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SPOTLIGHT ALAPAN REPLIES TO CENTRE'S SHOW-CAUSE NOTICE M’laya CM warns against illegal coal Eateries allowed to open for miners Didn't abstain from PM NEWMAI NEWS NETWORK 3 hours with jabbed staff SHILLONG: Meghalaya AGENCIES However, it is not immedi- meet, says Ex- Bengal CS Chief Minister , Conrad K ately clear from which date the Sangma said appropriate KOLKATA: With the Covid-19 eateries can start operating. AGENCIES instead of reporting to Delhi, action as per law will be situation improving in West The CM said that her govern- after which he was appoint- taken against people who Bengal, the state govern- ment was mulling the option KOLKATA: The Bengal bureau- ed Chief Adviser to the Chief are involved in illegal coal ment on Thursday decided to of vaccinating domestic helps crat at the heart of the latest Minister. mining even as all efforts allow restaurants to open for in the same way it has planned clash between Chief Minister Earlier this week, the are being made to rescue three hours in the evening, to inoculate hawkers, bus con- and Prime Centre sent him a show-cause the five labourers trapped provided people working ductors, vendors and others. Minister Narendra Modi has notice asking him to explain inside a coal mine in East there are vaccinated, Chief Altogether 1.4 crore of people reportedly replied to the Cen- his absence from PM Modi's Jaintia Hills district. Pg 5 Minister Mamata Banerjee in have been inoc- tre's notice accusing him of meeting. said. ulated so far, she said. At the skipping the PM's meeting Mamata Banerjee and her The government is also meeting, Banerjee also urged last week. Former Chief Secre- team had left after a brief inter- Delhi HC issues thinking of allowing shop- representatives of the cham- tary Alapan Bandyopadhyay action with the Prime Minister summons to ping malls to open with 25 bers to help the government is believed to have written to by Cyclone Yaas in Digha town, at the air base where he had per cent workforce after the in vaccinating the population the Centre that he did not "ab- according to sources. For alleg- landed after an aerial review. Ramdev over Coronil ongoing Covid related restric- of the state. "The government stain" from PM Modi's Cyclone edly missing PM Modi's meeting The Chief Minister's refusal to tions come to an end on June cannot single-handedly vacci- Yaas meeting and that he was along with Mamata Banerjee last stay and attend the meeting was NEW DELHI: The Delhi High 15, she said at a meeting with nate everyone. I will urge you there "till the Chief Minister Friday, Mr Bandyopadhyay was partly linked to the presence of Court on Thirsday issued representatives of various to come forward and help us to was there." transferred to the Centre just a her former aide-turned-BJP summons to Baba Ramdev chambers of commerce at the Representational image. inoculate the people," she said. He has said "as per the direc- day before his retirement. MLA at the on a suit by Delhi Medical state secretariat. following the imposition of evening from 5 pm to 8 pm pro- Banerjee also sought their tive of Chief Minister Mamata Mamata Banerjee refused meeting as Leader of Opposition. Association (DMA). "Covid-19 contagion is restrictions. Restaurants can vided the people working there help in relief works in districts Banerjee", he left the meeting for to release him and Mr She has since asserted she had The DMA, in its petition, declining in West Bengal be open for three hours in the are vaccinated," Banerjee said. ravaged by Cyclone Yaas. a review of the damage caused Bandyopadhyay chose to retire other scheduled... Pg 5 had said that the yoga guru’s Patanjali is propagating false Nadda to review information about its Coronil TET qualifying Govt decides to demolish kit that it... Pg 5 Modi's call to BJP leader Mukul BJP's 2022 Assembly certificates now poll strategy Fake doctor arrested Roy creates a political buzz valid for lifetime Vivekananda flyover in Dibrugarh’s tea AGENCIES AGENCIES AGENCIES evening. NEW DELHI: The validity garden Sources in BJP said that of the Teachers Eligibili- KOLKATA: Five years after NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya KOLKATA: Prime Minister Nar- Prime Minister Narendra ty Test (TET) qualifying the collapse of Vivekananda Janata Party (BJP) national GUWAHATI: The police on endra Modi called up state Modi called up Roy at around certificates has been ex- flyover popularly known as President JP Nadda will hold Thursday arrested a fake BJP leader Mukul Roy and 10.30 a.m. and enquired about tended from seven years to 'Posta flyover' on March 31, a two-day meeting of national doctor from Mokalbari tea enquired about the health of the health of his wife. He also lifetime, Union Education 2016, where 28 people died, the General Secretaries on June 5 estate in Dibrugarh dis- his wife who is in a critical assured all possible assistance Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal state government - after much and June 6 in the national capi- trict. condition and is undergoing to the BJP national vice-presi- "Nishank" announced on consultation - finally decided tal to review and formulate the According to police sourc- treatment in a private hospi- dent. Though Mukul Roy said Thursday. to pull down the flyover. The party's strategy regarding the es, the fake doctor who is tal. The two-minute conver- that it was a courtesy call but it "The government has demolition work will start forthcoming Assembly polls, not even a matriculate, sation between Modi and Roy has triggered speculation among decided to extend the valid- from June 5. Merchant's Association in pres- including the crucial state of has been serving as a med- has triggered political spec- political circles in the state. Mukul Roy. ity period of the Teachers Firhad Hakim who is ence of Rail Technical and Uttar Pradesh. ical officer under the fake ulation because it came after The call assumed signif- 24 Parganas, Chief Minister Eligibility Test qualifying the Chairman of Board of Economic Service (RITES) and The party's strategy to deal name of Stephen Antony in TMC leader and MP Abhiskek icance because on Tuesday Mamata Banerjee's nephew certificates from seven years Administrators of Kolkata Kolkata Municipal Development with the ongoing COVID-19 pan- Mokalbari tea estate in since Banerjee made a surprise visit evening on his way back from and Trinamool Congress (TMC) to lifetime with a... Pg 5 Municipal Corporation held Authority (KMDA) officials and demic and 'Sewa hi Sangathan' 2018. to the hospital on Wednesday the cyclone ravaged South youth unit... Pg 5 a meeting with Posta Bazar announced the... Pg 5 movement launched... Pg 5 The fake doctor... Pg 5 BJP alleges malpractice 2 NSCN (R) rebels CBSE Class 12 board exam 4 tiger reserves get held in Dimapur in distribution of vaccines CATS accreditation DIMAPUR: Indian Army and AGENCIES the specific incidents and will results expected before August Nagaland Police in a joint be sending a report to him at CHRONICLE NEWS SERVICE operation have arrested KOLKATA: The Bharatiya Ja- the earliest as per his advice,” AGENCIES two rebels belonging to the nata Party has upped its ante Adhikari tweeted. Assam eyeing CBSE decision GUWAHATI: The National Com- National Socialist Council against the ruling Trinamool Although the TMC returned NEW DELHI: The CBSE Class 12 mittee of Conservation As- of Nagaland (NSCN-R) at Congress in the state with the to power for the third consecu- board exam results are expect- sured Tiger Standards (CATS) Chekiye Village in Dimapur leader of the opposition alleg- tive time winning 213 out of the ed before August, informed on class 12 board exams recommended proposals for district, a defence PRO said ing that malpractices have 292 assembly seats, where polls CBSE Secretary Anurag Tripa- Kaziranga, Manas, Nameri on Thursday. surfaced in vaccine distribu- were held, Adhikari managed thy. The exams were cancelled AGENCIES consultation with all stakehold- and Orang Tiger Reserves The team also rescued tion in the state. to defeat TMC chief Mamata after a meeting held by PM ers as it is a question of a stu- for CATS accreditation on by the National Committee at Shakil Ahmed of MSF Andhra BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari Banerjee by 1956 votes from Narendra