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VOL 14 ISSUE 22 ● NEW YORK / DALLAS ● MAY 29 - JUNE 04, 2020 ● ENQUIRIES: 646-247-9458 www.theindianpanorama.news AMERICA Protests break out in Minneapolis and UNITED AGAINST elsewhere in the U.S. over George COVID-19 KEEP SAFE Floyd's death in Police Custody ● Follow President Trump's Guidelines on Coronavirus Mayor Frey calls for criminal charges to be brought against the officer who ● Observe Social Distancing kept his knee on Floyd ● Wash Hands Frequently ● No Panic Buying MINNEAPOLIS, MN (TIP): Violent ● No Price Gouging protests broke out in Minneapolis on May KEEP AMERICA SAFE 27, 2020, two days after George Floyd, 46 years old black person died in police custody. A number of businesses and COVID-19 UPDATE, homes around Precinct 3 were damaged as as of May 28, 2020 the area has become the site of an ongoing ● More than 5.8 million cases protest after the police killing of George confirmed worldwide and over Floyd on May 25. Four Minneapolis police 360,000deaths, according to officers have been fired after a video data from Johns Hopkins (https://youtu.be/ZWzkgKPZWcw) taken University. by a bystander was posted on social media ● More than 1.7 million cases and showing Floyd's neck being pinned to the more than 100,000 deaths ground by an officer as he repeatedly said, from the disease in the United "I can't breathe". Floyd was later States, according to the pronounced dead while in police custody midnight tallies from Johns after being transported to Hennepin Hopkins. County Medical Center. ● At least 3,66,733cases and at contd on Page 32 least 29, 529 deaths from A sea of angry protesters at Minneapolis, COVID-19 in New York State, as May 27. Inset George Floyd of May 28, according to midnight tallies from Johns Hopkins. Trump cracks whip on social media ● In New Jersey which ranks second to New York in COVID- 19 cases, as of May 28, there companies with executive order are at least 157, 185 cases and Social activists condemned the on "censorship" by social media sites, a Decency Act. Under the statute, large 11,409 deaths, according to order as unconstitutional move widely seen by critics as social media companies cannot be sued Johns Hopkins, at midnight. retaliation against Twitter's decision to for much of the content posted by others ● In India, there were 1,65,799 For both sides, freedom is in peril slap fact-checking labels on the using their sites. identified cases and 4706 president's tweets, says a CNBC report. Without congressional action, confirmed deaths , as of May WASHINGTON (TIP): President The executive order targets companies however, there are limits to what Trump 28 midnight (ET) Donald Trump on Thursday, May 28, granted liability protection through can do with the executive order. Read related stories inside signed an executive order cracking down Section 230 of the Communications contd on page 32 COMMENT For America to judge the murderers

nother sad day in America's history. The murder of a officers to murder black persons. And, it happens all across black person by a white police officer in Minneapolis, America. Americans need to analyze why it happens. It is time Prof I.S.Saluja AMay 26, is another addition to a chain of such crimes by to ensure we have in the police, people who harbor no racial or the police who are supposed to protect lives, not snuff them ethnic prejudices. People with prejudices are sure to harm the out. multicultural mosaic of America. Let politicians of all hues The video (https://youtu.be/ZWzkgKPZWcw) shot by a understand if they do not arrest the trend now, future bystander and in wide circulation on social media platforms generations will pay a heavy price for their indifference. Let clearly tells us who the murderer is. It is inhuman and there be no politics that divides the great nation that America barbaric of the police officer to kill the man. It is not an is, and of which we all are so proud. isolated case. The brutal murder of a black person by a white Founding fathers of America must be turning in their graves police officer reminds one of the murder on July 17, 2014, of a each time a racial killing born out of prejudice of a white guy black Eric Garner in New York, who, too, was choked to death against a black person takes place. This is not the America we almost in the way as the black George Floyd (46) in this video. want our children to inherit. The repeated pleadings of Floyd to police officer to get off his Stop it here. Stop it now. neck and his cries that he was not able to breathe which The least that needs to be done is to charge the white officer continued until he could speak no more, reminds one of the with his left hand in his pocket relishing the slow death he was similar cries of Garner who kept repeating he could not forcing on a pinned down Floyd, with manslaughter. No breathe until he fell silent. witnesses are required. The video alone is sufficient credible Over the years we have seen a propensity among white police witness. Other colleagues of the murderer police officer are guilty of complicity. They need to be charged as conspirers in The picture shows the officer with his left hand in the pocket, pinning the murder of Floyd. down with his knee George Floyd who in the video is heard pleading And remember, justice dispensers, justice delayed is justice with the officer to get off his neck, as he was not able to breathe. The officer stayed in that position for a few minutes more after Floyd had denied. And, again, no presidential pardon for a murderer - gone motionless. police officer, please. THE INDIAN PANORAMA 2 CORONAVIRUS CRISIS FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2020 UK LAUNCHES ‘TEST AND TRACE’ SYSTEM Worldwide coronavirus cases

LONDON (TIP): A new test and trace service operated by the National Health Service (NHS) got underway in England and Scotland on Thursday as cross 5.9 million mark the next stage in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic and bringing the UK out of lockdown in oronavirus gradual steps. worldwide cases The UK government said the new service would Chave crossed 5.9- help identify, contain and control coronavirus and million mark taking TRACKING THE VIRUS reduce the spread of the deadly virus, which has positive patients toll to claimed over 37,000 lives in Britain. 5,904,285 with 3,61,996 Under the new system, anyone who tests positive for deaths while 2,579,506 GLOBAL INDIA coronavirus will be contacted by NHS Test and Trace have recovered, according and will need to share information about their recent to Worldometer figures. Cases Deaths Cases Deaths interactions. This could include household members, United States, Spain, people with whom they have been in direct contact or Russia, UK, Germany, 5,909,003 362,081 165,799 4,706 within two metres for more than 15 minutes. Brazil, Italy, France are People identified as having been in close contact among the worst-hit with someone who has a positive test must stay at countries having home for 14 days, even if they do not have symptoms, maximum cases of to stop unknowingly spreading the virus. coronavirus and the “As we move to the next stage of our fight against numbers are increasing coronavirus, we will be able to replace national every day. lockdowns with individual isolation and, if necessary, The United States local action where there are outbreaks,” said UK continues to remain the Health Secretary Matt Hancock. worst-hit country with “NHS Test and Trace will be vital to stopping the positive cases toll at spread of the virus. It is how we will be able to protect 1,768,461 including 103,330 our friends and family from infection, and protect our deaths. Following US, is NHS. This new system will help us keep this virus Brazil with second-most under control while carefully and safely lifting the maximum number of lockdown nationally,” he said. coronavirus cases 2,50,561 including 26,764 deaths S Korea reports 40 new and Italy with 3,79,051 cases including 4,142 coronavirus cases, biggest jump deaths. The coronavirus crisis in nearly 50 days threw at least 2.1 million Americans out of work last week despite the gradual reopening of businesses around the country, stoking fears Groups of six allowed to gather in Thursday that the scourge is doing deep and England’s eased lockdown from next week potentially long-lasting damage to the U.S. LONDON (TIP): Groups of up to six economy. Amid a few people will be able to meet outside in glimmers of hope, most of England from next Monday, British the latest economic news Prime Minister Prime Minister Boris from around the globe was Johnson announced on Thursday as likewise grim, as some of part of measures to gradually ease the the world’s most populous UK's coronavirus lockdown. countries continued to From the June 1 mark, people can SEOUL (TIP): South Korea reported its biggest report rising infections meet in gardens and private outdoor jump in coronavirus infections in seven weeks on and deaths. spaces, provided they keep two metres Wednesday,driven by a fresh cluster at an e-commerce First wave of pandemic not apart, he said. warehouse on Seoul's outskirts, as millions more The stay at home rules so far have pupils went back to school. over, WHO dampens hopes allowed for people to interact with only The country has been held up as a global model in As Brazil and India one other member from outside their how to curb the virus and has rushed to contain new struggle with surging immediate household, which is set to be The easing comes as part of a wider infections as life returns to normal. Covid cases, a top health eased up from next week. test and trace system which launched in But officials announced 40 new cases Wednesday — expert is warning that the "These changes mean friends and England and Scotland this week and taking its total to 11,265 — with most new infections world is still smack in the family will start to meet loved ones in Johnson said it had been made possible from the densely populated Seoul metropolitan area. middle of the pandemic, what would be a long awaited and joyful because the government's tests of It was the largest increase since 53 infections were dampening hopes for a moment," Johnson said at the daily falling death toll and infection rates announced on April 8. speedy global economic Downing Street briefing. were being met. An outbreak at a warehouse of e-commerce firm rebound and renewed The devolved administration of The new lifting of lockdown Coupang in Bucheon, west of Seoul, has seen 36 cases international travel. Scotland has announced its own easing measures, however, remains so far, the KCDC added. “Right now, we’re not in of movement, with people from "conditional" and will be monitored as the second wave. We’re different households allowed to meet the situation remains "fragile". right in the middle of the maintaining a two-metre distance from Johnson warned that "there will be Brazil surpasses US in daily first wave globally,” said Friday. further local outbreaks" and said the Dr Mike Ryan, the World The regions of Wales and Northern government "will put on the brakes" and coronavirus death toll Health Organisation’s Ireland are mostly keeping their stricter measures of strict social distance will executive director. lockdown measures in place for now. be re-imposed if required. SAO PAULO (TIP): Brazil daily coronavirus deaths “We’re still very much were higher than fatalities in the United States for the in a phase, where the first time over the last 24 hours, according to the disease is actually on the cases for the seventh underscoring the Maharashtra, home to the country’s Health Ministry. way up,” said Ryan, straight day. It reported challenges that the financial hub of Mumbai Brazil registered 807 deaths over the last 24 hours, pointing to South 6,535 new infections on authorities face in and Gujarat. Infections whereas 620 died in the United States. America, South Asia and Tuesday, raising its total curbing the spread of a have also climbed in the Brazil has the second worst outbreak in the world, other areas where to 145,380, including 4,167 virus for which a vaccine east as migrant workers with 374,898 cases, behind the U.S. with 1.637 million infections are still on the deaths. The virus has or cure isn’t yet in sight. stranded by lockdowns cases. Total deaths in the US has reached 97,971, rise. taken hold in some of Most of India’s cases returned to their native according to Reuters tally compared with Brazil at India saw a record India’s poorest, most are concentrated in the villages from India’s 23,473. single-day jump in new densely populated areas, western states of largest cities. # 1 Indian American Weekly: Since 2006

VOL 14 ISSUE 22 ● NEW YORK / DALLAS ● MAY 29 - JUNE 04, 2020 ● ENQUIRIES: 646-247-9458 www.theindianpanorama.news Supreme Court Orders States to provide free food, shelter and travel to migrant workers

NEW DELHI (TIP): The Supreme states. How do you ensure that nobody Court on Thursday, May 28, ordered asks the migrant to pay or troubles him? states to provide free food and shelter to What we are saying is that the migrants thousands of migrant workers stranded should be least concerned with the in various parts of the country due to means of payment," it said. COVID-19 lockdown. "The state shall oversee the A three-judge Bench headed by Justice registration of migrant workers and Ashok Bhushan also ordered that no fare states to ensure that after registration, either by train or bus shall be charged they are made to board the train or bus at for migrant workers and railway fare an early date," the Bench said. will have to be shared by states. "We further direct that those migrant "All Migrant workers who are workers found walking on the roads, stranded at various places shall be immediately be taken to shelters and provided food by the concerned state and provided food and all facilities should be UT at places which shall be publicized provided to them," it said, adding, "As and notified to them for the period they and when the state governments put in a are waiting for their turn to board a train request for trains, railways has to or a bus, said the Bench -- which also provide them." included Justice SK Kaul and Justice MR "All necessary details regarding Shah. number of migrants, plan for It said originating state shall provide transportation mechanism of meal and water at the station and during registration and other details should be Thousands of migrant workers are stranded, waiting to return to their native places, and they the journey,railways to provide meal and are without shelter and food brought on record in the reply," the water to migrant workers. Bench said. It emphasized the need for coordinated efforts to deal with the crisis. "There are different mechanisms for different contd on page 32 Govt plans for third phase of 'Vande Bharat mission' as 300,000 Indians want to return A total of 3,08,200 persons have registered with Indian missions abroad for repatriation on compelling grounds NEW DELHI / NEW YORK (TIP): immigration checkpoints from Nepal Caribbean, Africa and parts of Europe. capacity," said the sources. The government is planning for phase and Bangladesh. This is being done by taking advantage of The Indian Panorama spoke with some three of the 'Vande Bharat Mission' as "A total of 3,08,200 persons have foreign carriers flying to India primarily of those returning to India about the air over three hundred thousand stranded registered with our missions abroad for for the evacuation of their nationals. fare, the quarantine on arrival in India, Indians have registered themselves with repatriation to India on compelling Recently, about 300 stranded Indians and some other issues. Most passengers Indian missions abroad for evacuation grounds," said government sources. from Peru, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, complained of excessive fares. On on compelling grounds. Unless international flights do not Honduras, Portugal and Netherlands condition of anonymity, a lady said: "I The first phase was a modest 64 flights resume, the third phase will mean a were brought in. We will be exploring feel cheated by the government of India. and a couple of sorties by naval ships logistical exercise that will dwarf phase more such options, said government I am already passing through a difficult that brought back over 16,000 Indians. two. In the current phase, 429 Air India sources. Private airlines have now been financial situation, having to stay back The ongoing second phase that will last flights from 60 countries will land in included and chartered flights have also in the US and spending to support myself till June 16, plans to bring back another India. Besides, the Indian Navy will begun to operate. "The numbers are and two kids, and then I am asked to pay one lakh Indians. make four sorties to bring back expected to go up in the coming days a much higher price for air tickets than So far in phase two, over 45,000 Indians returnees from Iran, Sri Lanka and the with the permission for chartered flights the normal rates I know of. have returned, including about 8,000 Maldives. and more efficient use of quarantine contd on page 32 migrant workers, 7,656 students and over The government is also assisting in the 5,000 professionals. About 5,000 have return of stranded Indians from remote returned through land border locations in Latin America and the THE INDIAN PANORAMA 4 INDIANS ABROAD FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2020

Indian American Professor Brinda Indian American Led Team Sarathy Receives ACLS Fellowship Develops Low-Cost Ventilator ATLANTA, GA (TIP): An Indian American led team has developed a low- cost, portable ventilator meant to help doctors around the world treat COVID-19 patients. Devesh Ranjan, a professor and associate chair in the prestigious Georgia Tech's George W Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and his research team at the Georgia Institute of Technology has created a prototype for a low-cost, portable emergency ventilator that uses electronic sensors and computer control to manage key clinical parameters such as respiration rate, tidal volume (the amount of air moved into and out of the lungs during each cycle), inspiration and expiration ratio, and pressure on the lungs. Brinda Sarathy is a professor of The Open-AirVentGT was designed to Georgia Tech Researchers Devesh Ranjan, Stephen Johnston, PrithayanBarua, and Gokul Environmental Analysis and director of address acute respiratory distress Pathikonda are shown with their Open-AirVentGT, a low-cost, portable emergency ventilator the Robert Redford Conservancy for syndrome (ARDS), a common that uses electronic sensors and computer control to manage key clinical parameters. Southern California Sustainability at Pitzer complication for COVID-19 patients Photo / Ben Wright, Georgia Tech College which causes their lungs to stiffen, compressing a BVM (Bag Valve Mask) prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic has requiring their breathing to be assisted assembly of the kind used in hospitals led to development of makeshift CLAREMONT, CA (TIP): Pitzer by ventilators. Unlike many other and carried in ambulances as ventilators, many of them based on College Professor of Environmental emergency ventilators, the new Georgia resuscitation devices. The ventilator is differing mechanical strategies to Analysis and the Director of the Tech device endeavors to make breathing envisioned for use outside the United compress BVM devices. Ranjan and his Robert Redford Conservancy for more natural by allowing patients to States in countries that do not have research team evaluated what others had Southern California Sustainability trigger their own breaths instead of significant medical infrastructure in done and sought input on clinician needs at Pitzer College Brinda Sarathy relying on a respiration rate pre-set in place, and is designed to be produced for from critical care specialists at two has received The American Council the device. around $300. Atlanta hospitals during the design of of Learned Societies (ACLS) The ventilator works by pneumatically A projected shortage of ventilators the Open-AirVentGT. fellowship for her project on Laid to Waste: The Stringfellow Acid Pits and Making of Place in Southern Indian Army officer Major Suman Gawani 2 Indian-origin men California. jailed for 'largest' bust This project examines the history of the first Superfund site in Wins UN Military Gender Award with 20 million pounds California, the Stringfellow Acid Pits, to better understand how operations. of drugs in UK places are produced in the context Major Gawani - the first Indian of invisible flows: of toxics, of peacekeeper to win the award - is a groundwater, and less told stories of Military Observer, formerly deployed to social mobilization. Drawing on the UN Mission in South Sudan archival material and interviews (UNMISS), where she mentored over 230 with community activists and UN Military Observers on conflict- government officials, this research related sexual violence, and ensured the explores how hazardous wastes are presence of women military observers understood, rationalized, and in each of the Mission's team sites. She managed by scientific experts to also trained South Sudanese justify dumping; why policy makers government forces, and helped them to Shakti Gupta, 34, from Birmingham and overlooked groundwater launch their action plan on conflict- Baldev Singh Sahota, 54, from Oldbury in contamination in spite of related sexual violence. West Midlands. Photo / courtesy Facebook. prevailing scientific knowledge; Expressing happiness at seeing her and how to make sense of the often work recognized, Major Gawani noted heterogeneous and contradictory that, "whatever our function, position or LONDON (TIP): Two Indian-origin nature of local resistance to, and rank, it is our duty as peacekeepers to men have been sentenced to a total of 34 mobilization against, Major Gawani - the first Indian peacekeeper integrate an all-genders perspective into years in what Scotland Yard described to win the award - is a Military Observer, contamination by industrial waste. our daily work and own it, in our as one of its biggest drugs busts in the formerly deployed to the UN Mission in South Significantly, this work considers Sudan interactions with colleagues as well as UK, worth more than 20 million pounds. how institutions of expertise often with communities". Shakti Gupta, 34, from Birmingham exclude the experiences of those NEW YORK (TIP): For the first time, Commending the two women and Baldev Singh Sahota, 54, from most exposed to harm and, despite the UN Military Gender Advocate award peacekeepers, UN chief António Oldbury in West Midlands was jailed for deep and persistent uncertainties, has been awarded to two UN Guterres described them as powerful 18 years and 16 years respectively authority figures have been called peacekeepers: Major Suman Gawani, of role models: "Through their work, they following a haul of 172 kg of cocaine, on to minimize concerns about the Indian Army and Commander Carla have brought new perspectives and have one of the largest land seizures of Class hazardous substances, thus Monteiro de Castro Araujo, a Brazilian helped to build trust and confidence A or illegal drugs in the country. facilitating industrial, military, and Naval officer. among the communities we serve", he "This operation has resulted in one of economic expansion. The award, created in 2016, recognizes said. "Through their commitment and the largest land seizures of cocaine The ACLS Fellowship Program the dedication and effort of individual innovative approaches, they embrace a within the UK, ever," said Detective awards fellowships to individual military peacekeepers in promoting the standard of excellence that is an Superintendent Neil Ballard, from the scholars working in the humanities UN principles on Women, Peace and inspiration to all blue helmets Metropolitan Police Specialist Crime and related social sciences. Security in peace operations. Women everywhere. As we confront today's Command. peacekeepers are nominated by the challenges, their work has never been (Read full story at heads and force commanders of peace more important or relevant." www.theindianpanorama.news) THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2020 INDIANS ABROAD 5

Indian American Princeton Indian American IBM Scientist Student Wins Walter E. Hope Class of 1901 Medal Princeton senior Rajiv Joshi Wins Inventor of PreetiIyer has been honored for her service to the Class of 2020 and the Year Award to the University

