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TICKING C-BOMB J&K 1 TABLIGHI ONE MORE DIES VIRUS LOAD ALL EFFORTS 48 UTTARAKHAND IN TS, CASES DELHI 53 48 ARUNACHAL PRADESH 48 UTTAR PRADESH 1 CROSS 100-MARK RAJASTHAN 11 81 BIHAR ASSAM 17 TO TRACK ITS EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE @ Hyderabad JHARKHAND 1 TELANGANA recorded one more Covid-19 MADHYA PRADESH 1 71 WEST BENGAL death on Wednesday. The latest death was that 1,500 GUJARAT of a patient who was undergoing treatment at PARTICIPATED FOOTPRINTS 101 CHHATTISGARH Gandhi Hospital in Hyderabad. Cabinet secretary tells chief secretaries to However, in a surprising turn of events, the 50 ODISHA INFECTED trace all who participated in Nizamuddin MEDICAL Telangana government reduced the number of TEAMS FACE Covid deaths to five. Meanwhile, 12 persons test- 252 MAHARASHTRA 1,030 TELANGANA 21 6 religious meet; PM to speak with CMs today ANGRY MOB IN ed positive on Wednesday, taking the total num- DEAD NIZAMABAD ber of cases to 107. In a development Speaking to mediapersons, Health Minister EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE @ New Delhi 1085 ANDHRA PRADESH 70 UK extends that might affect the Eatala Rajender said the State, in fact, had re- corded two deaths on Wednesday, one at Gandhi doc work visa WITH the threat of Tablighi Jamaat’s Nizamuddin congregation morale of the 1,500 KARNATAKA 1 medical and health and another at a private hospital. “We are not In a relief to participants spreading the deadly novel coronavirus across the department staff, sure if the second death was due to Coronavi- foreign doctors, country looming large, Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba on Wednes- including from several of them faced rus. Further tests are being conducted on the day ordered all authorities to be firm in tracing and taking action deceased person,” he said. 1,103 TAMIL NADU 190 India, whose against the Jamaat workers. an angry mob at 395 KERALA 1 visas were set Quila area here on Later, in a press release, the Minister said: 376 new cases CASH FOR Gauba directed the states and Union Ter- “The State is working hard to control the spread India registered 376 cases of to expire in ritories to launch on a “war footing” the con- Wednesday. They had October, the UK POOR SOON gone there to of Coronavirus. It was Chief Minister K Chan- the virus in the last 24 hours. tact tracing of all participants of the congre- drasekhar Rao who first sought a ban on all the The spike is primarily due to has extended With reports of the gation, adding intensive tracing of all contacts conduct a door-to- the deadline by poor and door survey to international flights. It was Telangana which Class 10, 12 exams IOC tack on purchases the fallout of the Tablighi must be ensured in a fail-proof manner. gave information to the Central government on Jamaat congregation in Delhi one year vulnerable sections Prime Minister Narendra Modi may also identify those who only for 29 subjects IOC has declared force majeure of the society have come in contact the Markaz in Nizamuddin.” “It has been decided that on crude purchases from Saudi Wimbledon speak to the Chief Ministers on Thursday to 7 more in Noida hotspot facing hardships in with the attendees of He said close to a 1,000 people attended Markaz the board conduct exams Arabia, Iraq, UAE and Kuwait, cancelled take them on board to deal with the uphill in Nizamuddin. Except 160, the government has 7 new coronavirus patients in accessing task of tracing all participants and those who the Markaz- for only main subjects as refinery run rates have been Wimbledon foodgrains, the Nizamuddin identified everyone. As of now, there has been that will be required cut down following lockdown Gautam Buddh Nagar in the organisers have come into contact with them. no community transmission in Telangana. last 24 hours, total cases 45 Cabinet Secretary During a video-conference call with Chief convention in Delhi. for promotion and may and oil market crash. A force scrapped the asked states to The residents of the “About 10 people who had previously been be crucial for higher majeure is an event outside oldest Grand Secretaries and DGPs of all States and Union tested negative after receiving treatment at education,” the CBSE said. reasonable control, which 3.2 lakh quarantine beds Slam tennis implement the PM Territories, the Cabinet Secretary also asked area, who were irked Garib Kalyan by the presence of Gandhi Hospital will be discharged after anoth- Also, all class 1-8 students prevents IOC from performing Railways setting up 3.2 lakh tournament for the State and UT authorities to ensure that no er round of testing,” the Minister said. to be promoted contract obligations isolation and quarantine beds the first time Yojana within the other religious groups are holding congrega- the health workers, next week. “This asked them to go tions anywhere in the country and strict ac- Junior doctors attacked will involve large tion be taken against them if found doing so, back. Besides cash transfer to obstructing the work, Meanwhile, the junior doctors who treated the sources said. Covid-19 patient, who died on Wednesday, were beneficiaries,” Many of the attendees have reportedly gone the residents argued officials said with them on the assaulted by the patient’s attendants. into hiding in various parts of the country, need for a door-to- Speaking to Express, Dr Lohith, a member of complicating matters. door survey. They Gandhi Junior Doctors’ Association, said, “The The country’s senior most bureaucrat also ordered registration even snatched 49-year-old man, who passed away, was undergo- of cases against foreign Tablighis for violation of visa norms, ac- papers that the staff ing treatment along with his two family mem- cording to sources. Gauba shared the roadmap for the intensive were carrying, tore bers for the last four days. However, his condi- contact tracing of Tablighis. “Tracing all the participants of the them into pieces and tion had been critical, and we had been Nizamuddin Markaz is the top most priority, and the state govern- threw them in a constantly counselling the family members. ments must not lose time,” said a senior government official. dustbin. Today, at about 5.30 pm, he breathed his last as his family members did not give their consent CONTINUED ON P3 S GURUMURTHY WRITES ON TABLIGHI for us to make an incision in his throat for con- Myanmar nationals settled in Hyderabad, who went to Narketpally for religious prayers flouting lockdown restrictions, JAMAAT - ITS OTHER, EVIL SIDE P7 ducting the intubation procedure.” being taken to a hospital in Hyderabad for coronavirus tests on Wednesday | VINAY MADAPU Another doctor, on the condition of anonym- ity, said, “We have been requesting the authori- ties to provide us with extra security personnel, One more death has but there has been no response. Now, the lives TS, Andhra slow occurred at a private of the doctors are on the line as they may be hospital in Telangana. HEROES infected as well. Initially, the police too were DON’T WEAR CAPES, to track down But we are not sure if it hesitant to intervene fearing contracting the is due to Coronavirus THEY FEED infection.” Eatala Rajender The Health Minister condemned the attack PAGE 4 Markaz attendees Health Minister and said stringent action would be taken. V NILESH @ Hyderabad

THE Telangana and Andhra Pradesh governments are current- Centre drops anti-HIV drugs from ly scrambling to track and quaran- tine citizens who went to the Markaz convention at Nizamud- din, Delhi, which has turned out to its recommended list to treat Covid be the new epicentre of Covid-19 in the country. SUMI SUKANYA DUTTA @ New Delhi Earlier it had recommended mended for children less than 12 However, the State governments using the Lopinavir-Ritonavir years, pregnant and lactating seem to have acted late, as the THE Centre has asked doctors combo for patients with acute women. tracking and quarantining meas- treating severe patients of coro- respiratory distress. Sources said the revision in ures could have been put in place navirus to stop administer- “One of the drug is Hy- medication came following a much earlier, even helping in sav- ing anti-HIV drugs and in- droxychloroquine (Dose study published in the New Eng- ing some lives. stead put them on a 400 mg twice a day for 1 land Journal, which said the an- As Express finds out, a three-day combination of anti-ma- day followed by 200 mg ti-HIV drug combination did not outreach programme by Tabilghi laria drug Hydroxy- twice a day for 4 days) in work in 199 patients analysed. Jamaat known as ‘Jod’ specifically choloroquine and antibi- combination with Another study from France said for followers from AP was held at otic Azithromycin. Azithromycin (500 mg the anti-malarial and antibiotic the Markaz two weeks ago - on In the revised guidelines once a day for 5 days),” said combination helped 78 out of 80 March 15, 16 and 17, which was at- on the management of Covid-19 the guideline. “These drugs patients analysed. There was an- tended by many people from the patients, the Union health minis- should be administered under other independent study from two Telugu states. It was after this try said, “no specific antivirals close medical supervision, with China to support Hydroxycholo- event that many people returned to have been proven to be effective monitoring for side effects.” roquine-Azithromycin the two states, who are now being as per currently available data.” However, they are not recom- combination. traced. CONTINUED ON P3

DECISION AWAITED TS pays no heed to MHRD advisory on mid-day meal

EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE @ Hyderabad provision of mid-day meals to its to be taken to continue the mid-day students. While a few States like meal scheme. A senior official of THE Telangana government con- Assam and Delhi have decided to the department said, “The State tinues to ignore the Centre’s advi- send packed meals to the homes of government will be providing 12- sory to either deliver hot meals to children, some other States, in- kg rice to all the white ration card- all the children or provide them cluding Andhra Pradesh and Hary- holders and `1,500. This will cover Food Security Allowance in the ab- ana, have decided to provide dry the families of many children”. sence of mid-day meals at govern- rations to students. But the Telan- However, when asked if any deci- ment schools owing to the country- gana government is yet to take any sion has been taken with regard to wide lockdown. policy decision on the issue. the implementation of mid-day Since the issuance of advisory Telangana has around 20 lakh meal scheme in compliance with by the Union Ministry of Human students enrolled in government of the School Education Depart- the MHRD advisory, the official Resource Development on March schools who are eligible for the ment said there have been no spe- said, “The government is to take a 20, many States have taken a deci- mid-day meal scheme. cific directions from the State gov- decision on it. We have not received sion on how to proceed with the When contacted, senior officials ernment to them on the measures any communication about it.” ALMANAC TODAY MIN MAX Sunrise 06.09 am 0 0 Thursday: 02/04/2020 Year: Vikari Aayanam: Uttarayanam 24 C 38 C Sunset 06.29 pm Rutuvu: Sisira Masam: Chaitram Paksham: Shukla Tithi: Navami 02.42 pm Moonrise 00.45 am Nakshatram: Punarvasu 07.28 pm Durmuhurtham: 10.17 am - 11.06 pm WEATHER FORECAST Varjyam: 07.29 am - 09.05 pm Rahukaalam: 01.30 pm - 03.00 pm WATCH Mostly sunny Moonset 01.20 pm

HYDERABAD THURSDAY 02 02 l04l2020

RAMANAVAMI Special pujas Staff in grip of fear as MGM Hosp at Chilkur to faces shortage of protective gear rid country About 500 medical workers, including doctors and lab technicians, work at the hospital of Covid U MAHESH @ Warangal formed officials about the ing out of the Coronavirus sent to Gandhi Hospital. shortage and requested to get spread, a 25-bedded Intensive Speaking to Express, a sani- EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE AT a time when the entire more supplies, but their pleas Care Unit and a 200-bedded tation worker, who did not @ Hyderabad State, like the rest of the coun- fell on deaf ears. isolation ward were set up want to be named, said that try, is battling to contain the Two days ago, the at this hospital, which the hospital authorities and IN hopes of beating the Cov- Sri Sita Ramachandraswamy temple in Bhadrachalam deadly Coronavirus, the MGM sanitation workers usually sees patients contractors are ignoring the id-19 crisis, priests at Chilkur Hospital in Warangal is facing staged a protest to from north Telangana issue and failing to provide the Balaji temple performed Sri a shortage of protective gear highlight the issue, districts. much-needed masks, gloves, Rama Paduka Pattabhishekam like masks, gloves, sanitisers following which the Most suspected Cov- and sanitisers for workers. on Wednesday, as part of its Ra- Sita-Rama Kalyanam to and personnel protection kits, hospital authorities as- id-19 patients from erst- While stating that there are manavami festivities. putting the lives of medical sured them that all the while Warangal district enough masks, gloves and san- “The next 14 days of the lock- professionals and sanitation necessary items will be pro- are being shifting to the isola- itisers, the hospital authori- down are crucial. The 14-day be streamed live on TV staff at peril. cured at the earliest. tion ward in the MGM Hospi- ties informed that these items quarantine period is akin to About 500 medical workers, To meet any emergency aris- tal and their samples are being are being provided to those the 14-year exile period of Lord EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE budget for the development of including doctors, nurses and who are working on rotational Rama. It was during the same @ Khammam the Bhadrachalam Ramalay- labs technicians, as well as basis. They also accused the period that the padukas (Ra- am, the works of which will around 300 sanitation staff are We clean the patient’s enclosures and the whole isolation ward. But outsourcing workers of mak- we are not provided with Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) kit, ma’s feet) ruled Ayodhya. In BREAKING tradition for the begin after the final proposals currently working at the MGM which includes masks, goggles, gloves, gowns and head covers ing baseless allegations. They, this crisis, a total surrender to first time in 300 years, the Lord are approved. The same hospital. The hospital staff however, assured that the is- god will help the mankind,” Rama and Sita Devi Kalyanam amount was earmarked for Ba- claim that though they had in- A sanitation worker sues will be resolved soon. said chief priest of Chilkur and Samrajaya Pattab- sara and Vemulavada temples Balaji temple CS Rangarajan, hisekham will be performed too. KCR also spoke to architect who performed the ritual on without devotees at the Sri Sita Anand Sai about the works on Wednesday with three other Ramachandraswamy temple in the Ramalayam. 3 persons die priests. Bhadrachalam on April 2 and Reddy said due to the lock- April 3. down, the government in- Be patient and brave like Otherwise held at the structed the temple offi- due to dearth Lord Rama, exhorts Harish Midhila Stadium with cials to conduct the Just as Lord Rama spent 14 over 2 lakh devotees Kalyanam in a simple of alcohol years of his life in exile, the witnessing the celes- manner. people of Telangana should tial wedding, the deci- Meanwhile, police EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE spend 14 days at home to ward sion comes amid a na- were directed not to not @ Mahbubnagar off Coronavirus, Finance Min- tionwide lockdown to allow any one in and ister T Harish Rao said. contain the spread of the around the temple. Urging THE nationwide lockdown In a message on Wednesday, novel Coronavirus. But, this devotees to stay home, Bhad- is proving to be fatal for the Harish Rao called upon people year, the event will be streamed rachalam ASP Rajesh Chandra alcohol addicts. The num- to celebrate Sri Rama Navami live on TV, temple officials said. said no temple in the State was ber of people attempting at their respective houses and open, except for Ramalayam suicide and dying due to the not visit temples. The Rama `50 cr for temple work and Parnasala on Thursday unavailability of alcohol re- Navami festival would be con- Endowments Minister A Indra- and Friday. iterates the same. ducted at temples by priests. karan Reddy, who reviewed the Temple officials said only 10 As many as three persons “Let us stay at home and pray arrangements at the temple on priests and a few officials, in- died due to the non-availa- for the protection of the uni- Wednesday, will offer pattuvas- cluding Reddy, will be allowed bility of toddy in erstwhile verse,” Harish Rao said. tralu and mutyala talambralu, to witness the Kalyanam. The Mahbubnagar district on The Minister said that de- on behalf of the Telangana ceremony will begin at 10 am Wednesday. In the first case, spite several odds, Lord Rama government, to the deities on and end at 12.30 pm at Abhijit a person named Ramana, a had continued his journey Thursday. He said Chief Minis- Muhurtham. Meanwhile, Brah- NO RESPITE native of Atmakoor town in without losing courage and fi- ter K Chandrasekhar Rao allo- motsavams will end on April 8, 17 persons hailing from Myanmar, who had been staying at a mosque in Nalgonda, being brought to erstwhile Mahbubnagar, nally emerged victorious. cated `50 crore in this year’s officials said. Fever Hospital in Hyderabad on Wednesday for Covid tests | VINAY MADAPU was hospitalised recently over alcohol withdrawal symptoms and took his last EXPRESS READ breath on Wednesday. Distribution of 12-kg rice for In the second incident, a person named Gujjula Yella ‘No +ve Covid cases in Engg student kills Transgender persons Six of family test -ve, Swami was found dead at white card-holders commences erstwhile Nalgonda’ self over Covid fear serve food to poor other results awaited Nachahalli in Wanaparthy district. According to infor- EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE tribution System (PDS) shops Nalgonda: People living across Rajanna-Sircilla: In a tragic Khammam: As several daily Nizamabad: The results of six mation, he too had devel- @ Adilabad in the district with the cou- erstwhile Nalgonda can incident, a 20-year-old wage workers and homeless members of a family who oped alcohol withdrawal pons, proving their financial breathe a sigh relief. According engineering student people are struggling to cope were tested for Covid here symptoms and was found THE distribution of 12-kg rice background, that the officials to Energy Minister G Jagadish committed suicide on Tuesday with the hardships brought in returned negative while that dead under suspicious cir- to people who fall below the concerned gave them. Reddy there are no positive over fear that she might have by the outbreak of Covid and of other two are still awaited, cumstances on Wednesday. poverty line commenced in District Collector A Srideva- Covid-19 cases in the district. contracted Coronavirus. The the subsequent lockdown, a said Collector C Narayana In the third incident, a Adilabad district on sena visited the fair price shops He made this statement after incident happened at Jillella group of transgender perons Reddy on Wednesday. They woman named Ameena Be- Wednesday. in Thoiguda village and in- he spoke with the officials of village. The deceased person, came forward and distributed were suspected to have come gum set herself ablaze due Scores of poor people made a spected the distribution Nalgonda, Suryapeta and Dasari Sravanthi, died after food among the needy in in contact with a person who to the non-availability of al- beeline to various Public Dis- processes. Bhuvanagiri on Wednesday. setting herself ablaze. Khammam on Wednesday. returned from New Delhi. cohol on Wednesday.

THE PHANTOM Test your number crunching CROSS WORD skill with our unique puzzle PETER VIDAL SU KU 02 nd April : Did you read the news that we have discovered a planet just DO like the Earth, about four million light years away? My problem is what sort of astrology they have with a completely different sky! Not that it matters, of course. We’ll never be able to visit, at least, not without a high-velocity time-machine. And that’s not very likely!

