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Omkar Nath Raina origi - H.No 33/34 Swaran Vihar Police The COVID-19 situa - COVID-19 patients and of tion in Delhi is under con - these, only 1,478 beds are nally resident of 193, Kharyar, Smt. Usha Raina Coloney Bantalab Jammu near Smt Mohan Rani trol, a week after several re - occupied. Around 2,500 Habbakadal, Srinagar at Shiv Temple on 19.05.2020. (Shanta Koul) laxations were given in the beds are still available. In present H.No 577, Sector 14, Tenth Day Kriya will be per - fourth phase of coron - government hospitals, we Faridabad on 17-5-2020. formed at Muthi Ghat (Near avirus-induced lockdown, have 250 ventilators out of Directorate of School Education, Chief Minister Arvind which 11 are occupied," he Tenth Day Kriya will be per - Jammu) on 28th May (Thursday) Kejriwal said on Monday. said. On Sunday, Delhi gov - formed at Palla Ghat near at 8.30 am. Kejriwal asserted that he ernment directed private Sarai Khawaja, Bypass Road, GRIEF STRICKEN would be concerned only if hospitals and nursing Faridabad on 26-05-2020 at 8 Sons & Daughter in Laws two things happened -- ei - homes with a capacity of 50 Sh Pran Nath Koul & Smt Shanta Koul ther there is a significant in - ties from Monday. He said 13,418 with around 3,500 am. beds or more to reserve 20 Smt Saitha Koul W/o Lt Sh Ravi Jee Koul crease in fatalities or the that the AAP government is cases being recorded within GRIEF STRICKEN per cent of their total bed Sh Vijay Koul & Smt Ranu Koul city's health care system creating a system through seven days of implementa - strength for coronavirus Sh. Omkar Nath Raina - Husband Daughters & Son in laws collapses due to spike in which a COVID-19 patient tion of fourth phase of lock - patients. Kejriwal said that (Brother-in-law & Sister-in-Law) COVID-19 cases. The chief will be able to find available down. However, 2,500 peo - Smt Suman Bhat W/o Sh Jatinder Bhat with this move, 2,000 new Smt. & Sh. Amar Nath Raina minister further said that it beds in both state and pri - ple have also recovered beds will be available in pri - Smt Sweety Tickoo W/o Sh Tej Krishen Tickoo is not a matter of concern if vate-run hospitals. from the virus during this vate hospitals. The chief Sons & Daughters-in-Law Grand Daughter & Grand Son in Law people are getting infected Kejriwal said that he was period, Kejriwal said, minister said 3,314 coron - Mr Kulbhushan Raina & Mrs Anjali Raina Smt Archana Koul & Sh Rahul Pandita and recovering simultane - expecting a slight increase adding that only 250 pa - avirus patients are getting (Mobile: 9810015430) Grand Children: Karishma,Vansh Deep, Sahil , ously from the dreaded in COVID-19 cases when tients were admitted to hos - treatment at their house Mr Shakti Raina & Mrs Kiran Raina Sunaina & Kamiya virus as coronavirus will several relaxations were pitals in last seven days "I while 2,000 are admitted at Mobile No : 9419101531, 9419439042, 7889750019 not go away in next one or given in fourth phase of will be concerned when two hospitals. The government (Mobile: 9811466142) two days. Addressing an lockdown. "It has been one things happen. First, there has issued a show-cause no - Grand Children and Great Grand Children online media briefing, week since the (fourth is significant increase in tice to a private hospital Abhay & Kamakshi Kejriwal, said his govern - phase) lockdown began. death cases and second that denied treatment to a Karan & Monica ment was ready to deal with After one week, I can say thing is collapse of health patient who later tested OBITUARY Shweta, Kashish & Aarvi the situation if there is a that the situation is still un - care system due to sudden positive for COVID-19, With profound grief and sor - spike in the number of seri - der control and there is no spike in cases due to which Kejriwal said. "It is the hos - row, we regret to inform the ous cases in the national need to panic," he said, no bed is available in hospi - pital's duty to provide an capital. He said that there adding that there has been a tals...," he said During the ambulance to such patients sad demise of our beloved Sh are currently 4,500 beds slight increase in COVID-19 briefing, the chief minister and take them to a COVID- Bodh Raj Gupta S/o Late Sh available for COVID-19 pa - cases but it is not matter of said that 261 people have 19-dedicated hospital," he 10TH DAY/KRIYA Amar Nath Gupta who depart - tients in both private and concern. According to him, died of coronavirus in the said. He said that in Delhi, With profound grief and sorrow ed for his heavenly abode on government hospitals and there were 9,755 COVID-19 city which has so far record - most COVID-19 patients we inform the sad demise of our Wednesday 20th of May Sh Bodh Raj 2,000 new beds will be cases in Delhi on May 17 ed 13,418 cases. Of these, Gupta are either asymptomatic or beloved Father Sub. Th. Safar 2020. 10th Day will be per - available in private facili - and the number climbed to 6,540 have recovered while have mild symptoms. Singh Jamwal S/o Late Sh Chet formed on Friday 29th of May Singh Jamwal R/o Village Raipur 2020 at our residence W No. (Bantalab) Jammu, who left for 15 H No. 142 Dhar Road his heavenly abode on 17-5- Sub. Th. Safar Behind J&K Bank Shakti 2020. Tenth Day will be per - Singh Jamwal KRIYA/UTHALA 10TH DAY KRIYA formed on 26-05-2020 Nagar Udhampur at 11.00 With profound grief and sorrow Pt. Jagar Nath Bhat S/o Lt. Pt. (Tuesday) at 11 AM. Rasam AM. we inform the sad demise of our Veshna Bhat R/o Vill-Buchoo Pagri/ Kriya will be performed on GRIEF STRICKEN : beloved Sh Vijay Kumar Gupta Tral Distt. Pulwama Kashmir left 29-5-2020 (Friday) at 5 PM at our Smt Padma Devi- Wife S/o Lt Sh Om Parkash Gupta R/o for heavenly abode on 23rd residence Village Raipur Sons & Daughters-in-law H no 54 Sec 4 JDA Housing May 2020. Mourning shall be (Bantalab) Jammu. Sh Madan Lal Gupta & Smt Vimmi Gupta colony Rajinder Nagar Bantalab held at above address. TENTH DEEPLY MISSED BY:- Sh Naresh Gupta & Smt Seema Gupta Jammu. KRIYA will be performed Sh Vijay Kumar DAY KRIYA would be per - Pt. Jagar Nath Sons & Daughter-in-law Sh Suresh Gupta & Smt Neeru Gupta Mrs Tilottma Jamwal W/o Late Sh Raj Singh Jamwal on 26-05-2020 (Tuesday) at Gupta formed on 31-05-2020 at Vill. Bhat Daughters & Sons-in-law Mrs Anju & Mr Saroop Singh Jamwal 12.00 Noon at our residence. Buchoo Tral. Smt Veena Rani Gupta & Sh Naresh Kr Gupta UTHALA will be performed on IN GRIEF:- Mrs Nirmal Kanta & Mr Kulbir Singh Jamwal 27-05-2020 (Wednesday) from Mrs Neelam & Mr Sodagar Singh Jamwal Sh Vinod Gupta Daughters-in-law & Sons Smt Tripta Devi & Sh Rajinder Kumar 4.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m. at our resi - Reeta & Manu Jee Bhat Brothers & Bhabhies Grand Children : dence. Smt. Roopa Pandit W/o Lt. Arjan Nath Pandit Smt Shanti Devi W/o Late Th. Talab Singh Jamwal GRIEF STRICKEN Daughters & Sons-in-law Smt Gargi Devi & Th Parman Singh Jamwal Er. Kanav Gupta, Er. Sachin Gupta Smt Kanta Gupta (Wife) Kundan (Behna) & Manu-Jee Kaul Nephews Er. Pranav Gupta, Sonali Gupta Sharan Gupta (Son) Kamla (Baby) & Shadi Lal Kaul (Rayees) Mrs Neerja & Mr Jaipal Singh Jamwal Sahil Kudyar, Hardik Gupta Mrs Rajani & Mr Mahipal Singh Jamwal Tarun Gupta (Son) Basanti & Piarey Lal Malla Sakshi Gupta, Irene Mahajan Grand Children : Shivangi, Abhinay, Rupali, Charu, Deepa Bhau Gupta (Daughter in law) Contact: 9797237656, 9149922198, 6005336324, Vibha Gupta & Glory Rashi, Kushagar, Vaishali, Aditya, Divya, Abhey, Sapna Baseen (Daughter in law) 9622896586 Mob : 9419998931, 9419297875 Ridhaan SD Gupta (Joy) Grand Son Divyanshu, Shivani Great Grand Daughter: Eshani Harshit Gupta (Jr Joy) Grand Son Mobile: 9797318230, 9149797955 Contact No:- 9858523523, 9988866743 BARKHI VAHARWAR One Year has passed since you "Your life was a blessing,Your left us for eternal journey. Your FIFTH DAY memory was a treasure,You OBITUARY memories are still fresh and your WITH PROFOUND GRIEF AND are loved beyond words and With profound grief and sorrow, presence is felt every where, SORROW WE INFORM THE every time. Barkhi of our beloved SAD AND UNTIMELY DEMISE missed beyond measure. we inform the sad demise of our One year has passed without beloved Father Shri Radha Late Smt. Sushila Rani W/o Sh. OF OUR BELOVED SMT. KAM - you. We miss you, we miss Krishen Koul S/o Lt. Sh. Nana Jag Mohan Gupta will be per - LA SHARMA W/O-SH.RAJIN - Smt. Sushila Mr. Ashok Kumar Koul originally resident of Khah formed on 26th May, 2020 at DER SHARMA R/O-JAIN your voice, your smell,your Rani Safaya Bazar, Anantnag Kashmir 12:00 noon at our Residence 30- BAZAR,JAMMU THE FIFTH SMT. KAMLA hug, your jokes. We miss how P Sec-1 Extn. ( Khu Wali Gali), presently at H.No. 49-P Sector - Shri Radha DAY WILL BE PERFORMED ON SHARMA u made us feel. We miss your Trikuta Nagar, Jammu. 8 (Eight) Roop Nagar Colony, Krishen Koul TUESDAY 26-05-2020 AT H.NO- everything. Time flies,life dies Jammu on 19-5-2020. Tenth Day GRIEF STRICKEN: 68 BAKSHI NAGAR,JAMMU. and rest is lies. VAHARWAR Kriya on 27-05-2020 at 9 am will Sh. Jag Mohan Gupta -Husband GRIEF STRICKEN of Mr. Ashok Kumar Safaya be performed at Muthi Ghat near Mr. Omesh & Prekshi -Son & Daughter-In-Law SMT.SHANTI DEVI (MOTHER) (Dy Custodian Rajouri) will be Director School Education Office Mr. Rajesh & Sheetal Gupta -Son & Daughter-In-Law BROTHER & BHABIS observed on 25 and 26 May at Jammu. Dr. Vijay & Renu Gupta -Son-In-Law & Daughter SH.DEVKI NANDHAN & SMT ANU RADHA House No. 206, Mohini Eng. Ram Paul & Sushma -Son-In-Law & Daughter GRIEF STRICKEN SH.VASUDEV SHARMA & SMT RENU SHARMA Cottage, Sector 1A Ext, Eng. Virender & Sunita -Son-In-Law & Daughter 9419105510, 6005-180437 Smt. Laxmishori -Wife Channi Himmat Jammu. Sh. Autar Krishan Koul & Ghouri - Brother & Bhabi Eng. Sanjay & Kanchan -Son-In-Law & Daughter Dr. CD Gupta & Dr. Chanchal -Devar & Devrani DEEPLY REMEMBERED BY Smt. Bimla Koul W/o Late Jawahar Lal Koul - Bhabi (Daughter and Son in law) Sh. Hari Krishan Koul & Suneeta Raina - Son & Sh. Vijay & Veena Gupta -Devar & Devrani Mr. Mahesh and Alka Bhat Daughter-in-law Sh. Surinder Mohan & Vijay Gupta -Devar & Devrani 10TH DAY/KRIYA/UTHALA Sh. Sanjay Koul & Shanu - Son & Daughter-in-law Grand & Great Grand Children Sachin Safaya (Son) With profound grief and sorrow, Sh. Pran Nath & Sudesh -Daughter & Son-in-law Ph : 9419226660, 7006752483, 9419184089, Sohum and Myra-(Grand Children) we inform the sad demise of our Sh. Raj Nath Pandita & Santosh - Daughter & Son-in-law 9419196871 And Samast Parivar beloved Late Sh. Prem Sagar Grand Sons & Grand Daughters Mob : 9419835852,7889365854,9419666205 Raina S/o Late Sh. C.P. Raina Ashish Koul, Hemanshi, Vivek Pandita, Kanik R/o H. No. 280 Residency Road Pandita, Shivam & Eshan Koul Jogi Gate Jammu who expired Sh. Vivek Koul & Anshu - Grand Son-in-law & Grand KRIYA/UTHALA on 17th May 2020. TENTH DAY Daughter Sh. Prem Sagar With profound grief and sorrow, will be performed on 26th May 10TH DAY KRIYA Contact No: 7780868893, 9419614823, Raina we inform the sad and untimely Tuesday at our residence at With profound grief and sorrow, 9419190790, 9419190436 demise of my beloved father Late 10.00 A.M. KRIYA will be per - we inform the sad and untimely Sh. Sardari Lal Gupta S/o Late formed on 27th May Wednesday demise of our beloved Shri Ajay Sh. Nanak Chand Gupta R/o at our residence at 10.00 A.M. Sharma S/o Sh Amar Nath H.No. 33 Lane No. 17 Pacca UTHALA will be performed on Sharma originally resident of 10TH DAY KRIYA Gharat Talab Tillo. Kriya will be Sh. Sardari Lal 27th May Wednesday at our resi - Batapora, Sopore, Kashmir With profound grief and sorrow, performed on 26-05-2020 at our Gupta dence at 5.00 P.M. presently at Flat No.1, Block 41, Shri Ajay Sharma we inform the sad demise of Smt residence. Uthala will be per - GRIEF STRICKEN Lane 7, Jagti Nagrota, Jammu on Jai Kishori W/o Sh Niranjan Nath formed on 27-05-2020 at 3 pm Smt. Savita Raina-Wife 21-5-2020. However, mourning Pandita R/o Sattani, Dhar Road onwards at our residence. Daughters-in-law & Sons is being held at Flat No. 18, Block Udhampur erstwhile of Check GRIEF STRICKEN Anu & Vinay Raina 158, Lane 25, Jagti. Tenth Day Vessu Anantnag. The 10th Day Sons & Daughters-in-Law Sugandita & Pankaj Raina (Advocate) Kriya will be performed on 30-05- will be solemnised on 27-05- Smt Jai Kishori Rajinder Gupta & Veena Gupta Sourabh Raina 2020 (Saurday) at 8.30 AM at 2020 at 8 AM at Devika Ghat Ranjeet Gupta (Raju) & Rashi Gupta Bhabies & Brothers Devika Ghat near TRT Camp, Udhampur. Rahul Gupta & Shilpa Gupta Smt. Bindya Raina (W/o Lt. Sh. S.P. Raina) Nagrota, Jammu. GRIEF STRICKEN Daughters & Sons-in-Law Smt. Asha Raina (W/o Lt. Sh. Ashwani Raina) GRIEF STRICKEN Rakesh Pandit & Rakhi Lalita Gupta & Vijay Gupta Sh. D.C. Raina (Adv. General U.T. of J&K) Sh Amar Nath Sharma -Father Jetender Pandit & Kiran Shashi Gupta & Late Sh. Inderjeet Gupta Smt. Arti & Sh. Anil Raina (Swastik Steel Industry) Smt Poonam Sharma -Wife Ashwani Pandit & Archana Renu Gupta & Suresh Gupta Gangyal, Jammu Chahak Sharma -Daughter Banti Ji & Sunil Pandita Neena Gupta & Rakesh Gupta Sisters & Brother-in-laws Brothers-in-law & Sisters Smt Jagat Mohini Pandita Priyanka Gupta & Rajesh Gupta Smt. Satya (W/o Lt. Sh. Radha Krishan Sharma) Sh B L Pandita & Smt Chanderkanta Pandita Rattan Lal Pandita & Bitta Ji Vikrant Gupta & Richa Gupta- Smt. Santosh (W/o Lt. Sh. Sham Lal Sharma) Sh Vinay Raina & Smt Sarla Raina Roop Krishan Pandita & Kiran Ji Grand Son & Grand Daughter-in-Law Smt. Vijay & Sh. Jagdish Mehta Sh Suresh Bachloo & Smt Hemlata Bachloo Smt Shanta Koul Grand Daughter & Grand Son: Radhika Gupta, Shravya Raina-Grand Daughter Sh R N Sharma & Smt Basanti Sharma Sh Ram Ji Pandita Akshita Gupta, Aadhya Gupta Contact : 9906333999, 7006750896, 9796547999 Sh Sunil Handoo & Smt Indu Handoo & Grand Children Ph. 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' 6/ (@726/@ &/B7: &( E6= @3?C3AB32 ,3 344=@BA A7<13 :=192=E< 7;;/B /<2 E7:: 1= BudGaM, MaY 25: days, shall be kept in institutional cials. Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Block facility at SKIMS Soura or home quarantine for prescribed Dheeraj Gupta said that all facili - With Government resuming period, sampling will be done of all ties and other arrangements have domestic flight operations across passengers and test samples will be been put in place at the airport by Stresses on providing best health care facilities to patients the country, six domestic flights sent to SKIMS for results. Those the Government including SOPs carrying about 562 passengers, passengers who test negative shall for receiving the passengers. He srInaGar, MaY 25: ing PPe kits are being pro - patients. On the occasion, Director who were stranded at different be sent to home and those testing said that for the convenience of vided to all frontline workers He asked Director SKIMS said that this estab - parts of the country landed here to - positive, if any, will be sent to hos - passengers, special help desks have Advisor to Lieutenant and other staff members SKIMS to ensure enhance - lishment of block which is a day at Srinagar International pital for further treatment. The been established in order to cap - Governor, Baseer Ahmad there for their safety. He ment of bed capacity, deploy - standalone facility in the Airport. The arrival of flights start - passengers were received at the air - ture first hand information from Khan today inaugurated a stressed on regular health ment of required staff, plac - Union Territory of J&K shall ed with the landing of Air Asia flight port by Principal Secretary, the passengers after their disem - first of it’s kind Infectious check up of staff so that it ing of all required machinery help in containment of the at 7:25am. All passengers who ar - Housing & Urban Development, barking. Disease Block facility at (staff) as well as patients are for smooth functioning of the spread of disease to large ex - rived at the airport were thorough - Dheeraj Gupta alongwith He further added that for sam - SKIMS Soura for treatment safe while visiting or staying facility. He further said that tent as patients with viral in - ly screened for COVID-19 and their Divisional Commissioner Kashmir, ple collection from the passengers of covid-19 and other at the block. as of now the block shall be fections would no more re - samples taken. P K Pole, Secretary, Cultural for covid-19 test, 30 Test Koisks pathologies infected patients Instructions were also used solely for the treatment quire to visit institute for the The Government had made &Tourism, Zubair Ahmad, Deputy have been setup at the airport, be - exclusively. On the occasion, given to concern to ensure of covid-19 related patients treatment but now all these elaborate arrangements for the ar - Commissioner, Budgam, Tariq sides adequate transport facilities the Advisor accompanied by optimum use of booth for which gradually shall facili - patients shall be treated sep - rival, screening, sampling and dis - Hussain Ganie, Vice Chairman by SRTC have been made available Director SKIMS, Dr AG screening of patients and tate treatment to all infec - arately at this facility. He said patch of passengers. The airport LAWDA, Tufail Matoo, Director at the airport for these passengers. Ahnagar inspected various proper social distancing pro - tious disease patients. that this block will not only has been equipped to receive the