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Printed at . Chennai . Coimbatore . Bengaluru . Hyderabad . Madurai . Noida . Visakhapatnam . Thiruvananthapuram . Kochi . Vijayawada . Mangaluru . Tiruchirapalli . Kolkata . Hubballi . Mohali . Malappuram . Mumbai . Tirupati . lucknow . cuttack . patna NEARBY Confirmed COVID­19 cases rise to 114 Modi calls for SAARC emergency fund First case in Uttarakhand; experts call for more testing to check for community transmission Extends $10 mn as India’s contribution SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT sons in Karnataka has now NEW DELHI risen to seven, including the Kallol Bhattacherjee Figures released by the Un­ victim. NEW DELHI Bhim Army floats party, ion Health Ministry late on A third case of COVID­19 The South Asian Association eyes Bihar election Sunday put the number of was confirmed in Telanga­ for Regional Cooperation GHAZIABAD confirmed cases of COVID­19 na of a 48­year­old man, (SAARC) should create a The Bhim Army announced in the country at 110. Howev­ who returned from the fund to fight the threat of the launch of Azad Samaj er, according to reports from Netherlands and was admit­ COVID­19, Prime Minister Party, its political arm, at a glittering ceremony in Noida States, 114 persons have test­ ted to the Gandhi Hospital Narendra Modi announced on Sunday. “We are not here ed positive. Of the new cas­ on March 11. on Sunday. to be servants, we are here to es, two were from Maharash­ Two people, including a Addressing the first­ever rule the country,” Bhim Army tra, two from Kerala and one U.K. national, tested positive videoconference of the chief Chandrashekhar Azad each from Rajasthan, Karna­ in Kerala, taking the total heads of member countries, said at the event. taka, Telangana and Uttarak­ number of affected in the he extended $10 million as Narendra Modi NEWS Ī PAGE 12 hand. State to 21, as the govern­ India’s contribution to the DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Ten persons have so far ment launched a “break the fund. luntary contribution from 4 militants killed in been discharged after chain” initiative to prevent “We all agree that we are all of us. India can start with Anantnag encounter treatment. the spread of the virus. facing a serious challenge. an initial offer of 10 million SRINAGAR Union Health Minister Ministry, who did not wish to positive. The probationer Earlier in the morning, an We do not as yet know what U.S. dollars for this fund,” Four militants — three Harsh Vardhan reviewed ac­ be identified, said “it is like­ had returned from Spain on Air India flight from Milan in shape the pandemic will he said. affiliated to Lashkar­e­Taiba tion taken by States and Un­ ly” that community trans­ March 11, Director (Health) Italy arrived in Delhi with 218 take in the coming days. It is He said India’s Foreign and another to Hizbul ion Territories and prepa­ people testing positive for mission is ongoing in India S.K. Gupta said. evacuees. They have been clear that we have to work Secretary Harsh Vardhan Mujahideen — were killed by redness regarding the virus who have no trace­ but has not been recorded in Samples from a 45­year­ quarantined at the Indo­Ti­ together. In this spirit of col­ Shringla and his counter­ security forces in Anantnag prevention, containment able link to travellers who’ve official counts due to inadeq­ old woman in Kalaburagi, betan Border Police camp at laboration, let me share a parts from other member on Sunday. “Two AK­47 rifles, and management, along come into India from abroad uate testing. who was in contact with the Chhawla. few ideas on what India can countries should meet and two pistols, ammunition and with senior officials. — have been detected. Uttarakhand reported its 76­year­old man who died of offer to this joint effort. I decide on the plan for the other incriminating materials The government has However, a senior re­ first confirmed case with a COVID­19 in the district last TESTING IS THE EASIEST THING TO propose we create a CO­ creation of the fund. were recovered from the maintained that no cases of searcher at an institution affi­ probationer at the Forest Re­ week, have tested positive. DO: GAGANDEEP KANG Ī PAGE 9 VID19 Emergency Fund encounter site,” police said. community transmission — liated to the Union Science search Institute (FRI) testing The number of infected per­ MORE REPORTS Ī PAGES 2, 8 & 9 which could be based on vo­ ‘LIFT CURBS’ Ī PAGE 12 NEWS Ī PAGE 12 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Man murders friend over argument on petty issue NEW DELHI Man who tested positive CJI Bobde rules out complete shutdown of courts A man allegedly stabbed his