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A s many as 73 people per 10,000 population could have “exposure” to coranavirus in the country as per an immunological survey, one of the largest in the world, con- ducted by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) in 83 non-containment zone dis- tricts across 15 States in the country. Official claimed that the number is in the lower side but the danger of spread of the dis- ease in a bigger way still lurks. ICMR Director General Dr Balram Bhargava warned that as per the survey a large pro- portion of the population is susceptible and infection can spread rapidly even as he denied that India is witnessing community transmission of the deadly virus. The findings showed that infection in 15 containment zones districts was high with significant variations. Explaining the data, Dr Bhargava said, “Around 0.73 per cent people in the 83 dis- tricts we studied showed preva- lence of past exposure to the SARS-CoV-2 virus which means the lockdown in initial days kept the disease low and checked a rapid viral spread. “The survey findings also show large proportions of pop- ulation are still susceptible to the virus. However, good news is that infection fatality rate in the 83 districts was very low at 0.08 per cent.” Based on the sero-surveil- lance (blood sample based study), the ICMR warned that urban slums were found to be the most at risk with 1.85 times higher Covid-19 preva- lence than rural areas while urban centres reported a preva- lence that was 1.09 times high- er than in villages. The virus prevalence was the lowest in rural areas. The sample for the study consisted of 26,400 people across 28,595 households in 83 districts. A sero-survey is conduct- ed by testing the blood serum of a group of people in a com- munity to detect the presence of antibodies in the system which aids in finding out the prevalence of a disease. This testing allows the health authorities to study the trend of the infection and ascertain if it has reached the community transmission phase. Pointing to low Covid prevalence, Bhargava also said there is no community trans- mission of the disease in India. Bhargava said the way for- ward was strict adherence to non-pharmacological inter- ventions like physical distanc- ing, masks and face covers, res- piratory and hand hygiene. Also, he said high risk groups i.e. elderly, chronic morbidities, pregnant women and children less than 10 years old of age need to be protected. “Infection in containment zones has been found to be high, and therefore, local lock- down measures need to con- tinue. Efforts to limit the scale and spread of the disease will have to be continued by strong implementation of contain- ment strategies by the States. The States cannot lower their guard and need to keep on implementing effective sur- veillance and containment strategies,” he said. De VK Paul, member health, NITI Aayog, added, “Less than 1 per cent people had past infection as shown by the survey which presents the picture till April 30. The survey was done in the third week of May and normally antibodies take 15 days to appear.” Asserting that India’s fatal- ities and cases were compara- tively less than various coun- tries, he said India was show- ing clearly low mortality rate and recoveries had now touched 49.12 per cent with more people cured than cur- rently infected. Bhargava also said there was ample testing capacity in the country at two lakh samples a day and it remained under- utilised. He urged States to ramp up testing. He said the sero-surveys were conducted in two parts, and the first part comprising a fraction of the general popula- tion, who had contracted Sars- Cov-2, had been completed. The sero-survey conduct- ed using both anti-body/instant test and the lengthier RT-PCR test, to detect current virus car- riers and also those who recov- ered after contracting the dis- ease were started by ICMR in May 2020, in collaboration with state health departments, NCDC, and the World Health Organisation (WHO). A fter three of its MLAs deserted the party in Gujarat, the Congress on Thursday alleged attempts are now being made to topple its Government in Rajasthan through “money power”, ahead of the Rajya Sabha polls due on June 19. Sources said the party has moved all its MLAs to a resort on the Delhi-Jaipur highway. Rajasthan is also hosting a group of Congress MLAs from Gujarat, brought allegedly to keep them out of the BJP’s reach. In March, the Congress Government in Madhya Pradesh collapsed after 22 MLAs defected to the BJP. In July last year, the party similarly lost power to the BJP in Karnataka, the State it was rul- ing in alliance with HD Kumaraswamy, after multiple exits. The crisis in the State Congress ahead of the June 19 Rajya Sabha elections could be related to the party’s internal politics, a senior Congress leader said. However, with the first signs of trouble in the State on Wednesday, the Congress sent its chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala to Jaipur by a special chartered flight to reach out to the party MLAs. Surjewala was appointed an observer earlier and had been to Jaipur once before but the latest developments have lent a sense of urgency in the Congress camp. A senior Congress leader claimed the crisis was a “man- ufactured one”, aimed at “pro- jecting some leaders as saviours while showing others as work- ing against the party. W hile Indian Institute of Science (IISC) Bangalore is ranked the best university in India, Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) are among the top 10 universities in the country, according to the NIRF rankings released by the HRD Ministry on Thursday. As per the annual rankings, the top three universities are IISc Bangalore, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Banaras Hindu University. Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham emerged as the 4th best uni- versity in the country and 7th among medical colleges cate- gory in India. Delhi University (DU) marginally improved its rank- ing among the universities and in the “Overall” category. However, it is behind the JMI in both categories in the annu- al rankings announcement delayed by Covid-19. N epal’s Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has said that his Government will seek a solution to the Kalapani issue through diplomatic efforts and dialogue on the basis of his- torical facts and documents. “We will get back the land occupied by India through holding a dialogue,” Oli said while responding to questions in Parliament on Wednesday. He claimed that India built a Kali temple, created “an arti- ficial Kali river” and “encroached the Nepalese ter- ritory through deploying the Army” at Kalapani. The river defines the border between the two countries. Oli’s claim comes in midst of a raging boundary row between the two countries with India sternly asking Nepal not to resort to any “artificial enlargement” of territorial claims after Kathmandu released a new political map laying claim over Lipulekh, Kalapani and Limpiyadhura. The ties between India and Nepal came under strain after Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated a 80-km- long strategically crucial road connecting the Lipulekh pass with Dharchula in Uttarakhand on May 8. Nepal reacted sharply to the inauguration of the road claiming that it passed through Nepalese territory. India reject- ed the claim asserting that the road lies completely within its territory. Nepalese officials say that Nepal had control over the area before 1962, when the India-China war took place. New Delhi/Islamabad: The Indian Government on Thursday derided Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan after he tweeted “nearly 34 per cent households across India would not be able to sur- vive for more than a week with- out assistance.” Imran was not only mocked widely by Indians and Pakistanis on social media, but the official spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs, Anurag Srivastava, too took a jibe at Pakistan. “Pakistan is better known for making cash transfers to bank accounts outside the country rather than giving to its own people. Clearly, Imran Khan needs a new set of advisers and better information,” he said. Srivastava said all know about Pakistan’s debt problem, which is almost 90 per cent of its GDP, and how much they have pressed for debt restruc- turing. He said, “It would also be better for them to remem- ber that India has a stimulus package, which is as large as Pakistan’s annual GDP.” Khan has claimed that his government in Pakistan has transferred about $1 billion to at least 10 million families within nine weeks through what he calls a successful and transparent process. IANS I ndia raced to the fourth spot in the world’s list of worst coronavirus affected nations after it left behind the United Kingdom by more than 7,000 cases on Thurday. Now only the USA, Brazil and Russia are ahead of India in terms of overall numbers. During the day India recorded 10,677 new cases and 390 deaths, which took its overall count of positive cases to 2,97,832 and death toll to 8,498. Once again, Maharashtra, Delhi, Tamil Nadu and Gujarat were among the top contribu- tors both in terms of new cases and death. Both Maharashtra and Delhi recorded another day of the biggest single-day spike as situation looked alarm- ing in both the States. Maharashtra reported 3,607 fresh coronavirus cases and 152 deaths taking the total number of cases in the State to 97,648 and deaths to 3,590. Of the total deaths reported on Thursday, 35 are from the last two days and the rest are from April 1 to June 8. Mumbai reported 1,540 fresh Covid-19 cases and 97 deaths. The total number of cases in the city now stands at 53,985 and deaths at 1,952. Of the 97 deaths reported on Thursday, 43 occurred before June 7. Meanwhile, Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope ordered the suspension of the Dean and four other employ- ees of the Jalgaon Civil Hospital in north Maharashtra, after a shocking incident in which an 82-year-old female Covid-19 patient was found dead in the toilet of the hospital. Delhi also reported the highest single-day spike, adding 1,877 more Covid-19 cases and 65 deaths. Total number of cases in the national Capital is now at 34,687, including 20,871 active cases, 12,731 recov- ered/discharged/migrated and 1,085 deaths. In Tamil Nadu, while 1,875 people tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday, the State also saw 23 patients suc- cumbing to the pandemic on a single day taking death toll to 349. The release issued by the Government of Tamil Nadu said till Thursday 38, 716 peo- ple have tested positive for the pandemic in the State. The release also said 1,372 patients were discharged on Thursday from hospitals fully cured. This took the number of people fully cured from the pandemic to 20,705. A fresh war of words has erupted between the Delhi Government and BJP-ruled municipal Corporations over number of Covid-19 related deaths in Delhi. All three civic bodies claimed that they have cre- mated 2,098 Covid-19 bodies. However, Delhi Government’s health bulletin claimed 1,085 people have died of coron- avirus till Thursday. Replying to the civic bod- ies’ claim, the Delhi Government said it has set up a “death audit committee” consisting of senior doctors who are working impartially towards assessing deaths caused by coronavirus. The Delhi High Court has also declared that the Death Audit Committee is working in an appropriate manner and that the work of the commit- tee cannot be questioned. The Government said it believes that not even a single life must be lost to coron- avirus. Accusing the AAP Government of “misleading” people by hiding actual num- ber, Leader of House in South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) Kamaljeet Sehrawat said the SDMC has alone con- ducted 1,123 cremations excluding deaths suspected due to Covid-19 across cre- matoriums and graveyards in the city in which 66 bodies were cremated on Wednesday. Noida: The director of a Government-run hospital, one of the seven facilities that had denied admission to a pregnant woman leading to her death last week, has been shunted out, an official order said on Thursday. Dr. Anish Singhal, Director of the ESIC Hospital in Noida, Sector 24, has been transferred with “immediate effect” to the ESIC’s Directorate (Medical) in Delhi, the order stated. A day after China said there was “positive consensus” to “ease” the situation at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Eastern Ladakh, India on Thursday echoed same senti- ments and said both the coun- tries are maintaining diplo- matic and military engage- ments to resolve the stand-off at the earliest. Making this observation against the backdrop of both the Armies mutually disen- gaging from the face-off sites and military commanders holding extensive talks, the External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said both sides have agreed to work for an early res- olution to the issue in keeping with broader guidance provid- ed by the leaders of the two countries for ensuring peace and tranquility along the bor- der areas. He, however, did not respond to questions relating to reports of pulling back of troops by both India and China from certain friction points in the Galwan Valley and Hot Spring areas in eastern Ladakh in the last few days. “A meeting was held between Corps commanders of India and China on June 6. This meeting was in continu- ation of our diplomatic and military engagement which both sides maintained in order to address the situation in areas along the India-China border,” the spokesperson said. He was referring to parleys between Lt General Harinder Singh and Major General Liu Lin. “It was agreed in the meet- ing that an early resolution of the situation would be in keep- ing with the guidance of our leaders. The two sides are, therefore, maintaining mili- tary and diplomatic engage- ments to peacefully resolve the situation at the earliest and also to ensure peace and tranquili- ty in the border areas,” he said. “This is essential for fur- ther development of India- China bilateral relations,” Srivastava added. The assertion from New Delhi came after the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Hua Chunying said on Wednesday in Beijing, “Recently the diplomatic and military channels of China and India held effective communi- cation on the situation along the border and reached a pos- itive consensus and the two sides are following this con- sensus to take actions to ease the situation along the border.” Asked about troops on both sides disengaging and moving back to their previous positions, she said both sides are taking steps to ease the sit- uation along the LAC. During their military-level talks on June 6, India and China agreed to follow the broad decisions taken by their leaders in the Wuhan summit in 2018 to ensure peace and tranquility along the LAC.

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As many as 73 people per10,000 population could

have “exposure” to coranavirusin the country as per animmunological survey, one ofthe largest in the world, con-ducted by the Indian Councilof Medical Research (ICMR) in83 non-containment zone dis-tricts across 15 States in thecountry.

Official claimed that thenumber is in the lower side butthe danger of spread of the dis-ease in a bigger way still lurks.ICMR Director General DrBalram Bhargava warned thatas per the survey a large pro-portion of the population issusceptible and infection canspread rapidly even as hedenied that India is witnessingcommunity transmission ofthe deadly virus.

The findings showed thatinfection in 15 containment

zones districts was high withsignificant variations.

Explaining the data, DrBhargava said, “Around 0.73per cent people in the 83 dis-tricts we studied showed preva-lence of past exposure to theSARS-CoV-2 virus whichmeans the lockdown in initialdays kept the disease low andchecked a rapid viral spread.

“The survey findings alsoshow large proportions of pop-ulation are still susceptible tothe virus. However, good newsis that infection fatality rate inthe 83 districts was very low at0.08 per cent.”

Based on the sero-surveil-lance (blood sample basedstudy), the ICMR warned thaturban slums were found to bethe most at risk with 1.85times higher Covid-19 preva-lence than rural areas whileurban centres reported a preva-lence that was 1.09 times high-er than in villages.

The virus prevalence wasthe lowest in rural areas. Thesample for the study consistedof 26,400 people across 28,595

households in 83 districts.A sero-survey is conduct-

ed by testing the blood serumof a group of people in a com-

munity to detect the presenceof antibodies in the systemwhich aids in finding out theprevalence of a disease. This

testing allows the healthauthorities to study the trend ofthe infection and ascertain if ithas reached the community

transmission phase. Pointing to low Covid

prevalence, Bhargava also saidthere is no community trans-mission of the disease in India.

Bhargava said the way for-ward was strict adherence tonon-pharmacological inter-ventions like physical distanc-ing, masks and face covers, res-piratory and hand hygiene.

Also, he said high riskgroups i.e. elderly, chronicmorbidities, pregnant womenand children less than 10 yearsold of age need to be protected.

“Infection in containmentzones has been found to behigh, and therefore, local lock-down measures need to con-tinue. Efforts to limit the scaleand spread of the disease willhave to be continued by strongimplementation of contain-ment strategies by the States.The States cannot lower theirguard and need to keep onimplementing effective sur-veillance and containmentstrategies,” he said.

De VK Paul, memberhealth, NITI Aayog, added,“Less than 1 per cent peoplehad past infection as shown bythe survey which presents the

picture till April 30. The surveywas done in the third week ofMay and normally antibodiestake 15 days to appear.”

Asserting that India’s fatal-ities and cases were compara-tively less than various coun-tries, he said India was show-ing clearly low mortality rateand recoveries had nowtouched 49.12 per cent withmore people cured than cur-rently infected.

Bhargava also said therewas ample testing capacity inthe country at two lakh samplesa day and it remained under-utilised. He urged States toramp up testing.

He said the sero-surveyswere conducted in two parts,and the first part comprising afraction of the general popula-tion, who had contracted Sars-Cov-2, had been completed.

The sero-survey conduct-ed using both anti-body/instanttest and the lengthier RT-PCRtest, to detect current virus car-riers and also those who recov-ered after contracting the dis-ease were started by ICMR inMay 2020, in collaborationwith state health departments,NCDC, and the World HealthOrganisation (WHO).

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After three of its MLAsdeserted the party in

Gujarat, the Congress onThursday alleged attempts arenow being made to topple itsGovernment in Rajasthanthrough “money power”, aheadof the Rajya Sabha polls due onJune 19. Sources said the partyhas moved all its MLAs to aresort on the Delhi-Jaipurhighway.

Rajasthan is also hosting agroup of Congress MLAs fromGujarat, brought allegedly tokeep them out of the BJP’sreach.

In March, the CongressGovernment in MadhyaPradesh collapsed after 22MLAs defected to the BJP. In

July last year, the party similarlylost power to the BJP inKarnataka, the State it was rul-ing in alliance with HDKumaraswamy, after multipleexits.

The crisis in the StateCongress ahead of the June 19Rajya Sabha elections could berelated to the party’s internalpolitics, a senior Congressleader said.

However, with the firstsigns of trouble in the State onWednesday, the Congress sentits chief spokesperson RandeepSurjewala to Jaipur by a specialchartered flight to reach out tothe party MLAs. Surjewala wasappointed an observer earlierand had been to Jaipur oncebefore but the latest developments have lent a senseof urgency in the Congresscamp.

A senior Congress leaderclaimed the crisis was a “man-ufactured one”, aimed at “pro-jecting some leaders as saviourswhile showing others as work-ing against the party.

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While Indian Institute ofScience (IISC) Bangalore

is ranked the best university inIndia, Jamia Millia Islamia(JMI) and Jawaharlal NehruUniversity (JNU) are amongthe top 10 universities in thecountry, according to the NIRF rankings released bythe HRD Ministry onThursday.

As per the annual rankings,the top three universities areIISc Bangalore, JawaharlalNehru University and BanarasHindu University. AmritaVishwa Vidyapeethamemerged as the 4th best uni-versity in the country and 7thamong medical colleges cate-gory in India.

Delhi University (DU)marginally improved its rank-ing among the universities andin the “Overall” category.However, it is behind the JMIin both categories in the annu-al rankings announcementdelayed by Covid-19.

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Nepal’s Prime Minister KPSharma Oli has said that

his Government will seek asolution to the Kalapani issuethrough diplomatic efforts anddialogue on the basis of his-torical facts and documents.

“We will get back the landoccupied by India throughholding a dialogue,” Oli saidwhile responding to questionsin Parliament on Wednesday.

He claimed that India builta Kali temple, created “an arti-ficial Kali river” and“encroached the Nepalese ter-ritory through deploying theArmy” at Kalapani. The riverdefines the border between

the two countries.Oli’s claim comes in midst

of a raging boundary rowbetween the two countries withIndia sternly asking Nepal notto resort to any “artificialenlargement” of territorialclaims after Kathmandu

released a new political maplaying claim over Lipulekh,Kalapani and Limpiyadhura.

The ties between India andNepal came under strain afterDefence Minister RajnathSingh inaugurated a 80-km-long strategically crucial roadconnecting the Lipulekh passwith Dharchula in Uttarakhandon May 8.

Nepal reacted sharply tothe inauguration of the roadclaiming that it passed throughNepalese territory. India reject-ed the claim asserting that theroad lies completely within itsterritory. Nepalese officials saythat Nepal had control over thearea before 1962, when theIndia-China war took place.

New Delhi/Islamabad: TheIndian Government onThursday derided Pakistan’sPrime Minister Imran Khanafter he tweeted “nearly 34per cent households acrossIndia would not be able to sur-vive for more than a week with-out assistance.”

Imran was not onlymocked widely by Indians andPakistanis on social media,but the official spokesperson ofthe Ministry of ExternalAffairs, Anurag Srivastava, tootook a jibe at Pakistan.“Pakistan is better known formaking cash transfers to bankaccounts outside the countryrather than giving to its own

people. Clearly, Imran Khanneeds a new set of advisers andbetter information,” he said.

Srivastava said all knowabout Pakistan’s debt problem,which is almost 90 per cent ofits GDP, and how much theyhave pressed for debt restruc-turing. He said, “It would alsobe better for them to remem-ber that India has a stimuluspackage, which is as large asPakistan’s annual GDP.”

Khan has claimed that hisgovernment in Pakistan hastransferred about $1 billion toat least 10 million familieswithin nine weeks throughwhat he calls a successful andtransparent process. IANS

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India raced to the fourth spotin the world’s list of worst

coronavirus affected nationsafter it left behind the UnitedKingdom by more than 7,000cases on Thurday.

Now only the USA, Braziland Russia are ahead of India in terms of overall numbers.

During the day Indiarecorded 10,677 new cases and390 deaths, which took itsoverall count of positive casesto 2,97,832 and death toll to8,498.

Once again, Maharashtra,Delhi, Tamil Nadu and Gujaratwere among the top contribu-tors both in terms of new casesand death. Both Maharashtraand Delhi recorded anotherday of the biggest single-dayspike as situation looked alarm-ing in both the States.

Maharashtra reported3,607 fresh coronavirus casesand 152 deaths taking the totalnumber of cases in the State to97,648 and deaths to 3,590. Ofthe total deaths reported onThursday, 35 are from the lasttwo days and the rest are fromApril 1 to June 8.

Mumbai reported 1,540fresh Covid-19 cases and 97deaths. The total number ofcases in the city now stands at53,985 and deaths at 1,952. Ofthe 97 deaths reported onThursday, 43 occurred beforeJune 7.

Meanwhile, MaharashtraHealth Minister Rajesh Topeordered the suspension of theDean and four other employ-ees of the Jalgaon Civil Hospitalin north Maharashtra, after ashocking incident in which an82-year-old female Covid-19patient was found dead in thetoilet of the hospital.

