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Centre to run more special dent,” Uddhav said. top five once again. tinued to throng liquor shops from yesterday and there are to heavy crowd at shops. river has come down signifi- The Permanent Indus trains to take back migrant Condoling the death of 16 The top five States togeth- in the city, even as the e-token some issues with the site which An official, however, said cantly, a claim that has been Commission, formed under the workers to their home towns. migrant workers from his State, er account for 75 per cent of the system introduced by the Delhi are being worked out," he told liquor shops had been asked for termed by India as "baseless Indus Waters Treaty was signed My request to workers not to Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister active cases nationally, and the Government could not fully reporters. separate queue of e-token hold- narrative". between India and Pakistan in lose hope and patience by the Shivraj Singh Chouhan said: “It top ten states account for 94 per take off due to heavy traffic on The government weblink ers. In a letter to Indian 1960. Indus commissioners of delay in the operation of special is a shock that cannot be cent of all cases. the designated website. for geting e-tokens to buy A person may register on Commissioner Pradeep Kumar both the countries act as repre- trains,” the Chief Minister said. described in words. I have spo- Over the past seven days, The government is also liquor got crashed repeatedly as the government weblink giving Saxena sent on Wednesday, his sentatives of the respective gov- “During the last three to ken to the Railway Minister and Punjab, Tamil Nadu, and considering options of con- soon as it was launched on details like mobile phone num- Pakistani counterpart Syed ernments for the treaty matters. four days, migrant workers have asked for a proper probe and Maharashtra have seen the tactless sale of liquor such as Thursday evening due to ber and address and name of a Mohammed Meher Ali Shah The treaty provides for both been heading for their native remedial measures.” highest spike in cases among through home delivery, during record traffic, said an official. liquor shop. An e-token is sent stated that the discharge at the commissioners to meet at the top ten states with most the lockdown period, a senior Many people who tried to on the registered mobile num- Marala Headworks on Chenab, least once every year, alternate- cases. These three States government official said. register for e-tokens met with ber with specific time for buy- which flows into Pakistan from ly in India and Pakistan. 7 $  <<< three weeks it took earlier. The account for 75 per cent of all The Supreme Court on failures despite repeated ing liquor from the cited shop. the Indian side, has unexpect- It specifies that the waters of road originates from the new active cases in this Friday asked states to consid- attempts. "I tried unsuccessful- With the Centre allowing edly reduced to 18,700 cusecs three eastern rivers namely From Page 1 Ghatiabagarh and terminates at period. Over the same period, er non-direct contact or online ly to register for e-token and relaxations under extended from 31,853 cusecs. Ravi, Beas and Sutlej, have been Singh said with the com- Lipulekh Pass, the gateway to fatalities have surged the most sales and home delivery of spent over an hour on Thursday lockdown to the states, the He also asked Saxena to allocated exclusively to India. pletion of this crucial road Kailash-Mansarovar. in West Bengal, Gujarat, and liquor during the lockdown but the site was crashed. I also Delhi government allowed sale look into the situation and Of the total 168 million link, the decades old dreams In this 80 kilometre road, Rajasthan. These three States period to prevent the spread of tried it in the night, but to no of liquor from 200 vends oper- apprise him. The Indian acre-feet, India's share of water and aspirations of local people the altitude rises from 6,000 to account for 50 per cent of all coronavirus on account of avail," said a hospitality profes- ated by its four corporations Commissioner for Indus Waters from the three allotted rivers is and pilgrims have been ful- 17,060 feet. With the comple- Covid-related deaths over the crowding at the shops. sional from Mayur Vihar. earlier this week. termed the claim as "another 33 million acre-feet, which con- filled. He expressed confidence tion of this project, the arduous past seven days. So far, 512 dis- A weblink for e-token sys- Some buyers complained With huge crowds at the baseless narrative" by Pakistan stitutes nearly 20 per cent. India that local trade and economic trek through treacherous high- tricts have confirmed cases in tem was launched on Thursday that their e-token were for liquor shops throwing social and said the matter has been uses 93-94 per cent of water. growth in the region would altitude terrain can now be the country. Mumbai (11,394 by the government to bring advance dates. distancing for a toss, the gov- examined. "The discharges at The western rivers, name- receive a boost with the oper- avoided by the pilgrims of cases) has reported the most order at liquor shops witness- "After trying for hours, I ernment raised liquor price Akhnoor and Sidhra which are ly Indus, Chenab and Jhelum, ationalisation of this roadway. Kailash-Mansarovar Yatra. At number of cases nationally ing huge crowds and violations finally registered for e-token on by 70 per cent of its maximum the last gauge and discharge sites are allocated to Pakistan with Recalling that pilgrimage present, the travel to Kailash- among all districts, followed by of social distancing norms dur- my mobile phone around 2 am. retail price but the situation on Chenab and Tawi rivers India given some rights like to Kailash-Manasarovar is Mansarovar takes around two Ahmedabad (5,260) in Gujarat. ing lockdown. But, the time given for buying remained more or less same. respectively in India have been agriculture, navigation, domes- sacred and revered by Hindus, to three weeks through Sikkim Chennai (3046) in Tamil Nadu, Delhi Home minister liquor is Sunday afternoon," Also, due to massive found consistent and show no tic use and also the unrestrict- Buddhists and Jains, the or Nepal routes. Lipulekh route Pune (2,129) in Maharashtra Satyendar Jain said that there said a hardware engineer from crowds and fears of coronavirus significant variation during the ed rights to develop hydroelec- Minister said with the com- had a trek of 90 km through are the other leading districts. were some issues with the site Preet Vihar. There were also spread due to violations of stated period," Saxena told PTI tric power projects within the pletion of this road link, the high altitude terrain and the These top five districts now that are being worked out. complaints of some persons social distancing, only 50 of 200 on Friday. He added the same specified parameters of design yatra could be completed in elderly yatris faced lot of diffi- account for 42 per cent of "We have launched the e- having valid e-token but find- shops could open. PTI response has been conveyed to and operations. PTI one week compared to two- culties. confirmed cases in the country.

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<<< States of Uttar Pradesh, Sources said 27 flights will Indians from South-East Asia, ten flights arriving in Delhi, or seeking treatment for ter- dictions are made by doctors Haryana and Punjab, were take off from the Gulf region with five flights each from nine in Hyderabad, nine in minal illness, 4,147 tourists and scientists. Earlier also From Page 1 deployed at IGI airport for car- next week with 11 from UAE Singapore (including the one Kochi, four in Kozhikode, one stranded abroad, 3,041 preg- cases were predicted, but the “The Delhi Govt has made rying people to quarantine (including the two that have that has already landed) and in Trivandrum, one in Kannur, nant women and the elderly cases are lesser than what we all arrangements for the facilities. already landed), five from the Philippines and four from nine in Chennai, one in Trichy, and 1,112 of those required to predicted. If they say Covid- Indians arriving from abroad,” Srinagar Deputy Saudi Arabia, five from Malaysia. five in Ahmadabad, four in return due to death of a fam- 19 cases will reach their peak Kejriwal tweeted. Commissioner Shahid Iqbal Kuwait, two from Bahrain, Seven flights have been Mumbai, three in Srinagar, ily member. in June, it might happen as All the arriving passengers Chaudhary also expressed his two from Qatar and two from allotted for evacuation of four in Bengaluru, one in The largest number of were put through screening gratitude to the Indian High Oman. Indians from four airports in Lucknow and one in Amritsar. requests came from Indian and triaging to find out any Commission in Dhaka for the From the neighbourhood, the US -- New York, Sources said, 67,833 nationals of Kerala with 25,246 infection of coronavirus. After “tremendous efforts” in getting seven flights will take off from Washington DC, Chicago and requests for repatriation have applications, followed by Tamil immigration and customs for- these students home. Bangladesh (including the one San Francisco. Another seven been registered. These include, Nadu (6,617), Maharashtra malities, they headed towards “Profound gratitude to Indian that has already landed) car- flights have been assigned for requests from 34 per cent of all (4,341), Uttar Pradesh (3,715), paid quarantine facilities where High Commission @ihcdhaka rying passengers bound for passengers in London in the 22,470 students, 30 per cent of Rajasthan (3,320), Telangana they will spend 14 days, before for tremendous efforts. More Srinagar, Delhi, Mumbai and UK. all 15,815 migrant workers, (2,796), Karnataka (2,786), going home. to follow. For convenience of Chennai. Sources said Indian 9,250 short-term visa holders Andhra Pradesh (2,445), Nearly 20 buses, including students -- bulk tickets next,” Similarly, sources said 14 nationals are expected to land faced with expiry of visas, Gujarat (2,330) and Delhi of DTC and neighbouring Chaudhary said in a tweet. flights are scheduled to bring at 14 airports across India in 5,531 with medical emergency (2,232).


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<<< asymptomatic are allowed to “We are of the view that challenge,” the bench said in its Centre and the state govern- places would be allowed to proceed. the order of the Government order. ments. travel back to their native From Page 1 Mehta referred to the April of India dated April 29, 2020 “In view of the aforesaid, “It is humbly submitted places. Solicitor General Tushar 29 order of the Ministry of provides ample protection. It we stay the interim order dated that impugned order clearly It said the Centre, in con- Mehta told the bench, also Home Affairs and the guide- appears that before the High May 7, 2020. We further clar- impinges upon the executive junction with the state gov- comprising Justices SK Kaul lines issued thereafter as per Court the order of the ify that the stranded migrants domain and creates an unrea- ernments, has taken all possi- and BR Gavai, that all the which moving persons would Government of India dated shall be dealt with as per the sonable and impossible to per- ble precautionary steps to stranded migrants are screened be screened and those found April 29, 2020 and the guide- order/guidelines of the form pre-condition on part of make sure that travel of Government of India dated the governments and the migrants does not result in the April 29 read with the guide- migrants workers who wish to spread of Covid-19. lines dated May 1 issued travel back to their native The appeal, which sought thereunder by the places,” it said, adding, the high setting aside of the high court Government of India, court order ignores the nature order, said that ‘Shramik spe- Ministry of Home Affairs,” the of pandemic and the “delicate cial’ trains have been started bench said. handling of the situation by the and till now, a total of 162 In its appeal filed in the executive, after consideration trains have originated. apex court, the Centre has of all possible factors.” Social activist Narayan said, “The high court, by way The appeal said that the Chandra Jena had written a let- of the impugned order, has Centre, in conjunction with the ter to the Orissa High Court on without hearing the Union of state governments, is taking all May 1 seeking judicial inter- India, has passed an interim possible precautions at the vention for ensuring that coro- order mandating the Covid-19 stage of boarding, during trav- navirus infected migrant work- testing of every migrant before el, after de-boarding and sub- ers are not allowed to enter the boarding the conveyance.” sequent quarantine. state by the state government. The plea added that the The Centre has told the The letter was later con- order may have a “cascading apex court that after comple- verted into a PIL on May 4. effect” on the migrants of tion of a strict 40 day lock- Following the high court’s other states as well. down, in which no inter-state order, three trains, which were It claimed that the order, travel of any kind was permit- to bring stranded people to “apart from being unwork- ted, a decision was taken that Odisha from Surat in Gujarat, able”, failed to notice the stan- migrant workers, pilgrims, were cancelled yesterday.

