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down,” he added. the information connected He said the decision to with clusters and hotspots.” impose the lockdown was Detailing the country’s timely and asserted that the progress in the past 3.5 months curve has begun to flatten. in tackling Covid-19, Vardhan “Nationwide lockdown said, “On January 8, we held helped take us away from the our first meeting, and today, in exponential growth curve and comparison with many other thereby contain the growth of countries, India has done very Covid-19 cases,” he said. well... We have fewer cases per “Besides containing the million percentage. We have a spread, augmenting testing and mortality of 3 per cent, which improving preparedness, the is less. Recovery rate of patients, nation has brought about a who contracted viral infec- massive behavioural change tion, is better than the world. through a ‘’Jan Andolan’’ (mass In March, the doubling rate of movement),” he said. coronavirus cases was 3 days; Vardhan too echoed simi- today it is close to 9 days.” lar views saying the Responding to the issue of Government has saved India faulty testing kits, he said, “We from going into stage 3 or com- will return the testing kits to munity transmission stage. their country of origin, and we " “The positive cases are not ris- have not paid money yet. ing more than 4 per cent...We Strategies were made to use were all worried if we are in these kits in hotspots. stage 3, but we have been able # to save the country largely from going into stage 3,” said ! Vardhan, adding “we have all "" New Delhi: A tigress died in ! ! " # $ # Delhi Zoo on Wednesday due to “kidney failure” and author- 345 467- tory or were in touch with control in the country and “Had we not taken the Committee-I said at a Press New Delhi: The coronavirus ities have sent her samples for corona positive patients, are thanks to a robust surveillance decision to impose nationwide briefing here. pandemic has taught the coun- coronavirus testing. The 14- he Government on Friday under observation. network with implementation lockdown, we would have had “As on March 21, our dou- ! try “to be self-reliant and self- year-old big cat named Tsaid the nationwide lock- While maintaining that of the lockdown and other around one lakh Covid-19 bling time of cases was three sufficient” and not look for Kalpana died around on down was a timely step with- India has fared better than containment measures. cases by now. Cases are now days. Results started showing New Delhi: The Centre on solutions abroad, Prime Wednesday evening and the out which the cases would many countries in the fight Nearly ten lakh people, doubling in every 10 days and on March 23, due to travel Friday said the COVID-19sit- Minister Narendra Modi told carcass was cremated on have sky-rocketed to over one against the pandemic on vari- who have either returned from this is a reasonable estimate,” restrictions imposed earlier. uation is especially serious in grassroots leaders on Friday as Thursday following direction lakh by now. Officials also ous parameters, Health abroad or were in touch with Niti Aayog member VK Paul, On April 6, further slowing of major or emerging hotspot he stressed that every village, to minimize human-animal claimed that nearly ten lakh Minister Harsh Vardhan said corona positive patients, are who is also the Chairman of the doubling rate became visible, areasincluding Ahmedabad, district and State should be able interface, an official from the people who have a travel his- the virus outbreak is under under surveillance. Government’s Empowered thanks to the nationwide lock- Surat, Hyderabad and Chennai. to provide for its basic needs. Environment Ministry said. ! % &'( ) *+ +&+ " #$ % !& ,- ! 345 467- cases, Madhya Pradesh 159 and Tamil Nadu 72. Uttar LM # aharashtra and Gujarat, Pradesh added 11 new cases for $ Mtwo of the worst affected total count of 1,621 and 25 # States, saw a decline in the deaths. coronavirus cases on Friday, Incidentally, States like but Madhya Pradesh recorded Bihar which were virtually out ' a major spike as India record- of corona radar till now, have % 345 467- ed 1,395 cases during the day, started to report significant taking the total to 24,434 and number of cases. On Friday the fter initial positive results death count to 780. State reported 44 cases, the sin- !!# ( Aof the use of plasma ther- In the last 24 hours ending gle day high, for total ,count of ) * # apy on four Covid-19 patients 8 am on Friday, the country 214. at Lok Nayak Jai Prakash had reported 1,752 new coro- Union Health Ministry Narayan Hospital (LNJP) in the navirus cases and 37 deaths. Joint Secretary Lav Agarwal + , )-. national Capital, Chief Minister As of 10 pm, on Friday, said that in the last 28 days, 15 4 , 9 8 Arvind Kejriwal appealed to Maharashtra added 390 cases districts have had no new case. , - : ;-:< 8 ( $ the recovered patients on and 18 deaths as against 728 Till date, there are 80 districts / ( 7 0 6 + $ / ( ( , Friday to donate their plasma cases on Thursday. in the country that have ;7 + < ( ( 3 ( ' to help other patients recover + 63/ Maharashtra total count of reported no new cases in last 8 ( N > and contain the fatalities caused 3 ) - positive cases stood at 6,817 14 days. “A total of 4,748 peo- + #O 3 ) - $% $ by the deadly virus. and a casualty of 300. ple, which is 20.57 per cent of & Addressing an online that the Centre will give a go- One, how to contain the spread Gujarat, which recorded the total number of cases, have list include: Durg & However, so far, 432 dis- !!# + media briefing, Kejriwal said ahead to the treatment regi- of corona which includes social 250 plus cases on Thursday, been cured so far,” Agarwal Rajnandgaon from tricts have confirmed cases in more clinical trials of plasma men. distancing, lockdown and var- saw reduction of Friday, adding said. Chhattisgarh; and Shivpuri the country. Over the past two / 0 therapy will take place over the Kejriwal said two patients ious other measures, and two, just 190 cases for total count of “As on today, 15 districts in from Madhya Pradesh,” said days, Mumbai, Pune, next two-three days, and his have recovered while other how to control the deaths 2,815 and death count of 127. the country which earlier had the official at the routine press Ahmedabad, Surat and Jaipur $ ) ' Government will seek the two are showing improvement caused by the pandemic,” said Delhi recorded 138 cases and cases have not reported any briefing here. districts have seen the biggest ) Centre’s nod next week for and will be soon out of the Kejriwal, who was joined by SK three deaths. Now the nation- fresh cases since the last 28 He added, “A total of 80 spike in confirmed cases using the technique on all seri- Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Sarin, the director of the al Capital has a total of 2,514 days. Besides districts already districts from 23 States/UTs nationally. These five districts ously ill Covid-19 patients. “Our efforts in the fight Institute of Liver and Biliary cases and 53 casualty. highlighted, three new dis- have not reported any new account for 51 per cent of new 1 2 $ The CM expressed hope against corona are two-fold: Science, at the Press conference. Rajasthan added 44 new tricts which got added to this cases since the last 14 days.” cases over this period. ' ' . R 1 2"3 %/ ! " " 4" *0 . 345 467- " 345 467- 345 467- he Centre on Friday con- 345 467- 6 8395 he Indian IT sector is star- Tstituted five more inter- bout 4 crore mobile Ting at a revenue growth ministerial teams (IMCT) for t a time when poor fter successfully bringing Aphone users in the coun- sliding to a decadal low of up spot assessment of lockdown Amigrants who have run Aback stranded Uttar try are expected to be without to 2 per cent and an impact on implementation in Gujarat, out of their sustenance are Pradesh students from Kota, handsets due to faults and profitability owing to narrow- Maharashtra, Telangana and pulling out all stops to head Chief Minister Yogi breakdowns by May-end if ing of margins due to the Tamil Nadu’s Covid-19 pan- for their villages, good Adityanath has directed offi- restrictions on the sale of Covid-19 pandemic, a report demic affected areas. Two Samaritans among the police cials to prepare a roadmap to handsets and spare parts con- said on Friday. teams will soon land in have been successful in per- bring back tens of thousands tinue, an industry body said The companies will lose Ahmedabad and Surat and suading a sizable number of of migrant workers from the on Friday. out on new deals, which will one team each will visit Thane, them to stay put in the nation- State stranded in other States At present, more than 2.5 compromise future revenues, Hyderabad and Chennai. al Capital. In return, the cops and have completed 14-day crore mobile customers are and also face reverses on the Six teams were constituted assured them to help provide quarantine. with non-functional devices exiting ones, which may be a few days ago — two teams these areas. “In some of the dis- norms in market places and food and convinced house “Those labourers of UP Nitish Kumar, who has refused due to non-availability of com- renegotiated as their overseas each for West Bengal and tricts of the country, a number opposition to setting up of owners to not insist on who have completed 14-day to even bring back his State stu- ponents and the restriction on clients face difficulties due to Maharashtra and one team of violations of the lockdown quarantine centres and so on,” demanding rents from their quarantine in other States will dents from Kota and is facing sales of new handsets due to the the lockdowns, domestic rat- each for Rajasthan and Madhya measures have been reported, said the Union Home Ministry poor tenants. be brought back in a phased strong criticism from lockdown to contain coron- ing agency Crisil said in the Pradesh. Now in total, posing a serious health hazard in statement issued in relation Around 70 labourers who manner. The officers should Opposition parties. avirus, the India Cellular and report. Maharashtra is dealing with and risk for spread of Covid- of the new five teams. had planned to leave the prepare an action plan for the Yogi said a list will be fur- Electronics Association (ICEA) The $97 billion IT sector is three Central teams in 19, which is against general These teams would make national Capital amid the lock- same,” Yogi said while address- nished having all the details of claimed. one of the largest service Mumbai, Pune and latest in interest of public. These viola- on-spot assessment of situation down were successfully per- ing the lockdown review meet- the labourers followed by Operations of telecom, exporters and helps the Indian Thane. tions include incidents ranging and issue necessary directions suaded to stay put by the ing at his official residence here screening and testing by con- internet, broadcast and IT ser- economy also by supporting The IMCT will look into from violence on frontline to State authorities for its police, which also arranged on Friday. cerning States to send them to vices are permitted but not for over 40 lakh jobs if the IT- the implementation of the healthcare professionals, redressal and submit their for their meals and assured The Yogi Government’s UP border from where they mobile devices that are pivotal enabled services are also lockdown norms and admin- attacks on police personnel, report to the Central them of further help, officials decision could create more will be dispatched to their for accessing these services. included. istration of health sector in violations of social distancing Government. said on Friday. trouble for Bihar Chief Minister respective districts by bus. ! 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.+(7.-B+ +37+B+- .+/ +5+. ( 4 " " 7+3 -,+.7 7+.- 5+. $ ive fresh COVID-19 cases 1@2 he police arrested a man Fwere reported from Timpersonating a police sub Gurgaon, Panipat and Rohtak 47.+ 3 PM with villagers at Village inspector moving around in the as the number of coronavirus The rate of doubling of Panchayat Jainagar, Gadarpur market with a fake pistol. The patients rose to 275 in Haryana cases is 17 days in the state, he Chief Minister of in Udham Singh Nagar district accused was taking advantage on Friday. while the number of tests being TUttarakhand, Trivendra while the additional secretary, of the lockdown and was The positive cases in the conducted per 10 lakh people Singh Rawat has congratulated Panchayati Raj H C Semwal patrolling in Jwalapur and state include 24 foreigners, is 743, it said. the public representatives and and other senior officials of the other areas. The police con- according to the daily bulletin The worst-hit districts of villagers of three village department were present at stable on duty found his actions of the state health department. the state are Nuh (57 cases), Panchayats of the State that plan award, 2020. Panchayati raj directorate in suspicious on noticing him. While Gurgaon reported Gurgaon (47), Faridabad (43) have been selected for On the occasion of the Dehradun to listen the PM’s When questioned in the police two cases, taking the number and Palwal (34). As many as Panchayati Raj Awards by the Rashtriya Panchayat Diwas- address. station, the accused confessed of COVID-19 patients to 47 in 18,445 samples have been test- Union Government. 2020, the CM held telephonic The Panchayati Raj depart- to being an impersonator. the district, Panipat also report- ed in Haryana so far, of which On Thursday, the Belpadav conversation with many pan- ment also released a docu- Police circle officer (City) ed two cases and Rohtak one. 16,642 have tested negative, gram panchayat of Kotabagh chayat representatives on mentary on the occasion which Abhay Singh said that local res- According to the bulletin, while the report of 1,928 sam- block of Nainital district was Friday and thanked them for can be seen in the U tube chan- ident Jaindra Kumar bought the number of active coron- ples is awaited. awarded with the ‘Child friend- supporting the government’s nel of Department of khaki dress from the market #7!787#!997!8:<) *#7# avirus cases in the state stands Of the 24 foreign nationals ly gram panchayat award’. actions to prevent spread of Panchayati Raj. and was roaming around on a 8!*!*8 (=8)(>>*8!98=! at 86, while 186 patients have who tested positive, 14 were Similarly the Nanaji Deshmukh COVID-19. In the documentary the bike with a fake pistol. He was been discharged and three have Italian tourists, 13 of whom Rashtriya Gaurav Gram Sabha The Prime Minister department has included the planning to take advantage of =8>!*8=8(*)>!9>! died. As on Friday, the state has have been discharged, while award, 2020 was awarded to Narendra Modi addressed the quotes of union minister for the lockdown. ?# a recovery rate of 67.63 per one elderly woman passed Kheldi village Panchayat of panchayat representatives of Panchayati Raj, Narendra Singh A native of Prayagraj in cent, fatality rate of 1.09 per away recently, even though she Bhadarabad block of Hardiwar the country on the day and the Tomar, Uttarakhand cabinet Uttar Pradesh, Kumar was seen cent and COVID-19 positive had recovered from COVID- district. The Kedarwala gram CM Rawat listened the pro- minister Arvind Pandey, senior in Jwalapur in the last two days. Dehradun. This raised suspi- during questioning. An FIR has rate of 1.62 per cent (propor- 19. Of the total number of panchayat of Vikasnagar, gramme at his office. The min- officials of department and When the local constable asked cion after which he was been booked against him under tion of positive cases to total COVID-19 patients, 64 are Dehradun was selected for ister for Panchayati raj, Arvind many representatives of him about his posting, Kumar brought to the police station section 419 of the IPC, added tests conducted), according to from other states, according to ‘Gram Panchayat development Pandey listened the address of Panchayats. said that he is posted in where he confessed his crime Singh. the bulletin. the bulletin. 5 . 65
(7-06+ sons have been discharged ment had notified five hospitals tion department for developing rescheduling academic and vention which saved the life of after being found negative. as dedicated hospitals for best academic contents for the sports calendar for schools Sood, who is suffering from imachal Chief Minister Jai Besides this, four persons have COVID-19 including Shri Lal programme besides ensuring and colleges. The school edu- oxygen breathing problem and HRam Thakur on Friday gone for treatment outside the Bahadur Shastri Government effective implementation of cation board must take all nec- was stuck at Panchkula from had a meeting through video State and one person has died. Medical College, Nerchowk, these programme in their essary steps for evaluation of the beginning of lockdown. conference with Union He said that remaining 17 per- district Mandi, ESI Hospital, schools. He said that focus answer sheets well in time, Since he is dependent upon Minister for Health and Family sons were under treatment in Katha Baddi in Solan district, should be laid on providing stressed the Chief Minister. the machine as he has multiple Welfare Dr. Harsh Vardhan in the hospitals of the State. Charitable hospital Bhota in best contents to the students on Education Minister Suresh ailments and had been spend- which he apprised him about The Chief Minister said district Hamirpur, Civil important subjects besides Bhardwaj said 98 percent ele- ing sleepless nights in balcony the steps being taken by the hotspots of coronavirus in the Hospital, Sarahan, in district ensuring coverage of all class- mentary schools and 90 per- because his oxygen machine state government to tackle the State had been sealed to avoid Sirmaur and Agarwal hospital, es from I to XII standard. cent high schools have been got heated and suffocated him menace of coronavirus effec- spread of virus, adding that Jwalamukhi, district Kangra. The CM said effective and connected with higher author- in the single room, which he tively. government had established Thakur said that under acceptable mechanism must ities through whatsapp where- was sharing with his daughter Thakur said that there were about 9200 quarantine beds in Active Case Finding Campaign be evolved for providing marks as 66 percent students of ele- and wife in Sector-11, six districts in the State, where 183 health institutions of the launched in the State, over 70 to the students of Plus two in mentary schools and 72 per- Panchkula. The whole family no case has been reported of State. He urged the Union lakh people had been covered vocational subjects where cent students of higher schools was in distress and it was at this COVID-19, pointing out that Health Minister to provide and out of these about 10,000 paper could not be conducted have been connected through point of time that state gov- 8847 persons had been kept more ventilators for the State to persons had been identified with due to lockdown. He said that whatsapp with their teachers. ernment extended a helping under surveillance in the State, meet out any emergent situa- influenza like illness (ILI) symp- not suffer due to curfew was focusing on classes X and a foolproof mechanism should hand. out of which 5637 people had tion. toms, who were being examined. imposed in the state in wake of XII. Besides, online classes also be developed for evalua- TIMELY GOVT INTERVEN- A team of medical staff vis- completed 28 days of necessary Thakur said investigation corona pandemic, Chief were also being conducted by tion of answer sheets. He said TION SAVES LIFE OF JUB- ited Sood at Panchkula and not surveillance period whereas of samples for COVID-19 were GOVT STRESSING ON Minister Jai Ram Thakur said. teachers via whatsapp and cen- that the department of educa- BAL RESIDENT only provided him necessary 3210 people were still under being done at four places viz. HOME-BASED TEACHING, Presiding over the meeting tralized website. He said that tion should also prepare an medicines but also helped him observation. He said that 3994 IGMC, Shimla, Dr. Rajendra SAYS CM of education department here, efforts were on to start teach- effective exit plan so that func- The family members of in getting a oxygen machine. persons had so far been inves- Prasad Government Medical he said under this programme, ing module through All India tioning of educational institu- Kuldeep Sood, 64, a resident of On the directions of Chief tigated for coronavirus in the College, Tanda, IHBT, Himachal government has multiple programmes were Radio to ensure maximum tions could be normalized as Jubbal of Shimla district have Minister, an ambulance was State. Palampur in Kangra district launched ‘Har Ghar Pathshala’ being used to ensure maximum coverage as well. soon as possible. expressed their gratitude arranged free-of-cost on 20th He said presently, reports and Central Research Institute, programme to provide home- reach of the students, pointing Thakur said the govern- Efforts should also be towards Chief Minister Jai Ram April to carry Kuldeep Sood of 40 people have been found Kasauli in district Solan. based teaching facility to the out that a three hours slot per ment was also contemplating to made to compensate the loss of Thakur and the state govern- and his family members from positive out of which 18 per- He said the state govern- students so that their studies do day on Doordarshan Shimla honour the teachers of educa- studies to the students by ment for their timely inter- Panchkula to Jubbal.
