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THE EDITORIAL PAGE ARMY BRIEFS GOVT ON LAC TALKS WITH PLA Sending money Delhipreparesforlonghaul:Military, abroad: April THISISN’TBJP VERSUSCONGRESS diplomaticengagementstocontinue marks 50-month BY SONIA GANDHI PAGE 8 Officials sayconcerns conveyed; MEA As BRO seeks workersfor low at $499 mn underlines Modi-Xiagreement UNLOCKING THE Ladakh, Jharkhand asks Over 65% dip in education and travel ECONOMY marathon meeting Saturday be- expenses compared to April last year SUSHANTSINGH, tween Indian and Chinesearmy WISHLIST&ROADMAP SHUBHAJITROY commanders at the Chushul- for abetter deal for them ANEXPRESSINTERVIEWSERIES &KRISHNKAUSHIK Moldo border point, the Ministry HARIKISHANSHARMA NEWDELHI,JUNE7 of External Affairs, in astate- and sign amemorandum of NEWDELHI,JUNE7 UDAY KOTAK ment,said it “took place in acor- ABHISHEKANGAD agreement(MoU)withthe state. MANAGINGDIRECTOR, KOTAKMAHINDRABANK SIGNALLING IT wasprepared for dial and positive atmosphere”. RANCHI,JUNE7 AMay 22 communication AS COVID and the lockdown ECONOMY, PAGE 13 the long haul in itsdealings with The statementunderlined from the MinistryofHome Affairs cripple the global economyand Beijing over the faceoffalong the the “agreement between the THE JHARKHAND government to Chairman, Railway Board, ground international travel, the Atriple Line of Actual Control in eastern leaders” of the twocountries — under Chief MinisterHemant seeking 11 trains to transport amount of moneyIndians send CITY Ladakh, NewDelhiSunday said announced afterthe informal Soren has extracted acommit- 11,815 labourers from Jharkhand abroad has plunged to a whammyeffect “the twosideswill continue the summitsbetween Prime ment from Border Roads to work fortheBROinLadakhand 50-monthlow. PANEL:DOUBLING militaryand diplomatic engage- MinisterNarendraModiand Organisation (BRO) to do away other areas, setoff aseries of com- In April 2020,Indians remit- THIS DIP reflectseco- RATESUGGESTS mentstoresolvethe situation Chinese President Xi Jinping in withcontractors, recruit labour- munication betweenthe state tedjust$499.14 million under nomic distress, lock- and to ensurepeace and tran- Wuhan and Mahabalipuram — Prime MinisterNarendra ers directlyfromthe state, regis- government and BRO. the LiberalisedRemittance down at home and curbs 1LAKHCASESIN quility in the border areas”. that “peace and tranquility in the Modi with Chinese teritself under the Inter-State The statehad receivedmany Scheme (LRS) —a61% decline on overseas travel. DELHIBYJUNE-END In firstremarks afterthe CONTINUEDONPAGE2 President Xi Jinping. AP file Migrant Workmen Actnextyear, CONTINUEDONPAGE2 from $1,287.91 million in the Significantly,the cut in PAGE 4 same month lastyear,according expenses on education, to latestdataofthe ReserveBank medical treatmentand of India. maintenance of relatives The monthlyoutwardflowin mayendurebeyond the In Capital, April 2020 is lowest since travel ban. Auditor may not have February2016when it was $449.28 million. restaurants& Under LRS, resident individu- mated 2millionIndian nation- raised red flags at IL&FS als, including minors, mayremit als travel overseas everymonth. malls to open, up to $250,000per financial year The moneysent forstudies behest: forensic report forpermissible current or capi- abroad has also seen asharp de- not hotels talaccount transactions or a cline of 68.85% —$78.76million combination of both. in April this year from $252.84 it points outthe issue in an EoM Adip in outwardremittances million in the corresponding SANDEEPSINGH paragraph in the audit report. EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE wasseeninMarch 2020, too, but month lastyear. NEWDELHI,JUNE7 On May26, 2018,the then NEWDELHI,JUNE7 it plummetedthe following Over 7lakh Indian students COOofITNL, Dilip Bhatia wrote month. pursuedstudiesinforeign insti- BARELYthree months before an email to Hari Sankaran, vice MALLS,RESTAURANTSandplaces The sharpestdecline — tutions in 2018. IL&FS Group companies raninto chairman of IL&FS, informing of worship in Delhiwill be al- 71.81% —has been recordedin “Maintenance of close rela- trouble with the firstdefault on him that the auditor wasconsid- lowedtoopenfromMonday, moneysent fortravelpurposes tives” category, whichcon- August28, 2018,SRBC &CoLLC ering issuing an audit report Chief MinisterArvind Kejriwal whichcame down to $121.13 tributes the highestamount to (an armofErnstand Young),au- with an EoM paraonthe ‘going said.However, hotelsandbanquet million in April this year from total outwardremittances under ditor to IL&FS Transportation concern’issues of ITNL, asub- hallswillremainshut,astheymay $429.75 million ayear ago. LRS has recordedadecline of 50% Networks India Limited (ITNL), sidiaryofIL&FS Group. have to be converted intoCovid This is significant as an esti- CONTINUEDONPAGE2 decided to exclude notesonthe Over the next couple of days, carefacilities in the future. company’s ability to continue severalemails were exchanged The CM said on Sundaythat operations indefinitely, which in between KMPs (key manage- Delhiwasfollowingguidelinesset accounting languageisreferred ment personnel) of ITNL and OPENING TODAY by theCentre. “Following the or- TRACKING INDIA’S COVID CURVE to as agoing concern principle. IL&FS on the matter and on May ders of the central government, LOCKDOWN According to theGrant 28,Bhatia suggestedthatapres- Workers at arestaurant in New Delhi. Restaurantsinthe city will be allowedtoopenfrom the Delhi government has de- DAY CASES: RECOVERED:1,19,292 |DEATHS:6,929 Thornton forensic audit report, entation be prepared about Mondaywith onlyupto50per cent of their seatingcapacity. Praveen Khanna cidedtoopen restaurants,shop- TESTS:46,66,386 | DOUBLINGRATE:16.27** SRBC &CoLLC had earlier taken ITNL’s ability to raiseadditional ping malls, and places of worship 75 2,46,628 adecision to make suchqualifi- funds from the marketfor are- from tomorrow. Thecentral gov- cations in itsauditreportfor viewbythe auditors. ernment has issuedspecific 2017-18. Butfollowing ameet- The Grant Thornton report guidelines regardingtheopening ing withIL&FS and ITNL man- notesthat the ITNLand IL&FS Only Delhiiteswill get beds in of these placeswhichinclude agement, it did notinclude this management mayhavesuc- maintaining social distancing, in the Emphasis of Matter (EoM) ceededinconvincing the audi- wearing masks, and others. All paragraph. If an auditor decides tors since no qualifications or private, Delhi govt-run hospitals these guidelines preparedbythe it is important to draw the atten- notesinthe EoM paragraph per- expertsof thecentralgovernment KEYSTATES TOTAL SURGEIN 7-DAYAVG. DOUBLING * tion of the readers of financial tainingto‘going concern’ issue Private hospitalsthatunder- would be followedinDelhi... TOWATCH CASES 24HRS GROWTH RATE** statementstoaparticular item, CONTINUEDONPAGE2 SOURAVROYBARMAN take specialisedsurgeriestoo, BUSINESSASUSUAL “However, the government ■ Maharashtra 82,968 2,739 3.51% 20.51 NEWDELHI,JUNE7 will be exempt,hesaid. willtake acallonopeningbanquet ■ Gujarat 19,617 498 2.63% 27.36 The reservation of bedsfor BY UNNY halls later as the number of Covid Five militants killed BEDSINDelhi’s private hospitals Delhi residentswill come intoef- cases is rising, and theremight be ■ Delhi 27,654 1,320 5.87% 12.26 and in hospitals run by thestate fect as the borders of Delhi are aneedtotakeoverthe hotels and ■ Tamil Nadu 30,152 1,458 5.17% 13.92 government will be reserved for unsealedonMonday. Thispolicy banquets to convert them into ■ Bihar 4,831 233 4.44% 16.23 residentsofDelhi until the will applytoall illnesses,not just Covid care facilities,” he said. 435 6.05% in Shopian gunbattle, Covid-19pandemicsubsides, the novelcoronavirus disease. Malls in the capital plan to put ■ West Bengal 7,738 11.91 Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Alatenight order signedby in place car sanitising kiosks, mats *Compounded Daily Growth Rate over last 7days**Calculated over 7-daygrowth likely aHizb group said on Sunday. Delhi Health Secretary Padmini with sanitising liquid, thermal CONCERN CAUTION AGLIMMER This policy will notapplyto Singla said increasedinterstate scanners, and hand sanitisers. KARNATAKA: WEST BENGAL: MADHYA hospitals run by thecentral gov- movement would put moreload Restaurantswillbeallowedto More than 2,200 Picking up pace PRADESH: Slowest ernment —suchasthe All India on both Covid and non-Covid have onlyupto50% of their seat- cases in aweek, again. More than growth rate among ADILAKHZER InstituteofMedicalSciences (AI- hospitals in Delhi, as patientsap- ing capacity. Restaurantsinthe growing at over 2,500 cases over the top ten states SRINAGAR,JUNE7 IMS),Ram Manohar Lohia(RML) proachthem “from other parts city have so farbeenallowedto 8.5% daily the last week right now Hospital, and Safdarjung Hospital of the country”. operatetheir kitchens onlyfor Based on daily databyCentre,ICMR,state governments FIVE MILITANTSwerekilledina etc. —Kejriwal said in awebcast. CONTINUEDONPAGE2 takeaway and delivery services. gunbattle with security forces in Shopian district of South Kashmir on Sunday. WORLD IGP Kashmir VijayKumar Security personnel at the site Rajasthan hospital faces At heart of Mumbai trafficking case: told The Indian Express:“We have of the encounter in Shopian, killedfiveterrorists in today’s op- Sunday. Shuaib Masoodi probe after anti-Muslim eration in Shopian. It wasaclean 6children, lockdown &10-mincalls operation. Suchoperations will continue.” and one of them waslikelyatop WhatsAppposts by staff boys that reachedthe Bombay when the MumbaiCrime Branch Speaking to reporters, commander. MOHAMEDTHAVER High Courtlastyear —and is now came knocking at their door. Brigadier VijayMahadevan of 1 “The identification and affil- shared widelyonsocial media. MUMBAI,JUNE7 caught in theCovid lockdown. The“adoptivefather”was ar- SectorRashtriyaRifles calledthe iation of the killedterrorists is DEEPMUKHERJEE On Saturday, Dr Sunil The boy, likethe other five,all rested and the boy, along with Shopian operation a“big suc- being ascertained. However, as JAIPUR,JUNE7 Choudhary, who runs the THE COUPLE saythatwhentheir aged between sevenmonths to the otherswho had allegedly cess”. “Yes, it is asuccess, avery per credible sources,the killed Srichand BaradiyaRog Nidan PEACEFUL PROTESTS three-and-a-half-year-old “son” five years, is in the careofBal been sold to different people, good success.Our effort is to con- terrorists belonged to proscribed POLICE IN Rajasthan have Kendra, aprivate orthopaedic SWELL ACROSS U.S. comes on screen forthe allotted Anand,anadoption agencyin wassent to theagency. Months tinue targetingthe terroristlead- HM terroristoutfit and one openedaninquiryafter screen- hospitalinSardarshahar,atown 10 minutesevery day, he cries Chembur.Police sayhewas al- later,the manwas releasedon ership,” he said. among the killedterroristsisbe- shots of apurported WhatsApp about50kmwestofChuru city, NO DELAY,NO out:“Mummacome,Papa come.” legedly sold by his Mumbai- bail, and approachedthe court The identities of the militants lievedtobeatopcommander.In conversation in whichstaff at a apologisedonFacebook,saying COVER-UP: CHINA ON But the storybehindthis basedbiological parentstoa along with the other “parents”. have notyet been disclosedbut case anyfamilyclaims thekilled privatehospital in Churu district his staffdid notintend to hurt COVID RESPONSE emotionalexchange is at the Delhi couple when he wasafew In November,theywereal- policesaid theyprobablybe- terrorists to be theirkith or kin, allegedly discussednot attend- anyreligious group. PAGE 12 heart of aMumbai Police caseof days oldin2016. Thecouple lowedbyBombayHigh Courtto longed to the Hizbul Mujahideen CONTINUEDONPAGE2 ing to Muslim patients, were CONTINUEDONPAGE2 alleged trafficking involving six raisedthe child till lastMay, CONTINUEDONPAGE2

PAGE 1 ANCHOR Footballer’s 73 days outsideMumbai airport: ‘Thought I’ddie’

It'sbeenovertwomonthsand suburban hotel. “Theyhave it would become his home for religion. Theyevengot me acell- SANDIPG Faizal hasn't reachedhome, but promisedtoput me on the first morethan two-and-a-half phone when mine got dam- NEWDELHI,JUNE7 he is already under the spotlight. flight home. Home is closer months.“NowIfeel it’s one of the aged,” says Muller. On reaching the Mumbai air- now,”hesays. mostbeautiful places Ihaveslept Being disconnected from his IN MID-MARCH,asRandyJuan port, Muller came to knowabout Muller remembers hisfirst at. The breeze,the stars, and the familyfor about 20 days without Muller,aGhanian footballer the ban on international flights, daywithlittle cash andnoplace friendlypeople,” he says. aphone was“traumatic”. “When playing Kerala’s popularseven- and found himself strandedout- to go.“Iwas wokenupbyapo- The onlytime he hadtoleave Ifinally called them, theywere a-sidecircuit, prepared to leave sidewithlittlemorethanRs1,000, liceman. He asked me to leave waswhen Cyclone Nisarga like, ‘wethought youweredead’. Thrissur forMumbai by train to hisonlysavingfromsixmonthsof the airport. But Icouldn’t return strucklastweek,and the CISF The joyIfelt in theirvoices re- take theflight home,heap- aCovid-curtailedseason. to Kerala because the trains were took him to oneoftheir cabins. energisedme. Itold myself I pearedtense. “Maybe,itwas the With help from Mumbai cancelled, Icouldn't go to ahotel By then, he had already would live to see them again, fear of travelling during the pan- Police, CISF and the airportau- because Ididn’t have money. I struckupconversations with po- even if Ihavetostarve,” he says. demic. We consoled him, saying thority,the 24-year-oldmade a waslike‘well, I’m gonna die licemen and CISF personnel. “We “But therewas always some- he would reachhome soon. He parkoutside the terminal his here’,” he says. usedtowatchHindi movies on one to give me food — roti,bis- said goodbye with the promise home for73days—untiltwo Muller took awalk around the the phone.Iusedtotellthem cuits, asoftdrink,”hesays.A of meeting next year and be- days ago, when Maharashtra airport andsettledintoa“neat MullerinaMumbai hotel stories of Ghana and my home- moredifficult partwas to wash coming famous,” recalls Faizal, MinisterAadityaThackeray,and and breezy corner”, somewhere (above); with teammates in town, whichisafewhours from his clothes. “I had to wear the the goalkeeper of Muller's club later the Ghana Embassy,inter- the policecould notspothim eas- Thrissur (firstrow,right) Accra. We endedupspending same clothes forweeks.Then I ORPC Kechery. venedand he wasmoved to a ily. Butlittledidhe knowthenthat hours talking politics,sportand CONTINUEDONPAGE2

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Delhiprepares for long haul: Military, were recentlyairlifted from The GT reportalso highlights Leasing &FinancialServices Another messagefromthe Ladakh about notjustdelayed that therewas ameeting be- Limited(IL&FS)fortheyearended sameindividualsaid,“Muslimptnt payments, but also lowerwages tweenEY(Ernst&Young) offi- March 2018.” ko dekhna hi band krwado(Stop diplomatic engagements to continue than what wasspecified in the cials and senior management of attending to Muslim patients all scheduledratechartofBRO,and IL&FS and ITNL on May28, 2018 Shopian together).” withholding of bank ATMcards in whichthe goingconcern mat- (they) cancome forwardfor the Someone else in the group re- India-China border regions is India wantsthe Chinesetogo the problemisbeing seen as a Ladakh winter.This will stretch by contractors. terwas discussed. identification,” police said in a sponded:“AgarHindupositivehote essential forthe overall devel- back--beforethecurrentround sign of their “intransigence” in the Army’s resources in atough In letters exchanged with “Ourreview of theauditreport statement. n,Muslimdrhotatohinduokokbhi opment of bilateral relations”. of tensions began. the Galwan area, sources said. economic environment – BRO, the Jharkhand government forFY2017-2018for ITNL,itwas Police officers said thatbased ni Dekhte. Me ni dekhungi Muslim “Both sides also notedthat The Indian delegation also The build-up in the Galwan ArmyChief General MM raisedserious concerns on the notedthatthere were no qualifi- on aninput aboutthe presenceof opd. Bol dena madam hheniyaha this year markedthe 70th an- gave details of patrolling limits area is worrying because it Naravane had told aseminar “plight” and “exploitation” of cationsornotes in the EoM para- militantsinthe area, acordon- (HadHindusbeenpositiveandthe niversaryofthe establishment in various areas, followedhith- threatens the255-kmDarbuk- lastmonth that the govern- labourers from the state. In fact, graphpertainingto goingconcern and-search operation was doctor wasMuslim, he would of diplomatic relations be- erto but nowbeing deniedby Shyok-Daulat Beg Oldie (DS- menthad already asked the Chief MinisterSoren had earlier issueraisedbythestatutoryaudi- launchedinReban area of neverhaveattendedtoHindus. I tween the twocountries and the Chinese, and sought their DBO) road and accesstofor- Armyfor a20per cent budget said it would be in the interestof tor(EY) in itsaudit observa- Shopian. While asearch wason, will notattend to Muslims in the agreedthat an early resolution restoration. ward posts near the cut –atatime when the Line labourers to take the govern- tions……Thus, it appears that militantsopened fire at thesecu- OutpatientDepartment.Tellthem would contributetothe further Akey issue in these talks Karakoram Pass. of Control (LoC) with Pakistan ment’s consent forworkoutside though the auditors were aware rityforces, triggeringagunbattle Madam is notin).” development of the relation- wasabout the Pangong Tso The Saturdaytalkslasted has become highlyactive and so that it could protect their about the going concern issues in around8.30 am. Police said an inquirywas ship,” the MEA said. area, wherethe Chinese have morethan six hours. militancy tooisrearing itshead rights. ITNL,for the FY 2017-2018,they openedfollowing thereceiptofa Sources said the discussions movedwestwardby8km, “Essentially, theconversation again in Kashmir. BRO’s commitment to di- accepted the explanation of the Trafficking case complaint, but no FIR had been between thetwo sideswas pitching tentsand deploying wasmorethanthree hours, Arelated challengefor the rectlyrecruit assumessignifi- thenKMPsof ITNL,andpotentially meetthe children at Bal Anand registeredyet. “frank”, and that South Block soldiers according to their “per- since constant translation Army, an official said, is to en- cances asmall percentageof didnotincludethesameintheau- everyday from noon to 4pm. “Two days ago, policecontrol had got asense of Beijing’s ception”ofthe LAC. Besides al- takestime,” sources said. sure thatthe PLAprovides no worker salaries wasactually ditor’sreport,” said Grant Theyalso filedfor legal adop- roomreceivedacomplaintabout “sensitivities” following the tering the status quo, this has The positive takeaway, moresurprises at other places takenby“mates”,who are Thornton in itsreport. tioninasessionscourtwhileape- screenshots being shared on so- talksSaturdayand avideocon- also meant that Indian patrols sources said, is that thetwo on the LAC. Thesefears stem themselveslabourers,but coor- Itisimportantto note thatjust tition to quash the police FIR is cialmedia of an alleged ference of diplomatsFriday. can no longer go up to the LAC, sides agreedtokeep talking — from the recent incidentsinar- dinatewith small groups of five days earlier on May21, 2018, pending before the High Court. WhatsApp group chat between “This will be along haul and as marked in Armymaps. possiblyatworking levels —to eas suchasGalwan, HotSpring labourers, on behalf of the BRO. Ravi Parthasarathy, then Chair- Butthelockdownhascompli- private hospital staffin small steps needtobetaken to The Indian side,sources address eachother’sconcerns. and Naku La wherethe two In letterstothe Jharkhand man,IL&FS had acknowledgedit cated the situation. Beforethe Sardarshahar whichare discrim- resolve thesituation,”sources said, raisedthe issue of the Afterthe meeting, the sides had agreedonthe LAC. It government, BROsaid“mates” wasunfeasibletosustain ITNL travel curbs, the Delhicouple, inatoryinnatureagainstapartic- said, indicating that talkswill high number of Chinese troops Armybriefed the Ministryof would mean committingasub- arecoordinatorsand ensure cash flowrequirementsmuch alongwiththeirteenageddaugh- ular religion. The timing of the continue at the Brigadier-level and the aggression shown. Defence,Ministry of External stantial number of troops and better command and control. longerinanemailto key manage- ter, had movedtoahotelin chatseemsto beduringtheCovid andthe field levelregularlyand While therewas acknowl- Affairs and the PMO. equipment to operational roles. Comparing “mates” with con- mentpersonsof theIL&FSGroup. Mumbai to be near the boy. lockdown,” Sub-Inspector at the levelofJoint Secretaries. edgement thataggressive be- Meanwhile, preparingfor Meanwhile, China’s Global tractors in this case will “notbe “Itmay notbefeasible to sus- “I leftmybusiness behind Ramesh Pannu of Sardarshahar At themeeting Saturday, haviour mustbedialleddown, the eventuality of astalemate, Times,atabloidwhich often appropriate”, it said. tain ITNL cash flowrequirements since our sonmeansthe worldto policestation said. wherethe team leaders were sourcessaidtheIndiansidecon- the Armyhas startedmaking echoes the views of the ruling When contacted,Jharkhand muchlonger,” Parthasarathy us.Wewent to meethim every “Thecomplaintsays themes- Lt General HarinderSingh, XIV veyedthatpatrolling mustnot plansforextendeddeployment CommunistParty of China, re- Chief SecretarySukhdevSingh wrotetoHariSankaran(thenvice- day. But as soon as the lockdown sages arecommunal in nature Corps Commander,and Major be stopped.The Chineseside inthehigh-altitudeterrain.After ported“largescale manoeu- told TheIndian Express,“Initially, chairman IL&FS), Ramesh Bawa, wasannounced,onMarch 23,we and discriminatory. We arecon- General Liu Lin, Commander of said theywilllookintoit, but thedelayedinitialresponsedue vre” by the PLAinwhichthou- therewas acontractual system Arun KSaha (Director on ITNL took aflight forDelhi.Ipetitioned ducting an inquiry, and so farno South Xinjiang Military theyalso pointed to the build- to the Covid-19pandemic,the sands of paratroopers and with no link between the BRO board), Ramchand Karunakaran the lowercourttogrant us cus- FIRhasbeenregistered.Thestate- District, the Indian side con- ing of Indian infrastructure. Armymoved alarge number of armoured vehicles can be de- and the labourers. Now, an (MD, ITNL) and VibhavKapoor tody of the child in theseextreme ment of aleaderofthe local veyed to the Chinese itscentral The Chinese build-up in the troops and heavy military ployed in “justafew hours”. agreement has been reached (IL&FS Group CIO). circumstances. We were allowed Muslim community has also point about restoration of sta- Galwan region is also at the equipmentintothearea,mirror- “Themobilizationoperation that theywillberecruited di- In the email that is partofthe to meet him through video con- been recorded,” he added. tus quoanteincertain areas of heartofthe standoff. Chinese ing the Chinese deployment. came at atimewhen Chinaand rectly.” GT forensicauditreport,hefurther ferencing for10minutes daily,” Pannusaidtheauthenticityof eastern Ladakhalongthe LAC. commanders and officials have The challengewith these India face anew waveoften- Basedonthe Hardness Index saidhehasdecidedtoformulatea theparenttoldTheIndianExpress. the screenshots, and the identi- Anofficialsaidthiswasdone insistedthatthere is "nothing plans forextendeddeploy- sions due to high altitude bor- of the area of work and the skill scheme of his ownand approach “The agency makesthe video ties of thosewho had circulated by sharing comprehensive de- unusual” aboutthe deploy- ment is to preparefor habitat derissues, as reports sayboth of the labourers, the payments banks withit. “Based on my sub- callintheevening.Hedoesn’tun- them,werebeing investigated. tails of Chinese deployments as ment on their side of the LAC. and logistics forsoldiersand sides have reinforced theirbor- will rangefromRs15,900- sequent discussions withMr derstand whyweare notvisiting Maqbool Khan, districtpresi- of April–andto whichlocations This refusal to acknowledge equipment during the harsh derdefences,” itsreport stated. 29,000 forLadakh with effect UdayanSen (former CEO of Del- him or whyhewas taken away.It dent of the Muslim Parishad from June 10.Itwillbeamarked oitteIndia) the best wayforward is traumatic.But if we don’t make SansthaninChuru,saidhehadre- increase from what labourers is to formulateascheme of our the call, it will appear that we portedthe matter to police. Sending money abroad: April marks 50-month low receivedearlier through ownand approach bankswith it. don’t carefor the child and that S-I Pannu said afew of the “mates”. Beforethat, it would be useful to willworsenourcaseto adopthim purportedmessagesonthegroup —$148.25millioninApril this recorded lesserdecline are— The Indian Express spoketo alsomeetwithRBIandkeepthem legally,”the parent said. were alleged to have been writ- year from $296.14 million last ‘deposit’ and ‘investment in eq- OUTWARDREMITTANCESUNDERLRS labourers, recruited through advised. Theredoes notappear The Mumbai Crime Branch tenbyDrBhagwati Choudhary, year.Substantial decline has uity/debt’.The amount of ‘mates’, and recently airlifted muchpoint in seeking their ap- says itbustedthetraffickingracket the wifeofDrSunilChoudhary. been recordedinmoneysent moneysent out of the country Apr2019 Apr2020 Change from Ladakh. proval, as theyhavejustgot rid of in Julylastyear,and is likely to file Whencontactedby TheIndian forpurchase of immovable forthe purpose of deposit just million$million$% ■ Pansal Marandi of Dumka, alltheirearlierdebtre-structuring achargesheetsoon. Officers sayit Express,DrBhagwati Choudhary propertyabroad; investment declinedby7.69%inApril 2020 Deposit 65.18 60.17 -7.69 currentlyintransit, said his schemes,” Parthasarathywrote. is acase of exploitation since all said,“Itisnottruethatwe refused in equity/debt;deposit;gift; compared to thesamemonth salaryisRs10,000 per month. An IL&FSspokesperson de- the children aremale andfrom treatment to Muslims.” medical treatment;and other lastyear.Similarly,‘deposit’ Purchaseofimmovableproperty 8.47 3.21 -62.13 “‘Mate’ has my ATMand he will clinedtocomment. poorfamiliesinMumbai. Asked if shehad written the categoriesduringApril 2020. and ‘investment in Investmentinequity/debt 35.38 24.80 -29.91 give me moneyonce Iamback When contacted,SRBC &Co Accordingtopolice, at least messages in the purported The onlyexception is “dona- equity/debt’ has recordedade- Gift 166.59 55.15 -66.89 in Jharkhand. Icame to know LLP said, “SRBC &CoLLP wasap- nineintermediaries were in- screenshots that were being at- tions” whichcontributeaneg- cline of 29.91%. from other sources that my ac- pointedasajointauditorforIL&FS volved in the racket,including tributed to her,DrBhagwati ligible amount to the total out- Resident Indians have re- Donations 0.54 2.68 395.19 tual salaryisRs16,000,but I Transportation Networks Ltd nurses from hospitals in poor ar- Choudharysaid, “I don't know... I flows. mitted arecord $18.75billion Travels 429.75 121.13 -71.81 don’t getthatamount.” (‘ITNL’) in February2017. Accor- eas, surrogate mothersand em- have notdone this.” While the category“Gift” under LRS in the financial year Maintenanceofcloserelatives 296.14 148.25 -49.94 ■ RajKishoreMarandi of dingly, we audited ITNL as joint ployees at IVF centres. Theyhave Dr Sunil Choudhary told The has recordeda66% declinein endedMarch 31,2020. Dumka said his salaryfor the auditor forthe year ended March alsoarrestedthealleged“master- Indian Express that the screen- outwardremittances, “medical Despitethe outflows reach- Medicaltreatment 2.49 1.35 -45.85 lastfivemonthswas pending. 31,2017andcontinuedasthesole mind”whohasbeenidentifiedas shots were old. treatment” has seen adecline ing arecord levelduring lastfi- Studiesabroad 252.84 78.76 -68.85 “The matehad kept the ATM auditor forthe year ended March PawanSharma, aDelhi resident. “I have apologisedonsocial of 45.85% in April 2020. But the nancial year,March,2020 saw Others** 30.53 3.66 -88.02 withhimself and says he will 31,2018. In respectofthe audit of Sharma,the sixcouples who media.Thechatisfrommid-April amount remitted formedical adip —$1,358.82 million — paythe moneyinsometime. I the consolidated financial state- “bought”thechildren,andthein- when Covid cases related to the treatment purposes is negligi- against $1,476.82 million in the Total 1,287.91 499.14 -61.2 don’t knowhow muchIget in ments, we performedour duties termediaries areout on bail. Tablighi Jamaat were coming. ble. Twocategories, which corresponding monthof2019. my account,” he said. in accordance with SA 600‘Using Therewereseveral cases in our ■ Sanatan BesraofJamtara theWork of AnotherAuditor’and Rajasthan area... As youcan see, someone said he receive Rs 9,000 per the Guidance Note on Audit of One of the participantsinthe has written this and thereisno HisteammatesinThrissurin- itself is the biggestsouvenir.God port, driving licence, Income-Tax ernment hospitals should be re- month: “I waspaidaround Rs Consolidated Financial State- purportedchat wasallegedly Dr doubt aboutit, but if yousee the sistitwas Muller’s “friendlyna- willing, Iwill returntoKerala.” return filedorassessment order, served onlyfor peopleofDelhi. 50,000 afterIreturned. But the mentsissuedbythe Instituteof Choudhary'swife,whoisadoctor number of Muslim patientswe ture” that got him through. “He latestwater,power, gas, tele- Centre-run ones will be open to ATMremains with the ‘Mate’. CharteredAccountantsofIndia herself, police said. Dr (Mrs) attend to on aregular basis, you would keep talking about his Delhi hospitals phone bills forthat address ei- all.Evenprivate hospitals will He kept aportion with himself (ICAI). Our limited reviewreport Choudharydenied this. willseethatthegroundrealityhas country, football,dreams,love.He “It has been observed that ther in the name of thepatient have to reservebedsfor Delhi and gave me the remaining forthe June 2018 quarterfor ITNL “Kalmememuslimptnt ka x- no relation with what has been waslikeayounger brother to all therehas been asurge in the or that of his/herimmediatere- residents. However, afew hos- amount in cash.” includedanemphasis of matter raynikrunga. Yahmeri sapat hai said in the chat. of us,”says Faizal. number of positivecases...inthe lation“likeparentsetc”, andthe pitals wherespecial surgeries ■ Soilen Soreng of West on the ability of the Companyto (Fromtomorrow, Iwill notdoX- “Evenduring thattime of The football season wasn’t lastfew days in Delhi, resulting postaldepartment’s postre- areundertakeninthe field of Singhbhum area said he has not continue as agoing concern.This rays of Muslimpatients.Thisismy widespread fear,Iwas providing productive forMuller,though.A in additional demand of hospi- ceivedinthe patient’s name at neuro, oncology, and transplan- been paid forthe lasteight 24-hour healthcarefacilities to sharp-shooting centreforward, talbeds, consumablesand infra- the givenaddress. tation will cater to everyone,” months. “I usedtoget Rs 10,000 everyone.We have neverdiscrim- butafirst-timerto Sevens,hehad structure. In case of minors, thesedoc- the chief ministersaid. per monthwhich the “mate” inated againstanyone on the ba- to bidehistimeto getaconsistent “...It is herebyordered that all umentsinname of parents, or Thereare 38 health facilities, told me will be givenafter some sis of theirreligionorcaste.Ihave run.And whenhedid, the lock- the hospitals operating under Aadhaar cardmade prior to June including AYUSH hospitals, un- time. He has my ATM.” alsospokenwiththecommunity down happened. Government of NCTofDelhi and 7, 2020, will be considered valid. der the Delhi government, with In alettertothe BRO, members who made the com- In Sevens, rookiesusually get alltheprivate hospitals&nursing The decision, aimedat“strik- acombinedbed capacity of Principal SecretaryLabour plaint. The issueshouldn’t be an initial feeintherangeofRs homes shall ensurethat only ing abalance”, wasbasedonin- around 11,000. RajeevArun Ekka said the or- EXPERSSEDUCATION politicisedanddoctorsshouldnot 30,000 to Rs 50,000,followedby bonafideresidentsofNCTof Delhi putsreceivedfromthe people, As of Sunday, 2,915 of the to- ganisation’s claim that it directly bepunishedwithoutany reason.” matchfees.“In big tournaments, areadmitted fortreatment in as well an expertcommittee tal4,176 bedsinthe four dedi- engaged with workers “sur- In his Facebook post, Dr youget Rs 1,500for agame.In these hospitals. However, trans- headedbythe vice-chancellor of cated Covid-19 hospitals under prisedhim”. “They (labourers) ChoudharywroteinHindithat othertournaments,you getany- plantation,oncology,neurosurg- Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha the Delhi government were va- have returnedhomewith bitter neitherhenoranymemberof his thing from Rs 500toRs800... But erieswillcontinueto functionfor University,DrMahesh Verma, cant, records showed. memories and experiences. staffhas any intention of hurting it’s better moneythanwhatyou all patients, irrespective of the Kejriwal said. The five Centre-run Covid- Government of Jharkhand is anyreligious community. getbackhome,wherethelevelof place of residence. However, Ninety per cent of the 7.5 19 facilities in the national cap- deeplyconcernedatthe plight “Despite that, people felt bad, competitionissohighthatit’sdif- treatment relating to oncology, lakh respondentstothe govern- ital were facing greater patient of theselabourers…It is also andforthis,Iandmy entirehospi- ficultto breakintothetopleague,” transplantation, neurosurgery ment'sinvitation forsuggestions pressure, the records showed, surprising that these workers talstaff apologise. We assureyou he says. shall continue forall patients, ir- had expressedthemselvesin with only174 of the total1,502 were notreceiving appropriate thatinthefutureourhospitalwill Andthat'swhyMullerheaded respective of the place of resi- favour of reserving bedsfor bedsavailable. paymentsthrough bank ac- notgiveyou anyreason to com- to the seven-a-side belt of dence.Alsoanymedico-legalvic- Delhiites, he said. Of the 150ICU and ventila- countsand cheques as per plain,” he wrote. Malappuram, Kozhikode, Thri- tims of road accidents,acid “The five-member [Dr torbedsinDelhi government wagesfixed in the scheduled ssur and Palakkad, likeseveral attacks happening within NCTof Verma] committee assessedthe hospitals, 94 were available; in rate chartofBRO,” Ekka wrote. Ghana footballer from his countryand other Delhiwillcontinueforallpatients, situation and found thatbythe Centre-run hospitals, 108such When contacted,BRO’s would put them out in the sun African nations suchasIvory irrespective of placeof residence,” end of June,Delhi will require bedswereavailable. public relation officer Lt Col DA and spray someperfume so that Coast, Nigeria and Senegal. the order said. around 15,000 bedstotreat co- On May18, Kejriwal had said Johnson said,hewas notaware they don’t stink,” he says. Now, despitethe ordeal, he Documentsthat will be rona patients. Thereare around Delhi wasprepared to tackle up of the development. “I cannot Contact forAdvt. Booking: M/sFriends Publicity Service Eventually,loneliness hit. says hewilltake asliceof Mumbai treated as valid proof of resi- 10,000 bedseachinDelhi gov- to 50,000active cases of coron- comment as Ihaveno “Same routine, faces, surround- and Kerala backhome. “I don’t dence include the patient’s voter ernment- and Centre-run hos- avirus infection. Delhihas had information.” 23276901, 23282028 (M): 9212008155, 9212665841. ings... It nearly drovememad,” have themoneytobuyasouvenir ID, bank/kisan/post office cur- pitals. The [Delhi] Cabinethas 28,936 cases so far, of which FULLREPORTSON he says. or gift,but Ithink this experience rent passbook,rationcard, pass- decidedthat bedsinDelhi gov- 17,125 areactive. www.indianexpress.com

