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JAMMU FEBRUARY 18: tion of registrars of Jammu division of farmers under the scheme and same will be done in Kashmir di - Union Joint secretary Land vision also. Joint secretary directed DODA, FEBRUARY 18: records (Lr) department of Land all officials to expedite work on con - revenue rural development, struction of registrar and sub- A special district Level review Hukum singh Meena today reviewed registrar offices besides undertak - Committee (dLrC) meeting was held the progress of computerized regis - ing necessary infrastructure repair to take stock of progress under Kissan tration system in J&K. The meeting and renovation works. He asked for Credit Card (KCC) scheme, here to - was attended by Additional up-dation of all facilities and record day. district development Commissioner revenue, nazir rooms, so that officials do not face Commissioner (ddC) dr sagar d Ahmad baba, Additional Inspector any difficulty in the process of regis - doifode chaired the meeting. General of registration Jammu, tration of documents. He further The man points discussed in the rashpal singh; regional director asked the that the registration meeting included extending KCC survey and Land records, dr process shall be integrated and inter - scheme coverage to all PM KIssAn Mushtaq Ahmad; registrar of connected with revenue offices for beneficiaries to enable them to avail Jammu, Consultant JAK LArMA, automated mutation after rolling out the benefit of concessional institution - Tarsem Chand, scientists besides computerized system of registration al credit. The Chief Agriculture senior officials also attended the in JK with ongoing project digital Officer(CAO) apprised about the sta - meeting. Chairing the meeting, the India Land records Modernization tus of KCC cases with the agriculture Union Joint secretary stressed upon Programme (dILrMP). He asked department and at the bank level. organizing training programs for ca - the officials to study the registration The CAO informed that a forms and sanction KCC limit within adhere to the guidelines to ensure im - given to all the Tehsildars of the dis - pacity building of revenue staff. In Act carefully and familiarize them - ‘simplified Form’ of one page has been shortest possible time, not exceeding plementation of KCC scheme in letter trict to clear the same at their end for this regard, Joint secretary asked the selves with its rules and regulations. provided for coverage of PM- KIssAn 14 days. All line departments, includ - and spirit across the district as the their. participants to take the upcoming He also asked them to scrutinize the beneficiaries under KCC, wherein they ing Agriculture department, will facili - same is being monitored by the apex The Lead district Manager as - training program as an opportunity documents thoroughly, so that there have to provide only a copy of the land tate dissemination of awareness level committees on daily basis. sured the ddC that all banks will en - to learn, update and familiarise should be no mistake while conduct - record document and the crop sown among all PM KIssAn beneficiaries. The Agriculture department was sure 100 percent achievement at an themselves with modern techniques ing registrations.In the meeting, it along with the filled up form and ap - The ddC stressed for 100 percent asked to submit all the cases to the earliest. in the field. Pertinently, from 24 to was informed that the government proach their bank branch from where coverage of farmers under KCC banks before March 15, 2020, while Among others, the meeting was at - 26 February 2020 the registration intends to step up efforts for rolling they are drawing PM-KIsAn benefit, scheme besides directed concerned to directing for reconcillation of data tended by CPO, Cluster head JK bank department, in collaboration with out the Computerized registration for issue of Kissan Credit Card. clear all the cases awaiting sanction pertaining to allied departments with ,CAHO, GM dIC, sheep husbandry of - software development Unit, Pune, is system and its integration with the The ddC advised the banks to or - under KCC by maintaining close coor - the bank. ficer, ddM nAbArd, CHO, besides conducting a workshop for sensitiza - ongoing project dILrMP in J&K. ganise special camps and provide a dination with banks and revenue offi - while reviewing the pendency of other bank and officials of line depart - separate window for accepting the cials. The bankers were instructed to cases at revenue level, directions were ments. GOVERNMENT OF JAMMU AND KASHMIR Office Of tHe DiStrict DeVeLOPMent cOMMiSSiOner POOncH Delegations of J&K Ramban DDC reviews implementation of BBBP Email :[email protected] Ph.no.: 01965-220333/220331 Joint Churches No. :- DDCP/accts/2019-20/9449-50 cultural and mass awareness Dated :- 14/02/2020/ camps would be launched by the Fellowship & All J&K education, Health, Panchayats, QuOtatiOn caLL nOtice ICds and social welfare depart - Diploma Engineers ment in the district to educate the Sealed Quotations are invited from reputed firms with valid GST No. for supply of Toners people about the welfare of girl and Cartridges. The rates should be including GST. Last date for receipt of Quotation is Association call on the child .The ddC directed the line 22-02-2020. The details of items is as under:- departments to work cordially for S.No. Name of items the successful implantation of Lt Governor 1 Samsung Multi Xpress K2200 ND Toner bbbP. JAMMU, FEBRUARY 18: He directed the police and 2 HP Laserjet P1108 health departments to ensure ef - 3 HP Laser M136 MFP A delegation of Jammu and Kashmir fective implementation of PndT Joint Churches Fellowship Jammu today The Quotations received incomplete in any shape or after the scheduled date and time Act in the district to stop female called on the Lieutenant Governor, Girish shall be summarily rejected. The undersigned reserves the right to reject any or all the RAMBAN, FEBRUARY 18: AsP, sanjay Parihar; CPO, dr. foeticide and banned prenatal Chandra Murmu here at the raj bhavan. quotations without assigning any reason thereof. Kasturi Lal; CMO, dr. Janak raj; sex determination test, which is The delegation led by its President, rev. -sd/ district development dy. CMO, dr. Iqbal bhat, dPO, the root cause of declining female shaukat Peter apprised the Lt Governor Joint Director (P&S) Commissioner (ddC), nazim Zai sunil bhutyal; PO ICds; district sex ratio.He directed the field offi - DiP/J-13848/19 about various welfare issues of Christian (chief Planning Officer) Khan today chaired a meeting of social welfare officer; CdPOs and cials of ICds department and Community including allotment of land for district Task Force to review im - other officers and officials of the AsHA workers to sensitize youth, developing colony, jobs, reservation in ap - plementation of beti bachao beti district. It was decided in the especially newly married couples pointment of members of the Community in Padhao (bbbP) scheme across meeting that a special campaign, about family planning to over - JaMMu MuniciPaL cOrPOratiOn tOwn HaLL, JaMMu J&K UT Minority Commission, provision of the district.The meeting was at - in the form of symposiums, wall come the overpopulation prob - Quota on the analogy applicable to social e-tender inviting tended by AdC, Ashok Kumar; painting competitions, debates, lem. Caste Category at Centre, representation in request for Proposal (rfP) JMC etc. Meanwhile, a delegation of All J&K 02 com JMc of 2019-20 diploma engineers Association called on Advisor Bhatnagar takes stock TIC Basohli hosts the Lt Governor and projected their con - The Jammu Municipal Corporation Invites Request for Proposal (RFP)/bids from Registered symposium on Reputed Companies/Firms for "Door to Door segregated Collection and Transportation of Municipal cerning issues and demands pertaining to of Road Safety measures Solid Waste in Zone-3 of Jammu City on DBFO (Design, Built, Finance and Operate) basis, which in - Career Progression scheme for removing clude its scientific handling, storage & transfer and transportation to the designated waste processing the stagnation of diploma engineers, re - Environment site at Kot Bhalwal Jammu. moval of additional qualifying bar at the lev - undertaken across J&K conservation Pre-Bid meeting 24th Feb 2020 at 1300 Hrs el of Aee and executive engineer, filling of JAMMU, FEBRUARY 18- Bid document Cost INR 10,000/- vacant posts at the level of Ae, Aee and KATHUA, FEBURARY, 18: Bid Security (Earnest Money)/EMD INR 10,00,000/- executive engineer in all the engineering Advisor to Lieutenant Governor, rajeev rai bhatnagar, today Due date of Bid submission 10th March 2020 upto 1500 Hrs wings. The Lt Governor gave a patient hear - chaired a meeting to review various road safety initiatives undertak - Tehsil Information Time and Date of Bid Opening 13th March 2019 at 1200 Hrs ing to the issues and demands projected by en by the road safety Council across Jammu and Kashmir at Civil Centre, basholi today or - the members of the delegations and assured secretariat. The meeting was attended by Principal secretary ganized a symposium on Validity of the Bid 120 days from the bid due date them to address their genuine concerns for Transport department, Asgar Hassan samoon; Transport environment conservation, Lowest bidder only shall have to submit the hard copies of the Uploaded documents in the office of their early redressal. He observed that the Commissioner, J&K, Pardeep Kumar; Commissioner JMC, Avny here at Government Girls Tender inviting Authority within 4 days after opening of Financial Bid. All submission shall be on the e-procurement portal of Government of J&K i.e. http://jktenders.gov.in Government is working towards the welfare Lavasa; IGP Traffic, T namgyal; ssP Jammu, shridhar Patil; Middle school. Principal of every section of the society which is a pre - Additional secretary, road safety Council, r.K bhat, representatives JnV basohli suresh Joint commissioner (admin) requisite to ensuring the holistic develop - of nHAI and other officials of the concerned department. Advisor shashtri was the chief guest, DiP/J- 4813-P/19 Jammu Municipal corporation ment of the Union Territory of Jammu and stressed upon the officials that prime objective of road safety meas - while Head Master Kashmir. ures should be reducing road fatalities besides taking care of traffic Government Girls High congestion on roads. school suman Chander was the guest of honour. Ten students of Government Girls High school basohli, DDC Doda reviews patient care Government Girls Middle school basohli and Model Middle school participated in the symposium and ex - scenario; progress on health sec - pressed their views on the topic. last year, while 198072 lab tests were conducted as against 120410 last year; 4569 eCGs were done against 2401; 16584 x- ray were done against 14302 last year; 858 blood trans - Department of Wildlife Protection J&K Government fusion were done against Office of the Wildlife Warden Kathua 430 of previous year and Tel/Fax No. 01922-234622, Email: [email protected] ***** 1076 ultrasound were con - RE-TENDER ducted at the only centre Tender Notice : e-NIT No.:-14 /WLWK of 2019-20 dated: 14-02-2020