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He said that only at the laboratory of his second sample was sent for He said that reports of 327 patients are admitted the lab is ready and the train- department of microbiology of 8* COVID-19 test which was samples are still awaited by the in government med- 47.+ 3 ing to the staff has been given Government Medical College, found positive on the day. department. ical college, for testing of swab samples of Haldwani and All India After his sample was found The authorities have so far Haldwani and one he testing of samples for suspected patients. The Institute of Medical Sciences 47.+ 3 positive, he was sent to the iso- taken swab samples of 4767 in Military Hospital (MH), Dehradun, Haridwar and TCOVID-19 would start at Principal said that the college (AIIMS), Rishikesh. Till last lation facility of the govern- suspected patients for COVID- Dehradun. Nainital districts in red zone, Government Doon Medical would receive the test kits by month Lab of Haldwani was he number of the novel ment medical college, 19 test. On Friday samples of Pant added that out of five here 25, 7 and 10 cases respec- College (GDMC) from Friday evening. He added that the only facility in the state for Tcoronavirus (COVID-19) Haldwani. 285 suspected patients were districts of state where COVID- tively have been reported so far. Saturday. On Friday the micro- six microbiologists of GDMC COVID-19. On March 31, the in Uttarakhand mounted to 48 The additional secretary taken and sent to the lab for 19 cases have so far been In the state the authorities biology lab of the medical col- would conduct the tests. AIIMS Rishikesh also started on Friday with State health medical health and family wel- test. From Haridwar district 92 reported no case has been have completely sealed 11 lege was given formal approval After start of COVID-19 doing the tests. department reporting one fare department, Yugal Kishore samples were collected while 82 reported from last 30 days localities for being hot spots of by the Indian Council of tests at GDMC, the state would The confirmatory test of patient of the disease in Pant said that one more patient samples were collected from from Pauri district. Similarly in the disease. In Dehradun there Medical Research (ICMR) to have three centres of test of the COVID-19 involves detec- Nainital district. This 40 year of the disease has recovered Udham Singh Nagar district. Almora, no case has so far been are seven hotspots while three start testing for COVID-19. samples for the disease in gov- tion of Ribo Nucleic Acid old patient is a resident of from the disease on Friday as In Government Doon reported from last 19 days. The are in Haridwar and one in The Principal of the GDMC, ernment sector. A private lab ( (RNA) of the virus by the Real Haldwani and had come into second sample of his was found Medical College (GDMC) hos- authorities have kept Nainital district. Dr Ashutosh Sayana said that Aahuja lab) in Dehradun has Time (RT) -PCR method. & +5$$ # $ ! 7 ;< 6 4 " # " " 47.+ 3 remain for at least the next 9 onsidering the several two years 89 . 8 Cunconfirmed allegations whether that China deliberately let novel China is 47.+ 3 #" *+ DA due in July 2020 and Coronavirus (COVID-19) responsible January 2021 would also not be spread across the world, many for it or not, n view of the financial con- # given to the employees. This shopkeepers and customers said the Istraint faced by the order would re main applica- here have decided to boycott owner of a Government due to the ongo- , ' ble on the employees and pen- Chinese products after the cosmetic ing battle against COVID-19, sioners of state government. A lockdown ends in the State. store Ritu the Uttarakhand Government '# total of 3.5 lakh state govern- Though the allegations are yet Sharma. has put on hold the increase in ment employees and pension- to be proved correct, they have Many the Dearness Allowance (DA) ers would be affected by this influenced public opinion local cus- for its employees till July 2021. measure of the state govern- regarding Chinese products. tomers have The DA of the employees ment. Ram Singh Kohli, a toy and also empha- would remain frozen at 17 $ "" The decision to freeze the gift store owner in Rajpur said, sised on not percent of their basic pay dur- DA has not gone down well “More than 40 per cent of the purchasing Chinese products Everyone should buy ing this period. The State $ with the employees though gifts and toys are generally after the lockdown. Karnpur Indian products and contribute Government toed the line of they are not very vocal against imported from China because resident Ruchika Bhalla said to making our economy 47.+ 3 their followers to offer prayers the central government which the decision. “We understand the made in India products are that all the claims of China strong," added Bhalla. However, at home and maintain social a day earlier had taken a sim- ' the position of government costlier and the customers pre- being responsible for the spread some shopkeepers and locals he Chief Minister distancing considering the risk ilar decision. but it would have been better fer cheaper products. of COVID-19 appears true so opined that people do not care TTrivendra Singh Rawat has of COVID-19. The Government had had the government consulted But considering China’s the countries should not help about China or Indian products greeted the people of He also appealed Muslims given an increment of 4 percent Secretary finance, Amit Singh the employee organisation dubious role in the pandemic their economy by buying once they see the price. "Some Uttarakhand, especially mem- in Uttarakhand to follow such in the DA in the month of Negi said that due to the crisis before taking the decision. We and its negative impact on the Chinese products. people might claim currently bers of the Muslim communi- directions of their preachers. January this year. This incre- precipitated by the spread of would have also suggested bet- economy of several countries, “I have always preferred to that they will not buy Chinese ty at the start of the month of “COVID-19 has come as a ment would now not be given COVID-19, the State ter ways to save the money to I am not going to import any buy made in India products but products anymore but general- Ramzan. threat for the whole humanity. to the employees. Apart from Government has decided not to the government. Further by Chinese products.” After the now is the high time when ly the customers prefer inex- He said that this month is We can defeat it with united it the usual six monthly incre- pay the increment in DA to its reducing the money to the COVID-19 pandemic, there is everyone should stop buying pensive products no matter about brotherhood and effort. We must maintain ments in the DA would also employees which were due employees the markets would no point in buying Chinese any Chinese products, espe- where those are manufactured," mutual harmony. Rawat wel- social distancing ourselves and not be given to the employees from January 2020. The order be affected,’’ said Arun Pandey, products because the scare of cially during the festivals like said an E C Road shopkeeper comed the appeal made by make others aware about its till July 2021. In an order the added that the increment in the a prominent employee leader. the spread of the virus will Diwali and Holi. Sanam Ali. Muslim religious leaders asking necessity too,” said the CM. + : ; " 6< '$ " is not giving any relaxation to 47.+ 3 parents, all it cares for is the pri- "( vate schools and their require- 06+ he permission granted to ments, stated the members. Tsome enterprises for home "We will not accept it and we delivery of products during the ! will not pay any kind of school lockdown will be revoked in fee during the lockdown. If cases where the enterprises )! " other states can provide relax- 7+.- 5+. Union Human Resource are not providing reports of # ation to the parents, our gov- Development minister daily thermal screening of ernment can do it too. If need- he Haridwar Rural MLA Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ delivery boys to the district ed, we will go to High Court TSwami Yatishwaranand and the state’s education min- administration. restaurants have not sent the " too but will not submit to has appealed that school fees ister Arvind Pandey about Recently, the district reports to the administration behind when various State president Ram Kumar Singhal. such irresponsible behaviour of not be charged for the months this issue. The MLA said that administration had issued for several days. Considering " ' Governments have provided He further added that the the government and schools," of April, May and June since he had appealed through the passes to selected restaurants this, the district magistrate relaxation in school fees during government just heard the side stated Singhal. the income of many parents social media that the school for home delivery during the Ashish Kumar Shrivastava has 47.+ 3 the lockdown. "The education of Principals Progressive Talking about the private have been stalled since March fees for three months should lockdown so that people who decided to cancel the passes of department recently declared Schools’ Association (PPSA) schools asking for the fee due to the lockdown enforced be waived off. He said that he are capable of buying food but such restaurants. Dehradun he Uttarakhand that the parents who are capa- and did not consider how the including all the other charges, to contain the COVID-19 would pursue the issue and try unable to cook can get the food Chief Development Officer TAbhibhavak Sangh (UAS) ble of depositing the fee should parents will deposit the fee dur- chief education officer Asha pandemic. Yatishwaranand to get the fee waiver for three easily. As a precautionary mea- (CDO) Nitika Khandelwal has alleged that the State edu- submit it. Subsequently, the ing such a crisis. According to Rani Painuly said, "The parents said that he had talked to the months. sure in the current crisis, the informed that some eateries cation department is influ- schools bombarded parents the members of UAS, the par- must be looking at the old fee selected restaurants were asked like Domino's have not sub- enced by some private schools. with several messages and ents have to buy new sets of structure on schools' website as the government to charge only cannot submit the fee current- to do a daily thermal screening mitted the report of delivery The department takes decisions emails reminding them to pay books in the new session that I recently received some simi- tuition fees during the lock- ly can reply to the school of the staff including the deliv- executives, especially from under the influence of some the fee that includes activity costs thousands of rupees lar complaints. Most of the down period. On being asked administration that they are ery boys who pick up the food Swiggy and Zomato, therefore private schools, alleged the charges and lab charges besides which is quite difficult to afford schools have updated their about the schools pressurising incapable of paying the fee for from eateries and send the the passes issued to such UAS. The Sangh questioned tuition fee. Why is nothing during the lockdown for sev- website with a new fee struc- parents by sending emails and now. The parents cannot be reports to the district admin- restaurants for home delivery why the Uttarakhand being done against such eral parents. ture." Painuly added that the messages to deposit the fee, forced to pay the fee during the istration. However, many of food will be cancelled. Government was lagging schools?” questioned the UAS But the State Government schools have been instructed by Painuly said that those who lockdown, stated Painuly. ! " ! ## ! 0 $0
he wave of digital learning Management, IIT Roorkee had was not serving the actual of the internet is the major providers to telecast the Treached India in 2016 with said, “This train is going ahead need of the education system. challenge in many remote areas SWAYAMPRABHA educa- the launch of SWAYAM (Study and those who board early The awareness level even in and even in an educational hub tional channels and this is a Webs of Active-Learning for will reach the destination of the urban areas about digital learn- like Srinagar (Garhwal), a great step in increasing the Young Aspiring Minds) plat- digital world earlier; digital ing initiatives like SWAYAM is strong strategy must be reach of digital education to the form by Ministry of Human education is the future.” Within very low. Most of the universi- planned based on the inputs larger population of the coun- Resource Development. a few months, I got two MOOC ties and faculty members do and suggestions of the stake- try. The need of the hour is to However, the foundation was proposals approved by two dif- not want to change the con- holders of that area. Recently, bring more and more regular already laid down by NPTEL ferent national coordinators. ventional teaching and learning the Uttarakhand Government classroom learners to and e-PG Pathshala, a decade With the help of training process. The challenge was not has taken the initiative of estab- SWAYAM. And the dissemi- ago with the availability of e- extended by UGC/ MHRD in the production but marketing lishing an e-learning lab in nation of this needs the support contents in the form of audio- IIM Bangalore and NITTTR of the same as a thumb rule of every government PG college. of every citizen of our country. video, text etc with free avail- Chennai, the courses were management. So, after check- Now we have the courses, we At this moment one remem- ability for all. developed. Both The two ing the success and failure have the experts, we have the bers what Rabindranath Tagore The author remembers MOOCs ‘Academic Writing’ story of various platforms, one contents, but what we don't said 100 years ago- “Where the attending a workshop on open and ‘Industrial Pharmacy’ per- realised that having good inten- have the users of this platform mind is without fear and the educational resources (OERs) formed very well. Moreover, tion without significant results in the tune of our population head is held high, where in Faculty Development Centre Academic Writing MOOC was takes even a major project of young learners. In COVID- knowledge is free…”. In con- (FDC) of HNB Garhwal ranked number one in July down. It happened with many many world leaders of digital (Annual Refresher Programme education is being dissemi- 19 scenario when the entire tinuation of this spirit, can we University, Srinagar, with other 2019 cycle with maximum ICT initiatives of MHRD for learning are just having com- in Teaching). Moreover, 20 per nated to replace them. This will country is in lockdown, the take up the challenge to make faculty participants. Apart from exam registration. These were the time being. Many of the e- mercial interest. But SWAYAM cent of credits of a semester increase the willingness to importance of SWAYAM and knowledge accessible to all cit- many eye opening sessions, the happy moments which contents were hardly viewed. is carrying the Vishwaguru may be earned through accept even from the adminis- SWAYAMPRABHA and other izens and the next generation one got the essence of digital refreshed us after tiring journey When the government is legacy forward. SWAYAM MOOCs. The con- trative part of the institutions. ICT -initiatives of MHRD, through digital learning? /blended/ flipped learning of developing two MOOCs spending huge amount of tax- SWAYAM, the digital plat- tents are used also for blended The awareness level must be Government of India has been through OERs and SWAYAM together. We had the feeling of payers’ money, the results must form of MHRD has a plethora and flipped learning. identified in each region of the revalidated by the historic (The author is an assistant Massive Open Online Courses “mission accomplished” but it be tangible with fixed account- of courses and contents for the The challenge is to take country and a need-based strat- boom of its users. Amid the professor, Department of (MOOCs). During a session, was just the first insight of the ability. The success model of learners of classes IX to PhD SWAYAM to the grassroot level egy must be planned to address COVID -19 lockdown, the Pharmaceutical Sciences at professor Rajat Agarwal from entire story. the Massachusetts Institute of and even for the faculty mem- and to address the fear among the problem. In Uttarakhand, Indian Government has made Garhwal University, Chauras the Department of Business Just developing MOOCs Technology (MIT, US) and bers in the form of ARPIT faculty members that digital where connectivity and speed it mandatory for all the DTH campus) ! " " - & +5 # $ #( 5< =". 4 =3 345 467- he Congress on Friday ) 345 467- Tslammed the Government for freezing the Dearness he Inter-Ministerial Central ) ) * Allowance (DA) of Central TTeam (IMCT), which Government employees and * inspected healthcare facilities at pensioners and demanded two dedicated Covid hospitals 8968++ to State Chief Secretary Rajiva cases in the social media. scrapping of the bullet train in Kolkata, has found major Sinha asking the Government The Chief Secretary on and central vista projects to 345 467- ers to oppose the government. reminded the government that anomalies in the existing system he BJP on Friday accused to explain the total number of Friday said that the total num- save 30 per cent from the Referring to Rahul's latest crores of rupees could be like waiting time of five days or Tthe State Government of victims that had corona infec- ber of deaths due to corona Government expenditure. he BJP on Friday hit out at tweet on the Centre's decision recouped by suspending the more for test results of patients playing with facts regarding the tions. were 18 while the total number Former Congress chief Tthe Congress for not sup- to stop the hike in Dearness ambitious bullet train project in isolation wards putting even extent of corona infections in The Government later said of active infected patients were Rahul Gandhi tweeted: porting the Government when Allowance (DA) and Dearness and the Central Vista beauti- negative ones at risk; bodies Bengal saying it took two that the total number of deaths 385. This figure included the "Cutting the expenditure on the whole country is standing Relief (DR) to all government fication scheme. lying on the beds of the ward for strong letters from the Inter due to corona infection stood new 57 cases in the past 24 dearness allowance is inhu- together against COVID-19. employees and pensioners in On Thursday, Congress four long hours while a death Ministerial Central Team at 18 that included three deaths hours. man." "When the whole country view of the country's financial President Sonia Gandhi certificate is being prepared; and (IMCT) for the State in the past 24 hours. However, Among the seven districts "It is an insensitive and is fighting a war against situation, Javadekar said "The charged the ruling party with no social distancing being main- Government to cough up the it also said that there were 39 from where reports of corona inhumane decision of the COVID-19, Congress is only people of India will not toler- “spreading communal preju- tained during “chaotic” patient truth about the exact number other deaths where the patients infections were coming are Government to cut DA of fighting against the Central ate this type of behaviour." dice and hatred”, to that the admission process thus increas- of infected people and real had corona infections along- Kolkata, Howrah, East and central employees, pensioners government. Nobody else, but "Today's tweet of Rahul BJP described former’s com- ing the risk of spread of the number of deaths due to the with comorbidity. West Midnapore, Hooghly and and jawans who are serving Rahul Gandhi and his gang are Gandhi falls in the same cate- ment as “cheap politics” and infection among others. dreaded virus in the State. “This means that the total East Burdwan, he said. the public while fighting coro- opposing the Government. gory of opposing the govern- demanded that she tenders The IMCT has also sought Referring to the