MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 2018 (PAGE 12) DAILY EXCELSIOR, JAMMU No ATM to be replenished with Death toll in mounts to Over 2 million Muslims begin cash after 9 pm from next year 210, over 7 lakh displaced annual Hajj pilgrimage NEW DELHI, Aug 19: ed areas," the notification said. , Aug 19: MECCA, Aug 19: nations to overcome their ene- After prayers in Mecca, pil- The agencies shall provide mies.” grims will head to an area called No ATM will be replenished The deadly monsoon rains that private security for the cash More than 2 million Muslims believe the Hajj Mount Arafat tomorrow, where with cash after 9 pm in cities and savaged Kerala claimed 13 more lives transportation with the requisite Muslims from around the world, retraces the footsteps of the the Prophet Muhammad deliv- 6 pm in rural areas from next year today, taking the toll to 210 in the last number of trained staff, every including India, today began the Prophet Muhammad, as well as ered his final sermon. From even as two armed guards will ten days as cash van shall have one driver, annual hajj pilgrimage at first those of the prophets Ibrahim there, pilgrims will head to an accompany crisp notes in transit Vijayan said most of the marooned had two armed security guards, two light in Saudi Arabia, circling and Ismail — Abraham and area called Muzdalifa, picking as per a new directive issued by been rescued and the focus would now ATM officers or custodians. the cube-shaped Kaaba in Ishmael in the Bible. up pebbles along the way for a the Home Ministry. be on their rehabilitation. One armed guard must sit in Mecca that Islam’s faithful face Muslims believe God stayed symbolic stoning of the devil The deadline for putting money In a big relief, there was respite the front along with the driver five times each day during their the hand of Ibrahim after com- and a casting away of sins that in the ATMs located in Naxal-hit from the rains in most parts of the state and another in the rear portion prayers. manding him to sacrifice his takes place in the Mina valley areas is 4 pm while private cash today after nearly two weeks of virtu- of the van while in transit. The five-day Hajj pilgrim- son, Ismail. In the Christian and for three days. handling agencies must collect ally non-stop downpour and the red During loading or unload- age represents one of the Jewish version of the story, At the hajj’s end, male pil- money from the banks in the first alert has been lifted in several districts. ing, nature's call, tea or lunch world’s biggest gatherings every Abraham is ordered to kill his grims will shave their hair and half of the day and transport notes President Ram Nath Kovind break, at least one armed securi- year, and is required of all able- other son, Isaac. women will cut a lock of hair in only in armoured vehicles. spoke to Kerala Governor P ty guard shall remain present bodied Muslims once in their The Kaaba represents the a sign of renewal for completing In a notification, the Home Sathasivam and Chief Minister with the cash van all the time. life. metaphorical house of God and the pilgrimage. Around the Ministry said the new Standard Pinarayi Vijayan and enquired The ex-serviceman, other- An aerial view of the flood affected regions at Chengannur The Hajj offers pilgrims an the oneness of God. world, Muslims will mark the Operating Procedures (SoPs) about the situation and acknowl- wise eligible, may preferably be in Kerala on Sunday.(UNI) opportunity to feel closer to God Muslims circle the Kaaba end of Hajj with a celebration would come into effect from edged the grit and resilience of the appointed for providing security amid the Muslim world’s many counter-clockwise seven times called Eid al-Adha. February 8, 2019 in view of the people in coming together in this trying hour. Thirteen people lost their lives today and for cash transportation. challenges, including the threat while reciting supplications to The holiday, remembering spurt in incidents of attacks on cash "Assured the people of the State that entire nation 7,24,649 lakh people were in 5,645 relief camps, Every cash transportation shall of violence and extremists in the God, then walk between the two Ibrahim’s willingness to sacri- vans, cash vaults, ATM frauds and was with them," the Rashtrapati Bhavan tweeted. he told reporters after a review meeting. be carried out only in secured cash Mideast and the plight of hills traveled by Hagar, fice his son, sees Muslims other internal frauds leading to The deadliest deluge in close to a century has Around 22,000 people were rescued today in vans fitted with GPS tracking Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya Ibrahim’s wife. Mecca’s Grand slaughter sheep and cattle, dis- increased sense of insecurity. claimed 210 lives since August 8 and over 400 since the operations launched by the defence personnel, device and it must be ensured that minority. Mosque, the world’s largest, tributing the meat to the poor. There are over 8,000 pri- May 29 when the south west monsoon set in over national and State disaster response forces, fisher- no cash van carries cash of more “We are very blessed by encompasses the Kaaba and the Maj Gen Mansour al-Turki, vately owned cash vans plying Kerala. More