Modi on June 1. GUWAHATI: The decision on dents’ future. Wednesday. a meeting held in New Delhi on Fish Company and handed claimed that he had a word with in East Midnapore. “Higher education institu- holding the class 12 board ex- The Centre on Tuesday decid- The CATS assessment has Wednesday. Besides four Tiger over the cadres to the state the Union health minister and The TMC, however, has hit tions and foreign varsities con- ams in Assam will be taken ed to cancel the CBSE Class 12 been conducted by the National Reserves of Assam, Kanha, police. would be sending a report to back saying that Adhikari joined duct admissions around August. after the CBSE announces cri- board exams amid the COVID-19 Tiger Conservation Authority Panna and Sundarbans Tiger The security forces appre- him soon. the BJP to evade arrest in scams We are trying to bring out the teria for assessment of marks pandemic. (NTCA) in 27 Tiger Reserves Reserves were awarded CAT hended two... Pg 5 “Deeply concerned about and was now making false allega- Class 12 CBSE board exam of the students, said chief min- The Supreme Court on in the first phase and 24 to be accreditation. the malpractice started in dis- tions against the TMC to survive. results before that,” Tripathy ister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday directed the CBSE carried out in the second phase. The NTCA that sets a bench- tribution of vaccines in the state. Till June 1, the state distrib- said. Thursday. and CICSE to place on record All the four Tiger Reserves of mark for managing conserva- After a conversation with the uted around 1.5 crore doses “CBSE is working on finalis- Chief minister Sarma further objective criteria for assessment Assam under Phase 1 have got tion sites through a set of min- Assam logs Hon. Union Minister of Health of Covid-19 vaccines. Chief ing the marking criteria for Class said a decision on the cancella- of marks in two weeks. CATS accreditation. Only seven imum standards based on 17 4,309 new cases, @drharshvardhan, I am noting Minister Mamata... Pg 5 12. We will take... Pg 5 tion of exams will be taken after “We will... Pg 5 proposals were recommended parameters... Pg 5 46 fatalities Sonowal likely to GUWAHATI: Assam on Thurs- TMC urges speaker get national day registered 4,309 new Menstrual waste disposal adding COVID-19 with a positivity 'responsibility' rate of 4.02 per cent, taking to disqualify 2 turncoat MPs the active cases to 50,534. NEW DELHI: Former Assam chief to India's environmental crisis On the other hand, the state AGENCIES and May. tion of Sisir Kumar Adhikari minister Sarbananda Sonowal also recorded 4,790 discharges "I had a talk with speaker as a member of the Lok Sabha, will be given a new responsi- AGENCIES years to decompose or may and 46 fatalities. KOLKATA: Leader of the Tri- Om Birla seeking disqualifi- as per Rule 6 of the Members bility by the central leadership even never decompose at all With the news cases, the namool Congress party in cation of and of Lok Sabha (disqualification of the BJP, taking into account NEW DELHI: About 12.3 bil- and each pad contains plastic overall COVId-19 tally of the the Lok Sabha, Sudip Ban- Sunil Mondal. He said that he on grounds of defection) Rules, his past experience both in the lion or 113,000 tonnes of used which is equivalent to around state has now reached 4,24,385. dopadhyay held a telephonic will go through the papers," Mr 1985." state and at the Centre, his suc- sanitary pads are dumped in 4 plastic bags. It may be... Pg 5 conversation with Speaker Bandopadhyay said. Mr Bandopadhyay said that cessor Himanta Biswa Sarma landfills in India every year, The survey, done during Om Birla on Thursday seek- Kanthi MP Sisir Adhikari and he had also sent a reminder to said on Thursday. adding to the already existing the study, clearly shows that ing disqualification of party Bardhaman Purba MP Sunil the speaker on May 12 about his Sarma, however, said he is not plastic pollution in the coun- disposable sanitary napkins MPs Sisir Adhikari and Sunil Mondal, elected on Trinamool earlier petition sent in January aware of the party leadership's try, shares a new study titled are the most popular choice AIUDF MLA Mondal, who left the Mamata tickets in the 2019 general elec- seeking Mr Mondal's disqual- plans for Sonowal. 