objections number of deaths should be The State had conducted a navirus, instead of suspending They are battling against the ment. This behaviour of an apology. explanation on the methodolo- being raised by his party on ear- taken as 57 instead of 18,” a total number of 8,933 tests the bullet train project and Centre, not COVID-19," Congress at this time will be "We are not creating com- gy used by State-appointed lier occasions on “how the senior CPI(M) leader and a for- with 930 tests being conduct- the Central Vista beautifica- Union Minister andsenior BJP questioned someday and they munal divisions. We are unit- ‘Committee of Doctors’ to ascer- numbers are being fudged”, mer MP said adding “our lead- ed in the past one day, the tion project of lakhs of crores leader Prakash Javadekar said. will have to explain it then," he edly fighting COVID-19. We tain deaths due to Covid-19 State BJP president Dilip Ghosh ers like Biman Bose and Government said. (of rupees)," he said in a He alleged that the said. Taking to Twitter, Rahul request them to not do cheap amid suspicions over West said that the Government Suryakanto Mishra were arrest- Meanwhile, the IMCT on tweet in Hindi. Congress leader never comes criticised the Centre for its politics. They must not indulge Bengal’s coronavirus data. It should have been honest ed a few days ago when they Friday visited a large part of Addressing a Press con- up with a 'constructive sug- "inhuman and insensitive deci- in small politics," Javadekar has written two separate letters enough to come out with the were protesting against sup- Kolkata and Howrah to gather ference on the issue, party gestion' rather he advises oth- sion" on DA and DR and had retorted. to the West Bengal Chief genuine numbers (of deaths pression of facts.” reports of the extent of corona chief spokesperson Randeep Secretary in this regard and also and infection) instead of sup- Incidentally the infections. The team visited Surjewala too asked the apprised the Ministry of Home pressing the facts. Government had filed an FIR New Town, MR Bangur Government to curtail 30 per , - $ income of people of India," Affairs of the situation. The BJP was referring to against CPI(M) central com- Hospital and Salkia and cent of its own expenses and $ ' - said the party in a statement. In his letters, Apurva the two letters of inquiry mittee member Sujan Dumurjala in Howrah, sources shelve the Central Vista rede- $ , "This is not the first time Chandra, head of the IMCT, dashed off by the visiting IMCT Chakrabarty for reporting false said. velopment and bullet train in the last 30 days that they sought the State government’s projects to save money to be have proceeded to do so, clarification on these observa- tancing in the waiting area. the patient is transferred to In a separate letter regard- used to fight the coronavirus , please remember that only tions and further details on its Two patients appear to be in some other facilities. ing the methodology, the outbreak. $*E$EEE 9 - $ recently in March 2020, the testing capability besides very poor health but there was Following social media IMCT asked the State chief "The Government of ( ' Government had proceeded whether all those persons who no medical support available,” reports that dead bodies were secretary to explain the India, instead of helping peo- to reduce the interest across returned to Kolkata from he said. lying on beds in a ward, the methodology used by a ple by giving them financial , the board of 1-1.5 percent on abroad till March 8 were tested Though patients from IMCT enquired about the mat- Committee of Doctors support in this crisis, is hurt- ' all national savings schemes. and were found negative. other hospitals are referred to ter and found that “it is possi- appointed by the West Bengal ing them. Instead of curtail- + $ Not only that, the State Bank The team had visited CNCI the Bangur facility, the IMCT ble that dead bodies were lying government to ascertain ing its own wasteful expendi- + # / FEF ' of India had reduced its inter- (Chitranjan National Cancer head noted, “However, it seems on bed in a ward as it takes at whether the deaths being tures, the Government is cut- 0 $ est rate on savings bank Institute) and M R Bangur hos- the patients are left on their least four hours to issue a reported are due to coron- ting the money of the middle 1 $ G FE accounts from 3.25 to 3 per- pitals in Kolkata on Thursday. own to report to the hospital death certificate, after which avirus. class people," he told an video )BF cent and on fixed deposit by “There were a large number and are not escorted. This the body is shifted to a mor- The IMCT asked whether press conference. 1 ' half percent. By these two of patients in isolation wards of would always leave scope for tuary”. The State Government the methodology adopted by The Government should steps alone, Government of CNCI as well as Bangur hospi- some patients not turning up has been asked to furnish the state panel is in line with scrap their pet projects and India from national savings tal awaiting Covid-19 test results or delaying reporting to the records in this regard. what has been laid down by the save 1,30,000 crore and hike for the central employees passed a budget of Rs. 30.42 schemes had deducted for five days or longer. It is not hospital”. On the State Government’s ICMR and sought an interac- divert the money to fight till July 2021. Moreover, min- Lakh crores. It is, but, pre- 19,000 crore annually from clear why the test results should The team noted that there claim that number of tests tion with the Committee of COVID-19, added Surjewala. istries and departments have sumed that budget is a correct the 30 crore depositors and take such a long time and there were only 12 ventilators at having gone up from around Doctors to understand their The Congress said that also been categorised for fix- accounting of expected rev- the national savings scheme is a danger of Covid-19 negative Bangur hospital while it caters 400 per day to 900 per day, the methodology. It also asked if the decision of the ing a cap on their quarterly enue as also expected expen- and of the 44 crore 51 lakh patient acquiring the infection to 354 serious Covid-19 IMCT sought details like how such a committee exists for any Government will adversely expenditure, limiting it to diture. In case, ever, the depositors in State Bank of in the hospital while awaiting patients. To this, the hospital many of these are repeat tests other disease in the state. The impact the morale of the 15-20 per cent of the annual expected revenue was to fall, India by reduction of interests his test result. authorities informed the team and how many are first time team further asked about the armed forces. budget expenditure for FY21 the first thing that you will on FDs and on saving “The patient admission at that in case a ventilator is not patients. It suggested the State time taken by the Committee As part of the austerity in the first quarter. proceed to do, is to cut down accounts, they have lost annu- Bangur hospital appears to be available and ventilator sup- to conduct 2,500 to 5,000 tests to reach a conclusion whether drive, the Centre on Thursday "Only one month ago, on wasteful and vanity expendi- ally interest component of chaotic. There was no social dis- port is required for a patient, a day. a patient died of the virus. announced suspension of DA March 23 , 2020, the Centre ture rather than hitting at the 9,429 crore," Surjewala said. - # : > . 345 467- time the COVID-19 situation their operational preparedness, (23- 4 continues in the country, sources “while they are battling COVID- ../ # ,01 ' n view of the financial impli- said. 19 and the adversary should not Ications arising due to COVID- Faced with global slow- be allowed to exploit the current 345 467- of India. The kit will not only ,01 19 and the lockdown, Defence down, the delivery schedule of 36 situation,” defence ministry offi- empower healthcare services Minister Rajnath Singh on Rafale fighter jets is likely to get cials said later. RD Minister Ramesh but also support the govern- 345 467- . #" Friday asked the three Services delayed by some weeks now. The “Stressing on the require- HPokhriyal 'Nishank' on ment in the time of crisis. to use resources prudently and first four jets were scheduled to ment of jointness of the armed Friday felicitated the team of He congratulated the he Ministry of AYUSH on ' ' '" avoid wastage while maintaining come to India from France next forces, the Defence Minister scientists from IIT Delhi Researchers of IIT Delhi TFriday announced a ' operational readiness. He also month. The deal is worth over asked the Commanders in Chief involved in the development Kusuma School of Biological mechanism to support short- # asked the commanders to iden- Rs 59,000 crores. to identify and prioritise tasks of COVID 19 probe - free Sciences (KSBS), who have term research projects for '' tify and prioritise tasks and Similarly, the S-400 missile that could be accomplished Real-time PCR Diagnostic developed a detection assay evaluating the impact of # ##$ assist in the revival of the econ- shield system deal worth over Rs quickly and assist in revival of the Kit. for COVID-19 which has AYUSH interventions/ med- omy after the lockdown is lifted. 45,000 crore with Russia may get economy after the lockdown is This is the first probe- now been approved by icines in the prophylaxis and " The Minister’s directive to delayed too though the Russians lifted,” the Ministry stated. free assay for COVID-19 ICMR. clinical management of 0 the Services chiefs came in the have assured of timely delivery The Service Commanders approved by ICMR and it all the premier institutions He was delighted to COVID-19. # backdrop of the impact of the schedule. appreciated the recent devolution will be useful for specific and under HRD Ministry came know that the assay has been Hospitals/Institutions lockdown on the economy on Some other procurement of emergency financial powers affordable high throughput to the validated at ICMR with a involved in the management the whole and likely setback for time lines pertaining to tanks, by the Ministry that has ensured testing. This assay can be forefront and have done a sensitivity and specificity of of COVID-19 cases have been maximum of six months some months in procurement of artillery guns and assault rifles timely procurement of necessary easily scaled up as it does not commendable work and are 100 percent. invited to participate in this duration with Institutional weapons systems. The armed from different countries may also medical supplies, to bolster the require fluorescent probes. contributing to their best in This makes IITD the first scheme which falls under the Ethics Committee (IEC) clear- forces were asked a few days back get affected besides the Navy’s health infrastructure of the hos- The team is targeting large order to combat the situa- academic institute to have extramural (for those from ance will be considered for to avoid inking new deals in the recent deal with the US for 24 pitals. scale deployment of the kit at tion arising of COVID-19. obtained ICMR approval for outside the AYUSH Ministry support up to 10 lakh to first quarter of the current fiscal multi-role helicopters. The conference was attend- affordable prices with suit- HRD Secretary Amit a real-time PCR-based diag- establishment) research cate- meet the expenditure on due to economic factors. Given this backdrop, the ed by the three Service Chiefs able industrial partners as Khare, IIT Delhi Director nostic assay. gory. The proposals should be engaging AYUSH clinicians, Moreover, with the possi- defence minister in a video-con- including General M M soon as possible. Ramgopal Rao and a team of Pokhriyal highlighted related to evaluating the role technical manpower, labora- bility of budgetary constraints or ference here with the comman- Naravane, Admiral Karambir Speaking on the occasion Scientists of IIT Delhi led by that the Ministry of HRD and impact of AYUSH inter- tory investigations and relat- cuts in the near future, the three ders of the three Services direct- Singh, Air Chief Marshal R K S the HRD Minister said that Prof. Vivekananad Perumal will provide all possible to ventions/medicines in the ed contingencies. Services were also asked to put ed them to initiate measures to Bhadauria, Chief of Defence our Prime Minister and Prof. Manoj Menon were the institutions for their prophylaxis and clinical man- The details including eli- on hold their acquisition process- spend the financial resources, Staff General Bipin Narendra Modi has invited present in the meeting. research initiatives. agement of SARS-CoV-2 gibility criteria, mode for es to buy new weapon systems. avoiding wastage in view of the Rawat(CDS),Defence Secretary Scientists, students and The Minister appreciated He said that the project infection and COVID-19 dis- submission of application, The Department of Military economic burden imposed by Ajay Kumar and Secretary researchers to come forward the efforts of IIT Delhi in like these are in line with ease, a release issued by the application form are uploaded Affairs in a letter also asked the COVID-19. (Defence Finance) Gargi Kaul to combat COVID 19 and in developing a testing kit at a Make in India initiative of AYUSH Ministry said. on Ministry of AYUSH web- forces to put on hold their cap- In his address, Singh said he besides other senior officials of response to this clarion call, very low cost for the people the Government. Project proposals of a site ayush.gov.in. ital acquisition processes till the expected the forces to ensure the ministry. + ' , ' !
345 467- Day. Another major project is Minister on the new norms He launched a unified e- the ‘Swamitva Yojana’ launched mandated by the one-month- ' rime Minister Narendra GramSwaraj portal and a by the Central Government. long lockdown across the PModi on Friday said the mobile app on this occasion as Under this project, household country. prevailing global contagion has part of a new initiative aimed areas will be mapped via “It is true that we are faced 345 467- plan for each workplace. As per It had cited the Indian taught the country to be self- at providing Gram Panchayats drones. Title deed will be given with obstacles and problems but the directives issued by the Council of Medical Research reliant and self-sufficient. “It is with a single interface to pre- to property owners post map- resolve to keep moving forward o prevent the spread of official, smoking at the work- (ICMR) appeal which noted the biggest lesson leant from pare and implement gram pan- ping. Swamitva Yojana is with new energy, finding new Tcoronavirus, the Union place has to be completely for- that the harmful effects of corona pandemic,” the Prime chayat development plan already in its trial phase in ways to work, saving the coun- Rural Development Ministry bidden while no person should tobacco use are well estab- Minister said as he addressed (GPDP). states like Uttar Pradesh, try and advancing the country has banned smoking cigarettes be found eating tobacco, etc. lished and accepted globally. ‘sarpanches’ and ‘Gram The Prime Minister, who Uttarakhand and Madhya is strong,” Modi said and or beedis, chewing tobacco and spitting to be completely Also the role of tobacco Panchayats’ on Friday observed interacted with the ‘Sarpanchs’ Pradesh. assured that the country would and spitting at the work sites prohibited where the work is use/spitting in public place in annually as National Panchayat across the country via video- "There was a time when less emerge stronger through the under the MNREGA scheme. going on. spreading infectious diseases than 100 hundred panchayats crisis. Rajesh Bhushan, Secretary The Secretary also said that like Coronavirus. Chewing of across the country were con- Modi suggested that there of the Rural Development if anyone has health problems, smokeless tobacco products nected to broadband. Today, should be a sanitisation cam- Ministry during a video con- then he should be taken to the (gutkha, zarda, khaini and other broadband has reached more paign in villages to ensure min- ference a few days ago asked all nearest health centre. chewing tobacco products and conferencing, said ''Villages, than 1.25 lakh panchayats”, he imal spread of coronavirus. the states to follow the directives The Ministry of Rural paan masala) and areca nut districts and States should be said. The Prime Minister also urged to prevent the spread of coro- Development has asked all the (supari) increases the produc- independent for the fulfilment "Indian villages have the gram panchayats to make navirus among the MNREGA states to follow the April 15 tion of saliva followed by a very of their own needs.'' become a subject of research for quarantine centres for people workers. guidelines of the Union Home strong urge to spit. The e-GramSwaraj portal international scientists as well coming from cities and to help “Precautions need to be Ministry which states that “spit- Spitting in public places and app will help in simplify- as scientists and researchers people with essential needs. taken while performing tasks ting in public places shall be increases the dangers of spread ing accounting application for back home. You have given the "Fake news around under MGNREGA, Pradhan punishable with fine” and “there of Coronavirus/Covid-19. Panchayati raj and will serve as 'Do Gaj doori' mantra to the COVID-19 needs to be avoid- Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana shall be strict ban on sale of States like Bihar, Jharkhand, a single platform to account for world to combat COVID-19 ed and we need to be alert while (PMGSY), Pradhan Mantri liquor, gutka, tobacco, etc and Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, gram Panchayat's day to day without using lofty words like posting anything on social Awas Yojana (Rural) and spitting should be strictly pro- Uttarkhand, Maharashtra, activities. This app will ensure social distancing and lock- media platforms. I am shocked National Livelihood Mission in hibited.” Haryana, Nagaland and Assam transparency in gram down. to see that misinformation non containment zones,” said The Union Health Ministry have already issued orders on Panchayat's day to day working, “It is because of you that the around what and what not to the Secretary. has also asked the States to the ban of use of smokeless efficient record keeping as the world is discussing how India eat during this time is being He said that it was impor- ensure that spitting is banned as tobacco products and spitting in GramSwaraj app will be acces- has managed to combat spread at an unprecedented tant for all states and union ter- it could spread the infectious public places during the Covid sible to every villager. COVID-19," said Prime pace," said the Prime Minister. ritories to develop a standard Coronavirous. epidemic. + ! " " & +5 & #' %& ' ( ))* 8968++ Nizamuddin Markaz incident. This from him with vivid details to fol- is most unfortunate and cannot be low in future saying, “this response %% 0 0:+- Corporation (BMC) is closely he ongoing war of words degen- appreciated,” in an apparent refer- be taken as initial one and a thor- !! monitoring the situation in Terated into a grimy war of letters ence to how the Chief Minister had ough one will be imparted to you umbai’s Dharavi slum Dharavi where the health with Bengal Governor Jagdeep during a press conference repri- tomorrow with complete docu- Mcontinued to be in the authorities have clamped a Dhankhar casting a 13-page memo manded a journalist for asking mentation so that people of the state, ( grip of coronavirus on Friday, total lockdown. at Mamata Banerjee accusing the communal questions when he asked as you say, are made aware and come as the pandemic claimed one The pandemic cases have Chief Minister of “minority appease- her to comment on the whereabouts to know the series of acts of indig- Kozhikode (Kerala): A four-month-old coron- more life taking the number of been reported from most parts ment” “cover up her monumental of the Tablighi Jamaat attendees who nities and indiscretions heaped by avirus positive baby girl passed away at the state- deaths