Delhi also reported thehighest single-day spike, adding1,877 more Covid-19 casesand 65 deaths. Total number ofcases in the national Capital isnow at 34,687, including 20,871active cases, 12,731 recov-ered/discharged/migrated and1,085 deaths.

In Tamil Nadu, while 1,875people tested positive forCovid-19 on Thursday, theState also saw 23 patients suc-cumbing to the pandemic on asingle day taking death toll to349.

The release issued by theGovernment of Tamil Nadusaid till Thursday 38, 716 peo-ple have tested positive for thepandemic in the State. Therelease also said 1,372 patientswere discharged on Thursdayfrom hospitals fully cured. Thistook the number of people fullycured from the pandemic to20,705.

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Afresh war of words haserupted between the Delhi

Government and BJP-ruledmunicipal Corporations overnumber of Covid-19 relateddeaths in Delhi.

All three civic bodiesclaimed that they have cre-mated 2,098 Covid-19 bodies.However, Delhi Government’shealth bulletin claimed 1,085people have died of coron-avirus till Thursday.

Replying to the civic bod-ies’ claim, the DelhiGovernment said it has set upa “death audit committee”consisting of senior doctorswho are working impartiallytowards assessing deathscaused by coronavirus.

The Delhi High Court hasalso declared that the DeathAudit Committee is workingin an appropriate manner andthat the work of the commit-tee cannot be questioned.

The Government said itbelieves that not even a singlelife must be lost to coron-

avirus. Accusing the AAP

Government of “misleading”people by hiding actual num-ber, Leader of House in SouthDelhi Municipal Corporation(SDMC) Kamaljeet Sehrawatsaid the SDMC has alone con-ducted 1,123 cremationsexcluding deaths suspecteddue to Covid-19 across cre-matoriums and graveyards inthe city in which 66 bodies were cremated onWednesday.

Noida: The director of aGovernment-run hospital, oneof the seven facilities that haddenied admission to a pregnantwoman leading to her deathlast week, has been shunted out,an official order said onThursday. Dr. Anish Singhal,Director of the ESIC Hospitalin Noida, Sector 24, has beentransferred with “immediateeffect” to the ESIC’s Directorate(Medical) in Delhi, the orderstated.

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Aday after China said therewas “positive consensus” to

“ease” the situation at the Lineof Actual Control (LAC) inEastern Ladakh, India onThursday echoed same senti-ments and said both the coun-tries are maintaining diplo-matic and military engage-ments to resolve the stand-offat the earliest.

Making this observationagainst the backdrop of boththe Armies mutually disen-gaging from the face-off sitesand military commandersholding extensive talks, theExternal Affairs Ministryspokesperson AnuragSrivastava said both sides haveagreed to work for an early res-olution to the issue in keepingwith broader guidance provid-ed by the leaders of the twocountries for ensuring peaceand tranquility along the bor-der areas.

He, however, did notrespond to questions relating toreports of pulling back oftroops by both India and Chinafrom certain friction points inthe Galwan Valley and HotSpring areas in eastern Ladakhin the last few days.

“A meeting was heldbetween Corps commanders ofIndia and China on June 6.

This meeting was in continu-ation of our diplomatic andmilitary engagement whichboth sides maintained in orderto address the situation inareas along the India-Chinaborder,” the spokesperson said.He was referring to parleysbetween Lt General HarinderSingh and Major General LiuLin.

“It was agreed in the meet-ing that an early resolution ofthe situation would be in keep-ing with the guidance of ourleaders. The two sides are,therefore, maintaining mili-tary and diplomatic engage-ments to peacefully resolve thesituation at the earliest and alsoto ensure peace and tranquili-ty in the border areas,” he said.

“This is essential for fur-ther development of India-China bilateral relations,”Srivastava added.

The assertion from New

Delhi came after the ChineseMinistry of Foreign AffairsHua Chunying said onWednesday in Beijing,“Recently the diplomatic andmilitary channels of China andIndia held effective communi-cation on the situation alongthe border and reached a pos-itive consensus and the twosides are following this con-sensus to take actions to ease the situation along theborder.”

Asked about troops onboth sides disengaging andmoving back to their previouspositions, she said both sidesare taking steps to ease the sit-uation along the LAC.

During their military-leveltalks on June 6, India andChina agreed to follow thebroad decisions taken by theirleaders in the Wuhan summitin 2018 to ensure peace andtranquility along the LAC.

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For the second consecutiveday on Thursday,

Maharashtra notched newrecords on the Covid-19 front,as it recorded as many as 152deaths and 3,607 others test-ed positive in various parts ofthe state.

A day after 149 morepeople died of Covid-19 and3254 others tested positive forthe pandemic in various partsof the State, coronavirusclaimed 152 lives and left3,607 others infected. Withthe fresh deaths and infec-tions, the total number ofdeaths in Maharashtramounted to 3,590, while thetotal infected cases jumped to97,648.

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Maharashtra’s embat-tled Chief Minister

Uddhav Thackeray saidhere on Thursday that if hehad not become a ChiefMinister he would havebeen an artist and that hewas now holding the posi-tion just because he was anartist.

Speaking at the inau-gural function of HSNCCluster University – a PPPinitiative of the HyderabadSind National Collegiate(HSNC) Board and theMaharashtra Government,Uddhav said: “If I had notbecome Chief Minister, Iwould have become anartist. In fact, I am ChiefMinister because I am anartist”.

Uddhav, who is cur-rently engaged in a mostchallenging battle againstCovid-19, said art was an

essential component of life.“Art makes learning plea-surable and delightful.Knowledge is as essentialrequirement of life. Hence,imparting education mustbe continued using tech-nological tools even duringcalamity situations”.

Earlier, GovernorBhagat Singh Koshyari –inaugurating the HSNCCluster University throughvideo-conferencing --urged the educational insti-tutions to lay stress oninnovation and incubation.He said that educationalinstitutions would have tocombine innovation andincubation with researchand invention to becomecenters of excellence.

The Governor compli-mented the HSNC Boardfor forming the cluster uni-versity comprising of theKC College, HR Collegeand the Bombay Teachers’Training College.

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While 1,875 persons testedpositive for coronavirus

disease on Thursday in TamilNadu, the State also saw 23patients succumbing to the pan-demic on a single day takingdeath toll to 349.

The release issued by theGovernment of Tamil Nadusaid that till Thursday 38, 716persons have tested positive forthe pandemic in the State. Therelease also said that 1,372patients were discharged onThursday from hospitals fullycured. This took the number ofpersons fully cured from thepandemic to 20,705.

Out of the 1,875 personstested positive for Covid onThursday, 1,406 were fromChennai, said the release. A totalof 27, 398 persons have beentested positive in GreaterChennai Municipal Corporationtill date. The alarming increase

in the number of covid cases inChennai made the Madras HighCourt ask the State Governmenton Thursday the feasibility ofordering a complete lockdownin the capital city for somemore time.

Justices Vineeth Kothariand R Suresh Kumar, whilehearing a petition asked theGovernment pleader what werethe steps taken by the StateGovernment to contain thespread of the pandemic. “Thesituation is grave as the numberof cases is steeply raising and thesituation has become alarm-ing,” said the judges.

“We want to know whetherthe Government has devised anyspecial scheme, which includescomplete lockdown or curfew tocontain the spread in Chennaiand surrounding areas for some-time,” the judges askedGovernment pleader VJayaprakash Narayan during thevirtual court proceedings afterconcluding listed cases.

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Though Tamil Nadu isunder the grip of coron-

avirus pandemic which isspreading its wings on anhourly basis, it has not deterredthe Dravidian Governmentfrom going backwards from itsavowed intent of ‘Tamilising’the State. As part of makingTamil Nadu into an all Tamilprovince, the EdappadiPalaniswamy Government hasordered that names of 1,018places would be changed totheir original Tamil forms.

The official version is that

the names have been changedin accordance with how theyare exactly pronounced inTamil. A Committee had beenappointed by the PalaniswamyGovernment to study and sug-gest how to change the namesin accordance with how theyare exactly pronounced inTamil.

Gone are names likeEgmore, Triplicane,Coimbatore, Vellore andGuindy Park. The new name ofEgmore is Ezhumboor whichhas shocked Indologists like DrNanditha Krishna, who isproud of her Tamil lineage andculture.

“Even long-time residentsof Egmore would not haveheard the name Ezhumboor,the name of a village in thethen Chola empire. Thosedays it was known as ElumburNadu but the region becamefamous as Egmore. I don’tknow how people will tellauto drivers and cabbies totake them to Ezhumboor,”said Dr Krishna while speak-ing to The Pioneer.

Egmore is not the onlyfamous place to undergo aname change. Coimbatore, thetextile and engineering indus-try headquarters will be knownhereafter as Koyampuththoor.

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As many as 8,465 Indians have so far returned toMumbai from various parts of the world by 55

“Vande Bharat Abhiyan” special flights organised bythe Union Government.

Of the 8,465 Indians who arrived in the metrop-olis from various countries till Thursday, 2,488 peo-ple are from Mumbai, while 2,918 are from differentparts of Maharashtra and the remaining 3,059 are fromother states of the country. More number of Indianswill arrive in Mumbai by another 50 special flightstill July 1.

The Indians have so far arrived by Vande BharatAbhiyan” special flights in Mumbai from countrieslike Great Britain, Singapore, Philippines, UnitedStates, Bangladesh, Kuwait, Ethiopia, Afghanistan,Oman, South Africa, Indonesia, Netherland, Japan,Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Tanzania, Spain, Ireland , Qutar,Hong Kong, Kazakhstan, Mauritius, Brazil, Thailand,Kenya, Miami, Vietnam, Italy, Sweden and Ethiopia.

Of the returnees, those from Mumbai are beingkept in institutional quarantine for a period of 14 daysin hotels across Mumbai, while the returnees fromother parts of Maharashtra and other states are beingkept in institutional quarantine till such they get e-passes from their respective district authorities or the State Governments, to head to theirhomes.

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Prime Minister NarendraModi’s “look east” and pro-

jute policies provoked a unan-imous criticism from theBengal political outfits whichquestioned the timing of hiscomments and wondered whatprevented him from aggres-sively backing the State’s econ-omy during the past six yearsof his rule.

Hitting out at the Prime

Minister for making poll-ori-ented statements at the time ofgrave crisis the country andthe State was passing through,Congress leader AdhirChowdhury asked why he wasspeaking about restoringBengal to its old economicprowess now when he was wellaware about it ever since hecame to power in 2014. “Didthe Prime Minister not knowabout the potential of our juteindustry? Did he not knowabout the need to back Bengalon economic front in the pastsix years of his being in power?Did he not know that Sikkimhas gone organic?

“If he knew it then why no

initiative was taken in thepast to encourage the easternindustries? Why is he makingsuch statements and raisingthe issue today? … This isbecause he knows that Bengalis going to polls next year andso he has to sell something towin over the voters.” Earlier,PM Modi while delivering hisinaugural speech at the 95thplenary session of the IndianChamber of Commercefocused on Kolkata’s impor-tance as the financial capital ofeastern India and the need ofrestoring Bengal to its lostglory as an economic superpower that it used to be in theearlier days.

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After failing in its last attempt to dis-lodge Junaid Azim Mattu from

the post of Mayor, Srinagar MunicipalCorporation in the month ofDecember 2019, Bharatiya Janta Party(BJP) is planning another coup againsthim with the help of disgruntled cor-porators.

BJP with only four seats in the 70member house, is banking on the sup-port of other disgruntled corporatorsto show him the exit door.

Soon after media reports claimedBJP corporators have moved a no-confidence motion against JunaidAzim Mattu, Mattu himself wentpublic and tweeted ,”Been informedthat BJP has sought a ‘Vote of NoConfidence’ in the SMC against me.Those who have submitted the motionare either elected members/officebearers of BJP or unambiguouslyassociated with BJP. This is the secondsuch motion by BJP against me with-in six months”. Interestingly, whenMattu had won the Mayor elections

in November 2018, Bharatiya JanataParty (BJP) general secretary RamMadhav had first congratulated himfor being elected as the mayor ofSrinagar Municipal Corporation(SMC). In November 2018, RamMadhav had tweeted “Junaid Mattoo,independent supported by SajjadLone’s People’s Conference and BJPhas won the Mayor post of Srinagar.He polled against the combined can-didate of PDP, NC and Congress by40 votes to 26 votes. Congrats Junaidand Sajjad and all Corporators”.

In a series of other tweets Mattuasserted that he enjoyed majority inthe municipal corporation andwould take on the challenge demo-cratically and legally. Smelling somefoul play behind the move Mattu inanother tweet said, “that this isbeing done in the midst of anunprecedented pandemic is anoth-er travesty. That it is being claimedand alleged that INC and BJP are onthe same page is bizarre beyondcomprehension and hints at someclear illegality and foul play”.

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Devotees will not be allowed inside LordAyyappa Temple in Sabarimala, the holy

shrine atop the Western Ghats inPathanamthitta district, when the sanctumsanctorum would be opened for the month-ly pooja on Sunday.

This was announced by KadakampalliSurendran, Kerala Minister for Devaswam, thedepartment that administers the temples in theState. Briefing reporters after a discussion withN Vasu, fellow Marxist and TravancoreDevaswam Board President and MaheshMohanaru, the chief priest (Thantri) ofSabarimala, the Minister said the decision wastaken in the backdrop of the prevailingatmosphere of Covid-19 pandemic and askeddevotees not to throng the temple this time.

The Thantri has written to the TDB thatit was not proper to allow pilgrims who wouldreach the shrine from all over the country topay obeisance to the deity when the templedoors are opened on Sunday for the month-ly poojas which last for four days.

But the TDB had said on Wednesday that

all arrangements have been made for openingthe temple and conducting the religious fes-tival. Vasu had told reporters that he has notreceived any letter from the Thantri. “Wedecided to go ahead with the temple festivalafter discussing all issues with the Thantri. Itis the prerogative of the Board to decidewhether to hold the festival,” Vasu had said.

The stand off resulted in the Minister con-vening a meeting for Thursday and decidednot to go ahead with festival and restrict theevent as a ritual without allowing devoteesinside the temple.

Various Hindu organisations had ques-tioned the TDB’s stance to go ahead with thetemple festival at a time when Kerala itself wasin the grip of the pandemic. The earlier deci-sion to hold the temple festival was taken fol-lowing the Home Ministry’s directive that StateGovernments were free to open religious placesif the coronavirus disease was under control.

“We fully endorse the reservationsexpressed by the Thantri about the safety ofthe devotees and decided to have only the rit-uals. Devotees should stay away from theshrine for the time being,” said Surendran.

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An Indian Armysoldier sacri-

ficed his life alongthe line of control(LoC) in Rajouriwhile another civil-ian received splinter injuries onhis shoulder during continu-ous exchange of firing andintense mortar shelling by thePakistan Army on Thursday.

Several civilian houses suf-fered damages and residentswere forced to stay indoors inthe forward areas.

According to groundreports, there has been no letup from the Pakistan side. Forthe last couple of days, thePakistan Army has beenresorting to mortar shelling onthe civilian areas in Rajouriand Poonch sectors. So far over1300 incidents of ceasefireviolations have been reportedsince January 2020 in Jammuand Kashmir.

Late Thursday evening,

the Pakistan Army alsoresorted to mortarshelling in the Mankotesector of Poonch. Inresponse, Indian armygave them a befittingreply.

Defence PRO inJammu,Lt Col DevenderAnand said, “Pakistan Armyresorted to unprovoked cease-fire violation on the line ofcontrol (LoC) in Rajouri Sectoron 10 Jun 2020. Own troopsresponded strongly to theenemy fire. In the incident,Naik Gurcharan Singh wascritically injured and later suc-cumbed to his injuries”. Hesaid Naik Gurcharan Singhbelonged to Village Harchowal,District Gurdaspur, Punjab.

According to DefencePRO, in the evening Pakistaninitiated unprovoked cease-fire violations by firing withsmall arms and shelling mor-tars in Mankote sector”. Hesaid, Indian army retaliatedbefittingly.

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Jammu: Lieutenant Governor Girish ChandraMurmu on Thursday handed over the ex-gra-tia relief amounting to �20 lakh to the nextof kin of martyred sarpanch Ajay Pandita.

The Government agencies had comeunder the scanner for not visiting his homeand skipping the cremation ceremony inJammu. Pandita was killed by the terroristsin the South Kashmir district of Anantnag onMonday evening.

According to official sources, familymembers were escorted to the Raj Bhawanon Thursday where Lt- Gov GC Murmuinteracted with them and extended his deep-est sympathies to them.

While paying homage to Ajay Pandita, theLt Governor observed that the supreme sacri-fice made by him would always be rememberedand hoped that perpetrators of such a dastardlyact would realize their follies and desist fromcommitting crime against humanity.

Assuring full support from the UTGovernment, the Lt Governor also handedover a relief cheque amounting to �20 lakhs.

The relief amounting to �20 lakh includes�5 lakh from SRE, �1 lakh as ex-gratia fromGovernment, � 4 lakh from Lt GovernorRelief Fund, whereas �10 lakh out ofPanchayat Welfare Fund will be releasedshortly. PNS

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Cracking the whip,Maharashtra Health

Minister Rajesh Tope onWednesday ordered the sus-pension of the Dean and fourother employees of the JalgaonCivil Hospital in northMaharashtra, after a shockingincident in which an 82-year-old female Covid-19 patientwas found dead in the toilet ofthe hospital.

Taking serious cognisanceof the incident in which thebody of Malati Nehete wasfound in the hospital’s toileteight days after she had gone“missing”, the State HealthMinister ordered the suspensionof the Dean, Superintendent, alecturer, a nurse and securityman of Jalgaon Civil Hospital,in connection with the incident.

A day after the old Covid-19 patient’s partially decom-posed body was found in a toi-

let cubicle of the hospital, theMinister – through a tweet --announced action against theDean and four others in con-nection with the incident.

Malati, who had been shift-ed to the Jalgaon Civil Hospitalfrom another hospital on May27 after she was diagnosed withCoronavirus symptoms, hadgone missing on June 2. SeniorPolice Inspector Akbar Patel,attached to Zillapeth PoliceStation, said that the JalgaonCivil Hospital authorities andthe family members had lodgeda complaint with the police thatthe woman had one ‘missing’on June 2. On their part, thehospital staffers had claimedthat the old woman patientmight have “quietly walkedaway” from the hospital. Thetoilet cubicle, where thedeceased woman was founddead, had either been openednor had been cleaned for theprevious eight days.

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New Delhi: Darjeeling andKalimpong hills, Siliguri Teraiand Dooars region have been included in the“Consortium of CentralUniversity in HimalayanStudies”.

BJP MP from DarjeelingRaju Bisht said in a statementon Thursday that the“Consortium of CentralUniversity in HimalayanStudies” initiative, formedsome time ago, missed the Darjeeling and Kalimponghills, Siliguri Terai and Duarsregions.

According to Bisht, hewrote a letter to PrimeMinister Narendra Modi on May 23, 2020, demanding theinclusion of these areas in theconsortium, who is also the chairman of NITIAayog.

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Indian Railways created anew world benchmark by

successfully running 1st dou-ble stack container train in highrise over ‘Head EquipmentElectrified’ (OHE) sections.

The railway ministry saidthat this tremendous achieve-ment is a first of its kind in theentire world and will also boostthe ambitious mission of greenIndia as a latest green initiativeover Indian Railways.

With this remarkabledevelopment, Indian Railwayshas proudly become the firstRailway to run double stackcontainer train with high reachpantograph in high rise OHEterritory, the operations ofwhich successfully commencedon 10th June, 2020 fromPalanpur and Botad stations inGujarat.

“The thrust of such kind ofinitiatives is on innovation,speed and customisation infreight operations. Inspite oftime that was lost under Covid

Lockdown Ministry is focusingto surpass the last year’s freightfigures,” it said.

From 1st April to 10th June,railways have transported178.68 million tonnes of com-modities through its uninter-rupted 24X7 freight trains oper-ations across the country, it said.

“More than 32.40 lakhwagons carried supplies tokeep the supply chain func-tional from March 24 to June10. Of these, more than 18 lakhwagons carried essential com-modities like food grains, salt,sugar, milk, edible oil, onions,fruits and vegetables, petrole-

um products, coal, fertilizersetc. throughout the country.During the period 1st April to10th June Railways loaded12.74 million tonnes of foodgrains as compared to 6.79 mil-lion tonnes in the same periodlast year,” it said.

“Apart from this, fromMarch 22 to June 10 total3,897 parcel trains have alsobeen run out by IndianRailways of which 3,790 aretime-tabled trains. A total of1,39,196 tonnes of consignmenthave been loaded in these par-cel trains,” it said.

