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COVID Mutant: Govt Says Focus on Enhanced Genomic Surveillance AGENCY the Meeting of the NTF Was Statement WWW.YUGMARG.COM FOLLOW US ON REGD NO. CHD/0061/2006-08 | RNI NO. 61323/95 Join us at telegram https://t.me/yugmarg Sunday, December 27, 2020 CHANDIGARH, VOL. XXV, NO. 314, PAGES 8, RS. 2 YOUR REGION, YOUR PAPER India’s largest Zee TV’s leading “I used to have only Dheeraj and FASTag provider ladies performed one meal a day for Shraddha launches Auto- to accentuate the my character in indulged in a Refund for Wrong essence of Brahmarakshas 2” steamy dance Toll Deductions Navratri at Zee reveals Pearl V. Puri sequence for the Rishtey Awards show PAGE 3 PAGE 3 PAGE 3 PAGE 3 Saradha scam: CBI RJD challenges Nitish to snap moves fresh plea in SC ties with BJP following to quiz WB IPS officer AGENCY NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 26 The CBI has moved the Supreme Court seek- Arunachal developments ing to question senior IPS officer and former Kolkata police commissioner Rajeev Kumar in connection with the multi-crore-rupee JD(U) MLA's have defected en masse to BJP in north-eastern state Saradha chit fund scam case. The central probe agency, which has been AGENCY rag Paswan’s rebellion”. but switched sides because of reasons entrusted with the task of probing the Ponzi PATNA, DECEMBER 26 Paswan, the LJP president, had best known to him”. scheme cases in West Bengal by the apex pulled out of the NDA ahead of the Kumar had joined hands with his court, has moved the fresh plea to quiz the The Rashtriya Janata Dal on Saturday Bihar assembly polls vowing to dis- arch rival Lalu Prasad, the RJD supre- senior police officer again, alleging that he hinted at the possibility of a fresh lodge Kumar from power. The LJP mo, ahead of the assembly polls in has not been cooperating with it in the ongo- alignment in Bihar if Chief Minister came a cropper in the elections 2015. ing investigation, a source said. Nitish Kumar chose to snap ties with though it succeeded in cutting into The Grand Alliance that came The Central Bureau of Investigation the BJP following the “humiliation” JD(U)’s votes, with BJP rebels fight- into being with the two parties, and (CBI) said Kumar’s further questioning is in Arunachal Pradesh. ing on its tickets in many seats. the Congress, coming together, won necessary in order to unearth the larger nexus RJD national vice-president Shiv- “The BJPs strategy was, firstly, to the elections handsomely and Kumar in the scam. anand Tiwary, however, made it clear cut Nitish Kumar to size which it did returned as Chief Minister with Te- The plea is likely to be taken up for hear- that the ball lies in the court of the successfully in the assembly polls. jashwi Yadav as his deputy. ing on the reopening of the apex court after JD(U) boss who needed to realise that Now it has begun to humiliate him. However, Tiwary also hinted that the winter break. the development in the north-eastern What else could explain poaching of power equations could undergo a The Saradha group of companies alleged- state, where his party MLAs defected six JD(U) MLAs in Arunachal change this time, with the RJD still ly duped lakhs of people to the tune of Rs en masse to the BJP, was aimed at Pradesh where the BJP was already going strong but the JD(U) a pale 2,500 crore, promising higher rates of return “settling old scores”. enjoying a very comfortable majori- shadow of its past self. on their investments. Tiwary recalled the incident of averse to Narendra Modi, his then ty,” Tiwary asked. “Nitish has to take a tough deci- The scam was unearthed in 2013 during about a decade ago when Kumar had Gujarat counterpart. Now, Modi is Tiwary, who had on the previous sion as to what matters more to him Kumar’s tenure as the Bidhannagar police cancelled a dinner organised for visit- not a man who is going to forgive and day sought to welcome any bold step his own dignity or the trappings of commissioner. Kumar was part of the Special ing BJP leaders who were in Patna to forget the slight,” Tiwary said. by Kumar, said when asked to elabo- power”, said Tiwary who has known Investigation Team (SIT) set up by the West take part in the party’s national exec- The veteran RJD leader, who has rate, “if he leaves the NDA, it cannot Kumar closely for five decades. Bengal government for probing the scam, be- had sought the response of the IPS officer on utive. also been with the JD(U) for some be that we will join hands with the RJD MLA and chief state fore the Supreme Court handed over the case the CBI’s appeal challenging the anticipatory “Nitish Kumar had then made it time, insisted that the development in BJP to run Nitish Kumar down. We spokesman Bhai Virendra, a Tejashwi