to 14 and left six more of Dharavi, a fact that has trig- failures in tackling” the corona might have come to Bengal from you, your ministers on the Governor run Medical College hospital here on account of persons infected contributing gered considerable anxiety pandemic in the State. Delhi’s Nizamuddin area. all through.” heart failure. This is after a six-month old died in to the rise in Covid-19 cases to among the health authorities With daggers drawn from both Though the Left and Congress Urging the Chief Minister to Chandigarh a day ago. 220 in Asia’s largest slum. who are taking all measures to sides over their mutual claim of mas- had earlier blamed the Chief “disable your political antenna” and The baby was under treatment at a private hos- Though there was a drop in ensure against the community tery as corona warriors Banerjee had Minister for minority communalism shun confrontational politics which pital from April 17 to 21, at Manjeri in Malappuram the number of cases from spread of the pandemic in this on Thursday shot off a stringent let- that created by default, a ground for would only increase miseries of the district. Later she developed breathing problems Thursday’s count of 25 to six on densely populated slum. ter to Dhankhar questioning the the BJP’s Hindutva politics in people of the State the Governor said and other issues when she was moved to the state- Friday, there was no let up in On its part, local doctors as “tone, tenor of your languages and Bengal, “no Chief Minister let alone “your communication is part of the run hospital here early on Tuesday. the incidence of the well the ones from the BMC messages to me” and wondering Mamata Banerjee had ever received alibi strategy that emanates from a It was on Wednesday that the baby tested pos- pandemic. one was a 36-year-old man. have held several fever clinics how a ‘nominated functionary’ a similar official admonition from script that seeks to cover up mon- itive for Covid-19. It is not yet clear how she con- A-60 year-old woman died Those infected were in the age in this slum. could humiliate an elected a constitutional office,” critics said. umental failures in these challeng- tracted the disease. The test results of her parents of Covid at Dharavi’s Gopinath group of 36 to 43 years. Apart from enforcing strict office. Referring to the Chief Minister’s ing times by a series of blunders.” are expected later in the day. Colony on Friday. With the lat- On Thursday, as many as social distancing norms, the On Friday the Governor — letter he further wrote, “your con- Among the blunders the A very distant relative of the baby was positive, est death, the total number of 25 infected cases and one death police and health authorities who had for the past a few days been stant refrain of Governor being Governor underscored the alleged but there has been no reports of any contacts with deaths in this densely populat- had been reported from have been using drones to rebuking the Government for below 'nominated' is lamentable and can be suppression of facts regarding the the family of the baby. ed slum has risen to 14. Dharavi. monitor the activities in par performance and not keeping ascribed only to elementary igno- number of corona infections and The baby was on ventilator support right from On Friday, fresh infected Spread over 240 hectare Dharavi. Located between him informed about the pandemic rance of the Constitution.” deaths in the State apart from large- the time she was brought to the hospital here. cases were reported from the area, Dharavi is one of the Western Railway’s Bandra- situation — slapped a blunt reply As the Governor he could not be scale mismanagement in public dis- According to the doctors, this baby had con- areas of Kalyanwadi, Janta Covid-19 hotspots in Mumbai. Matunga and Central Railway’s accusing the Chief Minister for her expected to be in “sleep mode” when tribution system that led to a police- genital issues and this was confirmed by State Nagar, Banwari compound Ever since first few cases of Sion-Matunga stations in alleged minority politics. the State was in a “stressful condi- public clash at Baduria in North 24 Higher Education Minister K.T.Jaleel, who hails gully and Maluna Azad Nagar. Coronavirus were reported in north-central Mumbai, He wrote, “your appeasement of tion” or work as a post office or a Parganas leaving several men in uni- from Malappuram district. Among the newly infected per- the early first week of April, the Dharavi is home to more than the minority community was so rubber stamp he iterated alerting the form injured. The Baduria incident With this the total number of deaths on account sons, five were women, while Brihanmumbai Municipal 4 lakh people. explicit and awkward on the Chief Minister about another letter was just a “tip of the iceberg,” he said. of Covid-19 in the state has gone up to 4. IANS *' 5 7#R " %% 0 0:+- said: “Some days back, we had involves the PCR screening of been clinically tested, while premise that the blood of a aging results”. So much so that #R4+,+ requested the Centre to permit a specimen pool comprising 89561 cases had turned out to patient who has recovered from Delhi chief minister Arvind he Union Health Ministry us to undertake “Pool Testing” multiple individual patient be negative and 6427 persons Covid-19 contains antibodies Kejriwal has urged recovered Ton Friday gave a go-ahead and “Plama Therapy” to deal specimens, followed by indi- had tested positive. with the specific ability of coronavirus patients to donate Bengaluru: Karnataka regis- a discharge. to the Maharashtra Covid-19 patients in the state. vidual testing (pool deconvo- Given the gravity of fighting novel coronavirus. The their blood plasma so that it tered 29 new coronavirus Of the 304 active cases, Government to undertake Today, the Union Health lution) only if a pool screens Coronavirus situation in the theory is that the recovered could be used to treat the cases, raising the State's tally 299 patients, including a preg- “Pool testing” for suspected Minister gave us a formal go positive. As all individual sam- state, “Plasma therapy” may patient's antibodies, once Covid-19 patients in the to 474, said an official on nant woman, are isolated at Covid-19 patients and “Plasma ahead to us in this regard”. ples in a negative pool are prove to be boon for ingested into somebody under national capital. Friday. designated hospitals and are therapy” to treat coronavirus In view of the fact that the regarded as negative, it results Maharashtra. The convales- treatment, will begin targetting Meanwhile, the Union "As of 5 p.m. Friday, stable, except five in ICU. patients in the State. Covid-19 cases are rising expo- in substantial cost savings when cent “plasma therapy” aims at and fighting the novel coron- Health Minister -- who took cumulatively 474 positive Among the 29 new cases, While interacting with nentially in India, the Indian a large proportion of pools tests using antibodies from the avirus in the second patient. stock of the coronavirus situa- cases have been confirmed in Bengaluru Urban accounted State Health Ministers and Council of Medical Research negative. blood of a recovered Covid-19 Till Thursday evening, as tion in various states across the the state. It includes 18 deaths for 19, followed by Bagalkot, Secretaries across the country, (ICMR) has favoured the “Pool “Pool testing” is very use- patient to treat those critically many as 840 Covid-19 patients country -- has appreciated the and 152 discharges," said a 3, Raibagh, Belagavi, and Union Health Minister Dr Testing” . “It is critical to ful for Maharashtra can be affected by the virus. The ther- have fully recovered and been suggestions made by the health official. Vijayapura, two each and Harsha Varshan accepted the increase the number of tests evidenced from the fact that it apy can also used to immunise discharged from various hos- Maharashtra government that In the past 24 hours, seven Chikkaballapura, Tumakuru Maharashtra Government’s conducted by laboratories. is the worst Coronavirus-affect- those at a high risk of con- pitals across the state. "Portable Pulse Oxymeter" and patients got discharged, taking and Mandya, one each. request to undertake “Pool Positivity rate in cases is still ed state in the country. Till tracting the virus -- such as The Delhi government, "X Ray diagnosis " could be the number of cured people On Friday, 11 more con- Testing” and “Plama Therapy” low. Hence, it may help to use Thursday evening, there were health workers, families of which had earlier been per- used effectively to treat Covid- from 145 to 152. tacts of the Hongasandra case, to deal with the coronavirus the pooled samples for screen- as many as 283 deaths and an patients and other high-risk mission by the Centre to 19 patients and that the Among the places with a 55-year-old man, designat- situation in the State. ing,” ICMR has said in one of alarming 6427 cases. contacts. undertake limited “Plasma Persona Protection Equipment high case-load, Vijayapura ed as 419th positive case, Announcing this, State its advisories. Till Thursday evening, as This therapy's concept is therapy” trials on the serious- (PPE) could be re-used and Mandya are yet to record have tested positive. IANS Health Minister Rajesh Tope A pooled testing algorithm many as 96,369 samples had simple and is based on the ly ill patients, has got “encour- through sterilisation. ! 121 # 0 5!677 3 ' # $ 0(3++( ## 6 8395 % $$ 897- Toruppur would be shut down Madurai experienced he first test for coronavirus totally for three days from tense moments on Friday % $$ 897- by 513 in just nine days. The Tdetection in any Uttar t became clear on Friday that April 26. morning as hundreds gathered only consolation is the news Pradesh private lab will come Iall is not well in Tamil Nadu The Chief Minister said in front of the City here was no let up in Tamil that 114 persons have been for a maximum of 2,500, the as coronavirus continued its that the decision for lock down Corporation office flouting all TNadu in the number of per- cured of Covid on Friday. Yogi Adityanath Government upward march unbated and was taken after the govern- precautions to the winds. The sons tested positive for coron- Dr CV Krishnaswamy, vet- has given its approval. earlier uncontrolled. A special meet- ment was convinced that the people were given wrong avirus on Friday. According to eran medical scientist and the labs were charging over ing convened by Chief spread of coronavirus was information that only vehicles a medical bulletin issued by the physician of repute told there 4,000. Minister Edappadi severe in urban areas. Even carrying new passes issued by department of health, govern- was no cause for panic as far as Principal Secretary Health Palaniswami on Friday which business and commercial the corporation would be ment of Tamil Nadu, 72 per- the coronavirus situation in the Amit Mohan Prasad, in an was attended among others by establishments which were allowed on the roads from sons were tested positive for country is concerned. order, said: "The infection can top bureaucrats, police officials allowed to function following Monday. coronavirus in the State till 5 “India’s fatality rate is just be confirmed in a single step and health professionals dis- the relaxation of lock down This created panic among pm on Friday. Chennai alone two per cent compared to that test. In such a situation, those cussed and analysed the pre- rules has been asked to down daily wage earners and self saw 52 persons testing positive of US which is above five per who are not coronavirus posi- vailing situation in the State. the shutters from April 26 for employed persons for whom for the pandemic. cent. Moreover we have to tive will have to give only After the meeting the four days. two-wheelers are the only The total number of per- undertake a thorough auditing 2,500." Chief Minister in a statement Only essential wings of the avenue of transport. sons tested positive for coron- of the deaths recorded in the He said that the ICMR 87?# !78!8%!#= determined the single step test declared that the city corpo- Government would be allowed It took the police hours to avirus all over Tamil Nadu country allegedly due to coro- did not set the fee for the sin- 8*/8*!8/ fee from the kit. ration limits of Chennai, to function and that too with convince the crowd that there reached 1,755 by Friday na virus. Even newspapers gle step test from the kit, so all * B!9!77)! He informed that private Coimbatore and Madurai minimum staff, said the state- was no such plans and they evening, said the release. report that those who suc- the private labs were charging labs have to send their reports 798=!*#!!?!' would be shutdown completely ment issued by the chief min- have been taken for a ride by The number of persons cumbed to coronavirus were 4,500. (7(/! online to the ICMR and the for four days from April 26. ister. unknown elements. succumbing to the dreaded suffering from cardio vascular So far, even if a person is CMO of the district concerned. The shutdown or lockdown Sale of vegetables and For two hours, the crowd disease reached 22 by Friday as ailments, malfunctioning of not infected with coronavirus, 8!788(?! Strict action will be taken if would be in operation from 6 fruits would only be permitted forgot social distancing and the day saw two more deaths in kidneys or other medical dis- he had to pay a fee of 4,500 for ##!!#1/233B there is a complaint of over- am on April 26 to 9 pm on in mobile carts. All shops are other precautions associated the State. orders. My request to the media the initial test. Now the person charging. April 29. to remain closed. Hotels can with the spread of Covid 19 as The State which had 1,242 is to be extra careful while will get a single step check and go for the second step check. After deliberations, the Similarly, the city corpo- deliver parcels on orders made they argued with the local coronavirus patients on April reporting about causalities,” if the coronavirus is not con- The Indian Council of Medical government has fixed a single- ration limits of Salem and through phones. body officials. 15 saw the number increasing said Dr Krishnaswamy. firmed, then he will not have to Research (ICMR) had not yet phase check of 2,500. 8$ 2A H $ ?@# * " (! " 80 I J$H K 0 %% 0 0:+- With Friday’s tally of infec- 957 patients have been dis- /+- . his village. As the tension +,.+ tions, the total number of charged till date after full recov- gripped the village, a medical oronavirus appeared to be infected cases in Mumbai has ery. “Currently, 1,19,161 people +(+ youth in Bhilwara has had team soon reached the spot and he district administration Cin no mood to relent, as it mounted to 4447, while Pune are in home quarantine and Ato "quarantine" himself on collected the samples of youth. Ton Friday evening con- claimed 18 more lives on Friday accounted 848 total confirmed 8,814 people are in institutional a tree after being refused entry Other medical tests were also firmed six new Covid-19 pos- taking the total number of infected cases. quarantine,” the health bul- % % /+00 ment to convince local resi- to his village recently. done. itive cases, taking Agra's tally to deaths in the state to 301 and The Mortality rate in the letin said. dents to strictly follow the The 24-year-old Kamlesh Meanwhile, the medical 341. left as many as 394 others state due to Covid-19 is 4.4 per Meanwhile, the head of the beginning of Government''s guidelines and Meena walked all the way from team to sort out the issue, From double, the figure infected in various parts of the cent currently. An analysis of Brihanmumbai Municipal Athe holy month of avoid assembling at mosques Ajmer to reach his village asked Kamlesh to come along now has come down to single state. 269 Covid-19 triggered deaths Corporation (BMC) in a med- Ramzan, 20 fresh cases of for prayers five times a day Sherpura in Bhilwara, howev- to Bhilwara quarantine centre. digit as UP police have con- On a day when the total reveals that the mortality rate ical bulletin released on Friday coronavirus were reported including the ''Tarawih'' or er, was stopped by villagers However one of the section of tinued to strictly enforce lock- number infected cases rose to among patients below 50 years said that as many as 168 from different districts of extra nightly prayer usually while entering into his village villagers did not allow them to down restrictions in the 86 6,817, another 18 persons died old is comparatively patients had tested positive in Kashmir valley on Friday held during Ramzan. fearing corona spread. do the same. hotspot zones of the city. of Covid-19. Mumbai account- less. various lab between April 21 while no case was reported Historic places of wor- He was advised to go to After a long debate, it was According to the Agra zone ed for a maximum of 11, while “It is 0.64% in the age and 22. from across Jammu division. ship across Kashmir valley district hospital first and get decided to quarantine the police headquarters, around there were five deaths in Pune group 21-30 years and it rises “The patients are already Bandipora district, classi- and main markets continue to himself tested. However, youth 3 kms far off the village 4,000 cases have been regis- and two in Malegaon in north with increasing age beyond admitted in isolation wards fied as one of the hotspots, wore a deserted look. Kamlesh refused to go out of on a tree. tered against violators under Maharashtra. this age group. It is highest and under treatment,” the reported nine fresh cases, tak- To reach out to the impov- IPC sections. Some six thou- With the latest deaths, the (17.78%) in the age-group 61- release said ing the district tally to erished families during sand people have been arrest- total number of deaths crossed 70 years. This underpins the Out of the total cases in 108. Ramzan, the Srinagar admin- ed in the districts of Agra, 300 mark (301). Of the deaths, increased possibility of com- Mumbai, 1795 cases have been According to the media istration has prepared 50,000 Mathura, Aligarh, Mainpuri, Mumbai accounted for 178 plications in patients above 50 detected as a result of contact bulletin, the total number of food kits for distribution Firozabad, Etah, Kasganj, deaths. Pune with 63 deaths years of age and with high-risk tracing, containment measures, positive cases in Jammu & among them. Hathras for violating lockdown and Malegaon with 11 deaths comorbidities,” the bulletin fever clinics etc. Kashmir stood at 454, 397 The distribution of free restrictions. are two places where have been said. The BMC held 184 special from Kashmir and 57 from food kits amongst the said In Agra 14 persons have sizeable number of Out of 1,02,189 laboratory screening clinics from April 5 Jammu. 109 patients have families is being made to sup- been lodged in a temporary jail deaths. samples tested so far, 94,485 to 24. “During these clinics, recovered so far, 92 from port them during the month of in the last two days. Of those dead on Friday, 12 were negative and 6817 have 7203 persons were screened Kashmir and 17 from Jammu Ramadan in view of the pre- District health department were men while six were been tested positive for coron- and 2494 swab samples were region. vailing situation due to officials said round 1,229 peo- women. Nine of them were avirus until Friday. collected from suspected During Ramzan, the focus Covid-19 outbreak. ple were under home quaran- aged over 60 years, six were According to health bul- cases. of the various Government Deputy Commissioner tine. from the age group 40 to 59 letin, there are 512 active con- As part of the sanitation agencies involved in contain- Srinagar Dr Shahid Iqbal Meanwhile, the state gov- years and three were under 40 tainment zones in the state cur- measures, the BMC has sani- ment drive is on restricting Choudhary who is also the ernment has sent senior IAS years of age. “Twelve out of 18 rently. Total 7702 surveillance tised 53,386 premises assembly of worshipers across Chairman District Disaster official Alok Kumar as the patients (67%) had high-risk squads worked today across the (Govt/semi govt premises, different places of Management Authority nodal official to oversee and co-morbidities such as dia- state and surveillance of 28.88 MCGM premises, Home quar- worship. Srinagar visited the site where coordinate strategies being betes, hypertension, asthma lakh population was antine premises, Covid-19 pos- Muslim religious bodies these kits were prepared to operationalised by various and heart disease,” the state done. itive patient premises, other and prominent scholars have inspect their departments. health bulletin said. In a related development, premises) till Friday. been roped in by the govern- preparation. ! 