Meanwhile, sustaining the

fight against Covid-19, IndianRailways is making an all outeffort to supplement the healthcare efforts of Government ofIndia. Indian Railways hasgeared up to provide its 5,231Covid care centers to the state.Zonal Railways has convertedthese coaches for quarantinefacility.

As many as 60 coacheshave been requisitioned inTelangana for Secunderabad,Kachiguda and Adilabad loca-tions and 10 coaches have beenrequisitioned in Delhi, it added.

“The Coaches can be usedfor very mild cases that can beclinically assigned to the CovidCare centres as per guidelinesissued by Ministry of Healthand Family Welfare (MoHFW).These coaches can be used inareas where State has exhaust-ed the facilities and needs toaugment capacities for isolationof both suspect and confirmedCovid cases. These facilities arepart of the integrated COVIDplan developed by MoHFWand NITi Ayog.

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The Delhi Police has arrest-ed a man for allegedly post-

ing derogatory and objection-able comments against a senioremployee on their company'website. Police said that theaccused suspected he was firedbecause of his senior in hisoffice.

The accused has been iden-tified as Ansh Khanna, a resi-dent of Shahdara.

According to VijayantaArya, the DeputyCommissioner of Police (DCP),Northwest, a woman, who is asenior executive in an IT firm,lodged a report on May 24where she alleged that someone

has written derogatory andobjectionable comments abouther on the company website.

"During investigation, IPaddress of the sender wasobtained and the accused wasarrested on Wednesday. Theaccused is an ex- employee ofthe company. Earlier, he used towork under the complainant insales department of the organ-isation," the DCP said.

"The accused told policethat the complainant wasresponsible for the loss of hisjob and in return he wanted toavenge the same. Police hasrecovered mobile phone of theaccused and further investiga-tion is under way," the DCPadded.

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Apolicemen was injured afterthe acquaintances of a man

and his two brothers, who weredetained by the police atInderlok Police Post in NorthDelhi following a scuffle andloot with a bakery shop runner,allegedly opened fire at policepost and also pelted stones.

A video of the incident wasalso doing rounds on socialmedia. In a CCTV footage ofthe incident, the men could beseen entering the police postand indulging in a scuffle withpolice personnel with batonswhile the police were trying tocontrol the situation.

According to a seniorpolice official, on Wednesday ataround 10 pm, the accused

were detained after one Akhlaqwho runs a bakery shop inInderlok area filed a complaintwith police that he was alleged-ly harassed by the shop owner’sson Saadkeen and his brothers.

"The accused went to hisshop and asked for free food butwhen Akhlaq denied, they gotangry and a scuffle broke outfollowing which they looted theshop and beat up Akhlaq," saidthe senior police official.

Police said that after theincident Akhlaq came toInderlok police post and statedthat Sadkeen and his brothersbeat him and also looted hisshop. "Sadkeen and his otherbrothers were brought to policechowki by the staff for ques-tioning where they got aggres-sive and fought with police per-

osnnel. After they were detained,their associates came to policepost with batons and also pelt-ed stones. One among themidentified as Naved also fired atthe chowki. In self defence Sub-Inspector Pankaj fired tworounds in the air," said police.

Meanwhile, one of thepolicemen suffered injuries onhis head during stone pelting.He was taken to hospital and isundergoing treatment.

"A case has been registeredin this regard and Sadkeen,Ashkeen and Shahrukh havebeen arrested in connectionwith the incident.While effortsare being taken to trace othersand nab them," said MonikaBhardwaj, the DeputyCommissioner of Police(DCP), North district.

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The Delhi Congress slammed theBJP-ruled North Delhi Municipal

Corporation for the non-payment ofsalaries to doctors of the KasturbaHospital, Darya Ganj for the past threemonths.

Congress Delhi unit presidentAnil Kumar also attacked the DelhiGovernment for the utter neglect ofthe LNJP Hospital, saying thatpatients are left to die on stretchersunattended.

Kumar said “It was very shockingand disturbing that the doctors of theKasturba Hospital have not beenpaid their salaries since March, 2020when they are engaged in a do-or-diebattle to treat Corona patients, puttingnot only their own lives at risk, butalso the lives of their family members,”

“The resident doctors havealready highlighted the issue express-ing inability in paying rents, buyessential items and unable to evenafford their huge travelling expensesdue to non-payment of their salaries,’he said.

Kumar demanded the BJP-ruledNorth MCD to immediately releasethe salaries of these doctors as they arethe front-line workers in the fightagainst the Corona virus which is fastspreading in the Capital due to thefailures of the BJP and the AAPGovernments.

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Asuspected thief wasallegedly beaten to death

by a mob in Delhi's PandavNagar area after he was caughtsneaking into a house. Theincident was reported in theearly hours of June 9.

The deceased was identi-fied as Salman. According to asenior police official, the inci-dent took place on June 9around 4 am when Salman andanother man tried to sneakinto a house in Block C ofPandav Nagar area.

"However, Salman wascaught by a mob and brutallybeaten up by them on suspi-cion of theft even as his accom-plice managed to escape from

the spot," he said. "Police team found Salman

lying in a drain after beingthrashed. He was then taken toa government hospital andlater discharged but his con-dition worsened. Salman wastaken to hospital again wherehe was declared brought dead,"said the police official privy toinvestigation.

"A case was registeredunder Section 304 (punish-ment for culpable homicidenot amounting to murder) ofthe Indian Penal Code and oneRajesh Kumar has been arrest-ed on the basis of CCTVfootage. A medical board hasbeen constituted in connectionwith the incident while aninvestigation is underway,"said the police official.

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Resident WelfareAssociations (RWAs) of

Delhi can be the game chang-er in providing ‘immediate’medical treatment to corona-infected patients as the com-munity halls can be utilised as‘Covid care’ centres for thetreatment of patients.

Recently, LieutenantGovernor Anil Baijal chaired ameeting with the State DisasterManagement Authority(SDMA ) to explore the optionsto increase the bed numbersand oxygen in Delhi.

According to the sources inGovernment, L-G has intend-ed to involve RWAs for theinstallations of beds plus oxy-

gen in their common spaces -community centres, as this willsolve two purposes - first, thepatient will get treatment nearto his/her home, and second,this step may reduce the bur-den on hospitals.

The Government sourcesalso said, L-G is well connect-ed with the spiritual organisa-tions - Radha Soami SatsangBeas in South Delhi andChhattapur to join the initiativeand help in treating covidpatients.

This may be noted thatDelhi Health department hadannounced the projection ofcovid cases expected to reach5.5 lakh by July end and thestate administration require1.5 lakh beds by next month.

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A58-year-old Gurugrampolice Inspector attached

to the Summon Branch of thePolice Commissioner's office,died due to Covid-19 relatedcomplications on Wednesday.

Pradeep Dagar, who wasdue to retire on July 31, becamethe first casualty fromGurugram police to succumbto the novel coronavirus.

Dagar was admitted to theprivate hospital and tested pos-itive on June 7. He was hospi-talized soon after and diedduring treatment.

Dagar is survived by hiswife and two children. Hisdaughter is a teacher and sonRahul Dagar is an advocate atthe district court Gurugram.

“My father was a nice per-son to everyone and was verydedicated to his duties. Heused to be regular in his dutiesand encourage everyone toperform their work honestlyand dedicatedly,” AdvocateRahul Dagar said.

According to the policeDagar was suffering from aheart ailment and had under-

gone heart surgery a monthago.

The city Police, which istrying hard to ensure imple-mentation of lockdown rules toprevent the further spread ofthe coronavirus infection, isunder a lot of pressure thesedays as around 13 personnelhave been found to be infect-ed with the deadly virus.

However, all the policepersonnel infected with coro-navirus have successfully recov-ered and reported back towork.

“Gurugram Police familymourns the loss of our bravepolice officer in our fightagainst the coronavirus pan-

demic despite our best effortsto save him. We pay homage tothe victim and may his soulsrest in peace. We are commit-ted to providing all help to theirfamilies," A senior Gurugrampolice official said.

Meanwhile, The Gurugramdistrict recorded 191 newCovid-19 positive cases includ-ing six deaths on Thursday. Thesituation is alarming now sincethe tally has zoomed up to2,737. “Of these, 1,858 areactive cases. A number of 860have been cured and dis-charged including, 36 patientshave also recovered and dis-charged on Thursday. The cityhas also reported 19 deaths.

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New Delhi: An association ofdoctors from the city hasmoved the Delhi High Courtseeking a direction to the traf-fic police to waive the e-chal-lans issued against "all coronawarriors", including doctors,during first two phases of theCOVID-19 lockdown.

The Indian MedicalAssociation, Dwarka in westDelhi, contended that duringthe first two phases of lock-down, all the traffic signalswere not functioning or wereon auto blinking mode andconsequently, "the alleged traf-fic violations are without anyjustified ground and reasonthereof ".

The association, whichaccording to the plea is a dis-trict branch of Delhi MedicalAssociation, stated that the e-challans were issued based onelectronic surveillance alone.

"The traffic police has

engaged in discriminatorypractices by targeting the essen-tial service providers by penal-izing them without any appli-cation of mind during thelockdown," said the petitionfiled through advocateShashank Deo Sudhi.

Apart from waiving thetraffic challans, the petition alsoseeks formulation of compre-hensive guidelines in respect ofdisplay of speed limit sign-boards.

The petition has contend-ed that there are roads in thenational capital where within a2km stretch, there would beseveral signboards indicatingvarying speed limits from 70km per hour to 50 km per hour.

On some roads, the sign-boards are not even clearly vis-ible, it has alleged.

The petition has alsoalleged that motorists are oftenalso "victim of delayed intima-tion regarding the violation oftraffic rules".

"In this respect, it is sub-mitted that if the traffic policecould have mechanism to inti-mate the owner of the vehicleswithin 24 hours, so that thealleged violators may be cau-tious in future in respect of thetraffic violation and they maynot commit the same offencestime and again of similarnature," the petition has said.

It has sought a direction totraffic police for immediateintimation, preferably within 24hours, via electronic modeabout the violation as motoristsusually get to know about itwhen e-challans are issuedafter a month or two. PTI

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The excise department ofDelhi Government on

Thursday issued an order forthe transfer of un-expired beerstock up to June 30 to anyother retail licensee of theexcise department.

“Considering the extraor-dinary situation that has arisenout of covid spread, the excisedepartment has given one timerelaxation to all the licenceseesof hotels/clubs/ restaurantsholding license in form L-15/lto L-29 to transfer their unex-pired beer stock up to June30th to any other retailLicensee of excise department,”the order stated.

Delhi Government issuedthe order after many represen-tatives requested governmentto allow them to transfer or saleof stock of beer, which is lyingunsold and will expire soon inhotels / restaurants and clubs.

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(NHRC) led by its MemberJyotika Kalra visited the LNJPhospital in Delhi on Thursdayfor an on the spot assessmentof the facilities for Covid-19care.

The move came after alle-gation that despite beds thepatients were being deniedadmission and treatment. “Theteam interacted with the hos-pital administration, doctors,staff and some attendants ofthe patients there. The teamvisited the emergency and theward having beds for the Covidpatients,” it said in a statement.

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New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Thursday initiateda PIL on the issue of non-payment of salaries to doctorsin two hospitals, run by North Delhi MunicipalCorporation, in the national capital.

A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice PrateekJalan initiated the petition based on news reports that doc-tors of Kasturba Hospital, run by North DMC, have threat-ened to resign as they have not been paid salaries sinceMarch this year.

The news reports also stated that recently doctors ofNorth MCD-run Hindu Rao hospital had written to PrimeMinister Narendra Modi over non-payment of theirsalaries for last three months.

Central government standing counsel Anil Soni saidthat the court took suo motu notice of the news reports andinitiated the PIL.

He said that the court issued notices to the Centre, Delhigovernment and the municipal corporations and listed thematter for hearing on Friday, June 12. PTI

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New Delhi: The nationalCapital is fast heading towardsbecoming the "corona capital"of the country, observed theDelhi High Court whileexpressing concern over thespike in COVID-19 cases anddirected that all private hospi-tals equipped with labs to testfor coronavirus and havingICMR sanction be permitted toconduct the test.

A bench of Justices HimaKohli and SubramoniumPrasad observed that "coronacapital" was "an epithet the citycan well do without" and saidit was need of the hour that allprivate hospitals equipped withlabs to test for COVID-19 bepermitted to do so without los-ing any more time.

According to latest officialfigures, the total number ofCOVID-19 cases in Delhi isover 32,000 including 984deaths. The number of activecoronavirus patients in the cityis over 19,000.

The bench made the obser-

vation after it was told by thepetitioner that several privatehospitals, including Sir GangaRam Hospital, have been pre-vented from carrying outCOVID-19 tests.

The Delhi government,represented by its additionalstanding counsel Satyakam,opposed the submission, saying23 private labs have beenallowed to conduct the testsapart from 17 public sectorlabs.

The bench, thereafter,issued notice to the 23 privatelabs, mentioned by Delhi gov-ernment in its affidavit, andasked them to file their repliesclarifying whether they havebeen permitted to undertaketests for suspected COVID-19patients and by which tech-nique.

"They shall also point outthe difficulties, if any, faced bythem on account of anybureaucratic red-tapeism," thebench said.

It also noted in its order

that non-COVID patients, whoare approaching private hospi-tals for admission to undergoemergent surgeries and othersuch procedures, are not admit-ted without a coronavirus testfor which they are compelled togo elsewhere.

"It is most unfortunate thatnon-COVID patients are beingmade to wait to undergo testfor COVID-19 at labs otherthan those which are situatedwithin the premises of thehospitals, that are equipped andauthorised to conduct the saidtest," the bench said.

The high court directedthat all the private hospitals thathave been called upon toreserve 20 per cent beds foradmitting COVID-19 patients,are equipped with labs to con-duct coronavirus test and havesanction of ICMR to do so,"should proceed to conducttests on symptomatic andasymptomatic persons, whoseek admission in the hospitalfor undergoing surgeries and

procedures of other nature aswell".

It also impleaded IndianCouncil of Medical Research(ICMR) in the matter so thatdetails of private hospitalsauthorised by it to undertakeCOVID-19 tests can be fur-nished to the court on the nextdate, June 18.

The high court said thatICMR while filing its statusreport shall also indicate num-ber of applications submittedby accredited labs in Delhiseeking permission to conductCOVID-19 test and the statusof the same.

The order came on theapplication by advocate SanjeevSharma who has contendedthere have been severalinstances where non-COVIDpatients needing surgery oremergent procedures arerequired to undergo testingbefore that, but hospital con-cerned is unable to conduct thetest as they are not permittedto do so by Delhi government.

The application, filedthrough advocate RakeshMalhotra, has also sought adirection to the Delhi govern-ment and all the hospitals andnursing homes permitted totreat COVID-19 cases to dailypublish on their respectivewebsites the status of vacancyof beds so that patients neednot run from pillar to post forthe same.

The application was filed inthe main petition, by Malhotra,which had sought swift testingof COVID-19 cases and decla-ration of results within 48hours.

The high court had onMay 4 disposed of the petitionwith a direction to the Delhigovernment to publish on theirwebsites correct data of testsconducted, number of positiveresults and pending outcomes.

The application has allegedthat the high court's May 4direction was not being com-plied with properly by theDelhi Government. PTI

New Delhi: The mercury remained above the 40 degreesCelsius-mark in most part of the national Capital onThursday, a day after the city witnessed light rains.

The Safdarjung Observatory, which provides repre-sentative figures for the city, recorded a maximum tem-perature of 40.6 degrees Celsius as against 41.5 degreesCelsius on Wednesday. The weather stations at Palam andPusa recorded their maximum temperatures at 42.2degrees Celsius and 42.3 degrees Celsius respectively. PTI

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New Delhi: The historic JamaMasjid will be closed for devo-tees with immediate effect tillJune 30 in view of "critical" con-ditions in the city due to a surgein Covid-19 cases, the mosque'sShahi Imam Syed AhmedBukhari said on Thursday.

Bukhari said he took thedecision after consulting pub-lic and Islamic scholars.

The development comesafter the Shahi Imam's secre-tary Amanullah died due to thenovel coronavirus at theSafdarjung Hospital onTuesday night.

The Shahi Imam said, "Ifthe situation arises where thehuman life is at risk, it becomesobligatory to protect ones life."

"Majority of the opinion isthat saving of the human livesis paramount and the Shariah(Islamic jurisprudence) hasample excuse for this," he said.

After taking public opinionand consulting scholars, it hasbeen decided that from'maghrib' (sunset) on Thursdaytill June 30, no congregationalprayers will be performed inthe Jama Masjid, Bukhari said.

"A select few people shallperform the daily five timesnamaz while the general wor-shippers will perform theprayers at their homes," headded.

The mosque had openedon June 8 after a gap of overtwo months with the govern-ment allowing further relax-ations as part of "Unlock-1", thefirst phase of a calibrated exitfrom the novel coronavirus-induced nationwide lockdown.

As religious places alongwith several other establish-ments, like shopping malls andoffices, opened across thecountry on June 8, Bukhariasked governments to recon-sider their decision in view ofthe rapid spread of the coron-avirus. According to latest offi-cial figures, the total number ofcases in Delhi is over 32,000including 984 deaths. PTI

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Prime Minister NarendraModi on Thursday said

that India should convert theCOVID-19 crisis into a turn-ing point towards becoming aself-reliant nation and urgedthe industrialists to be bold inmaking investments, ratherthan conservative.

Reiterating that India’seconomy will be back ontracks again, the PrimeMinister said the countryshould concentrate on exportsand should be ahead of theimporting ratio.

Modi was delivering viavideo conferencing the inau-gural address on the occasionof the 95th annual plenary ses-sion of Indian Chamber ofCommerce (ICC).

“Corona might haveslowed our pace of develop-ment, but today the biggesttruth of the country is thatIndia has overtaken lockdownand has entered into UnlockPhase one. A large part of theeconomy has opened up inUnlock Phase one. A lot isgoing to open after 8th June.That is, Getting Growth Backhas started,” said PrimeMinister urging the industri-alists to take bold decisions oninvestments, rather than going

on conservative way. Modi also emphasised the

need for import-substitutionand asked the Industrialists toboost the exporting. “Indiahas the third largest coalreserve in the world! AndIndia also has bold and hardworking business leaders likeyou. Then why coal comesfrom outside? Why coal isbeing imported? Sometimesthe Government stood in theway and sometimes the poli-cies. But now the work of free-ing the coal sector from theseblockages has started.

“Now commercial miningin the coal sector has beenpermitted. Permission hasalso been granted for theallotment of partially exploredblocks. Similarly, in mineralmining too, now companiescan do mining work simulta-neously with exploration.Those familiar with this sec-tor are well aware of the far-reaching consequences ofthese decisions,” said PrimeMinister asking industrialiststo concentrate on exporting.

“Five things are veryimportant to build a self-reliant India and to bringIndia back on the path ofrapid development - Intent,Inclusion, Investment,Infrastructure and Innovation.You will get a glimpse of allthese in the bold decisionstaken recently. With thesedecisions, we have made everysector future ready. Thus,today India is ready for a big

step towards a new growth-oriented future,” he said seek-ing support of leaders ofIndian industry.

Modi said that North-East India could become amajor hub for organic farmingby creating bamboo andorganic product clusters in theregion. Prime Minister said hehas immense confidence inIndia’s crisis managementcapability and in the talent ofthe country’s farmers, entre-preneurs and the manyMSMEs.

“We will get our economyback,” said Modi. He empha-sised the significance of vir-tual events in the age of coro-navirus. The Prime Ministerpointed at the need to manu-facture products which are‘Made in India’ but are ‘Madefor the World’. He had saidthat Indian industries shouldtake advantage of the trustdeveloped towards India asthe world is looking for atrusted and reliable partner.

“World is looking for atrusted, reliable partner. Indiahas potential, strength andability.

Today, Indian industriesshould take advantage of thetrust developed in the worldtowards India. . . Gettinggrowth back is not that diffi-cult. The biggest thing is thatIndian industries have a clearpath of self-reliance,” saidModi asking industrialists totake the advantage of the sit-uation.

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Urging his force to adaptand adopt new practices

in the backdrop of coron-avirus pandemic, Navy chiefAdmiral Karambir Singh saidon Thursday lifting of restric-tions now does not mean busi-ness as usual. He also said theNavy is mulling a proposalthat personnel over 50 years ofage and comorbid may beexempted from carrying outroles which increase the risk ofCOVID-19 during daily activ-ities including sea going duties.

