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ÁŸflŒ∑§ Sardar Gurcharan Singh Babbar PRESIDENT ALL INDIA SIKH CONFERENCE BABBAR ADDRESS- 5, BAHADUR SHAH ZAFAR MARG, PRESS AREA, ITO NEW DELHI 110002 PHONE, 9971359517, 9312262300, 9868068019, E-mail ID, [email protected] 2 New Delhi, Wednesday, 14 April, 2021 NATIONAL THE SIKH TIMES NEWS BOX Carry out audit of EPF given to workers on contract: MCG Slum fire: 166 families in Noida Gurgaon: The MCG on Monday decided to write to the Provident Fund (PF) commissioner to conduct an audit of the companies providing contractual workers to turn homeless in just a few hours the civic body, to determine the total amount they are defaulting on the Employees NOIDA: Mithilesh Kumar, a father of four, their village, Bihar’s nearby Chotpur colony have come Provident Fund (EPF) contributions. had saved Rs 2 lakh in cash for the May Nalanda.Several other jhuggi forward and given the slum Deputy mayor Sunita Yadav directed chief wedding of his eldest daughter but he lost all dwellers were seen searching dwellers food, clothes and accounts officer Sumant Kumar to ensure his savings as well as some gold and other for their cash and valuables b e d d i n g s . H o w e v e r , t h e these firms open their escrow account within household items in the fire that broke out in that they had hidden in boxes compensation announced by the a month. “We decided in the meeting that we the slum cluster of Behlolpur. and sacks. While Rajesh government is yet to reach the will write to the PF commissioner to conduct A scrap collector, Mithilesh has lost senses Paswan said that he lost beneficiaries since the verification an audit of these companies to find out the and is hurling abuses at the mediapersons around Rs 40,000, another of the victims is still going on. amount they are defaulting. We have also and the politicians and asking who will labourer said that he had DM Suhas LY told TOI that he had told the company representatives to give us a return his savings. He is among the 1,000- bought a new two-wheeler but directed officials to survey the spot copy of the monthly salary slip provided the old people of 166 families who have been it got burnt. and “they are in process of contractual employees. If the companies rendered homeless in the massive blaze that Änuj Bhind (15), claimed he verifying the Aadhaar number and don’t comply with the directions given to engulfed the slum cluster on Sunday hadkeptallhisstuffinasmall other details so that the them within a month, the committee will afternoon.When TOI visited the spot, a “godown” that he created in compensation can be deposited in hand over the probe to the state vigilance hapless Mithilesh was lying in his wife’s lap the cluster. “I would collect their bank accounts”.Asked about bureau in the next meeting,” said the deputy as the latter tried to pacify him. “Let me tell scrap from Khoda everyday the arrangements for shelter, the commissioner. you what I lost,” he said.His wife Ranju and dump it here. I lost all my DM said that he had spoken to the Devi said, “My husband is not in his senses. savings. Who knew such a fire Noida Authority CEO about the Residents plan to meet We have lost around Rs 2 lakh in cash, a gold would happen,” he said. same and it was the latter’s minister over power chain and clothes worth around Rs 5,000 we Forced to sleep in the open on declared by the government would help domain. bought for the wedding of our daughter, the ground which is still hot due to the fire, them.Outfits like the HindRise Social However, activists admit that verification security deposit on slated for May 12.” the slum dwellers say all help they haveWelfare Foundation, Shri Chitragupta would be a tough task now as many would Monday While two of their children stay in Noida, two received is food and clothes.Most haveSabha Trust, Active NGO group, and have lost their crucial documents like others, including the eldest daughter, live in questioned how Rs 4,100 compensationactivists like Anoop Khanna and locals from Aadhaar card in the fire. Gurgaon: The number of micro- containment zones in the city is galloping towards 100 as the health department has recommended to the district Residents raise power infra Zurich starts work on administration that 33 areas be added to the list of hotspots. On Monday, the city had 61 containment zones. But unlike last year, the focus this time is on issues with minister selecting agency to random testing and localised restrictions. Curbs on movement will be limited to Gurgaon:At a meeting with Haryana transformers, cable lines which residents that in the next three 300-500 metres of a house where a person power minister Ranjit Singh ideally should be maintained by the months, “people will see the change construct Noida airport has tested positive. In highrises, a Chautala on Monday, residents of electricity department.” in the electricity infrastructure in particular floor will be sealed only if there the city aired their grievances onMany have raised the issue of the city”. “We are working on war NOIDA: The Noida further work. are three cases or more in a flat. Last year, various electricity-related issues,irregular meter reading by the footing and we are making all International Airport project is Senior officials of Noida the health department had imposed including inflated bills due toDHBVN officials and inflated bills efforts to resolve citizen problems fast gaining momentum. International Airport Limited, defective smart meters, irregular related to electricity.” restrictions in a radius of 3-5km of a due to defective smart meters. The subsidiary of Zurich AG, the special purpose vehicle set house with a Covid patient. billing, poor power infrastructure “There are 1,136 flats in our society Residents raised the issue of ACD and lack of its upkeep, and poor but we are still getting electricity charges and demanded to put it on a appointed to develop the up by Uttar Pradesh Officials said only those areas that have consumer redress mechanism. greenfield airport, on Monday government to execute the reported more than five cases recently are supply in the commercial category hold this year. Dinesh Vashisht, Jaimini Vandana, RWA president of resulting in higher tariff charges on RWA president of sectors 3, 5 and 6 floated tenders to commence project, said that an agreement being marked as micro-containment South City-1, said, “Our colony has the residents and frequent power said, “People are still struggling construction work. to grant permission to start zones. Of the 33 areas that the health not been taken over by power cuts. This is despite our builder with pandemic effects and many The company, Yamuna work was reached with the department wants listed as hotspots, 90% discom DHBVN to date, despite having applied for the bulk have not even recovered yet.”PK International Airport Private concessionaire last month soon are said to be in housing societies.With being taken over by MCG in 2019. domestic supply connection in Das, additional chief secretary Limited (YIAPL), has begun after YIAPL signed the state the rise in Covid cases, the number of Our electricity infrastructure is 25 2019,” said Satvir Singh, RWA (power) , told TOI, “We are sending the process of selecting the support agreement with UP. containment zones has also increased years old and completely rotten, president of Apex Our Homes in the proposal to HERC to allow contractors for engineering and “The building plan and design over the past one month. From four in the every other month we have to pool Sector 37C. ACD of one billing cycle to be construction of the terminal has been approved by the in money to repair panels, collected in four instalments.” first week of March, hotspots in the city The power minister assured the building. regulatory bodies. The state rose to 18 by March 10. Since March 18, Last week ,the Yamuna government wants to Gurgaon has been recording more than Expressway Industrial commence work at the site at 100 Covid cases on an average daily. On Development Authority the earliest. Since selection of Monday, Gurgaon had 5,898 active cases. (YEIDA) initiated the process agency will take time, the Chief medical. 2 colonies razed in Manesar, of empanelling agencies which company was advised to will manage, Schools must take only organise and tuition fee, demand 10 acres of prime land freed execute big-ticket drive, around 12 illegal colonies identified by the events on its behalf. parents department will be razed,” he said. While the date of the Gurgaon: The recent order of the school Assistant town planner Ashish Sharma said the foundation stone laying ceremony is education department that upheld the department is keeping a strict check on yet to be finalised, ‘rights’ of the school to charge complete mushrooming of illegal colonies in Gurgaon. On the directions of DTCP director KM Pandurang, the sources revealed fees, including the charges deferred that an agreement during the lockdown period last year, enforcement team will monitor several areas to prevent illegal colonies from coming up or has been reached has left the parents disgruntled. between the two Expressing displeasure over the orders, expansion of old colonies without mandatory permission from the department concerned, he sides to get things which they term it as one-sided, parents going on the ground. on Monday started a Twitter campaign, said. The enforcement team also demolished a road “We expect that the demanding the government to ask project-affected private schools to charge only tuition network with the help of earthmovers. Sharma said initiate the process,” said an DTCP will write to the police commissioner, asking people will start shifting to fees so long classes are held online and official. him to register an FIR against such developers who Jewar Bangar by mid-June. students aren’t availing any services Meanwhile, the company have duped several homebuyers of their money by Post that, construction work from the school other than online can start,” an Authority official announced that contracts selling illegal plots. According to Section 7A of the valued more than Rs 25 crore classes. Haryana Development and Regulation of Urban told TOI. Parents, under the banner of Gurgaon Meanwhile, YIAPL said that would be awarded through a Areas Act 1975, a no-objection certificate has to be competitive bidding process Parents Association, trended Gurgaon: The enforcement team of the department of obtained from the enforcement wing of DTCP to work will be awarded in two #OnlyTuitionFee4OnlineClasses on the parts. While part 1 will cover while work orders valued town and country planning (DTCP) razed two illegal register a plot with a size of less than two kanals to under Rs 25 crore could be social media platform throughout the colonies spread on 10 acres of prime land in Bhangrola ensure that the land is not divided to create smaller plots construction, engineering and day. procurement of the terminal offered directly to empanelled village of Manesar on Monday. for developing unauthorised colonies. But violations vendors. The GB Nagar district Last week, the school education During the demolition drive, three under-construction have been committed across many villages in Gurgaon, building, part 2 will focus on department released a revised order in airside and landside administration has also started houses, two warehouses, 10 other structures and a and hundreds of illegal colonies have mushroomed in work on getting the social which it announced that schools can borewell were razed by the enforcement team. The the last few years.Meanwhile, an unauthorised shop in development. The company charge full fees payment if they have has also set up its office in impact assessment study ready team also demolished boundary walls to prevent front of Regal Garden in Sector 82 was demolished for the next phase of the airport provided online/offline classes. The Okhla phase 3 of Delhi to redevelopment of the colonies. after complaints by residents. A gate illegally erected project that will require 1,363 department further asserted that the coordinate with the regulatory District town planner (enforcement) RS Batth said the on a 24-metre-wide sector road by a developer in Sector hectares of land. rebate given to the parents during the drive will be carried out for two weeks. “During the 83 was also removed. bodies and other agencies for lockdown period are to be seen as charges ‘deferred’ and not ‘waived off’. The department, however, ruled that no private school is allowed to arm-twist the parents by withholding the results of the students or barring them from online classes/ exams.Parents argued that the Now, two vaccine vans to education department has failed to acknowledge their plight and uphold their rights. A few parents’ groups have also claimed that they are contemplating a protest and knocking on the doors of give jabs in slum areas the court to challenge these orders.“If school lobbies can pressure the Gurgaon: To inoculate people living in slums, the going to session sites as most of them are unaware of government to pass orders in their health department on Monday launched two Covid- the vaccination drive, officials said.The city also set favour, we’ll flex muscle to force the 19 vaccine vans. These vans have four vaccinators, a up session sites in several banks from Monday. To government to listen to our demands. doctor, a room for monitoring adverse events ensure maximum coverage of those above 45 years of Forcing parents to pay for the following immunisation (AEFI) and space for age, ASHA workers are motivating people by going development and other charges for the registration of recipients. They will vaccinate 100 house-to-house in rural and semi-rural areas of services that have not been availed is people a day each, officials from the health Gurgaon. “The plan is to vaccinate 20,000 people on illegal and not justified,” said Pradeep department said.The department has mapped out Tuesday and 14,000 on Wednesday. We have Rawat, president and founder of slum areas of the city, which mostly fall in Bhim achieved 100% of our Day 2 target of the tika utsav as Gurgaon Parents Association.Education Colony, Nathupur, Wazirabad, Rajendra Park, cumulatively, we have vaccinated 20,060 recipients department officials claimed that the Dundahera and Sirhaul. The vans will visit a slum on Monday. We are getting a good response as we are orders are in line with the rulings of the area daily and will motivate people to get the jabs. venturing into community centres, societies, banks apex court and that any solution to the “Each of these vans can vaccinate 100 people in a day. and malls,” Dr Yadav said.On Monday, 18,599 inability of paying the fees should be After inoculation, the recipients will be asked to wait people aged above 45 years got vaccinated. As many discussed with the school in the AEFI room for 30 minutes to ensure that they as 220 session sites were set up in Gurgaon — 164 at managements. “So far fee payment is do not develop any adverse effects,” said Dr Virender government facilities and 56 at private hospitals. A Yadav, chief medical officer, Gurgaon. total of 4.3 lakh people in Gurgaon are eligible for concerned, our orders are self- This innovative initiative has been launched with the getting the jabs, and so far, Gurgaon has vaccinated explanatory. The department has tried. view to target people who are in slums and are not 2.5 lakh. New Delhi, Wednesday, 14 April, 2021 DELHI/NCR THE SIKH TIMES 4

NEWS BOX Red Fort violence case: Delhi Court reserves order on actor Deep Sidhu's bail Mysuru: Rs 20 lakh collected via fundraiser to plea help rebuild library owned by daily-wage worker After a library owned by a daily wage worker in Mysuru was burnt down on Friday, a fundraiser was set up to help him rebuild the library. As of Monday, Rs 20 lakh has been collected for the work.