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By definition, asymmetric warfare is “a broad and unpredictable spectrum of mili- 7 ,*2% " % tary, paramilitary and information operations, 2 conducted by nations, organisations, individ- 7 uals or by indigenous or surrogate forces under their control. It specifically targets the cal elements (bioterrorism), will gramme is the Wuhan Institute threats. The US administration’s ( weaknesses and vulnerabilities within an haunt the security experts going of Virology, the epicentre of the obvious disinterest had led to a B % (DD 6 enemy Government or the armed forces.” In forward. The usage of biologi- Coronavirus. However, given domino effect of ill-preparation 7 7 the same light, the debilitating COVID-19 cri- cal warfare entailing infectious the considered view of most apo- of the medical infrastructure, sis and its impacts are getting posited as a pos- agents like viruses and bacteria litical and functional experts on reaction and administration in sible “asymmetric” security mutation; though among others, which come 74 ( this subject, as also the “cost” containing the Coronavirus cri- 4 ( this is still in the realm of unverified specu- under the Biological Weapons + 0-3-(.+-93O( China paid to Coronavirus, it sis. lation. Convention (BWC) and seems highly unlikely to be a Countering this new threat The ragtag militia of the Yemeni Houthi Chemical Weapons Convention -(-34.4( 7+ deliberate case of deployment of will necessitate the conjoining of rebels had made a mockery of convention- (CWC), is explicitly prohibited. a biological weapon. various military and non-mili- 4 " % al weaponry when the American Patriot mis- The deployment of the same is 64 9 + 90-39 The real fear is more from tary specialists to jointly address 2 sile system, procured for almost $6 billion, tantamount to war crimes. 4))4 9) the domain of reckless terrorism, the technical, scientific and oper- failed miserably against modified civilian- By its nature, biological wherein relative affordability, ational counters. : % ( made drones (these could have cost $15,000 agents (like in the case of -66 .4+.+-93 undetectability and ease to The Chinese have a robust A A each), which flew through 500 km of land Coronavirus) are transmitted 9) 74 04 -+6 “spread” mechanism of a poten- intermingling of civil-military DG 6 A and attacked the world’s largest oil process- from person to person and -3).+(. .4$ tial bioweapon could make it competencies. The recent # % ing facility in Saudi Arabia. The state-of-the- aerosolised respiratory droplets. escape the current levels of secu- takeover of the Wuhan Institute art defence “shield” was hopelessly pierced Hence, they are uncontrollable to .4+-93 +3 rity and safety protocols in exist- of Virology by Maj General A 7 by a substantially lower technology assem- a restricted population. However, ing laboratories and research Chen Wei of the People’s * G= blage that was deployed as an unconvention- the deliberate or unintentional + 0-3-(.+-93 centres. While access to all Liberation Army (PLA) is al tactic against the combined might of a “escape” of its “weaponable” ele- -3 93+-3-3, sophisticated elements and deliv- indicative of the same. Chen is D? 4 A D?( much larger Saudi military, which was ments cannot be ruled out as that ery systems may still be a chal- among the foremost specialists in G= 7 backed by the US’ wherewithal. is subject to human handling, 74 9.93+ lenge for rogue elements, a crud- genetic engineering vaccines ( ( Just a month ago, the powerful nuclear- intentions and infrastructural .-(-(' er contraption of bacteria-based and comes with a reputation as P Q # powered aircraft carrier, the USS Theodore controls. (example anthrax) weapon can the “terminator of Ebola” after Roosevelt, was leading a deadly flotilla of heav- Weaponisation of biological 9 34.-3, 7-( be assembled with regular labo- leading a team to create a 2 ily armed warships under the nose of the elements is an established fact ratory equipment and materials. counter-vaccine to the fatal virus. # S ( Chinese waters. Today, that $20 billion bat- with the US, the Soviet Union, 345 7.4+ 5-66 Terror organisations like the Al However, Governments must tle platform, packed with up to 90 fighter air- the UK, France, Japan and China 344((-+4 74 Qaeda and the Islamic State immediately enforce strict craft, helicopters, missiles and weaponry, has among others. They have estab- (IS) are known to have partak- restraints against “dual usage” of ) embarrassingly “run aground” and suc- lished dedicated facilities and 93/9-3-3, 9) en interest in the related sphere chemicals, materials and equip- A # P cumbed hopelessly to what the Commander- research centres to undertake the +.-9 ( of ricin and cyanide attacks. But ment to deter a do-it-yourself Q # in-Chief of the US military, Donald Trump, same. Be it plague, tularemia, a possible assembly of a “dirty attempt to create a “dirty calls the “Chinese virus.” Even though the the- vaccinia viruses, brucellosis or 0-6-+.B +3 bioweapon”, given the estab- bioweapon” by any rogue ele- P Q ( ory of a bioweapon has been dialled down encephalomyelitis — all have 393 0-6-+.B lished havoc achieved by the ment. It was the free availability by the Pentagon’s top General, Mark Milley, been successfully weaponised Coronavirus, can trigger mali- of “dual utility” technology that A 4 who stated that the preponderant “weight of under these covert programmes. (4-+6-(( 9 cious interest in the domain. incubated the Yemeni-Houthi evidence” pointed towards “natural” origins However, given its inherently /9-36B + .4(( Governments will have to drone contraptions to outsmart 4 ) as opposed to laboratory manufactured, “evil” nature and uncontrolled review their security-related the top-of-the-line defence shield nonetheless, a new threat dimension has spread, almost 182 countries 74 473-+6$ budgetary allocations in line in Saudi deserts. The sight of a unmistakably emerged. This needs to be have ratified a ban on biological (-43-)- +3 with the evolving threats. The hopelessly impoverished and accounted for in the national security calcu- weapons. Though some, like Trump administration had badly anchored USS Theodore lus. China, are suspected to have per- 94.+-93+6 undermined itself by slashing Roosevelt was another grim The concept of a “dirty bomb” or radi- sisted with the research and funds and headcount towards reminder of the latest mutation ological dispersal device (RDD), which aims development on it. 9 34.( the Centers for Disease Control in security threats. 3 # 3 to contaminate the area with radioactive Among the foremost and Prevention (CDC), part of (The writer, a military veter- material, has existed for long. However, a research institutions in China which was team-based with an, is a former Lt Governor of . 4 4" crude rendition of the same, using biologi- that are involved in the pro- China overlooking global health Andaman & Nicobar Islands) B ! % 5 6 7 1 ) ( ;# < - ( $ , # #' 5 * + # , - . - # ' - $ # $ M N $ ' P,Q1 # -O $ + 2 # ' ' ' ' 87>!!8 78 !8=7!##8 7!!8 K( # K8 8 K+ 0# K+ 0 3 % - 4 # ( ( 1 1 1 5 11 ) 6 15 What will claim more lives — COVID-19 or starvation or 5 unemployment and the conse- ! , ! Sir — It is encouraging that indi- 9 , quent diseases such as depression S S 6 viduals and civil society groups # and mental illness among others? have been doing their bit by pro- - ' The National Human Rights 5 viding ration/cooked food to the Commission (NHRC) must open " ( have-nots, destitute and labour- ' ( a 24X 7 help centre that can pro- " ers who are out of livelihood due # ' 0 vide assistance and guidance to * to the spread of Coronavirus. But # $ # the people and, thus, protect the why do they need to advertise this 9 K human rights of suffering people. # kindness to the world through $ #$ Tapas Kumar Ray # social media? $ Kolkata P Q Self-promotion following any $ # ' act of kindness robs the grace and 7 beauty behind the noble deed of O ' the individual. Hadn’t Lord ' 9 ( Buddha treated a half-eaten ' - ' 5 # Sir — The nationwide lockdown mango, offered by an old female $ ' 9 - # ' imposed due to the spread of ) (2687 beggar, as the “greatest gift” by ' : : $ O COVID-19 can be a blessing in 7 ( rejecting the treasures offered by $ $ ' disguise for India if we can boost # the royal and rich merchants? The 3 ' our manufacturing industry. beggar had offered him her only ' 0 ' 5$ $ Goods manufactured in India are # 7 possession — the half-eaten considered better than China’s in ( 9 % : 6 mango, thereby giving the mes- ' , $ $ ' the international market. This is * ; : # ( sage that the worth of any contri- ' ' 5 !C (8?## the time to strike at the iron as the bution should not be judged by its - $ ' - # international community is look- # face value but through the sacri- ing for an alternative source. 7 fice rendered by the contributor. India can grab the opportunity as In this hour of crisis, we should tions of the helpless people. From Consequently, we have witnessed it has a big labour force and the come forward to render assistance the very beginning when the the pathetic death of a 12-year-old best brains in the world. ( in whatever way possible. But let’s lockdown was imposed, migrant girl who died after walking for Shashank 7 be a bit selfless and perform our Sir — The plight of the stranded workers were asked not to move three days from Telangana to Via email ) humanitarian work silently. migrant workers across the coun- anywhere. But nobody took the reach her home in Chhattisgarh. Kajal Chatterjee try gives us enough idea about the responsibility to provide them Now the question running ' + # Kolkata widespread human rights viola- with food and shelter. through everybody’s mind is: #!!8?!!8D=#'7= ! " " # 3 ) ) 8 15 . +$#51 +$# % % $ $ & +5 % $& ' . % % & $ ' $0 % & +5'% 0 % % $ 0 & 0' $ $$ $ ' + L L $ % %& / . ?
& #)96) / " 4 R #4 7 P Q =" 45 4 ( # ( 4 ( ( 7 (( % # % ( 6 9 . 6 91 P ( Q &#,1 7 * 9 7 # .* H1 ( 5 engalis and fish and how can this classical ode 6 9 to joy fall apart? No way! Bengalis and mishti % # 9 B(sweets). How can they ever be brutally sep- % # =F ; $ 7 % arated, even in a nationwide lockdown, even while diabetes is itself an epidemic in Bengal, especially 4 # # Kolkata? ( Indeed, it’s like saying how can the average mid- ( dle class Bengali bhodrolok (genteel folk) survive without his daily dose of Boroline, Digene/Gelusil % ( and Ananda Bazaar Patrika, to use a hackneyed cliché once again. But, clichés, despite being repet- # 5 itive, are life-affirming too. They tell you that the 6 9 ( world has not changed and what Bengal thinks today, India thinks tomorrow. Not even Kerala, though they 4 love Bengal out there, I tell you. ( Starting the working day for a working Bengali is a precious ritual. Going out with a jhola (bag) to # ( the fish market early morning is a favourite daily one. Haggling is an eternal joy. A thin fish curry with , black cumin and rice and the whole day is made. # Only jhaal moori at lunch time might break this daily fulfillment. , 7 It is fulfilling truly and nourishing, too. And the food has nothing to do with calories hereafter. Often +3 +- -( 579 7 5 59.8( -3 74 DG it is kachori (crispy savoury snack) in the morning from the nearest Sharma loochir dukaan, often .4 6-,7 +.4+ 6 ( -3 8968++ 96 stuffed with motor shooti (green peas) and a thin potato curry. As it is phoochka in the night, espe- 7-( .49.4. the fiercely independent leader. In her sis in Kolkata, in the industrial areas, or Pakistan and India and later after the for- 7 ( ( cially for women. 7+ 39 934 characteristic manner, Mamata has strong- in the rest of Bengal, which has been mation of Bangladesh. They were citizens ( So, at least, two things have not changed in the +093, 74 ly protested against this unilateral move peaceful unlike the Hindi heartland. She of no man’s land and had no rights, no ( eternally outgoing “City of Joy”, where “ghore-baire” E$EEE .4(- 43( which goes against the federal spirit, even announced quickly that no one will go identity, no citizenship of any country. " 6 ( is a beautiful obsession and a routine dilemma. One, -3 74 +.4+ -( as the graph in Bengal just cannot be com- hungry till September. There was no mass Recently, many of them have gone over to " ( the fish markets are open in many places. And I am ,9-3, 7 3,.B' pared to the serious situation in many migration nor starvation on the streets and Bangladesh and others have been allocat- 7 told by reliable sources that the mishti shops, now other States. slums. Food rations were given and is ed to India, though the borderlines are thin open from 12 noon to four in the evening, might 79(4 579 +3O In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra being given, to all those who seek it with and blurring. And, yet, their economic and % 998 +.4 :4-3, ( get a four hour additional bonus. Modi, the Chief Minister has reiterated a ration card, for free and with dignity. social condition remains abysmal. If Kolkata is the microcosm of the unfinished ,- 43 9984 that the Inter-Ministerial Central Team’s Those who don’t have ration cards or offi- There have been recent reports of new ( )99 ' 4 43 -3 ( painting of the Bengali canvas, it seemingly hates (IMCT) visit to several districts — Kolkata, cial documents can also avail of it with a hotspots of the epidemic in Kolkata, the lockdown. Who does not? The urge to go out 99. -66+,4( Howrah, 24 Parganas North, Medinipur temporary slip. Cooked food is being given including in the slums. Kolkata, Howrah, ( is as tangible as the crowd in the fish markets, even 9) . 6-+$ East, Kalimpong, Jalpaiguri and Darjeeling to those who can’t cook food. Even police East Medinipur and the North 24 Parganas ( now, which are reportedly not so sanitised or fol- 0- 3+9.4 +3 — amounted to a “unilateral action” by stations are being organised to cook food have been declared sensitive zones. Eight (( lowing the highest of health standards. And, yet, the (9 93$ 74 Modi and Union Home Minister Amit and distribute to people who are going districts have been declared as possible 5 % death toll is just about seven. How come? .9:640 9) Shah. hungry. hotspots: Kalimpong, Jalpaiguri, Hooghly, ( And that, too, is a kind of hidden and expressed 7 3,4. 7+( “I am sure you will kindly agree that An activist, who works in the red light Nadia, West Burdwan, West Medinipur, " controversy. Unlike, surprisingly, in Uttar Pradesh such unilateral action on the part of the area in Kolkata, told this reporter that not the South 24 Parganas and Darjeeling. (UP), (where the graph might seem to be flatten- :443 +843 +.4 Central Government is not desirable at all, one among the 10,000 residents in the area New areas are being marked. # 9) 5-7 69+6 # 5 ( ing like Kerala, where they have literally blocked the especially in the backdrop when both is going hungry. Those who can’t cook are Meanwhile, civil society groups, espe- virus now, especially in Thrissur, Kottayam and 9))--+6 Central and State Governments are work- being given cooked food. Even in poor vil- cially students, have been working on the 7 3459.8(' N39 6 9 ( Idukki). There is a lack of testing, health infrastruc- ing together relentlessly round-the-clock lages of Purulia, Midnapore and so on, the ground with great commitment. Students, ture, poor safety condition of doctors, nurses and 934 -( .4+66B to contain the COVID-19 crisis,” Mamata problem of hunger has been taken care of research scholars and the alumni of $ $ ) DF>+ health workers, abysmal hospitals in UP, too, but a ,9-3, 7 3,.B -3 said in the letter. with local official networks. “No one is Jadavpur University, for instance, are dis- partially totalitarian regime calls the disciplinary 8968++ +3 Meanwhile, the the Calcutta High really going hungry in Kolkata and tributing sanitisers, rations and cooked ($ * H # S shots. Nobody even knows what the tens of thou- :43,+6$ 7+ - Court last week asked the West Bengal Bengal, that I can assure you,” he said and food, which they themselves cook in the sands of workers are going through in the small +3 +(( .4 B9 $O Government to go on a “war footing on he is no Mamata supporter. campus. They distribute it all over Kolkata, towns or the rural hinterland of UP, or, if the dead- 74 (+- +3 74 -( the COVID-19 tests” and that it should fol- There are reports of hunger stalking to cops, health workers, doctors, shop- 7 ly virus is spreading out there. low the Indian Council of Medical in the eternally-starving tea gardens of keepers, vegetable vendors and slums. However, in Kolkata, or Bengal, the graph on 39 0+0++ Research (ICMR and World Health North Bengal, which have seen stark “We are short of money, almost 7 ( ( 9.4. ( the death toll, as much as selective or mass testing Organisation (WHO) guidelines. unemployment, destitution and starvation always. The alumni is helping. But we need 5 " is too low. Sources say that Chief Minister Mamata Till now, in this entire process, deaths in the past. Civil society initiatives more help,” said a research scholar. Banerjee has been efficient, on the spot, on the dot, Mamata’s total focus has been on the pres- are desperately working on the ground and However, life is like this only, as the and she started early, even though not as early as tigious Calcutta Medical College and other a lot of food distribution is happening story goes. Kolkata and Bengal are observ- 4 Pinarayi Vijayan in Kerala. That she has no faith in State and private institutions, for medical through the Trinamool Congress local net- ing the lockdown with discipline and . 4*4 78!41 the Central laboratories with their “bureaucratic care. Besides, she has been fast in her cri- works. “It’s a difficult and tragic situation patience. The Government is in control. paraphernalia”, not in the unfulfilled promises of help sis management. A stadium in Howrah out here. The problem is not only peren- And while Rabindra Sangeet (music) # from Delhi. For long, her Government has com- was converted into a fully-equipped hos- nial out here, it is kind of become inten- and Western music still floats in the plained of lack of testing kits and medical equipment pital with 1,000 beds. A private high-rise sified after the lockdown,” said a Jadavpur bylanes, people are waiting for a new life " B for doctors and nurses, saying that Delhi simply building in post-modern Rajarhaat was University student from Cooch Behar on after the lockdown ends. 7 ( seemed too reluctant or late in response. turned into another makeshift hospital. the border of Bangladesh, where the Tomaar holo shuru, aamar holo It is no wonder then that the Union Home Private hospitals were asked to cooperate. “chitmahals”, too, are facing longstanding shaara, (it’s your beginning, it’s my Ministry sending a Central team to Bengal, among And the lockdown, sensitively done, was problems. end...) as the eternally beautiful Robi . 1 other States, to make “on-the-spot assessments” on fully implemented. “Chitmahals” are villages which lived Thakur song goes. the COVID-19 crisis has not gone down well with There was no migrant workers’ cri- in a twilight zone after Partition in East (The writer is a senior journalist) 1! 