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With to migrant workers during the ( experts warning that such lockdown period and suggest- unruly assembly could help the ed that schools and colleges can ( (( ( contagion to explode — two be used for sheltering the / /0. migrant workers from migrant workers. 1 % 2 ( Rajasthan tested positive on The Home Ministry N3 O ( Saturday — the Home changed the guidelines of State Q Ministry has come out with a Disaster Relief Fund (SDRF) to 2 ( measures to deal with the grave allow States to use the fund for 4 situation. the purpose of rehabilitation of ( ( ( 2 5 The measures include rais- the migrant workers. 2N( O ing tents along the highway to “With the intent of Modi ( accommodate these workers Government to provide all " and provide them food and possible support to migrant ( medical assistance. The march workers, the Union Home 5 ! of the migrants has alarmed Secretary has again written to ( health experts, who feel that it States requesting them to ( 7 ( ( ( will defeat the very purpose of immediately set up relief camps 8 5 the lockdown. Bihar Chief for migrant workers/pilgrims, ! "# $ 9 ( Minister Nitish Kumar has etc, who are returning to their % &$ ( 57": also expressed unhappiness domicile States or trying to do ! over the move by States so during this lockdown peri- and Highway Concessioners/ ( 5 Governments to arrange buses od. toll operators to consider pro- ; < L for migrant workers who want States have been advised to viding food, water or any kind > Q 2 to return to Bihar. give wide publicity and aware- of support to migrant work- ( “The entire purpose of ness, using public address sys- ers/citizens who are trying to < lockdown will be defeated if tems, technology and by util- reach to their respective native ( L ( thousands of migrants are sent ising the services of volunteers places. At this time of crisis we L to Bihar by buses. My and NGOs,” said the Home have to be compassionate for 2 Government has already asked Ministry in a statement. our fellow citizens,” he said. ( the Bihar Resident The Ministry also asked Commerce and Railways Chief Minister Arvind Commissioner in New Delhi to States to set up tented accom- Minister Piyush Goyal has Kejriwal on Saturday said his L coordinate with different State modation to ensure that these appealed to Industries and Government has arranged for L ! Governments and reimburse persons will stay in the relief trade bodies to take care of buses to transport migrant P the cost involved in providing camps till the lockdown orders their workers and not allow workers who were already 5( food and shelter to migrants are in place. The shelters are to them to go to home States in walking back via roads to P who are on their way to Bihar. be organised, keeping in view the time of crisis. - their respective home States. ( We have already announced various precautions including In a video conference, -23" Also, the CM appealed to 100 crore package for them,” social distancing, with ade- Goyal said, “Don’t let your migrant workers leaving Delhi ! said Nitish on Saturday. quate medical check up drives workers go away” to the indus- eft without any source of to stay back. Kejriwal in his Nitish was right in his to identify and separate cases trialists across the country. Lincome, thousands of Press briefing on Friday ( apprehension. At least two requiring quarantine or hospi- Talking to representatives from migrants mostly from Uttar ! announced that food will now ( migrant workers, who travelled talisation. various manufacturing, indus- Pradesh and Bihar on $ , be served in 325 Government ( from Indore to Rajasthan amid Meanwhile, Road try and trading associations, He Saturday hit the streets and ( % (+ schools after which the ! ( coronavirus lockdown in the Transport Minister Nitin said they are not only their highways connecting Delhi- Government will officially (( ; country, have now been found Gakari asked NHAI chairman assets and resources, but also NCR in hope to get support and Anand Vihar bus termi- have the capacity to feed 4 ( 7: positive for COVID-19. and toll operators to provide all could become potential carri- from the Government to nal was crowded with people lakh people across 500 cen- < Against the backdrop of help to migrant workers by er of COVID-19, if they are reach their homes. trying to get into buses to tres. Delhi Minister Rajendra ( these developments, Home providing food and water. “I allowed to migrate to leave en- Their exodus choked head for Bihar and Uttar Pal Gautam went to Anand 8 ,2 Minister Amit Shah on have advised chairman NHAI masse during this pandemic. Delhi-UP border at Ghazipur Pradesh. Meanwhile, Delhi Vihar to meet migrants. 5( ; ( ! ( < ( 8 1 $ " # ? ! ( % > 7 ( ferent monitoring sites, the (@< total number of positive cases 2 * 0 Q stood at 944 on Saturday A evening. However, the Health --23" ! A2< Q ( Ministry’s Saturday morning ""# ( ! " count showed 877 positive mid clamour over lack of ! % > ( cases in the country. The tally Acoronavirus testing facili- ! 57 # # was not revised till late in the ty in India, the Government &'% % !# < evening. The pandemic has has been able to procure five !!() ! Q (( --23" claimed 20 lives in the coun- lakh additional testing kits )*&+,# ! ( ; 2 try. from the US. !# - < he count of confirmed With cases on the rise, the ) R Gangakhedkar, the Head &./+ ! ! ( ( TCOVID-19 cases raced Centre has asked the State * % (+ of ICMR, said on Saturday the 0 ! ( ; < towards 1,000 on Saturday, Governments to set up health country has now 111 (; 7: but the Centre maintained check-up camps and tents for being trained on management Q, R Government testing labs and # !( < 7 that India is yet to witness migrant labourers who are of Covid-19 patients with the only 30 per cent of facilities are 8 community transmission of travelling back to their native help of AIIMS in Delhi while . put to use so far. ! the viral infection and it is places to prevent them from rigorous contact-tracing is He said 44 private labora- 3.?!%57 3 focusing on management and spreading the disease, if any. underway. Many States are in Theni: A young man under tories have been given approval !""!#$ # - % ( prevention of the disease by Giving details of the steps the process of setting up ded- home quarantine for coron- for testing and 400 people ! *-,# ramping up Covid-19 hospi- being taken to combat coron- icated Covid-19 hospitals. avirus after return from Sri have been tested in private sec- #! ! /2 ( ( tals, sample testing, contact- avirus which has killed over They have also been asked Lanka suddenly ran out of his tor. &..! ( tracing besides intensifying 28,000 people across coun- to ramp up their capacity to house nude and fatally bit a 80- Gangakhedkar added that #1 > social distancing measures. tries, Health Ministry Joint manage an increasing number year old woman in his neigh- the country is now fully ! ( According to Statewise Secretary Lav Aggarwal said of cases. At least 17 States have bourhood in a village near equipped to deal with the sit- ! confirmed case tallied by dif- that doctors from the States are started work on it. here, police said on Saturday. uation. %! ( ! / / B ( ( ((Q & $ " # * ( @ ! ( ( ' senior officials for this. They of animal feed, the life of the the corona virus entering the ! ! # " ()** have been instructed to take all animals has come to a halt. So, third stage a detailed discussion ; Q @ 8 # # necessary steps to provide relief necessary steps have been taken took place on what arrange- ( to the stranded the people,” he to ensure the availability of ani- ments should be made to deal 5 said. mal feed. Soren said that he will with it. ! There was also a discussion soon hold a high level meeting The CM said that all gov- 4 3" on the problems being faced by with the officials regarding ernment hospitals as well as ( 2 the people of Jharkhand this matter. private hospitals with facilities ( hief Minister Hemant trapped within the State and in The CM agreed to the idea of ventilation will be prepared ( ( ! CSoren today said that State other states due to the lock of the Agriculture Minister for the same. Necessary ( 2 Government is strengthening down. The CM said that all that the sale of vegetables at the instructions will be given to the (( > the system to fight necessary action is being taken government rate should be officials to strengthen the sys- Conronavirus epidemic. in this direction. “People ensured through Veg Fed. tem and isolation wards in all ! Q Agriculture Minister Badal met - ! should not have problems due There was also a detailed dis- the hospitals. Instructions have 2 the CM here on Saturday and . * ! to lockdown. Full care is being cussion between the CM and also been given to officers to > ( (( handed over a detailed list of - % & % (#% taken and I am monitoring the the Agriculture Minister on the complete all the preparations. ! Q about 3,700 people, who are situation,” said the CM. arrangement of purchasing Badal apprised the CM of stranded in other States due to essential items including food. necessary and basic facilities The Agriculture Minister milk from milk producers. The a young man from Dumka, ! Q * ! lockdown. The Minister said The CM said that due to the the government is in constant also apprised the CM about the CM said that there is no loss to who is trapped in Pune. His ( > that most of these people are lockdown, there are many touch with the governments of acute shortage of animal fod- milk producers, nor wastage of mother has passed away, but he ( ! ! labourers. Now these people problems in bringing them those states. The government der in the State due to the lock- milk, the government is serious is unable to return due to the ( are not able to access other back.“To provide them all the has given responsibility of the down. He said that due to lack in this direction.In the event of lockdown. + ,-. ,/,/
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O! # B1 )! press communiqué from the $ " Government said.Although rail 4 3" Jharkhand whereas services have come to a stand- 4600 people have been still during the 21-day lock- JP Legislative Party leader screened in down, South Eastern Railways BBabulal Marandi today said Maharashtra. State BJP on Saturday sanitised bogies of that the State government offi- spokesperson Pratul different passenger trains in a cials are apathetic towards the Shahdev said that so bid to ensure that they are safe agony of Jharkhandi people far all the residents of for passengers when rail ser- stuck outside the State. Jharkhand are fortu- vices resume, a press commu- Marandi said that the nodal nate that there has not niqué from South Eastern officers appointed by the gov- been a single case of 4 3" Railways said. ernment are not receiving the coronavirus infection. Railway staff was also pro- desperate calls of people, who But, he also said treets in Ranchi were rela- vided hand sanitizers and want to share their problems that in recent times Stively emptier on Saturday in masks on Saturday. Different with the government. Marandi millions of comparison with the first three offices at Railway Stations in said that the CM should take Jharkhandis working from other immediately. If private labs are days of the lockdown – an indi- Ranchi and Hatia were also cognisance of the matter and states including Maharashtra, providing this facility in cation that awareness about the sanitised on Saturday, sources issue strict instructions for the Kerala have returned to their Jharkhand at the same rate, then gravity of the situation and the said. same. State. the government should consid- importance of social isolation Meanwhile, hospitals Meanwhile, the State BJP Monitoring their health is er giving conditional permission was gradually finding buyers in remained vacant on Saturday. unit has also urged the govern- very important and random for this by thinking on all aspects. the State capital. Barring a few patients visiting ment to conduct random sam- sampling should be done The RAR should also pre- Vegetable markets on the Outdoor Patient pling and increasing the num- among the returning people. pare an action plan on the Saturday were also less crowd- Department (OPD), there was ber of investigations being con- Pratul said that if the state problems arising after reverse ed, and even the ones present - & & % no major rush at any of the ducted for the coronavirus government is ready to do ran- migration. Millions of people, at the markets maintained safe "! Government hospitals. The infection. dom sampling of people return- who have returned from outside distance from one another. fear of getting infected by So far, only 160 investiga- ing to the State in a big way in are unemployed and are sitting Vegetable sellers at Morhabadi The District said, “People who have a valid cers to address problems of Coronavirus also kept com- tions have been done in recent times then it should start idle at home, he said. Bazar said that Bazar was Administration has tightened reason to come out of their labourers returning from dif- moners away from private hos- bustling on Thursday and the noose around citizens who houses – like buying grocery, ferent States of India. pitals in the State capital. Friday. tend to violate the lockdown medicines or vegetables – are According to sources The Government has set However, the number of norms and move out of their allowed to cross this square. On working closely with daily wage up isolation wards in all 1( customers reduced consider- houses without any genuine the first day of the lockdown, labourers, the COVID-19 pan- Government hospitals as well ably on Saturday. “People were purpose. Police personnel many youths came out on demonium has led to return of as some private hospitals in panic-buying on the first three deployed across the city dealt bikes, and had to use mild force more than one lakh labourers Jharkhand. days of the lockdown. Maybe with such people with an iron to force them indoors,” he said. from across the country to However, no patients has ( that is why the vegetable mar- fist on Saturday and ensured While many activists are Jharkhand. tested positive for Coronavirus kets and grocery shops were that commoners do not move raising concerns over the future The same facility is also in the State so far. Only sus- overcrowded,” said Bansi out of their houses. Rakesh of daily wage labourers, the available for Jharkhand labour- pected patients are being kept Mahato, a vegetable vendor at Pandey, a police personnel Government has issued phone ers who are stuck in other in the isolation wards across Morhabadi Ground. deployed at Harmu Chowk numbers of different IAS offi- States during the lockdown, a Jharkhand, health officials said. &! 0 0