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Delhi Development rised colonies. actively working during the mature cases will also be start- labourers to their native places. steps being taken by the Delhi by north Corporation to 15. The national Capital has Authority (DDA) has request- In order to continue the lockdown period, which will ed shortly. “The officials of pro- In the letter to Chief Government for the travel A senior Corporation offi- reported 5,980 cases of Covid- ed the residents who have not services during the Covid-19 continue in future as well. cessing centers have been Minister and Delhi Chief arrangements of the migrant cial said that 10 healthcare 19, of which 1,931 people have yet registered on the portal to Lockdown period, backend “DDA is going to resume advised to take all precaution- Secretary, the Congress Delhi labourers and the name of the staff in Hindu Rao and five in been cured, but 66 lost their do it as soon as possible. “At scrutiny of applications will be inspections of properties by ary measures in the wake of unit president Chaudhary Anil nodal officer so that Delhi Kasturba have come positive. lives. least 70,000 registrants have carried out as the scheme is Surveyors shortly except in Covid-19. The number of vis- Kumar has sought details of Congress can give appropriate “All contact tracing is done and The 980-bed Hindu Rao is also got the GIS mapping of totally online. Online the Covid-19 Containment itors will be scheduled accord- scheduled plan for sending directions to the migrant they have been sent on home largest hospital run by the their properties done through Deficiency Memo (DM) will be Zones. The surveyors will con- ing to the space and facilities migrant labourers back to their labourers, who are in touch quarantine. The hospital north Corporation. The hos- the empanelled GIS agencies. issued, if any deficiency is tact the applicants in advance available in each processing native places due to the Covid- with the DPCC office, Rajiv premises were sanitised,” he pital had to be closed for a day 65,000 residents, who have got noticed, it added. and will visit the properties of center so that the social dis- 19 lockdown. Bhawan, for their travel to said. after the first Covid-19 case was their GIS survey ID, should file Applicants who receive the willing applicants only. tancing norms can be strictly Incidentally, the party has their native places. The official further said reported on April 25. their detailed application on- online deficiency memos are The surveyors have been adhered to,” it added. decided to pay train or buses Accusing the Government fare for migrants who want to of not drawing up any road map return back to their home. for the transportation of The Congress party has migrant labourers to help them 6     received 2,106 forms filled by reaching their homes, he said migrant labour who want to go the Congress party came for- back to their home States. ward to help them to help    7   Kumar said as per the direc- them back home. tion of Congress president Sonia He wondered whether the Gandhi, the Congress party will move to open liquor outlets was     65 persons are under quarantine bear the train or bus fares of taken under pressure from the /(/ (#) after they returned from other these migrant labourers if the liquor cartel. “The Kejriwal States. "All of them are isolated Delhi Government and the Government has not announced urugram reported 9 more at different Government, ESI Railways are not footing their any relief for the people through Gcoronavirus positive cases and private hospitals. Their travel and meals expenses. measures like waiving off of on Friday. The situation is family members are also put “The Delhi Congress has water and power charges and alarming here with 65 cases under home quarantine. The received around 2,106 forms school fees,” he added. reported a week ago and now health officials are making from the migrant labourers Kumar said that due to the the tally has zoomed up to 126 efforts to identify others who who want to go back, which mismanagement by the on Friday. The Gurugram dis- were infected after coming in was also enclosed along with Government, the common trict reported 74 Covid-19 cases contact with them," Punia said. his letter. The condition of the people, small shop keepers, in the past eight days. Meanwhile, the official up- migrant labourers is so pathet- daily wage earners, low-salaried The total coronavirus cases scale Vipul Belmonte residential ic that even those people who people are in deep distress and are 126 in Gurugram, including complex at Golf Course road have been living in Delhi for desperation. 52 who were cured and dis- was sealed after the emergence charged from hospitals. While of two Covid-19 cases on 75 are undergoing treatment. Thursday. The patients, a senior Gurugram Civil Surgeon citizen couple, underwent ; 
   JS Punia said that 20 of them are Covid-19 test after the wife got wholesale vegetable dealers in a fever. The husband had recent- Khandsa Anaj Mandi, who have ly visited the Azadpur veg- 1     direct contacts with the etable and fruit wholesale mar- Azadpur vegetables and fruits ket in Delhi. wholesale market. Earlier The district admin- )$$  $ Earlier, nine wholesalers or istration Gurugram had issued their employees in the same an order to relax lockdown     1-&1, "The victims used to work market-tested positive and have norms in the district starting in a factory in Mayapuri area been hospitalised. from May 4. As per the order he Delhi Police has arrested and were going via railway The affected areas were people in the district can move Tthree men while one juve- track to Old Delhi Railway sta- sealed by Municipal anywhere within the district nile has been apprehended for tion to catch a train for their Corporation of Gurugram from 7.00 am to 7.00 pm. allegedly robbing five labourers native place," the senior police (MCG) and health officials have After 7 pm and up to 7 am near railway crossing Prem officer said. "The victims told initiated the sanitation works. the following morning, Nobody Nagar who were going to catch police that four accused robbed After corona patients were allowed to move, even with a a train from national Capital's them at knife point near rail- found for the first time in pass, except for medical and Old Delhi Railway Station. way fatak, Prem Nagar. When Khandsa market on May 3, it essential services.Also, the peo- The accused have been the robbers were trying to flee, was shut for the next five days. ple of the Containment zones identified as Amar (22), a res- the victims followed them and Due to this, the city is facing will not be allowed to come out. ident of Baljeet Nagar, Sonu caught hold one of the accused acute shortage of vegetables The Gurugram district now (21), a resident of Pandav persons Amar," said police and fruits. The official said that has 24 containment zones. Nagar and Arjun (21), a resi- official privy to investigation. dent of Prem Nagar. "On Amar's instance, three According to a senior other persons, including a juve- police official, on Wednesday nile, were nabbed. Police have , R  * .." around 3 am, five labourers, recovered stolen mobile natives of Chhapra district in phones, cash with purses and -4.R    Bihar, were robbed near railway documents from the possession crossing in Prem Nagar area. of the accused," he said.       - ((   4   3        New Delhi: AAP legislator area in south Delhi, was Prakash Jarwal has moved an involved in supply of Delhi Jal "     anticipatory bail in a Delhi Board water through tankers court in connection with a since 2007. The bereaved fam-     1-&1, tronic media, on a daily basis," case pertaning to a doctor’s ily had claimed that the it said in the letter. suicide in the national Capital accused had got Dr Rajinder’s he office of Food Supplies "The GNCTD is also direct- in April. The Rouse Avenue tankers removed from water Tand Consumer Affairs has ed to immediately place on court will hear the matter on supply service and also pre- written to the Director of their official website, as well as, May 11. vented clearance of dues of a Directorate of Information and publicise through the print and On April 18, Delhi Police large sum of money from the Publicity, asking it to follow electronic media, grievance had booked Jarwal and his Jal Board. order given by the High Court helpline numbers, so as to supporter Kapil Nagar and In his application for antic- in the case titled as Delhi Rozi- enable members of the public, others on charges of issuing ipatory bail, Jarwal submitted Roti Adhikar Abhiyan Vs Union who may be aggrieved qua the death threats and abetment to that he will cooperate with the of India and others. lack of distribution of the food suicide after Dr Rajinder Singh police in the investigation of "The GNCTD shall fur- grains, to seek redressal of their was found dead in his house the case, as and when called. He thermore, widely publicise and grievances by contacting the and the names of both was also pleaded that there was no circulate the information qua nodal officers appointed for allegedly found mentioned in reason to subject him to cus- the compliance of the directions the said purpose, whose details his suicide note. todial interrogation. The FIR issued hereinabove, both shall also be placed in the pub- Dr Rajinder Singh, a pri- was lodged on a complaint by through the print and elec- lic domain forthwith,” it added. vate practitioner in Durgapuri the doctor''s son. SR    !"#"#  .
