VRGR $"#(!#1')VCEBRS WWT!Pa!RT%&!$"#1$# 9. B # ! *(,-" ! ! & ,(,-" !- 4' $, 76 9 432 490 ># & 0(+8 /+7 6 2+70" )<@ A +? + 1) +A? + )1 + 1 1 ?+ + + ? !" / 5:3;! < 1,!"#"#=>4,6?6: $ %'( $) *+,-. /)0R2+34 arring some States which ! !"# " $ Bhave decided to extend the # #!& ! !"#"# lockdown, India will largely #&$%% open up on June 8 except in !" ! !## containment zones. The Union !" () !#" *# # *#"!"!& P Q Home Ministry on Saturday ! $ $'( M M "# issued guidelines to open up #$ malls, hotels, hospitality ser- +,!!! ! &#, %%& vices and religious places from !, # &,! ,,,!&! !,! * '())*'()(*'(+,*'(++ June 8 with strict social dis- """ "! ,!# ! '(-. tancing norms, like wearing of - --! !,!- ",- -& /0 mask, etc. !!. "! ,!# ! 1 * The decision to open *$*$$' schools and colleges will be $,#,!. (# '((2* 0 decided by the States in con- ,"& ,,! * sultation with stakeholders in * July. The lockdown guidelines !!,#,!&# ! 3 will be applicable in contain- "-., 0,0 , ment zones up to June 30 and /($!!, !! * only essential services will be 1# permitted in these areas. !#! ' # 5 * The MHA’s new guidelines !# #!,,!!# * 3* say after assessment of the sit- * & 6 7 uation, opening up of interna- '(-- tional airlines, metro rail, cin- "& ' % ( " )* tion on inter-State or intra-State '( 1 # ema halls, swimming pools, movements of persons and & * * bars, auditoriums and social MHA giving more power to will be taken in July, said the only essential activities shall be goods. However, States are political gathering will be States. MHA. allowed. There shall be strict empowered to take a decision Q decided later. “Schools, colleges, educa- Containment zones’ geo- perimeter control to ensure that on not allowing this based on Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Chief 3 The night curfew will tional/training/coaching insti- graphical area and demarcation there is no movement of peo- public health scenario, said Minister Shivraj Singh remain in place and movement tutions etc will be opened after will be decided by the States ple in or out of these zones, the new guidelines. Chouhan said on Saturday that 8 * of individuals shall remain consultations with States and and powers are given to local except for medical emergencies The guidelines insisted that the lockdown in the State to 8 * * 9 strictly prohibited between 9 UTs,” the MHA said, adding authorities for house to house and maintaining supply of wearing of mask in public contain coronavirus will be : & * ;& < pm and 5 am throughout the that the States may hold con- and patient tracing. States are essential goods and services,” places is compulsory and also extended till June 15. The West * country, except for essential sultations at the institution empowered to demarcate said the guidelines, empower- said that persons above 65 and Bengal Government too & * services. level with parents and other buffer zones outside contain- ing local administration for children below 10 years and extended the coronavirus-trig- Local authorities are per- stakeholders. Based on the ment zones were new cases strict implementation to con- pregnant women and patients gered lockdown in the State up mitted to implement Section feedback, a decision on the re- likely to occur, said the MHA. tain Covid-19 pandemic areas. are advised to stay at home. to June 15 with relaxations and #$ 144 in this regard, said the opening of these institutions “In the containment zones, There shall be no restric- Turn to Page 6 conditions. % 0; " #$%&' ()% & = # !"#$$ && ' &$&!$ ( 0 * & !" % foot to their native destinations. !" * “In a crisis of this magni- ne year into his second tude, it can certainly not be # & Oterm, Prime Minister claimed that no one suffered " % * n a bizarre incident, an Air Narendra Modi on Saturday any inconvenience or discom- IIndia’s Delhi-Moscow Airbus listed abrogation of Article 370 fort. Our labourers, migrant A-320 Neo (VT-EXR) flight and inclusion of Jammu & workers, artisans and craftsmen 6 > Q : % 0 was forced to return midway wo doctors and a nurse at Kashmir into the mainstream, in small-scale industries, hawk- 7 Q 0 * on Saturday morning after TCharak Hospital tested pos- criminalising the practice of ers and such fellow country- = ground team realised that the itive for coronavirus infection Triple Talaq, Citizenship men have undergone tremen- pilot was tested corona positive. on Saturday. The