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N epal’s Parliament on Saturday unanimously voted to amend the Constitution to update the country’s new political map, laying claim over the strategi- cally key areas of Lipulekh, Kalapani and Limpiyadhura along the border with India, despite strong protests by New Delhi against any “artificial enlargement” of its territory. Reacting to the develop- ment, India said this artificial enlargement of claims is not tenable. “We have noted that the House of Representatives of Nepal has passed a Constitution Amendment Bill for changing the map of Nepal to include parts of Indian ter- ritory. We have already made our position clear on this mat- ter,” India’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said on Saturday. “This artificial enlarge- ment of claims is not based on historical fact or evidence and is not tenable. It is also viola- tive of our current under- standing to hold talks on out- standing boundary issues,” he added. When a Nepal Cabinet meeting held on May 18 endorsed the new political map, India reacted angrily and cautioned the country that making such “artificial enlarge- ment” of territorial claims will not be acceptable to it. India has been maintaining that these three areas belong to it. In Kathmandu in a show of unprecedented national unity, Opposition parties, including the Nepali Congress (NC), Rastriya Janata Party-Nepal (RJP-N) and Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP), voted in favour of the Government Bill to amend Schedule 3 of the Constitution to update the national emblem by incorporating the new contro- versial map. All 258 lawmakers who were present in the House voted in favour of the Bill. There was zero vote against it. “The amendment propos- al has been passed with more than two-thirds majority,” said Speakar Agni Sapkota. A two-thirds majority was required in the 275-member House of Representatives or the lower house to pass the Bill. Turn to Page 4 New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has taken over the Tania Parveen case from Kolkata police as the suspected Lashkar- e-Tayyeba (LeT) pointsperson is believed to have also been engaged in espionage and honey-trapping modules. The highly radicalised Parveen (21) was taken into custody by NIA on Saturday from Kolkata Central jail and is being brought to Delhi for detailed interrogation. She was allegedly involved in honey-trapping modules operated by the LeT at the behest of Pakistan’s covert agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and supplied a number of SIMs of Indian telecom operators to her Pakistani handlers. She is also alleged to have been using a Pakistani SIM for operating WhatsApp groups and other social media platforms besides some Pakistani chat groups. Detailed report on P5 T he Delhi Government is planning a 10,000-bed makeshift hospital for Covid- 19 patients under a sprawling tent in South Delhi to prepare for a projected surge in cases in the city. The planned Covid-19 facility will come up at the South Delhi campus of spiritual organisation Radha Soami Satsang Beas. The lush green campus is located near the Delhi-Haryana border. The Covid-19 facility, which will be 1,700 feet long and 700 feet wide, will have 200 enclosures with 50 beds each, said Vikas Sethi, secretary of Radha Soami Satsang Beas, Bhati Mines. This makeshift hospital will be the largest such facility in the city so far. The work is expected to be completed by the end of June, he said. The metal tent has lights and fans installed. Coolers will be needed considering the heat. The medical staff can also be accommodated in a building on the campus, he added. The spiritual organisation gave its approval for the makeshift hospital two-three days ago. According to the Delhi Government’s estimates, coro- navirus cases in the national Capital are likely to breach the 5 lakh-mark by the end of July. Around one lakh beds will be needed for Covid-19 patients. Turn to Page 4 A day after India’s Covid-19 tally breached the three- lakh mark, leading health experts on Saturday slammed the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) for its sero- survey findings that there was no community transmission of the virus, saying it was not reflective of the current situa- tion and the Government was showing “obstinacy” in accept- ing the truth. Emphasising that commu- nity transmission was on in many parts of the country, the experts from the field of virol- ogy, public health and medicine asked the Government to admit it so that people don’t get complacent. The criticism against the Government came days after ICMR Director General Balram Bhargava at a media briefing said that India is def- initely not in the community transmission stage of Covid-19 spread while releasing the find- ings of the survey. India’s first serosurvey to monitor the trend of coron- avirus infection transmission found that 0.73 per cent of the 26,400 people surveyed from about 65 districts were exposed to coronavirus. Former AIIMS director Dr MC Mishra said there is no doubt that there has been com- munity transmission in sever- al parts of the country. “With the mass exodus and the country unlocking, it has become more rapid and the disease has reached areas where there were no cases. It is high time the Government comes to fore and acknowledges it so that people become more alert and do not become com- placent,” Mishra told news agency PTI. Turn to Page 4 A t the time when the use of alco- hol-based sanitisers has been considered as one of the safest ways to protect any- one from the deadly coron- avirus, a score of Hindu and Muslim religious leaders have opposed using sanitisers to disinfect the places of worship. The controversy started way back in the second week of March when ISCKON temple in Mumbai reportedly offered cow urine to clean hands of the visitors instead of sanitisers. A Congress party office-bearer from Kerala lodged a complaint with the police after his hands were sprayed with gaumutra. Now in Bareilly, a Muslim cleric has issued an advisory that cleaning of mosque’s premises should not be done with an alcohol-based sanitis- er. Sunni Markaz Darul Ifta, Dargah Aala Hazrat also opposed the sanitisers as alcohol is prohibit- ed in Islam. Earlier, Maulana Shahabuddin, the General Secretary of All India Tanzeem Ulama E Islam has issued an advisory to all the mosques under its wing against the use of alcohol-based sanitiser for cleaning the holy place. But Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband has issued a fatwa saying alcohol- based sanitisers can be used to clean the masjid premises. “There is nothing wrong with using alcohol-based sanitisers in mosques. Even it can be spread on mosques walls and floors to sanitise the place of worship”, the fatwa read. Turn to Page 4 A s tension gradually eases at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Eastern Ladakh, Army Chief General MM Naravane said on Saturday disengagement had taken place at some places and hoped the ongoing dialogue will settle all differences between India and China. Naravane also said every- thing was under control on the country’s borders with China. Turn to Page 4 W ith 46 people testing pos- itive for the novel coron- avirus in the last three days in Beijing after a period of lull, offi- cials in the Chinese capital have initiated “wartime” measures, focusing on a wholesale food market where the new cluster of infections were reported from. The new cases at Xinfadi wholesale food market has raised concern among the peo- ple as it supplies 90 per cent of the capital’s vegetables and meat products catering to about 20 million people. Detailed report on P7 A head of his two-day meet- ing with Chief Ministers on June 16 and 17, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday held detailed discussions with senior Ministers and officials to review India’s response to Covid-19 pandemic. The meeting reviewed the national level status and prepa- ration in the context of the pan- demic. The meeting also took stock of situation in different States and Union Territories including Delhi. The meeting was attended by Home Minister Amit Shah, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, PK Mishra, Principal Secretary to PM, Rajiv Gauba Cabinet Secretary, Health Secretary, DG ICMR and other senior officials in the empowered group. Turn to Page 4 New Delhi: The Centre has widened the criteria of detect- ing Covid-19 disease by adding two new symptoms, smell and taste for the reference of med- ical professionals. Loss of smell (anosmia) and loss of taste (ageusia) have been added to the list of coronavirus symp- toms by the Union Health Ministry. The other symptoms of the disease are fever, cough, fatigue, shortness of breath, expectoration, sore throat and diarrhoea.

