing a high-level The CM also announced a tomato, grape etc, wherever meeting with ministers and of- compensation of Rs 5 lakh to possible. ficers, Chief Minister B S Yedi- the family of a farmer in “We are in touch with rail- yurappa said the government Kalaburagi district, who com- way officials with regard to will procure agricultural pro- mitted suicide on Tuesday. sending perishable goods to duce directly from farmers if Yediyurappa said the gov- markets in other states. The they are unable to sell it. government will ensure that “I am directing all deputy the supply chain for perishable commissioners to procure ag- Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa addresses a press conference on the COVID-19 and essential goods is intact ricultural produce from farm- outbreak in Bengaluru on Wednesday | EXPRESS and it will support the farm- ers if they are not able to sell it I am directing all deputy ers,” he added. and distribute it in their dis- commissioners to procure ernment will procure around 7 through urban local bodies. The CM said sericulture tricts. If there is any loss, the agricultural produce from farmers if lakh litres of excess milk from He said clear directions were markets in the state will be government will compensate they are not able to sell it and the Karnataka Milk Federa- given to the police to ensure opened and directions have distribute it in their districts it,” the CM said and directed tion every day from Thursday the uninterrupted movement been issued to open rice and the agriculture department of- B S Yediyurappa, Chief Minister and distribute it in slums of essential commodities. dal mills.

MP/MLA WATCH With the lockdown leaving the poor in dire straits, and with migrant workers Virus may have crept into on the move, the issues challenging the government are manifold. Mobilising funds and contributing in cash and kind, NGOs and people’s representatives state’s expenditure strategy are attempting to reach food to all. PRAJWAL REVANNA , CONSTITUENCY: Hassan EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE ficers have been directed by strategy to cope with the Prajwal has pledged Rs 1 crore from his MP Local @Bengaluru the finance department to situation. Area Development fund to PM Cares. He has also FOOD MATTERS MOST withdraw them. However, it is still not spent his personal funds to provide food for the homeless, construction workers and labourers in the Migrant labourers working in KR Market, line up to receive food packets and water, THE state government Chief Minister B S Yedi- clear how the change in seems to be reworking its yurappa holds the finance strategy would impact the district till the lockdown ends. in Bengaluru on Wednesday | VINOD KUMAR T expenditure strategy in portfolio. projects and schemes an- the wake of the COV- The directive issued nounced by the chief minis- SHOBHA KARANDLAJE, ID-19 outbreak. to the officers said ter in the state budget and Udupi-Chikkamagaluru The finance de- that in the next two the ongoing works. CONSTITUENCY: Not more than 10 can partment on days, the finance de- Like most other states, the Shobha has donated a month’s salary of Rs 1 lakh to Wednesday directed partment will come administration in Karnata- PM Cares Fund and undertaken an initiative to pack secretaries, principal out with a separate ka too is focussed on fight- and distribute groceries, including rice, pulses, oil, attend last rites: BBMP secretaries and addi- order on expenses ing the pandemic. staples and spices to migrant labourers from North tional chief secretaries of planned. With 110 COVID-19-posi- India and North Karnataka. The groceries are being all the departments not to In the wake of COVID-19 tive cases reported in the given to 10,000 families for the 21-day lockdown period. CM BS ASHWINI M SRIPAD be allowed,’’ he said. issue any orders for any on- outbreak and slowdown in state, the government is tak- Yediyurappa visited the MP’s house on Tuesday to inspect the @Bengaluru Soap and hand washing fa- going projects or new works. the economy, the state gov- ing several measures to con- quality of groceries being distributed. cilities have been set up at cre- If any such orders have ernment is likely to make tain the spread of the EVEN the dead cannot be laid matoriums and graveyards for already been issued, the of- changes in its expenditure disease. to rest in peace while the coun- staff and the premises are san- try is in lockdown due to the tistised once in two days. coronavirus pandemic. Kiran, who is in-charge of Bruhat Bengaluru Mahana- the crematorium in Chamara- Railway gateman clashes gara Palike (BBMP) Commis- japete firewood is used, said on SIDDU ASKS ALL CONG LEGISLATORS sioner B H Anil Kumar has di- an average everyday, 15-20 bod- rected that no more than 10 ies are cremated. Around 5 with cop in Dharmapuri people can attend the last rites tonnes of firewood is procured TO CONTRIBUTE AT LEAST `1 LAKH of their loved ones at burial from Mysuru, Ramanagara S LALITHA @ Bengaluru ting with Nanjappan, said a rail- grounds or crematoria. Staff at and Nelamangala every day EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE be donated to the Chief Minis- but they haven’t been able to do way source. Meanwhile, sub-in- crematoria in the meanwhile, and can be used to cremate 15 @Bengaluru ter’s Relief Fund. that effectively. Hence, for the AN FIR was filed against a level spector Ratna Kumar, on his say they are unable to access people. “Coronavirus has brought sake of people, we must stand crossing gateman attached to rounds of the town, wanted to material to run incinerators. “We barely get five tones of CONGRESS Legislature Party great difficulties to the people with the government,” Siddar- Bengaluru Railway Division know why they were out when Bengaluru has 132 burial firewood now since there are chief Siddaramaiah on of Karnataka. The working amaiah said in his appeal. under numerous sections at Section 144 CrPC was in place. grounds and 13 crematoria. no wood cutters and no trans- Wednesday asked party legis- class has been forced to strug- All party MLAs, MLCs and Dharmapuri, by Tamil Nadu po- When they replied that they Burial grounds are jointly port. So we have to direct peo- lators and MPs to contribute a gle for food, water, jobs, medi- MPs have been directed to lice. Dharmapuri station comes were railway staff on duty, Ku- maintained by the BBMP and ple to other units,” Kiran said. minimum of Rs 1 lakh to- cines and supplies. The virus hand over their contributions under Bengaluru Division. mar was furious, and said that religious and private trusts, Electric crematoriums to wards KPCC’s COV- has made matters worse to the new KPCC president D The incident involved an al- trains were not running. Ma- while the civic body alone have their own share of prob- ID-19 Relief Fund. Ap- for labourers and farm- K Shivakumar or COVID-19 tercation between two railway jor arguments ensued, fol- maintains crematoria (both lems. “If we take in too many pealing to all party ers who were still reel- Task Force members. Siddara- staffers and local police at the lowed by the inspector man- electric and firewood). per day, furnaces sometimes do legislators to stand ing under the after- maiah has sought donation level crossing gate on Vannam- handling the gateman. BBMP Commissioner Anil not work due to various issues. with the government math of floods. The from the leaders’ personal ex- patti Road on Tuesday. The ac- Dharmapuri SP Rajan said Kumar told The New Indian Although people are grieving, in the times of need, Central and the state penditure. Once all legislators cused, Nanjappan, was on duty the gateman allegedly taken up Express, that people should we cannot tell them anything Siddaramaiah asked governments should and MPs contribute, the party at the gate when Chinnarayaudu a rod to attack the cop, so it was avoid large gatherings even at other than to wait,’’ said a staff them to contribute to have addressed has decided to hand it over to Mistry, a gangman, completed decided that an FIR would be last rites. “Just close relatives, member from another BBMP the relief fund all issues faced Chief Minister B S his duty on the tracks and filed. He denied that the cop had not exceeding 10 people should crematorium. which will later by the people Yediyurappa. reached the spot and was chat- manhandled the gangman.

SEASON OF GIVING CM donates his one-year COVID puts a halt to tele-serials salary to fight COVID Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on ASHWINI M SRIPAD @Bengaluru daily soaps. Hundreds of ar- that they stopped shooting Wednesday donated a year’s salary tistes and technicians are in- since March 18. “The episodes of Rs 24.10 lakh to the ‘Chief THOSE dependent on daily volved in shooting. being telecast were shot prior Minister’s Relief Fund COVID-19.’ soaps to kill time during the Sources from Colors Kanna- to March 18,” she said. He handed over the cheque to lockdown, here is some bad da said that they have no op- On the other hand, many ar- Chief Secretary T M Vijay Bhaskar. news. As most of the tion but to stop these tistes and technicians, who The CM appealed to ministers, channels have halted soaps. “We normally work on daily wages, will have MPs, MLAs and others to shooting, they are air- have a bank of episodes a problem. “There are two contribute how much they can to ing old episodes and it for at least a week. All kinds of payment, one is simi- help the state in fighting against will be long before view- these episodes will finish lar to a monthly salary which the COVID-19 outbreak. ers get to watch new by April 3, 2020,’’ official many main artists and well- episodes. sources said. known senior artistes get. How- There are many regional Ashwini Anish, dialogue ever, a large number of people Wipro, Azim Premji Kannada channels, including writer and creative head for who are small-time artistes, are Foundation to give D1,125 cr Colors Kannada, Zee Kannada, Magalu Janaki, a popular soap paid on a day-to-day basis. They Wipro Ltd, Wipro Enterprises Ltd and Udaya and Suvarna that air on Colors Kannada, told TNIE will not be paid,’’ a source said. Azim Premji Foundation on Wednesday said they have together committed Rs 1,125 crore towards EXPRESS READ tackling the COVID-19 pandemic. These resources will help enable the NIA: Kerala man among dedicated medical and service CCB cops arrest 2 in fraternity in the frontline of the separate cases battle against the pandemic and in Kabul gurdwara attackers mitigating its wide-ranging human CCB sleuths arrested two men impact, Wipro and the foundation in two separate cases. In the EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE istered a case against Muhsin said in a joint release. first case, police arrested one @Bengaluru and others under Sections Shivakumar (46), who allegedly 120B, 125 of the Indian Penal prepared fake hand sanitisers in AN alleged cadre from Kerala Code for criminal conspiracy Infosys, Narayana Health his flat in Srirampura, on of the banned terrorist organ- and waging war against any to start quarantine centres Tuesday. “His flat was raided on isation -- Islamic State Kho- Asiatic Power, which is in al- Tuesday. We have seized 10 rasan Province (ISKP) -- along liance with the Government Infosys Foundation on Wednesday litres of isopropyl alcohol, 10 with some others is report- of India, and Sections 16,18,20 said it has partnered Narayana litres of glycerin, 65 litres of edly behind the March 25 at- & 38 of the Unlawful Activi- Health to open a 100-room surface sanitiser/cleaner and tack on a gurdwara in Kabul, ties (Prevention) Act (UAPA) quarantine facility for COVID-19 5,382 bottles of 100 ml hand in which 27 devotees were under the provisions of Sec- patients in the vicinity of Narayana sanitisers,” the police said. In killed, said a spokesperson of tion 6(8) of the NIA Act, add- Health City in Bengaluru. The facility, another case, the police the National Investigation ed the spokesperson. aimed at serving patients belonging arrested Keshavan N (32), the Agency (NIA). The agency This is the first case the to economically weaker sections of manager of Prajwal Surgical has identified the man as NIA has registered against a society, will accommodate patients, and Scientifics in Rajajinagar, Muhsin from Trikkaripur, terror attack which was com- offer regular monitoring by doctors, for selling infrared forehead Kasargod in Kerala, he mitted outside India against nurses, and provide essential medic- thermometers at inflated added. Indian citizens and affecting ation, free of cost, a statement said. prices. ENS The NIA on Wednesday reg- the interest of the country. n solation CONFIRMED O amples collected for testing CASES G amples W tested BENGALURU THURSDAY 04 02 042020 negative NN TALLY ON M AKIN COVID-19 HELPLINES WEDNESDAY NG amples positive 104 Arogya he ommissioner of ollegiate ducation clarified that the circular issued declaring N Sahayavani will O WO N holida from pril to Ma , in the name of the director, is fake. owever, the , NN NG department issued a circular on March etending holidas to students, teaching and function too G M M M nonteaching staff of government and private aided colleges from March to pril nternational passengers OG under home uarantine State to ollow IISc-FABRICATED reise testing VENTILATOR OUT guielines

ENS @Bengaluru BY MONTH-END TESTING criteria have been ex- panded to cover four categories of patients in Karnataka as per Researchers started just 10 days ago, BHEL the central government guide- interested in mass-producing critical machines lines, read a circular by Jawaid Akhtar, additional chief secre- tary, Health and Family Welfare EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE Once finalised, the nanofabri- Department. @Bengaluru cation facility at the Centre for These include all symptomat- Nano Science and Engineering ic individuals who have under- esearchers at the In- (also a part of IISc) will be taken international travel in dian Institute of Sci- roped in to scale up production the last 14 days, all symptomat- ence (IISc) are finalis- of oxygen and pressure sensors ic contacts of laboratory con- ing the prototype of reuired for the ventilator. firmed cases, all symptomatic an indigenous elec- The prototype’s design is healthcare workers, all hospi- R tro-mechanical venti- based on the guidelines issued talised patients with Severe lator, reuired to treat by the UK government’s Medi- Acute Respiratory Illness Covid-19 patients, at a time cines and Healthcare Products (SARI) (fever and coughshort- when domestic manufacturers Regulatory Agency. Research- ness of breath), all symptomat- rely on imported components. ers are collaborating with po- ic healthcare workers and The prototype will be final- tential manufacturers to ascer- asymptomatic direct and high- ised by mid-April and handed tain which components are risk contacts of a confirmed over to manufacturers by the available with them before they FARMLANDS OF DESPAIR case should be tested once be- month-end, said TV Prabhakar, finalise the design. tween day five and day 14 of principal re- The research A farmer from Kadoli crushes his cabbage crops in Belagavi on Wednesday. As the the price of Cabbage has dipped a lot recently owing to the coming in contact. search scientist at team built some outbreak of COVID-19, there are no takers for the vegetable, forcing farmers to take dire steps like these | ASHISHKRISHNA H P The central government and IISc’s Department components and Indian Council of Medical Re- of Electronic Sys- repurposed oth- search-approved private labora- tems Engineering ers, the release tories for testing COVID-19 in- (DESE) and said. For instance, clude Neuberg Anand founder of the they modified sed- ld etaction metod slos testin Diagnostic Laboratory in project. Once imentation tanks Shivajinagar and Cancytte ready, it will be used in reverse AJITH M S @Mysuru RT PCR (reverse transcriptase for RNA extraction. al officer of Viral Research Technologies Pvt Ltd in made available osmosis water pu- polymerase chain reaction) “With automated kits, the and Diagnostic Laboratory in Basvanagudi. free of cost. rifiers to store TESTING is a vital part of the method involves the extrac- time taken to get the results Mysuru, a designated lab, ex- These private testing centres Ventilators are and mix air and fight against the spread of the tion of RNA from samples and can be reduced and since hu- pressed a similar view. “In the will act as fever clinics and crucial to treating oxygen. To check new coronavirus. But govern- it is then converted into cDNA man intervention is minimal current system, we have to shall follow the protocols of fe- COVID-19 pa- pressure levels, ment facilities in the state are and loaded to PCR machine in it, the exposure of health manually add reagents to each ver clinics and report to cen- tients who may develop acute the team used sensors similar to still relying on old manual meth- for the detection of the virus. workers is not much. This is sample, but with the automat- tralised softwarereporting respiratory disease syndrome those used to detect air pressure od for the crucial first stage of A status check revealed that crucial since there is a scarcity ed system, we can reduce the system. (ARDS). According to a release in car tyres. The team is also de- the testing process -- RNA extrac- government-designated labo- of personal protective euip- time taken to test the samples from the union ministry of veloping from the scratch a flow tion from samples -- resulting in ratories at Bengaluru Medical ment,” said Dr Binukumar B from seven hours to just three, health dated March 30, less rate sensor (which shows exact- a bottleneck in getting results. College and similar institu- K, senior scientist at CSIR-In- while doubling the number of than 20 patients are on ventila- ly how much air is flowing into The modern automated tions at Mysuru, Hassan, Shi- stitute of Genomics and Inte- samples extracted, “ she said. tors. Scientists at IISc see their the patient’s lungs). They are method of RNA extraction vamogga, Ballari and Kalabur- grative Biology, New Delhi. Dr CP Nanjaraj, dean of machine as a ready response also getting input from doctors adopted in states like Kerala agi rely on manual techniue Dr Amruthakumari B, nod- Mysore Medical College and should India see a spike in cas- to simplify the interface for ven- takes half the time taken in the Research Institute, said they es. Similar attempts are under- tilators, to allow even untrained manual method. The longer du- ith automated its the time taen to get the results can be have urged the state govern- way elsewhere in the country technicians or nurses to use it ration of the process in Karna- reduced and since human interention is minimal in it the ment to supply automated ex- too. in case of an emergency. taka not only delays the results, eposure of health orers is not much This is crucial since tractors and are waiting for IISc researchers began to Bharat Heavy Electricals but exposes health workers to there is a scarcity of personal protectie euipment further communication. build the ventilator from the Limited (BHEL) has expressed greater risks. Attempts to contact state ad- r Binuuar B , senir sientist at CSnstitute f enis scratch 10 days ago according interest in supporting mass The first step in the tests for ditional chief secretary (health) Masked women buy mangoes in and nteratie Biy, e ehi to a release from the institute. production. COVID-19 under the common Jawaid Akthar went in vain. Bengaluru on Wednesday | EXPRESS

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State extends fever COVID St ohns creates clinics to private hortage o PPs now what happens hospitals -e uarantine area Bengaluru The state i we hit tage III ask anxious doctors government has decided to EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE @Bengaluru introduce more fever clinics CHETANA BELAGERE @Bengaluru by roping in 36 private ST John’s Medical College Hospital management hospitals. The state THERE is a sense of alarm on Wednesday informed the state government government, in its order among healthcare profession- that it has set aside a special 200-bed unit to be stated, “The first point of als across the state as they be- used as a uarantine facility, if need be. contact for suspected lieve that a tsunami of COV- The announcement was made at a meeting the COVID-19 patients in the ID-19 cases may swamp the hospital’s management held with Deputy Chief Aerospace, state should be fever clinics. healthcare system anytime Minister Dr C N Ashwath Narayan, along with defence Until now, 60 Urban Primary soon and they have only BBMP Commissioner B H Anil Kumar and Mayor exempt Health Centres and 36 around 500 personal protec- M Goutham Kumar. Bengaluru private hospitals have been tion euipment (PPEs), while The DyCM said this unit, on Sarjapur Road, has Industries identified as fever clinics. they need at least 5,000. adeuate ventilators and iso- supplying to The number of fever clinics “There is a severe shortage lation rooms. Dr Paul Parat- in Bengaluru will go up in O N defence and of PPEs. We can manage now hazham, director of the hos- aerospace the near future depending as we are in the second stage pital, said that all staffers ON M, on the load.” The clinics are manufacturing of the outbreak. But very have been trained to handle , sectors are also open from 9 am to 5pm and soon, we may reach Stage 3 patients during the pandem- have COVID-19 Rapid exempted from and if the state government ic. There are 15 ICU beds and O the lockdown, Response (CPR) teams Nurses walk to work near Dasarahalli doesn’t gear up and bring us a team of consultant doctors said a circular comprising one doctor, PPEs, all healthcare due to unavailability of transport in to assist people. W O from state two nurses and a professionals are at risk,” Bengaluru on Wednesday | SHRIRAM BN According to hospital of- ON’ government. healthcare worker. ENS said a senior doctor, who has ficials, special arrange- O Principal just come out of a COVID-19 ments have been made to Secretary to the block at an isolation hospi- Hospital said that she has Wearing PPEs for 12 hours, docs go screen, isolate and treat Somanna visits tals. As per protocol, a 100-bed moved out of her house com- through a lot to treat COVID patients COVID-19 patients or suspected cases. Also, for government of hospital needs a minimum of pletely and is staying with her the welfare of staffers, isolated residential units commerce and Nanjangud, CHETANA BELAGERE @Bengaluru 1,000 PPEs. colleague in a small room, to have been set up on campus. industries aurav upta reviews situation At present, healthcare avoid infecting her husband, “We cannot drink water, have food or go to urinals for 12 St John’s is producing and maintaining supply said that the Mysuru In the wake of workers follow a roster sys- six-year-old child and in-laws. hours once we wear the PPE,” said Dr Ranjitha (name of face masks, PPE kits and sanitisers. said certain coronavirus outbreak in a tem, where one set of workers “I have no option but to do changed) who has finished serving COVID-19 patients for For any ueries, people can call 080-66744788 or industries like pharmatechical company in go into a COVID block for a this as my son is asthmatic seven days and is now at a small room near the hospital to visit their page online. This is in addition to the Nanjangud, District Minister week and then uarantine and I have immunocompro- quarantine herself for two weeks. A doctor, who is now on 31 fever clinics set up by the BBMP across the city food and V Somanna along with other themselves for two weeks. mised in-laws. Though we are quarantine, said, “We have been advised to take extra care and the government hospitals being made avail- pharma were elected representatives and Later, they get to visit home on 14-day uarantine, I don’t while treating patients. It is a very strict procedure as there able for housing patients. The BBMP also recent- given officers, visited the locked for another week. want to risk it,” she said. is a high risk of contamination.” Another doctor said, “We ly took over 17 hospitals to convert them into exemptions. down industry and the “The government needs to As health department offi- know it’s our duty, but it’s draining too. If there were more uarantine zones. ENS families who have been look into this too. If the cases cials have been saying that personnel, we could work in six-hour shifts. Twelve hours is advised to be in home rise, we might struggle to find they will be roping in private too much.” These healthcare professionals also face the quarantine. He also personnel. There is no option staff, most of the private hos- risk of getting infected. “I’m scared too. I put even my EXPRESS READ inspected the food prepared but to follow the roster sys- pitals have sent their person- family at risk. But I know I have to do this for my country for those in home tem, otherwise we will have nel back to their hometown and for my people,” said a doctor from Victoria Hospital. “I B’luru Urban, Mysuru among 25 hotspots quarantine and also gave more cases from the medical immediately after their ser- am tired because the protective devices are bad. The lab directions to clean community,” said Dr Rajesh vices were asked to be shut, coat makes you sweat and once dressed I can no longer go Bengaluru Bengaluru Urban and Mysuru feature among the top 25 Srikanteshwara temple. Muniyappa (name changed). said another doctor from a to the bathroom,” Dr Ranjitha said. Doctors are angry that Covid-19 hotspots in the country while Chikkaballapur is fast emerging as Meanwhile, Mayor Tasneem The state government has hospital in Mangaluru. the state government has cut their one-day salary to raise one. This was revealed by the Covid-19 Status Health Report issued by appealed to the public to decided not to call house sur- Meanwhile, the state gov- funds. They said that the government, instead of giving the the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Wednesday. Hotspots help slum dwellers with geons or doctors over 60 years ernment has also provided them a bonus and appreciating their work, is cutting their also called as disease cluster is a localised area where 10 or more cases of food grains and ingredients. old to handle COVID cases, health workers with the salaries.” We put our lives at risk and this is what we get in an infection have been found. If several clusters develop in any particular The city corporation held while roping in doctors from drug hydroxychlorouine. return,” asked Dr Sneha Ram. Doctors are also upset that region, it, clubbed with its neighbouring areas, is called a hotspot. In training workshop for other streams, like gynaecol- They will be using this in case India has sent COVID protective gear to Serbia despite Mysuru district, a town of Nanjangud saw its first case of covid 19 cleaning workers, including ogy and orthopaedics, said a of any emergency or symp- doctors here flagging shortage. without any travel or contact history. He is an employee of a pourakarmikas. ENS health department source. toms among healthcare pharmaceutical factory. However, now there are 1 positive cases only A nurse from KC General professionals. from the contact of that employee. ENS As many as 14 people from West Godavari district in Andhra Pradesh, all of whom participated in the Tablighi Jamaat meeting in New Delhi in mid-March, tested positive for COVID-19