the Corporation but it is not 4 3" arranging a fund even after 20 days is not right. n an attempt to boost morale After the lockdown was Iof people to fight against imposed, the corporation was Corona virus epidemic, constantly trying to ensure Ranchi Mayor Asha Lakra on that the Government would Saturday announced that the arrange funds immediately, municipal body will provide but nothing like this hap- Rs 1 crore from the Civic pened. In such a situation, the Amenities Fund and she has danger of cleanliness has come also donated her 5 months in front of the Capital,” she salary to Ranchi Municipal added. Corporation (RMC). Elaborating future plan Speaking to media after Lakra said that the changes holding review meeting on will be made in the cleaning 4 3" sanitizing preparation, Lakra system of Ranchi. “The entire & % & / appealed to the people of the city will be cleaned by divid- tate Government will pro- State Capital especially the ing it into five zones. Svide cooked food (Khichdi) Minister, Rameshwar Oraon on global epidemic as most of the elite, to come forward to help Additional laborers will be to the needy and poor from the Saturday said that the State developed Countries are badly the Civic Body in the hour of employed for this. Sanitization mid of next week at every Government is prepared a plan affected with it. The State crisis. should be done regularly in all Police Stations (PS) of the State to provide cooked food from Government already The Mayor said that being areas of the City so that some- till the end of the ongoing Police Stations and due to announced to give two month’s the Capital of the State, all the how the virus can be dealt with bleaching powder throughout have any food arrangement. shortage of water in any area. nationwide Lockdown. Bank holiday on Saturday the ration to card holders in the last centers of the Government properly,” she added. the city. She also directed the Speaking about future “A lot of policemen are sta- The Lockdown, fund in this regard could not be week of Mach and they will also are here. “In such a situation, Apart from this, the Mayor officials of the civic body to plan for upcoming summer tioned at the square-intersec- announced by the government sent to PS to arrange basic get the rations who have the Government should have also instructed for regular prepare a list of laborers resid- season Lakra assured that the tions, they will get drinking to prevent Coronavirus to requirements to start the pro- applied for the cards. come forward and give fund to cleaning of drains, spraying of ing in all the wards who do not people of the City will not face water by tankers. spread through social isolation, gramme. Oraon said that the has rendered many people job- “On Monday the Government has decided that less. Almost all shops and busi- Government will provide fund it will keep 2000 packets ready ness activity are closed during to every PS for the programme for emergency in every district " - & ( " ! the lockdown and people are and I think the cooked food for the poor, laborers and the facing problem of hunger. will be distributed from either helpless. “In every packet, 2 kg The State Government on Tuesday or from of Chuda, half a kg of Jaggery, & ! %! with intention to provide food Wednesday so that people half a kg of Gram will be kept. % to these poor and needy peo- should be hungry due to ongo- Apart from it a total of 5000 ple will distribute cooked food ing Lock Down,” said Oraon. similar packets will be prepared 4 3" (Khichadi) at all PS under The Minister said that the for the State Capital. Chief Minister Dal Bhaat Government is leaving no stone There is a provision of 1 kg ! & s the ongoing Scheme apart form 377 such unturned to provide every of Pulses by the Government of Anationwide centers already providing food basic facility to the people of India, which the State lockdown entered to needy and poor across var- the State during this period. Government will provide to the 4 3" Anand. day four, city res- ious part of the State. He appealed to the people people of the State. Earlier the As per the weather bul- idents are now Jharkhand Pradesh that they should follow the State Government used to give or the residents of letin released on March 28, in facing a new chal- Congress Committee (JPCC) guidelines of social isolation as 1 kg of Salt, now it will give 2 FJharkhand, the tempera- the last 24 hours, lenge- a steep rise Chief cum Food and Supplies Corona virus infection became kg of salt,” he added. ture is gradually rising which the maximum highest in the prices of could also have a positive temperature was recorded in vegetables. impact as it could reduce the Jamshedpur at 37.6 degree Tomatoes effect of any virus. Celsius while Chaibasa was at which just last According to the 37.4 degree Celsius. week was at Rs 25 Meteorological Centre The maximum tempera- per Kg are now Ranchi, for the next five days ture in the State capital was at being sold at Rs 60 the weather is likely to remain 34.1 while Daltonganj and for the same dry and the maximum as Bokaro were recorded at 36.8 quantity. Similarly % well as minimum tempera- and 36.1 degree Celsius prices of all green & % (#% ture will gradually increase. respectively. vegetables like In the past 24 hours, the The minimum tempera- bottle gourd, spinach and the prices may further of all vegetables have temperature recorded across ture was also above normal cabbage has also almost dou- increase,” said Deputy Chief increased by about 20 to 30 the State was around normal across the State. In Ranchi the bled during this period. Medical Officer (CMO) CCL percent. Chances are that the or above normal by a few minimum temperature was “The price rise in the Hospital, Dr Rajkumar. Dr prices may further rise but degrees Celsius. 1.5 degrees above normal at vegetables could be due to the Rajkumar further emphasised people don’t need to panic “Till the third week of 20.4 degree Celsius. difficulty in movement that people should avoid eat- about it. India is a country of March, the temperature While in Bokaro, it was between two districts as well ing uncooked veggies. “In farmers with an agriculture across the State was mostly 3.9 degrees normal at 20.5 as two states. Small farmers the present situation, it is based economy. below normal. But now it is degree Celsius. who would generally get their being advised that raw veg- The Ranchi district gradually increasing. As per the communiqué, produce on a cycle to the City etables should not be con- administration is also work- In the next few days the from March 29 to April 1, the are doing so anymore as they sumed. Any vegetables once ing on all fronts and ensuring temperature is likely to fur- maximum temperature in could be scared of getting brought home should be thor- that basic necessities are avail- ther increase by a couple of Ranchi and its surrounding caught by the police. oughly washed and cleaned able to people from all strata more degrees which is nor- areas will be at 35 degree If there is an increase in before cooking.” of the society during this mal for this time of the year,” Celsius while the minimum the number of positive cases, “Vegetables across Ranchi time,” said Dr SS Harsh, ( $ & said Deputy Director, MET will be around 20- 21 degree the government will extend are easily available in all the CMO, Central Government % "! Centre Ranchi, Abhishek Celsius. the lockdown most likely and localities. Presently, the prices Health Services Lalpur. !0 + ,-. ,/,/ 4% 566 01 ) ;)" fter the lockdown caused Aby the Coronavirus, the migrant labourers engaged in construction work in var- ious district of Jharkhand and West Bengal are forced to return to their villages. About 200 labourers reached Dania railway station in Gomia block in district on Friday evening. More than three dozen laborers were later transport- ed to Harladih Giridih, Tetulmari, Dhanbad, Rajganjan, Baijudih Bokaro, Ranchi, Chandrapura and Telo working in Chatra, Latehar and Asansol (WB) amid a 21-day nationwide lockdown in view of the spread of coronavirus. The labourers were returning home on foot alongside railway tracks, when police rescued them from Dania railway station in Bokaro after getting infor- mation.Jyotilal Besra, resi- O)3- 4 has also made arrangements reach us and we can help them. dent of Tetulmari in Dhanbad for CM Dal Bhat Yojna. Meals We are presently covering district, Vipin Murmu of through the rail tracks with- Imtiaz works as a labourer in them about this. After that the sector is worse than this cap- he district administration on wheels is feeding people at Rs Jugsalai and Adityapur. Rajganj, Gopin Murmu of out having food for the last a private company in district transport Officer, tive. He said that labourer Thas directed the block devel- 5 only. To provide best benefits Localities like Mango, Baijudih, Nitesh Hembram, three days,” a labourer said. Aasansol. He said that dozens showing immediate activism, have been walking on foot for opment officers of all the 11 for those people who are suf- Sakchi , Kadma, Soanri and Neeraj Hembram and These people are part of the of labourers are still stuck in sent a bus at Dania railway last three days, it is probably blocks to prepare 15-bed quar- fering from poverty, government other localities will be come Basudev Hembram, residents 37-member group that start- different states who have station in Gomia from which also effective on his health, antine center in block head- of Jharkhand introduced the under the ambit of effort after of Harladih in Giridih district ed through the rail tracks on taken their way on foot. they were sent to their respec- Civil Surgeon of the district quarters while all the 231 pan- scheme of providing food. taking permission from the dis- said that there was no work in Wednesday. Police station in-charge of tive destination. are in contact, he will be pro- chayat should have 5-bed quar- The scheme, which was ini- trict administration,” said a districts so they did not want Imtiaz Raja, who lives Jageshwar Bihar police station Garg said that middle and vided them health facilities, antine center. tiated by the chief minister of member of the Manch. The to stay here. near Irba Apollo Hospital in Vishnu Saha said that the upper class people are locked after which they will also be “ We are taking every pos- Jharkhand during the year 2011, friends are already on thejob and “Buses and other road Ranchi district, said, “I know police personnel have pro- in their houses and there is given quarantine if they see sible step to combat challenges has been opened across various have delivered blood and gro- transportation were not avail- about the risk of the virus but vided food and water to them not even such a big crisis on the condition or symptoms of posed by coronavirus. We have places and they were all per- ceries to some needy people. able, so we decided to go we are helpless. How will we and they talked to Bokaro the economic front, but the corona are found. Thereafter, asked the district officers to forming well.State government home on foot and have survive for three weeks with- District Transport Officer working class, they were the process of being released come up with quarantine centres along with good Samaritans are 3 reached here by walking out earning?” he asked. Santosh Garg and informed working in the unorganized into their ancestral houses across the district so that patients reaching people in the time of 1; ( can be kept isolated,” said Ravi need. Several organisations are Shankar Shukla, deputy com- helping people indoors. Youths " % missioner. of Jamshedpur have turned good % &R&!O! He went on to inform that samaritans by getting into a sim- ! % the BDOs will make arrange- ilar exercise while helping out " ments. Isolation centres have citizens consigned to their (3 Coronavirus, doctors and increase in 48 hours or so. The Indian Medical Association’s pitals, private hospitals and come up in several places in the homes after a21-day nation- ! % % " health workers here have col- number of such “emigrates” (IMA) Jharkhand Chapter has other facilities. A 243-bed iso- city but the idea is to ensure such wide lockdown. lected samples of at least 179 reported on Thursday was also written to the health sec- lation centre has also been set places in rural areas too. He also Members of Jamshedpur ! ! & patients so far and 175 of them 45,000 and it rose to 73,000 on retary, Nitin Madan Kulkarni, up at Khelgaon in Hotwar to informed that several people unit of MarwariYuva Manch, a I ! have tested negative. Saturday – a pattern that indi- here raising concern over the treat patients if there is a spike who returned from abroad have social outfit, are providing gro- The lab test reports of the cates that many residents of testing procedure followed in in the number of cases in been home quarantine and no ceries, medicines and blood to % % ! 4 3" remaining four suspects are other States have traveled to Jharkhand. Jharkhand. positive case has been reported the citizens, especially the elder- awaited, NHM officials said. Jharkhand after the In his letter, he said that the As the country is under a in the city so far. ly.“ We have released several t least 272 suspects of Besides the 73,000 travelers on Coronavirus outbreak, officials travelers were screened with a lockdown for 21 days, the Meanwhile, administration numbers so that people can ACOVID-19 were admitted home-quarantine and 272 at from the Health Department thermal scanner, and the ones virus, which entered India in isolation wards of various hospitals, the State has also said. who take paracetamol may not through Kerala, has already hospitals across Jharkhand as of maintained surveillance on 911 On Saturday, health work- get identified even if they have infected nearly 1000 people and Saturday, an official commu- passengers – this mostly ers here collected samples of 26 fever. He also said that asymp- claimed 19 lives in he country. 