NEW YORK (TIP): Holding the IBM title of Indian-American scientist Master Inventor since 1997, Rajiv Joshi has bagged the Joshi has more than 200 prestigious Inventor of the publications including Year award in recognition conferences and journals, PRINCETON, NJ (TIP): Princeton senior Preeti Iyer of his pioneering work in and he has received scores has been honored for her service to the Class of 2020 and advancing the electronic of other accolades and to the University.Iyer received the Walter E. Hope Class of industry and improving awards including receiving 1901 Medal, which recognizes the senior who, in the artificial intelligence the IBM's Corporate Patent judgment of the student's classmates, has done the most capabilities. Dr Joshi has Portfolio Award on three for Princeton. more than 250 patented separate occasions. Among Iyer, of Alpharetta, Georgia, is a computer science inventions in the US and several honors, Joshi was concentrator and a member of Forbes College. She has works at the IBM Thomson inducted into the New been involved in a wide range of activities across the Watson Research Center in Jersey Inventor Hall of University, ranging from advocacy to athletics and the New York. Fame in 2014, received IEEE arts. He was presented with CAS Society's Industrial She led the Princeton Menstrual Products Task Force the prestigious annual Pioneer Award, and the for three years, successfully launching a University award by the New York IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award program to provide free menstrual products in Princeton Intellectual Property Law for Emerging Technologies restrooms, and has assisted over a dozen other Association earlier this in 2018. universities in launching similar initiatives. She is also month during a virtual Joshi's successful tenure the founder and director of "Period Palooza: A Menstrual awards ceremony. at IBM Research has been Equity and Innovation Conference," and previously served Dr. Joshi received his highlighted by as a U-Councilor on the Undergraduate Student B.Tech from I.I.T (Bombay, breakthrough inventions Government. Iyer co-founded Representable.org along India) and his MS from Dr Joshi has more than 250 patented inventions in the that are prevalent to our with four other Princeton students. The crowdsourced M.I.T, is a prolific inventor US and works at the IBM Thomson Watson Research everyday lives such as redistricting tool helps combat gerrymandering and Center in New York with more than 250 US and servers, medical devices, improves redistricting efforts across the county. more than 350 international handheld devices, and A member of the campus arts community, she patents. He is an IEEE Fellow and received the wearable technology. His inventions include performed with DiSiac Dance Company and Princeton Industrial Pioneer Award from the IEEE Circuits and fundamental interconnect process technology that Bhangra. During her first two years, she also competed as Systems Society in 2013. He is a key technical lead at helped in the achievement of Moore's scaling, which a member of Princeton Women's Rugby Team. IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center, focusing on the aides with computational performance and for In addition, Iyer has held data science internships at development of integrated circuits and memory memory bandwidth issues, which are much needed Facebook, Tesla, and the Associate of American Medical chips. for AI. Colleges. THE INDIAN PANORAMA 6 NY/NJ/CT FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2020 Justice for Sikh Indian American Rutgers Student Tanvi Student in New Banota Named 2020 Goldwater Scholar Jersey:Lawsuit NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ (TIP): Tanvi Banota, a rising junior majoring in cell Filed against biology and neuroscienceat Rutgers University-New Brunswick, has been Education Board named a recipient of the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship for her academic WOODBURY, NJ (TIP): Last excellence. week, the Sikh Coalition joined Considered the premier undergraduate with co-counsel at the Law award of its type in the fields of Offices of Brian M. Cige to file a mathematics, natural sciences and complaint against the Gloucester engineering, the Goldwater Scholarship, County Special Services School which honors the late Sen. Barry District Board of Education, Goldwater, is designed to encourage located in Sewell, New Jersey. outstanding students to pursue careers The complaint addresses the in these fields. The scholarship awards case of a Sikh student (who up to $7,500 to help cover costs associated remains anonymous, because he with tuition, mandatory fees, books, and is still a minor) who suffered room and board. under a pattern of bullying since Banota was chosen from a pool of more 2018. Despite being subjected to than 5,000 distinguished students Banota was chosen from a pool of more than 5,000 distinguished students submitted by 461 racial epithets and instances of submitted by 461 academic institutions academic institutions for the 2020-21 academic year bullying and harassment to the for the 2020-21 academic year. Science Center's Partners in Science around this topic since 2017 and credits point that they were pulled out of Banota has worked in the lab of Debra program). There, her research focuses on the continuity of that research and the school, the student's pleas for Laskin in the Department of the mechanisms of inflammation as a many hours of experience she's gained in help from the school district Pharmacology and Toxicology since she response to pulmonary injuries. She has the lab as part of what earned her a have been repeatedly brushed was in high school (thanks to Liberty worked in the lab and done research Goldwater Scholarship. aside by educators and administrators. "We are grateful that the Sikh Indian American Senate Indian Health Camp of New Jersey Coalition and the Law Offices of Continues to Provide Support during Brian M. Cige have helped us to take this additional step in Candidate Announces Pandemic demanding accountability from TRENTON, NJ (TIP): Indian the School Board," said the Campaign to Label Drugs Health Camp of New Jersey, a student's mother. "While the non-profit organization that hosts educational authorities in annual fairs at various locations Gloucester County have made it with Country of Origin 4-5 times per year to benefit needy clear that they are unwilling to TRENTON, NJ (TIP): people in the South Asian help my child, I am hopeful that Republican Senate candidate community, continues to provide a civil court will recognize this Rik Mehta, a pharmacist and services, support and education clear case of bullying and take former FDA consumer safety during this public health crisis decisive action." officer from New and pandemic. According to a press release by Jersey,announced a plan to Due to current pandemic and social distancing the Sikh Coalition, prior to the force drug manufacturers to recommendations, the IHCNJ may not be able to organize any filing of this complaint, the Sikh label their products' country of health fairs this year. By keeping the public health and safety Coalition worked with the family origin. Mehta is seeking to concerns in mind for the last few months, IHCNJ has been doing to formally appeal the negative replace failed presidential many activities virtually to include online interviews related to finding of the school district's candidate Cory Booker as topics such as corona virus information and education, mental initial investigation. U.S. Senate hopeful Dr. Rik Senator from New Jersey. health and other chronic diseases education and awareness as Unfortunately, both the first Mehta is a biotech "Americans have a right to part of their health promotion and disease prevention objectives. investigation and the appeal entrepreneur, innovator, know where their medicine In addition, the organization also donated personal protective healthcare policy expert and a ended with the school board licensed pharmacist and comes from especially when equipment such as gloves and masks earlier in March and April refusing to take corrective attorney nearly all other products are when there was severe shortage and scarcity at the local action; officials insisted on labeled with the country it was hospitals in New Jersey.The donations were graciously accepted characterizing obviously bias- made in," Mehta, a pharmacist, said. "I can look at products by Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in Somerset and motivated attacks as 'nicknames,' on my body, like my shirt and shoes and know exactly where Saint Peter's Medical Center in New Brunswick. As part of and downplayed the extent of the it was made, but the same doesn't hold true for things that go community outreach and efforts for healthier living, Indian bullying that the Sikh student in our body, like our prescription drugs. That makes no Health Camp of New Jersey also committed to provide free experienced. sense." COVID-19 FDA authorized antibody testing to 1,000 people in "Our top priority is ensuring a Under current Food and Drug Administration regulations, collaboration with Hematology & Oncology Care, Helping quick and safe path for this child the last place a given drug was manufactured is considered Hearts Foundation and Durham Pharmacy. The ultimate goal is to return to a healthy learning its place of origin. to identify people with positive antibody to create a list of plasma environment," said Giselle "These bizarre and conflicting laws and regulations that donors to help people who are critically ill in the hospital to Klapper, Sikh Coalition Senior govern how to label products with their country of origin has reduce the number of deaths in the state. Staff Attorney. "However, it is allowed companies to profit from foreign drug Besides antibody testing, Indian Health Camp of New Jersey also important that the school manufacturing while hiding their supply chain from the in collaboration with Bayshore Homecare Pharmacy at their one board recognize and remedy how American people for too long," said Mehta. "American of the four HealthMart locations in New Jersey are providing their investigation failed to doctors and pharmacists should be able to inform patients on free COVID-19 antigen testing to detect corona virus infection acknowledge-let alone not only what ingredients are in their drugs, but where those without any waiting. For COVID-19 antigen testing, interested appropriately respond to-the ingredients were made." person or people who have symptoms of fever, cough, sore throat obvious bias driving this In the public sector, Rik worked at the United States Food or body pains can visit the website at bullying behavior. We must and Drug Administration as a Consumer Safety Officer to www.doineedacovid19test.com to register for nasal swab testing. protect all students from this advance policies to expedite and increase access to quality, For antibody testing, interested individuals can call at 732-913- kind of harassment moving affordable drugs and health care. He also enforced against 8500 to make an appointment for blood test. For additional forward." pharmaceutical companies taking millions of illegal information about IHCNJ services during the pandemic, call Dr. prescription opioids off the market. Tushar Patel at 848-391-0499 or e-mail [email protected] THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2020 NY/NJ/CT 7 Shouldn't Rush to Reopen, Cautions Governor Murphy as New Jersey Sees Slight Spike in Coronavirus Outbreak

TRENTON, NJ (TIP): New Jersey's hospitalizations given the holiday total coronavirus cases has risen to weekend, but we are going to watch these 157,185, and 11,401 people have died in 12 numbers closely over the coming days to weeks. Officials on May 28 announced the see if there may be a deeper meaning to state's total number of patients being them," Murphy said. treated for the illness in the hospitals "For everybody who says, 'Open the increased slightly for the second straight thing up tomorrow. Let's turn all the lights day. on. Let's get back to normal,' we had 365 Gov. Phil Murphy, speaking during a folks go into the hospital," Murphy said. Thursday, May 28 news conference, said "We've got to make sure we're watching New Jersey had its highest daily this like a hawk.We're still digging out of hospitalization number in a week: 365. The this." number also was higher than the number Last week Murphy has reopened parts of of people leaving the hospital in one day: the Garden State's economy.On May 26, he 287. announced that school districts and Murphy called the slight spike colleges can hold outdoor, socially "troubling" and said that the increased distanced live graduations beginning on activity in New Jersey - including the July 6. On Wednesday,May 27, New Jersey partial reopening of retail businesses and released rules and guidelines for districts the beach restart on Memorial Day and colleges to follow for in-person weekend - may explain it. For everybody who says, 'Open the thing up tomorrow. Let's turn all the lights on. Let's get back graduations. "We have expected this increase in new to normal", Gov Murphy said A Webinar on Augmenting US-India Healthcare Relations under Covid Challenge NEW YORK (TIP): Global Indian as short a time as possible. Successful 'Such webinars will set a movement to Trade and Cultural Council, USA in accomplishment of that task-especially spearhead collaborative mindset and a collaboration with Consulate General of in the global south is difficult to envisage platform for FDI, mergers and joint India, NY has started a Webinar without Indian involvement. COVID-19 ventures under Prime Minister Modi's series.The first webinar is scheduled for ignores borders and the solutions to $13 billion for three pharmaceutical June 1st, 2020 on Augmenting US India address it will need to overcome them too. parks in India and up to 100% FDI in Healthcare Relations under Covid "Therefore, there was a need for a Medical devices. Covid 19 has been an Challenge. This will have professionals school of thought to bring on a platform Eye opener - the present Government has from Covid 19 vaccine manufacturing from the field of Academia, Industry and done more in last few weeks than what companies, IT company Birlasoft who Government, Mr. Panaser said. was done in years. specialize in healthcare software, Mr. Panaser spoke at length about the "Indian government has to make new distinguished Professors from Harvard, Indian pharmaceutical scene and the policies for top Universities with Johns Hopkins and Panjab University, healthcare sector."The Indian healthcare research and institutes like National Pharmaceutical Scientist from NIPER, sector is expected to reach Rs 19,56,920 Institute of Pharmaceutical Education India, Ex Director Organization of crore (US$ 280 billion) by 2020. Rising and Research with top scientist to allow Pharmaceutical Produces of India, income level, greater health awareness, them collaboration with public private Mr. H.S. Panaser, Chair, Global Indian Trade Banker and Media professional, increased precedence of lifestyle diseases partnership and to have India's best and Culture, USA is keen to promote according to Mr. H.S. Panaser, Chair, and improved access to insurance would leadership. cooperation between the U.S. and India in the Global Indian Trade and Culture, USA. be the key contributors to growth. Indian The following is the list of people pharmaceutical sector. Speaking to The Indian Panorama on Pharmaceuticals is a sunrise industry the need for series of webinars to deal with a competitive advantage for India who along with Ambassador Philadelphia, PA, USA with the subject of cooperation between globally. we should leverage India's Sandeep Chakravorty are on the 8. Prof.(Dr) Saranjit Singh, the U.S. and India in the pharmaceutical position by unleashing entrepreneur panel. Pharmaceutical Scientist, National sector, Mr. Panaser said: "The spirit the bullish outlook for health care 1. Mr. T. Srinivas, CFO, Bharat Biotech, Institute and Pharmaceutical dependencies and inter-dependencies of segment is now taking India in a forward Hyderabad, India Education and Research, Mohali, globalization especially between US momentum. The market size of India in 2. Mr. Sai Prasad, President QC, Bharat Punjab, India India, have been in headlines during the Pharmaceuticals alone is estimated to be Biotech, India 9. Prof. (Dr) Kanwaljit Chopra, COVID-19 pandemic-and nowhere more $100 billion and medical devices is $25 3. Mr. Roop Singh, Chief Business Chairperson, University Institute of so than in the Healthcare segment. More billion by 2025. Now with amendment in Officer, Birlasoft, USA Pharmaceutical Sciences, Panjab so, in pharmaceutical industry. We don't FDI policy where one can invest up to 4. Prof. Charles N Pozner, MD, University, Chandigarh, India yet know how the medicine and vaccine 100% specially if it is medical devices Emergency Medicine, Harvard 10. Mr. Vivek Padgaonkar, Director- challenge will end. Whether it be segment where India is importing 80% of University, USA Project &Policy, OPPI (Organization avipiravir, remdesivir or something medical devices", Mr. Panaser said. 5. Prof. Subroto Chatterjee, John of Pharmaceutical Producers of else.It is unclear which drug, if any, will "This webinar will discuss the US India Hopkins University of Medicine, India) work. It may be an Indian company Healthcare Relations to kickstart USA. 11. Mr. Yash Dani, VP, Fulton Bank, NJ, Bharat Biotech or American company or Exchange program of Student, research 6. Prof.(Dr) T.R. Bhardawaj , Vice USA an Oxford lab that is hailed as a hero for fellows in Universities, research Chancellor, Baddi University 12 Prof. Indrajit Saluja, Editor, The a treatment or prevention, the task is not institutes, Medical Colleges in the field of (Pharmaceuticals),India Indian Panorama, NY, USA, Media just about discovering a treatment or Pharmaceuticals, Medicine, Healthcare 7. Prof, (Dr) Pradeep Gupta, Burroghs Moderator: H S Panaser, Chair, vaccine that works, but making it AI, MT by IT companies and Medical Wellcome Professor of Global Indian Trade and Culture, available to as many people as possible in Devices. Pharmaceuticals, USciences, USA THE INDIAN PANORAMA 8 EDITORIAL FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2020 AS I SEE IT

By Ven Parameswaran Future of U.S. Economy "America's 20 trillion economy will rebound from third quarter and shock the world in the fourth quarter. The stock market will make a new high this year. Jamie Dimon, chairman of JP Morgan, a staunch Democrat, says U.S. economy will witness "quite rapid recovery" from Coronavirus pandemic", says the author. assured the captains of the industry that the Fed will economists, and industry captains. employ all tools available in its hand to help the JPMorgan Chairman, Jamie Dimon, a staunch economy grow. With generous tax cuts and heavy Democrat and a candidate for the Secretary of the deregulations by President Trump, potential for Treasury in Biden administration stated that the corporate profits have expanded. In addition, government has been pretty responsive, big companies President Trump's recommendation to the Congress to have the means, hope we keep the small companies approve $3 trillion in fiscal support to all Americans, alive." "growing stocks" from the Fed Reserve had small businesses, and other businesses in distress have helped small business. He said the U.S. economy could Never has the stock market performed breaking all past records helped enormously in recovery of the economy. see a rapid recovery in the 3rd quarter. He said: "you Generous unemployment compensation of $1200 per can already see the positive effects of the current he stock market is a leading indicator of week has created unbelievable security and is perking opening, at least for the economy." The same Jamie American economy. After President Trump was the economy. Dimon has been highly critical of President Trump just Telected in 2016, the Dow Jone's Average has Americans received $1200 each and the government for political purposes. But when his own company and jumped from 18,000 to almost 30,000. Because of postponed filing of tax returns to July from April 15. stocks of major banks and financial firms go up, he Coronavirus and subsequent locked-in, the market Proof of climbing retail sales is the result of President cannot but tell the truth. plunged back to 18,000 by March 23, 2020. From March Trump's fiscal support. President Trump and the Michael Darda, MKM Partners Chief Market 23, 2020 to May 27, 2020, the Dow Jone's has recovered Congress are working on issuing second installment of Strategist and Chief Economist said: "The market has 7540 points in a matter of two short months. This kind $2000 each to drum up the economy. been making a V-pattern upward and there has been a of rapid recovery has been unprecedented in the tremendous amount of skepticism around that but we history of the stock market. This is highly remarkable are just starting now to see some evidence in the data and a very significant factor to gauge future economy. turning some better than expected Housing numbers. The NASDAQ dominated by trillion-dollar technology As reopening gets underway,virtually all states now we companies (Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Google) have are starting to see activity bounce off of very low performed even better than the Dow Jone's. The levels." Nasdaq is now only 5% from its all-time high reached in On Wednesday, May 27, the Mortgage Bankers February before the Coronavirus. Association reported a sixth straight weekly rise in Never before, the stock market has performed mortgage applications. Data released Tuesday showed breaking all past records. President Trump and his NEW HOME SALES in April topped estimates. Sales of policies have been credited by the investors and all new U.S. SINGLE FAMILY HOMES increased by 623,000 Americans who have their pension funds invested in in April, beating estimates of 490,000. the market (401-K). Once the market performs, nobody Wharton School of Business Professor Jeremy Siegel can challenge because all Americans believe in higher The combined support from the Fed Reserve and the told that new stock market highs this year is a 'REAL wages and prosperity. Americans are wondering how Congress is equal to 50% of America's annual GDP of 20 POSSIBILITY'. Absent a second wave of Coronavirus the market could go up so big and so rapidly when the trillion dollars. I would speculate that a substantial later in the Fall, it is "even a likelihood that we will economy has been shut and the unemployment has amount from this has gone into investing in stocks. Can reach "fresh record highs." This kind of over exceeded historical record of over 20%. How can the we not ask how can the stocks skyrocket like this when optimism from conservative and liberal economists is market go up when the business of travel, restaurants, the economy has been shut down and more than 40 unprecedented. retail sales, manufacturing, and others have been million are unemployed? When the real economy is "One of the unfortunate things about the lockdown is stopped because of locked-ins? not generating any income based on productivity, how we have actually improved the prospects of the very The Federal Reserve cut the interest rate to zero per can the stock go up? President Trump has said that companies in the stock markets." Siegel added. "In cent. The Federal Reserve is an independent agency. the economy he created is a solid and sound economy. fact, given no serious second wave, which could mean But President Trump pressured its Chairman Powell to Therefore, when the locked in is over, the economy will just effective therapeutics without even a universal lower the interest rate to zero. Now he has asked him to rebound and the stock market will go up like a rocket. vaccine, my feeling is it is even a likelihood that we will lower it further into negative interest rate so that it will Proof of the pudding lies in the eating of it. It appears reach fresh record highs." Siegel said. grow the economy. The Federal Reserve has flooded now that President Trump's prophesies are coming (The author is a former President & CEO, First Asian Securities the financial markets, commercial and investment true. Corporation, NYC. His successful trading strategies on the day banks, asset management firms, and large hedge funds Has the Fed Chairman Powell succeeded in playing of 1987 stock market crash was highlighted by the WSJ. He with approximately 7 trillion dollars. What the Fed has magic? Or, is this artificial? Who knows? Let me lives in Scarsdale, N.Y. He can be reached at [email protected]) done is unprecedented. Powell, the Fed Chairman has analyze the comments of some vehement Democrats, GUEST COMMENT DARING THE DRAGON India must tone down rather than a subtle attempt to make its skirmish gets magnified and overstated in head low, turning the rhetoric down, rhetoric, build its neighbor strike a balance between its Indian media, particularly in the toxic avoiding bravado and working hard to get capabilities silently priorities, possibilities and vulnerabilities. electronic media with its hyperventilating, cats from all over to catch their mice, to The Chinese are clearly anxious about a super-nationalist anchors. So, even if quote Deng Xiaoping. So, instead of poking hinese President Xi Jinping's call to new Cold War in the post-pandemic world China is attempting to thwart India's a creeping dragon with announcements the People's Liberation Army on and their foreign minister Wang Yi stated it border infrastructure construction in a that could be read as a statement of intent CTuesday to think about worst-case in no uncertain terms, warning the US. In benign stand-off, or it has grand plans to against Chinese imports, India ought to scenarios and to scale up battle this context, any overture by India towards throttle India's new economic aspirations, focus on building its economy. The preparedness has come at an inopportune the US for a quasi-military alliance through it has done it the wrong way. A public government has so far done well to create moment during a face-off between China the Quad will surely tilt the balance against opinion is getting created, which will force capabilities on the LAC and to stand firm and India in Ladakh. Coming as it does China, militarily and economically. the government to strike a strong, against Chinese incursions. India survived from the highest Chinese authority, the But instead of offering India reasons to muscular pose. the last Cold War, despite being on the message is a riddle, as is often the case with remain equipoised, the Chinese are merely India, unfortunately, has not learnt from losing side; it should thrive during the next Chinese military-diplomatic signals. It offending India by focusing on its its own past follies or the history of its one with elastic diplomacy. appears more as provocative muscle flexing vulnerabilities. Every small border neighbor. The Chinese grew keeping their (Tribune, India) THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2020 PERSPECTIVE 9 Keeping Peace Alive: A Tribute to UN Peacekeepers On the International Day of UN Peacekeepers, we remember with respect the supreme sacrifice made by 3925 troops from UN member-states. By Ambassador Asoke Kumar Mukerji