BENGALURU THURSDAY 05 02 l04l2020 newindianexpress com Class 1-8 PARLEYS TO OPEN KERALA-K’TAKA students may BORDER END IN STALEMATE be promoted, Karnataka turns down Kerala’s demand to open up borders, especially the Virajpet route says CBSE

EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE T’Puram EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE Officials confiscate wild meat left behind by poachers in Chikkamagaluru @Bengaluru alks between Kerala and Official gets pat for helping migrants Karnataka, on opening The Central Board of Second- border roads and permit- MAHESH M GOUDAR @Vijayapura tra, he arranged a total of 62 ary Education (CBSE) on ting people with medical North Eastern Karnataka Road Poachers flee, leave Wednesday announced that Temergencies from WHILE many migrant workers, Transport Corporation all students of Classes 1 to 8 Kasaragod district to access who are residents of North In- (NEKRTC) buses to ferry mi- District administration demanded may be promoted to the next healthcare facilities across dia, are either stranded at dis- grant workers to their respec- 62 buses to transport stranded grade. This follows an advi- the border, ended in a stale- trict and inter-state borders or tive states.” behind wild meat sory from the HRD ministry. mate on Wednesday. walking barefoot to reach their This effort from DC Patil is migrant workers at the borders. We The board advised affiliated “We had a meeting with the destinations, the timely action being applauded on social net- sanitised all the buses, before schools that have not complet- Union Home Secretary and of Deputy Commissioner Y S working sites including Twit- transporting the migrants BOSKY KHANNA AND ter the lockdown was im- ed their examination, evalua- Chief Secretary of Karnataka Patil has saved some of them ter and Facebook. Meanwhile, NEKRTC official MEERA BHARDWAJ @Bengaluru posed. “The forest department tion and promotion process via video conferencing. We from the brink of uncertainty. DC Patil refused to comment staff is under pressure be- for Class 9 and 11, to promote urged Karnataka to allow Patil has been receiving acco- citing restrictions from the AMID speculations over a cause it is the fire season and students based on school- smooth passage for ambulanc- lades on social media for his deed. state government about mi- rise in poaching cases in Kar- they have to work amid the based assessment. This in- es from Kerala carrying people A total of 2,437 migrant grant workers. nataka after the lockdown, lockdown. We are managing cludes project work, periodic with medical emergencies. workers, who are said to be The district administration foresters and police team con- with skeletal staff and poach- tests, term exams, etc. However, Karantaka re- from Rajasthan, Madhya had appointed as many as six fiscated a large haul of wild ing cases are now posing a It noted that several schools, fused saying that Pradesh and Punjab, officers to ensure that everyone meat in Kadur of Chik- new challenge. Thankfully, including Kendriya Vidya- Kasaragod was a hot- were denied entry to reach their respective state bor- kamagaluru on Tuesday. anti-poaching camps are ac- layas, Navodaya Vidyalayas, spot of coronavirus in- Maharashtra by the der along with arranging food The poachers spotted the tive and additional ration has State/UT government schools, fection,” chief secretary Maharashtra Police and to them. An official from raiding party and managed to been supplied to them for the private schools, schools locat- Tom Jose told TNIE. were forced to camp at NEKRTC said, “the district ad- flee, leaving behind a Bolero time being. We are tightening ed in India and abroad, come According to the chief sec- Dhulked of Chadchan taluk ministration contacted the of- pickup, 80kg of Sambar deer our vigil to track and catch under this category. retary, the Union home secre- of Vijayapura. Dhulked is the fice of NEKRTC, Vijayapura meat, a weighing machine and the poachers,” said a Should there be students tary suggested implementation last town located on the inter- division and demanded for 62 plastic bags for packing the forest official. who are unable to clear the in- of the Centre’s Standard Health state borders of buses to transport stranded mi- meat. The local CCB team from Another hunting incident ternal process, the school may Protocol for cross border trans- Karnataka-Maharashtra. grant workers at the borders. Chikkamgaluru and forest took place on Monday in Ban- give them the opportunity of portation of people who require According to sources, “DC Y We sanitised all the buses, be- sleuths of Kadur got informa- nerghatta, where a spotted appearing for school-based urgent medical attention. While S Patil intervened and held fore transporting the migrants. tion about Rangenahalli Shan- deer was killed by poachers tests, online or offline, and Kerala agreed to the demand, talks with governments of Ma- All the buses have returned takumar and his associates on between Ragihalli and Urga- their promotion may be decid- Karnataka refused. Karnataka harashtra, Rajasthan and Mad- safely and sanitised them later. a hunting spree near Kadur. nadoddi, near a stream. Inci- ed, said CBSE. There is no turned down Kerala’s demand hya Pradesh seeking permis- The drivers were welcomed Officials said that Shantaku- dents are rising as a result of new exam schedule for stu- to open up border roads espe- sion for the entry of buses with a red rose. We are proud mar is a habitual offender. new roads criss-crossing the dents of Class 10 and 12. “The cially the Virajpet route, the carrying migrant workers to that NEKRTC helped over 2,400 There was also pressure on the ESZ of Bannerghatta, said Board will give a notice of Chief Secretary said that talks their respective states. As soon people return home safely,” Vijayapura DC Y S Patil speaks to officials not to include his Vishnu Narayan, about 10 days to all stakehold- will be held in the coming days as the DC received nod from stated an officer, who wished to migrant labourers from Rajasthan and name in the forest offence case. a naturalist. ers before starting the Board as well to resolve the crisis. the neighbouring Maharash- remain anonymous. Madhya Pradesh | EXPRESS Cases were booked against Bhanu Prakash, Ban- examinations,” CBSE said. the hunters. “We had tried to nerghatta Nature Conserva- Examinations will be con- catch the same gang thrice, tion Trust, adds, “The ESZ ducted for only main sub- but each time, they managed Monitoring Committee has jects required for promo- We have 740 ventilators, more ordered: Official to escape. This time we could still not been formed. It’s free- tion, and which may be confiscate their vehicle, car- for-all as neither is the depart- crucial for admission to CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Patient 106 is a 49-year-old Germany, arrived in Bengaluru ru with a history of travel to cass and items used for pack- ment monitoring nor are they higher educational institu- from Dakshina Kannada dis- through Abu Dhabi on March Brazil and Argentina who ar- ing the meat. There were plas- bothered. They are sticking tions. Examinations will not Patient 102, a 24-year-old male trict with a travel history to 21. He was directly quarantined rived in Bengaluru on March tic covers for packing and the only to the boundary of the be held for the remaining from Bengaluru, with no travel Dubai. He returned to India on at a hospital. 19, is being given oxygen while entire operation was going on national park. We have writ- subjects, and instructions history, tested positive on March 20 and has been isolated The two other cases are also Patients 101 and 102 are on ven- away from the poaching site,” ten to the chief secretary for for assessment will be issued Wednesday. While Patient 103, a at a designated hospital in Put- related to Nanjangud. Patient tilators. “So far, all the other said a forest official. formation of the ESZ moni- separately by the Board. 37-year-old man, and Patient tur taluk. Patient 107 is a 26-year- 109 is a 63-year-old male from patients are stable. We have 740 In the past week, several toring committee.” Examinations will be held 104, a 27-year-old, are residents old resident of Bengaluru with Mysuru (contact of P52) and ventilators as of now and more parts of Karnataka have re- In Gundlupet buffer range in just six subjects for Class of Nanjangud, Patient 105 is a a travel history to Spain. He had Patient 110 is the 27-year-old have been ordered,” Additional ported poaching cases. Forest of Bandipur tiger reserve, for- 10, and 23 subjects for Class 33-year-old male resident of arrived in India on March 18. Pa- wife of Patient 52 and a resi- Chief Secretary, Health and sleuths have made arrests in est officials arrested two of- 12 in India. No exams will be Bengaluru, who is a contact of tient 108, a 63-year-old man from dent of Mysuru. Patient 43, a Family Welfare Department, Bandipur and Nagarahole ti- fenders recently for hunting held for students of Class 10 Patient 103. Kerala with a travel history to 63-year-old man from Bengalu- Jawaid Akhtar said. ger reserves for poaching af- four wild cats and two hare. and 12 outside India.

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MORE COMMITMENT While remote learning and remote working are a reality now, a big challenge is the speed of FROM PRIVATE internet connectivity across cities and towns SECTOR IS NEEDED s more Covid-19 cases come to the sur- face, our public health system is COVID: NEED FOR strained to breaking point. Doctors in state and municipal hospitals are IMPROVED NET Acomplaining of lack of protective gear and medicines. After a ward boy in a INFRASTRUCTURE private hospital in Patna tested positive for AMIT BANDRE coronavirus, the stepmotherly treatment being accorded to paramedic staff has come rime Minister Narendra positives like reduced traffic are actively involved in bring- nificantly. Reports suggest vid- ranked higher. In fixed line to the fore. Many are forced to work with Modi’s 21-day lockdown notifi- and environmental benefits. ing alignment between indus- eo streaming contributes to broadband, downlink speeds in raincoats as protective gear! The frontline cation to ensure social distanc- Perhaps the government try and government in enabling about 75% of the data con- India are about 39 Mbps com- requires protective gear, testing kits and ing and prevent the spread of should mandate an annual “re- remote working. sumed on Indian mobile net- pared to 203 Mbps in Singapore the coronavirus has resulted in mote working week”. While industries are trying works. In order to reduce the and 103 Mbps in China. ventilators to revive the sick. The Centre businesses and educational in- Over the past 10 years, the to adapt to the changing situa- stress on mobile networks, OTT The current situation should and states are leading the battle, but it is P stitutions shutting down. This tech landscape has significant- tion, universities and educa- players like Netflix, Amazon serve as a warning for the gov- time the private sector mobilised too. means employees and students ly improved for employees to be tional institutions have started Prime, Hotstar among others ernment and telecom sector. In- There has been a steady trickle of com- are dependent on the internet productive irrespective of their virtual classrooms. The con- have agreed to scale down their dia could have been better pre- mitments. The Tata Group has pledged to be productive while staying location. There are many soft- cept of virtual classroom was video streaming from high defi- pared had a rapid fibre optic `1,500 crore to buy protective gear and home. With most people con- ware applications for promot- spearheaded in May 2012 by nition (HD) to standard defini- network been deployed as envi- nected to the web for entertain- ing collaborative working. Or- The current Massachusetts Institute of tion (SD) on mobile networks sioned in the National Digital testing equipment. ITC has set up a con- ment and social networking, ganisations’ ability to accept Technology and Harvard Uni- during the lockdown period. Communications Policy 2018. tingency fund of `150 crore. Reliance In- situation should the data bandwidth required is and promote remote working serve as a versity with the MOOC (mas- While SD consumes about Lack of a strong optical fibre dustries is contributing `500 crore to the huge. Is our internet infra- calls for a shift in mindset. The warning for the sive open online courses) plat- 0.7GB data per hour, HD and 4K network also puts the superfast privately registered PM-CARES Fund. structure good enough to han- present lockdown would test government and form edX, which boasts 2 crore streaming would consume any- 5G network plans in jeopardy. Holistically, the private sector’s contribu- dle the surge? Before we delve the maturity of organisations telecom sector. students globally taking over where between 4 and 10 times The telecom sector’s financial tion so far is just `2,700 crore, a pittance into this, let us understand and employees alike. In addi- India could have 2,200 courses online. Virtual more than SD. BSNL’s work@ stress due to mounting debts how people are gearing up for tion, we could witness a shift classrooms are a boon for the home, a one-month free land- only adds to the woes of telcos compared to the task at hand. The private been better remote working/learning. towards uberisation of the prepared had a educational system in the coun- line broadband connection, is a and their inability to upgrade sector also needs to keep salaries flowing While the concept of work- workforce—freelance work as try, especially during such good initiative to encourage their infrastructure. Govern- to their employees, especially casual rapid fibre optic ing from home or home office (a opposed to permanent jobs. Es- network been shutdowns. In fact, this lock- people to shift from mobile to ments have not been able to re- workers, even where production has term more popular in Europe) sentially, experts are hired on a down should provide a trigger duce the tax and levies on telcos, deployed as landline broadband. has been around for decades, it need basis for specific tasks, for educational institutions to Even if we ignore the current among the highest in the world. stopped. In this regard, L&T setting up a envisioned in the has not gained popularity in In- and they mostly work from re- wholeheartedly support virtu- surge in data consumption as The internet has become a `500 crore fund for paying casual workers National Digital dia, maybe due to lack of trust mote locations. Workforce al classrooms going forward. an aberration and compare In- lifeline for people to be produc- is exemplary. Communications between the employee and the uberisation is gaining popular- Maybe some subjects can be dia’s internet speed with the tive during the lockdown. It is Policy 2018. Lack The lack of resources to fight Covid-19 employer or cultural issues ity across the world. taught exclusively online. rest of the world, the picture is certain that remote working of a strong optical has brought to the fore our woefully inad- where physical presence is giv- In general, firms try to be pre- While remote learning and not pretty. A recent speed test and learning will gain more ac- fibre network also equate outlay on health. The Centre and en importance. There are also pared for emergencies through remote working are a reality report ranks India 128th world- ceptance going forward. While puts the superfast proven benefits when employ- a business continuity plan . All now, the biggest challenge is wide for mobile broadband per- there is no denial that India’s states put together spent a miserable 1% of 5G network plans ees are co-located in an office threats that could disrupt regu- the speed of internet connectiv- formance and 69th for fixed internet access speeds have GDP in the last few years, much lower than in jeopardy the global average of 7.4%. Hopefully the and it fosters camaraderie lar business are determined ity across cities and towns. broadband speeds globally. On improved significantly over the amongst the workforce. In sec- and mock drills conducted to Low/substandard speed inter- mobile broadband ranking, past decade, there is huge scope coronavirus jolt will now ensure more tors like manufacturing, re- check the plan’s effectiveness. net means a poor experience in countries like South Korea, for improvement. The govern- money flows to the health sector. Many in- mote working is impossible. The pandemic has put such downloading/uploading con- UAE and Canada have down- ment and telcos should acceler- ternational corporations are focusing on But in industries where the plans to test. This is by far the tent, and audio/video calls The load speeds between 75-94 Mbps; ate actions towards ensuring direct supply of medical equipment to hot physical infrastructure re- biggest logistical exercise firms poor speed can also be attrib- India is the last amongst BRICS world-class internet speeds spots. Alibaba is sending out 1.1 million quired is a computer and inter- have undertaken for enabling uted to the fact that per house- nations with 11Mbps. It is inter- so that people can be highly testing kits, 6 million masks and 60,000 pro- net connection, remote work- employees to work from home. hold data consumption in cities esting that countries like Sri productive working or learning ing can be enabled. It has other Industry bodies like NASSCOM and towns has increased sig- Lanka, Pakistan and Nepal are remotely. tective suits to Africa. Swiss pharma giant Roche is concentrating on producing 4 lakh testing kits a week to meet demand, and fashion-luxury brand Louis Vuitton has turned to producing sanitisers. Taking Much more potent as a “The good news is most of these ‘Should be avoided for pure cost reasons’ are man-made and can easily be THE greenhouse gas than CO2 a leaf from their international peers, may- addressed through action by Gunnar Luderer and Nico Bauer, climate economists at be Indian companies should divert capac- METHANE Using imaging data gathered by the individual companies, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, said ity to producing medical essentials. European Space Agency’s Sentinel- governments and regulators,” the study may overestimate the warming impact of LEAKS 5P monitoring mission, the study Antoine Rostand, head of Kayrros, methane leaks. “Still, the annual leakage of 20 Mt of shows more than 100 “high-volume methane from 100 point sources mostly in the energy Methane, a powerful greenhouse an asset observation platform emission events” worldwide from gas that conducted the analysis, told industry is an astonishing loss that is worth further DELAYING OLYMPICS BY gas, is leaking from industry sites at storage and transmission facilities. AFP. While methane only stays in validation,” they told AFP. They said the leaks alone were rates equivalent to the annual carbon These events alone emitted around the atmosphere a fraction of the worth nearly two-thirds of all natural gas use in France emissions of France and Germany A YEAR IS RIGHT CALL 20 million tonnes of methane—the time that CO2 does, over a period every year, with an industry impact of nearly $4.4 billion. combined, a new analysis using short-term equivalent to releasing of decades it is dozens of times “Economists would expect that such leakage would be ow that the new dates for the resched- satellite data showed this week 1.8 billion tonnes of carbon pollution more potent as a greenhouse gas avoided for pure cost reasons,” said Luderer and Bauer uled Tokyo Games are out (July 23- August 8, 2021), let’s get one thing out of the way. The International Olym- MINDSPACE Write to: [email protected] MAILBAG Write to: [email protected] Npic Committee and the local organis- ers have got it spot on. They have given athletes, the international federations and Delhi administration, Jamaat have many questions to answer the other stakeholders 478 days to put new Remembering my This is with reference to Corona Hold China accountable Interest rate cut will affect us plans and processes into place. Postponing spread: Jamaat, Delhi govt are It is unfortunate that China It is shocking that the Centre has the Olympics by just a couple of months both culpable (Apr 1). When the doesn’t seem to have learnt a cut rates of the small savings would not have solved anything as the whole country is under a lock- thing from the pandemic. The scheme. The small savers, who virus shows no signs of slowing down; illustrious grandpa down, the conduct of a congrega- world is still on its knees due to have sacrificed a lot to save their there could easily have been a scenario of tion in Nizamuddin, Delhi, involv- the virus, but the wet market at money using such schemes in the IOC needing to push back the dates am writing this as a tribute to my grandfather, Kuruppath ing nearly 2,000 people including Wuhan, where the entire mess banks, post offices, etc., will earn again. Athletes would have still been forced Kuttikrishna Menon, whose 130th birth anniversary was in foreigners was a great offence. It started, has been opened again. much less by way of interest, February 2020. He was a legal luminary and practised law is baffling how such a large gath- All nations must build pressure which will affect their standard to train while risking their lives and inter- for more than 70 years. He rose to become Advocate General ering was allowed to assemble. on China to hold it accountable for of living. This will further affect national federations would have been of the erstwhile Madras Presidency and even appeared in The police, Delhi administration the virus spread. the country’s economy. left scratching their heads as to how and the Privy Council, London (equivalent to the Supreme and the religious body have many Jishi R, Kollam S Ramakrishnasayee, Chennai where to stage the qualifying events. Fur- I Court during British Rule). He moved to the Kerala High questions to answer. ther, there was no question of moving it Court after the state reorganisation in 1956. O B Nair, Kochi Barbaric act by Pakistan Uncharitable reduction back by a couple of months because Cana- I had the privilege of living with my grandparents till I The report that Pakistan is deny- The sudden reduction in the in- da and Australia had already ruled out got married, since my parents were away in Myanmar. They Damage is already done ing food supplies to its minorities, terest rates of the small saving were very close to me and hence I never missed my parents. What happened at the Tablighi claiming they are for Muslims scheme is quite uncharitable. A sending their athletes to Tokyo this year. My grandfather was a meticulous person and a strict disci- Jamaat headquarters in Delhi is a only, is barbaric. The country majority of those aged 70 and As the Indian Olympic Association presi- plinarian, both in his personal and professional life. To a gross violation of prohibitory or- seems to be under the dominance above rely solely on interest in- dent Narinder Batra said on Monday, the great extent, these qualities influenced me. His was a large ders, amounting to criminal neg- of religious fanatics. Economic come for sustenance. The timing nature of the rescheduling will ensure a family of three boys and five girls, all well settled. We al- ligence. The damage has already sanctions against Pakistan is vital of this exercise is also bad. The level playing field. ways had guests at home and relatives would jokingly com- been done. Now, mitigation efforts for incontrovertible reasons. present government seems to One of the main reasons why athletes ment on our home being ‘free boarding and lodging’. are the only way out. Those re- Thomas K M, Muvattupuzha have not wasted any opportunity My grandfather provided le- sponsible must be brought to to bring down interest rates of had urged the IOC to postpone the event gal aid and monetary assistance book, along with those who didn’t Salute them for selfless service such schemes to try and bring was that sportspersons from several coun- LEGAL LUMINARY during the freedom movement. perform their duties. This is with reference to How them on par with banks. tries were not able to go outside and train. He had helped Shri K P Kesava C G Kuriakose, Kothamangalam shall we respond to the pandemic? R Viswanathan,Chennai This time allows them to rest while the USHA MENON Menon, his close friend, in es- (Apr 1). Prevention is always bet- pandemic rages, they can now also plan Email: [email protected] tablishing Mathrubhumi, a Ma- Bringing bad name to their religion ter than cure. Cultivating aware- their mental and physical conditioning layalam daily. Many prominent The action of the Tablighi Jamaat ness about the disease among the personalities like G Sankara is highly condemnable. Delegates masses will help in prevention. In properly after the threat recedes. Athletes Kurup (first Jnanpith Award winner) and Mannath Pad- from countries with high infec- the end, though there is no cure in THE NEW INDIAN EXPRESS are creatures of habit and they cannot manabhan (Nair Leader and social reformer) used to call tion rates were also present in the sight, it is the medical personnel Chairman of the Board: Manoj Kumar Sonthalia jump straight back into the saddle without on him for legal counselling and social causes. convention. It is against the tenets who serve the afflicted humans Editor: G S Vasu first working up their fitness gradually. Many of his juniors became judges in High Courts and of Islam, which insists on obeying risking their lives. We salute them Resident Editor (Karnataka) : This one-year postponement ensures they the Supreme Court. However, he always preferred to remain the rules of the country where for their selfless service. Santwana Bhattacharya* can follow a set programme, listen to con- a practising lawyer. The Bar Association of Kerala hon- one resides. The irresponsible Chilaka Venkateswarlu, Chennai Published by R K Jhunjhunwala on behalf of ditioning experts and plan their exposure oured him for completing 60 years of uninterrupted prac- acts of such people bring a bad Express Publications (Madurai) Private Limited, tice. He continued his practice till he was 86 years old. He name to the religion they follow. Oz PM’s words of appreciation at No. 1, Queen’s Road, Bengaluru - 560 001 and trips accordingly. spent his retired life in his house at Palakkad. Dr M Haneef, Kottayam It was gratifying to note the words printed by him at Express Press, Plot No. 2A, It was not just the athletes. The IOC also Bommasandra Industrial Area, 4th Phase, Survey I still remember my younger days, playing and enjoying of appreciation from Australian No. 46, Part Yarandahalli Village, Jigani Hobli, had to take the plight of international fed- with my cousins in the sprawling garden of his house. All A matter of concern PM Scott Morrison to PM Naren- Anekal Taluk. Bengaluru - 560 099. erations into consideration. With 47% of his grandchildren used to fondly call him valiachan. The The sudden death of a doctor in dra Modi on his initiatives to con- Bengaluru. Vol. 56, No. 79 the athletes yet to punch a ticket to the secret of his sound health was regular yoga and physical Assam due to cardiac arrest, alleg- tain the virus. Some have criti- RNI Reg. No. 3457/1960. Olympics, there is now a proper gap for exercise along with good food habits. His pillar of strength edly due to an anti-malaria drug cised the decision to supply Phone: 080-22866893, Fax: 080-22866617. was his wife, Madhavikutty Amma, a pious and noble wom- administered to prevent Covid-19, medical equipment to Serbia, but * Responsible for selection of News under the PRB Act. them to ensure all remaining qualifying an. He passed away at the ripe old age of 97 and in the philo- is a matter of concern. The use of one must remember that diseases events get completed. There is no need to Copyright: Express Publications (Madurai) Private Limited. sophical sense, it was anayasena maranam. His only surviv- these drugs for containing the vi- in any part of the world will ulti- All rights reserved. Reproduction in any manner, hurry. It’s why most of the international ing daughter, 91-year-old Padmini Balachandran, is residing rus must be done with caution. mately have an impact on us too. electronic or otherwise, in whole or in part, without prior federations have supported this decision. in Chennai. Sareena D, Thalassery Girish Thampi, T’puram written permission is prohibited. Good to see well known technology leaders MARKAZ CLEARED of India coming together in the fight he abligheamaats Marka, has been against COVID-19 by encouraging cleared after the evacuation of , NUMBER OF people in the past hours, elhi eputy 62 innovations. Ravi Shankar Prasad Total hief Minister Manish isodia said CASES IN J&K