to the CBI in 2014, along with other chit fund bail granted to him in the chit fund scam by amply clear that while he was okay Arunachal Pradesh was “part of the have been consistent in opposing the Yadav loyalist, was even cases. In November last year, the apex court the Calcutta High Court. with the BJP, he was very much chain of events that began with Chi- BJP and he joined us for some time more blunt. CBSE board exam dates to be Farm laws: Kerala Assembly session announced on December 31, says Education Minister likely to be held on Dec 31 NEW DELHI : The schedule for classes 10 and 12 board examinations will be announced on December 31, Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank' said on Satur- THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, the government and Khan could give special session to “discuss a problem and Agricultural Minister VS Sunil day. DEC 26 his assent for the session by Monday. for which you have no jurisdiction to Kumar had met the governor on Fri- “I will announce the date on Dec 31 when the exams will commence for students ap- The governor had earlier turned offer any solution”. day after the state government decid- pearing for CBSE board exams in 2021,” he tweeted. Decks appear to have been cleared for down the plea of the LDF govern- Vijayan had shot off a letter to ed afresh to convene a one-day ses- Nishank had earlier this week ruled out conducting board examinations for classes 10 the one-day session of the Kerala as- ment to convene a special session on Khan on Tuesday describing as re- sion to discuss and pass a resolution and 12 till February in view of the COVID-19 situation. sembly on December 31 to discuss December 23 to discuss the new laws, grettable his decision while asserting against the farm laws. Usually, practical tests are conducted in January and theory exams begin in February and pass a resolution against the three saying Chief Minister Pinarayi Vi- that the governor was bound by the They had later said the interaction and conclude in March. On Tuesday, the Education minister had said that a decision on contentious farm laws of the Centre jayan had not addressed the question advice of the Council of Ministers was “positive”. when to conduct the exams will be taken later after assessment of the situation and con- against which farmers are protesting raised by him on the nature of emer- and that moving resolutions and con- Speaker P Sreeramakrishnan met sultation with stakeholders. With no clarity on the board exam dates yet, several schools in Delhi. gency warranting the very brief ses- ducting discussions in the assembly the governor at Raj Bhavan on Satur- have already conducted pre-board exams online to keep the students prepared. The Cen- Raj Bhavan sources said the clar- sion. “cannot be regulated by gubernatori- day to invite him for the customary tral Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) had earlier this month announced that board ification sought by Governor Arif In a letter to Vijayan, he had also al powers”. policy address for the budget session exams in 2021 will be conducted in written mode and not online. Mohammed Khan has been given by stated that the government wanted the Kerala Law Minister AK Balan beginning on January 8. COVID mutant: Govt says focus on enhanced genomic surveillance AGENCY The meeting of the NTF was statement. of mutant variant and the response of NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 26 convened on Saturday by ICMR un- The NTF deliberated in detail other countries to these reports. der co-chairpersonship of Dr Vinod on aspects related to the current Na- The situation is being monitored In the wake of a mutated variant of Paul, Member NITI Aayog and Dr tional Treatment Protocol, testing proactively. coronavirus detected in the UK, a ge- Balram Bhargava, Secretary, Direc- strategy and surveillance of SARS- Astrategy has been put under place nomic surveillance consortium has been tor General ICMR. CoV-2 vis-à-vis the UK variant under which all passengers who had ar- formed for laboratory and epidemiolog- The main objective of the meet- strain. rived from the UK between December ical surveillance of circulating strains of ing was to discuss evidence-based The NTF was of the view that it 21 and 23 have been tested at the air- the SARS-CoV-2 in India, the Centre modifications in testing, treatment will also be critical to conduct ports and only after the PCR test result said on Saturday. and surveillance strategies for genome sequencing in samples are available, the negative passengers The genomic surveillance consor- SARS-CoV-2 in view of the recent where there is a dropout of the S are permitted to exit the airports.
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