at bhaderwah against 983 For and on behalf of the Lt. Governor, Jammu & Kashmir State, e-tenders are invited from approved and eligible contractors registered with J&K last year. referring to the State Govt. /Central Govt. Organizations for the following works: Name of Work: shortage of staff at Earnest Trauma hospital Khellani Money Cost of Receiving Adv. Cost ( (2% of the Class of Tender Time of and Thathtri, the ddC di - S.No. Name of work Scheme /Opening DODA, FEBRUARY 18: the ddC about the rameters as compared to in lacs) total Contractor Document completion Authority progress made by the de - last year with the avail - rected the CMO to write to estimated (in INR) district development partment under various ability of better subsidiary the government so that cost) Commissioner, dr sagar d indicators like number of services, specialised doc - necessary action can be Construction of drain from initiated. The meeting de - cremation site to outlet drain doifode today took stock OPd patients attended, tors, consultants, estab - including PVC pipes at outlet CAMPA 2019- Rs Rs. Tender opening cided to impart special 1 and at start of Kunjwa road 20 “A,B,C & D” 1000 30 days of patient care scenario patients treated in IPd, in - lishment of GMC doda. 10.50 lacs 21,000 committee training to the doctors for to divert waste water from and progress on Health stitutional deliveries, suc - “The facilities have not on - households sector Projects coming up cessful surgeries, conduct ly provided better health - running Ultrasound cen - in this mountainous dis - tres in the district The The e-NIT consisting of qualifying information, eligibility criteria, specifications, bill of quantities, (B.O.Q), set of Terms & Conditions of of lab tests, x-rays besides care services but also re - contract and other details can be seen/downloaded from the departmental Website:- http://jktenders.gov.in trict, here at a meeting of achievements under duced the referrals of pa - ddC further directed for Position of funds: Available the concerned senior func - organising a capacity rashtriya bal swasthya tients by approximately Publishing Date 14-02-2020 at 04:40 PM tionaries. The meeting Karyakram (rbsK); 40%,” he added. This year building programme for Download Start Date 14-02-2020 at 04:40 PM was attended by CPO; revised national Tb (2019-20) till date, the doctors of Gandoh and Bid Submission Start Date 14-02-2020 at 04:40 PM Thathri to facilitate blood Bid submission End Date (online) 19-02-2020 up to 6:00 PM Chief Medical officers Control Programme 551868 patients visited Date of opening of Technical Bid (online) 20-02-2020 at 10:00 AM (In the Office of Conservator of Forests Wildlife Manda (CMO); Medical (rnTCP); Ayushman OPds as against 483836 transfusion in these Hills, Jammu) blocks, without any fail. superintendent district bharat; Leprosy Control last year, number of IPd Date of opening of Financial Bid (online) 20-02-2020 at 10:00 AM Hospital; bMOs; district programme and non-com - increased from 22837 to The need for activating the Bid documents can be seen at and download from the website: - https://jktenders.gov.in. Bid documents contain qualifying criteria for bidder, Village Health sanitation specifications, bill of quantities, conditions and other details. Asha Coordinator; district municable disease (nCd) 31369, while 2002 major Program Manager nHM Control programme. The operations were done as and nutrition (VHsn) and other officials of committees was also CMO informed the meet - against 1164 last year. health department. At the ing that this year a sub - similarly, institutional de - stressed upon by resolving outset The CMO dr stantial improvement has liveries show a significant impediments and encour - (Dr Rajan Singh) SFS Mushtaq Ahmed apprised aging them to spend the DiP/J-13906/19 Wildlife Warden been recorded in all pa - rise to 3817 against 3213 Kathua available funds.
Glimpses of Future 6 EDit/OPiNiON JAMMU wednesdAy FebrUAry 19, 2020 Glimpses of Future Pseudo-Caliphate and India esTAbLIsHed In 1986 BY : SANDHYA JAIN Infantry regiment (now 15 Punjab), who lost their lives in world war I, on by throwing his weight behind the centenary of the Great war. Islamabad on the Kashmir issue, Pannun went to Gallipoli to secure an Hurting ethos of democracy erdogan unambiguously signalled his arrest warrant and restrain the intention to emerge as the imam of the Punjab Chief Minister from leaving elivering a lecture in Gujarat, supreme Court Judge new Caliphate he hopes to lead. even Turkey. As the Captain was on a non- Justice Chandrachud has said that blanket labelling if we overlook the facts about which official trip, he lacked diplomatic im - nation is “occupying” Kashmir, by munity as under the Vienna Protocol, dof dissent as anti-national or anti-democratic stating that there is “no difference be - only the Prime Minister and external strikes at the heart of our commitment to protect constitu- tween Gallipoli and occupied Affairs Minister are “protected per - tional values and the promotion of deliberative democracy Kashmir”, Turkish President recep sons” when abroad in personal capac - and has called dissent a safety valve of democracy. Tayyip erdogan unambiguously sig - ity. In Pakistan, erdogan lauded a nalled his intention to emerge as the 1915 rally in Lahore, led by Allama democratic Protecting dissent is but a reminder that while a “imam” of the new (pseudo) Caliphate Iqbal, where people from present-day elected government offers us a legitimate tool for develop- he hopes to lead by 2023, the cente - Pakistan supported the Turkish peo - ment and social coordination, they can never claim a mo- nary of the Turkish republic. ple and blatantly ignored the sacri - nopoly over the values and identities that define our plural Addressing a joint session of fices made by Indian soldiers at Pakistan’s Parliament (February 14), society. employment of state machinery to curb dissent in- Gallipoli (battle of Çanakkale), possi - he lauded sacrifices made by it in the bly because the bells tolled for the stills fear and creates a chilling atmosphere on free peace war on terror and the “positive contri - Ottoman empire. Turkey’s domestic which violates the rule of law and distracts from the consti- butions” it made to the Afghanistan laws explain why ex-IAs officer shah tutional vision of pluralist society. The destruction of spaces peace process and promised support Faesal was going to Turkey on August for questioning and dissent destroys the basis of all growth- during the Financial Action Task 14, 2019, soon after the Centre abro - Force (FATF) meet in Paris (February clared in February 2018, “The eign country whether or not commit - gated Article 370 and divided the -political, economic, cultural and social. In this sense, dis- 16-21, 2020). His denunciation of Us republic of Turkey is a continuation ted by a citizen or non-citizen.” state of Jammu & Kashmir into the sent is a safety valve of democracy. silencing of dissent and President donald Trump’s Mideast of the Ottoman empire the essence is Khalistanis tried to invoke these Union Territories of Jammu and the generation of fear in the minds of people go beyond the plan hints at an eventual challenge to the same, soul is the same” laws. sikhs for Justice, a group work - Kashmir and Ladakh. It is possible violation of personal liberties and a commitment to consti- riyadh in the region. erdogan’s deter - Unsurprisingly, Ankara has emerged ing for a referendum (“referendum that some foreign mentors asked mination to restore the Caliphate has as the new hub for anti-India activities 2020”) to create Khalistan, is believed tutional value. The attack on dissent strikes at the heart of a Faesal to invoke these laws in Turkey. created a visible schism between the by Pakistan’s Inter-services to be funded by the IsI. In October He was to file a case of human rights dialogue-based democratic society and hence, a state is re- Arab states formally led by saudi Intelligence (IsI). Unknown to most 2018, its legal advisor, Gurpatwant violations against Union Home quired to ensure that it deploys its machinery to protect the Arabia and the non-Arab states led by people, Turkey has universal jurisdic - singh Pannun, filed a case against Minister Amit shah, defence Minister freedom of speech and expression within the bounds of law, Turkey. A nascent axis is discernible tion laws as part of its domestic laws. Punjab Chief Minister Captain rajnath singh, the then Chief of Army and dismantle any attempt to instill fear or curb free speech. between Turkey, Malaysia and Article 13 of the Turkish Penal Code Amarinder singh when he visited staff Gen bipin rawat and others, on Pakistan; Iran and Qatar complete the states, “Turkish law shall apply to” the Turkey to pay homage at Gallipoli to behalf of his political party, Jammu & Commitment to the protection of deliberative dialogue is an anti-riyadh alignment. erdogan de - crime of torture “committed in a for - soldiers from the First Patiala Pseudo on Page 7 essential aspect of every democracy, particularly a success- ful one. A democracy welded to the ideal of reason and de- liberation ensures that minority opinions are not strangu- lated and ensures that every outcome is not a result merely ice a o test of h e true c s. Th r sensu u ed con o shar y f a but o e of numbers Mak