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In afair state-nodisease, notice sometimes youneedtofollow and downswill be aperiod of meanforegoingtheclubfinesse.Itislessobviousthatitisalsodangerousto (3,3) Today’s stars bring qualities whichare at your intuitions. sustainedprosperity.Younger crosstodummywiththeSK.OntakinghisDK,Westwouldrealisethatthere 24.Ghost (6) DOWN Solutions to 2274 once theatrical and magical. If youwant to people maycome up withthe isnownohopeforthehearts,andhewouldturntospades,settingupthree CRYPTICCLUES tricksforhispartner,whohastheCKasentry. ACROSS 1. Fruit flies nearly ruinedweapon dressupandshowoff,you’llbeintunewith CANCER (June 22 -July23) best advice. Winthefirstorsecondroundofheartsinhandandplaytheaceandanother 8. Because buzzerisoutside it’s (3,5) QUICKCLUESAcross:8Gamester,9 the heavens. This year could work outbest Youhaveevery 2. Opener skies pull beforetea (6) Ennead,10Vegetative,11Inks,12 CAPRICORN (Dec 23 -Jan 20) diamond, losingtoWest. He now clearsthe hearts.Wewin dummy's ace earlier (6) if youbringyourcreative powersto thefore. reasontobewell on thethird roundand cross to hand in diamonds to take the club finesse 9. Cleaner fuel, of adarkgreycolour 3. OldWrendesign absorbed the Mitten,14Earrings,15Nitride,17 pleasedwith your The cosmos is (startingwiththequeen,tenorninetoholdthelead),losingtothenowsafe Flutist,20Efficacy,22Nectar,24Nara, (8) West -the Western Hemisphere! progress over thepast treating you hand,East.Wearenowassuredofthreetricksineachminorandtwoineach (3,5) 25Silverware,27Severn,28Fondness. FridayJuly3 handsomelyatthe major tototaltentricks, againstaheartand twominor-suitkingslost. 10.Conflict in whichcountercharges Down:1Samedi,2Were,3Attained,4 fewmonths.Now,however, you Youshouldalsonotethat,ifthereisreasontobelievethatEasthasthelong maybethe deciding factor? (5-3) 4. Theyput up the pointsorput them Jupiter’s generous alignment emphasises arereaching agenuine turning- moment. 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AMID SLIDE IN TALKS Pakistanoffersto reopenKartarpur Union Home MinisterAmit Shah and CM Arvind Kejriwal at aCovid centre in DelhiSaturday. GajendraYadav onMonday,India Shortage of saysshortnotice beds led to Pandemic haltedtravel, Paktryingto rise in death createmirageofgoodwill:Officials toll, admits SHUBHAJITROY Kejriwal NEWDELHI,JUNE27 FOUR DAYS afterDelhi informed Islamabad it wasdownsizing its EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE mission staffstrengthbyhalf NEWDELHI,JUNE27 and asked it to do the same, PakistanSaturdaymade asud- CHIEF MINISTER Arvind Locals and relativesatthe funeralofNaik Sachin More, who diedinGalwanValley, at Sakuri villageinNashik Saturday. PTI den offertoreopen the Kejriwal said Saturdaythat Kartarpur Sahib pilgrim corridor Delhi sawashortageofbedsfor on June 29. Covid-19patientsinthe first Noting that it wasbeing GurdwaraDarbar Sahib week of June, because of which givenatwo-day notice as Kartarpur. File the death toll rose. Firstsignoftrouble in Pangong 2more deaths in Galwan: againstthe mutuallyagreed “In the firstweek of June, we seven-day notice fortravel, startednoticing ashortage of Soldiers building bridge India said it wouldevaluatethe beds, of testing in Delhi. And be- was last September, days after offerbeforemaking anyan- cause of the shortage,when nouncement, and that Pakistan some people couldn’t getbeds, drown in riveraccidents wastryingtocreatea“mirage the death toll startedtorise,” he change in status of J&K, Ladakh of goodwill” by proposing re- said during awebcast. sumption of the pilgrimagesus- AfterIndus,a Kejriwal also said that the DIVYAGOYAL& pended in the wake of the possibleconstant speedatwhichCovid-19cases SUSHANTSINGH SRINATHRAO SUNDAY Covid-19outbreak. rose in the city after thelock- NEWDELHI,JUNE27 LUDHIANA,MUMBAI,JUNE27 STORY The pandemic forced the down waseasedinMay was government to order closureof THE Kartarpur Sahib morethan what the government CHINACONTINUES to consoli- TWOSOLDIERS, Naik Sachin PAGE 14 public placesand the pilgrimage corridorisone of the few had expected. dateits positions in the faceoff Vikram More(37)from via the corridorwas suspended constantsinthe turbu- Of the totalcases in Delhi till with Indian soldiers on the north Malegaon and Lance Naik on March16. The corridor,which lent ties between India Friday, 73%havebeen reported bank of Pangong Tsoatthe Line Saleem Khan (23) from Patiala, opened in November lastyear, and Pakistan, apartfrom since June 1—the numbers of Actual Control (LAC)in diedafter drowning in ariver in wasusedby44,951 Indian pil- the IndusWaters Treaty. surging from 20,834 then to Ladakh, but the firstsigns of ten- Ladakh's Galwan Valleyarea. grims until Januarythisyear. The suspension of the 77,240 on June 26. From 426 sion in the area emergedlast Their lastrites were held on On Saturdaymorning, corridorisonlybecause Covid-19deaths in the first September,days afterthe gov- Saturday. PakistanForeign MinisterShah of the pandemic. One- week of June, the toll is now ernment announcedabrogation While therewas no official LADAKH’S MahmoodQureshi,inaTwitter upmanship over the cor- 2,492. of Article 370inJammu and statement from the Army, HOTSUMMER post, said: “As places of worship ridor threatens to upend Therehavebeen several Kashmir and creation of Ladakh sources said “these areaccidents Amid border tensions, openupacrosstheworld,Pakistan this initiative. complaintsinthe Capital of peo- as aseparateUnion Territory. Afighter jettakes offfromLeh Air Base Saturday. PTI and notconnected to the current the UT deals with prepares to reopen the Kartarpur ple being turnedawaybyhospi- Ever since abrawl on situation in the region”. Sahib Corridor forall Sikh pil- Covid,hit to tourism tals —some because their Covid September 11 lastyear —10 The families of the twosol- grims, conveying to the Indian readiness to the Indian side to re- report wasawaited.Kejriwal said Indian securitypersonnelwere area is coterminous withFinger An official told The Indian diers said theyweretold thatthe side our readiness to reopen the open Kartarpur Corridor… the Saturday that the situation has injured in the incident —the 8, while the Chinese claim it to Express thatthere wasnophysi- twomen were partofateam in- corridor on 29 June 2020, the oc- corridorwas temporarily closed improved considerablyand Chinese side has been attempt- be afew kilometres further to cal clash between the twosides volved in “constructing abridge” that he diedonFriday. casionofthedeathanniversaryof on 16 March 2020 due to the Delhi is in acomfortable position ing to blockIndian patrols from the west —‘fingers’ aremoun- formorethan twoyears in the in the area. While defence “Wehavebeen told that a MaharajaRanjeetSingh.” Covid-19pandemic.Asreligious nowregardinghospital beds. proceeding towardsFinger 8on tainous spurs jutting out from Pangong Tsoarea, afteravideo sources said More's deathwas bridgewas being constructed, The PakistanForeign places aregraduallyopening up He addedthat five “weapons” the north bank of the lake. the ridgeonthe north bank to- of Indianand Chinese soldiersin “reportedonThursday”, Khan's and Saleem waspartofthat Ministry issuedastatement, say- around the world, Pakistanhas CONTINUEDONPAGE4 India says theLAC in the wardsthe lake. CONTINUEDONPAGE4 familysaid theywereinformed CONTINUEDONPAGE4 ing “Pakistanhas conveyed its CONTINUEDONPAGE4

DELHI RIOTS Mumbai hospitals are THE WORLD CHINA INTERVIEW HC rejected, Delhi TRACKING INDIA’S COVID CURVE PTI coverage 117 CASES: RECOVERED:2,95,880 seeing Kawasaki-like not in national DAYSSINCE 5,08,952 DEATHS:15,685 police repeated: bail PANDEMIC BEGAN TESTS: 79,96,707 | DOUBLING RATE: 19.54** symptomsamong interest, will review ties: will ‘send adverse youngCovid cases EU BORDER CONTROL: AMERICANS SET TO BE Prasar Bharati EXCLUDED message to society’ munoglobulins, believe she got TABASSUM coronavirus from her father,who send any‘message’ to society.The BARNAGARWALA had tested positive lastweek. RUSSIA TARGETED KRISHNKAUSHIK KEYSTATES TOTAL SURGEIN 7-DAYAVG DOUBLING US TROOPS IN JAYMAZOOMDAAR remit of the courtistodispense TOWATCH CASES 24HOURS GROWTH* RATE** MUMBAI,JUNE27 The US, UK, Spain,Italy and NEWDELHI,JUNE27 NEWDELHI,JUNE27 justiceinaccordancewithlaw,not China have been reporting cases AFGHANISTAN: INTEL to send messages to society.” ■ Maharashtra 1,52,765 5,024 2.99% 24.11 MUMBAI HAS startedreporting of children withCovid-19show- PAGE 16 AN INTERVIEW of the Chinese ON MAY29, theDelhi High Court, Subsequently, on June 6, Khan ■ Delhi 77,240 3,460 5.49% 13.10 symptoms similar to Kawasaki ing Kawasaki-likesymptoms AmbassadortoIndia by news grantingbailtoanaccusedinacase wasgranted bail by adistrict court disease among young patients since April. agency Press TrustofIndia has ■ Tamil Nadu 74,622 3,685 4.61% 15.63 linked to the Februaryriots,rein four other cases on the ground with coronavirus. Reportsre- AstudyinThe Journal of INSIDE earneditthe ireofthe nation’s jected the police argumentthat thatthefactsinthosecaseswereno ■ Haryana 12,884 421 4.07% 17.68 garding this had firstappeared American MedicalAssociation “autonomous” public broad- giving bail “maysend an adverse different from the one decidedby ■ Telangana 12,349 985 9.54% 7.55 in the West,but it is the firsttime that studied58childrenwith caster, Prasar Bharati, which message(to)society”--andsaidits the High Court. these symptoms arebeing re- Covid-19and Kawasaki-like calledits “recent news coverage” remit is “todispense justice” and However, despitethe High *Compounded Daily Growth Rate over last 7days**Calculatedover7-daygrowth portedinIndia. symptoms, termedthe rare detrimentalto“national interest “nottosend messages to society”. Courtorder,recordsshowthatthe CASEFATALITYRATIO POSITIVITYRATE DAILYIN,DAILYOUT One suchpatient, a14-year- combination‘Paediatric Inflam- andundermining India's territo- RecordsshowthatDelhiPolice policehavepursuedthislineof ar- old, wasfirstbrought to aprivate matoryMultisystem Syndrome rial integrity." 7DAYSEARLIER: 7DAYSEARLIER: DETECTED TODAY usedthis argumentinatleast19 gument,withmixed results. hospital in Mumbai this week TemporallyAssociated With Aletterwas sent Saturday, riots cases, 15 of them afterthe Consider the following 19 cases: 3.28 5.97 18,552 with rashes and high fever,two SARS-CoV-2’. The WorldHealth withthe subject “news report- HighCourt'sMay29observations. JUNE 11: One of thegrounds NOW: NOW: RECOVEREDTODAY: classic Kawasaki symptoms. She Organisation has labelledit ing by PTI notinnationalinter- Initsordergrantingbailto Firoz foropposing abail application 3.08 6.36 10,244 subsequentlytestedpositivefor Multisystem Inflammatory ED QUESTIONS est,” writtenbySamir Kumar, AHMED PATEL Khan,anOldMustafabadresident from Amit, named as an accused Deaths as aratio of Positives against Becoming sick vs Covid-19, and wastransferredto Syndrome. head of Prasar Bharati News sent to judicial custodyonApril 3 in acaseregistered in Khajuri positivecases (in%); numbertested recovering; more ICU on Fridaynight afterher con- Kawasaki disease, whose Service, and addressedtoPTI’s in acaselodgedinDayalpur,the Khas, wasthatreleasing “the ap- indicator of progress (in %); indicator of recoveries for 14 days dition worsened. Doctors, who causeremains unknown, mainly COVID CLAIM: FIR Chief Marketing Officer. in averting deaths the spreadofdisease may signal the peak High Court said: “Prison is prima- plicantmaysendanadversemes- have puther on ahighdoseof affectschildren aged belowfive AGAINST RAMDEV The letter said that“taking BasedondailydatafromUnionMinistryofHealth,ICMRandstates.Oftendailynumbersincludedata rilyforpunishingconvicts; notfor sage(to)the society and weaken frompreviousdays.Assuch,trendsbasedondailynumbersareindicative,notdefinitive steroids, immunosuppressant years. It resultsinhigh-grade PAGES 8, 12 into view in totalityPTI’sconduct, detaining undertrials in order to CONTINUEDONPAGE4 drug tocilizumab and im- CONTINUEDONPAGE4 CONTINUEDONPAGE4 First Covid, now hunger, Bhagalpur migrants start packing —again

dream is fallingapart, infected livesand livelihoods in small- He waslastinAndhraPradesh’s Over the pastmonth, icure. The foundation stones pro- ASADISTRICT by reality. town India arecoping with the Kurnool, earning Rs 400asa Mehesleti has seen promises claim that Chief MinisterNitish Bihar’svillages have no work, unlockdown. daily wage labourer.“Igot back made on TV,innewspapers, and Kumar inaugurated thebuilding UNLOCKS no sustenance. It waswhy they In asmall courtyardinBhulni by traininthe middle of May, on WhatsApp forthose with on January9,2020.But by May, left. And it is why, despitethe panchayat's Mehesletivillage,20 and wastold by officials that I smartphones. Theyread that the parts of the blockwereusedasa AN EXPRESS SERIES yearningtobehome at atime of men sharetheir stories, each would getajob. Theyregistered statewould give Rs 1,000 to re- quarantine centrewhich, like crisis,theywillhavetoleave again. echoing the other.Noone wears my name at the railway station, turning migrantsunder aCorona manyothers in Bihar,was shut DIPANKARGHOSE With 63,962 returning mi- amask,and social distancing has and the Hajipur quarantine cen- Sahayata scheme, or that MN- by June 15. BHULNI(BHAGALPUR), grants, arising Covid curve, and been throwntothe wind, even tre. It has been amonth, and REGA wouldbeexpanded. But At 11.30 am on abright JUNE27 atownfull of aspirations, thoughthe district, with 430 thereisnowork,”hesays. notone of them has receivedthe morning lastweek,therewas a Bhagalpur is amicrocosm of cases, is second in the statebe- So far, allthathehas re- money, or arural job card. The lockonthe PanchayatBhavan. THEY HAD dreamt of Bhulni. Bihar —wherethe system is tot- hindPatna,with557.Thereare ceivedisamessageonhis small refrain: “Wherewill we go to Inside acomplaint boxwas a Their green fields, mangotrees tering under the weight of no officials to check, and the res- featurephone: anumber and a ask? Everything is shut.” packoftornplaying cards. Across and families. It is what kept them numbers andthe scaleofun- identsthemselvesgaveuplong messageofcongratulations, About akilometreaway, the anewly built pond, an MNREGA going even as hungryinthe spe- employment. ago. Here, fear of the virushas saying he has been registered walls of the panchayatbuilding bhavanwas open, and manned cial trains, or on the backof Bhagalpur is also the focus of been replacedbyfear of hunger. withthe Industries in CharaBadgaon villageare by SharanDev Singh, who iden- trucks,for days and nights.But amonth-long assignment by Rakesh Ranjan Singhleft The panchayatbuilding in Bhulnilieslocked. DipankarGhose Department.“What do Ido freshlypainted in yellow, and the tifiedhimself as a“pratinidhi”. He nowthattheyare here, that The SundayExpress to trackhow home during his teens in 2004. with this message?” Singh asks. treesaround showsigns of man- CONTINUEDONPAGE4

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First signs of world, especially from those Hapur custodial death countries where therewas an trouble in outbreak,wantedtocome back. 13,tellinghis wifeRajni that he TheCentretooktherightdecision AMILBHATNAGAR wasgoing to helphis younger Pangongwas Pakistan offers to reopen Kartarpur and brought them backand NOIDA,JUNE27 brother,whose motorcycle had a around 35,000 came to Delhi. flat tyre. He took his 11-year-old last Sept, days Theywerescreenedfor fever at SEVENPOLICEMEN in Uttar son along withhim. on Monday, India says short notice the airport. Those who had fever Pradesh have been exonerated in He diedafew hours later in after Ladakh were sent to hospital. The others connectionwithanallegedcusto- policecustody.According to offi- were sent home. Some were also dial death in Hapur district last cials, he wascalledtothe station became UT also made necessary arrange- concerned.” riverdespite havingcommitted dation and harassment of quarantined.Whenthesepeople year,officers said on Saturday. by policemen,and detainedin abrawl on the north bank on mentstoreopen Kartarpur “It is to be notedthat to it in the bilateral agreement. diplomats. went backhome, naturally, co- The familymembers of connectionwiththemurderofhis August15, 2017 did the rounds. Sahib Corridor forSikh pil- Pakistanistryingto createami- With the advent of monsoon, it Thedecisionwastakenafter ronagot transmittedto theircon- Pradeep Tomar had alleged in an sister-in-law. Tomar’ssonsaidhis That scuffle, in whichfour Army grims.” rage of goodwillby proposingto would needtobeevaluated twoIndian High Commission tacts.Inthosedays,therewereno FIR that DSP SantoshMishra, father waskicked, punched, hit andITBPpersonnelwere injured, “Toensure adherencetothe resume the Kartarpur corridor whether pilgrim movement is staffers were detainedby testing kitsortesting labs avail- PilkhuwaStation House Officer with planksofwood, givenelec- had occurredwhile soldiers of health guidelines,Pakistanhas on June 29, at ashortnoticeof possiblethroughthecorridorin Pakistani authorities and re- able, testing wasnot done at the (SHO)Yogesh Baliyan, Sub- tric shocks,and repeatedly both countries were lockedina invitedIndiato work outneces- twodays,while bilateral agree- asafeand secure manner,” leasedonlyafter NewDelhi scale it is done today. Then, the InspectorAjabSingh,andfourun- piercedwithascrewdriverbypo- tense 73-daystandoffonthe sarySOPs forreopening of the ment provides forinformation sources said. protested.Lastmonth,Indiaex- lockdown wasannounced. namedpolicemen had tortured lice personnel. Doklam plateauatthe India- Corridor,”itsaid. to be shared by India with the On June 23, India asked pelledtwo officials of the Peoplestayedindoorsandtherate the35-year-oldto deathonthein- However, thepolice denied Bhutan-China trijunction. Sources in NewDelhi said Pakistansideatleastsevendays Pakistantoreduce the strength PakistanHigh Commission for of transmission slowed. When tervening night of October13and torturingTomar,andclaimedthat Whilebothsidescontinuedto “cross-border travel has been before thedateoftravel. This of itsHigh Commission in New spying in Delhi. the lockdown waseased, we ex- 14. hisinjurieswerethe result of a object to patrolling and followed temporarilysuspendedaspart wouldneedIndiatoopenupthe Delhi by half, andsaid it would Tenmonths ago, Pakistan pectedariseincasesbuttheyrose WhileMishrawasdeclaredin- clash over an accident thatoc- thebannerdrill–eachsideshow- of measuresto preventandcon- registration process well in ad- do the same at itsmission in had downgradedbilateral ties beyondourexpectations,”hesaid. nocent the next month, the dis- curredonthe night he wascalled ing abanner for10minutes,ask- tain the spread of coronavirus. vance,” sources said. Islamabad withinaweek. afterIndiarevoked the special He also said that the idea of trict police absolvedthe other ac- forquestioning. ing the other side’s patrol to re- Furtherviews wouldbetakenin “Besides, Pakistan has not This is afallout of tensions status granted to the erstwhile anotherlockdownwasdiscussed cusedinafinalreportfiledin “A woman namedPreetiwas turn to itsarea–therewas no consultation with health au- built the bridgeontheir side between the twosides in the stateofJammuandKashmirun- afterthe spike. “Wehad twoop- March. murdered in August, but she physical clash,the official said. thoritiesandotherstakeholders across the flood plains of Ravi pastfew weeksoverintimi- derArticle 370. tions–tolockdownonceagainor “Thefinal report in the case could notbeidentifiedthen. Indianpatrolswere allowedto to fight corona. People said that wasfiledinMarch andwas ac- Once identified, we found that proceedonfoottowardsFinger8, the lockdown will have to be ceptedbythecourtshortlybefore her husband Digamber allegedly whilethe Chinese patrols would told that he divedintothe riverto to admitthat during the violence getrelief forShadabAhmed,who symptoms of Kawasaki surface easedsoonerorlater,sowede- theywereordered to stop func- got her murdered with the help come in vehicles up to Finger 4. rescue twoothersoldiers. While inGalwanValleyonJune15,there has been chargedinDayalpur in morethan three weeksafter cidedtofight.” tioning (due to the pandemic and of arelative.Two peoplewere The patrols would oftenbeinter- he managed to rescue them, had been “casualties” on the the murder of apolice official. A Covid-19infection.“Kawasakidis- lockdown). The allegations were hired forRs1.5 lakh,and Pradeep ceptedshort of their destination, Morewasseriously injuredwhen Chinese side as well. districtcourtruledthattheappli- ease isanimmunologicalreaction foundto bebaselessandtherewas Tomar wasallegedly supposed buttherewasnoattempttocom- he hit his head on asubmerged PTI,registeredin1947, began cantwas“notentitledforbailcon- to avirus. We cannotbesureif First Covid, no evidence linking the actionsof to paythem. He wasmarried to pletely blockthem. rock.Heissurvivedby hisparents, itsoperationsin1949. An esti- sideringthe overallimpactofthe coronavirus is directlyresponsi- policemen to thedeath... themi- Digamber’s sister,”then SP ThechangeintheChineseap- wifeandthreechildren,including mated 99 media organisations incident on the societyatlarge”. ble forit. In children it is possible now hunger, nor son of the deceased, who was Yashweer Singh had told The proach, the officialsaid, came on an infant. ownall 5,416 of itsshares as of that the signs emerge as are- awitness, and familymembers, Sunday Express. September10 lastyearwhenPLA Hisfather,Vikram More, said March 2019.ThePTIboardhas16 sponseof theimmunitysystem.” Bhagalpur recordedtheirstatementsinfront The official said the 35-year- troopsvehementlystartedblock- he lastspoketohim 10 days ago. members, including four inde- Mumbai reports KEM Hospital is yettonote migrants start of the magistrate, stating that the old wastaken to alocal hospital, ing Indian patrols from proceed- “Sachinhadtoldmethatthesitu- pendentdirectors,andtheboard’s Kawasaki-like suchcases, said DeanDrHemant policemen were notinvolved,” and then to amedicalfacility in ing towardsFinger8.This was ationintheGalwanValleywasse- chairpersonship is rotated every Deshmukh. packing —again said HapurSuperintendent of Meerut afterhesaid that he was barelyamonth afterthe Bill for rious.Heassuredmehewas fine year.PunjabKesari’s CEO and ed- Police SanjivSuman. notfeelingwell.Following his abrogationofArticle370 in and said Ishouldn't worry,”he itor-in-chief is the current chair- symptoms said MNREGAworkwas on the PradeepTomar’sfamilymem- death, three policemen were ini- JammuandKashmirandcreation said. man.Itisthelargest news agency among young Kejriwal admits rise,butdidn’thavethenumbers. bers told The SundayExpress that tiallysuspended,andDSPSantosh of Ladakh as aseparateUnion Khan'smother, Nasima in the countryand earns through bed shortage led In front of him, four labourers Tomar had lefthome inPilkhuwa Mishra wastransferredto another Territorywas passedin Bagum,saidshelast spoketohim subscriptionsfrommediagroups. Covid cases were diggingupdirtforthepond. town on the eveningofOctober circle. Parliament on August5. twodays back.“Hesaidhewould TheywereMNREGA workers Tensionswerehighandthings come home soon. He nevergave feverand inflammationinblood to death spike, who had neverleftthe village. went outofhand when twoPLA details of the situation there...He HC rejected, vessels,andcansometimescause thanks Centre for In Bhagalpur,the number of Locust attack: control companiescame in eight heavy saidtheremay beaproblemwith Delhipolice permanent damagetocoronary households that worked under vehicles up to Finger 4onthe phoneconnectivity,andIshould- arteries. ‘holding hand’ MGNREGAdeclinedto40,118in morning of September 11.Sharp n't worryifhedidn'tcall.Ihave Of Maharashtra’s 14,474 un- Maythisyear in comparison to operations underway in wordswereexchanged,and avi- losteverything. He wasour only repeated der-20 Covid-19cases, 5,103are hadhelpedDelhidealwiththecri- 43,431during the same month olent scuffleensued, the official support,” shesaid. the faith of the peopleinthe sec- under10 years, and 9,371 be- sis.“Thefirstweaponwasincreas- lastyear.The number of person- said, leaving 10 Armyand ITBP Khan,whojoinedtheArmyin ular image(of) the country.”He tween the ages of 11 and 20. ingthe numberofbeds. Earlier,I days generated, too, came down UP, Haryana, Rajasthan personnel injured.The brawlex- 2014,issurvivedbyhis mother wasdenied bail. The 14-year-old’s father is a usedto getcallswellinto thenight, to 7.55lakhagainstlastyear’s9.16 tendedtothe waters of the lake, and twosiblings. The same day, bail applica- stafferatKokilabenHospital.Last people asking me to help arrange lakh. NewDelhi, Lucknow: As alocust PratapShahi,inthepast48hours, where threeArmyboats were tionsof anotheraccusedAshwani, week an ELISAtestshowedhe beds. Iwould trytohelp allnight. In the absence of work,con- swarm entered the outskirts of officialssaidSaturday, addingthey damagedby Chinesesoldiers.The infourcasesregisteredinKarawal haddevelopedantibodiesagainst We thenorderedprivatehospitals versation turns to the future.Anil Delhi, the Union Agriculture were taking steps to either chase Indian sidealso damaged two ‘PTI’s coverage Nagar, were opposedonsimilar Covid-19, indicating he had the to reservebedsand turned afew Singh earnedRs600 aday as a MinistryonSaturdaysaid more the insectsawayorkill them. Chinese boats. grounds. He got bailinall four virus and hisbody had fought it privateandgovernmenthospitals masoninDelhi.Morethan a teams from Rajasthanhavebeen The agriculture department PLAsoldiers also removeda not in national cases. off. The 14-year-old wasbrought into dedicated Covid facilities. monthago,hepaidRs3,500to be deputed to help in the control said locustattacks were reported semi-permanent structureof JUNE 9: Bailapplications to hospital on Wednesday. Hotels were attachedwith hospi- oneof 70 people,squashedinthe operations being undertakenin fromJhansi,Chitrakoot,Allahabad, stones made by the Indian side, a interest’ from four riot-accused-- “These children can deterio- tals. Theywereangry, they went backofatruckforthreenightsand Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. The Pratapgarh, Bhadohi, Azamgarh kind of an observationpost, at Prasar Bharati is reviewing the Ashutosh (1 case, Khajuri Khas), rate fast.She came to us early so to court, but we fought and won. twodays.Heate onepacket of bis- control operations areunderway and Ambedkar NagaronFriday.It Finger 4. Theythenconstructeda needfor continuedrelationship Mitthan (1 case, Khajuri Khas), we were abletostabilise her for Now, 3,500bedsare ready in ho- cuitsand six bananas overthat in Rajasthan,Haryana and UP. said authorities of the neighbour- similarstonestructuretothewest with PTI and adecision in this re- Surender (1 case, New twodays, buther condition dete- tels and the capacity of hospitals time. But now? “Chorikarenge Meanwhile, locusts invaded ing districts—Hamirpur, Banda, of theirbaseatFinger8,theofficial gard will be conveyed soon”. Usmanpur) and Suaib (1 case, riorated again,” said Dr Tanu has been increased. The Radha (Wewill steal),” he says,half in severalparts of Uttar Pradesh,in- Fatehpur,Kaushambi, Mirzapur, said, and startedblocking Indian Whencontacted,PTIsaid:“We Bhajanpura) -- were contested to Singhal, apaediatric infectious Soami centreinChattarpur has jest,half inpain.Then,hiseyesbe- cluding the home districtofthe Sultanpur,Mau and Ballia —have patrolsfromproceedingtowards have receivedaletterfromthe avoidsendinga"wrongmessage". diseasesexpertatthe hospital, 10,000bedsand 2,000have been gin to well up, “Theysay soil is UP AgricultureMinisterSurya been asked to remain alert. PTI their destination. Prasar Bharati this afternoon. We OnlyAshutosh got bail. addingthattheteenagerhadhigh made functional… Thereare gold here. Is the soil morefertile Indiantroopsbegantakingan areexaminingitandwillrespond JUNE 4: Bail applications in whitebloodcellcount(indicating around 13,500hospital bedsin in Punjab thanhere? There, they alternatetrack to reachFinger8 in due course with the facts.” twocases registered in Khajuri an infection) and lowbloodpres- Delhinow and close to 7,500are put up industries. Here, theyput on foot,goingbehindthe heights This comes amid the ongoing Khasagainst accusedAsif were sure. available. But we willnot sit idle. up nothing.” at Finger 4. This wasstronglyob- border standoffbetween India opposedonthe ground that Dr Singhal addedthatwhile We will makemorearrange- Thereiscomfortinfamily, and jected to by the Chineseand ten- andChinawhichhasclaimedthe “grantingofbailatthisearly stage Kawasakidiseasegenerally affects ments,” Kejriwal said. the fields provide some food. Yet, sions mounted in the area, lead- livesof20Indian soldiers. maysend adverse message(to) thoseagedlessthanfive,children The second weapon, accord- the residentsare buying fewer ing to theviolent scuffle on the “Itisalsomentionedthat the society and weaken the faith of between10-14yearswith Covid ingtotheCM,wastestingandiso- soap bars and lesser salt;fewer intervening nightofMay 5/6 this PTI had...been time and again the people (in the) country's sec- were showingitssymptoms.“Itis lation.“Initially, some labs gave vegetables and no fruit;and, no yearwhichnot onlyleftmanysol- alertedbythe PublicBroadcaster ularimage”. The same argument notKawasakidisease,but similar wrong resultsand we had to take shampoo. “Thereisalsothe diers on both sides injured but oneditoriallapsesresultingindis- wasusedagainstTaseem in one to it,” Singhal underlined, with action againstthem. In thefirst weight of debt,” says Diwakar also triggered thestandoff. seminationof wrongnews harm- case in Bhajanpura. Bail was Kawasaki patientsgenerallyalso week of June, we were doing KumarwhoworkedinRajkot,and In the pasttwo months,there ing public interest,” the letter granted in allthree cases. exhibiting redtongue and eyes. 5,000 tests. Nowweare doing hastakenaRs50,000advanceon have been at least three clashes added. JUNE3:Bailapplicationsfrom “Children mostlydevelop the 20,000daily…Ithank the Centre hissalary. Othershave takenfrom between Indian and Chinese sol- PrasarBharati, whichruns accusedDeepak (2 cases, Kawasaki-likesymptoms two- forgivingusantigenkitsandhold- Rs 4,000 to Rs 5000 from their diers in the Pangong Tsoarea. As Doordarshan and All India Radio, Welcome)and onefromRaj three weeksafter aCovid-19in- ingour hand.” employers. seen in satelliteimages,the is an autonomous institution Kamal (1 case, Welcome) were fection.” Distribution of pulse Fornow,theseareloansinter- Chinesesidehasconstructedpill- ownedbythe Union opposedsothatno"wrongmes- Dr Singhal said she had seen oxymetresto peopleinhomeiso- est-free. “But if thereisamedical boxes, shelters, breast-walls and Government.Since 2013,Prasar sage"wassent.Bailwasdeniedin twosimilarcasesinMumbai,one lation and sending oxygen con- problem, or something else, bunkers at Finger 4, both on the Bharati paidRs9.15crore annu- all three cases. at the SRCC Hospital and another centrators to peopleiftheir oxy- wherewill the moneycome bankand the ridge, wherethey ally to PTIforitsservices.However, MAY22:Theinvestigatingof- ataprivate hospitalinJogeshwari. gensaturation levels drop, from?The mahajans (money have deployedtroops in large since2017,thepublicbroadcaster ficer (IO)opposed bail applica- Bothhadinflammation,feverand Kejriwal said, wasthe third lenders) will give youmoneyat numbers. has been holding backabout 25 tions in three cases registeredin rashesandbothwere negative for weapon,addingthatsoonallgov- an interestoffiveper cent per The location of LACinthe percentasitwantstorenegotiate NewUsmanpur againstaccused Covid-19.“It is possible they ernment hospital bedswill have month. Nobody survivesthat,” PangongTsoareahasbeenacon- the costs. Manish, submitting that “grant- tested negative because their oxygen facilities. says aresident. tentious issuebetween both China’s ambassador to India ing him bail at this stagewould Covidviralloadhadreduced,”she Creditingplasmatherapyand “Wemustgobacktoour jobs countries, as evident from the Sun Weidong had publishedhis sendaveryadverse message (to) said. surveysand screeningasthe last andearn,”hesays.RakeshRanjan numberof Chinesetransgressions versionof thePTIinterviewonthe the society”. Bailwas grantedin CEO of Bai Jerbai Wadia twoweapons, Kejriwal saidthat SinghandKailashPrasadwillstay recordedbytheIndianside.There websiteofChina’sembassy in all three cases. Hospital Dr Minnie Bodhanwala plasma therapyhad been seen to foramonth, until paddy trans- were 142Chinese transgressions India. This had justthree ques- MAY3:“Grantingof bailmay alsosaidtheyhad startedrecord- work best in moderatepatients, plantation is over.Some others in 2019,upfrom72in2018and tionsand hisanswers. sendwrong message to the soci- ingcases of Covid-19along with stopping them from sinkingfur- willholdouttill“ChhatPuja”,and 112in2017. In the interview, Sun blamed ety”wasoneof thesixgroundson symptomsof Kawasaki.DrBiswa ther.Hesaid20,000peoplewould perhapsthe stateelections.But India forthe LACstand-offand, whichthe IO opposedaccused RPanda,apaediatric cardiac sur- bescreenedaspartoftheserolog- Ranjit, 21,isclear:“Iwillleave when askedabout the resolution Gulfisha’sbailapplicationinacase geonatthehospital,saidtheyhad icalsurveyinthe city starting soon.”Heworkedinanadvertis- 2more deaths in of thedispute,saidthatthe“onus registeredinJaffrabad. Bail was seenfourcasesof childrenshow- Saturday.Thedata willgiveabet- ingcompanyinRanchi,fixingbill- is notonChina.” denied. ing symptoms similarto teridea of transmission across boards. “The companyowesme Galwan: Soldiers PTI, in asubsequent report TheHighCourtorderhasbeen Kawasaki but testing Covid-19 Delhi. Rs 15,000,and Iamafraid Iwill fromBeijing,saidthatithadques- cited by defense counsel, too, to negative.“It is possible theyhad During the webcast, the CM lose that money,”hesays. He is buildingabridge tionedSun on China’stransgres- press forbail in the riotcases, but developedantibodiesby then.We saidthatinitially, whennot much afraid of Covid, too. And when he sions across the Line of Actual again with mixed results. arestill in the initialstagesand wasknown aboutthe virus and had setoff forhis villageonamo- drown in river Control(LAC)anditsbuild-upbut Forexample, reliance on the needmoredatatodrawconclu- thecitydidnothavemanytesting torcycle,hewasbeatenby police- team,”saidKhan'suncle,Budhdin the envoy did notanswerthese. order broughtrelief forZiauddin sions,”Panda said. kits,close to 35,000 peoplere- men, severaltimes, he says.“All I Khan. “He wasinaboatwhich Incidentally, thePTIinterview in acaseregisteredin Dayalpur-- Dr Mukesh Sharma, head of turnedtoDelhi from various want is to stay home and work overturned,andhedied,”hesaid. markedthe firstinstance that a bailwas grantedonJune 19.But a the paediatric department at countries. here.But Ican’t. 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said. The Delhi government had JIGNASASINHA ordered that the hospital be con- NEWDELHI,JUNE27 verted intoaCovid facility on June 14.However, doctors said ON SATURDAY,asHindu Rao the process wasdelayedasthere Hospitalwas being converted was“no segregationand facili- intoaCovid facility,medical staff ties” inside the premises. On and nurses staged aprotest out- Saturday, afterthe protest, doc- side over alleged lackofinfra- tors admitted over four Covid pa- structureand delayinsalaries. tientsatthe hospital. This wasthe second protestat NorthMCD mayorJai Prakash the hospital, the biggestunder said, “Weagree therewereissues the NorthMCD. but this wasbecause the Delhi Dr Peeyush, an orthopaedic government didn’tsupportus. surgeon,said,“We have notre- Lackofproperaccommodation, transportand clean We couldn’t getmoneyfrom ceivedour salaryfor twomonths. washrooms areamong other issuesalleged by the staff taxes, stampdutyand otherwork The administration didn’tpro- duringthe lockdown. We usually vide us with proper accommo- getoverRs500croreamonthbut dation andtransport.Ihad to ask beidentified, said, “Weare scared ident of the Resident Doctors’ nowweonlyget Rs 200crore.It my relativestohelp me with food as the hospital doesn’t have ade- Association, said doctors and wasdifficult to give salaries to and stay.There arenoclean quateinfrastructuretodealwith MCD officials metonSaturday. “ doctors duringthistime.Now, washrooms or donning rooms Covid patients. When Iwas The protest wasimportant as the we have generated enough here. We wear PPE kitsbut don’t evicted,Ihad to take help from hospital can’t beconvertedintoa moneytohelp ourhealthcare have proper cooling systems. doctors, who spoketothe land- Covidfacilitywithout fixingother workers. Iwill inspect the hospi- Howcan we work likethis in this lord. The administration keeps matters. Theyare nowinstalling taltoensure all requirementsare weather?” Nurses alleged that saying our salaries will be cred- newACs and repairing some old met,” adding, “Wetook time to some of them were evictedfrom itedin our account in aday or two. ones. We have been told salaries convert the hospitalasmany their rentedaccommodations by We arewaiting. My parentshave will be paid to staffers soon. Two preparations had to be made. landlords, but the hospital ad- been very supportive and send hotels have been bookedfordoc- Therewas paperworkand the ministrationdid nothelp. me extramoneyevery month.” tors andnurseswillbeaccommo- salarydelay. We had to deal with Anurse, who did notwishto Dr Abhimanyu Sardana, pres- dated at nearbyFab hotels,” he all this on our own”. Amid lockdown, Delhiites complain of high power bills, BSES suggests self meter reading