 
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CSIR Director General lar," Mande said. novel coronavirus. ly to occur by the third day of in diseases of the nose and develop more severe symp- "No one is going to die he Drug Controller Shekhar Mande said that they Phytopharmaceutical is These hospitals are AIIMS infection with the novel virus, sinuses, who was the principal toms, like shortness of breath, because of a loss of the sense TGeneral of India (DGCI) will start the clinical trial essentially a herbal medicine in Jodhpur, Apollo Hospital in according to researchers. investigator of the study. later on.” of smell and it's not the symp- has given green signal to the within a week. extracted from plants. It is a Chennai, B J Medical College Most of these patients are The mean onset for reduc- He cautioned that while tom that will kill anyone," Council for Scientific and In May 2016, Sun Pharma cocktail of different com- and Civil Hospital in also experiencing a loss of the tion or loss in the sense of smell the loss of smell is an indica- said Sedaghat. "However, it is Industrial Research (CSIR) to and International Centre for pounds but has a biological Ahmedabad and Chirayu sense of taste, they said in their was 3.4 days. tor of COVID-19, it's not the important because it helps us conduct clinical trial on drugs Genetic engineering and origin from a plant. In the Medical College and Hospital study after conducting char- The findings have been only factor. "When you start to to identify these COVID-19 - 'favipiravir' and 'phytophar- Biotechnology (ICGEB), United States, the Food and in Bhopal. acteristics and symptoms of published in the journal experience serious symptoms patients as asymptomatic car- maceutical' - to combat coro- Delhi, had signed an exclusive Drug Administration (FDA) Under the trial, the effec- 103 patients who were diag- Otolaryngology-Head and of COVID-19 which include riers so they don't spread the navirus. agreement to develop the terms it botanical, however, in tiveness of four drugs and nosed with COVID-19 over a Neck Surgery. The first author shortness of breath and respi- disease to others. Now we can Favipiravir is a drug which novel botanical drug for treat- India the DCGI calls it phy- standard care on coronavirus six-week period at of the research was Marlene ratory distress, that's when potentially identify them early is commonly used in Japan, ment against dengue. topharmaceutical. patients will be compared. The Kantonsspital Aarau in Aarau, Speth, at the Switzerland hos- you should become alarmed." during the disease to start China and some other coun- According to CSIR scien- Talking about Favipiravir, four-drug regimes that will be Switzerland. pital. The study also found that antiviral medications and ulti- tries, to treat influenza that has tists, the antiviral properties he said it is a safe drug and its tested on Covid-19 patients Patients were asked on "We also found in this younger patients and women mately maximize our ability to a very broad spectrum of RNA of the medicine have been trial is expected to be com- under the Solidarity Trial are - phone how many days they study that the severity of the in the study were also more effectively treat these patients." polymerase. found to be effective against pleted in about one and a half Remdesivir, Lopinavir, had COVID-19 symptoms and loss of smell is correlated with likely to experience a Other co-authors of the The CSIR is also explor- vector-borne dengue disease month. "If the tests are suc- Hydroxychloroquine or also asked to describe the tim- how bad your other COVID- decreased loss of smell, said study included Isabelle ing Cocculus Hirsutus, a as part of the initial stages of cessful with the expected Chloroquine and Interferon. ing and severity of loss or 19 symptoms will be," said Sedaghat. Gengler, UC Department of native herb used by tribes in human trials. results, then this drug will be The international clinical reduced sense of smell along Sedaghat. "If the anosmia, also Also, about 50 per cent of Otolaryngology-Head and the country, as a biological "We are already testing available soon at affordable trial has been launched by the with other symptoms. known as loss of smell, is study patients experienced a Neck Surgery, along with medicine or phytopharma- the efficacy of this medicine prices. A big reason for this is WHO and its partners to help At least 61 per cent of the worse, the patients reported stuffy nose and 35 per cent Thirza Singer-Cornelius, ceutical, which is already against dengue and it is in the that Favipiravir is an old med- find an effective treatment for patients reported reduced or worse shortness of breath and experienced a runny nose. Michael Oberle, and Steffi being tested as medicine for advanced stage in phase-II icine the patent of which has Covid-19. India is among 100 lost sense of smell, said Ahmad more severe fever and cough." Sedaghat said it was important Brockmeier, all from dengue for its efficacy to human trials. The mecha- now expired," he said. other countries participating in Sedaghat, an associate profes- Sedaghat explained that, because previous studies indi- Kantonsspital Aarau. the trial. Chloroquine and hydrox- antiviral properties that was itive in Rajasthan. Interferon “The Solidarity Trial will ychloroquine are very closely manufactured by a US-based beta-1a is used to treat multi- compare four treatment The trial has patients enrolled stages of being approved. The and many more are in the donated by WHO for trial in related and used to treat malar- biotechnology company in ple sclerosis. options against standard of in multiple countries. “Other sites require approval from process of obtaining approval India.” ia and rheumatology condi- 2014, to treat Ebola cases; it was “By enrolling patients in care, to assess their relative drugs can be added based on their institutional ethics com- from their ethics committee,” “All four treatments will be tions respectively. The ICMR also tried in patients of MERS multiple countries, the effectiveness against Covid- emerging evidence,” it says. mittees, and have to be trained said the scientist. tested. Patients who are willing has authorised hydroxychloro- and SARS, both caused by Solidarity trial aims to rapidly 19,” according to the world A scientist from the ICMR and updated with the Drug She said that India will be to participate and provide their quine as prophylaxis (preven- coronaviruses while Lopinavir/ discover whether any of the health agency. said that the research wing Controller General of India testing all the four treatment informed consent will be allot- tive treatment), recommending Ritonavir is a licensed treat- drugs slow disease progression It aims to rapidly discover body plans “to initiate the trial (DCGI) and Clinical Trials options. Remdesivir, which is ted randomly, through a com- it for healthcare workers and ment for HIV. India first used or improve survival. Other whether any of the drugs in the at 20-25 clinical trial sites in Registry-India (CTRI). Some exclusively manufactured by puter programme, to any one those taking care of COVID-19 the Lopinavir/ Ritonavir com- drugs can be added based on trial slows down disease pro- many states across the country”. sites are already registered, Gilead in the US, and of the four treatment options,” patients at home. bination for treatment of an emerging evidence,” as per the gression or improves survival. “These sites are in various some are close to registration, Interferon beta-1a, “have been she added. Remdesivir is a drug with Italian couple who tested pos- WHO website. 7               * +

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India is now in the ue without providing support ernment and the people. a strategy to exit the national (Chief Ministers) and strong third phase of the nationwide to people who are suffering To a question about the   1-&1, that even before the announce- said. lockdown, immediately DMs (District Magistrates). lockdown, which started on 25 because of the lockdown. A state of migrants stranded by ment of the lockdown by the In his recent talk with the announce a financial package We need a strong patriotic March. lockdown brings a psycholog- the lockdown, either forced to escribing Congress leader Centre on March 24 four states Congress leader, Banerjee had and implement a decentralised Indian leader at the panchay- "The Government’s gen- ical change. It is not an on-off survive without jobs, shelter DRahul Gandhi’s comment -Punjab, Odisha, Telangana, noted that the issues facing approach to deal with the at level, district level, state eral style is to not engage with switch. Currently, the people and food or walking hundreds asking the Modi-Government to Maharashtra- had declared lock- migrants should be handled by socio-economic fallout of the level... we need to tackle the opposition and we have accept- are very scared of this disease, of km with their families, Rahul be “transparent” about its strat- down in their respective States. local authorities, Trivedi said. He covid-19 pandemic. problem and finish it at a local ed that. We are doing what is so we are going to have to make said this was "not the time to egy to counter coronavirus post- "Ever youthful Congress added "It's not time to create Rahul also stated the coun- level, not at the national level," our work. We feel four or five psychological changes in the criticise the Government" on May 17 and “devolve power” to leader who is about to complete controversy directly or indirect- try needed not just a "strong he said. things are immediately needed minds of the people. The gov- the crisis. States as “immature” and “ill- a half century now at least ly. Instead it is time for cooper- PM" but also "strong Chief "We have been 45 days in including a financial package, ernment, if it wants to open up, "Our supply chain and the informed”, the BJP on Friday said should have some wisdom and ation and he should try to fight Ministers". The country would lockdown now and we are we have made a clear frame- has to turn this fear into a sense health system of red, orange that the Prime Minister practicality", Trivedi said refer- the biggest calamity in the lose the coroanavirus fight if it beginning to run in a little bit work for MSMEs and income of confidence," he added. and green is clashing. The Narendra Modi has been taking ring to Rahul’s comment on human history under the able was restricted only to the PM's of problem. There is a very support and suggesting 200 "We are in an emergency migrants and the poor need suggestions from all the Chief transparency and devolution of guidance of our Modi." Office, he said. strong feeling that we need to, days of work under MGN- and idea of injecting a sum of money immediately. The Ministers and quoted Nobel lau- power to the states in respect of BJP spokesman said India is "If we keep this fight only without any delay, get package REGS (Mahatma Gandhi Rs 7500 directly into hands of MSME need money immedi- reate Abhijit Banerjee as prais- devising strategies in respect to the only country where there are in PMO, we will lose; PM for MSMEs (micro, small and Employment Guarantee poor is critical," Rahul said in ately, otherwise the lack of ing the Centre’s direct money the pandemic. attacks on health and security must devolve power," the medium enterprises), get Scheme)," he said. response to question from jobs will become a tsunami," transfer to poor who may be He said the Modi personnel for which the gov- Congress leader said in a video money in the hand of poor Rahul also said states, media. said the Congress leader. facing problems during the Government has been very ernment had to bring an ordi- interaction with the media. Indians and have a strategy for including those ruled by the As far as decentralisation is To another question on ongoing lockdown in the coun- much receptive to suggestions nance to tackle such crimes, he Prime Minister Narendra migrants as well as start prepar- BJP, face financial distress and concerned, Rahul Gandhi said whether his conversations with try. from the opposition but it should said, adding that there is an effort Modi, he said, had a style of ing for exit from lockdown," need immediate central gov- Modi needs to trust state chief Raghuram Rajan, Abhijit Seeking Rahul to act with be constructive and added that to “communalise” the issue, with working and that "may be Rahul Gandhi said in video ernment intervention. He ministers and they should be Banerjee and others were part "wisdom and practicality" and it is very typical and character- international agencies being effective" in other circum- press conference. added that the pandemic able to trust their subordi- of a bigger strategy, Rahul said: "fight the biggest calamity in istic of Gandhi to speak before approached to criticise the cen- nates. He added that the clas- "I speak to a lot of people. A lot human history under the able media without studying facts. tral government. Trivedi was sification of zones (in green, of conversations are interesting. guidance" of Narendra Modi, The Government has apparently referring to the alle- orange and red) too should I thought I would like to give BJP spokesperson and Rajya already announced a relief pack- gations that right-wing activists happen in consultation with a glimpse of these conversa- Sabha member Sudhanshu age of 1.7 lakh crore and has have targeted Muslims for the chief minsters and district tions to the people of India. Trivedi said Government is also ensured money in the hands spread of coronavirus. Congress, magistrates (DMs). There is no other strategy." working in “full harmony” with of the poor through direct ben- he said has no words to offer on For example, the grading of On the possibility of his the States and Prime Minister efit transfer to help them tide this issue. red, orange and green had comeback as president of the has consulted representatives of over difficulties during the coro- Rahul Gandhi had earlier been done at the national level, grand old party, the Gandhi almost all sectors in the country, navirus crisis, he said, respond- said that the Government needs but should have been done at scion ruled out returning as including trade, business, art , ing to Gandhi's demands of a to tell the people about its strat- the level of the DM as they have Congress president, a post he sports or religion. special package and cash trans- egy to open up the country as the most ground information, gave up last year after his party Trevedi said the best exam- fer to the poor. Nobel laureate well as the economy after the he said and advising the PM to was pulverised in the national ple of freedom accorded to Abhijit Banerjee has also praised Covid-19 lockdown ends on talk to Chief Ministers more election. states to act in the pandemic is the direct money transfer, he May 17.