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Nepal’s Parliament onSaturday unanimously

voted to amend theConstitution to update thecountry’s new political map,laying claim over the strategi-cally key areas of Lipulekh,Kalapani and Limpiyadhuraalong the border with India,despite strong protests by NewDelhi against any “artificialenlargement” of its territory.

Reacting to the develop-ment, India said this artificialenlargement of claims is nottenable.

“We have noted that theHouse of Representatives ofNepal has passed aConstitution Amendment Billfor changing the map of Nepalto include parts of Indian ter-ritory. We have already madeour position clear on this mat-ter,” India’s Foreign Ministryspokesperson AnuragSrivastava said on Saturday.

“This artificial enlarge-ment of claims is not based onhistorical fact or evidence andis not tenable. It is also viola-tive of our current under-standing to hold talks on out-standing boundary issues,” he added.

When a Nepal Cabinetmeeting held on May 18

endorsed the new politicalmap, India reacted angrily andcautioned the country thatmaking such “artificial enlarge-ment” of territorial claims willnot be acceptable to it. Indiahas been maintaining that thesethree areas belong to it.

In Kathmandu in a show ofunprecedented national unity,

Opposition parties, includingthe Nepali Congress (NC),Rastriya Janata Party-Nepal(RJP-N) and RastriyaPrajatantra Party (RPP), votedin favour of the GovernmentBill to amend Schedule 3 of theConstitution to update thenational emblem by incorporating the new contro-versial map.