were unabletogoon-spot forme- again and got the matter rectified. in future when the actual meter ANANYATIWARI terreadings. Thediscom has al- "Igot it checked, and my bill came readingforthe provisionalperiod NEWDELHI,JUNE27 lowedcustomers to checkthe out to be zero,” he said. is available,” said BSES official. meters themselves, and applyfor "For bills raisedtill June 30, As per the DERCorder,due to WITH FIELD workers notgoing arevisedbill as per protocol. 2020, consumers can getarebate the lackofregular stafftodome- house to house to take meter However, in many cases, bills of up to Rs 220intheir electricity terreadings, discoms were di- readingsduring the lockdown, have been inflated despite pro- bills. All theyhavetodoispay rectedto issueprovisionalbillsto residentshavebeen gettingsteep viding meterreadingsand resi- theirbills within7daysofbillgen- customers. As per an information powerbills —insomecasesupto dentsare nowhaving to approach eration anddo‘self meterread- bulletin releasedbythe BSES Rs 15,000—for one month of us- discoms offices to rectify the ering’ of theirelectricityusage. This Delhi in May, the provisionalbills age. These bills, officials said, are rors. willensurethat apartfromget- arebased on the corresponding beingpreparedwithout subsidies SushilKothari(43), asalesper- ting therebate, they can also get powerconsumption of thesame calculated intothe total amount, son living in Harsh Nagar, saidhe electricity bills basedonactual month lastyear.Ifthis reading is leadingto some confusionamong had been noting readings and meterreading and notprovi- unavailable, then the average customers. sending it to the BSES. He said, sionalreading,” BSESofficialssaid. consumption of preceding three The BSES, whichruns two “For May, Iconsumed176 units, Theformula beingusedtoset billing cycles is used. The discom sub-discoms —the BYPL and the but Istill got aprovisionalelectric- the amount billedinthe provi- has also placedamoratoriumon BRPL —has been issuing provi- ity bill of over Rs 2,000." Kothari sional bills is setbythe Delhi fixedchargestill June 30. The ac- sionalelectricity bills ever since liveswith his familyand hasone Electricity Regulatory cumulatedchargeswill bespread the lockdown wasimposedand air conditioner in his house. On Commission(DERC).“Suchpro- overthe next three billing cycles thefield workersofthecompany June 26, he reachedout to BSES visional bills will getregularised afterJune30.

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Do younot pasttwo months fortheir “help Delhi’s Chattarpur,whichisbe- speak to Kejriwal ji or had youde- and guidance” duringthe pan- ing converted intoaCovid facil- cidedtotakethe credit alone?” demic, other AAP leaders have ity for10,000 patients, on The centreatChattarpur has routinelyhit out at the Centre Locusts keep Delhi, Saturday. been build over the pastfew days and BJP. Of the 10,000beds, 2,000are by the local administrationwith Afterthe visit, Shah tweeted: ready and over 300personnel help from the Radha Soami “I applaud our courageous ITBP Gurgaonofficials providedbythe Indo-Tibetan Satsang administration,private personnel, who would be oper- Border Police and Central Armed companiessuchasSleepwell ating this Covid Carefacility dur- PoliceForce (CAPF) will be pres- that donated bedsand mat- ing these trying times...Modi ent at the facility initially. This in- tresses as well as the Centre, government at thecentreiscom- on their toes cludes doctors, nursesand para- whichisprovidingpersonnel mitted to provide all possible medic staff. No patientshave through ITBP and CAPF. help to itscitizens.” been sent to the facility so far. BSES Rajdhani PowerLimited The CM also tweetedafter SAKSHIDAYAL& During the visit,districtand Union Home MinisterAmitShah andDelhi Chief MinisterArvind Kejriwalvisit the Radha had initiallyprovidedanelectric the visit: "In this hour of diffi- SHIVAMPATEL ITBPofficials took the twoaround Soami Satsang centre in Chattarpur on Saturday. GajendraYadav load of 18,000 KW (18MW), culty,Isoughthelp to save Delhi GURGAON,NEWDELHI, the facilityand explainedthe whichwas laterincreased to andeveryone has come forward JUNE27 process through whichpatients 23,000 KW (23 MW). to contributeenthusiastically. will beadmittedand treated.The the facility. the “inauguration” of the centre. to inaugurateitstealthily,quietly The centrewas namedthe With the supportofthe central SEVERAL PARTSofSouth facilityisspreadoveraround Beforethe visit, though, Aam “Wehear that the Home (chori-chori, chupke-chupke). Is Sardar PatelCovid CareCentre government and Radha Soami Haryana were hit by swarms of 12,50,000 squarefeet. AadmiParty RajyaSabhaMP MinisterAmit Shah is going to BJP fighting corona or Arvind and Hospital afterthe Home Satsang Beas, suchalarge Covid locusts Saturdaymorning, with The twoalsointeractedwith SanjaySingh and BJP MP Gautam the world’s biggestCovid hospi- Kejriwal,” he tweeted. Minister’s visit lastweek. centrehas come up for officials saying that although the doctors who have been postedat GambhirsparredonTwitter over talbuiltbythe Delhi government Gambhir,who is the MP from On Saturday,Delhi MLAand Delhiites." groups had flown through Gurgaon, Faridabad, and Jhajjar, theyhad notinflicted anymajor BRIEFLY damageinthe areas. At Asola BhattiWildlife Over 11,000morebedstobeavailable incapital In Gurgaon, alocustwarning SanctuaryonSaturday had been issuedbythe adminis- DUpostpones trationonFridaynight, advising as banquet halls are attached to hospitals residentstokeeptheir windows border.Wehavealandthat be- onlineexam and doors closedsince some longs to theforestdepartment in swarms had reached thearea. We immediatelygave NewDelhi: Delhi commodate16,000patients, it is while thereare tworecognised Mahendragarh. Residents were directions to the forest depart- University Saturday MALLICAJOSHI& CORONAVIRUS IN THE CAPITAL proposedthat one banquethall banquethallsinEastDelhifor alsoaskedto gathertogetherinthe ment to sounddhols, drums and postponedits online ASTHASAXENA in eachdistrict of the capacity of the purpose, none have been event of an attackand makeloud DJsand to spraychemicals,” he open book examina- NEWDELHI,JUNE27 TOTALCASES Total Vacant morethan 100bedsmay be requisitionedinNortheastDelhi. noises by beating tin cans, plates said afterthe meeting. tionsby10days citing HOSPITALBEDS 13,411 7,343 startedbylinkingwith five desig- One hall eachinOld Delhi, anddrumstowardoff theinsects. Following the meeting, the rising cases of Covid-19 BANQUET HALLSwill soon be 80,188 VENTILATORS natedCovid hospitals, three ban- Samalkha and Kapasheda have According to theDeputy Delhigovernment also issuedan in the capital. The ex- linked withhospitals in the city 747 159 quet hallseachmay be linked been attachedtoLok Nayak hos- Director of the Agriculture advisorythatadvisedall district ams, whichwereearlier to provideanadditional11,229 Dailycases Recoveries Deaths Tests withthe biggerhospitals(suchas) pital, whichwill help increase its Department in Gurgaon, magistrates to remain on high due to startonJuly1, beds, as the number of Covid-19 June 26 3,460 2,3266321,144 Lok Nayak hospital, GTBhospital bed capacity(2,000at present), Atmaram Godara, the locust alertand coordinate with fire de- will nowbegin on July cases rises in the city. and RajivGandhi Super Specialty by 360 beds. swarm that passed through partment personnel forspraying 10.The announcement On Saturday, 2,948 fresh June 27 2,948 2,210 66 19,180 hospital andlinking one banquet Twobanquethalls, one in Gurgaon Saturdaymorning was prescribed pesticides. comes on aday when Covid-19 cases were recordedin Total28,329* 49,3012,558 4,78,336 hall eachwith Deep Chand Vishwas Nagarand one near around 5kilometres wide and 8 The advisorydirected the the Delhi University the city,taking the totalto *Total active cases Bandhu hospital and Satyawadi SaritaVihar, willadd 235beds kilometresinlength.Beforecom- DMstoguide residentsinvillages Teachers’ Association 80,188, of which28,329 areac- HarishChandrahospital,”saidthe to GTBhospital. ingto Gurgaon,hesaid,theswarm to drive away locusts by making wrotetoHRD Minister tive.Total deathtoll touched order passedbythe Health and The district administration wasdividedintofour —two "high decibel sound through Ramesh Pokhriyalseek- 2,558 with 66 people dying be- 4,209 of 5,909 bedsare available. add to thecity’s bed strength. FamilyWelfaredepartment. has been asked to hand over passedoverGurgaon towards beatingof drumsorutensils,playing cancellation of ex- tween early Fridayand early The district administration This willinclude a500-bed The decision wastaken in a the locations with housekeep- Delhi, while one went towards ing high volume music on music ams. Saturday. Delhi has conducted in the 11 districtsinthe city had Covid carecentreincabinetmeeting held on Friday. ing staffand caretakers, along Jhajjar and the other to Nuh. system or DJs, firing crackers, 4.7 lakhtests so far, outofwhich been asked to survey and requi- Commonwealth Games Village Mostofthe 77 banquethalls, with sufficient bedswith mat- “However, due to thechange burningof neemleavesandother over 19,000 were conducted sition banquet halls in their ju- in Akshardham, whichwill be whichare located in Northwest, tresses and pillows,tothe hos- in wind direction, eventually, similar measures”. Constable within the last24hours. risdiction earlier this month. operated by avoluntary organ- Southwest and West Delhi, were pitals. The linked hospitals will even the groupsthat had moved Keeping doors and windows fires at Thereare 13,411 bedsinhos- Since then, 77 halls have isation calledDoctors And You. requisitionedonJune 12.East provide doctors, medical staff, towardsDelhi and Jhajjarwent closed, coveringoutdoor plants pitals, of which7,343are unoc- been requisitionedand will be “Inviewofthedecisionto pro- and South Eastdistrictshave consumablesand other infra- towardsFaridabad and Nuhin- with plastic sheets, and spraying colleague cupied. In CovidCareCentres, attachedtohospitals soon to vide 1,000railway coaches to ac- high population densityand structure. stead,” said Godara. pesticides melathionor According to officials, around chloropyriphos at the swarm at NewDelhi:ADelhi 200tractor trolleys with spray night while wearing aPPE kit Police constable al- Coaching pumps were arranged in the dis- were also among the measures legedly firedatanother Markaz chargesheet talks of Malaysia, trict,and around 2,000 litresof suggestedinthe advisory. constable inside Chloropyriphos, adrug usedasa Aforestdepartmentofficial Seemapuri police sta- centre owner chemical deterrent,was procured said the swarm had descendedin tion afteraheated argu- Indonesia foreigners as virus carriers to spray on locustsinGurgaon. theAsolaBhattiWildlifeSanctuary ment over their beat du- faces UAPA “Fortunately, therehas been area around 2.30pmand was ties, said the officials on no damage in Gurgaon due to the drivenawaybystaff in an hour. Saturday. Policesources Policeissuedprohibitoryorders, in riots case locusts,who simplyflewthrough “Theyate some leavesfrom said the accused consta- ANANDMOHANJ however"no oneatthe the districtwithout descending the plantsand trees but overall ble wasupsetafter his NEWDELHI,JUNE27 BanglewaliMasjidMarkaz,Hazrat NewDelhi: The Delhi Police anywhere,” Godarasaid. the damage wasveryminor.The beat wasgiven to the in- Nizamuddin paid anyheedto SpecialCellhas arrested a36- In Jhajjar,wherelocusts ar- swarm wasasmallone, and our jured colleague. THE DELHI Police chargesheet theselawfuldirections”, it states. year-old owner of acoaching rivedaround 8am, officials said staffdrove it away physicallyby intotheTablighiJamaatgathering Amedical team wassent to centreinconnection with the theyhad already receiveda clapping and notletting them atMarkazNizamuddin,whichbe- visit the Markaz gathering for NortheastDelhi riots in February, warning on the arrivalofthe stay on the ground. We had also 3‘Khalistani came aCovid hotspot, refers to a the firsttimeonMarch 25, when under the stringent Unlawful swarms from Rewari district. kept watertankersready but supporters’ similargatheringinMalaysiaand theyreportedthat no social dis- Activities (Prevention) Act. Laterintheday, asmallswarm theywerenot neededasthe acancelledevent in Indonesia, tancing wasfollowedand one Police claimthe accused, of locusts had entered South wind direction changedand the arrested wherecoronaviruscaseswere re- Bangladeshi national wasfound Tasleem Ahmad, aresident of Delhi’s Asola Bhatti Wildlife swarm fled,” the officialsaid. portedinMarch,beforethe out- having Covid symptoms. The South Delhi’s Sangam Vihar, SanctuaryareaandMehraulinear Therewerealsoreportsofthe NewDelhi: The Special break in the nationalcapital. "It is next daythe DelhiPolice in- wascloselyassociated withac- the Haryana border.Delhi swarm being spotted in areas of Cellofthe DelhiPolice needlessto pointoutthatsomeof spected the premises and got a tivistGulfisha, who wasearlier DevelopmentMinisterGopal Rai south Delhi, including has arrested three men, theseforeignershave actedascar- listof526 foreign nationals and arrested on the same chargesof said the stateforestdepartment Chattarpur and Mehrauli. Sam who theyclaimare riersof thehighlyinfectiouscoro- 1,183Indians, it states. criminalconspiracy. wasasked to sound dhols,drums Dalrymple,onwhose residence “hardcoresupporters of navirusandhadthusbroughtover Policesaid the foreigners took partinthe Nizamuddin On March 28, SHOofHazrat “He wasfirstarrestedby andDJ musicandspray chemicals aswarm descendedin Mehrauli, the Khalistanmove- theinfectionfromtheirrespective gathering afterthe Covid outbreak in their countries . Archive Nizamuddin police station gave Jafrabad police station in the to control the swarm. said: “It wasall verysurreal. Huge ment” and were “plan- countries to India,” the awritten complaint to DCP lastweekofApril and came out South and southwestDelhi numbers of themswirledaround ning to executetarget chargesheetstates. Crime Branchregarding alleged on bail twoweeks ago. He was districtsare presentlykepton likewaves in the sky formaybe killings in various north According to thechargesheet, India and participated in the testedpositive forcoronavirus in violation by Maulana Saad and then summoned andsubse- high alertand thedistrictmag- half an hour.Then theysuddenly Indian states on the di- the Malaysia gathering, which gathering at Nizamuddin, acting Telangana. On the same date, the the Markaz management. quentlyarrestedbythe New istrates were asked to make vanished and movedon.” rection of PakistanISI- took place between February 27 as carriers of the virus. Delhi Police contacted Haji AdvocateMujeed Rehman, Delhi rangeofspecial cell,” an preparations. AfterleavingfromDelhi later sponsored Khalistani and March 1, ledto500 Covid The chargesheetalso records Yunus, aMarkaz official, to en- the lawyer forTabhligi Jamaat, officer said,adding thathewas Raiheld ameeting in the af- in the afternoon, the swarm leaders”. The accused cases in that country. Thegath- the subsequentresponse by the sure“Jamaatis do notexceed20”. however, said, "What good is an producedbeforeaDelhi court ternoon with the development headedinthe direction of have been identifiedas ering in Indonesia wascancelled administration. It is statedthat OnMarch 21,DelhiPolicecon- advisorybythe administration on Saturday andsent to 14-day secretary, divisional commis- Bulandshahr district in Uttar Mohinder PalSingh on March 18 amid concerns over the CDMO/Southeastdistrict, tacted Mufti Shahzad and asked at thattime, asking to ensure so- judicial custody. sioner,andthedirector of agricul- Pradesh whereitwas expected (29), aresident of Delhi, the Covid outbreak,whichhad who contacted theMarkaz au- him to send foreign nationals cialdistancing? Tablighi mem- Police believe he wasal- tureand horticultureinviewofa to settledownby8pm, said KL GurtejSingh (41), who killed25people and infected309 thorities forthe firsttimeon backtotheir respective countries bers were self-isolated in legedly partofaconspiracy to possible locustattackonDelhi. Gurjar,Deputy director of the hailsfromPunjab,and people in thecountryatthe time. March19, advised “social dis- and Indians from other statesto Nizamuddin.Authorities should rallyprotesters forthe sit-in “A big swarm wasslowly Centre’s LocustWarning Lovepreet(21), who is Police stated that foreigners tancing and to ensure home their hometowns. have shutdownairports, againstthe newcitizenship movingtowardsPalwal, Haryana, Organisation. “Wewill tryto from Haryana. ENS from Malaysia,Indonesiaand quarantine” afteranIndonesian On March 24,the lockdown screened passengersand under- lawunder Jafrabad Metrosta- but asmall group brokeoff and eliminateitthere and notitpro- other countries then came to man with atravelhistoryto Delhi hadcomeintoeffectandtheDelhi takencontact tracing.” tion. ENS enteredAsolaBhattiontheDelhi ceed,” he said.

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GANDHINAGAR,JUNE27 In aformalevent attendedby senior office bearers at BJP head- cance since this is the firstsuch The audit found that among guidinglight,govt WELCOMINGFIVEformer quarters in Kamlamof ABHISHEKANGAD inspection done by the Social the eligible 1,255 families, CongressMLAs,whoquittheparty Gandhinagar,Vaghani welcomed RANCHI,JUNE27 Audit Unit (SAU)onPDS --- FIRs whichhad pregnant/nursing before the recentlyconcluded former MLAs JV Kakadiya(Dhari) have been initiallyregistered women or children under 5 RajyaSabhaelectionsinGujaraton and Pradyumansinh Jadeja ■FORTY-EIGHTper cent people againstseveral PDS dealersaf- years, 1,086 were registered June 19,intothe saffron-fold on (Abdasa), both of whom had quit did notreceivefull twomonths' tercomplaintsofirregularities and the remaining 139families Saturday afternoon, president of Congress afterRajya Sabha elec- ration, as promisedbythe in grain distribution. were leftout. doesn’tdiscriminate the BharatiyaJanataParty (BJP) in tions were announcedinMarch. Jharkhand government during The report saidthatbesides “Out of 1086, only717 fam- Gujarat, Jitu Vaghani, said the Along with the duo, three other the lockdown period the Covid-19pandemic, ilies registeredwith Anganwadi Congress party whichsupported MLAs Brijesh Merja (Morbi), Jitu ■ Out of 1,255 families in- “hunger is amajor community receivednutritional food, while “The HolyBibletalksexten- the “tukde-tukdegang” wasitself Chaudhary(Kaprada) and spected,whichhad issue facedbymigrant workers 369 (34%) families did notre- EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE sively abouttogetherness. Now breaking intopieces in the state. AkshayPatel (Karjan) had quit pregnant/lactating women or and other vulnerable commu- ceive nutritious food…(and) NEWDELHI, is the time to joinranksand He said that during his tenure, Congress in the firstweekofJune. children belowfiveyears of age nities”. It reportedthat a“large maximum families belonged to THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, work together forthe advance- therehad been four suchdefec- These five exitssince March eligible forAnganwadi support, population of Jharkhand is af- Ramgarhwith 32.4%, 23.0% in JUNE27 ment of ournation. Think of this, tionsfromCongressto BJP, evenas notonlycostCongress aRajya only1,086 families receivedthe fected by poverty”. Jamtaraand 21.0% of Godda howcan our action contributeto twoofthe five MLAs whojoined Sabhaseat, but helpedBJP — benefits; and among them SAUstate coordinator families didn’t getnutritious URGINGEVERYONE in the coun- the development of the nation.” fumbledintheir speeches and whichdid nothavethe required morethan athird–34per cent GurjeetSingh said,“Though a food from Anganwadi centre,” trytojoin ranksfor the advance- Pointing out that “the peo- mixedup BJP with Congress. Four numbers of MLAs —towin a –did not receive nutritional large numberofeligible fami- the reportsaid. ment of the nation, Prime ple-driven fight” againstCovid of these MLAs had formerly been thirdseatinthe polls. support lies aregetting benefitsoffood Under the Mid-DayMeal MinisterNarendraModion has givengood resultssofar for ■ Outof1767familieseligible security schemes, the small scheme, the audit found 1,767 Saturdaysaid his government the country, Modi cautioned under Mid-MayMeal scheme, percentage notgetting it might families eligible —families has been “drivenbythe desire to people to notlet their guards around 20 percent didnot get be mostvulnerable.” whichhad children attending empower132 croreIndians”and down. He also laudedthe Mar the benefits. The reportsaid that “2062 government schools in class that the Constitution has been Prime MinisterModi during Thoma Churchfor itsrole in the These aresome of the find- beneficiaries thatreceivedtwo VIII or below--- and during “itsguiding light”. the virtual address freedom struggle and forits ings mentionedinareportpre- or moremonths' ration said lockdown theywereprovided Addressingthe 90th birth- contribution in the health and pared by Jharkhand’sSocial thatthe quantity wasgiven as with foodgrain at home. Out of daycelebrations of RevJoseph education sectors. “Wehaveto Audit Unit, under the Rural per provisions,whereas 1898 this, 353families —20per cent Mar ThomaMetropolitan in forevery Indian, he said. be even morecareful nowand DevelopmentDepartment, cre- people (48%) didn’t receive –did notreceiveany grain, the PathanamthittaofKerala via Listing the welfarepro- wearing masks, social distanc- ated to “promote transparency quantity as per provision…” audit reported. videoconference, the Prime grammes initiated by his gov- ing, avoiding crowdedplaces, and accountability in imple- The SAUreportedthat 91.9 per “Wefoundthat among 353 Ministersaid that his govern- ernment, the Prime Minister remains moreimportant now. mentation of the programs”. cent households in Jamatra, families, 27.3% families be- ment does notdiscriminatebe- said the Ayushman Bharat Covid-19isnot onlyaphysical The audit wasconducted in 73.4 per cent in Palamau, and longed to Godda and 14.9% between faith, gender,caste,creed scheme is the “largest health- sickness thatisathreattothe 23 districtsand 254 blocks of 65.2 per cent in Dumka “didn’t longed to Giridih that didn’t re- or language. carescheme in the world” livesofpeoplebut also takes the statebetween April 27 and receivesright quantity quoted ceive foodgrains under “Our governmenthas al- through whichmorethan a our attention to unhealthy May7,covering4,428 families fortwo months or more”. MDM…Out of 1414 families, ways been guidedbysensitiv- crorepeople have got “quality lifestyles. Aglobal pandemic forthree types of food safety Jharkhand had distributed 853families said that theyre- ity and along-term vision to treatment”. implies humanity as awhole schemes: Public Distribution double the specifiedrationin ceivedquantity based on makeIndia agrowth engine. The Prime Ministersaid the needs healing.” System (PDS), Integrated Child April—one month's wasad- Midday Meal plan, while 561 We have takendecisionsnot recently-introduced Pradhan The PM said historic reforms Development Services (ICDS) vance forMay —and an familiessaid thequantity of from comfortable offices in Mantri MatasyaSampada undertakeninthe space sector or Anganwadi centre, and the Antodaya AayYojna card- grains receivedwerenot as per Delhi but afterfeedbackfrom Yojana, withaninvestmentof will ensuregreater useofspace Mid-DayMeal plan(MDM). holder waseligible for70kg provisions,” the reportsaid. the people on the ground,” over Rs 20,000crore, is going to assets and activities. He said The reportwas submitted to rice. Under Priority Household It said thatthe districtsof Modi said. The call for transformthe fisheries sector, youngsters in Kerala and South the respective departmentson Card, eachperson eligible for5 Koderma (34.2%), Gumla AtmanirbharBharat(self-re- increase export earningsand India, who aretaking akeenin- Thursday. kg grains wastoget double the (29.8%) and Pakur(29.6%) had liantIndia) willensureeco- provide employmenttoover55 terest in scienceand technology, The audit assumes signifi- amount. the “highest suchshare”. nomic strength and prosperity lakhpeople. will gain from these reforms. NGOs –The Face of Humanity An initiative by * NGOs –The FaceofHumanity ADVERTORIAL Ensuring sustainable development in society

