NATION pg DECCAN CHRONICLE | HYDERABAD | TUESDAY | 11 FEBRUARY 2020 9 IN BRIEF Minister details steps by Ram temple trust to meet on Feb. 19 India to prevent nCov Allahabad: Ram Janm- abhoomi Teertha Kshetra will DC CORRESPONDENT and land crossings to discuss the construction of a with agency inputs detect and prevent possi- INDIA’S 1ST nCOV temple in Ayodhya during its NEW DELHI, FEB. 10 ble carriers of the coron- first meeting in Delhi on avirus. CASE IN KERALA February 19, said trust mem- Union health minister Dr “In view of a confirmed ber Swami Vasudevanand Harsh Vardhan on Mo- case in Nepal, govern- Saraswati here on Monday. nday informed the Lok ment has initiated screen- TURNS NEGATIVE The Centre had constituted Sabha that the Indian gov- ing at all integrated check an independent 15-member ernment is taking strong posts from Nepal in col- DC CORRESPONDENT trust last week to oversee measures to prevent the laboration with states of THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, the construction of a Ram spread of Novel coron- UP, Uttarakhand, West FEB. 10 temple in Ayodhya. The avirus (2019 n-CoV) in Bengal, Sikkim and Bihar announcement was made by India. and Seema Shastra Bal The latest laboratory Prime Minister Narendra He stated that 1,818 (SSB) and Land Port result of country’s first Modi in the Lok Sabha. flights covering 1,97,192 Authorities,” the minister novel Coronavirus patient Saraswati said they will also passengers were already said. has been found to be nega- discuss the inclusion of Shri screened apart from tight “All the positive cases in tive. The samples of the Ram Mandir Nyas chief vigil on seas and land India have travel history patient, a medical student Mahant Nritya Gopal Das in ports. The minister added from Wuhan, China. They from Wuhan China, who the trust. that 369 symptomatic trav- have been isolated and are is currently admitted to ellers were referred to iso- reported to be clinically isolation ward of Thri- lation facilities and are stable,” the minister said. ssur Medical College was Killer wife gets being monitored. He further said that found negative after tests In a suo motu statement, National Institute of at the virology institute. jail after 9 years Dr Harsh Vardhan said Virology, Pune is the The government on Sun- New Delhi: A Delhi court has that regular surveillance nodal laboratory conduct- day had announced the awarded life imprisonment has also been initiated ing tests. result of the fifth sample to the wife of a restaurant A woman shows a damaged house after heavy shelling from the Pakistan side, in Mendhar Sector of Poonch dis- across the country for all “As part of ICMR’s pre- sent for lab examination. owner and two others for trict, on Monday. — PTI those who had a travel his- paredness for emerging/ The result of remaining killing him in West Delhi's tory from China and for re-emerging infectious sample which was sent to Moti Nagar area in 2011. people having come into disease, NIV, Pune has National Institute of Additional Sessions Judge contact with such persons established capacity for Virology (NIV) on Febr- Samar Vishal awarded life and having fever, cough or molecular diagnosis of uary 8, is awaited. If that imprisonment to Arvinder breathlessness. nCoV. Next generation test is also found to be Kaur, Sant Saran Nehra and Second envoys’ tour to Through Integrated sequencing is also estab- negative then the patient Mridul Dixit for murdering Disease Surveillance net- lished. Testing of will be discharged from Virender Sachdeva by inflict- work, all such persons are clinical samples has also the hospital. The student ing about 55 stab injuries on tracked and the govern- been initiated in 11 more was admitted to the med- him. The court also imposed ment is presently keeping laboratories. As of now ical college on January 30. a fine of `2 lakh on each of a tab on 9,452 passengers 1,510 samples have been Apart from the Thrissur the convicts. The court had see ‘normal’ J&K soon across 29 States/UTs in tested and 1,507 samples patient, Kerala had convicted the trio under sec- the country. were found negative, 3 reported a positive case tions 302 (murder), 201 (dis- He added that screening samples have tested posi- each in Alappuzha and appearance of evidence or EU members, West Asian nations to be part of visit of passengers is also tive and 27 samples are Kasargod respectively. giving false information), going on at 12 major sea- under process,” Dr Harsh These are the only posi- 120-B (criminal conspiracy) DC CORRESPONDENT ports and all minor ports, Vardhan said. tive cases in India so far. of the Indian Penal Code NEW