Indian Horizon National English Daily [email protected]

www.indianhorizon.org RNI NO: DELENG/2013/51507 In memory of Dr Asima Kemal and Prof. Dr. Salim W Kemal [email protected] Volume Issue No: 180 No: 7 Published from New Delhi & Hyderabad New Delhi, Friday, July 3, 2020 Pages 12 + 4 pull out (P16) Price: 3.00

KAMAL NATH SERVES NEARLY 78% OF DJOKOVIC AND WIFE NOTICE TO BJP LEADERS RUSSIAN VOTERS BACK JELENA TEST NEGATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL REFORMS FOR COVID˨19 P-5 P-8 P-11

MODI, PUTIN AGREE TO FURTHER STRENGTHEN STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP D.K. SHIVAKUMAR swears to bring New Delhi, July 2 (IANS) vote on constitutional amend- importance of closer India- Prime Minister Narendra Modi ments in Russia. Russia ties for jointly ad- Congress back to power and Russian President Vladi- An Indian armed forces dressing the challenges of mir Putin in a phone conver- contingent participated in the post-Covid world. in Karnataka sation on Thursday reiterated the Victory Parade held in The two leaders agreed to Bengaluru, July 2 their commitment to further Moscow on June 24, as a maintain the momentum of (IANS) Congress’ newly- strengthen the special and symbol of abiding friendship bilateral contacts and consul- installed Karnataka Presi- privileged strategic partnership between the people of India tations, leading to the annual dent D.K. Shivakumar on between Russia and India in all and Russia. bilateral summit to be held in Thursday vowed to bring spheres.Prime Minister Modi on Modi and Putin talked India later this year. the party back to power Thursday called President Putin about the effective mea- Modi also conveyed his in the southern state with to congratulate him on the suc- sures undertaken by the keenness to welcome Pu- the support of its leaders cess of the celebrations marking two countries to address tin in India for the bilateral and cadres.“I am assum- the 75th anniversary of the vic- the negative consequences summit.The Russian Presi- ing charge as the party’s tory in World War II, and also for of the global Covid-19 pan- dent also thanked Modi for state President with a en the party and return- the successful completion of the demic and agreed on the the phone call. promise to bring the Con- ing to power for serving gress back to power in the people.“Though the the state under collective BJP tried its best to fi n- WITH SPIKE OF 19,148 CASES, INDIA’S COVID˨19 TALLY CROSSES 6 LAKH MARK leadership and support of ish me off politically by our cadres,” he said at the sending me to Tihar jail The total cases now stand at 6,04,641 of which there are 2,26,947 active cases while active cases while Maharashtra, the worst- party offi ce here.Address- in September (2019) af- 3,59,860 patients have been cured/discharged/migrated. 3,59,860 patients have hit state, has a total of ing thousands of party’s ter misusing the Income been cured/discharged/ 1,80,298 cases including cadres across the state Tax offi ce and the En- New Delhi, July 2 24 hours, informed the migrated. 8,053 fatalities. Mean- through live streaming forcement Directorate to (IANS) India’s COVID-19 Union Ministry of Health 434 deaths have been while, Tamil Nadu has of the event, Shivakumar frame false cases, I have tally breached the 6 lakh and Family Welfare on reported in the last 24 94,049 cases inclusive of said he was grateful to emerged stronger with cases mark with 19,148 Thursday.The total cases hours taking the num- 1,264 deaths.Delhi has Congress President Sonia the support of the party new coronavirus cases now stand at 6,04,641 of ber of COVID-19 deaths 89,802 coronavirus cases Gandhi for giving him an leadership,” he asserted. being reported in the last which there are 2,26,947 in the country to 17,834. including 2,803 deaths. opportunity to strength- ..Continue on Page 4 UMA BHARTI APPEARS BEFORE CBI US H˨1B VISA SUSPENSION GLOBAL COVID˨19 CASES TOP 10.6 MN As of Thursday morning, the total number of cases increased to COURT IN BABRI CASE SHOULD BE REVOKED : 10,667,217, while the fatalities stood at to 515,542. BJP leaders, Dr M.M. Joshi cases, Russia ranks third and Kalyan Singh are yet to RAHUL GANDHI (653,479), and is fol- be examined by the court. ent pool through its H-1B lowed by India (585,493), Their lawyers have in- program.""Its suspension the UK (314,992), Peru formed the CBI court that will impact millions of (288,477), Chile (282,043), they would prefer to appear Indians and US firms. It Spain (249,659), through video conferenc- should be revoked," add- Italy (240,760), Mexico ing, in view of the Corona ed Rahul. (231,770), Iran (230,211), pandemic. The former Congress Pakistan (213,470), The court has already president was reacting to France (202,981), Turkey directed the government New Delhi, July 2 US Democratic Presiden- Washington, July 2 the University’s Center for (201,098), Germany to ensure facility for video (IANS) Congress leader tial candidate Joe Biden, (IANS) The overall num- Systems Science and En- (195,893), Saudi Arabia Lucknow, July 2 (IANS) (court's power to examine conferencing. Rahul Gandhi has de- who said that he will lift ber of global COVID-19 gineering (CSSE) revealed (194,225), South Africa Former union minister the accused), a stage in the The CBI court is con- manded that suspension the temporary suspen- cases has increased to in its latest update. (159,333), Bangladesh and senior BJP leader, Uma trial that follows the exami- ducting day-to-day hear- of the H-1B visas should sion of the H-1B visas if over 10.6 million, while The US accounted for (149,258) and Canada Bharti, on Thursday, ap- nation of prosecution wit- ings to complete the trial be revoked as it will im- he wins in the November the deaths have soared the world’s highest num- (106,288), the CSSE fi g- peared before a special CBI nesses. by August 31, as directed by pact millions of Indians. Presidential elections. to more than 515,000, ac- ber of infections and fa- ures showed. court here to record her Uma Bharti, 61, is the the Supreme Court. He also said that America The Trump administra- cording to the Johns Hop- talities with 2,685,806 and The other countries statement in Babri mosque 19th accused to depose Babri mosque in Ayod- has benefited from In- tion suspended the H-1B kins University. 128,061, respectively, ac- with over 10,000 deaths demolition case. before the court in over hya was demolished on dia's talent. visas along with other As of Thursday morn- cording to the CSSE. are the UK (43,991), Italy The special CBI court 27-year-old case.Thirteen December 6, 1992 by 'kar Rahul Gandhi in a tweet types of foreign work visas ing, the total number Brazil came in the (34,788), France (29,864), is currently recording the other accused, including sevaks' who claimed that said, "America has ben- until the end of 2020 to of cases increased to second place with Mexico (28,510), Spain statements of 32 accused former deputy prime min- an ancient Ram temple had efited enormously by em- protect American workers 10,667,217, while the fa- 1,448,753 infections and (28,364), India (17,400) under CrPC section 313 ister L.K. Advani and senior stood on the same site. bracing India's vast tal- in a crucial election year. talities stood at to 515,542, 60,632 deaths.In terms of and Iran (10,958). TELANGANA’S DAILY COVID TALLY NO COVID COMMUNITY INFECTION IN Kejriwal announces AGAIN CROSSES 1K˨MARK MAHA, SAYS HEALTH MINISTER India’s first plasma Hyderabad, July 2 (IANS) gard to containment of the Mumbai, July 2 cess, while critical medi- bank in Delhi Telangana saw another big Covid-19 pandemic. (IANS) Warning hospi- cines like Favipiravir New Delhi, July 2 surge in Covid-19 cases on The court displayed its un- tals fl eecing patients of and Remdesivir shall be (IANS) Delhi Chief Min- Thursday with 1,018 people happiness over inadequate stringent action, Health made available in dis- ister Arvind Kejriwal on testing positive for the virus, testing and for providing in- Minister Rajesh Tope tricts also. Thursday announced pushing the state’s tally to complete information in the on Thursday asserted Referring to unending the fi rst plasma bank 17,357. daily media bulletin.Hearing that despite the growing complaints of overcharg- in the country for the This is the second high- a batch of PILs, the division numbers, "there is no ing, the Maharashtra novel coronavirus pa- est daily jump. The steep- bench comprising Chief community transmis- infectee and zeroed in government has made tients in the city and est hike was witnessed on Justice Raghavendra Singh sion" of Covid-19 in Ma- or their source of infec- CCTV mandatory in all urged the Covid survi- June 27 when 1,087 people the number of recoveries to Chauhan and Justice B. Vi- harashtra. tion, as he ruled out any Covid-19 wards of hospi- vors to come forward cess if the people who had tested positive. Seven 8,082. The number of active jayasen Reddy expressed its "A majority of the "community transmis- tals, the minister said. and donate plasma to have got treated from deaths were also reported cases now stands at 9,008. surprise over the orders is- cases being reported sion". “The government save lives. the Covid-19 come for- on Wednesday, taking the Hotspot Greater Hyder- sued by the director of pub- are of those who are in The worst-hit in the has specifi ed the cost Addressing a virtual ward and donate.Kejri- state’s death toll to 267. abad accounted for 881 of lic health for stopping the quarantine, at home or country, Maharashtra of treatment in all such press conference, Ke- wal also launched the According to the director the new cases, followed by testing midway. in institutions, or those currently has 180,298 pa- cases and hospitals must jriwal said, "Today I am helpline number to reg- of public health and family neighboring Medchal (36) It termed the offi cial’s ac- with some kind of con- tients and a death toll of adhere to it or face strin- announcing the plasma ister names for plasma welfare, 4,234 samples were and Ranga Reddy (33). The tion a violation of the guide- tact history... So, as of 8,053, while 93,154 have gent action. bank in Delhi. Plasma donation. tested out of which 1,018 re- remaining cases were re- lines of the Indian Council of now, there's no com- been fully cured and dis- If patients have griev- bank will solve the He said, "Those turned positive. The cumu- ported from 18 districts. Medical Research (ICMR). munity infection in the charged by hospitals. ances, they can come problems of Covid-19 who want to donate lative number of tests rose Meanwhile, the state gov- The director had last state," Tope told media Tope also said that the forward and complain to patients." can call directly on to 92,797, still far below than ernment was once again week issued an order to stop persons.He said that the plasma therapy treat- us. We shall be announc- The Aam Aadmi Party 1031 or WhatsApp on many other states.An offi cial rapped by the Telangana the exercise of conducting health authorities have ment option is prov- ing a special helpline (AAP) national con- 8800007722 and the said that 788 people recov- High Court for not imple- 50,000 tests in Greater Hy- succeeded in tracing out ing to be effective with number for this also,” vener said the plasma hospital will get in ered during the day, taking menting its orders with re- derabad. almost every Covid-19 nearly 90 percent suc- Tope said. bank will become a suc- touch with you." Indian Horizon 2 City Friday, July 3, 2020 Online education might Threat perception of Priyanka, create digital divide: Sisodia Rahul has not changed: Cong New Delhi, July 2 (IANS) After New Delhi, July 2 with human feel so that Congress general secretary Pri- (IANS) Asserting that the divide is not created. yanka Gandhi Vadra got an evic- online education might "Online learning cannot tion notice from the government, create a 'digital divide', be the substitute for one- the Congress said that the threat Delhi Deputy Chief to-one learning. A model perception of the Gandhi family Minister Manish Sisodia has been implemented has not changed. They are still Z on Thursday empha- for one month from to- plus protectees and only the pro- sised on the relevance day," he added. tection agency has been changed of 'one-to-one learning' He said that the stu- from the SPG to another agency, and 'learning with hu- dents of class 11 and 12 the party said. Priyanka Gandhi man feel'. He said that will continue to study via was allotted government accom- the students of class 11 online classes and those modation at 35, Lodhi Estate, a and 12 will continue to who do not have the inter- type 6B house. study via online classes teacher once in a week might create a digital net facilities will be con- "This is a trick to manipulate and those who do not to collect the worksheet divide. If there is a learn- tacted by teachers through and treachery from the govern- have the internet facili- for their children, said ing divide between those phone call or WhatsApp to ment," said senior Congress ties will be contacted by Sisodia. who have digital facili- clear their doubts. On the spokesperson Abhishek Manu teachers through phone The government had, ties and those deprived other hand, the students Singhvi. call or WhatsApp to last week, announced of it, it will be hard to fill till class 10 will be taught Singhvi cited the J.S. Verma "We are not here to second guess in Delhi. He has been given a 12, clear their doubts. On that all schools in the the gap." 'Learning with and evaluated through committee report which had said about the petty things which this Tughlak Lane bungalow, as per the other hand, the stu- national capital, both human feel' is the mantra WhatsApp. Parents of that the security of Rajiv Gandhi government does." the SPG requirements, but in the dents till class 10 will be public and private, will of Delhi Government's those children who are de- was wrongly withdrawn and sub- Though Rahul Gandhi is a Lok changed scenario there are ap- taught and evaluated remain closed till July teaching and learning ap- prived of the application sequently he was assassinated by Sabha MP, he has been allotted prehensions that the government through WhatsApp. Par- 31. Addressing a press proach, Sisodia said. He can meet the teacher once terrorists. Singhvi said, "the threat a house in the General pool, said may evict him as well. Sources ents of those children conference today, Siso- added that a model has in a week to collect the perception remains the same and sources close to the Chairman of say that half of Rahul Gandhi's who are deprived of the dia said, "There is a fear been created which lays worksheet for their chil- it has not changed." the housing committee responsi- office has been functioning from application can meet the that online education emphasis on learning dren, said Sisodia. When asked if the party is antic- ble for the accommodation of the 10, Janpath, the accommodation ipating a similar type of order for MPs in Delhi. Rahul Gandhi is a provided to party interim chief Rahul Gandhi, who is an MP from fourth time MP and as per rules he Sonia Gandhi, who is a sixth term Pvt trains' fares to be competitive Wayanad in Kerala, Singhvi said, is eligible for the accommodation MP from Rae Bareli. with airlines: Chairman Containment zones further