New Delhi WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM 3 THEINDIANEXPRESS,MONDAY,JUNE8,2020 THE OUTBREAK THE CITY UNLOCKIMalNGls,DELHIrestaurantsopenbutpleasemindthegap From capacity to At Khan Market, 2 timing, eateries outlets shut shop

Full Circle is notthe firstbusi- stareatchallenges POOJAPILLAI ness to have been forced outof NEWDELHI,JUNE7 Khan Market due to thecurrent crisis.Inmid-May, pan-Asian POOJAPILLAI INRESTAURANTS THE BELOVED cityhangout, Full restaurant Sidewok, which NEWDELHI,JUNE7 Circle Bookshop and CafeTurtle openedin2006, also closedfor ANDMALLS in Khan Market,downedits good,althoughitremainsopenfor “INCLUDINGOUR supportstaff, shutters forthe final time on delivery in itsotherlocations in ■Facemasksmandatory we usuallyhaveabout 40 people Sundayasitbecameanother ca- Malcha Marg, GK 1and Gurgaon. to runthis restaurant.Now, there ■ Handsanitisersand sualty of the Covid-19pandemic. “Thiswasourlongest operational are10ofusdoing everything — thermalscanningat Owner Priyanka Malhotra outlet, but we hadtoscaledown cleaning, washing, maintaining entrances told The Indian Express that it had seeing the current marketsitua- standards,” says Jatin Mallick,chef ■ Restaurantstooperateat becomefinanciallyunsustainable tion,”saidownerRajneeshMalik. and co-owner of the modern 50%ofseatingcapacity to run the business in Khan Stating that the Khan Market European restaurant Tres in Lodhi ■ Children’splayareas, Marketwhichhad closed when location has a“high rental value”, Colony. “Evenif theDelhigovern- theatres,gamingarcades the national lockdown wasan- Malik said the outletwas closed ment does allowustoopen,I’m toremainshut nouncedonMarch 24.“We sim- mainly because it would have unsureifwewill as I’m notsureit plycan’taffordthe rent hereany- been impossible to keep up with ■ Symptomaticpeopletobe wouldbeviableforus.Our staffis takentoisolationcentreand more,” she said. the “high footfall” whileimple- stuckindifferent states,supplyof localauthoritiestobe Sanitisationstaff at work in Smart Bharat Mall in Noida Sunday. GajendraYadav Despitecompetition from menting the newprotocol as produce is disruptedand prices contacted other bookstores —including mandated by the government. have shot up.Conditions have be- Bahrisons and Faqir Chand and SanjivMehra,president, Khan come so uncertain.” Sons —Full Circle retaineditspop- Market Traders’ Association,said If awaveofrelief swept about howcurfew timings will Aarogya Setu app, sanitisation mats as ularity,thankstoits variedcollec- thesenew developmentsreflect through the hospitality industry affect business. Mostsay closing tion and itscafe. “Mostlandlords challengesthatotherrestaurants on May30, with theannounce- business at 9pmisunrealistic as have been understanding, offer- in the location, and elsewhere, ment that restaurantsmay be al- theytypically generate most of ingwaiversduring thelockdown have been facing since the lock- lowedtooperate starting June 8, their income during dinner serv- capital malls open after two months andagreeingtorenegotiaterent down.“The newsocialdistancing it wasquicklyundercut by ice, the bulk of whichisbetween postlockdown... Unfortunately, guidelinesaredifficult forrestau- doubtsthat have onlygrown 9pmand midnight. “Wedon’t said, “Wewill be looking atre- kiosks; matswith sanitising liq- the mall and made to sittheretill despiteour best efforts, we were rantstoimplement,”Mehrasaid, louder with eachpassing day. getthe same footfall forlunch. In ANANYATIWARI& openingour malls between 11 uid will ensurethatthe soles of district authorities direct them to notabletoget anyleewayfrom referringto theSOP onpreventive The Delhi government Sunday the winter,you can still have ASHNABUTANI amand8pminthe coming week visitors’ shoes aresanitised; and take action or till help arrives. our landlord,” said Malhotra. measures releasedbythe Health said restaurantscan reopen. brunchand expectsomerev- NEWDELHI,JUNE7 as per curfew hours setbythe thermalscannersandhand sani- At Select Citywalk,not more CafeTurtle will continue to MinistryonJune4for restaurants “While the(Centre’s)guide- enue to be generated.But in the government so that consumers tisers will beplacedatentrances. than four people will be allowed operateits outlets in Greater asthey beginto open up Monday. lines areawelcome move as that summer,it’sonlydinner... And AFTERBEING shutfor over two feel safetocome in during that Masks aremandatory at in aliftand athree-stepgap is to Kailash 1and Nizamuddin East. Among other measures, the givesclarity foroperations, imple- fora9pm curfew,we’llactually months, shopping malls in the time. Temperature checks and malls at all times. The premises be maintainedbetween visitors “Our landlords in both places SOPrecommends “physical dis- mentation is another story,”says have to shut the outletby8pm, cityare gearing up to reopen on the use of AarogyaSetuApp will will also be sanitisedand fogged on escalators.The mall said that agreedtorenegotiatethe terms tancing of at least6feet to befol- VinayakArora,chef and partner so staffcan gethome on time,” Monday, with anew setofstan- be made mandatoryfor con- by athin sanitisation liquid mist number of people using the forthe future,” said Malhotra. lowedasfar as feasible”. Mehra at the gastropub BeepinDelhi. says JoySingh, co-partner at Yeti dardoperatingprocedures asper sumers to enter.” on adailybasis.Asper the guide- washroomswill also berestricted Khan Marketisthe priciest said, “Howwill families follow “Starting with 50 per cent capac- and Raasta,bothlocated in Delhi. guidelines issuedbyCentreand The group also plans to pro- lines giventorestaurants, they to ensure no crowding. “Visitors commercial real estate property these measuresinrestaurants? ity,socialdistancing,temperature “I wish the government had had the stategovernment. vide real-time foot traffic, notifi- shouldoperateat50% of their to- areadvised to have theAarogya in India. As per Cushman and Restaurantsare going to have a screening and sanitisationseems adiscussion with stakeholders, DLF shoppingmalls,whichin- cationsonsafetyandcleanliness, talcapacity. Children’s playareas, Setu app,” said the spokesperson. Wakefield’s annual report on the tough time implementing them.” to beworkable as of nowbut with justliketheydid with schools cludes malls suchasDLF booking of time slots,golden game arcades and theatresare to Temperatureinmalls will be world’s mostexpensive shop- Malhotra said Full Circle will the curfew andage limitations in and the airline industry.” PromenadeandEmporioin Delhi hours to visit malls via an app — remain closeduntilfurtheror- maintainedaround24-30 de- ping streets, in 2019,Khan nowopen in anew space in place, businesswillnot be close ShyamThakur, founderof and MallofIndiainNoida, said Lukout —that it is developing. ders from the Centre. grees Celsiusand morefresh air Market wasthe 20thmostex- Meherchand Market:“It will just to what is expected.Another grey NCRchain MomoKing, echoes theywilladhere to the guidelines. At DLFPromenade,Siddharth If aperson is found sympto- than usual willbepumpedin. pensive in the world, with an- bethe bookstore at first. We don’t area is wearing masks, since din- the sentiment:“We were excited Pushpa Bector,Executive Natu, AVPand Center Head, said matic, theywillbetaken to aniso- “Humidity levels will bekept 40- nual rentsaveraging at USD 243 want to open the cafeuntil the ing customers willhavetore- to startoperations of ourdine-in Director,DLF Shopping Malls, cars will pass through sanitising lationroom30-40feet away from 70%,” addedNatu. per sq ft. newrules areclear.” move them forthe majority of restaurants, but withsuchtight time spent in the restaurant.” guidelines it seems difficult to Thomas Fenn, co-founder of open and operateonadailyba- Delhi restaurant Mahabelly, says sis.Wehavesufferedfinancially, Delhi govt lifts liquor the industryissplit in two and with restricted SOPs,wedo schools of thoughtregardingthe notwant to bear theadditional reopening. “The division is from cost when our peak dinner time Covid cess but VAT up aviability standpoint. It isn’t pru- will have zerooccupancy.Weare dent to wait for‘perfect business happytofulfill take-awayand de- conditions’ before restaurants livery orders.” EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE restart,” Fenn says,adding, “We Thereare also concernsabout NEWDELHI,JUNE7 have to startsomewhere with implementation of social distanc- strong systems in place and ingguidelines.“Theintention be- THE PRICE of liquor is setto move in thedirectionofrebuild- hind mandating only50per cent come down in the city with the ing customer confidence, which capacityand at least6feet of dis- Delhi government deciding to canonlyhappen with time.” tance betweentablesis good, but withdraw thespecialcorona fee One of the main questions to the measures areimpractical,” imposedonalcohol brands from be resolvedisofrent, which says Anurag Katriar,president of June 10.Till June 6, the govern- forms the biggestexpensefor the National Restaurant ment earnedaround Rs 209 mostrestaurants. “Whenthe Association of India. crorethrough the fee. government had enforcedthe “Perhapswhat the govern- The decision to do away with Liquor is among the largest lockdown, we couldtry convinc- ment shouldmakeclear is that the fee—fixed at 70%ofMRP of sources of revenue in Delhi inglandlordsthatitwas unfea- twounrelatedpeopleontwo dif- everyalcohol brand—wastaken sible forustopay rent when we ferent tables should notcomein at aCabinetmeeting Saturday. were shut, using the ‘force ma- contact with eachother.That The feewas imposedonMay 5. Liquor is among the largest jeure’ clause in our leases. Now would be abetterway of ensur- However, the Cabinetalso sources of revenue in Delhi. In thatthe Centrehas removedthat ing social distancing, than man- decided to increase the VAT the annual budget for2020-21, restriction, and restaurantscan dating 6feetbetween tables, “from20% to 25% leviedonall the government had projected technicallybecome operational, sincefor manyrestaurants, space categories of liquor sold in the arevenue of Rs 6,279 crore— we losethat leverage,” says Fenn. crunchisahugeissue.” jurisdiction of NCTofDelhi”. As 14%oftotal revenue projections “Landlords and developers need The industryhas also aired aresult, the price of liquor will —fromstate excise. to recognise that arestaurant’s apprehensions about the fact remain alittle above the pre- “Between May4—when viabilityand flexibility to that bars have been told to re- May5level. liquorshops startedopening — weather this stormisdirectly main shut and restaurantsare to The decisiontowithdraw and June 6, liquorworth Rs 304 correlated to howtheyhandle serveonlyfood andnoalcohol. the feewas takenbasedonin- crorewas sold.The corona fee commercialarrangementsof “If dinner service is what gener- puts of the Excise Department came intoeffect on May5.So, rent. It is the needofthe hour ates most of our revenue, then a that retaining it mayencourage excluding theMay 4sales, the that theyturnupaspartners and hugecontributor to that is the smuggling of liquor from neigh- total amount rakedinascorona getskin in the game. The only revenue from sale of alcohol. bouring Haryana and Uttar feecomes to around Rs 209.3 wayout of this mess is together.” That’s abig loss formanyofus,” Pradesh, effectively leading to crore,” said asenior excise de- Restaurantsare also worried says Fenn. losses to the exchequer. partment official. Family buries the wrongbody after mix-up at LokNayakmortuary

themortuary on Thursday was afterhis blood pressurefell con- SHIVAMPATEL difficult to identify,but the doc- siderably andhediedashospital NEWDELHI,JUNE7 ument giventothe familyalong staffwereconductinganECG with ithad correct details. test:“My brother’s wifesuffered KALAMUDDIN BURIEDhis fa- While Kalamuddin could not acardiacarrestand diedwhen ther twice.The firsttime, it was be reachedfor acomment,his we told her about his death.” abodythathethought belonged wifesaid, “The body that my His brother wasfoundCovid to hisfather andthe secondtime, husband sawhad aswollen face positivewhen the resultscame it wasinfact hisfather.Inacase and bloodstains, whichmadeit in twodays later. On June 5, Aijaz of mistakenidentity,two bodies hardtoascertain if it wasmyfa- went to themortuarytocollect were mixed up at the mortuary ther-in-law. Hospital staffsaid the body.“The hospitalgavethe at Lok Nayak Hospital as they this wascausedwhen theyre- wrong report, showedthe had the same name: Moinuddin. Will ensuresuchincidents movedthe dialysis pipe. My wrong body.The reportsaid Onewas of Kalamuddin’s fa- don’t happenagain: Hospital husband had his doubts, but the Moinuddin, son of Rahimuddin, ther and the other wasofAijaz report giventohim had the cor- about 70 years old, while my Uddin’s elder brother.Anofficial rect addressand name, so he be- brother is the son of Amiruddin, at Lok Nayak Hospital said, “It is mortuarybeforefinding out that lievedthem.” aged 50,” said Aijaz. sometimes difficult to identify the his brotherhad already been Kalamuddin’s father hadbeen On Sunday, when he learnt body because people areoften buriedaday earlier at aburial undergoing dialysis at ahospital the bodyhad already been anxiousinamortuaryand after ground at Delhi Gate, by another near Patparganj, wherethe fam- buried,Aijaz said, “It wasnouse death, the face lacksexpression, family. “Wecalledthepersonwho ilylives.Hewas referred to Lok to extract the bodyagain... It was whichalso makes it difficult. We hadtakenthebodyandaskedhim Nayakfor aCovid test on June 4 buriedfollowing allrituals... will makeeffortstoensuresuch to sendapictureoftheface.Itwas and diedthat night from kidney Police and hospital staffwere incidentsdonot happen again.” clearly my brother,” said Aijaz. failure, Kalamuddin’s wifesaid. blaming the otherperson On Sunday, Aijazsaidhehad The mix up happenedasthe Aijaz said his brotherwas (Kalamuddin)for wrongidentifi- seen around 250 bodies at the body shown to Kalamuddin at brought to thehospital on June 2 cation, but the hospital is at fault.”

