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Continued on Page 6 Continued on Page 6 "$ & Both had left Gauwhati by 7 am as they were called by the resented with tough choice Central leaders in Delhi by ' Pof selecting a Chief 10.30 to work out the issue as Minister for Assam, from two loyal MLAs of each camp equally dominant and influ- sought to rally around their ential State leaders — incum- respective leaders since May 2 rime Minister Narendra bent Chief Minister when the BJP won 60 seats PModi on Saturday took Sarbananda Sonowal and State while its alliance partners AGP part in a virtual meeting with Finance Minister Himanta got nine seats and UPPL six in the heads of State or Biswa Sarma — BJP Central 126 Assam Assembly. Government of all the 27 held discussion with both lead- Himanta, 52, a Brahmin, is European Union member ers in Delhi. The State BJP leg- known to be aspiring for the states and discussed with them islature party will meet at Chief Minister’s post which expanding overall coopera- Guwahati on Sunday. was denied to him in the tion in areas of trade, invest- The party is tacking a “dif- Congress by Tarun Gogoi. ment, connectivity, and Covid- at the meeting of EU Leaders ficult task” despite a handsome 19. The EU countries pledged with PM @narendramodi,” win as either way “some level their support to India in its tweeted Charles Michel, of dissidence” cannot be ruled fight against the second wave President of the European out, sources in the party said. R of the coronavirus pandemic. Council. He said the two sides “Don’t ask questions. In of them are on oxygen sup- Thanking EU and its are launching negotiations on short, a meeting of the BJP leg- port. member states for their “con- three agreements — trade, islature party is likely to be held f the total 37,23,446 However, these are just the tinued commitment to investment and geographical in Guwahati tomorrow...you Opatients suffering from reported cases that have strengthening relationship indications. will get your answers then,” he Bengal BJP seems to be a divided Covid-19 across India, at least reached the Government’s with India”, Modi said, “I also Modi was scheduled to Himanta retorted when ques- Thouse on the question of choosing Leader 9,02,291 patients are on oxy- health set-up and were shared thank my friend Prime visit Portugal for the leaders’’ tioned on the CM selection as of Opposition. While a section of the party major rift has emerged in the AIADMK gen support while 1,70,841 are by Union Health Minister Dr Minister @antoniocostapm for meeting but it was called off in he left BJP president JP wants veteran leader and former Railway Aover the choice of the Leader of the on ventilators. The number of Harsh Vardhan at the 25th this initiative and according to view of the coronavirus crisis Nadda’s residence here after Minister Mukul Roy — often considered a Opposition. patients in ICU beds is Group of Ministers (GoM) high priority to India during and both sides decided to meeting him, Union Home “Chanakya” in State politics — to lead the The newly elected members of the 4,88,861. meeting held on Friday. Portuguese Presidency of the hold the deliberations virtual- Minister Amit Shah, and BJP party in the House others want to nominate Legislative Assembly had to go back from the Percentage wise In actuality the data may EU Council.” The PM tagged ly. general secretary (organisa- Nandigram MLA Suvendu Adhikari a “bold party headquarters without electing the LoP due this translates to be on the higher side Portugal Prime Minister A strategically important tion) BL Santosh. and dynamic organiser” on the post. to differences between Edappadi Palaniswamy 1.34 per cent as several people have Antonio Costa, who hosted grouping, the EU as a whole Sonowal and Himanta first While the entire team of the BJP and O Panneerselvam, the two senior-most of the active died for want of oxy- the meeting. was India’’s largest trading met central leaders separately Legislators is new and inexperienced both leader of the party. caseload in gen support and The leaders also partner in 2018. India’’s bilat- before joining them together Roy and Adhikari are veterans in parlia- While the supporters of Palaniswamy want- the CU, 0.39 ventilators as exchanged views on the eral trade with the EU in for a “long face-to-face dis- mentary politics, a State BJP leader who ed him to be the LoP, the camp followers of per cent of health infra- Covid-19 pandemic and 2018-19 stood at USD 115.6 cussion”. unsuccessfully contested the elections from Panneerselvam argued that the latter was the them on ven- structure is healthcare cooperation.“We billion with exports valued at Sarma was first to meet northern fringes of Kolkata said wondering ideal choice for the post. Sources said both lead- tilators while crumbling are opening a new chapter in USD 57.17 billion and imports Nadda and other leaders before whether Roy with his health problems would ers also had a heated argument before the meet- 3.70 per cent across country. #EUIndia strategic partnership worth USD 58.42 billion. Sonowal followed the suit. want to accept the responsibility. ing was called off. ! # $ R woman gangraped and mur- general. After the party per- dered in Hathras. formed badly in both the by- She attended Kisan polls in October 2019 and in avneet Kalra, the high- Panchayats in Western UP in November 2020, the writing Nprofile restaurateur who is n July, last year the Congress wake of recent farmers’ laws was clear on the walls that the known for living a life of glitz Iindicated that its high-profile and a training camp in Rae electorate had rejected and glamour and is linked with general secretary Priyanka Bareli in January 2020. Priyanka’s tweeter politics from cricket stars and Bollywood Gandhi will shift her base to The rest of the time, she New Delhi. celebrities and bookies may Lucknow after she was asked to remained in Delhi and con- Ironically, since taking the have run out of luck this time vacate a Government house in trolled UP through twitter. charge from her brother Rahul around after the Delhi Police Delhi. Uttar Pradesh Congress Her insouciant approach and a Gandhi, who first led the party recovered over 500 oxygen even claimed that she will shift vertical division between the to the new low of winning just concentrators from his famous to Sheila Kaul’s house in “new and old” has pushed this 7 seats in 2017 Assembly elec- Khan Chacha restaurant, Town Lucknow and the same was oldest political outfit into vir- tions and later losing his own Hall restaurant and Khullar renovated. But, she never came. tual non-existence in UP in the Amethi Parliament seat in 2019 farms in Chhattarpur. In fact, senior Congress vote bank politics — this polls, Priyanka attended a three- Kalra’s social media leaders say Priyanka last came despite Congress being the day training camp of newly- accounts are proof of his good to Lucknow in December 2019. front runner in staging protests elected district and city presi- connections with cricket stars, cricket bookies. restaurant in his name. In between, she visited UP against the State Government. dents held in Rae Bareli in top bureaucrats, politicians, Earlier, Javed and Saleem Khan Chacha, which has four times, once in February The poor performance of January 2020. This kindled a and Bollywood celebrities. — sons of Khan Chacha’s for- now become a chain, was first last year to meet activists the Congress in recent pan- ray of hope that she is building A Page 3 personality, Kalra mer owner Haji Banda Hasan started by Haji Banda Hasan, injured in the anti-Citizenship chayat elections in Uttar the party. But the hopes dashed has been in the news several — had alleged that Kalra had popularly known as Khan Amendment Act protests in Pradesh is testimony to the as in one year no attempt was times for wrong reasons, forged documents and trans- Chacha in the bylanes of Khan Azamgarh and then in October eroding popularity of Priyanka made to hold such a meeting. including his alleged links with ferred the ownership of the Continued on Page 6 to meet the family of the Dalit in particular and Congress in Continued on Page 6 !"#$'!#&) 0&) 123
++4567/ P 04 # # the current corona crisis in the Yogi government’s action plan # # # " state, the CM instructed offi- is to double the capacity of beds fter battling the paucity of n a bid to provide proper cials and concerned authorities so that more and more Covid Aoxygen in the second wave Imedical treatment to critical to increase the number of ICU patients could get immediate Lucknow (PNS): The Uttar commissioners and heads of of Covid wave initially, the sup- '( Covid patients amid a massive and HCU beds in all districts treatment. For this, L1 catego- Pradesh government issued local urban bodies said that the ply of the life-saving fluid in surge in infections, the work on with immediate effect, so that ry hospitals will be upgraded to orders for cremation of people expenditure of cremation of Uttar Pradesh has been being supplied to not only increasing the number of beds no patient was deprived of L2 by providing oxygen and dying due to the viral disease Covid bodies should be made increased and a record 994.83 Covid Hospitals and other in hospitals has entered ‘mis- complete medical aid. ventilator facilities. There are a free of cost. through their own resources at metric tonnes of oxygen has t a time when the entire government hospitals of the sion mode’, under the supervi- There are 189 government total of 1.16 lakh beds in L1 A government order present and later funds would been supplied across the state Acountry is reeling under district but also all private hos- sion of Chief Minister Yogi hospitals and 150 CHCs in L- hospitals and the number of issued by Additional Chief be made available through the in the past 24 hours. Besides, acute shortage of oxygen, pitals in the vicinity. Adityanath. As per the CM’s 2 category while 20 hospitals of beds were being increased on Secretary, Urban Development, UP Finance Commission. 78.46 MT of oxygen was sup- Sonbhadra has become the “Not only this, Sonbhadra instructions, there has been a L-3 category are operational. a daily basis. Manoj Kumar Singh said that However, the government plied through air separators first district of Uttar Pradesh was able to provide oxygen to lot of focus on augmenting the Apart from this, a total of 465 With the shortage of oxy- cremation of Covid bodies fixed Rs 5,000 as the maximum units under self- production. to become self-sufficient in its neighboring districts when capacity in L2 and L3 hospitals private hospitals have been gen being effectively managed, would be done free of cost and expenditure for cremation of a Detailing the supply of oxygen production. Primary required. Besides, oxygen sup- across the state with addition- made dedicated Covid hospi- it is expected that the task of the expenses would be borne Covid body. The GO also oxygen in the state, Additional Education Minister and ply to 38 beds in district hos- al one lakh beds. tals. In these 824 hospitals, the increasing beds would be com- by the respective municipal mentioned of strict compliance Chief Secretary, Home, Sonbhadra district incharge pital was supplied through An official communique number of isolation beds is pleted in the next 10 days. A bodies. of Covid guidelines by the Awanish Kumar Awasthi said Dr Satish Dwivedi announced other means,” the UP minister released on Saturday evening 60,934 while 17,760 beds have secretary rank officer will The GO addressed to all Urban bodies while cremation in Lucknow on Saturday that on Saturday that after the said. confirmed that acknowledging ICU and HCU facilities. The supervise the entire process. district magistrates, municipal of such bodies. 586.58 MT of oxygen was sup- closed oxygen plant at Anpara Dwivedi informed that plied to the refillers by was repaired and started func- Sector Magistrate has been Department of Food Safety tioning, the district became appointed for hospitals of and Drug Administration. self-sufficient in oxygen pro- Sonbhadra so that Covid 8 ( Also, as a result of the efforts duction. patients did not have to face of the government, 318.36 MT Dwivedi congratulated all any problem in getting admit- of oxygen was supplied to public representatives, admin- ted and treated in hospitals. medical colleges and institu- istrative officers and technical “Besides more than 1500 tions across the state and 89.89 personnel of the district for teams of Asha Bahu and MT of oxygen was sent direct- helping in augmenting the Anganwadi workers were run- ed. However, all the staffers ly to private hospitals by the closed plant at the earliest. He ning door-to-door campaigns found positive were not suppliers. said that now Anpara oxygen in the district to check and lose on the heels of two involved in duty near the “In this way, more than plant was operational and 300 aware people with symptoms Clionesses testing positive animals. 994.83 metric tons of oxygen to 350 cylinders were being of Covid,” he informed. for Covid, six staffers, includ- Etawah Safari Park direc- was supplied in the last 24 filled every day which were ing a veterinary doctor, of in tor KK Singh confirmed that hours in the government and Etawah Lion Safari have been two lionesses tested positive private hospitals across the 48 MT capacity was made night or by Sunday morning,” diagnosed with Covid-19 for Covid after their samples state,” he said. available for Kanpur. the top official informed. were tested Covid positive. were sent to IVRI, Bareilly. Awasthi said that 10 “Adequate oxygen arrange- On the instructions of On Saturday, 85 employ- Both lionesses were not tankers from Jamshedpur ments have also been ensured Chief Minister Yogi ees of the Safari were made to having their regular diet and (Jharkhand) with a total of 80 for DRDO Lucknow hospital. Adityanath, online monitoring undergo rapid antigen tests in also had fever after which the metric ton of liquid oxygen Besides, adequate arrange- of oxygen supply was being which five staffers, three reg- blood and stool samples were reached Lucknow at 11 am on ments of oxygen have been done through a special control ular and two contractual, sent to IVRI early this week. May 8 by Jeevan Rakshak train. made for DRDO Varanasi room set up in Home depart- were found positive. On Both the lionesses were kept Similarly, six tankers of about Hospital. For Kanpur, arrange- ment to fulfill the demand of Friday, the doctor who was in isolation and their medical ments have been made to deliv- oxygen in the state. The control treating the animals was also treatment was started. er 80 metric tons of oxygen room is being manned by found to be positive. Meanwhile, Saxena said through a special train on senior officials and employees Regional forest officer of both the lionesses were stable Sunday. For Noida, Ghaziabad of Home, Food and Drug the Safari Vinit Saxena said in and were roaming and Meerut, arrangements Administration, Medical Etawah on Saturday that all around. But they are still not were made to provide oxygen Education, Health and Family the Covid positive staffers having a regular diet even as by filling 80 MT tankers from Welfare and Transport depart- have been asked to self-isolate their haemoglobin is 14, he Jamnagar Gujarat by Saturday ments 24/7 in coordination. and their treatment has start- added. % / - # #% 0 NOTICE & 9 ()"" (, I Subodhani Mishra W/o Aditya Kumar Mishra R/o 189 Mangla 56 7 Vihar Phase-I Kanpur. Have 5 7&$5 changed my name from Parul Srivastava, a student of City Subodhani Mishra to Subodhani Montessori school, Station Road Campus, has Tiwari Vide affidavit no-30AE brought laurels to Lucknow by securing the 756712 dated 15-3-221 before ficient, insensitive and inhu- “I demand that in view of 9 highly prestigious and competitive Fulbright- Kanpur Court (U.P.) man administration, which the total and utter failure of Nehru Doctoral Research Fellowship-21 of ormer Governor and resulted in the genocide and the Modi-Shah government, L 9, the US Department of State. The fellowship Fsenior Congress leader wholesale massacre of the the entire Covid 19 crisis provides J-1 Visa support, a monthly stipend, OBITUARY Aziz Qureshi demanded that people, where ‘We the People’ management, treatment, hos- zad Samaj Party president > B2 accident and sickness programmes, round- Indian Armed Forces should had to struggle to snatch pitals, beds, oxygen, ventila- Aand Dalit leader 0"=3 ing economy class air travels and other OBITUARY take over to handle the Covid some breathes to continue tors and medicines etc should Chandrashekhar Azad alias allowances. CMS founder Jagdish Gandhi expressed happiness over crisis across the country in their existence, with no injec- immediately be handed over Ravan has said that the Central : : 0 Parul’s achievement and wished her a bright future. view of the utter failure and tions, medicines, oxygen, ven- to Indian Armed Forces, government and Prime 9: 0M miserable performance of the tilator, hospital beds etc were under the stewardship of Minister Narendra Modi are Modi government which he available to them and were Defence Minister, Rajnath responsible for the disaster felt had converted the coun- being sold in black market, Singh. It is possible that after caused by the pandemic and addressed many rallies and the try into a genocide club from under the benign patronage of doing so the smoke and ashes death of large number of peo- Election Commission failed to SUBEDAR RAJ KUMAR SINGH Kashmir to Kanyakumari. the local administration,” of funeral pyres, unheard ple in the second wave of coro- discharge its duties,” he alleged 06 JULY 1976-20 APR 2021 “The troika (Modi ji, Qureshi said in a statement cries of dying patients and navirus. He said the govern- in a statement here on Saturday. ALL RANKS OF ARMY MEDICAL Amit Shah ji & Yogi issued in Lucknow on their kin and strict control on ment has failed to cope with the Azad said that Uttar CORPS SOLEMNLY PRAY TO THE Adityanath ji) has utterly and Saturday. black marketing of oxygen situation arising out of the Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi ALMIGHTY TO BESTOW PEACE TO miserably failed India and The former Governor fur- and medicines etc would be pandemic and the situation is Adityanath, who addressed THE DEPARTED SOUL AND GRANT STRENGTH TO THE BEREAVED destroyed the poor and inno- ther said that even private reduced to great extent,” the out of control in the country. many election rallies in West FAMILY TO BEAR THE GREAT LOSS cent Indians completely. They ambulances were charging Congress leader said. Criticising the Modi govern- Bengal, is also responsible for OF SUBEDAR RAJ KUMAR SINGH have no moral, constitution- 500 times more and that was Qureshi went on to add, ment at the Centre for its fail- the present mess caused by the WHO DIED WHILE SERVING WITH al and religious authority to being shown on TV channels. “Let Modiji and his associates ure to deliver in this crisis, pandemic. BASE HOSPITAL LUCKNOW. rule the country anymore. Alleging that the Centre had function to improve the Azad said that in order to win “What the UP government FROM: LT GEN SANDIP MUKHERJI AND ALL RANKS OF ARMY MEDICAL CORPS The troika shall have to stand mortgaged the country to a administration of remaining elections in five states, especial- has done so far to mitigate the before the Bar of Humanity, few big corporate houses and Ministries of the Government ly in Bengal, the Central gov- woes of the people reeling where History and Posterity now it was a high time that for the benefit and advantage ernment left 130 crore people under the impact of the pan- OBITUARY would be the sole judges to needed a major surgical of those big corporate hous- of India on the cusp of death. demic. There is scarcity of condemn them for their strike, like Pulwama, against es, to transfer important “Experts from WHO, medicines, doctors, oxygen incompetent, incapable, inef- Covid 19. assets of the country.” Europe, America, Africa, even and ventilators. People are OBITUARY from India itself were constant- dying without treatment out- ly warning that the second side the hospital, scenes of ,, wave of Covid would take a cremation ghats are heart- " dangerous form, but the Modi breaking’’, said Azad. He said government chose to ignore it Yogi’s claim of free treatment and the entire Union cabinet stands exposed. He said the . - was engaged in Bengal elec- poor cannot afford treatment at TSNAIK MALEK ALI AZAM tions. The prime minister the private hospitals. 19 MAR 1986-27 MAR 2021 Lucknow (PNS): Aam Aadmi said that even as hundreds of ALL RANKS OF ARMY MEDICAL Party Rajya Sabha MP and oxygenated beds were lying CORPS SOLEMNLY PRAY TO THE incharge of UP affairs Sanjay ashtriya Lok Dal national vacant in DRDO, SGPGI, $-("- ALMIGHTY TO BESTOW PEACE TO THE DEPARTED SOUL AND GRANT Singh hit out at the BJP govern- Rspokesperson Anupam KGMU, Balrampur and other STRENGTH TO THE BEREAVED ment in UP saying that the Mishra said on Saturday that hospitals, they were of no use FAMILY TO BEAR THE GREAT LOSS Allahabad High Court had the CMO’s referral letter for to needy patients in the lack of OF TSNAIK MALEK ALI AZAM WHO exposed the mismanagemnet admission of critically ill a CMO’s referral letter. DIED WHILE SERVING WITH CH (EC) + KOLKATA. of the government on tackling patients to a Covid hospital was “Serious patients are being FROM: LT GEN SANDIP MUKHERJI corona crisis and the subse- akin to a death warrant for not forced to suffer. How can the AND ALL RANKS OF ARMY MEDICAL CORPS quent inspection of a Integrated only the patients but also their CMO referral letter be so Control and Command Centre attending relatives. important? And how can a gov- in Moradabad by the chief Mishra accused the state ernment be so insensitive?,” OBITUARY minister was nothing but an government of being the killer Mishra asked. attention-seeking exercise. He of innocent people, when mil- “Patients in home isolation ight people of a marriage alleged that the CM and his lions were in the grip of the also suffering due to lack of Eparty, including the bride OBITUARY ministers were busy advertising killer viral infection and thou- oxygen. A member of a coro- and groom, were injured when government work to cover up sands of victims succumbed na-affected patients has to wait an SUV in which they were their failure. painfully on the doorstep of outside the oxygen plant for travelling met with an accident “People have failed in get- hospitals. “Being forced in such eight to ten hours every day in Sonbhadra on Saturday ting any help from Covid com- a situation, the requirement of and even then he does not early morning. Police said that mand centres. The govern- referral letter of CMO to be know if his oxygen cylinder will the SUV carrying eight people, ment was showing claiming admitted shows how insensitive be refilled,” he said. including the newly-wed cou- NAIK SUDAM CHARAN PRUSTY 04 MAY 1986-22 APR 2021 that hospital beds were avail- the government has been to the Mishra urged the chief ple, overturned and fell into a able despite there being no beds sufferings of the public. minister to abolish the out- roadside nullah near ALL RANKS OF ARMY MEDICAL CORPS SOLEMNLY PRAY TO THE vacant for admission of new Members of the victim’s fami- landish rule of procuring a Bhabhandiha village on ALMIGHTY TO BESTOW PEACE TO patients. The high court has ly are compelled to stand in CMO’s referral immediately Murdhwa- Bijapur road under THE DEPARTED SOUL AND GRANT exposed the government’s bla- queue for the CMO’s referral and patients be admitted Myorpur police station area. STRENGTH TO THE BEREAVED FAMILY TO BEAR THE GREAT LOSS tant lie by examining the live letter outside the office directly, failing which hun- Rajaram (22), his wife OF NAIK SUDAM CHARAN PRUSTY demo of availability of beds. throughout the day. Due to this dreds of lives will be lost due to Seema (20) and six WHO DIED WHILE SERVING WITH 38 Beds are available at the DRDO mismanagement, hundreds of the global pandemic and the others were injured. Seema AMSD. hospital which was recently people have perished so far,” he state government would be was rushed to the district hos- FROM: LT GEN SANDIP MUKHERJI inaugurated, but the beds are said. held responsible for these pital as her condition was AND ALL RANKS OF ARMY MEDICAL CORPS reserved for VVIPs,” he alleged. The RLD leader further deaths. critical. ! " # $ S & !
