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VOL 14 ISSUE 9 ● NEW YORK / DALLAS ● FEB 28 - MAR 05, 2020 ● ENQUIRIES: 646-247-9458 www.theindianpanorama.news Trump: ‘Namaste, America loves India…America NO MORE 1947 will always remain a loyal friend to India’ NO MORE 1984 NEW DELHI / NEW YORK (TIP): After a productive and awe-inspiring NO MORE 2002 trip to India, US President Donald Trump said that US-India relationship has never been as good as it is right now. President Trump made his first official visit to India along with First Lady Melania Trump, daughter Ivanka and son in law Jared Kushner.The two- day schedule was packed with both working meetings and visits to cultural landmarks such as the Taj Mahal. On Feb 24 President Trump received a roaring welcome from over 100,000 Eminent Ophthalmologist VK Raju people at a rally in Ahmedabad, hosted honored by Egyptian by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Ophthalmology Society Modi. contd on Page 32 Founder-President of President Trump (left) and Prime Minister Eye Foundation of Modi making a joint declaration in Delhi, America Dr. VK Raju February 25. was honored by the Photo / Mohammed Jaffer-SnapsIndia Egyptian Ophthalmology Society with a medal for his Delhi Communal clashes snuff out 42 India’s Ambassador to the US contribution in the field of prevention of Lives; More than 350 injured; Property Taranjit Singh Sandhu to be blindness among children worldwide worth thousands of crores destroyed accorded a Welcome reception in

CAIRO (TIP): Dr. VK Raju, an Change of guard in Delhi Police New Jersey on March 15 eminent ophthalmologist based in Diaspora community organizations of Morgan Town, West Virginia, USA was invited to Cairo by the Egyptian NY-NJ-CT to participate Ophthalmology Society to speak on ISELIN, NJ (TIP): Consulate childhood blindness. He lectured on General of India , New York and the difficult cataract surgery, prevention of Federation of Indian Associations blindness in premature children. The NY-NJ-CT will be hosting a welcome condition is called ROP (retinopathy of reception to Ambassador Taranjit prematurity). contd on Page 32 Singh Sandhu who took over as India's Ambassador to the United States of America following the Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga to transfer of Harsh Vardhan Shringla step down, insider Miebach as Foreign Secretary in January,2020. tapped The Tri-State of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut community NEW YORK A scene of the destruction organizations are supporting and (TIP): NEW DELHI (TIP): As the death toll rose to 42 amid uneasy participating in the welcome Ambassador Taranjit Mastercard's chief calm in the riot-affected northeast Delhi, the Centre decided , reception scheduled for Sunday, Singh Sandhu is no executive officer February 28, to give additional charge of the city police chief to March 15 from 6 to 9 P.M. at Marriott stranger to Indian of 10 years, Ajay Special Commissioner (Law & Order) SN Shrivastava with effect Woodbridge, 515 US Highway 1 South. Americans. He was with Banga, will step from Sunday, March 1. Iselin, NJ 08830. Ambassador Sandhu PMI in New York from July 2005 to February down at the start Shrivastava, a 1985-batch IPS officer, will take charge from assumed office on February 3 and 2009. He has had two of the next year, incumbent Amulya Patnaik, who retires from office on Saturday, presented his credentials to the long stints in Banga is credited with the company said a Ministry of Home Affairs order said. President of the United States of Washington-1997-2000 steering the company on Tuesday, On Monday, Shrivastava was repatriated from the Central America, Donald Trump at the Oval and 2013-2017. through a period of turmoil in 2008-09 to February 25 Reserve Police Force and appointed Special Commissioner of the office of the White House, February 6. Photo / Jay Mndal-on great strength contd on Page 32 Delhi Police amid the riots. contd on Page 32 contd on page 32 assignment THE INDIAN PANORAMA 2 ADVERTISEMENT FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2020

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Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel (sixth from right) with IOC delegation and officials from his State Organizers with panelists and Rajeev Bhambri NEW YORK (TIP): The officials of economy under Mr. Baghel is doing well. the Indian Overseas Congress, USA, held Its development indicators are sound. Suicide results in more deaths than O'Dea commented recognized the a meeting with Chief Minister of The markets in the State are robust. This war, homicide and natural disasters importance of getting help for Chhattisgarh Bhupesh Baghel in New is primarily due to a set of conscious combined. Over 42,000 people die by depression and other mental illnesses York and congratulated him for the great policies forwarded by the current suicide in the U.S. every year.It is that can lead a person to thoughts of difficult to find anyone whose life has comeback of the Congress Party in the Administration. After the formation of not been affected the suicide of suicide. He highlighted how frightening 2018 election and for the innovative the Government in 2018, it decided to someone they know. Grief, confusion the rise in suicides is, especially in development plans that he has put in adopt Mahatma Gandhi's model of gram and guilt often plague those left behind. teenagers. place. Mr. Baghel was on an official trip swaraj that focuses on the importance of JERSEY CITY, NJ (TIP): On January Lily Arora, MD, an addiction to the United States, showcasing human capital in social development, 22, 2020, SAMHIN conducted an psychiatrist and Anu Upadhyay, MD, a Chhattisgarh and promoting the State and also emphasize the role of nature educational workshop on suicide child and adolescent for Trade and Investment. and the environment in growth. prevention. The audience had an psychiatristdiscussed common In 2018, the Congress party stunned IOC leaders who participated in the opportunity to hear from a panel of misconceptions about suicide and the political Pundits by winning 67 out of meeting included Mohinder Singh psychiatrists and suicide loss survivors. contrasted them with facts. For example, the 90 seats and wrestling the State from Gilzian, president, George Abraham, Presenters discussed the extent of the one myth is a belief that asking someone BJP showcasing its best signs of Vice-Chairman, T.J. Gill, Sr. Vice- problem of suicide, warning signs and about thoughts of suicide could actually resurgence in the 2018 elections. BJP President, Malini Shah, Vice-President, risk factors, and myths and facts about drive them to do it. In reality, reaching was reduced to only 18 seats while Pradeep Samala, Vice-President, Manoj suicide and tips on preventing suicides. out to someone and asking them if there Janata Congress-Bahujan Combine won Shinde, Chairman IT Cell, Sophia About 70 people from across Central is something wrong could lead them to seven. Sharma, General Secretary,Leela Maret, and Northern New Jersey and NYC, realize that such a drastic choice is not A resource-rich state, it is a source of president, Kerala Chapter, Pavan Darisi, majority being from Jersey City, the right answer to their problems. Dr. electricity and steel for the country, President, Andhra Pradesh Chapter, attended the workshop on suicide Arora highlighted a correlation between accounting for 15% of the total steel Rajeswara Reddy, President Telangana prevention. The four-hourworkshop at living in isolation, or in areas with a produced as well as a significant Chapter, Dr. Jayesh Patel, President, Vaibhav Restaurant in Jersey City was larger presence of firearms with contributor of coal, Chhattisgarh is one Gujarat Chapter, Thomas Mottackal, followed by a delicious dinner. Workshop increased rates of suicide. of the fastest-developing states in India. Rajeev.M and Pallav Shah who has was supported by a grant from (Read full story on Even as there is an economic accompanied the Chief Minister during Partnership for Healthier Jersey City. www.theindianpanorama.news) slowdown nationally, Chhattisgarh's his trip across USA. Hudson County Freeholder William THE INDIAN PANORAMA 4 INDIANS ABROAD FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Indian Origin Suella Braverman Sworn Indian American Author in as UK's New Attorney General Receives Prestigious NEA Creative Writing Fellowship

PITTSBURGH, PA (TIP): Pitt English professor Anjali Sachdeva recently received prestigious NEA Creative Writing Fellowship for prose, attached with $25,000 in prize money.She is among the 36 writers chosen this year out of 1,700 applicants. Previous NEA fellows include best-selling authors Anthony Suella Braverman was appointed as Doerr, Jennifer Egan and Louise Erdrich. Attorney General by the Prime Minister Anjali Sachdeva published a collection Borris Johnson on 13 February of nine short stories titled "All the Names They Used for God" in February Anjali Sachdeva's short story collection, All the Names LONDON (TIP): Indian origin 2018. It was the winner of the 2019 They Used for God, is the Suella Braverman QC MP was sworn- Chautauqua Prize. It was named a Best winner of the 2019 in Feb 24 at the Royal Courts of Justice Book of 2018 by NPR, Refinery 29, and Chautauqua Prize. as Attorney General for England and BookRiot, longlisted for the Story Prize, Wales. and chosen as the 2018 Fiction Book of The Lord Chancellor, the Rt Hon the Year by the Reading Women podcast. Robert Buckland QC MP, the Lord The New York Times Book Review called Chief Justice, The Lord Burnett of the collection "strange and wonderful," Maldon, and the Chair of the Bar and Roxane Gay called it, "One of the best Council, Amanda Pinto QC, spoke at collections I've ever read. Every single the ceremony to welcome the Rt Hon story is a stand out." University of Pittsburgh and in the MFA far as places in this universe go. Suella Braverman QC MP to her role. Sachdeva is a graduate of the Iowa program at Randolph College. She has Sachdeva grew up in Pittsburgh and is "I am delighted to welcome the new Writers' Workshop and has taught hiked through the backcountry of a graduate of Shadyside's Winchester Attorney General to this vital and writing at the University of Iowa, Canada, Iceland, Kenya, Mexico, and the Thurston School, Yale University and the historic role.The relationship between Augustana College, and Carnegie Mellon United States, and spent much of her Iowa Writers' Workshop. She teaches the Law Officers and the Lord University. She also worked for six years childhood reading fantasy novels and writing and composition classes at Pitt Chancellor is a crucial one. I look at the Creative Nonfiction Foundation, waiting to be whisked away to an and is working on creating new classes forward to working closely with the where she was Director of Educational alternate universe. Instead, she lives in for the Public and Professional Writing Attorney on matters relating to the Programs. She currently teaches at the Pittsburgh, which is pretty wonderful as major. rule of law, which is the cornerstone of our democracy and a major factor in our success as a civilized and Indian American Wins Princeton University's Indian American prosperous nation", The Lord Mahesh Palashikar Chancellor said. Top Honor for Graduate Students Commenting on the ceremony the Rt Named Member of Hon Suella Braverman QC MP said: "It Algorithms for Reinforcement Learning USIBC Global Board of is a privilege to be sworn in as & Control," seeks ways to improve Attorney General and a moment I will feedback-driven interactive learning Directors cherish as the second woman to be algorithms. Palashikar took over appointed to this historic role. While these algorithms can potentially as president and chief Restoring confidence in the criminal negotiate challenging tasks thought to executive officer justice system is my top priority. I be characteristic of human creativity (CEO) of GE South want to thank my predecessor for his and ingenuity, they are limited in that Asiaon February 1 work in this area and his distinguished they require unreasonably large service to Government." Karan Singh was awarded the SEAS Award numbers of interactions, excessive Called to the Bar in 2005, Suella for Excellence in 2018 amounts of computation, and are Braverman specialized in public law limited to tasks with well-defined or and judicial review. From 2010-2015 she PRINCETON, NJ (TIP): Indian easily specified objectives, Singh said. was on the Attorney General's Panel of American Karan Singh along with three "The results in my thesis are aimed at Treasury Counsel. She has defended others have been named winners of the designing principled algorithms for WASHINGTON (TIP): The US India the Home Office in immigration cases, Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship, Reinforcement Learning addressing Business Council (USIBC) announced the Parole Board in challenges by Princeton University's top honor for these issues with provable guarantees on two new members of the Global Board prisoners and the Ministry of Defense graduate students. The Jacobus Fellows computational and statistical efficiency, of Directors -- Lockheed Martin in matters relating to injuries were honored at Alumni Day ceremonies under reasonable assumptions," Singh International Senior Vice President Tim sustained in battle. Saturday,Feb. 22, at Jadwin Gymnasium. said. "Quite often, distilling down a Cahill and GE South Asia President & Suella Braverman was The fellowships support the students' problem to its mathematical essence CEO Mahesh Palashikar. Parliamentary Under Secretary of final year of study at Princeton and are enables the exchange and inter- On February 1 Palashikar took over State at the Department for Exiting the awarded to one Ph.D. student in each of operability of techniques and ideas from as president and chief executive officer European Union from January to the four divisions (humanities, social diverse fields of study. This is a (CEO) of GE South Asia with the November 2018. She was elected as the sciences, natural sciences and recurring theme in my thesis, which responsibility for the India, Bangladesh Conservative MP for Fareham in May engineering) whose work has exhibited combines tools from control theory, and Sri Lanka markets. Palashikar has 2015. the highest scholarly excellence. The dynamical systems, harmonic analysis 20 years of experience in GE, working Suella was educated at Heathfield fellows all plan to pursue academic and theoretical computer science." with the company's manufacturing School in London and went on to study careers. In 2018, Singh was awarded the SEAS operations, global supply chain, and Law at Queens' College, Cambridge. Karan Singh, a doctoral student in Award for Excellence. He received the within GE's Healthcare, Power and She gained a Masters in Law from the computer science who came to Princeton Spotlight Prize at the New York Renewable Energy businesses. Till University of Paris 1, Pantheon- in 2015, earned a bachelor of technology Academy of Sciences' 12th Annual recently, he led GE's onshore wind Sorbonne and qualified as a New York in computer science from the Indian Machine Learning Symposium and the business for Asia Pacific.During his GE Attorney. Institute of Technology, Kanpur. ICML 2017 Travel Award. career, Mahesh has lived in India, USA His dissertation, "Provably Efficient and China. THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2020 ADVERTISEMENT 5 THE INDIAN PANORAMA 6 MISCELLANY FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2020 Judicial anguish: High Court red-flags inaction Minimum government: On over Delhi violence he political leaders who fanned breakdown of governance in Delhi the flames both during and after Tthe Delhi Assembly elections can't wash their hands of the violence The Centre faces a trust deficit as it seeks to restore public order in riot-hit Delhi that has claimed 35 lives so far, even as The communal violence that has matter with the urgency that the police action against him. While the their party leadership has largely taken claimed 42 lives since Sunday has been situation demands on Wednesday, protests against the controversial a lenient view of their irresponsible subdued but tensions continue to simmer incapacitated itself a day later as a Citizenship Amendment Act took a utterances. On Wednesday, the Delhi in Delhi. Stories of human courage and different bench headed by the Chief communal turn in several places, a High Court expressed anguish over the camaraderie that shone through amid Justice D.N. Patel put the case off to April counter-mobilization also on communal Delhi Police's failure to register FIRs orchestrated mayhem offer hope, but 13. Meanwhile, Kapil Mishra, one of the lines has pushed the city to the brink in against four BJP leaders over their hate what rankles is the complete breakdown BJP leaders against whom police action recent weeks. Right to assemble and speeches. A Bench of justices S of governance from top to bottom in the was sought, called for a rally on Saturday, protest is a fundamental right, but its Muralidhar and Talwant Singh national capital. Several credible purportedly for peace but clearly exercise has to be in accordance with wondered why the police, who had accounts of horrendous acts of omission intended to stoke the fire. The arguments requirements of public order. It is the lodged several FIRs in connection with and commission by the Delhi Police have of the country's law officer were a public duty of the police to ensure that incidents of arson, looting and stone- emerged. Instead of taking the police to admission of the government's refusal to constitutional guarantees are upheld on pelting, had not shown similar urgency task and wringing them into action, the act against members of the BJP. With the one hand, while, on the other, life and to bring to book politicians who made Central government and the Delhi such blatant partisanship and abdication work goes on normally for the general incendiary remarks. The police's Lieutenant-Governor have fielded the of responsibility, the government cannot population. The Central and Delhi reluctance to take action against the Solicitor-General to shield them from be expected to stop violence and restore governments, the police, and the hate-mongers found an echo in the judicial scrutiny.The Centre's position in communal peace. judiciary have come up short against Centre's view that the court should not the court that action cannot be taken Meanwhile, the Delhi police have acted these markers of the rule of law.They are hurriedly order the lodging of FIRs, against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) swiftly against Tahir Hussain, an Aam all facing a severe deficit of trust among which would eventually be registered leaders who made incendiary speeches Aadmi Party (AAP) Councilor accused of the citizens. Peace and normalcy can be when the situation became 'conducive'. until the police had perused all such involvement in murder and keeping achieved only through restoration of the What the Centre is doing to restore speeches is analogous to arguing that one sticks, stones and petrol mobs on the majesty and impartiality of the normalcy is anybody's guess. criminal cannot be probed unless all terrace of his house that was surrounded government. Unfortunately, there is no (Read full story on others are also probed - a bizarre logic. by a mob. The AAP has since suspended effort visible in that direction. www.theindianpanorama.news) The Delhi High Court, which took up the him from membership and endorsed the (The Hindu) South Asian and Indo Lava Mobiles Signs $90 Million Equity Investment Agreement with Global Caribbean Media Roundtable on Emerging Markets (GEM)

the 2020 Census on March 2 NEW DELHI / NEW YORK (TIP): India-based Lava International Ltd (the "Company") is pleased to announce that on February 25, 2020, it has signed an NY City Mayor's agreement ("Agreement") with GEM Global Yield Fund LLC SCS ("GEM"), Census Office and part of the Global Emerging Markets Group, for the investment of up to U.S. family of funds and investment vehicles New York $90 million into the Company over the provide GEM and its partners with period of next 36 months through a exposure to Small-Mid Cap Management Immigration Share Subscription Facility. The facility Buyouts, Private Investments in Public will allow the Company to sell American Equities (PIPEs) and select venture depositary receipts to GEM in exchange investments. GEM's funds include the Coalition for drawing down available funds and CITIC-GEM Fund (matured in December Asian American Federation; Ahsia Badi, can be used entirely at the Company's 2015), Kinderhook Industries (GP and LP Collaborate New York State Census Director, Emgage discretion subject to certain non-voting stakes), GEM Global Yield USA and Annetta Seecharran, Executive requirements. LLC SCS, GEM India and VC Bank/GEM NEW YORK (TIP): NYC Census 2020 Director, Chhaya Community The Company will use the funds to Mena Fund (GEM exited both its GP and and the New York Immigration Coalition Development Corporation. strengthen its business by funding its LP stakes in these funds in 2015 and 2010, are hosting a South Asian and Indo- The South Asian and Indo-Caribbean research, development and business respectively). Caribbean Media Roundtable for media media roundtable will focus on the expansion activities, with the objective About Lava Mobiles that represent and serve these critical importance of the census in of becoming a market leader in the sub- communities in New York City, on March determining billions of dollars for $150 cellular phone segment. Lava International Limited is an 2, just nine days before the launch of the education, healthcare, housing, Rajiv Khanna, Daniel Richey and Indian multi-national company in the 2020 Census. transportation, and more, as well as Sarah Tobias of Buchanan Ingersoll & mobile handset industry with a presence The Roundtable on Monday, March 2 ensuring that all New Yorkers from all Rooney P.C. represented Lava of over 20 countries, founded in 2009 and will be held from 10.30 AM to Noon at New backgrounds are fully represented in the International Limited in this is primarily involved in designing, York Immigration Coalition: 131 W 33rd nation's once-in-a-decade count of its transaction. manufacturing & selling handsets (both Street, Ste 610 (between 6th and 7th populace. About GEM feature phones and smartphones), Avenues), New York City. Collectively, NYC's South Asian and tablets and accessories in India and Present on the occasion will be Meeta Indo-Caribbean communities are among Global Emerging Markets ("GEM") is a abroad. The company has already Anand, Senior Fellow, New York the largest, most diverse, and fastest- $3.4 billion alternative investment group developed India's first "India Designed Immigration Coalition (moderator); Amit growing immigrant groups in New York that manages a diverse set of investment Feature Phone" and is currently 2nd Singh Bagga, Deputy Director, Mayor's City. Though South Asians and Indo- vehicles focused on emerging markets largest feature phone brand in India, Census Office (New York Census 2020); Caribbean groups have had a discernible across the world and have completed with a market share of 18%. The Fahd Ahmed, Executive Director, DRUM presence in New York City since the 1960s, 370+ transactions in 70 countries. GEM's company is set to expand its activities to (Desis Rising Up and Moving); Aliya populations are continuing to rapidly investment vehicles provide the group further capture significant market share Bhatia, Census Manager, ABNY grow and diversify, yielding new and its investors with a diversified in sub $150 segment market. (Association for a Better New York); opportunities, challenges, and forms for portfolio of asset classes that span the https://www.lavamobiles.com/ Mariam Rauf, Census Outreach Manager, community-based organizing. global private investing spectrum. It's (Press Release) THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2020 PHOTO FEATURE 7 President Donald Trump’s historic India visit through the lens of Mohammed Jaffer One of The Indian Panorama press pool which covered the President's Jaffer filed with us a couple of Mohammed Jaffer / SnapsIndia photographers Mohammed Jaffer of two day visit to India, February 24 and photographs of the historic event which SnapsIndia accompanied US President's 25. we share here with our readers. THE INDIAN PANORAMA 8 EDITORIAL FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2020 AS I SEE IT