New Delhi WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM 4 THECITY THEINDIANEXPRESS,MONDAY,JUNE8,2020 FIR filed against 1,282 FRESHCOVID CASES, 51 CASUALTIES ADDED ON SUNDAY BRIEFLY Nizamuddin Medanta MD, 14 Panelhead:Doublingratesuggests Bastidesealed

NewDelhi: Scalingdown others, Trehan operations beganon 1lakhcasesinDelhibyJune-end SundayinNizamuddin Basti, whichwas de- rejects charges clared acontainment casesneedICU/ventilators.Theop- the government, but thefinal de- recoveryrate stoodat38%.Thena- zone on March 30. Close that he has had an FIR forextor- ASTHASAXENA& tion we have is to convert more cisionlieswiththem,”saidVerma. tional recovery rate is 48.3%. to 3,000members of the SAKSHIDAYAL& tion registeredagainsthim.” MALLICAJOSHI hospitals in DelhiintoCovid-only As the number of cases rise, Officialssaid theratehas Tablighi Jamaat, who had VARINDERBHATIA In his complaint, Sharmaal- NEWDELHI,JUNE7 hospitals,” said Verma the city’s recovery rate —the rate droppedasthe burden of cases gathered at theMarkaz GURGAON,CHANDIGARH, leged that when peoplewerere- As of now, thereare 8,280 at whichpatientsare recovering has morethan doubledoverthe in the area, were evacu- JUNE7 movedfromtheir ancestralland DELHI’SDOUBLINGrateindicates Covid bedsinhospitalsinDelhi, —has come down by almost10 past twoweeks. “Manypatients ated by the government in Sector 38 in 2004,the Haryana that the city could record around and the demand willgoupto percentagepointsoverthe past take closeto twoweekstorecover. aftermanydisplayed AN FIR has been lodgedagainst government had advertisedfor 1lakh Covid cases by the end of 15,000 bedsbythe endofthis twoweeks. On Sunday, the city Thosewhoareseriousmighttake Covid symptoms. the chairman and managing di- a‘Medicity Project’, envisaged as the month, said Dr Mahesh month, the panel had told the saw1,282freshCovidcases,while longer. We have seen an average Passing the order,District rector of MedantaHospital, his “having super specialty hospital Verma, head of the five-member Delhi government. Of these 51 more casualtieswere addedto of over 1,200cases everyday for Magistrate, South East organisation, GlobalHealthPvt of international standard, aca- committee appointed by the 15,000beds, almost5%wouldbe thelistbythehealthdepartment, the pastweekorso.These people Delhi, said: “Nonew case Ltd, and 14 others, including var- demic medical institutions... to Delhi government. required in the ICU. taking the death toll to 812. Of willtaketimetorecover.Ifthe has been reportedfrom iousHaryana governmentoffi- provide state-of-the-artmedical “Thetrend we arelooking at Thecommitteealsosuggested At GTBHospital. Praveen Khanna these51deaths,21occurredon surge in the number of cases the area since 28 days.” cials, forallegedly indulging in facilitiesatone place along with suggests thatthecasesaregetting ways to augmentthecity’shealth Thursdayand12 onFriday. Figures slows,weshouldseetherecovery moneylaunderingand corrup- ancillary... facilities in the form of doubledin14-15days.Thereare infrastructure. “Adding justabed forSaturdayand Sundayare rate rising again by next week,” tion in setting up the hospital as shopping mall,yatri niwas etc." fourepicentresinIndia—Chennai, willnot serveany purpose. Even thatpatientsintherecoveryphase awaited.Total casesrecordedso said asenior governmentofficial. Babyrun well as itsoperations. Dr Naresh The 53 acresearmarked for Ahmedabad, Mumbai and Delhi. if the bedsare placedinthe stadi- beshiftedto hotels attachedwith farare 28,936. Meanwhile, Gurgaon overbycar Trehan, chairman and MD, de- thesame,thecomplainantstated, If we followthe trendthen by the umsoranyotherplace,itisimpor- the hospitals. “Patients withmild Twoweeks ago, on May24, recordedthe highest spike in niedthe claims. wastobesplitinto“five sites of endofthismonth, therewillbe tantto have oxygenconcentrators. symptoms don’t needhospitali- casesinDelhistoodat13,418,and cases so faronSunday, with230 NewDelhi: A10-month- Officials said the FIR was variedsizesfordifferentallottees”. around 1lakh cases. We willre- Thegovernmenthasalreadypur- sation. Also, Covid patientswho the recovery rate was48.7%, morepeople testing positive.The old babywas allegedly lodged Saturday,following di- Termsandconditionsfortheproj- quire15,000 bedsbythe end of chased2,500portable oxygen areinthe recovery phasecan be amongthebest inthecountry. On districtnow has 1,922cases, of moweddownbythe rections of Additional Sessions ect, the complainant further June.Ofthetotalcases,20-25%will concentrators,”headded. shiftedtohotels forfurther treat- Sunday, whentotal cases more whom 451haverecoveredand driverofaMercedes Judge Ashwani Kumar,under IPC claims, includedthat the allottee requirehospitalisation and 5% Thecommitteealsosuggested ment. We have suggestedthis to thandoubledovertwo weeks,the four have died. Benz at aresidential sectionsrelated to criminal con- would complete construction of complexinWestDelhi's spiracy,breachoftrust, and for- “at least 25%”ofthe project built- Tilak NagaronSunday. gery,sectionsofthe Prevention up area and start facilityofhospi- Police have arrested the of MoneyLaunderingAct, 2002 tal“withintwo yearsfromdateof Oppn slams govt decision NE Delhi riots: Cops driver. Deepak Purohit, and Prevention of Corruption offerofpossession”,andcomplete DCP (West), said the girl Act, 1988. The matter wastaken it “in all respects” in five years. wasplaying when the to courtbyGurgaon-basedRTI The complainant accusedthe to reservebedsfor Delhiites filechargesheet in driverhit herwhile re- activistRaman Sharma. government officials of “causing versing the car in the ASJ Kumar had directed,“In pecuniaryadvantage”to theother parkingarea. The baby viewofthe factsincorporated in accusedand“immenselosstothe 85-yr-old’s murder wasdeclared dead on ar- the complaint, coupledwith vo- state”; abusing theirposition “by EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE rivalathospital. luminous documentsenclosed... criminalmisconduct and influ- NEWDELHI,JUNE7 The chargesheetwas filedat this courtfindsthat without ence”;andallottingtheentiresite EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE 3pmSundaybeforethe Chief Fourdeadin properinvestigation, justice can- to DrTrehan“withoutanyconsid- THE BJP and Congress Sunday NEWDELHI,JUNE7 Metropolitan Magistrateof notbedone in this case forwhich erationof financialcapability...re- calledthe AAP government’s de- Karkardooma court. As per a caraccident lodging FIR is prerequisite. advertisementandcallingfornew cision to reserve bedsinDelhi THE DELHI Police has fileda statement shared by Additional Hence,the present complaintis applications with respect to hospitals forDelhiites “insensi- chargesheetagainstsix menin PROAnil Mittal, “Videos that Noida: Four personsin sent to policestation Sadar, changed terms and offer... with- tive”and aimedatdivertingat- connection with the murder of were viralonsocialmedia were their late20s diedand Gurgaon, forlodging FIR...” outsanction of the Hon’bleHigh tention from its“failures” to an elderly woman, whose procured and takenonrecord. one wasinjured aftera Inspector Naveen Kumar, Court forsucharevisedscheme”. tackle the pandemic. charredbody wasfoundinside Severalmobile phones by which speeding WagonRfell SHO of Sadar police station, said: “The green belt wasremoved Newly-appointed stateBJP Delhi BJP president Adesh Gupta (left) at aproteston her home in NortheastDelhi, the video wasrecorded were into aditchinGreater “Wereceiveddirections from the and bundh area includedto president Adesh Gupta said any Sunday. StateCongresschief Anil Chaudhary calledthe duringthe riots in February, of- tracedand seized duringthe in- Noida on Sunday. Police courttolodgeanFIR.Ithas been cause allotment of contiguous person, whether from Delhi or government’s move a‘diversionary tactic’ . Prem Nath Pandey ficialsonSunday. vestigation.” said the driverlostcon- registeredagainstGlobalHealth 43 acres of institutional land at outside, should be allowedtreat- The 85-year-old woman, “In the present incident, ari- trol allegedlydue to over- Pvt Ltd, whichhas developedthe undervaluedrates to theac- ment in city hospitals. “This de- Akbari Begum, diedonFebruary otous mob attackedand seton speeding. “Further probe hospital, and others.” cused,” alleges the complainant. cisionisinsensitive.Theyare try- should makeitclear if his gov- bad shape. What kind of health 25 when amob attackedher fire thehouse of thedeceased. is on,” said Harish Stating that the allegations in He also alleged that theal- ing to divert attention from... the ernmentwill denytreatmentto infrastructurehas the Delhi gov- house in Bhajanpuraand setthe While other members of the Chandar,DCP,Zone3. the complaint are“completely lotment hid actsofomission collapsing healthcaresystem.” alarge number of people from ernment createdinthe lastthree place on fire.The six accused, familyclimbed to the rooftop, false, baselessand motivated”, and commission by the govern- Gupta wasdetained by police at other states, especiallyfromUP months? Unless theyare pre- Arun Kumar (26),VarunKumar the deceased, due to her old age, Dr Trehan said: “This complaint ment officials, leaving “crucial Rajghat forholding aprotest andBihar,who live in Delhi but pared to improveinfrastructure, (22), Vishal Singh (29),Ravi could notreachthe rooftopand JNUreports has been filedbyaperson who parameters likedecision on againstthe AAPgovernment and do nothaveany ID or address Idon’t think theyhaveany right Kumar (24), Prakash Chand (36) subsequentlydieddue to suffo- 1stCovidcase claims to be an RTIactivist. But it service lanes at the mercy of the takentoRajenderNagar police proof,” he said. to open markets,malls, even and Suraj Singh(28), were ar- cation (asphyxia),”said policein has been reportedinthe press accused”. station. He waslet go later. SeniorCongress spokesper- schools.” rested by theCrime Branchand the chargesheet. NewDelhi: Apharmacist Delhi Congress president sonAjayMaken said, “Covid pos- BJP MP Manoj Tiwari asked areinjudicial custody.Theyhave Firefighters, along with local workingat theJawaharlal AnilChaudharyalleged it wasa itivity rate in Delhi is among the whyanyonefromother states been booked under sections of police, rescuedthe other mem- NehruUniversity’s health SALUTE THE SOLDIER “diversionarytactic” to shiftthe highestinthe countryand recov- would want to come to Delhi rioting, murder,attempt to mur- bers of the family. Begum’s body centrehastestedpositive focus from shortage of beds for eryrateamong the lowest.Thisis when the capital’s health infra- der,dacoity,house trespass and wasrecoveredfromthe second forCovid-19, making it MartyrsofCISF on 08th June Covid patients. “Arvind Kejriwal because Delhi hospitals arein structurehas deteriorated. mischief by fire,said police. floorofthe house. the firstcase of coron- avirus reportedfromthe university campus. ENS

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Bengaluru’s trafficisnot back to itsusual, infamous levels, but With masksfor protection,youths enjoyagame in normalcy is slowly returning. At MG Road on Sunday. JithendraM Ahmedabad’sOld CityonSunday. JavedRaja NOIDA:6:55PM LUDHIANA:8:45PM

Mumbaikars makethe most of apleasantweekendatMarineDrive —under thewatchful eyeofpolice. People have With achunk of the summer—and hismajor earnings —gone, thronged the 3.6-km promenade afterprohibitory orderswereliftedbythe Maharashtra governmentonJune5, Behind schedule due to the lockdown,Mahesh and Rambilas RamKumar (18) lookstomakeupfor lost time. GajendraYadav allowing individual physical activitieslikewalking and jogging. Ganesh Shirsekar work overtime at aconstructionsiteinLudhiana. GurmeetSingh

SOME ADOPT WAIT-AND-WATCH APPROACH Claims that Covid Mumbaiofficestoreopentoday,withcurbs strategy excluded J&K: Markets experts baseless: Govt EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE Kerala: Govt offices MUMBAI,JUNE7 to open in statement issuedbythe Ministry ABANTIKAGHOSH of Health and FamilyWelfare. PRIVATEOFFICES in Mumbaiare reopen today, most places NEWDELHI,JUNE7 The Task Forceconstituted settoreopen on Monday with 10 orange zones four expertgroups, thestate- per centstrength, if required, of worship tomorrow THE CENTRE has described as ment added, on Epidemiology with the remaining employees ARUNSHARMA “unfoundedand baseless”the and Surveillance (with 13 mem- working from home, as partof to open fordevotees duringthe JAMMU,JUNE7 accusations that the govern- bers) and on Operations the Maharashtragovernment’s SHAJUPHILIP monthlyritual starting June 14. ment’s effortstowards contain- Research (with15members) ‘Mission Begin Again’. THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, However, Muslim religious ALL PLACES of worshipwillre- ment and management of that almostentirelyinclude pub- Mumbai TrafficPolice have JUNE7 organisationshavedecided to main closedfor pilgrims in Covid-19excludedthe larger lic health and epidemiology ex- prepared forasurge in vehicular notopen prominent mosques in Jammu and Kashmir,with the wisdom of technical experts. perts from the government and trafficonroads considering the ALL GOVERNMENT, quasi-gov- major cities. administration on Sundaycate- Ajoint statement by the non-government arena. state’s phasedeasing of the ernment and PSU offices in Some Christian dioceses too gorisingthe entireUnion Indian Public Health Association Among the signatories in the lockdown. Kerala areset to reopen on have decidednot to reopen Territory—barringDoda and (IPHA),Indian Association of jointstatement were Dr Shashi While some companies have Pune’s Taljai hill forest is aspotpopular withjoggers and Monday, even as thenumber of churches from June 9, disregard- Kishtwar districts—asred and Preventive and Social Medicine Kant, Professor andHead of the made arrangementsfor sanitis- walkers. Spreadover100hectares, it has nowbeen opened Covid-19cases in the statecon- ing the government sanction for orangezones. (IAPSM) and Indian Association CentreforCommunityMedicine, ers and disposable face masksfor forthree hoursevery day—from 5-8 am. PavanKhengre tinues to increase. conducting dailyrituals forthe All the districts in Kashmir, of Epidemiologists (IAE) hadlast AIIMS, NewDelhi, and Dr DCS their employees, thereare others An order issuedbythe state public. The statedirection that all exceptGanderbal andBandipora, week accusedthe government of Reddy,former Professorand still taking aguardedapproach to government Sunday said offices, persons above 65 should remain have been categorizedasred nothaving consulted “epidemi- Head of CommunityMedicineat opening up. Parth Shah, from LSD Multinational Companyin exceptthose in containment inself-isolationisalsoposingtrou- zones.InJammu, all the districts ologists who had better graspof BHU.The twoare also members films Pvt ltd, said theyare not BandraKurla Complexsaid. Malls, offices zones, should function with full bleforchurches,whichhaveasiz- have been markedasorange disease transmission dynamics of aICMR research group on epi- opening their office forthe next With courts courts and alter- staffstrengthstarting Monday. In ablechunkof servingbishopsand zones, barringRamban,whichis comparedtomodelers”. demiology and surveillance for fewdays.“Onlyhousekeeping natedisputeredressal forums to set to open containment zones, offices will priests above the ageof65. in thered category. “These apprehensions and Covid formedonApril 6. staffiscoming to office.” resumeoperationsingradual function with minimum staff. Meanwhile, the number of An order issuedbyChief allegations areunfoundedand The joint statement also Severalofficeshaveadopted mannerfromMonday,asurge in in Bengal The government has directed newCovid-19cases in Kerala SecretaryBVRSubrahmanyam baseless. The government is con- mentionedthatitisunrealistic await-and-watchapproachbe- crowds is expected in Fort area. that staff memberstaking careof continuedtohover at the three- statedthatLakhanpurareaonthe stantlyinconsultation with ex- to expect that the pandemic can fore allowing employees to func- Lawfirms, even though Kolkata: Lockdown re- elderly parents, children agedbe- digit markfor the thirdconsec- Jammu-Pathankot national high- perts fortechnical and strategic be eliminatedatthis stagegiven tion, even as some offices in the deemedas‘essential services’ strictions will be further low5yearsand thosewho are utive day, with the statereport- way, whichactsasanentrypoint inputs, scientific ideas and do- that community transmission is businessdistrictsofBandraKurla have exercisedcaution andare liftedinWestBengal from differently-abledshould avoid ing 107new cases on Sunday. to the UT from Punjab, will be a main-specific guidance to ad- already well-establishedacross Complexand Nariman Point planning to work with limited Mondaywithrestaurants, contact with the general public. The Kerala government is set “Red/Containment Zone, with dress the Covid-19pandemic.A large sections or sub-popula- spruceduptheir premises forthe strength. hotels and shopping malls Places of worship, mean- to begin antibody teststhis week 500metre buffer”. National Task Force(NTF) for tions in the country. Thegovern- limited opening. Meanwhile, the Mumbai settoreopen. Besides, all while, will reopen Tuesday, using 14,000 kitssupplied by This followedarise in the Covid-19isconstituted by ment hasconsistentlydenied “Wewill be opening our of- TrafficPolice —shortoff 660 private offices will be al- maintaining social distancing. ICMR, with 40,000-odd kitsex- number of Covid cases over the SecretaryDHR-cum-DG-ICMR community transmission. fice from tomorrow. staffers due to the pandemic — lowedtofunctionfrom The Sabarimala temple is set pectedto reachthestatethisweek. pastfew days,sources said. J&K with Member (Health) NITI The Health Ministrystated, Arrangementshavebeen made draftedin200 homeguards and Monday. With the estab- on Saturdayregistered 409 fresh AayogasChairperson and “The Task Forcehas heldover20 to ensurethat everyemployee 500civilian trafficwardens to lishmentsopeningtheir cases and three deaths. Secretary(DoHFW) and meetings and has systematically gets checkedwith athermal handle trafficonthe roads. doors to the public, the All shopsinmarket areasand Secretary(DHR) as Co-Chairs. contributed towardsthe scien- scanner at the lobby. The seating “Wewill see howthings go ownerswill adoptaslew 821 ASI monuments to complexeswill be permitted to The NTF comprises 21 members, tific and technical response to arrangementshavealsobeen re- on Mondayand adapt accord- of safetymeasures to re- open in orangezones. In reddis- including technical/domain ex- the pandemic.” arranged to ensurethat social ingly,”said Madhukar Pandey, duce the spread of coron- reopenfor prayerstoday tricts, onlyshops selling essen- perts from the governmentand As is well known in public distancing requirement is met,” Joint Commissioner of Police avirus infections. ENS tials will open, while private of- outside the government. health, different stages of epi- an HR and Admin Manager at a (Traffic). “containment and preventive fices will operatewithonly33 Predominant expertise in the demicdemanddifferentresponse DIVYAA measures”, as per the situation. per cent attendance with passes Task Forceisfrom publichealth and anuanced, step-wise re- NEWDELHI,JUNE7 Of the 821monuments to be forthe staffprescribed. and/or epidemiology.Given the sponseisknown to be apositive opened, 114wereinthe Northre- Thereshall be no inter- complexity and implications of characteristic of aresilient health Haryana says no cap on number IN LINE with the Centre’s direc- gion, 155inCentral, 170inWest, province or inter-state/UT move- the Covid-19pandemic,the system, the government said, tion to openall places of worship 279inSouthand 103inEast. ment exceptfor obtaining per- group has expertsfrommedi- adding that the people,the WHO from June 8, the Ministryof However, Patelsaid the min- missions or in permitted public cine, virology,pharmacology andtheglobalhealthcommunity of people at malls, religious places CultureonSunday announced istrywillensurethat safetypro- transport. FULLREPORT ON and programmeimplementa- have appreciatedIndia’sproactive that 821monumentsacross the cedures announcedbythe www.indianexpress.com tion domains,aswell,” read a and pre-emptiveapproach. measures,socialdistancing,wear- feasible and useofface masks countryatwhichpeople offer Healthand Home Ministries EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE ing of face covers or maskswould would be mandatory. Useofal- prayers will be openedtothe would continue to applyatthese CHANDIGARH,JUNE7 beobservedby allworkersandvis- cohol-basedhand sanitizers (for public starting Monday. places. He also clarifiedthat the itors... However, thereligious at least 20 seconds) canbemade Union CultureMinister remaining monumentsofthe THEREWILL be no cap on the places, hotels, restaurants, and wherever feasible and respira- Prahlad Singh Patelsaid visitors ASI’s total 3,691protectedsites number of people inside the shopping malls, in containment tory etiquettes to be strictlyfol- will be allowedtopray at these will continue to remain closed. shopping malls or religious zones shall remain closed,” an of- lowed. However, installation and centrallyprotected monuments The 821monumentsinclude places that have been allowedto ficial spokesperson said. useofthe AarogyaSetuApp shall thatwere shut in March aspartof the Hidamba Temple in Manali, open from June 8, as per the “Persons above 65 years of be advisedtoall,” it adds. theCovid-19lockdownmeasures. BaijnathTemple in Kangra, the standardoperating procedures age, persons with co-morbidi- As per the SOPs forrestau- Issuing directions to the gurdwaralocated inside the (SOPs) issuedbythe stategov- ties, pregnantwomen and chil- rants, “the stafffor home deliv- ArchaeologicalSurvey of India Bhatinda Fort in Punjab and sev- ernment Sunday. Theguidelines, dren belowthe ageof10years eries shall be subjected to ther- (ASI), the ministryonSunday eral Buddhistmonasteries inLeh. however, mention that “the areadvisedtostayathome,”as mal scanningbythe restaurant stated that these 821monu- While the TajMahal will continue number of entrantsshould be per the SOP. authorities prior to allowing mentswill be openedtothe to remain shut, the Fatehpuri kept at aminimum to maintain “Atthe religious places, ho- home deliveries.Number of cus- public. The order also asked the Masjid on the south-westcorner social distancing norms”. tels, restaurants, and malls, indi- tomers inside the shop to be kept ASI to sharethe listwithrespec- of itsentrance, the mosque on its “Genericpreventive measures, viduals mustmaintain amini- at aminimum,soastomaintain tive states and district authori- premisesandtheKalimasjidnear including simple public health mum distance of 6feetasfar as the physical distancing norms...” ties and followany additional it will be opened.

CASECOUNT:THECHANGINGPICTURE Database, skill training: How Assam Alook at howCovid-19 case counts in states plans to absorb returningworkers arechangingasmigrants return home again. But if the stategovern- aticallycapturedataofreturning ABHISHEKSAHA ment manages to accommodate migrant workers. UTTAR PRADESH ANDHRA PRADESH GUWAHATI,JUNE7 us, Iwill stay back,”Alom said. “Dataaboutall workers com- 11,308 433 67 17,695 199 69 To absorb thousands of ing backwill be collectedfrom Foreignentrants:None Foreignentrants:None SAMSUL ALOM (20), atailor,re- workers likeAlom, Assam gov- the panchayatlevel...The data turned to Barpeta in west Assam ernment officials said that they will be shared withgovernment TAMIL NADU KARNATAKA from Tamil Nadu on Saturday af- have takenupamulti-pronged departmentsfor further action,” 16,275 1,515 11 11,860 239 183 terworking at afactory near strategy,including building a said JB Ekka, Principal Secretary Foreignentrants:7 Foreignentrants:9 Chennai forthe pastsix months. databaseofreturning workers of Panchayatand Rural “Whenthefactoryreopenedafew right at the panchayatlevel and Development department. RAJASTHAN PUNJAB weeksback,afteraday’swork,we lobbying to getJapanese, “Government is talking to in- 12,304 262 25 5,300 93 12 would have to sitidle for three,” American and European compa- dustries regarding what kind of Foreignentrants:NA Foreignentrants: 2 saidAlom,whoisnowlodgedata nies, who want to move out of skills theyneed. Skill develop- quarantine centre. China, to setupbase in the state. ment training will also be facili- KERALA ■ Samplestested Nearly 1.25 lakh migrant An initiative titled SAM- tated...” said KKDwivedi, 2,358 107 28 ■ Positivecases workers have returnedtoAssam, PARKA (SoftwareApplication for Commissioner and Secretary, Foreignentrants:71 ■ Migrants according to asenior stateoffi- Migrated People to Assam for Industries and Commerce de- States’ datafor last24hours,updatedupto9pm on June 7 cial. “Maybeafter the economy Rejuvenating Karma Abhiyan) partment. FULLREPORTON recovers, Iwill have to go back wasrecently initiated to system- www.indianexpress.com