All 258 lawmakers whowere present in the Housevoted in favour of the Bill.There was zero vote against it.

“The amendment propos-al has been passed with morethan two-thirds majority,” saidSpeakar Agni Sapkota.

A two-thirds majority wasrequired in the 275-memberHouse of Representatives or thelower house to pass the Bill.

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New Delhi: The NationalInvestigation Agency (NIA)has taken over the TaniaParveen case from Kolkatapolice as the suspected Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT) pointspersonis believed to have also beenengaged in espionage andhoney-trapping modules.

The highly radicalised

Parveen (21) was taken intocustody by NIA on Saturdayfrom Kolkata Central jail andis being brought to Delhi fordetailed interrogation.

She was allegedly involvedin honey-trapping modulesoperated by the LeT at thebehest of Pakistan’s covertagency Inter-Services

Intelligence (ISI) and supplieda number of SIMs of Indiantelecom operators to herPakistani handlers. She is alsoalleged to have been using aPakistani SIM for operatingWhatsApp groups and othersocial media platforms besidessome Pakistani chat groups.

Detailed report on P5

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The Delhi Government isplanning a 10,000-bed

makeshift hospital for Covid-19 patients under a sprawlingtent in South Delhi to preparefor a projected surge in cases inthe city. The planned Covid-19facility will come up at theSouth Delhi campus of spiritualorganisation Radha SoamiSatsang Beas.

The lush green campus islocated near the Delhi-Haryanaborder. The Covid-19 facility,which will be 1,700 feet longand 700 feet wide, will have 200enclosures with 50 beds each,said Vikas Sethi, secretary ofRadha Soami Satsang Beas,Bhati Mines.

This makeshift hospital

will be the largest such facilityin the city so far. The work isexpected to be completed bythe end of June, he said.

The metal tent has lightsand fans installed. Coolers willbe needed considering the heat.The medical staff can also beaccommodated in a buildingon the campus, he added.

The spiritual organisation

gave its approval for themakeshift hospital two-threedays ago.

According to the DelhiGovernment’s estimates, coro-navirus cases in the nationalCapital are likely to breach the5 lakh-mark by the end of July.Around one lakh beds will beneeded for Covid-19 patients.

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Aday after India’s Covid-19tally breached the three-

lakh mark, leading healthexperts on Saturday slammedthe Indian Council of MedicalResearch (ICMR) for its sero-survey findings that there wasno community transmission ofthe virus, saying it was notreflective of the current situa-tion and the Government wasshowing “obstinacy” in accept-ing the truth.

Emphasising that commu-nity transmission was on inmany parts of the country, theexperts from the field of virol-ogy, public health and medicine

asked the Government toadmit it so that people don’t getcomplacent.

The criticism against theGovernment came days afterICMR Director GeneralBalram Bhargava at a mediabriefing said that India is def-initely not in the communitytransmission stage of Covid-19spread while releasing the find-ings of the survey.

India’s first serosurvey tomonitor the trend of coron-avirus infection transmission

found that 0.73 per cent of the26,400 people surveyed fromabout 65 districts were exposedto coronavirus.

Former AIIMS director DrMC Mishra said there is nodoubt that there has been com-munity transmission in sever-al parts of the country.

“With the mass exodusand the country unlocking, ithas become more rapid and thedisease has reached areas wherethere were no cases. It is hightime the Government comes tofore and acknowledges it sothat people become more alert and do not become com-placent,” Mishra told newsagency PTI.

Turn to Page 4

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At the time whenthe use of alco-

hol-based sanitisershas been consideredas one of the safestways to protect any-one from the deadly coron-avirus, a score of Hindu andMuslim religious leaders haveopposed using sanitisers todisinfect the places of worship.

The controversy startedway back in the second week ofMarch when ISCKON templein Mumbai reportedly offeredcow urine to clean hands of thevisitors instead of sanitisers. ACongress party office-bearerfrom Kerala lodged a complaintwith the police after his handswere sprayed with gaumutra.

