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Printed at . Chennai . Coimbatore . Bengaluru . Hyderabad . Madurai . Noida . Visakhapatnam . Thiruvananthapuram . Kochi . Vijayawada . Mangaluru . Tiruchirapalli . Kolkata . Hubballi . Mohali . Malappuram . Mumbai . Tirupati . lucknow . cuttack . patna NEARBY 3 fishers dead after Maharashtra imposes ‘mini Centre fasttracks approval midsea collision lockdown’ Alok Deshpande for more vaccine candidates 9 missing as container ship hits trawler Mumbai Special Correspondent Maharashtra Chief Minister Nod for jabs developed abroad with emergency use consent will allow bulk import HC posers over enforcing MANGALURU /Kozhikode Uddhav Thackeray on ban on gatherings Three fishermen were killed Tuesday announced a “mi R. Prasad NEW DELHI and nine others are missing ni lockdown” in the State CHENNAI Russian shot The Delhi High Court on after their mechanised fish for 15 days from 8 p.m. on In a major shift in vaccine Tuesday asked the Centre if ing boat capsized when it Wednesday. approval policy, the govern gets DCGI nod the Delhi Disaster Manage was hit by a container vessel According to the guide ment has decided to fast ment Authority’s order prohi early on Tuesday morning lines announced by the track approvals for COVID19 for imports biting all kinds of gatherings was being implemented off the coast of Mangaluru. The overturned fishing boat State government, Section vaccines that have been de N. Ravi Kumar across the board. The court Two crew members of off Mangaluru coast. 144 would be imposed for veloped outside India and Hyderabad directed the Centre to the fishing vessel were res * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT 15 days and no one would have been granted the emer indicate the manner in which cued by the Indian Coast be allowed to move in pu gency use authorisation The emergency use author the April 10 prohibitory Guard (ICG). the mechanised boat, IFB blic places without valid (EUA) by other drug regula isation (EUA) from the orders were being followed. The search for the mis Rabah, owned by Mamenta reason. tory agencies. Drugs Controller General CITY Ī PAGE 3 sing men continued till late kathu Jaffar of Beypore in All establishments, pu The decision was taken of India (DCGI) for Sputnik DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD on Thursday. Three ICG Kozhikode. According to blic places, activities and based on the recommenda V paves the way for import ‘Vote against those who ships and aircraft have been sources, the fishing vessel services would remain tion made by the National and use of the Russian CO made you sit on roads’ deployed for the operation. was hit by a Singaporeregis closed. Only services and Expert Group on Vaccine Ad VID19 vaccine in the inoc GHAZIABAD The services of the Navy tered container ship, APL activities mentioned under ministration for COVID19 European Medicines Agency be eligible for fasttrack ap ulation programme in the Bharatiya Kisan Union would be sought if required, LE HAVRE around 2 a.m. ‘essential category’ would (NEGVAC) at a meeting held (EMA), the U.K. Medicines proval. country. general secretary Yudhvir Kozhikode Collector Seeram Fishermen in three boats be exempted. on April 11, to “expand the and Healthcare products Under the fasttrack ap The timing of EUA as Singh on Tuesday clarified Sambasiva Rao said. fishing along with the Ra- The government also an basket of vaccines for dom Regulatory Agency (MHRA) proval process, bridging stu sumes significance amid that he didn’t say ‘BKU is not Mr. Rao said he was mon bah have been contacted to nounced a financial pack estic use and hasten the pace and the Pharmaceuticals dies will take place in paral reports that stocks of the against BJP’. “Our protest is itoring the rescue opera get in touch with the rescue age of ₹5,400 crore to help and coverage”. and Medical Devices Agency lel to mass vaccination. So two approved vaccines, against the antifarmer tions along with Deputy team, Mr. Rao said. individuals who will be di The vaccines that would (PMDA) of Japan, or those far, clinical trials conducted Covishield and Covaxin, policies of the BJPled Commissioner of Dakshina Three bodies were reco rectly affected by the res be eligible for the fasttrack that have been prequalified in India were needed before are fast running out in ma government and the Samyukt Kannada K.V. Rajendra. vered and shifted to a Man trictions and closure of bu approval will include those by the WHO for emergency the Indian regulator could ny States. Morcha has been repeatedly There were 14 fishermen galuru hospital. siness. that have been granted an use. This would mean that approve the vaccine. appealing to farmers to — seven each from West EUA by the U.S. Food and Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 punish those who have made Bengal and Tamil Nadu — in CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 SAFETY FIRST Ī PAGE 12 Drug Administration (FDA), and Johnson vaccines would CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 U.S. PAUSES J&J JAB Ī PAGE 13 them sit on the road,” he said. NORTH & EAST Ī PAGE 6 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD OPPORTUNITIES Ī PAGE 3 Committed to framing Record new cases for third consecutive day in Delhi rules for CAA, says Shah 13,468 fresh infections, 81 fatalities reported; city government constitutes 24x7 cells in 11 of its hospitals

Nistula Hebbar “Due to the pandemic, un Staff Reporter A total of 89,065 benefici have promised the Minister to NEW DELHI dertaking this CAA exercise New Delhi aries took the COVID19 vacci provide 500 beds for COVID Union Home Minister Amit would not be advisable. The Delhi witnessed a record nation over 24 hours, said the treatment. Even last year, on Shah has said the BJPled fight against COVID19 is a number of new COVID19 cas bulletin. ly 300 of the 508 COVID19 Central government is com priority that is why the rules es for the third consecutive After a government order beds at the hospital were oc mitted to framing the rules for the CAA are delayed.” day with 13,468 infections be on Monday to convert 14 priv cupied, even when the admis for the controversial Citizen On advisability of large ing reported over 24 hours, ate hospitals into dedicated sion was at the maximum,” ship Amendment Act (CAA) gatherings in poll rallies and according to a health bulletin COVID19 facilities, many hos Dr. Rana said. and the only reason it was roadshows when India was released by the Delhi govern pitals said some beds should Dr. Suranjit Chatterjee, se delayed was because of the undergoing a massive se ment on Tuesday. The total be kept for nonCOVID19 nior consultant at Indrapras COVID19 pandemic. cond wave, Mr. Shah said number of cases stood at Vaccination in progress at a centre in New Delhi on Tuesday. treatment as many of them tha Apollo Hospital, also said He said the delay in there was “no alter 7,50,156. * SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA are super speciality facilities. part of the beds in the hospi framing rules was not due native under the Eightyone deaths were re tal should be kept for nonCO to the West Bengal As Constitution” to ported over 24 hours, push VID19 cases jumped to 13.14% quarters to ensure that appro Hospitals’ request VID treatment. “We are a sup sembly resolution block delay polls when ing the toll to 11,436. A total of on Tuesday. Of the total priate systems are in place in The chairman of Sir Ganga er speciality hospital and ing the CAA “but the the life of a legisla 1,02,460 tests were conduct 12,667 beds for COVID19 each hospital for timely man Ram Hospital, Dr. D.S. Rana, have nonCOVID patients who fact that it involves tive body had ed in a day, the bulletin said. treatment in the city, 61.03% agement of admissions, prop said he met Health Minister have cancer, heart ailments a largescale ex come to an end. Of the total cases, 6,95,210 were occupied. er treatment, patient care and Satyendar Jain on Tuesday etc. We need to treat CO ercise in all people have recovered and The Delhi government has analysis of COVID19 deaths, and requested him to allow VID19 patients for sure , but border INTERVIEW ON there are 43,510 active cases. constituted 24x7 cells in 11 go according to an official order nonCOVID emergency pa we have to take care of non States”. Ī PAGE 11 The positivity rate of CO vernment hospitals and head issued on Tuesday. tients at the hospital. “We COVID patients too,” he said.

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Special Correspondent Shiv Sahay Singh Staff Reporter Thiruvananthapuram Kolkata New Delhi Kerala Minister for Higher West Bengal Chief Minister The Competition Commis Education and Minority Mamata Banerjee on Tues sion of India on Tuesday Welfare K.T. Jaleel on Tues day sat on a silent dharna defended before the Delhi day resigned after the Lok near the Gandhi Statue at Es High Court its decision call Ayukta found him guilty of planade in Kolkata to protest ing for an investigation into nepotism. Governor Arif against the Election Com the new privacy policy of Mohammed Khan accept mission of India’s order, bar Whatsapp. ed the resignation forward ring her from campaigning The competition watch ed by Chief Minister Pina for 24 hours. dog, represented by Addi rayi Vijayan. The forum Just before noon, Ms. Ba Making a point: West Bengal Chief Minister staging a silent tional SolicitorGeneral last week said Mr. Jaleel nerjee arrived at the venue protest against the ECI ban in Kolkata on Monday. * AFP Aman Lekhi, said the had lobbied the Kerala on a wheelchair. Sitting by a probe order was made to State Minority Welfare Cor table piled with books, at nue. Ms Banerjee left the site street ﬁghter and would not gauge whether access to poration to appoint his re times she was seen painting around 3 p.m. be cowed down by the “inti data would lead to abuse of lative general manager. New Year cheers: People performing ‘Uruka’ rituals on the occasion of Rongali Bihu, marking and holding up her work for Minutes after the ban end midation tactics” of the BJP. dominant position.

the beginning of the Assamese New Year, in Tezpur on Tuesday.* PTI the hundreds of supporters ed in the evening, Ms. Baner FULL REPORT ON Ī PAGE 7 CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC who had gathered at the ve jee asserted that she was a CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 DETAILS ON Ī PAGE 10 Skymet forecasts a ‘healthy normal’ monsoon Gyanvapi Masjid: HC moved Plains of north India and parts of and the IMD “near normal”. In defiance of these calcula against lower court’s order northeast may face deficit, it predicts tions, India posted a record 10% excess rainfall. It had directed ASI to conduct survey of U.P. mosque Jacob Koshy forecast by Skymet falls a lit In terms of geographical New Delhi tle short of the above normal risk, Skymet expects that the Special Correspondent Board pleaded with the HC to Skymet Weather, a private mark. plains of North India, along Lucknow restrain the lower court from weather forecast company, “The odds of an El Nino, with a few parts of northeast The managing committee of further proceedings. said on Tuesday that the characterised by a heating of India, to be at risk of being the Gyanvapi mosque in Vara Senior fasttrack court civil monsoon was likely to be the equatorial central Pacific rain deficient through the nasi and the Uttar Pradesh judge Ashutosh Tiwari on 103% of the long period aver over half a degree, are low season. Sunni Central Waqf Board April 8 directed the ASI to age (LPA) this year. The LPA this year. Currently, the Pac Also, interior parts of Kar have moved the Allahabad conduct a survey of the Gyan refers to the average allIndia ific is in a [converse] La Nina Bounty of nature: The monsoon this year is likely to be 103% nataka face scare or scanty High Court to restrain the vapi mosque compound adja monsoon rainfall of 88 cm, mode, and while it is expect of the Long Period Average. rain in the core monsoon proceedings of a local court cent to the Kashi Vishwanath which is a 50year mean. ed to weaken a bit in the months of July and August, which recently directed the A view of Gyanvapi mosque temple to find out whether it

At the press conference, coming months, during the associated, in many years, The India Meteorological the forecast said. Archaeological Survey of In in Varanasi. * FILE PHOTO was a “superimposition, al the agency classified the fo monsoon months [JuneSep with a weakening of the Department (IMD), which Along with the El Nino, dia (ASI) to conduct a physi teration or addition or there recast as “healthy normal”. tember], it is forecast to in monsoon over India. The provides the official fore another ocean variable, the cal survey of the mosque before the Varanasi district is structural overlapping of The monsoon in 2019 and crease,” G.P. Sharma, presi monsoon is also expected to casts, is expected to an Indian Ocean Dipole, charac compound adjacent to the court regarding the title dis any kind, with or over, any 2020 was only the third time dentmeteorology, Skymet be fairly welldistributed, nounce its forecast later this terised by a temperature gra Kashi Vishwanath temple. pute in the case. other religious structure”. in a century of backtoback Weather, said. with even September (the month. dient in the western and The two bodies filed appli Arguing that the High The committee would years of above normal rain “Overall, neutral condi month in which the season Last year, Skymet did not eastern Indian Ocean, is ex cations in the High Court in Court had on March 15 re “trace as to whether any Hin fall (rainfall that is 5% above tions are likely to prevail,” he starts to recede) expected to release its official monsoon pected to be slightly on the the petition in which they served its judgment in the du temple ever existed before normal, or 105%) during the said. post 10% more rainfall than forecast. In 2019, Skymet fo negative. A positive dipole had challenged the maintain maintainability suit, the mos the mosque was built or supe season in India. This year’s An El Nino is historically normal. recast below normal rainfall usually aids the monsoon. ability of a civil suit pending que committee and the Sunni rimposed at the site”.

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DELHI THE HINDU 2 CITY WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 2021 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Three held for 2 firefighting robots to Master plan2041 draft Will start mass movement stabbing man be inducted into DFS to fight pollution, says Rai STAFF REPORTER NEW DELHI gets DDA approval Remark comes after 2day conference Three people were arrest Fire Service Week begins today ed for allegedly stabbing a Staff Reporter New Delhi 22yearold man to death Staff Reporter drones, concrete cutters It will be placed in public domain for inviting suggestions NEW DELHI and injuring his friend over among other things,” Mr. Environment Minister Go a petty issue in east Delhi’s In a first, Delhi Fire Services Garg said. Staff Reporter and based on learnings from understand by the general pal Rai on Tuesday said that NEW DELHI Kalyanpuri on Tuesday, is all set to bring two fire In another first, the DFS across the country with res public apart from profes the Delhi government will the police said. fighting robots as they ob has also deputed 500 fire The Delhi Development pect to implementation of sionals. It has provisions for emphasise on public partici The police received in serve Fire Service Week operators on outsourced ba Authority (DDA) on Tuesday various projects and greenblue areas for active/ pation to reduce air pollu formation regarding a starting Wednesday. sis as the proposal for filling gave preliminary approval schemes, the DDA said. passive recreation and lei tion and will fight it as a quarrel from the area Delhi Fire Service chief 706 such posts has been sent for the Draft Master Plan for sure and enhances Delhi’s “mass movement”. around 2 a.m. Atul Garg said that the ro to the DSSSB. “The recruit Delhi2041 (MPD2041). The Futureready city preparedness for climate The Minister made the On reaching the spot, bots have been bought from ment process has started, draft will now be placed in Some of the salient features change impacts and in tack comment after a twoday they found Abhimanyu of Australia. “These robots will physical examination have public domain for inviting of the plan, the DDA said, is ling pollution. long conference on mea Khichdipur and Abhishek be remote controlled. been conducted and written objections/suggestions. to make Delhi an environ The plan also has special sures to be taken to reduce with stab wounds. They They’ll be able to throw wa test is likely to be conducted The DDA said that the mentally responsible, fu provisions for preservation air pollution in the city be Gopal Rai were attacked with knives ter at a distance at difficult soon,” Mr. Garg said. MPD2041 has been divided tureready city focusing on and redevelopment within fore the onset of winter. by a group of men, a senior spots,” he said. He said that the govern into two volumes and nine ease of living, good quality, identified heritage and cul “The Delhi government the Delhi Pollution Control police officer said. The DFS said that they ment has allotted Gram Sab sections which contain 22 affordable, clean and safe tural precincts with regener will fight against air pollu Committee (DPCC) said. They were rushed to the had procured these robots ha land measuring 14.5 acres chapters with the vision to living environments and effi ation in the old and dilapi tion as a mass movement for “They were operating Lal Bahadur Shastri Hospi last year itself but they could in northwest Delhi where a “Foster a Sustainable, Livea cient mobility options to all. dated areas by providing which we will explore every without DPCC consent and a tal, where Abhimanyu suc not be brought here because firetraining institute will be ble and Vibrant Delhi by It also seeks to make Delhi a incentives for planned possibility. The government large number of vehicles cumbed to injuries, the of of the COVID19 situation,” established. “This will be set 2041”. The master plan, the vibrant economic, creative redevelopment. will focus on changing the were being cut, causing ficer added. A case has he said. up on the lines of Fire Ser DDA said will facilitate Del and cultural hub that at The first master plan was mindset and behaviour of damage to public health and been registered. vice College Moreton in hi’s development by assess tracts talent and facilitates li promulgated in 1962 under people,” Mr. Rai said. environment. The team has The victims had Improve efficiency Marsh London. I am sure in ing the present condition velihood opportunities for the Delhi Development Act Also, six units engaged in sealed the premises and thrashed one of the ac “The department has pro the time to come, this will and guiding how to achieve everyone. 1957, followed by the plans illegal vehicle cutting and electricity has been discon cused over a petty issue. To cured equipment to improve not only meet the needs of the desired development. It Other features of the plan, of 2001 and 2021, each of dismantling have been nected. FIRs have also been take revenge, he along with the efficiency and effective the department but will also is also upon the lessons the DDA said, is to make it a which is an extensive modifi sealed in Mundka, Tekri, launched at Mundka police two others attacked the ness of response. The equip serve entire northern re learnt from the implementa more peoplefriendly docu cation of the respective pre Chanchal Park, and Nilothi station against the viola victims. ment includes cameras, gion,” he said. tion of the previous plans ment that is easy to read and vious plan document. of west district, officials of tors,” an official said. TV journalist accused of Civic bodies should extend ‘Upset with God’ for no rain, man rape joins investigation help to vendors, says AAP defiles statues, gets arrested He was granted HC relief from arrest ‘Over 200 shops gutted in Shastri Park’ Bajrang Dal men halt traffic at Dwarka Mor in protest STAFF REPORTER On February 20, a 22 Staff Reporter area. Following a court or NEW DELHI yearold woman had lodged New Delhi der, 743 stalls were sup Staff Reporter allegedly defiled statues of During probe, the ac A 28yearold Mumbaibased the case against Hiremath, The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) posed to be put up for ven NEW DELHI lord Hanuman that were cused was identified with television journalist who accusing him of raping her on Tuesday alleged that a dors evicted from Jama A 50yearold man, allegedly placed on a platform at three the help of human and tech was accused of rape joined at a fivestar hotel in Chana fire gutted around 272 mun Masjid and Meena Bazar, upset with God, has been ar adjacent spots in Kakrola. nical surveillance and subse the investigation in the na kyapuri. icipal corporation stalls at which was the result of a rested for allegedly defiling The matter was reported to quently, arrested. tional capital on Tuesday, On her complaint, an FIR Shastri Park furniture mar longdrawn and hardwon statues at three spots in the police. The priest is said more than oneandahalf under IPC Sections 376 ket. It further said that des battle. The municipal body Dwarka’s Kakrola village on to have seen it first. Case registered months after he was (punishment of offence of pite a court order, the BJP was to spend ₹60 lakh to de Tuesday. “We received a call at 7.45 During interrogation, the ac booked, the police said. rape), 342 (punishment for ruled civic body failed to velop these stalls,” AAP A few persons associated a.m. regarding defiling sta cused told the police that he A senior police officer wrongful confinement) and spend ₹60 lakh to develop chief spokesperson Saurabh with the Bajrang Dal staged a tues at three spots in Kakro was angry and upset with said Varun Hiremath was 509 (word, gesture or act in stalls at the market. Bharadwaj said. protest at Dwarka Mor fol la,” Mr. Meena said. the God as there has been no questioned for around seven tended to insult the modesty “A few days ago, a mas “We also request the BJP lowing the incident. A group of people, includ rain this year and the weath hours on Sunday when he of a woman) was registered sive fire gutted around 272 ruled civic bodies to extend Deputy Commissioner of ing residents and local lead er is getting hotter day by appeared before the police at the Chanakyapuri police municipal stalls at Shastri help to vendors who lost Police (Dwarka) S.K. Meena ers of the area and those as the day. The axe used in the following High Court orders. station. Park furniture market. Ho their shops. When the Aam said that the accused has sociated with the Bajrang offence has also been reco Among other things, he On Friday, the Delhi HC wever, not a single council Aadmi Party councillors been identified as Mahesh, a Dal gathered at Dwarka Mor vered from the accused, the was asked about his wherea had granted interim protec lor or Mayor or even a went to the area on Monday, resident of Bharat Vihar, JJ and stopped traffic. They police said. bouts following the registra tion from arrest to Hiremath Standing Committee mem shopkeepers complained of colony and is a cobbler. were, however, pacified and “We have registered a tion of the case, the police provided he joins the police ber of the BJPruled civic bo lack of roads and toilets ,” The police said that on the traffic movement was case under the Indian Penal said. investigation. dy has visited the affected Mr. Bharadwaj added. Tuesday morning, the man regulated, the police said. Code,” said Mr. Meena.

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Timings DELHI Putting in place more efficient WEDNESDAY, APR. 14 ‘Youth getting infected as they RISE 05:57 SET 18:47 RISE 07:16 SET 20:49 THURSDAY, APR. 15 hospital planning system: CM RISE 05:56 SET 18:47 are going out for work, parties’ RISE 07:50 SET 21:43 FRIDAY, APR. 16 Kejriwal appeals to Centre to cancel CBSE board exams RISE 05:55 SET 18:48 Doctors say those under 45 more vulnerable now, new strains more infectious RISE 08:27 SET 22:38 Special Correspondent cooperate with the doctors. Nikhil M Babu Earlier, in a family of dent of Public Health Foun family are testing positive,” NEW DELHI “I request everyone to New Delhi <> five, two might test dation of India (PHFI), Del he said. Chief Minister Arvind Kejri have faith and let the hospi A higher proportion of peo positive and the rest hi, K. Srinath Reddy, said Dr. Ray said onefifth of wal on Tuesday said the go tal management function ple below 45 years of age are negative. But now, in more young people getting the ICU patients in the hos vernment was putting in smoothly. Please under getting infected with CO infected is a trend in other pital are below 45 years of place a more efficient hospi stand, we are shouldering most cases all VID19 this year than in 2020 parts of the country too. age and onethird in general tal planning system. the responsibility of the as they are stepping out for members of a family “Even in the United King wards are below 45 years. To ensure only severe CO whole of Delhi and their work, pleasure trips and are testing positive dom, more young people Medical Director of Delhi VID19 patients get access to wellbeing. For us, each life parties, said doctors at mul Sumit Ray are getting infected,” he governmentrun LNJP Hos beds, doctors will now be matters,” Mr. Kejriwal said. Head of Department of Critical Care tiple hospitals across the ci at Holy Family Hospital said. Head of Department of pital Suresh Kumar said that monitoring each and every He added that some ban ty. However, they claimed Critical Care at Holy Family even the young people are patient within the hospital quet halls and hotels have that most of the ICU admis virus than last year. Hospital Sumit Ray said developing severe illnesses. to see if any of them can be been attached to nearby sions are still elderly. “They develop fever, there are three reasons why “Many people below the cured at home, he said. hospitals to place COVID pa They also said the virus cough, cold, but it is not sev more people below 45 years age of 45 are also getting ad not the hospital or the go tients who do not need in may be now more infectious ere in most cases. For elder of age are testing positive. mitted in ICUs,” he said. Donate plasma, says CM vernment shirking from res tensive care, thereby making than before due to muta ly people, the severity is Senior Consultant at In He requested people to post ponsibility. We will provide it easier to transfer them to tions, but there is no data to more as they have comor Three reasons draprastha Apollo Hospital pone planned surgeries and such patients with oximeter the hospitals immediately if establish it at this point. bidities. Last year, people “One, they are more mobile. Suranjit Chatterjee said ma asked those who have reco and our doctors will be call required. 0 Chief Minister Arvind Kej were scared to go outside, Two, older people are more ny of the younger people are vered recently from the vi ing them regularly to keep a Mr. Kerjiwal appealed to DISCLAIMER: Readers are requested to riwal on Tuesday reiterated which is not the case now. cautious and many of them not following COVIDappro rus to donate plasma as check on them. We will the Central government to verify and make appropriate enquiries to satisfy themselves about the veracity of that 65% of patients were be This month, we have seen have taken the vaccine. priate behaviour. there was a shortage of the monitor their situation even cancel the CBSE board ex an advertisement before responding to any published in this newspaper. THG low 45 years of age as per da dozens of people in their Three, the virus has definite “They are working and same in the city. at home and bring them ams — scheduled to begin on PUBLISHING PVT LTD., the Publisher & Owner of this newspaper, does not vouch ta of the last 1015 days. 20s and 30s, college stu ly become more infectious. going out. Last year, there Speaking at a digital brief back to the hospital if the May 7. He requested the for the authenticity of any advertisement or advertiser or for any of the advertiser’s Head of Department of In dents and married couples, Earlier in a family of five, was a lockdown, but eve ing, Mr. Kejriwal said: “If need arises.” CBSE to find an alternative products and/or services. In no event can the Owner, Publisher, Printer, Editor, Dir- ternal Medicine at Sir Ganga who said they had gone for a two might test positive and rything is open now. Clini doctors feel that a particular He said the step was need method like online examina ector/s, Employees of this newspaper/ company be held responsible/liable in Ram Hospital S.P. Byotra trip or a party and got infect later on, twothree might cally, there is a suspicion patient can be cured at ed to ensure that serious CO tions or passing students any manner whatsoever for any claims and/or damages for advertisements in said this year more children ed after it,” said Dr. Byotra. test negative. But now, in that the virus is more infec home, they will be request VID patients get beds in hos with the help of internal this newspaper. are getting infected with the Epidemiologist and presi most cases all members of a tious now,” he added. ed to go back home. This is pitals and requested all to assessment.