DELHI, FEB. 10 (IPC). In another move to further Omar’s sister moves SC convince the internation- Hardik Patel is al community that the sit- missing, says wife uation in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) is return- challenging PSA detention Ahmedabad: Gujarat ing to complete normalcy, Congress leader and Patidar the Union Government DC CORRESPONDENT instructions of the Centre Recounting the public quota agitation spearhead will take a second batch of NEW DELHI, FEB. 10 and the state administra- service rendered by Omar Hardik Patel is untraceable foreign envoys “from dif- tion following the abroga- as CM and as a Union min- since January 18 when he ferent geographical reg- The Supreme Court on tion of Article 370 and the ister, the petition says, “It was arrested in a 2015 sedi- ions” to J&K this week, Monday agreed to hear the bifurcation of the state is rare that those who tion case, his wife Kinjal said possibly on Thursday. plea by Sara Abdullah into Union Territories. have served the nation as on Monday. Patel, who is fac- According to some Pilot — sister of former Sara in her petition has MPs, CMs, ministers in ing sedition cases related to reports, envoys from J&K chief minister Omar contended that there could the Union and have also the 2015 Patidar quota agi- European Union-member Abdullah — challenging not be any mew material stood by the national aspi- tation, was arrested on nations as well as West her brother’s detention for further detaining a rations of India are per- January 18 this year after a Asian countries may be under Public Safety Act. person who is already ceived as a threat.” court here issued a non-bail- part of the group this A top court bench head- under detention for six It further says, “It is able warrant for not being time. According to other ed by Justice N.V. Ramana months. She has also therefore of the utmost present during hearing. He reports, the foreign agreed to listing of the sought quashing of the importance and of the was granted bail four days envoys may also be taken plea by Sara Abdullah February 5, 2020, order utmost urgency that this later but was again picked to Budgam in the Kashmir upon a mentioning by sen- detaining Omar Abdullah court protects not only the up in connection with two valley this time. ior counsel Kapil Sibal under the PSA. Describing individual’s Right to Life other cases filed in Patan It may be recalled that seeking an urgent listing. the detention as “illegal”, and Liberty but also pro- MP right to water law soon and Gandhinagar districts. the first batch of foreign Omar Abdullah, his Sara Abdullah in her peti- tects the essence of envoys from 15 nations father and former J&K tion says, “The grounds Article 21 which is the cor- DC CORRESPONDENT field, on Tuesday, sources water envisages provision were taken around on chief minister Farooq for the detention order are nerstone of Part III of the BHOPAL, FEB. 10 in chief minister’s office of at least 55 litres of Pilot suspended for January 9 and 10, It, how- Abdullah and other senior wholly lacking any mate- Constitution, a violation (CMO) said on Monday. drinking water per family ever, did not consist of Kashmiri leaders are rial facts or particulars of which is anathema to In the ensuing budget ses- The state government has in the urban areas. threatening elder anyone from either the under detention since which are imperative for all that a democratic sion of Madhya Pradesh convened a meeting of The state government New Delhi: Aviation regula- EU-member nations or August 5, 2019, under the an order of detention.” nation stands for.” assembly, the Kamal Nath experts to give a final plans to renovate the tra- tor DGCA on Monday sus- West Asia. government is all set to shape to the draft bill. ditional water bodies in pended an IndiGo captain Government sources ■ LAST MONTH, 15 bring in legislation on The state government is the state such as ponds for three months for “intimi- said on Monday, “Since access to water a funda- planning to implement and lakes for the purpose. dating and threatening” a the last visit of Envoys, we envoys from United mental right. right to water in the The state government is wheelchair-bound senior cit- have received several MP Lone’s son States, South Korea, MP would be the first urban areas in MP in the going to launch a project izen in a Chennai-Bengaluru requests from Ambas- Vietnam, Bangl-adesh, Fiji, state in the country to first phase and bring the to ensure piped water to flight on January 13, an offi- sadors to visit the Union Maldives, Norway, bring in such legislation. rural belt under its each household in the cial said.