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New Delhi THESUNDAY EXPRESS,JUNE28,2020 8 GOVT &POLITICS Pawar on Ladakh: BJP, Congress Matter of national continue war of security, should not be politicised wordsonfunds received by RGF PRESSTRUSTOFINDIA SATARA(MAHA),JUNE27 EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE AMID Awar of wordsbetween NEWDELHI,JUNE27 the Congress and the BJP over the Sharad face-offwith China,NCP chief Pawar STEPPINGUPits attackonthe Sharad PawaronSaturdaysaid Congress, whichhas been hitting that matters of national security out at the government over the should notbepoliticisedand while youare patrolling,they LACstandoff,the BJP on Saturday addedthatone cannotforget maycome at anytime. We can- asked Congress president Sonia JP Nadda and Randeep Chinahadcapturedabout45,000 notimmediatelysay it is the fail- Gandhi nottohide behind Surjewala. File sq. kms of Indian landafter the ureofthe Defence Minister in “CoronaorthesituationinChina” 1962 war. Delhi,” Pawarsaid. “Patrolling to avoid answering answers on Pawar’s remarks came in re- wasonthere. Therewas ascuffle, Mediapersonsoutside Congress leaderAhmedPatel’s residence in New Delhi on Saturday. PTI funds receivedbyRajiv Gandhi MSMEs, hence PM Narendra sponse to aqueryabout whichmeans youwerealert. Foundation (RGF). Modi did notjoin it, but the Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s Had younot been,you would not BJP president JPNadda came Congress government waskeen charge that PrimeMinister even have realisedwhen the outwith more of “the deeds” of to join it. “What wasthe needto NarendraModi had surrendered they(Chinese) cameand went. the Congress during the UPA be part of RCEP?How did India's Indian territorytothe Chinese Hence, Idon't think it is right to EDquestionsPatelinSterling regime,andsaidthepartyleader- trade deficit withChina rise from aggression. makesuchanallegation at this ship had breachedpeople’strust. $1.1 billion to $36.2billion? Was Pawaralso said the Galwan juncture,” he added. He said: "I want to tell Soniaji not this notquid proquo?" he asked. Valley incident in Ladakh cannot On the allegation raisedby to trytoavoid theoriginal ques- Reacting to theallegations, immediatelybelabelledasafail- Gandhi,Pawar said onecannot Biotechmoneylaunderingcase tionsbecauseof Coronaorthesit- Congresscommunicationdepart- ureofthe Defence Minister, as forget thatChinacapturedaround uationinChina.TheArmyofIndia ment head Randeep Surjewala Indian soldiers were alertduring 45,000 sq km afterthe 1962 war. is abletoprotect the countryand said the “wild and insidious ha- patrolling.Speaking to reporters “That landisstill with China. I arebeing usedtodivertatten- “It is revealedduring investi- the webofmultiple shell compa- ourbordersandthecountryissafe tred of the BJP vis-à-visthe here, the former Union minister don't knowifthey(China) have DEEPTIMANTIWARY tion—atatimewhenChina has gationthattheloanfundswere di- nies,” the ED statement said. under the leadershipofPM Congress unfoldsevery dayinan said the episodeis“sensitive”. encroachedonsome area now NEWDELHI,JUNE27 takenour land;instead of getting verted fornon-mandated pur- In astatement later in the NarendraModi.” embarrassinganduglierfashion”. ItwasChinawhichplayedthe again.ButwhenImakeanallega- ourlandback,they aregoingafter poses, layeredand laundered evening,Patelsaid,“If youwereto The Congress hit back, saying “Noamounthasbeenreceived provocateurintheGalwanValley, tion, Ishould also see what had THE ENFORCEMENT Directorate Opposition leaders.” throughawebof multipledomes- do an analysis, youwill seeaclear Nadda has losthis “political bal- as donation from Mehul Choksi he said. happenedwhen Iwas there(in (ED)onSaturdayquestionedsen- According to sources, Patel ticaswellasoffshoreentities.The patternoverthe pastmanyyears. anceinhisflailingattemptsatdis- personallyashas been falselyal- Twenty Indian soldiers were power). If suchbig land wasen- iorCongress leader AhmedPatel wasquestionedabout his links mainpromoters have notonlysi- Everytime thereisRajya Sabha, tractionanddiversionfromtheis- leged.Nor hasany loan ever been killedinaviolent clashwith their croachedupon then, it cannotbe in connection with an alleged withtheSandesarasbasedonthe phonedoff loan funds to finance LokSabha,VidhanSabhaelection, suesofnational security and givenbyRGF to him. The records Chinese counterpartineastern ignored.Itisamatterofnational moneylaunderingcaseinvolving statement of awitness,Sunil theirNigerianoilbusinessbutalso or the government is facing acri- territorial integrity”. of RGFreflectreceiptofamodest Ladakh on the night of June 15. security and it should notbe the Sterling Biotech group of Yadav, an employeeofthe fortheir personalpurposes,”the sis,one or moreinvestigative Addressingapressconference, donation of Rs 10 lakh from “What happenedwas they politicisediswhat Ifeel,” he said. Gujarat. Sandesara Group. ED said in astatement lastyear, agenciesbecomeactive onthein- Nadda allegedthat former PM Naviraj EstatesPvt.Ltd.(intheyear (the Chinese troops) triedtoen- At thesame time, the NCP TheEDhadearliersummoned Lastyear,EDhad questioned when it attachedforeign assets structions of one individual. Manmohan Singh gave Rs 100 2013)ofwhichChoksiwas oneof croachonour road and were chief hitoutattheCentreoverthe Patel(70)for questioning,but he Patel’s son Faisal, and son-in-law worthoverRs10,000 crorebe- Unfortunately, thistimetheModi croretoRGF in the1991Union the Directors. The entireworld pushedphysically. It wasnot risingpricesoffuel, saying hehad cited the Covid-19guidelinesad- Irfan Siddiqui. While Faisal was longing to the company. government’sfailuretomanagea Budget andthat RGFaccounts knows the connectionofMehul somebody’s failure. If somebody neverseenthe ratesgoing up visingseniorcitizens to stay in- present at Patel’sresidenceon AccordingtoED, investiga- economic,healthandnationalse- were notallowedtogoforCAGau- Choksi to theModi government comes (within your territory) daily. doors. Saturday, itwasnot clearwhether tionshave revealedthatthegroup curitycrisis is so hugethat none dit, norisitunder RTI. Posing 10 andhis consequent escape after Sources said an ED team he wasalso questioned. wasengagedinround-trippingof of the agencies can helpspin the questionsforSonia,Naddaasked: duping banksofthousandsof reachedPatel’s residenceat11.40 In his statement to the ED, StandbyLetters of Credit (SBLCs) narrative. "I want to knowhow suchpre- croresof publicmoney,”hesaidin am on Saturday, andquestioned Yadavhas said he borethe “ex- fundsto thetuneof Rs4,500crore “Ratherthan fighting the cious land on whichJawahar astatement. Beijingwill have to him until evening. penses of Rs 10 lakh” foraparty by violating the RBI'sconditions. (coronavirus) pandemic and Bhawanisbuilt wasgiven to RGF “Will BJP,likeRajiv Gandhi TheVadodara-basedpharma- attendedby Faisal,“arranged”en- “ThesaidSBLCswere laterde- China, this government is more on perpetuallease." Foundation has done, ask ceutical firm is suspected to have tryatanightclubforhim,andde- volvedonthe guarantor banks, keento fighttheOpposition....We He allegedthat NGOs and Vivekananda Foundationand pay heavy price for defraudedbanksofmorethanRs livered“Rs 5lakh” to hisdriverin causing wrongful loss to these have nothing to hide, nor arewe companies that have “deep com- India Foundation to makepublic 14,000crore.Itspromoters—Nitin Khan Market, Delhi,onthe inpublic sectorbanksand to the afraid to criticiseand expose the mercial interests”had donated the listofits donors (including Sandesara,ChetanSandesara and structions of ChetanSandesara. public at large.Their strategy in- government’sfailures and their moneyanditis“ashameandsac- foreign individuals), companies, aggressive military Deepti Sandesara—arecurrently The ED probeisbasedonan cludedincorporationofmultiple pastcorruption.” rificingthenationalintereststo ac- entities,organisationsincluding inAlbania,wheretheyhavetaken FIR registeredbyCBI against shell companies, conductingcir- Reactingto thedevelopments, ceptmoneyfromforeignpowers”. those ofChinese origin, if any?” citizenship.TheIndianauthorities Sterling Biotech Ltd in October culartransactionsto artificially in- Congress leader KapilSibalsaid, NaddasaidRGF“notonlytook Surejwala asked.“Will the BJP behaviour:experts aretrying to getthem extradited. 2017.The CBI had allegedthat the flateturnoverofflagship compa- “If youreallywanted to investi- the moneyand therewerescams declarethe name of donors from Afterthe questioning, which groupwillfullydefaultedonloans nies, claiming higher gate,why don't youinvestigate but alsogavedodgy donations”. whom it hasreceived thousands lastedeight-and-a-half hours, of overRs5,000crorefromabank depreciations on non-existing thenamesinSaharadiary, Birladi- He said Congress, whichhad tar- of crores in donations through Galwan valleyonJune 15.China Pateltoldreporters, “Friends of consortium ledbyAndhra Bank, machinerytoavoid taxliabilities, ary...whydoesn'tCBIprobethem? getedBJP over the issue of Mehul electoral bonds? Will the BJP dis- PRESSTRUSTOFINDIA has lostits goodwill in India and Narender Modi and AmitShah anddivertedthe moneyfor per- artificial sharetrading with the Theseareallmotivatedissuesbe- Choksi, should answer why close the source of funding, NEWDELHI,JUNE27 elsewhere,” he added. came to my house. Ireplied to all sonalpurposes of the promoters. shell companies, layering and causetheywanttodivert atten- Choksi took moneyfromRGF. name of donors (including of Referring to brutal attackson questions that were asked.Ifeel Since then, the quantum of the launderingofproceeds of crime tion from the problem that the HesaidRCEPwasnot inthein- Chinese origin) for‘Overseas CHINAWILL have to paya“heavy IndiansoldiersintheGalwanval- sorry forthese officials that they scam has risen to Rs14,000crore. within India and abroad through countryisfacing.” terest of Indian farmers and Friends of BJP’ ?...” price” fordecades forresorting to ley, he said the action has rein- aggressive militarybehaviour to- forced the viewthat China's wardsIndiaineasternLadakhasit People'sLiberationArmyis“justa will isolatethe countryglobally, political” forcethatdoes notcon- Vijayvargiyatryingtoderail Chouhan J&K admin gives domicile certificates strategic affairs experts said on form to militarystandards. Saturday. Former Deputy Chief of Army govt, says seniorBJP leader in MP to West Pakistani refugees, others Theysaidtheeconomiccostof StaffLtGen SubrataSaha toosaid China's misadventureinthe last China is getting itself isolated by had come from areas of West hailing fromBihar,became the couple of months in eastern itsunacceptable militaryaggres- 30,000votesinthe2018 poll—into ARUNSHARMA Pakistanand settledinpartsof firstcivil servant from outside Ladakhand South China will be sion and the country will have to MILINDGHATWAI the party fold. JAMMU,JUNE27 Jammu afterthe 1947 partition. Union Territorytoget the status “massive”asithas “exposed” payaheavy diplomatic and eco- BHOPAL,JUNE27 Vijayvargiyacouldnotbecon- The members of Balmiki com- of domicileofJammu and Beijing’s “real face” when the nomic priceforit.“Chinaisisolat- tacteddespiterepeatedattempts. THE JAMMUand Kashmir ad- munity,meanwhile, were in- Kashmir. worldisfightingthe coronavirus ingitself by itsaggressive conduct SENIORBJPleaderBhanwarSingh Kailash Shekhawatsaid Vijayvargiya ministration on Saturdayis- vited to the statefromPunjab in As per the newrules, people pandemic. The expertsalsore- bothmilitarilyanddiplomatically. ShekhawatonSaturdayblamed Vijayvargiya wasin-charge of 35 seatsin2018 sueddomicilecertificates to 1957 to work as cleaning staff. residing in the UnionTerritory ferred to China's tariff warwith So therewill be aprice forit. It is partygeneral secretaryKailash and ensured theparty got lesser morethan 50 West Pakistani Theywerepromised rehabilita- for15years, or those who have the US, growing bickering with putting itself intoacorner,”he Vijayvargiyafor theBJP govern- seatstounseatChouhan,whohad refugees as well as members of tion in Jammu and Kashmir in studiedinitfor sevenyears, or Australia on trade-relatedissues said. ment’sdefeatinthe2018 Madhya regionwhocutintoofficialcandi- occupiedthe CM’s chair formore the Balmiki andGorkha com- relaxation of rules concerning appeared in the Class 10 or 12 ex- and the fast-deteriorating situa- Lt Gen Saha said therewill a Pradeshelectionsandallegedthat dates’ votes whichwas the main than13 successive years.Accusing munities who have long been permanent residents. amination from an educational tion in HongKong. significant economic price that he wasagain trying to derail the reasonfor the party’sdefeat in Vijayvargiyaofmaking money livinginthe region but were Until August2019, whenthe institution in the region, as well “China has made ahugemis- Chinawillhavetopay forits“mis- three-month-old Shivraj Singh 2018.Vijayvargia fundedthe through corruptdeeds, noteligible forfull citizenship CentrescrappedArticle 370, as their children, areeligible for take by resorting to aggressive adventure”. Chouhan government. rebels. He is over-ambitiousand Shekhawatalleged that he rightsunder the erstwhile thesecommunities were part of domicile. militarybehaviour in eastern The Indian and Chinese The BJP had secured109 seats wantstobecomethechief minis- stashedmoneyinthe party’s hel- state's laws. electoral rolls of parliamentary Also eligible arechildren of Ladakh.Bytriggeringthestandoff armiesare lockedinabitterstand- whiletheCongresswon114 seats ter,”Shekhawattold TheIndian icopters and fundedrebels. The certificatesweredistrib- elections, but theywerenot al- officials of the Central govern- when the worldisfighting the offinmultiplelocationsineastern in the lastAssemblyelections. Express. He said he had brought The veteranspoketostate uted by Jammu Divisional lowedtovote. ment, all Indiaservices, banks coronaviruspandemic,Chinahas Ladakh forthe lastsix weeks, and Shekhawat, the former chairman Vijayvargiyaintopolitics but the party presidentVDSharma to air Commissioner SanjeevVerma at Now, in the wake of new and PSUs, statutorybodies and exposeditself globally,”former thetensionescalatedmanifoldaf- of the Madhya PradeshState latter pushed him out. his grievance and complained aspecial campinJammu. The rules notifiedlastmonth, they Central universities, who have DeputyChief of ArmyStaff LtGen ter20Indian soldierswerekilled Cooperative Bank, had lost from The trigger forthe former that he wasmaking another at- beneficiaries hailedfromdiffer- have been givenfull citizenship served in Jammu and Kashmir GurmitSingh said. inaviolentclashinGalwanvalley Badnawar seat in Dhardistrict MLA’soutburstwasthereentryof tempttodestabilise the Shivraj ent areas of Jammu district, in- rights. for10years. “The costfor China will be onJune15.Followingtheclashes, whichisamongthe 24 con- Rajesh Agarwal—who wassus- Singh Chouhan government. He cluding RSPura, Bishnah, Bahu Saturday's distribution of Both theNationalConference huge. It will be heavy.Itwillkeep the Armyhas sent thousands of stituencieswherebypollsaredue. pendedbythe BJP afterhestood said if action is nottaken against and Jammu South, an official domicilecertificates comes and the Peoples Democratic payingthecostforseveraldecades additionaltroopsto forwardloca- “He had propped up 10 to 12 asanIndependentcandidatefrom Vijayvargiya, he will approach statement heresaid. three days afterNaveenKumar Partyhavereiterated their oppo- forkillingIndian soldiersin tionsalong the LAC. rebel(BJP) candidates in Malwa Badnawarand got morethan party president JPNadda. The families of the refugees Choudhary, asenior IAS officer sition to the newrules. As Nagaland Governor takes charge of law &order, Yashwant to launchoutfit to contest Bihar elections those familiar with state say it was ‘bound to happen’ Alliance in Bihar,whichincludes PRESSTRUSTOFINDIA the RJD and the Congress. PATNA,JUNE27 “Wewill welcome everyone would exercise his poweras including one with afamilyclose viewing of the Annual who comes and joins us,” he said. LIZMATHEW Governor,providedunder to asenior politician at the na- Performance Appraisal Reports FORMERBJP leader Yashwant “So faras(Bihar assembly) elec- NEWDELHI,JUNE27 Article 371(A) of the tional level, who had to face the of officers involved in the law SinhaonSaturdayannouncedhis tionsareconcernedmy partywill Constitution, since the govern- gangs while theywereonvisit to and order process. return to partypolitics by vowing contestit. It’snot that Ihaveany WHILE NAGALAND GovernorR ment has failedmiserablyina the state. Clause 1b in Article 371(A), to launchanoutfit to contestthe kindof reservationsoncontesting NRavi's letter to ChiefMinister sensitive border-state, sources In his letter,Raviwrote:“...I whichdeals with special powers Biharassemblypolls,duelaterthis elections. We (the proposedal- Neiphiu Rio, in whichheex- said. cannolonger abstain from my giventoNagaland, provides im- year. liance) will fight the polls withall pressedhis concern over the de- With the letter,the Governor Constitutional obligations for mense powers to the Governor. Sinha’sannouncement,made our strength in order to createa teriorating lawand order situa- has takenfull charge of the im- lawand order in the stateunder It says:“The Governor of at ameeting of his outfit, Rashtra better Bihar,”Sinhasaid. tion in thestate,has surprised portant lawand order decisions, Article 371A(1) (b) of the Nagalandshall have specialre- Manch, came as asurprise—he Quizzedabout the parties in- many, officials familiar withthe including transfer and posting of Constitution of India. Ihereby sponsibility with respect to law had taken sanyas (retirement) terested in the proposedalliance matters saiditwas “bound to officials. GovernorRNRaviand Chief MinisterNeiphiu Rio. File propose thathereafterimpor- and order...for so long as in his from partypolitics and said he by him,Sinhasaiditwouldbepre- happen, givendevelopmentsin According to an official, tant lawand order decisions like opinion internal disturbances would work towards“saving maturetodivulgeitbut many the state”. Governors had usedpowersun- transfer and posting of official occurring in Naga Hills- democracy” in the country. He leaders from Biharwereintouch Ravi, in his June 16 letter,had der the Article until 2013,but torfor theCentretofinalise the Therehavebeen serious con- entrustedwithmaintenance of Tuensang Area immediatelybe- had quit the BJP twoyearsago. with himoverit. givenhis detailedassessment of when Ashwani Kumar took over Naga accordwiththe National cerns overlaw and order situa- lawand order responsibilities of fore the formation of that State Sinha, who held the finance About the name of his party, the lawand order situation in the (in March 2013), he did notin- SocialistCouncilofNagaland tion in the state forthe Union and above thedistrict levelwill continue therein or in anypart and externalaffairs portfoliosin Sinha said he will announce it as statetoRio's Nationalist terferemuchintothe adminis- (NSCN) to end the insurgency in government too, it is learnt. be afterthe approval of the thereof...” In discharge of his the Atal Bihari Vajpayeegovern- soon as it is decided. The veteran Democratic ProgressiveParty trative affairs. the state. Officials pointed outthatthere Governor.” functions,itstates, “the ment and has been severelycriti- political leader repliedcurtly (NDPP)-ledcoalition govern- “But Governor Ravi has been Article166Clause 3also gives have been anumber of incidents He also proposedperiodical Governor shall, afterconsulting cal of the NarendraModi dispen- whenaskedby reporterswhether ment. The BJP is akey allyinthe hands-on with the state's af- powers to theGovernor to allo- of extortion by organisedarmed reviewoflaw and order situation the Council of Ministers, exercise sation’s policies and styleof he himselfwouldcontest theas- government. fairs,” the official said. catebusiness of government gangs –asmentionedbyRaviin in the stateand issue required his individual judgmentastothe functioning,leftthe door opento semblypolls. “I will cross that Ravi'sletterstatedthat he Ravi has been the interlocu- among the ministers. his letter –inthe lastone year, lawful directions, as well as re- action to be taken”. poll tie-up with the Grand bridgewhen Icome to it.”

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THESUNDAY EXPRESS,JUNE28,2020 10 THE OUTBREAK Low-cost steroid Delayintestingsurge,data‘managing’andhigh now part of govt’s treatment protocol populationledtoChennai,TNspike:experts Health Ministryand the portedtothe stateHealth sons. If youlook at figures from arm of the trial on June 16,India ARUNJANARDHANAN Municipal Administration Department since lateApril. ApriltoMay and June, youcan KAUNAINSHERIFFM had already allowedthe use of CHENNAI,JUNE27 Ministry(whichcontrols And, likeinmanyother seeCovid cases have gone up NEWDELHI,JUNE27 Methylprednisolone, as corticos- Chennai city corporation) —we states, acomplexbureaucratic and the increase in deaths were teroid therapyinmoderateand AS THE number of Covid-19 delayed; waited until thesecond system compoundedmatters. proportionatetocases. THE CENTRE Saturdayissuedre- severe cases. deaths in TamilNadu jumped week of June to increase the test- According to aseniorICMR Compared to other cities with a visedclinical management pro- In the management of severe from 160onMay 30 to 1,025 as ing rate,” this officer said. scientistwho hasseen the fight- hugepopulation and cases, our tocols fortreatment of Covid-19 cases,therevisedguidelinesstate: on June 27,and thefigureofcon- While 2,526 cases and 28 backinChennai, Mumbai, death rate is still notalarming— patients, includingthe low-cost “Forpatientswithprogressivede- firmedcases from 21,184onMay deaths as on May1went up to Ahmedabad and Delhi,there at 1.2now,” he said. anti-inflammatorydrug teriorationofoxygenationindica- 30 to 78,335,senior bureaucrats 13,191 cases and 87 deaths by were twocommon challenges DrPrabhdeepKaur, deputydi- Dexamethasone as an alterna- tors, rapid worsening on imaging working on containing the pan- May30, dailytesting sawonlya everywhere: “A hugepopulation rector of ICMR-NationalInstitute tive to another steroid, and excessive activation of the demic and scientists anddoctors minimal increase:from9,615 living in slums, and lackofad- of Epidemiology, Chennai,saidthe Methylprednisolone, formoder- body’s inflammatoryresponse, monitoring the pattern of out- samples tested eachday on May ministrative control of the state biggestlessonhereisthe neces- atetoseverecases. glucocorticoids can be usedfor a break saythe statedid afew 1to12,000 by month-end.It Health Departmentsonthe city sityforgoodpublichealthsystems The move by the Union shortperiodof time(3to5days).” things wrong at acrucial stage, took another 10 days forthe daily healthdepartment, which in cities. “However, Ibelieve MinistryofHealth and Family The guidelines addanoteof whichled to thepresent crisis. testing to touchtotouch 17,000. comes underthese municipal Chennai should notface asitua- Welfarecomes afterOxfordre- caution: “A largerdose of gluco- Many of theseexpertsalso Therehas since been asteady in- corporations.” tionwhereourhealthsystemsare searchers leading the RECOVERY corticoid will delaythe removal said that the current situation is crease in testing —33,000 sam- The civic body’s health de- getting overwhelmedbycases, clinical trials in the United of coronavirus due to immuno- unlikelytooverwhelm the ples, forinstance, were tested on partment is detached from state likeelsewhere,”shesaid.“Theon- Kingdomhad announcedthat suppressive effects.” state’s health system in coming June 20. health system in all these cities, going strategy of aggressive test- Dexamethasone reduceddeath In the Oxford weeksifthe ongoing effortsto When the statefinallyde- including Chennai, whichplayed inginChennaiandotherhotspots by up to one-thirdinhospi- Dexamethasone trial,2,104 pa- contain the outbreak in Chennai cidedtoincrease testing, there abig role in delaying the in- shouldbegiving results in two talisedCovid-19patientswho tientswereadministered the —with an intenselockdown — wasanexpected increase in the Chennai city corporation arranged auto-rickshawservices creasedtesting strategy in weeks.” develop acuterespiratorycom- drug for10days, andthe re- succeed. number of cases as well, but the to take symptomatic people from crowdedneighbourhoods Chennai, the ICMR scientistsaid. Dr Jayaprakash Muliyil,for- plications. searchers said theysaw fatalities Chennai has 68 per cent of question washow did the death to nearbymedical camps and testinglabs during the intense StateHealth SecretaryJ mer principal of Christian Both Dexamethasone and fall by one-third in ventilatedpa- the state’s total case load. figurealso rise: from 160Covid lockdown. Express Radhakrishnan said the rise in Medical College, Vellore, said Methylprednisoneare corticos- tientsand by one-fifth in pa- Asenior bureaucrat monitor- deaths as on May30, to 326on deaths wasproportionateto cities with large population and teroids, whichcloselymimic cor- tientsonoxygen. ingthe situation said the state June 10,and 704onJune 20. confirmedcases. “Everypatient ahigh number of slums are tisol, ahormone naturallypro- “Basedonthese results, 1 would have been in abetterpo- Multiple sources in the Public forthe steady increase in death attachedtothe Health who comes to hospital is getting bound to witness the outbreak. ducedinhumans by adrenal (one) death would be prevented sition had it escalated testing in Health Departmentsaid data count afterJune 10 wasdue to a Department said. tested now; severaldeaths, in- “The question is whether youare glands. Dexamethasone is com- by treatment of around 8venti- May, especiallyinChennai. “For wasbeing “managed”—or “reconciliation process,” in This wasfollowing acontro- cluding that of cancer patients capable of handling cases with monlyusedfor treatment of lated patients,oraround 25 pa- acombination of reasons —po- fudged —since the beginning, as whichthe stateauthorities versy that nearly200 deaths re- and other critical illnesses, get enough doctors and hospital rheumatological inflammatory tientsrequiring oxygen alone,” litical, wrong calculations, and it was“amatterofpride forthe startedadding “missingdeaths” portedtoChennai corporation’s addedintothe Covid countirre- bedsand other healthinfrastruc- conditions:inflammationofmus- the university said. lackofcoordination between the political leadership”. The reason to dailybulletins, asenior doctor health department were notre- spective of complexmedicalrea- ture,” he said. cles, inflammationofblood ves- However, thestudy hadfound sels, chronic arthritis, and lupus. no evidence of benefit forpatients Even before Oxford who did notrequireoxygen. The University had announcedthe trialdid notstudy patients out- Cases rise in Surat, resultsofthe Dexamethasone side hospital settings either. 11 Army jawans test positive in Gujarat In homeisolation ices and Dhanvanti raths have EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE been put intoaction.” AHMEDABAD,SURAT,JUNE27 Surat municipal commis- Shankersinh sioner BNPani said, “Weare car- GUJARATONSaturdayreported rying out meetings with the dia- itshighestsingle-dayspikeof mond industry to ensurethat Vaghela 621new Covid-19 cases,taking theyfollow theCovid-19guide- Twitter the overall count to 30,820. linesofsocial distancing, masks tests positive Dr Harsh Vardhan with otherUnionministers at the meeting While Surat brokeits daily and sanitisers. Theyshould also recordonSaturday, adding 174 sharecorrect information with Ahmedabad: Former Gujarat fresh cases, Ahmedabad’s daily the surveillanceteam. Thereare Chief MinisterShankersinh count continuedtodropasitre- 1,600small, medium and big di- Vaghela on Saturdaytestedpos- ported197 cases. amond factories in Katargam itivefor Covid-19and is inhome 8states contributing The majority of Surat’s cases area whichare operational and isolation, his IT and media in- arefromthe diamondhub of we have setupteamswho will charge Parthesh Patelsaid. Katargam, whichaccountsfor visit the diamond factories to “He had fever forthe last 85.5 pc cases, 87 pc morethan 25 per cent of the checkiftheyare following rules.” three days and so he got tested. city’s totalcaseload. Surat Municipal Corporation His reports todaycame outpos- Besides, 11 Armyjawans, who (SMC)has shut down three large itiveand he has been isolated at deaths, GoM told had recentlyreturnedafterleave, diamondunitswheremultiple his home in Gandhinagar,” said reportedpositive in theBhujcan- cases were reported, and micro Patel. OPEN-AIR CLASS tonment of the border district of containedseveral others, so far. Vaghela (79) will seek med- hotspots;leveragingdigital tools Kutch. It is the thirdmajor inci- Surat Deputy Health ical advice on Sundaymorning EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE suchasAarogya Setu; ensuring With manystudentsfacing difficulties due to the lockdown and poor internet,Muneer dentofdefence personnel testing CommissionerDrAshish Naik before deciding to shifttoahos- NEWDELHI,JUNE27 seamless patient admission Alam,ateacher,has startedgivingmaths tuitions forClass 11 and Class 12 in an openground positive in thestate. said, “Wewereexpecting sucha pital. “He has been visiting vari- processes;fatalitymitigation by in Eidgah area of DowntownSrinagar. Shuaib Masoodi Explaining the surge in cases surge in the number of cases... ous hospitals and Covid carecen- THE HIGH-LEVEL Group of effective clinicalmanagement; in Surat, NewCivil Hospital med- Earlier we sawarise in number tres to meetpatientsfor the last Ministers (GoM) on Saturday focus on infrastructurepre- ical superintendent Dr Preeti of cases in the walledcity area severaldays,” Patelsaid. held itsseventeenth meetingon paredness(criticalcarebeds, Kapadiyasaid, “Cases arerising and Rander,but nowthe cases Vaghela had recentlyquit the the current status of Covid-19 oxygen,ventilators andlogistics). becauseofcommunitytrans- arereducing there. Now, NCPand launchedthe ‘Praja cases in the country. It washigh- “The GoM wasalsoinformed Rlys collects data on Shramik mission. It will continue forafew Katargamand Limbayatzones Shakti Morcho’ to fight the BJP. lighted that eightstates— that,asondate, 15 central teams moredays and forthat104serv- arebadlyaffected.” ENS Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, consisting of public health ex- Telangana, Gujarat, Uttar perts/epidemiologists/clinicians deaths, final toll may cross 100 Pradesh, AndhraPradeshand and asenior Joint Secretary-level West Bengal —contribute85.5 have been deployed to provide Covid testing capacity to be per cent of the active caseload technical support to thestates. With the Monsoon Session of tigations... All the states have not and 87 percent of the total Another central team is cur- AVISHEKGDASTIDAR Parliament approaching, the shared theinformation yet," deathsinIndia. rentlyvisiting Gujarat, NEWDELHI,JUNE27 process of the Centregetting the Railway BoardChairman VK 20,000 by June-end: Punjab CM The meeting waschairedby Maharashtra andTelangana to data from states might getexpe- YadavsaidonFriday. Regarding Union MinisterofHealth and strengthen ongoing effortsfor THE NUMBER of migrantswho dited, sourcesinDelhi said, indi- compensation, Yadavpointed to to Delhi, had to be addressed, FamilyWelfareDrHarsh management of Covid-19,” the have diedtaking Shramik cating thatdeaths on Railways procedures underthe Railway EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE Lockdown and said that four moretesting Vardhan and includedUnion government said. Specials since May1islikelyto premises would be counted. Claims Tribunal on a"case-to- CHANDIGARH,JUNE27 decision to labs had already been approved ForeignMinisterDrS During the meeting, Dr cross the 100-mark, according to “Shramik Specials arestill oper- case" basis. dependon by his Cabinet, whichwill help Jaishankar, UnionMinister of Balram Bhargava,DG(ICMR), sources in states. ational so the process is notcom- Aformer chairman of the PUNJAB CHIEF Minister situation: scale up testing two-fold over CivilAviation HardeepSPuri gave adetailedpresentation on While the Railway Ministry plete yet,”said asource. Tribunal has told Railways that Amarinder Singh on Saturday Amarinder the next fewdays. and MinisterofState,Health the testing strategy of ICMR. “He is in the process of collecting the An interim listhad pegged compensation can be givenun- said adecision on lockdown in Singh With the coronavirus cases and FamilyWelfareAshwini explainedthe serologicalsurvey final datafromall states as the the number of deaths at 80 a derthe "eggshell theory" in law, the statewill depend on the sit- spreading across the country, the Kumar Choubey.Members as well as the increasingcapacity latter had conducted thepost- month ago—with alot of data basedonwhichthe RCThas uation but he wasprepared to CM said the norm of wearing were briefed aboutrecovery forenhancedper daytesting mortems,sourcesinBihar and missing —and the Railway awardedcompensation in the take whatever steps neededto Amarinder saidthe statecould masksinpublic, besides others and mortality rates, doubling through various tests,” the gov- Uttar Pradesh, whichreceived Ministryhad tried to distance it- pasttothe kinofapassenger controlthe spread of Covid. notaffordtobelax in anyway. safetynorms,had to be strictly rate,ramped-uptesting and ernment said. the maximum numberofthese self from thelistcontaining data who diedonatrain. “It is in your hands,” he told On itspart, the stategovernment adhered to.Heappealedtothe strengthenedhealthcareinfra- In adetailedpresentation by trains, indicated to TheIndian on deathsfromMay 9toMay 27. The listincludes cases such aLudhiana resident duringthe wasincreasing testing,hesaid, peopleofPunjab nottoviolate structureinvariousstates. KShivaji, chairman of the Express that the figureisalittle Facing criticism on socialme- as abody found in atoiletinan #AskCaptain Facebook Live ses- adding, in response to aquestion safetyprotocols. The GoM wasinformedthat EmpoweredGroup-10, the GoM over 100sofar with manystates dia over the casualties, Railways emptytrain, afour-year-old boy sion afteraquestion that Health from aHoshiarpur resident, that “If we areable to control the the keyfocus areas arestrict con- wasbriefedthatthestipulatedre- yettocomplete datacollection. had attributed manyofthe who diedonaplatform in Bihar, MinisterBalbir Singh Sidhu was testing in Punjab would go up to pandemic then therewouldbe tainment measures and surveil- dressal time on Covid-19public Railways hasofficiallysaid deaths to pre-existing health passengers “notfeeling well” indicatingimposition of lock- 20,000 aday by the end of this no needfor lockdown but if it lance; utilising full testing capac- grievances wasbroughtdown that it is still collecting the data conditions. through the journey, andthose down in the state. month. goes out of control then we have ity;focus on monitoring of from the usual 60 days fornormal and the exercise is notcomplete "This is astate subject. States with cancer,heartproblem, Noting with concern that ex- The Punjab CM agreedwith no choice... Iwill notlet my co-morbid and elderly popula- public grievances to three days to as states areyet to send therewill sharethe information after paralysis, etc. Afew deaths were perts had projected Punjab’s the questionerthatthe lower Punjabis and my children con- tion; predicting emerging prioritise their quickdisposal. quired data. theyhavecompleted the inves- also attributed to Covid-19. peak to be still some time away, testing in Punjab, as compared tract COVID,” he said. Closure of two key labs leads to backlog in test resultsinKarnataka

cases being reported. sion wasannouncedbystate Institute, whichispart of the “Two major labs have been private sector. EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE SinceJune1,therehavebeen Home MinisterBasavaraj ICMR’s Virus Research and closedbecause their staffgot in- The lasttimealarge number BENGALURU,JUNE27 2,183cases and 84 deaths in Bommai. Diagnostic Laboratorynetwork, fected.Around 2,000 to 2,500 of samples piledupinthe state Bengaluru, compared to 358 It wasalso decidedtohavea and alaboratoryatthe National samples usedtobetestedbe- forCovid-19was at end of May THE CLOSURE of twokey gov- cases and 10 deaths from March centralisedbed allocation sys- InstituteofMental Health and tweenBMCRI and Nimhans... when the ICMR-NIV,BMCRI and ernment testing labs forCovid- 8toMay 31.AsofSaturday, the temtospeed up hospitalisation Neuro-Sciences in Bengaluru to- From tomorrow, theyshould be Nimhans labs went offline to re- 19 in Bengaluru foraweek,after city has 1,913official active cases. of Covid-19patients. gether handledabout 2,000 backonlinefor carrying out calibratemachines. personnel at both labs tested Yediyurappa told the officials to samples eachday.Theywere tests,” said Dr CNManjunath, Abacklog of cases built up in positive forthe virus, hasre- Sundaylockdown publishdetails of nodal officers shut foraweek on Monday. the statenodal officer fortesting. districtsbordering Maharashtra sulted in aconsiderable backlog The sharp spikeincases re- working forCovid Management. Despitethe overall testing The BMCRI, Nimhans and suchasKalaburagi, Vijayapura of samples waiting to be tested sulted in ChiefMinisterBS Crucially, the number of sam- numbers being in the range ICMR-NIVlabs have handledthe and Bidar as alarge number of in the lastfew days,evenascase Yediyurappa calling an emer- ples awaiting testing in Bengaluru 14,733 RT-PCR testsonFriday bulk of Covid-19testing in returnees from Maharashtra countshit anew high in gency meeting on Saturday hit 11,640 on Friday—alarge and14,078 testsonThursday, Karnatakawitheachtesting1,000 were tested. Karnataka on Saturday. evening in whichadecision was backlog giventhat pendency the number of samples pending samples eachday —moreatthe Some of the north Karnataka Arecord 918Covid-19cases takentoimposeacompletelock- rarely crossedthe 4,000-mark rose sharplyfrom3,038 to 7,469 peak of testing four weeksago. districtsalso send samples to were reportedinKarnataka — down in Bengaluru on Sundays when all labs were functional. on Thursdayand 11,640 on Thereare 76 labs in Bengaluru due to testing capac- nowthe highestinasingle day from July5,and to impose acur- Alaboratoryatthe Bangalore Police conduct aroutemarch in Bengaluru. PTI Friday, according to government Karnataka, including 44 in the ities being limited in some of the —and Bengaluru alone saw596 fewfrom8pm to 5am. The deci- Medical Collegeand Research data. government sector and 32 in the districts.