democracy is its ability to ensure the creation and protec- tion of spaces where every individual can voice their opinion BY : UTTAM GUPTA come tax (PIT). At present, a per - son having an income of rs without the fear of retribution. Inherent in the liberal prom- If demand doesn’t improve, 2,50,001-rs 5,00,000 per annum ise of the Constitution is a commitment to a plurality of firms might retain the tax cut bo - pays a tax of five per cent, those opinion. A legitimate government committed to deliberate nanza instead of investing. It earning more than rs 5,00,000 dialogue does not seek to restrict political contestation but would've been better to put more but less than rs 10,00,000 pay 20 cash in the pockets of individuals per cent tax whereas, someone welcomes it. Taking democracy seriously requires us to re- by giving more IT relief. Amid an having an income higher than rs spond respectfully to the intelligence of others and to partic- atmosphere of gloom and doom 10,00,000 pays 30 per cent. ipate vigorously, but as an equal in determining how we (triggered by growth plunging to a Accompanying this are a plethora should live together. democracy is judged not just by the in- low of less than five per cent during of exemptions and deductions viz. stitutions that formally exist but by the extent to which dif- the current year and muted projec - section 80C (annual investment, tions for next year), it is necessary expenses, life insurance premium ferent voices from diverse sections of the people can actually to closely scrutinise tax proposals and so on, up to rs 150,000), be heard, respected and accounted for. The great threat to in the Union budget for 2020-21 to section 80d (health insurance pluralism is the suppression of differences and silencing of assess whether or not these will premiums), section 24 (interest on popular and unpopular voices offering alternative or oppos- generate the much-needed growth home loans), section 80CCd (in - impulses. The four major factors cluding extra nPs contribution up f intellect is the suppression of the ing views. suppression o impinging on a surge are private to rs 50,000), section 80e (edu - conscience or the nation. national unity denotes a shared consumption, investment, export cation loan interest) and section 16 cultural values and a commitment to the fundamental ideal and spending by the state. The (standard deduction on salary in - of Constitution in which all individuals are guaranteed not Modi Government has kept up the come) and so on. This budget, even tempo of expenditure by way of just fundamental rights but also the conditions for their free while retaining five per cent tax for a tax of 30 per cent. A person who income of rs 15,00,000 and avail - building infrastructure and spend - annual income in the rs 2,50,001- decides to avail lower tax rates un - ing tax breaks aggregating rs al or institution can and safe exercise. no single individu ing on welfare schemes. On the ex - rs 5,00,000 range, on income der the new scheme will have to 3,75,000 (section 80C:1,50,000; claim a monopoly over the idea of India. port front, given the all-round de - higher than rs 5,00,000, proposes forego most exemptions and de - section 80d: 25,000; section 24: pressed growth and international a differentiated structure with five ductions. In other words, he can ei - 2,00,000) or net income rs trading environment, there is little slabs against two under the exist - ther continue with the existing 11,25,000 will have to pay rs that it can do in terms of using this ing scheme of things. The pro - scheme or go for the new regime. 1,56,000 as tax. In case however, lever for providing the much-need - posed slabs and corresponding tax no cherry picking is permitted. he opts for the new scheme i.e. tax - ed fillip. Therefore, much of the fo - rates are 10 per cent for rs For a person availing of most able income remaining at rs Lead from the front cus has to be on the first two levers, 5,00,001-rs 7,50,000; 15 per cent tax breaks, switch-over to the new 15,00,000 but lower rates, his tax i.e. private consumption and in - for rs 7,50,001-rs 10,00,000; 20 regime won’t yield any savings. He liability will be rs 1,95,000. This vestment. The big question is per cent for rs 10,00,001-rs could even be worse off depending being rs 39,000 higher, he would whether the tax proposals will help 12,50,000; 25 per cent for rs on the income profile and deduc - prefer to continue with the old in boosting demand. First, let us 12,50,001-rs 15,00,000 and for tions/exemptions availed. For in - scheme. However, the reality on look at the changes in personal in - those earning above rs 15,00,000 stance, a person having an annual Make your choice on Page 7 India’s disturbing trauma narrative
BY : VIKRAM PATEL When the Donald Trump administration in the United States trying to get them to squeal incrim - inating evidence which could be In the silence over violence be - implemented its policy to reduce illegal immigration by sep - used against these very trusted ing perpetrated against children, arating children from their parents at the U.S. border with adults. On ‘toxic stress’. These the country appears to have lost its Mexico, there were harrowing consequences on the mental traumatic experiences are not only moral compass. If the seizure of a a violation of the fundamental pair of slippers of an 11-year-old as health of the children. A report, published by the U.S. govern - rights of the child but are severely evidence in an investigation in a ment’s own inspectors, confirmed that separation of children damaging to their mental health. sedition case in bidar, Karnataka, As the media reported, one child was not ludicrous enough, the im - from their parents had caused grievous psychological harm said when her mother was finally prisonment of a mother of a stu - and laid the foundations for lasting and profound mental released, “I felt lonely and sad be - dent in the same case for having sC allows women officers to get command positions in the Army and health problems in later life. Virtually every major American cause all I have is my mother. I contributed to the script of an ap - quashes use of gender stereotypes as an argument. Thanks to the have never lived without her for a parently seditious primary school professional society concerned with mental health, public supreme Court, women officers in the Army can now get command posi- single day. so I was terrified.” tions at par with male officers and break the glass ceiling in the forces. In play, the arrest of the principal for health or children’s health condemned the government’s ac - The most damaging kind of non-combat roles for the time being. However, the sad part is that they allowing it to be performed in her tions as an assault on children’s rights and well-being. While trauma is that which results in had to fight for it legally rather than being naturalised in the just order of school, and the interrogation of the “toxic stress”, a term used to de - things, considering that they were inducted in the Army in 1992, a long 28 children by uniformed police offi - there has been a deathly silence from most professional scribe a child’s experience of per - years ago. An entire generation has grown up in between. In this sense, cers in the absence of any child groups in India in response to the gratuitous levels of violence sistent adversity or abuse. welfare workers, would make a the ruling is more than significant, it is a landmark. For it reminded the being perpetrated against our children by the state, a few Persistence, with no hope of escap - armed forces that as part of an institution that codified discipline, values, perfect script for an Orwellian ing the threatening situation, is the honesty, decency and honour, their despotic version of patriarchy, pre - nightmare. Violation of rights. For courageous institutions stand out for doing their job. hallmark of toxic stress. Perhaps venting women from leading men beyond event parades, was “discrimi - those puzzled readers who may be the most vicious example is un - natory” and “disturbing.” In fact, it went against the very principles of wondering what the pair of slip - play themselves. signed by the british to suppress folding in Kashmir where, after Lead from the front on Page 7 pers might have to do with this sur - On the other hand, one child the freedom of speech of our two decades of living in a context real theatre, it was the very object told HuffPost India, “we were avowedly non-violent independ - suffused with the fear of violence referred to in the play, according to scared. The policemen raised their ence activists should now be used from one side or the other, children H I S T O R Y T H I S D A Y media reports, when a child says voice every time they questioned by the police to suppress the free - have been subjected to six months “the boy who was selling tea till the us.” not surprisingly, many stu - dom of expression of schoolchild - of a lockdown, losing their funda - other day is asking us for docu - dents have stopped going to school ren, my anguish is because of the mental rights of freedom to learn, 1878 : Murder ignites Lincoln County War ments. I’ll ask him where he was since then. I imagine most people terror that these children must play and be carefree. worse, they born and where his papers are. If would think that this story must be have experienced as a result of this must witness, silently, the mount - simmering tensions in Lincoln County, new Mexico, explode into Long he does not provide them, I will fake news not only because it is so ordeal. not only did the arrest of ing rage and helplessness that a bloody shooting war when gunmen murder the english rancher John beat him with my slippers”. even if utterly absurd but also because our the mother, a single parent, leave dominates the emotional land - Tunstall. Tunstall had established a large ranching operation in Lincoln some patriots might argue that a police who cannot find a moment the child in the care of a neighbour scape of their parents and their County two years earlier in 1876, stepping into the middle of a dangerous child’s slippers could indeed be to stop the lawless mayhem on our but the arrest of the principal of community, compounding their political and economic rivalry for control of the region. Two Irish- used to wage war on our great na - roads which have made India one their school left all the children own feelings of insecurity, hope - Americans, J.J. dolan and L.G. Murphy, operated a general store called The tion and the remand report for the of the world’s largest traffic-death without their trusted head - lessness and alienation. There are House, which controlled access to lucrative beef contracts with the govern- two women “found grounds for countries must surely be doing mistress. simultaneously, the po - now many reports of the mental ment. The big ranchers, led by John Chisum and Alexander Mcsween, suspicion that the two influenced more important things. but the lice, threatening as they must have health crisis engulfing young peo - didn’t believe merchants should dominate the beef markets and began to the children”, the students them - ple in the Valley. The events in challenge The House. Tunstall, a wealthy young english emigrant, soon re- soul-crushing truth is that these seemed to the children in their full selves insisted, even after repeated alized that his interests were with Chisum and Mcsween in this conflict, and events did happen. Leaving aside regalia and having carted away the Kashmir and Karnataka are not an interrogation, that they wrote the the numbing irony that a law de - mother and principal to jail, were 1878 on Page 7 india’s disturbing on Page 7