Special Correspondent GURUGRAM At least 40% beds in gener al category and 70% in In tensive Care Unit/ventila tor category in all public and private hospitals in Gu rugram district would be reserved for the COVID19 patients in view of sudden surge in cases of the infec tion, said an order by dis trict administration on Tuesday. In a twopage order, Dis trict Magistrate Yash Garg directed that “at least 40% of total beds capacity of general category and 70% of total bed capacity of Artistes perform Gatka, an Indian martial art associated with the Sikhs, to mark Baisakhi at ICU/ventilator category of the farmers’ protest site in Ghazipur on Tuesday. * SANDEEP SAXENA all public/private hospi CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC tals” were to be dedicated for the COVID19 patients with adequate availability of human resource and lo HC rejects Is the ban on gatherings gistics. The order further said the details about the plea to relax number of beds available being enforced across be updated on the web age criterion portal https://onemapggm. gmda.gov.in for “cogent, for vaccine the board, HC asks govt. empirical planning and es tablishing systematic sur Staff Reporter It was hearing a plea by waqf board veillance at the district New Delhi level”. The Delhi High Court on Staff Reporter The order said the dis Tuesday rejected a plea new delhi trict administration was in seeking direction to the The Delhi High Court on need of more dedicated Centre and the city govern Tuesday asked the Centre if COVID ICU and ventilator ment to relax the age crite the Delhi Disaster Manage beds since the number of rion for COVID19 vaccina ment Authority’s (DDMA) cases in a single day had tion and to allow more order prohibiting all kinds of crossed the 1,100mark and private sector participation gathering in the wake of in there were more than in the drive. creasing COVID19 cases was 6,000 active cases. An HC Bench said the being implemented across plea appeared to be filed for the board in the Capital. publicity rather than doing Justice Mukta Gupta di any good to the society. It rected the Centre to indicate BJP, Cong. lash also said: “Does not have the manner in which the the wherewithal to deal April 10 prohibitory orders out at govt. with such matters which re of the DDMA were being fol The Nizamuddin centre has quire empirical data...” The lowed and whether any kind been locked since March 31, over health Bench said since the peti of social, religious, political 2020. * FILE PHOTO tioner, a finalyear law stau or festive gathering was be infrastructure dent is withdrawing the ing permitted. The HC said it was “unfor plea and has understood The direction came while tunate” that such a state Special Correspondent the consequences and in fu the court was hearing a plea ment was made when the is NEW DELHI ture will not indulge in such by the Delhi Waqf Board to sue was yet to be decided. The State units of the BJP litigation, it was refraining reopen the Nizamuddin It will hear the case again and the Congress on Tues from imposing costs. centre where the Tablighi Ja on April 15. day lashed out at the Delhi The petitioner, Mrigank maat congregation are held. Senior advocate Ramesh government for “failing to Mishra, had sought direc It has been locked since Gupta, appearing for the strengthen” Staterun hos tion to the authorities to March 31 last year. Board, questioned how pitals to deal with the formulate a policy to pro The HC expressed dis gatherings are being permit fourth wave of COVID19. vide the benefits of vaccina pleasure over a statement gi ted outside temples in the Delhi BJP resident tion drive to senior citizens, ven to the media by the Capital when the same was Adesh Gupta said: “ The differently abled persons Board’s chairperson, Ama prohibited by the DDMA. fourth COVID wave is on and poor sections of the so natullah Khan, who said that He asked whether the the upswing since the past ciety by initiating doorto the court has allowed the DDMA order was applicable 10 days but till date the door vaccination services in mosque to be made only to a particular religious Kejriwal government has the Capital. operational. community. not declared any of its big ger hospitals, including LNJP as COVID dedicated but had converted 14 priv COVID deaths in Noida hit 4month high ate hospitals into COVID only hospitals.” Press Trust of India On November 24, it had has a toll of 97 with a mortal He added that treat Noida recorded three deaths. ity rate of 0.34 per cent. ment in these hospitals is Uttar Pradesh's Gautam There were 229 new cas The recovery rate reached very costly and beyond Buddh Nagar recorded four es and the tally rose to 93.92 per cent, the statistics reach of lower and mid COVID deaths on Tuesday, 27,957. The number of ac showed. The number of ac dleclass people. taking the district's toll to 97, tive cases climbed to 1,602, tive cases in the State Delhi Congress chief official data showed. This is the Health Department said. reached 95,980 from 81,576 Ch. Anil Kumar said al the first time in over four Fiftyfive more patients re the previous day, while the leged that there were only months that the district wit cuperated, taking the recov recoveries climbed to 6.18 26 ventilators available for nessed more than a single eries to 26,258, it said. lakh and the toll to 9,309, the new patients in Delhi go death due to COVID in a day. Gautam Buddha Nagar department said. vernment hospitals.

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EDUCATIONAL 1947, 1984... 2021 last battle for me: 92-yr-old protester EDUCATIONAL He was found semi-conscious at Singhu border 10 days ago

Hemani Bhandari tant for him. NEW DELHI One of his family mem Among those still protesting bers — who was found to be at the Singhu border is an ail in Kuwait — was contacted ing 92yearold man from Fe and his photographs and vi rozepur who has been a part deos were also sent but the of the agitation since the be relative allegedly didn’t ginning and believes this “to respond. be the last battle” after hav Sitting in a hall, Mr. Singh ing witnessed the 1947 Parti said he spent two months at tion and 1984 riots. a protest site in Gurdaspur Sohan Singh was found and then came here with a semiconscious in front of Sohan Singh speaking to group in February. the main stage at the protest protesters at the Singhu Mr. Singh claims he was 18 site around 10 days ago. border in Delhi. years old during the 1947 He was taken to a nearby * SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA Partition. medical camp from where he was shifted to a makeshift last 56 days,” Avtar said. ‘Won’t die till I win’ hospital. If not for the lab facility at “I have witnessed it all and the makeshift hospital, they have fought all the ﬁghts. Be ‘Not eaten for 6 days’ might have turned him away it 1947 or 1984. We will al Avtar Singh, who runs the with a few medicines and a ways be in optimism and joy. makeshift hospital by the bottle of glucose. This is my last battle, and I name of Life Care Founda “But we changed his will not die till it is won,” tion, said he got a call in the clothes and conducted tests. said Mr. Singh. afternoon about Mr. Singh’s It was found that he has an On Baisakhi (Tuesday), TENDERS EDUCATIONAL health. He rushed to the infection after which he was Nihang Sikhs at Singhu bor camp with an ambulance treated for it and kept in the der protest had put up a and found that the man was hospital for eight days. He show using their weapons unable to speak. “He was so was discharged on Sunday,” and at Tikri border too, low on energy. I asked him Avtar said. there were events lined up. why he didn’t take any med Mr. Singh keeps a diary in Many at the protest site said icine. He could barely say which he has all the contact the festival won’t mean that he did not eat for the numbers, which are impor anything till they have won.

OBITUARY & DEATH REMEMBRANCE A.SELVAN (62), Retired Supervisor, Security Department, THE HINDU, Chennai. Passed away on 10-04-2021. Address: Plot No: 8, Vallalar 4th Street, ICF Colony, Mutha Pudupet, DEATH IAF Post, Avadi, Chennai-600055.

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Punjab CM rejects officer’s Vote against those who made you Allahabad HC moots total resignation sit on the roads: BKU to farmers lockdown in affected districts Press Trust of India Chandigarh It calls for curbs on all gatherings amid public health crisis Punjab Chief Minister Ama The message has already reached the ground, says outfit leader Yudhvir Singh rinder Singh on Tuesday re Omar Rashid <> The situation is so been informed that COVID fused to accept the resigna Anuj Kumar where Assembly elections West U.P., farmers are behind LUCKNOW alarming that if it is hospitals were “overflood Ghaziabad tion of an IPS officer after were being held. However, the RLD,” he asserted. The Allahabad High Court not handled ed” with patients and there the High Court reportedly Describing the report in a na sources in BKU said the or “So, the subtle message is has asked the Uttar Pradesh carefully and was a shortage of both man quashed the probe led by tional newspaper misleading, ganisation didn’t want to take to support whomever you government to consider the cautiously we may power and facilities in the him in two cases of police Bhartiya Kisan Union national on the BJP directly before the find strongest against the BJP viability of a complete lock hospitals. lead to stage of firing. general secretary Yudhvir Assembly elections, which supported candidate,” said down for at least two or three Inspector General Kun Singh said on Tuesday that he are still almost a year away. Dharmendra Malik, media in weeks in districts where CO complete collapse Complete collapse war Vijay Pratap Singh didn’t say ‘BKU is not against “The message has already charge of BKU. VID19 infection has in of public health “The situation is so alarming headed the Special Investi BJP’. reached the ground and there However, State vice presi creased alarmingly. system that if it is not handled care gation Team of the Punjab Mr. Singh’s alleged state is no need to underline it in dent Rajvir Singh said the The court also stated that Judges fully and cautiously we may police, probing the 2015 ment led to chatter in social panchayat elections as they message should be clearly de “We must give priority to pu lead to stage of complete col police action in Kotkapura media groups about whether Farmers at the protest site at are fought by individuals and fined so that nobody could blic health over elections” “We understand that com lapse of public health sys and Behbal Kalan in Farid the BKU had been able to sus the Singhu border on not party.” distort it. “When you can and hoped that the govern plete lockdown for weeks to tem,” the judges said. kot district against people tain farmers’ anger against Tuesday. * SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA Another factor in pan speak against the BJP clearly ment would streamline every gether may not be feasible “What we need to ensure protesting over the alleged the BJP and whether the Ti chayat elections is that there in Bengal, what is stopping department of public health but looking to the current is that there is no unneces desecration of the Guru kait brothers would put their Singh. is no unity among the Opposi you to say it in west U.P.?” and public care in the light of surge of pandemic, we direct sary public movement even Granth Sahib. Two people weight behind those who “All along, our protest is tion as well. While Samajwadi asked a senior leader, re directions issued by it to curb the government to look into during the day,” the court ob were killed. could spoil BJP’s prospects in against the antifarmer poli Party and Rashtryia Lok Dal questing anonymity. the spread of COVID19. the viability of complete lock served. “We need to restrict The officer sought pre the upcoming panchayat cies of the BJPled govern are putting on a united front Night curfew or COVID down in those districts were public movement at least for mature retirement days af polls in the State. ment and Samyukt Morcha of for Assembly elections, in zila Simmering anger curfew imposed on many dis spread has increased alarm a week or 10 days to break ter the High Court reported “What I meant was BKU is which BKU is a part have panchayat president elec Emphasisng that there is an tricts on instructions from ingly, for at least two weeks the chain. If life survives one ly quashed the SIT inquiry. not a political organisation been repeatedly appealing to tions, they are supporting ar ger against the ruling party, Chief Minister Yogi Aditya or three weeks and at least would regain wealth and im The copy of the court order, and we don’t tell people farmers to punish those who chrivals in many districts. Mr. Singh said BJP could not nath is a small step and could immediately all public gath prove his economy. After all however, is yet to come out. where to vote in a panchayat have made them sit on the Sunil Rohata, RLD spokes find candidates to support in only curb night parties and erings must be restricted to every development is for pe According to reports, the election. But I also said farm road,” Mr. Singh added. person said panchayat elec all the 14 zila panchayat seats large religious congregation 50 persons,” the court said. ople and if there are no men HC on Friday also asked the ers could cast their vote for In an official release, he al tion was an opportunity to in Ghaziabad. “It shows in the coming month of Ra A Division Bench of Justic there will be no use of any de State govt. to reconstitute any candidate except for the so reminded how BKU lead strengthen the cadre and no which way the wind is mazan and Navratri, the es Siddhartha Varma and Ajit velopment activity,” the the SIT without Singh. BJP supported ones,” said Mr. ers had travelled to States party would let go of it. “In blowing.” court said. Kumar said the court had court said.

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT A lot of investment carried on well past mid to prevent the spread of the GUWAHATI <> goes into night. After 2020 was lost to new strain of the novel coro A spike in COVID19 cases organising Bihu COVID19 lockdown, people navirus. Meghalaya imposed and strict guidelines issued functions that have have been looking forward to night curfew from Sunday by the Assam government enjoying Bihu this time, but but has resisted deferring the traditionally has dampened the festive spi the strict regulations have high school and higher se rit ahead of Rongali or Bohag carried on well come in the way,” said Kai condary school, leaving ex Bihu beginning Wednesday. past midnight lash Nath Sarma, advisor to ams under the State Board Oﬃcials of the Health and Kailash Nath Sarma the Brihattar Guwahati Bihu from April 16. Family Welfare Department Advisor to Brihattar Guwahati Bihu Sanmilani Sanammay Raksha D.P. Wahlang, the State’s said 583 out of 1,02,182 peo Sanmilani Sanammay Raksha Samiti Samiti, a coordination body Principal Secretary for Edu ple tested positive on Mon miﬀed with the standard op of Bihu committees in the ci cation, admitted many pa day, taking the active cases erating procedures issued by ty. rents were wary of sending count to 2,387. The positivity the district authorities on their wards to the examina rate of 0.75% was “managea April 9, asking them to obtain Relaxation demands tion centres. “But we need to ble”, but the spread of the prior permission for the pro He said that the festival or take decisions that are locally cases has been a cause for grammes, sanitise the venues ganisers have protested de relevant,” he said. concern. twice and winding up the manding relaxation of the Mizoram, on the other More than 33% of the cases programmes by 11 p.m. Each restrictions as well as assign hand, has not taken any were detected in Kamrup member of a Bihu organising ment of volunteers by the dis chances although the num (Metro) district, which most committee was also asked to trict administration at Bihu ber of active cases there is ly comprises Guwahati, undergo tests for COVID19. sites for testing and sanitis among the lowest. The State where the major Bihu func “A lot of investment goes ing. government has closed down A crowded market near the Jama Masjid in Delhi on the eve of the beginning of the month of Ramzan on Tuesday.* PTI tions are organised. into organising Bihu func Assam’s neighbours in the schools for students in Class CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC The Bihu organisers are tions that have traditionally northeast too have geared up es up to 8. ED raids four locations in Tripura, seizes Bangladeshi, Indian cash

Taka worth ₹30 lakh and ₹22 lakh currency recovered Mr. Chakraborty, howev Syed Sajjad Ali <> The second raid at Agartala Boxanagar on the er, said the second raid at Bangladesh border Boxanagar on the Bangla Enforcement Directorate yielded nothing. desh border yielded noth (ED) conducted simultane ing. Joint teams of the ED Joint teams of the ous raids at four different and police also conducted places in Tripura on Tues ED and police also raids at two locations in day and recovered huge cash conducted raids at Agartala. They seized cash of unaccounted Indian and two locations in amounting ₹5 lakh from a fo Bangladeshi currencies. The Agartala reign currency exchange ED booked the offenders un Krishnendu Chakraborty centre at Ramnagar locality. der the Foreign Exchange District Superintendent of Police Sources said two senior Management Act 1999 in currencies were recovered officials and some ED staff connection with the raids from the house of Gour Saha ers arrived here from Kolka conducted jointly with the at Durgapur village in So ta on Monday and planned State police. namura subdivision. “ED raids in consultation with se Sepahijala District Supe and our team seized Bangla nior police officials. They rintendent of Police Krish deshi currency worth ₹30 said the ED was secretly nendu Chakraborty in lakh and Indian currency probing offences of money formed that huge amounts amounting ₹22 lakh”, he told laundering against several of Bangladeshi and Indian the Hindu. businessmen of the State. Udaipur institution gets global aid for prosthetics and orthotics ₹1.34 crore received for starting central fabrication unit

Mohammed Iqbal Children sold sodas, tea, sa JAIPUR mosas, popcorn and ex An Udaipurbased charitable plained about the project by institution has received a giving “hugs for free”. global grant worth ₹1.34 crore for starting a central Fund raising fabrication unit to manufac Before the Rotary Interna ture and supply prosthetics tional offered the grant to and orthotics with compu NSS, the Seva Project teraided design technology launched for raising funds for differently abled per accumulated $40,000 by sons. The artificial limbs will Artificial limbs being connecting IndianAmerican be distributed free of cost fabricated at a workshop in singer and inspirational through camps to be organ Udaipur. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT speaker Sparsh Shah with ised at remote places all over the drive to support the in the country. meet the distinct require stitution. Seventeenyear The Narayan Seva Sans ments of each differently old Sparsh, a resident of than (NSS), engaged in cor abled person. New Jersey, has a rare brittle rective surgeries and manu NSS president Prashant bone disorder. facture of artificial limbs at Agarwal told The Hindu on Mr. Agarwal said the new its workshop, will use the in Tuesday that the grant from central fabrication unit tegrated computeraided de the U.S. was facilitated by a would enable the differently sign and manufacturing campaign led by children in abled to be a part of the (CAD/CAM) platform for fa Atlanta, capital of Georgia, mainstream society and brication of prosthetics with since 2019 to raise funds create new opportunities for precision. The new unit will through community service. them in the near future. CM A ND-NDE YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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Weather Watch Jaleel resigns after Lok Ayukta rap Police want to Rainfall, temperature & air quality in select metros yesterday The Kerala Higher Education Minister was found guilty of nepotism question Swapna Special Correspondent The forum conveyed its to power despite drawing ad Probe into case against ED officials Thiruvananthapuram finding to Mr. Vijayan, the verse verdicts from the Kerala Minister for Higher competent authority, for ap judiciary. Special Correspondent ments implicating the Chief Education and Minority Wel propriate action, on Mon Earlier, Dr. Jaleel met CPI KOCHI Minister and others in the fare K.T. Jaleel on Tuesday day. the Congress and the (M) leaders. They reportedly The Crime Branch (CB) pol gold smuggling case. resigned after the Lok Ayuk BJP had clamoured for Dr. Ja backed his right to move the ice have moved the Princi The agency had also ta found him guilty of nepo leel’s exit. High Court. However, the pal Sessions Court, Ernaku booked a case to probe the tism. In a Facebook post, Dr. Ja party reminded Dr. Jaleel lam, seeking permission for statement of Sandeep Nair, Governor Arif Mo leel said he was the victim of that political propriety de interrogating Swapna another accused in hammed Khan accepted Dr. a “right wing” media witch manded he relinquish his Suresh on a case the gold smuggling Jaleel’s resignation which hunt. Political opponents post without waiting for re booked against Enfor case, that P. Radhak was forwarded to him by had prompted the persecu lief from the court. cement Directorate of rishnan, Deputy Di Chief Minister Pinarayi Vi tion. Dr. Jaleel’s post ap Leader of the Opposition ficials for allegedly rector of the ED, had jayan. peared to primarily target Ramesh Chennithala said Dr. forcing her to name allegedly forced him In a damning pronounce K. T. Jaleel Indian Union Muslim League Jaleel had no recourse but to Kerala Chief Minister to give statements ment last week, the forum (IUML) leaders by obliquely resign. There was nothing Pinarayi Vijayan and against the Chief Mi said Dr. Jaleel had lobbied Lok Ayukta said. referring to charges against ethical or sacrificial in his others in the gold smuggling nister and other prominent Temperature Data: IMD, Pollution Data: CPCB, Map: INSAT/IMD (Taken at 18.00 Hrs) the Kerala State Minority It had decreed that Dr. Ja them. quitting office. The Minis case. Swapna is now housed persons in the case. Forecast for Wednesday: Heavy rainfall likely at isolated places Welfare Corporation leel should not continue in ter’s exit smacked of desper at a women’s prison in Thi However, the ED con over Odisha, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Kerala. CPI(M) stand (KSMWC) to appoint his rela the Cabinet. Dr. Jaleel had ation and helplessness, he ruvananthapuram. tended that the Principal Thunderstorm with lightning likely at isolated places over tive general manager. displayed a marked “lack of CPI(M) acting State secretary said. The CB submitted on Sessions Court shall consid Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh, Arunachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Dr. Jaleel had tailored the integrity” as Minister. His ac A. Vijayaraghavan said Dr. Ja Union Minister of State for Tuesday that it wanted to in er the case only after April coastal Karnataka, Lakshadweep and Andaman & Nicobar Islands top job specifications to suit tion amounted to “abuse of leel had upheld political de External Affairs V. Mura terrogate Swapna in connec 16, the day on which the Ker city rain max min city rain max min his relative’s academic cre power, favouritism, nepo corum. In contrast, former leedharan said Mr. Vijayan, tion with an audio clip in ala HC is expected to pass an Agartala...... —....37.2....25.7 Kozhikode...... 3....33.0....24.6 Ahmedabad...... —....40.6....25.0 Kurnool ...... —....38.7....26.8 dentials and ensured none tism and violation of oath of Chief Minister Oommen who had endorsed Dr. Ja which she reportedly stated order on its application to Aizawl...... —....29.2....15.6 Lucknow...... —....40.8....22.1 else applied for the job by office,” the Lok Ayukta had Chandy and former Excise leel’s move to appoint his re that the ED officials had quash the FIR booked by the Allahabad...... —....42.1....21.4 Madurai...... 0.4....34.3....25.1 concealing the opening, the said. Minister K. Babu had clung lative, should also quit. forced her to give state CB against its official. Bengaluru ...... —....33.4....22.8 Mangaluru ...... —....31.7....22.0 Bhopal ...... —....40.1....21.9 Mumbai ...... —....35.4....26.2 Bhubaneswar...... —....39.6....26.0 Mysuru ...... —....36.2....21.0 Chandigarh ...... —....37.8....19.8 New Delhi ...... —....40.2....19.4 Chennai ...... —....35.5....26.9 Patna ...... —....41.2....21.4 Coimbatore ...... 1.6....36.1....24.7 Port Blair...... —....32.7....26.7 Dehradun...... —....35.8....17.7 Puducherry ...... —....34.1....25.0 Yediyurappa rules out lockdown as cases cross 8,700 Gangtok...... —....21.2....12.8 Pune...... 21.9....35.3....19.2 Goa...... —....34.1....25.5 Raipur ...... —....39.8....25.0 Guwahati ...... —....34.2....21.8 Ranchi...... —....35.3....20.6 Hubballi...... —....34.0....24.0 Shillong...... —....26.9....16.0 Karnataka records 67 deaths; Kerala incidence exceeds 7,500; A.P. daily tally jumps to 4,228; Telangana adds 3,000 cases Hyderabad ...... 12.8....35.2....24.0 Shimla...... —....27.6....14.8 Imphal ...... —....32.1....16.1 Srinagar...... —....16.3...... 6.8 Special Correspondent Jaipur ...... —....40.6....23.4 Thiruvananthapuram...... 63....32.6....23.4 active cases now stood at 4,228 new infections, the Cases in Telangana on Kochi ...... 16.4....32.4....22.4 Tiruchi...... 0.2....36.7....25.2 Thiruvananthapuram 52,132. highest singleday figure in Monday touched 3,052 and Kohima ...... —....29.2....13.2 Vijayawada ...... —....39.2....25.2 Four southern States added A total of 1,75,007 persons six months, on Tuesday seven more patients died. Kolkata ...... —....38.8....26.8 Visakhapatnam ...... —....33.8....27.4 23,573 fresh COVID19 cases were in home or institutional morning, and 10 more per The highest of 406 cases (Rainfall data in mm; temperature in Celsius) in a single day, led by Karna quarantine. There were 20 sons died. The cumulative were in Greater Hyderabad Pollutants in the air you are breathing Yesterday CITIES SO2 NO2 CO PM2.5 PM10 CODE taka with 8,778. new deaths from the past tally rose to 9,32,892 and the Municipal Corporation. Ahmedabad..... 31 .62 52 ....72 .138 ....* Ruling out the possibility few days, and the cumulative toll was 7,321. Active cases In Tamil Nadu, COVID19 Bengaluru ...... 11 .16 35 ....55 ...54 ....* In observation made at 4.00 * p.m., Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh of a lockdown in Karnataka, toll was 4,814 deaths. stood at 25,850, and 21,949 cases climbed to nearly Chennai ...... 5 .15 47 ....35 ...39 .... recorded an overall air Delhi ...... 40 .51 84 ..242 .310 ....* quality index (AQI) score of Chief Minister B S Yediyurap Among districts, cases of these were reported in the 7,000 and active cases to Hyderabad ...... 4 .66 39 ....68 .102 ....* 373 indicating an unhealthy pa on Tuesday said he had were highest in Ernakulam at past week. nearly 50,000 on Tuesday. Kolkata...... 21 .20 96 ..116 .112 ....* level of pollution. In * contrast, Thoothukudi, Tamil convened an all party meet 1,162, followed by Kozhikode Chittoor, a hotspot, re A total of 6,984 persons Lucknow...... 19 .48 56 ..267 .206 .... Nadu recorded a healthy AQI Mumbai ...... 6 .54 29 ..160 .149 ....* score of 35 ing on April 18 to decide the with 867 and Thrissur with corded four fatalities. In Nel tested positive in 24 hours, Pune...... 6 .50 59 ..126 ...95 ....* future course of action. 690. lore, two persons died. Gun taking the tally to 9,47,129, Visakhapatnam 17 .41 28 ....49 ...82 ....* Kerala added 7,515 cases Karnataka’s death toll tur, Krishna, Kurnool and and 49,985 persons were un Air Quality Code: * Poor * Moderate * Good (Readings indicate average AQI) crossed 13,000 on Tuesday Visakhapatnam reported der treatment, either at SO2: Sulphur Dioxide. Short-term exposure can harm the respiratory system, with 67 more fatalities and one death each. home or at health facilities, making breathing difficult. It can affect visibility by reacting with other air particles to form haze and stain culturally important objects such as statues the overall tally of infections Steps of caution: A worker disinfecting the premises of Andhra Pradesh was set to health officials said. and monuments.