In a message to the rankand file of the Navy, he saidrelaxation of lockdown restric-tions under “Unlock 1.0” doesnot mean business as usual. Heurged them to adapt and adoptpractices to prevent spread ofinfection.

Cautioning that the secu-rity situation onNorthern(China) andWestern(Pakistan) borders isnot good, Singh said there isno let-up in operationaldeployment by the Navy.Working under COVID-19restrictions, Navy ships havebeen sailing continuously for100 days at a stretch, he added.

His remarks assume sig-nificance as India and Chinaare now holding talks to defusetension on the Line of ActualControl(LAC)in EasternLadakh. Similarly, Pakistan isrelentlessly violating ceasefireat the Line of Control inJammu and Kashmir.

Meanwhile, listing out theactivities undertaken by theNavy to assist countries in the

region, the Navy chief said theforce has deployed medicalassistance teams to Comorosand Mauritius for COVIDassistance and has also pro-vided assistance to thePhilippines Navy.

“Philippines Navy shipswere deployed in the IndianOcean. They sought assistancein repatriation of citizens fromIndian ports and medical sup-port for its crew. AndSouthern Naval Commandhas done some essentialrepairs of their ships and nowthere are moving back toPhilippines,” Singh said.

Under Mission Sagar, theNavy has deployed INS Kesarifor providing medical aid andsupport to Indian Ocean lit-toral States.

On round the clock vigildespite coronavirus restric-tions, he said in May, Navy’soffshore patrol vessel INSSunayna entered Kochi aftermore than 80 days on anti-piracy deployment in the Gulfof Aden. The ship sustainedthe last 80 days of the MissionBased Deployment withoutentering any port. It wasfuelled and resupplied bytankers of the Indian Navy andUS Navy.

In the beginning of thelock down phase, the Navy

chief in his message had askedthe rank and file to redoublecurrent efforts to ensure thatall personnel and their fami-lies are safe. The Services werethe last bastion and “if thecaregivers become careseekersit would be a big problem.” “

“We have to ensure thatour operational assets, specif-ically ships and submarines,remain free from the virus. Itis a very difficult task becausephysical distancing onboardships and especially sub-marines is very tough… butphysically we will maintain therequired distance of six feet,”he had said in a video messagereleased to the force.

He also said everyoneshould keep the guard up and“retain our sights on beingcombat ready.” “Operationalreadiness must remain animportant priority. We shouldhope for the best and plan forthe worst. We need to beready for the worst case sce-nario. It is going to be a longbattle.”

Once the lockdown is lift-ed, the movement of person-nel would be done in a delib-erate and coordinated fashion.It might be delayed but thereshould be no rush, he had stat-ed.

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The CBI on Thursday con-ducted searches at the offi-

cial/residential premises of nineaccused including the thenofficials of Punjab NationalBank and private persons atVisakhapatnam (AndhraPradesh), Kolkata (WestBengal), Jammu (J&K),Bhubaneswar and Cuttack(both in Odisha) in a bankfraud case.

A CBI spokesperson saidthe agency recovered incrimi-nating documents and lockerkeys during the searches.

The agency registered acase under Indian Penal CodeSections relating to criminalconspiracy, cheating and underrelevant provisions of thePrevention of Corruption Acton a complaint from PunjabNational Bank (PNB) againstfour officials of the public sec-tor lender.

The officials of the PNB’sStation Square Branch,Bhubaneswar, accused in thecase include the then ChiefManager; the then AssistantGeneral Manager, the thenChief Manager and the thenSenior Manager.

Bhubaneswar-based pri-vate firm Global TradingSolutions Ltd., its ManagingDirector, two former directorsand one current director andunknown officials of PNBbesides unknown others.

It was alleged that the saidPNB officials had entered intoa conspiracy with the privatefirm through its saidDirector(s) in the matter relat-ing to fraud perpetrated in pro-cessing, sanctioning and dis-

bursing CC facility, bill dis-counting and issuing Letters ofCredit to the accused firmduring 2010-15, the spokesper-son said.

It was further alleged thatthe said private firm had ille-gally diverted the fundsreceived from the bank to itssister/ group companies andmis-utilised the same beyondthe scope of funds sanctioned/disbursed, he said.

It was also alleged that thebank officials did not verify thegenuineness of the businessactivities of said private com-pany/firm. An alleged loss tothe tune of �31.92 crore wascaused to the PNB.

Nagmani SatyanarayanaPrasad, the then ChiefManager; S C Sharma, thethen Assistant GeneralManager; Manoranjan Dash,the then Chief Manager andPriyotosh Das, the then SeniorManager (all of PunjabNational Bank, Station SquareBranch, Bhubaneswar) havebeen named as accused in thecase besides the private firm.

Abinash Mohanty,Managing Director ; ShriKaushik Mohanty, Ex-Director;Shri Anshuman Samantaray,Ex-Director; Shri BidhubhusanNayak, Director (all of GlobalTrading Solutions Ltd.,Bhubaneswar).

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Goa and Odisha on Thursdaywith rains lashing somecoastal parts of these States. Asper the India Meteorological

Department (IMD) forecast,heavy rainfall in some parts ofMaharashtra and Odisha inthe next 48 hours. Heavy rain-fall could trigger landslides inthe Ghat areas and Konkanand Madhya Maharashtra areon orange alert. Meanwhile, a

flood warning system forMumbai is to be launched onJune 12. The system was joint-ly conceived by scientists fromthe Indian Institute of TropicalMeteorology (IITM), Pune,India MeteorologicalDepartment (IMD), andNational Centre for CoastalResearch (NCCR), Chennai.

The southwest monsoonhas arrived in Maharashtra.The onset line is passing overHarnai, Solapur,Ramagundum (Telangana)and Jagdalpur (Chhattisgarh),"IMD Mumbai centre's deputydirector general K S Hosalikarsaid. "Conditions arefavourable for furtheradvancement in some moreparts of Maharashtra in next48 hours. Heavy rainfall warn-ings are issued, he said.

In the last few days, pre-monsoon showers hit severalparts of the state, includingMumbai and its suburbs.

The Mumbai civic bodylast week issued an advisoryfearing rise in monsoon-relat-ed diseases in addition to thecoronavirus infections.

It asked citizens to visit

nearby clinics or inform com-munity health volunteers ifthey experience symptomslike fever with chills, jointpains, rashes, cough, breath-lessness, diarrhoea, vomitingand sore throat.

The Southwest Monsoonset in over Odisha onThursday with several parts ofthe state receiving heavy rain-fall. “The conditions are nowfavourable for the advance ofthe Southwest Monsoon intosome parts of the CentralArabian Sea and Maharashtra,remaining parts of Telangana,west central and North Bay ofBengal, Arunachal Pradesh,Assam, Meghalaya, Sikkimand, some more parts ofOdisha and Gangetic WestBengal in the next 48 hours”,the IMD indicated.

The IMD Goa unit tooannounced on Thursday thatthe onset of monsoon in theState - a week behind its

schedule – had begun in partsof the Konkan coast andMaharashtra.

The northern limit of themonsoon, which is lying atKarwar in neighbouringKarnataka and south of Goa,has covered all of Karnatakaand entered parts ofMaharashtra, Telangana andAndhra Pradesh, the IMDsaid.

The onset of theSouthwest Monsoon is usual-ly declared after necessaryconditions have been metsuch as westerly winds blow-ing at a speed between 30 and45 kilometres per hour(kmph) and widespread distribution of moderate toheavy rainfall over certainareas during the last 24 hours.

IMD officials have alsoissued a red alert warning forGoa, as the State is expectedto record extremely heavyrainfall measuring over 20.4cm and 11.5 cm on Friday andSaturday, followed by anorange alert, or heavy rainfall,on Sunday. The IMD author-ities expect this year’s mon-soon to be normal in Goa.

According to the Ministryof Earth Sciences (MoES),the Maharashtra Governmenthad earlier approached theministr y to develop anIntegrated Flood WarningSystem for Mumbai referredto as, IFLOWS-Mumbai in abid to aid in the mitigationactivit ies of the f lood prone city. Based on inputsfrom weather models,Hydrologic models are used totransform rainfall into runoffand provide inflow inputsinto the river systems.

Hydraulic models areused to solve equations offluid motion to replicate themovement of water to assessflooding in the study area.

Since, Mumbai is anisland city with its connectiv-ity to sea, hydrodynamicmodels and storm surge mod-els are used to calculate thetide and storm surge impactson the city.

The system has provisionsto capture the urban drainagewithin the city and predict theareas of flooding, which willbe incorporated in the finalsystem.

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The Supreme CourtThursday termed as ‘total-

ly impermissible' the demandby Department of Telecom fordues of �4lakh crore inAdjusted Gross Revenue(AGR) from PSUs and saidDoT must consider with-drawing it.

A bench of Justices ArunMishra, S Abdul Nazeer andM R Shah raised questions onthe demand raised by thegovernment from the PSUsand said that its verdict in thecase was misinterpreted as theissue of their dues based onAGR was not dealt with bythe apex court.

“This is wholly and total-ly impermissible,” the benchsaid, while referring to thedemand raised against thePSUs.

Solicitor General TusharMehta, appearing for DoTtold the bench that it wouldthe f i le the af f idavit explaining as to why the AGRdemands were raised against

the PSUs. The bench also asked pri-

vate telecom operators to fileaffidavits giving details as tohow they will pay the AGRdues.

On May 18, the top courthad lashed out at Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Ideaand other mobile phone oper-ators for self-assessing theiroutstanding telecom dues,saying they need to pay pastdues with interest and penalty - an estimatedamount of �1.6 lakh crore.

The apex court had alsocame down heavily on theDoT for allowing companiesto re-assess what they owed tothe Government, and said itsorder passed on October 24,2019 -- on revenues for cal-culating dues was final.

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The CRPF on Thursdayreported 36 new Covid-19

positive cases including 28from Jammu and Kashmir,taking the total number ofinfected personnel to 552.

Out of the 552 positivecases in the CRPF, 195 con-tinue to active while 353 haverecovered and four personshave died due to the pan-demic.

In Jammu and Kashmir,the 28 Central Reserve PoliceForce (CRPF) personnel post-ed there tested positive forcoronavirus on Wednesday.The personnel were foundinfected during a contact-tracing exercise after thedeath of a 44-year-oldConstable on June 6 when hesuccumbed to the disease.

Likewise, the BSF hasreported 540 Covid-19 posi-tive cases in its ranks out ofwhich 94 are active and 443patients have recovered from

the disease and three havesuccumbed to the disease.

In the SSB, 108 positivecases have been reported outof which 51 are active and 56have recovered besides twodeaths due to the viral infec-tion, including one casualtyon Thursday.

The ITBP on Thursdayreported one new case, takingthe total number of infectedpersonnel to 216.

Only 22 cases are activeand as many as 194 personnelhave recovered.

The force has lost onepersonnel due to the pan-demic.

The death toll in theCentral paramilitary forcesdue to Covid-19 stands at 15.

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Appropriate personal pro-tective equipment (PPE),

including masks, gloves, gog-gles, and face shields, is effec-tive in preventing Covid-19infection in frontline health-care professionals who workin highly exposed environ-ments, according to a studypublished in the BritishMedical Journal.

The study found thatdespite being at high risk ofexposure to Covid-19, health-care professionals who wereappropriately protected didnot contract infection ordevelop protective immunityagainst the virus.

The researchers, includ-ing those from Sun Yat-senUniversity in China, acknowl-edge that the healthcare pro-fessionals were working awayfrom home, so had limitedsocial interactions after work,which probably contributedto the absence of infection.

They said healthcare systems “must give priority tothe procurement and distribution of personal pro-tective equipment, and pro-

vide adequate training tohealthcare professionals inits use.”

The team, includingresearchers from theUniversity of Birmingham,UK, set out to examine theprotective effects of appro-priate PPE for frontlinehealthcare professionals whoprovided care for patientswith Covid-19.

Their findings are basedon 420 healthcare profes-sionals -- 116 doctors and 304nurses -- with an average ageof 36 years, who weredeployed to Wuhan for 6-8weeks from 24 January toApril 7, 2020 to care forpatients with Covid-19.Participants worked 4-6 hourshifts for an average of 5.4days a week, and an averageof 16.2 hours each week inintensive care units.

All participants were pro-vided with appropriate PPE,including protective suits,masks, gloves, goggles, faceshields, and gowns.

They also received train-ing in the correct use of PPEand in reducing their exposure to infection when

caring for patients , theresearchers said.

During the deploymentperiod in Wuhan, none of thestudy participants reportedCovid-19 related symptoms,they said.

When the participantsreturned home, they all test-ed negative for Covid-19infection or its antibodies,according to the researchers.

They point out that thisstudy does not address thequestion of what the minimallevel of PPE should be toeffectively prevent infectionamong healthcare profes-sionals, adding the findingsonly apply to frontline clini-cal staff.

The researchers acknowl-edge that these healthcareprofessionals were working away from home,which probably contributedto the absence of infection.

“However, this limitationdoes not affect our conclusionthat appropriate PPE is effec-tive in preventing infection inhealthcare professionals whowork in highly exposed environments,” theresearchers said.

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The Supreme Court onThursday dismissed a PIL

filed by a “social worker” seek-ing ban on sale and use of CocaCola and Thumbs up on theground that these soft bever-ages are detrimental to health,saying the petition has beenfiled for extraneous reasons.

The top court rejected thepetition and imposed an exem-plary cost of �5lakh on the peti-tioner and said his counsel hasfailed to disclose “why two spe-cific brands in particular arechosen to be the target of theproceedings and what thesource of his assertions."

It said the amount wouldbe deposited within one monthwith the apex court registry anddisbursed to SCAORA(Supreme Court Advocates-on Record Association).

A bench headed by JusticesD Y Chandrachud said thatpetitioner, Umedsinh PChavda, through his petitionhas invoked jurisdiction of thecourt under Article 32 of theConstitution, which appearsto be abuse of the process oflaw.

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The official name of the holidayis Russia Day (Dien Rossii). Itmarks the anniversary of theFirst Congress of People’sDeputies adopting the

Declaration of State Sovereignty of theRussian Soviet Federative SocialistRepublic (RSFSR) in 1990. On June 12,1990, when the Soviet Union was on theverge of collapsing, the RSFSR followedother republics by declaring sovereigntyand stating that its laws superseded Sovietones. Thus, the Russian Federation, as weknow it now, was born.

In 1994, June 12 was declared anational holiday. Back then, it was called— the day of adoption of the declarationof state sovereignty of RSFSR. In 2002, theofficial title was changed to — Russia Day— the symbol of national unity and civilpeace. Every other street and buildings aredecorated with the colours of the nation-al flag on this day, concerts are heldthroughout the day at various locations(including a big show in the Red Squarein Moscow), followed by fireworks at theend of the day. Of course, this time, therewill be restrictions due to measures on pre-venting the COVID-19 dissemination.

Russian Federation is rich in culturalheritage, right from Kaliningrad to LakeBaikal. The UNESCO World Heritage Listincludes 28 sites located in Russia andalmost half of these are ranked as those ofoutstanding importance.

Here are a few of them:

���������� ���The Curonian Spit is a natural reserve

in the Kaliningrad region, where softwoodand greenwood verge with the sandydunes. Dancing forest is a unique mysteryof the Curonian Spit. The pine trunks takeunusual twisted shape. Scientists are yet todiscover the source of this anomaly. It wasincluded into the UNESCO World

Heritage List not as a natural site but as acultural one.

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Saint Petersburg, the former capital ofthe Russian Empire, glitters with therefined architecture and decor of itsimperial palaces. Remarkable are therooms of the Winter Palace hosting theHermitage Museum. Inside is a collectionof paintings, jewellery and antiquities.Along the Nevsky Prospect, there are his-toric buildings, parks and churches.Walking in this street, you may feel likeinside a novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.Other must-see sights include — KazanCathedral, Saint Isaac’s Cathedral and thePeter and Paul Fortress. Petergof with itsvariety of magnificent fountains is worthof particular attention. Saint Petersburg isbetter to be visited in summer. This is theseason of the so-called “white nights” wheneven after midnight, daylight outsidemakes you feel like in the midst of day.

�������� �In the Republic of Karelia, there is a

small island in the Lake Onega, where theunique architectural ensemble of KizhiPogost is located. It includes two church-es and a bell-tower built in the 18th and19th centuries. He, who built the 37 metre(121 ft) high Church of theTransfiguration, used just one ax and nota single nail. Upon completion, the wood-man was told to throw his ax in the lakeso that no one else could create anythingof the kind. The Kizhi Pogost is a uniquemonument of Russian wooden architec-ture, a universally recognised masterpieceof world architecture.

���������� ��������The Golden Mountains of Altai are

located at the border area between Russia

and the Central Asia states of Mongolia,China and Kazakhstan. Cliffs, here, vergewith scenic highland, azure lakes, rapidrivers, Alpine tundra, grassland meadowsand glaciers. The site is also an importanthabitat for endangered animal species suchas the snow leopard. The GoldenMountain region includes the headwaters

of Ob’ River, one of the longest rivers inthe world, and Lake Teletskoe, the world’ssecond deepest freshwater body afterLake Baikal. Here you will also findMount Belukha, Siberia’s highest peak.

���� ���� ��� The Solovetsky Islands located in the

Arkhangelsk region have many architec-tural sites. These include early man sites,stone labyrinths and grave-mounds.However, the most famous thing aboutthese islands is the monastery with mas-sive boulder walls. During the 1930s, themonastery was used as a prison for polit-ical prisoners. Nowadays, it hostsSolovetsky camps and prison museumcommemorating political prisoners.

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Kremlin and the Red Square are theheart of Moscow. This is a symbol both forthe country and its capital. MoscowKremlin was founded by Yuri Dolgorukiy

in 1147 as a military fortification. For thispurpose, he chose Borovitsky Hill on thebank of the Moskva River. Later, the fortbecame surrounded by a town and theKremlin itself was used as a residence ofthe Russian tsars. Now, it is known as theresidence of the Russian President. InsideKremlin, there is Cathedral (or Sobornaya)Square with its amazingly churches.

The Red Square in Moscow is mostfamous for its May 9 Victory Day MilitaryParades. Unfortunately, spectators are notallowed to see the parades from the RedSquare itself, but you may find yourself agood position in the nearby side streets.Other famous sights of the Red Square areSaint Basil’s Cathedral and Lenin’sMausoleum (you’d better double check theopening hours in advance). Shoppinglovers will be delighted to visit GUM (StateDepartment Store), where there are bud-get-friendly brands along with the luxu-ry ones. During the warm season, the RedSquare hosts open-air concerts with noentrance fees.

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Yaroslavl, one of the oldest cities inRussia, was founded in 1010 by PrinceYaroslav the Wise. Located at the crossingof the trade routes, Yaroslavl is believed tobe the capital of the Russian merchants.Today, in the city centre, one may see aunique architectural ensemble represent-ing almost all architectural styles of the lastfive centuries. St John the Baptist Church,the gem in the crown of Yaroslavl archi-tecture of the 17th century, is particular-ly worth seeing. This is a red-brick churchwith emerald-green domes.

�����������Lake Baikal is the world’s largest and

purest freshwater lake located in EastSiberia not far away from Irkutsk city. Its

maximum depth is 1,642 m (5,387 ft) andthe average surface water temperature is46-48 °F. According to the UNESCOWorld Heritage Commission, Lake Baikalis sometimes called the ‘Galapagos ofRussia’ because of its exceptional biodiver-sity and importance to evolutionary sci-ence. About 80 per cent of the more than3,700 species found at Lake Baikal areendemic. They are found nowhere else onearth.

����������������� ���Russian Far East is a land of volcanoes,

geysers, azure lakes and glaciers. You maysee these incredible beauties from a heli-copter cabin. Visiting the Valley of Geysersand seeing the Valley of Death (a place ofunearthly landscape where no living crea-ture can survive due to high concentrationof gases) is only possible by a passengerhelicopter. A helicopter tour is available ata price of about RUR 37,000.

There are several regions in Russia thatgrant foreign nationals entry on the basisof electronic visas. These are the FarEastern Federal District, the KaliningradOblast, Saint Petersburg and the LeningradOblast. These electronic visas are onlyavailable to citizens from a specific list ofcountries compiled by the government ofthe Russian Federation. That list includesIndia.

Electronic visas are issued free ofcharge within four days after the submis-sion of the application. A foreign nation-al entering the Russian Federation on ane-visa may stay in the country for up toeight days from the date of entry withinthe validity period. E-visas cannot beextended, nor may the period of stay beextended.

To ensure state security and protectpublic health from the Coronavirus infec-tion in the Russian Federation, the issuanceof electronic visas has been suspended.

