0 ( ;#*( %"&%< &%<< SIDISrtVUU@IB!&!!"&#S@B9IV69P99I !%! %! ' /$#0/' 12 '1'12 5',%67 3-1-&4# ( > '/(90O A:*98 7B */9* ' '>/8'3 9# #( #3 +92/ 9 98//8 */01 0:2'3 )13(90 )1:)9'/98 89'1 89(:8 19'*?981 8/ #3 #1/ 393' 3@* 98* ' 89C ' >913' +9'9?/+/'# */189*:' 1*/89)9* @A99*9 0 ,-. 6 //( =9 % / 9% 3 + 2454 6* 44 P O ! &' ( Jaishankar will not hold bilat- " ) ( eral talks with his Pakistani # counterpart Shah Mehmood %% & Qureshi on the sidelines of the # conference. However, he will P meet Foreign Ministers of other !! $ member countries including "#$%#&'( ' '/ */01 China, sources said. ( ) * The main focus of the talks # % % ndia and China will discuss with Wang Yi will be to find an %O ( + Iways to hasten up disen- amicable and mutually agree- !! gagement at the Line of Actual able solution to disengage and O & Control (LAC) in Ladakh dur- de-escalate the tension at the '/ */01 ing External Affairs Minister LAC. !)! Jaishankar and his Chinese India has all along insisted * he Government on Tuesday counterpart Wang Yi’s talks in that disengagement and de- ' *, % % Tissued a fresh warning to Tajikistan on Wednesday. escalation from the three fric- % the people not to invite the The bilateral parleys on the tion points is the prerequisite third wave of Covid-19 by sidelines of the two-day for normalising ties with each %. % flouting all social distancing Shanghai Co-operation Incidentally, the diplomatic- other. ) *% # norms and crowding at hill sta- Organisation (SCO) in level talks in the last week of However, China is dilly tions and tourist places even as Dushanbe come at a time when June between India and China dallying and not agreeing to sit & Uttarakhand cancelled the a stalemate persists at three resolved to hold the military- for the 12th round of parleys. Kanwar Yatra in view of the friction points at the LAC in level talks as soon as possible, It wants the discussions to be threat of the pandemic. Eastern Ladakh. The 11th sources said here on Tuesday. held at the local commander The Health Ministry said round of Corps Commander- It will be the second face to level of the two nations. The that people are talking about level talks in early April did not face and one-on-one talks Indian security establishment is the third wave of the coron- yield positive results. between Jaishankar and Wang wary of this proposal and is avirus as casually as a “weath- At present, more than one Yi since the stand-offs started studying all options, sources er update”, and the “gross vio- lakh troops from both the in early May last year at the said. lations” of Covid-appropriate sides are in an eyeball-to-eye- LAC. The last time, the two The two countries have so behaviour that were being seen ball confrontation at the three leaders had met in Moscow in far pulled back their troops in several parts of the country will invite it,” the Government “Steps should be taken to came amid concerns that 55 friction points including the September last year during the from only one standoff site at can nullify the gains made so said, echoing the views of prevent crowds... We all need districts in India have report- Hot Springs, Gogra and the Foreign Ministers’ meet of the the Pangong Tso (lake). The far in pandemic management. Prime Minister Narendra Modi to work together to stop the ed more than 10 per cent case Depsang Valley. SCO countries. troops from both the sides A day after the Indian who in a meeting, a few hours third wave of the Covid-19 positivity for the week ending The talks between the two The SCO conclave will pri- returned to their bases from the Medical Association (IMA) ago, with the Chief Ministers of pandemic,” he added. July 13, while approximately Foreign Ministers may break marily discuss the worsening face-off sites at the northern cautioned the Government and Northeastern States stressed The message was 73.4 per cent of the new Covid- the logjam leading to the 12th situation in Afghanistan and and southern banks of the asked it not to allow tourism the importance of adhering to promptly followed by the 19 cases reported in July were round of talks between the two the Taliban controlling large Pangong lake in February this activities, pilgrimage and mass basic rules - wearing of face Uttarakhand Government from Kerala, Maharashtra, commanders at the earliest. part of that country. year. gatherings, the Centre decided masks when in public, avoiding which decided to cancel the Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh to tread cautiously. large gatherings, and ensuring Kanwar Yatra this year, in view and Odisha, a sign that the “The third wave won’t vaccination - to prevent a third of the outbreak. pandemic is not yet