Industries &Commerce, Mahmood Other occasion, Deputy wards and blocks to take first tocol is maintained by all. On the occasion, the ad - be used for handling of covid- passengers strictly following the Ahmad Shah, Director Health Commissioner, Budgam, Tariq hand appraisal about func - Advisor said that as desired visor also took stock of the 19 patients but could also procedures and guidelines pre - Services Kashmir, Dr. Sameer Hussain Ganai informed that pas - tioning of the facility. by the LG, GC Murmu, with present covid-19 related situ - serve the purpose of treating scribed by the Union Ministries of Matoo, SSP Budgam, Amod Ashok sengers arriving at the airport are At the outset, the Advisor state of art facilities available ation and role of SKIMS in any kind of infective patholo - Civil Aviation and Health and Nagpurie, Director, Airport being screened for Covid-19 tests, directed concerned to ensure at Skims, best kind of health the fight for containment of gies be it viral or any other Family Welfare. All passengers, on Authority Srinagar, Santosh Dhoke their sampling is also being done as all kinds of facilities includ - care facilities are provided to the disease. pathologies in future. arrival, by air today and for coming and other concerned officers/ offi - per the prescribed protocol. COVID-19 Govt deploys officers MGNREGA works resume in Doda to address rural distress to assist Corona Virus 8808 works worth ₹132.69 cr and 45 lakh mandays approved for current fiscal mitigation efforts doda, MaY 25: The District Administration srInaGar, MaY 25: Doda, in its endeavor to provide succor to the rural labour in the The government of Jammu and Kashmir, in an effort wake of COVID-19, has resumed to ensure effective COVID-19 mitigation measures, has a number of development works deployed Deputy Secretary, Power Development in rural parts of the district under Department, Malik Waseem Ahmad, Deputy Secretary, the Mahatma Gandhi National Department of Forest, ecology and environment, Rural employment Guarantee Suhail-ul-Islam, Deputy Secretary, Industries and Act (MGNReGA). Commerce Department, Sartaj Hussain Madni and District Development Under Secretary, Home Department, Abdul Rashid Commissioner, Doda, Dr Sagar Raina with Deputy Commissioner Srinagar for assisting D. Doifode giving details of the in Corona virus mitigation efforts, in addition to their works said, that the department own duties. Meanwhile, the government has also de - of Rural Development and ployed Deputy Secretary, Industries and Commerce Panchayati Raj has commenced 5782 PMAy houses is also going he said, the administration has Department, Aadil Fareed, Sub-Registrar, Srinagar a number of works under MGN - and would start in the coming days against which the district on war footing basis. Speaking resumed several works under the (east), Javed Naseem Masoodi, Deputy Secretary ReGA in different parts of the days. The approved labour budg - has recorded a phenomenal about the measures being adopt - scheme. He said that already di - Horticulture Department, Shabir Ahmad Wani, Deputy district which shall be expedited et for the district is 132.60 crore, progress of 37.70 lakh mandays, ed by District Administration on rections has been passed to the Director, Urban Local Bodies, Kashmir, Aijaz Ahmad in the coming days. He informed besides an initial target of gener - thereby exceeding the target. addressing livelihood issues of field functionaries to follow all Shah and Deputy Secretary in the Department of Law, that the plan for the current fi - ation of 45 lakh mandays fixed As per the details received rural labourers, the DDC in - the requisite guidelines and es - Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, Khursheed Ahmad nancial year has been finalized for the executing department. from the ACD Office Doda, at formed that due to closure of all pecially ensure social distancing with Nodal Officer, Srinagar Airport (Principal under which 8808 works of dif - During the last financial year present 147 SOS works are going works in the wake of COVID-19 and wearing of safety gears to Secretary, Housing and Urban Development ferent nature stands approved the target for the district was on across the district. Besides lockdown the rural labourers had prevent the spread of the pan - Department) for assisting in Corona virus mitigation ef - generation of 26.50 lakh man - these, the work of construction of been facing lot of hardships. So, demic. forts, in addition to their own duties. GDC Nowshera organizes DC Ganderbal reviews implementation of guidelines of lockdown 4.0, online inter-collegiate quiz competition Inspects availability of facilities at administrative quarantine centre GanderBaL, MaY 25: places and sought same cooperation to raJourI, MaY 25: The quiz competition wit - defeat the virus and make district Covid- nessed a remarkable enthusi - Deputy Commissioner Ganderbal, 19 free hence onwards. With a motive to engage asm amongst the students of Shafqat Iqbal along with ADC, Farooq the student community con - The locals appreciated district ad - different institutions. The or - Ahmad Baba, today visited various areas structively amid lock down, ganizers of the event added ministeration for taking all necessary of the district to have firsthand apprais - Department of Botany, that such brainstorming steps to contain the spread of infection Government Degree College events will be helpful for the al of adherence of guidelines of lock - and assured full cooperation to it in its Nowshera today organized students to evaluate their down 4.0 by the people while carrying efforts for eradicating the infection in an online quiz competition knowledge of Plant Sciences, permissible activities. The areas that the district. Later DC also visited Sainik on the topic “Plant Anatomy to improve their were inspected during the visit included School Manasbal which is designated as and embryology”. The quiz thinking/mental skills and Nagbal, Duderhama, Touheedchowk administrative quarantine centre and was organized by Dr Shagun preparation for future com - and main market Duderhama. inspected arrangements being put in Bali, Lecturer Botany under petitive examinations. The During the visit the DC interacted place for inmates. the supervision of Prof. Pooja enthusiasm shown by the with shopkeepers and commutters who Devi, Head of Botany The DDC expressed satisfaction over student community provides were made aware about the usage of face Department and the able incentives for similar compe - the status of arrangements in place for masks, social distancing, personal hy - guidance of Dr Surinder titions to be organized espe - facilitating the people in administrative Kumar, Principal GDC cially during the lockdown giene in view of COVID-19 epidemic and quarantines and asked the officers to en - Nowshera. A total of 384 par - period. At the end of the quiz, were urged to follow other related sure greater coordination at all levels so ticipants from 45 different there was a special prayer by guidelines for carrying permissible ac - that adequate arrangements and logis - institutions across the coun - Principal, Dr Surinder tivities with letter and spirit. tics work smoothly. The locals appre - try participated in the event. Kumar and others present for Meanwhile DC also thanked the ciated district administeration for tak - also visited Sainik School Manasbal adherence to all the prescribed guide - Of these, 298 respondents speedy recovery of COVID-19 people of district for following guide - ing all necessary steps to contain the which is designated as administrative lines especially maintaining social dis - (77%) secured more than patients and the participants lines amid COVID-19 epidemic espe - spread of infection and assured full co - quarantine centre and inspected tance besides providing other services to 50% marks. The quiz was were urged to follow precau - cially for offering eid prayers in their arrangements being put in place for in - inmates to prevent the spread of corona based on multiple-choice operation to it in its efforts for eradicat - tionary and preventive meas - homes and avoiding gatherings in public mates. He stressed on the need of strict virus. questions related to the topic. ures against coronavirus. ing the infection in the district. Later DC Karnataka Covid-19 wrap: Two more deaths in India lockdown diary, Day 62: Akhilesh asks for state; Ramangara reports first coronavirus case free chyawanprash supply; Kolkata artisans Bengaluru May 25 died on the same day. “The 32 new COVID 19 cases days. As of this morning, we hope for turnaround; and more lab report on Monday con - were reported in Udupi, 16 conducted 2.03 lakh tests Two more people died in firmed that he is covid-19 from Kalaburagi, 15 in across our 57 ICMR COVID- new delhi May 25 said Monday. The health research people for free if these are scientifi - Karnataka due to covid-19 positive,” added the bul - yadgir, and six cases from 19 testing labs. I congratu - body said to cater to the increasing cally proven remedies to prevent on Monday, which takes the letin. Bengaluru urban. Ballari, late doctors & lab techni - The total number of coron - need for testing, India developed an coronavirus infection, Samajwadi total number of deaths in the Meanwhile, Karnataka Dharwad, and Dakshina cians on this achievement.” avirus infections in India rose to “intelligent testing strategy to re - Party (SP) supremo Akhilesh yadav state to 44. reported 93 new covid-19 Kannada three cases each. Police tests positive for 1,38,845 on Monday. Of these main ahead of the virus” by signifi - said on Monday. “The Ministry of According to the media cases on Monday, bringing Mandya, Belagavi, Hassan, COVID-19 in Dakshina 77,103 are active, while 57,720 pa - cantly strengthening its diagnosis AyUSH is showing on TV that de - bulletin by the Karnataka the total tally to 2,182, of Vijayapura, Uttara Kannada tients have been discharged. The infrastructure. coction and chyawanprash should health department, a 55- which 705 have recovered Kannada, Kolara, and A police personnel test - death toll stands at 4021. Data from Meanwhile, after a hiatus of two be taken to avoid coronavirus. If year-old female patient and while 17 patients are in ICU. Tumakuru also reported ed positive for COVID 19 on Johns Hopkins University show months due to the coronavirus-in - these are scientifically proven a resident of Bengaluru On Monday, a green COVID 19 cases on Monday. Sunday in Vittal town in that the total number of cases in duced lockdown, India opened up remedies, then in times of crisis the Rural was admitted to the zone district Ramanagara, According to Karnataka Dakshina Kannada district. India has surpassed that of Iran its domestic flight operations government should supply them designated hospital on 19 reported its first covid-19 Minister for Medical The infected policeman has (with 1,35,701 confirmed infec - Monday. Hundreds of people free of cost,” he said in a tweet in May and died due to acute case. Ramangara was one of education Dr. K Sudhakar, been admitted to Wenlock tions). India now has the 10th high - reached airports across the country hindi. “People will be encouraged if respiratory distress syn - two districts in Karnataka the state has doubled the Hospital and is suspected to est number of confirmed cases to take morning flights. At airports, these are given as an award for us - drome (ARDS) on Saturday. which was free from covid- number of COVID-19 tests have contracted the virus worldwide. The government de - thermal screening, social distanc - ing ‘Arogya Setu’ application,” the Another patient is a 43- 19. A two-year-old boy who from one lakh to two lakh. from another state returnee vised an “intelligent testing strate - ing measures were put in place. The SP leader added. year-old male, also a resi - had returned from Tamil Congratulating the doc - who had visited the police gy” and scaled up its preparedness Delhi airport saw its first departure Muted eid celebration in dent of Dakshina Kannada, Nadu tested positive. tors and lab technicians station before being quaran - against the COVID-19 pandemic, at 4.45 am to Pune while Mumbai Assam due to COVID-19 outbreak with a known case of liver Meanwhile, in the state only Sudhakar tweeted, “After tined. Dakshina Kannada SP taking lessons from the 2009 swine airport’s first departure was at 6.45 Assam transport commissioner cirrhosis was admitted to a Chamarajanagar district has clocking one lakh tests on Lakshmi Prasad issued or - flu outbreak that had “exposed glar - am to Patna, the officials said. Adil Khan had never thought that hospital in Dakshina not registered a single coro - May 8, we have doubled the ders to seal down the Vittal ing gaps” in the diagnosis infra - ‘Chyawanprash’ and ‘kadha’ there would be an eid-ul-Fitr with - Kannada on 23 May and navirus case till now. number of tests in just 16 police station for 48 hours. structure of the country, the ICMR (decoction) should be supplied to out any celebration and feast. Glimpses of Future 5 lOcal /natiOnal JAMMU, TUeSDAy, MAy 26, 2020 72 per cent professionals wish to continue WFH, 80 ILO ‘expresses concern’ at per cent believe it will impact air quality: Survey labour law changes in India, Pune May 25 was done online. ny saved on operational costs ty, to improved family inter - to overall reduction in air pol - asks PM to intervene Nearly one in two respon - due to work from home. She actions and cleaner liveable lution. In a survey conducted by dents indicated that they suf - also pointed out that the sur - cities. Another 85 per cent new delhi May 25 in effective social dialogue.” Climate Trends – a New fer from health problems re - vey shows that citizens are Close to 49 per cent re - agreed that WFH saved sub - earlier, the trade bodies had Delhi-based communications lated to air pollution, includ - willing to take greater respon - spondents said they will be stantial man hours by elimi - The International Labour written to the ILO against the initiative – and youGov, 80 ing respiratory, cardiovascu - sibility in ensuring that they willing to buy electric vehi - nating commute time. Organization (ILO) has expressed changes made in labour laws in vari - per cent people believe that lar or cerebrovascular dis - do not end up crowding the cles, provided the charging However, as cities reopen “deep concern” at the recent changes ous Indian states amid the coron - working from home will have eases. This explains why indi - streets, and that government infrastructure is in place partially and news cycles re - many Indian states have made to avirus lockdown. Referring to an an impact on air quality. This viduals are willing to take officials must pay heed to across the country, and prices port traffic congestion, how labour laws and appealed to Prime ILO press release of May 13 which survey was conducted to un - steps to maintain this unin - these emerging trends. are made affordable. The per - business will complete this Minister Narendra Modi “to send a said states in India were “moving to - derstand how people were ex - tended reduction in air pollu - Navroz Dubash, a profes - centage in favour of e-vehi - transition remains to be ob - clear message to Central and State wards relaxing labour laws with a periencing the fourth phase tion which has been triggered sor at Centre for Policy cles was high in some cities served. governments to uphold the coun - view to revitalize the economy”, the of the nationwide lockdown. by the Covid-19 lockdown, Research, said that by making such as Jaipur (62 per cent) Jasmine Shah, vice-chair - try’s international commitments”, trade unions’ letter said: “Such a At least 72 per cent said they Aarti Khosla, director, choices that expand environ - and Delhi (56 per cent). person, Dialogue and the UN body said in a response to a statement tantamount to certifying are willing to continue work - Climate Trends, said during a mental gains, look towards Meanwhile, it was noted Development Commissioner, letter by several Indian trade unions. by ILO, the retrograde actions of the ing from home even after the webinar held on Monday on the future and improve quali - that even employers are see - Government of NCT of Delhi, The ILO reply to the letter signed state governments in connivance lockdown ends. the findings of the survey. ty of life, India can hope for a ing the benefits of WFH. Nine said the reduction of air pol - by trade unions such as AICCTU, with the Govt of India, in gross viola - The survey was conduct - About 62 per cent of the better outcome from this cri - out of ten employees think lution during the lockdown AITUC, CITU and HMS says: tion of ILO standards, as legitimate.” ed with a sample size of 1,082 respondents would prefer to sis. Reduced business travel their company has saved on has shown the importance of “Please allow me to assure you that The letter pointed out changes urban professional respon - walk a shorter distance than will be the norm for the short operational costs since em - tackling emissions at source. the ILO Director-General has imme - made in several states, ruled both by dents from across 10 of the take a bus, while 37 per cent term and medium term, he ployees began working from As the lockdown is eased, diately intervened, expressing his the BJP and other parties largest cities in terms of their said they would use public added. WFH is a large global home. As many as 89 per cent Shah said they hope to put in deep concern at these recent events (Maharashtra, Punjab, Odisha) and population – Delhi-NCR, transportation for short dis - experiment currently under - are willing to encourage WFH place supportive conditions, and appealing to the Prime Minister said: “Importantly, the states of Mumbai, Chennai, tances. This becomes all the way, he said, and if done if proper work infrastructure such as improving access and to send a clear message to Central Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Bengaluru, Hyderabad, more relevant, Khosla said, right, the benefits will be is in place, productivity is safety of public transport, and and State governments to uphold Gujarat are ceasing application of Kolkata, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, since 90 per cent of the re - across several levels of society maintained, and there is evi - making electric vehicles af - the country’s international commit - Trade union Act, 1926 which is main Pune and Surat. The survey spondents said their compa - – from improved productivi - dence of health benefits due fordable. ments and encourage engagement plank of Freedom of Association . Piyush Goyal’s 2 am tweet: No Eid sweets exchanged by BSF with Pakistan; done with Bangladesh new delhi May 25 The force, the officials ‘Where is list for 125 trains said, had attempted to un - The customary ex - dertake the customary ges - change of eid sweets be - ture during Diwali last year, tween the Border Security on its raising day from Maharashtra?’ Force (BSF) and its (December 1) and Republic Pakistani counterpart, Day (January 26), but the Pakistan Rangers, did not move was not reciprocated not place along the India- by the Pakistani side. Pakistan border on However, the force ex - Monday, officials said. changed sweets with its The event was given a Bangladeshi counterpart, miss as the relations be - Border Guard Bangladesh tween the two countries are (BGB), all along the eastern strained at present, they front. added. Incidents of cross- India and Bangladesh border terrorism are con - share a 4,096-km-long in - tinuing as usual on the ternational border. Western front and hence, “BSF and BGB share a sions, when they share the headquartered in Kolkata. crossing in West Bengal),” the exchange of sweets did very cordial relationship. joy of festivals, including “BSF troops up to the the statement said. The not take place at any loca - Both the countries share a during eid,” a statement is - border post level conveyed BSF, during these events, tion along the India- similar culture, traditions sued by the south Bengal their best wishes to their convey its best wishes and Pakistan international bor - and festivals. frontier of the BSF said. companions of Bangladesh. good health to its partner, der from Jammu to “The warmth and bond - This frontier guards The pleasantries for BGB the BGB, with a hope of a Gujarat, the officials said. ing between the countries new delhi May 25 ceived by GM Central Railway from 903 kms of the India- headquarters were shared better future ahead, it The BSF guards this and border-guarding forces Government of Maharashtra.” Bangladesh border and is at Petrapole (land-border added. border. reflect during several occa - Hours after Maharahstra Chief He also said that the Railways was Minister Uddhav Thackeray accused the ready to send as many trains as required to Railways of not providing enough migrant states, provided they do not “return emp - Seize LG special trains, Railway Minister Piyush ty”. “I hope that these trains will not have 9 bodies found in Warangal well: To hide one Goyal lashed out at the state government to leave empty after arriving at the station Polymers for providing a list of only 46 trains on like it has happened earlier. I would like to Monday despite making preparations for assure you that the trains you need will be murder, Bihar man kills entire family, 3 others factory 125 trains. available,” he tweeted, referring to earlier Hyderabad May 25 two then got into a relationship and Rajahmundry and returned to “Where is the list for 125 trains from occasions when migrants did not board premises, stop subsequently, Rafika and her chil - Warangal. He then convinced Maharashtra? As of 2 am, received list of special trains. The mystery behind the deaths of dren had moved to Sanjay’s house. Rafika’s three children that their only 46 trains of which five are to West The prodding continued as he tweeted directors from nine people in Warangal district, According to Ravinder, mother had stayed back in West Bengal and Odisha which cannot operate again five hours later. whose bodies were found in a well “Recently, Rafika scolded Sanjay for Bengal and would return later. leaving India: due to cyclone Amphan. We are notifying “It is 12 o’clock in the night and even near a jute mill in Gorekunta village misbehaving with her daughter and However, Maqsood and his wife only 41 trains for today despite being pre - after 5 hours, we have not received the de - on May 21 and May 22, was solved admonished him for trying to lure the Nisha started questioning Sanjay on Andhra HC pared for 125!!!” – Mr Goyal tweeted. tails and passenger list of 125 trains of to - Tuesday when the police arrested 30- teenage girl while he had promised to Rafika’s whereabouts. They even Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and morrow from the Government of Hyderabad May 25 year-old mill worker Sanjay Kumar marry her. That is when he decided to called West Bengal and found that Railways Minister Piyush Goyal on Maharashtra. I have ordered the officials yadav for their murders. eliminate Rafika. When Maqsood Rafika had never made it back to her Sunday had already engaged in a war of to wait and continue the preparations.” The Andhra Pradesh Warangal Police Commissioner and his family members threatened relatives’ house. They started threat - High Court has ordered the words over the running of Shramik Special He requested that the Maharashtra Dr V Ravinder told The Indian to go to the police, he eliminated ening Sanjay saying they would ap - state government to “seize trains. In a televised speech, Uddhav had government could still send the Railways express that Sanjay, who hails from them too. Shyam, Sriram and Shakeel proach the police. the premises of LG claimed that while his government has the list within next one hour and they Bihar and worked at the mill, was liv - Ahmed became victims too because Maqsood reportedly lost contact Polymers” at been seeking 80 trains daily to send mi - would work all night to prepare for ing with a woman named Rafika and they were present at the godown on with Sanjay after the nationwide Visakhapatnam and not al - grants back to their respective states, the Monday’s trains. This was followed by his her three children. Rafika was the May 20 evening when Sanjay went to Covid-driven lockdown was an - low the directors of the com - Centre is sending only 30 to 40 trains dai - last tweet in which he rued that the niece of Maqsood Alam — whose eliminate the Alam family.’’ On nounced on March 24. He was able to pany to leave the country ly. He added that his government has so Railways had to notify only 41 trains de - body was found in the well along with March 7, Sanjay and Rafika left for re-establish contact around May15 without the court’s permis - far sent back 7 lakh migrants to their re - spite being prepared to run 125 trains bodies of his wife, daughter, both West Bengal in a Garib Rath train, re - and once again threatened Sanjay sion. A two-member bench spective states in 481 trains, with the the from Maharashtra as the state failed to sons and a grand-daughter. The bod - portedly after he convinced her that with police action if he did not reveal of the court has barred entry state bearing 100 per cent of the costs — provide them with passenger details. ies of three other migrant workers — they will get married after talking to Rafika’s whereabouts. On May 20, on the factory premises ex - spending Rs 85 crore. Meanwhile, the Central Railways, also Sriram and Shyam from Bihar and her relatives in that state. However, Sanjay visited the jute mill with 50- cept for those part of the Soon after, Goyal tweeted saying that came out with a press release stating that it Shakeel Ahmed from Tripura — who Sanjay gave her buttermilk laced with 60 sleeping pills in tow. He found the committee appointed to the Railways would operate 125 Shramik had to cancel 65 trains due to lack of were not related to the family were al - sleeping pills and strangled her at entire family sitting outside their probe the gas leak accident special trains for Maharashtra on Monday preparations on part of the Mahahrashtra on May 7 that killed 7 people so found in the well. about 3 am while the train was pass - room. The two workers from Bihar, and asked Uddhav to share a list of mi - government. “For the last two hours, rail and injured over 500 others Maqsood had migrated from ing through West Godavari district of Shyam and Sriram, were also present grants who would board these trains, authroties have been waiting for the list of in the villages surrounding West Bengal 20 years ago and was liv - Andhra Pradesh. at the time. Under the pretext of along with their details, medical certifi - passengers with details of their destina - the factory. It has asked the ing with his family in a room in the He then dumped the body out of fetching water, Sanjay then went into cates and their originating and destination tion to plan the trains. Planning special government to reply why the jute mill’s godown. Police said Rafika the train. The Railway Police at the room where the family was stay - stations, within an hour with the Central trains is an elaborate process, which re - company was allowed to had come to Maqsood’s house with Tadepalligudem had registered a ing and mixed the pills in their dal. He Railway (CR). in the day, Goyal again quires time and unless lists are given in shift styrene gas to South her three children about five years case after her body was found. They then proceeded to the first floor and tweeted, “More than 2.5 hours have time, Maharashtra government will make Korea without the court’s ago and he had helped her get a job at had not been able to ascertain her laced the food of the youths from passed but still passenger details for 125 it impossible for Railways to run the permission when a probe the jute mill. She also used to cook for identity at the time. Bihar also. The third worker, Shakeel, planned trains in Maharashtra not re - train,” it added. was pending, and who was Sanjay, who used to live nearby. The Meanwhile, Sanjay deboarded at ate with Maqsood’s family that day. responsible for it. “We further direct that none of the assets, movable or immovable, fixtures, ma - chinery and contests shall be Film set vandalised by right-wing group, Kerala CM promises strong action allowed to be shifted without the leave of the court,” the order said. The court, which Kochi May 25 lakhs of rupees. But because of portedly because it stood oppo - Malayalam film industry. Actor took suo motu cognizance of Covid lockdown, the work got site the Shiva temple at Kalady. Tovino Thomas, who plays a lo - the styrene gas leak, directed The Perumbavoor Police in stuck. Now, there are reports of “When they were building it, we cal superhero in the film, wrote, the government to inform it Kerala have registered an FIR Banjrang Dal having vandalised had said no. We had submitted “The reasons they cite for this un - whether LG Polymers had Monday and began investigating it last evening. This is clearly complaints. We don’t have a ceremonious act are not under - taken permission to restart the vandalizing of a film set by aimed at provoking religious habit of pleading so we decided stood to our senses till now. operations during the lock - members of a right-wing Hindu sentiments. Kerala is not a land to demolish it. We have to protect We’ve heard of movie sets being down period. The court also group. The set, resembling a where such communal forces can our self-respect,” he wrote in his vandalised by religious fanatics noted that explanations church, erected by the art team of thrive. The government will take Facebook post, accompanying in northern parts of Inida. Now were necessary in the two the Tovino Thomas-starrer strong action. There is no doubt photos of the said act. it’s happening to us right here.” PILs filed by petitioners. The ‘Minnal Murali’ on an island on about it.” “The FIR has been reg - The imposing temporary “These are anti-social elements PILs alleged that LG the banks of the Periyar on the istered though we haven’t added church set, worth lakhs, had who are uncomfortable seeing a Polymers has been operat - outskirts of Kochi was found the sections yet. Our officers are been erected in March to shoot church in front of a temple. Their ing without a valid environ - vandalised with a leader of a investigating. We will have more the climax scenes of the film act is not against the film ‘Minnal mental clearance, the in - fringe Hindu outfit claiming re - developments in a few hours,” an which is directed by young film - dream. Till a few days ago, when in the hot summer sun. We had Murali’ or its crew. Their act is hibitor concentration, which sponsibility for the same on officer at the Perumbavoor po - maker Basil Joseph. But when we used to look at the photo - taken all permissions. At a time against Kerala,” actor Maala controls runaway reactions, Facebook. lice station said. The vandalising the Covid-19 lockdown as im - graph of the set, we used to feel when we are all fighting against a Parvathy wrote on Facebook. in the storage tank was not checked, the refrigeration Kerala Chief Minister of the set was brought to light by posed in mid-March, the crew proud. When shooting got sus - pandemic together, when we all Director Aashiq Abu wrote, system was not working Pinarayi Vijayan, whose govern - Hari Palode, general secretary of had to suspend shooting of the pended, we were sad and uncer - stood with uncertainty, we didn’t “Sangh terrorists who are pro - properly, the radius of the ment completed four years on the right-wing outfit film. Joseph, who has also acted tain about when we can resume think even in our dreams that voked even by film sets must be vulnerable zone extended up Monday, promised tough action working. We have been working something like this could hap - Antarrashtriya Hindu Parishad in several movies, wrote on stopped at any cost. The to 6.3 km from the source against the right-wing outfits at a (AHP), who admitted on Facebook, “I don’t know what to on this film for the last two years. pen. especially in Kerala. We are Malayalam film industry will col - and there were several hos - press briefing. “Such incidents Facebook that his group along say. For some people, this may be We have put a lot of sweat into very sad and anxious.” The inci - lectively fight against such ex - pitals, educational institu - have no place in Kerala. The film with Bajrang Dal members pro - a joke, a troll, political or publici - making it. The art director and dent sparked angry reactions treme activities. Solidarity with tions, places of worship, rail - set was built in March spending ceeded to destroy the set pur - ty move. But for us, this was a his team built it over several days from all sections of the the team of ‘Minnal Murali’.” ways stations, and airport. Glimpses of Future 6 Edit/OpiniOn JAMMU TUeSDAy MAy 26, 2020 Glimpses of Future More than a Health Crisis 986 eSTABLISHeD IN 1 BY : K.K .PauL down. Landlords, too, were asked not to charge rent or get the premises experience shows that we cannot vacated from their worker-tenants. India has a role to play bring the economy on track if our Pursuant to a judgment from the working classes are unhappy. It is the Supreme Court, this order was with - Government’s greater responsibility drawn on May 18, without any alter - ince the coronavirus crisis broke out, India has to make them feel at home. A pan - native arrangement, thus leaving the been pitching for a coordinated global approach in demic invariably leads to a health migrants high and dry. The Supreme Court ruled that the Ministry of containing the pandemic. India has already sup- crisis, which has an economic fallout, S too. This has been the trend in al - Home Affairs’ order was violative of plied 446 million Hydroxychloroquine tablets and 1.54 most all countries that are reeling Article 19 (1)(g) of the Constitution billion Paracetamol tablets to 133 countries, drawing under the impact of Coronavirus. with respect to the rights of private leaders. The coronavirus The additional crisis posed by the firms. It’s another matter that prior praise from a number of global mass exodus of the migrant labour - to its withdrawal, the order was be - pandemic has reaffirmed India's role as a "pharmacy of ers is more or less specific to our ing observed more in violation. the world. India will have an important role to play in the country and is bound to have some Perhaps the case for the migrant s for coron- far-reaching consequences. For a workers could have been presented mass production of medicines and vaccine long time to come, heart-rending im - more effectively. More glaring is the avirus infection