was 10,83,647. So far 13,008 a testing centre in Vijayawada on Tuesday. * V RAJU conduct a vaccination drive Eighteen persons died of NO2: Nitrogen Dioxide. Aggravates respiratory illness, causes haze to form by on Tuesday registering a deaths were recorded. There on Wednesday as part of Tika the infection in the past sev reacting with other air particles, causes acid rain, pollutes coastal waters. CO: Carbon monoxide. High concentration in air reduces oxygen supply to slightly lower test positivity were 78,617 active cases. er hotspot with 492 cases Chief Minister Yediyurap Utsav as it had received 6.4 eral hours. In Chennai dis critical organs like the heart and brain. At very high levels, it can cause rate (TPR) of 10.23%, and the Bengaluru Urban district and two deaths. pa said the Technical Adviso lakh doses of Covishield and trict, 2,482 persons tested dizziness, confusion, unconsciousness and even death. State case tally stood at contributed 5,500 fresh in Cumulatively, 60.77 lakh ry Committee (TAC) had not Covaxin. Amidst low turnout positive. PM2.5 & PM10: Particulate matter pollution can cause irritation of the eyes, nose and throat, coughing, chest tightness and shortness of breath, reduced 11,80,397. fections and 55 deaths on vaccinations were done recommended any lock on Ugadi, only 4,483 beneﬁ (With inputs from Benga- lung function, irregular heartbeat, asthma attacks, heart attacks and premature In the past 17 days, Kerala Tuesday. since the inoculation drive down. ciaries were administered luru, Vijayawada, Hydera- death in people with heart or lung disease added 27,901 new cases. The Mysuru emerged as anoth started on January 16. Andhra Pradesh reported vaccines on Tuesday. bad, Chennai bureaus & PTI)

Special Correspondent volved in a number of crimi MHADA will undertake construction at ₹35 crore Mumbai nal activities.” The Nagpur Bench of the On the basis of the police Staff Reporter <> Mumbai is the financial Bombay High Court recently report, the Commissioner Mumbai capital and women from all granted relief to contract told the court that if Gawli is A working women’s hostel will now over the State come here killerturnedpolitician Arun released on parole there is come up on the site of the MP Mill seeking employment Gawli, lodged in Nagpur danger to the complainants Compound slum rehabilitation pro opportunities. They find it Central Jail, and quashed the and witnesses and submit ject, which led to the resignation of difficult to secure a place to order rejecting his parole. ted a chart of dates when the Prakash Mehta, the then housing mi stay and are forced to live in A Division Bench of Justic gangster was released on nister in the Bharatiya Janata Party the distant suburbs es Z.A. Haq and Amit Borkar Arun Gawli furlough and parole. government, in 2017. Jitendra Awhad was hearing a criminal peti The court said, “The re State Housing Minister Jitendra State Housing Minister tion filed by Gawli, 68, seeking parole for 45 days as port of enquiry prepared by Awhad said on Tuesday that the against an order passed on his wife had to undergo a the police does not dispute Maharashtra Housing and Area De the development control rule by giv March 3, by Divisional Com surgery on her left ear, after the fact of necessity of sur velopment Authority will build the ing the transferable development missioner of Nagpur divi suffering from chronic sup gery of the wife. Taking into hostel with 450 rooms at a cost of rights not to the slum dwellers but to sion. The Commissioner re purative otitis media consideration the nature of ₹35 crore to accommodate women a building for project affected peo jected Gawli’s plea for grant (CSOM). The Commissioner serious illness CSOM to the who come to Mumbai for work from ple. It was alleged that the move of parole on the basis of an called for a report from the left ear, we are satisfied that different parts of the State. would enable private players to adverse police report in Agripada police. In its re the petitioner (Gawli) de Mr. Awhad said, “Mumbai is the fi make huge profits. view of the Prisons (Bombay port, the police said Gawli’s serves to be released on pa nancial capital of the country and Mr. Mehta had claimed that the Furlough and Parole) Rules. wife suffered from the illness role.” The court perused the women from all over the State come then chief minister Devendra Fadna Gawli is convicted under mentioned in the plea and charts of furlough and pa here seeking employment opportun vis was in the loop, but denied it on Sections 302 (punishment doctors at Mumbai’s Jaslok role and said, “The bare pe ities. They find it difficult to secure a the floor of the Assembly. The Lokay for murder) and 120 B (cri Hospital advised her to un rusal shows that the peti place to stay and are forced to live in ukta’s report on the probe against minal conspiracy) of the In dergo a surgery. However, tioner had surrendered the distant suburbs. As a result, we Mr. Mehta is yet to be made public. dian Penal Code along with the report also stated that himself on due date before decided to build a hostel for working Mr. Awhad confirmed to The Hin- Section 3 (punishment for Gawli’s son and his wife’s re the Prison Authorities.” women.” The minister said National du that the hostel would come up on organised crime) of the Mah latives were capable of tak While quashing the order ist Congress Party chief Sharad Pa the MP Mill Compound project site. arashtra Control of Organ ing care of her. by the Commissioner, the war and party MP Supriya Sule had He said he was unaware about the ised Crime Act and is under On the basis of this, the Bench directed him to grant put forward a request to build such a status of the earlier project. Upon going imprisonment for life. police sent an adverse re parole to Gawli as per his en hostel and he was happy to fulfil it. completion, the hostel will be hand On December 26 last year, port and said, “Gawli is the titlement, eligibility and Mr. Mehta had to resign in 2017 ed over to a different organisation he had filed an application leader of a syndicate and in conditions permissible. following allegations that he violated for maintenance. Food stall owners booked after video goes viral Fatherson duo Jain (44) and Satyaprakash (18) ran a vada pav stall at used water from Sector 2 in Belapur. The pol pipe at vaccination ice filed a case against them centre for cooking after a video of the act went viral on social media. Raina Assainar Senior police inspector Navi Mumbai Anil Patil said, “The wash The CBD Belapur police basin was meant for benefi have booked a fatherson ciaries to wash their hands duo for cooking food at their before entering the vaccina stall with water used by be tion centre. The duo used neficiaries to wash hands at water from the drainage a vaccination centre. pipe for drinking and cook The police said Harish ing purposes at their stall.”

DELHI THE HINDU 8 EDITORIAL WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 2021 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Bengal needs no Radcliffe Line of hatred In the elections, much violence is being done to the mind of Bengal, to its thinking wires, its feeling nerves, its very soul Battered as it was, Bengal was appear. Gandhi opened a window by the rioters. The mob that killed ‘bettered’ by other areas. The and got Suhrawardy to stand be and burnt was not Bengal. The ma worst instance of Partitiontime side him, resting one hand on the jority that stilled the mayhem, Another beginning violence among all regions, took outgoing Premier’s shoulder. was. Pharmacovigilance is vital as more vaccines place in Punjab. “Virtually,” says One of the crowd to the Pre “We the undersigned,” the lead Wikipedia, “no Muslim survived in mier: “Are you not responsible for ers said in a paper they gave to him become available and new sideeffects seen Gopalkrishna Gandhi East Punjab (except in Malerkotla) the Great Calcutta Killing?” , “promise to Gandhiji that peace s India grapples with a vaccine shortage, the and virtually no Hindu or Sikh sur Suhrawardy: “Yes, we all are.” and quiet have been restored in vived in West Punjab.” All this was ‘Will you answer my question, Calcutta once again. We shall nev Drug Controller General of India has formally ap lection time in West Bengal around the partitioning of India. please?” er again allow communal strife in Aproved another vaccine candidate — Sputnik V — has, for decades now, meant Much later, in the antiSikh riots in “Yes, it was my responsibility”. the city. And shall strive unto under emergency use authorisation. Since January, In Eviolent time. 1984 an estimated 2,800 were Pyarelal writes: “This unequivo death to prevent it.” Among the dia’s vaccination strategy has hinged almost entirely on There is violence during the killed in Delhi, and another 3,350 cal, straight and candid answer by signatories were Suhrawardy and Covishield — the AstraZeneca vaccine — and to a very li campaigning, violence during the nationwide. These are official fi one who had made arrogance and N.C. Chatterjee, the Hindu Maha GETTY IMAGES mited extent, Covaxin. Another significant move by the polling, violence during and after gures, the actual numbers are like haughtiness his badge and never sabha leader. Netaji’s elder broth government is in allowing foreignmade vaccines ap the counting of votes. The level of ly to have been much bigger. In the communal divide it comes from, known humility had a profound ef er, Sarat Chandra Bose, was a electionrelated violence and its Gujarat riots of 2002, official esti hatred as an idea and a strategy is fect on the crowd.” But the incu third. proved by regulatory agencies in the U.S., the U.K., Eu duration vary but it is there. mates put the toll at 1,044. The ac no less violent than ‘plain’ vio bating virus was working still. rope, Japan or those that find mention in the World So what does that fact show? tual numbers, again, are perhaps lence. Once planted, it incubates Riots broke out within days in Cal Bengal then and now Health Organization’s list of approved emergency use What does it establish? much bigger. in the minds and hearts of people, cutta, viciously. Two young men, That was and is Bengal. Its antibo vaccines which can avoid conducting a local clinical That Bengal is a violent state So, let no one tar Bengal and like a virus, and then erupts with Sachindranath Mitra, 37, and dies against the virus are strong. trial but opt for a parallel bridging trial postapp roval. and Bengalis are a violent people? Bengalis with the sweeping de an uncontrollable febrile frenzy. Smritish Banerjea, 38, interposing Its immune system is active. But if Last year, Pfizer had approached Indian regulators fo r Certainly not. scription of ‘violent’ . They are on between rioting mobs, were killed the load of the viral inoculum is permission but a sticking point was over this question ly as violent or nonviolent as any The Partition years on the spot. On hearing that a huge, the balance can get affected. Not just Bengal-centric other part of India or its people, The then Muslim League Premier truck carrying Muslim labourers It can collapse. of the conduct of local trials. Itis important to note that They are no more violent than any not a whit more. Maoist violence, of undivided Bengal, H.S. Suhra had a bomb thrown on it in the Beliaghata 1947, representing bridging trials are critical. A vaccine that is approved in other part of India or section of In the other ogre that has menaced wardy, had much to explain for the same area — Beliaghata — killing Bengal’s immune system, checked a different country may have untoward effects in anoth dian society when provoked, insti life in Bengal, is not by any means violence that disfigured Bengal in two of them, Gandhi went to the the virus. It has, by and large, re er population. Past learnings from the history of dr ug gated, manipulated to think, speak confined to the State where Naxal 1946 and 1947. On Suhrawardy’s scene. A four anna piece was lying mained in check. In 1971, 50 years and vaccine effects across geographies were what ne and act violently. One has to only bari lies, but is spread across over last day in that office, August 14, near one of them that had rolled ago, the virus all but disappeared, cessitated such rules in the first place. refer to the speeches made on the 200 districts across nine States. 1947, he had on his hands a chal out of the daily wager’s waist with the State hailing the return of However, India is in a crisis. When it had the oppor eve of Direct Action Day in 1946 at lenging ‘guest’ — Gandhi, who was band. Gandhi started a defining Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Rah tunity to conduct clinical trials in the right way, in the the Maidan, in Calcutta, to under Spreading hate staying in Hydari Manzil, at the fast. It was in complete and exact man to Dhaka and the birth of Ban stand what I mean. Within hours The violence that marred p hase Muslim quarter of Beliaghata in harmony with the mind and soul gladesh, even as another Tagore case of Covaxin and even Covishield, India rushed of those incendiary speeches the four of the eight phase elections Calcutta. At his prayer meeting of Ramakrishna’s, Vivekananda’s composition — “Amar Sonar Ban through its regulatory process. This contributed to the city was bleeding. An estimated now being held in the State is most that evening, over 10,000 people and Tagore’s Bengal. And equally, gla” — became the national an hesitancy surrounding these vaccines. It is still a mys 4,000 people were killed. Very unfortunate and to be bemoaned. gathered in the grounds around with the stoic Bengal of the two them of the new nation. tery why India did no t plan for enough stocks like the shortly thereafter, incitement and But our distress over it misses that house to hear him. It was the simple, humble but absolutely Bengal’s immune system should U.K. and the U.S. did. Now, it seems India is taking a cue instigation doing their worst, the another far more important, much month of Ramzan. Pyarelal re true Bengalis, Sachindranath and be spared the challenge of an over from these countries by conceding that no country can Noakhali region of East Pakistan more serious and infinitely more cords in his iconic biography ( Ma- Smritish. load of the communal virus. It is be entirely ‘atmanirbhar’ in vaccinating its population. saw appalling violence perpetrat dangerous form of violence that is hatma Gandhi – The Last Phase, “There should no longer be any one thing to go through an elec ed on the Hindu minority there, accompanying the elections in Navajivan, pp. 3689), that some in more HinduMuslim riots in Cal tion that seeks to win its favour; While there are several vaccine candidates at various with an estimated 5,000 killed. Bi West Bengal. the congregation shouted, “Where cutta…” the fasting Gandhi told quite another to have a Radcliffe stages of approval that India can choose from, it mu st har responded with matching fu That violence is being done to is Suhrawardy?” Suhrawardy was Bengal’s leaders who implored Line of hatred cut through its not repeat the same mistake of assuming that choice ry, killing, according to informa the mind of Bengal, to its thinking inside that house at the time, en him not to fast . “ I shall terminate mind and torment its soul. translates into immediate availability. All of the I ndian tion given to the British Parliament wires, its feeling nerves, to its very gaged in namaz. Gandhi told them my fast if all of you accept this res Beliaghata 1947, Bangladesh companies that have tied up with foreign vaccine com an equal number of its Muslim mi soul. It is being done by the unre that. After the prayer meeting gave ponsibility.” Seventy or so hours 1971 and the ballot for Bengal 2021 panies are private players. That is, while they may pro nority and, according to The Sta- lenting spread of the virus of com over and Gandhi returned to the after his fast had begun, a group of bear witness to its covenants with mise vaccines in the millions, it will always be the case tesman, twice as many. A peace munal hate, of sectarian animosity house, there was an uproar. Many leaders came to him to report that life unto death. cherishing province was leveraged of the ‘line’ that Hindus and Mus had surrounded the house, which the innate good sense of the ma that priority will be accorded to the highest global bid thus into peaceshattering lims are different breeds of human at Gandhi’s behest was unpoliced, jority of the people of the city had Gopalkrishna Gandhi is a former ders. India must compete to ensure that these doses are violence. species. Whichever side of the and demanded that Suhrawardy prevailed over the furies let loose administrator, diplomat and governor available to a large fraction of its adult population in quick time. The pandemic wave seems to have ebbed in the U.S., to some extent, because at least 30% of its adults have got one dose. For India, this job of sca ling In climate change noise, India’s role as conductor up was always going to be uphill. Scenes from last year — paucity of hospital beds, ventilators, black marketing New Delhi needs to introduce equity, differentiation and justice in the ‘netzero’ debate of drugs — are now being replayed in worrying propor view proposes focusing on meas We propose a formulation that status. This approach acknowledg tions. With more vaccines come inevitably more com urable nearterm progress, and combines per capita income and es the potential to tap into techno plications associated with adverse events and rare side paints the longterm (the year aggregate emissions. The World logical advances and cost reduc effects. This is where India’s pharmacovigilance pro 2050 and beyond) as too far to be Bank classifies a highincome eco tions and reinforces the need to gramme must step up. The easing up on conditions for meaningful in terms of progress nomy as one with gross national give a longterm netzero signal. facilitating more vaccines must be seen as a new towards a deeply decarbonised per capita income of $ 12,536 or (This is how India benefited from Vaibhav Chaturvedi & world. The alternative approach more in 2019 prices. Any highin falling solar costs over the past de beginning. Arunabha Ghosh argues that without longterm tar come country should not get more cade and was able to aim higher gets, the path to decarbonisation than 1520 years to achieve netze for its renewable energy ambi A small step has little certainty. ro emissions from 2020 onwards. tions.) This approach would trig he recent visit to India by Un This would imply that the Euro ger a rethink about each country’s Medical termination of pregnancy laws should ited States Special Presiden Fine points pean Union or the United States sustainable development priori recognise the primacy of women’s agency tial Envoy for Climate John This polarised debate needs some reach netzero no later than 2035 ties and sectoral pathways — and T GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO Kerry gave an opportunity for nuance. Consider the analogy of a 40, rather than 2050 as they cur create the conditions for further mancipation is seldom a linear progression to the both sides to discuss cooperation retirement plan. It is a must for this choice makes India look like a rently propose. China will enter innovation and investment in cli finish; the hurdles are many, some entrenched in on climate change and the balance everyone. However young, we climate laggard when its actions this income category after 2025, so matefriendly infrastructure, tech Ethe mind. The passing of amendments to the between nearterm priorities and need to start saving now to meet actually speak louder than the it should achieve netzero by 2045, nologies, business models, and lif Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act in India longterm targets. U.S. President the goals of a financially secure re words of many developed rather than 2060 as it proposes. estyle and behavioural changes. recently is a step forward in recognising the rights of Joe Biden’s ‘Leaders’ Summit on tirement. It would be foolish to not countries. India is expected to become a As the suite of mitigation technolo women, but is no giant leap. It does push the envelope Climate’ scheduled for April 2223 have a retirement plan on the highincome economy around gies becomes more widely availa will also set the stage for major grounds that it is in the distant fu India needs to replan 2050, and it should target netzero ble and cheaper, all countries way past how far the now antediluvian MTP Act of 1971 countries to outline their plans. ture, that medical sciences might India should, instead, reframe the close to 2070. As a recent Council could achieve netzero much went, primarily by allowing the termination of preg One thing is clear: Climate action advance, or that we could consid netzero debate from the perspec on Energy, Environment and Wa earlier. nancy beyond 24 weeks if there are foetal anomalies. and climate leadership are being er retirement properly when we tive of the planet and for the pros ter report (https://bit.ly/2Qm7scN) The debate between prioritising However, it also sets the decision on the shoulders of a increasingly measured against a are richer in middle age. To only perity of its people. India had en shows, today’s highincome coun only nearterm actions versus an medical board formed by State governments for this planetary imperative of emissions focus on smaller savings in our sured that “climate justice” was tries would still have a much lon nouncing longterm netzero goals specific purpose. The amended Act also allows the ter reducing to netzero by 2050. This youth would ignore the com inserted in the preamble to the Pa ger transition period between presents a false binary. Both are mination of pregnancy until 20 weeks based on the opi presents a conundrum for fast pounding effect that actions today ris Agreement. As the climate cri peaking emissions and netzero needed to establish certainty of growing developing countries have in the long run. Planning for sis unfolds, climate justice should than India would get. action, credibility of promises and nion of one qualified doctor, an improvement from the such as India. They need the car emissions mitigation is similar: imply that humanity respects the create incentives for markets to consensus between the two doctors clause that was bon space to develop but they are The short and the longterm can planetary boundary of permissi Issue of aggregrate emissions respond. The real debate should previously required. As per the amendment, unmar also among the most vulnerable not be delinked. ble greenhouse gases but also en However, per capita income can be about climate justice for people ried women can also terminate their pregnancy, and by countries to climate change. Is Ambitious renewable energy sures that countries assume equit not be an excuse for inaction in and the planet. India would do replacing the word ‘husband’ with the word ‘partner’ , there an equitable way to achieve targets, improvements in energy able responsibility based on their correcting emissionsintensive de well to propose alternative formu it, for the first time, takes the dialogue outside the con netzero greenhouse gas emissions efficiency and fast penetration of past and future emissions. This ap velopment pathways. Aggregate lations that establish equity, diffe fines of marital relationships that it was trapped in , le for the planet? electric vehicles are among India’s proach would be different from emissions also matter. The histori rentiate the pace of desired action, Recent debates on whether In critical lowcarbon objectives in merely blaming developed coun cal (past century) and future (this and yet be progressive in its gally. In a country where statistics put the number of dia should declare a netzero year the next decade. Yet, rapid ad tries for historical emissions and, century) aggregate emissions of ambitions. unsafe and illegal abortions done every year at about or withstand mounting pressure vances in these do not substitute instead, would establish the crite each country not yet in the high 800,000, any extension of legal and safe provisions for have centred around two alterna for the need to set a clear direction ria by which economic advance income category should aim to be Vaibhav Chaturvedi is Fellow and termination of pregnancy is clearly welcome. Admitt tive strategies. The first is to deleg of travel with the aim to reduce ment and climate responsibility progressively smaller than those Arunabha Ghosh is CEO, Council on edly, in India where sexselective abortions are per itimise longterm targets. This emissions to netzero. Avoiding could go handinhand. which have achieved highincome Energy, Environment and Water formed, the state needs to keep a watchful eye on anything that might allow the sex ratio to nosedive LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letters emailed to [email protected] must carry the full postal address and the full name or the name with initials. further. But this law stops short of reimagining an issue at the To read more letters Fighting on vaccine may have to be professionals must have been four — with the materials spending way too much time online, scan the QR code heart of any debate on abortions — a woman’s agency It is pertinent to remember tweaked against the newer caught unawares. Everyone used as a sandwich of in Bengal campaigning when over reproduction. The key dramatis personae in a de that vaccination prevents variants. We also have to should remain alert and spunbond, meltblown and there is a major crisis that teachers. At least when it cision to keep or abort a foetus are essentially the wo severe reinfection and step up genomic follow procedures. spunbond materials. Each threatens to derail the comes to education, all man and her gynaecologist; instead, the law envisage s hospitalisation in most surveillance and research A. Michael Dhanaraj, plays a part in blocking nation. The economy is political parties need to find the decision to be made by a board of specialists if an instances (Page 1, “As cases for second generation Coimbatore aerosols and micro facing a dangerous situation a common solution. It is abortion is required after 24 weeks. Among the reasons surge, panel approves vaccines which will be respiratory particles and key and it may not take much for politics that is helping many Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine”, effective against the ■ The resurgence of the virus to COVID19 prevention. In it to be overwhelmed. a State abdicate its why the amendments were pushed was the laborious April 13). Therefore, it is variants. Vaccination and is alarming, snatching lives most cases, I have found the Perhaps the top leader of the responsibility of ensuring process a woman had to undergo in order to get an our only hope to prevent COVID19 appropriate without any letup. Though meltblown fabric missing. land finds winning Bengal of proper education. abortion, sometimes resolved by courts, but often frus overburdened health behaviour are our only the Centre appears to be COVID19 infection is greater importance than N. Nagarajan, trating and leading them to seek solutions surrepti systems which are suffering tools against this raging putting in place steps to keep spreading like wildfire and defeating the coronavirus. Secunderbad tiously, risking their life. This is retrograde, eve n posi from COVID19 fatigue, pandemic. the second wave at bay, the the government is asking Anthony Henriques, Mumbai tioned against a global trend — the laws in over 60 from collapsing when cases Dr. Thomas Palocaren, States concerned do not everyone to wear a mask. If Examination dates Vellore, Tamil Nadu countries allow women to get an abortion on request at are surging again. The seem to be looking at the people are wearing defective The Humanities and Social emergence of new variants gravamen of the matter in its masks, are we not increasing Education now Sciences Entrance any point in the gestation. While old laws sought to pro from time to time and the ■ When the daily case load sincerity; the guidelines for the risks? Children and the young have Examination or HSEE which tect the life of a woman on the grounds that medical declining neutralising began declining in November now do not seem to address N. Arulmozhidevan, been experiencing a very is the national level entrance procedures would be unsafe for the mother after a cer antibody levels as some last year everyone assumed the issue. With the economy Chennai hard time ever since the test conducted by IIT tain gestational limit — usually 12 weeks — medical cap studies show, might that the virus was on the open now, balanced steps pandemic broke out. The Madras, falls on June 13, ability is no longer a limit. Experts swear medical tech contribute to the lack of wane. Added to this was the will have to be taken. Battle for Bengal future of lakhs of students 2021, the same day as the nology has advanced sufficiently to allow safe abortions protection against news in January that two Mani Nataraajan, The desperation of the BJP to who are preparing for Common Law Admission Chennai in secure healthcare settings at very advanced stages of reinfection. But this should vaccines were ready for use. win West Bengal is clearly examinations and Test, another national level not deter people from Therefore, people began to showing. After managing to competitive exams is at stake entrance examination the pregnancy too. The amended Act, then, scarcely re getting vaccinated. The think that the war against the ■ I have come across defects lure many members of the as their only source of conducted for admission into cognises women’s agency at the centre of it all, and un Sputnik V vaccine will be dreaded virus was being in surgical masks being sold. TMC to its fold, the party support at the moment are the National Law til it does so, through a fundamental change in mindset, another arrow in the quiver won. Very few would have Some of them are from must have expected Mamata online classes which are very Universities. Could one of measures such as these will count as but small progress in the war against the thought that the virus would reputed pharmacies. Medical Banerjee to capitulate. The inadequate. The welloff the exam dates be shifted? on a jagged line. pandemic. Booster doses evolve differently and even surgical masks are generally Prime Minister and the students have all the support Arulraj, may be required or the virologists and health of three layers — some have Home Minister appear to be as they can engage home Coimbatore

THE HINDU DELHI WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 2021 OPED 9 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE BIMSTEC needs to reinvent itself Immediate vaccination a The grouping, a work in progress, has several obstacles to overcome must in Indian universities cooperation. Similarly, while nation al business chambers are yet to be In some universities that have commenced physical classes, optimally engaged with the BIMSTEC there has been a spike in COVID-19 cases project, the academic and strategic community has shown ample enthu physical experience of campuses in the vir siasm through the BIMSTEC Network tual world through pedagogical innovations Rajiv Bhatia of Policy Think Tanks and other fora. and using technology to drive social engage ment. However, all universities in India may Hurdles not have the resources required to do so in The foreign ministers of BIMSTEC The goal now should be to overcome the online space. In order to meet these chal (the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi the obstacles leading to BIMSTEC’s lenges, close gaps and give a reasonable ho C. Raj Kumar Sectoral Technical and Economic success. First, a strong BIMSTEC pre listic academic experience, our public health Cooperation) met virtually on April 1. supposes cordial and tensionfree bi efforts and vaccination strategies may have That they made time to hold their lateral relations among all its mem As universities and higher education institu to reflect this very critical disparity. 17th meeting is good news. They ad berstates. This has not been the tions (HEIs) across India prepare to bring vanced the agenda, which had been case, given the trajectory of IndiaNe students and faculty back on campus, CO Two concerns arrested by the pandemic, since the pal, IndiaSri Lanka, and Bangla VID19 cases are suddenly surging across the At this stage, one may consider the possibil last ministerial meeting held in Au deshMyanmar ties in recent years. nation. More people are being infected and ity of resuming university campuses with gust 2018. Their major task was to Second, uncertainties over SAARC at a faster rate than before. Vaccination roll upgraded infrastructure and COVID19 pro pave the way for the next summit, hovers, complicating matters. Both out strategies targeting selected groups must tocols, but one must keep in mind two con the grouping’s fifth, due to be held in External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar delivers a statement at the 17th Kathmandu and Colombo want the be rapidly expanded along with public cerns of highrisk exposure and logistical