1! niqué from the National Health includes people who have trav- suspects and the lab test reports tomatic carriers of the virus Coronavirus – a mysteri- Mission (NHM) said. On the eled from foreign countries, of 22 of them came out nega- may pass on the disease to ous virus that was first report- other hand, a whopping 73,000 sources in NHM said. Out of tive, the NHM said in an offi- other people, and therefore, the ed in Wuhan City of China – odd emigrates with travel his- the 911 passengers under sur- cial statement issued on administration must put every has spread to most of the #I NO tory to different affected States veillance, 163 have completed Saturday evening. Some doc- traveler under strict surveil- European nations and claimed in India were kept in home- their observation period of 28 tors have also raised concerns lance. several thousand lives. quarantine across Jharkhand, it and came out asymptomatic, over the lack of testing facilities Meanwhile, the State has It has also wreaked havoc 4 3" ! ( Also order has been added. health officials said. in Jharkhand. They said that set up isolation wards with a on USA – a country that has far ! issued to operate petrol pump While Jharkhand is among The number of travelers the lack of testing could be a total of 1469 beds across better health facilities than eputy Commissioner, !" . daily from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm the few States that have not identified in Jharkhand wit- reason for no reportage of pos- Jharkhand. The figures include India. DBokaro Mukesh Kumar . " while delivering fuel all to reported even a single case of nessed an over 50 per cent itive cases.The President of the beds in Government hos- has instructed all the Block maintain a safe distance to Development Officers and ! "! ! ! prevent possible infection Zonal Officers to enlist and ! ! spread. place in home quarantine all " !" ! ! A round circle has been the people of Jharkhand are ! made outside all the shops returning to their villages. ! #! ( and ATMs under Chas Regular checkup of all such Municipal Corporation so > persons is necessary and pri- & &'. " that same will not allow peo- mary health check-up of the ! ! ple to come in contact with 4 3" neighbourhood and TV wood, print art have been in 4 3" person and take action to % / each other, nor will there be throughout the day and in the media for the past 22 check them out if symptoms & + gathering. Municipal n a bid to engage children this uncertainty, they are years and he has held 26 solo tate government of Saturday appear, he said. % ! Commissioner Shashi Iin constructive activities unknowingly getting and 125 art exhibitions Sissued notification making Kumar directed the offi- Prakash Jha has called a meet- during the lockdown period a involved. Children from class abroad so far. His paintings 1987 batch IAS officer Sukhdeo cers to take necessary action % ! ! ing with e-rickshaw drivers to painting competition is being one to eight can send their and ceramics are installed in Singh as the new Chief by conducting a special cam- make home delivery of the organised in the State by paintings through April 20 many important art museums Secretary of Jharkhand. Singh paign preparing the list of all material. noted tribal expert and writer through WahtsApp no. of the world - National was posted as Development such persons and identifying ensure regular sanitisation in DC Mukesh Kumar and from Jharkhand Subhashish 8983699900. The paintings Gandhi Museum - Delhi, Commissioner with addition- the symptoms of their possi- their respective areas by SP Sujata Kumari Veenapani Chakraverty. Chakraverty will be selected by noted Ministry of External Affairs - al charge of Additional CS of when incumbent CS Dr DK ble diseases prepare provide tankers and other means. inspected various Road inter- said that at this time there is painter Siraj Saxena. Three India, All India Radio, Press Home, Prisons and Disaster Tiwari will retire from his post. detailed information to Civil He asked all to ensure that sections and markets in the a need to maintain positive selected paintings will be Trust of India, Rothko Art Management and Commercial The government also Surgeon. there is no congestion, espe- city .During the inspection it thinking among the children felicitated and the winner Center - Latvia, England Art Taxes departments along with transferred and posted 1994 Kumar also instructed the cially in areas where there is was found all the shops and as the children will also only will be presented with an art- Center - Poland, Otto Neymar MD of GRDA.According to the batch IAS officer Rajeev Arun management of all public sec- excessive congestion. Sanitize the market were closed & hear about the Corona disas- work signed by Siraj Saxena, Hostin Museum - Germany notification the posting will be Ekka as Principal Secretary to tor undertakings and private people and provide reports directed administration for ter through their parents, whose paintings, ceramics, etc. effective from April 01, 2020, the Chief Minister. companies in the district to regularly. strict compliances of order. 1( > %3 3
1; 4; panies to ensure regular sani- and distributing food grains, people to stay home, keep vent coronavirus infection and ( (( tation by spraying phenyl, san- Bitten Rice (Chiwda) Jaggery social distance, wash your possible epidemics all petrol eputy Commissioner itizers in their respective areas (Gur) in Chaliatand village of hands continuously with soap pumps have been asked to DBokaro including other by tankers and other Badki Chindari Panchayat and or handwash, consume hot operate daily from 8:00 am to district administrative officials means.DC along with in Chatro Chatti among the beverages. In the case of non- 4:00 pm. 2 ; O from Friday in Palamu. target to reach cooked food to have stepped up for a contri- Superintendent of Police poor.DC also visited Birhor's (a compliance with the lockdown The order issued for the Khichdi was prepared right in 150 while for smaller ones it bution to fighting coronavirus Bokaro Sujata Kumari primitive tribe) village at guidelines issued for the pre- petrol pump will not apply to alamu police give knock- the premise of the town police is 100. Town, Chainpur, pandemic. Veenapani visited in the Jhumra and distributed food vention of coronavirus, strict those petrol pumps located on Pings at poor people’s house station Daltonganj on Friday Ramgarh, Satbarwa P,S etc Deputy Commissioner remote areas of Gomia block grains among them. DC urged action would be taken. To pre- the National Highway. to give them cooked food. which was monitored by have started giving cooked Mukesh Kumar has given an The poor man at his door SDPO Sadar Sandip Kumar food at the door steps of the assistance of Rs 21000 to the steps just blinks his eyes in Gupta and overseen by the poor.”Gupta said “ Under District Disaster Fund through sheer bewilderment and officer in charge Anand directive of SP Linda we have a check from his personal ecstasy to find cops’ hands Kumar Mishra. put our men to identify vul- account while Deputy carrying cooked food for Linda said, “Friday was a nerable groups of people and Development Commissioner them. takeoff day of outreaching their localities who have food Ravi Ranjan Mishra given Rs Until recently a police cooked food by cops to the crisis as this group will be 15000, Additional Collector knocking meant either ‘hunt’ poor and from today Saturday taken care of by us on prior- Vijay Gupta 15000, Director for the fugitive or to serve it will be further fine tuned in. ity.” DPLR Pashupati Nath Mishra warrant or to pick up the Our cops are all determined SDPO Hussainabad Vijay 15000, Sub-Divisional Officer accused. But this time it is hot to serve the poor.”Linda said, Kumar said, “Cops are reach- Chas Shashi Prakash Singh cooked fresh food from cops “Our cops reached food to ing cooked food to poor liv- have also donated Rs. 15000 in to poor. Mushar Tola the overlooked ing in Ravidas Mohalla about the District Disaster Relief This makeover of face of hamlet of this civilization 7 Kms away from Japla police Fund.In this lock-down peri- police here is all for a direc- where our cooked food was station. Haidernagar, od common people will not tive of DGP M V Rao who in relished by the poor and one Mohammadganj police sta- have to suffer, said Mukesh. He one of his tweets has asked woman there even collected it tions too are doing the same appealed from mass to coop- cops to give all help like food in her utensil for her family to work for the poor.” erate for a noble cause. to destitute, homeless, sick consume.” Chhaterpur SDPO Anyone can contribute and those also who cannot He said, “Cops are giving Shambhu Kumar Singh, either through Cash or Cheque buy food for them. good quantity cooked food. It “Brother of a rescued naxal in a bid to do his bit and help SP Palamu Ajay Linda is not that only a few morsels girl telephoned me from those who are in need."District and his team Sandip Kr are there. It is so sufficient Bangaluru seeking my advice Cooperative Officer Rakesh Gupta, Vijay Kumar and that our given cooked food if he can start coming on foot Kumar can be contacted on Shambhu Kr Singh and oth- can be a meal next time also from Bangaluru to Palamu in mobile no. 7004499896 for ers are right on it following for one or two members of the this time of distress to which assistance," he said.The DC the tweet of the DGP. Cops family.”SDPO Gupta said, I asked him to stay where he instructed to all public sector began to serve food right “Big police stations have set a is there.” undertakings and private com- + ,-. ,/,/ !1 7 ! .(!( >9.( 2 ( P%( * Q
0,8 1 --23" The BRO is the lead con- from leave from various States,” !(/$ 3# struction agency to build he said. together for evidence-based otwithstanding the threat strategically important roads all As regards the ongoing research. ! --23" presidents, General Secretaries, Nof COVID-19, the Border along the LOC and LAC in efforts to fight the pandemic, Interacting with AYUSH senior office bearers, MPs , Roads Organisation (BRO) inhospitable terrain and he said 28 Service Hospitals professionals from around the * JP president J P Nadda on MLAs and district presidents of personnel are working relent- inclement weather. At present, were earmarked as COVID country through video confer- BSaturday announced that all West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, lessly to completely replace the BRO is entrusted with the hospitals for managing purely encing, the Prime Minister party MPs will release 1crore Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, Daporijo bridge (430 feet responsibility of constructing Corona virus cases. This will said that there role has from their annual develop- and sought them to make the Multi-Span Bailey Bridge), the 72 strategic roads mostly in include Armed Forces as well --23" increased manifold in the ment fund to the Central relief food distribution a success. He only lifeline of Upper Subansiri states having the LAC facing as civilian patients transferred ongoing efforts to tackle fund to fight coronavirus pan- said not a single person should district, Arunachal Pradesh China. from state health authorities, in aintaining that the coun- COVID-19. demic even as he, through a be left hungry “in this hour of to restore Lines of Given this backdrop, the case their capacity is over- Mtry must be ready to use He also observed that the --23" video-conferencing, spoke to crisis”. Communication for all 451 vil- BRO in the northern part of whelmed. the entire healthcare work- network of AYUSH practi- State BJP presidents of West BJP General Secretary lages and security forces locat- the country is presently Banerji also said as of now, force to meet the Covid-19 tioners is spread throughout he Prime Minister also Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Andhra (Organization) B L Santosh was ed along the Line of Actual engaged in snow clearance there are five hospitals across challenge, Prime Minister the length and breadth of the Tinteracted with Chhaya, a Pradesh and Karnataka and present during the meeting. Control(LAC)facing China. operations on Manali - Leh Army, Navy and Air Force Narendra Modi on Saturday country and "it is imperative for nurse of Pune’s Naidu hospi- reviewed party’s programme to Nadda asked BJP workers The armed forces have axis, day and night despite which can carry out COVID asked Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, them to utilise this network, tal, to applaud frontline coro- feed five crore people daily. to help out administration of also activated isolation wards inclement weather and COVID test. These include Army Siddha and Homeopathy while working according to na warriors like her and a Nadda, who announced BJP respective states in the conduct near the LAC and the Line of 19 threat to provide relief to Hospital Research and Referral, (AYUSH) professionals to be in WHO guidelines, to spread medical student from parliamentarians’ contribution of transportation and enforce- Control(LOC) facing Pakistan Lahaul valley and Ladakh in an Delhi; Command Hospital Air all readiness so that if the need the message of good practices Kashmir, Nizam, who was of 1crore through MPLADS ment of lockdown as also assist to deal with any case of the earlier time frame. Presently, Force, Bangalore and Armed arises, help from private doc- which need to be adopted in rescued from Wuhan, to (Member of Parliament Local people who are self-quaran- pandemic. The Army may Rohtang Pass and Baralachala Forces Medical College, Pune; tors connected with alternative the efforts to control the spread know his experience and take Area Development Scheme) tined. BJP has an estimated 11 also recall retired personnel Pass are being cleared by four Command Hospital (Central medicine system may be of the virus." feedback about the fund, also said that all party MPs crore of workers and is thus also with medical expertise if a snow clearance teams. This is Command) Lucknow; sought by the Government. Last week, the Union Government’s assistance to and MLAs will donate their one recognized as the largest party need arises to shore up the first time, BRO personnel Command Hospital (Northern Currently, there are Cabinet had approved the him and 60 other students month salary as well towards in the world. A week before the resources. were inducted by air to Sarchu Command) Udhampur. Six 7,99,879 AYUSH professionals inclusion of AYUSH Health along with him. country’s fight against the pan- lockdown, BJP had cancelled its Giving details of the BRO to carry out snow clearance of more hospitals are being from various streams across the and Wellness Centre (AYUSH demic. all programmes across the undertaking the mission to mighty Baralachala Pass from equipped shortly with the States. It has been observed that HWC) component of could utilise their resources "All MPs & MLAs of country. construct the bridge, officials Sarchu side. resources to begin testing. Indian rural health system is Ayushman Bharat in the towards producing essential Bharatiya Janata Party will BJP president appreciated said here on Saturday more In a connected issue, On the availability of totally dependent on ayush National AYUSH Mission items like sanitisers which are donate their one month remu- union health ministry’s estab- than 100 personnel of 23 Director General Armed Personal Protective Equipment practitioners and Government (NAM). It aimed at establish- in high demand and exhorted neration/salary to the central lishment of a task force, pur- BRTF/Project Arunank, on Forces Medical (PPE), the AFMS chief said it hospitals. ing a holistic wellness model them to utilise the platform of relief fund to support the fight chase order of 40,000 new ven- special request from the local Services(AFMS) Lt General is a challenge at national as well The National Health Policy based on AYUSH principles telemedicine to reach out to against Covid19. All MPs of BJP tilator , five lakh antibody kit administration, is working in Anup Banerji said here isola- as global level, adding that 2017 has already advocated and practices focusing on pre- the public and generate con- will release Rs 1 crore from their through ICMR and seven lakh full swing in spite of the dilap- tion