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RG COVID-19 Talihi amaat its other eil side D Global security experts call it the antechamber of fundamentalism, claim it is used to nurse and indoctrinate terrorists ith medical facilities in ndia stretched due to rising corona cases, here are the states relatively better placed in XCEPT intelligence of- In his analysis titled “Tablighi newspaper reports from the 100, including his friend, the number of doctors available ficials, national securi- Jamaat Jihad’s stealthy Le- 1990s, Raman pointed out that the Thauqeer Ahmed Thajudeen. Sri ty experts and the wary gions” in Middle East uarterly trained cadre of jihadi terrorist Lanka Thowheed Jamaat and TOP 10 STATES WITH HIGHEST NO. OF DOCTORS among police officials, Jan 8, 2016 Alex Alexiev writes organisations like HuM obtained Tablighi Jamaat have identical PUNJAB not many Indians would that as 80 per cent of Islamist ex- visas by posing as preachers of goals and their interests con- 48,351 have heard of the name tremists have come from Tablighi Tablighi Jamaat and went abroad verge. Tamil Nadu Thowheed UTTAR E Tablighi Jamaat TJ ranks and the French intelli- to recruit young Muslims for ter- Jamaat is the mentor of Sri Lan- PRADESH before the explosive Nizamuddin gence calls TJ the ‘antechamber ror training in Pakistan. Since ka’s National Thowheed Jamaat, RAJASTHAN 77,549 coronavirus episode gave it the of fundamentalism’. In his inves- S GURUMURTHY millions of TJ proselytisers trav- which delivered the bombs in Sri 43,388 publicity it studiously avoided. tigative story titled “French Is- The author is a commentator on el around the world, TJ also de- Lanka. There is no Thowheed On the face of it, TJ’s six princi- lamic group offers rich soil for political and economic a airs veloped a large following in Jamaat outside India and Sri GUJARAT ples suggest Islamic piety in its militancy’ in he ew or imes Chechnya and Dagestan areas of Lanka. extreme. But that is merely its April 29, 2005 Craig Smith lists Russia, Somalia and other Afri- 66,944 Now, the climax cosmetic exterior, inviting the in- acarias Moussaoui charged in the US. Over the years, Pakistan can countries. Raman wrote that WEST BENGAL nocent and idealistic young Mus- the US 9/11 terror; Herve Djamel has come to be known as the glob- intelligence agencies of these And now the climax, for the un- MAHARASHTRA 72,016 lims into an ideological line that Loiseau, who died fleeing the 2001 al terror hub. Says Dr Farhan, countries suspected that terror wary. Where was this noble look- 1,73,384 ultimately turns them as terror- American bombardment of Tora “Several mainstream Islamist organisations based in Pakistan ing evil born? India. Who found- ANDHRA Number of doctors ists. The less known and danger- Bora in Afghanistan; Djamel Be- violent non-state actors have tak- were using the cover of TJ ed it? Indian. Name? Maulana KARNATAKA PRADESH registered with SMCs ous side of the century-old TJ ghal, an admitted Al-aeda mem- en their roots from TJ’s indoctri- preaching for creating sleeper Mohammed Illyasi. When? In 1,20,261 1,00,587 and MCI between began unfolding the world over ber, who was convicted in 2005 for nation and on the platform pro- cells in different countries. As a 1920s. Where is its global head- 2010 and 2018 since 2001, but not in India. plotting to blow up the US Em- vided by TJ missionaries. It is result, TJ was black-listed and its quarters? Nizamuddin West Del- bassy in Paris, as TJ terror activ- the Deobandi ideology of TJ preachers denied visas.” hi! The place of its annual meet (Source: National Nursery and gateway to terror KERALA TAMIL NADU ists of French origin. Freth Bur- which provides potential jihad- B Raman, one of the most bril- in which hundreds of Tablighis 59,353 1,33,918 Health Profile, 2019) “TJ is another system driver and ton and Scott Stewart, writing in ists a crucial link.” liant R&AW officers, passed away from Malaysia, Thailand, Indone- integral element of Islamist Vio- an analysis titled “Tablighi During the 1980s and 1990s, TJ in 2013. sia, China and other coronavirus lent Non-State Actors’ internal Jamaat An Indirect Line to Ter- became the recruiter of Islamist hotspots participated. The out- In Sri Lanka, too dynamics; in many cases it has rorism” in the trator lobal n radicals for the Afghan war. Dr break was astonishingly in con- JEE Advanced, scheduled acted as nursery for indoctrinat- telligence ecurity eely, say Farhan points out that Harkat-ul In a piece titled “The road to Sri trol in India till Nizamuddin ex- on May 17, postponed ing Islamist terrorists,” writes Dr that 12 out of the 14 men arrested Jihad-al-Islami HuJI was Lanka Carnage” on Rediff.com, ploded as a grave and dangerous Farhan ahid, a Pakistani coun- in a pre-emptive raid on a mosque formed by former TJ members the well known security analyst national threat. TJ with its head- Indian Institute of Technology, elhi, the organizing ter terrorism and security ex- in Barcelona for plotting to attack ari Saifullah Akhtar and Fazal Praveen Swami linked Moham- quarters in India now functions institute for oint Entrance Examination or EE pert, in his analysis titled “Tab- targets belonged to TJ, adding ur Rahman Kalil along with oth- mad Muhsin Nilam, a Sri Lan- in some 80 countries with some 80 Advanced—the entrance test for countr’s 2 IITs — lighi Jamaat and its links with that TJ’s name figured in the 2005 ers. From the HuJI platform kan, to ahran Hashim who was million adherents. this year, has postponed the entrance examination terrorism” oreign nalysis London underground bombings emerged other jihadist outfits - responsible for the Colombo In a 173-page paper titled “Tab- due to ongoing COI 1 outbreak. The March 2015 Centre Francais de in which 52 people died and also Harkat-ul-Mujhahideen HuM bombings. Also known as Abu lighi Jamaat Wolf in sheep’s examination was scheduled to be held on May 1. Reserche Sur le Renseignement. in the attempted bombings in Jaish-e-Mohammed JeM, Shuraya, Nilam was killed in skin Sept 9, 2018; released to me- The postponement is on the account of Dr Farhan says, TJ “in a way London, Glasgow and Scotland. Sipah-e-Sahaba SSP and Raqqa, the ISIS capital. Nilam’s dia again after the Nizamuddin advancement of EE Main, scheduled earlier for plays the role of recruiter and Assistant FBI Director US Mi- Lashkar-e-Jhangvi LeJ. story is key to understanding the episode Salah Uddin Shoaib April first week as top ranking students in the test sympathiser for terrorism. TJ’s chael Heimbach says that TJ has All of them stand declared as networks thought to be responsi- Choudhury, a ionist and multi are eligible for EE Advanced. “EE Advanced 2020, congregation allows radical ele- significant presence in the US, terror outfits. ble for the carnage in Colombo. award winning anti-jihadist jour- which was scheduled to be held on May 1, 2020 ments worldwide to meet and dis- and Al-aeda was found to have Swami says that Tablighi Jamaat nalist and a counterterrorism Terror merchant Sunday, thus stands postponed and will be cuss violent activities and pro- recruited TJ adherents New had begun to grow roots among specialist, unravels the massive rescheduled after EE Main 2020,” said a vide them with the best ork Post Dec 27, 2015. An ndia broad ews ervice re- Sri Lankan Muslims from the following of JT and its terror con- statement from IIT elhi. opportunity to coordinate”. Add- port on April 1, 2020 titled “Tab- early 21st century. Swami says, nections the world over. ing “many of its followers have Turned Pak into terror hub lighi Jamaat shares links with “Educated in Sharia law at Islam- Thousands of TJ teachers from dual and overlapping member- The book titled n he byss terror outfits”, said “As per abad’s International Islamic Uni- within and outside assemble in ship with jihadist groups”, Dr aistan ter the Coup Harper WikiLeaks, some of the 9/11 al- versity, an institution where Osa- India and that is what they did in Farhan cites references and says Collins Publishers India 2000 au- aeda suspects detained by the ma bin Laden’s mentor Abdullah Nizamuddin. Is it just to memo- “TJ has now been considered as thored mainly by Pakistani US in Guantanamo Bay had Azzam once taught, Nilam had rise the six noble principles or as a ‘gateway to terrorism’. scholars, diplomats and writers, stayed in the Tablighi Jamaat encountered with the Tablighi Dr Farhan says “to discuss and says that the largely Barelvi Is- headquarters in Nizamuddin Jamaat. In 2011, when Nilam re- coordinate terror activities”, will Terror record in Europe, US lamic Pakistan, which accepted West, New Delhi, years ago. Tab- turned to his home in Kandy in never be known in India, as no Dr Farhan says since 2001, traces local variations, including Dar- lighi Jamaat was also suspected Sri Lanka, he first worked as government has the guts to enter of links have been found between gah worship and Sufi traditions, to be involved in the burning of part-time Urdu instructor at Co- any mosque, thanks to the way TJ and Islamists involved in acts had been hijacked by Deobandi 59 Hindu kar sevaks in 2002 in lombo University. When he was secularism is understood in our of terror. Shoe bomber Richard ideology through Tablighi Godhra, Gujarat, which led to principal of a school in Galewala, politics. Reid who attempted a trans-At- Jamaat, the result of which was mass communal rioting in the he played a key role in ahran’s Unless this limit is breached lantic airline bombing 2001, the growth of militancy. Khaled state. According to India’s intel- group. Then, in 2014, feigning to and the menace is outlawed, in- Jose Padilla who tried dirty bomb Ahmed, former diplomat and edi- ligence and security expert, late go on a pilgrimage with his six nocent Muslims attracted by its manufacturing 2002 in New tor of riday imes in Pakistan B Raman, TJ in Pakistan and children, pregnant wife, and age- cosmetic exterior of Koran can- ork city, Barcelona terror plot writes in n he byss “Be- Bangladesh gained adverse atten- ing parents, he took them to Tur- not be saved from becoming car- 2008 and the arrest of American cause of the rise of Deobandi mi- tion for association with Harkat- key and disappeared across the riers of Kalashnikovs and mak- Taliban John Walker in Afghani- litias. the Punjab province is ul-Mujahideen, Harkat-ul-Jihad- border into Syria. He posted in ers and throwers of lethal bombs. stan 2001 were all linked to TJ. rapidly losing its Barelvi temper- al-Islami, Lashkar-e-Toiba, his Facebook post “We will kill Let the courts decide whether Its French Muslim recruits were ament.” What the authors had Jaish-e-Mohammad and mem- every man, woman, child, Shia, TJ’s right to mentor terror in In- found involved in planning at- prophesied came true in the very bers of the International Islamic Sunni, oroastrians, Kurds, dia also constitutes minority tacks by the Portland Seven and next year when Pakistan was Front formed by Osama bin Lad- Christians.” Nilam had recruited right, as is so far being the Lackawanna Six in the US. found involved in 9/11 attack on en in 1998. uoting Pakistani for ISIS 36 Sri Lankans, may be understood.