Sri Lanka in the “next few months”. BIMSTEC ministerial meeting that was held virtually on April 1. * PTI SAARC summit revived, even as they health efforts to bring normalcy. complexities. First, universities host a large While most multilateral groupings cooperate within BIMSTEC, with di In a recent letter to the Prime Minister, the number of students, faculty and staff mem from G20 to ASEAN (Association of luted zeal. Third, China’s decisive in Indian Medical Association has suggested bers representing diverse demographic Southeast Asian Nations) and SCO in Kathmandu in August 2018, de ment of a technology transfer facility trusion in the SouthSoutheast Asian that vaccination be allowed for all people groups. Since the essence of most campuses (Shanghai Cooperation Organisa vised an ambitious plan for institu in Colombo. space has cast dark shadows. A re above the age of 18 years. India has one of is to promote social interactions, their ‘nor tion) held their deliberations at the tional reform and renewal that What has been missing from re nowned Bangladeshi scholar argued the highest proportion of young people with mal’ functioning can increase the risk of in highest political level in the midst of would encompass economic and se cent deliberations is a reference to at a recent conference that BIMSTEC comorbidities, including cancer, diabetes fection. While the magnitude of risk varies, the COVID19 pandemic in 2020, curity cooperation. It took the im the lack of progress on the trade and would make progress if China is ac and tuberculosis, in the world. With a large this is true for campuses with day scholars BIMSTEC leaders failed to do so. In portant decision to craft a charter to economic dossier. A January 2018 cepted as its principal interlocutor part of COVID19 deaths in India occurring and fully residential campuses. With such contrast to a meeting of even SAARC provide BIMSTEC with a more formal study by the Federation of Indian and partner. This perspective has due to comorbidities, there is a compelling high exposure and cumulatively rising risk of (South Asian Association for Region and stronger foundation. The shared Chambers of Commerce and Indus hardly any takers in India and its case for young people in universities and transmissibility, a vaccination strategy that al Cooperation) leaders held at In goal now is to head towards “a Peace try had suggested that BIMSTEC ur friendly partners in the grouping. Fi HEIs to be given priority in vaccination. involves them can help curtail the spread dia’s initiative a year ago, BIMSTEC ful, Prosperous and Sustainable Bay gently needed a comprehensive Free nally, the military coup in Myanmar, and revitalise their learning experience. could not arrange its ministerial of Bengal Region”. At the second Trade Agreement to be a real game brutal crackdown of protesters and Critical disparity Second, reopening campuses will entail meeting until April 2021. This is due swearingin of the Modi government changer. Ideally it should cover trade continuation of popular resistance The case for mass vaccination involving stu complex logistical implementation to ensure as much to contextual factors as the in May 2019, the leaders of BIMSTEC, in goods, services and investment; resulting in a protracted impasse dents, faculty and staff in HEIs is not without health and safety on campus. However, only diplomatic environment prevailing not SAARC, were invited as ho promote regulatory harmonisation; have produced a new set of challeng precedent. Cornell University in the U.S. in a handful of institutions have been fortunate today. noured guests. Soon thereafter, Ex adopt policies that develop regional es. Despite them, the BIMSTEC fo tends to have a requirement of vaccination to make infrastructure enhancements in the ternal Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar value chains; and eliminate nonta reign ministers could meet virtually for students returning to certain campuses, past year. Also, while norms of social dis Unfolding rejuvenation observed that India saw a mix of riff barriers. Also lacking was an ef — but will it be as easy for the summit which not only has a direct positive impact tancing and masks can be deployed, sustain Established as a grouping of four na “energy, mindset and possibility” in fort to enthuse and engage the vi to be held, with the muchmaligned on restoring academic continuity, but also ing the rigour of adhering to all protocols will tions — India, Thailand, Bangladesh BIMSTEC. brant business communities of these CommanderinChief Min Aung Hla curtails highrisk asymptomatic transmis be strenuous for some. Compared to corpo and Sri Lanka — through the Bangkok seven countries, and expand their ing in attendance at Colombo? sion. Oncampus learning transcends con rate organisations where it is easier to de Declaration of 1997 to promote rapid Recent decisions dialogue, interactions and transac As BIMSTEC readies itself to cele ventional didactic approaches by offering ex ploy such norms and protocols, we must be economic development, BIMSTEC Two and a half years after the Kath tions. On this score, BIMSTEC re brate the silver jubilee of its forma periential learning and co/extracurricular mindful of the challenges of doing the same was expanded later to include three mandu Summit, the grouping stands mains a work in progress. Over 20 tion next year, it faces a serious chal activities that are impossible to replicate vir for and in universities. more countries — Myanmar, Nepal ready to move forward. The foreign rounds of negotiations to operation lenge: to effect “a paradigmshift in tually. Some of these will have to be rede The recent spike in COVID19 cases upon and Bhutan. It moved at a leisurely ministers cleared the draft for the alise the BIMSTEC Free Trade Area raising the level of our cooperation signed to follow COVID19 protocols. commencement of physical classes among pace during its first 20 years with on BIMSTEC charter, recommending its Framework Agreement, signed in and regional integration”, as Mr. In 2020, while some HEIs initiated digital certain renowned Indian universities rein ly three summits held and a record of early adoption. They endorsed the 2004, are yet to bear fruit. Jaishankar said on April 1. The group reforms to ensure academic continuity, ma forces the importance of vaccination prior to modest achievements. But it sudden rationalisation of sectors and sub In contrast, much has been ing needs to reinvent itself, possibly ny institutions faced impending challenges reopening. More than 37 million students en ly received special attention as New sectors of activity, with each mem achieved in Humanitarian Assistance even rename itself as ‘The Bay of broadly around two key constraints. Privi rolled in higher education, along with the Delhi chose to treat it as a more prac berstate serving as a lead for the as and Disaster Relief and security, in Bengal Community’. It should con leged public and private HEIs were able to university faculty and staff, is a number that tical instrument for regional cooper signed areas of special interest. The cluding counterterrorism, cyber se sider holding regular annual sum build the governance and infrastructural ca is feasible for a special vaccination drive to ation over a faltering SAARC. The ministers also conveyed their sup curity, and coastal security coopera mits. Only then will its leaders con pacity for digital transformation to ensure be planned and executed. Since at least three BIMSTEC Leaders’ Retreat, followed port for the Master Plan for Tran tion. India has led through constant vince the region about their strong academic continuity, supported by the Mi months are needed for two doses and to en by their Outreach Summit with the sport Connectivity, which will be focus and followup — to the extent commitment to the new vision they nistry of Education through several initia sure an effective immune response, the im BRICS leaders in Goa in October adopted at the next summit. Prepara that some memberstates have com have for this unique platform linking tives. SWAYAM deserves a special mention plementation of such a programme for all 2016, drew considerable internation tions have been completed for the plained about the ‘oversecuritisa South Asia and Southeast Asia. here. However, low Internet penetration and HEIs must begin by May for timely commen al limelight to the lowprofile region signing of three agreements relating tion’ of BIMSTEC. The trick to ensure limited power and technology infrastructure cement of oncampus learning this year. al grouping. This also opened up the to mutual legal assistance in criminal balance is not to go slow on security Rajiv Bhatia is Distinguished Fellow, impacted universities and students, particu path for its rejuvenation. matters, cooperation between diplo but to accelerate the pace of forging Gateway House and a former Ambassador to larly in rural India. C. Raj Kumar is Vice Chancellor of O.P. Jindal Global The fourth leaders’ summit, held matic academies, and the establish solid arrangements for economic Myanmar Multiple institutions have replicated the University

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Doctors initially did not know translated into clinical practice by happenings in Bangla Desh and declared how best to treat patients with CO healthcare professionals managing that China’s ‘open support’ to West Pakis VID19. Thus, in the first few months, COVID19 patients. tan’s military regime against Bangla Desh clinical care was dominated by opi would not affect the country’s stand on the nion, anecdotes and dogma. An ex Drugs that work issue. Mrs. Gandhi’s statements came at a ample is the hype surrounding hy Let us also consider the drugs that news conference in Rae Bareli during her droxychloroquine as a potential cure have been proven to benefit CO oneday visit to her constituency, and also at for COVID19. It took a huge global ef VID19 patients. We have learnt that Congress (R) legislators’ meeting at Luck fort to prove that hydroxychloro corticosteroids (dexamethasone) is now, before she left for Dhaka tonight. Mrs. quine does not benefit COVID19 pa effective in COVID19 patients who Gandhi said at both places that her Govern tients. One year on, there is still need oxygen and in critically ill pa ment’s attitude did not depend on that of rampant misinformation on cures for tients (hydrocortisone). These cheap other countries and added, “we take actions COVID19, with steam inhalation, and universally available drugs have independently”. Addressing the Congress multivitamins, mineral supplements, saved thousands of lives. 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Mrs. Gandhi said that although VID19, still being prescribed. lumab) benefit COVID19 patients, in they should not interfere in the internal mat cluding enhanced benefit when used ters of other countries, what was happening Clinical trials in combination with corticosteroids, in East Bengal could not be described as Highquality evidence that informs particularly in patients with moder purely the internal affairs of Pakistan. Mrs. best practice for treatments comes ate and severe COVID19. It is impor Gandhi felt that the developments in East from randomised clinical trials. Until tant to note the emerging evidence Bengal might have their effect in other parts these trials produced results, what with heparin (a blood thinning medi of the country. The people residing in East doctors did was treat symptoms and cation). Heparin possibly harms crit Bengal and India had blood relations and it provide life support. Treatments in ically ill COVID19 patients whilst po was but natural to Indians to have their sym clude oxygen, breathing support in tentially benefiting noncritically ill pathies with the people of East Bengal. the form of mechanical ventilation in COVID19 patients. Therefore tran severely ill patients, and supporting slating these highquality evidence A HUNDRED YEARS AGO APRIL 14, 1921 other vital organs such as kidneys into clinical practice by healthcare with dialysis and heart with blood professionals would involve adminis Decrease in jail population pressure medications . Many CO tering corticosteroids and interleu VID19 patients developed blood kin6 receptor blocking drugs when Vigorous attempts are being made in all civil clots and were therefore treated with treating COVID19 patients who are ised countries to reduce the supply of fresh blood thinning medications. moderate to severely ill as per the recruits to the army of criminals. In England COVID19 was a clarion call for WHO clinical criteria. Indiscriminate and the United States the law prohibits the generating such highquality evi use of steroids and blood thinners in committal of children to prisons while the dence at pace, in particular designing mildly ill patients with COVID19 who provision of special institutions for the se trials to test multiple treatments si do not need oxygen or any other or gregation of juvenile offenders has been multaneously with innovative de gan support must be avoided. widely adopted. The establishment of “Bor signs such as platform trials and The pandemic continues to exert stal institutions” in Great Britain, it is stated, adaptive trials. The RECOVERY trial pressure on healthcare systems. It is has tended to bring about a decrease in the network in the U.K., the REMAPCAP important that apart from supportive jail population. The beneficent influence of trial globally focusing on critically ill care (oxygen, ventilatory support), the Borstal system on young prisoners, sen patients, and the WHOled SOLIDAR the only drugs shown to reduce mor tenced to imprisonment under the Act pro ITY trial globally are examples of this tality are steroids and interleukin6 viding detention in such an institution, is be approach. RECOVERY demonstrated receptor blocking drugs. Do not pre ing appreciated in an increasing measure. In the lack of benefit with hydroxychro scribe ineffective treatments to pa England it is found that 73 per cent of the loquine, azithromycin, lopanivirrito tients with COVID19. young fellows sentenced to detention in a navir, colchicine and convalescent Borstal institution and released on licence plasma. REMAPCAP highlighted A.V. Ramanan is Professor of Paediatric are permanently reformed. In recent years harm with use of hydroxychrolo Rheumatology, University Hospitals Bristol steps have been taken in this Presidency to quine and lopanivirritonavir and de NHS Foundation Trust, and M. Shankar-Hari collect adolescent offenders in the specially monstrated that there is no benefit is Professor of Critical Care Medicine, Guy’s selected jail at Tanjore where they are de with convalescent plasma. SOLIDAR and St Thomas’ Hospital NHS Foundation tained and trained to learn good conduct; ITY also highlighted the lack of bene Trust, London and a profession. CM A ND-NDE YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

DELHI THE HINDU 10 NEWS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 2021 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE FROM PAGE ONE India has walked the talk: Modi ‘Global cooperation Govt. speeds up approval Despite constraints, we have supplied vaccine to over 80 countries: PM benefits India, world’ for more vaccines Special Correspondent prospect of violence is ever Jaishankar lists initiatives on vaccines NEW DELHI present,” he said, adding But before the mass rollout E (Bio E) has tied up with India has “walked the talk” that the COVID19 pandemic Special Correspondent of the vaccines that are de Johnson and Johnson to test on helping the world coun has presented an opportuni NEW DELHI veloped and tested abroad and manufacture the vac ter the coronavirus pandem ty to reshape the world or International cooperation to can happen, the vaccines cine locally. ic despite its “limited re der now. counter global challenges will be first given to 100 be Since the decision also al sources,” said Prime such as the current pandem neficiaries and these indivi lows imports of bulk drug Minister Narendra Modi on ‘Watershed moment’ ic is advantageous to both duals will be assessed for se material and fill and finish Tuesday, pointing to the sup In his taped speech that was India and the rest of the ven days for safety locally, it is likely that India ply of millions of doses of In shared over a virtual plat world, said External Affairs outcomes. will have access to Johnson dianmade COVID19 vac form, Mr. Modi thanked par Minister S. Jaishankar, high

“The decision will facili and Johnson vaccine at the cines, and said the world’s Narendra Modi speaking at the Raisina Dialogue. * PTI ticipants of the Raisina Dia lighting India’s recent initia tate quicker access to such earliest. mistaken priorities were the logue, especially the other tives to provide vaccines to a foreign vaccines by India Pfizer had earlier filed for reason for the global strug and a “second wave” of cas Pointing to the postSecond leaders speaking at the four large number of developing <> There are very and would encourage im a restricted use approval gle to defeat the virus. es in India, the government World War order, the United day conference, including countries to help them fight practical ways by ports including import of with the Indian regulator “We understand fully that has decided not to ban the Nations and other multilater Rwandan President Paul Ka COVID19. which we have bulk drug material, optimal but withdrew its application mankind will not defeat the export of Indianmade vac al structures that he said had game, Danish Prime Minister “Our ability to make vac demonstrated our utilisation of domestic fill after a short while. pandemic unless all of us, cines, most of which have been created only in order to Mette Frederiksen, Austra cines ... is itself a result of in belief in the world and finish capacity etc., Though the reason why everywhere, regardless of been committed as commer prevent “the Third World lian Prime Minister Scott ternational cooperation. So as a family which will in turn provide a Pfizer withdrew its applica the colour of our passports, cial consignments, or as part War”, Mr. Modi said the Morrison and the President international cooperation is S. Jaishankar fillip to vaccine manufactur tion is not known, the policy come out of it. That is why, of the COVAX global alliance. world should have instead of the European Council not a oneway street where External Affairs Minister ing capacity and total vac then required Pfizer to carry this year, despite many con Since January 21, the govern focused on hunger, poverty Charles Michel, for attending we are giving things to other cine availability for domes out bridging studies in India straints, we have supplied ment has allowed the supply and humanitarian issues. in a year he called a “wa people and somewhere taking the Paris agenda for tic [use],” a government before the vaccine could be vaccine to over 80 coun of 6.51 crore doses of the two “All the steps taken were tershed moment in human shortchanging ourselves, I ward through initiatives like release said. taken up for approval. tries,” Mr. Modi said at the Indianmade vaccines, of to prevent the last war not history”. think people need to under the international Solar Al “This is a welcome deci On Tuesday, the U.S. FDA inaugural session of the an which about 1.05 crore are the next one. While the hu Mr. Morrison, whose ear stand that,” Mr. Jaishankar liance, or how to respond sion by the government to said in a tweet that along nual Raisina Dialogue confe donations or grants from the manity has not faced the lier plans to address the Rai said in an interaction at the collectively towards disaster expand the basket of vac with CDC, it is recommend rence cohosted by the Ex government to 90 countries Third World War, the threat sina Dialogue in 2020 had to annual Raisina Dialogue on resilience. So there are very cines and overcome any ing a pause in the use of ternal Affairs Ministry and worldwide. of violence has not reduced be cancelled due to the Aus Tuesday. practical ways by which we shortage of vaccines,” said Johnson and Johnson vac the Observer Research Foun Mr. Modi said the world in people’s lives. With a tralia forest fire crisis as well, He argued that as a result have demonstrated our be Dr. Shahid Jameel, Director cine “out of an abundance dation (ORF). was “underprepared” for number of proxy wars and will address the conference of international partnership lief in the world as a family,” of the Trivedi School of Bios of caution”. Despite rising numbers the COVID19 pandemic. unending terror attacks, the virtually later this week. and research India was able the Minister said. ciences at Ashoka Universi It is unclear at this point if to increase manufacturing He argued that the suc ty. At least halfdozen States the vaccines developed, of vaccines “developed el cess of India’s domestic bat had reported vaccine shor tested and approved outside sewhere” while also deve tle with COVID19 had not tage a few days ago. India will be made available loping indigenous vaccines received sufficient global at Professor of Microbiology through the government at a S400 delivery to begin by November in the country. tention. at CMC Vellore Dr. Gagan subsidised rate or will vac He highlighted that dur deep Kang said: “The deci cine manufacturers be able First responder ing the lockdown and the af sion finally complies with to import them and sell Officials say efforts were made to speed up deal; dismiss CAATSA concerns Mr. Jaishankar credited the termath, the Government of the WHO’s recommenda them in the private market. Narendra Modi government India transferred cash to tion of regulatory reliance.” “So far, I am not aware of Dinakar Peri deal but the Russian side had S400 regiments despite ob solved and the deal was well on being the first responder 400 million citizens and at While so far there have any vaccine being made New Delhi conveyed this was not jections from the U.S., with under way. on a number of crisis situa the same time 800 million been no tieups with Pfizer available through private The delivery schedule for possible. deliveries scheduled to be Responding to questions tions in the neighbourhood people received food from and Moderna by any vac players. It is governments the S400 longrange airde Two official sources, also gin by 2021end. on the issue at a press confe and beyond and the res the government. cine manufacturer in India, that are purchasing vaccines fence systems was on track speaking independently, dis U.S. officials on several oc rence during his visit to India ponse to the pandemic, he “Now, if you go anywhere Hyderabadbased Biological for citizens,” Dr. Kang said. for the end of 2021 despite missed concerns over possi casions raised concerns over in February, U.S. Secretary said, was part of that same in the world and say, listen the COVID19 pandemic, a ble U.S. sanctions on the the deal as India deepened of Defence Lloyd Austin had chain of initiatives. guys, I just paid out 400 mil senior defence official said. deal under the Countering its defence cooperation with said that there had been no “If you look in terms of lion people, and I’ve fed “The deal is on track, and America’s Adversaries the U.S. and acquired several delivery of an S400 system, humanitarian assistance, 800 million people, you Russian shot gets deliveries are expected to Through Sanctions Act frontline military platforms and “the issues of sanctions whether it was an earth should make waves,” Mr. begin by November,” the offi (CAATSA), stating this deal such as transport aircraft, is not one that’s been dis quake in Nepal, or a civil Jaishankar said, asking for cial said. met national security con helicopters, artillery and cussed”. He also stated, “But war in Yemen, or a cyclone global attention on the work DCGI nod for imports Two officials indepen siderations. In October 2018, drones. Indian officials had we did address with the Mi in Mozambique, or a ty of the Indian government to dently stated that efforts India had signed a $5.43bil reiterated that all payment nister of Defence the issue of phoon in Fiji, or a mudslide counter the pandemic and Announcing receipt of the in India... This will enable us were made to speed up the lion deal with Russia for five related issues had been re the S400.” in Sri Lanka, or whether it is its economic effects. EUA, Dr. Reddy’s on Tues to contribute to our nation’s day said the development effort of vaccinating a signif paves the way for import of icant proportion of our Congress Mumbai police the vaccine. Sputnik V has population.” WhatsApp policy: CCI Nagaland’s version of been developed by Gama Since announcing its leya National Research Insti partnership with Dr. Red slams Centre start process to tute of Epidemiology and dy’s in September, the sove defends nod for probe NRC triggers concern Microbiology. reign wealth fund of Russia on economy dismiss Vaze Within weeks of Sputnik went ahead and forged ma Tribal body asks govt. not to be hasty V becoming the first CO nufacturing pacts with five It cites antitrust concerns in Delhi HC Special Correspondent Press Trust of india VID19 vaccine to be regis companies to produce an New Delhi SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT for different stages of the up Mumbai tered globally, by Russia in estimated 850 million doses Staff Reporter Congress leaders on Tues GUWAHATI dating process. The Mumbai police have August, the Russian Direct of vaccine based on the hu New Delhi day targeted the Narendra An apex body of Naga tribes “The issue of RIIN should initiated the process of dis Investment Fund an man adenoviral vector plat The Competition Commis Modi government over the has asked the Nagaland go be handled with utmost care missing from service, sus nounced a partnership with form. While Hetero Bio sion of India (CCI) on Tues country’s economic indic vernment not to be hasty as it could have unforeseen pended cop Sachin Vaze, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories for pharma, Gland Pharma, day defended before the es, with former Union Fi with the exercise to prepare and dangerous implications arrested by the NIA in the clinical trials as well as dis Stelis Biopharma, Virchow Delhi High Court its deci nance Minister P. Chidam the Register of Indigenous In for the Nagas as a people,” case of an explosivesladen tribution of the first 100 mil Biotech and Panacea Biotec sion calling for an investiga baram accusing the habitants of Nagaland (RIIN), the Naga Hoho said. SUV found near industrial lion doses in India. are firms with whom it has tion into the new privacy government of “colossal seen as a variant of Assam’s The State government had ist Mukesh Ambani’s resi “Dr. Reddy’s Laborato announced production policy of WhatsApp. Whatsapp said it was not mismanagement” since the National Register of Citizens. tasked the RIIN committee dence and the murder of ries has received permission partnerships, sources say a The competition watch a competition issue. 2016 note ban. The Nagaland government with determining the eligibil businessman Mansukh Hi from the Drugs Controller few more may get added to dog, represented by Addi The leaders stepped up has reportedly been trying to ity criteria to be an indige ran, sources said on General of India to import the list in coming days. tional SolicitorGeneral cy policy. The CCI had or their attack on the govern revive the RIIN exercise that nous inhabitant, authority to Tuesday. the Sputnik [V] vaccine into On Sputnik V production Aman Lekhi, said the probe dered that the investigation ment a day after the latest was launched in July 2019 authenticate claims of being The National Investiga India for restricted use in process in the country, order was made to gauge be completed within 60 numbers for industrial out with the stated objective of indigenous, place of registra tion Agency (NIA) arrested emergency situations as per sources said the process in whether access to data days. put and retail inflation preventing outsiders from tion as indigenous inhabi Assistant Police Inspector the provisions of the New volves the technology would lead to the abuse of Mr. Lekhi said it was too came out. obtaining fake indigenous tant, the basis of claims of be (API) Vaze on March 13. Drug and Clinical Trials transfer, production of dominant position. early for the High Court to In a series of tweets, Mr. certificates for seeking jobs ing indigenous, and the The city police’s Special rules, 2019 under the Drugs batches for approval and on The commission said it hear the petitions as the CCI Chidambaram said the and benefits of government nature of documents that Branch recently wrote to and Cosmetics Act,” a state getting the go ahead from was dealing with the instant had only ordered for an in Prime Minister neither schemes. will be acceptable as proof. the Maharashtra AntiTer ment from the Hyderabad the central laboratory seek messaging app’s new priva vestigation, the report for heeded wellmeant advice The Naga Hoho said it was rorism Squad (ATS) and based drugmaker said. ing manufacturing licence cy policy that could lead to which was yet to come. of distinguished econo Three-member panel apprehensive of “dreadful sought documents pertain Cochairman and manag from DCGI. It could take at “excessive data collection” WhatsApp, represented mists nor tolerated criti The State government had consequences” if the “advo ing to the case. ing director G.V. Prasad said least a couple of months, of consumers, the use and by senior advocate Harish cism. Quoting the classic formed a threemember pa cates of RIIN” implement the It had also a copy of the “We are very pleased to ob with the first Sputnik V pro sharing of the data in anti Salve, said the CCI had Tamil text Tirukkural, Mr. nel headed by retired bu process with December 1, FIR registered in connec tain the emergency use duced in India likely to be competitive context. jumped the gun and started Chidamabaram said, “Re reaucrat Banuo Z. Jamir for 1963 – the day Nagaland at tion with Hiran’s murder authorisation for Sputnik V made available in June. Mr. Lekhi said the com the probe when this was not member Kural 448: The “examining and advising” on tained statehood – as the cut and the statement of the mission was not concerned a competition issue. What king, without the guard of the implementation of RIIN. off date. This date is likely to businessman’s wife in with privacy aspect of the is sApp said the issue with res men who will rebuke him, But the exercise was sus exclude Nagas who have which she raised suspicion sue as the Supreme Court pect to personal data of us will perish though there is pended following protests come from beyond the boun over Mr. Vaze’s role in his 3 fishers dead in was already seized of it. ers, and sharing of none to destroy him.” from communitybased and daries of Nagaland. death, a police official said. The CCI’s submission personalised data was alrea “What a way to end the extremist organisations. According to the Naga Ho The ATS has provided came while hearing two dy before the Supreme 7th year of the Modiled The Naga Hoho, the apex ho, Naga tribes living in As the documents to the midsea collision separate petitions filed by Court, hence the CCI ought NDA government : surging tribal body that had objected sam, Manipur and Arunachal Mumbai Police, he said. Facebook and WhatsApp not to have intervened. inflation, falling industrial to the RIIN in 2019, has react Pradesh in India and in The Special Branch had al Two of the dead have been bers reported safe. The challenging its March 24 di After hearing all the par output, declining rupee ed to the State government’s Myanmar have a legitimate so sought similar informa identified as Alexander Sy coast guard ship recovered rection ordering for a probe ties, Justice Navin Chawla and plunging stock mar alleged bid to implement RI claim to their ancestral ho tion from the NIA, the offi rang and Manik Das, from three bodies. Search for the into WhatsApp’s new priva reserved the judgment. ket,” he tweeted. IN with a tentative timetable meland. cial said. West Bengal. The two res other crew in progress.” cued crew members have Chethan R, Superinten been identified as Sunil Das, dent of Police, Karnataka 34, of West Bengal and Vel Coastal Security Police, SC adjourns SC calls for details on murukan, 37, of Kalirajapu Udupi said the three bodies CWC to meet on COVID crisis ram, Rameswaram, Tamil and the rescued crew are Zakia Jafri Nadu. A statement from the being brought to Mangalu migrant children’s welfare ICG said: “Two crew mem ruUdupi. Sonia has written to PM on expanding vaccination coverage plea hearing Legal Correspondent to the severity of the impact Special Correspondent ters of the partyruled States She also suggested that Legal Correspondent NEW DELHI of the COVID19 crisis, the New Delhi and senior Ministers of Mah vaccines be given to those NEW DELHI The Supreme Court on Centre had announced a na Mamata holds silent The Congress Working Com arashtra and Jharkhand go who need it based on their The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the State tionwide lockdown, and mittee (CWC) will virtually vernments where the Con exposure rather than the Tuesday adjourned its governments to provide in during this period, migrant meet on Saturday to discuss gress is part of the ruling current age criterion. hearing of a plea by Zakia formation on the number of children were affected the protest against ECI ban the second wave of CO alliance. As several State govern Jafri, wife of slain MP Eh migrant children in their most and have been among VID19, party sources con Apart from Maharashtra, ments have started to reim san Jafri, challenging the respective territories, steps the most vulnerable. “In the fifth phase (of poll scheduled to address four firmed on Tuesday. Congressruled Punjab and pose stricter COVID norms SIT’s clean chit to then Guj taken for their welfare amid “Although there have ing on April 17), the silence rallies in the day — two in The party’s internal polls Chhattisgarh are also among and restrictions on move arat Chief Minister Naren a surge in the pandemic, been marked efforts by the period is 72 hours, and I Nadia and two in North 24 to elect a president by June the States that have wit ment, Ms Gandhi appealed dra Modi in the 2002 riots. and benefits given to them. respondents to provide mi could not campaign for 24 Parganas — which had to be may also come up for discus nessed a sharp spike in the to Mr Modi to consider put A Bench led by Justice A Bench of Chief Justice grant workers with welfare hours. So I cannot cam cancelled because of the EC sion. However, the prospect number of cases. ting in place a minimum A.M. Khanwilkar resche of India Sharad A. Bobde measures, no report ema paign for 96 hours. The BJP order. On Wednesday Ms. of holding a Congress ses On Monday, Ms. Gandhi monthly guaranteed income duled the hearing by two and Justices A.S. Bopanna nated from the Central or can campaign, and I am not Banerjee will visit Mathab sion or mass gathering in the had written to Prime Minis scheme of ₹6,000 for every weeks. The case has seen and V. Ramasubramanian the State governments allowed to campaign. I will hanga in Cooch Behar current scenario looks ter Narendra Modi in which eligible family. The Congress several adjournments in directed the States to file which detailed relief mea not say anything, the people where five persons died in difficult. she had asked the govern chief also asked for exemp the past months. their responses. sures extended to women of Bengal will take a call on two separate incidents of fir The party’s highest deci ment to open up vaccination tion from Goods and Servic In an earlier hearing, The order came in a peti and children who are it. They are watching eve ing on April 10. Ms. Banerjee sion making body will meet by giving permission to all es Tax (GST) for all equip Justice Khanwilkar had tion filed by the Child Rights stranded or in relief camps rything,” she said while ad will later hold public meet exactly a week after Con the vaccine candidates or ment, instruments and said, “We cannot keep ad Trust, represented by senior and quarantine centres at dressing a rally at Barasat. ings in north Bengal. gress president Sonia Gand vaccines that are in use in medicines used in the fight journing this. We have to advocate Jayna Kothari. source districts,” the plea The Trinamool chief was (With PTI inputs) hi had met the Chief Minis other countries. against the pandemic. hear it someday...” The plea stated that due said.

