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Union Minister and editor MJ Sciences (AIIMS) Director Dr “I didn’t face any difficul- Akbar’s criminal defamation Randeep Guleria on ty. I would urge people not to 1 45 suit against journalist Priya Wednesday said that the jabs fear the vaccine and it is total- Ramani, who has accused him might be available for masses ly safe. People should come out of sexual harassment. by this year’s end after the and take the vaccine. This is * #-.-/0 Delivering the landmark prime targeted people are cov- essential if we want to come out judgment being hailed as a ered and there is an equivalence of the pandemic.” he Ministry of Civil watershed moment for the of supply and demand in the He highlighted that pan- TAviation on Wednesday #MeToo movement against market. demic is still not over and India released an updated standard sexual harassment, the court “Vaccine will be available is in a good position but peo- operating procedure (SOP) for maintained that a woman has !"#$ & ' in the open market only when ple should not have vaccine international passengers arriv- the right to put forward her prime targets — people to be hesitancy and get inoculated. ing in India after cases of the grievances before any platform does. I feel vindicated on behalf as minister of state for External vaccinated — are covered. And “Right now our situation is South Africa and Brazil vari- of her choice even after of all the women who have ever Affairs and denied all the alle- there has to be equivalence in fine and many might believe " +& , )./ ants of the Covid-18 virus decades. spoken out against sexual gations of sexual harassment supply and demand. Hopefully, that in India pandemic case is " +$ & 0 ' were detected. A woman cannot be pun- harassment at the workplace. It levelled by several women. there would be such a situation less but I would say this is our The Ministry in its updat- ished for raising her voice was me the victim who had to Delivering a 91-page ver- by year-end or before that. window of opportunity to get still not over and the situation Health Minister said that one ed SOP said the guidelines against such abuse, Additional stand up in the court as an dict in the keenly followed Then, there may be a likelihood the vaccine as the pandemic is can change anytime. As we must appreciate that the vac- will supersede the one issued Chief Metropolitan Magistrate accused,” Ramani, who named case, the court said it is shame- have seen in Brazil, Europe, cines are approved under since August 2, 2020 and will Ravindra Kumar Pandey said Akbar in a tweet with reference ful that incidents of crime and South Africa and the United Emergency Use Authorisations come into effect from 23.59 as he dismissed Akbar’s com- to an article titled “To the violence against women are !" Kingdom lockdown has been (EUA). “During the course of hours on February 22. plaint and held that no charges Harvey Weinsteins of the happening in a country where imposed again as the cases EUA, it is the responsibility of There are fresh guidelines were proved against Ramani. World” she had written in epics such as the “Mahabarata” #$%% spiked. We should maintain the the Government to keep things for all international travellers The time has come for Vogue India in 2017, added. and “Ramayana” were written present situation in the coun- totally under control. This is coming/transiting through society to understand sexual The tweet was on October around the theme of respect for United Nations: India, hailed Covid-19 pandemic. try as it is necessary,” the the reason vaccines are still not flights originating from the abuse and harassment and 8, 2018, when the #MeToo women. as the pharmacy of the world, “Keeping in mind the UN AIIMS Director added. available in the open market,” UK, Europe and West Asia. their implications on victims, movement was gathering pace. “… the right of reputation on Wednesday announced a Peacekeepers who operate in On Monday, the Union he added. Continued on Page 11 the judge said while acquitting Seven days later, Akbar, a cel- cannot be protected at the cost gift of 2,00,000 Covid-19 doses such difficult circumstances, we the journalist. The court asked ebrated editor, filed a criminal of the right of life and dignity for UN peacekeepers. would like to announce today her to furnish a bail bond of complaint against her for of woman as guaranteed in External Affairs Minister S a gift of 2,00,000 doses for 10,000 in case of an appeal. allegedly defaming him by Constitution under article 21 Jaishankar made the announce- them,” Jaishankar told the UN It feels great to have the accusing him of sexual mis- and right of equality before law ment at the UN Security Security Council in a virtual #)! truth validated before the court, conduct decades ago when he and equal protection of law as Council open debate on the address. Quoting the Bhagvad a beaming Ramani told was a journalist. guaranteed under article 14 of implementation of resolution Gita, Jaishankar said, “Do your reporters after the verdict. Two days after that, on the Constitution,” it said. 2532 (2020) on the cessation of work with the welfare of oth- “It feels amazing, truly October 17, 2018, he resigned Continued on Page 11 hostilities in the context of the ers always in mind.” ++ /2'3#4 reach the assembly by bicycle on (Amendment) Ordinance, 2020, the opening day before holding State Ayush University, Uttar O #-.-/0 he budget session of Uttar a meeting of the legislature party. Pradesh Regulation of Urban TPradesh Legislature will begin Against the backdrop of the Premises Tenancy Ordinance, ongress leader and former with Governor Anandiben Patel's coronavirus pandemic, all prepa- 2021. Cunion minister Captain address to the joint sitting of both rations are being made to con- Meanwhile, the opposition Satish Sharma died in Goa on Houses on Thursday. duct Covid tests of the MLAs, parties are preparing to grill the Wednesday after a brief illness. The session is likely to be MLCs and other staff members, government on pressing issues, He was 73. Sharma was suffering stormy as the opposition parties including security personnel. particularly those relating to the ! from cancer and was ailing for are likely to put a united front to Assembly speaker Hriday ongoing farmers' protests, law some time. corner the Yogi Adityanath gov- Narayan Dikshit, who convened and order, and the tackling of the “He died at 8.16 PM at Goa. ernment over the ongoing farm- a meeting on Tuesday, said the coronavirus pandemic, among His last rites would be done in ers' agitation, coronavirus pan- Covid tests of the legislators others. # Delhi on Friday, as the body is demic, law and order and cor- were going on while the process Leader of opposition Ram being brought from Goa,” his son ruption. for the staff members of the Govind Chaudhary said here on O 1""2 Samir told PTI. The Yogi government is slat- House had been completed. Wednesday that the opposition A close aide of former prime ed to table its annual budget for The assembly secretariat had members would not let the gov- delegation of foreign diplo- minister Rajiv Gandhi, Sharma 2021-22 on February 22. This will issued a circular making it ernment sit on its failures and ! " # Amats from 24 countries was Union Minister of Petroleum be the fifth and last budget of the mandatory for all MLAs and make the people suffer. " on Wednesday arrived on a and Natural Gas from 1993 to Yogi government as the state will MLCs to undergo Covid test "The farmers' agitation along two-day visit to the Union 1996 in the Narasimha Rao gov- go to polls in early 2022. before the commencement of the with law and order problem, Territory of Jammu & Kashmir 1 + 0 ' ernment. For the first time, UP will budget session. COVID-19 pandemic, corrup- ! to take stock of the ground sit- Born on October 11, 1947 in witness paperless budget and Besides the presentation of tion in the government depart- "#$$% $ uation and assess how demo- Sweden, Italy, Bangladesh, At the venue they were Andhra Pradesh’s Secunderabad, proceedings of the state legisla- the annual budget, the govern- ments and the anti-people acts of cratic institutions at the grass- Malawi, Eritrea, Cote d’Ivoire, briefed on Panchayati Raj and Sharma was a professional com- ture. ment is also likely to table impor- the government would be the " ! O roots level were working in the Ghana, Senegal, Malaysia, grievance redressal through mercial pilot.