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The patient may not shock-like state of the patient absence of beds, the vice chan- result comes negative but the get a ventilator bed but we will at the time of arrival at the cellor said that it could be a patient continues to be on the certainly provide oxygenated he Lucknow police are hospital because of HLH combination of both. ventilator because the oxygen beds whose numbers we have Tprobing into a case in (hemophagocytic lymphohis- “Some of them are afraid demand continues to be high. increased in the hospital,” he which a woman died alleged- tiocytosis), a severe, life- of coming to hospital and Pneumonia is cured to some said. He said the KGMU was ly due to the negligence on threatening inflammatory syn- those who come are looking extent but not completely and increasing the oxygen beds as the part of an ambulance drome associated with intense for Level 3 beds,” he said. hence the patient continues to much as possible. driver in PGI police station cytokine release Dr Puri said that it was be on ventilator. When shifted “We already have 427 ICU area. The woman, who was a According to King likely that these patients were to the post-Covid ward, these beds and we are augmenting resident of Telibagh, was George’s Medical University in home isolation for a very patients remain critically ill. our post-Covid ICU beds. We pregnant and infected with Vice-Chancellor Dr Bipin long time. He said there Post-treatment complications have taken over the critical care coronavirus following which Puri, when the blood pressure should be intensive monitor- are also coming up because the ward, the pulmonary ward she was admitted to a private of patients in a shock like state ing of the home isolation disease leaves scars on the and the neurology ward for hospital. However, due to starts falling, giving them hun- patients so that they were lungs, heart and the brain and post-Covid patients and the the exorbitant charges and dred per cent oxygen through shifted to hospitals quickly. it takes time to find out the trauma ventilatory unit is also lack of oxygen, her family ventilator does not help When asked whether the extent of the damage done by admitting post-Covid patients shifted her to Lok Bandhu because the oxygen saturation progress of the disease could the novel coronavirus to these needing ventilators. In the Hospital. does not come up and giving not be comprehended easily by organs,” he said. next few days psychiatry and “She did not get proper them steroids also does not doctors, he said that this was The vice chancellor said child psychiatry wards will treatment and we decided to work as they do not respond not so. “The disease is very that the volume of patients was provide 40 more beds with % # 1-/0- 2 shift her at a hospital in to it. He admitted that this was aggressive and does not give too high hence the deaths oxygen facilities,” he added. Gorakhpur. On April 21, we happening too often. you the time to respond,” he were also high in proportion. Dr Puri said the good were being uploaded 48 hours Cross hospital as there was no booked a private ambulance, Dr Puri said that within a added. “If we look at the ratio of thing was that the number of later and negative results being follow-up from this Urban the driver of which claimed few hours of their arrival in He said that it was also the number of ICU beds, ear- Covid beds had increased all s many as 38 patients died uploaded 4-5 days later. CHC. The home isolation offi- to have two oxygen cylinders. hospital, such patients suc- important to understand that lier we had a handful of over the city. “The increase in Aand 2,066 more tested pos- She then visited Chandan cer incharge said that a demand One of the cylinders ran out cumbed to the novel coron- there were many people who patients and the death rate was infrastructure will reduce the itive for coronavirus infection lab on Kursi road and found of 160 teachers had been made of oxygen in Barabanki avirus. “Within a few hours were also recovering even lower but now the numbers pressure on hospitals. The while 4,515 recovered in the that the current reports were but only 80 reached the CHCs. when she was being trans- such patients die and they do though deaths were taking have increased. However, the division of workload will make last 24 hours. The active cases being uploaded three days later Directions were given to ported to Gorakhpur, while not even give us time to place. Talking about the ratio remains the same,” he a difference and it will become also came down to 25,748. while the old ones were the basic shiksha adhikari that the other was already empty. respond. Despite all efforts of emerging scene of deaths said. Dr Puri said that they apparent in the coming days,” Meanwhile, with com- uploaded in time. She gave notices should be issued to the She died due to lack of oxy- the doctors, such patients die because of post-Covid compli- were not refusing admission to he said. plaints pouring in regarding strict instructions that reports teachers incharge and action be gen,” her brother Sanjay Charak and Chandan Hospital have to be uploaded within 24 taken against those playing said. labs delaying uploading of test hours so that the rapid truant. He said he informed the reports, district Covid incharge response teams reach the hous- She was informed that a Barabanki police but was / 9 Roshan Jacob inspected both es in time. She said no laxity total of 242 calls had been asked to contact the Lucknow the labs. She sought to know would be tolerated. made to the home isolation police. “We later contacted when the samples were collect- She also held a meeting at patients and that the residents the PGI police who ascer- cials huddled to counter the sit- 92 Lucknow through a Rajasthan- ed and when the DSO portal the Smart City on Covid man- of Indiranagar, Aliganj and tained the identity of the uation and media queries. 999 based agent who was in contact was updated by the Charak lab. agement, better follow-up of Chinhat had complained that ambulance driver as Raju of woman from Thailand ADCP, East, Qasim Abdi with Salman,” they said. She found that reports of home isolation patients, distri- they had not received any med- Thakurganj. The case is being Asuccumbed to coronavirus said the woman got herself D>E They said the influential April 15, 16 and 17 were bution of medicines and look- icines. She gave directions for probed,” he said. However, infection which she had con- admitted to the hospital after : person contacted the Thailand uploaded timely but those after ing into the issue of testing. She proper monitoring of these media cell of Lucknow police tracted during her stay at the she got infected with coron- Embassy and informed the that were uploaded six days reviewed the home isolation activities and the distribution feigned ignorance when house of an acquaintance in avirus. “She mentioned her : < officials about her health con- later. Looking into the current follow-up and found that no of medicines to home isolation asked about further Lucknow. Said to be working in addressed as Hazratganj and >F0 dition. “The Thailand govern- reports, she found that they teacher had reached the at Red patients. details. the hospitality sector, she had the police reached the place but ment talked to Indian govern- visited Lucknow ten days ago. could not get any further infor- 0 2 ment and thus she got a hospi- She was admitted to Ram mation,” he said. tal bed. Some police officers Manohar Lohia Institute of He said Salman’s father were also tracing those who also helped in getting the ( - Medical Sciences on April 28 was unwell and he was in might have come in her contact woman admitted to the hospi- and died three days later. The Sultanpur. “The police have during her stay in Lucknow. tal,” they said. There were police quietly got her body cre- summoned him to get details Sources said the woman reports that the woman had ered 75 houses and found that ed for novel coronavirus infec- them, the divisional commis- mated in the presence of her about the arrival of the was summoned by an influen- been staying in Lucknow for all the people were normal with tion and apprised of Covid sioner said that he had cross- acquaintance, Salman, who is Thailand woman. Salman will tial person of the city ten days the last several months and ow positivity is being detect- only one being symptomatic. I management at their homes. If checked by calling the numbers a native of Sultanpur. be quizzed about his relations back. “The woman fell sick worked at a parlour in the city. Led in the rural areas of interacted with people in sever- they do not have any place to provided in the lists which were On Saturday, the news with the woman,” he said. three days after her arrival to “We are yet to cross-check this Lucknow district in the surveil- al other villages and no Covid stay then arrangements are given to the community health went viral and the police offi- The ADCP said the police Lucknow. She was invited to information ,” the ADCP said. lance being carried out in the symptoms were found in the made for their quarantine and centres and loaded on the DSO rural parts of the district by areas which I covered,” he said. this work is being carried out portal. teams of Asha workers and He said that till now the sur- continuously,” he said. “I found that the teams ANMs. Giving this information, veillance activity had revealed He said the rapid response had visited all the houses and Lucknow Divisional that there were not too many teams were also active and car- there were some cases where the Commissioner Ranjan Kumar, COVID-19 cases. rying out the work of contact numbers were wrong and these who himself checked the Kumar said the aim of sur- tracing and distribution of med- were few but these cases were ground reality through an veillance was to ensure that the icine kits. “Through video con- then re-verified through labs inspection at the Mohanlalganj nigrani samitis in urban and ferencing, I talked to the people and then contacted,” he said, on Saturday, said that he carried rural areas identified all the per- in the houses visited by these adding that in the coming days out a random check. sons coming from outside teams and found that robust the administration would “There were 212 teams for Lucknow district and then con- work was being carried out by increase manpower, use of Mohanlalganj and a random nect them with the local com- them.” When pointed out that equipment, fogging, sanitisation check was carried in a village munity and primary health some patients had reported that and the number of beds in and one of the teams had cov- centres. “These people are test- the teams were not visiting hospitals. -- 2 . Lucknow (PNS): Lucknow University’s cultural organ- isation Sanskriti is planning to prepare two new editions of its virtual magazine of 30 minutes each. LU spokesper- Sunita suffered head injuries to which son Durgesh Srivastava said that tapping into the cre- she succumbed. However, local vil- ative energy of students, the university was constantly newly-elected gram pradhan lagers grew suspicious over the death organising events and competitions which were infor- Agoing to serve food to her ailing of the woman who was recently mative, challenging and entertaining. husband died in a road mishap in elected gram pradhan recently. Her “From the confines of their homes, the students have Mohanlalganj on Saturday morning. husband worked hard in the cam- individually and collectively contributed to our earlier She was identified as Sunita Chaurasia paigning and had taken ill a couple efforts of celebrating hope. We have also featured human- (45) of Nigoha. of days back. itarian efforts of students which are exemplary. The As per reports, Sunita’s husband Meanwhile, a youth died after unique feature of our future effort is that one edition will Bhawreshwar is admitted to a hospi- being hit by a train in Sushant Golf have only contributions from our affiliated colleges. One tal in Mohanlalganj these days. Sunita City police station area on Friday to two minute videos of dance, poetry recitation, vocal and her nephew were going to the evening. Villagers suspected foul play and instrumental music, short inspirational speech, hospital to meet him and serve him but police said the youth died in a posters, slogans, paintings, photographs have been invit- food. She was riding pillion on the mishap. The deceased was identified ed for the virtual magazine. They will be screened and bike which skidded on the way and as Ranjeet Yadav (22) of Chandiamau then used if found suitable,” he said. The spokesperson Sunita suffered head injuries. With the village under Gomtinagar Vistar said that two online meetings had already been organ- help of villagers, she was rushed to the police station area. The mishap ised to plan the magazine and a virtual festival -- Festastic community health centre around occurred around 6 pm on Friday and 2021 – would be organised by Sanskriti from May 11 to 7:40 am but was declared brought his father Abhiram Yadav lodged a 15. Jamming, monologue, dance, music are scheduled dead. The CHC administration later case in this connection. The police for of different days, he added. “The registration is open sent a memo to the Mohanlalganj said Ranjeet was hit by the train in online. The students of political science are organizing police around 10 am. A team led by Tantaha village (close to Bakkas rail- a 2-day virtual festival, Spandan, on May 9 and 10. There sub-inspector Vinay Singh reached way station) under Sushant Golf is excitement and students are posting their creative works the scene. A police spokesman said City police station area. through small Instagram videos,” he said. # &&
They directly dealt with orchard ated at farm level and hence and fast communication owners and fixed the price for these farmers are of great help,” between Delhi fruit mandi and he mango belt of Lucknow the ensuing crop. This arrange- he said. farmers are dependent on Tis one of the most impor- ment has been working for He said that a good num- demand. Farmers have doubt tant mango-producing areas decades with a large number of ber of farmers carry mangoes to that the wholesale rates may of the country. Livelihood of orchard owners. Growers are the local mandis but because of fall,” he said. millions of farmers depends on dependent on others for the Covid-19, the transportation He added that under the mango but because of the marketing of mango. Because of cost has increased. pandemic, innovations in Covid-19 pandemic, farmers Covid spread in villages, it has “The largest proportion of mango supply chain as per the are afraid of problems related to also reduced the possibility of the mango produced in pandemic are required under marketing of the fruit. such local traditional marketing Malihabad belt is not con- Lucknow conditions when CISH director Shailendra arrangements. Many times big sumed at Lucknow, rather a there is no assured supply chain Rajan said farmers from suppliers, consolidators contact major portion is transported to of mangoes. Malihabad and adjoining areas farmers much before the matu- various places where mangoes “CISH is trying to connect are not going for direct sale to rity of the fruit. These suppli- are in demand. Delhi is the big the buyers to farmers using var- the customers. “In the pre- ers have good contact in big market for Lucknow mangoes ious means like mobile apps Covid times, at the time of flow- mandis, markets in metro cities and farmers say that it is the and other internet tools. Now ering and earlier fruit growth including Delhi and Mumbai. start of the business when the there is a need to shorten the itself, the contractors used to Farmers are doubtful about first truck load of mango reach- supply chain operational start visiting orchards to assess the fruit disposal problems due es Azadpur mandi in New between farmers to the con- the volume of the produce. to absence of suppliers associ- Delhi. There is a close linkage sumer,” he added. !"#$'!#&) 0&) 123
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< trate within 24 hours to release patients despite having oxygen will be available in the market the seized drugs. The court has in two hospitals in Lucknow, and anyone can buy it. On this, he Allahabad High Court instructed the state government DM Lucknow submitted an the court asked Additional Thas asked the state govern- that even though the rate of affidavit and told the court that Advocate General Manish ment to directly communicate infection is decreasing, it is not the investigation of Sun Goyal to stand for the State with the vaccine manufactur- the time to sit comfortably. The Hospital found the allegations Government. He informed that ers through an Indian diplo- health structure needs to be to be true. It returned patients the state government has mat, instead of adopting a long strengthened in view of the despite having oxygen. A show already issued a global tender. tender process of procuring the possibility of a third wave. cause notice has been issued to The court said that instead vaccine for early control of the A bench comprising the hospital for this. The sec- of adopting the long process of infection. The court said that Justices Siddharth Verma and ond hospital, Harsha Hospital, tendering, the government the vaccination should be com- Justice Ajit Kumar, hearing the has wrongly admitted Covid should try to procure it direct- pleted in three to four months Public Interest Litigation on the patients despite not having a ly because of the way the infec- in the entire state only then it Corona transition, expressed Covid hospital. The court has tion is spreading and there is a will get the benefit. Otherwise, dissatisfaction with the report directed to inform them about possibility of a third wave com- the effort so far will be in vain submitted by DM Meerut in the action taken on these hos- ing. The mutation of the virus amid the rapidly spreading the case of deaths due to lack pitals on the next date. DM said will be so fast that it will neu- infection and the fear of a of oxygen at the Trauma Centre that a nodal officer has been tralise the effect of the vaccine. third wave. in Meerut. DM Meerut, appointed to monitor the sup- In such a situation, all the The court has suggested a appearing for video confer- ply of oxygen. efforts made so far will not get way to buy vaccines from the encing, told the court that the Solicitor General of India the desired result. The court international market and has deaths were not due to lack of SV Raju told the court that has asked the government to 1 4 asked how the government oxygen, but for some other rea- there is no oxygen crisis in the find a way to get the vaccine will execute this process. The son. However, he could not state. There was a slight prob- soon. court has also sought a plan on answer the bench's question as lem of demand and supply, but Advocate Anuj Singh said the next hearing on the vacci- to what caused the deaths and not so much that the lack of it that the transition in rural nation programme. The peti- how much oxygen was avail- would kill someone. Now areas is increasing rapidly. The 4 tion will be heard on May 11. able at the centre that day. The enough oxygen is being pro- government's focus is on big The court has ordered all court said that it is clear that the duced in UP. He said that in cities. the judicial magistrates in the DM has not conducted the May 2021 80 million vaccines The court has asked the B9 received samples as per report munity & primary health cen- homeopathic medical kits state to settle the cases within investigation properly, where- are available. The Central government to present its plan provided by the Health depart- tres in urban and rural areas for among corona/ symptomatic three days for early release of as he should have done so after Government has a budget of on prevention of infection in he district recorded an ment on this evening. The the beneficiaries aged above 45 corona patients to prevent Remdesivir injections and taking cognizance of the case 35,000 crore rupees under the rural areas and towns on the Tincrease again in the posi- total active cases decreased to years. But only the second them from the infection from other life-saving drugs seized from a judicial level. The court head of vaccines. In addition to next date. tive cases during the last 24 11,647 from 12,277 which was dose of vaccine was adminis- coronavirus. from hoarders in the state. directed the DM to conduct a Covaxines and Covishields, Vaccination programme hours. As many as 942 cases of a day ago. On Friday evening, tered to the beneficiaries aged The district senior home- The court has also directed the detailed investigation into the the government has relaxed for differently abled people COVID-19 were recorded on as many as 624 positive cases above 45 years because of the opathic medical officer Dr DGP UP to issue a circular case and submit a report on the regulations for emergency use has also sought a plan on next Saturday evening increasing were recorded and the total shortage of vaccines. Similarly, Manish Tripathi informed that directing all police officers to next hearing. of vaccines to purchase vac- hearing. The petition will be the total number to 74,043 number was 73101 while 4 the first dose was administered these medical kits could be contact the concerned magis- In the case of returning cines externally. The vaccine heard on May 11. crossing 74K marks. Four deaths were reported and the on the beneficiaries aged used to prevent from the dead- deaths were recorded during death toll was 629. Earlier, in between 18 and 45 at 17 sepa- ly virus on the basis of symp- the last 24 hours and with this, view of finding hundreds of rate centres and the long toms. the death toll increased to 633. new positive cases, with 1 new queues of beneficiaries of this Those who believe in As many as 1,447 patients of hotspot, the number of active age category was seen particu- homeopathic medicines, could /01- ( + home isolation recovered, while hotspots was 672 with 2 green larly at vaccination centers in get this medical kit from any as many as 121 have been zones having been converted to government hospitals. community/primary medical < scope of the testing extended to from persons highly infected ing. According to Dr AK recovered from the hospitals. red zones by a day ago. Out of Meanwhile, the COVID-19 centre free of cost, he informed. the villages along the city. On with corona. Tiwari, the Nodal ACMO of The total number of patients total 3259 hotspots, 2587 are In-charge of the district and The district administra- he district is expected to get the instructions of the govern- According to the informa- Covid Testing, Covid testing is cured in the district increased green zones and 672 are red MLC AK Sharma, tion has constituted as many as Trelief from Corona infec- ment, now new infected per- tion of the Health department, being carried out by cam- to 61,763 including 57,386 in zones. Commissioner of Police A 89 teams of lab technicians and tion after 33 days. Five hundred sons are identified and arrange- the condition of infected peo- paigning in the villages. A home isolation and 4,377 in Meanwhile, the district Satish Ganesh, Divisional lab assistants of the Health fewer infected were found on ments are being made for ple who are not being tested total of 9,333 people were COVID-19 hospitals. Health department continued Commsissioner Deepak department at community/pri- Friday after April 4. As many immediate treatment on the and treated even after showing screened. It contains 5,210 In the first report of the the vaccination drive on Agrawal, Inspector General of mary health centre wise to as 456 new cases of COVID-19 basis of the situation. symptoms is getting serious. antigens, 34,336 RTPCR, and day, 651 positive patients were Saturday as many as 60 centres Police SK Bhagat and District conduct the RT-PCR of the were detected in the last 24 Members of the families Now the number of people liv- 198 trunat testing. According to found out of 4,007 reports including SVM Hospital in Magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma officers and employees who hours on Friday, while eight are being asked to remain iso- ing in rural areas is higher District Surveillance Officer received and this figure Bhelupur, divisional hospital of launched a drive at Circuit were on the duty of Panchayat persons lost their lives due to lated, whose house has a pos- among those who lost their Dr Rishi Sahai, infection of 297 increased to 942 out of 9,226 NER in Lahartara and com- House for the distribution of polls, the DM informed. the deadly virus. itive report of one of them or lives. In the village and city, the people among 456 new infect- There were 475 positive is pending. He informed that percentage of identified infect- ed people has been confirmed cases marked on April 4 last. there are more number of ed and lost lives has been 60 by RTPCR testing. At the same Currently, the deaths of the infected people in the villages and 40 respectively, whereas time, 97 tests conducted infected have been reduced to than in the city. The campaign earlier 90 per cent of the through antigen and 62 persons . = ten during treatment, but the to identify the infected in rural patients were found positive in were tested through trunat figure of those who lost their areas is becoming helpful in the city. amongst positive people. lives for two days is stable at preventing the spread of coro- The number of healthy Supervisor from AG office, eight. It is also a matter of relief na infection. People's awareness people is better than the infect- DGM of NTPC Meja plant and ) ">'-*$+) that the number of people is also the reason for this. ed. On Friday, 64 people were one JE, one TC posted at recovering from the infected is On Friday, a corona testing discharged from various Covid Chheoki railway station, increasing continuously. On of 9,333 people was conducted hospitals out of 1,182 people Kendriya Vidyalaya teacher, able beds, kitchen, toilet, etc corona patients. The DM patients, the former vice-pres- Friday, 1,182 people beat in the district. Of them, 456 who got healthy. At the same one SI posted at Soraon police B9 so that it could be run for the directed the concerned offi- ident of Cantonment Board Corona. new cases of coronaviurs were time, 1,118 people completed station, Soraon government corona patients and the facil- cers to ascertain the sanitation and its member in present According to District found. The reduced number of home isolation. Among the school teacher, CRPF constable n order to consolidate the ities could be made available in the hospital premises, time Shailendra Singh had Surveillance Officer Dr Rishi infectives after April 4 is reliev- new cases confirmed, the list of were among in the list of new Ifacility of beds with liquid as per requirement. install the medical equipment, demanded, he informed. Sahai, there has been a decrease ing. On April 4, 475 new infect- corona infections released on Corona positive patients. An SI oxygen plants (LOP) for the After being informed by lay down oxygen supply lines Now, he has got informa- in the prevalence of corona ed were marked. Then there Friday in the district from of Police Lines and a staff corona patients, the district the hospital management that and consolidate the other tion that by paying attention infection in the district. The were three deaths while only RTPCR, the highest number of nurse of a private hospital were administration has decided to a total of 84 beds are available arrangements here so that the to his demand, the Board has chain of infection was broken 5,714 people were tested. infections among 297 people also tested for COVID-19 pos- turn Rajkiya Ayurvedic in the private and general work should be started at the decided to reserve six beds in due to Corona curfew and the Currently, there is no relief was confirmed by RTPCR test- itive. Hospital as 200-bed COVID- wards of this three-storey hos- earliest. the hospital for the corona 19 Hospital with the oxygen pital, the DM said, the hospi- Meanwhile, the patients with the facility of plant for time being. The tal will be run as 200-bed Cantonment Board adminis- oxygen for those patients who administration of the COVID-19 Hospital so as the tration has also decided to will need treatment in the Cantonment Board has also crisis of beds could be met reserve six beds for the coro- emergency, Singh informed +;;9 ) decided to reserve some beds out. The LOP will also be na patients in its hospital, and welcomed the decision. of its hospital for the corona established here and the situated in the Cantonment The availability of beds with patients. process regarding this has area. The population of the oxygen facility will save the < Dependency Unit) ward of L3 vide relief. launched Covid Hospital of The District Magistrate already been started, the DM district living in the life of many, he hoped and SRN Hospital are being admit- According to government Shambhunath Institute. Kaushal Raj Sharma on Friday informed adding, the arrange- Cantonment area is at large- said, the Board will also make midst the dwindling num- ted. This will relieve the Covid figures, ICU has a total of 336 There are 24 empty venti- made a visit to Rajkiya ment of necessary medical scale and thus, some beds of other necessary facilities avail- Aber of corona infectives, infected from wandering to get beds in 14 of these 16 Covid lators in L2 Tej Bahadur Sapru Ayurveda Hospital, situated in equipment, oxygen cylinders, the hospital being run by able in the hospital to save the there is a relief news that more admitted. hospitals in the district. Of Hospital Beli. One in Phoenix, Chowkaghat, and took a stock etc are also being made here Cantonment Board should be life of people of Cantonment than 900 beds with different The district administra- these, 64 are empty. At the same two in Ojha, three empty ven- of information about the avail- for the better treatment of reserved for the corona area to great extent. facilities are vacant in 16 Covid tion's website has claimed to time, 52 of 107 beds of High tilators in Nazareth confirm the hospitals in the district. Not have empty beds to treat the Dependency Unit (HDU) have decreasing number of serious only this, there is also avail- infected in Covid hospitals. been shown empty in seven patients. Contrary to the truth ability of ICUs and ventilators ICUs of many hospitals are full, hospitals. The 14 hospitals with in the administration's claims, 8$; 2) in private and government while 47 beds in Shambhunath oxygen-rich beds have 511 the number of empty beds at L3 hospitals. Institute have been shown beds, of which 234 are empty. SRN Hospital is changing every The Kalindipuram centre empty of ICUs. The condition Not only this, 32 of the 74 ven- hour. About 50 beds are empty B9 phlets in e-form and hard copy has 496 beds empty for patients of empty beds in 16 hospitals, tilators available with 12 hos- in a day, but the people to be formats in view to create aware- with isolation. At the same including Beli and pitals with ventilator facilities admitted are also reaching the n the initiatives of the ness among the people against time, patients coming imme- Kalindipuram Covid hospitals are empty. With this, 47 ICU hospital in the same propor- OGeneral Manager (GM) such fraud cases especially diately to the HDU (High in the district, is going to pro- beds are empty in the recently tion. Anjali Goyal in order to pro- when the coronavirus pan- vide quick relief to serious demic continued due to its sec- Covid positive patients, a 610 ond wave. LPM (litres per minute) oxygen Stressing the need for plant would be set up at strengthening digital space and ,2 ,3* Banaras Locomotives Works financial transaction by creat- (BLW) Central Hospital soon. ing awareness among the peo- With the installation of this ple, the CP said that during the < direction of Singh, Public Additional Divisional Railway was nobody to extend help to plant, the patients in this 105- online purchasing, one should Relations Department, North Manager / Prayagraj and new Yadav. He anyhow reached bed hospital would not face an avoid disclosing their PIN jit Kumar Singh took Central Railway has made Additional Divisional Railway Jhusi police station to lodge an oxygen crisis and they can get number and OTP and get Acharge as Additional many achievements, includ- Manager / General, Prayagraj FIR, but he was asked to do the respiratory relief during their guidance of the GM in order to so that all 18 plus staff as well details about CIN/TIN/ GST of Divisional Railway Manager ing North Central Railway, the division Ajit Kumar Singh was same online. treatment