By Maj Gen Amrit Pal SIngh (Retd) Perpetrating communal Religious extremism and violenceis terrorism intolerance are dominating familiar pattern and are fed on virulent the landscape. Politicians ideologies, backed by political patronage. The fact that the courts have had to pass have elevated religious diktats to the executive indicates that the differences to a terror powers that be have been found wanting - and primarily have allowed the police form. The terrorists forces to go adrift. Stark comparisons of operate in a familiar the police inaction in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in Delhi and the present violence pattern and are fed on cannot be missed. virulent ideologies, backed In 1984, the Delhi Police were mute spectators and ineffective in the discharge by political patronage. The of their duties. The police watched as the fact that the courts have pogrom was perpetrated by mobs, led in most cases, by local political heavyweights had to pass diktats to the - all displaying allegiance to the ruling party at that time. The mobs were executive indicates that organized and armed with lists of was done to dispel the impression (to the upholding of the law. The handpicked the powers that be have residents to target localities and houses of world) of a police state due to heavy leadership was found wanting, yet it was Sikhs. The trigger to the violence was deployment of forces, then it obviously allowed to carry on despite the threat been found wanting. prematurely given a communal tenor and a backfired. increasing with the anti-CAA protests, the aving fought terrorists in J&K and section of the police took sides. In both 1984 and 2020, the police forces Delhi elections and Trump's visit. There is in the North-East, most soldiers In 2020, too, the fault-lines along religion have mirrored the ideology of the ruling no substitute for impeccable leadership Hmust be at a loss in understanding are being leveraged. Some in the police political dispensation. There has been a and the politics of deep selection of the top the terror unleashed in our cities by have taken sides. Entire colonies have been partisan response to threats and the police brass has probably led to this debacle that religious extremists, egged on by attacked and gutted on the basis of the seem to be functioning ruthlessly as an the Home Ministry and the police face politicians. The scourge of terrorism has demographic and religious profile by agent for the government in power. This today despite being flush with resources. always been associated with terror organized and well-controlled mobs. has made basic community policing The projection of the business-as-usual emanating from foreign soil, and in some The build-up to this violence in the NCR difficult to discharge and has led to a loss of image attempted by the government to cases, from home-grown terror outfits. was not a surprise or an intelligence public confidence. downplay the simmering tensions by the This form of terror is being addressed with failure. Many experts opine it was to be The Dhingra Commission investigating Balakot strike anniversary also being reasonable success by multiple agencies. anticipated and expected. However, it was the 1984 anti-Sikh riots was scathing in its celebrated like the Uri surgical strike was However, the terror unleashed by religious allowed to fester and ferment by the law comments against the Union Government avoidable. These operations on the tactical groups and violence in the name of and order machinery, probably based on a and the Delhi Police for not finding the and operational scale are definitely nationalism and religious fundamentalism design. The actions of the cops ranged perpetrators of the riots, murder and indicators of our political resolve to is something that we as a nation need to be from the extremes of inaction to looting by lack of interest shown by the combat terror.Tinkering with the selection prepared for. We were not, as the riots in overreaction, as demonstrated from the police to proceed with investigations and of military leaders to choose 'a few good Delhi have clearly demonstrated. incidents at JNU and Jamia Millia Islamia. punishing the culprits. It opined that, men' may result in a weak and pliant top Religious extremism and intolerance are Prompt and decisive action, as allowed instead, they hushed up cases and shielded brass eager to please and flex military dominating the landscape, spurred by by law, could have thwarted arson, them, as is happening now with armed muscle to further political gains. It is hoped permissive or even supportive political lynching and public brandishing of police personnel providing protection to the armed forces' leadership doesn't go the leaders. They have elevated religious weapons. The mere excuse that action hate-mongering politicians. police way. Identifying and prosecuting differences to a terror form - what else is it would lead to being branded ham-handed is The leadership of the police force has such terror is as urgent as dealing with if houses burn and lives are lost to mob escapist and unacceptable from a also been under a cloud since the lawyers- foreign terror. We must deny these groups' fury? These musclemen have rebranded professional force. Intelligence inputs were versus-police clashes that took place in the credibility and destroy their narratives. themselves as local political supporters either ignored or did not percolate to the Tis Hazari courts in November 2019. The Such hate-mongers must be declared and have entered mainstream politics, actionable levels, leading to a perceptible Delhi Police leadership's credibility took a terrorists and their goons must be dealt albeit of hate, and thriving on the bogey of ostrich mentality and focusing on the mega hit when the force was made to back down with under the law. insecurity. These terrorists operate in a visit of US President Donald Trump. If this while elements in it felt they were acting in (The author is a Military commentator) COMMENT No More 1947; no more 1984; no more 2002; no more 2020

Prof I.S.Saluja lives saved. The pattern was repeated in 2002? Are the police all across the speech which surely provoked people in 2002 when in Gujarat, communal country trained that way? Or, is it the intoviolence. Those who make 3000 SOS calls made over 4 days of violence erupted taking a heavy toll of dharma of the police to obey, not the provocative statements and instigate communal violence raging in some life and property. Police even there law, but those who control political people to communal violence are guilty 1parts of Delhi, and no response preferred to look the other way while power? of creating conditions of civil war and from 85000 strong Delhi Police force to the arsonists and perpetrators of Is it a coincidence that 2002 Gujarat destabilizing the nation, and as such, come to the aid of the victims. The violence continued to loot and kill communal violence took place under should be treated as traitors. result: 42 lives snuffed out. Over 350 without a finger being raised by the the duo of Narendra Modi and Amit India has suffered enough. Indians injured. Property worth thousands of police. Shah when they were Chief Minister have suffered enough from 1947 crores destroyed. And relationships It has happened again, in Delhi and Home Minister respectively of the through 1984 and 2002. Already, another ruptured, may be, beyond repair. where over three to four days, goons State, and the 2020 Delhi communal wound has been inflicted in the body of Reminds one of 1984 when thousands went around, beating and killing, violence took place under the same the nation in the form of recent Delhi of Sikhs made frantic calls without damaging property right under the team with one being the Prime Communal clashes. Every time there is any response from police. The result, nose of the police. Reports say, at Minister and the other being the Home a communal clash it is a stab in the over 10,000 lost their lives. Hundreds of places, police actively connived with Minister? It is an interesting heart of Mother India. Let those who women were raped. Thousands were the goons. So, the 1984 and 2002 pattern coincidence. love Mother India desist from any injured. were repeated in 2020. Is it a However, getting back to the conduct further crimes against their mother. Had the police done their duty in coincidence that the police in Delhi in of police in Delhi, it is quite strange Let us pledge today: "No more 1947; 1984, the barbaric and tragic incident 1984 and in 2020 conducted itself in a that the High Court had to pull up no more 1984; no more 2002 and no could have been avoided, and precious similar fashion as police did in Gujarat police to move forward incases of hate more 2020." THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2020 PERSPECTIVE 9 Scripting an audacity of hope, the Sanders way always a bit of an exaggeration, the unions and advocacy groups representing working Americans did have some influence within it. Because of that, the Democratic Party was behind the two By Vivek Chibber waves of expansion of the welfare state - first the New Deal under Franklin D. Roosevelt, and then Lyndon B. Johnson's Mr. Sanders is succeeding Great Society programs in the late 1960s. because he is attracting voters But, by the 1980s, this connection was who are either ignored or severed. Under Bill Clinton, the Democrats “ became Republican-lite - committed to the actively discouraged from voting by same neoliberal economic principles. As his Party. And with every victory, his Gore Vidal brilliantly described it: "There campaign is gaining exponentially in is only one Party in the United States, the strength. After five decades of Property Party... and it has two right neglect and abuse, working-class wings: Republican and Democrat." Americans had given up on the Rebellion against the elites system. Their cynicism and sense of What is unfolding now is something hopelessness was not only accepted akin to a rebellion against this order, with by the two Parties but encouraged Mr. Sanders at its helm. The Vermont Senator has never been a Democrat. He The rise of the Vermont Senator as a frontrunner has upended many mythsand opened up by them. Up to this past weekend, several possibilities. Bernie Sanders, the presidential candidate emerging as the favorite to win has always run as an Independent, the Democratic nomination, shakes hands with supporters the message on the airwaves was, eschewing any connection with either Photo / Courtesy Sanders Campaign "he cannot win". The idea is for Party. But once he decided to run for every household to feel that even if President, he knew that it would be suicide even consider social insurance policies, minorities are the most economically they feel attracted to his program, to try it outside the Democratic Party.This they are merely reflecting American desperate section of the American they are alone in their sentiments - was Ralph Nader's great error in 2000, values. But in fact, public opinion polls population. They are the natural because in a winner-takes-all system, have shown for decades that, when the constituency for a campaign centering on that that the mythical 'center', will small third-party campaigns are question is posed appropriately, economic justice. reject him". inevitably viewed as spoilers. They not Americans have expressed the same desire Mr. Sanders is succeeding because he is he emergence of Bernie Sanders as only lose, but end up draining votes from for social insurance as publics everywhere attracting voters who are either ignored or the frontrunner in the Democratic their closest ideological competitor - in else. It is not that they are suspicious of big actively discouraged from voting by his TParty primaries has stunned the this case, it would be the Democrats. Mr. government, but that they have given up Party. And with every victory, his world. But it shouldn't have. The U.S. is Nader lost, and then was vilified for hoping that the state will ever do anything campaign is gaining exponentially in merely joining in the wave of electoral supposedly draining votes away from Mr. for them. Mr. Sanders is the first political strength. After five decades of neglect and insurrections that are upending the Gore. So, Mr. Sanders registered in the figure in almost two generations to break abuse, working-class Americans had given political order across the world. Party and ran under its umbrella, first in through the embargo, and it has caught up on the system. Their cynicism and Underneath it are two fundamental 2016 and then again in this cycle. fire. sense of hopelessness was not only drivers. First, the phenomenal growth in But make no mistake, Mr.Sanders is also The second myth is that the only way to accepted by the two Parties but inequality, both of income and wealth. running against the Democratic Party. win is by veering toward the 'center', encouraged by them. Up to this past After a period of four decades, from the And the Party's leadership understands which makes a Sanders platform suicidal weekend, the message on the airwaves 1930s through the 1970s, in which the gap that, which is why it is trying its best to because centrist voters are hostile to the was, "he cannot win". The idea is for every between the rich and poor actually defeat him. The last time anyone ran on a policies it espouses. This has been the household to feel that even if they feel narrowed, economic inequality today is platform as progressive as Mr. Sanders's most common justification for eschewing attracted to his program, they are alone in back to the levels not seen for 100 years. was in 1984, when Jesse Jackson took on progressive policies for decades, and it is a their sentiments - that that the mythical But it isn't just that the rich have got the emerging right wing in the Party with variant of the first myth. Once again, 'center', will reject him. richer. It is also that the standard of his 'Rainbow Coalition'. Mr. Jackson's politicians are supposedly just following But with every win, every success, the working class living has actually declined campaign was in many ways very similar what the public wants. But what is not brute facts have become impossible to in many ways. Wages have stagnated for 40 to Mr. Sanders's. It proposed national mentioned is that only about half of the ignore. Iowa showed that he had a real years, and to maintain their income, healthcare, a raise in the minimum wage, American electorate participates in base; New Hampshire confirmed that it families have had to work longer and extending the social safety net and also a presidential elections - and it is the was not a fluke; Nevada has shown that he longer hours. As a result, health indicators shift in foreign policy. Nobody expected it wealthier half. Poorer voters have given up is not only able to attract minority voters, among the poor have declined as overwork, to succeed, and yet he made a serious run on the system precisely because the but that he is by far the most popular exhaustion, and anxiety have become for the Party nomination - so much so, that system is not only indifferent, but hostile candidate among them. Mr. Sanders got epidemic. Several recent studies report not a panicked Party had to take desperate to them. They choose not to vote. So, the more votes in Nevada than the next three only dramatic increases in psychological measures to prevent its success, including 'center' of the voting population is much to candidates combined. The Party is in full- stress among Americans, but also that its shutting down polling booths in many the left of the part that typically votes. It is blown panic and, over the next months, main cause is job insecurity and overwork cities where Mr. Jackson was gaining to this section, shunted aside and ignored, will do everything it can to stop him. - economic factors. All this while the U.S. is momentum. But Mr.Sanders's campaign is to which Mr. Sanders is making his But its power is limited. The fact is that the only industrial country without a more radical, if only because the forces it appeals, and it is working. the American Parties have very little national healthcare plan. Hence, the is taking on are so much more entrenched Welfare of minorities control over who can and cannot run on physical and psychological breakdown after 40 years of neoliberal turn. Mr. their tickets. Anyone is free to enter a goes untreated - and we have the hitherto Jackson ran when unions and civic The final myth is that Mr. Sanders is primary, and if they can attract enough unimaginable fact that life expectancy organizations still had some weight inside proposing "white" policies that ignore votes, it is very hard to stop them. And the among adult males has actually decreased the Party, and he could garner some issues of race and ethnicity. This is the Party leadership's helplessness is in recent years, for the first time in over a support from them. Mr. Sanders stands most toxic of the shibboleths. It supposes becoming palpable. The last weapon they century - and that too, among white males, virtually alone, having only the forces he that economic issues - of wages, had was their fear mongering, and now the section of the population pilloried by built up, or has helped build up since 2016, healthcare, education, etc. - do not attract that too has become ineffective. the left as "privileged". In the richest as his support base. black and brown voters. And yet, Mr. Mr. Sanders has tapped into a deep, country in the world, the lifespan of Mr. Sanders's success has upended Sanders has built up the biggest following simmering sentiment among the working-class men is now getting shorter. several myths about the American of all the candidates among non-white American people. It is far more dangerous This collapse in living standards has electorate, which the two parties have used voters. He is the most trusted and most than anger. It is hope - and it threatens to been overseen by both political parties in to justify their neoliberal policies. The first loved by minorities of any politician in overturn the entire political the U.S.'s two-party system. This is the is that the reason America does not have a America. In Nevada, Mr.Sanders garnered establishment. second driver. The Democratic Party was robust welfare state is that the public is a staggering 70% of the Latino vote and (The author is a Professor of Sociology at New once seen as the party of the working uniquely suspicious of "big government". was a close second to Joe Biden among the York University and editor of Catalyst magazine) class. And while this description was In other words, when politicians refuse to Blacks. The reason is obvious - because THE INDIAN PANORAMA 10 SOUTH ASIA FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2020

China to send 'duck army' to help Pakistan In Malaysia, Mahathir, fight locusts BEIJING (TIP): China is planning Anwar vie for power to dispatch a 100,000-strong army of ducks to help Pakistan combat a KUALA LUMPUR (TIP): Malaysia massive locust infestation, a local was plunged into a bitter power struggle newspaper reported Thursday. The on Wednesday as Mahathir Mohamad legion of lotus-eating waterfowl will be sought to form a unity government sent from the eastern province of following his shock resignation, but old Zhejiang following the earlier dispatch foe Anwar Ibrahim also pushed to of a team of Chinese experts to become premier. Pakistan to advise on a response to the The developments deepened a crisis infestation that is being called the that began when the ruling coalition — worst in 20 years, the Ningbo Evening which included both men when it News said. AP stormed to a historic poll victory in 2018 — fell apart after a failed bid to establish Missing teen found a new government without Anwar. dead inside lion’s cage Anwar was Mahathir's designated successor, but he would likely have been at Lahore zoo pushed out and blocked from becoming LAHORE (TIP): An 18-year-old boy leader if the weekend bid had who was reported missing earlier this succeeded. week was found dismembered inside a Their notoriously stormy relationship lion’s cage at a zoo in Lahore. has shaped Malaysian politics ever since Identified as Bilal by local media, the Mahathir — during a first stint in office for the top job, fuelling expectations that invited Mahathir to a meeting on boy had been reported missing since in the 1990s — sacked Anwar as his Mahathir might finally cede power. Tuesday evening aimed at reviving the Monday but his family came forward deputy, and he was jailed on dubious The elderly leader, however, coalition, but after he failed to show they to search for him in the park on sodomy and corruption charges. announced in a televised address to the decided to put him forward as their Wednesday, The News International They reconciled ahead of the 2018 nation that he wished to establish a candidate. quoted the Safari Park Lahore polls to oust a corruption-plagued unity government, and was willing to "Since the attempt to topple the administration as saying. coalition led by Najib Razak, but many return as premier. government last week we have remained According to Safari Park Lahore were sceptical Mahathir — at 94, the "Party politics must be put aside for steadfast in defending the mandate of Director Chaudhry Shafqat, the world's oldest leader — would stick to a now," said Mahathir. "If allowed, I will the Malaysian people," he said. remains of the teen’s body were vow to hand power to Anwar. try to form an inclusive government, not After reading a statement, he added: discovered after the family contacted Mahathir quit on Monday as premier siding with any political parties." "If I "We leave it to the palace to decide". the park administration on Wednesday but it remains unclear whether he had a still have the support I will return. If not Officially the king appoints the prime morning. hand in the plot to topple the I will accept whoever is chosen," he minister, and he has been interviewing Police investigation revealed that government, although analysts suspect added. all the country's MPs since Monday to the boy had climbed the fence and he at least gave it his blessing. He has Moments later at a press conference at work out who they support. entered the park to cut grass. been named interim leader and initially his party headquarters, Anwar said he A candidate must have the backing of Bilal’s uncle was an employee of the appeared to have strong support to had received backing from three parties at least 112 MPs — but it was not clear park, police said, adding that while he remain as premier. in the "Pact of Hope" coalition -- the whether Anwar or Mahathir would was cutting grass the lions attacked But backing fell away early grouping in power until Mahathir quit -- achieve that, and there are likely to be him. Wednesday and rumours swirled Anwar to become premier. days of political horse-trading ahead. — The police claim to have found a had garnered enough support from MPs Anwar, 72, said the coalition had AFP sickle, grass and human remains from the site, adding that the incident took place on Monday. IANS Pakistan confirms its Rising sea levels put Myanmar’s villages first two cases of coronavirus on frontline of climate change ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan on BAGO (MYANMAR) (TIP): Three 2018 on the Global Climate Risk Index, own, which once stood near the town Wednesday confirmed its first two years ago, the villagers watched as the published by environmental think tank centre, was reduced to a crumbling pile cases of the novel coronavirus as the Sittaung River on Myanmar's southeast Germanwatch. of rubble on the riverbank. deadly infection reached the country coast crept closer to them, swollen by Sea levels are projected to rise about 13 "If the erosion continues at this rate, despite all out efforts to keep it away. powerful tidal surges from the Gulf of cm (5 inches) by 2020, putting at risk the future of the students will fade as “I can confirm first two cases of Mottama that eroded its banks. about 2.5 million coastal residents, said well," said Myo Min Thein, the sole coronavirus in Pakistan. Both cases Eventually, the 1,500 residents of Ta Myint Thein, a US-based groundwater teacher at a makeshift school, who said are being taken care of according to Dar U had to accept the inevitable: move consultant and member of Myanmar's he is struggling to teach the 26 students, clinical standard protocols & both of or be washed away. natural water resources committee. ages 4 to 14, by himself. them are stable,” Dr Zafar Mirza, the Dismantling their wooden homes, they "Flooding will be worst during the Myanmar's climate change Special Assistant to the Prime relocated several kilometres inland, rainy season and high tide, dragging department has drafted plans to address Minister on Health, tweeted. away from the fertile fields they had salty water up into the land," he said. rising waters but is not involved in He said there was “no need to panic” cultivated for decades. Rapid erosion has already devoured 10 resettling those displaced, deputy as the “things are under control”. "Where we now see water, our farming villages in the past four years, said Jos director Thin Thuzar Win told Reuters. Mirza said he was currently at the land used to be," said farmer Tint van der Zanden, chief technical adviser An official from the disaster country’s Taftan border crossing with Khaing. "It was very big, nearly three to the Gulf of Mottama Project, a Swiss- management department said it did not Iran and would return to Islamabad on hours' walking distance. We all lost our based organisation that provides have specific programmes for those Thursday and address a press farmland to the sea." Ta Dar U is among assistance to displaced villagers. displaced by riverbank erosion. Regional conference. His tweet came moments hundreds of villages at the frontline of Fading future government officials did not respond to after the Sindh health department said Myanmar's climate crisis, where After their homes fell into the sea, the Reuters' requests for comment. a 22-year young man had tested extreme weather patterns and rising sea people of Ta Dar U, mostly rice farmers, Low-lying villages should be moved positive for the coronavirus in levels have amplified and accelerated scattered across the delta. immediately to areas at least 7 metres (23 Karachi. “The patient travelled to Iran natural erosion. Saltwater contaminated their lands feet) above sea level, said Myint Thein. where he acquired the virus,” said Environmentalists consider Myanmar and they were forced to take up new "It will be costly but it must be done," Meeran Yousuf, Coordinator to the to be particularly vulnerable. It was occupations, with little success. he said. "The environment has changed, Health and Population Welfare among the top three countries affected Nearly 200 students now travel hours so the people must learn to adapt." Minister of Sindh government. PTI by extreme weather between 1998 and every day to attend school after their Reuters THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2020 ADVERTISEMENT 11 THE INDIAN PANORAMA 12 US FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Vijay Advani Appointed New Chair Delhi Communal Riots Ring of Global Board of USIBC Alarm Bells in Washington US Congress members criticize Delhi riots