ARIES (Mar 21 - Apr. 20) LIBRA (Sept. 24 - Oct. 23) There are some wonderfully Planetary conditions are powerful planetary turbulent, indicating upsets indicators, most of which in your psychological favour Arien qualities, these being a ‘weather’. The best way in which you can HI AND LOIS mixture of good humour with self- help yourself is to disengage from interest. Suddenly the whole world whatever source of controversy is should look like a reasonably bothering you and take the long-term friendly place, in a strange and view. Also, remember that other people unpredictable sort of a way! might just be right! TAURUS (Apr. 21 - May 21) SCORPIO (Oct. 24 - Nov. 22) You may be tempted Warning signals continue in to try your luck, but the fact the financial sectors of your is that gamblers usually lose. solar chart, so you must EVIL Solutions to Yesterday’s puzzle This is why the same planetary factors maintain a proper sense of decorum when that urge you to take a risk, also urge it comes to questions of cash. You are ■ Fill in the grid you to double-check all details. If you better off than most people at the BEETLE BAILEY with digits in such are determined to go ahead, it moment, in the sense that they will be a manner that every may be possible to arrange some more dependent on you than you on them. sort of fall-back position. row, every column SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23 - Dec. 22) and every 3X3 box GEMINI (May 22 - June 21) Everything seems to hinge accommodates the Increasingly, this is a around your need for status time for a spot of raw and prestige. The problem is digits 1 to 9, without ambition. What do you that such things have to be earned repeating any. really want do to? Who do you really through consistent and long-term want to be with? Once you have this effort, whereas now you do seem to be ■ Each sudoku has a unique solution that can be little lot figured out you can begin in danger of risking a few short cuts. If reached logically without guessing. to make your dreams come true. you leave out the difficult bits, then it’s You might even emerge much wiser, unlikely that you’ll make the most of if a little bruised! the easy bits! ACROSS DOWN CANCER (June 22 - July 23) CAPRICORN (Dec. 23 - Jan. 20) BLONDIE 1 Play for very little (6) 1 Row about Dr Wood (6) The reason for colleagues’ One important factor in your 4 So slim perhaps and supple (6) 2 Far from pleased, I indulge in abuse (5) off-hand behaviour and chart, I haven’t mentioned so 3 Wash three foreign articles (7) partners’ unsympathetic far this week, concerns 9 Act or dance (7) attitudes is not that they are uncaring. overseas travel, and a certain 10 Many deserve to get 5 Mails re-addressed to the Rather, you should realise that they may adventurous streak in your personality information (5) Mohammedan world (5) be suffering from the weight of their which could see you wandering to a far 11 Don’t go on about me to 6 One doesn’t make a summer drink (7) own emotional burdens, and unable to corner of the globe, or at least developing improve matters (5) 7 A fellow with plenty of time pay full attention to yours. adventurous elements in your daily life. to run a business (6) 12 Get mail sorted in the interval (4,3) LEO (July 24 - Aug. 23) AQUARIUS (Jan. 21 - Feb. 19) 8 Neat and precise form of 13 What electricians look According to a All your instincts and epitaph(4,2,5) strologers, each hunches should prove for in the papers? (7,4) 14 Too good to be true (7) manifestation of life correct, but that’s not a great LOCKHORNS DENNIS THE MENACE 18 Produce I’d demonstrate about (7) 15 Foster child? (7) contains the seeds of its exact opposite. deal of use if other people refuse to 20 Uncommon Elgar variation (5) This was never more true than today, listen or take any notice. In social 16 Added zest in the kitchen (6) so whatever extremes of feeling or engagements, go for change and 22 A sound prison (5) 17 Highly coloured insect experience you hit, realise that excitement: you could be attracted to 23 Partners who dance up seen round a tree (6) things could change at any moment. people who like to take risks. in close formation (7) 19 Dirk upset about a point becomes Every problem presents you with a PISCES (Feb. 20 - Mar 20) 24 Complete exposure? (6) annoyed (5) new opportunity. An unexpected turn of 25 Having a disease lays me out (6) 21 A leg’s broken by hard blows (5) VIRGO (Aug. 24 - Sept. 23) events may come as a Today’s most interesting welcome salvation. Press planetary aspect could have ahead with the very un-Piscean task of YESTERDAY’S SOLUTIONS an influence that far building up your reputation. Once again, outweighs anything that happens this people at work may be overstepping the Across: 1 Lobelia, 5 Sewed, 8 Sitting pretty, 9 Solve, 10 Leg iron, 11 Schism, 12 Reside, week, propelling you into fighting for mark. But what are you going to do 15 Lenient, 17 Lacks, 19 Caught napping, 20 Sisal, 21 Stepson. your beliefs and principles. Do not shirk about it? If you tell them what you Yesterday’s your duty, but stand up for what you really think then you may not be Down: 1 Lists, 2 Battle honours, 3 Loiters, 4 Angels, 5 Sprig, 6 Water biscuits, 7 Doyenne, know to be right. prepared for the consequences. 11 Splices, 13 Eclipse, 14 Stones, 16 Ethel, 18 Sagan. CONIRME EATHS RECOVERE RECORE COVI- CASES IN TELANGANA 107 5 14 C C Central Govt: Telangana Govt: HELPLINE NUMBERS +--0 +--0 0 00-5 HYDERABAD THURSDAY 03 02 042020 newindianexpress com

A long queue outside a ration shop at Rasoolpura to collect rice promised by the State government in Hyderabad People seen walking without masks on streets of MS Maqtha in Hyderabad GHMC workers seen collecting garbage Hand sanitiser being made at Chemical And Metallurgical Laboratories for South Central Railway staff who are making quarantine / isolation coaches at Lallaguda Carriage Railway workshop in Secunderabad on Wednesday | S SENAAPANDIYAN SATHYA EERTHI

Time runnin out for S others ho are infected ah chaans isse in CK T RM PAE eraa ring ocon S FOR someone who might have been infected on March 15 itself by the SARS-Coronavirus-2 and is yet to be traced, the crucial he high number o cases can be attributed to the police catching period of 14 days in which the virus can get incubated and cause T R Covid-19 disease is already over. Time is also running out for all tpes o traic iolations due to less traic on the roads many others who came in contact with them. ENS @ Hyderabad a 15-year-old male abused It should not come as a surprise that six deaths in TS (till EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE With less traffic on the roads on the girl. The complaint Tuesday) due to Covid-19 are all Markaz-related. They were TS @ Hyderabad the whole, violations like cell DESPITE restrictions im- reached Childline who then citizens who attended the three-day event in Delhi and returned. phone driving, and no side mir- posed across the city in view linked up with police offi- It may be mentioned here that even before this three-day event MAKING best use of the lock- rors on the vehicles are also of Covid-19, paedophiles cials and rescued her. came to an end, as early as March 1, the Telangana government down period to drive traffic easily noticeable. have been lurking, targeting Owing to the current situ- had shifted some Indonesian nationals who were residing at a sense into the public, the Cy- For instance, 1,38 persons children within their own ation, the delinquent minor mosque in Karimnagar to quarantine in Gandhi Hospital. They berabad traffic police has is- who were pillion riding with- homes. Since the lockdown has been placed at home, to are all members of the Tabilighi Jamaat. sued nearly 1.22 lakh e- chal- out a helmet were penalised, was announced, the Child- ensure there is no exposure lans on motorists who are apart from this 2,000 motorists line Divya Disha in Hy- to the infectious virus. venturing out during the lock- who wore half helmets or did derabad has received two Experts note that consid- down period and also decided not buckle up also got a chal- reports of child sexual ering the long duration of to flout traffic norms. As per lan. Similarly, 8 challans were abuse and lodged com- the lockdown, the govern- data from the officials, between issued for using cell phone plaints with the police. ment should also take into March 22 to March 29, nearly while driving. Officials said the The first complaint was account children and their 1,22,04 challans have been is- challans are means to dissuade received from Langar Houz needs during the period. sued on motorists. persons from coming during where a father abused his “In a situation like this, The department has also is- the lockdown phase and also to pre-teen daughter. The vulnerable sections sued 2,192 contact enforcement ensure that if they do come out, victim and her moth- tend to be more at cases as well, where in six they follow traffic rules. er, in order to avoid risk. The govern- drunk drivers, and 1 With empty roads, people the trauma, went to ment must take into chargesheets were filed on er- seem to have a tendency to a relative’s house. account the scope of rant motorists. traffic violations. The traffic speed and drive on the wrong But the filing of the such violence against The high number of cases cops are now scrutinizing for side of the roads, fetching near- case was delayed due them and also educate can be attributed to the police helmets not just on the rider, ly 1,19 and 2,315 challans to the lockdown. parents on vulnerability,” catching hold of all types of but also on the pillion rider. respectively. “The lockdown caused explained Philip Issador, some delay. However, when founder of Divya Disha. He we got to know of the case further stated that parents we provided support for must be more cautious of them to file the case and all their children spending uslim elders promise to cooperate ith health orkers related procedures like med- more time online and offline ical examination and state- with nothing to do, exposing RM PAE Register (NPR). The teams were facing assaults and abus- sulting RB Minister Vemula screening of people in the red ment has been taken of the them to vulnerable comprised ANMs and ASHA es instead of cooperation from Prashanth Reddy, called a meet- zone. Collector K Shashanka victim,” informed an offi- situations. THOUGH the local people did workers, who were trying to people. “We completed the ing with Muslim elders where also took part in the screening cial of the childline. The childline helpline not assault them, they, however, identify the individuals who work in uilla area under po- the latter promised to cooper- programme. According to In another case reported 1098 has also been receiving abused them verbally. have Covid-19 symptoms when lice supervision,’’ one of the ate with the health workers. DMHO G Sujatha, about 55 from Chikdapally police sta- calls from distressed par- The officials confirmed the the people obstructed them. team members said. health teams screened about tion limits, involved a five- ents unable to take their incident and felt that the locals The team members were up- DMHO M Sudharshanam ,00 people screened 3,00 people on Wednesday. year-old who along with her children for critical medical were under the impression that set about the fact that at a time brought the incident to the no- In Karimnagar, the Health De- Also, security has been beefed family visited their relatives intervention owing to the the staff were there to do a sur- when they were working in a tice of the district collector. partment and the IMA jointly up in Karimnagar in the wake living in the vicinity, where lockdown. vey for the National Population high-risk environment, they Later, the collector, after con- conducted the second phase of of Nizamabad incident.

To arrested EXPRESS READ Covid- anel formed Shop owners in SCB fined for for transport defying social distancing to dispose of bodies Hyderabad : Not following social distancing of alcohol norms issued by the State amidst Covid-19 EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE lockdown can get shopkeepers in the @ Hyderabad Secunderabad Cantonment area a fine of ENS @ Hyderabad 3,000 up to 50,000, said SCB officials. THE Municipal Administra- On Wednesday, some shop owners were TWO persons who attempted to tion Department on Wednes- fined 5,000 and 3,000 at Bowenpally. illegally transport liquor have day constituted an eight- been caught by the Kandukur member official committee to police of Rachakonda Commis- ensure the disposal of bodies GHMC extends payment of sionerate on Wednesday. The po- of those who died of suspect- property tax by months lice seized an SUV and 114 liquor ed or confirmed Coronavirus bottles from the possession of infection as per the Standard Ashok Kumar, Osmania Med- Hyderabad: The GHMC on Wednesday gave the accused. The accused were Operating Procedure (SOP) ical College HOD Professor three months more time to the citizens for also booked for violating G.O. No stipulated by the Central Krupal Singh, chief medical the payment of property tax. The payment 45, the State’s lockdown order. government. officer of Health in GHMC of property tax and arrears pertaining to Acting on credible informa- The committee, which was Amar, AMOH Ravinder Goud the financial year 2019-20, if any, has been tion, the police intercepted a formed after a high-level and AMOH Aizaz Khasim. extended for a period of three months up Tata Safari SUV vehicle near meeting held by Chief Secre- While Ravi Kiran will head to June 30 with no additional penalty. Thimmapur village. The seized tary Somesh Kumar, is en- the committee, the other liquor consists of beer and trusted with the task of effec- members will act as nodal of- Miyapur corporator Ramesh whisky. The arrested have been tively monitoring the disposal ficers of their respective de- dies after brief illness identified as Ande Mahendar, of bodies in the GHMC. partments. According to the 28, and his cousin Ande Srini- The committee will be orders issued by government, Hyderabad: After suffering from a brief vas, 35, who runs Madhuram chaired by GHMC onal Com- the Collectors of Hyderabad, illness, M Ramesh a TRS working Restaurant at Ibrahimpatnam. missioner N Ravi Kiran and Rangareddy, Medchal-Malka- corporator from Miyapur area passed away A case has been registered un- comprises Additional DCP jgiri and Sangareddy districts early morning on Wednesday at 12.30 am. der 34 (a) AP Excise Act 198, Maddipati Srinivas, SDC of will extend necessary coop- Reportedly, M Ramesh died of a heart and Section 188 of IPC. Hyderabad Collectorate P eration to the committee. stroke at his home.

S Three tigers, lions born at Nehru zoo park

EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE review precautionary meas- Principal @ Hyderabad ures taken up for the lockdown Chief period and expressed happi- Conservator THE Hyderabad zoo saw ness over the new additions. of Forests R many new additions over She observed the Tiger Sobha and the past few days as the cubs through the moni- other officials State remains under tor in the Tiger moat watch the lockdown. area. A media release newborn These include the by the zoo said that the Royal Bengal birth of three new Roy- entire zoo is being Tiger cubs al Bengal Tiger cubs, two sprayed with anti-viral through a African Lion cubs, six jackal liquid Sodium Hypochlorate monitor at pups and two Blue Gold Macaw and bleaching powder alterna- Nehru zoo chicks. Telangana PCCF R Sob- tively, every week since first park on ha visited the Hyderabad zoo to week of March. Wednesday HYDERABAD THURSDAY 04 02 042020

S DONATIONS TO CM’S SM HS RELIEF FUND enerous donations poured in on S ednesday rom industrialists, doctors and other prominent personalities towards the M elie Fund in elangana or ighting ovid-19

HA mosuito netmaker and an auto drier hae been using their saings to eed the homeless and beggars eer night

the youngsters a few days ago at around 9 pm and accompa- nied them while they distrib- uted food packets to the needy. While adeer rode a motorcy- overnment Chief Whip Vinay Bhaskar distributes free groceries to over 3,000 families in Warangal on Wednesday cle alone, two others were on another bike holding a large Asian Institute of Gastroenterology crate filled with food packets - LIHTENIN THE LOAD AIG chairman Dr Nageshwar Reddy and vice-chairman Dr DS comprising dal and rice. They Chief Whip D inay Bhaskar Hundreds of poor queued up inay Bhaskar also distributed Raju presenting a cheque of `50 lakh to Chief Minister moved slowly looking out for distributed groceries to over 3,000 outside his camp office to receive groceries to 500 journalists K Chandrasekhar Rao at Pragathi Bhavan homeless or beggars sleeping families in view of the Covid crisis groceries that included 10-kg rice, working in various organisations on the pavements. When they and bore the expenses personally oil, flour, dal and other items in Warangal approached one such person Workers who cook Aurobindo Pharma who was sleeping in front of a mid-day meals across donated ` crore, restaurant at Somajiguda, Telangana announced which includes cash, there was a look of disbelief that they would give sanitisers, and medicines. A cheque AIHI SUR @ Hyderabad on his face when he realised `5 crore. A consent that he was being given food. letter to this effect was given to the for 7.5 crore was A day after Chief Minister K They were stopped by a bike- CM by the Mid-day Meal Scheme given to the CM by Chandrasekhar Rao an- borne traffic police, who en- Workers union president adla Aurobindo Pharma nounced the State-wide lock- quired what they were doing Hanmandlu vice-chairman down and curfew from pm to out at night. After adeer and Nityananda Reddy Nava Bharath entures chairman D am, the streets were unchar- others explained to the police and director Ashok, CEO ikram Prasad and ED acteristically empty post of their service, they were let Sharatchandra Nickel handed over a cheque of `5 nightfall. While most of the go. “This has happened every Reddy. They crore to the CM residents stayed at home figur- day till now. We are always announced that ing out ways to procure essen- stopped by the police, but they `5 crore worth tials to sustain till the lock- let us go when we tell them sanitisers and down period, a group of why we are out,” he said on HMC workers provide food and medicines worth 1 `1 crore crore would be youngsters from Sanath Nagar Wednesday. They have now medicines to migrant workers at went around the city, braving started distributing food in dif- Nampally hibition rounds in rand Pharma D given to the the curfew and the police, to ferent areas like Lakdi ka Pul. Hyderabad on Wednesday Srinivas Sadu donated government distribute food to the homeless “We are not affiliated to any and labourers at night. NGO and we do not have any Mohammed adeer, a mos- external funding,” adeer told MS quito net-maker, and his friend Express. The Sanath Nagar EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE fied 35 homeless persons from ing regular medical checkups. K Mohammed Ghazi, an auto- resident makes food at his @ Hyderabad the neighbouring districts and On Wednesday, the corpora- PMCARES TS rickshaw driver, have been us- house, with his family helping R the states of Orissa, Bihar, tion officials said that six addi- Union Minister of State for Home ing their savings from the day him in the cooking process. OVER 35,000 migrant labourers Chhattisgarh, Madhya tional, temporary shelter Affairs G Kishan Reddy on of lockdown to feed around 100- “We take utmost care when it in Hyderabad and Secun- Pradesh, Maharashtra, homes are being estab- Wednesday announced 1 crore to 150 homeless and beggars eve- comes to hygiene and ensure CTS derabad will be provided free Karnataka and Uttar lished at Uppal, LB Na- the PM-CARES fund ry day at night. What they’re cleanliness while cooking meals every afternoon at all the Pradesh. gar, Chandanagar, Gos- and also announced doing is of significance though food,” he said. T 150 Annapurna Kendras in the The identified la- hamahal, Begumpet 50 lakh each to there are many people distrib- However, as of on Wednes- city, informed Greater Hy- bourers have been and Yousufguda areas the CMRF and uting food during the day, there day, adeer said they have SS derabad Municipal Corpora- shifted to 12 shelter in the city to rescue Hyderabad is hardly anyone doing it at been facing financial issues tion (GHMC) Commissioner D homes in the city, where homeless people and mi- Collector from his night due to the curfew. and that they may not be able Lokesh Kumar on Wednesday. they are being given food, shel- grant workers amid the Cov- MPLADS. The Express chanced upon to distribute food for two days. RTS The corporation has identi- ter and basic amenities, includ- id-19 crisis. o ork in ome in returns Con slams underround ithout meetin C KCR over mines SCC salary cuts ENS@ Hyderabad According to sources, when EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE the Home Minister went to EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE @ Hyderabad WHEN Home Minister Mo- Pragathi Bhavan at 4 pm on @ Hyderabad hammed Mahmood Ali was Wednesday, the constables THE Singareni Collieries on his way to meet posted at the first en- CONDEMNING the slash- Company Limited (SCCL) Chief Minister K try point told him that ing of salaries of State gov- suspended all its operations Chandrasekhar Rao “he had no clearance ernment employees, TPCC in all underground mines on Wednesday, he was to enter the premis- president and Nalgonda MP departments by declaring a reportedly stopped by es.” Mahmood Ali N Uttam Kumar Reddy al- lay-off for all employees a few constables at returned. leged that the crisis was a from Wednesday till April Chief Minister Chandrasekhar Rao with overnor amilisai Soundararaan at Ra Bhavan on Wednesday the entrance of Pra- Later, the police per- result of Chief Minister K 14 or until the lockdown is gathi Bhavan. It was sonnel permitted DGP Chandrasekhar Rao’s finan- lifted. The temporary lay- initially reported that M Mahender Reddy cial mismanagement. off was announced to stop he was denied entry into the premises as he Addressing the media at the spread of Coronavirus. KCR apprises Governor of into the premises. But later in was one of the invitees in a Gandhi Bhavan in Hy- However, the mechanised the day, the Home Minister’s meeting called by the CM. The derabad on Wednesday, he sections in ALP, VK- Inc, Office clarified that he had re- HM’s Office, meanwhile, slammed the CM for asking Shanthikhani, GOK-11A Inc turned because the CM was maintained that he was not de- private companies to give and Kondapur mines and steps taken to curb Covid-19 on his way to the Raj Bhavan nied entry into Pragathi full salaries to their employ- also open cast minespro- to meet the Governor. Bhavan by the security. ees, while slashing salaries jects shall be in operation EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE ing at Nizamuddin in Delhi in Telangana. of government employees till further orders, accord- @ Hyderabad just two days. by 50 per cent. ing to a circular issued by According to sources, the Guv distributes food “The CM, in his speech in the SCCL. The SCCL said CHIEF Minister K Chan- Governor complimented the Meanwhile, the Governor dis- EXPRESS READ the Assembly during the that all precautionary meas- drasekhar Rao called on Gover- State government’s efforts in tributed food at Raj Bhavan on Budget session, had assured ures to prevent the spread nor Tamilisai Soundararajan controlling the spread of the Wednesday. Officials at the Raj Bandi seeks aid for Helpline set up to that the government was of Covid-19 as will be con- at Raj Bhavan on Wednesday dreaded virus. Bhavan state that food packets construction workers report overpricing ready to spend `10,000 crore tinued. The SCCL said that and explained to her the State The Chief Minister was ac- will be given to the poor and to deal with the Coronavirus the lay-off wages will be government’s efforts to control companied by Health Minister needy every day between 12 Hyderabad: BJP State Hyderabad: The Civil Supplies situation, if need be. How- paid to the workers. the spread of Coronavirus. Eatala Rajender, Chief Secre- noon and 1 pm for two more president Bandi Sanjay Kumar department on Wednesday ever, after a week of lock- Meanwhile, CITU State Ahead of Prime Minister tary Somesh Kumar and Health weeks till the Covid threat is demanded that the State established a helpline number down, the tables have turned general secretary M Saiba- Narendra Modi’s video confer- Secretary Shanti Kumari. contained. government extend a financial connected to the enforcement with the announcement of bu alleged that the SCCL ence with the Chief Ministers Later in the day, the Chief The Governor also extended assistance of 10,000 to taskforce enabling the public cuts in salaries citing eco- management did not an- on Thursday, Rao called on the Minister convened a meeting Sri Rama Navami greetings to construction workers and their to seek help or report a plaint nomic slowdown,” he said. nounce the lockdown be- Governor and explained to her with officials, which went on the people. “Let us pray to Lord families, who are struggling to about prices of essential forehand, as the manage- the measures taken by the gov- till 11 pm. He discussed at Rama to give us enough get by owing to the lockdown. commodities. The department ‘Want us to starve’ ment had to pay full wages ernment, especially quarantin- length the further steps to be strength to combat the Corona- He said that the Centre has officials said that the helpline Following the State govern- to workers during lockdown ing a large number of people taken to control the spread of virus outbreak,” she said in issued guidelines to help the number 040 2333611 will ment’s decision to cut sala- period. who attended the prayer meet- the Coronavirus pandemic in her message. labourers during the pandemic function round the clock. ries of government employ- ees, the Telangana Village Revenue Officer (VRO) Wel- M GM fare Association asked if the government wanted employ- ees to starve and serve the people. In a statement on Wednes- As humans are locked down, wildlife roams free in State day, the VRO Welfare Asso- ciation president Garike Up- RIDHIMA UPTA @ Hyderabad street junctions. Similarly, fol- roads in search of food. Earlier, Experts claim that the lock- In Nagarkurnool, around 100 endra Rao asked the chief lowing the human lockdown, they would rarely come out down has also positively im- cameras have been installed on minister whether the gov- AT a time when around 3.5 several animals from Amrabad that too only during night time, pacted the urban wildlife, as a stretch of about 40 km from ernment was unable to see crore people in the State have tiger reserve, Kawal wildlife but now they are being spotted both noise and air pollution Duruvasula Cheruvu to Rasa- the hard work of the been told to stay put at home, sanctuary and Eturnagaram during the daytime, crossing has done down and traffic is malla Baavi to monitor animal Revenue employ- wildlife can be seen flocking wildlife sanctuary in Telanga- roads,” said M Jogi, District completely gone. movement, said the official. ees, especially outside their restricted na have begun to stray onto the Forest Officer of The State Wildlife Depart- “Once the lockdown is over, VROs, who are habitat. roads more often, claims a Nagarkurnool. ment officials added that they we will identify the roads playing a cru- In the last few days, viral vid- Wildlife Department official. have installed cameras on where most wildlife crossings cial role in com- eos from different parts of the “In the last few days, we have n the last ew das, we have noticed that animals like samar deer, roads near three wildlife sanc- took place and will construct bating the Cov- country have shown wild ani- noticed that animals like sam- wild doves and leopards are coming out on the roads in search o ood. tuaries to monitor animal wildlife corridors there for free id-19 Earlier, the would rarel come out mals moving languorously bar deer, wild doves and leop- movements as to construct and undisturbed animal move- out- through otherwise crowded ards are coming out on the oi istrit orest ier o aarkrnoo wildlife corridors in future. ment,” he said. break. COPS SEIZE ALCOHOL WORTH `2.6K IN MANCHERIAL Mancherial Police seized alcohol worth `2.60 lakh from a man’s house in Bheemini mandal on Wednesday. The man was going to sell the alcohol at a price higher than the MRP by taking advantage of the lockdown.