Bengaluru.After miscreants burnt down the informed me that a fire had broken inside. But library set up by a daily wage worker, Syed it was too late by the time I got there. I could do Issaq, in Karnataka’s Mysuru, a fundraiser has nothing but stand there helplessly as the been started with the goal of raising money flames only got higher and engulfed the whole and helping him rebuild the library. building," Isaaq said. New Delhi.ADelhi court on Monday reserved its order on the bail application of Punjabi Syed Isaaq, a daily wage worker, had set up a He added that '"A wealth of knowledge that I actor-activist Deep Sidhu, arrested in library in Rajiv Nager, near theAmmar Masjid spent so much time putting together has been connection with the violence that broke out in Mysuru, with the intention to encourage lost."The Udayagir police arrived at the scene at the Red Fort in New Delhi during the people to inculcate the habit of reading. On a soon after and have now registered an FIR and farmers’ tractor parade on the Republic Day. daily basis, around 100-150 people would opened an investigation into the incident of Special Judge Neelofer Abida Perveen said visit this library. fire.However, Issaq refuses to give up and the order on Sidhu's bail plea will be Since 2011, Isaaq had managed to increase his said, “Yes, the library has been burnt down, pronounced on April 15. collection of books, primarily in Kannada, to but my spirit hasn't and I will rebuild it all over Sidhu's counsel told the court that mere around 11,000. The collection included again. presence of Deep Sidhu did not make him around 3,000 copies of Bhagavad Gita, over I couldn't go to school or have the privilege of part of unlawful assembly and that he was an 1,000 copies of Quran and Bible, and learning to read and write as a child, which is honest citizen who was part of a protest. thousands of books on various genres sourced probably why I am so passionate about others The public prosecutor representing the Delhi from donors.On Friday, Isaaq was informed learning to do so.”To help Issaq rebuild the police claimed that Sidhu participated in the about the fire at the library. When he rushed to library, a fundraiser has been set up with the protest with the intention to create violence the spot, the library was already reduced to goal to raise Rs 25 lakh. As of Monday and disregard the national flag and that he ashes "It was in the wee hours of the morning evening, Rs 20 lakh has been raised to help was the main instigator of unlawful when a man living near the library premises him out. assembly. Deep Sidhu was arrested from Karnal in Haryana on February 9 by SWR Range of the Special Cell. Police said Deep Sidhu was 6 With Suspected Popular Front Of India Court Defers instigating a group of farmers to storm the Red Fort on the Republic Day over the new farm laws passed by Parliament last year. Framing Of Deep Siddhu was named in an FIR by the Link Seek Quashing Of Chargesheet Delhi Police. Their counsel before a court cited section 45 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act Charges Against Sushil Chandra appointed (UAPA) to claim that the chargesheet filed under this law requires the sanction. Mukhtar Ansari, new Chief Election Mathura. Six people suspected to have UAPA," the counsel, Madhuban Datt links with the Popular Front of India Chaturvedi, said in the application to the Commissioner (PFI) have sought the quashing of a court.The STF has chargesheeted them Others In Sushil Chandra, who was appointed Election chargesheet against them, arguing that for sedition, criminal conspiracy, it was filed by the Uttar Pradesh Special funding of terror activities and other Assault Case Commissioner in February 2019, weeks before Task Force (STF) without seeking the offences.The accused are Atiq-ur the Lok Sabha election, succeeds Sunil Arora sanction of the centre or the state Rehman, Alam, Masood Ahmed, Rauf as India's Chief Election Commissioner. government. Sheriff, Firoz Khan and Anshad Special judge PK Rai passed the order Their counsel before a court here cited Badruddin. section 45 of the Unlawful Activities The FIR against them claimed that as neither Ansari nor the other (Prevention) Act (UAPA) to claim that following the gang-rape and murder of a accused persons--Yusuf Chisti, the chargesheet filed under this law 19-year-old Dalit woman in Hathras last requires the sanction. year, they were going there with an Aalam, Kallu Pundit and Lalji Yadav-- "The charge sheet submitted by the intention "to breach the peace" as part of appeared before the court. null and void as neither it contains required a "conspiracy". Speical Task Force in the court of permission of the state government nor the Additional District and Sessions JudgeAnil union government for trial under the The court will hear the application on April Kumar Pandey on April 3 should be termed 15. Centre extends ceasefire agreement with New Delhi.President Ram Nath Kovind on Monday appointed Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra to take over as Chief Election Commissioner 3 Naga insurgent groups by a year (CEC) from Sunil Arora, whose tenure ended on April 12. In a statement, the Law Ministry said,” The New Delhi.The Centre on Monday 80 rounds of negotiations spanning President appointed Shri Sushil Chandra extended the ceasefire agreement 18 years, with the first the senior-most Election Commissioner, with three insurgent groups of breakthrough made in 1997 when as the Chief Election Commissioner in the Nagaland for one more year. The the ceasefire agreement was Election Commission of India.” ceasefire agreements were signed on sealed. The ceasefire agreement Monday and are now extended till had come after decades of The Ministry also said that Sushil Chandra Lucknow. A special MP/MLA court on Monday would assume charge from Tuesday,April April 2022. insurgency in Nagaland which The Ministry of Home Affairs issued a started soon after India's deferred framing of charges against BSP MLA 13 and that notification to that effect had Mukhtar Ansari and his associates till April 19 been issued by the Legislative statement in this regard and said the independence in1947. ceasefire agreements are in However, the talk with the NSCN-IM in a 21-year-old case of alleged manhandling Department on Monday.Chandra took of jail officials by them. office as an Election Commissioner on operation between the government is currently going nowhere as the of India and National Socialist group has been insisting for a Special judge PK Rai passed the order as neither February 15, 2019, ahead of the Lok Ansari nor the other accused persons--Yusuf Sabha elections, after retiring as the Council of Nagaland/NK separate Naga flag and (NSCN/NK), National Socialist constitution. The demand has been Chisti, Aalam, Kallu Pundit and Lalji Yadav-- chairman of the Central Board of Direct appeared before the court.While Chisti and Taxes (CBDT).He is set to demit office on Council of Nagaland/Reformation of dominant groups NSCN-IM and NSCN- rejected by the central government. (NSCN/R) and National Socialist Council NSCN-K AND CEASEFIRE AGREEMENT Aalam are in judicial custody, Pundit and May 14, 2022, and will oversee the K. NSCN-IM AND FRAMEWORK Yadav are on bail. of Nagaland/K-Khango (NSCN/K- AGREEMENT The NSCN-K had signed a ceasefire conduct of assembly polls in Goa, An FIR in the matter was registered by the then Manipur, Uttarakhand, Punjab and Uttar Khango). In 1997, NSCN-IM had entered into a agreement with the Centre in 2001, but "It was decided to extend the ceasefire unilaterally abrogated it in 2015 when the jailor SN Dwivedi at the Alambagh Police Pradesh.While the terms of assemblies in ceasefire agreement with the central Station in Lucknow on April 3, 2000. agreements for a further period of one year government and since then has been then chairman of the group, S S Khaplang, Punjab, Goa, Uttarakhand, and Manipur According to the FIR, Ansari's men assaulted are set to end on March 2022, the term of with effect from April 28, 2021 to April 27, engaged in peace negotiations. was alive. 2022 with NSCN/NK and NSCN/R and In December 2020, the NSCN-K, led by some detainees, who were brought back to jail Uttar Pradesh will end on May 14, On August 3, 2015, NSCN-IM signed a after their hearing in a court. When the police from April 18, 2021 to April 17, 2022 with Framework Agreement in the presence of dreaded militant Niki Sumi, had announced 2022.New assemblies have to be NSCN/K-Khango," the statement said. intervened, the accused also beat them up.A constituted before their five-year term Prime Minister Narendra Modi to find a a ceasefire and said that the outfit has The thee outfits- NSCN/NK, NSCN/R, contacted the central government for charge sheet was filed against all the accused ends. permanent solution to the Naga issue. by the police. NSCN/K-Khango- are breakaway factions The Framework Agreement came after over initiating peace dialogue. 7 Deaths In Hospital Near Mumbai Sparks Fury, Oxygen Shortage Blamed > Officials at the tertiary care centre, however, have said the patients were in critical condition even at the time of admission.

Mumbai.The death of seven persons on a that her father was recovering well was not normal. They were pumping. Clearly, over the past may days. An audio message single day at a hospital in Palghar district and was scheduled to get hehaddiedbythen.TheyaskedforanECG. from Mayor Rajiv Patil has been in sparked anger among relatives over the discharged yesterday. He had flatlined by then," Ms Shahin circulation on social media and messaging alleged short supply of oxygen cylinders "My father was corona-negative, but said.The police later arrived at the hospital to apps, appealing to the state administration to and administrative failure at the facility was put in the Covid ward," Ms calm tempers down and disperse the ensure supplies. amid the rampaging Covid-19 crisis in Varma said. "Today, they called to mob.Hospital authorities, however, said the Local MLA Kshitij Thakur yesterday tweeted, Maharashtra. The fatalities -- all reported inform us that there was some patients didn't make it because they had low tagging the Prime Minister's Office, from the intensive care unit -- may also be emergency. When we arrived, thereimmunity, were advanced in age, and had co- highlighting the critical condition in Vasai indicative of the larger crisis gripping the was some crisis happening overmorbidities. "Vinayaka Hospital is a tertiary taluk."Notably, the supply can run for only Vasai-Virar Municipal Corporation under oxygen and a huge crowd hadcare centre of Vasai-Virar municipality...We three hours. There are more than 7,000 active whose jurisdiction the Nala Sopara gathered. From 3 pm to 5 pm, theyget patients who are transferred from smaller cases in the area and more than 3,000 people hospital falls. Officials at the tertiary care made us wait without giving us any hospitals and their conditions are usually require oxygen supply daily," said Mr Thakur centre, however, have said the patients information."already critical when they arrive here," Dr of Bahujan VikasAghadi party. were already in critical condition at the Another relative, who identifiedShashi Kant of Vinayaka Hospital. "Since we Maharashtra has been India's worst affected time of admission. herself as only Shahin, said theare a big hospital in the area, we don't deny state in the Covid-19 pandemic crisis, the Many relatives of the seven people who died evening to vent its fury. Some of the people doctors had warned that anythingpatients. Because if we refuse to admit them second wave of which is now sweeping on Monday at the Vinayaka Hospital in Nala gathered said that if they had been informed could happen anytime to her brother admittedwhere will they go?" through the country. Over 63,000 new cases Sopara, some 60 kilometres north of Mumbai, about the situation earlier, the victims could to the hospital. The family was asked to get an He said the relatives had been told in detail wee reported yesterday alone, along with blamed the shortage of oxygen and doctors' have been shifted to other facilities in injection costing ? 35,000, which wasabout the patients' conditions. nearly 400 deaths. This has taken the state's irresponsibility for the loss of lives. Mumbai or other places.Pinki Varma, the provided, she said. The Vasai-Virar municipality has allegedly overall count to over 34.07 lakh infections A huge crowd gathered at the hospital last daughter of one of the victims, told reporters "Today they told me that my brother's heartbeat been facing a shortage of oxygen cylinders and nearly 58,000 fatalities. New Delhi, Wednesday, 14 April, 2021 DELHI-NCR THE SIKH TIMES 5

NEWS BOX Noida admin caps HC frowns at Gujarat’s Covid prices of Covid test & treatment response, says lift curbs on remdesivir

Ahmedabad Gujarat High Court on Monday said.Trivedi defended the Surat BJP’s refused to accept the government’s procurement of remdesivir – sold by Zydus submission that “things are under control in Cadila as Remdac – as an “attempt to do the state”, and directed it to “make sure charity” at a time when the drug was is short remdesivir is made available supply. He also called it “one of the most everywhere”.Restricting the sale of the manhandled product in Covid time”, and antiviral used for the treatment of Covid said it was being prescribed increases wait times and adds to anxiety and “indiscriminately”.Referring to the BJP’s panic, a Bench led by Chief Justice Vikram decision to distribute 5,000 Remdac Noida.The Noida administration has capped Nath said while hearing a suo motu PIL.This injections in Surat after Zydus Hospital ran the prices of Covid test and treatment to was the second PIL taken up by the High out of stocks, the AG submitted: “In fact it prevent profiteering. The rates have been Court in connection with the surge in was an attempt to do charity, out of sheer decided as per directives of the Dr Vinod Pal coronavirus infections in Gujarat. The court enthusiasm… But this was not with an Committee constituted by the central had initiated a first PILon Sunday, observing intention to create any malice, (the) idea was government to study Covid measures. that the state seemed to be “heading towards to see that people are helped out. Question is According to the order, the treatment in ICU a health emergency of sorts”. This case will how did those injections come, where did it for those with severe Covid will be capped to be heard again on Thursday.Advocate come, that report is very much Rs 18,000 per day, which includes the PPE General (AG) Kamal Trivedi sought to available…we will attest (with affidavit) for cost of Rs 2,000 in NABH-accredited assure the court on Monday that the state My Lords… These are legally obtained hospitals. In non-accredited hospitals, government was in control of the pandemic injections and given free of charge. Perhaps treatment in ICU for severely sick patients situation, and people need not live in a state newspapers. “I get these two papers (The these newspapers, with their reputation, they it could have been avoided. Or another way will cost Rs 15,000 per day. ICUs without of “fear psychosis that heavens are going to Indian Express and the Times of India, to would not be reporting reports which have of looking at it is, what is wrong if it was fall”.But the court remained unconvinced, which he had referred in Sunday’s order), no basis. There would be some sense of done?The Bench came down heavily on the ventilators will cost Rs 15,000 in NABH- and directed the state and central and therefore I read them and I follow. For responsible journalism… We don’t agree picture of normalcy painted by the AG, accredited hospitals and Rs 13,000 in others. governments to file their submissions in an the last three four days, every day eight to ten with you Mr Trivedi. Accept the newspaper especially with respect to remdesivir, saying Those requiring isolation beds will pay Rs affidavit by Wednesday evening.Chief reports (we are seeing), not good… So reports to be correct, and we would like an that all news reports could not be ignored. 