Printed, published and owned by Prem Nath Sharma, Printed at Glimpses of Future Press 63 Padha Street, Purani Mandi, Jammu. Chief Editor Prem Nath Sharma, Associate Editor : Rajiv Sharma, Ph. 2546079, Fax 0191-2547240, RNI NO. 43798/86, email : [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Glimpses of Future 7 NatiONal JAMMU wednesdAy FebrUAry 19, 2020 Delhi court: Nirbhaya case convicts hang 6am on March 3 PRESS TRUST OF INDIA until they are dead on March 3 at 6 court, on January 31, stayed “till fur - that the delhi high court had given New Delhi Feb 18 : am,” said additional sessions judge ther orders” the execution of the four “one more opportunity” to Pawan, dharmender rana. The judge noted as they had not exhausted all their le - “unambiguously clarifying to exercise A delhi court on Monday ordered the death warrants were earlier issued gal remedies. The fresh death warrant his rights within a week, failing which that the four convicts in the nirbhaya on January 7 and the execution was was issued after delhi’s Tihar jail au - requisite action shall be initiated gangrape-murder case be hanged at 6 later deferred twice — on January 17 thorities informed the trial court that without any further delay”. The court am on March 3 after it issued fresh and January 31. “now deferring it any three of the four convicts had exhaust - said Pawan cannot be allowed to de - death warrants, saying deferring the further would be sacrilegious to the ed all legal options and none of them feat the ends of justice by simply opt - execution further would be “sacrile - rights of the victim for expeditious have any correspondence pending at ing to remain indolent. All four con - gious” to the rights of the victim. The justice,” he said. nirbhaya’s mother the moment. Pawan is the only con - victs have already exhausted the one court directed that the four convicts — Asha devi expressed the hope that the vict who has not filed a curative peti - week allowed by the high court to ex - Mukesh Kumar singh, 32, Pawan four convicts would finally be hanged tion the last legal remedy available to ercise all their legal options and will Gupta, 25, Vinay Kumar sharma, 26, on March 3. she said: “we have strug - a person which is decided in-chamber need to go to the supreme Court to get and Akshay Kumar, 31, — be hanged gled so much. but we have complete or mercy plea before the President. an extension. Akshay’s counsel has by the neck at 6 am on March 3 until faith in the judiciary. Our real victory The trial court said: “There is only two now informed the court that he has they are dead. It is for the third time would be when the convicts are actu - possible inferences for such indo - prepared a fresh mercy petition to be that the warrants were issued against ally hanged.” nirbhaya’s father said lence: 1) either convict Pawan is satis - moved before the President. One of them. “It is hereby directed that the the family has been receiving congrat - nirbhaya’s family lawyer seema issued earlier could not be executed fied with the verdict of the supreme the four convicts, Vinay, has started warrants, vide order dated January 7, ulatory messages stating their seven- Kushwaha, however, claimed that de - as the convicts took it in turns to use Court; or 2) he is simply interested in hungerstrike at Tihar Jail after his pe - 2020 in respect of the convicts year-old struggle for justice will final - fence lawyer A.P. singh was mislead - every legal option available to them. delaying court proceedings. In either tition challenging President ram Mukesh, Pawan, Akshay and Vinay ly come to an end. He said the court ing people and the convicts’ families The first date of execution, January case, he cannot claim that the execu - nath Kovind’s rejection of his mercy shall now be carried out by causing order goes to show that sooner or later into thinking he will be able to save 22, was postponed to February 1 by a tion of the sentence needs to be de - plea was turned down by the supreme the condemned convicts to be hanged criminals are brought to justice. the convicts. The two death warrants January 17 court order. Then the trial layed further.” The trial court noted Court last week. Chattisgarh : CRPF Madras HC sets aside election of AICF office-bearers commando injured in Serial killer 'Cyanide Mohan' gets lifer in 19th murder case PRESS TRUST OF INDIA Court judge, Justice Fakkir Mohamed PRESS TRUST OF INDIA cases. Cyanide Mohan had 20 murder Mysuru and stayed in a lodge near the Chennai, Feb 18 Ibrahim Kalifulla. Kalifulla had on naxal encounter dies Mangaluru Feb 18 : cases registered against him. He is ac - bus stand. Like in all other cases, the February 11 declared as elected Ajay PRESS TRUST OF INDIA cused of killed several women using next morning, Mohan asked the The Madras High Court on Tuesday Patel (President), bharat singh Chauhan Raipur, Feb 18 notorious serial killer 'Cyanide' cyanide after befriending and raping woman to remove her ornaments. The set aside the election of five office-bear - (secretary) and three others for various Mohan has been sentenced to life im - them. He has been awarded the death two went to the KsrTC bus stand ers of the All India Chess Federation posts for the period 2020-2023. A CrPF commando, who was prisonment by a court here for the sentence in five cases and life impris - where he asked her to consume a pill (AICF) and asked the returning Officer The other three were naresh sharma injured in an encounter with murder of a 23-year old woman from onment in three. Two of the death convincing her that it was a contracep - (rO) to convene a special General body (Treasurer), M Arun singh (Joint Maoists in Chhattisgarh's bijapur Kasaragod district of Kerala in 2006. penalties were later commuted to life tive. However, it was laced with Meeting for conduct of fresh elections. A secretary) and Vipnesh bharadwaj district last week, died at a private It was the 19th of the 20 murder cases imprisonment. According to the cyanide. The woman, who consumed division bench of Justices M M (Vice-President). The AICF is split into hospital in raipur on Tuesday, slapped against him. sixth additional charge sheet in the latest case, Mohan the pill in the washroom, collapsed sundresh and Krishnan ramasamy gave two factions one led by Venketrama police said. Head constable Ajit district and sessions court judge met the woman while she was going to and was declared brought dead at a its order on a petition filed by the P r raja, who was the president before Patel singh succumbed to bullet in - sayeedunnisa said the life sentence work at a unit of CAMPCO here. After hospital. As in previous cases, Mohan Venketrama raja faction against the re - was declared elected for the top post by juries in his abdomen while undergo - will commence after he serves the sen - befriending and offering to marry her, went back to the lodge and left the jection of their nomination papers for the rO, and Chauhan. The two camps ing treatm ent at sri narayana tence of imprisonment in the other on January 3 in 2006, he took her to place along with her ornaments. the elections for the Federation officer- have been at loggerheads over various is - Hospital at around 11.25 am on bearers by the rO, former supreme sues. Tuesday, an official said. Contn. from Page 6 ...... Contn. from Page 6 ......
India’s disturbing ...... Pseudo ...... aberration. Consider the harrowing accounts of the ex - adult who the child has been taught to trust and rely on Kashmir People’s Movement (JKPM). Media reports stated been booked under the Public safety Act (February 15). This periences of children in a shelter home in Muzaffarpur, for their protection — such as the police or the school that from Ankara, Faesal was likely to try to take the Kashmir argument can be corroborated from Pakistan Prime bihar, where young girls were kept locked up for most of principal or the child welfare worker or the army. It is issue to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Minister Imran Khan’s tweet on August 15, 2019, where he the day and where they were raped, after being sedated, this breach of the bulwark of trust which is the most poi - Hague, the netherlands. but this would not take off for want invoked srebrenica, site of the 1995 genocide of over 8,000 at night. Investigators observed many signs of mental sonous toxin for the mind, and it is this feature which of jurisdiction; no individual can file a case in the ICJ, only bosnians by the bosnian serb Army led by ratko Mladic. health problems, for example remarking on how binds all these forms of trauma together. when the states can. Of course, his arrival in the netherlands would be Khan tweeted: “will the world silently witness another “strangely they behaved”, laughing and crying in rapid donald Trump administration in the United states im - embarrassing for India. but if Faesal really