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Tirupati . lucknow . cuttack . patna NEARBY Befitting reply given to those CBI will probe Thoothukudi coveting our territory, says PM deaths, says Tamil Nadu CM Sattankulam inspector suspended, pending inquiry COVID-19 drug claim: FIR ‘Challenges that 2020 has brought should not weigh the country down’ against Ramdev, 4 others SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT JAIPUR special correspondent SALEM/ THOOTHUKUDI The police have lodged an FIR NEW DELHI India will win The Tamil Nadu government against yoga guru Ramdev Prime Minister Narendra has decided to hand over to and four others for allegedly Modi on Sunday put out a both battles, the CBI the probe into the re­ conspiring to sell a fake strong statement on the on­ cent deaths of a father and Ayurveda medicine with the says Shah misleading claim to cure going stalemate between In­ son — Jayaraj and J. Benicks — COVID­19 following clinical dia and China in east La­ at Sattankulam, allegedly Special Correspondent trials on some patients. dakh, saying that “the world due to torture in police cus­ New Delhi NORTH & EAST Ī PAGE 4 has seen India’s commit­ tody, Chief Minister Edappa­ DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD ment to protecting its bor­ Union Home Minister Amit di K. Palaniswami said in Sa­ ders and sovereignty. In La­ Shah on Sunday said India lem on Sunday. City sees 2,889 fresh dakh, a befitting reply has will win the battles against The government will in­ virus cases, 65 deaths been given to those coveting the COVID­19 pandemic form the Madras High Court NEW DELHI our territory.” and the Chinese aggression (Madurai Bench) of its deci­ Delhi reported 2,889 new He said this in his monthly along the Line of Actual sion when the case related to COVID­19 cases in the past 24 radio broadcast, Mann ki Control (LAC) in Ladakh. the deaths is taken up for hours, taking the total to Baat, referring to the sacrif­ Mr. Shah, in an inter­ hearing. Widespread outrage: Residents carrying the coffins of Jayaraj 83,077, read the health ice of the 20 soldiers killed in view with the news agency In a related development, and Benicks in Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu, last week. * AFP bulletin released on Sunday. the clash with Chinese Asian News International Sridhar, inspector of Sattan­ The death toll has risen to troops on June 15 as one that (ANI), said, “We will win kulam police station, where Earlier, the government the police on avoiding such 2,623 with 65 deaths in the the whole country paid hom­ both the battles. I want to the father and son were al­ suspended two sub­inspec­ incidents, the Chief Minister past 24 hours. There are now age to. assure the people that un­ legedly subjected to third tors — Balakrishnan and said, “I have already advised 27,847 active cases in the city. der the leadership of Modi­ degree assault, was on Sun­ Raghuganesan — and initiat­ the police to behave cordial­ CITY Ī PAGE 2 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD ‘Befitting reply’ ji, we will win both the bat­ day suspended from service, ed a departmental inquiry ly with the public and trad­ “India is peace loving but if is meant for arguments, serve the Indian Army. tles.” pending an inquiry into the against two head constables ers and take necessary legal Malls to open from July 1 anyone casts an eye on our wealth for ego, power for He also referred to a jour­ He said Parliament is case. Muthuraj and Murugan. action if there are any issues. in Gurugram, Faridabad territory and sovereignty, we troubling others. The oppo­ nalist from Assam, Rajani, about to convene, and he “The Madurai Bench of I have advised the police not GURUGRAM are more than capable of giv­ site is the case among noble who said that after the clash­ will discuss everything re­ Action against 4 more the Madras High Court has to cause any unnecessary Shopping malls in Gurugram ing a befitting reply,” he said. souls. Knowledge is meant es in Ladakh, she was deter­ lated to China that has oc­ The Chief Minister told jour­ taken suo motu cognisance trouble to the public.” and Faridabad will reopen Without mentioning China, for wisdom, wealth for dona­ mined to buy locally made curred in the country since nalists that Jayaraj and Ben­ of the deaths and the go­ Sources in Thoothukudi from July 1 and will be he quoted a Sanskrit sloka tion and power to protect products. 1962. icks, who were running a vernment has decided to said on instructions from the allowed to operate from 9 that characterised for India the weak),” he said. Mr. Modi said the chal­ Accusing Congress lead­ mobile shop at Sattankulam, hand over the case to the government, inspector Srid­ a.m. to 8 p.m. Cinema halls, what Chinese actions at the Saying that the sentiments lenges that 2020 had er Rahul Gandhi of indulg­ Thoothukudi, were arrested CBI for probe. When the har had been placed under gaming arcades and children border revealed about that expressed by the family brought to the country, like ing in “shallow politics”, and remanded in judicial case is taken up for hearing, suspension and Bernard Xa­ play areas inside the malls country’s character. “ Vidya members of those slain lent COVID­19, Cyclones Amphan Mr. Shah said the party custody at the Kovilpatti sub­ the government will inform vier of Kanniyakumari dis­ will remain closed. Shoppers vivaad dhanam madaya, courage to the entire coun­ and Nisarga, and locust at­ should introspect why Pa­ jail following an issue re­ the court about this decision trict had been posted as in­ have been advised to instal shakti pareshan paripeeda- try, he referred in particular tacks, apart from the situa­ kistan and China were pro­ garding closing their shop and it will be handed over to spector of Sattankulam with the Aarogya Setu app. naya. Khalasya sadho vipa- to jawan Kundan Kumar’s tion in Ladakh, should not moting Twitter hashtags in­ [during the ongoing CO­ the CBI with the court’s per­ immediate effect. Mr. Srid­ CITY Ī PAGE 3 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD reetam etat, gyaanaya, daa- father who has, despite los­ weigh the country down. itiated by its leader. VID­19 lockdown] and they mission,” Mr. Palaniswami har had earlier been shifted naya cha rakshanam (For ing a son, expressed a desire died later at the Kovilpatti explained. from the station, but kept on EDUCATION PLUS Ī PAGE 11 crooked persons, knowledge to see two of his grandsons CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 8 CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 8 hospital. Asked if he had advised compulsory wait.

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Chitra V. Ramani operators in Bengaluru had Bengaluru been volunteering since the As the number of COVID­19 end of March. “We positive cases increases, so coordinated the distribution does the number of people of food and ration kits to under home quarantine. A migrant workers. We also special task force has been helped with [the process of] constituted in Bengaluru to sending 1.8 lakh migrant ensure that citizens under workers home. A few of us home quarantine follow the are volunteering at the prescribed protocol. railway station and the Among those who have airport, and helping with volunteered to help the task the quarantining of force are 260­odd HAM travellers,” said B. N. (amateur) radio operators in Umesh, another HAM the city. They work in shifts, operator. coordinating with booth­ But the challenges in level and ward­level squad monitoring the home members to keep a watch quarantined are vastly on the home quarantined different, said Dr. Sathyapal. people. “We sometimes have to While most of them are deal with aggressive operating out of their behaviour and negotiate homes, three static centres with violators, though we have been set up in the are not trained for it. We Vasanthapura, H.B.R. immediately transmit Layout and Jayanagar messages to the senior localities. officials if we are not able to “We had earlier set up tackle the situation,” he high frequency and very said. high frequency stations at With the availability of the State war room. But we several fast modes of have decided to cut down communication, including on our movement smartphone apps such as considering the high risk WhatsApp and Telegram, is involved. We are all keeping HAM radio still relevant? a watch in our Yes, Dr. Sathyapal and Mr. neighbourhoods, apart Shantappa concurred from providing back­up unequivocally. “HAM radio communication to the was the first social squad and task force,” said networking channel. With S. Sathyapal, director of the proper battery back­up, we Indian Institute of HAMS. can work even during Gautam Shantappa, a power disruptions,” Dr. HAM volunteer, said Sathyapal said. CM A ND-NDE YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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DU teachers checkers inside their premis­ raise term es. “In many cases people THE MOSQUITO BUZZ are quarantined. Also, they are not letting them [check­ renewal issue ers] into their house in case there is no issue,” she said, Staff Reporter explaining the drop in num­ New Delhi MAY bers. She also said that be­ Delhi University Teacher’s GET LOUDER cause of the pandemic and Association (DUTA) on Sun­ the lockdown, the checking Sidharth Ravi day wrote a letter to the un­ work started later than New Delhi The pandemic­induced constraints on iversity’s dean of colleges usual, but the process is un­ highlighting various issues very year, domestic domestic breeding checkers going door der way and would take a lit­ faced by ad­hoc teachers, breeding checkers to door might result in an outbreak of tle longer. including the renewal of Ehop from door to Ms. Singhal informed that their terms. door, climb atop water tanks vector­borne diseases, say experts the work of checking peo­ According to the revised and containers and inspect ple’s houses is over and en­ academic calendar, July 1 is narrow damp corners for the three municipal al director of the National suring water doesn’t accum­ scheduled to be the date of mosquitoes breeding on corporations. Vector Borne Disease Con­ ulate in their premises is reopening of the university, their premises. Employed Similarly, the number of trol Programme, concurred. ultimately the responsibility the letter reads. Conse­ by the municipal corpora­ houses sprayed with insecti­ He said that prior to CO­ of the house owners. The quently, it argues, the ad­ tions in the city, they check cides has dropped by about VID­19, in January and Fe­ checkers’ primary task is to hoc teachers should be gi­ whether their surroundings 30%, from nearly 3.12 lakh bruary, the number of mala­ spread awareness through ven their joining date as on are conducive for mosquito last year to 2.26 lakh this ria cases in the country were various means, which is still July 1. The letter said it is breeding, slap fines if viola­ year. The number of houses already on the rise. The cas­ taking place, she said. Addi­ important to carry this out tions are observed and found conducive for mos­ es in Delhi, however, have tionally, the corporation is to ensure the protection of spray insecticides to keep quito breeding was a lot few­ been the same as this time engaged in spraying disin­ teachers’ vacation salaries. off the buzzing intruders, er at 8,312 this year com­ last year, at 31. fectants in drains. The fog­ Any measures to deal with carriers of a host of pared to 25,767 last year, “During the pandemic ging machines were stopped the pandemic must not ad­ diseases. and the number of legal not­ they will definitely increase as it could aggravate respira­ versely affect the services This year, however, as a ices issued stands at 7,715 because no one doing sur­ tory conditions, she said. or livelihood of teachers, consequence of the CO­ this year compared to veillance, no one is doing An East Delhi Municipal DUTA said. “...the universi­ VID­19 pandemic, which has 25,767 notices last year. treatment, they are not Corporation official agreed ty must issue clear guide­ diverted public health re­ checking mosquito breed­ that people were not allow­ lines regarding joining to all sources and made certain Are we at risk? ing,” he said. ing workers in on account of colleges,” it demanded. interventions more difficult, Himant Singh, an entomolo­ Apart from this, Mr. Shar­ social distancing norms. such screening and preven­ gist at the National Institute ma said that such vector­ “Whenever there is an op­ tive measures is lagging of Malaria Research, said borne diseases are also cy­ portunity to interact with compared to previous years, that given the lack of surveil­ clic, which means that a rise householders, they are be­ data from the municipal cor­ lance, an outbreak may hap­ in cases could be witnessed ing educated and motivated porations show. Experts pen. “Mosquitoes are highly in the coming years too. to take care of their water warn that the lack of atten­ adapted to indoor climate Mr. Sharma, a former no­ collection points,” he said. tion to these measures and people are unaware of dal officer for Delhi’s vector The official also said that could lead to an outbreak of its bite. They are only wor­ disease management, said the workers were burdened vector­borne diseases this ried about COVID­19. They that domestic breeding because of the dual disease season. are undermining the possi­ checkers had been put in out or change the water. tional Vector Borne Disease places where people don’t situation, given that disin­ bility of high breeding taking place in the city for house­ “Now there is nobody to Control said the chance of reside but are not visiting fection was not part of rou­ The numbers place now,” he said. hold surveys after an out­ instruct and nobody to iden­ an outbreak could not be houses. In this situation, it is tine activity of domestic In 2019, the domestic breed­ Mr. Singh said since it is break of dengue in 1996 tify vulnerabilities,” he said, ruled out. up to the households to pro­ breeding checkers, but in­ Police register ing checkers visited 1.43 difficult to visit houses in the when up to 10,000 people adding: “Most of the people “But we have issued advi­ tect themselves, their fami­ sisted that this hasn’t ham­ crore houses by June 22. In current situation, perhaps were infected and nearly employed for mosquito sories and guidelines to lies and their neighbours, pered breeding checks. ₹1 crore fraud 2018, they inspected 1.41 even unethical, such checks 400 people died. checking are now deployed States and municipalities, the official said. Despite this, he admitted crore houses by June 23 and would be hampered. “Espe­ Explaining the role of the for COVID­19 control. Ear­ asking them to sensitise that it was a cause of con­ case against in 2017, 1.73 crore houses cially given that for three checkers, Mr. Singh said that lier, they would spray mos­ communities and house­ Slowed down cern because the workers were covered in the same months they could do noth­ they visit houses and check quitocide. Now they are en­ holds to carry out the work North Delhi Municipal Cor­ were not entering houses dead man time. This year, the checkers ing. Three months is a lot of all containers, go to the roof­ gaged in spraying themselves,” the official poration spokesperson Ira and it was left to the respon­ have visited only 62 lakh time. If you don’t destroy tops to check the tanks and disinfectants.” Disinfectants said. Singhal said that as a conse­ sibility of the householder SAURABH TRIVEDI houses till June 20, a drop of them at an early stage, they identify water collection don’t kill mosquitoes, said Currently, reports indi­ quence of COVID­19 pan­ to ensure that mosquito NEW DELHI about 56% compared to last grow exponentially,” he said. points and instruct the resi­ experts. cate that the workers are go­ demic, house owners are not breeding was not takin g The police have come un­ year, reveal data shared by R.S. Sharma, ex­addition­ dents to either drain them An official with the Na­ ing to construction sites and allowing domestic breeding place. der the scanner for register­ ing a case of ₹1 crore fraud at the Karol Bagh police sta­ tion against a man two days after he was found dead at Gurugram worst­hit, Faridabad his home in north Delhi’s City reports 2,889 fresh COVID­19 Sarai Rohilla. The victim’s relatives, tops in death cases in the State who belong to U.P.’s Lak­ himpur Khiri, raised suspi­ cases; total count climbs to 83,077 cion over the police when Gurugram beats Faridabad in terms of rate of recovery an officer asked them to leave the city at the earliest Lok Nayak doctor, Hindu Rao Hospital worker die; containment zones go up to 417 Ashok Kumar their test report being nega­ with the body, citing pan­ FARIDABAD tive. Dr. Pandey said that re­ demic and did not give any Special Correspondent In terms of absolute number cently, 30 such patients sat satisfactory reply on the NEW DELHI of COVID­19 cases, Gurugram a better recovery rate with on a dharna and refused to death. The Capital reported 2,889 is the worst hit in Haryana, only 29.94% active cases. Fa­ leave. He also attributed the On June 23, an FIR was new COVID­19 cases in the but Faridabad, with the se­ ridabad has 1,425 active cases lower recovery rate in Farida­ registered against the man, past 24 hours, taking the to­ cond highest number of in­ and Gurugram has 1,518. The bad to a fewer people opting Manoj Gupta, who worked tal number of cases to fection cases, has the highest cumulative number of cases for home isolation compared as a sales manager for a Ka­ 83,077, according to a health fatality rate in the State and a in Gurugram is 5,070. In Ha­ with Gurugram. Dr. Pandey rol Bagh­based jeweller, for bulletin released by the Del­ poorer recovery rate. ryana, 35.27% cases are said patients in home isola­ duping him of ₹1 crore hi government on Sunday. As per the State Health De­ active. tion were easy to declare re­ worth of gold at Karol Bagh Also, 65 deaths were re­ partment bulletin, out of the Though districts like Jind, covered after ten days since police station. In his com­ ported in the past 24 hours, Meanwhile, a doctor em­ to a hospital on June 26 and total 3,325 people having in­ Panchkula, Rewari and Bhi­ they were not to be plaint, the owner, Rajat Ka­ taking the total number of ployed at Lok Nayak Hospi­ tested positive for the virus a fected in Faridabad till June wani have higher percentage discharged. nodia, said Manoj left the deaths to 2,623. Of the total tal died of COVID­19 on Sun­ day later. While he was shift­ fectively to contain the 27, 71 have died, with the rate of active cases compared Deputy Commissioner shop on March 21 with 2kg cases, 3,306 people have re­ day, said the hospital ed to the emergency ward, spread of the virus. The dea­ being 2.1 % against the State’s with Faridabad, the cumula­ Yashpal Yadav said the dis­ gold to deliver it in Rajas­ covered in the past 24 hours. spokesperson. Dr. Aseem he developed kidney failure, dline set by the committee mortality rate of 1.62 %. Guru­ tive cases in each of these is tricts with cases spread over than and Haryana but after Till now, a total of 53,607 pe­ Gupta was a consultant said a spokesperson for the for the government to re­ gram has a mortality rate of less than 300. With just 392 a longer period of time had that, the lockdown was an­ ople have recovered. anaesthesiologist at the CO­ North DMC. draw the boundaries of 1.63% with 83 deaths out of cases on June 1, Faridabad better recovery rates since nounced and he claimed to There are 27,847 active VID­19 ward of the hospital. these zones is June 30 and the total 5,070 cases. Also, has recorded 88% of its total the patients were discharged have got stuck. He kept ask­ cases in the city out of which “A dear senior and all­ Redrawing zones the number of zones is likely percentage of deaths due to cases over the past 26 days. after ten days, as per the pol­ ing Manoj about his location 17,148 cases are in home iso­ weather friend. He lost the The number of containment to increase over the next co­morbidities in Faridabad Anil Pandey, registrar­aca­ icy. He said mortality rate in but he kept saying he could lation. The total number of battle after a valiant fight,” zones had increased to 417 two days. is lower compared with Guru­ demic, ESIC Medical College Faridabad was less, com­ not deliver the gold due to beds available is 13,411 out of the spokesperson added. after 175 new zones were ad­ Under the government’s gram. So far, Gurugram has and Hospital, said that as per pared to the national average. lockdown in place. Later, which 6,014 are occupied. Also, a 53­year­old em­ ded after June 21. This hap­ revised COVID­19 response recorded 35 deaths related to the policy, COVID­19 patients Mr. Yadav said a survey was Manoj stopped taking calls. The government said ployee at the Hindu Rao pened when a committee plan, the officials of 11 dis­ co­morbidities, while Farida­ are discharged after ten days under way in the district to The victim’s father, Ash­ 20,080 tests were conduct­ Hospital, who had tested appointed by the Home Mi­ tricts here were directed to bad has seen 22 such deaths. in case they are asymptomat­ identify people with compro­ ok Kumar Gupta, said on ed in the past 24 hours and positive for the virus, died nister suggested that the aggressively identify more Besides, 42.85% patients in ic for three days, but many mised immunity due to ill­ June 21, he received a call 4,98,416 tests have been on Sunday afternoon. The boundaries of these zones in containment zones in their Faridabad are still under patients in Faridabad refused ness and provide them im­ from his son’s colleague in­ conducted so far. worker, Raju, was admitted the city be redrawn more ef­ areas. treatment, but Gurugram has to leave the hospital without munity boosters. forming him about his death. “He told us that my son was found hanging in a flat and that it was a suicide. Riots: courts refuse to release those ‘DU scrapping ECA quota is unfair and a loss’ Next day, we reached Delhi when a policeman asked us to leave the city at the ear­ seen in footage indulging in violence Students, aspirants say decision likely to have an adverse affect on college culture liest with the body due to the pandemic,” said Mr. Staff Reporter a premier university, we ex­ trials would be hard espe­ New Delhi Gupta. City’s trial courts have been getting several bail applications pect a lot out of them,” said cially because there is no un­ He said Manoj was always Scores of students who parti­ Ms. Arya. iform body for quizzing, said accompanied by workers Soibam Rocky Singh afza [a drink] from the ware­ fire by the men of Tahir Hus­ cipated in extra curricular Shubham Gupta, a stu­ Mr. Rathi. Despite this, he whenever he travelled with New Delhi house of Jakir Malik”. sain (AAP leader). activities (ECA) in school as dent residing in Ghaziabad, believed that some method gold or cash. He demanded With over 750 individuals ar­ The court rejected Mr. Ku­ well as those who had joined said that he had been hoping could have been worked out. a detailed probe. When The rested in relation to the mar’s bail plea noting that he 783 cases registered colleges in Delhi through the to get through DU after hav­ Yashwardhan Shukla, Hindu contacted Karol north­east Delhi riots, the “has been categorically iden­ As per one of the chargesh­ ECA quota feel Delhi Univer­ ing been part of competi­ who got in through the crea­ Bagh police station, its SHO trial courts here, facing a tified to be one of the rioters eets filed, a total of 783 cases sity’s decision to scrap the tions, start­ups and other ac­ tive writing quota in 2018, was unaware of Manoj’s flood of bail applications, who had played havoc at the had been registered in res­ reservations this year has tivities. “This was my said that the ECA allows indi­ death. Meanwhile, officers have taken a stringent stand time of riots and vandalised pective police stations re­ been unfair and would ad­ dream,” he said, but was left viduals, who had worked on at Sarai Rohilla police sta­ against releasing those seen and looted the property of garding the incidents of riots versely affect college disappointed on hearing their personalities overall, tion said they were unaware in CCTV footage indulging in innocent persons”. in north­east Delhi. A total of culture. that his efforts may not yield an entry into university. of any pending investigation violence, arsoning or looting. In a separate case involv­ 52 persons died in the riots, Among such students is tioned as to why trials could the desired result this year. While Mr. Shukla believes against Manoj. DCP (Cen­ In one of the cases, the ing the looting and setting on and another 434 sustained an 18­year­old Bharatnatyam not take place online. “Our Those who had entered there is an issue of transpa­ tral) Sanjay Bhatia said the Court of Additional Sessions fire of Aman e­rickshaw, a injuries, out of which about dancer, Hritika Aneesh, who dance classes are also being the university through the rency in conducting trials in role of police personnel will Judge Vinod Yadav declined unit of Harsh Trading Com­ 100 sustained bullet injuries. started a petition against the held online,” she said. Be­ quota believe scrapping it the present situation, he said also be probed. “We will the bail plea of Mahender Ku­ pany in Karawal Nagar, the In another case, the bail university for scrapping the sides, she pointed out that would be a major loss to col­ that the university should find out why the employer mar, who pleaded that his court rejected the bail plea of plea of Mohd. Anas was re­ course, which garnered for admissions to music leges and unfair to students. have been better prepared registered a case against Ma­ mother was suffering from Suaib, on the basis of loca­ jected by a local court here nearly 400 signatures a day courses, the university was Ankit Rathi, who secured with alternatives, instead of noj even though he knew paralysis and his wife was tion as per the call details re­ after the public prosecutor after it was started. Hailing allowing online trials. first rank in the quizzing sec­ entirely cutting off this op­ the latter was dead. We will pregnant and that there was cord and identification by said the recovered CCTV from east Delhi, Ms. Aneesh Pratishita Arya, another tion of ECA quota last year, tion. also find out where the gold nobody else to look after two witnesses. footage show him with a said that in her case, some dancer who has taken part said that students, who en­ Aastha Arora, who en­ is kept,”said Mr. Bhatia. them. The public prosecutor ‘danda’ along with a co­ac­ board exams were also can­ and won competitions at dis­ tered the university through tered the university through Suicide prevention hel- The public prosecutor ob­ stated that the mob of rio­ cused who had a sword. The celled because of the Delhi trict and State levels, also this mode, were crucial for the debating ECA quota, pline: Sanjivni, Society for jected to the bail plea on the ters, including Mr. Suaib, public prosecutor opposed riots. In this context, the qu­ said that it was odd that the furthering quizzing socie­ pointed out that the college Mental Health, Telephone: ground that during the inves­ looted the parts of e­rick­ the bail plea, stating that a ota would have been a major university was willing to car­ ties. “We would bank on culture in DU was primarily 011-4076 9002, Monday- tigation of a video footage, shaw and other related docu­ victim, who was murderous­ boon. ry out online examinations them for competitions,” he about extra curricular activi­ Saturday, 10 a.m. -7.30 Mr. Kumar was “clearly seen ments, and following the rob­ ly attacked by Mr. Anas, has Ms. Aneesh, whose moth­ but did not have the capacity said. At the same time, he re­ ties and societies more than p.m. carrying looted box of rooh bery, the godown was set on also identified him. er runs a dance school, ques­ to carry out online trials. “As cognises that undertaking academics. 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Timings IN BRIEF DELHI Gurugram, Faridabad MONDAY, JUN. 29 Delhi hasn’t reached community Congress to protest RISE 05:27 SET 19:24 malls to reopen on July 1 against fuel price hike RISE 13:24 SET 00:48 NEW DELHI TUESDAY, JUN. 30 The Delhi Congress on RISE 05:27 SET 19:24 transmission stage, asserts Shah They will remain open from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday said that it would RISE 14:28 SET 01:25 protest at around 400 fuel Special Correspondent The use of WEDNESDAY, JUL. 01 Home Minister says Centre and Delhi govt. working in tandem to combat virus GURUGRAM <> stations across the Capital on RISE 05:28 SET 19:24 escalators with one Monday against unregulated Shopping malls in Gurugram RISE 15:33 SET 02:03 person on rise in the prices of petrol Special Correspondent ‘CM sought support of every agency to battle pandemic’ and Faridabad will reopen alternate steps and diesel by both Centre New Delhi NEW DELHI on July 1. The Haryana go­ and Delhi governments. “For Reacting to Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s interview, Deputy may be Union Home Minister Amit vernment has issued orders the first time ever, diesel has Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said that Chief Minister Arvind encouraged. In Shah said on Sunday that Del­ to this effect fixing the tim­ become costlier than petrol Kejriwal has sought help and support of every agency to battle food courts and hi has not reached the CO­ ings for the malls from 9 a.m. in the Capital and we the pandemic in Delhi as he believes that no individual person or VID­19 “community transmis­ to 8 p.m. in view of the night restaurants, not demand the immediate roll agency can deal with it alone. “In the first week of June, there sion” stage and all the curfew and also issued Stan­ more than 50% of back of the price hike,” the was a sudden spike in cases. There was a shortage of beds and government arms, including dard Operating Procedures seating capacity party said. testing. The CM immediately reserved 40% beds in all big private the AAP­led Delhi govern­ for the various stakeholders, hospitals for the virus infected in addition to declaring some big will be permitted ment were working together hospitals like GTB Hospital as COVID-19 facility,” Mr. Sisodia said. including visitors. Government order to fight the pandemic. Com­ Amit Shah As per the orders, cinema munity transmission is the halls, gaming arcades and any frontline work requiring stage when the source of the 20,000 tests on an average that stage, things are under “Even the beds arranged by children’s play areas will re­ direct contact with the pu­ infection cannot be traced and there is no reason to control,” Mr. Shah said. Delhi Government have not main shut. Besides the gener­ blic. and a large number of people fear.” “It is the State govern­ been fully occupied, but we ic preventive measures, in­ The use of escalators with are affected. Delhi has reported more ment’s responsibility to take have done advance plan­ cluding social distancing and one person on alternate In an interview to Asian than 80,000 cases and measures against COVID­19 ning,” he added. wearing face covers, people steps may be encouraged, News International (ANI), around 2,500 deaths. Earlier, but after the deputy CM’s Mr. Shah said that based aged above 65 and below 10 said the orders, adding that Mr. Shah, when asked if Delhi Delhi Health Minister Satyen­ statement the Centre decided on the results of aggressive years, persons with co­mor­ in food courts and restau­ had reached the stage of dra Jain had said that only to intervene… From March testing, 280 new contain­ bidities and pregnant women rants, not more than 50% of community transmission, Centre could confirm if there 25­June 14, in 82 days, the to­ ment zones have been added will not be allowed inside. seating capacity will be per­ 0 said: “I spoke to all the three was a community transmis­ tal number of tests stood at in Delhi. He said since Delhi All the visitors should in­ mitted. DISCLAIMER: Readers are requested to doctors, Dr. Paul [Dr. V.K Paul sion in Delhi. 2.41 lakh. But between June is the Capital city, the Delhi stall and use Aarogya Setu . The authorities need to verify and make appropriate enquiries to satisfy themselves about the veracity of of Niti Aayog], Dr. Bhargava 15­June 25, as many as 1.75 government’s decision to not app, said the orders. Em­ check whether proper saniti­ an advertisement before responding to any published in this newspaper. THG [ICMR chief ] and Dr. Guleria ‘Under control’ lakh tests were done, which allow patients from other ployees in high­risk groups sation is being carried out in PUBLISHING PVT LTD., the Publisher & Owner of this newspaper, does not vouch (Director, AIIMS). This situa­ He said there was panic after means, 16,000 tests per day,” States to get treatment here such as senior citizens, preg­ all areas and issue challans to for the authenticity of any advertisement or advertiser or for any of the advertiser’s tion has not come to Del­ Delhi’s Deputy CM Manish Si­ Mr. Shah said. was changed. He said in In­ nant women and those with visitors not wearing masks. products and/or services. In no event can the Owner, Publisher, Printer, Editor, Dir- hi…earlier 30% turned out to sodia said earlier this month He said as on June 14 that dia, the rate of COVID posi­ underlying medical condi­ Five masks should be handed ector/s, Employees of this newspaper/ company be held responsible/liable in be positive as tests were be­ that there would be 5.5 lakh there were 9,937 COVID­19 tive cases per million stood at tions were advised to take ex­ over to each violator after is­ any manner whatsoever for any claims and/or damages for advertisements in ing conducted at the last mo­ cases in the city by July 31. “I beds in Delhi and now it has 357 compared to the world tra precautions. They will suing a challan of ₹500, said this newspaper. ment. Now we are doing do not think we will reach been increased to 30,000. average of 1,250. preferably not be exposed to the order. Two major projects to decongest Gurugram likely to be delayed NHAI has paid its share of the construction cost amounting to 50%, but other stakeholders are yet to contribute theirs