once the treatment for the deadly disease ages of the migratory efflux will be non-implementation of the is found. Dozens of researchers across the globe are rac- the defining moment of the Corona- Interstate Migrant Workmen inspired lockdown. Having lost their (Regulation of employment and ing against time to come out with a vaccine for coron- livelihood, without any savings and Conditions of Service) Act 1979. avirus that has infected nearly five million people and no hope for the future, lakhs of work - Known as ISMW, rules under the killed over 3,30,000 globally. It is very important for ers left for their hometowns and vil - long run, this may also emerge as a this bitterness does not appear to be said Act were framed and notified in lages. In the absence of any trans - major social issue. The migratory disappearing anytime soon. The rea - 1980. The implementing authorities states to coordinate if we want the COVID-19 vaccine portation during the first month- process, its effects and the growth of son as to why these people were for this Act are the respective chief and/or medicines to be produced and distributed equi- and-a-half, out of sheer desperation, slums in urban areas have been stud - forced to leave their villages in the labour commissioners. Perhaps they tably worldwide. India will have an important role to play they set out with meagre belongings ied comprehensively but the instant first place might, perhaps, confront could not foresee the enormity of the on roads and highways. Some even case is that of reverse migration. them in a more aggravated form now situation and, thus, could not react in as a producer of medicines and vaccines. India is a lead- covered more than a thousand kilo - earlier, this phenomenon was attrib - as they get back to their home States. time. Also, the efflux of the workers ing manufacturer of vaccines and generic drugs globally. metres on foot. Though their deci - utable to individual behaviour and Under the provisions of the was only initially prevented. In fact, Several research institutes in India are also working on sion must have been voluntary, the decisions but in the present context, Disaster Management Act, the some action was taken against erring fact is the prevailing circumstances it has assumed the shape of a mass Government had ordered on March officers, who tried to facilitate their separate programmes to find a vaccine for the coron- left them with little option. efflux. Individuals and families, who 24 that all employees — be it indus - movement but after some time, the avirus. The French Ambassador has made these com- The present crisis is a multi-di - are suffering, having been uprooted try, shops or commercial establish - decision was reversed, leading to ments in the backdrop of efforts by a large number of mensional one but for now, the focus physically for no fault of theirs, are ments — will have to pay wages to confusion in making arrangements has shifted almost entirely to the not only bound to be unhappy but al - their employees even when they are for their safe transportation. The ean Union to en- countries as well as the 27-nation europ economy and less on health. In the so bitter. Given the present situation, not in operation during the lock - More than on Page 7 sure equitable access to any vaccine or medicine for treat- ment of coronavirus infection through their mass pro- duction under voluntary patenting. The issue was figured prominently at the recent two-day conference of the Pandemic as a threat to national security World Health Organisation where many countries pressed for making the vaccine available to all countries BY : GauTaM KuMar JHa impact of the contagion on the world This increasing imbalance in nature has been re - and not only to those who have deep pockets. France and economy is huge because the global Thankfully, all the casualties that North often seeks to subsidise its flected in such catastrophes and the possibility India have supported the european resolution at the the world has been witnessing have commodity consumption by out - WHO for universal, timely and equitable access to all not permeated the defence commu - sourcing it to countries with weak of their recurrence cannot be denied if the global necessary products for countering the pandemic, and un- nity in a major way so far. But, what if labour laws and economies of scale the defence community is targetted with low manufacturing costs. community does not wake up. No one can deny derscored the role of extensive immunisation against by an enemy country? Or if the virus Hence, China’s crisis became the the fact that the COVID-19 virus originated from COVID-19 as a global public good. The coronavirus crisis falls into the hands of terrorists? A world’s crisis even before the disease has shown that France and India's push for multilateral- pandemic like COVID-19 can be a hit europe and America. The present Wuhan province of China and the Wuhan Insti - threat to the national security of a pandemic has proved that every hu - ism is the right option for the current century. None of the country which is not prepared to man effort is defeated when it is a tute of Virology does research on most danger - major issues that structure the future of the world like tackle such a disaster. The impact of question of how to balance between ous pathogens. There is a huge wet market for healthcare and environment can be dealt with in an iso- the pandemic can be even more se - natural and artificial eco-systems, vere if such a virus is not natural but given the increasing fluctuations in animals and seafood located in Wuhan. lated manner. India and France have coordinated well biologically altered by a country for the climatic disorder. One of the pos - and continue to do so. However, we can do much more to- its personal gains. The pandemic sible answers can be reducing the ed abundant use of pesticides that fi - ture has been reflected in such catas - gether. The COVID-19 crisis has shown the importance of caused by COVID-19 is a result of the ever-increasing need, consumerism nally permeated into the human trophes and the possibility of their increasing conspicuous consump - es and and production and the establish - body, causing fatal diseases. recurrence cannot be denied if the international cooperation on humanitarian issu tion in society. The ever-increasing ment of sustainable infrastructure Similarly, the demands for security global community does not wake up. the two strategic partners have been working together need in almost every field of human where humans and nature can com - and defence-related products have No one can deny the fact that the under the G20 as well as in the WHO on finding ways to consumption has given birth to a sit - plement each other. For the last four further harmed nature, impacting COVID-19 virus originated from uation where the definition of a new- read of the coronavirus, the ambassador decades the whole world was on the the air, water and soil. However, the Wuhan province of China and the check the sp normal never stops. path of globalisation, where every massive production lines in China Wuhan Institute of Virology does re - said. The greed of individuals is re - country understood the needs of the have not only impacted the global search on most dangerous flected in the proliferation of new other and a symbiotic trade system community but the country itself has pathogens. There is a huge wet mar - products to be marketed with great was established. This resulted in al - faced the negative impact of global ket for animals and seafood located conviction that inadvertently control leviation of poverty, betterment of greed and consumerism. A World in Wuhan. The bush meat, which the behavioural pattern of the major - healthcare facilities and better Bank and Scottish environment may be termed as a cultural prefer - ity of the consumers of the globe. lifestyles globally, to a certain de - Protection Agency report says that ence, may be detrimental for hu - RBI move means little One principal reason for this are the gree. However, these developmental around 7,60,000 people die prema - mans and is often a source of such global commodity chains that have indices have been realised at the ex - turely each year in China because of pandemics. No one can also deny fostered greater movement of goods pense of natural resources. The in - air and water pollution. that China hid the initial outbreak and people across continents. The creasing demand for foodgrain invit - This increasing imbalance in na - Pandemic on Page 7 Working class uprising BY : aMIT senGuPTa of protest. With coal mines and air - ports being privatised, among other The new labour laws being en - public sector units (PSUs), a collaps - acted by the Centre and various ing economy, faced with a gigantic State Governments might create an - unemployment problem among the other lockdown even as the economy organised and unorganised work - limps back to normalcy after having ers, including among the educated all but collapsed. In what is per - and white-collar professionals, the ceived as possibly the last phase of country can slip into a major crisis the lockdown, with States being giv - yet again. Almost 40 million work - en the powers to implement relax - ers are slated to lose their jobs. The Central bank wants to lend more but there are few borrowers and ations by the Centre and economic Indeed, post-demonetisation and banks are wary of piling up NPAs. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) may activity once again being started Goods and Services Tax (GST), the have done another repo cut, hoping banks will lend more, but the cold across urban and rural India, a wave small and medium-scale industry truth is that nobody is borrowing. Certainly not in these stressed times, of resentment is brewing among the had virtually shut down, affecting when there is no stability about the future and businesses are struggling to organised sector of the working class tens of thousands of daily wagers keep their noses above water. Clearly, they wouldn’t want to pile up bad and trade unions in the country. and small and medium entrepre - loans or part with whatever they have given such criticality. So though RBI Indeed, images of tens of thou - neurs. even flourishing industrial Governor Shaktikanta Das announced a 3.35 per cent reverse repo rate in sands of migrant workers in dire zones like Surat in Gujarat had risen the belief that banks will no longer park their surpluses with the Central straits, walking without food and in revolt before the last Lok Sabha bank, which is what is happening now, but get aggressive about lending, water in this scorching heat on high - elections. It took major maneuver - banks may not be too enthused and are expected to simply drop interest ways and streets to unknown desti - ing and persuasion by Home rates on deposits. even before the pandemic, loan growth was about 6.5 nations, especially in the Hindi another crisis, especially when the anytime soon despite the booster Minister Amit Shah to get the pro- per cent consistently. Besides, banks would also want to be sure of the heartland, have shocked the nation - monsoon season sets in. With the announced by the Union Finance BJP traders to the polling booths. al conscience, even while death and Indeed, sociologists had earlier pre - RBI move on Page 7 BJP-led Central Government refus - Minister, Ms Nirmala Sitharaman. highway accidents of the workers ing to release the overflowing food - Sources say that the financial “bo - dicted that the mass protests against seem to have become routine. It is in grain for the jobless and homeless nanza” announced by the Centre the National Register of Citizens this context that the new labour laws migrant workers, or the poor, even might just prove to be yet another (NRC) and Citizenship Amendment H I S T O R Y T H I S D A Y being enacted by the Centre and var - while rejecting the proposals of sev - “jumla” while largely benefitting Act (CAA) all over the country were ious State Governments might cre - eral top economists like Amartya certain industrialists close to the also triggered by mass joblessness ate another lockdown, even as the Sen, Raghuram Rajan and Abhijit Delhi regime. The real estate and and a state of perpetual anxiety 1935 : MLB holds first night game economy limps back to normalcy af - Banerjee, the rural economy will yet construction industry has not recov - about a stable future. Besides, after ter having all but collapsed, espe - again find itself in a Catch-22 situa - ered and even the cream of the in - the shocking and horrifying images The Cincinnati Reds beat the Philadelphia Phillies 2-1 on May 24, cially in the urban sector, with the tion. Already, the crisis of the past dustry, Information Technology has of the poor and starving migrant 1935 in Major League Baseball’s first-ever night game, played courtesy of agricultural economy on the thresh - has not been resolved: For instance faced retrenchment of employees. workers, men, women and children, recently installed lights at Crosley Field in Cincinnati. The first-ever night old of a disaster despite a very good sugarcane farmers in Western UP Almost 10,000 workers of a suc - have hit social media, and the game in professional baseball took place May 2, 1930, when a Des Moines, harvest. Indeed, the almost 77 mil - have largely not been paid the mini - cessful and cheap brand of biscuits Western media, the international Iowa, team hosted Wichita for a Western League game. The game drew lion tonnes of foodgrains lying in the mum support price while their pay - like Parle G had to be sacked just be - image of the country has taken a big 12,000 people at a time when Des Moines was averaging just 600 fans per Food Corporation of India (FCI) ment from the mills is still pending. cause there was no purchasing pow - beating. This kind of a national trau - game. evening games soon became popular in the minors: As minor godowns, and the huge output post- A similar situation might erupt in er in small towns and rural India to ma on such a massive scale and as a harvest season, especially in States daily and relentless public spectacle league ball clubs were routinely folding in the midst of the Great Maharashtra with onion farmers buy these glucose biscuits. like Punjab, Haryana, Western for almost two months has not been Depression, adaptable owners found the innovation a key to staying in among others. The migrant workers, Hundreds of employees have been Uttar Pradesh (UP) and seen in any part of the world during business. The major leagues, though, took five years to catch up to their who have gone back to their home - sacked in media organisations in re - Maharashtra, are bound to lead to towns and villages, are not returning cent times with not even a whimper Working class on Page 7 1935 on Page 7 Printed, published and owned by Prem Nath Sharma, Printed at Glimpses of Future Press 63 Padha Street, Purani Mandi, Jammu. Chief Editor Prem Nath Sharma, Associate Editor : Rajiv Sharma, Ph. 2546079, Fax 0191-2547240, RNI NO. 43798/86, email : [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Glimpses of Future 7 natiOnal JAMMU TUeSDAy MAy 26 , 2020 BDO dies after car meets with accident, Former Guj CM intervenes, kin of Mamata extends condolences to family Press TrusT of IndIa COVID-19 victim get AMC help Kolkata, May 25 A block development Press TrusT of IndIa Kumar, action has been taken and AMC had not sent anyone to con - officer in West Bengal's ahmedabad, May 25 doctor will reach in 30 minutes," duct tests. "My father expired on South Dinajpur district Vaghela tweeted. May 21 due to COVID-19. We have died in a road accident as A family living under fear of Richa Singh, who had made been quarantined at our home by he was returning to his contracting novel coronavirus af - the appeal to save her family after AMC. Though we were told by workplace after having ter a death from the infection four losing her father to coronavirus, them that health team would come completed a routine in - days ago got help on Monday as confirmed that health officials to collect samples of six family spection nearby, police former chief minister Shankersinh were arriving after Vaghela's inter - members, no one came. said on Monday. Vaghela intervened and the vention. "I just received a call from We have been taking follow up Condoling his death, Chief Ahmedabad civic body sent a team AMC that the health team will since last two days, but they are Minister Mamata Banerjee to collect their samples for testing. reach my residence soon to collect just telling us that we will be in - said many officials risk 1.30 pm when the driver his family. "Saddened & Vaghela, after knowing about samples for coronavirus test. I formed soon," her social media their lives to keep others lost control of the wheels as shocked at the death the plight of the family living in have been following up with AMC post stated. "My mother's age is 55 safe. Chhogel Moktam the car skidded on paddy Chhogel Moktam Tamang, Vastral area from a social media about this ever since my father and she is having thyroid. Other Tamang, the BDO of Tapan left to dry on the road and who died in the line of duty. post, first called them up and then died due to coronavirus on May 21. members are having cough and in South Dinjapur, suffered hit a roadside