A student walks with her belongings after completing 14- RIGHTS PLEA days of quarantine at a facility in Srinagar | PTI ops arry out raids to nab ablighi head KEEPING THE LIFELINE orld odies at for refuees EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE New elhi Jamaat head denied the police version and said the preacher 74 CARGO FLIGHTS and mirants DELHI Police on Wednesday con- was at his home. Musharraf Ali operated L U initiative ducted raids at various locations Khan, a follower of Jamaat and between March 2 and March 1 to arrest Maulana Saad Kandh- member of the committee said, EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE New elhi lawi, the head of Tablighi Jamaat “The Maulana is not under- who has been named in an FIR ground or running away from po- FOUR UN bodies have issued along with five others members lice. He is a religious person. He 37.63 9 flights a joint statement urging peo- of the organisation for violating has his residence on the Markaz ple in the world to protect the government directions and hold- campus. He is in self-isolation as tonnes of operated by Air India, 2 rights and health of everyone ing a religious gathering at its lockdown is in force and will by its regional subsidiary to fight the coronavirus pan- headquarters in Nizamuddin surely cooperate with the police.” transported by Alliance Air and 1 by the demic. The statement jointly area of south Delhi. He, however, added that Kandh- these flights Indian Air Force released by the Office of the The probe has been handed lawi might have gone to his rela- High Commissioner on Hu- over to Crime Branch which is tives’ place in Muzaffarnagar, UP. man Rights, World Health Or- also analysing an audio clip in Saad was booked on Tuesday ganization, United Nations which Saad is allegedly heard them are members of the man- help of the state police being tak- after the police and district ad- Saudi Arabia asks Muslims Human Rights Commission asking people not to fear novel agement committee of Markaz, en. “Investigation is going on and ministration evacuated 2,361 peo- to postpone Haj and the International Organi- coronavirus, calling it a conspir- as the headquarters of the organ- efforts are being made to ascer- ple from the Markaz during a 36- sation on Migration states that acy against Islam. istaion is called. tain whether the voice in the au- hour long operation which Saudi Arabia’s a minister Mohammad Benten has the virus does not discrimi- The others name in the FIR are A Crime Branch officer said dio clips is of Maulana Saad,” continued till early hours of asked Muslims to temporarily postpone the annual nate but refugees, forcibly dis- eeshan, Mufti Shehzad, Moh- raids are being conducted in Del- said a police officer, adding that Wednesday. The building and ad- pilgrimage amid the rising uncertainty arising out placed persons and migrants hammad Saifi, Maulana ounus hi and at other possible hideouts Saad is untraceable. joining areas were sanitised after of the coronavirus pandemic. a is likely to begin are at a heightened risk. and Mohammad Salman. All of in Uttar Pradesh, for which the However, the associates of the the evacuation on Wednesday. in uly this year. “Saudi Arabia is fully ready to “The situation for refugees serve pilgrims and umrah seekers. But under the and migrants held in formal current circumstances, as we are talking about the and informal places of deten- global pandemic... the kingdom is keen to protect tion, in cramped and unsani- Is eauation of the health of Muslims and citizens and so we have tary conditions, is particular- Forein donations in PM CARES alloed asked our brother Muslims in all countries to wait ly worrying. Considering the stranded in before doing a contracts until the situation is lethal consequences COVID-19 clear,” Mohammad Benten said. The likely outbreak would have, they MEA uneils its stratey to fiht irus Iran possile suspension of a is significant as it serves as a should be released without de- maor revenue generation for the kingdom. lay. Migrant children and their EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE New elhi the prohibited list. “The guide- bilateral, regional and global lev- NEW DELHI The Supreme families and those detained lines for the export are clear. el to help chalk out a coordinated Court on Wednesday asked the without a sufficient legal basis GIVEN the unprecedented cir- Some items can be exported on a response, and setting up the COV- Centre to examine the possi- should be immediately re- cumstances arising out of the case to case basis after clearance ID-19 cell. bility of bringing back 250 In- Sc seek govt response on plea leased,” the statement read. coronavirus pandemic, the Cen- by the Director General of PM Narendra Modi and Ex- dian pilgrims stranded in “While countries are closing tre has agreed to accept foreign Foreign Trade. However, ternal Affairs Minister S Iran, who have tested positive for WHO-approved PPEs their borders and limiting donations in the PM-CARES the item sent to Serbia Jaishankar have been and are yet to be evacuated. The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought the cross-border movements, fund, sources said. was not on the prohibited speaking to their coun- The Centre informed the top Centre’s response on a plea seeking directions to there are ways to manage bor- On the issue of the foreigners list,” a source said. terparts. There is a meet- court that it has already facili- make available World ealth Organisation WO der restrictions in a manner who attended the Tablighi Sources said a three- ing of the Indo-Pacific tated the return of 1,142 Indi- approved personal protective equipment for which respects international Jamaat event in New Delhi vio- point focus strategy is be- members on March 20, ans of which 787 are pilgrims, doctors treating Covid-1 patients. A bench headed human rights and refugee pro- lating visa norms, sources said ing employed to counter the sources said. Later his week, under intense operational con- by ustice Chandrachud heard the plea filed by tection standards, including that the authorities concerned spread of the virus — taking care commerce ministers of SAARC straints after restrictions were Nagpur-based doctor erryl Banait, who had the principle of non-refoule- will take action if norms were of Indians abroad, efforts on the nations will also meet. imposed for public health rea- sought an interim order for immediate ment, through quarantine and flouted. “We will extend all coop- sons in Iran, where it was dif- implementation of infection prevention guidelines health checks,” it added. eration that is required,” a source ficult to organise transport issued by the Centre and WO for rational use of The UN bodies also urge not in the Ministry of External Af- COVID DATABASE and other logistics. The SC personal protective equipment. The court asked to let fear of intolerance to un- fairs said. A COI-1 control room set up by MEA is working round the clock to then told the petitioners’ coun- solicitor general Tushar Mehta to look into the dermine or compromise the Dismissing reports that a pro- address the issues of Indians across the globe. The control room, sources sel that the matter be left to the issue and file a response by early next week. effectiveness of the responses hibited PPEs were exported to said, has received a total of ,00 calls and 2,200 emails since it was set up government. The next hearing of the global pandemic. Serbia, sources said it was not on on March 1. A database is also being created to help find the pandemic. is slated for March 30. INIA Ma Min Ma Min TESTING METHOD hmedabad 38 21 mbai 34 24 hopal 35 18 anai 34 25 omen researchers at anaras indu aipr 30 17 atna 34 21 niversity have developed a new mritsar 22 15 cknow 37 18 testing method for he 25 SUPPLIES LIFTED ew elhi 32 17 ort lair 32 24 TONNES olkata 36 24 mphal 31 18 team has patented the method IN 3 DAYS BY IAF rinagar 12 4 handigarh 27 16

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114 (JANTA CURFEW) 22 MARCH Source CPCB 8 RG 108 23 MARCH 2 COVID-19 376 Corona cases 110 24 MARCH 2 104 25 MARCH (LOCKDOWN STARTED) 2 102 26 MARCH 3 in last 24 hours 14 21 Virtual interactive system for 103 27 MARCH entre says spike doesnt reflect national 3 10 101 28 MARCH prisoners in Bihar jails trend as most cases related to ablighi 1 8 33 103 29 MARCH Patna To prohibt direct meeting of visitors with 0 12 ail inmates, the Bihar prison department has 39 EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE New elhi underway where the cases have introduced “e-mulakati”e-visitation virtual No of cities Cities with Cities with Cities with interaction system. This was done as part of social spiked, Agarwal said. for which AQI in range AQI in AQI in range 43 distancing measures with a view to reduce mental INDIA registered 376 cases of In a meeting with chief secre- COVID-19 in last 24 hours, with taries and DGPs, Cabinet Secre- data is of Good to Moderate of Poor to stress and worry amongst the prisoners if they available Satisfactory Category Severe remain away from their family members amid the the Centre asserting that the tary Rajiv Gauba emphasised lockdown. Sharing details, Inspector General of numbers do not represent a na- on intensive contact tracing of Police, Prison and Correctional Services, Mithilesh tional trend as the spike is pri- Tablighi Jamat participants. Mishra said that booths have been set up at many marily due to travel by the peo- The states were asked to com- ails to facilitate the interaction of prisoners with ple who had attended the plete the contact tracing process D 91 their kins though the e-mulakati system introduced Tablighi Jamaat congregation on a war footing, said a govern- in the eastern state. in Delhi. ment statement. “It has been Massive eercise done to collect AI data 92 The official tally of confirmed found that foreigners who had 65 novel coronavirus pa- participated in the Real time air quality data was collected by the Cenntra Pollution 90 tients stands at 1,637 Tablighi Jamat had COntrol Board from air quality stations in 115 cities across the 85 of which 132 have re- violated visa condi- country to assess impact of lockdown period. 81 67 covered while 38 died. tions. The states were 73 At a press briefing asked to initiate ac- on Wednesday, Lav Our advice is any tion for violation of kind of congregation Agarwal, joint secre- should be avoided. visa condition against tary, Union Ministry Social distancing the foreigners and the tay at home lears the air of Health and Family measures should be event organisers.” Welfare, said 1,800 followed by Authorities an- RICHA SHARMA New elhi from higher to lower end of cate- industrial areas. Overall, Janata people related to the everyone without nounced that the In- gory and 17 cities moving in ‘Sat- Curfew resulted in general im- Tablighi Jamaat were failure dian Railways is pre- PEOPLE in 85 major cities across isfactory’ category and 07 cities in provement in air quality. shifted to nine hospi- Jt secy, health paring to set up 3.2 India were able to breathe easy ‘Good’ category. The AI value in “During start of pre lockdown tals and quarantine lakh isolation and during Janata Curfew and nation- coastal areas slightly improved period on March 16, 55 cities were centres. quarantine beds by al-wide lockdown as most of the though not as significantly as not- under ‘Good’ & ‘Satisfactory’ AI “The recent rise in the num- modifying 20,000 coaches. Modi- vehicles remained off road and ed for Indo Gangetic plains,” said categories. As days progressed, ber of cases does not represent fication of 5,000 coaches has be- non-essential industrial units the report. On the day of curfew, the number of cities under these a national trend if compared gun, through which 80,000 new were closed, the Central Pollution Chennai and Mumbai remained categories started to decrease with the previous trends. But as isolation beds are expected. Control Board said in a report. in ‘Satisfactory’ category. A slight with more moving in ‘Moderate’ we all know, naturally cases will “The civil aviation ministry The CPCB report assessed qual- increase in AI value was noted category. The pattern continued grow due to negligence and has launched lifeline flights to ity of air between March 16 and in Chennai on the next day, pos- till March 21, The situation carelessness,” Agarwal, said. transport essential commodi- March 29. It found that most of sibly due to local contribution. changed on March 22. On the day “Our advice is that any kind of ties, PPEs, testing kits, medi- the million plus population cities The positive impact on air qual- of Janata Curfew, 67 cities record- congregation should be avoided. cines and masks. 15.4 tons of showed improvement in air qual- ity was not observed significantly ed ‘Good’ & ‘Satisfactory’ AI val- Social distancing measures medical supplies have already ity levels post Janata curfew on in industrial cities. High AI val- ues,” said the analysis. should be followed by everyone been transported in last five March 22. “Indo Gangetic cities ue was noted in Vapi, Ratlam, The trend has continued, with without failure.” days,” Agarwal said in the showed significant improvement Satna, Singrauli and Chandrapur increasing number of cities re- Twins named after Corona Additional sample testing is press briefing. in AI values with levels moving seemingly due to emissions from cording ‘Good’ AI value. and Covid in Chhattisgarh Raipur In Chhattisgarh state capital, a couple decided to name their twins as Corona and Covid. Lokdon: laourers die of old hile trekkin to home Preeti 2 and her husband inay erma had a torrid time struggling to reach r Bhimrao FAYAZ WANI Srinagar district. The group decided to mad (22), all from Hinyal village weather conditions, he said. Ambedkar Memorial hospital, where she gave birth take the mountainous route as no in Banihal. Haseeb said a rescue operation to a girl and a boy. “Both the mother and newborn THREE labourers had to pay civilian movement is allowed on “Three labourers reached their was launched by the police when babies are doing fine. A team of doctors and with their life while trekking a the Srinagar-Jammu national village safely while four other news came in that four labourers medical staff performed a Caesarean section on treacherous route through moun- highway in view of the ongoing were stuck at a hill top, Nagiman- were stuck on the hill top. “Our the mother after she complained of labour pain tainous range from south Kash- lockdown to contain COVID-19. du (Hingal top), about 5 km from personnel managed to rescue one and complications,” said Shubhra Singh, a public mir’s Anantnag district in order While the three died of hypo- Dulligam, Banihal,” Senior Su- labourer while three others had relation officer of the Ambedkar hospital. The to reach homes at Banihal in the thermia after being stuck in a perintendent of Police (SSP), died of hypothermia due to the ermas who hail from Uttar Pradesh. “We wished lockdown. hill top due to bad weather on Ramban, Haseeb-ur-Rehman told cold,” the SSP said. “The bodies to ease the people’s anxiety and fear associated The trio was part of a group of Tuesday evening, three others this newspaper. were recovered from the spot.” with these words. Secondly, we would like to make seven labourers who started managed to reach their homes The hill top had received heavy Wednesday was the 14th day of the occasion memorable. So, I and my husband their trek on Tuesday morning and one had to be rescued by the snowfall, leading to a considera- lockdown in Kashmir. The lock- took an instant decision to name our boy and girl from Verinag in Anantnag dis- police. The deceased were identi- ble drop in temperature. Four la- down in Kashmir was imposed on as Covid and Corona,” Preeti said. trict, where they had been work- fied as Ghulam Mohidin (30), bourers could not cross the ter- March 19, a day after the first posi- ing, to reach Banihal in Ramban ubair Ahmad (20) and Reyaz Ah- rain because of extreme bad tive COVID-19 case was reported.

UTTARAKHAND NAGALAND HIMACHAL PRADESH JAMMU AND KASHMIR

Who is a local/domicile? Any person with Who is a local/domicile? There are 16 tribes, Who is a local/domicile? Any person who has a Who is a local/domicile? The new policy defines Antimiroial oatin holds documentary proof of residence in Uttarakhand including Kacharis, recognised as “indigenous” and permanent home in HP or is residing in the state for a domicile as a person who has resided in J&K for 15 dating back to 1985. Apart from this, those who have are called “permanent residents.” They are people 20 years or has a permanent home in Himachal but is years, has studied there for seven years, registered 15 years of residency proof in the state such as land who have been living in Nagaland since 1963 living outside on account of his occupation migrants and their children, children of government promise in oronairus fiht record, rent proof etc Rights over jobs Only “permanent residents” are Rights over jobs Government jobs are open for all; officials who have served in J&K for 10 years Rights over jobs Government jobs of all categories eligible for state government jobs and scholarships in last year the appointment of 16 persons from Bihar, Rights over jobs Under the domicile policy just EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE New elhi activate SARS-CoV-2 upon con- ranging from gazetted officers, Group C and D are educational institutions. No one else, including Nagas Jharkhand, Delhi, Haryana and Punjab for clerical announced, exclusive rights are reserved only for tact and can help prevent open for all citizens of India. Non-domicile from neighbouring states, get the benefits posts was heavily criticised low-ranking government positions AFTER reports of higher chanc- contamination if coated on vari- candidates have to apply in ‘General’ category es of survival of COVID-19 virus ous surfaces. “Till date, to the Rights over land/property They are protected Rights over land/property Under Section 118 of Rights over land/property The government on metallic surfaces, researchers best of our knowledge, there is no Rights over land/property There is no under Article 371A of the constitution, which says no the HP Tenancy and Land Reform Act, 1972, outsiders is working on a policy to give exclusive rights to have developed a one-step curable covalent coating strategy which prohibition on purchase of a property or house or Act of Parliament in respect of ownership/transfer of can purchase only land/property of the HP Urban residents; before the nullification of Article 370, anti-microbial coating which, can kill all viruses, bacteria and land for residential purpose; but there is cap of 250 land shall apply to the state unless the Nagaland Development Authority, any other land/property outsiders were not permitted to purchase land when coated on differ- fungi,” said the re- square meters on purchase of agricultural land assembly by a resolution so decides purchase has to cleared by the state cabinet or property ent surfaces such as tex- searchers. The coating tile, plastic could kill a can be fabricated on range of viruses includ- various surfaces. Its ing corona. ease and robustness PARTIES UNITEDLY SLAM NE DOMICILE LA Developed by re- Considering the eliminate the necessity current coronavirus searchers from the outbreak, if shown of skilled personnel for Srinagar maor FAYAZ WANI Srinagar At a time when all our efforts & J&K Apni Party president Al- series of tweets, claimed the Jawaharlal Nehru Cen- to be active, various procurement of the on the same page attention should be focused on taf Bukhari said the order is new law is “part of a diabolical tre for Advanced Scien- personal protective coating. POLITICAL parties in Jammu COVID outbreak, the govern- totally unacceptable. Union demographic project that began tific Research (JN- tools such as masks, Microbial attach- Srinagar mayor unaid and Kashmir were united in de- ment slips in a new domicile Home Minister Amit Shah had on August 5 with Article 370 ab- CASR), an autonomous gloves, gowns can ment and their colony Azim Mattu said the law nouncing the new domicile pol- law for J&K. Insult is heaped on assured Bukhari-led delegation rogation”. “Imposing it in institution under the be coated... The formation on surfaces adds insult to inury of icy and asserted that the Centre injury when we see the law of- that J&K would have a better times of a global pandemic re- Department of Science molecules can also play a major role in the the people. “oing away “humiliated, insulted and mar- fers none of the protections that domicile policy than other veals a callous and paranoid and Technology, the co- be coated on other transmission of infec- with district and medical devices ginalised” the people by snatch- had been promised,” tweeted states. Bukhari said the order mindset wilfully violating con- valent coating has been tions. “Considering the divisional recruitment is ing everything from them. National Conference leader reflects a casual exercise car- sent to ensure subjugation.” found to completely kill Researchers current coronavirus an affront to concept of As per the new rules, anyone Omar Abdullah, who was re- ried out at bureaucratic level Ex-BJP ally Sajjad Gani Lone influenza virus as well outbreak, if shown to affirmative action. The who has stayed over 15 years in leased recently after being de- without taking aspirations and termed the new definition of as resistant pathogenic be active, various per- order seems to be a clear the Union Territory or has stud- tained for over seven months. expectations of the people into domicile as “humiliating and bacteria and fungi. The research sonal protective tools such as intent of conveying yet ied for a period of seven years “Even the new party (J&K Apni consideration. “It is totally un- insulting”. J&K National Pan- paper on the coating has been ac- masks, gloves, gowns can be coat- another serving of and appeared in class 10th/12th Party) created with Delhi’s acceptable. It is antithesis to thers Party chairman Harshdev cepted in the journal, pplied ed... The molecules can also be humiliation and insult to examination in an educational blessings, whose leaders were what PM and HM promised in Singh said the Centre had inten- Material and nteraces coated on other medical devices K people after what institution in the UT of J&K is lobbying in Delhi for this law, floor of Parliament.” tionally unveiled the domicile Corona virus, like influenza, is and tools to avoid hospital-ac- transpired in August 5 now eligible for domicile. have been forced to criticise the Detained PDP chief Mehboo- law knowing fully that the peo- also an enveloped virus. It is an- quired infections,” said last year,” he said. “Talk about suspect timing. domicile law.” ba Mufti’s daughter Iltija, in a ple cannot protest now. ticipated that the coating may in- the researchers.

FAYAZ WANI ‘Bring detainees back’ ‘Talaash’ to track people concealing travel history Our correspondent in ammu and Kashmir Worried families of prisoners lodged To prevent the spread of COI-1 pandemic, the Srinagar administration has launched in ails outside Kashmir have urged a website to track the people, who have been concealing travel history. The website, [email protected] the administration either to release which can be accessed on www.talaashsrinagar.in, provides options of “self report” and their kin or shift them to detention “report about others.” On the website, a person has to submit details like name and centres back home. Over 500 contact number. The administration has appealed families, neighbours and people to SRINAAR Kashmiri prisoners, including alert officials about suspected cases through the websiteapp so that necessary politicians, lawyers, civil society measures in interest of public health can be taken by the government. This is being done members, and traders, are detained to ensure that healthcare infrastructure is not overburdened. Doctors start medical consultation via mobile app in ails outside Kashmir. Most of With the hospitals closing OP service, a group of doctors under the banner of octors them are those, who were detained HC seeks info on test kits, ventilators Association of Kashmir AK has launched Android-based mobile app “AK- immediately after the bifurcation of ELPESK” to provide online medical consultation to the people. AK president r K last year. The families are The K igh Court, while hearing a petition, sought information Suhail Naik said about 100 doctors are available via the app to provide consultations. worried that since most ails are from the government on availability of test kits for detection of “octors assess the history of patient and provide them full-fledged treatment,” he said, overcrowded, there is possibility of COI-1 and ventilators in district hospitals. A division bench adding the app has received overwhelming response. octors would be available either infection. They have urged the headed by Chief ustice Gita Mittal issued notice to the Centre and telephonically or through WhatsApp between am and pm for minor ailments and officials to release their kin or shift the K government seeking an action taken report by April . COI-1 related information on the application, “AK-ELPESK”. The mobile them to detention centres in Muhammad Shafi, the petitioner, appealed the C to order the application can be downloaded on mobile phones which, policy makers say, will help in Kashmir, where the families can at government to ensure the supply of medical equipment. providing medical consultation in an instant. least know about their well-being. eiing 17 6 os ngeles 19 10 olombo 32 24 elborne 24 15 oha 33 20 oscow 15 1 49.1 GOBA bai 32 24 ew ork 12 9 EAHER oston 26 19 ingapore 34 24 4 LR: Light Rain HR: Heavy Rain stanbl 11 9 oronto 17 7 TDS: Thundershower LC: Light Cloud SNY: Sunny ondon 8 3 Washington 23 13

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A PARIS EIRT OHANNESR WAIT CIT SEO NEW OR Afghan govt, Taliban hold Much of the world faces Syria war records lowest US again accused of killing Uproar as Kuwait actress 1000s of Korean workers Amazon fires warehouse talks on prisoner swap food shortage UN WTO monthly death toll in yrs civilians in Somalia strikes calls for ban on expats for US army put on leave worker who led walkout Afghan government The heads of three global The war in Syria killed 10 civilians The US military is facing more A famous Kuwaiti actress has Around 4,000 South Koreans Amazon fired a worker who representatives have met with the agencies FAO, WO and WTO in March, marking the lowest allegations of killing civilians with sparked a furore by calling for working for the US military in their organized a walkout at a New ork Taliban in Kabul for the first time warned on Wednesday of the risk monthly non-combatant death toll airstrikes in Somalia, and now says expatriates to be expelled from the country were put on unpaid leave warehouse to demand greater to discuss a prisoner swap aimed of a worldwide “food shortage” if since the start of the conflict in it will address the issue more fully oil-rich nation so that locals can be Wednesday as Seoul and protection against the new at ump-starting a peace process. authorities fail to manage the 2011, a war monitor said in upcoming public reports. sure of having a hospital bed if they Washington bicker over funding for coronavirus, saying the employee The two sides met Tuesday and ongoing coronavirus crisis properly. Wednesday. Of the total deaths, Amnesty International said in a fall ill with coronavirus. ayat US forces. Washington stations himself flouted distancing rules would meet again Wednesday for Many governments around the some 51 people were killed in new report Wednesday that the US al-Fahad, 1, who is known for 28,500 troops in the country to and put others at risk. New ork further talks being observed by the world have put their populations shelling and air strikes by the Africa Command killed two playing a range of roles in Arabic defend it against the nuclear- City Mayor Bill de Blasio ordered International Committee of the on lockdown causing severe slow- Syrian regime, the Britain-based civilians and inured three in two dramas, told a local T station that armed North, but the security the city’s Commission of uman Red Cross, Afghanistan’s Office of downs in international trade and Syrian Observatory for uman airstrikes in February as it strikes foreigners in the country should be allies’ relationship has been Right to investigate whether the the National Security Council said. food supply chains. Rights said. back at al-aida-linked al-Shabab. kicked out during the health crisis. strained by US demands. dismissal was retaliatory. 30,000 DEAD IN EUROPE, U.S. PREDICTS GRIM TOLL manity reels as pathogen wreaks havoc across the globe millions of ob losses expected ritain sees people die in one day, taking its total to ,