Ashok Kumar Developers and Infrastruc­ completed before September ing to release their shares at mitments and were commit­ GURUGRAM ture Private Limited are yet to this year. the earliest. ted to paying their share. K.C. The two major infrastructure make their respective Krishan Goel, co­partner Sharma of GMDA said the projects in the Millennium Ci­ contributions. Ahead of schedule of the construction firm Ram authority had not received ty to decongest the Delhi­Gu­ As per the fund sharing for­ Though both projects were Kumar Contractor, said work any formal communication rugram Expressway — a U­ mula, NHAI has to incur 50% running ahead of the sche­ had resumed post lockdown from the NHAI seeking the turn underpass near the Am­ cost of the ₹102.94 crore un­ dule, the construction was and around third­fourth of funds. Repeated attempts to bience Mall and the U­turn derpass project and 75% cost stopped for 45 days due to the construction was com­ reach Ambience Developers flyover near Shankar Chowk of the ₹58.96 crore flyover. high pollution levels in No­ pleted. He claimed that the did not elicit any response. — could be delayed due to The DFL Limited and the Am­ vember last year and again projects could still be com­ The 377­m­long under­ non­payment of their shares The U-turn underpass near bience Developers need to for two months due to the pleted in time if the payment ground U­turn will reduce the by the stakeholders. Ambience Mall. * ASHOK KUMAR pay ₹25.37 crore each for the lockdown this year. was received in 10­15 days. travel time and traffic conges­ Though the National High­ underpass and the GMDA has In a latest communication, When contacted, DLF Li­ tion under the Rajokri flyover ways Authority of India has tropolitan Development to pay ₹14.74 crore for the the GMDA has written to Am­ mited spokesperson said they in Delhi. The 455­m­long ele­ paid its due share for the both Authority (GMDA), the DLF flyover. As per the contract, bience Developers and the had always supported author­ vated U­turn will reduce the projects, the Gurugram Me­ Limited and the Ambience the two projects are to be DLF Limited on June 15 seek­ ities in completing their com­ traffic volume on the NH­48.

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161 new cases, Kin of deceased accuse Aligarh FIR against Ramdev, 4 others five deaths Case lodged for conspiring to sell ‘fake’ COVID­19 cure in Punjab Special Correspondent ple complaints against Mr. mortuary of mismanagement JAIPUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Ramdev had been received The police have registered a for claiming to have deve­ CHANDIGARH ‘Bodies are being kept in the open and we are asked to pay for the ice slabs’ first information report loped the medicine without Punjab recorded 161 fresh against yoga guru Ramdev any trial. No arrests have COVID­19 cases on June 28 Anuj Kumar eral secretary Priyanka ary has arrangement to keep fairs of the post­mortem and four others for allegedly been made so far. and reported five more Ghaziabad Gandhi Vadra tweeted about six bodies in deep freezers. house. “It is the doctors who conspiring to sell a fake Ay­ Mr. Jakhar said in his deaths, taking the toll to Allegations of bodies being the issue, citing local media In mid­June, one of the freez­ declare whether a deceased urveda medicine with the complaint that the accused 133, according to an official kept in the open and the kin reports. ers developed a fault and the should be tested for CO­ misleading claim to cure had put the lives of com­ statement. of the deceased being asked In another case, the body electrician could not address VID­19 or not.” COVID­19 following clinical mon people at risk and The number of positive to pay for ice slabs to protect of Mukhtyar who was alleg­ the problem because of the JNMCH principal Shahid trials on some patients. The neither the Centre nor the cases has reached 5,216. them from decomposition in edly killed during a fracas in fear of COVID­19. Unfortu­ Siddiqui said: “If the admi­ FIR said the claim had been Rajasthan government had The patients who died Aligarh have come to light. the Jalesar area of Etah dis­ nately, during that period, nistration wants a test report made without getting the Yoga guru Ramdev been informed about the were from Amritsar, Path­ Parveen Begum, sister of trict, was also kept for five the inflow of bodies had also on priority, it could convey it Union AYUSH Ministry’s clinical trials of Coronil. Pa­ ankot, Ludhiana, Jaland­ Shareef Ahmed, told repor­ days as the mortuary offi­ increased. Now, the problem to us. The workload is high approval. the COVID­19 positive pa­ tanjali Ayurveda, on the har and Hoshiarpur dis­ ters that her brother passed cials allegedly wanted to has been rectified and bo­ as we are testing samples The others named in the tients in association with other hand, had claimed tricts. The major chunk of away on June 18 under suspi­ check if he was COVID­free dies are not being kept in the from the neighbouring dis­ FIR as accused were Mr. NIMS, a private institute sit­ that it had complied with all new cases, 45 and 39 were cious circumstances and the or not before conducting the open.” tricts as well. As per the State Ramdev­promoted Patana­ uated near Jaipur. legal formalities. reported from Sangrur and body was kept in the mortu­ post­mortem. government order, no post­ jali Ayurveda Limited CEO The FIR was registered at Ludhiana districts respec­ ary till June 22 because the Mohd. Yasin, the nephew ‘No role’ mortem is required for those Acharya Balkrishna, Patan­ Jyoti Nagar police station in ‘Stop advertising’ tively. The Health depart­ district administration sus­ of the deceased, alleged that On officials asking the kin of who have died of COVID­19. jali employee Anurag Varsh­ Jaipur on Saturday on the The Union AYUSH Ministry ment said the active cases pected him to be COVID­19 they were made to wait des­ the deceased to pay for the Even if the officials suspect a ney, and Balvir Singh Tomar basis of a complaint made has since sought details are 1,557 and 3,526 patients positive. pite a medical report from ice slabs, Mr. Dixit said: deceased to be COVID posi­ and Anurag Singh Tomar, by some individuals, includ­ about the medicine and di­ have so recovered. Jawaharlal Nehru Medical “Keeping the bodies secure tive, they could perform the chairman and director, res­ ing a lawyer, Balbir Jakhar. rected Patanjali Ayurveda to In Haryana, 402 fresh Viral video College and Hospital saying till the post­mortem is the last rites according to proto­ pectively, of the National In­ The five persons were stop advertising the claim cases surfaced on Sunday, “We were asked to pay ₹500 that he was not a COVID sus­ job of the police. We have no col, the report could wait.” stitute of Medical Sciences booked under Section 420 about the cure of COVID­19. taking the total tally to per day for the ice slabs to pect. “The official at the role in this.” There are grey areas, he & Research (NIMS). (cheating) of Indian Penal Rajasthan Medical & Health 13,829. The State also re­ prevent the body from de­ mortuary still wanted his He added that sometimes said, in cases of deaths Patanjali Ayurveda had Code and Sections 4 and 7 Minister Raghu Sharma ported five deaths taking composing. He was buried sample to be sent to the post­mortems got de­ where the post­mortem is a recently launched a drug, of the Drugs and Magic Re­ has said that action would the toll to 223. only after his report came JNMCH,” he alleged. layed because JNMCH could must, which should be Coronil, with the claim that medies (Objectionable Ad­ be taken if any attempt to The major chunk of new out to be negative,” she Ravi Kant Dixit, the phar­ not send the report in time. addressed. it could cure COVID­19. The vertisements) Act, 1954. was made to sell a purport­ cases, 131 and 88 were re­ could be heard saying in a vi­ macist at the mortuary and Senior Superintendent of The Chief Medical Officer herbal products company Additional Commission­ ed Ayurveda drug as poten­ ported from Faridabad and deo that went viral. the official who addresses Police Muniraj P. said the didn’t respond to the queries said the medicine’s clinical er of Police Ashok Gupta tial medicine for COVID­19 Gurugram districts respec­ On Sunday, Congress gen­ the media, said: “The mortu­ police had no role in the af­ despite repeated attempts. trials were conducted on said on Sunday that multi­ patients in the State. tively. Swab test made must for ‘False’ virus death in Meghalaya Proof of planting trees must for air passengers in Tripura The patient actually died owing to asthmatic complications availing govt. services in Odisha Separate unit set up at Agartala airport SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT chine and hence the man GUWAHATI from Ri­Bhoi was categorised Jajpur district lists number of trees against licences, services Syed Sajjad Ali We have taken this A 76­year­old man who spent as false positive,” he added. Agartala <> more than 14 days of quaran­ Consultants at the hospital decision to keep Satyasundar Barik The Tripura government tine in a hospital after he was where the man was admitted gun licence and five trees for ples, mutt or their own back­ everyone secure BHUBANESWAR has made swab test com­ from COVID-19 in declared COVID­19 positive released him on June 22. “He licence renewal. Similar pre­ yards to do the plantation pulsory for all incoming due to a technical error, died passed away around 5:30 pm The processes for obtaining condition has been kept for before submission of the State flight passengers. in his Meghalaya village on on June 26 ,” said one of his government licences are al­ opening of new foreign liqu­ applications. Biplab Kumar Deb A separate unit with Chief Minister June 26. relatives. ready long and tedious. The or shops and renewal of Plantation, which has to adequate number of doc­ The hill State’s first ‘false Jajpur district administra­ licence. be self­certified through tors and heath staff has sengers on arrival at the positive’ patient died of asth­ ‘48 cases in the State’ tion in Odisha has stretched “We are not taxing people photographic or video evi­ been set up at the arrival MBB Airport. “We have ta­ matic complications. Meghalaya Chief Minister them further by making with the additional condi­ dence, has been made man­ lounge of the Maharaja Bir ken this decision to keep The man from Umsamlem Rush to buy cylinders in Conrad K. Sangma said the plantation a precondition tion. But we want to incul­ datory for eight services in­ Bikram Airport here for the everyone secure from CO­ village in Ri­Bhoi district was Guwahati on Sunday. * PTI State recorded 48 COVID­19 for granting its approval. cate a practice whose out­ cluding society registration, purpose. VID­19”, he asserted. admitted at the Dr. H Gordon positive cases till June 27. And no one is complaining. come will be beneficial for license for minor mineral, Mr. Deb urged everyone Roberts Hospital in State cap­ on the septuagenarian, was Five of them were active The Jajpur administration future generation,” said Jaj­ setting up crusher units, Change in strategy to cooperate with the go­ ital Shillong in the first week negative. while one person, a 69­year­ has stumbled upon the no­ pur District Collector Ranjan purchase of new vehicles Hitherto select passengers vernment to keep the State of June. The doctors under­ The State Medical Expert old doctor, died. vel idea to popularise plan­ Kumar Dash. and issuance of solvency from each flight had to un­ safe from the pandemic. took the reverse transcrip­ Committee later said the The COVID­19 death count tation drive by assigning “During regular reviews, certificate. dergo the test. However, At present, Air India, In­ tion polymerase chain reac­ man’s was a case of ‘false in Assam touched double fi­ specific number of trees to we found fair price shop According to the District detection of COVID­19 virus digo and Air Asia are run­ tion, or RT­PCR test after positive’ due to the error fac­ gure on June 27 with the be planted against each li­ dealers were very unpopu­ Collector, the administra­ in several passengers com­ ning flights in the Kolkata– diagnosing him with acute tor of the RT­PCR testing kit. death of a woman at the Gau­ cence or service. lar among people. We asked tion reserves right to carry pelled the State govern­ Agartala and the Agartala– respiratory infection. Aman War, the Director of hati Medical College and Hos­ Getting a gun licence re­ them to carry out plantation out random checking of ment to change strategy Guwahati sectors. He was declared positive Health Services said the ma­ pital late night on June 26. quires thorough verification for image makeover. As ma­ plantations. The district ad­ and get all passengers in The number of outgoing on June 9, following which chines through which the RT­ With 246 fresh cases on of one’s criminal antece­ ny as 700 retailers planted ministration, which began the testing ambit. passengers, however, has the Health department car­ PRC tests were being con­ June 27, Assam’s COVID­19 dents, address authentica­ 7,000 trees and submitted the drive since Rath Yatra, Chief Minister Biplab Ku­ declined due to the dismal ried out contact­tracing in ducted have an accuracy rate positive count read 7,165. tion and certificate of good proof,” said Mr. Dash. achieved a milestone when mar Deb announced the coronavirus situation in his village as well as in Shil­ of 99%. While 2,338 of these are ac­ behaviour from neighbours. People have been asked to public planted 1.25 lakh decision to conduct a man­ major air travel destina­ long. The outcome of all “This particular case fell tive cases, 4,814 were dis­ Now, one has to plant 10 choose any government trees alone in Jajpur block datory swab test for all pas­ tions. tests, including a few more under the 1% error of the ma­ charged after recovery. trees before seeking new land, school premises, tem­ on Sunday.

OBITUARYOBITUARY OBITUARY& REMEMBRANCE & REMEMBRANCE & REMEMBRANCE NSUI protest against fuel IN MEMORIAM DEATH ANNIVERSARIES price hike in Chandigarh It flays Centre for ‘anti­people policies’

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT The Central CHANDIGARH <> EDUCATIONAL government seems Students of Panjab Universi­ adamant to ty having allegiance to the devastate the National Students’ Union of economic India (NSUI) on Sunday held a symbolic protest against structure of the the BJP­led government at country the Centre in the backdrop Manoj Lubana NSUI leader of rising prices of fuel. A group of NSUI mem­ leum products, which will bers staged the protest at ci­ result in inflation, the Cen­ ty’s Sector 10 fuel station, tral government seems ada­ where they symbolically mant to devastate the eco­ pretended to “offer loan” to nomic structure of the the people for buying petrol country,” said Manoj Luba­ and diesel. na of the NSUI. A few days ago the NSUI students had held a “boot ‘Loan offer’ polish” protest, in which “As a part of our protest they expressed their an­ against rising fuel prices we guish against increase in are ‘offering loan’ to the pe­ prices of fuel by polishing ople, who are visiting the SITUATION VACANT shoes of bystanders. fuel station here. The aim is MEDICAL “We are staging protest to convey the message to wake up this govern­ about faulty policies of the ment. People are fed­up of ruling government at the Central government’s anti­ Centre,” he said. people policies and we “By sharply increasing want the government to fuel prices, the government know this. At a time of pan­ has broken the backbone of demic when people are al­ every section of the society. ready struggling the govern­ I would urge Prime Minister ment instead of offering a Narendra Modi to stop hurt­ helping hand is creating ing people of the country more troubles for them. with faulty economic man­ With price hike of petro­ agement,” he said.

