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COVID-19 Cases Hit 82, Second Patient Dies follow us: saturday, march 14, 2020 Delhi City Edition thehindu.com 20 pages ț ₹10.00 facebook.com/thehindu twitter.com/the_hindu Sengar gets 10 years for U.S. air strikes on Markets test investors’ Unadkat leads from the the death of Unnao pro-Iranian military nerve with wild swings, front as Saurashtra wins rape victim’s father factions in Iraq kill 6 Sensex ends 1,325 pts up maiden Ranji Trophy page 9 page 14 page 15 page 20 Printed at . Chennai . Coimbatore . Bengaluru . Hyderabad . Madurai . Noida . Visakhapatnam . Thiruvananthapuram . Kochi . Vijayawada . Mangaluru . Tiruchirapalli . Kolkata . Hubballi . Mohali . Malappuram . Mumbai . Tirupati . lucknow . cuttack . patna NEARBY COVID-19 cases hit 82, second patient dies 68­year­old woman succumbs in Delhi; PM calls for several States start containment efforts SAARC strategy SP national executive Bindu Shajan Perappadan 30­day window to halt the Prime Minister Narendra to meet today NEW DELHI beginning of community Modi on Friday called for a LUCKNOW India reported its second CO­ transmission of COVID­19 videoconference of SAARC The Samajwadi Party’s VID­19 death on Friday, with cases. The time to act is now. leaders to discuss a common national executive committee a 68­year­old woman from While there is no cause for strategy to tackle COVID­19. will meet here on Saturday to Out at last: Farooq Abdullah, with his wife and daughter, west Delhi succumbing to panic, aggressive measures All leaders of the grouping, deliberate on various political at his home in Srinagar on Friday. * NISSAR AHMAD issues, including the the infection at the Ram Ma­ can also reverse community except Pakistan’s Imran Assembly elections to be nohar Lohia Hospital, while transmission, if it happens. Khan, welcomed the held in 2022. This will be the the number of positive cases It’s time that we all worked suggestion. Ī PAGE 12 touched 82. together to make use of the first national executive of the DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Farooq set free after 7 party after a dismal show in With the country in the se­ opportunity that we have Back home: Indians, who were stuck in the Iranian city of Qom, the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. SP cond stage of transmission of right now,” said Balram Bhar­ being brought to Mumbai on Friday. * VIJAY BATE IPL postponed, founder Mulayam Singh the disease, countrywide gava, Director­General, In­ months of detention Yadav is likely to attend the containment efforts were dian Council of Medical Re­ year­old man from Greater diagnosed with COVID­19. meeting presided over by launched. Bihar, Delhi, Kar­ search (ICMR). Noida, with travel history to Forty­four Indians, who ODIs cancelled Ex­CM seeks release of other J&K leaders party chief Akhilesh Yadav. nataka, Madhya Pradesh and On Friday, fresh cases Italy and Switzerland. More returned to Mumbai from The BCCI on Friday Peerzada Ashiq NORTH Ī PAGE 5 Odisha announced the clo­ were reported from Delhi, than 700 people working in Iran, were shifted to a 100­ postponed the start of tention in Srinagar. DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD sure of schools, colleges, Karnataka, Maharashtra and his leather company have bed quarantine facility set up Indian Premier League (IPL) SRINAGAR Principal Secretary, malls and theatres and can­ Kerala. Three persons in Thi­ been put under surveillance, by the Western Naval Com­ from March 29 to April 15 In a significant step to allow Home, Shaleen Kabra, said cellation of public events till ruvananthapuram district Gautam Buddh Nagar Chief mand in suburban Ghatko­ following the COVID­19 the resumption of regional in an order that Dr. Abdul­ March 31, while Haryana or­ tested positive, taking the to­ Medical Officer Anurag Bhar­ par, a defence release said. scare. The remaining two politics, the Jammu and lah’s detention under the dered a ban on religious tal number in the second gava told reporters. ODIs between India and Kashmir administration on PSA, the first in September gatherings and festivals. wave of infection to 19 in Tech giant Google con­ CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 South Africa, scheduled to Friday released National last and again in December, “The lockdown that India Kerala. firmed that an employee of MORE REPORTS ON Ī PAGES 8, 9, be held in Lucknow and Conference (NC) president had been withdrawn. is currently under is abso­ Delhi­NCR reported yet its Bengaluru office, who had 12, 14 & 15 Kolkata, have been and MP Farooq Abdullah, Dr. Abdullah appeared lutely necessary. India has a another positive case of a 46­ returned from Greece, was PEOPLE OVER PROFIT Ī EDITORIAL cancelled. Ī PAGE 19 82, by revoking his deten­ with his wife and daughter tion under the stringent Pu­ before the media on Srina­ blic Safety Act (PSA). gar’s Gupkar Road, where