The human cost of UN peacekeeping has been high. “Deployed under the Blue Flag of the United Nations, UN peacekeepers have operated under volatile conditions. However, in recent years, these Captain G.S. Salaria, who is the only Indian peacekeepers have themselves UN peacekeeper to have been awarded the become victims of violence, Param Vir Chakra in December 1961 in the making the supreme sacrifice to Congo safeguard their mandate, and the principles of the UN Charter." General Rikhye (left)with UNSG Boutros Ghali in1995. General Rikhye was the first Military A total of 110,000 UN Adviser of the UN Secretary General (1960-67) and was instrumental in establishing the peacekeepers are currently International Peace Institute in New York deployed across the world in “ On the International Day of UN 13 missions, funded by a Peacekeepers, we remember with respect peacekeeping budget of $6.5 the supreme sacrifice made by 3925 Indian women peacekeepers in Liberia from billion." troops from UN member-states. 2007 when they first landed there India has suffered the largest number the growing resistance of some major India is justifiably proud of her of casualties in UN peacekeeping among powers represented as permanent contributions to UN the troop-contributing member-states, members in the UNSC to contribute peacekeeping. She has sent with 170 fatalities in 25 peacekeeping financial resources to sustain UN “ missions. Of these, as many as 39 Indian peacekeeping operations. In April 2019, the largest number of troops for UN peacekeepers were killed during the UN Secretary General Antonio UN peacekeeping from among the their deployment in the Congo as part of Guterres had reported that over $250 193 member-states of the United ONUC in 1960-64. million were owed to troop contributing Nations, with more than 200,000 At its 70th anniversary in 2015, the UN countries, among which India was owed troops deployed in 49 out of the 71 convened a Leaders' Summit on $38 million, the highest for any member- Peacekeeping to take stock of the state. peacekeeping operations contribution made by UN peacekeeping As the United Nations prepares to mandated so far by the UNSC." to maintaining international peace and mark its 75th anniversary later this year, May 2020 is being security. Addressing the gathering of it is time to look to the future of UN commemorated as the world leaders, India's Prime Minister peacekeeping. Two issues are relevant in Major Suman Gawani of the Indian Army has 29International Day of UN Shri Narendra Modi conveyed India's this context. been given the UN Military Gender Advocate Peacekeepers. It was on this day in 1948 commitment to participate proactively First, it is time to augment the Award for 2020 that the United Nations Security Council in implementing the peacekeeping effectiveness of UN peacekeeping by (UNSC) attempted to innovate a mandates given by the UNSC. He also enhancing the role played by UN women trained South Sudanese government mechanism to keep the peace by referred to the UN General Assembly's peacekeepers. 2020 marks the 20th forces. deploying a small number of UN unanimous decision to build a anniversary of the landmark UNSC The second issue is the long overdue military observers to monitor the Commemorative Wall in honor of the resolution on "women, peace and reform of the decision-making process of Armistice Agreement between Israel and fallen UN peacekeepers from all security". India was the first UN the UNSC, which decides on the its Arab neighbors. countries and said "it would be most member-state to deploy an all-women's mandates to deploy UN peacekeepers. Since then, UN peacekeeping has been fitting if the proposed memorial wall to peacekeeping unit in Liberia in 2007. The This reform, mandated by world leaders used extensively by the UNSC over the the fallen peacekeepers is created impact of UN women peacekeepers from 15 years ago at the 60th anniversary past seven decades to provide stability in quickly". India in performing their mandate, as Summit of the United Nations, must be conflict situations for implementing A total of 110,000 UN peacekeepers are well as acting as force multipliers to completed urgently if the UN is to be peace agreements between member- currently deployed across the world in 13 sustain the resilience of national seen as an effective multilateral states of the United Nations, and to missions, funded by a peacekeeping governance structures during a period of institution for maintaining stabilize conflict situations within the budget of $6.5 billion. As many as 54,000 volatile conflict, has been acknowledged international peace and security. The UN's member-states. troops serve in just four peacekeeping by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of unprecedented challenges facing the UN The human cost of UN peacekeeping missions in Africa - MONUSCO in the Liberia, who was the first elected female today due to the Covid-19 pandemic has been high. Deployed under the Blue Democratic Republic of Congo (annual head of state in Africa. Building on this prioritize the need to break the current Flag of the United Nations, UN budget $1.01 billion), UNMISS in South experience, India has deployed her deadlock in inter-governmental peacekeepers have operated under Sudan (annual budget $1.18 billion), women UN peacekeepers as part of negotiations in the UN General volatile conditions. However, in recent MINUSMA in Mali (annual budget $1.13 UNMISS in South Sudan, where the Assembly. Polarization among the years, these peacekeepers have billion) and MINUSCA in the Central challenges posed by violent conflict (and permanent members of the UNSC and themselves become victims of violence, African Republic (annual budget $ 1.2 their impact on women in particular) are their resistance to UNSC reform cannot making the supreme sacrifice to billion). greater. be allowed to paralyze or compromise safeguard their mandate, and the India is a major contributor to two of It is a fitting tribute to India's women the effectiveness of the Security Council, principles of the UN Charter. these four operations, with 1864 troops as UN peacekeepers that the UN Military especially when millions of lives of India is justifiably proud of her part of the 16,215 military personnel Gender Advocate Award for 2020 has people caught in conflicts where UN contributions to UN peacekeeping. She deployed on the ground in MONUSCO in been given to Major Suman Gawani of peacekeeping missions are deployed are has sent the largest number of troops for the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Indian Army. The UN highlighted at stake. UN peacekeeping from among the 193 2343 troops on the ground as part of the that Major Gawani mentored over 230 (The author is a former Indian diplomat and member-states of the United Nations, 13,795 contingent troops in UNMISS in UN Military Observers on conflict- writer. He was Permanent Representative of with more than 200,000 troops deployed South Sudan. related sexual violence and ensured the India to the United Nations from April 2013 to in 49 out of the 71 peacekeeping The increasing challenges being faced presence of women military observers in December 2015. He can be reached at [email protected]) operations mandated so far by the UNSC. by UN peacekeeping are compounded by each of UNMISS' team sites. She also THE INDIAN PANORAMA 10 SOUTH ASIA FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2020

Prisoner swap talks resumed in Kabul Preliminary probe report on PIA KABUL (TIP): The Afghan government and the Taliban on plane crash to be presented before Thursday resumed prisoner swap talks after weeks of deadly violence and an impasse that delayed the beginning of peace negotiations for nearly two parliament on June 22: Minister months. Over the next few days, they will ISLAMABAD (TIP): The preliminary discuss technicalities on the release of investigation report on the Pakistan the remaining 6,000 prisoners to be International Airlines (PIA) plane crash released by both sides. last week will be presented before "A five-member technical delegation parliament on June 22, the country’s was sent to Kabul for registration and aviation minister said after Prime verification of prisoners. The team Minister Imran Khan expressed anger will help to solve the technical over the delay in the probe. problems," Suhail Shaheen, a Taliban The domestic flight from Lahore to spokesperson said. — IANS Karachi crashed in a residential area near the Jinnah International Airport Four labourers dead, 15 in Karachi last Friday, killing 97 people missing as boat sinks on board. Two passengers miraculously survived the crash. in Bangladesh The Airbus A320 aircraft of the DHAKA (TIP): At least four national carrier had 91 passengers and a labourers were dead and 15 remained crew of eight when it crashed into the missing after a boat capsized in the Jinnah Garden area near Model Colony river of Jamuna in Bangladesh’s in Malir on Friday, minutes before its Sirajganj district, a senior police landing. Eleven people on the ground official said on Wednesday. were also injured. The district’s police chief Hasibul Aviation Minister Ghulam Sarwar Alam told Xinhua over phone that the Khan told the media in Islamabad that The minister said 12 air crashes Airbus was also in Pakistan since May boat carrying some 70 people, mostly Prime Minister Khan during a meeting occurred in Pakistan since 26 for collecting evidence for its own day labourers, sank at about 11:30 a.m. expressed anger over the delay in such independence, involving PIA planes in independent probe. (local time) on Tuesday amid probes and ordered to expedite it and 10 of them while two planes belonged to The minister said that 51 bodies have inclement weather. share the findings with the people. private AirBlue and Bhoja Airline been recognised and handed over to “The bodies of three labourers were “We have decided that the preliminary respectively. relatives while the process of recovered Tuesday night,” he said. report will be presented before He said that their inquiry reports identifying others through DNA was Masud Parvez, officer-in-charge of parliament on June 22,” the minister were not made public and it was decided going on. Sirajganj’s police station of Enayetpur said. by the government to release all those He said it was a “million-dollar where the accident happened, said: He also stressed that the probe will be reports by presenting them in the question” why the pilot touched down “The body of another ill-fated labourer “free and fair” and nothing will be kept parliament. and hit the runway thrice before lifting of the boat was recovered this secret and anyone found guilty will be The minister said that the flight data up the plane. (Wednesday) morning.” held accountable. recorder of the crashed plane and the It was reported earlier that the plane He said divers of the fire service and His comments came as a team of cockpit voice recorder have been had some problem with landing gear but civil defence and local people resumed foreign experts on Thursday recovered recovered and handed over to French the minister refused to speculate about search and rescue operations from the missing cockpit voice recorder from authorities to decode them. the technical issues until the probe is Wednesday morning. the debris of the crashed plane. He said a French team on behalf of completed. PTI “At least 15 people are still missing,” he said. Officials said at least 50 people swam to shore as the boat capsized in a strong current and choppy river waters. 176 Pakistanis return home from India They said rescuers have been struggling against a strong current and choppy waters of Jamuna, one of the three main rivers in Bangladesh. Parvez said via Wagah Border amidst travel ban the boat has not been salvaged and brought to shore yet. —IANS LAHORE (TIP): A group of 176 Over 200 Indian early in March on a religious pilgrimage. Pakistani nationals, including women “Owing to the coronavirus lockdown, I Sri Lanka seeks USD 1.1 and children, stranded in India due to nationals are reportedly was stuck there. I am happy to return to billion currency swap the coronavirus-induced global travel my country,” said Kumar, a resident of restrictions returned home via the stranded in Pakistan. Sindh. Those who returned were facility from India amidst Wagah Border on Wednesday, officials They are awaiting their reportedly quarantined in India as well. depleting forex reserves said. With the arrival of 176 people, a They were screened at Attari, the total of 400 Pakistanis have so far been repatriation Indian side of the border, before crossing COLOMBO (TIP): Sri Lankan repatriated from India via the Attari- over to Pakistan. The purpose of their President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has Wagah border since March 20, 2020. they will be allowed to go home after 72 trip to India pertained to visiting family, requested India to provide a special The Pakistani Rangers received them hours otherwise they will be seeking medical treatment and attending USD 1.1 billion currency swap from the Border Security Force (BSF). quarantined for 14 days,” he said. religious ceremonies. On Tuesday, facility to boost the country’s They were stranded in different parts The relatives of those repatriated from Pakistan's Foreign Office said in a draining foreign exchange reserves of India for about three months due to India were not allowed to enter the statement that for the safe and smooth in view of the economic slowdown the lockdowns and travel restrictions put Wagah Border to meet them. repatriation of stranded Pakistanis, the due to the coronavirus pandemic. in place by the government to contain They were stuck in Chhattisgarh, High Commission of Pakistan in New Rajapaksa’s office said that the new the raging coronavirus disease. Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Delhi remained in close contact with the request is in addition to the USD 400 “Upon their arrival, the Pakistani Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Indian authorities. million amount Sri Lanka has sought citizens including women and children Uttarakhand and Delhi due to the The Pakistani mission also facilitated from the Indian government under were screened and transferred to extended lockdown and the closure of and coordinated their transfer to Attari the South Asian Association for quarantine centres in Lahore where they the Attari-Wagah border following the from more than 20 Indian cities. Regional Cooperation (SAARC) will stay for 72 hours," Mohammad outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Over 200 Indian nationals are framework. Younis of Edhi Foundation told PTI. Mahesh Kumar, a stranded Pakistani reportedly stranded in Pakistan. They PTI “If their corona test comes in negative, national, said that had gone to India are awaiting their repatriation. PTI THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2020 NY/NJ/CT 11 Indian American Nayan Parikh named a member of de Blasio's real estate reopening council 30 members of the panel named by the mayor to guide the industry's economic reboot

NEW YORK (TIP): Indian American profit organizations. After graduation from naturally to Parikh. From his first days Nayan Parikh , owner of Ashnu college, Nayan began his career as a Civil of being a new immigrant to this country International, Inc. an award winning, Engineer in India, before migrating to the till now, he has been involved and giving premier/MWBE Construction and USA. In his new homeland, he began his his time, knowledge and wisdom to non- Management provider to host of Federal, career as an estimator in a small profit organizations, both within the State and City Agencies, Corporations and construction company, before quickly community and professional. Although other industries, is one of the 30 New finding his own strength to become the he is a part of many organizations and Yorkers named on Mayor de Blasio's real founder and Managing Director of Ashnu affiliations, he takes pride in each and estate reopening council. The panel will International, Inc. every one and maintains an active guide the industry's economic reboot. Parikh's vision, entrepreneurial leadership role in these organizations. Nayan Parikh has, over the past fifteen aptitude, civil engineering background and Currently he is the president of the years, continued hard to establish his name broad range of expertise have made AIC a NAMC NY Tri-State Chapter, during his within the corridors of Government name to be envied within the construction term he would like to bring more project Agencies and has continued to build his industry. His company has credit to many procurement to his local chapter reputation to his expertise in bringing well-known projects including Sandy members. From humble beginnings and excellent performance to the projects Repair work at Coney Island, Rockaway a minority himself, he understands the Indian American Nayan Parikh is a undertaken by his company. He has been Beach, multiple schools renovation for struggle to make to make the right construction and management expert the champion in leading many professional New York City School Construction connections or get that big break. Parikh and community organizations and Authority and Signal Modification at 71st isn't afraid to reach out to make the different influencers, who hold his continues to give back to the society in Continental Ave with the Metropolitan necessary connection, which is one of opinion in high regards and has created many different ways. He has brought new Transportation Authority. his many strengths. Because of this, his a foray into creating an outreach ideas to fruition, both for profit and non- Serving the community comes network of associations varies in program for his chapter members. NASSAU COUNTY REOPENS: Mayor De Blasio Outlines Plan For Phase PHASE 1 BEGINS MAY 27 One Of New York City's Reopening NEW YORK (TIP): Mayor Bill de Construction, manufacturing, Blasio, May 28, outlined additional wholesale trade, agriculture, guidance and support for the industries forestry, fishing, hunting and permitted to restart in phase one of the retail (with sales limited to City's reopening. With the Test and curbside or in-store pickup and Trace Corps set to launch June 1, and the drop off only) to resume number of positive cases, MINEOLA, NY (TIP): Long Island hospitalizations, and cases in the ICU in officially entered Phase One of the continuous decline, New York City is state's plan to reopen, May 27. And as As Long Island begins its Phase One moving closer to the day when some areas start to transition, Nassau reopening, Nassau County Executive Laura construction, manufacturing, wholesale County Executive Laura Curran is Curran is already looking toward Phase Two suppliers, and non-essential retail Mayor de Blasio outlined guidance with looking to the future and the next steps of the virus, hitting a new milestone. including clothing and electronics stores regard to phase 1 of reopening of economy. in a return to normalcy, though it is There have also been 2,111 deaths caused can reopen with some restrictions. (File photo) going to take time, subject to a continued by the disease. The first deaths were "New Yorkers have worked so hard for of distance between people unless safety improvement in the situation. reported on March 16 and grew steeply this progress, but we must remain or core function of the work activity Long Island was one of the last areas through the month of April before vigilant in this fight. I know we are all requires less of the state to enter Phase One of the tapering off in May. eager to return to normal, and the - Tightly confined spaces must reduce reopening plan. A continued increase of As the area progresses through the guidelines for phase one are the first occupancy to under 50% of maximum daily deaths held off Long Island's phases more and more services will step on that path," said Mayor Bill de capacity with all employees wearing face reopening, as did the need to hire dozens resume. Phase Two includes Blasio. "We will support business so they coverings of contact tracers to help stymie future professional services, administrative can reopen while staying safe." -Limit occurrence of all in-person cases. As of today, Long Island can support, real estate services and more SAFETY REGULATIONS: During gatherings and meetings, and only hold resume construction, manufacturing, retail. Curran said she is also trying to phase one, the City estimates 200,000 to them in large, well-ventilated areas with wholesale trade, agriculture, forestry, get Gov. Andrew Cuomo to include 400,000 employees may return to work. social distancing and a maximum of ten fishing, hunting and retail (with sales barber shops and beauty salons in the To ensure this is done safely and without people limited to curbside or in-store pickup professional services category. causing a resurgence of this virus, all Personal Protective Equipment - and drop off only). Despite the fact that the area is businesses must adhere to specific Provide employees with free clean face "The goal of reopening, of course, is to beginning to reopen, not all businesses hygiene, distancing, and health coverings and, if the nature of the work do this in a way that mitigates the spread are fully on board yet. "I'm getting protocols. Full guidance can be found requires, stricter personal protective of coronavirus," Curran said. "We want feedback from some of our business here. equipment like face shields to make sure we're doing it safely, owners that they're not ready to open Basic rules for all sectors include: - Encourage the use of face coverings because the last thing any of us want to yet, that they're not comfortable Hygiene Ensure frequent cleaning at all times and require them if do is backtrack on the process we're reopening," said Curran. and disinfecting of any shared surfaces employees cannot keep 6 feet of distance making." In order to help businesses with the Health Screenings - Implement due to safety or core work function Long Island must stay in Phase One for transition, the county created an online mandatory health screenings for EDUCATION AND ENFORCEMENT two weeks before moving to Phase Two. resource to help business owners figure employees, such as questionnaires and The Department of Buildings, If there isn't a spike in cases of the virus out which phase of reopening they temperature checks Department of Consumer and Worker during that time, Long Island can move would be in, and what they need to do in Communication - Create distance Protection and Small Business Services on to the next phase. There is a two-week order to open. That resource can be markers and post signage throughout will educate and conduct outreach to period between each phase. found here. the workplace reminding personnel to businesses as they reopen for phase one. Though Nassau County is starting to "I am confident that by reopening adhere to phase one guidance and rules To support businesses and workers reopen, the virus has still taken a smartly, our region can continue on to - Employers must conspicuously post through this transition, the City will: staggering toll on the area. As of May 26, Phase Two," Curran said. completed business safety plans on site (Read full story at the county recorded 40,043 positive cases (Source: Patch) Social Distancing - Require six feet www.theindianpanorama.news) THE INDIAN PANORAMA 12 US FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2020 USCIS Preparing to Resume Public Services on June 4

WASHINGTON (TIP): U.S. Citizenship and members listed on the interview notice. Immigration Services is preparing some domestic Representatives may attend credible and reasonable offices to reopen and resume non-emergency public fear interviews but are encouraged to participate services on or after June 4. On March 18, USCIS telephonically. USCIS will provide contracted, temporarily suspended routine in-person services at its professional interpreters for credible and reasonable field offices, asylum offices and application support fear interviews. centers (ASCs) to help slow the spread of coronavirus Naturalization Ceremonies (COVID-19). USCIS is following the Centers for Disease interview, asylum applicants will receive a new Control and Prevention's guidelines to protect our interview notice with the new time, date and location USCIS will send notices to applicants to reschedule workforce and the public. for the interview and information about safety postponed naturalization ceremonies. The ceremonies While certain offices are temporarily closed, USCIS precautions. may be shorter to limit exposure to those in attendance. continues to provide limited emergency in-person In accordance with social distancing guidelines, and Instead of playing videos during naturalization services. Please call the USCIS Contact Center for due to the length of asylum interviews, asylum offices ceremonies, attendees will receive a flyer with assistance with emergency services. expect to conduct video-facilitated asylum interviews, information and links directing them to the videos on As services begin to reopen, offices will reduce the where the applicants sit in one room and the the USCIS website. Under the shortened format, all number of appointments and interviews to ensure interviewing officer sits in another room. Asylum legally required portions of the ceremony will take social distancing, allow time for cleaning and reduce offices will use available technology, including mobile place. waiting room occupancy. Appointment notices will devices provided by the agency, to ensure that the Attendance is limited to the naturalization candidate contain information on safety precautions that visitors officer, applicant, interpreter and representative can and individuals providing assistance to disabled to USCIS facilities must follow. fully and safely participate in the interview while persons. If you are feeling sick, please do not go to your maintaining social distancing. Interviews and Appointments appointment. Follow the instructions on your For affirmative asylum interviews, applicants must appointment notice to reschedule your appointment for bring all immediate family members listed as USCIS will send notices to applicants and petitioners when you are healthy. There is no penalty for dependents on the application and an interpreter, if the with previously scheduled appointments and rescheduling your appointment if you are sick. applicant does not speak English. Additionally, a interviews. Those attending appointments should Asylum Offices representative, witness, individual providing disability follow the safety guidelines outlined below. accommodations or "trusted adult" if an applicant is a Those who had other appointments must reschedule USCIS asylum offices will automatically reschedule minor, may attend the interview. through the USCIS Contact Center once field offices are asylum interviews that were cancelled during the For non-detained credible or reasonable fear open to the public. (Read full story at temporary closures. When USCIS reschedules the interviews, individuals must bring any family www.theindianpanorama.news) Economic Impact Payments being sent by prepaid debit cards, arrive in plain envelope; IRS.gov answers frequently asked questions

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WASHINGTON (TIP): Embassy of India in limited, priority will be given to compelling cases and Washington issued, May 26, an advisory for the ongoing those Indian nationals and OCI Cardholders registered second phase of Vande Bharat Mission. It is an advisory (Indian nationals: https://indianembassyusa.gov.in/ for Indian nationals/ permitted categories of Overseas reg_indian_nationals & OCI Cardholders: Citizens of India (OCI) card holders travelling to India https://indianembassyusa.gov.in/reg_oci_indian_natio by non-scheduled commercial flights-Additional flights nals) with the Embassy/Consulates will be considered: in Phase II. (i) Indian Nationals: The Government of India has decided to operate additional Air India non-scheduled commercial flights With the compelling cases such as those facing in the ongoing second phase of operations from the U.S. medical emergencies or requiring return due to to various cities in India. The updated schedule of bereavement in the family, students, pregnant women, flights is as under: elderly or those facing expiry of visas. (ii) Overseas Citizens of India (OCI) card holders: (a) Minor children born to Indian nationals abroad and holding OCI cards. (b) OCI cardholders who wish to come to India on account of family emergencies like death in family. (c) Couples where one spouse is an OCI cardholder and the other is an Indian national and they have a permanent residence in India. (d) University students who are OCI cardholders (not legally minors) but whose parents are Indian citizens living in India. The OCI cardholders falling into one of the categories mentioned above will not require any fresh emergency All passengers on arrival in India will be medically visa. screened and would have to download and register on The cost of travel from designated airport in the USA Arogya Setu app. to the designated airport in India will be borne by the All passengers will have to follow the protocols and This is a dynamic list and may undergo changes passenger. All passengers will be required to undergo procedures including Health Protocols issued by the based on operational, technical and other medical screening before boarding the flight and only Government of the USA on departure and by the considerations. The list should not be considered as asymptomatic passengers will be allowed to travel. Ministry of Health, Ministry of Civil Aviation and final and is only for the purpose of information. This Before boarding, all passengers shall give an other concerned authorities of Government of India list cannot be quoted for any legal claims. All visitors undertaking that they would undergo mandatory before, during the journey and on arrival in India. are advised to countercheck with Air India for quarantine for 14 days as stipulated in the Ministry of All passengers will be required to sign an confirmation of the flights, timings, dates, destinations Home Affairs order dated 24 May 2020. Undertaking (Download Undertaking Form), which and other details. (https://www.mha.gov.in/sites/default/files/MHAOrde will be collected from them at the airport before Since the number of seats on the flights would be rDt24052020forspecifiedpersonstotravelabroad.pdf) boarding the flight. India Relaxes Travel Restrictions for NRIA Donates $2,500 To Coronavirus OCI Card Holders Testing Site In Edison, NJ WASHINGTON (TIP): India on May 22 students, pregnant women, elderly or those relaxed the visa and travel restrictions facing expiry of visas. EDISON, NJ (TIP) : NRIA imposed on Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) ii. Overseas Citizens of India of Secaucus, NJ, a leading cardholders during the COVID-19 luxurymulti-family real lockdown. (OCI) card holders: estate developer, private "Relaxing visa and travel restrictions a. Minor children born to Indian nationals equity investment manager, imposed in wake of COVID-19, certain abroad and holding OCI cards. and EB-5 Visa categories of OCI cardholders stranded b. OCI cardholders who wish to come to specialisthasdonated$2,500 abroad have been permitted to come to India on account of family emergencies to theIndian Business India", a Ministry of Home affairs like death in family. Associationof New Jersey spokesperson said in a tweet. c. Couples where one spouse is an OCI (IBA)to help fund the The government of India has deployed cardholder and the other is an Indian organization's new "Vande Bharat Mission" to bring back national and they have a permanent coronavirus testing site in Indian citizens stranded abroad including residence in India. Edison, NJ. NRIA's Glenn A. USA. The Government has decided to d. University students who are OCI LaMattina, SVP of operate additional Air India non-scheduled cardholders (not legally minors) but Operations (below left), and commercial flights in the ongoing second whose parents are Indian citizens living Tanvi Prenita Chandra, SVP ofSouth Asian Marketing and Business phase of operations from the U.S. to various in India. Development (right) presented the check to Thomas Lankey, Mayor of Edison, cities in India from May 28 to June 15. [Note: The OCI cardholders falling into NJ (center) at the grand opening earlier this week. Since the number of seats on the flights one of the categories mentioned above Located at 103 Cinder Road in Edison, NJ, the IBA-sponsored testingsite will be would be limited, priority will be given to will not require any fresh emergency conducting free coronavirus, salivatests by appointment on Mondays and compelling cases and those Indian visa]. Thursdays, 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM. Those interested in being tested may register nationals and OCI Cardholders registered The cost of travel from designated airport online at https://IBA.adlabscovidtest.com. Once registered an Agile Urgent (Indian nationals: in the USA to the designated airport in Care staff member will be in touch to discuss symptoms. https://indianembassyusa.gov.in/reg_indi India will be borne by the passenger. The testing site is just one of several IBA-funded coronavirus emergency an_nationals & OCI Cardholders: All passengers will be required to response projects to help counter the impact of the virus. Other programs https://indianembassyusa.gov.in/reg_oci_i undergo medical screening before boarding include distributing non-perishable food items to hospital employees, supplying ndian_nationals) with the the flight and only asymptomatic Personal Protective Equipment to frontline workers, and translating pertinent Embassy/Consulates will be considered: passengers will be allowed to travel. coronavirus updates so New Jersey's Indian communitycan stay apprised of new i. Indian Nationals: Before boarding, all passengers shall give developments in their native language. an undertaking that they would undergo "NRIAis committed to supporting the local South Asian community and we With the compelling cases such as those mandatory quarantine for 14 days as are delighted to make this donation," said Glenn A. LaMattina. Last month, facing medical emergencies or requiring stipulated in the Ministry of Home Affairs NRIA also donated $2,500 to the SKN Foundation for the purchase of PPE for return due to bereavement in the family, order dated 24 May 2020. local medical staff. THE INDIAN PANORAMA 14 INDIA FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2020