'Menstrual Products and among women, who are using Ashraful Hussain Banerjee-led party and joined tions, had switched over to the ification under anti-defection "When Sonowal and I had our their Disposal'. unhygienic working conditions commercially available prod- the BJP, under anti-defection BJP before the assembly polls rules. last meeting with Naddaji (BJP Released by the environ- for waste workers, and posing ucts in India, and hence results tests positive rules. but did not step down. The Trinamool Congress on president J P Nadda), he told us mental group Toxics Link, the the risk of infectious diseases in huge amounts of waste. The Trinamool MP said that Mr Bandopadhyay said, he Wednesday had expressed dis- that Himanta will be the chief study has also raised serious among them. The study further reveals GUWAHATI: AIUDF MLA from he had sent two letters to the had written to the speaker on pleasure at the BJP-led central minister for the next five years concerns on improper dispos- A single commercially avail- that most women are unaware Chenga constituency in As- speaker on the issue in January May 17 seeking "disqualifica- government... Pg 5 while Sonowal will... Pg 5 al methods and non-segrega- able non-organic sanitary pad that commonly available dis- sam – Ashraful Hussain has tion of menstrual waste from (commonly available popular posable sanitary napkins con- tested positive for COVID-19. household waste, which leads to brands) takes up to 250-800 stitute 90 per cent... Pg 5 Ashraful Hussain test- ed COVID-19 positive on Wednesday. Number of net users likely to reach Notably, Ashraful Hussain had taken the first dose of vac- cine on May 29. Centre pays `1,500 Cr to 27-years-old Ashraful 900 million by ‘25, rural may lead Hussain is the youngest MLA in the Assam Assembly. Pg 5 Biological E for 30 crore doses AGENCIES raphy. "Vernacular, Voice and AGENCIES doses of the vaccine candidate, Antigua and Barbuda NEW DELHI: The number of Video will emerge as the game which is a foreign construct, active internet users in the changers for the digital ecosys- NEW DELHI: The Centre on being produced in India. prefers repatriation country is likely to grow tem over the next few years," Thursday announced that it is Its candidate includes an of Choksi nearly 45 per cent to 900 mil- Biswapriya Bhattacharjee, making an advance payment antigen developed by Texas lion by 2025 compared to 622 Executive Vice President, of Rs 1,500 crore to Hydera- Children’s Hospital Centre million as of last year, an Insights Division, Kantar said bad-based vaccine maker Bio- for Vaccine Development and IAMAI-Kantar Cube report in a statement on the report. logical E for procuring its Cov- licensed from BCM Ventures, released on Thursday said. The report suggests that id vaccine, still under phase Baylor College of Medicine’s According to the report, even though the internet pen- 3 clinical trials, marking the companies whose vaccines are integrated commercialization rural India may have a high- Representative image. etration in urban India is over first such deal for securing being used for India’s Covid vac- team, along with Dynavax er number of internet users ecosystem in the country. urban India. Given this, the two times than rural areas, the coronavirus vaccine. cination drive now, only after Technologies -- all in the US. compared to urban centres “By 2025, there would be digital ecosystem will need to usership in rural areas has The government had entered their vaccines had received The Union government said by 2025 which indicates the a greater number of internet evolve to address the specific been growing at a faster rate into purchase agreements with regulatory approvals. that the vaccine candidate is Full Story on Page 5 need to strengthen the digital users in rural India than in needs of this emerging demog- on a year-on-year basis. Pg 5 Serum Institute of India and The advance payment, said currently undergoing phase-3 Bharat Biotech, the two other the Centre, is to secure 30 crore clinical trials after... Pg 5