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Vol. 12 No. 312 RNI NO. DELENG/2008/25465 New Delhi, Monday, 22 March, 2021 [email protected] 9971359517 12 pages. 2/- It is decided that Assam will get 'doosri baar, BJP sarkar', says PM Narendra Modi in Bokakhat Simmi Kaur Babbar New Delhi. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday (March 21, 2021) visited the boll-bound Assam and Aaditya Thackeray tests stated that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government will continue in the state. positive for coronavirus PM Modi during a public rally in Assam's Bokakhat said, "It is now decided that Assam will get 'doosri baar, BJP sarkar', 'doosri baar, NDA Maharashtra minister sarkar', 'doosri baar, double engine ki sarkar'.”The Prime Minister's Aaditya Thackeray on comments came ahead of the Assam Saturday said he has tested Assembly polls, where the Bharatiya Janata Party will seek its positive for coronavirus second tenure. He highlighted his state government's work in the and urged people not to let Assam and also commented on the steps taken to save the environment. their guard down. "The NDA government has put the rhino hunters in jails. We're working to be included in one of the leading in Assam, there was double negligence New Delhi.Maharashtra minister Aaditya Thackeray tested.”I urge everyone to realise that it is on both safety of animals as well as nations in natural, spiritual, cultural and and double corruption. You have to on Saturday said he has tested positive for extremely important not to let your guard down. facilities for the people of Assam," said heritage tourisms, and Assam has all of remember that Congress means coronavirus and urged people not to let their guard Please follow COVID-19 protocols and stay safe," PM Modi. this," the Prime Minister stated. instability, corruption. They have no down. Taking to Twitter, Thackeray said, "On the son of Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray said. He added that in the last 5 years, Assam has "Under the NDA, Assam is heading to vision or intention to do any good.” having mild symptoms of COVID-19. I had myself With the detection of 3,062 cases on Friday, witnessed a growth in forest cover. touch new highs," he expressed.He also PM Modi said that during Congress' reign, tested and I am COVID-19 positive."The guardian Mumbai reported its highest single-day spike ever. "It increases the opportunities for tourism attacked the opposition and said, "When the main question was to save the loot of minister of Mumbai suburbs also requested people The city has recorded 3,55,897 COVID-19 cases and economic activities. We want India Congress was in power at the Centre and Assam from Congress. who came in contact with him to get themselves and 11,565 casualties so far. ATS arrests two people in People's laxity towards COVID-19 main reason Assam Assembly polls connection with Mansukh 2021: Congress' manifesto behind rise in cases, says Vardhan promises 5 lakh govt jobs, Hiren's death Chandigarh.Holding the laxity shown by Vardhan. The Union health minister people in following safety protocols as the further said the two vaccines, Covishield law against CAA reason behind the recent surge in and Covaxin, which had been made coronavirus cases, Union Health Minister available in the country are the second tool Harsh Vardhan on Saturday urged them not in this fight against contagion. to let their guard down against the He also said there was no need for infection, else the situation may turn vaccination for all from the scientific point "dangerous". of view while asserting that the two "With vaccines available now, people feel vaccines developed in the country are they should not wear masks. Maximum completely safe and effective.The people hang their masks around their neck, vaccination drive should also be turned some keep it in their pocket and some do into a mass movement, he said, adding that Mumbai.The Maharashtra Anti Terrorism not use it at all," the minister said here on coronavirus will go away slowly from the the vaccines are available at 50,000 Squad (ATS) on Sunday arrested two persons Saturday evening.COVID-19 cases have country and the world," he said."I want to government and private health facilities in in connection with the Mansukh Hiren death again started rising at some places in the appeal to people of the country that they the country.The Union health minister said case.A suspended Mumbai Police constable country for the past some time and the should not let the COVID appropriate the priority groups have been set after Vinayak Shinde (55) and a bookie Naresh laxity shown by people towards the behaviour get weakened at any cost. keeping in the mind the scientific criteria Dhare (31) were arrested by the Maharashtra infection is the basic reason behind it, Maintaining social distancing, wearing and studying the behaviour of COVID-19. ATS on Sunday. Vardhan said, adding that the situation may masks properly and washing hands with "You know that the behaviour of COVID turn "dangerous"."If we do not follow soap probably are the biggest tools to win virus is dynamic and the vaccination New Delhi. Congress has released its manifesto Vinayak Shinde, an accused in encounter case the fight against COVID-19," said of slain gangster Lakhan Bhaiyya, is COVID appropriate behaviour, then process is also dynamic. for the forthcoming Assam Assembly polls currently on parole. Ramnarayan Gupta alias and has promised five lakh government jobs Lakhan Bhaiya was killed in a fake encounter and assured that the Citizenship Amendment on November 11, 2006. In 2013, a Mumbai CM Uddhav must take narco test: BJP mounts attack Act (CAA) will not be implemented in the sessions court had awarded life sentences to state.Rahul Gandhi released the election 21 people, including 13 Mumbai Police manifesto for the state and expressed, personnel, convicted in the case.This comes "Though Congress symbol is there in the on MVA govt, protests outside Anil Deshmukh’s house document, actually it is a people's manifesto. It two days after Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) on Thursday questioned a contains the aspirations of the people of police inspector from the Mumbai crime Mumbai.BJP workers have launched a officers to collect Rs 100 crore every Assam” branch in the death case of Mansukh Hiren protest outside the Nagpur residence month from bars and hotels, a charge Gandhi stated that Congress guarantees to related to the Antilia bomb scare incident. of Maharashtra Home Minister Anil the minister has denied.BJP launches defend the 'idea of Assam' that contains Deshmukh over former Mumbai attack on Uddhav govt “The image of About Mansukh Hiren culture, language, tradition, history and the Police chief Param Bir Singh’s letter Maharashtra and Mumbai Police has way of thinking."This is our commitment. You Mansukh Hiren, a car dealer in Mumbai, was bomb accusing him of corruption and been tarnished under the leadership of found dead in a creek near Thane on March 5, are aware that BJP and RSS are attacking the extortion. the chief minister. In the history of diverse culture of India and Assam. We will just a week after a Scorpio with explosives Activists of Bharatiya Janata Yuva independent India, there has never inside was found parked near Mukesh defend that," the former Congress chief added. Morcha set fire to a symbolic effigy of been such a heinous crime in the past. The Congress also promised to waive off Ambani’s residence, Antilia. Anil Deshmukh in Nagpur on Sunday This happened right under the nose of Hiren's wife accused assistant police inspector farmers' agriculture debts and women's loans morning a day after Param Bir the CM. This country and the entire from micro-finance institutes, distribute Sachin Vaze of involvement in her husband's Singh’s attacking letter addressed to world have seen him supporting the suspicious death. The NIA is already probing kerosene and sugar through PDS, offer lunch CM Uddhav Thackeray. Police have Vaze gang,” said Ram Kadam. at Rs 10 and price a quintal of rice at Rs 2,500. the case related to the recovery of a Scorpio arrested 30 BJP youth activists.BJP tender their resignations.Meanwhile, NCP The BJP leader even attacked Sharad SUV, parked near Ambani's residence Besides, five lakh government jobs and law to workers also protested at Alka Theatre supremo Sharad Pawar has summoned two Pawar and Rahul Gandhi. “Shiv Sena and nullify CAA, Congress promised to waive off 'Antilia', with gelatin sticks and has arrested Chowk in Pune against the MVA of his senior ministers to Delhi amid the Sharad Pawarji and Rahul Gandhi, who all an assistant police inspector, Sachin Waze.On debt for women, who have taken loans from government over the letter by Param Bir row surrounding Param Bir Singh’s letter had a share in this money and how? When micro-finance banks. Saturday, NIA also took over the probe into Singh. BJP state president and MLA against Anil Deshmukh, who is an NCP will you say this?” Thane-based car dealer Mansukh Hiren's Chandrakant Patil was also seen protesting leader. "Agricultural debt will be waived off for BJP has said that even the big industrialists farmers, the country's food providers," the death. along with two former BJP MLAs and Anil Deshmukh, state Deputy Chief are not safe in Maharashtra and that in the What is Antilia bomb scare case other party workers. manifesto read.In the 'Jan Manifesto - 2021', Minister Ajit Pawar and NCP's state unit near future, no industrialist will be able to the Congress also 'guaranteed' 200 units of free A Scorpio was found abandoned near Mukesh BJP leader Ram Kadam in a statement said president Jayant Patil are scheduled to muster the courage to bring new industry electricity per month for all and a hike in the Ambani's home Antilia in Mumbai on that both CM Uddhav Thackeray and meet party Sharad Pawar in Delhi on in Maharashtra.“The future employment minimum wages of tea garden workers to Rs February 25. Home Minister Anil Deshmukh should Sunday.Param Bir Singh, in his letter, has of crores of poor was snatched away by 365.The manifesto said that the party, if voted subject themselves for narco test and alleged that Anil Deshmukh wanted police this government,” said Ram Kadam. to power, will restart the distribution of kerosene and sugar through the public distribution system at 'minimum price". It also mentioned providing lunch at Rs 10 through 'Aamar Pakghar' (Our Kitchen) for the India records 43,846 new COVID-19 organised as well as the unorganised sector workers.Congress said that it will price a quintal of rice at Rs 2,500 and necessary steps will be taken to implement it. The opposition party also promised to provide cases, active count crosses 3 lakh 'land patta (land rights) to those landless people and to rename southern Assam's / New Delhi. India in the past 24 hours recorded 4,46,03,841 people have been administered Silchar Railway Station as 'Bhasha Swahid India in the past 24 hours 43,846 new COVID-19 cases, according to the the COVID-19 vaccine. Meanwhile, AIIMS Station'. recorded 43,846 new COVID- official data of the Ministry of Health and director Randeep Guleria said that the main The manifesto also read that the party will set up Family Welfare. The sudden recent surge in reason behind the recent rise in the cases is that a digital library in every assembly coronavirus cases has taken the country's people feel the pandemic is over and they are constituency with all facilities, Gaushalas 19 cases. (cow shed) to be built in each district, model / active count to more than 3 lakh. There were not following COVID appropriate behaviour. The sudden recent surge in also 22,956 COVID-19 recoveries and 197 "There are multiple reasons for the surge, but the health insurance will be extended to the deaths on Saturday. organized and unorganised sector, a corpus coronavirus cases has taken main reason is that there is a change in people's fund will be created for lawyers and 5 crore As per the official data, India has witnessed a attitude and they feel coronavirus is over. rupees will be extended towards it, the the country's active count to total of 1,15,99,130 infections, of which, People should still restrict non-essential travel greenery of Assam will be increased by 3,09,087 are still active. More than 1.1 crore for some more time," Guleria said. another 15 per cent. people have recovered, whereas, over 1.59 more than 3 lakh. state across India, has been witnessing a NITI Aayog member (Health) VK Paul said the The party stated that it will start mobile health / There were also 22,956 have succumbed to the virus. The fresh surge is second wave of the pandemic. It reported over chain of transmission has to be stopped and for clinics in poverty-stricken regions of cities and reportedly the highest in 112 days. the highest daily new cases at 25,681. It is that vaccine is one tool but another is villages launch a scholarship in the name of COVID-19 recoveries and 197 Five states namely Maharashtra, Punjab, followed by Punjab with 2,470 while Kerala containment and surveillance strategy. "Not language movement martyr Muzammil Karnataka, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh have reported 1,984 new cases. following COVID-19 behaviour and laxity is a Hoque, state Olympics will be conducted deaths on Saturday. reported a surge in the coronavirus daily new On the other hand, the Ministry of Health and major reason for the surge," he said speaking at annually under Assam Olympic Association. cases. Maharashtra, the worst- COVID-19-hit Family Welfare informed that a total of the same event. 2 New Delhi, Monday, 22 March, 2021 NATIONAL THE SIKH TIMES

NEWS BOX Some don’t pay upkeep Sadar Bazar car-free zone for a week, traders protest fee, maintenance hit, say Gurgaon: The Municipal Corporation of spaces. “We have started a week-long Gurgaon (MCG) on Saturday started a trial to make Sadar Bazar, one of the residents week-long trial run of transforming oldest markets of the city, a vehicle-free Gurgaon: Disputes between various groups Sadar Bazar into a vehicle-free zone zone and pedestrian-friendly. We will of residents and non-payment of and making the market pedestrian- run the trial till March 27 and will maintenance charges has emerged as a friendly. While cars and two-wheelers continue to take feedback from shop major problem in several housing societies won’t be allowed in the market, MCG owners to improve the experience of of Gurgaon, causing disruption of essential has decided to allow loading and customers and shoppers. People should services. J-Block of Mayfield Garden in unloading of supply vehicles for the visit the market and share their Sector 51 is one such society. The society shops in the market till noon. experience with us. We saw the has around 400 flats, out of which over 50% The decision was taken in a meeting transformation in Chandni Chowk and people are not paying maintenance at between MCG officials and the market now we want to create a model better present, according to the RWA. Water association after the latter expressed than Chandni Chowk for Sadar Bazar,” supply was discontinued a few days back their displeasure citing inconvenience said MCG commissioner Vinay Pratap and it was restored only when some of the for customers as well as shopkeepers Singh.Roshan Lal Mangla, chairman, residents came forward and pooled in some since vehicles won’t be allowed Sadar Bazar market association, said: money. parking in front of their shops. “We had a meeting with the MCG The society’s water and electricity bill dues On Saturday morning, shopkeepers commissioner and other officials and amount to lakhs. “Those paying refused to open their shops in protest they have agreed to many of our maintenance charges regularly have to face against the trial. A meeting was held in conditions. They have assured us that problems because of non-payers,” said the evening to diffuse the situation and elderly customers and differently-abled Ashok Gulia, former president of J-Block seek the traders’ support for the trial. will be allowed to enter the market on RWA. Commander Satyavir Singh (retd), It was decided in the meeting that the their two-wheelers. We are going to resident of Mapsko Casa Bella in Sector 82, shop owners will have to share the extend our support to the corporation said delay in payments of maintenance is registration number of the vehicles now that they have resolved our major directly affecting services in their society supplying material to the shops in the problems.” As part of the trial, the too. “People like us who are paying it timely market and on the basis of registration 600m-long stretch, which is the main suffer if few residents don’t pay on time,” he numbers, special passes will be issued street of the market, has been made said. AK Singh, president and CEO of to the delivery vehicles, which will then vehicle-free by the installation of maintenance company Enviro — which is in be allowed in the market till noon. Shop barricades at both ends of the street. charge of maintenance of several residential owners also agreed to park their Benches and planters have also been societies in the city — said non-payment of vehicles at the designated parking placed on the stretch. maintenance charges is a big hindrance which impacts quality living. “Long delays in the payment of maintenance fee is a major Zebra crossings, stop lines at 20 obstacle which impacts the overall 7 more containment zones likely in operations and maintenance of any realty project,” said Rahul Singla, director of spots to help cams track violators Gurgaon as Covid-19 cases spiking and the algorithm can generate automatic 23 arrested for sex trade challans and send them to the violators through a message,” said Ahmed.A similar Gurgaon: The health department is going to imposing challans on people not wearing system is used in Delhi. after sting on ‘monthly recommend that the district masks,” said Virender Yadav, chief administration increase the number of medical officer (CMO), Gurgaon. Some of the locations where the cameras containment zones as Gurgaon is have been installed include Bakhtavar pay’ to cops Health officials said Gurgaon has been chowk, Galleria market and Signature witnessing an upward trend in the number testing more than 4,000 people daily and Greater Noida: As many as 12 women, of new Covid-19 cases. Officials from the Tower.A request to make the markings has they have set up testing camps across the been sent to GMDA. More than 800 CCTV including college students, and 11 men were department said seven more containment city. In the last 24 hours, a