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Weather Watch ‘Congressisation’ of MVA Rainfall, temperature & air quality in select metros yesterday Maharashtra reports new led to killing of sadhus in single-day high of 5,493 cases Palghar, says Smriti Irani Alok Deshpande Third consecutive 5,000 case surge brings total cases near 1.65 lakh mark Mumbai Shoumojit Banerjee fresh cases, taking its total Union Minister for Textile Pune case tally to 7,443. Kalyan­ and Women and Child Deve­ Maharashtra recorded its Dombivli’s upsurge conti­ lopment Smriti Irani on Sun­ highest single­day surge in nued relentlessly with 420 day said that ‘Congressisa­ COVID­19 cases on Sunday, new cases taking its total tion’ of the Maha Vikas with a staggering 5,493 fresh case tally to 6,555. Aghadi government in Mah­ cases taking the State’s total Mira­Bhayander and Va­ arashtra resulted in the mob case tally to 1,64,626. sai­Virar in the MMR, too, lynching of two sadhus in This is the third consecu­ witnessed sharp spikes of 114 Palghar district. Smriti Irani tive daily spike of more than and 288 new cases, respec­ “I want to tell all those 5,000 cases to be reported tively, to take their total case who are connected today after by Sonia, Rahul and in the State, with 5,318 cases tallies to 3,246 and 4,206, that we cannot rest until the Priyanka Gandhi, when the being recorded on Saturday respectively. State is under the possession UPA was in power. “When and 5,024 cases on Friday. Of Nashik district in north of the Congress culture. It is Manmohan Singh was the Fi­ Temperature Data: IMD, Pollution Data: CPCB, Map: INSAT/IMD (Taken at 18.00 Hrs) the total case tally, however, Maharashtra reported a bitter truth that the ‘Con­ nance Minister, he had paid Forecast for Monday: Thunderstorm accompanied by lightning only 70,607 are active ones. A medic checks a woman’s temperature during a door-to-door another big spike of 199 new gressisation’ of the State go­ around ₹100 crore to the likely at isolated places over Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pra- As many as 156 more COVID-19 testing drive in a Mumbai slum on Sunday. * PTI cases with Nashik city re­ vernment resulted in the foundation. Congress­ruled desh, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Gujarat, central Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala deaths pushed the State’s porting 113 of these, while mob lynching of the sadhus States and some PSUs also city rain max min city rain max min death toll to 7,429. Of these, from Pune district saw the gures. Of these, 9,448 are ac­ Malegaon – hitherto a virus in Palghar. It is also because made donations. There is no Agartala...... 22.8....31.5....25.8 Kozhikode...... 34.7....31.2....24.8 60 were reported in the last total death toll surge to tive cases, while 10,708 peo­ hotbed – reporting 35 new of the ‘Congressisation’ that better example of political Ahmedabad...... —....38.7....28.8 Kurnool ...... 84.3....36.0....23.7 48 hours, while 96 were 714, while eight from Nash­ ple have been discharged cases after recording single­ there is a scam in even body hafta. Is it the reason why Aizawl...... 11....25.1....19.1 Lucknow...... —....36.8....25.6 Allahabad...... 5.1....36.1....25.6 Madurai...... —....38.0....27.0 from an earlier period, said ik district took the latter’s thus far. digit case surges till recently. bags,” Ms. Irani said. Dr. Singh’s name came up Bengaluru ...... 2.2....30.0....21.4 Mangaluru ...... 37.8....29.4....23.9 State Health Department of­ COVID­19 related death Along with Mumbai city, The district’s total tally has She was addressing a vir­ suddenly when discussions Bhopal ...... 2.8....33.9....24.0 Mumbai ...... 2.2....33.8....26.8 ficials. As many as 2,330 pa­ count to 217. most areas in the Mumbai risen to 3,902, of whom tual rally for Konkan and about who was going to be Bhubaneswar...... —....35.2....26.7 Mysuru ...... —....31.0....21.0 Chandigarh ...... —....39.4....28.9 New Delhi ...... —....40.2....29.4 tients were discharged on State Surveillance Officer Metropolitan Region (MMR) 1,622 are active. Mumbai regions to mark the the Prime Minister were Chennai ...... 4.2....35.4....28.0 Patna ...... 47.9....35.0....24.9 Sunday, taking the total Dr. Pradeep Awate said the reported record high case “Till date, of the 9,23,502 sixth anniversary of the Cen­ on?” the minister asked. Coimbatore ...... —....33.2....23.6 Port Blair...... —....31.2....25.4 number of recoveries till State’s recovery rate stood at surges as well. laboratory samples, 1,64,626 tral government under the Earlier, Leader of Opposi­ Dehradun...... 4.2....35.6....24.8 Puducherry ...... —....35.4....27.8 Gangtok...... 26.7....19.7....17.8 Pune...... —....33.8....24.1 date to 86,575. 52.59%. The State’s case fa­ Fresh cases continued to (17.52%) have been tested leadership of Prime Minister tion Devendra Fadnavis al­ Goa...... 0.1....31.2....26.3 Raipur ...... —....35.0....25.5 With 1,287 new cases on tality stands at 4.51%. mount at an alarming rate in positive, with nearly 27,000 Narendra Modi. A rumour leged that the State govern­ Guwahati ...... 33....32.0....23.0 Ranchi...... 20.6....30.8....23.2 Sunday, Mumbai’s total case After Mumbai, Pune dis­ Thane, with the district re­ samples across the State test­ about thieves working in ment is hiding the real Hubballi...... —....28.0....22.0 Shillong...... 88.2....24.3....16.0 Hyderabad ...... 66.6....34.2....22.2 Shimla...... —....30.6....20.8 tally has reached 75,539, of trict reported an alarming porting a record surge of ed on Sunday,” Dr. Awate gangs in a remote tribal area number of the COVID­19 pa­ Imphal ...... 3.8....30.1....22.7 Srinagar...... —....31.8....15.8 whom only 28,006 are active rise of nearly 850 — the dis­ more than 600 new CO­ said. He further said present­ led to the killing of two sad­ tients. “The Maharashtra go­ Jaipur ...... —....40.0....30.8 Thiruvananthapuram...... 6....30.6....24.2 ones though. With 23 more trict’s second­highest single­ VID­19 cases to take the dis­ ly, 5,70,475 people across the hus in Palghar district two vernment’s tendency is to Kochi ...... 13....28.4....25.0 Tiruchi...... 0.3....37.5....26.6 Kohima ...... 8.8....25.8....18.0 Vijayawada ...... 2....37.0....27.2 deaths reported, the city’s day surge — as its total case trict’s total tally to 13,502. State are in home quarantine months ago. hide the figure. There is no Kolkata ...... 58.9....34.3....24.6 Visakhapatnam ...... —....33.7....28.8 death toll has risen to 4,371. tally soared to 20,870, as per Navi Mumbai piled up and 37,350 are in institution­ Attacking the Congress seriousness. Instead of fight­ (Rainfall data in mm; temperature in Celsius) As many as 20 deaths State Health Department fi­ new cases as well with 204 al quarantine. and Rahul Gandhi, Ms. Irani ing the virus, the govern­ Pollutants in the air you are breathing Yesterday said the Congress culture ment is cutting down on CITIES SO2 NO2 CO PM2.5 PM10 CODE means questioning the tests. Delhi is testing more Ahmedabad..... 15 .35 23 ....56 .....— ....* Bengaluru ...... 7 .13 43 ..103 .....— ....* In observation made at 4.00 country’s forces when India than Mumbai. This is being * p.m., Hisar, Haryana, Chennai ...... 8 .34 64 ....59 .....— .... recorded an overall air faces challenges. done to hide the real number * Pune district sees 850 Delhi ...... 16 .26 28 ..130 .316 .... Man held for cheating, quality index (AQI) score of “It is painful that Mr. of positive patients,” he said. Hyderabad ...... 7 .54 30 ....14 ...27 ....* 319 indicating an unhealthy Kolkata...... 6 ...9 .8 ....15 ...28 ....* level of pollution. In Gandhi speaks in favour of Mr. Fadnavis cited the ex­ * contrast, Aizawl, Mizoram, Lucknow...... 4 ...2 23 ....72 .....— .... recorded a healthy AQI score enemy whenever it stands ample of Delhi Chief Minis­ * cases; death toll at 714 Mumbai ...... — ...3 16 ....41 ...89 .... impregnating women of 6 against the country. Some ter and Aam Adami Party Pune...... 26 ...8 79 ....27 ...26 ....* Shoumojit Banerjee Visakhapatnam 15 .35 28 ....42 ...74 ....* Raina Assainar The complainant, a 33­ However, the number of people believe we should leader (AAP) Arvind Kejari­ Navi Mumbai Pune active positive cases is 7,628, never expect him to stand wal, saying the State should Air Quality Code: * Poor * Moderate * Good (Readings indicate average AQI) year­old advocate, had filed SO2: Sulphur Dioxide. Short-term exposure can harm the respiratory system, The Rabale police have ar­ a case against Mr. Sambre­ A spike of more than 800 with 11, 942 recoveries thus with the Indian forces. It is learn from him about work­ making breathing difficult. It can affect visibility by reacting with other air rested a management grad­ Patil on on May 31, after new COVID­19 cases on Sun­ far. As many as 356 of the ac­ sad that Chhatrapati Shiva­ ing along with the Centre. particles to form haze and stain culturally important objects such as statues day saw Pune district’s total tive cases in the district are ji’s land witnesses a go­ “The Centre is ready to help and monuments. uate for cheating and im­ which the latter had gone NO2: Nitrogen Dioxide. Aggravates respiratory illness, causes haze to form by pregnating several women absconding. According to case tally surge to 20,870. in a critical condition. vernment which stands Maharashtra, but the go­ reacting with other air particles, causes acid rain, pollutes coastal waters. by creating a fake matrimo­ her, she met the accused Nearly 850 fresh cases were The district’s recovery with China and wants vernment is not ready to CO: Carbon monoxide. High concentration in air reduces oxygen supply to critical organs like the heart and brain. At very high levels, it can cause nial profile. Sachin Dilip through a matrimonial web­ reported till evening, while rate stands at 58.04%, while friendship with Pakistan,” take it. It is time to work dizziness, confusion, unconsciousness and even death. Sambre­Patil (35), a resident site in June 2018. 20 more fatalities pushed the present case fatality rate Ms. Irani alleged. hand­in­hand with the PM2.5 & PM10: Particulate matter pollution can cause irritation of the eyes, of Thane who worked with a In his profile, the accused the total death toll to 714, is 3.39%. She said that she was Centre,” he said, adding in­ nose and throat, coughing, chest tightness and shortness of breath, reduced lung function, irregular heartbeat, asthma attacks, heart attacks and premature private firm as sales manag­ claimed he was unmarried Pune Divisional Commis­ Meanwhile, the death toll stunned to know the details stead, the ministers from the death in people with heart or lung disease er, was arrested on June 23 and made advances towards sioner Deepak Mhaisekar in Solapur district has of donations given to Rajiv State are busy blaming the from his native in Palghar. the complainant. told The Hindu. climbed to 253. Gandhi foundation, looked Central government. ‘Draft EIA notification fosters non­transparency, encourages environmental violations’ Shoumojit Banerjee that essentially, all the hy­ Pune dro­electric projects lesser The draft environmental im­ than 25MW and irrigation pact assessment (EIA) notifi­ projects that have a cultura­ cation issued by the Minis­ ble command area between try of Environment Forests 2,000 and 10,000 hectares and Climate Change will not need an EIA or a pu­ (MoEFCC) in March dilutes blic consultation for their the EIA process and encour­ appraisal,” she said. ages environment violations Ms. Pradhan further said in case of big irrigation pro­ in the 2006 EIA notification, jects, alleged the South Asia category ‘B’ project was Network on Dams, Rivers treated as category ‘A’ pro­ and People (SANDRP). ject if the project fulfilled The SANDRP is a network the ‘general conditions’, of researchers and experts which meant if they were lo­ working on water and envi­ cated (in whole or in part) ronmental issues. Amruta within 10 km from the boun­ Pradhan, a researcher with daries of protected areas, the SANDRP, said the 83­ critically polluted areas, page notification in its draft eco­sensitive zones, or in­ form rendered the environ­ ter­State and international mental clearance (EC) pro­ boundaries. cess “non­transparent, un­ “But as per the new noti­ democratic, unjust and fication, ‘B1’ projects fulfill­ unaccountable”. ing the general condition “In the case of large­scale will be appraised by the exp­ hydropower and irrigation ert appraisal committee, projects, the SANDRP, but they will no more be through field studies, has treated as category ‘A’ pro­ routinely witnessed irregu­ jects. This explicit clarifica­ larities like poor quality of tion does seem to imply that work, dishonest EIAs cou­ they will undergo less rigo­ pled with misinformation rous appraisal,” she said. about the project, and in­ adequate or no impact as­ Eco-sensitive zones sessment, to name just a few She feared that with the re­ of the violations. The moval of such conditions, MoEF’s draft ensures no projects could now be pro­ monitoring of these pro­ posed in dangerously close jects, let alone achieving proximities of boundary of compliance,” Ms. Pradhan protected and eco­sensitive said. If implemented, the zones. The draft notification MoEF’s draft will replace the also stated that while pro­ 2006 EIA notification for fu­ jects concerning national ture projects. The most sig­ defence and security or “in­ nificant change in the volving other strategic con­ amended draft has been in siderations as determined respect of category ‘B’ pro­ by the Central government” jects, Ms. Pradhan said. (Hy­ would not be treated as ca­ dro­electric projects lesser tegory ‘A’, “no information than 75 MW but higher than relating to such projects 25 MW fall in category ‘B1’) shall be placed in public domain”. Public consultation “From this, it is clear that While a significant slab of with the Centre deciding on threshold limits is now the ‘strategic considera­ pushed under category ‘B2’ tions’ for their projects, they projects, these projects are are free to hide information completely exempted from from people under this ru­ the EIA and public consulta­ bric. This flies in the face of tion process. Further, these the Centre’s stated intention categories have been kept of making the EC process fluid, she said. “This means more transparent,” she said.

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DELHI THE HINDU 6 EDITORIAL MONDAY, JUNE 29, 2020 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Making sense of China’s calculations Analysts should have considered the pandemic’s impact on its economy and India’s strategic alignment with the U.S. Valley and Pangong Tso”. Adding and other agencies, which made it The principal responsibility for spice to the debate was the Prime possible to track Chinese move­ intelligence assessment and analy­ Minister’s statement at an all­party ment. sis concerning China, rests with Brief reprieve meeting on June 19 to discuss the Where, perhaps, intelligence the National Security Council Se­ Pakistan has bought time, but it cannot back border issue, that “there was no can be faulted is with regard to in­ cretariat (NSCS) and India’s exter­ M.K. Narayanan intruder on our land now and no adequate appreciation of what the nal intelligence agency, the Re­ away from its commitments to the FATF post in anyone’s custody”, which build­up meant, and what it por­ search and Analysis Wing (R&AW), ccording to reports in Pakistan and India, the Fi­ raised the Opposition’s hackles. tended for India. This is indicative and to a lesser extent, the Defence nancial Action Task Force, the global watchdog hat policy planners in China’s reaction has been con­ of a weakness in interpretation Intelligence Agency. It may not, Agroup, has decided to grant Pakistan and other Delhi, and possibly those sistent — India must move out of and analysis of the intelligence perhaps, be wrong to surmise that in Beijing, have long Galwan. This is something that In­ available, as also an inability to the decision of the NSCS to dis­ countries on its watch list a three­month extension on W feared, viz., a direct confrontation dia cannot ignore any longer . provide a coherent assessment of mantle the Joint Intelligence Com­ fulfilling commitments, in view of the pandemic. Pakis­ leading to fatal casualties, oc­ What took place in the Galwan China’s real intentions. Intelli­ mittee has contributed to a wea­ tan was placed on the grey list or “increased monito r­ curred in the Galwan heights in heights cannot be viewed as a gence assessment of China’s inten­ kening of the intelligence

ing” list in June 2018, and given time until October 2019, the late evening of June 15. The mere replay of what took place in GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO tions, clearly fell short of what was assessment system. In the case of in order to complete a 27­point action plan on counter­ number of casualties, 20 on the In­ Depsang (2013), Chumar (2014) overlook China’s more recent pos­ required. the R&AW, lack of domain exper­ ing terror finance and anti­money laundering. Failing dian side was the highest since and Doklam (2017). This is a new tures in this region. The impor­ It is at the same time true that tise, and an inadequacy of China that, it would be put on the black list of “high­risk juris­ 1967, and included that of a high and different situation and India tance of Aksai Chin for China has while India’s technological capa­ specialists might also have been a dictions” facing severe financial sanctions. This means ranking Colonel of the Bihar Regi­ must not shrink from addressing greatly increased of late, as it pro­ bilities for intelligence collection contributory factor. ment. The number of casualties on the core issue that relations bet­ vides direct connectivity between have vastly increased in recent that in effect, Pakistan will have had at least one e xtra the Chinese side has not been for­ ween India and China are in a peri­ two of the most troubled regions years, the capacity for interpreta­ Limitations of summit meets year to meet its deadlines, despite the fact that it has mally indicated, though they have lous state. of China, viz., Xinjiang and Tibet. tion and analysis has not kept pace We cannot also minimise the ad­ only completed about 14 points so far. The remainder is conceded that at least one Colonel China’s assertion of its claim to This does not seem to have been with this. Advances in technology, verse impact of certain policy im­ still a tall order, and includes improving mechanisms to was among those killed. the whole of the Galwan Valley adequately factored in to our cal­ specially Artificial Intelligence peratives. For one, the preference curb terror financing, amending laws to curb ‘Hawala’ needs close and careful analysis. culations. While Indian policy have, across the world, greatly given recently to Summit diploma­ transactions and placing sanctions against cash cou­ No aberration For one, Point 14 gives China a vir­ makers saw the reclassification of augmented efforts at intelligence cy over traditional foreign policy riers who facilitate terror groups, completing the prose­ With this incident, it should have tual stranglehold over the newly Ladakh as purely an internal mat­ analysis. It is a moot point wheth­ making structures proved to be a been obvious that the die was cast completed, and strategically sig­ ter, they overlooked the fact that er such skills were employed in severe handicap. Summit diplo­ cution of groups banned by the UNSC, and converting as regards the future of China ­In­ nificant, Darbuk­Shyok­Daulat Beg for China’s military planners, the this instance. macy cannot be a substitute for madrassas run by them into formal schools. Each item dia relations. Nevertheless, there Oldie Road, which leads on to the carving out of Ladakh into aUnion The failure to decipher China’s carefully structured foreign office demands more accountability by Pakistan on terror was a flicker of hope when appa­ Karakoram Pass. For another, the Territory (followed later by Home intentions in time is no doubt un­ policy making. Any number of in­ groups, as well as a shift within its ruling establishment rently the Corps Commanders of strategic implications for India of Minister Amit Shah’s statement fortunate, but it has to be under­ stances of this nature are availa­ on the benefits of allowing such groups to exist at all. India and China on June 22­23 ap­ China’s insistence on keeping the last year laying claim to the whole stood that deciphering China’s in­ ble. Prime Minister Neville Cham­ Despite this being Pakistan’s third stint on the FATF peared to reach a “mutual consen­ whole of the Galwan Valley are se­ of Aksai Chin) posited a threat to tentions, understanding the berlain of Great Britain was one of watch list (prior occasions were in 2008 and 2012­2015), sus” to disengage and embark on rious as it fundamentally changes China’s peace and tranquillity. Chinese mind (which tends to be the earliest victims of Summit di­ lowering “ tensions” through a the status quo. Finally, by laying contextual and relational), and try­ plomacy. The disastrous meeting there is little evidence that it has yet internalised that “gradual and verifiable disengage­ claim to the Galwan Valley, China On intelligence assessment ing to make sense of Chinese between Prime Minister Indira message. In a U.S. report on terrorism released last ment”. This proved shortlived, has reopened some of the issues It is in this context, that questions thinking, are an extremely difficult Gandhi and U.S. President Richard week, Pakistan remains a “safe haven” for most UN pro­ with the Chinese post in the Gal­ left over from the 1962 conflict, are now being raised about the fai­ task at any time. Even so, since last Nixon had long­term adverse im­ scribed groups. The report also adds that its steps to wan area not only being restored, and demonstrates that it is willing lure of intelligence. It is axiomatic year when China’s economy began plications for India­U.S. relations. prosecute certain leaders of JeM and LeT are inadeq­ but also, from s atellite images to embark on a new confrontation. that leaders make better decisions to show signs of a decline followed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh uate. In the past year, Pakistan has pursued indict­ available, bigger in size than be­ Ambiguity has existed regard­ when they have better informa­ by the COVID­19 pandemic, China and U.S. President George W. Bush ments against LeT leaders, but not on serious charges, fore. ing the Line of Actual Control tion, and the enduring value of in­ is known to have become extreme­ did establish a rapport through What occurred in the Galwan (LAC) in this sector; the Chinese telligence comes from this funda­ ly sensitive to what it perceived as frequent Summit meetings, but and even 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed has only been heights on June 15, must not, “claim line” is that of November mental reality. Admittedly, the efforts by others to exploit its this was the exception rather than convicted for “being part of a banned terrorist outfi t” hence, be viewed as an aberration. 1959, while for India the LAC is timing and nature of China’s ac­ weakness. It has often felt com­ the rule. and for “having illegal property”. Meanwhile, LeT oper­ It would be more judicious to view that of September 1962. In recent tions should have aroused keen in­ pelled to demonstrate that no na­ Currently, India’s Summit diplo­ ations commanders Zaki Ur Rehman Lakhvi, Sajid Mir, it as signifying a new and fractious years, both sides had refrained terest in intelligence circles about tion should attempt to exploit the macy has tended to marginalise and JeM chief Masood Azhar appear to be at large. Pa ­ phase in China ­India relations. from reopening the issue, but Chi­ China’s strategic calculations. The situation to China’s disadvantage. the External Affairs Ministry with kistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s reference in its Par­ Even if the situation reverts to na has never given up its claims. Chinese build­up in the Galwan India’s intelligence and policy ana­ regard to policy making, and we liament to al­Qaeda founder Osama Bin Laden as a what existed in mid­April (highly By its unilateral declaration now, Valley, Pangong Tso and Hots pr­ lysts obviously failed to analyse are probably paying a price for it. “martyr” underlines the establishment’s attitude to unlikely), India­China relations ap­ China is seeking to settle the mat­ ings­Gogra did not require any this aspect adequately, while try­ As it is, the Ministry of External Af­ pear set to witness a “new and dif­ ter in its favour. India needs to great intelligence effort, since ing to make sense of China’s latest fairs’s (MEA) stock of China ex­ these groups. Pakistan’s failed attempt to have the ferent normal”. measure up to this challenge. there was little attempt at conceal­ forward push. perts seems to be dwindling, and UNSC designate four Indians as terrorists last week — it The debate on the Indian side ment by the Chinese. India also Another of China’s current pre­ its general tilt towards the U.S. in was vetoed by the U.S. — speaks to its lack of credibility has so far been largely limited to Importance of Aksai Chin possesses high quality imagery in­ occupation, viz. that India is feel­ most matters, has resulted in an on the issue. Pakistan is counting on its role in facilitat­ China’s perfidy in violating the sta­ A charge that could be levelled telligence (IMINT) and signals in­ ing emboldened because of its imbalance in the way the MEA per­ ing the Afghanistan peace deal by pushing Taliban lead­ tus quo. Former Prime Minister against successive administrations telligence (SIGINT) capabilities, growing strategic alignment with ceives problems and situations. ers to participate in order to mitigate its troubles at the Manmohan Singh for instance, ac­ in Delhi in recent years is that distributed between the National the United States, should also have FATF, and with support from countries keen to con­ cused China of “brazenly and ille­ while China has consistently as­ Technical Research Organisation, been adequately considered by M.K. Narayanan is a former National gally seeking to claim parts of In­ serted its claims over the whole of the Directorate of Signals Intelli­ the analysts, in any assessment of Security Adviser and a former Governor clude the Afghan deal, may even ensure a few more ex­ dian Territory such as the Galwan Aksai Chin, India has chosen to gence of the Ministry of Defence putative Chinese responses. of West Bengal tensions for its government. Eventually, given the rigo­ rous FATF action plan , and the combined pressure of countries in the group, Pakistan would do well to real­ ise that only clear and consistent actions would fre e it In border claims, reimagining South Asia’s boundaries from the commitments at the FATF. In any case, giving a free rein to terror groups cannot be in its own interest. In the backdrop of troublesome territorial assertions, the ‘entity’ needs to be rethought of as a region of regions interests in negotiations with oth­ old of another nation state. In a Multi­Sectoral Technical and Eco­ er states. Experience suggests that certain sense, the people living at nomic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) or Letter and spirit states in South Asia consecrate the edges of nation states within the Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Ne­ Opposition to the new domicile rules in J&K political boundaries as the “natu­ South Asia do not actually belong pal (BBIN) sub­regional initiative . ral” shield even in the arbitration to any of the two nation states. Or South Asian states need to realise is rooted in old fears and new suspicions of South Asian affairs. Interesting­ in other words, they belong to the difference between “regional Swatahsiddha Sarkar ew domicile rules that followed the termination ly, this “realist” fashion of state­ both the states at the same time. cooperation” merely as advocacy of the special constitutional status of Jammu and craft happens to be the dominant RITU RAJ KONWAR Non­sedentary practices define and as an issue that demands self­ Kashmir, which was reorganised into two Union South Asian pattern within which As such it demonstrates itself their life courses, while switching approval and self­promotion. N ven during this period of so­ territorial boundaries are valued more as a borderland that needs to positionalities animate their aspi­ There is every likelihood that Territories, have brought succour and hope for a seg­ cial distancing and public more than lives, livelihoods and be cultivated out of contact zones ration of belonging. Plurality, dif­ South Asian countries would re­ ment of its population that had to contend with frag­ Elockdown, claims and coun­ the well­being of the people locat­ which exist beyond the limits of ferences and inclusivity bring co­ main busy in making tall claims of mented citizenship rights for long. This group, of two to terclaims over territories in and ed at the edges of nation states. territorial boundaries shared by herence to borderland ontology; regional cooperation while closing three lakh people, is made up of refugees from Pakis­ around the Kalapani region (locat­ “Patriotism” looms large as and the member­states. they defy the logic of singular, un­ all doors of recognising difference tan, sanitary workers resettled from other parts of India ed at the tri­junction between when inter­state relationships are ifying, exclusive identities that the and mutual tolerance. In the com­ and Gorkhas who arrived as soldiers before I ndepen­ northern India, western Nepal and viewed through the statist lens, Life here is fluid nation states privilege. motion that ensues, powerful dence. The erstwhile State of J&K gained special powers southern China/Tibet) have resur­ although “jingoism” might be mis­ Such a perspective is necessary in countries operating within and faced to become an issue that has sing. Myopic hostility, real or ima­ order to address the contempor­ Impact on cooperation beyond the orbit of South Asia to define its ‘permanent residents’ and restrict land , embroiled India and Nepal in a gined, is used as the governing ary crisis that has emerged from Howsoever real the “realist” posi­ might become successful in esta­ educational and employment rights only to them. This political debate; it is now gravitat­ principle in the arbitration of terri­ the Kalapani dispute. There is a tions may be, borderlands act as blishing their control by using the cohort was not classified as permanent residents, lead­ ing towards a confrontational torial disputes across South Asia. need to go beyond the popular de­ natural vessels to de­essentialise same token of “regional coopera­ ing to a denial of opportunities to them in education, trend of popular politics. There­ bates (couched in the language of the statist paradigm. As places of tion” as an issue of realpolitik. employment and politics — a situation not merely un­ fore, it is pertinent to look at our Contested idea “myopic hostility”) revolving habitation, such spaces are more Both India and Nepal, and for just but also untenable. Subsequent to changes to Arti­ South Asian mentalities as to how Basically, the term “region” seems around such “troubling” ques­ real than what the “realist” posi­ that matter, other South Asian cles 370 and 35A in August 2019, in March 2020, the such disputes are “handled” rath­ to be a contested idea in a South tions such as: how much area has tions of statecraft might make out countries need to rethink South er than “addressed” within the gi­ Asian context as none of the South been “encroached” upon by of them — for those who live in Asia as a region of regions before concept of “permanent resident of the State” was dis ­ ven dispensation of South Asian Asian states has ever recognised which state and on what basis. them. Administrative treaties and they submit to the enticements of continued in J&K. As per the new domicile rules, those statecraft. and respected the idea of regional Such questions appear to be “nor­ tribunals represent them as spatial a new language of “regional coop­ persons and their children who have resided for 15 identity or regional politics, while mal” in the way a “statist para­ categories; but as lived spaces, eration” — one that is ontologically years in J&K, or have studied for seven years and ap­ State as sole arbiter becoming suspicious of such natu­ digm” deals with the issue; but they hardly fit into the protocols of empty but materially more re­ peared in the Class X or XII exam in an educational in­ One of the major problems of ral cleavages in politics. Given that they seem to be “troubling”, if not a statist paradigm. This is crucial warding. Region and regional stitution in the UT, are eligible for grant of domicile. Be­ South Asian politics is that it has to this is a reality, how could one “haunting”, questions to those especially when we know that as identity are not just issues of “real­ sides mitigating the historical deprivation of one flow from within a state­centric even think of South Asia as a re­ who are to maintain their lifeworld countries, both India and Nepal politik” in South Asia; rather, the paradigm. State­centrism, within gion to reckon with? One must un­ at those zones which are inexplica­ not only share cultural and civilisa­ need is to “officially” accommo­ segment, the changes will enable many others current­ the assumption of a South Asia, derstand that South Asia is per­ ble to a “realist” or a “neo­realist” tional backgrounds but also an “of­ date this rather naturally drafted ly living in J&K to get domicile and associated rights. has given the state structure the haps the most natural regional statist paradigm. ficially” recognised porous border. way of doing politics, if we are ge­ Not everyone is rejoicing, though. There are con­ propriety to be the sole arbiter of grouping of states around the South Asian life, essentially at Unless both India and Nepal nuinely concerned about South cerns that the changes in domicile rules will lead to a disputes, if any, among communi­ world. And, at the same time, it is the edges of the nation state, is agree to see the reality beyond the Asian geopolitics. huge influx into the region; a more uncharitable inte r­ ties and regions falling within the also the most difficult and contest­ bound to be fluid because the gaze of the statist paradigm, they pretation is that a deliberate scheme to change the de­ territorial limits of nation states. It ed grouping. South Asia needs to boundary, which confirms the ter­ are going to endanger the future of Swatahsiddha Sarkar is the Director of the mographic character of the region is unfolding. The Na­ is the state that articulates, de­ be rethought, not as a region of ritorial limits of a nation state, is at other regional experiments such Centre for Himalayan Studies, University fines, and represents “national” states, but as a region of regions. the same time the affirmed thresh­ as the Bay of Bengal Initiative for of North Bengal, Darjeeling, West Bengal tional Conference and the People’s Democratic Party, both Valley­based parties, have reiterated their opposi­ tion to the changes. In the Jammu region also, there are LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letters emailed to [email protected] must carry the full postal address and the full name or the name with initials. concerns that there could be dispossession of land and To read more letters a shrinking of economic opportunities for local people. Now, China links investigation should be discussion on any Bill numbers”, June 22). to abdication of judicial online, scan the QR code Movement of people across political and natural bor­ It is clear that the BJP is in ordered to check whether during the last 20 years. No institution of democracy responsibility in remanding ders has been a constant feature of progress, and argu­ need of a handle to hide its there was anything amiss. As many as 39 Members of should be used by parties to them to judicial custody remand. It is common ments over who are the original inhabitants of a pla ce failures in dealing with Deliberations to defuse the House from 24 political stall initiatives and despite noticing visible knowledge that an accused serve little purpose other than to accentuate political border tensions with China present border tensions parties besides two measures of the popularly injuries, highlights is remanded even without (Inside pages, “BJP steps up with China need to be independent and elected government everything that is wrong the magistrate noticing polarisation. Economic growth and vitality of a society attack on Cong. over China prioritised. nominated members took unreasonably, which with the criminal justice whether the accused has often positively correlate with its openness towards the funds” June 28). Ever since Thumati Anuradha, part in the discussion on happened during 2014­19. system in India. More often suffered any injuries or not. outside world. Communities that are not equipped to the party came to power in Hyderabad the said Bill, that lasted for Pralhad Joshi, than not, magistrates The constitutional negotiate with unfamiliar market and cultural forces 2014, it has been over six hours and seven Minister for Parliamentary remand an accused guarantees of an accused need some insulation. It is arguable that with relatively increasingly dependent on J&K Bill minutes. In addition to this, Affairs, Coal and Mines, mechanically despite the person have been reduced high rates of literacy, education and material standards, a strategy of accusing the On the passage of the five Ministers also Government of India amendment to Section 41 of to a farce. Remand J&K is not susceptible to any demographic or economic Congress of the reason why Jammu and Kashmir intervened in the New Delhi the CrPC under which they proceedings should be things go wrong. There Reorganisation Bill by the discussion. There have have to look into the video­recorded and take takeover by immigrants. Movement into the region will need to be answers to why Rajya Sabha, the factual been very few Bills that Rights of the accused reasons for the arrest. That place in public view in the be largely driven by economic reasons. A state­driven Indian soldiers lost their position is that it was done have been discussed for a The Sathankulam incident apart, the Supreme Court presence of near relatives reengineering of the demography of any place is not de­ lives and on the PM’s poor with the highest numbers longer duration than this. in Tamil Nadu, where a has made it clear in many and a lawyer. sirable or democratic, but the fear of such a scenario is messaging on the Chinese of Members of the House So it not fair to use the father and son died on cases, that an accused is N.G.R. Prasad, no good reason to retreat into a cocoon of nativism. incursions. If China funded from the most number of phrase, “pushed through” account of police brutality, entitled to the assistance of K.K. Ram Siddhartha, the RGF then an parties participating in the (Editorial, Members as and, more importantly, due a lawyer at the time of Chennai