INDIA LIFTS CURBS ON THE Pulwama-type attack averted, EXPORT OF PARACETAMOL NEW DELHI (TIP): The central government on Thursday lifted restrictions on the export of JK Police seize car laden with paracetamol, a common medicine used to treat fever and body pain. The directorate general of foreign trade, under ministry of commerce and industry, reviewed its 45 kg explosives March 3 order that restricted the export of the drug and active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) in the wake of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) situation in SRINAGAR (TIP): Jammu and the country. Kashmir Police on Thursday “…government hereby makes following averted a 2019 Pulwama-type attack amendment…of the ITCHS export policy amending when they chased and seized a car the notification dated 03.03.2020 related to export laden with about 45 kg of explosives policy of paracetamol API. From present policy of in the south Kashmir district, restricted use it has been moved to free category officials said. under the revised policy,” read the directorate Inspector General of Police notification. (Kashmir range) Vijay Kumar told reporters there were intelligence Cong launches ‘Speak up India’ inputs about plans of banned Hizbul Mujahideen and Jaish-e- drive, asks PM to help poor Mohammed terror groups to repeat an attack similar to last year''s NEW DELHI (TIP): Congress president Sonia February 14 strike on a CRPF Gandhi on Thursday led party’s ‘Speak up India’ convoy that left 40 personnel dead. campaign, asking the government to come to the "The police had intelligence rescue of lakhs of labourers and small traders who inputs for past one week that Hizbul continue to battle the economic impact Covid and Mujahideen and Jaish-e- the lockdown. Mohammed terrorists had plans to In two video messages today, Sonia said the launch a big strike using a suicide government must immediately open its coffers and bomber and car bomb to target Picture of the car with IED after it was destroyed. help the needy and if it feels constrained about security forces. Based on these "This morning, a bomb disposal Muslim fasting month of Ramzan -- finances, it should scrap the costly Central Vista inputs, checkposts were placed in squad reached the spot and saw the but could not undertake it then project that seeks to build a new Parliament complex Pulwama by the security forces on vehicle was laden with explosives. because the forces had taken pre- and government buildings and use that money to Wednesday," he told reporters here. The IED was defused in a technical emptive measures. feed the vulnerable. In her morning message, Sonia Unfolding the sequence of events, way by the police, army and "However, the input got developed cited the travails of migrant labourers who continue Kumar said on Wednesday evening paramilitary CRPF. The Pulwama on Wednesday and we suspect Adil, to walk back home thousands of kilometres without when the suspected car, which police, with the help of security who is a Hizbul terrorist but also food and water and asked the government to arrange police claimed to have all inputs, forces, have averted a major tragedy works with JeM, and Fauji bhai, a their free transport back to their home states. was spotted approaching a check and I congratulate all of the forces," Pakistani militant and JeM post, it was signalled to stop. he said. commander in Pulwama are However, its driver turned the car in Images taken by drones were also involved in the planning of the Shah speaks to all CMs, seeks a different direction and fled from shared with the media about the attack," he said. the scene before being trapped at controlled explosion of the car Kumar said the terrorists were views on extension of lockdown another check post. carrying 45 kg of explosives. planning to target the security "At another check post, the forces The IGP said that a man named forces vehicles using about 40-45 kgs NEW DELHI(TIP): Union Home Minister Amit again fired some warning shots and Adil, who works for both the terror of explosives in the same manner as Shah spoke to all chief ministers on Thursday, and the terrorist fled from the spot, groups, is believed to be one of the the February 14, 2019 Awantipora sought their views on extension of the ongoing taking advantage of darkness, and planners. The number plate used on attack. nationwide lockdown beyond May 31, officials said. left the car behind. The forces used the car actually was that of a "We are calling an expert team to The telephonic conversations of the home lights to check the vehicle from a motorcycle. investigate it. Since the explosive minister came just three days before the end of the distance after finding something The IGP said the police had inputs debris went up about 50 metres in fourth phase of the lockdown. suspicious. We tightened the cordon that JeM was planning to launch the air, it seems that the weight of The nationwide curbs, which were first imposed and waited for the first light of the such an attack on the anniversary of the explosives would have been on March 25 to contain the spread of the novel day. Jang-e-Badr day -- the 17th day of about 40-45 kg," he said. coronavirus, and has been extended thrice. INDIA, CHINA STAND GROUND IN LADAKH BORDER STANDOFF NEW DELHI (TIP): India on Thursday consensus reached by our leaders and the said it is engaged with China at the Modi is not in good mood, says Trump on India-China tensions guidance provided. At the same time, we diplomatic and military levels to end a WASHINGTON (TIP): United States President Donald Trump on Thursday remain firm in our resolve to ensuring border standoff involving thousands of referred to the border tensions between India and China as a “big conflict” and said India’s sovereignty and national security,” troops even as it tacitly ruled out any that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was not in “in a good mood” because of the he said. The Indian troops, he added, have possibility of US mediation to end the face- situation, PTI reported. He also repeated his offer to mediate between the two a “very responsible approach towards off. countries. “They have a big conflict India and China,” Trump was quoted as saying border management and strictly follow the The ground situation remained by the news agency at a press conference. “Two countries with 1.4 billion people procedures laid out in various bilateral unchanged and neither side had lowered each. Two countries with very powerful militaries. India is not happy and probably agreements and protocols with China to its guard at the four standoff points n the China is not happy.” Trump added that he had spoken to Modi about the standoff resolve any issue that may arise in the Ladakh sector’s Galwan Valley and between India and China. “He [Modi] is not in a good mood about what is going on border areas”. Pangong Tso areas. Both sides are holding with China,” Trump said. However, India has denied Trump claims of talks with These include five agreements signed by firms and it is not possible to indicate at PM Modi over China logjam. India and China in the past two decades – this time when the status quo ante will be the 1993 Agreement on Maintenance of restored, people familiar with the both sides are engaged at different levels to diplomatic levels to peacefully resolve Peace and Tranquillity along the LAC in developments said. Since tensions flared address tensions, but New Delhi will make situations that may arise in border areas the India-China border areas, the 1996 along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) no compromises on sovereignty and through dialogue, and “continue to remain Agreement on Confidence Building after violent clashes involving hundreds of national security. engaged through these channels”. Measures in the Military Field along the soldiers in Sikkim and Ladakh sectors Asked specifically about US President Srivastava reiterated India’s contention LAC, the 2005 Protocol on Modalities for early this month, both sides have deployed Donald Trump’s offer to mediate and that its troops had not violated the LAC, a the implementation of the Confidence additional soldiers, especially in Galwan whether New Delhi had sought such charge levelled by China soon after the Building Measures in the Military Field, Valley in eastern Ladakh. India has said it arbitration, Srivastava said: “As I’ve told standoff became public. the 2012 Agreement on establishment of a will oppose any unilateral attempts to alter you, we are engaged with the Chinese side “India is committed to the objective of working mechanism for consultation and the status quo along the LAC. External to peacefully resolve this issue.” maintenance of peace and tranquillity in coordination on India-China Border affairs ministry spokesperson Anurag India and China, he said, have the border areas with China and our Affairs, and the 2013 Border Defence Srivastava told a virtual news briefing that established mechanisms at military and armed forces scrupulously follow the Cooperation Agreement. Source: HT THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2020 INDIA 15

SPECIAL REPORT GLIMMER IN COVID SURGE: LESS THAN 5% OF PATIENTS Rajasthan facing dual challenge REQUIRE CRITICAL CARE NEW DELHI (TIP): As returning migrants and of COVID & locust swarm easing lockdown push the coronavirus far and wide, an analysis of statewise data shows that when it comes to Covid patients requiring critical care, their Drones pressed in service to kill spread of Locust in Jaipur share, even in high-burden states like Maharashtra, By Yash Goyal in Jaipur Delhi, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu, remains low. So is the demand for ventilators. JAIPUR (TIP): Rajasthan is Similar is the case in states like Bihar, Jharkhand, running into the toughest dual Chhattisgarh and Odisha where the migrant influx challenge of COVID-19 on ground is pushing up Covid numbers. while Locust swarm in air damaged Of the total 83,004 active cases on May 27, less than crop and affected normal life in 3500 needed any kind of intervention — oxygen many cities of the state. therapy, ICU or ventilators. Due to deadly Coronavirus over A total of 1,868 patients needed ICU (2.25 per cent), 8000 people got inflicted and at least of whom just three were on ventilators while 1585 180 have died till May 29 in people (1.91 per cent) were on oxygen. This trend has Rajasthan, while crop worth Rs. remained largely unchanged since the first cases 1000 cr eaten up by little came in. grasshoppers, and it affected Until May 15, 18,855 ventilators were available in normal life in 19 out of 33 districts the country for Covid care, this number would have including the state capital of Jaipur gone up since. In addition, 60,000 ventilators have early this week. been ordered. After 27 years, Locust swarms, a These figures assume significance given the short-horned grasshopper, have apprehension about medical infrastructure being reached Jaipur's residential and overwhelmed by the pandemic as testing ramps up sub-urban towns and farmland after and more cases pour in. entering western districts of Replying to a question on the way ahead during Rajasthan and travelling via Locust attack on Madan Gopal Temple in Jaipur and (below) Locust attack on fruit Lockdown 4.0, Niti Aayog’s Dr Vinod Paul said: “Our Barmer, Jaisalmer, Jodhpur, trees in Jaipur. Pictures/ Courtesy Dinesh Bagara goal is to control the pandemic and then restore Bikaner, Churu and Nagaur since drums, thali, burning cow dung, normalcy so that life can go on. That balance is key May first week. Now this flock has bursting fire crackers, and creating to all decisions on restrictions. We have to make sure moved and roaming in Haryana, smoke in the affected areas to divert that the size of the pandemic remains below our Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh' the route of hoppers. capacity to treat patients.” bordering districts. Rajasthan had already witnessed In Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Bihar where For the first time, the state a long spell of locust invasion last returning migrants are a cause for concern, so far no Agriculture Department is using a year from May to February this year patients are on ventilators, oxygen or in the ICU. The Drone to clear the locust in the air. in which 6.7 lac hectares of Rabi reasons aren’t clear: there is speculation that the First batch of tailor-made drones and later Kharif crops were epidemic may be in its early stages in these states or are supplied to the state by the damaged in 12 districts, the that few patients need critical care or that the health Union Agriculture Ministry.Drones Agriculture Minister Lal Chand infrastructure isn’t uniformly distributed in these got operationalized on Wednesday, Kataria has said, adding the state states. May 27 at Samod village, 30 kms had a loss due to pest invasion to the Of the 2,680 active cases in Uttar Pradesh till May from Jaipur, to clear the swarms tune of Rs.1000 cr. 27, 61 needed ICU and 38 needed oxygen. No patient roaming in the air. The drones are "Rajasthan Government has was required to be put on a ventilator. equipped with 10 liters of chemicals issued orders to provide 50 percent In Maharashtra, which has seen the most number with creating a sound that disperse subsidy to farmers on purchase of of deaths, the percentage of people on oxygen is just the flock in the area. Or they get pesticides, particularly Malathion 2.21 per cent. In Delhi the percentage is 3.56 but on killed. (96 percent Ultra Low Value) for May 27, when the number of active cases in Dangerous grasshoppers have spray on intruder insect under Maharashtra was 36012, there were just 796 people become gregarious over the supervision of agriculture experts", on oxygen while in Delhi, of the 6954 active cases, 248 housing, kitchen garden, gardens the minister recalled saying the were on oxygen. and greenery as they have eaten fresh crop damage assessment due Holding a review meeting a day Overall, the percentage of people on oxygen (1.91% some of the seasonal vegetable to it was underway. ago, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot of total active cases in the country) is an important crops on way from Barmer to During lockdown, Hoppers have has demanded the Central metric because it has often been seen in Covid cases Jaipur, entered Jaisalmer on April 11 from government to provide the that patients recover quickly after a few days on On third today, hoppers were seen Pakistan, and since then the additional resources and fund to oxygen. However, if timely oxygen is not given, there flying on Jaipur-Agra route over swarms are flying to the desert state control outbreak of Locust Swarm are increased chances of organ damage and quick Dausa where farmers were using frequently due to wind direction and probable damage of seasonal deterioration. Until May 26, Delhi had 303 deaths the traditional way sounding too, the Minister said. crop and vegetables. while Maharashtra till May 27 had 1897 deaths. Source: Indian Express India registers biggest single-day spike of 7,467 COVID-19 cases

NEW DELHI (TIP): India on succumbed to the deadly infection. was higher than Tamil Nadu and Friday reported 7,467 new cases of The recovery rate has gone up to Delhi at 316 but the cases stand at the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) 42.88% as 71,105 people, up from 7,495 so far. in the last 24 hours in the highest 67,691 patients on Thursday, have There will be a continued focus single-day surge, taking the tally to warded off the respiratory disease, on 13 cities and five states worst hit 165,799, according to the Union data showed on Friday. by Covid-19 and the situation in health ministry. Most of India’s Covid-19 cases seven states, which have seen many This is the first time India has were reported in Maharashtra, of their residents who were reported more than 7,000 cases in a Tamil Nadu, Delhi and Gujarat. working outside come back, will be single day and the surge in the Maharashtra has witnessed monitored as India exits the Covid-19 numbers comes just days 59,546 Covid-19 cases and 1,982 ongoing lockdown. ahead of the fourth phase of the people have died in the western These cities are Mumbai, lockdown is scheduled to end on state so far. In Tamil Nadu, 19,372 Chennai, Delhi, Ahmedabad, May 31. people have contracted the disease Thane, Pune, Hyderabad, According to the health and 145 people have died, while Kolkata/Howrah, Indore, Jaipur, ministry’s dashboard in the Delhi reported 16,281 cases and 316 Jodhpur, Changalpattu and morning, there are 89,987 active fatalities till date. Thiruvallur, which constitute cases of the coronavirus disease in The number of deaths in about 70% of the positive cases in the country and 4,706 people have Gujarat, the fourth worst-hit state, the country. THE INDIAN PANORAMA 16 CORONAVIRUS CRISIS FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2020 MIGRANT WORKERS FACE LOCKDOWN ORDEAL, SHUN CITY JOBS

MUMBAI/CHENNAI (TIP): When power loom operator Lokanath Swain boarded a bus home after a 40-day wait in the Indian textile hub of Surat, he took a silent vow - to never return to his workplace of two decades. Like millions of migrant workers left jobless by India’s strict coronavirus lockdown, Swain was left penniless and facing starvation and could only afford the 1,700 km (1,100 miles) trip back to eastern Odisha state after his family wired him money. Countless workers in India have walked thousands of miles home after losing their jobs, many dying in accidents along the way, and the ordeal has made them reluctant to return to work despite India easing restrictions to reboot industrial activity. “Nobody was understanding our problems there. My employer did not lift the phone when I contacted him to ask for my 10 days’ wages pending with him. They are big people. What can we do?” Swain, 45, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone. “I thought I would not survive until the time trains would resume. How long can a starving man survive? May be one or two days,” Swain said from a quarantine conducted by this travelling army of facility where he is housed near his employees. village in Ganjam district of Odisha India’s government, also aware of the state. magnitude of the problem, this month Swain is among the often invisible said it would spend 35 billion rupees army of about 100 million migrant ($463.06 million) on food for migrant workers in India - or 20% of the workers and offer them jobs in their workforce - who leave their villages for villages under a rural employment jobs in cities, where their skills are scheme. needed in manufacturing, construction, “The government is concerned about or the hospitality industry. migrant workers,” India’s Finance About 80% of these migrant workers Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told are men who send their earnings back to reporters. their villages to support their families. Trade union leaders and campaigners Reports compiled by aid workers show said delivery of aid and jobs will be that more than half of the stranded patchy in the world’s second most workers who contacted them in distress populous country of 1.3 billion people, during the lockdown were out of food and industries would have to grapple and money, with nearly four out of every with a labour shortage, at least for the five not paid by their employers. next few months. About 13% of 17,000 migrants in “The bitter experience they have had contact with the volunteers of Stranded has left them traumatised and we know Workers Action Network, a collective of that most of them will not even think of in the population, never factored into rarely ever present in their villages. relief workers, said they would seek coming back to work in the near future,” urban planning nor included in the city’s “These workers have multiple work in their home towns in the future. said realtor Kishore Jain from population, and rarely counted for either identities – they work on construction “What is the point of returning now? Bengaluru, where trains were stopped to in their villages. sites and then go back home to work in My employer abandoned me. I would stall construction workers from leaving, There are estimates on their agriculture,” said Amita Bhide, dean of rather stay with my family even if I earn triggering protests. population but no official statistics, with School of Habitat Studies at the Tata half of what I earned there,” Swain said. “Bringing them back is going to be our no central registry of migrant workers Institute of Social Sciences. biggest challenge,” said Jain, who is the despite legislation 40 years ago to Migrant workers typically return CHALLENGE Bengaluru chapter president of establish such a database. home for festivals or during the harvest In the melee of millions of homebound Confederation of Real Estate Developers’ In Surat, migrants form 58% of the season. migrants are construction workers, gem Associations of India. population, the highest migrants-to- But this time around, many have polishers, masons and skilled artisans locals ratio in India and 70% of the city’s returned home to stay. who deftly stitched sequins on garments ‘CURSED TO BE A MIGRANT’ waged workforce, a study by migrant “Once I get home, I will look for a job - specific skills that made migrant Migrant worker Rakesh Kumar said he rights non-profit Aajeevika Bureau nearby. Why would I want to repeat this workers essential to several key always earned his living in Bengaluru as shows. experience?” construction worker industries. an electrician, but the lockdown and Yet 98% of migrants surveyed for the Rakesh Kumar said. “I will never come Although informally employed, their halting the trains turned him into a study, which was released this month, back.” skills oil supply chains feeding domestic beggar. had never interacted with any official in and global markets and their earnings He described standing in queues for a political party office or local ROAD AHEAD support rural communities, with food every day as “a humiliation for a administrative bodies. Industries facing a potential labour economists warning their reluctance to lifetime”. The lockdown made them visible to shortage are planning various ways to return could mean labour shortages that “The government did not give us urban dwellers for the first time in navigate the crisis. hit the Indian economy. anything and the food we got was from recent history in India as they emerged The western state of Maharashtra has Aware of their dependence on migrant charities. Even to get that, we faced from construction sites and sweatshops asked “sons of the soil” or local citizens workers, many industries and state discrimination, with locals getting first to go home. “to grab employment opportunities” governments are now grappling to find preference,” he said. “Being a migrant Unaccounted for in cities, they have created by the exodus of migrants, while ways to lure back workers or to train became a curse.” poor access to state aid and healthcare the real estate industry was planning on local residents in the often skilled work Migrants are an often invisible group offered to rural communities as they are training local workers. Source: Reuters THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2020 CORONAVIRUS CRISIS 17