New Delhi, July 2 (IANS) A would need maintenance day after inviting the request after every 40,000 km, that's reduced in Gurugram for qualifications from pri- either once or twice a month, vate entities for running 151 he added. Yadav said the Gurugram, July 2 (IANS) district. in sector 23, Malibu istration has ordered a trains on 109 pairs of routes, train sets would have to be With the recovery rate "Since fresh cases Town sector 47, Rose- lockdown for two weeks Railway Board Chairman brought by private operators higher than fresh Covid are appearing only in wood city sector 49, Tata in ward number 4 Dun- V.K. Yadav on Thursday said and maintained by them. cases in Gurugram, the declared containment Premati society sector 72, dehera, ward number 16 the private train operations "Private train operations district administration zones and recovery rate Uppal South End sector Arjun Nagar, Jyoti Park, would begin by April 2023 are likely to begin by April has announced a mar- is also higher, we have 49, Jalvayu Vihar sector Madanpuri, Ward num- and the fares in these trains 2023. All coaches will be pro- ginal decrease in fresh reduced the number of 56, Vipul Green Society, S ber 17 Ratan garden and would be competitive with cured under the 'Make in containment zones after containment zones," said block DLF phase 3, May- Shiv Puri, Ward num- air fares on similar routes. train operations would mean The improvement in tech- India' policy. Fares in private a review meeting held in Khatri. On Thursday, 106 field Garden sector 50, ber 20 Shivaji Nagar and Addressing a virtual press a quantum jump in intro- nology would also mean trains will be competitive the city's mini Secretariat. fresh cases were detected Shiv Puri, Feroj Gandhi Shanti nagar, Ward num- conference, Yadav said pri- duction of modern technol- the coaches that required and rates on other modes of Gurugram Deputy Com- and 212 patients were Colony, Manohar Nagar, ber 21 Baldev Nagar, Fer- vate players in passenger ogy and high-speed coaches. maintenance after 4,000 km, transport. missioner Amit Khatri discharged from hospi- Shivaji Nagar, Nathupur, oj Gandhi Colony, Ravi announced 104 contain- tals or home isolation, U block DLF 3, Hans en- nagar, Ward number ment zones including 97 though 4 persons lost clave, Krishna Pradhan 22 Hira Nagar, Gandhi Global e-waste surges 21% in in Gurugram block, 4 in their lives. On Wednes- Office Wali Gali, Rajiv Nagar, Shivaji Park, Ward Pataudi, 2 in Sohna and 1 day, 116 fresh cases had Nagar, Bhavani enclave number 23 Hari Nagar in Farukh Nagar. Earlier, been detected and 117 Rajendra Park and Sector Shakti Park and Ward the number of contain- patients were discharged. 12 Ganga Vihar. number 35 DLF phase 3 five years: UN report ment zones was 108 in the Fresh cases appeared The district admin- Nathupur. New Delhi, July 2 (IANS) short life cycles, and few op- while Africa and Oceania an estimated 98 Mt of CO2- A record 53.6 million metric tions for repair. Only 17.4 generated 2.9 Mt and 0.7 equivalents were released tonnes (Mt) of electronic per cent of 2019's e-waste Mt respectively. For per- into the atmosphere from Delhi Cong chief calls on MPs, MLAs waste was generated world- was collected and recycled. spective, last year's e-waste discarded fridges and air- wide in 2019, up 21 per cent This means that gold, silver, weighed substantially more conditioners, contributing in just five years, the UN's copper, platinum and other than all the adults in Europe, roughly 0.3 per cent of global to rise against fuel price hike Global E-waste Monitor high-value, recoverable ma- or as much as 350 cruise greenhouse gas emissions. 2020 said on Thursday. The terials conservatively valued ships the size of the Queen Since 2014, the number of New Delhi, July 2 (IANS) diesel has become costlier hemmed in from all sides. elected them to power report also predicts global e- at $57 billion -- a sum great- Mary 2, enough to form a countries that have adopted Delhi Congress chief Anil than petrol, as the central He said that the diesel and wondered why they waste -- discarded products er than the Gross Domestic line 125 km long. a national e-waste policy, Kumar has written to all government has imposed price rise has adversely were keeping a studied with a battery or plug -- will Product of most countries E-waste is a health and legislation or regulation in MPs and MLAs from Delhi an excise duty of almost Rs affected the farmers, silence on the price hike. reach 74 Mt by 2030, almost -- were mostly dumped environmental hazard, con- place has increased from 61 across parties, to rise above 32 and the Delhi govern- transporters, business- Kumar said that if other a doubling of e-waste in just or burned rather than be- taining toxic additives or to 78. narrow political consider- ment is charging almost Rs men and the common political parties join 16 years. ing collected for treatment hazardous substances such While a positive trend, this ations to join hands with 18 per litre as VAT (Value people, and both the hands with the Congress This makes e-waste the and reuse. According to the as mercury, which damages is far from the target set by the Congress to prevail Added Tax)". central and Delhi govern- to request the Prime Min- world's fastest-growing report, Asia generated the the human brain and/or co- the International Telecom- upon the Modi government He said that the frequent ments are not taking any ister and the Chief Minis- domestic waste stream, fu- greatest volume of e-waste ordination syste . munication Union which at the Centre and the AAP hikes in the prices of petrol steps to reduce the pric- ter to reduce the prices of elled mainly by higher con- in 2019, some 24.9 Mt, fol- roper e-waste manage- is to raise the percentage of government in Delhi to re- and diesel (23 times in June es. Anil Kumar in his let- petroleum products, then sumption rates of electric lowed by the Americas (13.1 ment can help mitigate countries with an e-waste duce the excise duty and alone) has had a cascading ter reminded the elected it would be of great ben- and electronic equipment, Mt) and Europe (12 Mt), global warming. In 2019, legislation to 50 per cent. VAT on petrol and diesel. effect on the prices of other representatives of both efit to the people of Delhi, Kumar said that "petrol essential commodities as the BJP and the AAP that as pressure from all quar- and diesel are selling at over the cost of transportation they have a moral obliga- ters will force the Centre Rs 80 per litre in Delhi, and has steeply gone up and the tion to protect the inter- and Delhi government to Delhi riots: HC vacates bail granted for the first time in history, common people have been est of the voters who have reduce the prices. to Rajdhani School owner NPPA plans price control on critical New Delhi, July 2 (IANS) Prevention of Damage to same is likely to continue. to appear against the After there seemed no Public Property Act, 1984 "If that is so, the stay order passed by Session sign of conclusion of the and hence he will remain remained in force, it will Judge," said Lekhi. Coun- Covid-19 medical equipment tussle between the Centre behind bars until and un- prejudice the accused," tering the claims of the New Delhi, July 2 (IANS) more than 10 per cent in a on prices, if necessary. medical equipment shall and the Delhi government less bail order is passed in Justice Kait said. During ASG, Delhi government In order to keep a check year. As part of efforts to The latest action from the ensure sufficient avail- inside the court room, the new case. "Therefore, the course of hearing, Ad- standing counsel (Crimi- on the price rise of critical ensure timely availability NPPA for medical equip- ability of the same in the the Delhi High Court on his case before the trial ditional Solicitor General nal) Rahul Mehra told the medical equipment during of critical medical equip- ment is in line with re- country. The NPPA Chair- Thursday vacated the bail court may be prejudiced (ASG) Aman Lekhi said bench that in the present Covid-19 pandemic, the ment at affordable prices quest made to Ministry of man also urged the in- granted to Delhi riots ac- by the interim order of that in the present case case, the appointment National Pharmaceutical to consumers, the govern- Chemicals and Fertilisers dustry that it is not "Busi- cused school owner Faisal this Court. I vacate the with the request of Delhi has been made without Pricing Authority (NPPA) ment has notified all med- by the Ministry of Health ness as usual" and not the Farooq. said order," said a single Police and the Lieutenant consultation with the has asked all manufactur- ical devices as drugs and & Family Welfare to use time to profiteer from the While passing the or- judge bench of the high Governor (LG), Delhi, ap- council of ministers. The ers and importers of pulse placed it under the regula- NPPA to ensure availabil- public health emergency. der, the court noted that court presided over by pointment of Amit Maha- court then passed the oximeters and oxygen con- tory regime of the Drugs & ity of such equipment in The medical devices in- the respondent (Faisal) Justice Suresh Kumar jan and Solicitor General said order while placing centrators to immediately Cosmetics Act, 1940 and the country. As part of this, dustry associations have was recently arrested in Kait. He added that this Tushar Mehta along with the matter for further provide price-related data Drugs (Prices (Control a stakeholders consulta- been urged to bring down another case relating to controversy between the Lekhi and other officers hearing on July 22. so that necessary verifica- Order)), 2013 with effect tion with medical devices the retail price of criti- the Delhi riots registered Modi government and were made in a communi- Justice Kait also asked tion could be done. The from April 1, 2020. industry associations and cal medical equipment in at Dayalpur police sta- the Arvind Kejriwal gov- cation dated July 1, 2020. both the Centre and the idea is to check the price The NPPA is the author- civil society groups was larger public interest in tion under 147,148,149, ernment over who will "Thus, Mr Mahajan state counsels to file writ- movement of these equip- ity that maintains checks held in the NPPA on July the prevailing situation 427 and various other represent Delhi Police in has right to file this peti- ten submissions on the ment from April 1 and en- on prices of critical drugs 1, wherein it was stressed as has been done by the sections of the Indian Pe- the matter has been going tion and the law officer matter of who will appear sure that prices existing on as per the provisions of that all the manufactur- manufacturers/importers nal Code (IPC) and The on since June 22 and the of Centre has the right for the Delhi Police. this date are not increased the DPCO and puts a cap ers/importers of critical of N-95 masks. Indian Horizon Friday, July 3, 2020 State 3 'Coronil' controversy: No question of deporting foreign Plea seeks FIR against Tablighis till criminal cases exist: SC New Delhi, July 2 (IANS) The Centre submitted governance of a sovereign Ramdev for false claims The Centre on Thursday that the petitioners (for- nation and as a process of informed the Supreme eign nationals) cannot policy making... Court that the Home Sec- claim a fundamental right "The fact situation, the retary has written to chief to travel to the country as potential threat to over- secretaries of all states/ fundamental right, and it all health situation in the Union Territories request- has unfettered discretion country, is an executive ing the foreign nationals, in matters concerning sovereign function based found involved in Tablighi regulation of visa or de- on empirical data and activities on tourist visa, portation of foreigners. objective facts by way of should not be immediate- The Centre told the apex policy," said the Centre. ly deported to their coun- court that since foreign- More than 30 petition- tries after their quarantine ers have violated many ers, who moved the top is over, as criminal cases provisions under various court, submitted that they exist against them. Acts, therefore it had re- had to forfeit their pass- In its counter affidavit, quested states not to im- ports to the state admin- the Centre said: "Apart mediately deport them to istration after the registra- from violation of the visa their countries after the hearing on July 10 and been blacklisted, 205 FIRs tion of the FIRs, which led conditions, the activities quarantine period is over, gave liberty to petitioners lodged and 1,905 look out to deprivation of personal New Delhi, July 2 (IANS) Days after the deadly Covid-19," it stated. of the petitioners (foreign as appropriate punitive to file their rejoinder affi- notices issued against liberty, without follow- yoga guru Ramdev launched 'Coronil', The applicant sought a direction nationals) in the nature of action may be taken in the davit. The Centre said that foreign Jamaat members, ing procedure established claiming that it can cure coronavirus, a from the court to the Station House Tablighi activities in ques- matter. A bench compris- visas of 2,679 foreigners, said the Centre. under law. "All human be- plea has been filed in a Delhi court seek- Officer (SHO) of Vasant Vihar Police tion have endangered ing Justices A.M. Khan- including 9 Overseas Citi- The Centre contended ings are born with some ing direction to the police to register Station to register FIR against Ramdev many lives in the ongoing wilkar, Dinesh Mahesh- zens of India (OCI) have that foreigners participat- unalienable rights like life, an FIR against him, Patanjali Ayurved and the others under the Indian Penal COVID-19 public health wari and Sanjiv Khanna been cancelled, and their ing in Tablighi Jamaat ac- liberty and pursuit of hap- Ltd, Acharya Balkrishna and others for Code for offences such as cheating, ma- emergency and therefore, took on record Centre's visas were cancelled on tivities on tourist visa are piness. The importance of making money by taking advantage of lignant act likely to spread infection of they are liable for legal affidavit. The Centre,case to case basis. a serious violation of pro- these natural rights can people's miseries. A plea, moved by disease dangerous to life and criminal action." The Centre also represented by Solicitor "Cancellation of e- visions of Visa Manual, be found in the fact that advocate Tushar Anand, stated that the conspiracy. Anand also sought a case informed the apex court General Tushar Mehta, visa has been intimated 2019, and also a criminal these are fundamental accused hatched a conspiracy to cause to be registered under relevant sections that there exists no fun- contended before the to 1,502 foreigners, who offence punishable un- for their proper existence wrongful loss to the public by making of Drugs and Cosmetics Act and Drugs damental right on part bench that individual or- were on e-visa, by email. der various sections of and no other right can misrepresentations with an intention and Magic Remedies Act. On June 23, of a foreigner to obtain a ders have been passed by However, 1,168 foreign- The Foreigners Act. "In be enjoyed without the to cause wrongful gain to themselves. Patanjali Ayurved launched Coronil visa or to continue a can- the competent authorities ers on regular visa could respectful submission of presence of right to life The matter will come up for hearing on tablet and Swasari Vati medicine claim- celled or rescinded visa. in connection with can- not be intimated regard- the Central government, and liberty. Life bereft of Friday. "The accused have shown their ing that they can cure Covid-19 within And, apart from visa viola- cellation of the visa, the ing cancellation of the such decision regarding liberty would be without malafide intentions which is likely to seven days. However, the AYUSH min- tions, the foreign Tablighi blacklisting of individuals visa as their emails are cancellation of visas or honour and dignity and it spread infection of disease dangerous istry expressed unawareness about Jamaat members also en- and the other steps taken not available with the blacklisting of persons would lose all significance to life by misrepresenting and alluring the development and Patanjali was dangered many lives in in pursuance of the same. Bureau of Immigration," are essentially executive and meaning and the life innocent consumers to buy the medi- stopped from advertising the medicine the ongoing COVID-19 The bench has posted said the Centre. A total decisions taken by the itself would not be worth cine with a belief of getting cured from within a few hours after its launch. public health emergency. the matter for further of 2,765 foreigners have government as part of living," said the plea. India has been and will be at the heart of Commonwealth that Ajay Kamla Kant Pathak appointed represents 2.4 billion people from 54 member nations as National Vice President New Delhi-02-07-2020---During forward looking, young and dynam- let’s make this happen in a way that unique ethos and has made valu- her keynote address on the 55th ic country India has so much to offer it happens for all of us. As we go able contributions to the lives of Delhi,2 July,Rashtriya Pan- pointment, Mr. Pathak said Anniversary of the Commonwealth the whole of the Commonwealth. forward this pandemic will go away the Commonwealth countries.The chayati Raj Gram Pradhan that without Swaraj, the dream Secretariat, the Secretary General Several heads of states, inter- and there is this new opportunity Advisory Board of the Friends of Sarpanch has been appointed of the panchayati raj of this Rt. Baroness Patricia Scotland QC, national thinkers and speakers where we walk with each brother Commonwealth Secretariat consists as the National Vice President, country is incomplete. All of who is the sixth - the first women also spoke on this occasion from and sisters on this planet earth and of well-known personalities like, Dr. National General Secretary of us together will put pressure to hold this office said, that India the likes of Dr. Chinmaya Pandya move forward with strength and SY Quraishi, 17th Chief Election the organization Shri Dayaram on the governments that the has been and will be at the heart of from Prof. Chinmay Pandya Pro not the weakness, with empathy for Commissioner, Mr. K. Padmanab- Ram Ji, while issuing the ap- Prime Minister has just called Commonwealth. Vice Chancellor Dev Sanskriti Vish- each other, a new world awaits us.” haiah, Chairman of Administrative pointment letter, expressed the Self-reliance of India will She said that, “Today as we sur- wavidyalaya University, who said Dr. Luis Franceschi (Confirmed) Staff College of India and legendary hope that Shri Pathak has given be realized only when the vil- vey the world and the issues we that ‘in these uncertain times of Senior Director, Governance Peace Home Secretary, Mr. Rajeev Dubey, this organization all over India lage self-employment will start face, from Covid19 and its impact, I Covid19, our collective prayers are and Democracy, Commonwealth Former Group President, Mahindra through Sarpanch and Gram when our villages will prosper, cannot help but think that while the needed for tolerance, respect and Secretariat, and several heads of and Mahindra, Dr. Alwyn Didar Pradhan which is the dream of then the country will pros- world we inhabit is fundamentally understanding in this world.” Mr. commonwealth states also shared Singh, Former Secretary-General India. Village Swaraj will make per and dream of self-reliant transformed from the one at the Prem Rawat, Author, Humanitar- their messages on this occasion. FICCI, Ms. Radha Singh, Former every effort to make it come has a great experience in vari- India will be fulfilled by Shri birth of the Commonwealth Secre- ian and International Speaker in his The event was organised by the Secretary Agriculture, and Prof. Pra- true and will try to convey its ous fields, he will surely get the Dayaram Ram Ji and all the tariat those values are still ones we keynote address said that, “the idea Friends of Commonwealth Secre- japati Trivedi, Harvard Faculty, for- voice to the Governments Mr. benefit of this organization and members of the organization, have a pressing need to uphold and of commonwealth peace and pros- tariat group who believe that the mer secretary to GOI and formerly Pathak has been associated the dream of Village Swaraj He Shri Ajay Pathak. Thank you for pursue.”She further said that, “As a perity is of paramount importance, Commonwealth Secretariat has senior economist World Bank. with social work for years and will move forward on his ap- trusting me

DP asked to file Now experience travel at home FIR against cop for New Delhi, July 2 (IANSlife) of vegetables because they Life in lockdown and through have different texture and us- throwing man off roof Coronavirus has been tough, ing those to make another dish even on the most optimistic of is also zero wastage. During my New Delhi, July 2 (IANS) PS Burari is directed to souls. Travel feels like a lifetime Online Experience for At Home Amid nation-wide outrage register FIR against the ac- ago, especially for those who with Airbnb, I will be talking over the police brutality, cused immediately," the enjoy adventure and the out- and demonstrating these as- a Delhi court has ordered judge said. It also asked doors. Many who ensured they pects of sustainable cooking," the city police to register the station house officer to packed in as many glamour- he tells IANSlife. FIR against the cop who, get the victim's statement ous vacations in 365 days, have With the focus on all things along with two others, al- recorded by an executive been feeling lows like never sustainable, Sreedharan sug- legedly threw a man off magistrate, preserve CDR before. While the world slowly gests tips for sustainable cook- the roof in the Burari area location of accused and reopens, travellers prefer not to ing, emphasizing "the first and of North Delhi. collect the CCTV footage catch flights, even to domestic the most important thing in On June 14, Rajesh was of the area. The Metropol- shores. cooking is the heat source. The allegedly beaten by Con- itan Magistrate said strict Airbnb comes to the rescue optimum use of heat is a part stable Praveen, co-ac- action should be taken with the launch of 'At Home of sustainability -- whether it is cused Prateek and Chotu, against the erring officials With Airbnb' .The travel leader using the right amount of wa- and thrown from the roof and tasked the Deputy presents a unique set of cu- ter for boiling or using a heavy of the building. The vic- Commissioner of Police to rated Online Experiences deliv- Padukone's trainer Nam Wook around sustainable and zero ing. "I have been trying my best pot over medium heat. Another tim is in critical condition do the needful. ered by artists, influencers and for fitness enthusiasts, to Zero wastage cooking. to adopt a zero wastage process tip would be to buy vegetables at a trauma centre. On The court noted that the brands which bring the joy of wastage cooking with Sandeep Sreedharan believes that both in my home and restau- from small vendors and include Wednesday, Metropolitan attempts were being made travel and human connection Sreedharan for food fanatics; "entertaining at home is the rant kitchens. It is not easy to more variety of vegetables and Magistrate Pranav Joshi at the police station to to your living room. giving people the opportunity new normal and it is going to adopt 100 per cent zero wast- tubers which are local. One can of the Tis Hazari Court "sabotage an independent Each experience has been cu- to learn something new and be based on interaction with age, but you can always make also look at reducing the wast- expressed displeasure probe into a cognizable rated keeping in mind diverse interesting. IANSlife caught known communities." He adds, a start. Understanding ingredi- age of each ingredient rather over the police status re- offence" where allegations and engaging ways in which up with some of the experts to "Personally, I would prefer to ents closely will also help to un- than looking at a constructed port, which said the "al- were also made against an guests can connect with people find out more about the col- go to places where they are re- derstand what wastage means. dish. These are some of the ar- legations could not be official serving at the same across cultures and hone their laboration and the experiences sponsible and always aware Wastage doesn't mean one has eas that one can work on. Just substantiated during the police station. "The DCP skills through the platform. It they've tailor made for you. of the situation so that we all to consume everything about start by being conscious with inquiry and, therefore, no concerned is requested allows guests to visit the host's Sandeep Sreedharan, Head are safe." With a lot of people an ingredient. You can have the above listed even in a very FIR was lodged." to transfer the investiga- personal spaces to learn their Chef of Mahe, Goa is a culinary turning home chefs during a banana and can discard the little way is a great start." The The court pulled up the tion to the DIU (district craft in small groups that allow expert who specialises in Goan lockdown, Sandeep believes peel into a composter or use the new campaign is positioned to police and said the allega- administrative unit) and for conversations. cuisine with a twist. This gas- adopting zero wastage pro- peel to fertilise plants at home, help people enjoy experiences tions were "very serious" depute a responsible of- Experiences range from per- tronomical maestro takes to cesses while experimenting in which is also zero wastage. they would ordinarily have and demanded an inde- ficer to conduct an inde- sonal training with Deepika Airbnb to explore techniques their kitchen is fun and fulfill- Some people discard the parts while on holiday. pendent probe. "The SHO pendent investigation. Indian Horizon 4 South Friday, July 3, 2020 Shivakumar swears to bring Congress back to power in K’taka Bengaluru, July 2 (IANS) Con- ing me to Tihar jail in September Shivakumar said he would adopt Rao, former Union Minister Rehm- gress’ newly-installed Karnataka (2019) after misusing the Income the model of the party’s Kerala unit an Khan and party’s women’s wing President D.K. Shivakumar on Tax office and the Enforcement to create leaders from the booth head Pushpa Amarnath were pres- Thursday vowed to bring the par- Directorate to frame false cases, level. Earlier, the 58-year-old Shi- ent on the occasion. ty back to power in the southern I have emerged stronger with the vakumar took reins of the party’s “Shivakumar’s loyalty towards state with the support of its lead- support of the party leadership,” state unit in style, with hundreds of the party is his best quality. We ers and cadres. he asserted. party leaders and cadres witness- have seen many leaders desert the “I am assuming charge as the Dressed in kurta-pyjama and ing the event which was streamed party in times of crisis. Despite party’s state President with a sporting a white Nehru cap, Shi- live. “Shivakumar took oath as the facing problems caused by the promise to bring the Congress vakumar said as he believed in col- Karnataka Pradesh Congress Com- NDA government, he stood by the dakh’s Galwan Valley on June 15. pledge of loyalty to the party, with back to power in the state under lective leadership, he would take mittee (KPCC) president on ‘Pratig- party like a rock,” said Venugopal, After hoisting the party’s flag and all leaders and cadres joining him collective leadership and support the help of senior leaders in gear- na Dina’ (Day of Oath) inside the who is in charge of the party’s state reciting ‘Vande Mataram’ to in- in unison. of our cadres,” he said at the party ing up the party for the next state newly constructed auditorium at unit. voke the motherland, party’s state Terming the event historic, Shi- office here. assembly elections, due in 2023. the party office in compliance with Sonia and Rahul Gandhi also unit working president Saleem vakumar said that though he took Addressing thousands of party’s “I joined the party as an ordi- the lockdown guidelines, which re- greeted Shivakumar and wished Ahmed welcomed all those at the charge in the presence of a few cadres across the state through nary worker long ago and grew up stricted the gathering to about 50 him in his endeavour to revive the venue and all those who watched party leaders due to restriction live streaming of the event, Shi- over the years by working under people,” party leader M.A. Saleem party after facing rout in the May the event remotely from across on a large gathering, hundreds of vakumar said he was grateful to the leadership of S. Bangarappa, told IANS here. 2019 general elections and May the state. party leaders and cadres joined Congress President Sonia Gandhi S.M. Krishna, Dharam Singh, Mal- Party’s General Secretary K.C. 2018 assembly polls in the state. As per the party’s tradition, Gun- him in the virtual world from 7,800 for giving him an opportunity to likarjun Kharge and Siddaramaiah Venugopal, newly-elected Rajya The over 4-hour long event be- du Rao handed over the Congress places across the state through live strengthen the party and returning at the state level and under Indira Sabha member from the state Mal- gan with the party’s rank and file flag to Shivakumar. streaming. Though Shivakumar to power for serving the people. Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Sonia Gan- likarjun Kharge, Congress Legis- paying homage to 20 martyrs of All party leaders and cadres took was appointed on March 11, he “Though the BJP tried its best to dhi and Rahul Gandhi at the na- lature Party leader Siddaramaiah, the Indian Army who died in a constitutional pledge as adminis- could not take charge then, due to finish me off politically by send- tional level,” he said. former state chief Dinesh Gundu clash with Chinese soldiers in La- tered by Khan. Shivakumar led the the lockdown. KSRTC stamping B’luru MP tests negative after AIADMK MLA Sathan passengers at Majestic meeting infected doctor Prabhakar turns Bengaluru, July 2 R. Ashoka also at- wanath and Ashoka Health Commission- station in B’luru (IANS) Bengaluru tended the meeting from quarantine. er P.K. Pandey said coronavirus positive South MP Tejasvi but did not undergo The state govern- in an order. Chennai, July 2 (IANS) er Education Minister Bengaluru, July 2 (IANS) The According to the official, the Surya has tested neg- a test. ment has recently The order came on Ruling AIADMK legis- K.P. Anbalagan and K. Karnataka State Road Trans- transporter has been stamping ative for Covid-19 Ashoka had sub- exempted Union and the day when Union lator N. Sathan Prab- Palani representing the port Corporation (KSRTC) is passengers for the past 15 days following a meet- stituted for Medical state ministers and Minister for Chemicals hakar representing the Sriperumbudur Assem- stamping passengers boarding already. Currently, Bengaluru ing with an infected Education Minister officials from quar- and Fertilisers, D.V. Paramakudi Assembly bly constituency. The its buses at one city bus sta- is emerging as a Covid hotspot doctor at the Victoria K. Sudhakar when he antine. The state Sadananda Gowda, constituency has tested other two AIADMK law tion amid spiking Covid cases with hundreds of cases since Hospital here. isolated himself for government has was allowed to exit the positive for Coronavi- makers are: Tamil Nadu in Bengaluru, an official said. the past few days, account- “I underwent a eight days in home recently exempted airport on arriving from rus, said an official. Higher Education Min- “We are not stamping pas- ing for the highest number of Covid test and I’am quarantine after Union and state New Delhi without go- Prabhakar has been ister K.P. Anbalagan and sengers at all the bus stations cases in the southern state. negative,” Surya told his family members ministers and offi- ing into seven-day in- admitted for treatment K. Palani representing but only at Majestic in Benga- On Wednesday, the tech city IANS on Thursday. tested positive. cials from quaran- stitutional quarantine. at the government hos- the Sriperumbudur As- luru as there are so many entry reported 735 cases, raising Surya and Chief The Revenue Min- tine. The order came on the pital in Ramanatha- sembly constituency. points and it will be difficult the city tally to 5,290, out of Minister B.S. Yediy- ister also celebrated “The ministers of day when Union Min- puram district. The two other law if someone missed thermal which 4,649 are active cases. urappa’s political his 64th birthday re- the Union govern- ister for Chemicals and Prabhakar is the fifth makers who were in- check,” a KSRTC official told Bengaluru has also witnessed secretary S.R. Vish- cently and said that ment or the state Fertilisers, D.V. Sadan- legislator in Tamil Nadu fected with coronavirus IANS. the highest number of Covid wanath had to un- a test was not neces- government or of- anda Gowda, was al- and third one from the are from DMK namely However, she clarified that deaths in Karnataka at 97. dergo test as they sary as per experts’ ficers on duty will lowed to exit the airport ruling AIADMK party to R.T. Arasu elected from the road transport corporation The corporation has about met an infected doc- advice. be exempted from on arriving from New be infected with coro- Cheyyur Assembly con- is not stamping passengers ev- 8,650 buses and ferries about tor at the Victoria The Dean of Victo- quarantine as has Delhi without going navirus. The other two stituency and J. Anbala- erywhere as wrongly reported 30 lakh passengers daily in Hospital. Incidental- ria Hospital has ex- been done for health into seven-day institu- AIADMK law makers gan who recently died by some. normal circumstances. ly, Revenue Minister empted Surya, Vish- professionals,” state tional quarantine. are: Tamil Nadu High- due to Covid-19.