wanted to go to srebrenica-type massacre and ethnic cleansing of Muslims sequence, remaining silent for long periods, and appear - plemented its policy to reduce illegal immigration by The Hague, he could have taken a direct flight to Amsterdam. in IOK? I want to warn the international community if it al - ing to be severely depressed. Many girls had self-inflict - separating children from their parents at the U.s. border His plan was to exploit Turkey’s Article 13 universal jurisdic - lows this to happen, it will have severe repercussions and re - ed injuries, a behaviour associated with trauma in chil - with Mexico, there were harrowing consequences on the tion law. some human rights nGO would receive him at actions in the Muslim world setting off radicalisation and cy - dren. Conditions in other shelter homes were not much mental health of the children. A report, published by the Ankara, where he would be lionised as a civil service topper cles of violence.” The talk of “massacre and ethnic cleansing” better, with appalling stories of cruelty and torture, and U.s. government’s own inspectors, confirmed that sepa - (2010) and Harvard alumni who quit a Government job to of Kashmiri Muslims is, of course, pure bunkum but the several instances of suicidal behaviour and mental ration of children from their parents had caused griev - protest against the activities of the Indian state in Kashmir. tweet suggests an IsI hand in the aborted Turkish escapade. breakdown. yet another example of unspeakable vio - ous psychological harm and laid the foundations for Actually Faesal resigned from the service in January 2019 in Meanwhile, erdogan has been cultivating separatist, reli - lence has unfolded in the past week with dozens of young lasting and profound mental health problems in later order to enter politics. However, the sudden split of Jammu gious and business leaders and Islamic groups in Kashmir women being insulted, paraded and forced to remove life. Virtually every major American professional society & Kashmir and freeze on political activity nixed his unborn after the tweaking of Article 370; this goes deeper than his their innerwear to prove they were not on their period by concerned with mental health, public health or chil - political career, leaving nGO activism his only alternative. traditional support to Pakistan at the Organisation of their principal and school staff after a used personal hy - dren’s health condemned the government’s actions as Had he reached Ankara, the international media would Islamic Conference. Previously also, he supported Pakistan have splashed Kashmir on the front pages of all important in the FATF. while addressing the Un General Assembly on giene product was found in a garden of their school, in an assault on children’s rights and well-being. while newspapers and magazines and the Indian media would fol - september 25, 2019, he chided the international community bhuj, Gujarat. “There are no words to describe the hu - there has been a deathly silence from most professional low suit, thus making Faesal the global face of the anti-India for not paying proper attention to Kashmir over the past sev - miliation that we faced,” said one of the students, as the groups in India in response to the gratuitous levels of vi - Islamic movement. Once he managed to file a case in Turkey, en decades. Interestingly, soon after the FATF and UnGA media reported. no doubt, the overall atmosphere in olence being perpetrated against our children by the Islamabad would almost certainly have followed up by filing meetings, the Indian Overseas Congress headed by rahul such a school must have been atrociously oppressive. state, a few courageous institutions stand out for doing a case against India at the ICJ, where it has suffered reverses Gandhi loyalist sam Pitroda opened an office in Istanbul in breach of trust Among the most primal emotions which their job. In the past week, a panel of the Karnataka state in the Kulbhushan Jadhav case. However, Faesal’s mentors november 2019. Possibly the Congress hopes to recover its humans experience in their earliest years of life is fear. Commission for Protection of Child rights concluded could not anticipate the lookout notices for Kashmiris trying once-committed Muslim vote bank by cultivating the emerg - Fear is key to survival for, in leading to behaviours such that “it is clear that the police violated the rights of the to leave the country; he was caught at the airport, sent back ing Caliphate; the repercussions on India’s internal affairs as crying, it prompts a trusted adult to respond with af - children at the [bidar] school”. Let me emphasise that to srinagar and placed in preventive custody. He has now will need careful observation. fection, food or, most importantly, safety. but there are my concerns about traumatising children have nothing times when the fear can have catastrophic consequences to do with taking sides with a particular brand of politics and this is when the threat is persistent and unpre - or ideology, but simply about upholding the foundations lead from ...... dictable and, especially when, it is perpetrated by an of science, the law, ethics and, ultimately, our humanity. equality and fairness that the Army professes from time tutions of the land one that is expected to rise above soci - Make your choice ...... to time. In the process, the court also underlined the need etal ills and be progressive and liberal on gender injus - for a mindset change in the evolutionary flow of changing tice, then clearly it is confirmation of inherent biases ground zero is that an overwhelming number of assesses sitharaman had announced steep reduction in the rate times, not just in the Army but everywhere. It said that among the privileged, too. where women officers can be are unable to avail of the tax breaks. This is because peo - of corporate tax for “new entities” incorporated from deep-rooted stereotypes, that men are dominant and test cases but not decisive enough, where they may be rel - ple in the early stages of their family life have high expen - October 1, 2019 in the manufacturing sector and start women are primary caretakers, need to go away. It even egated to staff duties but not challenge the male bastion. diture commitment and hence need more cash in hand, production by March 31, 2023 from the existing 25 per dismissed the argument of women being unfit physically The Government’s regressive stand on limiting women’s leaving little surplus to invest which is necessary for cent to 15 per cent. such companies won’t have to pay and compromised by family duties as creating an “artifi - role in the Army is hypocritical considering its own de - availing deductions. Then, there are people at the fag minimum alternate tax (MAT) (levied on book profit of cial” distinction, considering that they have still not been partments have had all-women marching contingents in end, say age 55 years plus, who are under no compulsion firms which have no taxable profit courtesy, exemptions cleared for active combat. The court demolished all chau - republic day parades, the Indian Air Force (IAF) allows to save (he has already built a house or nearly completed and incentives). Furthermore, the tax rate on existing vinist arguments that can be used as a precedent in decid - them to become fighter pilots and the Army has even sent education of the children). such people who are unable companies was reduced from 30 per cent to 22 per cent ing similar cases of gender parity, tersely: “To cast asper - them to tough Un peacekeeping missions globally. or unwilling to invest — due to economic circumstances (for small and medium enterprises (sMes) annually sions on gender is an affront to their (the women’s) digni - Unless they were just tokenism to boost propaganda than facing them — and hence, unable to avail exemptions with a turnover of less than rs 400 crore. This was re - ty and to the country. Time has come that women officers really honour winners of the seva medals and Vishisth and deductions would stand to gain by switching over to duced from the already preferential 25 per cent to 22 per are not adjunct to their male counterparts. Physiological seva medals. The next question, therefore, is should the the new dispensation. In the above example (annual in - cent) sans exemptions and deductions. These firms are features of women have no link to their rights. The mind - buck stop with just entrusting greater responsibility to come rs 15,00,000), the tax liability of such a person un - also exempt from MAT. For companies who decide to set must change. women work shoulder to shoulder with them? Are women just worthy of being included in non- der the old regime would be rs 2,73,000, which is rs continue with the old regime viz. tax at 30 per cent with men.” with these words, Justices dy Chandrachud and combat roles only? In actuality, like their male counter - 78,000 higher than under the new regime (rs 1,95,000). tax breaks, MAT was reduced from existing 18.5 per cent Ajay rastogi upheld the equality of opportunity for all parts, they, too, give up on all familial commitments to be without doubt, he/she will be inclined to go for the lat - to 15 per cent. In the budget for 2020-21, the FM has ex - citizens, elevating functionality above gender and treat - part of the Army. They, too, undergo the same rigorous ter. That apart, the FM’s proposals empower assessees to tended the benefit of 15 per cent rate to “new” power ing human resource in any discipline as deserving of re - selection and training procedures as their male peers. take their own decisions instead of being constrained by companies. besides, “cooperatives” are eligible for the spect than either an entitlement or a consolation prize. It none is arguing that the Army lower its standards. but if available tax breaks. someone wanting to have more 22 per cent rate sans exemptions and deductions. The also implied that cultural arguments have no place when women have made it through all kinds of selection crite - cash in hand can opt for the new scheme whereas anoth - steep reduction in tax rate (for new enterprises, it is at 15 it comes to the larger duty of protecting the nation. The ria, then they should at least be given a chance to prove er person keen to save more can continue