total of 4,212 arrested from a hotel in Greater Noida’s zones are likely to be added to the list. The cameras were installed in the city under the RT-PCR and rapid antigen tests were smart city initiative. A total of 1,200 Dankaur area on Saturday for their alleged city currently has 21 containment zones. conducted in Gurgaon. Of these, 4,013 are involvement in a sex trade racket. The raid cameras are to be installed in phase one of With 141 people testing positive for the RT-PCR tests and 199 antigen tests. “The the project. These cameras are installed comes in the wake of a sting operation in virus on Sunday, the city’s caseload positivity rate in Gurgaon is less than 5% which one of the hotel managers can be seen with automatic number plate recognition currently stands at 60,526. Since March and in case the positivity rates increase, we and traffic light violation detectors among talking about paying between Rs 1.5 and Rs 15, Gurgaon has reported 691 new cases. will revise our strategy accordingly,” 2 lakh every month to the Dankaur police as other artificial intelligence software The city recorded 342 fresh cases in the added the CMO. Gurgaon: Every time a vehicle jumps a signal, systems, which are used by the traffic police to protection charges. first week of March and added 500 cases 786 senior citizens get jabs Soon after the video went viral, a team led by someone at the city’s traffic command centre identify the violators. “The feed from these the next week, which shows that the graph Vaccinations were carried out at 52 session spots it on CCTV feed and a challan is issued cameras are helping the police for city ACP-III (Greater Noida) raided the hotel of new cases is gradually going upwards. without sharing any information with the sites at private healthcare facilities for to the violator. But now, the police has asked surveillance, traffic monitoring & control,” The number of active cases has also senior citizens and people aged over 45 GMDA to make zebra crossings and stop lines said a senior GMDA official from the smart Dankaur police. Several items, including jumped to 820 in Gurgaon. condoms, have been seized by the police in years with comorbidities. The turnout, at 20 important junctions, where cameras are city wing. He added that the authority hopes to the raid on the hotel New Crowne Plaza, “As new cases of Covid have started however, remained low, and only 786 installed, so that they can be used to increase the number of cameras soon. Other which has been running in the area for the increasing, we are going to revise the list senior citizens turned up for vaccination automatically issue challans. than policing and traffic surveillance, the past 10 years. Noida police chief has ordered of containment zones. We have suggested on Saturday. A total of 493 people in the MaqsoodAhmed, DCP (headquarters) and CEO cameras are also being used by other a probe into the role of the Dankaur police that seven more containment zones be age group of 45 to 59 with comorbidities (mobility) at GMDA, said that while the departments for monitoring streetlights, and suspened four cops. Locals confirmed created in the city. The hotspots reporting got inoculated. cameras were installed at the spots, they could water, sewerage, garbage and property taxes. that a PCR van of the Dankaur police would maximum cases of Covid are Chanderlok, “The vaccination drive was conducted only not be used to generate challans automatically. The feed from these cameras is displayed at stay parked opposite the hotel situated on Tigra and Wazirabad. The state in private healthcare facilities on Saturday, “While we do issue challans, it is after the live monitors at the integrated command the main GT Road joining Dankaur and government has directed us to enforce which is the reason why turnout was low,” someone spots a violator at the integrated and control centre, which has been set up at the Bulandshahr with the Yamuna Expressway containment in the city and police have said Dr MP Singh, district immunisation command and control centre. Once we have GMDA office in Sector 44. A team of traffic on a daily basis. Sources said that the been told to intensify their drive for officer. these markings, it will be fed into the cameras police monitors the feed round-the-clock. accused used to take Rs 1,000 from every client, of which Rs 500 would go to the woman involved. The racket came to light Notices served, but no end to violations in Raisina Hills after a local mediaperson conducted a sting How 5 schoolkids operation on Wednesday and found at least Gurgaon: Construction activities are still in Gurgaon is 308%. “It is surprising five persons managing the hotel’s affairs, going on in the protected Raisina hills of that the construction of buildings and became city’s swachhta including two persons who identified the Aravalis even though show-cause digging for borewell is active in the themselves as owners and three who notices were issued to the owners of over area even after the show-cause notice ambassadors identified themselves as managers. One of 150 farmhouses last week. and demolition drive by the the accused was even caught on tape saying A visit to the site on Wednesday showed municipal council,” said SS Oberoi, Noida: Child is the father of man — these words by that “police cannot come” to the hotel that construction was underway at six an environmentalist. A demolition Wordsworth are applicable here, though in a because “Rs 1.5-2 lakh” goes to the local sites in Ansals Aravali Retreat, involving drive was carried out on February 18 different context. Every Sunday, Sachin, Vishal, police on a monthly basis. Additional DCP the clearing of land, digging of borewell where 15 structures were Himanshu, Sudhanshu and Nikhil — children (Noida) Vishal Pandey said that out of the 12 and removal of vegetation. Trees have demolished. The municipal council aged between 13 and 16 — are out on a mission to arrested women, three are college students also been bulldozed to widen a pathway in Sohna last week has sent show- end a menace they didn’t even start. Led by their and six are married women. The arrested in some of the farmhouses. The area in cause notices to around 150 mentor, these kids from humble backgrounds tour men have been identified as Ankit Gupta, question is ‘gair mumkin pahar’ farmhouses in the Raisina eco- the markets of Khoda Colony and urge shoppers Manish, Anuj, Prem Singh, Abhishek, sensitive Aravalis area. According to and businessmen they refer to as uncle and aunt to Karan, Amir, Vinay, Ravindra, Varun and (uncultivable hill) and thus is notified is in operation. The area falls under the under Section 4 of the Punjab Land ‘dark zone’ where the groundwater table is the council, the farmhouse owners have shun plastic bags.Yes, like other children around Gyanendra, the manager of the hotel. “The the world who are spreading messages on climate main accused has been identified as Preservation Act (PLPA), which prohibits depleting every year. In Sohna, the been given one week notice to respond. tree felling without permission. Under the groundwater was at 23.56 meters in 2018, When approached, Sohna Municipal change, these five kids are putting into practice Gyanendra,” Pandey said. Officials said that lessons they have learnt in their environmental the hotel did not even have arrangements for Union environment ministry’s Aravali 25.97 meters in 2019 and 26.11 in 2020. Council officials said they will investi- Notification, ‘gair mumkin pahad’ is The Ansal Aravali Retreat is located in the gate the matter against the violators. “We studies class. They are guided by Shail Mathur, tea preparations. However, a villager said who earlier led a group of women in their drive that the hotel was being run by Gyanendra, protected land where construction of Sohna area of the district where the are in the process of sending some more buildings, roads, electrification and groundwater was at 23.56 meters in 2018, show-cause notices. We will analyse the against single-use plastic.Sachin, who, at 16, is along with his elder brother Ishwar. “Ishwar the seniormost among the five, is a well-known too is an accused in a rape case. The land on cutting of trees is not allowed without 25.97 meters in 2019 and 26.11 in 2020. letters and thereafter we will take action permission. A large double-story structure accordingly. We will investigate into the face among the vendors of Sector 55. “In school, which the hotel has come up belongs to the Central Ground Water Authority (CGWA) we are always taught about the damage single-use brother-in-law of Gyanendra,” he said. is under construction at D-4 in Ansals has declared Gurgaon as a dark zone, matter of illegal construction and digging Aravali Retreat. At a second site, a wall is for borewell in the area,” said Sandeep plastic is causing to the environment. My “Earlier, functions like marriage and illegal groundwater extraction is being classmates had told me about a group of women in engagement used to be held at the hotel but being constructed. Similarly, in E-10 and carried out blatantly. According to the Mallik, executive officer, Sohna E-11, the digging process of the bore well Municipal Council. Sector 55 who go around the colony trying to they got stopped some two years. authority, the groundwater extraction rate create awareness against the use of plastic. Why we dismiss climate activists and why that should change first

Gurgaon: The headlines last month were dominated by occasional voluntary indulgence, but any seriousness reminding us of all the things we are doing wrong — the arrest and subsequent bail of a 22-year-old climate beyond that starts to confuse us. The problem gets burning crackers, using poly bags, using cars instead of activist from Bengaluru in the toolkit controversy. compounded in a developing nation like India, where the public transport , etc, etc. Our reaction often is to find Interestingly, her being a climate activist somehow got guilt of over-consumption has not set in as yet. A large ways to reject them — as too privileged, anti-progress or some additional attention to her arrest but at the same part of the population has just earned the fruits of even conspiracy theories of them being funded by foreign time, it was also used to lessen her credibility by some. consumption and started to relish them. The other part is powers, etc. Labelling them as green lobby or cardboard But a corollary of her being in the headline was that climate still struggling to survive and finds the idea of lowering conscience-keepers helps us reject them and go on with activism, perhaps, got more space in the media for a few carbon footprints and saving sea turtles too fanciful and our comfortable lives. But this isn’t really good for us. days. Environmental protection as a concept disconnected from their lives. For this reason, middle- Once upon a time, perhaps, we needed science lessons to is not new for us, yet somehow there is something about class India ends up seeing environmental activism as a understand climate change, but now, all we have to do is climate activists and environmentalists that stops us sign of privilege. As a 16-20-year-old, if you don’t need to look out of our windows (especially in Gurgaon and from taking them as seriously as others. There is focus on your studies and making money, and if you are Delhi) to realise where we have reached. Environmental something we don’t get in someone being a full-time not excited by the idea of consumption, you must be very activism now needs more mainstream acceptance for our climate activist. privileged. Environmental protection, therefore, often own good. The climate movement also perhaps needs to Remember those WWF guys walking up to you for a 5 gets labelled as an imported first world hobby and a find ways not to get marginalised or labelled incorrectly. minute chat outside a multiplex or a shopping mall. The pastime pursuit of privileged kids growing up insulated Children as change agents works (remember the ones who asked for your support to save the pandas and from the reality of real India.But there is more to it. It isn’t firecracker ban?). An eight-year old Licypriya Kanjugam sea turtles. Those young people holding placards, asking only about our lack of comprehension of motives that or a 12-year-old Ridhima Pandey as the face of climate governments to take measures to save the planet. Why is it so? Is it only about taking them lightly or is it leads us to reject them or suspect them. Somewhere activism gets media attention but also allows us to dismiss reflective of our attitude as a society towards the whole inside, we find it convenient to reject or dismiss them. them with our patronising condescension (“they are too While we are perfectly at ease with a group of teens turning Environmentalists are a demanding lot. They want to save young to understand serious issues”). The forever up on our door to ask for chanda for a temple or a pooja idea of environmentalism? First, there is an issue of comprehension of motive. A 16-year-old wasting endangered species, habitats, prevent damage from placard-holding protester image also works against them pandal, 20-year-olds using their weekends to protest modified food and, of course, prevent catastrophic and allows us to label them cardboard conscience keepers. about climate completely confuses us. After all, what kind weekends trying to save endangered species of animals instead of doing the teen things and someone quitting a climate change. All are worthy goals, but are in conflict But we need them and need more of them. The activists of a teenager would waste their Fridays to create with our basic needs for a comfortable life.Their actions are perhaps doing something that others don’t have time awareness about reducing carbon footprints or saving cushy white collar job to work for environmental issues doesn’t quite fit into our conventional understanding of and causes, therefore, make us feel guilty for our for. They are trying to protect our tomorrow while we are endangered turtles (it helps us to club the two, often). consumption choices. They live and expect us to live by busy indulging in today. It is striking that the other news Therefore, either we want to reject or dismiss them, or at how things should be. Saving the planet or the environment is fine with us as a school project or an higher standards, which are sometimes impractical and that was in the headlines last month was the unfortunate times even suspect them. mostly inconvenient. It is like someone constantly flash floods and dam break in Uttarakhand. 3 New Delhi, Monday, 22 March, 2021 STATE THE SIKH TIMES

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NEWS BOX Neighbour sets 12-year-old girl on fire for uprooting plant in With conscientious objectors from Myanmar fleeing to Bihar's Begusarai Mizoram, India grapples with unique refugee problem Singapore.Myanmar has been witnessing occasions where he was asked The three-finger salute nationwide mass protests against the recent to shoot protesters.He is among This gesture traces its origins to the military coup. The ensuing crackdown by the first of the list of police Hunger Games books and movies by security forces has reportedly left 200 officers fleeing the country Suzanne Collins. It was first used by protesters dead and more than 2,000 soon after disobeying orders of medical workers in Myanmar detained, according to the Assistance their superiors. protesting the coup. Later, it was Association for Political Prisoners, an Showing his national ID and adopted by youth protesters, after advocacy group. police force documents as which it became a regular occurrence The military crackdown in Myanmar has proof, the policeman said he had across all massive protests in Yangon. forced scores of refugees over the border into no choice but to flee after In the Hunger Games franchise, the Begusarai.A12-year-old girl was allegedly India. Sources say more than 300 Myanmar deciding to go against the junta. salute, in which three middle fingers set on fire by her neighbour in Begusarai nationals, many of them police officers and Four other Myanmar police are raised, and the thumb crosses over district of Bihar on Friday.The accused, their families, have entered Mizoram. These personnel who also fled their them to reach the little finger is SikanderYadav, had allegedly set the girl on refugees are believed to have entered India country have submitted a joint displayed by oppressed people to fire after she accidentally uprooted a plant from the beginning of this month. statement to the Mizoram express solidarity in a dystopian world while playing near his home in Sivarana The police in the neighbouring country are Police department, saying: “As unable to independently verify these claims. ruled by a tyrant called President village of Ninga Panchayat in Begusarai. reported to be under instructions to shoot and the Civil disobedience movement is gaining Elsewhere in Yangon, another Chin soldier has Snow. The victim was playing near Sikander's home kill the protesters as the unrest against the momentum and protest(s) held by anti-coup defected for similar reasons. Dressed in his This gesture was used as an anti-coup symbol when she accidentally uprooted a plant. military coup in Myanmar continues. Some protesters at different places we are army uniform, Shing Ling flashed a three- in 2014, when Thai youths gathered in front Noticing this, Sikander, his wife and Myanmar police officials, Reuters has instructed to shoot at the protesters. In such a finger salute in a defiant social media post of a shopping mall to signal their opposition daughter then confronted the girl and then reported, refused to follow this order and scenario, we don’t have the guts to shoot at that he shared after deserting Myanmar’s to a military takeover that took place that beat her up for uprooting the plant. Later, instead fled to India. our own people who are peaceful military to join the democracy movement. year. she was doused in kerosene and set ablaze. What did the refugees face demonstrators.” The 30-year-old soldier posted the image on It became a significant symbol of silent The girl has now been admitted to a hospital Reuters spoke to a few of these people who Another refugee, a 24-year-old military soldier Facebook as security forces were staging protests that gathered against the with critical burn injuries.A case has now identified themselves as police officers and hails from the state of Chin in Myanmar, and increasingly lethal crackdowns against authoritarian military and was soon banned been registered against Sikander Yadav. recounted the instructions from their is a Christian. He told AFP he had been protesters. It is noteworthy that his post in Thailand. The symbol was also seen DSP Begusarai Nishit Priya said Sikander superiors. A 27-year-old Myanmar police ordered to inflict lethal violence among the immediately went viral and was shared by across protests in Hong Kong against many Yadav, the neighbour, is accused of the Lance Corporal said he refused to follow the Chin and inform on them. thousands of users before being his profile of the policies brought in by its government crime and a process is underway to arrest orders of his superiors on two separate The news agencies have, however, been went private. Now, he is in hiding. over the past few years. him. Farmer leader Joginder Singh Delhi court closes Ugrahan tests positive for Speeding Mercedes hits cyclists, office cab, coronavirus defamation case against kills 3 in Mohali, accused still at large Somnath Bharti after A speeding Mercedes in Mohali managed to crush three people as the car hit an office cab early on Saturday morning. The three men who were riding the Mercedes, however, managed to flee the spot. complainant accepts his ing in the Lok Sabha on Monday, the 22 fund to raise up to Rs 3 lakh crore in the apology March 2021. All members of BJP in Lok next few years for pushing its agenda of Sabha are therefore requested to be creation of capital infrastructure. A Delhi court on Saturday closed a criminal defamation positively present in the House NCTD (Amendment) Bill, 2021 case against Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Somnath Bharti throughout the day," a letter signed by The third bill is a politically contentious filed by a woman journalist in 2018 after she accepted whip Rakesh Singh said. Finance Bill one. Union Home Minister Amit Shah his apology before the judge. 