10,000 and Rs 8,000 per day in accredited Justice Vikram Nath said he had been ultimately yesterday,we had to take this call answer from the state… It cannot be said that “Home quarantine with treatment was the and non-accredited hospitals respectively. reading about the Covid situation in to at least sort out things…“And I believe they are all without basis, no,” he stand of the government (earlier). All costs are inclusive of the cost of PPEs. The order reiterated that the cost of RT-PCR samples has been capped at Rs 900 as per the Odisha gangster Sheikh state government’s directives. In the event of At Kumbh, Covid guard slips: No thermal Hyder’s escape: Police a complaint, action can be taken against hospitals for violation of official orders. question aide who supplied The district on Monday recorded 239 cases, screening, few masks, 102 test positive taking the tally of active cases to 1,428 cases. him with biryani The administration has also launched an Haridwar. TWELVE DAYS into the Kumbh reports — at least 15 did not have them but were prevent crowding at any specific location,” Bhubaneswar Two days after online portal for Covid-related grievances dreaded gangster Sheikh and to offer dedicated help. Mela in Haridwar amid a Covid surge across let through.Raj Pratap Singh, a government Kumbh Mela IG Sanjay Gunjyal said.“We the country, the Uttarakhand government is teacher from MP’s Bhind who reached focused more on crowd management today and Hyderescaped from police struggling to keep in place basic preventive Haridwar by car Monday morning, said: “Our hence screening and checking of reports near custody while undergoing Madhya Pradesh: Police measures such as effective thermal screening RT-PCR report was checked at the Narsan the ghats were avoided,” another official said. treatment at a Cuttack hospital, and wearing of masks.By Monday evening, checkpoint along the UP border. No one asked However, Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat said Odisha Police on Monday file FIR against over 28 lakh devotees turned up for the second for it in the Mela area. No thermal screening the state government has ensured the questioned his close associate who shahi snan (royal bath) in the Ganga. And was done.”Pramod Sharma, a businessman implementation of all Covid guidelines drafted had delivered biryani on the day of Congress leaders for according to medical department officials, over from Jammu, reached Monday morning by the Centre. “We have followed the the escape.Yakub Khan alias Sallu 18,169 devotees were tested between 11.30 pm without the mandatory RT-PCR report. Government of India’s guidelines 100 per came forward and produced heckling government Sunday and 5 pm Monday — 102 were found “Passengers for Haridwar were asked to cent,” Rawat said.At Har Ki Pauri, where 13 himself before the police and has positive.Over the last 48 hours, The Indian deboard at Jwalapur railway station, about 3 km akharas (religious groups) reached in agreed to cooperate in the doctor Express walked through an area of over 10 km earlier. But there were a lot of passengers, and procession, one by one, for the traditional dip in investigation, officials said.On — from the railway station in Haridwar, the no one asked about the RT-PCR report. Later, the Ganga, there was a team of two medical March 24, Hyder, serving a life Bhopal. The Madhya Pradesh police on iconic Har ki Pauri and the ghats. There were no we took a bath in the Ganga at the Gau ghat. personnel with Rapid Antigen Test kits. In six sentence in two separate cases, Monday registered a case against Congress arrangements for thermal screening anywhere, There was no thermal screening anywhere,” he hours from 9 am Monday, they had conducted was admitted to a private cabin at MLA PC Sharma and former corporator and no action against those not wearing masks said.Thermal screening and rapid antigen tests only 11 tests with one turning positive. “Those SCB Medical College and Guddu Chauhan after they reportedly despite a new AI-enabled CCTV system in were done at the state borders, railway stations who came to get tested did so voluntarily,” said Hospital, Cuttack for treatment of heckled a government doctor in the place to track them. and ghat areas. The ghats were reserved for the a staff member, speaking on condition of kidney-related ailments. hospital’s premises while he was on duty. In the crushing rush, the first Covid barrier to fall akharas today morning, and so tests and anonymity.At a test facility near Mela Bhawan, According to senior police officials, The doctor, JP Hospital’s Chief Medical was the mandatory entry norm of Covid-screening were not done. They will be done which is on the return route for the akharas, a jail authorities in Sambalpur had Officer Yogendra Shrivastava, had resigned negative RT-PCR test reports. At variousagain when the snan of akharas will end,” the four-member medical team confirmed that “not Mela’s Covid in-charge Dr Avinash Khanna coordinated his admission with the from his post stating that he had done his checkpoints, The Indian Express counted over a single test has been done here today”. “We hospital after he was referred from best to save the patient, but was humiliated 50 devotees being asked about their RT-PCRsaid.“Challans for not wearing masks and cannot stop them and ask them to get tested,. thermal screening were avoided today to VIMSAR hospital in Sambalpur to with no fault of his. Monday’s case was filed SCB Hospital, and six constables on the basis of a written complaint by attached with the Sambalpur Shrivastava.According to Habibganj police, district police were responsible for an application in connection with the his security.On Saturday, incident was received on the day of the Hydermanaged to escape from the incident and police filed the FIR under Gujarat: Man shares morphed hospital shortly after Khan had sections 353 and 189 of the Indian Penal delivered biryani to him. His Code (IPC) after going through CCTV absence was first noticed by a staff footage and speaking to eyewitnesses.The nurse at SCB, who informed heckling incident had occurred on Saturday. higher authorities. The nurse also Around 12 pm, a 35-year old patient found that the constable guarding identified as Takhatsingh Sakhya of Kolar video of CM Vijay Rupani, held Hyder was unconscious.It is colony was rushed in to the JP Hospital with suspected that the gangster had critically low oxygen levels. He died in the laced the biryani with sedatives emergency room at 2:54 pm. His family A resident of Singhanpore area in Surat, Kishan Arvind Rupani, 28, allegedly used American singer Taylor and then offered it to the constable alleged that Takhatsingh’s death was caused Swift’s song ‘I knew you were trouble’ on a video of the Chief Minister and shared it on the social media. before fleeing.On Monday, a by negligence on the part of hospital senior police officer said, “Khan is authorities. Some of his family members an aide of Hyder and has been had sought PC Sharma’s intervention. But Surat.The Surat police crime fake messages to create panic in accused in minor crimes earlier. branch on Monday arrested a 28- the society. Our team on Sunday We are questioning him to according to Sharma, he reached the understand if Hyder had been in hospital premises only to find Takhatsingh year-old embroidery businessman found a morphed video of the for allegedly circulating a CM, which had become viral on touch with any other of his dead.It was then that both Sharma and associates. We are probing the role Guddu Chauhan got into a heated argument morphed video on Gujarat Chief social media platforms. We Minister Vijay Rupani on social checked the root of the video and of his acquaintances in the case. with Shrivastava, scolding him for not We are also investigating how answering their calls. media. found that it was first loaded on an Hyder managed to spike the food A resident of Singhanpore area in Instagram handle gujju_smaily. which he also offered to the Surat, Kishan Arvind Rupani, 28, Our teams worked on it and found constable guarding With only 3 days’ allegedly used American singer that it was operated by Kishan him.”Meanwhile, Khan told the vaccines left, Pinarayi Taylor Swift’s song ‘I knew you Rupani. Our teams later located media, “I supplied Hyder with were trouble’ on a video of the him and caught him. During biryani on three different Vijayan writes to Harsh Chief Minister and shared it on the interrogation… he said he made occasions while he was admitted social media. Police said that the the morphed video and uploaded in the hospital. But I was unaware Vardhan crime branch’s technical team, it…” that he was planning to escape while monitoring various social The accused, police said, hails from from custody. I had not added any Thiruvananthapuram With Kerala’s media platforms, had found the morphed Surat Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), a village near Dhandhuka in Ahmedabad sedatives before supplying the with detection of crime branch, Rahul Patel biryani.”Earlier on Sunday, the Covid-19 vaccine stock likely to last only video of the CM circulating on Instagram and district. “He said that the intention of making Odisha Police launched a massive three days, Chief Minister Pinarayi traced it to Kishan. said, “Due to the Covid-19 situation, we have such video was to garner more likes and put our surveillance team on social media on manhunt for Hyder and suspended Vijayan on Monday wrote to Union Kishan has been arrested under IPC section 469 followers on Instagram. We have seized his the six constables who were Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan, (forgery for purpose of harming reputation). alert to keep eye on those who are spreading mobile phone,” the DCP said. responsible for his security. seeking 50 lakh doses of the vaccine for the state. In his letter, Vijayan said Kerala has a 45- day action plan for vaccination, which In UP panchayat elections, 3.4 lakh candidates and rising requires 2 lakh doses per day. So far, the WHILE ALL eyes have been on the bitterly to adhere to Covid norms is turning out to be contested Assembly elections in four states a nightmare for officials, with Verma and one Union Territory, a phenomenally himself now down with the coronavirus. bigger exercise is on way in Uttar Pradesh, Photos have emerged of long queues and amid a fast-ticking Covid clock. unruly crowds scrambling for forms before For just the first phase of panchayat elections nomination deadlines, without masks and in UP, for 2.21 lakh posts across 20 districts, not following any social distancing.The Returning Officers are sifting through ruling BJP is going into the contest around 3.40 lakh nominations — with the expecting some backlash over the new farm process still far from done, as affidavits of laws, especially in western UP. The party’s candidates also have to be uploaded online big guns, from state president Swatantra this time. Officials expect the eventual Dev Singh to national vice-president and UP state has received 56 lakh doses of the numbers to go up to 3.50 lakh, much like in in-charge Radha Mohan Singh, have been vaccine and 48 lakhs doses have been 2015. “If we compare just the block criss-crossing the state.Among those in the administered till April 11. As of now, the panchayat, zila panchayat and gram pradhan panchayat race are a Miss India 2015 existing stock would meet the vaccination seats in the first phase, the number is 10 contestant and model Diksha Singh; Srikala Singh, a BJP member and the wife of plan for the next three days, he said. times that of the state’s Vidhan Sabha,” Additional Election Commissioner Ved gangster-turned-politician and murder Vijayan said the shortage of vaccines in Prakash Verma said.The interest is accused Dhananjay Singh; and Samajwadi Kerala had been brought to the notice of significant given that it is the first time all the Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav’s niece Among those in the race are the Aam Aadmi 8.69 lakh posts is expected to reach around the Union Health Ministry by the state’s major political parties are openly backing Sandhya Yadav, backed by the BJP. The BJP Party, AIMIM and Bhim Army chief 17 lakh nominations. In comparison, around chief secretary as well as the health candidates for panchayat elections in Uttar on Sunday withdrew the candidature of Chandrashekhar Azad’s Azad Samaj Party, 4,850 candidates contested for the 403 Uttar secretary. “However, we are yet to get any Pradesh — making the polls a virtual semi- Sangeeta Sengar, wife of ex-BJP MP and which are making their debut in the statehe PradeshAssembly seats in 2017. additional supply of vaccine,” he wrote. final for the Assembly polls next year. rape convict Kuldeep Singh Sengar. total number, across four phases, for close to Given the numbers, just getting the applicants New Delhi, Wednesday, 14 April, 2021 EDITORIAL THE SIKH TIMES 6 Romeo at risk: Familiar template Yogi in Bengal In Mr Adityanath’s vision, The BJP’s blueprint for Bengal religious discrimination meets Against the backdrop of the Ganges in high tide wanting change and still adoring Didi gender oppression at a riverside dhaba in Diamond Harbour, but not necessarily her party. In this flux, three Muslim residents were taking in the the BJP has been able to create a great cool, strong wind and chatting about politics. I hype that projects it as a possible winner. butted in to ask about voting preferences: one After all, in close state elections, people was loyal to the Trinamul Congress while the are more inclined to vote against ruling second supported the Mahajot; after Cyclone parties if they believe the opposing side Amphan, his faith in the TMC was shaken and can win the seat or the state. That would he wanted to back ‘Bhaijaan’ — the cleric, particularly apply to Bengal with its Abbas Siddiqui — of the Indian Secular Front. culture of political violence. The third, Alauddin, kept munching jhalmuri No party understands the power of and said nonchalantly that after due narratives as the BJP does, the reason deliberation he had decided to vote for why it has set up IT cells for each seat Narendra Modi who was the only individual and made their controversial national IT who could save the country from the mess it cell chief the co-in-charge for West was in and make India’s name known across Bengal. That individual has been called the world. He was serious, his decision based out several times by fact-checking sites, on the desire to participate in the new big show but clearly the strategy is to create in town and countryside. emotion and stoke communal prejudice, These Bengal residents, in the South 24 facts notwithstanding.After all, research Parganas at least, did not show the alarm one on new media shows that sensational, may expect from a community in the eye of the BJP storm. undertaking. One must follow the money to fully divisive, fake news spreads faster than dull, factual news. Asked about vote division, they just smiled vaguely. The understand the scale of the onslaught ever since Modi Indeed, the BJP’s blundering journey in its search for BJP, so far in their perception, was akin to a huge sound swept the Hindi belt in the 2014 general election. That was historical Bengali icons was full of comic errors and and light show that also offered money and short-term India’s most expensive election, eclipsed only by the 2019 apparent haste, but in the final reckoning does not seem to election employment and had a big star of the jatra called general election — according to annual audit reports filed have damaged the reputation of the prime minister. He is Narendra Modi. Naturally, the story varied elsewhere, with the Election Commission of India. Since then, the being seen as a powerful figure among voters in town and such as in the complete Muslim consolidation for the chief BJP has become the richest party in the nation’s history, countryside, and the idea of direct cash transfer, true or minister, Mamata Banerjee, after a vicious BJP campaign monopolizing political finance often through untraceable false, has appeal among the poor. Bengal is one of the in Nandigram, but local subplots also reveal layers of this means such as electoral bonds (On March 26, the Supreme states from which the largest numbers of migrants pour The message conveyed by electoral campaigns in Court refused to stay the release of fresh electoral bonds India has undergone a sea change. Yogi epic battle. There are multiple contradictions that emerge