tree," the of - He was BDO Tapan, Ahmedabad Municipal All the six family members are ei - fever. It seems Gujarat govern - serious injuries on Sunday ficer said. Both the BDO Dakshin Dinajpur, West Commissioner Mukesh Kumar. ther having fever or cough. We fear ment do not value public health," when his car skidded off and his driver were rushed Bengal. On Sun he died in a Through a tweet on Monday morn - that we might have been infected," she added in the post. The opposi - the road and hit a roadside to a nearby hospital, where road accident. My condo - ing, Vaghela, who is the state unit said Singh. On Sunday, she ex - tion Congress has been claiming tree, a senior police officer Tamanag succumbed to his lences to his family & col - president of NCP, said the issue pressed her anguish on social me - that the BJP government in the said. "The BDO was on his injuries, the officer added. leagues. So many on govt has been resolved and a health this case, I had discussion with dia alleging that though almost all state was conducting less number way to office from Amtali Taking to Twitter, Banerjee duty risking their lives to team will reach the family's resi - Miss Richa first and subsequently six members of her family have de - of tests deliberately to keep the near Malda-South saluted the officer and ex - keep us safe. Salute," dence in 30 minutes. "Regarding had discussion with Mr Mukesh veloped coronavirus symptoms, COVID-19 case count low. Dinajpur border around tended her condolences to Banerjee tweeted. Man kills minor JNU strongly advises students stranded AIIMS sanitation supervisor dies due to COVID-19 daughters in UP's in hostels to return to their native places Press TrusT of IndIa Doctors' Association, tions to be taken and sent should be tested even at Sant Kabir Nagar new delhi, May 25 tweeted with the hashtag back home," he alleged. slightest suspicion," Press TrusT of IndIa Press TrusT of IndIa many students requested to sued from time to time, the 'IndiaFightsCOVID19'. Due to sudden worsening Dhigan said. sant Kabirnagar (uP), May 25 new delhi, May 25 stay back in hostels at that university has announced A 58-year-old sanita - "AIIMS has lost its of symptoms, the supervi - Srinivas remarked A 40-year-old man time due to non-availability that students can return to tion supervisor at the All proud warrior. The virus sor was taken to the that the threshold for test - The Jawaharlal Nehru allegedly killed his two of public transport during the campus on or after June India Institute of Medical is dangerous, very com - emergency on May 19, ing should be further low - University on Monday minor daughters with a the lockdown," the circular 25 and till then all academic Sciences (AIIMS), who municable and doesn't Dhigan claimed. ered for individuals work - strongly advised students stone in Uttar Pradesh's said. It stated the Indian activities are closed. "This is had tested positive for the spare anyone," he said. "He had breathing dif - ing in high risk locations stranded in its hostels to re - Sant Kabir Nagar dis - Railways has begun running to underline that the novel coronavirus, has Kuldeep Dhigan, general ficulties and was hospi - like hospitals and those turn to their native places as trict, police said on some special trains and Government of India up - died, sources said. He was secretary, AIIMS SC/ST talised. He was then test - who may suffer inadver - special trains and some in - Monday. Police said the around 200 more trains will dates daily about the on ventilator and suc - employees' Welfare ed for COVID-19 and the tent exposure to the virus tra-state bus services have incident took place at be made operational from COVID-19 pandemic situa - cumbed to the infection Association, alleged that results came out to be pos - despite taking adequate become operational follow - Babethu village under June 1. tion. At present, the number on Sunday around 7.30 the supervisor had devel - itive," he said. The sanita - precautions like surveil - ing relaxations in COVID-19 the Belher police circle Intra-state bus and taxi of cases in Delhi is increas - pm. He was a permanent oped fever and mild respi - tion supervisor was then lance staff and police per - lockdown norms. on Sunday night. The services have also been start - ing swiftly day by day," the employee of AIIMS and ratory discomfort follow - shifted to the Trauma sonnel. We are going to In a circular, Dean of girls, identified Allumin ed by the state governments, circular said. Keeping the was posted at the premier ing which he got himself Centre, which has been have a high level meeting Nisha (5) and Ruby (3), Students Professor Sudheer it said. Moreover, some state facts in view, all students medical institute's out - examined at the AIIMS on converted into a dedicated with the director tomor - were allegedly killed by Pratap Singh said the uni - governments have made who are stranded and resid - door patient department, May 16. "As his case did COVID-19 hospital, he row discuss issues per - their father Jainab (40), versity had issued circulars transport arrangements for ing in the hostels are, here - they said. "Another coro - not fulfil the criteria for said. "All frontline work - taining to the safety of a drunkard, in March informing students the return of students. by, strongly advised to re - na warrior sacrifices his testing, he was not tested ers like us who have high healthcare workers at the Superintendent of about the closure of the in - "Further, as per the Ministry turn to their hometown and life in service of the coun - for COVID-19. He under - risk of exposure due to institute," he said. Last Police Brijesh Singh stitute and advised them to of Home Affairs and Delhi come back after the opening try," Dr Srinivas went routine blood tests, handling of hazardous week, a mess worker at the said on Monday. return home. "However, government guidelines is - of the university, it added. Rajkumar T, general sec - was counselled and biomedical waste during AIIMS from RPC canteen retary, AIIMS Resident briefed about the precau - the cleaning process succumbed to COVID-19. Contn. from Page 6 ...... Contn. from Page 6 ...... Pandemic ...... and failed to warn the world community of the severity of redefined the security infrastructure of the global commu - RBI move ...... the virus, despite the fact that it knew how contagious it nity and so far, more or less every country’s security design was and Wuhan is well-connected with the capitals of has been impacted by terrorism. credibility of the loanee and not take undue risks. This risk give, without upping demand and liquidity, the economy many countries around the globe. As a result, the pandem - The spread of the Coronavirus has raised a big question aversion is typical of banks even when they have liquidity. will grunt to a freeze. So far the incentives announced have ic has affected 53,32,323 people and there have been on global security and now every nation has to redefine its So, even now, mostly the bigger companies will likely get a long-term gestation and are particularly aimed at the ru - 3,40,590 casualties till now, globally. security. The search for biological weapons by the US in the loans instead of struggling MSMes, most of which may ral poor. But the sizeable urban economy is where demand However big this count may be, the economic and emo - Iraq in 2002 and further consequences were based upon still go under and increase a bank’s NPAs burden. As it is, needs to pick up to get the train moving. British economist tional implications of the outbreak are unfathomable. the programme of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction banks are still bearing the burden of corporate loans that John Maynard Keynes, who had studied the Great There is a global lockdown amid chaos and fear and there is from 1962 to 1991, aimed at attacking Iran, the Kurds and went bad. Besides, the moratoriums for another three Depression of 1929, was of the view that Governments a threat to the current world order. At times like this, the other purposes. There has been biological espionage be - months may offer temporary relief to borrowers but for the should become spenders of the last resort. He had even question of national security becomes very important. tween the West and the Soviet Union and so on. In this banks, this would mean a disruption in credit culture as suggested that Governments should give people money to Thankfully, all the casualties that the world has been wit - manner, as confronted by the outcomes of the Coronavirus monthly instalments and accumulated interest charges dig holes and fill them up. The money thus earned and nessing have not permeated the defence community in a on most of the world networks, there is a need to again re - can only be recovered late or not at all should the business spent would help revive the economy. This certainly isn’t major way so far. But, what if the defence community is tar - store an elective power which might resemble the NAM, re - concerned is not able to not survive at all. Many MSMes the guiding principle of our stimulus package. For all the getted by an enemy country? Or if the virus falls into the boot the United Nations Organisation and reclassify are having a tough time since the grace period does not grandiloquence, the actual fiscal outgo is just a bit over one hands of terrorists? The 9/11 attack on US soil 20 years ago worldwide security. mean a waiver, as banks will still charge interest for the un - per cent of the GDP, which is hardly enough to battle an un - paid amount. So NPAs are expected to shoot up from the precedented crisis such as this, when the economy is ex - current level of around Rs 10 lakh crore. Available data pected to contract to 12.5 per cent. Our structural reforms More than ...... suggests that nearly 25-30 per cent of bank loans have are there in place but can only be actualised in the long come under moratorium so far with micro-finance bor - term. The pandemic is the perfect opportunity for the registration for workers wanting to migrate has begun only Considering the alienation that they have undergone, it rowers facing extreme stress, followed by automobile fi - Government to go for big bang reforms and bold initiatives now and that, too, at selective places. The ISMW has spe - does not appear that the workers would be coming back too nance, MSMes, corporates and retail. While the bigger without being hemmed in and timing is of the essence. cific provisions for such registrations in the normal course soon unless some confidence-building measures are taken. banks may still survive, it is the smaller banks, especially Seemingly done for the poorest, the Government just res - of working of the labour department, which, perhaps, was This should entail a review of some of the regressive laws being neglected. It is true that in its original form, the Act that work against the interests of the labourers. Alienation those into micro-credit, that are in danger of keeling over. cues them temporarily without providing long-term com - applied to migrants of only certain classes. With a small of the workforce has several manifestations but one of the Therefore, a one-time restructuring of loans as a relief fort as growth is projected to dip in key sectors. Right now, amendment, it could have been extended to all categories. worst forms is estrangement of man from man. It would measure, as suggested by many experts, would have been a the focus seems to be on attracting investment but boost - Complete neglect on the part of the ISMW appears to be have pained them where it hurts the most to see a complete better option in a bleak scenario. In fact, Das himself ing demand means innovative responses and financial in - one of the factors that may have widened the difference be - lack of empathy among sections of society who could have sounded a warning saying the GDP growth in 2020-21 is terventions to declog the economy as a whole. Cheaper tween the workers, labour, migrants and the administra - helped them tide the crisis. Only a handful of NGOs likely to be in the “negative territory.” rates may not encourage thousands of businesses to start tion. ever since the liberalisation of the economy and pro- stepped in to help. Generally, Government agencies were a In the end, the RBI can only do so much and the borrowing but the Government doling out money to mil - labour legislations coming into force, unrest among the big letdown. This may have further aggravated the situa - Government’s fiscal stimulus so far has been credit-based lions of Indians and boosting their spending power might wagers had become a thing of past. The well-known trickle- tion. The Government’s decision to increase the allocation than about fund infusion. No matter how many loans we get things going. down effect came into full play and a record number of peo - for MGNReGA up to Rs 40,000 crore is a step in the right ple could move away from poverty. Some of these pro- direction. Though in a limited manner, this can certainly Working class ...... labour legislations are now in the process of being aban - help the migrants tide over the immediate crisis when they doned with States like Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh and reach their home States. Our MPs and MLAs, who could the pandemic, not even in the sub-continent, in Africa or Understandably, the labour laws have been declared dra - Rajasthan undertaking major changes in them to woo in - have undertaken immediate relief measures, are handi - the Middle-east. Surely, India is on a sticky wicket not only conian by the unions, whereby the lockdown has been used vestment. In fact, the higher judiciary has already taken capped in the absence of funds that have been already di - in terms of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) or growth to bulldoze them. Some of them are outrageous, like in - cognisance of this and has asked some pertinent questions verted. Additionally, existing resources of the State rate and per capita income. Its moral and ethical core has creasing the work hours per day from eight to 12 hours, on behalf of the workers and their rights. Governments have come under severe stress. Their bor - been disrupted and proved crudely transparent in front of something the labour movement had gained after the fa - experience shows that bringing the economy back on rowing capacity needs to be enhanced further. In the event the whole world. It is in this pessimistic context that the mous May uprising in the Hay Market in Chicago in the the rails cannot be achieved if our working classes are un - where a bulk of the migrants would not want to go back to one-day hunger strike by the leaders of 10 Central Trade 1830s, celebrated all over the world as May Day. The sus - happy. The role of the trade unions will have to be consid - their original workplaces, focus will have to be on the cre - Unions on May 22 against the new labour laws rattled the pension of a large number of labour laws for three years by ered afresh in the changed circumstances. Unions have ation of appropriate levels of employment opportunities in Central Government, which is still to find its economic UP and the Madhya Pradesh Government’s decision to al - more or less remained dormant during the last two the vicinity. Obviously, investment in the area of rural de - scaffolding. The demands of the unions included restora - low companies to “hire and fire” workers coincided with decades and are now coming back with a cause, which may velopment and employment would have to be increased in tion of labour laws that have been changed or their imple - Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Punjab, not augur well for the industry as a whole. An extremely affected districts where there has been a sudden influx of mentation put on hold in about 10 States consisting of both Bihar, Odisha and Maharashtra increasing the daily work - important question that has not been debated so far is: population. The Providing Urban Facilities in Rural Areas BJP and non-BJP ruled ones. In a joint petition to Prime ing hours. Significantly, the BJP trade union, BMS, did not What next? For how long will the migrant workers stay on (PURA) model, as suggested by former President Abdul Minister Narendra Modi, the union leaders sought imme - join the protest while the Congress trade union, INTUC and whether this efflux is for good. Whatever be the status Kalam, can also be taken into consideration. Today, a diate relief to stranded workers and arrangements for safe did, though the Congress State Governments, too, are tag - of a worker in society, he/she did have access to a certain much greater responsibility lies with the State return to their homes. They also demanded immediate halt ging along on the new labour laws. Among the “draconian level of facility in urban areas. All of them became used to Governments, who have to not only provide the arriving to indiscriminate privatisation of PSUs. even as the trade measures”, the yogi Adityanath Government in UP has their lives and would certainly miss them badly back home. migrant force with medical care but also treat them with unions approached the International Labour Organisation made 38 laws meaningless for almost three years, includ - So does this mean that this efflux is a temporary phenome - empathy and help absorb them in the existing social mi - (ILO), the Government refused to engage in a dialogue ing the Industrial Disputes Act, Trade Union Act, equal non and that things will normalise in due course? lieu, physically, psychologically and economically. with the leaders and they were detained for violating the Remuneration Act, Maternity Benefit Act, Act on restrictions of the lockdown. Occupational Safety and Health, Interstate Migrant However, the trade unions have said that this protest Labour Act and the Contract Labour Act. The BJP-ruled 1935 ...... was just the beginning and their struggle would continue. Madhya Pradesh Government has ushered in serious Amid all this chaos, experts have declared that the latest changes in the Factories Act, Contract Act and Industrial small-town counterparts. line. Teams upgraded their facilities to include lights Government booster for the small and medium enterprises Dispute Act. Hire and fire seems to be the new pandemic The first big league night game on this day in 1935 throughout the 1930s and 40s, and before long, most of is just not enough. It should be noted that the majority of doctrine, with most workers’ rights being taken away, in - drew 25,000 fans, who stood by as President Roosevelt the league had night games on the schedule. Wrigley the working class in India do not even fall under the organ - cluding regarding wages, safety and compensation, and symbolically switched on the lights from Washington, Field, on Chicago’s North Side–the second oldest major ised or formal sector. They constitute almost 93 per cent of contractors and industry running without any regulations. D.C. To capitalize on their new evening fan base, the Reds league park after Boston’s Fenway–was the last of the the workforce, have no trade union cover or other rights May 22 marked the beginning of a new chapter in the work - played a night game that year against every National parks to begin hosting night games. Wrigley’s tradition of such as work guarantee, fixed-wage hours or wages, mater - ing class’ struggle in India, even as the tragic narrative of League team–eight games in total–and despite their hosting only day games held for 74 seasons until August nity leave, provident fund, pension and so on. They are just mass migration of the unorganised workers continues re - lousy record of 68-85, paid attendance rose 117 percent. 