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TRADER, SON ‘TORTURED’ IN POLICE CUSTODY INFORMATION SOUGHT, SECRECY PROMISED TNdeaths:Familysaysmagistratesaw In afirst, Chhattisgarh thetwofromfloorabove,clearedremand police make publiclist

waving his hand at the police- theywereinjured and bleeding, doneafullexamination, checked ARUNJANARDHANAN Thoothukudi SP Arun men. An officer with Jeyarajand if police had informedtheir rel- forinjuriesorany health issues. of most-wanted Maoists CHENNAI,JUNE27 Balagopalan said the Bennixshouted out, ‘Kovilpatti, ativesbeforethe remand, and if “Onlyafter an examination can remand’. And the magistrate theyhad alawyer. These ele- adoctor decide if medical inter- THE FAMILYmembers of the fa- ongoing judicial probe clearedit.” mentaryconstitutionalrights vention is needed. Adoctorcan GARGIVERMA ther and son who diedofalleged will be looking intoall The twowerethen takento should have been ensured by the even admit the person con- RAIPUR,JUNE27 tortureinpolice custody,at aspectsofthe case the Kovilpatti Sub-Jail. magistrate,” Chandru said. cernedifrequired and aremand Sathankulam near Thoothukudi Asked aboutthe waythe re- The familymembers have hearing can be held at the hos- IN Afirstsince Chhattisgarhwas in Tamil Nadu, have accusedthe mand hearing wasallegedly alsoquestionedthe role of the pital,”the doctorsaid, adding carved outasaseparatestate in judicial magistrateofsending conducted, Thoothukudi SP government hospitalwhere that the medical reporthas to be 2000,the statepolice have re- them in remand without due tioning out of his residence cur- Arun Balagopalan said the ongo- Jeyarajand Bennix were taken made available to thefamily. leasedinpublic domainaposter process. rently, around 11.45am. ing judicialprobe willbelooking formedical examination before Jeyaraj’s relativessay they with names and imagesof34 MagistratePSaravanansent According to Joseph, they were intoall aspects of the case. being producedbeforethe mag- nevergot one. senior "mostwanted"Maoist PJeyaraj (62) and JBennix (32) visiblyinjured,with bloodseep- Former Madras High Court istrate. “A doctor who came to Asenior police officer,who is leaders and cadres operating in intopolice custody on July20. ing through their clothes. judgeKChandrusaid if true, it examine them did notdoso awareofthe preliminaryprobe the state, and announcedre- Twodays later, theyweredead. “The twoweremadetostand wasaclearcase of judicial mis- properly,with policemen sur- anddid notwant to be quoted, wardsfor informationleadingto SJoseph, who is marriedto rightatthe entrance of thecom- conduct and violation of the rounding the twoatall times,” earlier told TheIndianExpress their arrest. Jeyaraj’s sisterJaya, says thetwo plex, near the gate,surrounded Supreme Courtguidelines on ar- said Joseph. that Jeyarajand Bennix were The listincludes two of them were present when by seven-eight policemen. They rest.“It is the duty of amagistrate Asenior government doctor kept at thehospitalfor about women. Jeyarajand Bennix were brought were nottaken inside. The mag- to examinethe accused. He in Chennai said the Sathankulam three hours to stabilisethem and While severalsuchlists have to the magistrate’s court, func- istrateappeared on the firstfloor, should have asked them why hospital doctor should have to reduce the bleeding. been prepared by policeinthe The posterhas names,pictures of 34 senior Maoist leaders past, this is the firsttime they have released the listalong with pictures, and rewards forinfor- ahand in morethan1,800 eventand forother formal pur- Assam: Two killed in floods, Assam gas leak and fire: mation on eachone,inpublic deathsinthe stateinthe past poses, Sujatha, the seniormost domain. twodecades.Wehavemade the rank-holder (among Maoists) Severe floods force OIL The poster, withslightly listpublic so thatpeople know in Chhattisgarhishandling the landslidewarning in Guwahati blurry and mostlyoutdatedim- howleaders from other states post.” ages, carries all known aliases of have only triedtobenefitoff the Sujatha is one of the two to pause blowout ops 34 senior Maoistleaders and tribals, and nothelp them.” womenwhose names areon ABHISHEKSAHA carries the message: “complete Sundarrajsaid, “If anyone the poster, with arewardofRs GUWAHATI,JUNE27 authorities had estimated that secrecy would be maintained has anyinformation, theycan 25 lakh forinformation leading TORAAGARWALA the well would becappedbyJuly forpeople coming forwardwith pass it on to us; theywillbere- to her arrest. FLOODS IN Assam killedtwo GUWAHATI,JUNE27 7. However, withweatherreports information.” warded,and we willmaintain According to Sundarraj, people on Saturdayand inun- indicating that rain will continue The postercarries pictures of complete confidentiality.” whilethe main Tactical Counter dated 21 districts, with large OIL INDIA Ltd (OIL) on Saturday forthe next fewdays,thisislook- nine Maoists with arewardofRs The Maoists arelearntto Offensive Campaign (TCOC) pe- partsofthe stateexperiencing temporarilycalled offits opera- ingunlikely,saidHazarika. 1crore eachfor information have metbetween June 18 and riod is almostover, security heavy rains and thousands tions to contain the fire and The OIL release stated the leading to their arrest,nine oth- 20 along the borders of Sukma personnel will continue to lodged in relief camps. blowout at the Baghjan 5well in Dangori river—from whichitis ers with Rs 40 lakh each, and 17 and Bijapur,one of thesecurity carry on theirexercises even The Brahmaputrariver and Upper Assam's Tinsukia district pumping water—is overflowing. operativeswith rewardofRs25 vacuums in the statewhere during monsoon. In March this manyofits tributaries were flow- aftertheareawasravagedby days “TheKill Pumpareaiscom- lakh each. forces aretrying to makein- year,right before the lockdown ing above the danger markat of heavyrainandfloods.“Working pletely flooded.OIL CMT Water Among others, it lists senior roads. "According to our infor- wasimposed, 17 security per- multiple pointsinthe state—in- condition at sitehas been consid- Pumpareaissubmergedwith CPI (Maoist) politburo members mation, the event washeldasa sonnel were killedbyMaoist cluding itslargest city,Guwahati. eredunsafeforthedayandallop- flood water” the release stated. Nambwala KeshavRao, alias commemorative meettopay operativesinanencounter in The Assam StateDisaster erations at sitehavebeen called As aresult, themain well op- Wasavraj,(64)and Mupalla tributes to their leader Sukma district. Management Authority said two At Chanaka village in Morigaon on Saturday. PTI off,” stated arelease from OIL. erations had to be halted but LakshmanRao, aliasRamanna Ramanna, who diedin Meanwhile, afterremaining were people killed in Goalpara The interruptioninopera- operations at OIL workshops or Gudsa Dada (72), along with December 2019.Between untoucheduntil lastmonth Left- district, takingthe toll in this tions will provetobeabig chal- continued. People's LiberationGuerrilla 3,000 and4,000 people at- WingExtremism-hitdistrictsin year’s floods to 16.Over4.6 lakh rains had caused land to gradu- rains persist. lengefor theenergy major,asit Currently, the threemain Army's'battalion' numberone tendedit, including (Maoist) Bastarregion have seen con- peopleinaround 1,300villages allyslide at the posterior of the Biswajit Pegu, Deputy has struggledtoplug the routesto thewellsite areinacces- leader Hidma, alias Madvi cadres and local villagers,” a firmedcases of coronavirus, were “affected”inAssam on complex. Aprivate clinicand hos- Commissioner,Kamrup (Metro), blowout, firstreportedexactlya sible. While the Doomdooma- Hidma. senior officer said. “As of now, with severalinfected CRPF per- Saturday. Around 19,500people pital, adjacent to awallofthe Raj said: “Due to incessant rainfallfor month ago. The well subse- Baghjan bridgecollapsedon According to BastarI-G P theyhavenot finalisedthe suc- sonnel returning to camps. were lodged in 98 relief camps. Bhawan, wasasked to vacateits thelastfew days in Guwahati city, quentlycaught fire on June 9, Thursday, thecondition of the Sundarraj, this is abroad listat cessor forRamanna.For the While district authorities On Saturday, landslides hit staffand patientsimmediately. several incidents of landslide have complicating matters further. bridgenearDaisajanTeaEstateon the divisional level, and more Guwahati city,its outcropping on The Kamrup (Metro)district occurredleading to loss of pre- “One daylossisahugeprob- Tiphuk-Kordaiguriroadisfast de- suchlists —atthe levels of dis- the northern bank of the administration, under which ciouslifeandproperty.Moreover, lemforusbecauseeveryday is ac- teriorating. On Saturday, the districtsand police stations —will Brahmaputra, and Haflong dis- Guwahati falls,has appealed to thereiseverypossibilityofoccur- countedfor,”saidOIL spokesper- trict administration announced be madepublic soon. trict. The landslide in the city oc- people residing in areas vulner- rence of more suchlandslideinci- son TridivHazarika, ““The debris thatthe part of the thirdroutevia “This is the listofmost- curred at the RajBhawan, the of- able to landslides to vacatetheir dentsinthe coming days consid- clearing around the well area—a PlasticParkroad has been closed wanted Maoists,with severalin- ficial residence of the Governor homes and shift to asafer loca- ering the incessant rainfall the crucial partofthe plugging oper- forallvehiculartrafficsinceitwas cidentsand crimestotheir of Assam. Officials said incessant tion till the heavy monsoon district.” ations —was slatedfortoday.”The inundated and under pressure. name,” he said. “Theyhavehad

2017 NAGAURVIOLENCE ODISHA COAL ANDPOWER LTD. (A GOVT.OFODISHA COMPANY) CBI files chargesheet Zone-A, Ground Floor,Fortune Towers, Chandrasekharpur Bhubaneswar –751023, Odisha Advertisement No: OCPL/HR/2020/01 Date: 28-06-2020 against Cong MLA, Odisha Coal and Power Limited (OCPL), aGovernment of Odisha company invites online applications from the eligible Indian Citizens KarniSena leaders for the following post. Sl. No. Name of the post Grade (Pay Scale) Total post 01 Manager (HR) E-4 (73,300-2,06,100) 01 president of the Shree Rashtriya EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE Rajput Karni Sena —arival fac- Total 01 JAIPUR,JUNE27 tion. APSingh is an advocate For detailed advertisement, pay scale, how to apply and other details, who has appeared as acounsel please visit our website www.ocpl.org.in. THE CBI has filedachargesheet forthe convictsofthe 2012 Delhi Opening of online submission of application: 10 AM of 1st July, 2020 against24people, including gangrape case. Last date for submission of online application: 5PMof21st July, 2020 leaders of various Rajput outfits Among those namedis Last date for receipt of hard copy of application: 5PMof28th July, 2020 and aCongress MLAfrom Congress MLARajendraSingh #Corrigendum, if any, will be published in OCPL website only. Rajasthan, in acase related to the Gudha —currentlyrepresenting Company Secretary 2017 violence and riots in Udaipurwati constituency in Odisha Coal and Power Limited, Bhubaneswar (Odisha). Tel: 0674-2300654/2300664 Sanvrad in Rajasthan’s Nagaur Jhunjhunu. He had switchedto district, in the aftermath of the Congress lastyear afterwinning death of gangsterAnandpal the 2018 Assemblyelections on Singh in apolice encounter. aBSP ticket. In astatement released by “CBI had registered the case CBI spokespersonRKGauron (of the violence)on 05.01.2018 on Saturday, theagency said it had arequestfromRajasthan filedthe chargesheetinthe Court Government &subsequent noti- of ACJM, CBI Cases, Jodhpur. fication issuedbyGovt. of India, Singh waskilledinapolice and takenoverthe investigation encounter in June 2017.The vio- of the FIR No.115/2017,earlier lence in Sanvrad —Singh's registeredatPolice Station, hometown —had takenplace Jaswantgarh,Nagaur (Rajasthan). during amassive meeting called It wasalleged that afterthe en- by various Rajput outfitswho counter with police on had termedthe encounter fake 24.06.2017,Sh. Anand PalSingh and demandedaCBI probe. died&his bodywas notcremated The accusedinclude and instead,aShradhanjaliSabha Lokender Singh Kalvi, the patron wasorganisedatVillageSanwrad, of the Shri Rajput Karni Sena, the native village of deceased,for while MahipalSingh Makranais pressurisingthe government to the outfit's president and accepttheir demands,” read the SukhdevSingh Gogamedi is the CBI statement.

New Delhi WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM 12 EXPRESS NETWORK THESUNDAYEXPRESS,JUNE28,2020 Classifieds Ammoniagas FIR AGAINST 5OVER COVID ‘MEDICINE’CLAIM VHP man Ramdev,PatanjaliMD in MP shot PERSONAL MATRIMONIAL leak at Andhra dead by rival I, hitherto known as Gulafsha Parveen D/oSharif Alvi residing group: Police at,H.No-D-46,Gali No.-7,Old Mustafabad, Delhi-110094,have factory, 1dead bookedfor‘cheating’ changed my name and shall hereafter be knownasPayal. EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE 0040540576-3 EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE made till now,”hesaid. as an independent advocatesub- BHOPAL,JUNE27 I, Swathi Malik,D/o Stander HYDERABAD,JUNE27 EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE Launching what he claimed scribing to the“ideology of the Singh Malik R/o-Plot.No.-275, JAIPUR,JUNE27 wasthe firstayurvedic medicine Congress party”, cited previous A35-YEAR-OLD VHP leader was Vipin-Garden, Uttam-Nagar, AMAN diedand at leasttwo oth- to cureCovid-19inHaridwar on cases registered againstBalvir shotdead near Pipariyatownin New Delhi -110059,have ers were in critical condition af- AN FIR has been registeredin June23,Ramdev hadclaimedthat Tomar to demand adetailedin- Madhya Pradesh's Hoshangabad changed my name to Swati Malik, Vide-affidavit no.- terammonia gasleaked at afac- Jaipur againstyogaguru ‘Coronil tablet’, ‘Swasari Vati’ and vestigation intothe matter. district on Fridayinwhat the po- 10AE927358 dated-27/06/2020 tory in Nandyala town of Ramdev,his aide and Patanjali ‘Anu Taila’ had shown “100 per Stating thatFIRshad earlier lice believe is acase of rivalrybe- at Ghaziabad.(U.P) Kurnool district in Andhra Ayurved Ltd managing director cent favourable results” during been registered againstTomar tween twogroups. 0040540576-9 Pradesh on Saturdaymorning. Balkrishna and three others, ac- clinicaltrialsonCovid-19patients. him in different matters, and he RaviVishwakarma, adistrict The gasleakoccurredata cusing them of cheatingand The Union AYUSH Ministry wasalso in judicial custody, gauraksha(cowprotection)chief, I, Suresh Kumar S/oSh.Deshraj, OTHERS R/oHouse.No. 231,Gali.No.4, buildingofSPY Agro Industries, At the siteofthe gasleak in conspiring to sell fake medi- subsequentlysoughtdetailsabout Jakhar said, “It should be investi- wasreturning to Pipariyafrom Ram Nagar,Krishna Nagar,East Looking for Bride for our son ownedbyformer MP SPY Kurnool district. Express cines claiming to curecoron- the purported medicine and di- gatedhow Tomar,who runs a Hoshangabad with twofriends Delhi,Delhi-110051,inform that settled in Gulf, 41 yrs, Beng Reddy.Welding work wasbe- avirus following clinical trials rected Patanjali and Ramdevto hospital notrelated to ayurved, when his car wasstoppedbya my actual and correct nameis Brah, Univ.Professor 6’1” . ing carriedout on agas pipeline on Covid-19patients. stop advertisingsuchclaims. The launchedthis alleged Covid-19 group of men carrying iron rods, Suresh Kumar but Suresh Bride within 36 yrs, 5’2”+, pref Kumar Sikri mentioned in my science educated, homely fm in the factorywhen the leak oc- pressurebuild-up. The general The others namedinthe FIR Rajasthangovernment had said medicine with Ramdev. We de- sticks and firearms. Avideo shot documents.In future I,will respectable family. Reply with curred. The company's general manager,who wasnot wearing areAnurag Varshney, an em- that it had no knowledge about mand adetailedinvestigation by apasserbyshowedthe as- known as Suresh Kumar,S/o details to manager,Srinivasulu Rao, died anyprotectivemask,diedonthe ployeeofPatanjali,Balvir Singh the clinical trials conducted at intoroles of everyaccusedinthe sailantsdamaging his car,firing Sh.Deshraj,for all,future :[email protected] on the spotwhile four others spot. The rest of the workers are Tomar and Anurag Singh Tomar, NIMS,andthatnopermissionwas case,” Jakhar said. at him,dragginghim outofthe purposes. 0040540579-2 0050165792-1 fell ill. District Collector G out of danger,'' he said. chairman and director,respec- soughtfor anysuchtrial. Tomar’s son Anurag, also car and beating him, even as I, Sunita W/o Jaipal SinghHooda Veerapandian said fire and Joint Chief Environmental tively,atthe Jaipur-based TheChief Medical and Health namedinthe FIR registered on theyallowed the twootheroc- R/oPana Dudan, Village &Post emergency services personnel Engineer of AP Pollution Control National InstituteofMedical Officer,Jaipur,has served ano- Friday, wasarrestedin2017ina cupantsinthe car to escape. Office Sanghi,TehsilRohtak, broughtthe situationunder BoardKVenkateshwaraRao said Sciences and Research (NIMS). tice to NIMS over the issue, and caselodgedbyhis father follow- Acaseofmurderhasbeenreg- District Rohtak,Haryana– 124303 have changed my name control. ammoniaisusedinthe agrounit The FIR wasregisteredatJyoti stateHealthMinisterRaghu ing adispute. isteredagainstten peopleonthe to Sunita Hooda. 0070707479-1 "The gasleak has been con- as achillingagent. Nagarpolice station in the city Sharmahas said that action will Calls and messages to Tomar basis of acomplaint filedbythe I, SONALI DEY W/O-NO- tained, thereisnodanger nearby. “Repairs were on since Friday on the basis of acomplaint by in- be takenifany attempt is made forhis responseremained unan- victim’sbrother.HoshangabadSP 14654986P NK ARUP KUMAR Onlyasmall amountofgas and todaymorning the pipeline dividuals, includingaJaipur- to sell the purporteddrug as a swered;Anurag Tomar declined Santosh Singh Gaur told The DEY,VILL-SINDRAPATHP.O- leaked and fire and emergency wasbeing tested when it ex- basedadvocatewho questioned potential medicine forCovid-19 to comment on the matter. Indian Express adozen cases, in- LEGO TEH -BISHNUPUR DIST- services containedthe situation. ploded, killing the manager on the clinical trials whichreport- patientsinRajasthan. In 2018,awoman employee cluding murder and attempted BANKURA WEST-BENGAL- Afterthe LG Polymers incident, the spotand affecting four others. edly took place on Covid-19pa- “The main accusation is had lodged an FIR at Amer police murder, had been lodgedagainst 722141 THATINMYHUSBAND’S SERVICE RECORD,MY DATE,OF- we hadissuedadvisories to all The ammonia leak is limitedto in- tients at NIMS. cheating people under the garb stationagainstTomar,accusing thevictim.Theassailants,too,had BIRTH HAS-BEEN WRONGLY factories in the district to check side the plant. During an inspec- JyotiNagar SHO Sudhir of selling medicinesofCovid- him of raping her. cases registeredagainstthem. MENTIONED equipment and ensurethat tion lastweek,wehad identified Kumar UpadhyaysaidtheFIR has 19.Iwill also approachthe In 2016,Tomar wasarrested Gaur said thekilling wasan AS,04/08/1987,INSTEAD- CHRISTIAN safetymeasures areinplace be- someissuesover the safetyofthe invokedIPC Section 420 (cheat- court, demanding aCBI inquiry by Jharkhandpolice basedona outcome of battle forcontrol in 21/10/1991. 0040540576-7 fore starting operations. Since pipeline, following whichthe re- ing)and Sections 4and 7ofthe intothe matter.Itisour de- complaint of allegedly outraging the Pipariyamandi wherelakhs Fair beautiful Catholic girl I, Raj Kumar S/oSh.Deshraj R/o- 35/5’4” SASProgrammer MNC, June 19,repair andmaintenance pairs were takenup,’’ Raosaid. Drugs and Magic Remedies mand that action be taken the modestyofawoman. The of tonnes of grains aretraded C-5, Gali.No.5, New Krishna Bangalore.Seeks well work wasgoing on this factory Apart from the district collec- (Objectionable Advertisements) againstthe accused,”advocate FIR wasfiledbyaformer student everyyear.During auction and Nagar,Krishna Nagar,East educated boy. #06363669107 and theynoticed aweak weld- tor, pollution control boardoffi- Act, 1954.“We registered the FIR Balram Jakhar,one of the com- of NIMS University,who accused weighing,asmallportionof grains Delhi,Delhi-110051,inform that my actual and correct nameis 0050165799-1 ing joint... It wasbeing tested to- cialsalso visited thesitetotake on Fridayand areinvestigating plaintsinthe case, said. Tomar of allegedly misbehaving is leftonthe floorand accumu- Raj Kumar butRaj Kumar Sikri daywhen it explodeddue to a stockofthe situation. the matter.Noarrests have been Jakhar,who identifiedhimself with her in Ranchi in 2015. lates intoasubstantial quantity. mentioned in my documents.In futureI,will known as Raj Paschimanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam Ltd., Kumar,S/o Sh.Deshraj,for all,futurepurposes. Victoria Park, Meerut 29 foreign militants in South Kashmir: J&K cops 0040540579-3 TENDER DATE EXTENSION NOTICE I, Putan Kumar S/oRam Karan The Date of opening of tender specification no. PVVNL-MT/COM/01/20-21 for supply of 1500 nos. 11 KV CTs(Different ratios) is hereby extended fro,m Kashmir.“They(foreignmilitants) CRPFconstablekilledinamilitant focusing on that (North), but R/o-46 KodaraBakhat-Kheda ADILAKHZER arenot inthehinterland,butthere attackinSouthKashmir’s thereare militantsinSouth BaraSagwar Babukhera 25.06.2020 to 14.07.2020. Time of opening tender and other terms &conditions shall remain unchanged. Dixtanwala Unao UP- SRINAGAR,JUNE27 isapresenceof (foreignmilitants) BijbeharaonFriday. Kashmir,and it is on priority,” he For detailed information please log on www.pvvnl.org &E-Tendering website 229509,changed my nameto intheupperreachesof Kokernag, Kumar said that South said. “In Mayfirstweek,there www.etender.up.nic.in till the date of submission of bids. Superintending Engineer Gauri Shankar. 0040540576-6 (Commercial) "Help line Number for Information of TheftofElectricity: "1800-180- TWENTY-NINE foreign militants Tral and Khrew.Inthese areas(of Kashmir is a“priority” even were huge losses on our side and I, ARUP KUMAR DEY S/O 3002 (Meerut) &9412207451" areactiveintheupperreaches of South Kashmir) thereispresence though the police arecurrently aperception became that mili- ANANDAMOHAN DEY ARMY- Remark www.etender.up.nic.in SouthKashmir,whichhas seen of FT (Foreign Terrorists). About focussing on NorthKashmir. tantshad an upper hand. In NO-14654986P NK ARUP KUMAR Sd/- majoranti-militancy operations 29 FTsare in South Kashmir.As “Number of militantsismore NorthKashmir,the number of DEY 505-ARMY BASE Superintending Engineer (Commercial) For Managing Director in the lastfew months,accord- soon theywillcomedown, our in South Kashmir.Wehave militantsisstillless. Whatever WORKSHOP C/O-56,APO DELHI- “SAVE ELECTRICITY IN THE INTEREST OF THE NATION” ing to thepolice. sourceswillinformusandwe will startedoperations in North theless number is, we will neu- CANTT,DELHI-110010,DECLARE ´fÂffaI :5169 dQ³ffaI :27.06.20 THATNAME,OF MY SON IN MY VijayKumar, Kashmir neutralisethemby launchingop- Kashmir.Recentlytwo local LeT tralise them soon.” SERVICE RECORDIS,WRONGLY Inspector-General of Police, said erations,” Kumar told the media militants were killed in Sopore. According to J&K Police MENTIONED AS SUROJIT DEY HIMACHAL PRADESH STATE ELECTRONICS thereare moremilitantsinSouth on Saturday on thesidelines of a Theywerelocals, but theyhad records, 113militantshavebeen INSTEAD OF SURAJIT DEY SO DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION LIMITED Kashmirascompared to North wreath-laying ceremonyfor the carriedalot of incidents. We are killedthis year in the Valley. TRUEAND CORRECT NAME,OF Ist &GroundFloor,I.T.Bhawan, Mehli, Shimla-171013 H.P. MY SON IS,SURAJIT DEY Tel. No. 0177- 2623513, 2623259, AFFIDAVIT DATE-26.JUN-2020 FAX: 0177-2626320, Website: www.hpsedc.in BEFORE,MADAN LAL GUPTA Emails: [email protected] [email protected] DELHI. 0040540576-8 NSUI office-bearer shot dead in e-Tender No: F-905/HPSEDC/Tender/SmartSchool/2020 –969 Dated: 27/06/2020 I,Vishnath Paul,S/O-Late NOTICE INVITING TENDER Sri.Jogendra Nath Paul,R/O-B- e-Tender is invited forselection of implementation agency for 121,1st-Floor,Gagan Enclave, MP, two arrested in Chandigarh Amrit-Nagar, GT Road, implementation of SmartSchool Project in Govt. High School Ghaziabad.UP-201001,,have Krishnanagar,Shimla and virtual classrooms in identified PUBLIC NOTICE schools of HimachalPradesh.Detailed tender document con- changed my name to “Sonu Parochia, localoffice- Parochia wasthe general secre- Information is given to the general public at taining technical specifications and terms &conditions is avail- Vishwanath Paul,for large that my client Raja Singh s/o Pyara PRESSTRUSTOFINDIA bearer of NSUI, wasreturning tary of the Mandla district unit. Singh wants to purchase the property: B17, able on e-procurement portal https://www.hpsedc.in and all,purposes. 0040540579-9 Kirti Nagar, New Delhi area measuring 500sq. MANDLA(MP),JUNE27 home aftercelebrating the birth- He said thatthe accusedhails yd. Property is owned by Anamika Ahuja and http://hptenders.gov.in. Online pre-bidmeeting will be held on I, Roshini U, D/oVelluUdaya, Dayanand Parshad Sinha having 50% shares 07-07-2020 (2:30 PM) and last date of e-bid submission is 30- dayofhis uncle at aroadside from Jabalpur and has been liv- each. R/o.F-1/176,JJ.Colony, If any person is having objection and right of 07-2020 (2:30 PM). A28-YEAR-OLDleader of the eateryinasuburban area of ing in Mandla forthe lastfiveto Madangir, NewDelhi-110062, claim against the said property, contact the undersigned alog with supporting documents Sd/- National Students’ Union of India Mandla,” Additional six years. "Wehad complained have changed my name to within 7days from the date of publication of MANAGING DIRECTOR this notice and or the same to the 0175/HP (NSUI),the Congress’s student Superintendent of Police Vikram to thepolice againsthim on sev- Roshini Udaya. 0040540576-1 undersigned if found by anyone. Sd/- wing, wasshotdead at Mandla in Singh Kushwaha said. eral occasions,"hesaid. I, Purushottam SinghR/o Vill.- Mohit Bhardwaj MadhyaPradesh,followingwhich AccusedMayur HappyYadav Hours later,the Chhattisgarh nagala Bari,Po-husainpur, Ps- Advocate Office:- 18, Radhey Shyam Park, twomen were arrested in neigh- (30) fledfromthe spot afterthe police arrested Mayur Yadavand pachokhara,teh-tundla,dis- Gali No. 1, Parwana Road, Near Preet Vihar, Delhi-110051 bouringChhattisgarh, crime, he said. PiyushMaravifromGudhiyari firozabad Up 283203 have Mob. No. +91-9899520069 changed my minor son’s name QdÃf¯ffa¨f»fd½fôb°f d½f°fSX¯f d³f¦f¸f d»f., officialssaid. “As per the preliminaryinfor- area of Raipur. from ReyanYadav to Aayush The killing, afall- mation, Parochia'stwo-wheeler “During the interrogation, Yadavfor all purposes. PUBLIC NOTICE IYf¹ffÊ»f¹f A²feÃf¯f Ad·f¹f³°ff, d½fôb°f out of some past en- washit by Yadav's car.Yadaval- the twoconfessedtotheir in- 0040540358-1 To be known to all that I, Saroj W/o Mr. Satya Veer Singh R/o Flat No. EU-2-B, d½f°fSX¯f ¸f¯OX»f,d¨fÂfIcYMX, A»´fIYf»fe³f BÊ- mity,tookplace dur- legedly openedfireonParochia volvement in the killing. Pitampura, Delhi, have lost the the ing the intervening who diedonthe spot,” We have informedMandla po- I Ashtami D/oKishor Kumar R/o original Sale Deed Dated 06-08-2013 d³fd½fQf Àfc¨f³ffEa A²fûWÀ°ffÃfSI°ffÊõfSf 30/4, GroundFloor, Ashok Executed by (1) Mr.Vijay Khanna (2). d³f¸³fd»fdJ°f If¹fÊ Iû ISf¹fZ ªff³fZ WZ°fb BÊ-d³fd½fQf night of Fridayand Kushwaha said. liceabout the arrest and their Nagar, Tilak Nagar, New Delhi- Mr.Pradeep Khanna and (3). Anil Saturday, the Madhya NSUI's district president, team has leftfor Raipur,” the of- Khanna in favor of (1) .Sanjay Kumar Af¸fadÂf°f Ieªff°fe W`Üd½fÀ°fÈ°f ªff³fI fSeE½fa d³f¹f¸f 110018, have changed my name Saraf and (2). Mr.Kamal Kumar Pradesh police said. Akhilesh Thakur,said that ficial said. to Ashtami Shree. Manchanda in respect of my Property No. 259, Second Floor,Block and ½f Vf°fZË C.´fi. VffÀf³f IeAfd²fI fdSIBÊ-´fiû¢¹fûS¸fZÔM 0040540507-1 Pocket-AG, Shalimar Bagh, Delhi. Any person claiming any right, interest, ´fûMÊ»f https://etender.up.nic.in ´fS IT DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (ITDA) I PushpaW/O Dharmik Hirkane having any objection or found in Department of Information Technology C´f»f¶²f W`:- 1. BÊ-d³fd½fQfd½fdVf¿MXeIYSX¯f Government of Uttarakhand Prominent face of possession of original documents, may R/OS-126/35,Kanak Durga ITDA write/ contact with the above named IT Bhawan, Plot No. IT-07, IT Park, Sahastradhara Road, Colony, Sector-12, R.K.Puram, person at above Address/ Phone No Àfa£¹ff- 21/ SE/ EDCCkt/ 2020-21: Dehradun Email: [email protected] New Delhi-110022. Have 9953262914 within 7days from the Jammu agitations, date of Publication of this notice. IYf¹fÊ: d½fôb°fd½f°fS¯f J¯O,d¨fÂfIc MIe UKSWAN FACILITY MANAGEMENT SERVICES Changed my NametoPushpa Tender Notice No. 04/e-ITDA-PRJ/SFMS/1/2020-PROJECT dated 08/05/2020 Hirkane. 0040540579-1 Àfe¸ff³°f¦fÊ°f 33/11 IZ ½fe d½fôb°f C´fIZ ³ý-¸ffd³fI ´fbS Corrigendum- 1 Please refere to the Tender Notice No. 04/e-ITDA-PRJ/SFMS/1/2020-PROJECT Slathia dies at 70 I Qayamuddin Qaman S/o PUBLIC NOTICE ¸fZÔ ªfªfÊS 11 IZ ½fe ½fe.Àfe.¶fe. B³fI d¸fa¦f E½fa DATED 08.06.2020, in this regards the amendment is being made in Bid submission CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF KASHMIR end date and bid opening date as following: Islamuddin R/o-2929, Gali-Kali- My client Raghu Bansh Pandey S/o Late AfCM¦fûBa¦f ¶fQ»f³fZ IZ If¹fÊÜ WXÀ°ff./- A²feÃf¯f S. No. Critical Dates Date Extended to Masjid,Turkman-Gate, Sita Udayraj Pandey R/o H.No. B-5, 697/2, Ganderbal (J&K) 191201, Website: www.cukashmir.ac.in Following Date EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE Gali No. 2, Ganesh Nagar-II, Shakarpur, Ad·f¹f³°ffd½fôb°f d½f°fSX¯f¸f¯OX»f d¨fÂfIcYMXÜ Ram Bazar, Delhi-110006 1 Last Date &Time for Submission of Bids electronically 03 July 15.00 Hrs Delhi-92, has severed his relations and EMPLOYMENT NOTIFICATION on https://www.uktenders.gov.in/ JAMMU,JUNE27 changed my name to debarred his son Surya Kant Pandey ´fÂffaIY-295/ d½f.d½f.¸fa.d¨f./ d³fd½fQf ´fiIYfVf³f/ 2 Date &Time of OpeningofBids (Technical Bids) 03 July 16.00 Hrs Qayamuddin for future. from all his moveable-immoveable No.: 04 of 2020 (NT) Dated: 27-06-2020 properties due to his misbehaviorand 2020-21, dQ³ffaIY 27.06.2020 All other terms and conditions remain unchanged. Director THREE-TIME president of Jammu and 0040540576-4 misconduct. My client and his family Online Applications are invited from the eligible candidates Kashmir High CourtBar Association and members shall not be responsible for his forappointment to following temporaryvacanciesofnon- I REVATHI NARI TYAGIW/O aprominent face in almostall major ag- any act (s) /deed (s)/transaction(s). teaching posts: SHEKHAR TYAGIR/O,B-5, Sd/- itations in Jammu division, BSSlathia, SECTOR-50, NOIDAU.P.-201301. (V.K. SINGH) Advocate 1) Internal Audit Officer (01-UR) diedatPGI,Chandigarh,onSaturday HAVE CHANGED MY NAMETO Enrl. No. D-63/90 2) Deputy Registrar :(01-UR) morning aafter brief illness. He was70. REVATHI NAIR FORALL CHAMBER NO. D-623, 6TH FLOOR, 3) LowerDivision Clerk:06 (04-UR, 01-OBC,01-SC) PURPOSE. 0040540361-1 KARKARDOOMA COURTS, DELHI-32 Be it the agitation againstdiscontin- 4) MTS/Peon/Office Attendant :03(01-UR, 01-OBC,01-SC) uation of the biannual J&K Durbar move I Rajender Oberoi S/OKrishan The Lastdate forsubmission of online Application formsis practicein1987-88, demands forland Lal R/OFlat.no.232, Vishal- 13th July 2020 and the detailed notification along with the Enclave Tagore-Garden allotment to theShri Amarnath Shrine Extension New Delhi-110027 link is available on University website. BoardinSouth Kashmir Himalayasin have changed my name to Dated 27.06.2020 Sd/- 2008, or demands foraseparateAIIMS Rajinder Pal. 0040540576-5 GANDERBAL I/c Registrar forJammuin2015, Slathia hadplayeda I, Ashish ChaudharyS/o key role in all these. Sh.Abhai Singh R/o-1351, GOVERNMENT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH During the 2008 Amarnathlandrow, Sector-10A, Gurugram, HIMACHAL PRADESH STATEROADS TRANSFORMATION PROJECT (HPSRTP) Slathia wasAdditional AdvocateGeneral Haryana,have changed the name of my son Nimansh Gulia REQUEST FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST-CUM-REQUESTFOR PROPOSAL/ REQUEST (AAG) and considered close to thethen to Lakshya Chaudhary,for all FOR EXPRESSION OF INTERESTPROPOSAL Chief Ministerand senior Congress purposes. 0040540576-2 Name of Project: Himachal Pradesh State Roads Transformation Project (HPSRTP) leader Ghulam Nabi Azad. He quit as Loan No./Credit No. 9066-IN AAGand played aprominent role in the Grant No.: Date: June 26, 2020 LOST & FOUND The Chief Engineer-cum-Project Director,State Roads Project, HPRIDC Nirman Bhawan, Nigam Vihar Shimla- agitation in Jammu to pressthe demand 171002, Himachal Pradesh India invites the Request forExpression of Interest-cum-Request forProposals/Request for forallocation of land to the Amarnath Expression of Interest Proposal from national consultants forthe consultancy services as detailed in the table below: Original Sale Deed excutedby Shrine Boardfor settinguplogistics for Smt. Mamta Kaushik,W/O-Shri Sr. Description of the Consultancy Date of availability of Detailed Request for Last date/Time pilgrims,recalled PawanMaini,alawyer. No. Services Expression of Interest-cum-Request for forsubmission AjayKaushik to Smt.Rani Proposals/ Request forExpression of Interest of Proposals The agitation eventuallyled to thefall Khanna,W/O-Shri Ravi Mohan Proposal Document on HPRIDC web site of the Azad government, as the PDP Khanna on 12/06/2001,in 1. Selection of Consultant (NGO) forsup- June 27, 2020 July 14, 2020 withdrew support. respect of propertyno.B- porttoimplementation of Resettlement (Request forExpression of Interest Proposal In 1987-88, he waschairman of the 4/15,Third-Floor, Sector-15, Action Plan (RAP) forTranche-I Roads Document) Rohini, Delhi.An FIR to this under HPSRTP (Approx. 90 km.) Action Committee of the Bar Association effect has been Lodged in 2. Selection of Biodiversity/Wildlife June 27, 2020 July 25, 2020 spearheading the agitationagainst the Policestation, Crime Branch, Expertfor WorldBank Funded (Request forExpression of Interest-cum-Request then Farooq Abdullahgovernment’s de- Delhi, LR no.187677/2020.Any Himachal Pradesh State Roads forProposal Document) cision to discontinue the practice of person claiming anyright Transformation Program(HPSRTP) biannual Durbar move between Jammu interest having anyobjection Note:Any further addendum/Corrigendum to this Request forExpression of Interest-cum-Request for or Found in possession of Proposals/Request forExpression of Interest Proposal Documents shall be available to all interesting firms on andSrinagar.After 87 days,the agitation original Sale Deed.May official website of HPRIDC under http://himachalservices.nic.in/hpridc/HPSRTP.html. link. wascalledoff following intervention by contact Smt.Aarti Dhingra, Chief Engineer-cum-Project Director, State Roads Project, HPRIDC, Nirman Bhawan, Nigam Vihar, then Union Home MinisterButaSingh, W/O-Shri RohitDhingra, Ph- Facsimile: +91-177-2620663; Tel: +91-177-2627602, who made the then stategovernment 9988656179. 0040540579-8 0177/HP E-mail: [email protected] withdraw itsdecision, Maini said.