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The coronavirus pandemic has perts sceptical of shaped claimed more than 30,000 lives in rump onronts Europe alone, a global tally recoer of global econom showed Wednesday, in what the head of the United Nations has he worlds biggest economy, the nited tates, is likely in recession o are described as humanity’s worst apan, ingapore, outh orea and anada here are tentative signs hina ne reality arns crisis since World War II. that is on the recovery path, but how will the rest of the world fare perts Italy and Spain bore the brunt are growing doubtful of the possibility a shaped recovery, when the of the crisis, accounting for economy bounces back after a period of recession e take a look three in every four deaths on the o lakh irus toll continent, as the grim tally hit RAVAGES O HE ANEMIC another milestone even though WASHINTON half of the planet’s population is already under some form of US President Donald Trump lockdown in a battle to halt warned Americans to brace for contagion. Oil prices have a “hell of a bad two weeks” Spain reported a record 864 fallen nearly 70% ahead as the White House pro- A medical worker looks at a Covid-19 patient through the window of a train at the deaths in 24 hours, pushing the jected there could be 100,000 to Gare d’Austerlitz station in Paris on Wednesday | AFP $12 tn country’s number of fatalities 240,000 deaths in the U.S. from past 9,000. The coronavirus the coronavirus pandemic even The toll is only dwarfed by It- facts and the risk that it contrib- has wiped $12 if current social distancing ana reuests financial trillion off the The MSCI’s 4-nation aly’s, where the virus has killed support from lenders utes to enhanced instability, en- guidelines are maintained. nearly 12,500 people. hanced unrest, and enhanced world’s stock index has fallen more Public health officials stressed Since emerging in China in Colombo Sri Lankan President conflict are things that make us markets than 2 Tuesday that the number could Gotabaya Raapaksa is requesting US President Donald Trump at a briefing December, COVID-19 has spread believe that this is the most chal- be less if people across the coun- about the new coronavirus | AP across the globe, claiming over that international financial lenging crisis we have faced I HE N HA try bear down on keeping their organisations provide debt 43,000 lives and infecting more since the Second World War.” CORONAVIRUS Economists were initially predicting a recovery distance from one another. Hopkins University. moratorium or debt deferment BE SOE than 860,000 people, according to in the second half of 2020, but with the virus “We really believe we can do a The White House figures as- facilities to developing nations ere going to ie anyway an AFP tally. There is no rampaging across the US and Europe, those lot better than that,” said Dr. sume that Americans follow the such as Sri Lanka, which are In a scramble to halt the con- With most business activity guarantee of hopes are dimming Deborah Birx, the coordinator rigorous social-distancing guide- tagion, governments have shut adversely affected due to the grinding to a halt for an undeter- the pandemic of the White House coronavirus lines set out by the Centers for schools, most shops, and ordered new coronavirus. Raapaksa made mined period of time, scenes of dying down in CHINA ON AH O RECOVER task force. That would require Disease Control and Prevention millions of people to work from the request on Wednesday during economic desperation and un- the April-une all Americans to take seriously or the stricter “stay at home” re- a phone discussion with the WO A ump in Chinese factory activity home. rest were emerging in many quarter. If it see chart below despite the their role in preventing the strictions set by many governors Cancellations of key events chief Tedros Adhanom parts of the world. “lasts through spread of disease, she said. across the country. Still, the Ghebreyesus. Raapaksa virus-hit global economy has on the global calendar have In Italy, queues were lengthen- the summer, inected a little hope into markets Added Dr. Anthony Fauci, the White House was not looking at swept both the sports and requested Ghebreyesus to ing at soup kitchens while some then all the government’s top infectious dis- a nationwide order. speak with the lenders. cultural worlds, with the supermarkets were reportedly economic IMAC ON HE US ease expert, “This is a number “We live in a nation that has a Edinburgh arts festival pillaged. Half a million more effects will be Goldman Sachs on Tuesday said the number of that we need to anticipate, but system of federalism, and the the latest to be scrapped. ably has no parallel in people now need help to afford amplified,” umeployed people in the US may grow to 15 we don’t necessarily have to ac- governors get to make the deci- For UN Secretary-Gen- the recent past,” he said. meals, Italy’s biggest union for oseph Stiglitz, cept it as being inevitable.” sions,” Dr. Jerome Adams, the eral Antonio Guterres, the “The combination of the agriculture sector Coldiretti a Nobel of Americans already cannot afford an Trump called it “a matter of surgeon general, told NBC’s “To- extraordinary upheaval the two facts and the risk that said, adding to the 2.7 million al- laureate, told unplanned out-of-pocket expense of life and death” for Americans to day” on Wednesday. “But we’re spurred by the virus presents a it contributes to enhanced insta- ready in need last year. Bloomberg $400, as per Mckinsey Co. heed his administration’s guide- gonna give them the best possi- real danger to the relative peace bility, enhanced unrest, and en- In Tunisia several hundred lines and predicted the country ble guidance we can, and that’s the world has seen over the last hanced conflict are things that protested a week-old lockdown I feel like the 2008 financial crisis was just a dry run for this. would soon see a “light at the end to stay at home and to social few decades. make us believe that this is the that has disproportionately hit This is already shaping up as the deepest dive on record for the of the tunnel” in a pandemic distance.” The disease “represents a most challenging crisis we have the poor. “Never mind coronavi- global economy for over 100 years. Everything depends on how that in the United States has in- “This is going to be one of the threat to everybody in the world faced since the Second World rus, we’re going to die anyway! long it lasts, but if this goes on for a long time, it’s certainly fected about 190,000 people and roughest two or three weeks and... an economic impact that War.” Let us work!” shouted one pro- going to be the mother of all financial crises killed more than 4,000, according we’ve ever had in our country,” will bring a recession that prob- “The combination of the two tester near Tunis. to figures compiled by Johns Trump said. Kenneth S. Rogoff, an economist at Harvard, told the New York Times

60 Russia plane heads to Shia minority CHINA’S MANACTRIN PMI S ith supplies Moscow A Russian military sapeoated in plane carrying medical equipment has departed for Pak for irus the United States, the defence 50 ministry in Moscow said Wednesday, as the Kremlin spread: Panel flexes its soft power amid the Chinas Purchasing coronavirus pandemic. The WASHINTON Managers Index, a key Antonov-124, “with medical irus ‘uncontrollable’ on gauge of factory masks and medical equipment American aircraft carrier A US commission mandated to on board”, left for the US activity, umped to China’s proected monitor international religious overnight, a statement said, Brett Crozier, the captain of the US 40 52.0 from a record low economic growth freedom has expressed concern without providing further nuclear-powered aircraft carrier 5. the month before. rate for 2020, as over reports of a provincial gov- details. Contacted by AFP, the Theodore Roosevelt, told the Any figure above 50 is per research firm ernment in Pakistan targeting defence ministry refused to Pentagon that new coronavirus is considered growth. and “scapegoating” the already TS Lombard provide any further spreading uncontrollably through marginalised Shiite Hazara eth- information on the delivery, his ship and called for immediate HERO’S WECOME help to quarantining its A medical assistance worker from Huaian, China, is greeted by her daughter after nic minority community for the which came after Russian spread of the deadly novel coro- 30 President ladimir Putin spoke 4,000-strong crew. But efense returning home from the coronavirus frontline in Wuhan, Hubei | AP navirus in the country. G F M with US counterpart onald Secretary Mark Esper on Tuesday In uetta, the government has Trump on Monday. ruled out evacuating the ship. completely sealed off two areas of the Hazara community- Haz- ara Town and Marriabad- as irus hits beleaguered media part of lockdown in the city, the upert Murdochs ustralian flagship media group ews orp announced United States Commission on In- Putin orks remotely after meetin infeted do ednesday it will stop printing doens of regional newspapers, as the ternational Religious Freedom troubled sector received a fresh blow from a advertising downturn (USCIRF) said in a statement. MOSCOW tial residence in Novo-Ogaryovo The government also forbade outside Moscow. government employees from RUSSIAN leader Vladimir Pu- Putin donned a bright yellow AMERICAS ARGES UBISHER travelling into Hazara neighbor- tin has decided to handle his du- hazmat suit for the visit last The largest US newspaper publisher, Gannett, hoods, and reportedly forced ties remotely, the Kremlin said, Tuesday to the hospital. He was 60 said on Monday it was making unspecified Hazara policemen to go on leave after the head of the country’s also seen talking to Protsenko News Corp furloughs and pay cuts for its staff. under suspicion they are infect- main coronavirus hospital test- without any protective gear but said 0 ed by relatives. ed positive following a meeting the Kremlin said there is no rea- regional Social media users have made with the president. son for concern about the presi- papers in the allusions to coronavirus as the Denis Protsenko, who met with dent’s health. states of New 25% ‘Shi’a virus,’ given fears of its Putin last week as the Russian “All of those who were with the South Wales, Gannett said it is cutting spread by pilgrims returning leader visited the Kommunarka president at Kommunarka are ictoria, pay and hours of from Iran, the statement said. hospital in Moscow, said Tues- being tested daily for the coro- ueensland newsroom employees by This isolation and further day he had been infected with navirus,” Peskov added. and South 25 in April, May and stigmatization of the Hazara the coronavirus but was feeling President Vladimir Putin (R) met with a head of a hospital on Monday | AP Almost 70 per cent of Russia’s Australia une because of minority could limit their abil- well. 147 million population has been would cease advertising declines. ity to receive proper medical “The president prefers these told journalists, shortly before “We are taking all precaution- ordered into strict confinement. printing and Executives are getting a care as the coronavirus contin- days to work remotely,” Krem- Putin was due to hold a cabinet ary measures,” he said, adding Russia has so far registered move online pay cut of 25 ues to spread within Pakistan. lin spokesman Dmitry Peskov meeting by videoconference. that Putin was at the presiden- 2,777 cases and 24 deaths. MARKET GOLD SILVER Market 1,203.18 Sensex 28,265.31 24 carat (1 gm) H4,347 Per kg H39,250 Watch 343.95 Nifty 8,253.80 22 carat (1 gm) H4,330 Per gm H39.25 BENGALURU THURSDAY 10 02 l04l2020 DIVING DEMAND ‘More cash transfers, food RBI continues rolling GST COLLECTION out COVID-19 relief rations needed for the poor’ ENS ECONOMIC BUREAU L @ Hyderabad JAYANTA ROY CHOWDHURY well known economist sure that at least 10 kg free ra- BELOW 1L CR @ New Delhi Meghnad Desai, former RBI tions per person per month, THE RBI on Wednesday an- Deputy Governor Rakesh Mo- along with other necessary nounced a slew of measures COVID-19 impact likely to hit collections SOME of India’s top econo- han, former Planning Commis- items, is available for all eligi- to tide over the economic im- harder in the first quarter of the new fiscal mists, civil servants and social sion Member Abhjit Sen, for- ble households.” pact of the Covid-19 pandem- scientists have written a joint mer Chief Economic Advisor The group also estimates ic. First, it gave extra time to letter to Prime Minister Naren- Deepak Nayyar, former Union that some 40-50 million mi- exporters for collecting and ENS ECONOMIC BUREAU @ New Delhi dra Modi as well as to the chief Health Secretary Sujata Rao, grant labourers are currently repatriating payments for ministers of all states asking former Interstate Council unemployed and want to goods and software sold to he economic slowdown and the spread for a series of measures includ- Secretary Amitabh Pan- head back to their villag- overseas buyers. Presently, of COVID-19 related lockdowns took ing `3.6 lakh crore in cash sup- dey and Ajit Ranade, es. It suggests that the these payments are required their toll on Goods and Services Tax port for families who are not in Chief Economist, Adi- Centre and states could to be realised fully and repat- 2020 and will be valid till Sep- GST (GST) collections in March, with the the tax net or have a member tya Birla Group, feels use their facilities to riated to the country within a tember 30, 2020. collection figure slipping below the `1 lakh crore working for the formal sector. more needs to be done. house them without period of 9 months from the The move comes a day after target cut mark at `97,597 crore. GST collections The letter says that the cen- “The direct benefit over-crowding and start date of export. This has now the RBI increased the WMA T in February had stood at `1.06 lakh tral and state governments to- transfers announced was a community feeding been extended to 15 months limit to `70,000 crore for the In February, the finance crore and finance ministry officials say that the gether should immediately step forward, but we need to do programs. from the date of export. central government for the ministry had fall in collections is due to the dip in overall think of ensuring “a minimum more. The Telangana example Among other things, they “The measure will enable July-September quarter, up cut its GST domestic demand. transfer of at least `6,000 per is a good one where the state is also seeks a scheme to compen- exporters to realise their re- from `60,000 crore in the pre- collection However, despite the dip, in the April-March month to each Jan Dhan Yojana trying to reach out on a wider sate unorganised and MSME ceipts, especially from COV- vious quarter. target period of FY20, gross GST collection grew by woman account holder with a scale without excluding any- sector players for wages of con- ID-19 affected countries with- In the same breath, the cen- downwards 3.8 per cent to `12.2 lakh crore compared to the major part borne by the Cen- one,” explained Ravi Srivasta- tract and temporary employees in the extended period, and tral bank has reiterated that it to `11.26 lakh previous year, official data showed, exceeding tral Government over the next va, former Chairman, Centre during the lockdown, besides also provide greater flexibili- wasn’t necessary for banks to crore for the revised target set by the government in Feb- three months.” With 20 crore for Regional Studies, JNU ex gratia payments, to ensure ty to negotiate future export implement counter-cyclical fiscal 2019- ruary. The finance ministry had cut its GST col- estimated beneficiary families Though the centre has prom- that “no needy person or house- contracts with buyers capital buffers (CCyB) 20 from `12.17 lection target downwards to `11.26 lakh crore for 3 months the figure works ised 5 kg of free cereals to the hold remains outside the social abroad,” it said. straight away. The framework lakh crore for fiscal 2019-20 from `12.17 lakh crore. out to `3.6 lakh crore. poor, the group feels that in or- protection net being created to In an effort to manage cash on CCyB was put in place by Of the total `97,597 crore collected, the cen- The government has an- der to ward off hunger “all cope with the current calami- flows, the central bank also the RBI through guidelines is- tral GST (CGST) collections stood at `19,183 nounced some grants including state governments should en- tous conditions.” increased the limit for ad- sued in February 2015, where crore, state GST at `25,601 crore, integrated `2,000 from the PM Kisan vances given to states and un- it advised that CCyB would be GST at `44,508 crore and cess collections at scheme to farmers and a `1,000 Centre and States should ensure a minimum transfer of at least ion territories by 30 per cent activated as and when the cir- `8,306 crore (including `841 crore collected on grant to senior citizens, poor `6,000 per month to each Jan Dhan Yojana woman account holder under Ways and Means Ad- cumstances warranted and with a major part borne by the Centre With most imports), the finance ministry said. widows and poor disabled, etc. vances. The revised limit will that the decision would nor- businesses “The government has settled `19,718 crore to But, the group which includes Group of top economists come into force from April 1, mally be pre-announced. being non- CGST and `14,915 crore to SGST from IGST as operational for regular settlement. In addition, Centre has also a considerable apportioned unsettled balance IGST of `6,000 EXPRESS READ period in March crore on ad-hoc basis in the ratio of 50:50 be- and the tween centre and States/UTs, “ the statement relaxation of COAI U-turn: No emergency spectrum needed SMALL SAVINGS SCHEMES delayed said. The total number of GSTR-3B returns filed up to March 31, 2020 is 76.5 lakh, it added. Telecom industry body COAI on Wednesday said that telcos are of the payments view that there is no need for additional spectrum to maintain stability being allowed, Experts claim that the larger impact of the and quality of telecom networks since the recent slew of measures, INTEREST RATES SLASHED the collections COVID-19 outbreak will be visible from April in the coming onwards. “The GST collections not witnessing including streaming services switching content to SD (standard quarter would a significant dip this month is encouraging, es- definition) and traffic redistribution, has led to reduced pressure on ENS ECONOMIC BUREAU see quite a fall pecially with the numbers expected to reduce network infrastructure. The organisation had written to the @ New Delhi Abhishek Jain, in coming months,” said Abhishek Jain, Tax Department of Telecom earlier seeking emergency spectrum allocations Large-scale cuts a shock to Tax Partner, EY Partner at EY. to alleviate the burden on network infrastructure. SMALL savings deposits will now earn significantly lower senior citizen depositors returns with the Central gov- A look at how various small savings schemes will earn lower interest: ernment sharply reducing interest rates for the entire Interest: Earlier From April 1 (All figures in %) Paytm Money founder MD Pravin Jadhav quits spectrum of small savings schemes late Tuesday. The SUKANYA SAMRIDDHI NATIONAL SAVINGS ACCOUNT SCHEME CERTIFICATE BISMAH MALIK @ Bengaluru Paytm Mall and Paytm Pay- engineering, finance and cus- expand the market for Paytm deep cuts, ranging from 70- ments Bank. Although Paytm tomer care teams. Money, with mutual fund ser- 140 basis points, will come as FOUNDER MD and CEO of declined to comment, sources Paytm Money has played a vices likely to be extended to a shock to senior citizens and Paytm Money Pravin Jadhav said that the management has significant role in helping Pay- the 16 million merchants who others who depend primarily has resigned from his post due already accepted the resigna- tm founder Vijay Shekhar have signed up on the Paytm on income from such fixed 8.4 7.6 7.9 6.8 to growing differences with the tion and will announce a Sharma build up the fi- platform. Paytm Money had re- instruments. company board, sources said. replacement soon. nancial services com- cently received approvals from The new rates will go into Balance after 1 year with Balance after 1 year with Jadhav, who built Paytm’s Jadhav’s resignation pany especially after its SEBI for its stock broking busi- effect for the April-June Rs 1 lakh deposit Rs 1 lakh deposit wealth management arm into comes at a time when e-commerce vertical — ness as well as the go-ahead quarter beginning April 1, India’s leading mutual fund the online investment Paytm Mall — lost out from the Pension Fund Regula- 2020. The move follows the L1,08,400 L1,07,600 L1,07,900 L1,06,800 platform, reportedly quit over and digital payment plat- to e-tailers like Amazon tory and Development Author- RBI decision to cut interest issues related to employee forms in the country is and Flipkart. Sharma’s bet ity (PFRDA) to offer Pension rates by 75 basis points tak- KISAN VIKAS PATRA SR. CITIZENS SAVINGS SCHEME stock options (ESOPs) and gaining traction during the on wealth management has Development Systems. ing the repo rate to 4.4 per (COMPOUNDED QUARTERLY) remuneration. COVID-19 lockdown. On his paid dividends since Paytm However, Paytm has been cent, the lowest since 2004, in Paytm Money is part of Pay- LinkedIn profile, Jadhav Money now claims to have 50 witness to a gradual exodus of an effort to counter the eco- tm parent One97 Communica- claims that he has built Paytm lakh users, with a monthly senior management executives nomic fallout of the coronavi- tions’ growing consumer eco- Money from scratch leading growth of 15-20 per cent. who headed various verticals rus pandemic. 7.6 6.9 8.6 7.4 system, alongside Paytm, product development, design, The company is looking to over the past one year. For the popular Public Provident Fund (PPF), the Balance after 1 year with Rs 1 Balance after 1 year with annual interest rate has been lakh deposit Rs 1 lakh deposit TODAY’S STOCK PICK slashed from 7.9 per cent to CONSOLIDATION 7.1 per cent, while the rates L1,07,600 L1,06,900 L1,08,881.35 L1,07,607.89 Tamil Nadu firms step Current Price for the Sukanya Samriddhi girl-child welfare scheme, Mergers turn PUBLIC PROVIDENT FUND 1-YR POST OFFICE DEPOSIT A1,080.6 rates have been brought (COMPOUNDED QUARTERLY) up assistance in battle down to 7.6 per cent from 8.4 10 PSBs into Target Price per cent. Similarly, rates have been cut for the National Sav- ings Certificate (from 7.9% to 4 large banks RELIANCE IND 7.9 7.1 6.9 5.5 against pandemic A1,820 6.8%), Senior Citizen Savings The company aims for its Scheme (from 8.6% to 7.4%) Balance after 1 year with Balance after 1 year with ENS ECONOMIC BUREAU BINITA JAISWAL @ Chennai Meawhile, commercial vehi- consumer business to contribute and Monthly Income Ac- Rs 1 lakh deposit Rs 1 lakh deposit @ New Delhi cle manufacturer Ashok Ley- 50% of consolidated EBITDA in a count scheme (from 7.6% to FROM spray cannons for disin- land says it is working closely few years. Jio has rolled out new 6.6%). The cut has also been L1,07,900 L1,07,100 L1,07,080.60 L1,05,614.48 TEN public sector banks fectants to power gensets for with the state health depart- tariff plans. While Minimum quite steep for the standard (PSB) on Wednesday merged hospitals treating COVID-19 ment and is supplying protec- Recharge Price plans were hiked Small Savings Time Deposits, to become four large banks, patients, Tamil Nadu-based tive equipment like 3-ply by 32%, the popular monthly with cuts ranging from 100- but this is steeper than an- correct, it is absolutely the bringing down the number companies are contributing in masks, N95 masks, disposable plans witnessed a price hike of 140 basis points. Interest ticipated. May be the move wrong time to do so,” he said. of PSBs to just 12. their own way in the fight gloves, liquid handwash, sani- ~25-30%. The hike in ARPUs rates on small savings indicates that the govern- Experts say that this will The mergers announced against COVID-19. tisers and body suits for health should result in ~H134b/H119b schemes are revised on a ment will drive down deposit reduce the divergence be- last September and cleared TVS Motor Company, for in- service personnel. It is also pro- incremental revenue/EBITDA. quarterly basis, based on the rate further, “ Soumya Kanti tween bank and small sav- by the cabinet last month stance, has made a contribu- viding disinfectants, protective RIL’s target is to become a ‘zero yields of government bonds. Ghose, chief economic advi- ings rates. In comparison, were effected despite banks tion of `5 crore to- chemical guard suits net-debt’ firm in 18 months can Bank fixed deposits are al- sor, SBI said. Senior Con- interest rates on small sav- running low-key operations wards the Tamil Nadu (pant, shirt, and hood) also act as a rerating trigger. ready fetching the lowest gress leader P Chidambaram ings schemes are still higher amidst the pandemic. Chief Minister’s Pub- and chemical protec- —Motilal Oswal Financial Services yields since August 2004, slammed the rate cut de- and give comparatively bet- Under the scheme, Orien- lic Relief Fund to aid tion goggles for sanita- with State Bank of India’s manding a roll-back, saying ter returns to depositors. tal Bank of Commerce the battle against COV- tion staff. Besides this, one-year FD offering an inter- that it comes at the wrong Lower small saving rates also Disclaimer: The views and recom- (OBC) and United Bank of ID-19. This is in addi- it has deployed ten ve- mendations made above are that of est of just 5.2 per cent (6.2% time. “While reducing the in- will also reduce cost of defi- India have been merged into tion to the `25 crore hicles with drivers for the individual analyst or broking com- for senior citizens). terest rate on PPF and small cit financing for the Punjab National Bank. Post- pledged by the compa- use by the health pany, and not that of “The rate cut was expected savings may be technically government. merger, the entity will form ny to the PM’s Relief department. The New Indian Express the second-largest PSB in Fund (PM-CARES). While it generally Other initiatives by the country. Syndicate Bank Alongside these con- takes 6 to 18 Ashok Leyland in- has been merged into Ca- tributions, the Srini- months for cludes the shipping DEMAND GOES AWOL nara Bank, making it the vasan Services Trust developing a new gensets to the Tiruval- fourth-largest public sector (the CSR arm of TVS product, it is lur General Hospital lender. Union Bank’s merger Motors) is making and because of our and the 150-bed special with the Andhra and Corpo- supplying 1 million R&D team, that ward of the Madurai PV sales halved in March, CV sales down 90% ration banks will make it the protective face masks we were able to Medical College. “We make this quality ARSHAD KHAN @ New Delhi fifth largest PSB lender, for essential service sanitiser shall work with the ported a drastic fall in March suspending all operations tem- while Allahabad Bank will providers within the available in just Government at every sales. Hyundai Motor reported porarily,” Kia said. now act as a branch of Indi- state. The trust is also two weeks step and stay support- HIT hard by the nationwide a 41 per cent y-o-y decline in An even bigger slump was an Bank. “It’s a good move deploying vehicles and C K Ranganathan, ive of all their initia- lockdown to control the spread domestic sales at 26,300 units seen in the sales of commer- since it will reduce the num- disinfectants to mu- CavinKare tives in the coming of the COVID-19 pandemic, last month, while Tata Motors’ cial vehicles despite steep dis- ber of branches, improve nicipalities in the state days,” said Balachan- passenger vehicle makers re- PV sales were down 68 per cent counts on BS-IV stocks. Ashok cost efficiency and, most im- while also running dar N V, President – ported a nearly 50 per cent at 5,676 units. New entrant Kia Leyland’s domestic CV sales portantly, the balance sheets factory kitchens at its manu- HR, Ashok Leyland. Mean- drop in March sales numbers Motors too reported total sales stood at just 1,787 units in post mergers are likely to be facturing units in Hosur and while, CavinKare has launched while commercial vehicle of just 8,583 units in March as March — a decline of 91 per strengthened,” Sai Sanjay Padi. The cooked meals are 2ml sanitizer sachets priced at makers reported a whopping against 15,644 units sold in cent year-on-year. Tata Motors Bhattacharyya, former supplied to all essential care `1. “While it generally takes 6 90 per cent drop. February. CV sales were down 87 per cent Managing Director of SBI. workers in the vicinity, from to 18 months for developing a The country’s largest car- “Countries and businesses at 7,123 units compared to the Officials in the Finance police personnel and munici- new product, it is because of maker Maruti Suzuki India across the globe have come to previous year. Ministry officials said these pal staff to healthcare workers. our R&D team, that we were (MSIL) on Wednesday report- the full financial year, MSIL a standstill due to the COV- Going forward, the outbreak banks have already started The trust has also handed over able to make this quality sani- ed a 47.4 per cent year-on-year reported a 18.2 per cent fall in ID-19 epidemic, which has im- coupled with newer emission sending out messages to cus- a vehicle equipped with a dis- tiser available in just two decline in March sales at 76,240 sales at 1,414,346 units, its pacted the automobile indus- norms and a fall in economic tomers informing them of infectant Spray Cannon to the weeks,” said C K Ranganathan, units as buyers stayed away steepest fall in recent times. try as well with production activity is expected to bring the mergers. Corporation of Chennai. chairman, CavinKare. from dealer showrooms. For Other carmakers also re- units, offices and dealerships more trouble for the sector. Premier League clubs have been accused of living in a “moral vacuum”, with players urged to take their share of the financial hit from the coronavirus pandemic as non-playing staff begin to feel Premier League accused the pinch. Last year’s Champions League finalists Tottenham as well as Newcastle and Norwich have faced a backlash for using the British government’s furlough scheme, which will guarantee of ‘moral vacuum’ 80 percent of employees’ income up to a maximum of£2,500 ($3,000) a month.

