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The fatalities that have occurred were due to co-morbidities or other medical ailments,” Tope said, caus- ing embarrassment to its major alliance partners Shiv Sena and the Congress which have been taking on the Narendra Modi Government 45 6437) over deaths due to lack of medical names of ULFA, AASU and Assam’s Presidents of many countries, includ- 45 6437) oxygen. ore names have tumbled out in ultra outfit leaders have also cropped ing French President Emmanuel The Congress has accused Mthe Pegasus snoopgate of those up in the phone tapping scandal Macron and the Moroccan King, massive controversy has erupt- Minister of State for Health Bharati who may have been victims of tele- along with the names of many were also targeted by the Israeli spy- Aed over the Centre’s claim in the Pravin Pawar of misleading phone tapping between 2018 and Ambedkarites, Dalit activists, and ware. Rajya Sabha that no one died due Health Minister TS Singh Deo waves of the pandemic. Parliament by giving “false infor- 2019. As per the reports, the phone JNU student leaders involved in the The Wire portal’s report on to lack of oxygen during the second said it’s true that no one died in the “We have never said that mation” that there were no deaths numbers of six senior officials of anti-CAA protests. Wednesday suggested that Monsanto Covid-19 wave. While the State due to lack of oxygen as “we because of shortage of oxygen a due to lack of oxygen during the Mahyco Monsanto Biotech (India) Meanwhile, international publi- was placed on the snooping list Opposition targeted the Centre, the are an oxygen-surplus State.” Covid-19 patient has died in any second wave. Pvt. Ltd and Monsanto India were cations like Le Monde and The around the time the BJP-Shiv Sena Congress was left red-faced as Similarly Shiv Sena MP Sanjay hospital in the State. There is no Continued on Page 2 under surveillance in 2018. The Washington Post reported that Government in Maharashtra set up three of the States where it has Raut said the people who a special investigation team (SIT) to stakes, towed the Centre’s line. lost their loved ones due to probe companies that were alleged- Chhattisgarh where the oxygen shortage should ly selling or releasing unapproved Congress is in full majority “take the Union ,*( herbicide-tolerant (HT) transgenic Government, Tamil Nadu and Government to court”, cotton, or Bt cotton, seeds in the Maharashtra where the party is part while it’s coalition partner State. A few months prior to the for- of the coalition Government also NCP in Maharashtra rep- $! - mation of the SIT, in October 2017, claimed that no one died of oxygen resented by Health the Prime Minister’s Office had also shortage. Minister Rajesh Tope, too, set up the Field Inspection and While former Congress chief clarified that there was no 45 6437) cumulative death toll stands at 414,482 45 6437) respond to media inquiries. It said that Scientific Evaluation Committee Rahul Gandhi said the record in the State of any — the world’s third-highest after the US’ the expose by 17 news organisations (FISEC), under the Department of Government’s response reflected death due to shortage of he number of excess deaths in 6,09,000 fatalities and Brazil’s 5,42,000 srael has set up a senior inter-min- across the world since Sunday was a Biotechnology, to probe the prolif- lack of sensitivity, Chhattisgarh oxygen during the two TIndia during the Covid-19 pan- casualties. The report has been prepared Iisterial team to “look into” prolif- “planned and well-orchestrated media eration of unlawful seeds, said the demic could be as high as 49 lakh (4.9 by the Washington-based think tank erating allegations that spyware sold campaign led by Forbidden Stories and report. Continued on Page 2 million). A report titled ‘Three new esti- Center for Global Development (CGD) by a Israeli cyber firm has been pushed by special interest groups”. mates of India’s all-cause excess mortal- and is co-authored by India’s former abused on a global scale, news “NSO will thoroughly investigate ity during the Covid-19 pandemic’, s a i d Chief Economic Adviser Arvind agency Reuters said on Wednesday any credible proof of misuse of its Q India’s coronavirus death toll is ten times Subramanian, Abhishek Anand, from quoting an Israeli source. technologies, as we always had, and )* higher than the actual figure reported the Harvard University and Justin In another interesting development will shut down the system where nec- by the Union Health Ministry. Sandefur, from the CGD. on Wednesday, NSO, the developer of essary,” a spokesperson said. As per the Health Ministry, India’s Continued on Page 2 spyware Pegasus said it will no longer Continued on Page 2 ! "R 45 6437) 45 6437) *./ mid a full-blown political battle n the backdrop of the con- Aover revelations that Opposition Itroversy over the Centre’s ,$,$0,' ! leaders, Union Ministers, journalists, reply in the Rajya Sabha on and many others were potential tar- Tuesday that no death had &,-&(.