Dear friends,

It is my honour to greet you todayon the Day of Russia, whichmarks the renaissance as a sov-

ereign and democratic country. It is heartening to note that one

of the first major international ini-tiatives taken by Russia, after the dis-solution of the USSR, was the sign-ing of the Treaty of Friendship andCooperation with India on January28, 1993. The year 2020 marks the20th anniversary of the strategicpartnership between the two coun-tries. It also marks the 10th anniver-sary of elevating it to the level of spe-cial and privileged strategic partner-ship, which is one-of-a-kind, rich insubstance and unique in terms ofmutual respect, trust and benefit.The fact that this time we celebrateour National Day, 75 years after thedefeat of the Nazi Germany in GreatPatriotic War, doubles the signifi-cance of the date.

The Coronavirus pandemicfailed to disunite our people and,despite the limitations, gave an

impetus to our collaboration on var-ious tracks, including the develop-ment of COVID-19 vaccine, jointwork within BRICS, SCO and otherinternational fora. While markingthe Day of Russia, we can proudlynote that it is people-to-people con-tacts and mutual affinity that reallymakes Russian-Indian friendshipso strong. Annual summits, heldalternately in two countries, are keyevents of the year providing majorboosts to further advance the bilat-eral cooperation.

It comes as no surprise that it isour common goal to continue fulfill-ing the inexhaustible potential ofRussia-India trade, investment, tech-nological, scientific and culturalinteraction as well as strengtheningour cooperation multilaterally in thenear future and beyond.

Friendship and strategic part-nership of Russia and India has allthe prerequisites to thrive and blos-som for the security and prosperityof not only our nations but also theworld at large.

Jai Rus! Jai Hind!

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As the world responds different-ly to the COVID-19 pandem-ic, with many nations enforcingsevere “lockdown” norms,Sweden opted for a more

lenient approach that entailed just behav-ioural recommendations at the individuallevel. Its approach was controversial but notnecessarily reckless and was deliberately cal-ibrated and predicated on the logic of “herdimmunity” even as this was not as suchmade official.

The management of the COVID crisiswas sought on the underlying principle thatthe citizenry would cooperate with theGovernment in a disciplined, patient andsolidarity fashion, one that defines theSwedish way of life and conditions. A nearpolitical consensus among major politicalparties to pursue this revolutionaryapproach garnered popular support. Unlikeother Scandinavian countries, Sweden didnot enforce widespread lockdown to con-tain the COVID-19 pandemic.

Gatherings of more than 50 peoplewere banned, interaction with people over70 years of age was limited. At the sametime, bar and restaurants were allowed toprovide table service and online learningfor high schools was enforced even asschools for younger children stayed open.Everything else continued as before and theGovernment undertook basic precautionsand relied on common sense of the citizensand discretion of the “rational humanitar-ians” as Swedes are popularly known to be.

Debate abounds about the “success”and “failure” of the Swedish approach tocounter the novel virus. With a death tollof 449 per million inhabitants, Sweden’sfatality rate was much higher compared to45 in Norway, 100 in Denmark and 58 inFinland. But Swedes remained committedto work ethics and protected their export-driven economy from crippling under thegrip of the “lockdown.” Lessons of the eco-nomic slowdown in the early 1990s rever-berated all across the nation. While the ver-dict on the Swedish approach is still out aswe weigh the pros and cons, the rest of theworld — especially India which had earli-er punted on the “lockdown” approach —is now willy-nilly opting for this strategy.

Reality is that India’s war againstCOVID-19 has not progressed as wasplanned initially. We have not as yet flat-tened the “curve.” There has been a steeprise in the number of COVID positive cases.Testing numbers, too, are very low. Yet,socio-economic pressure or the sheer“unsustainability” of the lockdown (afterfour extensions) compelled theGovernment to declare “Unlock 1.0,” whichrelies on societal compliance of various rec-ommendations and more stringent condi-tions. A phased “exit” has allowed unre-stricted movement of goods and people,inter and intra-State.

Movement has been allowed even as

the Coronavirus spread putsdensely populated areas onhigh alert. Metro cities such asDelhi and Mumbai are runningout of hospital beds. This maywell be fait accompli in manyways, given the horrific expe-rience of the migrant workers,the capitulation of the MSMEsector and agrarian pressure, allof which have forced theinevitable “unlocking.” Theoperative expression is nolonger about “flattening thecurve” but “managing” and“living with the virus.” This issomewhat akin to Sweden butcan we replicate the Swedishmodel and better still, imbibelessons and improve on thesame?

First things first, the phe-nomenon of “social distancing”is based on the availability ofbasic space to manoeuvre andoperate. Sweden has a popula-tion density of less than 23 peo-ple/km2 as compared to over412 people/km2 in India. So,while the urban clusters ofStockholm remain the epicen-tre of the Swedish challenge, itpales into insignificance whencompared to the squalid condi-tions of slum areas like Dharaviin Mumbai, where families ofseven to eight people can residein single-room pigeonhole-like

chawls. This space squeeze alsoextends to the Indian commer-cial realm — be it in terms ofmanufacturing or services — asthe manpower-intensive indus-trial framework optimises spacewith considerably lesser sensi-tivity towards working condi-tions.

However, there’s also apolitico-cultural context thatsets apart the Swedish land-scape from the Indian reality.Much of our non-complianceto governmental advisoriesstems from a misplaced senseof entitlement and disdain forthe authorities. Whereas inSweden, there is an overarchingdeference to the word of theauthority, science-based guide-lines and civic respect for oth-ers. The subliminal Jantelagenprinciple at play in the Swedishpsyche is in sharp contrast tothe VVIP culture or “exempt-ed” culture in India that allowsdangerous liberties to be takenby a chosen few.

Further, the commonalityof single-person householdsand non-religious society helpsthe Swedish context. In India,households are substantiallylarger. Among the foremostplaces to be “unlocked” here inIndia were places of worship,which naturally draw large

crowds. Lastly, and most important-

ly, the containment and com-munication strategy in Swedenwas entrusted to the nation’sepidemiologist, Anders Tegnell.Back home, the country’shyper-active federal structurehas ensured that politicians,bureaucrats and even godmenissue a variety of guidelines andopinion shows, all of whichcomes wrapped with politicaland personal agenda whenfact-based information dissem-ination should be the order ofthe day.

Despite Sweden’s much-bandied approach, it, too, hasnot been a shining example ofmanaging the pandemic suc-cessfully (unlike a NewZealand). This despitefavourable ground conditionssupporting its unique approach.

As India enters the defaultSwedish style of “opening up”,albeit with some constraints, amassive challenge lies ahead.That of socio-economic andcultural differences vis-à-visSweden. This poses anotherchallenge. The so-called “flat-tening of the curve” and themathematical benefit of “herdimmunity” is yet to be estab-lished in Sweden. So with thequestionable efficacy of the

liberalised Swedish model,India will have to “manage” thecrisis somehow and bide itstime until a pharmacologicalsolution is found. The so-calledCOVID relief package in Indiais in close proximity to themuch-criticised Swedish pack-age that is replete with loansand subsidies and much lesserquantum for direct payments orfor building medical infra-structure. Thankfully, certainlessons, like the importance ofusing a face mask, has beendrilled into the Indian psyche.On the other hand, the Swedishpopulace did not pay muchimportance to it.

Indeed, the importance of“securing” vulnerable sections,for example the migrant andthe aged population, has beenfelt in India since the inceptionof the Corona crisis. The onlything that India needs to do dif-ferently from what it has beendoing until now is to have aunified “voice” and policyframework and rational, sci-ence-based conversations.Unfortunately, even with strictenforcement of advisories, if leftto the citizens, the situation canworsen considerably.

(The writer, a military vet-eran, is a former Lt Governor ofAndaman & Nicobar Islands)

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Sir — Publishers and book-sellers may still be able to surviveby switching over to the formatof e-reading and reaching out toprospective readers. However, itis school textbook publishersand booksellers who will sufferthe most on account of the pan-demic. Supply of school text-books starts in February andcontinues until June-July. As there-opening of the schoolsremains uncertain, only a fewwell-resourced textbook pub-lishers are supplying onlinematerials to students.

There are millions of chil-dren who still have no access toonline classes and they have notbeen able to get the textbooksthey need either from theNational Council of EducationalResearch and Training (NCERT)or the private publishers asschools remain closed indefinite-ly. Even if the textbook publish-ers manage to supply books asand when the schools re-open,they would be unable to get theirdues. The Government mustrescue them.

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Sir — It was interesting to notethat the Supreme Court hasdirected States and UnionTerritories to identify thosestranded migrant workers who arewilling to go back to their nativeplaces across the country andtransport them home within a

period of 15 days. While hearinga PIL on the plight of migrantlabourers across the country, theapex court said that the Centremust provide additional trains toStates within 24 hours of demand.It added that State Governmentsand Union Territories must sub-mit schemes to give employmentto the migrants. They have also

been asked to facilitate counsellingfor the returning migrant labour-ers. These are wonderful sugges-tions. It is now for the authoritiesto ensure that proper arrange-ments are made so that these peo-ple are quickly transported andtheir ordeal ends.

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Sir — The Union Government’sattempts to provide succour tothe migrant labourers have notbeen successful. Many migrantworkers are now returning to thecities due to the lack of jobs forsubsistence in villages. Schemesto add rural jobs have not beensuccessful. Schemes to boost theMSME sector, too, remaincaught up in the cobweb of pro-cedures.

It’s high time for theGovernment to fast-trackschemes under MGNREGA. Theskills of the migrant workersmust be tapped effectively so asto increase rural income. Settingup small-scale industries willboost the rural economy andreinvigorate the national econo-my. Mahatma Gandhi had envis-aged the progress of Indiathrough rural development. TheGovernment must exercise its willand go ahead with enforcing theschemes in full swing to eradicaterural poverty.

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On June 12, 2002, the International LabourOrganisation (ILO) launched the WorldDay Against Child Labour to bring global

attention to the prevalence of child abuse and makeconcerted efforts for its elimination. It bringstogether governments, employers, workers organ-isations, civil society as well as millions of peopleto highlight the plight of child labourers and mea-sures that can help them. This World Day AgainstChild Labour, the focus is on the impact theCOVID-19 crisis will have on children. The eco-nomic, health and social crisis emanating from thepresent situation can push millions of vulnerablechildren out of school and into the clutches of childtraffickers.

As the financial resources and meagre savingsof low-income households begin to exhaust them-selves, the exigencies of time require them to havemultiple streams of income, no matter how lowthey are. This results in reliance on their children,who are viewed as an extra pair of hands, to assistin the pursuit of feeding the family. As a result, chil-dren from affected families are compelled to par-ticipate in economic activities to support the house-hold income and some drop out of school due tothe parents’ inability to afford fees.

It is well-documented that once they stop goingto school and start working, it becomes extreme-ly difficult to get them back into classrooms. Butfor several of these families, their child’s labourwon’t just be an additional support; rather it willbe the means for their survival. In many cases chil-dren have lost their parents and guardians, somehave died because of the disease and others havelost their livelihood because of the shuttering ofeconomic activities. Such dire conditions will pushmillions of children to seek work in the informalsector — at factory units, construction sites, agri-cultural fields and as domestic servants.

Estimates of child labour: At present, thereare 152 million working children between five and17 years in the world, according to the data pro-vided by the ILO, of which 23.8 million childrenare in India. Out of these, the health and safety ofaround 73 million children are at risk due to theiremployment being characterised by hazardous con-ditions. Most of the official estimates on childlabour in India are based on the labour force sur-veys of the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO)and the Census. According to the Census data,child labourers between the ages of five and 14 haddeclined from 12.7 million in 2001 to 10.1 millionin 2011. Furthermore, the total number of adoles-cent labourers in the country was almost twice at22.87 million, bringing the total (five-18 years) toaround 33 million. The National Sample Surveyestimates also show that child labour has declinedsignificantly from 10.1 million in 1999 to 1.4 mil-lion in 2017.

Impact on children: The education of chil-dren engaged as labourers will effectively come toan end due to their parents’ inability to afford theirschool fees as a result of unemployment and short-age of monetary resources. Faced with the starkreality of poverty and desperation, the poor oftenhave to let go of the promise that education car-ries with it, that of social mobility. The lack of for-mal education robs them of possible opportuni-ties and reinforces inter-generational poverty. It willsimultaneously have a calamitous effect on thehealth and mental well-being of children as theyare pushed into a world of hardships.

Moreover, there is also an increase in instancesof child marriage among poor households as theyare unable to afford the maintenance of all the fam-

ily members. The girl child is the first tobear the brunt of these reduced circum-stances. While employed as child labour-ers, girls are at a greater risk of sexualassault, human trafficking and prostitu-tion. For instance, past experience showsthat school closures during the Ebolavirus’ outbreak in West Africa from 2014to 2016 contributed to a spike in childlabour.

Additionally, the 1997 Asian finan-cial crisis and the 2009 global econom-ic crisis have also shown that more chil-dren are likely to be forced into childlabour and trafficking, neglect, sexualabuse and teenage pregnancies, particu-larly in those countries that have little orno social protection, like India.

Another study from Nepal showsthat paternal disability and death wereamong the strongest factors behind achild’s engagement in the worst forms oflabour. The study also found that whenhousehold incomes or earning opportu-nities unexpectedly drop, child labourtends to increase.

According to a study by WorldBank, girl students in Sierra Leone werenearly 16 percentage points behind inschool attendance after losing an entireyear due to the Ebola outbreak in 2015.The same report mentioned that sec-ondary school enrolment fell by aroundseven per cent in the Philippines amidthe Asian financial crisis of 1998-99.

At the peak of school closures inApril, over 91 per cent of all learners hadbeen asked to stay away from classroomsglobally, according to the UNESCO.Their estimates show that around 320million learners have been affected inIndia. A major chunk of these studentswere enrolled in primary and secondaryschools (86 per cent) and do not haveaccess to digital education.

Thus, for many of them, the COVID-19 crisis will mean limited or no class-room-based learning or falling furtherbehind their peers. There is a high prob-ability that many of these schoolchildrenwill get recruited as workers.

Government efforts: Over the lasttwo decades, India has put in place arange of laws and programmes to addressthe problem of child labour. The CentralGovernment enacted the Child Labour(Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986,to prohibit children from being employedin specified hazardous occupations andat the same time regulated their work-ing conditions in other non-hazardousoccupations and processes.

The 86th Amendment to theConstitution made in 2002 was a water-shed moment in the country’s effortsagainst child labour. It made the right toeducation a fundamental right and madeit the State’s responsibility to provide freeand compulsory education to childrenbetween six and 14 years.

In fact, the Right to Education(RTE) Act, 2009, has made it mandato-ry for the State to ensure that all childrenaged between six and14 years are inschool and receive free education.

Plus, the Child Labour (Prohibitionand Regulation) Amendment Act, 2016,completely prohibits the engagement ofchildren below 14 years in all occupationsand processes. It additionally prohibitsadolescents (14-18 years) from workingin hazardous occupations and process-es.

Sustainable Development Goals(SDG) of the 2030 Agenda: Goal 8 of theagenda urges UN member states,employers and workers’ organisations, aswell as civil society organisations, to elim-inate child labour by 2025 and forcedlabour, modern slavery and human traf-ficking by 2030. The Government ofIndia has adopted these SDGs as a frame-work for its future developmental plans.

But despite a plethora of efforts bythe Government and civil society organ-isations, a large number of children con-tinue to be engaged in both non-haz-ardous and hazardous occupations dueto implementation loopholes and eco-nomic compulsions.

The way forward: In order toaddress the challenges, policymakers

and stakeholders should explore avenuesto collaborate with civil society organi-sations such as NGOs and local volun-tary organisations/individual volunteers,who could help State Governments inreaching schools that aren’t equippedwith technology-based platforms liketheir private counterparts. This couldpotentially help in keeping childrenengaged through distance learning.

Furthermore, the strengthening ofthe Mid-Day Meal Scheme and provid-ing food to children at their homes tillthe lockdown lasts could ensure that theydon’t drop out of school. StateGovernments must ensure that schoolswaive off their fee for the next fewmonths. Added to this, the Governmentneeds to ensure income support and foodsecurity for the poor and vulnerablehouseholds, so as to minimise the help-lessness of the families.

Lastly, steps should be taken tomaintain a database of children at thelocal level so that their status can bereviewed periodically and immediateaction from Government and commu-nities can be taken.

Responding to this impending cri-sis is the need of the hour or else we standto lose a generation of children. Thiswould push us further away from achiev-ing the goal of eliminating child labourby 2025. Governments and policymak-ers need to be cognisant of the voices ofchildren, especially in matters affectingtheir daily lives and their future.

It is crucial that serious action isdirected towards saving the future of chil-dren whose vulnerability to exploitationand abuse has been escalated by the pan-demic. All children possess the right tohave a childhood. Putting this develop-mental issue on the backburner wouldhave long-lasting consequences thatcould adversely affect the country’sfuture generations.

(Mehta is Co-Founder and VisitingSenior Fellow, IMPRI and Gupta isResearch Assistant at Institute for HumanDevelopment, Delhi)

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I have attended a few hundredvideo conferences in the last fewmonths, some of them with senior

Government officials, explaining andpatiently easing many of us into thenew normal and Government poli-cies. While the Government is adjust-ing well with the new era of digitalmeetings and should be duly recog-nised for this, there are a few techni-cal glitches. These glitches are morebehavioural by nature. For example,I could still see a couple of junior col-leagues or IT support (almost every

time) trying to assist the senior guywith the laptop and fixing the mikes.An old office help would occasion-ally drop by to replenish the table withrefreshments for senior officials.

Mind you, sometimes manyaround the table are not wearing theirmasks and the colleagues trying tohelp are doing so from close quarters.That is, to my mind a big technicalglitch in breaking past the Covid codeas India starts to unlock and push theeconomy back on track.

India, if it needs to get past thepandemic, has to change its behaviourand the way citizens live. The seniorbureaucrat at the top has to lead byexample by keeping an electric ket-tle in the spacious cabin to make hisgreen tea and has to walk to the watercooler to fill the bottle. These DIYhabits have to be instilled ifGovernment offices need to startfunctioning.

It doesn’t help to have

Government offices go on blip mode,leaving employees confused.

One must admit here that inDelhi at least, personnel depart-ments sitting across 80 ministries havestarted to issue “revised guidelines”for working out of poorly-ventilated,shared and now almost ancient work-spaces called Government bhavans.This has to be the beginning of over-hauling of Government and in manycases private workspaces around thecountry.

While we are still on the bureau-cratic part, not many know that tilldate a signing authority’s digital sig-nature isn’t a valid approval for anyGovernment document. A physicalpaper trail still has to move througha bunch of fax machines and an equalnumber of broken cable systemsbefore it finally lands at the relevantauthority’s table for signing and isthen faxed back to the departmentsconcerned.

Imagine the kind of human pres-ence needed even during a pandem-ic for a simple Government notifica-tion, even if we ignore the time lag.

Now, let’s switch gears here andtalk about the handling of the crisisby the Centre and States. Political par-ties are blaming each other andDelhi again finds itself pulled backand forth over ownership of its hos-pitals and rights of citizens all acrossthe country vs those from the State.IT cells of political parties are doingthe heavy lifting here, leading fromthe front in this war for constantattention of voters. My fear is this“war” may well “flatten the wrongcurve” and here I mean the lifeline ona human’s palm.

Sure, a couple of crucial States aregetting into election mode. Sure anaggressive China has flexed its mili-tary muscle from the Himalayasright up to the Indian ocean. Yet thequestion is, do the creative and polit-

ical digital cells need to focus on cre-ating memes or should they be con-centrating their energies on trying tobe a nation of 125 crore plus peopleout there to fight the deadly diseaselike an organised army?

While doing so, let’s acknowledgethe unique mosaic of cultures,lifestyles and heritage that makes ournation what it is. One can never solvethe crisis by imposing a single ruleacross the nation. Perhaps the nation-wide hard lockdown could havebeen mapped more carefully forhotspots which are there now and willcontinue to emerge across the coun-try for the next few months.

The country is ruled by democ-ratically-elected and in most casesclean majority-powered StateGovernments which have the confi-dence of the electorate. The CentralGovernment has robust majorityand no election in site for the nextfour years. This is an opportunity for

all to come together and showcaseout-of-the-box statesmanship andnot a politically-clever move to a nowdepressed and disgusted voter.

State Governments it seems havegot the wrong message of trying tocontain the “numbers” and not the“disease.” Due to the States’ eagernessto declare themselves “virus-free,”many citizens are facing hardshipsand patients are not getting beds athospitals.