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THE HINDU DELHI MONDAY, JUNE 29, 2020 OPED 7 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE P.V. Narasimha Rao, the subversive insider FROM THE READERS’ EDITOR This personality trait subverted his own place in the consciousness of the new India that he helped shape Governments should not aid media extinction The desire for fact-based journalism can’t be extinguished

Parakala Prabhakar Pradesh Police against Supriya Sharma, Ex­ ecutive Editor of Scroll.in, for her report on P.V. Narasimha Rao was, arguably, the impact of the lockdown on the Prime Mi­ the first accidental Prime Minister of nister’s constituency, Varanasi. While con­ India. He was also an accidental demning the FIR, the Editors Guild of India Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh. stated that the use of Sections of the IPC and Very few, if any, foresaw Rao to be A.S. Panneerselvan the SC/ST Act and the use of criminal provi­ Prime Minister in 1991. No one had sions of the law against journalists has be­ expected him to become the Chief come “an unhealthy and despicable trend Minister of his State about two de­ Craig Silverman, media editor for BuzzFeed that has no place in any vibrant democracy”. cades before that. Once in office, on News, described the pandemic as a “media It rightly concluded that “the increasing fre­ both occasions, Rao brought in re­ extinction event”. The news industry is fac­ quency of such misuse of laws by the author­ forms that fundamentally changed ing threats to its freedom, and journalists are ities is tantamount to shooting the messen­ the destiny of Andhra Pradesh and facing threats to their safety. Apart from fac­ ger and destroying a key pillar of India’s India. Rao, who would have turned ing continuing digital disruptions, the news democracy.” What Scroll.in published was a 99 on Sunday, was essentially a mute industry is also facing the consequences of fine piece of journalism and journalists who rebel, intensely uncomfortable with the economic meltdown, which is affecting believe in core values extend their solidarity. the socio­economic ethos around the revenue stream. Many newsrooms are re­ The third is the state broadcaster Prasar him. The rebel in him was not in porting lay­offs, furloughs and closures Bharati’s threat to cancel its subscription to enough measure to make him an out­ “Celebrating Rao’s achievements has no rewards; denouncing him has no punishment; ignoring him has no penalty.” caused by COVID­19. The growing online cul­ Press Trust of India, alleging that the news sider, but was sufficient to mount an Rao in 1993. * THE HINDU ARCHIVES ture will have a lasting impact on the news agency’s recent coverage was “detrimental intellectual challenge from the in­ ecology. to national interest” and undermined India’s side. A combination of his discom­ economic landscape of Andhra Pra­ Central governments or supported Assam, Kashmir, and for dousing the When the news media is subjected to an “territorial integrity”. Prasar Bharati fort with the status quo and his un­ desh was never the same again. This them from outside. But none could fires of the Mandal agitation. He did unprecedented strain, it is fair to expect go­ claimed it has supported PTI by paying a willingness to roll up his sleeves for was an unlikely subversion because overturn the fundamentals of his not effectively defend himself when vernments not to add new burdens. In his in­ “huge” annual fee running into crores for an open fight turned him into a sub­ Rao was a member of that very land­ 1991 economic project. Rao’s subver­ accused of inaction during the Ayod­ sightful essay in Foreign Policy, Jeffrey Smith years. It also accused PTI of being rigid on versive insider. owning class. sion of the Nehruvian economic doc­ hya episode. He did not cultivate a and Nic Cheeseman said authoritarians are the issue of rationalisation of the subscrip­ In both his roles as Chief Minister trine is irreversible. regional, caste, ideological consti­ exploiting the crisis we’re in, and democra­ tion fee. PTI is a news agency that provides of Andhra Pradesh and Prime Minis­ The 1991 economic project He disagreed with the imposition tuency. Nor did he cultivate a perso­ cies must not follow suit. They wrote: “The news to subscribers such as the mainstream ter, he subverted the very structures His political rise owed much to the of Emergency but was reluctant to nal following. He stayed away from seemingly endless cascade of dire headlines media, companies, and several government that he was a definite yet uneasy be­ decline of regional satraps in the break ranks and openly defy his par­ patron­client politics. Rejecting him, has overwhelmed citizens globally, trigger­ and non­government organisations. Prasar neficiary of. More than anything else Congress system, the rise of its ‘high­ ty high­command. He made peace therefore, is no slight to any region, ing inherent survival mechanisms and lead­ Bharati is among PTI’s biggest subscribers. subversion defines his long, success­ command culture’ and the consoli­ with the rebel in him without ceasing caste, or an ideological constituency. ing people to focus on the health and safety At a time when the media industry is vul­ ful but unspectacular political ca­ dation of the ‘socialistic pattern of to be an insider. He took the help of His party could easily disown him of those closest to us. Into the void created nerable, there seems to be a method behind reer. Temperamentally he preferred society’ as its creed. However, as his friend Nikhil Chakravarthy to without fear of backlash. Today, no by this uncertainty — in which fear has often the government’s moves to weaken the me­ to avoid open fights. His inclination Prime Minister and Congress Presi­ vent his dissent. He published a se­ group owns or claims him as its own. trumped reason — stride the world’s author­ dia. The media provides credible news and was for negotiation, compromise or, dent, Rao defanged that arrogant cul­ ries of articles in Mainstream under Celebrating his achievements has no itarian leaders.” Governments across the offers space for multiple views and ideas, but at best, a crafty rearguard action. ture and obliterated its socialist the pseudonym ‘A Congressman’. rewards; denouncing him has no world are using the pandemic to undermine the powers that be want to create and push a This perhaps enabled him to occupy creed. His liberalisation­privatisa­ Again, the subversive insider in him punishment; ignoring him has no pe­ free media. singular narrative. They want their tall strategic positions and carry out his tion­globalisation programme un­ answered the call of his conscience nalty. There is no one to celebrate his claims and spurious achievements to be pre­ project, but surely left him with no leashed economic and social forces by mounting an intellectual chal­ achievements in life; no one to be­ Three disturbing developments sented as the gospel truth. There is a syste­ passionate following or a die­hard that changed India beyond recogni­ lenge to Emergency. His passion for moan his humiliation in death; no Let us look at three disturbing developments matic attack against the act of verification. political constituency that owns him. tion from what it was until then. The democratic values was evident dur­ one to make a spirited demand for in India. The first is the new Jammu and The attack is multi­pronged. While the In the event, this personality trait policy departures under his watch ing the days when the Bharatiya Jana­ awarding the Bharat Ratna to him. Kashmir (J&K) media policy. The 53­page state comes up with FIRs, a powerful, omni­ subverted his own place in the popu­ hurtled India into a different and ta Party was battling ‘political un­ Perhaps his subversive streak did not document is aimed at “creating a sustained present troll army indulges in character as­ lar mind of India. hitherto unfamiliar political econo­ touchability’. Rao declared that BJP spare his own legacy. The Telangana narrative on the functioning of the govern­ sassination. Former Foreign Secretary As Chief Minister, he dismantled my. Rather than describing it as an leaders too were elected to Parlia­ government has begun celebrating ment in media”. Among the provisions Shyam Saran, in his lead article titled “The the political and economic power of attempt to upend the Nehruvian le­ ment by the same political process as his birth centenary on a grand scale. which seek to regulate reporting in J&K is a myopia of 20/20 hindsight” (June 26, 2020), the large feudal land­owning class, gacy, he laboured to portray it as a he and others in the Congress were One hopes that its efforts would re­ mechanism that empowers the government expressed his utmost sadness at the fact that but without any grandstanding. He continuation of Jawaharlal Nehru’s and, therefore, one had to do busi­ claim Rao’s rightful place in the pop­ to decide what is “anti­social” and “anti­na­ foreign policy, too, has fallen victim to very did not try to portray his measures as vision and Rajiv Gandhi’s dream — ness with them. That view was no ular consciousness of the new India tional” news. An editorial in The Indian Ex- narrow and cynical jousting in domestic an all­out assault on the archaic another characteristic subversive less than blasphemy in the Congress that he helped shape. press, ‘‘Ministry of Truth”, explained how politics. structures of economic and social manoeuvre, not a frontal attack. The of those days. this policy is an affront and will have chilling It is important for governments to realise control. But they indeed were. His economic paradigm that he intro­ Parakala Prabhakar is former effect on any voice other than the official that the human desire for democratic liber­ land reforms gradually squeezed the duced then remains unchallenged Shaping a new India Communications Adviser to the Government one. Journalists in J&K have characterised ties, including access to fact­based journal­ surplus capital out of the rural eco­ even today. Since he left office, every Rao learnt to keep quiet in about a of Andhra Pradesh and Managing Director of this policy as more restrictive than colonial­ ism, can never be extinguished. nomy. That capital made its way into major political formation in the dozen languages. He never claimed RightFOLIO, a Hyderabad-based knowledge era censorship mechanisms. trade, industry and urban areas. The country participated in successive credit for his successes in the Punjab, enterprise The second is the FIR filed by the Uttar [email protected] The Mapillah uprising CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC FROM THE ARCHIVES The pitfalls of monocausal explanation must be avoided FIFTY YEARS AGO JUNE 29, 1970 Mohammed Ayoob agitations with several Hindu leaders Yahya’s visit to Moscow addressing Khilafat gatherings. With the centenary of the Mapillah The anti­British sentiment fuelled Pakistan has already obtained substantial rebellion of 1921 fast approaching, by these agitations found fertile quantities of arms from the Soviet Union and controversy has erupted over Ma­ ground among the Muslim Mapillahs though its appetite for arms is still keen, Pre­ layalam movie projects commemo­ of south Malabar living in economic sident Yahya Khan’s latest visit to Moscow rating what was arguably the greatest misery which they blamed in large seems to have been more concerned with challenge to British rule between the part on British rule. The British had economic aid. Pakistan has been receiving great uprising of 1857 and the Quit In­ introduced new tenancy laws that generous aid from the international consor­ dia movement of 1942. Right­wing tremendously favoured the landlords tium, but its debt service liabilities are very radicals have launched attacks on so­ and instituted a far more exploitative heavy and it has now embarked on an ambi­ cial media against actor Prithviraj Su­ system than before. The pre­British tious programme to develop heavy indus­ kumaran after he announced his role relations between landlords and te­ tries. Its Western friends are not happy as the lead actor in the film Variyam- nants were based on a code that pro­ about the current exchange parity of the Pa­ kunnan that celebrates the life and vided the tenants a decent share of kistan rupee and are urging a measure of de­ exploits of Variyamkunnath Kunha­ the produce. The new laws deprived valuation. Nor have they found the pros­ hamed Haji, a leading figure in the them of all guaranteed rights to the pects of setting up a steel industry in West Mapillah revolt against British rule. land and its produce and in effect Pakistan (there is a small Japanese plant in The controversy surrounding the rendered them landless. East Pakistan) very bright and President Ya­ CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Mapillah uprising demonstrates that This change created enormous re­ CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC hya Khan has now succeeded in persuading in the case of most important histor­ sentment among the tenants against DATA POINT Russia to promise help for setting up a mil­ ical events no single narrative is ac­ British rule. The fact that most of the lion­tonne plant. As was only to be expect­ cepted by all sections of society. landlords were Namboodiri Brah­ ed, the Pakistan President also raised during There are multiple narratives pro­ mins while most of the tenants were his talks in Moscow the issue of Kashmir, the pounded by people of different ideo­ Mapillah Muslims compounded the Farakka Barrage, etc., and insisted that India logical persuasions. More often than problem. The Nairs formed an inter­ is adopting an intransigent attitude on dis­ not these divergent perspectives are mediate grouping of well­off peasan­ puted matters. shaped by the proponents’ current try with their own economic and so­ political projects and their preferred cial grudges against the Namboodiri A HUNDRED YEARS AGO JUNE 29, 1920 visions of their societies’ future. Fre­ landlords but largely unsympathetic quently, it is not history that deter­ to the economic travails of the The parting of the ways mines the present and the future but Mapillahs. (From an editorial) the political preferences of contem­ porary actors that dictates the read­ The spark that lit the fire We wonder if people in England realise how ing of history at the popular level. The Non­Cooperation Movement rapidly Britain is sinking in India’s estima­ The Mapillah uprising is no excep­ combined with the Khilafat agitation tion in consequence of the attempts that are tion to this rule. On the one hand, pe­ provided the spark that lit the fire of being made to justify the Punjab horrors. In­ ople of secular and nationalist per­ Mapillah revolt against the British dia asks if the honour of Britain is so light a suasions see it as a major instance of rulers and their Hindu landlords. The thing that it can be made the plaything of resistance to British colonial rule. On fiery speeches by Muslim religious her Bottomleys and her militaries. The the other, people of the Hindutva leaders that accompanied the Khila­ warning of The Times on the significance of persuasion revile it as an example of fat movement added to the religious the Army Council’s virtual re­opening of the ingrained Muslim hatred against Hin­ fervour of an already desperate pea­ whole case comes therefore not a moment dus. Both these perceptions are santry and fuelled their ire against too soon. If, as is generally anticipated, the based on single­factor explanations the British and the Hindu landlords Army Council decides to exonerate General of a very complex phenomenon. The leading to the atrocities committed Dyer a situation will be created which will be rebellion can be understood only if by a segment of the mobilised Mapil­ the reductio ad absurdum of government. It one discards ideological blinkers. It is lahs against Hindus regardless of will mean that it will always be open for a an excellent example of the veracity caste. Non­partisan analyses of the clique of militarists to shield one of their of the assertion that important his­ uprising make clear that multiple fac­ number from the just censure of competent torical events always have multiple tors contributed to the character of civil authorities. In other words it will be an causes and do not occur in a social, the movement. These included eco­ apotheosis of militarism such as a Junker economic, and political vacuum. nomic distress, anger against foreign might have dreamt about but would never rule and the tenancy laws it institut­ have expected to see realised in actual life. The revolt ed, and religious zeal. But above all it As for General Dyer he has been con­ The immediate trigger of the uprising was an agrarian revolt that simulta­ demned, it is true in varying degrees of se­ was the Non­Cooperation Movement neously took on the garb of anti­colo­ verity, by every authority entitled to pass launched by the Congress in 1920 in nialism and religious fanaticism. judgment upon his conduct. That it could be tandem with the Khilafat agitation. open to the Army Council to revise that judg­ The Malabar Congress, many of Mohammed Ayoob is University Distinguished ment no sane man would argue who had any whose leaders were Nairs, was the Professor Emeritus of International Relations, faith in constitutional government or in the most active participant in these twin Michigan State University future of democracy.

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DELHI THE HINDU 8 NEWS MONDAY, JUNE 29, 2020 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE FROM PAGE ONE Karnataka, A.P. witness a record spike in cases ‘Befitting reply given to Toll in the two States rises by 28; Telangana records 983 cases and four deaths; Tamil Nadu sees 3,940 fresh cases those coveting territory’ Special Correspondent was 1.29% and tests per mil­ patients being added. Thiruvananthapuram lion population 15,765. The COVID­19 tally in Te­ “We must face the challeng­ ter P.V. Narasimha Rao, In an alarming rise, Andhra Kerala reported 118 new langana touched 14,419 with es and use them to march whose centenary year cele­ Pradesh reported 12 more COVID­19 cases and 42 recov­ 983 more testing positive. ahead,” he said. brations are being kicked off COVID­19 deaths and 813 eries on Sunday. Active cases Four deaths were also re­ He added that India had on Sunday. He referred to fresh cases on Sunday as stood at 2,015. ported. The fresh cases in­ transited from the lockdown Rao as one of the most expe­ 25,778 samples were tested. Among new cases, 14 were cluded 816 from Greater phase of fighting COVID­19 rienced leaders of modern It was the biggest single­day people who contracted the Hyderabad, 47 from Ranga­ to the unlock phase, which India, a polyglot and some­ spike on both counts. infection from the communi­ reddy and 33 from would require more alert­ one who steered India The toll mounted to 169 ty through local transmis­ Mancherial. ness and care. Taking the through a very delicate and the case tally to 13,098. sion. This included two doc­ The number of persons point further to highlight re­ phase in its history. tors and three nurses of a testing positive in one day for cent reforms his govern­ Former Congress presi­ private hospital at Edappal, COVID­19 infection touched ment had undertaken, the dent Rahul Gandhi, in a Malappuram district, who a new high in Tamil Nadu on Prime Minister said, “India tweet in Hindi, wondered tested positive in the RT­PCR Sunday with 3,940 persons, is unlocking, be it sectors when we will talk about na­ Of the total, 7,021 cases were tests done among health including 179 returnees, be­ like coal, space, agriculture tional defence and security. active and 5,908 patients care workers, as part of a ing added to the tally. An 18­ and more” and that it was The Congress said Mann had recovered. The tally of sentinel surveillance study. month old baby and a 17­year time “to work together to Ki Baat was 33 minute long, positive cases doubled since Four persons in Kottayam old boy were among those make India self­reliant and but there was not a single re­ June 16. Deaths too doubled district also got the disease who died, while 1,443 pa­ technologically advanced.” ference to China or the con­ in 13 days. through local transmission . tients were discharged post­ He pointed out that be­ flict on the Line of Actual Six new deaths occurred The other “contact” cases recovery. A total of 31,505 fore Independence, India Control. “Why are you so in Kurnool, five in Krishna were in Thiruvananthapu­ persons were tested on Sun­ had an edge in defence pro­ scared of China?” said Con­ districts and one in West Go­ ram, Alapuzha, Thrissur, day. The number of active duction which it lost subse­ gress chief spokesperson davari district. Kannur and Palakkad. operational to accommodate had over 1.75 lakh people on too was on the rise with 16 cases (including those in iso­ quently, and that it was time Randeep Surjewala. It was Of fresh cases, 755 were The Government decided in­patients in many districts. surveillance and quarantine; more deaths reported on lation) stood at 35,656 and to regain that edge. time for the Prime Minister local, 50 were people from to decongest Medical College As the intake went up, the 2,611 persons with mild Sunday. While four deaths total number of persons who of a strong nation like India other States and five were re­ hospitals, which were dedi­ Government would provide symptoms were in hospitals. were from Bengaluru Urban, tested positive was 82,275. Pays tribute to act strongly. “Don’t fear turnees from abroad. cated COVID­19 hospitals in round­the­clock care. Of the Karnataka saw a further three were from Dakshina In Chennai the number of Mr. Modi also paid fulsome China and please stand by So far 8.41 lakh samples the districts, by shifting all new cases, 68 were from jump in COVID­19 cases with Kannada, two each from Tu­ persons testing positive rose tributes to late Prime Minis­ our armed forces,” he said. were tested with a positivity mild cases to first line treat­ abroad, and 36 from other new cases on Sunday touch­ makuru and Bagalkot and by 1,992, taking total positive rate of 1.56%, showing a ment centres and keeping States. ing 1,267. Over 61% of these one each from Dharwad, cases to 53,762. slight increase. The recovery only patients with serious The overall case tally was cases — 783 — were from Hassan, Mysuru, Ballari and (With inputs from Vijaya- rate too slightly increased to disease in MCHs. However, now 4,189 and recoveries Bengaluru. Kalaburgi. The number of wada, Bengaluru, Hydera- India will win both 45.11%. The mortality rate the centres had just become were put at 2,150. The State The number of fatalities ICU admissions rose with 243 bad and Chennai bureaus) battles, says Amit Shah Mr. Shah was asked about KCR hails Narasimha Rao’s reforms Chennithala alleges graft the hashtag #surrendermo­ di, which was spurred by Mr. Gandhi’s tweet, in Telangana CM says country will remember former PM for economic decisions in e­mobility consultancy which he sought to know R. Ravikanth Reddy butions in creating a global the “expanse of territory oc­ HYDERABAD PwC was engaged at high cost, he says cupied by the Chinese”. India would be revived and Telangana Chief Minister K. passed onto all Indians Special Correspondent “Parliament will con­ Thiruvananthapuram vene, come there, we will Chandrasekhar Rao hailed throughout this year. As part have a one­to­one discus­ the late Prime Minister P.V. of it, hoardings were being Leader of the Opposition sion. From 1962 till now, Narasimha Rao as a refor­ put up by the Telangana go­ Ramesh Chennithala on let’s discuss, no one is afraid mist par excellence. “His re­ vernment in all metro cities Sunday added a multi­crore of discussions. But when ja­ forms in education and land and celebrations would be e­mobility consultancy con­ have changed Telangana’s held in 51 countries. tract awarded to the Price­ wans are struggling ( sang- Amit Shah harsh) at the border and go­ landscape while his econom­ waterhouseCoopers (PwC) vernment has taken a stand, length on various measures ic reforms changed India fo­ Paying tribute: CM K. Chandrasekhar Rao paying homage to Bharat Ratna to his litany of corruption is taking firm action, then to taken by the Centre and the rever,” the Chief Minister former PM Narasimha Rao on Sunday. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT He assured that PM Naren­ charges against Kerala’s Left raise issues that make Pakis­ Delhi government to control said. dra Modi, President Ram­ Democratic Front (LDF) go­ tan and China happy is not the spread of the coronavi­ Praising Narasimha Rao as which we all enjoy today,” he started at Sarvail in Nalgon­ nath Kovind and former PM vernment. Ramesh Chennithala done,” he said. rus disease in the national a 360­degree personality, said. He said Narasimha da district by him in 1971 that Manmohan Singh would be He said the surreptitious Mr. Shah also spoke at capital. Mr. KCR said it was unfortu­ Rao’s life was like a personal­ paved the way for Navodaya involved in the celebrations. move to contract the PwC at ic approach to amass wealth nate that he did not get the ity development lesson and Vidyalayas in the country “I will personally meet the a high cost under the pre­ through fraudulent means. respect and recognition he his contribution to the coun­ when he was the Union HRD Prime Minister to seek Bha­ text of seeking expert coun­ The political executive deserved and said he try was no less than Ja­ Minister. “Our DGP Mahen­ rat Ratna for PV,” he said. sel in procuring 3,000 elec­ announced non­viable mega Tense standoff would speak about it waharlal Nehru. “He der Reddy is a product of PV birth centenary cele­ tric public transport buses projects to pull the wool ov­ at an appropriate time [Narasimha Rao] creat­ that school and our govern­ brations committee chair­ at an estimated cost of er the eyes of the public. It continues on the LAC as he didn’t want to ed a global India.” ment established 900 resi­ man K. Keshava Rao, TPCC ₹4,500 crore was the latest then cynically used the politicise such a so­ Recalling Narasim­ dential schools in the last president N. Uttam Kumar in the chain of corrupt deals quixotic schemes as an ex­ lemn occasion. “But ha Rao’s contribution five years with that inspira­ Reddy and several Ministers authored by the administra­ cuse to engage global con­ “The troops fought on the so many lives. It was the first the country will re­ to education, Mr. Rao tion,” he said. earlier paid floral respects at tion during the COVID­19 sultancies for sizeable back­ edge of a cliff where normal­ occasion when a clash like member him for the eco­ said the first residential The Chief Minister added Gyan Bhoomi along with the crisis. He said those in pow­ handers camouflaged as ly no more than two people this occurred after sun­ nomic reforms, the fruits of school in the country was that Narasimha Rao’s contri­ CM. er had perfected a systemat­ brokerage. can stand together; it had al­ down,” said the official. so become dark,” he said, adding that had it been a flat ‘Worrisome’ escalation terrain, the deaths wouldn’t The entire stretch along LAC IN BRIEF have occurred. in Ladakh has witnessed Church moves SC, seeks to Class 10 student from After analysing the chain “worrisome hardening of of events, officials believe Chinese positions” since Udupi tests positive that the Chinese People’s April­May, with China occu­ Liberation Army (PLA) was pying a considerable area intervene in Sabarimala case also annoyed as India had from Finger 4 to 8 near Pan­ She can appear for exam though constructed a helipad till gong Tso (lake). Judicial review into religion should remain limited, it says Special Correspondent closed. Other students who the edge of Y­nallah at Gal­ After the June 22 Corps MANGALURU were in that room would wan, not very far from the Commander level talks, Chi­ ‘Lockdown likely to be Legal Correspondent ticular practice is integral A 15­year­old Class 10 stu­ write the science paper on June 15 clash site. na has neither vacated nor reimposed in Hyderabad’ NEW DELHI part of a religion. It should dent from Padubidri in Kar­ Monday in another room. “A similar clash took removed the prefabricated HYDERABAD Members of the Malankara be left exclusively to be de­ nataka’s Udupi district test­ As each student was seated place on May 5 in the Finger or semi permanent struc­ Telangana Chief Minister K. Jacobite Syrian Church in termined by the head of the ed positive for COVID­19 on with adequate distance bet­ area near Pangong Tso tures built since May in Chandrasekhar Rao has said Kerala have approached the section of such religious Sunday. She will write the ween them, there were no (lake). The intensity of the some of the disputed sites. the State government will Supreme Court for permis­ group,” the application said. remaining papers of the chances for the spread of Galwan clash was more or However there has been a take a final call in three to sion to intervene in the Saba­ The members said the im­ SSLC examination as a the infection, officials less similar but the terrain “noticeable thinning of pre­ four days on proposals to rimala review case before a mediate need to protect fresher in the supple­ said. However, the and the spiked batons the sence of Chinese troops”, reimpose lockdown in the nine­judge Constitution their religious freedom and mentary examination. students will be kept limits of Greater Hyderabad Chinese were carrying cost officials said. The Ayyappa temple Bench. beliefs has arisen from the Sheshashayana K., under observation. Municipal Corporation to The nine­judge Bench is Pallavi Pratap, said what is recent appointments of vi­ Deputy Director of Pu­ check the spread of poised to decide “larger integral to a faith should best cars to their parish church­ blic Instruction, Udu­ Relief to students COVID-19. The government SC to hear plea on questions” of what consti­ be left to the discretion of es. “Priest/vicar of the par­ pi, said the throat In a relief to Secon­ will monitor the situation and tutes religious freedom un­ the religious denomination. ish church was someone swab samples of the dary School Leaving convene a meeting of the der Article 25 of the Consti­ Judicial review into religion who has got kaiveppu [lay­ student were tested after Certificate (SSLC) students Cabinet, if needed, Mr. Rao CA exams today tution. The Bench will also should remain limited. ing of hand on the head and her father tested positive on writing their examination, said on Sunday. determine whether the “The applicants submit through consecration] from Saturday. The samples were the Karnataka Secondary The scheme allows stu­ “Considering the fact court can examine religious that the extent of judicial re­ the Patriarch of Antioch and taken after she had returned Education Examination Rider hits wild boar, dents to opt out of the ex­ that there are 739 districts, practices across multiple view with regard to religious who believes in the spiritual home after writing the Board (KSEEB) has decided succumbs to injuries am, which would be it is apparent that the ICAI faiths and decide if they are practices with regard to Arti­ supremacy of the Patriarch mathematics examination. to allow them to write the KOZHIKODE deemed to be cancelled. is conducting examinations really essential or not. cle 25 is very limited and the­ of Antioch.” However, the Mr. Sheshashayana said remaining exams even if A motorcycle rider who sustained serious injuries on They would lose their in about 30% of the dis­ The Jacobite Church refore the religious denomi­ priests appointed now do the room in which the stu­ their peers at the exam his head after hitting a wild chance. The petition said tricts... This means stu­ members, represented by nation should have the right not believe in the supremacy dent wrote the examination centre or in the same class­ the scheme discriminates dents from the other 70% boar on the national highway advocates Haris Beeran and to determine whether a par­ of the Patriarch. had been sanitised and room test positive. in Kerala’s Malapuram on against students living in re­ districts would be required Sunday succumbed to his mote areas or containment to travel from their homes injuries on the way to the zones. Due to the restric­ for long distances to appear Government Medical College tions, they would be forced in the examinations. This Hospital here. Mohammad to opt out unlike their coun­ will put their lives in im­ Officer pens tale of Kerala’s ‘first custodial death’ Ali, 50, was proceeding to a terparts living in urban mense threat,” the petition nearby market when the wild areas. pointed out. boar suddenly appeared on Instead of the scheme, The parents have also Crime historian and Kottayam ASP A. Nasim has written a book on the Kayamkulam Kochunni case the road. The two-wheeler which is not pro­student, sought free transportation overturned after he hit the the petition said the ICAI and accommodation for HIRAN UNNIKRISHNAN with a book titled Police Dig- Kerala, and I chanced upon aims at providing context to boar and he sustained serious should focus on increasing students as well as e­passes KOTTAYAM est. the episode while research­ the crimes it analyses. head injury. the number of exam for aspirants coming from In his police career spanning Now, an Additional Supe­ ing the history of custodial The Encyclopedia of In- centres. There should be the containment zones. Karnataka’s AC bus two­and­a­half decades, A. rintendent of Police (ASP) in deaths. I spent about three­ vestigation, on the other services find few takers one centre in every district. They said the ICAI Nasim has been part of some Kottayam, Mr. Nasim is fast and­a­half years on the sub­ hand, will detail the criminal BENGALURU should ideally postpone the of the most dogged as­ becoming an authority ject, visiting the locations, investigation process, from Though inter-district air- Greater safety measures exams till the situation be­ signments — cracking on the history of crime interviewing people, and the First Information Report conditioned (AC) bus services The petition sought greater comes normal. murder mysteries, in Kerala. verifying archives to piece till the filing of charge­ in Karnataka resumed on June COVID­19 safety measures The CA exams were origi­ chasing down crimi­ A crime historian together the life of Kochun­ sheets. “This is a six­and­a­ 25, there are hardly any to be put in place, including nally scheduled for May but nals after long pur­ who holds a doctoral ni, who was killed at the age half­year project involving takers. The Karnataka State an increase in the number postponed due to the suits, and rescuing pe­ degree in custodial of 41,” Mr. Nasim said. in­depth analysis of cases, Road Transport Corporation of examination centres so lockdown. ople in distress. deaths in Kerala from which helps one see how (KSRTC) had planned to that students need not have The exams are held in But this gruelling, 1956 to 2016, he has A. Nasim Context of crime and by whom our laws are resume the services by to travel far and wide to two cycles in November round­the­clock work has now completed a book on The book on the 101 mur­ enforced. Each of the 12 vol­ operating 20 buses on take their exams. and May. They are recog­ not stymied his passion for the Kayamkulam Kochunni Encyclopedia of ders, which will feature cas­ umes runs into about 1,200 different routes, but the poor About 4.67 lakh students nised in India and abroad. writing. The officer, who case of custodial death, and Investigation. es as recent as the Koodath­ pages,” Mr. Nasim said. response has forced it to are scheduled to appear at Those who qualify can joined the Kerala police as a has set out on another on the “Kayamkulam Kochunni’s ayi serial killings, is planned Writing, he added, helps scale down operations and 259 centres in India and five practise both in India and sub­inspector in 1995, made 101 murders that shocked is arguably the first recorded in such a way as not to sensa­ him balance the stress of his run only around five to six centres overseas. abroad. his literary debut in 2002 Kerala, besides a 12­volume case of custodial death in tionalise violence. The book demanding job. buses.