              “Indian Coal does not unit and CO2 emissions, due   1-&1, contain any significant per- to 1.5% increase in auxiliary centage of Sulphur which consumption.” he Environment Ministry would warrant setting up of In fact, the Environment Tis reportedly set to issue a FGD equipments involving Ministry’s 2014 notification notification that is likely to do crores of rupees. Also, unlike had put the onus for supply of away with the mandatory use what is being projected, wash- washed coal to thermal power of washed coal in power sta- ing of coal is 100% pro envi- plants on Coal India Limited. tions located beyond 500 KM ronment. The perceived extra Many say that this PSU also from coal supplying mines. If cost of washed coal is com- stands to benefit out of this done, it would not only clear pensated by high heat value notification, as the mandate is the last hurdle in the imple- and lesser freight cost, result- being done away with. mentation of a new technol- ing in eventual benefit,” said It is in public domain ogy called flue gas desulfuri- RK Sachdev, President of Coal that despite its promise a sation (FGD) but also renege Preparation Society of India. decade ago on building wash- on one of its own reforms. R Srikanth, Head of eries while Through a January 2014 Energy and Environment issuing its IPO, CIL has not notification, the Ministry had Research Program at National been able to make more than made it mandatory for use of Institute of Advanced two such facilities. washed coal having ash con- Studies, Bengaluru, who also What worries experts is tent of 34 percent or more for feels washing coal is a better the ramifications this new use in power stations located and globally accepted norm, technology will have on esca- beyond 500 KM from coal says, “To tackle lating costs for consumers. supplying mines. pollution, Environment “Environment Ministry At a time when the coun- Ministry must prioritise high- should re-examine the issues try is reeling under its worst efficiency Electrostatic through consultations with crisis ever, experts question Precipitators (ESPs) with industry and experts, before the wisdom behind this pro- Indiantaking any decision. posed move especially since it technology which can remove Preparation of washed coal is also contrary to the Prime 99.98% of PM pollutants with for use by thermal Minister’s advise that very low increase in tariff. power plants has been part mineral sector should Instead, Environment and and benchmark its operations to Power Ministries are priori- parcel of coal mining international standards. tising expensive and import- industry globally and India is The notification will do ed FGDs.” He further no exception,” added Sachdev. away with globally accepted informed that an MoP order In fact, it best suits Indian process of coal washing and shows only 30% domestic Coal considering the high preparations before despatch content in FGD equipment ash and low Sulphur content to a consumer. which will raise fixed cost per in Indian Coal.     !"#"# 4+/ 3  2  )

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 (    23, TASMAC liquor shops which number of persons afflicted this phenomenon,” said Dr K diagnostic experience said the opened on Thursday after a 45 with the virus in the metropo- Kolandasway, who was the shooting up of the numbers is   5! here was no reprieve for day close down. But tipplers lis 3,043, the highest in the director of public health and a blessing in disguise for the TTamil Nadu from the coro- have been given the liberty to State. The death toll due to the preventive medicine to the people. navirus pandemic ravaging the book their brands by online pandemic reached 40 with Government of Tamil Nadu till “This will help in strength-    23, aircraft with 363 passengers on the medical team posted at rest of the country and the and this would be delivered at three more persons succumb- April 30, 2020. After retirement ening the immunity power of board landed at Kochi and Kochi Airport which resulted world as 600 more persons test- their doorsteps. Thursday and ing on Friday. from the office, Dr the younger as well as older n the 100th day of the Kozhikode airports. All pas- in a few passengers from West ed positive on Friday. This Friday saw unprecedented and Though the number of Kolandaswamy has been work- generations. There is no need Ocoronavirus pandemic sengers are being accommo- Asia jumping the security cor- took the number of coron- uncontrollable crowd in front persons testing positive for ing as advisor to the to be upset or panic because of which fell on Friday, Kerala dated at the quarantine homes don and escaping to Kasargod, avirus patients in the State to of the liquor shops giving a go Covid-19 is increasing by the Government on issues related the present scenario. We have could look back with a sense of arranged by the State the entire scanning and scruti- 6,009, according to the medical by to the norms of social dis- hour, veteran medical doctors to infectious diseases and pan- to observe the cardinal rules of satisfaction to the path it cov- Government for a period of ny operations were foolproof in bulletin released by the depart- tancing and wearing of face and contagious disease spe- demic. the game to tame coronavirus ered during the journey to seven days after which those the State. The State ment of health and family wel- masks. cialists are of the view that there Speaking to The Pioneer and that is to wear the face freedom from the disease. “The who are diagnosed free of Government has arranged fare on Friday evening. As has been the pattern for was no need to panic. “The about the release issued by the mask, wash hands and feet and coronavirus curve has been coronavirus would be allowed quarantine and isolation facil- In a major development, the last one week, Chennai numbers will increase further Government on Friday, Dr of course, maintain the social flattened in the State. The State to go home while those who ities at the international air- the Madras High Court on recorded 399 coronavirus pos- all over the world and Tamil Kolandaswamy, with more than distance,” said Dr had to face two waves of attack test positive would be hospi- ports at Kochi, Kozhikode, Friday ordered the closure of all itive patients making the total Nadu cannot remain outside three decades of research and Kolandaswamy. since January 30, when the first talized. Thiruvananthapuram and case was reported. We have V Muraleedharan, minister Kannur and has finalized an successfully encountered and of state for external affairs, said action plan to ensure that their neutralized the pandemic,” said that all expatriates who are reg- would not be any shortage of 8-          :  Pinarayi Vijayan, Chief istered with the ministry would beds and facilities for the Minister on Friday while be brought home as part of the incoming passengers. The addressing the media. Vande Bharat Mission. flights too have been scheduled “Kerala has shown great “A mammoth total of 1.9 in such a way that those who )  P 
   courage and resolve. Fought lakh names from Kerala have return to the State would not 9     two waves and is ready if there been registered in the portal. face any difficulties for want of is another wave. Years from We will bring back all of them space. Hundreds of doctors   ;;$;;< now, we should be able to look and have inducted Air India’s and para medical staff have   >#))/ ers were pacified to stop demon- how to survive with this amount back and take pride in how we fleet for the purpose,” said been deployed in the airports strations. SSP, Shailendra Mishra in our pockets".Few other work-   1-&1,   !"
" $ responded to this,” Vijayan Muraleedharan. to make Vande Bharat Mission undreds of 'distraught' handled the situation himself by ers claimed, the management %  &  '!( " ( said in a social media posting Dr B Rajeev, leading a smooth operation. Hworkers engaged by the speaking in local language and paid an equal amount to all the here has been a massive on Friday. Eight of the 14 dis- ayurvedic physician, described The kind of work being put Chenab Textile Mills (CTM) in successfully dispersed the crowd. workers which resulted in fric- Tsurge in the sale of products " '! ("  ' tricts in Kerala have been Kerala’s surveillance mecha- up by P M Basheer, a munici- Kathua district on Friday Large number of workers, tion as those who were working of Khadi and Village Industries )*+,-. declared as coronavirus free by nism as the secret behind the pal councillor in Perumbavoor blocked the Jammu-Pathankot who hailed from Uttar Pradesh, demanded more wages. SSP, Commission which achieved Thursday evening. successful handling of the coro- speaks volumes about the National Highway and staged Bihar, Chattisgarh, Madhya Shailendra Mishra and Deputy its highest-ever turnover of " "  /.0* Even as the State has effec- navirus pandemic. “Years ago, involvement of a people’s rep- protest demonstrations alleging Pradesh alleged they have been Commissioner Kathua OP 88,887 crore in 2019-20. The " & ( " & tively controlled the spread of the Government of Kerala had resentative in countering the non-payment of full monthly staying here in the factory Bhagat later directed the Mill turnover of Khadi registered a the contagious disease with a appointed Dr T Jacob John, pandemic. salaries for last two months. premises even during this lock- authorities to follow the guide- growth of 31 per cent from &"   $
"/. surveillance mechanism worth professor of virology, Christian “There are 400 houses in Before stepping out of the down period but they haven't lines issued by the govt and 3215.13 crore in 2018-19, to  " $" 2 emulating by other States, the Medical College, Vellore, as the my ward and I have been premises, agitated workers ran- been given their full salaries. resolve the issue of pending  4211.26 crore in 2019-20. Government of Kerala is chairman of a high power tasked as a nodal officer to sacked offices and pelted stones They charged, despite payment of "The turnover of Village "
!( "* - - already into another action, committee of doctors to forti- ensure that all senior citizens in on the private security of the tex- appeals made by the PM Modi workers. The workers were also Industries products reached to /)0/.* receiving the expatriates from fy the State from contagious the ward got medical care. tile mill. A police gypsy was also not to hold salaries of workers, directed to enroll themselves if 84,675.39 crore in 2019-20,    ( West Asian countries as part of and infectious diseases. The Similarly, we prepared a list of damaged by the protesters and the management of the Chenab they wished to return home at registering a growth of over 19 the Vande Bharat Mission. As strategy is paying off now people in the ward who were turned upside down to disrupt Textil Mills have not been adher- the special counters inside the per cent from the previous year, ,/*,," " part of evacuating the because Prof John has put in put into trouble by the lock- the traffic on the highway. ing to the diktat. mill premises. Meanwhile, a FIR i.e. 2018-19, which was at Keralaites who were held up in place a network of surveil- down which affected their To contain the angry work- Few women workers, with no 121/2020 u/s 71,077 crore," the Khadi and Gulf countries, Air India began lance with which any aberra- livelihood. It was my responsi- ers, police resorted to use of tear- their faces covered with masks, 307,336,427,332,353/188/269/27 Village Industries Commission duction and sales going up by its mission to bring back all tions in the public health would bility to see to it that they and gas shells. Before the situation told TV reporters, they have 0/147 IPC was registered by the (KVIC) stated. nearly 100 per cent in the last those who have registered their be known to the Taluk, District their families get three square went out of control, senior offi- been paid their salaries @ Rs 150 police against the employees KVIC Chairman Vinai five years, it added. names with the ministry of and State level medical frater- meals a day during the ;lock- cers of Kathua police, led by SSP per day. and workers of Chenab Textile Kumar Saxena saidhe was Khadi production since external affairs. nity,” explained Dr Rajeev. out,” said Basheer, an activist of Kathua, Shailendra Mishra "We were handed over a pal- Mills for indulging in violence expecting higher results, but 2015-16 has grown at the aver- Late Thursday night two Except for an oversight by the SDPI. rushed to the spot and the work- try sum, we really don't know and damaging police property. several exhibitions planned in age of 19.45 per cent per the months of February and annum, which was merely 6.25 March were cancelled, and the per cent during the previous year-end clearance sale could government from 2004 to 2014, not take place. KVIC said. 