8, 1988, when the Cubs hosted the Philadelphia Phillies. “free labour” out to be exploited by all concerned. Half of lentlessly. Will it mark a paradigm shift in the current sce - Though baseball owners had a well-deserved reputation That game was rained out in the third inning, so them are women, Dalits, extremely backward castes, land - nario? Only time will tell. But for now the workers are not for being old-fashioned, most teams soon followed suit, Wrigley’s first night game is officially recorded as a 6-4 less labourers and the poorest of the poor. giving up. as they knew night games would benefit their bottom win over the New york Mets on August 9, 1988. Glimpses of Future 8 wOrld JAMMU, TUeSDAy, MAy 26, 2020 Russia reports China reports 51 new coronavirus Japan set to end Tokyo's nearly 9,000 new cases, mostly in Wuhan state of emergency coronavirus BY K J M VarMa tested COVID-19 positive Tokyo, May 25 Abe declared the state of emergency Beijing, May 25 (PTI) but develop no symptoms on April 7, first in parts of Japan includ - infections, 92 such as fever, cough or sore experts on a special government ing Tokyo, expanded it to the entire na - China has reported 51 throat. However, they pose panel have approved a plan to remove a tion later in the month and extended it deaths new coronavirus cases in - a risk of spreading the dis - coronavirus state of emergency from until the end of May. Unlike a european- Moscow, Mar 25 cluding 40 asymptomatic ease to others. Tokyo and four other remaining prefec - style hard lockdown, Japan's state of infections, majority of them Wuhan, which earlier tures, paving the way for Prime Minister emergency is soft and largely a request Russia's coronavirus in the contagion's first epi - had over 50,000 cases be - Shinzo Abe to declare entirely ending the for people to stay at home and for non- caseload exceeded 350,000 centre Wuhan, where over tween January and March, measure to allow businesses to gradually essential businesses to close or operate on Monday, with health offi - six million tests have been started a campaign on May resume. economy Minister yasutoshi shorter hours, a strategy aiming at mini - cials reporting almost 9,000 conducted in the last 10 14 to expand the nucleic Nishimura told reporters that experts on mizing the economic damage. Tokyo and new infections over the past days, health officials said acid testing in order to bet - a government-commissioned panel ap - its three neighboring prefectures are to 24 hours and 92 deaths, on Monday. The country's ter know the number of proved the plan to end the state of emer - reopen schools, public facilities and which brought the overall National Health asymptomatic cases or peo - gency that has lasted for more than a businesses in phases in coming weeks death toll to 3,633. Commission (NHC) said ple who show no clear month and a half. Abe is to officially de - while watching any signs of a resurgence The country's compara - that 11 new imported cases one in Sichuan province the asymptomatic cases. symptoms despite carrying clare the end of the state of emergency of infections. Nishimura said recent data tively low mortality rate rais - were reported on Sunday. were reported, the NHC Currently, 396 people the virus. later Monday after endorsement from suggest that the infections have slowed es questions among experts While no new domesti - said in its daily report. Out with asymptomatic symp - According to the latest parliamentary committees. enough and the medical systems are un - both in Russia and in the cally-transmitted COVID- of the 40 new asympto - toms are under medical ob - figures released by the Nishimura said lifting of the emer - der less pressure and that it's time to West, with some suggesting 19 cases were reported in matic cases, 38 were re - servation in China, includ - Wuhan municipal health gency does not mean the end of the pan - gradually resume social and economic the government may be ma - China on Sunday, 11 im - ported in Wuhan, which is ing 326 in Wuhan, accord - commission, the city con - demic. He said the goal is to minimize activity. Tokyo and Hokkaido, where nipulating the statistics and ported cases including 10 in currently undergoing mass ing to the health authority. ducted more than 6 million next possible recurrences of infections more than a dozen new cases have been underreporting virus-relat - the Inner Mongolia testing of its over 11.2 mil - Asymptomatic cases re - nucleic acid tests between while balancing preventive measures reported Sunday, still need to remain ex - ed deaths. Russian officials vehemently deny the allega - Autonomous Region and lion people after a spike in fer to the patients who have May 14 and 23. and the economy. tra-cautious, he said. tions and attribute the low numbers to the effectiveness of measures taken to curb Did Japan just beat China threatens US counter measures if the spread of the outbreak. coronavirus without Japan lifts coronavirus lockdowns or mass testing? punished for Hong Kong law emergency in Bloomberg May 25 tional conversation. Only Hong Kong May 25 Cold War”. The refusal to grant all remaining one thing is agreed upon: Hong Kongers democracy has Japan’s state of emer - that there was no silver bul - China on Monday threatened sparked rare bipartisan support areas gency is set to end with new let, no one factor that made counter measures against the in an otherwise bitterly divided cases of the coronavirus the difference. “Just by look - Tokyo, May 25 United States if it was punished Washington during the Trump dwindling to mere dozens. It ing at death numbers, you for plans to impose a sedition law administration. Beijing portrays Japanese Prime got there despite largely ig - can say Japan was success - on Hong Kong, that the business the city’s protests as a foreign- Minister Shinzo Abe lifted a noring the default playbook. ful,” said Mikihito Tanaka, a hub’s security chief hailed as a backed plot to destabilise the coronavirus state of emer - No restrictions were placed professor at Waseda new tool that would defeat “ter - motherland and says other na - gency in Tokyo and four oth - on residents’ movements, University specializing in rorism”. Beijing plans to pass a tions have no right to interfere in er remaining areas on and businesses from restau - science communication, and new security law for Hong Kong how the international business Monday, ending the restric - rants to hairdressers stayed a member of a public adviso - that bans treason, subversion hub is run. - Mainland agents? - tions nationwide. experts on open. No high-tech apps that ry group of experts on the and sedition after months of Protesters, who have hit the a government-commis - tracked people’s movements virus. “But even experts massive, often-violent pro- streets in their millions, say they sioned panel approved the were deployed. The country don’t know the reason.” democracy protests last year. are motivated by years of Beijing lifting of the emergency in doesn’t have a center for dis - One widely shared list But many Hong Kongers, chipping away at the city’s free - Tokyo, neighbouring ease control. And even as na - assembled 43 possible rea - business groups and western na - doms since it was handed back to constitution. against Beijing and the city’s po - Kanagawa, Chiba and tions were exhorted to “test, sons cited in media reports, tions fear the proposal could be a China by Britain in 1997. Hong The proposal has spooked in - lice force. Beijing has dismissed Saitama prefectures, and in test, test,” Japan has tested ranging from a culture of death blow to the city’s treasured vestors with Hong Kong’s stock protester demands for an inquiry Hokkaido to the north, just 0.2% of its population -- mask-wearing and a famous - Kong enjoys liberties unseen on freedoms and thousands took to exchange suffering its largest into the police, amnesty for the which had remained under one of the lowest rates ly low obesity rate to the rela - the mainland, as well as its own the streets on Sunday despite a drop in five years on Friday. On 8,500 people arrested and uni - the emergency declaration among developed countries. tively early decision to close legal system and trade status. ban on mass gatherings intro - Monday it had yet to recover, versal suffrage. The demonstra - after it was removed in most yet the curve has been schools. Among the more Campaigners view the security duced to combat coronavirus. As closing just 0.10 percent up. tions fizzled at the start of the of Japan earlier this month. flattened, with deaths well fanciful suggestions include law proposal as the most brazen police dispersed the crowds with - ‘Restore social order’ - year as mass arrests and the Japan, with about 16,600 below 1,000, by far the a claim Japanese speakers move yet by Beijing to end free tear gas and water cannon, Hong Kong’s unpopular pro- coronavirus took their toll. But confirmed cases and about fewest among the Group of emit fewer potentially virus- speech and the city’s ability to Washington’s national security Beijing government has wel - they have rekindled in recent 850 deaths, has so far avoid - Seven developed nations. In laden droplets when talking make its own laws. Of particular advisor Robert O’Brien warned comed the law. “Terrorism is weeks with Sunday’s rally pro - ed the large outbreaks that Tokyo, its dense center, cases compared to other lan - concern is a provision allowing the new law could cost the city its growing in the city and activities ducing the most intense clashes have been experienced in the have dropped to single digits guages. Chinese security agents to oper - preferential US trading status. which harm national security, for months and police making at US and the europe despite on most days. While the pos - Contact Tracing ate in Hong Kong, with fears it But China’s foreign ministry such as ‘Hong Kong independ - least 120 arrests. During last its softer restrictions. sibility of a more severe sec - experts consulted by could spark a crackdown on ence’, become more rampant,” year’s huge pro-democracy ral - ond wave of infection is ever- Bloomberg News also sug - said Beijing would react to any those voicing dissent against security minister John Lee said lies, mob attacks were common present, Japan has entered gested a myriad of factors sanctions from Washington. China’s communist rulers. On Montenegro in a statement welcoming the on both sides of the political di - and is set to leave its emer - that contributed to the out - “If the US insists on hurting the mainland, subversion laws planned legislation. Police chief vide and a video of protesters gency in just weeks, with the come, and none could point China’s interests, China will are routinely wielded against health Chris Tang cited 14 recent cases beating a lawyer at Sunday’s ral - status lifted already for most to a singular policy package have to take every necessary critics. The proposed law, which where explosives had been ly was seized on by China’s state of the country and Tokyo and that could be replicated in measure to counter and oppose China’s rubber-stamp legisla - minister urges seized and said the new law media. Hu Xijin, editor-in-chief the remaining four other re - other countries. this,” foreign ministry ture is expected to act on quickly, would “help combat the force of of the nationalist tabloid Global citizens to help gions set to exit Monday. Nonetheless, these measures spokesman Zhao Lijian told re - will also bypass Hong Kong’s ‘Hong Kong independence’ and Times, posted the video on Analyzing just how still offer long-term lessons porters on Monday. own legislature. The city’s influ - restore social order”. Last year’s Twitter -- a platform banned in keep country Japan defied the odds and for countries in the middle of Hong Kong has become the ential Bar Association on protests were initially sparked mainland China. “Let’s see what contained the virus while pandemic that may yet last latest flashpoint in soaring ten - Monday described the proposed by plans to allow extraditions to the Washington-backed Hong 'corona-free' disregarding the playbook for years. An early grassroots sions between the world’s two motion as “worrying and prob - the mainland but soon snow - Kong democracy really looks used by other successful response to rising infections super powers which China has lematic” -- and warned it may Podgorica (Montenegro), May 25 balled into a popular revolt like,” he wrote. countries has become a na - was crucial. likened to “the brink of a new even breach the territory’s mini- Montenegro's health minister has urged citizens to help keep the small Singapore reports 344 new Balkan country "corona- Japan lifts coronavirus emergency in all remaining areas free" in the future after au - thorities said there are no Tokyo May 25 Japan, with about 16,600 gradual resumption of social and Covid-19 cases more cases of infection at the confirmed cases and about 850 economic activity. He said singapore May 25 ing up for the end of its “circuit moment. Minister Kenan Japanese Prime Minister deaths, has so far avoided a large Tokyo, Kanagawa and breaker” period next week, Hrapovic on Monday de - Shinzo Abe lifted a coronavirus outbreak like those experienced Hokkaido, where the number of Singapore on Monday re - Channel News Asia reported on scribed the current situation state of emergency in Tokyo and in the US and the europe despite infections is still fluctuating, ported 344 new COVID-19 cas - Monday. The strict social dis - in the country as a joint suc - four other remaining areas on cess of the health authorities its softer restrictions. But the need to be watched closely. On es, a majority of them foreign tancing measures will be pro - Monday, ending the restrictions and the citizen of world’s third largest economy is Monday, Matsuya department workers living in dormitories, gressively lifted in three phases nationwide as businesses begin Montenegro. The Public fallen into a recession, and pub - store, a landmark in Tokyo’s taking the nationwide tally to starting June 2, with the re - to reopen. experts on a govern - Health Institute said Sunday lic discontent over Abe’s han - posh Ginza shopping district, re - 31,960 as the country is gearing sumption of economic activities ment-commissioned panel ap - that all of the 140 tests in the dling of the coronavirus has sent sumed operation. Sales staff up to lift the “circuit breaker” that do not pose a high risk of proved the lifting of the emer - past 24 hours were negative his support ratings tumbling. wearing plastic face shields wel - imposed to contain the spread transmission of the virus in the gency in Tokyo, neighbouring and that there are no people Recent media surveys show pub - comed customers with bows but of the coronavirus. Out of the first phase, it said. The “circuit Kanagawa, Chiba and Saitama currently reported sick with lic support for his Cabinet has no verbal greetings under new new infected cases, 340 are for - breaker” measures were first prefectures, and in Hokkaido to