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givento84.4 lakhbeneficiaries. SANTOSHSINGH "Now with'onenation, onera- PATNA,JUNE7 tion' scheme, people will gettheir shareofsubsidisedgrains wher- ADDRESSINGAvirtual rally, ever theyare in the country.” Congressleaders stageadharna at the resort. Chirag Chotaliya Union Home MinisterAmit Shah Shah addedthat acon- spokeofBihar’s journeyfrom tentiousissue likeAyodhya was “lantern to LED”and asserted resolvedbecausethe central that the Nitish Kumar-ledNDA government made astrongcase Manager, owner of government would return to forRam’s birthplace in the court. powerwithtwo-thirdsmajority. He alsosaidthat no one would NEW MISSION The senior BJP leader said the have thought that special status resort where Gujarat virtual rallywas a“waytoconnect forJ&K couldbeabrogated. LOKSABHA MP Danish Ali, who joinedMayawati’s BSPafter with party workers up to the The Bihar BJPclaimedthat seeking ‘consent’ from the JD(S) leadership to contestfrom booth leveland the people of sevenparty workers watched Congress leaders Amroha,Uttar Pradesh,had akey role in forging the Congress- Bihar”. Asserting that it is notan thevirtual rallyateachofthe JD(S) alliance in Karnataka. Although he is partofthe BSP in election rally, he slammed Amit Shah virtuallyaddressing the people of Bihar. 72,000 polling booths, besides the Lok Sabha, hisproximity withthe Gowda family, espe- Oppositionpartiesforcallingitso. thousands from the electoratein camped booked cially former PrimeMinisterHDDeve Gowda,isnosecret.Ali The Bihar Assemblyelections Bihar on YouTube, FacebookLive has been in the national capital with anew mission—hewants aredue in October-November. we couldhelp about1.25crore plyisavailable to 100per cent and NaMo app. staged dharna under the party’s to ensureGowda’s presence in Parliament. He is using all his “This rallyisaimed at con- migrantsreachtheir homes.” households nowasagainst22 RJD Leader of Opposition EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE ‘BolsheGujarat’ (Gujarat will connections in the Congress and JD(S) to see that the Congress necting people with the Shah congratulated thecom- per cent availability in RJD rule,” Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, who got RAJKOT,JUNE7 speak up) campaign at the resort offers the seat to theformer PM even withouthis party mak- AatmanirbharBharat campaign. binedleadership of CM Nitish said Shah, challenging the RJD to his party workers to beat plates near the SaurasthraUniversityon ing aformal request. The BJP will have 75 such meet- Kumar and his Deputy Sushil offerany other comparative data. outside their homes before THE MANAGER and owner of a Sunday. Partyleader Hardik Patel, ings,” Shah said in his address. Kumar Modi fordealing with Naming Nitish thrice in his Shah'svirtual rally, said:"The resortinRajkot, whereGujarat Khambhaliya MLAVikram He said the Centrehelped Covid-related and migrants’ is- speech, Shah said: “Though this NDAgovernment does not CongressMLAsand party lead- Madam, DhorajiMLA Lalit GREEN CONCERNS morethan1.25croremigrantsre- sues. “TheBihar government is notanelection rally, Nitish bother aboutthe poor whose ers have been camping, were Vasoya,Tankara MLALalit turn to theirhomestatesduring alone spent Rs 8,538crore forre- Kumar-ledNDA will return to plates areempty.Weare oppos- booked foropening the premises Kagathara, UnaMLA Punjabhai THE PANDEMIC seems to have prompted lawmakerstodeal theCovid-19pandemic.Headded lief of itspeopleandmigrantswho powerwith two-thirds major- ing the BJP’s virtualrally as it is in violation of the notification to Vansh and Vashram Sagathiya, with environment issues on priority.Atatime when MPs are that migrantsfromBiharhad to returnedtothe state,” he said. ity... Bihar is ajourneyfrom insensitive to think of elections keep suchestablishmentsclosed leader of the Opposition in Rajkot refusing to travel to the national capital even to attend parlia- be “respected as theyhad con- The home ministersaid the lantern to LED.” Shah, however, when Covid cases aresurging in in light of the Covid-19pan- Municipal Corporation, joined mentarypanel meetings, YSRCPMPfrom tributing to building other states Bihar government hadtaken did notmention LJP,another Bihar.” demic. the dharna. Rajamahendravaram Margani Bharat came to Delhifor aproj- with their blood and sweat”. GDP growth of 3.9 per cent in NDApartner. Deputy CM Sushil Modi said: The resortisreportedly “People couldn't work due to ect to protect the Godavari in his constituency in EastGodavari He said, “It did hurttosee peo- RJD-Congress rule to 11.3 per Speaking about the Centre's "It is LaluwadversusVikaswad ownedbyIndranil Rajyaguru, the lockdown in viewofthe district. He metJal Shakti MinisterGajendraSingh Shekhawat plestartwalkingfortheirhomes, cent under Nitish-ledNDA gov- contribution to Bihar, Shah said in Bihar... RJD is nowbeating former Congress MLAfrom coronavirus pandemic... farmers and got aproject of Rs 416crore by National Reserve but we immediatelyarranged ernment. "The state budget size Rs 354.5 crorehad been trans- plates. Do theyknowthe state Rajkot (east) constituency. could notsell their produce... Conservative BoardDirective under his ministryapproved. buses and later ranShramikspe- has gone up from Rs 23,800 ferred to Jan Dhan accountsof government spent Rs 5,700 on Manoharsinh Jadeja, deputy people don’t have money. The project, whichincludes construction of sewage treatment cial trains. Indian Railways bore crorein2004-05toRs2,11,761 2.38 crorepeople, LPG cylinders eachmigrant who returned commissioner of police (DCP) of Therefore, we demand that gov- plantsand laying of outfall drains, has become all the more 85 per centof thecostoffares and crorein2020-21. Electricity sup- worthRs630 crorehad been home? Zone-II of the city said, ernment waiveelectricity bills important in the Covid-19era forhis voters, Bharat told the “According to notifications of the and property taxesaswell direct minister. Central government, suchestab- private schools to refrainfrom lishmentswould be allowedto taking exorbitant fees,” Dhanani IS suspect, 2NIA personneltest Covid positive openfromJune 8. We have reg- said. VETERANS INCLUDED isteredacaseunderIPC Section The leaders startedarriving whom twohavetestedpositive. Basith. Beg tested positiveand rising everyday and media re- 188. No one has been arrested so in the resortonFridaynight, IN THE wake of risingcases of Covid-19acrossthe country DEEPTIMANTIWARY All have been quarantined. has been shiftedtohospital, ports suggestthere aren't far. We shall investigate, sum- hours afterCongress MLAfrom and reports of shortage of hospital beds, the BSF and ITBP have NEWDELHI,JUNE7 The NIA had takencustody of while the entireNIA team prob- enough bedsinhospitals. Jails mon them, seek their replyand if Morbi, Brijesh Merja, resigned openedall theirhospitals fortheir retired personnel.Inanor- Hina Bashir Beg (39) and her hus- ing her has been quarantined. arealso witnessing cases. In such warranted,will arrest them.” from theparty and as MLA, be- derissuedonSaturday, BSF andITBPDGSSDeswal said that AKASHMIRI woman arrestedby band Jahanzaib Sami (36) on May “Two of ourpersonnel in the asituationitisonlyprudent that The move comesafter the coming the 8th Opposition MLA hospitalsofthe forces will also treat veterans suffering from Delhi Police in March on suspi- 29 in connection with itsprobe control room testedpositive.The my clientisgranted bail,”MS leadersheld adharna on the to quit ahead of the elections to Covid-19. Until now, these hospitals were reserved forserving cion of being associated with intoanISterrorconspiracy al- control room is in front of the lock Khan told The IndianExpress. premises of NeelsCityResort de- four RajyaSabha seatsinthe personnel.The order comes at atimewhenthe twoforces Islamic Stateand organising anti- legedly involvingHyderabad up. We aretrying to find out how Beg and her husband manding waiving of electricity state. Modhwadia said thatall have reportedmorethan600cases of Covid infectionsintheir CAAprotests in the national cap- youth Abdullah Basith. Before our men and Beg got infected.The Jahanzaib Sami, who belong to bills and property taxesaswell the 19 MLAs of the party,includ- ranks. ital hastestedpositive forCovid- taking custody,the NIAgot both probeteam has been quaran- Srinagar’s Shivporaarea, were ar- as to direct private schools notto ingDhanani, arrivedinthe resort 19 during interrogation by the of them tested and they were tined.All procedures arebeing rested from Delhi’s JamiaNagar charge “exorbitant” fees. by Sunday. He said that the NationalInvestigation Agency found negative.However, during followed,” an NIA official said. onMarch 9andbookedunderIPC Ledbysenior Congress leader party’s plan is to keep the group (NIA). Since then, around adozen interrogation, Beg developed Beg's lawyer has nowmoved sections forsedition and criminal Arjun Modhwadiaand Congress of MLAs together in the resorttill KHWAJAYUNUS CUSTODIALDEATH officers and personnel of the cen- symptoms and wastestedagain forinterim bail. “My client got in- conspiracy and the Unlawful LegislatureParty leader Paresh the RajyaSabha elections on Sena member, author, tral agency have been tested,of along withher husbandand fected in NIA custody.Cases are Activities (Prevention) Act. Dhanani, 18 Congress MLAs June 19. app designer –the many After protests, CoalIndia halts Woman alleges father tied Leopard killed, to MP hospital bed over teeth removed, hats donned by cop mining ops in Assam reserve carcass paraded Choudhury later revealedthat dues, CM orders probe in Guwahati reinstated after 16 yrs TORAAGARWALA the agency has minedinthe un- GUWAHATI,JUNE7 broken area of 41.59 ha too. TheNBWL’sconditionalclear- EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE Hospital said patient TORAAGARWALA MOHAMEDTHAVER& CLOSEONthe heelsofprotests ance in April came afterCIL ap- BHOPAL,JUNE7 GUWAHATI,JUNE7 wastiedtothe bed SADAFMODAK over itsoperations in Assam’s pliedfor postfactoregularisation MUMBAI,JUNE7 Dehing Patkai Elephant Reserve, of open castmining in 98.5 ADAY afterawomanalleged because he washaving AGROUP of people in Guwahati NorthEastern Coalfields (NEC), a hectares of the Saleki PRF.Since that her father had been tiedtoa convulsions due to killedanold andweakleopard ASSISTANT POLICEinspector Coal India Limited (CIL)sub- then,thecampaignto save Dehing bed in aprivate hospital in in aforestedarea, removedits Sachin Vaze, whowas reinstated sidiary, said it is temporarilysus- Patkai hasintensifiedinAssam. Madhya Pradesh’s Shajapur for hypernatremia teethand paradedits carcass intheMumbaiPoliceFridayalong pending all mining operations. While operations in the non-payment of dues, the around the locality on Sunday. withthreeothers—16yearsafter An order from the office of The Dehing Patkai Elephant TikokCollieryweresuspended Shajapur district administration the daughter,she said she had no “Itwas an 8-year-oldmale being suspendedfor his alleged the General Manager,NEC, said, Reserveisbelieved to be the in October 2019 afteradirective seizedthe treatment papers and money. She had paid Rs 10,800. leopardwhichhad been initially involvement in the custodial “Allmining operations in North last remaining contiguous from the Assam government, the took statementsofthe doctors Dr Bajajsaid the hospital caught with arope trap by the lo- deathof27-year-old Khwaja KhwajaYunus,whose Eastern Coalfields, Coal India patchofrainforestareain TirapCollierywas closedonJune and staffonduty,who denied calledthe police, but the daugh- cal residents,” said Rajib Baruah, Yunus in January2003—has custodial death ledtothe Limited,Margheritaare hereby the region. 3after theorder. the allegations. terrefused to pay, and that the DFO, Kamrup East Division. The donnedmanyhatsduring the suspensionofSachin Vaze temporarilysuspendedw.e.f. “Wehavehad issueswith Sheela Dangi, aresident of hospital dischargedthe patient incident occured in the city’s yearshewasawayfromtheforce. and 3other policemen. 03.06.2020.” clearances. And since Tikokwas RanaravillageinRajgarh district, on the advice of police. He shared Katahbari Pahar area, whichfalls HejoinedtheShiv Sena,createda The NEC has twoexisting patchofrainforestareainthe re- shutearlier,itwasveryhard forus allegedonFridaythatCity aletterwritten by thedaughter under the Fatasil ReserveForest. socialmediaplatform,developed open castcoalmining projects— gion— spreads across the coal- to sustain with justone mine. We Hospital, whereher father had denying the allegation that the In an alleged videoclipofthe amobile phone application, as- Vaze had joinedthe Shiv TirapCollieryinArunachal and oil-richdistrictsofUpper incurredhugelosses,”saidanNEC beenadmittedforcloseto aweek, hospital refusedtolet her go for incident, nowcirculating on so- sistedinvestigating agencies, ap- Sena in 2008. His lawyer said he Pradesh and TikokCollieryin Assam. official.“So, the operations have refusedtodischarge himandtied non-payment of money. Thelet- cial media, three-four men can peared on severalnewschannels wasinthe Sena forsome time. Assam. While NEC had a30-year- been temporarilysuspendedfor him to thehospital bedwhenshe tersaid the hospitalwaivedthe be seen carrying around the car- and wrotetwo books. Known to be good with tech- Aseries of virtualprotestsfol- lease to carry outoperations in these tworeasons: issues with said shehad runout of money. remaining amount. cass of the animal to hoots and Vaze wasalleged to have dis- nology,in2010healso started a lowedafter themovebyabody itsTikok open cast mining proj- clearancesand financiallosses.” The hospital deniedthe alle- Chief Minister Shivraj Singh cheersbyacrowd. Sevenpeople, posedYunus’s body afterthe social networking siteinMarathi under the Ministryofect in the Saleki proposedre- “This is notapermanent gation, saying thepatient was Chouhan ordered an inquiryinto including one minor,havebeen purportedcustodial killing. called‘Lai Bhari’. Vaze had also Environment, Forest and Climate serveforest(under Dehing stoppage but onlytemporary. tiedtothe bed because he was theallegation. Sub-divisional held. “Since the animal’s teeth On Saturday, Vaze along with reportedly developedasoftware. Change—the National Boardof PatkaiElephant Reserve), the Once we getclearances, we will having convulsions due to hy- MagistrateSLSolanki, who con- were also removed, theywill police constables Rajendra He also wrotetwo books— Wildlife—for “recommendation contract expired in 2003. startbothmines together,” said pernatremia and would have ducted theprobe afterseizing also be chargedwith acase of Tiwari and Sunil Desai resumed one on the SheenaBoramurder forapproval” of acoal mining Between 2003 to 2012,the com- the official, addingthatifclear- hurthimself. papers from the hospital, sub- poaching,”said Baruah. duty in the local arms unit, while case and the other on David project by the NEC in the Dehing panyminedland measuring ances did notcomethrough, Dr VarunBajaj of the hospital mitted his reporttothe collector. The post-mortemreportis constable Rajaram Nikam was Headley, the LeT operative in- Patkai Elephant ReserveinApril. 44.27hectares (ha) without they would have to consider said it wasacommon practice. Despiterepeated attempts, awaited.“What we knowsofar reinstated in the motorvehicle volvedinthe 26/11terrorattack, The reserve—believedtobe clearance. Aresponse to an RTI “shifting theworkers to other He said when the hospital asked Collector Dinesh Jain wasnot is that it wasanold and weak department. who later turnedanapprover. the lastremaining contiguous querybygreen activistRohit subsidiaries of CIL”. forthe remainingRs11,000from available forcomment. leopardwhichhad noteaten for Despiterepeated attempts, “Awayfromthe force, his services days,” he said, Vaze did notrespond to calls. were also usedbysome investiga- Forest department officials Asenior officer said that Vaze tive agencies as well. He also ap- were alertedabout the leopard had startedout in Thane. When pearedonseveral news channels Elephantdeath bringstofore man-animal conflict in Kerala being trappedbythe locals early an IPS officer from Thane moved as an ‘expert’,” an officer said. Sunday morning.“By the time, to Mumbai, he took Vaze along On January6,the last day proactive measures of the (for- killedinelephant attacks.There lationhas gone down...Theuse of the zoo authorities reachedto with him. Here, he wasposted Yunuswasseenalive,histhenco- SHAJUPHILIP est) department in mitigating have been 246cases related to pesticides, mainly in paddyfields rescue the leopard, it escaped,” with the crime branchCIU where accusedhad seen him being se- THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, the problems of human-animal wildlife crime in Kerala in 2019. and banana plantations, has said Baruah. he got in touchwith“encounter verely assaulted.Later,police JUNE7 conflicts, it continues unre- Aforestdepartment official turnedfatal forjackals, whichper- The local residents, however, specialist”Pradeep Sharma. claimedVazeand three others solved... Various measures that said the fragmentation of forests ishedinlarge numbers aftercon- followedthe big cat intothe for- “Vaze has been close to were takingYunusto Aurangabad THE DEATH of apregnant ele- were adoptedinclude digging has also ledtoelephantsstray- suming crabs whichdiedofex- est—by about10 am,theforestde- Sharma right through his career. to followaleadand thatthe vehi- phant in the bufferzone of Silent elephant-proof trenches, creat- ing intofarmlands. “Due to min- posuretolethalpesticides in such partmentwas informedthatthe Workingwiththe team, he too cle theyweretraveling in met ValleyNational Park in Kerala’s ing elephant-proof walls, con- ing and other human interven- farms.Farmers have tobeblamed leopardhad been killed. “The startedbeing calledan‘en- with an accident and Yunus had Palakkad district afterthe animal structing solar-poweredelectric tions, elephant habitatshave forcreating suchasituation.” leopard hadnotdisturbedanyone counter specialist’, althoughpri- escaped. Based on an inquiry or- allegedly bit intoacoconut filled fences... In spiteofthese preven- been disturbed,” he said. Kerala FarmersFederation norhadhedamagedanything.So marilyhewas in Sharma's deredbythe POTAcourt,the CID withfirecrackers has brought to tive measures, it is alarming to However, while the threat of general secretaryJoshyJoseph therewas reallynoprovocation shadow,”anofficersaid. booked Vaze and the three con- the forefront the state’sgrowing note that the number of inci- The pregnantelephant elephantsismainly felt in areas said, “The raid of elephantsshows forthe attack,”said Baruah. “He (Vaze) wasmedia savvy stablesonchargesofmurder. challenge of managingman-an- dentsofhuman-animal conflict collapsedinthe Velliyar close to forest regions, the pres- that the animals do nothavefod- ApreliminaryFIR hasbeen and had his nameand photosap- Sources said over the lastfew imal conflicts. is increasing year by year.In riveronMay 27 and died. ence of wild boars has emerged der andwaterintheir habitat.The lodged at the Gorchuk Police pearinnewspapersandTVchan- years, when Vaze sawhis men- Thousands of farmers in 2018-19, as manyas7,890 inci- as athreat to food securityinvil- government has to take steps to Station. “Weare waiting formore nels. In 2004,however,due to his tors Sharma and Daya Nayakbe- Kerala have either abandoned dentswerereported, whereas it lages and semi-urban areas. ensureavailability of fodder for details from the post-mortem alleged role in the KhwajaYunus inginductedbackintothe police cultivation or stoppednursing was7,229 in 2017-18.’’ electrocution, being hit by vehi- The forest departmentofficial elephantsinforests... Manypeo- examination to file amorede- case, he wassuspendedand later forceafter facing aslewofallega- their farmlands due to frequent Forest department data cles and by explosives. During said, “The population of wild plewho blame farmers over the tailedFIR as well as acase forvi- submittedhisresignationin2007. tions, he toowas hopeful despite raids by wild elephants, wild shows that between 2015 and the same period, 514people boars has increasedmanifold man-animal conflict do notknow olating the WildlifeProtection However, theresignationhadnot the ongoing KhwajaYunus case. boars and of late, monkeys. 2020, 416wild elephantsdiedin were killed in attacksby wild an- even in non-forestareas. Jackals the pain of cultivation.” Act, 1972,” said Hemkanta beenacceptedandhencehecould FULLREPORTON The state economic review Kerala, with 24 deathsattributed imals, including elephants.In usedtobethe predator of wild FULLREPORTON Talukdar,Chief Conservator of be reinstated,” an officer said. www.indianexpress.com 2019 has stated that “despite the to “unnaturalcauses”—hunting, 2019 alone, 15 people were boar cubs. 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ANEMPLOYEEof aPunjab-based firm has been arrestedin connec- tion with the alleged medical purchase scam in Himachal Pradeshwhichledto the suspen- sionandarrest of the state’sdirec- torofhealth services (DHS) last month. Prithvi Singh,46, aresident of Sangrah in Sirmaurdistrict who wasworking as aliasioning offi- cer forPunjab-basedfirm Bioaide Corporation, wasarrestedbythe stateanti-corruption and vigi- lance bureauonSaturday, an offi- cial said. Singhallegedly recordeda43- second audio clip of his tele- phonic conversation with then DHS Dr AK Gupta in whichthe duo were purportedlyhearddis- cussingthehandoverofRs5lakh. The clip went viral,leading to Gupta’s arrest on May20. Accordingto the vigilance bureau, Gupta and Singh were discussing the exchangeofbribefollowing the supplyofPPE kitsworth over Rs 1crore by Bioaidetothe state government. StateBJP chief RajeevBindal resignedhis post“on the basis of high moral ground” amid thecor- ruption probeintothe procure- ment of PPE kits. Superintendent of Police in the statevigilanceand anti-cor- ruption bureau, ShaliniAgnihotri, in astatement said, “Forensic ex- amination of the mobile phones seizedrevealed at leastthree moreaudio recordings between the agent of Bioaide Corporation (Singh) and the DHS (Gupta)re- lating to supplyofPPE kits. These conversationsrevealedthatwhile the agent wasready to deliver Rs 3lakh in his possession to the DHS, who wasinsisting upon him to arrangeatleastRs2lakhmore”. As per the statement, Singh wasseekingonemoresupplyor- der of PPE kitsbeforethe issue of tender. “Nosupply order could,how- ever,beissuedasitwas decided by the government that future Covid-related purchases would onlybemade through tenders,” the SP said. ED files another chargesheet in Manesar land scam case

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THE ENFORCEMENT Directorate (ED) has filedasupplementary prosecution complaint in the Manesar land scam case,in whichformerHaryana chief ministerBhupinder Singh Hooda is an accused. The supplementaryprosecu- tion complaint (equivalent to a chargesheet) has been filed againsteight people and entities suspected to have been involved in launderingthe proceeds of crimeoutof theallegedly fraudu- lent land deal. Thosechargesheetedinclude private builders and entities such as Atul Bansal and his wifeSona; ABWInfrastructure Ltd; Mahamaya Exports PvtLtd; Shashikant Chaurasia;Dilip Lalwani; Varinder Uppal; Vijay Uppal; VineyUppal;Ravinder Taneja; TDI InfrastructureLtd; WisdomRealtors PvtLtd; and AB Rephcons InfrastructurePvt Ltd. Hooda has already been chargesheetedbytheCBI,whichis alsoprobing the matter. TheEDhasalsoattachedprop- ertiesworthRs108.79croreinthe case. “Investigation under PMLA revealedthatbuilders/private en- tities extorted the land from the farmers/ landholders on meagre ratesbyexhibiting the fear of ac- quisition. Farmers/landholders under different fears soldtheir landtosuchprivate entities who ultimately, sold the same to vari- ous builders who obtainedli- cences and gainedhandsome profits...” an ED statementsaid. On the role of the chargesheetedentities, the ED said, “Investigation further re- vealedthatmostofthelandswere purchasedbyABWIL Group whichiscontrolledbyAtulBansal and afterobtaining of licences; ABWILsold the licensed/unli- censedland and licences to the private persons/ developers and therebymaking huge profits.” TheEDinitiatedthe investiga- tion in the case on the basis of an FIR registeredbyGurgaon Police, whichwaslatertakenoverbyAnti CorruptionBureauofChandigarh and the CBI.

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Militarytalksbetween Indiaand China areagood beginning. THE MAHATMA GANDHI National Rural lowing it out and undermining it. But with the be centred aroundrebuilding theirfaith.One Employment Guarantee Act(MGNREGA), unrelenting pressureofactivists,the courts immediate step must be to issue themjob Delhi mustpush the process forward, carefully 2005, is ashining example of aradical and ra- andavocalOppositioninParliament,thegov- cards in the programme.The panchayats, tional systemic change. It is radical because it ernment wasforcedtostepback. In acharac- empoweredbyRajiv Gandhi’s path-break- NITS TYPICALLYlaconicstatement on Saturday’s talksbetween senior Indian and transferredpowertothe poorestofthe poor teristicreversalof course, itsought,instead,to ing initiatives, mustbebrought centre-stage Chinese generals, the ministryofexternalaffairssoundedsurprisingly positive andenabledthemto escapehunger and dep- give it anew appearance,by integrating itwith as the MGNREGA is notacentralisedpro- about the natureofthe conversation and said therewill bemore militaryand diplo- rivation. It is rational because it putsmoney the prime minister’s petprogrammeslike gramme. The capacity of panchayatstoman- matic engagement to resolve the current crisis in Ladakh region. Saturday’s mili- directlyinthe hands of those who needit Swachh Bharat and Pradhan Mantri Awas agepublic worksprojectsmustbestrength- Itary talksfollowedinconclusive local-levelengagement between the twoarmed most. Ithas proveditsworthinthe years ithas Yojana. These were passedoff as reforms but, ened and devolution of funds to panchayats been in existence, even enduring six years of in reality,theywerenomorethan abarelydis- mustbeprioritised. The natureofworkmust forces in the lastfew weeks. On the eveofSaturday's talks, therewas intensive diplomatic ahostile government. Agovernment that guiseddressing up of Congress party initia- be lefttogramsabhas. Local elected bodies consultationbetweenthetwosides thatreaffirmedthemutualpoliticalinterestinapeace- sought to denigrateit, undermine it, has come tives. It is another matter that paymentsto understand ground realities, the influx of ful resolutionof theissuesat hand.Thatthetalksbetweenseniorgeneralswere held in a“cor- to reluctantlyrelyonit. Along with the Public workers were delayedinterminablyand work workers and their needs. Theyknowbest dial atmosphere” is arelief. Delhi’s affirmation that the twosides agreed to resolve the sit- Distribution System put in place by an earlier wasdeniedfrequently. wheretospend their budgets,intunewith uation in accordance with the bilateral confidence-building measures instituted over the Congress government,itisthe mainstayfor The COVID-19pandemic and the distress theneeds of thevillageand the local econ- lastthreedecadesiswelcome. It is reasonable to conclude that the talksmarkagoodbegin- our poorestand most vulnerable citizens in it has unleashedhas brought the Modi govern- omy. The skills of the workers mustbeused preventing starvation and destitution wher- ment full circle. Facedwith unprecedented to build durable assets that improvefarm ning in the effort to resolve yetanothermilitarycrisisonthe China frontier. ever implemented in letter andspirit,espe- hardship and an economyalready in slow- productivity,increase rural income and con- BeforeSaturday’s talks, Delhi wascareful to downplaythe prospects foranearly break- ciallyintoday’s COVID-19crisis. Now, as dejected workers down,the governmentwasobligedto fall back servethe environment. through and suggestedanextendedprocess is at hand. The government’s caution wascom- Letusnot forget that the notification of the return from cities and towns on the UPA’s flagship rural relief programme. The government mustput moneydirectly plementedbywidespreadpessimism within theIndianstrategic communityaboutanim- MGNREGAinSeptember 2005 as an act of Deeds aremoreimportant than words, and in the hands of the people in this time of cri- to their villages in droves, mediateresolution.That scepticism wasrootedinthe fact that India wastaken unawares Parliament came about because of apeople’s nothing speaksmoreeloquentlythanthe fina- sis by clearing arrears, ensuring unemploy- in April by the big forwardpush by the People’s Liberation Armyacross multiple locations movement afteryears of struggle by civil so- deprived of employment, nce minister’s recent and belated increase in ment allowance, and being flexible about ciety.The Congress party listenedtotheir the overall allocation of the programme to modes of payment to the workers to cut de- along theso-calledLine of Actual Control separatingthe twosides. That the PLAhad dug into facing an insecure future,a voices and to those of the people. It became a humanitarian crisis on an morethanRs1lakh crore. In May2020alone, lays.TheModigovernmenthasnotpaidheed the newpositions and had brought in heavy weapons systems seemedtosuggestChina commitmentin our2004manifesto and those 2.19 crorehouseholds demandedwork to demands to increase the number of work- washeretostayinthe newpositionsithad secured.With Chinahavingseizedsome ground of us who pressedhardestforit areproud that unprecedented scale is through the Act, the highestfor themonth in days to 200and to allowthem to beregistered that it did notcontrol before,Delhi’s task of getting Beijing to undo thenew factsithad cre- the UPAgovernmentimplementedit as soon unfolding before us. Andthe eight years. at the worksites in everygrampanchayat. The atedin Ladakhappears rather difficult. But having publiclysignalledits case forthe restora- as feasible. value of the MGNREGAhas The Modi government maystill belooking MGNREGAmustbeensured open-ended tion of the status quothat existedinApril, Delhi has little room to backoff.Therefore the gov- The idea wassimple: Anycitizen in ru- never been clearer and more forsometwistedlogictoreconcile itsdislike funding as it wasmeant to be. ernment's suggestions that the Indian armedforces areinthis foralonghaul. ralIndia nowhad the legal right to demand of aCongress party programme with its The MGNREGA hasprovedits worthbe- work and wasguaranteed100days of work evident. Relief efforts must wholesale adoption of it. But the country cause it continuouslyimprovedand evolved The strategic community fears twonegative implicationsofDelhi’s current engage- withminimum wagesprovided by thegov- be centred around rebuilding recognises howthe world’s largest public during the UPAyears. It wasshapedbythe ment withBeijing. One is thatDelhi might be temptedtoeasethe standoffinreturn for ernment. And it proved itsworth very their faith. One immediate worksprogramme notonlyhelpedliftmil- people working together with the govern- some cosmetic steps from the PLAtodefuse the current crisis. The other is that Beijing quickly—agrassroots, demand-driven, step must be to issue them lions of Indians from extreme povertybut ment through extensive social audits, trans- might demand rather costlypolitical concessionsfromDelhi in return forafull restora- Right to Work programme, unprecedented transformedPanchayati Raj, contributed to parency,opennesstoscrutinybyjournalists tion of the April statusquo. Giventhe unenviable situationDelhi finds itself in,South in itsscale and architecture, focusedon job cards in the programme. climatechangemitigation and revivedthe and academics, and the appointment of an Block’s upbeat description of the talkssuggests that the outcomes on Saturdaymay have povertyalleviation. Millions have been Thepanchayats, empowered rural economy. It heraldedsocial changeby ombudsman.Stategovernmentsplayedacru- savedfromhunger and worse in the 15 years ensuring equal paytoeveryone, empower- cial role by innovating best practices.Itbe- exceededinitial expectations. But thereisnoforgetting that the April surprise has given by Rajiv Gandhi’spath- since itsinception. ing women, ScheduledCastes, Scheduled cameknown asamodel of povertyalleviation the upperhand to the PLA. Delhi willhavetopress all itsleverages —onthe military, Mahatma Gandhi said, “When ridicule breaking initiatives, must be Tribes and other vulnerable populations. It throughout the world. diplomaticand political fronts —topersuade Beijing to restore status quoanteinLadakh. fails to killamovementitbeginsto command brought centre-stage as the helpedthem organise and offeredthem alife The Modigovernment has grudgingly IfDelhi, however, is seen as making unreasonableconcessions to ease the current crisis, respect”. In independent India, thereisno bet- MGNREGAisnot a of dignity and self-respect. Understanding come around to the significance of thepro- it will face adomestic political backlash and considerable diminution of itsregionaland terexampleofthis coming truethanthe centralised programme. The these well-establishedfacts will becrucial to gramme. My plea to thegovernment is, this is internationalstatus in relation to Beijing. MGNREGA. On assuming office, Prime empowering India in today’s crisis. atimeofnational crisis, notatimetoplaypol- MinisterNarendraModirealisedthat shut- capacityofpanchayats to Now, as dejectedworkers return from itics. This is notaBJP versus Congress issue. ting down the scheme wasnot practical. manage public works cities and towns to their villages in droves, Youhaveapowerful mechanism at hand, Instead, he soughttoderideit, attacking the projects must be deprivedofemployment,facing an insecure pleaseuseitto help thepeopleofIndia in their Congress party in acaustic speechinwhich strengthened and devolution future,ahumanitarian crisis on an unprece- time of need. DELHI DIKTAT he calledit“aliving monument of your fail- dented scaleisunfolding before us. And the ure”.Intheyearssince,theModi government of funds to panchayats must value of the MGNREGA hasnever been The writer is president of FIR on ahospital forprocedural oversight in testing speaksofa triedits best to throttlethe MGNREGA,hol- be prioritised. clearer and moreevident. Relief effortsmust Indian National Congress high-handedness that is ill-advised, especiallyincrisis