wards at peripheral hos- advisory for rational usage of mainstreaming the potential of ventive, promotive, curative, stant awareness to fight the MPLADS fund to the central RNA kit and described it as pos- idated state of the existing pitals were activated at Army PPE has been issued to the AYUSH systems within a plu- rehabilitative and palliative pandemic. He also highlight- relief fund in support to fight itive step. Modi-government bridge. formations along LOC and Services. ralistic system of Integrative healthcare by integration with ed the importance of enforc- against Covid-19," he said in his has made provision of 15,000 They said the BRO is LAC. “The AFMS is presently healthcare. the existing public health care ing social distancing with full tweet. crore to deal with COVID-19. committed to opening this Moreover, “Intensive infor- geared up with adequate PPEs Interacting with AYUSH system. vigour to counter the spread of The party at present has 386 Nadda highlighted Prime vital line of communication by mation, education and com- for use in our hospitals. professionals, he also under- Modi also praised the the pandemic. MPs — 303 in Lok Sabha and Minister’s “statesmanship” dur- planned date, with all necessary munication campaigns are Additional procurement is also lined the importance of coun- AYUSH Ministry in promot- The AYUSH practitioners 83 in Rajya Sabha. An MP gets ing the crisis and his precautionary measures. This going on for serving personnel. being planned to tide over cri- tering and fact-checking ing yoga at home to de-stress also lauded the Prime Minister 5 crore every year as part of meetings with every section of bridge will ensure uninter- Leave extension of those on sis foreseen during the coming unsubstantiated claims of the mind and strengthen the for leading the country's fight the MPLADS. society and in this series recalled rupted supplies like food and leave as well as curtailment of weeks and months since the AYUSH having cure for the body during this difficult against COVID-19 and talked Nadda through videocon- his videoconferencing with the ammunition to the soldiers leave to bare minimum have Armed Forces have been disease. He asked AYUSH sci- phase. about the impact of these tra- ferencing reviewed party’s editors of print and electronic deployed on the LAC besides been imposed. Segregation directed to augment medical entists, ICMR, CSIR and other Modi also suggested that ditional practices towards cooked food distribution pro- media as also with RJs (radio catering to the needs of the facilities have been set up to resources for the civil health set research organisations to come AYUSH medicine producers boosting immunity. gramme by speaking to state jockeys). local population, sources said. observe troops already back up also,” he added. ! ; ! - % % O --23" --23" ensure that "insensitivity and human rights violations," she brute force be replaced by peo- said. ith people and students he Amnesty International ple-friendly measures in bat- Tens of thousands of out- Wstaying indoors ever since Tand the Human Rights tling the pandemic", he said. of-work migrant workers are the beginning of the country Watch (HRW) on Saturday Kumar said India should stranded with rail and bus ser- wide lockdown, there has been urged police forces in the coun- respect and protect the rights vices shut down in the country. an increase of users on the dig- try to act with restraint while of those under quarantine and "Police actions to punish those ital platforms of education. maintaining law and order ensure that their basic needs are violating orders have reportedly According to the HRD during the coronavirus lock- met, including adequate shel- resulted in abuses against peo- --23" Ministry, the digital education down. ter, food, water and sanitation. ple in need," she alleged. initiatives have registered an The lockdown has left mil- HRW South Asia director "Indian police should be he Congress on Saturday increase in users and HRD lions stranded, struggling to Meenakshi Ganguly too urged ordered to act with restraint Tconstituted a task force to Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal search for food and water, Indian authorities to while enforcing the lockdown. intensify efforts of party- Nishank said that the access to Amnesty International India ensure that everyone has access In several states, photos and ruled States to deal with the the National Online Education (AII) executive director to food and medical care, and videos show police beating situation due to COVID-19 Platform SWAYAM and other Avinash Kumar said in a state- that the poor and margin- people who are trying to get and help mitigate the suffer- Digital Initiatives has tripled in ment. "Unfortunately for these alised are not mistreated or essential supplies. In West ings of people. the last one week. people, a state machinery has stigmatised. Bengal, The task force includes The increase in the users is become a larger threat than the "The Indian Government's police allegedly beat a 32- former Union Ministers P also because of the provision of COVID-19 pandemic," he said. responsibility to protect its year-old man to death, after he Chidambaram, Jairam free access. Earlier the courses on This is "unfortunate" and people from the outbreak stepped out of his home to get Ramesh, M Veerappa Moily SWAYAM were time bound and the Indian Government must should not come at the cost of milk," she said. and Tamradhwaj Sahu. --23" Government was reviewing made. “If you go out, you are students needed to register in A statement from the the situation on a daily basis. inviting trouble… Long walk of advance. AICC said that the Congress nion Minister Ravishankar Prime Minister Narandra 500 km is not acceptable,” he The SWAYAM courses can president Sonia Gandhi has UPrasad on Saturday said he Modi has tasked all in the said. now be viewed by any learner A1< D@ constituted a task force to would advise corporate and government to take a specific The Minister said he has free of cost without any regis- intensify the efforts business houses, which have responsibility and spoken to all personally spoken to 19 District tration. About 50,000 people of Congress-ruled State their factories or premises Chief Ministers and bodies of magistrates and SPs in Bihar have accessed SWAYAM since Governments to deal with along the highways or road- pharmacist and doctors, he and has been told by them that March 23, 2020. This is over and the situation prevailing on sides, to provide help to said adding constant supervi- all migrant workers who have above the 25 lakh students/learn- account of COVID-19, in a migrant workers on the move sion is being made as to how come from abroad and outside ers who are already enrolled in coordinated manner. in the wake of coronavirus masks, ventilators or other Bihar have been quarantined. the 571 courses of the January ! foodgrains through Public The members of the task 2 ; shutdown. medical equipments are being Prasad said the Uttar 2020 semester of SWAYAM. distribution system (PDS), force will start work immedi- “If any India corporates purchased. Pradesh Government has SWYAM has about 1900 cours- " !" ! ! Awasthi said that of the 3.23 ately with the have factories or premises On why the Government opened community kitchens at es which can be accessed by peo- eclaring that no one would crore ration cards in the State, respective Congress-ruled along roads in Delhi, UP or did not envisage workers’ exo- different places to provide sup- ple in over 60 countries. The Ddie of hunger in Uttar ! ( & 1.94 crore had been given food- State Governments to Bihar, I would advise them to dus and make arrangements port to labourers on the road- videos of the SWAYAM Prabha Pradesh, Additional Chief " grains so far and 70 lakh below ensure that the daily distress make arrangement for their while it airlifted Indians from sides. He said all States includ- DTH TV channels are viewed by Secretary (Home) Awanish . !& poverty line (BPL) card holders and food and shelter after isolating abroad, Prasad said if workers ing Rajasthan and Madhya around 50,000 people every day. Awasthi said that community ! had been given free ration. suffering of people is miti- them,” said Prasad even as he had stayed back provisioning Pradesh were cooperating and The National Digital Library is kitchen and doorstep delivery ! ! The additional chief gated, the statement said. pointed out that the for food would have been working in unison. now being accessed by about of food items had eased the sit- " ! secretary said that 58,552 gram "P Chidambaram, Jairam 43,000 people daily which is uation with the masses getting ! pradhans were contacted Ramesh, Tamradhwaj Sahu more than double of the usual essential commodities at home. ! % ! through the CM Helpline along and Veerappa Moily, i.e, the number of persons accessing it. “Community kitchens have with 11,000 counsellors to make chairmen of respective man- // % + The Education portals of started serving people who are them aware about the facilities. ifesto implementation NCERT like Diksha, e-pathasala, poor and have lost employment Besides, he said, 11,900 committees in the 2 ; members, Additional Chief sider the release of convicts on NROER and NIOS and the due to the lockdown. Till date, could take care of their needs. complaints received on CM Congress-ruled States will be Secretary (Home) Awanish parole, whose punishment was other ICT initiatives like 527 kitchens are functioning Awasthi said that doorstep Helpine 1,076 were resolved. its members," the he Uttar Pradesh Awasthi and DG (Jails) Anand not of more than seven years, Robotics education (e-Yantra), and catering to 1.37 lakh peo- delivery of food items had been Giving details of the action Congress communication TGovernment ordered the Kumar made the recommen- so that the jails could be saved Open Source Software for ple,” Awasthi told media a success as the number of taken against people for violat- added. release of around 11,000 con- dation to the Government from overcrowding to prevent Education (FOSSEE), Virtual persons in Lucknow on delivery vans had gone up to ing lockdown, Awasthi said The Congress has been victs and undertrials housed in which was approved by Chief the spread of virus among experiments (Virtual Labs) and Saturday. 26,298. that 4,642 FIRs were criticising the Centre for not 72 jails of the State to ease over- Minister Yogi Adityanath on prisoners. Learning programming (Spoken The additional chief secre- “Besides, the government registered against 14,115 initiating enough measures to crowding and thereby prevent Saturday. As per officials, undertrials tutorial) are also experiencing tary said that people who were has roped in 8,833 provision accused under Section 188 of mitigate the sufferings of the the spread of coronavirus. Of the prisoners to be would be given bail for eight very large access rates. on roads were being fed at every stores to deliver products at the Indian poor and marginalised, who A high-level committee released are 8,500 under- trials weeks on personal bonds while National Book Trust too place even as Chief Minister homes while 8,852 vans are Penal Code. are facing hardships in view of headed by senior judge of and 2,500 convicts. the convicts would be given has opened for free downloads Yogi Adityanath exhorted being used for supply of over 15 Besides, he said, 24 FIRs the countrywide Allahabad High Court, Justice Earlier, the Supreme Court parole for eight weeks in a sim- of several titles in the last one them to stay at one place so that lakh litres of milk,” he said. were registered against traders lockdown declared by the Pankaj Kumar Jaiswal, and two had ordered all states to con- ilar manner. week. the district authorities Talking about the supply of selling products at higher rates. 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4 --23" tioning partially and fully up by the Agricultural Produce etables and fruits that is per- Binod Pandey of All India ministry said that in Haryana, tioning. Grain market, vegeta- The agriculture ministry despite the shortage of labour- Marketing Committee’s ishable. Kisan Mahasanghthan said that most of the APMCs have been bles, onion-potato all have says there is no scarcity of veg- iven the mass exodus of ers. There are 6,900 mandis in (APMCs) have adopted a Yudhvir Singh of Bharatiya at a time when APMCs are closed. Some of them are resumed operations with stag- etables and fruits in man- Glabourers due to the the country. method to avoid market yards Kisan Sangh, claimed that most closed and supply chains are opened but facing uphill tasks gered timing for loading, dis.The grain mandis get acti- nationwide lockdown, farmers Farmers across the country and sell their produces from of the APMCs are closed at all disrupted, the off-market sales due to shortage of labourers. unloading and traders. vated during the time of har- of Punjab and Haryana are are in panic because the ripen- their doorstep. Several farmers major markets. “There are model may rescue many farm- In Gujarat, There was con- According to officials of vest. Right now, the focus is on exploring the option of 'off- ing fruits and vegetables will rot have started to sell their prod- restrictions regarding the ers, who are often found off- fusions as grain APMCs has Ministry of Agriculture, over vegetable and fruit mandis. market' sale or what they call because mandi operations have ucts from the farm and start- movement also. So in a sce- guard and are vulnerable in been told to open markets on 2,000 wholesale mandis have To normalise supply in major it as 'sell-from-farm'. For its almost stopped, and labour ed supplying through their nario like this, the farmers times of natural calamities or Thursday, but on Friday said started functioning after the cities, the Centre has asked part, the Maharashtra cannot reach farms due to tractors. have no option but to sit at market-driven fluctuations. that they had spoken to farm- nationwide lockdown across Mother Dairy's Safal vegetable Government has asked farmers transport bottlenecks. According to farmers, loss- home with their produce lying “Therefore, more and more ers and traders, with all of them the country. In Azadpur outlets in Delhi, Sufal Bangla to form groups to sell vegeta- Marketing of produce is now es will mount because it is har- on the field. Therefore, more farmers are now resorting to having agreed to resume on mandi, which is Asia’s largest retail outlets in Kolkata, bles and other essential items becoming a challenge for the vest time for grapes, water- and more farmers are now this mode of trade because they April subzi mandi also are opened. Hopcoms retail outlets in directly to consumers during farmers. Officials of Haryana melons, bananas, muskmelon, resorting to this mode of trade need money immediately so 2. In Mumbai, several There is no shortage of veg- Bengaluru and similar outlets the lockdown and to allow Agriculture Department said chana, cotton, chillies, turmer- because they need money that by March end, they can restrictions have been imposed etables and fruits but there is no in Chennai and Mumbai to farmers to ferry the produce. that farmers who usually sell ic, jeera, coriander, onion and immediately so that by March repay their loan obligations”, on mandis to avoid gatherings. labour. Several trucks of farm- monitor movement of sup- Presently, 1,600- 1,800 whole- their crops through an estab- potato. Farmers are more con- end, they can repay their loan Pandey added. However, most mandis dealing ers come to Azadpur on plies and coordinate with local sale mandis have started func- lished supply chain that was set cern about dispose of their veg- obligations," Singh added. Officials of agriculture in essentials have started func- Saturday. administration. ! 2 + ,-. ,/,/ :+0