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THE HINDU DELHI MONDAY, JUNE 29, 2020 NEWS 9 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Modi has a ‘soft spot’ for China: Cong. No extortion, only legitimate Party lists donor firms of PM CARES that are wholly or partially owned by Chinese companies taxes levied, says NSCN (IM) Special Correspondent ny Chinese firms and Indian secret fashion,” Mr. Singhvi New Delhi firms which are partially said. On ceasefire since 1997, extremist group counters Governor The Congress on Sunday ac­ owned or funded by Chinese cused Prime Minister Naren­ companies including tele­ Despite intrusions special correspondent was legitimately acknow­ dra Modi of having a “soft com giants Huawei (donated Later in a series of tweets, se­ GUWAHATI ledged by the earlier inter­ spot” for China, and listed ₹7 crore), Xiaomi (₹15 crore) nior Congress leader P. Chi­ The Isak­Muivah faction of locutors...” the NSCN (IM) out the firms that are fully or and OPPO (₹1 crore) had do­ dambaram said the PM the extremist National So­ said. partially owned by Chinese nated to the PM CARES CARES fund was set up after cialist Council of Nagaland, companies which have re­ Fund. PayTm which donated Chinese intrusions into Dep­ or NSCN (IM), has said that ‘Not a gang’ cently donated to the PM ₹100 crore to the Fund has sang (2013), Chumar (2014) the “legitimate taxes” it le­ “What has complicated the CARES fund, instituted by 38% Chinese ownership. Si­ and Doklam (2017). “Why vies cannot be equated with situation as seen today is the the Prime Minister’s Office in milarly Chinese social media did the PM accept funds extortion. madness of ‘extortion’ being wake of the COVID­19 firm TikTok donated ₹30 from Chinese­owned funds, The group has been on R.N. Ravi carried out by some groups pandemic. Tso Lake area, Hot Springs VID­19, spoke via video con­ crore. So far, as per the Cen­ one of which has a deep con­ ceasefire mode since July in the guise of freedom fight­ On Saturday, BJP presi­ and Depsang Plains up to ference from a quarantine fa­ tral government, ₹9,678 nection with the Chinese Ar­ 1997. In a statement issued gangs were running Naga­ ers. NSCN did not and does dent J.P. Nadda had alleged Y­Junction. cility. Mr. Modi’s statement crore had been collected un­ my,” he asked. on June 27, the NSCN (IM) land, questioning the sove­ not commit extortion at any that Rajiv Gandhi Founda­ “Every time the Modi go­ of claiming no intrusion or der this fund. "PM­CARES fund was set said that it had the “inherent reignty and integrity of the point of time but levies legi­ tion headed by Congress Pre­ vernment is questioned on occupation by the Chinese in “No one knows how PM up on 28­03­2020. Chinese­ right of any sovereign peo­ nation and challenging the timate taxes from the peo­ sident Sonia Gandhi every the Chinese transgressions Indian territory was the CARES is controlled or mo­ owned companies donated ple and nation” to collect constitutionally­established ple,” it added. NSCN (IM) ad­ year had received donations of our territory, a deceptive “greatest disservice to the ney given to it is utilised. The money from that date. Chi­ taxes from the people and State government. ded that it was the from the Chinese Embassy Modi government and a pa­ nation”, Mr. Singhvi said. Fund is not even subjected to nese troops began incur­ commercial establishments. Mr. Ravi is also Centre’s recognised and legitimate between 2005 and 2009. ranoid BJP resorts to diver­ “As we all know the Prime audit by any public authori­ sions into Ladakh in March­ The statement was in interlocutor for the peace national organisation of the sionary tactics and disinfor­ Minister has a special soft ty, including CAG. PMO has April 2020. Does it require reaction to Nagaland Gover­ process with the NSCN (IM) Naga people, not a gang. ‘Distraction from reality’ mation. Let them know that spot for China. Even as Chief gone to the extent of saying great intelligence to discern nor R.N. Ravi’s June 16 letter and other extremist groups Extremists groups are In a counter attack, the Con­ the Congress party will keep Minister of Gujarat, we saw this Fund is not a public China’s motives?" he said. to Chief Minister Neiphiu in Nagaland and adjoining known to run parallel go­ gress on Sunday said the BJP asking these questions in na­ his close association in his authority... PMCARES Fund The party asked Mr. Modi to Rio, reported first by The States. vernments in Nagaland and has been targeting Congress tional interest,” Congress four Chinese visits. He is the is not even subjected to RTI. explain why despite overt Hindu, pulling up the State “Taxes have been the collect an array of taxes to to distract from the reality of leader Abhishek Manu only Prime Minister who has All in all, the Fund appears Chinese hostilities, he had government for the collapse sources of sustenance that run such governments. The Chinese transgressions in Singhvi said. Mr. Singhvi, visited China five times,” he to be solely run by the Prime received the money into the of law and order situation. has brought the Naga politi­ groups also prepare budgets the Galwan Valley, Pangong who tested positive for CO­ added. Mr. Singhvi said ma­ Minister in an opaque and fund. The Governor said armed cal movement this far. This in March and fix tax rates. PTI was just Russia agrees to speed up defence deals Meetings being held in doing its duty, India to unseat me: Oli says IWPC Long­pending contracts for AK­203 assault rifles and Ka­226T light utility helicopters figure in talks Delhi upset with new map, he says Special Correspondent Dinakar Peri a diplomatic source said, dia, which will give the pro­ New Delhi NEW DELHI while the Indian sources said gramme a new special correspondent Expressing concern over Russia has agreed to quickly the deliveries would be com­ indigenisation angle and also NEW DELHI state broadcaster Prasar address some urgent de­ pleted as per the contractual an impetus to the domestic Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Bharati’s “threat to review fence requirements sought terms. aero industry. Oli of Nepal on Sunday said its subscription to the Press by India and this was dis­ There is some progress on “Another significant fea­ meetings were being organ­ Trust of India (PTI)”, the cussed during the recent trip the AK­203 assault rifle deal ture of the project is going to ised in India to topple his go­ Indian Women’s Press of Defence Minister Rajnath which has been held up over be the transfer to India of a vernment. Corps (IWPC) and Press As­ Singh, defence and diplo­ pricing, another diplomatic number of crucial helicopter Addressing a gathering at sociation, in a joint state­ matic sources said. The long­ source said. engineering technologies, his official residence to ment, said it was ironical pending deals for AK­203 as­ The deal was for over 7.5 including the unique coaxial mark the 69th birth anniver­ that the government chose sault rifles and Ka­226T light lakh rifles, of which one lakh scheme technologies,” two sary of the late communist to crack down on the news utility helicopters were also would be imported and 6.71 sources said, adding that In­ leader Madan Bhandari, Mr. K.P. Sharma Oli agency hours after mark­ discussed in a review of the Reaffirming ties: Rajnath Singh with Deputy Prime Minister of lakh rifles manufactured by dia will have the choice to in­ Oli said his government en­ ing the 45th anniversary of entire gamut of defence a joint venture (JV) Indo­ tegrate domestic avionic and joyed a parliamentary ma­ signed transit agreements Russia, Yury Ivanovich Borisov, in Moscow on June 23. * PTI Emergency when the press cooperation. Russian Rifles Private Ltd. weapons. Of the 200 heli­ jority and plans to oust him which reduced dependence was heavily censored. India will present its re­ Borisov. The request comes Russia had agreed that ongo­ (IRRPL) at Korwa in Uttar copters, 60 will be imported would fail. on land connectivity The statement said the quirements soon and Russia against the backdrop of ten­ ing contracts would be main­ Pradesh. directly and the remaining “There is news coming through India. “I clearly re­ PTI was only doing its pro­ has agreed to address them sions with China along the tained and “in a number of However, the deal for 200 will be manufactured by a JV from Delhi about this. Look member that I was toppled fessional duty. “At a time within a few months, the Line of Actual Control and cases will be taken forward Ka­226T utility helicopters between Hindustan Aero­ at the meetings being organ­ when I signed transit agree­ when the Chinese have in­ sources said without elabo­ the large­scale mobilisation in a shorter time”. However, remains stuck over the level nautics Ltd. and the Russian ised in India against Nepal’s ment with China,” he said. truded into Indian territo­ rating. Mr. Singh was on a undertaken by the armed on the S­400 deal, the sourc­ of indigenisation. To reach Helicopters (RH). decision to amend the Con­ “You must have heard ry, it is the job of the jour­ four­day visit to Moscow forces in response to the es said the deliveries would the indigenisation percen­ Several MoUs have alrea­ stitution to place the revised that the Prime Minister will nalist to ask the ‘other from June 21 for the 75th an­ massive Chinese build­up. start by the end of 2021 as tage as specified by the ten­ dy been signed with domes­ map of the country in the be changed in 15 days. If I side’, in this case a repre­ niversary of the Victory Day scheduled and it was difficult der, Russia and India are tic companies by RH for lo­ national emblem,” said am removed at this time, no sentative of the Chinese go­ Parade, during which he S-400 by 2021-end to accelerate the deal any evaluating the possibility of calising assemblies such as Prime Minister Oli, alleging one will dare to speak in fa­ vernment, why this is hap­ held talks with Russian De­ In a statement after the talks further. “No further acceler­ using Indian aviation mate­ fuselage, blades, radio sta­ a plot to overthrow his go­ vour of Nepal because that pening. The interview puty Prime Minister Yury in Moscow, Mr. Singh said ation is technically possible,” rials in the production in In­ tion and landing gear. vernment. person will be dismissed im­ made all the news — in fact, The Lower House of Ne­ mediately. I am not speak­ the Chinese Ambassador pal’s Parliament unani­ ing for myself. I speak for even conceded, for the first mously passed the Second the country. Our party, our time, that there had been Constitution Amendment parliamentary party will not some casualties on the Kashmiris anxious over order to stock up LPG on June 13, which gave con­ fall into such traps,” Mr. Oli LAC,” it said. stitutional status to the new said. Though the broadcas­ map of the country which ter’s letter to PTI didn’t The government had issued similar orders ahead of the operation in Balakot and Article 370 dilution included the disputed Lim­ Fissures emerge mention any particular re­ piyadhura­Kalapani­Lipu­ Despite the popular and port or interview, sources Peerzada Ashiq their buildings. “In view of Balakot inside Pakistan in Fe­ lekh region in Uttarakhand. emotive move on the new confirmed that the provo­ Srinagar the Shri Amarnath Ji Ya­ bruary last year and the re­ The Bill was signed by Presi­ map, Mr. Oli has been criti­ cation was primarily the Two separate government tra­2020, these educational vocation of J&K’s special sta­ dent Bidhya Devi Bhandari cised by colleagues from the two interviews of Indian orders on stocking up LPG centres be made available tus in August 2019, the on June 18. faction of Pushpa Kamal Da­ Ambassador to China and cylinders for two months in for accommodation of Cen­ government had issued a hal ‘Prachanda’ in the ongo­ the Chinese Ambassador to the Kashmir Valley and on tral Armed Police Force com­ slew of similar orders. ‘Unthinkable scenario’ ing meeting of the powerful India conducted and circu­ vacating of school buildings panies,” the order reads. National Conference vice­ Mr. Oli said India was upset Standing Committee of the lated by PTI. for security forces in Gan­ Such build­up assumes president Omar Abdullah by Nepal’s territorial asser­ ruling Nepal Communist “By describing PTI’s ‘re­ derbal, adjoining Kargil, significance as the coming said, “Unfortunately, after all tion. “Nepal’s nationalism is Party. cent news coverage’ as be­ have triggered a fresh wave yatra is likely to be a low­key the lies and false assurances not so weak. We have The hostility between the ing detrimental to ‘nation­ of anxiety among people, in affair due to the COVID­19 last year, even if and when changed our map, and if the two factions was evident on al interest and the wake of the India­China Fresh trouble: Exercises to stock up LPG are usually carried pandemic. Besides, Gander­ the government explains Prime Minister of the coun­ Friday when Mr. Oli did not undermining India’s terri­ face­off. out in winter when highway traffic is affected. * FILE PHOTO bal adjoins Kargil in Ladakh, these orders, hardly any of try is deposed, then that will attend the Standing Com­ torial integrity’, it seems Described as a “most ur­ where India and China are us will take the assurances at be unthinkable to Nepal,” mittee’s meeting. the authorities have failed gent matter”, an Adviser to Food, Civil Supplies and carried out in October­No­ engaged in a face­off over the face value.” he said. Hinting at India, he The members of the com­ to appreciate the meaning Lt. Governor G.C. Murmu Consumers, oil companies vember when the harsh win­ Line of Actual Control. Simrandeep Singh, Secre­ said some people consi­ mittee have been critical of of a free, objective and un­ passed the directions on should make adequate ter affects the highway “We have been hearing tary, Department of Food, dered the new map of Nepal the Prime Minister's han­ biased media...,” the state­ June 23, “to ensure sufficient stocks of LPG that can last up traffic. jets hovering in the skies on Civil Supplies & Consumer a “crime”. dling of the COVID­19 pan­ ment said. stocks of LPG in the Valley as to two months. Separately, the Ganderbal a daily basis for many weeks Affairs, however, said the He also hinted at an exter­ demic. It is understood that The Indian Association the supply gets affected due This is the first time that police have requested 16 now. Similar orders were is­ LPG stocking was discussed nal plot against his govern­ of the 44 members in the of Foreign Affairs Corres­ to closure of the National the administration has de­ educational institutions in sued in February and August in the context of the mon­ ment in 2016 and recollect­ committee, some 30 are pondents also slammed Highway on account of land­ cided to stock up LPG cylin­ the district, including ITI last year ,” said Nazeer Ah­ soon. “The NH­44 highway ed that the government fell with co­chair Prachanda, Prasar Bharati for trying to slips”. According to an order ders at the peak of summer. and middle and higher se­ mad, a resident of Hawal. closes intermittently during at that time because he had considered a challenger to “arm­twist” PTI. passed by the Director of the Usually, such exercises are condary schools, to vacate Ahead of the operation in the rains. That’s all.” reached out to China and Mr. Oli. Kulgam woman held for posing Over 9.26 lakh displaced 192 U.P. teachers under scanner with gun, terror recruitments in Assam floods over duplicate PAN numbers Number doubles in less than 24 hours

She is the mother of a slain Hizb militant, say police SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT ing to ASDMA’s update, Officials find identical bank details used for drawing salaries GUWAHATI 2,071 villages and localities special correspondent the Unlawful Activities Pre­ Two more people drowned have been flooded across 23 Omar Rashid which identical PAN cards ted their reports, he added. Srinagar vention Act. It is not clear if on Sunday and more than districts — two more than on LUCKNOW and bank details have been The police in Kashmir have she was evading arrest or 9.26 lakh people displaced Saturday. The number of The Education Department recorded under different 11 cases in Ballia arrested a woman for posing was on the run since 2018. as 23 out of Assam’s 33 dis­ displaced people almost in Uttar Pradesh is verifying teachers. One such district where de­ with a gun, alongside her “Just because she happens tricts reeled under floods. doubled to 9,26,059 in less the records of 192 teachers “When we checked the tails are being collected is militant son, and “playing a to be a woman or the moth­ Landslips at six places in than 24 hours. in the State after officials database of all the teachers Ballia, where eleven cases of role in recruitment of two lo­ er of a killed terrorist does Guwahati also killed a girl found duplicates of PAN whose salaries are being duplicate details have been cals” into militancy. Nasee­ not make her immune to ar­ while another woman, COVID-19 challenge numbers and bank accounts drawn, in some instances, found, said officials. The dis­ ma Banoo, from Kulgam’s rest. It is the prime duty of trapped in debris two days “We have readied 193 relief used for drawing salaries. we found duplicates of the trict BSA has asked the Block Rampora Qaimoh, was ar­ Ms. Banoo was also arrested the police to arrest criminals ago, succumbed to her inju­ camps in the 12 worst affect­ This comes at a time PAN. Now we are verifying Education Officers (BEO) to rested on June 20. in 2018 under the UAPA. to safeguard the people... ” ries. Altogether 43 people ed districts where 27,308 when the police is investigat­ whether the data feeding direct the 11 teachers to ap­ “In the photo, the arrest­ the police said. have died in flood and land­ people have taken refuge. ing the “Anamika Shukla” was done correctly or there pear in person on Monday ed woman is toting an auto­ into terrorist ranks, arrang­ Inspector General of Pol­ slips since May 22. Maintaining social distanc­ controversy in the alleged is actually a problem,” Mr. with their documents prov­ matic weapon and posing ing arms and ammunition, ice, Kashmir, Vijay Kumar, “Incessant rainfall has ing due to COVID­19 proto­ recruitment of “fake teach­ Anand told The Hindu. ing their details. next to her son, who was an communication and logis­ told The Hindu, “She was made the situation grim cols has been a challenge at ers” across districts under The official clarified that it BEO of Belhari in Ballia, active terrorist [killed later tics for terrorists and terror evading arrest (since 2018).” with personnel of the Na­ these camps... ” the spokes­ the aforementioned identi­ was not a case of a single Narendra Kumar, hinted that in an encounter],” the Kul­ organisations,” the police “Banoo is the sister of active tional Disaster Response person said. ty. Vijay Kiran Anand, Direc­ PAN number being used in some of the faulty entries gam police said in a state­ added. Hizbul Mujahideen com­ Force and other agencies Officials of the Water Re­ tor General of School Educa­ the 192 cases but there were could have been due to the ment. “She is involved in Ms. Banoo, mother of mander Abbas Sheikh, who rescuing 9,303 people,” a sources Department said tion­U.P., has written to the multiple cases of duplicates transfers of teachers from much more serious offences slain Hizbul Mujahideen joined militancy in 2015 and spokesperson of the Assam the Brahmaputra and most district Basic Shiksha Adhi­ with different details. one district to another, lead­ and her role has surfaced in commander Touseef Sheikh, is categorised as an 'A plus Disaster Management Auth­ of its tributaries were flow­ karis (BSA) to check the re­ Further action would be ing to documentation at recruiting at least two youth was arrested in 2018 under plus' militant,” he said. ority (ASDMA) said. Accord­ ing above the danger mark. cords of the 192 cases in taken after the BSAs submit­ both places. CM A ND-NDE YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