BENGALURU THURSDAY 11 02 l04l2020 MONEY WORRIES Grandmaster missing other games during lockdown ATREYO MUKHOPADHYAY ton and does swimming. The ties like free-hand exercise, plus (2726 at the moment) for @ Chennai COVID-19 outbreak has yoga in that routine.” over a year, the youngster is & MAKE-BELIEVE stopped all that and he is mak- However, with all that missing out on valuable game THERE was a video on Twitter ing do with the treadmill at stopped, the older of two sib- time. That, however, is far from a couple of days ago where Vid- home. “Since playing chess lings is spending time with his his mind at the moment. “It’s it Gujrathi was seen doing and working on it means I am doctor parents and sister, who hard to complain. It’s a global GOLF COURSES skipping exercises at home. seated for long periods of time, is also in the medical field. crisis and people are suffering Sportspersons are trying all I go for long walks to make up Having travelled extensively on a large scale. Compared to sorts of things in order to for it. That’s not happening from a young age, the 26-year- that, what we chess players are Income drying up with events, Indian maintain basic fitness levels at now. Also, I like playing other old is new to staying at home. going through is very minute,” professionals making alternate plans the time of lockdown. games. Inside our building If pressed, he finds it difficult said Gujrathi. But the chess player was not complex, there is a basketball to remember when he last The Grandmaster is using doing that just for the sake of court and some of the players spent more than five-six days the time to do something he SWAROOP SWAMINATHAN clears sooner rather than it. He was trying to get close to there are semi-professionals. in a month at home. can’t otherwise. That is read- @ Chennai latter.” something he also likes doing. Playing with them is fun. I Tournaments cancelled in ing. Not merely to kill time, but Considering this is the start India No 2 after Viswana- keep myself engaged with oth- Europe and the US, Gujrathi to understand something deep- “I am making do with what I of the PGTI — only three com- than Anand and World No 23, er sports also when I am isn’t sure when he will be play- er. Monk and author Om Swa- have. I am not in Bengaluru petitions have been completed Gujrathi is not all about chess. abroad,” Gujrathi told this ing again. The Chess Olympiad mi and propagators of Japa- any more. I have gone back to — it has compounded mat- He likes working out at the daily. World No 23 Vidit Gujrathi scheduled for August has also nese philosophy on a ‘perfectly my village in Dharmapuri... ters. “Some of the guys who gym and walking. If at home in “It’s not possible to devote a been postponed. There is no imperfect life’ are among his that’s where I am going to be are in the lower half of the Nasik, he plays basketball. lot of time to other sports when that happens, it’s a minimum certainty over the resumption favourites. Heady, but may just till the situation gets better.” leaderboard could suffer be- When in Europe for training or I’m playing tournaments or of six hours of chess every day. of the chess calendar. Having be the right time delve in such Those are the words of C cause of that,” says Udayan competitions, he plays badmin- training in full intensity. When I am trying to include activi- maintained a rating of 2700- stuff. Muniyappa, a regular on the Mane, who won two of those Professional Golf Tour of In- first three tournaments. He dia (PGTI). has already raked in `14.66 TRENDING ONLINE The sub-text behind Muni- lakh as reward for his start yappa’s revealing words to but is mindful of the plight of this daily is this: he can cut other golfers who haven’t back on spending significant- seen similar success in 2020. “Like you said, it’s going to be Innovation in the tough. But then, all of us will have parents’ support during this crucial period... That’s why we even entered the sport times of isolation in the first place.” The 29-year-old, to stay fit, FIROZ MIRZA @ Chennai going on fine until her elder sis- has built a small range in his ter fell ill and was admitted to a garden. “That’s to keep mus- AN empty LPG cylinder, tyres, private hospital. “She became cles loose. Every morning I a stick and resistance bands. weak due to fever and doctors have a hit of close to one hour That’s all India cricketer Pooja asked us to hospitalise her. We to ensure I remain somewhat Vastrakar has at her disposal were worried, especially be- active.” for workouts. Member of the cause of COVID-19 and all that. Another who has been squad which finished runners- I sought permission from auth- mindful of finances is S Chik- up in the ICC Women’s World orities to be with her at night. I karangappa, a well known T20 in Australia, she is stuck at us ed to return home in the mo- Like you said, it’s going to be tough. face on the Tour. “Yes, when home, in the city of Shahdol in r ning for the workout. She is But then, all of us will have parents’ we don’t play you have to keep Madhya Pradesh. al right now and was disch a r- support during this crucial period... that aspect in the back of your Pooja and her teammates re- ged from hospital on Monday.” That’s why we even entered the mind. Saying that, I have cut turned to Mumbai via Dubai on Pooja played only a match in sport in the first place. my expenses almost down to March 10. She joined the Mad- the tri-nation women’s T20 se- Udayan Mane zero since there is no travel. I hya Pradesh girls in Indore a ries, the event which preceded am staying at home.” couple of days later for a do- the World T20, before being The 26-year-old, who was mestic tournament, when the ly if he is in his village. “This No 2 in the PGTI rankings last BCCI suspended all cricket till is not in my control, I have to year, has also built a small further notice. “I returned to make do with what I have.” range on his terrace. Shahdol on March 15 and was Like athletes in other “I am hitting on that range as ked to undergo 14 days of sports, golfers too have felt — I don’t even know if you self-isolation. I completed that the pinch thanks to coronavi- can call it a range — every on March 30 but now I have rus shutting down events left, other day. It is to ensure that I been advised to continue it for right and centre. The 43-year- don’t lose my touch complete- seven more days,” the 20-year- old Muniyappa, for instance, ly. Apart from that, I do vari- old told this daily. has so far earned `1,00,830 ous upper-body exercises to Being in self-isolation doesn’t from three events this year. In keep myself loose.” mean the medium-pacer is ex- previous years, he had earned If the situation with respect empted from doing workouts. “I India medium-pacer Pooja Vastrakar more than that in the first to the pandemic doesn’t im- don’t have fitness equipment at three months. “Whatever I prove, golfers will either have my place. The India team train- ruled out due to hamstring in- have earned, I have put it to go back to their hometown er asked each one of us about jury. The right-arm pacer re- back into the sport. It’s just a like Muniyappa or build small things we have at home, which covered in time and played a matter of biding my time, all ranges like Mane and can be used for workouts. I have warm-up match against the I can hope is that the situation Chikkarangappa. sticks, empty LPG cylinder, West Indies but could not find a tyres and resistance bands. He place in the playing XI during guided me on how to make these the prestigious tournament. HELPING HANDS things useful,” said Pooja. “Our spinners were doing Despite limited resources, good. We didn’t want to tinker AIFF HOCKEY INDIA FORMER PLAYER she does physical training in- with the winning combination. The All India Hockey India has Former Karnataka cluding power exercises at least It was unfortunate that the Football Federation also pledged `25 cricketer and for two hours every day. She plan didn’t work in the final.” is donating `25 lakh lakh towards the PM present U-19 state also practises yoga. Speaking The players might be con- to the PM’s relief CARES Fund. “In selector Tejpal on her immediate plan, Pooja fined to home due to the lock- fund. “In wake of the these difficult times, Kothari, who has said she wants to regain pace down but they are in touch Covid-19 crisis, AIFF it is the absolute played three first which she lost after a knee sur- with each other over their has pledged to need of the hour to class matches, has gery in 2018. “As I am fully fit WhatsApp group. “We usually contribute `25 lakh come together to directly contributed now, I will try to hit the pace I don’t discuss cricket in the to the PM Shri help fight the crisis,” D 5 lakh to the CM used to bowl at before the sur- group. We try to post light stuff Narendra Modi’s PM HI president Mohd relief fund to help gery. I have to do a few minor to keep everybody entertained. CARES Fund,” said a Mushtaque Ahmad fight the COVID-19 KEEPING THE FLAME ALIVE adjustments, but I am confident Jemimah Rodrigues and Har- I can do it.” leen Deol are the biggest enter- media release. said in a release. pandemic. A visitor looks at a lantern with the Olympic flame inside, after an official handover ceremony in Fukushima | AP The quarantine period was tainers,” she added.

WATCH HOUR Real Kashmir players stranded, Buttler to auction final La Liga concert raises Asian Youth Games shirt to help hospitals more than a million in China next year

waiting for a flight back home LONDON: England’s Jos Buttler is MADRID: La Liga’s online NEW DELHI: China will host auctioning the shirt he wore in last music festival raised more the third edition of the Asian ASHIM SUNAM @ Bengaluru away from his ill mother. wife, his two-year-old son and year’s dramatic World Cup final than a million euros that will Youth Games in Shantou in “The health of my parents seven-year-old daughter. He is win in support of hospitals be used to buy medical November next year, the To see what India's Olympic- WHEN can we head back and my wife’s parents is a con- in constant touch with his fam- treating the coronavirus. In a social equipment for the fight Olympic Council of Asia said bound boxers like Lovlina home? When will we reunite cern. I am especially very wor- ily while his wife tries to be media video posted on Tuesday, against coronavirus, the on Wednesday. The Chinese Borgohain, Pooja Rani and with our loved ones? How long ried as my mother is undergo- supportive asking Kallum to the 29-year-old said he would be Spanish football league said. city of Wuhan was the Ashish Kumar are doing to keep will we be in India? Ten for- ing chemotherapy too. It is keep the spirits up. posting the jersey, signed by all The funds will be put towards epicentre of the COVID-19 fit in the times of lockdown, go eigners, including coaches, tough,” said David, who even “It is difficult. Being a dad, I members of the World Cup- ventilators, protective suits, pandemic that is still to TNIE videos on YouTube. players and Real Kashmir FC wrote to the British High Com- should have been home, pro- winning squad, on eBay. gloves and masks. sweeping across the world. coach David Robertson’s wife, mission in Delhi, seeking help tecting my children, but I am have been stranded in Srinagar to go back. He has been in- stuck halfway across the world. ever since the lockdown start- formed that the evacuation pro- As a man, you do not show emo- #COVID19 ed. These questions linger on cess will start soon. “We have tions but when you speak to in the minds of nationals from given the passports numbers, your family at this time, it gets the UK, Nigeria, Ivory Coast visas and other details. Yester- hard. I have just got to be strong and Zimbabwe in the club. day, we got an e-mail stating and the time will come when Wimbledon cancelled for first time since WWII “The situation is such that that over the next few days, we will be home. Now, every mi- hardly anyone talks about foot- there will be flights out. We nute feels like an hour and days AFP @ London the momentous decision. and extensive consideration of pected, with the world strug- ball anymore,” said David, who have to sit tight and wait. I am are like weeks,” said Kallum. Wimbledon was due to run all scenarios, we believe that it gling to contain the spread of is from Scotland. He is in Sri- checking my e-mail every two However, these players had WIMBLEDON organisers on for two weeks from June 29, is a measure of this global cri- COVID-19, which has infected nagar with his wife Kym and minutes to see if there is any an experience of a different Wednesday scrapped the old- with Novak Djokovic and Si- sis that it is ultimately the more than 840,000 people son Mason (son). The latter update. Everyone wants to go kind recently. The valley was in est Grand Slam tennis tourna- mona Halep set to defend their right decision to cancel this worldwide and killed over plays for the club. Alongside back home as quickly as possi- a state of lockdown after the sc- ment for the first time since singles titles. year’s Championships.” 40,000. It also prompted the them, the players and support ble. We might be able to rapping of Article 370. The club World War II as the coronavi- But tournament chiefs Halep tweeted her disap- ATP and WTA to cancel the staff are staying in a hotel get back home soon. used the facilities of the ISL rus wreaks further havoc on bowed to the inevitable on pointment. “So sad to hear @ grasscourt swing in the build- owned by the club owner. No The Africans (in the clubs to prepare for the 19-20 I- the global sporting calendar. Wednesday, saying in a state- Wimbledon won’t take place up to Wimbledon, meaning the one is allowed to move in and squad) may take a League season. But when th ey The cancellation of the only ment that they had made the this year,” she said. tennis season will not now re- out of the hotel. Most of longer time,” David eventually got back to Srinagar, grasscourt major at the All decision with “great regret”. “Last year’s final will forev- commence until July 13 at the these players while told this daily. it was tough for them to stay in England Club leaves the sea- All England Club chairman er be one of the happiest days earliest. their time away The situation touch with the outside world. son in disarray, with no tennis Ian Hewitt said the decision of my life! But we are going The US Tennis Association watching movies is no different Though the situation is bet- due to be played until had not been taken lightly. through something bigger responded by saying the US on television and for English ter, video calls cannot be made mid-July. “It has weighed heavily on than tennis and Wimbledon Open was still due to take playing Playsta- winger, Kal- on slow internet speed with 2G “Devastated,” tweeted eight- our minds that the staging of will be back! And it means I place as planned, from August tion. It is a diffi- lum Higgin- resuming in January. There is time champion Roger Federer, The Championships has only have even longer to look for- 31 to September 13. “At this cult time for botham, who no 4G, hence the players have while Serena Williams, who been interrupted previously ward to defending my title.” time the USTA still plans to all, especially is desperate not been able to see their faces has won the tournament seven by world wars,” he said. The decision to cancel the host the US Open as sched- David, who is to meet his of the loved ones via video. times, said she was shocked by “But, following thorough tournament was widely ex- uled,” it said in a statement. David Robertson Elon Musk has announced that he and his companies Adults who work long hours are more likely to have have access to additional FDA-approved ventilators underactive thyroid, according to a study, published in the that can be shipped free of cost to hospitals within Journal of the Endocrine Society, which may lead to better regions where the electric car maker delivers. lifestyle and clinical recommendations for hyperthyroidism.