SINDIA BEGINS to unlock, asteadilyrising infectioncurveand viral load putsitamong the world’s mostburdenednations.The capitalisa hotspot, and Delhi’s fresh infections have numbered in four figures for days now. When the pandemic firstspread and the worldwas bracing DEATH OF AN ELEPHANT Aforashock, the WHO had prescribed “testing, testing, testing” as the firstline of defence.But in Delhi, as it anticipates afresh waveofinfections triggered by the unlocking, the mostvisible initiative of the Arvind Kejriwal government is to suspend Our reaction speaksofthe natureofthe animal, thebestand worstinstincts in humanity testing in the respected Sir GangaRam Hospital and slap an FIR on it. The issue is notone of life and death, or of the quality of testing, but, reportedly,administrative —the gov- ernment accuses the hospitalofnot using theRT-PCRapp, whichshares test dataeffi- Aakash Joshi cientlywithall stakeholders. Suspending testing affectslives more deeply. Admissions “I DON’T KNOWwhy the elephant did it,” re- Theythink. Yet, theyare notconsidered per- same reason that itsdeath causedsuchan have become chaotic and the hospitalfindsitdifficult to schedule critical procedures. markedanold friend, lookingand sounding sons, notinalegalsense. emotional reaction in my friend. In manycities,adequateaccess to testing has become astumbling blockfor families with completely spent on avideo chat. Lastweek, Jane Goodall, whose decades-long work In 1936,George Orwell wrote “Shooting criticallyill members. With facilities definedasCOVID andnon-COVID, the statusofpatients before the details of the nowseemingly acci- with chimpanzees has shownhow close they an Elephant”, whichdescribed his time asa mustbedeclared at the time of admission. Patientsand their families arefinding it diffi- dental killing of apregnant pachyderm in aretous—both in decency and violence — police officer in Burma, wherehehad to kill a cult to getthemselvestested, and as aconsequence, thereare reportsofpatients being Kerala had emerged, the grotesque, tragic has longarguedfor the rights of non-human male elephant in mustbecause of the pres- turnedawaybyhospitals. Ideally, everyone who has concerns should have the right to be event seemedlikethe final straw. persons. Along with dolphins and pachy- sures of acrowd. Apopular story, it is an in- tested.Denial conveys the public impression that having failedtoflatten the infection We had, allofusonthatcall, become in- derms, great apes have the intelligence and dictment of colonialism and the cruelties of ured to suffering. The millions abandonedby emotional and social complexity to be con- power. Orwell writes: “Webegan question- curve, the government wantstoflatten the datacurvebylimiting access to testing. the stateand society,trudging along for sidered sentient.Yet,little has been done se- ing the people as to where the elephant had While the Delhi government has worked to makebedsavailable forCOVID-19pa- months to go home, had become atalking riouslyinthisregard. gone and, as usual, failed to getany definite tients, it has also invited controversies. Itspandemic datahas failedtotallywiththat of point, morethan athinking point;America Thereare twoconceivable argumentsaga- information. That is invariablythe case in the hospitals providing it, and therehavebeen public complaintsthat government dataon wasfightingits ownworstinstincts; profes- instgranting basic rightstonon-humanper- East;astory always sounds clear enough at a free bedsdoes nottallywithreality. Aday before filing the FIR, Chief MinisterArvind sional and economic uncertainty clouded An elephant,even more than sons. The firstisridiculous, the second is not. distance,butthenearer youget to the sceneof Kejriwal had accusedprivate hospitalsofallotting bedsfor hugemarkups,without nam- plansforthe future. To go on withlife, without adog (a pet), is aperson. One, that the law, made by humans, eventsthe vaguer it becomes.” The killing of completelygivingintoeitheranger or despair, should applyonlytohumans,isspecious. For the elephant, all these years later,isasmurky, ingthem. Whythe reticence? If the allegation is true, then theyare hoarding ascarce re- all youcan do is notthink aboutthingstoo From Aristotle’stime —he hundredsofyears, legalpersons have not itstruthmoredisturbing than even the suf- source and gouging desperatepeople during acrisis. Theyshould be namedand pro- hard. Yet, all of us in the cocoon of relative priv- said an elephant is “the been co-terminus with homo sapiens.Rivers fering of the animal. ceededagainst. And institutions likeSir GangaRam Hospital,whosefocusisaffordable ilege, so accepting of injustice and suffering, animal that surpasses all have rightsinIndia,asdocorporations. It seems nowthatthe elephant waslikely healthrather thancommerce, and whichare serving the publicinthis crisis, should be eatersof meat,were saddenedby an elephant othersinwit and mind” — Animal rightsare abroad term, to do with killedbyaccident, withatrapmeantforpests spared the unwelcome attentions of the muscular state. dying, movedalmosttotears. cruelty.But the right to land,habitatand a likeboars. It is also clear that the death is be- Thisreaction says something aboutthena- human beings have seen wayoflifeisnot guaranteedtoelephantsand ing usedbycertain elementsasawayto tureofthe animal, as well as the best and elephants as wise, other sentient creatures. spread bigotry,againstMuslims. worstinstinctsinhumanity.Anelephant, even formidable,useful and Aright is notenshrinedinaviolation, an Initially, the elephant’s deathseemed morethanadog (a pet),isaperson. From injunction on the immorality of thosewho likeanact of wanton cruelty,anotherinjus- Freeze Frame EPUnny Aristotle’s time —hesaid an elephant is “the good... Elephant societies are would violateit. Rather,itrecognisesthe in- tice in acountry wherecallousness seemed animal that surpassesall others in wit and matriarchal and deeply trinsic and inalienable worth of those whom to have become the norm. The real problem, mind” —human beings have seen elephants bonded. They remember it is conferredon. Both in terms of legal first though, runs deeper and is cause formuch aswise,formidable,usefulandgood. Itsbrain their dead,showgrief and principles andmorally, thereislittle argument moredespair. has as manyneurones as oursand is likelyca- againstthe granting of such rights, especially The elephantthat diedwas certainlyaper- pableofcomplexthoughtsand emotions we have language. They think. since there is enough sciencebehindthe son.Butwe maynot bethe competentauthor- areasyet unaware of.Elephantsocieties are Ye t, they are not considered claims to personhood of these creatures. ity to judgeitso. matriarchal and deeplybonded.Theyremem- persons, not in alegal sense. The second and moreconvincing argu- bertheirdead, showgrief and have language. mentagainstmakingelephantspersonsisthe [email protected]

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FUEL PRICE RISE Reddy,pleaded forapresidential form of suffered acrippling blowasaresult of seri- THE PRICE OF petrol has been raisedby65 government in the country. Reddy also sug- ousrifts developing within the ranksofthe paise per litrestarting from June8.The gov- gested that anew Constitution should be All Assam Gana Sangram Parishad (AAGSP), ernment also announced similar increases written to replace the present one“which the apexparty of half-a-dozen organisa- in the prices of high-speeddieseloil and does nottruly reflect the changed situation tions jointly spearheading the movement light diesel oil. Kerosene and cooking gas in the country”. This is the second time in a forthe detection and deportation of aliens. have been spared from the pricehikes.An week Reddy,the senior-mostCongress (I) The rift, whichcould well result in the officialpress release said thatthe retail price chief ministerinthe country, has calledfor abruptcalling offofthe current agitation of petrol in Delhi nowfixed at Rs 4.41per anew Constitution. Reddy wastalkingin- came to the surfacelateatnight on June 7 litre willgouptoRs5.10per litre. The price formallyinDelhi to journalists and ex- when the All Assam StudentsUnion (AASU) of diesel nowfixed at Rs 1.58 per litrewill be plainedthatthe Presidenthad more free- —the major constituent of the AAGSP —di- Rs 2.28 per litre. The prices of petroleum domtoact. rected itsunitsinthe statetooversee the productswereraised lastinAugust1979. formation of newunitsofthe AAGSPas AAGSP INFIGHTING some people claiming to be members of the PRESIDENTIAL GOVT THE NINE-MONTH-OLD AGITATION in Parishad aresetting their sightsonpersonal THE ANDHRACHIEF minister, Chenna Assam on the issue of foreignnationalshas gains through the organisation.

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around Rs 15/kginthe retail market of Safal inDelhigo to Rs30/kg,andifthegovernment imposesstockinglimits,the whole purpose of this exercise —toattract private invest- ment in storage—will be nullified. Onecan understandif stockinglimitsare imposedin case of natural calamity, famine, wars,etc. MVenkaiah Naidu Butbeyondthat,itisonly forrent-seekingby FROM PLATETOPLOUGH the “inspector raj”. Thereisanother issue that we needto FACED WITH ONEofthe most disruptive by Ashok Gulati revisitvis-a-vis agricultureand farmers. healthchallengesinrecenthistory,eachcoun- And that relates to doublingfarmers’ in- tryiscraftingitsstrategytocopewiththe pan- LET US STARTwithsome good news on the comes by 2022-23. In February2016, after demic. The subtlebalance between protect- economic front.During the firstyear (2019- twosuccessive years of drought in 2014- inglives andrestartingeconomic activities is 20) of the second term of the Narendra 15 and2015-16, PM Modisaidthathis hardtostrike. Indiaisnavigating this complex Modi government, gross value added(GVA) dream wastodouble farmers’ incomes by odyssey with greatagility,flexibility,sensitiv- in agriculture andalliedsectors registered 2022-23. We didnot take that political ity andtenacity.The challengehasengendered agrowth of 4per cent. This is commend- statement very seriously, as it did notmen- aspiritof solidarityandunity.Ithas shownyet able,especially when juxtaposedwith the tion whether he wasreferringtonominal again howresilient we can collectively be. growth of overall GVAofthe economyat incomesorreal incomes. But in April, when As India looksatopening up afterfour 3.9 per cent, and overall GDP (including net he setupacommitteeunderAshok Dalwai phases of lockdown, it is seeking to find new taxes) at 4.2 per cent. And even in 2020-21, to double farmers’ incomes, and the doors and windows of opportunity.Itisaim- when the impact of COVID-19will be on Committeesaid that it is real income they ing to discoverpossibilities forspurringinclu- full display, and when the GDP mayregis- aretalking about,and it required agrowth sive,equitable growth, to discovernew value teranegative growth of as high as -5 per rate of 10.4 per cent per annum till 2022- chains that would createwealth, to harness cent, agriculturemay still surprise with a 23, it wastime to examine the notion care- the untappedhuman potential and optimally positive growth of 2.5 per cent, as per fullyasall ministers and bureaucrats utilisethe natural resources. It is embarking CRISIL’s recent forecast. startedrallying around “doublingoffarm- on amission that would makethe country CRSasikumar Agriculturematters notjustfor food se- ers’ incomes” in all their public speeches. self-reliant.The Atmanirbhar BharatAbhiyan, curity,but also forthe good of the masses, While shifting the focus from production as it is called, is amission to galvanisethe enablethe countrytorecognise and capitalise nology companies but has also been recog- since almost44per cent of the country’s (tonnage-centric) to incomes (farmer-cen- forcesof growthacrossthecountryinvarious on itsinherent strengths. It is atrigger forre- nisedasone of Asia’s mostgenerousphilan- labour forceisengaged in agriculture. So, tric)was laudable,Ihad expressedmyse- sectors of the economy. It’s alaunchpad for forms in the policy matrixand charting out thropists.Companies likeHindustan “sabkasaath, sabka vikas, sabka vishwas” rious reservations about itsachievement fostering entrepreneurship, nurturing inno- the wayforward as we reboot and resetour Unilever, Larsen and Toubro, Bharati Airtel, will notbepossible unless agricultureper- because of the following reason. vationandcreation of anecosystemforrural- economictrajectory in an uncertain, post- Sun Pharmaceuticals, Maruti areamong the forms in asustainedmanner at around 4 If one looksatthe dataonfarmers’in- urbansymbiotic development. COVID-19world. world’s top100innovative companies listed per cent per annum, if notmore. The po- comes in 2002-03, 2012-13, and 2015-16, The decisions takenbythegovernment on As the Prime Ministerunderscored, “self- in Forbes 2018 ranking. Similarly,inthe tential is definitelyfor more. forwhichNSO and NABARD surveysare June 1will have afar-reaching impact on the reliance also prepares the countryfor atough Forbes 2019 listofworld’s best-regarded While using China as an example may available,and comparesitwith agri-GDP farm andnon-farm sectors in ruralareas as competition in the global supplychain”. By in- companies Infosys, TCS, Tata Motors, Tata be somewhat problematicthesedays,let growth overthe same period, the trends in well as on the development and sustainabil- creasing the efficiency of all our sectors and Steel and Mahindraand Mahindrafigure in me remind the reader that Chinese agri- agri-GDP and farmers’ incomesfolloweach ity of medium,smallandmicro-enterprises.It also ensuring quality,the newthrustonself- the top125. Thereare other giantsinthe food culturegrowth has been about4.5 per cent other very closely(about 3.6 to 3.7 per cent tendsto turnthecurrentchallengeintoanop- reliance is expected to enhance India’s role in processing and FMCG sectors as well. Forin- over the last40years. Even today, China per annum).Thereisnoofficial dataonfarm- portunity.Ifthe sound policy intentcan beef- the global supplychain. It is aimedatgiving a stance, PriyaFoods, the toppicklecompany, produces threetimesmoreagri-produce ers’incomes after2015-16.Butifweassume fectively translated into practice, it is bound newboost, aquantum jumptothe economic Haldirams, the largest snackcompany, from acultivatedareathat is muchless roughlythe same relation between agri- to have aprofound impact on our country’s potential of the countrybystrengthening in- Patanjali Ayurved,ahome-grownconsumer than ours, and with aholding size thatis GDP growth rate andgrowth in farmers’ in- economy, especiallyinrural areas. frastructure,using modern technologies, en- goods giant, and ITC, the multi-business con- also muchsmaller (0.7 ha) than ours (1.08 comes that existedduring 2002-03 to 2015- The pandemic has created adifficult situ- riching human resource, and creating robust glomerate, have carved outanichefor them- ha). It is this prosperity at the bottom of the 16,itispossible to assess the likely ation. We had got usedtoanintensely inter- supplychains. selveswithin India. pyramid thatprovides alarge demandbase achievement of this goal postofdoubling connectedand inter-dependent world. As we Theappeal forself-reliance aims at aseri- The newAtmanirbhar Bharatmission fortheir industrial goods. Migration out of farmers’ income. had to perforce isolateourselvestobreak the ous reflection on whether we aremakingthe provides an opportunity to graduallyreduce agricultureislargely from a“demand-pull” Sincethe baseyear growth rate in 2015- chain of viral transmission, the global supply best useofour natural, human and techno- imports in everysector.Ifwecan convert our to higher productivity sectors with better 16,whichwas adrought year,was meagre chains whichwehad reliedupon have been logicalresources. Itseeksto galvanise ourun- demographic advantageintoademographic skills. In contrast, in India, at severalplaces, (0.6per cent), the averageannual growth of disrupted, prompting manycountries like used andhidden potential. It onlyunderlines Thenew Atmanirbhar dividendbyproviding high-qualitytechni- migration is from a“push” factor because agri-GDP during the next four years (2016- ours to thinkofwaystomitigatethe negative the needtobeonour ownwith respect to ba- Bharat mission provides an cal and vocationaltraining to our youth, if we agriculturecannotsupportalarge percent- 17 to 2019-20) was4.8 per cent. This year, impact of economic downturn. sic and corenecessitiesbasedonourability to can further simplify procedures forsetting ageofthe working population. in 2020-21,CRISIL forecasts GVAinagricul- Thanks to the visionarynational leader- meetthem with our known availablere- opportunitytogradually up and running businesses, if we can focus In anycase, theModi government in its tureat2.5 per cent and even if one assumes ship ablysupportedbythe stategovernments sources and technologies. reduce imports in every strategicallyonthe critical bottlenecks that second term has startedsome reforms on agri-growth to be around 4per cent per an- and the creative energies of our people, we Our countryisblessedwith avastarray of sector.Ifwecan convert our areconstrictingrapid growth and find solu- the agri-marketingfront.Byliberalising the num forthe next twoyears, forthe seven- continue to actinunison to notonlyweather natural resources, ahugedemographic ad- demographic advantage into tions to overcome them,ifwecan foster re- Essential Commodities Act(ECA), APMC year period (from 2016-17to2022-23), the the storm but also to calibrateour responses, vantagewith over two-thirds of our popula- search and innovation, themissionweare Act, and contract farming through theordi- likelyannualagri-GVA growth is going to fine-tuning them, as we move along, accord- tionunder theage of 35 years,alargefarming ademographic dividend by embarking on will be able to achieveits nance route, it has made agreat beginning, be around 4.2per cent. This cannot double ing to the states' contexts. community that indefatigablyensures food providing high-quality transformative potential. and Iamhopeful the government will in- theincome of farmers by 2022-23. That’s Giventhe magnitude of the virus’s threat security forall of us, dynamic captains of in- technical and vocational Anymissionhas to have people at the viteprivate sector investmentsinbuilding whyIhad said that theachievement will and the size of our population, the hardreal- dustry whoare creating world-class institu- training to our youth, if we centre. People mustinternalise the concept moreefficient valuechains, whichwill be be less than 50 per cent of the target. ity of acuteshortage of basicrequirementslike tions and aset of young, aspirational and en- of valuing localproductsand artefactsand beneficial to farmersand consumers alike. But if direct income transfersunder themasks,ventilatorsand Personal Protection trepreneurial path-breakers. canfurther simplify promoting them. Once the demand is gen- Ihaveearlier described these reforms as PM-Kisan arealsoadded,and continued Equipment came to thefore. The emergency We needto makethe connectionbetween procedures forsetting up erated andthe market expands, the produc- ahistoric“1991moment”(IE,May18)—like eachyear till 2022-23, the shortfall from forced us to scale up the production of essen- these strands to weavethe fabric of anew and running businesses, if tiontriestokeep pace andeventually,with a the de-licensing of industry, this is ade-li- the target will be muchless. My humble tials neededtofight thevirus. At the same Indiathat notonlymeets itsdomestic demand branding effort,the productsgoglobal. Being censing of agri-marketing. My onlyreserva- suggestion is that if the PM can convert time, medicines made in India like forgoodsandservices but builds global brands we canfocus strategically on vocal for“local” can be astepping stone to a tion wasregarding the fine print, and that in food and fertiliser subsidies intodirect cash Hydroxychloroquine were in great demand that the worldwill recognise as uniquely the critical bottlenecks that self-reliant India and an India that will add the amendedECA,theyhaveinserted a transfers, he will come closer to doubling from various nations. India gladlysupplied Indian. are constricting rapid growth itsown unique glowand charmtothe vast clause about stockinglimits being imposed farmers’ real incomesby2022-23. If he this drug to severalcountries. We have all the ingredientsfor success. and find solutions to array of productsinthe global marketplace. in case of “extraordinarypricerise”. This is bites this bullet,itwillgivehim even better It wasinthiscontext of an effectivere- We have pioneers who have builtglobal We cancertainlychase the dream of trans- being definedasa100per cent increasein resultsthanagri-marketing reforms. sponse to an unprecedented emergency that brandsinvarious sectors.For example,20 overcome them, if we can forming“Local” India intoa“Glocal” Indiaby the price of perishables and a50per cent in- disruptedmostchannels of internal and in- yearsago Reliance had commissionedthe foster researchand using our resources wiselyand strategically. crease fornon-perishablesovera12-month Gulati is InfosysChair Professor for ternational trade, that Prime Minister world’s largest grass rootsrefinery in arecord innovation, the mission we We can make it happen by unleashingthe period.Ifonionprices,whichare hoveringat AgricultureatICRIER NarendraModi gave aclarion call forthe coun- 36 months. BajajAutoisranked as the are embarking on will be able forces of growth and giving space forcreative trytobecome self-reliant. It is notacall forpro- world’s fourth-largest three- and two- experimentation. tectionism or isolationism, but foradopting a wheeler manufacturer.Azim Premji notonly to achieve its transformative pragmatic development strategy that would foundedWipro, one of India’s foremosttech- potential. The writer is Vice President of India LETTER TO THE EDITOR

