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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: 127 Price: 3.00 No: 7 Published from Hyderabad & New Delhi New Delhi Sunday, May 10, 2020 Pages 12 + 4 pull out (P16) Uttam asks US unemployment Shah telling lies on Congress cadre rate reaches Great migrants’ issue, should to help migrant Depression-era level apologise: Trinamool workers P-3 P-8 P-9 Briefs Nepal objects to shorter road route to Get PM-CARES Fund audited, Rahul asks Modi Mansarovar; MEA says territory lies in India New Delhi, May 9 (IANS) Congress leader New Delhi, May 9 : The Minis- and in the spirit of our close and Rahul Gandhi on Sat- try of External Affairs (MEA) has friendly bilateral relations with urday demanded that said the recently inaugurated Nepal.” The MEA also hoped that Prime Minister Naren- road section in Uttarakhand’s the two Foreign Secretaries would dra Modi ensured audit Pithoragarh district lies com- meet as soon as the respective of donations made to pletely within the territory of governments have dealt with the the PM-CARES Fund, India. Lipulekh is a strip of land Covid pandemic. Interestingly, and to share the details in north-western Nepal, lodged China has a stake in the road since and the money spent and Relief in Emergency between Nepal, India and China. it signed an agreement with India with the people. Situations Fund set up While India and China consider it in 2015 to expand trade via Lip- “The PM-CARES Fund as a corpus to fight novel a tri-junction with Nepal, Kath- ulekh and other border points. In- has received huge con- coronavirus and that the mandu lays claim on the south- dia and China consider Lipulekh tributions from PSUs amount spent will not be ern part of the pass and refuses to as a trijunction whereas Nepal and major public utili- audited by the Comptrol- recognise it as a tri-junction. claims that it has sovereignty over ties like the Railways. It’s ler and Auditor General. The MEA was reacting to a said the same path was being used patch, Kalapani, in its territory in it. After the Lipulekh controversy important that the Prime The CAG office had clari- Kangana dedicates a self-composed press release by the Nepalese by pilgrims and under the present a new political map. emerged, Nepalese Foreign Sec- Minister ensure the fund fied that since the fund poem to her mother Foreign Ministry that expressed project, it has been made pliable MEA spokesperson Anurag retary Shanker Das Bairagi report- is audited and that the is based on donations, regret over Defence Minister Ra- for the ease and convenience of Srivastav reiterated the stand MEA edly spoke to the Indian envoy record of money received it has no right to audit a jnath Singh’s inauguration of a pilgrims, locals and traders. Ne- had taken at that time. He said, Vinay Mohan Kwatra to reiterate and spent is available to charitable organisation. 2.1 lakh tonnes free faster route for pilgrims of the pal lays claim over all territory “India and Nepal have an estab- Nepal’s concern and its position the public,” he tweeted. On Friday, Rahul Gandhi food grains per month Kailash Mansarovar Yatra. east of Kali River and maintains lished mechanism to deal with all on the dispute. In the aftermath of His remarks came told the media that the to Karnataka Also read: India connects to that there is a disagreement with boundary matters. The boundary the Kalapani controversy, Nepal amid reports that the PM-CARES Fund should LAC, Kailash Yatra is a road ride India over three strips of land, in- delineation exercise with Nepal is government had formed two com- central government is ac- be audited and people of Bengaluru, May 10 (IANS) The Central government away from Delhi Nepal claims cluding Lipulekh. A controversy ongoing. India is committed to re- mittees and Nepal Prime Minister cumulating a huge sum of the country should know has allotted 2.1 lakh tonnes of food grains a month the road traverses Lipulekh over had erupted in November when solving outstanding boundary is- KP Sharma Oli had promised to money in the Prime Min- about the donors and the to Karnataka for three months to be distributed at which it lays claim. But the MEA India included another disputed sues through diplomatic dialogue reclaim the disputed land. ister’s Citizen Assistance donations made. free of cost to National Food Security Act (NFSA) beneficiaries, said an official on Saturday. “A quantity of 2.1 lakh tonnes of food grains per month has been allotted under Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna M’rashtra Covid-19 deaths cross 775, Covid-19: Gujarat cases near Yojana (PMGKAY) for three months from April to June, to