1 # " 9$0',R +(90' 1+#"+ / " " < 1 ( # # Beijing: In a rare display of public anger in China, dozens of people in central Hubei province, the epicentre of the O;3-1 4 coronavirus outbreak till recently, attacked official vehicles " after they were stopped from crossing a bridge and travel olice fired tear gas at a crowd of to neighbouring Jiangxi after the lifting of the lockdown. PKenyan ferry commuters as the Edinburgh: 3D printer owners ject to create face shields for the Hubei province with over 56 million people was kept country’s first day of a coronavirus across Britain have answered NHS,” digital artist and 3D under lockdown from January 23 as part of aggressive mea- curfew slid into chaos. Elsewhere, the call of health leaders by printer owner Seb Lee-Delisle sures to bring down COVID-19 cases which rapidly spread officers were captured in mobile teaming up to produce thou- told AFP. in the area. phone footage whacking people sands of face visors to protect “We literally set it up on Videos on Chinese social media on Friday showed with batons. medical workers from being Monday and by now we have unprecedented scenes of police from Hubei and Jiangxi Virus prevention measures have infected with coronavirus. got hundreds and hundreds of clashing on the bridge connecting the two provinces over taken a violent turn in parts of Africa The project, known as people involved.” The shortage barricades erected from stopping Hubei people from mov- as countries impose lockdowns and 3DCrowdUK, launched on of masks arose after factories in ing out over fears of coronavirus spreading. curfews or seal off major cities. Monday after medical institu- China closed due to the spread Policemen from both sides argued over how to verify Health experts say the virus’ spread, tions raised the alarm about of the coronavirus in January if people were allowed to enter Jiangxi, according to local though still at an early stage on the potential equipment shortages and February. media reports. It was a major relief for millions of people continent, resembles that of Europe, due to the closure of supply fac- The masks are easy to in Hubei province, when the Chinese Hovernment which adding to widespread anxiety. Cases tories affected by the virus. assemble. Once the 3D print- kept it under lockdown lifted the restrictions on travel. across Africa were set to jump above “We are basically getting all ers have created the headband, The Government will permitted people from the 4,000 on Saturday. the people around the country a plastic film is placed on the province to travel if they hold a green health code, mean- Abuses of the new who have 3D printers and front and elastic attached the ing no contact with any infected or suspected COVID-19 measures by authorities are an we’re enlisting them in our pro- back to hold it in place. AFP cases. PTI immediate concern. 5 # . " ! < -A;4 to 7,502.38, Xinhua news agency there were 94,238 confirmed previous week’s revised level, reported. 10 of the 11 primary cases in the United States, with the Department of Labor 4=<< S stocks ended signifi- S&P 500 sectors traded lower, 1,438 deaths, data from the uni- reported Thursday. The read- Ucantly lower amid the fast- with energy down 6.93 per versity’s Centre for Systems ing easily crushed the previous Lahore: Former Prime growing spread of coronavirus cent, becoming the worst-per- Science and Engineering record rise of 695,000 in Minister Nawaz Sharif, who is in the country. forming group. Utilities climbed showed. A shocking number of October 1982. set to undergo a heart proce- On Friday, the Dow Jones 0.53 per cent, the only gainer Americans applied for jobless Following a Senate dure next week in London, has Industrial Average slumped among the sectors. benefits last week due to the approval earlier this week, the been summoned by 34-yr-old & 915.39 points, or 4.06 per cent, The US became the coun- coronavirus outbreak. US House of Representatives anti-graft body to appear before + to 21,636.78. The S&P 500 try with the most COVID-19 US initial jobless claims, a on Friday passed a US $2 tril- it on March 31 for allegedly decreased 88.60 points, or 3.37 cases worldwide on Thursday, rough way to measure layoffs, lion COVID-19 stimulus pack- misusing his power in a land / per cent, to 2,541.47. The according to Johns Hopkins were registered at 3,283,000 in age by voice vote, sending it to case when he was chief minis- & Nasdaq Composite Index shed University. As of 2 pm Eastern the week ending March 21, an President Donald Trump for ter of Punjab province in 1986. 295.16 points, or 3.79 per cent, Time on Friday (1800 GMT), increase of 3,001,000 from the signature. PTI ( & / / %** !01234
) )1" and knowledge management and training of health workers n one of the biggest gestures $ plus the general public. Iof corporate benevolence, He said Tata Trusts, Tata / . the Tata Trusts on Saturday Mumbai: Tata Sons announced an additional Rs 1,000 crore sup- Sons and Tata Group compa- announced an amount of Rs port towards fighting COVID 19. This is in addition to the Rs nies are joined by committed --23" ternity deserves recognition 500 crore to fight the COVID- 500 crore announced by the Tata Trusts. local and global partners and and thanks for their tireless and 19 pandemic raging around the N Chandrasekharan, Chairman Tata Sons said, “The current the government to fight this auding efforts of bankers in brave efforts to ensure that world. Tata Trusts Chairman situation in India and other parts of the world owing to the impact crisis on a united public health Lthis difficult time, Finance banking services continue in Ratan N Tata said the current of COVID 19 is very worrisome and requires our very best action.” collaboration platform which Minister Nirmala Sitharaman these adverse times and that situation in India and across will strive to reach sections that on Saturday said that she will every customer is reached in a the world is of grave concern of the toughest challenges the for personal protective equip- are underprivileged and speak to all banks to facilitate timely and safe manner,” she and needs immediate action. human race will face,” Tata said. ment for the medical person- deprived. “We are deeply grate- cash flow and enable timely said. Appreciating efforts of “In this exceptionally dif- He made a pledge to pro- nel on the frontlines, respira- ful and have immense respect access to all. bankers, she said, “Bank offi- ficult period, I believe that tect and empower all affected tory systems for treating for every person of member She also assured that she cials and staff have consistent- urgent emergency resources communities with a commit- increasing cases, testing kits to organisations who have risked will talk to states and ensure ly been on the frontline in pro- need to be deployed to cope ment of Rs 500 crore for wag- increase per capita testing, set- their lives and safety to fight this that there are no restrictions in viding services to customers with the needs of fighting the ing the “war against virus”. ting up modular treatment pandemic,” Tata said in a state- the movement of cash, bankers, during this time of adversity, COVID-19 crisis, which is one The amount would be used facilities for infected patients, ment. vendors or bank mitra. whether it is physically pro- “Appreciate the service viding cash where it is needed Bank Mitra/Banking or keeping branches open no ! $ $ Correspondents are undertak- matter what”. ing across the country. Will talk According to Indian Banks’ !!+ +9 : to states — request no restric- Association (IBA), 1,05,988 tions in their movements. Will bank branches across the coun- New Delhi: Automobile man- duced and sold by them”, the 788 speak to all banks to facilitate try were operational on Friday. ufacturer Maruti Suzuki India company said in a statement. 9$ 1#*& cash flow. Let’s ensure timely However, banks are closed on on Saturday said it has entered “MSIL would use its sup- / "09 access to all,” the Finance Saturday and Sunday. into an arrangement with AgVa pliers to produce the required Minister said in a series of Meanwhile, IBA has Healthcare to scale up the pro- volume of components and New Delhi: Mother Dairy has tweets. It is to be noted that the appealed to customers to strict- duction of ventilators. use its experience and knowl- doubled its supply of fruits and New Delhi: Debt-ridden tele- Government earlier this week ly observe social distancing According to the company, edge to upgrade systems for the vegetables in Delhi-NCR at com operators are likely to announced a slew of measures, and avoid visiting branches through this arrangement it production and quality control over 300 tonne per day to opt for three-month moratori- including direct benefit trans- unless very necessary. Avoid intends to reach a volume of of the higher volumes. meet the rising demand amid um to avoid cash crunch dur- fer of cash assistance to poor, touching counters, common 10,000 units per month. MSIL would also help to the nationwide lockdown even ing the lockdown, industry old age people and disabled, for places by maintaining proper “A g Va He a l t h c a r e w o u l d b e arrange financing and obtain as it faces some logistics chal- body Cellular Operators mitigating hardship posed by distance from staff before and responsible for the technology, all permissions and approvals lenges, a senior company offi- Association of India (COAI) outbreak of coronavirus. after physical transactions, IBA performance and related mat- required to enable the higher cial said. said on Saturday. “The entire banking fra- said. ters for all the ventilators pro- production. IANS “Before the lockdown, we The telecom operators have used to supply 160-180 tonne spoken in favour of raising of fruits and vegetables per day mobile call and internet rates at 67 -! P *%& in Delhi-NCR through our the earliest, however, they will Safal retail stores. Now, we are keep the prices stable during 2!'6 supplying more than 300 tonne the lockdown period, COAI > every day,” said Pradipta Sahoo, DG Rajan S Mathews told PTI. business head of Safal. “There is debt of around Rs <? : On Friday, Mother Dairy 1.6-2 lakh crore that telecom New Delhi: SRL Diagnostics supplied 320 tonne, he said operators owe to Indian banks. on Saturday said Indian New Delhi: Public procure- adding the company could They will opt three-month New Delhi: Infosys on Friday Council of Medical Research ment portal GeM has created --23" increase it to up to 400 tonne moratorium in loan repay- said it has terminated the ser- (ICMR) has allowed their two a dedicated page on its platform per day. ment to help them maintain vices of the employee who had clinical reference labs, at for medical and protective yundai Motor India He pointed that there are cash flow. It is a relief for made an “inappropriate post” Mumbai and Gurgaon, to con- equipment like thermal scan- HFoundation (HMIF), the logistics challenges like short- them,” Mathews said. on social media related to the duct tests for COVID-19. ners, biohazard bags and dis- CSR arm of Hyundai Motor age of labourers and trans- COAI also allayed fear of coronovirus outbreak. “We feel honoured that infectants to help the India, on Saturday said it is portation issues but the com- hike in tariff by the telecom Infosys, in a tweet from its ICMR has chosen two SRL Government fight Covid-19 ordering advanced diagnostic pany is managing. operators. official handle, said social media clinical reference labs, based at pandemic, an official said. testing kits for coronavirus PTI PTI post by the employee is against Mumbai and Gurgaon, to con- It has created several cate- infection from South Korea as its code of conduct and its com- duct these tests and we intend gories for medical supplies part of its measures to combat 34)5 mitment to responsible social to leave no stones unturned to such as COVID-19 sample col- the pandemic. sharing. “Infosys has completed further strengthen the diagno- lection kit, reusable vinyl/rub- These advanced kits have a its investigation on the social sis and help prevent propagation ber gloves (cleaning), eye pro- very high level of accuracy and media post by one of its employ- of this disease in our country,” tection (visor/goggles), dis- can help serve over 25,000 % ees, and we believe that this is SRL Diagnostics CEO Arindam posable thermometers, single people, Hyundai Motor India ;9">/? not a case of mistaken identity,” Haldar said in a statement. use towels, thermal scanner, Ltd ( HMIL) said in a state- %! !&/! it noted. 