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TRANSACTION PEGS PHARMA BIZ AT ENTERPRISEVALUE OF $2.77 BN Not an easy task for banks ... but CarlyleGrouptobuy20%stakein methods of lending and quality of lending has to improve: SBI chief PiramalPharmaforabout`3,700cr ‘Moreriskcapitalneedsto newIndiainanew worldwould ENSECONOMICBUREAU bebroughtinasthat needMSMEs as an integral part, NEWDELHI/MUMBAI,JUNE27 wouldhelpthem Kotak, stressed on thefactthat subject to customaryclosing strategic opportunities and fa- withstandtheriskof MSMEs should look to raise risk ENSECONOMICBUREAU ONEOFTHELARGESTPEDEALSINPHARMASECTOR conditions and regulatoryap- cilitate broader market access.” EVENASpublicsectorbankshave capitalandgoodcorporategover- MUMBAI,JUNE27 provals. Following the sale of itsdo- takenthe lead in sanctioning and shockofexternal nanceasthatwouldenhancetheir ■ CA CloverIntermediateII is expected to close in 2020, AjayPiramal, chairman, mestic pharma business to disbursing loans under the gov- environmentandforthat ability to raise financing from he CARLYLE GROUP has agreedto Investments, an affiliated subject to customaryclosing Piramal Enterprises,said, “This Abbott in 2010 for$3.8 billion, ernment’scollateral-freeworking venturecapitalandangel banks. acquire20per cent stakeasfresh entity of CAPVMauritius conditions and regulatory infusion of fundswill further Piramalhas demonstratedits capitalfinanceschemeannounced investorsarecrucial’ “Morerisk capital needs to be equity capitalinPiramal Pharma Limited, an investment fund approvals strengthen our balance sheet ability to build asolid and re- by the FM and SBI has already broughtinasthat would help Ltd, awholly-ownedsubsidiary managed andadvisedby ■Lastmonth, Carlyle and provide us with awar chest silientpharmabusinessoverthe givenloansworthRs19,000crore UDAY KOTAK them withstand the risk of shock of Piramal Enterprises Ltd,ata affiliated entities ofthe announcedits majority forthe next phaseofour strat- last10years. Leveraging itsdif- to 4lakh MSME’s, UdayKotak,CII CII PRESIDENT AND MD &CEO of external environmentand for costof$490million (about CarlyleGroup Inc has made stakeinvestment in SeQuent egy. We arepleasedtohavean ferentiated business model and president and MD &CEO of Kotak OF KOTAK MAHINDRA BANK thatventurecapital and angel in- Rs 3,700 crore). the purchaseagreement Scientific, the largest Indian investor of this caliber join the strong quality trackrecord,PEL’s MahindraBank,said that though vestorsarecrucial….Besidesprin- The transaction values the ■This transaction is one of pure-playanimal healthcare Piramal family and continue pharma revenue since the private banks have been slowto MSMEs and is making the assess- ciples of running agood business pharma businessatanenter- the largest privateequity company, whichisexpected our stellar trackrecordofpart- Abbott deal has grown3.5 times start,theywill catchupand over ment easy.“ involvedproperaccounting,audits prise value (EV) of $2.77billion, dealsinthe Indian to close in the thirdquarter nerships.” at 15 percent from Rs 1,537crore the next 3-4 weeksand they “Use of tech in lending is en- and ensuring that the moneyin withanupsidecomponent of up pharmaceutical sector,and of 2020 Neeraj Bharadwaj,managing in FY11toRs5,419 croreinFY20. would have done asizeable busi- abling the bankstounderwritein business remains in business and to $360milliondepending on director,Carlyle Asia Partners Lastmonth, Carlyle an- nessunderthegovernmentguar- amorescientific manner.Latest doesn’t go into real estate. the company’s FY21perform- advisoryteam,said: “Given nounced itsmajority stakein- antee scheme forMSMEs. example is the guaranteedemer- Availability of risk capitalandcor- ance. Basedonthe EV (excluding advisedbyaffiliated entitiesof Division, aconsumer healthcare globalpharma industrytrends, vestment in SeQuent Scientific, Kotaksaid the eligibility con- gency credit line whereRs3lakh porategovernanceisthe bedrock the upside component), ex- the CarlyleGroup Inchas made business sellingover-the- we seeattractiveopportunities the largest Indian pure-playan- ditions forthe government’s Rs 3 crorehasbeensetasideandwithin forgrowthof MSMEs,”saidKotak. changerateand pharma netdebt the purchase agreement. counter productsinIndia and fororganic as well as inorganic imal healthcarecompany,which lakh croreMSME packageshould month SBI has done 4lakh loans He pointed that weak equity base as of March 2020, theestimated Piramal Pharma will include PEL’sinvestmentinthe joint growth in eachofthese busi- is expected to close in the third berelaxedinviewoftherevisionin worthRs19,000crore,” he said. of MSMEsmakeitdifficult for equity capitalinvestmentfor Piramal PharmaSolutions, an venturewith AllerganIndia, a nesses. We areexcited to work quarterof2020. Itsotherinvest- turnoverlimitforMSMEsfromRs Kumar further saidthat SBI is bankers from time to time to sup- Carlyle’s 20 per cent stakein end-to-end contract develop- leader in ophthalmology in the with the company’s experi- mentsinthe Indian healthcare 100crore to Rs 250 crore. shifting itsfocus from home loans port them. Piramal Pharma would amount ment and manufacturing domestic marketand encedmanagement team, and sector include Medanta Addressing the MSMEs from to MSMEs in abig wayand has Both the bankers hailedthe to $490 million. (CDMO) business, Piramal Convergence Chemicals Pvt Ltd. willleverageour global net- MedicityHospital,aleading hos- acrossthecountryoverawebinar asked90DGMstofocus on government schemes to support CA CloverIntermediateII Critical Care, acomplexhospital This transaction is one of the work,extensive knowledge of pital in the National Capital conducted by CII, Rajnish Kumar , MSMEs. “Housing loan wassafe, MSMEs whichtheysaid were the Investments, an affiliated entity generics business selling special- largest private equity deals in the the healthcaresector,and oper- Region, and Metropolis Health- chairman at SBI, and UdayKotak easy and that wasthe focus. Iam backboneof theeconomyandsaid of CAPVMauritius Limited,an izedproductsacross over 100 Indian pharmaceutical sector, atingexperience to seek to ex- care, achain of diagnostic cen- acknowledgedthatwhileMSMEs shiftingthefocus…We aredoinga thatthe recent redefinition of mi- investment fund managed and countries,Consumer Products and is expected to close in 2020, pand itsplatform, develop ters and laboratories. aremorevulnerabletostressinthe lotofimprovementsaround cro,smallandmediumenterprises external environment, theysaid processes. It is notaneasytask for willenablethem to grow and get that the financing to the segment banks and the hesitation comes larger.Kumar said that the IDBI Bank to sell needs to improve. frompastexperiencebutmethods schemesbythe government are Centrecancels `1,950-cr BharatNet project in TN Kumar said that evolution of of lending and quality of lending very timelyand whiletheymay 27% in insurance digital technologyatbankswill hastoimprove.We aretakingsteps noteliminatethe pain of MSMEs, through optical fibre. In Tamil tionalcharge of theITdepartment. playabig role in easier lendingto andhopefulthatwe willbeableto theywould reduce the pain and ARUNJANARDHANAN ‘FRESHTENDERS Nadu, the planwas to connect all In acomplaint questioning JV, Belgian firm MSMEs as it is making it easier for supportMSMEs.,”headded. helpthemcomeoutof thecurrent CHENNAI,JUNE27 TOBEFLOATED’ 12,524grampanchayats. the government’s move, raises stake to 49% bankstoverifythe credentials of Emphasising that building peculiar situation. Theprojecthadfirstgenerated Arappor Iyakkam wrotetothe THEDEPARTMENTforPromotion controversy when an IAS officer, Centre, “When the whole state ■ Ordering to scrap of Industryand Internal Trade Santhosh Babu, who wasin is focused on fightingthe pan- ENSECONOMICBUREAU the Rs 1,950-crore Govt to launch (DPIIT) on Fridayordered the charge it, optedfor voluntaryre- demic,TANFINET has brought MUMBAI,JUNE27 Irdai asks insurersto BharatNet projectin scrappingofaRs 1,950 croreten- tirement, reportedlyafter he was about big changes in the tender Tamil Nadu, a der forthe BharatNet project in pressuredto makechangesinthe in the form of aCorrigendum, IDBI BANK has decidedtosell27 floating rate communication from Tamil Nadu statingthe bidding tender afteritwas uploaded. the major of whichseems to be percentof itsstake inIDBIFederal offer corona standard the DPIIT of theUnion conditions were “restrictive”and In January, Opposition leader with the intention of restricting LifeInsuranceto Belgianinsurance savings bond Commerce Ministryto “discriminatory”. MKStalinhadaskedShanmugam competition and to favour afew company AgeasInsurance and stateChiefSecretary In acommunication to state to ensureprotectionfor“truthful” specific companies.” Federal Bank forRs595 crore. policybyJuly 10 from July 1 KShanmugam said Chief SecretaryKShanmugam, IAS officers, referringtoSanthosh The Commerceand Industry Ageaswill acquire23per cent fresh tendersshould the DPIIT askedfor floating fresh Babu’s VRS request. “Was Babu, Ministry’s decision came follow- stake,whileFederalBankwillbuy be floated,asbidding tenders. who wasin-charge of theproject ing an online meeting on June 23, 4per cent. ENSECONOMICBUREAU As per the guidelines by PRESSTRUSTOFINDIA conditions were The communication stated (BharatNet), under pressure? Is in whichthe allegations raised Ageas Insurance will hold 49 MUMBAI,JUNE27 NEWDELHI,JUNE27 “restrictive” and Irdai, minimum sum that Tamil Nadu Fibernet theInformationTechnologymin- were heard in the presenceof per cent in the venturewhile “discriminatory. Corporation Limited(TAFINET) isterbehind this? The Chief stategovernment’s experts and Federal Bank will have 30 per cent INSURANCE REGULATORY and insured forCorona THE GOVERNMENThas decided should immediatelyscrap the Ministershould reply,”Stalinhad officers,includingVerma. stake, withIDBI Bank holding the Development AuthorityofIndia Kavach Policy will be to launchFloating Rate Savings Rs 1,950-croreBharatNet tender said then. Referring to the meeting, the remaining 21 percent stakeinthe (Irdai) on Saturday announced `50,000and maximum Bonds 2020 (Taxable) from July1, and should float fresh tenders made to favour afew companies. “However, Babu’s request Centre’s ordertoscrap thetender insurancefirm,afterthestakesale. guidelines on COVID-19standard giving an opportunity to invest in with“non-restrictive”qualifica- The Union Commerce and waslater withdrawnowingto said that “basedupon comments IDBI Bank has 48 percent stakein benefit-basedhealthpolicyandin- sum insured would securedgovernmentinstruments. tion criteria. IndustryMinistryalso sought an pressurefromhis seniorcol- andfeedbackreceivedfromstake- theinsurer,whileFederalBankand dividual COVID-19standard be `5 lakh The newscheme has been The tender got mired in con- urgent reportonaction takenfol- leagues,” asenior official, in the holders, it has been considered Ageas Insurance have 26 per cent healthpolicy.Guidelines were is- broughtinplace of 7.75 percent troversy with allegations of cor- lowingitsordertoscrapthetender. knowofdevelopmentsinthe ini- thatthebiddingconditionsincor- each. As LIC had acquired a51per sued forCoronaRakshak policy,a Savings (Taxable) Bonds, 2018, ruption and charge raisedby TheBharatNet projectaimsto tial stage, said. porated by TANFINET in the bid- centstake in IDBIBank, thestake standardbenefit-basedpolicyand holistic health insurance policy whichwas withdrawnfromthe Chennai-basedArapporIyakkam, connectIndian villageswithhigh AfterBabu,Hans RajVerma, a ding documentsare restrictive sale of IDBI Bank’s insurance ven- Corona Kavach Policy,astandard and arelooking to coverthem- close of banking businessonMay that changes in the tender were speedbroadband connections senior IAS officer,was givenaddi- and discriminatoryinnature.” turewasaregulatoryrequirement. healthpolicy,whichwillbeoffered selvesagainstCOVID-19. Thepol- 28,2020,thefinanceministrysaid on indemnity basis and insurers icycoverages, terms &conditions in astatement. have been asked to launch the arestandardacross insurers; the Theinterestontheseven-year RBI extends productfromJuly10, 2020. USPwould be widenetwork of bond will be paidsemi-annually COVID IMPACT WHYISTHISIMPORTANT? All life, general and health in- hospitalsforcashlessfacility.These onJanuary1andJuly1everyyear. higher overnight ThenationwidelockdownwasimposedonMarch25tocurbthespreadof surancecompanieshave beenen- Covid-19 specificpolicieswillcer- TheinterestonJanuary1,2021 borrowing facility coronavirusdisease,bringingtheconstructionaswellassalesactivitiesto couraged to offerstandardbene- tainlybeanattractive proposition willbepaidat7.15per cent. ‘Housing sales may agrindinghalt.Layoffsandpaycutsbyvariousorganisationswouldalso fit-basedpolicy,while every forpeople to optfor healthinsur- The rate fornexthalf-year will of banks to Sept meanthatpeoplewillthinktwicebeforeinvestinginbuyingahouse. general and standalone health in- ance, and later mayencourage bereseteverysixmonths,thefirst plunge81% in Apr-Jun’ surershallofferstandardhealthin- them to optfor acomprehensive resetbeingonJanuary1,2021, the demnity policy. health insurance cover,”added official release said. ENSECONOMICBUREAU Housing sales areestimated to declineby81per cent to AS MANY AS 68,600units TECHNOLOGYADOPTION Accordingtotheguidelinesby Rashmi. Therewill be no option to pay MUMBAI,JUNE27 12,740 units during April-June period of this calendar year weresoldduringApril-June2019 hasplayedabigroleinhousing Irdai,minimum sum insured for Corona Kavach policywill be interestoncumulative basis,itsaid, due to COVID-19pandemic and subsequent lockdown, acrosssevenmajorcities-Delhi- salesoflate,withmanydevelopers Corona Kavach Policy will be Rs anindemnity-basedpolicybutop- addingthebondswillberepaidon THE RESERVE Bankhas decided property consultant Anarocksaid NCR,MumbaiMetropolitan nowstrengtheningtheirdigital 50,000 andmaximumsum in- tional covershall be made avail- theexpiryofsevenyearsfromthe to extend the enhancedborrow- Region(MMR),Pune,Bengaluru, salescapabilities sured would be Rs 5lakh. able on benefit basis. The base dateofissue. However, themin- ingfacility providedtothe banks Hyderabad,ChennaiandKolkata However, forCorona Rakshak coverwillofferhospitalizationex- istryadded,prematureredemp- to meet their liquidity shortages HOUSINGSALES arelikelytofall Policy,theminimumsuminsured penses likeroomand boarding tion willbeallowed forspecified tillSeptember 30 in thewakeof NEWLAUNCHES mayplunge by83percentinDelhi-NCRto would be Rs 50,000 andmaxi- chargesalongwithPPEkits,gloves, categories of senior citizens. the continuing lockdown and by98percenttoonly1,390units 2,100unitsinApril-June2020 mum limit is setatRs2.5 lakh. masksand suchother similar ex- The interestonthe Bondswill downturn in the economy. asagainstnearly69,000unitsin from12,640unitsduringthe Thepremiumunder both the penses and even AYUSH treat- be taxable under the Income Tax The RBI,asatemporary thecorrespondingperiodof2019 correspondingperiodofthe productsshall be pan India basis ment. While in Corona Rakshak Act, 1961 as amendedfromtime measure, had increased the bor- previousyear and no geographiclocation or policy, insurers shallpay lump- to time and as applicable accord- rowing limitofscheduledbanks AMASSIVEdropinbothnew zone-basedpricing will be al- sumbenefitsequalto100%ofsum ingto therelevanttaxstatusof the under the marginal standing fa- launchesandhousingsaleswere, IN THE MumbaiMetropolitan lowed. Rashmi Nandargi, head, insured on positive diagnosis of Bonds holder,itadded. cility (MSF) scheme from 2per ofcourse,expectedonthebackof Region(MMR),salesmaydropby RetailHealthUnderwritingatBajaj COVID-19,requiring the hospital- ItwillbeissuedatparatRs100 cent to 3per centoftheir Net acompletelockdownformostof 83percent Source:Anarock/PTI Allianz General Insurance, said isation forminimum continuous foraminimum amount of Rs Demandand Time Liabilities thisquarter these standardpolicies specific to period of 72 hours. Under indem- 1,000andinmultiplesthereof,the (NDTL)—or deposits—from COVID-19wereawelcome move nityhealthinsuranceplans,insur- release said, adding therewill be March 27,2020. considering the current situation ers coverthe costofmedical ex- nomaximumlimitforinvestment. This relaxation, whichwas wherepeople areworriedabout penses during hospitalization, Subscription to the bonds will granted till June 30, 2020,has Punecan witness adrop of 79 per Hyderabad maysee 85 per cent dip Sales in Chennai are likely to fall by 84 the COVID-19treatment costs. while in definedbenefitplans a be in the form of cash (up to Rs nowbeen extendedtill cent to 2,160 unitsfrom 10,490 units to 660 units from 4,430 units per cent to 480 units from 2,990 units “These policies will cater to lump-sum is paid irrespectiveof 20,000 only)/drafts/chequesor September 30. peoplewhocurrentlydon’thave a the actual hospitalexpense. FE anyelectronic mode. BRIEFLY Delhi Gymkhana Club NEW TAXREGIME Deadline to submit ‘Requested ComMin to GSTR-1:Filing CBDTallowsindividuals bids for Air India functioning prejudicial to extended again allow export of PPE kits’ salesstatement ‘public interest’: NCLT to claimexemption on tour, viaSMS ENSECONOMICBUREAU ENSECONOMICBUREAU The government had conveyance allowance NEWDELHI,JUNE27 NEWDELHI,JUNE27 ED on January31banned NewDelhi: GSTtaxpayersfil- AASHISHARYAN Otherclubs IN ing ‘NIL’ returns will be able NEWDELHI,JUNE27 maycome ployeeonaccountofabsencefrom THE CENTRE Saturday extended STATINGTHE importance of ex- exports of PPE kitsand LA tofilefinalmonthly/quarterly underscrutiny ENSECONOMICBUREAU his normalplace of duty. the deadline —for the thirdtime portorientationas wellasimport E● other medical coveralls sales statement GSTR-1 THE PRINCIPAL Benchofthe EXP NEWDELHI,JUNE27 It also includes exemption for —tosubmit bids forAir India till substitution, MSME Minister through SMS from July1st National CompanyLaw Tribunal THE NCLT’S decision anyallowancegrantedto meetthe August 31.Prior to the change, the Nitin Gadkari Saturdaysaid the including N-95 masks week.The CBIC said the (NCLT)heldthattheaffairsof Delhi that working of the THE CENTRAL BoardofDirect expenditure incurredoncon- deadline forinterestedbidders to countryisproducing large quan- move will improveeaseof Gymkhana Clubwerebeing con- Delhi Gymkhana Club Taxeshasallowedindividualswho veyance in performance of duties submit an expression of interest tities of Personal Protective January31banned exportsofPPE GSTcompliancefor over 12 ducted in amanner prejudicial to wasprejudicial to “pub- have optedforthenewincometax of an office or employment of forthenationalairline’sdisinvest- Equipment kits, adding he has re- kitsandothermedicalcoverallsin- lakhregisteredtaxpayers.PTI “publicinterest”andthereforethe lic interest” could also regimeto claimexemptionontour profit, providedthat free con- ment processwas June 30. questedthe Commerce Ministry cluding N-95masks. Gadkari same mustbeprobed by afive- put other similar clubs and conveyance allowance re- veyanceisnotprovidedbytheem- “The abovechanges areasper to allowtheirexport. launchedthe reportofthe GAME member committee. across the countryun- ceivedfromemployers. ployer. Further,blind, deaf and therequestsreceivedfromtheIBs “Over twomonths ago, India National Task Forcefor MSMEs, Nalconetprofit The five-member committee, der government The income taxdepartment muteororthopedicallyhandicap (interestedbidders)inviewofthe importedPPE kits from China entailing industry-wide recom- at`138crore to beappointedbythecentralgov- scrutiny. has nowamendedincome tax employees can alsoclaim ad-hoc prevailing situation arising out of through aspecialflightand now, mendationsto boosttheunitsand ernment,asingle-memberBench rules to prescribecertain exemp- exemptionof transportallowance COVID-19,”asperanotificationby the countryisproducing over5 entrepreneurial dynamism. inFY20 of actingpresidentBSVPrakash tions to be availedbyemployees of Rs3,200permonthwhilecom- the DepartmentofInvestment lakh PPE kitsper day. Ihavere- KPKrishnan,formersecretary, Kumar said, should look into the gest changes in the articlesof suchasany allowance granted to puting salariedincome. andPublicAssetManagement. In questedthe Commerce Ministry MinistryofSkillDevelopmentand NewDelhi: National affairs of the club, theutility of the Memorandum of Association of meet the costoftravelontouror CBDThas, however, clarified January, the Centrehad put 100 to allowexport of PPE kits,” Entrepreneurship, said MSMEs Aluminium CompanyLtd land leasedbythe government the club, the membership rules on transfer,any allowance, while determining value of percentof itsstakeinAirIndia,in- Gadkari said while addressing a needfinancialandregulatorysup- (Nalco)haspostedanetprofit and whether the constructions and regulations, the waitlist, and whether,grantedontourorforthe perquisites,noexemptionshallbe cluding the airline’s 100per cent webinar organisedbyGAME portinthe short term.Hesug- of Rs138.23croreforFY20,as done at the club were donewith whetherthecolonial-eraclubwas period of journeyinconnection availableinrespectoffreefoodand stakeinAir India Express and 50 task forceonInternational gested NPAclassification should per arelease. ENS or without requisiteapprovals. following all the rules of Section 8 withtransfer,tomeettheordinary non-alcoholicbeveragesprovided per cent stakeinAir India-SATS MSME Day. beredoneforthesector,sothatthe The committee shall also sug- of the Companies Act. dailychargesincurred by an em- by employervia paid vouchers. Airport Services, on the block. The government had on borrowers can getmoretime.

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In the dark, Ladakh’s long, hot summer says Kargil, as tests delayed, When Indiaand China clashed in their worststand-off in four decades,leaving 20 Indian soldiersdead,the ripples were felt in China looms Ladakh.The tensions areset to further delayrecovery in the UT that, instead of tourists,isseeing hugelosses, a20times surgein Covid-19numbers since May, andastrictlockdown.VARINDER BHATIA on theroad from Leh to Pangong ANKITADWIVEDIJOHRI

NMAY 23, says the28-ye- ASHI WANGMO, 38, runs asta- Chetan Dorje,District Education and ar-old, he boardedaShra- tionery-cum-bookstoreshe COVIDINLADAKH Planning Officer,Leh, says,“To ensurestu- O mik train from Mumbai, took on rent twoyears ago, at a 941 dentsdon’t miss out, we have deputedteach- alongwith135residentsof Ladakh’s market complexnearthe Leh ers who liaison with sarpanchs in villagesto Kargil district, to return home. Confirmed T DeputyCommissioner’soffice. provide homework andlessons. Teachers also “About 30 of us arrivedonMay 26. cases On Wednesdaymorning, she is busy negoti- 1000 sharelessons on WhatsApp.” We were put in institutional qua- ating the three-month lockdown rent with The administration is also reaching out rantine, with oursamples collected her landlord, TsewangNorbu, as her daugh- throughradioandtelevision.SinceApril11,the forCovid-19testing on June 1.” terYangchan,10, attends onlinelessons on a 800 Leh Education Department has been broad- Refusingto revealhisidentity,he phone. Schools shut, the Class 4student has castinglessonstostudents of Classes10and adds that forthe next twoweeks, classes fortwo hours aday —noon and 600 12 on the radio.“Theorysubjects likeEnglish, none of them heardanythingon evening. But, the skies arerarelysilentinLeh 358 Social Studies, Urdu, Bodhilanguageand their test results. “On June 12,all 30 these days.And as the IndianAir Force’s fighter Recovered Science aretaughtonastation from 11 to 12 of us gathered outside the quaran- jetsorties scream overhead,Wangmoquickly 400 noondaily. ForsubjectslikeMathematics,Phy- tinecentreandprotested,”herecalls. covers Yangchan’s ears with headphones. sics,Chemistry, Biology,whichinvolve equati- Finally, on June 14,his results