plunged below 30%, the lowest guidelines. Individual prefec - the virus. Hrapovic said, eign workers residing in dormi - announced on April 7 and were the north, which had more cases since he returned to office in tures are allowed to impose their "Responsible behaviour and tories, the health ministry said. further tightened after three and remained under the emer - December 2012. own measures. Tokyo Gov. joint health care will be out duce operations, but there was The rest four new cases are weeks, with more workplaces gency declaration after it was re - Abe declared the state of yuriko Koike said last week that trump card in the days ahead no enforcement. Since May 14, Singaporeans or permanent closed and social gatherings moved in most of Japan earlier emergency on April 7 in several the capital will reopen in three so that we can remain proud when the measures were lifted in residents (foreigners). With banned. For the first time in this month. parts of Japan including Tokyo, phases starting with schools, li - bearers of the title of a coro - most of Japan, more people have this, the total number of cases in more than six weeks, no new Abe said the lifting of the expanded it to the entire nation braries, museums, and longer na-free country." The left their homes and stores have the country by noon on Monday COVID-19 cluster was identi - emergency does not mean the later in the month, and then ex - begun reopening. economy service hours for restaurants. Balkan country of some reached 31,960, it said. “The fied in Singapore on Sunday, end of the outbreak. He said the tended it until the end of May. Minister yasutoshi Nishimura She said theaters, sports facili - 620,000 people imposed lower number of cases today is the ministry said. As of Sunday, goal is to balance preventive Under the emergency, peo - said recent data suggest that in - ties and other commercial estab - strict lockdown measures to partly due to fewer tests being the country had 16,027 COVID- measure and the economy until ple were asked to stay at home fections have slowed enough and lishments will be next, with curb the outbreak. A total of conducted,” the ministry said. 19 patients in isolation and 690 vaccines and effective drugs be - and non-essential businesses pressure on the medical system nightclubs, karaoke and live mu - 324 cases have been record - Meanwhile, Singapore is gear - in various hospitals. come available. were requested to close or re - has fallen enough to allow a sic houses in the final phase. ed and nine people have died. Malaysia Scientists, JK Rowling pan UK PM for defending aide who broke lockdown rules reports 172 new London May 25 that there is one rule for those in power “no respect for the people”, “lacked in - personally at risk, they did it for the cramped accommodation, purely for coronavirus and another for others. tegrity”, and risked undermining the community, they did it because of a the common good AS THe GOVeRN - cases, most of Writer JK Rowling, bishops and top The Johnson government has been trust of the public. Pete Broadbent, the sense of ‘we’re all in this together’.” MeNT TOLD THeM TO DO”. “I can’t scientists on a key government com - grappling with growing number of bishop of Wilesden, tweeted: “Johnson “If you give the impression there’s remember a clearer demonstration of them foreigners mittee joined millions across the coronavirus cases and deaths due to has now gone the full Trump.” As police one rule for them and one rule for us, contempt for the people from a sitting United Kingdom to express fury at Covid-19. As of Sunday evening, there chiefs said it would now be difficult to you fatally undermine that sense of Prime Minister. Johnson might as well Kuala Lumpur May 25 Prime Minister Boris Johnson defend - were 36,793 deaths and 259,559 cases enforce curbs, at least three experts -- ‘we’re all in this together’ and you un - had shambled into shot, give us all the Malaysia reported 172 ing his chief adviser Dominic across the UK. As the storm rose across Stephen Reicher, Robert West and dermi ne adherence to the forms of be - finger and walked off again”, she added. new coronavirus cases on Cummings, who breached lockdown the country, including in usually Susan Michie - on the Scientific haviour which have got us through this Scotland first minister Nicola Monday, most of them for - rules in end-March. Conservative supporting sections and Advisory Group for emergencies influ - crisis”, he said. Closely following the Sturgeon ad ded: “I fear, and I say this eigners held at immigration Cummings, who has been close to tabloids, Johnson insisted on Sunday encing government moves on the coro - government response to the pandemic, with a heavy heart, Boris Johnson is depots, and taking the total Johnson since the successful Vote evening that Cummings had done no navirus pandemic deplored Johnson’s writer Rowling tweeted: “Watching putting his political interest ahead of number of infections in the Leave campaign in the 2016 eU refer - wrong, defying many who sought the remarks. Reicher said: “If you look at Johnson, This is despicable. Parents all the public interest. And when trust in a country to 7,417. The endum, travelled to Durham in north- aide’s resignation. More than 10 bish - the research it shows the reason why over this country have abided by the public health message and public Ministry of Health said the east england with his family when the ops said Johnson’s defence of people observed lockdown was not for lockdown rules, even while ill them - health advice is as important as it is number of deaths remained official advice followed by Britons was Cummings was “risible”, that he had themselves, it wasn’t because they were selves. Hundreds of thousands man - right now the consequences of that unchanged at 115. to ‘stay home’, prompting accusations aged toddlers while shut up inside could be serious”. Glimpses of Future 9 spOrts JAMMU, TUeSDAy, MAy 26, 2020 In Brief Babar is very close to being in same West Indies ready with plan to send 25-man squad for league as Kohli, Smith: Misbah Test series in Karachi, May 25 being among the worlds top players at 52.50 in the Test series against the he leads by example," Misbah said. same opponents. England in June Pakistan head coach and chief "If you are a performer like In the two-Test home series selector Misbah-ul-Haq believes Babar then it becomes easier for you against Sri Lanka, Babar ended the new delhi May 25 Babar Azam is destined to be a world to motivate the rest of the team and series with 262 runs with an average class player and is very close to being get things done. of exactly 262. The chief executive of West in the same league as India skipper "even when I was made captain Misbah feels Babar had changed Indies’ cricket team says a plan is in Virat Kohli and Australia's Steve in 2010 my performances were here as a batsman when he got runs in the place to fly a 25-man squad to Smith. "I don't like comparisons but and there and I was in and out. But Tests in Australia. england around June 8 ahead of a Babar is currently very close to being captaincy changed my game and "Before that he was getting runs three-test series starting a month in the same class as Virat Kohli, mindset and I became a more hard in tests but not consistently. In later in bio-secure stadiums with no Steve Smith or Joe Root," Misbah working and motivated cricketer." Australia and in the following tests spectators. Johnny Grave says he said in an interview to youtube Misbah said Babar always chal - against Sri Lanka and Bangladesh has been in discussions with the channel, Cricket Baaz. lenges himself and would get better he changed," he said. england and Wales Cricket Board "He believes in the work ethic as a captain with experience. Talking about his experience as a for the past six weeks and that that if you want to better Kohli you "He is in a zone of his own. He head coach, Misbah said: "Having Cricket West Indies is expecting a have to work harder than him at formal offer to go ahead with the just doesn't want to be in the team. captained, it has helped me a lot. As your skills, fitness and game aware - tour in the coming days. Grave says He just doesn't want to play for captain I had to manage everything ness." money. He wants to be the top per - and also having played under top in an interview with gling between different roles. Misbah feels in Pakistan cricket The 25-year-old, who was former for Pakistan. He is always coaches ... I have seen closely their espncricinfo.com the players would "Most important thing as a there were different parameters for named captain of the Pakistan T20 pitting himself against other top work ethics and how they managed take privately sourced tests for coach is mentally and psychological - judging foreign and local coaches. team ahead of the Australia series in batsmen like Kohli or Smith," he things. COVID-19 three or four days before ly how you handle a group of play - "I don't know why it is like this October last year, was recently said. "He loves challenges in the nets "It is a learning process. Having the departure date. They would then ers," the former skipper said. why do we have different eye for lo - handed the reins of ODI team as and on the field. He has really ma - remained captain it is a big advan - convene at a base in Antigua and fly "Sometimes captain and coach is cals and foreigners. Maybe we feel well. tured as a player and in time he will tage for coaching because you know out in one aircraft on the same day, different as you have to take tough they have something special. It "Making him the T20 captain get better as a captain with experi - the players and their mood swings. before being transported to their decisions. Being chief selector looks like every decision by a foreign was a tester. We wanted to see how ence." Babar was the leading run- you know which player will respond quarantine and training venue makes it it a bit difficult but I had ex - coach is right. In contrast we tend to he will respond to this challenge. All scorer of the T20I series against in a given situation,which player is where they would spend about three perience of creating and managing be very critical of local coaches no of us agree that he has done a very Australia last year. He also scored feeling pressure in a scenario. weeks. He adds that the current plan teams, I have been building teams matter what decision they take," he good job and his biggest plus is that 210 runs, which included a hundred, Misbah said it is not easy jug - is for the test matches to start July 8, since 2003. Till now it is going well." said. July 16 and July 24. The tour was due to start on June 4 but no profes - sional cricket can be played in england before July 1 because of the Sweet-toothed Werner coronavirus outbreak. Grave says No home rule: Bayern out to show Dortmund who's boss there is still some apprehension among players and support staff Berlin, May 25 and again assert their domi - bags hat-trick as about leaving their families for sev - nance over Dortmund, who en weeks, travelling to Britain and Bayern Munich aim to they routed 4-0 in Munich last playing in bio-secure venues, but continue the Bundesliga's cur - November. Leipzig trounce Mainz that no player has said formally he rent trend of teams winning on "We're looking forward to Berlin, May 25 toothpaste. David Wagner's does not want to tour. the road behind closed doors Tuesday - I hope that we can Schalke continued their when they face Borussia show what makes us strong Sweet-toothed striker slide down the table, falling You are considered Dortmund in a potential title and leave Dortmund's stadi - Timo Werner bagged a hat- to eighth following another decider on Tuesday. um with a smile," added trick as RB Leipzig thrashed poor defensive display. a madman if you Leaders Bayern arrive at Mueller. Mainz 5-0 to climb back to second-placed Dortmund four Signal Iduna Park would eduard Loewen, Noah third in the Bundesliga and speak truth: points clear and on course for normally be packed with Sarenren Bazee and Sergio keep their dwindling title an eighth straight title. 82,000 fans for a visit of Cordova scored as Augsburg hopes just about alive. Former Pakistan "For us this is a very deci - Bayern, but the terraces will moved seven points clear of When asked how he sive week," insisted Bayern remain empty on Tuesday. the relegation play-off place. skipper reveals would celebrate, Werner, "I'm totally happy," said forward Thomas Mueller. "It will still be a hard day's the league in November 2018, games in all competitions this 24, told reporters "there will Herrlich, whose side host "We've clearly set our - work," Mueller added. Dortmund are eager to again season. reason behind definitely be some sweets in - bottom club Paderborn on selves the goal of three victo - "We're marching, send the Bavarians home dis - england winger Jadon volved". Julian Wednesday, after ending a ries this week and taking a gi - Dortmund is marching." appointed. Sancho came off the bench to leaving captaincy Nagelsmann's side sit seven run of four straight defeats. ant step forward" towards the Dortmund winger Raphael "I hope we can get the next set up Achrif Hakimi for the new delhi May 25 points behind leaders "We'll be celebrating league title. Guerreiro is in form with three victory," said Dortmund's second goal in Wolfsburg. Bayern Munich ahead of the quietly, because we don't Bayern warmed-up by goals in his last two games and Swiss centre-back Manuel Dortmund coach Lucien Former Pakistan captain younis reigning champions' top-of- have much time. But we beating eintracht Frankfurt 5- was on the scoresheet in Akanji. Favre has hinted the 20-year- Khan has opened up about the time the-table clash against sec - 2 at the weekend and also host Saturday's 2-0 win at "Since I've been here, old could start against Bayern. have managed to turn things when he decided to quit as Pakistan ond-placed Borussia relegation-threatened Wolfsburg. we've always lost to Bayern On Wednesday, third- around." captain just a few months after lead - Fortuna Duesseldorf this The Portugal star also net - Dortmund on Tuesday. The 48-year-old ing his side to a WT20 win in 2009. away, but won at home. I want placed RB Leipzig host Hertha Saturday. ted twice in the 4-0 rout of arch Leipzig bounced back Herrlich apologised to his The former Pakistan middle order to keep this series going." Berlin in the day's key game. Since the Bundesliga re - rivals Schalke the previous from their draw with squad after breaking a week- great was one of the best batsmen of Tuesday's showdown will Germany striker Timo sumed ten days ago, behind weekend in the Ruhr derby. Freiburg last weekend in long coronavirus quarantine the 21st century, having scored also pit the league's top-scorer Werner warmed up with a hat- locked doors due to the coron - Dortmund are waiting on their first match since the by leaving the team hotel -- 10,099 runs with 34 centuries at an Robert Lewandowski, 31, who trick in Sunday's 5-0 thump - avirus, home advantage has the fitness of key defender coronavirus lockdown in to buy toothpaste and skin average of 52.05 in Test cricket. But has scored 27 goals in 25 ing of Mainz. counted for little with 10 of the Mats Hummels, who injured style, with Werner moving cream -- before the differences with some of the players games for Bayern, against his He had also scored a hat- 18 games played won by the his Achilles' tendon at to within three goals of Wolfsburg match last week - in the team affected his time as cap - former club. trick in an 8-0 mauling of away team. Wolfsburg. Bayern's Robert end. Having been as high as tain of the team. Speaking to Gulf For the hosts, Norwegian Mainz last November. Bayern and Dortmund are In the Bayern camp, mid - Lewandowski at the top of third last December, Schalke News, younis said: “you often face a sensation erling Braut Fixtures among only three clubs -- the fielder Thiago Alcantara has a the league scoring charts. are winless in their last nine situation in life where if you speak Haaland, 19, has scored ten Tuesday: Borussia other being Hertha Berlin who groin strain while centre-back Werner, who has been league games, including last the truth, you are considered as a goals in as many league games Dortmund v Bayern M?nchen thrashed neighbours FC linked with several of Saturday's 4-0 drubbing at mad man. My fault was pointing out Jerome Boateng picked up a since joining Dortmund in (1630 GMT), Bayer Union 4-0 on Friday -- to have europe's biggest clubs, has Dortmund. "We were ex - to a group of players that they were leg knock on Saturday. Having January from Salzburg. Leverkusen v VfL Wolfsburg, won at home since the restart. scored 24 Bundesliga goals tremely stupid at the start," not pushing themselves hard beaten Bayern 2-0 at home in Haaland and eintracht Frankfurt v Hansi Flick's Bayern are this season including two said Wagner. Loewen gave enough on the field for the country.” the pre-season Super Cup Lewandowski have exactly the Freiburg, Werder Bremen v eager to continue the trend trebles. the visitors the lead after “The players were, however, regret - match last August and 3-2 in same record - 41 goals from 35 Bor. ewandowski scored his just five minutes with a su - ful later and we played as team - 27th league goal this term in perb free-kick which flew in - mates long