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" # "As a result of Similarly, khadi''s sale grew Government''s sustained efforts exponentially at the annual     )/)0# went viral, the state government Mumbai Municipal former chief minister United Nations International Commissioner, Brihanmumbai to revive the Khadi industry rate of 27.6 per cent, which carried out a major bureaucratic Commissioner. Devendra Fadnavis. Strategy for Disaster Reduction, Municipal Corporation, and the Prime Minister''s remained as low as 6.65 per mid an unabated increase reshuffle in the state. In two other appointments Known for his administra- Geneva for oversight over Mumbai has been posted as repeated appeals from various cent from 2004-2014. Ain the number of Covid-19 Under the reshuffle, aimed at strengthening the tive prowess, Pardeshi had regional offices of Africa, Asia, Secretary (R&R), Revenue and platforms including his radio According to figures, the triggered deaths and infec- Pardeshi –a 1985 batch IAS BMC set, the state govern- made a mark for himself by Latin America and Europe, Forest Department, address ''Mann ki Baat'', to production of khadi which tions in the metropolis, the officer –was moved out from ment appointed Mrs Ashwini efficiently handling the situa- for policies on mainstreaming Mantralaya, Mumbai. adopt Khadi as a necessity of was pegged at 1,066 crore in Maharashtra Government on his position of Mumbai Bhide, a 1995 batch IAS officer, tion of arising out a massive disaster reduction in develop- Mrs Jayshree Bhoj, a 2003 daily life, the KVIC has been 2015-16, shot up to 2,292.44 Friday shunted out Mumbai Municipal Commissioner and and Sanjeev Jaiswal, a 1996 IAS earthquake at Latur in ment programmes. IAS officer, who was Additional continuously going up the crore in the year 2019-20, reg- Municipal Commissioner posted as Additional Chief officer, as Additional Municipal Marathwada region on Meanwhile, in other Municipal Commissioner, growth trajectory," he said. istering an increase of over 115 Praveen Pardeshi and appoint- Secretary (1), Urban Commissioners in the BMC. September 30, 1993, in which bureaucratic transfers, Manoj Brihanmumbai Municipal While the production of per cent. ed Urban Development Development Department at The two IAS officers will help more than 10,000 people were Saunik, a 1987 IAS officer, Corporation, Mumbai has been khadi, the most eco-friendly The sale of khadi fabric Department's Principal Mantralaya in south Mumbai. Chahal in his task. killed and 30000 others injured. who was earlier working as posted as Managing Director, product of sustainable devel- products increased by 179 per Secretary Iqbal Chahal in his In an apparent effort to The sudden transfer of Among other assignments Additional Chief Secretary, MSSIDC, Mumbai opment, has more than dou- cent from 1,510 crore in 2015 place. bring in some new ideas to deal Pardeshi from the high-profile Pardeshi had handled was a Pubic Works Department, has A 2003 IAS officer, K D bled in the last five years (since -16 to a whopping Rs 4,211.26 A day after a video show- with the worsening Coronavirus Mumbai Municipal senior leadership position he been posted as Additional Nimbalkar – who was working 2015-16), the sales have gone crore in 2019-20. ing at least four bodies wrapped situation in the metropolis, the Commissioner’s post, a post he worked in the United Nations Chief Secretary (Finance), as Secretary (R&R), Revenue up by nearly three times dur- While village industries in black plastic lying on beds state government appointed I S held for one year. Prior to his for seven years in Geneva: He Finance Department, and Forest Department, ing the same period, KVIC products worth 33,425 crore next to Covid-19 patients Chahal, a 1989 IAS officer who appointment as the Mumbai headed the NDP Geneva Post Mantralaya, Mumbai. Mantralaya, Mumbai has been said. were produced in 2015-16; undergoing treatment at the was earlier Principal Secretary of Municipal Commissioner, Conflict Recovery Unit in A L Jarhad, a 1997 IAS offi- posted as Secretary, Public Similarly, the village indus- production went up by 96 per BMC-run LTMG Hospital at Urban Development Pardeshi had worked as Geneva (2002 to 2005, and was cer who was working as Works Department, try sector has also seen phe- cent to 65,393.40 crore in Sion in north-central Mumbai Department, Mantralaya, as the Additional chief secretary to the Senior Co-ordinator, Additional Municipal Mantralaya, Mumbai. nomenal growth, with pro- 2019-20.   ; ' 
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/ Chowdhury has quoted Union is his responsibility to give Government was not pursuing Minister said. corona virus. The victim iden-   1-&1, easy for us to get the raw puls- Home Minister as saying that relief to the people stuck in dif- the matter, Chowdhury quot- Bengal had already brought tified as Asit Kumar Saha was es milled and transported to Panaji: Factories in Goa have Bengal Government is not tak- ferent states owing to the lock- ing Shah said. about 4,500 people including undergoing treatment in nly 53,617 tons pulses dis- states/UTs in these difficult been allowed to extend their ing enough interest in getting down and hold consultations Bengal too has more than pilgrims and students strand- Calcutta Medical College and Otributed to ration card times. States should also put work shifts to 12 hours from back its migrating workers with the respective State a lakh workers stuck in various ed at Ajmer and Kota in Hospital. holders under the Public extra efforts to ensure at least the existing 8 hours, accord- stuck in various parts of the Governments in this regard,” he parts of the country. Rajasthan --- some by bus and The other 50 CISF per- Distribution System so far dur- whatever pulses have been sent ing to a government notifica- country. said adding the Home Minister “The State Government others by train. sonnel in the same unit who ing the coronavirus lockdown. to them are distributed via tion on Friday, citing lack of The Congress MP from had assured him of holding can arrange for quarantine Meanwhile, the dreaded came in contact with him have Union Food Minister Ram PDS," Paswan said. He said the adequate labour as the cause Behrampore has said that he talks with Bengal Chief facilities after bringing the corona virus crept into the been quarantined, the officials Vilas Paswan on Friday blamed delay in supply and distribution for the extension. had taken up the issue of Minister Mamata Banerjee. migrant labourers and other Indian Museum taking its toll said adding the Museum staff that State Governments are of pulses is due to late intima- "There are restrictions on Bengali migrant workers While the States like Uttar people back. It can also ask for on a Central Industrial Security had also been isolated. not doing enough in free dis- tion by States/UTs on their movement of workers leading tribution of pulses to ration choice of particular pulses vari- to shortage of workers there- card holders under the ety such as Tur Dal, Urad by causing the factories to %4564 Pradhan Mantri Garib Anna Whole, Moong Whole, Chana deal with an exceptional pres- .*        Yojana (PMGAY) during the hole, Chana Dal and Masur Dal sure of work. COVID-19 lockdown. besides the logistics involved in There is a need for relax- $
" " " %&$ Paswan said that as many transportation from different ing certain provisions of The  (  # =.*  * as 20 states and union territo- States during the lockdown. Factories Act, 1948 thereby ries are getting ready for imple- The monthly allocation of extending the working hours ' ) # "* mentation of the ambitious pulses is 1.95 lakh tonnes under for optimum utilization of the      0< *   ration card portability service the PMGAY. Of this, 1.81 lakh workers in the factories   1-&1, directly connected to Air   1-&1, orders of this Tribunal. The “Chief Secretary of Andhra 'One Nation-One Ration Card' tonnes of pulses have already which have been allowed to Traffic Control (ATC), thereby amount is being fixed having Pradesh briefed the Committee from June 1. reached to states/union terri- operate during the shutdown," aintaining the tempo of providing excellent control of aking up the case suo moto regard to the financial worth of on the ground situation as According to Paswan, the tories so far, out of which only the notification issued by Mmodernisation of the the airfield systems to the air Ton the Vishakhapatnam the company and the extent of well as the actions taken by Food Corporation of India 53,617 tonnes have been dis- Chief Inspector of Factories armed forces, the Defence traffic controllers, defence min- gas leak incident, The National the damage caused," the bench them after the incident to (FCI) has loaded a total num- tributed to beneficiaries, he and Boilers Vivek Marathe Ministry on Friday signed a istry officials said here. The Green Tribunal (NGT) on headed by Adarsh Kumar Goel evacuate people and to contain ber of 2641 rakes (including said. "There is enough pulses said. contract worth over Rs 1,200 upgradation of navigational Friday ordered LG Polymers to said. the leakage in the plant. It was wheat and rice) towards this stock with the government. The notification also said crore with Tata Power SED for aids and infrastructure under depot Rs.50 crore as interim NGT also issued notice to informed that all efforts were end and the approx quantity We are milling and providing that the extension of the work upgradation of 37 air fields of this project would enhance amount for damage to life. The Andhra Pradesh State being taken by them to prevent loaded is 73.95 lakh metric tons it to states. Cannot states take shift would enable factories to the IAF, Navy and Coast the operational capability by Green Tribunal also issued Pollution Control Board, any further emissions from the (LMT) (55.38 LMT rice and the responsibility of distribu- overcome the handicap of Guards. Defence Minister facilitating air operations of notice to Centre, Central Vishakapatnam District tanks. Issues related to the 18.57 LMT wheat). tion of pulses for three months labour shortage. Rajnath Nath had earlier military and civil aircrafts even Pollution Control Board and Magistrate and Union Ministry long term impact of the gas on Nearly a month's supply of at least? They cannot expect us As part of the notification, approved the project,known in poor visibility and adverse formed a six-member com- of Environment and the com- health and on the quality of pulses has already been dis- to take care of distribution in factories may also extend as Phase Two of Modernisation weather condition while mittee comprising Justice B pany LG Polymers India water and air were also dis- patched to several states and states," Paswan said. working hours to sixty hours of Air Field Infrastructure enhancing aerospace safety. Seshasayana Reddy to probe Private Ltd. cussed,” said Ministry of Home union territories, but they have For instance, about 6,610 in a week and the changes (MAFI). The contract will provide the incident and submit a Styrene is classified as a Affairs (MHA) said in a state- managed to distribute only tonnes of pulses have been would be effective up to The second phase is a fol- impetus to the domestic indus- report before May 18. hazardous and toxic chemical, ment. 53,617 tonnes to ration card transported to Bihar which July 31. low-on programme based on try in the prevailing situation. Meanwhile the Cabinet the usage of which requires Cabinet Secretary took holders under the PDS he said plans to distribute under PDS Goa Chief Minister MAFI Phase-I that included The project will give a boost to Secretary headed committed onsite and off-site emergency stock of the current situation, and urged them to speed up the from May 9. The entire month- Pramod Sawant as well as upgradation of 30 airfields of over 250 Micro, Small and also assessed the relief and plans to prevent any damage. preparedness, rescue and relief process in the interest of poor ly requirement of 1,750 tonnes captains of industry and busi- IAF. The airfields modernised Medium Enterprises which will rehabilitation on the incident However, there appears to be operations and directed that all people. of pulses have been given to ness, have urged migrant under MAFI Phase-I have been be directly benefited from which 11 people were killed a failure to comply with the assistance, as maybe required It may be noted that the Delhi, while half of the quota workers not to leave Goa for of immense benefit to both being involved in execution of and 1,000 exposed to it. said rules, said the NGT bench. by the state, be provided to government has decided to of 15,419 tonnes have been their home state despite the military and civil users. various activities of this project, "Having regard to the Meanwhile, the National mitigate the situation. distribute free 1 kg pulses to given to Chhattisgarh, he Covid-19 pandemic, even as The project is a turnkey they said. This contract would prima facie material regarding Crisis Management Consultations between nation- each PDS householder for three added. Currently, the govern- more than 80,000 workers project that includes installa- aid in infusing the much-need- the extent of damage to life, Committee (NCMC) under al and international experts on months till June under the ment has about 14.48 lakh have registered with state tion and commissioning of ed capital in the market and public health and environ- the chairmanship of Cabinet Chemical Safety and Industrial PMGAY to ensure nutrition tonnes of pulses in its buffer, of government agencies seeking modern airfield equipment like boost employment generation ment, we direct LG Polymers Secretary, Rajiv Gauba met processes and the officials on security of the poor during the which tur dal is about 5.50 lakh return home. Cat-II Instrument Landing in such fields as communica- India Pvt Limited to forthwith for the second successive day site would be carried out lockdown period. tonnes, urad 2.60 lakh tonnes, Sawant has also said that System (ILS) and Cat II Air tions, avionics, information deposit an initial amount of Rs to review the situation arising through video conferencing, "Distribution of pulses is chana 2.72 lakh tonnes, moong the exodus of workers, would Field Lightning System (AFLS). technology, apart from civil and 50 crore, with the District out of the gas leak that took and a team of such experts the responsibility of the state 1.20 lakh tonnes and masur severely impact several indus- The modern equipment electrical equipment and con- Magistrate, Vishakhapatnam, place in Vishakhapatnam on would also be flown in as per governments. It has not been 0.84 lakh tonnes. trial sectors in Goa. 