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With the advent of commuting between office and home, wast- The truth is that overpopulated cities strain teraction space, whichcan be accessedbyin- the face of China’s expansionism DIPAYANPAL concentrated production centres, improved ingnearly 10 per cent of histime awakeevery- their resources inordinatelyand leavelittle novators from widely-spread geographies. doesn’t augur well. medicine and the eraoffossilfuels,theglobal day. Eight people die everyday in Mumbai in room to successfullytackleeverycontingency. Digitisationhas apparentlyresultedin theloss SKPrabhakar, Gurugram www.indianexpress.com population hasshotupbyseven times in the local train-relatedaccidents, and in Delhi, five Thus, cities arethe mostaffected by nat- of cities’ innovative mojo. last180 years, clocking adecadal growth rate people lose their livesinroad accidents. ural andman-madedisasters. Nearly every With this major transformation and with BAFFLING CRUELTY of over11per cent. Goingbypresent trends, India will build a hot-spotofthe COVID-19outbreak is acon- the onsetofCOVID-19, it is surelythe time to though in manycases andrespectsthe This population growth rate has been newChicagoeveryyear to accommodatenew gested urban centre. The low-income areas reconsider our habitation model. Gandhiji’s THIS REFERS TO the editorial, ‘Cryofthe natureofthe job done by flight atten- largelyurbanand metro-centred.Today, cities urban dwellers. This will requireabout $2.5 of cities, whereanything from drinking water model of gram swaraj,APJ Abdul Kalam’s vi- wild’ (IE, June 5). Human-animalcon- dantsonthe one hand and by consume two-thirds of the global energy con- trillion of investment until 2030 —tocreate to sanitationcan be ashared facility,are the sion of providing urban amenities in rural ar- flict is notnew to our country. But what part/full-time,man or woman domes- sumption andaccount formorethan70per morecongestedurban spaces.Should we not mostvulnerable to anydisease outbreak. eas andNanajiDeshmukh’sideaof self-reliant happenedinKeralaisheart-wrenching, tic workers on the other hand, is es- cent of greenhousegas emissions. London be- look at alternative models of habitations, Congestedlow-income urban spaces notonly villagedevelopmentclearly deserveoffresh to saythe least. This latestincident has sentiallythe same, the former has a came the firstmodern city to cross the one whichare morefrugal, moresustainable and bear an inordinatelyhigh disease burden, and focusedattention. We have vast swathes become ahugeblotonus, humans. And higher statusinsociety.This is simply million populationmarkaround 1800.By offermoresatisfyinglifestyles andhigherwel- theyalso bear the bruntofair pollution, wa- of land,people andresourceslocated in our it is reallybaffling thatithas happened because thereisaworld of difference 1960, our planethad111 citieswith overamil- fare levels? tercontamination and crime infestation. In over 6,00,000 villages.These offeranother in Kerala,whichhas the highestliter- between their perks. lion inhabitants. In China and India, the num- Once cities expandbeyond onemillion, the face of anydisasterlikeaflood, earth- chance forustopursue an alternativemodel acyrateinthe country. We notonly TarsemSingh, Mahilpur berrosefrom371in2000to 548in2018, with theystart to experience dis-economies of quakeor, worse still, apandemic, migrant of developmentwhereagriculture, industry needtomakelaw enforcement agen- 61 of thesecitiesinIndia.Recently,theUNpro- scale with pressureonevery urban amenity workers,who throng these megacities, rush andservice sectors move in sync forsustain- cies awareofanimal rights but ensure RIP BASU DA jected that by 2030, 28 per cent of the world increasing exponentially—morepeople to go backtotheir villages. India,withits ap- able development, whichisinharmonywith that laws arefollowed. population will live in dense, congested means morevehicles, morevehiclesmean proximately72million migrantworkers (in- nature. This will minimise our carbon foot- Bal Govind, Noida THIS refers to theeditorial‘Chhoti Si spaces, jostling forever-dwindling space and needfor moreroads and increasedpollution, cluding their families), is vulnerable to such print. At the same time, it will also minimise Baat’ (IE, June5). Basu Chatterjee’s pass- choked infrastructure. Population densities whichmeanmore hospitals, moreenergy and disruptions as amplydemonstratedin recent social disruption with jobs coming to people PERKSAND STATUS ing away at 90 is an irretrievable loss for have increasedenormously,withtheDharavi morewaste.Eventhe mostrobustmegacities weeks. rather than the other wayround. Newtech- the Indian films.Hepickedupsimple slum in Mumbai registering amind-boggling can easilywitness the“domino” effect where Some of the principal and strong advan- nology,the carbon constraint and disec- THIS REFERS TO the article, ‘Names subjectsabout and forthe common density of 3.75 lakh persons per sq km. aminor and local failureiscompoundedinto tagesclaimedfor megacities with theirsky onomies of congestionand density mustforce and labels’ (IE, June 5). Respect for man who outnumbers the elite. Basu- But COVID-19has raisedthe question: Will acatastrophe.InChina in 2010,due to some scrapers arethe economies of agglomeration us to reviewour urbanisation landscape. workers dependsmoreontheir perks da will be remembered by hundredsof concentrated,high-investment, high-density broken carsand roadrepair work,aminor traf- and the generation of newideas and innova- than the nature of thejob done by his fans at home as well as abroad. citieshaveaprominent place in thenew, ficsnarlexpandedquicklyintoamassivejam tions through multi-disciplinaryinteractions. Kumar is vice chairman NITI Aayog, Singh is them. This is evident from the fact that AzharAKhan, Rampur emerging world? Aretheysuccessful at pro- of 120kilometres onthehighwayconnecting These advantages have been largely nullified CEO of Dr.Kalam Centre,New Delhi. viding an adequatereturn on investment? Inner Mongolia and Beijing. Drivers were left with advances in digital technologies that Viewsare personal

New Delhi WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM 10 EXPRESS NETWORK THEINDIANEXPRESS,MONDAY,JUNE8,2020 Man held for TADOBA-ANDHARI TIGER RESERVE PDP, NC, PC call for Pakistan violates Classifieds supplying arms One tiger killed 5people ceasefire at LoC; to Khalistani Indian troops foil PERSONAL outfit’s members since Feb, say officials release of all J&K leaders infiltration bid I,NO.28162B WING COMMANDER M.MOHAMED Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh’s Anti appliedtoallequally&theselead- IBRAHIM,S/O M.MOHAMED TerroristSquad Sundayar- penedinthe same area, it is most NAVEEDIQBAL Mehbooba ers areallowedtoleave their ADILAKHZER MOHIDEEN,R/O- rested a40-year-old man for VIVEKDESHPANDE likelybythe same tiger. But we SRINAGAR,JUNE7 Mufti has homeswithouttheir‘guards’lock- SRINAGAR,JUNE7 84/15,MUNIYADUVAR NAINAR allegedly supplying weapons NAGPUR,JUNE7 will be able to saythatfor sure been in ing them inside without cause, STREET,PALAYAMKOTTAI, TIRUNELVELI-627002,have to members of the banned onlyafter getting cameraimages FOUR DAYS afterbureaucrat- detention justification or anydetention or- THE ArmyonSundaysaid that changed my minor son’s KhalistanLiberation Force ASINGLE tiger is suspected to tomorrow(Monday),” said turned-politicianShahFaesaland for10 der.” Pakistanviolated ceasefirewith name,fromM.MUHAMMAD (KLF). The accused, Javedfrom have killed as manyasfivepeo- Deputy Conservator of Forests, twosenior PDPmemberswere months Peoples Conference (PC) has unprovokedcross-border firing DHANISH to M.LUHAAM,for Meerut, wasarrestedfrom ple sinceFebruaryinthe core and TATR, Guruprasad. releasedfollowing revocation of also calledfor theimmediatere- at the Line of Control (LoC) in all,futurepurposes. Hapur.Heisfacing eight crim- bufferareas of the Tadoba- Asked whynoorders have their detention under the PSA, leaseof allpoliticalprisonersboth twodistrictsofNorth Kashmir. 0040538888-3 inal cases lodged in Meerut, Andhari TigerReserve(TATR) in been issuedtocapturethe tiger PDPspokespersonSuhailBukhari Kashmir has been releasedsince withinand outsideJ&K. Separately, the Armyalso I,NITA W/ONO-10466463A HAV and one in Punjab, said police. Chandrapur district,accordingto so far—NTCA guidelinesstate raisedtheissueof otherleadersof January—theywereamong sev- PeoplesConferencechairman stated that troops had foiledan DHARAMPAL R/OVPO- According to ATS, Javedand Forest Department officials. that suchordersrequireonlytwo his party still beingheld in deten- eralpoliticalleaderswhowere de- Sajad Lone, senior NC leader infiltration attempt in Nowgam DHODPUR,TEH-SAMALKHA his aide suppliedweapons to The latestincident occurred attacks —Guruprasad said, “The tion. tainedinthe aftermath of the Abdul Rahim Rather,NC sector of KupwaraonJune 3. DISTT-PANIPAT HARYANA- KLF member andgangster on Sundaymorningwhen one firsttwo incidentswereinthe “Wehavebeenasking all August5scrapping of J&K’s spe- spokespersonAgaSyedRuhullah On Sunday’s ceasefireviola- 132101 have changedmy name,fromNITAtoNEETADEVI Dharmendra, aliasGuggni, and Rajesh Dadmal waskillednear corearea, whichisinviolatespace alongforunconditionalreleaseof cial status—thereisagrowing and NC leaders Irfan Shah,Shafi tion, defense spokesperson for all,futurepurposes. his associateSukhpreet Singh Kolaraonthe core-bufferborder. and hence, the tiger can't beseen thepoliticalleadershipacrosspar- clamourforthereleaseof theoth- Uriand Nasir Sogami, and PDP Colonel Rajesh Kalia said: “On 07 0040538888-2 Dhaliwal. Guggni is accusedof Dadmal's killing comes close on as responsible. But we hadsought ties from illegal detention. While ers, including PDP chief Mufti, youth president Waheed-ur- Jun 2020, at about 1100 &1240 shooting RSS leader Brigadier the heels of the killing of Rajyapal advice from the Principal Chief our president and former CM seniorNationalConferenceleader Rehman Para areamong those hours respectively,Pakistanini- I, Mohita Paul W/o Abhijit Paul (Retd) Jagdish Kumar Gagneja Nagose from Bamangaon village ConservatorofForestafter the Mehbooba Mufti has completed AliMohammadSagar,seniorPDP under house arrest sincethey tiated an UnprovokedCeasefire R/oH-1071, Gaur Grandeur,Sector-119,Noida, in Jalandhar in 2016. ENS on June 4. next twoincidents. The fifthone 10 monthsinthisillegaldetention, leader Naeem Akhtar and NC’s were releasedfromSKICC or Violation along the LoC in Keran G.B.Nagar, UP-201301, hereby The series of killings in the happenedbeforewecould take a leaders from other parties likeAli NorthKashmir MP Akbar Lone’s Srinagar’sMLA Hostel. and Rampur Sectors, of Districts inform,that Mohita Abhijit Notice For ‘F’-Form Lost area startedonFebruary15,when call afterthe fourth incident.” Mohammad Sagar alsocontinue son Hilal Lone. All of them arebe- Mehbooba’s daughter Iltija Kupwara&Baramulla. Armyis Paul and Mohita Paul is one It is reported that M/s Diamond India aman from Kolaravillage was With Sunday’s incident, the to be underarrest. Even those re- ing held under the Public Safety Javed, who runs the former CM’s retaliatingbefittingly...” person i.e.myself My correct Limited (Noida Branch) whose TIN killed. It wasfollowedbyaninci- totalnumber of people killedin leasedfromjails have been put in Act(PSA). Twitter account, tweeted: “...bar- Police officials in Baramulla name is Mohita Paul. no.-09665718479, in the name of Form-F- 8copy issued by dent on April 8and another in human-anmal conflict in the detentionintheir homes. This is FormerCMandNC vice-pres- ring afew,mostpoliticalleaders said the shellingstarted in Uri 0040538888-7 Department of Commerce Tax, May. TATR region this year reached14 undemocratic,illegalandunethi- ident Omar Abdullah, who was cuttingacrosspartylinescontinue area of Rampur on Sunday. Noida (Duplicate) form has been I,Ibha Sethi,W/o Kamal submitted to Noida Department and “Earlier,fourincidentshave —one killing wasbyaleopard cal,”Bukhari,Mehbooba’sadviser, released from detentionunder being under house arrest.Their In Kupwara, police officers Sethi,R/o-B-5/450-451, 3rd- the original copy of the same Form-F been causedbythe same tiger as while the others were attributed told The Indian Express. PSAinMarch,has repeatedly unlawful detention is an aberra- said therewerenoreportsofany Floor,Sector-3,Delhi- as stated Have been lost), which were used for transferring goods cameratrapimages have shown. to tigers.Besides, twodeathseach Faesal andtwo PDP leaders— calledfor releaseofall political tion of the law.”She addedthat damagefromthe shellingsofar. 110085,have changedmy from M/s Diamond India Limited minor Son name,from (Hyderabad Branch). If any person Since Sunday's incidentalso hap- have been reportedfrom PeerMansoorandSartajMadni— leaders. He recentlytweeted: the “ad hoc releases of detainees On the infiltration attempt, VaibhavSethi to Babandeep getsit, please inform it to Diamond Gadchiroli, Gondia and were releasedfromdetention on “Disappointed that defies common sense”. an Armystatement said,“On India Limited, A-1, 2nd Floor,Tejpal Singh Sethi,for all,purposes. Singh Market,Block-H, Sector-63, Bhandara districts and one from June 3. However, accordingtoof- @MehboobaMufti, Sagar Sb & CPM central committee night of 3rdJun 20, apatrol of 0040538888-4 Noida (U.P). Nagpur district. The total num- ficialsources, Faesal has been Hilal Lone continuetobede- member MYTarigami said that Indian Armyalong LoC in The details of the lost Form-F are as berofpeople dying in human- placedunder housearrestalong- tained. It’s high time theyare set prolongeddetentionsareasignof Naugam... spotted agroup of I, HAV DARSHANSINGH ARMY follows- NO-4475409P R/OVILL- F- Form No- 0003025 dt 03/11/2016 animal conflict in Vidarbha side almost adozen other politi- free as well. Not tomention the “howthingsremainfarfromnor- Pakistani terrorists trying to in- for amount of Rs. 137089050/- ISSAPUR PO-BHUDANTEH- F- Form No- 0003026 dt 23/11/2016 stands at 21.Interestingly, 11 of cal leaders. manyothersunder informal mal in Kashmir” despiteNew filtrate... On being challenged, DHURI DIST-SANGRUR(P) PIN- for amount of Rs. 275381736/- these killings have occurreddur- Whileamajority of the politi- ‘house arrest’for the last10 Delhi’s claims. He, too, calledfor the infiltrators retrieved back 148023 HEAR BY INFORM THAT F- Form No- 0081385 dt 19/12/2016 for amount of Rs. 102870349/- ing the nationwide lockdown. cal leadership of Jammu and months.It’stimetheruleoflaw is release of political leaders. under the coverofdarkness.” MY SON NAME ARASHDEEP F- Form No- 0081386 dt 19/12/2016 SINGH TO ARSHDEEP SINGH for amount of Rs. 51435174/- FORALL FUTURE PURPOSES F- Form No- 0081387 dt 07/12/2016 BOTH NAME BELONGS TO for amount of Rs. 137792785/- F- Form No- 0081390 dt 21/12/2016 Digvijaya: Scindia won’t get same respect SAME PERSON. 0040538888-1 for amount of Rs. 178721034/- F- Form No- 0081391 dt 21/12/2016 I, Vineet Kathuria, S/O for amount of Rs. 76594729/- in BJP duetoanti-RSS commentsinpast M.K.Kathuria R/OD-57 FF, F- Form No- 0081392 dt 01/12/2016 Lakewood City,Surajkund for amount of Rs. 137089050/- Road, Faridabad-121009, have “Maybeyou were in ahurry who defected to BJP,allegedly af- changed my minor son’s name MILINDGHATWAI to getintoNarendra Modi’s min- terbeing offeredsums in excess from RaaghavKathuriato Rraghav Kathuria for all BHOPAL,JUNE7 istry,”Singh said, adding that the of Rs 30 crore. purposes. 0050165227-1 voters will“teachalesson”to Singh also claimedhehad CONGRESS LEADER and former those who brought down the conveyedtoScindiathatwhile I, Neeraj Kumar Dhingra S/o. Late Sh.Krishan lal Dhingra Madhya Pradesh chief minister Kamal Nath-ledCongress gov- both he and Nath areintheir 70s R/o. 6/7 2nd Floor Double Digvijaya Singh on Sundaysaid ernment alesson in the ensuing and would soon fade away,the Storey JangpuraExtn New JyotiradityaScindiawon’tget the by-elections to 24 seats. former Guna MP had two-three Delhi -110014 have changed same respect and treatment in When asked whether the decades of active politics before my nametoNeeraj Dhingrafor the BJP as he got in the Congress Congress would shiftits MLAs in him. all purposes. 0040538827-1 because he had spoken out the statetoresorts ahead of the Recalling that former Prime againstthe RSS in the past. RajyaSabhaelections, Singh said, MinisterRajiv Gandhi had LOST & FOUND Addressing avirtual press “Those who could be bought brought the anti-defection law, conference, Singh said that over have already gone,” refer- Singh said the lawshould now I,Subhash,S/o Sunder Lal,R/o- 169,G.Floor.,Dr.Mukherjee- Scindia waslikehis son. He said, ring to theparty’s leaders and be amendedagain to ban peo- Nagar Delhi,have Lost my “When he (Scindia) waswiththe legislators, ledbyScindia,who ple’s representativeswho Original-ConveyanceDeedon Congress, he had asay in ap- switched over to the BJP,bring- changeparties from contesting the Name of Sunder Lal and pointing district presidents from ing down theNath government forsix years. Jama Devi and other Morena to Mandsaur.Noother in March. Singh also accusedTulsiram Important-Documents RealetedtoPrpopery.Finder leader got the same respect in “Thereare manylegislators Silawatand Govind Singh Contact-Above the Congress as youdid. It won’t forwhomevenRs1crore means Rajput —two Scindia support- Address.#8527990158. happen nowbecausethe RSS alot,but theydid notsuccumb ers who arenow in Shivraj 0040538888-5 calls the shots in the BJP and you even when offeredhugesums,” Singh Chouhan’s cabinet—of have criticiseditinthe past.” he said, taking adig at the MLAs corruption. I,Pradeep Sehrawat,S/O BS Sehrawat,C-1601,Emaar Palm drive,sector-66, Gurgaon.,Have lostmyBuilder Buyer- TAMIL NADU GENERATION AND DISTRIbUTION CORPORATION LTD. agreement &Payment-Receipt NOTICE INVITINGTENDERS (E-TENDERING PROCESS) papers on the name of Pradeep Sl. No Tender Inviting Authority Specification No. Total Sehrawat and my wife Geeta Shokeen and Payments- 1 SE/M-II/NCTPS-2 13 1 receiptsfor the same.Finder- Fordetails of works/Procurement/Due date of submission/opening, contact-8130873176. 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Howmany migrant SIMPLY PUT QUESTION &ANSWER workers displaced? Behind Lancet’s retraction

Afterpublishing astudy raising questionsonhydroxychloroquine’s efficacy againstCovid-19, The Lancet Arange of estimates has issuedaretraction. What ledtothis, andwhat questionsdoes it raiseabout the peer reviewprocess?

SEEMACHISHTI sive to criticism, and enforce this same stan- NEWDELHI,JUNE7 ABANTIKAGHOSH dardonauthors. Thealternative is morere- NEWDELHI,JUNE7 tractions, moremissteps,morewastedtime, moreloss of public trust…and moredeath.” APROBLEM in dealing with issues relating The Covid-19pandemic has givenrise to a to migrantlabourafterthelockdownwasan- LAST WEEK, TheLancet publishedaretrac- global hungerfor scientificworkand arush of nouncedon March 25 has been the absence tion from three of four authors of astudy that medicaljournalstogetresearch published.The of firmestimatesofthenumberof displaced. had said neither chloroquine nor hydroxy- compulsive needamong researchers to pub- VARIOUS GOVT ESTIMATES: Last chloroquine (HCQ) with antibiotics hold any lish papers, or perish, is calledthe Darsee week,the ChiefLabour Commissioner put significant promise as atreatment forCovid- Syndrome,afterJohnDarsee,aresearcherwho the figureat26lakhmigrantsstranded 19.The WorldHealth Organization (WHO), wasconsidered extremelybright early in his across the country, of whom 10%are said which had suspendedenrolment forthe career,beforebeing accusedofdatafraud. to be in relief camps, 43% on work sites and HCQ arm of the Solidarity Trialfollowing the Said Dr KSReddy,president of the Public 46%inother clusters. The Solicitor General, original study,has reinstateditfollowing the Health FoundationofIndia, member of the on the other hand, informedthe Supreme retraction. Solidarity is an internationalclin- Indian Council of Medical Research’s Covid-19 Court of 97 lakh who had been transported ical trial on possible Covid-19treatments, in- taskforceandmemberof theexecutivegroupof backhome. cluding HCQ, whichisanantimalarial drug. the international steering committee of the Amongthe states, UP has said21.69 India has continuedtorepose itsfaithinHCQ, Solidarity Trial, “Scientific publications depend lakh workers had returned, and UP itself while US President Donald Trumpclaims to onrigorous,unbiasedandknowledgeablepeer had sent back1.35lakh. Bihar has said 10 use it himself. reviews by experts supplementedbythe jour- lakh had returned; Maharashtrahas said nal’seditorial team. Slip-ups can occur at any 11 lakh have leftthe state. Gujarat said 20.5 Workers forChhattisgarh stuckin What wasthe studyand whywas it Hydroxychloroquine, nowreinstated in WHOSolidarity Trial. Reuters stageinthisprocess…Whenexpeditedreviews lakh had gone backhome. West Bengal said Amritsar,onJune 2. PTI retracted? areconductedatagreat rush, in the Covid-19 3,97,389 migrant workers from other states In the study on chloroquine andHCQ era, the chances of aslip-up increase. The con- were still stranded. Karnataka said in court withantibiotics, the authors had written: ing program and data analyticsplatform. authors were notgranted accesstothe raw sequencescanbeharmfulif theerrorsareuncor- that thestate had facilitated thereturn of 3inMay,withShramik trains (5 million “Eachofthese drug regimens wasassociated Surgispheredirectlyintegrates withthe dataand the rawdatacould notbemadeavail- rected.However, the beauty of science is that it 3lakh migrant workers. people) and road transportoptions sawthe with decreasedin-hospital survivaland an EHRs of our hospital customers to provide able to athird-party auditor,weare unable to canquicklyself-correct…Lessonswillbelearnt Scholars and those watching migration maximum exodus, with 20 million as a increasedfrequency of ventriculararrhyth- them actionable datainsightstoimprove ef- validatethe primarydatasources underlying but respect forscience mustgoupand notdi- estimatethose dislocated to be manymore. very conservative figure, mostofwhichis mias when usedfor treatment of COVID-19.” ficiency and effectiveness.” our article, ‘Cardiovascular Disease,Drug minish as aresult of this controversy.” The Economic Survey of 2017 has a inter-state migration.” He regardsthe Following the retraction by three of the Surgispherehas stood by theintegrity of Therapy, and Mortality in Covid-19’.” The two chapter, ‘India On the Move and Churning: Shramik trains as useful to help measure authors, TheLancet wrote: “Theywereun- itsdataevenwhile refusing to give access to studies have three authors in common. What is the status of HCQ now? New Evidence’, whichisregarded as an im- “becauseit’sthe only firm number avail- able to complete an independent audit of the it to peer reviewers citing client confidential- While the WHO has reinstatedthe HCQ portant government document that looks able,across states.” dataunderpinning their analysis. As aresult, ity agreements. “One of the coreprincipals What is the messagefromthe arm of itstrial, India has neverwavered from at the number of internal migrantsthen or PROF AMITABH KUNDU &COL- theyhaveconcludedthat they‘can no longer at Surgisphereisbasedaround dataintegrity. controversy? itsfaithinthe drug as atreatment and apro- labour that travels to cities from rural India LEAGUES,2.2 CR: The economistand de- vouchfor theveracityofthe primarydata Another is centered on datasecurity.Our en- The retractions have exposedgaps in the phylactic forCovid-19. India weathered The in spurts.UsinganewCohort-based mographer,along withKVergheseand sources’… Thereare manyoutstanding ques- tireISO 9001:2015 and ISO 27001:2013 cer- peer reviewprocess.Itisusuallyanunpaid job Lancetstudy,citingits owndatatojustify the Migration Metric (CMM) and railway data, Khalid Khan, has made estimates of “inter- tions about Surgisphereand the datathat tificateand various auditsthat we have com- forresearchers who aresparing time forwork use of the drug. it put interstate migration at 60 million. statemigrants who have been economi- were allegedly includedinthis study. pletedall focus on these twofoundationsof that carries no credit. Checksand balances that Meanwhile, investigators in the Recovery “The first-everestimates of internal callydestabilisedduring March-April 2020. Following guidelines from theCommittee the company, and the dataacquisition, ware- can call out fudged dataare very few. Trial at the University of Oxfordhavean- work-relatedmigration using railways data The estimated number is 22 million (the on PublicationEthics (COPE) and housing, analytics, and reporting processes James Heathers, aresearchscientist at nouncedthat theywould stop enrolment for forthe period 2011-2016 indicate an annual break up being 16 million internal migrants International Committee of Medical Journal that relatetothem. It is vitallyimportant that Northeastern University in Bostonwrotein the HCQ arm as no benefitshavebeen found averageflowofclose to 9millionpeoplebe- and 6million short-durationmigrants Editors (ICMJE),institutional reviews of our colleaguesaround the worldunderstand The Guardian:“The immediatesolution to of the drug. Peter Horby, chief investigator of tweenthe states. Both theseestimatesare destabilised).” But notall of these have re- Surgisphere’s research collaborations areur- the validity of our database as it relates to this problem of extreme opacity,whichal- the trial, said: “Hydroxychloroquine and significantlygreater than the annual aver- turned. “Of these, about 12 millionhavere- gentlyneeded.” Alongsidethe note appears those functions, especiallywhere thedata lows flawed papers to hide in plain sight,has chloroquine have receivedalot of attention agenumberofabout 3.3 million suggested turned. Possibly60% of therestwould stay an interestdisclosurelistthatissignificantly comes from, the database, and the statistical been advocated foryears: requiremore and have been used very widelytotreat by successive Censuses and higher than back.About 4million would stillwantgo longer than the one in the original study. analysis,” the companysaid in astatement transparency,mandatemorescrutiny. COVID patientsdespitethe absence of any previouslyestimatedbyany study.” backbeforethe kharif seasonharvesting following an earlier expression of concern by Prioritise publishing paperswhichpresent good evidence. The RECOVERYtrial has Dr Arvind Subramanian, then the Chief begins, unless thereissudden spurtinur- What is Surgisphere? The Lancet on the HCQstudy. dataand analytical code alongside amanu- shown that hydroxychloroquine is notanef- Economic Adviser,now said, “Dataonmi- ban economyinthe next couple of weeks.” It is aChicago-basedfirm thatcollates Therehas been another retracted study script.Re-analysepapers fortheir accuracy fective treatment in patients hospitalised grants(suchaswecompiledearlier) can be DR NOMAN MAAJID, 5MN: He works data. Itswebsitesays,“The Surgispherereg- (notrelated to HCQ), againwith data from before publication, instead of justassessing with COVID- 19.Although it is disappointing ausefulanalyticaltoolgoingforwardtotrack withthe ILODecentWorkTeam forSouth istryisanaggregation of the deidentified Surgisphere. The NewEngland Journal of their potential importance. Engageexpert that this treatment hasbeen shown to be in- the magnitude and directionofmigrants. it Asia. In apaper forThe India Forum, he electronic health records of customers of Medicine has printed aretraction note fora statistical reviewers wherenecessary, pay effective,itdoes allowustofocuscareand can also beaveryuseful input intocomplet- said: “The overall number… is likelytobe QuartzClinical, Surgisphere’s machine learn- study itpublishedlastmonth:“Because all the them if youmust. Be immediatelyrespon- research on morepromising drugs.” ingthejaminfrastructure.forexample,if we around 5million in the firstwave—per- knowthe most important source and desti- sons who find themselveswithout shelter nation of migrantsthat could help prioritize andhavebeen mostlycasuallyemployed.” wheretofocus policy effortstomakesure Dr Tariq Thachil, who has studiedmi- CORONAVIRUS DASHBOARD INDIA COUNT: 246,628 (6,929 DEATHS) thereisfull financial inclusion.” He has not grant populations and heads theCentrefor doneanyrecentestimates,butcitedthework AdvancedStudy of India at University of RESTOFINDIA THE WORLD TOP10STATES ArunachalPradesh47 of Ahmedabad-basedscholar Chinmay Pennsylvania, said the inability to put a Assam 2397 Tumbe, who has been working on migrant number suggests the neglect theyhaveal- Chandigarh 309 labour in India as reliable. ready been victims of. “Weare seeing con- 287,621 185,750 234,998 467,073 Chhattisgarh 923 United Kingdom Germany Italy Russia DadarNagarHaveli19 CHINMAYTUMBE, 3CR: He puts siderable variations in the estimates of the 10,331 27,654 Delhi Goa 267 India’sreverse migration since mid-March size of the population —Ihaveseen figures Rajasthan Haryana 3952 9,237 UP HimachalPradesh 400 “conservatively at 30 millionor3crore or ranging from 50-150 million. Ithink efforts JammuandKashmir3467 15-20% of the urban workforce”. This is to use Shramik trains data(by scholars like Jharkhand 1000 conservative becausealot of intra-state mi- ChimneyTumbe) areagain useful in pro- 190,759 Karnataka5213 France Kerala 1807 gration is notaccountedfor.Heisnot so viding aconservative estimateofthe size 1,925,503 9,228 Ladakh 99 sureiftrain journeys areagood approxi- of migration,but again such figures are 19,592 MP 7,738 Manipur 157 US Gujarat Meghalaya 33 mation, because mostreturnedbyroad necessarilylimited —moreuseful as illus- West Bengal Mizoram 24 rather than rail. trations of the importance of circular mi- 191,758 Peru 4,915 Nagaland 107 “Phase 1, justbeforethe lockdown, saw gration in India than firm countsofthe cir- 82,968 Bihar Odisha 2781 Maharashtra Puducherry 99 peoplegobackfor Holi. Aconservative es- cularmigrant population. None of this 254,340 672,846 India Punjab 2515 timateof5million basedonold passenger should detract from the point that the cri- Brazil 241,550 30,152 4,510 Sikkim 7 TamilNadu Andhra Pradesh trafficdataasthe number that stayed on, sis onlyconfirmsthe neglect ofthese com- Spain Telangana3496 Tripura 747 mostlywithin-statemigration. Phase 2 munities from both state and society,be- Uttarakhand 1303 (March 25-April 30) startedwith arush, es- fore and during the pandemic. This neglect TOTALCONFIRMED:6,944,916 DEATHCOUNT:400,792 pecially from Delhi and other places where is clearly intertwined with our lackofabil- Union Health Ministry update as of 11 pm, June 7. Some states may have reported higher some stategovernments did arrangefor ity and willingness to invest in accurately Source: Johns Hopkins University,updated at 11 pm on June 7.JHU’s India tally andHealth numbers. Only states/UTs with at least one case listed above. buses. Basedonnumerous reports on this capturing the size of these populations (for Ministry’s tally (below)may notmatch as these areaccounted at different times. 104,107PATIENTS DISCHARGED IN 33 STATES AND UNION TERRITORIES and district-border crossings, Iestimate5 example, the NSS estimates mostscholars million as averyconservative number, continue to use on migration still come Have aquestion on the COVID-19outbreak and whatyou should/should notdo? [email protected] mostlywithin-state migration. ForPhase from 2007-8).” Assamgasleak:whyit’stoughtoplug,andwhatthreatitposestoarea