friend to death after a fight over a petty issue in south taken off plane in Kochi ‘As virtual courts are on verge of commencement, there can only be a possibility of limited shutdown’ Delhi’s Yusuf Sarai, the police said on Sunday. The accused, 19 people offloaded from Dubai flight Legal Correspondent Justice Bobde further clar­ urgent cases on March 16. they have travelled abroad or NEW DELHI Alok Singh, and the victim, ified that any demand of the Randeep Guleria from AI­ are showing any symptoms Suman, were allegedly under Special Correspondent The 57­year­old man and An urgent meeting was Bar and Bench would be sub­ IMS, Balram Bhargava from of COVID­19. Kochi the influence of alcohol when his wife were part of a group called by Chief Justice of In­ ordinated to the medical ad­ ICMR, along with other ex­ Justice Chandrachud, the incident happened. Alok A tourist from the United of 19 tourists visiting Kerala. dia (CJI) Sharad A. Bobde on vice drawn at the meeting at­ perts, attended the meeting chairman of the e­commit­ has been arrested. Kingdom was evicted from He had been under observa­ Sunday to clarify that there tended by doctors. on Sunday. Office­bearers of tee, assured that very soon CITY Ī PAGE 3 an Emirates flight at the Ko­ tion in Munnar, a hill town cannot be a complete shut­ the Supreme Court Bar Asso­ the “people­to­people” con­ DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD chi airport on Sunday after east of Kochi, when he down of courts in the wake Cause list ciation and the Supreme tact will be reduced by intro­ it was found that he had test­ slipped through the Health of the COVID­19 outbreak. It was also clarified that the Court Advocates­on­Record ducing court proceedings via ed positive for the novel Department surveillance. The CJI explained that as cause list has already been CJI Sharad A. Bobde Association were also pre­ videoconferencing. He said coronavirus. But he was traced to the air­ virtual courts are on the published for March 16 and sent at the meeting, advocate e­filings could be made any The Dubai­bound flight, port here. verge of commencement, hence the medical advice by the CJI along with Justices Joseph S. Aristotle said in a time of the day and court scheduled to take off at 9.20 The airport authorities there can only be a possibili­ that had been sought has to Arun Mishra, U.U. Lalit, D.Y. statement. proceedings and filing proce­ a.m. from Kochi interna­ ultimately took 19 persons ty of limited shutdown at be complied with to facilitate Chandrachud and L. Nages­ A common medical advice dures would soon go digital tional airport, was delayed off the flight. present. The court is reopen­ the functioning of the apex wara Rao. issued by the medical ex­ and paperless. by about four hours follow­ ing on March 16 after the Holi court. Six of the 14 courts in the perts relates to entrants to Another meeting has been EDUCATIONPLUS Ī PAGES 16 & 17 ing the incident. WIFE IN ISOLATION Ī PAGE 8 break. The meeting was chaired Supreme Court are taking up the apex court declaring if scheduled for March 18.

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special correspondent It will have to LUCKNOW secure votes of The Uttar Pradesh police at least 112 MLAs have booked two Congress workers for allegedly put­ Sidharth Yadav ting up posters displaying Bhopal the “criminal records” of The fate of the Congress­led Chief Minister Yogi Aditya­ government in Madhya Pra­ nath, his deputy Keshav desh is set to be decided in a Prasad Maurya and several floor test on Monday. other BJP leaders at diffe­ Although 92 Congress and rent places in Lucknow. four Independent MLAs re­ The two were identified turned to Bhopal from Jai­ as Sudhanshu Bajpai and pur on Sunday, there was no Lalu Kanaujia. sign of either the 107 BJP or Confident gesture: Congress MLAs arriving in Bhopal from The posters refer to the 16 rebel Congress MLAs until Jaipur, Rajasthan, on Sunday * A.M. FARUQUI BJP leaders as “rioters”, late on Sunday evening. and ask when would they The Kamal Nath govern­ in the Assembly, which has sembly sessions from March pay damages, in an appa­ ment was pushed to the an effective strength of 222 16 to April 13. rent response to the brink following the exit of after the resignation of six The Samajwadi Party has hoardings put up by the senior Congress leader Jyoti­ Congress MLAs and the also issued a whip to its lone State government display­ raditya Scindia and the death of two MLAs in the MLA to vote in favour of the ing personal details of block of 16 lawmakers owing 230­member House. government. those accused of vandal­ allegiance to him. Both the Congress and ism during anti­CAA prot­ It will now