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is bound to be some damage to it. If the Antigen is re-introduced into the a patient who has an active approved by the US FDA) and also this is enclosed in a plastic casing. So, sons. There may also be “false positive” Then, you will call the police in order body, its response is intensified. This Coronavirus infection, with chances of requires monitoring while transfusion if a person’s respiratory tract sample has results as the antibodies on the paper to get the thief arrested. In the long- is why if you have chicken pox once, it worsening. This is a type of passive of the plasma into another patient as the antigen of the Coronavirus then strips may attach to the antigen of term you will get a burglar alarm sys- you don’t get it again. This principle is immunity only, in which a patient bat- there can be life-threatening reac- there will be a detectable signal in 30 another common influenza virus tem or CCTV camera installed. This used in creating an “active” vaccine, tling the infection is assisted by some- tions. Hence, careful monitoring and minutes. These antigens, which are which gives us the common cold. will burglar-proof your house. where a small quantity of infection one. CP therapy had been previously a due call needs to be taken by doctors detected are only expressed when the The second type includes demon- Now, apply this allegory to the (Antigen) is introduced into the body used for SARS and influenza and has and the researchers on the use of CP virus is replicating i.e it is in the active strating (by detectable signals) antibod- human body. The thief is the Antigen so that antibodies are produced and shown positive results. However, the therapy. RDT has become a very stage of infection. However, these fac- ies to the Coronavirus antigen in the and your response is what the body provide protection to the individual results of CP therapy in Coronavirus important strategy to contain the tors depend on many other factors. The blood sample of an individual suspect- / % -)) does to these Antigens with the aid of against the infection. are variable and still evolving. Trials spread of the Coronavirus. In this, con- World Health Organisation (WHO) ed to have COVID-19. However, the antibodies. There are various types of However, there is also a “passive” conducted on 10 COVID-19 patients firmatory testing is by RT-PCR (reverse says, “How well the tests work depends issue with this technique is that the he Coronavirus has brought the antibodies, like IgM, IgG, IgE, IgA, IgD. type of vaccine under which pre-pre- given CP therapy in China showed pos- transcriptase Polymerase Chain on several factors, including the time patient may develop antibody response world to a standstill and doctors Your initial response is similar to the pared antibodies are given to a person. itive results. A task force created by Reaction) in which absolute confirma- from onset of illness, the concentration a few weeks after the onset of symp- Tand scientists are working over- IgM which is the first antibody to However, the immunity acquired by Kerala has got permission from the tion is provided as the presence of RNA of virus in the specimen, the quality of toms, i.e in recovery phase when time to develop vaccines/drugs and respond to any antigen. The long-term this vaccine is not life-long and once Indian Council of Medical Research of the virus is demonstrated in the the specimen collected from a person, chances of clinical intervention would new treatment strategies to cure measures you have taken is IgG and the these antibodies given from outside are (ICMR) to conduct further research on nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal how it is processed and the precise for- have passed. Further, the WHO states patients. Two such potential treatment collateral damage to your house is akin used up, they no longer provide pro- it. The ICMR is also not planning to swabs. However, this is costly and time- mulation of the reagents in the test kits.” that, “The strength of antibody and testing procedures which have to inflammation that manifests as tection. Since the antibodies were not conduct it for all patients but select ones consuming and hence there is need for Based on experience with antigen- response depends on several factors, come to light are Convalescent Plasma fever, swelling, redness and pain. produced by the body originally, the and this will not be a treatment per se development of RDTs. These RDTs based RDTs for other respiratory dis- including age, nutritional status, sever- (CP) therapy and Rapid Diagnostic Just like you don’t react adversely number of antibodies in the body is not but a clinical trial. However, if approved work in two ways. One is the demon- eases such as influenza, in which ity of disease and certain medications Testing (RDT). to everyone who enters the house, the adequate to neutralise any antigen and successful, it will be scaled up to stration of the protein (antigen) of the affected patients have comparable or infections like HIV that suppress the In order to understand CP it is same way your body does not react which enters it in the future. This is the a treatment. virus from the respiratory tract of the concentrations of influenza virus in res- immune system.” essential to grasp the concept of anti- adversely to self-Antigens. But if you reason people need to get tetanus injec- The antibodies are proteins formed individual and second is demonstration piratory samples as seen in COVID-19, However, the ICMR has developed gen-antibody. If any thief tries to spot the same thief you become vigi- tions repeatedly. The CP therapy is a by B-Lymphocytes and they are part of of antibodies in the blood of the per- the sensitivity of these tests might be a protocol to use these rapid tests and come inside your house, your defence lant and try to take evasive action process in which the antibodies from Humoral Immunity. There is another son suspected to be infected by the expected to vary from 34 per cent to approved kits. Only time will tell if it mechanism will kick in and you will before he harms your home further. the plasma (the largest part of blood, system called Cell-Mediated Immunity, Coronavirus. 80 per cent. These then will show “false is the right strategy. either stop him or he will be success- The body reacts in the same way to any which when separated from the blood in which major work is done by T In the first type there are special- negative” results which mean that the (The writer is a doctor-turned-Civil ful in robbing you. However, in the Antigen that has already been con- is a light yellow liquid) of a recovered Lymphocytes. However, CP therapy ly made paper strips on which antibod- individual is positive to COVID-19 but Servant. Working as an Indian Railway process of defending the house, there tained by it by producing anti-bodies. patient of COVID-19 is transferred to requires further research (it has been ies to the Coronavirus are affixed and is not detected due to the above rea- Traffic Service officer) #: ! " " & +5 +3 #4" "+ "+& 1 56 666
Paris: The worldwide death 39 ' / " toll from the coronavirus pan- demic crossed 1,90,000 on Friday, with nearly two-thirds Geneva: The UN on Friday of the Bill and Melinda Gates 190,000 people have died in the equitable delivery of safe and of the fatalities in Europe, joined forces with world lead- Foundation. pandemic and more than 2.7 effective COVID-19 vaccine, C( according to an AFP tally ers and the private sector on an It included UN chief million have been infected. therapeutics and diagnostics," compiled from official sources. initiative to speed up develop- Antonio Guterres as a speaker, "We face a global public Guterres said. A total of 1,93,217 people ment of COVID-19 vaccines as well as global leaders like enemy like no other," Guterres "Not a vaccine or treat- have died and 27,61,967 been and treatments, and ensure German Chancellor Angela told the briefing. "A world free ments for one country or one infected since the virus equal access for all. Merkel and South African of COVID-19 requires the region or one-half of the world, emerged in China in "This is a landmark col- President Cyril Ramaphosa. most massive public health but a vaccine and treatment December. The hardest hit laboration to accelerate the Conspicuously absent were effort in history." that are affordable, safe, effec- Washington: President Donald number of people impacted, continent is Europe, with development, production and leaders from China, where the He stressed the need to tive, easily-administered and Trump will hold a signing cer- and the uncertainty of it all.” 1,16,221 deaths and 1,296,248 equitable distribution of vac- novel coronavirus first sur- ensure that any diagnostic tests universally available, for every- emony Friday for a bill pro- Anchoring the bill is the cases. cines, diagnostics, and thera- access to all the tools to defeat faced late last year, and from developed to detect the new one, everywhere," he said. viding a nearly $500 billion Trump administration's $250 The country with the peutics for COVID-19," World COVID-19," he said. the United States — the coun- virus, any drugs produced to "None of us is safe until all infusion of coronavirus spend- billion funding request to most deaths is the United Health Organisation chief The event was co-hosted by try currently hardest-hit by treat it, and any vaccine made of us are safe. ing, rushing new relief to replenish a fund to help small- States with 50,403, followed by Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus French President Emmanuel the pandemic, with nearly to prevent it should be provid- "COVID-19 respects no employers and hospitals buck- and medium-size businesses Italy with 25,549, Spain with told a virtual briefing. Macron, European 50,000 dead and close to ed to all of those in need. borders. COVID-19 anywhere ling under the strain of a pan- with payroll, rent and other 22,524, France with 21,856 "Our shared commitment Commission chief Ursula von 900,000 infected. "The world needs the is a threat to people every- demic that has claimed almost expenses. and Britain 19,506. AP is to ensure all people have der Leyen and Melinda Gates Worldwide, more than development, production and where." AFP 50,000 American lives and 1 in The payroll programme 6 US jobs. provides forgivable loans so The measure passed businesses can continue paying / "" $ " &! Congress almost unanimously workers while forced to stay Q 8 Thursday, but the lopsided closed for social distancing * + tally belies a potentially bumpi- and stay-at-home orders. ""6D" er path ahead as battle lines are It also contains $100 billion & Canberra: Australia's Prime being formed for much more demanded by Democrats for Q F4. Minister says his Government ambitious future legislation hospitals and a nationwide Washington: Blaming China the novel coronavirus "escaped" will cooperate with like-mind- that may prove far more diffi- testing program, along with a Washington: President Donald seconds," he told White House for the coronavirus pandemic, from a Wuhan virology labo- $$0 ed countries to change the cult to maneuver through $60 billion set-aside for small Trump has suggested the possi- reporters in the presence of US Secretary of State Mike ratory before it spread to the $ $ & World Health Organisation. Congress. banks and an alternative net- bility of studying injecting dis- President Trump at his daily Pompeo said it has caused a world. % Australian agrees with the The bipartisan measure work of community develop- infectants into COVID-19 briefing on the COVID-19 sit- "huge challenge" for the global "I am very confident that United States that the United passed as lawmakers gathered ment banks that focus on patients or bringing UV light uation in the country. as well as the US economy by the Chinese Communist Party 5+(7-3,93 Nation's agency needs to be in Washington as a group for development in urban neigh- "inside" their bodies to kill the Bryan's remarks left Trump not sharing the information will pay a price for what they reviewed, but Australia contin- the first time since March 27, bourhoods and rural areas deadly virus, drawing immedi- wondering if there was a possi- they had and the ruling did here, certainly from the he US is still trying to get an ues to support the agency's adopting stricter social dis- ignored by many lenders. ate flak from American health bility of injecting the chemical Communist Party "will pay a United States. I don't know T"actual sample" of the novel valuable work in the Pacific. tancing rules while seeking to There's also $60 billion for experts who urged people not to into a person infected with price" for it. exactly what form that will coronavirus from China as sev- Trump has directed his prove they can do their work small-business loans and grants listen to such "dangerous" advice. virus as a deterrent to the virus. China has come under take," Pompeo told Fox News in eral questions related to the administration to freeze WHO despite the COVID-19 crisis. delivered through the Small Launching a new scientific "I see the disinfectant that increasing pressure from an interview on Thursday night. infection remains unanswered, funding, claiming it didn't deliv- Lawmakers' face masks and Business Administration's study conducted by his depart- knocks it out in a minute, one nations across the world, However, he underlined Secretary of State Mike Pompeo er adequate early reports on the bandannas added a somber existing disaster aid pro- ment, Homeland Security for minute...And is there a way we including the US, over the lack that the focus was not on has said. coronavirus. Prime Minister tone to their effort to aid a gramme. Science and Technology Under can do something like that by of transparency in its handling China now but the US admin- "Frankly we are still trying Scott Morrison told reporters on nation staggered by the health Trump celebrated the bill's Secretary Bill Bryan on injection inside, or almost a of the coronavirus pandemic, istration's goal is to control the to get an actual sample of the Friday: “What happens at the crisis and devastating eco- passage at his daily White Thursday said the coronavirus cleaning? Because you see it which has so far claimed more virus and revive the American virus (from China). They have upper echelons of these organ- nomic costs of the pandemic. House briefing Thursday. “At a dies at a much more rapid pace gets inside the lungs and it does than 190,870 lives globally, economy. "It's on making sure given us the breakdown of it," isations, and how they operate, “Millions of people out of time when many Americans when exposed to sunlight and a tremendous number on the with America leading the tally we keep Americans safe, take Pompeo said during the Larry I think is in need of change.” work,” said House Speaker are enduring significant eco- humidity. lungs, so it would be interest- with nearly 50,000 deaths. down the health risk, keep O'Connor show on Thursday. “Australia will continue to advo- Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. “This is nomic challenges, this bill will "The virus dies the quickest ing to check that," the US pres- President Donald Trump people healthy as we can, and Pompeo said there still were cate for that change with like- really a very, very, very sad day. help small businesses to keep in direct sunlight. Isopropyl ident told reporters at the press had said his administration get this economy going back," many questions about the coro- minded countries who share our We come to the floor with millions of workers on the alcohol will kill the virus in 30 briefing. PTI was looking into reports that he said. PTI navirus that remain unanswered. concerns,” Morrison said. PTI nearly 50,000 deaths, a huge payroll,” he said. AFP < 4G 4 . / 3 ' (( Q 8 5: $* + Madrid: Spain recorded 367 Islamabad: Pakistan on Friday Pakistan-occupied Kashmir 55 people deaths from novel coro- extended the partial lockdown patients. 8 navirus over the past 24 hours, imposed in the country by So far, 13,365 tests have been the lowest daily number of another two weeks as the num- done in the country, including Tehran: Iran's Health Ministry fatalities in four weeks, the ber of people affected by the 6,839 in the last 24 hours. said on Friday that the virus-hit 9 ' 4 , government said on Friday. deadly virus rose to over 11,000. The confirmed cases are country was no longer at "red" It is the smallest number of About 79 per cent of the steadily increasing and the offi- status as it announced another HEE new coronavirus deaths since total coronavirus cases in cials have warned that the peak 93 deaths from its COVID-19 # $ March 22 when 394 deaths Pakistan are now locally trans- would reach by the end of May outbreak. Ministry spokesman were recorded. mitted, health authorities said. or beginning of June. Kianoush Jahanpour said the The number brought the According to the Ministry Addressing the media in novel coronavirus fatalities country's total deaths to 22,524. of National Health Services, 13 Islamabad, Planning Minister recorded in the past 24 hours # More people were diagnosed as more patients died due to the Asad Umar said, "It has been took Iran's overall death toll to ' recovered than as infected over novel coronavirus, taking the decided that the ongoing restric- 5,574. Jahanpour also !(# ( 8 ) 24 hours for the first time since toll to 237 and another 2,527 tions will continue till May 9." announced 1,168 new cases of # the start of the pandemic, the recovered. He said the decision was coronavirus infection, taking GE G* Health Ministry's emergencies In the last 24 hours, 642 taken in a meeting of the the country's total to 88,194. 8 5 coordinator Fernando Simon new cases were reported, taking National Coordination But he said that 66,596 patients told a news conference. There the tally to 11,155 in the coun- Committee, which was chaired had been released from hospi- were 2,796 new infections con- try, health officials said. by Prime Minister Imran Khan. tal after recovering from the ill- ' firmed using polymerase chain Punjab reported 4,767 The National Command ness. "None of our provinces are reaction (PCR) tests, or swab patients, Sindh 3,671, Khyber- and Operation Centre (NCOC) in the red, but warnings remain, =*( tests, over the past 24 hours, Pakhtunkhwa 1,541, on Friday said that 79 per cent and the situation will not be 3 ) while 3,105 people overcame Balochistan 607, Gilgit-Baltistan of all cases in the country were considered normal at all," he $ ' : 2H the infection, he said. AFP 300, Islamabad 214 and due to local transmissions. PTI tweeted. AFP ; (! . $ /. $ ' 0 7 FJ : )"" 6#7 9 3 $ ( +