2021 to be taken up in LSThe BJP-led could move The Government of government at the Centre has lined up National Capital Territory of Delhi three crucial bills for March 22. Top of the (Amendment) Bill, 2021 for passing in agenda among the listed legislation is the the Lok Sabha on Monday. The Arvind all-important Finance Bill 2021. As per Kejriwal-led government in Delhi is the Lok Sabha site, Finance Minister already up in arms over the legislation, New Delhi.Bharatiya Kisan Union (Ugrahan) Nirmala Sitharaman is slated to move the embarrassment for the central government. claiming that the BJP government at the president Joginder Singh Ugrahan has Bill to "give effect to the financial proposals Creation of NaBFID Centre is creating a law that would make the tested positive for Covid-19.Joginder Singh of the Central Government for the financial Delhi Assembly redundant. Close scrutiny Ugrahan, the 75-year-old farmer leader, The other important bill listed for year 2021- be taken into consideration is the bill for the creation of of the bill shows that the bill amends the was tested positive for novel coronavirus on consideration".Nirmala Sitharaman Government of National Capital Territory March 17 at a private hospital in Bathinda, a The National Bank for Financing presented the annual Budget on February 1. Infrastructure and Development.On of Delhi Act, 1991 which provides a doctor said on Saturday, news agency PTI The BJP has a majority in the lower house framework for the functioning of the reported. Tuesday, the Cabinet had given the nod for but with the opposition on the warpath on the bill to create NaBFID which will be set Legislative Assembly and the government New Delhi.A Delhi court on Saturday closed a According to the doctor, Ugrahan had issues like farm bills, high fuel prices and up with a corpus of Rs 20,000 crore. The of the National Capital Territory (NCT) of criminal defamation case against Aam Aadmi complained of fever. He is now undergoing the state of the economy, the Narendra Modi government will give an initial grant of Rs Delhi. The new Bill amends certain powers Party (AAP) MLA Somnath Bharti filed by a treatment at a hospital.The farmer leader government is not taking any chances.A 5,000 crore for this purpose. The and responsibilities of the Legislative woman journalist in 2018 after she accepted has now released a video message and said setback on the finance bill can cause a huge government expects the DFI to leverage this Assembly and the Lieutenant Governor. his apology before the judge. there is "no need to worry" and he will soon The complainant had filed the case against join the stir against the farm laws. Bharti for calling her names during a live "I fell sick a few days ago. Then I tested Congress MPs dissociate from parliamentary panel report television debate show in 2018.Bharti positive for coronavirus. I am fine. I will submitted before the court that that on join you (protesting farmers) in a couple of November 20, 2018 while he was on days. There is no need to worry," Ugrahan advocating implementation of 1 of 3 farm laws telephonic conferencing with the said in the video clip. New Delhi.Three Congress MPs Saturday Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution at the meeting called in a short notice of complainant, "he had made certain statements Joginder Singh Ugrahan-led BKU Ugrahan is dissociated themselves from the report of a was adopted on March 18 at its meeting merely 15 hours. and those statements and his words were not one of the biggest farmer bodies in Punjab parliamentary standing committee chaired by acting chairperson Ajay Misra directed towards the complainant, but if his "It is not only misleading the nation, but also words have hurt sentiments of the and has been participating in the stir against recommending implementation of the Teni (BJP), and it was tabled in Parliament against the norms and conventions of the the Centre’s farm laws at the Delhi borders. Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, on Friday.Congress member Saptagiri functioning and the democratic spirit of the complainant in any way, he offers his sincere Thousands of farmers have been protesting 2020, and alleged the report was adopted Ulaka wrote to Om Birla disassociating Parliamentary Standing Committee," he and deepest apology to the complainant". since late November at Delhi borders with against norms and conventions. The said himself from the report."Written to Hon'ble said in his letter to the Speaker. After Somnath Bharti's apology, the Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, demanding a Act is one of the three contentious Lok Sabha Speaker to dissociate myself He said the reports recommends on page 62 complainant, represented by advocate Yogesh rollback of the Farmers' Produce Trade and agriculture-marketing laws which have from the Eleventh Report of the Standing "to implement the Essential Commodities Swaroop, agreed to compound the case. Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) triggered protests by farmers and which the Committee on Food, Consumer Affairs and (Amendment)Act, 2020 in letter and spirit". "In view of the submissions made and Act, 2020; the Farmers (Empowerment and Congress wants repealed. Public Distribution on the subject matter - "I completely dissociate myself with this statements of the parties recorded today, Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance The Congress and Trinamool Congress have 'Price Rise of Essential Commodities - recommendation and record my dissent to particularly statement of the complainant and Farm Services Act, 2020; and the accused the BJP of "flouting norms" and Causes and Effects' tabled in Parliament on the Report...," Ulaka said.Unnithan and regarding compounding of the present Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, pushing the report in the absence of its 19.03.2021," he said in a tweet sharing his Vaithilingam have also written similar complaint case against the accused, present 2020.The protesting farmers have regular Chairman, TMC MP Sudip letter to the Speaker.In his letter to the letters to the Speaker. complaint case stands disposed of as Speaker, he has said, "I urge you to kindly expressed apprehension that these laws Bandyopadhyay who is currently busy in They said the subject was selected by the compounded," Additional Chief Metropolitan would pave the way for the dismantling of West Bengal assembly elections.. look into the matter and give me the Magistrate Sachin Gupta said. opportunity to record my dissent officially Committee in 2019-20 for examination the minimum support price (MSP) system, Three Congress MPs in the panel - Saptagiri before the three farm ordinances and related The court also noted that in the present case, the leaving them at the "mercy" of big Sankar Ulaka, Rajmohan Unnithan and in the Report.”"It is highly irregular that such an important Report was circulated at a farm laws were passed and the panel spent a notice for offence punishable under section corporations.However, the Centre has Vaithilingam Ve -- have separately written cumulative time of 4 hours 45 minutes on it. 500 of IPC was framed against the accused, to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, urging him very short notice, and without recording any maintained that the new laws will bring dissenting opinion, was tabled in They alleged that the Committee did not seek which is compoundable in nature.If convicted, better opportunities to farmers and to look into the matter and allow them to oral evidence from a single farmers' group Somnath Bharti could have faced a maximum record their dissent in writing. The 11th Parliament," he said. Ulaka alleged that he introduce new technologies in agriculture. was not present when the report was adopted or any independent expert before finalising of two-year jail term. report of the Standing Committee on Food, the Report. RSS backs states enacting laws against 'Love Jihad', says its new general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale RSS supports states enacting laws against 'Love Jihad', its newly elected Sarkaryavah (general secretary) Dattatreya Hosabale said. Bengaluru.RSS supports states enacting laws the Sarkaryavah of the RSS, during the two- and those who comment against the people- all who stood as one to fight against against "Love Jihad", its newly elected day annual meeting of the Akhil Bharatiya campaign are due to their own political the pandemic, Hosabale said.Entire India Sarkaryavah (general secretary) Dattatreya Pratinidhi Sabha (ABPS), the Sangh's compulsions and they may not mean that in stood united and found exemplary success. Hosabale said on Saturday, as he condemned highest decision-making body that began person," he said in response to a question. "Though we are still amid the pandemic, the use of fraudulent methods to lure girls for here on Friday.An intellectual campaign About criticism linking RSS to various issues way the country responded in fighting corona marriage and conversion. aimed at giving the right perspective to the like the comment of Uttarakhand CM on is praiseworthy. The country showed its Also stressing the need for an intellectual narrative of India was required and RSS will women attire, Hosabale said "it is not that innate strength, its power, adaptability and its campaign aimed at giving the right be working towards this during the next such things happen inspired by the Sangh." concern despite hardships," he said.The other perspective to the narrative of India, he said three years. "What the Sangh has to communicate, it resolution was over Ram Mandir Nidhi the Sangh will work towards this in the days "Bharat has a narrative of its own and its communicates from its forums..there is no SamarpanAbhiyan, Hosabale said. ahead."Courts have used the word Love heritage cannot be wished away. This along reason to bring in RSS into all these. The campaign was planned for 44 days and Jihad, not us. The use of any fraudulent with its civilisational experience and its Whatever RSS does, it does it publicly and every section of the society was part of the methods to lure girls for wrong purposes like wisdom have to be conveyed to the next says that reservations are required as long as people know about it."Responding to a abhiyan and such an outreach programme is marriage for the sake or religious conversion generation for developing new India," he backwardness exists in the society and those question about criticism against the ruling unprecedented anywhere in the world. or any kind of misuse or to take them to other said.Hindu society should not have any place communities are in need of it. RSS conforms BJP being controlled by RSS headquarters in "It was a historic campaign with no parallel...12 countries has to be condemned and it has to be for untouchability and caste based inequality to the same," Hosabale said.Noting that Ram Nagpur, Hosabale said there is democracy in crore families have been contacted and 5.5 opposed," Hosabale said. is the firm stand of the RSS and it has been Mandir construction is the wish of the whole the country and it is wrong to say that the lakh towns, cities and villages were reached. Some states have even come forward with laws working towards it consistently, Hosabale in country and not the agenda of just RSS or any ruling party is controlled from one It went on smoothly." against this and RSS supports it, he said, response to a question said.There are one party, he said crores of people cutting place."There is no such control and our fight Swayamsevaks of RSS and common people adding that there is no question of religion in thousands of people with inter-caste across party lines have supported the Ram for long has been against control by any one were part of the campaign, he said, adding it.The Karnataka government too has been marriages in the Sangh, he said. temple cause. person or one place," he said. that "the campaign established that every speaking about bringing in laws against inter- The reservation that has been prescribed in the "Not just Hindus, people of other religions also The ABPS resolution passed today commends Bharatiya is connected to Bhagwan Ram. faith marriages in line with states such as constitution has to exist as long as it is have wilfully given their cooperation." the entire country for the resilience shown From the richest persons to the poorest have Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, among required in society, and the RSS has also "We are following what the Supreme Court has during the pandemic,including the contributed to the Ram Mandir in their own others.Hosabale was on Saturday elected as passed a resolution on it."Our constitution too said. Entire country is part of the campaign governments, its agencies, organisations, way." New Delhi, Monday, 22 March, 2021 DELHI-NCR THE SIKH TIMES 5

NEWS BOX Vaccine there for Covid, but where to get one for 26 cases of UK, South African Covid- BJP's corruption: Siddaramaiah targets Karnataka gov 19 strains in Gujarat so far AHMEDABAD/SURAT. A 31-year-old confirmed cases of foreign strains. As the man from Kalol suspected to have the cases skyrocket in Surat, the city health SouthAfrican strain has tested positive for officials carried out analysis of the patients the foreign strain. With this, senior state and found many patients remained health department officials confirmed that asymptomatic for long and triggered more Gujarat has recorded a total of 26 cases of spread. Several patients reported foreign Covid-19 strains – UK and South gastrointestinal illness and skin rashes as African – in Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara new symptoms along with coughing, fever and Kalol. All the patients are discharged, and body ache. and their contact history is being traced. “The virus is damaging the lungs of the It was believed that Gujarat had seven-odd majority of patients without the person even foreign strain cases so far but in all 26 knowing that he/she is infected. These patients were detected and have recovered patients are moving around freely and too. “Majority of these patients are infecting others," Surat municipal Bengaluru.Leader of Opposition in identified based on the random testing commissioner Banchhanidhi Pani told TOI. Karnataka Siddaramaiah, on Saturday, hit undertaken by the department where 5% “Lung involvement is hidden till the patients out at the Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa- of the confirmed positive samples are sent turn serious. Due to which those being led administration over the surge in new for genetic profiling randomly. The brought to the hospital already have a serious Covid-19 cases.In a series of tweets, process is time consuming and results infection in the lungs.” Siddaramaiah lambasted the government’s arrive after seven to 10 days of submitting Further, the health authorities are battling mismanagement for the spread of the samples,” said a senior official. asymptomatic cases as well. Among these coronavirus in Karnataka. The officer added that majority cases had patients, rapid test results are also proving “Rapid increase in the Covid-19 cases is proof travel history or direct contact with a false. "Couple of my rapid tests turned out of our charge about the government’s foreign returned person and cases of local negative. But due to a prolonged fever of mismanagement in containing Covid. Chief transmission of these strains are few. “We around six days, I went to the hospital and Minister of Karnataka, had your don’t necessarily see the presence of these during a detailed examination, the infection government worked effectively, why is strains as the reason behind the current virus profile and cyclical nature of the Recently the Union government had was found in the lungs," said a resident of the there an increase in cases?” he wrote on surge. It’s more to do with overall change in pandemic.” announced that India had over 400 City Light area. Twitter. Referring to the state government’s budget, Need To Make A Siddaramaiah questioned the government’s expenditure on development. “Had the "Not Yet Time To 'Pawri'": Aviation "Delhi" In Bengaluru, government worried about the pandemic so much, why is there no control on the Gherao City: Farmer pandemic? What does CM BS Yeddyurappa Minister's Reminder Amid Covid Surge Leader In Karnataka have to say about this?”The Congress leader also accused Yediyurappa of hiding the Shivamogga (Karnataka). Amid details of the state government’s the protest by farmers at the Hardeep Singh Puri informed that the number of domestic fliers is growing steadily towards pre- borders of Delhi against the three expenditure on managing the pandemic. central farm laws, Bharatiya Kisan Taking a potshot at the government, Covid figures after months of slump over virus fears. Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait Siddaramaiah wondered if there is a vaccine urged farmers in Karnataka to for the BJP government’s corruption and New Delhi. Civil Aviation Minister trend compared to previous organise a protest in the state hoped they will manage the second wave Hardeep Singh Puri is the latest to month primarily due to similar to the one in the national properly. join the "pawri" viral trend, started beginning of tourist season. capital and gherao Bengaluru from Earlier, Siddaramaiah had alleged that the by a Pakistani influencer, to make a India reported its biggest daily all sides.Addressing a farmers' Karnataka government had misappropriated point. The minister informed that jump in infections in nearly meeting in Karnataka's funds to the tune of over Rs 2,200 crore the number of domestic fliers is four months with 40,953 new Shivamogga on Saturday, Rakesh growing steadily towards pre- coronavirus cases on Tikait said a strategy has been through the purchase of Covid-19 made to snatch land away from equipment by paying inflated rates. Covid figures after months of Saturday. Experts have slump while at the same time blamed the fresh infection farmers in the state.”There are Meanwhile, Karnataka reported 1,798 new lakhs of people gheraoing Delhi. Covid-19 cases and 7 related fatalities, sounding a note of caution, citing wave on people's relaxed This fight will go on for long. We taking the total number of infections to 9.68 the surge in the COVID-19 cases in attitude to mask-wearing and need to start such protest in every lakhs and the death toll to 12,432. the country “It's not yet time to other social distancing city until these three black laws are pawri," the Civil Aviation Minister measures. taken back and a law is not brought reminded.”But number of domestic India resumed domestic on the Minimum Support Price BJP Conspired Against fliers is holding steady. 2,47,037 passenger flights on May 25 (MSP). You need to run a protest in Maharashtra Alliance: fliers on 2330 flights on 19 March last year after a gap of two Karnataka. A strategy has been 2021. More than 26.3 million fliers months due to the made to snatch away your land. Big Congress On Sacked Cop's since 25 May," he tweeted. Coronavirus pandemic. The companies will do the farming... "With rising COVID19 cases in some airlines are currently allowed Labour laws have been amended to Letter employ cheap labour," the BKU regions necessitating restrictions & creator Dananeer Mobeen surfaced online and to operate a maximum of 80 leader said. imposition of compulsory RT-PCR tests, it's New Delhi. After former Mumbai Police people started using to it to makes memes and per cent of their pre-COVID-19 domestic "You need to make a "Delhi" in Commissioner Param Bir Singh wrote to not yet time to #pawri," he tweeted. send across messages.Aviation regulator flights. The civil aviation ministry had set the Bengaluru. You need to gherao Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav "Pawri ho rahi hai" (the party is on) began Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) 80 per cent limit on December 3, 2020, without Bengaluru (like Delhi) from all Thackeray alleging that Home Minister trending on the Internet after a video of had informed on Wednesday that the passenger specifying till what date it would remain in sides and people will come and join Anil Deshmukh was indulging in Pakistani Instagram influencer and content load factor in February has shown increasing place. your protest... The Prime Minister "malpractices" and had asked suspended said farmers can sell crops anywhere so you take your crops to police officer Sachin Vaze to collect ? 100 offices of District Collector, sub- crore every month, Congress said BJP has divisional magistrate and if the conspired against the Maharashtra Vikas Vadodara city BJP unit under police stop you, ask them to buy Aghadi (MVA) government by putting crops on MSP," Mr Tikait said. officials under pressure from agencies. The BKU leader said farmers need to Taking to Twitter, Maharashtra Pradesh protest against the Centre's Congress Committee spokesperson tight grip of Covid-19 decision of privatising Public Sachin Sawant said: "Even in Sector Undertakings (PSUs). Maharashtra, Vinod Rai tendencies are in VADODARA. The city unit of the Bharatiya Shinde died after she tested positive for "If this (farmers') agitation is not administration. Congress alliance govt Janta Party (BJP) seems to be under the the coronavirus. held, then the country will be sold didn't come to know abt Satyapal Singh. and you will lose your land in the tight grip of Covid-19 with members of the Others include former Vadodara mayor next 20 years. You need to protest The letter clearly appears to be an party right from corporators to Vadodara Shabdasharan Brahmbhatt and former against these companies. Around afterthought. Conversation being shown MP testing positive. The members have corporator Harshit Talati. Family 26 major PSUs are in process of today should have happened a year ago. been involved in a series of public events in members of a BJP corporator too have privatisation. We need to take a No sane person would do that after the recent past. tested positive even as another corporator pledge to stop this sale. We need to Antelia's case." Be it folk and devotional music concerts tested positive and negative in tests at protest against this," he said. "How BJP levelled same allegations of ahead of Shivratri, a steady trickle of different times. Farmers have been protesting at the ransom earlier? If SSR case can be visitors to congratulate those who won in BJP city unit president Dr Vijay Shah said different border of Delhi since registered in Patna, why can't Mohan the civic polls and got picked up for key that party members were at risk as they November last year against the Delkar case be investigated in Mumbai posts or Shivji Ki Savari; BJP members were public figures and attended public three newly enacted farm laws -- where he committed suicide? As per Farmers' Produce Trade and were consistently seen amidst a large gatherings. He added that the party had Commerce (Promotion and CRPC investigation takes place where the number of people. For photo ops and even banned all public gatherings. “Party Facilitation) Act, 2020; the incident took place. So-called SMS proofs otherwise, many were seen without masks members can focus on work related to Farmers Empowerment and appear to be manufactured for self- too. positive in a week include five corporators, vaccination and other aspects of Covid- Protection) Agreement on Price defense," he said in another tweet. Letting the guard down now seems to be BJP’s Dabhoi MLA Shailesh Mehta, who 19. The mayor has also stated that the visits Assurance and Farm Services Act "HM (Home Minister) had told a month ago catching up with party members. The elected resides in the city and Vadodara MP Ranjan for congratulating him should be stopped,” 2020 and the Essential that some officials were under pressure. members from the party who have tested Bhatt. Former corporator Shankuntala Shah added. Commodities (Amendment) Act, BJP has conspired against the MVA govt 2020. by putting officials under pressure from agencies. This is evident from the fact that the BJP leaders get secret info so early and planned manner," he tweeted. "Congress Must Take Stand": Party Leader "... by which they react swiftly. Why readiness shown by Centre in Ambani case not seen in Delkar case? Delkar wrote letters to Modi Shah. But nobody paid On Sacked Mumbai Top Cop Letter attention to it. Did they resign? Clear from letter that BJP is involved in Delkar case and a scam has been hatched to suppress The Chief Minister's Office, in a late night release, saidParam Bir Singh's "unsigned letter to Thackeray" was not it," he said in another tweet. Former Mumbai Police Commissioner sent from his official email ID and efforts were on to contact him to verify it. Param Bir Singh on Saturday wrote to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav New Delhi. Congress must take a comprising Shiv Sena, NCP and investigation against police Thackeray alleging that Home Minister stand on the allegations of Congress, is reeling under the officer Sachin Waze, has also Anil Deshmukh had indulged in corruptions made by former impact of the "letter bomb" by claimed that Mr Deshmukh "from "malpractices" and asked suspended Mumbai police commissioner the serving IPS officer.A former Shiv day one" wanted a case of police officer Sachin Vaze to collect ? 100 Param Bir Singh against Sena leader, Mr Nirupam joined abetment of suicide to be crores every month. Maharashtra Home Minister Anil the Congress in 2005. registered in Mumbai after the The allegations were made a day after Anil Deshmukh, former party MP In the eight-page letter to Chief death of Dadra and Nagar Haveli Deshmukh had said that Param Bir Singh Sanjay Nirupam has said. Minister Uddhav Thackeray, Mr MP Mohan Delkar in a Mumbai was moved out as Mumbai Police "If at all, whatever Parambir Singh is Singh - who has been replaced as hotel last month. Commissioner so that cases pertaining to saying is truth, question should be Mumbai Police Commissioner The explosive accusations Sachin Vaze can be probed without asked from Hon Sharad Pawar ji over "unforgivable" lapses in the prompted calls by the opposition obstruction.In the letter, Param Bir Singh, because he is the arcitect of current Mukesh Ambani security scare for the resignation of Mr who has now been posted as Commandant Maharashtra Government. Is it probe this week - alleged that Anil Deshmukh who denied the General of Home Guards, said that he has what the so called third front is Deshmukh used to call police charges and said he will sue Mr been "made a scapegoat to divert attention going to do finally? Congress must officers to his official residence Singh for defamation. from the actual wrongdoers". take a stand on this issue," he and give them a "collection target"the Indian Police Service officer not sent from his official email ID Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray tweeted. In the eight-page letter, Mr Singh has from bars, restaurants and other alleged. and efforts were on to contact him and NCP chief Sharad Pawar are The demand by Mr Nirupam came establishments. The Home The Chief Minister's Office, in a late to verify it. yet to take a call on replacing the complained of "political interference" by even as the Maha Vikas Aghadi Minister "had a target to home minister in the backdrop of Anil Deshmukh. night release, said Mr Singh's Param Bir Singh, was transferred to (MVA) state government, accumulate ? 100 crore a month", "unsigned letter to Thackeray" was the Home Guard in a fallout of the the latest controversy. New Delhi, Monday, 22 March, 2021 EDITORIAL THE SIKH TIMES 6 Why Haryana’s move on reservation is fraught with danger Editorial Before more states take up the cue of jobs only for locals, the courts need to step in. What “ is at stake is economic future of the country as well as its unity Bengal’s sorrow Reservation is a bad idea. It goes against the cardinal exerted a heavy price. prohibits discrimination on grounds of caste, sex or place democratic principle of equality. There are, however, two Worse, our short-sighted politicians have extended the of birth. The only exception is the disadvantaged sections major exceptions which fair-minded people feel are reservation policy to Other Backward Classes. We now like Dalits. However, that has nothing to do with where a The journey of the state’s justified. Both arose from historic compulsions. The first have a situation where in some states close to half the person lives. is that of the Black community in USA. Their forefathers population is considered ‘backward’ for electoral What will be the consequences of the Haryana Act on the rivers has covered the arc were captured and shipped from Africa under horrific purposes, a perversion of the initial policy of reservation. ground? Let us take just one instance: Gurugram, which from deification to destruction conditions, and then sold as slaves, mainly to large The Haryana government has just gone one dangerous attracts ambitious and talented youngsters from all over plantation owners who needed cheap labour. A long and step further. In November, it passed the Haryana State India and abroad. The ‘millennium city’ boasts of the Can geography become history? The query need not bloody civil war was fought to end this slavery and keep Employment of Local Candidates Bill, 2020. On March 2, presence of IT giants, which are now bound to have necessarily be looked at as a riddle. Geography — the country united. Since this major section of the the Governor dutifully gave his assent. Basically, it second thoughts about staying in Gurugram and could Bengal’s riverine geography, a fragile landscape American population — 12 per cent — had been requires all private firms to reserve 75 per cent of new consider moving out to an economically healthier and threatened with imminent destruction — is very discriminated against for generations and was largely jobs, with a gross monthly salary of up to Rs 50,000, for more welcoming place. Fresh investment will also dry up. much on its way to becoming a relic of history. illiterate and poor, it was But Haryana is not alone in Bengal’s riverine ecology has been correctly felt that a policy of following such a myopic, surmised to be symbolic of the fecundity of its ‘affirmative action’ was ruinous policy. The late soil, intellect and culture. Poets, writers, artists, just and befitting. Hence, Shiv Sena founder and film-makers have celebrated this bond between African-Americans were father of the present land and water memorably: the joyous sparkle of given preference in many Maharashtra Chief “Amader chhoto nadi” by Rabindranath Tagore, ways, including education Minister, Bal Thackeray, the pathos in Jibanananda Das’s Rupashi Bangla, and employment. This was who publicly declared his Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s enchanting what could be called admiration for Adolf Ichhamati, Ritwik Ghatak’s Subarnarekha — the ‘positive discrimination’. Hitler, set the ‘locals only’ list is both rich and long. Yet, the lives of Bengal’s But a time limit was given. policy rolling a long time rivers appear to be short. As a result, ‘affirmative ago, except that he did it A recent rally by Sabuj Mancha, a philanthropic action’ has been gradually not by legislation but by organization, in Calcutta brought to light the phased out. Though racial fear and unbridled sorrow of Bengal’s rivers. The data are inequality persists in USA, violence. MK Stalin, who discouraging. Seventeen of the most polluted the plight of African- heads the DMK, in alliance rivers in India are from this state; 10 major rivers Americans is distinctly with the Congress, has — the Alokananda, Kankona, Chaiti and Bhairab better than it was say 50 stated in his party’s are among them — have gone extinct; the years ago. The election of manifesto that if his party Kalinga, Paglachandi, Morali, Mathabhanga, Barack Obama as President was voted to power, 75 per Churni, Buriganga are either nearing or was a telling testimony. cent of jobs in the state’s threatened with annihilation. Their feeble waters The second major exception industrial units would go to will carry with them intricate local ecologies, lies here in our country. It locals. The Andhra enchanting marine flora and fauna, dependent relates to the section of the Pradesh and Karnataka cultures, traditions, occupations — entire ways of population once referred to Chief Ministers have said life, living, and civilizations — to the grave. The as ‘Untouchables’. much the same thing. causes of this devastation are well-documented. Mahatma Gandhi called Before more states take up Untreated sewage continues to be one of the them ‘Harijans’ (children of the cue, the courts need to principal poisons being injected into the rivers: an God), an appellation which step in fast. What is at stake earlier report by the state pollution control board was later discarded as being is nothing less than the had found that most of the major rivers in Bengal too patronising. ‘Dalit’ was economic future of the are massively polluted. Administrative apathy, the preferred, though in the candidates who have either lived in the state for 15 years country, as well as its unity. The reservation of jobs for multiplicity of government departments that Constitution, they are designated as Scheduled Castes. make it easier for the authorities to pass the buck or who were born there. The only entities excluded are the locals will scare away foreign investment and Balkanise They were given reservation in government jobs, and — most crucially — the marginalization of Central and state governments. us. Is that what the likes of the Haryana Chief Minister admission to educational institutions, etc. The principle of ecological prerogatives in the political domain The brazenness of the Haryana government is breathtaking. really want? Indeed, is that what the BJP and the have been instrumental in deepening this rot. equality was shelved temporarily, the argument being that The legislation flouts the Constitution. Article 16 Congress, who are complicit, also want? There is so much time was needed for them to catch up. However, what was The scale of the crisis necessitates seamless, guarantees equal opportunity, while Article 19 allows talk about the “tukde tukde gang”. The real leaders of this intended to be temporary has become firmly entrenched, coordinated action on a number of fronts. A citizens to move freely within the country, settle in any gang are those who put narrow political gains before the unlike in the US. The pernicious vote-bank politics has specific department to look after the health and part, and take up any lawful profession. Article 15 larger interests of the nation. regeneration of rivers sounds like a promising idea. However, India’s experience with the rejuvenation of the Ganga at the national level shows that a dedicated department need not On your marks, get set, go always make a difference. What can make a French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has released a cartoon, which depicts Queen Elizabeth II with a knee on Meghan’s neck, a sight reminiscent of George Flyod difference though is turning conservation — of water, air, forest, species — into a truly Reacting to Meghan Markle’s recent Oprah interview Harris, also roared in support of Meghan. And then representative, public endeavour. Sabuj Mancha’s about