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You may follow The Indian Express’s news and analysis through the day on indianexpress.com eye THE SUNDAY EXPRESS MAGAZINE LUCK NEWDELHI,LATECITY BY CHANCE JULY12,2020 What it takestosurvive 20PAGES,`6.00 the journey from outsider (`8PATNA&RAIPUR,`12SRINAGAR) to insider in Bollywood DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH,DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR,PUNE,VADODARA WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM PAGE 16, 17, 18 AmitabhBachchan, CM TARGETSBJP:BID TO TOPPLEGOVT son Abhishek test GehlotseesplotasBJP positive for Covid menheld;‘fight’with Requestall to stay calm, tweets Abhishek EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE PilotfindsmentioninFIR MUMBAI,JULY11 BOLLYWOOD LEGEND Amitabh Rajasthan Police invokes sedition, conspiracy;sayswill Bachchan and his son, actor Abhishek Bachchan, announced recordstatementsofAshok Gehlot,Sachin Pilottoo in separatetweetsSaturdaythat theyhavetestedpositive for Covid-19and have been admit- Will Jaipur tedtoahospital in Mumbai with “mild symptoms”. go Bhopal Both of them areundergoing Both of themhavebeen treatment at Nanavati Hospital, admitted to hospital. File with an official confirmingthat way? Cong they had “facilitated their tests” and that the twoare “stable”. About an hour later,near leadership Maharashtra HealthMinister midnight, Abhishek, 44,posted: Rajesh Tope said all their other “Earlier todaybothmyfather familymembers have tested and Itestedpositivefor COVID alarmed negative in rapid antigen tests. 19.Bothofushavingmildsymp- RAFpersonnel at VikasDubey’s village Bikru in Kanpur,adayafter he waskilled. PTI The resultsofthe RT-PCR tests toms have been admitted to hos- areawaited,hesaid. pital.Wehaveinformedall the MANOJCG “I have testedCoviD positive required authorities and our Aday after NEWDELHI,JULY11 .. shiftedtoHospital .. hospital in- familyand staffare all being Dubeycase:Arrests The twoBJP membersafter their arrest by the Rajasthan forming authorities .. familyand tested.Irequestall to stay calm shootout, six PoliceinBeawaronSaturday. PTI THE FAST-PACED political devel- staffundergone tests, results andnot panic. Thank you.” claimed from Gwalior, opmentsinJaipur have alarmed awaited .. All that have been in HospitalofficialssaidAmitabh the Congresshighcommand in close proximity to me in the last Bachchan arrivedfirstfor apre- policemen The FIR waslodgedbythe Delhi, whichhad refrainedsofar 10 days arerequestedtoplease liminarycheck-up afterdevelop- Thane; UP sets up SIT HAMZAKHAN Special Operations Groupunder from intervening in the deepen- getthemselvestested!” Amitabh ing symptoms. “Afterhetested out of danger, &DEEPMUKHERJEE IPCsections 124A (sedition) and ing riftbetween Chief Minister Bachchan, 77,posted. CONTINUEDONPAGE2 JAIPUR,JULY11 120B (criminal conspiracy). The Ashok Gehlotand Deputy Chief EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE says hospital phone numbers under surveil- MinisterSachin Pilot. BHOPAL,MUMBAI,LUCKNOW, SUNDAY RAJASTHAN WASonthe boil lance, it said, belongedtoAshok While senior Congresslead- JULY11 STORY Saturdayafter ChiefMinister Singh and Bharat Malani -- Singh ers claimthat there is no threat TRACKING INDIA’S COVID CURVE ASADREHMAN Ashok Gehlotclaimedthat the wasarrestedfromUdaipur and to theRajasthan government, the ADAY afterVikas Dubey was PAGE 13 KANPUR,JULY11 BJP wastrying to topple his gov- Malani from Beawar. crisis has promptedmanylead- CASES: RECOVERED:5,15,385 killedinan‘encounter’, arrests ernment. Ashok Kumar Rathore, ADG, ers to recallthe exit of Jyotiraditya 131 were reportedfromMadhya THE DAYafter gangsterVikas Adding to the political ATSand SOG, said the twomen Scindia and the fall of the Kamal DAYSSINCE 8,20,915 DEATHS:22,123 Pradesh and Maharashtrain Dubey waskilled in an alleged firestorm, the statepolice, which arebeing questionedand willbe Nath government in Madhya PANDEMIC BEGAN TESTS: 1,13,07,002| DOUBLING RATE: 20.99** connection with the slain gang- encounterbythe SpecialTask arrested twoBJP membersfor al- producedincourt. Pradesh just three ster,with the Uttar Pradesh Forceofthe Uttar Pradesh Police, legedly trying to lureaway Addressing a monthsago. Police distancing itself from the the six policemen who were re- Congress and Independent press conference At the heartofthe twomen held in Thane. portedly injured were “out of MLAs with offers of Rs 20-25 from his residence, tussle in Jaipur,senior The familyofthe father and VIKAS DUBEY danger and stable,” said Vinay croreeach, lodged an FIR stating Gehlot attacked the Congress leaders say, son reportedarrestedfrom