have to secure the BJP have issued three­ CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 ests last year. Taking wing: The Mark Jeffery aerobatics team performing during the closing ceremony of the Wings India 2020 aviation show the votes of at least 112 MLAs line whips to their MLAs, di­ UNCERTAINTY OVER MADHYA at the Begumpet airport in Hyderabad on Sunday. * G. RAMAKRISHNA to prove its simple majority recting them to attend all As­ PRADESH FLOOR TEST Ī PAGE 13 DETAILS ON Ī PAGE 12 CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Cong. suffers Rajya Sabha setback Fear of statelessness haunts thousands rejected by NRC in Gujarat as four MLAs resign Jabeda Begum, rejected despite submitting 15 documents, is a symbol of widespread despair in Assam RAHUL KARMAKAR 2019. “Moktar, Joinal, Akbar immigrants, or “Bangladesh­ sued from March 30 on­ Special Correspondent ed by the ruling BJP — Abhay “Four Congress legisla­ GOROIMARI Ali, Mirchan Nessa... their is”, according to the Assam wards. A rejected person has AHMEDABAD Bhardwaj, Ramila Bara and tors have tendered their re­ The fear of statelessness documents may be consi­ Accord of August 15, 1985. to appeal his or her case in a Four Congress MLAs in Guja­ Narhari Amin, who is a signations on Saturday late among Bengali­speaking dered as they are among one Since finding themselves quasi­judicial FT within 120 rat have tendered their resig­ former Congress leader — night,” Mr. Trivedi said in a Muslims in Assam has a or two members of their fa­ among the 19.06 lakh NRC­ days of receiving this slip cit­ nation to the Assembly are likely to win, along with statement. name now. milies excluded from the list. rejects, Mr. Ali and his three ing the reasons for exclusion. Speaker, delivering a blow to one candidate of the Con­ According to insiders, a Almost everyone in Kam­ What will happen to us when brothers have been trying to “What can we show the party ahead of the Rajya gress now. few more legislators may rup district’s Goroimari they (courts) are rejecting 15­ salvage any document they beyond those we have alrea­ Sabha elections in the State. submit their resignation as block knows this name — of 16 documents?” said Joch­ might have missed while ap­ dy shown? What will stop The party was hoping to Announcement today severe infighting has be­ 50­year­old Jabeda Begum, hon Ali, a farmer whose 31­ plying for inclusion in the them from finding fault with wrest two of the four seats The legislators who resigned sieged the Opposition party declared a foreigner in west­ member family does not fi­ NRC. But the case of Ms. Be­ the fresh documents we sub­ from the State, but will now are Somabhai Patel from that remains fragmented . ern Assam’s Baksa district — gure in the NRC. A file photo of villagers gum, who has been abscond­ mit?” said petty trader Jama­ have to either withdraw one Limbadi, J.V. Kakadia from On Saturday, fearing that has become the tem­ The number is a reference checking the final NRC. * AP ing after the dismissal of her luddin. All 26 members of of the two candidates or face Dhari, Pravin Maru from poaching of its legislators by plate of despair for those left to Ms. Begum, who submit­ petition, has made Mr. Ali his family were excluded be­ defeat in the second seat. Gadhada and Pradhyuman­ the BJP, the Congress shifted out of the updated National ted 15 documents, including foreigner of the “post­March and thousands like him lose cause his father’s name had According to party sourc­ sinh Jadeja from Abdasa. more than a dozen of its Register of Citizens (NRC). PAN card, land revenue re­ 1971 stream”. The court dis­ hope as the NRC authorities minor alphabetical changes es, the high command is They tendered their resig­ MLAs to the party­ruled Ra­ Most of some 21,700 hou­ ceipt and bank passbook but missed her petition on Fe­ prepare to issue rejection in different “admissible” likely to take a call on with­ nation to Speaker Rajendra jasthan. seholds across 75 villages in did not pass muster for the bruary 12. slips. documents possibly due to drawing one of the candi­ Trivedi, who is likely to More than a dozen legisla­ this block have at least one Gauhati High Court to over­ March 25, 1971 is the cut­ The Assam government clerical errors. dates. make an announcement in tors were flown to Jaipur on member left out of the NRC rule the order of a Foreigners off date for detecting and de­ told the Assembly a few days All three candidates field­ the Assembly on Monday. Saturday evening. published on August 31, Tribunal (FT) declaring her a porting foreigners or illegal ago that such slips may be is­ CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 CM M ND-NDE YK