trio were on Amendment Act, and cross- dous suffering,” Modi said. '(--9 The VT-EXR Air India emergency duty at the hospital. border air strikes as the “bold However, the PM said, %%&Q '(). '(+. Flight was on its way to Chief Medical Officer Dr decisions” of his Government, “We have to take care to ensure * '(-- M Moscow, under the Vande Narendra Agarwal said he had which, he said, is on the path that the inconveniences we are '((+M Bharat Mission to bring back directed the closure of the hos- to overcoming the coronavirus facing do not turn into disas- # * stranded Indians. Somewhere pital till further orders. pandemic with the collective ters” and people have shown 3 ; near Uzbekistan, the crew was The CMO also carried out resolve of 130 crore Indians. patience and followed rules Q informed that one of the pilots a surprise inspection of com- Addressing the country and “this is one of the impor- #$ * onboard has tested positive munity health centres and through a letter, the PM said tant reasons for India being * * 5 * for Covid-19 and they were reviewed the work being car- clearing of several administra- safer and in a better state than N M called back immediately as per ried out by ASHA workers tive bottlenecks, major many other countries”. @ & % protocol. under mohalla nigrani samitis improvement of infrastructure, nomic resources and state -of- world when corona hits it. But “This is a long battle but we '(,)M This was a ferry flight, so and arrangements made in and freeing the country from the-art healthcare system is today, through sheer confi- have started traversing the path > A. only the crew was on board wards for COVID-19 patients, the swamp of corruption in the “besieged with problems dence and resilience, you have to victory, and victory is our @ > with around 6 people. The women giving birth and for first term had given the right amidst a vast population and transformed the way the world collective resolve,” Modi said. * Director General of Civil regular vaccinations. momentum to the governance limited resources.” looks at us,” he said. He short-listed feats of his &;'(# 7 * Aviation (DGCA) will probe As many as 36 CMO teams in the second term. The PM, however, assured In his address, Modi, for Government in the last one '. = the lapses. “Prima facie, this under 13 supervisors sanitised Modi took note of the fact that the country was “on way to the first time, specifically men- year which also included “ami- * appears to be a lapse” as the Carriage and Wagon Colony, that the coronavirus had sud- overcome the crisis created by tioned the troubles faced by the cable solution” of the vexed and 5 * pilot was not supposed to be on RPF Colony, Sewagram denly put brake on the speed of the pandemic.” He said India migrant workers due to the long-pending Ram Mandir- * the plane if he was found pos- Colony, Rest Camp Colony, development of the country must become self-reliant. lockdown announced on Babri Masjid dispute by the ;& itive,” DGCA officials said. Cash and Pay Colony, which in comparison to nations “Many feared that India March 24 to contain the pan- unanimous SC verdict. ;& Turn to Page 6 Turn to Page 6 with powers having great eco- will become a problem for the demic with many walking on Turn to Page 6 # ;; > ' & * )'&$ #$ * & * # Q * +)(, ,- (. " >Q have a long way to go in this Friday, May 29, when coron- breach in the geographical ter- %96 pandemic.” We are very con- avirus struck in a big way leav- rain it has already conquered. ; 0 ; ny hope that the blazing cerned about rising cases in low ing 1.25 lakh new patients and Secondly, after leaving tens %06 / 6 * > Asun or a favourable plane- and middle-income countries.” over 5,000 dead in a day. of thousands dead and millions ains brought much-needed 3% Q tary configuration — if not the May 21 was another big It’s obvious that as the infected in Europe and the Rrespite from humid weath- > & > claustrophobic lockdown or day with a spike of 1,00,000 world begins to reopen after USA, the virus has found new er on Saturday afternoon. The : : * some alternative medicine or plus cases, followed by May 22 nearly two-months of lock- theaters of play — South wet spell is expected to contin- ; malarkey — could slow down when the world reported down, the virus gears up to take America and India. ue on Sunday. The state capital the relentless march of coron-