WASHINGTON (TIP): At least four tensions after months of protests Government to speak out. He quoted an Vijay spent 11 years at the World Bank members of the US Congress have against the CAA and growing frictions article from Politico that wrote, "Trump advising governments on developing expressed concern over the violence in between PM Modi's supporters and did say, though, that he had confronted their financial markets and arranging Delhi and urged Washington to speak up opponents. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in equity, quasi-equity and debt financing about increasing sectarianism in India. Democratic presidential candidate and private about his country's treatment of They based their observations on US Senator Elizabeth Warren said, "It's Muslims." WASHINGTON (TIP): The US- media's negative coverage of the closing important to strengthen relationship Though US President Donald Trump India Business Council has hours of Donald Trump's two-day visit to with democratic partners like India. But reposed faith in PM Narendra Modi on appointed Vijay Advani as new India that ended on Tuesday, February we must be able to speak truthfully about finding the right answers to the CAA, an Chair of its Global Board of 25. All three Representatives and the lone our values, including religious freedom influential panel of the US Congress will Directors. Senator are Democrats and critical of and freedom of expression, and violence hold a hearing on March 4 on how Prior to assuming his current role Trump's domestic and foreign policies. against peaceful protesters is never citizenship laws are leveraged to deny as Executive Chairman in January Rashida Tlaib, with nearly one million acceptable." religious minorities the legal 2020, Advani served as the CEO of followers on Twitter, said the real story Representative Pramila Jayapal protections of citizenship, making them Nuveen. Earlier, he was also Co- of the Trump visit should be the tweeted, "Democracies should not vulnerable to exploitation, President of Franklin Templeton communal violence targeting Muslims tolerate division and discrimination, or discrimination and mass atrocities. Investments. In Franklin Templeton in Delhi. "We cannot be silent as this tide promote laws that undermine religious The US Commission on International Investments, in a career of more of anti-Muslim violence continues freedom. The world is watching.'' Religious Freedom (USCIRF) said the than 20 years, he was responsible for across India,'' she said while posting a Representative Alan Lowenthal also CAA and the proposed NRC could long-term strategic initiatives and Washington Post article that said the castigated Trump for "failure of moral become a tool to target religious the firm's investment management, riots represent a serious escalation of leadership" and wanted the US minorities. trading and global retail and institutional channels. Prior to Tax Talk joining Franklin Templeton, Vijay spent 11 years at the World Bank advising governments on developing Tax Time Guide: IRS.gov's 'Where's My Refund?' tool is their financial markets and arranging equity, quasi-equity and fastest, easiest way to check on tax refunds debt financing. Vijay is a member of the Board of WASHINGTON (TIP): The Internal consideration the time it takes for your electronically filed return or four weeks Governors of the Investment Revenue Service is reminding taxpayers financial institution to post the refund to after the taxpayer mails a paper return. Company Institute (ICI). 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The past board member of the U.S. - they near the April 15 tax filing deadline. incomplete. IRS updates "Where's My Refund?" once India Strategic Partnership Forum As of Feb. 21, the IRS had already The return could be affected by a day, usually overnight, so there's no (USISPF) and the Center for the issued more than 37.4 million refunds identity theft or fraud. need to check more frequently. Advanced Study of India (CASI) at averaging $3,125. The return includes a claim for the Ignore refund myths the University of Pennsylvania. While the majority of tax refunds are Earned Income Tax Credit or Additional Vijay is a committee member of the issued within 21 days, some may take Child Tax Credit. Some taxpayers mistakenly believe San Francisco-Bangalore Sister City longer. Just as each tax return is unique The time between the IRS issuing the they can expedite their refund by Initiative, member of the India and individual, so is each taxpayer's refund and the bank posting it to an ordering a tax transcript, calling the IRS Advisory Committee and refund. There are a few things taxpayers account since many banks do not process or calling their tax preparer. Ordering a Investment Committee at the Santa should keep in mind if they are waiting payments on weekends or holidays. tax transcript will not help a taxpayer Clara University (SCU) and former on their refund but hear or see on social The IRS will contact taxpayers by mail get their refund faster or find out when board member of Lok Foundation. media that other taxpayers have already if more information is needed to process they'll get their refund. The information He graduated with a bachelor's received theirs. a return. available on "Where's My Refund?" is the degree from the University of The IRS works hard to issue refunds as Fast and easy refund updates same information available to IRS Mumbai and an M.B.A. from the quickly as possible, but some tax returns telephone assistors. University of Massachusetts take longer to process than others. Many Taxpayers can use "Where's My (Read full story on Amherst. different factors can affect the timing of Refund?" to start checking on the status www.theindianpanorama.news) your refund after we receive your return. of their return within 24 hours after the Also, remember to take into IRS acknowledges receipt of an THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2020 US 13

Indian American Punch 111 for Mark Kalish as state Murder Suspect Released Pending representative of 16th House District, IL Further Investigation CHICAGO, IL (TIP): Meet & Greet, Mark Kalish as state representative of 16th House District, Illinois was on Friday - February 21, 2020 at 3775 W Arthur Ave, Lincolnwood, IL. Event was organized by Bhavesh Patel from Sahil and Nick Patel from LA TAN. Bhavesh and Nick is pioneer in USA for organizing big shows of Bollywood star Sonam Saxena, 43, of Bellevue, Wash., in Chicagoland area. Ray Nanato; was taken into police custody following Political Consultant, many leaders from the discovery of the bodyhis wife Smriti many different fields such as medical, Saxena near Aneahoomalu Bay sports entertainment, political, teaching spiritual leaders and prominent WASHINGTON (TIP): An Indian community leader were present at Meet American Google employee who was & Greet. arrested on the count of second-degree Yehiel "Mark" Kalish is a Democratic murder after his wife's body was found member of the Illinois General on a beach in Hawaii has been released Assembly, presiding over the 16th House pending further investigation, the district which includes parts of Skokie, Hawaii Island Police announced in a Morton Grove, Lincolnwood, and press release. Chicago's 50th Ward. He has an extensive According to the press release, on background in non-profit work and Tuesday (February 18), at government advocacy. approximately 11:20 p.m., Sonam His work in the Illinois legislature Babubhai Patel (Blue T shirt), Bhailal Patel, Bhavesh Patel, Mark Kalish, Ray Nanato and Nick Saxena (M-43 of Bellevue, Patel includes voting for and passing bills that Washington) reported his wife Smriti deal with mental health parity,the rising representation in the statehouse and has Representative Kalish is willing to put Saxena (F-41, also of Bellevue, cost of health care premiums and been working hard to make changes in petty politics aside and is emphatic Washington) as a missing person. prescription drugs with the inclusion of that regard to ensure that all parts of his about keeping the Democratic Party On Wednesday (February 19), at pre-existing conditions, the Equal Pay district are represented equally. united in order to keep legislative approximately 7:30 a.m., a body of a Act, as well as common-sense gun laws Kalish knows that Democrats are far majorities throughout the country. female was located along the likes the Fix the FOID Act. Kalish is one Better Together than divided. Despite We urge all Voters to Punch 111 for shoreline. Detectives continued their of ten Democrats to serve on the House nuanced differences, Kalish understands Mark Kalish as state representative of investigation and were able to confirm Firearms Public Awareness Task Force. that progress can only be achieved when 16th House District, IL on March 17, 2020 that the body was that of Smriti As a resident of the 50th Ward, Kalish we promote inclusivity while welcoming Election. Saxena. experienced firsthand its lack of a difference of opinions within the party. (Photographs and Press release /Asian Media USA) At 1:30 p.m. on (February 19), Sonam Saxena was arrested on the count of Murder in the second-degree and was Indian Man Shot Dead being held at the Kealakehe Police Upset Hindus urge Oregon brewery to Station as the investigation continued. by Masked Man at An autopsy was conducted and Grocery Store in Los rename Shavasana beer & apologize further testing is needed to determine the exact cause of death. Angeles NEVADA (TIP): Upset Hindus push beer was highly insensitive On Friday (February 21) at 1:20 p.m., are urging Newport (Oregon) and trivializing of the after conferring with prosecutors, based Rogue Ales & Spirits immensely revered body of Sonam Saxena was released pending brewery to apologize and sacred and serious knowledge, investigation. Detectives with the Area rename its "Shavasana" Rajan Zed pointed out. II Criminal Investigation Section are (Imperial, Granola Blonde Ale) Hinduism is the oldest and continuing this investigation. beer; calling it highly third largest religion of the Tax Talk inappropriate. world with about 1.1 billion Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in adherents and a rich Interest rates remain a statement in Nevada, said that philosophical thought and it inappropriate usage of Hindu should not be taken frivolously. the same for the A masked man shot dead Maninder Singh concepts or symbols or icons or Symbols of any faith, larger or Sahi at a grocery store in Los Angeles in the second quarter of 2020 early hours of Saturday, Feb 22 scriptures or deities for smaller, should not be commercial or other agenda was mishandled, Zed noted. WASHINGTON(TIP): The Internal not okay as it hurt the devotees. Rajan Zed further said that Revenue Service today announced that LOS ANGELES (TIP): A masked Zed, who is president of Hindus were for free speech and interest rates will remain the same for man shot dead an Indian national at a Universal Society of Hinduism, expression as much as anybody the calendar quarter beginning April grocery store in Los Angeles in the early stated that Shavasana, a highly else if not more. But faith was 1, 2020. The rates will be: hours of Saturday, Feb 22. Maninder important posture in yoga, was something sacred and attempts five (5) percent for overpayments Singh Sahi had arrived in the US less the ultimate act of conscious at trivializing it hurt the [four (4) percent in the case of a than six months ago and had sought surrender and was also used in devotees. corporation]; two and one-half (2.5) political asylum. He was working at a 7- Yoganidra meditation. Yogis "Shavasana" (ABV 8%, IBU 13, percent for the portion of a corporate Eleven grocery store in the Whittier slipped into blissful neutrality in SRM 7.5), releasing in March and overpayment exceeding $10,000;five (5) City in Los Angeles County of Shavasana. It found mention in described as "a cool-down beer"; is percent for underpayments; andseven California. Hathayoga-pradipika, a text reportedly brewed with granola, coconut and sweet (7) percent for large corporate Originally from Karnal, Sahi who had composed in the 15th century CE. oats. underpayments. Under the Internal turned 31 last month, was married and a Yoga, an integral part of Hinduism, Awards-winning Rogue Ales & Spirits, Revenue Code, the rate of interest is father of two small children, ages 5 and was considered Union with God and was founded in 1988 "as one of America's first determined on a quarterly basis. For 9. a mean for transforming consciousness microbreweries", claims to be "the only taxpayers other than corporations, the (Read full story on and attaining liberation. It found farmer-brewer-distiller-cooper in the overpayment and underpayment rate www.theindianpanorama.news) mention in ancient Hindu scriptures United States". It is said to be "available is the federal short-term rate plus 3 Upanishads and took many forms in in all 50 states as well as 54 countries". percentage points. (Read full story on sacred Bhagavad-Gita. Using yoga to Dharma Tamm is President. www.theindianpanorama.news) THE INDIAN PANORAMA 14 INDIA FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2020 Third quarter GDP growth slows down to 4.7 per cent