The war against this deadly dis-ease has brought a long battle forhumanity, technological excellence,self-reliance and perhaps a $10 tril-lion economy right at our doorstep.We as citizens must be “atma nirbhar”i.e. listen to our conscience while try-ing to achieve the trillion dollardream of an “atma nirbhar” or self-reliant Bharat. This will need us tochange our civil behaviour.

(The writer is a senior policy ana-lyst)

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President Donald Trumplobbed a broadside attack

Thursday against theInternational Criminal Court(ICC) by authorising econom-ic sanctions and travel restric-tions against court workersinvolved in investigatingAmerican troops andIntelligence officials and thoseof allied nations, includingIsrael, for possible war crimesin Afghanistan and elsewhere.

Trump’s executive ordermarked his administration’slatest attack against interna-

tional organisations, treatiesand agreements that don’t hewto its policies. It would blockthe financial assets of courtemployees and bar thoseemployees and their immedi-ate relatives from entering theUnited States.

Secretary of State MikePompeo denounced TheHague-based tribunal as a“kangaroo court” that has beenunsuccessful and inefficient inits mandate to prosecute warcrimes. He said that the USwould punish the ICC employ-ees for any investigation orprosecution of Americans in

Afghanistan and added thatthey could also be banned forprosecuting Israelis for allegedabuses against Palestinians.

Pompeo’s comments wereechoed by Defense SecretaryMark Esper, Attorney GeneralWiliiam Barr and nationalsecurity adviser RobertO’Brien, who spoke at a StateDepartment announcement ofthe new measures. Barr alsoannounced that the U.S. wouldinvestigate possible corruptionwithin the ICC hierarchy thathe said raised suspicions thatRussia and other adversariescould be interfering in theinvestigatory process.

None of the four men tookquestions from reporters atthe event.

The Hague-based courtwas created in 2002 to prose-

cute war crimes and crimes ofhumanity and genocide inareas where perpetrators mightnot otherwise face justice. It has123 state parties that recognizeits jurisdiction.

Human rights groupsdeplored the Trump adminis-tration’s move.

“The Trump administra-tion’s latest action paves the wayfor imposing sanctions againstICC officials and demonstratescontempt for the global rule oflaw,” said Andrea Prasow, theWashington director of HumanRights Watch. “This assaulton the ICC is an effort to blockvictims of serious crimeswhether in Afghanistan, Israelor Palestine from seeing justice.Countries that support inter-national justice should publiclyoppose this blatant attempt at

obstruction.”Thursday’s announcement

is the latest action that puts theadministration at odds withallies in Europe and elsewhere.Since taking office, Trump haswithdrawn from the Paris cli-mate accord, the Iran nucleardeal and two arms controltreaties with Russia. He haspulled the U.S. out of the U.N.Human Rights Council and theU.N. Educational, Scientificand Cultural Organization,threatened to leave theInternational Postal Union andannounced an end to cooper-ation with the World HealthOrganization.

Unlike those treaties andagreements, though, the UnitedStates has never been a mem-ber of the InternationalCriminal Court.

Administrations of both partieshave been concerned aboutthe potential for political pros-ecutions of American troopsand officials for alleged warcrimes and other atrocities.

European Union foreignpolicy chief Josep Borrell saidTrump’s order “is a matter ofserious concern,” describingthe European Union nations as“steadfast supporters of theInternational Criminal Court.”

“The court has been play-ing a key role in providinginternational justice andaddressing the gravest inter-national crimes,” he said. “It isa key factor in bringing justiceand peace. It must be respect-ed and supported by allnations.”

The executive order autho-rizes the secretary of state, in

consultation with the Treasurysecretary, to block financialassets within U.S. jurisdictionof court personnel who direct-ly engage in investigating,harassing or detaining U.S.personnel. The order autho-rizes the secretary of state toblock court officials and theirfamily members involved in theinvestigations from enteringthe United States. The ICC-related travel restrictions gobeyond what the StateDepartment issued last year.

White House press secre-tary Kayleigh McEnany said ina statement that, despite repeat-ed calls by the United Statesand its allies, the ICC has notembraced reform. She allegedthe court continues to pursuepolitically motivated investi-gations against the U.S. and its

partners, including Israel. “We are concerned that

adversary nations are manipu-lating the InternationalCriminal Court by encourag-ing these allegations againstUnited States personnel,”McEnany said.

“Further, we have strongreason to believe there is cor-ruption and misconduct at thehighest levels of theInternational Criminal Courtoffice of the prosecutor, callinginto question the integrity of itsinvestigation into Americanservice members.”

The US has extractedpledges from most of thecourt’s members that they willnot seek such prosecutionsand risk losing US military andother assistance.

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President Donald Trump isresuming in-person

fundraising events after a three-month hiatus as his campaignworks to maintain a cashadvantage over Democrat JoeBiden that it believes is vital tovictory in November. Trump istraveling to Dallas on Thursdayto raise more than $10 millionfor his campaign and theRepublican Party, accordingto a GOP official who spoke oncondition of anonymity to dis-cuss the plan. He’ll hold anoth-er event Saturday at his privategolf course in New Jersey.

The moves come at a crit-ical moment in the campaign.Trump’s reelection plans havebeen rocked by the coron-avirus pandemic, a severe eco-nomic recession and weeks ofnationwide protests over racialinjustice. That’s added to a

sense of urgency to build on themore than $250 million Trumpalready has in the bank to over-come stiff headwinds.

“There is definitely pent-upexcitement for in-personfundraisers,” said RepublicanNational Committeespokesman Michael Ahrens.“Donors are eager to supportthe campaign and our party.”

Republican Party andTrump campaign officials heldvirtual fundraising events dur-ing the pandemic, but in-personevents featuring the presidentare far more lucrative. Trump isplanning a steady stream offundraisers to keep his cam-paign flush with cash throughElection Day. The fundraisingtrip also marks the president’sfirst formal return to politicalactivities since the pandemicand comes ahead of Trump’splanned resumption of politicalrallies later this month.

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Army Gen. Mark Milley, thenation’s top military officer,

said Thursday he was wrong toaccompany President DonaldTrump on a walk throughLafayette Square that ended ina photo op at a church. He saidhis presence in uniform amidprotests over racial injustice“created a perception of themilitary involved in domesticpolitics.”

“I should not have beenthere,” the Joint Chiefs chair-man said in remarks to aNational Defense Universitycommencement ceremony.

Milley’s statement riskedthe wrath of a president sensi-tive to anything hinting ofcriticism of events he hasstaged. Pentagon leaders’ rela-tions with the White Housealready were extraordinarilytense after a disagreement lastweek over Trump’s threat to usefederal troops to quell civil

unrest triggered by GeorgeFloyd’s death in police custody.

Trump’s June 1 walkthrough the park to pose witha Bible at a church came afterauthorities used pepper sprayand flash bangs to clear thepark and streets of largelypeaceful protesters demon-strating in the aftermath ofFloyd’s death.

Milley’s commentsThursday were his first publicstatements about the walk withTrump, which the White Househas hailed as a presidential“leadership moment” akin toWinston Churchill inspectingdamage from German bombs in London during WorldWar II. Milley said his presenceand the photographs compro-mised his commitment to a mil-itary divorced from politics.

“My presence in thatmoment and in that environ-ment created a perception ofthe military involved in domes-tic politics,” Milley said.

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Beijing will honour its tradedeal with the US and wants

to see better ties withWashington, senior Chineseofficials said on Thursday.

Zhu Guangyao, a formerfinance minister and Cabinetadvisor, said the two countries should “waste notime” in improving relations tohelp better coordinate aresponse to the coronaviruspandemic.

He and other officials toldreporters in Beijing that the twobiggest economies are so close-ly entwined that they must finda way to work together becausea lack of cooperation has comeat a “high price.”

“The close connectionbetween the Chinese and U.S.economies is the result of fourdecades of hard work on both sides, and that is alsothe reflection of the wishes ofconsumers in China and theUnited States,” Zhu said.

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Joe Biden said his chief worryis that President Donald

Trump will attempt to “steal’the November election, and theDemocratic challenger sayshe’s even considered the possi-bility that the Republicanincumbent would refuse toleave the White House shouldhe lose. Trump’s press secretaryaccused Biden of trafficking in“conspiracy theories.’

“My single greatest con-cern: This president’s going totry and steal this election,”Biden said on “The Daily Showwith Trevor Noah,” which airedWednesday night.

“This is a guy who said allmail-in ballots are fraudulent,voting by mail, while he sitsbehind the desk in the Oval Office and writes his

mail-in ballot to vote in the primary.”

Biden was asked whetherhe’s considered what wouldhappen if Trump refused tovacate the presidency in theevent he wasn’t reelected. “Ihave,” Biden said, before sug-gesting that the military couldstep in to ensure a peacefultransition of power.

“I am absolutely convincedthey will escort him from theWhite House with great dis-patch,” the former vice presi-dent said.

White House press secre-tary Kayleigh McEnanyresponded that Biden was tak-ing “a ridiculous proposition.”

“This President’s lookingforward to November,’McEnany told Fox NewsChannel’s “America’sNewsroom.”

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Washington: The UnitedStates may see 200,000 deathsbecause of the coronavirus atsome point in September, aleading expert said, while totalU.S. coronavirus cases sur-passed 2 million on Wednesday as governmentsrelax restrictions.

Ashish Jha, the head ofHarvard’s Global HealthInstitute, told CNN in an inter-view on Wednesday that with-out drastic action, the numberof US deaths would march on.

“Even if we don’t haveincreasing cases, even if wekeep things flat, it’s reasonableto expect that we’re going to hit200,000 deaths sometime dur-ing the month of September,”Jha said. “And that’s justthrough September. The pan-demic won’t be over inSeptember.”

Jha added: “I’m really wor-ried about where we’re going tobe in the weeks and monthsahead.” Agency

BRUSSELS: The EuropeanUnion on Thursday urged allits member countries to startlifting travel restrictions ontheir common borders fromnext week, saying that the clo-sures they introduced to tack-le the coronavirus do little tolimit its spread.

The EU’s executive arm,the European Commission,wants Europe’s ID check-freetravel area to be up and run-ning again by the end of June.Once that has happened, aban on nonessential travel tothe continent can also gradu-ally be eased.

Unveiling the executivearm’s recommendations forhelping to breathe new lifeinto Europe’s virus-ravagedtourism sector, EU HomeAffairs Commissioner YlvaJohansson told member coun-tries that they “should open upas soon as possible, and thecommission recommends to doit already on Monday.” AP

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China has reported 16 newcoronavirus cases, includ-

ing the first confirmed case inBeijing after 56 days, officialmedia here said.

A local case of COVID-19 in Beijing’s Xicheng districtwas confirmed on Thursday.The capital had no new coro-navirus case for 56 consecutivedays, state-run China Dailyreported, citing the localmunicipal government.

The Chinese governmenthas kept a tight lid on the casesby implementing strict quar-antine procedures for localsarriving from different cities aswell as for people arrivingfrom abroad.

On June 5, Beijing had low-ered the COVID-19 emer-gency response, marking the return of normalcy in thecapital.

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Russia’s coronavirus case-load surpassed 500,000 on

Thursday, after health officialsreported 8,779 new infections.

The nation’s total currently stands at 502,436 con-firmed cases, including 6,532 deaths.

Experts both in Russia andabroad expressed doubts aboutthe country’s remarkably lowpandemic death toll, with some alleging that numberswere manipulated for politicalreasons.

The Russian Governmentrepeatedly denied the allegations.

Despite recording almost9,000 new cases daily for thepast month, Russian authoritieshave started easing lockdownrestrictions in many regions —including Moscow, whichaccounts for about 40 per centof all virus cases and almosthalf of officially reporteddeaths.

Beijing: China’s Foreign Ministry hascriticized a European Union reportalleging that Beijing was spreading dis-information about the coronaviruspandemic.

Spokesperson Hua Chunying toldreporters on Thursday that “the EU

evades many obvious facts but specif-ically mentions China. This under-mines the credibility and authority ofthis report.” Hua called the accusationsagainst China “false.”

According to the European com-mission, Russia and China have

mounted “targeted influence opera-tions and disinformation campaigns inthe EU, its neighbourhood and glob-ally.” That marked the first time Chinahas been named by the EU executivebody as spreading disinformation.

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States are rolling back lock-downs, but the coronavirusisn’t done with the US.

Cases are rising in nearlyhalf the states, according to anAssociated Press analysis, aworrying trend that couldworsen as people return towork and venture out duringthe summer.

In Arizona, hospitals havebeen told to prepare for theworst. Texas has more hospi-talized Covid-19 patients thanat any time before. And thegovernor of North Carolinasaid recent jumps caused himto rethink plans to reopenschools or businesses.

There is no single reason toexplain all the surges. In somecases, more testing has revealedmore cases. In others, local out-breaks are big enough to push

statewide tallies higher. Butexperts think at least some aredue to lifting stay-at-homeorders, school and businessclosures, and other restrictionsput in place during the springto stem the virus’s spread.

The virus is also graduallyfanning out.

“It is a disaster thatspreads,” said Dr. Jay Butler,who oversees coronavirusresponse work at the U.S.Centers for Disease Controland Prevention. “It’s not likethere’s an entire continentalseismic shift and everyone feelsthe shaking all at once.”

The virus first landed onthe US coasts, carried by inter-national travelers infectedabroad. For months, the epi-center was in northeasternstates. More recently, thebiggest increases have been inthe South and the West.

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The Government onThursday virtually rejected

rating actions by internationalagencies, saying India’s funda-mentals demand a much bet-ter sovereign rating and thecountry’s willingness and abil-ity to repay debt is gold stan-dard.

In first official commentssince Moody’s Investors Servicedowngraded the country’s rat-ing and S&P retained it at thelowest investment grade, ChiefEconomic AdvisorKrishnamurthy Subramaniansaid India’s economy will wit-

ness a decline in the current fis-cal, but the drop will be limit-ed if there is an economicrecovery in the October-Marchperiod.

Speaking to reporters, hesaid the finance ministry hadin April, which was just weeksinto lockdown, had estimatedGDP growth at 1.5-2 per centin the current fiscal on antici-pation of a V-shaped recovery.

“The V-shaped recoveryis driven by evidence of whatwas seen in the Spanish Flu...The anticipation of recovery ...What is uncertain thoughwhether the recovery will hap-pen in the second half of the

year or will it happen next yearand therefore the actual growthwill depend critically on whenthe recovery happens.

“If recovery does nothappen this year, the economywill basically have a decline inoutput this year and suppose inthe second half there is a recov-ery, that may be limited,”Subramanian said.

A V-shaped recovery is atype of economic recessionand recovery that resembles a“V” shape in charting. A V-shaped recovery involves asharp rise back to a previouspeak after a sharp decline inthese metrics.

He took comfort in ratingagencies acknowledgingreforms saying these are criti-cal elements for higher growthnext year.

The Ministry, he said, isworking on a large range ofgrowth estimates for this year,and recovery in the second halfor next year is also part of base-line expectation.

The Indian economy grewat the slowest pace in 11 yearsat 4.2 per cent in 2019-20.

S&P Global Ratings andFitch Ratings has forecastIndia’s economy to shrink by 5per cent in the current fiscal,while Moody’s has projected

growth to contract by 4 percent. S&P, however, has pro-jected GDP growth to bounceback to 8.5 per cent, Fitchexpects it at 9.5 per cent in2021-22. Moody’s has forecastgrowth at 8.7 per cent nextyear.

Moody’s, earlier thismonth, while downgradingIndia’s rating to lowest invest-ment grade, had said Indiafaces a prolonged period ofslower growth and policymak-ers will be challenged to miti-gate risks of low growth, dete-riorating fiscal position andfinancial sector stress.

S&P, on Wednesday,

retained India’s sovereign rat-ing at the lowest investmentgrade of ‘BBB-’ for the 13thyear in a row, saying that theeconomy and fiscal positionwill stabilise and begin torecover from 2021 onwards.

Making a case for ratingupgrade, Subramanian said,“When you take the willingnessto repay, India is gold-standardand with regard to ability torepay, India is close to gold-standard... India’s fundamentalsdemand a much better rating.”

The finance ministry, hesaid, has evaluated the pros andcons of options such as deficitmonetisation. “We keep all

options under considerationand will be evaluating them.”

On privatisation policy, hesaid banking will form part ofthe strategic sector and the gov-ernment is working on identi-fying strategic and non-strate-gic sectors.

“In non-strategic sectors,all public sector enterpriseswill be privatised.

In strategic sectors, thenumber of state-owned enter-prises will be limited to one tofour.

In most strategic sectors,there is competition from theprivate sector, where there isn’t,that will be enabled.

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Petrol and diesel prices havebecome more expensive for

the common man with oilmarketing companies raisingpump prices by 60 paise perlitre on Thursday.

The auto fuel prices havenow risen five days in a rowwith petrol prices increasing by�2.74 and diesel by �2.83 perlitre since Sunday. In three ofthe last five days, the priceshave risen by a sharp 60 paiseper litre while it increased by

around 40 and 55 paise per litreon Tuesday and Wednesday.

0Sources in oil marketingcompanies said that price risecould continue for anotherweek or 10 days as globalcrude prices are firming upwith a pick up in demand fol-lowing opening up ofeconomies across the globepost Covid-19 related lock-down. Even global crude pricesare on the rise and its priceshave more than doubled fromApril levels at over $40 a bar-rel level.

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The State Bank of India willdivest 2.1 per cent stake in

SBI Life to achieve the mini-mum public shareholding of 25per cent.In a regulatory filing,SBI said that it proposes to sellup to 2.10 crore shares of SBILife. The floor price for the saleshall be �725 per equity share.

The transaction will takeplace on Friday for the non-retail investors only.

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Subramanian on Thursday saidsetting up a bad bank may notbe a potent option to addressthe non-performing asset woesin the banking sector.Subramanian said when a banksells bad loans, it has to take ahaircut because when �100 goes bad, the actual

amount that can be expected islower than 100 and that leadsto haircut.

“So when the bank has tosell that loan to ARC (assetreconstruction company) or anew institution that is created,in that case it has to take hair-cut. When it takes haircut thatwill impact the P&L (profit andloss). And that is one of the keyaspect affecting the selling ofloans.

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The Indian stock marketdeclined on Thursday

morning tracking a fall in theAsian markets, after the USFederal Reserve projected thatits benchmark interest rates willremain near zero throughout2020, citing the severe impactof the pandemic.

All major Asian indices arecurrently trading in the red.

Following Fed’s statementon interest rates, the DowJones Industrial Average fell282.31 points, or 1.04 per centon Wednesday.

The Fed projected thatinterest rates will remain nearzero through at least 2022 aspolicy makers strive to supportthe recovery of the economyfrom the COVID-19-inducedrecession.

Federal Reserve ChairmanJerome Powell said: “Theextent of the downturn and thepace of recovery remain extra-ordinarily uncertain and willdepend in large part on oursuccess in containing thevirus.”

“A full recovery is unlike-ly to occur until people are con-fident that it is safe to re-engagein a broad range of activities,”he added.

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India’s economy will recoverafter the containment of the

COVID-19 and the countrywill maintain its sound netexternal position, Niti Aayogvice-chairman Rajiv Kumar saidon Thursday. Kumar furthersaid that India’s strong democ-ratic institutions promote poli-cy stability and the ongoing eco-nomic reforms, if executed well,should keep the country’sgrowth rate ahead of peers. Hiscomments have come amidMoody’s downgrading the coun-try’s rating and S&P retaining itat the lowest investment grade

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The Supreme Court onThursday ordered the

Department ofTelecommunications (DoT) toreconsider seeking �4 lakhcrore in past dues from non-telecom PSUs such as GAIL,saying raising such a demandusing its verdict on dues of tele-com companies was “totallyimpermissible”.

It also asked telecom com-panies, including Bharti Airteland Vodafone Idea Ltd, to fileaffidavits explaining the timeneeded by them to clear theremaining statutory dues that

arose from the court verdict ofincluding non-telecom rev-enues for calculating dues tothe Government.

A bench of Justice ArunMishra, S Abdul Nazeer and MR Shah sought theGovernment’s response onguarantees that can be soughtto ensure telecom companiesabide by a timeframe and pay-ment schedule.

“Our judgment could nothave the basis for demands onPSUs,” the bench observed.

“We would request you(DoT) to withdraw this other-wise we will take strict action.”

“This is wholly and total-

ly impermissible,” it said whilereferring to the demand raisedagainst the PSUs.

