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Year : 05 Issue : 04 New Delhi Saturday, March 21, 2020 Rs. 1/- Pages - 8 E-mail - [email protected] / [email protected] Facebook - www.facebook.com/opensearch.co.in Website - www.opensearch.co.in Cricket boards brace... P6 FIRST COLUMN Coronavirus: Lucknow shuts all Railway employee suspended Nirbhaya case: 4 convicts hanged at restaurants after singer tests for ‘hiding’ COVID-19 positive 5:30 am after nightlong court hearings positive; India cases jump to 223 son in rest house New Delhi, Agency. New Delhi, Agency. The four death-row convicts in the Amid a surge in the number of COVID-19 cases in the Nirbhaya gangrape case were hanged in country, the Delhi government stepped up to contain the virus by shutting down the malls in the national This was after the Supreme Court, in a capital. The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation too announced Delhi’spre-dawn Tihar hearing, jail at brought 5:30 am the on curtains Friday. that it will close the metro services on Sunday, the day down on the gangrape and murder case ‘Janata curfew’ will be imposed. So far, 223 people have by dismissing a plea by one of the four Research (ICMR) said on Friday, while the death toll plea by President Ram Nath Kovind. In been confirmed positive, the Indian Council of Medical New Delhi, Agency. againstan indication rejection of public of his outrage second over mercy the Bengaluru was suspended for allegedly case that had shaken the conscience hiding information that A railway her son, officer who in of an entire nation, several posters later tested positive for COVID-19 in the were seen outside the Tihar premises city, had a travel history to coronavirus- in the wee hours on Friday ahead of the hanging with placards and posters same, South Western Railway (SWR) hit Germany and Spain. Confirming the told indianexpress.com that the lady readingCourt Bench “thanks comprising to judiciary” Justices and “the R Chief Public Relations Officer E Vijaya morningBanumathi, of justice”.Ashok BhushanEarlier, a andSupreme A S old paramedic student, referred to as n Delhi gangrape convicts Nirbhaya, was gang-raped and brutally officer who was working as an Assistant Pawan Gupta that his mercy plea had hanged: Justice finally assaulted on the intervening night of Personnel Officer in Bengaluru Division Bopanna rejected the fervent plea of delivered, says victim’s December 16-17, 2012, in a moving house accommodation for her family in without considering the fact that he was was officially suspended on Thursday. mother Asha Devi bus in south Delhi by six people before “SheBengaluru (the officer) and was had allotted requested the same a rest next beena minor wrongly at the rejected time of byoffence the President in 2012. she was thrown out on the road. One of has reached four. In a press conference on Friday, the to KSR Bengaluru railway station from “The consistent view of this court is that n the six accused in the case, Ram Singh, Health Ministry urged citizens to comply with the ‘Janata March 13 to 16. It was then understood scope for review of President’s decision Asha Devi, the mother of the allegedly committed suicide in Tihar curfew’ as “one day’s cooperation will help break the in mercy petitions is very limited,” the 23-year-old physiotherapy chain of transmission”. Health Ministry Joint Secretary Germany via Madrid (Spain) airport to the bench said. “What are the grounds on student who was gangraped Lav Agarwal assured there is no shortage of essential city was later tested positive (on March that the said officer’s son who came from and brutally assaulted on Jail in 2013. A juvenile, who was among mercy plea by President...You had relied thereformation accused, homewas convicted after serving by a juvenilea three- which you are challenging rejection of December 12, 2016, justiceyear term. board Asha and Devi, was the released mother from of the a commoditiesMinister Narendra to fight Modi coronavirus on Thursday and cautionedappealed to against them 18)disclosed for coronavirus,” information Vijaya about added. her son’s The and are using it again and again. You are 23-year-old physiotherapy student who tocomplacency maintain social on the distancing pandemic to while fight askingthe virus. people Prime to actionforeign has trip been to a coronavirus-hittaken as the officer nation neither on school certificate to claim juvenility policemen last year. The bench asked was gangraped and brutally assaulted observe a self-imposed curfew on Sunday by not stepping nor informed the state health department the Centre to consider the fervent on December 12, 2016, hugged a picture out of homes between 7 am and 9 pm. Globally, the virus as per provisions of Karnataka Epidemic askinglower court, us to Delhi review High judgement, Court and usyour as of her daughter on Friday morning has infected more than 234,000 people and the death toll juvenilitywell,” it said. claim Solicitor has been General rejected Tushar by that the family members of Pawan after four convicted of the crime were exceeded 10,000. In Italy, the death toll overtook China’s preventive measure, SWR has closed down Mehta, appearing for the Centre and requestGupta and of theAkshay lawyer Singh for thebe convictsallowed in a stark illustration of how the outbreak has provided Diseasesthe rest house Act, 1897, and has Vijaya kept explained. the cleaning As a to meet them for 5-10 minutes before Delhi.