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    $   0      R         0                              !                   *0@)(9: ( )       0  $#       " "                               .           (            (          %   (                       "     .  --        +     .             he gas leak incident near                   ( Visakhapatnam in the early hours       A                 of May 7 has led to the death of           -         ( more than 10 people and hospi- talisation of over 200. According                     toT the district authorities, the gas was con-     )              ( firmed to be either styrene or vinyl benzene.     *0@)(9:         A   As an intermediary, styrene is known as PVC gas and is used for the manufacture of insu-                 lation material, plastic, rubber, pipes, fibre          )      (   ( glass and also for the packaging industry.   .                According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), it is the 12th most used chemical            " B   ) # in the world. It is to the credit of the district S         +       ( authorities and the National Disaster     %  S             Response Force (NDRF), who reacted quick- ly, that fatalities remained low. Around 500          B        ( kg of chemicals were airlifted from Gujarat             -% !/%      to neutralise the effect of the gas well in time.  .             #         Separately, with the direct intervention of the United Nations (UN), the bar for inves-               .         tigation of the Vizag gas leak case has not only    O           O     been raised but has also been virtually inter-               nationalised. The spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General António Guterres, #            (   )  Stéphane Dujarric, said, “We obviously tal disaster. Thousands of peo- Insurance Act 1991. According victims go to a civil court and -                   send our condolences to the victims and hope ple were killed in this disaster to the relevant rules framed by then have their remedies adju-        )   /  !)     ( for the quick recovery of those who have been and many more suffered perma- the Government, styrene is clas- dicated, and we are all conscious impacted. These kinds of incidents should nent damage or a genetic impact. sified as a hazardous and a toxic of the limitations of our legal sys- B     (             be fully investigated by the local authorities.” Responses of our entire system chemical. This should naturally tem that it almost takes decades,  )               / While detailed investigations would — the executive, legislative and have required a greater degree of not years, in order to compen-      (        (    undoubtedly be undertaken, prima facie, it even the judiciary — were found #3(& 3 supervision and monitoring of sate the victims…”         (    .    ( appears that the protocols necessary for the to be inadequate to meet the operations. Some of the major These were ominous words, recommencement of operations after the 45- expectations of the people. ,1(11!# laws and regulations that appear whose importance one realises   !)                   day lockdown was lifted were not followed. Whatever was done by way of (/1; (#)1&0= to have been overlooked in the only after 10 years when a trag-           +        When the accident took place early in the relief was too little when com- ,1 3!1()1" instant case are, Environment ic incident has occurred in                 ( morning, only a handful of casual workers pared to catastrophes across the (Protection) Act, 1986 and the Visakhapatnam. The Parliament were present. Elements of negligence at mul- world. ;=(11; rules framed there under such as can still amend the existing laws                  %     tiple levels are more than obvious. For this, In the case of Vizag, the the Hazardous Waste or legislate a fresh enactment to                evidence will have to be secured immediate- plant was run by Hindustan #;; 1&#;# Management and Handling Rule fill up this major lacuna. While                 ly and this should be done in the right Polymers 1961 onwards. Later, it ,#L#(&3/;#&# 1989 and ones framed there Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister earnest. While the plant must have been merged with UB Group in 1978. under, including the YS Jaganmohan Reddy has  %             S sealed, a team of experts headed by a scien- Subsequently, LG Chem of 3?,1)#$ Manufacture, Storage And already visited the spot and his                   ( tist from the Council of Scientific and South Korea took over ,;;,3/& Import Of Hazardous Chemical Government is undertaking nec-          )         Industrial Research (CSIR) needs to be con- Hindustan Polymers and (Amendment) Rules, 1989, essary relief measures, there still stituted immediately to get into various renamed it as LG Polymers #/(#=,#!1 among others. might be individual compensa-                  aspects of this matter. India Pvt Ltd in July 1997. It is Despite a plethora of rules tion seekers, whose expecta-    /                     ( According to scientific research approved understood that after the lock- (1M/(1&# and regulations, there are certain tions would have to be suitably   %                by the US Environmental Protection Agency down, permission to recom- (1#1(&1 (11 aspects which indicate weakness addressed. and published in a top scientific journal, mence operations was obtained in our legal system in dealing The number of lawsuits                     Environmental Health Perspectives, chronic a couple of days ago on phone. 3 ;/1(!;3 with such cases. During a dis- filed in India and abroad after                    .  exposure to styrene has been linked to the The factory inspector and the #&)33( cussion in the Parliament on the the Bhopal tragedy was so large                %       occurrence of neurological and behaviour- pollution control board had nei- 3 31(#3;$ Civil Liability for Nuclear that a special enactment had to       #       *S al deficit. This may eventually result in ther inspected nor understood Damage Act, 2010, it was men- be undertaken. 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We will bring a law to stop any such engagement with the democratic regime       *         ties with the Taliban and has continued to back 3()3 133) Taliban into the governing State — a real- activity.” More pertinently, Shaheen also and the northern ethnic minorities. It is                  extremist groups in Afghanistan, even while calling #&,/)##(# isation that made the US finally reach the claimed that the Taliban would be more equally important to remember that a sit-     ,                 itself an “ally” of the US in its war on terror. #&3,1 negotiation table. As it stands presently, than willing to engage with neighbouring uation resembling the Afghan civil war of      .      P!         A recent example of the Pakistani military estab- 11;,# the Taliban have been able to keep their countries “on the basis of mutual respect the late 90s, between the Taliban and the lishment’s support to the Taliban and allied terror sphere of influence strong enough to make and mutual interests.” erstwhile Northern Alliance, is still very         .           -;# 1 /#(& groups was the attack on a gurdwara in Kabul on ;1(1;;$ the US realise that trying to govern While the solidity of these sentiments much a possibility.            )     March 25. Prima facie it was thought to be an attack Afghanistan as a whole, in a state of peace will only be seen in times to come, India In a situation of an all-out military              Q #    carried out by the Islamic State (IS). However, fur- ;3)1,#-2;, and stability, would be impossible with- must now aim to establish some sort of campaign, where the Taliban might have     )   I        ( ther investigations carried out by Afghan authori- !31;,#!11!1 out their cooperation. The US war aim of ties with the Taliban. Till now, it has been an inclination to fall back on Pakistan for      %            ties found direct links between the attackers, the #1& 3(&# completely eradicating the Taliban and openly hostile to the negotiations under- assistance, India must be ready to engage             Taliban-linked Haqqani Network and the ISI. A 033;3,1 making the majority ethnic group, the taken by the US and has repeatedly tried with equivalent assistance in the form of #     1   9F;:        ( report produced by the European Foundation for (3/&# Pashtuns, co-opt into a democratic system to lobby for their termination. Continuing economic and humanitarian aid to the    $           1  !  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It is  - 9:><             B Afghan Government and many of its leaders, such ;3!1#&3- the Afghan State does not eventually con- option. important to remember that much of the %   #  %       - 9:><  as General Dostum, are now key members of the /;);#&!1/(1 sist of elements that would support Some analysts, such as veteran jour- goodwill harboured by the Afghans - 9:>D    +  + ())          present regime. William Dalrymple’s Brookings Essay 3;#0;1 extremist groups functioning in Kashmir. nalist and author Ahmed Rashid, have towards India has been due to our abili-  0      ,  $     0 A Deadly Triangle, published in 2013, presents and # ,#;#" In the past, the Taliban have been known even gone on to claim that the Taliban ty to help them without intervening mil-     %   *        explains this tacit conflict cogently. -3/&01# to have warm relations with the Lakshar- would prefer closer relations with India itarily, an action which will be perceived With the US now having committed to leaving, e-Taiba (LeT) and the Jaish-e-Mohammed now. In contrast to Pakistan, which has as hostile by many. No nation appreciates *  $     $  -   *     1((01);#21 the weakest entity in this entire sum seems to be the 3&3;3 (JeM). Extremist networks based in backed terror groups that have only the idea of a foreign army on its soil —      0 ? $        $  Afghan Government. With the decrease in Western Kashmir, with the backing of the IS, have brought destruction and devastation especially not Afghanistan. -  #       ? $      military support to it, the Taliban have made steady been known previously to have auxiliary upon the country, India has immense soft In a situation which is constantly  %   gains and now control over a third of the country. bases functioning freely across power in Afghanistan. Holding back developing and has the possibility of mul- )       $  - -    The Afghan National Army has been unable to estab- Afghanistan and Pakistan. from military intervention, while contin- tifarious outcomes, India must constant-                 lish itself as an effective fighting force. However, the Taliban now seem to be uing to support Afghanistan economical- ly try to pre-empt the status quo and build     #         Moreover, the recent election results have been willing to leave behind extremist inclina- ly with Indian aid totalling more than $3 ties that will help assert its geo-political          +       heavily disputed and both leading candidates, tions if allowed to integrate into the billion now, has been an effective geo- interests. A stable and peaceful regime in    1              incumbent Ashraf Ghani and his opponent Abdullah Afghan State. They have repeatedly political move. Afghanistan, which censures terror activ-         .         ( Abdullah, have sworn themselves in as President in claimed that they have now cut former ties Further strengthening this commit- ity, is vital to India’s security interests. March. A divided civilian leadership, a weak mili- and will not allow terror groups to func- ment, the Indian Government in mid- Deeming Afghanistan to be irrelevant, as         .   $  -      tary establishment and with US support nearing its tion in Afghanistan if allowed to form a April sent medical and food supplies to aid some have, will only result in the weak-                expiry date, the Afghan Government now finds itself Government. Recently, during an online the Afghan Government in tackling ening of India’s position in South Asia. %            A      in a bleak spot. conference hosted by the Delhi-based COVID-19. If relations with the Taliban (The writer is with the School of       *      This situation has been further exacerbated by think-tank Global Counter-terrorism are not established in this new chapter of Oriental and African Studies, University of 7        8 the US negotiating for a peace deal directly with the Council, the Taliban spokesperson Afghanistan, which will most likely see London)              Bu‰†yuxuq’qy‚qry‚y• vxuu†‚qv ˆƒv ˆu”u„‰y „‰uˆ’ysu‰y„qwˆys‘‚‘ˆuxu‘‰qwur•vqˆƒuˆ‰u’u„xu• ‘x ˆuƒqy„‰’uˆ•‚ “y„xus ‘„ˆ• Xxy‰ƒ‘‰ruqttˆu‰‰ut „q„‘ˆwu„rq‰y‰