Sathankulam death: 5 After ouster from UDF, door open for Kerala Congress (M) in LDF

Thiruvananthapuram, July 2 (IANS) “In the LDF we will definitely dis- the UDF who remained steadfast ous levels in the party is joining them cops held, FIR altered While discussions continue whether cuss the latest political issues in the for long years,” said Jose K. Mani. and in the coming days it’s going to the party founded by late K.M. Mani state,” said Vijayaraghavan. The new discussions surfaced af- increase. “Jose was never ousted, he to murder case -- Kerala Congress (Mani) if they have The CPI-M state secretariat is meet- ter UDF chairman and Leader of only chose to leave,” said Joseph. been ousted or suspended from the ing here on Friday and the issue of Opposition Ramesh Chennithala With the local body elections in Oc- Chennai, July 2 (IANS) The police torture. The Madras Congress-led United Democratic Jose K. Mani will be discussed and on Wednesday clarified that Jose tober, neither of the traditional rival Crime Branch-Crime Investi- High Court Bench in Madu- Front (UDF) for defying its directive to once it’s done, it will then come up in K. Mani’s faction has never been political fronts would like to go back gation Department (CBCID) rai which took up the case vacate the president post of the Kot- the LDF. ousted, but only barred from tak- from their present position, as the of Tamil Nadu police have ar- suo moto had said there was tayam district panchayat, the state- Responding to the fresh develop- ing part in the UDF meeting. grand finale - assembly polls are to be rested five policemen work- prima facie evidence to regis- ments from the ruling CPI-M led Left ments in the LDF, Jose K. Mani said Kerala Congress (Mani) is now led held in May 2021. ing in Sathankulam police ter a murder case against the Democratic Front (LDF) appears to that he is happy to hear these state- by his son Jose K. Mani, a Rajya Sabha The clincher came from Vi- station in Tuticorin district Sathankulam police officials. have brought a fresh air for Jose K. ments. member. jayaraghavan that the CPI-M does not for the murder of P. Jeyaraj The Kovilpatti Judicial Mani, son of K.M. Mani. “What they said is a fact and Incidentally, the erstwhile Kerala have any allergy towards Jose K. Mani, and his son J. Bennicks, offi- Magistrate M.S. Bharathi- In an article, State CPI-M secretary all know what the real situation Congress (Mani) comprises of two fac- when he was reminded by a newsman cials said. dasan who was asked to in- Kodiyeri Balakrishnan wrote that is. Let me make one thing clear, tions -- one presently led by Mani and about the massive protest in 2015, The CBCID also altered quire into the case of brutal Mani’s party is one which has a base our party has now decided to the other led by veteran legislator P.J. over the alleged bar scam. K.M. Mani the first information report torture of AJeyaraj and his and with a following. strengthen the base at all levels Joseph and practically for all purposes had to resign as the State Finance (FIR) registered on the death son Bennicks by the Sath- Soon came another similar state- and no political discussions have for the past one year they have been Minister then. “Aren’t those all old of Jeyaraj and Bennicks as a ankulam police on June ment from the LDF convenor A. Vi- taken place. Though it’s our party functioning as two different entities. things and that issue is now not rel- murder case from the earlier 19 and their subsequent jayaraghavan when he said Mani’s that has got a raw deal from the However Joseph is sitting pretty evant anymore,” said Vijayaraghavan, charge of suspicious death. deaths had submitted is re- party has been in politics in the state UDF, the real thing is, the UDF happy and on Thursday he said ev- giving enough hints that Jose K. Mani The five arrested police- port to the High Court. for a long time. has ousted Mani Sir -- a founder of eryday numerous people from vari- is now not untouchable. men are: Inspector Sridhar, A woman police constable Sub-Inspectors Balakrishnan Revathy, at the Sathankulam and Raghu Ganesh, Head police station, in her deposi- Odisha’s COVID-19 death Goa Speaker urges MLAs Constable Murugan and Con- tion before Bharathidasan stable Muthuraj. had said that Jeyaraj and Ben- toll rise to 27 to undergo Covid test Ganesh was remanded to nicks were beaten with ba- custody till July 16 on late tons throughout the June 19 Bhubaneswar, July 2 (IANS) The death centres while remaining 36 are local con- ahead of session Wednesday. night. toll due to COVID-19 in Odisha has in- tacts. The number of active cases in the According to Inspector According to Bharathi- creased to 27 as two more patients suc- state stands at 2,157 while 5,353 patients Panaji, July 2 (IANS) Two days self-testing. It is my appeal to General CBCID Shankar, 12 dasan’s report, Revathy also cumbed to the deadly virus, informed have recovered so far. after a ruling BJP MLA tested them,” Patnekar said. teams have been formed to said the victims’ blood stains the health department on Thursday. Due to rising Covid-19 cases in the positive for Covid-19, Speaker The Speaker’s comment carry out the probe into the were on the batons of the sta- The two deaths were from Ganjam and state capital, the state government has of the Goa assembly Rajesh comes a few days after Goa custodial death of father and tion police officials and on Angul districts. Both the patients died restricted the entry of visitors to the state Patnekar on Thursday urged Governor Satya Pal Malik con- son Jeyaraj and Bennicks. tables. while undergoing treatment in Covid secretariat. all legislators to get themselves vened the monsoon session of Jeyaraj and Bennicks had She said the batons and the hospitals. All the passes issued to visitors for Lok tested. the state legislative assembly been booked for not closing tables should be secured so “Regret to inform of the deaths of two Seva Bhawan, Kharavel Bhawan, Krushi “Definitely, it is better to from July 27. their mobile shop in time on that the evidence is not lost, Covid-19 positive patients, 49-year-old Bhawan and Rajib Bhawan have been have tests done. MLAs often On Wednesday, Chief Min- June 19 by the Sathankulam the report stated. male of Ganjam district and 57 year old temporarily suspended, said the home have to rush to sites where Co- ister Pramod Sawant had said, police. They were sent to ju- Expressing fear that she male of Angul district, while under treat- department. vid cases are detected. People that the BJP MLA who had dicial custody and lodged in may be targeted later, Re- ment in hospital,” said the department. Any request for entry of outsiders and expect MLAs to help. By de- tested positive was part of a Kovilpatti jail on June 21. vathy was initially reluctant Meanwhile, 229 persons tested posi- for such pass holders will only be enter- fault they come in contact with meeting of the ruling legisla- Jeyaraj died on June 22 to sign a printout of her state- tive for coronavirus in the last 24 hours tainment on the request received from some persons there, when they tors, but added that social dis- night and Bennicks on June ment but later on being as- taking the total number to 7,545 in the the office of the Secretaries of the con- reach the spot,” Patnekar told tancing norms were followed at 23 morning in judicial cus- sured of her safety she signed state. Of the total fresh cases, 193 have cerned Department to the Special Secre- reporters here. the meet, which was held last tody, allegedly due to the the document. been detected from different quarantine tary of the Home department. “I request all MLAs to go for month. Indian Horizon Friday, July 3, 2020 Nation 5 Kamal Nath serves notice to BJP leaders UP girl killed by father, Jabalpur (MP), July 2 (IANS) Mad- these false allegations.” The decisions that Nath took all the money for de- brother over love affair hya Pradesh Congress Committee Kamal Nath took during his tenure as velopment works for Chhindwara President Kamal Nath has sent legal Union Minister for Commerce and district is also baseless, he said. The Pratapgarh, July 2 been studying. “She left against him. Suryamani notices to BJP Vice President Prab- Industry from 2004 to 2009 were as BJP leaders made baseless allegations (IANS) In a case of hon- home on Tuesday night and his son beat her with hat Jha and MP state President VD per the norms. about the Chinese firms transferring our killing, a man was to meet the boy and re- sticks and a belt,” the SHO Sharma for accusing him of favour- During Nath’s tenure as Union Min- illegal amounts to the Rajiv Gandhi arrested along with his turned home the follow- said. ing Chinese firms by reducing import ister, the anti-dumping duty against Foundation, Tankha added. The ac- son for allegedly killing ing day. As the girl cried out for duty. Chinese companies was higher which cusations of Sharma that Nath took his 18-year-old daugh- The father, Suryamani, help, the villagers asked Nath’s counsel Varun Tankha said, goes to suggest that Nath never fa- all the money for development works ter in Chaupai village in and brother Dhanan- Suryamani to stop, but “The legal notice drew the attention voured any Chinese company or for for Chhindwara district is also base- Kandhai police circle on jay Maurya thrashed her he continued beating the to the defamatory statements by both that matter any country, Tankha said. less, he said. Wednesday. when they came to know girl. the BJP leaders against Kamal Nath It is a general practice in the Union “No public record supports any The girl was in a re- that she had gone to meet When the girl fell un- widely circulated in various newspa- government that any increase or de- part of these false allegations,” lationship with a local the youth. conscious, her family took pers and electronic media on June 26 crease of tariffs is a concerted effort Tankha said. youth and the girl’s fam- The SHO said that the her to a nearby hospital, and 27, 2020.” The notice was sent on taken after Cabinet approval and The legal notice said, “The state- ily did not approve of the accused also made a video where the doctors de- Tuesday. much scrutiny, he said. ments (of BJP leaders) are purely an same. while thrashing the girl. clared her brought dead. The notice sought reply within sev- The BJP leaders made baseless al- offence mechanism to protect your Kandhai SHO Bipin “They forced her to Suryamani also tried en days of its receipt, else Kamal Nath legations about the Chinese firms party’s (BJP) politically reducing turf Kumar Singh said that name the youth and say to mislead the police but will be constrained to initiate appro- transferring illegal amounts to the in the wake of upcoming by-elec- the girl had recently re- that he had raped her the post-mortem report priate legal action. Tankha said, “No Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, Tankha tions of 24 constituencies in Madhya turned home from Kan- thrice, so that they could showed that cause of public record supports any part of added. The accusations of Sharma Pradesh.” sapur, where she had get a case registered death was strangulation.