Now in Bareilly, a Muslimcleric has issued an advisorythat cleaning of mosque’spremises should not be done

with an alcohol-based sanitis-er. Sunni MarkazDarul Ifta, DargahAala Hazrat alsoopposed the sanitisersas alcohol is prohibit-ed in Islam. Earlier, Maulana

Shahabuddin, the GeneralSecretary of All India TanzeemUlama E Islam has issued anadvisory to all the mosquesunder its wing against the useof alcohol-based sanitiser forcleaning the holy place.

But Islamic seminaryDarul Uloom Deoband hasissued a fatwa saying alcohol-based sanitisers can be used toclean the masjid premises.“There is nothing wrong withusing alcohol-based sanitisersin mosques. Even it can bespread on mosques walls andfloors to sanitise the place ofworship”, the fatwa read.

Turn to Page 4

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With 46 people testing pos-itive for the novel coron-

avirus in the last three days inBeijing after a period of lull, offi-cials in the Chinese capital haveinitiated “wartime” measures,focusing on a wholesale foodmarket where the new cluster ofinfections were reported from.

The new cases at Xinfadiwholesale food market hasraised concern among the peo-ple as it supplies 90 per cent ofthe capital’s vegetables andmeat products catering toabout 20 million people.

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Ahead of his two-day meet-ing with Chief Ministers on

June 16 and 17, Prime MinisterNarendra Modi on Sunday helddetailed discussions with seniorMinisters and officials to reviewIndia’s response to Covid-19pandemic.

The meeting reviewed thenational level status and prepa-ration in the context of the pan-

demic. The meeting also tookstock of situation in differentStates and Union Territoriesincluding Delhi. The meetingwas attended by Home MinisterAmit Shah, Health MinisterHarsh Vardhan, PK Mishra,Principal Secretary to PM, RajivGauba Cabinet Secretary,Health Secretary, DG ICMRand other senior officials in theempowered group.

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We are in Unlock 1.0,and even thoughmalls, restaurants and

shops have opened their doorsto the public stepping out is astill a bad idea. Even shootingsare set to resume but thepandemic continues to wreakhavoc with 11k-plus cases perday from across the country.This leaves people with nooption but to adapt to the newnormal. A case in point — howthe channels and actors havequickly adapted to the need ofthe hour.

The constant fear ofcatching infection whileheading out has become a partand parcel of the daily life. Butthere are people out there whoare doing their best to make uslaugh and laugh in these tryingtimes.

During this crisis, SonySAB with its latest offeringKuch Smiles Ho Jayein...WithAlia, is bringing a smile onpeople’s face through its light-hearted and engaging content.A lot of prominent artistes ofthe SAB family have cometogether to entertain theaudience through fun-filledand exciting tasks while athome.

The 12-minuteshow is hosted byBalraj Syal andAnusha Mishra, andis aired twice a week— Monday and Fridayat 9pm.

Syal tells you since theepisodes were purely shot athome, it threw certainchallenges. It was not as easy astaking a selfie. “First, it took ustime to work with the castthrough video calls.

Second, shooting andrecording everything byourselves was a big task. Ilive with three people, andon day one I assigned all ofthem work. Two of themlooked after the camera,and the other onemanaged the setup. Butthen I thought that thiswas not feasible and Ihad to learn to do it allby myself. From daytwo, I was good to go,”he tells you.

Syal had a fun timedoing tasks. But hisfavourite among all wasdumb chardes. “The funthing is that I don’t knowhow to play it. I just don’tget the rules. When I gotthe task to act Fitoor, Ijust couldn’t do that. Thisleft the cast in splits,” hetells you.

Before starting theshoot, he says, the wholecast connects via groupvideo call to discussentertainment content forthe audience. Also, there is areason for the 12-minuteslot.

Syal tells you that it is awise decision. “It was notpossible to shoot an half-an-hour episode at home withlimited resources andlighting. The time limit isgood as it serves its purpose— making people laugh,”he tells you.

Mishra, who is theco-host of the show, tells

you that she doesn’t need toput in too much effort tomatch the comic timing sinceSyal has done a great job.

“Everyone knows Balraj isreally good at comedy. Therewas not much pressure on meto maintain that. Though it wasthe first time that I was workingwith him, he made all of us socomfortable that it felt as if wehad known him for ages,” shetells you.