HYDERABAD THURSDAY 05 02 l04l2020

LOCKED DOWN AP SEES 43 NEW CASES, Over 100 BIGGEST SURGE SO FAR TS families Kadapa, West Godavari, which did not have any positive case, stranded in accounted for the most number of cases Nellore

EXPRESS NEWS SERVICS @ Hyderabad

MORE than 100 families 87 110 234 from Telangana were Total cases in Total cases in Total cases in stranded in Nellore amid the country-wide lockdown Andhra Pradesh Karnataka Tamil Nadu without proper food and ac- commodation. City-based EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE activist Amjed Ullah Khan @VIJAYAWADA @BENGALURU @CHENNAI requested the Chief Minis- ters of Andhra Pradesh and IN the biggest surge in the ON Wednesday, detection of A whopping 110 persons test- Telangana to ensure their number of Covid-19 cases in nine new Coronavirus posi- ed positive for Covid-19 on safe return. the State so far, 43 persons tive cases took the total tally Wednesday, taking the total The families, which in- tested positive for coronavi- to 110. Patient 11, a 67-year- State tally to 234. All of them clude the elderly and mi- rus since Tuesday night, tak- old female, who returned had attended the Tablighi A man walks through a disinfectant-spraying tunnel at Thennampalayam market in Tamil Nadu’s Tirupur city | PRABHU KUMAR nors from Telangana, had ing the total number of infect- from Dubai via Goa on March Jamaat in Delhi earlier this gone for a religious ceremo- ees in AP to 87. Among the 43 9 and had chronic kidney dis- month. ny at Dargah Hazrath Al- new cases, Kadapa and West ease, was discharged. So far, 190 of the total posi- Haj Syed Khawja Rahmatul- Godavari districts, which till Among the positive cases tive cases in the State have a lah Nayeb-E-Rasool (R.A) in now had not recorded any recorded on Wednesday, five direct or indirect connection Rahmatabad. positive case, accounted for are related to the Nanjangud with the Delhi event. “Of the How are docs, medical staff “First, it was the 12-hour the most number of cases. Ka- case, where the patient 52, a 110 confirmed cases, there is 1 Janata Curfew and later a dapa recorded 15 positive cas- 35-year-old who works at a Burmese and 1 Indonesian 24-hour lockdown. This was es while West Godavari re- pharmaceutical company person,” said Health Secre- extended to March 31 and corded 13 cases. with no travel had tested tary Beela Rajesh. being protected, asks TS HC now it is up to April 14. This According to a medical bul- positive. Revenue Secretary J Rad- too may be extended on see- letin (till 10 am) released by hakrishnan held a press meet EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE sincerely rendering their no- ing the fast spread of the the government on Wednes- 1.5K from State attended earlier in the day and said @ Hyderabad ble services by risking their novel coronavirus. After a day, apart from 15 and 13 cases Nizamuddin meeting that the government esti- lives, the letter read. notice from the authorities in Kadapa and West Godavari The Karnataka State Health mates 1,122 people from here THE Telangana High Court on The government, which is concerned, the managing districts respectively, five pos- Department on Wednesday could have attended the Delhi Wednesday directed the State duty-bound to protect the doc- committee of the dargah itive cases were from Chittoor pegged the number of people event. Of them, only around government to inform it about tors and their assisting staff, stopped all activities on its district, four from Prakasam, who returned from Delhi’s Ni- 711 have returned back home. the measures being taken to was putting their lives at risk premises. Due to the lock- two each from Nellore and zamuddin Tablighi Jamaat at The remaining travelled protect the lives of doctors, by not providing complete per- down, there is no food and East Godavari districts and a staggering 1,500. down to other States. “We healthcare workers, and staff sonal protection equipment accommodation for the pil- one each from Krishna and By Wednesday evening, the have identified 611 of them of sample collection/lab test- (PPE) such as N-95 respirator grims from Telangana. Visakhapatnam districts. government had screened 800 and quarantined them. A ing centres fighting the coro- masks, face shields, goggles, Since 9 pm on Tuesday, 373 of them and the process of hundred others are yet to be navirus outbreak. of every Covid-19 suspect and gowns, shoe covers and head samples were tested of which tracing, screening and quar- tracked. They are untracea- A division bench, compris- examine them. They were also covers, Ahmed said. EXPRESS READ 43 came positive, the bulletin antining the rest is under ble. Police are on the lookout ing Justices MS Ramachandra directed to counsel them and He urged the court to direct said. w a y. for them,” he said. Rao and K Lakshman, passed their families, who recently the Central and State machin- Not received money, this order in a PIL based on a travelled abroad. The practi- ery to provide complete PPE rice: Adivasis in TS letter addressed to the Chief tioners and surgeons were to all medical practitioners Justice by city advocate R Sa- told to do this every day till and their staff. State AG, BS Adilabad: Human Right Forum meer Ahmed. the end of the 14-day incuba- Prasad, informed the court president Attram Bhujnaga 263 Keralites were at Ahmed, in his letter, said a tion period. that the Centre issued neces- Rao visited adivasis in government doctor ap- As per the government’s di- sary guidelines on the use of different areas of the district. proached him stating that the rections, medical practition- PPE, which doctors and other The adivasis complained of Delhi event in March State government directed ers, with their team consist- staff concerned have to follow. not getting the `1,500 and medical practitioners/civil as- ing of multi-purpose health The machinery provided re- free 12 kg rice that was SHAN AS @ T’Puram About 36 people from these dis- sistant surgeons serving in assistants, ‘asha karyakartas’, quired PPE , he said. The promised by the CM. They said tricts had gone to Nizamuddin primary and urban health officers from the municipality, bench posted the matter to they have no money to buy AS many as 263 Tablighi to attend the functions there, centres to visit the residence revenue and local police, were April 6 for further hearing. essentials. Jamaat (TJ) members from the including the mushawara state had gone to their national (meeting) held from March headquarters (Markaz) at Niza- 7-10. The sources confirmed muddin in New Delhi from Feb- that so far none of the people in ruary onwards of which 140 home quarantine has exhibited HC pulls up TS over people stuck at AP border are yet to return. At the any Covid-19 symptoms and same time, 123 people the Health Department is EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE Raj Kumar of the city. It heard court to direct the officials to submitted that 90,000-odd peo- who had been at the monitoring the situa- 265 @ Hyderabad the case over keep such persons under ob- ple, including migrants and Markaz, now consid- tion keenly. Total cases in video-conference. servation and test them for the students, were given accom- ered as a Covid-19 hot Of the 123 people, A division bench of the Telan- In their letter, the advocates novel coronavirus. modation in 343 shelter homes spot, during the first their travel itinerary Kerala gana High Court on Wednes- urged the court to direct the Since there were adequate located along the TS-AP bor- week of March have re- varied as some had vis- day directed the State govern- secretary to Ministry of private hospitals with der. Food was also being pro- turned to the state and are ited the Markaz before the ment to file an affidavit Health and Family Wel- sufficient infrastruc- vided to them. The govern- currently undergoing quaran- mushawara, while some had 140 from State stuck in detailing the steps taken for fare and State principal ture and resources to ment took steps ensuring that tine at their homes, said high- taken part in it. The TJ sourc- various places in North the safe return of people secretary to Medical, quarantine such per- nobody was allowed to get out ly-placed police sources. es, meanwhile, clarified that The 140 people from the State, stranded at the Telangana- Health and Family Wel- sons and test them for of the State and were put in Of this 123 people who have only 54 people from Kerala had who are yet to return, had left in Andhra Pradesh border. fare to use the resourc- the virus, the court shelter homes, Prasad said. returned, 53 are from northern attended the mushawara. How- 14 groups to various places in The bench, comprising Jus- es and facilities availa- has to direct the au- After hearing the submis- districts, while 69 hail from ever, none of these had attend- North India. These groups had left tices MS Ramachandra Rao ble at private hospitals for thorities concerned for sions of the AG, the bench di- southern districts. The most ed the programme held on in January and February and they and K Lakshman, was hearing ensuring the safe return of taking necessary steps in this rected the principal secretary number of people hail from March 18, which was meant for are stranded in various Indian a PIL based on a letter ad- those stranded at the border regard, the letter read. for Medical and Health to file Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam prominent TJ figures from Ta- cities, where they are under dressed to the Chief Justice by or any other person who need- Replying to a query from the a detailed affidavit regarding and Pathanamthitta districts. mil Nadu. quarantine. advocates SSR Murthy and S ed help. They also asked the bench, State AG, BS Prasad, the steps taken in this regard.

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MORE COMMITMENT While remote learning and remote working are a reality now, a big challenge is the speed of FROM PRIVATE internet connectivity across cities and towns SECTOR IS NEEDED s more Covid-19 cases come to the sur- face, our public health system is COVID: NEED FOR strained to breaking point. Doctors in state and municipal hospitals are IMPROVED NET Acomplaining of lack of protective gear and medicines. After a ward boy in a INFRASTRUCTURE private hospital in Patna tested positive for AMIT BANDRE coronavirus, the stepmotherly treatment being accorded to paramedic staff has come rime Minister Narendra positives like reduced traffic are actively involved in bring- nificantly. Reports suggest vid- ranked higher. In fixed line to the fore. Many are forced to work with Modi’s 21-day lockdown notifi- and environmental benefits. ing alignment between indus- eo streaming contributes to broadband, downlink speeds in raincoats as protective gear! The frontline cation to ensure social distanc- Perhaps the government try and government in enabling about 75% of the data con- India are about 39 Mbps com- requires protective gear, testing kits and ing and prevent the spread of should mandate an annual “re- remote working. sumed on Indian mobile net- pared to 203 Mbps in Singapore the coronavirus has resulted in mote working week”. While industries are trying works. In order to reduce the and 103 Mbps in China. ventilators to revive the sick. The Centre businesses and educational in- Over the past 10 years, the to adapt to the changing situa- stress on mobile networks, OTT The current situation should and states are leading the battle, but it is P stitutions shutting down. This tech landscape has significant- tion, universities and educa- players like Netflix, Amazon serve as a warning for the gov- time the private sector mobilised too. means employees and students ly improved for employees to be tional institutions have started Prime, Hotstar among others ernment and telecom sector. In- There has been a steady trickle of com- are dependent on the internet productive irrespective of their virtual classrooms. The con- have agreed to scale down their dia could have been better pre- mitments. The Tata Group has pledged to be productive while staying location. There are many soft- cept of virtual classroom was video streaming from high defi- pared had a rapid fibre optic `1,500 crore to buy protective gear and home. With most people con- ware applications for promot- spearheaded in May 2012 by nition (HD) to standard defini- network been deployed as envi- nected to the web for entertain- ing collaborative working. Or- The current Massachusetts Institute of tion (SD) on mobile networks sioned in the National Digital testing equipment. ITC has set up a con- ment and social networking, ganisations’ ability to accept Technology and Harvard Uni- during the lockdown period. Communications Policy 2018. tingency fund of `150 crore. Reliance In- situation should the data bandwidth required is and promote remote working serve as a versity with the MOOC (mas- While SD consumes about Lack of a strong optical fibre dustries is contributing `500 crore to the huge. Is our internet infra- calls for a shift in mindset. The warning for the sive open online courses) plat- 0.7GB data per hour, HD and 4K network also puts the superfast privately registered PM-CARES Fund. structure good enough to han- present lockdown would test government and form edX, which boasts 2 crore streaming would consume any- 5G network plans in jeopardy. Holistically, the private sector’s contribu- dle the surge? Before we delve the maturity of organisations telecom sector. students globally taking over where between 4 and 10 times The telecom sector’s financial tion so far is just `2,700 crore, a pittance into this, let us understand and employees alike. In addi- India could have 2,200 courses online. Virtual more than SD. BSNL’s work@ stress due to mounting debts how people are gearing up for tion, we could witness a shift classrooms are a boon for the home, a one-month free land- only adds to the woes of telcos compared to the task at hand. The private been better remote working/learning. towards uberisation of the prepared had a educational system in the coun- line broadband connection, is a and their inability to upgrade sector also needs to keep salaries flowing While the concept of work- workforce—freelance work as try, especially during such good initiative to encourage their infrastructure. Govern- to their employees, especially casual rapid fibre optic ing from home or home office (a opposed to permanent jobs. Es- network been shutdowns. In fact, this lock- people to shift from mobile to ments have not been able to re- workers, even where production has term more popular in Europe) sentially, experts are hired on a down should provide a trigger duce the tax and levies on telcos, deployed as landline broadband. has been around for decades, it need basis for specific tasks, for educational institutions to Even if we ignore the current among the highest in the world. stopped. In this regard, L&T setting up a envisioned in the has not gained popularity in In- and they mostly work from re- wholeheartedly support virtu- surge in data consumption as The internet has become a `500 crore fund for paying casual workers National Digital dia, maybe due to lack of trust mote locations. Workforce al classrooms going forward. an aberration and compare In- lifeline for people to be produc- is exemplary. Communications between the employee and the uberisation is gaining popular- Maybe some subjects can be dia’s internet speed with the tive during the lockdown. It is Policy 2018. Lack The lack of resources to fight Covid-19 employer or cultural issues ity across the world. taught exclusively online. rest of the world, the picture is certain that remote working of a strong optical has brought to the fore our woefully inad- where physical presence is giv- In general, firms try to be pre- While remote learning and not pretty. A recent speed test and learning will gain more ac- fibre network also equate outlay on health. The Centre and en importance. There are also pared for emergencies through remote working are a reality report ranks India 128th world- ceptance going forward. While puts the superfast proven benefits when employ- a business continuity plan . All now, the biggest challenge is wide for mobile broadband per- there is no denial that India’s states put together spent a miserable 1% of 5G network plans ees are co-located in an office threats that could disrupt regu- the speed of internet connectiv- formance and 69th for fixed internet access speeds have GDP in the last few years, much lower than in jeopardy the global average of 7.4%. Hopefully the and it fosters camaraderie lar business are determined ity across cities and towns. broadband speeds globally. On improved significantly over the amongst the workforce. In sec- and mock drills conducted to Low/substandard speed inter- mobile broadband ranking, past decade, there is huge scope coronavirus jolt will now ensure more tors like manufacturing, re- check the plan’s effectiveness. net means a poor experience in countries like South Korea, for improvement. The govern- money flows to the health sector. Many in- mote working is impossible. The pandemic has put such downloading/uploading con- UAE and Canada have down- ment and telcos should acceler- ternational corporations are focusing on But in industries where the plans to test. This is by far the tent, and audio/video calls The load speeds between 75-94 Mbps; ate actions towards ensuring direct supply of medical equipment to hot physical infrastructure re- biggest logistical exercise firms poor speed can also be attrib- India is the last amongst BRICS world-class internet speeds spots. Alibaba is sending out 1.1 million quired is a computer and inter- have undertaken for enabling uted to the fact that per house- nations with 11Mbps. It is inter- so that people can be highly testing kits, 6 million masks and 60,000 pro- net connection, remote work- employees to work from home. hold data consumption in cities esting that countries like Sri productive working or learning ing can be enabled. It has other Industry bodies like NASSCOM and towns has increased sig- Lanka, Pakistan and Nepal are remotely. tective suits to Africa. Swiss pharma giant Roche is concentrating on producing 4 lakh testing kits a week to meet demand, and fashion-luxury brand Louis Vuitton has turned to producing sanitisers. Taking Much more potent as a “The good news is most of these ‘Should be avoided for pure cost reasons’ are man-made and can easily be THE greenhouse gas than CO2 a leaf from their international peers, may- addressed through action by Gunnar Luderer and Nico Bauer, climate economists at be Indian companies should divert capac- METHANE Using imaging data gathered by the individual companies, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, said ity to producing medical essentials. European Space Agency’s Sentinel- governments and regulators,” the study may overestimate the warming impact of LEAKS 5P monitoring mission, the study Antoine Rostand, head of Kayrros, methane leaks. “Still, the annual leakage of 20 Mt of shows more than 100 “high-volume methane from 100 point sources mostly in the energy Methane, a powerful greenhouse an asset observation platform emission events” worldwide from gas that conducted the analysis, told industry is an astonishing loss that is worth further DELAYING OLYMPICS BY gas, is leaking from industry sites at storage and transmission facilities. AFP. While methane only stays in validation,” they told AFP. They said the leaks alone were rates equivalent to the annual carbon These events alone emitted around the atmosphere a fraction of the worth nearly two-thirds of all natural gas use in France emissions of France and Germany A YEAR IS RIGHT CALL 20 million tonnes of methane—the time that CO2 does, over a period every year, with an industry impact of nearly $4.4 billion. combined, a new analysis using short-term equivalent to releasing of decades it is dozens of times “Economists would expect that such leakage would be ow that the new dates for the resched- satellite data showed this week 1.8 billion tonnes of carbon pollution more potent as a greenhouse gas avoided for pure cost reasons,” said Luderer and Bauer uled Tokyo Games are out (July 23- August 8, 2021), let’s get one thing out of the way. The International Olym- MINDSPACE Write to: [email protected] MAILBAG Write to: [email protected] Npic Committee and the local organis- ers have got it spot on. They have given athletes, the international federations and Delhi administration, Jamaat have many questions to answer the other stakeholders 478 days to put new Remembering my This is with reference to Corona Hold China accountable Interest rate cut will affect us plans and processes into place. Postponing spread: Jamaat, Delhi govt are It is unfortunate that China It is shocking that the Centre has the Olympics by just a couple of months both culpable (Apr 1). When the doesn’t seem to have learnt a cut rates of the small savings would not have solved anything as the whole country is under a lock- thing from the pandemic. The scheme. The small savers, who virus shows no signs of slowing down; illustrious grandpa down, the conduct of a congrega- world is still on its knees due to have sacrificed a lot to save their there could easily have been a scenario of tion in Nizamuddin, Delhi, involv- the virus, but the wet market at money using such schemes in the IOC needing to push back the dates am writing this as a tribute to my grandfather, Kuruppath ing nearly 2,000 people including Wuhan, where the entire mess banks, post offices, etc., will earn again. Athletes would have still been forced Kuttikrishna Menon, whose 130th birth anniversary was in foreigners was a great offence. It started, has been opened again. much less by way of interest, February 2020. He was a legal luminary and practised law is baffling how such a large gath- All nations must build pressure which will affect their standard to train while risking their lives and inter- for more than 70 years. He rose to become Advocate General ering was allowed to assemble. on China to hold it accountable for of living. This will further affect national federations would have been of the erstwhile Madras Presidency and even appeared in The police, Delhi administration the virus spread. the country’s economy. left scratching their heads as to how and the Privy Council, London (equivalent to the Supreme and the religious body have many Jishi R, Kollam S Ramakrishnasayee, Chennai where to stage the qualifying events. Fur- I Court during British Rule). He moved to the Kerala High questions to answer. ther, there was no question of moving it Court after the state reorganisation in 1956. O B Nair, Kochi Barbaric act by Pakistan Uncharitable reduction back by a couple of months because Cana- I had the privilege of living with my grandparents till I The report that Pakistan is deny- The sudden reduction in the in- da and Australia had already ruled out got married, since my parents were away in Myanmar. They Damage is already done ing food supplies to its minorities, terest rates of the small saving were very close to me and hence I never missed my parents. What happened at the Tablighi claiming they are for Muslims scheme is quite uncharitable. A sending their athletes to Tokyo this year. My grandfather was a meticulous person and a strict disci- Jamaat headquarters in Delhi is a only, is barbaric. The country majority of those aged 70 and As the Indian Olympic Association presi- plinarian, both in his personal and professional life. To a gross violation of prohibitory or- seems to be under the dominance above rely solely on interest in- dent Narinder Batra said on Monday, the great extent, these qualities influenced me. His was a large ders, amounting to criminal neg- of religious fanatics. Economic come for sustenance. The timing nature of the rescheduling will ensure a family of three boys and five girls, all well settled. We al- ligence. The damage has already sanctions against Pakistan is vital of this exercise is also bad. The level playing field. ways had guests at home and relatives would jokingly com- been done. Now, mitigation efforts for incontrovertible reasons. present government seems to One of the main reasons why athletes ment on our home being ‘free boarding and lodging’. are the only way out. Those re- Thomas K M, Muvattupuzha have not wasted any opportunity My grandfather provided le- sponsible must be brought to to bring down interest rates of had urged the IOC to postpone the event gal aid and monetary assistance book, along with those who didn’t Salute them for selfless service such schemes to try and bring was that sportspersons from several coun- LEGAL LUMINARY during the freedom movement. perform their duties. This is with reference to How them on par with banks. tries were not able to go outside and train. He had helped Shri K P Kesava C G Kuriakose, Kothamangalam shall we respond to the pandemic? R Viswanathan,Chennai This time allows them to rest while the USHA MENON Menon, his close friend, in es- (Apr 1). Prevention is always bet- pandemic rages, they can now also plan Email: [email protected] tablishing Mathrubhumi, a Ma- Bringing bad name to their religion ter than cure. Cultivating aware- their mental and physical conditioning layalam daily. Many prominent The action of the Tablighi Jamaat ness about the disease among the personalities like G Sankara is highly condemnable. Delegates masses will help in prevention. In properly after the threat recedes. Athletes THE NEW INDIAN EXPRESS Kurup (first Jnanpith Award winner) and Mannath Pad- from countries with high infec- the end, though there is no cure in Chairman of the Board: Manoj Kumar Sonthalia are creatures of habit and they cannot manabhan (Nair Leader and social reformer) used to call tion rates were also present in the sight, it is the medical personnel Editor: G S Vasu jump straight back into the saddle without on him for legal counselling and social causes. convention. It is against the tenets who serve the afflicted humans first working up their fitness gradually. Many of his juniors became judges in High Courts and of Islam, which insists on obeying risking their lives. We salute them Resident Editor (Telangana) : Ch V M Krishna Rao* This one-year postponement ensures they the Supreme Court. However, he always preferred to remain the rules of the country where for their selfless service. Published by R K Jhunjhunwala on behalf of a practising lawyer. The Bar Association of Kerala hon- one resides. The irresponsible Chilaka Venkateswarlu, Chennai Express Publications (Madurai) Private Limited., at can follow a set programme, listen to con- H.No.6-3-1113/1, B.S.Makta Lane, Somajiguda, ditioning experts and plan their exposure oured him for completing 60 years of uninterrupted prac- acts of such people bring a bad tice. He continued his practice till he was 86 years old. He name to the religion they follow. Near Grand Kakatiya Hotel, Punjagutta, Oz PM’s words of appreciation – 500 016 and printed by him at trips accordingly. spent his retired life in his house at Palakkad. Dr M Haneef, Kottayam It was gratifying to note the words Hyderabad It was not just the athletes. The IOC also M/s. Sree Seshasai Enterprises, Plot No. 19, IDA I still remember my younger days, playing and enjoying of appreciation from Australian Industrial Estate, Balanagar, Hyderabad - 500 037. had to take the plight of international fed- with my cousins in the sprawling garden of his house. All A matter of concern PM Scott Morrison to PM Naren- erations into consideration. With 47% of his grandchildren used to fondly call him valiachan. The The sudden death of a doctor in dra Modi on his initiatives to con- Hyderabad: Vol. 44, No. 78 the athletes yet to punch a ticket to the secret of his sound health was regular yoga and physical Assam due to cardiac arrest, alleg- tain the virus. Some have criti- RNI Reg. No. 32179/77 Phone: 040-23413908, Fax: 040-23414282. Olympics, there is now a proper gap for exercise along with good food habits. His pillar of strength edly due to an anti-malaria drug cised the decision to supply was his wife, Madhavikutty Amma, a pious and noble wom- administered to prevent Covid-19, medical equipment to Serbia, but * Responsible for selection of News under the PRB Act them to ensure all remaining qualifying an. He passed away at the ripe old age of 97 and in the philo- is a matter of concern. The use of one must remember that diseases Copyright: Express Publications (Madurai) Private events get completed. There is no need to sophical sense, it was anayasena maranam. His only surviv- these drugs for containing the vi- in any part of the world will ulti- Limited., All rights reserved. Reproduction in any hurry. It’s why most of the international ing daughter, 91-year-old Padmini Balachandran, is residing rus must be done with caution. mately have an impact on us too. manner, electronic or otherwise, in whole or in part, federations have supported this decision. in Chennai. Sareena D, Thalassery Girish Thampi, T’puram without prior written permission is prohibited. Good to see well known technology leaders MAA CLEAED of India coming together in the fight he abligheamaats Marka, has been against COVID-19 by encouraging cleared after the evacuation of , N people in the past hours, elhi eputy innovations. Ravi Shankar Prasad Total hief Minister Manish isodia said A IN