into other parts of India. They, too, were part of the in the telling of these Bengal elections: on the one hand, ahead of assembly polls in four states and a Union suffering phalanx of humanity that made the reverse Adityanath’s election speeches in West Bengal territory). Money talks as it did when the BJP managed to illustrate this best. As it is, campaign speeches, there are cries of ‘Jai Shri Ram’, both as a protest slogan migration a year ago. If the BJP does well, it would and a Hindutva clarion call in the hinterland, but in form a government in Madhya Pradesh in 2020 after a suggest that Modi is soaring above the problems his especially those of certain leaders of the Bharatiya section of the ruling Congress defected just as in the Janata Party, contain almost as many implicit Kalighat, the epicentre of the Hindu faith in Calcutta, most decisions created in the earthly realm. We must then pundits and shopkeepers declared themselves loyal to preceding year members of the ruling Janata Dal (Secular) conclude that his image has somehow been disconnected threats as promises. The chief minister of Uttar and the Congress had crossed over in Karnataka. Electoral Pradesh, one of the party’s star campaigners, Didi. from the dramatically announced but spectacularly bad victory is, therefore, not necessary for eventual triumph. seems to believe that threats are promises. In one The BJP’s dramatic landfall in West Bengal has certainly calls such as demonetization on November 8, 2016 and There is always on the table an offer to members of rival of his electoral speeches in Bengal, he flaunted the upturned pre-conceived notions about the state. The the national lockdown (with four hours’ notice) on March political parties, something that’s lured many members of fact that posters of alleged ‘rioters’ were put up novelty factor apart, there are actually familiar templates 24, 2020. If Mamata Banerjee holds it together, then a and their property confiscated after protests in UP used by India’s pre-eminent party at work here. First, the the TMC in the pre-election season. Bengal’s is arguably realignment of Opposition forces could begin. But against the citizenship laws. Since he was cadre of the sangh parivar and the BJP work on new the first election that takes place with the calculation that a structurally, the TMC is a crowd around a leader, who condemning the West Bengal chief minister’s so- territories with a missionary zeal as elections per se are not narrow win may not ensure a five-year term for Mamata emerged fighting one entrenched force and having called ‘appeasement’ politics that presumably an end but a means. Towards that goal, they use shock and Banerjee. Unless the BJP is utterly defeated as it was in the vanquished old demons now wages battle against another allowed cow slaughter and cow smuggling to awe that basically boils down to Modi, money, media Delhi elections a year ago, post-poll defections would arch-enemy. Whatever the outcome, she is the only continue — Bengal has no law against cow (management), Muslim (profiling) and caste mobilization have to be factored in. There are also traditional reasons woman chief minister in India, and unique for having slaughter — the purpose of polarizing two with a social engineering map in hand. As the BJP did in for the groundswell of support for the national party. With fought so fiercely against both the Left and the Right. communities was perfectly clear. It seems that Mr Uttar Pradesh, the template involves giving priority to the Bengal Opposition decimated in the 2016 assembly Bengal is a special place that’s given exceptional ideas to Adityanath would like to do to Bengal what he has non-dominant sections of society, be they Dalit, other and 2018 panchayat polls, the BJP has filled a vacuum India. If it cannot thwart the BJP as a Tamil Nadu can, it done in UP at the cost of democracy, equality and backward classes or scheduled tribes. In its own perverse even as anti-incumbency grew in areas devastated by would be because great ideas have not been matched by the law. way, it’s the only radical thing happening to the social Cyclone Amphan that cut a path through TMC great transformations on the ground either in terms of In Mr Adityanath’s vision, religious discrimination fabric of Bengal. The blitzkrieg is an expensive strongholds in May last year. People are divided between incomes or subaltern caste assertion. meets gender oppression. Not only did he harp on the increase in Bengal of ‘love jihad’ against which UP now has a law — Parliament found the phenomenon non-existent — but he also Head first: Mental healthcare in India promised an ‘anti-Romeo’ squad to ‘protect’ women like the one in UP. Predictably, young There is thus a strong case for recognizing the severe mental toll that physical illnesses take not just on patients, but also on their families and caregivers people and activists in Bengal are loudly critical of the threat to women’s autonomy, interference in The health of human beings is influenced by both mental be challenging. The mental healthcare network in relationships, encouragement to the forces of and physiological well-being. And yet, this crucial India is over-stretched; the country has less than one male domination and the invitation to harassment. tenet is often ignored in the larger public discourse. The psychiatrist for every 1,00,000 patients. Moreover, These go to the heart of Mr Adityanath’s weightage accorded to treating physical illness far Indian society endorses a culture of shame around governance. Members of the anti-Romeo squad exceeds that given to mental ailments. The National mental illness; the fear of public stigma discourages were accused of harassing couples, molesting Mental Health Survey of India 2015-16 had revealed patients and their families from seeking help. While women, even a child in one case, of extortion and, that nearly 150 million Indians need urgent mental India’s Mental Healthcare Act, 2017 provides reportedly, a murder. The law against love jihad is healthcare support, with fewer than 30 million seeking citizens with the right to mental healthcare, it does being used against men of the minority such interventions. The imbalance between the two not deal adequately with the question of stigma and community in inter-community unions even when forms of ill-health has only been exacerbated by the social exclusion. The solution lies not just in the woman is a consenting adult. That UP ranked pandemic. Studies from when the pandemic began had sensitizing the public regarding the importance of first in the country in crimes against women in already indicated that people who have recovered from recognizing and treating mental illness. The 2019 according to the National Crime Records Covid-19 are at an increased risk of mood and anxiety government — it has spent a paltry 0.05 per cent of its Bureau shows that the measures ‘promised’ by Mr disorders in the first three months after infection. Those health budget annually on mental health over the last fears have been consolidated further by the findings of few years — must realize that investing properly in Adityanath open up the primrose way to a new study published in The Lancet which says that mental healthcare would benefit the economy. discrimination and crime, whether for agents of one in three Covid-19 survivors received a Mental health correlates positively with economic the State or for non-State actors under their neurological or psychiatric diagnosis within six months of toll that serious physical illnesses — Covid-19 and growth; the World Health Organization estimates that the patronage. Should his electoral promises be being infected with the coronavirus. For 13 per cent of the otherwise — take not just on the patients but also on their loss to the Indian economy caused by a mental health crisis fulfilled, women and particular communities and patients whose health records were examined, this was families and caregivers. The burden is intensified when would be more than $1 trillion between 2012 and 2030. If castes — UP has an impressive record of crimes their first recorded neurological or psychiatric diagnosis. there are financial worries, especially since healthcare in the suffering of citizens does not spur the State on to act, against Dalits — would become the favourite There is thus a strong case for recognizing the severe mental India is unaffordable for many. Tackling the problem will might the fear of an economic fallout do the trick? targets of oppression in Bengal. Faith breached: Love jihad laws A recent empirical study of litigations on inter-faith marriages dispels the myth that there is a ‘Muslim conspiracy’

A lot has been written about the impact of the anti- subordination are fulfilled in the conversion ordinances — the love jihad laws in Uttar case of the love jihad laws. First, Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. This analysis focuses on the lawmaker has the power to the right to choose, the right to love and that of religion. subordinate. The US Commission Apart from the impact of State sanctioned violence on on International Religious and the incarceration of couples, the implications of Freedom in its 2020 annual report these laws for the social and civic status of Muslims flagged the fact that 10 states needs to be considered. already have stringent anti- A recent empirical study of litigations on inter-faith conversion laws “that can be marriages dispels the myth that there is a ‘Muslim interpreted as prohibiting conspiracy’ or ‘love jihad’. The study establishes that in consensual conversions”. It also “as many as 7 out of 10 cases”, the parents [of inter-faith took note of recently passed laws couples] intervene illegitimately. The law, then, is a clear in Himachal Pradesh, manifestation of vigilante mobilization that the Uttarakhand, Gujarat and historian, Charu Gupta, describes as “the campaigns Jharkhand that mete out greater [which] construct an image of the Muslim male as punishments and stricter aggressive, and broadcast a series of stereotypes and restrictions. The report argues that repetitive motifs, creating a common ‘enemy’ — the “… Empowered by anti- Other. The luring of Hindu women by Muslim men is conversion laws and often with the stated to demonstrate the ‘lack of character’ of the police’s complicity, Hindutva sexually charged, lustful Muslim men, violating the pure groups also conduct campaigns of body of Hindu women.” harassment, social exclusion, and In an opinion piece on the proposed laws, the political violence against Christians, scientist, Christophe Jaffrelot, observed that “such a law Muslims, and other religious would illustrate the transition from a de facto to a de jure minorities across the country.” Hindu Rashtra, something already evident from the The arrest of Muslim men on the Citizenship Amendment Act (2019).” These laws frivolous charge of engaging in downgrade ‘the less than equal’ civic and social status of ‘love jihad’ shows that the Muslim citizens. The legal scholar, Farrah Ahmed, has decision-making authority argued in the context of CAA that discriminatory laws possesses sufficient power to demean a group of citizens, thereby constituting a lower the social standing of ‘subordinating speech act’. She alludes to the racist ‘Jim individuals belonging to religious procedural and substantive obligations while putting guaranteed equal status should alert the citizenry about Crow’ laws whose “implications for [Blacks’ social] minorities. The second condition of the subordination them under the risk of criminalization on account of their the Indian State’s ongoing transformation from a secular status were impossible to miss”. Juxtaposed with test is also fulfilled through a State narrative and a religious identity. The ordinance’s impositions of democracy to an ethno-majoritarian autocracy. As the “Articles 14, 15, 16 and 17 and the preambular campaign by vigilantes to vilify Muslims. There is no disabilities on inter-faith couples are ‘contrary to the debate on the legality of these laws continues, this testing commitment to ‘equality of status’”, giving “effect to an evidence to justify the necessity of this law apart from basic concept of our system that legal burdens should time makes it incumbent on the people to re-affirm their anti-subordination principle”, these laws are grossly such narratives. A Kafkaesque legal regime unjustly and bear some relationship to individual responsibility or faith in a secular democracy based on equal moral unconstitutional. The two requirements for disproportionately burdens interfaith couples with wrongdoing’. This denudation of a Constitutionally- membership. New Delhi, Wednesday, 14 April, 2021 FILM THE SIKH TIMES 7 Kajol, Ajay Devgn’s daughter Nysa After dances to her parents’ hit tracks SonuSonu Sood, Sood, at school event, video goes viral RaveenaRaveena Tandon calls out the decision of carrying offline board t seems Kajol and Ajay Devgn’s daughter Nysa is Bollywood ready. A fan page recently dropped a exams amid Covid-19 surge Ivideo in which Nysa can be seen performing on Kajol’s popular tracks with her schoolmates. In the video, Nysa, along with other students, is seen grooving to “Bole Chudiyaan”, “Sajda” and “Tere Naina.” She ended her performance with Kareena Kapoor’s famous song “Nagada” from Jab We Met. The video received immense love from Kajol fans. While one of the Instagram user wrote, “So talented,” another praised her performance and wrote, “Nice performance, keep it up.” Some of the users had kind words to share for Nysa. “I bet Nysa would still have as many fans as she has now even if her parents weren’t famous actors because baby girl is talented herself. She’s got the looks and the potential,” wrote one of the fans. A user had a question for Nysa. Tagging her private account, he asked, “Did you tell your friends that your mother is in that film? What was their reaction?” Well, even we are keen to know the answer to this question. Nysa and Kajol have often spoken about their bond. Last year, the two dropped a video with a title that read “Quarantine Tapes.” In the video, Nysa and Kajol spoke about the bond they share with each other. “Me and my mother are actually alike. She is way more chill than she will ever admit. I know both of us are really loud and both of us don’t have fter Sonu Sood, who requested to cancel offline filters. We are pretty relaxed about what people think board exams amid the rising Covid-19 cases, and their opinions about us,” Nysa said in the video. ARaveena Tandon has voiced her opinion and called it ‘a very stressful time for students.’ On Sunday, the actor wrote on Twitter, “Adults in lockdown mode while children venturing out to give exams. Very brave. What Amitabh Bachchan What about all those families who have senior citizens, or parents with health issues at home, putting them at said when son Abhishek risk.”Later, Raveena shared indianexpress.com’s report that compared Covid-19 cases in March 2020 with March 2021. The report’s synopsis read that “It took 32 days for the daily was ready to quit Bollywood case count to rise from 18,000 to 50,000 during the first wave. This time, it took only 17 days — from 18,377 on March 11 to 50,518 on March 27.” Along with the article, after a dozen flops Raveena wrote, “This time last year 2020 cases < to this year 2021. 2020 exams cancelled. This time, the virus is seen even more in children.” On Sunday, PTI reported that as per the government, there is a single day rise of 1,52,879 new Covid- 19 cases, which has pushed India’s tally of cases to 1,33,58,805 and death toll to 1,69,275.” Union Health Ministry, on the other hand, shared, “Active Covid-19 cases in country stand at 11,08,087, while 1,20,81,443 people have recovered from the disease.” Sonu Sood’s appeal to the Government came on Sunday morning. The actor urged the concerned organisations to look for “an internal assessment method” to promote the students who are appearing for board exams this year. “I request everyone to support students who are forced to appear for offline board exams in these tough times. With the number of cases rising to 145k a day I feel there should be an internal assessment method to promote them rather than risking so many lives,” the actor wrote along with a video he shared on his social media platforms.