NEW DELHI (TIP): The country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate slumped to a 27- quarter low of 4.7 per cent in October-December even as the government retained the 2019-20 forecast at 5.0 per cent, an 11-year CLOSE TO BREAKTHROUGH IN low, in the second advance estimate released by National Statistical PULWAMA ATTACK CASE: NIA Office (NSO) Friday. NEW DELHI (TIP): The NIA is close to a The slowdown in GDP growth in breakthrough in the Pulwama attack case, the agency the third quarter was marked by claimed on Thursday.It also clarified that it had found tepid growth in manufacturing, no evidence against Yousuf Chopan, one of seven over electricity and construction, ground workers arrested in connection with a terror coupled with a contraction in case, and that this man was not linked to the Pulwama investment and weak exports, the case. data showed. “In the Pulwama attack Case... in which 40 CRPF Despite the December quarter personnel were killed in the suicide attack, generally being one of the strongest significant leads have emerged and a breakthrough in quarters due to the festival season revised down to 6.1 per cent from when the CPI inflation retraces the case is expected shortly,” a statement by the uptick and higher rural spending earlier estimate of 6.8 per cent. considerably towards the 4 per cent agency said. driven by the Kharif harvest, the With the growth rate seen at 5 per mark. Therefore, we continue to The statement from the agency came in the wake of continued growth slowdown is seen cent for the whole year, back of the expect a pause, at least in the April reports that a special court had granted bail to an as worrying, especially in the envelope calculations show that the 2020 and June 2020 policy reviews,” accused in the Pulwama attack case. Raising the issue, context of some high-frequency GDP growth is estimated to remain said Aditi Nayar, Principal the Congress said it was an “insult” to the security data sets pointing to a rebound. broadly flat at 4.7 per cent in the economist, ICRA Ltd. personnel killed in the terror attack and demanded Economists also warn of the fourth quarter as well. Growth rate in terms of Gross Home Minister Amit Shah’s resignation. downside risks due to the impact of Both the government and the RBI Value Added (GVA), which is GDP The Pulwama case has been stuck for several the COVID-19, with Finance see growth picking up in next minus net product taxes and reflects months now as all the identified accused are either Minister Nirmala Sitharaman financial year with the Economic supply-side growth, is seen slowing dead or in Pakistan. Even though NIA identified the stating in Mumbai Friday said the Survey expecting growth rate to be to 4.9 per cent in 2019-20 from a attacker and traced the car used in the attack to its outbreak could “emerge as a 6-6.5 per cent and the Reserve Bank revised 6.0 per cent growth in the owner, it could not move beyond as the attacker died challenge for India” if issues were of India pegging it at 6 per cent. “We previous year, while for the October- in the suicide attack and his local handler and car not resolved in the coming three have already bottomed out,” December quarter it is estimated at owner were killed in an encounter. weeks. Economic Affairs Secretary Atanu 4.5 per cent as against a 5.6 per cent Meanwhile, the NIA said it had found no evidence Barring a minor rise in Q1 GDP Chakraborty told reporters after the growth in the same period last year. against one of seven overground workers arrested in growth rate, the 4.7 per cent growth NSO released its data. The nominal GDP growth rate, connection with a terror case, who has now been rate for October-December now “At present, it is difficult to which accounts for inflation, is granted bail. Chopan was arrested along with six marks a slowing rate of growth for conclude whether the risks arising estimated to grow at 7.5 per cent in others in the case. Two more accused were killed in an the seventh consecutive quarter. It’s from the rapid spread of the 2019-20, lower than 11.0 per cent in encounter. One of them, Mudassir Ahmed Khan, was the lowest since 4.3 per cent growth coronavirus for domestic tourism, the previous year. alleged to have been involved in the Pulwama attack. in January-March 2012-13. trade and manufacturing, would Sector-wise breakup showed a For this fiscal, the GDP growth outweigh the improved outlook for pickup in agricultural GVA growth KANHAIYA, NINE OTHERS TO rates were revised up sharply to 5.6 the agricultural sector and rural to 3.5 per cent in October-December per cent for April-June and 5.1 per spending, engendered by the from 2.0 per cent a year ago and FACE SEDITION TRIAL cent for July-September from encouraging outlook for the rabi GVA growth in “public earlier estimates of 5.0 per cent and crop. The continued slowdown in administration, defence and other NEW DELHI (TIP): Seven 4.5 per cent, respectively. This economic growth in Q3 FY2020 services” to 9.7 per cent in October- months after its standing follows the January 31 GDP release, suggests that the MPC may well December from 8.1 per cent a year counsel advised against where the growth for 2018-19 was undertake another rate cut, but only ago. prosecution sanction to Delhi Police in the 2016 JNU sedition case against former JNUSU president Kanhaiya NIA arrests JeM operative for Pulwama attack Kumar and nine others, the Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP SRINAGAR (TIP): In a major Shakir Bashir Magrey, 22, involved in modifying the Maruti government has given police breakthrough in the Pulwama of Hajibal-Kakpora village Eeco car, which was used in the the go-ahead. terror attack, the National attack, and fitted the IED in it in In an order Thursday, the Deputy Secretary (Home) Investigation Agency (NIA) on of Pulwama district was early February,2019. stated: “Whereas on perusal of the chargesheet under Friday arrested a Jaish-e- arrested from his home NIA said the explosives used in Sections 124-A and 120-B IPC at Vasant Kunj (North) Mohammad (JeM) over-ground the attack were determined to be police station, and on consideration of the allegations worker from south Kashmir. Magrey is the first arrest in the ammonium nitrate, nitro-glycerin made in case, and other material and evidences placed Shakir Bashir Magrey, 22, of attack. He owns a furniture shop near and RDX through forensic on record, it appears to the government of NCT of Hajibal-Kakpora village of Lethpora bridge and allegedly investigation. “Investigation has Delhi that the accused, Kanhaiya Kumar, Syed Umar Pulwama district was arrested from conducted reconnaissance of the also confirmed the identity of the Khalid, Anirban Bhattacharya, Aquib Hussain, his home. According to NIA, Magrey movement of CRPF convoy on the suicide bomber to be Adil Ahmad Mujeed Hussain Gattoo, Muneeb Hussain Gattoo, provided shelter to suicide bomber Jammu-Srinagar highway in Dar through DNA matching with Umair Gul, Rayees Rasool, Basharat Ali and Khalid Adil Ahmad Dar, and delivered January 2019. “Magrey was that of his father,” NIA said. Bashir Bhat, have prima facie committed an offence arms, ammunition, explosive introduced to Dar in mid-2018 by a Other key terrorists involved in under Section 124-A and 120-B IPC.” IPC section 124-A material and other logistical Pakistani terrorist, Mohammad the attack have been identified as relates to sedition and 120-B to criminal conspiracy. assistance to him. Umar Farooq. He has disclosed that Muddasir Ahmad Khan — JeM’s “And whereas, it is necessary in the interest of the “Today, in a major breakthrough on several occasions, he collected and divisional commander of south justice that prosecution sanction should be granted in the Pulwama case, NIA arrested delivered arms, ammunition, cash Kashmir who was killed in an against the said accused in the court of competent one accused, Shakir Bashir Magrey, and explosive material to the JeM operation on March 11, 2019 — jurisdiction for their trial in respect of the said a JeM over-ground worker,” NIA terrorists including those involved in Pakistani terrorists Muhammad offence alleged to have been committed by them. Now, spokesperson Alok Mittal said. At Pulwama attack,” NIA said. Magrey Umar Farooq and IED expert therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by the least 40 CRPF personnel were killed revealed that he harboured Dar and Kamran, both killed on March 29, sub-section (1) of section 196 of CrPC, 1973 (2 of 1974), on February 14, 2019, at Lethpora in Farooq in his house from late 2018 till 2019, car owner Sajjad Ahmad Bhat, the government of NCT, Delhi, hereby, grants Pulwama after their convoy was the attack in February 2019, the who was killed on June 16, 2019), prosecution sanction against all the ten accused. This struck by an IED-laden vehicle central agency said. and JeM’s commander Qari Yassir issues with the approval of LG, Delhi,” it stated. driven by Dar. Magrey, NIA said, was also killed on January 25. THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2020 INDIA 15 GLOBAL PRESSURE OVER CAA-DRIVEN VIOLENCE IN Illegal guns, outside goons INDIA, SAYS MEA NEW DELHI (TIP): India on Thursday faced fuelled Delhi mayhem criticism and calls to protect religious freedom and the safety of its citizens from across the world, NEW DELHI (TIP): The death including two US presidential candidates and the UN toll in Delhi's worst riots in more human rights chief, following the communal violence than three decades reached 38 on in New Delhi. Thursday as violence ebbed and The government pushed back against the criticism, hundreds of people began picking with external affairs ministry spokesperson Raveesh up the pieces of their shattered lives Kumar describing the comments by organisations and livelihoods - many also leaving and individuals as “inaccurate and misleading” and the area for now. aimed at politicising the situation. But four days after clashes broke There was also condemnation from quarters that out in northeast Delhi between pro- have been inimical to India in recent months, such as and anti-CAA groups and spiralled Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the into bloodshed, arson and looting, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), which also leaving more than 200 was dismissed by New Delhi. wounded, here comes another “Our law enforcement agencies are working on the shocker. ground to prevent violence and ensure restoration of Investigators are gathering that confidence and normalcy. Senior representatives of guns and goons from Haryana and the government have been involved in that process. UP's Loni, Ghaziabad and Baghpat The prime minister has publicly appealed for peace might have added fuel to the fire. and brotherhood,” Kumar said. On Thursday, the Delhi Police Communal violence linked to protests in New Delhi transferred the case to the Crime against the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Branch and formed two Special Act (CAA) flared up as US President Donald Trump Investigation Teams (SITs). What unfinished firearms and machinery. indulged in arson. began a visit to India on Monday,claiming 38 lives and has startled cops is the fact that Those arrested had confessed that "Since Monday, the violence was injuring almost 350 people this week. The violence many people have died due to bullet they bought one weapon for Rs 3,000 no more between the protesters, it received widespread coverage in the international injuries. and sold it at Rs 10,000 to 35,000. DCP became communal," one of the media as it coincided with the visit. Rioters had no fear of the police (Special Cell) Pramod Kushwaha reports (informal notes) mentioned. Bernie Sanders, a leading Democratic Party as they opened fire on innocent said, "We recently busted a gang in The phones that have been seized candidate in the US presidential race, tweeted: “Over people in broad daylight. The causes Delhi and recovered 30 pistols and a revealed that the proper 200 million Muslims call India home. Widespread anti- of 22 deaths have been ascertained. carbine. It had procured the mobilisation was being done using Muslim mob violence has killed at least 27 and injured As many as 10 people were shot weapons from Barwani in Madhya social media. many more. Trump responds by saying, ‘That’s up to dead. Many of the over 200 injured Pradesh." During the probe, the Delhi Police India.’ This is a failure of leadership on human have gunshot injuries. The Delhi Police have registered found many WhatsApp groups and rights.” Take the case of slain Delhi Police 48 FIRs related to rioting. Cops are broadcast messages circulated post Elizabeth Warren, another Democratic presidential head constable Ratan Lal. In initial probing the sources of all types of Sunday's violence. "These messages candidate, tweeted that it is “important to strengthen stages, it looked like he died due to weapons. Special Commissioner of suggest the local violence was relationships with democratic partners like India”, stone-pelting during clashes in Police Praveer Ranjan said, "All overpowered by the outsiders who but the US “must be able to speak truthfully about our Gokalpuri. But his postmortem angles will be probed, including came from neighbouring states. values, including religious freedom and freedom of report has now revealed that he was how illegal weapons were used by Chats such as 'It's time to act', were expression – and violence against peaceful protesters shot dead. miscreants, by the SITs." also shared on Sunday late night," a is never acceptable”. Four died due to stabbing, while source said. The US Commission on International Religious fire killed the others. It is not clear OUTSIDE GOONS ON "Various provocative videos and Freedom (USCIRF) expressed grave concern at the whether they were set afire or they THE RAMPAGE speeches of influencers were shared violence, including reports of mobs specifically got trapped in fire during the continuously in the last two targeting Muslims. “The brutal and unchecked violence. The bullet shells Investigations are also probing months," he said. violence growing across Delhi cannot continue,” said recovered from the violence-hit the role of those who came from USCIRF commissioner Anurima Bhargava. areas also indicate that country- western UP's Loni, Ghaziabad and 'SITUATION NORMAL' “The Indian government must take swift action to made pistols along with Baghpat. Senior police officials did Delhi Police PRO MS Randhawa ensure the safety of all of its citizens. Instead, reports sophisticated weapons were used on not rule out the connections of the said the situation was normal and are mounting that the Delhi police have not a big scale. riots with the violence in northeast that "adequate" security forces had intervened in violent attacks against Muslims, and Is northeast Delhi becoming a Delhi's Seemapuri and Seelampur been deployed in the affected areas. the government is failing in its duty to protect its hub of illegal arms? The Delhi during the anti-CAA protests in "350 peace committee meetings citizens. These incidents are even more concerning in Police have got many videos and December. have been held. We will address all the context of efforts within India to target and CCTV footages in which rioters can "Teenagers were used as a front individual cases. We have multiple potentially disenfranchise Muslims across the be seen using pistols. during the clashes. The outsiders footages. We are investigating from country, in clear violation of international human "It is easy for gunrunners to mingled with locals to know about all angles," he said. rights standards.” make supplies to northeast Delhi as the demography of the area to SN Srivastava, Special The USCIRF has already convened a hearing in it borders Haryana and western arrange the logistics - stones, Commissioner of Police (Law and Washington on March 4 to discuss how the citizenship Uttar Pradesh" said a police source. bricks, bottles, etc," said a senior order), who visited the affected law is being “used to target religious minorities” in Crackdowns on illegal gun police official who did not want to areas, said: "I've come here to assure India. The Trump administration’s pointperson for factories in Bihar's Munger and be named. On Wednesday, Chief people that we're with them and for South Asia, Alice Wells, also said in a tweet that the some areas in Madhya Pradesh Minister Arvind Kejriwal while their welfare. People here have US echoes Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call for such as Khargone and Barwani speaking in the Delhi Assembly also responded positively and assured calm and normalcy and “urges all parties to maintain forced them to move closer to blamed "outsiders", and "political that they'll work together through peace, refrain from violence, and respect the right of Delhi, he said. and anti-social elements." aman committees to bring back the peaceful assembly”. These areas were considered to So far police have arrested 120 feeling of brotherhood." In the UK, the Boris Johnson government told be the main sources of weapons for persons, most of them outsiders. Parliament it believes the CAA is divisive and that it criminals in Delhi-NCR, he added. Police officials said that those SN Shrivastava appointed has raised concerns over the law’s impact with Indian Now raw materials come to places involved in stone pelting, arson and Delhi police commissioner authorities. The issue was discussed in the House of like west UP's Meerut where torching of properties also spread Lords on Tuesday evening, with contributions from production is done. In western UP, rumours on social media to IPS officer SN Shrivastava was several members such as Meghnad Desai, Raj Loomba one can easily get a pistol for Rs instigate people. They said that the appointed as the next commissioner and Indarjit Singh. 10,000. A country-made pistol rioters were planning to spark of Delhi Police on Friday, days after The CAA has also been divisive in the 1.5 million- comes as cheap as Rs 1,500. violence in Shaheen Bagh and he was brought in as the special strong Indian community in the UK, the government Last month, just before the Delhi Jamia areas. commissioner of police for law and said. Elizabeth Sugg, junior minister in the Foreign Assembly elections, the Delhi "But after a spontaneous violence order amid violence in the city. Office, said: “To conclude, the CAA has clearly been Police's Special Cell busted an in Maujpur on Sunday, rioters got a Shrivastava will take over as the divisive in India. Its full impact remains unclear. We illegal firearms manufacturing chance to act and attack," said a top new Delhi Police chief on Sunday, a hope and trust the government of India will address factory in Meerut and arrested two cop who has been investigating the day after the current commissioner the concerns and protect the rights of people of all men for pushing supplies into case. Post Sunday night, sources Amulya Patnaik retires. religions, in keeping with India’s constitution, its Delhi. Cops had seized 60 semi- said, the outsiders, particularly democratic values and its inclusive traditions.” automatic pistols along with from the bordering states, came and SEE ALSO P16, 17 THE INDIAN PANORAMA 16 DELHI CLASHES FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2020 Why cops failed to control Delhi violence

NEW DELHI (TIP): Over three days, Delhi Police watched even as hundreds clashed in the North-east Delhi neighbourhoods such as Jafrabad, Yamuna Vihar, Babarpur, Khajoori Khas, torching vehicles and shops and houses, in the worst communal riots in the capital in at least two decades. Once touted as the model police for all states, Delhi Police, experts say,has lately failed to handle law and order situations due to several reasons: inexperience of the top brass in dealing with violent clashes; lack of faith in the leadership; and department’s repeated failure in assessing situations. Several retired and serving officers pointed out that the majority of Delhi Police DCPs (Deputy Commisioners of Police) currently serving in the districts have zero or little experience in handling riots as Delhi has not seen such large scale violent clashes since the 1984 anti- Sikh riots, sporadic incidents during Mandal Commission, tension during LK Advani’s Rath Yatra, and the 1992 riots after demolition of Babri Masjid . Indeed, they add, most people directly handling the situation — ACPs (Assistant Commisioners of Police), Inspectors — have not handled any major riot in their lifetime. Among the senior leadership of Delhi Police, outgoing Commissioner of Police Amulya Patnaik (his extension ends at the end of the month) himself has spent When the Delhi high court ordered the most of his policing tenure in special sacking of two senior officers after the units such as Crime Branch, vigilance or clash with lawyers in November, Patnaik administration. For several months, his faced protests from his own men, the first CAN’T LET ANOTHER 1984 leadership skills have been severely time this has happened in the history of tested. the department. However, a serving He has had to motivate his force after officer, who didn’t wish to be named, said HAPPEN IN COUNTRY: HC policemen were attacked by lawyers; “he (Commissioner) hasn’t done defend it from charges that it overlooked anything to rebuild the trust of his men”. attacks on Jawaharlal Nehru University Patnaik did not respond to calls students by masked goons; and had to seeking comment. explain why the police entered the Another reason for Delhi Police’s library of Jamia University and attacked struggles is weak human intelligence students during a protest against the about protests. Local area DCPs, SHOs Citizenship Amendment Act. He now has (station house officers) , ACPs and the to handle questions on how and why the special branch of Delhi Police are force wrongly assessed the situation in supposed to gather human intelligence North-east Delhi and, subsequently, by networking with the local community struggled to restore peace. and religious leaders -- particularly in “In all these incidents, it seems there areas where there could be communal was no planning, action, tactical clashes. deployment or understanding of the “The deployment of forces was earlier crowd and the area. Why hasn’t Delhi done on the basis of this assessment but Police imposed curfew in affected areas it appears that there is no preparation on of North-east Delhi yet? It will reduce the Delhi Police’s part (now),” said the loss of lives and property,” said a retired serving officer cited above. Over the NEW DELHI (TIP): The Delhi High after receiving a call from an advocate IPS officer who handled multiple riot years, Delhi Police has also become Court on Wednesday said it won't let explaining the dire circumstances under situations in Delhi including 1984 riots. increasingly dependent on technical another 1984 happen in India under its which the victims were unable to be A few hours after the officer spoke to intelligence instead of its men doing the watch while hearing a petition removed from a small hospital to the HT, there were reports that curfew had legwork. The intelligence bureau (IB), concerning communal riots in the GTB Hospital wherein it directed the indeed been imposed in some of the which, like Delhi Police, comes under the national capital which have already led police to ensure safe passage to areas. ministry of home affairs, too has to 22 deaths, including a cop and an IG government hospitals and emergency “Seeing what’s happening today, I am repeatedly failed to analyse the situation employee. treatment for those injured. ashamed I was part of this force. How can in Delhi. The 1984 anti-Sikh riots, a series of The court held a special hearing, you (referring to police commissioner Some of the retired officers also said it targetted killings, in response to the which started at 12:30 am, at the Amulya Patnaik) watch while students was surprising that the home ministry assassination of former PM Indira residence of Justice S Muralidhar. are being beaten up, your own men are did not pull up Delhi Police after a series Gandhi, had led to the deaths of about The bench had also called for a status being thrashed and not do anything? of lapses. 3000 people belonging to the Sikh report of compliance, including Delhi Police was the number 1 force in all Ashok Chand, who was in Delhi Police community. A bench of Justices S information about the injured victims of India but look where it has reached for around 35 years, said: “It is the Muralidhar and Anup J Bhambhani and the treatment offered to them. today,” said this officer who asked not to responsibility of Delhi Police to maintain termed as "extremely unfortunate" the The HC applauded the police for be identified. law and order and it has failed. Delhi killing of IB officer in the ongoing prompt action in evacuating the injured Importantly, since the events of Police needs to introspect, analyse the violence in which over 180 people have in north-east Delhi where communal November 2019, when lawyers thrashed reasons for its failure, and take remedial sustained injuries besides the number of violence erupted over the amended Delhi Police officers, there is a clear action so that it performs effectively in deaths mentioned above. It also said that citizenship law. disconnect between the top brass and future. There seems to have been no the highest constitutional functionaries "While the order was being dictated lower-level officers. The junior ranks are planning on how to handle a riotous who move with Z-security should reach midnight, the police was implementing scared of taking impromptu decisions on situation keeping in view the area’s out to the affected people to give them it right there and rescuing injured the ground fearing their leader won’t topography, composition of the confidence that law is functioning. persons," the bench said during the day's stand up for them. population and local areas of flashpoint”. The court had held a midnight hearing hearing. THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2020 DELHI CLASHES 17 AS NORMALCY RETURNS IN Delhi Police forms 2 SITs to NATIONAL CAPITAL, LOCALS DISTRIBUTE FOOD TO INJURED probe all riot-related cases NEW DELHI (TIP): Normalcy seems to be returning in Delhi after days of violence over the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) marked certain areas, especially in the northeast district, in the national capital. In these trying times, a positive image of brotherhood and social harmony, much in need, was also witnessed in Delhi. Throughout Thursday, locals were seen distributing food and necessary supplies to those who were injured in the riots and now lay recuperating at the Guru Teg Bahadur (GTB) hospital in the national capital. Food was also distributed to the families of the injured who were coming to the hospital. "We are distributing food to help people who are coming here to meet or collect bodies of their relatives or a family member. People are also coming from Haryana. Locals leaving here have taken this initiative to help the people at their difficult times," Moosa Alvi, one of the organisers, told news agency ANI. He added that it was not sponsored by any political party but that it was a spontaneous gesture stemming from humanity.The Delhi Police has also made a fresh appeal to the people, urging them to come forward and give statements regarding the violence that had ensued over the past few days and share relevant pictures and video footage with the cops. "Whereas incidents of clashes have taken place in the northeast district, Delhi since February 23. All NEW DELHI (TIP): The Delhi those who are witnesses to the incidents or have Police said two Special Investigation captured any activity on their mobile phones or Teams (SITs) were being set up to camera are hereby requested to come forward and give investigate the communal riots that their statements, footage and pictures in their rippled through the Northeast possession at DCP office, northeast district, district of the national capital. Seelampur, Delhi, during office hours, on any working The teams are being headed by day within seven days," B K Singh, Additional CP two deputy commissioners of police Crime Branch, said. (DCP) — Rajesh Deo and Joy Tirkey, while Additional Commissioner of AAP’s Tahir Hussain, booked in Police, Crime, B.K. Singh will head the overall investigation. IB officer's murder, suspended The Delhi Police have so far registered 48 FIRs of arson and NEW DELHI (TIP): Tahir Hussain, the councilor of rioting, and have arrested 170 people Aam Aadmi Party, was booked in connection to the in the last four days. The cases have murder of Intelligence Officer Ankit Sharma, whose now been transferred to the Crime body was found from a drain in Northeast Delhi. Branch of the Delhi Police. And in what served as a double whammy for him, According to a police source, two Hussain was also suspended by Arvind Kejriwal-led SITs were being formed to ensure party late on Thursday. “comprehensive and effective Each ACP will head a team of three WhatsApp groups that were used An FIR was registered against the politician after investigation” of the cases. inspectors, four sub-inspectors and to circulate videos and messages, Ankit's family lodged a complaint. The Crime Branch is currently three head constables. which eventually lead to the A few days ago, Delhi was hit by riots, killing 38 also investigating the JNU violence “All these individual cases will be violence. people from both Hindu and Muslim communities. cases of 3 and 5 January,but is yet to looked into by senior officers who According to a source, the build- Ankit, went missing on Tuesday, soon after he make an arrest. are a part of these two SITs. The up to the violent clashes started returned home at 4:30 pm. Deo was the police officer who investigation is on in full swing and Monday morning when messages He stepped outside to see what was happening and linked Kapil Gujjar, the man who we are making arrests on a daily on groups of both Hindus and was taken away, allegedly by Hussain and his aides, opened fire at Shaheen Bagh on 1 basis,” the police source said. Muslims began circulating. Ankit's brother Ankur said. February, to the Aam Aadmi Party DCP M.S. Randhawa said the “From the arrests that have been An autopsy report revealed that Ankit was stabbed (AAP), resulting in him being police have accessed footage from made, we have found that all of multiple times. barred from election duty. multiple cameras that were them used WhatsApp as a medium Later, clips from the spot showed rioters throwing The Election Commission took installed in the area and have also to not only instigate people but petrol bombs and stones from the rooftop of Hussain's exception to his statements at the sought video clips available with also to coordinate (the mob house. "The mob that snatched and killed my brother time since an investigation was still local residents and journalists to attacks),” the source said. “We was operating from Hussain's house," Ankur said. ongoing, and said it could hamper identify the miscreants. have seized the phones and are Ankit's father, Ravinder Kumar, also blamed “free and fair elections”. “We have collected multiple going through their chats,” he Hussain for the horrific turn of events. Hussain was Deo had said that Gujjar had footage and are going through it. said. booked for murder and kidnapping in the FIR, that joined AAP in 2019 and had also The investigation is on,” Randhawa Another source said that police was registered at Dayalpur police station. circulated some of his photos with said. recovered chats that show people Meanwhile, Hussain claimed innocence. Saying that AAP ministers. “The situation is now under were encouraged to bring stones to rioters forcefully entered his house, Hussain added Tirkey had investigated the sexual control. We have deployed adequate Maujpur and Kardampuri where that he took his wife and three children and hid on the harassment case against former force in the area and have also protests were on. ground floor. Chief Justice of India, Ranjan conducted 350 Aman committee “There are almost 100 to 120 "A group of people tried breaking the gate of the Gogoi, who was eventually given a meetings so far,” he added. WhatsApp groups that are being house and we tried physically blocking it but they clean chit by a three-judge in-house Aman committees are the Delhi scanned,” he said. succeeded. I called the police several times and they committee that found “no Police’s peace committees that The police are also looking at the helped us get out," Hussain was quoted by IE. substance” in the allegations. engage with local leaders during role of “outsiders” in the violence. Hussain's alleged involvement with Ankit's murder such situations. “We suspect that many people earned criticism for Kejriwal. HOW THE INVESTIGATION came from UP… These are the When asked about this, the CM said, "Police isn't WILL RUN? WhatsApp groups people who also got weapons with under me. Be it people from AAP, BJP or Congress, under scanner them,” the police source said. those who fanned the communal fire, those who According to a police officer, each Delhi Police claims to have orchestrated riots, should all be punished even if it is SIT will have four assistant Police said a unit of the SIT has recovered over 500 cartridges from someone from my Cabinet. If he is from AAP,give him commissioners of police (ACP). been tasked with scanning all the Northeast district. double the punishment." THE INDIAN PANORAMA 18 BOLLYWOOD FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2020 PRITHVIRAJ: MANUSHI CHHILLAR TO ROAR LIKE A LIONESS kshay Kumar-starrer Prithviraj, which is set to hit the theatres on Diwali this year, is one of the most Aanticipated movies of the year for several reasons. The movie happens to be a period drama based on Samrat Prithviraj Chauhan. While it will be Akshay’s first attempt for historical drama, Prithviraj will also mark the debut of KALKI KOECHLIN IS former beauty queen Manushi Chhillar who will be seen playing the role of Sanyogita. Interestingly,the reports about ENJOYING 'SLEEP Manushi’s big Bollywood debut have been rife for quite some time now. DEPRIVED' DAYS WITH While she was rumoured to be a part of several big budget movies, Manushi chose to make her debut with this Yash Raj DAUGHTER SAPPHO Films productions. Ever since she has been roped in for ctress Kalki Koechlin embraced Prithviraj, all eyes have been on this debutant and fans motherhood when she delivered ecstatic to know about every detail about her preparation for Aher baby girl Sappho earlier this the period drama. Maintaining the curiosity among the fans, month. Ever since she has been deprived Manushi shared an interesting picture of herself wherein of sleep which she revealed in her latest she was seen posing with a doodle of her character Instagram post. Sharing an adorable Sanyogita. photo with her baby daughter, she said The doodle of the princess had ‘roar like a lioness’ written that the past few weeks after delivery on it along with ‘Sanyogita’ on the top. Explaining the doodle, have been a 'state of sleep deprived bliss' Manushi wrote that she has been drawing her character on for her. The monochromatic picture the instructions of her director. “Taking the director’s shows the mother and daughter all cozied instruction with me wherever I go. #Sanyogita #Prithviraj up for the camera smiling softly. #TerminalChhillar,” she captioned the image. To note, this Kalki along with the photo wrote, "The isn’t the first time when the former beauty queen gave a past few weeks have really been a state of glimpse of her character from the character drama. Earlier, sleep deprived bliss. Thanks for the the actress had shared silhouette images of herself dressed perfect photo @salomerebello." as Sanyogita. While the lady is creating a lot of buzz for her Sometime back, she shared another Bollywood debut, it will be interesting to see if she will be picture of the baby with her father and able to stand true to the audience’s expectations. Kalki's boyfriend Guy Hershberg. TAAPSEE PANNU’S THAPPAD GETS U CERTIFICATE WITH NO CUTS ollywood star Taapsee Pannu’s upcoming film Thappad has already impressed a lot of people Bwith special screenings and it has received another shot in the arm with the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) awarding it with a U (unrestricted) certificate without any cuts. Among the three kinds of certificates given by the CBFC - U, U/A (unrestricted public exhibition subject SIDHARTH MALHOTRA’S to parental guidance for children below the age of twelve) and A (restricted to adult audiences), U is the most sought after by producers. It means the film is fit FIRST MOVIE IN A for viewing for audiences of all age groups, widening its reach. There is a fourth category - S (restricted to DOUBLE ROLE specialized audiences such as doctors or scientists), but that is limited to specific movies. ollywood actor Sidharth Malhotra’s next, a Director Anubhav Sinha has produced the film that remake of the Tamil film Thadam, is set to go on will be released at a reel length of 144.28 minutes - a Bthe floors in May. The movie will also see him little less than 2.5 hours of run time. playing a double role for the first time, that of a Thappad is about a homemaker who refuses to stay businessman and small-time thief. with her husband after he slaps her. The main reason According to a report, Thadam Bollywood remake for such a smooth CBFC certificate could be that the will be shot in a two-month-long start-to-finish schedule filmmakers have not focussed on displaying violence in Delhi as the makers are looking for a metro city with in the film, despite essentially addressing the rampant a nightlife as the film's setting. In the matter, a source issue of domestic violence in our society. said, “After several rounds of discussions and recce, Taapsee recently told Hindustan Times in an they zeroed in on Delhi. The team will shoot at real interview, “We deliberately refrained from making it locations in the Capital city. The chase sequences will into an excessive domestic violence film because then be canned on busy streets.” people might try to disconnect with it, saying ‘Yeh Tamil action-thriller Thadam (2019) was written and hamare ghar pe nahi hota. Yeh hum upper middle class directed by Magizh Thirumeni and revolved around a ya educated logo ke ghar pe nahi hota hai’. Hota sab murder plot involving two identical men, leading to a ghar mein hai and so it was deliberately kept like cat and mouse chase with the police. that.” The source also informed that Sidharth will be Anubhav’s last film -Ayushmann Khurrana starrer undergoing look tests for his two roles in April in order Article 15 that hit theatres last year, had the CBFC to create the perfect avatar for the Bollywood remake. suggest four-five modifications before they handed the The makers are also on the lookout for a A-list actress UA certificate to the makers. to be cast opposite him in the film. THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2020 HOLLYWOOD 19 CHRIS PRATT COMPARES JURASSIC WORLD 3 WITH AVENGERS: ENDGAME