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April 20. meet an exodus of migrant called for 4,000 more tempo- The latest landmark came Spain, where stay-at-home workers desperately trying to rary beds across New York only two days after the world restrictions have been in place reach their home villages dur- City, where the Jacob K. Javits passed half a million infections, for nearly two weeks, reported ing the world’s largest lock- Convention Center has already according to a tally by John 832 more deaths on Saturday, down. been converted into a hospital. Hopkins University, showing its highest daily total yet, bring- Thousands of people had The struggle to defeat the that much work remains to be ing its total to 5,690. Another fled their New Delhi homes virus will take “weeks and done to slow the spread of the 8,000 confirmed infections after Prime Minister Narendra weeks and weeks,” Cuomo told virus. It showed more than pushed that count above Modi announced a 21-day members of the National 6,07,000 cases and a total of 72,000. lockdown that began on Guard working at the Javits over 28,000 deaths. Doctors, nurses and ambu- Wednesday and effectively put Center. While the US now leads lance drivers in its worst-hit millions of Indians who live off President Donald Trump the world in reported infections regions are falling ill at an daily earnings out of work. invoked the Defense — with more than 1,04,000 alarming rate and working In parts of Africa, virus Production Act on Friday, cases — five countries exceed nonstop. More than 9,000 prevention measures have ordering General Motors to its roughly 1,700 deaths: Italy, health workers in the country taken a violent turn begin manufacturing ventila- Spain, China, Iran and France. have been infected. as countries impose lockdowns tors. “We cannot completely “We are completely over- and curfews or seal off major Trump signed a $2.2 trillion prevent infections at this stage, whelmed,” said ambulance cities, with police in Kenya fir- stimulus package, after the but we can and must in the medic Pablo Rojo at Barcelona’s ing tear gas and officers else- House approved the sweeping immediate future achieve fewer Dos de Maig hospital. “Seven where captured in mobile measure by voice vote. new infections per day, a slow- or eight (patients transported phone footage whacking peo- Lawmakers in both parties lined er spread,” German Chancellor today) and all with COVID-19. ple with batons. up behind the law to send Angela Merkel, who is in quar- ... And the average age is In the United States, New checks to millions of Americans, antine at home after her doc- decreasing. They’re not 80 + ( + ( York remained the worst-hit boost unemployment benefits, tor tested positive for the virus, years old anymore, they are city, but Americans braced for help businesses and toss a life told her compatriots in an now 30 and 40 years old.” to transport the supplies direct- coronavirus risk evaluation especially older adults and On Friday, British Prime worsening conditions else- preserver to an overwhelmed audio message. “That will “Sometimes you become a ly from China to reduce wait- downgraded from high to medi- people with existing health Minister Boris Johnson became where, with worrisome infec- health care system. decide whether our health sys- bit paranoid, you don’t know ing times. um on Friday. Five districts of problems, the virus can cause the first leader of a major tion numbers being reported in Dr. John Brooks of the US tem can stand up to the virus.” any more when you pick up the As the epicenter has shift- the city of 11 million people had more severe illness, including country to test positive for the New Orleans, Chicago and Centres for Disease Control The virus already has put phone if you have cleaned your ed westward, the situation has other restrictions on travel loos- pneumonia, and lead to death. virus. Detroit. and Prevention warned health systems in Italy, Spain hands, if you’ve sanitized them calmed in China, where some ened after their risk factor was More than 130,000 people He said he would continue New Orleans’ sprawling Americans remained “in the and France under extreme or not. You touch your face restrictions on people’s lives downgraded to low. have recovered, according to to work from self-quarantine. Ernest N. Morial Convention acceleration phase” of the pan- strain. Lockdowns of varying with your hands,” Rojo said. have now been lifted. Six sub- For most people, the coro- Johns Hopkins’ tally. Countries are still scrambling Center, along the Mississippi demic and that all corners of severity have been introduced Spain has struggled to get way lines restored limited ser- navirus causes mild or moder- In one way or another, the bring home some citizens River, was being converted the country were at risk. across Europe, nearly emptying coronavirus tests and protective vice in Wuhan, where the virus ate symptoms, such as fever effects of the COVID-19 out- stranded abroad by border clo- into a massive hospital as offi- “There is no geographic streets in normally bustling gear for health workers. The first emerged in December, and cough that clear up in two break have been felt by the sures and a near-shutdown of cials prepared for thousands part of the United States that is cities, including Paris where government has started flights after the city had its official to three weeks. But for others, powerful and the poor alike. flights. On Saturday, 174 for- more patients than they could spared from this,” he said. $ $ 8 * %45 *, O 5= A-?6 ! % ! % Washington: President Donald Monday at a Manhattan pier a ;9">/?# Trump will send off a naval week after its sister ship, the % % hospital ship on Saturday USNS Mercy arrived in Los Madrid: The death toll from to 72,248 as the country hit region, with 2,757 deaths ! ! /#... before it heads to New York Angeles to preform similar duty coronavirus in Spain surged moves to significantly increase and 21,520 infections, leaving Tokyo: Japanese Prime ! City, as he aims to highlight the on the West Coast. The presi- over 5,600 on Saturday after a testing. hospitals and mortuaries over- Minister Shinzo Abe says the ) federal response to the coron- dent acknowledged that making record 832 people died in 24 Although Spain’s latest whelmed, and the regional country is at a critical stage in I ! avirus pandemic. The USNS the 140-mile trip to Naval hours, and the number of figures showed a daily authorities working to open a dealing with coronavirus infec- %! Comfort, a 1,000-bed hospital Station Norfolk wasn’t necessary, infections soared over 72,000, increase of more than 8,000 second temporary morgue in tions but not at a point to ! ship, had been undergoing but said he was doing it to rec- the government said. cases, the rate of new infec- an unused public building near declare a state of emergency. % ! planned maintenance, but was ognize the work of sailors and Spain has the world’s sec- tions appears to be slowing, the airport to house the dead. Abe says Japan has man- ( rushed back into service to aid medical professionals who ond-highest coronavirus with officials saying the epi- An initial site was opened last aged to keep clusters under ; 4% the city which is now the epi- worked to get the ship out of death toll after Italy with demic appeared to be nearing week at the ice skating rink at control by carefully following %% ! centre of the nation’s outbreak. maintenance more than a week 5,690 fatalities. The number of its peak. the Palacio de Hielo (Ice Palace) infection routes. But the initial % !# It is scheduled to arrive ahead of schedule. AP confirmed cases have jumped Madrid remains the worst- shopping centre. AFP strategy is now having a diffi- ! ! ! ! culty, with a rise of infections !! ! that are no longer traceable -- !> an early sign of infection ,:"&,%$@+-% explosion. ! He says once there is infec- =% ! ! tion overshoot, “our strategy of ! % (%%2 8883A??*/ slowing down the peak of the stay-at-home request to its 14 % % > infections will instantly fall million residents after seeing a % apart.” He adds “under the spike in the number of new ! ! London: The number of coro- symptoms. current situation, we are just cases of the COVID-19 to 41. !# navirus deaths in Britain jumped Their cabinet colleague, barely holding up. But I under- Japan has 2,180 con- %!( by 260 in one day to pass 1,000, Scottish Secretary Alister Jack, stand we are standing on the firmed cases, including 712 J! #/#+.. official data showed on Saturday, revealed on Saturday that he too edge.” Abe convened a taskforce from a cruise ship, with 59 % !# the day after Prime Minister had developed mild symptoms Thursday, the day after Tokyo deaths, according to the O Boris Johnson himself tested and was self-isolating, but had Gov. Yuriko Koike made a Health Ministry. AP # % ! positive. At 5:00pm (1700 GMT) not been tested. ! on Friday, the death toll was In a video message on ! 1,019, up from 759 at the same Friday from Downing Street, % ) 2 time on Thursday, the health where he lives and works, 3 2=!! ministry figures showed. Johnson said he would contin- L ! M As of 9:00am on Saturday, a ue to lead the government’s > % !7? total of 120,776 people in Britain response to the outbreak. ! # had been tested, of whom 17,089 Media reports suggest his ;9">/? were confirmed positive. pregnant partner, Carrie % R6&( Johnson and his health Symonds, who normally lives 2 ! ! ! minister, Matt Hancock, were with him in Downing Street, / 1 (L ! confirmed on Friday to be moved several days ago to the ! %) B ! % among those infected, although couple’s south London home to / ? ( both said they had only mild self-isolate there. AFP % #M ! -% ! 9R 1 # " % ! # ! ( Vatican City: The Vatican says neither = 1 #)!!# Pope Francis nor any of his closest aides are involved with six cases among 4 !1# % Vatican residents or employees who test- ! ed positive for COVID-19. ! ! -% Rio De Janeiro: Even as coronavirus that circulated on social media drew a Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni cases mount in Latin America’s largest rebuke from Monica de Bolle, a Brazilian has confirmed news reports earlier in % %! (L= nation, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for the week that an official of the Holy See’s % % # has staked out the most deliberately dis- International Economics. secretariat of state office tested positive ! % #M missive position of any major world “Do you know what will happen, for the coronavirus. Bruni also has con- ! leader, calling the pandemic a momen- Bolsonaro? Brazil WILL stop. Your irre- firmed that the official lives at the Santa Bruni says more than 170 COVID- O tary, minor problem and saying strong sponsibility will bring thousands to Marta hotel where Pope Francis lodges, 19 tests have been conducted on Vatican ! % *1==, measures to contain it are unnecessary. avoidable deaths,” she tweeted Friday. too. employees and residents of the hotel. Bolsonaro says his response to the “The destroyed lungs of these peo- The health condition of the official The Vatican hasn’t specified if Francis ! ) O disease matches that of President Donald ple, as well as the organs of those who “doesn’t at the moment present any par- was testified. ! B ! Trump in the U.S., but the Brazilian won’t be able to have medical care, will ticular critical” aspects, according to But Bruni added: “I can confirm % ! leader has gone further, labeling the virus fall on your lap. And Brazil will not spare Bruni. 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The job of the them, especially being on the field, coaching staff, as far as I’m con- adjusting from T20s to Test match cerned, is to prepare the guys in the cricket and all the travel that goes O best possible way to be able to go with that because we travelled quite out there and play brave, positive, a lot,” Shastri said. JB3 fearless cricket,” Shastri said. After the World Cup, the Indian Shastri was speaking to former team travelled to the West Indies, 1- 2 4 England captains Nasser Hussain then played a long home series and Michael Atherton and Rob Key against South Africa that was fol- ormer New Zealand coach Mike Hesson during a Sky Cricket Podcast. lowed by a full tour of New Zealand. Ffeels that India were probably the best “The captain leads from the “So it has been tough but a wel- equipped team to have played a Test series in front. Yes, we are there to take off come rest for players,” the coach New Zealand in recent years even though they the burden but you leave him to do said. ended up losing 2-0. India were completely his job in the middle. The captain India is currently in a 21-day outplayed by the Kiwis, losing the first Test sets the tone and is encouraged to lockdown and according to Shastri, by 10 wickets and the second by seven. But set the tone. In the middle, he con- his players knew something like this the former Kiwi coach begs to differ and feels trols the show.” was imminent when the series that the conditions were tough. Shastri, who took over as the against South Africa, right after the “I thought India are probably be the best head coach in 2017, largely attrib- New Zealand tour, was called off. equipped to have travelled to New Zealand, uted India’s march to top of the ICC “It came as a shock but to be but the conditions were challenging,” Hesson Test rankings to Kohli. honest, having been on the road told the Mumbai Mirror. “They weren’t He also spoke about how Kohli’s during the South Africa series, we ridiculous in any means, and they were chal- relentless focus on fitness rubbed on guys anticipated it,” he said. lenging in both games (in the two Tests which to his teammates. “We knew something was on India lost).” “When you talk about fitness, the cards as the disease had just India had batted first in both Tests and the leadership came from the top started spreading. When the second Hesson said that was an important factor as and that is Virat. He is not a guy to % " : ODI was called off, we knew some- conditions got better as the matches wore on. mess around. % thing was gonna happen and a lock- “The New Zealand conditions were “He woke up one morning and " 3M+ ) down was imminent.” challenging for everybody, especially in the said if ‘I want to play this game I “I think the players knew it was first innings. Things certainly got easy later want to be the fittest player in the N coming, they sensed it in New on. The first innings was challenging for any- world and compete against the Zealand. There were apprehen- one coming from overseas,” he said. best in all conditions’ and he let his sions towards the end of that tour, Hardly any Indian batsman made a body go through one hell of a lot.” us is the biggest form. It’s the “(This rest) cannot be a bad when flights were coming through mark in the series, including captain and sec- In recent years, Kohli is one of benchmark. We want to set stan- thing because towards the end of Singapore, out of Singapore.” ond ranked Test batsman in the world Virat the very few regulars of the team to dards,” Shastri said. the New Zealand tour, you could see “By the time we landed (in Kohli. Hesson feels that Kohli and the oth- have played almost non-stop, across some cracks coming up when it India), I thought we got out at just ers simply didn’t get any time to adjust to the formats. ‘WELCOME REST’ came to mental fatigue, physical fit- the right time. There were only two conditions “It was not just the training but Sport coming to a standstill ness and injuries,” Shastri said. cases in New Zealand at that time, “When the ball seams, there is very lit- the sacrifices he made with his diet. owing to the COVID-19 pandem- According to him, the players that has rocketed now to 300. tle time to adjust. You need time to adjust your I could see that change happening ic is a “welcome rest” for India may use the time to re-energise “The day we landed, that was technique. He certainly was not the only one all the time. He got up one day and cricketers, feels Ravi Shastri, who themselves, especially after a gru- the first day they were screening (to have struggled). Also, New Zealand’s plans said ‘Ravi, I’m vegetarian!’ has spent barely 10-11 days at elling New Zealand tour where and testing people at the airport. So for Virat were exceptional. New Zealand have “When he sets those standards, home since leaving for the World India played five T20Is, three ODIs (we came back) just in the nick of had the best of attacks for a long time and they " : P (+9? ( it rubs off on others. Test cricket for Cup last May. and two Tests. time.” challenged the Indians,” he said.
