0 1 9* . 7: : : SIDISrtVUU@IB!&!!"&#S@B9IV69P99I !%! %! ' 356738&/1 2--23 42+"5 2'# . > $,*# / ,(<*)$#$#>#<#<0+#$ *4??<+$ $&'#&,( )% 0').&0',0 $<%+ /&)0&#*#A$ 0$0(*)&) ) ,0$+$B%+ $+ + '#+#.,+ ' #/+' $'+, '?$+0-#@?% & $214334 !4 ; < $ , %$ .1,.*.*( &.. $%$&'# $ per earlier order of the SC, an O P '( expert committee has been 12341 4515426 he Supreme Court on constituted and other direc- --"- ( 7 32455511233315" TMonday said that the tions have also been complied " Covid-19 situation has wors- with by the Delhi Government. . 3!253 64334!41 ened in Delhi and gone out of He said that a separate New Delhi: The Delhi High * 22116 11!!24225! control in Gujarat even as it space has been earmarked for Court on Monday declined to warned Maharashtra to be pre- the cremation of 385 bodies. entertain a plea seeking direc- '&,)0,.) ( 52!"4 !"2! 4663 pared for the worst in “We have no difficulty that tions to the AAP Government &,1,.& 5412 /,0&.43342 December. Expressing concern you have complied with orders to immediately place the city , . 5!33 253!462425 over the surge in number of of this court. But looking at the under lockdown in view of the $ % 0 456613 3"2!4!31 Covid-19 cases across the present situation, what else are rising Covid-19 cases and air country, the court asked the you doing,” the Bench observed pollution levels, saying the /,**,*0) ) 14!6 121" "2! Centre and all States to file and asked Jain to file a status petition was “half-baked” and $1,',./* * !41!3 14!5143 within two days status reports report. “unnecessary”. + 8 !4213 !131!!"321 detailing the steps taken to deal The apex court also ques- with the situation. tioned the Gujarat Government 0 !1"44 1!!2 !!42"1 “Things have worsened in over its policy of marriage cel- # $ % !!4 !2!16611 Delhi especially in November. ebration during the pandemic $O$P ' !166 !!11625 You file a status report on time, saying cases are rising what steps have been taken,” a there and the situation has $$ &'( !113! 625!"25!5 Bench headed by Justice Ashok worsened in the State after ")*+ /8 163366 32131!32 Bhushan told Additional Delhi and Maharashtra. Solicitor General Sanjay Jain, “After Delhi and London: The vaccine candidate who was appearing for the Maharashtra situation in being trialled by Oxford Delhi Government. Gujarat has also worsened. University on Monday pre- ! %&& “In Gujarat, the situation is What is that you are allowing sented crucial Phase 3 interim going out of control,” said the marriage celebration during results which show that it is Bench, also comprising Justices day time? You file an affidavit “effective” at preventing Covid- RS Reddy and MR Shah. on the status report on steps 19 and offers a high level of “There is spike in cases and taken as on date,” the SC ! "#$% & ' ! protection from the deadly this is only November. Prepare said. )*! , virus. '( for the worst in December. You " #$ have to take steps,” the Bench $%$&'# told the lawyer appearing for $%$&'# Maharashtra. elhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on The Bench was hearing a ovid-19 fatalities have increased in the DMonday ordered the fourth-fifth-year- matter regarding the need for Cnational Capital with at least five people MBBS students and dentists to be allowed to proper treatment of Covid-19 all domestic passengers travel- virus from entering le the second pandemic wave if dying of the deadly virus every hour on an aver- assist in hospitals and Covid-19 ICU units to patients and dignified han- ling to Maharashtra by air, Maharashtra from Delhi, it hits the State. My request to age in Delhi in the last 24 hours. meet the manpower shortage. dling of dead bodies in the hos- trains and roads from the Rajasthan, Gujarat and Goa. people is to take all health pre- While a total of 511 Covid-19 deaths were His decision came after a surge in the coro- pitals. It has posted the matter National Capital Region and Maharashtra Chief cautions,” he had recorded across the country in the past 24 hours, navirus cases and fatalities reported since last for further hearing on the States of Rajasthan, Gujarat Minister Uddhav Thackeray said. Delhi accounted for the largest chunk of such week in the national Capital. November 27. and Goa to carry RT-PCR neg- had, in his address to the peo- Amid speculation that fatalities with 121 fatalities, the data updated at According to an official order, the fourth- The court pointed out that ative test report with them. ple across the State, said on started brewing a few days ago 8 am showed. and-fifth-year MBBS students and dental doc- Covid-19 cases have risen Amid a fear of a second Sunday that his Government that Maharashtra may suspend This was accounted for the largest chunk of tors will assist duty doctors at