the ongoing Coronavirus pandem- Demonstration for wider spread of the Coronavirus. through building of resources and However, there are a large num- Mobile apps like Kisan Suvidha, ic has compelled us to think and Application and to enhance However, extension activities social capital. The Government ber of agricultural services that are Pusa Krishi, Krishi Gyan, Crop plan about its future in India. Capacity Development (TADA- such as training of farmers, rural intends to set up 10,000 FPOs over effectively managed by IT applica- insurance, Agri Market and IFFCO Normally, agriculture exten- CD). The target is horizontal expan- youth and extension functionaries the next five years in different fields tions, including accessibility to mar- Kisan Agriculture and so on, are also sion services are mainly provided by sion of proven agricultural technolo- require a minimum gathering of 20 of agriculture, including value addi- kets, training, capacity-building, popular among farmers and exten- the functionaries of State depart- gies through on-farm testing (OFT), to 25 people at one place. On the tion and processing of fruits, vegeta- collection of feedback from farmers sion functionaries. ments of agriculture and local vol- frontline demonstrations (FLDs), other hand, organisation of Kisan bles and meat products. and so on. The creation of an IT Despite the availability of the e- untary organisations. farmers’ trainings, vocational train- Melas, field days on specific Cluster frontline demonstra- infrastructure has been an integral platform for extension services in The Indian Council of ings for rural youth, interaction crop/enterprise, farmers’ seminars tions (CFLDs) on oilseeds and puls- part of the Government’s strategy for agriculture, the usage by farmers, Agricultural Research (ICAR) start- meetings between scientists and and campaigns involve the build-up es, traditional agriculture develop- effective delivery of services. even the youth, remains very low. ' 2 -  5 ed its extension activities with the extension functionaries, field days of more than 100 farmers. ment plan and so on, are among the The National e-Governance Looking at the current mindset National Demonstration project in and Kisan Melas. At present there One of the modern extension major extension programmes of Plan (NeGP) was introduced in and the need for social distancing in gricultural extension is a 1964. Further, the Krishi Vigyan are 713 KVKs under the adminis- approaches recommended for dou- the Ministry of Agriculture and 2006 to make all Government ser- the wake of the pandemic, organ- form of informal education Kendra (KVK) was introduced in trative control of State and Central bling farmers’ incomes are Self Farmers’ Welfare which employs a vices available to citizens via the ising agricultural extension activi- Athat aims at transfer of scien- 1974 to offer need-based and skill- Agricultural Universities (498), Help Groups (SHGs), farmers clubs cluster approach for sustainable electronic media. Approximately, 45 ties in the country will be a huge tific interventions to farmers and oriented training to farmers and ICAR Institutes (63), NGOs (101), and so on. These are formed to production in agriculture. per cent of the world’s ICT projects challenge. collection of feedback from them. extension workers. Then the Lab to State Governments (38) and other boost group activities so as to bring Further, agricultural market- are implemented in India, with the Taking into consideration the The ultimate aim is to introduce the Land Programme was launched in educational institutions (13). economies of scale in farming ing covers so many activities which maximum number of information success of group dynamics in agri- latest technical know-how in agri- 1979 to improve the economic con- In recent years, KVKs are per- through better resource manage- involve interaction of multiple stake- kiosks being in rural India. cultural extension, there is an urgent culture and allied activities such as dition of small, marginal farmers forming the duties of primary ment. holders at one place. Starting from E-agriculture initiatives such need to devise alternative method- dairy, poultry, apiculture, marketing and landless agricultural labourers. awareness centres for all Centrally- Farmers, as producers of agri- primary rural/village markets to as Agrisnet, Digital green, eSagu, ologies for offering uninterrupted and so on. The use of effective tools, KVKs are considered to be the sponsored schemes in the rural cultural products, can form groups wholesale regulated markets, all Agmarknet, eArik, Village extension services to the clientele, vernacular languages and group front runners in providing extension and agricultural sector. During the and register themselves under the involve direct contact of many Knowledge Centers (VKCs), SMS apart from ICT. dynamics marks the effectiveness of services to farmers even in the lockdown period also, KVKs are cre- Indian Companies Act to form farmers, intermediaries and con- Portal/mKisan Portal, Kisan Call (The writer is Scientist, Agril any extension programme. remotest districts of the country. ating awareness among rural house- Farmer Producer Organisations sumers to do interconnected activ- Centers (KCCs) and so on, are suc- Economics, Sher-e-Kashmir Apart from the other challenges The mandate of KVKs is holds for taking precautionary mea- (FPOs). 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It really happened to work and it’s should absolutely not make women feel late last year. “I was really inspired by Are you a big coffee drinker? working out really well so far. My team guilty about having any kind of issue or stress black women.” I’m a coffee ice-cream girl. Whenever is great. It’s not to say I didn’t have a great or anxiety. There is no bravery in fake The Grammy-winning singer said there’s affogato close, it has my name on team before, But I am realising, you toughness. We she first started working on Coffee in 2017 it. I like it when it’s iced. I like iced cof- evolve, you move on and that’s really it, all are weak at but held on the track, which was co-writ- fee and I drink it with whiskey. so Roc Nation is home now. times, and it’s ten by Syd of the alternative R&B band good to make The Internet. How’s the album coming along? What have you been doing with your people feel that “I was very particular after I had my I’m very excited about this album, time at home now? it is all okay and son about what I was saying and how especially for the fact that the years that I wish I would have learned how to normal. So yes, I good it was because I wanted to make it took me to find tempo. The whole work ProTools. I think now that it believe the very him proud,” said Rowland, who gave album’s not like that but I’m excited to makes you definitely want to learn. You important step birth in 2014. “I was extremely hard on share my tempo. I feel like I always had watch artists like Ariana Grande. I heard is to talk about it myself.” mids and slower records but yes, I’m Trey Songz does it too. So many differ- in the first The 39-year-old Rowland talks about ready to dance. Especially, when we come ent artists are doing things right now over place,” said coffee — the song and the drink — as well out of all this (Coronavirus lockdowns), that. And hence, they’re operating their Chitrangda. as signing with Jay-Z’s Roc Nation com- we need to dance. own new sessions. But I feel why didn’t She shared pany for management and life in quar- I learn how to do that. That’s probably my that it is equally antine. Excerpts: Have you finished the album? next goal — to learn how to record myself important for In my gut, I feel like I have like one because I could have got so many things men to manage There’s been a really warm response more record to do. done by now. I’ve been sent songs since the chores of the to Coffee and its video. How does that the beginning of quarantine and I am lit- house. “It won’t be difficult if the workload make you feel? And you’re technically an indepen- erally waiting for my engineer to come of the family is distributed among all the The morning that it came out, I had dent artist now? out of his quarantine. members of the family. I suggest one could this really big weight on my chest. I lit- Yes, for now. There have been real- help by managing the daily chores or taking erally got to my closet and cried because ly cool calls. At the same time, it’s such Did you have a goal date for getting turns to help with the kitchen or the kids. Also, I was like, “This is what I remember the a different space and time in music now. the album out? it is extremely important to find some time anxiety and everything feeling like,” but I think in my head, it’s just navigating it No. Before quarantine, we were at the to talk to her (women at home) and know how this one felt a little different. It’s because all. I am definitely independent. It’s close of the record. That’s when you’re she is managing or feeling physically and men- I’ve been in business for 20-plus years and something about it that I am really, real- turning records in, talking to writers and tally,” she said. it was like an overwhelming sense of grat- ly loving but I am also just like, “Oh I producers, working on that whole pro- The actor also suggested staying busy by itude. When I started seeing, whether it’s need a little bit more of some budget cedure of the end process. It’s not that it’s doing anything you love during the lockdown. my fans or new people, or I’m seeing money to execute some of this.” I always slowed down but definitely made things Amid the lockdown, Chitrangada is writ- dancers put movement to the song, say that Destiny’s Child set me up because a little more challenging to navigate. We ing a short film, making fun videos for fans that’s really something to take in and cel- we had visuals. People are like, “You’re got this and definitely this year. 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8        R work as ‘art medicine’; the making His urgent brushstrokes, use of matic paintings have a depth that process as a form of ‘self-therapy’. “If electrifying colours and ridges of engulfs you in silence and stillness.” it were not for art,” she once revealed, thick impasto would pave the way for Those same qualities of silence      “I would have killed myself a long early 20th-century Expressionism. Yet and stillness also characterised the time ago.” during his time at the asylum, main- man himself. As the late art critic     By drawing and painting repet- taining the balance between his Dnyaneshwar Nadkarni explained in itive patterns, Kusama seeks to oblit- mental health and being able to focus 1983, “Gaitonde isolated himself any of today’s highest-selling He was, however, less well-known erate her hallucinatory daemons and on his work proved difficult. “To sac- very early in his career from every- artists produced their best across the Atlantic. escape them. “I paint them (dots) in rifice one’s freedom,” he wrote to his thing in his environment which he Mworks in solitude, away from It was during his first trip to quantity; in doing so, I try to escape,” brother Theo, “to stand outside soci- considered irrelevant to (his) inten- the clamour of society America in 1974 that Beuys unveiled she explained of her polka-dot works ety and to have only one’s work, with- sity as a painter.” I Like America and America Likes Me, in an interview with Artspace in 2017. out distraction… it’s beginning to Gaitonde only produced around    a live performance piece — or Action Her Infinity Net paintings, which first weigh too heavily upon me here.” five or six paintings a year, and rarely Pain thrums through Frida — that has become one of his best- won her critical acclaim in New York, mixed with fellow artists. “Everything Kahlo’s life and art: childhood polio known works. are her most sought-after works at  P  starts from silence,” he once said. “The crippled her; a near-fatal bus crash at auction. After the death of her photogra- silence of the canvas. The silence of the age of 18 led to a life of surgeries    Open about her illness, Kusama pher husband, Alfred Stieglitz, in the painting knife. The painter starts and recoveries; abortions and miscar- In 1967, Agnes Martin (1912- has lived voluntarily in a psychiatric 1946, Georgia O’Keeffe would spend by absorbing all these silences.” riages left her traumatised. Then, of 2004) gave away her painting mate- asylum in Tokyo since 1977. She is summers and autumns isolated at course, there was her turbulent on- rials and fled New York in a pickup now in her nineties. Most recently, in Ghost Ranch in New Mexico, living    off love affair with Diego Rivera, a truck. She resurfaced around 18 response to the current health crisis, off a generator and without a tele- Born in 1839 in Aix-en- string of adulterous liaisons and her months later on a remote mesa in Kusama shared a message with the phone. The house was sparsely fur- Provence, Cézanne studied law strained relationship with her moth- Taos, New Mexico. “I’ve finished world, in which she says it’s time “to nished, reflecting her minimalist before leaving for Paris in 1861 to er. painting,” she said to Arne Glimcher, fight and overcome our unhappiness.” aesthetic. pursue a career as a painter. There, Kahlo channelled this personal the founder of Pace Gallery, just She said the solitude offered ‘a he met the Impressionist Camille suffering into her art, birthing a before she took off. “I’m never paint-     kind of freedom’ that brought her Pissarro and later exhibited at the first macabre creativity now feted the ing again.” Vincent van Gogh’s painful last closer to nature. The view of the wide (1874) and third (1877) Impressionist world over. According to Glimcher, “She felt years saw the creation of some of his open desert backed by the Cerro exhibitions. She began painting in 1925, dur- she had painted everything she could most famous works, including The Pedernal mountain, as in Red Hills By the early 1880s, however, ing her nine-month convalescence paint. She needed to go back to New Starry Night (1889), Wheat with with Pedernal, White Clouds Cézanne had returned to Provence from the bus accident, using a cus- Mexico, to that kind of space and soli- 4!3 Crows (1890), and Portrait of Dr (1936), became her favourite and begun to withdraw from the tom-made lap easel and an overhead tude.” But more than anything, he Gachet (1890), the last of subject. “It’s my private Paris-centred Impressionists. In the mirror installed in her bed’s canopy. adds, “I don’t think she could cope which sold for mountain,” she explained. rugged solitude of his sun-drenched Over the next 20 years or so, Frida with the notoriety that she was start- $82,500,000 in “It belongs to me. homeland, his work pivoted in direc- painted the frailty of the human body, ing to gain.” earn her widespread recognition and at the outbreak of World War Two — 1990 at Christie’s God told me if I tion. He played with perspective and life and death and decay with haunt- In Taos, Martin led a simpler, if cult status as a sort of desert mystic. his London studio was bombed in New York, set- painted it enough, used short, hatched brushstrokes, ing poignancy. “I paint myself,” she isolating existence. She didn’t own a 1940 — marks a turning point in his ting a record I could have it.” blocks of strong, saturated colour and once said, “because I am so often television, or a phone, or a cat for that      work. Surrounded by six acres of price at auction irregular lighting. alone, because I am the person I matter. “I can’t have any distractions,” Ivon Hitchens (1893-1979) is woodland, Greenleaves proved a fer- for any work by    Today, works from Cézanne’s know best.” Of her 143 surviving she said to Glimcher. perhaps best known today for his tile source of inspiration: the silver the artist. Vasudeo groundbreaking late period are high- paintings, 55 are self-portraits. She would not return to painting post-war abstract paintings of the birch trees in his garden, the nearby Much of his D   Santu Gaitonde ly sought after by collectors at auc- until 1974. And when she did, her British countryside, executed in meadows, and the sunflowers, pop- work from 1889, (1924-2001), more tion. Formerly in the storied collec- !  