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INTERVIEW | AMIT SHAH ‘People of Bengal have been convinced by Modi’s track record’ This election is also about CAA of people who have been here for 70 years without being considered citizens, and living as refugees, says Union Home Minister Nistula Hebbar been convinced by Prime Mi <> I believe the whole The rules for the CAA are yet of legislature ends, there is nister (Narendra) Modi ji’s election is about to be framed. no alternative offered by the Amit Shah Union Home Minister , on his campaign trail in track record. Bengali pride and Constitution. Maybe, if all ■ West Bengal, speaks on the Assembly polls in the State, fram- how it was The West Bengal Assembly parties come together, we ing rules for the Citizenship Amendment Act and vaccine The violence in Cooch Behar has passed a resolution that can come or should have undermined, shortage... during the polls has been they will block the imple suggested some alternatives minority candidates or not. They tragic, and Chief Minister mentation of the CAA, and to postpone polls or extend We are now exactly halfway wanted to vote for us, but no Mamata Banerjee has been appeasement and added to it is the fact that the life of elected Assem through the polls, and the voter wants to waste his or open about her accusations lack of development rules need to be framed for blies, but currently even the upcoming seats include her vote. Therefore, the that the fact that you are the it. The delay in framing rules ECI has no alternatives, and those of the Kolkata number of seats we got in Home Minister is somehow we have done this, then I is not due to the resolution, as political parties we have Presidency, considered the 2019 has increased the confi connected to the Central must say that she highly esti but the fact that it involves a even less space, as we have strong areas of the dence of voters in the party. paramilitary forces opening mates our influence, because largescale exercise in all bor to prepare for polls when the Trinamool Congress. How Secondly, in our campaign fire on voters. How do you this means that we are set der States. Due to the CO ECI sets the date. do you expect to deal with since 2019, we have been respond? ting the narrative of the VID19 pandemic, undertak that? successful in convincing the polls. ing this CAA exercise would Much has been said on voter that we are not stand ■ I would first like to enlight But I believe the whole not be advisable. The fight shortage of vaccines. Would ■ When I spoke of the BJP ing for negative issues. We en Mamata Didi on some election is about Bengali against COVID19 is a priori you like to comment on the getting more than 200 seats, have been talking about de basic general knowledge that record of previous six polls a thought process will be en pride and how it was under ty; that is why the rules for issue? it was including the seats of velopment, of solutions to during polls, the Central pa in the State, including pan dorsed by the people of Ben mined by first the Left and the CAA are delayed. the “Presidency”. I believe some of the longstanding is ramilitary forces deployed chayats, Assembly and Lok gal. the Trinamool, minority ap ■ There is no shortage of vac that in the 109 seats consi sues of the State, apart from are not under the control of Sabha, these set of polls have peasement and lack of deve Referring to COVID19, India cine, and we have had the dered part of the Presidency, the campaign that Mamata the Home Ministry but of the had the least violence. Be It has been said that with the lopment by the Mamata Ba is looking at a massive peak fastest rate of vaccination in the BJP will take a lead. Didi does minority appease Election Commission of In fore the unfortunate incident entry of the BJP, communal nerjeeled government. of the second wave. Large the world. I concede that the ment, doesn’t pay attention dia (ECI). that happened, that very and casteist politics has This election is also about rallies and roadshows are speed must increase, and On what basis are you to law and order; crimes Also, in the same Sitalku morning, our party worker made an entry into West the Citizenship Amendment still being held. Don’t you there are many vaccine can making these claims? against women are rising, chi seat, Ms. Banerjee had Anand Vardhan was mur Bengal. That it is the Act (CAA) of people who think this is foolhardy? didates in the pipeline for ap there is no new industry be made a provocative speech dered, but since he was a Raj destruction of what is have been here for 70 years proval and in the next month ■ At the time of the 2019 ing set up in the State, etc. on surrounding the paramili bonshi, Mamata Didi hasn’t termed ‘Bengali without being considered ci ■ We have no alternative ar or so we will see more vac polls, voters still had a bit of Our manifesto ( Sankalp Pa- tary forces, putting them un spoken of him. If even in exceptionalism’. tizens, and living as refugees. rangement under the Consti cines in play, that will in hesitancy on whether the tra) is very clear on our road der pressure, etc. death we think of only our We are going to implement tution. When the term of an crease the spread of our vac BJP could defeat Trinamool map, and the people have Thirdly, if you look at the vote bank, I don’t think such ■ If Mamata Didi feels that the CAA very soon here. elected Assembly or House cination programme. Notice to Ghosh over Sitalkuchi comments ECI lets off Suvendu Adhikari with warning Election Commission also bans BJP leader Rahul Sinha from campaigning for 48 hours Says his speech violated poll code Special Correspondent shot at yesterday in Sitalku And if someone crosses his NEW DELHI chi. These naughty boys will limits then you have seen Special Correspondent ed the code’s provisions The Election Commission of not be there in Bengal. This what happened in Sitalku NEW DELHI against use of communal ap India (ECI) on Tuesday is is just the beginning. Those chi. There will be Sitalkuchi The Election Commission of peals and unverified allega Sushil Chandra sued notice to West Bengal who thought that the Central in several places. So be care India (ECI) on Monday is tions to seek votes. BJP president Dilip Ghosh for forces’ rifles were meant to ful.” sued a warning to BJP Nan In his reply to the notice violating provisions of the be just for show have well The ECI asked Mr. Ghosh digram candidate Suvendu on April 9, the ECI said he Sushil Chandra Model Code of Conduct and understood now the power to explain his stand by 10 Adhikari over a campaign had submitted that he be the Indian Penal Code by of cartridges. And this will be a.m. on Wednesday. speech of his that it found to lieved in free and fair elec takes over making an “inflammatory carried on throughout Ben In another notice to BJP be in violation of the Model tions and that he had no ma statement” threatening the gal,” Mr. Ghosh was quoted West Bengal leader Rahul Code of Conduct. lafide intention to criticise as CEC people of Bengal during a as saying in the ECI notice. Sinha, the ECI said his The ECI had issued a not anyone personally or make public rally at Barangar in Mr. Ghosh said: “Those speech on Monday saying ice to Mr. Adhikari, who offensive remarks. Special Correspondent North 24 Parganas. who will take the law in their that the Central forces contested against West Ben Mr. Adhikari argued that NEW DELHI The ECI said it had re Dilip Ghosh near his damaged vehicle after he was allegedly own hands will be given a be should have killed eight peo gal Chief Minister Mamata he had not violated the Election Commissioner ceived a complaint from Tri attacked at an election meeting in Sitalkuchi on April 7. * PTI fitting answer. I hope that ple, not four, during the Si Banerjee in Nandigram, on code. However, he said he Sushil Chandra took over namool Congress MP Derek you all will cast your votes on talkuchi incident was a viola April 8 for his March 29 would be more careful in the post of Chief Election O’Brien about the speech ing on a mob on polling day cident would be the start. April 17. Central forces will tion of the Model Code of statement that a vote for the future. Commissioner on Tuesday, that was “an open threat” to on April 10 in Sitalkuchi, in “Where did so many be there in the booths. No Conduct, the Representation “begum” would lead to a The ECI advised him not after outgoing CEC Sunil Bengal and its people. Refer which four people were naughty boys come from? one can show you an angry of the People Act and the In “mini Pakistan”. The ECI to make such statements in Arora demitted office on ring to the Central forces fir killed, Mr. Ghosh said the in Those naughty boys were eye. Because we are here. dian Penal Code. found that his speech violat public speeches. Monday. Mr. Chandra has been an Election Commissioner since February 15, 2019 and a member of the De ‘Prashant Kishor has no limitation Commission for delimitation of Jammu and Kashmir since February 18, role in finalising candidates’ 2020, the ECI said in a statement. As an Indian Re SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT “There are set norms and nal decision is taken by the venue Service officer, Mr. CHANDIGARH patterns for ticket allocation Central Election Committee, Chandra held several posts Punjab Chief Minister Ama in the Congress, which are with no individual having in the Income Tax depart rinder Singh on Tuesday followed in all elections in all any role to play, he added. ment for nearly 39 years, ruled out any role for Prash States,” he said. There is a “In the process of ticket fi according to the ECI. ant Kishor in the finalisation State election committee set nalisation, inputs are always He had been the chair of Congress candidates in up by the high command taken by this committee man of the Central Board the 2022 Assembly election. ahead of any Assembly poll, from various internal and ex of Direct Taxes from No Mr. Kishor, a pollstrate which considers all the ternal parties, including in vember 1, 2016 to February gist, recently joined Captain names and decides on the fi dependent agencies as well 14, 2019. Singh as his principal advis nal candidates. The shor the State party unit. This is He spent considerable er. tlisted names are then sent the process that was fol time as Director of Investi “There is no question of for scrutiny to the screening lowed in 2017 and will be gation and Director Gener it. Kishor has no say in the committee of the top party adopted again this time. So al of Investigation, Mumbai matter,” the Chief Minister leadership, including the where does Kishor come in and Gujarat, respectively. said. Congress president. The fi to the picture,” he asked. Modi is mocking Leaked content of meet me, says Mamata triggers debate in Cong. On safety of outsourcing political work Repeated use of ‘Didi-o-Didi’ sparks row Sandeep Phukan tioned the commitment of Shiv Sahay Singh New Delhi “external” agencies in terms Kolkata The leaked contents of a vir of ideology. A lot is at stake for Prime Mi tual meeting between elec “If a political party out nister Narendra Modi in the tion strategist Prashant sources its election fighting West Bengal election as is Kishor and senior journal to a commercial external evident from the manner in ists have triggered a debate vendor, then it leads to the which he has been repeat within a section of the Con eventual destruction of the edly and personally attack gress on the question of how very idea of a political party, ing Trinamool Congress pre far a political party could go [which is] building a cadre sident and Chief Minister in engaging with external based on ideology. These Mamata Banerjee. agencies while fighting vendors’ main objective is The mocking tone which elections. profits and they circulate Mr. Modi uses to address the Mamata Banerjee The internal debate is al strategic information, data, Chief Minister, repeatedly so prompted by the party’s and knowledge of one party saying “DidioDidi!”, has note of the Prime Minister experience in Tamil Nadu, to another,” said Mr. evoked a strong response addressing the Chief Minis where Mr. Kishor’s organisa Chakravarty. not only from the Trina ter with the singsong “Didi tion, the Indian Political Ac “A political party out mool Congress but from the ODidi!” was at the BJP’s ral tion Committee or IPAC, ad sourcing election manage Chief Minster also. ly at the Brigade Parade vised the Dravida Munnetra ment to an external com “He is mocking me Grounds on March 7. The Kazhagam (DMK), which mercial vendor is like the (amake bhengache). There reafter at almost a dozen pu heads an alliance in which Finance Minister outsourc should be a standard. I will blic rallies, Mr. Modi has the Congress is a junior ing the Budget preparation not speak to him in this lan used the mocking phrase to partner. to an external consultant. It guage,” Ms. Banerjee said on address the Trinamool Congress insiders claim is penny wise, pound fool Monday at Basirhat. chief. While these utteranc they were witnesses to a ish,” he added. The Chief Minister al es drew a cheer for the “sense of disquiet” among The question is impor leged that the “language Prime Minister, they also senior DMK leaders as “core tant as, recently, Punjab brings shame even to youth raised many eyebrows. political activities” were de Chief Minister Captain Ama chatting informally in a The Trinamool Congress cided by the external rinder Singh reengaged Mr. neighbourhood”, and said leadership on April 4 held a agency. Kishor as his advisor. she cannot use the language press conference accusing The Congress’s Data Ana The debate is also impor which the Prime Minister the Prime Minister of “in lytics chief, Praveen Chakra tant as it could decide the has brought into West Ben sulting women” of the State varty, who makes sense of party’s strategy with regard gal . by addressing the Chief Mi the numbers for the party to to Uttar Pradesh elections The first time people took nister in a “mocking tone”. help devise strategy, ques scheduled next year.

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Bihar MLAs booked for New cases surge past 1.85 lakh No shortage of vaccines, but flouting norms 979 deaths recorded across the country — highest in 6 months better planning must: Ministry Amarnath Tewary Special Correspondent On Sunday, India surpassed Patna CHENNAI Brazil in the cumulative IMA appeals for judicious use of Remdesivir injection An FIR has been lodged With 1,85,190 new COVID19 number of confirmed CO against three Opposition cases reported as of 11.15 VID19 cases. Brazil, with Bindu Shajan Perappadan Bihar legislators and hun p.m. on Tuesday, India regis 13.52 million cumulative cas NEW DELHI dreds of others in Rohtas tered its highest singleday es, is currently recording ov Health Secretary Rajesh district for violation of CO spike since the beginning of er 72,000 infections daily on Bhushan said on Tuesday VID19 guidelines during a the pandemic. an average. Also, Brazil is re that the COVID19 vaccine public function on April 11. As many as 979 deaths cording more than 3,100 fa shortage reported by some The government also de were also recorded on the talities daily on an average. States was more about the puted three administrative day, the highest in nearly six As of Monday, Brazil had re need for better planning officers in three govern months. corded 3,54,617 deaths cum rather than an actual shor ment hospitals on Tuesday The figures do not include ulatively, twice those of tage. A total of 2,01,22,960 to monitor the situation cases and deaths from La India’s. doses, he added, were in the following a rush of pa dakh. The data is sourced Cumulatively, 11,10,33,925 supply pipeline to the States tients. from covid19india.org, an in vaccine doses have been ad and the Union Territories. Reducing risks: A man getting vaccinated for COVID-19 at a

The MLAs Anita Devi dependent aggregator of dai ministered in India as of 8 “Doses received by the centre in New Delhi on Tuesday. * SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA from Nokha and Vijay Ku ly COVID19 figures. p.m. on Tuesday, according States and the Union Territo mar Mandal from Dinara Maharashtra reported (281) on Tuesday. Chhattis ble on Tuesday). A total of to the Union Health Ministry. ries stand at 13,10,90,370, are from the Rashtriya Ja 60,212 infections (account garh followed with 109 25,92,07,108 samples have On April 13, the 88th day of while total consumption, in BJP defends supply of nata Dal, while Arun Ku ing for about 33% of the new deaths, while Uttar Pradesh been tested in the country as the vaccination drive, cluding wastage, is mar Singh of the CPI(Mar cases), followed by Uttar Pra registered 85 new casualties. of April 12 since the begin 25,00,883 doses had been gi 11,43,69,677 and balance xistLeninist) is MLA of desh with 18,021 cases and As many as 14,00,122 sam ning of the pandemic. ven. An average of 33.4 lakh availability with the States Remdesivir in Surat Karakat. Chhattisgarh with 15,121. ples were tested across the The country has so far re doses have been adminis and the Union Territories is Mr. Mandal told The Maharashtra recorded the country on Monday (results ported a total of 1,38,71,407 tered daily between April 1 1,67,20,693 as on April 13, 11 Press Trust of India shortage of the medicine. Surat Hindu, “If I’ve done highest number of casualties of which were made availa cases and 1,72,068 deaths. and 13. a.m. Issue is about better The State Congress on wrong, an FIR must be planning and not shortage. Gujarat BJP president C.R. Monday demanded Mr. lodged against me but it On the one hand, we have Paatil lashed out at the Paatil’s arrest for alleged should not be selective. Re States like Kerala where Congress on Tuesday and illegal procurement and cently, Union Minister Ash there is zero wastage and on said the Opposition party storage of the medicine. wini Kumar Choubey had Can revive economy if we survive: Uddhav the other hand, we have sev should stop threatening him Talking to presspersons come to Dinara and after eral other States where there over the free distribution of Tuesday, Mr. Paatil said the returning from here his Maharashtra CM announces 15-day lockdown to curb COVID-19 spread still is 89% of wastage,” Mr. 5,000 doses of Remdesivir entire lot of injections was staff members tested posi Bhushan said at a Health Mi in Surat. procured through legal tive. Why was an FIR not Alok Deshpande I have also sought exemption nistry press conference. Mr. Paatil stirred a channels. “We procured the lodged against him and his Mumbai from State GST contribution controversy last week after injections as they are staff. The law is for eve Maharashtra Chief Minister for three months,” he said. Vaccine efficacy he announced free needed to save people. If ryone, not only for the Op Uddhav Thackeray on Tues Services that will not be To a question on the effec distribution the key they can’t appreciate our position party members.” day announced strict restric affected are: healthcare, ve tiveness of the available vac COVID19 drug in his efforts, the Congress should tions in the State to curb the terinary care, groceries and cines, Balram Bhargava, Di hometown Surat, amid a stop threatening us.” spread of COVID19. vegetables shops, fruit ven rectorGeneral, Indian DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD “I am not happy while an dors, dairies, bakeries, con Council of Medical Research Labour nouncing these restrictions. fectioneries, cold storage fa (ICMR), said they were dis The Indian Medical Asso The Federation of All In I have been warning for the cilities, offices of diplomats easemodifying vaccines. ciation (IMA) on Tuesday dia Medical Association has Minister tests past one month and now is of various countries, banks “After both doses are admi said the second wave of the written to the Prime Minis the time to take actions to and financial services, agri nistered, antibodies develop pandemic had created an ter seeking help to counter positive break the chain. The only culturerelated activities, ex and severity of infection and unprecedented demand for the “prevalence of VIP cul aim is to save lives. We can Fighting the wave: The newly inaugrated COVID-19 hospital at portimport activities, e chances of death are lo the Remdesivir injection, re ture in government Special Correspondent revive the economy if we sur the Nehru Science Centre in Mumbai. * EMMANUAL YOGINI commerce, accredited me wered. There is a 85% reduc sulting in a demandand hospitals”. NEW DELHI vive,” Mr. Thackeray said in dia, IT services, ATMs, gas tion in chances of hospitali supply mismatch and artifi In its letter, the associa Union Labour and Employ his address on Tuesday. Around 35 lakh beneficiaries is being provided for district supply, port activities and sation after vaccination,” he cial panic. There was non tion said that while doctors ment Minister Santosh Ku Mr. Thackeray said that he in a total of five welfare level schemes in the fight customsrelated activities. said. judicious use of this drug in at the forefront of the fight mar Gangwar on Tuesday was aware of the hardships schemes will get ₹1,000 a against the pandemic. Mr. Thackeray said there V.K. Paul, Member many places beyond the against COVID19 were risk said he had tested positive to the poor due to such res person every month for the Highlighting the State’s would be no restrictions on (Health), NITI Aayog, said scope of its evidencebased ing their lives every day — if for COVID19. trictions and that the State next two months,” he said. need of oxygen for patients, public transport. the drug Remdesivir repur benefits. infected they have no sepa In a tweet, Mr. Gangwar government had decided to The government will also Mr. Thackeray said he had Buses will run on seating posed for COVID19 treat “The public as well as the rate counter, priority for said his COVID19 test had take steps to provide relief. provide ₹1,500 to each of the requested Prime Minister capacity only. ment should not be adminis medical community must be testing, reserved beds, etc. — come back positive. “Seven crore beneficiaries 12 lakh registered construc Narendra Modi to allow tran Work is to be allowed in tered at home. “This is aware of the absolute indica priority is being given to all He said he had no symp under the food security tion workers and 5 lakh re sportation of oxygen by the the exempted category from required for those indivi tion of the drug and the the socalled politicians and toms and asked those who scheme will get 3 kg of wheat gistered hawkers. Tribal fa Air Force to ensure its spee 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. on week duals who require hospitali need to use it judiciously so party workers who had ac had been in contact with and 2 kg of rice each free for milies will be paid ₹2,000 dy delivery to Maharashtra days.Private vehicles can sation. We appeal for ration that the drug is used for tually held rallies and in him recently to get tested one month. The Shiv Bhojan each under the Khavti from faroff places. “Consi run on roads only for emer al use of Remdesivir,” he those patients who will be creased the spread of as well. thali will be provided free. scheme. Also, ₹3,300 crore dering the financial burden, gency services. said. benefited,” the IMA said. viruses. No decision yet on postponing Last two rhinos translocated under IRV 2020 CBSE examinations: Centre Target of attaining a population of 3,000 rhinos in Assam almost achieved as project closes RAHUL KARMAKAR nas Tiger Reserve, said. Pobitora, but encroachment Various State Boards announce plans to change dates GUWAHATI “The ears of the translo and poaching wiped the ani The ambitious Indian Rhino cated rhinos have been mal out of Manas and Laok Special Correspondent Ministry and the CBSE have “We have not been able to Vision 2020 (IRV 2020) came notched according to the In howa Wildlife Sanctuary. NEW DELHI been having discussions on set a new date for it as the to a close on Tuesday morn ternational Union for Con The lesserknown Laok As the Central Board of Se the issue, given the rising de number of cases are increas ing with the release of two servation of Nature’s Species howa slipped under the ra condary Education (CBSE) mand for cancellation from ing continuously every day,” rhinos — an adult male and a Survival Commission and dar of international watch dithers over demands to a large section of students, he told The Hindu, adding female — in Assam’s Manas Asian Rhino Specialist dogs. Manas, in focus for the postpone or cancel Board but were tightlipped about that cancellation was not National Park transported Group’s guidelines for identi nearextinction of the pygmy examinations, at least four any decision. “We cannot ruled out. from Pobitora Wildlife Sanc fication and monitoring. A hog, lost the World Heritage State Boards, whose exams say anything at this stage,” Maharashtra, which has tuary about 185 km east. special team has been tasked Site tag it received in 1985 were originally supposed to said a senior School Educa postponed both Class 10 and Designed in 2005, the with monitoring the rhinos along with Kaziranga from begin this month, have al tion Department official. 12 exams scheduled from the IRV2020 is believed to have as per the translocation pro the UNESCO. ready announced plans to Chhattisgarh Education last week of April, has made achieved its target of attain Saving Manas: A rhino calf being transported from Kaziranga tocols for Assam,” he said. “The translocated rhinos reschedule in light of the Secretary Alok Shukla point it clear it wants Central ing a population of 3,000 to Manas Tiger Reserve. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT helped Manas National Park surge in COVID19 cases. ed out that uncertainty over Boards to follow suit. Exam rhinos in Assam. But the Saviour of Manas get back its World Heritage However, the Education the course of the pandemic postponements have cut plan to spread the Rhinoce- “The eighth round of rhi range of Manas, which has Assam had at least five rhino Site status in 2011. It can be Ministry seems to be taking a made decisionmaking a across political lines, with ros unicornis across four no translocation under received a total of 22 rhinos bearing areas till the 1980s. expected that the transloca waitandwatch stance on challenge. The State has in BJPruled Uttar Pradesh protected areas beyond Kazi IRV2020 ended at 7 a.m. to from other protected areas Better conservation efforts tion programme will set up a the CBSE’s examinations, definitely postponed Class pushing the date of the first ranga National Park, Orang day [April 13] with the re under the translocation pro helped maintain the popula healthy, breeding popula which are scheduled to be 10 exams, which were sche exam for Classes 10 and 12 National Park and Pobitora lease of the two rhinos in the gramme,” Amal Chandra tion of the onehorned herbi tion for the future of the spe gin on May 4. Officials at the duled to begin on April 15. from April 24 to May 8. could not materialise. central part of the Bansbari Sharma, field director of Ma vore in Kaziranga, Orang and cies,” Mr. Sharma said.