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RG CID Talihi amaat its other eil side DOCTOR COUNT lobal secrity experts call it the antechamber of fndamentalism, claim it is sed to nrse and indoctrinate terrorists ith medical facilities in ndia stretched due to rising corona cases, here are the states relatively better placed in XCEPT intelligence of- In his analysis titled “Tablighi newspaper reports from the 100, including his friend, the number of doctors available ficials, national securi- Jamaat Jihad’s stealthy Le- 1990s, Raman pointed out that the Thauqeer Ahmed Thajudeen. Sri ty experts and the wary gions” in Middle East uarterly trained cadre of jihadi terrorist Lanka Thowheed Jamaat and O SAES IH HIGHES NO O OCORS among police officials, Jan 8, 2016 Alex Alexiev writes organisations like HuM obtained Tablighi Jamaat have identical PUAB not many Indians would that as 80 per cent of Islamist ex- visas by posing as preachers of goals and their interests con- have heard of the name tremists have come from Tablighi Tablighi Jamaat and went abroad verge. Tamil Nadu Thowheed UA Tablighi Jamaat TJ ranks and the French intelli- to recruit young Muslims for ter- Jamaat is the mentor of Sri Lan- PADSH before the explosive Nizamuddin gence calls TJ the ‘antechamber ror training in Pakistan. Since ka’s National Thowheed Jamaat, AASHA coronavirus episode gave it the of fundamentalism’. In his inves- S GURUMURH millions of TJ proselytisers trav- which delivered the bombs in Sri publicity it studiously avoided. tigative story titled “French Is- The author is a commentator on el around the world, TJ also de- Lanka. There is no Thowheed On the face of it, TJ’s six princi- lamic group offers rich soil for political and economic affairs veloped a large following in Jamaat outside India and Sri UAA ples suggest Islamic piety in its militancy’ in he ew or imes Chechnya and Dagestan areas of Lanka. extreme. But that is merely its April 29, 2005 Craig Smith lists Russia, Somalia and other Afri- cosmetic exterior, inviting the in- acarias Moussaoui charged in the US. Over the years, Pakistan can countries. Raman wrote that Now the lima S BA nocent and idealistic young Mus- the US 9/11 terror; Herve Djamel has come to be known as the glob- intelligence agencies of these And now the climax, for the un- MAHAASHA lims into an ideological line that Loiseau, who died fleeing the 2001 al terror hub. Says Dr Farhan, countries suspected that terror wary. Where was this noble look- ultimately turns them as terror- American bombardment of Tora “Several mainstream Islamist organisations based in Pakistan ing evil born? India. Who found- ADHA Number of doctors ists. The less known and danger- Bora in Afghanistan; Djamel Be- violent non-state actors have tak- were using the cover of TJ ed it? Indian. Name? Maulana AAAA PADSH registered with SMCs ous side of the century-old TJ ghal, an admitted Al-aeda mem- en their roots from TJ’s indoctri- preaching for creating sleeper Mohammed Illyasi. When? In and MCI between began unfolding the world over ber, who was convicted in 2005 for nation and on the platform pro- cells in different countries. As a 1920s. Where is its global head- 2010 and 2018 since 2001, but not in India. plotting to blow up the US Em- vided by TJ missionaries. It is result, TJ was black-listed and its quarters? Nizamuddin West Del- bassy in Paris, as TJ terror activ- the Deobandi ideology of TJ preachers denied visas.” hi! The place of its annual meet AA AMI ADU (Source: National Nursery and gateway to terror ists of French origin. Freth Bur- which provides potential jihad- B Raman, one of the most bril- in which hundreds of Tablighis Health Profile, 2019) “TJ is another system driver and ton and Scott Stewart, writing in ists a crucial link.” liant R&AW officers, passed away from Malaysia, Thailand, Indone- integral element of Islamist Vio- an analysis titled “Tablighi During the 1980s and 1990s, TJ in 2013. sia, China and other coronavirus lent Non-State Actors’ internal Jamaat An Indirect Line to Ter- became the recruiter of Islamist hotspots participated. The out- dynamics; in many cases it has rorism” in the trator lobal n radicals for the Afghan war. Dr In Sri ana too break was astonishingly in con- JEE Advanced, scheduled acted as nursery for indoctrinat- telligence ecurity eely, say Farhan points out that Harkat-ul In a piece titled “The road to Sri trol in India till Nizamuddin ex- on May 17, postponed ing Islamist terrorists,” writes Dr that 12 out of the 14 men arrested Jihad-al-Islami HuJI was Lanka Carnage” on Rediff.com, ploded as a grave and dangerous Farhan ahid, a Pakistani coun- in a pre-emptive raid on a mosque formed by former TJ members the well known security analyst national threat. TJ with its head- Indian Institute of Technology, elhi, the organizing ter terrorism and security ex- in Barcelona for plotting to attack ari Saifullah Akhtar and Fazal Praveen Swami linked Moham- quarters in India now functions institute for oint Entrance Examination or EE pert, in his analysis titled “Tab- targets belonged to TJ, adding ur Rahman Kalil along with oth- mad Muhsin Nilam, a Sri Lan- in some 80 countries with some 80 Advanced—the entrance test for countr’s 2 IITs — lighi Jamaat and its links with that TJ’s name figured in the 2005 ers. From the HuJI platform kan, to ahran Hashim who was million adherents. this year, has postponed the entrance examination terrorism” oreign nalysis London underground bombings emerged other jihadist outfits - responsible for the Colombo In a 173-page paper titled “Tab- due to ongoing COI 1 outbreak. The March 2015 Centre Francais de in which 52 people died and also Harkat-ul-Mujhahideen HuM bombings. Also known as Abu lighi Jamaat Wolf in sheep’s examination was scheduled to be held on May 1. Reserche Sur le Renseignement. in the attempted bombings in Jaish-e-Mohammed JeM, Shuraya, Nilam was killed in skin Sept 9, 2018; released to me- The postponement is on the account of Dr Farhan says, TJ “in a way London, Glasgow and Scotland. Sipah-e-Sahaba SSP and Raqqa, the ISIS capital. Nilam’s dia again after the Nizamuddin advancement of EE Main, scheduled earlier for plays the role of recruiter and Assistant FBI Director US Mi- Lashkar-e-Jhangvi LeJ. story is key to understanding the episode Salah Uddin Shoaib April first week as top ranking students in the test sympathiser for terrorism. TJ’s chael Heimbach says that TJ has All of them stand declared as networks thought to be responsi- Choudhury, a ionist and multi are eligible for EE Advanced. “EE Advanced 2020, congregation allows radical ele- significant presence in the US, terror outfits. ble for the carnage in Colombo. award winning anti-jihadist jour- which was scheduled to be held on May 1, 2020 ments worldwide to meet and dis- and Al-aeda was found to have Swami says that Tablighi Jamaat nalist and a counterterrorism Sunday, thus stands postponed and will be cuss violent activities and pro- recruited TJ adherents New error merhant had begun to grow roots among specialist, unravels the massive rescheduled after EE Main 2020,” said a vide them with the best ork Post Dec 27, 2015. An ndia broad ews ervice re- Sri Lankan Muslims from the following of JT and its terror con- statement from IIT elhi. opportunity to coordinate”. Add- port on April 1, 2020 titled “Tab- early 21st century. Swami says, nections the world over. ing “many of its followers have urned a into terror hub lighi Jamaat shares links with “Educated in Sharia law at Islam- Thousands of TJ teachers from dual and overlapping member- The book titled n he byss terror outfits”, said “As per abad’s International Islamic Uni- within and outside assemble in ship with jihadist groups”, Dr aistan ter the Coup Harper WikiLeaks, some of the 9/11 al- versity, an institution where Osa- India and that is what they did in Farhan cites references and says Collins Publishers India 2000 au- aeda suspects detained by the ma bin Laden’s mentor Abdullah Nizamuddin. Is it just to memo- “TJ has now been considered as thored mainly by Pakistani US in Guantanamo Bay had Azzam once taught, Nilam had rise the six noble principles or as a ‘gateway to terrorism’. scholars, diplomats and writers, stayed in the Tablighi Jamaat encountered with the Tablighi Dr Farhan says “to discuss and says that the largely Barelvi Is- headquarters in Nizamuddin Jamaat. In 2011, when Nilam re- coordinate terror activities”, will error reord in Europe US lamic Pakistan, which accepted West, New Delhi, years ago. Tab- turned to his home in Kandy in never be known in India, as no Dr Farhan says since 2001, traces local variations, including Dar- lighi Jamaat was also suspected Sri Lanka, he first worked as government has the guts to enter of links have been found between gah worship and Sufi traditions, to be involved in the burning of part-time Urdu instructor at Co- any mosque, thanks to the way TJ and Islamists involved in acts had been hijacked by Deobandi 59 Hindu kar sevaks in 2002 in lombo University. When he was secularism is understood in our of terror. Shoe bomber Richard ideology through Tablighi Godhra, Gujarat, which led to principal of a school in Galewala, politics. Reid who attempted a trans-At- Jamaat, the result of which was mass communal rioting in the he played a key role in ahran’s Unless this limit is breached lantic airline bombing 2001, the growth of militancy. Khaled state. According to India’s intel- group. Then, in 2014, feigning to and the menace is outlawed, in- Jose Padilla who tried dirty bomb Ahmed, former diplomat and edi- ligence and security expert, late go on a pilgrimage with his six nocent Muslims attracted by its manufacturing 2002 in New tor of riday imes in Pakistan B Raman, TJ in Pakistan and children, pregnant wife, and age- cosmetic exterior of Koran can- ork city, Barcelona terror plot writes in n he byss “Be- Bangladesh gained adverse atten- ing parents, he took them to Tur- not be saved from becoming car- 2008 and the arrest of American cause of the rise of Deobandi mi- tion for association with Harkat- key and disappeared across the riers of Kalashnikovs and mak- Taliban John Walker in Afghani- litias. the Punjab province is ul-Mujahideen, Harkat-ul-Jihad- border into Syria. He posted in ers and throwers of lethal bombs. stan 2001 were all linked to TJ. rapidly losing its Barelvi temper- al-Islami, Lashkar-e-Toiba, his Facebook post “We will kill Let the courts decide whether Its French Muslim recruits were ament.” What the authors had Jaish-e-Mohammad and mem- every man, woman, child, Shia, TJ’s right to mentor terror in In- found involved in planning at- prophesied came true in the very bers of the International Islamic Sunni, oroastrians, Kurds, dia also constitutes minority tacks by the Portland Seven and next year when Pakistan was Front formed by Osama bin Lad- Christians.” Nilam had recruited right, as is so far being the Lackawanna Six in the US. found involved in 9/11 attack on en in 1998. uoting Pakistani for ISIS 36 Sri Lankans, may be understood.

A student walks with her belongings after completing 1 RIHTS PEA days of uarantine at a facility in rinagar PI orld odies ops arry out raids to nab ablighi head EEPIN THE IEINE at for refuees PSS S SIC New elhi Jamaat head denied the police version and said the preacher A I and mirants DELHI Police on Wednesday con- was at his home. Musharraf Ali operated U initiative ducted raids at various locations Khan, a follower of Jamaat and between March 2 and March 1 to arrest Maulana Saad Kandh- member of the committee said, PSS S SIC New elhi lawi, the head of Tablighi Jamaat “The Maulana is not under- who has been named in an FIR ground or running away from po- FOUR UN bodies have issued along with five others members lice. He is a religious person. He a joint statement urging peo- of the organisation for violating has his residence on the Markaz ple in the world to protect the government directions and hold- campus. He is in self-isolation as tonnes of operated by Air India, 2 rights and health of everyone ing a religious gathering at its lockdown is in force and will by its regional subsidiary to fight the coronavirus pan- headquarters in Nizamuddin surely cooperate with the police.” transported by Alliance Air and 1 by the demic. The statement jointly area of south Delhi. He, however, added that Kandh- these flights Indian Air Force released by the Office of the The probe has been handed lawi might have gone to his rela- High Commissioner on Hu- over to Crime Branch which is tives’ place in Muzaffarnagar, UP. man Rights, World Health Or- also analysing an audio clip in Saad was booked on Tuesday ganization, United Nations which Saad is allegedly heard them are members of the man- help of the state police being tak- after the police and district ad- Saudi Arabia asks Muslims Human Rights Commission asking people not to fear novel agement committee of Markaz, en. “Investigation is going on and ministration evacuated 2,361 peo- to postpone Haj and the International Organi- coronavirus, calling it a conspir- as the headquarters of the organ- efforts are being made to ascer- ple from the Markaz during a 36- sation on Migration states that acy against Islam. istaion is called. tain whether the voice in the au- hour long operation which Saudi Arabia’s a minister Mohammad Benten has the virus does not discrimi- The others name in the FIR are A Crime Branch officer said dio clips is of Maulana Saad,” continued till early hours of asked Muslims to temporarily postpone the annual nate but refugees, forcibly dis- eeshan, Mufti Shehzad, Moh- raids are being conducted in Del- said a police officer, adding that Wednesday. The building and ad- pilgrimage amid the rising uncertainty arising out placed persons and migrants hammad Saifi, Maulana ounus hi and at other possible hideouts Saad is untraceable. joining areas were sanitised after of the coronavirus pandemic. a is likely to begin are at a heightened risk. and Mohammad Salman. All of in Uttar Pradesh, for which the However, the associates of the the evacuation on Wednesday. in uly this year. “Saudi Arabia is fully ready to “The situation for refugees serve pilgrims and umrah seekers. But under the and migrants held in formal current circumstances, as we are talking about the and informal places of deten- global pandemic... the kingdom is keen to protect tion, in cramped and unsani- Is eauation of the health of Muslims and citizens and so we have tary conditions, is particular- Forein donations in PM CARES alloed asked our brother Muslims in all countries to wait ly worrying. Considering the stranded in before doing a contracts until the situation is lethal consequences COVID-19 clear,” Mohammad Benten said. The likely outbreak would have, they MEA uneils its stratey to fiht irus Iran possile suspension of a is significant as it serves as a should be released without de- maor revenue generation for the kingdom. lay. Migrant children and their PSS S SIC New elhi the prohibited list. “The guide- bilateral, regional and global lev- NEW DELHI The Supreme families and those detained lines for the export are clear. el to help chalk out a coordinated Court on Wednesday asked the without a sufficient legal basis GIVEN the unprecedented cir- Some items can be exported on a response, and setting up the COV- Centre to examine the possi- should be immediately re- cumstances arising out of the case to case basis after clearance ID-19 cell. bility of bringing back 250 In- Sc seek govt response on plea leased,” the statement read. coronavirus pandemic, the Cen- by the Director General of PM Narendra Modi and Ex- dian pilgrims stranded in “While countries are closing tre has agreed to accept foreign Foreign Trade. However, ternal Affairs Minister S Iran, who have tested positive for WHO-approved PPEs their borders and limiting donations in the PM-CARES the item sent to Serbia Jaishankar have been and are yet to be evacuated. The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought the cross-border movements, fund, sources said. was not on the prohibited speaking to their coun- The Centre informed the top Centre’s response on a plea seeking directions to there are ways to manage bor- On the issue of the foreigners list,” a source said. terparts. There is a meet- court that it has already facili- make available World ealth Organisation WO der restrictions in a manner who attended the Tablighi Sources said a three- ing of the Indo-Pacific tated the return of 1,142 Indi- approved personal protective equipment for which respects international Jamaat event in New Delhi vio- point focus strategy is be- members on March 20, ans of which 787 are pilgrims, doctors treating Covid-1 patients. A bench headed human rights and refugee pro- lating visa norms, sources said ing employed to counter the sources said. Later his week, under intense operational con- by ustice Chandrachud heard the plea filed by tection standards, including that the authorities concerned spread of the virus — taking care commerce ministers of SAARC straints after restrictions were Nagpur-based doctor erryl Banait, who had the principle of non-refoule- will take action if norms were of Indians abroad, efforts on the nations will also meet. imposed for public health rea- sought an interim order for immediate ment, through quarantine and flouted. “We will extend all coop- sons in Iran, where it was dif- implementation of infection prevention guidelines health checks,” it added. eration that is required,” a source ficult to organise transport issued by the Centre and WO for rational use of The UN bodies also urge not in the Ministry of External Af- COID DATAASE and other logistics. The SC personal protective equipment. The court asked to let fear of intolerance to un- fairs said. A COI-1 control room set up by MEA is working round the clock to then told the petitioners’ coun- solicitor general Tushar Mehta to look into the dermine or compromise the Dismissing reports that a pro- address the issues of Indians across the globe. The control room, sources sel that the matter be left to the issue and file a response by early next week. effectiveness of the responses hibited PPEs were exported to said, has received a total of ,00 calls and 2,200 emails since it was set up government. The next hearing of the global pandemic. Serbia, sources said it was not on on March 1. A database is also being created to help find the pandemic. is slated for March 30. INIA Ma Min Ma Min ESING MED hmedabad 38 21 mbai 34 24 hopal 35 18 anai 34 25 omen researchers at anaras indu aipr 30 17 atna 34 21 niversity have developed a new mritsar 22 15 cknow 37 18 testing method for he PPI I ew elhi 32 17 ort lair 32 24 TONNES olkata 36 24 mphal 31 18 team has patented the method IN A IA rinagar 12 4 handigarh 27 16