MIGRANTS RETURNING TO TODDLER TRIES TO BIHAR JUMP OFF TRAINS WAKE UP DEAD MOTHER, TO FLEE ISOLATION VIDEO GOES VIRAL MUZAFFARPUR (TIP): A toddler’s vain attempt to wake up his dead mother from eternal sleep on a railway platform in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur on Wednesday presented the most poignant picture of the massive migrant tragedy unfolding across several states. A video tweeted by Sanjay Yadav, an aide to RJD leader Tejashwi PATNA (TIP): Migrant workers returning to Bihar Yadav, shows the child walking are jumping from trains to escape the 14-day unsteadily up to his mother’s body, mandatory quarantine. tugging at the blanket placed over On Tuesday,350 migrants returning from Delhi and her, and when failing to wake her Patiala pulled the alarm chain at two different places up, covering his own head with it. and jumped off the Shramik Special trains. Railway As the mother still lay still, he Protection Force (RPF) personnel and local villagers, wobbles away from her, however, caught 180 of them. announcements continuing in the “They are jumping ahead of their destination. We background about the arrival and A toddler’s vain attempt to wake up his dead mother from eternal sleep on a railway convince those we manage to detain that it is departure of trains that would platform in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur on Wednesday presented the most poignant picture necessary not only for themselves but also for their bring in tens of thousands of people of the massive migrant tragedy. family members,” said an RPF official at the Danapur in a rush to get away from hunger railway station, near Patna. and hardship they face in large is responsible for these deaths on Wednesday defended its handling of A large number of migrants on board the Shramik cities that could sustain them no trains? Shouldn’t the opposition ask migrant specials after a heart- Special from Delhi’s Anand Vihar to Purnia in more. uncomfortable questions?” tweeted rending video surfaced online northeast Bihar deboarded near the Ranibagh “This child doesn’t know that the Yadav. showing a toddler attempting to railway crossing. While around 150 managed to bedsheet with which he is playing is wake up his dead mother. While the escape, around 250 migrants were caught by the local the shroud of his mother who has Death due to pre-existing Railways claimed the woman died of villagers who then informed the RPF personnel. They gone into eternal sleep. This mother ailment: Railways a pre-existing heart condition, were taken to quarantine centres, but some more died of hunger and thirst after AAP’s Sanjay Singh said the claim managed to flee. being on a train for four days. Who NEW DELHI: The Railways on is a “lie”. In another incident, migrant workers stopped the Shramik Special from Chandigarh to Gaya district somewhere in Sasaram district and 24 are believed to have escaped, said an official. A senior ECR railway Migrants’ kid official said this was now happening often. Delhi farmer buys plane “Sometimes they are caught, sometime they manage dies as father to escape,” he said. Lakhs of migrant workers returning home are tickets to send 10 workers to hunts for milk refusing to be quarantined near their homes. “ How can we be away from our family for 14 days after all the trouble we went through?” asked Mahendra at rly station Sahni from Muzaffarpur. their homes in Bihar MUZAFFARPUR Over 12 lakh migrants have so far returned to NEW DELHI (TIP): A (TIP): The four-and-a- different districts of the State and another 27 lakh farmer in Delhi sent 10 of half- year-old son of have registered with the government and are waiting his workers home on a flight migrants from Bihar for their turn. to their home state Bihar on based in Delhi died at the Thursday. railway station here on Registered to return, migrants in Pappan Gehlot, a arrival by a ‘Shramik mushroom farmer, paid for Special’ train, while his Punjab start backing out their flight tickets because father desperately hunted the migrant workers have for some milk he believed CHANDIGARH (TIP): While a huge number of toiled for him for the last 20 will save his child. migrants in Punjab, mainly from UP and Bihar, had years. Maqsood Alam alias registered on the government’s portal to return to “We tried to book trains Mohd Pintu, the bereaved their native places, only 20 per cent among those have tickets but were unable to do The 10 migrant workers at the Indira Gandhi International father, worked as a house actually gone back despite the state government it. Then we thought these airport in Delhi before catching flight to Patna. painter until the sending over 300 Shramik trains in the past three people have been working coronavirus-induced weeks. with us for over 20 years, their journey should be safe. So we got them medically lockdown rendered him The dwindling rush in UP and Bihar trains has examined and arranged flight tickets for them,” Pappu’s brother Niranjan Gehlot jobless and drove him to been visible with several leaving with just 40 per cent told news agency ANI. penury,forcing the family occupancy of the total allotted berths. Strangely, this The workers said their dream came true. “I had never thought I will get to sit in an to leave their rented was also true for districts which had a large number aeroplane, our employer made the arrangements for us,” said one of the workers as home in a Delhi slum and of migrants registered with the authorities to leave. he arrived at the Indira Gandhi International Airport to board the 6 am flight to head home after selling The maximum labourers who had registered to Patna on Thursday. off their meagre return were from UP and Bihar at 88 per cent of the The workers said they can’t believe they are going to their villages in Samastipur belongings. total registrations. - not walking or cycling thousands of kilometres, or scrambling for a seat on a bus or Accompanied by wife On Monday, four trains chugged off from train - but on a plane. “I never imagined in my life that I will be traveling in a plane. Zeba and son Ishaq, Alam Jalandhar, including three to Bihar and one to UP. I don’t have words to express my happiness. But I am also little bit nervous about had started the journey These trains were allotted 1,600 berths each (6,400 what I have to do when we reach the airport tomorrow,” Lakhinder Ram, who will be with some excitement, total), but less than 3,000 passengers could be sent returning with his son, told news agency PTI. trying to forget the from five districts including Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur, Ram, 50, who has been working for Gehlot for 27 years, said the farmer has been travails of the past and Kapurthala, Nawanshahr and Pathankot. taking care of their food and accommodation since the lockdown began on March 25. hoping to reach his native A Deputy Commissioners from the Doaba region Gehlot has a mushroom farm in Delhi’s Tigipur village. He bought the tickets place in West Champaran said that for the past couple of days, trains — worth Rs 68,000 and also gave each worker Rs 3,000 so they don’t face any problems district on Monday. especially those bound for UP districts — are not when they reach their home state. The child had fallen ill, being filled, adding that they have been calling the Gehlot said that he has been doing mushroom farming since 1993 which has a apparently because of registered migrants repeatedly but most of them season between august and March. oppressive heat. have changed their minds. THE INDIAN PANORAMA 18 BOLLYWOOD FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2020 WHEN ALIA BHATT SAID SHE’D WANT RANBIR KAPOOR AT HER ‘SWAYAMVAR’ ollywood actors Alia Bhatt and Ranbir Kapoor are Btogether for sometime now and the lovebirds have not shied away from expressing their love for each other on several occasions. Now, we chance upon a throwback video of Alia from Koffee With Karan season 4 (2013-14) which makes it apparent that she was crushing over the Sanju star long before they started dating in real life. On Karan Johar's chat show, when Alia appeared with her ZOA MORANI DONATES BLOOD Student of The Year co-stars Varun Dhawan and Sidharth Malhotra, PLASMA FOR SECOND TIME she made a couple of references to her now-flame Ranbir. During the oronavirus survivor and actor Zoa Morani has rapid fire round, Karan asks Alia, once again donated blood for plasma therapy. "If your swayamvar (event for CThe actor said the last time she donated blood choosing one's groom) were to take for plasma therapy, it helped a COVID-19 patient to place today in Bollywood, name come out of the ICU. three men you would love to have She tweeted late Tuesday night, “Plasma donation contest for you." Responding to this, round 2 ! Last time it helped get a patient out of ICU, Alia takes Ranbir's name first, note from my doctor, ‘hoping all recovered covid followed by Salman Khan and patients come out and donate their blood, u may be Aditya Roy Kapur. able to help someone’ #NairHospital Later, Karan asks her, "An actor #IndiaFightsCorona #plasmatherapy” you would not mind doing a steamy “The last time I donated blood for plasma, it worked scene with." Alia takes Ranbir's very well on a patient who was on a ventilator in the name swiftly. Alia also adds in one year in December after multiple pandemic. Alia has other projects like ICU. He responded to the treatment very well and is of the answers that she would delays. The movie also features Sadak 2, Gangubai Kathiawadi and out of the ICU now. There was an urgent requirement marry Ranbir. Amitabh Bachchan, Mouni Roy and RRR in her kitty. Meanwhile, Ranbir for another serious patient so they asked me to come Meanwhile, on the movies front, Nagarjuna in key roles. It will will feature in YRF's Shamshera and back. Hoping the patient recovers soon. I spoke to his Alia and Ranbir's highly anticipated interesting to see if makers push the is working with Shraddha Kapoor in wife at night and haven’t stopped praying for her ever movie Brahmastra is to release this release date owing to the coronavirus a yet untitled movie. since,” the actor said. AFTER LOCKDOWN, MANI RATNAM TO WHEN VARUN DHAWAN AND KIARA ADVANI SHOOT AISHWARYA RAI-STARRER IN ONE GO DANCED TO SUN SAATHIYA

ani Ratnam was eagerly looking forward to the third Mschedule of Ponniyin Selvan in Puducherry as it would mark his reunion with protégé Aishwarya Rai Bachchan after Raavan (2010). Unfortunately, the nationwide lockdown was imposed before the auteur could take his place behind the camera for the third stint. With the ongoing shutdown having played havoc with the shoot of the ambitious period drama, sources suggest that Ratnam is planning to call for a start- to-finish schedule when normalcy is restored. ou might have seen Varun Dhawan and A trade source says, "Amid chatter Kiara Advani dancing together to the song that shoots may begin from July,Mani YFirst Class from the 2019 period drama sir and his team are reworking the Kalank but have you seen them grooving schedules to ensure the film meets its together to ABCD 2's Sun Saathiya? 2021 release. He is hoping to get bulk On Wednesday, Varun posted a video from his dates from Vikram, Aishwarya, and Kiara's dance rehearsal session on his Karthi and the ensemble cast so that double role — as Nandini, the difficult to coordinate the schedules, official YouTube channel. In the video, Kiara, the film can be wrapped up in one go. manipulative wife of Periya but it's our job to figure out a way," he dressed in a black tank top and a pair of track If all goes well, they will begin the Pazhuvettaraiyar, and queen says. Even though the period piece is pants can be seen dancing with Varun, who Puducherry leg with Vikram and Mandakini Devi. mounted on a grand scale and relies featured with Shraddha Kapoor in the original Aishwarya. If they don't get the Shiva Anand, executive producer, heavily on post-production, Anand is song. Sharing the video on his YouTube channel, necessary permission for an outdoor Madras Talkies, confirms that the confident that it will be ready for its Varun wrote: "Hi guys! Here's a throwback dance shoot, they might change the venue to first instalment of the two-part movie date with the audience next year. "We cover video of my rehearsal with Kiara Advani. the AVM Studios in Chennai." The will be shot in one go. "Like everybody have no intention of compromising on I hope you guys like this video." period drama, based on the life of else in the industry,we are waiting for the film. We will release the first part In terms of work, Street Dancer 3D, which also Arulmozhi Varman before he became the shoot to resume and talk to the next year, though we don't have clarity starred Shraddha Kapoor and Nora Fatehi, the great Chola emperor, sees Rai in a actors about their dates. It will be on the release date yet." remains Varun Dhawan's last release. THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2020 HOLLYWOOD 19 TRACEE ELLIS ROSS MAKES SINGING DEBUT IN FILM THE HIGH NOTE racee Ellis Ross plays a singing superstar in her new feel-good Tmovie The High Note, but the actor AVATAR 2 FILMMAKER said the film has nothing to do with her famous mother, Diana Ross. JON LANDAU REVEALS "I understand the questions. I welcome the questions. It's really fine. But the NEW PLOT DETAILS answer to all of them is no," Ross said. The movie, which will be released on home video-on-demand platforms on ABOUT THE SEQUEL Friday, gives Ross her long-awaited fter keeping all the details about chance to sing on screen. the film under tight wraps for "It's something I've always wanted to Ayears, producer Jon Landau finally do. It was one of my childhood dreams. spilled some beans on the plot of James My biggest dreams that turned into one of Cameron's upcoming film. Just earlier my biggest fears, and understandable this month, it was reported that the fear, because of who my mom is," she production of eagerly-awaited Avatar said. sequel is all set to restart in New Zealand. Diana Ross, 76, rose to fame in the 1960s The filming of sci-fi sequel was put on as the lead singer of Motown Records' hold in March after the New Zealand vocal group the Supremes, one of the Government instituted a lockdown amid world's best-selling female groups in the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic to history, and later had a successful solo promote social distancing and stop the career. spread of the deadly virus. Tracee Ellis Ross said she also was Recently, while discussing the film with attracted to the film's message of Radio New Zealand, Jon revealed that the resilience and pursuing one's dreams. movie will be a story about the Sully The movie follows Ross as singer Grace family. “This is the story of the Sully Davis along with her personal assistant, family and what one does to keep their played by Dakota Johnson, and manager, family together, ComicBook reported. portrayed by Ice Cube, as they navigate Jake and Neytiri have a family in this the music industry. movie, they are forced to leave their home, Rapper and actor Ice Cube said he they go out and explore the different molded his character after an array of regions of Pandora, including spending managers he has interacted with quite a bit of time on the water, around throughout his career. the water, in the water,” he explained. JENNIFER LOPEZ FEELS DAVID BECKHAM TROLLS VICTORIA

HEARTBROKEN OVER POSTPONING HER avid Beckham pulling his wife MARRIAGE WITH ALEX RODRIGUEZ DVictoria's leg after 20 years of marriage is the ennifer Lopez and cutest thing ever. Recently, Alex Rodriguez had David and Victoria's son Jbeen planning a Cruz took to his Instagram summer wedding in Italy. handle and shared a mirror Reportedly,the couple had selfie with his mommy started making after a relaxing spa session. arrangements for their "Apparently my mum does big day but like many smile," Cruz gave a funny other couples who were caption to his post as looking forward to getting Victoria Beckham is often married in 2020, Jennifer seen putting up a serious Lopez and Alex expression in pictures, Rodriguez's marriage unlike this particular one plans also got affected by where she flaunted her the Coronavirus. As social pearl whites. distancing restrictions After Cruz teased his are put in place due to the mommy, David Beckham rising number of COVID- was quick to notice and he 19 cases across the globe, Really, there’s no planning lot of plans for this further pulled his wife public gatherings are right now. You just have to summer, and this year but, Victoria's leg calling her forbidden and it seems it'll kind of wait and see how everything’s kinda on hold Ross from FRIENDS. David took to the comments section and asked Cruz, "How stay this way for quite this all plays out," JLo right now," Jennifer Lopez white are mums @victoriabeckham teeth?" He then trolled her adding, "Ross from some time. said. "It’s disappointing on went on to add. friends." FRIENDS fans would get the reference as Ross played by David Speaking with the one level, you know, after Jennifer Lopez admitted Schwimmer whitens his teeth before going for a date in the eighth episode of the Today Show, Jennifer the Super Bowl and after that she feels heartbroken sixth season of FRIENDS. Lopez revealed how she World of Dance, after we over postponing her plans Jokes and leg-pulling is all part of love. David Beckham and Victoria have been feels about postponing her finished filming it, I and said, "I’m a little married for over 20 years now and make for one of the most quintessential couples marriage with Alex planned to take time off, heartbroken because we ever. A few months ago, Victoria shared a throwback video wherein David Beckham Rodriguez indefinitely which is what we’re doing did have some great plans reveals what made him fall in love with her and his response will melt your heart. due to the Coronavirus kind of right now, but at but I’m also like, you know "I couldn’t put my finger on one thing…It was everything. You know, the whole outbreak. "Nobody knows, the same time…we had a what? package. I just fell in love with it," he says. THE INDIAN PANORAMA 20 FEATURE FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2020 OPERATION BLUESTAR, 36 YEARS ON JUNE 5 SEES THE 36TH ANNIVERSARY OF ONE OF THE MOST MOMENTOUS EVENTS IN MODERN INDIAN HISTORY - THE STORMING OF THE GOLDEN TEMPLE IN AMRITSAR, THE HOLIEST SHRINE OF THE SIKH RELIGION, BY THE INDIAN ARMY

n 2 June 1984, Prime Minister that Sikh religion could not be separated Indira Gandhi spoke on All India from Sikh politics. Positioning itself as ORadio and appealed to “all the sole guardian of the faith served a sections of Punjab not to shed blood, but politically expedient narrative for a (shed) hatred”. party looking to unseat the Congress in The call was disingenuous, since the Punjab. army was already preparing for its assault on the Golden Temple, notes JARNAIL SINGH Ramchandra Guha in India After BHINDRANWALE Gandhi: The History of the World’s Largest Democracy. While its original authors may have For nearly five days, the Indian Army abandoned its stated aims, the Anandpur used heavy artillery, tanks and Sahib resolution found an admirer in helicopters to remove Jarnail Singh Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale - a religious Bhindranwale, who was demanding the scholar who'd been travelling across establishment of Khalistan – a Sikh Punjab advocating a return to the Khalsa homeland – from inside the Golden or a more orthodox form of Sikhism. He Temple in Amritsar. targeted Hindus and 'modernised' Sikhs, This was Operation Bluestar. who cut their hair and consumed alcohol The 1984 Operation Bluestar was the in equal measure. biggest internal security mission ever "He (Bhindranwale) used vituperative undertaken by the Indian Army. The language against the Hindus" , writes operation was Indira Gandhi's solution Khushwant Singh in an 4 November 2004 to the haywire going law and order article in the Outlook magazine. situation in Punjab. His message appealed to the Jat Indira Gandhi, the then Prime peasants who'd lost out on the gains of Minister of India, ordered the military the Green Revolution to large operation to remove Sikh militants who landowners. He also found takers among were accumulating weapons in the lower caste-artisans and laborers who Harmandir Sahib Complex (Golden were looking to regain some social and Temple). economic standing. By some accounts, Prime Minister THE BIRTH OF BLUESTAR Indira's son Sanjay Gandhi propped up Operation Bluestar took birth after the Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale to counter rise of Khalistan movement in India. the growing political influence of the The Khalistan movement was a political Akali Dal. There exists no evidence to Sikh nationalist movement which aimed prove these theories, except the at creating an independent state for Congress' indifference of Sikhs inside the current North-Western Bhindranwale's evolution into a Republic of India. dangerous cult figure who led the Even though the Khalistan movement movement for a separate state of started in the early 1940s and 1950s, it Khalistan. If the Akalis were a moderate gained popularity between 1970s and faction espousing Sikh pride and 1980s. politics, Bhindranwale represented the extremist view that among other things THE KHALISTAN MOVEMENT called for a separate state. But there were The fight for a separate Sikh state owes times when the lines blurred, like in its origins to the Punjabi Suba August 1982 when Bhindranwale and Movement. The Akali Dal - a Sikh- Harcharan Singh Longowal, then dominated political party - sought to President of the Akali Dal, launched the create a separate Sikh Suba or Province. Dharam Yudh Morcha or a civil When the States Reorganization disobedience movement. Both took up Commission, constituted to assess the residence inside the Golden temple, demand for separate states by linguistic directing demonstrations and police groups, made its recommendations, it clashes. Only when threatened with the rejected the Akali Dal's demand. prospect of being labeled a separatist But after a series of violent protests, party did the Akalis retreat. In fact, the Indira Gandhi government relented Harcharan Singh Longowal completely in 1966. The state was trifurcated into distanced his party from the Anandpur Punjabi-majority Punjab, Hindi-majority Sahib resolution, which his own party Haryana and the Union Territory of had authored only a decade ago. Chandigarh. Some hilly regions of the state were merged into Himachal BLUESTAR BLOODBATH Pradesh. On June 5, 1984, 20 men in black dungarees stealthily entered the Golden ANANDPUR SAHIB Temple. They wore night-vision goggles, RESOLUTION M-1 steel helmets, bulletproof vests and carried a mix of MP-5 submachine guns The Punjabi movement galvanized and AK-47 assault rifles. The men of sg's considerable political support for the 56th Commando Company were then the Akali Dal and after a brief split, the only force in India trained for room party came together under Parkash intervention, the specialised art of Singh Badal's leadership, giving the fighting in confined spaces. Each Congress a tough fight in the 1967 and commando was a sharpshooter, diver and 1969 assembly elections. The 1972 parachutist and could do 40-km speed election, however, proved to be blip in the marches. Some of them wore gas masks Akalis' rising political graph. The the party adopted a resolution that would separate state, and sought the right to and carried stubby gas guns meant to Congress swept to power, prompting the serve as a blueprint for the party's future frame its own internal constitution. This launch CX gas canisters, a more potent Shiromani Akali Dal to introspect. agenda. The resolution demanded was the Anandpur Sahib Resolution tear gas. Three months before this night, The venue for this introspection was autonomy for the state of Punjab, With the Anandpur Sahib resolution, the Anandpur Sahib Gurdwara, where identified regions that would be part of a the Akalis tried to create the perception Continued on P21 THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2020 FEATURE 21

Continued from P 20 the commandos had stayed around the temple and rehearsed for Operation Sundown. Some of them still sported the beards they had grown for their undercover work as volunteers in the Golden Temple's langar. When the plan was called off, they returned to their base in Sarsawa. They had flown into Amritsar the previous day at the request of Lt-Gen Sundarji. The three battalions that Lt-Gen Brar's 9th Infantry Division sent into the Golden Temple that night were trained to fight a conventional combat on the plains of Punjab and in the deserts of Rajasthan. They would overwhelm the enemy by sheer force of numbers. The commandos, who spearheaded the assault, made use of stealth, speed and surprise to achieve results. Soon after arriving, one of the sg officers had briefed Lt-Gen Ranjit Singh Dayal, Sundarji's chief of staff, on a plan to capture the Akal Takht by blowing off its Restoration work after the operation. rear wall. General Dayal, a paratrooper Golden Temple but it also led to who had captured the Haji Pir pass in an Operation Shop - the capturing of unconventional operation in the 1965 suspects from outskirts of Punjab. war, immediately overruled it. "There must be no damage to the Akal Takht," 2. Operation Woodrose was launched he said. The commandos were to capture throughout Punjab. The operation was the sacred building by using gas to flush carried out by Indian Army, using tanks, out the militants, he said. artillery, helicopters and armored The Army had clearly underestimated vehicles. the defences. As soon as they entered the temple, a sniper shot the unit's radio BARRING MEDIA operator clean through his helmet. The The government faced a lot of rest took cover in the long gallery of backlash in 1984 as they had barred pillars that led to the Akal Takht. Light media from entering Punjab altogether. machine guns and carbines crackled Media personnel were put on a bus and from behind impregnable walls of the were dropped off at Haryana border. As temple, their multiple gun flashes there was a curfew-situation in Punjab, blinding the commandos' night-vision no mode of transport was available for devices, forcing them to take them off. them to travel. Whoever reached was not The commandos and infantry soldiers allowed to enter Punjab as well. cautiously advanced, sheltering behind rows of pillars. Those who tried to THE AFTERMATH advance towards the Akal Takht were The military assault led to tensions cut down on the marble parikrama. An across members of Sikh community armoured personnel carrier bringing in worldwide. troops was immobilised by a rocket- propelled grenade. "Shabeg knew the THE REVENGE Army's Achilles heel," says an SG Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was colonel. "He knew we couldn't fight in assassinated by two of her Sikh built-up areas." bodyguards on October 31, 1984, for Post-midnight, remnants of the sg unit giving permission for the Operation and the Army's 1 Para huddled near a Bluestar. fountain at the base of the Akal Takht. The area between the Akal Takht and the Festering Wound Darshani Deori that led to the Golden Operation Bluestar still touches a raw Temple had turned into a killing zone, nerve in India and abroad. On September covered by Shabeg's light machine guns. 30, 2012, four Sikh youths attempted to Attempts by the para-commandos to murder retired Lt-Gen Kuldip Singh storm the defences were repeatedly Brar on London's Oxford Street. beaten back. They lost at least 17 men, Brar, who led Bluestar, and a frequent their black dungaree-clad bodies lying visitor to London, survived. Two of his prone on white marble. Commandos who Devotees during the kar sewa at the Golden Temple post Operation Bluestar. attackers were handed down a 14-year tried to fire the CX gas canisters Takht, the commandos found the body of higher. sentence in December last year. The new discovered that the Akal Takht's Shabeg. The Army recovered 51 light revelations about a possible British role windows had been bricked up. The only machine guns, 31 of which had been OPERATION SUNDOWN in the build-up to Bluestar have already openings were horizontal slots out of concentrated around the Akal Takht. Operation Sundown was the aborted inflamed passions. which machine guns poured deadly fire. "Normally, an army unit (of around 800 mission which was planned by the RAW "This obviously raises huge questions The commandos neutralised two of the soldiers) would deploy this quantum of agency to abduct Bhindranwale. over the role of the British government machine gun nests by dropping grenades firepower to cover an area of about eight at the time," Labour MP Tom Watson told into them but the Akal Takht was km," Lt-Gen Brar recounted in his book OPERATION BLACK THUNDER bbc on January 13. Watson's impregnable. Then, around 7.30 a.m. on Operation Blue Star: The True Story. Operation Black Thunder was the constituency, West Bromwich East, has June 5, three Vickers-Vijayanta tanks Shabeg, he believed, wanted to hold out second phase of Operation Blue Star. The many Sikh constituents. were deployed. They fired 105 mm shells until daylight in the hope that there first phase was carried out on April 30, New Delhi has so far not responded to and knocked down the walls of the Akal would be a popular uprising among the 1986, while the second Operation Black the revelations. Brar calls reports of sas Takht. Commandos and infantrymen people when they get to know of the Thunder began on May 9, 1988. It was involvement in Bluestar "utter then moved in to mop up the defenders, army action. The former war hero had carried out by Black Cat commandos of nonsense". tossing gas and lobbing grenades inside extracted a bloody price on an army he National Security Guards (NSG) to the building. felt had wronged him. remove Sikh militants from the Golden CONCLUSION The temple premises resembled a Temple. However, 36 years after the infamous DEATH TOLL medieval battlefield, one sg trooper OPERATION BLUESTAR WAS DIVIDED INTO Operation Bluestar, Sikhs the world over recalls. Bloodied and blackened bodies Official reports put the number of have not forgiven government of India lay scattered around the white temple deaths among the Indian army at 83 and TWO PARTS: for the attack on their holiest shrine, and parikrama. In the basement of the the number of civilian deaths at 492, nurse a grievance which is likely to blackened, still-smoking ruin of the Akal though independent estimates ran much 1. Operation Metal: It was limited to remain for ever a part of their psyche. THE INDIAN PANORAMA 22 WORLD FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2020