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of torque. In Dynamic mode, the S5 deploys its performance with a ruthless efficiency we expect from sporty Audis. While there is no launch control, it shoots off the line ferociously enough to achieve the claimed 4.8sec 0100kph time. It roars through its rev band with your right foot pressed Royal Enfield hikes prices of Bullet 350, down. What is interesting is that though the shifts are quick, they Classic 350 and Meteor 350 are not the aggressive headbutts Royal Enfield has hiked prices of its 350 range including the AUDI S5 SPORTBACK you get in an RS5, which makes Meteor 350. The Bullet 350 is now dearer by around ₹7,000 SPECIFICATIONS sense in this car. However, the S5 13,000 depending on the variant. The popular Classic 350 Street smart, now costs around ₹10,000 more than it did a few months LENGTH 4765mm also shines when you knock it down to Comfort mode; it is re ago, with prices starting from ₹1.81 lakh. As for the new WIDTH 1845mm fined, smooth and very easy to pi Meteor 350, prices now start from ₹1.84 lakh (all prices ex showroom, Delhi). Royal Enfield recently updated the HEIGHT 1390mm lot. It even rides surprisingly well; Interceptor 650, Continental GT 650 and the Himalayan with the base suspension is just that price hikes for 2021. road savvy WHEELBASE 2825mm comfy, although you might hear a BOOT CAPACITY 465 litres thud in protest from those 19inch wheels if you hit a bump too fast. An unchanged powertrain, comfortable suspension and unflinching ENGINE 2994cc, V6, turbo Handling is classic Audi, with road grip makes the Audi’s S5 Sportback rather easy to pilot petrol the Quattro system giving it an un POWER 354hp at 5400 flinching grip on the road no mat 6400rpm ter how hard you push around corners. There is quite a lot of un Gavin D’souza TORQUE 500Nm at 1370 dersteer too, but this is understan 4500rpm dable in something that is not a It was back in 2012 when Audi first GEARBOX 8speed fullon sportscar. The steering is introduced Indian buyers to the automaticAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA quick enough to elicit agile direc concept of a midrange perfor tion changes. mance car with the old S4. That The S5 is accessible, even for was replaced by the firstgen S5 firsttime performance car buyers. Sportback with the secondgen of the new generation and much And when you are not tearing up Hyundai Alcazar revealed model arriving on our shores in crisper looking. the tarmac, it is a serene luxury 2017. Now the S5 Sportback is On the features front, you are experience. Hyundai has revealed the productionready Alcazar SUV back in its facelifted guise. So what well covered and there is also an The CBU imported S5’s price of ahead of its launch. The Alcazar sits on a 2,760mm wheelbase is it like? optional kit available that provides ₹79.06 lakh (exshowroom) is not — up 150mm from the Creta — and a longer rear overhang in It is amazing how a few small, a headsup display, a Bang & Oluf easy to overlook. But it packs in order to open up more room in the cabin and accommodate relatively inexpensive additions to sen sound system and a parking plenty of performance and errs the extra row of seats.The SUV also gets a revised grille and the exterior have transformed the assistant. more on the side of usability. Per bumpers, a prominent rear quarter glass, and a more upright visual character of the S5 Sport haps its biggest standout quality is tailgate with new wraparound taillamps. back. import, the ride height has not phistication. Another highlight of Ruthless efficiency its stunning looks, and because it Under the hood, the Alcazar will be available in both petrol This Turbo Blue paint shade is been raised for India, and what the S5 is the upholstery with a mix The one thing that has not does not have a lesser counterpart and diesel engine options. certainly a big contributor, but you get is a nice wide stance with of leather and Alcantara adding to changed at all is the powertrain. in the range, it won’t be mistaken what also helps are the new LED enough ground clearance for our the ‘S’ ambience. The 354hp, 3.0litre turbocharged for anything else. headlamps and taillamps, the roads. Quality, ever an Audi highlight, V6 and eightspeed torquecon pointier bumpers with swollen is near impossible to fault. There verter automatic are well met, and brushed silver accents, and a grille Flush with features is, as before, a flatbottom ‘S’ there isQuattro AWD with a 40:60 that is now accented with silver Moving to the cabin, the biggest steering wheel and Audi Virtual fronttorear split for the 500Nm ‘studs’ rather than traditional ho change is to the infotainment dis Cockpit digital dials, but this rizontal slats. Furthering this play — a large freestanding 10.1 screenbased instrumentation is sporty cause are the aggressive inch display with a touchscreen fivespoke, 19inch alloys which fill interface. Though overall dash de out the wheel arches nicely, and sign is still shared with the A4, the S models’ trademark silver there is no denying its clean so wing mirrors and quad tailpipes. Moreover, since this is a CBU Citroen C5 Aircross launched in India Citroen has launched the C5 Aircross SUV in India with prices starting from ₹29.90 lakh (exshowroom, Delhi), which is available in a choice of two variants — Feel and Shine. The former is available in single tone (₹29.90 lakh) and dualtone (₹30.40 lakh) form, while the higherspec Shine is priced at ₹31.90 lakh for both single and dualtone versions. The entry level C5 Aircross Feel packs in plenty of standard kit and is available with a sole 2.0litre diesel engine. The unit puts out 177hp and a notable 400Nm of torque, and is paired with an 8speed automatic gearbox.

Q AND A WITH HORMAZD 2021 KTM 125 DUKE SPECIFICATIONS Make way for the Duke ENGINE 124.7cc, singlecylinder, liquidcooled The updated version of KTM’s Duke 125 goes beyond mere styling tweaks MAX POWER 14.5hp at 9250rpm MAX TORQUE 12Nm at 8000rpm Firoze Irani WEIGHT (KG) 159kg KTM has finally gone ahead and un WHEEL BASE (MM) 1357mm ified the styling on its entire Duke range in India. With this update, KTM SEAT HEIGHT(MM) 822mm has brought the 390’s styling to the FRONT BRAKE 300mm disc 125. However, this revision for the 125 is not purely cosmetic. REAR BRAKE 230mm disc Its sharp tank extensions and rear FRONT SUSPENSION USD fork Gloster vs Carnival end contribute to the aggressive stance. While the 125 Duke misses out REAR SUSPENSION Monoshock on the splitLED headlight found on FRONT WHEEL (INCH) 17 I have test driven the MG Gloster and Kia Carnival — the highercapacity Dukes, the halogen Carnival goes up in terms of driving than the Gloster, which unit is in a similar shape. Another FRONT TYRE 110/70 feels sluggish at low speed; its gear and engine tuning too is change this update brings is a new fuel REAR WHEEL (INCH) 17 not that good. But the Gloster’s cabin feels luxurious and has a tank that is styled to work with the panoramic sunroof that adds to its charm. I am inclined more aggressive design. REAR TYRE 150/60 towards buying the Gloster but I have heard of reliability AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA As with body panels, the tank is also issues with MG. Please advise as I want peace of mind after the shared with the highercapacity setup than before. This is the same se What also remains the same as be speed without a downshift or two. buying experience and for after sales service as well. Dukes, which means it can now hold tup as the highercapacity Dukes, and fore are the power and torque num As a result, carrying momentum is Pratik Thakkar, Mumbai 2.5 litres of additional fuel (13.5 litres). it is proven to be noticeably more com bers. It meets the stricter emission vital and, luckily, that is something this ● One of the weaknesses of the Gloster is the sluggis h response at low Another big change the new 125 Duke fortable. While there are a lot more si standards while putting out 14.5hp and chassis is more than qualified to do. revs, but your other concerns are unfounded. Apart from the odd soft gets is the updated trellis frame that milarities to the 390 Duke, the 12Nm of torque. This might make it the The 125 Duke also gets the 43mm USD ware glitch, the Gloster is pretty reliable and in fact, MG’s service is one features a bolton subframe. This al 125 variant misses out on ad most powerful 125cc bike on sale in the fork and monoshock, 150section rear of the best today, courtesy the company’s focus on the aftersales expe lows for only part of the subframe to be justable levers and barend country, but it is also the heaviest. At tyre, and a 300mm disc brake up rience. So if your heart is set on the Gloster, you should go ahead. replaced if it gets damaged in an acci weights. Like the 200 and 159kg, it weighs a substantial 11kg more front. What this means is that you can dent, significantly lowering repair 250, the 125 also carries than the previousgen model, reducing literally ride the 125 Duke to its limit costs. forward the LCD dash. the powertoweight ratio from 97.9hp/ with absolutely no stress. Eye of the beholder The updated subframe also al tonne to 91.2hp/tonne. Like the other Dukes, the suspen lows for a more spacious seating sion is quite firm but not uncomforta I’m planning to buy a Maruti Suzuki SCross as I really like its Ride to the limit ble and it offers impressive feedback. design, but I am unsure about a few things. Is the crossover That has an effect on the performance The wide MRFs are more than adeq worth buying in this era of miniSUVs? Would Maruti Suzuki and — with a 0100kph time of 21.3sec uate on this motorcycle and are noth phase out the Scross in a year? Would the Venue or Sonet be a — the new 125’s acceleration is noticea ing but confidence inspiring. There is better choice as they come under the same price range? I drive bly slower than the bike it replaces. more than enough braking power on 3040km everyday and go on weekend getaways and long Despite this, it still feels decently pep tap, and you do get singlechannel trips. I want good interiors and space, and the car should also py and fun in the city and it is only ABS, but at this price you would expect have a good resale value. when the roads open up that you not a dualchannel system. Manav Agarwal, Jaipur ice the deficit. The bike energetically To conclude, it looks much better ● The general view is that the SCross looks more like a crossover than a revs through each of its six gears, but and is slightly better equipped, but it is proper SUV. However, as that is not the case with you, y ou should go the speedo climbs significantly also significantly heavier and more ex right ahead and buy the car as the concerns you have are not really an slower than the tacho. The little pensive. At ₹1.50 lakh (exshowroom, issue. Firstly, Maruti Suzuki won’t phase out the SCross in a hurry and engine on this Duke has to be Delhi), it costs around ₹8,000 more there is a chance they will reintroduce a diesel en gine in it sometime worked hard and there are than the previousgen model — a hike next year. times it will refuse to build that is justified given the major chang The Venue and Sonet are better equipped, have more featur es and es and switch to BS6. are sportier to drive too. But compared to the SCross, both the Korean Change for the better:The However, it is not always value that cars are very cramped in the rear and the luggage space is nowhere near Duke 125 is nothing short buyers are after; for someone who as good. The Scross is a bigger car and in a segment higher. So if you are of confidence inspiring simply wants to own a KTM, the 125 re impressed with the space the Scross offers, it is the better choice. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT mains a good choice.

Hormazd Sorabjee is the editor of Autocar India. Mail your feedback and queries to [email protected]

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From a bygone era (Clockwise from right) the 1938 Talbot

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In The Automobile, author Everlasting Gautam Sen chronicles the history of motor cars Screen grabs in India and how a passion for cars fuelled frozen in time the industry even before Independence A unique gallery display shows a photographer’s journey through 2020’s lockdown months in the LOVE Hindi movie Apradh as a child, back in 1972. Starring Feroz Khan and Mum form of screenshots from video calls taz, the film began with its opening credits rolling over a racing sequence. Gowri S put them up on my wall. Sahil [Aro “That was really disappointing, but I ra of Method Art Gallery] had come would wait for another amazing car Of the many things that the CO over and said it would actually look race that would conclude by the 57th VID19 pandemic taught us, the im good when displayed in the same minute of the movie and then leave portance of human connection way,” says Rema, of the inception of the theatre,” he says. “What is extraor ranks high. The lack thereof, is per Alone, Together as a photographic dinary is that the racing sequence was haps the most excruciating phase series that is currently on display at shot with actual rally racers of the day. for many who live alone through the Method, Bandra. I was able to trace Rene Herzog, one of pandemic. The presence of a loved The narrative starts with Taha’s the racers from that movie, and talked one in the house, as simple as it morning and Rema’s evening since to him at length.” sounds, remained gravely underrat there was a twelveandahalf hour Herzog, now 73, was a professional ed until now. It has made even a re time difference between the two. It rallyist who raced with legends such cluse like Mumbaibased photogra travels through 24 hours of each of as Niki Lauda. He remembers the In pher Rema Chaudhary crave their days. Instead of page numbers, dian movie sequence shot at the Nür companionship. the passage of the narrative is burgring F1 track in Germany, and be For many introverts, the first few marked by time stamps. And, none ing captivated by the beautiful months were almost a relief, a hap of the frames are deliberate or per Mumtaz. py deviation from unavoidable so formative, adds Rema. The techni Gautam includes anecdotes from cial interactions. But as time passed, cal aspect of displaying screenshots other members of the film fraternity everyone scrambled for pockets of which are of lower resolution than Ruth Dhanaraj war, who was paralysed from the waist homes. Many rare cars such as the passionate about their cars. From yes comfort and familiarity within their professionally shot images, did not down, had a special handcontrolled 1939 Delahaye 135MS, Rolls Royce teryear movie stars such as Salim own homes. And, devoid of human bother her at all. “In my other work, Glitz and glamour, a need for speed Rolls Royce he could use by himself as Phantom II Continental, SS100 Jaguar, Khan and Raj Kapoor, to actors Meh presence, warm hugs and pointless I am a perfectionist but it was really and an unquenchable thirst to suc far back as 1923. Lancia Astura and the likes, have been mood and Jackie Shroff, a dazzling yet comforting background noise, fun to not care about composition ceed in the field of four wheelers has Even as they kept up restored and housed by range of historic vehicles have been lonely days followed. or colour correction for once,” she paved the foundation for the automo with the British, Indian ra ...... many across the country (and still are) in their possession. After the initial months of isola says. In fact, the pixellation and low bile industry in India. Ever since 1897, jas and members of the with a penchant for four tion, Rema too went in search of a resolution add many layers to this when the British and Indian royalty princely families, took to Many rare cars wheeled beauties. An Indian love story happy bubble of memories, which reflective piece of work, adds Rema. paraded these ‘horseless wonders’, modifying the basic struc such as the 1939 While many of these With his brand of barbed humour, is what led her to reconnect with an It is easy to misinterpret this as the rest of the population has viewed ture of the car to suit their Delahaye 135MS, vehicles are part private Gautam has not shirked from calling a expartner, Taha, who resides in To voyeurism, says Rema, adding that cars as status symbols. personal tastes. Often bor and the likes, collections, some collec spade a spade, while recounting the ronto, over video calls. In the begin her frames have purpose in times of In The Automobile, author Gautam dering on the ostentatious tors have opened mu debacles of the colonial rulers of our ning, checking in on each other was shared distress. “What I hope to Sen follows the route of the first car to or simply garish — zenana have been seums, giving laymen the past or the despotic ‘desi’ ones post the norm. But as days similar to the have captured is not salacious make tracks on Indian shores, going cars, hunting vehicles restored and opportunity to view Independence. From Sanjay Gandhi’s previous ones went by, each other’s voyeurism but two people fulfilling down the years post Independence complete with a sunroof as housed by many these marvels — the Vin botched handling of the Maruti pro presence mattered more than con the very human need of wanting to when a need to mass produce four a turret and others cuto tage Car Museum in Ah ject and the allencompassing miasma versations. As mundane daytoday be witnessed in our most raw and wheelers took shape, culminating in mised with cocktail cabi across the medabad, the Heritage of red tape in India, to the unprece activities carried on, lit screens pro unfiltered states.” the country’s offering in the sportscar nets and detachable spit country Transport Museum in dented success of the Nano abroad vided solace. Soon, to document More than it being work, the se sector as recent as 2020. tons — were just a few of Haryana and the Gedee and India’s infamous track record with this experience, Rema started tak ries has helped Rema introspect “Though this book has been in the the many specimens they flaunted. Car Museum in Coimbatore are prime hosting international rallying events, ing screenshots of these video calls: through the lockdowns. “This has writing for the past four years, some of examples. Gautam tells it as it is. “The fact is that most frames show one of them en been a great exercise in taking con the research that has gone into the Collector items whatever I have said has been support gaged in a mundane activity like trol and putting myself out there. I book goes back almost 1520 years,” It was not long before wealthy profes Screen presence ed by documented evidence. These folding laundry or doing dishes, have sort of overcome many inhibi says Gautam, over phone from Paris. sionals of the day began to acquire As passionate as he is about vehicles, are hard facts, and I have been as ba while the other looks on. The re tions about myself through this Gautam, who founded India’s first cars, and it is partly due to their efforts Gautam says the portion of the book lanced and objective as possible, he sult was 300odd frames cap work,” says Rema. A presence in newsstand auto magazine in 1986, and passion that many vintage cars he most enjoyed penning was the part says, adding, “One needs to have opi tured from May 2020 to the house, even though virtual, adds, “I was always interested in disposed off by royalty found second where he explores the role of automo nions; you need to be able to say that September 2020, the peak had helped her with simple knowing about the past and having biles in art, literature and cinema. look, this is where we went wrong and lockdown months. In things like taking a break or been in the field of motorcentered He recounts watching the where things didn’t go right,” says August, Rema identified even seeking advice. “It’s magazines since the ‘80s, I would Gautam. a narrative that could like having a voice in the come across specific models or certain The onceubiquitous Ambassador, perhaps make this next room for you to collectors. Researching them led to Fiats, Mahindra jeeps and Premier collection a book. scream out to,” she unearthing a lot of historic detail.” Padminis all find a place in The Auto- “It was just going says . mobile. And since it is a book on the to be a book. I real Alone, Together Royal rides history of vehicles in India, there is al ised that we had a will be on display The book is dotted with fascinating so a chapter on bikes and the fascina whole archive and I till April 15 at Meth- nuggets of history. Like how the tion they hold for many Indian women wanted to do so od, Bandra. The Maharaja of Nawanagar, popularly — not just docile two wheelers but as mething with it. photo book can be called Ranji was the very first Indian sertive, aggressive motorcycles. And, I decided to viewed at Method’s to drive his own automobile. Or how The Automobile is available in print them and website. Maharajkumar Bhupal Singh of Me bookstores and online

POOCH CAFE PEARLS BEFORE SWINE

HAGAR THE HORRIBLE PEANUTS

TIGER CALVIN AND HOBBES

THE HINDU DELHI WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 2021 WORLD 15 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE U.S. to withdraw troops from Afghanistan WHO urges halt on sale of Washington plans to pull all remaining troops out of the country before the 20th anniversary of 9/11 live wild mammals in markets Sriram Lakshman 10 security personnel Afghan government between Washington killed in Afghanistan April 24 and May 4, joined by The U.S. will begin its draw KABUL Qatar and the United Na ‘Animals source of over 70% of emerging infectious diseases‘ A suicide car bombing killed at down of troops in Afghanis tions. The U.S. , via Secretary Agence France-Presse least three civilians in western tan before May 1 and com of State Antony Blinken, had Geneva plete the process before Afghanistan on Tuesday, Tariq proposed a peace plan that September 11, according to a Arian, spokesman for the included an interim govern The World Health Organiza senior U.S. administration Interior Ministry, told ment — a plan that Afghan tion called on Tuesday for a official. There are between reporters. Meanwhile in President Ashraf Ghani has halt to the sale of live wild Baghlan, at least five police 2,500 and 3,500 U.S. troops resisted, backing elections mammals in food markets to officers were killed on Tuesday in Afghanistan at present. instead. prevent the emergence of when their checkpoint came “We will begin an orderly under attack by insurgents. India has said it would new diseases such as drawdown of the remaining Separately, in Balkh province back a negotiated peace set COVID19. forces before May 1st and late on Monday, Taliban tlement via a regional pro The WHO said because plan to have all U.S. troops insurgents attacked an Army cess convened by the UN. traditional markets play a Risk factor: Health officials inspecting bats to be confiscated out of the country before the checkpoint, killing five The U.S. would continue central role in providing and culled at a live animal market in Solo, Indonesia* AP/FILE 20th anniversary of 9/11,” the A file photo of U.S. marines as they clear improvised explosive soldiers. AP its push for a diplomatic so food and livelihoods for official told reporters on a devices from a main route in Trikh Nawar . * AFP DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD lution, the official confirmed large populations, banning to suspend the trade in live of more than 70% of all briefing call on Tuesday. The on Tuesday, saying the admi the sale of live wild mam caught wild animals of mam emerging infectious diseases process could be completed year to withdraw their es for the Taliban if it at emergence of alQaeda in the nistration had “long known” mals could protect the malian species for food or in humans, many of which “well in advance” of the Sep troops from Afghanistan if tacked U.S. or allied forces region after the drawdown that there was no “military health of market workers breeding and close sections are caused by novel viruses. tember deadline, the official the Taliban met certain pre during the drawdown. of troops a “genuine threat” solution” to Afghanistan’s and customers alike. of food markets selling live Wild mammals, in particu said. conditions, including a ces “We have communicated according to the official, who problems. The call came in fresh gui caught wild animals of mam lar, pose a risk for the emer U.S. President Joe Biden, sation of violence (the Tali to the Taliban in no uncer said the threat will be dealt “… We will focus our ef dance drawn up by the WHO malian species as an emer gence of new diseases,” the who had earlier said the May ban has repeatedly attacked tain terms that if they do with “directly” and by hold forts on supporting the on in conjunction with the gency measure unless de guidance said. 1 deadline set by the Trump civilians and Afghan security conduct attacks against U.S. ing the Taliban accountable. going peace process. And World Organisation for Ani monstrable effective The agencies recalled that administration was unrealis forces since) and not turning or allied forces as we carry that means putting the full mal Health (OIE) and the Un regulations and adequate some of the earliest known tic, will formally announce the country into a haven for out this drawdown... that U.S. to focus on talks weight of our government ited Nations Environment risk assessment are in cases of COVID19 had links the withdrawal on terrorist groups, particularly we will hit back hard and Meanwhile, diplomatic ef behind diplomatic efforts to Programme (UNEP). “WHO, place,” the agencies said. to a wholesale food market Wednesday. alQaeda. that we will hold them ac forts to arrive at an intraAf reach a peace agreement OIE and UNEP call on all na “Animals, particularly in Wuhan, with many of the The U.S. and its NATO al On Tuesday, the adminis countable for that,” the offi ghan settlement are under between the Taliban and the tional competent authorities wild animals, are the source initial patients stall owners. lies had signed a deal with tration official warned that cial said. way. Istanbul will host talks Afghan government,” the of the Taliban in February last there would be consequenc The U.S. considers the re between the Taliban and the ficial said. U.S. pauses J&J vaccine rollout Biden proposes summit meeting with Putin Six women under 50 affected by ‘rare and severe’ blood clots He reiterated ‘unwavering commitment’ of U.S. to Ukraine’s sovereignty, according to White House Sriram Lakshman platelets), according to the vering 20 million doses of its Washington CDC and FDA. The authori vaccine to the U.S. by the Sriram Lakshman “President Biden reaf ponse to Russia’s actions, The U.S. Food and Drug Ad ties said they were conse end of March and a further Washington firmed his goal of building a such as cyber intrusions and ministration (FDA) and Cen quently pausing the vac 80 million doses by the end U.S President Joe Biden has stable and predictable rela election interference,” the ters for Disease Control cine’s use out of an of May. asked his Russian Counter tionship with Russia consis White House said. (CDC) called for a “pause” “abundance of caution.” The White House released part Vladimir Putin for a tent with U.S. interests, and Mr. Biden reiterated the on Tuesday of J&J’s single “Right now, these adverse a statement from the head of summit level meeting in a proposed a summit meeting U.S.’s “unwavering commit dose vaccine after six indivi events appear to be ex its COVID19 response team third country, in the next few in a third country in the com ment” to Ukraine’s sove duals, all women between tremely rare,” Peter Marks of Jeff Zients, saying the pause months, according to the ing months to discuss the full reignty, according to the the ages of 18 and 48, deve the FDA and Anne Shuchat will not impact the U.S.’s vac White House. range of issues facing the Un White House. loped blood clots. Nearly se of the CDC said in a joint cination plans. The proposal to “pursue a Initiating talks: Joe Biden at the White House. * REUTERS ited States and Russia,” a “The President [Mr. Bi ven million people have statement, asking vaccine “This announcement will strategic stability dialogue”, White House readout said. den] voiced our concerns ov been administered the recipients who develop a “ not have a significant impact made during a phone call on Putin as a “killer.” Mr. Biden Washington. The BidenPu er the sudden Russian mili vaccine. severe headache, abdominal on our vaccination plan: Tuesday between the two had also said Mr. Putin tin call also comes days be Troops build-up tary buildup in occupied The “rare and severe” pain, leg pain, or shortness Johnson & Johnson vaccine Presidents, comes weeks af would “pay a price” for al fore Mr. Biden’s April 2223 “President Biden also made Crimea and on Ukraine’s clot, a cerebral venous sinus of breath within three weeks makes up less than 5% of the ter Mr. Biden agreed during leged meddling in U.S. elec Leaders Summit on Climate, clear that the United States borders, and called on Rus thrombosis (CVST), was after vaccination,” to contact recorded shots in arms in an interview last month to tions — leading to Russia re to which Mr. Putin has also will act firmly in defence of sia to deescalate tensions,” seen along with thrombocy their healthcare providers. the U.S. to date... ,” Mr. the characterisation of Mr. calling its envoy to been invited. its national interests in res the call readout said. topenia (low levels of blood J&J had committed to deli Zients said. Hong Kong to amend poll laws 3 killed in Pakistan clashes between police, Islamists in ‘favour’ of pro-Beijing camp Violence began after Saad Rizvi’s arrest It will be illegal to encourage others to boycott polls, cast blank votes Associated Press protests if the government did Lahore not expel France’s Ambassa Reuters city’s electoral system by signifi number of electoral districts Two demonstrators and a pol dor over depictions of Pro Hong KOng cantly curbing democratic repre from which vetted candidates iceman were killed on Tues phet Muhammed. Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam sentation in its institutions to en can be elected to 10, with two day in violent clashes bet According to the police, announced amendments to vot sure that only “patriots” can winners from each region. Pre ween Islamists and police in the arrest was aimed at main ing laws on Tuesday that critics rule. viously, 35 seats were split bet Pakistan, a day after authori taining order. But Rizvi’s de say favour proBeijing candi The changes announced by ween five electoral districts. ties arrested the head of an Is tention quickly sparked vio dates by redrawing constituency China in March reduce the num The redrawing of constituen lamist party in the eastern ci lent protests by Islamists in boundaries, creating more elec ber of directly elected represen cies could result in stronger ty of Lahore, a senior police cities around the country. The toral districts, and criminalising tatives and increase the number showings for proBeijing candi official and local media protesters blocked highways calls for voters to leave ballots of Beijingapproved officials in dates in rural regions bordering reported. and roads in several cities. blank. an expanded legislature. A new mainland China and the east of The policeman was killed The deadly clashes come Legislative Council, known as vetting committee will monitor the Hong Kong island, where in overnight clashes with the two days after Rizvi in a state LegCo, elections are set for De candidates for public office and they usually fare better, analysts supporters of Saad Rizvi, the ment asked the government cember 19, while the Chief Exec work with new national security say. “Manipulating” the election head of the TehreekeLabiak of Prime Minister Imran Khan utive elections are set for March authorities in Hong Kong to en by advocating for blank or inva Pakistan who was arrested on to honour what he said was a 27, 2022. The proposals will be sure they are loyal to Beijing. lid protest votes or obstructing Monday, police said. Ten poli commitment it made in Fe discussed on Wednesday in the But China’s Parliament left other people from voting will al cemen were also wounded in bruary to his party to expel Council. some of the smaller details, such so constitute a crime, according these clashes in the town of the French envoy before April as the poll dates or the drawing to the amendments. Shahadra near Lahore. 20 over the publication in ‘Patriots’ rule of new constituencies, to be le Critics fear voters would feel Two Islamists were report France of depictions of the The amendments, detailed over gislated by Hong Kong robbed of a choice if candidates edly killed in the eastern Pun Prophet. However, the go 600 pages , are meant to facili authorities. are vetted for their loyalty to jab province. The violence be vernment has said it only tate and complement Beijing’s On Tuesday, Ms. Lam said the Beijing, while most opposition fi gan on Monday after police committed to discussing the move last month to overhaul the government will increase the gures are either in jail or in exile. arrested Rizvi for threatening matter in Parliament.