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ANA CE 22 MARCH Source CPCB RG 23 MARCH CID C 24 MARCH LCDN SAED 25 MARCH 26 MARCH Virtual interactive system for 27 MARCH entre says spike doesnt reflect national 28 MARCH prisoners in Bihar jails trend as most cases related to ablighi Patna To prohibt direct meeting of visitors with 29 MARCH ail inmates, the Bihar prison department has introduced “e-mulakati”e-visitation virtual PSS S SIC New elhi underway where the cases have spiked, Agarwal said. No of cities Cities with Cities with Cities with interaction system. This was done as part of social for which AQI in range AQI in AQI in range distancing measures with a view to reduce mental INDIA registered 376 cases of In a meeting with chief secre- COVID-19 in last 24 hours, with taries and DGPs, Cabinet Secre- data is of Good to Moderate of Poor to stress and worry amongst the prisoners if they available Satisfactory Category Severe remain away from their family members amid the the Centre asserting that the tary Rajiv Gauba emphasised lockdown. Sharing details, Inspector General of numbers do not represent a na- on intensive contact tracing of Police, Prison and Correctional Services, Mithilesh tional trend as the spike is pri- Tablighi Jamat participants. Mishra said that booths have been set up at many marily due to travel by the peo- The states were asked to com- ails to facilitate the interaction of prisoners with ple who had attended the plete the contact tracing process 85 CITIES BREATHED EASY their kins though the e-mulakati system introduced Tablighi Jamaat congregation on a war footing, said a govern- in the eastern state. in Delhi. ment statement. “It has been Massive eercise done to collect AI data The official tally of confirmed found that foreigners who had novel coronavirus pa- participated in the Real time air quality data was collected by the Cenntra Pollution tients stands at 1,637 Tablighi Jamat had COntrol Board from air quality stations in 115 cities across the of which 132 have re- violated visa condi- country to assess impact of lockdown period. covered while 38 died. tions. The states were At a press briefing asked to initiate ac- on Wednesday, Lav tion for violation of Agarwal, joint secre- visa condition against tary, Union Ministry S the foreigners and the tay at home lears the air of Health and Family event organisers.” Welfare, said 1,800 Authorities an- ICHA SHAMANew elhi from higher to lower end of cate- industrial areas. Overall, Janata people related to the nounced that the In- gory and 17 cities moving in ‘Sat- Curfew resulted in general im- Tablighi Jamaat were dian Railways is pre- PEOPLE in 85 major cities across isfactory’ category and 07 cities in provement in air quality. shifted to nine hospi- t secy, health paring to set up 3.2 India were able to breathe easy ‘Good’ category. The AI value in “During start of pre lockdown tals and quarantine lakh isolation and during Janata Curfew and nation- coastal areas slightly improved period on March 16, 55 cities were centres. quarantine beds by al-wide lockdown as most of the though not as significantly as not- under ‘Good’ & ‘Satisfactory’ AI “The recent rise in the num- modifying 20,000 coaches. Modi- vehicles remained off road and ed for Indo Gangetic plains,” said categories. As days progressed, ber of cases does not represent fication of 5,000 coaches has be- non-essential industrial units the report. On the day of curfew, the number of cities under these a national trend if compared gun, through which 80,000 new were closed, the Central Pollution Chennai and Mumbai remained categories started to decrease with the previous trends. But as isolation beds are expected. Control Board said in a report. in ‘Satisfactory’ category. A slight with more moving in ‘Moderate’ we all know, naturally cases will “The civil aviation ministry The CPCB report assessed qual- increase in AI value was noted category. The pattern continued grow due to negligence and has launched lifeline flights to ity of air between March 16 and in Chennai on the next day, pos- till March 21, The situation carelessness,” Agarwal, said. transport essential commodi- March 29. It found that most of sibly due to local contribution. changed on March 22. On the day “Our advice is that any kind of ties, PPEs, testing kits, medi- the million plus population cities The positive impact on air qual- of Janata Curfew, 67 cities record- congregation should be avoided. cines and masks. 15.4 tons of showed improvement in air qual- ity was not observed significantly ed ‘Good’ & ‘Satisfactory’ AI val- Social distancing measures medical supplies have already ity levels post Janata curfew on in industrial cities. High AI val- ues,” said the analysis. should be followed by everyone been transported in last five March 22. “Indo Gangetic cities ue was noted in Vapi, Ratlam, The trend has continued, with without failure.” days,” Agarwal said in the showed significant improvement Satna, Singrauli and Chandrapur increasing number of cities re- Twins named after Corona Additional sample testing is press briefing. in AI values with levels moving seemingly due to emissions from cording ‘Good’ AI value. and Covid in Chhattisgarh Raipur In Chhattisgarh state capital, a couple decided to name their twins as Corona and Covid. Lokdon: laourers die of old hile trekkin to home Preeti 2 and her husband inay erma had a torrid time struggling to reach r Bhimrao AA AI Srinagar district. The group decided to mad (22), all from Hinyal village weather conditions, he said. Ambedkar Memorial hospital, where she gave birth take the mountainous route as no in Banihal. Haseeb said a rescue operation to a girl and a boy. “Both the mother and newborn THREE labourers had to pay civilian movement is allowed on “Three labourers reached their was launched by the police when babies are doing fine. A team of doctors and with their life while trekking a the Srinagar-Jammu national village safely while four other news came in that four labourers medical staff performed a Caesarean section on treacherous route through moun- highway in view of the ongoing were stuck at a hill top, Nagiman- were stuck on the hill top. “Our the mother after she complained of labour pain tainous range from south Kash- lockdown to contain COVID-19. du (Hingal top), about 5 km from personnel managed to rescue one and complications,” said Shubhra Singh, a public mir’s Anantnag district in order While the three died of hypo- Dulligam, Banihal,” Senior Su- labourer while three others had relation officer of the Ambedkar hospital. The to reach homes at Banihal in the thermia after being stuck in a perintendent of Police (SSP), died of hypothermia due to the ermas who hail from Uttar Pradesh. “We wished lockdown. hill top due to bad weather on Ramban, Haseeb-ur-Rehman told cold,” the SSP said. “The bodies to ease the people’s anxiety and fear associated The trio was part of a group of Tuesday evening, three others this newspaper. were recovered from the spot.” with these words. Secondly, we would like to make seven labourers who started managed to reach their homes The hill top had received heavy Wednesday was the 14th day of the occasion memorable. So, I and my husband their trek on Tuesday morning and one had to be rescued by the snowfall, leading to a considera- lockdown in Kashmir. The lock- took an instant decision to name our boy and girl from Verinag in Anantnag dis- police. The deceased were identi- ble drop in temperature. Four la- down in Kashmir was imposed on as Covid and Corona,” Preeti said. trict, where they had been work- fied as Ghulam Mohidin (30), bourers could not cross the ter- March 19, a day after the first posi- ing, to reach Banihal in Ramban ubair Ahmad (20) and Reyaz Ah- rain because of extreme bad tive COVID-19 case was reported.

UAAHAD AAAD HIMACHA PADSH AMMU AD ASHMI Any person with There are 16 tribes, Any person who has a The new policy defines Antimiroial oatin holds documentary proof of residence in Uttarakhand including Kacharis, recognised as “indigenous” and permanent home in HP or is residing in the state for a domicile as a person who has resided in J&K for 15 dating back to 1985. Apart from this, those who have are called “permanent residents.” They are people 20 years or has a permanent home in Himachal but is years, has studied there for seven years, registered 15 years of residency proof in the state such as land who have been living in Nagaland since 1963 living outside on account of his occupation migrants and their children, children of government promise in oronairus fiht record, rent proof etc Only “permanent residents” are Government jobs are open for all; officials who have served in J&K for 10 years Government jobs of all categories eligible for state government jobs and scholarships in last year the appointment of 16 persons from Bihar, Under the domicile policy just PSS S SIC New elhi activate SARS-CoV-2 upon con- ranging from gazetted officers, Group C and D are educational institutions. No one else, including Nagas Jharkhand, Delhi, Haryana and Punjab for clerical announced, exclusive rights are reserved only for tact and can help prevent open for all citizens of India. Non-domicile from neighbouring states, get the benefits posts was heavily criticised low-ranking government positions AFTER reports of higher chanc- contamination if coated on vari- candidates have to apply in ‘General’ category es of survival of COVID-19 virus ous surfaces. “Till date, to the They are protected Under Section 118 of The government on metallic surfaces, researchers best of our knowledge, there is no There is no under Article 371A of the constitution, which says no the HP Tenancy and Land Reform Act, 1972, outsiders is working on a policy to give exclusive rights to have developed a one-step curable covalent coating strategy which prohibition on purchase of a property or house or Act of Parliament in respect of ownership/transfer of can purchase only land/property of the HP Urban residents; before the nullification of Article 370, anti-microbial coating which, can kill all viruses, bacteria and land for residential purpose; but there is cap of 250 land shall apply to the state unless the Nagaland Development Authority, any other land/property outsiders were not permitted to purchase land when coated on differ- fungi,” said the re- square meters on purchase of agricultural land assembly by a resolution so decides purchase has to cleared by the state cabinet or property ent surfaces such as tex- searchers. The coating tile, plastic could kill a can be fabricated on range of viruses includ- various surfaces. Its ing corona. ease and robustness entre epands Developed by re- eliminate the necessity parties slam the ne domiile la searchers from the of skilled personnel for sope o domiile poliy AA AISrinagar At a time when all our efforts & president Altaf Bukhari said Jawaharlal Nehru Cen- procurement of the attention should be focused on the order is totally unaccepta- tre for Advanced Scien- coating. AA AI Srinagar POLITICAL parties in Jammu COVID outbreak, the govern- ble. Union Home Minister Amit tific Research (JN- Microbial attach- and Kashmir were united in de- ment slips in a new domicile law Shah had assured Bukhari-led CASR), an autonomous ment and their colony THE Centre’s new domicile policy for Jammu and Kash- nouncing the new domicile poli- for J&K. Insult is heaped on in- delegation that J&K would have institution under the T formation on surfaces mir to include anyone who has stayed over 15 years in cy and asserted that the Centre jury when we see the law offers a better domicile policy than Department of Science play a major role in the the Union Territory has regional parties up in arms. Ac- “humiliated, insulted and mar- none of the protections that had other states. Bukhari said the and Technology, the co- transmission of infec- cording to the redefined domicile rules, those who have ginalised” the people by snatch- been promised,” tweeted Na- order reflects a casual exercise valent coating has been tions. “Considering the studied for a period of seven years and appeared in class ing everything from them. tional Conference leader Omar carried out at a bureaucratic found to completely kill Researchers current coronavirus 10th or 12th examination in J&K are also eligible for As per the new rules, anyone Abdullah, who was released re- level without taking aspirations influenza virus as well outbreak, if shown to domicile rights. who has stayed over 15 years in cently after being detained for and expectations of the people as resistant pathogenic be active, various per- Only those with domicile rights can apply for govern- the Union Territory or has stud- over seven months. into consideration. bacteria and fungi. The research sonal protective tools such as ment jobs in J&K. “Talk about suspect timing. At a time ied for a period of seven years “Even the new party (J&K Detained PDP chief Mehboo- paper on the coating has been ac- masks, gloves, gowns can be coat- when all our efforts & attention should be focused on and appeared in class 10th/12th Apni Party) created with Delhi’s ba Mufti’s daughter Iltija, in a cepted in the journal, pplied ed... The molecules can also be Covid outbreak, the government slips in a new domicile examination in an educational blessings, whose leaders were series of tweets, said “Imposing Material and nteraces coated on other medical devices law for J&K,” tweeted National Conference leader and institution in the UT of J&K is lobbying in Delhi for this law, it in times of a global pandemic Corona virus, like influenza, is and tools to avoid hospital-ac- former CM Omar Abdullah, who was released recently now eligible for domicile. have been forced to criticise the reveals a callous and paranoid also an enveloped virus. It is an- quired infections,” said after being detained for seven months. “Talk about suspect timing. domicile law.” J&K Apni Party mindset.” ticipated that the coating may in- the researchers.

FAYAZ WANI B T Our correspondent in ammu and Kashmir Worried families of prisoners lodged To prevent the spread of COI-1 pandemic, the Srinagar administration has launched in ails outside Kashmir have urged a website to track the people, who have been concealing travel history. The website, the administration either to release which can be accessed on www.talaashsrinagar.in, provides options of “self report” and their kin or shift them to detention “report about others.” On the website, a person has to submit details like name and centres back home. Over 500 contact number. The administration has appealed families, neighbours and people to SRINAAR Kashmiri prisoners, including alert officials about suspected cases through the websiteapp so that necessary politicians, lawyers, civil society measures in interest of public health can be taken by the government. This is being done members, and traders, are detained to ensure that healthcare infrastructure is not overburdened. D in ails outside Kashmir. Most of With the hospitals closing OP service, a group of doctors under the banner of octors them are those, who were detained H Association of Kashmir AK has launched Android-based mobile app “AK- immediately after the bifurcation of ELPESK” to provide online medical consultation to the people. AK president r K last year. The families are The K igh Court, while hearing a petition, sought information Suhail Naik said about 100 doctors are available via the app to provide consultations. worried that since most ails are from the government on availability of test kits for detection of “octors assess the history of patient and provide them full-fledged treatment,” he said, overcrowded, there is possibility of COI-1 and ventilators in district hospitals. A division bench adding the app has received overwhelming response. octors would be available either infection. They have urged the headed by Chief ustice Gita Mittal issued notice to the Centre and telephonically or through WhatsApp between am and pm for minor ailments and officials to release their kin or shift the K government seeking an action taken report by April . COI-1 related information on the application, “AK-ELPESK”. The mobile them to detention centres in Muhammad Shafi, the petitioner, appealed the C to order the application can be downloaded on mobile phones which, policy makers say, will help in Kashmir, where the families can at government to ensure the supply of medical equipment. providing medical consultation in an instant. least know about their well-being. eiing os ngeles olombo elborne oha oscow GOA bai ew ork EAHER oston ingapore 4 ight Rain H eay Rain stanbl oronto DS Thundershower C ight Cloud S unny ondon Washington

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A PARIS EIRT OHANNESR WAIT CIT SEO NEW OR Afghan govt, Taliban hold Much of the world faces Syria war records lowest US again accused of killing Uproar as Kuwait actress 1000s of Korean workers Amazon fires warehouse talks on prisoner swap food shortage UN WTO monthly death toll in yrs civilians in Somalia strikes calls for ban on expats for US army put on leave worker who led walkout Afghan government The heads of three global The war in Syria killed 10 civilians The US military is facing more A famous Kuwaiti actress has Around 4,000 South Koreans Amazon fired a worker who representatives have met with the agencies FAO, WO and WTO in March, marking the lowest allegations of killing civilians with sparked a furore by calling for working for the US military in their organized a walkout at a New ork Taliban in Kabul for the first time warned on Wednesday of the risk monthly non-combatant death toll airstrikes in Somalia, and now says expatriates to be expelled from the country were put on unpaid leave warehouse to demand greater to discuss a prisoner swap aimed of a worldwide “food shortage” if since the start of the conflict in it will address the issue more fully oil-rich nation so that locals can be Wednesday as Seoul and protection against the new at ump-starting a peace process. authorities fail to manage the 2011, a war monitor said in upcoming public reports. sure of having a hospital bed if they Washington bicker over funding for coronavirus, saying the employee The two sides met Tuesday and ongoing coronavirus crisis properly. Wednesday. Of the total deaths, Amnesty International said in a fall ill with coronavirus. ayat US forces. Washington stations himself flouted distancing rules would meet again Wednesday for Many governments around the some 51 people were killed in new report Wednesday that the US al-Fahad, 1, who is known for 28,500 troops in the country to and put others at risk. New ork further talks being observed by the world have put their populations shelling and air strikes by the Africa Command killed two playing a range of roles in Arabic defend it against the nuclear- City Mayor Bill de Blasio ordered International Committee of the on lockdown causing severe slow- Syrian regime, the Britain-based civilians and inured three in two dramas, told a local T station that armed North, but the security the city’s Commission of uman Red Cross, Afghanistan’s Office of downs in international trade and Syrian Observatory for uman airstrikes in February as it strikes foreigners in the country should be allies’ relationship has been Right to investigate whether the the National Security Council said. food supply chains. Rights said. back at al-aida-linked al-Shabab. kicked out during the health crisis. strained by US demands. dismissal was retaliatory. DEAD IN EPE S PEDICS GIM LL manity reels as pathogen wreaks havoc across the globe millions of ob losses expected ritain sees people die in one day, taking its total to ,

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The coronavirus pandemic has Experts sceptical of V-shaped claimed more than 30,000 lives in rump onronts Europe alone, a global tally recovery of global economy showed Wednesday, in what the head of the United Nations has he worlds biggest economy, the nited tates, is likely in recession o are described as humanity’s worst apan, ingapore, outh orea and anada here are tentative signs hina ne reality arns crisis since World War II. that is on the recovery path, but how will the rest of the world fare perts Italy and Spain bore the brunt are growing doubtful of the possibility a shaped recovery, when the of the crisis, accounting for economy bounces back after a period of recession e take a look three in every four deaths on the o lakh irus toll continent, as the grim tally hit RAVAGES O HE ANEMIC another milestone even though WASHINTON half of the planet’s population is already under some form of US President Donald Trump lockdown in a battle to halt warned Americans to brace for contagion. a “hell of a bad two weeks” Spain reported a record 864 ahead as the White House pro- A medical worker looks at a Coid1 patient through the window of a train at the deaths in 24 hours, pushing the jected there could be 100,000 to are dAusterlit station in aris on ednesday AP country’s number of fatalities 240,000 deaths in the U.S. from past 9,000. The coronavirus the coronavirus pandemic even The toll is only dwarfed by It- facts and the risk that it contrib- has wiped $12 if current social distancing ana reuests financial trillion off the The MSCI’s 4-nation aly’s, where the virus has killed support from lenders utes to enhanced instability, en- guidelines are maintained. nearly 12,500 people. hanced unrest, and enhanced world’s stock index has fallen more Public health officials stressed Since emerging in China in Colombo Sri Lankan President conflict are things that make us markets than 2 Tuesday that the number could Gotabaya Raapaksa is requesting resident Donald Trump at a briefing December, COVID-19 has spread believe that this is the most chal- be less if people across the coun- about the new coronairus AP across the globe, claiming over that international financial lenging crisis we have faced I HE N HA try bear down on keeping their organisations provide debt 43,000 lives and infecting more since the Second World War.” CORONAVIRUS Economists were initially predicting a recovery distance from one another. Hopkins University. moratorium or debt deferment E SOE than 860,000 people, according to in the second half of 2020, but with the virus “We really believe we can do a The White House figures as- facilities to developing nations ere going to die anyway an AFP tally. There is no rampaging across the US and Europe, those lot better than that,” said Dr. sume that Americans follow the such as Sri Lanka, which are In a scramble to halt the con- With most business activity guarantee of hopes are dimming Deborah Birx, the coordinator rigorous social-distancing guide- tagion, governments have shut adversely affected due to the grinding to a halt for an undeter- the pandemic of the White House coronavirus lines set out by the Centers for schools, most shops, and ordered new coronavirus. Raapaksa made mined period of time, scenes of dying down in CHINA ON AH O RECOVER task force. That would require Disease Control and Prevention millions of people to work from the request on Wednesday during economic desperation and un- the April-une all Americans to take seriously or the stricter “stay at home” re- a phone discussion with the WO A ump in Chinese factory activity home. rest were emerging in many quarter. If it see chart below despite the their role in preventing the strictions set by many governors Cancellations of key events chief Tedros Adhanom parts of the world. “lasts through spread of disease, she said. across the country. Still, the Ghebreyesus. Raapaksa virus-hit global economy has on the global calendar have In Italy, queues were lengthen- the summer, inected a little hope into markets Added Dr. Anthony Fauci, the White House was not looking at swept both the sports and requested Ghebreyesus to ing at soup kitchens while some then all the government’s top infectious dis- a nationwide order. speak with the lenders. cultural worlds, with the supermarkets were reportedly economic IMAC ON HE US ease expert, “This is a number “We live in a nation that has a Edinburgh arts festival pillaged. Half a million more effects will be Goldman Sachs on Tuesday said the number of that we need to anticipate, but system of federalism, and the the latest to be scrapped. ably has no parallel in people now need help to afford amplified,” umeployed people in the US may grow to 15 we don’t necessarily have to ac- governors get to make the deci- For UN Secretary-Gen- the recent past,” he said. meals, Italy’s biggest union for oseph Stiglitz, cept it as being inevitable.” sions,” Dr. Jerome Adams, the eral Antonio Guterres, the “The combination of the agriculture sector Coldiretti a Nobel of Americans already cannot afford an Trump called it “a matter of surgeon general, told NBC’s “To- extraordinary upheaval the two facts and the risk that said, adding to the 2.7 million al- laureate, told unplanned out-of-pocket expense of life and death” for Americans to day” on Wednesday. “But we’re spurred by the virus presents a it contributes to enhanced insta- ready in need last year. Bloomberg $400, as per Mckinsey Co. heed his administration’s guide- gonna give them the best possi- real danger to the relative peace bility, enhanced unrest, and en- In Tunisia several hundred lines and predicted the country ble guidance we can, and that’s the world has seen over the last protested a week-old lockdown would soon see a “light at the end hanced conflict are things that to stay at home and to social few decades. make us believe that this is the that has disproportionately hit T of the tunnel” in a pandemic distance.” The disease “represents a most challenging crisis we have the poor. “Never mind coronavi- E that in the United States has in- “This is going to be one of the threat to everybody in the world faced since the Second World rus, we’re going to die anyway! fected about 190,000 people and roughest two or three weeks and... an economic impact that War.” Let us work!” shouted one pro- killed more than 4,000, according we’ve ever had in our country,” will bring a recession that prob- “The combination of the two tester near Tunis. to figures compiled by Johns Trump said. Kenneth S. Rogoff, an economist at Harvard, told the New ork Times