Following the apex court’sOctober 2019 verdict on theadjusted gross revenue (AGR)to be used for calculatingGovernment dues such aslicense fee and spectrumcharges, the DoT had sought �4 lakh crore in past duesfrom gas utility GAIL India Ltd,electricity transmission firmPowerGrid, Oil India Ltd, DelhiMetro, and others.

The State-owned firmschallenged the demand sayingtelecom wasn’t their core busi-ness and revenue from licencessuch as ISP formed a meagrepart of their revenue.

Solicitor General TusharMehta, appearing for DoT, toldthe bench that the departmentwould file an affidavit explain-ing as to why the AGRdemands were raised againstthe PSUs.

On the Governmentrequest for allowing telcos upto 20 years to pay the remain-ing �93,520 crore in AGR dues,it sought to know the rationale

for such a long time period andwanted to know what guaran-tees the company and theirdirectors can provide. Thecourt will hear the case next onJune 18.

After the apex court reject-ed pleas by Vodafone Idea,Bharti Airtel and TataTeleservices seeking review ofthe October 24 verdict thatwidened the definition of AGRby including non-telecom rev-enues as well as condonedreopening of dues payable bydoing self-assessment.

The DoT had in March moved a plea seekingstaggered payment over 20years of dues.

The plea also asked thattelcos not be charged a penal-ty and interests on penaltyand principal beyond the dateof the judgement.

During the hearing con-ducted through video-confer-encing on Thursday, Mehtatold the bench that theGovernment has extensivelyexamined the issue of AGRdues and it would be difficultfor the telecom companies topay the amount in one go.

The bench asked the DoTabout the time frame withinwhich the telecom companieswould pay the AGR dues.

Mehta told the bench thattelecom firms should give anundertaking on the issue ofpayment of dues.

New Delhi: Government-owned Power FinanceCorporation (PFC), India’sleading NBFC, signed an MoAwith Shri Kedarnath UtthanCharitable Trust, Govt. OfUttarakhand (SKUCT) for thereconstruction and restorationof Kedarnath town and its sur-rounding areas. Under theMoA, PFC will provide finan-cial assistance of �25,96,50,498(Rupees Twenty Five CroreNinety-Six Lakhs FiftyThousand Four Hundred andNinety-Eight) to SKUCT.

The agreement was signedon June 8, 2020. M PrabhakarDas, Chief General Manager(CSR&SD), PFC and Smt.IlaGiri, Additional ResidentCommissioner, Uttarakhand(on behalf of SKUCT) signed

the agreement on behalf ofrespective organisations.

The objective of the pact isto reconstruct and restore theinfrastructure ofKedarnathtown and its sur-

rounding areas, which includesconstructing new infrastruc-ture along the Saraswati Edgealong with construction of theCivic Centre, InterpretationCentre and Museum.

Kolkata: RK Arora, IDAS(1990 Batch) has taken over asMember (Finance), OrdnanceFactory Board (OFB), Kolkataon June 10, 2020. He has vastexperience in the areas offinancial policy, accounting,audit, budget, procurementand personnel matters.

He has held prestigiousassignments in Governmentof India as Additional Secretaryin UPSC, Finance Manager(Air) in Acquisition Wing ofMoD and Director in Ministryof Finance besides havingworked as IFA HQ TrainingCommand (Air Force), IFAHQ Coast Guard, IFA HQCentral Command of IndianArmy and in various fieldoffices of Defence AccountsDepartment.

Before joining this office,he was working as PrincipalController of Accounts(Factories), Kolkata.

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find it tough to furnish per-sonal guarantees as suggestedby the Supreme Court as anassurance for clearing all AGRdues over a 20 year period, abrokerage said on Thursday.

The Supreme Court onThursday agreed to consider aGovernment plan of paymentof �93,520 crore of balancedues by Vodafone Idea, Bharti Airtel and other telcosover 20 years.

It, however, sought toknow what guarantees can besought to ensure telecom com-panies abide to a timeframeand payment schedule itdecides.

“The apex court has askedprivate telcos to provide forsecurity and payment roadmap

in an attempt to allow telcos torepay AGR dues over a 20 yearperiod,” SBI Cap Securitiessaid in its comments on thecourt order.

It said a holistic pictureneeds to seen as telcos have toinvest in the network to repayboth AGR and outstandingspectrum dues.

“In our view, telcos mayfind it tough to furnish per-sonal guarantees and as such, the apex court (is)unlikely to allow for 20 yearsandmost likely consider ashorter time frame which maynot be good news for VodafoneIdea,” it said.

Vodafone Idea had to pay�58,254 crore as dues to theGovernment following theOctober 24, 2019 judgment ofthe Supreme Court asking non-telecom revenues to be includ-ed in adjusted gross revenues(AGR) that form the basis forcalculating statutory dues. Ofthis, the company has paid only�6,854 crore.

SBI Caps said the apexcourt raised concerns aboutdemands pertaining to AGRbeing furnished on PSUs by the Department ofTelecom and has asked theGovernment to reconsider suchdemands.

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wild forests? How would you plan itif you were to shoot a series there?

The ancient deserts, pristine swamps,rolling savannahs and mist-shroudedmountains might excite you initially butthe vast array of wildlife might pose severechallenges. How would you even shoot acrocodile when the tribals tell you not togo near the river or share stories about therisks involved and consequencesovernight?

For wildlife investigator, huntingguide and conservationist Ivan Carter,everything was worth the risk as he wasdetermined to bring out the truths behindthe human-wildlife conflicts in Africathrough his 10-part series titled Carter’sW.A.R. (Wild Animal Response).

Through the series, Ivan aims tospread awareness and uncovers variousthreats that African wildlife faces. Fromheavily-armed poachers, butchering ele-phants for their tusks to the slaughter ofrhinos for their horns, with each episode,Ivan takes us inside the frontlines of thewars being waged on its wildlife and triesto find solutions.

Though he says that he has beenaround big-game animals his whole life andhas “walked with wildlife” , this series isdifferent from the rest of his works as ithelped him integrate with communities onboth sides of the conservation line. Amidstthe sepia-toned, fairly intact rugged woods,shadowy, sprawling and riverine forests, acomplex protecting major herds of ele-phant, buffalo, hippopotamus and otherwild animals, not only was he a part of thechimpanzee rescue team, but also met aperson whose child was recently eaten bya crocodile. He even saw a freshly-poachedrhino for the first time. All of these makeyou realise how conservation and conver-sation around it is really important.

There have been numerousexamples of animalsbeing shot in the for-est, poached and

traded to satisfy human greed. Accordingto an African Wildlife Foundation, moreelephants and rhinos are dying frompoaching than from natural causes or con-flict with humans. Their body parts aretraded illegally as trophies, traditional med-icine, or trinkets on a lucrative black mar-ket — but these iconic pachyderms are notthe only wildlife species to be slaughteredfor human gain. Big cats like the lion andcheetah are killed for their bones; theAfrican wild dog and other large carnivoresdie at the hands of villagers protecting theirlivestock; great apes, like chimps, inCentral and West Africa, are hunted asbushmeat and their babies traded as pets;pangolins are captured for their scales andmeat.

We have all seen various classic ani-mal series that have captivated the audi-ence for long as they found it fascinatingto see nature and wildlife closer to themfrom the comfort of their living rooms.Unfortunately, what is never shown is theway animals are trained, killed and areused to satisfy the needs of humans.

The series tries to understand the per-spective of the poachers, animals and con-servationists together.

Excerpts:

� What prompted you to investigatethe story behind Africa’s wildlife?

I have always loved wildlifeand the outdoors. While growingup, I have seen shrinking forestcover, reduced habitat for wild ani-

mals, destruction of natural animalcorridors and hence, increasing pres-sure on wildlife. This, of course, isof great concern to me, to an extentthat I created a series to explore thethreat it faces and save the wildlifeof Africa. I also realised that it is high

time we educate and inform the pub-lic about the plight of our wildlife as

that would inspire people and hopeful-ly help them understand the damage. Icould find no better way to do this exceptfor a series.

� What interests you the most aboutcultural and human developmentissues?

I feel that most of the times, conser-vation and wildlife are missing from ourconversations. We don’t talk about thehuman encroachments on the forestlands because of population pressure and

development. As

humans, we are so busy “developing” thatwe forget our wonderful wild places andthe wildlife in it. Though it should be ofgreat concern but we don’t think aboutthe consequences if the planet loses itswildlife. Certainly, humans will have tofollow in some way or the other. Forexample, a world without bees is a worldwithout food. But even then, we spendmore time worrying about the nextiPhone to be released than researchingabout how to keep our bees healthy.

� How was your experience of shoot-ing the series?

It was a highly enriching one becausewith a few weeks on the ground, we gotto truly know, feel and develop relation-ships with the people on the front line.We got to spend a good amount of timein the amazing ecosystems — fromrainforests to deserts and everything inbetween. Knowing the people and thewildlife that live in these ecosystemsbuilds a genuine empathy. I feel thiscomes out in the show and feeds mypersonal passion to help make a differ-ence to their future.

�How challenging and threatening wasit to capture rhinoceros, wild ele-phants and other dangerous animals?

These were truly dangerous under-takings but I have been around big gameanimals my whole life and we werealways in the presence of professionals.So, while the danger was always very realto both the humans and many of thewildlife we were surrounded by, it wasalways under control.

�Each episode deals with a differentscenario. Did it demand a differentpreparation at each level?

Yes, very much so. The logistics, get-ting to know and research the stories, theweather and the travel was always anadventure and every single one vastlydifferent from the next.

�The series returned in 2015. Do youthink much has changed since then?

We are on the same path. Somethings have changed but not much. Thepandemic has, in my opinion, forced theworld to pause and think about what wehave done to the nature and wildlifearound us. And this is a very timelyrelease of the series for that reason.

�How do you think rampant poachingand human/wildlife conflict can bestopped? What is the way forward?

We were shocked by the realities ofwhat we discovered initially. I have livedin Africa all my life but I still didn’t realisejust how big some of the illegal wildlifetrade was and how terrible the impact hasbeen on wild ecosystems. By includingcommunity in the solutions, educatingour youth and creating series like this sothat the public can become aware of thetruth and happenings on the front linecould help mitigate poaching and wildlifecrime. I think there will always bewildlife crime but it can be reduced sig-nificantly with awareness and education.

�Some anecdotes and highlights thatyou would like to share from your jour-ney?

There are many but I can recall somespecial ones. I was a part of a chimpanzeerescue team, which was an incredibleexperience. I even met a person whosechild was recently eaten by a crocodileand saw first hand a freshly poachedrhino — all of these bring a stark reali-ty on the top of your mind and make yourealise how important conservation real-ly is. It’s not a luxury, it’s a necessity.

(The series launches onDiscovery, Discovery HD and

Discovery Plus App on June15.)

As a newly minted father, one of myprimary concerns was getting a

child seat, particularly with the freightservices closed and international trav-el being a no-no for some time tocome. Thankfully, a friend of mine,Bharat, came through with an infantcarrier that he’d used earlier fromChicco. However, some people askedwhy bother, after all carrying a childin a lap is ‘safe enough’ and since childseats are not mandatory in India, whybother. Using a child seat or child car-riers were a sign of privilege, it wasclaimed by some folks. Fair enough,but if I can afford it, why shouldn’t Iuse it.

But that did raise a more pertinentpoint, is it a privilege after all? Whilesome high-end brand car seats areindeed quite expensive, the top prod-ucts from Chicco, Britax and Maclarenall easily exceed $200, that is just �

15,000 before import duties, and suchseats are sold in India for � 20,000-25,000, which is still a small fractionof the price of even an entry-levelhatchback. That said, there are crash-tested car seats with both belt andISOFIX attachments that cost under �10,000 from e-commerce sites inIndia, these are not expensive by anystretch, particularly, when parentscan spend many multiples of that sumon a birthday party.

As a parent one assumes that youwould do your utmost and spend a lotof money to keep your child safe? So

why do I continue to see some parentsallowing their wards to stick theirheads out of car sunroofs? This despitetwo children dying of kite-string relat-ed injuries a couple of years ago inDelhi. And one can assume those arenot the only children who have dieddue to this carelessness. I have seenparents clutching onto children sittingon their lap, clearly not belted, why dothey behave like this? Yes, a mother’sgrip on her child might be a tight one,but the physics of an accident, even alow-speed one, can generate tremen-dous forces that could easily break that

bond and throw the child out of aseat.

And believe me when I tell youthat such carelessness is possibly moreprevalent among the rich and educat-ed than it is among the less-privileged.It is frightening to see school vansoperated by Maruti Omni’s, not a vehi-cle that I’d want to be in. It is just likeseeing a pillion rider carry a babe inher arms while riding on a motorcy-cle or scooter, or a family of four rid-ing on a two-wheeler. It is not thatthese parents want or wish their chil-dren to be unsafe, but limited resourcespush them to a compromise. Betterpublic transportation options will bea clear way out of this mess. But whatabout those who can afford good cars?Why do they get a pass for their reck-less behaviour regarding their chil-dren? Forget child seats, far too oftenI notice children below a certainheight sitting in the front seat of mod-ern vehicles, vehicles with frontairbags. Even keeping a child belted oron a lap in front is downright danger-ous — the airbag deployment in caseof an accident might easily snap theneck of the child. Even if you disablethe airbag or you have a car withouta passenger airbag, a child in front isso light that he or she could easily flyout of the seat and into the windshield,or maybe even outside the vehicle.

One has to be extremely carefulwith children in vehicles, yes kidsmight throw tantrums about sitting infront and parents will give in to them,often in sheer exasperation. It is noteasy, but if the safety of children isparamount and as parents that shouldbe our number one priority, then weshould ensure that our children arekept safe in cars and other vehicleswhether the law mandates it or not. Wemust work to remove the myth, whichI myself believed that child seats area privilege. If you can afford a car youcan afford to put your child in a prop-er and safe child seat too.

The trailer for the awaited Tamil film,Penguin is out. The crime thriller stars

Keerthy Suresh (Mahanati) as a pregnant moth-er who sets out on a dangerous and physicallydemanding journey to unravel a mystery fromher past and save her loved ones.

It is produced by Stone Bench Films and pre-sented by Karthik Subbaraj (Jigarthanda) and

marks thedirectorialdebut ofE a s h v a rK a r t h i c .From June19, primemembers inIndia and inmore than200 coun-tries and ter-r i t o r i e sworldwidecan watchthe film inT a m i l ,Telugu andw i t hMalayalamdubbing as itwill premiereon AmazonPrime Video.

“Penguinhas definite-

ly been one of the most exciting and interest-ing projects I’ve worked on,” said actor KeerthySuresh. She added: “As a mother, Rhythm is bothgentle and caring, but also fiercely determined.She’s complex, but authentic, and I think thatwill really strike a chord with audience. I had awonderful time working with the Eashvar tobring the story to life.”

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Phew! The lockdown has final-ly ended! In the midst of the

rising number of COVID-19cases, cities are opening to getback in business. However, it’simportant to note that this is themost critical time as the chancesof getting infected are very highnow. Unlock 1.0 has brought fear,tension and anxiety about ourfuture. People are suffering frommuscle tightness, weight gain,elevated heart rate, high bloodpressure and issues with person-al, social and work relation-ships. And they are at utmostrisk!

Hence, amongst all this, weneed to come out strong —mentally, physically and emo-tionally. This can be done bybuilding a healthy immune sys-tem, which is our body’s defencemechanism. Here are some dosand don’ts to build a healthyimmune and to keep in mind forwhen you step out of your home.

DOs:Prioritise nutrition

Nutrition not only suppliesbuilding blocks for building yourimmune system but also affectsyour gut microbiome. Your gutmicroflora sets a communicationlink between your immune sys-tem and your brain.

Remember the thumb rule— fill half your plate with veg-etables and fruits, one-fourthwith proteins and remainingone-fourth with carbs.

Vegetables like bottle gourd(lauki), bitter gourd (karela),cauliflower, beans, broccoli,ladyfinger; green leafy vegetableslike spinach (palak), fenugreek(methi), amaranth, colocasia,drumstick leaves, coriander andmint; yellow-orange and citrusfruits like guava, papaya, mango,orange, amla, are rich sources ofBeta carotene, Vitamin C,Vitamin K, Vitamin E, Folate andminerals like potassium andmagnesium. They also containfibre, antioxidants and phytonu-trients, which help in increasingresistance against diseases, pro-tecting against cancers andchronic diseases like heart dis-ease, diabetes and asthma, reg-ulating blood pressure. Tip:Include at least five servings offruits and veggies in your every-day meals.

Dals, pulses, beans, nuts,milk and milk products, soyabeans are rich sources of proteinsfor a vegetarian meal. Non-veg-etarians can add extra proteins byhaving eggs, poultry, and fish.Proteins boost the immune sys-tem by forming immunoglobu-lins / antibodies. Tip: Include onebowl of any protein source witheach meal.

Add complex carbs like mil-lets (bajra, jowar, ragi, maize) inplace of white rice and wheat.These are rich in B-complex vit-amins, minerals, antioxidantsand fibre, which help in keep ourheart healthy, regulate blood

pressure, prevent cancer, lowerrisk of diabetes and increaseimmunity.

Spice up your meals with ourIndian spices and herbs. Pepper,ginger, garlic, cumin, cloves,fenugreek seeds, turmeric con-tain chemical compounds, whichhave antibacterial, antifungal,antimicrobial and antiviral prop-erties that can help to fight-offinfection. Tip: Add them in yourveggies, dals and curries, makea concoction (kadha) using tulsi,mint, cloves, ginger, honey, rocksalt and lemon or simply have amint and adrak wali chai (mint,ginger tea).

Drink at least two litres ofwater every day. Dehydration cancause drowsiness, fatigue, loss offocus and mood swings. Juices,milk shakes, buttermilk, coconutwater also are a good way to beatdehydration. Keep two full waterbottles on your side with yourname on it and make sure to fin-ish the two by the end of the day.

Make a daily meal planStart your day with a healthy

yet quick breakfast. Breakfastshould be a combination ofcomplex carbs, proteins andfibre. Go for omelette, vegetablepoha or upma, vegetable sand-wich, idli chutney sambar, milkand cereals with fruits, boiledeggs, parathas from leftoverdal/vegetable.

Grab a handful of nuts(almonds, walnuts, peanuts) andfruits when hungry betweenyour meals instead of friedsnacks or cookies. Nuts are richsources of Omega-3 fatty acids,the best source of plant proteinsand a store house of flavonoids,antioxidants and minerals.Prepare peanut or til chikki orladdus for kids.

Balance your lunch thali.You can have mix vegetablepulao with curd, rajma rice withbuttermilk, paneer wrap withchickpea salad and lassi, pastawith paneer salad and curd. Ifyou are a non-vegetarian, makesome fish curry with rice andcurd or chicken wraps, burgerswith green salad and curd. Go foranother round of fruits insteadof tea/coffee at tea time to avoidcaffeine intake.

Let the dinner be light if youdo not stay physically activethroughout the day. Go for sal-ads with boiled eggs and curd,bisibele rice with curd, dal rice orkhichadi and vegetable or soupwith pulao.

Have a glass of warm milkwith turmeric at bedtime. Thisnot only helps you get good sleepbut also boosts your immunity.

Stay physically activePhysical activity increases

the immune regulation anddecreases the inflammatoryresponse by flushing out thepathogens. It also helps in fastercirculation of the WBCs to far-thest parts of our body.

In between your office calls,get up and do paper push-ups,book press, shoulder bladesqueezes, stretches, chair yoga.You can even put on your head-phones and walk around theroom while you take the calls.Keep a step count target for your-self, make sure you reach itevery day.

Children and elderly lack astrong immune system com-pared to adults. Play indoorgames with your kids, makethem hop, jump and skip. Seniorpeople can try yoga, walking andmeditation.

Ensure 30 minutes of sun-light exposure for Vitamin D. Itlowers anxiety, depression andimprove overall brain health.

DON’Ts:Avoid certain ingredients

First, alcohol as well assmoking, which we really needto avoid. They can have adverseeffects on your immunity.Excessive consumption of thesereduces the immune system’sresponse to invading pathogens.

Avoid late nights and pro-longed working hours. Binge-watching, ‘Netflix and chilling’are the newest enemies of rest-ful sleep. Research has shownthat seven to nine hours of sleepis mandatory for release of sev-eral chemicals, which help usbuild our immunity.

Avoid consumption of foodshigh in salt, sugar, refined foodsand fried foods. These weakenthe immunity and digestive sys-tem. Packaged and processedfoods are not only harmful butthey may even carry unwantedsurface pathogens with them.

In these times of uncertain-ty, finding structure helps youmaintain productivity by settinga routine. With these little effortsand tweaks in our daily routinewe can be strong and healthy tosurvive this new normal.