ELSEWHERE Unrest in U.S. city Egypt presses for $900 million as police shoots compensation, seizes megaship down Black man Agence France-Presse MV Ever Given Minneapolis Court ordered the seizure of until it pays up Dozens of protesters were ar Reuters gets its first woman editorinchief Agence France-Presse rested overnight in Minneapo LONDON Cairo lis, officials said on Tuesday, as Reuters has announced violence broke out for the se Alessandra Galloni will take The megaship which blocked cond consecutive night despite over as its new editorin Egypt’s Suez Canal and crippled a curfew imposed after a police chief from next week, world trade for nearly a week officer fatally shot a young Black becoming the first woman to has been “seized” on court or man. The killing fuelled ten head the global news agency ders until the vessel’s owners sions in the U.S. city already on in its 170year history. Ms. pay $900 million, canal authori edge because of the George Galloni is taking over from ties said on Tuesday. Floyd murder trial. Stephen J. Adler. AFP The 2,00,000tonne MV Ever Several officers suffered mi Given got diagonally stuck in the nor injuries and there was spo

Pope asks U.S. Bishop to narrow but crucial global trade A file photo of the Panamaflagged MV Ever Given . * AFP radic looting, law enforcement resign over coverup artery in a sandstorm on March officials said, confirming around ROME 23, triggering a mammoth six closed, according to the canal ages between that company, in 40 arrests. Pope Francis asked Bishop daylong effort by Egyptian per authority. surance firms and the canal Hundreds of protesters gath Michael Hoeppner of sonnel and international salvage The MV Ever Given “was authority were ongoing. ered in front of the police sta Minnesota to resign after he specialists to dislodge it. seized due to its failure to pay The Japaneseowned, Taiwa tion in Brooklyn Center, the sub was investigated by the Maritime data company $900 million” compensation, neseoperated and Panama urb where Sunday’s killing Vatican for allegedly Lloyd’s List said the blockage by Suez Canal Authority (SCA) chief flagged ship was moved to unob occurred. interfering with past the vessel, longer than four foot Osama Rabie was quoted as say structive anchorage in the ca Demonstrators taunted pol investigations into clergy ball fields, held up an estimated ing by AlAhram, a staterun nal’s Great Bitter Lake after it ice through wire fencing erected sexual abuse. The Bishop is accused of stating that a $9.6 billionworth of cargo bet newspaper. was freed on March 29. around the station, and carried priest was fit for ministry ween Asia and Europe each day Mr. Rabie did not explicitly The compensation figure was signs saying “Jail all racist killer despite allegedly knowing it was stuck. cite the Japanese owners Shoei calculated based on “the losses cops,” “Am I next?” and “No jus the priest had abused a Egypt also lost between $12 Kisen Kaisha, but a different incurred by the grounded vessel tice, no peace.” 16yearold boy in the early and $15 million in revenues for source at the SCA said on Tues as well as the flotation and main Police fired tear gas and flash 1970s.AP each day the waterway was day that negotiations over dam tenance costs,” Mr. Rabie said. bangs to disperse the crowd. CM A ND-NDE YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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NIFTY 50 tax surge in COVIDhit year Press Trust of India PRICE CHANGE Mumbai Adani Ports...... 731.05...... -13.60 Asian Paints...... 2570.70...... -31.50 Overall net revenue grows 12.3%; excise and service tax revenue jumps 59% Stock markets regained Axis Bank ...... 661.00...... 25.40 their footing on Tuesday af Bajaj Auto ...... 3602.45...... 61.45 Special Correspondent Bajaj Finserv...... 9806.70. .... 643.55 sultancy Nexdigm. “In addi ter the previous session’s NEW DELHI Bajaj Finance ...... 4728.75. .... 217.75 tion, there has been a rise in massive selloﬀ, tracking Bharti Airtel ...... 536.15...... 13.70 A jump in excise revenue customs duty collection,” he renewed buying interest in BPCL...... 409.40...... 5.45

Britannia Ind ...... 3746.00...... -66.75 helped lift net indirect tax added. Net direct tax collec ﬁnancial, bank and auto Cipla ...... 885.20...... -17.20 collections by 12.3% in FY21 tions for the pandemichit counters amid ﬁrm global Coal India ...... 127.95...... 3.25 to ₹10.71 lakh crore, surpass FY21 grew almost 5% to ₹9.45 cues. Divis Lab ...... 3718.45...... -61.20

Dr Reddys Lab ...... 4777.30. .. -219.65 ing the Centre’s recently re lakh crore, provisional data Participants also In small doses: Microcontainment zones may impact the Eicher Motors...... 2493.85...... 66.65 vised estimates, provisional showed last week. cheered the government’s economy less than the lockdown did last year. * M. SRINATH Grasim Ind ...... 1392.20...... 15.60 data from the Finance Minis decision to grant emergen HCL Tech...... 983.40...... -26.00

HDFC ...... 2512.95...... 93.10 try showed on Tuesday. Subject to reconciliation cy use authorisation for HDFC Bank...... 1400.35...... 33.30 Goods and Services tax Both the direct and indirect Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine HDFC Life ...... 706.10...... 18.80 (GST) collections for the full tax numbers are subject to for India. ‘Virus surge, vaccination Hero MotoCorp ...... 2865.35...... 79.25 Hindalco ...... 348.70...... 12.50 year fell 8% from ₹5.99 lakh Revenue rebound: GST collections exceeded ₹1 lakh cr.in each reconciliation. The BSE Sensex rose Hind Unilever ...... 2454.40...... -7.60 crore in FY20 to ₹5.48 lakh of the last 6 months of FY21, the Ministry said. * NAGARA GOPAL “GST collections were se 660.68 points, or 1.38%, to ICICI Bank ...... 560.60...... 22.05 crore, but the overall kitty verely aﬀected in the ﬁrst 48,544.06. The NSE Nifty pace threaten recovery’ IndusInd Bank ...... 877.40...... 33.00

Infosys ...... 1397.15...... -28.60 was bolstered by a sharp the previous financial year, “The 59% growth in net half of the financial year on surged 1.36% to 14,504.80. Indian OilCorp...... 88.80...... 1.80 spike in excise collections. thereby registering a growth central excise and service account of COVID,” the Mi Mahindra & Mahindra Moody’s still sees doubledigit growth ITC ...... 208.70...... 3.40 “Net tax collections on ac of more than 59%,” the Mi tax (arrears) collections is nistry said. “However, in the was the top gainer in the JSW Steel...... 630.35...... 26.20 Special Correspondent Kotak Bank ...... 1775.85...... 33.35 count of Central Excise and nistry said in a statement. largely on account of the second half, GST collections Sensex pack, rallying 8%, tion and expectations of de L&T...... 1373.70...... 28.55 Service Tax (Arrears) during Customs duty collections al Sabka Vishwas scheme for registered a good growth followed by Bajaj Finserv, NEW DELHI creased spending on M&M ...... 811.25...... 59.75 financial year 202021 stood so grew 21% to ₹1.32 lakh resolving legacy disputes,” and collections exceeded ₹1 Bajaj Finance, Maruti, In The resurgence of COVID19 nonessential items,” it said. Maruti Suzuki ...... 6815.80. .... 295.20 Nestle India Ltd...... 17168.85. .. -332.85 at ₹3.91 lakh crore as com crore, helping swell the ex said Saket Patawari, execu lakh crore in each of the last dusInd Bank, ICICI Bank, infections in India, com India had recorded its NTPC ...... 100.60...... 1.55 pared to ₹2.45 lakh crore in chequer’s coffers. tive director at financial con six months,” it added. ONGC and Axis Bank. bined with partial lock highest daily surge in new ONGC ...... 102.05...... 4.00

PowerGrid Corp ...... 208.75...... 7.60 downs and the slow pace of COVID19 infections since Reliance Ind ...... 1931.80...... 20.65 vaccinations poses a big risk the start of the pandemic on SBI Life ...... 897.80...... 25.35 to a strong economic re April 11, pushing its active State Bank ...... 341.00...... 12.15 Survey shows Sops will help Shree Cement ...... 30356.05. .... 475.00 bound, although the coun case load further past 1 mil Sun Pharma ...... 627.35...... 8.00 S&P index drops Adani Port try may still register double lion, the agency pointed Tata Consumer 59% ﬁrms are raise vaccine digit growth in 2021, Moo out, stressing that the vacci Products Ltd...... 663.95...... 8.35

Tata Motors ...... 302.85...... 16.30 dy’s Investors Service said nation rollout will be criti Tata Steel ...... 879.00...... 27.45 eyeing raises citing ties to Myanmar junta output: FICCI on Tuesday. cal in managing the second TCS ...... 3104.05. .. -142.50 In a note on India’s sove wave in a manner that ba Tech Mahindra ...... 1001.85...... -38.00 Press Trust of India Titan ...... 1530.60...... 20.15 Press Trust of India reign rating, the global agen lances ‘virus management New delhi UltraTech Cement...... 6604.45...... 95.05 Mumbai U.S. firm flags risk from group’s relationship with military cy said the second wave of against maintaining eco UPL...... 604.60...... 15.05 There is a need to roll out infections presented a risk nomic activity’. Wipro ...... 418.95...... -13.65 As the economy moves to a recovery path after a sharp Special Correspondent pread human rights viola incentives for COVID19 to its 202122 GDP forecast of Despite the fresh risks, decline last year, a study AHMEDABAD tions after a coup and has vaccine manufacturers to 13.7% growth, ‘as the reim the rating agency said In has shown that 59% of S&P Dow Jones Indices on been slapped with sanctions help them ramp up pro position of virus manage dia’s GDP is still likely to IN BRIEF companies in India intend Tuesday said it was drop by the United States. duction in a bid to cater to ment measures will curb grow in the double digits in to give salary increments to ping Adani Ports and Special The group, led by billio the rising demand across economic activity and could 2021 given the low level of employees in 2021. Economic Zone Ltd. (APSEZ) naire Gautam Adani, is the country, industry body dampen market and con activity in 2020. “Given the According to Genius from the Dow Jones Sustain building a port in Yangon on FICCI said on Tuesday. sumer sentiment’. focus on ‘microcontain Consultants’ ‘10th Hiring, ability Indices, citing the In land leased from the mili The government also ment zones’ to deal with the Attrition and Compensa dian company’s ties with tarycontrolled Myanmar needs to give provisions for ‘Retail activity drops’ current wave of infections, tion Trend 202122’, the in Myanmar’s military. Economic Corporation immediate and sufficient “Retail and recreation activ as opposed to a nationwide crement scenario seems Stating that APSEZ would (MEC), which is among the grants and subsidies, ity across India had lockdown, we expect that “welcoming with 59% of be removed from the indices entities that have been sanc through its COVID19 dropped by 25% as of 7 April the impact on economic ac prior to market opening on tioned by the U.S. funds, for those manufac compared with 24 February, tivity will be less severe than Faulty airbags replaced companies saying that in April 15, S&P Dow Jones In Last month, the Adani turers that are already de according to Google mobili that seen in 2020. in 12,000 Cruze units crement is on the cards, dices observed that the deci relationship with Myanmar’s group said it would consult veloping or manufacturing ty data,” Moody’s noted. “India’s very low corona NEW DELHI which will range between Automaker Chevrolet India 510% whereas 20% think sion had followed a “Media military, who are alleged to all stakeholders and authori COVID19 vaccines in the “This was mirrored in the virus death count ( about on April 13 said it has increment will be less than and Stakeholder Analysis have committed serious hu ties on the project after hu country, it noted. In a state Reserve Bank of India’s 1,70,179 deaths have been replaced faulty Takata 5%.” The study was done triggered by recent news man rights abuses under in man rights groups alleged ment, the association re March consumer confi recorded as of 12 April) and airbags in about 12,000 online among 1,200 firms events pointing to height ternational law”. that the ports unit had an commended financing un dence survey which showed relatively very young popu Cruze units in the country in February and March ened risks to the company The Myanmar military agreement to pay millions of der a PLItype plan to aid a deterioration in percep lation also help mitigate while appealing to leftover across sectors. regarding their commercial has been accused of wides dollars in rent to MEC. makers of vaccines. tions of the economic situa risks,” it said. customers to get their vehicles inspected at the earliest. PTI Lockdowns to Pine Labs TCS shares fall more than All gold jewellery must Confident of surpassing 2019 4% after Q4 earnings shave $1.25 bn acquires Fave NEW DELHI bear hallmark from June Shares of TCS declined more a week: report in $45mn deal than 4% on Tuesday as the sales in India: Lamborghini company’s March quarter No further extension sought: Nandan Press Trust of India Special Correspondent earnings failed to cheer Mumbai NEW DELHI investors. The stock tumbled Special Correspondent Orders coming back in past 4 5 months, says country head 4.21% to ₹3,105 on the BSE. New Delhi Amid surging pandemic Merchant commerce solu On Monday, the company The Centre will go ahead cases forcing many States Yuthika Bhargava cro variables today, there is tions provider Pine Labs reported a 14.9% jump in with its plan to mandate to curb mobility and busi NEW DELHI a very positive trend,” Mr. on Tuesday said it has ac consolidated net profit to hallmarking of gold jewel nesses, a British brokerag Italian super luxury car mak Agarwal added. quired consumer fintech ₹9,246 crore for the quarter lery from June 1. The plan e’s report has said that er Lamborghini is confident Mr. Agarwal said the com platform Fave in a deal va ended March. PTI had been delayed due to the these localised lockdowns of getting back on the pany had seen order bank lued at more than $45 mil COVID19 pandemic. in key economic hubs can growth trajectory this year, coming back in the past 45 lion, as part of its expan Capri Global unveils Last year, the then Union cost the economy an aver surpassing 2019 sales in In months, giving them the sion plans. affordable-housing loans Minister for Consumer Af age of $1.25 billion each dia, despite the resurgence confidence “to do better Fave’s investors will re MUMBAI fairs Ram Vilas Paswan had week and may shave off in COVID19 cases in the than 2019.” ceive an allcash payout, Capri Global Capital Ltd., a announced January 2021 as 140 bps from the Q1 nomi country, a senior company “2020 was an aberration while founders and key nonbanking financial the deadline, but jewellers About 40% of gold jewel nal GDP. executive said. where we all had challenges. Fave employees will re company offering MSME and had been given an lery is sold with a hallmark. If the current restric Sharad Agarwal, head of In the last five months [Oc ceive both cash and Pine housing finance, said it had extension. As per the new rules, if je tions remain in place until Lamborghini India, said the Sharad Agarwal tober 2020February 2021], Labs shares, Pine Labs said unveiled affordable housing loans with interest rates No further extension has wellery or an artefact made Mayend, the cumulative company had got off to a we are plus 20% over the in a statement. Fave will be starting from 7.99% for both been sought, Consumer Af of 14, 18 or 22carat gold is loss of economic and com positive start in 2021, with more positivity in the mar previous year [October hiring more than 100 new urban and rural customers. All fairs Secretary Leena Nan sold without the BIS hall mercial activity could be sales in the first two months ket... the economic activity, 2019February 2020], which employees in Southeast salaried employees employed dan said at a virtual press mark, the jeweller could be approximately $10.5 bil already surpassing those the forecast for GDP, the was preCOVID time,” he Asia and India to accelerate can avail of the loans. Women conference. Gold hallmark penalised five times the cost lion, or about 34 bps of no during the prepandemic stock market,” he said, on said. cashless payments and applicants will receive an ing is a purity certification of the object or imprisoned minal GDP, British broker period. the factors driving growth. The company had sold 52 smart savings across the re additional 0.10% discount. and is voluntary at present. for up to one year. age Barclays said. “We are now seeing a lot “If you look at all the ma cars in India in 2019. gion, the company added.