60 Russia plane heads to Shia minority CHINA’S MANACTRIN PMI S ith supplies Moscow A Russian military sapeoated in plane carrying medical equipment has departed for Pak for irus the United States, the defence 50 ministry in Moscow said Wednesday, as the Kremlin spread: Panel flexes its soft power amid the Chinas Purchasing coronavirus pandemic. The WASHINTON Managers Index, a key Antonov-124, “with medical irus ‘uncontrollable’ on gauge of factory masks and medical equipment American aircraft carrier A US commission mandated to on board”, left for the US activity, umped to China’s proected monitor international religious overnight, a statement said, Brett Crozier, the captain of the US 40 52.0 from a record low economic growth freedom has expressed concern without providing further nuclear-powered aircraft carrier 5. the month before. rate for 2020, as over reports of a provincial gov- details. Contacted by AFP, the Theodore Roosevelt, told the Any figure above 50 is per research firm ernment in Pakistan targeting defence ministry refused to Pentagon that new coronavirus is considered growth. and “scapegoating” the already TS Lombard provide any further spreading uncontrollably through marginalised Shiite Hazara eth- information on the delivery, his ship and called for immediate HERO’S WECOME help to quarantining its A medical assistance worker from uaian China is greeted by her daughter after nic minority community for the which came after Russian spread of the deadly novel coro- 30 President ladimir Putin spoke 4,000-strong crew. But efense returning home from the coronairus frontline in uhan ubei AP navirus in the country. G F M with US counterpart onald Secretary Mark Esper on Tuesday In uetta, the government has Trump on Monday. ruled out evacuating the ship. completely sealed off two areas of the Hazara community- Haz- ara Town and Marriabad- as Virus hits beleaguered media part of lockdown in the city, the upert Murdochs ustralian flagship media group ews orp announced United States Commission on In- Putin orks remotely after meetin infeted do ednesday it will stop printing doens of regional newspapers, as the ternational Religious Freedom troubled sector received a fresh blow from a advertising downturn (USCIRF) said in a statement. MOSCOW tial residence in Novo-Ogaryovo The government also forbade outside Moscow. government employees from RUSSIAN leader Vladimir Pu- Putin donned a bright yellow AMERICAS ARGES UISHER travelling into Hazara neighbor- tin has decided to handle his du- hazmat suit for the visit last The largest US newspaper publisher, Gannett, hoods, and reportedly forced ties remotely, the Kremlin said, Tuesday to the hospital. He was said on Monday it was making unspecified Hazara policemen to go on leave after the head of the country’s also seen talking to Protsenko News Corp furloughs and pay cuts for its staff. under suspicion they are infect- main coronavirus hospital test- without any protective gear but said 0 ed by relatives. ed positive following a meeting the Kremlin said there is no rea- regional Social media users have made with the president. son for concern about the presi- papers in the allusions to coronavirus as the Denis Protsenko, who met with dent’s health. states of New 25% ‘Shi’a virus,’ given fears of its Putin last week as the Russian “All of those who were with the South Wales, Gannett said it is cutting spread by pilgrims returning leader visited the Kommunarka president at Kommunarka are ictoria, pay and hours of from Iran, the statement said. hospital in Moscow, said Tues- being tested daily for the coro- ueensland newsroom employees by This isolation and further day he had been infected with navirus,” Peskov added. and South 25 in April, May and stigmatization of the Hazara the coronavirus but was feeling resident Vladimir utin R met with a head of a hospital on Monday AP Almost 70 per cent of Russia’s Australia une because of minority could limit their abil- well. 147 million population has been would cease advertising declines. ity to receive proper medical “The president prefers these told journalists, shortly before “We are taking all precaution- ordered into strict confinement. printing and Executives are getting a care as the coronavirus contin- days to work remotely,” Krem- Putin was due to hold a cabinet ary measures,” he said, adding Russia has so far registered move online pay cut of 25 ues to spread within Pakistan. lin spokesman Dmitry Peskov meeting by videoconference. that Putin was at the presiden- 2,777 cases and 24 deaths. MARKET GOLD SILVER Market 1,203.18 Sensex 28,265.31 24 carat (1 gm) H4,347 Per kg H39,250 Watch 343.95 Nifty 8,253.80 22 carat (1 gm) H4,330 Per gm H39.25 HYDERABAD THURSDAY 10 02 l04l2020 DIVING DEMAND ‘More cash transfers, food RBI continues rolling GST COLLECTION out COVID-19 relief rations needed for the poor’ ENS ECONOMIC BUREAU L @ Hyderabad JAYANTA ROY CHOWDHURY well known economist sure that at least 10 kg free ra- BELOW 1L CR @ New Delhi Meghnad Desai, former RBI tions per person per month, THE RBI on Wednesday an- Deputy Governor Rakesh Mo- along with other necessary nounced a slew of measures COVID-19 impact likely to hit collections SOME of India’s top econo- han, former Planning Commis- items, is available for all eligi- to tide over the economic im- harder in the first quarter of the new fiscal mists, civil servants and social sion Member Abhjit Sen, for- ble households.” pact of the Covid-19 pandem- scientists have written a joint mer Chief Economic Advisor The group also estimates ic. First, it gave extra time to letter to Prime Minister Naren- Deepak Nayyar, former Union that some 40-50 million mi- exporters for collecting and ENS ECONOMIC BUREAU @ New Delhi dra Modi as well as to the chief Health Secretary Sujata Rao, grant labourers are currently repatriating payments for ministers of all states asking former Interstate Council unemployed and want to goods and software sold to he economic slowdown and the spread for a series of measures includ- Secretary Amitabh Pan- head back to their villag- overseas buyers. Presently, of COVID-19 related lockdowns took ing `3.6 lakh crore in cash sup- dey and Ajit Ranade, es. It suggests that the these payments are required their toll on Goods and Services Tax port for families who are not in Chief Economist, Adi- Centre and states could to be realised fully and repat- 2020 and will be valid till Sep- GST (GST) collections in March, with the the tax net or have a member tya Birla Group, feels use their facilities to riated to the country within a tember 30, 2020. collection figure slipping below the `1 lakh crore working for the formal sector. more needs to be done. house them without period of 9 months from the The move comes a day after target cut mark at `97,597 crore. GST collections The letter says that the cen- “The direct benefit over-crowding and start date of export. This has now the RBI increased the WMA T in February had stood at `1.06 lakh tral and state governments to- transfers announced was a community feeding been extended to 15 months limit to `70,000 crore for the In February, the finance crore and finance ministry officials say that the gether should immediately step forward, but we need to do programs. from the date of export. central government for the ministry had fall in collections is due to the dip in overall think of ensuring “a minimum more. The Telangana example Among other things, they “The measure will enable July-September quarter, up cut its GST domestic demand. transfer of at least `6,000 per is a good one where the state is also seeks a scheme to compen- exporters to realise their re- from `60,000 crore in the pre- collection However, despite the dip, in the April-March month to each Jan Dhan Yojana trying to reach out on a wider sate unorganised and MSME ceipts, especially from COV- vious quarter. target period of FY20, gross GST collection grew by woman account holder with a scale without excluding any- sector players for wages of con- ID-19 affected countries with- In the same breath, the cen- downwards 3.8 per cent to `12.2 lakh crore compared to the major part borne by the Cen- one,” explained Ravi Srivasta- tract and temporary employees in the extended period, and tral bank has reiterated that it to `11.26 lakh previous year, official data showed, exceeding tral Government over the next va, former Chairman, Centre during the lockdown, besides also provide greater flexibili- wasn’t necessary for banks to crore for the revised target set by the government in Feb- three months.” With 20 crore for Regional Studies, JNU ex gratia payments, to ensure ty to negotiate future export implement counter-cyclical fiscal 2019- ruary. The finance ministry had cut its GST col- estimated beneficiary families Though the centre has prom- that “no needy person or house- contracts with buyers capital buffers (CCyB) 20 from `12.17 lection target downwards to `11.26 lakh crore for 3 months the figure works ised 5 kg of free cereals to the hold remains outside the social abroad,” it said. straight away. The framework lakh crore for fiscal 2019-20 from `12.17 lakh crore. out to `3.6 lakh crore. poor, the group feels that in or- protection net being created to In an effort to manage cash on CCyB was put in place by Of the total `97,597 crore collected, the cen- The government has an- der to ward off hunger “all cope with the current calami- flows, the central bank also the RBI through guidelines is- tral GST (CGST) collections stood at `19,183 nounced some grants including state governments should en- tous conditions.” increased the limit for ad- sued in February 2015, where crore, state GST at `25,601 crore, integrated `2,000 from the PM Kisan vances given to states and un- it advised that CCyB would be GST at `44,508 crore and cess collections at scheme to farmers and a `1,000 Centre and States should ensure a minimum transfer of at least ion territories by 30 per cent activated as and when the cir- `8,306 crore (including `841 crore collected on grant to senior citizens, poor `6,000 per month to each Jan Dhan Yojana woman account holder under Ways and Means Ad- cumstances warranted and with a major part borne by the Centre With most imports), the finance ministry said. widows and poor disabled, etc. vances. The revised limit will that the decision would nor- businesses “The government has settled `19,718 crore to But, the group which includes Group of top economists come into force from April 1, mally be pre-announced. being non- CGST and `14,915 crore to SGST from IGST as operational for regular settlement. In addition, Centre has also a considerable apportioned unsettled balance IGST of `6,000 EXPRESS READ period in March crore on ad-hoc basis in the ratio of 50:50 be- and the tween centre and States/UTs, “ the statement relaxation of COAI U-turn: No emergency spectrum needed SMALL SAVINGS SCHEMES said. The total number of GSTR-3B returns delayed filed up to March 31, 2020 is 76.5 lakh, it added. Telecom industry body COAI on Wednesday said that telcos are of the payments view that there is no need for additional spectrum to maintain stability being allowed, Experts claim that the larger impact of the and quality of telecom networks since the recent slew of measures, INTEREST RATES SLASHED the collections COVID-19 outbreak will be visible from April in the coming onwards. “The GST collections not witnessing including streaming services switching content to SD (standard quarter would a significant dip this month is encouraging, es- definition) and traffic redistribution, has led to reduced pressure on ENS ECONOMIC BUREAU see quite a fall pecially with the numbers expected to reduce network infrastructure. The organisation had written to the @ New Delhi Abhishek Jain, in coming months,” said Abhishek Jain, Tax Department of Telecom earlier seeking emergency spectrum allocations Large-scale cuts a shock to Tax Partner, EY Partner at EY. to alleviate the burden on network infrastructure. SMALL savings deposits will now earn significantly lower senior citizen depositors returns with the Central gov- A look at how various small savings schemes will earn lower interest: ernment sharply reducing interest rates for the entire Interest: Earlier From April 1 (All figures in %) Paytm Money founder MD Pravin Jadhav quits spectrum of small savings schemes late Tuesday. The SUKANYA SAMRIDDHI NATIONAL SAVINGS ACCOUNT SCHEME CERTIFICATE BISMAH MALIK @ Bengaluru Paytm Mall and Paytm Pay- engineering, finance and cus- expand the market for Paytm deep cuts, ranging from 70- ments Bank. Although Paytm tomer care teams. Money, with mutual fund ser- 140 basis points, will come as FOUNDER MD and CEO of declined to comment, sources Paytm Money has played a vices likely to be extended to a shock to senior citizens and Paytm Money Pravin Jadhav said that the management has significant role in helping Pay- the 16 million merchants who others who depend primarily has resigned from his post due already accepted the resigna- tm founder Vijay Shekhar have signed up on the Paytm on income from such fixed 8.4 7.6 7.9 6.8 to growing differences with the tion and will announce a Sharma build up the fi- platform. Paytm Money had re- instruments. company board, sources said. replacement soon. nancial services com- cently received approvals from The new rates will go into Balance after 1 year with Balance after 1 year with Jadhav, who built Paytm’s Jadhav’s resignation pany especially after its SEBI for its stock broking busi- effect for the April-June Rs 1 lakh deposit Rs 1 lakh deposit wealth management arm into comes at a time when e-commerce vertical — ness as well as the go-ahead quarter beginning April 1, India’s leading mutual fund the online investment Paytm Mall — lost out from the Pension Fund Regula- 2020. The move follows the L1,08,400 L1,07,600 L1,07,900 L1,06,800 platform, reportedly quit over and digital payment plat- to e-tailers like Amazon tory and Development Author- RBI decision to cut interest issues related to employee forms in the country is and Flipkart. Sharma’s bet ity (PFRDA) to offer Pension rates by 75 basis points tak- KISAN VIKAS PATRA SR. CITIZENS SAVINGS SCHEME stock options (ESOPs) and gaining traction during the on wealth management has Development Systems. ing the repo rate to 4.4 per (COMPOUNDED QUARTERLY) remuneration. COVID-19 lockdown. On his paid dividends since Paytm However, Paytm has been cent, the lowest since 2004, in Paytm Money is part of Pay- LinkedIn profile, Jadhav Money now claims to have 50 witness to a gradual exodus of an effort to counter the eco- tm parent One97 Communica- claims that he has built Paytm lakh users, with a monthly senior management executives nomic fallout of the coronavi- tions’ growing consumer eco- Money from scratch leading growth of 15-20 per cent. who headed various verticals rus pandemic. 7.6 6.9 8.6 7.4 system, alongside Paytm, product development, design, The company is looking to over the past one year. For the popular Public Provident Fund (PPF), the Balance after 1 year with Rs 1 Balance after 1 year with annual interest rate has been lakh deposit Rs 1 lakh deposit TODAY’S STOCK PICK slashed from 7.9 per cent to CONSOLIDATION 7.1 per cent, while the rates L1,07,600 L1,06,900 L1,08,881.35 L1,07,607.89 Tamil Nadu firms step Current Price for the Sukanya Samriddhi girl-child welfare scheme, Mergers turn PUBLIC PROVIDENT FUND 1-YR POST OFFICE DEPOSIT A1,080.6 rates have been brought (COMPOUNDED QUARTERLY) up assistance in battle down to 7.6 per cent from 8.4 10 PSBs into Target Price per cent. Similarly, rates have been cut for the National Sav- ings Certificate (from 7.9% to 4 large banks RELIANCE IND 7.9 7.1 6.9 5.5 against pandemic A1,820 6.8%), Senior Citizen Savings The company aims for its Scheme (from 8.6% to 7.4%) Balance after 1 year with Balance after 1 year with ENS ECONOMIC BUREAU BINITA JAISWAL @ Chennai Meawhile, commercial vehi- consumer business to contribute and Monthly Income Ac- @ New Delhi cle manufacturer Ashok Ley- 50% of consolidated EBITDA in a count scheme (from 7.6% to Rs 1 lakh deposit Rs 1 lakh deposit FROM spray cannons for disin- land says it is working closely few years. Jio has rolled out new 6.6%). The cut has also been L1,07,900 L1,07,100 L1,07,080.60 L1,05,614.48 TEN public sector banks fectants to power gensets for with the state health depart- tariff plans. While Minimum quite steep for the standard (PSB) on Wednesday merged hospitals treating COVID-19 ment and is supplying protec- Recharge Price plans were hiked Small Savings Time Deposits, to become four large banks, patients, Tamil Nadu-based tive equipment like 3-ply by 32%, the popular monthly with cuts ranging from 100- but this is steeper than an- correct, it is absolutely the bringing down the number companies are contributing in masks, N95 masks, disposable plans witnessed a price hike of 140 basis points. Interest ticipated. May be the move wrong time to do so,” he said. of PSBs to just 12. their own way in the fight gloves, liquid handwash, sani- ~25-30%. The hike in ARPUs rates on small savings indicates that the govern- Experts say that this will The mergers announced against COVID-19. tisers and body suits for health should result in ~H134b/H119b schemes are revised on a ment will drive down deposit reduce the divergence be- last September and cleared TVS Motor Company, for in- service personnel. It is also pro- incremental revenue/EBITDA. quarterly basis, based on the rate further, “ Soumya Kanti tween bank and small sav- by the cabinet last month stance, has made a contribu- viding disinfectants, protective RIL’s target is to become a ‘zero yields of government bonds. Ghose, chief economic advi- ings rates. In comparison, were effected despite banks tion of `5 crore to- chemical guard suits net-debt’ firm in 18 months can Bank fixed deposits are al- sor, SBI said. Senior Con- interest rates on small sav- running low-key operations wards the Tamil Nadu (pant, shirt, and hood) also act as a rerating trigger. ready fetching the lowest gress leader P Chidambaram ings schemes are still higher amidst the pandemic. Chief Minister’s Pub- and chemical protec- —Motilal Oswal Financial Services yields since August 2004, slammed the rate cut de- and give comparatively bet- Under the scheme, Orien- lic Relief Fund to aid tion goggles for sanita- with State Bank of India’s manding a roll-back, saying ter returns to depositors. tal Bank of Commerce the battle against COV- tion staff. Besides this, one-year FD offering an inter- that it comes at the wrong Lower small saving rates also Disclaimer: The views and recom- (OBC) and United Bank of ID-19. This is in addi- it has deployed ten ve- mendations made above are that of est of just 5.2 per cent (6.2% time. “While reducing the in- will also reduce cost of defi- India have been merged into tion to the `25 crore hicles with drivers for the individual analyst or broking com- for senior citizens). terest rate on PPF and small cit financing for the Punjab National Bank. Post- pledged by the compa- use by the health pany, and not that of “The rate cut was expected savings may be technically government. merger, the entity will form ny to the PM’s Relief department. The New Indian Express the second-largest PSB in Fund (PM-CARES). While it generally Other initiatives by the country. Syndicate Bank Alongside these con- takes 6 to 18 Ashok Leyland in- has been merged into Ca- tributions, the Srini- months for cludes the shipping DEMAND GOES AWOL nara Bank, making it the vasan Services Trust developing a new gensets to the Tiruval- fourth-largest public sector (the CSR arm of TVS product, it is lur General Hospital lender. Union Bank’s merger Motors) is making and because of our and the 150-bed special with the Andhra and Corpo- supplying 1 million R&D team, that ward of the Madurai PV sales halved in March, CV sales down 90% ration banks will make it the protective face masks we were able to Medical College. “We make this quality @ New Delhi fifth largest PSB lender, for essential service sanitiser shall work with the ARSHAD KHAN ported a drastic fall in March suspending all operations tem- while Allahabad Bank will providers within the available in just Government at every sales. Hyundai Motor reported porarily,” Kia said. now act as a branch of Indi- state. The trust is also two weeks step and stay support- HIT hard by the nationwide a 41 per cent y-o-y decline in An even bigger slump was an Bank. “It’s a good move deploying vehicles and lockdown to control the spread domestic sales at 26,300 units seen in the sales of commer- C K Ranganathan, ive of all their initia- since it will reduce the num- disinfectants to mu- CavinKare tives in the coming of the COVID-19 pandemic, last month, while Tata Motors’ cial vehicles despite steep dis- ber of branches, improve nicipalities in the state days,” said Balachan- passenger vehicle makers re- PV sales were down 68 per cent counts on BS-IV stocks. Ashok cost efficiency and, most im- while also running dar N V, President – ported a nearly 50 per cent at 5,676 units. New entrant Kia Leyland’s domestic CV sales portantly, the balance sheets factory kitchens at its manu- HR, Ashok Leyland. Mean- drop in March sales numbers Motors too reported total sales stood at just 1,787 units in post mergers are likely to be facturing units in Hosur and while, CavinKare has launched while commercial vehicle of just 8,583 units in March as March — a decline of 91 per strengthened,” Sai Sanjay Padi. The cooked meals are 2ml sanitizer sachets priced at makers reported a whopping against 15,644 units sold in cent year-on-year. Tata Motors Bhattacharyya, former supplied to all essential care `1. “While it generally takes 6 90 per cent drop. February. CV sales were down 87 per cent Managing Director of SBI. workers in the vicinity, from to 18 months for developing a The country’s largest car- “Countries and businesses at 7,123 units compared to the Officials in the Finance police personnel and munici- new product, it is because of maker Maruti Suzuki India across the globe have come to previous year. Ministry officials said these pal staff to healthcare workers. our R&D team, that we were (MSIL) on Wednesday report- the full financial year, MSIL a standstill due to the COV- Going forward, the outbreak banks have already started The trust has also handed over able to make this quality sani- ed a 47.4 per cent year-on-year reported a 18.2 per cent fall in ID-19 epidemic, which has im- coupled with newer emission sending out messages to cus- a vehicle equipped with a dis- tiser available in just two decline in March sales at 76,240 sales at 1,414,346 units, its pacted the automobile indus- norms and a fall in economic tomers informing them of infectant Spray Cannon to the weeks,” said C K Ranganathan, units as buyers stayed away steepest fall in recent times. try as well with production activity is expected to bring the mergers. Corporation of Chennai. chairman, CavinKare. from dealer showrooms. For Other carmakers also re- units, offices and dealerships more trouble for the sector. Premier League clubs have been accused of living in a “moral vacuum”, with players urged to take their share of the financial hit from the coronavirus pandemic as non-playing staff begin to feel Premier League accused the pinch. Last year’s Champions League finalists Tottenham as well as Newcastle and Norwich have faced a backlash for using the British government’s furlough scheme, which will guarantee of ‘moral vacuum’ 80 percent of employees’ income up to a maximum of£2,500 ($3,000) a month.