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BIG SECRET uifilm starts Atmosheric escae cientists elieve ut the can also create oager s l reveale Three decades after is riven a magnetic iels rotect oortunities or escae how magneticall weir the 60° Voyager 2 passed through lanets magnetic a lanet ening o like the giant glos cut lanet is nlike an other Its magnetic field ais points away from that spin antiflu drugs Uranus, scientists sifting iel which can the atmoshere loose rom aturn an lanets ranus sins almost ais so as the planet spins its magnetosphere the

through the large dataset of oth hel an striing lasts o the uiter when magnetic URANUS erectl on its sie comleting space carved out by its magnetic field wobbles like a MYSTERY OF MYSTERY clinical trial found new information IMPORTANCE hiner the rocess solar win iel lines ecome tangle a arrel roll once ever hours poorlythrown football Voyager 2 flew through a ROMISING CRE plasmoid, a giant NE INFO magnetic bubble that may TOKYO: Japan’s Fujifilm has have been whisking Researchers from NASA’s Goddard Space begun clinical trials to test the Uranus’s atmosphere 1977 Flight Center downloaded Voyager 2’s effectiveness of its anti-flu out to space oager was magnetometer readings, which monitored the drug Avigan in treating pa- launche strength and direction of the magnetic fields The study, published in tients with the new coronavi- ILE AA in near Uranus as the spacecraft flew by Geophysical Research Letters, rus, after reports of promising to stu the raises new questions about They looked at the measurements every two results in China. outer the planet’s one-of-a-kind seconds, and details showed what scientists Trials in China have suggest- lanets t magnetic environment Voyager 2’s hidden had previously missed: an abrupt igag in the ed Avigan could play a role in was magnetic field readings that lasted just one shortening the recovery time launche data reveals new info minute of the spacecraft’s 5-hour journey for patients infected with ATMOSPHERE LEAKAGE as eore past Uranus coronavirus. ars sed to its twin Planetary NASA “The trial will be conducted be a et sacecrat Scientists behind the new research believe the atmospheres all on 100 patients until the end of lanet it a oager igag could be a plasmoid, a type of structure over the solar N June,” a company spokesman tic that wasn’t understood particularly well at told on Wednesday. “We system are atmosere the time of the flyby will collect data, analyse them leaking into space. It eoled and file for approval after that,” HAT IS PLASMOID he added. Hydrogen oer time The drug will be adminis- springs from Venus to join the billion ears solar wind the continuous of leaae to Plasmoids are giant bubbles of plasma, or tered for a maximum of 14 days electrified gas, pinch off from the end of a to coronavirus patients be- stream of particles escaping sace to the Sun planet’s magnetotail the part of its tween 20 and 74 years old with become te magnetic field blown back by the Sun like a mild pneumonia, the spokes- Jupiter and Saturn also eject dr lanet e windsock man said. The study excludes globs of their electrically- see toda pregnant women due to side ef- charged air With enough time, escaping plasmoids can fects shown in animal testing. na a drain the ions from a planet’s atmosphere, Two trials in China found the Earth’s atmosphere also leaks, ae y a fundamentally changing its composition. drug shortened recovery time but the effects are tiny on ddad They had been observed at Earth and other for patients, but Fujifilm was human timescales ae ene ASA C planets, but no one had detected plasmoids OU

not involved in those studies. S at Uranus oming, app that alerts close contacts of oid carriers FACT OF THE MATTER

TRACKING TOOL measures in place in the coun- behind the project. The Oxford University team cord people’s GPS data as they angolin classifies try to help control the spread of “The instant mobile app con- has provided UK and European move about their daily lives. LONDON: The UK’s govern- Covid-19. cept is very simple. If you are governments with evidence to This would be supplemented by scales seied skin cancer ment-funded National Health “Our analysis suggests that diagnosed with coronavirus, support the feasibility of devel- users scanning quick response Service (NHS) is looking into almost half of coronavirus the people you’ve recently oping a contact tracing mobile or R codes posted to public the feasibility of deploying a transmissions occur in come into contact with app that is instant, could be amenities in places where a mobile phone application that the very early phase of will be messaged advis- widely deployed, and should be GPS signal is inadequate, as could be used as a contact-trac- infection, before symp- ing them to isolate. If implemented with appropriate well as Bluetooth signals. ing tool, which alerts users to toms appear, so we need this mobile app is de- ethical considerations. “If we can securely deploy their exposure to coronavirus a fast and effective mo- veloped and deployed It recommends that the mo- this technology, the more peo- carriers. bile app for alerting peo- rapidly, and enough peo- bile application should form ple that opt-in, the faster the The app is being developed ple who have been ex- ple opt-in to use such an part of an integrated coronavi- epidemic will stop, and the by NHSX, the health service’s posed,” said Professor approach, we can slow the rus control strategy that identi- more lives can be saved,” said digital wing, alongside academ- Christophe Fraser from Oxford spread of coronavirus and mit- fies infected people and their Dr David Bonsall, researcher at IG CATC DIAGNOSTIC AID ics and industry partners as University’s Big Data Institute, igate against devastating hu- recent person-to-person con- the Nuffield Department of one of the means to help ease Nuffield Department of Medi- man, economic and social im- tacts using digital technology. Medicine and clinician at Ox- alaysian authorities esearchers have devel- the current strict lockdown cine, among the researchers pacts,” he said. The proposed app would re- ford’s John Radcliffe Hospital. Mseized about six Roped an AI system that tonnes of pangolin scales can accurately classify skin and smashed a smuggling disorders, predict malig- syndicate, officials said on nancy, and suggest primary Wednesday, as the country treatment options, an ad- clamps down on rampant vance that may be integrat- wildlife trafficking. The ed with smartphones to act BBLE ELPS SP pangolin, the world’s most as a diagnostic aid for clini- heavily trafficked mammal, cians. The study, published is believed to have possibly in the Journal o ntegra been a vector in the leap of tive Dermatology, noted that MIDSIED BLAC LE the novel coronavirus from the diagnostic accuracy of animal to human at a mar- dermatologists as well as NSs telescope confirms existence it weighs aout 50,000 times ket in China’s Wuhan city. the general public can be the mass of our Sun and is smaller than supermassie lack holes Its body parts fetch a high significantly improved by price on the black market using this system. The re- as they are commonly used searchers found that their MISSING LINK Researchers attributed it to a in traditional Chinese med- algorithm could diagnose star being torn apart after com- icine, although scientists 134 skin disorders, and sug- WASHINGTON: Astronomers ing too close to a gravitational- say they have no therapeu- gest primary treatment op- have found the best evidence ly powerful compact object, like tic value. Officials said they tions, render multi-class for a black hole of an elusive a black hole. The X-ray source, had detained two people classification among disor- class known as “intermediate- named 3XMM J215022.4-055108, and the operation had put a ders, and enhance the per- mass,” which betrayed its exist- was not located in a galaxy’s smuggling syndicate out of formance of medical profes- ence by tearing apart a way- centre, where massive black operation. sionals through AI. ward star that passed too close. holes normally would reside. Weighing in at about 50,000 This raised hopes that an times the mass of our Sun, the IMBH was the culprit, the re- black hole is smaller than the A star being torn apart by an IMB SA searchers said. ihone may come on pril supermassive black holes that However, another possible lie at the cores of large galax- and so it is critical to carefully source of the X-ray flare had to TI O ies, but larger than stellar-mass consider and rule out alterna- be ruled out: a neutron star in black holes formed by the col- tive explanations for each can- our own Milky Way galaxy, he Cupertino-based tech giant Apple may launch iPhone lapse of a massive star, the re- didate. That is what Hubble has cooling off after being heated T9 or iPhone SE 2 on April 5 as the image of its protective searchers said. allowed us to do for our candi- to a very high temperature, case has appeared at online retailer Best Buy in the US. Ap- These so-called intermedi- date,” said Dacheng Lin of the they said. ple is yet to officially reveal the launch date of the handset. ate-mass black holes (IMBHs) University of New Hampshire, Deep, high-resolution imag- An image shared by a Best are a long-sought “missing principal investigator of the ing provides strong evidence Buy employee shows an Ur- link” in black hole evolution, study. Lin and his team used that the X-rays emanated not ban Armor Gear case for the according to the results are Hubble Space Telescope to fol- from an isolated source in our new 4.7-inch 2020 iPhone. published in he strophysical low up on leads from NASA’s galaxy, but instead in a distant, However, there is no name Journal etters. Chandra X-ray Observatory dense star cluster on the out- on the case box and these Though there have been a and the European Space Agen- skirts of another galaxy — just cases, among others, are be- few other IMBH candidates, re- cy’s X-ray Multi-Mirror Mis- the type of place astronomers ing sent to retailers, Mac u searchers consider these new sion (XMM-Newton). expected to find an IMBH. mors reported. Additionally, observations the strongest evi- In 2006 these satellites detect- IMBHs have been particular- Best Buy employees have dence yet for mid-sized black ed a powerful flare of X-rays, ly difficult to find because they KEEING TEM ARM been instructed not to showcase these cases until April 5, holes in the universe. but they could not determine are smaller and less active than An aerial image taken by a drone shows antifrost candles burning between which indicates that the company could indeed launch the “Intermediate-mass black whether it originated from in- supermassive black holes, the apricot trees in an orchard near Balatonilagos ungary on Tuesday. Candles budget iPhone later this week. holes are very elusive objects, side or outside of our galaxy. researchers said. are used to preent the trees from being destroyed by the frost AP

ECNMIC DISESS oronairs robs mericans of obs man not able to a teir ose rent

ILLING TIME have seen their lives turned up- The couple also applied for could need temporary help to were forced to close their doors. bers of layoffs and furloughs, side down by the crisis. deferred and reduced payments pay their monthly housing bill, Tammy Devitoe was laid off mortgage companies are brac- NEW YORK: The coronavirus The decisions they make on for their student loans. which would total about 12 bil- March 12 from her restaurant ing for a wave of missed pay- pandemic took Brittany which bills to pay will provide “We plan to pay our power lion per-month. in Albany, New York, and the ments on April 1. Evictions Brook’s job on March 16, two a clearer picture of the eco- bill and anything necessary The federal government’s un- 250 to 300 of weekly unem- have been temporarily sus- days after it took her husband nomic damage done by Cov- that we can afford, but we will precedented 2.2 trillion aid ployment benefits she expects pended in some areas and there Matthew Whitfield’s, leaving id-19 in a country lacking a uni- not be paying rent, as that package will help ease the eco- to receive will not be nearly are growing calls on social me- the New York couple scram- versal social safety net and would deplete our savings and nomic pain, but the 1,200 enough to pay for her tele- dia for a rent freeze in April. bling as end-of-the-month bills where many workers have little emergency funds within just a checks promised to every phone, electricity, cable, rent Devitoe said her landlord come due. savings to fall back on. few months,” says Brittany, American — and 500 for each and car loan. cannot help because they have On April 1, Brook, who until “We have, for the first time in who lives with Matthew, 33, in child — will not arrive until the She swallowed her pride and bills to pay as well. recently taught music at a pre- our marriage, declined to pay a one-bedroom apartment in second half of April. asked for donations through Cynthia Ryan, who lives in school school, and Whitfield, a our credit card balances, but New York which they rent for In the meantime, a record 3.3 oundMe, the online fund- Dallas, said she was told “full now-former waiter and actor, only paid the minimum ... and 1,690 a month. million Americans filed for un- raising platform, where she rent is due regardless of the have to pay the rent and other called to ask for interest for- According to Amherst, a real employment during the week had managed to raise 2,240 by situation right now,” as the bills, as do millions of Ameri- giveness,” 31-year-old Brittany estate analytics and investment A woman hands out free grabandgo ended March 21, as thousands the morning of March 31. management said they have cans of all social classes who told . firm, 26 per cent of US renters meals for children in aukee Iowa AP of small and large businesses Faced with the massive num- lenders too. READSHAREFOLLOW newindianexpress.com Mail us: [email protected]

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DAY’S DIARY MAKING A MARK PLOT NASA’S TRIBUTE Jai Shri Ram in Shankar Film release The film is especially known for its After discovering a mysterious In honour of the book and movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey, an American groundbreaking special effects and artifact buried beneath the Lunar NASA named a Mars orbiter as Mahadevan’s voice science-fiction film, premiered on this day in unconventional narrative. The film was surface, mankind sets off on a 2001 Mars Odyssey. The Apollo 1968 at Washington DC. It set the benchmark directed by Stanley Kubrick & co-written quest to find its origins with help 13’s command module’s call for all subsequent movies in the genre by Kubrick and novelist Arthur C Clarke from supercomputer H.A.L. 9000 sign was also called Odyssey PG 4 Starry affair with quarantine As the entire country is confined indoors, LIVING BY THE BOOK film stars are no different either. We catch Life in the times of quarantine is not much different for Bengaluru-based up with a few to know how they are doing author Roopa Pai, who is currently working on some “passion projects”, like poetry translations, as she takes a sabbatical from writing ● A Sharadhaa hoping to watch more shows on Netflix, but it all depends on ● Simran Ahuja friends. “Milind is one of those how much time I get. The en- rare human beings, celebrity riyanka Upendra is play- tire day’s work gets me tired – or otherwise, who is very com- ing a different role now. so much so that I want to get to any in the city fortable in his skin. I learnt a Post the COVID-19 out- bed by 8.30 pm.” may now be get- lot, and was impressed, in- Pbreak in the city, the actor For the family, Chaitra Nav- ting used to a spired, and entertained by has immersed herself full-time aratri (Vasantha Navarathri), new way of life, turns,” she says. into housework. Priyanka, who which falls on April 2, will be a frankly but Roopa Pai Interestingly, though having is also a wife, mother of two low-key affair this year. “Usu- is not one of always known she wanted to children, and a daughter-in- ally, we have the purohit come Mthem. “As a freelance writer, I write, Pai still pursued an engi- law, says the lockdown has put and perform the pooja. Howev- work from home in any case, neering degree at the Univer- her in charge of the entire er, this year it will be quite sim- and work in pyjamas mostly, so sity Visweswaraya College of household. ple,” she says. nothing is very different,” says Engineering in the city. “When “Since all my servants have Meanwhile, Priyanka is wait- WORD BY WORD the writer. She has over 25 I was growing up, the only two gone, there is so much work to ing for the kids to start their on- books to her credit, including coveted courses, according to do at home now. I am cooking, line classes. “My son, Ayush, is According to Pai, the Taranauts, India’s first fantasy many middle-class parents, and taking care of the family a Class 10 student. He has taken ongoing quarantine is a adventure series for children. were medicine and engineer- -- Uppi, kids and my in-laws. three Board exams, and we are never-before opportunity Well before the COVID-19 pan- ing. So my mother prevailed My daily activities also include yet to get an update about when for families to spend time demic hit, Pai had decided that upon me to get an engineering looking after the plants, pets, the rest of them will be held. together in a relaxed fashion. she would be taking a sabbati- degree, promising I could do etc. I don’t realise when my day My daughter, Aishwarya, is “Some family reading cal from writing this year, to anything I wished after that,” starts and ends,” says Priyan- in Class 9 and will start attend- would be wonderful if the spend time on reading and she recalls. And Pai went on to ka, who adds that she had three ing her school’s online classes parents are into reading, doing other things. “I have fi- do just that, moving to Delhi af- domestic helps until now. “Nev- from April 10, which will keep especially if the kids are not,” nally almost finished a project ter her graduation to pursue er once have I cleaned the en- her busy,” she says. says the mother of two, aged I have been working on for a her dream job at a children’s tire house, and it looks quite More on page 4 couple of years now. This is a magazine. “I moved without okay, which is, of course, an 22 and 17. Talking about the collection of 100 poems by the my job even being confirmed!,” achievement,” she says. “We many books being written famous Kannada poet, K S she adds. But life at her home sometimes underestimate how on Indian mythology, she Nisar Ahmed, which I have city came calling again in 2004, pal of “an upmarket Delhi this’,” she recalls. much we can do. It is a little tir- Priyanka Upendra explains how mythological been translating into English,” with Pai, who refers to herself school”, when the author Pai’s childhood memories ing. Though it’s great that I stories have a timeless says Pai. as a “Bengaluru hudugi”, be- went to talk to his students are linked to her alma have Uppi (actor Upendra) appeal for children and Pai’s most recent work had lieving this is the nicest city to about The Gita For Children. mater too – Stella Maris helping me with the dishes, adults alike. “At some point in her co-authoring a book, Made live in. “He asked me where I was School in Vyalikaval. “I was and the kids too help me life, most of us reach out to In India: A Memoir, with “Bangalore has certainly from. When I said Bangalore, proper front-bencher,” she sometimes,” she reveals. these stories because Milind Soman. Calling it a won- made me who I am, and I sup- he nearly got up and did a recounts. “The kind of stu- Priyanka had even derful experience, she recalls pose that influences my writ- jig. ‘I knew it!’, he said. dent who skived off PT, planned to catch up on they touch a very how over a year and multiple ing,” she says as she shares the ‘Only someone from Banga- saying I had a stomach ache watching some films, Indian chord in us.” face-to-face interviews, Soman nicest compliment she has re- lore could have written a so that I could sit under a tree and get on with her turned into being one of her ceived. It came from the princi- book as large-hearted as and read.” writing, but she is not finding much time for those passions. “At ing the lockdown,” he says. this moment, it is CITY READ ● Pearl Maria D’Souza Even while the six-month important to clean Hotel lends Yakshagana season began in the house, which am trying to stay positive November, M A Hegde, alone takes two helping hand and use the time to intro- Yakshagana Academy Presi- hours of my Royal Orchid and Regenta spect, which is a large dent, believes that the cast time,” says Hotels have taken up an Ipart of an artiste’s work. I and crew are also strongly im- Priyanka, cannot comprehend what pacted. Yakshagana, a popu- adding, “In initiative to distribute food this lockdown would mean for lar art form in Dakshin Kan- all this me- packets to the needy in the future of performing arts. nada, Uttara Kannada and lee, I man- Kodihalli and Jeevan Bhima Financially speaking, it is a Udupi, and to a certain extent aged to Nagar areas, with the difficult time to be an artiste in Shivamogga and watch the support of local corpor at this time. We will see Chikkamagaluru, largely de- Oscar-win- ators. The hotel team has shock waves through the pends on the Harake ning film, year,” says Sharanya Ram- Sharanya Ramprakash Seva through temples, where Parasite, been preparing and prakash, a theatre person people request a performance on Am- distributing food packets from Bengaluru. She is and pay for it if a wish is azon. I while maintaining social among hundreds of artistes fulfilled. “Only a handful of a m distancing to ensure the from the performing arts fra- ‘It’s a tough time for an artiste’ performers have regular in- safety of its staff and that of ternity in the state, who have come from the temples the community. lost major assignments due to couple of such extensive that appoint them,” says the COVID-19 pandemic. The teaching and professional Hegde. sector, which is largely infor- workshops would have earned Performance and nar- mal, includes actors, dancers, me `3 lakh at least during the rative folk art of the coun- Quarantine facility singers, makeup artistes, three months,” says try are alive today only be- writers, camera helpers, stage Mangala. cause of the resilience of to be set up in city designers, stunt artistes, Theatre music composer the practitioners, high- Infosys Foundation and and magicians. Their suste- Devananda Varaprasad lights Dr Bitasta Das, visit- Narayana Health have nance depends upon other says music has no season and ing faculty UG programme, announced the launch of a members of the cast and crew is being used to spread aware- Indian Institute of Science. 100-room quarantine as much as it does on the ness about the virus over so- “Art created by traditional facility for COVID-19 audience. cial media. However, there groups has also taken a hit as Artistes say these are are several other members it does not have a formal mar- patients, in the vicinity of tough times for the fraternity, such as Hakki Pikki ket, and the closure of Narayana Health City. The with many out of income dur- Devananda Varaprasad and street performers businesses means loss of live- facility will serving patients ing these crucial months. that depend on daily lihood to these artists,” ver since I moved to belonging to economically Theatre director Mangala N, jects and perfor- proceeds. “Street play she says. Bengaluru, I’ve defi- weaker sections and will Sanchari Theatre, says mances during the artistes depend on the Theatre activist and nitely been living an accommodate patients, there are at least 30 theatre summer vacation. government, who founder of Charaka, Prasan- Eintrovert life. It’s just troupes in Bengaluru alone. An artiste equated took their help to na Heggodu, also says me, myself and my music. offer regular monitoring by Among the most affected are the three months’ publicise various the most organised handloom Even though I have my studio doctors, nurses, and those in company Natak, who revenue from projects. They cooperative are in dire in Mumbai, I’ve got used to provide essential depend on daily ticket reve- workshop to a now remain straits, and are even contem- waking up to the DAW on my medication, free of cost. nue for income. Several whole year’s economically plating on crowdfunding computer in Bengaluru. There troupes are engaged in pro- earnings. “A stranded dur- to pay salaries. is no timing but I try to sleep early so that I Bitasta Das can wake up CORONA WARRIOR early. When we ● Monika Monalisa by day. But unfortunately, our cylinder at a customer’s were hit with job is very much on the go,” house I sanitise my hands. I the lockdown says Harsha, who hails from always have my mask due to COVID n Sandeep Chowta, any are now getting Tumakuru district. on and at the end of the day, I STAY SAFE 19, I only had Musician used to a new way of Fuelled Harsha was living in take a shower to clean to make a few life, one that comes with Bengaluru with his parents myself. I also make sure I adjustments Mthe struggles of and brother, until the out- wash my clothes with an anti- with regards to food, and a window like this opens, it is working from home. Harsha break of virus. Fearing an in- septic lotion,” says Harsha, spending time with my fami- a blessing in disguise. KR, on the other hand, hasn’t fection and worried about who was given these safety ly. It’s not a very healthy feel- My advice to anyone in the noticed any change in his by duty their financial survival, his gear by his company. ing to be alienated and not music field or interested in daily schedule. “The whole family moved back to their Counting down days to the having a social life, but in being part of this field is to world has almost shut minimum of 40 deliveries. village. “My worried parents end of this pandemic, times like these, I realised I look at this as an opportunity down but I am still working. I Once my quota for the call me every day. They the young lad is looking fro- could make the adjustment. to either learn an instrument have not taken a single day is done, I return home,” have even told me leave this ward to reuniting with Having no regular assign- or to update yourself with a day off,” says Harsha, who says the 28-year-old, who has job and return to my village his family again. “I can’t wait ment would actually give you lot of stuff that went past you works in the distribution been in this job for last because you can always earn to meet my mother. I a lot of time for your own self. because you were busy doing centre for Indane gas eight months. money in the future if you are understand the risks involved In my line of work, technolo- so many other things. These in Arakere. “I keep up with updates healthy,” says Harsha, because if I get infected it gy is changing rapidly and I are tough times that we are Like every other day, his about the number of people who wants to retain his finan- will be very difficult to have to keep updating myself going through but this too day starts at 10 am. “I deliver affected every day and I know cial independence. return to my regular with various software and ap- shall pass. Please stay safe, LPG gas cylinders in Arakere. that the number of people get- Safety, however, still comes life but I can’t give up on my plications evolving. So when and stay at home. Harsha KR Every day, I have a ting infected is increasing day first. “Each time I deliver a job either.” READ newindianexpress.com SARE THURSDAY Mail us: [email protected] ninianssc FOLLOW 02 04 2020