maybedisturbedleadingto ‘kicks’orchanges catchfire. “Sheer magnitudeofthe event 3,000people have been evacuated to relief TORAAGARWALA inpressure.If thesearenot controlledintime, invites specialists to douse the fire,” camps. Thereare reports of deathsofariver GUWAHATI,JUNE7 the ‘kicks’can turn intoasudden blowout. Professor Lahirisaid. dolphin, and avariety of fish. While the ad- “The forcewith whichapressurecooker re- ministration has kept an ambulance with SINCE THE morning of May27, natural gas leasessteamisunderstandable.Imagineasit- What is being done? paramedical staffonstandby,localshave has been continuouslyflowing out of agas uation whereone millionpressurecookers Acrisis management team from OILand complainedofsymptoms suchasburning well in Assam following ablowout —ora dothesameinanuncontrolledmanner,”said ONGC intend to create awater umbrella to of eyes, headache etc. sudden,uncontrolledreleaseofgas/oil. geologistSiddhartha Kumar Lahiri of protect workers while theyhook up the As per Assam Pollution Control Board With authorities unable to control it,ex- DibrugarhUniversity.Hecited manypossi- blowout preventer.“With very limited chairman, YSuryanarayana, the gas— perts from aSingaporefirm reachedAssam blereasonsbehind blowouts, “from simple space and non-availability of open space whichisamix of propane, methane, propy- today. Meanwhile, people from surround- lackofattention,poor workmanship,bad above the well head, placement of the BOP lene and other gases —isflowing with the ing villages have been evacuated,while a maintenance, old age, sabotage to morpho- is ahugechallenge andentails ahugerisk. wind, towardsthe northeast. “That is ara- variety of fish and an endangered Gangetic tectonic factors”. It is plannedtoplace the BOPonthe well dius up to 5kmand condensateismostly dolphin have died. Adevice calledablowout preventer is head through ahydraulicallydrivenme- falling on bamboo, teagardens, banana usuallyinstalledinwells. chanical transporter,”OIL said in arelease trees and betelnut trees,” he said. Whereisthe oil rig? The gaswell at Baghjanwas being serv- on Sunday. Drilling mud will have to be While the well is outside the Eco TheBaghjan5wellisapurelygas-produc- iced, and anew sand wasbeingtestedatan- pumpedinimmediatelyafter cappingthe Sensitive Zone of the park, Tinsukia’s divi- ing well in Tinsukia district, and is at an aerial other depth in the same well. “Wewerealso well by the BOP. sional forest officers (wildlife), Rajendra distance of 900metresfromthe Dibru- repairingthe existing well-head (the ex- About thewater umbrella,Hazarika Singh Bharti said the boundarydoes not Saikhowa NationalPark. It wasdrilledbyOil posedtop portion),” said Hazarika. said: “For thatwehavehad to build atem- matter since the gasismoving through the IndiaLimited(OIL)in2006.Itproducesaround “Torepair the well-head, youneedto Gas leaksout of the well in the background, at Baghjan. Imon Abedin poraryreservoir,channelcables or tempo- air.“Condensateisfalling intoDibru- 80,000standardcubicmetresperday(SCMD) temporarily‘kill the well’ or shut down the rary pipelinesfromthe Dangori river Saikhowa NationalParktoo,” he said. of gasfromadepthof 3,870 metres.Asperof- producing zone,”said Hazarika. “The nearby”. Also close is the Maguri-Motapung wet- ficials,thecurrentdischarge isat90,000SCMD blowout preventer wasalso removed, since blowoutshavehappenedinAssam: at an things: the size of the reservoir and the OIL has reachedout to Singapore-based land—an Important BirdAreanotifiedby at apressureof4,200 PSI, farhigherthan the we were in the process of repairing the OIL-ownedoil well in Dikhom (Dibrugarh) pressureatwhichthe gas/oil is flowing out. firm AlertDisasterControl, whose experts the Bombay Natural History Society.“The normal producing pressureofaround 2,700 well-head. But suddenly, gasstarted to ooze in 2005 and an ONGC-ownedoil well in This reservoir wasparticularly difficult to arrivedinthe stateonSunday. OIL said that parkisfamous forits birds, butterflies,wild PSI. “It’saverygoodreservoir,oneof themost out of the exposedwell. Before anyone Rudrasagar in the 1970s. The latter took control since it wasagaswell and ranthe theywillcarry outthe firstinspection of cats, and feralhorses,” said Bharti. “The im- prolific gasreservoirs ownedbyOIL,” said could do anything, it brokethrough our ce- three months to contain. risk of catching fire at any point”. Baghjan gaswell on Monday. pact is visible in thesensethat youcan see TridivHazarika, spokesperson of OIL. ment barrier,” he said. “Howand whyit While manyblowoutsautomatically traces of condensateonthe waterbodies, happened,how the gascame out of the Whyisitsodifficulttocontrol? collapse on their own, it can take up to Howserious is the impact to the the numbers of birds have decreased,” said Whydoblowoutshappen? ‘killedzone’ is what we areinquiring into.” According to aGuwahati-basedexpert, months. To control ablowout, the firststep neighbourhood? Bharti, “Not because theyhavebeen killed Sometimes,thepressurebalanceinawell In the recent past, twocomparable “the control of ablowout depends on two is to pumpinwater,sothat thegas does not As manyas1,610 families with 2,500- but because theyhaveflown away.”

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TOPOFTHE COVID-19 PANDEMIC WORLD Peacefulprotestsswellacross No cover-up, no delay: China defends USinunifiedpushforreforms virus response in Demonstrations from around thecountrycoalesce into nationwidemovement forracial justice new lengthy report THENEWYORKTIMES JUNE7 GLOBALTOLL ISRAEL KENMORITSUGU Netanyahu DEMONSTRATIONS THATbegan BEIJING,JUNE7 as spontaneous eruptions of out- THEGLOBALCOVID-19 sayskillingof rage afterthe deathofGeorge SENIOR CHINESE officials re- DEATHTOLLCROSSED Floyd at the hands of the leasedalengthy report Sunday Palestinianwith Minneapolispolicetwo weeksago on the nation’s response to the autismatragedy coalescedthis weekend intoana- coronavirus pandemic,defend- tionwide movement calling for ing their government’s actions Jerusalem: Israeli Prime police reforms and racial justice. and sayingthat China had pro- 4lakhs MinisterBenjamin Tens of thousands gathered vided information in atimely Netanyahu on Sunday in big cities likeNew York and and transparent manner. ■ The worldwide death toll calledthe deadlypolice Seattle and small towns like China “wastednotime” in from Covid-19has surpassed shooting of an unarmed Vidor,Texas, and Marion,Ohio — sharing information suchasthe 4,00,000,according to atally Palestinian man with in swelling crowds that have genome sequencefor the new by Johns Hopkins University autism a“tragedy,”al- been multiethnic, spanning gen- virus with the WorldHealth that health expertssay is still though he stoppedshort erations and overwhelmingly Organization as well as relevant an undercountbecause many of apologizing forthe in- peaceful. The movement has also countries and regional organiza- who died were nottestedfor cident. Netanyahu’s re- spread around the world, with tions, according to the report. thevirus. Worldwide, at least marks were the firsthe’s proteststhis weekend in Africa, AnAssociatedPressinvestiga- 6.9 millionpeople have been made since police in Asia, Australia and Europe. tion found that government labs infected by the virus, Jerusalem’s Old City shot The calls forchange come as sat on releasingthe geneticmap according to JohnsHopkins. and killedEyadHallaq United States faces itsstarkest of the virus formorethanaweek lastweek.The 32-year- economic crisis since the Great in January, delaying itsidentifica- old Palestinian with se- Depression, largely theresult of tion in athirdcountryand the Brazil stops vere autism waschased measures put in place to limit Protesters walk down Capitol Hill in Washington DC on Saturday. Reuters sharing of information neededto by Israeli border police the spread of the coronavirus, developtests,drugsandavaccine. releasing deaths, forces intoanook in whichhas claimedmorethan National Health Commission Jerusalem’sOld City and 110,000 livesinthe country. ChairmanMaXiaoweididnotad- infections data fatallyshotashecowered Both the economic and the Anti-racism protesters rally dress the specific findings in the next to agarbagebin af- health crises have dispropor- Reformfaces AP report, but said it “seriously BRAZIL’S GOVERNMENT has terapparentlybeing mis- tionatelyhurtblacks andother goes againstthe facts.” He added stoppedpublishing arunning to- takenfor an attacker. The minorities especiallyand high- in Europe again, topple statue toughopposition that thereweremanyunknowns talofcoronavirus deaths and in- shooting has drawncom- lightedthe nation’s persistent in the early stageofthe outbreak fections in an extraordinary parisons to thedeath of social inequalities. Minnesota on May25. THERE HAVE been attempts and thatit took time to gatherev- move that critics call an attempt George Floyd in the US. Although policing is largely a PANPYLAS, In London, thousandsofpeo- at significantpolice reform idence and figureout the charac- to hide thetrue toll of the disease local matter —and some cities FRANKJORDANS& ple congregated around the US in manyUScities in recent teristics of the newvirus. in Latin America’s largest nation. and states have begun acting on FRANCESD'EMILIO embassy forthe second dayrun- years that have been “The Chinese government The move cameafter months of calls forreform —one common LONDON,JUNE7 ning, making cleartheir message thwartedbypolice unions, did notdelayorcover up any- criticism from experts saying PALESTINE theme has bound the demonstra- wasn't justaimedatAmerica. whichare one of the tough- thing,” he said. “Instead, we have Brazil’s statisticsare woefullyde- Formerlongtime tions together:Blacklivesmatter. THOUSANDS OF people took to ArallyinRome'ssprawling estroadblocks to police re- immediatelyreportedvirus data ficient, and in some cases manip- Across NewYorkCity, peace- the streetsofEuropean cities People's Squarewas noisybut form in the US, according to and relevant information about ulated.Brazil’s lastofficial num- Palestinian ful demonstrators defiedan8 Sundaytoshowtheir support for peaceful, with the majority of a NewYorkTimes report. the epidemictothe international bers showedithad recorded pm curfew.But aftermorethan the BlackLives Matter move- protesters wearingmasksto pro- Police unions have used community and made an impor- over 34,000deaths related to the IslamicJihad aweek of imagesfloodingsocial ment,with protesters in the At aprotestinBerlin. AP tect againstcoronavirus. their clout in legislative bod- tant contributiontothe preven- coronavirus, the third-highest leaderdies media of the police cornering, English portofBristolventing In Italy’s financial capital, ies, fought multiple legal tion and control of the epidemic number in the world, justahead roughlyarresting and some- their anger at the country's colo- Milan, afew thousand protesters battles, and even told mem- around the world.” AP of Italy. REUTERS Gaza City: The former times beating protesters while nial history by toppling astatue and roars of approval from the gathered in asquareoutside the bers to nottakechanges to head of the Palestinian trying to clear the streets, the po- of a17th-centuryslave trader. crowd. Imagesonsocialmedia centraltrainstationSundayafter- procedureseriously, in at- Islamic Jihad movement lice took adifferent postureon Demonstratorsattachedropes showprotestersappearing to noon. Manyinthe crowdwere tempts to thwartreforms, diedSaturdaynight after Saturday, allowing peaceful to the statueofEdwardColston kneel on Colston's neck, recall- migrantsorchildren of migrants the reportsaid. along illness.Hewas 62. marches long intothe night. before pullingitdowntocheers ing the death of George Floyd in of African origin. AP Ramadan Shalah had ManyofSaturday’sgatherings been in acoma formore were largerthan previous rallies, than three years after especiallythe oneinWashington. heartsurgery,the group Although Saturday’s demon- White House-Pentagon tensions deepen said. It didn'tsay where strations were overwhelmingly he died, but he is believed peaceful, PresidentTrumpcon- the use of militaryhelicopters in their rotorblades sent protesters chairman of the Joint Chiefsof to have been in Lebanon. tinuedtohammerhome afa- THENEWYORKTIMES the nation’s capital on Monday. scurrying forcover and ripped Staff,triedtopersuadeTrumpthat Shalahled theIranian- miliar message. “LAW &OR- JUNE7 TopPentagon officials ordered signsfromthe sides of buildings. active-duty troops should notbe backedgroup forover20 DER!” he wroteonTwitter on NationalGuardhelicopters to use Thepilotsof oneofthehelicopters sentintothestreetstoimposeor- years, afterits founder, Saturdayevening. US PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s what theycalled“persistentpres- have beengroundedpendingthe der.Trump’sthreatto usethe1807 Fathi Shikaki, wasshot The capital’s mayor, Muriel threat to deployfederal troops in ence”todisperse protests in the outcomeofthe inquiry. Insurrection Acttosendactive- dead in Malta in an attack Bowser,has givenher ownre- citieshas continuedtoroil capital this pastweek, according The high-profile episode was dutytroopsonUSsoilagainstpro- widelyattributedto sponse to the protests:She re- Washingtonastensions between to militaryofficials. aturningpointinthemilitary’sre- testershaslaidbareachasminthe Xu Lin,vice head of the Publicity Department of the Israel. In 2018,the group named an area outside the the WhiteHouseand the As twoArmyNational Guard sponse to theunrest. nationalsecuritycommunitythat CommunistParty,shows acopyofthe whitepaper on namedShalah's deputy, White House “Black Lives Pentagon escalatedand the Army helicoptersflewlow overdemon- Senior Pentagon officials, in- wassurfacingevenwhen he ran fighting Covid-19. AP Ziad al-Nakhalah,asa Matter Plaza.” launchedaninvestigation into strators,thedownward blastfrom cluding Gen MarkMilley, the foroffice in 2016. newleader. PAKISTAN 2lawyers, protests and aMolotov cocktail Protestersurged UK should have gone into Pakapproves to get tested $7.2bnrailway for coronavirus lockdown sooner, govt lineupgrade NICOLEHONG& Accusedofthrowing aMolotovcocktail at apolice WILLIAMK.RASHBAUM car,the twolawyers, who were otherwise role JUNE7 scientific adviser says underCPEC models in their communities, raise questions ASSOCIATEDPRESS Islamabad: Pakistanhas THE DAYbeforehewent outto regarding howdeep disillusionment is among NEWYORK,JUNE7 the lockdown and protecting the approved the strategic protest, ColinfordMattis, 32, an people of colour following George Floyd’s death. REUTERS elderly in carehomes. $7.2 billion railway line Ivy-educatedcorporatelawyerin AS NEW York City prepared to LONDON,JUNE7 Despitereservations from upgradation project be- Brooklyn,chattedforoveranhour reopen afteramorethan two- some of itsown scientific advis- tween Peshawarand on the phone with aclose high Theirarrestsshortlyafterwere theyactoutof adeeper,darkerdis- month coronavirus shutdown, BRITAIN’S FAILURE to impose a ers, the government is noweas- Karachi under the CPEC, school friend.Theydiscussed Brooklyn lawyers Colinford astartling turnfor thetwo,who illusionmentwiththepoliticalsys- officials on Sundayliftedacur- nationwidelockdown to tackle ing nationwide lockdown meas- paving the wayfor thefi- GeorgeFloyd’s death as just “an- Mattis and Urooj Rahman, were otherwise role models in teminthe wake of Floyd’s death? fewthatwas put in place amid thespreadofthe coronavirus ures whichhaveclosedmuchof nal negotiations with other example of an unarmed aftertheywerearrested. AP their communities. Both children AportraitofMattis and protestsofpolicebrutality and sooner has costmanylives,one the economysince March 23. Chinafor the finance, a blackperson being killed,” the of immigrants, theyrosefrom Rahman wasassembledfromin- racial injustice. But theyalso of thegovernment’s scientific Askedduring an interviewon media reportsaid on friend said, but theyalso talked working-class Brooklyn neigh- terviews with morethan three urgedthat demonstrators be advisers said on Sunday. BBCTVwhatregretshehadabout Sunday. The approval of about groceryshopping. The pair took to the streetson bourhoods to win along listof dozen of their friends, relatives, tested forCovid-19. Britain is one of the worst-hit thehandlingof theoutbreak,John the project to upgrade the The next afternoon, Urooj May29withthousands of New awards and leadershippositions. colleagues, neighbours and for- “Getatest. Getatest,” New countries in the world, with a Edmunds, amember of the gov- 1,872km-long railway Rahman, 31,who is also alawyer Yorkers who were voicing their Mattis graduated from Princeton mer professors. Those who knew York Gov. Andrew Cuomourged deathtoll of more than 50,000 ernment’s Scientific Advisory trackfromPeshawarto and Mattis’s close friend, at- outrageoverFloyd’sdeath.But and New York University Law the twowell said theyhad long people who have been partici- from Covid-19,accordingtoa Group forEmergencies (SAGE), Karachi is abig milestone tendedaZoom talk about build- aftermidnight, police officers School, while Rahman went to been passionateabout social jus- pating in rallies and marches. He Reuters tallythisweek basedon said: “Weshould have gone into forthe second phase of ing “solidarity movements” be- spottedthem in atan minivan Fordham University forcollege tice issues and had expressed said the stateplannedtoopen15 official sources. lockdownearlier.” “The datawe the China Pakistan tween people of colour.Rahman driving through the Fort Greene and lawschool. frustration over Floyd’s death, but testing sites dedicatedto protest- Critics from abroad spec- were dealingwithintheearly part Economic Corridor had recentlyfinished fasting for neighbourhood of Brooklyn. At Alittle over aweekafter their nevershowedadesiretocommit erssotheycan getresultsquickly. trum including medical profes- of March andour situational (CPEC), said Lieutenant Ramzan and wascaring forher one point, Rahman climbed out, arrests, it is difficult to draw con- violence. Investigators appear to “I would act as if youwereex- sionals, scientists and lawmak- awareness wasreallyquitepoor General (retired)Asim mother at home,alsoinBrooklyn. walked toward an emptypolice clusions about their motivations. have found no evidence of any posed, and Iwould tell people ers, saythe government has so Ithinkitwould have been very Saleem Bajwa, chairman Whathappened next came patrol car and threw aMolotov If thechargesprove to be true, ties to violent groups,and pros- youare interacting with, assume botchedits response to the out- hardtopull the trigger at that of the CPEC Authority. as asurprise to manywho know cocktail through itsbrokenwin- were thetwospurredbyanill-ad- ecutors did notoffer amotivein Iampositive forthe virus,” break by being tooslowinim- pointbut Iwish we had ...Ithink thetwo young lawyers. dow, prosecutors said. vised moment of anger —ordid court filings. NYT Cuomo added. posing crucial measures suchas that has costalot of lives.”

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THEINDIANEXPRESS,MONDAY,JUNE8,2020 Fuel Wa tch ‘UNLOCK 1.0 TO REVIVE FUEL SALES’ NewDelhi: We eksafter the coronavirus lockdownled to fuel sales nosediving to record lows,Indian Oil Corp (IOC), the nation’s largest oil firm, sees demand returning with the resumption of 13 ECONOMY PTI economic activities.