HYDERABAD THURSDAY 11 02 l04l2020 MONEY WORRIES Grandmaster missing other games during lockdown ATREYO MUKHOPADHYAY ton and does swimming. The ties like free-hand exercise, plus (2726 at the moment) for @ Chennai COVID-19 outbreak has yoga in that routine.” over a year, the youngster is stopped all that and he is mak- However, with all that missing out on valuable game & MAKE-BELIEVE THERE was a video on Twitter ing do with the treadmill at stopped, the older of two sib- time. That, however, is far from a couple of days ago where Vid- home. “Since playing chess lings is spending time with his his mind at the moment. “It’s it Gujrathi was seen doing and working on it means I am doctor parents and sister, who hard to complain. It’s a global skipping exercises at home. seated for long periods of time, is also in the medical field. crisis and people are suffering GOLF COURSES Sportspersons are trying all I go for long walks to make up Having travelled extensively on a large scale. Compared to sorts of things in order to for it. That’s not happening from a young age, the 26-year- that, what we chess players are Income drying up with events, Indian maintain basic fitness levels at now. Also, I like playing other old is new to staying at home. going through is very minute,” professionals making alternate plans the time of lockdown. games. Inside our building If pressed, he finds it difficult said Gujrathi. But the chess player was not complex, there is a basketball to remember when he last The Grandmaster is using doing that just for the sake of court and some of the players spent more than five-six days the time to do something he SWAROOP SWAMINATHAN clears sooner rather than it. He was trying to get close to there are semi-professionals. in a month at home. can’t otherwise. That is read- @ Chennai latter.” something he also likes doing. Playing with them is fun. I Tournaments cancelled in ing. Not merely to kill time, but Considering this is the start India No 2 after Viswana- keep myself engaged with oth- Europe and the US, Gujrathi to understand something deep- “I am making do with what I of the PGTI — only three com- than Anand and World No 23, er sports also when I am isn’t sure when he will be play- er. Monk and author Om Swa- have. I am not in Bengaluru petitions have been completed Gujrathi is not all about chess. abroad,” Gujrathi told this ing again. The Chess Olympiad mi and propagators of Japa- any more. I have gone back to — it has compounded mat- He likes working out at the daily. World No 23 Vidit Gujrathi scheduled for August has also nese philosophy on a ‘perfectly my village in Dharmapuri... ters. “Some of the guys who gym and walking. If at home in “It’s not possible to devote a been postponed. There is no imperfect life’ are among his that’s where I am going to be are in the lower half of the Nasik, he plays basketball. lot of time to other sports when that happens, it’s a minimum certainty over the resumption favourites. Heady, but may just till the situation gets better.” leaderboard could suffer be- When in Europe for training or I’m playing tournaments or of six hours of chess every day. of the chess calendar. Having be the right time delve in such Those are the words of C cause of that,” says Udayan competitions, he plays badmin- training in full intensity. When I am trying to include activi- maintained a rating of 2700- stuff. Muniyappa, a regular on the Mane, who won two of those Professional Golf Tour of In- first three tournaments. He dia (PGTI). has already raked in `14.66 TRENDING ONLINE The sub-text behind Muni- lakh as reward for his start yappa’s revealing words to but is mindful of the plight of this daily is this: he can cut other golfers who haven’t back on spending significant- seen similar success in 2020. “Like you said, it’s going to be Innovation in the tough. But then, all of us will have parents’ support during this crucial period... That’s why we even entered the sport times of isolation in the first place.” The 29-year-old, to stay fit, FIROZ MIRZA @ Chennai going on fine until her elder sis- has built a small range in his ter fell ill and was admitted to a garden. “That’s to keep mus- AN empty LPG cylinder, tyres, private hospital. “She became cles loose. Every morning I a stick and resistance bands. weak due to fever and doctors have a hit of close to one hour That’s all India cricketer Pooja asked us to hospitalise her. We to ensure I remain somewhat Vastrakar has at her disposal were worried, especially be- active.” for workouts. Member of the cause of COVID-19 and all that. Another who has been squad which finished runners- I sought permission from auth- mindful of finances is S Chik- up in the ICC Women’s World orities to be with her at night. I karangappa, a well known T20 in Australia, she is stuck at us ed to return home in the mo- Like you said, it’s going to be tough. face on the Tour. “Yes, when home, in the city of Shahdol in r ning for the workout. She is But then, all of us will have parents’ we don’t play you have to keep Madhya Pradesh. al right now and was disch a r- support during this crucial period... that aspect in the back of your Pooja and her teammates re- ged from hospital on Monday.” That’s why we even entered the mind. Saying that, I have cut turned to Mumbai via Dubai on Pooja played only a match in sport in the first place. my expenses almost down to March 10. She joined the Mad- the tri-nation women’s T20 se- Udayan Mane zero since there is no travel. I hya Pradesh girls in Indore a ries, the event which preceded am staying at home.” couple of days later for a do- the World T20, before being The 26-year-old, who was mestic tournament, when the ly if he is in his village. “This No 2 in the PGTI rankings last BCCI suspended all cricket till is not in my control, I have to year, has also built a small further notice. “I returned to make do with what I have.” range on his terrace. Shahdol on March 15 and was Like athletes in other “I am hitting on that range as ked to undergo 14 days of sports, golfers too have felt — I don’t even know if you self-isolation. I completed that the pinch thanks to coronavi- can call it a range — every on March 30 but now I have rus shutting down events left, other day. It is to ensure that I been advised to continue it for right and centre. The 43-year- don’t lose my touch complete- seven more days,” the 20-year- old Muniyappa, for instance, ly. Apart from that, I do vari- old told this daily. has so far earned `1,00,830 ous upper-body exercises to Being in self-isolation doesn’t from three events this year. In keep myself loose.” mean the medium-pacer is ex- previous years, he had earned If the situation with respect empted from doing workouts. “I India medium-pacer Pooja Vastrakar more than that in the first to the pandemic doesn’t im- don’t have fitness equipment at three months. “Whatever I prove, golfers will either have my place. The India team train- ruled out due to hamstring in- have earned, I have put it to go back to their hometown er asked each one of us about jury. The right-arm pacer re- back into the sport. It’s just a like Muniyappa or build small things we have at home, which covered in time and played a matter of biding my time, all ranges like Mane and can be used for workouts. I have warm-up match against the I can hope is that the situation Chikkarangappa. sticks, empty LPG cylinder, West Indies but could not find a tyres and resistance bands. He place in the playing XI during guided me on how to make these the prestigious tournament. HELPING HANDS things useful,” said Pooja. “Our spinners were doing Despite limited resources, good. We didn’t want to tinker AIFF HOCKEY INDIA OTHER NSFs she does physical training in- with the winning combination. The All India Hockey India has The national cluding power exercises at least It was unfortunate that the Football Federation also pledged `25 governing bodies of for two hours every day. She plan didn’t work in the final.” is donating `25 lakh lakh towards the PM athletics, wushu, also practises yoga. Speaking The players might be con- to the PM’s relief CARES Fund. “In handball, swimming on her immediate plan, Pooja fined to home due to the lock- fund. “In wake of the these difficult times, with the Olympic said she wants to regain pace down but they are in touch Covid-19 crisis, AIFF it is the absolute associations of which she lost after a knee sur- with each other over their has pledged to need of the hour to Bihar, Himachal and gery in 2018. “As I am fully fit WhatsApp group. “We usually contribute `25 lakh come together to Gujarat put together now, I will try to hit the pace I don’t discuss cricket in the to the PM Shri help fight the crisis,” `8.75 lakh for the used to bowl at before the sur- group. We try to post light stuff Narendra Modi’s PM HI president Mohd PM CARES Fund to gery. I have to do a few minor to keep everybody entertained. CARES Fund,” said a Mushtaque Ahmad help fight the KEEPING THE FLAME ALIVE adjustments, but I am confident Jemimah Rodrigues and Har- I can do it.” leen Deol are the biggest enter- media release. said in a release. COVID-19 pandemic. A visitor looks at a lantern with the Olympic flame inside, after an official handover ceremony in Fukushima | AP The quarantine period was tainers,” she added.

WATCH HOUR Real Kashmir players stranded, Buttler to auction final La Liga concert raises Asian Youth Games shirt to help hospitals more than a million in China next year

waiting for a flight back home LONDON: England’s Jos Buttler is MADRID: La Liga’s online NEW DELHI: China will host auctioning the shirt he wore in last music festival raised more the third edition of the Asian ASHIM SUNAM @ Bengaluru away from his ill mother. wife, his two-year-old son and year’s dramatic World Cup final than a million euros that will Youth Games in Shantou in “The health of my parents seven-year-old daughter. He is win in support of hospitals be used to buy medical November next year, the To see what India's Olympic- WHEN can we head back and my wife’s parents is a con- in constant touch with his fam- treating the coronavirus. In a social equipment for the fight Olympic Council of Asia said bound boxers like Lovlina home? When will we reunite cern. I am especially very wor- ily while his wife tries to be media video posted on Tuesday, against coronavirus, the on Wednesday. The Chinese Borgohain, Pooja Rani and with our loved ones? How long ried as my mother is undergo- supportive asking Kallum to the 29-year-old said he would be Spanish football league said. city of Wuhan was the Ashish Kumar are doing to keep will we be in India? Ten for- ing chemotherapy too. It is keep the spirits up. posting the jersey, signed by all The funds will be put towards epicentre of the COVID-19 fit in the times of lockdown, go eigners, including coaches, tough,” said David, who even “It is difficult. Being a dad, I members of the World Cup- ventilators, protective suits, pandemic that is still to TNIE videos on YouTube. players and Real Kashmir FC wrote to the British High Com- should have been home, pro- winning squad, on eBay. gloves and masks. sweeping across the world. coach David Robertson’s wife, mission in Delhi, seeking help tecting my children, but I am have been stranded in Srinagar to go back. He has been in- stuck halfway across the world. ever since the lockdown start- formed that the evacuation pro- As a man, you do not show emo- #COVID19 ed. These questions linger on cess will start soon. “We have tions but when you speak to in the minds of nationals from given the passports numbers, your family at this time, it gets the UK, Nigeria, Ivory Coast visas and other details. Yester- hard. I have just got to be strong and Zimbabwe in the club. day, we got an e-mail stating and the time will come when Wimbledon cancelled for first time since WWII “The situation is such that that over the next few days, we will be home. Now, every mi- hardly anyone talks about foot- there will be flights out. We nute feels like an hour and days AFP @ London the momentous decision. and extensive consideration of pected, with the world strug- ball anymore,” said David, who have to sit tight and wait. I am are like weeks,” said Kallum. Wimbledon was due to run all scenarios, we believe that it gling to contain the spread of is from Scotland. He is in Sri- checking my e-mail every two However, these players had WIMBLEDON organisers on for two weeks from June 29, is a measure of this global cri- COVID-19, which has infected nagar with his wife Kym and minutes to see if there is any an experience of a different Wednesday scrapped the old- with Novak Djokovic and Si- sis that it is ultimately the more than 840,000 people son Mason (son). The latter update. Everyone wants to go kind recently. The valley was in est Grand Slam tennis tourna- mona Halep set to defend their right decision to cancel this worldwide and killed over plays for the club. Alongside back home as quickly as possi- a state of lockdown after the sc- ment for the first time since singles titles. year’s Championships.” 40,000. It also prompted the them, the players and support ble. We might be able to rapping of Article 370. The club World War II as the coronavi- But tournament chiefs Halep tweeted her disap- ATP and WTA to cancel the staff are staying in a hotel get back home soon. used the facilities of the ISL rus wreaks further havoc on bowed to the inevitable on pointment. “So sad to hear @ grasscourt swing in the build- owned by the club owner. No The Africans (in the clubs to prepare for the 19-20 I- the global sporting calendar. Wednesday, saying in a state- Wimbledon won’t take place up to Wimbledon, meaning the one is allowed to move in and squad) may take a League season. But when th ey The cancellation of the only ment that they had made the this year,” she said. tennis season will not now re- out of the hotel. Most of longer time,” David eventually got back to Srinagar, grasscourt major at the All decision with “great regret”. “Last year’s final will forev- commence until July 13 at the these players while told this daily. it was tough for them to stay in England Club leaves the sea- All England Club chairman er be one of the happiest days earliest. their time away The situation touch with the outside world. son in disarray, with no tennis Ian Hewitt said the decision of my life! But we are going The US Tennis Association watching movies is no different Though the situation is bet- due to be played until had not been taken lightly. through something bigger responded by saying the US on television and for English ter, video calls cannot be made mid-July. “It has weighed heavily on than tennis and Wimbledon Open was still due to take playing Playsta- winger, Kal- on slow internet speed with 2G “Devastated,” tweeted eight- our minds that the staging of will be back! And it means I place as planned, from August tion. It is a diffi- lum Higgin- resuming in January. There is time champion Roger Federer, The Championships has only have even longer to look for- 31 to September 13. “At this cult time for botham, who no 4G, hence the players have while Serena Williams, who been interrupted previously ward to defending my title.” time the USTA still plans to all, especially is desperate not been able to see their faces has won the tournament seven by world wars,” he said. The decision to cancel the host the US Open as sched- David, who is to meet his of the loved ones via video. times, said she was shocked by “But, following thorough tournament was widely ex- uled,” it said in a statement. David Robertson Elon Musk has announced that he and his companies Adults who work long hours are more likely to have have access to additional FDA-approved ventilators underactive thyroid, according to a study, published in the that can be shipped free of cost to hospitals within Journal of the Endocrine Society, which may lead to better regions where the electric car maker delivers. lifestyle and clinical recommendations for hyperthyroidism.

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TRAKING TOOL measures in place in the coun- behind the project. The Oxford University team cord people’s GPS data as they angolin classifies try to help control the spread of “The instant mobile app con- has provided UK and European move about their daily lives. LONDON: The UK’s govern- Covid-19. cept is very simple. If you are governments with evidence to This would be supplemented by scales seied skin cancer ment-funded National Health “Our analysis suggests that diagnosed with coronavirus, support the feasibility of devel- users scanning quick response Service (NHS) is looking into almost half of coronavirus the people you’ve recently oping a contact tracing mobile or R codes posted to public the feasibility of deploying a transmissions occur in come into contact with app that is instant, could be amenities in places where a mobile phone application that the very early phase of will be messaged advis- widely deployed, and should be GPS signal is inadequate, as could be used as a contact-trac- infection, before symp- ing them to isolate. If implemented with appropriate well as Bluetooth signals. ing tool, which alerts users to toms appear, so we need this mobile app is de- ethical considerations. “If we can securely deploy their exposure to coronavirus a fast and effective mo- veloped and deployed It recommends that the mo- this technology, the more peo- carriers. bile app for alerting peo- rapidly, and enough peo- bile application should form ple that opt-in, the faster the The app is being developed ple who have been ex- ple opt-in to use such an part of an integrated coronavi- epidemic will stop, and the by NHSX, the health service’s posed,” said Professor approach, we can slow the rus control strategy that identi- more lives can be saved,” said digital wing, alongside academ- Christophe Fraser from Oxford spread of coronavirus and mit- fies infected people and their Dr David Bonsall, researcher at IG ATH DIAGNOSTI AID ics and industry partners as University’s Big Data Institute, igate against devastating hu- recent person-to-person con- the Nuffield Department of one of the means to help ease Nuffield Department of Medi- man, economic and social im- tacts using digital technology. Medicine and clinician at Ox- alaysian authorities esearchers have devel- the current strict lockdown cine, among the researchers pacts,” he said. The proposed app would re- ford’s John Radcliffe Hospital. Mseized about six Roped an AI system that tonnes of pangolin scales can accurately classify skin and smashed a smuggling disorders, predict malig- syndicate, officials said on nancy, and suggest primary Wednesday, as the country treatment options, an ad- clamps down on rampant vance that may be integrat- wildlife trafficking. The ed with smartphones to act HUBBLE HELPS SPOT pangolin, the world’s most as a diagnostic aid for clini- heavily trafficked mammal, cians. The study, published is believed to have possibly in the Journal o ntegra been a vector in the leap of tive Dermatology, noted that MID-SIED BLACK HOLE the novel coronavirus from the diagnostic accuracy of animal to human at a mar- dermatologists as well as s telescope confirms eistence it weighs aout , times ket in China’s Wuhan city. the general public can be the mass of our un and is smaller than supermassive lack holes Its body parts fetch a high significantly improved by price on the black market using this system. The re- as they are commonly used searchers found that their MISSING LINK Researchers attributed it to a in traditional Chinese med- algorithm could diagnose star being torn apart after com- icine, although scientists 134 skin disorders, and sug- WASHINGTON: Astronomers ing too close to a gravitational- say they have no therapeu- gest primary treatment op- have found the best evidence ly powerful compact object, like tic value. Officials said they tions, render multi-class for a black hole of an elusive a black hole. The X-ray source, had detained two people classification among disor- class known as “intermediate- named 3XMM J215022.4-055108, and the operation had put a ders, and enhance the per- mass,” which betrayed its exist- was not located in a galaxy’s smuggling syndicate out of formance of medical profes- ence by tearing apart a way- centre, where massive black operation. sionals through AI. ward star that passed too close. holes normally would reside. Weighing in at about 50,000 This raised hopes that an times the mass of our Sun, the IMBH was the culprit, the re- black hole is smaller than the A star being torn apart by an I | ESA searchers said. ihone may come on pril supermassive black holes that However, another possible lie at the cores of large galax- and so it is critical to carefully source of the X-ray flare had to TIP OFF ies, but larger than stellar-mass consider and rule out alterna- be ruled out: a neutron star in black holes formed by the col- tive explanations for each can- our own Milky Way galaxy, he Cupertino-based tech giant Apple may launch iPhone lapse of a massive star, the re- didate. That is what Hubble has cooling off after being heated T9 or iPhone SE 2 on April 5 as the image of its protective searchers said. allowed us to do for our candi- to a very high temperature, case has appeared at online retailer Best Buy in the US. Ap- These so-called intermedi- date,” said Dacheng Lin of the they said. ple is yet to officially reveal the launch date of the handset. ate-mass black holes (IMBHs) University of New Hampshire, Deep, high-resolution imag- An image shared by a Best are a long-sought “missing principal investigator of the ing provides strong evidence Buy employee shows an Ur- link” in black hole evolution, study. Lin and his team used that the X-rays emanated not ban Armor Gear case for the according to the results are Hubble Space Telescope to fol- from an isolated source in our new 4.7-inch 2020 iPhone. published in he strophysical low up on leads from NASA’s galaxy, but instead in a distant, However, there is no name Journal etters. Chandra X-ray Observatory dense star cluster on the out- on the case box and these Though there have been a and the European Space Agen- skirts of another galaxy — just cases, among others, are be- few other IMBH candidates, re- cy’s X-ray Multi-Mirror Mis- the type of place astronomers ing sent to retailers, Mac u searchers consider these new sion (XMM-Newton). expected to find an IMBH. mors reported. Additionally, observations the strongest evi- In 2006 these satellites detect- IMBHs have been particular- Best Buy employees have dence yet for mid-sized black ed a powerful flare of X-rays, ly difficult to find because they KEEPING THEM ARM been instructed not to showcase these cases until April 5, holes in the universe. but they could not determine are smaller and less active than An aerial image taken by a drone shows anti-frost candles burning between which indicates that the company could indeed launch the “Intermediate-mass black whether it originated from in- supermassive black holes, the apricot trees in an orchard near alatonvilagos, ungary on Tuesday. andles budget iPhone later this week. holes are very elusive objects, side or outside of our galaxy. researchers said. are used to prevent the trees from being destroyed by the frost | AP