be distributed free of cost to 4.01 crore cases surpass 20K mark National Food Security Act beneficiaries,” said Food 8K mark; death toll 472 Corporation of India (FCI) Chairman D.V. Prasad. The Mumbai, May 9 and 27 were women, Central government will bear the total cost of Rs 2,351 (IANS) Maharashtra on and nearly 72 per cent Gandhinagar, May 9 (IANS) On Saturday, 23 persons died crore for supplying the free food grains for the three Saturday notched a new of them suffered from With an addition of almost 400 of Covid-19, of which 20 people months. So far, the state has lifted 4.45 lakh tonnes of single day record of 48 other serious ailments positive cases on Saturday, Gu- died in Ahmedabad alone. One food grains valued at Rs 1,735 crore under PMGKAY. Covid-19 deaths with such as diabetes, hyper- jarats Covid-19 tally went up to patient each from Jamnagar, “Karnataka has so far received 302 train loads of the tally of positive cases tension, heart problem 7,797, while 23 new deaths took Panchmahals and Banaskantha food grains carrying a quantity of 8.03 lakh tonnes crossing 20,000, mark- and asthma. the states death toll to 472. Over also succumbed to the dreaded which is roughly 1.60 crore bags of 50 kg packing ing a grim completion The Mumbai Metro- 200 patients were discharged virus. Out of the 23 deceased, since lockdown, with another 6 lakh tonnes planned of 60 days since coro- politan Region (Thane from various hospitals across the 8 patients did not have any co- to be received during this month,” said Prasad. navirus first entered the Division) continued to state in the last 24 hours. morbidity. Ahmedabad has so state on March 9 with cause major worries with Gujarat is reporting around 400 far reported 363 deaths (nearly only 2 cases. With 48 fa- 524 Covid-19 deaths and cases daily for the past five days 77 per cent of the state’s tally), Pakistan continues talities, the state’s death 27 persons have suc- Late on Friday, the 15,595 patients. Pune with Ahmedabad contributing followed by Surat (38), Vadodara to breach toll shot up from Fri- cumbed to the dreaded state government had Division trails a distant over 73 per cent of the positive (31), Anand and Bhavnagar (6 day’s 731 to 779 Satur- virus till now. Besides removed BMC chief second with 161 fatalities cases. Almost 2,000 positive cases each) and Gandhinagar (5). ceasefire on LoC day while the total num- Mumbai’s 27 deaths, Praveen Pradeshi and and 2,513 patients. The have been detected in the last On Saturday, a total of 219 pa- ber of cases increased Pune recorded 10 new appointed senior IAS of- next area of concern is five days, taking the total to 7,797 tients were discharged -- Ahmed- Jammu, May 9 (IANS) Pakistan continued from 19,063 to 20,228 -- fatalities, Malegaon 8, ficer Iqbal Singh Chahal the Nashik Division with from 5,804 on May 4. abad 106, followed by Vadodara to breach the bilateral ceasefire on the Line a jump of 1,165 cases. Of and one each in Akola, to head the civic body. 40 deaths and 857 posi- On Saturday, 394 new cases (52), Surat (46), Bhavnagar (4), of Control (LOC) on Saturday as it resorted the total deaths, 27 were Nanded and Amravati. A day after he took tive cases, followed by were detected by the health au- Panchmahals (3), Aravalli, Botad to unprovoked firing and shelling at Indian recorded in Mumbai, Three days after a charge, the newly- Akola Division with 24 thorities, of which Ahmedabad and Navsari (2 each), and Kheda positions in Jammu and Kashmirs Poonch taking the city toll from macabre video surfaced appointed Municipal deaths and 345 patients reported 280 cases, followed and Mahisagar (1 each). Till now, district. Defence Ministry spokesman Colo- 489, while the number showing Covid-19 pa- Commissioner on Sat- and Aurangabad Division by Surat (30), Vadodara (28), 2,091 patients have been dis- nel Devender Anand told IANS, “At around of Covid-19 positive tients lying among dead urday visited the BYL with 13 fatalities and 514 Gandhinagar (22), Bhavnagar charged in the state. 6.30 p.m. today, Pakistan initiated unpro- patients in the city shot bodies purportedly at Nair Hospital and the patients. On the posi- (10), Jamnagar (7), Aravalli The health authorities have so voked ceasefire violation by firing with small up by 740 from Friday’s the LTMG Sion Hospi- Dharavi slum for a first- tive side, 330 fully cured (4), Rajkot, Banaskantha, Pan- far carried out 1,09,650 tests in the arms and shelling with mortars along the 12,142 to 12,864 on Sat- tal, the Brihanmumbai hand assessment of the patients returned home chmahals, Kheda and Botad (2 state, out of which 7,797 have re- LoC in Degwar sector of Poonch district.