bhishek Bachchan is in the news as his latest film The Big Bull released on April 8 on Disney+ AHotstar to mixed reviews. Inspired by the life of stockbroker Harshad Mehta, the film had the actor’s father Amitabh Bachchan writing a blog on the film Rhea Chakraborty and how Abhishek made his proud. Rhea Chakraborty Now, in a new interview, Abhishek has spoken how his father has been his biggest support and had once is ‘keeping the faith,’ fan says ‘Nice guided him when he was all but ready to give up showbiz. Abhishek said he spoke to Amitabh that he to see you taking life in true spirit’ believed he was not made for the industry after a string of flops. Junior Bachchan made his acting debut in ctor Rhea Chakraborty has grabbed heart emojis in the comment section of 2000 with JP Dutta’s war film Refugee, and it was the attention yet again, but this time for Rhea’s post. In March, Rhea had shared a fifth-highest grosser of the year. However, he had over her thoughtful Instagram post. The photo with her friend Nidhi Parmar Hira. a dozen flops and he was disillusioned. bhishek, in an A interview with RJ Siddharth Kannan, recalled the time actor posted a picture of herself in which she She wrote “Love is power” while quoting is seen reading Rabindranath Tagore’s Rober Fulghum. On the work front, Rhea and said, “To fail on a public platform is very difficult. Gitanjali. will soon be seen in Chehre, which stars There was no social media back then, but I read via media that some were abusing me while some said that Sharing the picture, in which Rhea’s face is a Amitabh Bachchan and Emraan Hashmi in I do not know acting.” He added, “At one point in time, little blurred out, the actor quoted a line from the lead. However, the makers refrained I felt it was my mistake that I came into the industry as the book which read, “The question and the from promoting her. Talking about Rhea’s a ? Rhe whatsoever I was trying, it was not working. I went to cry ‘oh , where?’ melt into tears of a absence, Chehre producer Anand Pandit my dad and said maybe I am not made for this thousand streams and deluge the world with said that while the public scrutiny never aoty industry.” Amitabh Bachchan then told son Abhishek, the flood of the assurance, ‘I AM!’ – affected his decision to retain the actor in the Chakr b r “I never brought you up to be quitter. Every morning Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali.” She ended film, he knew the media attention could take you have to wake up and fight for your place under the the note with a hashtag that read, “keeping a toll on Rhea if she participated in public haf s le t her fans sun. As an actor, you are improving with every film.” the faith.” As soon as she posted the picture, engagements for the film. “A lot of issues Abhishek shared that senior Bachchan asked him to a lot of her well-wishers sent her good luck have happened in Rhea’s life over the last ipirewihherrecens d t nt take every role, big or small, significant or in the comment section. “Nice to see you one year. I never wanted to give another insignificant. “Just work and trust me you will be fine,” taking life in true spirit. Wish you good luck turmoil to her… till the time she is not siaoc l media po s t in h w ich Amitabh told Abhishek at that time. The actor shared always,” wrote one of her fans. Another fan comfortable (promoting the film). For my that these words gave him courage and thankfully shared, “You are inspiration for girls like project or benefit, I don’t want to create ssehe is een r ading things worked out thereafter. The 78-year-old actor me. Keep rocking. More power to you.” One ripples in somebody’s life,” stated the Rinnab dra ath Ta o gr e's also praised his son’s performance in the Kookie Gulati of her Instagram follower wrote, “Stay producer. The film was supposed to release nja directorial on social media. Big B wrote a long note on strong and always keep faith. Sab thik on April 9. However, due to rise in the Gita li. his blog. “For a Father, it is ever a moment of great hoga.” Siddhanth Kapoor, Arjit Taneja, coronavirus cases in Mumbai, the theaters pride to see their ‘progress report’ prosper and do well Shibani Dandekar and others also posted have been shut yet again. .. I am no different from any other Father . New Delhi, Wednesday, 14 April, 2021 WORLD THE SIKH TIMES 8 UK Covid Variant Not Linked To More Serious Infections: Study Massive Fire At Russia's Historic Saint Paris: The English variant of the novel coronavirus does not increase the severity of Covid-19 compared to Petersburg Factory Still Burning other strains, according to research published Tuesday that also confirmed Russia: A spectacular fire gutted a collapsed.As night fell nearly building had quite serious its increased transmissibility. Forty people historic factory in Russia's second 350 firefighters were still violations of fire safety The variant, known as B117, is now the city Saint Petersburg on Monday, battling the blaze, with requirements, including dominant viral strain across much of sending clouds of black smoke over reinforcements from army theabsence or malfunction Europe, and previous studies had had been the former imperial capital. fire-fighting helicopters.The of fire protection systems - shown it was linked to a higher With the fire still raging Monday cause of the fire which erupted - including automatic fire likelihood of death than normal evening, the emergencies ministry around 1:30 pm (10:30 GMT) extinguishing -- fire variants.But two studies published in evacuated said the body of one firefighter who was not immediately known. a l a r m s a n d s m o k e The Lancet Infectious Diseases and had died had been recovered, while Listed by the Saint Petersburg exhausts," TASS cited a The Lancet Public Health journals from the two others were hospitalised in city government as a cultural source in the emergencies found no evidence that people with serious condition with burns covering heritage site, the building was ministry as saying. B117 experience worse symptoms or a 40 to 50 percent of their bodies. home to one of Russia's largest Fires are relatively common greater risk of developing long Covid factory and a Forty people had been evacuated from textile companies in the i n R u s s i a d u e t o than those infected with different the factory and a nearby hotel was second half of the 19th dilapidated infrastructure variants.The research found however shuttered and its occupants century, the Fontanka local or non-compliance with that the variant was associated with a nearby hotel relocated.The ministry said that the news website reported.It said safety standards.In 2018, higher viral load and reproduction rate fire had broken out over several floors the company, the Thornton officials said that multiple than normal variants. Woollen Mill Company, was safety rules were violated was of the red-brick Nevskaya cloth, while others were rented out as Authors of the first study looked at data Manufaktura building on the founded by British citizen James and an alarm system was not working from 341 patients who tested positive George Thornton and his sons, andoffice space and some areas had been when an inferno in a shopping centre Oktyabrskaya Embankment of the abandoned. for Covid-19 late last year when B117 shuttered Neva River.The enormous factory that its products won the highest in the Siberian city of Kemerovo was running rampant across southeast was engulfed in flames which spread award at the World Exhibition in Paris The Investigative Committee, which killed 64 people including 41 England.They found that 58 percent of and its to nearby trees, AFP journalists at the in 1900.probes major crimes in Russia, said it children.In December, a fire engulfed those patients had B117, while 42 scene said, adding that the building Serious safety violations had opened an investigation into a a retirement home in the death caused by negligence. percent had non-B117 Covid-19. was surrounded by fire trucks and The factory was nationalised and run as Bashkortostan region south of the Of those infected with B117, 36 percent occupants several ambulances. a state entity during the Soviet period, The state-run TASS news agency Ural Mountains, killing 11 people. became severely ill or died, compared The inferno spread to an area of about then privatised in 1992. reported that the emergencies Officials said that the building had with 38 percent of those with non- 10,000 square metres (107,640 square ministry had conducted inspections violated safety requirements by In recent years parts of the building into the building as recently as March B117, suggesting that there was no relocated. feet) and a large part of the roof had continued to operate manufacturing housing too many people. association between B117 and 16, finding nine violations."The heightened risk of severe infection.Patients with the variant tended to be younger, and infections of New Zealand introduces climate change Cop Mistook Handgun For B117 occurred more frequently in ethnic minority groups, the data showed. Taser In US Shooting Of The authors also analysed the law for financial firms in world first transmissibility by looking at data Black Man: Police generated by PCR testing. They found than NZ$1 billion ($703 million), insurers Disclosures will be required for financial Minneapolis: The policewoman who fatally shot a 20- that samples of B117 tended to contain New Zealand becomes with more than NZ$1 billion in total assets years beginning next year once the law is year-old Black man in a Minneapolis suburb greater quantities of the virus than non- under management, and all equity and passed, meaning that the first reports will accidentally confused her handgun with her taser, B117 swabs.Commenting on the first the first country to debt issuers listed on the country’s stock be made by companies in 2023. police said Monday, fueling tensions in this city study, Sean Wei Xiang Ong, Barnaby exchange will have to make disclosures. The New Zealand government last already on edge because of the George Floyd murder Edward Young and David Chien Lye introduce a law that will “We simply cannot get to net-zero carbon September said it would make the financial trial. from the National Centre for Infectious emissions by 2050 unless the financial sector report on climate risks and those "The officer drew their handgun instead of their taser," Diseases, Singapore, said that the require financial firms to sector knows what impact their unable to disclose would have to explain Brooklyn Center police chief Tim Gannon said at a findings were in contrast to three investments are having on the climate,” their reasons. press conference about Sunday's shooting of Daunte previous studies suggesting that B117 explain how they would Shaw said in a statement. The New Zealand government has Wright. was deadlier than other variants. “This law will bring climate risks and introduced several policies to lower Gannon said it was his belief that the officer, who has manage climate-related resilience into the heart of financial and emissions during its second term including been placed on leave pending an investigation, "had Japan To Release 1 Million business decision-making.” promising to make its public sector carbon- the intention to deploy their taser but instead shot Mr risks and opportunities. The bill, which has been introduced to the neutral by 2025 and buy only zero- Wright with a single bullet.""This was an accidental Tonnes Waste Water From country’s parliament and is expected to emissions public transport buses from the discharge that resulted in the tragic death of Mr Wellington.New Zealand has become the receive its first reading this week, requires middle of this decade. Wright," Gannon said. "There is nothing I can say to Fukushima Nuclear Plant Into first country to introduce a law that will financial firms to explain how they would Prime Minister JacindaArdern, who returned lessen the pain of Mr Wright's family." require banks, insurers and investment manage climate-related risks and to power last October delivering the Gannon showed reporters police body camera video of Sea managers to report the impacts of climate opportunities.Around 200 of the country’s biggest election victory for her centre-left the shooting, which sparked protests overnight in biggest companies and several foreign Labour Party in half a century, had called Japan: Japan will release more than a change on their business, minister for Brooklyn Center and looting of a shopping mall.In climate change James Shaw said on firms that meet the NZ$1 billion threshold climate change the “nuclear free moment the video, police officers are seen pulling Wright out million tonnes of treated water from will come under the legislation. of our generation.” the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant Tuesday.All banks with total assets of more of his car after stopping him for a traffic violation and into the ocean, the government said discovering he had an outstanding warrant. Tuesday, despite concern from As Wright scuffles with the officers and gets back into neighbouring countries and fierce the driver's seat of the car, a female police officer opposition from local fishing On 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's historic flight, President shouts "I'll tase you" and then "taser, taser, taser. communities. "Holy shit, I shot him," the officer says as Wright, The process is not likely to begin for fatally wounded, drives away.The protests overnight several years and could take decades to Vladimir Putin vows Russia will remain space power prompted the defense attorney for former officer complete, but it has already stirred Derek Chauvin, who is facing murder and significant controversy at home and Yuri Gagarin became the first human in outer space in 1961. manslaughter charges for George Floyd's death, to abroad.Japan's government argues the ask the judge presiding over the high-profile case to sequester the jury. release is safe because the water is MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir always be proud that it was our country from Star Wars. Eric Nelson, Chauvin's lawyer, said he was concerned processed to remove almost all Putin marked the 60th anniversary of Yuri that paved the road to outer space," Putin radioactive elements and will be Celebrations also took place in space. that the protests over Wright's death could influence diluted.The International Atomic Gagarin`s historic space flight on Monday told senior officials."In the 21st century, "Our scientists and engineers demonstrated the jurors. Energy Agency (IAEA) has endorsed with a pledge that Moscow would remain Russia must properly maintain its status as the unquestionable superiority of our "A verdict in this case is going to have consequences," the release, which it says is similar to a key space and nuclear power. one of the leading nuclear and space homeland`s technology, and made us the Nelson said. "Will the jury be confident to make a disposal of waste water at nuclear Gagarin became the first human in outer powers, because the space sector is (world`s) first space power," cosmonaut decision regardless of the potential outcome of their plants elsewhere in the world. space on April 12, 1961, in one of the directly linked to defence."Gagarin`s 108- Oleg Novitsky said in a video address decision?"Prosecutors opposed the request to Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga Soviet Union`s most important Cold War minute orbit around the Earth propelled from the International Space Station sequester the jury and so did the judge."This is a told a ministerial meeting that victories and a pivotal moment in its space him to international fame and earned him (ISS), flanked by three other Russian totally different case," Judge Peter Cahill said. disposing of the water was an race with the United States. the status of national hero in the Soviet cosmonauts. "I'm not going to sequester them. We'll sequester them "inevitable task" in the decades-long The Soviet Union`s achievements in space Union, which erected statues and painted Roscosmos has suffered a series of technical on Monday when I anticipate doing closing," he said, process of decommissioning the continue to be a source of national pride