being subject to racism from within the British there was the other set who debunked Meghan's suggestion of decentralizing conservation, with royal family, French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo allegations altogether. In Britain, TV personality Piers its proposal of the establishment of specific tiers has released a cartoon. It depicts Queen Elizabeth II Morgan quit his show, Good Morning Britain, after of redressal at the grass roots — a river sabha, with a knee on Meghan’s neck, a sight reminiscent of coming under criticism for calling Meghan a liar. panchayat and zilla sansad — could well be an George Flyod, the African-American man who was Indian actor and talk show host Simi Garewal too imaginative way of replenishing the fraying bond murdered by policemen in Minneapolis in the United faced a backlash. She had said, “I don’t believe a between communities and water bodies. There is States last year. Now, shock and outrage are both socio- word… She is using the race card to gain sympathy.” also an indisputable economic rationale behind culturally embedded reactions. Some people think And the young American poet Amanda Gorman the resurrection of Bengal’s waterways. It has nothing of smashing weavers’ thumbs to reduce to tweeted, “Meghan was the crown’s greatest been estimated that over 25 lakh people have lost smithereens a rival's industry, or letting a people starve opportunity for change, regeneration, and their jobs on account of dying rivers: the return of because they anyway “breed like rabbits”, or reconciliation in a new era.” life to these precious waters could resuscitate conducting nuclear tests in lands known to be Who is racism-proof? allied marine industry. What is needed for all of inhabited, and there are others who think nothing of If there is any take away from what Meghan said, it is this to come together is the transformation of the forbidding a community from going about their this -racism is not class-proof. It is not status-proof. It environment into a political issue. Unfortunately, business by daylight because even their shadows Leave aside the royal family mess; focus only on the ‘R’ is not achievement-proof either. Yes, the degree of there is some distance to be covered here. None of "pollute", still others feel it is justified to flog in public word. Meghan Markle’s recent disclosures, as well as the attention it elicits and the criticism it merits might vary the political parties in election-bound Bengal view honest men going about their business of skinning a outpouring of shock and outrage from a global audience on with these things, but no one gets a free pass. Former first seems serious about their pledge of ecological dead animal. Expectations of shock and outrage and how her behalf are proof of a willing suspension of historicity lady of the United States Michelle Obama just about got it revival. A metaphorical river separates election one negotiates them are typically shaped by one’s and societal norms. Oprah Winfrey went “WHAT?” right when she said, “… race isn’t new construct in this manifestos and the needs of Bengal’s ecological awareness of the past and equally of the present. Tennis legend Serena Williams dubbed Meghan “noble” world… so it wasn't a complete surprise to hear her renaissance. Good Morning Everybody and “selfless”. The US Vice-President’s niece, Meena feelings…”

We all know who calls the shots in BJP

The truth always comes out. Although it is no Baijayant Panda. secret who the real boss in Delhi is, the That he will win his Jalukbari bastion is a foregone Bharatiya Janata Party still tries to keep up conclusion for his supporters and loyalists. What the appearances. The importance of the home two-kilometre-long nomination rally that brought a minister and former BJP chief, Amit Shah — portion of Guwahati to a standstill aimed to do was send both in the affairs of the government as well as a message to the Central leadership that he remains the within the party — is not hidden from anyone in party’s man for all seasons and reasons in the region. It Delhi’s corridors of power. In fact, it is widely was also meant to convey that the leadership need not believed that Shah still calls the shots, even look beyond Sarma for the post of chief minister, his though he stepped down as the party boss before supporters said. The party has not named a CM taking up the mantle of the home ministry. candidate. Both the incumbent CM, Sarbananda Great care is taken, however, to not exhibit this Sonowal, and Sarma have left it to the BJP power hierarchy to the public. This is why for parliamentary board to decide. Sarma, however, had key party meetings, Shah is the one who heads made his ambition to become CM public all the way over to the home of the present party chief, JP back when he was still in the Congress, which he left in Nadda, and not the other way around. 2015 after he saw his bid to become the CM thwarted. The unpleasant reality, however, was exposed The ruling BJP clearly has a lot more on its plate apart recently during an informal interaction with a from merely winning the battle for Dispur. select group of journalists at the BJP Served raw headquarters. Two chairs had been set out for At a time when beef has become a dirty word in the occasion — one for the party chief, Nadda, Karnataka, which recently passed a stringent law and the other for Shah. But as soon as Shah against cow slaughter, the Congress leader, UT Khader, arrived in the hall with Nadda, he ordered one wondered why the National Democratic Alliance more chair to be brought in for the party’s media government in Delhi did not dare pass a ‘one nation, one in-charge, Anil Baluni. And although Nadda anti-cow slaughter law’ instead of laws that are as was given the pride of place right in the middle, diverse as the states. India being one of the world’s he remained a silent participant all through the biggest exporters of beef, Khader challenged the Centre interaction. Journalists, too, knew who the real to bring about a uniform ban on cow slaughter across boss was and so all the questions were directed the country and contented that beef has become solely at Shah. From party affairs to issues concerning an electoral issue to harvest votes. Chew on that. the government, Shah handled everything. Footnote Old magic Trust Pinarayi Vijayan to come up with swipes that amuse In a conversation between the Congress member and singe at the same time. The entry of the of parliament, Rahul Gandhi, and the faculty very often. To many of those watching, this discussion sent out. But then the persona and political style of the ‘Metroman’, E Sreedharan, in Kerala’s political and students of Brown University via video conference was almost a throwback to the kind of discussions that the BJP’s key strategist in the Northeast and, for many, landscape is a hot topic. After dusting up his old this past week, many caught a glimpse of an illustrious Mahatma had with his Congress colleagues during the Assam’s chief minister-in-waiting, Himanta Biswa connections with the sangh parivar, the acclaimed past. The interaction brought Rahul face-to-face with freedom struggle. Sarma, ensure that he stands out in a crowd. His rally technocrat is now in the fray in Kerala. But it is his Leela Gandhi, the John Hawkes Professor of the after joining the BJP in 2015 and the one taken out during constant trashing of the state’s development model that Humanities and English, at this private Ivy League Man for all seasons the filing of his nomination in 2016 were equally ticked off Vijayan. Helming the Left Democratic Front, research institution. The latter also happens to be It was a nomination rally which put all other such massive, clearly projecting him as a mass leader. In seeking a rare second consecutive term, Vijayan took a Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s great-granddaughter. nomination processions to shade this poll season in attendance were the incumbent chief ministers of Assam jibe saying even experts in their proven fields would The two ended up discussing the idea of ‘shoonyata’ Assam because of its massive scale and the message it and Manipur, the Union agriculture minister, Narendra begin talking trash once they join the BJP. (spiritual self effacement) that the Mahatma referred to Singh Tomar, and other senior party leaders such as New Delhi, Monday, 22 March, 2021 FILM THE SIKH TIMES 7 Sonu Sood features on SpiceJet aircraft for his Parineeti Chopra humanitarian efforts ‘If I’d taken the pressure that comes with working in a Dibakar Banerjee film, I would’ve crumbled’

or his humanitarian efforts during the coronavirus crisis, Sonu Sood has been Fhonoured by private airline SpiceJet by dedicating an aircraft livery for a Boeing 737. He is the first Indian actor to make it to the livery of a domestic airline. The livery includes a picture of Sood with the text “A salute to the saviour Sonu Sood.” Sood said in a statement, “To be honest, I am quitetaken aback by his huge honour. This is a really sweet and touching gesture on Spice Jet’s part and I am overwhelmed with such a lovely present. I hope that I can keep making everyone proud with my work. I am also thankful to Spice Jet for their effort of bringing back so many Indians from different parts of the world safely to their homeland during arineeti Chopra has started the year on a high note with two film releases, The Girl On the pandemic.”He later mortgaged his own property The Train and Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar, and the third one, Saina, is on its way to the in Mumbai to raise Rs 10 crore to help the needy. Pbig-screen.In this interview with indianexpress.com, Chopra spoke about how she did Sood wrote about his life and experiences in his not let the pressure of working with Dibakar Banerjee affect her because if she did, she memoir I Am No Messiah, which was published in would “crumble” under it. She also looked back at her career in Bollywood, which she says late 2020. was “up-down-up kind of a career graph”. Excerpts from the interview: Back to back releases in 2021. How does it feel when your films that have been in the Koi Jaane Na trailer: Fact making for so long are finally getting released? We were releasing all three films — The Girl on the Train, Saina and Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar last year, but because of the pandemic, we had to stop. So, I don’t consider these to be meets fiction in this Kunal long-waiting, in fact, they have released on time given the conditions we all went through last year. I shot for Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar much earlier. It wasn’t ready and had to be edited again, but all said and done, Kapoor starrer murder mystery destiny has a part to play, and I am happy that they are all coming this year, because I want to make a new path for myself. I want to play different roles and I want to show that to people. So, I feel really blessed that I am getting this opportunity to show all my films together. With Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar and Saina you have worked with some of the most critically acclaimed film directors. How was the experience working with them? I am extremely happy and extremely blessed that these directors chose me. Amole (Gupte) sir, Dibakar (Banerjee) sir, they are some of the filmmakers who don’t get easily impressed with any sort of mediocre work. I love that kind of expectation from my directors, I love it when they are not okay with mediocrity and that they will not give up on you until you give your best shot. So, this dynamic between an actor and a director really works for me, because then I can put my best foot forward. It worked perfectly for me in Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar. When it is a Dibakar Banerjee film, all the focus goes to how good the film would be as he is known for giving something different with every film. Does that add to the pressure on the star cast? No. I think if you take the pressure in that way then you’ll crumble under that pressure because you already have this huge responsibility to play this layered character that he has written, and you want to do that well. So, you just concentrate on the film and the role that he’s written this time and give it your best; That’s how I approached it as it was already such a difficult scenario and already such a difficult role to play, so if I had taken that pressure, I would have crumbled, so I just focused on the work. KritiKriti Sanon Sanonon Sushant Singh Rajput’s ow far can an author go to find his story? death: ‘People stopped being sensitive, What happens when lines between fact and Hfiction get blurred? Koi Jaane Na has actor there was too much negativity’ Kunal Kapoor in a never seen before avatar, as he ctor Kriti Sanon has opened up about the media attention around close plays a grey character. The Amin Hajee directorial friend Sushant Singh Rajput’s demise last year, saying, the discourse film also stars Amyra Dastur,Achint Kaur,Ashwini Abecame toxic after a point and hence, she decided to stay away from it. Kalsekar and others. Sushant’s untimely demise in June 2020 shook the film industry, reigniting the The makers on Saturday dropped the trailer of Koi nepotism debate and even becoming national news as central agencies investigated Jaane Na that takes us into the mysterious world of the actor’s death. Though Kriti Sanon initially shared her thoughts, both on Sushant Kabir Kapoor, a writer by profession. Unable to and her relationship, she later stopped reacting to developments around the case find a lead to his next novel, he takes on writing because of the harsh social media trolling. The actor then preferred to remember murder mysteries and even starts living the life of Sushant in her own ways, occasionally posting his photos and celebrating his his novel’s murderer, or that’s what it seems from work.In a recent interview with the Times of India, Kriti addressed why she the trailer.What conspires is a chain of killings that went quiet about Sushant after a while. happen as per the plot of Kabir’s novel. While the “At one point, there was so much noise around that I didn’t want to be a part police get suspicious about the truth, Kabir’s of it. It reached a point where people stopped being sensitive, and girlfriend Suhana also becomes a victim of the there was too much negativity around. I didn’t want to be a part murderer’s next move. Though we do not get to see of that negativity,” she said.Kriti, who starred alongside the face of the ruthless assailant who’s hiding Sushant in Dinesh Vijan’s 2017 romance Raabta, said she behind his hoodie, we can only guess that it’s Kunal felt it was better to keep her feelings about the situation Kapoor himself, as his Kabir has got deeply private. “I knew what I felt about the situation and I entangled in his own story and has started living the wanted to keep that to myself. I didn’t feel the need to Koi Jaane Na also includes a special song featuring talk to anyone about anything that I was feeling. Also, superstar Aamir Khan and Elli AvrRam. The track what you want to say, you can always say it on social titled “Har Funn Maula” released recently, and media. You can write and express yourself instead of climbed the charts in no time. The video talking out loud,” she said.Two days after Sushant’s death, Kriti had taken to Instagram to pen a exuberantly showcases the sizzling chemistry heartbreaking post remembering him. “Sush.. I knew between Aamir and Alli. Touted to be a that your brilliant mind was your best friend and your psychological thriller, Koi Jaane Na has been worst enemy.. but it has broken me completely to know produced by Bhushan Kumar’s T-Series and Amin that you had a moment in your life where Dying felt easier or Hajee Film Company, and is slated to release on better than Living.” April 2. killer’s life. New Delhi, Monday, 22 March, 2021 WORLD THE SIKH TIMES 8