easily. treat patients effectively and as their family members can get the selling companies, prior to (ADRM)/ general, Prayagraj first in the ‘Best Innovation welcomed. The Jhusi inspector, how- With the full support of the provide them timely medi- their vaccine doses as soon as payment. Besides, during such division of the North Central Idea’ at the 64th National Rail MOBILE PHONE LOOT- ever, assured that the FIR district administration, cines, beds, oxygen, online possible. purchasing one should always Railway (NCR). The post was Festival and Exhibition-cum- ED: Lockdown has no impact would be registered by the Kanpur-based Shubham counselling, Covid’s medicine CP FOR MORE VIGIL use their own mobile, laptop or vacated by Anurag Agarwal’s Rail Fair- 2019 held in Ambala on the criminals and their evening and efforts would be Goldiee Masale Company has kits to the patients being stayed AGAINST DIGITAL computer and follow all the transfer to North Central in July 2019 ranked second in activities. They are committing made to trace out the phone. offered 88 lakh for setting up in home isolation and other FRAUDS: When the markets RBI guidelines. The police also Railway, Headquarters. Ajit Over All Best Stall. In this crime quite freely because ROAD MISHAP: In a an oxygen generating plant of medical facilities apart from continued to remain closed cautioned the people about all Kumar Singh is a 2001 batch sequence, the entire story of nobody is there on the road to tragic incident, two drivers 610 LPM capacity under its launching sanitisation work in for the 10th continuous day the fake calls in which in the Indian Railway Mechanical Kumbh 2019 was done in a give them a chase. were killed, while two others Corporate Social Responsibility the premises regularly. ‘With due to corona curfew here on name of banks and others, the Engineering Service officer ‘Coffee Table Book - Kumbh - On Friday evening a staff sustained grievous injuries (CSR) programme. The oxygen the installation of this 610 Saturday and majority of peo- frauds try to get details of and earlier he was posted as 2019 Rail to Mela’, which Singh, member of The Pioneer LN when a dumper collided with plant is being supplied by M/s LPM oxygen plant, BLW ple are staying at home, one’s ATM cards and banks and Chief Public Relations Officer along with his public relations Yadav was deprived of his another one which was parked Summits Hygronics Pvt Ltd, Central Hospital will become depending largely on e-com- in case of any fraud, one should (CPRO), North Central team, performed the task very Samsung android mobile. He after it got punctured at the Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu) and self-sufficient in providing oxy- merce and other digital plat- contact the police immediate- Railway. well. The whole Kumbh was returning home after Shastri Bridge in the wee hours the electrical and civil work gen to the serious patients,’ said forms for fulfilling their essen- ly. In another pamphlet, the Originally a resident of appears in this coffee table attending the office. He was on Saturday. required for setting up the the Principal Chief Medical tial needs, the cases of digital police cautioned the people Mirzapur, Ajit Kumar Singh book, which will be taken into about to cross the Shastri The collision was so pow- plant will be done by skilled Officer (PCMO) Dr Sujit frauds have also increased dur- about the frauds being done completed his engineering consideration whenever Bridge on the Ganga to reach erful that one of the dumpers and experienced engineers and Mallick, adding that the BLW’s ing the period as some cheats these days in the name of studies from MNNIT, Kumbh is discussed. Jhusi when three motorcycle- parked at the bridge was blown technical team producing locos health workers are working have become active to misguide corona pandemic and appealed Prayagraj before starting the At the farewell and recep- borne miscreants stopped him into pieces. at the BLW. round-the-clock to provide the people taking the advantage to all not to give any payment Indian Railway service. Singh tion held at Prayagraj division, and snatched away his mobile The drivers of both vehicles BLW is making all its best best treatment to Covid of the situation. Cautioning the on the requests if the same are started his service on Indian Divisional Railway Manager phone. They pushed Yadav were killed and two people efforts to fight corona as its patients. According to him, people against such frauds, the received through various social Railways from South Eastern (DRM) Mohit Chandra con- and disappeared within sec- were injured in the accident. medical team is doing untiring now the vaccination drive has Commissioner of Police (CP) A platforms by the names of Railway, Kharagpur. gratulated Anurag Aggarwal onds. The traffic stopped at Shastri jobs on a war footing under the been intensified on the campus Satish Ganesh issued two pam- their close relatives or friends. Under the guidance and for his excellent work as Owing to lockdown there Bridge for hours. !"#$'!#&) 0&) 123
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The proposal sent long (LTT)- Gorakhpur - Lokmanya Bhusaval at 00.40 hrs on the ond day at 02.20 hrs, from back for setting up an oxygen Tilak Terminus summer special second day, from Itarsi at 05.10 Jabalpur at 05.00 hrs, from plant in Kanshiram Hospital train from Lokmanya Tilak hrs, from Jabalpur at 08.40 hrs, Itarsi at 08.55 hrs, from along with the estimate is Terminus on May 11 and from from Satna at 12.20 hrs, from Bhusaval at 13.25 hrs, from awaiting the nod of the officials Gorakhpur on May 13 for one Prayagraj Chheoki at 15.45 Nashik Road at 16.58 hrs, from concerned. trip. All coaches in the train hrs, from Varanasi at 21.00 hrs, Kalyan at 19.50 hrs and reach The estimate of the oxygen will be of reserved category and from Mau at 23.05 hrs, on the Lokmanya Tilak Terminus at plant has yet not been approved passengers travelling in them third day from Bhatni at 00.20 20.50 hrs. A total of 21 coach- by the committee set up by the will have to follow the Covid- hrs and reach Gorakhpur at es, including two of of gener- government and this has 19 prevention guidelines, Chief 02.00 hrs. ator-cum-luggage van, 13 of delayed the process of setting Public Relations Officer GORAKHPUR-LTT air-conditioned (AC) third up the oxygen plant there. (CPRO) Pankaj Kumar Singh SPECIAL: In the return jour- class, four of AC second class, Unless the estimate is approved said. ney 01356 Gorakhpur- 04, one of AC first class and one there shall be no funding and LTT-GORAKHPUR SPE- Lokmanya Tilak Terminus of pantry car will be attached without funding the work for CIAL: The 01355 Lokmanya superfast summer special train in this train. the setting the oxygen plant $ 5 )5 16 ) 03 cannot begin, said the techni- cal supervisor of the hospital. Two oxygen refilling plants * in Dada Nagar remained closed on Friday as they did not receive the supply and could ' 9 not provide oxygen to the cus- #' tomers who stood in queue for the whole day only to return 8PSS@TQPI9@IU $+ ,-#* Gorakhpur special train will will run on May 17. The 09124 : phone lines and working with than 50 needed hospitalisation. genuine patients and that too disappointed. run on May 16, 19 and 20. Ghazipur City-Valsad superfast around 30 to 40 staff round the The divisional commis- on time. Static magistrate Vijayant he railway administration Likewise 09074 Gorakhpur- Special train will run on May anpur Divisional clock. He said in addition sioner made a surprise visit to He said four doctors were Kumar said the supply reached Thas decided to extend the Bandra Terminus special train 19. KCommissioner Dr Raj around 10 officials were also the ICCC and took feedback deputed in ICCC to take calls the plant late in the evening. running period of special trains will run on May 18, 21 and 22. All coaches in these trains Shekhar said that realising the monitoring the ICCC working from the patients in home iso- for tele consultation and the He, however, was unable to and cancel the 02039/02040 UDHNA-CHHAPRA will be of reserved category and gravity of the COVID-19 situ- for 24 hours. lation to cross-check the work- ICCC was getting 300 to 350 reply why three oxygen plants Kathgodam-New Delhi- SUPERFAST SPECIAL: The passengers traveling in them ation, it had decided to modi- The divisional commis- ing. He said now there were 30 calls each day. He said the — Hariom, Murari and Panki Kathgodam special train, Chief 09087 Udhna-Chhapra super- will have to follow the stan- fy the working of the Integrated sioner said as the number of computers with essential hard- ICCC would cross-check all the oxygen — were shut down Public Relations Officer fast special train will run on dards of Covid-19 prevention Command and Control Centre COVID-19 cases was declining, ware and software to handle the patients who were reported when they should have func- (CPRO) Pankaj Kumar Singh May 21. The 09088 Chhapra- guidelines. (ICCC) so as to handle the sit- more emphasis had to be given situation. He said if any person positive to find out if they had tioned round-the-clock to sup- said. Udhna superfast special train uation effectively as per the on tele consultancy, especially in home isolation needed any received the home isolation ply oxygen to the needy. MUMBAI CENTRAL- will run on May 23. current demand. for the home isolation patients, kind of medical help or guid- medicine kit or not. He warned MANDUADIH SPECIAL: BANDRA TERMINUS- The ICCC has been direct- and thus necessary modifica- ance it would be provided that if the home isolation The 09035 Mumbai Central- MAU SPECIAL: The 09099 KATHGODAM - NEW ed to focus more on home iso- tion was being made in the through tele consultancy. He patients did not receive the Manduadih superfast special Bandra Terminus-Mau Special DELHI SPECIAL: The 02039 lation cases and successfully working of the ICCC. said if the person needed hos- medicine kit within 24 hours of 5+ train will run on May 18. The train will run on May 18. The Kathgodam - New Delhi spe- coordinate tele consultancy. Dr Shekhar said now the pitalization, the details would reporting then strict action 09036 Manduadih-Dadar 09100 Mau-Bandra Terminus cial train will be cancelled The incharge of the ICCC has ICCC was functioning differ- be picked up and doctors at the would be taken against the " ( superfast special train will run special will run on May 20. from May 9 until further been directed to ensure that the ently based on the need of time. ICCC would take a call for hos- nodal officer looking after dis- on May 20. BANDRA TERMINUS - notice. Likewise 02040 New Integrated Command and He said now around 10,000 pital admission on the same tribution. BANDRA TERMINUS - GHAZIPUR CITY SPECIAL: Delhi-Kathgodam special train Control Centre handles 75 per automated voice calls were day. He said as per the gov- City magistrate and addi- GORAKHPUR SPECIAL: The 09123 Bandra Terminus - will remain cancelled from cent calls each day in the next generated and sent to the ernment directive, all home tional chief medical officer : The 09073 Bandra Terminus - Ghazipur City superfast special May 9 until further notice. three days and 90 per cent calls patients in home isolation with isolation kits should be dis- were also present during the in the next six days. options like ‘All is OK’, tributed to positive cases with- inspection. hree persons were injured The divisional commis- ‘Need Hospitalisation’ or in 24 hours of reporting. It may be mentioned that Twhen the supporters of the sioner said currently only 50 ‘Need to talk to ICCC per- The divisional commis- those in home isolation are fac- former and the newly-elected '() ) per cent of the people in home son’ etc. He said out of the sioner said the isolation kits ing acute crises of oxygen and gram pradhans indulged in isolation were taking the calls. total calls, only 50 per cent peo- which were being distributed are purchasing oxygen in black brick-batting in Majra He said the ICCC in the ple were responding and added were now under the direct and the district administration Dariyapur locality of Kanpur Smart City office was that a big section needed a lit- monitoring of the ICCC to needs to do something in this Vishunpur village under equipped with only 25 tele- tle bit of guidance while less ensure that they reached the regard as well. Chaubepur police station on Saturday morning. 8PSS@TQPI9@IU '( )#* mortem examination report. days. NPP Chairman Manoj It may be recalled that DEDICATED TO PUB- Jaiswal On Friday dedicated the after the declaration of the 25-year-old woman died LIC: The Nagar Palika Parishad community toilet to public and panchayat election results, ten- Aunder suspicious circum- has provided a community toi- said that it had the facility of 9 - sion had also prevailed in stances under Dehat Kotwali let for people, especially the bath room too which will be Kanjati village under police station on Thursday attendants of Covid-19 helpful for the attendants of Chaubepur police station a night. According to a report patients, near L2 hospital. Covid-19 patients. He directed & 8* 3 ( few days ago. received here, Siyaram Chairman of Nagar Palika the staff concerned to ensure According to reports, the Vishwakarma, a resident of donate blood. supporters of the former and Rajapur village under Lalganj : The prominent people the newly-elected village heads police station, had married his felicitated for their outstanding pelted stones at each other daughter, Suman, to Deepu, a anpur Nagar District work were head of depart- from the roofs of their houses resident of Kolahan under KMagistrate Alok Tiwari ment of GSVM Medical for over 20 minutes on Dehat Kotwali police station. felicitated people on World College Blood Bank, Dr Lubna Saturday. Three persons were As per the husband, Suman Red Cross Day for their out- Khan, for striving hard to injured in the brick-batting had committed suicide by standing performance espe- arrange more and more blood and tension prevailed in the vil- hanging herself. He told the cially in times of crisis and sav- donation camps to obtain lage. police that he had found his ing lives on Saturday. blood for the needy, incharge of The police reached the wife hanging when he The programme was Ursula Hospital Blood Bank, spot and took eight persons returned home after work. organised by the local unit of Dr AK Mishra, PCS officer into custody, including the On the other hand, Siyaram, Red Cross Society. He said Akansha Gautam who has been brother of the former gram father of the deceased, alleged blood donation was the noblest doing her best in the present pradhan. that his daughter was mur- donation across the world as it times, Dr AK Singh, ACMO. Clash and scuffles between dered for dowry. saved precious lives. 5 - ) )%7 ) 8 In addition media lens- the winner and loser candidates According to the station Parishad (NPP) Manoj Jaiswal the availability of sanitiser at the He said in the present time # 1 5 man Vipin Gupta was felicitat- have sharply increased after the house officer (SHO) Dehat had visited the L-2 hospital a place positively besides regular when COVID-19 was its sec- ed for regularly being on the gram panchayat elections. A Kotwali, Vijay Kumar few days ago and had found an sanitation there and provide ond phase leading to several donate blood and that too after tion of blood was obtained heels of the district magistrate few days ago, post-poll violence Chaurasia, the father of the vic- abandoned lavatory there and the uninterrupted water supply. deaths, blood donation and every three months which was from the mercenary donors and divisional commissioner was reported in Kanjati village tim had given application an directed the staff to make it On the occasion the chairman plasma donation was success- perfectly safe. which was in fact a big threat during odd time inspections under Chaubepur police sta- application in this connec- ready for use. The palika admin- was accompanied by corporators fully saving lives. He said there He said people were to the life of the recipient. He and raids and liaisoning time- tion in which as many as 15 tion and further action in it will istration swung into action and Alankar Jaiswal, Shyamasundar were many myths related to unaware of the benefit of blood said voluntary donations were ly with the media for better persons were injured. Police be taken after getting the post- completed the work within few Keshari and Tabeer Shaukat. blood donation and said it was donation which helped in pro- safe. He said the Red Cross coverage. had registered a case and perfectly safe and those above viding them a better health. Society was doing a yeoman Others present were RK arrested 24 persons. Similarly, 18 years of age and healthy per- He said it was ironic that in service and said more people Saffad, Dr Pooja Awasthi and tension had also prevailed in 5/06 sons below the age of 60 could the normal times a major por- need to come forward to several others. Bojha village at the same time. According to Vishunpur 8PSS@TQPI9@IU '( )#* vaccination will be started. the public. He appealed to the villagers, this time Seema of ALVIDA NAMAZ: The people wear masks positively, Dariyapur was elected the gram uring the ongoing vacci- offering of Alvida Namaz use sanitisers regularly and pradhan. When the supporters Dnation drive against Covid passed off peacefully in the dis- avoid wandering unnecessar- of the gram pradhan were cel- -19 as many as 3,457 people trict on Friday during which ily. He directed the cops to ebrating their victory on were vaccinated on Friday. Covid guidelines were fol- keep a regular watch in the area Saturday, the henchmen of for- Giving details of the vaccina- lowed. The police patrolled and take strict action against mer village head Basanti Devi tion district vaccination offi- throughout the day and nuisance creators without any attacked them. This led to cer Dr Neelesh said that the ensured the compliance of hesitation. He further directed brick-batting between the sup- vaccination work was being social distancing strictly. the cops to take action against porters of the former and the done through 13 centres in On the day Superintendent those too who were ignoring newly-elected gram pradhans. the district and as per the of Police (SP) incharge the Covid-19 guidelines. KANPUR (PNS): At a time stop the progression of the dis- should be prioritised for vac- tion of the patient became Station House Officer guidelines of the government Subhash Chandra Shakya During the patrolling in the when many cancer patients ease. Dr Gupta said the multi- cination and should be immu- serious then heart and lung Krishna Mohan Rai said eight the people aged more than 45 patrolled in the city and city he was accompanied by the are hesitating to visit hospitals disciplinary team at Regency nised when vaccination is avail- transplant was the final alter- persons from both the sides years were being vaccinated. appealed to the people to take Circle Officer (CO) City during the second wave of Hospital reviewed each indi- able to them. Immunisation is native. He said even after being had been taken into custody. He said that those more than all necessary precautions to Prabhat Rai, Station House novel coronavirus to continue vidual patient in order to recommended for all patients cured around 40 per cent of the He said action would be taken 18 years the direction was defeat Covid-19 pandemic. He Officer (SHO) City Kotwali their treatment, Regency decide if any change in treat- receiving active therapy, with COVID-19 patients were fac- against the guilty. awaited. Dr Neelesh said the told the people to take police Ravindra Yadav, SHO of Katra Hospital Kanpur has put up a ment was needed, therefore it the understanding that there ing other problems as in the PLASMA DONATION online registration for the action in a positive way Kotwali Swaminath, heavy robust cancer care facility that was very important to keep in are limited safety and efficacy second wave of the pandemic CAMP INAUGURATED: age group of 18 was on and because cops were on the roads police force and provincial has adequate screening and contact with the doctor or data in these patients. In the the situation was really grave. Chief of the IMA Charitable after getting the direction for the safety and security of armed constabulary (PAC). prevention measures in con- nurse via telephone or email to case of patients who are receiv- He advised people to keep Blood Bank, Kanpur, Dr Pravin formity with the Covid guide- understand why the treatment ing intensive cytotoxic their blood pressure and dia- Katiyar, while inaugurating the lines. Consultant medical plan might be modified. It has chemotherapy, vaccination betes well under control and plasma donation camp on oncologist Dr Atul Gupta has been observed that patients are should be delayed until consume nutritious and bal- Saturday, said it was very - 7 advised the cancer patients to now opting for home infusion absolute neutrophil count anced diets. It may be men- encouraging that a big number stay in touch with their oncol- of chemotherapy drugs but (ANC) recovery. Caregivers tioned here that ECMO is an of people had responded 8PSS@TQPI9@IU '( )#* Koraanv police station in way. The Bolero driver man- ogists in such challenging times this is not recommended. and household/close contacts artificial lung and heart and registered for donating Prayagraj. aged to flee from the spot and and avoid delay in chemother- According to Dr Gupta, most should be immunised when machine and is used when all plasma. alia police arrested one MISHAP: One person died the injured were undergoing apy appointments. According chemotherapy treatments are possible. other forms of heart and lung He said with the help of Hperson with illicit liquor in a road accident under Jigna treatment, last reports received to Dr Gupta, chemotherapy given in repeating cycles and ECMO QUITE EFFEC- support fail for critically ill these people a database had on Friday. During routine police station recently. Reports here said. Meanwhile an earli- targets and controls the growth the length of a cycle depends TIVE IN SAVING COVID patients. Dr Verma explained been prepared which would be patrolling Halia police was said that Ajay, a resident of er report said that a youth com- or destroys cancer cells in the on the treatment being given. PATIENTS: The head of that the ECMO worked by useful in the future times. tipped off by an informer about Yadavpur village under Jigna mitted suicide under City body. Most people who are Most cycles range from 2 to 6 department of cardiac surgery temporarily drawing blood He said it was highly the sale of the liquor in the area. police station, was on the way Kotwali police station recent- given chemotherapy are weeks. The number of treat- at Laxmipat Singhania Institute from the body to allow artifi- encouraging the around 50 Thereafter the police raided the on a motorcycle along with his ly. Abhishek alias Sonu (28) was required to come to hospital for ment doses scheduled within of Cardiology, Dr RK Verma, cial oxygenation of the red people had donated plasma place and arrested one person wife, Anita (35) and 17-year- found hanging from the ceiling treatment, and with the on- each cycle also varies depend- while addressing a webinar on blood cells and remove carbon and many were on the waiting along with the 14 bottles of old daughter. He was hit by a in his house. On getting infor- going pandemic, patients are ing on the drugs being given. ‘COVID-19 pandemic and dioxide. He said this method list. He said any person keen to liquor from Garbara. After Bolero while he reached mation about the matter the apprehensive about such visits. Most people have several heart attack’ on Saturday was now being used to support donate plasma could register registering a case under Section Bihasara market as a result the area police reached the spot Even the standard guide- cycles of chemotherapy and the said extracorporeal membrane critically ill patients with with the IMA CBB. He said in 60 of Excise Act, the police motorcycle riders sustained and took his body for com- lines state that cancer patients treatment cycles may continue oxygenation (ECMO) was COVID-19 pneumonia for case of need people could con- seized the liquor and sent the serious injuries. After treatment pleting the legal formalities. As who are advised chemothera- for as long as the chemothera- quite effective in saving patients whom ventilation was insuffi- tact Ms Anjali (6307491422) or accused to jail. The accused was in a private nursing home the per the police as per the prima py should avoid any delay in py works well. As per the suffering from COVID-19. cient to sustain blood oxygen Dr Pravin Katiyar identified as Bishpat Jaiswal, a injured were referred to district facie investigation it seemed to their treatment in order to guidelines, patients with cancer He said in case the condi- levels. (9415132492). resident of Kashfera under hospital but Anita died on the be a case of suicide. !"#$'!#&) 0&) 123
/ ( 8 00,0 9 0 8<& 7% key issues. But Indian industry " will welcome a resumption of "0 mplementation of the pro- formal negotiations for the BTIA Iposed free-trade agreement and is ready to support the between India and the European negotiations in any way possible,” 55 55 to attend to issues and griev- Union (EU) will benefit both the he said. He also said that both ances related to children affect- sides and the domestic business- the regions need to focus on he Delhi Police has arrest- he Ministry of Women and ed by Covid-19, he said. es will welcome the resumption investment facilitation and pro- Ted three men from west TChild Development has An orientation cum stake- of formal negotiations on the tection. Delhi’s Janakpuri area for constituted a task force at dis- holders meeting was organised long-stalled pact, industry body Speaking at the function, allegedly black-marketing oxy- trict level to solve the issues and by the Department in virtual CII said on Saturday. Markus J. Beyrer, Director gen concentrators in the city. grievances of children affected mode with the district task The proposed Broad-based General of Business Europe – Police said that 19 imported by Covid-19. force members and other stake- Trade and Investment Confederation of European oxygen concentrators, three Minister Rajendra Pal also holders on May 7th. The meet Agreement (BTIA) between the Business, said he completely cars and 7.80 lakh have been the accused persons. The convened a web based orienta- was addressed by Chairperson, two sides has been stalled since agreed with CII Director General recovered from the possession accused were selling these con- tion session for the same. He JJC Justice Rajiv Shakdher, May 2013 as both sides are yet on resuming the FTA talks. of the accused. centrators at 1,30,000 per also paid tributes to the front- Rajendra Pal Gautam, Minister, to iron out differences over sev- The accused have been piece, however, the market line workers of Delhi Women and Child eral issues. The BTIA is a kind identified as Bharat Agarwal value of per piece is around ‘Integrated Child Development Development, Anurag Kundu, of comprehensive free trade (42), a resident of Janakpuri, 30,000 to 50,000,” said the Services’ who lost their lives. Chairperson (DCPCR) and agreement being negotiated by Ishant Gosain (31), a resident DCP. In another incident, the Recognising the vulnera- Madhu garg, Secretary of the two sides. of Pitampura and Ranbir Singh Delhi Police claimed that they bility of children during Covid WCD. Speaking at the EU–India (29), a resident of Rohini. have arrested a person from pandemic, especially those who The objective of this meet Business Roundtable, CII According to Urvija Goel, Punjab for allegedly cheating lost their parents or families, was to develop a common Director-General Chandrajit the Deputy Commissioner of people on the pretext of provid- thereby losing meager source of understanding on roles and Banerjee said that BTIA will real- Police (DCP), west district, on ing oxygen cylinder. income, the department has responsibility of the district ly benefit the EU with better Thursday, information was The accused has been iden- recently initiated a series of task force to bring coordina- access to the huge and rapidly received that one Bharat tified as Ran Vijay, a resident of measures for strengthening its tion with other concerned growing Indian market and Agrawal was selling oxygen Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh,. efforts for protection and care agencies to provide immediate India with technology and inno- concentrators at exorbitant Due to the ongoing oxygen of vulnerable children, a senior care and protection to all vul- vation access. prices. crisis, the accused started send- official said. nerable children in their dis- “Several rounds (of talks) “Police laid a trap near ing messages to people with the Amongst one of the initia- tricts affected due to Covid and held until 2013, but the negoti- parking of District Center, assurance to arrange oxygen tives is the constitution of a dis- for effective management of ations could not be completed as Janakpuri and apprehended cylinders. trict task force for each district child care institutions. differences remain over some , -91: 9:+3'; 55 heroin worth 860 crore in international market. he Delhi Police has arrest- “On Friday, police received Ted an Afghan couple from specific inputs that two persons Dehradun:The Uttarakhand western part of the city and would come from Wazirabad Govt on Saturday said an recovered over 100 kilograms with heroin in their car and amount of 198.64 crore has of heroin worth 860 crore in they will go towards Khyala. been given to public and coop- the international market. Later, a trap was laid and the erative sector sugar mills for The accused have been accused were apprehended making immediate payment to identified as Mohammad Shafi around 4.35 pm from Ganda sugarcane growers.The amount (48) and Tareena (36), both Nala Road, near Gas Agency, was made available after Chief natives of Kandhar in Khyala area,” said the DCP. Minister Tirath Singh Rawat was Afghanistan.According to “A total of 125.840 kg hero- plying heroin from Wazirabad supply of heroin and both were apprised with the situation, the Urvija Goel, the Deputy in has been seized from the car to Khyala and thereafter to going to deliver the recovered state’s Minister for Sugarcane Commissioner of Police which was kept in seven plas- Punjab,” said the DCP. drug, police said, adding that Development and Sugar (DCP), West district, police tic bags. During interrogation, Tareena is his wife and he further investigation is under- Industries Swami recovered 125.840 kilograms Shafi disclosed that he was sup- took her with him for help in way. Yatishwaranand said. ; +- (