QUENTIN TARANTINO, WIFE DANIELLA WELCOME THEIR FIRST CHILD TOGETHER

ilmmaker Quentin Tarantino and his wife Daniella Pick have become Fparents to a baby boy. A representative of the couple shared the news on Wednesday in a statement to an agency. "Daniella and Quentin Tarantino are happy to announce the birth of their first child. A baby boy born February 22," the spokesperson said. hris Pratt says the scale of the Omar Sy among others. the original Jurassic Park is coming The couple had announced Daniella's third Jurassic World movie is Appearing on Ellen DeGeneres’ show, back, so it’s going to feel very much like pregnancy in August last year. Cequivalent to the 2019’s Chris Pratt said the film’s script, how Endgame brought everything Tarantino, 56, and Pick, 36, met during superhero blockbuster Avengers: penned by director Colin Trevorrow together at Marvel,” the actor said. the making of his 2009 feature 'Inglorious Endgame. and Emily Carmichael, is “It’s a massive movie, it’s a big movie. Basterds' but it wasn't until 2016 that they The third chapter of the rebooted “unbelievable” and he just can’t wait to We’ll be all over the world. The story is started dating. They got engaged in 2017. Jurassic Park franchise is set to feature work on it. really, really engaging, really cool. It’s The couple tied the knot in November original stars Sam Neill, Laura Dern “It’s got everybody. It’s got pretty gonna be big,” he added. 2018 in a ceremony which was attended by and Jeff Goldblum, besides Pratt, Bryce much everybody in it. Maybe I just blew Jurassic World 3 has a release date of the filmmaker's close friends like Harvey Dallas Howard, Jake Johnson and it, but I don’t care. All of the cast from June 11, 2021. Keitel, Tim Roth and Eli Roth. Tom Cruise’s ‘Mission: PARIS HILTON: SPLITTING Impossible VII’ shoot halted in WITH CHRIS ZYLKA WAS THE Italy over coronavirus outbreak BEST DECISION I MADE roduction on the latest film in the ocialite Paris Hilton does not 'Mission: Impossible' series regret breaking her Pstarring Tom Cruise has been Sengagement to Chris Zylka in stopped in Italy following the outbreak of 2018. She calls it the best decision coronavirus cases, US media reported that she ever made. Monday. Speaking of the split to According to an entertainment portal, Cosmopolitan UK, Hilton said: the seventh instalment of the "No. It was the best decision I've Paramount Pictures franchise was ever made in my life. I just don't scheduled to shoot in Venice for three think (he) was the right person. I weeks. feel like I'm an incredible woman "Out of an abundance of caution for and I deserve someone so amazing. the safety and well-being of our cast and I just didn't feel right. I've worked crew, and efforts of the local Venetian way too hard to just give my life to government to halt public gatherings in someone. They have to be perfect." response to the threat of coronavirus, we Hilton dated Zylka for two years. are altering the production plan for our The number of cases now stood at 229, She said she was loving her single three-week shoot in Venice," a the head of Italy's civil protection life because she did not want to Paramount spokesperson said in a department Angelo Borelli said at a have "someone controlling me." statement. press conference on Monday evening, the She added that dating certain The spokesperson added that Cruise highest number in Europe. people increased the risk of not had not traveled to Italy, and that crew In addition to 'MI7', the spread of the trusting them and implied that if members were allowed to return home virus has disrupted high-profile events she went away, she fears they until production started. including Milan Fashion Week and the would do "something to embarrass Italy reported its seventh death from Venice Carnival. On Monday evening, me." the new coronavirus Monday, but sports minister Vincenzo Spadafora The former couple ended their officials called for calm and reported a announced that six Serie A football engagement in November 2018, lower rise in the number of infections matches would be played behind closed only 10 months after he proposed after a spike over the weekend. doors. Hilton with a $2 million ring. THE INDIAN PANORAMA 20 THEATER FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2020 UNMASKED, Musical By Mabel Pais "'Unmasked' is a funny and heartwarming celebration of one of the greatest musical theater composers (Andrew Lloyd Webber) of all time. 'Unmasked' is the heart, mind and soul of this creative genius." - JoAnn M. Hunter, Director-Choreographer NOW ON STAGE! UNMASKED: THE MUSIC OF ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER MUSIC BY ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER

CO WRITTEN AND DEVISED WITH : (L to R): Alex Finke, Mauricio Martinez, Mamie Parris, :(L to R): Dave Schoonover, Marta Bagratuni, and Angel Lozada RICHARD CURTIS Nicholas Edwards, Amy Justman, and Alyssa Giannetti Photos / Jerry Dalia MUSIC SUPERVISION BY DAVID ANDREW For Performance Schedule and Tickets of alyssagiannetti.com "Unmasked: The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber," visit To learn more about Jeremy Landon Hays, visit WILSON www.papermill.org or the Paper Mill Playhouse Box jeremylandonhays.com MUSIC DIRECTION BY MICHAEL PATRICK Office at 22 Brookside Drive in Millburn or call To learn more Kara Haller, visit karahaller.com 973.315.1680. To learn more about Amy Justman, visit AND CHOREOGRAPHED BY JOANN M. To get a sneak peek at the performance, visit amyjustman.com https://www.dropbox.com/s/qfxirv4d2tb57qm/Unmas To learn more about Andrew Kober, visit HUNTER ked%20at%20Paper%20Mill_Video_Broll.m4v?dl=0 andrewkoberonline.com aper Mill Playhouse (Mark S. Hoebee-Producing Tickets are available at discounted rates for groups To learn more about Angel Lozada, visit Artistic Director, Michael Stotts-Managing and rush tickets for students on the day of the facebook.com/angel.j.lozada.7 PDirector), recipient of the Regional Theatre Tony performance. To learn more about Bronson Norris Murphy, visit Award, begins 2020 with the world premiere "Unmasked is a funny and heartwarming celebration bronsonnorrismurphy.com "Unmasked: The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber" with of one of the greatest musical theater composers of all To learn more about Mamie Parris, visit mamieparris.com music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and co-written and time," stated JoAnn M. Hunter, director and To learn more about Dave Schoonover, visit devised with Richard Curtis. choreographer. "In this musical revue audiences can facebook.com/public/Dave-Schoonover "Unmasked: The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber" expect to hear their favorite songs from some of To learn more about Rema Webb, visit will continue performances until Sunday, March 1, 2020 Andrew Lloyd Webber's most cherished works, along facebook.com/rema.webb at Paper Mill Playhouse (22 Brookside Drive, Millburn, with the inspiration behind these timeless songs. To learn more about Alexander Dodge, visit NJ). Unmasked is the heart, mind and soul of this creative alexanderdodgedesign.com Directed and choreographed by JoAnn M. Hunter genius." To learn more about Jon Weston, visit jon-weston.com ("School of Rock," Paper Mill's "Cinderella"), with ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER To learn more about Max Quinlan, visit maxquinlan.net music supervision by David Andrew Wilson ("School of To learn more about Tara Rubin Casting, visit Rock," "Cats") music direction by Michael Patrick Andrew Lloyd Webber is the composer of some of the tararubincasting.com Walker ("Sunset Boulevard"), the cast features Nicholas world's best-known musicals, including "Cats," "Evita," ACCESSIBILITY PERFORMANCES FOR Edwards ("Frozen), Alex Finke ("Come From Away"), "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," Alyssa Giannetti ("Love Never Dies"), Jeremy Landon "Jesus Christ Superstar," "The Phantom of the Opera," UNMASKED: THE MUSIC OF ANDREW LLOYD Hays ("The Phantom of the Opera"), Kara Haller "Sunset Boulevard," and "School of Rock." WEBBER ("School of Rock"), Amy Justman ("Company"), Andrew His awards, both as composer and producer, include Paper Mill Playhouse, a leader in accessibility, will Kober ("School of Rock," Paper Mill's "Cinderella"), seven Tonys, seven Oliviers, a Golden Globe, an Oscar, offer an audio-described performance for Unmasked: Angel Lozada (NBC's "Jesus Christ Superstar"), an Emmy, the Praemium Imperiale, PCLO's Richard The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber on Saturday, Mauricio Martinez ("On Your Feet!"), Bronson Norris Rodgers Award for Excellence in Musical Theater, a February 29, 2020, at 1:30pm. Prior to the performance Murphy ("Love Never Dies"), Mamie Parris ("School of BASCA Fellowship, the Kennedy Center Honor, and a at noon, the theater will offer a free sensory seminar. Rock," "Cats"), Dave Schoonover ("Love Never Dies," Grammy for Best Contemporary Classical Composition The Sensory seminar offers an opportunity for patrons Paper Mill's "Cinderella"),and Rema Webb ("Escape to for Requiem, his setting of the Latin Requiem mass, with vision loss to hear a live, in-depth description of Margaritaville"). which contains one of his best-known compositions, the production elements of the show and hands-on One of the most successful musical theater "Pie Jesu." interaction with key sets, props, and costumes.There composers of all time takes audiences behind the He owns seven London theaters, including the will be a sign-interpreted and open-captioned scenes in "Unmasked," a world-premiere featuring Theatre Royal Drury Lane and the London Palladium. performance on Sunday, March 1, 2020,at 7:00pm. stories and songs from Andrew Lloyd Webber's He was knighted by Her Majesty the Queen in 1992 and Q&A WITH THE CAST: After the matinee on remarkable life and celebrated work. This funny and created an honorary member of the House of Lords in Saturday, February 29, 2020 stick around for a lively warm musical portrait, a concert for the theater, offers 1997. Q&A with cast members directly following the an intimate look at Lloyd Webber's five decades in the He is passionate about the importance of music in performance. spotlight and beyond, from his quirky family and education, and the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation is PAPER MILL PLAYHOUSE (PMP) bohemian youth in London to the creation of such one of Britain's leading charities supporting the arts smash hits as "Jesus Christ Superstar", "Evita," "Cats," and music. In 2016, the foundation announced a $1.3 Paper Mill Playhouse is a not-for-profit arts "Phantom of the Opera," and "Sunset Boulevard." You'll million arts education initiative with the 'American organization under the direction of Mark S. Hoebee hear new and sometimes unexpected interpretations of Theatre Wing.' (Producing Artistic Director) and Michael Stotts his best-loved songs, rediscovered gems, and some new To learn more about Andrew Lloyd Webber, visit (Managing Director), recipient of the Regional Theatre material specially written for this production. andrewlloydwebber.com Tony Award, is one of the country's leading regional The production team includes scenic and costume To learn more about David Curtis, visit theaters. Paper Mill Playhouse is a member of the design by Alexander Dodge (Paper Mill's "Chasing imdb.com/name/nm0193485 National Alliance for Musical Theatre, the Council of Rainbows: The Road to Oz," "A Gentleman's Guide...," To learn more about Michael Patrick Walker, visit Stock Theatres, and the New Jersey Theatre Alliance. michaelpatrickwalker.com "Anastasia"), lighting design by Tony Award nominee For additional information, visit Ed McCarthy (Tony Awards, "Kathleen Turner: Finding To learn more about Joann M. Hunter, visit joannmhunter.com www.papermill.org My Voice"), sound design by Jon Weston ("Thoroughly To learn more about David Andrew Wilson, visit www.PaperMill.orgfacebook.com/PaperMillPlayhouse Modern Millie," "Big Fish") with hair, wig and makeup imdb.com/name/nm0625298 Twitter: @paper_mill design by Tom Watson.The Production Stage Manager To learn more about Nicholas Edwards, visit is Frank Lombardi. Max Quinlan will serve as associate thenicholasedwards.com Instagram: papermillplayhouse director and Liz Ramos will serve as associate To learn more about Alex Finke, visit alexfinke.com (Mabel Pais writes on the Arts and Entertainment, Spirituality, choreographer. Casting is by Tara Rubin Casting. To learn more about Alyssa Giannetti, visit Social Issues, and Health & Wellness) THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2020 CINEMA 21 SLAY THE DRAGON, Docu-Film By Mabel Pais "It was a complete revelation." "I had primary challenger." heard of gerrymandering, of course, but And as the film makes painfully clear like a lot of us, I didn't completely using the Flint, Michigan, water crisis understandit." - Barak Goodman: Co- Director - Co-Producer as an example, gerrymandered districts ".....we realized this was a film that allow state representatives to blatantly could live in the present, but a present ignore the will of their constituents. informed by what had happened in the Seeing people like Greenwood, recent past." - Chris Durrance: Co- Stephanopoulos and Fahey take up the Director - Co-Producer fight against gerrymandering has REDMAP was "the most audacious renewed the filmmaker's faith in political heist of modern times," - David Daley: Former Editor-In-Chief - America. "It's still possible to change Salon.com, Author: Ratf**ked things by one citizen or a few people In today's political climate, this Katie Fahey A Scene from "Slay The Dragon" getting up off the couch and making Photos / Courtesy Participant Media things happen. Ironically, seeing them film is a MUST SEE for all partisan gerrymandering in Michigan. fighting this anti- democratic process moviegoers, to learn and Now Katie is the co-founder and than 200 years. The term (originally has shown the strength and resiliency of challenge gerrymandering. executive director of 'The People,' a group spelled Gerry-mander) was first used in democracy." that pushes for nonpartisan 1812 in the Boston Gazette in response to PRODUCTION CREDITS : n "Slay the Dragon," filmmakers governmental reforms. the redrawing of Massachusetts state Participant Media presents, in Barak Goodman ("Woodstock: Three ABOUT THE PRODUCTION : The senate districts in a bill signed by association with React Films, a film by IDays That Defined A Generation," inspiration for the new documentary Slay Governor Elbridge Gerry. One of the Barak Goodman, an Ark Media "Oklahoma City") and Chris Durrance the Dragon came in early 2017, when districts, remapped to benefit Gerry's Production Slay the Dragon. track the origins of modern filmmaker Barak Goodman picked up a Democratic-Republican Party over the Directed and produced by Barak gerrymandering and follow the activists copy of Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn't rival Federalist Party, was so weirdly Goodman and Chris Durrance. working today - from the grassroots to the Count by veteran journalist David Daley. shaped that critics said it resembled a Executive producers are Jeff Skoll, Supreme Court - to change the system. The 2016 book tells the story of REDMAP, mythical, dragon-like salamander. Diane Weyermann, Coralie Charriol The film lays out in plain English how a national plan by a group of political REDMAP (short for Redistricting Paul and William von Mueffling. gerrymandering happens, what effects it strategists to use dark money, Big Data Majority Project) was a relatively SLAY THE DRAGON, IN ACTION : has, and how it can be remedied. and the power of redistricting to remake inexpensive strategy, but it worked In advance of the film's release, The film tells the story of activist Katie the electoral map in order to reestablish extraordinarily well, according to Participant Media - in partnership with Fahey, who, in 2016 was a 26-year-old with Republican dominance in the wake of Goodman. By focusing resources on advocacy groups - will work to accelerate no experience or connections in politics Barack Obama's 2008 presidential victory. state legislative races in the 2010 the fundamental efforts underway to end and activism. Following the 2016 election Although gerrymandering has existed midterms, Republicans were able to gain the practice of gerrymandering. she was concerned about political for centuries in the U.S. and has been used majorities - and in some cases, super- Through pre-screening events and polarization and the erosion of by Democrats as well as Republicans, majorities - in more than 20 state houses. curated discussions with the grassroots representative democracy across the REDMAP was "the most audacious With those majorities came control of activists doing the work on the ground, country, so she posted a call-to-action on political heist of modern times," many of those states' redistricting this impact campaign will work to Facebook. Two years later, she had according to Daley, the former editor-in- processes. educate thousands of Americans to fight spearheaded a massive grassroots chief of Salon.com and a senior fellow at "When you have a gerrymandered for fairer districts whichmeans fairer campaign to change redistricting laws in FairVote, a nonpartisan, not-for-profit district, the real battle happens in the representation to ensure that all citizens the state. Katie's campaign mobilized group that promotes voter empowerment. primary because there's no real threat have an equal voice at the ballot box. thousands of volunteers across the state, THE DRAGON : Gerrymandering, from the other party," explains Run Time: 101 Minutes survived a legal challenge from defined as manipulating the boundaries Goodman. "So it's a race to the extremes. Release Date: March 13, 2020 Republicans in the state Supreme Court, of an electoral district in order to provide The only way you can lose your seat - To learn more, visit slaythedragonfilm.com and earned an astonishing 61% of the one party with an advantage over an and this is true in both parties - is if vote for a ballot measure that would end opposing party, has been around for more you're more moderate than your VIRAL, Docu-Film:Anti-Semitism in 4 Mutations BY MABEL PAIS "Brutal, yet Vital…..the movie is must-see viewing in our current age of rising global hatred against not only Jews but ethnic minorities everywhere." - Hammer To Nail "If we don't draw a red line in the sand when it comes to antisemitism, Muslims will be next, gays will be next and everyone else who is deemed a minority will be next." - Maajid Nawaz y virtually every yardstick, antisemitism in the US Jean-Luc Slackmon and Europe is rising and worsening in ways not Bseen since the 1930s. It comes in the forms of producer/director Andrew Goldberg, is the founder-owner vandalism, social media abuse, assault and murder. Like a of 'So Much Film' in New York City. "Viral" is written, virus, it mutates and evolves across cultures, borders and produced and directed by him. Goldberg is currently ideologies, making it all but impossible to stop. Director Andrew Goldberg with Russel Walter, Republican directing a fully funded feature documentary,currently in Filmmaker Andrew Goldberg explores its infectious from North Carolina post-production, that explores the complex relationship behavior in his film "Viral: Antisemitism in Four antisemitic vitriol, causing tremendous pain for the between humans and animals. The film questions how Mutations" as he travels through four countries to speak Jewish community.And in France, the film illuminates the animals are both respected in the world but also used for firsthand with victims, witnesses, anti-Semites, and seemingly endless wave of violence against Jews by food, science, textiles and entertainment. interviewees including Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Fareed Islamists and radicals. DIANA ROBINSON, Producer-Editor of 'Viral' has been Zakaria, George Will and Deborah Lipstadt. The increasing bigotry, and at times violence, within in print journalism, and producer of documentaries for The film examines how some on the American far right each of these four countries paints a terrifying portrait of public TV.Viral is her first feature film. have incited such acts as the mass shooting at the Tree of how global hatred disseminates and harms. As activist Run time: 90 minutes Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, PA. In Hungary,we see how Maajid Nawaz says in the film, "If we don't draw a red line Release Date: Currently playing in Village East Cinema, New the Prime Minister has launched a massive campaign in the sand when it comes to antisemitism, Muslims will York City, against Jewish Holocaust survivor and billionaire George be next, gays will be next and everyone else who is deemed Expands nationwide starting February 28 Soros that's reminiscent of Nazi propaganda. Moving to a minority will be next." To learn more, visit viralthefilm.com the far left in England, we see members of the traditionally ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS : ANDREW (Mabel Pais writes on The Arts and Entertainment, Social anti-racist Labour party conflating Israel and Jews with GOLDBERG, an Emmy Award-winning investigative Issues, Spirituality, and Health & Wellness) THE INDIAN PANORAMA 22 WORLD FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2020 33 Turkish soldiers killed in Syria’s Idlib ANKARA (TIP): At least 33 Turkish soldiers were killed as violence escalated in Syria’s Idlib province after an air strike blamed on Damascus, with NATO Canada no longer to chief Jens Stoltenberg condemning “indiscriminate” attacks by the Assad pay for Harry and regime and Russia. Meghan security Dozens more soldiers were injured and taken to Turkey for treatment, Rahmi OTTAWA (TIP): Canada will no Dogan, governor of Turkish Hatay -- longer pick up the security tab for bordering Syria -- said on Friday. protecting Prince Harry and his wife The heavy losses in northwestern Idlib Meghan starting in March, the office of come after weeks of growing tensions Public Safety Minister Bill Blair said between rebel supporter Ankara and Thursday. The Duke and Duchess of Damascus ally Moscow. Sussex have been living part-time in Stoltenberg “urged all parties to de- an oceanside mansion in westernmost escalate this dangerous situation and British Columbia province since avoid further worsening of the November. horrendous humanitarian situation in Last month, they made a shock exit the region”, his spokesman said on from life as working royals. Friday. killed in the province this month. clashes” between the army and The Royal Canadian Mounted Police In a phone call with Turkish Foreign There was a flurry of diplomatic “terrorist groups on the Saraqeb front”. have provided security for the couple Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, the NATO activity as Turkey’s presidential An AFP correspondent accompanied in this country under the secretary general “condemned the spokesman Ibrahim Kalin spoke with US the rebels into Saraqeb, where he found a internationally protected person’s continued indiscriminate air strikes by national security adviser, Robert ghost town of bombed-out buildings. convention. But that will end "in the the Syrian regime and its backer Russia O’Brien, state news agency Anadolu The counterattack temporarily coming weeks, in keeping with their in Idlib province”, according to the reported without giving detail. reverses one of the key gains of the change in status," said a statement. spokesman. Jihadists and Turkish-backed rebels government since its offensive against Canadians have been welcoming of Turkey has urged the Syrian regime to on Thursday re-entered Saraqeb, a key the country’s last rebel enclave in the royal runaways. Local monarchists withdraw from Turkish observation Idlib crossroads town they had lost December. surveyed by AFP are excited, while posts in Idlib, while Moscow has accused earlier in February, reversing one of the The cash-strapped government had tourism groups are even giddier about Ankara of aiding “terrorists” in Syria. main gains of the government’s been keen to fully secure the M5, a the prospects of a boost from the global Under a 2018 deal with Russia meant to devastating offensive. highway that connects Syria’s four main attention on the couple. bring calm to Idlib, Turkey has 12 The counter-offensive could, however, cities and passes through Saraqeb. But a recent poll found that 77 observation posts in the region -- but be short-lived as Russian-backed Syrian The Syrian Observatory said the air percent of Canadian taxpayers were several have come under fire from troops continued to chip away at other strikes were carried out by Assad not keen to pay for their security costs. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s parts of the rebel bastion, capturing 20 government ally Russia, heavily — AFP forces. localities. criticised by the West for the high Turkish President Recep Tayyip Seven civilians, including three civilian death toll from its bombing Saudi Arabia halts Erdogan hastily convened an emergency children, were killed in regime and campaign. travel to Mecca over meeting in Ankara after the Idlib attack. Russian bombardment of Idlib, State media accused the “terrorists” of Erdogan’s top press aide, Fahrettin according to the Syrian Observatory for launching car bombings and other coronavirus Altun, said Turkey’s military retaliated Human Rights, adding to more than 400 suicide attacks against government DUBAI (TIP): Saudi Arabia on against all known positions of the such deaths since December. forces attempting to retake the town. Thursday halted travel to the holiest regime after the air strike. The UN Security Council, where It said the army had inflicted heavy sites in Islam over fears about a new In a statement, Altun called on the Moscow has systematically vetoed truce losses on the attackers, despite the viral epidemic just months ahead of international community to fulfil its initiatives, met again on Thursday amid military support it said they had the annual hajj pilgrimage, a move responsibilities to end the violence in growing concern Idlib is witnessing the received from Turkey. coming as the Mideast has over 220 Idlib and the regime’s “crimes against nine-year-old war’s worst humanitarian Some 950,0000 civilians have fled the confirmed cases of the illness. humanity”. The latest attack means 53 emergency. State news agency SANA government offensive, raising fears in The extraordinary decision by Saudi Turkish security personnel have been acknowledged there were “fierce Ankara of a new influx of refugees. AFP Arabia stops foreigners from reaching the holy city of Mecca and the Kaaba, the cube-shaped structure the world's 1.8 billion Muslims pray toward five times a day. It also said travel was Russian President Vladimir Putin suspended to Prophet Muhammad's mosque in Medina. The decision showed the worry reveals plan to use body double about the outbreak potentially spreading into Saudi Arabia, whose MOSCOW (TIP): Russian President interviewer asked. “Yes,” said Putin. He interviewer Andrei Vandenko, who is oil-rich monarchy stakes its legitimacy Vladimir Putin on Thursday revealed said he has never had a double but when doing a series of interviews with Putin on protecting Islam's holy sites. The there was a secret plan to use a double to asked if the idea had ever been to mark 20 years since he became epicenter in the Mideast's most- make public appearances for him, while discussed, he confirmed it had. “I president. “Yes,” said Putin. “The double affected country, Iran, appears to be in insisting he vetoed it—and that he is the refused to have doubles,” Putin said. “It would go where things were dodgy?” the holy Shiite city of Qom, where a real Putin. was during the hardest times of the fight asked Vandenko. “Well yes, go, put in shrine there sees the faithful reach out Putin’s comments showed that a against terrorism.” Putin as prime appearances,” Putin confirmed. to kiss and touch it in reverence. conspiracy theory widespread on the minister and then president oversaw the Conspiracy theories have long circulated "Saudi Arabia renews its support for Internet that the Russian strongman has second war against separatists in suggesting that Putin had died and been all international measures to limit the been impersonated over the years or Chechnya from 1999 to 2000. After replaced by a lookalike. These centred on spread of this virus, and urges its even replaced by a lookalike is not Russian armed forces claimed victory, the 67-year-old’s apparent lack of signs of citizens to exercise caution before entirely without basis. Islamist insurgent attacks became ageing, the disappearance of bags under traveling to countries experiencing TASS state news agency showed Putin frequent in the North Caucasus while his eyes and his seemingly worsening coronavirus outbreaks," the Saudi a list of popular Russian-language suicide bombers targeted Russia’s main knowledge of German, which he learned Foreign Ministry said in a statement Internet searches including “Putin cities. when working as a Soviet agent in East announcing the decision. — AP double proof”. “Are you real?” the “Was that in the early 2000s?” asked Germany. AFP THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2020 WORLD 23

China reports 29 Japan PM calls for nationwide deaths, lowest since Jan closure of schools over virus BEIJING (TIP): China on Thursday reported 29 more deaths TOKYO (TIP): Japan’s Prime legislation to minimise the negative from the new coronavirus Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday urged impact on the economy and the daily epidemic, the lowest daily figure schools nationwide to close for several lives of Japanese. Japanese authorities in almost a month, and the weeks to prevent the spread of the new have progressively stepped up their number of fresh infections rose coronavirus, as authorities reported the response to the outbreak, but faced slightly. The death toll now stands country’s fourth death linked to the criticism for acting slowly and for their at 2,744 in mainland China, outbreak. handling of the Diamond Princess, according to the National Health The move comes as crew members where more than 700 people contracted Commission. AFP from the Diamond Princess, a the virus. Four former passengers have coronavirus-stricken cruise ship died after becoming ill on board. Bullied Australian quarantined off Japan, began leaving Most passengers have now left the boy to donate the vessel where more than 700 people boat, including nearly 1,000 who were have tested positive for the disease. allowed to leave after testing negative. $475,000 to charity “The government considers the health But several have since tested positive for SYDNEY (TIP): An Australian and safety of children above anything the virus, and the health ministry boy with dwarfism whose distress else,” Abe said. admitted others were not tested during from bullying became a viral video “We request all primary, junior high the quarantine period. will donate hundreds of thousands and high schools... across the nation to On Thursday, the health ministry said of dollars in donations to charity close temporarily from March 2 next its kindergartens, elementary and junior 240 crew members left the boat and more rather than a trip to Disneyland. week until their spring break.” high schools from Saturday for two will disembark in the next couple of The clip of nine-year-old Quaden The spring break for public schools weeks. days. Those leaving the boat will be Bayles showed him crying and usually starts in late March in Japan and Abe’s call comes after the government placed in medical observation for 14 days repeatedly saying he wanted to die lasts several weeks. Local media said the urged organisers of major events to at government-designated dormitories after being bullied at school, call would not extend to nurseries and consider cancelling them, and called on before being allowed to leave Japan, they sparking an outpouring of support daycare facilities however. “Efforts to businesses to allow employees to work said. Hundreds of crew members from around the world. The video prevent the spread of infections among from home or commute off-peak. remained on the vessel to continue prompted US comedian Brad children are being made in various Authorities have said the coming two operations while Japanese officials Williams to start a GoFundMe areas,” Abe added. to three weeks will be critical in placed thousands of passengers in a page that eventually raised almost Many public elementary schools and determining whether they can stem the quarantine after the ship arrived at a USD 475,000. AFP junior high schools in northern outbreak of the virus, which has infected port near Tokyo on February 3. Hokkaido, where the death of a man in nearly 200 people in the country. Several government officials working German court his 80s infected with the virus was “It’s extremely important to prevent on the ship have themselves contracted upholds headscarf confirmed on Thursday, were already one patient cluster from creating the infection, but authorities have closed after a cluster of infections another and we think we should take defended a policy of not uniformly ban for trainee prompted the governor to request public thorough measures,” Abe said at a testing those working on the vessel, lawyers schools close for about a week. cabinet-level meeting on the virus. arguing that medical experts have the The city of Osaka also said it will close He also urged ministers to work on skills to avoid infections.— AFP BERLIN (TIP): Germany's highest court on Thursday upheld a ban on headscarves for Muslim trainee lawyers in courts, finding Israel turns back travellers from that the requirement of maintaining religious neutrality was justified. The Federal Constitutional Court's ruling came Italy over virus fears after a Frankfurt-born German- Moroccan legal trainee filed a TEL AVIV (TIP): Israel denied entry challenge to Hesse state's rules. In to dozens of foreign nationals who the western state, trainees who landed on flights from Italy on Thursday, keep their headscarves on are not as the Jewish state discouraged travel as allowed to take on tasks in which part of efforts to contain the spread of they may be seen to be acting as the new coronavirus. representatives of the judiciary or The interior ministry had announced the state. AFP travellers from Italy would not be granted entry,adding it to a list of barred countries including Japan, South Korea, Niger police rescue Thailand and Singapore as well as 232 victims of sex Macau and Hong Kong. Three flights originating from Italy trafficking, forced then landed at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion labour airport. Twenty-five foreign nationals, DAKAR (TIP): Police in Niger including 19 Italians, who landed on the have rescued 232 victims of sex flight from Bergamo were denied entry trafficking and forced labour, and will be flown back, the interior including girls as young as 10, in a ministry said. major operation in the capital Another 23 foreigners on an Easy Jet Niamey, Interpol said on flight from Italy were also blocked from Wednesday. “Operation entering, a ministry spokeswoman said. international congregations should be Israel has recorded three confirmed Sarraounia” involved more than The Jewish state has also taken the avoided, including trips to religious cases of the COVID-19 virus, including 100 police officers who conducted a rare step of discouraging its citizens events where people from many two from the Diamond Princess cruise series of raids over 10 days in late from travelling abroad. countries gather,” the health ministry ship and an Israeli who had been in January, said the global police “Travel to conferences and other said. northern Italy. — AFP organisation, which provided assistance. (PTI) THE INDIAN PANORAMA 24 WOMEN FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2020 WANT TO KEEP YOUR MIND FOOD CORNER SHARP AS YOU AGE? FIND AN OPTIMISTIC PARTNER aving a partner who’s optimistic may help you Havoid cognitive decline as you age, say researchers. The researchers from the Michigan State University explained that optimistic people often exhibit healthier behaviours that are linked to good cognitive function. An optimistic partner ACHARI MURGH might then influence their spouse to Ingredients follow the same. Earlier studies have linked being 750gms Chicken on the bone skinless medium optimistic with healthy cognitive sized pieces, 3 tbsp mustard oil or vegetable oil, 1 tsp function. Now, the new study has fenugreek seeds, 1 tsp mustard seeds, 1 tsp cumin revealed that having a partner with seeds, 1 tsp fennel seeds, ½ tsp nigella seeds or an optimistic attitude could also onions seeds, 4 dried whole red chilies, 2 tbsp ginger help preserve a person’s cognitive garlic paste, 1 large white onion finely sliced, 1 ½ function as they age. tbsp tomato puree, ½ tsp turmeric powder, 2 tsp red Not only they found that more chilli powder, 100 mls water, 100mls lightly beaten optimistic people did better yoghurt, 1 tbsp lemon juice, Salt to taste, Chopped cognitively, being married to an coriander to garnish. optimist was led to better cognitive function. Method Several factors may cause In a heavy bottom sauce pan heat the mustard cognitive decline. Some of them are oil. Add the fenugreek seeds, mustard seeds, genetic predisposition, biological cumin seeds, fennel seeds and nigella seeds. markers, and lifestyle factors. Sauté until they start to sizzle and pop for a When we talk about lifestyle min or so. Also add the whole red chillies, factors, these include physical stirring to make sure they don’t burn. activity, healthy diet, healthy Add the sliced onion and fry until light brown weight. in colour and have softened for about 8-10 mins. Optimistic people tend to eat To the pan now add the ginger/ garlic paste healthier and stay more active. frying for a few seconds. Mix well. Stir in the They are also more likely to engage tomato puree, turmeric powder and chilli in preventive healthcare. All these powder. Cook for a couple of minutes till the oil healthy behaviours help decrease leaves the sides of the pan. risk for cognitive decline in Add the chicken pieces cooking on a medium optimists. also engage in “shared researchers. To cultivate optimism, heat to make sure the pieces are sealed and Giving all these reasons, the new remembering”. they say you need to change your coated in the gravy for 5-7 mins. Add the water study suggested that being in a The team suggests that optimism thinking to a more positive mindset. and bring the curry to a boil, then simmer romantic relationship with an might also be helpful in preventing There are many other steps you covered on a low heat cooking for 20 mins until optimist might also provide similar the cognitive decline associated can take to keep our minds sharp. the chicken is cooked through and succulent, benefits. with Alzheimer’s and other forms of One prominent pathway is through stirring a couple of times The researchers hypothesize that dementia. greater activity engagement, say At this stage, add the yoghurt and stir, making an optimistic partner might set an Other ways to keep our minds the researchers. sure not to let it split and continue cooking on example of healthy behaviour for sharp Physical fitness and social a low heat with the lid on for 5-7 minutes. Add their spouse. While about 25 percent of engagement are also shown to be salt and lemon juice to taste. Garnished with Elaborating further on their optimism is heritable, it’s a quality valuable for maintaining cognitive coriander. Serve hot with roomali roti or naan. finding, they said a couple might that can be learned, according to the functioning. Enjoy! RECHARGE YOUR SKIN ON THE WEEKENDS