with the old per cent. This is lower than other major countries viz the court, knowing the tendency of institutions to not follow their mettle. For they are often made a scapegoat for the regime. According to an internal exercise by the Union Us 21 per cent, China 25 per cent; even for existing firms its orders, said permanent commission would be avail - failure in upgrading standards and changing the status Finance Ministry, the proposal will entail a loss of rs at 22 per cent, this is comparable) is a major structural able to all women, regardless of their years of service and quo. The issue is not only about whether women can be 40,000 crore to the exchequer, which means that much reform aimed at making Indian firms more competitive that the judgment had to be implemented within three inducted in combat roles but how to make it happen with extra cash in the hand of tax payers which they can and leaving more resources with them for increasing in - months. what all this means is that service conditions of a radical overhaul of personnel policy. Other nations, in - spend, thereby giving a boost to demand and in turn, vestment. The FM has given a choice, enabling them to men and women officers will be exactly the same and that cluding the Us, Australia, Canada, denmark, France, growth. Another proposal expected to put more cash in choose either the old regime (higher tax rate with ex - the latter shall also be provided with choices of speciali - Germany and Israel, allow women to be part of certain the hands of individuals, especially those earning less emptions) or new regime (lower tax rate sans exemp - sation like their male counterparts. A woman can rise to combat units. by resisting change, the Army wouldn’t than rs 10,00,000 per annum, relates to the manner of tions). The budget proposals (september 2019 and now) the rank of Colonel and even lead battalions. women of - want to be out of sy nc with an India that is resetting itself. levying dividend distribution tax (ddT). At present, a entail a mammoth giveaway of about rs 1,50,000 crore ficers, who have been retired, will also get pension bene - Certainly, it doesn’t suit it s image when the court has to prod company is required to deduct tax (known as ddT) at the per annum. This should help in spurring investment de - fits. If the court had to admonish one of the highest insti - it all the time. It needs to be the initiator, not a follower. rate of 20 per cent (including surcharge and education mand. However, considering that at present, consump - cess, this comes to 20.35 per cent) from the tion is subdued and already, surplus capacity exists in surplus/profit set aside for distribution of dividend to several sectors (major investment by way of setting up 1878 ...... shareholders. The budget proposes to substitute this by new projects can come only after existing capacities are taxing dividends in the hands of recipients/sharehold - fully utilised), its impact on growth in the short-term he became a leader of the anti-House forces. fled, but they had not gone far before they saw Tunstall gal - ers.This substitution means that retail investors, whose may not be much. Unless private demand improves sig - He won dolan’s and Murphy’s lasting enmity by estab - lop straight up to the posse to protest its presence on his earnings are in the rs 500,001-rs 750,000 and rs nificantly, companies might be inclined to retain the tax lishing a competing general merchandise store in Lincoln. property. As billy and the others watched, Morton pulled 750,001- rs 10,00,000 range, will stand to gain as they cut bonanza instead of investing. It would have been bet - by 1877, the power struggle was threatening to become his gun and shot Tunstall dead with a bullet to the head. will pay tax on dividend at 10 per cent and 15 per cent re - ter if the Government had put more money in the pock - overtly violent, and Tunstall began to hire young gunmen Although he had not worked for Tunstall long, billy the Kid spectively, as against 20 per cent they pay currently. This ets of individuals by giving extra relief in PIT (say, by ap - for protection, including the soon-to-be-infamous william deeply resented this cold-blooded murder, and he immedi - will also be a booster to foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) plying 10 per cent tax to the entire income range rs bonney, better known as billy the Kid. early the next year, ately began a vendetta of violence against The House and who will be able to claim offset for the tax paid on divi - 5,00,001- rs 10,00,000 instead of limiting this up to rs The House used its considerable political resources to its allies. Lincoln County became a war zone, and both dend received from companies here in their respective 7,50,000) as the need for resurrecting growth now is far strike back at Tunstall, winning a court order demanding sides began a spree of vicious killings. by July, The House jurisdictions (this is not possible under the subsisting more pressing. To conclude, tax proposals in the 2020- that Tunstall turn over some of his horses to pay an out - was prevailing, having added Mcsween to its lists of vic - dispensation of levying tax before distributing profit). 21 budget are in the right direction. However, a lot more standing debt. when Tunstall refused to turn over the tims. However, fighting would continue to erupt sporadi - Implementation of this proposal will entail an annual needs to be done in terms of further reducing and simpli - horses, the House-controlled Lincoln County sheriff dis - cally until 1884, when Chisum died of natural causes, loss of rs 25,000 crore to the exchequer. This much ex - fying the PIT. with regard to corporate tax, the patched a posse-with william Morton, another House sup - and The House finally regained full control of Lincoln tra money in the hands of investors will also help aug - Government should aim at 15 per cent rate applicable porter, at the head-to take them. billy the Kid and several County. by that time, billy the Kid had already been dead ment purchasing power. Coming to corporate tax, on uniformly to enterprises in all sectors, new and existing other Tunstall hands were working on the ranch when they for three years, gunned down by Lincoln County sheriff Pat september 20, 2019, Finance Minister nirmala (sans exemptions). spotted the approaching posse. Outnumbered, the men Garrett. Glimpses of Future 8 WOrlD JAMMU,wednesdAy, FebrUAry 19, 2020
Coronavirus cases top 500 on Jaishankar meets EU leaders; holds cruise ship off Japan Yokohama, Feb 18 talks on economic, social issues Another 88 people aboard a cruise ship off Japan have tested positive for the coronavirus, authorities said Tuesday, as those free Brussels, Feb 18 (PTI) two leaders discussed experiences in eration." He appreciated President of their deep interest in India and our re - of the disease hoped they were spending their last night on board capacity building and development the european Council Charles Michel lations with the eU," he tweeted. before disembarking. The new cases take the total from the external Affairs Minister s partnerships. for his vision for the eU and eu-India Jaishankar's visit comes weeks after diamond Princess to 542 -- easily the biggest cluster outside the Jaishankar met top leaders of the "Coordination on these issues relations and expressed confident that the european Parliament postponed epicentre in China -- as the cruise ship has proved an especially vir - european Union and held wide-rang - would be to the benefit of both India "his (Michel) leadership can translate until March a vote on a joint motion, ulent breeding ground for the virus despite quarantine. ing talks on issues, including economic and eU," Jaishankar tweeted. The min - that into substantive outcomes." combining five different resolutions The new cases will be sent to specialised hospitals, the ministry cooperation, climate change and ca - ister also held "positive and produc - Jaishankar held a very "engaging" con - tabled by its members against India's said in a statement, without giving further details such as their na - pacity building, that would "benefit tive" parleys at the Foreign Affairs versation with executive Vice- Citizenship Amendment Act, which both India and eU". Jaishankar, who Council of the eU. "Thank the attend - President for the european Green deal was debated at its Plenary session in tionalities. was in Germany during the weekend ing Foreign Ministers, Ambassadors & Frans Timmermans and the two lead - brussels. during the debate, Helena sixty-five of those who tested positive were not yet showing for the Munich security Conference, ar - senior officials and most of all Hr ers discussed experiences on sustain - dalli, the Vice-President of the symptoms. rived here on Monday to prepare the (High representative) ability, climate change, environment european Commission and High britain became the latest country to offer its citizens a way off ground for Prime Minister narendra @JosepborrellF. Looking forward to and innovation. Jaishankar also had an representative of the Union for the boat, saying it was "working to organise a flight back to the UK" Modi's planned visit for the India-eU working together to strengthen this key open discussion with members of the Foreign Affairs and security Policy, had as doubts grow over the effectiveness of the quarantine measures summit here next month. partnership," he said. Jaishankar also european Parliament representing a said the Commission was looking for - with every spike in positive cases. The foreign minister met eU met eU Commissioner for Trade Phil broad spectrum of politics and member ward to Prime Minister Modi's visit to Canada, Australia, Hong Kong and south Korea have already Commissioner for International Hogan and "exchanged views on the states. "The interaction covered politi - brussels in March for the 15th India- said they will evacuate their citizens from the ship, following the Partnerships Jutta Urpilainen and the prospects for India-eU economic coop - cal, economic and social issues. noted eU summit. lead from the United states, which flew home around 300 Americans on Monday -- including more than a dozen who had Democrat Michael tested positive. "we have done tests for everyone (on the ship)," Japanese