which has to come into force multitude of jewellers in India there is a penalty in offence as tricts, which do not have any w.e.f. 1st June 2021, is likely to - the percentage of hallmarking provided under Section 29 of hallmarking centres yet. he Nagpur Bench of result in great hardships to centres available in India, is just the BIS Act, 2016 punishable And the court has in the TBombay High Court lakhs of jewellers in India and about 34% of the 733 districts with maximum imprisonment meanwhile, directed that no passed an interim order on their number is stated to be 5 in the country and that there of one year. It is also submit- coercive action shall be taken May 7 which stops Bureau of lakhs.” The writ petition was are at least 488 districts in the ted that within the time avail- against the jewellers under Indian Standards (BIS) from filed by All India Gem & country, which do not have any able, it could not be possible for Section 29(2) of the BIS Act, taking any coercive action on Jewellery Domestic Council hallmarking centres. It is fur- all the jewellers and for every 2016, till next date of hearing jewellers across India or impose (GJC), which is the industry’s ther submitted that there are piece of jewellery presently on 14th June 2021. penalty on those who may not apex domestic Council that about 6,000 crore pieces of jew- available to be hallmarked This is a big relief to the comply with BIA (BIS Act, ensures promotion, protection ellery, which still need to be before these provisions of law jewellers who shall now be fully 2016) regulations, Section 29(2) and progress of jewellers. GJC hallmarked.” come into force.” protected from any actions on mandatory hallmarking due was represented in court by Nitin Khandelwal, Past Saiyam Mehra, Vice from BIS even though they to the lack of adequate infra- counsel, Rohan Shah. Chairman, GJC, said, “Courts Chairman, GJC, commented, may wish to still go ahead with structure in terms of assaying Ashish Pethe, Chairman, have been reasonable and strict “It is further submitted that mandatory hallmarking.” and hallmarking centres. All India Gem & Jewellery with BIS as further contention there are also other problems Dinesh Jain, Director, GJC The Court ruled: “The Domestic Council (GJC) stat- is that if there is any breach of arising out of the present who represented GJC in the writ contention is that the new reg- ed, “Courts have seen the hard- the said mandate of law as pro- COVID restrictions, which petition filed, commented, “The ulation making it compulsory ship of the jewellers. The order vided under Sections 14 and 15 prevent a person to travel from writ has been admitted on merit to hallmark gold jewellery stated that further contention of the Bureau of Indian one district to another district and notice has been issued to before it is stored or sold, is that in proportion to such Standards Act, 2016 (BIS Act), and that there are several dis- BIS and all respondents. B GB: notable that in view of the increasing cases in rural mind to manage the show in Lucknow. State Congress areas, the state government recently launched a 5-day president’s role is confined to sitting on dharna or stag- >2 9 testing drive to identify symptomatic patients and pro- ing protest. Nobody is sparing a thought about party 0 9: 2 99 vide them medical aid. organisation. The old-timers who had an organisa- Speaking to reporters, the CM said, “At present, tional skill were either sidelined or expelled from the Shortage of basic medicines and medical facil- more than 60,000 committees are working under the party,” he said. ities like the availability of ambulances has made the special screening campaign in around 97,000 revenue Congress leaders of all ages agree that the party matter worse for the patients. The toll is surpassing villages of the state. Door-to-door rapid antigen tests organisation is in shatters. Priyanka needs to build the each passing day. are being conducted at massive scale.” structure from booth to district and to State-level brick As per the guidelines which the Ministry About the decline in the number of cases with by brick. “If you want to make the Congress strong, termed as “patient-centric measure aimed to ensure each passing day, the CM said, “After April 30, the state bring the foot soldiers back. They will help her to win a prompt, effective, and comprehensive treatment of has witnessed a continuous reduction in the number the war. Otherwise, it is a requiem for the party,” a patients suffering from Covid-19,” hospitals under of cases. This phase has seen acute infection which veteran leader said. the Central Government, State Governments and UT requires speedy treatment. It is necessary to identify administration, including private hospitals manag- the patients immediately and for this purpose, a large- KF> 02< F ing Covid patients shall ensure that requirement of scale testing campaign is being conducted all over the a positive test for Covid-19 virus is not mandatory state. With an average of 2.5 lakh tests in a day, Uttar for admission to a Covid health facility. Pradesh has now become the first state in the coun- “A suspect case shall be admitted to the suspect try to have done the highest number of tests”. Market in 1972. As Haji Banda Hasan’s sons Javed and ward of Covid Care Centre (CCC), Dedicated In order to ensure adequate supply of oxygen, the Saleem expanded the business. Covid Health Centre (DCHC) of Dedicated Covid CM said that there are already three oxygen plants In 2010, the family joined hands with Navneet Hospital (DHC) as the case may be,” the directive here and the UP government has sanctioned eight Kalra. However, in 2016 after running the restaurant to all the States and UTs said. more oxygen plants which will be set up in the com- successfully, the partnership split and the two sides It said no patient will be refused services on any missionerate districts. Oxygen is being supplied to the fought a bitter court battle over Khan Chacha trade- count which includes medications such as oxygen surrounding areas through tankers. mark. The brand name is currently being used by or essential drugs even if the patient belongs to a dif- The CM further said that the ‘108’ ambulance Kalra, while Haji Banda Hasan and sons have ferent city. facility is available in every district and 50 per cent launched a new eatery chain. “No patient shall be refused admission on the of it should be used for Covid patients. Monitoring Going through the social media profile of Kalra, ground that s/he is not able to produce a valid iden- is being done to make the telecommunication system one can see photos of him with politicians and celebri- tity card that does not belong to the city where the run smoothly. ties including Sushmita Sen, Shahrukh Khan, John hospital is located,” it said. Ebrahim, Harbhajan Singh, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj The Ministry also said admissions to the hos- : >9: 9 0 Singh, Gautam Gambhir, Rohit Sharma, and several pital must be “based on need”. others who had visited his restaurants Town Hall, Mr “It should be ensured that beds are not occupied : F O92 Choy, Ju, and the most famous Khan Chacha. by persons who do not need hospitalisation. Further, The 51-year-old legacy Dayal Opticals runs over the discharge should be strictly in accordance with She even appointed Ajay Kumar Lallu as the new 15 stores in Delhi-NCR with Kalra at the helm. And the revised discharge policy,” it said. State president and made a new team of office bear- it’s not just Dayal Opticals, Kalra also owns many of The Ministry said it has advised the chief sec- ers removing all the veterans as if making them the stores in Delhi’s posh Khan Market. retaries of States/Union territories to issue necessary responsible for the poor shows of the party in the hus- After the arrest of Gaurav, Satish Sethi, orders and circulars, incorporating these directions tings. However, the seriousness of Priyanka to boost Vikrant and Hitesh, who is manager of one of the within three days, which shall be enforced till the prospect of the Uttar Pradesh Congress was restaurant, from South Delhi’s Lodhi Colony area, replaced by an appropriate uniform policy. exposed as since January 2020, she distanced herself the Delhi Police conducted raids and 96 oxygen from UP politics and started taking more interest in concentrators were recovered from Khan Chacha B 99 : : and polio vaccination drives in * )$& 3 #( 4 the past, the IMA said that the country had been able to suc- > ceed on account of free vaccine & & provision for all age groups # < across the country. On the oxygen shortage, - IMA said that despite enough production of Oxygen in the 3% 22 % country large numbers of pri- vate hospitals are bearing the % # 2 )2 he Indian Medical shortage brunt due to faulty n its first ever meeting with TAssociation (IMA), a body distribution management of pating. IIndia in the EU+27 format, of professional doctors in the the life-saving gas. During the CPP meeting European Council on Saturday 2 % % country on Saturday, went Questioning the govern- ith the rout in the recent on Friday, Congress president agreed to strengthen the 4 % down heavily on the Union ment data on the number of WAssembly elections in Sonia Gandhi termed her “India-EU Strategic Health Ministry, questioning its new cases and covid-19 mor- Assam, West Bengal, Kerala party’s performance in the Partnership” based on a shared ) ) role in handling coronavirus talities, the IMA wondered and Puducherry, the Congress state assembly elections commitment to democracy, ) second wave across the States why the government was hid- Working Committee (CWC), “unfortunate, disappointing fundamental freedoms, rule of %#% even as it batted for complete ing actual Covid-19 statistics. the highest decision making and unexpected”. law and multilateralism. lockdown. Citing an example of false RT- body of the grand old party, In the recently concluded India and the EU also Terming the response of PCR negative tests, the IMA will meet on Monday to discuss assembly elections, results of agreed to enhance bilateral the Ministry extremely lethar- said that health authorities are the issue. which were declared on May cooperation on digital and gic, the IMA alleged that advi- not adding Covid-19 cases In a letter to all CWC 2, the Congress could not reg- emerging technologies such as an intention to achieve early sories and suggestions made by that are getting traced through members, Congress General ister win in any state, and its “5G, AI, Quantum and High- conclusion of both agreements health professionals were not 19 cases in the country. failed to chart out a proper CT-scan reports. Secretary (Organisations) K.C. only consolation was in Tamil Performance Computing together. paid heed and the govern- The IMA also said that road map and arrange vaccine The statement signed by Venugopal said, “A meeting of Nadu where the party con- including through the early This is a major outcome ment is taking decisions with- individual lockdown by dif- stock which has led to the sus- National President, IMA Dr. J CWC will be held on May 10 tested along with DMK as its operationalization of the Joint which will enable the two sides out realising the ground real- ferent states and night curfews pension of vaccination drive at A Jayalal concluded that there at 11 a.m. via video confer- partner, and managed to win Task Force on AI and the to realise the full potential of the ities. were ineffective in breaking the several vaccine centres in the should be a complete revamp encing.” 18 seats. Digital Investment Forum”. economic partnership. Citing instances of many chain of Coronavirus. country. of the entire Covid-19 man- The notice of the CWC Addressing the party MPs At the invitation of India and the EU also experts requesting the gov- On the vaccination front, The health professionals’ agement by the central gov- meeting comes a day after the on Friday during a virtual President of the European announced dedicated dialogues ernment to impose nation- the IMA said that despite body also criticised the differ- ernment ranging from con- Congress Parliamentary Party meeting, she said, “Most Council Charles Michel, Prime on WTO issues, regulatory wide lockdown, the IMA said Prime Minister Narendra ential pricing system for vac- tainment measures, vaccine (CPP) meeting was chaired by unfortunately, our own per- Minister Narendra Modi par- cooperation, market access that refusal of the central gov- Modi’s announcement of phase cine purchase by states and pri- shortage, drugs shortage, and party chief Sonia Gandhi on formance in all the states was ticipated in the India-EU issues and supply chain ernment to impose lockdown 3 vaccination rollout from vate medical institutions. manpower shortage among Friday with all the Rajya Sabha very disappointing and if I Leaders’ Meeting that was vir- resilience, demonstrating the has led to 4 lakh daily Covid- May 1, the Health Ministry Citing the instance of smallpox others. and Lok Sabha MPs partici- may say, unexpectedly so. tually held in a hybrid format desire to deepen and further with the participation of lead- diversify economic engagement. ers of all the 27 EU Member India and the EU launched 3% P % ,%) / , > 1 ? States as well as the President an ambitious and comprehen- of the European Council and sive ‘Connectivity Partnership’ ( 2 % 27 the European Commission. which is focused on enhancing A statement issued from digital, energy, transport and %'1 Prime Minister’s Office men- people-to-people connectivity. tioned that it was the first The Partnership is based on time that the EU hosted a the shared principles of social, tricts were bereft of any fresh Tathagatha Roy openly criti- believes that by not presenting meeting with India in the economic, fiscal, climate and cases in the last 28 days.” cized the ticket distribution a local credible face the party EU+27 format. The meeting environmental sustainability, he production of Liquid The number of critical espite increasing its tally and the role of central failed to attract the state’s intel- ormer Congress president was the initiative of the and respect for international law TMedical Oxygen (LMO) cases thus far includes 4,88,861 Dfrom three seats to 77 in appointees for affairs of the state ligentsia and the Bengali FRahul Gandhi on Saturday Portuguese Presidency of the and commitments. It will catal- has been maximised to meet patients who required ICU the 294 member Assembly, unit. Blaming state in-charge Bhadralok in the urban areas. slammed the Government over Council of the European yse private and public financing the present demand of Covid- beds, 1,70,841 patients who many West Bengal BJP leaders Kailash Vijayvargiya, co- The saffron camp in West the goods and services tax Union. for connectivity projects. It will 19 patients and the domestic required ventilator support and feel that the Central leadership’s incharge Arvind Menon, Shiv Bengal feels that sidelining of (GST) on vaccines, saying lives The leaders noted with sat- also foster new synergies for production currently exceeded 9,02,291 patients who were failure to gauge the mood on Prakash and state unit Chief the local leaders had worked can be lost but the Prime isfaction the growing conver- supporting connectivity initia- 9,400 Metric Tonne per day, the given oxygen support, the the ground and ignoring the Dilip Ghosh, Roy had tweeted, against the party. “Most of the Minister’s tax collection should gences on regional and global tives in third countries, includ- Government said on Saturday. Minister added. local leadership were the main “These people have heaped the local leaders, instead of work- not be lost. issues, including counterter- ing in the Indo-Pacific. Giridhar Aramane, As on date, Vardhan said, reasons for losing the high worst possible insults on ideo- ing on the ground engaged in In a tweet in Hindi, Rahul rorism, cybersecurity and mar- India and the EU leaders Secretary, Ministry of Road, 1.34 per cent of the active stakes battle to the Mamata logically driven BJP workers overseeing and arranging logis- Gandhi said, “Lives of people itime cooperation. The leaders reiterated their commitment Transport and Highways caseload is in ICU, 0.39 per cent Banerjee-led Trinamool and devout Swayamsevaks who tics of leaders sent by Delhi and can be lost, but the tax collec- acknowledged the importance to achieving the goals of the informed while presenting the of them are on ventilators and Congress (TMC). had been relentlessly working they behaved like a king giving tion of the Prime Minister of a free, open, inclusive and Paris Agreement and agreed to current scenario of LMO pro- 3.70 per cent of them are on Listing the reasons for the for the party since 1980s.” orders to the local cadre,” (Narendra Modi) should not be rules-based Indo-Pacific and strengthen joint efforts for duction, allocation and supply oxygen support. party’s failure to form the gov- Other West Bengal BJP another leader said. lost.” agreed to closely engage in the mitigation, adaptation and during the 25th meeting of the Vardhan informed the ernment in West Bengal, which leaders including a few who lost The West Bengal BJP He also used the hash tag of region, including in the context resilience to the impacts of cli- high-level Group of Ministers GOM that, “the cumulative was considered the last frontier in the Assembly polls said, “All workers pointed out that the GST. His remarks came after of India’s Indo-Pacific Ocean’s mate change, as well as pro- (GoM) on Covid-19 through number of Covid-19 vaccine by the saffron party along with the Central leaders assigned to leadership also failed to gauge several Congress-ruled states Initiative and the EU’s new viding means of implementa- video-conference. doses administered in the Kerala, West Bengal leaders manage the the mood of women voters. questioned the five per cent strategy on the Indo-Pacific. tion including finance in the Union Health Minister country has crossed 16.73 crore told IANS that there was little party’s poll affairs had “Welfare schemes of the Modi GST on the Covid vaccines. During the meeting, the context of COP26. India wel- Harsh Vardhan chaired the on Saturday which includes involvement of the state lead- failed to do their homework government did not work in With the five per cent GST leaders exchanged views on comed the EU’s decision to meeting that was also virtual- nearly 23 lakh doses given on ership in the and worked as dictators, ignor- our favour but women welfare on Covid vaccines the state gov- three key thematic areas-- for- join CDRI. ly attended by External Affairs Friday”. decision making, there was ing the feedback from the local work of Mamata in the rural ernments have to pay Rs 15-20 eign policy and security; Covid- Coinciding with the Minister S. Jaishankar, Civil “A total of 17,49,57,770 too much deployment of cen- cadre.” areas worked magic for the extra per dose to the central 19, climate and environment; Leaders’ Meeting, an India-EU Aviation Minister Hardeep S. doses have been delivered to tral leaders from other other A West Bengal BJP leader ruling party. government. The Rajasthan and trade, connectivity and Business Roundtable was Puri, Minister of State for the states, out of which parts of the country, especial- claimed that the party strate- From the very start the and Chhattisgarh governments technology. organised to highlight the Ports, Shipping and Waterways 16,65,49,583 doses have been ly from North India, and a fail- gists failed to present a credible central leadership insisted that have opposed the move of col- They discussed forging avenues for cooperation in and Fertilizers Mansukh consumed and 84,08,187 doses ure to present a credible and local face and made it Bengali like Bihar, women voters in lection of GST on Covid vac- closer cooperation on combat- climate, digital and healthcare. Mandaviya, Minister of State are still available with the effective Bengali leadership. (Mamata Banerjee) versus non West Bengal would vote for cines manufactured in India. ing the Covid-19 pandemic A finance contract of Euro for Home Nityanand Rai, and states,” said the Minister, A section in the West Bengali (Prime Minister the BJP but it did not happen,” Even Odisha Chief and economic recovery, tackling 150 million for the Pune Minister of State for Health adding a total of 53,25,000 Bengal BJP unit feels that if the Narendra Modi and Amit he said. Minister Naveen Patnaik has climate change, and reforming Metro Rail Project was signed Ashwini Kumar Choubey. doses are on the pipeline and Central leadership had heard Shah). “TMC used it and con- Sexist comments like the written to Finance Minister multilateral institutions. by the Ministry of Vinod K. Paul, Member will be supplied to the states the local cadre the result could tinuously attacked us and called ‘Didi O Didi’ remark of the Nirmala Sitharaman for waiv- India appreciated the Finance, Government of India, (Health), NITI Aayog was pre- soon. have been better. “Local lead- the Prime Minister and Home Prime Minister and Ghosh’s er of GST on Covid vaccines. prompt assistance provided by and European Investment sent virtually. He requested the states to ers are well connected with the Minister tourists. comment that Mamata should Rahul Gandhi on Friday the EU and its member states to Bank. At the outset, the Health set aside 70 per cent of the vac- people and aware of issues Most of the star campaign- wear shorts also worked wrote to the Prime Minister combat its second Covid wave. India-EU Leaders meeting Minister apprised other mem- cines received through GoI concerning them and by ignor- ers including Modi, Shah and against the BJP, claimed a saying his government’s lack of The leaders welcomed the has set a significant milestone bers of GOM about the steadi- channel for administration of ing them the Central leadership others had addressed voters in party leader. a clear and coherent Covid decision to resume negotia- by providing a new direction ly growing trajectory of daily the second dose. completely disconnected itself Hindi. This helped Banerjee’s Another leader suggested and vaccination strategy, as tions for balanced and compre- to the Strategic Partnership recoveries and also observed On the tests being con- from the ground,” claimed a narrative that the BJP is an out- that the party should now well as its hubris in declaring hensive free trade and invest- and giving a fresh impetus for that “180 districts have showed ducted in India, the Health BJP leader. sider party with no respect for start identifying candidates premature victory as the virus ment agreements. Negotiations implementing the ambitious no fresh cases in the last seven Minister noted that the coun- Former West Bengal BJP Bengali identity and culture.” he for the next general elections was exponentially spreading, on both the Trade and India-EU Roadmap 2025 days, 18 districts in 14 days, 54 try has reached a testing capac- Chief and former Governor of said. in 2024 instead of parachuting has placed India in a highly Investment Agreements will be adopted at the 15th India-EU districts in 21 days and 32 dis- ity of 25,00,000 tests per day. Tripura and Meghalaya, The local BJP unit also in outsiders. dangerous position. pursued on parallel tracks with Summit held in July 2020. !"#$'!#&) 0&) 123 7 =9 16 89: 1 - @ # the Centre repeatedly about Jaipur: Around 21 persons However, Lakshmangarh setting aside Rs 30,000 crore lost their lives at a village in sub-divisional officer Kulraj elentless with her attack on which is nothing for them … Rajasthan's Sikar district Meena said that out of the 21 Rthe Centre and the Election I told them to go for free vac- allegedly after the burial of a deaths, only 3-4 deaths Commission,Bengal Chief cination during this national Covid victim, whose body was occurred due to Covid-19. Minister Mamata Banerjee on crisis … but they would not do brought from Gujarat, without "The other deaths have Saturday advocated reforms in that to save the lives of com- following any Covid proto- been reported from the older the poll panel itself. mon man … while on the cols. age group. We have collected Making her first speech in other hand they can spend Rs The incident was reported samples of 147 members of the State Assembly in her third 50,000 crores for purchasing recently from Kheerva village families where deaths have term as the Chief Minister, India … many states are now luxury air craft for Prime in Sikar, the Assembly con- been reported to check whether Mamata said the way the agen- feeling relieved that they have Minister’s residence and con- stituency of Rajasthan it is a case of community trans- cies including the Election been restrained … the TMC struction of new parliament Congress chief and state mission," Meena told the Commission were being used has saved India.” etc.” Education Minister Govind media. by the Centre a time had come Attacking the Centre for “I wrote four letters but Singh Dotasara. Meena and other officials when EC reforms should be sending a central team and none was replied,” she alleged Officials said that the visited the village after receiv- considered. shooting off strong letters saying how “Bengal is being corpse was brought from ing the report along with a Attacking the poll panel for “within 24 hours of my gov- deprived of vaccines and oxy- Gujarat and around 21 people, medical team which directed its "biased approach" towards a ernment taking the charge,” gen… they are taking away who came in contact with the for immediate sanitisation of specific party Chief Minister Banerjee said “failing to digest oxygen produced here … they body, lost their lives in the days the village. Medicine kits were said, “I can challenge that they the defeat they are spreading are not sending vaccines,” she after the final rites were per- also distributed to cure the /# - 70 (BJP) could not have won even rumors of violence by posting alleged. formed in the village. other infected people. 30 seats had the Election fake videos,” warning “those The BJP is boycotting the According to the officials, Sikar district collector Commission not helped them posting videos would be strict- Assembly session alleging ram- the Covid victim's infected Aviral Chaturvedi said that directly, In this election, rigging ly dealt with. pant violence. Meanwhile in body was brought to the village officials visited the village and 4 6# # took place in some places In an apparent bid to use continuing violence a TMC on April 21 and over 100 peo- made the people aware of the under the watch of the poll the massive electoral victory in man was killed at Dubrajpur in ple attended the funeral which fact that all social gatherings, were reports about Covid ister who has been claiming panel,” adding there was a Bengal as a launch pad for 2024 Birbhum when a skirmish took was conducted without fol- including for last rites, should afflicted persons in serious everything was fine all these strong need to bring about a general elections Banerjee con- place between the BJP and lowing the Covid guidelines. follow the proper Covid pro- s Kerala diagnosed 41, 971 condition were transported to months have made a volte face reform in the Commission tinued her tirade against the Trinamool supporters, police The body was taken out of tocols. Anew persons with Covid- hospitals in two-wheelers today and blames the local self- itself. Centre wondering why it failed said. The violence took place the plastic bag and many peo- Door-to-door survey was 19 and 64 patients succumbing because of the non-availabili- government bodies. This can She said the “defeat of BJP to tackle the pandemic. hours after the central team vis- ple had touched it during the also conducted to know the to the pandemic on Saturday, ty of ambulance. The incident never be justified,” said the has saved not only Bengal but She said “I had written to ited the spot. burial, they said. actual situation, he said, IANS Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan happened in a first line covid retired secretary who did not blamed local self-governments treatment centre in Alappuzha want his name to be quoted. like panchayat and munici- where there were no medical With the death of 64 per- =>2 1: palities for their complacency attendants or vehicles to shift sons on Saturday, the toll in the 8 , and lethargy in dealing with the the patient who was gasping fir State reached 5,746. There emergency situation. breath to the nearest hospital. were 4,17, 101 Covid-19 E22 bulletin, out of 4788 new posi- The Chief Minister, who in Two volunteers who had patients across the State. Even tive cases of novel Coronavirus ,!%" ) his daily press briefings till yes- dropped in at the centre had to the serene and beautiful villages espite augmenting patient (COVID-19),1529 were report- terday has been highlighting carry him in their two wheel- in Keala, known for their scenic Dcare facilities across differ- ed from Jammu division and the shortcomings in the help er and this picture went viral in landscapes , ponds, rivers, lakes ent hospitals in Jammu & 3259 from Kashmir division. booths and vegetable vendors in as Chief Secretary sup- from the Centre. But on the social media. and backwaters have been Kashmir in recent days the With 60 more deaths the death have been given green signal to planting incumbent Rajeev Saturday, he said the local self- According to Vijayan, there infected with the pandemic. death toll due to Covid-19 is on toll due to covid 19 saturday ince there is no sign of any function without restrictions. Ranjan who has been shunted bodies in the State had failed in were shortages of Covid Saturday’s press briefing the rise. On Saturday, 60 patients touched 2672. Sabatement in the ever grow- The decision to go for the out as the managing director of mobilizing emergency facilities Treatment Centres as well as by the chief minister was more died, 42 across Jammu region On the recovery note, 2500 ing number of daily Covid-19 fortnight-long lockdown was Tamil Nadu Newsprint and like transport, pulse oxy meters medical professionals in the of dos and donts meant for the and 18 across Kashmir while more COVID-19 patients were cases, Tamil Nadu Government taken after Chief Minister M K Papers Ltd. and emergency medical staff to State. “Each of the local self- local self-governments. He 4788 fresh cases of coronavirus recovered and discharged from declared total lock down all Stalin took stock of the situa- Stalin also brought in four attend to the patients afflicted bodies should have at least five repeatedly said that there was were detected taking the tally of various hospitals including 910 over the State from May 10 for tion with the district collectors senior IAS officers to control with Covid-19. ambulances on round -the- severe shortage of vaccine in active positive cases to 46535. from Jammu Division and 1590 a fortnight. and superintendents of police. the Chioef Minister’s Office. Situation is really shocking clock basis in times like pan- the State. Many emergency The overall positivity rate from Kashmir Division. As a As on Saturday evening , Out of the 27, 397 cases of They are T Udhayachandran, P in Kerala as four out of the 14 demic. But as on today, our surgeries in the Regional stood at 10.23 percent on large number of people contin- the State diagnosed 27, 397 new Covid diagnosed on Saturday, Umanath, M S Shanmugham districts have more than 4,000 local bodies do not have these Cancer Centre had to be post- Saturday. ue to remain in home isolation persons with Covid-19 while Chennai accounted for 6846, and anu George . Umanath, covid patients each. The virus arrangements,” said the chie poned due to oxygen shortage,” To tide over the shortage of the death rate too is increasing the pandemic claimed 241 lives while Chengalpattu came sec- who was the managing direc- that is causing the pandemic in minister. said the chief minister. covid beds the UT administra- alarmingly. On Saturday 10 across Tamil Nadu. This took ond with 2458 patients and tor of Tamil Nadu Medical Kerala is unique as it is capa- A former panchayath sec- The none-day long total tion in Jammu decided to patients were declared brought the death toll in the State till Coimbatore followed closely Services Corporation, earned ble of causing Covid of retary to the Government of lockdown declared by the State reserve at least 50 percent beds dead as they arrived very late in date to 15,412. with 2117. encomiums from all over for extremely serious nature. But Kerala, who was watching the administration came into effect across four leading nursing the hospital. The UT adminis- Eateries could serve only There was a rejig in the building the capacity and capa- what I see is thoroughly unpre- chief minister’s media briefing early Saturday morning. homes for Covid patients. tration is spreading awareness parcel food while Amma State bureaucracy immediate- bility of hospitals across the pared local self-bodies and said the latter was trying to Normal life in the State has Meanwhile, work has been ini- across different platforms to Restaurants are allowed to ly after Stalin took charge at State by ensuring that they their complacent and lethargic ‘pass the buck’ to government come to a standstill following tiated on ground zero to estab- immediately report symptoms of function. Banks and other Fort Saint George (Tamil had sufficient stock of oxygen, attitude,” said Vijayan. employees and local self-gov- stringent measures announced lish two 500 bedded covid hos- coronavirus to a specialist and offices have been allowed to Nadu’s centre of power) on kits for testing the pandemic The chief minister was ernment bodies. “It is more by the administration as part pitals by DRDO in the coming avoid delay in receiving treat- operate with 50 per cent staff Friday. V Irai anbu, a 1988 and the necessary drugs to caight in an embarrassing sit- than a year since the Covid od the measures to counter the days. According to the media ment to contain the death rate. while medical stores, milk batch IAS officer was brought combat Covid-19. uation on Friday when there struck Kerala. The chief min- spread of pandemic. ' ""& 712 % ( % O &, ' 9 % . . &15( ( 2 2< to remain below 5,000 mark as the daily ) cases dropped from 3,040 to 2,664 on Agartala: Tripura Chief Minister his government has taken mea- record 82,266 patients were dis- Saturday. With the new infections, the Biplab Kumar Deb on Saturday sures to speed up the vaccination :E Acharged from various hospitals in total caseload in the metropolis increased said the State has adequate stock drive and appealed to people he Centre is providing conditional exemp- Maharashtra on Saturday after their full from 