murals in his honour across its vast mishaps and corruption scandals in recent referring to closing arguments. nuclear plant. and a patriotic rallying cry at a time when territory.The head of Russian space years, including during the construction of "Incredibly saddened" He said the release would happen only Moscow`s relations with Washington are agency Roscosmos and members of the the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Chauvin is facing murder and manslaughter charges "after ensuring the safety levels of the at a post-Cold War low. Communist Party laid flowers on for his role in Floyd's death on May 25, 2020, which water" and alongside measures to country`s far east where contractors were To mark the anniversary, Vladimir Putin laid Gagarin`s grave at the foot of the Kremlin accused of embezzling state funds. occurred during his arrest for allegedly passing a fake "prevent reputational wall on Monday. $20 bill.The 45-year-old Chauvin, who is white, was damage".Around 1.25 million tonnes flowers on a monument to Gagarin near In 2019, Putin complained to government his landing site close to the city of Engels, Other commemorative events were more officials about corruption at the facility, seen in a video taken by a bystander kneeling on of water has accumulated in tanks at Floyd's neck for more than nine minutes as the the nuclear plant, which was crippled some 860 km (535 miles) southeast of light-hearted, including a neighbourhood and investigators said they were looking clean-up in the Siberian city of Irkutsk handcuffed 46-year-old Black man complained after going into meltdown following a Moscow."This is without a doubt a great into allegations of fraud. repeatedly that he could not breathe. tsunami in 2011. event that changed the world. We will where volunteers dressed up as characters It includes water used to cool the plant, as well as rain and groundwater that seeps in daily. Ireland To Limit AstraZeneca G7 Urges Russia To Stop Covid Shot To Over-60s Ireland: Ireland's vaccine taskforce on Monday recommended the "Provocations", De-Escalate On Ukraine AstraZeneca coronavirus jab be limited to those aged over 60, following European reviews of Paris: The Group of Seven leading economic northern and eastern borders as well as on the evidence linking the shot to rare blood powers on Monday called on Russia to stop its annexed Crimean peninsula.The Kremlin has clotting events. "provocations" and "de-escalate tensions" not denied the troop movements but has Their decision follows those of several following its troop build-up on the border with insisted that Moscow does not intend to other European countries that have Ukraine. threaten anyone. halted use of the jab among younger The G7 foreign ministers issued their joint The White House this week said the number of people following the European appeal on the eve of a NATO meeting in Russian troops at the border with Ukraine was regulator's ruling earlier this month Brussels over concerns that the years-long now greater than at any time since 2014 when that it could be linked to the rare conflict in eastern Ukraine could escalate the conflict erupted.Fighting subsided in 2020 clots.The National Immunisation sharply.The ministers, most of whose as a ceasefire agreement took hold last July, Advisory Committee (NIAC) said the countries also belong to NATO, "are deeply but clashes have picked up again since the start AstraZeneca vaccine "is not concerned by the large ongoing build-up of of the year, with each side blaming the other. recommended for those aged under 60 Russian military forces on Ukraine's borders Ukraine's army said that a serviceman was killed years" after the European Medicines and in illegally-annexed Crimea," they said in on Saturday when separatist fighters opened Agency noted "unusual clotting a statement."These large-scale troop fire with small arms, while another soldier was events" as "very rare side movements, without prior notification, fatally shot and wounded on Monday.On effects".NIAC Chair Karina Butler represent threatening and destabilising Thursday Ukraine's President Volodymyr noted that the shot, which was activities," the statement added. Zelensky visited the eastern frontline, developed in partnership with "We call on Russia to cease its provocations and speaking with soldiers in the Britain's Oxford University, was to immediately de-escalate tensions in line trenches.Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro "highly effective and substantially with its international obligations."The G7 -- in a statement marking seven years since the internationally recognised borders". Kuleba is due to meet with NATO chief Jens reduces the risk of severe COVID-19 the United States, Britain, France, Germany, takeover.Shortly after the annexation, Russia- And it backed what it called "Ukraine's posture Stoltenberg on Tuesday, with US Secretary of disease across all age groups".But the Italy, Canada and non-NATO Japan -- also backed separatists in eastern Ukraine began of restraint". StateAntony Blinken also heading to Brussels committee had opted to change its urged Russia to uphold international fighting a conflict against the Ukrainian army US warns of "consequences" for talks.Blinken and Stoltenberg spoke by advice in light of the reviews, she "principles and commitments that it has that has so far claimed more than 13,000 lives, The G7 renewed calls for all parties to phone Monday ahead of his visit to discuss added."NIAC realises the need to signed up to on transparency of military according to the UN. implement a 2015 peace deal known as Minsk issues "including the immediate need for balance the significant benefits of a The G7 reiterated its March statement by II that banned tanks and other heavy weapons. national vaccination programme with movements". Russia to cease its aggressive military buildup In March, the G7 said it would not accept backing "the independence, sovereignty and Ukraine has accused Russia of amassing along Ukraine's borders and in occupied the very rare risk of these reported territorial integrity of Ukraine within its events," she said in a statement. Russia's annexation of Crimea from Ukraine, thousands of military personnel on its Crimea," the State Department said. New Delhi, Wednesday, 14 April, 2021 RelationshipsRELATIONSHIP THE SIKH TIMES 9

Interestingly, they are also encouraged to step in their Make shoes by actually performing their duties. Cooking with shapes Age group: Upto 5 years your Kids ant to teach your tot different Kids shapes as well as hone his/her culinary skills? Through an hour long weekend summer workshop, kids learn about four different shapes and are also asked to create goodies other considerations, summer workshops are using those shapes. Meanwhile, weekly designed in such a way that kids are provided with workshops where kids are taught about basic an overall development. These themes are out of nutrition and age appropriate culinary skills the box and encourage a three-dimensional through activities like bean snapping, corn physical, audiovisual and mental learning husking and melon balling are also finding experience.Here's looking at some creative takers. activities for you kids. Aeromodelling workshop Age group: 4-14 Graphic novel workshop Age group: 14-18 yearsA new-age fun activity are aeromodelling years work shops are also conducted. Here, children Writing comic books is a serious art. If your child learn the art of designing, developing and flying shows a keen interest in sketching, a graphic small aeroplane models. While beginners can novel workshop would be a good way to refine start with static models and paer planes, the CoolCool his/her skills. At this week-long advanced learners are provided materials to workshop, using different illustrating create rubber powered flying models. ThisThis summersummer styles, the children are supposed to Dos and don'ts before you enroll your kid in a form their own novel's first chapter. summer camp: These work form their own novel's The summer camp should include many first chapter. T shops are designed for activities so the child has a choice and you young adults.Its aim is to introduce eventually know what interests him best. students to the art of the graphic novel, Do not decide the hobby, sports or activities that and provide them with the tools to create you think would be fun or beneficial. Keep your their own works of visualised fiction. child's interests in mind. Forensic Science workshop Age If you're a working mother, get your friend's kids group: 7-12 years to join as well. If your kid is hooked on to mysteries or That way your friends can take care of picking loves Sherlock Holmes, get him/her up and dropping off your kid to the camp. enrolled in this workshop.From searching Sports week: Get your kid's friends together for the evidence to gathering clues, every evening and organise a sports week camp dusting for fingerprints and analysing at a nearby park. You can start off the week by handwriting this three-hour workshop is a making a team jersey and enjoy a wide variety of great way to discover how science can help non-competitive sport themed activities mystery-solving. including soccer, football, golf, basketball and Animation workshop Age group: 10-14 gymnastics. years From teaching tots Make musical instruments: Using materials f you thought animation films could only be about community available at home, encourage your child to make created using digital softwares, think again. helpers to teens learning instruments that he/she can use through the At a workshops, children are asked to use about aeromodelling and graphic week. paint, clay, paper cutouts etc to created novel writing, summer camps get more Ask him/her to play dif ferent tunes and record animated characters. Besides, they also get a creative. Gone are the days when summer them on simple recording devices like a phone. chance to watch short animated films around the vacations only meant playing out in the Aquatic life theme: Start off the week by world. sun.These days, parents believe that children painting a T-shirt with the sea creatures that your Community helpers' workshop Age group: 3-6 should continue the learning process during the child loves. You can go for activities like making years vacations as well. And while earlier, summer penguins out of water bottles that is sure to take Want your child to know about the duties of a camps and workshops would only involve basic up most of your kid's afternoon. For younger newspaper vendor or a postman? Get art, craft and outdoor game activities, these days, kids, fill a bathtub with water and let them enjoy himher enrolled in one of the day-long workshops they involve innovative as well as fun-oriented playing with boats and floatable animals under where kids are introduced to four community ones. With a range of age groups, interests and your supervision. helpers and understand their job patterns.

witness to this mutual hostility and 9 things never to say to criticism. So when you shower your How to make the most of partner's animosity on your kid, that's when he begins to lose respect. 7.You always find ways to hurt me your holiday with kids There are times when children hurt their parents' sentiments by going against their Outings can be stressful if you are travelling the parents, as kids can eat quickly — without Your child wishes. Most times it is unintentional but with children, as their expectations differ waiting for an order to come — try new foods Your child there are kids who do so on purpose. from that of adults. The stress of finding right and serve themselves. But do keep an eye so Being a parent is difficult and so is However, saying something like the above activities for each age group and food needs that they don't waste food. brother/sister? statement would make your child feel coming off as a proud child. It's only This is once again an unreasonable leaves you with no time to relax. Here's how - Even though resorts offer games at the kids human to give vent to your rage by using guilty about his/her decision. He might you can keep your brood happy while you zone, you should carry those that your children comparison and a common one at that. comply with your demands to make you harsh words. However, when the Avoid seeding in animosity between your enjoy your 'me' time... enjoy playing at home. Remember, there will be recipient of your outrage is your own happy but you'd be taking away his right to According to Girish Shenoy, a banker and a extra charges levied on you at such places. So, children by comparing their abilities. Doing happiness in the long run. Let your child, it might have uncertain and so may create a fissure between the siblings. father of two daughters (aged eight and having your own game with you will help you unmanageable repercussions. children take their own decisions and let three), a vacation with kids is a sure way to save some money. You don't want your kid to harbour negative them live a guilt-free life. We list 9 insensitive things that you feelings for you, hence avoid assessing your get post-vacation stress. "You not only blow - Plan your days in such a way that more should avoid saying to your child. 8. It's better to be childless than have a your budget with extra add-ons, with each kid exciting and tiring activities are done in the kids. kid like you 1. I was much more responsible when I 4. Leave me alone! demanding something other than what is beginning of the schedule and restful activities was your age The above statement is mostly an extreme provided in terms of food and amenities, but are taken up towards the end, leaving you less Adults have huge responsibilities to take emotional outburst but can have grave Comparing your child and giving him an care of, responsibilities that children are also come back tired example of what all you were capable of consequences on the kid. Unquestionably, instead of refreshed," he innocently oblivious of. And there are times it is the most hurtful thing you can ever say when you were a kid is the first big when we want to be left alone too. Kids are says. The story is more or mistake parents make. Their irritation to your child. No matter what the crisis is, less similar for every incapable of understanding the gravity of saying something like this could make you stems from 'expectations' - expectations such situations. An impatient outburst of couple with children. of bringing up the 'perfect' kid. Try and regret for life. Shubhra Jaiswal (39) too, 'Leave me alone!' can make your child feel There are times when children hurt their recall your shortcomings as a child and neglected, unwanted and depressed at the came back stressed from what all troubles you bothered your parents' sentiments by going against their her recent holiday as same time. Show some patience and avoid wishes. Most times it is unintentional but parents with. You are the elder one in the saying something bad to him. there was nothing much relationship hence you ought to know there are kids who do so on purpose. to do for her two kids at 5.You should be ashamed of yourself However, saying something like the above more. A statement such as this will break This statement is outright harsh and saying the place chosen by her your child's confidence. statement would make your child feel for the family's vacation. such an awful thing to any child is simply guilty about his/her decision. He might 2. You always end up taking wrong 'bad'. Yes, there are mischievous kids who "I realised that finding decisions comply with your demands to make you beforehand what go about pestering people with a devil-may- happy but you'd be taking away his right to Don't penalise your kid for being care attitude but that does not mean you activities or fun things are immature. Everyone is allowed to make happiness in the long run. Let your there for your kids is of reprimand him like this. There are children take their own decisions and let mistakes and it is in fact a part of the better and milder ways to make the supreme importance," learning process. He might have taken up them live a guilt-free life. says Shubhra. She child understand the difference 8. It's better to be childless than a field of study that doesn't interest you or between good and