Door-to-door COVID-19 sur- UP Congress claims it’s being spied upon vey underway in Taj city Lucknow, July 2 (IANS) He claimed that the Yogi FIR or the chargesheet when the Congress is increasing in Yogi government is trying to Uttar Pradesh Congress Adityanath government is he was arrested. Across the the state. This government frighten us, but we are not Agra, July 2 (IANS) The tion. In the last 24 hours Committee (UPCC) presi- getting restless over the in- state, the Congress workers is scared, but the soldiers of scared. We will fight on the Agra district administra- 14 fresh corona cases were dent Ajay Kumar Lallu has creasing influence of Con- are being harassed by the Rahul and Priyanka are not streets,” he stated. tion has begun an exten- reported in Agra and 17 alleged that the police and gress and is using arrest Yogi government and they scared. The Yogi govern- Lallu said, “Congress sive exercise for door-to- from Mathura. intelligence agencies are as a weapon to scare party are being sent to jail after ment is trying to frighten general secretary Priyanka door survey in all areas to The death toll in Agra spying on the Congress of- workers. being booked in false cases,” us, but we are not scared. Gandhi Vadra’s activism in check the further spread stands at 88. The total fice. The UPCC chief termed he said. We will fight on the streets,” Uttar Pradesh is troubling of COVID-19. Two days number of cases till Thurs- “It has been a month since the arrest of Congress mi- Lallu said that Congress he stated. “The BJP govern- the ruling BJP and they are ago, the state government day morning was 1,241. the cops are stationed out- nority cell chairman Shahn- leaders and workers are ment is frustrated as the trying to break our spirit. had announced that all The recovery rate is 83.07 side the party office gates awaz Alam , earlier this committed to raising their influence of the Congress is But we are going to continue areas will be thoroughly per cent. The number of till late in the night. What week, as “illegal, undemo- voices in support of the increasing in the state. This our fight with greater energy screened to ensure the hotspots now is 52. do they do there?” he said at cratic and condemnable”. common man. government is scared, but and determination under infection from the coro- District Magistrate P.N. a press conference here on “Shahnawaz Alam’s name “The BJP government is the soldiers of Rahul and the leadership of Priyanka navirus was effectively Singh said the markets Thursday. did not even figure in the frustrated as the influence of Priyanka are not scared. The Gandhi Vadra.” stopped. would be permitted to The survey began on remain open for an ad- Wednesday in the city and ditional one hour in the will cover the whole dis- evening. 28 ministers including CBI books GVK chairman, son trict by July 5. In Mathura, the district Teams of health work- administration has sealed ers will visit homes and the borders and deployed 12 from Scindia camp for siphoning off Rs 705 cr conduct surveys, thermal additional personnel to Mumbai, July 2 (IANS) Four days 705 crore in the running of the air- screening and look for ensure no one entered sworn in MP after registering a case against port. The action comes in the wake of people with respiratory the district for the annual Gunupati Venkata Krishna Reddy, the FIR lodged by the CBI on June 27 ailments. This exercise is Mudiya Poonau fair at the chairman of the GVK Group of against GVK Reddy, his son G.V. San- considered necessary to Goverdhan. The five-day Companies and his son G.V. Sanjay jay Reddy among others for alleged reach out to people not fair, which was supposed Reddy, Managing Director of Mum- irregularities to the tune of Rs 705 only in the hotspots, but to begin from July 1 this bai International Airport Ltd. among crore in the running of the airport. also in remote areas of the year has been cancelled others for alleged irregularities to According to the CBI, the Airport district, who might be in due to the coronavirus the tune of Rs 705 crore in the run- Authority of India (AAI) had formed the need of medical atten- pandemic. ning of the airport, the CBi carried a joint venture with GVK Airports out searches at multiple locations Holdings Limited, promoted by the in Mumbai and Hyderabad, sources GVK group under public private Lightning kills 3 said on Thursday. partnership firm Mumbai Interna- A CBI source connected to the tional Airport Ltd. for upgradation probe told IANS, “Multiple teams of and maintenance of Mumbai Airport. in UP district CBI carried out searches in Mum- The FIR said that on April 4, 2006 the Ballia (Uttar Pradesh), pitalised. Two women died bai and Hyderabad on Wednes- AAI entered into an agreement with July 2 (IANS) Three persons during treatment. day in connection with the probe.” MIAL for modernisation, upkeep, op- were killed and 12 injured In another incident in Bhopal, July 2 (IANS) Madhya From BJP Prem Singh Patel, The source, however, said that the eration and maintenance of Mumbai when lightning struck in the Rampur Madai village Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Om Prakash Saklecha, Usha searches were not carried at the resi- airport. “It is alleged that the pro- Sikandarpur and Bhimpura in Bhimpura area, a farmer Singh Chouhan inducted 28 new Thakur, Arvind Bhadoria and dential premises of the Reddys but moters of the GVK group in MIAL areas of the district. working in his field died ministers on Thursday including Mohan Yadav were also induct- at the premises of the companies in connivance with their executives The lightning struck on after being struck by light- 12 from Jyotiraditya Scindia’s ed as cabinet ministers. named in the FIR. and unidentified officials of the AAI Wednesday. ning. camp. Of the 22 Congress MLAs While Bharat Singh Kushwa- The action comes in the wake of resorted to siphoning of funds using According to the gov- In the Hajouth village in who resigned from the Congress ha, Inder Singh Parmar, Ram- the FIR lodged by the CBI on June different ways,” the FIR said. ernment spokesman, ten Khejuri area, four women to join the BJP, 14 are now in the khelavan Patel and Ram Kishore 27 against GVK Reddy, his son G.V. MIAL is a joint venture of the GVK people were working in the were injured after being expanded ministry. Kavre took oath as ministers of Sanjay Reddy among others for al- Group, Airport Authority of India fields in Mahthapar village hit by lightning. They were The total strength of Scindia’s state. leged irregularities to the tune of Rs and a few foreign entities. when lightning struck. rushed to a hospital, where camp in the ministry is now 14 Those inducted from Scindia All of them received burn their condition was stated as two former MLAs were al- camp had resigned as legisla- injuries and have been hos- to be stable. ready inducted in the cabinet. tors in March which led to the UP: Multiple teachers with same Officiating Governor Anan- toppling of 15-month-old Kamal diben Patel administered the Nath Government. oath of office and secrecy to All of them will contest by- PAN number under STF lens K’taka: Conman held for the new ministers at a function polls likely to be held in the state Lucknow, July 2 (IANS) After mul- the list of persons who have changed in the Raj Bhawan. Meticulous soon. Twenty four assembly tiple ‘teachers’ were found to be their PAN card details and then will duping people on pre- observation of COVID-19 pro- seats are vacant in the state as- working on one identity of Anamika investigate whether these people tocol marked the 45 minute sembly. Shukla in the Kasturba Gandhi Balika were working on fake IDs. text of promising jobs ceremony. Besides Chouhan, senior BJP Vidyalaya (KGBV) in Uttar Pradesh, it He said that the numbers could be Bengaluru, July 2 (IANS) contract money for works Among those inducted on leaders including Scindia and has now come to light that scores of in thousands though some may have A conman who has duped carried out in Public Thursday, 20 are of cabinet rank union minister Narendra Singh teachers have been working on the changed the PAN numbers for a valid people to the tune of Rs Works Department (PWD) and eight are ministers of state. Tomar among others were pres- same PAN number. reason. 1 crore on the pretext of to be released and swin- Former ministers included ent on the occasion. The Uttar Pradesh government has The decision for a probe was taken providing them govern- dled up to Rs 1 crore from from the BJP are Gopal Bhar- The initial “mini” expansion handed over the investigation to the after Anamika Shukla case came to ment jobs and releasing ten people. gava, Vijay Shah, Jagdish Devda, of the Chouhan cabinet took Special Task Force (STF). light which pertains to the appoint- pending amounts has To trick and convince Yashodhara Raje Scindia, Bhu- place on April 21 with the induc- IG STF Amitabh Yash said that ment of teachers allegedly using been arrested in the city, the unsuspecting people, pendra Singh, Brajendra Pratap tion of five ministers, including more than 100 such cases have come fake documents in schools across an official said on Thurs- Hosalli used to throw Singh and Vishwas Sarang. two former Congress MLAs close up in which the salary of two teach- the state. The decision for a probe day. around the names of state From Scindia camp, Bisah- to Scindia -- Tulsi Silawat and ers was going into the same bank ac- was taken after Anamika Shukla case “Shivakumar Hosalli, Chief Minister and his ulal Singh, Aidal Singh Kansana Govind Singh Rajput. count. came to light which pertains to the who cheated a lot of peo- family members. To trick Imarti Devi, Prabhuram Choud- Chouhan took oath as chief “We investigated the people who appointment of teachers allegedly ple promising them jobs and convince the unsus- hary, Mahendra Singh Sisodia, minister for a record fourth term were doing jobs on fake IDs. People using fake documents in schools in government depart- pecting people, Hosalli Pyadyumna Singh Tomar, Hard- on March 23 this year, after Kamal have used the PAN number of the across the state. ment and also releasing used to throw around the eep Singh Dang, Rajwardhan Nath resigned from following re- person whose ID they were using for Teachers who had assumed the pending amounts has names of state Chief Min- Singh Dattigaon have been tak- bellion by 22 MLAs of the Congress. the job. The original person received identity of Anamika Shukla had been arrested,” told Cen- ister and his family mem- en as cabinet ministers. The total strength of Chouhan’s a notice from Income tax department drawn over Rs 1 crore as salary from tral Crime Branch (CCB) bers. While Brajendra Singh Yadav, cabinet is now 34 including chief that excess money was being trans- about two dozen schools. Deputy Commissioner “He also misused the Girraj Dandotia, Suresh Dhakad minister. It has only one vacancy ferred into his account. When this The STF official said that during of Police (DCP) Kuldeep name of Chief Minister and O.P.S. Bhadoria from Scin- now as the total strength of the matter came to light, some teach- investigations, assistance would be Jain to IANS. Hosalli made and his aides to dupe peo- dia camp were inducted as min- ministry as per the constitutional ers changed their PAN numbers,” he sought from the Income Tax depart- false promises of getting ple,” added Jain. isters of state. norms should not exceed 35. said. The IG said that he had sought ment also. Indian Horizon Indian Horizon EDIT Thursday, March 26 2020 Friday,6 July 3, 2020 EDIT 6 GenderMigrant budgeting tales about fails perils to address of bad messaging all problems Indian Horizon Ajoy Bose what should have been explained as a as a grand success even though it was somersault in Covid messaging. Most ByThe Jayshree government’s Sengupta response to the rightlimited age and of marriagespecifically is atargeted welcome con - workplace.palpably meaningless Rural women in the findteeming it 2020people has cannot allocated understand larger funds how theto No one expected that Finance move. difficult to work outside home for self-help groups and it provides still rampaging Covid-19 pandemic tainment measure. urban clusters. near hysterical emphasis on staying Minister Nirmala Sitaraman Women work very hard in rural lack of help at home. Creche facil- for easier access to bank finance, wouldappears go to out have of beenher way seriously to opt handi for - householdsThis is evident which fromis unpaid the mannerwork. itiesThe for collapse construction of such flawed workers messag will - yetlocked more up needswith virtually to be doneeverything be- generouscapped right gender from budgeting.the start by wrongShe Makingin which women the Home earn Ministry from anddoing the enableing has notmore taken women long. Just to asjoin sudden the - causeshut down women at a timeare whenafraid there of han were- wasmessaging busy pointingon the virus out andthat how the to workpolice other brandishing than housework the lockdown is im as- a work-ly as the force. Covid-19 Also, bogeyequal waswages raised, in dlingjust a fewthe hundredbank paper infections work and by a economydeal with hasit. Clearly,sound macro-ecothe concerted- portant.mighty anti-virusThe government brahmastra should domi - farmthe government work is important has now for overnight wom- themselves.handful of fatalities It’s a good can be thing suddenly that nomicbid to overawefundamentals people intoand complyingthere is startnated light the publicindustries psyche. like There food was enchanged to draw the them messaging into toagricultural how people thereplaced Finance with Minister the far more has lackadaisi thought- little fear of a severe slowdown or processing which can give jobs activities. Garment factory work- of promoting beekeeping. Simi- Thursday,Friday, July March 3, 2020 26 2020 with the hasty and brutal lockdown little attempt to prepare people for a must learn to live with the virus. The cal approach to the virus as it spreads recession. Micro sectors did get to rural women. This should be a ers are paid low wages in order to larly, poultry and silkworm be- has proved counterproductive com- long haul. Nor was the community lockdown is being dismantled in fits in leaps and bounds on a daily basis. their due attention and the allo- priority of the government but it let owners remain competitive. sides agriculture and organic cationpounding of Rs the 28,600 crisis. crore This forhas womstigma- - seemsmobilised not liketo be in theKerala case drawing in Bud on- Instead,and starts their but there productivity is no realisation should of farmingMost interlocutors should be onpromoted. behalf of the Lady in command post entised and the child virus development and also frightened may getbattles 2020. against Women previous making epidemics home- bethe damageenhanced and traumathrough it has betteralready governmentSome rural shy women away frommake properly beau- Demonising workers soundpeople great, out of but their is wits it enough triggering for an madeand successful products public and snackshealth missions in ru- equipmentinflicted. Instead, and workingthere is nowcondi fresh- tifulexplaining products the change from inbamboo tack because and Landmark SC order on perma- theunprecedented 500 million womenexodus of of India? migrant It ralto reduceareas can maternal sell in and nearby infant towns, mortal - tions.hubris Many about howmore India working would emergewom- grass,it would but inevitably have no mean proper the admis out-- Stop discrimination in hous- islabourers not adequate from gendercities to budgeting their rural butity. because of lack of mobility, en’sfrom hostels the pandemic are needed as a self-reliant from the in - letsion to of sell the them.abject Middlemenfailure of its initialtake which involves the government they are restricted from doing so. increase in allocation for it. Safety huge cuts and exploit them. Mar- homes even as uncertainty mounts People have lived in India for long dustrial behemoth leading the world. messaging. nent commission to women to allocate funds to women-spe- Making transportation easy and for women is the most important keting outlets are needed in vil- ing societies cificon theschemes surging so infections that the benefitsand fatali - safewith ought a variety to be of a priority.diseases and epi- thing,The especiallybiggest blow in tocities. the credibilityIn rural lagesThere known is desperate for their need crafts. for the gov- In a historic order upholding the right ofties growth despite theare nearlyenjoyed two monthfully bylong demicsUnequal killing wages many. is Theyanother may imhave- areas,of the too,government’s women are messaging vulnerable has ernmentIf India to wantsrevise itsto communication be a $5 tril- Housing societies and colonies form women.lockdown. It is also not the alloca- portantunderstood source if told of low without earnings hype for the tocome rape from and molestation.the surging number of lionstrategy economy, both to combat the contribution the pandemic of women to equal opportunity in the tionA bigthat miscalculation is important by butthe governhow - women.special measures Very skilled needed embroider against Co- - infectionsThe maternal and fatalities mortality just rate as theis byand women restart the to crippledthe GDP economy. is of ut To- resident welfare associations (RWAs) thement money was tois spenttreat the that pandemic is crucial. like ersvid-19 near even Kolkata if it meant are public paid inconvea pit- - highnear intwo-month India. Women’s lockdown health is beis - moststart with,importance. it has to urgentlyIndia cannotremove Indian Army, the Supreme Court has Therea breakdown are so much of law unspent and order funds that tancenience while and disruption big designers for some make time. noting relaxed.of importance, Official spokesmen specially havein callthe stigmaitself aattached developed to Covid-19 country and if to administer common requirements and women are not able to ben- a killing making garments out of rural areas. Rural women die dur- the women remain shackled by could be quelled with a show of force. Unfortunately, the propensity of the sought to take credit asserting that treat it like yet another disease or epi- paved the way for all serving Short efit from the allocation. those fabrics. Women painters ing childbirth because of com- archaic traditions and patriarchy. and facilitate collective wellbeing. The TheThere Prime are Minister’s a number initial of promise prob- of fromcurrent Madhubani regime and itsand leader Raghura to deliv- - plications.the numbers If wouldprimary have health spiralled cen far- Genderdemic even budgeting if with special should characteris aim at- Service Commission (SSC) women lemssubduing which the need virus withinto be three focused weeks jpur,er shock Orissa, and awe can messages be trained prevented to treshigher were had itbetter not been equipped for the rigorous with empoweringtics. The infamy women around and the virusmaking has lockdown has allowed them to play an uponby waging for gender a Mahabharata-like budgeting. One epic makesuch aproducts sensible approach. that can fit into medicineslockdown. Butand such doctors, claims manyappear themreached stand ludicrous on their proportions. own feet and For officers to be eligible for permanent isbattle the age along of withmarriage: propagating 27 per dramat cent - contemporaryThe government interiors. knew it Theylacked livesspecious could as havethe rate been of growth saved. in Also, both makeinstance, their the own owner choices of a major and depart deci-- oversized role. Naturally, some have girlsic rituals are marriedlike utensil off clanging,by the agelamp havethe overwhelmingskills but lack authority innovation. of the inadequateinfections and pre-natal fatalities amongcare is India’s re- sions.ment store in a prominent South Del- commission (PC) on a par with their of 18 which makes them vulner- All this requires detailed atten- sponsible for women developing Also, to give a bigger market to lighting and air force jets showering Chinese state that allowed the drastic south Asian neighbours and indeed hi colony market after being hospital- excelled in forging consensus and able to patriarchy and torture by tion. complications. Unfortunately, products made by women, han- flower petals suggested a muscular lockdown of Wuhan, the first epicen- in many parts of Africa, Latin America ised with the virus was inflicted with male colleagues. The verdict opens mothers-in-law and leads to early While the government doesn’t the allocation on health remains dloom and handicrafts that are confrontation even though the enemy ter of the virus. Nor could the country and Eastern Europe are quite similar if such a stream of abusive emails from theproviding avenue forfor thosemeritorious who need women assis of-- childbirth. India has the highest seem to think that our unemploy- a meagre two per cent of the GDP. mostly made of natural material numberremained of invisible. child marriages. They made Em great- mentemulate problem the stringent is serious self-isolation enough, Somenot lower. state governments are re- byhis women erstwhile should clients bethat promoted the residents’ by ficerstance, towhile get otherscommand saw postings,the moment pro- poweringoptics enhancing women Modi’s would image require as the itmeasures is also payingin certain scant European attention coun - furbishingYet regardless primary of whether health peoplecen- peoplewelfare whoassociation matter president in the worldof the thatsupreme girls leader.are given But higherthey also educa gave the- totries the with fact far that less our population women’s density. par- tres,accept but the it government’sis not universal. spin Indiaon the ofcolony style, had interior to appeal decoration for the display and of motions,in terms ofrank ‘power’, and pension. and operated Reeking as tionimpression and training that the in lockdown some skills was a ticipationYet the stringency in the workforceof the Indian at lock 34 - alsoefficacy has aof largethe lockdown number there of female is wide - fashionsympathy like rather Bollywood than hostility. stars and to enhance their earning power. per cent is one of the worst in suicides. Women’s mental health top designers. Aiming at all these magic bullet to kill Covid-19 instead of down imposed overnight was touted spread confusion about the abrupt IANS ofsuch. gender In general,discrimination residents and and violative local There has to be a policy to incen- the world. The world average is is increasingly a problem and has problems and resolving them tivise parents to let their daugh- 50 per cent. Women drop out of to be tackled. call for careful gender budgeting ofadministrations Article 14 that found guarantees it a convenient equality, ters study further or learn some the workforce for various reasons. Small-scale women entrepre- which addresses all the problems skillsKeki before Daruwalla marriage. The com- Urban women fear for their safe- neurs are growing. They need ac- thatyou’d women think are the facing ISI was in mustering 2020. thesearrangement. benefits were till now denied mitteeIT is set not up too for difficult determining to be critical the tyHandling and sexual harassment virus, at the andcess to easyaberrations credit. The Budget forces for a running battleIANS with and carping of state policies or ac- the Home Ministry in Febru- toAs them the aslockdown the women eases, were and allowed more tions. But tackling an unprecedent- ernment. Our only panacea seems a Delhi and the systematic bullying of ary even as Donald Trump was aand tenure more of people up to areonly allowed 14 years. to work, Sig- ed human crisisBJP in a diverse had country nothing lockdown, no one canpositive think beyond a well-behaved to offer student community at local landing levelhere. Minority members with its tangential pulls, interests, it. Could I add something really dis- in the finest universities the country are being thrown in jail now — you nificantly,there has beenthis restrictionan avoidable not confrononly pre-- lobbiesBy Saba Naqviis a tremendous task. Man- tencemal? at Supposecivility in public that lifehoped-for and ramped vac - currenthas. It wasBJP andalso itsan ideologicaloccasion, orfamily rath - agedsee, tomemory peacefully has rule woken Goa withup from a large its vented them from reaching the pinna- agingThere thewere crisis, always limiting good reasons the deaths for upcine the never hate speech. comes? The Suppose desperation the Holy to have,er a therefore,series of made occasions, the shift whento invok the- Christianslumber. population They arrested without a any 27-year- social tation in a few cities. Many RWAs themust BJP tohave be defeatedbeen quite in the a feat.Delhi ManAs- - alsoGrail, stick forgive to its CAA the agendamixed inmetaphor, the face ingstate enemies (which here, means there, the everywhere. police, isn’t In upheavalold student, is gone Safoora too. The Zargar, most signifi from- semblyaging elections.all this while First, keepingthe party to is conin - ofremains spreading remote, protests a in UFO the Capitalthat evades and doingit?) colluded so, the BJP with gives the some aggressors, youth the the cantJamia is theMillia, passing ‘now away in of theArun second Jaitley cle in their career, but also disqualified pretext to abuse, blame others for their who determined the media spin given to have taken an unfortunate stand of powerstitutional in the andthree democratic municipal corpora norms- is acrossus, vanishes the country into alsothe unknown.drove the BJP Hu - masked goons who suddenly ap- trimester of her pregnancy’, says a tions in the Capital that have a shabby to the point where we can state that in misfortune and feel a sense of belong- events and was brought out as a trouble- them from pension, which starts only even more difficult. Political agendas manity is, as a species, resilient. After peared like this coronavirus from news report, for her alleged role in blocking the entry of domestic helps record. Indeed, one could say that January 2020, the BJP completely aban- ing to an ideology, some even picked up shooter when the script went haywire. after 20 years of service. theyremain are a what blot onthey the are Swachh even ifBharat we are donedall, we its wrestled mukhauta with (mask) the Blackmodel Death that gunsWuhan. as was Goons witnessed also behavedin three cases shame of - theHalf Delhi the secondriots. rung of the BJP has into homes. Not only this, even when campaignin a sort of nationalPrime Minister struggle Narendra against a haswithout a place ain vaccine the party’s and history. the Justinian shootingfully in thatanother took place college, in Delhi. which In thehad passedThe Unlawfulaway while Activities the other Prevention half has History is witness to a number of awe- Modi.killer Second, virus. But the then, BJP wecould are offerasking no for PlagueMukhauta much was before the phrase it. Incidentally, that gained past,nothing polarisation to do with was partcommunities of the strat —- beenAct has rendered been broughtpowerless. in. This She includescould be such entry is allowed, they have also localthe leadershipmoon. or face to take on Delhi currencythe Black after Death, a high-ranking which took RSS-BJP away egy;just in jumping the future, into it seems a women’s likely to collegebe the Unionreleased minister on bail, Nitin but Gadkari,the court former would inspiring and brave women leading ChiefIn Ministerthese difficult Arvind times,Kejriwal, we whose need to functionary150 million described lives, formeralso emanatedPM Atal mainwhile plank they of were the strategy enjoying along a festival. with the chiefhave ministersnone of it.Shivraj You Chouhancan’t defy and the approval ratings always remained high. Bihari Vajpayee as the mask/plausible continued cult of the Great Leader. Raman Singh, who have all been cut to demanded that such workers not use burrow inwards. We have to focus on from China. Memory is a funny thing, can be state, the holy of holies. Covid-19 was thousands of men in battles, includ- Third, the BJP had no youth alternative pleasant face who gave cover to an ideo- The language of urban warfare and a size, smaller than their potential. What lifts, benches, parks or water cool- toour AAP faults whose rather core team than is look packed outwards with logicalFortunately, agenda. Vajpayee the country helmed asome suc- - civilelusive war wasor ready spoken at in hand Delhi for and the hate po - arethe left perfect are the cover, Big Two the and fog yes-men under which and ing the famous Joan of Arc and our youngand patfaces. our Fourth, own backs,large sections since there of cessfultimes coalition does not in forget, an age and where it hasnum not- speecheslitico. Every made Indianby lawmakers politician without who women,the state none could of whom go around can muster arresting the ers! More pernicious is the demand theis youthno one were, else in to any do case,it. Just alienated thump - bersforgotten demanded the moderation. migrants, though our anyhas real gone apology up infrom life the has nation’s mastered pre- couragestudents, to speakwithout up even any if they hullabaloo thought very own Rani of Jhansi. Recognising froming theour BJP chest at the and spectacle saying of violencewe have plannersThe BJP has and a Nitimajority Aayog on andits own Home at eminentthe art party.of negotiating This is because memory. they Youdo errorsfrom werethe pressbeing —made far (andtoo somebusy do).with on two universities in Delhi, Jamia Mil- the national level but is losing power in not see themselves as replacing any And there are new entrants who are ab- thethat valour the workers and capability take a Covid of testwomen and done better than say Italy or UK and Ministry had an attack of amne- need trackers to tell the world when the virus. Will this be the post-corona liaAmerica and JNU, is in not the of weeks much preceding use. That the 20 statessia on at athe time day when of thethe economyfirst 8 pm-an is in - middlememory ground sleeps, — as when the BJP its of eyesthe Va are- solutelynorm, arrestcommitted victims to andthis notgoli a maarosneeze elections (after voting day, came reports crisis. There is now a palpable sense of jpayee era did — but in creating an en- tone and tenor without any pretense of bring a certificate. While this would lakh crore oration has already been nounced lockdown. It is said 17 lakh bandaged, and when it wakes up. directed at those who took part in the in military matters in the past couple of sexual assault on girl students of Gargi economic despair in the air. In the week tirely new ground and reality in India. being part of polite politics. cost around Rs 4,000 per person, by Collegeforgotten in South and Delhi later by itgoons was shouthinted- precedingare headed Delhi’s back February to UP, 8that voting we day, have TheBesides, Delhi there Police, is no onewhich left instood the na by- onslaught?There is no They turning wore backmasks from sir, howthe of decades, countries such as the US, ingthat Jai Shriit included Ram). a miasma of other a 14diplomat crore migrants.from a country In all with this largehurly tionalseeing BJP the who mayhem, can pull areoff nowthe kind arrest of - hardcould ideological they be identified? line for the BJP. It’s also Israel,the same North logic, Korea, the France, workers Germany, could promissoryIn the end, the notes AAP issued moved by far the more gov - investmentsburly, we arein India forgetting revealed the that riots their in defting positioning the victims. that Sedition is required all around,when a important to understand why ShaheenIANS deftly and creatively than the older internal political assessments show a party pushes a hard ideological agenda Bagh, the anti-CAA protest site in Delhi, Netherlands,also demand Australiathat the andmembers Canada of party. It was light on its feet in evading cycle of endemic social unrest leading and then tries to pass it off as reason- that became a template for similar pro- the BJP’s attempt to make this election up to 2024; they do not see the country able. In the past year, the more plausible tests across the country, was made the havethe households allowed women they workin groundbreak in also get- about Hindu versus Muslim as opposed as a safe destination to invest in infra- pleasant faces of the BJP passed away. main election issue by the BJP. It upset to issues of localA governance. disturbing Partly be- structure and spacedo not expect the Indianflight Sushma Swarajamid would have the watched pandemicthe believer for a multiplicity of reasons ingtested. combat Taking positions. this absurd While argument stopping a cause the BJP had nothing positive to of- economy to grow at a healthy rate. They her Ps and Qs while talking about other that lie beyond the Delhi poll. Shaheen fer atDinesh the local C Sharma level, it decided to makeon the wereground, even why factoring don’t youin a simulatedits scientific war workforcewomen, beunder they toprotesters work at or IISc. leaders; So, theBagh De -markssion wasthe establishedresurrection as of a polithe - shortstep further,of granting would this social role to interaction the Indian the Whenelection the about news its first ideological trick- lookna- towith inter-planetary Pakistan! This space shockingly- very bad adverse eco- circumstances,she even maintained partment excellent of Space rela -shouldpower be ofcymaking the nation’s body. largest minority tionalled downissues. aboutIn the process,opening in up full viewships ornomic satellite projection to the means far- thatsuch the as technology BJP tions denial with andSonia basedGandhi in although Bangalore. the Hesupported rea- byIn theaddition, large percentage Bhabha of hadIn- women,between the residents Supreme be Courtpermitted judgment only ofinter-planetary the national and spaceinternational travel media thest exoplanet?cannot use traditional meansmoratoriums to engage craftedtwo had by contestedwest- soned an election that it againstwas a scientificdians who argued did not that vote givenfor the theBJP. strate - in the Capital, the BJP dropped all pre- the young in a future that has hope. The each other. Manohar Parrikar who man- IANS notably rubbished the patriarchal con- to the private sector as part Apart from the bizarreness ern powers. ISRO has climbed department which should be gic nature of atomic energy, if each had a ‘corona negative’ certifi- of the Covid-19 stimulus of the timing and the context, up the technology ladder step free from Delhi’s bureaucratic the new department needed ceptcation that in portrayshand? women as weak by package announced over the the announcement is deeply by step, while carefully bal- interference. a high degree of autonomy weekend, it sounded like a disturbing for independent ancing national interests and That’s how space pro- in terms of government pro- pointing out the fact that 30 per cent US wants Central Asia to oust China, Russia While the government-mandated in- crude joke. At a time when functioning of India’s premier exploration of outer space. gramme moved to Bangalore, cedures and financial regu- of our women officers are deployed in televisionBy P Stobdan screens, newspaper space onceagency Moscow — the signed Indian a special Autonomy strategic is inUzbek the leaderDNA Islammuch Karimov’s the same death way asThe the critical lations. point is thatThe Uzbekistancommission en- structions must be followed, the RWAs frontUS officials pages and rarely social visit media Central SpaceAsia, Researchpartnership Organisation with China. Theof theUS spacethen programme.in 2016 and NazarbayevIn DAE was of Kazakhstan founded in dorsesBom- themodel Taliban could movement ensure andthis. sup The- but amidst the coronavirus outbreak in took a pause, waiting for the situation to stepping down in 2019 opened a win- ports direct talks between the US and conflict zones. This effectively expos- timelines are filled with im- (ISRO). The substance of the the 1960s, all space-related bay so that Bhabha, its first commission had wider rep- China, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo evolve, while maintaining the posture of dow of opportunity that prompted Mike militia. It hedges a bet on Washington should not add their restrictions on ages of poor migrants walk- announcement is question- research and programmes secretary, could continue as resentation from within the es the government stance that wom- paid a stealthy visit to Kazakhstan and supporting the independence and terri- Pompeo to visit Nursultan in Tashkent. than on Moscow’s ability to end the Af- top of those. Local administrations Uzbekistaning and cycling with a bag on fullhighways, of intersecting able, intorial any case.integrity of Central Asianwere nations. part of theNew Department Uzbek leader Director Shavkat Mirziyoyev of the Tata is Instituteghan stalemate, government crucial asfor Uzbekistan’swell as out - en are physiologically unfit for higher agendas,the government primarily to is convey looking that to the reThe- Inannouncement the 90s, Zbigniew is in -Brzezinskiof Atomic sug -Energynow a andreformer the and of potential Fundamental partner for Researchsecurity. side. The same model was fol- need to work with them and sensitise gionspace remains as a possible independent solution. of the maligndicative gested of a thetotal need erosion to wait of for thePhysical next gen Research- the LaboratoryUS, who it believes, (TIFR), has which taken he steps had foundUzbekistan- lowed is for becoming the departments a linchpin of Army ranks as farcical and hollow. influenceEven ifof it‘external is taken actors’, as a new an obvious the independenceeration Central andAsians au overcoming- (PRL) based their into Ahmedabad. initiate reforms. ed. Mirziyoyev’s In 1972, another busi- newstate wing in thespace US success and electronics to get the Afghanas well. them to the rights of the workers, who tugpolicy to China announcement and Russia. The visitto cametonomy inherited, of a scientific unsure agency.self-ambivalence This activity and wasness directed offers could by spin— Department off opportunities of Electron war to- anThe end. ElectronicsWe don’t know Commission the details ahead of the State Department’s unveil- orienting themselves towards America. for the US firms. for the post-Afghan settlement, but the In the light of the forward-looking boost the sagging economy, This has been happening over Vikram Sarabhai at PRL and ics (DoE) — was formed and was abolished years ago, but have been without work for such a ing of the ‘US strategy for Central Asia After 30 years since, Central Asia has Pompeo also visited Nursultan to cul- aim would be to avoid the mistake of order that bestows dignity on able 2019-25:should itAdvancing have been sovereignty clubbed theand pastchanged few years and Washingtonand now DAEseems where set to he wastivate appointed new Kazakh was President allowed Kassym-to functionhastily from withdrawingthe Space CommissionUS troops from exists. Syr- long period. If RWAs still prove intran- economicwith the prosperity’. relief package for the the processreap the seems fruit of itsto investments.have secretary The new after Jomartthe death Tokayev of toBombay profit from because his recent its secretary ia resulting Itin isTurkey’s unclear military from assaultthe Fi - women, it is now a question of time pandemicAmericans arewhich not knownis a grave for under reached- policy its zenith.lists $9 Whilebillion fundingit Homi support Jehangir political Bhabha. reforms. PRL MGKPompeo Menon lauded (who ‘real was Direcagainst- thenance Kurds. Minister’s The bigger diktat picture about sigent, the authorities would need to standinghealth Centraland social Asia wellcrisis? as comparedOf was inappropriatefor democracy for theprogrammes, an- was securitythe hub ofimprovements’, satellite de- urgedtor at Kazakhs TIFR) wanted to resist it tois be how so. theprivate US may sector be subtly participation using the before women officers in the Indian tocourse, Europeans space who technology coined the can Eurasia nouncement cooperation, to be economic made as governance sign, space and applicationsexcessive engagement and The with point China is thatand theAfghan gov- factorin a strategicas a means area to nudgeof activity Cen -if and Silk Route phrases and traversed private sector-led economic growth. Be- instead consider America as a reliable tral Asia into accepting a certain option step in. Unfortunately, the RWAs are help alleviate the suffering of part of an economic package planning for launch station ernment of the day recog- the Space Commission or the Army acquire positions of command. along its various paths. During the So- sides, the US has supported $50 billion business partner. or use cues to direct them away from people in multiple ways like for the pandemic because at Sriharikota. The death of nised and accepted the need Department of Space were not alone in their intractability. Such viet period, only a few American tourists in credit and loans to the region. The Conversely, Kazakhs now see the US overly depending on Russia and China. In the meanwhile, the rank and file of travelledtelemedicine, to Tashkent but from Finance Moscow. ISROThe isUS not private a revenue-earning sector invested Sarabhaiover $31 bilon- theas nighta source of Deof investment,- for the autonomous new technol- functionThe US- hasparty offered to this. a $100-million It does not aid seem to theis the military fear of would coronavirus do well that to peoplethrow USMinister struggled Nirmala to make Sitharaman a workable foot(or -sick)lion public in commercial sector enter ventures- cember and funded 31, 1971, ogies, necessitated education anding ofglobal scientific standards. departments. increase cross-borderto be so, going trade by and the connec first - — printwas innot the talkinggeopolitically about crucialsuch Cenprise,- withover which40,000 studentthe Finance and professional a change exin- thisAfter set-up. Chevron and ExxonMobil,However, autonomy Ameri- tivity does between and only Uzbekistan — reaction and Afghani of ISRO- outdatedreturning perceptions to their villages of male have superi even- tralapplications. Asia that prompted the CongressMinister to changes, or the among government others. The then Primecan Tyson Minister Foods notis preparing mean lack to of enter control stan. from For tothe the first announcement. time, the US told In the a adoptShe the Freedomspecifically Support talked Act in 1992.can tinkerClearly in then,a whimsical Washington Indira still Gandhitreats decidedKazakhstan’s to cre agriculture- the government. sector. Keepingregional this statescryptic to tweetpush China a few andhours Russia after In 1991, Secretary of State James Baker Central Asia as an open book and the last In the C5+1 format, Pompeo pointed out of the region, be wary of predatory ority out of the window that are gen- about ‘travel in outer space’ fashion. ISRO is a national as- ate a separate Department of in mind, a new mechanism the announcement, the space found their brethren hostile. Families flew to Kazakhstan to denuclearise the chapter is not yet written. The fresh stra- to enlarging American influence, by Chinese lending, and avoid falling into erally proffered to keep them down Muslimand ‘exploration majority state. of new plan- set andtegic a key opportunity element of assessment the Space defines and appointed snaring UzbekistanSatish was into devised its Afghan in 1948 pol- whenthe the debt trapagency under said: the “Departmentpretence of Belt of have refused to cremate their dead. At ets’Washington’s by the private desire sector.to forge It a partstrategic-cum-geopolitical- the region important in itsDhawan, own right, who icywas and director by exploring atomic ways energy to counter activity started.and Road Space Initiative will follow(BRI) projects. government The andsuch be times, prepared scientific to take reasoning orders from and nershipalmost was sounded constrained like: “Ifby theythe dilem armament- lays outof the new Indian milestones state. forof strengthen the Indian- InstituteChinese ofinfluence. Sci- While Tashkent’s the DAE regional was conceived debt finance guidelines impacting and enable sovereignty private is madon’t confronted have bread, by the why Soviet-trained don’t The agencying sovereignty, has earned fighting this terrorismence (IISc) and in Bangaloreplans for improving as its as relationship a government with department its acute in Kyrgyzstanplayers to carryand Tajikistan out space that ac - them. The mission is of utmost impor- residualthey eat leaders cake?”If for defining you don’t their placedes- helpingthrough to makesheer economies hard first attractive secretary. to neighboursDhawan put and a effortsfor administrative to nix the peace purposes, are unable tivities to repay. in the country.” cool heads should form the basis of all tinies. The regional context changed US businesses. process in Afghanistan, impress the US. IANS tance and women are equally capable have access to a bus or train work and determination of condition: he would continue the Atomic Energy Commis- IANS decisions, not arbitrary diktats. of helming it. ReadersReaders ResponseResponse andand contributioncontribution WelcomeWelcome Indian Horizon 7 OPED Friday, July 3, 2020 Students and Parents facing a much starker decision than usual