671,125 to 673,235. There has been of oxygen for treatment of Covid- above 45 years of age to get inoc- Ttion for experimental drone flights for vac- he Goa Government has been urged to set up spe- recovery from Covid-19, even as the State a vast improvement Covid-19 situation 19 patients and urged people not ulated immediately. cine delivery as part of its endeavour to enhance Tcial Covid-19 centres in the State for people with crossed a grim milestone of 75,000 deaths since April 4, when the metropolis had to panic amid the raging coron- "Tripura is one of the first two the scope of drone usage in the country and assist disability and their family members. and 50 lakh infections, after the pandemic recorded highest-ever record 11,206 avirus pandemic. states in the country to have the the fight against Covid-19 pandemic, said an offi- Demand has also been made to prioritise vacci- claimed 864 more lives and left 53,605 cases. The State has a stock of 4,000 highest vaccination rate. We will cial statement. The Ministry of Civil Aviation nation for persons with disability in the age group of infected. Similarly, the Covid-19 deaths oxygen cylinders and 750 con- soon start the immunisation drive and Directorate General of Civil Aviation have 18 to 45 years and to administer jabs at home for those Amid the continued surge in the dropped from 71 on Friday to 62 now and centrators, he said. for people in the age group of 18 granted conditional exemption to the differently-abled who have no one to take them to number of deaths and infections, the total fatalities in the metropolis "We have adequate stock of to 44 years and have placed orders Government of Telangana for conducting health centres. Maharashtra witnessed an overwhelming climbed from 13,651 to 13,713. oxygen and people of the state to procure vaccines for the pur- experimental Beyond Visual Line of Sight "We are receiving complaints from persons with 82,266 recoveries which took the total The total “active cases” in the state should not be worried about the pose," he said. (BVLOS) drone flights for delivery of vaccines. disability and their family members that COVID hos- number of people discharged from vari- dropped substantially from 6,54,788 to availability of the life-saving gas. Around 14 lakh people have Exemption has been granted from Unmanned pitals and care centres are not accessible for persons ous hospitals after full recovery to 6,28,213. The fatality rate in the state stood The recovery rate among coron- been inoculated in the state so far, Aircraft System (UAS) Rules, 2021. with disability, the staff is not sensitised to handle per- 43,47,592. As a result, the recovery rate static at 1.49 per cent. avirus patients in Tripura is at 92 a health department official said. This exemption shall be subject to complete sons with disability and the family members are not in the state climbed from 85.36 per cent While Pune accounted for a maxi- per cent, which is better than sev- Senior minister and cabinet adherence to the conditions and the directions allowed to stay with the special children," Disability to 86.03 per cent. mum 1,06,829 “active cases” in the state, eral other states," Deb said. spokesperson Ratan Lal Nath said or exemptions issued by the ministry. Rights Association of Goa (DRAG) chief Avelino De A day after the state recorded 898 Nagpur stood second 62,159, followed by The health department has the government has decided to This exemption shall be valid for a period Sa stated in a letter written to State Commissioner for deaths and 54,022 new cases, the number Mumbai with 52874, Thane (43,510) taken a slew of steps to make sure appoint 164 doctors through of one year from the date of approval of the SOP Persons with Disability. DRAG is an NGO of deaths dropped marginally by 34, while Nashik (40141), Chandrapur (26,245), sufficient supply of oxygen to all Tripura Public Service or until further orders, whichever is earlier, said working for the cause of differently- abled people in the 53,605 new infections on Saturday, as Ahmednagar (24,427), Satara (22,607), the districts and sub-divisional Commission on a contractual the statement from the Civil Aviation Ministry. the state. against 54,022 new cases recorded on Solapur (22,438), Beed (13859), Jalgaon hospitals, the CM said. basis to strengthen human Last month, the Government of Telangana "We request you to direct concerned authorities Friday. (13,484), Aurangabad (12441), Parbhani He visited an oxygen plant at resource in hospitals across the was granted conditional exemption for con- to open special COVID centres (one in each district) With 864 new deaths, the total num- (10,971), Latur (10565), Buldhana (8914), Bodhjungnagar here and took state. As many as 148 posts of doc- ducting experimental delivery of Covid-19 vac- of at least 15 beds capacity for persons with disabili- ber of deaths in the state climbed crossed Bhandara (7519), Jalna (7041) stock of the supply situation from tors are vacant in state- run med- cines within Visual Line of Sight (VLOS) Range ty and their family members," the DRAG said. 75,000 mark as the number of cases Osmanabad (6771), Nanded (5802) and the facility. ical facilities, he said. using drones. To accelerate the drone deployment These COVID centres should be equipped with climbed from 74,413 to 75,277. Similarly, Nandurbar (4990). Deb said Prime Minister At least 359 more people test- process to formulate application-based models, oxygen and ventilator facilities, De Sa added. with 53,605 new infections, the total num- Of the 2,91,91.331 samples sent to Narendra Modi had assured all ed positive for Covid-19 in the grant has been extended to Beyond Visual As of May 7, Goa's Covid-19 tally stood at 1,12,462 ber of cases crossed 50 lakh mark as the laboratories, 50,53,336 have tested posi- help to the state in its fight against Tripura on Saturday, pushing the Line of Sight (BVLOS). The trials may commence and the death toll was 1,557, health officials had cases rose from 49,96,758 to 50,53,336. tive (17.31 per cent) for COVID-19 until the COVID-19 pandemic. tally in the state to 37,208, the offi- by end of May 2021. said. The infections in Mumbai continued Saturday. The chief minister stated that cial said. PTI - 2 2< developing a state-level app for government has kindly sup- interface and experience for the the impact of the possible third citizens’ vaccination registra- plied to the State at various times citizens who are really keen to wave in the country. mid the ruling Shiv Sena’s tion. in the past few months”. take the vaccine shot,” Uddhav In a related development, Asevere criticism of the Modi In tweets put out after Among other things, the wrote. the Shiv Sena’s mouth-piece Government for its "ineffec- Uddhav’s telephonic conversa- chief minister – in his letter – Dwelling upon the chal- “Saamana” – in its editorial tive" handling of the Covid-19 tions, the Chief Minister’s Office spoke about the State lenge faced by the state govern- –stated that with the Covid-19 crisis at the national level, Prime (CMO) tweeted, “In a tele- Government’s plans to “open ment in getting vaccine supplies, triggered death of astounding Minister Narendra Modi — in phonic conversation with CM up” the vaccination for 18-45 the chief minister said that the 36,110 people during the past 10 a telephonic conversation with Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray, years’ age group by way of state government was willing to days, India had left most sever- Uddhav Thackeray — on the Hon’ble PM @narendramo- procuring the vaccines from its procure vaccines stocks in a sin- ally affected countries like Saturday commended di sought details about resources, touched up on the gle procurement if possible so as United States and Brazil behind. Maharashtra for its efforts in Maharashtra's fight against technical glitches noticed in the to safeguard our citizens and to “The fear that India aroused in countering the “second wave” of Covid and commended its CoWin App and proposed to give a boost to the country’s vac- the minds of the governments in pandemic in the State. efforts in countering the second the Centre about the need for a cination programme. other is of immense nature. Hours after the Shiv Sena wave”. separate App for States or a “However, the producers They have stopped their people mouth-piece “Saamana” in its “The CM requested more CoWin App for each State. do not have enough stocks.... If visiting India for trade and busi- editorial tore into Modi for the linkages in the procurement of “Seeing the sudden surge of the states are allowed to procure ness. In India, there are restric- sloppy manner in which he oxygen for the state, gave infor- the number of citizens wanting (vaccines) from other manu- tions on air and general travel,” handled the Covid-19 crisis in mation about several measures to register nationally, there is a facturers as well, we would be the editorial stated the country and called for prac- taken & plans to counter the fear about the App malfunc- able to cover a larger population “As a result, India has suf- tice of “politics-free nationalism”, third wave. The CM thanked the tioning or crashing as it did on in a shorter time and help fered huge financial losses. If the Sena president and Chief PM for continuous guidance & the day 1 of the (vaccination) reduce the impact of the possi- country is trudging along, it is Minister Uddhav Thackeray for accepting various requests registrations,” the chief minister ble third wave,” the chief minis- because of the contributions of and the Prime Minister inter- made by the State,” the CMO stated. ter said. Nehru, Lal Bahadur Shastri, acted with each other on tele- said in another tweet. “We therefore propose Uddhav proposed that the Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, P. phone over the Covid-19 situa- Meanwhile, in a letter writ- either a separate App developed Indian Council of Medical V. Narasimha Rao, Manmohan tion in the State. ten to the Prime Minister, by the states where the data can Research (ICMR) set up medical Singh and their visionary poli- Simultaneously, Uddhav Uddhav stated, “The vaccination be shared with the Union gov- framework for the respective cies. It is time now for Modi to wrote to the Prime Minister drive in Maharashtra has been ernment’s Ministry of Health or FDAs of each starwe, within take steps in the interests of the about matters relating to the sup- one of the fastest and most effi- a Co Win App developed and which the states would be able country. He should begin prac- ply of vaccination, technical cient in the country with every assigned by the Government of to cover a larger population in tising “politics-free national- 5/ 8 70 glitches on the CoWin App & stock of vaccine that the Union India. 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The Taliban damaged a hangar, tweeted The attacks have been fre- The Palestinian Red condemned the attack appar- coalition spokesman Col. quent since a US-directed Crescent emergency service ently aimed at civilians, and Wayne Marotto. He said the drone strike killed Iranian said 136 people were wounded denied any responsibility. attack was under investiga- General Qassem Soleimani in clashes with police there and The explosion is being tion. An Iraqi military state- near the Baghdad airport last elsewhere in Jerusalem, includ- investigated, said Interior ment also said no losses were year. ing 83 who were hospitalised. Ministry spokesman Tariq reported. No one has claimed Iraqi militia leader Abu It says most were wounded in 0 # Arian who added the death toll responsibility for the attack. Mahdi al-Muhandis was also the face and eyes by rubber- ) % could rise further. The US has blamed Iran- killed in the attack. 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The site is also the Dasht-e-Barchi, Interior Rahimi also said he believed The radical Sunni Muslim across Iraq. eign troops from the country. Palestinians and wounded a of Palestinians in the Sheikh holiest site for Jews, who refer Ministry spokesman Tariq that the sheer power of the group has declared war on Drone strikes are less The Biden administration third after the men opened fire Jarrah neighbourhood in east to it as the Temple Mount and Arian said. explosion meant the death toll Afghanistan’s minority Shiite common. In mid-April, an has resumed strategic talks on a base belonging to Israel’s Jerusalem, who have been revere it as the spot where the Residents in the area said would almost certainly climb. Muslims. Washington blamed explosive-laden drone targeted with Baghdad, \initiated under paramilitary Border Police embroiled in a long legal bat- biblical Temples stood. the explosion was deafening. While no one has claimed IS for a vicious attack last year the military section of the President Donald Trump, in force in the occupied West tle with Israeli settlers trying to It has long been a flash- One, Naser Rahimi, told The responsibility for the bombing, in a maternity hospital in the international airport in Irbil, in which the future of US troop Bank, the latest in a series of acquire property in the neigh- point for Israeli-Palestinian Associated Press he heard three previous brutal attacks in the same area that killed pregnant Iraq’s northern Kurdish-run presence in Iraq is a central deadly confrontations in recent bourhood. violence and was the epicenter separate explosions, although same neighborhood have been women and newborn babies. region, causing no casualties or point of discussion. weeks that has coincided with The United States said it of the 2000 Palestinian intifa- the Muslim holy month of was “deeply concerned” about da, or uprising. Ramzan. More unrest appears the heightened tensions and Israeli police deployed in ?- : % likely next week. called on all sides to work to large numbers as Muslim wor- ' Tensions have soared in de-escalate them. It also shippers were holding evening recent weeks in east Jerusalem, expressed concern about the prayers at the site. It was 9 * which is claimed by both Israel threatened evictions. unclear what sparked the vio- (% and the Palestinians. At the “It’s critical to avoid uni- lence, but videos circulating ' beginning of the Muslim holy lateral steps that would exac- online showed worshippers Male: A top official in the ical condition. (%&1 month of Ramzan, Israel erbate tensions or take us fur- throwing chairs, shoes and Islamabad: In a first, a Hindu stage when final merit is deter- Maldives said on Saturday in an intensive care unit blocked off a popular gathering ther away from peace. And that rocks at police, who fired stun woman in Pakistan has cleared mined. that Islamic extremists were after life-saving surgeries to his < *: :: 9+ spot where Palestinians tradi- would include evictions, set- grenades and rubber-coated the country’s prestigious After the result, Ramchand responsible for an explosion head, chest, abdomen and tionally socialise at the end of tlement activity, and home bullets to disperse them. Central Superior Services tweeted: “Waheguru Ji Ka earlier this week that critical- limbs. No group has claimed ozens of Muslim militants their daylong fast. The move set demolitions,” US State Smaller clashes broke out else- (CSS) examination and has Khalsa Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh”, ly wounded former President responsibility. Doccupied a public market off two weeks of clashes Department spokeswoman where in Jerusalem. been selected for the elite and added, “I’m pleased to share Mohamed Nasheed, as police Nasheed, the current overnight in the southern Pakistan Administrative that by the grace of Allah said they arrested two of four Parliament speaker, has been Philippines before fleeing after a Services (PAS). Sana Almighty, I have cleared the CSS suspects. an outspoken critic of religious tense standoff with government 0;; & Ramachand is an MBBS doc- 2020 and been allocated to PAS. Hospital officials said extremism in the predomi- forces, officials said on Saturday. tor, hailing from rural area of All credit goes to my parents.” Saturday that Nasheed is con- nantly Sunni Muslim nation, The Bangsamoro Islamic Shikarpur district in Sindh The pass percentage in the scious and no \longer needs where preaching and practicing Freedom Fighters did not take E 92 erupted when Israeli police in serious head injuries and two province, which has the largest latest CSS has been less than 2 breathing support. other faiths are banned by law. any hostage or put up resistance riot gear deployed in large with broken jaws. Hindu population in Pakistan. per cent which shows the tough Two of his bodyguards and He has also been criticized by when army troops and police night of heavy clashes numbers as thousands of The Israeli police said pro- She is one of the 221 can- competition as well as the rig- two apparent bystanders, religious hard-liners for his took positions at dawn Saturday Abetween Palestinians and Muslim worshippers were hold- testers hurled stones, fireworks didates declared successful in orous standards applied by the including a British citizen, were closeness to the west and lib- near the public market in the Israeli police at the Al-Aqsa ing evening prayers at the and other objects at them, the CSS examination out of the Federal Public Service also wounded in Thursday’s eral policies. farming town of Datu Paglas, mosque compound and else- sprawling hilltop esplanade. wounding six officers who 18,553 who had appeared in Commission responsible for blast. Prosecutor General Police announced Saturday said military spokesman Lt. Col. where in Jerusalem left more Throughout the night large required medical treatment. the written tests. The final these recruitments. The PAS is Hussain Shameem told that two men were arrested in John Paul Baldomar. than 200 Palestinians wound- groups of protesters could be “We will respond with a heavy selection has been made after the top tier often followed by reporters that investigators still connection with the attack, “They went into the market ed, medics said on Saturday, as seen hurling rocks as Israeli hand to all violent distur- an elaborate medical, psycho- Pakistan Police Services and do not know which extremist and released photos of two oth- and stole food but got stuck the city braced for even more police fired rubber bullets and bances, riots and attacks on our logical and oral tests. The Foreign Services of Pakistan group was behind the attack, ers seeking public assistance in inside when they saw that our violence after weeks of unrest. stun grenades. At one point, the forces,” it said in a statement groups are allotted at the last and others. PTI which left Nasheed, 53, in crit- identifying them. AP forces have taken positions to Nightly protests broke out police entered one of the build- late Friday. ensure other buildings could not at the start of the holy month ings in the complex, which The Al-Aqsa mosque be threatened,” he told reporters. of Ramadan over police restric- includes the Al-Aqsa mosque compound is the third holiest There were no immediate tions at a popular gathering and the iconic golden Dome of site in Islam. It is also the holi- < reports of injuries or deaths. place and have reignited in the Rock. est site for Jews, who refer to it The rebel group broke off recent days over threatened The Palestinian Red as the Temple Mount because from the Moro Islamic eviction of dozens of Crescent emergency service it was the location of the bib- # Liberation Front, the largest Palestinians from their homes said 88 of the wounded were lical temples. It has long been Muslim rebel group in the in east Jerusalem, which is hospitalized. The Palestinian a flashpoint in the Israeli- south, after it entered into claimed by both sides in the Health Ministry said 83 people Palestinian conflict and was the peace talks and later signed a decades-old conflict. were wounded by rubber-coat- epicenter of the 2000 / 2< caution, perfect compliance of found at a quarantine center for the UN health agency said in its Muslim autonomy deal with It was unclear what set off ed bullets, including three who Palestinian intifada, or upris- health guidelines... If we main- returnees in Colombo. weekly epidemiological update the Government in 2014. the violence at Al-Aqsa, which were shot in the eye, two with ing. ndia’s neighbours- Sri Lanka tain the guidelines, no variant The sample was among last month. Iand Bangladesh- have report- —deadly or not —can cause several other samples obtained In its report, the WHO had ed the first cases of the Indian major problems,” Munna said. for testing until April 30. said that the Indian strain of the variant of coronavirus, also Following the detection of the Both Bangladesh and Sri coronavirus has been found in 9 N.&(%%O5 known as B.1.617, prompting Indian variant, Bangladesh on Lanka are experiencing a surge at least 17 countries. authorities to exercise caution Saturday extended the closure in the coronavirus cases. The B.1.617 variant has Porto: European Union lead- boosting US vaccine exports can inoculate its own popula- COVID-19 vaccines, seeking to contain its spread. of land borders with India for Sri Lanka on Friday three new spike protein muta- ers cranked up their criticism to contain the global Covid-19 tion first, and the UK has to solve the problem of get- Bangladesh overnight 14 more days. recorded 19 deaths, the high- tions. Two mutations -- E484Q of the US call to waive Covid- crisis, insisting it was the acted similarly, the EU has ting shots into the arms of detected six people, who had Last month, Bangladesh est number of fatalities in a sin- and L452R -- are in the area 19 vaccine patents Saturday, most urgent need. become the world’s leading people in poorer countries. recently visited India, infected sealed its borders with India gle day. The total number of important for antibody-based arguing the move would bring “We encourage all the provider, allowing about as Macron and other EU with the Indian variant of the due to the raging number of deaths in the country due to neutralisation. no short or midterm relief. partners to facilitate the many doses to go outside the leaders have insisted that first Covid-19, Directorate General coronavirus cases in the neigh- COVID-19 stands at 764. The The third mutation -- They instead urged export of (vaccine) doses,” 27-nation bloc as are kept for of all production capacity of Health Services (DGHS) bouring country. But officials country has over 121,000 coro- P681R -- allows the virus to Washington to lift export said Michel. France added its its 446 million inhabitants. must be ramped up by, among spokesman Professor Dr and reports said many people navirus infections. enter cells a little better. These restrictions if it wants to have weight. The EU has distributed other things, reconverting fac- Nazmul Islam Munna said on came to Bangladesh from India Bangladesh reported 45 are defining characteristics of a global impact on the pan- “I’m very clearly urging about 200 million doses with- tories so they can quickly Saturday. under special arrangements deaths in the last 24 hours, tak- the variant. demic. the US to put an end to the in the bloc while about the start producing vaccines Out of the six people, two and some of them fled a ing the total number of fatal- The B.1.617 variant has “We don’t think, in the ban on exports of vaccines same amount has been through a transfer of tech- were detected in the national mandatory quarantine, height- ities to 11,878. The total num- been found prevalent largely in short term, that it’s the magic and on components of vac- exported abroad to almost 90 nology. Developed nations capital Dhaka. All of them are ening risks of spreading the ber of COVID-19 cases in the Maharashtra and Delhi that bullet,” said EU Council cines that are preventing them countries. should also increase vaccine currently kept under quaran- pandemic. country stands at 772,127 with have been severely hit by a dev- President Charles Michel on being produced,” Macron said. “First of all, you must donations to poorer coun- tine. Meanwhile, Sri Lanka on 1,285 fresh infections reported astating second wave of the the second day of an EU sum- Hundreds of components can open up,” said Macron in a call tries. “Six people have been Saturday detected its first case on Saturday. pandemic. mit in Portugal. French go into a vaccine. He men- to the United States. “First of Only after that, Macron found to be carrying the Indian of the Indian variant of coro- The B.1.617 variant of Experts have said that President Emmanuel Macron tioned the Curevac company, all, the Anglo Saxons must said, can the debate on patent variant so far and we expect navirus in a person who recent- SARS-CoV2 or the ‘Indian the Indian strain of the coro- insisted that giving any pri- saying it could not produce a stop their bans on exports.” waivers start having an more people to be detected ly returned from India. strain’, feared to be contribut- navirus carries higher trans- ority to discussing intellectu- vaccine in Europe because The EU is trying to regain impact. with identical types of virus in The Department of ing to a surge in coronavirus missibility similar to the UK al property rights now, “is a components are blocked in the the diplomatic initiative on “Today, there is not a fac- the coming days,” Munna told Immunology and Molecular cases in India, has been des- variant, but there is little false debate.” United States. vaccines after Biden put it on tory in the world that cannot PTI. Medicine of the University of ignated as the Variants of evidence so far of it being Instead, they joined pre- While the US has kept a the back foot with his sur- produce doses for poor coun- “This development means Sri Jayewardenapura in a report Interest (VOI) by the World more lethal than the original vious EU calls for US tight lid on exports of prising endorsement of lifting tries because of a patent issue,” we in Bangladesh need extreme said the infected person was Health Organisation (WHO), virus. PTI President Joe Biden to start American-made vaccines so it patent protections on Macron said. AP ( - -* ( E live to be about 35 years old Federal University of Rio de animal, and see an animal at enclosures that were roughly night. (# and Juliet — no spring chick- Janeiro, and there are no other ease,” Capobianco said, noting 100 square feet. BioParque “Their role could be ome have claimed she’s en — should have found a life- types of macaws in the city. The Juliet has never exhibited reopened to the public in important in terms of ecosys- Washington: A company that Sindulging a forbidden long mate years ago, according lovebirds featured in the 2011 behavior to indicate distur- March, after privatization of tem and reforestation. It’s a big operates a major US energy romance. More likely, loneli- to Neiva Guedes, president of film “Rio” are Spix’s macaws, bance, such as insistently peck- Rio’s dilapidated zoo and animal with big beak that can pipeline says it was forced to tem- ness compels her to seek com- the Hyacinth Macaw Institute, which are native to a different ing at the fence. almost 17 months of renova- crack the biggest seeds, and not porarily halt all pipeline opera- pany at Rio de Janeiro’s zoo. an environmental group. But region of Brazil and possibly “Who am I to decide it tions. all birds can,” said Rheingantz, tions following a cybersecurity Either way, a blue-and- Juliet hasn’t coupled, built a extinct in the wild. should only stay here? I won’t. BioParque aims to feature the university biologist, who is attack. In a statement, Colonial yellow macaw that zookeepers nest or had chicks, so at most Being boisterous with bril- It comes and goes, and its species associated with research also Refauna’s technical coor- Pipeline said the attack took named Juliet is believed to be she’s “still just dating.” liant plumage helps macaws feathers are beautiful.” programs at universities and dinator. “The idea is for it to place Friday and also affected the only wild bird of its kind “They’re social birds, and find each other in dense forest, After more than a year of institutes. One such initiative is start dispersing those seeds, some of its information technol- left in the Brazilian city where that means they don’t like to but also makes them easier tar- COVID-19 quarantine and Refauna, which reintroduces complementing forest animals ogy systems. the birds once flew far and live alone, whether in nature or gets for hunters and animal travel bans, the appeal of roam- species into protected areas that can’t.” The company describes itself wide. captivity. They need company,” traffickers. They’re often seen ing without restriction is evi- with an eye on rebuilding After some pandemic- as the largest refined products Almost every morning for said Guedes, who also coordi- in other Brazilian states and dent to humankind. Macaws ecosystems, and is participating induced delays, the project has pipeline in the United States the last two decades, Juliet has nates a project that researches across the Amazon, and it is ination of the gonads. are used to flying great dis- with BioParque to start breed- slowly restarted and and transports roughly 45 per appeared. She swoops onto the macaws in urban settings. Juliet suspected Juliet escaped from Either would be interfer- tances of more than 30 kilo- ing blue-and-yellow macaws. Rheingantz expects to release cent of all fuel, including gasoline, zoo enclosure where macaws “very probably feels lonely, captivity. ence merely to satisfy human meters (20 miles) a day, Guedes The plan is for parents to blue-and-yellow macaws into diesel fuel and home heating oil, are kept and, through its fence, and for that reason goes to the Biologists at BioParque curiosity with no scientific said. raise some 20 chicks that will Tijuca park toward the end of that is consumed on the East engages in grooming behavior enclosure to communicate and aren’t sure if Juliet’s nuzzling is end, biologist Angelita Last year, BioParque g ave receive training on forest food 2022. Coast. The Alpharetta, Georgia- that looks like conjugal interact.” limited to one caged Romeo, or Capobianco said inside the its macaws more space: a sources, the peril of predators After two decades of rela- based company said it hired an canoodling. Sometimes she Aside from Juliet, the last a few of them. They’re not even enclosure. Nor would they 1,000-square-meter (10,700- and avoidance of power lines. tive solitude, Juliet will then outside cybersecurity firm to just sits, relishing the presence sighting of a blue-and-yellow certain Juliet is female; macaw consider confining Juliet, who square-foot) aviary where they Then the youngsters will be have the chance to fly with investigate the nature and scope of others. She is quieter — macaw flying free in Rio was in gender is near impossible to often soars overhead and fly beside green parrots and released into Rio’s immense friends. Neves said Juliet could of the attack and has also con- shier? more coy? — than her 1818 by an Austrian naturalist, determine by sight, and appears well-nourished. golden parakeets to compose Tijuca Forest National Park, teach them how to navigate the tacted law enforcement and fed- squawking chums. according to Marcelo requires either genetic testing “We don’t want to project an aerial, technicolor swirl. 