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PRESS TRUST OF INDIA NADA DG Margao “This is a onceinalife BAMBOLIM Press Trust of India New Delhi The AFC Champions League time experience for many. A fancied Bengaluru FC will will be played in India for These are the kind of things mark the start of a new era IAS officer Siddharth Singh the first time here from Wed you start playing football when it takes on Nepalese Longjam will take over as nesday with FC Goa becom for,” said Ferrando. side Tribhuvan Army FC in a the National AntiDoping ing the only team from the “This is an opportunity preliminary stage two clash Agency’s DirectorGeneral, country to feature in the for our players to play of the AFC Cup here on succeeding Navin Agarwal group stage of the conti against some of the biggest Wednesday. who listed the creation of nent’s toptier competition names in Asia. Our goals are The fixture will be Marco Athletes Biological Passport in club football. still far.” Pezzaiuoli's first competitive (ABP) for around 60 elite In The Gaurs will take the game in charge of the Blues dian sportspersons as one field against Qatar’s AlRay Attacking flair since his appointment as Back in the swing: Juanan has recovered from injury and of the highlights of his tenure. yan SC at the Jawaharlal Al Rayyan also achieved di head coach in February. is ready to shoot again. * TWITTER @BENGALURUFC Nehru Stadium and head rect qualification for this “I’m very hungry for my Longjam is currently coach Juan Ferrando will season and will be looking to first game. The players look ed the competition early last preliminary stage one clash serving as jointsecretary in hope that his team can fully make a good start to its cam sharp and the preparation season, and we want to at the Dasharath Rangasala the sports ministry and is al utilise the advantage of play Hard at work: Aibanbha Dohling and Jorge Ortiz in training paign. has been good. The young reach the group stage this Stadium in Nepal last week, so the CEO of the currently ing at home. ahead of FC Goa's AFC Champions League opener. * TWITTER Brahimi brings attacking sters are working hard, and year. with striker Nawayug Shres suspended National Dope FC Goa will be up against @FCGOAOFFICIAL flair to the side with his skill, in our friendly against Goa, “The first step in that di tha scoring twice. Testing Laboratory (NDTL). a side coached by former Pa pace and unpredictability. they performed well. They rection is to beat a strong Ne In a winnertakesall tie, Agarwal, an IPS officer ris SaintGermain manager Ivorian striker Yohan Boli. Ferrando described it as a For FC Goa, Ishan Pandita are putting pressure on the palese team and I believe we the winner will advance to who took charge of NADA in Laurent Blanc. Besides Al Rayyan, the “onceinalifetime” oppor is one of the most exciting others in the squad, and that are strong enough to do the playoff stage of the 2021 2016, will be back in Jammu The home team will also Gaurs will also have to con tunity for the players to talents to emerge, having is good to see,” said that.” AFC Cup, with either Bangla & Kashmir Police. Agarwal have to contend with the tend with Persepolis FC compete against some of the spent time in the academies Pezzaiuoli. Tribhuvan Army Club re desh's Abahani Limited Dha said ABP has been a signifi likes of former FC Porto star (Iran) and Al Wahda (UAE) in biggest names in Asia. of Spanish clubs Almeria “This is an important corded a 41 comeback victo ka or Club Eagles of Maldives cant step in curbing the me Yacine Brahimi and prolific Group E. “(We are) very excited. and Leganes. game for us because we exit ry over Sri Lanka Police in its the next opponent. nace of doping. CM A ND-NDE YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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MI coaxes KKR to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory Stokes out of IPL with Rohit’s side collapses from 86 for one to 152 but suffocates Kolkata’s chase in the back10, thanks to Chahar, Krunal, Bumrah and Boult broken finger IPL 2021 P.K. Ajith Kumar WRIDDHAAYAN BHATTACHARYYA n what is yet another body blow to olkata Knight Riders left I Rajasthan Royals, all no stone unturned in K rounder Ben Stokes has preparing for its nemesis, been ruled out of the Mumbai Indians. rest of the IPL. Eoin Morgan started with According to a spin to keep Rohit Sharma & statement from Royals, Co. quiet in the PowerPlay. Stokes injured a finger He saved the express pace of on his left hand while Pat Cummins and Prasidh fielding against Punjab Krishna for Kieron Pollard Kings in Mumbai on and Hardik Pandya in the Monday. He seemed to middle overs. The plans be in trouble after worked, with his side dismis taking a diving catch to sing the fivetime champion dismiss Chris Gayle. for 152. The world’s premier But in the end, pressure allrounder was got the better of KKR, as it expected to play a lost by 10 runs at the M.A. major role in the Royals Chidambaram Stadium in campaign. Chennai on Tuesday. SCOREBOARD KKR started on a positive The Jaipurbased franchise had suffered a note, led by Nitish Rana (57, MUMBAI INDIANS Nitish Rana st. de Kock b Rahul 47b, 6x4, 2x6), who found Rohit Sharma b Cummins 43 Chahar 57 (47b, 6x4, 2x6), Shub blow even before the solid support in Shubman (32b, 3x4, 1x6), Quinton de Kock man Gill c Pollard b Rahul first ball was bowled. Its Gill (33). The opening part c Tripathi b Varun 2 (6b), Suryak Chahar 33 (24b, 5x4, 1x6), Rahul bowling spearhead Jofra nership of 72 in 8.4 overs set umar Yadav c Gill b Shakib 56 Tripathi c de Kock b Rahul Archer was ruled out of (36b, 7x4, 2x6) (5b) the ball rolling for the men in , Ishan Kishan c Chahar 5 , Eoin Morgan c the initial phase as he Prasidh b Cummins 1 (3b), Hardik Jansen b Rahul Chahar 7 (7b, had to undergo a purple before Rahul Cha Pandya c Russell b Prasidh 15 1x4), Shakib Al Hasan c Suryaku har’s magic run began. surgery to remove a (17b, 2x4), Kieron Pollard c mar b Krunal 9 (9b, 1x4), Dinesh fragment of glass from The legspinner picked up Karthik b Russell 5 (8b, 1x4), Karthik (not out) 8 (11b), Andre his hand. four wickets at a crucial junc Krunal Pandya c Prasidh b Rus Russell c & b Boult 9 (15b, 1x4), ture to turn the tide. Gill sell 15 (9b, 3x4), Marco Jansen c Pat Cummins b Boult 0 (1b), The England found Pollard at longoff Cummins b Russell 0 (1b), Rahul Harbhajan Singh (not out) 2 speedster has, however, been allowed to resume while trying to clear the Flexing their muscles: After Suryakumar Yadav’s 36ball 56 helped Mumbai Indians post 152, Rahul Chahar bowled a telling spell Chahar c Gill b Russell 8 (7b), (2b); Extras (b4, lb5, w2, Jasprit Bumrah c Shakib b Rus nb1): 12: Total (for seven wkts. training. That could be fence. Rahul Tripathi edged that overshadowed Andre Russell’s fivewicket haul. * SPORTZPICS/BCCI one to Quinton de Kock, Eoin sell 0 (1b), Trent Boult (not out) in 20 overs): 142. some solace to Royals. 0 (0b); Extras (lb4, w3): 7; Morgan failed to execute the dya and speedster Jasprit Rohit keeps telling It was a difficult FALL OF WICKETS <> <> Total (in 20 overs): 152. hack and was caught at deep Bumrah bowled two tight ov me to bowl with wicket to bat on. 172 (Gill, 8.5), 284 (Tripathi, 10.3), 3104 (Morgan, 12.5), 4 midwicket, and finally, the ers to Andre Russell and Di confidence and that For a new batter to FALL OF WICKETS nesh Karthik, conceding just 110 (de Kock, 1.6 overs), 286 122 (Rana, 14.6), 5122 (Shakib, inform Rana was stumped. at times even he is come in and hit 15.2), 6140 (Russell, 19.3), 7 seven runs. (Suryakumar, 10.3), 388 (Ishan, KKR needed to score 30 not able to read my from ball one was 11.1), 4115 (Rohit, 15.2), 5123 140 (Cummins, 19.4). Trent Boult removed Rus off the last four overs with deliveries in the very challenging. (Hardik, 16.2), 6125 (Pollard, MUMBAI INDIANS BOWLING five wickets in hand when sell and Cummins in the final nets. He asked me The ball was a bit 17.2), 7126 (Jansen, 17.3), 8150 Boult 40272, Jansen 20 over to secure an improbable leftarm spinner Krunal Pan to bowl the right up and down (Krunal, 19.3), 9150 (Bumrah, 170, Bumrah 40280, Krunal victory. 19.4). 40131, Pollard 10120, length tonight KNIGHT RIDERS BOWLING Rahul Chahar 40274, Rohit Rahul Chahar Andre Russell Getting into the act Harbhajan 20170, Varun 40 1090. Earlier, introduced into the overs, bowling around the The other four to fall to (36b, 7x4, 2x6) was the high 271, Shakib 40231, Cummins Toss: Kolkata Knight Riders. attack in the 18th over, Rus wicket to righthanders. Russell were Krunal, Jansen, light of MI’s innings — the 40242, Prasidh 40421, ManoftheMatch: Rahul sell came out of nowhere to The hustle began with Pol Chahar and Bumrah. runs that mattered in the Russell 20155. Chahar. Stokes. * SPORTZPICS/BCCI pick up a fivefor in his two lard’s wicket. Suryakumar Yadav’s 56 end. KOLKATA KNIGHT RIDERS MI won by 10 runs. Sangakkara sees SRH seeks first points against explosive RCB ‘Worked on death encouraging signs Warner’s team needs to fit Williamson in; Kohli’s side has to get its bowling spot on bowling for long period’ S. Dinakar cannot afford to bench so e can take the match meone with the tempera Harshal says he is confident enough to in Samson’s knock Haway from you in a mat ment and strokemaking take all that practice into the game ter of a few deliveries. ability of Kane Williamson. Without him, the team This wizard with a magic Ashwin Achal wand can deliver brutal appears a lesser outfit. It’s not just about his highqual blows and yet make it seem aving failed to make a ity batting. Given his cricket delicate and attractive over splash in the last five ing nous, his inputs to David H the 360 degrees that is his editions of the IPL, Harshal Warner will be invaluable. range. Patel came to the fore in The explosive genius of SRH can bench Moham Royal Challengers Banga AB de Villiers, under pres mad Nabi and ask Vijay lore’s (RCB) campaign open sure, was in full view, as Shankar and Abdul Samad er on Friday. The pacer, Royal Challengers Bangalore to share four overs between armed with a deceptive snatched a lastball thriller them. slower ball, took five for 27 against Mumbai Indians in This will be a game full of and the manofthematch the IPL lungopener. minibattles. award in the close win over Well done! Kumar Sangakkara, right, was mighty pleased And the RCB lineup has Bhuvneshwar Kumar ver Mumbai Indians. with skipper Sanju Samson’s innings. * SPORTZPICS/IPL so many matchwinners, in sus the influential de Villiers The Haryana cricketer cluding skipper Virat Kohli will be intriguing. And Rash was particularly efficient in P.K. Ajith Kumar Royals’ director of cricket, and Glenn Maxwell. id Khan vs. Kohli and Max the final over, conceding ow captaincy would im was all praise for Samson’s But then, in the game well are mouthwatering just one run and dismissing Hpact Sanju Samson’s extraordinary innings. “It against Sunrisers Hydera matchups. Krunal Pandya, Kieron Pol was encouraging to see (him bad at the M.A. Chidamba batting was one of the ques Curbing the heavyhitting lard and Marco Jansen. Harshal. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT tions asked ahead of the IPL. take the responsibility),” he ram Stadium on Wednes Warner will be a challenge Harshal, who has played On Monday night at Mum said. “He was just five or six day, RCB will need to work for RCB. only 18 IPL matches since Harshal said at a media inte yards short of hitting the last bai’s Wankhede Stadium, on its bowling. The surface might be 2016, is now regarded as the raction on Tuesday. ball for a six. The next time I the new skipper of Rajas Someone like Washington sluggish, but this will be a answer to RCB’s death bow Harshal was traded to believe he will hit ten yards than Royals provided the Sundar, so successful with highoctane clash. ling troubles. It is a responsi RCB from Delhi Capitals ear answer in a most emphatic further to win us a game.” the ball in Twenty20 crick bility he is happy to take on. lier this year, a move that style. Sangakkara also was im et, needs to bowl his full qu “It is one of those aspects has worked in his favour. pressed with the efforts ota of overs. of the game where you are Short by a few yards from youngsters Riyan Pa Against MI, he sent down in a position to win the More opportunities He played one of the great rag, whose 52run stand just one over and made an game for your team. It is a “I have more opportunities knocks in a lost cause at the with Samson for the fifth impact by dismissing a ram privileged position to be in. with RCB. I am being put in IPL. His 119 off 63 balls fell wicket kept Royals in the pant Chris Lynn. It can go the other way to difficult match situations, shot by a few yards — quite game, and Chetan Sakariya, RCB has bowling depth, around as well at times — it and thus have more oppor literally — of what would the 23yearold leftarm and seamer Harshal Patel can dent your confidence — tunity to showcase my skills. have been an astonishing seamer who made a spar bowled with clever varia but I look at it as a privilege. The trade is a welcome deci victory against Punjab kling debut. tions against MI to scalp five. Death bowling is something sion because I knew that Kings, chasing 222. No other “Riyan is a special player When your domestic un I've worked on for a long pe with Kagiso Rabada and An Royals batsman managed and has got amazing hand capped players do well, it riod of time, and I am confi rich Nortje in the DC team, I more than 25. speed and great compo augurs well for your team. Intriguing battle: It should be a mouthwatering clash dent enough now to take all wasn't going to get an oppor Kumar Sangakkara, sure,” he said. SRH has a problem. It between Rashid and Kohli. * SPORTZPICS/BCCI that practice into the game,” tunity,” Harshal said. Indian women to play oneoff Bhuvi is ICC player of the month IndiaA’s summer tour Press Trust of India for India again. I used the of England postponed Test at Bristol in June Dubai time away to work on my fit Experienced India seamer ness and skill and I am hap PRESS TRUST OF INDIA diaA teams planned Press Trust of India on Tuesday. While the In summer in what is a huge Bhuvneshwar Kumar on py to be back taking wickets LONDON earlier. London dian women’s team will take year for our England Wo Tuesday won the ICC Player for my country,” Bhuvnesh IndiaA’s tour of England It is believed that the The Indian women’s cricket part in a Test for the first men’s team, and we’re very ofthe Month award for his war said in an ICC release. this summer has been decision has been taken to team will play a historic one time since 2014, England last excited about hosting India superlative show in the re “I would like to thank postponed and the senior ensure the safest possible off Test against England in played a redball game dur and New Zealand.” cent limitedover series each and every person who team will now have an in environment for a high against England in March. Bristol as part of a multifor ing the 2019 Ashes. “The two international se helped me in this journey tegrated jumbo squad for quality international se mat series that will also fea The 31yearold took six starting from my family and the fivematch Test series ries in times of COVID19. The oneoff Test will be ries will sit either side of The ture three ODIs and as many wickets at an economy rate friends and my teammates. in England later this year, followed by three ODIs and Hundred, and with the Ra T20Is across JuneJuly. of 4.65 in the three ODIs, “Also, a special thank you the ECB and the BCCI Mutual agreement T20Is each with the tour chael Heyhoe Flint Trophy The Test will be played at while picking up four wick to the ICC voting academy agreed on Tuesday. “The ECB and BCCI have concluding on July 15 in and the new Regional T20 the Bristol County Ground ets with a fantastic economy and all the fans who voted The senior team, which agreed to postpone this Chelmsford. competition running from June 1619, kicking off throughout the summer, it’s of 6.38 in the five T20Is to for me and made me the ICC is to play five Tests against summer's men's IndiaA the England team’s summer. After announcing its a fixture list that offers a lot emerge as the standout Men’s player of the month England in AugustSep tour," ECB said in a state The match was first con home fixtures, England and for both our players and our bowler on either side in the for March.” tember, will now have on ment on Tuesday. firmed by BCCI secretary Jay Wales Cricket Board (ECB) fans. white ball series. Besides Bhuvneshwar, ly two intrasquad prac This means that a squad Shah earlier this year but the chief executive officer Tom The fixtures: Oneoff Test: “After what seemed like a Rashid Khan of Afghanistan tice games instead of the of 30 will be mixed and exact date and venue were Harrison, said: “We’re really June 1619; ODIs: June 27, 30 & really long and painful gap, I and Zimbabwe's Sean Wil First Class fixture between matched for the practice unveiled by the host board looking forward to a busy July 3. T20Is: July 9, 11 & 15. 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TV PICKS Sajan wins but falls short of Amark IPL: Star Sports 1 & SS Select Everton suffers damaging draw 1 (SD & HD), 7.30 p.m. SWIMMING vian Open last month. Sajan South Africa v Pakistan: had achieved the Bmark 3rd T20I, SS Select 2 (SD & West Brom dares to dream; Sevilla edges sevengoal thriller with Celta Vigo SPORTS BUREAU Olympic Time (1:59.97s) at HD), 6 p.m. TASHKENT the 2019 FINA World Cham Senior Asian wrestling: EURO LEAGUES Olympic hopeful Sajan Pra pionships, finishing in Sony Six (SD & HD), 5.30 p.m. kash clinched the gold in the 1:58.45s. UEFA Champions League: Agence France-presse men’s 200m butterfly with a Also on Tuesday, Kenisha Sony Ten 1, 2 & 3 (SD & HD), London timing of 1:57.85s, but it was Gupta secured the gold me 12.30 a.m.(Thursday) West Bromwich Albion im well short of the Amark dal in women’s 100m frees proved its slender hopes of Olympic Qualifying Time tyle, coming home in 57.42s, IN BRIEF avoiding relegation from the (1:56.48s), at the Uzbekistan while Shivani Kataria took Premier League as it sur Open swimming champion the bronze (59.60s). vived VAR controversy to ships on Tuesday. A.S. Anand was the beat Southampton 30, while The result, however, was bronze medallist in the Everton’s fading top four bid a significant improvement men’s 100m freestyle with a was damaged by a 00 draw from the timing of 1:59.31s timing of 51.95s, a personal

at Brighton on Monday. he had clocked at the Lat best. Sajan Prakash. * FILE PHOTO Albion saw Mbaye Diagne’s goal questionably ruled out by VAR early in the COVID puts Medvedev first half at the Hawthorns. Balbir Singh Jr. passes away out of Monte Carlo But Sam Allardyce’s side Masters recovered from that blow to He took to hockey when MONACO HOCKEY sweep into a twogoal lead he was six years old. He stu Secondranked Daniil Press Trust of India Medvedev withdrew from the by halftime thanks to Math died at Lyallpur Khalsa Col On target: Matt Phillips, foreground, scores West Brom’s second past Southampton’s Chandigarh Monte Carlo Masters on eus Pereira’s penalty and a lege in Jalandhar and was Fraser Forster. * GETTY IMAGES Tuesday following a positive Matt Phillips strike. Balbir Singh Jr., who was a first selected to play for the COVID19 test. The ATP said Callum Robinson sealed member of the silver medal Indian hockey team in 1951. the Russian has been placed West Brom’s second succes managed only one shot on Liga’s title race on Monday The results: Premier League: winning 1958 Asian Games Hockey India condoled in isolation and his condition sive win after the interval as target as its winless run ex by winning a sevengoal Brighton 0 drew with Everton Indian hockey team, died the death of Balbir Singh Jr. is being assessed by the the Baggies built on their tended to five games in all thriller away at Celta Vigo. 0; West Brom 3 (Pereira 32 here at the age of 88, his “On behalf of Hockey In tournament doctor and stunning 52 victory at competitions. A secondhalf double pen, Phillips 35, Robinson 69) daughter Mandeep Samra dia, I express my deepest bt Southampton 0. medical team. AP Chelsea. Everton, in eighth place, from Ivan Rakitic and Papu said on Tuesday. condolences to Balbir Singh LaLiga: Celta Vigo 3 (Aspas 20, At the Amex Stadium, is seven points behind West Gomez snatched a 43 victo He is survived by his wife, Balbir Singh Jr. Jr’s family. His contribution Seville to host Laureus 23, Mendez 43) lost to Sevilla 4 Everton was hoping to close Ham with a game in hand, ry for Sevilla, which twice daughter and son. * THE HINDU ARCHIVES to Indian hockey will always World Sports Awards (Kounde 7, Fernando 35, Rakitic the gap on fourth placed while Brighton moved seven had to come from behind at “My father passed away in be remembered and the LONDON 60, Gomes 76). The Spanish city of Seville will West Ham in the race to points clear of the relegation Balaidos. Serie A: Benevento 0 lost to sleep on Sunday morning on May 2, 1932, at Sansarpur hockey fraternity mourns host the 22nd Laureus World qualify for next season’s zone. The comeback puts Sevil Sassuolo 1 (Barba 45og). due to heart failure,” his in Jalandhar, also known as his demise,” HI president Sports Awards on May 6 in a Champions League. Sevilla gave itself an out la six points behind Atletico Bundesliga: Hoffenheim 0 daughter said. the nursery of hockey Gyanendro Ningombam virtual ceremony owing to But Carlo Ancelotti’s team side chance of rejoining La Madrid. drew with Bayer Leverkusen 0. Balbir Singh Jr. was born players in India. said. the COVID19 pandemic. The winners are selected by a jury comprising 69 members of the Laureus World Sports Will Klopp inspire another India Open to be held incamera Academy. PTI Perez back unopposed as BAI to go ahead with the Olympic qualification event despite pandemic fear Real Madrid president Liverpool comeback? MADRID BADMINTON Akane Yamaguchi, current Florentino Perez has been And will Guardiola break the quarterfinal barrier with City? World champion P.V. Sindhu reelected unopposed as RAKESH RAO and Saina Nehwal are among president of Real Madrid for a NEW DELHI the leading names in wo sixth term, the Spanish CHAMPIONS LEAGUE In spite of the alarmingly ris men’s singles. champion announced on Agence France-Presse ing cases of COVID19, the Tuesday. AFP Liverpool Badminton Association of In Top men’s stars In need of another famous dia (BAI), on Tuesday, an Twotime World champion Champions League fight nounced plans to hold the Kenta Momota, defending back, Liverpool cannot rely India Open badminton champion Viktor Axelson, on a wave of passion, colour championship incamera at reigning All England winner and noise from the stands at the K.D. Jadhav Indoor hall Zii Jia Lee along with home Anfield to inspire a come at the Indira Gandhi Stadium challengers K. Srikanth, B. back from 31 down against Jurgen Klopp. * AFP Pep Guardiola. * GETTY IMAGES here, as rescheduled from Sai Praneeth, H.S. Prannoy Real Madrid on Wednesday. May 11 to 16. and P. Kashyap promise to It will instead need its est of all the memorable Eu while, expects to be labelled Although medical experts light up the men’s singles manager Jurgen Klopp to ropean nights at Anfield. a “failure” if City doesn’t on the pandemic fear that Star attraction: Saina Nehwal and P.V. Sindhu are among the draw. conjure the motivation and Meanwhile, Borussia reach the semifinals for the the peak of the second wave leading names in women’s singles. * PTI In doubles, World No. 10 tactical masterplan to once Dortmund is waiting on the fifth straight year since he could emerge in May, the BAI Chirag Shetty and Satwiksai again eliminate one of Span fitness of Marco Reus and joined the English club. will go ahead with the Olym spectators and media, man mation about the oncourt raj Rankireddy, along with Stephen Curry betters ish football’s giants. Mats Hummels for the The Spanish coach hasn’t pic qualification event with dates the players and the of action would be available on Ashwini Ponnappa and N. Chamberlain’s record Liverpool’s deficit is not home leg against Manches won the competition — or 228 players from 33 coun ficials to report here on May digital platforms in almost Sikki Reddy, present the In SAN FRANCISCO as steep as when Barcelona ter City with England win even reached the final — tries, including China. 3 and serve a sevenday qua real time. dian challenge. Ashwini and Stephen Curry became the visited two years ago in the ger Jadon Sancho definitely since capturing the second rantine period. Thrice World champion Satwiksairaj will also test alltime leading scorer in semifinals in what turned ruled out. of his titles with Barcelona Seven-day quarantine The BAI secretary Ajay and reigning Olympic gold their preparedness in mixed Golden State Warriors’ out to be arguably the great Pep Guardiola, mean in 2011. The event, out of bounds for Singhania assured that infor medallist Carolina Marin, doubles. history with the ninth 50 point game of his career, exploding for 53 in a 116107 CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC victory over the visiting Denver Nuggets on Monday Raman to reapply for coach’s post Stark image night. Curry began the game with 17,765 points in his BCCI to bring all women’s teams under one fold Warriors career, needing 18 to equal Wilt Chamberlain’s der his guidance, the wo looks at other options. alltime franchise record. He CRICKET men’s team reached the fi “Whoever is the new head got there in the first quarter, Press Trust of India then went on to finish the nals of the World T20. And coach will have more say as New Delhi night with 10 3pointers. don’t forget this series we plan to develop a robust Former India opener W.V. against South Africa was the A and U19 team before we The results: Philadelphia 113 bt Dallas 95; New York 111 bt Raman is all set to reapply first in one year. He is well can start a fullfledged six or LA Lakers 96; San Antonio for the head coach's post of within his rights to reapply eightteam women’s IPL. 120 bt Orlando 97. the Indian women's cricket and I believe he remains a And who better than the Washington 125 bt Utah 121; team as the BCCI is looking strong contender,” a senior new chief coach to monitor a Memphis 101 bt Chicago 90; at empowering the incum BCCI official said on condi smooth transition from U19 New Orleans 117 bt bent with more tions of anonymity. to senior level for the girls,” Sacramento 110; Golden responsibilities. the official said. State 116 bt Denver 107; The Indian cricket board Continuity The BCCI will also have a

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Open. club by seven wickets and fourth seed Press Trust of India four wickets and scored 84 184/9 in 20 overs (Shivam positive for COVID19 at the The scores: enter the final of the The results (prequarterfi WELLINGTON runs while Bengal Ranji Singh 47, Vikas Kumar 44, DSA 252 in 34.4 Sports Authority of India's Mrunmayee nals): Under14: Boys: Samprit Trophy player Abhimanyu Prince Yadav 3/40, Harshit overs (Saksham Kaim 64, Endurance under15 Centre of Excellence in Sharma bt Naveena Ramesh New Zealand skipper Kane Easwaran slammed a match Kaushik 3/30) lost to Sporting Bhaskar Kumar 53, Ansh tournament. 63, 61; Arnav Yadav bt Akshaj Bengaluru. TENNIS Williamson won his fourth winning century as West Club 187/2 in 16.4 overs Aggarwal 47, Avinash David The scores: Subramanian 62, 62; Tanussh Asian Games 1500m Sir Richard Hadlee medal (Shivam Gupta 123 n.o., Harshit 4/24, Chetan Anand 3/38) bt Sporting Club 230/8 in 35 SPORTS BUREAU Ghildyal bt Vraj Gohil 36, 63, Delhi Cricket Academy goldmedallist Jinson John for excelling across formats Kaushik 30). Anand Sports 174 in 33.5 overs AHMEDABAD 62; Prabir Chavda bt Daksh thrashed Sonnet Club by 154 overs (Kunal Sangwan 66, Krish son and steeplechaser and was also adjudged the (Chetan Anand 45, Saksham Kapoor 63, 63; Vedant Bhasin runs to enter the pre Blitzkrieg by Takshit Chahar 53, Mehul Malik 41, Chinta Yadav are among Lucky loser Rithika Kakarla ‘Test Player of the Year’ in bt Vyom Shah 61, 62; Aarav quarterfinals of the 31st Takshit Kumar smashed a Kaim 5/37). Trinav Kumar 4/28) lost to the five athletes who have mudi knocked out third the country’s annual crick Chawla bt Aryan Chokshi 62, allIndia Hitkary Om Nath 44ball 110 as Vijay Yadav Facile win for Gyanti Academy 231/3 in 34.2 been infected along with seed Aarushi Raval 46, 60, et awards on Tuesday. He 60; Arnav Paparkar bt Arad Sood memorial tournament. Academy beat Gulia Aarush Sports overs (Yashvardhan Obrai 149 race walk coach Alexander 76(5) in the girls’ prequar claimed the big prize for hya Kshitij 61, 61; Kriish Tyagi The scores: WDCA 278/5 in 40 Academy by seven wickets Ritik Kumar (4/29) and n.o.). Atsybashev. terfinals of the Altevol Asian bt Samarth Sahita 64, 64. the fourth time in last six overs (Abhimanyu Easwaran in the Captain Dharm Pal Akash Yadav (59 not out) Parth, Yash shine for Another Tokyo Games under14 tennis tournament years. Devon Conway won Girls: Thaniya Sarai Gogula 121, Rajesh Sharma 84, Akshay under19 tournament. helped Aarush Sports beat Ravindra Fagna Academy bound race walker K.T. Ir on Tuesday. manda bt Prarthana Solanki the men’s ODI and T20 Saini 45) bt Sonnet Club 124 in The scores: Gulia Academy 158 Young Delhi by nine wickets fan has returned negative In another match, quali 62, 62; Mahika Khanna bt Player of the Year award . Parth Bhadana’s 50 and 29.1 overs (Suraj Rathore 4/12, in 35.5 overs (Aamir Khan 50, in the SH Sports after he was tested as a fier Aakruti Sonkusare beat Hirva Rangani 60, 60; Rithika Leading awardwinners: Sir Yash Kaushik’s 48 helped Rajesh Sharma 4/26). Sandarbh Sud 3/23, Naman tournament. primary contact of fourth seed Mrunmayee Kakarlamudi bt Aarushi Raval Richard Hadlee Medal: Kane Ravindra Fagna Academy Sharma 3/26) lost to VYA 161/3 The scores: Johnson. Joshi for the loss of five 46, 60, 76(5); Priyanka Rana Williamson; Bert Sutcliffe Unbeaten ton by YDA 140 in 36.1 beat Dahiya Academy by 15 in 13.3 overs (Takshit Kumar “My test result which games. bt Devanishi Gohil 62, 62; Medal: Jeff Crowe; Test Shivam overs (Ritik Kumar 4/29) lost to runs in the Kragbuzz Sports Mehak Kapoorbt Suhani Parekh player of the year: William 110). came on Monday was posi In the boys’ section, third Delhi Under23 Aarush Sports 141/1 in 10.3 under14 tournament. 63, 64; Aakruti Sonkusare bt son; Women’s ODI player: tive and I am currently in seed Vraj Gohil was beaten wicketkeeper Shivam Gupta Allround show by overs (Akash Yadav 59 n.o., The scores: Mrunmayee Joshi 62, 63; Na Amy Satterthwaite;Men’s ODI Akashay Singh 37). quarantine in my room. I 36, 63, 62 by Tanussh Ghil vya Sharma Gullu bt Divya player: Devon Conway; Wo scored an unbeaten 123 as Saksham RFA 173/6 in 25 overs (Paarth have fever, not very high, dyal. Sharma 63, 41 (retd); Aish men’s T20I player: Amelia Sporting Club defeated Saksham Kaim topscored Yashvardhan hits Bhadana 50, Yash Kaushik 48) and headache also,” said In the other matches, se warya Jadhav bt Sree Syleswari Kerr; Men’s T20I player: Con Sapience Club by eight with 64 runs and picked up unbeaten hundred bt Dahiya Academy 158/8 in 25 Johnson. venth seed Vyom Shah and Velmanikandan 64, 62. way. wickets in the fourth R.K. five wickets as Dharmesh Yashvardhan Obrai’s 149 not overs (Bhavya Goel 74).

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