Germany summons Russian ambassador EU PROPOSES 750 BN-EURO over alleged cyber attack RECOVERY FUND BERLIN (TIP): Germany says it is BRUSSELS (TIP): The EU’s executive seeking European Union sanctions is proposing a 750 billion-euro ($825 against a Russian man over his alleged billion) recovery fund to help the bloc’s role in the hacking of the German economy through the deep recession parliament at a time when evidence induced by the Covid pandemic, showed he was working for Russian commissioner Paolo Gentiloni said on intelligence. Wednesday. The Germany Foreign Ministry said Gentiloni, who is in charge of it called in Russian Ambassador economic affairs at the commission, Sergei Nechayev on Thursday to wrote in a tweet that the move is “a inform him in person of the move. European turning point to face an The ministry says Germany will be unprecedented crisis.” However, the 27- pursuing EU sanctions against nation EU remains deeply divided over Dmitriy Baden, and possibly others, what conditions should be attached to under a new regime established to the funds, and Wednesday’s proposal fight cyberattacks. from the EU’s executive arm is likely to It says Baden is accused of set off weeks of wrangling. money in financial markets to help “Will it be grants or loans? And if it involvement in the 2015 hacking attack The move comes with the world’s sectors and countries that are will be grants, who are going to pay the “acting jointly with other persons not biggest trading bloc set to enter its particularly affected by the pandemic. grants? Loans, I think is a more yet identified” and allegedly had deepest-ever recession as the impact The European Commission’s blueprint is interesting way forward to discuss, but “undertaken an intelligence operation from the Covid ravages economies. likely to resemble the Franco-German we also have to discuss under what against Germany for the intelligence Virtually every country has broken the plan in many ways while attaching the conditions shall we give these loans,” service of a foreign power.” EU’s deficit limit as they’ve spent to keep fund to the EU’s next long-term budget. Swedish Finance Minister Magdalena The ministry says there is “reliable health care systems, businesses and jobs The question will be how much money Andersson said on Tuesday. evidence” he was a member of Russia's alive. Earlier this month, the leaders of will take the form of grants and how Whatever its content, the GRU military intelligence agency at Germany and France — historically, the much would be loans. commission’s plan is likely to spark the time of the attack. two main drivers of EU integration — Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands heated debate and the EU does not have Russia's Foreign Ministry had no agreed on a one-time 500 billion-euro and Sweden — a group of countries time for the wrangling to drag on. The immediate comment but has ($543 billion) fund, a proposal that would dubbed the “Frugal Four” for their new budget period begins on Jan 1, and previously denied Russia's add further cash to an arsenal of budgetary rectitude — are reluctant to countries across the bloc are desperate involvement. AP financial measures the bloc is deploying see money given away without any for funds now. All 27 member countries to cope with the economic fallout. That strings attached, and their opposition to must agree for the recovery fund to take South Korea sees plan would involve the EU borrowing grants could hold up the project. effect. — AP biggest daily jump

SEOUL (TIP): South Korea reported its highest number of new Covid infections in weeks on Wednesday and Hard-line former Tehran mayor India saw another record single-day jump of more than 6,000 cases, as the pandemic expanded its grip across named Speaker of Iran Parliament much of the globe. Still, optimism over reopening economies from business DUBAI (TIP): Iran’s Parliament May. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali The letter warned Khatami the Guard shutdowns to fight the virus spurred a elected a former mayor of Tehran tied to Khamenei appointed Larijani as an would take action unilaterally unless he rally on Wall Street, even as the official the Revolutionary Guard as its next adviser and a member of the country’s agreed to putting down the US death toll approached 100,000. Speaker on Thursday, solidifying hard- Expediency Council on Thursday, state demonstrations. Violence around the Outbreaks are still climbing in much line control of the body as tensions TV reported. As Speaker, Qalibaf leads a protests saw several killed, hundreds of the Americas, while many countries between the US and the Islamic Republic body that can debate Iran’s annual wounded and thousands arrested. in Asia and much of Europe are remain high over its collapsed nuclear budget and push for the impeachment of Qalibaf then served as the head of making steady progress in containing deal. government ministers. However, laws Iran’s police, modernising the force and the deadliest pandemic in a century. Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf ’s passed by the parliament must be implementing the country’s 110 Cyprus announced Wednesday that assumption of power comes after a approved by a 12-member Guardian emergency phone number. it was preparing to welcome tourists string of failed presidential bids and 12 Council and Khamenei holds final say on However, a leaked recording of a later back on June 9 and would cover all years as the leader of Iran’s capital city, all matters of state. meeting between Qalibaf and members costs — lodging, food, drink and in which he built onto Tehran’s subway The position also puts Qalibaf onto of the Guard’s volunteer Basij force, medication — for anyone testing and supported the construction of Iran’s Supreme National Security included him claiming that he ordered positive for the coronavirus, and their modern high-rises. Council, the country’s highest level body gunfire be used against demonstrators in family members, while on vacation in Many, however, remember Qalibaf for that handles defense and nuclear issues. 2003, as well as praising the violence the east Mediterranean island nation. his support as a Revolutionary Guard That takes on new importance as the US used in Iran’s 2009 Green Movement The pledge came in a five-page letter general for a violent crackdown on withdrew waivers from Iran’s nuclear protests. that was sent out to governments, Iranian university students in 1999. He programme late Wednesday and as Iranian President Hassan Rouhani airlines and tour operators outlining also reportedly ordered live gunfire be tensions between the two nations remain hinted at the the 2003 incident during a strict health and hygiene protocols, used against Iranian students in 2003 high. A trained pilot, Qalibaf served in debate in the 2017 presidential election. including a requirement for COVID-19 while serving as the country’s police the paramilitary Guard during the “There was an argument that you were testing three days before departure, as chief. “It is time to thank all country’s bloody 1980s war with Iraq. saying that the students should come the tourism-reliant country seeks to representatives, all workers at the After the conflict, he served as the head then we can pincer attack to them and woo vacationers. Cyprus has parliament complex, experts, managers, of the Guard’s construction arm, finish the job,” Rouhani said at the time. confirmed about 940 cases of the virus security forces and services,” Qalibaf Khatam al-Anbia, for several years As mayor, Qalibaf faced corruption and fewer than 20 deaths. In New said, promising to give a speech on leading efforts to rebuild. allegations, including over some USD 3.5 Zealand, which is still banning foreign Sunday.Qalibaf ’s candidacy received 230 Qalibaf then served as the head of the million being donated to a foundation arrivals, the Ministry of Health said votes from the 264 lawmakers present in Guard’s air force, when in 1999 he co- run by his wife. However, he also used there were no COVID-19 patients under the parliament in the first round of signed a letter to reformist President his prominence to travel to the World treatment in the country’s hospitals. voting, state television reported. Mohammad Khatami amid student Economic Forum and even praised New The nation took aggressive and early Parliament has 290 seats. Qalibaf, 58, protests in Tehran over the government York City in an interview with the action to stop transmissions and has replaces Ali Larijani, who served as the closing a reformist newspaper and a Financial Times, undoubtedly raising reported only 21 deaths. Reuters parliament’s speaker from 2008 until this subsequent security force crackdown. eyebrows among hard-liners. AP THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2020 WORLD 23 China’s Parliament approves controversial Hong Kong security Bill as tensions with US rise

HONG KONG/BEIJING (TIP): Hong Kong could take the tension to a China’s parliament approved a decision whole new level,” said Tara Joseph, on Thursday to go forward with national president of the American Chamber of security legislation for Hong Kong that Commerce in Hong Kong. democracy activists in the city and “This is show time for Hong Kong,” Western countries fear could endanger Joseph said in a commentary in the its special autonomy and freedoms. South China Morning Post. China says the legislation will be US President Donald Trump has aimed at tackling secession, subversion, promised action over Hong Kong, with terrorism and foreign interference in the an announcement at the end of the week. city but the plan, unveiled in Beijing last More than 1,300 US companies have week, triggered the first big protests in offices in the city,providing about 100,000 Hong Kong for months. jobs. Riot police were out in force in Hong China said it would take necessary Kong as its legislators debated another countermeasures to any foreign piece of legislation, a bill that would interference into what it insists are its criminalise disrespect of China’s internal affairs. national anthem, while the United States Hong Kong stocks led losses in Asia, piled on pressure aimed at preserving dropping more than 2%. the city’s autonomy. Rich Chinese are expected to park Dozens of protesters gathered in a fewer funds in Hong Kong on worries shopping mall to chant slogans but there that the security law could allow was no repeat of disturbances the Tiananmen Square burst into prolonged law, potentially dealing a crushing blow mainland authorities to seize their previous day when police made 360 applause when the vote tally showed to its status as a major financial hub. wealth, bankers and other industry arrests as thousands took to the streets 2,878 to one in favour of the decision to The proposed security law was “only sources said. in anger over the anthem bill and the move forward with legislation, with six the latest in a series of actions” Trump’s possible response could national security legislation proposed by abstentions. undermining Hong Kong freedoms, he include visa and economic sanctions, China. Details of the law are expected to be told Congress. David Stilwell, the State Department’s Last year, the city was rocked for drawn up in coming weeks. It is expected “No reasonable person can assert assistant secretary for East Asia, told months by often violent pro-democracy to be enacted before September. today that Hong Kong maintains a high reporters. demonstrations over an unsuccessful Chinese authorities and the Beijing- degree of autonomy from China, given “Sanction is painful but necessary,” bid to introduce an extradition law to backed government in Hong Kong say facts on the ground,” he said. Agnes Chow from Hong Kong’s pro- China. there is no threat to the city’s autonomy The security law could see Chinese democracy group Demosisto told The Chinese government’s security and the new law would be tightly intelligence agencies set up bases in the reporters. law for the city is fuelling fears in Hong focused. city. Chinese-claimed Taiwan on Thursday Kong and beyond that Beijing is Nevertheless, the United States, Relations between the two promised to settle any Hong Kong people imposing its authority and eroding the Britain and the European Union have superpowers have been tense over who flee for political reasons, offering high degree of autonomy the former expressed concern about it, and its China’s claims in the South China Sea help from employment to counselling. British colony has enjoyed under a “one implications for China’s freest city and and trade. The coronavirus pandemic Earlier on Thursday, angry exchanges country, two systems” formula since it one of the world’s financial hubs. has also become an issue of acrimony. in the city’s assembly, the Legislative returned to Chinese rule in 1997. ‘Show time’ “Already, international business is Council, during debate on the anthem Members of China’s Parliament, the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo facing the pressure of increased tension bill saw some lawmakers removed in National People’s Congress, in the Great said on Wednesday Hong Kong no longer between the U.S. and China, but the chaotic scenes and the session Hall of the People to the west of Beijing’s qualified for special treatment under U.S. enactment of China’s security law for adjourned. Reuters Man arrested over deadly 2019 arson at Japan’s Kyoto Animation Australian police won’t charge reporter TOKYO (TIP): A Japanese man suspected of killing 36 people and injuring dozens in an arson attack at an after leak probe animation studio last July was arrested on Wednesday CANBERRA (TIP): Australian police announced Australian troops had killed unarmed men and after spending 10 months in hospital for treatment. on Wednesday that they had decided against charging children in Afghanistan in a potential war crime — Police had issued an arrest warrant for Shinji Aoba a journalist over a newspaper article she wrote more are still under “active investigation,” McCartney at the time of the fire but had been unable to question than two years ago following a high-profile said. him after he suffered serious burns in the blaze at investigation that triggered a national storm over The raids brought rival Australian media Kyoto Animation. press freedom. organisations together to demand more press Aoba, 42, was arrested at a Kyoto hospital and Australian Federal Police Deputy Commissioner freedom and guarantees that reporters would not risk transferred to police headquarters for further Ian McCartney said he had decided that no one would jail over public interest journalism. questioning, police said in a statement. Aoba’s injuries be charged following an investigation that spanned 25 Media organisations argue that press freedoms had left him unable to walk on his own, a police official months because of a “lack of evidence.” have been eroded by more than 70 counterterrorism said. The fire—one of Japan’s deadliest in decades— Annika Smethurst's article, citing “top secret and security laws passed by Parliament since the 9/11 killed mostly young artists at the studio, shocking letters” between the heads of the Defense and Home attacks in the US. News Corp. Australasia executive animation fans globally and prompting tributes from Affairs departments, reported plans to create new chairman Michael Miller said the police decision to leaders such as Canadian Prime Minister Justin espionage powers that would allow an intelligence drop the case showed why the law reforms Trudeau and Apple’s chief executive, Tim Cook. agency to spy on Australian citizens for the first time. championed by Australia's Right to Know media Police said in a statement that Aoba allegedly went to It was published in News Corp. Australia's Sunday coalition — particularly contestable warrants and the studio, poured gasoline inside the building and set papers on April 29, 2018. shifting the burden of proof from the defendant — it ablaze, killing 22 women and 14 men inside. He was Australian Federal Police responded with raids on were sensible and essential. “Almost a year has also suspected of the attempted murder of another 34 Smethurt's Canberra home on June 4 last year with passed since the AFP illegally raided Annika people. Media reports at the time said Aoba told police warrants to search her computer, phone and home. Smethurst's home,” Miller said in a statement. “In he had taken the action because the studio had The next day, police raided Australian Broadcasting that time, Annika has shown great courage, forced to plagiarized his novel. In a statement, Kyoto Animation Corp.'s Sydney headquarters over unrelated leaked live with the threat of jail for simply doing her job of said it expected the suspect to be prosecuted “to the government documents. ABC journalists Dan Oakes informing the Australian public on a matter of maximum extent” under the law. (Reuters) and Sam Clark — who reported in 2017 that serious public interest,” he added. AP THE INDIAN PANORAMA 24 WOMEN FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2020

CONNOISSEUR’S WAYS TO GROW CHOICE EYEBROWS THICKER erfectly shaped eyebrows By Tript Arora highlight one's face and Ppersonality. We all are aware of how bold eyebrows have become a rage, and yet not too long back, Mango Phirni pencil-thin eyebrows dominated the style industry. Now thicker eyebrows are back in trend. In fact, you can see women sporting them on the silver screens and fashion runways. Eyebrows are one of the most noticeable parts of one's face, the thicker they are, more beautiful you look. But not all of us can lay a natural claim to thick eyebrows. Some of us have sparse and scanty eyebrows, and we are always scouting for remedies to make them thicker. Though there isn’t a magic tip to bring back your eyebrow hair overnight, but there are certain hirni is a traditional Indian Dessert made with things that can enhance the process. rice and milk. The first memory of this dish is And for this, nothing can work Passociated with my grandmother who used to better than natural remedies. prepare it for all her grandchildren and served it in individual clay platters topped with lots of sliced Castor oil antimicrobial agent, preventing fingertip and massage it on your almonds and pistachios. This simple yet delicious This is an old and one of the most infection of hair follicles. The eyebrows. Keep it on for a couple of dish has undergone many versions. Today's recipe is effective remedies for getting various proteins as well as hours and wash it off with face about its combination of phirni with Mango ' the thicker eyebrows. Since it is nutrients like vitamin E and iron in wash and water. king of fruits' which despite being great in taste is enriched with proteins, fatty acids, coconut oil promote healthy and packed with nutrients as well. Mango is a great antioxidants and vitamins, it helps thick eyebrows. You can apply Onion Juice source of Vitamin A &C with lots of fiber. I am in nourishing your hair follicles. coconut oil on your eyebrows every Onion juice contains lots of sharing with you the recipe of Mango Phirni which Make sure that you apply castor oil day, but using it even a few times a sulfur, selenium, minerals, B requires few ingredients available at our home. This every day on your eyebrow roots, it week can have noticeable results. vitamins and C vitamins which are recipe is cooked faster and hence a great option when promotes hair growth and also Method very good for hair growth. This aids you need dessert quickly. ensures that each hair strand is faster and denser growth of thick and strong. Dip a cotton swab in the oil and eyebrow hair. Sulfur improves the We need Method apply on your eyebrows. Keep it on production of collagen tissues 1 Liter full cream Milk overnight. Rinse with a face wash in required for proper eyebrow 50 gm Rice soaked in water Massage a few drops of castor oil the morning. growth. Also, it strengthens the hair 40 gm Sugar or according to taste Green into your eyebrows with your follicles. As onion has a pungent Cardamoms fingertips. Keep it on for 30 minutes, Olive Oil smell, it is best to use lemon juice to 1 cup Mango puree fresh or canned wipe with a makeup remover, and Olive oil contains vitamins A and remove all traces of the smell. 20 Almonds sliced. wash your face with warm water. E, which help in the growth of hair. Apply onion juice to your eyebrows Vitamin E nourishes each hair every alternate day. Here we go Coconut oil strand while vitamin A stimulates Method Soak 50 gm of rice in water for half an hour. Coconut oil works as a the production of sebum, our body’s Drain water. Grind rice coarsely in a mixer. conditioner as well as a moisturizer natural oil, which helps with hair Chop the onion, put the pieces in Boil milk in a heavy bottomed pan. Add whole and is great for improving blood growth. This can be done at least a blender and make a paste. Strain green cardamom so that we can take it out later. circulation. The fatty acids found in once a day in order to see results in this to get the juice. Using a Q-tip, Let it boil for 5 min on low flame stirring in coconut oil work with the natural a matter of weeks. apply the juice on your eyebrows. between. proteins found in hair to protect it Method Keep it on for an hour. Wipe off with Add ground rice to milk and let it simmer on from breaking The lauric acid a cotton ball soaked in diluted low flame till the rice are done and milk is present in it acts as an Pour a drop of olive oil on your lemon juice. thickened. Keep on stirring in between to avoid lumps. Meanwhile keep on scratching the milk which has struck to the sides of the pan and mix MORE AND MORE MILLENNIALS ARE SAYING NO TO MARRIAGE it in the phirni. This enhances the taste. Milk needs constant attention as it sticks to the ook around you and you can count on your fingers bottom and get burned. how many married folks you know. Of course Add half of the sliced almonds and keep rest for Lyour parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts are garnishing. included in this list. But besides those belonging to the When the rice is cooked completely and blended previous generation, you might find it even more well with milk switch off the flame. If phirni difficult to count that number when it comes to your looks very thick you can add hot milk to adjust social circle. Of course, there will be a handful of its consistency. wedded colleagues and buddies like the sweethearts Let it cool completely.Add Mango puree to it. It who got hitched out of college or the friend who agreed should be on the room temperature when you to a match-making setup. But overall, millennials and add Mango puree. marriages aren't exactly a match made in heaven. Pour it in a bowl and garnish it with sliced In general, the number of people getting married has almonds. Refrigerate it for 2 hours. fallen steeply. The Coronavirus pandemic could only Enjoy the cool Mango Phirni and beat the cause these numbers to drop further. Figures have summer heat. shown the rate of people getting married in 2018 fell at Those lacking commitment to religion has (The author is an entrepreneur by 6.5%. That's an all-time low since the statistics were contributed to live-in relationships without marriage. profession.Cooking for her family is the fuel for her started in the 1800s. Economic security also has to do with it as, in this soul. Her mantra is cooking simple, yet delicious financial climate, many aren't sure about certain about recipes, which fit comfortably in today's hectic life. So why is it happening? starting their lives together and what their future will Her life revolves around her husband, adaughterand It has come down to their mindset. Those in their 20s look like. a fur baby. She loves spending time with them and and 30s are increasingly ditching the formal concept of The COVID-19 pandemic could only further enjoys watching comedy movies in free time. She can marriage and opting for live-in relationships instead. discourage marriage with the lack of economic and be reached at [email protected]) Middle income earners with a high school education financial security as well as restrictions on travel and For more recipes by Tript Arora, visit have impacted this decline in marital numbers. socialising in the near future. www.triptasfoodtunnel.com THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2020 HEALTH 25 GLUTEN-FREE GRAINS YOU CAN ADD TO YOUR DIET any are going gluten-free these days due to health Missues while many have celiac disease and that's why to refrain from having gluten-based products. For the unversed, celiac disease is an autoimmune disease. It triggers an immune response to gluten. For those with this disease or gluten intolerance, eating gluten based foods can lead to issues such as bloating, diarrhea, and stomach pain among others. RICE VS ROTI: WHAT IS IDEAL Gluten is a type of protein that is found in wheat, rye and barley. Because of this protein, these food FOR WEIGHT LOSS? items get elasticity,allows the bread ice and chappati or roti are an important part of to rise, and have that chewy texture. a meal in India, be it lunch, dinner or at times Many of us commonly consumed Raloo ke paratha for breakfast. But with more grains contain gluten. However, awareness, besides diet fads taking over our there are several grains that are not varieties- Pearl Millet is called in India is easily available as fresh, consciousness, we now view them as carbs, which are only gluten-free but also very Bajra, Finger Millet is known as dried and can be milled to make often deemed unhealthy.Skipping carbs leads to faster nutritious. Read on to know which Ragi and Proso Millet is called as flour. It is high in fibre, carotenoids weight loss and so rice and roti are seen as something grains are naturally gluten-free. Barri. You can cook it in the main called lutein and zeaxanthin, that will interfere with your path to a fitter body. grain form or use the flour for vitamin B6, thiamine, and Jowar aka Sorghum varied dishes. A few days ago, we manganese among others. One can What is healthier? Sorghum aka Jowar is quite had shared Ragi based recipes. eat it in the form of boiled, grilled, Weight loss happens when there is an overall popular and easily available in or roasted. reduction in calorie intake, explains Anushka India, Africa and Asia. So, if you Buckwheat aka Kuttu Baindur, senior dietician at Fortis Hospital. Rice and are avoiding wheat, then you can Buckwheat is not related to Quinoa chapati, when taken in the same quantities, provide mill the jowar grains and use the ‘wheat and it is a pseudocereal. You Quinoa is another pseudo-cereal more or less the same number of calories. “So rather flour to make rotis. You can prepare can prepare from roti to pancakes, and they are closely related to the than opting for one over the other, more thought several baked goods as well. The cakes and cookies. Eating edible plants such as beetroot, should be given to the quantity eaten, be it rice or antioxidants present in sorghum buckwheat may also help reduce spinach and amaranth. Quinoa is roti,” she explains. An excess of either can lead to helps to reduce oxidative stress and health issues such as cholesterol, mostly found in Peru, Bolivia and extra calorie intake, which can lead to weight gain. lower your risk of chronic disease. high blood pressure, diabetes, heart Chile. However, it is very popular Also, being rich in fibre it helps to disease. Soba noodles made from among health enthusiasts across Have a balanced meal maintain blood sugar levels. buckwheat are quite popular. the world. It is one of the best The only difference between the two is the fibre sources of protein and several content. Foods with high fibre content makes you feel Millets- Bajra, Ragi Corn aka Butta micronutrients. You can prepare full faster so you would eat less. Among rice and Millets which are commonly Corn or Maize is one of the pancakes, tortillas, or quick bread wheat, whole wheat has the highest fibre content, grown in Africa and Asia have three popular grains. It is known as Butta from flour. followed by brown rice and then white rice. But even if the rice has a lower fibre content, it can be balanced by combining it with lots of vegetables and whole pulses, so that one also ends up eating a lesser quantity of rice. Hence, the message here is to eat either rice or ADD RAW MANGO TO YOUR roti within limits and balance the meal with a protein SUMMER DIET like dals, pulses or lean meat and lots of vegetables.

he summer heat is getting to us and no matter how well we keep ourselves hydrated, even a Tshort stroll can take a toll. Although we are locked inside our homes at the moment, we still do need to step out for essentials. Even indoors, the heatwave can make one feel fatigued. But there is one desi drink that is guaranteed to refresh. Summers are also the season of mangoes and the raw mango drink, prevalent in the northern belt of India, can make sure you stay hydrated. Raw mangoes can be consumed in various forms: Aam Panna, Raw Mango Pachadi, Raw Mango Rice, Dal with Raw Mango and Raw Mango Salad.