enough after that. I knew Bayern's 5-2 win over to the top corner from 30 I had done nothing wrong for it’s a eintracht Frankfurt on lesson that I had learned from my Selectors will not look at me as they metres out at the Veltins Saturday. Leipzig's victory father – to always speak the truth Arena. Augsburg doubled Elgar eyes was the 10th win for a visit - and always remain humble,” younis their lead 14 minutes from ing team in 18 matches since said. The former Pakistan batsman feel I’m too old: Harbhajan Singh time when Schalke defender the Bundesliga restarted in also opened up on the words of ad - South Africa Salif Sane was wrong-footed predominantly in the near-empty stadiums. vice he received from Pakistan leg - by a long ball and substitute powerplay and middle "We could have scored a end Javed Miandad. On being asked winger Bazee rifled overs and got wickets,” what advice he would give the cur - Test captaincy few more, but no complaints home.Werner grabbed his he added. Harbhajan be - rent generation of players, he said: -- we're very happy," Leipzig second goal three minutes lieves that the IPL is the Cape Town May 25 ”During my playing days, I had sporting director Markus into the second half when most difficult competi - Miandad as a coach. As someone Dean elgar would be willing to be - Kroesche told Sky. Kevin Kampl played him in - tion in terms of T20 who was a master of the big hun - come South Africa’s next Test captain as Werner opened the scor - to the area. The visitors were cricket and said that after dreds himself, he used to tell me that speculation about who will replace Faf du ing in only the 11th minute, attacking at will when performing in this tour - once you reach 100, think you are Plessis gathers momentum. elgar, who before yussuf Poulsen Kampl had a goal ruled out nament, he believes that starting from zero. “This may turns 33 next month, put his hand up in marked his 250th appear - for offside soon after. he can make a comeback sound like a cliche but it’s quite a an interview with Cricket South Africa ance for Leipzig by heading With 15 minutes left, into the Indian side. difficult thing to do as it needs a (CSA), released on Monday, and joins home a Marcel Sabitzer Poulsen's floated free-kick new delhi May 25 consistent performer in “In international great deal of mental fitness – along - Aiden Markram on the list of players who cross on 23 minutes. was met by Werner who the IPL. Harbhajan, who cricket, not all teams with physical fitness,” he said. have expressed interest in the job. The pair reversed roles volleyed past Mainz goal - It has been 4 years was played for Mumbai have quality players like Apart from his brilliant Test Quinton de Kock was expected to take for the third when Poulsen keeper Florian Mueller to since veteran off-spinner Indians and Chennai IPL teams, where every record, younis also played 265 ODIs over from Du Plessis, having succeeded laid the ball off for Sabitzer wrap up his hat-trick. Harbhajan Singh last Super Kings in IPL, is the team has a top-six which for Pakistan in which he scored him as captain of South Africa’s limited- to make it 3-0 at the break. earlier, Augsburg also donned the blue for joint third-highest wick - is good. yes, Australia, 7,240 runs at an average of 31.24. overs teams, but CSA said it did not want Werner grabbed his sec - eased to a comfortable away India. But the two-time et taker in the league with england, India have all He also played 25 T20Is in which he to overburden the wicketkeeper-bats - ond goal three minutes into win with a 3-0 romp at World Cup winner - 2007 150 scalps to his name at got very good batting scored 442 runs. man and ruled him out of the Test cap - the second half when Kevin Schalke. T20 World Cup and 2011 an economy rate of 7.05. line-ups,” Harbhajan taincy. With CSA still trying to find a so - Kampl played him into the Cordova came off the ODI World Cup - hasn’t Harbhajan said the said. lution to playing their scheduled three- area. The visitors were at - bench to score in injury Policing ban on lost the hopes of another selectors did not have a “But if I can get test series against the West Indies in July, tacking at will when Kampl time, latching onto a loose comeback in the Indian look at him despite his Johnny Bairstow and saliva will be hard: the appointment of a captain has become had a goal ruled out for off - pass from Sane, rounding side in the shortest for - IPL laurels because they David Warner in IPL, more pressing. “It’s definitely not an easy side soon after. goalkeeper Markus mat of the game. think the off-spinner is don’t you think I can get India bowling journey being a test captain but I think With 15 minutes left, Schubert and firing into an Harbhajan believes that too old. “They will not them in international leadership is something that comes ex - Poulsen's floated free-kick empty net. he is fit and ready to play look at me because they cricket? But it is not in coach Bharat Arun tremely naturally to me,” elgar said. was met by Werner who Later, mid-table Cologne T20 cricket for India. feel I am too old,” he said. my hands. No one comes captained teams in the past, right up volleyed past Mainz goal - scored late goals through Mumbai May 25 “I am ready. If I can “Also I don’t play any do - and talks to you in this from school level to provincial level and keeper Florian Mueller to strikers Anthony Modeste bowl well in IPL, which is mestic cricket. present Indian set-up,” It has been two months since at franchise level. I enjoyed it extremely wrap up his hat-trick. and Jhon Cordoba, who a very difficult tourna - [In the] Last four-five he added. India went into lockdown mode. and if I was asked to take on the captaincy earlier, Augsburg also equalised in added time, to ment for bowlers because years they did not look at Harbhajan played for elite athletes, fit and raring to go, it’s definitely something I would think eased to a comfortable away the grounds are smaller, me even though I was do - Mumbai for ten seasons, fight back for a 2-2 draw haven’t had such a long break be - long and hard about because it would win with a 3-0 romp at and all the top players in ing well in the IPL, taking and then after that, he against strugglers Fortuna fore, and it could particularly im - mean a lot to me.” Du Plessis quit as cap - Schalke. world cricket play in the wickets and I had all my was picked up by CSK for Duesseldorf. Visitors pact the bowling unit, with different tain after South Africa lost their home se - Heiko Herrlich enjoyed a IPL,” eSPNCricinfo records to back my case. his base price of INR 2 Fortuna, who are 16th which muscles at play. India bowling ries to england at the start of the year. perfect first Bundesliga quoted Harbhajan as “It is very challenging crore. carries a two-legged relega - coach Bharat Arun speaks about the elgar twice deputised for Du Plessis as game on the touchline as saying. to bowl against them and In the 2019 IPL, the tion play-off at the end of the challenging road back to peak captain, losing the 2017 Lords test to Augsburg coach, a week af - Despite last playing if you can do well against spinner managed to take season, had led with an hour match fitness, and what the ban on england by 211 runs and overseeing a ter he missed their loss to for India in a T20I in the them in IPL, you can do 16 wickets from 11 gone through goals by saliva use to shine the ball would 107-run victory over Pakistan in early Wolfsburg because he broke 2016 Asia Cup, well in international matches at an economy Kenan Karaman and erik mean. 2019. quarantine rules to buy Harbhajan has been a cricket. I have bowled of 7.09. Thommy. Glimpses of Future 10 EntErtainmEnt JAMMU TUeSDAy MAy 26, 2020 Candle song: Madhuri Dixit's Naagin 4: Not just Rashami Desai, even Nia Sharma will not Smriti Khanna and Gautam Gupta are powerful, melodious voice all praises for their Meri Aashiqui takes us completely by be a part of the show while Vijay Kumeria will continue? Tumse Hi co-star Radhika Madan surprise in her first single Smriti Khanna and Gautam Gupta are one of the most adorable couples. They met on sets of Radhika Madan and Shakti Arora starrer Meri Aashiqui Tumse Hai and then became friends. The two eventually fell in love with each other. Their performances in Meri Aashiqui Tumse Hi were appreciated. Smriti Khanna and Gautam Gupta had also found some good friends while they were on the show. Smriti Khanna is good friends with Angrezi Medium actress, Radhika Madan. They have been quite close and used to hang out together. Radhika Madan had also been at Smriti Khanna and Gautam Gupta's wedding. Radhika Madan has now entered Bollywood and is now a big name in B-town. She has given some amazing performances and her recent ekta Kapoor's fourth sea - Kumeria's chemistry was to Spotboye, said, "The chan - made."The show will also be role in Angrezi Medium has been brilliant. son of Naagin series has been loved by the audience. The nel held a meeting with the revamped post the lockdown Unfortunately, Angrezi Medium had released the favourite of many. All the shoots of the shows have been makers and cast recently, after ends and it will end soon to just a day before the lockdown was imposed in seasons of Naagin have been stopped and hence we will get which Rashami was told that make way for Naagin 5. the country. Radhika Madan's friends Smriti loved by the audience. Mouni the new episodes of the show her character of Shlakha will According to reports in the Khanna and Gautam Gupta spoke about her during an Instagram live chat with us. They Roy, Adaa Khan, Arjun Bijlani, post the shoot resumes after not be taken forward. The Times of India, the actors of were all praises for their Meri Aashiqui Tumse Karanvir Bohra, Surbhi Jyoti, lockdown ends. Recently, it channel and the producers are the show have also been in - Hi co-star Radhika Madan. Smriti Khanna Anita Hassanandani, Pearl V was reported that Rashami wanting to bring the budget formed about the develop - said, "Radhika is doing so well and I am so hap - Puri, Rajat Tokas, Nia Desai who entered the show as down as we know how ments that are going to take py for her. I have watched everything that she Sharma, Rashami Desai, Shalakha will be leaving the crunched the market is as of place on the show once the has been a part of and we feel good." Gautam Sayantani Ghosh and show post the shoot resumes. now. And Rashami was an ex - lockdown ends. yes, Rashami Gupta added, "We feel proud inside." Smriti Vijayendra Kumeria have As per reports in Spotboye, pensive resource. So, a mutual Desai, Nia Sharma, Khanna said that Radhika Madan is a hard - done a great work. Naagin 4 Rashami Desai aka Shalakha decision was taken to let go of Vijayendra Kumeria and Anita working girl. She shared, "yes, we are proud of had been doing quite well on will not be a part of the show her character. Decision on Nia Hassanandani are aware of the her, not just because she is my friend but other - the TRP charts as well. Nia post the shoot resumes after Sharma and Vijayendra changes that will take place in wise also she is doing a great job and she is very Sharma and Vijayendra the lockdown. A source close Kumeria is yet to be Naagin 4. good actor and performer. When Deepika Padukone pulled Ranbir Kapoor's cheeks Master: Kanchana 3 actress Vedhika Kumar recreates Thalapathy Vijay's and made him blush during the promotions of Tamasha Kutty Story in the cutest way possible and replies, "Right now I want to pinch his cheeks. So cute. Allele." Later, Imtiaz also pulled Ranbir's cheeks and said that he also wants to do the same. On the work front, Deepika Padukone will be next seen in Kabir Khan's '83, which also features husband Ranveer Singh in a lead role. Talking about the actress coming on board, director Kabir Khan earlier told us, "I think the background, the fact that her dad, Prakash Padukone was a sports super - star, that influenced her very strongly. It wasn't because Deepika had agreed to do the film that I wrote the role. Deepika liked the role, and that's why she agreed to do the film. We never ini - tially intended it that way (Deepika be - It's finally here the first ever single by Madhuri ing a part of the film), and as Deepika Dixit, and what hits you immediately is her power - said, there's a certain support role that ful, melodious voice. Agreed, she had a fine voice the family plays, and I wanted to cap - and excellent dialogue-delivery style as an actress, ture that, which is why I wrote the char - but where have you been hiding your singing talent acter of Romi, and when I narrated it to all this time, ma'am. Well...as they say, better late Deepika, I knew it was a small role. So, I than never, and what a time and cause to release said to Deepika, 'Just listen to the film. your first single in english) for, when it's been ded - Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika to reunite soon, a throwback interview icated to the frontline workers across the world Padukone's onscreen mesmerising of the duo along with director Imtiaz If you like it, you'll come on board, if during the coronavirus pandemic. Shots of chemistry has won the hearts of their Ali during the promotions of Tamasha not, you won't come on board. She Madhuri crooning her song are interspersed with fans and films like Bachna Ae Haseeno, surfaced on the internet. In the video, heard the film, and she knew it was arresting visuals of frontline workers striving for yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani and we see Imtiaz asking Deepika, "What about the team and the boys and Kapil. the betterment and safety of humanity, to create Tamasha are classic examples of that. are your feelings for Ranbir Kapoor?" But, she just loved the script and so, she one timeless melody as a whole. While the moviegoers want this couple To which the actress pulls RK's cheeks came on board." Deepika Padukone's kiss for her cutie, Ranveer Singh is the best thing on internet today Popular south actress Vedhika Kumar, who is known Deepika Padukone and Ranveer thing we have seen today. After for her performances in films like Kanchana 3, Ruler, Singh aka DeepVeer have upped the the post, the comments section Shivalinga and others, has been showcasing her dancing PDA quotient on social media with their was filled with so many lovey- skills in lockdown period by posting some cool videos on quarantine pictures. The coronavirus dovey comments from #Deep - her social media account. The gorgeous lady has now post - outbreak in the country has been a mat - Veer fans and also from their ed a new video, where she recreated Thalapathy Vijay's ter of concern for everyone. There is a friends and family. Recently, chartbuster track, Kutty Story and her amazing facial ex - complete lockdown situation right now Deepika had revealed that she has pressions won our hearts in no time. Talking about Master, and the Government has been con - joint hands with Instagram for an the film was supposed to release in April but got delayed stantly asking the citizens not to step initiative where she wants to due to the global crisis of coronavirus. Recently, Raveena out of their houses. Celebrities have share how she is nurturing her Ravi, who did the dubbing for Master's lead actress, been spreading awareness about the mental health amid the pan - Malavika Mohanan, said that she was pleasantly shocked same and have been requesting their demic. She had said, "I am sure by Vijay's characterization and wondered how the actor ac - fans not to go outside and take this de - we all agree that the past several cepted to perform some of the scenes. She also went on to clared holiday as a vacation. Celebs weeks have not only been excep - say that it is not like his usual commercial entertainers and have also been sharing their quarantine tionally unusual but also very dif - there is something special behind it. Appreciating his di - plans with us. And the ones who have ficult; uncertainty about the rector, Lokesh Kangaraj, Thalapathy Vijay said in a music launch, "With Maanagaram, Lokesh made us notice his tal - been grabbing all the attention are Ran - future, loss of livelihoods, and the ent. His next film Kaithi made us watch it again and again. veer Singh and Deepika Padukone. inability to be around family and Lokesh has a special talent. Being a banker, he has man - Their cute videos and pictures are giv - loved ones, are just a few of the aged to do a film like Maanagaram, which has a complex ing us some major #CoupleGoals. challenges facing us. And situa - script. He won't even have a scene break-up paper in his Deepika enjoying her Nutella with tions such as these often lead to hand on the set of Master and I was confused seeing this. I 'Khilji' printed on it, having late night or aggravate mental illness. I look wondered how to work with him for the next few months. pizzas and their cute conversations on forward to sharing with all of you Later, I realised, Lokesh is not just a planner, but a master- each other's posts. These two are surely some of the things I’ve been doing planner." The actor concluded the speech with a punch- the cutest couple of B-town. Deepika over the past several weeks to line to his haters, "Kill them with your success, bury them Padukone's recent kiss on world’s most nurture my mental health, and I with your smile. 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