By Cathy O’Neil discern. As admissions officers will pa- they’re staying at home or six feet dis- Colleges and students in the US are tiently explain, very few students actu- tant. engaged in a game of chicken as the ally pay full tuition, thanks to various Some institutions have come clean fall semester approaches with no end kinds of financial aid — so there’s no about what they have to offer: Cam- in sight for the coronavirus crisis. The clear price competition. On the value bridge and the California State Univer- outcome could radically change the side, colleges are selling a nebulous sity system, for example, have admitted way Americans think about and value a package of (dubious) knowledge, sta- that they won’t be meeting normally for higher education. tus, social connections, economic op- a year. Others, such as Notre Dame, are On one side, institutions want stu- portunity and proliferating perks such trying to make it work with scheduling dents to sign up and pay tuition de- as state-of-the-art swimming pools, changes and a combination of testing, posits, which are coming due. Most are gyms, dorms and cafeterias with sushi contact tracing and quarantine. No pretending they can open like normal, bars. matter what they do, though, college is with in-person classes. Some are keep- Nodes of contagion and sources of le- no longer the warm and fuzzy proposi- ing people largely in the dark about gal liability tion it used to be. what the semester will look like. Now, the pandemic is stripping much This leaves students and parents fac- On the other, students and their fam- of that away. Dorms, gyms and dining ing a much starker decision than usual. ilies are wondering whether it’s worth halls have become nodes of contagion, Whatever they were paying, the product shelling out tens of thousands of dollars and potential sources of legal liability. has changed. Unless colleges make the for an experience that might be largely One of colleges’ greatest assets — facul- deal a lot more attractive, many people online. Many are delaying decisions, ty — will remain largely behind a Zoom will withhold their money. If they do thinking it might be wiser to take a se- screen, given that so many are in the pay up based on administrators’ overly mester or a year off. most vulnerable age group, particularly optimistic promises, the outcome could Who will swerve? I’m thinking that at elite institutions such as Harvard. be a huge legal mess as a bunch of an- In the short term, colleges will have to cut fees colleges are going to have to make the (There’s no way my mum, who has been gry parents try to get their money back. bigger adjustment, which means stu- a computer science professor at UMass I’m guessing that in the short term, to sell a mostly online education dents could emerge as the winners. Boston for 50 years, will be teaching in colleges will have to cut prices to sell will get used to learning, making con- a four-year degree, complete with the For decades, US colleges have existed person until there’s a good treatment a mostly online education. Some stu- nections and getting jobs online. Which exorbitant on-campus experience. Col- in a highly unusual market, in which or a vaccine.) Forming social bonds dents will try to wait it out, hoping means that in the longer term, more lege might never be the same. both cost and benefit are difficult to with one’s classmates will be difficult if things will get back to normal. Others people might reconsider the value of Gulf News The importance of being Angela Merkel

speaking of. most in the pandemic. in time for the European summit on July 17 In European politics, she was often divi- Another German leader, Ursula von der — will be fiendishly difficult. She also has to sive. During the refugee crisis of 2015, she Leyen, the president of the European Com- get agreement on the EU’s next seven-year shocked her European partners by unilater- mission, then slapped an additional 250 bil- budget. And she wants to stabilise relations ally opening Germany’s borders to migrants lion euros on top in loans. with China, which have been getting worse, for several chaotic months. Before that, dur- The biggest surprise was Merkel’s consent to do more with Africa, to jump-start Eu- ing the euro crisis, she alienated Greeks and to financing this fund with bonds issued by rope’s “Green Deal” and digital transforma- other southerners by forcing them into fiscal the Commission. This seemed to be a baby tion — and generally to make Europe more “austerity.” step toward mutualised debt and the Euro- credible in a dangerous world. The consensus in Berlin and other capitals pean “transfer union” that she’d always re- That’s a lot for any leader. So how does was that Merkel, who spent half her life liv- sisted. Merkel plan to go about it? Before she be- ing in communist East Germany, had a ce- It could imply a more federal EU, with came Commission president, Von der Leyen rebral connection to the idea of European European tax revenues in the future. That once described to me the quintessential integration and identity, not an emotional would require treaty change and fall to German style of statecraft as “leading from one. Merkel’s successors. But for this German the Centre.” She was seen to do just enough during cri- chancellor, her conversion was almost I used to sneer at that phrase as German ses to prevent dissolution, but never enough Damascene. waffling to get out of real leadership — the — even when French President Emmanuel The Chancellor’s legacy kind you do from the front, with others fol- By Andreas Kluth Having ruled out a fifth term and resigned Macron begged her — to move the Europe- It could also secure her the legacy she still lowing. But in this unusual year in world Covid-19 is a crucible of leadership. Some as boss of her party, she was in effect a lame an Union forward. lacks, provided she makes the plan reality. history, I’m having second thoughts. What’s people are failing this test — the presidents duck. But Covid changed all that. It rejuve- And then, surprisingly, Covid changed And it really is now up to her. On Wednes- kept Merkel in power all these years is her of Brazil, Russia and the US spring to mind. nated Merkel as a leader. that. Early in the outbreak, as member day, Germany takes over the rotating presi- empathy. She has a knack for sensing what Others are passing it with flying colours, As a trained quantum chemist, she’s been states closed their borders, hoarded medical dency of the Council of the EU, the institu- motivates others and keeping them at the notably the leaders of New Zealand, Den- managing the outbreak like the scientist she equipment and suspended the single mar- tion that represents the 27 member states proverbial table. She does this with every mark and Taiwan. All three happen to be is, with pragmatic policies based on the ex- ket, Merkel glimpsed a scenario in which the and co-legislates with the European Parlia- tool at her disposal, from sober logic to sub- women and have largely controlled the pertise of epidemiologists. In polls, she be- EU might become irrelevant or even unrav- ment. tle body language. spread of SARS-CoV-2 in their countries came Germany’s most popular politician el. And she felt genuine fear. For the rest of this year, the EU’s largest In certain contexts, leading from the Cen- while preserving social cohesion. again, with an approval rating of 71%. So Merkel and Macron restarted the tradi- country formally has the role Germans have tre may be the highest form of the political And then there’s German Chancellor An- But as she nears the end of her time in tional Franco-German “engine” that powers long been resisting: of being Europe’s leader. art — as also practised by Jacinda Ardern gela Merkel, who’s also been having a rela- office, her legacy still seems questionable. the EU. They proposed a 500 billion-euro The European coronavirus fund will in New Zealand, Mette Frederiksen in Den- tively good pandemic. As she entered 2020, Aside from Covid, her domestic record is ($562 billion) fund to give grants to member consume much of her effort. Getting all 27 mark and Tsai Ing-Wen in Taiwan. her 15th year in office, she looked exhausted. mediocre, with no economic reform worth states, such as Italy and Spain, that suffered countries to accept it — Merkel wants a deal Gulf News Denial and selfishness fuel the spread of COVID-19