Health Minister Katsunobu Kato told reporters. "some Bloomberg makes it to results have already come out... and for those whose test results are already clear, we are working to prepare disembarkation," he said. the debate, rivals In a letter sent to passengers, authorities explained that some test raring to rattle him results would take time to process and that therefore "we plan the disembarkation to take place from 19 to 21 February". "If you and Washington Feb 18 your roommate are both negative and have no fever of respiratory Former new york Mayor Michael symptoms, you will be able to prepare for disembarkation," the let - bloomberg on Tuesday qualified for this ter said. but those who had close contact with anyone who tested week’s democratic presidential debate in positive will have their quarantine reset to the last date. The crew, nevada, putting him on the same stage as his some of whom have complained about conditions on board, are al - rivals for the first tie in the race for the par - so expected to remain to observe another quarantine period after ty’s nomination. The debate on wednesday the last passengers leave the ship. Japan has been forced to defend will be the ninth in the contest for who will its policy amid criticism for the way it handled the situation, with challenge republican President donald Trump in the november 3 election. A late dozens of new infections detected almost daily since the ship ar - entry to the race, bloomberg, 78, has risen in rived in early February. britain became the latest country to offer public opinion polls as he pours money from its citizens a way off the boat, saying it was "working to organise a his estimated $60 billion personal fortune flight back to the UK" as doubts grow over the effectiveness of the into a national campaign, spending hun - quarantine measures with every spike in positive cases. dreds of millions of dollars on television ads. Canada, Australia, Hong Kong and south Korea have already when he takes the stage on wednesday, he said they will evacuate their citizens from the ship, following the is likely to be challenged directly by rivals lead from the United states, which flew home around 300 over his use as mayor of a policing policy widely seen as discriminatory and of sup - Americans on Monday -- including more than a dozen who had posed sexist practices at his company. tested positive. "we have done tests for everyone (on the ship)," “There’s a lot to talk about with Michael Japanese Health Minister Katsunobu Kato told reporters. "some bloomberg,” former vice president and can - results have already come out.The Americans already evacuated didate for the nomination Joe biden told will have to undergo another 14-day quarantine in the United nbC’s “Meet the Press” on sunday. states. Canada said Tuesday it had arranged a chartered flight to bloomberg had support from 19% of the repatriate nationals from the diamond Princess, but gave no de - people surveyed in a nPr/Pbs tails when it would take place. There were 256 Canadians on board newsHour/Marist poll released on Tuesday. with that result, he met the the ship, with 32 so far testing positive for the virus .south Korea democratic Party’s requirements for debate will send a presidential aircraft on Tuesday to fly back four nation - Demonstrators march to protest the murder of Fatima, a 7-year-old girl who was abducted from the entrance of the Enrique C. Rebsamen primary qualification by receiving double-digit sup - als and one Japanese spouse, an official told reporters. There are 14 school and later killed, in Mexico City. The girl's body was found wrapped in a bag and abandoned in a rural area on Saturday and was identified port in four national polls recognized by the south Koreans on board, but the other ten have declined to be evac - by genetic testing. party, his campaign said in a statement. uated because they live in Japan, the yonhap news agency report - ed. while foreign governments have couched their decision to re - UK budget on March 11 move citizens as an attempt to reduce the burden on Japanese au - Wuhan hospital director dies thorities, many have interpreted the evacuations as tacit criticism as planned: new finance of Tokyo's handling of the situation. The Us and Australia have minister told citizens that if they decline repatriation and an additional 14- of coronavirus day quarantine, they will not be allowed home for at least two London, Feb 18 weeks, suggesting they do not believe the ship-based quarantine Beijing, Feb 18 worked. Japan has also confirmed at least 74 cases domestically -- britain's first budget following brexit will including many involving people with no history of recent travel to take place on March 11 as planned, the coun - A hospital director at the epi - try's new finance minister rishi sunak said China. Authorities say the virus is now being transmitted locally, centre of China's virus epidemic Tuesday after the shock resignation of prede - and have asked citizens to avoid crowds and non-essential gather - died Tuesday, state media said, the cessor sajid Javid. "Cracking on with prepara - ings. On Monday, the amateur portion of the Tokyo Marathon -- latest medical worker to fall victim tions for my first budget on March 11," tweeted which had been expected to attract some 38,000 runners -- was to the coronavirus which has sunak, who Prime Minister boris Johnson last cancelled. Only elite athletes will now take part. The public cele - spread across the country. The week appointed to the post of chancellor of the bration for emperor naruhito's birthday has also been scrapped. exchequer. COVId-19 virus, which is believed Following suggestions the budget could be to have originated in wuhan late delayed to give sunak more time to prepare for last year, has spread to more than Army officer died fighting the key event, the new finance chief added that 72,000 people and killed 1,900 in the annual update on government tax and China.Liu Zhiming, the director of terrorists last year. Now, 28-yr-old spend plans "will deliver on the promises we wuchang Hospital in wuhan, died and replaced with reports that doc - Tuesday, with many users on the made to the british people -- levelling up and Tuesday morning after "all-out res - tors were still attempting to save Twitter-like weibo platform draw - wife signs up cue efforts failed," state broadcast - unleashing the country's potential". him. ing comparisons between Liu's Dehradun Feb 18 Javid resigned after Johnson offered to er CCTV reported. The hospital director's death death and Li's, which was also ini - He is the first known hospital keep him on only if he sacked all his political has echoes of the death of wuhan tially reported by state media and Twenty-eight-year-old nitika Kaul is all set to join the Indian advisers, as the prime minister's downing director to have died from the coro - ophthalmologist Li wenliang, who then denied hours before being fi - Army. Her husband was Major Vibhuti shankar dhoundiyal, who street office looks to have greater say over navirus. had been punished by authorities nally confirmed again. was killed during a gun battle with Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) ter - Treasury policy. sunak, 39, had been Javid's At least six other medical work - for sounding the alarm about the doctors in wuhan face short - rorists in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama in February last year. deputy. britain finally departed the european ers have died from the virus, while virus in late december. ages of masks and protective body - Union on January 31, leaving Johnson tasked 1,716 have been infected, according Li's death prompted a national suits, with some even wearing They had got married in April the year before. Kaul, who is from with striking trade deals worldwide. He mean - to official figures. outpouring of grief as well as anger makeshift hazmat suits and contin - Kashmir, has cleared the short service Commission (ssC) exami - while wishes to improve productivity in cities Liu's death was initially report - against the authorities, who were uing to work despite showing respi - nation as well as the interview. she is now waiting for the merit list outside of London with the help of massive in - ed by Chinese media and bloggers accused of mishandling the crisis. ratory symptoms, because of a lack to be declared after which she will join the forces as a cadet. she frastructure projects like the new high-speed shortly after midnight on Tuesday - People took to social media of medical staff, health workers said this was her way of paying a “real tribute” to the officer and railway Hs2. - but the stories were later deleted once more to mourn Liu on have told AFP. feeling close to him. Kaul, who lives with her parents in delhi and works with a multinational company, now wants to focus on being a good officer like her husband. Opening of Kartarpur Corridor practical proof “I want to learn new things as it is a major shift for me from the corporate culture I am so used to, to the disciplined culture of armed forces,” she said. “I took my own time to recover from the major loss and the decision to sit for the short service Commission of Pakistan's desire for peace, says UN chief examination happened gradually. Just filling the form in september last year was a big decision. but I had decided that I Lahore, Feb 18 Pakistan Prime Minister from the Indian side on the want to walk on a similar path like my husband,” said Kaul. she Imran Khan took this initiative same day by flagging off the said the process of taking the exam helped her know what her hus - Un chief Antonio Guterres to facilitate the sikh communi - first batch of over 500 Indian band had gone through while writing it. “It was a very emotional on Tuesday said the opening of ty of India and elsewhere to pilgrims, including former moment for me to enter that examination hall, given what I had ex - the Kartarpur sahib Corridor visit the shrine. premier Manmohan singh and is a practical example of The corridor links Union minister Harsimrat perienced,” she said recalling the day she sat for the exam. “At the Pakistan's desire for peace and Gurdwara darbar sahib in Kaur badal. Kartarpur sahib same time, I was thinking that my husband would have gone inter-faith harmony, as he