eing an 'urbanista' and on-the-move throughout skin breathe unreservedly. the week is exciting, however, there are many Washing your face is the most significant and the Benvironmental and lifestyle factors linked to city initial phase for healthy skin to be centered around. living that can be very harmful to our skin. Choose a face wash rich in charcoal because it cleanses Plabita Sharma, skincare expert at The Body Shop away dirt and impurities and helps in unclogging pores India says the weekend is the ideal time to make up for to give soft and radiant skin. Post this, use a lost time with some truly necessary sleep after the moisturizer to hydrate your skin. chaotic work week. Some of the special products to use during weekend "Great skin is not simply a matter of DNA. Your daily skincare regimes are face masks, which not only habits, in fact, have a big impact on what you see in the improve the overall appearance of your skin, but can be mirror. Ultimately, caring for your skin is simply quite therapeutic. Masks infused with aromatic personal. Normally working women don't get enough essential oils like mint and rosemary can lift your spirit time to pamper themselves with an accurate skin care by stimulating your senses, giving a spa-like treatment so weekends are more comfortable periods where at home. women can let their skin breathe. Weekend skincare Use an exfoliator. Scrubbing is one of the most regime help in rejuvenation of the skin and gives a essential skin care regimens that you need to follow. fresh radiant look for weekdays," she says. Weekly exfoliation helps in gently removing dead skin With a busy life and limited excess to self-care during Show your skin some affection with the correct cells and keep your skin clean. weekdays it's very important to have some me time healthy skin items. Replenish your skin with a No matter what the season is moisturization should during the relaxed weekend. To start with, take a decent moisturizing treat while you rest at the end of the week be an essential part of skincare regime. Using a hot shower to enable your muscles to unwind followed by applying a medium-term face mask. moisturizer every day can make your skin radiant and by a light sprinkle of cold water. Additionally, go for some anti-oxidants and let your provide deep hydration. THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2020 HEALTH 25 MINERAL DEFICIENCY? HERE’S WHAT TO EAT any people are aware that it is very possible to have a Mvitamin deficiency. But did you know you can lack certain minerals that are essential too? Sometimes a simple blood test is all that is needed to determine which micro or macro minerals you might be missing. HOW TO LOWER ANEMIA RISK But there are plenty of signs and symptoms that can act as first eople who suffer from iron deficiency are not signals as well. Click through the likely to immediately figure it out. They usually gallery to learn what some of these Pfeel fatigue, dizziness, weakness and shortness of are and what foods to incorporate breath. In the United States, about 10 million people into your diet should you be missing are suffering from iron deficiency and this is largely these essential compounds. due to the condition anemia. There are two types of Iron deficiency anemia is due Chromium to the body running short of red blood cells, not being A deficiency of this micro able to make enough hemoglobin. Without mineral can result in impaired hemoglobin, the red blood cell count drops. glucose tolerance and weight loss. Hemoglobin is the protein that transfers oxygen to different parts of the body. This condition is referred Chromium to as anemia, where the red blood cells cannot To boost chromium in your transport oxygen. system, some foods you'll want to You can also develop iron deficiency by losing blood eat more of are: mushrooms, green since it is filled with iron. leafy vegetables, soybeans, The other type of anemia is called pernicious sunflower seeds, garbanzo beans, anemia, which is a result of the body not having cashews, molasses, and liver. enough folate and vitamin B12. In order to prevent this type of anemia, eating a diet rich in folate and iron is Manganese necessary.If you display any of the symptoms, consult In humans, deficiency of this your doctor on how to improve it. micro mineral is unusual. But on Here are some of the steps that can be taken: the rare occasion, symptoms can include poor bone growth, low Supplements fertility, and impaired glucose In cases of severe iron deficiency, anemia treatment tolerance. plans include daily iron supplements, which range from 150 to 200 milligrams per day. Making up for severe deficiencies is not easy to do through food alone, hence supplements are recommended. The supplements can be availed through prescriptions or Experiencing stress may be linked over-the-counter supplements. Meat to improved social benefits Heme iron is found in several meat products and seafood. It is absorbed faster by the body than nonheme iron present in plant foods. Venison, red xperiencing stress may make meat and lamb are richer sources than poultry and people both more likely to chicken. Egive, and receive emotional Of all the organ meats, liver is rich in folate and support from another person, iron. Balancing the diet with nonheme sources could according to a study which may lead increase the level of absorption. Most fish, to better interventions to help particularly canned salmon and canned tuna, are high people feel more relaxed. in iron. The study, published in the journal Stress & Health, suggested Nuts, Seeds and Legumes that while stress can lead to Lima beans, chickpeas, soybeans and pinto beans negative health outcomes, there are are good sources of nonheme iron for vegetarians. potential social benefits, as well. Pumpkin seeds, chia seeds, hemp seeds and sunflower "Our findings suggest that just seeds are rich in iron too. In the category of nuts, because we have a bad day, that almonds, cashews, pistachios and pine nuts are filled doesn't mean it has to be completely with iron. Ensure you consume the raw varieties to get unhealthy. If stress can actually the most out of them. connect us with other people, which I think is absolutely vital to the human experience, I think that's a benefit," PAGE SPONSORED BY said study co-author David Almeida from The Pennsylvania State DR. SATISH AND GITANJLI ANAND University (Penn State) in the US. "Stress could potentially help I realized that a lot of studies looked They asked the participants about DR. SATISH ANAND people deal with negative situations at how emotional support is their stressors, and whether they Former Chairman, Board of by driving them to be with other beneficial to other health outcomes, gave or received emotional support Trustees, AAPI National people," Almedia said. but not many looked at the on that day. E-Mail: According to the researchers, determinants of social support," These stressors included [email protected] while the negative effects of stress - said Hye Won Chai, another co- arguments, stressful events at work - such as heart disease, author of the study from Penn State. or school, and stressful events at compromised immune function and "We thought that stress could be a home, the study noted. GITANJLI ANAND depressive symptoms -- are well- facilitator in these interpersonal According to the researchers, the Former President, India documented, its potential benefits, exchanges," Chai said. participants were on average more Association of Long Island such as emotional support For the study, the scientists than twice as likely to either give or (IALI) remained unknown. interviewed 1,622 participants for receive emotional support on days E-mail: "Looking at the current research, eight consecutive nights. they experienced a stressor. [email protected] THE INDIAN PANORAMA 26 SCIENCE & TECH FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2020 SCIENTISTS HAVE FINALLY BEEN ABLE TO RECORD WHAT ATOMS DO WHEN THEY COLLIDE

o understand the finer points of various atomic Tinteractions physicists had to calculate correlations based on averages amongst a crowd of atoms that have been chilled down to the point that they all share an identity. Now, a team of physicists from the PRIVATE WHATSAPP GROUP University of Otago, New Zealand seem to have bypassed this, by forcing atoms to pause long enough CHAT LINKS AVAILABLE ON for their exchanges to be recorded. To do this, you are required to GOOGLE SEARCH have a tiny pair of tweezers, which oogle has indexed invite links to private can hold isolated atoms still and WhatsApp group chats, meaning anyone can record the changes as they meet. Gjoin various private chat groups (including Such pair of tweezers are made several porn-sharing groups) with a simple search. from specially aligned polarised According to a report in Motherboard, invitations to light, which acts as optical traps for WhatsApp group chats were being indexed by Google. tiny objects. The atoms need to be rubidium variety of atoms, which loss was not anywhere near as The team found private groups using specific Google cooled down to make them easier to bond to form molecules of expected. searches and even joined a group intended for NGOs catch. Such a process requires the dirubidium. Till this, the project Such a low rate of loss shows that accredited by the UN and had access to all the right technology and a lot of was a bit easy, but to model how the the molecules weren’t coming participants and their phone numbers. patience to achieve. changes take place is the challenge. together as quickly as existing Journalist Jordan Wildon said on Twitter that he “Our method involves the The experiment requires three models. This could be explained by discovered that WhatsApp's "Invite to Group Link" individual trapping and cooling of atoms, in which two atoms bond, the fact that the atoms were feature lets Google index groups, making them three atoms to a temperature of whereas the third, takes away the confined and had short-range available across the internet since the links are being about a millionth of a Kelvin using excess bonding energy to leave them quantum effects. shared outside of WhatsApp's secure private highly focused laser beams in a connected. The team said that the technique messaging service. hyper-evacuated (vacuum) chamber, Using three atoms, in theory, used “could provide a way to build "Your WhatsApp groups may not be as secure as you around the size of a toaster,” said causes the atoms to be forced out of and control single molecules of think they are," Wildon tweeted on Friday, adding that physicist Mikkel F Andersen. their trap. This experiment was particular chemicals.” Further using particular Google searches, people can discover “We slowly combine the traps captured using a special camera, experiments will help to refine links to the chats. containing the atoms to produce which magnifies the changes. They those models, which will be able to According to app reverse-engineer Jane Wong, controlled interactions that we were able to capture the moment better explain how groups of atoms Google has around 470,000 results for a simple search measure,” he added. when the rubidium particles came operate together to meet and bond of "chat.whatsapp.com", part of the URL that makes The study which took place, took close together, revealing the rate of under various conditions. up invites to WhatsApp groups. Trembling Mars gives up Scientists accidentally discover first more seismic secrets

ars is a constantly tremoring “living” animal that doesn't breathe oxygen body, researchers said Monday as they Munveiled measurements of seismic common assumption that all multicellular activity on the red planet showing similar organisms must be breathing oxygen has now been tremble rates to Earth or the Moon. Aproven wrong as researchers have accidentally For 15 months NASA’s InSight robot craft discovered the first non-oxygen breathing animal. scoured the surface of Earth’s neighbour, and The tiny, less than 10-celled parasite Henneguya measured hundreds of so-called “Marsquakes”. Salminicola lives in salmon muscle, according to a study These included several tremors that contained Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. the same frequency patterns as tremors caused As it evolved, the animal, which is a myxozoan relative of by the movement of Earth’s own tectonic plates. jellyfish and corals, gave up breathing and consuming “This is the first mission focused on taking oxygen to produce energy. direct geophysical measurements of any planet "Aerobic respiration was thought to be ubiquitous in besides Earth, and it’s given us our first real animals, but now we confirmed that this is not the case," understanding of Mars’ interior structure and said Dorothee Huchon, Professor at Tel Aviv University in geological processes,” said Nicholas Schmerr, an Israel. assistant professor of geology at the University "Our discovery shows that evolution can go in strange of Maryland and a co-author of the study in directions. Aerobic respiration is a major source of energy, Nature Geoscience. Another team of researchers and yet we found an animal that gave up this critical found that at least 20 of the quakes measured by pathway," Huchon added. the InSight lander had the equivalent strength of Some other organisms like fungi, amoebas or ciliate possibility that organisms belonging to the animal a magnitude 3-4 earthquake. lineages in anaerobic environments have lost the ability to kingdom could survive in anaerobic environments. After a six-and-a-half-month voyage through breathe over time. The assumption that all animals are breathing oxygen 480 million kilometres of space, the NASA probe The new study demonstrated that the same can happen was based, among other things, on the fact that animals are landed on Mars’ Elysium plain in November to an animal -- possibly because the parasite happens to live multicellular, highly developed organisms, which first 2018, pressing an ear to the planet for the first in an anaerobic environment. appeared on Earth when oxygen levels rose. time. The parasite's anaerobic nature was an accidental "It's not yet clear to us how the parasite generates Mars had long been thought to be seismically discovery. energy," Huchon said. active, but the InSight lander gave scientists While assembling the Henneguya genome, Huchon found "It may be drawing it from the surrounding fish cells, or proof of consistent and occasionally powerful that it did not include a mitochondrial genome. it may have a different type of respiration such as oxygen- tremors. While the studies show at least 170 The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell where free breathing, which typically characterizes anaerobic tremors measured over 225 days, the quakes have oxygen is captured to make energy,so its absence indicated non-animal organisms," Huchon said. continued to the present day, according to that the animal was not breathing oxygen. The discovery bears enormous significance for Philippe Lognonne, a researcher at Paris’ Until the new discovery,there was a debate regarding the evolutionary research, Huchon said. Institut de Physique du Globe. THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2020 BIZ & FINANCE 27 Cloud to help all firms build own tech: Satya Nadella MUMBAI (TIP): Microsoft Corp.’s chief executive Satya Nadella said his company is preparing businesses for an intelligent cloud world where they can build their own digital and technological capabilities without relying on third parties. ASIAN STOCKS SLIDE DEEPER Sharing his vision for the future at the Future Decoded summit in AS PANDEMIC FEARS GROW Mumbai, Nadella said that businesses can now utilise cloud to il and Asian share markets extended losses on offer better learning and re-skilling Thursday as the rapid global spread of the opportunities. Ocoronavirus kept investors on edge and seeking “We envision an intelligent cloud safety in gold and bonds. world that is grounded in Rising fears of a pandemic, which US health technology that helps everyone authorities have warned is likely, had already wiped build their own tech intensity. How more than $3.6 trillion from global stock markets by can we help business be more Wednesday’s close. independent rather than dependent China accounts for about 96% of cases and has on us is the key fundamental of instituted dire containment methods that have Microsoft,” Nadella said. CEO and managing director of Tata by the World Economic Forum. paralysed global supply chains. He highlighted an intelligent edge Consultancy Services, highlighted India’s IT industry has laid off But most new infections are now being reported and cloud model as a core strategy how his company is utilizing cloud thousands of people in the past 2-3 elsewhere, with news on Thursday of a jump in cases of the company. A similar model services as well as Github, an open years as automation and in South Korea accompanied by a warning that the was proposed by the finance source software development digitisation disrupted jobs. About virus may be spreading in California. minister Nirmala Sitharaman in platform that Microsoft acquired in 20-35% of jobs in the IT-BPM sector South Korea reported 334 new cases on Thursday,its her Union budget announcement 2018, to hone expertise across its are threatened due to automation, largest daily rise since its first case was confirmed on with a focus on data centre parks as 446,000-strong workforce. “The according to a Nasscom-Ficci-EY Jan. 20. China reported 433 new infections. an enabler for digital businesses. millennial workforce is immensely Future of Jobs in India study. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares He added that Indian companies talented and we are leveraging Nadella also focused on cyber outside Japan fell 0.5% and is down more than 4% for have to build their own tech cloud to reimagine learning security solutions for the week. capability. “Whenever I speak to systems as a method to also drive infrastructure, applications and Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 dropped 1% by lunchtime CEOs in other industries, I always retention,” said Gopinathan. Late devices. Cyber attacks are and has lost 7% this week. Japan’s Nikkei fell 1.7% to say you will never be cool by last year, TCS announced a increasingly being targeted at a its lowest since October. The Hang Seng fell 1%. Gold association. Just because you do a Microsoft Business Unit to help micro level much like digital climbed 0.7%. press release with us you are not train its employees in technologies marketing operations and have going to be cool. You have to build such as artificial intelligence, resulted in losses of $1 trillion, INDIA DECIDES TO LIFT BAN your own tech capability and automation and cloud. noted Nadella. solutions that are inclusive.” Last month, Tech Mahindra He said that even these ON ONION EXPORTS Nadella mentioned how Piramal announced a similar partnership initiatives need digital and Glass has been using a Microsoft- with cloud rival Google Cloud for technology skills to be available NEW DELHI (TIP): The government on Wednesday powered Internet of Things (IoT) its own workforce. The talent across the board. “If we are to decided to lift the nearly six-month-old ban on export management system across their demand-supply gap in AI and Big make progress in the next decade of onions in a bid to protect the interests of farmers as factories among other successful Data analytics is expected to grow then we have to take every domain prices are likely to fall sharply due to bumper rabi projects. from 62,000 to 140,000 over the next expert and citizen developer out crop. At the event, Rajesh Gopinathan, three years, according to a report there with this.” Sources said the decision was taken at a meeting of a Group of Ministers (GoM) headed by Home Minister Amit Shah. VODAFONE IDEA WRITES TO India’s import of US oil jumps “Since the price of onion has stabilised and there is bumper onion crop, government has decided to lift ban DOT, SEEKS STAGGERED 10-fold to 2,50,000 bpd, says on export of onions. Expected monthly harvest in March is over 40 lakh MT compared to 28.4 lakh MT PAYMENT, LOWER TAXES US Energy Secy last year,” Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan said in a tweet on Wednesday. acing an adjusted gross revenue (AGR) payout of more S oil supplies to India have jumped ten-fold The lifting of ban would be effective once the than Rs 53,000 crore, Vodafone Idea Wednesday wrote to to 2,50,000 barrels per day (bpd) in the last Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) issues a Fthe Department of Telecommunications (DoT) seeking Ufew years, visiting US Energy Secretary Dan notification in this regard. certain relief measures such as lower tariff and refund of Brouillette said. Speaking at a business meeting The GoM on Wednesday also deliberated on whether goods and services tax (GST) dues worth nearly Rs 8,000 alongside US President Donald Trump, he said to reduce or scrap the Minimum Export Price (MEP) crore, sources aware of the development told The Indian Indian imports of US oil were 25,000 bpd a couple on onion to facilitate outbound shipments, the sources Express. of year ago, and have now risen to 2,50,000 bpd. said. The telco has sought certain measures such as lower tax US is India’s sixth largest oil supplier. The MEP is the rate below which no exports are and spectrum usage charges, as well as expedited payment of India began importing crude oil from the US in allowed. its GST refund of the last financial year. 2017 as it looked to diversify its import basket Paswan, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh The company, which had a revenue of Rs 36,858 crore in beyond the OPEC nations. It bought 1.9 million Tomar, Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal and Cabinet FY19 , is seeking refund of over Rs 8,000 crore. tonnes (38,000 bpd) of crude oil from the US in 2017- Secretary Rajiv Gauba were present at the meeting. In its letter to the DoT, the company also sought a payment 18 and another 6.2 million tonnes (1,24,000 bpd) in schedule for staggered payment of AGR dues, and an 2018-19. extended moratorium on payment of licence fees, the sources In the first six months of current fiscal (2019-20), said. Vodafone Idea has so far paid Rs 3,500 crore, half of its US supplied 5.4 million tonnes of crude oil to self-calculated principal AGR dues, and is looking at other India. Iraq is India’s top crude oil supplier, avenues to raise funds for full and final payment. It has also meeting close to one-fourth of the country’s oil been under the scrutiny of rating agencies, which believe needs. It sold 26 million tonnes of crude oil to India that the telco does not have the ability to pay the required during April to September. AGR dues by March 17. India, which is 83 per cent dependent on imports Talks of the company’s bank guarantees being encashed by to meet its oil needs, bought 111.4 million tonnes of the DoT, in case it fails to make the payments, have also been crude oil from overseas during April-September. doing the rounds. The company’s Mumbai-based chairman Saudi Arabia has traditionally been India’s top Kumar Mangalam Birla had over four days last week met oil source, but has been relegated to the second various DoT officials, including Telecom Secretary Anshu spot, exporting 20.7 million tonnes of crude oil in Prakash. the first six months. THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2020 SPIRITUALITY 28 IMPORTANCE OF TULSI OR THE HOLY BASIL IN HINDUISM he 'tulsi' plant or Indian basil is an important symbol in the THindu religious tradition. The name 'tulsi' connotes "the incomparable one". Tulsi is a venerated plant and Hindus worship it in the morning and evening. Tulsi grows wild in the tropics and warm regions. Dark or Shyama tulsi and light or Rama tulsi are the two main varieties of basil, the former possessing greater medicinal value. Of the many varieties, the Krishna or Shyama tulsi is commonly used for worship. Tulsi As a Deity The presence of tulsi plant symbolizes the religious bent of a Hindu family. A Hindu household is considered incomplete if it doesn't have a tulsi plant in the courtyard. Many families have the tulsi planted in a specially built structure, which has images of deities installed on all four sides, and an alcove for a small earthen oil lamp. Some households can even have up to a dozen tulsi plants on the verandah or in the garden forming a "tulsi-van" or "tulsivrindavan" - a miniature basil forest. The Holy Herb Places that tend to inspire concentration and places ideal for worship, according to the 'Gandharv known to purify or de-pollute the in love with Lord Krishna, and so had Tantra,' include "grounds overgrown atmosphere and also works as a a curse laid on her by his consort with tulsi plants". The Tulsi Manas repellent to mosquitoes, flies and Radha. Tulsi is also mentioned in the Mandir at Varanasi is one such famous other harmful insects. Tulsi used to be stories of Meera and of Radha temple, where tulsi is worshiped along a universal remedy in cases of immortalized in Jayadev's Gita with other Hindu gods and goddesses. malarial fever. Govinda. The story of Lord Krishna Vaishnavites or believers of Lord has it that when Krishna was weighed Vishnu worship the tulsi leaf because Tulsi in History in gold, not even all the ornaments of it's the one that pleases Lord Vishnu Prof Shrinivas Tilak, who teaches Satyabhama could outweigh him. But the most. They also wear beaded Religion at Concordia University, a single tulsi leaf placed by Rukmani necklaces made of tulsi stems. The Montreal has made this historical on the pan tilted the scale. manufacture of these tulsi necklaces citation: In a letter written to 'The In the Hindu mythology, tulsi is very is a cottage industry in pilgrimages Times,' London, dated May 2, 1903 Dr dear to Lord Vishnu. Tulsi is and temple towns. George Birdwood, Professor of ceremonially married to Lord Vishnu Anatomy, Grant Medical College, annually on the 11th bright day of the Tulsi As an Elixir Mumbai said, "When the Victoria month of Karttika in the lunar Apart from its religious significance Gardens were established in Bombay, calendar. This festival continues for it is of great medicinal significance the men employed on those works were five days and concludes on the full and is a prime herb in Ayurvedic pestered by mosquitoes. At the moon day, which falls in mid-October. treatment. Marked by its strong aroma recommendation of the Hindu This ritual, called the 'Tulsi Vivaha' and astringent taste, tulsi is a kind of managers, the whole boundary of the inaugurates the annual marriage "the elixir of life" as it promotes gardens was planted with holy basil, season in India. longevity. The plant's extracts can be on which the plague of mosquitoes used to prevent and cure many was at once abated, and fever PAGE SPONSORED BY illnesses and common ailments like altogether disappeared from among common cold, headaches, stomach the resident gardeners." ARISH K. SAHANI disorders, inflammation, heart disease, various forms of poisoning Tulsi in Legends Serving Since 1972 and malaria. Essential oil extracted Quite a few myths and legends found Please Call or Write for Your Insurance Needs from karpoora tulsi is mostly used for in the Puranas or ancient scriptures medicinal purposes though of late it is point to the origin of the importance Arish K Sahani (Father) used in the manufacture of herbal of tulsi in religious rituals. Although toiletry. tulsi is regarded as feminine, in no Shiv Sahani (Son) folklore is she described as the consort A Herbal Remedy the Lord. Yet a garland solely made of Priya Sahani Sood (Daughter) According to Jeevan Kulkarni, tulsi leaves is the first offering to the author of 'Historical Truths & Lord as part of the daily ritual. The 7 1 8 - 2 7 1 - 1 9 0 6 Untruths Exposed,' when Hindu plant is accorded the sixth place [email protected] women worship tulsi, they in effect among the eight objects of worship in pray for "less and less carbonic acid the ritual of the consecration of the “If Hindus don’t maintain Hinduism, who shall save it?” and more and more oxygen - a perfect Kalasha, the container of holy water. object lesson in sanitation, art, and According to one legend, Tulsi was “If India’s own children don't cling to their faith, who shall guard it?” religion". The tulsi plant is even the incarnation of a princess who fell “Indians alone can save India, and India and Hinduism are one.” THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2020 ASTROLOGY 29