That also means Tashi, asingleparent, 200 ons,diagramsetc,we have beenusingaDoor- camepositive forCovid-19.“Ihadal- can talk freelyabout the difficult times she 1 darshanchannelsince May19,” Dorjesays. readyspent14 days inquarantine.So is facing, with almostzerosales at her shop Death However, the tension along the LAC Ihadto undergo re-samplingonJune since the lockdown beganinMarch end, a 0 means officials fear disruption in reaching 16,”he says.Thatresult toowas pos- pending rent that amountstoRs54,000per (Top) Sakti villageinLeh, whichislocated on the highway to Pangong Tso. Beyond out to studentsinthe forwardareas. “Areas itive,andnowheiswaitingforresults annum, school fees that needs to be paid, and the villagecan be seen the Pangong area; (Above)school children in Leh climb up ACTIVECASES likeChangthang,Zanskar,Nyoma,Nubra and of the thirdtest, done on June 24. the warclouds nowhovering overhead. ahill nearbyfor Internet connectivity to attend online classes. Varinder Bhatia various zones have 40-45villages. We send Havingdeclareditself Covid-free It is 10 days since India and China clashed 600 582 teachers thereonce amonth, to shareles- onMay15,Kargilisseeingasurge in in Galwan Valley, with 20 sons, even stationeryitems,” says Dorje. casesthismonth.Of Ladakh’snearly Indian troops including a isolation and ICU beds.” TravelAssociation,says they expectlittlebusi- 500 NoneyPWangchuk,the owner of Ladakh 1,000cases, 70%are in Kargil. CommandingOfficerkilled Community leaders are nessforanother12-18months.“Tourismisthe Public School in Leh, says manyoftheir 1,200- Says FerozAhmedKhan, Chief in the worstface-offbet- helpingmonitorpatients in only full-fledgedindustryhere... Lehhas4,000 400 odd studentshavereturnedhome to far-flung Executive Councillor of the Ladakh ween the twocountries in home isolation. taxis and 300touristbuses. All arejobless.” areas afterthe lockdown. As manyfamilies Autonomous Hill Development four decades. However, ten- What Ladakh is strugg- Angchukaddsthatthegovernment’slaws 300 shareone phoneordevicebetween them- Council,Kargil,“Thosewhoreturned sions have been brewing ling with is testing, with its forthesensitive regionhave always beenadrag selves,Wangchuksays,“We give lessonstilllate mixed freelywithresidentssince since May, particularly in sole lab, in ChuchotYokma on Ladakh’s tourism. “When Ladakh was in the night. Teachers teacheventill 2-3 am.” their resultswerenot out....” 200 Pangong Tso, around 200 village, equippedtohandle openedfor tourists,theywereallowedtoex- Kargil has no testing lab, with kmaway.Its transition from just25-30 casesaday. After ploreverylimitedplaces.Inthe1990s,restric- The road to Pangong the nearest200 km away,in atouristhotspotayear ago Thedouble flightsfromoutside resum- tedareas likeNubravalley, Pangong Tsowere 100 10 30 National Highway 3, connecting Leh to ChuchotYokma in Leh district. to ahot zone, amidstthe ed and cases surged, the opened.Now,Inner Line Permit is neededto 5 Pangong, runs along the Indus River, with the “Earlier,weweresending most of lingering shadowofcoron- whammy authorities startedflying visittheseplacesandtheChineseandTaiwan- 0 Stok and Matho glaciers on one side and hills our samples to the NCDC in Delhi. March April MayJune* avirus, is casting apall on samplesdownto Delhiand eserequireanotherpermit,fromtheMinistry on the other.But the picturesque villages, a In June, the test results startedgett- the rest of Ladakh. Chandigarh. While officially of Home Affairs in NewDelhi. Nearly 15%of *till June 25 mix of Tibetan, Muslim and Christianfami- ingdelayed. Recently, we have beg- Landlord Norbu says he THE BORDER with China the waiting time forresults the tourists hereare from China andTaiwan, lies, hide an underlying anxiety these days un sending samples to Chandigarh. understands Wangmo’s is the hottestithas is 48-72hours, it usually Buddhists coming to visit monasteries.” ■10 patientsinhospitals in Leh, 38 in —about Covid as muchasChina. We hopethis will reduce delays,” problem, but adds theyare been in 4decades. The takesseveral days. AccordingtoAngchuk,encouraging tour- Kargil; none on ventilator;1death so far The Sheyvillage, the ancient seat of says Dr Abdul Jalil, in-charge of the also facing acrisis. “Shop coronavirus numbers The checkpointsacross ism in border areas near the LACwould also Ladakhi kings, is located down this road, as onlydedicated Covid-19hospital owners likemehaverequ- have surgedfollowing a the twonational highways fortify India’s claims regarding these when ■ Ladakh has 42 ICU beds, 21 ventilators well as the historicThiksey monasteryand in Kargil, with 100beds. As of June estedthe administration to brief, comforting lull. —fromSrinagarandManali it comes to China. “Takethe nomadic tribes. aresidence of the Dalai Lama. 24,63bedswereoccupied. give us some relief too,” he And it’s all coinciding to —tocontrol movement While we have imposedsomanyrestrictions Resembling Lhasa’s Potala palace, Khan says apartfromthe hospi- says.“The tension between wash out atourist from outside areslowing on them, notallowing them to go to their about 2.5-3 lakh Pashmina goatsinthe Thikseymonastery is a12-storeystructure tal,theyhave10ICUbeds,CovidCare India and China,and Covid, season that Ladakh supplies. The trucks from pasturelands,the Chinese have been encour- Nyoma and Durbuk sub-divisions. Mostof housing Buddhistart.In1970, aMaitreya Centres in all12blocks,isolation aretwo demons that have depends on foraliving. outsidestophere,andgoods aging them to spread out.” the traditional pastures arealong the Indus temple came up on the premises to com- beds, quarantine centres, and beds ruined our lives.” aretransferredtolocalvehi- StanzinChospel, the president of ataxi Riverinthe area of the LACand usedtobe memoratethe visit of the 14th Dalai Lama. in hotels —about 1,000in all. cles, following sanitisation. union, says,“During the five-month tourist shared by Tibetans and our nomads. While Usually, at this time, the place is thronging Among thosewaitingfor their The clampdown PhuntsogWangyal,thepresidentoftheLeh season,ataxidriverearnsRs3-3.5lakh,which our Armyhas imposedrestrictions, China with tourists.Now,everything is shut. resultisa25-year-oldresearch scho- Ladakh, especiallyLeh,isunder totallock- MerchantAssociation,says,“Scarcityof essen- supportshim the entireyear.During normal has been sending Tibetannomads to these An Armycheckpostmarks Karu, where laratDelhiUniversitywhoreturned down, givenboththe situation at the border tial commodities is amajor issue... The entire conditions, the Armyalso hires alarge num- pastures. Firsttheypushthemtothe forward NH-3 splits intotwo —one road going up to Kargil on May14and remains in and the Covid-19surge.Officials ward off ration forthe city comes from outside. By the beroftaxis.Butthesedays,weare sittingidle.” areas, thentheyput up mobile towers, shop- towardsSakti villageand further to Pangong home quarantine since. He is wait- queries,thereare numerouscheck-posts time theyreach, the goods arefar costlier.” The Covid blowcame even as theindustry ping complexesthere, and stakeclaim to the Tso, and the other towardsManali. ing forresultsofasecondsample. across the UT’s Capital, and anybody coming Ghulam Mustafa,aleading Leh hotelier, wasstillworkingouttheglitchessinceJammu land. On our side areafew dilapidated Sakti, avillageof3,600people, lies at an “Thelabhasbeenconducting80-90 from outside, by road or air,mustspend a adds, “Transporters arenot willing to bring in andKashmirwassplitintotwo UnionTerrito- kuchcha houses. So thefew people living altitude of approximately11,800feet. Its testsdaily asperpressreleaseof the minimum of sevendays in quarantine—the supplies because theyfear getting stuckon ries—ofJ&KandLadakh.TashiGyaltsonKhac- thereare also migrating.” greenery, with fields of potatoes, tomatoes administration. Of these, at leasttill wait can getprolonged due to the delays in the waydue to both the Armymovement hu,Chairmanof theLadakhChamberof Indus- While the border tension is settofurther and peas (the region’s summerstaple),isa June17,not morethan10tests were getting test results. and the curbs. Entirestockscan getruined.” try, pointsout the absence of aprocurement hit business, Tsering says even previouspay- rare sight forLadakh. from Kargil,” he says. An odd-evenformula is in place to check The Ladakah TransportCooperative policy.“When we were apartofJ&K, the J&K mentsare pending.“InMarch-April,we receive Sitting at aroadside dhaba near the en- Khan says they aretryingtosee the numbers of both private and commercial Society basedinLeh has anetwork of around Small Scale Industrial DevelopmentCorpora- paymentsfor Pashminasold during the win- trance to the village, Chamba Gelek,a60- to it that moresamplesfromKargil vehicles.Whileessentialcommodityshopsare 1,200trucks.Manyhavebeen requisitioned tionpromotedthelocalMSMEsector.Wehad ter. DuetoCovid-19,our clientswho process year-oldfarmer,says theyhavebeen hithard aretestedatthe Leh lab. openthroughtheweek,Leh’straditionalcloth by theArmyfor transportingrations, ammu- requestedtheUniongovernmentandLadakh the rawwoolsaid theywerenot able to sell by coronavirus. “We do nothaveany case, Kargil Deputy Commissioner market is allowedonlyFriday andSaturday. nition and troops to forwardareas. The soci- LtGovernorRKMathurthattillthetimethere theirgoodseither,andhencecouldnotpay us.” but duetothe numbers in Leh, no tourists Baseer Ul Haq Choudharydid not In this stillness, the movement of troops, ety’s secretary, Nawang, says they aregrate- wasasimilar body forLadakh, have atender- arecoming towardsPangong.” respond to callsand messages. plustheIAFaircraft,isaconstantpresence.The ful forthe business. ing process forprojectsabove Rs 1lakh, and Schools Stanzin Tashi, 36, the owner of the dhaba, Kargilresidentsare nowonedge 14 Corpsofthe Army’s Ladakh Scoutsand restrictthesameto onlythoseunitsregistered Tsewang Norbu and his friends Jigmet says,“If thetensions increase in Pangong Tso, over the border tension with China. severalunitsofthe ITBP and Border Roads The economy with respective districtsinthe UT.” Dolkar and JigmetDolma, all studentsof our livelihood will be ruined. Iwill be left SocialactivistSajjadHussainsays the Organisationare basedinLeh. April to September is peak touristseason Among the businesses hit due to the bor- Class 10,climb up a30-feethilltop on the with no moneytofeedmyfamily.” mixed messages fromthe govern- Sincethe firstcasewas reported in March forLeh —thisyear,itthreatens to be atotal der tension is the much-covetedPashmina outskirts of Leh everyday with alaptop. Gelek remarksthat formonths now, their mentaren’thelping,despitethesite —aresidentwhohadreturnedfromIran—the washout.Comparedto the1.33 lakhtourists it wool, worthRs13-14 croreannually. The That’s the onlyplace in the area wherethey efforthadbeen to ensure no outsidersentered of the June 15-16night clash being drumbeat of coronavirus toohas been rising. got in 2019 till June(over 2.79 lakh theentire sheepfromwhich the wool is acquired are getproperInternetconnectivity,for sessions the village, to prevent coronavirus. “Villagers 400kmaway. “Since the Kargil war, On June 24,the tallystood at 242inLeh —87 season),Lehhasgotbarely6,050sofar. Itsover found in regions near the LAC. Pashmina with their class teacher. even told their relativesand friends notto therehasbeennoceasefireviolation of them cured.Kargil has nearly three times 400guesthousesandhotelsareshut.With70% traders claim mostofthe livestockgrazing Leh has 358government and 46 private come.” Now, thereisalmostnobreak in the fromPakistan’ssidehere.Nowpeo- that number —690 —with 187cured. of Ladakh’seconomydependent on tourism, pastures arenow out of bounds. schools, with 7,782 enrolledinthe former and continuous stream of Armyvehicles going plefeartheremightbeshelling.The With allcases asymptomatic or mild, and hoteliers put the expected lossatoverRs600 Sonam Tsering, aformer councillor from 15,840 in latter.Punchok Paldan, the head of past. “For hours,wedon’tseeanyprivate car.” administration should reachout to onlyone death across the UT,ChiefMedical crore. The border tensions mean therewon’t Chushul and one of the leading Pashmina the National InformaticsCentreinLeh,ad- The road to Pangong Tso, about 104km stakeholders like village heads to Officer,Leh, Motup Dorje,isconfident of their be anyearly respite. traders of Leh, says around 1,200-1,300fam- mitsthe Internetisamajor issue, nowemerg- away,stretches next to him —empty for soothe nerves.” readiness.“Weare fullyprepared,withenough Tsetan Angchuk,the presidentofthe Leh iliesinthe cityare in the business. “There are ing as amajor problem with schools shut. miles, but forthe Armytrucksand troops.

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SOME HAVE perfect vision. Some arebet- made it free) and MGNREGAwork, both growth. Thatwillcontribute0.60 per sion in 2020-21,the firstin42years. It ter, they areseers, theycan see things initiativesofthe UPAgovernment. Many, cent to overallGDP growth. could be up to -5 per cent.Arecession Chinese that ordinarymortals cannot. Some are however, arestilldependent uponthe will mean moreunemployment (except even better,theyare sages, theycan fore- charity of NGOs. The prevailing emotions rural, mostlymanual, work)and falling tell the futurethat is beyond the graspof are disgust with the governmentsand .... BUT GLOOM incomes/wages. Percapitaincome is PCHIDAMBARAM averagepeople. resignation to fate. ELSEWHERE expectedtofall by 10-12per cent. The checkers Website:pchidambaram.in Letmereportwhat Isee around me In small towns everything is open — people at the margins of the povertyline Twitter@Pchidambaram_IN and youcan compareitwith what you the bazaar,the shops, theservice Everything else is surrounded by (justabove thebottom30per cent) will THECONGRESS Party’s formerpresident seearound you. In abig city like providers. gloom and uncertainty.MSMEs feel they be pushed intopoverty. should have been morecautiousbeforehe Chennai, everythingisopen, then Exceptinthe bazaar forvegetables, have been abandonedbythe govern- made his ‘Surender Modi’ tweet. It did not everything is suddenlyclosed.Itisa fruit,meat and fish, thereare few ment. The Finance Ministerpromised take thePrime Ministerlong to hit back bewilderingswing betweenLockdown customers forfootwear, clothing, Rs 3lakh croreto45lakh MSMEs (out of STILL CONTRACTING hard. Lastweek hisgovernment revealed and Unlockdown and Lockdown, no barber’s services, etc. 10 croreMSMEs)asacredit guarantee. The MinistryofFinancesees green that the RajivGandhi Foundationaccepted oneknows whatwillbeopen or closed, Assuming an NPAlevel of 10 percent, shoots in wheat procurement (382 largesse from China in 2005 afterwhich or when. The richand the upper that worksout to Rs 30 lakh croreof LMT), kharif sowing (13.13 millionha), Sonia Gandhi’s governmentstartedshow- middle class stay home, falling back AGRICULTURE lending. OnlyRs70,000crorehavebeen fertiliser sales and foreign exchange ing unusual camaraderie with our old en- upon their wealth or savings, and pray- SHINES... sanctioned so farand onlyRs35,000 reserves (USD 507billion). The rest are emy. Concessions were made in matters ingthatthe nightmare willgoawayby.... crorehavebeen disbursed. Thousands of dataabout lowercontraction in of trade thatbenefited China more than nobody knows when. Thelower mid- RuralIndia is completelyopen. Very MSMEshavecloseddownand lakhsof Manufacturingand Services,though it India and the Gandhi familyappeared to dle class playhide and seekwiththeir fewwear masks.Therehas been aboun- jobs have been lost—maybe forever. has concededthat y-o-y growth is neg- develop acloserelationship withthe Almost alone,the MoF workplaces,venture out onlyif tifulharvest,the Rabi crop has been pro- Travel,tourism,airlines, bus transport, ative.Y-o-Y, Manufacturing has con- Chinese CommunistParty. predicts aV-shaped recovery. absolutelynecessary, and return quickly cured,the sowing season has started, and hospitality,hotelindustry, consumer tracted by 27.4 per cent and Services by Thedisclosurethatthe Dynasty’s per- to their homes.The prevailing emotion thereare happyfaces. People arebuying durables, construction, exports, etc. are 5.4 percent, consumption of electricity sonal foundation received$300,000from Down 5per cent in 2020-21 is fear. essential items and staples, but notbe- languishing. Manyofthem will suffer by 12.5 per cent, consumption of petro- the Chinese government in 2005 is truly and up 5per cent in 2021-22 It is the poor,especiallythe yond that. Packaged food items and diet hugelosses running intocroresofrupees leum productsby23.2per cent and con- damning. But,personally, Iwas notsur- mayappear to be arecovery, shopkeeper,the self-employedautoor and nutritionsupplementsare popular. and some will file forbankruptcy.Millions sumption of coal by 4per cent. Railway prised. Thisisbecause whenSonia Gandhi taxi driver, and the tradesman like The richfarmers arebuying tractors and of direct andindirectjobswill perishwith freighttraffic is lowerthan lastyear. wasIndia’s unofficial prime minister and but it is not. Only when total carpenter,plumber or electrician, who agricultural equipment. Sale of two- the failedbusinesses. Manycompanies Different sectors of the economy have re- Rahul herdesignated heir,Inoticedthat output (GDP) exceeds the perforce musttry their luck, go out in wheelers and small cars (not othercars) have announceddebt reduction and portedhugejob losses. theytookakeen interestinclosingdown total output of 2019-20 will search of work,and return home with has pickedupsmartly. The pent-up de- sharp cutsincapital expenditure. Almostalone, the MoF predictsa major projectsthat would have benefited that be considered arecovery, earnings that arelessthan 50 per centof mand forcommercial vehicles has Demand is still abysmallylow,hitting V-shapedrecovery. Down 5per cent in India enormouslybut thatChina clearly usual earnings. The prevailing emotion spurredCVsales, but the relentless in- the Manufacturing and Services sectors 2020-21andup5percentin2021-22may didnot like. Oneexample will suffice. and that maynot happen is frustration. crease in petrol and diesel prices is a very hard. People arehoarding cash. appear to be arecovery,but it is not. Only If Vedantahad notbeen stopped from until 2022-23.Ifthe MoFis The very poor aredevastated. They dampener. Year-on-year,currency in circulation has when total output (GDP)exceeds the to- refining bauxiteinthe Niyamgiri Hills, be- so sanguine,why does it not had migrated forwork, theyhave Supplychainsare beingrestored, risen 14 percent. The reasonsare two: taloutput of 2019-20 willthat be consid- cause of the personal intervention of predictpositive GDP migrated backtotheir villages, and the though thereare some bottlenecks like one, fear of Covid infection and the cost ered arecovery,and that maynot happen Rahul Gandhi, Odisha maytoday have onlytwo things that sustain them arethe GST. of hospitalisation.The other is the loom- until 2022-23. If the MoF is so sanguine, been the world’s centrefor aluminium growth in 2020-21? TheMoF ration under the National Food Security Agriculturewill do well in 2020-21. ing threat of China. Both Covid fear and whydoes it notpredict positive GDP production.Anil Agarwal, who invested dare not! Scheme (manystate governmentshave Doing well means, at best 4per cent China threat will drag India intoareces- growth in 2020-21? The MoF darenot! morethan Rs 11,000croreinthe Lanjigarh refinery, has said morethan once that the international price of aluminium would have comedownbyhalf if the refinery had been allowedtomine bauxiteinthe She surroundinghills. And, Jayanthi Natarajan Floyd’s last breath Canyou see me as I has publiclyadmitted that she wasor- SAID dered to close this project,and other major projects, by Sonia Gandhi. LIUCHUENCHEN China knows that India will onlymatch has an echo here am, an Indian Chinese? itsmightifitsucceeds in building an econ- [email protected] omyaspowerful. In the decade before thetic. While some woke ones did lend Sonia became India’s de factoleader, we their support, no one seemedinterestedin were beginning to getthere. TheIndian acknowledging the oppression of Dalits IWAS grabbingmymask to rush to the economywas booming. Thisisbecause Dalitality who have to live through hell under simi- nearbygrocerystore when the cellphone Atal Bihari Vajpayeecontinuedthe process lar and sometimes farbrutal circumstances rang. It wasmymother.Ithought she initiatedby PVNarasimha Raotodisman- SURAJYENGDE in India. From Sambhal to Moradabad to would be (onceagain) fussing over my tle the awful licence raj. So,our private sec- Twitter@Surajyengde Pune to Nagpur,beitoverpractice of reli- ‘outing’ amid the pandemic but she spoke torcompanies begantocompete with the gious ritualsor aproperty dispute,couples in an extremelyserious tone: “I hope you best.Itwas around 2006,asIremember, in love or crimes of hate, thereare several knowwhat is happening between India that the dead hand of the government examplesof Dalitsbrutalisedandkilledby and China. Alwayskeep your face covered. reappearedandmanifesteditself through THE COLD-bloodedmurder of African- upper-caste perpetrators. Stay safeand do notrespond to anytrou- the MinistryofEnvironment. People like American George FloydonMay 25 has This tragedyalso underlines the role blemaker out there.” me supported Modi in the hopethathe sparkedarevolution in the United States. of police brutality againstDalits, Adivasis While the wordsofcaution aren’t any- would unshackle the economy and bring Floydwas kneedbyawhitepolice official and Muslims in India. In manycases,the thing new, thefears and anxiety of apos- backreal growth.Sadly,hehas turnedout in Minneapolis while his colleague, of murder of aDalit is passedoff as “another siblebacklash ratchetupwheneverthere to be asocialistand acentralplanner and Asian origin, stood as abettor. This brutal- Dalit murder”. TheSC/ST(Prevention of is afresh confrontation along the border. the economywas already in serioustrou- ity wasrecordedonmobile phonecam- Atrocities) Actisrarelyinvoked and po- The undercurrent of tension bounces blebeforethe Chinese virus hit. eras by onlookers who protestedbut to no lice crudelydiscourageany reference to back,perhaps each time with agreater It ismy consideredopinion that apow- avail.The video galvanised global com- caste atrocities. force, leavingmewonderingifthe aver- erful economy is ourgreatestweapon munities to demand justice forGeorge Manytimes,anFIR is notfiled. If filed, ageman on thestreetwould understand againstbothour main enemies. China is Floyd and call foranend to America’s mis- investigation and due process aredelayed. that IamanIndian Chinese and should ruledbyatotalitarian dictator who knows treatment of itsblackand browncitizens Perhaps, that explains howaThevarman notbeblamedfor anythingthat happens this well. So he got the Dynasty to submit by thecruel worldofwhite supremacy foundguilty in TamilNadu of orderingthe with the neighbouring country. and then lulledModi intoafalse sense of and racial capitalism. vicious murder recordedonaCCTVcam- It wasduring the initial days of the securitybyagreeing to all thosepictur- The US has reverberated with cries of eraofhis son-in-lawShankar,aDalit, was coronavirus pandemic,when Ihad gone esque but futile summits. At that firstone, abolition of racialised policing andthere setfreebythe Madras High Court. to afamiliar storefor some purchases. even as he shared aGujarati swing with have been calls fordefundingthe police. Police, in general, is an anti-Dalit, Little did Iexpectthatone of the staff Modi, Chinese troops entered Ladakh for Unjustincarceration of blackand brown Adivasi and Muslim institution. Their lack members,wearing amask,would appear what then seemedlikeapicnic.Theynow people and acapitalismthat preysonthe of empathyfor victimsofthese groups in- in front of me, pass some unpleasant re- come withmuchmoreuglyintentions. It poor and vulnerable of all shades is atem- directlymakethem co-convicts. This has markand walk away.Itdidn’t turn out to is unfortunatethat our response has so far plateofthe American Dream. Malcolm X to do with the waypoliceare trainedand be aprettysight afterIconfronted him in been surprise and notstrategy. sawthisasanAmerican nightmare for taught to respond to cases involving front of other customers and the owner, Whereare the men who areincharge African-Americans. Dalits, Adivasis or Muslims. who forced him to apologise. Even though of national security? Whereisthe National Big US corporations,global financial in- Manytimes, thecharacterofacriminal Iwasn’t at fault, it didn’t makemewant Indians of Chineseoriginprotesting against China’a incursions in Ladakh in Security Advisor? He has notbeenseen dustries andliberal educational institutions is assumed. S/he musthaveacertain to returntothe samestore again. Kolkata’s China Town area on June20. Partha Paul since he trottedoff to the Tablighi Jamaat’s immediatelylenttheirsupporttotheBlack name,dress acertain way, worship apar- But it took onlyacoupleofweeksfor headquarters in Delhiinthe early days of LivesMattermovement.Somecourageous ticular religion. Thereare also commu- me to rethink the entiresituation as news thepandemic. That shouldhavebeen the ones acknowledgedtheir culpability,with nalised, casteistelementsinthe forces of the latestborder face-offbetween the various Chinese associations should put bindi to “prove” my nationality. job of the city’s policechief.Whatishap- aresolve to correct their past mistakes. In that areoften notdiscussed. Thereislit- twonations pouredin. out amessageofharmony. Am Inot justone of the 1.35 billion pening nowishis. Whereisthe general the entertainmentindustry, whitecelebri- tledebateonthese aspectsofthe lawen- Would someone catch WhatIfind unusual is Indians out there? Whyare people who became our firstChief of Defence ties co-created avideo clip accepting their forcement machinery. me againif Iwentout or will Aclosefriend howweare mostofthe demanding thatminorities changetheir Staff? He hasnot been seen in averylong complicities:assuming, overlooking, shut- Looking at the damning Dalit murders it provetobeworse this suggested Iwear time treated withrespect ownculturetoberegardedasacitizen of while.Inthis time of openhostilitieswith ting down or notsaying anything on racial and the cold response from the courtand time? Iamnot a“spy”.Ihave but it is onlyduring acon- the very countrytheywerebornin? China it should behisjob to brief the coun- bias when it wasrequired. police system, thereisneedfor arenewed no connection with the ethnic clothes anda flictthat we arelooked Imight be of Chineseorigin butIhave tryonwhat is happening. It should be the BackinIndia, Dalit rightsactivists Ravi society-ledresponsetothese atrocities on Chinese government, so bindi to “prove” my upon with suspicion.It no knowledge of Mandarin.Rather,Iam job of theNSA.Instead,all we have seen Keerthi (50), MayuriKeerthi(49)and Dalits. Need foramoral forcethat is ded- whyshould Isuffer? nationality. Am I doesn’t appear difficult well-versedinHindiand Bengali. areBJP spokesmen whose job it is notto Bhimrao Kanshiram Keerthi (12) took out icated to fighting the injustice metedout Most thinkthatIam go- foranyone to turn their Recently, afriend leftmeannoyed speakfor theGovernmentofIndia. apublicprotest in Nagpur againstanti- to the poor,vulnerable, weak Dalits. In the ing overboardwith the notjust oneofthe backs on us justbecause when she said, “Don’t mind me saying At the best of timesthese spokesmen black racisminAmerica. Theypointed to face of lawlessness and the lackofState word “spy” but that’s how 1.35 billion Indians we looksimilartothose this but China...”. Idon’t understand why arebad and theyhavebeen atrocious since similarities of caste andrace discrimina- andpolice interestincurbing atrocities, Iwas portrayed thelast out there? Why from the enemynation. othersneedtoworry abouthow Ifeel the crisis beganinLadakh.Theyhavebe- tion. Theychanted“I can’t breathe”, adding therehas to be aConstitutionallydevoted, time Itweeted something Suchsituations often about aremarkagainstthe neighbour- havedlikechildish,belligerentschoolboys. to the echoes of Floyd’s final words. socially conscious forcethatkeepsvio- in favour of Indian Chinese. must minorities call formeasures to heal ing country. Whenevertheyhavebeen cornered in Iwas busy fielding TVandother media lence in check. Iwas cornered forbeinga changeculture to be the festering distrustbe- The scars of the 1962 warwill always some primetime debatetheyhavere- interviews.Everyone,itseemed, wasin- Sometimes, it is themoral forcethat “Chinese agent” with afew tween people. At the same hauntmycommunity. Fearfulofdrawing sorted tediouslytoeither invoking terested in understanding my perspective drawsattention to it. This moral force people tagging the National seen as citizens? time, theyalso leave you attention,wehavealways remainedquiet Jawaharlal Nehru’s China warortoaccus- on the racial question in America. No one, helpedIndia win itsindependence from Investigation Agency. Ire- wondering if youshould about the injustice metedout to us back ing those asking questionsoftreason. This it seemed, wasinterestedtolook at obvi- British brutality.Asthe worlddebatesFloyd member Icouldn’tsleep thatnight. succumbtoridiculousideas suchas#boy- then. Pickingonuswill onlyworsenour is atime of nationalcrisis, theyshriek,how ous parallels. Ihad to forcethis analogy and systemic prejudiceand oppression, the The current spiralling tension makes cottchinese goods and give up Chinese suffering. dareyou askquestions thatcould hurtthe intothe discussions. One panelistinaTV powerand the needfor suchamoral force me wonder what it will take to makeoth- food, onlyfor thesakeofpeace and to en- LiuChuenChenisa morale of ‘ourbravehearts’. debatesaid it wasaUS-centred conversa- couldn’t be more relevant today. ers understand the needfor cordial ex- surethat your lifeisnot hampered. SeniorSub-Editor with IE Online Actually, it is because notenough question and, hence, bringing up caste issues of changes and supportratherthan hostil- It might soundslightlycrazy but at one tions have been askedabout national secu- India would be adiversion. Suraj Yengde, author of Caste Matters, ity with their very ownpeople. An Indian point, Iwas suggestedbyacloseone that National Editor Shalini Langer curates rity thatnot enough has been doneto As usual, Indiancelebrities were apa- curatesthe fortnightly ‘Dalitality’ column Chinesefriendrecentlyasked me if the Iwear moreofethnic clothes and wear a thefortnightly ‘She Said’ column strengthenIndia’sdefences.Wedid not ask enough questionsafter 26/11soour cities remain as vulnerable to another jihadi attackasMumbai wasin2008. We did notask enough questionsafter the attack on aCRPFconvoy in Pulwama so we do notknowhow the suicide bomberac- Outof Whyit’stime forpost-Covid world quired RDX. He couldnot have been act- MYMIND ing alone but we do notknowthe names of thosewho helpedhim. If it wasPakistan MEGHNADDESAI or two(blame the Chinese or WHO), every- leashedall the old pleasures people used came unbearable forthe people. The poor Belgiumput together.Evenadeath score behind that attackthen we shouldatleast onewasbewildered,unpreparedand mys- to enjoy. Theydonot careifthe closeness were hitthe worstbut businesses were of 700per million is less than one-tenth of knowifitwas the work of the Stateorfree- tified. Scientists were caught without total mayleadtoasecond coming of the infec- also hit. Richorpoor, a50% cut in income 1per cent. Of course politiciansadd that lancejihadists. SUDDENLY,WITHOUTany planning or co- command over the natureofthe disease, tion. Been there, donethat. hurts.Governmentsaround the worldbe- everylifeisprecious, but those who have In the Kashmir Valleywehaveasked ordination, across the globecountries are itsspread, itsimpact. It wasglobal andso Behavioural scientists arereallynobet- gantounderplaythe novelty of the pan- longer to live areevenmoreprecious than so fewquestionssince the abrogation of deciding that theywant to ‘normalise’ frightening that, likeinthe Old Testament, terthan economists,whatever theythink. demic. Yesthereweredeaths but people those above 65/70. In anycaseevenglob- Article370 that we nowhear of jihadi at- lives. Infectionsmay still be found and people begantothink theywillnever sur- But theydid warn backinFebruarythatif diedanywayinwinter in the Northern allythe number of deaths is belowhalfa tacksevery other day. Were we nottold deaths inevitablyand sadlyoccur.But the vive this curse or,iftheydid, the worldthey youimpose lockdown fortoo long,people Hemisphere. Theywerejustdying of a million. The Spanish flu wasmuchworse. thatone of the reasons forKashmir to time has cometoget back to work,end will go back to will be totallydifferent. will begin to flakeoff and become impa- newdisease. But mostofthesewerethe Covid has become familiar.Avaccine come underdirect rule from Delhiwas to lockdowns and social distancing.Covid is Manypeople thought that this wasa tient forthe old routines.Scientists,the elderly or theunhealthy(peoplewithun- is faraway, but we want Covid routinised stop jihadi groups from continuing their no longer the unknown fear of the chance of alifetime to reorder the worldas hardtype,wereundecidedamong them- derlying conditions). So the costofthe lives in our lives. It has exposedappalling weak- horrible violence? If we cannotcontrol at- Armageddon. We know itssize andits ef- greener,safer,moreequal, morejust. selvesbut kept on urging caution, as they lostwas argueddown. nesses in our societies but soon other prob- tackswithin our borders,what chance is fects. It is domesticated in our minds. Alas that fear or expectation is gone. arestill doing. Theyknowtheydon’tknow. The higher per capitadeaths have been lems will take priority.Inevery country, therefor ustobeable to control attacks People have diedofapreviouslyun- We yearnfor theOld Normal. In the UK, Ultimatelywhen the choice came bein Europe. Even though the US records the the hospital facilities proved inadequate. on our borders?Thingshavegonevery known infectionand diedinlarge num- the arrivalofalovely hotsummer,one tween the infection and the economy, as highestnumber,given itssize itsnumbers The poor of all ages and races suffered. wrong with national security foravery bers. At theoutset, afteradelayofamonth hundreddays of lockdownlater,has un- time passed, the costs of theshutdownbe- arefewer than the UK, Spain, France and Theywillstaythat way... Relax. long while.