&/) 45 6437) gets of snooping by Israeli company occurred on account of oxygen NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware, a shortage in the country, the BJP 01%,&./2 eputy Chief Minister Parliamentary on Wednesday sought to 3 %&,)&4-,01(,42 DManish Sisodia on Committee defend the Government’s con- Wednesday said thousands of headed by clusion saying “no State sent &4%&-,&/.- people lost their lives due to Congress MP any data about patients dying shortage of oxygen during the Shashi Tharoor due to oxygen shortage.” 01&/%-2 second wave of the pandemic in will hold a BJP spokesperson Sambit %&4&.,4 the national Capital and the meeting on July Patra accused Opposition lead- Centre rejected the proposal of 28 on the sub- ers, including Congress scion !38 .-&/&/((01&,()2 the Delhi Government to form ject of ‘citizens’ Rahul Gandhi and Delhi Chief a panel to investigate the deaths. data security Minister Arvind Kejriwal, of -&4(&,)/01,/&%,2 Addressing the media, and privacy.’ doing politics on the matter, Sisodia said: “The Delhi The com- and said the States where these P -&&%,01,&.)2 Government constituted a mittee has parties are in power have committee to investigate deaths called officials of the Ministry of claimed that no one died there -(&%,&,.01,&),2 caused by lack of oxygen with Electronics and Information due to lack of oxygen. an aim to give an assistance of Technology, Ministry of Home The BJP leader said 3 ,%&(&./,01.-2 Rs 5 lakh to the aggrieved fam- Affairs, and Ministry of Opposition-ruled States ilies but the Centre rejected the Communications to hear their views. claimed in courts that there was formation of this committee “Evidence of the representatives of the no death due to shortage of ilar assertions in their response through an order by the Ministry of Electronics and oxygen during the second to the Centre. Lieutenant-Governor. Information Technology, Ministry of Covid-19 wave and made sim- Continued on Page 2 Continued on Page 2 ! # % Continued on Page 2 "# & '' O O '' ' ! ! " he Jammu and Kashmir # $ T(J&K) administration has ( Ahmedabad: The extent of finally removed the last bot- human suffering brought on by tleneck for the issuance of ! the pandemic is immeasurable domicile certificates to spous- "-3" % #$ % & and there are many personal es of Kashmiri women/men tragedies unfolding across the married outside the Union n a speech matching her ' ! world. One such story is that of Territory (UT). So far, only the Inational aspirations, Bengal a young Gujarati couple. The children of such women were Chief Minister Mamata husband who was suffering entitled to receive domicile Banerjee on Wednesday urged $ % from multi-organ failure after certificates. the national leaders of all getting the Covid infection Ever since the UT admin- Opposition parties to sink their & and was on a life support sys- istration started preparing differences and mint an anti- ' ( tem, has very slim chances of domicile certificates after the ' - ) & BJP coalition ahead of the #$ ( survival and his distraught she approached the HC with an abrogation of Article 370 in 2024 general elections to over- ) *# wife is desperate to have his urgent plea, he said. August 2019, women married hereby directs in sub-rule (1) of Domicile certificate of his/her throw the “divisive, anti-poor child. Thankfully, the HC under- outside the erstwhile State of rule 5 of the Jammu and spouse and 2) valid marriage and pro-rich” saffron + ,-.+ However, when all her stood the urgency and J&K were facing piquant situ- Kashmir Grant of Domicile proof. Government. $ % pleas to the Vadodara-based poignancy of the situation and ations. Certificate Rules 220, after The order modified the “The BJP carries a bigger ! ) ) O *# hospital for help in her endeav- directed the hospital to conduct Initially, their children were S.No/Clause 6, the following applicability of domicile con- load of virus than the corona” ) our to conceive through In the IVF/ART procedure for the included in the list and now, the shall be added”.