NET INVESTMENT BY OVERSEAS INVESTORS BETWEENJUN 1&5AT`18,613 CR INTERVIEW WITH NEW CII PRESIDENT UDAY KOTAK ‘Last thing we want at thetime of FPIsinvest`20,814croreinequitiesina ahealth crisis is to do something week,pullout`2.2Kcrfromdebtsegment thatcreates afinancial crisis’ THE CORONAVIRUSpandemic ready at 12 per cent (Centreand reflectedthe strong global cues themarketsand the economy,” has brought economic activity states combined) and we have to ENSECONOMICBUREAU INVESTMENTSMAINLYINBLUECHIPCOMPANIES despitethe rising number of he further said. across the countrytoanear halt. UNLOCKING THE keepin mind thatthereare finan- MUMBAI,JUNE7 COVID-19infections. The coronavirus situation is Having takenoverasthe presi- cial stabilityissues.So howdowe ■Prior to this, foreign been investing in Sudhakar Shanbhag, chief in- also notcompletelyunder con- dent of industrybodyConfede- ECONOMY balance these different conflict- FOREIGN PORTFOLIO investors portfolio investors were net fundamentallystrong vestment officer,Kotak trol. “While the current market ration of Indian Industry(CII) last WISHLIST&ROADMAP ing heated issues at the same (FPIs), who were big sellers in sellersfor three consecutive bluechip companies and this Mahindra Life Insurance rallyhas seen momentum,we week,UDAYKOTAK, MD, Kotak time but preservethe conceptof March andApril, arebackinthe months. Theywithdrew trend is likelytocontinue Company, said, “Indian equity have to be watchful about how MahindraBank told SANDEEP ANEXPRESSINTERVIEWSERIES an India whichfunctions. stockmarketswithfresh pur- `7,366crore in May, `15,403 markets have been buoyant over the coronavirus comes under SINGH and PVAIDYANATHAN chase orders. croreinApril and arecord ■The riseinFPI inflows and the last coupleofweeks. This control over the next fewweeks IYER that he believesthat India Risk aversion by banks During the firstfivetrading `1.1 lakh croreinMarch the buoyancy in stock market rallyhas come as asur- and months, as also howthe needs to be competitive anden- continues to posethe biggest sessions of June, overseas in- marketsalso reflected the prise to allwhennobody wasex- economyresponds to the same gagedwiththe worldand gov- obstacle to banklending, mo- vestors putinanetsum of Rs ■ Analysts said that FPIs have strong global cues pecting it. Indian markets had including the measures takenby ernment intervention is onlyjus- re so in circumstances when 20,814 croreinequities. Howe- been laggards in the emerging the government and the RBI,” tifiedincases of unfair defaultsare mostlikely. What ver, FPIspulledout anet Rs 2,225 marketbasket andare probably Shanbhag said. competition. He also said that canthe government and RBI crorefromthe debt segment. 34,287.24 during the week. Analysts said that FPIs have catching up and we have seen al- The weekend dataonnon- thereisanopportunitytorebal- do to give confidence or prod The total netinvestment in Prior to this,FPIs were net been investing in fundamentally mosta33 percentrallyfromthe farm payrollinthe US wasapos- ance rural and urban and thatthe them to lend and take risk? debt and equity betweenJune 1 sellers forthree consecutive strong bluechip companies and lowwesaw in March 2020. itive surprise,aswell as the un- stateneeds to work towardsthe Bankswant to lend to busi- and 5stood at Rs 18,613 crore. months.Theywithdrew Rs 7,366 this trend is likelytocontinue in “Gradual release of lockdown employment rate being lower aspect of providing asocial secu- nesses whichtheybelieve are Buoyedbythe investment from croreinMay,Rs15,403crore in the near future. measures would also have than expected has seen asharp rity nettonot onlymigrantsbut businesses that can repaytheir overseas investors, the Sensex April and arecord Rs 1.1lakh The rise in FPI inflows and the played itspart. Thereis, however, rallyinUSmarket by about 3per also businesses across the board. UDAY KOTAK money. In thosecategoryofbusi- MANAGINGDIRECTOR also rose by 1,863 pointsto croreinMarch. buoyancy in stockmarketsalso acompletedichotomy between cent,” he added. Edited excerpts: KOTAKMAHINDRA BANK nesses, the demand formoneyis relatively low, but whoeverwants The government has,overthe If there is any area it we aredelightedto give because ADIA invests lastthree years, increased where there is need we have confidence we will get 17.09MT: 13.22MT: customs duties across sectors. for intervention, it is our moneyback. Another setof `5,683.5 cr in ‘Coal importfalls20% AMOUNT OF COAL IMPORTED IMPORTOFNON-COKING Afterthree decades of justified only where there business is one whose funda- IN APRIL,ASPER REVISED COALINMAY,ASAGAINST liberalisation, does domestic is unfair competition. But mental financial condition before Jio Platforms y-o-y to 19 MT in May’ DATA 12.28 MTINAPRIL industrystill needprotection? other than that, with COVID has been poor.COVID has And whatsignaldoesitsend reasonable levels of hurtthem further.Bankers obvi- India’s coal import dropped by 20 per cent to 18.93 million to the outside world? ouslywantto becautiousin lend- ENSECONOMICBUREAU 23.57 MT: Coal import by India Mandate to CIL to boost The CII supportsthe Prime tariffs,India needs to ingto thesebusinessesin order to tonnes (MT) in Mayagainstthe correspondingmontha MUMBAI,JUNE7 in May last year production: Coal India Ltd Minister’s conceptofensure that it is protect thefinancial system itself. year ago, provisional dataprovidedbymjunction showed (CIL), which accounts for over Atmanirbhar Bharat and believes building atruly Banksare notrisk averse. But ABUDHABIInvestmentAuthority 3.81 MT: Import of coking coal 80 per cent of the domestic it is consistent withacompetitive Atmanirbhar Bharat and if theyare being prudent and not (ADIA) has invested Rs 5,683.50 in May, asagainst 3.23 MT in fuel output, has been IndiaandnotaprotectionistIndia. competitive India lendingwherethereisariskof croreinJio Platforms, the digital April mandated by the Centre to Atrulyself-reliant and self-confi- their moneynot comingback, arm of RelianceIndustries (RIL). replace at least 100 MT of dent India is important, but with they aredoing it ultimately and The latestinvestment—eighth in 242.97 MT: Country’s coal imports with domestically- that we believe India needs to be people in the cities. We have got fundamentallytoensure protec- the series —valuesJio Platforms import in 2019-20, which produced coal in FY21 competitive andengaged with so usedtoassumingthat thereis tion of depositors. The lastthing at an equity value of Rs 4.91lakh increased marginally by the world. If thereisany area this lowcost, cheap labour avail- we want at the time of ahealth croreandanenterprisevalueof Rs 3.2 per cent FACTORSFORINCREASEIN wherethereisneedfor interven- able on our terms forhireandfire. crisis is to do something that cre- 5.16 lakh crore. MAYIMPORTSOVERAPRIL: tion, it is justifiedonlywhere And this is wherethe stateswill ates afinancial crisis and lose the ADIA’s investment will trans- 0: Amount of country’s ■ Partial re-start of operations thereisunfair competition. But have to come in and put money trustofdepositorsinthe financial lateintoa1.16 percent equity ‘avoidable coal imports’ that in some sectors other than that, with reasonable intorural India opportunityand system. Astable financial system stakeinJioPlatformsonafullydi- the government is planning to ■ Continued softness in coal levels of tariffs,India needstoen- createthe enabling provisionthat is basedononlyone thing —trust lutedbasis.WiththisJioPlatforms bring by 2023-24 prices in international markets surethat it is building atruly makes it possibleforthe migrants of thedepositors withhismoney. hasraisedRs97,885.65crorefrom AtmanirbharBharat and compet- to lookatthe option moreseri- If that gets eroded, therewill be leadingglobalinvestorsincluding itive India. ously. At CII,wewill endeavour to another crisis and we must notal- Facebook,SilverLake,VistaEquity Subdued import demand: Given the high 10.76%: Estimated risein work with our members to en- lowthattohappen. Partners, General Atlantic, KKR, coal stock levels in pithead and power coal import this May through Source: Howdoyou see the urban to surethat some sortofcode is put Mubadala and ADIA in less than plants, importdemand is expected to major and non-major ports over mjunction/PTI rural migration of workers? in place so that it is afairplay What do youthink about the sevenweeks. remain subdued in the short-term April 2020 COVID has exposedthis issue treatment forthe migrants when lockdown? Has it giventime Awholly-ownedsubsidiaryof of urban to rural migration. When theycomebackand we will need to thehealthcaresector to RIL,Jio Platforms is anext-gener- workers come to cities, theylive the supportofthestatewhen we ramp up or has it hurtthe ationtechnologyplatform fo- in poor conditionsinslums or getthere. livelihood of millionsof cusedonprovidinghigh-quality chawls, have poor job security At some level,we willneedto migrants? and affordable digital services India Inc braces for atough year ahead, and noware hit by aviruswhich createasocialsecurity netalong Let’s go backtoMarch 24 and acrossIndia,withover388million exposes them morethan us. So, withthe stateand inevitablyitis assume that we as acountryde- subscribers.ADIAisaglobally-di- the health crisis, quality of living abeginningofadirectional move cided—nolockdown. Knowing versifiedinvestment institution earnings forecastscut across the board crisisand lackofsecurity of job wherethe statehas the obligation thestatus of our healthcare sys- thatinvestsfundsonbehalf of the have madethem take adecision to protect everycitizen. temand levelofalertness that Government of Abu Dhabi pancies areexpected to climb thattheyare better-offinvillages If abusinessfinds 80-90 per wasthereprior to March 24 about through astrategy focused on ENSECONOMICBUREAU COMMENTARYCONTINUESTOBECAUTIOUS slowlysince internationaltravel even if their apparent income is cent of itsrevenue goingaway, what COVID could do, todaywe long-term value creation. ADIA NEWDELHI,JUNE7 is some time away; despitegains lower. In this context, Ithink it is a howcan it protect jobs? That is have 6,000deaths, arewesaying manages aglobal investment ■ The commentary doesnot expect any from lowerfuel pricesand lower great opportunity to rebalance wherethe statecomes in and the we would have lessthan 6,000 portfoliothat is diversifiedacross WHILE THE damagetorevenues continues to be very revivalofcapital expensesonemployees, the air- rural and urban.This is time to statemustgivesocialsecurity net. deaths or 60,000 or 600,000. morethantwodozenassetclasses and profitswas limitedinthe cautious, even bordering on expenditureinthe private line is expected to reportaloss createdigital ability and redefine The aspectof social securityis not Who knows.But the fact of the and sub-categories. March quarter, India Inc is brac- the pessimistic, givenhow sector this year of closetoRs7,000croreinFY21. the role of rural —rural infra, ru- onlywith the migrant but for matter is that we have 6,000 RIL CMD Mukesh Ambani ing foratough2020-21. the lockdown has crimped The crash in prices of com- ralhealth, rural digital. businesses across the board. deaths and as aratioof the popu- said, “This investment is astrong The commentarycontinues cash flows in the June ■ At BPCL, inventorylosses moditieshas hitproducersas lation that number is low. endorsementofour strategy and to be very cautious, even border- quartersofar were highand thesharp seen in the staggering Rs 15,269- Our initial feedbacksuggests Would youthen recommend So whenweare looking at the India’spotential.” Hamad Shah- ingonthe pessimistic, givenhow rise in debt, albeit partly croreloss before taxreported by migrantsmay stay backfor a the government to open up its lockdown, we have to askwhat if wanAldhaheri,executive director the lockdown has crimpedcash ■ Larsen &Toubro due to one-offfactors, has Vedantafor Q4FY20, triggered fewmonths, but may purse alittle more? we did notdoit, what could have of the Private Equities Depart- flows in the June quartersofar. management observed it analysts worried by an exceptional loss of Rs eventuallyhavetoreturnto We believe thatthegovernm- been and that’s the correct way. ment at ADIA,said, “Our invest- Givenhow poor visibility on de- 17,132 croreonaccount of im- the urban centres forwork... ent will have to open up itspurse, What if younger people went to mentinJioisafurtherdemonstra- mand is, fewfirmsare able to see paired assets,primarily asteep theydon’t reallyhaveachoice. but tighten somewhereelse. It is work but came home where tion of ADIA’s ability to draw on whererevenues areheadedand it doesn’t expect anyrevivalof ruption from Covid-19were fall in crude oil prices. Of course, Iamjustsaying that importantthatthe government’s therewould be older people. At deep regional and sector expert- analysts aretrimming earnings capital expenditureinthe pri- around Rs 15,000-17,000 crore. At BPCL, inventorylosses notall will have that choice. Iam resources areusedproperlybe- least, Ihopeweare in abetter ise to invest globallyinmarket estimates across the board. vate sector this year. At InterGlobeAviation,the were high and the sharp rise in saying that even if 30-40 per cent cause these aredifficult choices. stateofpreparedness from leadingcompaniesandalongside It’s notsurprising the Larsen The companysaid the sales capacity utilisation is justabout debt, albeit partly due to one-off of the people decide to come We arenot areservecurrency healthcarepointof viewthanwe proven partners.” &Toubromanagementobserved missedsofar because of the dis- afifth of that available and occu- factors, has analysts worried. FE back, therewill be shortageof countryand ourfiscaldeficit is al- were before. FY20 gross direct tax mop up falls 4.92% on ChinaMay exports slip back into BRIEFLY contraction,imports worst in 4yrs IOBslashes cut in corporate tax, hiked PIT exemption MCLRby and arerising steadily. Further, REUTERS upto30bps ENSECONOMICBUREAU the higher growth rate in direct BEIJING,JUNE7 NEWDELHI,JUNE7 Temporaryfallin taxesascomparedto growth rate NewDelhi: IndianOverseas in the GDP even in these chal- CHINA’S EXPORTS contracted in Bank (IOB) has cut marginal GROSS DIRECTtax collections collection,along lenging times proves that recent Mayasglobal coronavirus lock- costoffunds basedlending (without factoringfor refunds) effortsfor thewideningofthe tax downs continuedtodevastate rate (MCLR)by upto 0.30per declinedby4.92 per cent to Rs expectedlines base undertaken by the govern- demand, while asharper-than- centacross all tenors.The 12.34 lakhcrore in 2019-20,the ment areyielding results,” the expected fall in imports pointed benchmarkone-year MCLR CentralBoard of Direct Taxes IN Astatement, the CBDT said though the netdirect tax Boardsaid. to mountingpressureonmanu- hasbeencutby 0.20percent (CBDT) in astatement said on collection forFY2019-20 wasless than that in FY2018-19, the The CBDT statement comes facturers as global growth stalls. from June 10,IOB said Sunday. decline wasonexpected lines andistemporaryinnaturedue at atime when taxtargets forthe The sombretrade readings Sunday. The direct taxbuoyancy,the to the historic taxreformsundertakenand muchhigher ongoingfiscal arebeingseento forthe world’s second-biggest ratio of taxmop up to nominal refunds issuedlastfiscal.Talking about the lackofpickup be toohigh in viewofthe exac- economycould pile pressure on GDP,slowedto1.12inFY20tak- investment, it said that various measures arerequired to set erbationofthe economic slow- policymakers to roll out more Trucks line up to transportcontainers at the container port KarnatakaBank ing intoaccount the revenue for- up newmanufacturing unitsand it will take some months. down due to COVID-19and supportfor asector thatiscriti- in Qingdaoineastern China’s Shandongprovince.China’s Q4netfalls gone, though the CBDTsaid it shortfall in taxcollections in cal to the livelihoods of more exports and importsbothfell in May, amid the coronavirus wasonexpectedlines and“tem- 2019-20. than 180million workers. Total pandemic and trade tensionswith the US. AP 56%to`27cr poraryinnaturedue to thehis- During FY20, revenue fore- trade accounts foraboutathird toric taxreformsundertaken”in lection by an estimated Rs 1.45 taxesisonexpected lines andis gone due to reduction in corpo- of theeconomy. NewDelhi: Karnataka Bank the lastfinancialyear referring to lakh crore. Additionally, in the temporaryinnaturedue to the rate taxratewas Rs 1.45 lakh Overseas shipmentsinMay ficient domestic demand and Both official and private fac- has posteda56per centfall the corporatetax cutand in- Budget lastyear,income up to Rs historic taxreforms undertaken crore, while in PIT (due to in- fell 3.3 per cent from ayear ear- commodity price declines,” said tory surveysfor Mayshowed in netprofitfor theMarch crease in income taxexemption 5lakh wasexemptedfromtax, and muchhigher refunds issued creasedtax rebatelimitand stan- lier,after asurprising 3.5 per cent Wang Jun, chief economistof sub-indexesfor exportordersre- quarteratRs27.31 croredue limits. impactingcollectionbyabout Rs during the FY 2019-20,” the CBDT darddeduction) it wasRs23,200 gain in April, customs data Zhongyuan Bank. mained deep incontraction. to higher provisions. PTI Although CBDThas notmade 23,000 crore, CBDTsaid. said. crore. If this had nothappened, showedSunday. Thatcompared As aresult, China posteda ProfitsatChina’s industrial firms public the actual netdirect tax It also said thatgross direct As per datareleasedbythe corporatetax andPIT collection with a7per cent drop forecastin recordtrade surplus of $62.93 fell almost30per cent in the collection in 2019-20, the gross taxcollection wasabettermeas- CBDT,the actualgross corporate in 2019-20 would have been Rs aReuters poll. billion lastmonth, the highest January-April period. Mexicotositout collections (Rs 12.33lakh crore) uretoascertain buoyancy as it taxand Personal Income Tax 8.23 lakh crore andRs5.78lakh While exports faredslightly since Reuters startedtrackingthe Analysts said bright spots like extensionofoil adjustedwith refunds (Rs 1.84 negated anomaliescreated by (PIT) revenue mop up stood at Rs crore, respectively.Thus, the better than expected,imports series in 1981,comparedwith the exports of medical supplies, of lakh crore) show netcollections higher refunds granted in FY20 6.78 lakh crore and Rs 5.55 lakh gross direct taxmop up would tumbled16.7 per centcompared poll’sforecastfor a$39 billion whichChina has dominatedthe outputcuts around Rs 10.49lakh croredur- compared to the year before.It crore, respectively in FY20, tak- have been Rs 14.01lakh crore, with ayear earlier, worsening surplus and $45.34billion sur- supplychain, masked the strong ing the fiscal. Netcollection is the said that refund of Rs 1.84 lakh ing the actual gross direct taxcol- whichwould have been a8.03 from a14.2per cent decline the plus in April. headwinds facedbyexporters Mexico City: Mexico will not gross collection minus income crorewas grantedinFY20, com- lection to Rs 12,33,720. per centgrowthover2018-19. In previous month and marking the China’s trade surplus with the stuckwithunsold stockand can- joinothertop oil producers, taxrefunds.In2018-19, netdirect paredtoRs1.61lakh crorein It also said that the buoyancy 2019-20 fiscal,the nominal GDP sharpestdecline since January US widenedto$27.89 billion in celledorders from abroad. whichincludesOPECmem- taxcollection wasRs11.36 lakh FY19, an increase of 14 percent of direct taxescame in at almost growth rate was7.20 per cent. 2016.Ithad been expectedto fall May, Reuters calculation basedon In the firsthalf of May, China bers and allies ledbyRussia, crore. over previous year. 1for corporatetax and 1.32 for The CBDTadded that pickup 9.7 percentinMay. customs data showed. This shipped 63.2billion yuanof in extending through July The directtax mopupin “It is afact that the netdirect personal income tax, respec- in investment subsequent to tax “Exportsbenefited from the comes as Sino-US tensions are medical supplies, Reuters calcu- output cutsaimedatprop- 2019-20 is lowerthanprevious taxcollectionfor theFY2019-20 tively.“These buoyanciesindicate cutswould take time to materi- ASEAN (Association of Southeast again on the rise, though sources lations basedoncustoms data ping up the priceofcrude, fiscal, primarilydue to corporate wasless thanthe netdirect tax that the growth trajectories of alise as manufacturing facilities Asian Nations)marketand ex- sayPresident Donald Trumphas showed, compared with 71.2 EnergyMinisterRocioNahle taxcutsannouncedincollection forthe FY2018-19. But both thearmsofdirecttaxes, i.e., with itsancillaryactivities take changeratedepreciation,while little choice but to stickwith a billion yuan in the March-April said on Saturday. REUTERS September,whichloweredcol- this fall in the collectionofdirect corporatetax andPIT areintact months to come up. imports were affected by insuf- Phase 1trade deal fornow. period.

New Delhi WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM @indianexpress.com THEINDIANEXPRESS,MONDAY,JUNE82020 THOSEMONTHS,THOSEMINUTES Forced intoanunprecedented lockdown, sportisstaring at an unfathomable despair.Indian athletes, though, have giventhe countryreasonstorejoice in the past. 14 For HIMADAS,theU20worlds triumphwasn’ta‘bigoccasion’...andthenthe SPORT tweetsstartedpouringin.The2018 goldmedallistspeakswith SHASHANKNAIR

IndianclubsZoominondeals,signings This virus is out of control. I’m nottalking about Covid:Joshua Insteadof flying outand criss-crossingcities, football officials andrepresentativeshaveshiftedto onlineplatforms HEAVYWEIGHT BOXINGworld champion Anthony Joshuadescribed racism as a“pan- MIHIRVASAVDA FC Goa’ssenior managementwas demic”while addressing protestersat aBlack NEWDELHI,JUNE7 to flyovertoSpain, meet LivesMattermarch in London on Saturday. Joshua,one of Britain’s highest-profile IN THE thirdweek of March,whenSpain was Ferrando, possiblywatcha sportsmen, joinedamarch through the streets surpassing China’s Covid toll, Juan Ferrando match, and then look at afuture of hishome town of Watfordbeforegather- got readytoappearfor an interviewfromhis together.“Instead, we finished ingin aparkwhereherecitedapoemwritten home in Barcelona. The football coach’s by afriend.“Thevirushasbeen declaredapan- prospective employerswerethousandsofkilo- everything online,” says football demic,”Joshuasaid.“Thisis out of control. And metres away,bracing foralockdown that agent Varun Achreja,who I’m nottalking about Covid-19. The virus I’m would bring their club to astandstill. brokeredthe deal. “Everything is talking about is calledracism.” Ferrando,who wasapartofthe legendary Marches and protests have been held all Arsene Wenger’s supportstaff at Arsenal, moving digital at the moment.” overtheworldinresponsetothekillingof un- sharedhisvisionandstylefortheclub,andas- armedblackman GeorgeFloyd by apoliceof- sessment of the players -- and the employers ficer in the U.S. on May25. Four officers in- scrutinisedeverypointhemade.Afterseveral Ronaldos and Messis and Suarezs. volvedhave sincebeenchargedoverthedeath. hours,the deal wasclosed:Ferrando became Tamhane casuallymet Mikuinthe sta- The 30-year-old Joshua, whoseworld the newmanagerofFCGoa. dium’s car parkafter the match. One thing led heavyweight title defence againstBulgarian This wasn’t the original plan, though. to anotherandafew monthslater,Mikuwasin Kubrat Pulevscheduledfor this month at The senior club management wastofly Bengaluru, stamping hisclass in the ISL. “So Tottenham Hotspur’s stadium waspostponed over to Spain,meetFerrando, possiblywatch youcan useonline resources, but it is notthe because of the COVID-19pandemic, was AnthonyJoshuajoinedamarch through amatch, and then look at afuturetogether. same. Of course, in the current situation it is dressedinall blackfor the event. thestreetsofhishometownof Watford. AP “Instead, we finishedeverything online,” says notpossible to travel so youhavetodeal with “Wecan no longer sit backand remain football agent Varun Achreja, who brokered the situation accordingly,”Tamhanesays. silentonthesesenseless,unlawful killings and the deal.“Everything is moving digital at the The clubs, however, arecautious. So far, a slyracismonanother humanbeing–based Watford. We must notuse ademonstration moment.” majority of the deals involving foreign play- on what? Onlytheir skin colour,”theIBF,WBA forselfish motivesand turn it intorioting and So muchso, that instead of scurrying ers have either been contract extensions or and WBOworld champion,who wasusing looting.” from one groundtoanotherindifferent parts movement from one club to another.This crutches and wearing akneebrace, afterin- Aspokesman forJoshua said his knee in- of the world, club officialsand representa- trend is unlikely tochangeimmediately, as juring his knee during training this week, jurywould befurther checkedbydoctors, but tiveshaveshiftedtoe-meeting apps like the All India Football Federation is settogive added. “Weneedtospeak outinpeaceful “thereisnoimmediateconcern”. Zoom and relying on scouting resources like SpaniardJuanFerrando, who wasapartofthe legendaryArsene Wenger’s supportstaff the clubstime till October to sign players. demonstrations—justliketoday,sowell done REUTERS InStat andWyscout. at Arsenal, became the manager of FC Goa afteradigitalmeeting that lastedhours. File The Indian transfer marketispeculiar,in In India, June is the time whenthe modest the sense that thereare fewactual transfers NBAoffersclarity on tiebreakers Players suspendedfor 6months transfer market springs to life. Oldcontracts whereafee is paid, and clubs areoften on the with unevenschedule forbreaking virus curfew expireonMay 31,the transfer windowopens Sharma prefers live action and meeting youmeetaplayerinperson”, says Tamhane. lookout forplayers who areout of contracts. inthe firsthalf of June,and by thetimeit shuts players directlytounderstand their person- So even if thereisashift to online, some “So this time, youmightsee alot of clubs wait The NBAhas told teamsthatplayoff seeding TheChineseFootballAssociationsayssixmem- on August31, crores arespent on hundredsof alities and mindset, all valuable components of the basicsremain the same. “You develop to seehow thesituation evolvesinEurope willbebasedonwinningpercentage,andthat bers of the national under-19 have been sus- deals. This time, while dataand scoutingre- in determining atransfer deal. This summer, agoodset of networks,verifythe players’ po- and elsewhereinthe world,” says Ashish anytiebreakersnecessaryafterthatwillfollow pendedforsixmonthsforviolatingcoronavirus ports onIndianplayersareavailable,fillingthe says Sharma,“therehas been alot of reliance tential with his teammates or coaches and Shah, who has been at the helm at the usual procedures. It wasanissuethat control measures by leaving training campat foreignquota has become tricky.“Ispend the on digitalcommunication and online re- go by recommendations,” says Sharma. Chennaiyin and Odisha. neededclarity because the 22 teams that will midnighttogodrinking.The35-playertraining summer travelling to different countries to sources to scout players and negotiatedeals”. Thereisalso an element of luck. Thecontractsofaforeigner in ISL range be goingtothe Disneycomplex in Florida, for campinShanghai beganonMay 17 and ended scoutplayersorhave alookatsomewhoareal- Forexample, oneofthe most prolific from anything between $70,000 and the plannedresumptionofthe seasonnext Saturday. "Itwasasevereviolationoftheteam's readyonmy shortlist.Thistime,ithasnotbeen Scouting resources strikers to have playedinIndia, Venezuela’s $500,000 ayear.And with eachfranchise month will nothaveplayedthe same number epidemic control regulations, and causedneg- possible,”says MandarTamhane,thechief ex- The online platforms provide scouts, Miku, would nevercome to these shores had having asalarycap of Rs 16.4 crore, the clubs of games. The NBAtold teams of the plan for ative impacts on the whole team," the CFAwas ecutive of formerISLchampionsBengaluruFC. agentsand club officials with hundredsof clubs reliedonlyononline mediums. arehoping to land “bargain buys” in case a utilizingtiebreakersinamemoonFriday. Based quotedassayingbyXinhua.Thesixplayerswill Club officials arejustone partofthe chain. hours of video and statsofalmostany pro- The storygoes that in thesummer of 2017, lowerdivision club in Europe goes bustor on the league plan forthe restart, withgames havetositoutallmatchesthroughNov. 30.They Often, theyhaverepresentativesonthe fessional player.But as they nowrealise,con- Bengaluru FC had actually gone shopping for the ratesofplayers fall. starting again in lateJuly, Dallas will end up alsofacefurtherpunishmentfromtheirrespec- ground, who crisscross cities to watcha ducting the transfer business online isn’t al- anotherplayer, Manucho.TheAngolanstriker With the domestic season likelytobegin playing an NBA-high 75 contests.Mostothers tive clubs. Players in Chinahavenoofficial or- prospectivesigninginaction.For instance, ways thebestway.The dataequips them wasplaying forSpanish club Rayo Vallecano onlyinNovember,there is stilltime forclubs. will playbetween 72 and 74;the lowtotal will ganization to represent their interests andit Kuldeep Sharma, who has been responsible with information aboutaplayer's skills -- atthetimebutitwasMiku,histeammate,who “And till we can meet, we will watchvideos be 71,whichSan Antonio and the Los Angeles wasn't clear if therewas anyway to appeal the forseveral big-ticket transfersinIndianfoot- strong header,weak leftfoot, quickonthe caughttheirattention.Mikuwasinadifferent of the players and monitor them on LakerswillfinishatiftheNBA'splansforteams ban."Itisalossto theteam,andof course,itwill ball, ends up watching about 100-125 wings, etc--but thereare alot of “intangi- class,andinthe2016-17seasonhewasnamed WhatsApp,”says Ferrando,39. “Wehaveto to playeight games at the Disneycomplex be- havegreatereffectsontheplayersthemselves," matches ayear across the world. bles involved that canonlybeassessed when La Liga’s Playerofthe Month ahead of the use the technology.” fore theplayoffsbegin comestofruition. 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