Benefits of raw mango PAGE SPONSORED BY Consuming raw mangoes is the best way to beat the summer heat. "Rich in vitamin A and vitamin E, they DR. SATISH AND GITANJLI ANAND can improve the hormonal system, while preventing dehydration as they can replenish the reserves of DR. SATISH ANAND sodium chloride. In addition to quenching thirst, they Former Chairman, Board of also help cure stomach disorders like constipation, Trustees, AAPI National bloating, indigestion, and diarrhoea," informs Rinki E-Mail: Kumari, chief dietitian, Fortis Hospital, Cunningham Benefits of mint leaves [email protected] Road, Bangalore. Consuming raw mangoes can help Mint or mentha is one of the oldest herbs widely used detoxify the liver, boost cardiovascular health and flush in global cuisines and is highly prized for its out toxins. Healthy cholesterol levels lower the risk of innumerable therapeutic properties. Rich in Vitamins GITANJLI ANAND chronic diseases like diabetes, heart disease, stroke and A, C, and B-complex, mint leaves are a good source to Former President, India heart attacks. improve the skin, bolster immunity, and improve eye Association of Long Island Aam panna is usually made using raw mangoes and health and night vision. Pudina leaves are specifically (IALI) some mint leaves for that added flavour. But it also rich in iron, potassium and manganese, which promote E-mail: contributes to making the drink healthy. brain function and improve the haemoglobin profile. [email protected] THE INDIAN PANORAMA 26 SCIENCE & TECH FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2020 PHYSICISTS JUST BUILT THE FIRST WORKING PROTOTYPE OF A ‘QUANTUM RADAR’ uantum entanglement – that strange but potentially Qhugely useful quantum phenomenon where two particles are inextricably linked across space and time – could play a major role in future radar technology. In 2008, an engineer from MIT RESEARCHERS CLAIM NEW devised a way to use the features of entanglement to illuminate objects INTERNET SPEED RECORD OF while using barely any photons. In certain scenarios, such technology 44.2 TBPS promises to outperform conventional radar, according to esearchers based out of Australia’s Monash, its makers, particularly in noisy Swinburne, and RMIT universities say they’ve thermal environments. Rset a new internet speed record of 44.2 Tbps, Now, researchers have taken the according to a paper published in the open-access idea much further, demonstrating journal Nature Communications. That’s theoretically its potential with a working enough speed to download the contents of more than prototype. The device works along the same setting the signal apart from other 50 100GB Ultra HD Blu-ray discs in a single second. The technology might eventually principles as a normal radar, random noise. What’s interesting about the research is that it was find a variety of applications in except instead of sending out radio As the signal photons reflect achieved over 75km of standard optical fiber using a security and biomedical fields: waves to scan an area, it uses pairs from an object, this actually breaks single integrated chip source, meaning it has the building better MRI scanners, for of entangled photons. the quantum entanglement in the potential to one day benefit existing fiber example, or giving doctors an Entangled particles are truest sense. This latest research infrastructure. alternative way of looking for distinguished by having properties verifies that even when The test fiber connection ran between RMIT’s particular types of cancer. that correlate with one another entanglement is broken, enough Melbourne City campus and Monash University’s "What we have demonstrated is a more than you'd expect by chance. information can survive to identify Clayton campus, and the researchers say it mirrors proof of concept for microwave In the case of the radar, one photon it as a reflected signal. infrastructure used by Australia’s National quantum radar," says quantum from each entangled pair, It doesn't use much power, and Broadband Network (NBN). The findings represent a physicist Shabir Barzanjeh, who described as a signal photon, is the radar itself is difficult to “world-record for bandwidth,” according to conducted the work at the Institute sent towards an object. The detect, which has benefits for Swinburne University Professor David Moss, one of of Science and Technology remaining photon, described as an security applications. The biggest the team members responsible. Austria. idler, is kept in isolation, waiting advantage this has over “What our research demonstrates is the ability for "Using entanglement generated for a report back. conventional radar, however, is that fibers that we already have in the ground, thanks to at a few thousandths of a degree If the signal photon reflects from it's less troubled by background the NBN project, to be the backbone of above absolute zero, we have been an object and is caught, it can be radiation noise, which affects the communications networks now and in the future. able to detect low reflectivity combined with the idler to create a sensitivity and the accuracy of We’ve developed something that is scalable to meet objects at room temperature." signature pattern of interference, standard radar hardware. future needs,” said co-lead author of the study and Monash University lecturer Bill Corcoran. HOW TO ENABLE DARK MODE Paytm enables Mud volcanoes on Mars hint at UPI recharge for ancient water reservoirs IN GOOGLE SEARCH? feature phone ars’s northern lowlands are dotted with tens our online searches are about to of thousands of what appear to be run-of-the- get dark! Earlier this month, users Mmill volcanoes, given the lava-like ripples and Yreports hinted that Chrome was aytm on Tuesday fingers that appear around them. But geologists working on bringing dark mode to said it has debate whether these bumpy landforms are really Google Search result pages. Ppartnered Vodafone frozen magma. In a select few places on Earth, mud Google Chrome’s Android app got the Idea and National erupts rather than molten rock. Could Martian dark mode feature almost a year back. Payments Corporation of orbiters be sending back pictures of mud volcanoes? 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Here’s what service throughout the “The work will be much more complicated now,” smartphones. you need to do: country," Paytm said in a Bro says. “We cannot rely on [shape] only.” If you want to try out this feature, Step 1: Download either Chrome statement. But if researchers can learn to tell the two apart, here’s what you need to do: Canary or Chrome Dev from the Play The move would help they’ll be rewarded with a host of tantalizing sites for Store. crore of citizens who future exploration, as mud volcanoes may also be Method 1 Step 2: Go to chrome://flags page. mostly use feature promising places to look for life. The first method is simple to Step 3: Next search for “Show mobile phones to now top Bro spent a decade skeptically scrutinizing implement. All you have to type “&cs=1” darkened search pages on Android” and up their numbers Martian photographs and trying to argue that certain at the end of a Search URL and you are enable it. without having the need features proved that the volcanic outcroppings were good to go. For example: Step 4: Relaunch the browser and you to visit physical stores, it rocky. https://www.google.com/search?q=Hind are good to go! added. THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2020 BIZ & FINANCE 27 Google considering taking stake in Vodafone Idea: Report

NEW DELHI (TIP): Global internet giant Google is looking to buy up to 5 per cent stake in debt-laden Vodafone Idea, the Financial Times reported Thursday. Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc is also looking to buy some stake in Vodafone Idea’s rival Reliance Jio Infocomm, the newspaper reported, without providing details. The report comes almost a month after social media WIPRO NAMES THIERRY giant Facebook picked up 9.9 per cent stake for Rs 43,574 crore ($5.7 billion) in Reliance Industries Limited’s DELAPORTE AS CEO (RIL) Jio Platforms. Jio Platforms, a wholly-owned subsidiary of RIL, has since seen investments from BENGALURU (TIP): India’s Wipro Ltd on Friday global private equity players such as General Atlantic, named Thierry Delaporte as the new chief executive Silver Lake Partners, Silver Lake Partners and KKR. officer and managing director of the IT company, “If you look at the timing, the Google deal with replacing Abidali Neemuchwala. Vodafone Idea is a win-win for both. Nobody wants Delaporte was most recently the chief operating Vodafone Idea to go belly-up, and it is certainly not officer of French consulting and technology firm completely out of the woods yet. So it gets the desired Capgemini Group. money to survive. On the other hand, Google gets a it has been losing subscribers for over six quarters now, Wipro said in January Neemuchwala had decided to cheap entry into the market and can bring its expertise Vodafone Idea had a 28.4 per cent share of the domestic step down due to family commitments. in data to benefit from a growing wireless user base,” market as of January 31, 2020. Neemuchwala will step down as CEO on June 1 said a telecom analyst, who did not wish to be The number of active internet users in the country while executive chairman Rishad Premji will oversee identified. stands at 500 million, and is expected to grow by day-to-day operations of the company until Delaporte A deal with Google could be a lifeline for Vodafone another 100 million users within the next three years, takes over on July 6, Wipro said. Idea, which owes as much as Rs 54,000 crore in adjusted according to experts. Neemuchwala joined Wipro in April 2015 as the gross revenue (AGR) dues to the government. With a data market as big as India, experts said that it president and chief operating officer, after having Following a Supreme Court judgment on October 24 was only a matter of time before all the global internet served at larger rival Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. last year, Vodafone Group’s chief executive officer Nick giants tried to enter the domestic arena in one way or Read had said that the company,which holds 49 per cent the other. Gold prices rise as Hong Kong stake in Vodafone Idea, would not commit any more “We do not know the details yet, but this could be a equity in India as the “country effectively contributed world of convergence. Vodafone and Idea got together dispute riles China-US ties zero value to the company’s share price”. in the first place due to Jio. Now if Jio can tie up with Vodafone Idea chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla had Facebook, others will also have to find similar deals,” old rose on Thursday after hitting a two-week said that it might have to shut shop if there was no AGR said a Supreme Court lawyer for one of the telecom low in the previous session as the rift between relief from the government, as it did not make sense to majors. GWashington and Beijing over Hong Kong “put good money after bad”. To push internet usage in India, Google had in 2015 escalated, with prices also supported by central bank A potential deal between Google and Vodafone Idea tied up with the Ministry of Railways to provide free and government largesse to cushion the blow from the will heat up competition in one of the world’s largest unlimited high speed Wi-Fi at 400 railways stations. But pandemic. and fastest growing data consumption markets, experts with the project yielding limited success, the company Spot gold was up 0.6% at $1,718.77 per ounce, as of said. As of January 31, 2020, India had a total of 115.6 said last year that it would wind down the service. 0544 GMT, after dropping to $1,693.22 on Wednesday.US crore wireless telephone subscribers, with a net Facebook had also tried to get a share of the Indian gold futures rose 0.5% to $1,717.80. addition of up to 50 lakh users per month, according to internet pie. In 2015, it experimented with Free Basics, Worsening relations between the world’s two biggest data from Telecom Regulatory Authority of India which provided free access to basic Internet services as economies could further hobble global business (TRAI). The three private players, Vodafone Idea, a partnership with service providers. However, it soon activity, which is already under intense pressure due Bharti Airtel, and Reliance Jio, together held nearly 90 pulled out after differential pricing was disallowed by to the coronavirus crisis. per cent share of the domestic telecom market. Though the telecom regulator. “The US and China have disagreements on many fronts. There is trade, and there is inquiry into the coronavirus, and now this dispute over Hong Kong,” said Michael McCarthy, chief strategist at CMC India’s economy seen slowing rapidly Markets. Oil drops as surprise US stock in March quarter, with worse to come build douses recovery hopes NEW DELHI (TIP): Gross cutting its 2020/21 forecast to a 5% il prices slid for a second consecutive session on domestic product data out later on contraction. Thursday as US industry data showed a steep Friday is expected to show India’s Weather forecasts for normal Oand surprising build-up in crude stockpiles, economy grew at its slowest pace in monsoon rains are in Indian dampening hopes of a smooth demand recovery as the at least two years in the March farmers’ favour at least, giving hope world begins to ease its way out of coronavirus quarter as the coronavirus that the rural sector can help lockdowns. pandemic weakened already support the millions of migrant The decline extended losses from Wednesday on declining consumer demand and workers who returned to their uncertainty about Russia’s commitment to deep oil private investment. villages from the cities when the production cuts in the lead-up to a June 9 meeting of The median forecast from a lockdown began. the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Reuters poll of economists put Number of coronavirus affected Countries and its allies, dubbed OPEC+. annual economic growth at 2.1% in people in India has crossed 158,000 US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures the March quarter, lower than 4.7% with 4,531 deaths, with an average were down 4.4%, or $1.44 at $31.37 a barrel at 0402 GMT in the December quarter. Forecasts daily jump of 6,000 cases in the last after slipping as much as 5% to a low of $31.14 earlier ranged between +4.5% and -1.5%. one week. in the session. Prime Minister Narendra Modi Unlike some advanced economies, has maintained the lockdown predicting a 45% contraction from a India’s stimulus package has ordered on March 25 to curb the year ago. largely focussed on subsidised spread of Covid-19 in the world’s Economists expect the fiscal year credit to small businesses and second most populous country, that began in April will see the farmers, while direct fiscal though many restrictions were worst economic contraction in four stimulus was limited to around 1% eased for manufacturing, transport decades. of the GDP, economists said. and other services from May 18. “Economic activity will face The Reserve Bank of India cut The full impact of the lockdown ongoing disruption over the next policy rates by 40 basis points on manufacturing and services will year as the country transitions to a earlier this month, and has reduced become more apparent in the June post-COVID-19 world,” the rating its key repo rate by 115 basis points quarter, with Goldman Sachs agency S&P said on Thursday, since February. THE INDIAN PANORAMA 28 ASTROLOGY FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2020

Shree Ganeshaya Namah

Bejan Daruwalla is world's most famous astrologertoday. He appears regularly on world wide TV shows. Bejan who has been a professor in English, hasauthored a number of books on astrology. India'sPrime Minister Narendra Modi , on March 29, 2012,lunched one of Bejan's books, '2012- End of theWorld? Bejan contributes to a number of journals andnewspapers in many parts of the world which includeBerkley Communications Bejan Daruwalla is available for astrological (London) Times of India(Delhi, Mumbai, consultations. He can be reached at Kolkata, Chennai) and The IndianPanorama ( [email protected] and on phone New York and Texas). Bejan's predictionshave mostly been correct and 91-8141234275 people the world overrely on his predictions. www.bejandaruwalla.com

The Indian Panorama brings you Weekly and Birthday Horoscope from the World's most trusted astrologer Bejan Daruwalla. Latest correct prediction: Modi's historic victory Weekly Horoscope June 1 - June 7, 2020 ARIES: Ganesha says this period in your own LEO: You are enriched and Ganesha's blessings SAGITTARIUS: The period may be approaching sign brings many unusual aspects into the light of are with you. Happy times are finally here, and you its end, but your energy remains undiminished. You day.The period is slowly coming to a close and it is a are certainly on top of the world. Go for whatever are on the go all time and are filled with a sense of good time for reflection. You started off with you need but remember the saying: "There's no such fulfilment and self-realisation.You have introspected ambition and grand plans on the work front and things as a free lunch". Ganesha also tell you to read a lot and have arrived at this point in your life after then saw a platter full of goodies coming to you. the fine print. There could be hidden clauses that a great deal of soul searching. Expenses continue to There have been twists and turns ranging from could be less than favourable in the long run; watch mount but you are not complaining, as you are strange esoteric pursuits, to flights of fancy, the out for deceit. confident you can cope. supernatural and even the supra natural, interest in VIRGO: You are enthusiastic and energise with CAPRICORN: The tide changes here. Once again, spirits, witches and other occult phenomena. all that is happening in your life right now. You will from all the gusto and go, you get meditative. You TAURUS: You have put in a lot in terms of ideas, be a human dynamo, a powerhouse of energy,ready look at the spiritual and the meditative areas with effort and commitment and this is the time for to attain targets you've only been hoping to achieve. both sincerity and much commitment. Life's reaping the harvest. You like the sweet sound of good You make glorious plans for the future leading to meaning and, strangely enough, law and the social money in the bank and the social standing and great success and joy. There is new zest in your order, research, philosophical pursuits and even perquisites that come in the form of pleasing attitude to life itself, and you work exceptionally questions of justice keep you busy through the symbols of success. They bring joy to you and your hard. You will achieve success in all spheres of life reaming period. Your ideas, ingenuity will set the family.You look back on the period and even seek to and will ride the wave. stage of for stupendous achievements. expand on the good fortune coming to you from time LIBRA: There is free time and also a strong AQUARIUS: Your confidence and charisma - 2 well spent. inclination to indulge in all kinds of mental activity. great C's - will be at an all-time high. They will be GEMINI: You are in an introspection mode. You It will be back to mind games for you Librans, but of reflected in your interactions, and your attitude to even look at parapsychology and / or psychic a very different sort. Once again, you look for fresh friends, colleagues, and family. Having achieved insights and ability. Nursing, healing, welfare avenues of self - expression and of exploring new your targets, you look at the lighter, more pleasant interests, medicare, healing minds and bodies, areas of both knowledge and experience. The family side of life. You dabble in the creative arts and make charities will take your time and energy and quite and work angles are both energised but there is a more contacts. Expression is the key word here and happily too. Right now, Ganesha gives you a time of certain restlessness that might prove dangerous if it you also go all out to reach out to others. Your life is calm, introspection, thought. There is a good chance is not channelized properly. Despite it all, you do filled with an assortment of activities and you are that you will also be involved in trade and travel. make sure that you manage all your commitments to enjoying them all. CANCER: You are pressured by commitments to the people who matter in your life. PISCES: You consciously go slow but can't escape work and family. Both will need hard work and SCORPIO: The trends are encouraging as the the intensity of the period. Finance and family will effort. There will also be investments and outlays, period draws to its end. You have had material be well looked after, but there may also be a new love both financial and with time. You will have a lot of rewards. Now you reach out for greater love and interest that takes a lot of your time and energy. coping to do as they are all linked. It can be a heavy warmth in relationships and are appreciated, valued Don't overstep the line and hurt loved ones in the burden and so guard against overdoing it. But, and cherished. There is a good chance of an process. Tread softly, says Ganesha. It may just be a whatever you do now, the results that follow will be engagement or marriage happening in this period. It passing fancy and overindulgence may cost you dear. pleasant. I must also tell you now that this is a could be either yours or that of someone dear to you. Don't rock the boat where family harmony is special time and is filled with favours coming your You are in an adventurous mood and would like to try concerned. You will be the force behind the social way.No more guessing and hoping for the best. out new things. Nothing ventured, nothing gained! whirligig. Enjoy!