$ 9 - ' * 4 57 . $* + : . 3 London: Scientists have iden- ulated with other immune Cape Town: One of the hard count two years ago, when $0 % tified two specific cell types in system genes and reveals lessons the World Health more than 360,000 people $ $ & the nose as likely initial infec- potential targets for the devel- Organisation learned during died, and would be the worst tion points for the novel coro- opment of treatments to the Ebola outbreak in West figures for the region since !)(8 + + London: The UK's Opposition coronavirus is taking on our navirus that causes COVID-19. reduce transmission. # $ Africa was this: Other diseases 2000. $ Labour Party on Friday BAME communities. We cannot The researchers, including While it is known that the ) ' can be forgotten and take a "We must not turn back announced a review into the dis- afford to treat this as an issue to those from the Wellcome virus that causes COVID-19 !(# ( 8 deadlier toll. the clock,” Matshidiso Moeti, proportionate impact of the investigate once the crisis is Sanger Institute in the UK and disease, known as SARS-CoV- # The WHO is now warning WHO regional director for 1 ' coronavirus pandemic on the over. We must address it now,” University Medical Centre 2, uses a similar mechanism to that the battle against malaria Africa, said Thursday. ' country's minority ethnic pop- said Starmer. “In the face of this Groningen in the Netherlands, infect our cells as a related 1 in sub-Saharan Africa, where While health experts 9 $ ulations, including those of national emergency, Labour will discovered that goblet and cil- coronavirus that caused the # it already kills hundreds of express fears that the coron- Indian-origin. continue to work constructive- iated cells in the nose have 2003 SARS epidemic, the #' thousands of people a year, avirus pandemic could erode ( $ Labour Party Leader Keir ly with the government. That high levels of the entry pro- exact cell types involved in the > + - could be set back by 20 years the global fight against many + Starmer hosted a digital round- includes shining a light on issues teins that the COVID-19 virus nose had not previously been # / as countries focus energy and diseases, sub-Saharan Africa is table alongside ministers from where it is clear more detailed uses to get into our cells. pinpointed, the researchers 3 # 2* resources on containing the by far the worst affected by FG$EEE' 4 his shadow cabinet and repre- understanding is needed,” he The identification of these said. # coronavirus. malaria. It had 93% of the $ 3 sentatives from Britain's minori- said. The Opposition's review cells could help explain the To discover which cells #$ The WHO said new pro- world's cases and 94% of K2 # ties communities to kick-start follows the UK government's high transmission rate of could be involved in COVID- $ jections indicate that in a deaths in 2018, the WHO said. *E$EEE the process of analysing the announcement that Public COVID-19, they said. 19 transmission, they analysed ) ' worst-case scenario, 769,000 The deaths were mainly chil- C '* factors behind black, Asian and Health England would be lead- The finding, published in datasets of single cell RNA people could die of malaria in dren under the age of 5. ' minority ethnic (BAME) groups ing an investigation into the fac- the journal Nature Medicine, sequencing, from more than $* 8 , sub-Saharan Africa this year as There have already been ' L5 being more likely to be admit- tors behind the higher death shows that cells in the eye and 20 different tissues of non- ) campaigns to combat it are “severe disruptions” to anti- $M ted for intensive care and die rates and more severe symptoms some other organs also contain infected people. These includ- interrupted. malaria campaigns and access / 3# $ from Covid-19. of the coronavirus among Indian the viral-entry proteins. ed cells from the lung, nasal # That's more than double to anti-malaria medication in + “It is extremely concerning and other ethnic minority com- The study also predicts cavity, eye, gut, heart, kidney the deaths in the last detailed Africa, WHO said. AP ' to see the disproportionate toll munities in the country. PTI how a key entry protein is reg- and liver. PTI ' 119 ,
New York: After two months An industry group says only “Once it's in, there's no of the residents or staff. says “only a very small per- “easy access to test kits” and are and more than 11,000 deaths about a third of the 15,000 stopping it and by the time At a nursing home in sub- centage” of residents and staff struggling to obtain sufficient that have made the nation's nursing homes in the US have you're aware with testing, too urban Richmond, Virginia, that have been tested because the resources, said Chris Laxton, nursing homes some of the ready access to tests that can help many people have it. And bod- has so far seen 49 deaths, the federal and state governments executive director of The Society most terrifying places to be isolate the sick and stop the ies keep piling up.” medical director said testing of have not made nursing homes for Post-Acute and Long-Term during the coronavirus crisis, spread. And homes that do That became clear in some all residents was delayed near- the top priority. Care Medicine. most of them still don't have manage to get a hold of tests of the nation's biggest nursing ly two weeks because of a short- “We feel like we've been “Those nursing home lead- access to enough tests to help often rely on luck and contacts. home outbreaks. After a home age of testing supplies and ignored,” Parkinson said. ers who have developed good control outbreaks among their “It just shows that the longer in Brooklyn reported 55 coro- bureaucratic requirements. By “Certainly now that the relationships with their local frail, elderly residents. that states lapse in universal test- navirus deaths last week, its the time they did, the spread emphasis has gone away from hospitals and health depart- Neither the federal gov- ing of all residents and staff, CEO acknowledged it was was out of control, with 92 res- hospitals to where the real bat- ments seem to have better ernment nor the leader in we're going to see these kinds of based entirely on symptoms idents positive. Mark Parkinson, tle is taking place in nursing luck,” said Laxton, whose nursing home deaths, New stories for a very long time,” said and educated guesses the dead CEO of the American Health homes, we should be at a prior- organisation represents more York, has mandated testing for Brian Lee of the advocacy group had COVID-19 because they Care Association, which repre- ity level one.” Two-thirds of U.S. than 50,000 long-term care all residents and staff. Families for Better Care. were unable to actually test any sents long-term care facilities, Nursing homes still don't have professionals. AP ! " " ';
!.# ;.,< )4, .R . * ' < >:?65 2 >'@5?A@ 98B9 climbed 0.5% to 5,242.60. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng fell 0 0:+- 345 467- lobal shares extended loss- 0.6% to 23,831.33, while the Ges Friday as hopes faded Shanghai Composite lost 1.1% he country’s foreign nvestor wealth on Friday fell for a quick turnaround for the to 2,808.53. Texchange reserves surged Iby 2,00,006.26 crore as mar- global coronavirus pandemic. In India, the Sensex lost by $3.09 billion to $479.57 bil- kets snapped a two-day rally, France’s CAC 40 dropped 0.5% to 31,689.62. Shares fell in lion in the week to April 17, with the BSE benchmark tum- 1.9% in early trading to Taiwan and Southeast Asia. due to an increase in foreign bling 536 points. 4,368.03, while Germany’s Toyota shares slipped 0.4% currency assets, according to “On the domestic front, DAX fell 1.8% to 10,321.87. in Tokyo after the Japanese the latest data from the Reserve Franklin Templeton Mutual Britain’s FTSE 100 shed 1.5% to automaker said vehicle pro- Bank of India. Fund announced winding up of 5,741.36. U.S. Shares were duction will be gradually In the previous week, the six debt schemes due to poised for losses, with the ramped up in North America reserves had increased by $1.81 redemption pressure and lack future for the Dow industrials from May 4. Toyota Motor billion to $476.47 billion. of liquidity in bond markets down 0.3% at 23,272.50. The Corp., like many other The reserves had touched amid the Covid-19 crisis, which future contract for the S&P 500 automakers, have halted pro- a life-time high of $487.23 bil- added to the selling pressure,” lost 0.4% to 2,771.12. by the World Health fresh round of stimulus while duction around the world. lion in the week to March 6, said Siddhartha Khemka, Head Investor sentiment was Organization. Researchers said oil prices continued to inch up US Benchmark crude shed after it rose by $5.69 billion. — Retail Research, Motilal again fragile as attention shift- the sample size was too small slightly,” they said in a com- 69 cents to $15.76 a barrel in During 2020-21, the coun- Oswal Financial Services Ltd. crore, due to redemption pres- In the broader market, the ed to the economic damage the to draw scientifically valid con- mentary. electronic trading on the New try’s foreign exchange reserves The 30-share BSE Sensex sures and lack of liquidity in BSE midcap and smallcap world is likely to suffer because clusions and the trial ended Market players are also York Mercantile Exchange. It had risen by almost $62 billion. settled 535.86 points or 1.68 per bond markets amid the indices fell up to 1.77 per cent. of the pandemic, says Prakash early. focusing on upcoming policy rose 19.7% to settle at $16.50 a In the reporting week cent down at 31,327.22. COVID-19 crisis. On the BSE 1,617 companies Sakpal and Nicholas Mapa, The Foster City, Calif.- meetings at the Bank of Japan, barrel. It has recovered after ended April 17, foreign cur- Led by the weak trend in The biggest drag in the declined, while 746 advanced economists at ING. based company behind the the Federal Reserve and the falling below $12 Monday, rency assets (FCA), a major the equity market, the market Sensex pack were bank and and 155 remained unchanged. A report from the Financial drug, Gilead Sciences, said the European Central Bank for though it remains well below component of the overall capitalisation of BSE-listed finance stocks, led by Bajaj “Today, Nifty opened with Times that said an antiviral data represented “inappropri- signs of what they may say the roughly $60 level where it reserves, rose $1.55 billion to companies plunged Finance which was the worst a sharp gap-down due to neg- drug failed to improve condi- ate characterizations” of the about the state of global began the year. Brent crude, the $441.88 billion. 2,00,006.26 crore to hit among the 30-share com- ative global cues and news of tions in patients in a Chinese China study. economies that appear on the international standard, gave Expressed in dollar terms, 1,21,73,452.47 crore. ponents, falling 9.14 per cent, Franklin Templeton AMC’s clinical trial cast a shadow “Investors will continue to brink of collapse. up 51 cents to $24.28 a barrel. the foreign currency assets Franklin Templeton followed by IndusInd Bank decision to close six debt funds. over hopes it might turn out to be monitoring developments Japan’s benchmark Nikkei The dollar inched up to include the effect of apprecia- Mutual Fund late on Thursday (6.58 per cent), Axis Bank As a result, NBFC and banking be a potential treatment for on the Covid-19 front with a 225 slipped 0.9% to finish at 107.71 Japanese yen from tion or depreciation of non-US announced winding up of six (5.96 per cent), ICICI Bank stocks were under pressure,” coronavirus patients. setback on clinical testing for a 19,262.00. South Korea’s Kospi 107.50 yen Thursday. The euro units like the euro, pound and debt schemes, with assets under (5.09 per cent) and HDFC (5 Vishal Wagh, Research Head, The report cited docu- treatment to the virus. lost 1.3% to 1,889.01, while inched down to $1.0747 from yen held in the foreign management of over 25,000 per cent). BONANZA PORTFOLIO said. ments published accidentally Meanwhile, the U.S. Passed a Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 $1.0777. exchange reserves. . + " C :@?@6B 0 0:+- 8!8*!8* continue to fickle the forex =8>!!=! market”. 1 + he rupee on Friday depre- In USD/INR spot 75.70- ! Tciated by 40 paise to settle !>!!*9!8 75.75 has been acting as crucial 345 467- sation for future cancellations at 76.46 against the US dollar ?!#8#*8( support, and will remain the 345 467- in states like Jharkhand, in next 6-9 month.” due to fears of capital outflows 98788( same, going ahead we may see Odisha, Chhattisgarh and he coronavirus outbreak Most consumers, it said, after Franklin Templeton 8!?8!*#9#!*98 prices breach 77-77.15 level, he rea sown to rice increased Madhya Pradesh, it said. Tand the subsequent lock- would like the practices adopt- Mutual Fund suddenly closed further noted. Aby 37.70 per cent to 34.73 The government is target- down in the country will lead ed by leading e-commerce its six debt fund schemes. 8#'!8(?!!?!!* On a weekly basis, the lakh hectare so far in the kharif ing 102.6 million tonne of rice to a major shift in the shopping companies. Weak domestic equities #!8@-' 3! Indian unit lost 7 paise or 0.09 (summer) season of the 2020- production in the kharif season behaviour of people, says a sur- About 74 per cent Indian and a strengthening green- per cent against the US dollar. 21 crop year, according to of the 2020-21 crop year vey foreseeing consumers’ consumers surveyed said they back overseas also weighed on !8)>98!=8>! On the domestic market Agriculture Ministry data (July-June). appetite for online shopping will prefer to purchase from the local currency. *!9!##9(8!8 front, the 30-share BSE Sensex released on Friday. As per the ministry’s data, rising to 64 per cent from 46 retailers offering delivery at Forex traders said market @-'.@)!98!7# settled 535.86 points or 1.68 per Farmers had planted rice in area sown to pulses has per cent over the next 6-9 flexible timing in the next 6-9 sentiment weakened after a @-'.-/*.3?! cent down at 31,327.22, while 25.22 lakh hectare area in the increased to 5.07 lakh hectare months. months and 89 per cent cus- potential antiviral drug for the NSE Nifty declined 159.50 year-ago period in the same so far in the kharif season this According to the survey tomers said they will be more coronavirus reportedly failed its !8#7#! points, or 1.71 per cent, to season. year from 3.82 lakh hectare in report published by IT com- cautious about issues of clean- first trial. The rupee opened 9,154.40. Rice iain rain-fed kharif the year-ago. pany Capgemini, with lock- liness, health and safety post lower at 76.30 at the interbank Franklin Templeton crossed 27 lakh. In India, over Foreign institutional crop besides maize, bajra In case of pulses, the min- down measures in place across Covid-19 pandemic. forex market and then fell fur- Mutual Fund voluntarily decid- 23,000 cases have been report- investors (FIIs) were net sellers greengram blackgram, istry has advised states to pro- India, there has been a surge in Post coronavirus crisis, 78 ther to 76.47 before closing at ed to wind up its six debt ed so far. in the capital markets as they groundnut and sesame seeds in mote intercropping of pulses the use of online channels and per cent of Indian consumers 76.46, down 40 paise over its schemes citing redemption “Any piece of bad news offloaded shares worth Rs the category of foodgrains bas- with oilseeds, sugarcane, maize the trend will continue even said they will prefer to increase last close. pressure and lack of liquidity in regarding coronavirus, rattles 114.58 crore on Thursday, ket. The Met Department has and cotton. It has also asked to after the lockdown is lifted. usage of digital payments going The rupee had settled at bond markets due to coron- the risky assets including rupee according to provisional data. forecast a normal southwest use bunds for cultivation of The survey, conducted in ahead. Around 65 per cent of 76.06 against the US dollar on avirus pandemic. This is the and we see it breaching fresh Meanwhile, Brent crude, monsoon during June- arhar or tur dal besides weed the first two weeks of April, fur- consumers in the survey said Thursday. first instance when a fund record lows,” Emkay Global the global oil benchmark, fell September period. management and application of ther said, “Over 46 per cent of they will increase the purchase The rupee witnessed strong house is shutting its schemes Financial Services Head of 0.33 per cent to $21.26 per bar- With regard to rice plant- fertilizers based on soil head Indian consumers will shop at of groceries and household fallout again due to likely over- because of coronavirus-related Research — Currency Rahul rel. The Financial Benchmark ing, the ministry has advised card. physical retail stores compared supplies during the course of seas outflows from local stocks situation. Gupta said. India Private Ltd (FBIL) set the states to promote Direct Seeded Similarly, area sown to to 59 per cent who shopped at next 6-9 months. amid some uncertainty after Market participants are Gupta further noted that reference rate for the Rice (DSR) which require less coarse cereals has increased to physical retail stores before The survey also revealed Franklin Templeton Fund also concerned that a sharp rise “all this while, investors were rupee/dollar at 76.0635 and for labour and tend to mature 8.55 lakh hectare from 5.47 the pandemic. 72 per cent of that 75 per cent Indian con- closed six schemes, Jateen in coronavirus cases could hoping on flattening coron- rupee/euro at 82.3129. The faster than transplanted crops. lakh hectare, while that of Indian consumers will prefer to sumers are highly optimistic, Trivedi, Senior Research weigh on the global as well as avirus cases and progress of a reference rate for rupee/British It has also asked them to pro- oilseeds acreage increased to purchase from retailers which about recovery in the next 6 Analyst (Commodity & the domestic economy. vaccine, but now there are pound was fixed at 93.9886 and mote cultivation of hybrid rice. 8.73 lakh hectare from 6.80 will offer delivery assurance as months, compared to 48 per Currency) at LKP Securities The number of coronavirus doubts in the development of for rupee/100 Japanese yen at Currently, 8 per cent farm- lakh hectare in the said period, well as assurance of compen- cent of consumers worldwide. said. cases around the world has drugs. This uncertainty will 70.55. ers use this method especially the data showed. !4 4 4. 11?A0 =4 = " : 34 & (
345 467- entity, payment-receiving enti- Gadkari also said he has moot- ) 345 467- 2021 and beyond if found ty and banks against this fund, ed a proposal to Labour expedient,” it said in a regula- he Centre is working on a for the payments due to Minister Santosh Gangwar to 345 467- the disease has struck on The report noted that gross ank of Baroda on Friday tory filing. The capital raise will Tscheme to address the issue MSMEs that are stuck with the make use of 80,000 crore employments in India. new enrolments with ESIC dur- Bsaid its board has approved comprise 9,000 crore by way of delayed payments to MSMEs PSUs, central and State lying with the ESIC to tide over he National Statistical The NSO report titled ing the September 2017-March raising up to 13,500 crore by of common equity capital by wherein a 1-lakh crore dedi- Governments, and major the immediate crisis faced by TOffice (NSO) of Ministry of ‘Payroll Reporting in India: 2018 period were 83.35 lakh. 2020-21. various modes including QIP, cated fund will be created to industries,” Gadkari said. the MSMEs, as the pressure for Statistics and Programme An Employment Perspective - According to NSO, around “Board of Directors of our etc in suitable stages and 4,500 reimburse outstanding pay- The Minister for MSME April salaries and wages is Implementation on Friday February 2020’, is based on the 10.34 lakh new enrolments with Bank in its meeting held today crore by way of additional tier ments owed by Central and and Road Transport and mounting. released a report saying that the payroll data of new subscribers the EPFO were recorded in i.E. 24 April 2020...Considered I and tier II capital instruments State Government undertak- Highways said the fund will The proposal will have to Employee State Insurance of various social security February 2020, compared with and approved raising of addi- with an inter-changeability ings as well as major industries, impart relief to the micro, be examined by the finance Corporation (ESIC) scheme schemes run by ESIC, retire- 10.71 lakh in the preceding tional capital fund up to option, issued in India/overseas Union Minister Nitin Gadkari small and medium enterprises ministry and the Prime has got around 11.56 lakh new ment fund body EPFO and month. However, during the 13,500 crore up to March 31, in suitable tranches, it added. said on Friday. (MSMEs) sector to a certain Minister’s Office (PMO), he members in February 2020 pension fund regulator April-February period in 2019- The minister said he is extent. said. against 12.19 lakh members in PFRDA. It has been releasing 20, the number of net new sub- devising the scheme to set up He said the corpus will be Besides, the minister said the previous month. such data of these bodies since scribers rose to 76.53 lakh com- the fund and the proposal will a mobile fund that will help all national highways have been According to the report, April 2018, covering a period pared to 61.12 lakh recorded by be placed before the Cabinet for increase liquidity in the market. re-opened. similarly, the EPFO Employees’ starting from September 2017. the EPFO in entire 2018-19. approval once the Finance While commenting on “We have informed state Provident Fund Organisation The report said gross The net new enrolments were Ministry gives its go-ahead. delayed payments to MSMEs, governments and collectors (EPFO) has enrolled 10.34 lakh enrolments of new subscribers 15.52 lakh during September “We have decided to set up Gadkari said all efforts should that we have opened up all new members in February as with ESIC were 1.49 crore dur- 2017-March 2018. a fund of 1 lakh crore. We will be made to make payments national highways and till yes- compared to 10.71 lakh in the ing 2018-19. It also showed that The latest data showed that insure this fund with the gov- immediately, and all terday (Thursday), about 55-60 preceding month. The new jobs during the period from during September 2017- ernment paying the premium. Government departments have per cent transport movement are just before the corona pan- September 2017 to February February 2020, around 3.29 We will come up with a for- been given directions in this had started. I hope we would demic aggravated and struck all 2020, around 3.75 crore new crore (gross) new subscribers mula for sharing of the inter- regard. soon be able to normalise it,” he sectors. March onwards data subscribers joined the ESIC joined the Employees’ est burden between the paying Addressing a webinar, added. would actually reveal the blow scheme. Provident Fund Scheme. 3 &( -(,