bad. suggests going for perhaps working with a company that have a kid like you holidays which are all- 6. You're just like your The above statement is mostly an you're not very proud of, but that doesn't father/mother inclusive, so that needs of mean you accuse him of the decisions. extreme emotional outburst but each and every person of Not all married couples are exhausted. Your job as a parent is to guide him, not can have grave consequences the family is taken care of. happy living together and the Do some pre-planning before you book force him to obey your opinions. on the kid. Unquestionably, it What to do when you are there bitterness in their relationship - Inquire about the activities, operational hours 3. Why can't you is the most hurtful thing you - Attend to the needs of the kids first so that often translates into exchange and what ages are eligible for admission at kids' be more like can ever say to your child. they don't complain about being bored. Once of unkind words against each No matter what the crisis clubs in the resort. Also find out about the your other. Some relationships end they are happy, it is easier for you to take time is, saying something like out for yourself and indulge in your favourite charges. in separation too. Either this could make you - Find out if there are 'adult only' areas and ways, kids are a activity, like reading a book on the beach. regret for life. - Give a break to the rules that you have made restrictions on certain sites in the hotel or resort. for kids while on vacation. But make sure that While it can be advantageous as you can have they get enough rest in between activities. your peace and quiet in those areas, this also You don't want to go back home with an ill eliminates certain restaurants and activities you child as that would really be a downer. were looking forward to try with your little - Many resorts offer in-room babysitting or ones. kids' activities. Make use of the service so - Try to draw up a rough schedule of things that you can have a relaxed evening. If that's you'd like to do with the kids. It eliminates not available, order room service when the incessant questions like 'When are we taking a children are asleep. boat ride?' or 'Can I go to the fun zone now?' It is - Most all-inclusive resorts have, at least, one good to have a schedule even on holidays when buffet restaurant. This makes things easy for you have to deal with children. New Delhi, Wednesday, 14 April, 2021 BUSINESS THE SIKH TIMES 10

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S&P Dow Jones Indices said it has removed Adani Ports and Special Economic Bank, HDFC Bank, HDFC, Zone Ltd from its sustainability index due to Z expected to shed more prices fell Rs 57 to Rs Larsen & Toubro, State Bank the firm's business ties with Myanmar's Gold prices light on recovery in 46,070 per 10 gram in the of India and Axis Bank were the world`s largest national capital on military which is accused of human rights top movers in the Sensex. abuses after a coup this year. The country's trade flat. economy. Spot gold Monday following weak largest private multi-port operator is was unchanged at global cues. In the building a $290 million port in Yangon on ZUS gold $1,731.69 per ounce previous trade, the land leased from the military-backed by 0354 GMT, with precious metal had closed Myanmar Economic Corporation (MEC). futures were elevated U.S. at Rs 46,127 per 10 gram. 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The Indian equity per ounce, while gram in a business benchmarks bounced after stakeholders on its port project in Myanmar, palladium rose 0.2% turnover of 11,476 lots. after human rights groups reported its Monday's sharp selloff led by gains at $1,731.69 to $2,680.20 per While Silver contracts for in Reliance Industries, ICICI Bank, subsidiary had agreed to pay millions of New Delhi: International participants kept to the May delivery opened at Gold prices were flat on sidelines ahead of U.S. ounce. Platinum slipped HDFC Bank, HDFC, Larsen & dollars in rent to the military-controlled per ounce. 0.2%, to $1,168.13, Rs 66,247 as against the firm. Tuesday as market inflation data that is Toubro, State Bank of India and Axis Reuters added. Gold close of Rs 66,128 per kg. Bank. The Sensex rose as much as 266 points and Nifty 50 index Here’s how you can moved above its important psychological level of 14,350. 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Tech Mahindra, Services posts 14.87 on the verge of announcing a full CII president Uday Kotak said the with the impending lockdown in large states are not the norm,’’ he Adani Ports, Infosys, Dr Reddy's lockdown for up to two weeks. government should do whatever it Maharashtra. MSMEs are added. There was also Labs, Tata Motors, Wipro, HCL per cent growth in net The state has started night takes to ramp up the production currently in a state of chaos, disappointing news on the jobs Technologies, Asian Paints and curfews and imposed a lockdown and distribution of vaccines. Any unsure of supply, demand and front. Latest data from the CMIE Nestle India were also among the profits over the weekend. Bajaj said the measures to restrict social payment schedules,’’ Kenny showed unemployment rate notable losers. The overall market impact on the two-wheeler Ramanand, national secretary,All jumped to 8.6 per cent for the breadth was positive as 1,548 shares Mumbai . Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) gatherings should not be extended industry has not been significant, to regular functioning of industry India Manufacturer’s week ended April 11 from 6.7 per were advancing while 517 were on Monday began the earnings season on a though dealerships have been Organisation (AIMO), said. cent two weeks ago. declining on the BSE. positive note by posting a 14.87 per cent and commerce, T.V. Narendran, growth in net profits for the March quarter of 2021, which came in line with Street estimates. The strong numbers came as the country’s largest IT services firm reported a robust deal win of $9.2 billion as clients Adani to set up one of country’s largest continued to spend on technology. The company’s board of directors has recommended a final dividend of Rs 15 per share. For the quarter, TCS posted a net warehousing facility for Flipkart profit of Rs 9,246 crore compared with Rs 8,049 crore in the same period of the previous fiscal. It marked a sequential 6.26 As part of this partnership, Adani Logistics Ltd will construct a massive 534,000 sq ft fulfilment centre at its upcoming logistics hub in Mumbai per cent growth over the net profit in the preceding quarter. The quarter saw revenues Mumbai . Gautam Adani on the growing demand for e- Flipkart developing capitalise on the capability of the at TCS rising to Rs 43,705 crore from Rs Monday rode into India’s booming commerce in Western India its third data centre Adanis as the largest solar player in 39,946 crore in the year-ago period. In dollar e-commerce industry by entering and support market access of the AdaniConnecX the country to generate and source terms, revenues came in at $5,989 million, a into a strategic partnership with several thousands of sellers Chennai facility as green power. The AdaniConneX sequential growth of around 5 per cent from Flipkart. The tie-up will see Adani and MSMEs in the region. part of one of the data centre is a new facility $5702 million in the preceding quarter. The Logistics set up one of the The centre is expected to be largest private enabling Flipkart to mould the order book of $9.2 billion in the quarter is the country’s largest warehousing operational in the third cloud deployments data centre to its growing highest total contract value (TCV) in any quarter, TCS said. For the year as a whole, its facility for the Walmart controlled quarter of 2022 and will have in the country, infrastructure needs with a order book at $31.6 billion saw a rise of 17 e-tailer. the capacity to house 10 t h e r e b y significant focus on security and per cent over last year’s number. “Our Adani Logistics is a wholly owned million units of sellers’ strengthening its keeping data locally within India. investments over the last decade in building subsidiary of Adani Ports & inventory at any point. In g r o w i n g “This broad-ranging partnership newer capabilities, and in research and Special Economic Zone.As part of addition to strengthening marketplace e- across our logistics and data centre innovation, position us well for the multi- this partnership, Adani Logistics Flipkart’s supply chain commerce business businesses is a unique business year technology services opportunity ahead. Ltd will construct a massive infrastructure to support in India. The Adani model, and we see this as a great 534,000 sq ft fulfilment centre at MSMEs and sellers, the group said that the opportunity to serve Flipkart’s “While we continue to dominate in our added. Observers say that the traditional areas of strength, we are making its upcoming logistics hub in facility will enhance local data centre has been designed to physical as well as digital partnership will help Flipkart to good progress in gaining share in the growth Mumbai that will be leased to employment and create around meet the highest standards in infrastructure needs,” Karan and transformation opportunity. Our focus Flipkart. A joint press statement 2,500 direct jobs and thousands of take the battle to key rivals such as r eliability, security, and Adani, CEO of Adani Ports and going into 2021-22 will be to. said that this centre will address indirect jobs, the companiesAmazon and Reliance Retail. The sustainability, which will Special Economic Zone said. other leg of the partnership will see New Delhi, Wednesday, 14 April, 2021 SPORTS THE SIKH TIMES 11 New name and jersey but Punjab will not stop giving heart attacks: Preity Zinta after PBKS win thriller vs RR

New Delhi Punjab Kings versus Rajasthan over again.Yeah What a game ! We have a / Royals thriller on Monday at Mumbai's New name & a New Jersey, still New name and Jersey Wankhede was a proof of why IPL is called the #saddapunjab won’t stop giving us heart world's most exciting and biggest T20 league. attacks in a game. What to do ? Not a perfect but Punjab won't stop Captain's from both the teams shined and took game for us but in the end it was PERFECT giving us heart fans out of their Monday blues in the most Wow @klrahul11 @iamdeepakhooda & all fascinating fashion. Long story cut short, the boys," Zinta tweeted after PBKS' win in attacks: Preity Zinta PBKS posted 221 for the loss of 6 wickets and their IPL 2021 opener. RR were in need of 94 runs off 42 balls at one High heart beats for Punjab Kings players / stage but Sanju Samson, the newly-appointed Punjab captain KL Rahul and Arshdeep Singh, Zinta hailed Punjab captain of the Royals made the match a last- who bowled the final over of the match, ball thriller.13 runs were needed off the last talked about their high heart rates towards Kings players for over. IPL 2021's first centurion Sanju Samson the end of the match."Heart rate was high but and Chris Morris were on the crease. Two runs I didn't stop believing. We knew a couple of making the match came off the first 3 balls before Samson tonked wickets would bring us back. Till first 10-11 a six on the 4th. Now, with 5 needed of the last overs we bowled well. It was close because 'perfect' in the end two, the Kerala-born hit an Arshdeep Singh we dropped a few sitters, including me. As a delivery towards long-off but did not take any bowling unit, we bowled as we planned. /Defending 222 runs, run, in fact he sent back IPL's costliest buy When you're bowling against Sanju, it's Morris back inside his crease at the non- difficult," KL Rahul said."Now it is beating Punjab could not striker's end.On the last ball of the match, the pretty good. Before the last over, it was RR skipper went for the glory shot but was beating pretty fast. The plan was simple and ensure a win until the caught at the deep cover boundary by Deepak some nail-biting encounters including 2 Super for a better luck. Team's captain KL Rahul has it was to execute six balls wide outside off. I Hooda. Samson got dismissed for 119 (63 Over matches. The franchise has undergone also admitted on record that Punjab were a bit tried to york him. The only thing he could get last ball was bowled balls) as Punjab won the match by 4 runs. some makeovers coming in the 14th edition 'unlucky' last year but the Wankhede thriller was a four. But he got under one of those," IPL 2020 had also seen Punjab being part of and has changed its name and jersey in quest has left co-owner Preity Zinta 'perplexed' all Arshdeep stated after the match. EPL: West Brom sink Loved KL Rahul's strike rate: PBKS captain impresses IPL 2021: Heart was beating Saints to boost slender fast before the last over, says survival hopes Sanjay Manjrekar with 50-ball 91 vs RR in IPL 2021 LONDON: West Bromwich Albion improved However, KL Rahul made a statement as fence in the final over of Punjab Kings' Arshdeep Singh after match- their slender hopes of avoiding relegation KL Rahul hit a 50-ball 91, early as his first outing of IPL 2021. The innings.Heaping praise on KL Rahul's from the Premier League as they survived skirting at an impressive Punjab Kings captain smashed 91 from approach, former India batsman Sanjay winning spell vs RR VAR controversy to beat Southampton 3-0 on just 50 balls as he helped his side post a Manjrekar said: "Loved the 91 but loved Monday.Sam Allardyce's side saw Mbaye rate of 182 mammoth total of 221 against Rajasthan the strike rate even more! If K L Rahul bats /RR vs PBKS, IPL 2021: Arshdeep Diagne's goal questionably ruled out by VAR Z Royals at the Wankhede Stadium in at a strike rate of over 140, which he can early in the first half at the Hawthorns. Rahul had faced criticism for Mumbai.Rahul hit as many as 5 sixes and easily, Punjab Kings will have a much Singh took 3 wickets for 35 runs, But they recovered from that blow to sweep into his below-par strike rate in better IPL than the last."Notably, including that of RR captain Sanju a two-goal lead by half-time thanks to Punjab Kings' newly-appointed Matheus Pereira's penalty and a Matt Phillips IPL 2020 batting coach Wasim Jaffer had Samson, to tilt the match in Punjab strike.Callum Robinson sealed West Brom's ZRahul's 91 helped Punjab hinted before the start of the Kings' favour at the Wankhede second successive win after the interval as the season that KL Rahul will bat Baggies built on their stunning 5-2 victory at Kings post 221 in their IPL more freely at the top of the order Stadium in Mumbai on Monday. Chelsea.Second bottom Albion move within 2021 opener on Monday with Mayank Agarwal."KL eight points of fourth bottom Newcastle with batted a little timidly last season. MumbaiArshdeep Singh is only in his third year in seven games left.The Baggies have scored He probably batted deeper the Indian Premier League but the 22-year-old eight goals in their last two games, two more because there was not much New Delhi. KL Rahul was the top-scorer in has already bowled some match-winning spells than they had netted in their previous 11 batting after No. 5, and Glenn for Punjab Kings and he did it again on Monday combined, but their unexpected revival might Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 with Maxwell was not firing. He took have come too late to save them from slipping 670 runs in 14 matches but questions that responsibility on himself to night in their 4-run victory over Rajasthan Royals into the Championship.Southampton's limp were asked of his strike rate with Punjab try and stay at the crease and get in a high-scoring humdinger in Mumbai. display was the worst possible preparation for Kings failing to get past the finish line on 7 boundaries as he finished his knock with the job done. This time around, everyone Arshdeep took 3 wickets for 35 runs in his 4 overs, next weekend's FA Cup semi-final against multiple occasions despite posting above- a strike rate of 182.00. Rahul missed out on will see an aggressive KL Rahul for sure," including that of RR captain Sanju Samson, to tilt Leicester.After just four minutes it looked like par totals.KL Rahul had scored a strike rate an opportunity to become only the 2nd Jaffer had