Year : 04 Issue : 332 New Delhi Tuesday, February 11, 2020 Rs. 1/- Pages - 8 E-mail - [email protected] / [email protected] Facebook - www.facebook.com/opensearch.co.in Website - www.opensearch.co.in Economy near collapse... P7 FIRST COLUMN Shaheen Bagh : ‘Four-month- No recession in country, India’s first coronavirus old went for protest? How can people wearing jackets mothers support this!’ and pants : BJP MP positive patient is recovering New Delhi, Agency. Kochi, Agency. Taking suo-motu cognizance of the death of a four-month-old infant who was taken to the anti-CAA protest in New Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh, the Supreme Court Monday issued notices to India’s first coronavirus positive patient, the Central and Delhi Governments seeking their responses currently admitted to the isolation on whether children should be allowed to participate in ward at the Thrissur Medical College protests. A counsel appearing on behalf of some mothers in Kerala, is on her way to recovery, from Shaheen Bagh said as per United Nations’ convention New Delhi, Agency. a top source within the state health ratified by India, children have a right to protest. To this, Chief department confirmed Monday. A swab Justice S A Bobde said: “Four-month-old went for protest?… BJP MP Virendra sample of the patient, sent for testing at How can mothers support this!” Solicitor General Tushar Singh Mast said there are no signs of the virology institute in Alappuzha, had Mehta also said it was not right that minors like the infant recession in the country as people are able come back negative, indicating that the should be taken to the protest site. The four-month-old infant to afford jackets and pants. Addressing viral infection has worn off. However, whose parents have been protesting at Shaheen Bagh died, a programme in Ballia in Uttar Pradesh the source added that the same sample on Sunday, Mast said: “Had there been has been sent to the National Institute recession, we would have come here of Virology in Pune for a double-check. wearing dhoti and kurta and not coats This is done in conjunction with the and jackets. Had there been recession we established health department protocol. would not have purchased clothes, pants For the patient to be discharged, a third and pajamas”. “India is a country of villages swab sample has to turn up negative, and not just metros. This country not only he said. The patient, a medical student has metros like Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai who had arrived in Kerala from the virus and Kolkata but also has 6.5 lakh villages. epicentre of China’s Wuhan city, is stable coronavirus patient recovering in Kerala allegedly due to exposure to the cold, on the night of January Banking reports say that in banks, most of and doing well. Two other patients, who 29. The child’s mother, Nazia (24), said she would continue the money deposited is that of villagers,” he had tested positive for coronavirus and New Delhi, Agency. protesting. After the child’s death, National Bravery Award said. Mahatama Gandhi, Dr K B Hedgewar, are currently in Kasaragod and Alappuzha winner Zen Gunratan Sadavarte had written to the CJI’s office Syama Prasad Mookerjee and Jayaprakash hospitals, are stable as well. All three of A 20-year-old medical student from Kerala, the first urging the court to intervene to protect the rights of children Narayan had expressed confidence in them had travelled together. The health case of Novel Coronavirus in India, is recovering from the virus. The second and said making them attend protest demonstrations the villagers and helped the country gain department said Sunday that 3218 people swab sample has come back negative. However, the third sample has to be “amounts to cruelty”. She had contended that the protesters independence, he added. “If people from were still under home quarantine in the negative for her to be discharged. A team of experts led by the World Health at Shaheen Bagh include newborns and children, who are villagers had not sacrificed, India would state and another 34 people admitted Organization (WHO) left for Beijing to help investigate China’s coronavirus exposed to unfavourable conditions, thereby violating not have gotten freedom from the Mughals to various hospitals in the state. A total epidemic as the death toll climbed to 908 in the mainland, surpassing the their rights. The court expressed its displeasure over some and the Britishers,” he said. Last week in of 326 out of the 345 samples sent for number of fatalities of the SARS epidemic of 2002-03. The total number of statements made by lawyers appearing for the mother Parliament, Mos Finance Anurag Thakur testing at NiV, Pune had come back cases so far is 40,171 and the infection has spread to at least 27 countries. of the