than 80 dams were opened, leading to men and local people. than Rs 5 crore per trip. Allah to be in this place, and we two hills. the spokesman of the Saudi across the country, operated by floods while the rains also triggered landslides. He was all praise for the efforts put in by per- No private security agency pray to Allah to make the Before heading to Mecca, Interior Ministry, told journal- non-bank private agencies, and High-range Idukki district, Malappuram and sonnel of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast shall appoint anyone for the cash Islamic nations from the West to many pilgrims visit the city of ists yesterday that over 2 million they handle over Rs 15,000 Thrissur are among the worst hit. Guard, NDRF, fishermen and local people in res- transportation unless the person the East in a better situation,” Medina, where the Prophet Muslims from abroad and inside crore daily on behalf of banks. Prime Minister yesterday cuing people. has undergone thorough said Essam-Eddin Afifi, a pil- Muhammad is buried and where the kingdom would be taking Some times, the private undertook an aerial survey of monsoon ravaged The Chief Minister said in each panchayat six antecedent check like police, grim from Egypt. he built his first mosque. part in this year’s Hajj.(PTI) agencies keep currency Aadhaar and residence verifica- areas and announced an immediate assistance of health officers would be deployed to ensure there “We pray for the Islamic overnight at their cash vaults. tions, previous employer check, Rs 500 crore. was no outbreak of any communicable diseases as "No cash loading of the credit history check and fidelity In good news, the rainfall intensity over Kerala has the flood water recedes. ATMs or cash transportation insurance. decreased over the past two days, the meteorology Vijayan said the State Government would dis- activities shall be done after 9 Each of the cash boxes shall department said today, adding there is no alert of tribute 36 lakh textbooks free of cost to school pm in urban areas, after 6 pm in be secured to the floor with sep- heavy precipitation for the next four days in the state. children who had lost their books in the floods. rural areas and before 9 am or arate chains and locks that can The number of those displaced in the torren- Commercial flight operations from Kochi, hit after 4 pm in the districts noti- be opened only by using sepa- tial rains was today put at 7.24 lakh by Chief following the closure of its international airport fied by the Central Government rate keys kept with different Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, who said most of the due to flooding, would resume tomorrow from as Left Wing Extremism affect- custodians.(PTI) affected had been rescued and the Government's the Naval airport to Coimbatore and Bengaluru, Sidhu defends it, but hug to Pak army focus would now be their rehabilitation. bringing some relief to travellers.(PTI) chief earns him Punjab CM's ire CHANDIGARH/ATTARI, Aug 19: Punjab Chief Minister today ticked off Cabinet colleague Navjot Singh Sidhu for hugging Pakistan army chief, who, he said, was responsible for the killings of Indian soldiers on the bor- der, even as the cricketer-turned-politician defended his action. "I think it was wrong of him (Sidhu) to have shown the affec- tion he did for the Pakistan army chief. I am not in its favour... The fact is that the man (Sidhu) should understand that our soldiers are being killed everyday. My own regiment lost one major and two jawans a few months ago," said Amarinder Singh, a retired officer of the Indian Army's Sikh Regiment. The Chief Minister was replying to reporters' questions on Sidhu hugging General Qamar Javed Bajwa at the swearing-in of Imran Khan as Pakistan Prime Minister in Islamabad yesterday. Sidhu was the only Indian who attended Khan's swearing-in ceremony. Sidhu, who returned from Pakistan via the Wagah-Attari border today, defended hugging Bajwa by posing a counter-question. "If someone (Pak army chief) comes to me and says that we belong to the same culture and that we'll open the route to Gurdwara Kartarpur Sahib (in Pakistan) on first Sikh Guru, Guru Nanak Dev's 550th birth anniversary, what else I could do?" he said while speaking to reporters. At a photo exhibition in Chandigarh, Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, however, made no bones about his disapproval of his min- ister's actions. Referring to Sidhu's hug to Bajwa, Amarinder Singh said the local bodies minister should have avoided the gesture as Indian soldiers were getting killed every day on the borders. "After all, it is the Army chief who gives the orders to kill, with soldiers merely following them," said the Chief Minister. The Pakistan army chief is responsible for the deaths of our sol- diers and Sidhu should not have shown such niceties to him, said Amarinder Singh. Besides hugging Pakistan army chief, the Punjab minister also courted controversy as he was seen sitting next to Pakistan-occu- pied Kashmir (PoK) chief Masood Khan, at the event. Amarinder Singh, however, gave the former opening batsman of the Indian cricket team, the benefit of doubt in this case. Sidhu may not have known who he was sitting next to, Amarinder Singh said.(PTI)