Unlike Syal, shooting athome was not that troublesomefor Mishra. “I live with mymother. I asked her to stay inher room watching Netflix. Iwent to the other room toshoot. It was smooth,” she says.It took her around six hours aday to complete the shoot.

From Maddam Mallik akaGulki Joshi singing the tune ofMuqabala to Siddharth Nigamshowing off his killer dancemoves, the show has somethingfor everyone. Don’t worryabout the short duration, itdoesn’t mean that it is short onentertainment too.

“Till date we have shotaround eight episodes and theaudience is loving it. We are notgiven any instructions for thefuture episodes, but I am surethat it will be just as good,” shetells you.

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DD would come every Sunday. WheneverI would watch films of the likes of RajeshKhanna I would come back home andwould imitate what they had done.Nobody in my family is from the filmindustry. When I went to college, I wouldtake part in inter-college theatrecompetitions. When I passed out, I starteddoing rounds of production houses andstarted getting small roles. From there Istarted bigger and better roles in films.From there TV happened.� What made you say yes to MahimaShanidev Ki?

In 2008, I had taken a break fromwork; I was not getting good work. At onepoint in my life I used to assist ShahabShamsi (director). He called me andasked if I was open to doing a mythologicalshow. I had no reason to refuse. I went toRamanand Sagar’s office. That is here I wastold that I would l play the lead — Shani

Dev. I knew a bit about him; I used to goto Shani Shingnapur but nothing in-depth. I met the producer and he told meI was a perfect fit to play the lead. Peopletell me that I have Shani prabhav on myface. It was a title role and there was noneed to decline the opportunity.� From films to TV how has the journeybeen thus far?

I don’t differentiate among mediums.Acting is acting. I am not a trained actor.Acting is a belief and one should do it withhonesty and put in hard work.� Did you think that 10 years down theline it would be just as popular?

I am grateful to Dangal TV that theyare airing the show again. It was sooverwhelming that people recognise me asShani Dev and appreciating my work even10 years down the line.� Were there any apprehensions insaying yes?

Not at all. I was very excited to playShani. Each episode had a different story.I played 193 roles. I played a king and oreven a servant. The concept of the showis that Shani Dev can come in any formto teach a person a life lesson. It waschallenging to play sch diverse roles.� What kind of preparation went intothe role?

I started doing my research. Nitish(Bhardwaj) is a good friend of mine andwhen I told him I may be doing this role,he told me that Shani Dev was KrishnaBhakt and Shiv was his guru. In some ways,Shani Dev is a teacher. Everyone knowsabout sadhesati — according to yourkarma. If you did good you would reapbenefit otherwise you will be punished. Ididn’t have to prep for this role. I am notgood looking. Shani Dev too was not agood-looking God. He was slim anddark. I was born to play him.� What is the best thing about your roleas Inspector Chalu Pandey in TaarakMehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah?

I am creatively involved with this show.After a year, a new character as introduced,that of Inspector Chalu Pandey. I took itup even though I was doing Mahima… asthe dates wouldn’t clash. People love himand it makes me happy.� How did you come on board forRaktanchal?

The director, Ritam Srivastav, calledme and offered me a guest role in the show.I agreed since the shoot days were only forfive-six days and we had a mutual friend.� What has been your favouritecharacter till date?

It has to be my character in the filmSwadesh even though each role an actordoes is close to his heart as it is done witha lot of honesty.

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If nothing else, Gulabo Sitabo is a storyof courage — not the story itself butthe idea to make it and the platform

it pans out on. Director Shoojit Sircar is courageous,

as is writer Juhi Chaturvedi who carriesthe reputation from films like Piku. Tospin a story out of a tottering haveli, itsinsipid residents, a more totteringlandlord and an even more tottering realowner, with no real personal stories totell is by all means an act of bravery.

Then comes the bravery of bringinga full-length feature film to an alternativeplatform. GS is the second Bollywoodcommercial film after Irrfan Khan’sAngrezi Medium, too have released on theOTT platform with cinema halls closeddue to COVID-19. Though this in itselfis a fearless foray into a whole new worldof far wider reach, it eats into the specialeffects, the locational landscape and theambience that the art director must haveworked hard on. The haveli on big screenwould have shown more character thanit does on the TV or laptop screen.