DELHI THE HINDU 10 NEWS MONDAY, JUNE 29, 2020 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Lockdown will continue: Uddhav Hackers get data of 80,000 There will be a few relaxations post-June 30, says Maharashtra Chief Minister COVID-19 patients in Delhi Special Correspondent nate blood plasma for the Mumbai Plasma Therapy. “Maharash­ Group says it wanted to highlight vulnerability of system Maharashtra Chief Minister tra has the largest use of Punjab postpones all Uddhav Thackeray on Sun­ plasma therapy. The success STAFF REPORTER “We are not satisfied with exit exams till July 15 NEW DELHI CHANDIGARH day said the COVID­19 lock­ rate is good. I appeal to the the Delhi government’s ap­ The Punjab government on down will not be lifted post­ recovered patients to con­ The website of the Delhi proach towards the health­ Sunday announced June 30, but there will be a tact government medical State Health Mission care personnel ... Thus, to postponement of exams for few relaxations. He said the colleges and doctors to do­ (dshm.delhi.gov.in) was ta­ show our protest, we were the exit classes in all State might witness a surge nate plasma.” ken down temporarily on on an errand to obliterate universities of the State till in the number of patients in Sunday after a group of “Delhi State Health Mission” July 15. Chief Minister the coming days. Request to doctors hackers exposed its vulnera­ website. Gaining access to Amarinder Singh said in a Mr. Thackeray said re­im­ Mr. Thackeray also request­ bility. They hacked the web­ their server took us lesser statement that the final posing the lockdown or al­ ed senior doctors to join the site and accessed personal than 10 minutes. We were decision on the issue will, lowing more relaxations anti­COVID operations, as­ data of more than 80,000 appalled to witness sensitive however, be subject to the would squarely depend on suring them that their safety COVID­19 patients in Delhi. data stored in these servers Back to business: Salons opened in Mumbai on Sunday after An official collecting health new directions and guidelines citizens as discipline has to a gap of three months. * VIBHAV BIRWATKAR will not be compromised at A senior police officer details of residents during a without any security,” read expected to be released by be maintained. any level. He acknowledged with the cybercrime cell said survey in Delhi. the post. the University Grants “We are not going to end that relaxations mean coro­ tivities, there is a possibility that senior citizens are at they had not received any “This is the server used by Commission soon. the lockdown after June 30. na threat is over. I am getting that positive cases may rise. risk but “we need your expe­ police complaint so far. that it had hacked the Delhi the Delhi government to in­ Bihar Minister, wife test But yes, we will offer a few requests from local authori­ But we are ready to take on rience”. Data of more than 80,000 government’s ‘Delhi State vestigate, report, and track positive for COVID-19 relaxations. We have to real­ ties about shutting down the surge. We have increased “We are also using all corona positive patients in Health Mission’ website and the COVID­19 situation in PATNA ise that as more relaxations areas due to the rising num­ our infrastructure and also available medicines, includ­ Delhi, recovered and active, accessed the data of all coro­ Delhi. A hacker can edit, ma­ Bihar’s Backward and are given, more number of ber of cases. I have told them testing facilities. Mumbai im­ ing Remdesivir. We followed could potentially be at risk na patients. nipulate as well as misuse Extremely Backward Classes cases of corona have come that they can impose lock­ plemented ‘Chase the Virus’ up with the Central govern­ as a result of the hacking. these data to make profits. Welfare Minister Vinod Kumar up. We are walking on the down locally if people conti­ successfully. This will be re­ ment and have received per­ The group has, however, ‘Unhappy with govt.’ The consequences can be Singh and wife tested positive edge. We are opening servic­ nue to crowd on roads and plicated in other parts of the mission to use it. There will claimed that it merely want­ The group took responsibili­ the downfall of the entire In­ for COVID­19 on Sunday and es only to revive the stopped cases are increasing.” State as well,” he said. no shortage. We will make ed to highlight the vulnera­ ty and claimed that the unsa­ dian security. For instance, were admitted to an isolation economic cycle,” he said. Maharashtra is the worst­ available these medicines bility of the data system. tisfactory approach of the manipulating these data will ward at a city hospital. Mr. Thackeray said the affected State in the country ‘Donate blood plasma’ free of cost at government The Kerala Cyber Hackers Delhi government towards cause miscalculations, and Contact tracing and testing is threat of the virus remains. with 1,64,626 cases. “As we He appealed to the patients hospitals. Soon stocks will be group, in a social media post healthcare personnel is the inaccuracy in tracking CO­ being conducted, Katihar “Come out of the illusion open up more and more ac­ who have recovered to do­ full.” on Saturday night, claimed reason. VID­19,” the post read. District Magistrate Kanwal Tanuj said. ‘Haryana prepared to deal with locust attack’ Centre unveils new rules to CHANDIGARH ‘Over 14% in Kolkata have antibodies’ The Haryana government is fully prepared to deal with regulate exotic animal trade any locust attack, State ICMR survey indicates that transmission is high in the metropolis, say experts Agriculture Minister J.P. Dalal Owners have to register their stock said on Sunday, as he credited Shiv Sahay Singh In districts such as Banku­ officials for a timely response SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Kolkata ra and Jhargram, only one of to tackle an infestation of the NEW DELHI A sero survey conducted by the 400 samples tested posi­ short­horned grasshoppers in The Environment Ministry’s the Indian Council of Medi­ tive. Rewari district. He also said wildlife division has intro­ cal Research (ICMR) to esti­ Four and three samples the Rewari district duced new rules to regulate mate the sero­prevalence of were found positive in Ali­ administration will conduct a the import and export of ‘ex­ the novel coronavirus infec­ purduar and Purba Medini­ Sanjaya Baru survey to assess the damage otic wildlife species’. tion in West Bengal reveals a pur, respectively. caused to crops by locusts. duped in “We have sufficient stocks of Currently, it is the Direc­ higher number of antibodies Experts say the study insecticides, pesticides, torate­General of Foreign in the population of Kolkata shows that the infection is online scam machinery to deal with locust Trade, Ministry of Com­ than in other districts. rising in Kolkata at a higher attacks. Our officials swing merce, that oversees such The sero­prevalence is the pace than in other districts. STAFF REPORTER into action as soon as these trade. level of a pathogen in a pop­ Kolkata accounted for a New Delhi insects settle down on Under the new rules, ulation, as measured in Virus alert: A medic collecting samples for COVID­19 testing third of all cases in the State vegetation, trees, soil,” he owners and possessors of A file photo of exotic blood serum. at a slum in Kolkata on Sunday. * PTI and about 57% of the deaths. The Delhi police arrested a said. such animals and birds must animals seized in Thane, A June 26 letter, written Of the 16,711 cases and 629 man for allegedly duping also register their stock with Maharashtra. by ICMR Director­General veals that of the 396 samples city. In South 24 Parganas, deaths reported till June 27, policy analyst Sanjaya Baru Vande Bharat flights the Chief Wildlife Warden of Balram Bhargava to West in Kolkata, 57 tested posi­ only 10 of the 400 samples in the State, Kolkata ac­ of ₹24,000 on the pretext from Australia sold out their States. Conservation of Nature. In­ Bengal Health Secretary Na­ tive, taking the “unweighted tested positive, indicating a counted for 5,402 cases and of online delivery of liquor, NEW DELHI dia is a signatory to this. rayan Swaroop Nigam, re­ prevalence” to 14.39% in the prevalence of 2.5%. 359 deaths. the police said on Sunday. Air India on Sunday opened Select animals According to World Wil­ The accused Akib Javed, bookings for eight flights Officials of the Wildlife De­ dlife Crime Report 2016 of a resident of Kaman, Bha­ from Australia under the partment will also prepare the UN, criminals are illegal­ ratpur, was nabbed from Vande Bharat Mission, but an inventory of such species ly trading products derived SC refuses to his home town after a many passengers were left and have the right to inspect from over 7,000 species of SC dismisses review petitions search on Saturday. Efforts disappointed after all seats the facilities of such traders wild animals and plants stay Rajasthan are being made to nab his were sold out in less than to check if these plants and across the world. absconding associates. three hours. Late on Saturday, animals are being housed in Board exam challenging verdict on adultery The police said the mat­ Air India announced on salubrious conditions. ‘Global threat’ ter came to notice on June Twitter that it would operate Additionally, stockists In its first global report on Legal Correspondent Legal Correspondent was by a Constitution The original judgment in 2 after they received a com­ four flights each from Sydney NEW DELHI New Delhi and Melbourne between July will have six months to de­ the illegal wildlife trade, re­ Bench, led by then chief jus­ 2018 was based on a writ pe­ plaint from Mr. Baru, who 1 and July 14. The total clare their stock. leased last week, the Finan­ In a special Sunday hear­ The Supreme Court has re­ tice Dipak Misra, which tition filed by a Kerala resi­ was media adviser to form­ number of seats booked are The advisory, issued ear­ cial Action Task Force ing, the Supreme Court dis­ fused to review its 2018 judg­ found that Section 497 (adul­ dent, Joseph Shine, repre­ er Prime Minister Manmo­ estimated to be 2,048. lier this month, also says ‘ex­ (FATF) described wildlife missed a plea made by the ment which decriminalised tery) of the Indian Penal sented by advocate han Singh. otic live species’ will mean trafficking as a “global mother of a student to stay adultery. Code cannot “command” Kaleeswaram Raj. In his complaint, Mr. Ba­ Fresh air to be pumped animals named under Ap­ threat”, which also has links the Rajasthan government A five­judge Review married couples to remain The court had reasoned ru alleged that while he inside AC trains pendices I, II and III of the with other organised crimes from conducting Class X Bench, led by Chief Justice of loyal to each other for the that there was no data what­ was shopping for liquor on­ NEW DELHI Convention on Internation­ such as modern slavery, exams on June 29 and 30 India Sharad A. Bobde, fear of penal punishment. soever to support claims line, he found the purport­ Air conditioned trains will al Trade in Endangered Spe­ drug trafficking and arms amid a surge in the CO­ upheld a September 2018 Two individuals may part that abolition of adultery as ed online store ‘La Cave now have operation theatre­ cies (CITES) of Wild Fauna trade. VID­19 cases. Constitution Bench which if one cheats, but to attach a crime would result in Wines and Spirits’. When like fresh air pumped into and Flora. The illegal trade is esti­ A three­judge virtual had struck adultery out of criminality to infidelity is go­ “chaos in sexual morality” he contacted on the num­ coaches, replacing the It will not include species mated to generate revenues court Bench led by Justice the penal statute book. ing too far, Justice Misra had or an increase of divorce. ber provided to place his circulated air which raises the from the Schedules of the of up to $23 billion a year. A.M. Khanwilkar allowed “We have carefully gone observed in his separate Section 497 treats a mar­ order, he was asked to pay chances of spread of Wild Life (Protection) Act, India continues to battle the Rajasthan Board of Se­ through the review petitions opinion. ried woman as the commod­ online. After making a pay­ infections, Railway officials 1972. wildlife crime, with reports condary Education to go and the connected papers Justice Misra was replaced ity of her husband, the ment of approximately said. The experiment, which started with 15 pairs of air The CITES is part of a suggesting that many times ahead with the scheduled filed therewith. We do not by Chief Justice Bobde on Bench had held. ₹24,000, the seller conditioned trains being run multilateral treaty that in­ such species are available exams, postponed due to find any ground, whatsoev­ the Review Bench, while the Adultery is not a crime if switched off his mobile by the Railways on the cludes plant, animals and for trade on online market the pandemic and lock­ er, to entertain the same. other four judges on the ori­ the cuckolded husband con­ phone, the police said. Rajdhani routes since May 12, birds under varying catego­ places. down. The review petitions are, ac­ ginal Bench — R.F. Nariman, nives or consents to his After analysing transac­ will be replicated in all AC ries of threat of extinction The Wildlife Crime Con­ Maghi Devi, whose son cordingly, dismissed,” the A.M. Khanwilkar, D.Y. Chan­ wife’s extra­marital affair. tion details and mobile trains as part of the national and which will be jointly trol Bureau is an organisa­ is taking the exam, had Bench said in a short order drachud and Indu Malhotra Section 497 treats a married numbers used to avail transporter’s preparations for protected by members of tion that is tasked with mon­ failed to convince the Ra­ recently. — continued on to the Re­ woman as her husband’s banking alerts, the accused post­COVID operations. PTI the International Union for itoring illegal trade. jasthan High Court. The original judgment view Bench. “chattel”. was traced to Kaman.

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allowing the congregation of stu­ sCHOLARSHIPS dents and with conditions like so­ ) cial distancing in force, we need to not only reduce the exam duration, but also the weightages given for Exams the final one. Digital tools There are at least 17 digital online educational tools that are available should be for teachers. In place of written ex­ ams, students can be assessed through portfolios, course­embed­ ded assignments, capstone projects, FLEXIBLE juried review of tasks, externally re­ viewed internship, performance on case studies, essay blind scored and across units in the syllabus and oth­ er varied tools. Career Counselling webinars Students can be made to respond through online tests that require The Hindu Education Plus hosts a graphic response, equation res­ webinar series on Career Counselling. FAIR ponse hot text and so on. Presented by SRM Institute of Science and The online assessments embed­ Technology, this series will discuss a range ded with the online course are lear­ of topics including Engineering, Medicine, ner­centric and can be conducted Humanities and Social Sciences, and as and when the students opt for it Sciences. rather than at the convenience of The first webinar will focus on The current system of exams the system. These ICT­based sys­ Engineering in an AI­Enabled World: What tems not only make the exam sys­ will it take to survive automation? The needs to be overhauled and tem flexible, but also reduce the speakers are: reformed, at least for the future administrative and financial burden. Dr. D.K. Aswal is the Director of CSIR­ It is said that University of Madras National Physical Laboratory (CSIR­NPL), spends about ₹3 crores per semes­ New Delhi. He is an internationally reputed ter to evaluate more than 12 lakh condensed matter physicist and has made answer sheets. With online and va­ several contributions in the areas of rious other modes of assessments, molecular electronics, physics of organic it is certain that exam­related admi­ films and their applications, thermoelectric nistrative inconvenience and finan­ power generators and gas sensors. cial expenditure can be curtailed. Dr. Sandeep Sancheti is currently the Vice The results can be declared with­ Chancellor, SRMIST, Chennai, and Member in a short time, even if a syndemic of Council, Indian Institute of Science,

GETTY IMAGES / ISTOCK PHOTOS attack takes place, in the future. To Bengaluru. He is on various national­level change the system, a proper change bodies of the UGC, AICTE and AIU, for b M.G. Sethuraman The future of exams, at least for : ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: vel of education/career. in the mindset of teachers and stu­ higher education related matters and has this year, is bleak with COVID­19 Teachers have to be more The existing system calls for ur­ dents is required. Teachers have to been a part of Indian delegations abroad. Hundreds and thousands of stu­ spreading rapidly in Mumbai, Delhi objective to escape from the gent reforms. It not only has to be be more objective to escape from Dr. Damodar Acharya is an eminent dents in India are in a state of an­ and Chennai. Exams are usually criticism of being partial. flexible but also fair to all groups. the criticism of being partial. Even educationist and engineer. He is the former xiety. With the 2019­2020 exams conducted to evaluate knowledge Though many higher education in­ if colleges and universities decide Director of IIT Kharagpur and former not over, a big question mark lies and to test students’ understanding order thinking skills among stu­ stitutions have continuous formative to award marks on the basis of Chairman of the AICTE. He was also the over their fate. In states such as Te­ and learning levels. Unfortunately, dents. Hence, there is a need for a assessments and summative assess­ available test results, assignments, founding Vice­Chancellor of Biju Patnaik langana, Tamil Nadu and Andhra over the years, education has be­ thorough overhaul. The present ments, rarely does the continuous class room performance and atten­ University of Pradesh, the class X Board exams come too exam­centric, and the lat­ one­size­fits­all system only increas­ assessments include modes of as­ dance for this semester, it is neces­ Technology (BPUT). have been cancelled, and CBSE has ter has taken priority over learning. es the stress on students and pa­ sessments apart from the written sary to bring changes in the sys­ When: July 1, 2020, now decided not to hold the re­ rents. Exam procedures often lack tests. tem, at least for the future. from 3.00 to 5.00 p.m. maining exams for class XII. Many Need for change of transparency, and students resort Even the question papers do not Register: https:// universities and colleges are still The inappropriate exam system, to malpractices. The annual/end­ test the various cognitive levels as The writer is the Director (R&D), The bit.ly/2Yv23li or scan undecided over whether to conduct which mostly calls for rote memor­ semester exams have failed to serve prescribed by the revised Bloom’s Gandhigram Rural Institute, the QR code the end­semester exams. isation, has failed to test the higher the selection needs of the next le­ Taxonomy. With the pandemic not Gandhigram

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Pre-requisite is a check out on Short Course the best in the industry”, stage, students and parents vivid imagination and a zeal Developing Illustration Kerwin concludes. are exploring newer avenues to apply this imagination Practice, University of Edin- K GIRIJA Online and Offline learning at InsightsIAS UPSC Training Institute steers aspirants nsightsIAS, an online and postponed the Civil Services and YouTube channel, has I offline training institution preliminary exam and perso- come with intensive study for UPSC Civil Services ex- nality test as well. Also, stay- plans that require active par- amination, led by its director ing away from preparation ticipation by students. Vinay Kumar G B, has been hotspots has created pro- With revision plans for taking proactive steps to en- blems of its own. Many stu- upcoming exams, constant sure that aspirants who are dents are not accustomed to motivational articles and vi- preparing for Civil Services studying from home as this deos, support to the de- exam are not adversely af- exam requires constant mo- pressed students through fected by the ongoing Covid tivation and peer counselling, InsightsIAS is situation in India. IAS aspi- participation. making sure that students rants are put under a lot of It’s in this regard, with Director, Vinay Kumar G B stay relaxed and engaged in stress due to uncertain exam daily traffic of more than sightsIAS - on its website their preparation produc- dates and results. UPSC has 1.25 lakh unique visitors, In- (www.insightsonindia.com) tively. 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vest money when it comes to elderly clothes — yes invest, not buy mindlessly, irrespective of how a shoe pinches or a seam cuts into How senior citizens who have opted for the side or a bra is a needlessly retirement homes are working on physical constrictive. We will now probably see and mental health during the pandemic Sunalini Mathew whole ranges of wellness wear go mainstream, some as a part of ex­ Soma Basu up essentials, make provisions Keeping busy Residents at This summer, most of us have isting mega brands, and some for the staff to stay on the cam­ Antara Senior Living in stepped out of the house only to from boutique companies. With Up in the hills of Dehradun, Ren pus, plan regular counselling ses­ Dehradun; (below) The go grocery shopping, for a walk, workouts getting more gentle on Madan celebrated his 92nd birth­ sions and fun activities while hav­ Madans * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT or on a work­related assignment. the body — with gyms closed day last week with his wife Leon­ ing zero contact with the external Our summer wardrobes lie in there’s less HIIT and more yoga tine, 89, and their friends. They environment,” says Tara Singh keep physical distance. “Some­ the cupboard, almost un­ classes are online — we’re likely wore masks and gloves, and Vachani, the Executive Chair­ times, they’d come together for touched. Like most people I to see a shift towards thinner, nat­ maintained the physical distanc­ man. She says they have not re­ activities — cooking, baking, gar­ know, I default to tees and loose ural, stretchable fabric that forms ing norms of our COVID­19 times, duced staff strength to make sure dening, farming — and we make pyjama­style lowers or thin tights just a layer on the body, not as they gathered in the dining hall emergencies are taken care of in sure they do these activities in that can transition me from work­ aimed at compression. of the Antara Senior Living resi­ the same way they would have small batches,” he says. For in­ ing to working out. These help In a post­Coronavirus world, dential home, to cut a birthday before the lockdown. stance, the yoga sessions earlier me take micro fitness breaks, functional fabrics and biotextiles cake baked by the wellness staff. Miles away, 75­year­old Prema were conducted in batches of six; where I do four surya namaskars that are non­toxic with antimi­ “Had I been in my home in Ma­ Viswanathan living in Vanapras­ now only two people attend a or a wall sit. crobial and hypoallergenic pro­ nali now, it would not have been tha, a senior citizens’ home near class. “We are delivering meals to There’s been talk of the revival perties, will come to the fore. possible to take care of things Coimbatore, says she had a verti­ every resident’s home instead of of the kaftan and of more bras Chitosan, a by­product from the amidst the present restrictions,” go attack and the staff was at her AGE IN PLACE asking them to compulsorily without the underwire being exoskeletons of crustaceans says the senior­most resident at the doorstep to take her to the clinic Dr AB Dey, Head, Department of Geriatric Medicine, come to the dining area. Our ser­ bought, reflecting a veering to­ (which means it is easily derived facility. He and Leontine will cele­ after she made an intercom call. AIIMS Delhi, says that alarmist news makes senior vice care providers hand over the wards comfort and practicality. I from the fishing industry) is al­ brate their 65th wedding anniver­ The management has made ar­ citizens fear death more than a person who has the day’s food to the residents and collect notice more women in comforta­ ready being used. Perhaps neem, sary next month, unsure of when rangements for the staff (that in­ busy-ness to keep them distracted. He says there are the utensils later,” says ble shorts stepping out sans turmeric, aloe vera, and several they will be able to meet their two cludes nursing assistants, hel­ ways of developing a positive attitude to help keep Sathyanarayanan. make­up. And this is Delhi, others will find funding and use. children, both doctors in the US. pers, cleaners and cooks) to stay stress levels down: Regulations in the dining hall where make­up is not the only Shoes too will see more cork, cover­up we see. Artifice is the leather, and fabric, and will be fo­ Last month, the Madans had to be back on the campus during the Step out of the room and get some sunshine daily. at Nana Nani Homes has made CN content with participating in the entire period of the lockdown. Andal more confident of going in other, and our clothes and acces­ cussed on comfort rather than marriage ceremony of their grand­ “Nobody is allowed to leave the Keep walking at intervals even if it is around the house, to eat, rather than eating her food sories are often representative of fashion. daughter on a Zoom call. premises and no outsider is al­ on the terrace or balcony. alone. “Earlier, many of us could that. It isn’t without irony then that With yoga being pushed as an the soles of a particularly uncom­ All things considered though, lowed entry. Supplies are ordered Practise deep breathing. sit around a table and chat and the birthday celebration “is a nice over the phone and the delivery eat, but now the number of tables immunity booster and the act of fortable pair of heels that I own feeling that helps to push away boy leaves them at the gate to mi­ Gently push yourself to do some safe and simple has been reduced and only two exposing ourselves to the sun for came undone, and I threw them dark thoughts especially during nimise the risk of transmission of stretching and bending exercises. residents are allowed to sit at one vitamin D being considered a ne­ away, or that a piece of shape­ cessity, our wardrobes too have wear I’d hung out on the line to these trying times,” says Ren, the Coronavirus,” she says. Follow a quarantine routine for meals and sleep. table,” she says and adds that the who is learning Spanish now. “We It’s the same for those at the entire area is well protected and begun to revolve around health. dry simply flew away. are kept engaged like back in Nana Nani Homes, Ana­ HoweverAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA tough it may be, do smile. regularly sanitised. “Though we The fact that at home, we don’t school,” he adds with a laugh. have to be alert, I do not feel wor­ have the air­conditioning on all ried of catching the infection the time, means we are able to Seniors at risk nya Shelters’ signature project in has been out of bounds even for here,” she says. dress more appropriately for the As one of the most vulnerable Coimbatore. S Geetha, from the the family members of the elderly She misses meeting her grand­ weather and be slightly more in groups, the management and management says, they have residents. children, whom she visits in sum­ contact with the way Nature staff of several senior citi­ shut the gates of their socie­ mer. “But the staff make sure I do functions. GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCK zens’ homes are taking ty ever since the lock­ Interacting with caution not feel lonely. They take turns to Confronted with the problem * precautions to keep resi­ down. The supplies are or­ The need now is to balance the visit me and help me do the of weavers going into distress dents (including its staff) dered over the phone and humane needs with rigour and Skype calls with my family.” with little business, citizen initia­ safe physically, while after the delivery boys protocol, says Major Sathyana­ Besides routine temperature, tives have sprung up. WhatsApp helping people interact leave them at the gate, rayanan Parthasarathy, co­foun­ pulse and oxygen level checks for messages have begun circulating with precautions, to the items (such as milk der, Melur Meadows Retirement every staff member and resident, around buying what they pro­ take care of mental packets, fruits and veget­ Village near Mettupalayam retirement homes are also look­ duce — cotton, silk, or linen saris health too. Antara, for ables) are given a tho­ (Coimbatore). Much before the ing at arranging for indoor — all natural fabrics that allow instance, went into rough wash before being COVID­19 lockdown, he says, games, simple exercises, spiritual the skin to breathe, with nature­ lockdown a week before brought inside . “All this the group had built houses talks, or movie screenings. “We based dyes that are skin­friendly. it was officially an­ may take some extra spread across the luxury of want them to bond and let them Will all of this change the way nounced. “This al­ time and labour, but greenery, open space, air and meet in small groups as permit­ we shop in the future? Probably. lowed us time to we cannot afford to sunlight. ted under the protocol for the ac­ We are now seriously considering prepare the resi­ put a single resident at Given the layout, it has not tivities they enjoy doing,” says how much we already have, why dents mentally, stock risk,” she says. The place been difficult to help residents Sathyanarayanan. we need more, and where to in­