Birthday Horoscope June 1 - June 7, 2020

June 1: Ganesha says a friend's take on things and you'll want to channel it. An unspoken cheer about. will provide a most useful perspective, message is very helpful. June 6: Tread carefully when dealing with particularly on those who are acting out of June 4: Beneficial personal influences anything that involved spending money or the character encourage you to toot your own home, or at potential to earn some complex lunar aspects, June 2:This is as good a time as any to least to believe in yourself, encouragement that and the situations they bring, make your gut improve the family budget or to ask for comes in handy for dealing with a situation reactions unreliable now improved compensation on the job if you that presents an obstacle. June 7:Attention you receive may not be all deserve it. June 5: Someone you care about is doing that welcome and can even cross a line. Make June 3: You'll have a chance to offer exceptionally well, and that should give you it a point to be very clear when compassionate support and understanding and something to feel good about. Good feelings communicating; otherwise, the day will be rife can excel at doing that. Imagination is strong come full circle and give you something to with misunderstandings THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2020 SPIRITUALITY 29

irjala Ekadashi is the most important and significant NEkadashis out of all twenty four Ekadashis in a year. Nirjala means without water and Nirjala Ekadashi fasting is observed without water and NIRJALA EKADASHI any type of food. Nirjala Ekadashi Vratam is the toughest among all THIS YEAR, NIRJALA EKADASHI WILL BE OBSERVED ON JUNE 2, TUESDAY Ekadashi fasting due to strict fasting rules. Devotees abstain not only from food but also from water while observing Tulsi to end up his day fast. Due to this Nirjala Ekadashi Vrat. legend Nirjala Ekadashi is also known as Bhimseni Ekadashi, Bhima Ekadashi or Benefits Pandava Ekadashi. Devotees who are unable to observe all twenty fours Ekadashi fasting in a year Nirjala Ekadashi’s significance should observe single Nirjala Ekadashi As per Hindu mythology, Nirjala fasting as fasting on Nirjala Ekadashi Ekadashi is a form of God Vishnu and brings all benefits of twenty four helps in washing away all sins. Also, the Ekadashi fasting in a year. devotees are blessed by Lord Vishnu and Nirjala Ekadashi is also known as granted all the happiness, prosperity Pandava Ekadashi or Bhimseni and a blissful life. It is also believed that Ekadashi or Bhima Ekadashi due to one by observing Nirjala Ekadashi fast one legend associated with Nirjala Ekadashi. gains salvation (moksha) as the person Bhimsen, the second Pandava brother at the time of death is not judged by and voracious eater, was not able to Yama (God of Death). The one who control his desire of having food and was observes fast is taken by the messengers not able observe Ekadashi fasting. of Vishnu to Vaikuntha, an abode of Except Bhima, all Pandava brothers and Vishnu after death. Draupadi used to observe all Ekadashi Legends take one back to the fasting. Bhima, being upset due to his mythological story of Mahabharata as weak determination and doing a the Nirjala Ekadashi vrat has been dishonor to Lord Vishnu, met Maharishi mentioned therein. Kunit, mother of Vyasa to find some solution. Sage Vyasa the Pandavas, Draupadi, wife of the advised Bhima to observe single Nirjala Pandavas, and all the four Pandava Ekadasi fasting to compensate for not brothers - Yudhisthira, Arjun, Nakula observing all Ekadashi fasting in a year. and Sahadeva used to observe Ekadashi Due to this legend Nirjala Ekadashi is vrats without fail. also known as Bhimseni Ekadashi or However, the second Pandava brother, Pandava Ekadashi. Bhima resisted from fasting as he was a Nirjala Ekadashi fasting falls during voracious eater and wasn't able to Shukla Paksha of Jyeshtha month and control his hunger. On one occasion, currently falls in month of May or June. Bhima chose to observe the vrat but he Nirjala Ekadashi falls just after Ganga also wanted to eat. Hence, he went out to Dussehra but in some years Ganga Ved Vyasa, the grandfather of the Dussehra and Nirjala Ekadashi might Pandavas, to seek help in observing the fall on the same day. fast. While eating and fasting were not Parana means breaking the fast. possible simultaneously, sage Vyasa Ekadashi Parana is done after sunrise on How to observe vrat Story of Nirjala Ekadashi Vrat suggested that he observe the Nirjala next day of Ekadashi fast. It is necessary Ekadashi vrat, which includes the to do Parana within Dwadashi Tithi Nirjala means without water. Hence, Bhimsen – the second Pandava brother benefits of observing 24 Ekadashi vrats. unless Dwadashi is over before sunrise. fast is observed without water and food. and big eater wanted to keep Ekadashi Nirjala Ekadashi is regarded as the Not doing Parana within Dwadashi is It is considered as the most strict and Vrat. All his brothers, wife Draupadi and strictest fast among all the Ekadashis in similar to an offence. hence, most sacred of all Ekadashis. This mother Kunti observed Vrat on 24 the Hindu religion as one cannot even Parana should not be done during Hari fast is extremely difficult to follow as it Ekadasis throughout the year and drink water while observing it. The Vasara. One should wait for Hari Vasara falls in the hot Indian summer. The 24 request him to do the same. But he was literal meaning of Nirjala is without to get over before breaking the fast. Hari hours long fast begins from sunrise on unable to perform the ritual due to water. Thus, all Vishnu devotees who Vasara is first one fourth duration of Nirjala Ekadashi to sunrise the next day. unbearable hunger pangs. Bhima, was take up this fast do not drink water nor Dwadashi Tithi. The most preferred time People fast and offer puja to Lord Vishnu upset due to his weak determination. He eat any food during the entire day of to break the fast is Pratahkal. One should on this day. was also sacred of dishonouring to Lord fasting. Observing a Nirjala Ekadashi is avoid breaking the fast during The fast begins with Vishnu. So, when Maharishi Vyasa highly beneficial as it is considered Madhyahna. If due to some reasons one Sandhyavandanam – a prayer. This visited them Bhima asked him to find a equivalent to going on a pilgrimage. The is not able to break the fast during prayer is performed in the evening solution. Sage Vyasa advised him to vrat begins at sunrise on the Ekadahsi Pratahkal then one should do it after before Nirjala Ekadashi, i.e. on 10th observe single Nirjala Ekadasi fasting. and ends on the next day's sunrise. The Madhyahna. lunar day. After prayer devotee takes This fast would compensate for not entire day of the Nirjala Ekadashi vrat is At times Ekadashi fasting is suggested only one meal, without rice (as rice observing all Ekadashi fasting in a year. spent at Vishnu temples. Devotees also on two consecutive days. It is advised eating is prohibited). The strict fast Bhima performed the fast with an ease prefer spending the day at home by that Smartha with family should observe continuous throughout Ekadashi. It gets but on the morning of very next day he listening to stories from Bhagavad fasting on first day only. The alternate over on next morning. Devotees offer became unconscious. Purana or chanting bhajans dedicated to Ekadashi fasting, which is the second prayer, tulsi, fruits, and sweets to Lord Then he offered Ganga water with Lord Vishnu. one, is suggested for Sanyasis, widows Vishnu and then finish their fast. and for those who want Moksha. When PAGE SPONSORED BY alternate Ekadashi fasting is suggested Rituals and celebrations for Smartha it coincides with Vaishnava Offer Puja to Lord Vishnu and seek ARISH K. SAHANI Ekadashi fasting day. his grace. Ekadashi fasting on both days is Bath the idol of Lord Vishnu with Serving Since 1972 suggested for staunch devotees who seek Panchamrit. Please Call or Write for Your Insurance Needs for love and affection of Lord Vishnu. Wash with clean water and then dressed in new clothes. Arish K Sahani (Father) Importance Offer flowers, incense, water, lamps The greatness of Nirjala Ekadasi was and a hand fan. Shiv Sahani (Son) explained by Sage Vyasa. In evening, worship Vishnu with It is equal to going on pilgrimage. Durva grass. Priya Sahani Sood (Daughter) It provides virtue of all 24 Visit nearby Vishnu temple and Ekadashi. observe Jagran at night. 7 1 8 - 2 7 1 - 1 9 0 6 It washes away all sin. Chant bhajans, Vishnu [email protected] Grants happiness, prosperity, Sahasranama and other slokas longevity and moksha (salvation). dedicated to Lord Vishnu “If Hindus don’t maintain Hinduism, who shall save it?” This Ekadashi happens before Donate clothes, food grains, monsoon season and therefore it is umbrellas, hand-fans, pitchers filled “If India’s own children don't cling to their faith, who shall guard it?” also helps in cleansing the body. with water, gold etc. “Indians alone can save India, and India and Hinduism are one.” THE INDIAN PANORAMA 30 CLASSIFIEDS FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2020 THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2020 ADVERTISEMENT 31 THE INDIAN PANORAMA 32 TURN PAGE FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2020

contd from page 1 Trump cracks whip on social... Protests break out in... The president said Thursday that he would indeed pursue legislation in addition to the order. Attorney General William Barr, who also attended the signing, said the Justice Department would seek to sue social media companies, saying the statute "has been stretched way beyond its original intention." The order would push the Federal Communications Commission to set new rules on some websites' protections under Section 230. It would also encourage Devastating fire breaks out at Lake St. and 26th Ave. S. as the Federal Trade Commission to take action against angry protesters set property on fire companies that engage in "deceptive" acts of Twitter picture/ Mark Vancleave @MDVancleave communication, and it would form a working group of officer who kept his knee on Floyd. That officer was state attorneys general to review relevant state laws. identified by his attorney Tom Kelly as Derek Chauvin. Barr earlier this year signaled the department's Kelly has not released a statement on Chauvin's behalf. intention to look "critically" at the law, originally Protesters and police face each other during a rally for George Chauvin had 18 complaints filed with the police designed to allow growing technology companies Floyd in Minneapolis, May 27 department's internal affairs division, according to protection. But critics of the law have argued it allowed And the city's mayor said he's requesting state MPD. social media firms to turn a blind eye to unlawful assistance and allowing Police Chief Arradondo to use It's unclear what the complaints, which were all content. It is unclear, though, on what grounds the resources from other jurisdictions. closed, were for and no details were provided by police. Justice Department might sue. "We must confront our shortcomings with humility Only two of the 18 complaints against Chauvin were While Barr said that the president's order does not as well as hope. We must restore the peace so that we "closed with discipline," according to a public summary repeal Section 230, Trump added shortly after: "One of can do this hard work together," Mayor Jacob Frey said. from police. The "discipline issued" column listed a the things we may do … is remove or totally change Fury has been rising in Minneapolis over Monday, letter of reprimand for each of the two complaints. [Section] 230." May 25 death of Floyd, a black man who died after George Floyd's family says four officers involved in (Read full story at www.theindianpanorama.news) pleading for help as a police officer pinned him -- his death should be charged with murder unarmed and handcuffed -- to the ground. In an interview aired Thursday, Frey told CBS News Supreme Court Orders States to On Wednesday,May 27 night, Minneapolis' second day that he believed Floyd's death constituted murder. of protests transitioned to rioting and looting south of "I am not a prosecutor but let me be clear: The provide free food, shelter and downtown, with people smashing their way into stores arresting officer killed someone," Frew told CBS. "He and setting businesses and other buildings ablaze. (Floyd) would be alive today if he were white." travel to migrant workers One of Floyd's brothers cried Thursday, May 28 The other three officers were identified by police as After hearing Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, senior morning as he said his family wants protests to be Thomas Lane, Tou Thao and J Alexander Kueng. counsel Kapil Sibal, Colin Gonsalves, Indira Jaising, PS peaceful, but stressed people are struggling with seeing Thomas Plunkett, representing Kueng, said, "At this Narsimha and other advocates representing various another black man die following a police encounter, this time, out of respect for Mr. Floyd, we are declining all states, the Bench went on to issue the directions saying, one over the passing of an allegedly counterfeit $20 bill invitations to discuss these painful events." "At present we are looking at the miseries of the migrant at a store. Earl Gray is representing another of the officers workers, we are of the view that some interim directions "I want everybody to be peaceful right now, but people involved but has declined to say who his client is. need to be issued." "We believe that the center and state are torn and hurt, because they're tired of seeing black Police said they arrested Floyd Monday after governments require to be given some time to bring the men die," George Floyd's brother, Philonise Floyd, said responding to the forgery call and finding him inside a steps taken by them on record, it said directing them to on CNN's "New Day." car. file detailed replies by June 5 -- the next date of hearing. "These officers (involved in George's arrest) need to Police said he "physically resisted" after he got out of During the hearing, the Solicitor General faced a volley be arrested right now ... and held accountable about the vehicle. of questions from the Bench on food, shelter, everything because these people want justice right CNN reports that a surveillance video obtained from transportation and as to who would foot the bill. Terming now," he said. a nearby restaurant shows some of the officers' initial it an "unprecedented crisis", Mehta said around 91 lakh A man was fatally shot overnight near the protests, contact with him and doesn't appear to show obvious migrant workers had been transported to their native police said early Thursday. One person was arrested, resistance from a handcuffed Floyd. Eventually Floyd states since special trains started on May 1. and police said they're investigating the nature of the is escorted away from view. (Read full story at www.theindianpanorama.news) incident. Donald Williams, a witness, told CNN he was about to As the protests developed, demonstrators threw walk into a store when he noticed commotion. He said water bottles and firecrackers at officers and a police he saw Floyd "panting for his life, begging for his Govt plans for third phase of precinct building. forgiveness." 'Vande Bharat mission' as An unspecified number of police officers and other Williams' description of events matches a video people suffered minor injuries in the protests, captured by one bystander in which Floyd can be heard 300,000 Indians want to return Arradondo said, without elaborating. calling for help, saying, "I can't breathe," and that his Again, government of India wants all those going Demonstrations were held elsewhere in the country body was hurting. from here to India to pay for their stay in the hotels Wednesday night. In Los Angeles, hundreds of Williams said he tried to approach an officer and ask government has approved for quarantine. And the protesters marched. At one point, some attacked a what was happening. Officers said Floyd was "resisting payment for 14 is to be paid upfront. Government of California Highway Patrol car. arrest." India is not supporting us financially in any way.We are In Memphis, Tennessee, police in riot gear responded "I said, 'Officer, he's not resisting arrest, you have paying for everything." to a protest and at least two people were arrested, your knee on him and you have handcuffs on him, he's Mr. R.P. Sharma (name changed) said the only favor according to news reports on TV channels. detained at this moment,'" he said. One officer government of India has done is they have arranged the Meanwhile, Governor Tim Walz signed an executive responded by saying "this is what drugs do to you," flights and permitted us to be back. He said going by the order Thursday, May 28 to activate the Minnesota according to Williams. pronouncements of government of India, it appeared National Guard, a move that came at the request of Floyd was declared dead at a nearby hospital a short the government was doing a great favor to those local leaders after "peaceful protests evolved into a time later. A medics team that responded to the incident stranded abroad. He added, however, he was happy to be dangerous situation for protesters and first worked on an "unresponsive, pulseless male," according getting back. Mr. Shingara Singh (name changed) from responders," according to a release. to a Minneapolis Fire Department narrative released by New York said he has been trying to get a ticket but was In a news conference Wednesday, Mayor Frey also police. (With inputs from CNN, CBS and agencies) told by Air India that he will be informed when his turn called for criminal charges to be brought against the comes. 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here are some breathtaking honeymoon destinations in India. TWeddings and honeymoons are two things that are always in demand and happening in a country like India! And TOP HONEYMOON along with thousands of wedding places rises the biggest question of what are the best honeymoon places in India to go? Well, our country is full of wonders and wonderful places giving couples myriad interesting and romantic honeymoon DESTINATIONS IN INDIA spots in India . The newlyweds can plan a trip to heaven on earth Jammu & Kashmir or book a flight to Goa, the wondrous beach land in India. Some of the other best romantic getaways in India for honeymoon are Coorg, Ooty, Shimla and Nainital. Here we have shortlisted 10 such honeymoon places in India which can be considered by the newlyweds. Srinagar This capital city of Jammu & Kashmir is a paradise in every sense of the word. The lush valleys, sparkling lakes, high mountains and picturesque scenery make it one of the perfect honeymoon destinations in India that you will remember all your life. Even the Bollywood is not untouched with its beauty and a number of movies have been shot in the deep, green valleys of Srinagar. The honeymooners can choose to stay in the shikharas to add a pinch of extra romance on their trip! How to reach Srinagar Airport or Sheikh-ul-Alam Airport, around 15 km from the city centre, connects the city with all major Indian cities. A number of airlines operate flights from prime cities like Delhi, Kolkata, Bangalore and Mumbai. Jammu Tawi Railway Station is the nearest fully functional railhead to Srinagar. DURATION OF HONEYMOON: 7 to 10 days EXPERIENCES: Skiing, sightseeing, Mughal gardens, houseboats, shikara rides, shopping, food IDEAL TIME TO VISIT: April to October Goa The land of sun, sand and sea—Goa is one of the best honeymoon destinations in the world. Couples from all across the globe come here to spend their honeymoon in the rustic city of Goa. The destination offers pristine beaches, present here in a pleasant weather. the city, is the nearest airport serving (96 km) is the nearest railhead scenic views, warm weather and a lot of How to reach Jaisalmer while Jaisalmer Railway connecting the hill station with prime fun activities. Couples interested in Station is well connected with major neighbouring cities in the country. adventure water sports have a lot of Kathgodam railway station is the Indian cities and operate direct trains DURATION OF HONEYMOON: 3 to 4 options here. Besides, the beachside nearest railhead to Nainital, which is from Delhi and Jaipur. days resorts here are absolutely romantic. about 23 km away from the hill station DURATION: 6 to 7 days EXPERIENCES: Ice skating, trekking, How to reach and is connected with all major Indian EXPERIENCES: Camel safari, desert hiking, skiing, paragliding, temples, cities. Pantnagar Airport, about 70 km safari , forts and palaces, shopping, shopping Dabolim Airport, around 26 km from away, is the nearest serving airport. cultural programs, sand dunes, desert IDEAL TIME TO VISIT: March to June Panjim, is well connected with rest of the DURATION: 3 to 5 days camps, sunsets world and country. Madgaon Railway EXPERIENCES: Lakes, boat rides, food, IDEAL TIME TO VISIT: October to Lakshadweep Islands Station and Vasco da Gama Railway snow points, temples March Lakshadweep is the smallest union Station are the two major railheads IDEAL TIME TO VISIT: October to territory of India and has the most serving this coastal state of India. April Shimla exotic and uninhabited beaches. The DURATION: 5 to 7 days Shimla has been attracting beaches here have a bluish-green tinge EXPERIENCES: Nightlife, Goan food, Jaisalmer honeymooners for a long time and is also and white sands. To heighten your shopping, beaches, adventure water If you want to spend your honeymoon considered one of the affordable honeymoon experience, book one of the sports. like royalty, head to Rajasthan. Jaisalmer honeymoon destinations in the country! cosy beach cottages and celebrate a new IDEAL TIME TO VISIT: October to is a gorgeous that city offers history, This gorgeous hill station is a perfect beginning of life. January palaces, forts, elephant and camel back place to for the newlyweds. Its beauty, How to reach rides and lots more. The place is also colonial charm, mighty mountains and Nainital known for sand dunes activities in the vast wonderful surroundings are simply Lakshadweep has just one aerodrome on Nainital is a quaint and romantic hill expanses of the Thar Desert. The place is perfect to begin a new stage of life. the Agatti Island called Agatti Airport, station, perfect for newlyweds and popular for its tent accommodations How to reach which is well connected with Cochin honeymooners. Home to wonderful where the owners also organize cultural International Airport via helicopter. lakes, grand mountains and ancient nights wherein Rajasthani folk dancers Shimla Airport, also known as DURATION OF HONEYMOON: 7 to 9 temples, this place is also counted and musicians perform. Jubbarhatti Airport (20 km) is the days amongst the affordable honeymoon How to reach nearest domestic airport operating EXPERIENCES: Island hopping, destinations in the country. Couples can regular flights from cities like New Delhi beaches, coral reefs, water sports, scuba opt for boat rides in the various lakes Jodhpur Airport, about 280 km from and Chandigarh. Kalka railway station diving, snorkelling THE INDIAN PANORAMA 34 SPORTS FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2020

BALBIR SINGH SR DECEMBER 31, 1923 TO MAY 25, 2020 LEGENDARY GOAL MACHINE WHO THRILLED FANS AND MESMERISED OPPONENTS

n equal to Dhyan Chand in wizardry and legacy, Balbir Singh ASr was perhaps the last recognisable connect to that bygone era of Indian hockey which had gold written all over it. Nostalgia is what that era evokes, a time when Singh and Dhyan Chand became the symbols of India's dominance in international hockey. Dhyan Chand, the greatest for most, passed away in 1979 at 74 and Singh, considered the best after him, breathed his last at 96 on Monday,May 25. Three Olympic gold medals (1948, 1952, and 1956) as a player and captain, a world cup gold as manager and to-this-date the highest individual scorer in an Olympic final (1952, Helsinki) -- Singh is widely considered the best centre-forward of all time and to many experts and fans "the man who took forward the original wizard's legacy". Because if Dhyan Chand's wizardary was a source of joy in a colonised India, Singh's artistry was an inspiration for an India trying to find its bearings post- independence. Singh, who was the then coach of Khalsa inside the circle that opposition players He never missed a chance to say how College and later coached India to two could only scratch their heads in special the 1948 Olympic gold was to him back-to-back gold medals in the 1952 amazement. because it was for the first time that the Helsinki and 1956 Melbourne Olympics. But as luck would have it, Singh's Tri-Colour, instead of the Union Jack, The lanky player, described as the fittest journey somewhat went unnoticed as the went up at the medal ceremony. Indian athlete by many including cricket beginning of his successes coincided with Singh and Dhyan Chand never played icon Bishen Singh Bedi, went on to make the tragedy of partition. together at the international level but the such a name for himself that the suffix of In 1957, he did become the first recipient comparisons were constant and the former Sr was placed against his name to make a of the Padma Shri award in sports acknowledged how, as a school kid, he felt distinction from the numerous other category but that was all he could get inspired by watching the original icon. Balbirs he inspired in Indian hockey. despite his countless achievements as a "...but there is no comparison at all. "Many Balbirs came and went in Indian player and later as coach and manager. They were at par in all departments. They hockey but none could match him and his Besides being the captain of India's 1956 Singh's relationship with the sport, in were both immensely skillful centre achievements," said Ajitpal, talking about Olympic gold-winning side, Singh was also fact, goes way beyond the goals and the forwards and they were both three the incredible journey of the legend, who a part of the team that won a silver medal trophies. It was like a timeless love affair, Olympic gold medal winners," said Ajitpal was admired for his warmth and the at the 1958 Asian Games. one that he described quite vividly in his Singh, captain of the 1975 World Cup- willingness to share his experience with After his retirement, he got involved autobiography -- The Golden Hat-Trick, winning team of which Singh was the anyone who cared to ask. with hockey coaching and mentored the My Hockey Days, which came out in 1977. manager. The talismanic player won three Indian team that won a bronze medal at "Her love for me was eternal. Our love "The only difference was that both consecutive Olympic gold medals just like the 1971 World Cup. blossomed in London. We married in played in different eras," he feels. the more celebrated Dhyan Chand. Four years later, he became the manager Helsinki and honeymooned in Melbourne. And if one analysed dispassionately, His record of most goals scored by an of India's only World Cup winning side in After a period of 11 long years (from the Singh's three-time Olympic gold-winning individual in a men's Olympic final came Kuala Lumpur. 1964 Tokyo Olympics), she returned to me legacy will find a place at the same in India's 6-1 victory over the Netherlands During the 2012 London Olympics, as fresh, as gay, as charming as she ever pedestal as that of Dhyan Chand. in the 1952 edition, a match in which he Singh was named one of the 16 iconic was," he spoke of hockey,the one true love Born in 1924 in Punjab's Haripur Khalsa struck five times. Olympians and lone Indian to be honoured of his life. village, Singh was spotted by Harbail It is said that such was Singh's magic in the Olympic Museum exhibition, "The "This time she took me to Kuala Lumpur Olympic Journey: The Story of the and we were again top of the world. I am Games" held at the Royal Opera House. waiting for her -- my hockey fairy." THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2020 ADVERTISEMENT 35 THE INDIAN PANORAMA 36 ADVERTISEMENT FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2020

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