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CHARLIESAVAGE, PHILIPBLENKINSOP ERICSCHMITT& BRUSSELS,JUNE27 MICHAELSCHWIRTZ WASHINGTON,JUNE27 PAKISTAN EUROPEAN UNION countries Pakanti-graft failedtosettle on afinal“safe AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE offi- list” of countries whose resi- cials have concludedthat a bodyfilesnew dents could travel to the bloc Russian militaryintelligence unit from July, withthe United secretly offeredbounties to caseagainst States, Brazil andRussia setto Taliban-linked militantsfor NawazSharif be excluded. killingcoalition forces in Ambassadorsfromthe 27 Afghanistan—includingtarget- Lahore: Pakistan’s anti- EU members convenedfrom ingAmerican troops —amid the graftbodyhas filedafresh Fridayafternoon to establish peacetalks to end the long-run- corruption case against criteria forgranting quaran- ning warthere,accordingtoof- Washington has made adeal withthe Taliban that allows deposed prime minister tine-free access from next ficials briefed on the matter. the US to graduallypull itstroops out of Afghanistan. NYT NawazSharif and three Wednesday. The United States concluded others fortheir alleged in- Aredrawn text of 10-20 monthsago thattheRussianunit, volvement in the illegal countries wasput to them,but whichhasbeen linkedto assassi- Russia’sGRUunderspotlightagain allotment of land in manysaid theyneededtocon- nation attemptsand other covert Punjab province about 34 sult firstwiththeir govern- operationsin Europeintendedto years ago. An arrest war- ments, diplomatssaid. The list Lines of cars wait at acoronavirustesting siteinMiami Gardens, Florida, on Friday. Florida destabilise the West or take re- US INTELLIGENCE officials, GRU’s missions rant has been issued did notinclude the United bannedalcohol consumption at itsbars Fridayasits daily confirmedcoronavirus casesneared vengeonturncoats, had covertly cials told the NewYork usuallyinvolve the againstthe 70-year-old States, Brazil or Russia, one 9,000,anew recordthat is almost doublethe previous markset justtwo days ago. AP offeredrewards forsuccessful at- Times that the alleged destabilisationof embattledthree-time diplomat said. The countries tackslastyear. roping in of Afghan Western countries premier who is in London areexpected to give informal Islamist militants, or armed militantstokillcoali- through various fortreatment. Several replies by Saturdayevening. criminal elements closelyassoci- tion troops wasthe work of a means. According to NYT,the corruptioncases have TheEuropean Commission Despite early warnings, nations ated with them,are believedto Russian militaryintelligence unitwas behindanat- been filedbythe govern- had advisedthat the bloc first have collectedsome bounty unit known as GRU. This is the temptedcoupinMontenegro ment of Prime Minister liftinternal border controls and money, the officials said. Twenty same unit thatthe UK gov- and the poisoningofanarms Imran Khan againstSharif then graduallyopen up to out- missed silent spreaders of Covid Americans were killedincom- ernment blamedfor the poi- manufacturer in Bulgaria in since his ousterfromthe siders. However, the firststep bat in Afghanistanin2019, butit soning of Sergei Skripal, afor- recent years. It is also believed office by the Supreme has notgone according to plan. that colleague should nothave awareness campaigns, airport wasnot clear whichkillings merRussiandouble agent to be behindRussianat- CourtinJuly2017inthe Greece is mandating Covid- MATTAPUZZO,SELAM been contagious. screening and stay-home-if- were undersuspicion. living in England. According tempts to interveneinthe Panama Papers case. 19 testsfor arrivals from arange GEBREKIDAN&DAVIDD The visitor had seemedper- you’resickpoliciesmightnotstop The intelligence finding was to Western intelligence offi- 2016 US elections. Sharif wasdisqualifiedas of EU countries,includingFrance, KIRKPATRICK fectlyhealthyduring her stay in it. Moreaggressive measures briefed to President Trump, and prime ministerin2017by Italy, the Netherlands and Spain, MUNICH,JUNE27 Germany. Shetoldcolleaguesthat might be required —ordering the WhiteHouse’s National the Supreme Courtinthe withself-isolation until results shehadstartedfeelingillafterthe healthypeople to wear masks, or Security Councildiscussed the NATOtroops would be asignifi- bilisingadversaries through a Panama Papers case. areknown. DR CAMILLARothe wasabout to flightback to China.Days later,she restricting international travel. problem at an interagency meet- cantandprovocative escalationof combinationof suchtacticsascy- The CzechRepublic has said leave fordinner when the gov- testedpositive forthecoronavirus. Rotheandhercolleagueswere ing in lateMarch,the officials what American and Afghan offi- berattacks,the spread of fake it will notallow in tourists from ernment laboratorycalled with Scientists at the time believed amongthefirsttowarntheworld. said. Officials developedamenu cials have said is Russian support news and covert and deniable Portugal, Sweden and partof the surprising test result. that onlypeople with symptoms But even as evidence accumu- of potential options —starting fortheTaliban,anditwouldbethe militaryoperations. BANGLADESH Poland. Positive.Itwas Jan27. She had couldspread the coronavirus. lated,global health officialsex- with makingadiplomatic com- firsttimetheRussianspyunitwas The Kremlin said it had 4Rohingyamen Thereisbroad agreement just discoveredGermany’s first Theyassumed it acted likeits ge- pressedconfidence that symp- plaint to Moscowand ademand known to have orchestrated at- notbeenmade awareofthe that the bloc should onlyopen case of the newcoronavirus. netic cousin, SARS. tomless spreading wasnot imp- that it stop, along withanesca- tacksonWestern troops. accusations. killedingunfight up to those withasimilar or But the diagnosis made no Butif theexpertswere wrong, ortant, delaying strict measures. lating series of sanctions and Anyinvolvement with the Zabihullah Mujahid, a better epidemiologicalsitua- sense.Her patient, abusiness- if the virus could spread from It is impossibletocalculate otherpossible responses, but the Talibanthatresultedinthe deaths spokesmanfortheTaliban,denied withpolice tion, but thereare questions man from anearbyautoparts seemingly healthy carriersorpeo- the human toll of thatdelay, but WhiteHouse has yettoautho- of American troops would alsobe thattheinsurgentshave“anysuch Dhaka: Four suspected about howtoassess acountry’s company, could have been in- plewho had notyet developed models suggestthatearlier,ag- rise anystep, the officials said. ahugeescalation of Russia’s so- relations withany intelligence members of aRohingya handling of the epidemic and fected by onlyone person: acol- symptoms,theramificationswere gressive action might have saved Anoperationto incentivisethe calledhybrid waragainstthe agency” and calledthe report an groupallegedly involvedin the reliabilityofdata. REUTERS league visiting from China.And potentiallycatastrophic. Public- tens of thousands of lives. NYT killing of American and other UnitedStates,astrategyof desta- attempt to defame them. NYT kidnapping forransom were killedinagunfight with Bangladeshi police Irish Parliament Trump grateful nearthesprawlingrefugee FB set to label rule-breaking posts, camps where refugees picks Micheál for US-Indians’ from Myanmar live,officialssaid. The gunfight Martin as new even Trump’s, following boycott support, says took place Fridaywhen a team of security officials PrimeMinister ers. Twitter,bycontrast,slapped White House wassearchingforthegang BARBARAORTUTAY a“getthe facts” label on them. leader in aforestnear the OAKLAND,JUNE27 Until Friday, Trump’s posts Washington:USPresidentDonald Rohingyacamps at Cox's PADRAICHALPIN with identical wording to those Trumpis“incrediblygrateful” for Bazar,saidpoliceInspector DUBLIN,JUNE27 FACEBOOK SAID Fridaythatit labelled on Twitter remained the “widespreadsupport” he has Pradeep Kumar Das. will flag all “newsworthy”posts untouchedonFacebook,spark- receivedfromthe people of India Anotherinspectorsaidthe IRELAND’S PARLIAMENT picked from politicians that break its ing criticism from Trump’s op- andIndian-Americans,theWhite suspectsopenedfireatpo- veteranopposition leader The ordersaidICE wasdetaining 124childreninits centres. AP rules, includingthose from US ponentsaswell as current and House has said in response to a lice,sparkingthe gunfight Micheál Martin as Prime President Donald Trump. Facebook stockfell 8% as big former Facebook employees. survey suggestingthatover50per thatled to their deaths. MinisteronSaturdaytohead the Facebook’s stockhas firms announced boycott Now, Facebook is all but certain centof thecommunitymembers firstevercoalition unitingthe droppedmorethan 8%, erasing to face offwith the President the in some key American states are HONGKONG twoparties that have battled Free migrant children roughly$50 billion from its next time he posts something it switchingoverto himinthepres- eachotherfor powersince acivil marketvaluation, afterthe announceditjoined the boy- deems to be violating itsrules. identialelectioninNovember. Nopermission warnearly acenturyago. European companybehind cott foratleast30days. “Thepolicieswe’reimple- WhiteHouse Deputy Press formarchto He pledged to rescue Ireland from family detention, brands such as Ben &Jerry’s CEO MarkZuckerberghad menting todayare designedto SecretarySarah Matthews made markhandover from the “the fastest-moving re- and Dove announceditwould previouslyrefusedtotakeaction address the reality of the chal- the comments while responding cession ever to hit”, brought on US judge orders govt boycottFacebookads through againstTrumpposts suggesting lenges our countryisfacing and to aquestion on recent survey re- HongKong: The Hong by thecoronavirus crisis. the end of the year over the that mail-in ballots will lead to howthey’reshowing up across sultsthatIndian-Americans,who Kong police department Martin’s Fianna Fail party was amount of hatespeechand di- voterfraud, saying that people our community,” Zuckerberg traditionallyvotefor the on Saturdaydeniedper- forced to join forces withits foes 17 forchildren to either be re- visive rhetoric on itsplatform. deserved to hear unfiltered wroteonhis Facebook pagean- Democrats,areswitchingtowards mission foranannual Fine Gael, afteranelection surge NOMAANMERCHANT leasedwith their parentsorsent Laterinthe day, Coca-Cola also statementsfrompoliticallead- nouncing the changes. AP Trumpinthe Nov3election. PTI march in the former forleftistIrish nationalists Sinn HOUSTON,JUNE27 to familysponsors. Britishcolony on July1to Fein leftneitherofthe traditional The familydetention cen- markthe anniversaryof centristpartieswith enough sup- AFEDERAL judgeonFriday or- ters “are‘on fire’and thereisno the city’s 1997 returnto porttogovernonitsown.Theyare dered the release of children moretime forhalfmeasures,” ‘I Love NY’logo designer MiltonGlaserdies at 91 China, theorganiser and joinedincoalition by theGreens. held with their parentsinUSim- she wrote. the police said in separate Under anovel agreement, migrationjails anddenounced Gee’s order said ICE wasde- Glaser brought wit, whimsy, entialpromotionalpublication,the statements. In anotice to Martin is expected to step aside the Trumpadministration’s pro- taining 124childreninits cen- ASSOCIATEDPRESS narrative andskilled drawing to PushPinAlmanack(laterrenamed theorganiser,CivilHuman halfway through the five-year longed detention of families dur- ters, whichare separatefromUS NEWYORK,JUNE27 commercialartatatimewhenad- Push Pin Monthly Graphic). RightsFront, policecited term to allowFine Gael’s leader, ing the coronavirus pandemic. Department of Health and vertisingwas dominated by the “I (HEART) NY,” his logofor a thecity’scurrentruleslim- outgoing PM Leo Varadkar,tore- US DistrictJudgeDollyGee’s Human Servicesfacilities forun- MILTONGLASER, agraphic de- severe stricturesofmodernismon 1977 campaign to promote itinggatheringsto nomore turn to the post. order appliestochildren held for accompaniedchildren that were signer who changed the vocabu- onehand and the cozy realism of tourism in New York,garnered than50people due to the “Thereisnoquestionwhatour morethan 20 days at threefam- holding around 1,000children in laryofAmerican visual culture magazines like TheSaturday global attention. Sketched on the pandemic, saying public mosturgentworkis. Thereisno ilydetention centers in Texas early June. The numbers in both in the 1960s and ’70s with his Evening Post on theother. backofanenvelopeduring ataxi demonstrations arenot community,nopartofour coun- and Pennsylvania operated by systems have fallen significantly brightlycoloured, extroverted At Push Pin Studios, whichhe ride,itwasprintedinblackletters, exempted.The notice also trywhichhasescapeduntouched” US Immigrationand Customs since earlier in the Trumpad- posters, magazines,bookcovers Glaser got the National and former classmates formedin with acherry-red heartstanding citedviolentincidentsthat by coronavirus, Martin told aspe- Enforcement.Some have been ministration because the US is and recordsleeves, notablyhis Medal of Arts in 2009. AP 1954,heopenedupdesignto myr- infortheword “love”.Almostim- took place afterrallies or- cialsittingof MPs,heldinDublin’s detainedsince lastyear. expelling mostpeople trying to 1967 posterofBob Dylan with iad influences and styles that be- mediately, thelogobecameanin- ganisedbythe group over large Convention Centreasthe Citing the recent spread of cross the border or requiring psychedelic hair and his “I gantograbtheattentionof maga- stantlyrecognisedsymbolofNew the past12months. Housesof Parliamentaretoosmall the virus in twoofthe threefa- them to wait fortheir immigra- (HEART) NY” logo, diedFriday, His wife,ShirleyGlaser,said zines and advertising agencies, York City, as recognisableasthe forsocial distancing. REUTERS cilities,Gee setadeadline of July tion cases in Mexico. AP his 91st birthday, in Manhattan. the cause wasastroke. largely through the studio’s influ- EmpireState Building. NYT

BASELESS CLAIM THAT DEMOCRATIC ELITES RUN ACHILD TRAFFICKING RING FROM APIZZERIA WAS VIRAL ONLINE AHEAD OF 2016POLLS PizzaGate conspiracytheorythrives in TikTokera,now featuring Bieber Bieber had seen that message. Four years ago, ahead of the tion, the conspiracy theoryis PizzaGatenolongerfocuseson “PizzaGatenever went away CECILIAKANG& But the pop star’s innocuous ges- 2016 US presidential election,the makingacomebackonthese Clinton and has takenonless of because it encompasses very po- SHEERAFRENKEL tureset offaflurry of online ac- baselessnotionthatHillaryClinton platforms —and on newones apolitical bent. Itsnew targets tent forces,” including children’s WASHINGTON,JUNE27 tivity,whichhighlighted the and Democratic elites were run- suchasTikTok —underlining the and victimsare abroader assort- safetyand the powerofelites, resurgence of one of social me- ningachildsex-traffickingringout limitsoftheir effortstostamp ment of powerful businesspeo- said AliceMarwick, adisinfor- FOUR MINUTESintoavideo that dia’s early conspiracy theories. of aWashingtonpizzeria spread out dangerous speechonline ple, politicians and celebrities, mation expertatthe University waspostedonInstagram last Viewers quicklyuploaded across the internet,illustrating and howlittle has changed de- including Bieber,Bill Gates, Ellen of NorthCarolinaatChapel Hill. month, Justin Bieber leanedinto hundredsofvideos online howacrackpotideawithnotruth spiterising publicfrustration. DeGeneres, Oprah Winfrey and “But nowthere is so muchscaf- the cameraand adjusted the analysingBieber’saction. The to it could blossom on social me- This time, PizzaGateisbeing Chrissy Teigen, who arelumped folding from people who have front of his black knit beanie. For videos were translatedinto dia —and howdangerousitcould fuelledbyayoungergeneration together as partofthe global researched it, it wasn’t hardfor some of his 130million follow- Spanish, Portuguese and other be.InDecember 2016,avigilante thatisactive onTikTok,whichwas elite. Forgroups likeQAnon, others to pickupfromthere.” ers, it wasasignal. languages, amassing millions of gunmanshowedupattherestau- initsinfancyfouryearsago,aswell PizzaGatehas becomeaconven- PizzaGate is reaching alevel In the video, someone had views.Fansthenleftthousandsof rant with an assault rifle and asonothersocialmediaplatforms. ient waytofomentdiscontent. thatnearly exceeds its2016 postedacomment asking Bieber commentsonBieber’s social me- openedfireintoacloset. The conspiracy group QAnonis The theoryhas also gone fever pitch. TikTok posts with to touchhis hat if he had been a diaposts askinghimif hewassafe. In the years afterward, also promoting PizzaGateinpri- global. While it previouslyfound the #PizzaGatehashtag have victim of achild-trafficking ring Within days,searches for“Justin Facebook,Twitter andYouTube Hateful commentshavesurgedonthe social mediapages of vate Facebook groups and creat- tractionmainlyinthe United been viewedmorethan 82 mil- knownasPizzaGate. Thousands andPizzaGate”soaredonGoogle, managed to largely suppress CometPing Pong, apizza parlor in Washingtonthat is at the ing easy-to-share memes on it. States, videos and posts about it lion times in recent months. of commentswereflooding in, and the hashtag #savebieber PizzaGate. But now, justmonths center of the debunked PizzaGate conspiracy theory. NYT Drivenbythese newele- have racked up millions of views Google searches forPizzaGate and therewas no evidence that startedtrending. before thenextpresidential elec- ments, the theoryhas morphed. in Italy, Brazil and Turkey. have skyrocketed. NYT

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ARTS etc INTERVIEW Under the RedMoon ‘Start NREGA forthe arts’ AnvitaDuttonBulbbul,her directorial debut TM Krishna on howartistes are feature film set in 19th centuryBengal, and the importance of the female gaze eye being pushed into poverty Adoor’s World

Ashutosh Bhardwaj eggs,” he says. The mother who finds away into his films. The meditation that leads to his cinema. Adoor has made severalfilmsinco-pro- ductions with countrieslikeJapan andFrance HATWAS ourfourth consecu- Conversations with Adoor Gopalakrishnan as he steps into his 80th year but none of his producerseverinterfered tive eveningtogether.Wewere with his work.KRavindranathan Nair,who at my cottage, on the second producedseveral of his movies, nevervisited drink.Inthe last four days,Ihad the sets.“Ihavenever compromised with Tdrivenhim aroundthehills,we anything. Ialways did what Ifelt proud had been to abreweryatthe about,” he says,adding that “the best of cin- Mall and trekked up to ChadwickFallsinthe ema makes youabetterperson. This cinema jungle. Realising that the word “sir” now is always about humanity. But notmany sounds dryanddistant,Iasked:“What doyou filmmakers makesuchfilms.Manyfilmmak- call avenerable old man in Malayalam?” ers makeahundred times moremoneythan “Sir.” Ido. But Iamhappy andcontented with ade- “I mean, what do people call youback cent subsistence,” he says. home in Kerala?” When Iasked him about anymovie that “Adoor Saar.” made him feel that he should have made it, he replied: “It worksbothways. Thereare ■ ■ ■ manymovies that Iadmire, Iwatchsome of the bad ones, too, once in awhile by mistake The noveland the cinema areoften auto- and tell myself —Ishould notmakeafilm biographies in disguise; theycan be morein- likethis.Icarry acreator,anaudienceand a timate and revealingthandiaries or memoirs. critic within me.” Once, he headedthe jury During long afternoons and evenings in of the national film awards. The Union min- Shimla lastsummer with Adoor isterfor Information and Broadcasting called Gopalakrishnan, who stepsintohis80th year him, requesting him to favour acertain this July, Ifound myself searching forthe per- movie. The requestwas promptly denied. son behind Elippathayam (1982) and Mathilukal(1990). Critics nowhail vulnerable ■ ■ ■ male characters in recent Malayalam films like Kumbalangi Nights (2019);few recall that We discussedcinema, politics, even the Adoor has been portraying suchfragile men famous 1905 trial of Kuriyedath Thathri, a forfivedecades. Men who don’t impose them- woman from the Namboodiri Brahmin com- selvesonwomen,are always unsure andanx- munity, who waspilloriedfor her sexual life. ious of their choices and notashamed of ad- He allowedmetotakephotographs, record mitting their vulnerabilities. videos and conversations —asifthe film- Perhaps,the lastpoetinamajor Hindi maker nowwanted to be filmed. film wasinKabhi Kabhie (1976), ahesitant He recalledhis childhood memoriesof man who writes poems forhis belovedbut babyelephants, their joywhen someone doesn’t layany claim on her and quietly splashedwater on them. He admired Nehru watches her go away.Contrast theincreas- and shared his vision. “Wehavebeen very inglytoxic arrogance of the leadingmen of lucky to have someone likeJawaharlal Nehru Hindi cinema in the recent decades with —adreamer,apoet, avisionaryand astates- Adoor’s protagonist-writers in Mathilukal or man.” The conversation also turnedto theautobiographical Kathapurushan (1995) Arundhati Roy’s famous novel, perhaps the —amovie he shotinthe house he wasborn mostknown work of fiction on Kerala in sev- in. If it reflects the cultural difference be- eral decades. Ifind The God of Small Things tween the Hindi heartland and Kerala, it’s (1997) deeply problematic, as it chooses a also the statementofanartiste whose life Dalit’sbodyasaninstrument of revengefor wasshapedbytwo remarkable women, his an upper-caste Christian woman, and com- mother Mouttathu Gouri Kunjamma and pletely denieshim anyvoice.The “novel’spol- wifeSunanda. itics is bunkum,” Adoor says,pointing out it He wasthe sixth of sevenchildren. Gouri has notbeenreceivedwell in Malayalam. Kunjamma brought him up afterhis parents He wistfullyremembered his old separated in his childhood. As achild, Adoor friends Satyajit Rayand UR wasverypossessiveofhismother,agenerous Ananthamurthy, Ashis Nandy and and compassionatewoman,who camefrom Ashok Vajpeyi. He wassad that while afamilythatpatronisedthearts.She played manymediocrewriters have received the violin, her brothers had studied the Nobel, it continues to elude painting and sculptureunder Raja Milan Kundera. We both agreed Ravi Varma’s son Rama Varma. She that Elias Canetti’s Auto-da-Fe constituted young Adoor’s world. (1935) is agreat novel. Itsprotag- “Our familywas atraditional, feu- onistbelievesthat bookshavea dal kind. But my motherwas greater valuethan human life. very kindand considerate to- “He wasnot born intothe world wardsthe people who forlove. He hadnot marriedfor worked forus. All my basic love.Hehad wanted to safe- lessons in human relations guardthe futureofhis books, were imbibedfrom her,” he and she had seemedasuit- said.Gouri Kunjammadied able person forthis pur- in 1962, the year he joined pose.” The self-destructive the Film and Television passion, witnessedin InstituteofIndia, Pune. manycreative artistes Her lifeand de- through the ages, eventu- meanour had ensured allyconsumes him. that he could never “imagineawoman be- ■ ■ ■ ingill-treated”and would “always oppose it”. Adoor is among the fewIndian film- “I am very sensitive about anyinde- makers with avision forthe form, whose cency,atrocities on women,” he said. Even method and frames have contributedtothe when hisfilmsdepict anycruelty on women, art. Raycaptured Bengal’s archetypal village, likeinVidheyan (1993), the predatorymale Adoor is perhaps even morefirmly rootedin gaze is completelyabsent, as violence never ILLUSTRATION:SUVAJITDEY Kerala. The villages and towns of his cinema turns voyeuristic. that portray the decayofafeudal lifeand the The parentsofKathapurushan’s protago- emergence of newcommunities makehim nist, too, separate afterhis birth and his arguablythe most authentic chronicler of mother brings himup. Iwondered whether Critics now hail vulnerablemale characters in recent Malayalam films like Kumbalangi Kerala post-Independence.BothRay and Adoor created amotherly figureinseveral Adoorhaveauniversal vision, but theyare es- films, likeRajamma in Elippathayam,inorder Nights (2019); fewrecall that Adoor has been portraying such fragile men for five decades sentiallythe narratorsofthe backyards and to traceand retrievehis mother in his art. “It basementsoftheir provinces. happens naturally. Idon’t do it deliberately,” Irecalledthat Abbas Kiarostami, another he said. giant whose artlies in unveiling an Iran we neverknew, floundered in Certified Copy ■ ■ ■ wentto seethegirl.“Itwasloveaftermarriage.” GandhigramRural he has made 12 feature Adooruseshis camerainaway thathis frames (2010)when he shiftedhis locale from Iran to “She wasavery strong woman. Shehad Institute, Tamil Nadu, films, besides severaldoc- oftencome to resemble astage. Europe. Adoor agreed: “It wasapoorcopyof Sunandawastheotherinfluence. Shedied great interestincinema, wasveryactive be- before he suddenlyde- umentaries on Kerala’s Hisfilms were madeoverseveral years, as LastYear at Marienbad (1961).” of cancer in September 2015,creating an hind the scenes and had amajor role in his cidedtojoin FTII, which classicalartsand theatre. he took to the sets only afterdeep introspec- But forevery rootedartiste, thereare aching absence in his life. “She wasmymem- movie-making. She would always pushacon- had justcomeintoexis- The twoare notmeredis- tion.Hechoseto work onoriginalideas;when also manyinperpetual exile, shifting geog- ory, my closestfriend inwhomIcould confide trarypointofviewand prompt himtolistento tence. He spent his first tinctgenres, but different headaptedliterarytexts,hedidso“with free- raphies and assimilating various cultures. anything,” he told me one evening. her,” Aswathi Dorje, Adoor’s daughter,now a year at the instituteread- ways of looking at reality. dom”. “The original inspiration maycome And even theseeminglyrootedones carry “Soulmates?” senior IPS officer in Maharashtra, recalled. ing onlyabout theatre. One primarilyreflectsa from the story, but that is apoint from where collective memories that transcend their “Yes, we were soulmates. There’s no wayto Soon, Ritwik Ghatak creator,the other an ob- Itakeoff,” he says. immediatelives. fill up the gap. It’s apermanent absence now. ■ ■ ■ joinedasthe vice-princi- server,adocumenter,and, Adoor chooses his actors,handsthem the In Anantaram (1987),ateacheraskshis stu- We livedtogetherfor 43 years. Inever imag- pal of the instituteand yet, they form acohesive, script he hasmeticulously written and they dentstonamethe firstpublishedworkin inedthat Iwould be alone in my oldage. Likemanygreat filmmakers, his firstlove Satish Bahadurasprofes- creative oeuvre. arerequired to followhim strictly—noim- Malayalam.Thechildreplies:“The Essence of During the day, Iambusy with manythings.I wastheatre.Though he watchedalotofcin- sor of the film apprecia- Theatrealsoseepsinto provisations at all. He completely pervades theHolyBible.” feel verylonelywhenIretirefor the dayand go ema in childhood because his uncle tion department. The two EXPRESSARCHIVE his cinema. In aplay, the hiscinema. “I am present in all my films, in He asks again: “Wherewas it printed?” to bed.Those fewminutes before Isleep, I Mouttathu Gopalan Unnithan ownedafew giantsinvigorated the viewerforms adirect bond one form or the other.Sometimes as ade- The child again replies: “Italy, written and think about her.Ihaveher in my dreams.” cinemahalls, he always found cinema “dis- campus and the young theatre artiste was with actors on the stage, whereas in cinema, testable character, sometimes as acharacter publishedbyFather Clement.” “Even now?” tant” and “notrelated to our lives”. drawnto35mm. the cameraintervenes. The chemistry be- whom youlove,”hesays. An artistefor whom That’s Adoor and his Kerala. “Yes. Iwakeupfrommydream and she’s He wroteand acted in plays,made He graduated in 1965, but it took nearly a tween moving actors and the static stagecre- filmmaking is an act of absoluteconcentra- notthere.It’s aterrible feeling.” some markasatheatreperson during his decadefor his firstfull-length featurefilm, ates tension in aplay, whereas in cinema the tion. “Evenwhen youare notmaking afilm, AshutoshBhardwajisajournalistandtheauthorof It wasanarranged marriage. Hisfamily student days,obtainedadegree from Swayamvaram (1972). In these five decades, tensioncomes from the camera’smovements. youare into dhyaanam. It’s likehatching TheDeathScript

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PHOTOS:NETFLIXINDIA ALONE, TOGETHER Astill from the film Shubhra Gupta Under the Red Moon HAVINGAproblem that youhavetodeal with all by yourself can be hard. If youhavesomeone with you, it can get better,but it still remains your problem. Lyricist and screenwriter Anvita Dutt on her directorialdebut, Bulbbul,set in 19th-century Eliza Hittman’s NeverRarelySometimes Always (on severalstreaming platforms) uses an unwanted teenage Bengal,her love for fantasy and the importance of the female gaze pregnancy to tell abigger story. Of being female, in a man’s world. Of having to struggle to be heard. Yousee 17- year-old Autumn hit herself on her belly, repeatedly.Of AlakaSahani abox with high walls. The onlyexit from that Bulbbul is achilling reflection of patriar- course, that doesn’t help. What she needs is is an abortion, house is asmall door,”says Dutt, who has also chal society in the waythat Jordan Peele’s Get whichshe cannotget whereshe lives, in asmall town in worked on Phillauri (2017)and Pari (2018). Out (2017)isaboutracial alienation. Making a Pennsylvania. ERE PAIR thode ultehain Rabindranath Tagore,too, influencedthe statementwasnot on Dutt’sagendawhenshe Autumn’s journey, on thebus to New York,accompa- (I’veinvertedfeet),” says period setting of the film. “Tagore’s woman startedwriting. “Whenyousitdownto write, niedbyher cousin Skylar,isn’t onlyabout escaping to a AnvitaDutt, the writer-di- characters arewritten so sensitively—some- thefirstthing that comes to your mind is the place whereshe can gethelp. It’s also about escaping from rector of the film Bulbbul, where, that tooinspiredme to tell the storyin story. Youare spinning ayarn and saying, Mthat releasedonNetflix on aperiodwhenhis stories were set,”says Dutt, ‘Once upon atime...’. Youjustwant to pullin aplace whereshe couldn’t ask forhelp: clearly,she hasn’t been able to turn to anyone at home, wherelives amen- June 24.Dutt’s allusiontothe popular be- who has namedone the key characters the audience. But the things that affect you— acing stepfather.Weare nevertold why, but we do see the lief that chudails (witches)can be identified Binodini (Paoli Dam) afteraTagorecharacter it could be misogyny or the fact that women depths of her loneliness. by their inverted feet is an explanation for in the novel ChokherBali (1903). Bulbbul has take so muchtime to come intotheir ownbe- There’s nothing expositoryinHittman’s treatment of a hercompulsive urge to give everystory she pronouncedshades of Nastanirh (Tagore’s cause of theway theyare broughtup —might subject whichcan so easilyturn either manipulative or writes adarktwist. “All the stories that I 1901 novella on whichfilmmaker Satyajit reflect in the story,”says thewriter,who has maudlin, or both. Autumn speaksverylittle. Her face is write, barringthe commissionedones, in- Ray’s 1964 film Charulata “Once upon atime”, ●●● her canvasand we seeamultitude in her eyes: being hurt, advertentlyintroduce some supernatural is based),especiallythe “aparajita” and “katha helpless and frustrated.The bond between the twogirls is or fantasy elements,” says Dutt, whose di- wayitlooksatthe rela- kavita”tattooedonher strong and withstands bursts of temper and name-call- rectorial debut is adarkfable set in 19th- tionship that Bulbbul In an ideal world, Dutt arms, along with asymbol ing: it is also the bulwarkbetween them and the sole sig- centuryBengal. shares withSatyaand of “devi” (goddess). nificant male in the movie, ayoung man their agewho ex- Bulbbul critiques the horrors of patriarchy their jointliterarypursuit. says, people would In an ideal world, Dutt tends support, whichis, yes, transactional. that existbeneath aveneerofaristocracy. Tripti Dimri and Avinash says,people would stop First-timer SidneyFlanigan is so believable as Autumn, Bulbbul, achild bride,ismarriedoff to an Tiwary—the lead actors of stop callingher a calling her a“female direc- that younever stop feeling protective of her,evenwhen older landlord. When the storytakes a20- Laila Majnu (2018), who ‘female’ director.‘The tor”. “Noone says amale she is having ameltdown and lashing out at her onlyreal year leap to the year 1901,Bulbbuliscalling essaythe characters of the lyricist. The term ‘female’ friend, the cousin. Talia Ryder as Skylar,and Théodore the shots in agorgeous haveli.Casting a adult Bulbbuland Satya term femaleis gets attached because Pellerin as Jasper areequallyreal: the twogirls mill shadowoverthis charming worldisaseries respectively —sharea thereare so fewthat it is an around the Manhattan Port Authority Bus Terminal, of killings attributed to a chudail.Satya beautiful chemistry. attached because anomaly,”she says.While wheeling astrolleybetween them, getting ameasureof Thakur,Bulbbul’s brother-in-lawand child- Thefilm’s action fre- “female gaze” is essential the boy, as theywait through the night forAutumn’s ap- hood playmate, doggedly investigates these quentlymoves to amisty there are so few of to storytelling, the onus is pointment at the facility. deaths. forest wheremen, under notonwomen alone,she The mostdevastating partofthe film is also the qui- Dutt, 47,wrote Bulbbul nearly adecade the redmoonlight, areon them,’she says says.“Thereare men who etest. An empathetic, experiencedstaffer taking Autumn’s ago, in between her commissioned film as- awitch-hunt. Yet, Dutt re- have told sensitive stories details, whichincludes her sexual history,requests that signments. The moment she finishedwrit- frainsfromcalling ●●● and have the female gaze. she answer with justthe one word,choosingbetween ingit, Dutt experiencedacertain amount of Bulbbul “ahorrormovie”. Tagore wasone of them. If “neverrarelysometimes always”. Apause afterone telling “possessive love and greed” forit. She de- “It’s moreofafairytale. It has alot of mood youhear the lyrics of Gulzar saab,theyare so question is revelatory: Autumn has been the victim of cidednot to pitchittoany director.Instead, and intrigue,” she says.Having read fantasies delicate.Bimal Roy’s movies had outstanding abuse. Is it from her partner/s? Or,someone in the family? she wanted to direct the movie herself. andsciencefiction since childhood,that female characters.” We don’t know. All we know is that the pain is forreal. “Strangely, on thefirstday of the shoot, Ial- mode of story-telling has always had apecu- With five featurefilmscripts and three JustlikeCristian Mungiu’s 2007 Cannes-winner 4Months, mostheardanaudible snap of ajigsawpiece liar appeal forher.“On my bookshelf, you web-series outlinesinher bank,she has no 3Weeksand 2Days,inwhichacollegefriend helps an- falling intoplace. Ifelt as if Ihad come home. will find booksbyNeilGaiman,Terry plans of slowing down as adirector. other getanabortion (illegal in Romania in the 1980s, Now, Iwould pickdirection over other things Pratchett and Ursula Le Guin. The firstbook “Fortunately, Clean SlateFilmz (formedbyac- when the movie is set), whichthis film will remind youof, even thoughIwill always saythatIama that Ieverread when Iwas five wasa torAnushkaSharmaand her brother Karnesh thereisnotime forsentimentality.Onlytime to getthis writerfirst,” says Dutt, an advertisingprofes- Russian fairytale. Theywerenot the sani- Ssharma) is interestedinmakingall of them. done, hereand now. sional who made acareer switch13years Dutt says that she decidedonaperiod DARK tisedfairytales that children read today. All Ican sharewith youisthat theyare sto- Isaw this sombreyet bracing film at the International agotowritelyrics and screenplays in Hindi drama because she is drawntothe neoclassi- MATTERS Theyweredark. Iremember readingabout ries of interestinggirls and theyall have an Film Festival of Berlin in mid-Februaryearlier this year, films. Afterstarting her film career as the di- cal period of Bengal. The writer-director se- Baba Yaga,the Russian chudail.Therewas element of the supernatural,” says Dutt. To (Top) Astill from the whereitwon ajuryaward,and everyonce in awhile alogue and lyrics writer of Neal ‘n’ Nikki lected Bawali Rajbari, about twohours from beauty,emotion and spookiness in it,”re- her surprise, Indian filmmakers haven’t ex- Autumn’s face flashes in front of me: will she getpast (2005), she worked on manymovies suchas Kolkata, out of the manybeautiful mansions film; Anvita Dutt calls Dutt, whose childhood wasspent in plored darkand supernatural tales much this? Icross my fingers. Heyy Babyy (2007), Bachna Ae Haseeno she visited during the recce because it ap- cantonmentsofAssam, Chennai,Jodhpur even though thesubcontinenthas arich (2008), Patiala House (2011), Student of the pealedtoher as a“beautiful prison”. “What I and Haryana, thankstoher father’s job in reservoir of them. “That’sfine,though. I’m go- Year (2012) and Queen (2014). reallyliked about this house wasthat it is like the IndianAir Force. ing to tell these stories,” she says,with asmile.

