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($ is expected to scale up. “After all Chirag batted for ($*&$ However, he warned peo- the BJP in the Bihar Assembly $*$& $ ple should maintain social dis- polls, which spoiled his relation $&"((%&,$* tancing. “Responsibility and with the BJP. Now it’s up to the &$0(&$ discipline are two important PM and the HM to find a solu- 1)%2#2"$&, things for unlocking. Virus tion to this crisis. Chirag may 0* %& transmission is very low right be isolated but he carries the $$#( ( $&$& now. Cluster cases should be legacy of Ram Vilas Paswan. ,- contained. We are dealing with People of Bihar will never for- (- a highly transmissible variant give those who betray him in ./ ./0.1 They feared that the coun- this year than we were in 2020, his hour of crisis,” said a leader try may see a super surge in hence we need to exercise close to Chirag. %# **++, s lockdown restrictions Covid-19 caseload sooner or greater caution and strictly In his first reaction after his -./++01 Ahave ended in several parts later unless vaccination cover- abide by Covid appropriate uncle Paras ousted him as the of the country and people have age is spread at a rapid pace behaviour,” he said. leader of the party in the Lok #,+//-.*201 started flocking markets, shop- before new variants arrive. The Continued on Page 2 Sabha with the support of four ping malls and public places, others MPs, Chirag likened and the party controlled by it which 41 of 76 members were # *0,+/22 bypassing Covid-protocol, the organisation to a mother now split down the middle only present, its Bihar unit working -.***1 including social distancing who should not be “betrayed”. eight months after the death of president Raju Tiwari said. norms, health experts and O P He also shared on Twitter Chirag Paswan’s father, the two It was unanimously decid- #022 virologists fear it may bring a letter he had written to him warring groups are now rally- ed to expel the five MPs from closer Covid-19 third wave. New Delhi: The new Delta Plus has been detected and submit- on March 29 that highlighted ing the members of its organ- the LJP for their “anti-party” 3/*2++,-.+/*1 They said while it is not mutation of coronavirus is “a ted to the global data system. Paras’ alleged indifference to isation to their cause as both activities, he told reporters. easy to predict when the third variant of interest”, not “a vari- It has been seen in Europe since the party’s agenda and conduct factions claim to represent the It was a hurriedly called 3P 3#*+++-./21 wave will come, it is important ant of concern”, the March and was brought into against its interests, and had Lok Janshakti Party. meeting, Tiwari said, claiming to increase vaccination and Government said on Tuesday. the public domain two days ago urged him to fulfil his respon- While the party MPs have that many other members also 3%#*+20*/-.**21 ensure that people follow social “Delta variant played a major on June 13,” NITI Aayog’s sibilities to it and their family sided with Paras, the group extended their support to the norms to limit the scope of role in the second wave. An Member Health, Dr VK Paul, following the death of LJP headed by Chirag Paswan decision and expressed faith in #*,+0*0-.0/1 transmission and mutation of additional mutation of this said at a Health Ministry founder Ram Vilas Paswan. called a virtual meeting of the Chirag Paswan’s leadership. the virus. variant, known as Delta Plus, Press meet. With the Paswan family party’s national executive in Continued on Page 2 % # 2,20-.**01 ! " ! ( ( Q R Q R+ ' innocent persons in the Delhi making inflammatory speech- of widespread opposition to # #$%& riot cases. es, organising chakka-jams, Governmental or parliamen- The court observed that etc, were common in the face tary actions. " rior booking and pre-online Pregistration are now no longer mandatory for Covid vaccination. “Walk-ins are iting brazen mis- allowed. Cuse of the UAPA This means, anyone aged against dissenters, the 18 years or more can directly go Delhi High Court on to the nearest vaccination cen- Tuesday granted bail tre, where the vaccinator per- to student leaders and forms the on-site registration ly at the nearest vaccination activists arrested as and provides vaccination in the centers. The Ministry also said accused in the Delhi same visit, for Covid vaccine,” that the facility for assisted reg- riot cases. Union Health Ministry said on istrations through the 1075 “We are con- ! Tuesday. Help Line has also been oper- strained to say, that it In a statement issued on ationalised. appears that in its Tuesday, the Health Ministry “That, all the above modes, anxiety to suppress dissent Making scathing remarks organisation Pinjara Tod said, “The facilitated registra- specifically operationalised for and in the morbid fear that against the authorities for activists Devangana Kalita, tion through the Common rural areas, are functional and matters may get out of hand, misuse of the UAPA against Natasha Narwal and Asif Iqbal Service Centres on Co-WIN is enabling equitable access to the State has blurred the line students, the court under- Tanha in separate orders. just one of the many modes of vaccination in rural areas, is between the constitutionally scored that the right to protest The court’s remarks will registration on Co-WIN.” evident from the fact that, as on guaranteed ‘right to protest’ peacefully without arms is a come as a vindication for The facilitators such as 13.06.2021, out of the 28.36 and ‘terrorist activity’. fundamental right under those who have been raising health workers or ASHAs also crore beneficiaries registered If such blurring gains trac- Article 19(1)(b) of the questions on the vicious mobilise beneficiaries in rural on Co-WIN, 16.45 crore (58 tion, democracy would be in Constitution and has not been crackdown against student areas and those residing in per cent) beneficiaries have peril,” the bench of Justices outlawed yet. The court’s activists for raising a finger at urban slums, for on-site regis- been registered in the on-site Siddharth Mridul and Anup J observations came while it police for misusing the provi- tration and vaccination direct- mode,” the Ministry said. Bhambhani said. granted bails to feminist sions of the UAPA to implicate "# $#%% & ' and provide financial aid to the tree pension scheme on the old trees on its land. occasion of World Under its pension scheme Environment Day on June 5. n a first-of-its-kind initiative named “Pran Vayu Devtaa The scheme acknowledges how Iin the country, the Manohar Pension Scheme”, any tree that the decades-old trees function Lal Khattar Government in has attained an age of 75 years as critical habitat for a wide Haryana will dole out pension or more will be given 2,500 array of species in ecosystem. to trees older than 75 years, per year as a token of honour According to the State’s recognising them as living enti- for the service it has rendered Forest Department, there are at ties and not just an economic to humanity and the environ- least 2,500 trees in Haryana commodity. ment. The State Government that have attained an age of 75 Old-age is inevitable and will also give “heritage” status years or more. Government-backed pension to the trees that are over 75 To put in place a legal schemes for senior citizens are years old. mechanism to identify, inven- a common practice in various Not only this, the pension torise, protect and conserve countries and Indian States to amount under the scheme will such old trees, the Forest ensure financial stability and be increased in the ratio as pro- Department has also prepared security to people post-retire- visioned in the old age pension draft Haryana (Declaration, ment. The Haryana scheme in the state. Protection and Preservation) Government, however, went a Chief Minister Manohar Heritage Tree Rules 2021. step ahead to identify, protect Lal Khattar had announced the Continued on Page 2 ! "# 9 !6! * +, dhabas, etc, cinemas, gyms at The announcements came wave peak on May 8, with at eight percent, pointed the : maximum 50 percent of capac- as the state’s Chief Secretary Vini 9,100 cases, which had come Chief Minister at the COVID n the wake of fall in state’s ity, “subject to all their employ- Mahajan, citing a University of down to a low of 629 on June 14.