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Love for the written word stalled the first bookcase. Of­ Perumkulam residents are fice­bearers of the library ex­ proud of their ‘village of pected either the books to books’ tag; (inset) a pusthaka remain unused or the glass­pa­ koodu installed by the library nelled cases to be shattered. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT “We were pleasantly sur­ Chasing prised when neither hap­ trails (sloped­roof, house­shaped pened. It is intact and the Narcondam glass full of books) across 10 books are being read. We Hornbill; spots in the village. placed a register there since (below) KA we couldn’t monitor it.,” says Dhanuparan Public-private partnership Vijesh, adding, “The principle * SPECIAL “Each pusthaka koodu has 30­ is simple. You take a book and ARRANGEMENT 50 books, mostly children’s lit­ keep it back or replace it with erature that kids can borrow,” another book. Going by the en­ says Vijesh. There are a few tries, not only are the books books for adults besides new­ being read but they are also spapers. The idea is aimed, being replaced with others. So, primarily, at children so that obviously, the response is the habit of reading is encour­ good.” Thriving aged and nurtured early. The The bookcases were built idea for the bookcase came with sponsorships from local from US­based Little Free Li­ residents. All the cases have al­ brary — a book­sharing move­ so been strategically placed: in seclusion ment through bookcases near bus stops with waiting placed in public spaces — of sheds and seats. The library is which Bapuji library is a regis­ prepared for books going mis­ A wildlife photographer tracks the tered entity. “Our library sing; if it does, the box will be endangered Narcondam hornbill to its van Nair, making it the second shows up in their map of Little replenished with new books. natural habitat in the Andamans village in India with this dis­ Libraries. That gave us the idea Santhwan Vijay, a student of tinction, and Kerala’s first. Ho­ of placing the bookcase in a Class VII, looks forward to A real page wever, according to V Vijesh, a public space,” Vijesh says. reading the books after K Jeshi school teacher and a former There was scep­ schools reopen post­ lock­ secretary of Bapuji library, ticism when down, “There are bookcases Award­winning wildlife photogra­ even before Bhilar was ho­ they in­ everywhere in our village now. pher KA Dhanuparan recalls the noured with the title, Pe­ There is plenty for us kids and “special moment” when he caught rumkulam had placed also grown­ups. I can read on a first glimpse of the Narcondam its first public book­ my way to school and back, hornbill with its velvet­black plum­ TURNER case as an experi­ I can pick up books age and over­sized yellow beak. ment in January from one and put it An endangered species, the bird With contribution from local residents, 2017. in another and read is endemic to the Narcondam Is­ an initiative by a library in Kerala’s Perumkulam’s Bapuji li­ one from there,” he says. land in Andamans. It is where Dha­ brary with its 625­strong mem­ Most books are in Malaya­ nuparan headed to on a two­day Perumkulam has added public book bership was established in lam. There are comics and sto­ birding and photography trip to PARENTING BY EXAMPLE shelves, earning it the title of India’s 1948, and is housed in a three­ ry books for children such as document its nesting activity. storey building. Writer M Mu­ Balarama and Oru Kudayum “From Havelock island, it took The hornbills are role­model second ‘village of books’ kundan is the library’s patron. Kunju Pengalum. For adults, us eight hours to reach Narcon­ parents and also have unique As part of Perumkulam’s trans­ there are classics such as OV dam. First, I saw a male bird with a nesting habits. Says birder K Shilpa Nair Anand one up and read right there. formation, the library recently Vijayan’s Khasakkinte Itiha- prominent rufous head and neck, Selvaganesh, an English teacher The office­bearers of Bapuji placed 10 pusthaka koodu sam, Vaikom Muhammed and then a female bird that was ful­ at the Cinchona Government Way back in 2017, when Bhilar, Smaraka Vayanasala, a library Basheer’s Balyakalasakhi, and ly black. Soon , they came out in High School in Valparai, “The a village in Maharashtra’s Sata­ in Perumkulam near Kollam in M Mukundan’s Mayyazhip- hundreds. They were flying and hornbills build nests on tree ...... cavities. While incubating, the ra district, was declared a ‘vil­ Kerala, were determined to re­ puzhayude Theerangalil. “It is feeding on berries and fruits from female seals the nest with lage of books’ ( Pustakanch plicate it. Now, they have The bookcases were imperative, especially now tall trees,” he says. droppings, mud and fruit pulp. Gaav) by the State Govern­ achieved their goal. built with since children are forced to However, access to the tiny, dor­ A small slit is left open for the ment, it sparked an idea in Ker­ On June 19, Perumkulam, sponsorships from use smartphones and compu­ mant volcanic island of Narcon­ male to pass on the feed every ala. Bhilar had created 25 spe­ with its roughly 4,000 inhabi­ ters for their education, that dam, which spans an area of 6.8 local residents and few hours to the mother and cial spaces called ‘book zones’ tants, was declared a ‘village of they are encouraged to read.” sq.km, is restricted, since it is a the chicks.” to encourage people to pick books’ by writer MT Vasude­ placed strategically Vijesh adds. protected habitat for the hornbills. He adds: “Though the birds are It is maintained by the Department frugivores that primarily eat of Environment and Forests of the fruits and berries, during Andaman and Nicobar Islands. breeding, the males also bring Dhanuparan’s self­proclaimed insects, worms, owl kills, giant love for photographing hornbills squirrels and rats to meet the led him to Narcondam. So far, he high protein requirement of the Sweet child of mine chicks. I have seen the male has captured the Malabar grey hornbill, Malabar pied hornbill Great hornbill clutching over 60 Seven mothers from different cities got together to (both endemic to the Western to 70 ficus berries in its mouth compose and create a music video based on a lullaby as Ghats), the Great hornbill and the to feed its family. It is a role Indian grey hornbill. model in parenting.”AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA an expression of love for their daughters His photo of a Great hornbill, seated on a tree with its magnifi­ Saraswathy Nagarajan penned a lullaby for Vaidehi. cent wings outstretched opposite a seen in places like Mulli in Coo­ “I wrote down all that was in Nilgiri langur, earned him a run­ noor, Mamaram in Kotagiri and in Seven mothers synergised my heart. When I read the ner­up spot in the Natural History Masinagudi. “They need tall fruit­ their creative talents to com­ lines, I liked the spontaneous Museum’s Young Wildlife Photog­ ing trees for nesting and breeding. pose, sing, choreograph and overflow of powerful emo­ rapher of the Year competition in Their calls are loud and aggressive, edit a Malayalam music video, tions. I sent it to my friend Saj­ 2017. especially to send an alarm to the Jwalamukhi, that is based on a na Vinish, who is an assistant flock when they spot birds of lullaby and which is now win­ professor of music at Govern­ Cusp of extinction prey,” he says. ning them accolades. ment College for Women, Thi­ Ode to love (Left) A poster for Jwalamukhi, (above) Smitha Shirish Manchi of Salim Ali Centre The Narcondam hornbill is Released by actor Mam­ ruvananthapuram. I requested Nambiar with her daughter Vaidehi * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT for Ornithology and Natural Histo­ smaller in size and is not loud, un­ mootty on his Facebook page her to tune it for me as a lulla­ ry, in a YouTube uploads on con­ like its cousins, points out Dhanup­ last week , the brains behind by, and she agreed ,” says Sushmita and Purnima Balasu­ sion of our dreams and wishes servation, explains how Narcon­ aran. the idea is Smitha Nambiar, a Smitha. bramaniam from Chennai, for our daughters to go forth, dam hornbills faced threat of However, being endemic to an media professional, who says Anusri S Nair from Thiruva­ shine and be a beacon of light,” extinction due to habitat loss and isolated, uninhabited island, the she was stuck in Dubai due to Breathing life into words joyed it the best, and so we nanthapuram and Seetha­ adds Sajna. hunting. If not for concerted con­ Narcondam hornbill still faces the lockdown and had to miss be­ Sajna stayed with the lines for chose to do away with any kind lakshmi from Kochi, the group Though, it was by a happy servation efforts, it would have threat of extinction in the event of ing part of the birthday of her three days and came up with of orchestration,” explains decided to use a monochro­ chance that the video turned been impossible to boost their a natural calamity causing a spe­ four­year­old daughter Vaide­ three different tunes; Smitha Sajna. matic colour palette with black into a “mums’ project”, the numbers from a mere 360 birds in cies wipe­out. hi, who is in Kerala, in May. chose the one in Neelambari Smitha soon roped in an ar­ and red highlights for the vi­ group of friends is thrilled by 1999 to over a thousand now. “Those two days with the birds Although mother and raaga as her pick, and the duo tist to make a video with digital deo. The choreographed bits how it was received by people Yet, habitat destruction remains were unforgettable. I hope they daughter would connect over fine­tuned it over WhatsApp drawings. In the meantime, were recorded and sent to Sou­ who watched it. the biggest threat to hornbills are there when I go back some­ video calls, the ambiguity and calls. “Smitha and I were another friend from Chennai, mya Sagar, Smitha’s sister­in­ “Mammootty sir told me around the world, according to Nil­ day,” adds Dhanuparan, who is around resumption of air tra­ in sync with what we wanted to Sushma Chakkungal, ex­ law, for editing. that he enjoyed the music, and giris­based birder Aggal Sivalin­ currently at the Anamalai Tiger Re­ vel, made Smitha despondent. do with the lines. I sent her a pressed interest to choreo­ “What happened is that all that the words were sensitive gam, where Great hornbills can be serve filming its bio­diversity. That is when she decided to rendering with just the shruti graph moves for the song. seven of us have daughters and and soaked in emotion,” says give vent to her emotions and of the tambura. Smitha en­ Together with others like it became an ardent expres­ Smitha.

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DELHI THE HINDU 14 WORLD MONDAY, JUNE 29, 2020 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Infection numbers cross 10 million mark Trump denies being briefed on ‘Russian bounties for U.S. soldiers’ Death toll nears five lakh as efforts to reopen economies are set back by the jump in new infections Agence France-Presse Reports said that Afghan militants were paid to kill troops Paris S. Korea to Global infections from CO­ Agence France-Presse briefed on the findings in VID­19 have surpassed 10 allow some Washington March, but has not decided million as the rate of new U.S. President Donald how to respond. cases surges, according to an fans at games Trump denied on Sunday AFP tally on Sunday. One that he had been briefed on White House’s denial million new cases were re­ Agence France-Presse intelligence that reportedly White House press secretary corded in only six days, ac­ Seoul showed Russia had offered Kayleigh McEnany on Satur­ cording to the AFP count, South Korea said on bounties to Taliban­linked day issued a denial similar to just as countries start to un­ Sunday that it will begin militants for killing U.S. sol­ Mr. Trump’s but left open wind punishing lockdowns allowing limited numbers diers in Afghanistan. the possibility that such in­ that have devastated their of spectators at sports In a pair of early morning telligence existed. economies and thrown mil­ games as it seeks to return tweets, Mr. Trump angrily U.S. President The Taliban has denied lions out of work. to normal after months of slammed the report by The Donald Trump. * AP the report, reiterating that it The worldwide death toll strict social distancing New York Times as “Proba­ was committed to an accord from the disease that first rules to combat the bly just another phony sian military intelligence un­ signed with Washington in emerged in China about six COVID­19. “We will take Times hit job, just like their it offered rewards to Taliban­ February that paves the way months ago is also nearing phased measures including failed Russia Hoax.” “Nobo­ linked militants to kill troops for withdrawing all foreign 5,00,000 as fears grow of a allowing spectators at dy briefed or told me, @VP of the U.S.­led coalition in forces from Afghanistan by full­blown second wave. sports events,” health Pence, or Chief of Staff Afghanistan. next year. The United States, the har­ minister Park Neung­hoo @MarkMeadows about the The rewards were pur­ Russia has also de­ dest hit country, has sur­ told reporters on Sunday, so­called attacks on our portedly incentives to target nounced the report, with its passed 2.5 million cases Perilous proximities: Shoppers at a commercial centre in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Saturday. without elaborating. troops in Afghanistan by U.S. forces as Mr. Trump Embassy in Washington alone, as efforts to reopen The country is second only to the U.S. in terms of infection count.* GETTY IMAGES Russians, as reported tries to withdraw troops tweeting that the “baseless the world’s economic power­ through an ‘anonymous from the conflict­torn coun­ and anonymous accusa­ house were set back by a Across the Atlantic, the EU Ron DeSantis has conceded source’ by the Fake News try — one of the militants’ tions” in the story had “al­ jump in new infections in on Saturday pushed back a there has been an “explo­ 763 Indian­origin people @nytimes,” he wrote. key demands — and end ready led to direct threats to States such as Florida. Infec­ decision on a list of “safe sion” in new cases. On Satur­ On Friday, The Times re­ America’s longest war. Cit­ the life of employees” at its tions are also up in some oth­ countries” from which tra­ day the “Sunshine State” ported that U.S. intelligence ing anonymous officials, The embassies in Washington er parts of the world that vellers can visit Europe — a notched 9,585 cases in 24 have died in the U.K. had concluded that a Rus­ Times said Mr. Trump was and London. have reopened, with Europe list which could exclude the hours, a new daily record. registering over 2.6 million. U.S. Meanwhile stars includ­ Press Trust of India came as England has seen ing Coldplay, Miley Cyrus Cases in Florida London an overall fall in the daily Lockdown near Beijing and Jennifer Hudson lent The average age of people in­ The U.K. government on death toll and prepares to French citizens vote in delayed local poll China on Sunday imposed a support to a European Com­ fected has dropped sharply Sunday said it is planning to substantially lift lockdown Reuters strict lockdown on nearly mission­led drive Saturday — to 33 from 65 two months impose localised lockdowns restrictions from July 4, ban planning to education In the capital, the elec­ Paris half a million people in a pro­ that raised €6.15 billion ($6.9 ago. Young people frustrated in regions showing a spike when bars, restaurants and and the environment and tion’s biggest prize, the sit­ vince surrounding Beijing to billion) to support vaccine by months of confinement in COVID­19 infections, as cinemas will begin to open Voters in France donned while local factors typically ting socialist Mayor Anne Hi­ contain a fresh virus cluster. research and help make it have poured back to Flori­ latest figures showed that up to public access. face masks to cast their bal­ drive voter choices, they dalgo is on track for a Beijing city official Xu Hejian available to poorer coun­ da’s beaches, boardwalks Indian­origin people Meanwhile, the latest lots on Sunday in a delayed give the electorate an oppor­ comfortable win after a told reporters that the situa­ tries. In West Asia, the Go­ and bars, often without remain in the category of NHS England statistics second round of country­ tunity to support or punish a shambolic campaign by Mr. tion was “severe and compli­ vernor of Bethlehem an­ masks and seemingly uncon­ those hardest hit from the revealed that 763 people wide municipal elections, a President mid­mandate. Macron and his La Repu­ cated,” warning that the city nounced that the Palestinian cerned about social distanc­ deadly virus among identifying with Indian mid­term test for President blique en Marche party. needed to continue tracing city would temporarily close ing. With Mr. Trump strug­ Britain’s ethnic minorities. heritage had died so far in Emmanuel Macron and his First round in March Paris is unlikely to be the the spread of the virus. due to rising infections. gling to lift his re­election bid Home Secretary Priti Patel the pandemic, according to ruling party which could fail France pressed ahead with only disappointment for Mr. The tension between reo­ The disease also conti­ off the ground, the campaign confirmed as “correct” data collated until last to win a single big city. the first round of the munici­ Macron. The Greens could to pening battered economies nues to rampage through La­ confirmed that events featur­ reports of the first such Thursday. This continues to A year ago, Mr. Macron pal elections in mid­March, do well in cities such as and public health is a source tin America, with Peru top­ ing Vice President Mike lockdown for Leicester, a reflect 3% of the total had hoped the local elec­ less than 48 hours before Mr. Lyon, Marseille and Bor­ of debate in nearly every ping 9,000 deaths on Pence in Arizona and Florida region in eastern England deaths officially recorded tions would help anchor his Macron imposed one of Eu­ deaux, sometimes in al­ country. On Saturday alone, Saturday. Brazil — the second next week have been post­ with a large Indian­origin by the National Health young centrist party in rope’s strictest COVID­19 liance with the Left, building the U.S. recorded more than hardest­hit country after the poned “out of an abundance population. “We have seen Service from COVID­19, first towns and cities across lockdowns, forcing a long on momentum they created 43,000 new cases, according U.S. — recorded 990 deaths of caution.” flare­ups across the country reported in April at the France, ahead of an antici­ delay before the second in 2019’s European elec­ to a tally by Johns Hopkins on Saturday, the highest toll In California, Governor already, just in the last peak of the pandemic, pated 2022 re­election bid. round. tions. University. U.S. deaths now in the world that day, while Gavin Newsom ordered three or four weeks in followed by those of But more recently, presiden­ The pandemic could still In Perpignan, Marine Le exceed 1,25,000, approxi­ Mexico recorded the second some areas to reinstate stay­ particular. There will be Pakistani and Caribbean tial aides have been playing depress turnout. At midday Pen’s far­right party may mately one­quarter the highest at 719. at­home orders, while San support going into heritage as the second­ down expectations. this was at 15.3%, below the take control of its first city world total of almost In the U.S. State of Flori­ Francisco announced a Leicester,” she said. hardest hit ethnic groups at France’s 35,000 Mayors 19.8% registered at the same with a population of more 4,99,000. da, Republican Governor “pause” in its reopening. Ms. Patel’s confirmation 2% each. set policy on issues from ur­ time in 2014. than 1,00,000. Sri Lanka lifts 53 held after Hong Kong anti­Bill protest One killed in shooting at nationwide lockdown Several hundred protesters stage ‘silent march’ against the planned Chinese law Black Lives Matter rally

No community transmission: official Reuters separatism, subversion, ter­ Kentucky has seen protests since March Hong Kong rorism and foreign interfe­ Agence France-Presse Hong Kong police arrested at rence in Hong Kong. Agence France-Presse saving measures on a male Colombo least 53 people on Sunday af­ Washington who eventually died at the Sri Lanka’s nationwide lock­ ter scuffles erupted during a Review of Bill One person was killed and scene,” the department said down was lifted on Sunday relatively peaceful protest China’s National People's another wounded in a on Twitter. after a selective curfew a against planned national se­ Congress Standing Commit­ shooting at a Black Lives Soon after another per­ month ago was reimposed curity legislation to be im­ tee reviewed a draft of the Matter rally in the U.S. State son was shot across the during a surge in COVID­19 plemented by the mainland Bill on Sunday, according to of Kentucky, police said. street at the city’s Hall of Jus­ infections, the country’s Chinese government. state media Xinhua. The incident on Saturday tice, police added. It was un­ President said. Armed riot police were Chinese state media re­ took place at Jefferson clear if there was more than “The curfew has com­ present as a crowd of several ported that lawmakers over­ Square Park in the centre of one shooter and authorities pletely been lifted effective Health workers in Colombo hundred moved from Jordan whelmingly supported the Louisville where protesters have yet to release any de­ from today,” President Gota­ earlier in June. * AP to Mong Kok in the Kowloon draft. The Chinese govern­ have gathered for weeks ov­ tails of the victims. Louis­ baya Rajapaksa’s office said district, staging what was in­ ment has “unshakable deter­ er the killing of African ville Mayor Greg Fischer in a statement. Health offi­ now contained,” a health of­ tended as a “silent protest” Battle continues: Protesters taking out a march against China’s mination to push ahead with American woman Breonna said he was “deeply sad­ cials said new infections re­ ficial said. against the planned law. national security Bill in Hong Kong on Sunday. * REUTERS enactment of the security Taylor. Her death in March dened by the violence.” ported since April 30 were Authorities plan to reo­ However, chanting and Bill and safeguard national helped fuel a campaign Louisville has seen espe­ from Sri Lankans stranded pen Sri Lanka’s borders on slogans were shouted to­ esters tried to blockade 1997. “The governments sovereignty and interest,” against racism and police cially passionate Black Lives in West Asia who were August 1, but the date could wards police and later scuf­ roads in the area. wants to shut us up and to state broadcaster CCTV re­ brutality in the United Matter protests due to the brought home on special be reviewed due to the im­ fles broke out in Mong Kok, The proposed national se­ kick us out,” one protester, ported, citing a government States that has since spread police killing Taylor in her flights and quarantined. ported cases, the official ad­ prompting police to use pep­ curity law has raised con­ Roy Chan, 44, said. “We spokesperson. Sunday’s across the globe. own apartment. A cluster in a Navy camp ded. Sri Lanka will also hold per spray to subdue parts of cerns among Hong Kong de­ must stand up and strike event came a day after Hong Louisville Metro Police The 26­year­old emergen­ was controlled with the fa­ its parliamentary elections the crowd. mocracy activists and some down all those people who Kong police refused permis­ Department said officers cy room technician was shot cility still in lockdown, they at the start of August . Hong Kong Police said on foreign governments that deprive Hong Kong peoples sion for an annual march were called to the park at dead after police barged in­ said. “There has been no Around 2,000 infections in­ Facebook that 53 people had Beijing is further eroding the freedom.” usually held on July 1 to mark around 9.00 p.m. “Calls to her home, alleging that community spread of the vi­ cluding 11 deaths have been been arrested and charged extensive autonomy pro­ China has said the law will the 1997 handover, citing a then came in that Sheriff’s drug dealers had used the rus and the infections at the recorded so far, according with unlawful assembly, ad­ mised when Britain handed target only a small group of ban on large gatherings amid Department personnel were apartment to receive Welisara Navy camp are to government figures. ding that earlier some prot­ the territory back to China in troublemakers as it tackles the COVID­19 pandemic. in the park performing life­ packages. ELSEWHERE Russian firm to be probed over Arctic ‘dumping’ Iran experiencing its toughest year Reports say that discharge of waste water could pose threat to a nearby river due to sanctions, virus: Rouhani Agence France-Presse investigation was under way. Moscow A spokeswoman for Rus­ Wearing of masks to become mandatory from next Sunday Russian mining giant Norilsk sia’s natural resources agen­ Nickel said on Sunday that it cy said the decision to re­ Reuters The death toll has recently had stopped the discharge of move water from the Dubai topped 100 a day for the first waste water from one of its reservoir was taken to avoid Iranian President Hassan time in two months. Some U.S. envoy appears on Arctic facilities, one month an emergency, after heavy Rouhani said on Sunday that 2,489 new cases were re­ Lebanese channels after an unprecedented fuel rains and tests had caused his country is experiencing corded in the past 24 hours, BEIRUT Lebanese media broadcast leak nearby sparked a state water levels to increase dra­ its toughest year because of taking the total to 2,22,669, interviews with U.S. of emergency. matically. “To prevent possi­ U.S. sanctions coupled with Health Ministry spokeswo­ Ambassador Dorothy Shea on The incident occurred at ble emergencies due to in­ the COVID­19 pandemic. man Sima Sadat Lari told Sunday, ignoring a ruling by a the Talnakh enrichment creasing water levels in the The COVID­19 crisis has state television. She said 144 judge who banned the plant near the Arctic city of basin, the operating person­ exacerbated economic pro­ people had died, bringing diplomat from television for a Norilsk, the company said, Liquid spill-out: Water gushing out from a pipe belonging to nel decided promptly to low­ blems that worsened after the total to 10,508. year over remarks that when liquids used to process mining giant Norilsk Nickel near Norilsk on Sunday. * AP er the water level,” Svetlana U.S. President Donald Mr. Rouhani said wearing criticised Hezbollah, the main minerals were “discharged Radionova said. Trump withdrew in 2018 of masks will become man­ force behind the country’s from a reservoir”. “Mea­ a threat to the nearby Kha­ waste water into nearby wil­ Norilsk Nickel was at the from Iran’s nuclear deal with A pedestrian sporting a mask datory for two weeks start­ government. Reuters sures were taken to stop” the rayelakh river. The Investiga­ dlife areas. centre of another incident major powers and reim­ in Iran’s capital Tehran on ing next Sunday in “gather­ UN calls for protection removal of the liquid into tive Committee, which Novaya Gazeta journalists last month when more than posed sanctions. On Mon­ Sunday. * AFP ing places” that are deemed of civilians in Myanmar nearby territory, the compa­ probes serious crimes, said said Norilsk Nickel em­ 21,000 tonnes of diesel day, Iran’s rial currency fell “red spots”. YANGON ny said, adding that there it had received reports of ployees had hastily removed leaked into soil and rivers af­ to its lowest ever level gan in 2018 has increased ... Senior officials have regu­ The UN called for “urgent was no threat of waste “unauthorised dumping of pipes when investigators ter a fuel reservoir collapsed against the U.S. dollar. and today it is the toughest larly warned that restric­ measures to spare civilians” leaking. liquid waste into the tundra” and emergency services ar­ at a power plant also near pressure on our dear tions will be reimposed if in Myanmar’s northwest on on the site of the facility and rived on the scene. Norilsk Norilsk. President Vladimir Economic pressure country.” health regulations such as Sunday, saying fighting has Dumping of waste had opened an enquiry. Nickel spokeswoman Tatia­ Putin declared an emergen­ “It’s been the most difficult Iran has seen a sharp in­ social distancing to stem the intensified between the army A source in the Emergency Independent newspaper na Egorova confirmed to cy situation after the acci­ year due to the enemy’s eco­ crease in COVID­19 infec­ surge in infections are not and insurgents. The military Situations Ministry however Novaya Gazeta published vi­ AFP that the employees of dent and the head of Norilsk nomic pressure and the pan­ tions and deaths since res­ observed. Iran launched a has been battling the Arakan told the RIA Novosti news deos of the scene in a report the factory had pumped Nickel, oligarch Vladimir Po­ demic,” Mr. Rouhani said in trictions to stem the spread campaign on Saturday to Army in Rakhine and Chin agency that the discharge of claiming the factory had de­ “purified water from the re­ tanin, promised to pay the a televised speech. “The of the pandemic were gra­ motivate a reluctant public since January 2019. AFP toxic substances could pose liberately discharged the servoir” and that an internal costs of the clean­up. economic pressure that be­ dually lifted from mid­April. to use face masks.