over in the come on its own, but people wave of the pandemic. The Government’s warning country. R ! "#"$%& '/ */01 Government. Earlier, reports from Chandigarh said the oll strategist Prashant Rahul-Kishor meeting was PKishor on Tuesday met for- expected to be the last round of '/ */01 mer Congress president Rahul discussions to give the final Gandhi at his national Capital shape to the changes in the he Russian vaccine Sputnik residence. This fuelled specu- Punjab party unit. TV will be produced at the 231 lation about some possible "Good news for the Punjab manufacturing units of Pune- moves to consolidate the Congress in next three-four based Serum Institute of India girl from Thrissur who Opposition ranks ahead of the days," said Rawat after the (SII) from September this year. Awas the first to test positive Assembly elections in Uttar meeting. At present, Hyderabad-based for the Covid-19 virus in the Pradesh, Punjab, Gujarat and Notably, Rawat has already Dr Reddy’s Laboratories, which country in January 2020, has then seek a way forward for the made it clear that Punjab will was the first to sign a deal with again been diagnosed with the Lok Sabha polls in 2024. get a new PPCC chief and there the Russian manufacturers to infection. AICC sources said senior will be a few new faces in the distribute and then locally pro- The District Medical party leaders, including Cabinet of Captain Amarinder duce the vaccine in India, has The SII is currently man- ! Officer (DMO) of Thrissur Priyanka Gandhi, KC Singh. made a soft-launch of the doses ufacturing Covishield, the local "#$ % told reporters that the girl was Venugopal, and Harish Rawat, Even as there is no confir- in 50 cities and towns across version of the Oxford- ! & diagnosed with Covid-19 dur- the in-charge of Punjab affairs, mation regarding what actual- the country. AstraZeneca vaccine, Covovax '& ing a mandatory check-up were present during the meet- ly transpired in the meeting, it However, the SII which is (developed by Novavax) and before her departure to New ing. is believed that the top leaders the world’s largest vaccine conducting trials of Codagenix Delhi. “She has not yet been While it was not clear what discussed Punjab affairs. It is manufacturer by volume is in the UK. The first batch of the vaccinated and did not show the meeting was about, it came was not regarding Punjab cri- days some good news will believed that the leaders dis- likely to produce 300 million Sputnik vaccine is expected to any signs of the infection,” against the backdrop of infight- sis but it was just a courtesy come from Punjab indicating cussed possible changes and doses annually. “The parties be produced at the SII’s facili- said the DMO. ing and turmoil in the visit where it was discussed that the Congress has finally formulations expected to be intend to produce over 300 mil- ties in September, Adar The girl is a medical stu- Congress unit in Punjab. The current socio-economic and chalked out a strategy to final- taken to resolve the prevailing lion doses of the vaccine in Poonawalla, CEO of SII, said. dent studying in Wuhan, crisis has intensified in recent political condition of the coun- ly resolve the party's Punjab cri- conflict with Punjab Congress India per year with the first Sputnik V — also known New Delhi: The Government China, the global epicentre of months and with Assembly try. sis. unit. batch expected in September as Gam-COVID-Vac — was has exempted basic customs the pandemic. “She had elections scheduled for early "Rahul is a national leader. Last week, Punjab Chief It is believed that in the 2021,” the Russian Direct the first Covid-19 vaccine to be duty on imports of specified returned to India in January next year, leaders in the party Many leaders meet him and Minister Captain Amarinder two-and-a-half-hour-long Investment Fund (RDIF) said registered for use in any nation, active pharmaceutical ingredi- 2020 when the situation in have been getting restless over convey their views. Prashant Singh had met Kishor at meeting, a strategy was devised in a statement, adding that SII and it has since been approved ents (APIs)/excipients for Wuhan had taken a turn for the the delay in its resolution. didn't meet him to negotiate Kapurthala House, the CM's to end the prolonged infighting has received cell and vector in 67 countries, including Amphotericin B and raw mate- worse. At that time she had Meanwhile, Rawat something regarding Punjab," residence in the national between Captain Amarinder samples from Russia’s Brazil, Hungary, India and the rials for manufacturing Covid shown symptoms of the dis- informed the media that said Rawat also mentioning Capital.