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@thesikhtimes facebook.com/ instagram.com/ thesikhtimes thesikhtimes VISIT: PUBLISHED FROM Delhi, Haryana, Uttar www.thesikhtimes.in Pradesh, Punjab, The Sikh Times Email:[email protected] Chandigarh, Himachal and Jammu National Daily Vol. 12 No. 212 RNI NO. DELENG/2008/25465 New Delhi, Tuesday, 22 December, 2020 [email protected] 9971359517 12 pages. 2/- Simmi Kaur Babbar All flights from UK to India suspended from Dec 23 to 31 following new coronavirus strain Black laws New Delhi: India has decided to suspend all inbound flights from the UK following the emergence of a new highly virulent strain of the SARS-COV2 virus that caus- es Covid. The decision followed an expert meeting of the Health Ministry’s joint monitoring group which rea- against Kissan soned for abundant caution as the new strain is under review. The JMG met on Monday to study evidence from the UK which said the bee strain was out of the country and was 70 per cent more infectious than the original. “Considering the prevailing situation in the UK. Govt of will be burnt India has decided that all flights originating from the UK to India to be suspended till December 31 (23.59 hours),” the Ministry of Civil Aviation said. The ministry said the suspension would start from 23.59 hours, December 22. Consequently flights from India to UK shall stand tem- porarily suspended during the above said period. The government has further decided that as a measure of abundant precaution, passengers arriving from the UK in all transit flights (flights that have taken off or flights which are reaching India before December 22 at 23.59 hrs) should be subject to mandatory RT-PCR test on arrival at the airports concerned. outside the Night curfew in Maharashtra cities; new rules for European arrivals Mumbai: Ahead of the Christmas and New Year cele- brations, the Maharashtra government on Monday Prime Minister's Office declared a night curfew in municipal corporation areas from December 22 to January 5 as a precautionary step amid growing concerns over a new coronavirus variant spreading in Britain. According to an official statement, On Wednesday, 23rd December, it has also been decided to compulsorily put in institu- tional quarantine for 14 days those who fly in from European and West Asian countries.The institutional protestors will proceed peacefully quarantining of the travellers from these countries will begin from Monday itself, it said. Passengers coming from other countries to Maharashtra, the worst COVID- 19-affected state in the country, will be home quaran- to South Block at 2:30 p.m from tined, the statement said. The decisions were taken after Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray held a review meeting at his official residence Varsha here in the light of the sit- uation in the UK. Thackeray has asked officials to ensure ITO New Delhi-110002 strict screening of international passengers, the state- ment said. A decision has been taken to impose a night curfew from Monday (December 22) 11 pm onwards to 6 am in municipal corporation areas (cities) of the state. APPEAL “It will be in effect till January 5, Thackeray said, accord- ing to the statement. Additional precaution is being taken in the state due to the new variant of coronavirus and we Kindly join us. need to remain extra alert over the next 15 days, he added. Once passengers arriving from European and Middle- Eastern put in institutional quarantine, their RT- PCR test will be conducted on the fifth or seventh day, Gurcharan Singh Babbar the statement said. They will be allowed to go home only after their quarantine period is over, it said. Thackeray instructed municipal commissioners to arrange for President hotels and separate hospitals to quarantine passengers arriving at international airports in their respective juris- All India Sikh Conference diction. The chief minister also gave instruction to arrange for separate hospitals for passengers coming from European countries and showing symptoms of the 5, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, ITO, New Delhi Contact: 9971359517/9312262300 new coronavirus variant, the statement said. 2 New Delhi, Tuesday, 22 December, 2020 BUSINESS THE SIKH TIMES NEWS BOX Markets trade flat after China makes stunning recovery in weak opening, Sensex briefly crosses 47,000 export, factories scramble for workers New Delhi Domestic market indices were trading flat on Monday after initially opening in the red. Both S&P BSE Sensex and NSE turnaround comes as China has mostly now stretching into 2022.His factories Nifty 50 fell due to weakness in banking With China`s eradicated the virus and contrasts with now employ about 100 extra temporary stocks and damp global cues. But the losses the sluggish comebacks seen in major workers on top of 1,000 or so regular were capped by a rise in Reliance Industries manufacturing industrialised peers, where factories are staff.Although manufacturing investment