God, our Creator, has stored MONDAY within our minds and NOVEMBER 4, 2019 personalities, great potential CHANDIGARH strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers. VOL. XXIII, NO. 265 PAGES 8 Rs. 2 A. P. J. Abdul Kalam YUGMARGYOUR REGION, YOUR PAPER India set target of Work on welcome gates on name of DCs directed to curb 149 for Bangla legends to be completed soon stubble burning ...PAGE 8 .... PAGE 3 .... PAGE 3 DELHI ‘40% Delhi-NCR residents want to AQI move to other cities’ Four die in AGENCY would equip themselves with air 'Chhath' festival NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 3 purifiers, masks, plants etc,” ac- HITS 999 cording to findings of the survey in Bihar Over 40 per cent residents of Del- done by online platform “Local- PATNA: Four persons including hi and NCR want to move to an- Circles”. two minors died in two separate other city because of bad air qual- “While 16 per cent people incidents during 'Chhath' festivi- ity while 16 per cent want to trav- said they would stay in Delhi ties in Bihar, police said on Sun- NCR enters 'hazardous' level el during the period, according to NCR but travel during this period day. a new survey. of toxic pollution, 13 per cent said Two women devotees, who ob- The survey with over 17,000 they would stay here and have no served the pious Chhath festival, respondents from Delhi and NCR option but to cope with rising pol- died and four others injured when region has found that 13 per cent lution levels,” it added. a portion of the wall of a Kali tem- resident believe that they have no When asked, how the pollu- ple collapsed this morning at Flight operations affected option but to cope with rising pol- tion affected them and their fami- Badgaon village in Samastipur lution levels. ly in the past week, 13 per cent re- district, they said. “Over 40 per cent residents spondents said one or more of The wall collapsed at around 6.30 said they would like to leave Del- them have visited a hospital al- am, when devotees were prepar- ing to leave the ghat after offering hi NCR and move somewhere ready while 29 per cent said one 'arghya', Hasanpur police station else while 31 per cent said they or more of them have visited a SHO Chandrakant Gauri said would stay in Delhi NCR and doctor already. adding that the incident triggered panic among the people. Around half a dozen women and the bodies of the deceased have been taken out of the rubble, Schools in Gurugram, Faridabad SHO said. The deceased have been identified as Lalli Devi and Buchi Devi, both aged between 40 and 50, and injured devotees to remain closed till Tuesday have been admitted to Hasanpur CHANDIGARH, NOV 3 been authorised to take the decision primary health centre, he said. regarding the closure of schools in In view of the abysmal quality of air, their respective districts as per local Haryana government on Sunday an- prevailing conditions of pollution. Snowfall in nounced that all schools till Class XII The government has directed all would remain closed on November 4 the Deputy Commissioners, District Lahaul-Spiti, and 5 in Gurugrama and Faridabad Education Officers, and District Ele- Kullu districts districts. mentary Education Officers to ensure SHIMLA: Parts of Kullu and La- "All the private, aided and gov- the compliance of the directions of haul Spiti districts received fresh ernment school till Class 12th will re- the Central Pollution Control Board snowfall. main closed on November 4 and 5, (CPCB) in letter and spirit. Since af- The precipitation has been report- 2019 in Gurugram and Faridabad ter Diwali and due to stubble burn- ed during the past 24 hours. districts," an official spokesperson of ing, the air quality in Haryana has de- According to SP of Kullu, Gaurav the Haryana government has said. teriorated like anything. Hisar, Jind, Singh the Rohtang region in Kullu He said that the Deputy Commis- Faridabad and Kaithal recorded air district has received nearly Six sioners of all other districts have quality at 'severe' level. inches of fresh snowfall today during day time. "To avoid a traffic jam on Manali- Leh Highway, the Rohtang pass is closed for vehicular traffic," AGENCY cancelled so far. A glance at the Delhi Air- Air purifier deployed at Taj Singh said. NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 3 PMO holds port's live flight status shows that most flights, According to the Director of IMD both domestic and international, are running Mahal to tackle pollution Himachal Pradesh, Manmohan Air quality index (AQI) in Delhi touched the meeting with chief behind schedule. In a tweet, Delhi Chief Min- Singh more snowfall is expected 'hazardous' level of 999, an air quality moni- ister Arvind Kejriwal addressed the dangerous during the next 12 hours on the AGRA (UP): As north India battles