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THE HINDU DELHI MONDAY, JUNE 29, 2020 MONEYWISE 15 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ASK US Savings options for the twilight years Senior citizens may need a financial guide of ₹15 lakh in SCSS, and there is next revision), and payout is limit i.e. ₹15 lakh each. 80C benefit for contribution up tax benefit under Section 80C quarterly in the case of SCSS to ₹1.5 lakh per year. You can al­ to select the right investment vehicle of the Income Tax Act. and of your chosen frequency Post Office scheme so withdraw from the PPF as Maturity period is 5 years. in PMVVY. SCSS has the added Interest rate for the Post Office per rules. Joydeep Sen turn of purchase amount to the The account can be extended advantage of Section 80C tax Monthly Income Scheme has Sometimes senior citizens or nominee. The minimum entry for a further period of three benefit. been reduced to 6.6% since Bank deposit retired people require guidance age for this scheme is 60 years, years within a year of maturity. If the senior citizen April 1, 2020. The reason that This is a popular avenue as it is on where to put their life’s there is no maximum age limit. Both PMVVY and SCSS are has the funds, he/she the interest rate is lower very simple and easy. The issue K. NITYA KALYANI hard­earned savings and derive The maximum investment al­ similar. should avail of both, than the previous two is, when interest rates are fall­ a regular flow of income from lowed per person is ₹15 lakh. The interest rate is 7.4% (till subject to the upper schemes is that the MIS ing, fresh deposits are made at Claiming medical insurance the capital. There are multiple The PMVVY scheme allows pre­ is for everybody. lower rates. Currently, deposits Q. I am a retired employee of the Andhra options. Here are a few: mature withdrawal only in the The government has in State Bank of India for matur­ Pradesh government. I am covered under the case of critical and terminal ill­ a special dispensation for ity of five to 10 years would government’s Arogyasri programme. About PMVVY ness. However, only 98% of the senior citizens, and gives a fetch 5.4% and for senior citi­ a year ago, my wife underwent a The Pradhan Mantri Vaya Van­ purchase price is payable as higher return in, say, zens, it is 6.2%. There are banks hysterectomy which cost about ₹2 lakh. I dana Yojana, or PMVVY, is a so­ surrender value in such a case. PMVVY and SCSS. In that pay a higher interest rate, was reimbursed only ₹35,000 as per norms. cial security scheme for senior Loan facility is available MIS, the upper limit is but the safety issue has to be My wife and I had taken a private health citizens, implemented through against PMVVY after ₹4.5 lakh in a single kept in mind. Nationalised insurance policy for ₹5 lakh. My question is whether I can claim from both Arogyasriand the Life Insurance Corporation three policy years, up account and ₹9 lakh banks and leading private sec­ the private health insurance company of India (LIC). to 75% of the pur­ in a joint account. tor banks are safe but usually schemes for the medical expenses incurred? This gives an assured mini­ chase price. safer banks would pay a lower GURUJALA RAGHAVA REDDY mum pension. LIC invests the There is no spe­ Public Provident rate of return. corpus in the market and gener­ cial tax be­ ne­ Fund A. Arogyasri operates like a hospitalisation ates market­related returns. If fit. You can Usually, PPF is not Mutual Fund SWP expenses indemnity policy, that is, expenses are reimbursed against bills and treatment is such returns are lower than the buy a viewed as a retirement You may invest your money in cashless if availed in a network hospital. guaranteed return, the diffe­ PMVVY planning avenue. Ho­ MF schemes as per suitability So, if you have an additional cover in the rential is subsidised by the Un­ pension wever, in a falling inter­ i.e. in debt and equity funds. form of a hospitalisation policy from an ion government. This Scheme from LIC. Policy est rate regime, the fac­ Returns are market driven, insurance company, you will be able to make has been extended till March term is 10 years. tors that need to be there is no guarantee or com­ a claim under both as you have to submit 31, 2023. considered are: the 15­ mitment. A systematic withdra­ bills. Arogyasri is a mass health insurance The assured rate of return SCSS year term can be ex­ wal plan (SWP) gives you com­ scheme for beneficiaries defined by their has been set at 7.4% for 2020­21. The interest rate for Senior Citi­ tended in blocks of five plete flexibility over how much lower income, and has restrictions on claim amounts which has meant, in your Thereafter, it will be reset every zen Savings Scheme (SCSS), years i.e. there is no li­ you want to redeem per month/ experience, that all your expenses may not year. since April 1, 2020, is 7.4%, mit on the term of a PPF; other frequency plus lump sum be forthcoming as claims. The minimum investment paid out quarterly. Eligi­ interest rate is usually on withdrawal as per requirement. So, while you can claim under Arogyasri has been revised to ₹1,56,658 bility age is 60. A de­ the higher side com­ Returns are tax­efficient over a where the expense is within its limits, you for an annually paid pension of positor may oper­ pared with the prevailing holding period of three years will have the option of claiming it from your ₹12,000 and ₹1,62,162 for get­ ate more than rate regime, currently it for debt funds and one year for personal policy in hospitalisations which cost ting a monthly pension of one account in indi­ is 7.1%; tax­effi­ equity funds. In government­ above what Arogyasri allows. ₹1,000. The upper limit is ₹15 vidual capacity ciency of the oriented schemes, your money lakh of initial subscription. or jointly with interest, gets locked in for that tenure. Multiple policies, multiple claims The scheme also offers a spouse. There apart from (The writer is founder, wi­ Q. Can one buy more than one term life death benefit in the form of re­ is an upper limit Section seinvestor.in) insurance policy? If I have, say, two or more term life policies of different sums assured from the same or different insurers then, in BLACKBOARD: SIP WITH INSURANCE the case of any disability or loss of life, will INSURANCE INSIDER: PORTABILITY my dependent/nominee be paid the claim from any one of the policies or all of them? Is this also applicable to health insurance? ROHIT YADAV Miffed? You can change your insurer Protecting investments A. There is no bar on the number of term life policies one can purchase. When you buy a Portability offers a choice but before taking the leap, here are some points to note Insurance cover for long­term goals policy, you have the responsibility to disclose to the life insurance company details of other Amit Chhabra life policies you already have. Insurers take claim­free policy, the chances What is SIP with insurance? mum tenure for availing the into account your income, future income Recently, Gaurav Gupta, a 36­ of your request getting ap­ SIP plus Insurance bundled potential and premium­paying capacity year­old professional thought proved are quite high. ■ A few mutual fund houses product. The continuity of the before issuing policies as there is a notional of porting his 4­year­old health Every health insurance poli­ are offering free, optional, in­ life insurance cover is typical­ limit on the total amount of life insurance insurance plan as he was not cy comes with a pre­defined built insurance cover to their ly capped at 55­60 years of you can hold. happy with the services offered waiting period. Usually there investors based on their syste­ age. The cover terminates as Once you do have two or more term life by his current insurer. are three types of waiting pe­ matic investment plan (SIP) the investor reaches the maxi­ policies, all of them will pay the sum assured The dissatisfaction began a riod in a health insurance poli­ contributions and tenure. mum age. The value of cover is to your nominee should you pass away. If there is a disability clause or rider, then those few months back with his wife cy. First, a 30­day waiting pe­ The cost of insurance is a multiple of your SIP instal­ claims will be paid to you as per policy terms. Prerna (34) being hospitalised riod for fresh claims; second, borne by the fund house. The ment: 10 times for year 1, 50 A hospitalisation policy will not work like for a minor gallstone surgery up to two years for some speci­ objective is to encourage their times for year 2, and 100 times this. If you have two hospitalisation policies and the insurer refused to pay fied ailments and procedures; investors to continue their SIP for year 3. A higher SIP you cannot claim from both for the same the full claim amount as there and third, up to four years for contributions as well as stay amount gets you higher cover. incident. If you exhaust the sum assured were co­pay and sub­limits at­ pre­existing illnesses. invested for the long term. under one and still have unpaid expenses, tached to the policy, which he If you are planning to port , The add­on life cover would Is the combination worth it? then you can claim under the other in was unaware of. His policy had make sure you give due consid­ help investors achieve their sequence. a sub­limit on room rent with eration to the new insurer’s crucial financial goals in the ■ The primary objective of in­

If all you want is more sum insured, then GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCK you can opt for a basic hospitalisation policy the maximum limit of ₹5,000/ * waiting period. In mostcases, if event of the unfortunate death vesting in mutual funds is to combined with a top­up or super top­up day. However, unaware of the you have already served the of the investor. Insurance cov­ achieve one’s financial goals policy to enhance your cover. In this case you room­rent sub­limit he chose to as apparently the chances of you are not satisfied with the waiting period with the pre­ er usually starts with the com­ and create wealth as per one’s can exhaust your sum insured under the basic get his wife admitted in a priv­ their falling ill and filing a claim services of the insurer. vious insurer, you do not have mencement of the SIP without investment horizon, risk ap­ policy and proceed to claim under the top­up ate suite of the plush hospital are quite low. Many insurers, at The entire process can be to again serve the period for the need for medical tests. petite and asset allocation or super top­up policy according to terms that cost him ₹12,000/day. times, do not accept policy por­ done through the digital servic­ new insurer. If the SI is same as strategy. and conditions. All these claims will be tability requests from those es offered by the insurer. the previous policy, there is no Eligibility criteria Hence, one should invest in against bills, so the coverage will be Know your co­pay terms who are old and have poor waiting period but if the SI in the mutual fund schemes of­ supplementary and not overlapping. ■ Should you have a hospitalisation policy As per policy wordings, he had health conditions. Enhance sum insured the new policy is more than in Investors aged between 18 fering free life cover only if the and a benefit policy like a critical illness or to pay the remaining ₹7,000/ Or at times, they attach While applying for portability, the previous policy, the waiting and 51 years at the time of in­ schemes have a track record of personal accident policy, then you can claim day from his own pocket. Also, numerous clauses and restric­ you must think of enhancing period applies. vestment are eligible for the beating their benchmarks and all expenses under the hospitalisation policy his policy had a mandatory co­ tions; as a result, people get dis­ the total sum insured (SI) pro­ SIP plus insurance scheme. peer funds in the past and as per its terms and conditions and claim the pay clause of 10% — meaning couraged and drop the entire vided you have a family floater Features offered In case of multiple holders, have potential to continue to full sum insured under the critical illness Gaurav would have to pay 10% idea of porting their health in­ plan with limited sum insured. Always choose a policy that off­ only the first holder will be do so in the future. policy or personal accident policy provided of the total claim from his own surer. There are many things However, you must know ers both hospitalisation and all eligible for the insurance cov­ The availability of free life the hospitalisation is due to a covered peril, er. Examples of products on cover should never influence namely one of the named critical illnesses or pocket. Soon after this expe­ that must be kept in mind be­ that the increase in SI is totally day­care procedures without an accident. rience, Gaurav wanted to fore filing for a porting request. subject to acceptance by the in­ any sub­limits and has no man­ offer are ICICI Prudential SIP the decision to invest in or re­ (The writer is a business journalist change his insurer. However, all As a customer, it is quite im­ surer’s underwriter. datory co­pay feature which Plus, Aditya Birla Sun Life Cen­ deem these funds. specialising in insurance & corporate history) porting requests will be subject portant for you to know that While most insurers do not means the insurer will pay the tury SIP and Nippon India SIP Investors should also adeq­ to underwriting guidelines and when you request for porting, reject the request if the in­ entire claim amount up to the Insure. Maximum life cover on uately enhance their life cov­ Readers can send in queries on personal finance every insurer has the complete the application undergoes sev­ crease is justified i.e. up to 50­ sum insured. 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Sunday: Sheffield United 1 past a third before past Tho­ decisive game in the title (McGoldrick 87) lost to mas Strakosha. leave Lazio with 65 points The results: LaLiga: Levante 4 race. But City’s loss at Arsenal 2 (Pepe 25­pen, (Mayoral 21, Bardhi 35, Morales Story­telling keeps from 28 games with Juve on Chelsea put Liverpool Ceballos 90+1); Saturday: 50, Rochina 59) bt Real Betis 2 Contentious 69. mathematically out of Norwich 1 (Cantwell 75) lost (Canales 70, Juanmi 87). Lazio was struggling to find a reach, and Guardiola feels to Manchester United 2 Staying firm Saturday: Osasuna 2 (Gallego Mir Ranjan Negi busy (Ighalo 51, Maguire 118). AFP way past Fiorentina’s de­ 9, 90+6) bt Leganes 1 (Aviles it would be sporting to pay fence until Felipe Caicedo Atletico Madrid beat Alaves 50); Atletico Madrid 2 (Niguez tribute to the new champ. Todd on top after went down under a chal­ 2­1 at home in LaLiga to 59, Costa 73­pen) bt Alaves 1 “We are going to do the The voice of the former international bogey­free round lenge from goalkeeper Bar­ maintain its superb run of (Joselu 90+3­pen). guard of honour, of course. Don’t make superfluous CROMWELL (US) tlomiej Dragowski and Im­ form since the season res­ Serie A: Saturday: Brescia 2 We always receive is music to the ears of Indore listeners changes, says Shikha Brendon Todd carded a mobile converted his 28th umed, recording a fourth (Donnarumma 10, Semprini 13) Liverpool when they come NEW DELHI nine­under 61 to open up a goal of the season from the straight win to further tight­ drew with Genoa 2 (Falque 38­ to our house in an Nandakumar Marar Senior India pacer Shikha pen, Pinamonti 70­pen); Ca­ two­shot lead after the third spot in the 67th minute. en the hold on third place. incredible way. They MUMBAI Pandey finds suggestions like gliari 4 (Nandez 12, Simeone 17, round of the PGA Tour reducing the weight of balls However, replays suggest­ Atletico has 58 points af­ Nianggolan 46, Pedro 69­pen) cannot complain and of There was a time when Mir Travelers Championship on and use of shorter pitches to ed that Caicedo fell before ter 32 games, with the win bt Torino 2 (Bremer 60, Belotti course we are going to do Ranjan Negi shut his ears to Saturday. Todd, chasing his make the women’s game any contact was made. Luis extending the advantage ov­ 65); Lazio 2 (Immobile 67­pen, it because they deserve it,” the taunts about betraying third win of the 2019­2020 appealing “superfluous”, and Alberto grabbed the winner er fourth­placed Sevilla by Alberto 83) bt Fiorentina 1 said Guardiola. his country, following the season, posted nine birdies in with seven minutes left, to four points. (Ribery 25). Delhi Asian Games 1982 urged the ICC “not to tinker” a bogey­free round. hockey final debacle against with the rules to attract more Overnight leader Phil audience. “Growth can also Pakistan. Mickelson’s 71 saw him slip six be achieved by marketing the India lost 1­7 in the match shots off the pace. sport well,” said Shikha. PTI Top scores: 192 ­ Brendon Riya looking ahead with confidence for the gold, and the goal­ Todd (66­65­61); 194 ­ keeper got the stick. These Dustin Johnson (69­64­61); days, as the world is shaking Carlsen makes 195 ­ Kevin Streelman (66­ Plans to use yoga and meditation when action resumes itself up from inertia follow­ 66­63). AFP ing the lock down, the voice it to semifinals Kamesh Srinivasan how she controlled her of this ex­international was Rakesh Rao Riyaz shines NEW DELHI nerve. She used to give me music to the ears of listeners Mir Ranjan Negi. New Delhi Riya Bhatia is looking for­ some tips,” said Riya. in home­town Indore. Magnus Carlsen and Ian Special Correspondent ward to using her yoga tech­ “It hurts me more when I hockey from a humble back­ Nepomniachtchi got past NEW DELHI niques and meditation, play bad and win,” she said, Pep Guardiola. * REUTERS Audio narrative ground, Yuvraj chasing Fabiano Caruana and Vla­ World No. 2 Riyaz Akbar Ali when tennis resumes. In an giving credit to Koon for He hosted a five­minute au­ dreams living in a shack dislav Artemiev on their was in irrepressible form as online chat with coach M. helping her achieve clarity dio narrative for Acropolis were other popular narra­ way to the semifinals of the he executed two White Balachandran, 22­year­old about improving. “This is East Bengal Group of Institutions over tives. Negi’s own story, reco­ $150,000 Chessable Mas­ Slams and a Black Slam in Riya — who won back to back how much you need to work 45 days, telling stories on di­ vering from the Delhi dis­ ters late on Saturday. the third round of the National titles on hard and to reach your goals, tells Ste­ gets support verse topics — from sporting grace scars to transforming Quarterfinal results (set two, World carrom challenge on grass courts — said that she is phen. It is nice.” achievers to life skills. Olym­ into a successful India wo­ game one): Hikaru Nakamura Facebook Live. getting better under the gui­ She did miss competing in from Left Front pic pistol­shooter Mohinder men’s coach, was reflected (USA) drew with Ding Liren Riyaz was unlucky to dance of coach Stephen the junior Grand Slams, but Lal, hockey star Dhanraj Pil­ in scenes from Chak de In­ (Chn); Anish Giri (Ned) drew with Alexander Grischuk miss an Ultimate Slam on Koon in Thailand. said that she was happy with Amitabha Das Sharma lay, hockey World Cupper dia, a hockey theme movie. KOLKATA (Rus). On Saturday: Magnus the second board as the “I have been able to im­ the decision to plunge into Yuvraj Walmiki were exam­ It was followed by a part in Carlsen (Nor) bt Fabiano Ca­ last pocket eluded him af­ prove my fitness. I was hap­ the women’s circuit. East Bengal’s efforts to play ples cited. The audience for Jhalak Dikhala Ja, a celebrity ruana (USA) 2.5­0.5; Ian Ne­ ter 18 straight ones. py doing 108 suryanamas- “You can’t have in the Indian Super League this 7 a.m. talk show includ­ TV dance show. pomniachtchi (Rus) bt Vladis­ With 13 bonus points kars on the yoga day. It felt everything.” received support from the ed students, parents and lav Artemiev (Rus) 2.5­0.5. from the three Slams, his like I had accomplished so­ leader of the Left Front le­ school management. Recovery net score was reduced to mething,” said Riya. Riya Bhatia. Four finals gislative party, Sujan Chak­ He said: “Mohinder Lal, “I did my part in the goal for Ushenina wins nine and Riyaz moved to “I have learnt a lot of new * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Riya confessed that she raborty, who made an ap­ who retired as DIG (Border India over many tourna­ third behind Komervelli techniques and have seen loved playing on clay, and peal to the Chief Minister Security Force), is a reputed ments, one bad match P.K. Ajith Kumar Srinivas and Prashant the changes in me after the former world No. 3 in dou­ had made four finals, back to of West Bengal, Mamata pistol shooter so focused turned my world into a KOZHIKODE More. Yogesh Dhongade meditation. I am now look­ bles Rohan Bopanna, who back, in Europe. Banerjee, to provide sup­ that once during a national nightmare. I recovered to Anna Ushenina of Ukraine was fourth. ing forward to the matches,” suggested a tweak for better She said that she tried to port to the club. championship when the pis­ coach the national team, won the first Grand Prix leg In the women’s section, she said. serve. pick up the good qualities Chakraborty’s letter tol sight broke off, he guiding the girls to victory at of the FIDE Women’s Chess- two­time World Champion Looking back, Riya re­ “I am a big fan of Rohan. I from various top players, urged Ms. Banerjee to re­ blocked negative vibes and Asia Cup (Delhi) and the .com Speed Chess, beating Rashmi Kumari executed a called that she used to play saw him serve and volley and that Ashleigh Barty was solve the financial predica­ shot his way to the gold me­ Afro­Asian Games (Hydera­ Russia’s Valentina Gunina Black Slam to stay on top, table tennis with her parents with such ease. I am looking her favourite. ment of East Bengal, which dal. I met him first due to a bad),” he said. Moving base 7­4 in the final on Sunday. ahead of Aisha Sajid and and developed interest in forward to working with With three titles each in is in the process of de­ close friendship with broth­ to Indore after a hockey ca­ Earlier, R. Vaishali fin­ Roshita Joseph of Sri Lan­ tennis as the courts were him,” said Riya. singles and doubles in the merging with its ‘investor’ er Kulbhushan, my class­ reer with Mumbai Customs, ished fourth after losing 7­4 ka. Naga Jothi climbed to near home. She was equally happy to women’s international cir­ Quess Corp. mate at the Christian Col­ he helps out the MP organi­ to Alexandra Kosteniuk of the fourth place. be part of the FedCup team cuit, Riya said that she was The Chief Minister had lege (Indore).” sation’s sports and cultural Russia in the playoff . The The top four will ad­ Bopanna’s help with Sania Mirza. “I saw Sa­ getting better in her pursuit first responded to the Dhanraj’s rise in world wing. second leg begins on July 1. vance to the knock­outs. Riya has also had help from nia playing matches, and to compete at a higher level. club’s distress call and re­ portedly called up the All India Football Federation president Praful Patel last Teenager Aashi shortlisted for FIA project month to lend her support to East Bengal’s attempts in S. Dipak Ragav FIA Formula 4 racing sea­ Speaking to The Hindu, securing an ISL berth. Chennai son,” Michele Mouton, presi­ Rayo said, “Aashi, who start­ While congratulating Mumbai’s Aashi Hanspal has dent of the FIA Women in ed less than a year ago, defi­ the CM for her initiative, been shortlisted for FIA’s Motorsport Commission, nitely has a lot of potential. Chakraborty cited the ex­ ambitious ‘Girls on Track­ said in her letter to Aashi. This is a massive opportuni­ ample of Odisha FC and Rising Stars’ project, FMSCI ty one can only dream of. urged her to provide Go­ announced here on Sunday. Productive season “She will definitely have vernment support in help­ The 13­year­old has been Coached by eight­time Na­ to increase her efforts as ing East Bengal find a place selected along with 19 others tional car racing champion there will be intense in the ISL. in the 12­16 age­group of 70 Rayomand Banajee at the competition.” “Mohun Bagan has al­ entries from five continents. Rayo Racing Academy in Sita Raina, Chairperson of ready gained a place in the As the first step, she will take Mumbai, Aashi recorded five FMSCI’s Women in Motor­ ISL after getting merged part in the ‘Shoot Out’ at the Aashi Hanspal. podium finishes in her mai­ sports Commission, said: with the ATK. I hope that Paul Ricard Circuit in France den National karting season “Aashi has shown her mettle you will look into the mat­ on October 12 and 13. Team Ferrari’s first­ever fe­ last year and was conferred during the last season and ter and extend your go­ “Should you be success­ male driver obtaining a part­ the ‘Outstanding Women in has the potential to become vernment’s support in ful, you will join our training nership agreement with the Motorsports Award’ by a star. This is a great moment helping East Bengal find a camps, and potentially have Ferrari Driver Academy, in­ FMSCI for her podium for women in Indian motor­ place in the ISL,” Chakra­ the opportunity to become cluding participation in an placings. sport.” borty urged in his letter. Rare biological phenomenon spotted in dragonflies Only 30 such individuals reported worldwide, says paper published in Journal of Threatened Taxa

S. Anil Radhakrishnan tific community as a genetic and female external charac­ THIRUVANANTHAPURAM aberration. Even though ters ranging from almost en­ When Renjith R.V and Vivek common in some arthropod tirely female to about equally Chandran spotted a peculiar taxa such as Crustacea and divided. They were symmet­ dragonfly, the Scarlet Skim­ Arachnida, the paper says it rical in development with mer (Crocothemis servilia), is very rare in odonates and normally dimorphic struc­ in the Puzhakkal area of the only 30 individuals from se­ tures mostly having charac­ Kole wetlands in Thrissur ven families have been re­ ters intermediate between last year, little did they know A male Scarlet Skimmer A female Scarlet Skimmer ported with the condition the typical male and female that they were documenting worldwide. conditions. a very rare biological pheno­ rax and legs. rare biological phenome­ The spotted individual Further research has to be menon. But the one they spotted non. Their finding has been showed bilateral gynandro­ undertaken to investigate Even though the dragonfly on July 14 as part of the Kole published in the latest issue morphism of only the tho­ the influence of environmen­ was perched in the deep Odonata Survey 2019, con­ of the Journal of Threatened rax, half of which showed tal factors on this phenome­ marsh, Mr. Renjith managed ducted by the Society for Od­ Taxa under the title ‘A Re­ blood red colouration as in non, says Renjith, a school to take a photograph of it. onate Studies and Kole Bir­ cord of gynandromorphism males and the other half pale teacher in Palakkad and Vi­ They were puzzled by its ap­ ders in association with in the Libellulid Dragon fly yellow characteristic of fe­ vek, a Ph.D. scholar in dra­ pearance as male dragonflies Kerala Agricultural Universi­ Crocothemis Servilia from males. The base of the wing gonflies. typically have a prominent ty and the Kerala Forest and India’. of the red half was marked The Society for Odonate blood­red colouration in al­ Wildlife Department, was with rich amber, in contrast Studies has been conducting most all the body parts, in­ “part red and part yellow”. Genetic aberration with the other wing base surveys at Kole wetlands cluding the head, thorax, ab­ Later, while compiling da­ Gynandromorphs are chi­ which was paler. The head, since 2018 and 37 species of domen and legs, and the ta, they were thrilled to find meric individuals having legs and abdomen showed dragonflies and damselflies female is pale yellow in co­ that they had recorded ‘gy­ both male and female tissues typical female morphology. have been reported from the lour with a dark brown tho­ nandromorphism’ — a very and it is viewed by the scien­ It had mixtures of male wetlands so far.

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