1 dead, 5 wounded in gunfight at gathering of Covid scofflaws in Philadelphia Global COVID-19 cases cross 122.7 Washington. Philadelphia. Gunfire at an illegal large gathering in Philadelphia killed one person, wounded five others and sent scores of people fleeing, million, US remains worst-hit country authorities said. The gunfire erupted around 3:45 am on Saturday inside and outside a rental New Delhi. The coronavirus spread hall adjacent to Hot Pot Cuisine in Highlights has seen another surge in the world north Philadelphia's Nicetown and has resulted in a suddenly neighborhood, police officials said. A increased number of cases. The 29-year-old man was shot 14 times and ? The current global overall number of global COVID-19 was pronounced dead minutes later at cases has crossed 122.7 million, Temple University Hospital, police caseload and death toll while the deaths have surged to more said. Three men aged 33, 38, and 41 than 2.70 million. and a 30-year-old woman were also In its latest update on Sunday (March shot; all were stable at hospitals, police stood at 122,736,841 and 21) morning, the Johns Hopkins said. Police Commissioner Danielle University's Center for Systems Outlaw told reporters that at least 150 2,708,557, respectively Science and Engineering (CSSE) people fled for their lives. She said that revealed that the current global such large gatherings are illegal under ? The US is the worst-hit caseload and death toll stood at Covid-19. 122,736,841 and 2,708,557, country with the world`s respectively. Strong quake shakes northeast According to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE), the Japan highest number of cases US is the worst-hit country with the Tokyo. An earthquake struck off the world`s highest number of cases and coast of northeastern Japan on and deaths at 29,782,302 deaths at 29,782,302 and 541,909, Saturday, shaking buildings and respectively. Brazil follows in generating a tsunami of 1 metre in the and 541,909 second place with 11,950,459 cases and 292,752 fatalities. Mexico comes same area devastated a decade ago by Turkey (2,992,694), Germany last 24 hours taking the total number of a quake and tsunami. ? Brazil follows in second in third place with 197,219 fatalities. The other countries with more than 2 (2,658,851), Colombia (2,324,426), fatalities to 1,59,558. India reported a The earthquake, with a magnitude of Argentina (2,241,739), Mexico massive surge of 40,953 COVID-19 7.2, hit off the coast of Miyagi million confirmed coronavirus cases are place with 11,950,459 cases India (11,555,284), Russia (4,397,816), (2,187,910) and Poland (2,036,700), the infections in the last 24 hours. The Prefecture at 6:26pm (0926 GMT) at a CSSE figures showed. India's total country recorded the highest single-day depth of 60km, the Japan the UK (4,304,839), France (4,277,183), and 292,752 fatalities Italy (3,356,331), Spain (3,212,332), caseload stands at 1,15,55,284. The spike in the last four months on Saturday Meteorological Agency said. While country also reported 188 deaths in the (March 20) as per the government data. there were no immediate reports of deaths or injuries, the quake was strong enough to shake buildings in 2 men sentenced to death Tokyo, some 400km away. An Heavy rains continue to batter Australia's east coast, official for the meteorological agency told reporters it was an aftershock of flooding risk and evacuation warnings placed in NSW for gangrape in Pakistan the deadly 2011 quake. The 2011 disaster, one of the strongest on Flooding risk and evacuation warnings were in place for about 12 areas in New Two men were sentenced to death on record, is still generating aftershocks Saturday for gang-raping a woman on a decade later. A magnitude 7.3 quake South Wales (NSW), Australia's most populous state with 8 million people. last month had also been deemed to be the side of a highway in Pakistan last an aftershock. devastation," Jonathan How, senior year, an attack that triggered nationwide meteorologist with the Bureau of Thousands ordered to evacuate as floods protests and calls for tougher laws. Pakistan’s Prime Minister tests Meteorology, told the ABC News positive for Covid-19 state broadcaster. "It`s strong winds hit Sydney, downpour to continue as well."How added that the heavy Islamabad. Pakistani Prime Minister Melbourne. People in parts of Sydney’s northwest downpour is set to continue for the were ordered to flee their houses in the middle of Imran Khan tested positive for Covid- rest of Sunday in Sydney and 19 on Saturday, two days after the night as heavy rains continued to batter throughout the state, with some Australia’s east coast on Sunday with fast-moving receiving his first vaccine dose, areas expected to get up to 200 government officials said, urging waters causing widespread destruction throughout millimetres (7.9 inches) of rain. the region. people not to be deterred from getting Emergency services said they had vaccinated. Flooding risk and evacuation warnings were in place received about 600 calls overnight for about 12 areas in New South Wales (NSW), Pakistan’s vaccination roll-out has been asking for help; more than 60 of met with widespread vaccine Australia’s most populous state with 8 million those were pleas for rescue from people, with rivers swelling and rain accumulation hesitancy, and Khan’s positive test floods. Television and social media could serve as a setback to the posing danger. “It’s not just the rain which is footage showed fast-moving water causing the devastation,” inoculation drive in the country of 220 unmooring houses, engulfing roads, million people, health experts said. MELBOURNE: People in parts of breaking trees and damaging road Jonathan How, senior meteorologist with the Bureau Health minister Faisal Sultan said Khan Sydney`s northwest were ordered to flee infrastructure. The extreme weather was of Meteorology, told the ABC News state was “in good health” with a mild their houses in the middle of the night as affecting Australia`s COVID-19 vaccine broadcaster. “It’s strong winds as well.”'Downpour Lahore. Two men were sentenced to death on cough and fever and was self-isolating heavy rains continued to batter delivery to Sydney and throughout the to continue rest of Sunday thorughout the state' Saturday for gang-raping a woman on the side of a at home, adding that the 68-year-old Australia’s east coast on Sunday with state and disrupting the country`s plans to How added that the heavy downpour is set to highway in Pakistan last year, an attack that Premier had likely been infected fast-moving waters causing widespread deliver the first vaccine doses to almost 6 continue for the rest of Sunday in Sydney and triggered nationwide protests and calls for tougher much before he got his first vaccine destruction throughout the region. million people over the next few throughout the state, with some areas expected to laws. shot on Thursday. He said people Flooding risk and evacuation warnings weeks.NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian, get up to 200 millimetres (7.9 inches) of rain. The men, Abid Malhi and Shafqat Hussain, were should not link the Khan’s infection were in place for about 12 areas in New who is expected to hold a briefing later on Emergency services said they had received about convicted of gang rape, kidnapping, robbery and with the vaccine. South Wales (NSW), Australia`s most Sunday, said the weather system moving 600 calls overnight asking for help; more than 60 of terrorism offences, according to a written order populous state with 8 million people, through the state could be a one-in-25- those were pleas for rescue from floods.Television released by the judge in the eastern city of Lahore. Biden doing ‘100% fine’, says with rivers swelling and rain year rain event. "This will be a deep- and social media footage showed fast-moving The woman was raped at the side of a highway in the accumulation posing danger. seated, extreme weather event," she said water unmooring houses, engulfing roads, eastern province of Punjab after her car ran out of White House as President stumbles "It`s not just the rain which is causing the on Saturday. breaking trees and damaging road infrastructure. fuel while she was driving her two children in several times September. Protesters took to the streets saying Pakistan needed to bring in legal reforms and do more to protect women and children after a series Half of all Britain adults get first vaccine shot of high-profile cases. Fewer than 3 per cent of sexual assault or rape cases result in a conviction in Pakistan, according to the Karachi-based group War Against Rape. In December, Pakistan introduced a new rape law, creating create special London . Half of all adults in Britain United Kingdom — and investors courts in a bid to speed up prosecutions and setting have now had at least one Covid-19 are watching closely to see which up a national sex offender registry. The two vaccine dose, making the country economies show the first signs of condemned men were also sentenced to life the world’s first major economy to recovery. Britain’s government has imprisonment, fined and had property confiscated, hit that milestone, health minister said it is aiming to give at least one Rauf Wattoo, a public prosecutor involved in the Matt Hancock said on Saturday. shot to everyone over 50 by mid- case, told Reuters. “The survivor had identified the Britain reached that figure after April, and to every adult by the end convicts twice during the identification parade in administering a record 660,276 of July. Over that period, it has plans jail and while recording her statement in front of shots a day earlier, Hancock said. to ease lockdown restrictions, with the judge,” another prosecutor, Waqar Bhatti, said. Washington . US President Joe Biden is Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who shops, pubs and restaurants Rights campaigners have called for an end to a doing "100% fine" after he tripped had AstraZeneca’s vaccination on preparing to re-open next month. culture that they say regularly blames victims of multiple times while jogging up the Friday, tweeted: “Let’s keep going.” By comparison, more than 20 per sexual assault. After the rape in September, one stairs to board Air Force One on Israel is the leader in vaccinating its cent of the US population has senior police official publicly questioned why the Friday, according to a senior White population, followed by the United received at least one dose, and less woman had been driving alone at night with her House official. Arab Emirates, Chile, then the than a 10th of the EU population. children. Biden, 78, stumbled as he climbed the plane's steps, initially appearing to trip, get up, then trip a second time. He struggled to get up the second time for a brief moment, before making it up, Joe Biden is on his heels amid a migrant surge at Mexico border turning to give a salute before entering the cabin. "So, as you know, it's pretty Washington. Somehow, they didn’t see 11,500 unaccompanied minors, and Biden and others have pushed back on the windy outside, it's very windy. I it coming. Within weeks of about 84,500 migrants traveling in notion that what’s happening now is a almost fell coming up the steps Inauguration Day on Jan. 20, the family units. “crisis.” myself," White House principal Biden administration had reversed Migrants to soar again: Career “We will have, I believe, by next month enough deputy press secretary Karine Jean- many of the most maligned Trump-era Pierre said while briefings reporters on immigration officials of those beds to take care of these children who immigration policies, including Career immigration officials, have no place to go,” Biden said in a recent the presidential plane on the way to deporting children seeking asylum ABC News interview, when asked whether his Atlanta, Georgia where Biden was to overwhelmed by the earlier surges, who arrived alone at the U.S.-Mexico have long warned the flow of administration should have anticipated the meet members of the Asian-American border and forcing migrants to wait in surge in young unaccompanied migrants as community which has been shocked migrants to the border could ramp up Mexico as they made their case to stay again. well as families and adults. He added, “Let’s by a series of shootings in massage in the United States. get something straight though. The vast parlours."He is doing 100% fine," Migrant children are sent from border While the administration was working holding cells to other government majority of people crossing the border are CNN quoted her as saying.Jean-Pierre on immigration legislation to address being sent back ... immediately sent back.” would not say if he hurt the foot that facilities until they are released to a long-term problems, it didn’t have an sponsor. That process was slowed Adam Isacson, an analyst at the human rights was recently broken. "He's doing on-the-ground plan to manage a surge great. All I can tell you is he's doing considerably by a Trump advocacy group Washington Office on Latin of migrants. Career immigration administration policy of “enhanced America, said Republicans’ insistence that fine. He's preparing for the trip today officials had warned there could be a The situation at the southern border is and he is doing just great," she said in vetting,” in which details were sent to there is a “crisis” at the border is overwrought, surge after the presidential election and the complex. immigration officials and some sponsors but that the surge in migrants was predictable. response to a question. She repeated news that the Trump policies, widely viewed Since Biden’s inauguration, the U.S. has seen a that he was doing just fine when asked wound up getting arrested, prompting some to Reasons behind migrant surge at Mexico as cruel, were being reversed. dramatic spike in the number of people fear picking up children over worries of being border if Biden got checked out by a doctor. Now officials are scrambling to build up encountered by border officials. There were Biden had broken his foot in deported. Biden has reversed that policy, so He called it a perfect storm of factors: hurricanes capacity to care for some 14,000 migrants now 18,945 family members and 9,297 immigration officials hope the process will that hit Central America last fall; the economic November, just after celebrating his in federal custody — and more likely on the unaccompanied children encountered in 78th birthday and winning the race for speed up now. Biden administration officials fallout caused by the coronavirus pandemic; way — and the administration finds itself on its February — an increase of 168 per cent and 63 have repeatedly laid blame for the current typical seasonal migration patterns; the the White House, making him the heels in the face of criticism that it should have per cent, respectively, from the month before, oldest president in US history.Biden situation on the previous administration, thousands of Central American migrants been better prepared to deal with a predictable according to the Pew Research Center. That arguing that Biden inherited a mess resulting already stuck at the border for months; and the fractured his foot after he slipped predicament. “They should have forecasted for creates an enormous logistical challenge while playing with his dog, Major. The from President Donald Trump’s undermining persistent scourge of gang violence afflicting space (for young migrants) more quickly,” said because children, in particular, require higher and weakening of the immigration system. The Northern Triangle countries — Guatemala, Biden family has two dogs, Major and Ronald Vitiello, a former acting director of standards of care and coordination across Champ, both German shepherds. White House also points to Biden’s decision to Honduras and El Salvador. Isacson said the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and agencies. Still, the encounters of both deploy the Federal Emergency Management Biden administration may have been “two or During the 2020 campaign, the Biden chief of Border Patrol who has served in unaccompanied minors and families are lower Agency, known for helping communities in the three weeks” slow in preparing for the increase campaign released a summary of Republican and Democratic administrations. than they were at various points during the aftermath of a natural disaster, to support in unaccompanied young migrants and the Biden's medical history, which “And I think in hindsight, maybe they should Trump administration, including in spring efforts to process the growing number of subsequent housing crunch after announcing showed the former vice president was have waited until they had additional shelter 2019. That May, authorities encountered more unaccompanied migrant children arriving at in early February it would stop deporting healthy and fit for the presidency. space before they changed the policies.” than 55,000 migrant children, including the border. unaccompanied youths. New Delhi, Monday, 22 March, 2021 FOODS THE SIKH TIMES 9 Worried about missing the most Quick Healthy important meal of the day a little too often? Here are 10 Breakfasts quick and healthy, Breakfasts low-fat breakfast ideas that'll help you for busy people get something

powerhouses that keep you full for Eggs, toast, vegetables: The longer. Protein parathas with easiest breakfast on the go, this nutritious Step 1: Dice 2 tomatoes and 1 onion. vegetable raita: involves little to no planning. Step 2: Heat 1 tsp olive oil in a frying Store some roti dough in the fridge - Stock up on a dozen eggs, a loaf of ready for pan.Add the onions and tomatoes, ½ usually good for 2-3 days. Boil whole grain bread, butter, and cup raw peanuts, with 4-5 curry some peas and store. Step 1: Mash 1 some tomatoes, carrots and patta leaves. cup boiled peas and mix with salt, ¼ cucumber. breakfast in Step 4: Add salt, and ½ tsps of tsp turmeric, ¼ tsp coriander Step 1: Whisk 2 egg whites and 1 turmeric, red chilli powder and powder, and ¼ tsp red chili powder. egg yolk in a bowl with some sambhar masala. Stir for 5 minutes. Step 2: Take out 1 small (roughly 1- seasoning - salt, pepper, mixed 15 minutes Step 3: Now add ½ cup wheat with 1 2 inch diameter) ball of roti dough. herbs. cup water. Step 3: Add 1 tbs of the mashed peas or less. Step 4: Stir well till the wheat cooks mix in the centre of the flattened (roughly 2-3 minutes) dough. Step 5: Eat with a generous dollop of Step 4: Bunch it Step 2: Heat 1 tsp olive oil in a frying yogurt on the wheat mix. up into pan. Add the whisked eggs and This recipe will give you a breakfast make into an omelet or scrambled for 2. Ensure that you eat only eggs. enough to cover 1/3rd of a plate. Step 3: While the eggs are cooking, The principle behind each of these pan with 1 tsp olive oil and add Whole grain toast and butter 1-2 slices of bread. breakfast ideas is to include lean spices of your choice - light spices Step 4: Chop the veggies and protein, whole grain, fruits, will go well here. Try 1 tsp five-spice sandwiches with egg leave on a side vegetables and good fats in your masala mix. white omelets and plate. Sprinkle Step 3: Lay out the roti and spread ½ opening meal for the day - in the vegetables: with tsp butter on it. seasoning like right portions. This gives you a great Step 1: Toast two whole grain slices. Step 4: Spread the lettuce, and then chaat masala. starting point for high energy all day, Step 2: Whisk 2-3 egg whites and 1 a sprinkle the diced cucumber and Step 5: as well as helps you stick to your 60 egg yolk with seasoning, and cook ball - think season with salt and pepper. Combine it day plan of getting fit by December. as an omelet with 1 tsp olive oil. momo style. Now Step 5: Add the stir-fried paneer and all, with a Stock up on a few essentials listed in Step 3: Butter the toasts and line flatten it out wide. roll it shut. glass of soy each breakfast idea, and get ready to with thinly sliced onions, tomatoes Step 5: Heat 1 tsp oil Step 6: Enjoy with a tall glass of cold milk or have a wide variety of quick and a layer of mustard. in a non-stick tawa, and coffee on the side! skimmed breakfast choices every morning! Step 4: Add the omelet, then the top add the paratha. This recipe will give you 2 paneer milk on the Roti rolls with paneer, slice, and enjoy with a glass of milk Step 6: Eat with a 50gms rolls. More ideas for stuffing - side.This or tea on the side. bowl of cucumber-carrot lettuce and cucumber: mushrooms, stir fried chicken recipe will This recipe will give you one raita (which you can If you have any rotis from the night nuggets, and fish. give you sandwich. Some more ideas for make by combining before or if you are a roti superstar, breakfast Cracked wheat with vegetables in the sandwich - thinly grated cucumber and then this breakfast is the easiest one for one. sliced eggplant, zucchini. You can carrot with chaat masala). to make. peanuts and Double also add fish fillets or thinly sliced Step 1: Dice 100gms fresh paneer. vegetables: This recipe will all counts chicken breasts cooked the night Shred some green lettuce and dice 1 Cracked wheat or daliya is a healthy give you 4 small to get before. cucumber. breakfast ingredient for last-minute parathas. breakfast Step 2: Toss the paneer into a frying use. And peanuts are energy for two.