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However, the religious tenets not through enforcing essential point was that with time the same mistakes that beliefs upon people by coercive means led to those crises were forgotten and the same pursuits went but by educating them about its on. Human beings have hardly learnt from their past mis- importance, benefits and relevance. takes and their memories are woefully short. But the micro- Such educated people willingly adhere organisms keep on learning from their past and continu- to traditions if they find reasonable ously adapt to regain their strike power. The multidrug resis- logic behind them. tant micro-organisms that give rise to the same old diseases There is no wonder that western that struck humanity ages ago keep on bouncing back. The world is getting more and more enam- coronavirus that has struck this time with a vengeance is a oured by the oriental wisdom over the grim reminder of this basic fact. The adaptability of the virus decades, since there has been consis- is something that must give humanity a lesson or two. There tent efforts by various eastern philoso- are other lessons, too, that the present crises offers. First and phers to logically introduce them foremost, that despite those geographical boundaries, with their philosophy and practices, it racial and cultural differences, the uniformity in reaction has resulted in mushrooming of Yoga to this corona threat proves emphatically that humanity has studios, kirtan clubs and Ayurvedic a common thread. And the collective unconscious hypoth- treatment centers all over the West esis of Carl Jung holds goods. Rightly did Napoleon opine especially USA. There are 300 million that two things unite humanity — fear and self-interest. Look yoga practitioners all over the world the way people are reacting globally. Same ‘me first’ mind including 36 million people in USA set where it comes to survival interest, and same ‘me-not’ n modern political world there world, one may acknowledge differ- form, they can see oneness among all itself, it is an indication that people are mind set when it comes to threat. Though it is rather a tall has been a constant conflict ences, and act as per assigned roles and other differences. increasingly adopting an age old prac- order, yet can we not think of others, for a change? Rather between values of conservatism responsibilities, and yet respect the For those who learn spiritual tice when results are proven with the than thinking of buying provisions to last till eternity can and liberalism, fascism or social- others, understanding their spiritual 3"2--2" " path, practicing compassion becomes help of education and practical we not think of leaving something for the others to buy? ism. The values of right wing are nature. 3";42#;- necessary to go ahead on the chosen demonstration. An extreme example is that of the people of the United States Ito acknowledge social orders and Spiritually conscious people path. Sharing of ones gifts with oth- Spiritually advanced people know of America who as per newspaper reports are going for panic hierarchies, protectionism of indi- respect others on a deep spiritual plane )A ;2- - ers becomes a source of pleasure and the art of changing the forms of tra- buying of guns and cartridges. And the reason is quite vidual’s, capital and property, securi- which is irrespective of one’s materi- way of furthering ones prospects in the ditions but maintaining the substance strange. It is based on a chain of assumptions. First that the ty. The values of the left wing are egal- al position. The spiritual concept of 3-; 3-4O spiritual line. In this way, spiritually to have the same effect. The spiritual virus threat will last long. Second, if it lasts long there will itarianism — social equality among all Karma helps one to understand the "==-4- -# conscious people willingly share what education which would happen at be scarcity of basic necessities. Third, the deprived will be strata of society, fairness, etc. Values reason for inequality seen in this they possess to those who need Guru’s ashram in forests, now happens forced to think of snatching and looting those who have it. of either of the wings are important but world, still encouraging one to live a -4 through the medium of God, although, in an air-conditioned classrooms of So the conclusion is that the guns will have to be used for the question arises, how to make deci- life with good karmas to have better " - such charity is not meant for lazy ones our temples, with the help of various defense. The point is how much can be stored and how many sions which satisfy interests of the both opportunities for present and future who want to avoid their duties but for types of media, although the gist of the can be kept at bay by fire power. Sanity is giving way to van- of the parties. and be not callous for the sufferings 4;2- those who are weak links of society or content remains same. In this way the ity. To quote former President of the US, John F Kennedy Spirituality synthesises ideologies of other. 4-;"1"2" "-# those who are contributing to the external aspects may be modified as — “If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it of both that is, the left and right wing. To give another example, left ide- world without personal financial gains. per the time, place and situations to cannot save the few who are rich”. We need to learn to share Spirituality acknowledges that on ologists recommend higher taxes on A- #4-- Right wing ideology focuses on accommodate more quantity of peo- our resources in these trying times. In times of crises that physical platforms there has to be hier- the high net worth individuals for 3-)=;4 3-"4 preservation of one’s culture and her- ple, but the core principles remain threaten collectively, we need to stand collectively. Not just archy based on the natural order and redistribution of wealth. But it risks of itage, specifically religiosity through same to maintain the quality of them. for me and myself but for us. These adversities are times individual preferences based on the making people dependent on govern- "4" 2 4- government support, such conservative In this way, spirituality can play a that test not just our wit and grit, but also our character. There psychophysical inclinations but on the ment and lazy. Spirituality aims to attitude sometimes results in violence major role in filling the gaps between is little justification of people running from isolation wards spiritual platform, everyone is similar achieve same goal of equality by com- or coercion against those who trans- these ideologies to have a peaceful and risking others. Behaving responsibly is what these times in nature beyond the physical bound- passion and education. When individ- gress the traditional norms and cus- society. call for. Time to be human and act human. aries of creed, caste, race, nationality uals are educated about the equality of toms. Freedom of expression is seen as + ( or color. So, while dealing in this the living beings on the spiritual plat- transgression by rightists when it % : * F%:*A#G - E ::: 1 >; > % KO!! %% 1 # & *! !%% , ! ! !#9- ;2 34A ! #O" )41"3;" the aisle, murmuring to himself. He’s defi- he Bhagavad Gita explains tamo- nitely angry with his wife, I thought to guna: “The mode of darkness, myself. Then I instantly realised I’d made a Tthat is tamoguna is born of igno- judgement. After all, how could I say he was rance. It causes delusion to all living ‘angry’ or she, his ‘wife’? Then I admonished entities. It binds with carelessness, lazi- myself for ‘judging’ the man and that again ness and sleep. (14.8) Darkness signi- was a judgement! This time I gently said to fies anger (intolerance), greed, idle my mind, “Please come back dear mind and talk, violence, being a parasite, observe without judgement.” hypocrisy, excessive physical efforts, When you observe without attaching quarrel, lamentation, illusion, depres- labels, you release yourself from your disar- sion, being pathetic, excessive sleep, false rayed mind and enter a higher dimension of expectations, fear and laziness. reality. This is a platform beyond your own (Bhagavad Gita 11.25.4) prejudices. Often we err because we observe When this mode is predominant, little and analyse a lot. Instead, if we observe absence of illumination, lack of moti- more and judge less, it’s likely we’ll see the vation towards duty, carelessness, delu- real picture and paradoxically, improve our sion and foolishness all these arise. judgement! Observation practices are like (14.13) Consciousness gets covered is alien to such a person. controlled and no illicit or harmful bright sunshine; they help us remove the fog with foolishness and dullness. Given to We all have a percentage of this in thoughts should be encouraged. of confusion and bring clarity. lamentation and getting deluded, one us besides the mode of passion (rajo- Nothing is harmless. Thoughts are sleeps excessively; indulges in false guna) and the mode of goodness (sat- also karmas and they cause karmapha- hopes; and displays violence towards tavaguna). Together they constitute las. Similarly, we have to be careful in here are some things that we have could therefore first learn to breathe nor- The overdose of social media and the others. Awareness gets limited and us, and they always try to overpower what we eat, see, hear, speak, etc. They known since we were kids, and then mally and consciously. virtual world could potentially throttle their one is unable to concentrate. The mind one another. (14.10) all count. Eating meat and drinking Tthere are others that we realise intu- A simple technique is to inhale deeply to individuality. An inordinate time on the gets affected and there is preponderance Have you ever wondered as to why alcohol reinforces tamoguna. Lust also itively that guide us to what is good for us the count of four, hold the breath to the electronic world tends to disconnect one of ignorance and depression. One, some people commit suicide? Because enhances tamoguna in oneself. The and what is not. Yet we never give it a seri- count of eight and then exhale slowly to the from his or her feelings and needs. who dies predominantly in this mode the tamoguna in them overpowers same goes for hearing and speaking. ous try. And that could very well be the count of eight. Focus on the sound of your A modern variant of traditional fasting is hell-bound, and, ultimately, is born them. This tamoguna, when it is at its Then the enhanced tamoguna acts cause of our distress. Here are three known breath; listen carefully as you inhale and is giving up your gadgets for some time in a in lower species. Work is impelled by peak, completely possesses and make from within. It causes fear, anxiety, but least-tolerated life-changing principles to exhale. In no time, you’ll catch your mind week. In many monasteries, monks occa- violence and envy, and the strength of one do what goes entirely against even depression, etc. Once it becomes high- achieve happiness and contentment wandering. Gently bring the mind back to sionally fast from cooked grains and rice. wicked people increases. our basic instinct of survival. How does ly potent, it can kill or force one to com- breathing and in 10 minutes you’ll be sur- Besides the spiritual benefits, this gives rest How do we identity if someone is it become so powerful inside of us? mit suicide. charged with fresh energy. A five-minute to our digestive system. The body releases essentially in tamoguna? One will get Because we associate with it its various I have realised the dangers associ- We all breathe but are we conscious of break a few times during the day or even a toxins and you feel an overall sense of well- angry readily; worships God seeking His forms. Beginning with the mind, we ated with tamoguna, and have taken it? In my seminars, I often ask participants ten-minute breathing break could make ness. Likewise in our internal world, a lot of help for causing harm to one’s enemies; harbour sexual thoughts, angry feelings, shelter of God. I pray regularly seeking to place their hands on their stomach and your day more productive. clutter gets flushed out when we ‘fast’ from considers oneself a material body, not greedy plans and hateful ideas, etc. One God’s help in controlling my mind and feel it as they inhale and exhale. When you social/electronic media. We could for a the soul that one is; takes shelter of a may feel that these are harmless. They senses. Whenever my mind strays, I breathe in, does your stomach come out or change experience ‘real’ exchanges. gambling den; performs acts without are not; they reinforce tamoguna in us. chant. Similarly, when I have to make go in? What happens when you exhale? The Secondly, you could try simple ‘observa- More than ever before, we need to now considering their consequences; is And the punishment is from inside; one choices in what I eat, see or hear, I seek class is often divided with half the students tions’ where you gently pull the mind back pause, disengage from the loudness of it all, unable to tell right from wrong; eats implodes. They cause fear, anxiety God’s guidance, and He obliges with the claiming that their stomach goes in during a to the present and remove judgements. Once and look at the vast expanse of the sky above food, which is unclean and which depression, etc. When such feelings right intelligence. I am determined not deep inhale and the other half is unsure. The I was on a flight and saw a passenger stand our heads, rather than on our gadgets. Let’s causes distress; is hardly conscious peak, one harms the self helplessly, even to allow tamoguna inside me to cause point driven home is emphatic: we don’t up from his seat. He looked around, his face connect deeper to our own inner selves and during sleep and has faith in irreligious to the extent of killing one’s own self. havoc; I fully intend to tame it with my even know how to breathe, something twitching, and then with a sudden grin, he catch the grace around us. activities. One’s happiness is in delusion How should one deal with this Lord’s help. which even animals do so naturally. Our dis- hurriedly sat down again. A few seconds + and being pathetic; knowledge is at the vicious internal enemy? Try to avoid connect with our self and nature is acute; we later, he rose again and paced up and down !H !3+ ( - / material level and spiritual knowledge associating with it. The mind should be E uvitiut "#" " #