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A patient’s blood reports and appropriate CT scan can help the doctor to decide the right 9 but for any disease, but still FDA has given definitely be the norm rather than the excep- tion again? dose of the steroid. it approval so it is the only FDA approved tion. There is no need to get a test done after you What do Diabetics do? drug without any effective trials in place. Should children below 10 also wear masks, have got infected. You can actually contin- It has been reported that steroids can increase blood glu- Are Fabiflu and Remdesivir really helpful? And that is why it is being prescribed every- if a family member tests positive? ue your routine work after 17 days, and there cose levels. These levels need to be controlled to avoid sec- Fabiflu and remdesivir are weak antivirals. where for COVID ICU patients. And that Yes, everyone should be wearing masks if is no need to get retested. But if you do step ondary bacterial and fungal infections. Therefore, experts Remdesivir, as we all know, is being sold in is the reason the demand has shot up so there is a patient in the house even children, out, of course, you can get infected again, have suggested rational use of steroids in diabetic patients. black all over as is fabiflu, which is very sad. much. Similar is the case with favipiravir because this particular strain is causing the there is a very little chance less than 1 per Why are steroids being recommended now and how are Remdesivir was made 10 years ago as a med- which is available as Fabiflu, there is no actu- disease in children as well. We have seen cent. Also, there is a chance that when you they to be tapered? icine for hepatitis C. Unfortunately, it did- al trial to show that it is beneficial. But still, children as young as 10 months old being step out, you can touch surfaces which have After closely observing its effects, the Union Health n’t work out well. And then it was tried for doctors are prescribing and people are affected. been touched by an infected person and the Ministry has mentioned the use steroids for the treatment Ebola as well. About 500 patient trials buying it. If you tested positive when to take vaccine? virus can be on your hands. It may not infect of COVID-19 patients in moderate to severe stages of ill- showed that there was no benefit of Should everybody wear a mask at home, If you have tested positive, it is better to wait you, but your hands and your clothes can ness among other therapeutic measures. Time and dura- Remdesivir and now it has been given emer- at all times? for some time before you take the vaccine. still carry the virus. This way you can def- tion of the medication can only be monitored by a treat- gency approval for COVID as well. But the Wearing a mask every time at home maybe So the recommendation is that you should initely bring the virus home. Hence, you ing doctor. biggest trial that WHO did, solidarity trial too much if there is no infection and if peo- wait for 45 days after you’ve tested positive have to be very careful once you come in. Can they be taken without prescription? which had more than 12,000 patients ple are not going out, but if somebody is and even longer if you have serious disease. Change your clothes, have a bath, discard No. If these drugs are not taken under the doctors’ guid- showed no benefit of Remdesivir in any going outside and there is a chance that he So if you’ve been in ICU you can wait for your mask, wash your self thoroughly and ance, it may hamper affect natural course of Covid treat- patient on mortality or outcomes. So WHO may bring the infection home, then wear- as long as 90 days. put your clothes in hot water. ment & lead to patients reporting additional side-effects. actually removed the placebo from its list of ing a mask is advisable. Also, if somebody Can a Covid positive person, after 14 days L 5 66) 5 )&6 2 L5 5 4 )0 - ) # % )2 # authorised medicines not just for COVID is ill at home then wearing a mask should step out for a test? Is he vulnerable to infec- E& - F =##38 *< Is it mandatory to take the vaccine? tion. If after vaccination, they do experience any consult prior to taking the jab Several international studies have proved that however advised to wait at the vaccination cen- Anyone above the age of 18 can get the vaccine complication, they must contact their doctors Those with autoimmune disorders vaccination has no clinical effect on the foetus. tre for 30 minutes after receiving the shot to in accordance with the Government guidelines. immediately. Post vaccine precautions are Those with allergies to a particular food item Even the United States based Centre for ensure that no adverse reaction occurs. So, it is advisable that everyone take the vac- same for everyone. Those who are immuno-compromised and on Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has Patients who have had a history of severe aller- cine as soon as they possibly can. Since the vac- Is it better to donate plasma/ blood before get- steroids advised that pregnant women can get vacci- gic reaction (e.g., anaphylaxis) after a previous cine builds up immunity, it is in everyone’s inter- ting the vaccine or after? Those on blood thinning medication nated. However, no such clinical data is avail- dose of a COVID-19 vaccine or any of its com- est to get vaccinated. Donating plasma or blood depends on when a Those having got a rare case of severe allergic able about the vaccines currently available in ponents, are advised to avoid vaccination. How long do those having recovered from person gets infected with Covid and receives an reaction to the first vaccine India. Hence it is advisable that pregnant How many doses of COVID-19 vaccines are COVID-19 have to wait before they can get RT PCR positive report. The most appropriate Is it safe for women to get vaccinated during women consult their personal gynaecologist given? their vaccine? Can a person test Covid posi- time to donate plasma or blood is one month their periods? before making their decision. Two vaccination doses, 4 to 8 weeks days apart, tive soon after getting vaccinated? post recovery from infection, as the immuni- Menstruation is a completely natural process If one is on medications for ailments like can- must be received to complete the COVID-19 The waiting period for the vaccine is one month ty is at its peak at that time. which doesn’t hamper the immunity level. cer, diabetes, hypertension etc., can they still vaccination schedule. post recovery. If exposed to the virus, a person How soon can a person, who has been vacci- Similarly, there is no clinical evidence to sug- take the vaccine? Can I take over-the-counter pain killers may get Covid positive as it takes time to build nated for some other infection like anti-rabies, gest any adverse effects of vaccination during This population is at a higher risk of compli- before or after COVID-19 vaccination? immunity against the virus after vaccination. get vaccinated? menstruation. Hence it is advisable for all cations from Covid infection hence, it should It is not recommended to take pain killers before Although the severity of infection reduces dras- There must be a two-week gap between the women to get vaccinated without worrying be a priority for all of them to get vaccinated COVID-19 vaccination. However, you can take tically after the second dose to an extent that Covid vaccine and any other such vaccine. about their menstrual cycle. as soon as possible so that they can build immu- such medication after COVID-19 vaccination, they may be asymptomatic. In general, a per- Hence, one can get the jab two weeks after their Tips for pregnant women and lactating nity against Covid at the earliest. unless contraindicated by your vaccine admin- son will be immune from infection, two weeks current vaccine or they can get another vaccine mothers on vaccination. What precautions must severe asthma istrator. after the second dose of vaccine. But they may only two weeks after their Covid vaccine. Vaccines used in international studies are dif- patients take before getting their jabs? When will I develop antibodies after taking infect others, so it is advised to still follow mask- Are there any precautions that one needs to ferent from the ones available here, and we have Asthma is an allergic condition, so some asth- the vaccination? ing, hand hygiene and social distancing norms observe post vaccination? no data to suggest that vaccine use is advisable matic patients may have certain allergies like Protective antibody levels are generally devel- for the safety of others. It is advised to take rest for a day or two as one for pregnant women. We also lack any data cor- allergy to a particular drug, hence they must oped after two weeks of receiving the second Should people be empty stomach before may develop mild fever, body ache or a roborating the safety of vaccination in lactat- inform the vaccine officer about this and dose of COVID-19 vaccine. taking the jab? headache or may even feel dizzy. Therefore, it ing mothers. accordingly get the jab. If they have faced an Can I get COVID-19 from the vaccine? They can eat, stay hydrated, and take their med- is appropriate to rest post a jab. However, pregnant women and lactating moth- allergic reaction to any vaccine (not COVID) No. COVID-19 vaccines are free from any live ications as well. There are no special prerequi- What are the commonly experienced side- ers can consult their gynaecologist to ascertain in the past, they must inform the vaccine offi- virus. The currently available vaccines are pre- sites to taking the vaccine. effects post vaccination? if the risk of exposure to Coronavirus is cer about this as well. They also should take their pared from a small RNA piece (free from virus). What are the tips for those suffering from The common side effects observed post Covid greater than the risk of vaccination and decide regular medications, even on the day of vacci- It helps in activating a person’s immune cells such conditions as hypertension and sugar vaccine are headaches, body aches, mild fever, accordingly if they should opt for vaccination. nation. to manufacture antibodies against the viral spike problems if they feel sick after getting their inoculation pain or stiffness in the arm and Since there is no clinical evidence to suggest that Can people with skin diseases such as psori- protein, signifying that if or when a person gets jab? dizziness. the pregnant or lactating women are more like- asis and vitiligo get the vaccine? exposed to the virus, he or she will already have When they come for vaccination, they must Who all are not eligible for the vaccine? ly to be infected by COVID-19 than the gen- There is no evidence to support that people with defensive antibodies in their system. ensure that their blood pressure and sugar lev- Anyone experiencing high fever should any way eral population, they should maintain a nutri- skin diseases should avoid vaccination against Can COVID-19 vaccine cause infertility in els are normal and under control. If due to some not be taking the vaccine tious diet, high on vitamins, micronutrients and Covid-19. The vaccine is safe for patients on men or women? reason, the levels are fluctuating, they should The following need to consult their doctors before proteins, wash hands regularly, wear mask if immunosuppressive or biologic drugs such as There is no scientific evidence that COVID- avoid taking the vaccine until under control. taking the vaccine: going out and maintain social distancing. Omalizumab, Secukinumab etc. as well. People 19 vaccine causes infertility in men or women. They should ensure that they take their med- Those already infected with Covid Is it safe for the baby in the womb if the preg- with allergies to food/ pets/ dust/ pollution/ latex ications on time, even on the day of vaccina- Pregnant women and lactating mothers must nant mother takes the vaccination? etc. can also take the vaccine safely. They are L- !"#$'!#&) 0&) 123 2 $ - - C ' ?0 ' ( -# - ( India’s first-choice left-arm pacer T Natarajan, who played eft-arm pace bowler Arzan the fourth Test against %, % ) , LNagwaswalla was “speech- Australia in Brisbane, is ndian cricketers will complete an less” before his eyes were injured, Nagwaswalla could be eight-day hard quarantine period in filled with tears on Friday in line to follow the path of the IMumbai before leaving on June 2 for ) ( " 3% when he received news of his Tamil Nadu pacer. a marathon tour of United Kingdom, selection as a standby to Natarajan went as an where they will play six Test matches London: English Premier League side “To all our fans and families Indian squad for the England uncapped player to Australia including the marquee World Test Manchester City’s revered manager around the world, but especially in tour. but made debut in all three Championship final against New Pep Guardiola on Saturday sent an India, we know these are really tough “I called up mom and formats and also impressed. Zealand. emotional message for Indians, saying times and we are fighting for you on dad the first thing after I India play the World Test The BCCI is still carrying out nego- his team was playing for them on the the pitch and thinking for all of you. came to senses. I was so excit- Championship final in June tiations regarding the duration of 10 pitch and urged them to stay strong in “On behalf of Team Manchester ed,” Nagwaswalla said from and then five Test matches days of soft quarantine (training their fight against Covid-19. City and the whole organisation, we Nargol on Saturday. against England in August- allowed) for players after reaching the Guardiola, one of the most wish and pray that you follow all the The 23-year-old player was September. An injury to a UK where they will be based for three respected managers in modern foot- guidelines to stay safe and look after returning from Delhi where he bowler could provide and half months. ball, urged India to stay safe by adher- yourself,” the 50-year-old Guardiola was a net bowler with the Nagwaswalla with an oppor- “Indian team will have eight days ing to health protocols to defeat the said in a video. “We can defeat the Mumbai Indians, after the tunity. of hard quarantine (confined to hotel dreaded virus. virus by working together. And hope Indian Premier League was Nagwaswalla calls the rooms) in India with mandatory neg- “Pep has sent a message for fans, we can continue to bring smiles to postponed due to the raging stint at MI nets fruitful. ative RT-PCR reports on second, fourth friends and families in India at this dif- your faces by playing the best football Covid-19 pandemic. “It was a great experi- and seventh day required to board the ficult time ... Stay safe,” the club wrote possible. Keep the faith and stay safe “I did not expect the call. ence. I got an opportunity to flight,” a senior BCCI official said on in an Instagram post. please,” he added. PTI Everyone has confidence that bowl to some good batsmen. Saturday. I would get through one day I spoke to Zaheer sir. If I “Since we have a bubble to bubble PRASIDH & VACCINATION Oxford vaccine. or the other. I also had that would have remained at home, transfer, it needs to be seen if the dura- The BCCI is also confident that all confidence. (But) this was nothing would have happened tion of the 10-day quarantine can be the players will get their first dose of GANGULY, SHAH TO BE IN UK very unexpected and surpris- because of the lockdown. So, reduced a bit. However players during vaccine before embarking on their jour- BCCI president Sourav Ganguly ing,” said Nagwaswalla. it was great that I could prac- soft quarantine can go for training. In ney to the UK. However it will be dif- and secretary Jay Shah are expected to Nagwaswalla thinks of tice and kept doing training,” any case, Hotel Hilton where the teams ficult for Prasidh Krishna, who has test- be present in Southampton for the himself being a left-armer he added. will be put up in Southampton, is a part ed positive, to get vaccinated before WTC final. was an advantage that helped It was a dream come true of the Ageas Bowl property,” the source leaving for UK. “Both president and secretary are him make cut. “Maybe to be with former India pacer added. “You have a gap between the time supposed to be present during the because I am a left-arm fast Zaheer, MI director of crick- In case it’s a 10-day quarantine, the you test negative for Covid-19 and get World Test Championship final as of bowler (I was picked). I am et operations, since he had fol- Indians will be allowed to move around your vaccination. So even if Prasidh now,” the source added. young. That is the only thing. lowed him while growing up the city from June 13 while the WTC tests negative by May 18th or 20th, he One could expect them having Also, my last season went and was inspired by him. final against New Zealand will start on would need a four week gap before he some discussions with ECB brass with well,” he said. “He didn’t do much on June 18. gets his first dose,” the source said. regards to the option of hosting the The pace bowler, the bowling aspect. He It is also learnt that looking at the However it is still not clear whether WTC final when there is a substantial If all Indian players get Covishield remaining 31 games of IPL in the who represents Gujarat said it is fine, just that if length of the tour, players’ families will the WAGS and children will join from gap of more than a month before the vaccine in India, it will be easier to get United Kingdom apart from various in Ranji Trophy, has you train well, you will accompany them. the start of the tour or come after the start of the Test series on August 4. the second jabs in the UK as it’s the ICC policy decisions. picked 62 wickets in 16 see more benefit in your first-class matches. He bowling. He asked me to took 41 wickets in eight train well. He told me matches in the 2019-20 certain technical things,” !!-Q/ 0 1 Ranji Trophy season. said Nagwaswalla. Former “I was left- Gujarat coach handed. That 9 his franchise. stand-by on Friday, is the fourth Vijay Patel was my advan- “It’s really unfortunate for KKR player to have contracted calls him a tage. We did- ew Zealand’s wicketkeeper- Tim and we’ll do everything for the dreaded virus. “swing n’t have too Nbatsman Tim Seifert, who him that we can from this end, “Prasidh is Covid positive bowler and many left- represented Kolkata Knight and hopefully he will be able to and currently in home isolation in someone armers in our Riders in the postponed 2021 test negative, and be cleared and Bengaluru,” a BCCI source said. who has district or edition of IPL, has tested positive approved for discharge as soon as According to the BCCI come even state for Covid-19 and will not be on he’s well again. source, both Krishna and Warrier through level. I used the charter flight back home Once Seifert serves the statu- contracted the virus from age-group to watch with other players and support tory period of isolation and tests Chakravarthy during one of the cricket”. Zaheer and I staff. negative for Covid-19, he will be training sessions. He said “Yes, I got interested He will, instead, stay in iso- transferred back to New Zealand Krishna is Chakravarthy’s close am a swing in bowling lation in Ahmedabad before where he will serve the manda- friend. bowler. My fast,” he said. returning to Chennai, where he tory 14-day period of managed “Prasidh like all India players speed is The pacer will be treated at a private hos- isolation. left bubble on May 3 after getting 130-135, could become pital. Seifert failed both his pre- KKR pacer Prasdih Krishna two negative results. However on but I try to the first crick- departure RT-PCR tests and “is also tested positive for coron- reaching Bengaluru he tested swing the eter in India’s experiencing moderate symp- avirus and is in quarantine in his positive,” the source said. ball,” main squad toms.” $ J$$1 home town Bengaluru, a BCCI The BCCI is hoping that by from the Parsi 0 7 @ 8 %6 1 New Zealand Cricket (NZC) source said. the time the UK-bound players community 89: 3M2 chief executive David White said up to his pre-departure proto- The 25-year-old Krishna, enter the bio-bubble in India on Nagwaswalla after 46 years 30 Seifert had returned seven neg- cols, and was confident he would who was named in the Indian May 25, Krishna will test nega- explained. since Farokh Engineer ) @ # )N 1 3 ative tests in the 10 days leading be receiving the best of care from squad for the England tour as a tive. While played in 1975. S 2 %3* ,% ,%4<> $;; ) 5 lunch on Saturday but took a hammering during the after- London: Former England cap- England. went on to win to take the first akistan took total control on noon as Abid and Nauman tain Kevin Pietersen wants the “Mid-to-late September is step on the road to becoming Pthe second day of the sec- plundered 169 off 199 balls for remaining matches of this year’s the most beautiful time in the Formula One’s most successful ond Test against Zimbabwe at the eighth wicket. postponed IPL to be shifted to UK. They could use Manchester, driver. Harare Sports Club on The innings ended in the United Kingdom in Leeds, Birmingham and the He drew level and overtook Saturday, outclassing the home bizarre circumstances. September, instead of the UAE. two London grounds. There is Schumacher’s record haul of 91 side with both bat and ball to Nauman was 93 not out at Pietersen feels moving the also a good chance that crowds wins last season and leads the take a big step towards sealing tea. He hit the first ball after the IPL to UK would be the best will be allowed in the grounds. drivers’ standings this season as a 2-0 series victory. interval for four but lifted his decision as there is a window in And there will be great atmos- he goes for an unprecedented Zimbabwe were 52 for four back foot after left-arm spinner September just after England pheres. eighth world crown. at the close in reply to Pakistan’s Tendai Chisoro bowled a wide. host India in a five-match Test “The IPL has been to the Verstappen, eight points 510 for eight declared, 458 Wicketkeeper Regis series that concludes on UAE; it’s been to South Africa, behind Hamilton in the nip and runs behind. Chakabva reacted quickly and September 14. and I think England would now tuck battle for the drivers’ crown Opening batsman Abid Ali took off the bails, with a tele- “I have seen people talking be the perfect place to house the after the first three races, at last made 215 not out and Nauman vision replay confirming that about the UAE as a possible des- remaining fixtures,” Pietersen has a car up to the job of Ali slammed 97 before being Nauman was out. tination to finish the IPL in said. mounting a serious title chal- stumped off a wide. He had hit 97 off 104 balls September, but I actually think lenge. The Zimbabwe innings got with five sixes and nine fours. the IPL should move to the UK. PANT DONATES 5 < record-extending 98th win in The Dutch driver got to off to a bad start when 36-year- Having scored most of his “There is a window in India wicketkeeper bats- Sunday’s race. within 0.036sec to Hamilton’s old debutant Tabish Khan runs behind or square of the September after the England vs man Rishabh Pant on Saturday orld champion Lewis “I’ll always remember that fastest lap on Saturday to join struck in his first over before a wicket in scoring his first 150, India Test series has finished. All joined the fight against the rag- WHamilton celebrated his one,” he beamed. him at the head of the run had been scored. Friday. Abid blossomed with some the best Indian players would ing COVID-19 pandemic, 100th pole on Saturday after set- Alongside the 36-year-old Montmelo circuit grid, with Three more wickets fell Kaia was Zimbabwe’s top- handsome drives during the already be there, and all of the pledging an undisclosed amount ting the fastest time in qualify- Briton on the front row in Valtteri Bottas in the second before the close and Zimbabwe scorer with 48 when Zimbabwe afternoon. best English players would be to procure oxygen cylinders ing for the Spanish Grand Prix. Barcelona will be his Red Bull Mercedes and Charles Leclerc looked in desperate trouble were routed by an innings and Abid faced 407 balls and available as well,” Pietersen wrote with beds and kits for the affect- The Mercedes driver’s latest title rival Max Verstappen. for Ferrari on the second row. with Roy Kaia not coming out 116 runs in the first Test of the hit 29 fours in beating his pre- in a column for Betway. ed patients. The 23-year-old milestone puts him 32 clear of Hamilton reached his cen- Hamilton has a superb to bat after being struck a two-match series. vious highest score in Tests of The 40-year-old said the said he will donate the amount Michael Schumacher in the all- tury 14 years after securing his record in Catalonia, winning the heavy blow on his left knee Zimbabwe’s bowlers com- 174 against Sri Lanka in weather in September would be to Hemkunt Foundation, a time pole chart and leaves him maiden pole in the Canadian race in each of the last four years while fielding at short leg on peted reasonably well until Karachi in 2019/20. ideal to host cricket matches in Gurugram-based NGO. PTI in prime position to secure a Grand Prix in 2007, which he with five wins altogether. 1 ) ( Q$ ( R 5 9FF outbreak remains much small- on there being no vaccine, so " A er than in many countries, with that situation has improved. nternational Olympic just over 10,500 deaths, its The Games will go ahead.” ndian women’s hockey cap- ICommittee vice-president vaccine rollout is moving slow- US drugs giant Pfizer and Itain Rani Rampal, her six 9 0 John Coates was adamant on ly and polls show most its German partner BioNTech team-mates and two support Saturday that nothing could Japanese people support can- on Thursday announced a deal staff members have recovered eema Bisla added a Gold stop the Tokyo Olympics from cellation or another delay. with the IOC to provide vac- from Covid-19 infection after Smedal to her Olympic qual- going ahead, despite ongoing Coates, the point man for cines to competitors and staff spending two weeks in quaran- ification but India’s Greco risks from Covid-19. the Games as head of the at the Games. tine at the Sports Authority of Roman wrestlers drew a blank Asked if there was any sce- IOC’s coordination commis- Coates said it was a big step India’s (SAI) Centre in at the World Olympic Qualifiers nario in which the Games, sion, said a huge amount of forward. Bengaluru. as none of them could earn a which are due to start on July work had been done to ensure “All of the precautions that The six other India players Tokyo Games quota, here on 23, could be cancelled or post- the safety of athletes and the we have been taking are aimed are Savita Punia, Sharmila Devi, Saturday. poned again at this late stage, Japanese public. at the health of the athletes and Rajani, Navjot Kaur, Navneet Seema, who secured her he replied: “No, there’s not. “We spent the first half of the health of the people of Kaur and Sushila while the Olympic qualification on Friday, “The Prime Minister of ) ) 7=*=*! last year identifying all the Japan,” he said, denying the two support staff are video took the 50kg Gold without get- Japan said that to the President ) # ) ) > % worst-case scenarios,” he told IOC was putting sport and analyst Amrutaprakash and ting on mat as her rival from of the United States two or % reporters in Sydney on the financial considerations before scientific advisor Wayne Ecuador, Lucia Yamileth Yepez was Gurpreet Singh but he was three weeks ago. He continues sidelines of the Australian health. Lombard. Guzman withdrew from the ousted after losing his 77kg to say that to the IOC. President Joe Biden in April be raised about the viability of Olympic Committee’s annual “We’ve put an amazing “Thank you everyone for final due an injury. pre-quarterfinal in just 48 sec- “We’re working with him and stressed the Asian nation the Games, given the ongoing general meeting. amount of work into the pro- the love and mental support It is first International title onds to 2020 European cham- (Japanese Prime Minister is doing everything possible to pandemic and a virus state of “We spent the next six cedures that ensure the safety through messages/calls during for 29-year-old Seema since she pion Rafig Huseynov from Yoshihide Suga) on all of the contain Covid-19 infections emergency in Tokyo and other months looking at the counter- of the athletes through testing the last two weeks. Me and my triumphed at the Yasar Dogu Azerbaijan. safety measures. It’s going and hold a “safe and secure” parts of Japan being extended measures that are necessary. ... boosted now by all athletes teammates and support staff are event in July 2019. All Greco Roman wrestlers ahead.” Olympics. on Friday. “We’re implementing those around the world now having fully recovered from the Covid In the Greco Roman com- cut a sorry figure as none of Suga held talks with US But questions continue to While Japan’s Covid-19 countermeasures, predicated access to the vaccine.” now,” Rani said in a statement petition, India’s brightest hope them could win a bout. on her Twitter handle. !"#$'!#&) 0&) 123 2 , ( ( ; # Leeds: Leeds beat managerless Tottenham 3-1 on Saturday to R+(" - put a huge dent in Spurs’ ambi- tions of securing a coveted 2 9 Premier League top-four spot. the competition regardless of Son Heung-min cancelled o title celebrations yet the domestic placing, but out Stuart Dallas’s early goal for for Manchester City, just Chelsea would have to over- Leeds midway the first half but Nso much frustration. come City again in three weeks Patrick Bamford restored the Losing to Chelsea 2-1 on in the final. home side’s lead shortly before Saturday left City still needing It wasn’t much of a dress the break and substitute one win from its remaining rehearsal for the Champions Rodrigo struck late on. three games to clinch a third League final. More of a stage Spurs, who sacked Jose English Premier League title in for understudies. Mourinho last month, remain four seasons. How much is Guardiola seven points behind fourth- Surely that’s enough breath- regretting making nine changes placed Leicester and now have ing space to hold on to top spot from the City side that beat just three games left. and for Sergio Agüero not to be Paris Saint-Germain here on It means Tottenham, beat- regretting the fluffed penalty Tuesday? en Champions League finalists Mason. “Today was a massive when City’s lead could have “We played a system we’re in 2019, are almost certain to “Leeds know what they’re game for us, to lose it hurts. It’s been doubled in first-half stop- not used to,” Sterling said after miss out on playing in Europe’s doing, they play a certain way difficult to win in the Premier page time just after Raheem Guardiola played Rodri as the elite club competition for a sec- and it took us a while to get into League but we’ve got to have Sterling’s opener. only midfielder. ond consecutive season. the game,” Mason told BT our full attention on next week Rather than blasting the But Tuchel also made five They even face a fight to Sport. “In the second half we now.” kick into the net, City’s record changes from Wednesday’s vic- qualify for the Europa League were the better team. The Meanwhile, Leeds climbed scorer nonchalantly chipped a tory over Real Madrid and it after their first league defeat moments we had, you have to above Arsenal into ninth place Panenka penalty centrally lack- paid off. under interim boss Ryan take them in these games. with the win. AFP ing pace so that it was easily saved by Chelsea goalkeeper Edouard Mendy with one hand. No wonder on the substi- 4 Q tutes’ bench Fernandinho threw his arms in the air and Eric Garcia flung a florescent bib 5 9 in the 22nd minute at the King end, are now in danger of fresh over his head. Power Stadium as he scored in Champions League heartache In the second half, the City ewcastle United derailed his fourth successive top-flight after they missed out on the top subs were howling in frustra- NLeicester City’s bid to qual- game for the Magpies. And the four of the final day of last sea- tion again, flinging their arms ify for next season’s Champions visitors doubled their lead before son. up. This time, their target was @ 7 > ) ) @ - % ) ) # / League with a 4-2 win on Friday half-time with a rare goal from Their three remaining referee Anthony Taylor. - < - % that all but secured their place Paul Dummett. league games are all against Chelsea defender Kurt in the Premier League. Callum Wilson appeared teams currently in the top six, Zouma clipped Sterling in the properly,” Sterling said. “I for Chelsea that spoiled the this victory for Chelsea away Defeat left Leicester fourth, to put the result beyond doubt with Brendan Rodgers’ men penalty area but no second thought the VAR was here to party. from the title race, as the west a point behind Chelsea and five with two second-half goals for travelling to Man United on spot kick was awarded, howev- help.” There’s still time to get the London club moved into third ahead of West Ham, with Newcastle. Tuesday before they face Chelsea er much City manager Pep In 2012 it was a stoppage job done. In fact, the title place having been five points Hammers having a game in Marc Albrighton and and Tottenham after their Guardiola berated fourth offi- time goal — by Agüero — that could be won before City plays from the four Champions hand over the Foxes. Only the Kelechi Iheanacho however, Wembley clash with the Blues. cial Jonathan Moss — appeal- sealed City’s first Premier again on Friday if second- League places when Frank top four at the end of the both scored inside the final 10 “We lacked concentration ing in vain for a full VAR League trophy with almost the placed Manchester United loses Lampard was fired in January Premier League season qualify minutes for Leicester before and if you do that against good review. last kick of the season. Nine any of its three games before and Thomas Tuchel was hired. for the Champions League. Newcastle saw out the game. teams and good players they “I don’t know how it’s not years later, it was Marcos then. Winning the Champions Joe Willock, on loan from Leicester, who