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he S a this time to bond with the kids and the rest of the fam- ily – for real this time How Bindu do you relax and decom- Subramaniam press when you have five cats and one child who peers into your nose every time you sit down (ust me mong those of us locked Okay.) in, there are roughly I know you’re going to say three groups of people. I think music is the answer AThere are the ones who to everything, but you’re have time to turn our hob- wrong. I think the answer is bies into something more meditation and exercise... real and the ones who are and music. working from home (and There are so many rea- working at home). And then sons why it’s a good idea to there are the ones who – and turn to music please keep us in your It gives you a mental ● Monika Monalisa ed, which, she says, are mostly thoughts – also have kids. health boost Taking a vir- abstract. “My piece has lot of We all have one thing in tual class, or picking up an usage of colour. People might common we’re spending instrument, can help you re- aying tribute ife in quarantine feel a little lost to find the more time than ever on digi- lax. It has also been proven Sandalwood actor Puneeth Rakumar has been slowpaced meaning behind it but for me tal devices. We’re bingeing to increase your overall mo- conveyed his gratitude to doctors on for all but city- it speaks volumes.” Her own that Netflix show we wanted tivation and efficiency, in BRSH based supermodel life has been the inspiration to watch for months now, case you need to crack your the occasion of Doctors Day. He took ackie Besterwitch for some of them. “The paint- checking the latest COVID-19 post-lunch to-do list. to Instagram and wrote Saluting our is choosing to make ings are mostly inspired from stats, learning how to make It helps build family medical professionals who are the most the most of her time during my life, which has lot of chaos rasam online, or spending bonds Enjoying and creat- vulnerable and yet are fighting this pan- lockdown. The style siren has but also has hope. In the pre- time on hundreds of video ing music you love with demic from the frontlines ...pl share this recently sent situation, my hope is calls a day. The line between your family can bring in a post to support and cheer our doctors, WITH donned the cap that the current pandemic technology and reality has sense of belonging for your of an artist and gets over soon so that people been blurring for a long time child. Work a structured mu- nurses and all other healthcare workers has come up can return to their normal now, but it seems like that sic session into your day, and - for this is the time to show our grati- with a series of life.” line has disappeared off late. you will contribute to mak- tude to these fearless, dedicated souls paintings that Though not a professional My phone politely informed ing the household a little depict her cur- artist, this isn’t the model’s me that I’ve been spending happier. ARANTINE rent state of first stint with art. A decade twice the amount of time I It’s harder to go about mind. ago, Besterwitch used to make normally do on it. I recently “business as usual” and find ity-based supermodel ackie Known for her makeup caricatures of her sister, needed to take and send a a way to take a step back and skills, one might expect make- which she framed for the emo- picture of myself for work, disconnect for a minute. Besterwitch has donned up tutorials or a live chat from tional connection it had. and without thinking about And if you’re feeling over- her about her daily routine, When the caricature got a lot it, did my hair and makeup, whelmed by what’s going on, her creatiity cap as a way but Besterwitch often has a of appreciation, she decided and put on perfume. (If you or by work, or by spending of getting a break from habit of doing the “not the ob- to take it more seriously. “But see a picture of me floating way too much time indoors, vious”. So a break from her I was not happy doing carica- online and immediately a little music is your best es- lockdown-induced chaos domestic chores led to her tak- tures. Since I was always into think of flowers, I’ve clearly cape route. Give it a try. ing to paints and a canvas. “I makeup, which is also a kind done it right.) The author is a singer, love household chores but I of art form that involves So how do you find that songwriter, educator and so- wanted to take a little painting faces, I decided to try balance How do you use cial entrepreneur. break from it. My house my hand with colours. I loved has never been so spar- doing abstract art, which gave n indoor celebration kling clean,” says so much of scope to express Rakshitha Prem had the sweetest Besterwitch, as she my emotions,” says the celebration for her th birthday laughs, adding, 44-years-old. he paintings are “Painting for me Besterwitch is planning to recently. ven though all celebrations ostly inspired fro has always been have an exhibition of all her were cancelled due to the lockdown, y life hich has therapeutic. paintings once the pandemic her husband, director Prem, made the lot of chaos but also It’s what is settles down. “The problem I day special by baking a cake for her. keeping me am facing right now is that I hile Rakshitha posted a picture with hope n the present going.” She am running out of raw mate- her family on the social media, Prem situation y hope speaks to CE rials and due to the lockdown, is that the current about the I am unable to source them ei- posted a small video of the celebration. five paint- ther,” says Besterwitch, who The actress is going to go for a bigger pandeic gets oer ings that she is looking forward to finishing celebration once the lockdown is over. soon ackie esterwitch has complet- her passion project soon.

Tet t Rde e The king stays the Carcassonne is one of the most king — Ticket to beloved games out there and is Ride is still one of extremely addictive in app form. It’s the best mobile easy to lose an hour or two compet- implementations ing with the extremely capable AIs out there. It’s accessible, it’s fun and, it offers. should you tire of the base game, it’s got all the expansions available for Td purchase. It also offers a great pass- Times are pretty stressful right now, which is why Tokaido and-play multiplayer option, too. might be worth a shot. A peaceful relaxing game about Gly Tue holiday travels in ancient Japan, this game is guaranteed to charm your socks off. Now for something much less zen — Galaxy Trucker is one of the APPSOTE best apps I’ve ever played, despite on paper being so incompatible with a digital format. Yet, somehow, this imple- OARDOM mentation of a chaotic real-time spaceship- We’ve spoken about building game is as good our favourite digital PAY as the physical one. implementations of ON board games earlier, Arjun Sukumaran Sled but, given the current http://goo.gl/uNBWN3 (Arjun is a gamer, book lover and Splendor is excellent in tabletop form, circumstances, we an all-round renaissance man) and luckily its mobile version figured it was worth lives up to that. You can play the regular revisiting this particular topic. If you’re game in the app, or try your hand at a looking for ways to pass time, here are some variety of challenges — with special rules and/or objectives in a limited time — that really keep of the best boardgame apps out there you coming back for more. Bule B Burgle Bros. is one of my favourite co-op games and it received an Ld Wtedee Re te Gly excellent digital implementation in the last year or so. If you’re look- As gateway games go, Lords of If you held a gun to my head and ing for some Ocean’s Eleven-style hijinks, look no further. Waterdeep gets a lot of love. asked me what my favourite app Luckily, everything that makes it was, I’d say Race for the Galaxy. The great has been successfully original card game is legendarily HeOt ported over to the app. It’s obtuse but the app makes picking it up a little For the two-player groups a perfect introduction to friendlier and that’s all it ever needed. There’s a out there, there are lots of worker-placement games, reason this is one of the most critically-acclaimed options but Onitama and Hive and well worth your time. Subub card games of all time, and it’s amazing as an app. are among the best tle Buudy Whenever the topic of best city-building games ones. Onitama is Castles of Burgundy is one of the best are discussed, one name keeps coming up — Sub- certainly the simpler board games around, but, equally, one of urbia. If you’re looking for the finest SimCity-type of the two, and offers the most dull-looking. The app spruces experience, give this one a shot — the many chal- a straightforward things up with a fresh coat of paint but, lenges and variants it offers are almost certainly experience; whereas Hive is a most importantly, doesn’t mess with what inspired Splendor to do the same. much deeper game that will that wonderful core Burgundy experience. reward repeated plays. cinassc

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amesh Aravind, an actor, wake up around 8-8.30 eve- director, producer and mo- ry morning. I try to have Rtivational speaker has now I at least two meals with found new ways to make his my family mostly break- life interesting during this fast and lunch. I read scripts lockdown period. through the day or catch up on more sleep. In the eve- chance to bond nings, I play board-games better ith faily like Ludo, Taboo and udge- ment with my family. I’ve For Ramesh Aravind, this is been watching a lot of the time to rewire the existing shows Tiger King (on Netf- relationship at home and bond lix), Special Ops (Hostar) better with family members. and the last season of Bil- “I have never folded my lions (Hotstar). I’ll also rec- clothes in my life, and am do- ommend the Anime series, ing it now. To an extent, my My Hero Academia. Cook- participation in domestic hands on it. I am getting better exercises creative, and some- ing is my first love as well as chores is helping me get a bet- knowledge of accounts. Sec- times, even funny,” he says. ter understanding of the rela- ondly, I always wanted to learn tionship. Perhaps for the first VF (visual effects). Though cript for hiai time in our lives, my wife, my I would complete the entire seuel daughter and I (my son is cur- film in five months, 15 min- rently in the USA) are having utes of VF would take anoth- On the professional front, all three meals together. Ear- er five months to complete, Ramesh and director Akash lier, each one of us were in our which was irritating. So I was Srivatsa are developing a se- own orbit, and they have now keen to understand the pro- quel to hiai urathal, got aligned,” he says. cess better,” he says. Ramesh which is now in the scripting earning accounting Aravind now involves himself stages. “All of the writing is NOW SHANKAR in taking online classes with a happening online, or either and handson friend for three hours every through audio or video calls,” day. “It enables me to under- says Ramesh, who is also look- The lockdown is also giving stand how to remove the green ing forward to releasing his Ramesh Aravind a chance to mat, how to put the back- next directorial, . “I am wait- take up activities he has want- ground, etc, and I am getting a ing for this lockdown period to MAHADEVAN TO ing to try, but could not do be- first-hand experience,” he be over, and we will then plan cause of his hectic schedule. explains. for the release,” he says. a form of meditation. I’ve “Our professional work swal- been trying a lot of healthy lows at least nine hours of our e fitness routine est tie for recipes I made mushroom time,” he says. “I always want- Like everyone else in the city, introspection ravioli, gluten-free pizza, RENDER AI SHRI RAM ed to understand ‘tally’ and Ramesh is forced to carry out gluten-free pasta and lots of financial accounting. Since I his exercise regime at home, According to Ramesh, this is eggs. I’ve been posting daily was a science student, I never and has got bored with the regu- the best time for introspection. workouts on Instagram that The new ersion of the track from understood much about debit lar workout. He is now trying “Since we have 8-10 hours a day people can do at home. It’s Roberrt will be released today, on and credit, voucher, journal out other kinds of physical ac- to spend, we have 210 hours in always easy to follow a re- entry and ledger. Since it was tivity. “I am getting into Chi- hand. That is something you gime if someone gives you the occasion of Shri Rama Naami not that relevant to my profes- nese i, a kind of yoga, and will never get again. I think written instructions every sion, I didn’t bother. But now Baare, which is popular in this is when we need to ana- day. A woman messaged me that I am also a producer, and South Africa. I do these differ- lyse ourselves, and see where saying that her husband, ● CE eaures leased before.. tomorrow I have the time, I have down- ent kinds of exercises for 20 we have messed up, and what who hadn’t exercised for a mrng at 10.05am,” he loaded a free version of Tally minutes. Having been used to corrective measures need to year, was inspired by my se- posted. software, and am trying my only doing asanas, I find these be taken,” he says. ries to work out.” ou can now The earlier version was listen to the in the voice of singer Divya ai hri am Kumar. “We had initially song in the tried to get this track re- Sy Pl t P Ku det voice of corded by Shankar Mahade- Shankar Ma- van, but he was not availa- s the last few months were hectic ockdown or not, Pawan Yhadevan, with the makers ble. Now that we got to have for me workwise, the first week of Kumar lives a similar life- of Darshan-starrer oerrt the song recorded in a pow- Athe lockdown was just about rest- L style. “I am keeping busy. unveiling the new version erful voice, we decided to go ing it out, spending time with my Earlier, I was constantly do- on the occasion of Shri ahead with his voice,” says family and dog, reading and watch- ing some creative work. But Rama Navami. An official director Tharun. ing things. I am a homebody at this time, I am engaging announcement was made The track is composed by heart but I don’t want lethargy to more as an entrepreneur,” by director Tharun Kishore Arjun anya and features kick in. So I’ve been doing differ- says the director-actor, who Sudhir on his Twitter han- Darshan and ason ent workouts and allowing took the responsibility of dle, where he posted, “ Hi D’Souza, who plays a pivot- myself to flow in this free crowdfunding for daily wage all... the new version of al role in oerrt time. I have been watch- workers just after the lock- aiShriRam song will be If not for the COVID-19, ing a mixed bag of down was announced. The out on April 2nd (sic).” He oerrt, which has been things. I watched both initiative ended on March later followed it with anoth- made under the banner of seasons of Killing Eve 31, and Pawan Kumar col- er tweet, revealing the ma- Umapathy Films, was slat- created by Phoebe lected about `8 lakh, which jor change in the new ver- ed to be released on April Waller Bridge, who I ab- will be distributed among sion of ai Shri Ram, and 9, during the Good Friday solutely love. I’ve been the daily wage workers. asking the audience to weekend. However, the re- watching a lot of ani- “I am also looking at how guess the name of the sing- lease date now stands post- mation Studio Ghibli we can do better in terms of er who has given his power- poned, and a new date will Films on Netflix and a film production and distribu- ful voice for the track. All of be announced when the lovely apanese Se- tion. This is not just for my- them voted for Shankar Ma- film industry gets back to ries called Midnight self, but from the perspective hadevan. “Yessss.. many of work. With Asha Bhat in Dinner Tokyo Sto- of the industry and the audi- u guessed it right... its the the female lead, the film ries. I also caught up on ence. I am also working on powerful voice of also consists of agapati some South films on my how the industry can create pating in household work, ShankarLive sir for the Babu, Ravi Kishen, Vinod list like Super Deluxe more employment,” says and spending a lot of time new version of Prabhakar, Sonal Mon- and Kumbalangi Nights. Pawan, adding, “My lifestyle with my daughter. Other then aiShriRam. The video teiro, Shivaraj K R Pete I am currently reading is pretty much similar, and I binge-watching, I am also also contains new making and Chikkanna in promi- Essays on Love by Alain am mostly doing work online. thinking of new ways of Shankar ahadevan clips which were not re- nent roles. de Botton. These days, I am also partici- spending time qualitatively.”

props used at first for the table more without words. The same can readings, but slowly they are added be said about the film too. It some- in. A mug here, a bag there. The how conveys more though it es- biggest change, of course, is in the chews a lot of what makes up a tra- performances. We see the actors ditional film. slowly morph into the characters Another instance of this depar- R and it is a fascinating insight into ture from the norm is the cinema- the process of acting. tography. The camera often holds ● Niha nanaandihan bysit Honoka on a day when there The way the scenes are revisited still on one actor’s face, even when was a typhoon in the area. Her mo- also mirrors the way memories they are not the one speaking. In a tive is unclear. But in her confes- work. Fluid, ever-changing, details subsequent rendition of the scene, atsuka Kusano’s Domains, sion, Aki mentions a letter she has coming and going. So the whole we get only the face of the one currently streaming on MUBI, left for Nodoka, which only the two movie can be seen as Aki perhaps speaking. Or sometimes, it’s some- is a film unlike any I’ve seen of them will understand. After remembering and trying to come to one who is not even in the scene. N before. Some might even ar- reading her statement and getting terms with what happened. This When the camera pans, it is not gue that it is not a film at all. Aside her signature, the official asks her Domains would explain the addition, as the smooth like it would be in a fin- from the first 15 odd minutes, the what she meant in the letter by “the film goes on, of location shots mi- ished movie. Often, it lands off to 150-minute-long film is made up al- kingdom made with chairs and nus the actors. It is also hinted at by the side of an actor, on their back, most entirely of table readings and sheets on the day of the typhoon.” two oft-repeated scenes that have in their hair, sometimes it goes out rehearsals of the three main ac- Aki says she cannot explain. When characters trying to reconstruct of focus, captures a reflection of it- tors. Right at the outset, we are in- asked what happened on the day of HO bieekly colun that focuses on the past events. The first of these is of self in a mirror. All of it reminding troduced to almost the full story in the typhoon, she only says it was notable content aailable on the ide Aki and Nodoka talking about us that what we are watching is all the form of a confession of a ter- “just a very fulfilling day for them” THEATRE their castle building Aki helps made up, not real. And yet, para- rible crime read back to the protag- and goes on to sing a song. ariety of streaing platfors around you her friend remember how they be- doxically, Domains remains con- onist Aki Takemoto (Asami Once the table readings begin, came really close after that day sistently immersive. Even without Shibuya) by an official (Kenta Ryu, we find out that there was another slowly piece together the story. The scenes are not read in chron- though Nodoka had other friends the usual trappings of cinema, I the only other actor in the film, day with a typhoon, 22 years ago, How Aki meets Nodoka, her hus- ological order and there is a lot of who were closer before. The other found myself fully invested in aside from the aforementioned when Aki and Nodoka built a bed- band Naoto and daughter Honoka repetition as the actors rehearse features Aki, Nodoka, and Naoto these characters, in what was going trio). Though this portion is filmed sheet castle and used that song as a at their house. How Aki finds that the scenes over and over (seeming- having a conversation at the dinner on in their minds. Rather than like a scene in a normal movie, it’s password to their kingdom or do- what initially seemed like a com- ly on different days). But there are table and the two women together world-building of the physical sort, interesting to note that this scene main. Later rehearsals reveal that fortable home is, in fact, a stifling also subtle changes in these repeat- recall a childhood visit to the Domains constructs a psychologi- too is essentially made up of a this day is believed by Aki to be a one for Nodoka because of Naoto’s ed revisits. Sometimes in the lines school Naoto now works at. This cal world that is hard to resist. I reading. significant one in her and Nodoka’s need to maintain it and their fam- themselves, which change slightly second scene also talks about the find myself still thinking about Aki has confessed to murdering friendship. Through these readings ily in a certain way. How Aki calls in each readingrehearsal. Scenes two women having their own way Aki and Nodoka, and will continue the three-year-old daughter of her and rehearsals, which expand upon Naoto out for this and how he, in are cut off partway in initial read- of communicating without words. to do so and remember this film for longtime friend Nodoka (Tomo the sequence of events described in turn, banishes her from their ings, but we are shown more and Naoto calls it a “coded circuit” and a long time to come. Kasajima), who asked her to ba- Aki’s statement at the start, we home. more of these later. There are no says they are actually conveying