he International Olympic and of course timely supply of TCommittee (IOC) at last drugs at an affordable price. postponed the Tokyo Olympic Taking hard decisions and 2020 for a year. Echoing the then delivering better is a sentiments of the sporting daunting task. What Bach community world over, its looks forward is simply this president Thomas Bach said, only. Even he is eyeing on all “These postponed Olympic options, and one of them could Games will need compromis- be planning the games just es by all of the stakeholders.” It’s before the start of the Japanese : not only Japan, particularly summer season. the city of Tokyo, but also At this gloomy scenario, thousands of sportspersons mixed feelings are being aired and allied agencies who were by sportspersons all around the supposed to be an integral world. This deferring may lead part of this landmark event to an end of the active careers have all been hit by the dead- of our time. Because some of ly Covid-19. the greats, like Michel Phelps, The historic flame of the who have been named as the Olympic was handed over by most decorated athlete in Hellenic Olympic Committee Olympic history, is now talking president Spyros Capralos to about the “mental health” of the Naoko Imoto (former players across the world. To * 122I// Olympian swimmer), who rep- him the postponement is noth- resented the Tokyo Organizing ing but a “total bamboozle” so J Committee, on March 19. And to say. Yes it’s true. Many of the flame reached Japan them would be suffering from through a special aircraft high levels of depression. named “Tokyo 2020 Go”. As a Certainly apart from ones && significant part of the Olympic who are purely garrulous, we Movement, the flame is quite must understand the depth often linked to the messages of and impact of the Covid-19. hope and peace. The Tokyo Postponing at this moment is 2020 torch relay concept not a gaffe; it is absolutely a known as “Hope Lights Our wise decision. Way” was designed to unite the Fighting this pandemic is ++ KK8K2 entire Japanese people with like a countering a “Third emotion. But then unfortu- World War”, but without arms nately, before the flame was to and ammunition. The last two be started from Fukushima to World Wars had witnessed the the rest of Japan on March 26, pouring of large sums of the IOC took the historic deci- money, muscle power and sion to push the Games to the sophisticated weapons, includ- next year. Though it was near- A ." - ? ( !KL ( ing the most deadly atomic ly sure for an immediate can- bombs. But then still we are all cellation of the Tokyo Games, looking for an opportunity to yet the Japanese Government than what has been revealed in Modern Olympic Games in first non-Western country to Go” to find out all possibilities would be there for the Games fight, though not a real war, but was hoping against all odds to public so far. Athens (Greece) in 1896, the host the games. Again London for organise this historic event in 2021 such as the planning of course a virtual one. Days of organise it. The mascot of the Tokyo game has only been cancelled was to host the Games in 1944 held once in four years. The the marathon in northern city sabre-rattling have gone. A The opening ceremony for 2020 “Miraitowa” has a per- three times --- first during the and because of the Second team’s job is to interact with of Sapporo instead of Tokyo to real and extremely poisonous the Olympic Games was sup- sonality inspired by the World War I in 1916, second World War, it was summarily probably 33 sports federations escape the heat. This would be threat in the form of Covid-19 posed to start on July 24 and Japanese proverb, “learn from and third time during the cancelled. and to look into the world finally boosting the lost morale has taken a toll on humanity the Paralympics were sched- the past and develop new World War II in 1940 and 1944. Though opinions vary, sports calendar so as to plan the of many investors and sponsors for now. !:-#%%: uled from August 25. ideas”. It is taken from Japanese It must be noted here that until economic analysts simply come grand Olympic 2021. of various events as now they Keeping the global pre- Interestingly, Tokyo, one of words, “mirai” meaning the advent of coronavirus pan- to one single point: As the But what now seems is that all could focus on channelising paredness in mind, we all must the most populous cities in the “future” and “towa” meaning demic, that has forced the IOC Games has been postponed, the the IOC is working with the their resources. realise the fact that we need a world, was going to host the “eternity”. Thus this mascot to postpone the Olympic, the toughest task for the Japanese other sports organisations to Hope lies ahead for sure. robust strategy, particularly largest sporting event of the represents the idea that this game has weathered all other economy would be to wading arrange a July-August window The health experts, researchers public health emergency to globe. By the end of the 2019, game will lead to a future of crises in the past. In 1916, the through the prolonged pan- to fix the dates for Tokyo and pharmaceutical enterpris- handle such epidemics. Life the organisers calculated the everlasting hope in the hearts German Empire was to host demic in the days to come. Olympics 2021. This time es all together are working certainly comes first; thus cre- total cost of the Games around of everyone around the world. the Olympic but with the out- Now, the rechristened Olympic could be better as the Tennis hard to bring out an effective ating kerfuffle around such 1.33 trillion yen i.e. 1.12 billion If we look at the history we break of the First World War, 2021 will have to be planned Grand Slams of Wimbledon drug to stop the deadly Covid- crisis would only lead to more Euros. observe that it was only the his- it was simply cancelled. entirely on the basis of a new and the US Open slated to end 19. At this juncture, the world panic among the commoners. And this entire cost was toric World Wars that led to the Many of the nations who global sports calendar. respectively in mid-July and in community badly demands The global sports community incurred by three parties --- the cancellation of the Olympics in were to send participants to the And also Bach clarified late August. John Coates, the leadership and unity among the must be really hopeful that this City of Tokyo, the Japanese the past. But the current trend games had eventually indulged that rescheduling is not chief of the Coordination nations. Accusing one anoth- pandemic will teach all of us a Olympic Organizing is that other phenomena such into the war. In 1940, the restricted just to the summer Commission of the IOC is er for spreading the virus and strong lesson to usher into a Committee and the Central as politics, terrorism and pan- Summer and Winter Olympics months. All the options are on hopeful that within a month movement of the migrants Tokyo 2021 with renewed Government of the country. demics with global underpin- were to be held in Japan, but it the table, before and including the final dates for Olympic would not definitely provide us vigour and conviction. But the experts say the real cost nings have forced all of us to forfeited its rights as it got the summer of 2021. The IOC 2021 may be locked. any solution. It’s just a virus and of organising this mega event call of such sports extravagan- involved in a war with China. has given the responsibility to It is also agreed that more a lethal one. Countering the (The writer is an expert on would be ten times higher zas. Since the opening of the Else Japan would have been the a task force called “Here We or less the same arrangements same requires precaution first international affairs)
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hile there is a minor mistakes. Nigeria had faced ple are given correct informa- Wissue like a slight mis- tremendous problems in man- tion. As per the report men- match between the figures of aging the Ebola crisis due to tioned above, some of the big Covid-19 cases in India report- misinformation campaign in technological companies are ed by the Government of India 2014. Even now despite only 39 already helping the WHO in and those by global bodies like cases, the Nigerian this regard. There is a need for Worldometer, the more serious Government has found it dif- Indian Government to also and exigent matter is the coro- ficult to control misinforma- see the feasibility of doing the navirus misinformation that is tion related to Covid-19. same in our context. flooding social media. As per a Global 3) While the Government We are dealing with an Development Community has launched an awareness unprecedented pandemic and Media (a well-known media campaign about Covid-19 + BB in such a catastrophic situation, platform associated with reput- through caller tunes and adver- we should rely only on authen- ed world development agen- tisements, there is need for a tic sources of information. All cies) report written by William focused nationwide pro- data and measures taken or Worley and Vidya Krishnan, gramme on important aspects suggested are regularly updat- the level of misinformation dealing with the pandemic at a ed at WHO and the being spread about Covid-19 is fixed time in the day with Government of India websites. the highest in India. It has repeat broadcast by all TV Accordingly, on issues related highlighted a number of inci- and radio channels. This slot to symptoms, treatment and dents of conflicting informa- must capture the highlights of B 9;-A other Covid-19 related man- tion coming out of official and the day and important proce- agement practices, public non-official sources, besides dures to be followed in man- should pay heed to only that the social media. aging Covid-19. information available on the Some samples from their The importance of curbing official resources i.e., Ministry report are: 1) While, the Health misinformation can be best of Health at the Central and Ministry, including the Public !K= K8K8 + & * - % ) understood by the statement State Governments or their Health Foundation of India, is ( made by WHO Director- appointed spokespersons. working closely with the World General Tedros Adhanom Misinformation which is Health Organization to launch social media, especially plications and problems in Ministry of Health can set up not curb the misinformation Ghebreyesus. He had said being spread in the public a coordinated response, anoth- YouTube, one can find solution management of affected cases. a task force in consultation with campaign in time, the 21-day recently that “Misinformation sphere through various social er arm of the Government — being suggested by all and Towards this end, Prime Ministry of Information to lockdown may not be fully suc- about Covid-19 is not limited media channels, intentionally AYUSH Ministry — has been sundry, ranging from outright Minister Narendra Modi’s scan the social media and put cessful and as PM Modi had to India. We’re not just fighting or inadvertently, about Covid- at the centre of a large-scale astrology to homemade reme- strong message of not taking out the truth on regular basis warned nation will have to pay an epidemic; we’re fighting an 19 is going to hinder the man- misinformation campaign that dies, without any scientific any medicines without proper in the form of press briefs or a heavy price in terms of infodemic.” Therefore, in this agement and treatment of the undermines the Health backing. consultation with a qualified press bulletins using all avail- unprecedented loss of human period of infodemic, the safest pandemic. Ministry's response. This needs Information of some myths doctor hopefully will go a long able media networks for coun- lives and economic cost. advice is to stay indoors, wash There have been reports on to be corrected. 2) Second prevailing in the social media way in curbing the misinfor- tering or clarifying such mes- 2) Second measure could hands regularly, maintain social the social media about some incident is that of a politician domain such as “longevity of mation campaign. sages and information. It is not be co-opting the technical distancing, and if in doubt people associated with the who was proposing raw cow coronavirus”, “non-survivabil- However, the PM’s call has that the task force should giants like Facebook, seek early medical assistance Government machinery urine (gaumutra) as a treat- ity of the virus in hot climate”, to be backed by a focused respond to every fake and silly WhatsApp, twitter and other and help Government help $,%-H#+%%#B- endorsing unscientific treat- ment of Covid-19, even while “totkas”, “possible alternate mechanism to eradicate the news. However, it must put out technical firms to direct all you in remaining safe. ments to deal with Covid-19. the scientists, including those medicines to cure Covid-19”, menace of misinformation clarification on any incorrect searches related to Covid-19 We need to learn from the in India, are battling to find a “holding the breath, to check if campaign. How can we do it? and fake news item that is like- lead either to Ministry of (The writer is retired Lt experience of other countries solution. someone is affected by corona” Some of the measures sug- ly to cause harm to human lives Health or Ministry Information General and former Chief of so as to not repeat the same Similarly if we scan the and so on will only cause com- gested are as follows. 1) and national economy. If we do or WHO sites only, so that peo- Staff Eastern Command) ; ")")" 3-=" 3 3 2- ; 3"-9-)- ( ; 3" 1-;-" 3; axu ! 3;- ;="- - K3-2- -22-4
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