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ILLING TIME have seen their lives turned up- The couple also applied for could need temporary help to were forced to close their doors. bers of layoffs and furloughs, side down by the crisis. deferred and reduced payments pay their monthly housing bill, Tammy Devitoe was laid off mortgage companies are brac- NEW YORK: The coronavirus The decisions they make on for their student loans. which would total about 12 bil- March 12 from her restaurant ing for a wave of missed pay- pandemic took Brittany which bills to pay will provide “We plan to pay our power lion per-month. in Albany, New York, and the ments on April 1. Evictions Brook’s job on March 16, two a clearer picture of the eco- bill and anything necessary The federal government’s un- 250 to 300 of weekly unem- have been temporarily sus- days after it took her husband nomic damage done by Cov- that we can afford, but we will precedented 2.2 trillion aid ployment benefits she expects pended in some areas and there Matthew Whitfield’s, leaving id-19 in a country lacking a uni- not be paying rent, as that package will help ease the eco- to receive will not be nearly are growing calls on social me- the New York couple scram- versal social safety net and would deplete our savings and nomic pain, but the 1,200 enough to pay for her tele- dia for a rent freeze in April. bling as end-of-the-month bills where many workers have little emergency funds within just a checks promised to every phone, electricity, cable, rent Devitoe said her landlord come due. savings to fall back on. few months,” says Brittany, American — and 500 for each and car loan. cannot help because they have On April 1, Brook, who until “We have, for the first time in who lives with Matthew, 33, in child — will not arrive until the She swallowed her pride and bills to pay as well. recently taught music at a pre- our marriage, declined to pay a one-bedroom apartment in second half of April. asked for donations through Cynthia Ryan, who lives in school school, and Whitfield, a our credit card balances, but New York which they rent for In the meantime, a record 3.3 oundMe, the online fund- Dallas, said she was told “full now-former waiter and actor, only paid the minimum ... and 1,690 a month. million Americans filed for un- raising platform, where she rent is due regardless of the have to pay the rent and other called to ask for interest for- According to Amherst, a real employment during the week had managed to raise 2,240 by situation right now,” as the bills, as do millions of Ameri- giveness,” 31-year-old Brittany estate analytics and investment A woman hands out free grab-and-go ended March 21, as thousands the morning of March 31. management said they have cans of all social classes who told . firm, 26 per cent of US renters meals for children in Waukee, Iowa | AP of small and large businesses Faced with the massive num- lenders too. SHARE newindianexpress.com ail us cityexpresshydnewindianexpress.com

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EPRESS FEATURES kitchen staff milling around desultorily as the flatscreen TV arayana students get EVEN as most of the hotels are ockdown, literally in your room plays bad news about the virus. shut and have bid goodbye to I can’t wait to get out of the ho- online to study, reise their guests, a few guests, how- him was totally turned off due Another guest confesses how tel, for once,” says a female ever, are stuck in the five star to the lockdown treatment. “I social distancing virtually guest. THE Narayana Group of Educational Institu- hotels due to lack of other op- do understand that hotels are translates to ‘do not step out of Hotels are among the worst tions has announced that to ensure that stu- tions. While it is the dream of under duress too because of the room’ during the Covid-19 affected now. With the closure dents of Narayana continue to learn at home every one to spend a day or two the new rules that they need to days. While I do understand of airlines and all other means in safety as usual during the lockdown period, in the comforts of the star ho- follow, but it really hurts when that the hotels have just skele- of transport, the room guests they have launched online classes, tests and tels complete with their plush you realise you are stuck in a tal services now, it made me have dwindled almost in the deep learning apps, nLearn and Narayana On- rooms, pillow menus, compli- room without even the basic cry when I got to know I am not first week of March when the line Test Series through the Internet. The mentary pool and gym usage, a room service or laundry. Al- even expected to sit in the hotel news of the virus started mak- classes are currently and will continue till the lockdown ends. session at the spa and of course though there is wi-fi and I am lobby or near the pool. ‘The ing the rounds. In a press release, the college management has conveyed that complimentary buffet break- able to do my work and keep in managements have conveyed Then of course closure of with the help of these online learning apps, Narayana is now fasts followed by lavish lunches touch with family, I am stuck that they are waiting for their restaurant even for local guests streaming a daily average of 10,000 live online classes across and dinners, the lockdown time with soiled clothes and last set of guests to leave be- was another blow. Some hotels the country in more than 600 branches of Narayana for more is turning out to be taxing for have nowhere to go. Per- fore they can close down. are running only a delivery ser- than 75,000 students. Further, Narayana is hosting live exams those unlucky few. haps, I have to try the Even the food is not sent to vice from their kitchens while and posting exam video solutions on the web, Android tab and An NRI, 53, in town for some ugaad of washing my my room but I need to fetch most others have announced a mobile applications respectively. In addition, assignments, so- official work on behalf of his clothes in the sink in it myself in the restaurant. The complete closure.Will May lutions, audio lectures and videos are being distributed directly corporate company, confessed my luxury suite and dry it eateries, however, wear a grim bring in good tidings to the ho- to the student’s mobile phone via nConnect App. how a luxury connoisseur like in the balcony,” he quips. look which just one or two tel industry? Lets see. ILLUSTRATION TAPAS RANAN newindianexpress.com SHARE THURSDAY ail us cityexpresschngmail.com www.newindianexpress.com 02 04 2020 2

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TO the Coronavirus pandemic, Carbon 12, Custot Gallery, Gal- the 14th edition of Art Dubai is lery Isabelle van den Eynde, moving online. With years of Leila Heller Gallery and Meem informed and intelligent cura- Gallery will all be participating tion, the fair is considered to be in Art Dubai online this year. one of the most important events on the global art calen- Exciting contemporary or dar. While the edition was ini- The Third Line contribute in STARTING UP tially postponed, this year Art the Contemporary section, pre- Dubai will leave behind its reg- senting the exciting and bold ular home at Madinat Jumei- work of Hassan Hajjaj. The art- rah and move to a robust online ist who is based in London K format for 2020. (with Moroccan origins) is Digital components are to be known as the ‘Andy Warhol of R launched this week including Marrakech’ due to his vivid the 2020 Online Catalogue, a and uniquely composed por- EPRESS FEATURES months to 12 years. (Babies, Global Art Forum live-broad- trait photography. toddlers and schoolers). Each cast and an Online Perfor- FOR most kids, the word product is made with 100 mance Programme curated by Lie performance art ‘snack’ conjures up images of natural ingredients and con- Marina Fokidis. In the coming It’s not all static art, this year’s a pack of chips, cookies, choc- tains zero preservatives,” weeks a new series of ‘Plane- live performances at Art Dubai olates or sugar filled jellies. they add. tary Feeds’ will gather inter- also move online and will ex- Many children graze through The idea for Timios, which views, insights, personal im- plore the theme of “art as a the day eating unhealthy is funded by MTR Foods, came pressions and other content by form of healing”. Get ready to snacks that are not specifi- about when Aswani moved to contributors from around the enjoy an array of dances and cally targeted for their age. As India from the US in 2014 after world. As part of the Art Dubai of the region. live art that will demonstrate per a study conducted by the spending about 15 years at top 2020 catalogue there will be Through Art Dubai’s 2020 “a celebration of togetherness” Centre for Science and Envi- tier investment banks. Once four digital gallery sections - ath nline t Online Catalogue you will be exploring everything from ronment, 93 of children be- he returned, he was in search Modern art, Contemporary art, able to view more than 500 art- communal celebrations, unity tween the age group of 9-17 of healthy age appropriate Bawwaba and Residents focus- works by represented artists of and the world around us. eat packaged food. snacks for his two boys. Un- ing on art practices from the Art Dubai participating galler- Children today have access like in the developed markets, Middle East and Asian and Af- ies, allowing you to browse Key speaer umai ase hiition ai artist Anolie Ela enon to packaged food more than there were no options for rican continents as well as Lat- works, filter selections through ever. A quick stop at the su- healthy yet tasty snacks de- in America. a range of criteria, as well as The theme of the talks this permarket can result in a signed for children. He real- This also showcases galleries time. Bawwaba mean- tious solo artist presen- place purchase inquiries di- year is “Pretty Modern” based number of snack packs that ized the gap in the market and from around the world, ranging ing ‘gateway’ in Ara- tations. Residents show- rectly with the galleries. around a quote from artist An- are mostly unhealthy. Parents teamed up with his sister from emerging art scenes to es- bic, serves as a portal cases solo presentations jolie Ela Menon, who is famous often find it difficult to buy Hima Bindu, who holds a tablished centers, presenting to discovery of from invited galleries HERES SOE OF THE for her work in 1950s Mumbai. trustworthy, wholesome, solo or group shows and offer- HIGHLIGHTS TO ATCH OT Expect some intellectual chat masters degree in nutrition works created in whose artists partake in FOR healthy and guilt free snacks and has worked as a research ing new global perspectives to the past year or a six-week residen- from a mix of speakers includ- that are suitable for children. associate “Each of these prod- help cultivate a culture of dis- specifically for cy in the UAE, en- Clicon ors at Duais ing art historians, private col- ‘That is how Timios was ucts are designed in suitable covery. Modern features pres- the fair, offer- couraging artists popular galleries lectors, art dealers, independ- born,” says founders, baroth- portions to provide the neces- entations by modern masters ing visitors a to immerse them- ent curators and scholars as er sister duo, Aswani Chait- sary nutrition. We are work- from the MENASA region fea- curated read- selves in the local There’s so much to see but be they unpack, complicate, and anya and Hima Bindu. The ing out on other snacks for turing exceptional works by 20 ing of current art scene and driv- sure to click-on works from the challenge the nuances of mod- Hyderabadi duo say that their toddlers and schools,’ says artists working in specific geo- artistic develop- ing meaningful en- local UAE galleries and look ernism and how it’s idea was to give design Bindu. They are available on historical contexts, the section ments across wide gagement with the into Middle East artists for a communicated healthy food products for chil- e-commerce websites and in aims to drive new narratives geographical scopes rich cultural herit- real flavor of what the regional dren. “Age-appropriate cover- over 250 stories including and connections across exhib- across ‘The Global age and contempo- art scene is all about. UAE gal- isit wwwartdubaiae and ing age ranges starting from 6 baby and organic stores. ited presentations and across South’, via ambi- rary art practices leries such as Ayyam Gallery, wwwisitDubaicom

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3.5 RED FM and T-Series will host MUSIC INDUSTRY UNITES a digital fund- raising initiative titled ‘The Care Concert’ on April FOR THE CARE CONCERT 11 from 6 pm on- wards. With the nation un- der a 21-day lockdown, both brands have collabo- rated to raise funds to tackle the Covid-19 pan- demic through music. The upcoming concert will be TO RAISE streamed on YouTube and spread some cheer and Facebook handles of both also help everyone to fight T-Series and RED FM. this unitedly. Moreover, Viewers can log in, enjoy we saw synergies with the performances with the RED FM to entertain and line-up of 15 plus artistes engage the audience in a and contribute any creative format. ‘The Care amount they wish to the Concert’ is an initiative to PM CARES Fund through unite all of us together a link provided for the and motivate everyone to donations. stay at home. We hope to FUNDS The Care Concert com- bring some positivity in stellar lineup of prises a stellar line-up of the current scenario artistes will e artistes such as Yo Yo Hon- through music and also coming together on ey Singh, Adnan Sami, create an opportunity Neha Kakkar, Tulsi Ku- which allows us to do our digital platforms to mar, Armaan Malik, Amal bit for the society by do- perform from their Malik, Dhvani Bhanusha- nating to the PM CARES li, Sachet Tandon, Param- Fund.” homes, asking para Thakur, Parkriti Speaking about ‘The viewers to donate Kakkar, Palak Mucchal, Care Concert’, Nisha Jubin Nautiyal, Aditya Narayanan, Director and while they perform Narayan, Akhil Sachdeva, COO, RED FM and Magic for them Sukriti Kakkar and Am- FM, said, “Covid-19, with- ber Vashishtha among out a doubt, has been others. All these artists harsh on the business will be coming together on front with most sectors digital platforms to per- taking a hit. Yet, it’s im- form from their homes, portant to understand eve- asking viewers to donate ry crisis presents a ray of while they perform for hope and new opportuni- them. The show will be ties too. We are happy to hosted by RED FM’s RJ announce ‘The Care Con- Malishka. cert’ in association with Speaking about the as- India’s largest music re- sociation, Mr Bhushan cord label, T-Series to Kumar, Chairman bring forth some of the Managing Director, T- renowned music artists Series, said, “Amidst for a digital concert. Peo- such unprecedent- ple have always found ed and uncertain strength and hope in art times when the and music during the cri- world is grap- sis and this is a humble ef- pling to fight the fort by RED FM and T-Se- coronavirus ries to bring together pandemic, we everybody for a common wanted to cause.”

NITHYA NANAPANDITHAN dris lba says NATSUKA Kusano’s Do ohnson says mains, currently streaming on MUBI, is a film unlike any he is fine but I’ve seen before. Some might even argue that it is not a film stuck in a obbs a at all. Aside from the first 15 odd minutes, the 150-minute- long film is made up almost entirely of table readings and seuel is on cards rehearsals of the three main limbo actors. Right at the outset, we IDRIS Elba and his wife Sabri- HOLLYWOOD star Dwayne wept on the set of the first are introduced to almost the na Dhowre tested positive for Johnson has revealed that a Hobbs haw movie as she full story in the form of a con- COVID-19 and were undergo- Hobbs haw sequel is in de- heard her son speak in Samo- fession of a terrible crime ing treatment in isolation. The velopment, and he is excited an, the language of their read back to the protagonist actor now took to Twitter to up- about it. During a recent Ins- family. Aki Takemoto (Asami date his followers about their tagram Live A, Johnson “She is incredibly proud of Shibuya) by an official (Kenta health. He said they are still confirmed the news about the the movie. It’s the very first Ryu, the only other actor in asymptomatic. follow up to Fast Furious time in the history of Holly- the film, aside from the afore- He said, “We’ve passed the Presents: Hobbs haw, wood that the Samoan culture mentioned trio). Though this quarantine period, but we’re a which minted 759 million has ever been showcased on portion is filmed like a scene little bit in limbo. We can’t get worldwide, according to this scale, so it’s a big deal. in a normal movie, it’s inter- a flight back home. So we just reports. Within the scene, she never esting to note that this scene have to sit still for a little bit. “We are developing now the heard me speak in Samoan to too is essentially made up of We are both good mentally, just next film, the next Hobbs this degree. She hears me a reading. en having their own way of trying to stay optimistic. I hope haw movie, and I’m pretty speaking in Samoan, calling Aki has confessed to mur- communicating without you guys are too, keeping your- excited about it,” said the on our ancestors to give us dering the three-year-old words. Naoto calls it a “coded selves sane and not getting too 47-year-old star, who appeared strength ... I look over and she daughter of her longtime circuit” and says they are ac- worried and too panicked.” in the successful ast uri is crying so hard,” said the friend Nodoka (Tomo Kasaji- tually conveying more with- The actor revealed that the ous spin-off alongside Jason former WWE star, who spent ma), who asked her to babysit inema out words. The same can be was worried that he would see Statham last year. part of his childhood in Honoka on a day when there said about the film too. the worst of the infection as he “Just gotta figure out the Hawaii. was a typhoon in the area. Another instance of this is asthmatic “But I got creative right now, and the di- Her motive is unclear. But in eonstte departure from the norm is through it. And you can too.” rection we’re going to go,” her confession, Aki mentions the cinematography. The cam- He also said, “Other than added Johnson when asked a letter she has left for Nodo- era often holds still on one ac- that, we’re OK and we’re so where he and producers are at ka, which only the two of A biweekly colun that focuses on the tor’s face, even when they are thankful that I think the worst in the pre-production process them will understand. After notable content available on the variety not the one speaking. In a sub- of it is probably past.” Elba, on the sequel. ast urious reading her statement and THEATRE of streaing platfors around you sequent rendition of the who was last seen in Cats, has resents: Hobbs haw also getting her signature, the of- scene, we get only the face of two much-awaited releases in starring Helen Mirren, Eiza ficial asks her what she meant the one speaking. When the his kitty including Concrete Gonzalez, Vanessa Kirby and in the letter by “the kingdom comfortable home is, in fact, a memories work. Fluid, ever- camera pans, it is not smooth Cowboys and he uicide Idris Elba, was well received made with chairs and sheets stifling one for Nodoka be- changing, details coming and like it would be in a finished uad. by the audience and crit- on the day of the typhoon.” cause of Naoto’s need to going. So the whole movie can movie. Often, it lands off to ics upon its release Aki says she cannot explain. maintain it and their family be seen as Aki perhaps re- the side of an actor, on their last August. When asked what happened in a certain way. How Aki membering and trying to back, in their hair, sometimes It is unclear when on the day of the typhoon, she calls Naoto out for this and come to terms with what hap- it goes out of focus, captures the movie will hit only says it was “just a very how he, in turn, banishes her pened. This would ex- a reflection of itself in a mir- e’ve passed the uarantine cinemas, especially fulfilling day for them” and from their home. plain the addition, ror. All of it reminding us period, but we’re a little bit in as the latest film in goes on to sing a song. The scenes are not read in as the film goes that what we are watching libo. e can’t get a flight back the ast nd uri Once the table readings be- chronological order and there on, of location is all made up, not real. hoe. So we ust have ous franchise, , gin, we find out that there is a lot of repetition as the ac- shots minus the And yet, paradoxically, to sit still for a has been pushed was another day with a ty- tors rehearse the scenes over actors. It is also Domains remains consist- little bit. e are both good back to 2021 due phoon, 22 years ago, when and over. Sometimes in the hinted at by two oft- ently immersive. Even entally, ust to the global coro- Aki and Nodoka built a lines themselves, which repeated scenes that without the usual trappings trying to stay navirus bedsheet castle and used change slightly in each read- have characters trying to re- of cinema, I found myself ful- optiistic. pandemic. that song as a password to ingrehearsal. Scenes are cut construct past events. The ly invested in these charac- Johnson plays their kingdom or domain. off partway in initial read- first of these is of Aki and No- ters, in what was going on in d a the role of DSS Later rehearsals reveal that ings, but we are shown more doka talking about their cas- their minds. Rather than agent Luke Hobbs this day is believed by Aki to and more of these later. There tle building — Aki helps her world-building of the phys- in the film series. He be a significant one in her and are no props used at first for friend remember how they ical sort, Domains con- had previously recalled how Nodoka’s friendship. Through the table readings, but slowly became really close after that structs a psychological his mother, Ata Johnson, these readings and rehears- they are added in. A mug day though Nodoka had other world that is hard to re- als, which expand upon the here, a bag there. The biggest friends who were closer be- sist. I find myself still sequence of events described change, of course, is in the fore. The other features Aki, thinking about Aki e are developing now the net fil, the net in Aki’s statement at the start, performances. We see the ac- Nodoka, and Naoto having a and Nodoka, and will Hobbs Shaw ovie, and ’ pretty ecited we slowly piece together the tors slowly morph into the conversation at the dinner ta- continue to do so and about it. ust gotta figure out the creative right story. How Aki meets Nodoka, characters and it is a fascinat- ble and the two women to- remember this film now, and the direction we’re going to go her husband Naoto and ing insight into the process of gether recall a childhood visit for a long time to daughter Honoka at their acting. ayne nn to the school Naoto now come. house. How Aki finds that The way the scenes are re- works at. This second scene Domains is what initially seemed like a visited also mirrors the way also talks about the two wom- streaming on M