Forum (HAF) pickedupDostojee (feature) and twodocumentaries, including Samarth Whose Line is Mahajan’s TheBorderlands —the onlythree from South Asia—amongits 22 shortlisted projectsfor itsWIPprogrammeinAugust.HAF presentedThe Borderlands at MarchéduFilm. The senseofinvisibility runs deepinvil- it Anyway? lages and towns along the borders. Mahajan, 29, recountshow,when in 2015 histown Dinanagar, 10 milesfromthe India-Pakistan The theme of border seams two Indian film projects that border in Punjab, facedaterroristattack, his mother soundedexcited over the phone — are part of ‘Goes to Cannes’ at the prestigious festival Dinanagarhad made nationalnews. “Thesto- ries that we hear about border areas createa specific imageofarmymen and terrorists but Ta nushree Ghosh the leads, said, “Ekhanecinema’r jonnobaccha no common people. Ihavelived through ex- leya hoye? Boitelyenamake,Deb er moto koyee periences whichdon’t fitthese perceptions,” debo (Arechildren being castinfilms? Take says theIndian InstituteofTechnology, THEBENGALIlandscapeis resplendentinthe me, I’ll act likethe Bengali heroDeb).” Kharagpur,graduate, who gave up his cushy trailer of Prasun Chatterjee'sdebut feature Chatterjee,bowledoverbyhis confidence,cast FMCG job to makedocumentaries. Dostojee (TwoFriends) —vast, rainwashed Arif as the other lead. Aftermoving to Mumbai in 2015,hemet paddyfields stretchalong the riverPadma and Chatterjee, who traces his rootsto his IIT-K batchmateAshayGangwar and be- the glint in the eyes of the twoyoung protag- Bangladesh, has alwaysbeen interestedinthe gancollaborating. Gangwar wasthe cine- onists take viewers backtoanother villageboy, livesofborder dwellers. “Your work should matographer forMahajan’s firstdocumen- Apu, from Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali (1955). makethe provincial man win at the end, or, tary, Kazwa—AMillion Lanterns (2016), his The location is the remote,no-man’s-land even if he dies, showthat thereisaflickerof companyCameraand Shorts produced The near Domkal (in Murshidabad) —the lastsub- hopefor their lot,” says the filmmaker,who Unreserved (2017), whichwon the National divisiononthe Indian side. The Padmariver takesinspiration by Ritwik Ghatak’sideology Awardfor ‘BestOnLocation Sound Recordist’, separates it from Bangladesh's Rajshahi. The and Ray’s craft. He is also one of the co-producers of the backdrop is an early-’90s Bengal, shaken by From paper to screen, the crowdfunded crowdfunded Borderlands. the communal violencethat followedthe film chartedaseven-year journeysince 2013. Forhis latest, Mahajan took afour-part Babri Masjid demolition and the ‘92 Bombay Co-producers Prosenjit Ranjan Nath and journeytodifferent borders: Pakistan, blasts,but Dostojee speaks of thefriendship Soumya Mukhopadhyaycame on boardin Bangladesh, China-Myanmar,Nepal and between twoboys from different faiths, living 2017,and Taiwan’sIvy Yu-Hua Shen after Bhutan. He learnt that borders have their own in aborder village.“Iwantedtoshowanger NFDC Film Bazaar selected Dostojee in ecosystems.Whathappenswhenatiger from and love through the eyes of children,” says November in itsRecommends section. NFDC ArunachalPradesh’sDibangValleywildlife Chatterjee, 34. sent it, among five films, to ‘Goes to Cannes’: sanctuarycrosses over intoChina? Or,how do Forovertwo years, he stayed withand 20 work-in-progress (WIP) films from across people on either side of aborder interact with trained150 local residentsashis castand crew. the world, whose pitches were made to global THE GREATDIVIDE eachother? His film explores these questions. One afternoon, when he waspacking to re- buyers and distributors at the online Marché “Thereare twoIndias. One is upper-class priv- turn to Kolkata, an angrynine-year-old came du Film segmentof CannesFilm Festival from (Clockwise from left) Chatterjee; astill from ileged andthe other we have stoppedengag- banging on his door.The boy, Arif Sheikh, June 22-26. There, Asia’s leading film project his film Dostojee;Mahajan; astill from his ingwith. At this point, we needtohear stories whose friend Asik Sheikh wascastasone of market Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing documentary, The Borderlands of people from the grassroots,” he says.

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can help artistes tide over the pandemic Ranjit Lal is an author, environmentalistand birdwatcher AmrithLal society collapses,empathy, even reason, dies.

Youhavebeeninvolvedinefforts to help THE PANDEMIC struckjustahead of the artistes, especiallythe not-so-well- festivalseason in March.How has this known ones. Can youspeak about it? impacted theartistecommunity? Our effort to supportartistes, especially The Call of The imagethat the word artiste elicits, es- those who aremarginalised, beganinlate peciallyinthe minds of the privileged sec- March.Isang an online concert and raisedthe tions of society,isthat of individuals from the seedfund for this project. Five of us from middle class or the rich.Artistesand artisans Sumanasa Foundationbegan making calls to the Tide from marginalisedsections areclubbed to- artistesinrural Tamil Nadu, impresarios, gether as the ‘poor’and rarely is respect or NGOs and other organisationstofind out how dignity giventothem. Their workmanship we could supportthem. We beganwith Tamil Why, even after 40 years as a and artistic talentsare partofthe ‘ethnic’ Nadu, but over the lastfew monthsworkedin makeofour countryand only useful forusto 17 states across India. We have been sharing landlubber,Istill miss the sea brandish our so-calleddiversity. Thismindset withartistesonanaverageRs3,500via bank makes us blindtothe fact that most artand transfers. This is asmall sum, but we do hope artistes live on themargins of society.Their it helps them at leastcover food expenses for ’VE LIVED likealandlockedlandlubber in Delhi for economic status is notverydifferent from amonth. As of May22, we have transferred over 40 years now–and still, especiallyatthis time agriculturelabourers or daily-wage earners. Rs 51,11,900to1,545 artiste families. In order of the year —Isorelymiss the sea. My childhood and It is in this contextthat we needtounderstand to address the anomalyofthe digital space, Iadolescence were spent in coastalmetros—Madras the presentsituation. Themonths of March, we also conducted an online festival of art and Bombay(as theywerethen known), where, without April and May, especiallyinsouth India, pro- forms that usuallyremain beyond the digital even realising it, youkind of imbibed the sea. If your mind vide mostperforming artistesthe bulk of their economy. We madesurethat people had to got overcrowdedoryou ever felt claustrophobic, you earnings forthe year.The pandemicand the contributetothe fund in order to watchthe could alwayswander down to the beachorthe sea’s edge resultant lockdown wipedthis out entirely. festival. Thisisababystepingettingindivid- and feel your mind open up as wide as the horizon in Whilemigrant workerswerestuck in their ualstopay forall art. front of you. It gave youasense of freedom that no other place of work,performing artisteswerestuck landscape could provide —the mountains have yougasp- at their homes unable to move from village Youhaveflagged the need to have state- ing in awe, forestsmakeyou tense and twitchy with ex- to villageortowntotowntoperform. Most fundedinstitutional mechanisms to citement and arid plains desiccateyou. Perhaps, itsonly artisspecific to geographies, culturesand is address the plight of thecommunity — true rivalwould be thevastrolling desert, providedyou verylocalinperformance.When that is shut, on the lines of an employment had enough drinking waterand didn’t die of heatstroke. theentireecosystem collapses. In this world, guaranteescheme forartistes. Can you But to fill yourself with sheer exultation, therewas the physical cannotbereplacedby the digital. elaborateonthat? nothing to compare with the beachonamonsoon day. The futurealso looksgrim because even in As individuals or collectives, thereisonly Not only you, it affected our Boxer, too. Well before we the unlocking process, allowing the assem- so muchwecan do and we aremerelytouch- reachedthe beachfor the weekend, she would be aquiv- blyofpeople willprobablybethe lastthing ing the surface. If the situation forartistesis ering mass of excitement in the car,happilytreading on the government does. In suchasituation, with to change, the statehas to recognise this need your toes and drooling copiouslyintoyour lap. Out on the no system forthem to fall backon, artistes and fill this gap. Until now, thestate has done beach, she would freak out —flying so fast her feet barely maybecome full-time daily-wage workers. hardlyanything formarginalisedartistesand touchedthe ground. Gentle to afault, in sheer,unbridled The ironyisthat we will,atthat point of time, the schemes that theymay point to arebadly joy, she once chasedarheriwalla ontohis rheri,wherehe lament about the loss of art. Thereare already executed.WeneedaNREGA-type legislated stood among his clinking multi-coloured soft-drink bot- cases of artistescommitting suicide due to a programme forartistesand artisans. There tles, yelling forhelp. Backhome afteralunatic weekend, lackofincome. has to be ayearly guarantee of work andin- she would spend the next twodays sleeping it offonthe come forartistes/artisans living belowthe sofa, her paws twitching as she chasedcrabs in her Social media has providedaplatform for povertyline. This would mean that at the dis- dreams. (Theyalways befuddledher.) live performances, but the absence of a trict levelthe government mustprovide per- As foryou, youcould walk formiles on the varnished stageand an audience could impact formance, teaching, lecture-demonstration sands at lowtide, wading through shallowtide pools, performers badly, right? opportunities forartistesatschools, colleges, keeping away from the purple bottle-cap-likestains the Social media as aperformance platform public spaces etc. The government could also strandedPortuguese men-o-war leftonthe beach, but is onlyapplicable to artforms that occupythe purchase the worksoflocal artisansand pro- eyes skinnedfor agleaming cowrie or strandedstarfish. upper echelons of social hierarchyorare mass vide special access to markets, both locally It wasastonishing to think that some of the mostbeauti- in appeal. Mostperforming-artformsdonot EXPRESSARCHIVE and beyond the region.All these will help re- ful shells providedhomes to some of the mostven- fall intothis bracket.People mayargue that juvenatethe artforms within theircommu- omous sea creatures in the world—steponthem and themobilephonepenetration in India is so nitiesand bestow respect on the artistes. We youwould neverforgetthe experience, unless it killed large thatthis mustbeaviable option. But the Social media as aperformance platform is only applicable to art have had some preliminary conversations you. There’d be tinyfish andshrimps twisting this way truth is thatthoughsome artistes practising forms that occupy the upper echelonsofsocialhierarchy or are with friends in the artand social sector to be- and that, crabs whichwould scuttlesideways.The wind marginalisedartsare attempting to find away gin work on aproposal using NREGA as a intothis space, theseart forms still remain mass in appeal. Most performing arts don’t fall into this bracket base model. within the ‘physical’ domainasfarasaudi- ence experienceisconcerned. Howhas the pandemic impacted youas The other and morecomplexquestion is an artiste,teacher,writer,thinker? about viability. If we were to observethe so- forms that continue to remain beyond this limitsinnumbers, it is essential that allor- It has notbeen that easy to work on things cial media performances by Hindustani, digitalimagination. ganisations, local templesand public social unrelated to the present crisis. Iamuncom- Carnatic or Bollywood musicians, everyone spaces find away to bring backperformances. fortable with the online medium, yethave is veryhappytoconsume all this forfree. The What suggestions do youhavefor This is important notjustintermsofprovid- managed to take afew online classes formy question is, will theypay?Now,evenifthey temples, sabhasand other public spaces ing livelihood, but on the largerquestion of students. Learningand writinghas revolved do,itwould beonlyfor the‘big names’. If this on hosting performances, even on a the needfor art. Artshould neverbeconsid- around issues emanatingfromthe pandemic, is the situation even within artforms with so- limited scale in the coming days? ered an ‘add-on’. Artgives society accessto but over thepastweek Ihavebeen reading, cial leverage,one can onlyimagine what If thegovernment, at some point, allows imagining, hope and questioning through the thinkingand making notesfor my next book would be thecondition of artistesand art the gathering of people with restrictions or emotional experience it induces. Without art, on the symbols of India. RANJITLAL THE WINDBENEATHITS WINGS Awhite-bellied sea eagle

would buffet youinthe backlikeafriend meeting you The Lucknow afteragesand silverbullets of rain would makeyou headfor cover. When it calmed down, youcould makeyourway gingerly over the rocks —serratedand scalpel-sharp — whichcould viciouslylacerateyou the moment you Connection touchedthem unthinkingly.Sometimes, youwould hear aclattering amongstthe rocks—giant green crabs making their wayaround ponderously. If youwereex- Farrukh Jaffer,88, who plays the feisty Fatto Bi in Shoojit ceptionallydaring (or silly), youcould settle on arock right near the edge to brood but it would be wise to keep Sircar’s Gulabo Sitabo,onher love for the camera an eyeonthe great bruisedpurple front of the next battalion of clouds advancing across the horizon. Ignoreit Suanshu Khurana orable roles wasasthe grouchy Amma in at your peril. Suddenly, you’d be sent staggering backby Anusha Rizvi’s Peepli Live (2010). “I am given an explosion of shrapnel, as agiant wavebarreling in my lines but Ialso enjoyimprovising. Peepli likeanexpress train, and rearing up likeawall of glass “AURBATAObitiya.” From her daughter’s liv- Live hadthe scope so Iwent ahead and added would commit harakiri on the rocksjustahead of you, ingroom in Lucknow, Farrukh Jafferbegins a afew things,” says Jaffer. all thunder and boom. Time to retreat,onthe double. Skype conversation with typical Awadhicour- Bornin 1933 in Jaunpurinazamindar fam- Certainly, theocean and the beachcastastrange tesy.The 88-year-old actor is as spunky as the ily, Jaffer movedtoLucknowatthe ageof16, magnetic pull on you. Backhome in Bombayafter asur- character she plays in Shoojit Sircar’s Gulabo afterher marriagetojournalistand freedom gery that kept me away forthree months, the firstplace I Sitabo —Fatima Begum, the owner of Fatima fighter Syed Muhammad Jaffer. Her husband wanted to go to wasthe beach. Everytime Ivisit Goa and Mahal, acrumbling haveli in Lucknowwhere encouraged hertostudyand participatein take my firstdrawofthe briny, fishyair,it’s likeahome- Sarkar’s film plays out. It was theatreand films.“Irecall coming (eventhough I’venever livedthere). aperformance thatheldits him being perpetually OLD IS GOLD wayhespoke,” says Jaffer. Ali waslooking on On calm sunnydays (in summer), youcould sit at the owninaformidableensem- amusedbyher restlessness,” (Clockwise from from the balconyand told her that he was tideline and watchthe wavelets wash up to you, all ble cast. “I love being in front says daughter MehruJaffer, a making afilm and would liketocasther in it. lacey, as acool breeze fans your face. Suddenly, youare above) Farrukh Jaffer of the camera. Iamglad that journalistand author. “Icame from aconservative family. Itold him, awareofadeep truism: the brinysea air does makeyou people have enjoyedmy She graduated from in stills from Gulabo acting wagerahhumareyahan nahi hota.But hungryveryquickly. And thereisalwaysabounty from performance,” says Jaffer. LucknowUniversity and Sitabo; Peepli Live;a he persisted. He askedso nicely, Iagreed,” says the sea —basketsheapedwith fresh prawns conjured Despitethe appreciation, wasspendingher days as a young Jaffer playing Jaffer, who metRekha manyyears later at a up intodelicious curries forlunch(washeddownwith she has one grouse. She was homemaker when she dress-up at home private party in Mumbai. “Wo boli,yemeri ma beer,naturally, andfollowedbyanap). Of course, you expecting her co-actor landedajob at All India hain (She said thatshe’s my mother). Iwas weren’t the onlyone thinking of lunch! Perchedhigh up Amitabh Bachchan to be Radio,Lucknow, by accident. touched,” says Jaffer. at the topofacasuarina tree, amajestic white-bellied moreforthcoming and “Ihadaccompaniedafriend Her next film Swades came 23 years later, sea eagle contemplated her realm and kept an eyeout chatty.“Iremember himas who wanted to audition for Urdu service. She also attendedafew acting followedbyPeepli Live, Chakravyuh (2012), forher lunch. Beach-brownsandpipers scuttledback the romantic herofrom theannouncer’sjob. WhenI workshops held by Ebrahim Alkazi.But her Sultan (2016)and Tanu Weds Manu (2011). She and forth, deftlypicking up their fare while trying notto Silsila (1981) and Kabhi wasthere, Iwas fascinated heartwas notinDelhi. So she quit her job and also playedthe lead in Narayan Chauhan’s gettheir feet wet! Stock-still amid the rocks, patient as Kabhie (1976). Ithought, on by therecordingequipment returnedhome. Lucknowmay have changed Ammaa ki Boli (2019),thestoryofafamilyand the best fisherman, an Indian reef heron, in smartashy the sets,we’d talk about our lives, our fami- and the idea of everyone being able to hear over the yearsbutit is herethat shefeels most their second-hand scooter. “I neverthought grey waited in ambush. lies. But he’d come, do his scene and go away. my voice in their homes. Iaskedthe producer at home. So, when another Lucknowgirl, Juhi I’ll makeacareer as an actor.Itisnot about Especiallytoday, in these corona-riddledtimes, the Therewas no conversation. Iwish therewas,” if Icouldaudition, too. Theyagreed,”says Jaffer. Chaturvedi, mentionedthat the shootfor fame or money. Humko camera se bohotmo- beachseems likeanideal place to escape to.Perhaps, the she says. She got the job. Her friend didn’t.This also Gulabo Sitabo will bein Lucknow, she wasex- habbathai,” she says. wind would whisk anysigns of the virus to kingdom FarrukhJafferisn’tanamethatmightring made her one of the firstfemale voices at All cited.Her firstfilm project wasMuzaffarAli’s Her upcoming projectsinclude Mehrunisa, come and enable youtoshout with exultation. But be abell in Indian mainstream cinema. She has IndiaRadio, Lucknow. Shequitin 1966to help UmraoJaan (1981) in whichJafferplayed afilm shot in LucknowbyAustria-baseddi- respectful. Regardless of who youare —billionaireor workedin less than 20 projects,mostofthem her widowedmother take careoftheir agri- Rekha’s mother.That, too, wasshotin rector Sandeep Kumar,thathas Jafferinthe beggar,crook or saint,prime ministerorpretender —a over the past20years. Her lastfew films in- cultural lands in Jaunpur. Lucknow. She landedtherole at aget-together lead role. Thereare also three short films single wavecan send youand your dignity tumbling clude Photograph (2019), Secret Superstar Afterafew months, her husband moved whereAli wasalso present. “Humara ek mu- awaiting release,apartfromBaba Azmi’s Raks. head over heels in awelter of frothand mirth. (2017)and Ashutosh Gowariker’s Swades to Delhi asacorrespondent for The Washington lazim tha,Purdil. (Wehad an employee, She wastoshootKundan Nandy’s next film (2004), amongothers.Oneof hermostmem- Post and ChicagoTimes andshe joinedAIR’s Purdil).Iwas imitating and improvising on the but that is on hold due to COVID-19.

New Delhi THESUNDAY EXPRESS,JUNE28,2020 @indianexpress.com THOSEMONTHS,THOSEMINUTES Forced intoanunprecedented lockdown,sportisstaring at an unfathomable despair.Indian athletes, though, have giventhe countryreasonstorejoiceinthe past. 20 SPORT PULLELA GOPICHAND tells SHIVANI NAIK howhis 2001 All England triumph brought badminton intolimelight aftertwo decades. Wrestlersopen the lock in Tokyo

While WWE'sonlyconcern seemstobethe bottomline, Japanese promotions take aholistic view to dealwiththe coronavirus pandemic

includingwrestlers,producers, referees, and Fumi Saito, wrestling historian and sociol- In contrast, masksare nothing newin GAURAVBHATT writers -inApril; twodays afterbeing al- ogy professor.“It is still ‘sports entertain- Japan. “When youhaveacold,flu,you go to NEWDELHI,JUNE27 lowedtorun showsasan“essentialbusi- ment’. Some people justwatchitand believe the drugstoreorgeneralstore and buya ness” in Florida.OnApril 15,while WWE was everything. Some people like it becauseit’s mask,and youdon’t coughall over the place, IN JAPAN, theCovid-19outbreak leftinits busyannouncing the layoffs, representatives entertainment. Mostpeople understand on people on the trains and subways,” says wake acrushedOlympic dream. Nowpro- of sevendifferent companies in Japanmet wrestling forwhat it is. The things theyare Saito. “It’s so rude. It is an acceptedthing fessional wrestling is helping unlockthe government officials to discuss the wayfor- doing in the ring is incredible... But basic here. Sure, wearing it everyday nowisnot country, one suplexatatime. ward andrequesttesting kitsand compensa- questions like‘is it real or is it fake?’ Listen, easy.But youdon’twanttocatchit. Youdon’t While it tried, and failed, to avoid the tion forlostpay. do youlikeit? Does it matter?” want to keep it.” TokyoGames postponement to next year,the “Not being able to wrestle does makea Wrestling matchresultsare carried Numerous half-hidden faces could al- Japan government seems to have success- lotofusconcernedfor our livelihoods, but in alongside baseball scores in newspapers, and ways be spotted at pro-wrestlingshows,but fullyflattenedthe curve, with dailycases be- the worldofsports,bethatbaseball, football, thereare dedicated national magazines and NJPW has mandated masksfor everyvisitor, lowahundredsince May15. or sumo, Ifeelthat professional wrestling awards.But it wasthe Americansoldiers wrestler and crew member now. Thenationwide stateofemergency was should be theanchor,”Hiroshi Tanahashi, circa 1950 whobroughtpro wrestling to liftedonMay 25, and last Monday, New Japan NJPW’s biggeststarfor over twodecades, told Japan afterthe Second WorldWar.ANorth BRAINSTRORMING Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) —the largest promo- the government officials. “I think it should Korea-born Sumo wrestler Rikidozan took it With less thanamonth remaining for tion in Japan —held itsfirstshowsince the be acceptable forprofessional wrestlingto up, and his rise, coinciding with Panasonic’s the TokyoOlympic Games, this wassup- lockdown, becomingthe firstsporttorestart be the lastsporttoreturn to full activity.” firstblack-and-whiteTVs made himawork- posedtobeabusy season forJapanese pro- in the country. ing-classphenomenon. wrestlingpromotions aswell. While the Pro-wrestling’s return, facilitated by SAFETYPROTOCOLS Prowrestling became ‘puroreso’. companies would have been muscledout working closelywiththe sports and health Beforereturningtoaction, the company Rikidozan, in turn, inspired Antonio Inoki — of regular venues during the Games, pro- ministries, also highlightscultural differ- drew up safety protocols basedonaset of awrestling legendwho fought Muhammad moters were mulling ideas to capitalise. ences between Japanand America. guidelines devisedbythe Japan Sports Ali in 1976,was electedtothe parliament’s “It would be ashame if we got to the end While promotionsworldwide continued Association,and with the help of the Japan upper house in 1989, and went to Iraq dur- of the year and all people remember was to run shows through the pandemic —most SafetyAgency. ing the Gulf Warand successfullynegotiated the Olympics,” Kazuchika Okada, NJPW’s notablyWWE whichheld itsannual Wrestlers undergo temperaturetests the release of Japanese hostageswith current poster boyand five-timeheavy- WrestleMania event over twonightsbehind twicedaily andkeep alog of who theyhave Saddam Hussein. weightchampion, told reporters lastyear. closeddoors in April —NJPW and mostother been in contactwith. Lockerrooms arezoned NJPW legend Hiroshi Tanahashi (kneeling) spokewith the government “They were sportsheroeswho became Okada, who waschosen as an Olympic Japanese promotionseffectivelyshut shop and have staggered entry, conversations are officials on behalf of Japanese pro-wrestlers. NJPW politicians,movie stars,”says Saito, before torchbearer,suggestedan‘All-Starcard’, lateFebruary. limited andbuffet-style catering has been adding: “In India too, youhad asimilar story bringingtop talent from all Japanesepro- “The responsibility we hold as an indus- done away with; containers of food and bev- in DaraSingh. Aprofessional wrestler who motionstogether forasupershow. tryleaderinJapan and worldwide weighs erages have individual names on them. The ees testing positive,the companysimplyis- iting elected officials to push forgovernment became abig-time film star.” “That wouldn’tbeabad idea; if thereare heavilyonour shoulders; ultimatelythiswas ring and ringside area aredisinfected be- suedastatement:“WWE will continue supportincreating clear policies, sustainable anybuildings free.It’s abig opportunity,you the onlysensible decision we could have tween matches. COVID-19 testingofits talent, production programmes, guidelines, and testing support COMFORTABLE WITH MASKS don’t knowwhen Japan will ever hostthe takenasaresponsiblecorporatecitizen,” Plans arealready in place forthe return of crew andemployees in advance of TV pro- forour and other sports in Japan.” During the pandemic, maskshavedeep- Olympics again.” NJPW president Harold Meijtells The Indian socially-distancedfans. NJPW will hold ductions forthe foreseeable future.” Hase,the government official who enedapolitical divideinAmerica. As it stands, Japanwill getanother Express. “A business mustbeviewedasa showsatOsaka-Jo Hall on July 11-12, with presided over theApril meeting with The Orlando International Airport, where chance next year.Meijcalls the postpone- long-term entity,and Ibelieve ourdecision to onlyone-thirdofthe 16,000-seater venue GOINGTHE EXTRA MILE wrestling promoters,represented Japanat 260 employees tested positive lastTuesday, ment a“great disappointment”. side with caution over profit will in the long filled. In addition to the basic measures of While Vince McMahon, WWE chairman the 1984 Olympicsand went on to become onlynecessitated masksaday later.The air- “The summerperiod coincides with the term be seen to have been the right one.” masksand temperature tests, fans mustalso and CEO, wasnamedasanindustryleader apro-wrestlinggreat with NJPW and AJPW portisfrequented by employees of WWE, peak of our annual events,and we have had It certainlywasn’taneasyone.Ontrack nottouchthe wrestlers, submit address and tasked withhelping restartthe US economy (All Japan Pro-Wrestling). He also served as wherethe makeshiftcrowd of developmen- to modify our plans accordingly with the forarecord profit this year,NJPW had to can- contact details, and notcheer! by Presidentand WWEHall-of-Famer the MinisterofEducation,Culture, Sports, talwrestlers, familyand friends during inabilitytouse manyofthe large-scale cel 56 eventswhichleftahugedent in the WWE, meanwhile, has been allowing Donald Trump, it is his counterparts in Japan Science and Technology under current shows continues to appear maskless. sports arenas,”saysMeij. “The postpone- revenue. The companyexecutives, however, familyand friendsofperformers to be in at- who areputting in the work. Prime MinisterShinzo Abe, and worked Amid reports that masks, muchlikeany ment has been agreat disappointment... took paycutsrangingfrom15to95per cent tendance at the Performance Center venue “Inour corporate logo arethe words‘King closely with the Japanese Olympic commit- mention of coronavirus, is notallowed in the However, our spiritshavenot been dashed, to shieldthe workforce. in Orlando, Florida, but with no disclosedde- of Sports’,” says Meij about prowrestling’s teein2016. company, Renee Young, aWWE announcer and we lookforward to embracing the Conversely, WWE, whichalso had aprof- tailedsafetyprotocols. And on Thursday, importance as aJapanese sport. “It is being “The perception and acceptance of pro who tested positive on Thursday,tweeted: Olympic spiritofCitius,Altius,Fortiusina itable quarter, releasedclose to 30 workers - whenreportsemerged of multiple employ- seen this waythatweled an initiativebyvis- wrestling in Japan is alittle bit different,” says “Wear your masksand wash your hands” wrestlingway.” Six Pak players Battle of 64 squaresspills get negative onto 280 characters result in 2nd test Carlsen vs Giri: Virtual warofwords or friendly banter? EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE Anish Giri holds afinger to his lips, in avideo KOLKATA,JUNE27 clipping, as if to silenceall his doubters -and in particular,his vanquishedopponentMagnus SIX OF the 10 Pakistanplayers who had tested Carlsen.Hewasplayingagameof onlinechess, positive forCovid-19lastweekhavereturned fromthesanctityofhishome,asoneof thecon- negative results following asecond round of testantsintheMagnusCarlsenInvitationalheld tests. However, theywillnot be on theflight in April. The Dutchman (25) who is currently to ManchesteronSunday as the Pakistan ranked10thintheworld,thengetsupfromhis Cricket Board, whichconducted these tests, chair,walks to the edge of the camera’s view, wantsthem to undergoathird one. If the turnsback atthescreenandthenhopswithhis thirdroundoftests also returns negative,they armsraised.Hestops,turnsto leave,againfaces will beabletotraveltoEngland.Mohammad thescreenandrepeatshiscelebration.Thiswas Hafeez, Wahab Riaz, Fakhar Zaman, howhereacted to beatingCarlsen at the Mohammad Hasnain, Mohammad Rizwan Norwegian’s ownevent. Though beating a and ShadabKhanare the players who tested playerastalented as the worldno. 1isalways negative in the secondround of tests con- worthacelebration, in Giri’scase, therehas ducted by PCB. been adegreeofanimosity betweenthe two As per the PCB testingprogramme, play- in the past–something that has been high- ers who have tested positive have to show lightedintheirexchangesonsocialmedia.The twonegative testsbeforeentering England mostrecent onetookplace on Saturday. Gone in adherence to the UK government regula- arethedays whenthefeistiestofchessrivalries tions. betweengreatcontemporaries–BobbyFisher TheBoard confirmed that 20 players and andBorisSpassky,GarryKasparov andAnatoly 11 supportstaff willleave forEngland on Karpov, Kasparov andVladimirKramnik–went Screen grab of Anish Giri Sundaytoplaythree Testsand as many T20 beyond the chess board. Nowadays,the immediatelyafter he beat Magnus Internationals. younger generation, as demonstrated by Carlsen at the Magnus Carlsen Hafeez and Riaz underwent testsatalab, Grandmasters Carlsen and Giri, all animosity Invitational event in April. whichthe PCB doesnot use,and though the or bantercan be put forthin280 characters. resultsreturnednegative it has notbeen takenintoconsideration, chief executive Wasim Khan said. “I am awareMohammadHafeezand The latestexchange Howitall started Wahab Riaz took personaltests outsideofour processprior to thesecondPCB testing.While Giri has arather infamous reputation of play- Ahead of the 2018 Candidates event, former their resultscame up negative,asper thePCB ing fordraws,especially againstthe topplay- worldchampion Kramnik employedGiri as testing programme, theyare deemedtohave ers. The duo is currentlycompeting at the asecond –this afterGiri had beaten the vet- one negative test following apositive test. Chessable Masters Tournament,anonline eran Russian months earlier at the Tata Steel “Therefore, oncetheyare retestedandreceive event. On Friday, Giri drew againstworld no. Masters. Upon learning that Giri washelp- asecondnegative resultunder the PCB test- 6GrandmasterAlexanderGrischuk of Russia, ing Kramnik,CarlsentooktoTwittertomake ing programme, theywillbeavailable to join agame Carlsen felt the Dutchman should apoint. thesquad in England,”Khan said. have won. “So supposedly @anishgiri will be Outof10players andone supportstaff So the Norwegian tweeted: “My boy seconding Kramnik during the who had initiallytestedpositive,Haider Ali, @anishgiri snatching adraw from the candidates. Before Tata (an Haris Rauf, Kashif Bhatti, Imran Khan and jawsofvictory.” masseurMalangAli tested positive again. OnSaturday, Girisharedascreenshotofames- unbeaten +7 with just afew draws They have been advisedtoobserve“strict sagehereceivedregardinga‘billingproblem’ for Vlad) this would have been a quarantine”. when he triedtorenewhis subscription foran clear-cut case of “if you can’t beat ThePCB originallyhad pickeda29-mem- onlinechessapplicationdevelopedbyCarlsen. em, join em” Now it’s rather “if you berplaying squad forEngland. can’t draw em, join em.” Following the positive results, it included He tweetedalong with the picture: fast bowler Musa Khan and PakistanU-19 “In light of the recent hateful tweets The tweetalluded to Giri’snotoriety of captain and wicketkeeper Rohail Nazir in the from@MagnusCarlsenandhisemploy- sniffing foradrawinmostmatches. firstbatchoftravellers. Afterreaching ees, we at Anish Giri Inc.have (appar- England, the squad willundergo ECB testing ently)takenadecisiontoherebypause Giri then repliedwith:“I guessthis deep at Worcestershirefollowedbya14-day iso- sponsoring his endeavors. joke only makes sense in Norwegian?! lation period,during whichtheycan train. #StudyChess” OrmaybeIamjusttootiredfromallthe The firstTestisscheduledfor July30at workontheopenings.” Lord’s. Firstbatchofplayers leaving for To this, thereigning worldchampion replied: Andthebanterwenton,asthe29-year-old England: Azhar Ali(captain), Babar Azam “The real story here is that you Carlsen challenged Giri to win atournament (vice-captain), AbidAli, Asad Shafiq, Faheem figured that tactics are not ‘for the firsttime in (his) life’and theyounger Ashraf, FawadAlam,IftikharAhmad, Imad necessary to make solid draws. playedreplying with hisjoy that Carlsen was Wasim,Imam-ul-Haq, Khushdil Shah, ‘taking(him) seriously andthatisflattering!’ Mohammad Abbas, Musa Khan, Naseem Recommended for people who play On Saturday, therivalry continued. Shah, Rohail Nazir,Sarfaraz Ahmed, Shaheen to win though!” SHAHIDJUDGE Shah Afridi, Shan Masood, SohailKhan, Usman Shinwari, and Yasir Shah.

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