told the Times of India. the match in Punjab's favour. Samson's 119 went of 129.34 even as the likes of his India batsman to hit more than 2 IPL being a frustrating evening for Albion.Diagne For Rajasthan Royals, the star with the ball in vain as RR failed to chase down 222 in 20 overs teammates, MayankAgarwal, Chris Gayle hundreds but he was going for the big shot nodded in from close-range and was flagged was young Chetan Sakariya who finished at the Wankhede Stadium.Samson took the match and Nicholas Pooran scored at a quicker even when batting in the 90s. offside, with VAR backing the onfield call with figures of 3 for 31 when all their other to the very end but still ended up on the losing side pace. Rahul got as many as 6 fifty-plus because television cameras could not get the It required a brilliant fielding effort from bowlers (barring Riyan Parag) went for scores but his strike rate, especially in the despite setting the record for the highest score by right angle to conclusively prove the striker Rahul Tewatia at the mid-wicket boundary more than 10 runs an over. powerplay, was under the scanner. to get rid of KL Rahul who tried to clear the a player on captaincy debut.PBKS had the worst was on or offside.Southampton midfielder record among all teams in the death overs in IPL Stuart Armstrong tested Albion keeper Sam 2020 and they struggled once again in this game Johnstone with a curling blast. as RR needed 48 off the final 4 with Samson on But Pereira was brought down by Saints keeper Mohammad Azharuddin on sticky wicket song. It was only Arshdeep who kept his nerves Fraser Forster in the 32nd minute and the Brazilian picked himself up to dispatch the even as the rest of the bowlers got a real spot-kick.Phillips got the second three for the way he handled HCA's AGM hammering at the hands of the RR minutes later when he converted Diagne's skipper.Samson brought up his 3rd IPL hundred cross at the far post.Robinson put the result HYDERABAD: Hyderabad Cricket various appointments. "TheApex Council, pressed to 'carry on with his reforms'. Is he off 54 and kept getting the big shots with success beyond doubt in the 69th minute when he Association (HCA) president Mohammad at best, can only make a recommendation destined to be lame-duck president for the even as he kept losing partners at the other end. drilled in from Okay Yokuslu's pass. Azharuddin seems to be on a sticky wicket but the final authority rests with the rest of his term?The appointments made With 13 needed from the final over, Rahul handed Adding to Southampton's woes Johnstone with the way he handled the 85th Annual general body. It is up to the members to by the rival group too are not without the ball over to Arshdeep, who managed 0, 1, 1, 6, saved James Ward-Prowse's stoppage-time General body Meeting (AGM) on Sunday. decide on the appointments. They can flaws. "How can Shivlal (Yadav) be the 0 and Samson's wicket off the final ball to win the penalty after Conor Townsend's foul on "The AGM cannot be abruptly closed when either go with the recommendation or HCA's representative to the BCCI when he match for Punjab.He described his emotions after Moussa Djenepo. several points are still to be discussed. choose any other person," Mansingh said has served for more than nine years in the the match, revealing how fast his heart was Whatever be the reasons for the president, and added that things are going from bad to HCAand BCCI? Similarly,Arshad (Ayub) he shouldn't have done it. An AGM can be worse in the HCA."Why is Azharuddin so too is disqualified from being on any beating before bowling the final over. India beat Olympic ended only after all the points in the caught up with the appointment of Justice committee of the HCA by virtue of having "Now it is beating pretty good. Before the last over, Agenda are taken up," former HCA (retd) Deepak Verma? If the members served in the association for more than it was beating pretty fast. The plan was simple and champs Argentina 3-0 secretary PR Mansingh, who is an wanted a voting on the issue, he should nine years," said former EC member RM it was to execute six balls wide outside off. I tried New Delhi A last-minute comeback in one authority on the cricket body's byelaws, have allowed it. He should either convince Bhaskar.With both groups sticking to their to york him. The only thing he could get was a and a clean-sheet in another: India produced told TOI on Monday.Defending his action, the members or accept the verdict of the guns, it looks like the only recourse will be four. But he got under one of those.But still the general body. Whatever is happening is not to approach the court. "The matter will end contrasting performances in their first tour Azhar said the members were stuck on the plan was to execute the same. The staff and the issue of the ombudsman and were creating good for the association," said a former up in the court as there doesn't seem to be for competitive matches in more than a year, nuisance. "How can the meeting continue office-bearer, who didn't want to be any other way out. The association cannot captain have been very supportive. They were but remained unbeaten against Olympic in such an atmosphere? The remaining named.The happenings at the AGM have have two Ombudsmen. The BCCI can only telling me in the practice game, what role I need to championsArgentina in the twin Pro League points of the Agenda will be taken up in a shown that Azhar doesn't enjoy the stop the funds but beyond it, it cannot do play. That really helps the confidence.”The form matches played over the weekend in Buenos later meeting," he said. confidence of the house and will also be much. But the problem with going to court was really good in th 20 over tournament (Syed Aires.In the first match, played post- Azhar also seems to be on a weak wicket as completely isolated in the Apex Council. is that one cannot be sure when the verdict MushtaqAli). The ball was coming out nicely. We midnight India time on Sunday, drag-flicker the byelaws clearly state that the general He will be up against the other five elected will come and by that time the term of this members and it means that he will be hard- present body could finish," said Mansingh. have a knack of playing close games. Good to get Harmanpreet Singh scored two goals, body is the supreme body which makes the those two points," Arshdeep said on Star Sports. including the equaliser with just six seconds left in the match, in the 2-2 draw. Goalkeeper PR Sreejesh continued from where he left off in February 2020, producing a stellar performance in the shoot-offs to save three IPL 2021, RR vs PBKS: Sanju Samson denying strike to Argentine shots and help India claim a bonus point. This was the third straight match where Sreejesh ensured India’s win in the shoot-outs, with the previous two Chris Morris was right thing to do, says Brian Lara coming against the Netherlands and Australia before pandemic hit in 2020. New Delhi Legendary batsman Brian conceded just 8 runs in tense last over. run-out. I think he did the right thing. No While India showed commendable fighting Lara defended newly-appointed Sanju Samson was joined by Chris Morris doubts about it in my mind. Tremendous spirit in the first game, the team played with Rajasthan Royals captain Sanju after Tewatia’s exit but the South Africa innings. I would not point fingers at him for much more control and composure in the Samson’s decision to deny strike to all-rounder, who broke the record for the not taking that single in the last over,” Lara second match on Sunday to sail to a 3-0 win. Chris Morris in a tense last-over finish costliest player at an IPL auction, was told Star Sports. After seeing off Argentine pressure in the against Punjab Kings in their Indian struggling to get his timing right. That knock deserved a win: Sunil Gavaskar opening 10 minutes, where goalkeeper Premier League 2021 opening match in Samson hit a six in the 4th ball of the over Meanwhile, batting great Sunil Gavaskar Krishan Pathak made a couple of crucial Mumbai on Monday. and brought the equation down to 5 from heaped rich praise on Samson, who was saves, Harmanpreet once again opened the Sanju Samson single-handedly took 2 balls. However, he denied the strike to awarded the Man of the Match despite scoring in the 13th minute. Lalit Upadhyay Rajasthan Royals close to the finish Morris despite hitting one to the cover finishing on the losing side on Monday. doubled the lead in the 25th and Mandeep line in a mammoth chase of 222 against boundary in the penultimate delivery of “Outstanding performance. He deserved a win Singh sealed a comfortable victory two Punjab Kings. However, Samson’s the match. for that knock. It was sheer brilliance minutes from time with an opportunistic record-breaking 119 was not enough as Needing 5 from the final delivery, Samson because you saw shots all round the park. the Kings survived the scare and sealed became the first man to hit a hundred on tried to clear the cover boundary but was Playing over the extra-cover is never an easy goal.What I really liked from Saturday’s captaincy debut in the IPL but the season game was the ability to not give up, and a 4-run win.Sanju Samson was left with a lot caught at deep cover. Royals slipped to an shot but he was doing it very well till the last to do as their star batsmen Ben Stokes (0) and opener ended in a heartbreak for the agonising defeat even as Arshdeep and KL ball. He just about showed you every shot in stage a comeback. It is a good confidence Jos Buttler (25) did not chip in with big Royals.Sanju Samson got the equation down booster to know that if you are stuck in that Rahul began celebrating the hard-fought the book with power and elegance combined. knocks after the Royals conceded 221 at the to 22 runs from 12 balls but losing Rahul win. That knock deserved a win,” Gavasakr said. position, you have the patience and skill to Wankhede Stadium.Despite losing partners Tewatia in the penultimate over meant the “I think it was the right decision. I think if The Royals ill look to bounce back when they be able to do that,” chief coach Graham Reid at regular intervals, Sanju Samson kept Royals needed 13 runs in the last over. KL anybody had to hit a boundary, it had to be face high-flying Delhi capitals in their said, adding the team was not getting carried punishing the Punjab bowlers, hitting as Rahul threw the ball to young Arshdeep Sanju Samson. If he had gone back for the second match of IPL 2021 in Mumbai on away with the weekend’s results. many as 7 sixes and 12 boundaries. He Singh and the left-arm pacer delivered by 2nd run, there was an opportunity to get him Thursday. 12 New Delhi, Wednesday, 14 April, 2021Relationships RELATIONSHIP THE SIKH TIMES The period chat with your

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A recent study claimed that dog owners get the same surge of emotions when looking at their pooch as mothers do with their infants. While most of the pet owners will nod in agreement, you may find a few disagreeing. "I love my pet but he's such a nuisance. He will bark his lungs out in the middle of the night, chew on everything he gets his hands on and trouble my guests. I don't know what to do with him," says PR executive Aashish Sen who owns Peddle, a Pomeranian. But you can set aside such worries. Dogs can adapt to human society. We share with you some useful tips to minimize your pet worries: Exercising pet is a good pet: Your pet needs regular exercise to get rid of his excessive energy. Do not take him out just to litter, let him run, have fun. "This is the only way to release his excessive energy which if not released could make him irritable. It amounts to building stress which will be exhibited through excessive barking and unwanted pouncing," says Delhi-based senior veterinarian, Dr James Rappai. No loud business: When you are feeding or talking to your pet, do not raise your voice. while dining with your family. Kids mostly see and learn. out with others for a meal. Make him adapt to commands but say it once and say like you Tips to teach You don't want them to grow up to talk on their phone mean it. It should be firm not loud. And if you keep saying it, he won't See and learn: listen unless you snap at him. "Be careful about the commands and while eating. Take out time to teach your kids more about food and the words you use. Don't confuse them. If you use the command table manners to Politeness works: cooking also, as this will help them understand food 'Sit' to make him sit, do not use 'Heel' instead," says Chennai based Teach them to use words like 'please' and 'thank you' better. Talk to them while you are cooking, teach them dog trainer J Rangarajan. while asking for food or passing it to others even at a bits and pieces, make them help you with small matters Attention with care: family meal. They will make a habit out of it when you go in cooking. Some pets are in a habit to bark to grab your attention. They will bark when hungry, while greeting you, wanting to play with you. Says Pet groomer Geetika Nigam, "This habit must be modified simply by not providing positive reinforcement when he is barking 3 signs you are spoiling your kid for no reason." Even your pet needs toys: - The first sign is that you never use the word 'No' If you see your pet chewing furniture or your favourite shoes, don't kidskids You might want to give your children when it comes to your little one. Perhaps you don't snap at him. Instead give him alternatives to chew on like pet Here are some tips which will help you teach your kids table have the heart to but whenever they ask for the best, but in this process are you friendly toys. Spread them all over the floor and if he still goes for manners and etiquette your shoes, give him a chewy. Says Delhi-based dog trainer Raju something that isn't a necessity or could be bad for raising a spoilt child? Read on to Table manners and dining etiquette are an important aspect them, you give in because you can refuse them. Sinha, "If he still goes, then direct him to a chewy. In a way, your pet every person should have. Starting early with kids can come in identify the warning signs. is trying to teach you to be more careful with treasured items." This will eventually become a habit and when they handy. Here are some tips on how you can imbibe table grow up, they will expect that things will always be Never hit him: manners in your kids early - Don't hit your pet when you are angry with him. The next time you the way they want, because they have never been get angry, first tell him firmly that he's incorrect, ignore him, and Fixed time: refused or denied it. nudge him off if he comes to you. This will disorient him and he will Fix a day and a meal where you can tell your kids about table - You buy them too many toys and gifts. Sure, it's know that the behaviour is not acceptable. "Remember, you should manners - how to place the napkin, how to eat with a fork, knife their birthday and they want that big doll house or never resort to hitting your pet," adds J Rangarajan. and spoon, how to eat with their mouth closed, how to pass food the latest iPad, but spending big money on your Eating habits: to others, etc. child doesn't mean you love them more. It's the Never feed him while you are eating. This might be taken as a cue time that you give them and the moments that you that he can take food from your plate. When you're out: share together that count. Make him a social pet: If you are dining out with your family, choose a kid-friendly - They constantly whine and are never happy with Don't restrict his exposure just to family else he will get really restaurant. Let your kids order food for themselves, help them if the things they have. Even if you are doing uncomfortable in front of your guests or might behave awkwardly. required.This will make them feel grown-up and responsible. everything you can for them and giving them the And remember never ask your friend if you can get your pet along to Avoid the phone: world, if you see that your kids are always time to realise that you have over pampered your a get together or party. If they want him to come, they will say it. Avoid using your cellphone or tablet or any other technology complaining about things that they don't have, it is child.