By Linda S. Heard functioning grey matter other than stand why those who lived through A virulent virus has wrapped its ten- noise. However there is a much larger the Great Depression and the Second tacles around the planet with fatal con- sector whose actions should be a cause World War are known as ‘The Great- sequences for hundreds of thousands for real concern — the selfish, live- est Generation’. They didn’t party on and unless and until there is a vaccine for-today ones. Those who gravitate in the beaches; they fought and died on or the majority of the world’s popula- droves to beaches with no thought of them for the greater good. Centenar- tion has developed immunity, it will not social distancing or contravene rules by ian Captain Tom Moore, who has been be defeated. Until such time people ev- sending out hundreds of invitations to promoted to Colonel and will shortly be erywhere have been ordered or advised weddings and funerals. knighted for his efforts on behalf of the to follow certain rules for their own Just days ago, British police politely NHS, encapsulates all that his honour- protection designed to slow the spread. broke-up a 100-person street party in able, duty-bound generation stood-for. There is no mystery in the above reali- Birmingham while James Bunting, a In truth, I am beginning to understand ties which anyone with a modicum of good citizen from Bolton, came across why those who lived through the Great common sense would judge indisput- hundreds of youths engaged in an ille- Depression and the Second World War able. Unfortunately, in some countries gal lockdown rave, turning the nature are known as ‘The Greatest Genera- plain old-fashioned common sense is at spot into “a sea of trash”. Bunting railed tion’. They didn’t party on the beach- a premium. against the ‘We don’t care’ “Millennial es; they fought and died on them for Conspiracy theories are spreading mentality”. Evidently those young peo- the greater good. Centenarian Captain like wildfire on social media thanks to ple are willing to take the risk because Tom Moore, who has been promoted to individuals with seemingly impressive in their minds COVID-19 is an old per- Colonel and will shortly be knighted for cans who reject wearing masks; some Protests have erupted all over the na- credentials, among them celebrities, son’s virus but how uncaring are they his efforts on behalf of the NHS, encap- inspired by the US Commander-in- tion against lockdowns. Ideologically- trying to persuade us that the virus is a when most have vulnerable parents or sulates all that his honourable, duty- Chief Donald Trump who refused to don entrenched shop owners have turned hoax or the danger has been hyped-up grandparents they have placed at risk! bound generation stood-for. a mask during a visit to a Ford factory away masked customers. by a cabal of shadowy billionaires out It’s a similar story in the United Those were the days when teenag- in Michigan now producing ventilators Lastly there are the ostriches who car- to create a one-world government and States. Despite being urged not to do ers signed-up for the trenches knowing and personal protective equipment. He ry on with their lives regardless and the economy or by leaderships attempt- so, thousands of students on a spring they might never return home. Contrast not only flouted company rules but also ‘cannot happen to me’ crowd. Together ing to exert control over populations break defiantly packed the beaches of that spirit with that of an American stu- a Michigan state law covering indoor the deniers, the kickers and the scream- so that people will embrace 5G intru- Florida and again on Memorial Day dent interviewed on CNN who said she public places. ers are hampering efforts to manage sive technology. There is even a luna- when millions ignored social distanc- is in a spiral of deep depression because But whereas Trump’s refusal to cover this terrible scourge that could so easily tic fringe burning down 5G masts and ing rules happily brushing shoulders she will miss the prom and graduation his nose and mouth is probably vanity- erupt into a second wave next autumn threatening technicians laying cables in parks and on beaches even in states ceremony. This virus is an ongoing di- driven, to wear or not to wear a mask that could overwhelm health services. on the grounds that 5G either caused or experiencing spikes in deaths. Such be- saster but hopefully it will stand as a has evolved into a US clash of cultures Unless we humans decide to pull togeth- accelerated COVID-19. haviour is nothing less than criminally wake-up call to future generations to between the compliant and others who er in the same direction and quit being Thankfully the nutty brigade repre- irresponsible.. reassess their priorities and not to take fervently resist government diktats as a our own worst enemy, I fear the suffer- sents a small minority; their messages ‘The Greatest Generation’ life’s bounteous gifts for granted. matter of principle to preserve individ- ing will be unnecessarily prolonged. fail to resonate with those of us with In truth, I am beginning to under- There is a growing number of Ameri- ual rights and constitutional freedoms. Gulf News

The views expressed in these columns are the writers’ own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Indian Horizon or its management.-Editor Indian Horizon Friday, July 3, 2020 international 8 Nearly 78% of Russian voters back constitutional reforms Myanmar jade mine landslide Moscow, July 2 (IANS) 65 per cent voted yes to the said he will run again for the Nearly 78 per cent of Rus- reforms in Moscow, and 77.6 presidency when his latest kills 113 sian voters backed consti- per cent in St Petersburg. term runs out in 2024 - but Yangon, July 2 (IANS) At Deadly landslides are frequent tutional reforms that could More than 45 per cent of has said it is vital he has the least 113 bodies were found on in Kachin state, known as land keep President Vladimir Pu- the registered voters - some option to do so. Thursday, while several others of jade. tin in power until 2036, elec- 49 million citizens - cast ear- He has been in power in were reported missing after a Many local people make tion officials said on Thurs- ly votes in the nationwide Russia, either as president landslide hit a jade mining site living by jade scavenging in day. ballot, according to authori- or prime minister, for 20 in Myanmar’s Kachin state, the region and most of the With all the ballots count- ties, which extended the years. officials said. landslides are caused by partial ed, 77.9 per cent voted for voting period by a week to But several hundred op- “A more than 304 metre-high collapse of tailings heaps the reform package and 21.3 prevent crowds at the poll- ponents of the constitution- cliff collapsed, burying those and dams. A major landslide, per cent against, the BBC ing stations and a possible al changes staged protests in collecting stones,” Xinhua which occurred in the region quoted the electoral com- port - above 90% - were in 505 rejected the reforms, outbreak of COVID-19. Moscow and St Petersburg news agency quoted a rescue in November 2015, left at least mission as saying. Crimea, annexed by Rus- while 310 voted for. The reforms will reset Pu- in response to the results. worker at the scene as saying. 116 jade scavengers dead. According to the officials, sia from Ukraine in 2014, in The other voting dis- tin’s term limits to zero in Top Kremlin critic Alexei Caused by the monsoon Myanmar is the world’s turnout among the 109 mil- Chechnya in the North Cau- trict where a majority were 2024, allowing him to serve Navalny described the re- rains, the landslide occurred at biggest source of jade, said a lion eligible voters was 65 casus, and Tuva, in Siberia. against was Nenets, in Rus- two more six-year terms, sults as a “big lie” which did the site in Sate Mu village tract BBC report. per cent. In New York 816 voted at sia’s remote Arctic. said the BBC report. not reflect real public opin- of Hpakant township at 8 a.m., The country’s jade trade is The highest levels of sup- the Russian consulate and The final results showed Putin, aged 67, has not ion in the country. according to the Fire Services reported to be worth more than Department. $30 billion a year. Hpakant is Rescue work is continuing for the site of the world’s biggest I’m all for masks, says Trump people still missing at the site. jade mine.