Limited (RIL). still struggling with pandemic was slow to recover, falling 3.5% over the At 9:18 am, Sensex was down 0.43 per cent at recovery soaring past d i s r u p t i o n s a n d t h e h i t t o first 11 months, strong export demand 46,766.44, while the Nifty 50 index fell demand.China`s global export share helped it rebound in the last quarter. nearly 0.5 per cent to 13,692.40. its yearly increased to over 13% in the second and Investment jumped 12.5% year-on-year in third quarters from 11% last year, November, up from 3.7% in October, By 10:30 am, both indexes wriggled out of the according to Nomura, the highest for any according to research from analysts at negative territory and were trading flat. expectations, quarter since at least 2006 when the CICC, an investment bank.Zhang However, it remains to be seen if markets will investment bank started compiling the Qinming, who owns a company be able to stay in positive territory amid factories are now data.While emergency stimulus in the manufacturing speakers for European and global weakness after the discovery of a new But with clients chasing her heels, Deng United States and Europe pumped money bought two automated production lines at American markets, says demand is 25% Covid-19 strain in the UK.Scientists said the struggling to fill a into consumers` wallets, the fight to contain the end of November to boost efficiency. higher than in previous years.He`s been new variant has a transmission rate of 70 per the virus in those markets fired up demand paying his normal staff overtime to keep up cent — almost 20 per cent higher than the "We`ve never thought about doing this before, shortage of blue- both for China-made PPE goods and gadgets but this year has been so busy and we`ve and has also hired temporary workers for existing strain. This has spooked investors for westerners stuck at home.Government exhausted our options," she said. "One about 18-19 yuan an hour, 20% more than across the world and the negative sentiment collar workers. data shows that in November there were automated production line is the equivalent his full-time workers. As a last resort, he`s could bring down stock markets in India as more people employed in the industrial of 10 workers."A private index by Renmin leased other factories to take the well.Some of the biggest losers in morning sector in Jinhua city, which includes the load.China`s lopsided trade balance - BEIJING: China`s manufacturing recovery, University tracking demand for blue-collar trade were public banks. The Nifty PSU Bank eastern export hub of Yiwu, than there had labour hit a record in the third quarter. Some exporting three containers for every one fuelled in part by demand from COVID- been at any time since end-2017. imported recently - and delays in containers index fell as much as 2.07 per cent with constrained consumers abroad, has soared factory managers have hiked wages by 25% Canara Bank falling over 3 per cent. Some "We laid off about 50 workers in the first half, to 10,000 yuan ($1,530) per month, well returning to China due to the pandemic past expectations this year, so much so that and now with orders soaring, we`re short of overseas, have created severe shipping prominent private bank stocks also fell in factories are now struggling to fill a shortage above the average starting wage for morning trade.However, RIL came to the staff and not able to further ramp up graduates, according to local media. bottlenecks, now starting to pinch exports. of blue-collar workers to clear mounting production," said Deng Jinling, who owns a rescue as its shares rose as much as 1.27 per orders.The country`s output of industrial For China`s bicycle industry, 2020 is the best The yuan is also hovering near multi-year cent after it announced on Friday with BP Plc thermal flask factory in Yiwu, selling to the year in a decade, with consumers abroad peaks against the dollar, pressuring profits robots, computer equipment, and integrated Middle East, United States and Europe. the start of production from the R Cluster — circuits has roared back from its coronavirus craving exercise and ways to avoid public further. And an official gauge of factory raw an ultra-deepwater gas field in the KG D6 paralysis - production for the year to "We tried hiring dozens of temporary workers transport, said Liang Xiaoling, general materials costs reached the highest level block off the east coast of India. November is up 22.2%, 10.1% and 15.9%, but they`re not good enough," said Deng.manager at Guangzhou-headquartered Trinx since 2017 in November.Despite the red-hot Globally, markets inched lower after fresh respectively.Much of the manufacturing Some workers she laid off have found jobs Bikes."Our capacity maxed out in demand, Liang, of Trinx Bikes, said profits lockdowns were imposed in the UK ahead of boom has come from foreign demand, with back home and are not willing to travel back September and October, and we hired a lot of are being squeezed.