deceased child and journalist John Dayal, who said IPSsaid the officer economy was not stages in recession. sit- negative. The rest of the test results are One death each outside China has been reported from Hong Kong and the that children who participated in the protests against the pending. The test results of those who Philippines The government today eased some restrictions and workers Citizenship Amendment Act in Shaheen Bagh have been in outside home of had arrived in Kochi by a special flight began trickling back to offices and factories around China. On one of the dubbed as ‘Pakistani’ and ‘anti-nationals’ in their schools. from China’s Kunming are also negative, usually busiest subway lines in Beijing, trains were largely empty. The few “We do not want people to use this platform to further create ex-wife, also a cop the department confirmed. The most commuters sighted during peak-hour morning traffic were all wearing masks. problems…We are not considering either CAA or NRC. We are number of people under home quarantine Schools in many parts of China will be closed till February end. In India, Prime not considering the abuses like Pakistani hurled in schools, are in Malappuram district (410 people), Minister Narendra Modi Sunday offered assistance to China to deal with the the bench said, adding that it was not stifling anybody’s voice. followed by Kozhikode (386) and outbreak. In a letter addressed to Chinese President Xi Jinping, PM Modi “We are not stifling any voice. This is a properly constituted Ernakulam (379). Those who have spent expressed solidarity with the premier and also conveyed his condolences at suo motu proceedings by the Supreme Court of India,” the 28 days under home quarantine must get the unfortunate loss of lives due to the outbreak. bench said. The court also expressed concern over the in touch with doctors at the local primary Open Search continued blockade of Shaheen Bagh-Kalinidi Kunj stretch by health centre or hospital to confirm the the incubation period of the virus is considering 28 days as the minimum anti-CAA protesters, saying the people are entitled to protest completion of the safety period. Though 14 days, Kerala’s health department is period for quarantine and surveillance. but should do so in an area designated for agitation and not Bengaluru, Agency. opensearch cause inconvenience to others. An IPS officer IndiGo pilot suspended for threatening in Bengaluru staged a protest near Rahul Gandhi : It’s in DNA of BJP-RSS the house of his ex-wife, also an IPS wheelchair-bound senior citizen with jail officer, on Sunday, accusing her of not allowing him to meet their children. New Delhi, Agency. to try and erase reservations Arun Rangarajan, serving as the New Delhi, Agency. superintendent of police, Internal Security Division (ISD) -Kalaburagi, The Directorate General of Civil Aviation tribals, and OBCs have reservations,” former Congress sat on the footpath in front of Ilakkiya president was quoted as saying by news agency PTI. (DGCA) on Monday suspended a captain Hitting out at the government over the Supreme Karunakaran’s Vasanthnagar house with IndiGo airlines for three months “They (the RSS and BJP) wake up every morning from around 5:30pm till late night. Court’s ruling on reservations in jobs and and this (reservation) irritates them. for “intimidating and threatening” a promotions, Congress leader Rahul Karunakaran currently holds a DCP wheelchair-bound senior citizen on a Except it is in our Constitution, and rank. “I came to Bengaluru to attend a Gandhi Monday said that it is in the Chennai-Bengaluru flight last month, while disregarding the fact that the these rights are guaranteed by our meeting and took leave for a day to meet “DNA of the BJP and the RSS” to try news agency PTI reported.It was found elderly passenger required wheelchair Constitution,” Gandhi said. Terming my kids. But when I visited my ex-wife’s and erase reservations. “We will not during investigation that the pilot-in- assistance… The investigation found that reservation as an important part of house, unfortunately, she did not allow allow reservation to be done away command “insisted” the passengers the captain’s actions led to “avoidable the Constitution, Gandhi said that the me to meet my son and daughter. She with, no matter how much Modi Ji or the senior citizen and her daughter on detention” of a wheelchair-bound step is an “assault” on the Constitution sent women Home Guards to push me off Mohan Bhagwat dream of it,” Gandhi tendering an apology. The duo were passenger,” the official added. Taking to of the country. “All institutions are the premises,” Arun Rangarajan told the said while speaking to reporters detained for about 75 minutes after Twitter, Nair had said that on landing at being destroyed, we are not allowed media.