(The writer is NutritionConsultant with Arogya World’sMyThali programme.)

Only if we could turnback the clock, we’dmake sure the light

defeated the dark. Isn’t it? Butreality is often disappointingand at times, stranger than fic-tion. The global health crisisbrought on by the COVID-19pandemic is still raging andeven though the governmenthas allowed restaurants toreopen, hospitality is one sec-tor, which seems to be on hold.Largely, because it loses out tomajor growth drivers and isdependent on a benchmarkcalled people’s confidence. TheGovernment, which is tryinghard to walk the fine linebetween saving people andprotecting the economy, didallow restaurants and malls toreopen. However, the closureof many cafes — SmokeysBBQ and Grill, Side Wok,Cafe Turtle and Smoke HouseDeli — in Khan Market andother hotspots of Delhi turnout to be a way different storythan what was interpreted.

Who is to be blamed?Increasing anxiety and fearamong people due to the virusoutbreak? Certainly, yes! Butrestaurateurs are buried underthe cost of reopening, whatwith new hygiene protocols inplace and no fund buffer orexpected demand to rely on.They are, therefore, unable topay expensive rentals, salariesof so many employees and ofcourse, other maintenancecosts.

The owners say that thedecision was taken after a

careful review and a fewrounds of negotiations with theKhan Market Traders’Association and the NationalRestaurants Association ofIndia (NRAI). It surely wouldnot have been a simple deci-sion to take but the point is fairto make — where will themoney come from for invest-ment? Paying rents, ensuringsafety of the employees andcustomers, that too in anupscale market, is certainly notan easy task.

Riyaaz Amlani, CEO andMD, Impresario HandmadeRestaurants, tells us, “In lightof the COVID-19 pandemicand its subsequent fallout,we’ve made the difficult deci-sion to close Smoke HouseDeli’s outpost in Khan Market,New Delhi. While we havebeen in constant negotiationswith our landlords there and

have also spent time assessingthe outpost’s overall financialviability, ultimately a difficultbut necessary decision wasmade keeping in mind KhanMarket’s expensive real estateand other issues. That said, wehope to have your continuedpatronage at our other SmokeHouse Deli outposts in the cityas soon as we’re allowed toopen.”

With the new guidelinesspecific to reopening of restau-rants such as a reduced seatingcapacity up to 50 per cent, cur-tailed hours of operation anda ban on serving alcohol, oper-ating a restaurant is no longera viable option. “Restaurantshave already suffered mam-moth losses during the lock-down that can never be recov-ered. The glimmer of hope atreopening also seems shroud-ed under dark clouds. For

eateries to survive, the govern-ment would have to easerestrictions with a sense ofpragmatism and practicalityfor ensuring that the desiredobjectives of economic revivalare met,” feels Ashish Ahuja,director of the Pebble Street.

By its very nature, cafebusiness thrives on peopledining in and a drop in thenumbers means that theproposition becomes unten-able. Experts believe that thesituation is very uncertain atthe moment. Without the sup-port of landlords and govern-ment, of course, many morerestaurants would end upbeing extinct in the nearfuture, like the ones men-tioned above.

Zorawar Kalra, founderand managing director ofMassive Restaurants, shares,“For locations like Khan

Market, which have tradition-ally had very high rental prices,support from landlords is veryimportant. The rentals of Khancompete with that of someplaces in Manhattan andLondon. I have a restaurant inLondon and the per sqft ratesin Khan Market and Londonare the same, however, thesales potential is nowhere near.Restarting will need a sizeableinvestment as the waiters andchefs need to be paid, mainte-nance has to be looked at sincea lot of damage must have beencaused in these three monthsof lockdown. Unless the land-lords help immediately bybringing their rents down con-siderably, because the sales aregoing to be a fraction of whatthey used to be, a lot of therestaurants will not be able toopen up in the area.”

Even before the ‘Unlock1.0’ was in place, there was aspike in online delivery, whichearlier was almost a negligiblepart of the services these cafesoffered. Even if they ramp upthat counter, it is not enough tomeet establishment costs. Onlyfootfalls can give them therequired momentum.Restarting means a sizeableinvestment per outlet as every-thing that had been out of useover the last three months hasto be repaired and reformatted.

So could this mean therestaurateurs would have tothink multiple times beforeinvesting in the business again?The big chains can survive, theboutique ones won’t.

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Bayern Munich remain oncourse for the double

after the Bundesliga leaderssqueezed past EintrachtFrankfurt 2-1 in Wednesday’sGerman Cup semi-final behindclosed doors, with both teamssupporting the Black LivesMatter movement.

Bayern’s early goal byIvan Perisic was cancelledout by a second-halfequaliser from Frankfurt’sDanny da Costa, whohad only been on forthree minutes at theAllianz Arena.

However, RobertLewandowski settled thematter with the winner 16

minutes from time to claimhis 45th goal this season in allcompetitions.

Bayern will face BayerLeverkusen, who beat fourth-tier side Saarbruecken 3-0 onTuesday, in the final at Berlin’s

Olympic Stadium on July 4. HansiFlick-coached Bayern, who have aseven-point lead with four games

left in the league, can wrap up aneighth consecutive Bundesligatitle this weekend if they beatBorussia Moenchengladbachand second-placed BorussiaDortmund lose at strugglersFortuna Duesseldorf.

However, Bayern willbe without both

Lewandowski andMueller, who are bothsuspended.

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Her name cleared of doping charges, two-timeCWG champion Sanjita Chanu is hoping to

receive the recognition she deserves, starting with theprestigious Arjuna Award which has eluded her since2016.

“I applied for Arjuna first in 2016 but I was notgiven it then. I was ignored again in 2017 despite hav-ing the points,” Chanu said.

“But then because of this dope case I was ineli-gible. I am going to try and get it now,” she added.

Chanu, who won Gold at the 2014 and 2018Commonwealth Games in 48kg and 53kg respective-ly, has been trying for the prestigious Award for thepast four years.

After she was ignored for a second time in 2017,she filed a writ petition before the Delhi HC, chal-lenging the decision of the Awards Committee toexclude her name from those recommended for thecoveted honour.

The High Court in its order had directed theAwards Committee to consider Chanu for theArjuna Award and keep its decision in a sealed coverto be disclosed only if she is absolved of the dopingcharges which happened on June 8.

The 26-year-old had also applied for the awardlast month as her provisional suspension wasrevoked and IWF had allowed her to compete in tour-naments.

However since her case had not been closed theIndian Weightlifting Federation (IWLF) informed herthat she was ineligible for the sports awards, whichcannot be given to dope-tainted athletes.

But on Wednesday, the IWLFwrote to the sports ministry tocomply with the High Courtorder. “I have always performedwell and have two medals in theCommonwealth Games inGlasgow and in Gold Coastwithout doping. I am liftingfor 11-12 years. I don’tknow why I have beenignored for this awardtill now,” Chanu added.

The deadline forfor submitting applica-tions for the nationalsports awards has alsobeen extended till June22 by the sports min-istry.

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Nick Kyrgios slammed the ATP as“selfish” on Thursday for press-

ing ahead with plans for the USOpen despite the country dealingwith a coronavirus pandemic andwidespread anti-racism protests.

The temperamentalAustralian suggested it was tooearly for the Flushing MeadowGrand Slam, join-ing other playersin expressingr e s e r v a t i o n s ,including worldnumber one NovakDjokovic.

“The ATP is trying tomake the US Open goahead. Selfish with every-thing going on at the moment,”Kyrgios, ranked just 40 but ashowman who is popular with

fans, said on Twitter.“Obviously Covid, but also with

the riots. Together we need to over-come these challenges before tennis

returns in my opinion.”Djokovic suggested on

Wednesday that he may skipthe North America swingand restart his season onclay in Europe in earlySeptember, complainingabout the “very severe” mea-sures being put in place at theUS Open. “Most of the play-

ers I’ve talked to so far have arather negative view of the pos-sibility of going,” said the Serb.

World number two andreigning US Open championRafael Nadal has expressedsimilar reservations, while top-ranked woman Ashleigh Bartyhas also voiced caution aboutresuming tennis too soon.

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BCCI president SouravGanguly has indicated thatthis year’s IPL could be

conducted in empty stadiums,insisting that all possible optionsare being explored to ensure thatthe suspended event does takeplace despite the Covid-19 pan-demic.

In a letter to all the affiliat-ed units sent late on Wednesdayafter the ICC Board meeting,Ganguly seemed confident of anIPL this year despite its currentstatus of being indefinitely sus-pended because of the ragingpandemic, which has claimedmore than 8,000 lives in India.

“The BCCI is working on allpossible options to ensure thatwe are able to stage IPL this year,even if it means playing the tour-nament in empty stadiums,”Ganguly wrote.

“The fans, franchises, play-ers, broadcasters, sponsors andall other stakeholders are keen-ly looking forward to the possi-bility of IPL being hosted thisyear.

“Recently, a lot of playersboth from India and other coun-tries, participating in the IPLhave shown keennesson being part of thisyear’s IPL. We are opti-mistic and the BCCIwill shortly decide onthe future course ofaction on this,” the for-mer India captain said.

Ganguly also said that theBCCI is working on the domes-tic schedule while exploringvarious formats which wouldmake tournaments like RanjiTrophy, Duleep Trophy and

Vijay Hazare “competitive andfeasible”.

“Moving ahead, the BCCI isin process of planning the

domestic competitionsfor the next cricketingseason. We are workingon various options andformats in our endeav-our to ensure that var-ious domestic tourna-ments are held, they

stay competitive and participa-tion feasible,” said the formerIndia captain.

“The BCCI will come upwith more details in next coupleof weeks,” he added.

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He has been Virat Kohli’s goto bowler on unresponsive

Indian tracks and seasonedpacer Umesh Yadav credits his“enormous mental strength” forkeeping him in the game despitea stop-start international careerfor the past 10 years.

The 32-year-old Vidarbhaspeedster with more than 250international wickets (259)across formats, doesn’t feel theneed to respond to perceptionsof being a Test specialist as thetime spent away from the 22-yard pitch is more about honingskills and remaining battle-ready.

“To be honest, I am reallystrong mentally and that makesa lot of difference,” Yadav said.

“I don’t pay much heed tostuff like who is going to get achance or whether I have to sitin the reserves. This is a gamewhere anything is possible,” saidYadav, who often loses out toIshant Sharma, MohammedShami and Jasprit Bumrah inaway Tests, where conditions aremore conducive for fast bowling.

“A lot of factors go into it —form, conditions. It’s just aboutdelivering and grabbing thegiven opportunities. So, I don’tthink so much about otherthings,” said the bowler, who has144 wickets from 46 Tests alongwith 106 wickets from 75 ODIs.

He hasn’t played a lot ofODI cricket since October, 2018,partly because of his six pluseconomy rate.

With less game time ininternational cricket, does he feellike a victim? “No,” says thegenial fast bowler.

“I don’t look at myself beinga victim. There are times when

I have played and times when Ihave not played.

“During the times I am notplaying, I just look forwardtowards working on my game.(I am) getting better at my skillsand hopefully will be a part ofwhite ball cricket,” he soundedhopeful.

So when he feels the need tohave a chat, who is the personhe falls back on in tough times?

“There is no one man I seekadvice from. In fact, knowledgeis available everywhere. Youjust need to be ready to grasp it.At home, it’s my coach Subrotosir (former India seamer SubrotoBanerjee) who is my soundingboard.

“Also there is Ashish bhai(Nehra) and Zak paa (ZaheerKhan) who have also helped mea lot. Sometimes, I also chat withour bowling coach BharathArun sir,” he said.

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India’s limited-overs tour of SriLanka in June-July was on

Thursday called off for now dueto the Covid-19 pandemic withboth the Boards saying that thesituation is not feasible for thegames to go ahead.

India were scheduled toplay three ODIs and as manyT20s starting June end and con-tinuing till July in Sri Lanka.

“It is not possible to goahead with the tour in June-Julyand we have conveyed it to theSri Lankan board (SLC).However, we remain committedto the series (at a later date),”BCCI treasurer Arun Dhumalsaid. The cancellation wasexpected as Indian players areyet to resume training withcases continuing to rise rapidlyin the country.

The players will need four tosix weeks to regain match fitnessafter training resumes.

However, both the boardsremain committed to the seriesand having it in August is a pos-sibility.

“The team is out of practiceand we are not sure when inter-national travel restrictions willbe lifted, so it wasn’t possible inJune-July,” Dhumal added.

A media release from SriLanka also confirmed the devel-opment.

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“Iam enjoying my footballand am not going awayanytime soon,” said tal-

ismanic Indian football captainSunil Chhetri, indicating that hewill keep on playing for anoth-er three to four years.

The 35-year-old Chhetri,who holds the national recordof most international matchesand most number of goals,made it clear that retirementplans are currently not on hismind.

“I don’t want to putnumbers (on how long Iwill keep playing). But I amenjoying my football and Iam not going away anytime

soon,” Chhetri said in a Live

chat on the Facebook page ofIndian football team.

“I told my wife that I amfeeling so fit. I am going to chal-lenge Udanta and AshiqueKuruniyan (both India and

Bengaluru FC team-mates) fora sprint. Unless a Sahal (AbdulSamad) scores a lot of goals andpush me away (from the nation-al team), I am going to bethere, playing for the team.”

Chhetri completes 15 yearsof international career on Fridaysince making his debut inQuetta against Pakistan in afriendly series in 2005. He hadscored on his debut in the 1-1drawn match.

Since then, he has played115 matches and scored 72goals. He is the second highestinternational scorer amongactive footballers, behindPortugal superstar CristianoRonaldo and above Argentinemaestro Lionel Messi.

“I am fortunate to haveplayed 15 years for my country.It is a dream, 3-4 years moreprobably and it will be (nearly)20 years. Who would havethought to play 20 years and soI am living on my dream.”

������ Dele Alli willmiss Spurs first game backfrom the Premier League’ssuspension after receiv-ing a one-match ban onThursday for a raciallyinsensitive post on socialmedia during the coron-avirus outbreak.

Alli put a video on aprivate Snapchat conversa-tion in February in whichthe midfielder joked aboutthe virus and appeared to mock an Asian man.

The Football Association said Alli’s actions were“a misguided attempt at humor” but that the play-er “had not set out to be insulting or to create a racialstereotype.”

Alli was found guilty of bringing the game intodisrepute, the FA said, because it constituted an“aggravated breach” by having a reference to race.

The England international will missTottenham’s game against Manchester United onJune 19. He also was fined 50,000 pounds ($63,000)and must attend an education course. AP

������West Indies captain JasonHolder says coming to England fora Test series in the middle of theCovid-19 pandemic is neither dic-tated by money nor a sense ofadventurism but the move is a gen-uine effort to bring back normal-cy.

West Indies players arrived inthe UK on Tuesday for a three-match Test series, starting July 8 at

Southampton. It will be cricket’s first interna-

tional engagement since mid-March when the coronavirus pan-demic halted all sporting action.

“A lot of people were crying outfor cricket. It is not the case wewanted to be guinea pigs but, hav-ing said that, we always had a tourplan here in the UK this summer.After we spoke about the possibil-

ities of it coming off, everybody wascomfortable and here we are now,”Holder told BBC Sport. The impactof coronavirus pandemic has beenmuch severe in the UK wheremore than 40,000 deaths havebeen. In the Caribbean, however,only a few hundred cases have

emerged.Holder said the reason for

their arrival is not money and thatthey won’t compromise on health.

“It is not about money for us —we want safety and want to makesure we are treated fairly and we justget on with it,” Holder said. PTI

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Turkey is “confident”the Champions

League final will still beheld in Istanbul, theTurkish sports ministersaid on Thursday, asUEFA considers otheroptions because of thenovel coronavirus.

UEFA’s decisioncould be made during anExecutive Committeemeeting on June 17.

The names of sever-al cities, includingLisbon andFrankfurt, have cir-culated in the mediawhile the Spanishcapital’s mayorannounced a possi-ble candidacy fromMadrid on Tuesday.

Despite this specula-tion, the Turks are stillhopeful.

“I have no doubt itwill take place in the bestway in Turkey. We’re con-fident that we will receivegood news on June 17,”

said TurkishSports MinisterM e h m e tKasapoglu.

“We are fol-lowing thisclosely, it’s a veryimportant mat-

ter,” he insisted during aninterview with TRT Sportchannel.

The final was set to

be held on May 30 inIstanbul at the AtaturkOlympic Stadium, 15years after the ChampionsLeague final therebetween Liverpool andAC Milan.

Turkish officials andfans insist the city remainsthe right place to host thegame because of Turkey’srelative success in fightingthe new pandemic.

Turkey has officiallyrecorded around 173,000cases of the virus, and4,746 deaths.

IPL possible in front of empty stands: GangulyA������ �1�������������� �G�������0 ����7�.. �HI�������Any “tinkering” in theIPL format to make space forit in the coronavirus-hit calen-dar will not be acceptable toKolkata Knight Riders CEOVenky Mysore, who onThursday asserted that all thefranchises want the event to beheld in its complete form.

“One thing that I feelstrongly about and we feelstrongly about is that we shouldnot tinker with the quality ofthe product that we have,”Mysore told reporters.

“The quality of the productis what has made it really, real-ly special. I think it is safe to saythat the collective view is thatwe have to have the tournamentin its full format, the samenumber of games, with all theplayers part of it,” he said.

There are suggestions that

the IPL could be conductedwithout overseas players, keep-ing in mind the restrictions ontravel imposed by variouscountries besides reducing thenumber of games to fit it intoa shorter window.

Mysore said foreign play-ers have played a crucial role inthe league’s success.

“It is primarily ourIndian players who are thebackbone of any team,” heacknowledged.

“But I think we shouldrecognise that when you lookat even our own team, a SunilNarine, an Andre Russell, anEoin Morgan and now PatCummins come as a combina-tion to our excellent lineup thatwe have on the Indian side,makes it really special,” heexplained. PTI

0�������#�������� ������#�������������4�������������������%������>���� ���The BCCI has zeroed in on theSeptember-October window for the IPLsubject to the postponement of Asia Cupand the WT20, league chairman BrijeshPatel said on Thursday, hinting that theevent can be held overseas as games inempty stadiums make location irrelevant.

“We are looking at the Sept-Octoberwindow but that is subject to the postpone-ment of the Asia Cup and WT20. We wewill also have to follow the Governmentguidelines at that time,” Patel said.

Considering the rising cases in India,there is an option to organise the league

overseas. The UAE and Sri Lanka havealready shown interest in hosting theworld’s biggest T20 league.

“First preference is India of course buta lot will depend on the situation at thattime. Sri Lanka has offered to host it andso has UAE, we will see where we can play.If you are playing without crowds, it does-n’t matter where you play,” said Patel.

Asked if the plan is to have a shorterIPL, Patel said: “We want normal durationfor the tournament but again it depends onwhich tournament (Asia Cup or WorldCup) is postponed.

“IPL is an important tournament for theboard, sponsors, broadcasters and theplayers. Everyone wants it to happen. I amsure the players are itching to take the field.”

Patel said the sooner the ICC decideson the WT20, the better it would be for allthe stakeholders. He also said the IPL canbe held without fans but not the World Cup.

“I think the ICC will take a call soon.If the World Cup is happening, then teamsneed to start preparing too. Also, World Cupwithout crowd is no World Cup but you canplay an IPL behind closed doors,” addedPatel. PTI

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James Anderson has thanked theWest Indies for taking the

“scary decision” to tourEngland, with Britain suffer-ing the worst coronavirusdeath toll in Europe.

“I think it’s great forthe game, brilliant thatwe’re closing in on get-ting some Test cricketplayed after a decentlay-off,” Anderson said

during a conference call onThursday.

Three West Indies playersdecided against touring but a 25-strong squad led by captain JasonHolder has travelled to England.

“From our point of view we’revery grateful the West Indies are

coming over here,” said Anderson.“With what’s going on in the

world I can imagine it’s a scarydecision for a lot of them, for allof them, to make the journeyover.”

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The 2022 BirminghamCommonwealth Games

will start a day later thanscheduled, to allow athletesadditional recovery timeafter the World AthleticsChampionship and avoidclash with semifinals of theUEFA Women’s Football Championships, theorganisers announced on Thursday.

The Commonwealth Games Federation(CGF) Executive Board has approved theminor change for the Games, which will nowbe held between July 28 and August 8.

The World Athletics Championships isscheduled to be held in Oregon in the UnitedStates from July 15 to 24 and the UEFAWomen’s Football Championships is slatedfrom July 6-31 in England.

Both Championships were originally sched-uled to be held in 2021 but were postponed to2022 after the rescheduling of the TokyoOlympics.

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