the honorarium across the country especially in ,0# Covid-19 wave gripping was on a “high alert” in view of train and air transport services such fatalities across the country, which record- of 1,000 for an eight-hour shift and 2,000 for Delhi, Maharashtra and Maharashtra in the wake of increasing pandemic cases in between Mumbai and Delhi, ed an average of 21 deaths in this a 12-hour shift per day. Gujarat and noted the submis- n a safety precaution taken in increasing incidence of Covid- cities like New Delhi, Uddhav Thackeray made the period. The Delhi Government, in its order, had also sions of Solicitor General Iview of increasing Covid-19 19 in New Delhi, Ahmedabad Ahmedabad and Surat. first move when the State made The analysis was based on the data from the said in the case of interns, the honorarium would Tushar Mehta who said steps cases in the national Capital and Surat, the Maharashtra “Though there is no wave in compulsory for those arriving Union Health Ministry which gave the total be over and above their stipend. According to are being taken to deal with the and three other States, the Government put in place a the State, we cannot lower our in Maharashtra by air, train and number of deaths recorded in the country and Government database, Delhi has reported situation in Delhi. Maharashtra Government on mechanism to prevent the pas- guard. The State health author- road to carry RT-PCR negative all States and UTs due to Covid-19 in the past 40,212 active cases, 4,81,260 recoveries, and Jain told the Bench that as Monday made it mandatory for sengers carrying Covid-19 ities are well-equipped to tack- test report with them. 24 hours. 8,391 deaths. P -%-% % & ) High-resolution images from Maxar Technologies indi- R * cate road access from the site of the bunkers to the Sinche-La pass, which is then connected ()&(* divisions in the State. created in the minds of minori- to an all-weather road con- “AIMIM has played a hand ties over CAA and NRC and + , +) structed by Chinese workers n a sudden development, a in the polarisation of votes in the West Bengal CM “is fight- !"" that stretches across the 5 kilo- Inumber of All India Majlis- Bihar and thus helped the BJP ing for us and has taken to the # $%$&'# metre-wide Doklam plateau. e-Ittehadul Muslimeen in forming the Government streets to support us. The new bunkers and con- (AIMIM) men, including their there, but this will not happen “Making a law in hile efforts are on to struction of the road on the senior leader Anwar Pasha, on in Bengal,” he said. Parliament is not the end, it has Wresolve the seven-month- Doklam plateau after the stand- Monday joined the Trinamool Pasha, who was welcomed to be implemented on the old stand-off through sustained off in 2017, the construction of Congress in an apparent bid to to the TMC fold by Ministers ground,” he said. dialogue, China continues with a “village” and 9-kilometre stop division of minority votes Bratya Basu and Moloy Ghatak, Senior AIMIM leader and infrastructure development all track adjacent to the plateau are in Bengal by claiming said that 30 per cent of West in-charge of Bengal, Asim along the Line of Actual strong indications that China Asaduddin Owaisi-led party Bengal’s population are Waqar, declined to attach much Control (LAC). Military Indian security establishment. diplomatic and military levels. has no hesitation in construc- was only acting as a “polariser Muslims, asserting that the importance to the develop- ammunition bunkers, roads Earlier, rapid construction In the latest developments, tion activity in territory which of votes” to help the BJP. political developments in Bihar ment and urged the TMC not and prefabricated dwelling was only confined to Ladakh satellite images show con- Bhutan claims to be its The AIMIM, however, cannot be emulated in Bengal. to fool the masses with their units have come up in eastern sector of the LAC in the back- struction of hardened ammu- own. claimed, Pasha was just a “party Urging Muslims in the “dirty tricks”. sector of the LAC besides drop of the face-offs. However, nition bunkers, two kilometers A September 2020 study by worker”, and the TMC leader- State to stand by Chief Minister “Those who have joined Ladakh. the furious pitch of work in the from Sinche-La (pass) on the STRATFOR, the world’s lead- ship was trying to fool the Mamata Banerjee, he said the the TMC today are neither These developments come East in Doklam near Sikkim is eastern periphery of the ing geopolitical intelligence masses. AIMIM chief should not come leaders nor office bearers of the at a time when the two sides are a cause of serious concern, Doklam plateau near the bor- platform, said the 2017 Doklam Alleging that a few people to Bengal.