Kanpur wala Kumar,Emergency Medical phonetaps mentionedhow the BJP,saying itsleaders is the “egoclash” be- Gwaliorsaid theyhad been Officer at Lala Lajpat RaiHospital “ChiefMinisterand Deputy Chief “have crossedall lim- tweenGehlot and EXPLAINED E● pickeduponThursdaybythe UP From village lanes to (Hallett Hospital) in Kanpur. Ministerare having afight” and itsofhumanity” dur- Sachin. The leaders Police, while Dubey wasstillon Kanpur,police to Police had said that Dubey “Deputy CM says that he will be ing the pandemic admit thatthere is KEYSTATES TOTAL SURGEIN 7-DAYAVG DOUBLING the run. In Thane, aMaharashtra politicalcorridors, had firedatthem from aweapon the CM” —areference to the and were playing“agame” on in- “deep distrust” between the two, TOWATCH CASES 24HOURS GROWTH* RATE** Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) the life,times and he had snatchedfromanofficer powertussle withinthe ruling structions from their central manifestedmultiple times in the ■ Maharashtra 2,38,461 7,862 3.07% 23.46 team announcedthe arrest of an controversial deathof afterthe vehicle, in whichhewas Congress between Gehlotand leadership. lastone-and-a-half years. ■ Delhi 1,09,140 2,089 2.05% 35.14 alleged Dubey associate, Arvind the gangster being movedtoKanpur,over- Sachin Pilot. He also took aswipe at Pilot, Referring to Scindia’s exit in MP,a alias GuddanRamvilas Trivedi. turnedFridaymorning. Senior police officers said reigniting the debatewithin the former Unionministerand AICC Tamil Nadu 1,30,261 3,680 3.45% 20.86 ■ In the evening, the UP Police said Head Constable Shivendra statementsofboththe Chief Congress. “Who doesn’t want to general secretarywenttothe ex- ■ Karnataka 33,418 2,313 7.83% 9.19 Trivediwas notwanted by them. ates,while the UP government Singh Sengar and Constable Ministerand Deputy Chief be CM? We toomay have 5-7 tent of saying that “nothing is ■ Telangana 32,224 1,278 6.70% 10.74 TheEnforcement Directorate formedaSpecial Investigation Vimal Kumar,bothSTF officials, Ministerwill be recordedinthe people who maybecontenders guaranteedinsuchsituations”. said Saturdayitwas going to in- Team (SIT) to look intothe whole were thetwo who,policesaid, matter. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 CONTINUEDONPAGE2 *Compounded Daily Growth Rate over last 7days**Calculatedover7-day growth vestigatethe assets ownedby Dubey affair,including what got bullet injuries. CASEFATALITYRATIO POSITIVITYRATE DAILYIN,DAILYOUT Dubey andhis familyand associ- CONTINUEDONPAGE2 CONTINUEDONPAGE2 7DAYSEARLIER: 7DAYSEARLIER: DETECTEDTODAY 2.88 6.80 27,114 NOW: NOW: RECOVEREDTODAY: Jaishankar on disengagement: Electricity to jobs: Uptick in 2.69 7.26 19,870 Deaths as aratioof Positivesagainst Becoming sick vs positive cases (in %); number tested recovering; more Very much awork in progress economybut that’s flattening indicator of progress (in %);indicator of recoveries for 14 days in averting deaths the spread of disease may signal the peak DataasonJuly10,releasedbyUnionMinistryofHealth,ICMRandstates.Oftendailynumbersinclude datafrompreviousdays.Assuch,trendsbasedondailynumbersareindicative,notdefinitive ChinesevacatePangong Finger 4 India posting AANCHALMAGAZINE, NATIONALENERGYCONSUMPTION base, remaininstrength on ridgeline key diplomatto PRANAVMUKUL GWh GAPWIDENSAFTERSPIKEINMAY &ANILSASI 4700 —2020—2019 morethan that.” NEWDELHI,JULY11 As casessurge,patients KRISHNKAUSHIK& The minister’s remarkscame Taiwan amid 4200 SHUBHAJITROY on the dayIndian Armysources WHILE UNWINDINGofthe na- 3700 on oxygen support up NEWDELHI,JULY11 said Chinese troops have vacated China tension tional lockdown setoff adefinite the baseatFinger 4inPangong uptick in economic activity, there 3200 IN FIRST remarksfromthe polit- Tso, and have thinnedtheir is an unmistakableplateauing as by 2% in pastmonth ical leadership on the disengage- strength somewhat on the SHUBHAJITROY stateauthoritiesslapfresh curbs 2700 ment of troops that beganlast ridgeline. But Chinese troops, NEWDELHI,JULY11 to counterthe viral surge. week along the LineofActual sources said, arestill present in This trend is seen from June 2200 y b b cases, overtaking Russia and just Control in Ladakh, External large numbers on the ridgeline IN WHATisbeingread as a across multiple datasets n n KAUNAINSHERIFFM behind the US, 7% of the active Affairs MinisterSJaishankar said above Finger 4. strong impetustoits ties with analysed by The Indian Express: Feb 12-Apr 19-Apr 15-Fe 21-Jun 01-Feb 26-Apr 14-Ju 15-Mar 05-Apr 01-Mar 07-Ju 17-May 22- 28-Jun 22-Mar 31-May 08-Fe 29-Mar 10-May NEWDELHI,JULY11 cases were on oxygen support. Saturdayithas “justcom- The standoff at