face Chelsea punish you,” Rodgers told Sky been a penalty or reviewed Alonso scoring in injury time There’s a significance to League would clinch a spot in Arsenal, fired Newcastle in front in the FA Cup final next week- Sports. - 0 & 2 beat Spezia 4-1 to move ; (-D ; second in Serie A on nter Milan fans cele- Saturday to keep in the 2 / 2 Bayern ended the game before running to accept the Ibrated their Serie A title chase for a return to 5 < with 10 men after Tanguy ball back and score in the 87th. before the match against Champions League foot- ayern Munich clinched its Nianzou was sent after a VAR The injured Erling Sampdoria and the players ball next season. arcelona and Atletico Madrid knew victory Brecord-extending ninth consultation for taking down Haaland celebrated enthusias- marked the occasion by Piotr Zielinski had Bcould fire them towards the La Liga title but consecutive Bundesliga title Breel Embolo as the last tically. Dortmund is hoping the turning on the style in a 5- opened the scoring after a Saturday’s 0-0 draw at Camp Nou handed Real without even kicking a ball, defender in the 73rd. star striker will be fit for 1 win. quarter of an hour against Madrid the chance to go top. then celebrated with a 6-0 It made no difference. Thursday, when the teams Inter won its first the Ligurian side with Four wins from their last four games will rout of Borussia Serge Gnabry set up Leroy meet again in the German Cup league title since 2010 last Osimhen getting two now be enough for Zinedine Zidane’s side to Mönchengladbach on Sané to complete the rout in final. weekend after Atalanta more in the first half and retain their La Liga crown, with a crunch game Saturday. the 85th. Leipzig coach Julian failed to beat Sassuolo on then setting up Hirving at home to fourth-placed Sevilla up first on Robert Lewandowski’s hat Nagelsmann, who is taking Sunday. Lozano for a fourth with Sunday. trick lifted his season tally to 39 DECISIVE DORTMUND over at Bayern next season, was Thousands of fans cel- 11 minutes to go. The first part of a blockbuster weekend in goals, just one off the all-time Leipzig’s defeat meant it evidently disappointed his cur- ebrated in the streets of Napoli are one-point the Spanish title race pitched first against third record of 40 by Bayern great could no longer overhaul rent team couldn’t push the Milan then, and they did ahead of three teams — but neither could take a decisive step forward, Gerd Müller in the 1971-72 Bayern, which held a seven- Bavarian so again in front of San Atalanta, Juventus and AC despite the best attempts of Lionel Messi and Luis season. point lead before the late game. giant Siro on Saturday. They waved flags and for Samp. Andrea Milan — who are tied on Suarez, who faced each other for the first time Bayern was already Two rounds remain after this harder. Around 3,000 fans banners and lit flares. Pinamonti netted his first 69 points before they play since Suarez departed last summer. assured of the title thanks to weekend. were outside the stadium The Inter players were goal for Inter in the 61st, this weekend. A point each leaves Atletico three points old rival Borussia Dortmund “Of course they deserve to to welcome the Inter team given a guard of honor by and Lautaro Martínez Gennaro Gattuso’s clear of Real Madrid, who have a game in hand beating second-placed Leipzig be German champions, after buses. They started gath- Sampdoria when they added a penalty following side had lost 2-1 to Spezia and also the superior head-to-head over both 3-2 earlier. this very good season, ering a couple of hours went out on to the pitch. a handball by Samp mid- in Naples back in January, Atleti and Barcelona. “I think it’s the first time in very consistent season,” before, chanting and Roberto Gagliardini fielder Adrien Silva. but hit back against the Barca remain two points off the top but their history that the German cham- Terzic said of Bayern. singing as they jumped scored in the fourth relegation-threatened side chances took the biggest hit, given they now need pions were crowned in the “But we’re happier and clapped with little minute, Alexis Sánchez NAPOLI GO 2ND to extend their unbeaten both Atletico and Real Madrid to slip up in the bus,” Dortmund coach Edin about the points that heed to coronavirus added two in the first half, Victor Osimhen run to 12 consecutive final stretch. Terzic said. we got today.” restrictions. either side of a Keita goal scored twice as Napoli games. Yet Atletico will be disappointed too, given Bayern moved the celebra- Jadon Sancho they spurned a number of tions to the field. scored twice for chances in during a dominant Lewandowski got the Dortmund to move first half, before Ronald newly crowned champions off to fourth after captain 9 , ! ( 2 ) Koeman’s side recovered in the mark in the second minute Marco Reus fired his team into the second. and Jamal Musiala pulled the a seventh-minute lead. Sancho Jan Oblak had to deny ball back for Thomas Müller to capitalized on some lackluster 2 ics of the rival. It gave him to scratch Messi after a vintage run for- score the second goal in the defending to make it 2-0 in the the only set yielded by the winner. ward from the Argentine, 23rd. Müller crossed for 51st. he Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, 23 Sabalenka was about to give up who then had a well- Lewandowski to score his Germany defender Lukas Tyears old and No 7 in the world, is Madrid due to some physical discom- placed free-kick in the 200th goal for Bayern with a Klostermann pulled one back the new champion of the Mutua Madrid fort. That is why he appreciated the last minute, only for scissors kick in the 34th, and for the visitors in the 63rd, and Open after beating No 1, the Australian help of the physiotherapist. In his favor Atletico to watch the still the home side looked for Leipzig’s equalizer came in the in the final Ashleigh barty, for 6-0, 3- also how he reacted in the third ball spin inches wide. more. 77th when Hwang Hee-chan 6 and 6-4 in 1 hour and 39 minutes. sleeve, when Barty began to show the Atlético Lewandowski set up shrugged off Mats Hummels’ Sabalenka has rolled into the Magic solidity of other days. He lifted two remained winless at Kingsley Coman for the fourth challenge to set up Dani Olmo. Box to stand in the final, which opened break balls with 1-2, once again the Camp Nou before the break, then complet- But Sancho saved the best with a spectacular 6-0 in 25 minutes. yelling out the tension. since Diego ed his hat trick with a penalty for last, playing Raphaël The maximum expression of the pow- At 4-4, suddenly a bad game from Simeone took over in the 66th. Guerreiro in with his heel erful tennis of the Belarusian, who Bary, including a double fault, and as coach in late 2011. breaks every ball without thinking Sabalenka unleashing himself to vic- The team is winless about it. tory, her 10th WTA tournament in 15 in 15 consecutive She also showed her dark side, finals, her second of the season, away matches against those nerves that sometimes betray her which she successfully opened in Abu Barcelona, since 2006. $( ' 4 in relevant events, which opened a way Dhabi. A Masters 1000 WTA in his However, a 1-1 draw at for Barty, who opted to vary her game record, the best square in the rank- the stadium in 2014 was with cut blows and varying heights try- ing rising from the seventh to the enough to clinch Atlético 5 : 9 ing to avoid the overwhelming dynam- fourth and a heel of 315,180 euros. its last league title. eymar has signed a contract extension / Nthat will see him stay at Paris Saint- Germain until the end of the 2024-2025 sea- Lens: Ligue 1 leaders Lille held their 2 # 3 son, the reigning French champions nerve to win 3-0 at local rivals Lens on announced on Saturday. Friday and put the pressure back on The Brazilian has claimed three Ligue their pursuers who play later in the 5 2 second set, but had too much to 1 titles with PSG since arriving in 2017 from weekend. do to reach a third Madrid final. Barcelona for 222 million euros in what Lille took early control when veter- lexander Zverev produced The Austrian third seed remains the most expensive transfer in his- an Turkish striker Burak Yilmaz con- Aan impressive display to will now turn his attentions to tory. verted a second-minute penalty. beat Dominic Thiem in straight Rome next week and then the “I’m really pleased to continue my They cruised to victory after Lens sets on Saturday and book his French Open which starts later adventure at Paris Saint-Germain,” the 29- defender Clement Michelin was sent off spot in the Madrid Open final. this month, where he is also a year-old said in a club statement after sign- for the second time in the Derby du Fifth seed Zverev, who two-time runner-up. ing a contract extension until June 20, 2025. Nord this season. stunned five-time champion The tournament has seen a “I’m very happy in Paris, and proud to Lille have two matches left and the Rafael Nadal in the quarter- welcome return to form for be part of this squad, to work with these victory puts them four points ahead of finals on Friday, saw off Thiem Zverev, who had won only two players, a great coach and to be part of the reigning champions Paris Saint- 6-3, 6-4 in a repeat of the 2018 matches in his previous three history of this club.” Germain, who visit Rennes on Sunday final, which was also won by the events since lifting the Acapulco PSG coach Mauricio Pochettino said in evening. Third-place Monaco are eight German. title in March. a press conference: “Everyone in the PSG Champions League final where they were points behind with three games to play. “It is going to mean a lot to The world number six will family is happy that a player of Neymar’s tal- beaten by Bayern Munich but the club’s Lens, meanwhile, surrendered their me (if I can win the final) I am be a strong favourite in Sunday’s ent has extended his contract.” chances of reaching the final again were hold on a guaranteed Europa League definitely looking forward to it,” final. Neymar has also won two French Cups crushed by Manchester City on Tuesday — place, dropping below Marseille on said the 24-year-old Zverev, bid- It was Zverev and Thiem’s with PSG, but the major honour that he was and Neymar was ineffectual in the 2-0 semi- goal difference. AFP ding to win the title without first meeting since the latter’s bought by the Qatari-owned club to win, the final second-leg defeat in England. dropping a set, as he did three dramatic triumph in the 2020 Champions League, continues to prove elu- There has frequently been speculation deal in the French capital is not a surprise years ago. US Open final, when he came sive. in Spain that Barcelona wanted to re-sign as he has looked increasingly settled at PSG Thiem threatened a late back from two sets down to win He helped PSG to reach last season’s him, but Neymar’s decision to extend his in recent months. fightback after trailing 4-1 in the % K ) ) # 5 7 8 J%7 in a deciding-set tie-break. !"#$'!#&) 0&) 123 !2 ! ""-(.'/,( % # @<3" D - (6!:! /A / < -50:: A, - - - ( A?,<$<,2$, @<3- - - R he rising numbers of - CE F) E F, COVID-19 in the coun- E F) ,C 6C %C Q' try say it all — that there is chaos, carnage and criesT for help all around. Coronavirus is killing humans but humanity is not dead. People 9 R from all walks of life have stepped out from the safety and comforts of their homes to help those in he nation-wide lockdown due to need. Besides helping people get the present pandemic last year led lifesaving medicines, these Tto many people experimenting COVID warriors are also cook- with food and trying out new dishes. So ing food and sending it to fami- much so that they excelled at it and more lies who are unable to cook dur- and more people got inspired with what ing these testing times. these people were doing and more home One such person is Sarika chefs grew. From baking breads to Malhotra Yadav in Anand Lok in Dalgona coffee to made from scratch thin the Capital. For Yadav, the jour- crust pizzas, the list was endless. Groups ney started last year, as soon as the came up where friends and family shared lockdown began. “Last year, due what they had made that day. One such to the pandemic, when the group — House of Kitchens — came up nation-wide lockdown was in Panchsheel Enclave in the Capital with announced, I started distributing Anupriya Singh as its founder. free food to people who were in “When the lockdown happened last need, especially the labour class year, almost everyone was experiment- % ) $ who found itself jobless, no ing with new dishes at home. People were money and hence no means to scared to order out. We have a group of someone who could provide home- feed their family. Come April 200 in my colony where the women cooked food because the entire family was 2021, the situation is even worse. shared what they had made that day. It down with the virus. Singh only had bak- It is not just the poor who are in is a group to share information and noth- ers in that area but she asked if they could need. This is when I requested my ing else is allowed to be shared here. But provide this service at a nominal rate. full-time maid if she would help due to the COVID-19, there was a Some agreed and the list of demands kept me to cook food and send it to relaxation. People started posting photos going up. A list was prepared that had 12 those in need. Usually, she cooks of what they had cooked. Then a com- chefs with their numbers from HoK will- for four people but she would end petition was announced. After three ing to provide home food and circulat- up cooking for 30-odd people weeks of lockdown and things didn’t ed on social media. everyday which is not easy given open, people started selling the food. Kids “In a few hours, I was bombarded that it is breakfast, lunch and din- are used to ordering out so they started with calls and messages that we needed ner. She readily agreed,” Yadav for him. I agreed. I have tied up From day one calls started com- ordering food from them. Parents allowed food and if you could deliver it there. The says. with a delivery app. I charge a ing in and the process began. it since it was home-cooked and safe,” list was intended for 500 members on my Since then, Yadav has been nominal amount from those who People requesting for lunch and Singh recalls. HoK. I never realised that it would spi- supplying food 30 meals daily. can afford to pay and provide free dinner. To begin with I was pro- This mutual exchange kept everyone ral so much. Messages kept pouring in While it may not sound as if it is food to those who can’t. These viding 60 meals daily. But then it happy and continued for some time. But from volunteers as well willing to provide a big number but it does involve include security guards,” Yadav got too much. I was all alone and there was a problem. The colony is small meals. I kept asking people to check the a lot of time. “I prepare a three- says who is supplying vegetarian it got to me. Now, I only do lunch. and how often could one order the same latest date. No one did. I had no option day menu in advance since I don’t food only. I have tied up with a couple of dishes again and again even though they but to pull down my website. All that it want people to feel as if they are She tells you that sometimes delivery apps. Since I have this tie- were excellent. Two glaring issues came has is a list of 300 home chefs providing eating the same daal or vegetable. the pressure gets to her and her up, it makes it easy to deliver up. First, these people were unable to post food. We keep adding the numbers but Then there are the aged who want maid, Sushita, due to the within seven-eight km,” Roy says. what they were doing. The texts were long there is no time to verify this since we are to eat light food; the young want demands that some people make. He ensures that the meals are messages detailing what they were doing all so busy. Many people thought that this their rajma. So, I add rajma to the “I tell her that it is a matter of cooked with minimum oil and it for that week. One didn’t want to read was a great way to establish a home food daal. Young people like kadhi. time. There are days when peo- is vegetarian so that the patient such long messages. What was missing business. But this service is not for this The elderly don’t want to eat it. ple want to eat sprout cheela or 1) $ can easily digest it. “I set a menu was a visual that would attract people and purpose,” Singh explains. A call is made Instead, I made a quick paneer even besan cheela. I tell my kids and stick to it. It is thali concept make things easier. for a quick interview with a tour of the bhurji with panchrangi daal with as well to eat whatever has been and has four things — daal, “I launched House of Kitchen (HoK) kitchen to see the level of hygiene. jeera tadka. This is easy to cook cooked for the day instead of lucky that till now nobody in my and dinner,” Jain says. chawal, roti and sabzi. Daal and with an aim that I would be able to pro- She recently got a request from the and it is nutritious. My work what they want to eat,” Yadav says. family has suffered the way I see He tells you that it would be sabzi are different each day. There vide these home chefs very nominally Bar Association of Delhi to sponsor meals starts at 8 am with breakfast It is not just food that she people suffering today. I lost my much easier if he could just do are people who need an early priced design services. They could either to the lawyers down with COVID-19. which is delivered by 10:30, lunch provides. Once she is done with friend to the virus last week. simple daal, chawal, roti and meal or our Diabetic and can’t eat reach out to people on their own or join From April 18, 2021 till May 3, 2021, they by 1:30 pm and dinner by 8:30 cooking and sending off meals, Sadly, I couldn’t be part of his last sabzi. “Unfortunately, this is not rice. Many of the people I cater my platform with a delivery service and have sent out 2.75 lakh meals by 300 pm. I also send kada. I tell them the rest of her time is spent in journey nor can I go to his house the case people do come up with to our Jains, they don’t want gar- reach out to people living in GK 1, or home chefs across Delhi. This is not all. what I put and if they want, they making arrangements of medi- to pay my condolences in person. their demands and we try to take lic or onions. I try to accommo- Nehru Place or CR park or Defence Singh has a Meals of Wheel initiative as can drink it,” Yadav tells you. cines and oxygen for her staff, But such is life,” Jain says. care of what they want. date everyone's needs. I make a Colony. By September I had 500 cus- well. In this endeavour, Yadav is family and friends. Her son He saw a flier on his Sometimes, there are limitations standard meal that works for tomers and chefs with different groups The van carries 100 lunches and 100 being helped by her son, study- spends time verifying the infor- WhatsApp group 10-15 days so it is not always possible to give everyone. As it is, it takes me for areas like Gurugram, Noida, Delhi dinner meals to LNJP hospital. “To ing in IIT who help her to pack. mation that comes on social back requesting people to come what they want. We have no three-four hours from cutting and had two group. To avoid conflict of inter- begin with we would send the van to Her daughter, in Class XI, helps media. “He and his friends veri- forward and provide home- option but to apologise. The cleaning to cooking,” Roy tells est I don’t add-on chefs from the same other hospitals as well since we didn’t to organise everything else that is fy information that comes over cooked food to those in need. “I only complaints that we got in the you. area serving the same good. Take an know where the need was. But then we needed. Yadav who has an IT various social media platforms, immediately contacted the num- beginning was related to delivery,” He also provides free meals example. If I have four bakers in South went to LNJP and we realised that there company, has put her work on make an Excel sheet and share it ber and offered my services. I Jain says. to a few elderlies who can’t afford Delhi, I will not add a fifth. I can fill the was a genuine need. So now, the van goes hold to provide this service to with parents and family to cir- have two people who help me in Bonku Roy, who is part of the to pay; for others, who can afford group but no one will get a sale. This con- directly to this hospital. These meals are those who need it. “I am not a culate so maximum correct infor- my endeavour. It takes around House of Kitchens (HoK) that to pay the charges are 110 per tinued till April this year. That is when free of cost. But I can’t sponsor 100 meals professional chef. I have an IT mation reaches people,” Yadav three hours to prepare the meals started last year during the lock- meal. There is an interesting people started asking if COVID meals each time. We asked people if they would company. Our aim is to help out says. — from sorting to cutting to final down, and stays in Mayur Vihar story about how he learnt to cook. could be provided. ‘I am down with the sponsor. We now get sponsors for these people in their time of need in our Elsewhere in RK Puram, cooking. We prepare the meals Phase I has been providing food “When I went abroad, I didn’t virus. Can you provide food’? My chefs meals. We got help from a lady in area. I try to restrict myself to Swapan Jain, (39) is out deliver- and even deliver it ourselves to to families in East Delhi. “I am even know how to make tea. It were providing exotic dishes. I reached Singapore who helped us set up the sys- two-three km to supply food. But ing food to those in need. He lost make sure people don’t have to part of the House of Kitchens was a struggle for me. I learnt how out a few chefs in GK who agreed to pro- tem and sent 90,000. Another lady who then I got a request from a fam- his friend to COVID-19 a couple pay extra for delivery. We cater to group of home chefs. The group to cook. I then became part of the vide meals in their area,” Singh recounts. sent 1.5 lakh. 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Eating ty was deeply worried and the sentiment to we were ready to manage inventories well, keep Chef Anuj Wadhawan feels that in order to out gives joy, it allows people to create memories survive was breaking down on an hourly basis. our costs down, halt our expansion plans, survive or stay afloat, “every restaurant should that last a lifetime. I am optimistic that if we are We were the first to close, and last to open. renegotiate terms of trade, and more impor- have a permanent delivery module as well a able to survive this period, we will resurge. We Half of us closed never to open our doors tantly, sit this one out. This time, we knew how proper business plan and not as a backup plan. will not be the same; the numbers will be differ- again, but the rest fought back. We paid our the ball will roll. The backup plan always takes the back-burner ent, the discussions will be different, but we will dues, gave license fees, rents, salaries, electrici- Rahul Gomes Pereira, a celebrated Chef and this is what we saw last year — every have something new that we can build upon. ty bills, got down to a 50 percent capacity, and a friend believes, “the F&B industry has restaurant came up with delivery but once Once the vaccine is available, all this will be invested in new technology, invested to ensure taken to this wave much better than the first. things seemingly reverted to normal, it was behind us. guest and employee safety, worked on contact- The industry as a whole is going through just a backup plan. If this plan would have wrote this about a year ago and till about less everything, surface cleaning, digitised almost a purge of sorts. Good food, great been executed last year in full force, then this February 2021, it was all falling into menus and payment gateways, reduced staff, drinks won’t go out of style and that’s the only year it must have showed some result.” place as predicted. The worst was over, or immunity boosting menus, helped guests to trend that’s going to survive. From the perspec- Saurabh Khanijo, CEO, Kylin Experience, so we presumed. The Vaccine Drive, the cook at home, gave back to the community and tive of a chef, he feels that chefs should under- started delivery under the brand “House of flattening of the curve, the return of the even became Covid warriors ourselves. stand the importance of being involved with Kylin” and is of the opinion that the delivery Ipositive consumer sentiment, revenge buying, Were we prepared for it the first time the business and understanding the numbers business will grow four times from where it new launches in the restaurant and dining-in around? Absolutely not, but we came out with even more post this pandemic. It is important was pre-Covid and the route to success is to ecosystem, and our favourite food awards all plausible solutions, swinging hard to knock to be self-reliant and not at the mercy of deliver restaurant level taste at delivery pricing. seemed to indicate that after languishing in the down our opponent. We were ready to investors or restaurant owners.” deep end after the first coronavirus wave, the embrace and build the new normal as per the restaurant industry had finally found its feet new rules of engagement, and the consumer Once we address the elephant in the room, again. played ball too. It was all coming together, the 0 There is no point debating this further. there will be multiple road maps for recovery We also saw leniency in travel restrictions, salaries were almost back to pre-Covid days, Lives win hands down when it is Lives versus and every restaurant establishment, hotel chain the hospitality industry investing heavily in sales were up to 70%, the staff strength was <B> 9F Livelihood. We will surely fight the livelihood etc. will create its own unique path. Some will digital-first initiatives, a rise in staycations, all- increasing, the grandiose caterings were hap- < >9 >F battle once we win the first war. It’s time to be take more time than the others, some might inclusive packages, contactless dining, chef-led pening and the sentiment to celebrate was H3< 9 safe, keep your loved ones safe, keep your change the offering, and some might change delivery models, restaurants full to (the new) back. Within the industry we started using the F2: F9 employees safe, customers safe, and take it one their location. capacity, return of the big fat Indian weddings, term “Post Covid” and I think we jumped the day at a time, one win at a time. If we some- From a consumer perspective, safety assur- the Sunday night bazaars, tourism regaining gun. 42 : : how get over this wave, get over the gloom, the ance will be the focal point when making a acceptance in the Maldives, Mussoorie and * 2F9F42 road to economic recovery in this sector dining out decision. The consumers will make Goa. We saw it all and became a part of the 02 9+,9 F should not be a cause for concern and we have informed choices basis what has been shared counter punch. We were close to the end of the I can’t say it happened overnight but the 2: 0 9 seen this happening in the last eight odd with them. Even more than the information, it tunnel and it seemed there was enough light turn of events was extremely swift. From a fast- months. will be the on-ground implementation of the there to make it through. paced road to recovery to being the #1 country B '0 F Srijan Vadhera, GM Hilton Hotels laid-out hygiene and safety standards that will It became an exciting time for food and “in covid terms” broke us badly. For the frater- 9:F Bangalore, is as seasoned Hotelier. As he puts make or break any restaurant, bar, club or café. beverage players as the vertical got some due nity, it meant us going back to the drawing 9 2 it: “Travel is an essential part of our everyday I am an optimist and believe that the places course correction. People who did not have board without new answers to the same old lives and travel makes the world a better place that will survive the Covid onslaught will their skin in the game moved out, the investors problem that has now returned with a 9 B B9< > to live in. While there is a temporary pause, it’s bounce back leaner and stronger. A new nor- moved out, the sharks moved out. There was a vengeance. As I write this piece, we are closed. F inevitable that travel will resume sooner than mal yet again awaits the industry and the return to hardcore hospitality that was product We started with a night curfew (surprisingly <9 9'0 9 later across the globe. With most governments country, and it would be exciting and extreme- and content centric. We had no surprises on cinemas were on during this time) and are now 9,9 across the world having started the vaccination ly fruitful. the places that did well post the first lockdown. down to a “delivery only” that features as a part drives and Indian government opening up the These were establishments that were built on of essentials. “Bars” cannot deliver alcohol but :'0 0 9 9 vaccination for citizens who are 18+ years old, the core competencies of hospitality, product have recently been made to pay the full B : I’m fairly optimistic that some amount of nor- We need the government to acknowledge and service orientation. increased excise license fee for the entire year. 9> ,< malcy may return to our markets in Q3 or Q4 that the Food and Beverage industry that is The second wave has done damage in more It is déjà vu with one change — a lot more 90 >< (FY22). Food & Beverage are going to be the roughly 3 percent of our GDP and possibly the ways than one. It has made a mockery of all people you know are testing positive, many drivers of recovery for most hospitality estab- single largest employer is in trouble. We need our insights, predictions and readiness. By the more have lost their loved ones, and the infra- lishments once again in a few months.” the governments, both State and Central, to act time, this ends and we attain herd immunity, structure that is meant to curtail all this, is now and tell us that we will be taken care of. and some sort of normalcy prevails, we will all crumbling. Covid is all around us, and it is We have been waiting for over a year now. be starting from a sub-zero level. For the Food time for sheer survival and nothing else. Delivery has become a choice for some and Liquidity is our biggest problem and a rebate and Beverage Industry vertical, globally things a necessity for the others. For some, it means a or a waiver in statutory dues, compliances have improved drastically. People are back to business vertical extension and for others it could be one of the things that governments eating out, spring break is almost back, and For sure we were, while hoping that this means to be relevant in the consumer’s mind can re-evaluate. Things like license fees, VAT, summer set to bloom. For us in India, the preparedness never comes into effect. When I space. Irrespective of how and why, ever since GST inputs, interest on tax, and electricity bills vision will take its time. say ‘prepared’, it does not mean that we have a the pandemic struck, the case for “dining-in” could all be looked at to improve liquidity. The Indian Food and Beverage Industry magic wand. We are just more cognizant of the has become really strong, almost like a service Lastly, once we survive the pandemic, we will that brings in roughly 60 billion dollars annu- fact that we will lose more business, more time game in tennis “Advantage Delivery”. Your need policy changes that are pro-business and ally and employs around 7 million people (or I will be taken, we will yet again need to invest favourite dishes that tantalised your taste buds pro-tourism. We hope our voice will be heard. may say 7 million families), was directly both in product and in the sentiment. We were and got you salivating were suddenly available The writer is a celebrated chef, restaurateur, food impacted when the first wave hit. The fraterni- ready this time to accept things and be patient, only via delivery. and beverage entrepreneur 2 > 9B9 0: <29, 9 >0 > 2 8tdiauxrd K 9> : > atleast 40% of its energy from renewable and sequester additional 2.5 to 3 billion tonnes of CO2eq through afforestation by 2030. According to Climate Action Tracker, India is the only major country whose actions to combat emissions are compatible with the goal of limiting global warming to 2oC. While India is on its way to fulfil first two pledges, it needs to reorient some of its policies and regulations to fulfil the third pledge along with tackling food and water insecurity and ecosystem damage. The administrative planning levels like states and districts do not usually match up with the relevant agro-ecological zones or catch- ments. The probabilistic forecasting, urban resilience and adaptive capacities of states are usually very weak. The Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) is done by con- sultants hired by project proponents them- selves and around 20% of the project fees is made only on grant of approval, which results in increased possibility of manipu- lation of documents by underplaying the environmental and social impacts of the pro- jects under consideration. If small and mar- ginal farmers plan to switch to hardy crops like chickpeas and traditional grains like sorghum and pearl millet, they face con- straints of timely credit, seeds, irrigation, labour, insurance & market access leading to high and unsustainable cost of cultivation. Focus on forests and urban green spaces could mitigate climate change through carbon sequestration, enhance resilience to droughts, flash floods and land- slides, improve resilience of coastal infra- structure, reduce vulnerability to extreme heat by reducing ambient temperatures and support native wildlife and biodiversity. Drip irrigation and water sprinklers coupled with solar pumps, mulching and bed plantation can boost water availability at a fraction of the cost of large bridges and irrigation pro- jects. Old water harvesting structures like CLIMATE CHANGE & INDIA water tanks and check dams should be reju- venated for water harvesting and conserva- tion, which suits local ecology and managed by local communities. Government can %.. & ..