Next, is the strange decision topresent Amitabh Bachchan as he hasbeen presented. Bachchan is having funas the rickety old man with an ugly gaitand an awkward and out of proportionnose. Sadly, he fails to share this fun withhis audience which brings you to thebewildering question as to why aseasoned director of Sircar’s reputewould hide Bachchan and his repertoireof histrionics behind a zoomed upspectacle, a swollen nose and a headgearthat makes you struggle to somehow getto his expressions. One is sure there weremany he throws at his audience as ascheming, self-centred, greedy, grouchy78-year-old Mirza married to a woman17 years his senior, but much of it getslaid off by prosthetic and the dress codewhich matches the haveli in uttershabbiness.

Opposite him is Ayushmann as the

atta chakki owner with three youngersisters and a mother, living in abjectnesswith elan, and of course without givingthe princely amount of �20 as monthlyrent to the Mirza.

The interactions between these twocentral characters are many but largelywithout any impact. They squabble andengage with each other without much witand thus totter your interest. Others,including Vijay Raaz as the Archaeologydepartment clerk, fail to draw you intoa story which itself is battling anemia ofideas, moments and sequences.

Chaturvedi, who has a way with thepen which goes straight to your heartusually, is, this time off-track, almostsuggesting disinterest in the proceedings.

Gulabo Sitabo, a tale centred aroundMirza trying to grab the haveli from hisnever ready to die wife, and the tenantswith no stories to tell, should have beenbrought down along with the hazardoushaveli at first script review.

One had waited with bated breath forthis one so the disappointment is all themore convulsive. There are only twothings with character in this film — thehaveli itself and the feisty 95-year-old realowner, Mirza’s begum who gives the fewfunny moments to an otherwise flat film,with her observations and utterances.

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Dora is not a new release, havingfound screens in 2019 as alsostreaming windows the same

year in August. But that’s a small detailthat is swept away by the unmitigatedspirit of adventure and fun that avivacious Dora and her best friendBoots, a monkey, bring to AmazonPrime almost a year later.

Besides the loveliest of lovely locationartistry that the film dotes on, it is also veryfortunate to have been driven by theundying and incorrigible spirit of itscentral character Dora, a jungle girl whois more at ease with monkeys and spidersthan she is with High School teens.

Isabela Moner as Dora propels thepace of the proceedings from start to endas she takes on the task of finding herapparently lost explorer parents along with

a motley group of teenagers who are forcedinto the jungle puzzle without much of aprotest.

Those who have grown up with Dora,the long-standing Nickelodeon cartoon

character, and know her best, will welcomeher back into the jungle. Not that thenewcomers would be any less entrancedby her magic as she goes into the periloustrail of a lost city of gold in the Amazonianwilds of a South American rainforest, afterbeing kidnapped by treasure huntingmercenaries on the lookout for her parents.

Her charm, energy, naivety and theright amount of silliness is not justbecoming but it also gives a peppiness tothe same old adventure with a dash of funand frolic.

The jungle trail is arresting,punctuated as it is with pitfalls which makesurvival in a quicksand a matter of strategyand forest knowledge.

You could have children moreinterested than adults in this one, but itwould be a hard one to criticise, what withDora drawing you in with her spirit ofbeing herself, come what may.

That it scores head and shouldersabove Gulabo Sitabo is a commentary onits childlike winnability as much as it is acommentary on the sinkability of GS.

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It is not very often that onesees a movie seen from theviewpoint of a six-old

whose only wish is to celebratethis birthday since he hasmissed a few because they livein the aftermath of 2004Bagdad. Writer-directorsDevanshu Kumar andSatyanshu Singh have to begiven full marks for takingsuch a simple desire that everykid takes for granted andweave it around what washappening to the society, howthe kids reacted to the

situation and the US troopswho had been sent to handleSaddam Hussain.

In this mayhem, chaos andbombing there is a bright lightthat shines in the form ofChintu’s father (Madan playedby Vinay Pathak) who seesgood in everything andeveryone and is ever theoptimist even in the face offacing jail and maybe deathbecause he would not give upon a little boy.

Pathak’s character maycome across as naïve to beginwith, but there is an underlyingmessage — that if you promiseyour child something, then asa father it is your duty to fulfillit whatever maybe theadversary or roadblocks. Thefact that Chintu doesn’t lose

hope that his birthday will bethe best ever till date and thetastiest cake because his fathersaw it with his ‘teesri ankh’leaves one with a feeling of

wonder and awe.But most importantly, that

even in the worst of situations,humanity is not lost.