Washington, July 2 (IANS) forthcoming Independence want to give the press the US President Donald Trump, Day celebration on Friday pleasure of seeing it”. Nikki Haley praises India for ‘not who has long resisted wearing at Mount Rushmore, his The White House has a mask in public, has said he supporters in attendance will defended the President’s backing down’ against China likes face coverings and they not be forced to wear masks choice by saying everyone make him look like the Lone or socially distance. in contact with him is tested Ranger, the media reported When the US Centers for frequently for COVID-19, and on Thursday. Disease Control (CDC) in so is Trump himself. “I’m all for masks,” the April began recommending His daughter and senior BBC quoted the President as people wear masks or cloth adviser, Ivanka Trump, has saying to the Fox Business coverings in public to help also been spotted wearing a Network on Wednesday. stop the spread of the virus, mask in public. When asked whether he Trump had said that he An ABC News/Ipsos poll would wear one, Trump masked hero who with his “If people feel good about would not follow the practice. found that in the last week, said: “If I were in a tight Native American friend, it they should do it,” the BBC But he has repeatedly 89 per cent of Americans situation with people I Tonto, fought outlaws in the quoted him as saying in his emphasised that choosing said they wore a mask or face would, absolutely,” adding American Old West. Fox Business interview on to follow the official health covering outside their home that people have seen him But the President reiterated Wednesday. guidance around masks is a in the last week - a 20-point Washington, July 2 (IANS) national security against the wearing one before. that he did not think making Trump was also asked iif personal decision, the BBC jump from mid-April. Nikki Haley, the first Indian- Chinese Communist Party’s Trump said he would have face-coverings mandatory he still believes the novel reported. As of Thursday morning, American to serve in the US (CCP) spying on the country. “no problem” with wearing across the US was needed, coronavirus will “disappear” In May, during a visit to a the US reported a total of cabinet, has praised India’s “We welcome India’s ban a mask publicly and that he because there are “many someday. factory in Michigan, he told 2,685,806 COVID-19 cases, decision to ban 59 Chinese on certain mobile apps that “sort of liked” how he looked places in the country where “I do,” he said. “I do. Yeah reporters he took off a facial with 128,044 deaths, both apps, saying New Delhi “is can serve as appendages of with one on, likening himself people stay very long sure. At some point.” covering before facing the tallies are currently the continuing to show it wont the CCP’s surveillance state. to the Lone Ranger, a fictional distance”. During Trump’s cameras because he “didn’t highest in the world. back down from Chinas India’s ‘clean app’ approach aggression”. will boost India’s sovereignty, Taking to Twitter on will also boost India’s integrity Turkey delays decision on turning heritage site into mosque Wednesday, Haley also the and national security as the Istanbul, July 2 (IANS) A head of the Eastern Orthodox Nea. The UN body had former US Ambassador to the Indian government itself has Turkish court on Thursday Church has criticised the written to Turkey about the UN, said: Good to see India stated,” he said while briefing delayed a decision on proposal, as has Greece - proposal, but received no ban 59 popular apps owned reporters in Washington on whether the Hagia Sophia, a home to many millions of reply, he said. by Chinese firms, including Tuesday. 1,500 year old Unesco World Orthodox followers. Culture The Hagia Sophia is TikTok, which counts India as On Monday, India’s Heritage site, in Istanbul can Minister Lina Mendoni has a domed building that one of its largest markets. Electronics and Information be converted into a mosque. accused Turkey of reviving sits in Istanbul’s Fatih “India is continuing to Technology Ministry banned The Council of State “fanatical nationalist a district, on the west bank show it won’t back down from the 59 Chinese apps, saying - Turkey’s highest nd religious sentiment”, of the Bosporus. Justinian China’s aggression.” they opened the way for administrative body - said it insisting no change to a I ordered the massive Haley’s remarks came a day “elements hostile to national would make a ruling within Unesco World Heritage site construction built in 532, after US Secretary of State Mike security and defence” to 15 days, after a hearing can take place without being when the city - then known Pompeo welcomed India’s exploit them to “ultimately lasting just 17 minutes, the approved by the body’s as Constantinople - was move, saying the “clean app” impinges upon the sovereignty BBC reported. The Hagia Turkish President Recep opposition members have own intergovernmental the capital of the Byzantine policy will promote New Delhi’s and integrity of India”. Sophia was originally a Tayyip Erdogan called for the opposed the move. committee. Empire, also known as the cathedral before becoming a change during an election The proposal has Unesco Deputy director Eastern Roman Empire. mosque and then a museum rally last year. prompted international Ernesto Ottone Ramirez Engineers brought Pakistan’s inflation rises to in the 1930s. It may become Islamists in Turkey criticism, from religious and agreed that wider approval materials from across the a mosque again if the court have long called for it to political leaders worldwide, was needed, in an interview Mediterranean to build the 8-year-high in FY20 approves the move. be converted, but secular said the BBC report. The with Greek newspaper Ta colossal cathedral. Islamabad, July 2 (IANS) of many things including Pakistan’s inflation rose to gas and electricity tariffs to an eight-year-high inflationmeet the demands of the Iran, Russia, Turkey urge political solution to Syrian crisis rate of 10.74 per cent in FY20 International Monetary Fund Tehran, July 2 (IANS) A Recep Tayyip Erdogan and efforts to put pressure on the effect in mid-June, punishes that underlines inter-Syrian (July 2019-June 2020) due to to win a bailout package for trilateral summit between Iranian President Hassan Syrian people, the United any country, individual or dialogue as the only viable multiple factors, according to meeting budget deficit. Iran, Russia and Turkey Rouhani. States has imposed new entity that does business means to help resolve the official figures. Surge in the The country’s currency has called on conflicting They also agreed to unilateral and inhumane with the government of Syrian crisis peacefully. consumer price index (CPI) was also saw about 25 per cent parties in Syria to adhere to a hold the next trilateral sanctions, known as the Syrian President Bashar al- Putin also denounced witnessed by monitoring the devaluation in FY20, making political solution in order to summit on Syria in Iran but Caesar Act with the aim of Assad. the new US “illegitimate” prices of different commodities the inflation even worse. Last settle their differences. provided no date, according achieving its illegitimate “The US must be assured sanctions on Syria, saying and services including cost of month, the State Bank of “The Syrian war has no to the Iranian state TV. political aspirations,” that what it has not they were aimed at education, house rent, utility Pakistan said in a report that military solution and must During the meeting, Rouhani said. achieved through military “suffocating” Damascus. bills and food and beverages, Pakistan witnessed highest be settled only through a Rouhani denounced the “The US move amounts pressure and resorting to Highlighting “an inclusive Xinhua news agency quoted inflation in many years. political process,” read a US new sanctions against to economic terrorism that terrorist groups cannot be inter-Syrian dialogue”, the Pakistan Bureau of According to the report, joint statement issued at Syria which is battling the violates international law, attained through the tools he said the Astana peace Statistics (PBS) as saying. the inflation rate in January the end of video conference coronavirus pandemic as human rights, international of economic pressure and framework should deal with Inflation remained in an reached 14.6 per cent, but later on Wednesday attended by “inhumane”. humanitarian law and the punishment of the Syrian the issue of terrorism which upward trajectory since the the decrease in petroleum Russian President Vladimir “In line with the previous sovereignty of nations.” people,” Rouhani noted. He remains in Syria’s Idlib and beginning of FY20 as the prices and cut in interest rate Putin, Turkish President sanctions and its desperate The Caesar Act, which took described the Astana process other regions. government had to hike prices by the bank. UN chief highlights countries’ financial needs in response to COVID-19 United Nations, July 2 a roundtable on “Rebirthing their debt.” need for durable solutions policies and protectionism (IANS) UN Secretary-General the Global Economy to Deliver The Group of 20 debt service on debt that will create fiscal could turn today’s sharp Antonio Guterres highlighted Sustainable Development”, suspension for the poorest space for investments in decline into a prolonged the financial needs ofXinhua news agency reported countries was a welcome recovery and the Sustainable period of weak external countries, particularly on Wednesday. start. But much more needs Development Goals. financing. Moreover, as low- and middle-income COVID-19 is a human to be done. Support must be Beyond the fiscal shock, the the pandemic disrupts countries, in their response to crisis. But it also became a expanded and determined COVID-19 crisis has impacted supply chains and trade, COVID-19. development and financing by vulnerability rather than all the components of external there is a danger that some “As we craft a crisis as developing countries just gross domestic product, finance: direct investment, manufacturing will move comprehensive global face vastly increased he said. “We absolutely need exports and remittances. back to developed countries, response, action on finance demands for public spending to address the debt concerns Official developmentfurther reducing developing must be central. If countries exactly at the same time as a widespread debt crisis, fighting the pandemic. Debt of the -- mostly -- developing assistance is under pressure countries’ resources, and lack the financial means to tax and export revenues, with many countries faced defaults can have devastating countries and a large number as developed countries raising fundamental questions fight the pandemic and invest inward investments and with an impossible choice social consequences. And of middle-income countries themselves deal with the about their integration into the in recovery, we face a health remittances are plummeting, between servicing their debt many countries simply do that have lost the capacity to fallout of the crisis, he noted. global economy, he warned. catastrophe and a painfully said Guterres. or protecting their most not have access to financial access financial markets.” Uncertainty and a further “These questions need bold slow global recovery,” he told “We are on the cusp of vulnerable communities and markets to be able to service Guterres also stressed the retreat to inward-looking and creative answers.” business Indian Horizon 9 Friday, July 3, 2020 Software provider Amdocs to lay off Global cues push equity markets higher, 1,000 employees: Report auto, IT stocks rise workforce and adapting to the changing business Mumbai, July 2 (IANS) benchmark indices have sus- needs,” Amdocs said in a Buoyant global cues along tained their momentum while statement. with initial signs of an eco- upsides seem to be limited. “Amdocs is continuing nomic turnaround pushed Investors are advised to watch to recruit employees in a the key Indian equity indices out for any signs of trend re- wide range of sectors in higher on Thursday. versal and keep booking short which its activity is growing Market experts cited posi- term profits.” and investing in its growth tive global economic data On the currency front, the engines while taking care and encouraging coronavirus rupee rose sharply against the of its human capital,” the vaccine trials combined with US dollar on back of expected New Delhi, July 2 (IANS) including senior positions,” company added. onset of timely monsoon as dollar inflow of Reliance stake US-based software and the report said. In April, Amdocs notified factors that led to the higher sale to Facebook. communications service Amdocs employs 25,000 its employees that due to trajectory. 122 points or 1.2 per cent to “Investors would also “The quantum is expected provider Amdocs is laying people globally, and over the financial uncertainty, Both the 30-scrip Sensi- end at 10,552 points. keenly watch out for the US to be around $5 billion and off around 1,000 employees 10,000 employees are in “the salary raises planned tive Index (Sensex) of the S&P The broader market also ap- employment data, which will more dollar inflow could lead amid uncertainties India which is its biggest for July will not be BSE and the NSE Nifty50 both preciable gains. Besides, India come out later today.” to further appreciation in the surrounding the financial research and development implemented as scheduled made healthy gains. Sector VIX cooled down 5.7 per cent Deepak Jasani, Head of rupee. From the US, market recovery owing to the hub. The company has and that all of its employees wise, all sub indices closed to 26.5 levels. Retail Research at HDFC participants will be keeping ongoing Covid-19 development centres in should take 13 days of paid in the green with auto and IT “While there are concerns Securities,said: “Technically, an eye on non-farm payrolls pandemic, the media Pune and Gurugram. vacation between April and making the biggest gains. over rising coronavirus cas- with the Nifty moving up fur- number and better-than-ex- reported on Thursday. In March, the company June of this year”. The Sensex, which had es and chances of a second ther after breaking out of the pected economic data could According to a report announced to train 5,000 “As a global company we opened at 35,604 points, round of lockdown, market 10,194-10,410 range on Thurs- support the dollar that was in Israeli-based website employees in Cloud-based are committed to acting in a ended higher by 429 points or seems to be factoring in posi- day, the underlying trend re- weighed down in t he last cou- Calcalist, Amdocs’s technologies over the next level-headed, responsible, 1.2 per cent to close at 35,844 tive macro-economic data, mains up.” ple of sessions,” said Gaurang quarterly earnings is around couple of years in India. and proactive manner,” points. onset of timely monsoon and “The Nifty could move Somaiyaa, Forex & Bullion An- $1 billion and a huge part “As a global corporation Amdocs President and On Wednesday, the Sensex initial success in vaccine de- up further once the highs of alyst, Motilal Oswal Financial of it – nearly $691 million - with tens of thousands CEO, Shuky Sheffer had had closed at 35,414.45 points. velopment,” said Siddhartha 10,597 are taken out.” Services. comes from the US which of employees, Amdocs is said in a statement. Similarly, the broader Khemka, Head of Retail Re- In addition, Vinod Nair, “We expect the USDINR is currently witnessing a continually making the Earlier this week, Amdocs 50-scrip Nifty at the National search, Motilal Oswal Finan- Head of Research at Geojit Fi- (Spot) could quote in the coronavirus resurgence. necessary adjustments announced that it is issuing Stock Exchange (NSE) surged cial Services. nancial Services, said: “Indian range of 74.40 and 75.05.” “Amdocs is planning to in its expenses while $650 million in bonds for cut many hundreds of jobs, strategically assessing its repayment in 2030. ‘Crunched’ Maha Power Ministry seeks Rs 10K cr central grant Mumbai, July 2 (IANS) halt of all industrial and com- for 2020-2021, the MSEDCL its financials could worsen if Nokia phone maker acquires Faced with a cash crunch, a mercial consumption in lock- had also approached banks the debt burden of additional debt burden of Rs 38,282 crore down resulted in almost no and FIs, but they did not re- loans taken due to the pan- cybersecurity firm Valona Labs and falling revenues in view of revenues in April-May. spond, while delayed tariff demic is also shifted on the Helsinki, July 2 (IANS) tion of assets of Valona Labs its unique go-to-market of- Covid-19 pandemic, the Ma- All consumers have been approvals by the Maharashtra company. HMD Global, the home of - a renowned and trusted fering. harashtra Power Department granted extensions to clear Electricity Regulatory Author- Simultaneously, it is manda- Nokia phones, on Thursday mobile software business,” In March this year, HMD on Thursday sought a grant of their electricity dues, but the ity (MERC) and inadequate tory to pay maintenance and announced it has acquired Juho Sarvikas, Chief Product Global entered a new service Rs 10,000 crore to tide over the MSEDCL is facing a cash cri- tariffs have hurt the liquidity repair costs, besides paying assets of mobile, enterprise Officer, HMD Global, said in category with the launch of immediate crisis. sis to clear its fixed costs like position of the company, he the power generation compa- and cybersecurity software a statement. its global data roaming ser- In a letter to Union Power power purchase, salaries, added. nies for ensuring continuous firm Valona Labs for an un- The smartphone maker is vice, HMD Connect, which Minister R. K. Singh, Energy taxes, etc. besides clearing the Additionally worrying is the supply in addition to the ac- disclosed amount. The ac- also launching a brand-new enables people around the Minister Nitin Raut said that payments of power genera- MSEDCL’s piled up debt bur- cumulated outstanding pay- quisition of new asset may Centre of Excellence in Tam- world to benefit from a has- the country’s largest power tors since April. “Although this den of Rs 38,282 crore, com- ments on this count, Raut said. further build upon the com- pere, Finland. sle-free data SIM. distributor, MSEDCL has been had a major impact between prising Rs 18,600 crore dur- The Minister pointed out pany’s reputation as a global The new centre will spe- Over the coming months, grappling with acute cash April-June 2020, its cascad- ing September 2018-March that, despite the Centre an- leader in smartphone soft- cialise in software, secu- the centre in Tampere will shortage in view of the recent ing effects will last for the next 2020, Rs 16,720 crore loans for nouncing a Special Econom- ware updates and security. rity and services, propelling concentrate on develop- 3-month lockdown, which few months and it is likely to various infra projects, and an ic Package on May 13, the “As a company that be- HMD Global’s transition ing this service further and continues in most parts of the continue throughout the year. overdraft of Rs 3,500 crore for MSEDCL would hardly ben- lieves every phone should be from a purely hardware busi- begin work on other ser- state. With the lower realization of working capital. efit in view of its guidelines, built upon the foundations ness, to a combined hard- vices such as remote device While 60 per cent of the revenue, it will be difficult for For this, the MSEDCL pres- and it would end up entail- of security, reliability and ware and services company, locking, enterprise mobility state’s power revenue comes MSEDCL to make both ends ently spends around Rs 900 ing an extra burden of Rs 500 dependability, we are proud diversifying its intellectual management, mobile device from the industrial and com- meet,”said Raut. crore per month for loan re- crore per annum on the state to announce the acquisi- property and differentiating software security. mercial sector, the near-total Anticipating cash shortages payments and interest, so government. June auto sales show sequential uptrend OnePlus enters affordable New Delhi, July 2 (IANS) Similarly, Tata Motors nth under review sequen- India’s major automobile reported a downfall in total tially grew to over 450,744 TV segment with 2 new players reported a sequen- sales for Q1FY21 to 25,047 units from the 112,682 units tial uptrend in June, as the vehicles, compared to dispatched in May 2020. series in India rate of sales de-growth de- 1,37,545 units sold during Furthermore, two-wheel- celerated. Q1FY20. The company’s er major Honda Motorcycle rience among many others,” Navnit Accordingly, two-wheel- total domestic sales for & Scooter India reported Nakra, Vice President and Chief ers and tractors off-take on Q1FY21 plunged by 82 per a sequential increase of Strategy Officer, OnePlus India, told a sequential basis in June cent to 23,845 units from 156 per cent in retail sales IANS. OnePlus entered the smart showed narrowing of the the 1,31,879 units sold dur- for June. Honda’s retails TV industry with the launch of TV de-growth rate. units to other OEMs. Ex- pany’s total sales declined ing the corresponding pe- jumped 156 per cent to Q1 Series last year. However, analysts said ports during the period un- to 19,358 units from 42,547 riod of the previous fiscal. nearly 3 lakh units in June The newly launched 55-inch that the industry is still reel- der review fell to 4,289 units units sold during the like “As of June 30, 2020, the 2020 from 1.15 lakh units OnePlus TV U Series comes with ing under the impact of the from 9,847 units shipped period of the previous year. Company has cash and in May. The company said picture quality in 4K UHD with an Covid-19 outbreak. out in June 2019. Commenting on the cash equivalents of more the second month of return New Delhi, July 2 (IANS) Chinese enhanced 93 per cent DCI-P3 co- On a company specific Another automobile ma- sales performance, Veejay than Rs 5,000 crore and un- of economic activity saw tech brand OnePlus on Thursday lour gamut. It also entails the Gam- basis, automobile major jor, Hyundai Motor India, Nakra, Chief Executive Of- drawn committed facilities Honda’s total two-wheeler entered the affordable TV segment ma Engine feature which optimises Maruti Suzuki reported a reported cumulative sales ficer, Automotive Division, of Rs 1,500 crore,” the com- dispatches shoot up nearly with the launch of two new series, the image quality in real-time for a year-on-year decline of 54 of 26,820 units in June 2020, M&M, said: “The automo- pany said in a statement. 4 times to 210,879 units in U Series and Y Series, in India at a clearer and more immersive experi- per cent in total sales in of which, domestic sales tive industry has started t In the two-wheeler June compared to 54,820 starting price of Rs 12,999. ence, OnePlus said. June 2020. The company’s accounted for 21,320 units o see recovery both in the space, Hero MotoCorp re- units in May. The OnePlus TV U series which Additionally, it comes equipped total off-take declined to and exports another 5,500 passenger and small com- ported four times whole- “While normalcy is yet to offers an expansive 55-inch panel with Dolby Vision and also offers 57,428 units from 1,24,708 units. mercial vehicle segments. sale growth on a sequential return to the industry, there which comes equipped with a 4K the MEMC (motion estimation, units sold in June 2019. Mahindra & Mahindra T his has been led primar- basis in June. have been signs of hope UHD display is priced at Rs 49,999. motion compensation) feature The total sales included reported a decline of 55 per ily by rising rural demand The company’s whole- with sales volumes increas- The OnePlus Y series has two which further reduces motion blur, 52,300 units off-take in the cent in its total vehicle sales and movement of essential sale deliveries made to ing by almost 2 to 3 times as variants of 43 inches and 32 inches stuttering, and ghosting to help the domestic market and of 839 in June 2020. The com- goods across the country.” dealerships during the mo compared to May. which are priced at Rs 22,999 and Rs visuals remain smooth and crisp, 12,999, respectively. Nakra said. The OnePlus TV Y Series 32-inch To give the user a cinematic SC’s action may clear way for electricity futures in India will be available starting July 5 on soundstage right at the comfort of New Delhi, July 2 (IANS) market. The introduction electricity forwards while the issue of electricity fu- count of the lockdown and Amazon.in, the company said, add- their home, the TV will be equipped After years of delays, India of the derivative products the latter would regulate tures jurisdiction between economic slowdown that ing that the OnePlus TV Y series 43 with a 30-W, 4-unit speaker system may soon open a deriva- has got delayed over juris- physically settled forward SEBI and CERC,” said an has also impacted power inch and OnePlus TV U Series 55 powered by Dolby Atmos and will tives market for the power dictional issues between where electricity is deliv- official source. demand. Futures and op- inch will be available to customers enable a familiar experience with sector allowing both power market regulator SEBI and ered on future date at the “The order on ending tions work best in a ris- soon. the Android TV 9.0 providing a flaw- generators and consumers power regulator CERC. contracted price. the case based on appli- ing market where players Packed with smart features, the less approach. to enter into futures con- Sources privy to the de- “Decks have been cations given by the two need to hedge their posi- TVs will enable users to pair with up The OnePlus Y series will be avail- tracts and use it as a new velopment told IANS that cleared for the start of the regulators got delayed tions to minimize losses. to five devices at the same time. able in two variants of 32 inches and hedging tool to mitigate Securities and Exchange electricity futures market due to Covid-19 related While India presents a “These features emphasize One- 43 inches. price volatility and other Board of India (SEBI) and in India with regulators disruptions. It is expected large power market with Plus’ signature bezel-less design The 43-inch variant of the OneP- associated risks. Central Electricity Regula- reaching broad under- anytime this month now. installed generation ca- and with the unique addition of lus TV Y Series offers an impressive Introduction of pure tory Commission (CERC) standing on how to go So the futures market pacity of close to 370 GW OnePlus connect, our TVs will of- screen-to-body ratio at nearly 90 play futures and options as have now reached an un- about while allowing de- could become reality this and large number of par- fer many innovative smart features per cent with a bezel-less design. products on power trading derstanding to allow fu- rivative instruments for year itself,” the source ticipants from both pri- which will enable you to pair with The 32-inch variant also offers a platforms would be a ma- tures trading in electricity. market participants. They added. vate and public sector, it is up to 5 devices at the same time, screen-to-body ratio of over 90 per jor reform initiative that The former is expected will still have to get con- Even after clarity on yet to offer futures trading over Wi-Fi or Bluetooth and use cent. Along with it, the Y Series will would help in developing a to oversee the function- currence of the Supreme regulations, there may option that is the hallmark your OnePlus smartphones as a re- be equipped with 93 per cent colour robust and vibrant energy ing of all financially traded Court that was overseeing be further delays on ac- of all mature markets. mote for a seamless smart TV expe- gamut, he said. Indian Horizon Friday, July 3, 2020 business 10 Bounce Back: IndiGo expects traffic to rebound within 5 months Likee, Bigo Live suspend services, New Delhi, July 2 (IANS) At present, the aviation eventual revival in the overall Despite Covid-19 induced sector suffers from the fallout economy. On international TikTok says no legal action economic challenges, senior of Covid-19 outbreak and operations, Boulter said that privacy and data security”. executive of airline major the consequent national restart is dependent on a Released first in 2017, the IndiGo estimates a rebound lockdown which was number of factors but the platform has over 15 million in domestic passenger traffic implemented to curb the airline is “ready and waiting”. users worldwide. within the next 5 months. pandemic. Last month, Directorate Bigo Live, another product Accordingly, the Besides, the outbreak General of Civil Aviation had from the same company, also airline’s Chief Commercial has induced economic issued a circular extending said that they respect the Officer, William Boulter is contraction and heavily the suspension on scheduled government’s order and have encouraged by the fact that impacted the travel industry. commercial international removed the app from both demand has sustained since Lately, national and flight operations to and from Google and Apple stores. the restart of operations on domestic airlines were able weeks since restart, it was international monetary India till July 15. Meanwhile, another short- May 25. Passenger air services to ferry around two million not a case of a few days’ pent agencies have cited a range However, Centre in video making platform were suspended on March passengers during the past up demand. Passengers are of negative 4.5 to 5 per cent the past has hinted at the New Delhi, July 2 (IANS) TikTok from China-based 25 due to the nationwide one month. “People travel moving over all the routes contractions in India’s GDP prospects of abilateral bubble Short-video platform Likee ByteDance said they are lockdown to check the spread for a number of different we are operating, there is no growth rate. arrangements’, which will on Thursday said it has not pursuing legal action of Covid-19. reasons, many of which particular pattern between The sector is a high allow some international temporarily pulled off the regarding the government’s Presently, airlines are only can be seen as ‘essential’,” metros or non-metros.” frequency indicator of operations between app from Google Play and directive as reported in a allowed to deploy 45 per Boulter told IANS. The airline offers close to country’s economic growth. countries. Apart from Apple App Stores and has section of the media. cent of their total capacity “The encouraging aspect 350 commercial flights daily, A rebound in passenger domestic services, the airline suspended its service in “We have no plans to to service domestic routes. right now is that demand due to the capped capacity traffic and aircraft movement is operating several charter India. pursue such action. We are Even with capped capacity, is sustained over the past norms. will be taken as a sign of an services each day. Likee, a product of BIGO committed to working with Technology Pte Ltd, is one of the government to address the 59 Chinese apps banned its concerns,” said a TikTok NPCI to build Rs 500 crore smart data centre in Hyderabad by the Indian government. spokesperson. “We respect the Indian Both TikTok and vernacular Hyderabad, July 2 (IANS) extraordinary support from The centre is being built with government’s order and have social networking platform The National Payment the state government. an Internet of Things (IoT) temporarily taken off Likee Helo have said they were in Corporation of India (NPCI), This will add to based building management from Google Play and App the process of complying the umbrella organization Telangana brand equity system that will have eight Store, and have suspended with the government order for operating retail payments in attracting investments layers of security system. service in India until there to ban 59 Chinese apps and and settlement systems in in the Information & NPCI has engaged Larsen & is further clarity provided on were not sharing any data of the country, will develop Communication Technology Toubro (L&T) as its turnkey this matter,” the company Indian users with the Chinese its smart data centre in (ICT) sector, it said. contractor for building the said in a statement. government. Hyderabad at an investment The proposed smart data centre. Stressing that it works TikTok and Helo, of Rs 500 crore. centre would ensure high NPCI MD & CEO, Dilip under Singapore-based BIGO both owned by Chinese Telangana’s Minister for It will host major services per month, according to a availability up to 99.995 per Asbe said their focus Technology Pte Ltd, Likee content giant ByteDance, Industry and Information under the Digital India statement from the minister’s cent and complied with full will always remain on said that it held “utmost disappeared from both Technology K.T.Rama Rao on initiatives. office. redundant infrastructure enhancing acceptance priority to adherence to all Google Play Store and Apple Thursday laid the foundation The smart data centre The NPCI has chosen (N+N) even during natural infrastructure for digital the local laws as well as users’ App Store earlier this week. stone of the smart data centre would be located in Narsingi Telangana to set up the facility calamities like earthquakes, payments so as to encourage that would be recognised as village in Ranga Reddy as it is one of the strategic and cyclones etc. and have customers towards digital the first Tier IV data centre in district. With this data centre, fastest growing IT corridors modular design for higher transactions to achieve RBI Warehousing demand Hyderabad. Hyderabad will be one of the in the country with advantage sustainability. and government’s less cash The facility, to be built major hubs for processing of supportive geographical It is going to be objective. as per the international payments with a value of presence, availability of environment friendly with He said with the smart data grew 44% in 3 years: standards, will house the almost Rs 15 lakh crore per abundant human resources the adoption of green centre, they were happy to national critical set-up with month and transactions and best in class network building features, rain water create more employment Knight Frank highly secured infrastructure. of about 14,000 million and infrastructure and harvesting and solar panels. opportunities as well. Ahmedabad (5 per cent YoY) in FY20, it said. “Rents in Grade A ‘Liquidity, asset quality risks for NBFIs remain elevated’ properties for FY20 remained Mumbai, July 2 (IANS) According to Fitch Ratings, regulatory guidance around stable, ranging Rs 13-32 per Rating agency Fitch Ratings the moratorium impact is impaired-asset recognition sq ft a month. Cap rates saw a on Thursday said that varied across the different indicates that the true extent significant decline in the previ- India’s non-bank financial NBFI business models. of the damage may only New Delhi, July 2 (IANS) ous decade from 12-15 per cent institutions will continue to “We believe the become visible in FY22. This Warehousing demand has seen in 2011 to 8.5-9.5 per cent in face elevated near-term risks, moratorium will erode lack of transparency will strong growth in the last few 2019,” it said. even as economic activity payment discipline and its complicate the sector’s fund years and has recorded a sig- The GST led to a transforma- picks up with the easing of extension will result in lagged raising efforts.” nificant 44 per cent CAGR since tive shift to efficiency-based the country’s nationwide asset-quality problems for As per the statement, 2017, mostly after introduction location and size strategy lockdown. NBFIs, particularly when FY20 results do reveal that of the goods and services tax rather than the erstwhile tax Accordingly, the rating combined with the economic many of the sector’s largest (GST), according to a report by saving-focused objective. The agency said that these risks “The cash flow implications repay or refinance upcoming damage from the pandemic competitors took proactive Knight Frank. real estate asset class has seen revolve around liquidity and of the moratorium, which obligations,” Fitch Ratings and lockdown; we expect provisioning, but whether In its latest report ‘India a robust compounded annual asset quality in particular regulators have extended said in a statement. India’s economy to contract this was sufficient will depend Warehousing Market Report - growth rate (CAGR) in FY17- and reflect the impact of to end-August, have not “We expect near-term by 5 per cent in the financial on the extent of asset-quality 2020’, Knight Frank India has 20. Post-GST, the asset class the coronavirus pandemic been uniform across the inflows to remain below year ending March 2021 deterioration in the coming estimated that existing land has received $6.5 billion insti- on borrowers’ repayment industry, affecting some pre-pandemic levels and to (FY21),” the statement said. months. committed to warehousing tutional investment commit- capabilities, as well as the NBFIs liquidity profilesimprove only gradually as “Asset quality indicators “We expect credit costs to across the top eight cities has ments. effects of the moratorium on more materially and placing economic activity gathers did not show significant be elevated over the medium- the potential to add 193 million Shishir Baijal, Chairman & collections. pressure on their ability to pace.” deterioration in FY20, but term,” the statement said. square feet of capacity. Managing Director, Knight “The currently committed Frank India, said, “Despite the land for warehouse is estimat- economic slowdown and the NHAI to set up InvIT for investment in highway sector ed at 21,163 acres, which has pandemic, the warehousing New Delhi, July 2 (IANS) over a period of time. Works Accordingly, a search- Finance Corporation; the potential of adding 63 per market has remained resilient, With an aim to facilitate well for the road sector where cum-selection committee Girish Chandra Chaturvedi, cent more supply to the exist- recording 44 per cent CAGR in investment in the highway steady cash flows take time has been formed to select Chairman, ICICI Bank; and ing 307 million square feet of the last three years. Demand sector, National Highway and InvITs give liquidity to the best talent from the Sanjay Mitra, Ex-Secretary, warehousing stock,” it said. has especially been strong Authority of India (NHAI) is service debt. market for appointment of Ministry of Road Transport & Hyderabad, Ahmedabad and from industries, like 3PL, e- in the process of setting up As part of the structure two independent Directors Highways. Chennai, three of the eight commerce, FMCG and phar- an Infrastructure Investment proposed by NHAI, a new and one Chairman for the The idea is to set up a markets, ranked high on the maceutical, which is expected Trust (InvIT). company is being set up to act Investment Manager Board. competent entity of experts Knight Frank’s Development to continue in FY21.” InvITs are instruments as the Investment Manager to Sukhbir Singh Sandhu, that can professionally run Potential Multiple. The warehousing segment that work like mutual funds. the proposed InvIT. country, NHAI has decided Chairman, NHAI is the the Infrastructure Trust to Despite economic slow- had been gaining traction with They are designed to pool As NHAI InvIT will be the to have a professional Convener of the Committee mobilize resources from down, the warehousing leasing investors in the last few years small sums of money from a first InvIT to be sponsored management structure for and other members include the market for monetizing activity saw healthy demand due to the potential of India’s number of investors to invest by any government or semi the proposed investment Deepak Parekh, Chairman, completed highway projects in Mumbai (8 per cent YoY), domestic consumption and in assets that give cash flow government entity in the manager. Housing Development of NHAI. Pune (42 per cent YoY) and overall GDP growth, he added. 1 in 2 workers say company productivity apps are ‘nonsense’: Survey Bengaluru, July 2 (IANS) they just want the job done, corporate security policy. Academic at Edge Hill per cent) of remote workers Nearly one in two workers 44 per cent think they can get While 14 per cent of University. In India, however, said they are more conscious globally think they can get away with using a non-work respondents admit to the survey results indicated of their organisation’s away with using a non-work application, as the solutions watching or accessing porn a high level of security cybersecurity policies since app to get the job done as the provided by their company on their work laptop, and 14 awareness, with 84 per cent lockdown began, but many solutions provided by their are “nonsense”, said the per cent access the dark web. of respondents claiming they are breaking the rules anyway company are just nonsense, survey by global cybersecurity “There are a great number take instructions from their due to limited understanding a new survey revealed on firm Trend Micro. of individual differences IT team seriously, and 83 per or resource constraints. Thursday. About 44 per cent of across the workforce. This can cent agree that cybersecurity “It’s really heartening to see Productivity still wins out employees admit to using a include individual employee’s within their organisation is that so many people take the over protection for many non-work application on a values, accountability within partly their responsibility. advice from their corporate users worldwide. corporate device, and 46 per their organisation, as well as Additionally, 67 per cent IT team seriously, although While 52 per cent cent of them have actually their work laptop for personal “About 42 per cent of aspects of their personality, acknowledge that using you have to wonder about the respondents agreed that they uploaded corporate data to browsing, and only 45 per respondents said they often all of which are important non-work applications on a those who don’t. At the same do not give much thought to that application. cent of them fully restrict the or always access corporate factors which drive people’s corporate device is a security time, those people also accept whether the apps they use “Nearly 83 per cent of sites they visit,” the findings data from a personal device behaviours,” said Dr Linda risk. their own role in the human are sanctioned by IT or not as respondents confess to using showed. – almost certainly breaking K. Kaye, Cyberpsychology Nearly three quarters (72 firewall of any organisation”. Sports Indian Horizon 11 Friday, July 3, 2020 SPORTS MINISTER RIJIJU, SINDHU AND CHHETRI TO LAUNCH FIT INDIA TALKS ON THIS New Delhi, July 2 (IANS) Minister of Human Resource Development (MHRD). during the session at 5 pm,” journeys -- from common DAY: ROHIT’S The government of India’s Development Dr. R.P. Nishank, “I requested Kiren Rijiju ji Nishank was quoted as saying students to world-class flagship program Fit India Union Sports Minister Kiren to speak to our schoolchildren in the release. champions. MASTERCLASS on Thursday announced Rijiju as well as badminton directly through a platform A host of leading sports “This is a series where the that it is launching a series of star P.V. Sindhu and Indian and not only did he completely celebrities will be sharing their champion athletes will speak AGAINST interactive sessions with some football team skipper Sunil oblige but also decided on experiences of childhood, to the students and share of the top sportspersons of the Chhetri. bringing aboard the likes of PV stories on how they got their inspirational life stories. BANGLADESH IN country intended to inspire The Fit India Talks sessions Sindhu and Sunil Chhetri on inspired, their failures, I invite all the schoolstudents, the schoolchildren. are being organized in board for our first session. struggles and their success. teachers and the parents to ̊̈̉̑ WC The sessions, titled Fit India association with the Sports All of us will be present on This will give the audience join in and interact with us Talks, premieres Friday July Authority of India (SAI) and the July 3. Please ask whatever a very inspirational yet directly,” Rijiju was quoted as 3 in the presence of Union Ministry of Human Resource you want and we’ll answer you interesting account of their saying in the release.