The best way to stay cool during and English mustard may not seem so this hot season is by altering your attractive after all. diet to some light eating that will Simple 12. Jaggery: For a country that not increase the heat in your body almost knew no refined sugar, the 17 unexplored, exotic While most of India is jump to white sugar and caramel- welcoming the monsoons, namma coloured refined sugar seem odd. summer Jaggery in its many forms still makes Chennai still is still battling with for an excellent sweetener for the summer sun, which is at its confections and puddings. Some hottest best this year. What we eat Indian ingredients practice will get you stunning results. makes a major factor when it comes to ensuring how cool we Salad 13. Mustard and sesame oils: So here we are, a nation with a rich stay during the season. Experts tell Chef Manu Chandra suggests 17 Chennai Times how to beat the heat homegrown ingredients that can up the enough history of our own oils with by altering our menu for a few quotient of any plate arguably as many health benefits as Simple summer salad recipe weeks. I think as one matures as a chef, some other oils; yet we look at the Ingredients: Dietician Sangeetha S says, intrinsically it becomes easier to look olive for gourmet reasons. Not true. Carrot - 3 "Summer time is when many around oneself to be inspired and Both sesame and mustard oils have Radish - 3 people tend to fall sick. Directly or innovate rather than looking too far. amazing flavour characteristics and Beetroot - 1 indirectly, a major factor to this is Something similar has been happening make some great dressings, sautes, Cucumber 1 with me despite my years working marinades etc. Pick up a bottle of what we eat. We should know what Tomato - 1 abroad and at some stellar restaurants each for your kitchens today. we eat and its direct effects on the Onion - 1 at that. The depth and variety of what is 14. Aam Ada: This ginger root which body. For instance, during Cheese - 100 grams available in our country is often has the most keen palates confused summers, we should avoid spicy Olive oil - 1 tsp overlooked by the restauranting ethos owing to its distinctively green food, as well as food that can cause Sugar - 1 tsp and instead most embrace hard-to-find mango flavour can be an amazing a lot of body heat. western ingredients in the addition to soups, broths and relishes. These can tend to have development of their menus and It's again seen in very isolated adverse effects on offerings. cuisines, but I'm sure can gain a one's body." menu. Peeled and sliced, it would make Nutritionists and While it would be unfair to say that stunner. Infuse it in a little vodka, or try following as much as lemongrass if the most wonderful salad. dieticians say that some chefs haven't already attempted a sorbet with it. A lemon tart with some marketed well. 4. Makhana: Lotus seeds that have salads can be the best and been trying to champion Indian zest and juice from the gondhoraj can 15. Indian Vanilla Bean: Many been dried are an incredible way to way for one to stay cool ingredients, I still feel that we have a give key lime pies a run for its money. people will be unaware that some very long way to go and being able to thicken sauces and gravies after frying excellent Vanilla grows in the hills of and fit during the and powdering. It's a great snack too, 9. Kalimpong Cheese: Almost Gouda develop our brand of adopted cuisines like, this cheese from Sikkim probably Chikmaglur and Coorg and any place summers. "A lot of the (much like France, America, Australia albeit a little heavy. with coffee plantations. Substitute people cannot do away 5. Bhetki: Despite the battle between has a very small production, but can have done). fool the finest of gourmets. Watch it the sub par artificial essence with with meats or want to Here's a list of 17 of perhaps hundreds the sea fish vs the fresh water fish lovers, some caviar from a vanilla bean and have their favourite the glorious Bhetki stands out as an transform the most humble bake or a of relatively unseen or underestimated simple chili cheese toast, if you can get watch a dessert move a step closer to paneer or mushrooms ingredients, which I feel would add a outstanding fish. Its suppleness is a Nirvana. in their meals. Salads close second to the phenomenally your hands on it, that is. lot of spunk to any menu, cuisine 10. Rhododendron: Literally the rose 16. Golden Apple: As children one can be made with notwithstanding. Bon appetite. expensive and imported varieties of almost looked forward to apple seafood, chicken, bass. I would pass up a John Dory for a tree, these beautiful flowers from the 1. Bathua: A seemingly wild growing hills of Nainital and around, make for season (yes, we ate seasonally as cheese or mushroom, green always found in certain parts of good Bhetki any day. early as 20 years ago) for those with light dressing, 6. Melon seeds: So used are we to the most amazing drinks and coolers. North India. Bathua is a fantastic Instead of lapping up artificial green incredibly juicy and sweet Golden without the food replacement for spinach, which has seeing pine nuts on menus, that we often Apples from Himachal. Today I'm seeming boring. Lighter and more Salt - to taste forget how delicious roasted melon apple syrups in martinis, it would be always been associated with fabulous to see bartenders adapt to this hard pressed to find them. Instead I frequent meals, with less oil and Lemon juice - 3 tbl sp contamination. It's delicious, earthy seeds can be. I've found them equally can easily settle for pretty, waxy and spices is the key mantra to keeping Pepper - to taste enticing on pastas, salads and even refreshingly different ingredient. and lends itself to many applications. 11. Kashundhi: Bengali cuisine tasteless imported green and red one's body cooler during the Method: 2. Kachampoli: Almost never heard desserts.A must try. apples. Eat an apple pie made from summers," says Jyothi P, dietician. Grate the carrot, radish, beetroot and 7. Bhut Jhalokia: Also known as the would be unimaginable Bengali of outside of Coorg, this is India's cuisine. Try it in dressings, as a golden apples, and a whole Summer vegetables and fruits like cucumber. Cut the tomato and onion answer to Balsamic Vinegar even Naga chili, I find myself reading more generation may rethink the apple cucumbers, greens and melons are finely. Mix the vegetables. Add grated about this in foreign media than seeing it condiment on steaks and fish, or even a though it's neither sweet nor made with (edible) completely. the ideal ingredients for salads. cheese, preferably cheddar or in our own restaurants. It's got a kick sandwich spread and English mustard grapes. Watch it transform a non- 17. Gulkand: A stalwart of the pan Fruit and vegetable juices can work mozzarella. Keep this mix inside the that will make most people chuck out may not seem so attractive after all. vegetarian dish with it's deep dark shop, gulkand in all its rosy and sweet as great supplements to your meals. fridge and let it cool. Mix sugar and the imported bottles of hot sauce. without this. This sharp and well- colour and lip-smacking tang. avatar can be an amazing ingredient. For instance, cucumber juice with salt in the lemon juice. Sprinkle this 8. Gondhoraj lemon: By far one of my rounded mustard still remains within 3. Singhara: This absolutely delicious It's mellow yet lucid on the palate. fresh mint and lime not just works on top of the vegetables. Add a dash of favorite citrus flavours, the perfumey the confines of Bengali cuisine. Try it water vegetable is barely seen on any Try it with cheesecake or with nuts as a rehydrating source but also olive oil and sugar to suit your taste fragrance from this north-eastern lemon in dressings, as a condiment on steaks and honey on warm almond cookies. before you serve. can convert the simplest dish into a and fish, or even a sandwich spread helps in weight loss. New Delhi, Monday, 22 March, 2021 BUSINESS THE SIKH TIMES 10

NEWS BOX 20 states gets additional Repo rate cuts: Slow pick-up in borrowing, big hit to depositors borrowing permission While the 250-basis point cut in the policy long end of the curve, yields, however, credit disbursed by public sector banks rate — Repo rate — accelerated the hardened, with the 5-year and the 10- (PSBs) stabilised close to 6 per cent in 2021 of Rs 39,521 crore transmission of rate cuts to the banking year Bloomberg generic G-sec yields (January-February), that of private sector New Delhi. Twenty states have completed system since February 2019, deposit rates firming up by 64 bps and 33 bps, banks (PVBs) and regional rural banks the “ease of doing business” reforms have fallen steeper than lending rates. respectively, during February-March (RRBs) clocked robust pickup to 8.6 per cent stipulated by the department of The weighted average lending rate (WALR) 2021 (up to March 12). “Fears over the and 12.4 per cent, respectively, in February expenditure, which would enable them to on fresh rupee loans sanctioned by size of the market borrowings for the 2021, and contraction in credit growth of get an additional borrowing permission of scheduled commercial banks (SCBs) fell ensuing year amplified by global spill- foreign banks (FBs) tapered sequentially, the Rs 39,521 crore through open market by 183 basis points (bps), of which 112 bps overs as discussed earlier trigge-red sell- RBI said. Bank credit to large industries borrowings, the finance ministry said on cut was effected since March 2020, the offs. The rise in the 10-year Indian G-sec pulled down the overall credit to industry by Saturday. Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has said. was, however, moderate relative to the banks as these firms, especially the high “States completing ease of doing business However, the median term deposit rate hardening of the US 10-year yield by 54 rated ones, took advantage of the prevailing reforms are eligible for additional reduction in overall cost of funds, the RBI borrowing of 0.25 per cent of the gross state (MTDR) — which reflects the prevailing said in its report on the ‘State of the bps during this period,” the RBI said. low interest rate regime, and borrowed from domestic product (GSDP),” the ministry card rates — has registered a sizeable Economy’. In short, depositors have seen Tracking G-sec yields, corporate bond the market to pay off part of their high-cost said. “Accordingly, on receipt of decline of 211 bps (up to February 2021). their income shrinking since February 2019, yields firmed up across the rating spectrum bank credit. The stabilisation in overall recommendations from the department for Credit offtake, though, stayed sluggish as while borrowers benefited from the rate cut. and issuer categories. Spreads on corporate credit growth is also evident in sectoral promotion of industry and internal trade big corporates relied on the market to raise State Bank of India’s one-year term deposit bonds over G-secs of corresponding disbursement of credit by banks. Credit to (DPIIT), the department of expenditure has funds. The central bank said the adjustment rate, which was at 7 per cent in May 2019, maturity issued by corporates and NBFCs, agriculture, the brightest spot in sectoral granted permission to these 20 states to in deposit rates accelerated in the aftermath however, continued to narrow across the credit offtake by SCBs, which accounts for raise additional financial resources of Rs has now fallen to 4.90 per cent, a decline of of Covid-19 on account of persistent surplus 210 bps. “Savers and pensioners have seen rating spectrum, the central bank said. 13 per cent of the total credit disbursed in 39,521 crore through open market liquidity amidst weak credit demand. During Although lending rates fell across the board, FY20, is rising steadily and grew at near borrowings. State-wise amount of the their interest income declining accordingly,” additional borrowing permitted to these 20 March 2020 through February 2021, the said a bank official.On the other hand, credit offtake did not pick up. Credit growth double digits in January 2021. Credit growth states is annexed,” it said. Five more states MTDR moderated by 144 bps. During the buoyed by various liquidity enhancing of SCBs appears to have bottomed out as it to the services sector was at 8.4 per cent in — Arunachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Goa, same period, the one-year median marginal measures initiated by the RBI in the wake of grew at 6.6 per cent year-on-year on January, propelled by strong credit Meghalaya and Tripura — have completed cost of funds-based lending rate (MCLR) the pandemic, the yield on government February 26, 2021 compared with 6.1 per disbursals to trade, tourism and transport the “ease of doing business” reforms softened cumulatively by 94 bps, indicating securities (G-sec) traded range bound. At the cent last year. Bank group-wise, growth in sectors, the RBI said. stipulated by the department of expenditure, it said. Future Group Srei Infrastructure Finance company UP RERA to begin physical challenges Delhi High secretary resigns Court order New Delhi. Equipment finance NBFC Srei The appeal will be heard Infrastructure Finance Ltd on Saturday said hearing option from May 1 its company secretary Sandeep Kumar on March 22 by a bench Lakhotia has resigned. Formed over the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016 of Parliament, the RERA's primary job of Chief Justice D.N. Patel The move comes following the salary cap and Justice Jasmeet Singh imposed on the company by its lenders includes ensuring transparency in projects, protecting the interest of consumers, and establishing an adjudicating Highlights amidst the pandemic-induced stress on its mechanism for speedy dispute redressal besides providing proper information about the builder. business. The company, when contacted, /The authority has been hearing said around 180 employees have exited since December last year. We wish to New Delhi.Homebuyers can once the complaints through virtual inform you that Sandeep Kumar Lakhotia again opt for the physical hearing has resigned from the position of company of their complaints by the Uttar mode under the e-courts secretary & compliance officer of the Pradesh Real Estate Regulatory system keeping in view the company,” Srei Infrastructure Finance Ltd Authority (RERA) instead of the said in a regulatory filing. Lakhotia will be online mode from May 1 this year, need for containment of the relieved with effect from the close of according to officials. COVID-19 pandemic in line with working hours of March 20, 2021, Srei The authority has been hearing the New Delhi. Future Group on said. “The company shall be shortly complaints through virtual mode the directions of the Centre Saturday approached the Delhi appointing a new company secretary and under the e-courts system keeping high court challenging a single compliance officer and the same shall be in view the need for containment and the state government. judge’s order upholding the intimated to the stock exchanges in due of the COVID-19 pandemic in / Singapore’s Emergency course,” it said. In the interim, Ekta line with the directions of the The decision for putting in Arbitrator’s (EA) judgment Agarwal, deputy company secretary of the Centre and the state government. place a hybrid system of restraining Future Retail Ltd (FRL) company, shall be in charge of the The decision for putting in place a from going ahead with its Rs compliance function, it added. The hybrid system of hearings was hearings was taken during the 24,713-crore deal with Reliance company is battling asset-liability taken during the RERA's 59th Retail to sell its business. The US- mismatch in the aftermath of the pandemic- meeting on Friday which was He said many home buyers and to the online medium again, he RERA's 59th meeting on Friday based e-commerce giant Amazon driven stress in the economy as it mainly chaired by Chairman Rajive their legal counsels had been said.”All physical hearings will which was chaired by Chairman had challenged the deal in the caters to equipment financing and most of Kumar to discuss issues related to seeking physical hearing instead be conducted in strict compliance international court. the economic activities came to a grinding home buyers and builders in the of the online mode. with all COVID-19 protocols," Rajive Kumar to discuss issues The appeal will be heard on March 22 halt due to the lockdown, only limping state. “The authority has "The restrictions that were placed Tyagi said. Formed over the Real related to home buyers and by a bench of Chief Justice D.N. back gradually now. henceforth decided to provide the due to the COVID-19 pandemic Estate (Regulation and Patel and Justice Jasmeet Singh. opportunity of physical hearing to have also started and institutes are Development) Act, 2016 of builders in the state. The appeal, filed through advocate the concerned parties on their also opening up again as part of Parliament, the RERA's primary Harshvardhan Jha, has challenged WhatsApp hires top request from May 1, 2021, subject the unlock process. Hence, this job includes ensuring /He said many home buyers and the single judge’s March 18 to strict compliance of COVID- hybrid system in which both transparency in projects, judgment directing Kishore Biyani- Amazon executive to 19 protocol as applicable. The options -- online hearing as well protecting the interest of their legal counsels had been led FRL not to take further action in head its payments parties shall not be permitted to as physical hearing from May 1. consumers, and establishing an seeking physical hearing relation to the deal with Reliance change the option of physical However, those who will be seeking adjudicating mechanism for and holding that the group willfully business in India hearing after having opted for the this physical hearing option speedy dispute redressal besides instead of the online mode. violated the Singapore Arbitrator’s same," RERA Secretary Rajesh should keep in mind that they providing proper information order. Justice J.R. Midha had New Delhi. WhatsApp has hired a top Kumar Tyagi said. won't be allowed to change it back about the builder. rejected all the objections raised by Amazon executive to head its payments Future Group and imposed a cost of business in India, two sources told Reuters, Rs 20 lakh on the Future Group and as the messenger service gears up to expand its directors and directed them to in the booming sector. Manesh Mahatme, deposit the amount in the Prime who has worked at Amazon Pay for nearly Government to boost high-technology manufacturing Minister’s Relief Fund within two seven years, is due to join WhatsApp’s weeks for being used for providing payment service soon, one of the sources Panel to be formed to facilitate investments and production; Commerce minister to head 10-member committee Covid-19 vaccination to senior said on Friday. citizens of Below Poverty Line New Delhi . In a move to boost high- expert. The detailed terms of (BPL) category of Delhi. The WhatsApp and Amazon Pay were not technology manufacturing, including reference of the committee will immediately available for comment. March 18 verdict had come on semiconductors in the country, the be notified in due course, it Amazon’s plea seeking direction to Mahatme declined to comment. government has decided to set up a said.The largest producers of With more than 500 million users, WhatsApp order enforcement of the award by committee to facilitate investments. semiconductors are the United Singapore’s EA on October 25, counts India as its biggest market, where it The committee will consider investment States, South Korea and Japan is the newest entrant in India’s digital 2020, restraining FRL from going and project proposals in high-technology and is estimated to be a trillion- ahead with its Rs 24,713-crore deal payments sector, which PwC and Indian areas, take action to facilitate dollar electronics industry industry body Assocham say is set to be with Reliance Retail. The high investments and production and make globally and expanding further court, which directed the presence worth $135 billion by 2023.WhatsApp last recommendations to seek approvals of with increasing penetration of year received a much-delayed approval for of Biyani and others before it on the competent authority, an official robotics, AI and IoT.