3  aesthetic had changed — her grids blocks of rich, vibrant colour. Many pies and dahlias from his courtyard including Vue de l’asile commonly known as VS tion of SI Newhouse, Bouilloire et Joseph Beuys (1921-1986) saw art had morphed into an exploration of such landscapes were painted in and garden would populate his canvases et de la Chapelle de Saint-Rémy, was Gaitonde, is one of the highest-sell- fruits (1888-90, above) sold for as a means to effect social and polit- horizontal and vertical lines, the around Greenleaves, the rural home for the next 40 years. completed during his stay at Saint ing modern Indian artists at auction. $59,295,000 in May 2019 at Christie’s ical change. By the early 1970s, he was pastel greys and whites replaced he shared with his family near Paul de Mausole, a former monastery According to Deepanjana Klein, in New York, well above its on- widely regarded in Europe as one of with soft pinks, yellows and blues. Petworth in Sussex.   that had been converted into a pri- Christie’s International Head of South request estimate in the region of $40 Germany’s leading conceptual artists. This new painterly language would The artist’s retreat to Greenleaves Yayoi Kusama has described her vate hospital for the mentally ill. Asian Art, “his mostly monochro- million.   2     3  2  

he immediate effect of yoga and Tmeditation can astonish some peo- ‘Love Aaj Kal my best performance’ ple as they have the ability to quickly $     ! still the mind and clear negative thoughts. When we begin to meditate, ctor Kartik Aaryan said we often wonder why we had not done      "      " Aplaying two characters in it before. Patanjali, the ancient author one movie would seem scary, of the ‘Yoga Sutras’, describes the            "013= 201, but if the transition from Veer mind as a restless monkey, which is to Raghu in Love Aaj Kal was constantly distracted and always hov- away from your goal even before you personally experience is the natural there is a potential to work skillfully smooth he credits the film’s ering around. can blink an eyelid.” display or energetic expression of our with that expression of our own minds director Imtiaz Ali for it. The However, meditation is some- Yoga exponent, Sivananda School, own minds. This is exactly what we to transform or change it.” actor feels Ali brings out great thing that can help one gain peace and Grass Valley CA, Ananda Prema of need to realise through practice. When Acharya Swami Sitaramananda, performances from actors in his control over the frenetic activities of the Russia, says, “When you do asanas, we realise that all we experience is the Sivananda Yoga, Grass Valley CA, says, movies. mind. We are able to land in a peace- your mind becomes focussed, and product or result of “A lot of people practice yoga but they Kartik took to Instagram ful sanctuary, away from the noise and hence, it becomes still. When mind is our own minds, it jump over its foundation, — the two and shared a still from Love Aaj disturbance of the materialistic world. still, there is no desire and when there means main practices of yama and niyama, Kal, and also a picture of him- In this state of mind, our being is much is no desire, you attain happiness. It’s that which are the prescription by the yogis self along with Ali. better balanced and our body becomes all about mind and controlling the about the dos and don’ts, the restric- Alongside the image he healthy. This should be our first and mind. It’s very hard to control your tions and the observances.” wrote, “When you first dream most natural protection against the mind which is running like a Talking about yama-niyama, of being in films, you act in ongoing pandemic and all other dis- wild horse, unwilling to fol- Puducherry-based Yoga guru front of the mirror and nail it eases. If this is done in time, we may low any discipline and Minakshi Devi Bhavnani, says, every time, and the world of be stronger and we may not even need it’s very tough to “It basically means a method or films seems magical? Then you medicines. We must also remember gently take over could be called a technology get a film. You see the camera that all yoga is first based upon yama it, to make it to evolve from the domi- and are unnerved. It’s bigger or niyama. This is the ethical founda- listen to you, to nance of the animal brain than the suitcase you brought tion of life and it is the basis of yoga. make it follow into the conscious use of to Mumbai. The bright lights Unless this ethics is not followed, the what you the human brain.” seem to be scolding you for not mind will never be still and meditation would like it As Patanjali had landing on a one inch tape will not be possible. to do.” said, yoga never harms. mark and wasting everyone’s Here are a few excerpts from my New York- It is absolutely brilliant time. film, Key to Immunity Part III, where based Tulku how it takes control of “The first few years become yoga experts talk about how they view Sherdor, direc- the tongue, our sexu- about trying not to look ner- it: tor, Blazing al desires, greed, the vous? Then you get an Imtiaz Yoga expert, Dr Ananda Balayogi Wisdom desire to steal and all Ali film. The moment he nar- from Puducherry, says, “The chitta (a Institute, says, the other natural rates the story, you are pulled part of mind) is that subconscious, “What modern impulses neces- into a dream. I don’t even unconscious mind that is constantly in cognitive science, sary for sur- remember seeing the camera motion. The ancient rishis said that the theories, physics, vival. on his set, he’d always be stand- mind is a monkey, a drunken one, and Buddhist science and ing wherever I looked after cut. between #Veer and #Raghu,” he Love Aaj Kal co-starring on top of that, is bitten by a scorpion. the yoga agree with is He was never at the monitor, he wrote. Sara Ali Khan released on Well, if that’s how the mind is — con- that all that we ever was by my side. The lights on “For an actor, there is no Valentine’s Day this year. It stantly in motion, it’s whirlpooling the experience is our own Imtiaz Ali’s set help you find better environment than being traced love stories of two dif- subconscious mind. The two togeth- mind and all we can those tape marks,” he added. In front of that mirror. Imtiaz ferent eras — the first is set in er just drag you down, Kartik claimed he never Ali takes you there. This is the the late 1980s-early nineties, experienced the kind of love reason why so many great and unfolds between Raghu and appreciation he got for his actors’ greatest performances and Leena. The other love performance in Love Aaj Kal. have been in Imtiaz Ali films,” story, set in the present time, “And that too from some of Kartik added. happens between Veer and my favourite filmmakers and The actor then praised Ali, Zoe. people I most respect in the calling him a “magician.” The film is a retelling of industry. How ironic that the “Imtiaz Ali director nahi Ali’s own film of 2009 that making of this film felt most hain, jadugar hain (Imtiaz Ali starred Deepika Padukone and effortless. It would scare me to is not a director but a magi- Saif Ali Khan, and was a hit. think of doing two characters cian)! Thank you sir for giving Love Aaj Kal 2020 fared below in one movie. And here, I did- me the best performance of my expectation at the box-office n’t even realise how smoothly career yet. @imtiazaliofficial and was also critically panned. I was being transitioned #LoveAajKal.” —IANS    !"#"# ( " /

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Whether we get the and Smith out cheaply, then three formats, Kohli is the best norm before every tour then it lenge that awaits Australia — teams (16) coming in and straightaway to go into T20 of an additional Test, Dhumal window, it is still a question India could win. If they don’t get batsman at the moment,” said the would be difficult to organise the T20 World Cup in quarantining for two weeks? World Cup. Who would be said:”As far as the fifth Test mark.” Warner and Smith cheaply, legendary Australian player. (       " ( ! $ ( (9,    $         1-&1, one spot and keep bowling there. ( ' !2 (( < =4  “Mentally, it was great for Indian ustralian opener David Warner says cricket but it was hard to watch. I felt Ait is unlikely that the T20 World Cup helpless. Hope it does happen and look-   1-&1, ‘HOLLOW FEELING’ will be staged in his country in October- ing forward to the battle,” said Warner. Cricket is not going to be the November because of the Covid-19 pan- The Australian said playing India in ndia skipper Virat Kohli same in the post Covid-19 demic. India is one of the toughest challenges in Ibelieves cricket in empty world and playing in empty “The ICC World Cup will not go world cricket. stadiums is a real possibility in stadiums would be a “hollow ahead here by the looks of it. It will be “I love playing India in india.   England captain Joe a post Covid-19 world and feeling” but Australia difficult to get everyone (16 teams) Everyone is against you. Hard conditions. Root has said he is “very opti- though it is unlikely to have a wicketkeeper-batsman Alex together,” said Warner in an Instagram Same for you (Rohit) when you come mistic” Test cricket will take bearing on the intensity of Carey is ready to embrace Live session with India’s batting star Rohit here,” he said. place in his side’s 2020 home sea- players, he feels the magic the “new normal”. Sharma. Warner is also not enthused by the son even if that means the would certainly go missing. Carey is open to the idea However, the International Cricket idea of playing in front of empty stands, squad have to go into more than “It’s quite a possible situ- of playing in empty stadi- Council is yet to take the final call on the like Australia did against New Zealand two months’ of quarantine. ation, it might happen, I hon- ums, which according to him T20 showpiece event. in Sydney in March before the ODI series With Britain currently in estly don’t know how everyone could be a way forward. During the chat, Rohit said India’s was called off. lockdown because of the coro- is going to take that because “Cricket as we’re used to is tour of Australia, which is scheduled after “It was a bizarre experience. You navirus, a three-Test series we all are used to playing in going to be different for a bit. the T20 World Cup, will be a “great way” could only hear echo of cricket ball. It was against the West Indies sched- front of so many passionate There’s the T20 World Cup to restart international calendar. bizarre. We are used to calling ‘yes and uled for June has been post- fans,” Kohli said in Star Sports and the IPL that we’re all “I love playing against Australia. no’ while running between wickets but we poned, with Pakistan due to visit show Cricket Connected. looking to play, but it’s hard to When we won last time (in 2019), it was did not need to do that. later in a season whose start has “I know it will be played picture anything without the great for us. You guys (Warner and Steve “It was literally like playing a warm now been delayed until July 1. at a very good intensity but fans. It’s going to be a hollow Smith) were missing (due to ball-tamper- up game. It was surreal. I don’t know for “I’m very optimistic, hope- that feeling of the crowd con- feeling,” said the Delhi ing bans). how long you can sustain that. You gain fully that can be the case and it necting with the players and “Things will still go on, Capitals player during an “What our bowlers and batters did your momentum from home crowd.” would be a real shame if it was- the tension of the game where but I doubt that one will feel Instagram Live session with there was amazing. I am looking forward The Aussie opener also spoke about n’t,” he told the Cricket show on everyone goes through it in that magic happening inside his IPL team. to the upcoming tour already. Hope both + !   .
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