“Finally they have been hanged. It toward Europe and the US. It recorded at least 3,405 plea of Pawan Gupta and said that this hanging. Mehta said that though this is hangedwas a long to deathstruggle, at butTihar today jail wein haveNew deaths, or roughly 150 more than in China. California their families who stayed in the rest house thehad Delhibeen dealtPolice, earlier objected by allthe the juvenility courts. issued a statewide ‘stay at home” order for its 40 million staffhave underbeen informed quarantine. to be“All on officers the lookout and The court also did not consider the plea daughters of the country,” she told the residents and Washington warned Americans to return and to be alert for symptoms if any. Details of lawyer A L Singh, appearing for the painful,before thethe jailhanging. manual On does March not permit5, the got justice. This day is dedicated to the of people who stayed there have been death row convict Pawan Gupta, that convictstrial court to issuedmeet family fresh memberswarrants justfor coronavirus deaths in the country hitting 200. The shared with the state government and his execution be deferred for one or two hanging on March 20 at 5.30 am of all media.delayed, Thanking but not thedenied. President, She urged judiciary the home or stay abroad indefinitely, with the number of days so that he can record his statement convicts in the case - Mukesh Singh andSupreme governments, Court to Devi“issue said guidelines justice was so on standby in four cities Jaisalmer, Jodhpur, Vizag and The Karnataka health department had in an assault case. Singh alleged that (32), Pawan Gupta (25), Vinay Sharma that no one can adopt delaying tactics in IndianGorakhpur Armed to Forces accommodate have arranged around quarantine 1,000 people facilities if fumigation is being done,” Vijaya added. the convict was assaulted in prison by (26) and Akshay Singh (31). A 23-year- such cases in future. to be the 12th positive case in the state confirmedon March 18, the stating 25-year-old he was male admitted patient to a required, said Brigadier Anupam Sharma, the nodal designated isolation hospital in Bengaluru. opensearch officer for coordinating efforts of the Defence Ministry. Medical Education Minister Sudhakar K DPIIT notifies decision to permit NRIs to Express Archives: PK Banerjee and legends had then confirmed that seven primary own up to 100 per cent stake in Air India contacts were identified and were placed New Delhi, Agency. underof COVID-19 strict home with onequarantine. casualty Toreported date, roll back years back to 1956 Olympics Karnatakafrom Kalaburagi. has confirmed 15 positive cases The FDI policy earlier permitted New Delhi, Agency. NRIs to take only 49 per cent stake in the airline. The Department Assam to put $2000 in accounts for Promotion of Industry and andPK 1960,Banerjee where and they several held other France members to a 1-1 ofdraw, the were felicitated at a function in Delhi in 2011. His of residents stuck abroad, a decision of the union cabinet to Olympic squad of 1956, where India finished fourth, arm trembling, ravaged by the effects of a cerebral Internalallow non-resident Trade (DPIIT) Indians has notified(NRIs) stamp those coming in to control up to 100 per cent stake in disinvestment-bound Air India. from the sports minister on Wednesday. Age, and The FDI policy earlier permitted hemorrhage a few years back, P K Banerjee moved with obvious discomfort to receive a silver plaque NRIs to take only 49 per cent stake continue to be vested in Indian fact that we are meeting one another once again,” in the airline. In its press note, the injury may have dulled the former Indian forward’s said S Hamid, a member of the Rome Olympics DPIIT said: “Foreign investments in earlier stated that in light of the Air India including that of foreign reflexes but at the moment he shook hands with nationals.proposed Anstrategic official statementdisinvestment has Ajayhe would Maken, have his received grip was recognition firm and ashis the gaze captain steady, of Indian Olympic blazer, They laughed like long lost airlines shall not exceed 49 per cent of 100 per cent of Air India by the squad.brothers, Many honoring were dressed those who in the were faded not indigo present of and the either directly or indirectly except in as it must have been more than fifty years ago when government, it has been decided that Melbourne Olympics.

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