&%1 % & . ( .1 encourage shifting away from rice and wheat by providing appropriate scientific support and financial incentives (like MSP) to the & %&(. , ( &% % , 2 >> farmers. Switching to Strategic Environment Assessment (SEA) from EIA would be s the world faces the dual chal- commitments) while not hindering their monsoon patterns threaten agriculture out- viation measures would result in 50% instrumental in evaluating ecological ram- lenges of Covid-19 and climate economic growth. put and fresh water supplies. Rapid urban- increase in GHGs. But this increase can be ifications of projects and ways to address change, there has been growing India is one of the fastest growing isation, rising temperatures, changes in pre- contained by designing adequate food, them at the initial stage itself, by making acceptance of the fragilities of economies with third highest GHG emis- cipitation, extreme rainfall events, altered energy and transport policies. India has regional plans rather than individual pro- our energy, economic and sions in the world. According to the first ever coastlines, depleting water tables and potential to raise its RE capacity from the ject assessments to evaluate the cumulative healthA systems. India has been hailed as a climate change assessment report of India destroyed biodiversity hotspots affect migra- initial goal of 175 GW to 500 GW by 2030. impact of the projects in a region, by hir- global leader by Antonio Guterres, Secretary prepared by the Ministry of Earth Sciences tion, conflicts and spread of diseases. > Switching to RE would reduce dependen- ing independent consultants for individual General of the United Nations for its (MoES), India’s average temperature has Around 44% of India is under various cy on uncertain coal and gas supplies while large project EIAs and by ensuring public Covid-19 response efforts of supplying already risen by 0.7oC between 1901 and degrees of drought conditions. The worst 2 at the same time reduce GHG emissions of participation to improve assessment and critical medicines to more than 150 coun- 2018 due to Green House Gas (GHG) emis- affected are the poor, marginalised, indige- the country and create more employment. scrutiny. tries. During the 19th Darbari Seth sions and is expected to rise by 4.4oC by nous, women and the future generations. , 9 Co-benefits like improved air quality, water While India is committed to NDCs till Memorial Lecture, Mr. Guterres also 2100. Climate change has multiple repercus- While much of climate change crisis in F2E F use, land use and biodiversity; improved 2030, it needs long term goals for sustain- acknowledged the role of India as an sions on development, food and water secu- India is a result of the excesses of industri- social sustainability related to livelihoods, able, equitable and carbon free growth to fol- emerging superpower in the fight against cli- rity, health, gender equity and poverty alle- alised world, there are domestic drivers as 9 9 income distribution, migration and hous- low a 1.5oC path through confluence of tech- mate change. During the pandemic, India’s viation efforts of India with a densely pop- well. Primarily the overwhelming reliance ing has incentivised political support. India nology, policy, financial and social actions. proportion of Renewable Energy (RE) rose ulated 7500 km coastline susceptible to on thermal power in energy generation 2<2 99 9 has pledged to invest USD 100 billion in In the build up to Glasgow Climate Summit, from 17% to 24% while coal-fired power extreme weather events like sea-level rise, which accounts for roughly 68% of total clean energy over five years. The Smart a rapidly growing and changing country like declined from 76% to 66%. This has been storms and floods, third largest ice mass in GHG emissions, and an inefficient agricul- 2: < Cities and Smart Mobility plans coupled India should focus on avoiding emissions a phenomenal leap for India that pushed for north — the Great Himalayas, biodiversi- tural policy which encourages high yield, low > 0 2 > with policies like Faster Adoption and by setting key sectors on a low carbon ‘Common but Differentiated Responsibilities ty rich Western Ghats and North East and nutrition, excessive water guzzling crops like Manufacturing of Hybrid and Electric growth path, with robust climate institutions and Respective Capabilities’ based on his- nearly one billion people living in rural areas rice and wheat in arid and semi-arid > <2 > Vehicles (FAME-II) would ensure that and laws. This would help in further gar- toric emissions in 1990s and championed whose livelihoods depend on climate sen- regions which exacerbates any climate India embarks on a sustainable transport ner political support for enhanced mitiga- the idea that industrialised nations (global sitive sectors like agriculture, fisheries, live- change induced monsoon variations. About 7 growth. tion and setting net-zero targets which are north) must reduce their emissions and cre- stock and forests. 90% of its groundwater goes into irrigation India’s Nationally Determined achievable and credible. ate an institutional mechanism for climate India ranked fifth in the Global Climate and about 80% of it goes to rice and wheat. Contribution (NDC) at Paris COP21 The writer is Fellow, Anant Fellowship action funding for global south to augment Risk Index 2019. Earlier seasonal snowmelt, According to Research Institute of includes pledge to reduce its emissions inten- for Climate Action and Superintendent of their mitigation capacities (without binding depleting glaciers and uncertainties in Humanity and Nature Japan, poverty alle- sity by 33-35% over 2005 levels, produce Police, Narayanpur District, Chhattisgarh + , - < > ( A,- > ( # # ( - ?*E,;, ne of the grave realities Vulnerability describes the char- men dawn the role of the bread amongst all stakeholders from and challenges of today’s acteristics and circumstances of a earner of the house. They take local to national level should be Otime and era is Climate community, system or asset that care of the belongings that hap- key in disaster reduction. change. It has become integral at make it susceptible to the damag- pen outside house premises. Capacity building from the per- all levels of the existing world. ing effects of a hazard. Risk (or When disaster strikes in such set- spective of gender keeping in Just like Newton’s third law — more specifically, disaster risk) is tings, women find themselves mind the socio-economic and “Every action has an equal and the potential disaster losses (in incompetent and are at risk more cultural phenomenon should be opposite reaction”, Climate change terms of lives, health status, liveli- when it comes to face danger. approached. Basic life saving is the consequence of our various hoods, assets and services) which They lack skills like swimming or skills should be taught at all levels actions which is constantly affect- could occur to a particular com- climbing the trees which are tra- like swimming, climbing tree, ing and altering our living sys- munity or a society over some ditionally taught to men. They are first-aid, etc., irrespective of gen- tems. One such long term alter- specified future time period. reluctant to move to shelter places der. Risk assessments should also ation has been the increase in fre- Resilience is the ability of a sys- as these communal facilities are be done through a gender quency and severity changes in tem, community or society devoid of private spaces for them. focused lens. Toolkits like sur- extreme weather such as hurri- exposed to hazards to resist, In some countries, the women veys, questionnaires and software canes, heatwaves, wildfires, absorb, accommodate to and also have lesser intake of nutrition should be developed to train and droughts, floods, and precipita- recover from the effects of a haz- leading them to be weaker than equip individuals for risk preven- tion; and cloud and vegetation ard in a timely and efficient man- men in strength. They are unable tion and emergency prepared- cover changes. These disasters are ner, including through the preser- to cope up with harsh adversities ness. Gender-responsive recovery occurring at a continuous pace vation and restoration of its increasing in the number of should also be taken up. Financial and pose critical harm to the essential basic structures and deaths. Post disaster many aid becomes crucial for the com- environment and society at large. functions. For every term women, girls, transgenders face munities and the individuals post According to Climate Risk Index explained above, community and brutal circumstances where they a disaster. Not only from the per- 2019 by German watch, in the society are the central themes are sexually assaulted, raped and spective of supplying food, water past 20 years 5,25,000 people have where Gender of an individual are beaten to death. Human traf- and temporary shelter, the gov- been killed by more than 11,500 plays a very important factor in ficking also increases in certain ernments should also help the extreme weather events and tril- shaping the needs of these soci- scenarios. Living in communal affected people to set up their lions of dollars have been lost in eties. tents and shelter homes, they are own source of livelihood. For damages. Gender identities determine constantly harassed for sexual example, In Haiti, post 2008 hur- Disasters do not occur in opportunities, responsibilities and Gender sensitisation provides the brunt of these “not so higher mortality rates than men favours to gain access to relief or ricanes and tropical storms, silos. Whether it is a natural or resources, as well as powers asso- a space to understand the thought” decisions. Due to differ- in the wake of a natural disaster recovery assistance. In a lot of United Nations Development man-made disaster, other than ciated with being, male, female, inequalities of exposure, risks and ences in adaptive capacities which affects them more adverse- societies men being the sole earn- Programme (UNDP) conducted being an environmental phenom- transgender, agender etc. Gender the ability to adapt to one gender according to situations and con- ly if the intensity of a disaster is er of the family face a lot of post-disaster recovery support by enon, it is also an amalgamation also defines the relationship over the other. Several research texts, any gender other than the very strong. Having said that, the depression when they lose their uplifting the women’s position in of economic, social and cultural between these individuals. studies and observations have male gender has been on the socio-economic status also deter- source of income. They feel the society by giving them access phenomenon. We often associate Difference in the socio-economic shown that both communities of receiving end of miseries from a mines the life expectancy of the ashamed in asking money from to funds to restart their business- disasters with loss of lives and and cultural background with dis- developed and the developing very long time. While assessing female gender. Lower the socio- the lenders or working at a lower es and revive their agricultural damage to the environment and tinct vulnerabilities make a man, world have indicated a skewed risk, one can argue that a woman, economic strata more the gap position than before. In these cir- fields which in turn helped in the property. But we seldom tend woman, girl, boy, eunuch etc. of representation of facilities, girl or transgender etc, fall in the between male and female deaths cumstances, the increased work- reviving the Haiti economy. to forget that it is deep rooted in different age groups shape their resources, opportunities and most vulnerable category. They and higher the socio-economic load puts a burden on the females Therefore, to have a holistic and a the social and cultural phenome- risks and recovery during and access when it comes to gender. are the main victims of natural strata, lesser the gap between of the house. They must take care comprehensive way forward in non when it comes to vulnerabili- post disaster in a unique way. The decisions taken in pre and disasters. There are several exam- male and female deaths. In devel- of both households and earn a liv- disaster risk reduction and recov- ty, risk and resilience. Before They are context and time-specif- post disaster management are ples from all over the world where oping countries where societies ing. ery, one should realize and moving on, let us try and define ic and changeable too. skewed in favour of the male gen- these genders have faced inci- are more patriarchal in nature it Thus, integrating gender in remember the power associated the terms vulnerability, risk and Understanding and sensitising der in majority of the times. dences of violence, sexual abuse, has been observed that women disaster management and recov- with any Gender in every aspect resilience. According to the gender differences before, during Women or girl child or transgen- injustice and deaths during the tend to remain within the premis- ery is of utmost importance. of life. United Nations Office for Disaster and post a disaster is critical and der or any other gender knowing- disaster recovery phase. es of their own house and take Awareness and advocacy of disas- The writer is Fellow, Anant Risk Reduction (UNDRR), crucial. ly or unknowingly have to bear Women and girls tend to have care of the household whereas ter risks and vulnerabilities Fellowship for Climate Action & uvitiut #6 '7'8 ( , 1 ( he Senkaku Islands have Beijing tries to force its rule over Temerged as the new flashpoint Senkaku. between Japan and China in the East However, the so-called normal- China Sea (ECS). While China has isation of Sino-Japanese relations is intensified its campaign to assert its a misnomer. In 2018, China and claim over the territories they call the Japan celebrated the 40th anniversary 2-;,99-:.;91+1+(-9 Diaoyu Islands, Japan has tried to of the signing of the China-Japan make the US back its sovereign rights Treaty of Peace and Friendship, but .2--:(?.2- to enhance their military prepared- barrage of charges against China for ness, particularly the radar and mis- spreading the pandemic. In the 1;-0-9=*E1P+8/++1- sile systems around the region. The same year, Chinese Premier Li ->/:+1(:>)/:1:.2- total area of disputed islands is Keqiang paid a maiden visit of Japan around 81,000 square miles and the in May, and in October then Prime ?(98(?6(9 number of islands is eight. As per the Minister Abe visited China. .29-/.-:+>-/;-/:3 record of the US Energy Information On the ECS, China and Japan .9/:B,1))1.1:/:3 Administration, the ECS has an agreed to strengthen maritime crisis estimated 200 million barrels of oil. management, establish a diplomat- /9(,:3.2-9-=1(:* Historical records say that Japan ic consultation mechanism and sign 5,9.2-9)(:= formally claimed the Senkaku Islands a maritime rescue agreement. +,>>9-++1(:(? in the year 1895. And some of the However, Sino-Japan relations will Japanese individuals have been occu- always be troublesome as there are 3-8(;9/.1;91=2.+1: pying these islands for the last 120 several potential face-off points. The (:=(:= /1/:P+ years. However, only during the problems in the South China Sea and ;(:.1:,-3;)/18?(9 Second World War, America occu- in the East China Sea, the traditional pied these territories from Japan. But rivalry between the two Asian giants, +(-9-1=:. 10-./:P+ afterwards, Japan brought them back an increasing and sustained presence )(:=39/:/9?(9.2- under its control. Until 1960s, China of US military support behind Japan, hardly paid any attention to Senkaku, and a new alliance called QUAD -- 9-;(=:1.1(:(?.2-19 as per archival records. However, the - a grouping of the US, Australia, ,:1B,-:-++.2-.(9.,9- year 1969 turned out to be a decisive India and Japan to prevent grand (:.2-1=2,9,+)18 moment for China in the recent his- Chinese expansion in the region -- tory of Senkaku. The offshore oil - have certainly strained Sino-Japan 81:(91.1-+/:3(.2-9 development potential attracted bilateral relationship. -.2:1;=9(,>+1: China’s attention towards the Island Therefore, the current crisis in E1:J1/:=/:3?1:/))/ chain. China had in 1979 discovered the ECS is just the tip of the iceberg. that there was huge field of hydro- China’s claim over the Senkaku ;(:.-+.-3;)/18(? carbon in the area, experts claim. Islands will only deteriorate the 8/::-1=20(,9+(-9 In January, China passed its bilateral relations with Japan. Xi’s Coast Guard Law to increase its pres- interest.” Senkaku Islands must be settled by with then Japanese Prime Minister forming an “alliance of democracies”. massive expansion plans, whether in .2-(,.221:/-//9- ence in and around the Senkaku This kind of statement is rare the three conflicting parties involved Shinzo Abe, Trump expressly high- Again, US-Japan joint military the form of Belt and Road Initiative .2->-98/:-:.+(9- Islands. This set off the Yoshihide from the Chinese Government, and i.e. Japan, Taiwan and China. This lighted that the US-Japan Security exercises around the Senkaku Islands or China-Pakistan Economic >(1:.+?(96-1J1:= Suga Government to revise the when they are released, they really stance continued till 1995. But 1996 Treaty is applied to the Senkaku under Trump strengthened pre- Corridor, all threaten peace and Japanese Coast Guard Law so as to indicate something serious. In onwards, during the reign of Islands. And also, the declaration paredness for any armed interven- tranquillity in and around the region. shoot any intruder that tries to land Chinese political lexicon, “core inter- President Bill Clinton, the US poli- made it public that the US opposes tion from China. In fact, Lieutenant Further, long suppression of demo- in these islands. What has changed est” is meant to be a zone of vital cy makers came up with a new per- any unilateral action aimed at con- General Kevin Schneider, the com- cratic rights in Hong Kong, Taiwan’s the status quo in favour of Japan was importance for the country’s territory spective on the disputed island. The testing Japan’s administration over mander of the joint military exercise continued claim for sovereignty, the buying of three islands of the and sovereign identity. The terms American diplomats aired the view Senkaku Islands. in October 2017 made the real Tibetan’s long drawn war for the Senkaku group by the Government “core interests” are specifically that the Senkaku Islands are covered In fact, the Trump-era China intentions behind the drill clear, recognition of their uniqueness, the from a private citizen who owned reserved for top security-related and under Article 5 of the US-Japan policy was nothing less than a great when he said: “The United States is torture on the Uighur Muslim them in 2012. Since then the pres- troubling areas such as Xinjiang Security Treaty as Japanese admin- war of sort against Beijing’s sustained 100 per cent absolutely steadfast in minorities and other ethnic groups ence of Chinese Coast Guards Uighur Autonomous Region, Tibet istered territory. From this position, aggressive attitude both towards its its commitment to help the in Xinjiang, and finally, a contested around the islands has increased. and Taiwan. Therefore, it is strictly Washington took a pro-active step in neighbours and to the major powers Government of Japan with the situ- claim of many neighbours over the Precisely, the routine confrontation maintained that on such areas there 2014 under Barack Obama of the world, particularly the US. His ation of defending the Senkaku South China Sea are the permanent between the two nations over the is no room for any manoeuvrabili- Presidentship. He became the first policies towards China symbolised Islands. That is 365 days a year, 24 troubled issues for Beijing. islands has reached flashpoint. ty. It brings home the message that sitting American President to declare two featured separate tracks: one, hours a day, seven days a week.” Xi’s muscle power and econom- China’s territorial claims over the Beijing treats the dispute over that the US will defend the “Japanese policies Trump personally pursued, Thus Tokyo has all ensured the ic debt trap in the name of aid have ECS is unsubstantiated. But China Senkaku Islands as a major concern islands” if attacked. This made the and two, the policies spearheaded by support of Washington for its con- not yielded the desired results for -%$ %L%0$0% points to historical documents to in bilateral relations with Tokyo. country’s position completely clear China experts serving in his admin- tinued control and safeguard of China to claim a global leadership buttress its claim over these islands. The American position on the on these disputed islands. Further, istration. It was a like virtual war these mineral rich islands in the East role. Forget about the world, in Asia Way back in 2013, as per media Senkaku Islands is noteworthy. Since President Donald Trump in February against the regime of Xi Jinping. China Sea. itself, few nations are ready to accept reports, Chinese Foreign Ministry the coming of Richard Nixon to 2017 took one more step to affirm Therefore, when then US Secretary The overwhelming US support the hegemony of Beijing. claimed: “The Diaoyu Islands are power in 1969 as the 37th President, America’s commitment towards the of State Mike Pompeo visited Japan to Japan over the islands was more about sovereignty and territorial the US has been maintaining that the security of the Senkaku Islands. In a in October 2017, he had issued a than sufficient for China to under- (The writer is an expert on integrity. Of course, it is China’s core territorial sovereignty over the formal joint declaration released public call to counter China by stand what actions will follow in case international affairs) 9# 3= $ (+ ( s an institution whose Islam, V Khalid, Fathima Beevi, The time has come when Adecisions shape and Faizanuddin, S Sagir Ahmad, the collegium should consider 1.2/+/:;.1(:-3 impact the everyday lives of SS M Qadri, Aftab Alam, MY the appointment of an eminent +.9-:=.2(?%J,3=-+ Indians, we must do better. We Eqbal, FM Ibrahim Kalifulla. law professor as a Supreme 1:;),31:=.2-21-? must ensure the diversity of our Presently, Justice Abdul Court judge. This provision to country finds reflection in the Nazeer is the only Muslim appoint distinguished jurists as ,+.1;-(?:31/ make-up of our court… having judge in the top court. Besides judges in the top court was >9-+-:.).2-,>9-8- a more diverse judiciary is an this, two High Courts have incorporated in the Constitution end; a goal in itself, and worth Muslim Chief Justices — by our founding fathers who (,9.2/+(:)(:- pursuing its own sake,” stated Justice Kureshi in Tripura and were inspired by some foreign ,+)18J,3=-(:- Supreme Court judge Justice Justice Mohammad Rafiq in jurisdictions that had appoint- (8/:J,3=-(:- DY Chandrachud while speak- Madhya Pradesh, today. There ed eminent law professors as ing on the occasion of Justice is a general belief in society that judges in their top courts. /9+1J,3=-(:- Indu Malhotra’s retirement the Supreme Court should Has not the time come 291+.1/:J,3=-(:- from the Supreme Court in have an inclusive and diversi- when a dormant constitution- /)1.J,3=-0,.:( March this year. fied Bench that could demon- al provision should be activat- The judge-makers of our strate the collective image of ed to include the professors of 1<2:(6,3321+.:( country should not miss these the country. Let us throw some law in the judicial adjudication /1:/:3:(31/+1* words when selecting the light on this issue of great process in the country? 2-9-2/+:--90--: judges for the constitutional public importance. Given the above discus- courts. Fortunately, now Justice In India, Muslims consti- sion, it is submitted that the /(8/:21-? ,+.1;- Chandrachud has also become tute around 15 per cent of the Supreme Court collegium (?:31/*31-9+1?1-3 a member of the collegium. population, but their repre- should consider diversifying Hopefully, he would take some sentation in the higher judiciary the Bench by appointing more ,>9-8-(,9.1)) initiative in this regard. With a is invisible. Currently, the judges from different sources, 2/-/?/979-/;21:= sanctioned strength of 34 Supreme Court has only one communities, and regions of 18>/;.(:.2->,0)1; judges, including the Chief Muslim judge. Many legal lumi- Supreme Court, to maintain warrant of appointments. collegium to maintain a bal- 70 years of the Supreme Court’s the country to sustain public Justice of India, presently, the naries and thinkers believe that the gender balance and to However, the Central ance in making judicial establishment, no appointment trust and credibility of the .9,+.1:.2-/>-;(,9. Supreme Court has only one Muslims should get adequate strengthen the legal empower- Government has also a role in appointments to give adequate of a distinguished jurist has judiciary. 21;28,+.9-?)-;..2- Muslim judge, one woman representation in the higher ment of women. The Supreme the process of judicial appoint- representation to all sections of been made in the Supreme As of now, the collegium 8/<-7,>(?.2-;(,:.9 judge, one Parsi judge, one judiciary so that the minorities Court collegium has to take a ments. It checks the society, including the Court despite the availability of needs to appoint six judges Christian judge, one Dalit could have faith in the highest serious note of this issue. antecedents of the recom- women and minorities, in the constitutional provisions to immediately in the Supreme judge, but no Sikh, no judicial institution that decides Under the existing practice mended persons deeply Supreme Court. this effect under Article Court, and four judges will Buddhist, no Jain, and the legal destiny of the nation. and procedure of judicial through the Intelligence Bureau Let me highlight one more 124(3)(c). retire by the end of this year. In no Adivasi. In addition to this issue, appointments, the Supreme and other agencies and sends important issue that has been The President of India has toto, within a year, the col- It sends a wrong message women also constitute around Court collegium headed by its report to the collegium for highly ignored by the to identify a “distinguished legium will have to recommend to society. Ever since its estab- half of the population in the the Chief Justice of India has its consideration by mention- Government as well as the jurist” in consultation with the the appointments of around ten lishment, the Supreme Court country, but the Supreme the conclusive power to ing the cogent reasons and judiciary. Under Article 124 of Central Government which judges in the Supreme Court. has had several brilliant Court has only a single woman appoint the judges of the objections along with the sup- the Constitution, the appoint- requires the approval of the This is a great opportunity to Muslim judges. Out of them, judge who will retire next year. Supreme Court and the High porting material. But, if the ments to the Supreme Supreme Court collegium that promote diversity on the bench four judges namely Justices M This is very disturbing news. Courts after the Second, Third, Supreme Court collegium reit- Court are made from three cat- has the final say in judicial of the top court of the country. Hidayatullah, MH Beg, AM There has never been a woman and Fourth Judges cases. erates its recommendations, egories — judges, lawyers, and appointments. Admittedly, It will have a far-reaching Ahmadi, and Altamas Kabir Chief Justice of India even The unanimous recom- the Central Government and professors. India has many brilliant law impact on the functioning and graced the office of the Chief after seven decades of the mendations of the Supreme the President will have no Mostly, the judges of the professors who have made a performance of the apex court Justice of India. 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This is in acknowledgment of the the infinite, inaccessible and indestruc- outplay in our day-to-day conduct. fact that the earthly matter acquired its tible Akasa either. It is important to note #K To do so, one must meditate with form-existence when aided by water ele- here that the world is a unified organism, focus on Lord Ganapati on a regular ment, and so does Lotus. Lotus acquired covering the living world as well as all Despite acquiring necessary wisdom basis. Meditating regularly on his its beauty and dynamism out of the Sakti existences in the cosmos. And, obviously by following the script laid down in the imagery helps educate the mind to con- provided by the consciousness element, tracking down the information laid in imagery of Goddess Saraswati, the jour- duct smartly in life. contextually symbolised by Mother. The the space above is no easy task. ney of life in real terms may not be that The story line running around Lotus flower here symbolises both cre- Remember, the prized feed of a pea- easy. Particularly, given the enormity and Ganapati throws light on some vital ativity and lustre evident with knowl- cock is poisonous snake. When the pea- diversity of the living world, and with truths of life. Seeing its importance in edge. Though born in muddy waters, not cock digests the snake, it leads to changes people displaying varied interests, some our day-to-day conduct, this imagery has even a drop of water or mud particle can in its body chemistry. That holds the key of them even disparate. Bear in mind, been accorded special status. Ganapati is stick to the lotus leaves. It, thus, implies a to the beautiful colours of peacock’s each one of us is born unique, carrying perceived as Vighnavinasaka (destroyer sense of detachment. plumage. Similarly, knowledge acquisi- varying mind-traits. That leads to arousal of evil). Keep in mind: difficulties could So, true wisdom can be acquired tion cannot be an easy task. It implies of competing interests. With mind, guid- be kept at bay only through intelligent only when explored with a sense of that only those who take the pains asso- ed by an indwelling sense of duality, a and balanced conduct, which this detachment from all tempting worldly ciated with learning process kindly, are being becomes subject to self-excited imagery very well symbolises. No won- influences. Otherwise, it will be difficult able to acquire the knowledge and wis- conflicting thoughts as well. The world, der, no ritualistic puja in Indian tradition to remain focused on the subject matter dom vital to turning life into a beautiful thus, remains a natural breeding ground begins without first remembering under consideration. The sense of duality experience. for arousal of conflicting thoughts and Ganapati. driving a human mind does not let it Belief driven people may observe competing interests. Amidst all this, we Let me add here that the concept identify the thin line dividing truth and Saraswati puja in a ritualistic mode every ought to conduct and perform, with ease underlying Goddess Saraswati and untruth. This makes it difficult to year on the date specified for the purpose and comfort. How does this work? you Ganpati runs hand in hand. acknowledge eternal truth it stands. As a in our annual calendar. But nothing tan- may ask. 7 ) matter of habit, it tempts us to get into gible would be achieved. 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