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Some good reviews are com- film, essays the role of a Bangladeshi It’s a huge challenge because peo- ing in. drug mafia leader. However, while ple have a variety of options to choose home quarantine might have ruined from. They might even stop watching What do you think is the future of the promotion plans, it couldn’t con- a series within five minutes of the first films as we are currently swamped tain his spirit and excitement for the episode if they do not like it. It’s a per- in a digital world and can’t head out film, which was originally titled Dhaka. sonal choice. If it’s a movie theatre, to theatres? Excerpts from the interview: where you buy the ticket and watch it Yes. This will definitely take time. with your popcorn tub, you will sit for But we have to stay protected and safe. How did you get the part? What’s two hours even if you don’t like the Digital world, anyway, without even the story behind it? film. So, for online content, they def- a pandemic, has seen a boom over It’s quite a funny episode. I had initely have to up their game. In the- the past two to three years. People never imagined that so early in my atres, the challenge is to get people prefer to have more options to career, I would get such an opportu- inside the hall, and in case of web films choose from and watch content nity — to work with such a huge cast or series, the challenge is to keep the whenever convenient for them. and some of the best actors like Chris audience hooked till the end. If they Films will be lost, at least during Hemsworth, Pankaj Tripathi, and get bored in the middle, you’ve lost the this year, till we find out how to Randeep Hooda. It’s a big deal in itself, game! Hence, for that, not just in India, take it forward. It’s also required let alone for someone who is as new be. He explained to me as to where the even in the West, the challenge is the otherwise the future would as I am. When I was called by the cast- man was coming from. I just had to be same — to keep the viewer engaged. get affected. We have to be ing director, she asked me whether I very confident to portray a character patient this year. There are could speak Bangla. I laughed as like this. I had to be convinced that Hollywood has a huge history of many people who love watch- though it might seem like I do, what I was doing and saying was right. blockbuster thrillers. Did you see any ing films on big screen, because of my name, but I don’t, I told There’s no other approach to portray- difference between the way they including me. In fact, small her. She had thought I am a Bengali. ing a dark character. work and the way Bollywood works screen doesn’t even do justice But I am actually a pahadi from Also, the kind of costumes that I on thrillers? to some films, which are Dehradun. How could I even know wore had a huge role in making me Well, I would say that even we always better on the big Bengali? 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%#:;%< 71; that’s something we wanted to do.” $ Jonze, who has directed several <;< 5787D%/H Beastie Boys music videos and won an %#:?71H: Oscar for writing the 2013 film Her, said he enjoyed going through hours $4 of archival footage of the band in the 80s and 90s. He said though the Beastie Boys came together through 8 " music, the center of their story is true friendship. “What made me want to 4" make it is all the things I love about the band — the music for sure, but also their relationship and their loy- alty to each other. Their trueness to oday, I stand on the same ing, “I used to feel that if I have find that performing is what I themselves and themselves as a group. Tplatform as the people I bumped into Rajkumar at the love the most.” He goes on to etting the Beastie Boys’ Michael I’m really glad to put that out into the used to look up to and that is auditions, I know I’m not get- add: “My father was quite G“Mike D” Diamond and Adam world right now,” he said. “It’s really my biggest milestone,” says ting the part.” astonished when I broke out the “Ad-Rock” Horovitz and longtime rare,” Jonze added. “I’ve worked with actor Vicky Kaushal when He even shared about his news of pursuing acting as a collaborator and friend, Spike Jonze, many, many bands and yeah, to have asked about his definition of self-doubt and self-believe career. He was always of the together during normal times would a band that’s friends for 35 years or success in the forthcoming phase. He says, “The first time opinion that one of the family be full of jokes, playful banter and more is really rare.” episode of Starry Nights GEN Y. I said to myself that I wanted to members would have a seden- overall fun. Beastie Boys last released an The show hosts candid conver- be an actor, it wasn’t a full stop, tary life with a desk job paying But on a Zoom video call during album in 2011 with Hot Sauce sations with Bollywood’s Gen Y it was a question mark.” fixed income on monthly basis the quarantining era? It’s a hilarious Committee Part Two. But the members celebrities about their person- Recalling his struggle days, and vacationing in Diwali with nightmare. which also highlights the longtime filmed it. Then he took the footage said they have a ton of unreleased al and professional lives. It also the actor says, “My allowance in all the family members.” “I feel like I’m oddly better look- bond between the band members, from the show to the editing room and music, and they’re in the process of shares the gossip doing the my early days was 600 per Sitting next to him, Aditya ing than I was back then,” Horovitz including the late, great Adam MCA then...” “Then the (expletive) really deciding what to do with it. “That’s rounds of the Bollywood world. month which came up to 20 recounts his journey in the said, referring to the archival footage Yauch, who died in 2012. went down,” Diamond chimed in. something that Adam and I talk The actor, recipient of The a day. A life lesson learnt in my industry. “It was patience and in Beastie Boys Story, a new documen- The documentary was filmed like “Then Adam and I had to wrestle,” about, going back and working on National Film Award talks upbringing and hence, whatev- perseverance that took me tary about the legendary group. a live comedy set in front of audience Jonze replied. “It was like Ice-T in a (that music),” Diamond said. “There’s about his reel and real life in- er I earn now, it’s really special more than 10 years to finally get “You’re hot now. But you were with a backdrop of photos and videos real action, procedural TV show. The tons of stuff that we did together. depth on the show. He is to me and I hold onto it.” my big break as a directorial pretty hot then,” replied Jonze, who bringing Horovitz and Diamond’s (expletive) went down,” Diamond There’s a lot of stuff that gets edited accompanied by his mentor, Speaking about fellow actor debut with Uri,” says he. directed the film. “Different kinds of words to life as they walk through the said. “Ice-T and Steven Seagal,” said out. There are quite a few unfinished and director of Uri: The Surgical Ayushmann Khurrana, he says, Talking about his life heat,” Horovitz said. There are more history of one of music’s best-selling Jonze. ideas, tracks, cuts there that at some Strike Aditya Dhar in an engag- “His selection of scripts and the changing moment, Aditya says, moments like it as the lifelong friends, bands — a genre-defying act, though The band members say they had point Adam and I, I don’t know, might ing conversation with Komal way he has just moulded a “I had given up. I was packing though more like siblings, remember rooted in rap, who explored and been thinking of doing a documentary be fun to delve in and look at that stuff Nahta. niche for himself is absolutely my bags to leave for the US the good times. experimented in other sounds, includ- for quite some time. “Way earlier on, a little bit.” Giving his parents due amazing. It’s a dream for every when suddenly my brother “Adam Horovitz is making me ing rock, punk, jazz and funk. Few acts yeah. Adam (Yauch) had this thing There could even be new music — credit for his success, Vicky says actor.” calls me and makes me realise laugh,” Diamond said after trying to have won Grammys in the rap, rock and he was obsessed with this film The at least from one of the Beastie Boys. “While growing up my mom The actor never thought of about the research and efforts answer a question. “I would like to put and pop categories like them. Kids are Alright,” Diamond said, refer- “Mike’s starting a band, I guess,” and dad made it very clear that being an actor, it was his pas- I have put in my work. He Mike in a box. Put him on someone’s The film’s performances, taped at ring to the 1979 rockumentary film Horovitz revealed. “I’m starting a they are going to provide us sion for acting that brought him instructs me to write the doorstep,” Horovitz replied. “Like, the Kings Theatre in Brooklyn, was about The Who. “He had this idea band, only because I’m quarantined,” with all the necessities but here. “During my engineering screenplay and give it to just my head in a box?” Diamond asked. originally produced for promoting about doing something like that with Diamond said. “The two songs that never with luxuries. That is tenure, I visited an industrial one producer. Believe it or not, “I’ve got your head in a box,” Horovitz Beastie Boys Book, their 2018 New existing footage of the band. That was I’ve written so far for the band, one of something that Sunny place and that made me clear I struck gold and went on to answered. York Times best-seller. around the time that we started work- my teenage sons has taken both songs (Kaushal) and I had to earn about my goals. It made me make a blockbuster hit, else if The trio of Diamond, Horovitz “We asked Spike if he would film ing on the book when he was still so far. He’s my engineer, so that’s what ourselves.” realise what I didn’t want to do I would have met rejection, I and Jonze offer more jokes and play- it,” Horovitz said. “He wanted to alive, conceptually. I shouldn’t say I get.” He was all praises for ver- in life. So I channeled my would have given up on this ful moments in Beastie Boys Story, rewrite it. We did the show and Spike working; conceptually, we knew that L( satile actor Rajkumar Rao say- thoughts and interest only to completely.” ! " " 0
(.7 )+ > -6> 5 345 467- sport. When you break the Kohli on Friday said he is shackles, you do something hopeful that at “some stage” unrisers Hyderbad captain special.” the Indian Premier League D <= SDavid Warner believes his Kohli also acknowledged will see the light of the day as side’s death bowling is “probably contribution of Mark Boucher, the nation is heading in the the best” in the Indian Premier Gary Kirsten and Duncan right direction. 4"" League. Fletcher early on in his inter- “We have no clarity at this The 2016 champions boast national career. moment but I am optimistic $% India skipper Virat cial memory for me,” De of a fine combination of pacers “Gary always gave me that at some stage we will have Kohli and former South Africa Villiers said during an and spinners with India’s positive feedback. Boucher something,” Kohli told Ab de batsman AB de Villiers will auc- Instagram Live chat. Bhuvneshwar Kumar and told me in 2008 to improve Villiers. tion their cricketing gears, “I was thinking how we can Afghan leg-spinner Rashid my game against the short Kohli and de Villiers are including the bats with which make a difference, that’s why I Khan being the prominent ball. He had the vision. Then the two pillars at RCB who they scored hundreds for Royal told you to get hold of that bat names. other, both said running Fletcher, he had a keen eye for have always underachieved Challengers Bangalore during from that game and I still got “We’ve got a very good between the wickets was a major the game. So many people despite having the firepower. an IPL match in 2016, to raise that shirt from that game, squad. One of the best things contributing factor in their suc- who have contributed (to my Kohli also opined the game funds for the fight against which I got you signed, I also about our squad is we have great cessful partnership. growth),” said Kohli. and emotions related to it Covid-19 pandemic. signed my shirt. So I got my depths in our bowling,” Warner “I love running between De Villiers picked the 119 would not be the same post The items to be auctioned shirt and my bat, I gonna get said in an Instagram Live session wickets and I think our energy 345 467- never leaving this team. The fans, at Wankhede in the 2015 coronavirus as egos will water also include their respective hold of your bat, my bat, your with Sunrisers teammate Jonny running between the wickets is their loyalty has been amazing,” series decider as his best down and the human side of gloves and shirts from that par- gloves, my gloves. That’s quite Bairstow. outstanding,” Warner said. he love and loyalty of the said the India skipper. knock against India. Kohli people will come to the fore. ticular game where both of a big package. “We have got got good “I know how fast your abil- fans will never let him leave Responding to Kohli’s feelings picked the 119 he scored in “I don’t think things will them had scored centuries to “The plan is to get it on an upfront swing bowling and our ity and game awareness is. It’s TRoyal Challengers towards RCB, De Villiers too Johannesburg Test in 2013. get back to as it was. I have power RCB to a challenging online auction platform (bidor- death bowling is probably the one of my favourite things to do Bangalore till the time he is play- acknowledged the support of fans “I was always really moti- understood we need to swal- 248 for three against Gujarat buy.Co.Za). It could be a nice best in the competition,” he and a strong point for us,” he ing IPL, skipper Virat Kohli said over the past nine years. Kohli, on vated to win the series after 2- low our ego and be thankful Lions. collector's item. We both can added. added. on Friday. the other hand, has been with 2 . I was incredibly motivated that we have a comfortable RCB had won the match by share a picture of that game. While Warner has been in While Warner scored 692 RCB have reached the IPL RCB since 2008. to do something special,” de house. Look at what daily 144 runs. People can go and bid and all the side since 2014, Bairstow runs from 12 games, Bairstow final thrice but have not gone on “Same for me. I never want to Villiers said. wage earners are going “We had a few nice knocks the proceeds can go for the joined the Sunrisers last season. notched up 445 runs from 10 to win the trophy. leave RCB but to do that I got to through. The enjoyment part together. There is a particular Covid-19 cause both in India They shared some brilliant matches last season. During a live session on keep scoring runs. I am not the OPTIMISTIC ABOUT IPL of things will change and one in 2016 IPL against Gujarat and South Africa, particularly, opening partnerships includ- “Yes definitely there is an Instagram with former South captain you see,” said the South Hailing those in power people will stop getting so Lions. I got 129 and you also for the cause of getting meals on ing a 185 stand against the understanding between us. We African captain and RCB team- African in jest. for doing a tremendous job in serious about scoring runs. got 100 right at the end, that people’s table. We can make it Royal Challengers Bangalore. can both gauge if it’s 2 runs we mate AB de Villiers, Kohli said Both recalled their early days fighting the Covid-19 pan- The human side will come doesn’t happen always when 50-50 and support the cause in Asked about what they liked don’t have to look, it’s just touch winning the tournament remains in international cricket and their demic, India skipper Virat out.” two batters get 100s. It is a spe- memory of that day.” PTI most about batting with each and go,” Bairstow said. the goal but he would not leave growth as cricketers and friends. the team irrespective of the results. Kohli said at times, the “It has been such an amazing youngsters coming in have too journey. It is always going to be much regard for the “system” and our dream, winning the IPL he wants to see them break the together. There is no scenario norm. where I could think of leaving the “I want to see youngsters team ever. coming in scoring 500-600 runs. “You can feel emotional about I want people to break the norm. the season not going well but till Sometimes I feel people have too the time I am playing IPL, I am much regard for the system in %R :"
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)-7 6 +.-( he organisers of the / FEF TFrench Open, who were criticised for uni- $ The International Hockey laterally moving the Federation (FIH) on Friday extended the tournament to a second edition of its prestigious Pro September start without League by one year till June 2021 after a consulting other tennis slew of matches were postponed due to the federations, could delay COVID-19 pandemic. the event by another The Season 2 was set to run from week, according to a January to June 2020 and around one third report on Friday. of the matches were completed by early The claycourt March before the competition was brought Grand Slam could now to a standstill. start on September 27 The FIH said the decision was reached instead of September after agreement with 11 participating 20, preceded by a week countries, including India. of qualification match- India are currently fourth on the table es, Le Parisien newspa- with 10 points from two wins and as many per said. number of losses and draws behind The French Tennis Belgium, Australia and the Netherlands. Federation (FFT) “Due to ongoing uncertainties sur- declined to confirm the rounding the COVID-19 global health pan- report, but said in a demic, and in agreement with the 11 par- statement: “The FFT is ticipating National Associations (NAs), the in contact with the second edition of the FIH Hockey Pro international bodies, League is being extended through to June the AFP, WTA and ITF, 2021,” the FIH said in a release. and is waiting for the The FIH was forced to suspend the Pro calendar to be con- League twice earlier. It had first postponed firmed by them.” all matches scheduled before April 15 and The FFT caused later extended the deferment till May 17 surprise in the tennis because of the novel coronavirus. world by announcing The world hockey body was planning in mid-March, just as to hold the ties in July and August, provid- France was going into ed the current situation improves. lockdown because of In agreement with all participating the pandemic outbreak, countries, the FIH also announced that the that it was moving from window for Season 3 of the FIH Hockey its original May 24- Pro League will be from September 2021 June 7 slot to the to June 2022. September date. “The decision to spread the Pro League If the tournament season over a longer time period will allow is delayed until for greater flexibility in terms of the September 27, it would scheduling, reducing match congestion in give a two-week pause the first half of the year whilst also help- after the US Open, ing to ensure that international hockey which is currently remains highly visible via broadcast for scheduled to finish on much of the year.” PTI September 13.