“The April 28, had also ordered the launch of its payments system in India, statement said.“In order to facilitate secretaries in the department of but so far its rollout has been capped by attachment of their properties and investments and promote manufacturing economic affairs, department of asked them to file an affidavit regulators at 20 million users. But it has big in technology-intensive sectors, revenue, department of ambitions and a deal by Facebook last year detailing their assets within one including semiconductors, the expenditurand sponsoring month. It had also asked them to to invest $5.7 billion in Jio Platforms government of India has decided to ministry/department may be digital unit, will allow WhatsApp to offer show cause as to why they be not constitute an empowered committee for chairman N. Chandrasekaran; Bharat Forge invited to participate in the detained under civil prison for a payments services to millions of mom-and- manufacturing in high-technology areas,” it chairman Baba Kalyani; Mahindra Group meetings of the empowered committee, as pop stores. term not exceeding three months said. The minister of commerce and industry managing director and CEO Pawan Goenka; required,” the release said, adding that the for violating the emergency will be the chairperson of the 10-member Zoho Corporation CEO Sridhar Vembu; and committee will be serviced by the department arbitrator’s order and file reply Northern railways back committee. The panel will include Tata Sons Anshuman Tripathi, a semiconductor domain for promotion of industry and internal trade. within two weeks. on track, will run 90% of their trains Saudi Aramco to cut capital expenditure, reports 44.4% drop in profit for 2020 guidance for spending to around $35 billion from a range of $40 billion to $45 Z The company billion previously, according to a disclosure to the Tadawul bourse. New Delhi . From April 10 onwards, lowered its Net profit fell to 183.76 billion riyals Northern Railways will start operating 90% ($49.00 billion) for the year that ended of their trains as it has already initiated guidance for December 31, from 330.69 billion riyals work on it. As per the reports, the Railways a year earlier.Analysts had expected a net board has directed the Northern Railways spending to profit of 186.1 billion riyals in 2020, to issue orders to other zones to follow this. according to the mean estimate of The zones which come under Northern around $35 billion analysts in Refinitiv’s Eikon.Shares in Railways are Delhi, Ferozepur, Ambala, the top western oil and gas companies Lucknow and Moradabad and almost 750 from a range of including Royal Dutch Shell and BP trains operate daily in these areas. dropped to multi-year lows in 2020. Currently, 70% of the trains are operating $40 billion to $45 Exxon Mobil, the largest U.S. energy right now.Keeping in view the safety of the company, posted its first annual loss. women passengers in trains, the Indian billion previously, Aramco also declared a dividend of $75 Railways said it has issued guidelines to all billion for 2020 and signalled it was zonal railways to prevent crime against seeing pickup in oil demand. “Looking women in trains and railway premises. A according to a ahead, our long-term strategy to optimize railway ministry spokesperson said that our oil and gas portfolio is on track and, about 23 million passengers travel through disclosure to the as the macro environment improves, we Reuters. Saudi Arabian state oil giant Aramco 2020 net profit, hit by lower crude oil prices are seeing a pick-up in demand in Asia and also the Indian Railways every day out of which said on Sunday it expects to cut capital and sales as the coronavirus pandemic 20 per cent are women. Tadawul bourse. positive signs elsewhere,” Saudi Aramco Chief expenditure after it reported a 44.4% slump in depressed demand. The company lowered its ExecutiveAmin Nasser said in the statement. New Delhi, Monday, 22 March, 2021 SPORTS THE SIKH TIMES 11 Virat Kohli opening does not send any signal that KL Rahul will not be considered in T20Is: Rohit Sharma Ahmedabad. Team India vice-captain Rohit Sharma made it clear on Saturday that Virat HIGHLIGHTS Kohli opening the innings in the 5th T20I against England was a one-off decision as they wanted / Out-of-form KL Rahul was to play an extra bowler and therefore, had to drop out-of-form KL Rahul from their final XI. dropped from India's playing Kohli promoted himself up the order and top- scored with 80 not out to help India post 224 for 2 after England won the toss and opted to field. XI for the 5th T20I The skipper and his deputy Rohit laid the foundation for the score with an opening / Rohit Sharma refused to partnership worth 94 runs in just 9 overs. The batting performance was backed up by the rule Rahul out of contention bowlers with Shardul Thakur (3 for 45) and Bhuvneshwar Kumar (2 for 15) playing the starring roles to help India restrict England to for this year's T20 World Cup 188 for 8 and win the series-decider by 36 runs. But Rohit, who smashed 64 off 34 balls, said the in India decision to drop Rahul and bring Kohli up the order was a "tactical move". "Still early days to / Rahul's poor run saw him be talking about what the batting lineup will be looking like in the T20 World Cup. We have to analyse and think about what suits the team the year's T20 World Cup in India. Rahul's poor run saw considered this was just for one particular game. score 1, 0, 0 and 14 in the 4 most. "Today was a tactical move because we wanted an him score 1, 0, 0 and 14 in the series. "He has been one of "Things might change as we go closer to the World Cup, extra bowler to play. We wanted to leave 1 batsman out our key players in limited-overs format, especially in we do understand his ability and contribution at the top T20Is against England in and unfortunately, it was KL Rahul," Rohit told this format. Looking at the current form the team and what he's done for us. I'm not going to rule out reporters after the game. Rohit defended Rahul's lean management decided to play the best XI. But having anything neither am I going to say that this is the Ahmedabad patch and refused to rule him out of contention for this said that, it doesn't send any signal that KL will not be preferred batting lineup for the World Cup," Rohit said. FA Cup: Ilkay Gundogan and India vs England: I would persist with Rohit Sharma- ISSF World Cup: Yashaswini Kevin de Bruyne fire Manchester Virat Kohli opening formula, says Sunil Gavaskar Deswal pips Manu Bhaker to City into semi-finals / cricket. So it was very important for Virat Kohli promoted Virat Kohli to bat at the top of the order. make it 1-2 for India himself up to open along with So maybe, KL Rahul’s loss of form has New Delhi. After finding answers to every question been a blessing in disguise because this thrown at her at the firing point, Yashaswini Rohit Sharma in the 5th T20I has given us an opening combination to Deswal, one of India’s 15 Tokyo Olympics quota / Rohit and Kohli added 94 look forward to. "Like when Sachin winners, drew a blank when asked a seemingly Tendulkar was batting down the order in straightforward query. “How did online shooting ODIs and then he was sent up to open the runs for the first wicket to batting and what a transformation it had competitions help you?” help India post 224 for 2 not just on his batting but the whole Last month, the National Rifle Association of India team. So clearly, your best batsman have (NRAI) suspended Deswal and 21 others for taking / KL Rahul's repeated failures to bat as many overs as they can," part in an ‘unauthorised’ online tournament. After Gavaskar told India Today. As a result of the decision came under criticism from within the saw him getting dropped the Rohit-Kohli partnership, India fraternity, the suspension was revoked and Deswal managed to post it's highest total against returned to the team. from the series-finale which decider. The decision paid off as the England in the shortest format. Kohli top- veteran duo stitched an opening On Saturday, she struck gold. India won by 36 runs scored with 80 not out as India reached 224 The 23-year-old won the country’s first gold medal of Manchester. Ilkay Gundogan and Kevin de partnership worth 94 runs which was for 2 in 20 overs. Shardul Thakur (3 for 45) Bruyne struck a goal each to help Manchester their highest in the series. Rohit smashed the World Cup as India’s young shooters, especially and Bhuvneshwar Kumar (2 for 15) then in 10m pistol events, showed why they are rated so City beat Everton 2-0 to enter the semi-finals Ahmedabad. Former cricketer-turned- 64 from just 34 balls while Kohli made helped India restrict England to 188 for 8 of the FA Cup on Saturday. commentator Sunil Gavaskar on Saturday 22 off 20 as the two laid a solid foundation and win the game by 36 runs. The hosts highly and considered favourites to medal at the The goals came late — through Ilkay Gundogan termed KL Rahul's poor form as a blessing for a big score. clinched the 5-match series 3-2 in Olympics. in the 84th minute and Kevin De Bruyne in the in disguise as it gave Team India a new India had been struggling at the top of the Ahmedabad. "I would persist with this Deswal, who topped the 22-shooter 10m air pistol 90th — but there was a certain inevitability opening combination in T20 international order with KL Rahul scoring 10014 in the opening formula. Look at the way they fed qualification field with a total of 579, comfortably about them inside an empty Goodison Park. cricket. India made a big change in its first four games. Kohli had backed Rahul off each other. You could see the won the final by scoring 238.8 points. It was a low- batting order in the 5th and final T20I to come good up until the final match as his interaction between the two of them, scoring final – so much so that the lowest score Everton erected a blue wall for most of the game against England as Rohit Sharma and Virat and managed to frustrate Pep Guardiola's side patience finally ran out with the Karnataka whenever each of them got the big shot recorded was a dreadful 1.5 by Mexico’s Alejandra Kohli walked out to the middle after batsman. "Your best batsman should bat going. until Gundogan stooped to head home in the England opted to field in the series- Zavala Vazquez – but Deswal and her compatriot 84th minute for his 16th goal of the season. the most number of overs in limited-overs Manu Bhaker tried to make a match of it. Bhaker, Late substitute De Bruyne then made City's after being second in qualification, eventually passage safe with a clinical finish in the 90th ended with a silver medal with 236.7 points to give minute. City dominated possession but Sanjay Bangar in favour of Rohit-Kohli opening India a gold-silver finish in the event. The Everton defended deep and their third-choice reliability of pistol shooters, who were competing keeper Joao Virginia made some fine saves. internationally after 16 months, was apparent in the The visitors' patience was rewarded though as men’s event as well where Saurabh Chaudhary (587 they joined Southampton in the semi-finals combination: 2 best batters will get lot of balls to play points) and Abhishek Verma (583) occupied the top after the south-coast side earlier beat local two spots in the qualification and won a silver and rivals Bournemouth 3-0 away. "It was a really ? hosts then rode on superb bronze in the final respectively. The gold went to tough game. We saw the commitment from Rohit Sharna and Virat bowling performances Everton, how focused they were, they Kohli added 94 runs for the from Shardul Thakur (3 for Iran’s Javad Foroughi, who edged out Chaudhary defended really aggressively. It was one of the 45) and Bhuvneshwar by 0.4 points. toughest games we've played in the last four 1st wicket Kumar (2 for 15) to restrict Chaudhary, in fact, had clawed his way to the top months," Guardiola said. ? India posted their highest the visitors to 188 for 8 and from the second last position with just one shot Guardiola's only current concern is hoping that win the game by 36 runs. remaining in the final and had a narrow lead of 0.3 all of his players return from international score against England in India clinched the 5-match points over Foroughi. But an uncharacteristically duty ready to continue City's charge. series 3-2. "He (Virat poor final shot of 9.8, coupled with the Iranian’s "Hopefully the (COVID-19) bubbles are T20I cricket thanks to Kohli) thrives on timing the superb 10.5, ended his chances of winning the gold. controlled. I'm looking forward to everyone Rohit, Kohli's knocks ball well, he thrives on In the 10m air rifle finals, world number 1 Divyansh coming back safe," he said. ? finding those gaps. He was Panwar clinched a bronze, while his teammate The two teams will now doing all those really well. Arjun Babuta finished fifth. In the women’s event, clash in the upcoming three- In the longer run. "If he Anjum Moudgil – the lone Indian in the final – Explained: How does Vijender’s decides and if the team finished fifth as well. After four finals on the second match ODI series in Pune management decides that day of competition, India are second on the medals it’s going to be the way first loss as a professional boxer from March 23 forward as to Virat Kohli table with one gold, one silver and two bronze and Rohit will open the medals. The USA is on top with three medals but affect his future? Ahmedabad. Former all-rounder Sanjay innings, it means that two one more gold medal than India. Bangar gave a big thumbs-up to India's deputy Rohit took the England bowling of their best batters are Two Indians COVID-19 positive New Delhi . Vijender Singh‘s unbeaten run as a new opening combination of Rohit Sharma going to get a lot of balls to play."And this The Sports Authority of India (SAI) has asked for a professional boxer came to an end on Friday, and Virat Kohli, which they tried out attack apart. India's opening partnerships registered scores of 2, 0, 7, 21 in the first four template is actually ideal for somebody like report from the NRAI on the alleged bubble with a loss to Artysh Lopsan of Russia in successfully in the 5th and final T20 Virat Kohli who literally takes off once he Panaji. international against England on Saturday. matches before Rohit (64) and Kohli (80 not breaches during the World Cup. So far, at least three out) teamed up to add 94 runs in the series- passes that 30-ball phase," Bangar said on cases of Covid-19 have been reported at the Vijender’s opponent was four inches taller, nine KL Rahul's repeated failures at the top Star Sports. The two teams will now clash in years younger, and decidedly better. The Indian prompted Kohli to promote himself up the decider, as a result of which the hosts tournament, including two Indian shooters who managed to post 224 for 2 after being put into the upcoming three-match one-day were to compete in the 10m air pistol event on meanwhile looked every bit a 35-year-old batting order and the decision paid off international series in Pune from March 23. boxer who hadn’t fought in 15 months. The immediately as the Indian captain and his bat by England captain Eoin Morgan. The Saturday. TKO defeat means Vijender’s record now stands at 12-1. How did the fight go? Vijender was defeated, in all sense of the word. In Graeme Swann praises Virat Kohli after India the fourth round, he was knocked down five times! The Indian began strongly, cracking Lopsan on the head to send him down in the second round. It was all Lopsan thereafter. The win 5th T20I: He just bats his own game 6’4 Russian overwhelmed Vijender at close range, dealing damage with sharp, short uppercuts. By the fourth round, Vijender Ahmedabad. Former England off-spinner looked exhausted and damaged, and Lopsan Graeme Swann on Saturday heaped praise sent him to his knees five times, prompting HIGHLIGHTS on India captain Virat Kohli for the way he calls of “Khelega? Khelega? (Do you want to / paced his innings in the 5th and final T20I continue?” from his teammate-turned-coach Virat Kohli opened the in Ahmedabad on Saturday. Kohli Jai Bhagwan. After surviving the fourth round, promoted himself to open the innings with Vijender launched a wild flurry on the Russian batting for India and top- Rohit Sharma and top-scored with 80 off before another left uppercut put him down. On 52 balls with 7 fours and a couple of sixes. his knees, Vijender shook his head repeatedly scored with 80 not out The duo added 94 runs in just 9 overs with to concede the fight. “Winning and losing is being Rohit the dominant partner with his part of the game. It was just not my day. I / 34-ball 64. always believe in working hard and I’m sure Rohit and Kohli added 94 I’ll make a strong comeback to the ring soon,” Kohli played the supporting role to Rohit Vijender issued a statement on Saturday. runs for the first wicket to before taking matters into his own hands after his deputy's dismissal. He remained How does the loss affect the world title fight help India post 224 for 2 unbeaten at the crease and guided India to chances? 224 for 2, their highest scored against It doesn’t, since a world championship fight for / Kohli was adjudged Player England in T20Is. "What he said in the Vijender wasn’t realistic, to begin with. While post match interview there was very a possible world title bout had been bandied honest and brilliant actually. If he is at the about since Vijender turned pro in 2015, he was of the Series for scoring 231 is around and playing his natural game, not performances from Shardul Thakur (3 for top, him or Rohit scoring runs gives the rest trying to manufacture things, he just bats 45) and Bhuvneshwar Kumar (2 for 15) to never in the running. Vijender won the World of the batting unit a lot of freedom to bat Boxing Organisation’s (WBO) regional super- runs in the 5 matches at an and bats his own game. The team is better restrict England to 188 for 8. The hosts without any pressure and play more for it. All the other youngsters can feed off clinched the series 3-2 and will now host middleweight titles (Asia Pacific and Oriental) fluently. but seems to have been stripped of the belts due average of over 115 that," Swann said on Star Sports. Indian the Three Lions in a 3-match ODI series in "And that means, Virat understands that. If he bowlers then rode on superb bowling Pune from March 23. 12 New Delhi, Monday, 22 March, 2021 Food&KidsFOOD & KIDS THE SIKH TIMES HotHot weddingwedding Food trends Culinary trends take a sophisticated turn at the Great Indian Wedding with tasting stations, vegan, sushi platters and push pops for dessert.

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