said the statement. Newell’s VP doesn’t rule out doing a DJOKOVIC AND WIFE JELENA The statement says both had no symptoms and that TEST NEGATIVE FOR COVID˨̉̑ they were in self-isolation Maradona with Lionel Messi in the Serbian capital since London, July 2 (IANS) with Leo. Obviously, that’s testing positive 10 days ago. Argentine club Newell’s not to be selling smoke. Djokovic has been under Old Boys vice-president It’s a difficult topic.“What fire in recent days due to Christian D’Amico feels Newell’s fan would not the lack of social distancing there remains a chance dream to see the best player norms followed during the that Barcelona talisman in the world with the jersey Adria Tour. Lionel Messi might end up of their team on? He has however found finishing his career at his Time might allow such support from Serbian athletes boyhood club. things, you have to be calm,” and even the Serbian Prime Messi joined Newell’s as a he added. Minister Ana Brnabic. six-year-old before moving Messi recently touched the “Every part of him. He tried to the famed Barcelona 700th career goal landmark to do something good for the youth academy La Masia at after he scored from the whole region,” Brnabic said in the age of 14. penalty spot in Barcelona’s an interview with PinkTV. Citing example of 2-2 draw against Atletico “To put politics aside legendary Argentine Diego the best possible context Madrid at the Camp Nou in and help young and non- Maradona’s brief stint at the to help make a decision,” the ongoing LaLiga. Belgrade, July 2 (IANS) participating in his Adria Tour established tennis players, club in the 1993-94 season, D’Amico was quoted as Messi, who converted Tennis World No.1 Novak which ended up producing a as well as to raise money for D’Amico said Messi’s return saying by TNT Sports as per a spot kick to reach the Djokovic and his wife Jelena cluster of coronavirus cases. humanitarian purposes. isn’t ‘impossible’. Daily Mail. milestone on Tuesday, has have both tested negative “Novak Djokovic and his “If they could shift the “I don’t know if it’s “When Maradona came to scored 630 times for Barca for coronavirus, the player’s wife Jelena are negative for blame on me personally, as impossible. It’s a decision Newell’s, nobody thought in 724 appearances in all media team said on Thursday. COVID-19. That was shown Prime Minister, and leave exclusively made by him and that he would come either.I competitions and another Djokovic was the fourth by the results of the PCR tests Novak alone, I would love it,” New Delhi, July 2 (IANS) his family. We have to have hope to do something similar 70 for Argentina in 138 caps. player to test positive after that both had in Belgrade,” she added. India white-ball vice-captain Rohit Sharma was at his absolute best on this day last HAMILTON TARGETS RECORD AS F̉ RETURNS AFTER LENGTHY COVID˨̉̑ HIATUS year against Bangladesh in a group stage match at the Spielberg, July 2 (IANS) otherwise would have been the most difficult season that will see the F1 in a brand new time,” Vettel told Ferrari as 2019 World Cup. Defending champion Lewis the 11th race on the normal Formula 1 and all of us has avatar altogether.Four-time per Sky Sports.“Having a Rohit’s majestic ton helped Hamilton will be targetting calendar.Six-time champion experienced,” Hamilton told champion Sebastian Vettel, tease in Mugello was nice but India continue their fine Michael Schumacher’s Hamilton, who is gunning to Mercedes earlier this week as who had earlier announced getting back in the real car form at the showpiece event record when Formula equal Schumacher’s all-time per Sky Sports. that this will be his final year for the real thing is definitely in England and Wales and One returns this weekend record of seven titles, stated “With the difficult with Ferrari, expressed his what we are looking forward they recorded a 28-run win after the 2019-20 season recently that everyone will times that we’re facing happiness with the prospect to. Going racing, competing in Birmingham.Batting first, was savaged due to the have to follow changes put and the changes that we of getting back on the circuit with the others. “Austria is a Rohit, along with his opening coronavirus pandemic. in place by the authorities have to make in order to after the long enforced break. place that I like and a circuit partner K.L. Rahul, provided Austria’s Red Bull Ring in for the sport to operate operate.”Several laws have We’ve been waiting now for that I like so it’s good to know the team with a fine start as Spielberg will play host to the successfully in the wake preparing the best way we been put in place for safety quite a long time - and it that we are finally allowed to they put together a 180-run first race of the season, which of the pandemic.“We are can for what is going to be of everyone involved which has started to feel like a long get back,” he added. opening stand. Rohit was the more aggressive of the two as he DO NOT BE AFRAID WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP TO BE dealt in boundaries and paved way for India to put on TO LOVE ANYONE: a huge total on the board. POSTPONED TO ̊̈̊̉: FIDE CHIEF Rohit took just 90 deliveries DUTEE CHAND to cross the 100-run mark Moscow, July 2 (IANS) The and he brought up his fourth World Chess Championship century of the tournament will “almost certainly be in just the 29th over of the postponed to the next innings. year,” International Chess 2021, but we will announce will begin. We want as many He smashed seven Federation (FIDE) President everything later,” Dvorkovich teams as possible to take part boundaries and five sixes Arkady Dvorkovich has told Russian state-run in the tournament — we have before getting dismissed confirmed. agency TASS.Dvorkovich also 195 FIDE members. for 104 by Soumya Sarkar. The championship was confirmed that the FIDE will I don’t know if all 195 teams The way Rohit was batting, scheduled to take place in hold its first online Chess can be involved.“About 70 at one point it seemed like Dubai in December and Olympiad. per cent of the countries will he would go on to smash Dvorkovich said that the “This year’s Olympiad participate. his fourth double ton, as federation is looking at was supposed to be held The Olympiad will last he had overs on his side as New Delhi, July 2 (IANS) Ace spring and autumn of 2021 as in Khanty-Mansiysk and almost a month. And then, well but perished soon after sprinter Dutee Chand urged options. Moscow, but we moved it to indeed, we are determined completing his century. people to show courage in the “The match for the World next year. to hold the second part of the Bangladesh bowlers face of societal taboo and love Championship will almost And this year we will Candidates Tournament in made a fine comeback and anyone regardless of their caste, certainly be postponed to the stage an online Olympiad, the autumn. ended up restricting India gender or religion. next year due to the current and in two or three days As for location, the main to 314/9, which was still a Since coming out as India's situation. We have already and I think a formal decision discussing various options the registration of national option did not change — very formidable score for the first gay athlete last year, discussed this informally, will be made shortly. We are — both spring and autumn teams for the tournament Yekaterinburg. eventual semi-finalists. Dutee has been outspoken in her support for the LGBTQ+ community. TENDULKAR, KUMBLE LEAD TRIBUTES AS EVERTON WEEKES PASSES AWAY AGED ̑̍ "One may fall in love anytime and with anyone. One does not New Delhi, July 2 (IANS) conference in Barbados. He windiescricket along with decide based on caste, religion Former India cricketers Sachin remembered a conversation West Indies greats Sir Clive or gender," said the 24-year-old Tendulkar and Anil Kumble we had during his time as Walcott and Sir Frank Worrell. in a video conversation with U.S. led the way in paying tribute match referee. Condolences to #RIP". Consul General in Hyderabad, to legendary West Indies his family and friends." Weekes made his Test debut Joel Reifman. cricketer Everton Weekes after Former India batsman V.V.S at age 22 against England Dutee has faced significant he passed away, aged 95, at Laxman tweeted: "Heard at Kensington Oval in 1948 opposition from within his Christ Church home in about the passing away under the captaincy of George her own family for her Barbados on Wednesday. of West Indies legend Sir Headley. His final match was innings, he made 90. relationship and she says that Tendulkar took to Twitter to Everton Weekes. He was one against Pakistan in Trinidad a The Cricket Association of people have called her by pay his respects to Weekes and of the greats of the game. My decade later. Bengal (CAB), while mourning many names since but none wrote: "Sir Everton Weekes condolences to his family and In his career, Sir Everton the demise of West Indian of it matters to her. is no more! Had heard many loved ones." played 48 Test matches and legend Everton Weekes, on "My partner supported me stories about his batting along Former England cricketer made 4455 runs at an average Thursday announced that the every time and I have chosen with the other legendary 2Ws. Michael Atherton also wrote of 58.61 per innings. iconic cricketer would feature her for my life. People may You will be missed Sir. Rest on Twitter: "Very sad to This included a world record in the soon to come up cricket look at us differently or call us in peace."Kumble wrote on learn about the passing of Sir five consecutive centuries in museum at Eden Gardens. by any name like gay, lesbian his Twitter handle: Saddened Everton Weekes. A humble 1948 – scores of 141 against Legendary West Indies etc," she said."That does not to hear the passing of WI man who wore his greatness goes out to the family and to score five consecutive Test England in Jamaica, followed batsman Weekes passed away matter so far as we get to spend legend Sir Everton Weekes. lightly."Former India opener friends of Sir Everton Weekes. centuries.He was also part by scores of 128, 194, 162 at the Christ Church home on our lives with each other. Had met him during the ICC Wasim Jaffer tweeted: "Heart He is the only Test batsman of the famous three W's of @ and 101 in India. In his next Wednesday in Barbados. ENTERTAINMENT IIndianndian HHorizonorizon Friday - July 3, 2020 ̉̊

LARA DUTTA: RANDEEP HOODA’S PARLE˨G TWEET GOES VIRAL; SHALINI PANDEY: Hunger and curiosity have ACTOR URGES BIODEGRADABLE PACKING andeep Hooda’s Parle-G cuits. He further said that kept me going tweet goes viral! A biscuit while the sales of Parle-G have Rwhich majority of Indians gone high, one should imagine me going," said Lara, while in- have been enjoying ever since if the company just changed teracting with the media when they were kids; a biscuit which the packaging of biscuits from global tech-hospitality plat- now has become a memory for plastic to another alternative form Airbnb celebrated spirit many, holds no more a different biodegradable material. of women entrepreneurship at meaning for the Bollywood ac- The message from Randeep their promotional event ahead tor Randeep Hooda. Hooda has come after the com- of International Women's Day Expressing his love for Par- pany reportedly recorded the in Mumbai. le-G biscuits, the Highway- best sales in the last 8 decades. Lara Dutta won Miss Universe actor took to Twitter and said The sales went up because peo- 2000 pageant before entering to that his career right from the ple who were under home quar- Bollywood.Apart from acting, beginning with his theatre antine stacked their shelves she is a hands-on mother and days has been fueled by ‘chai’ with basic biscuits as essentials. wife, and has also ventured into and the famous Parle-G bis- IANS Being an actor film production. She has hosted various shows and also mentors comes naturally Miss India contestants. 'PALLO LATKE' FAME SINGER YASSER DESAI In 2019, Lara Dutta launched halini Pandey, who her line of beauty products WANTS TO SING A QAWWALI is all set to make her named Arias, which is a vegetar- SBollywood debut ian beauty line. sir in 'Gold'. It's no less than with Ranveer Singh starrer ctress Lara Dutta says Talking about women entre- inger Yasser Desai, who qawwali soon in a Bollywood a dream to lend my voice "Jayeshbhai Jordaar", says her hunger and curios- preneurs in India, Lara said: "I is best known for croon- fi lm. I hope makers approach for such popular actors," he she always wanted to be an Aity about things have would say all power to women Sing romantic numbers, me with a qawwali," Yas- said.Yasser recently unveiled actress and that it comes kept her going since time she entrepreneurs out there. now wants to explore the ser told IANS.Speaking of a new love song titled "Ran- naturally to her. won the title of Miss Universe I know that when Women's traditional Sufi devotional Yasser's latest singing stint, jhey Wala I Love You", which "I only wanted to be an in 2000."I think it's just hunger Day comes around, a lot of music genre -- the qawwali."I he is currently garnering a is composed by the dynamic actress since I was a child! and curiosity. I don't feel like I brands do a lot of activity about have not done qawwali yet. lot of praises for his song duo of Gourov and Roshin. I have always enjoyed want to be limited to any one it. But I love the fact that wom- I have tried my hand at love "Bandhu tu mera" in the Saif Asked what fans could ex- watching people in different thing. I never said, I am just a en have safe avenues in order to songs, sad songs and party Ali Khan-starrer "Jawaani pect from him in the coming situations. If I get really fasci- beauty queen or just an actress. be financially independent. So, tracks, but qawwali is still Jaaneman"."It's always a sur- months, Yasser promised to nated by any character, be it When that's done, I am always I would really encourage more left. It's not my favourite real experience working with give them "loads of original onscreen or offscreen, I tend wondering now what's next and more women in India." genre but I really want to big stars. Not only Saif sir, I content". to subconsciously behave can I do so, yeah, that keeps IANS give it a try and want to do a also sang for Akshay Kumar IANS like that person and that can be anything! "Maybe the hand ges- tures, maybe the walk, the KANGANA RANAUT DENIES BEING CALLED FOR QUESTIONING IN SUSHANT CASE YET way they talk, the way they angana Ranaut's social on Twitter, Kangana's team video of the actress where she can his mind be weak? It can in her video bashed journal- eat, the way they sigh, it media team has denied shared: "Ms #KanganaRa- spoke about Sushant Singh be seen from Sushant's posts ists for writing blind items can be the slightest of the Kreports that the actress naut hasn't received any such Rajput. "Some people are that he is clearly begging peo- on celebrities without taking mannerisms. So, for me, will be questioned by Mumbai request from @MumbaiPo- saying that people who have ple to watch his fi lms saying names. She also questioned being an actor comes natu- Police as a part of the investi- lice yet, but as and when she weak minds get into depres- he doesn't have a godfather whether Sushant Singh Ra- rally," says Shalini. gation of Bollywood actor Su- does, she is more than willing sion and commit suicide. A and will be thrown out of the jput's death was a "suicide or IANS shant Singh Rajput's death. to co-operate."Recently, Kan- person who is a rankholder industry," the actress says in a planned murder". Reacting to the news piece gana Ranaut's team shared a in engineering entrance, how Hindi in her video.Kangana IANS Nupur Sanon ANUSHKA SHARMA : Parth Samthaan opens up on People have seen enough of formula his moments of depression tant and we have always tried to tell our stories as differently as possible.I during lockdown have always felt that a visual trig- ger to storytelling is key to hold the ourselves so that one day attention of audiences today and when this pandemic is it also allows us an unexpectedly over. We are ready to face new route to present an idea that this world again."Reacting has never been seen before by audi- to the post, actress Hina ences," Anushka said."Karnesh (her Khan asked Parth to just brother and partner in their pro- focus on good things. duction house) and I have always "You are a rockstar. Just wanted to break away from tradi- focus on good things and tional ways of telling a story because work," Hina commented. we feel people have seen enough Actor Arjun Bijlani sug- of the formula and are done with gested Parth to listen to them."Anushka says the audience the song "I'm losing it". is always looking to immerse them- "Listen 'I'm losing it', selves into something new."That's and you will be rocking. been our biggest strength. From You know what I mean," ‘Phillauri' to ‘Pari' and now ‘Bulb- ike many others, Taking to Instagram, Arjun quipped.A few days goes bul', while we have accidentally "Kasautii Zinda- Parth wrote: "Yes there ago, Parth made head- created a sub-genre of supernatural Lgii Kay" actor Parth were moments of depres- lines when producer Vikas unplugged feminism fi lms, we have conscious- Samthaan has also faced sion and sadness during Gupta called him out say- ctress-producer Anushka are done with traditional ways of ly told the story through the lens of moments of depression this lockdown, but that's ing the actor was mentally Sharma feels people have storytelling."For us, how uniquely clutter-breaking visual effects." and sadness during the what gives us strength harassing him. with 'Filhall' Aseen enough of formula and we tell a story is extremely impor- IANS coronavirus lockdown. to be stronger and push IANS ctress Kriti Sanon's sister Nupur Sanon Ahad made her acting debut with the music video SAIF GETS TROLLED FOR CLAIMING HE IS A VICTIM OF NEPOTISM "Filhall". Now, the trained classical singer will unveil an aif Ali Khan declared in an "Facts in country Nepotism.His mother bought unplugged version of "Filhall" interview that he has been him the National Award over in her own voice. nowadays.. Sa victim of nepotism, but Shah Rukh Khan in Swades. The video of the song, sung he only ended up being a target Sunny Leone is Virgin He'd even tried to trivialize the by B Praak, has crossed 600 of trolls on social media. Kejriwal is Best CM Nepotism debate at an Award million views-mark on You- "Nepotism in its purest form Rahul Gandhi Is PM Show," tweeted a user. Tube. While its views are is something that even I have "Congratulations #SaifA- still growing, Nupur is set been a victim of... candidate liKhan. You just graduated to bring out a version of the I am not going to take names CRPF kills Citizens from the Ananya Pandey in- song in her voice along with but somebody's dad has rung Sonam Kapoor got stitute of Struggle!!," reads an- a video to go with it. up and said don't take him, Telant other sarcastic tweet. "It's such a surreal feeling take him in the movie. All that "I think he doesn't know the for me. I can't believe that the happens and it has happened Saif Ali khan is victim meaning of nepotism, please music video has done so well. to me," Saif Ali Khan said in an of Nepotism someone teach him the mean- I feel honoured to bring out an interview with The New Indian Sushant Singh ing of that #Saifalikhan," urged unplugged version of the song Express. Rajput was another user. and I am grateful to everyone However, the comment did Ever since Sushant Singh who has supported me in this. not go down well with netizens. Depressed," tweeted Rajput's demise, the nepotism I feel happy to add to the jour- Trolls and memes started tar- another user. debate has become a hot topic ney of 'Filhall' in my own"way," geting the actor, who is the son of discussion on social media. Nupur said.The makers of the of renowned actress Sharmila reads a meme."#SaifAliKhan Star kids are facing fl ak from song are already prepping to Tagore and late cricketer Man- who brought the theory of netizens for allegedly enjoying bring out a sequel. Nupur fea- soor Ali Khan Pataudi."Saif Ali Eugenics and Gifted Genes to a privileged status over outsid- tured along with actor Akshay Khan: I am the victim of nepo- justify Nepotism in 2017, today ers in the fi lm industry. Kumar in the 2019 video. tism. Memers: Is this a joke?," talking about being a victim of IANS IANS

Printer Publisher & owner By Dr, Rahimmuddin Kemal Printed at Sonu Printer B-180 Okhla Industrial Aria Phase-1-New Delhi-110020-Editor Fahim Arij Kemal. Published From k-556,Bowli Gate, Nizamuddin (w) -Lodhi Road New Delhi-110013- Ph,No +919885003940 Email: [email protected] [email protected]