Shree Ganeshaya Namah

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The Indian Panorama brings you Weekly and Birthday Horoscope from the World's most trusted astrologer Bejan Daruwalla. Latest correct prediction: Modi's historic victory Weekly Horoscope March 2 - March 8, 2020 ARIES: Ganesha says this is a great period LEO: There will be many collaborations and SAGITTARIUS: You have many insecurities for sure. Your popularity and productivity meetings and reunions with old friends. There and can be difficult to get along with; ask your will be at an all-time high. Ganesha promises will also be family gatherings and you will be in near and dear ones and they will tell you the a lot of frenetic activity in this period. You celebratory mode. There is a lot on your plate. truth. You need to open your heart and mind to will be inventive, assertive, inspirational and Ganesha insists that travel, trade, commission, the limitless possibilities existing in the world. ingenious. You get whatever you set your brokerage, higher studies, journeys and Learn to be less critical and less fastidious. sights on, and what more is there to say now? relationships, a grand reaching out to people Learn to love and be loved; try to loosen up a bit. As the period advances, the moon raises your and places, great mental astuteness and Be less suspicious to others. If you have been sensitivities to a sharp, cutting edge. alertness, neighbourly ties, community service unwell the previous period, you will show signs TAURUS: You enter a lucky phase and are and social interactions of all kinds with hold of recovery now. helped by strangers and friends. You make forth. CAPRICORN: You will be moving fast and significant gains in your personal and VIRGO: There is international travel and you getting things done in a trice. Money is a major domestic life. This is an excellent time to make connections that will play a vital role in preoccupation in your life, whether you like it or embark on new projects or to conclude any the years to come. The focus is on family not. You need to be stable and like your larder kind of transaction. You move ahead full matters: children's health and education, well stocked. You will make rapid progress and throttle and nothing can stop you now. This is relations with the spouse or partner and the earn well. You also have a spiritual bent of mind a lucky phase and I urge you to make the health of elders. You are filled with and Ganesha will protect you no matter what most of it. As I always say, there will be revolutionary ideas which will force a happens. This is a period for emotions to boil money and honey for the asking. transformation of some kind in your life. You over. GEMINI: There is a lot of going for you learn a lot in this filmmakers, artists and AQUARIUS: Your ego gets in the way and this period. This is action time and you make photographers. superimposes itself over common sense despite rapid progress on all fronts. There is success LIBRA: Ganesha says that this period is the your rational mind telling you to let go of it. and many domestic obligations to consider focal point from the professional front. The focus There may be tense moments with others who too. The continued impact of stars makes life shifts to the more personal arena of house, home seem to be getting in your way all the time. You even more pleasing. There is also great love and property. Pay extra attention to personal may also get into disputes with colleagues over and passion in store for you. Make the right well-being and family investments. There is trifles. There will be misunderstandings that can choices as your plate could be overflowing. stability in your affairs and you move ahead be avoided. This influence challenges your sense CANCER: Ganesha ensures that you have with big plans. You are reaching out to the stars, of security. the strength of mind to think clearly and if I may say so. With a little foresight and PISCES: There is a lot of work on your plate make the right choices. As the period moves wisdom, you will do wonders. but you need to prioritize. You need to brush up on, you realize that a lot of what you had SCORPIO: You begin the period well. You are on people management skills. Ganesha urges you thought of situations and persons in the past filled with caution and prudence and take to show more restraint. There are many does not hold good anymore and you are careful baby steps. You are ambitious but if you beautiful moments with close family and friends willing to change and see the brighter side of are not careful our life can be drab and boring. in this period. Make the most of it. The effects of things. There is no room for negativity and Please remember that life is many splendored this influence are unconscious and could lead to you need to operate from a higher and is not just about work and deadlines which eruptions of energy which you are not quite sure consciousness. is what you have made it out to be. what to do with.

Birthday Horoscope March 2 - March 8, 2020

MARCH 2: Ganesha says frustrations, obstacles, flow into today in the form of family love or happy risks. Later, helpful relationship trends restore and upsets abound. People are bitter of angry, domestic nesting. Even with a few problems, you'll equilibrium, making all the difference. restless and independent, and no one reacts well feel comfortable at home. Maybe there's a fix-it MARCH 7: Nurture optimistic views; positive to sudden alliance changes or hard-grind task! thoughts can open doors of perception to new, conditions. MARCH 5: A startling decision, unstable option, or potentially profitable ways of thinking. Remember MARCH 3: Even though there's more of an sudden change, perhaps at work, might set off that what mind can conceive, it can achieve. emotional landscape that you'd like, reason and edgy, nervous repressed feelings. Maybe you need MARCH 8: The Moon livens things up over the logic return as well, so making decisions, this change. Look for a partner's emotional new few weeks, thanks to new people arriving. especially this evening, bring warm and support. Those already in your life are full of surprises, and affectionate returns. MARCH 6: Upsets of some sort can get the day off you'll have a few up your sleeve for them as well. MARCH 4:Last night's smooth connections may to a jarring start; avoid rushing around and taking THE INDIAN PANORAMA 30 ADVERTISEMENT FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2020 THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2020 CLASSIFIEDS 31 THE INDIAN PANORAMA 32 TURN PAGE FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2020 contd from page 1 been positive talks between our Commerce Ministers. December 1995 to March 1997, and was responsible for President Trump and I have agreed today that the liaison with foreign media in India. 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However, for centuries this ship made of stone and mortar never did. Instead, it stood floating over the twin lakes, bearing a silent witness to Mandu's long, rich and varied history. The city of Mandu is adorned with spell- binding Afghan architecture surrounded by baobab trees, native to Africa. The grand palaces are still alive with royal romance while the gateways (darwazas) speak of a history of imperial conquests. A walk through Mandu will leave you awe- struck, the way you used to be listening to stories from grandparents. CHATURBHUJ TEMPLE The historic town of Orchha, nestled on the banks of river Betwa, was founded in the 16th century by the Bundela Rajput tall mountains of marble change forms Chief, Rudra Pratap. Here, the river Betwa as the river Narmada passes through it. splits into seven channels, also called the This view is so scenic that it stays with Satdhara. Legend goes that this is in you for long. But this is just one of the honour of the seven erstwhile Chiefs of many gifts that Jabalpur offers. Here you Orchha. will enjoy the privilege to experience The ancient town seems frozen in time, surreal spectacles of nature romance with its many monuments continuing to man's endeavours to carefully preserve retain their original grandeur even to this the breath-taking imperial history. No day. Here you will find some of the most wonder it has been a witness to some of fascinating temples and palaces that will the greatest episodes written by history, help you realise a childhood fantasy – folklore and mother nature. travelling back in time! BHOJTAL THE GREAT STUPA Split by a pair of lakes, Bhopal is two The town of Sanchi is synonymous with cities within a city. Two starkly Buddhist Stupas - hemispherical contrasting cityscapes. structures typically containing relics of Towards the North you have the old the Buddha or his followers. The Stupas of city, a fascinating area of mosques, Sanchi were constructed on the orders of serpentine alleys, chowks, milling Emperor Ashoka to preserve and spread crowds, exotic havelis and crowded the Buddhist philosophy. Sanchi has been bazaars. protecting these beautiful and sacred South of the two lakes is the new architectural wonders, just the way these Bhopal. Modern, with wide roads, wonders have been safeguarding ancient upmarket shopping complexes, and plush history and art of the Mauryan period. hotels and restaurants nestled The numerous stupas, temples, comfortably in the Arera and Shamla monasteries and an Ashokan pillar have Hills, which overlook the lakes and the been the focus of interest and awe for old city beyond. The central district is global audiences as well. In fact, UNESCO known as New Market. has given the status of 'World Heritage Site' to the Mahastupa. BANDHAVGARH Bandhavgarh is a place of RAM GHAT mythological and legendary significance. One of Hinduism’s seven sacred cities, The ancient Bandhavgarh Fort is of great Ujjain boasts a wealth of cultural heritage, importance as it is believed to have been largely in the form of temples. gifted by Lord Rama to his younger Situated on the banks of the Shipra brother Lakshmana. 'Bandhav' in River,the city dates back to 600 BC and was English means brother and ‘Garh’ means once the residence of Ashoka. It was also fort. Hence the name, Bandhavgarh. the political and commercial hub of Bandhavgarh dates back to 2000 years ago central India and the capital of the ancient and you will find several man made caves Avanti Kingdom. Ujjain’s spiritual charm with inscriptions and rock paintings. is undeniable. The famous poet, Kalidas, Bandhavgarh is also the land of tigers. described it as ‘The town fallen from This is the place to visit if you want to Heaven to bring Heaven to Earth’. The spot the big cat. India’s top dwelling for many temples give you glimpses of a tigers, Bandhavgarh National Park has glorious past. the highest density of Royal Bengal tigers in the world. The sight of the JABALPUR majestic tiger, up close and personal, is Under the brightly lit moon, 100 feet said to trigger a sense of awe in you. THE INDIAN PANORAMA 34 SPORTS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2020

ASIA CUP TO BE PLAYED Through to semifinals, IN DUBAI, BOTH INDIA AND PAKISTAN WILL Harman wants to end PLAY: SOURAV GANGULY MUMBAI (TIP): BCCI president Sourav Ganguly on Friday confirmed that the upcoming edition of group stage on high Asia Cup will be held in Dubai, and ensured both India and Pakistan will feature in the continental tournament. MELBOURNE (TIP): Indian Pakistan was the designated host for the women's team captain Harmanpreet tournament, which is slated to be held in September Kaur insisted that her side will take this year, but with BCCI refusing to send the Indian their final group game of the ICC team to the neighboring country due to security Women's T20 World Cup against Sri concerns, the event has now been shifted to Dubai. Lanka seriously before shifting “Asia Cup will be held in Dubai and both India and focus on to the semifinals. Pakistan will play,”Ganguly was quoted as saying by India became the first side to sail PTI on Friday. The former India skipper was through to the knockout stages after interacting with media persons at the Eden Gardens securing wins against defending before leaving for Dubai for the Asian Cricket champions Australia, Bangladesh Council (ACC) meeting, which will be held on March and New Zealand. “I know we have 3. The BCCI had earlier clarified that they have no qualified, but the next game is still problem with Pakistan hosting the tournament, crucial for us. We will be taking Sri provided it is held at a neutral venue. Both the nation Lanka very seriously,”Harmanpreet have not played a bilateral series since 2012-13 when said. “They've been doing well. I Pakistan visited the country for a limited-overs know they haven't won a game but series. they were almost there on both the Due to the ongoing political tensions between the occasions. We will be taking it very two countries, India and Pakistan have only met in seriously before we start thinking major ICC competitions since early 2013. about the semifinals,” she added. Victory over Sri Lanka tomorrow Coronavirus: India pulls out of would see India top Group A and head into the semifinals high on Harmanpreet said. Sri Lanka couldn't turn it into a win,” Sri shooting World Cup in Cyprus confidence. “We try to take every have arguably had the toughest Lanka veteran Shashikala wicket in all our games. Every start to the tournament, having lost Siriwardena said. “We have to do he National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) wicket is an important one at this to New Zealand and Australia in what we have done well in the has decided to pull out the Indian team from level. We just have to try and stick to their opening two games. “We want previous matches against India but Tthe March 4-13 International Shooting Sport our plan, especially to get out the to take victories in our next two at the same time we need to correct Federation (ISSF) Shotgun World Cup in Nicosia, likes of Chamari Atapattu early. games. We did well against the mistakes we are repeating,” she Cyprus, due to novel coronavirus scare. That will be crucial,” Australia and New Zealand, but we added. A member of the squad, training here at Dr Karni Singh Shooting Ranges, confirmed the development. “As of now we are not going as the hotel booking and air tickets have been cancelled,” the member said. MARIA SHARAPOVA RETIRES AT 32: The shooters attending the camp, that started February 21, went through routine training on Friday morning, but got a hint about withdrawal in ‘TENNIS —I’M SAYING GOODBYE’ the afternoon. The first batch of shooters was supposed to leave for Cyprus on March 2. aria Sharapova, the five- A podium finish in the season’s first global time Grand Slam champion competition would have brightened the Indian trap Mand former No.1-ranked team’s chances of earning global ranking points women's tennis player in the world, and subsequently become eligible to earn has called it quits. individual Olympic quota place by the end of May. The 32-year-old made the As per the ISSF Olympic qualification rules, the announcement not at a press highest-ranked athlete not yet qualified in any conference, but in an essay she wrote event, provided the concerned national federation for Vanity Fair and Vogue. Her doesn’t have quota place in that particular event, choice of venue shouldn't exactly will be awarded a berth. come as a surprise. Off the court, “We had good chances as those nations which Sharapova has built a successful have had already won quota places weren’t career in business and modeling. coming,” said a trap shooter in the camp. In walking away from her 19-year The focus now is on the March 15-26 World Cup professional career, she spoke here at the Dr Karni Singh Shooting Ranges. directly to the game she loves, “Performance in back-to-back World Cups would saying, "Tennis — I'm saying have carried more weight and enhanced chances of goodbye." winning berth for Olympics. It will be more "How do you leave behind the only challenging since we aren’t taking part in Cyprus to life you've ever known?" Sharapova earn quota place now,” said one of the shooters in asks in her essay published the camp. Wednesday. She describes the India have won 15 quota places including two in extremes of the game – the "untold men’s skeet. Each national sports federation is tears and unspeakable joys" it allotted two quota per event and quota places are brought her, adding that it's "a sport years later, in 2004, by upsetting record of 645-171, including 36 titles, for the country and not individual. However, the where [she] found a family, along Serena Williams in the final. She according to the Women's Tennis trap team (men’s and women’s) for the first time in with fans who rallied [her] for more outlasted all other competitors to Association. a long time weren’t able to grab the opportunity than 28 years." win the U.S. Open in 2006 and then Sharapovova, who was No. 1 in neither in the 2018 Olympic qualification period or She also tweeted a picture of her the Australian Open in 2008. Her 2005, was most recently ranked as in 2019 cycle that concluded with Asian Shooting as a young girl posing with a racquet final Grand Slam titles came at the No. 373 ranked singles player in Championships at Doha in November. along with the message: "Tennis Roland-Garros, winning the French the world, according to the WTA. The women’s trap team comprises of Shreyasi showed me the world — and it Open in both 2012 and 2014. The official Twitter account for Singh, Seema Tomar and Rajeshwari Kumari while showed me what I was made of." The 6-foot-2-inch powerhouse was the French Open offered well wishes Kynan Chenai, Prithviraj Tondaiman and seasoned The Russian-born Sharapova known for her grit and her for the former champion, saying, shooter Manavjit Singh Sandhu were picked up for turned professional in 2001 at the age groundstrokes and her grunting. "All the best for your future the men’s side after the national selections trials. of 14. She won Wimbledon three She racked up a career singles @MariaSharapova." THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2020 ADVERTISEMENT 35 THE INDIAN PANORAMA 36 ADVERTISEMENT FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2020