severe levels of pollution, state authorities have higher hills of Kullu and Lahaul- tor said, pushing the city back into the “se- secys of Pb, Hry levels of pollution. He wrote: “Pollution has deployed an air purifier at the Taj Mahal to save the iconic monument, officials said Spiti. vere” plus category after a brief respite on Sat- NEW DELHI: As the severity of air pollution rched unbearable levels across N India. Del on Sunday. The air purifier van deployed by the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control urday evening. continued to trouble the residents of National govt taken many steps. Delhiites hv made Board (UPPCB) has capacity to purify 15 lakh cubic metre air in eight hours within Smog continued to smother the national Capital Region of Delhi and parts of Northern many sacrifices. Del suffering for no fault of a 300 metre radius, they said. "Looking at the developing situation and consistent Snooping row: capital, affecting flight operations at the Del- India, the Prime Minister’s Office on Sunday theirs. Punjab CM also expressd concern. deterioration in air quality, a mobile air purifier van has been deployed at the west hi Airport. stepped in and decided that the Chief Secre- Centre shud take immediate steps 2 provide gate of the Taj Mahal," Regional Officer of UPPCB Bhuvan Yadav told a news Priyanka's phone also The thick smog pushed up the minimum taries of Delhi, Punjab and Haryana will monitor relief. V will support Centre in all initiatives.” agency. Pollution around the white marble mausoleum has been a cause of con- temparture in the city to 18.7 degrees Celsius, the situation round-the-clock. The Principal Accorting to the The World Air Quality Pro- cern for a long time as it has been damaging the monument, one of the seven won- hacked, claims Cong four notches above the season's average. Secretary, P K Mishra, held a meeting through ject, areas under the “hazardous” category ders of the world. The district administration, Agra Nagar Nigam and UPPCB col- NEW DELHI: The Congress on Air India said 12 of its flights had to di- video conference and will monitor the situation were Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium (999), ITI Ja- laborated with telecom operator Vodafone-Idea, as part of corporate social respon- Sunday claimed that its party verted from Delhi airport since 9 am on Sun- with the states on a daily basis, the PMO offi- hangirpuri (999), Punjabi Bagh (999), New sibility efforts, to bring in two such air purifier vans to the city to combat pollution, general secretary Priyanka day. Delhi Airport said 32 flights had been cials said. Delhi US Embassy (814). the officials said. Gandhi Vadra's phone was also hacked during a recent spy- ware attack on several journal- Tis Hazari Court lawyers on ists and human Free bus service for Sangat during Newly elected rights activists. indefinite hunger strike Last week, Facebook, the Parkash Purb celebrations NEW DELHI: Following the scuffle between advocates and Haryana MLAs to parent compa- the Delhi Police personnel on Saturday, the lawyers of Tis ny of What- BUREAU Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh by Hazari Court have gone on indefinite hunger strike, demand- sApp, alleged CHANDIGARH, NOVEMBER 3: the Tourism and Cultural Affairs Depart- ing a judicial probe into the incident. take oath today that Israeli cybersecurity compa- ment. In accordance with the decision taken, "This is an indefinite strike. Our demand is clear -- there ny NSO used WhatsApp servers The Punjab Government has started free bus 1500 buses would ply daily to take the San- should be an FIR against the police personnel who were en- to spread spyware Pegasus service for Sangat coming to visit Sultanpur gat to Sultanpur Lodhi from 5-12 November. gaged in a skirmish with advocates. They should be suspend- AGENCY "When WhatsApp sent mes- Lodhi during the 550th Prakash Purb cele- The minister further divulged that the de- ed. Compensation should be given to 200 injured advocates, CHANDIGARH, NOV 3 sages to all those whose phones brations of Sahib Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji. A tailed schedule of the buses has been sent to who are being treated currently," Ajay Gaur, an advocate, told. were hacked, one such message meeting regarding this was held today by the the Deputy Commissioners and the SDMs of "Police are getting the matter investigated by the Crime The newly elected mem- was also received by Priyanka Tourism and Cultural Affairs Minister Mr. all the districts. Buses have been allotted vil- Branch of Delhi Police but we want a judicial inquiry by the bers of the Haryana As- Gandhi Vadra," said Congress Charanjit Singh Channi with the officers of lage and city wise in every assembly con- sitting judges of the High Court," he added.