vis - Pakistan's Kartarpur - the final in Pakistan is located across through the same situation, of clearing the first examination as a ited the revered Gurdwara resting place of sikh faith's the river ravi, about four kilo - step towards joining the forces… It made me feel closer to Vibhu,” darbar sahib, the final resting founder Guru nanak dev - to metres from the dera baba she said. she said it was not easy to get back to normal life after her place of sikhism founder Guru dera baba nanak shrine in nanak shrine. It was estab - husband’s death and “drowned myself in work, hoping the pain nanak dev. The Pakistan sikh India's Gurdaspur district. lished by the sikh Guru in will ease…” “I went back to work around 15 days after my husband’s urdwara Parbhandhik wearing an orange scarf, 1522. The first Gurdwara, Committee and evacuee Trust Guterres visited different parts Gurdwara Kartarpur sahib, death because I wanted to keep myself busy. It is natural to have a Property board officials re - of the Gurdwara. He was was built here, where Guru breakdown but we needed to accept the situation. I had to find pos - ceived the Un secretary served with traditional food in Kartarpur Corridor is a practi - the facilities being provided to nanak dev is said to have died. itivity in my daily routine and stand up on my feet once again,” she General at Kartarpur sahib, lunch along with sikhs and cal example of Pakistan's de - sikh pilgrims at the complex. arlier in the day, Guterres added. she said going out with her cousins for the first time was al - some 125kms from Lahore. A Pakistani officials. strict secu - sire for peace and inter-faith Khan inaugurated the addressed students at the so a major step she took after her husband’s death. sikh boy presented him a bou - rity measures were taken dur - harmony, radio Pakistan re - Kartarpur Corridor on Lahore University of “There was an internal resistance. I was not completely willing quet. ing the visit. Indian sikhs in ported. He said the opening of november 9, 2019 in connec - Management sciences and to go outside but then when a loved one leaves, you have to think Guterres was also briefed good number were also pres - urged them to focus on new the corridor is a good step and tion with the 550 birth an - whether they would have wanted to see you in such a sad state. I al - about the Kartarpur Corridor ent at Kartarpur sahib. Later technologies. He termed cli - it will promote tolerance and niversary of Guru nanak dev. ways thought what Vibhu would have wanted me to do and I got my pact between Pakistan and talking to media persons, the interfaith harmony. Prime Minister narendra mate change as the major issue answer.” India. He was told that Un secretary General said the The Un chief appreciated Modi inaugurated the corridor the world is facing today. Glimpses of Future 9SportsJAMMU, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2020 Hope Pandya gets to play some cricket ‘Because of Drav- Won’t rule out playing 2023 before IPL: MI bowling coach Bond id, Sachin sir’: Wellington, Feb 18 (PTI) Yashasvi Jaiswal Mumbai Indians bowling on why he didn’t World Cup, says Taylor FRDFK 6KDQH %RQG ZDQWV DOOURXQGHU+DUGLN3DQG\D respond to sledge Wellington, Feb 18 (PTI) bigg boss 13 has become the talk of the town. runners up Asim riaz has earned a lot of love from his journey. 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After Malang, Aditya Roy Kapur to Romance Sonam Kapoor slams RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat for Disha Patani in Ek Villain 2? divorce comment bollywood actress Taapsee Pannu is gearing up screen on fire once again with another for multiple projects in the coming months, and Mohit suri film, which is ek Villain 2. she says that success has given her the confidence As per PinkVilla report, a source close to make unusual choices when it comes to signing to the film said, "ek Villain 2 has films. "success has given me the confidence that I Aditya and John Abraham going head am heading in the right direction and my judgment to head against each other. The an - on films are right. so, my choices of films are the nouncement was made about the two gift of success. If I give inputs in the process of mak - male leads but what people don't know ing a film and people listen to me, it is because I is that the film also has two female have managed to become a bankable actor. leads, opposite each hero. They are ac - Filmmaking is a business and unless producers tion-packed roles, which also lend to have the confidence that investing in my films will the twists and turns in the plot. One of get a financial return, why would they put their the actresses will be cast opposite Adi money," Taapsee told PTI. Taapsee recently won and Mohit has offered the part to the best Actress (critics) award at a popular awards disha." He further added, "Mohit was gala along with bhumi Pednekar for her 2019 waiting for the response to Malang diwali release saand Ki Aankh. Last year Taapsee and the way his film and his lead pair also played pivotal roles in films like badla, Game received appreciation for their on- Over, and Mission Mangal. starting her career with screen camaraderie, he was sure that regular fare in the south Indian film industry, she disha and Adi will suit each other in made her debut in bollywood with the david ek Villain 2 as well. disha has already dhawan slapstick Chashme baddoor in 2012, but heard the script and liked it as well. went on to become a face of content-driven cinema but it now needs to be seen if she after her role in Aniruddha roy Chowdhury's 2016 gives her final nod to the project." film, Pink. she also gained popularity with strong well, if this turns out to be true, it will performances in films like baby, naam shabana, be a treat for all cinema lovers. ek Mulk and Manmarziyaan. How I stand for gender Villain 2 is produced by bhushan equality and women's right has nothing to do with Kumar and ekta Kapoor under their success, but everything to do with upbringing. I banners T-series and balaji Motion was never told that I am any less because I am a girl. Pictures and is set to hit the screens on I have a sister and, whether it is education, jobs or January 8, 2021. The film will lock any other choice we made, in our house my parents After a few misses, Aditya roy audience praised the crackling chem - horns with Ajay devgn, Alia bhatt, never questioned it because we are girls. so the Kapur has finally hit the bull's eye with istry between Aditya roy Kapur and ram Charan and Jr nTr starrer rrr choice of films that I make is a reflection of my his latest release, Malang, which has disha Patani and while the cast and at the ticket windows. so, are you ex - mindset. My audience sees my belief in my choic - turned out to be a box office. Apart crew are busy celebrating the success cited to see Aditya and disha once es," she said. from the performances and direction, of the film, the duo is ready to set the again on the silver screen? Bunty Aur Babli 2: Saif Ali Khan and Rani Mukerji to shoot a slick climax in Abu Dhabi After shooting for almost two months hooked me on instantly. It is an out and in Mumbai, saif Ali Khan and rani out entertainer for the entire family to sit Mukerji have headed to Abu dhabi to and enjoy and this is what I loved and con - bollywood actress sonam Kapoor has slammed shoot the climax for the film. The duo is off nected with. Also, it’s a new role for me, rashtriya swayamsevak sangh (rss) chief Mohan bhagwat, to the emirate City for a 10-day shoot and new language and milieu and that’s what I calling his comments on divorce regressive and foolish. the director of the film, Varun sharma told really look for in a script. I also love the dy - Through a post on Twitter, sonam slammed bhagwat while Mid-day that they are shooting the climax namics between the originals and the new sharing a link of a story wherein he states "divorce cases in a different and cool way. “we are shoot - bunty babli in the film. It’s fresh, hilarious more in educated, affluent families".In the story, reported ing a highlight con in Abu dhabi. The land - and extremely engaging. rani and I have from a public event on sunday, bhagwat said that cases of di - scape of the emirate gives a lot of scale to always had a lot of fun working with each vorce were found more in educated and affluent families, the film, and the team will spend around other and I’m looking forward to our cre - and he had argued that education and wealth came with ar - 10 days shooting the sequence. since ative collaboration again. It’s also equally rogance, which destroyed families. "nowadays the number bunty Aur babli 2 is set in today's time, we amazing to be back home at yrF again.” of divorce cases have increased a lot. People fight over trifle were clear that the cons need to be crafted rani also expressed her happiness and issues. The cases of divorce are more in educated and afflu - for today's audience. They will expect had said, “The original bunty Aur babli got ent families, because with education and affluence comes ar - something new and slick. The Abu dhabi tremendous love and appreciation from rogance, as a result of which families fall apart. The society con will stand out in that regard,” said audiences and it is their love that has made also falls apart because society is also a family," bhagwat was sharma. The film marks the reunion of the yrF decide to make the sequel. Abhishek quoted as saying. On the film front, sonam was last seen in duo after 11 years. saif and rani have and I were both approached by yrF to The Zoya Factor, which was a dud at the box-office. sonam worked together in films like Hum Tum, reprise our roles as the originals in bunty Kapoor made a confident debut with saawariya and elicited Ta ra rum Pum and Thoda Pyaar Thoda Aur babli 2 but, unfortunately, things did - notable reviews for it. she was nominated for a number of Magic. The sequel will see a huge time leap n’t work out with him and we will miss him film awards as a debutante and an actress. she won the of 10 years and will feature two pairs of dearly. As a team, we are so happy to wel - stardust superstar of Tomorrow award. Her second movie, bunty and babli. Talking about the film, come saif. 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