Dr. Abdullah, who was in his house was turned into a ‘Shaheen Bagh stir will Delhi govt. bans sports events till further orders detention for over seven sub­jail. “I am grateful to pe­ months, said his “freedom ople of the State and of the DMs, SDMs told to Addressing a press confe­ have banned all sports­related Mr. Sisodia said that the is incomplete till other de­ nation and those who spoke go on till CAA is revoked’ rence, Deputy Chief Minister gatherings, but if the BCCI ban would remain in force un­ tained leaders are for our freedom. This free­ enforce COVID­19 Manish Sisodia said that the (Board of Control for Cricket til further orders. released”. dom is incomplete till all Shinjini Ghosh that the movement will con­ government has decided that in India) wants to conduct it in “We have told all DMs (Dis­ Dr. Abdullah has become other leaders, like Ms. Mufti NEW DELHI tinue till the law is revoked. directives all sports activities in Delhi a new format, it is up to them.” trict Magistrates) and SDMs the first of the three incar­ and Omar, are released. Al­ Nearly three months since During a late night press Staff Reporter such as seminars, conferences “All sports gatherings (in­ (Sub Divisional Magistrates) to cerated former Chief Minis­ so those in the MLA hostel they began their protest briefing, the protesters said New Delhi and events which are in the cluding IPL)/conferences/se­ follow all orders from the ters to be set free since the [referring to Shah Faesal] against the amended citi­ that the CAA was unconsti­ The Delhi government on Fri­ nature of public gatherings minars beyond 200 people Health Department on coro­ Centre revoked Jammu and and in outside jails. I hope zenship law, the National tutional. They also said that day banned all sports events would not be allowed. are prohibited in NCT of Delhi navirus strictly and take ac­ Kashmir’s autonomous sta­ the Government of India Register of Citizens (NRC) the recent riots in Delhi and activities in the city that Asked if the popular Indian for the purpose of prevention tion if anyone is violating it,” tus on August 5 last. NC vice­ will take action soon, to see and the National Population were a “targeted attack on a are likely to register an atten­ Premier League cricket tour­ and control of the outbreak of he said. president Omar Abdullah all live as free citizens,” he Register (NPR), some of the single community”. dance of over 200 people in nament would be allowed epidemic disease namely CO­ and People’s Democratic said. women protesters at Sha­ the wake of the global CO­ with just players and empty VID­19,” an order issued by the CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 Party (PDP) president Meh­ heen Bagh said on Friday CITY Ī PAGE 2 VID­19 pandemic. stands, Mr. Sisodia said, “We Delhi government read. MORE REPORTS ON Ī PAGE 3 booba Mufti remain in de­ CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 Delhi Assembly passes resolution against NPR, NRC Hold floor test, Nath tells Governor If the Centre insists, NPR exercise should be carried out in 2010 format, says AAP Minister Gopal Rai The very edifice of democracy is in danger: M.P. Chief Minister Special Correspondent tention centre? None of the ers, an individual would “di­ Sidharth Yadav tutional process are ex­ New Delhi Delhi Cabinet Ministers have rectly land into the detention BHOPAL posed and punished,” he The Delhi Assembly on Friday the birth certificate, will the centre”; if one was a Hindu Madhya Pradesh Chief Mi­ said. passed a resolution against whole Cabinet be sent to de­ from Pakistan then the go­ nister Kamal Nath on Fri­ They would not leave the National Population Regis­ tention centres?” said Mr. vernment would “make your day requested Governor any stone unturned to “en­ ter (NPR) and the National Re­ Kejriwal. papers”; but if one was a Hin­ Lalji Tandon to hold a floor sure the triumph of democ­ gister of Citizens (NRC) at a “I want to know how many du from India and did not test in the Assembly session racy and the legislative pro­ special session here. of the [Union] Cabinet Minis­ have papers, the individual starting from March 16, on cess, to uphold the By conducting the NPR ex­ ters and MPs have the birth concerned would still “be sent a date fixed by the Speaker. Constitution and the values ercise across the nation, Chief certificate. Most of the CMs do to the detention camps”. He also asked the Governor Kamal Nath addressing enshrined therein,” Mr. Minister Arvind Kejriwal al­ not have it,” he said further. As many as 11 Indian States, to use his “good offices with journalists after meeting Nath assured the people. leged during his address, the he said, had passed a resolu­ the Union Home Minister” Governor Lalji Tandon in In the letter with the sub­ Bharatiya Janata Party­led ‘The real issues’ tion against the NRC and the to ensure the release of 19 Bhopal on Friday.
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