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It was time that a story be told on thetrials and tribunals of the problemsthat people from the North-east face.

While the film released last year, it is nowavailable on the OTT platform and makesfor an interesting viewing for all thosewho are looking for meaningful cinema.More so after what has been happening inthe country after the outbreak of thepandemic with people spitting at themand calling them ‘Corona’.

Axone (pronounced Akhu-ni) revolvesaround a subject that is simple and yet givesa glimpse of what we think of people fromthe NE and the prejudice that we havetowards what we think doesn’t fit into ourthinking mould. The film set in the backdropof the Capital takes one on a journey that isbound to make us think and question ourvalues — how we easily typecast peoplebased on something as simple as the kindof food they eat even if it smells to highheaven.

While the performance may be passable,it is the way the story unfolds and told —through a series of comic situations — thatis an eye-opener. It hits you hard becausemany of us have been guilty of holding onto our nose when we enter a fish market.Smelly dish for some of us but a delicacy andfood to be enjoyed on certain occasions forothers.

Kudos for director Nicholas Kharkongorfor making an effort to tell this story.

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Delhi Health MinisterSatyender Jain on Saturday

said that the ICMR guidelinesneed to be altered for testing toincrease.

“Testing can be done as per theICMR guidelines only, and theyclearly mention who should betested and who should not be test-ed. It is necessary for all states tocomply with the ICMR guidelines.The testing can be opened for allif the ICMR guidelines allow, but

then the number of people optingto get tested will increase whetheror not they have any symptoms,”Jain said.

Citing the State health bulletindata, Delhi Health MinisterSatyender Jain said, “The doublingrate of the virus is between 13-14days, and if we see the base rightnow, there are 37000 cases inDelhi, and in the next 10-15 days,the cases will increase by further37000. The recovery rate is suchthat around 97-98 people recoverout of 100 people. It takes around14-15 days for a patient to recov-

er from Corona." According to Delhi

Government, there are 36824 Covid cases in Delhi,

out of which 2137 new cases cameup yesterday, and 22212 are activecases. There have been 1214deaths. Around 5700 people havebeen admitted to the hospitals, outof which 345 people are in ICU.

On whether the cases willincrease in Delhi and the prepa-rations being done for the same,Delhi Health Minister SatyenderJain said, "The Delhi Governmentis working as per the predictions

made by the experts. As per thepredictions, all the preparationsincluding arrangements of bedsand ventilators required by June30, will be done by June 20 itself.The preparations required to bedone by July 15 will be done byJune 30. Stadiums, banquet halls,community halls, and schools willbe converted Covid care centresand beds will be arranged there.All the information will be sharedas soon as the preparations starttaking place.”

On being asked about whetherthe Delhi government will cap the

treatment charges in private hos-pitals, Jain said, "All the hospitalshave been asked to share the ratesthat they are charging for Covidtreatments. We will decide onwhat to do after observing everyhospital."

On the coronavius testing ratein States like Haryana and UttarPradesh, Satyendar Jain said,"The testing rate in UP andHaryana is ten times less thanDelhi. Accordingly, if the testingrate will this less, the Coronacases will also be ten times lessthan Delhi."

Delhi Health MinisterSatyender Jain said, "All the Stateshave death audit committees,including Rajasthan, Maharashtra,Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal,and all other States. Some of themhave been comprised at district levels. The work of deathaudit committee os not to fabricate the data of deaths. As andwhen they receive the death count,they are reported and released.There may be a delay in obtainingthe data, but there is no delay inthe committee 's part in releasing it."

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The Narcotics ControlBureau (NCB) has arrested

two Nigerian nationals forallegedly trafficking drugs inNational Capital and adjoiningits States.

The accused identified as OKennedy, 36, and K

Ekechukwu, 33, were arrestedby the NCB early this monthfrom West Delhi's Uttam Nagararea and the HazratNizamuddin Railway Station.

The NCB team has recov-ered 15 kilogram of ephedrine,which is illegally used to man-ufacture methamphetamine,and 260 gm of heroine.

According to R NShrivastava, the DeputyDirector General, NCB saidthat interrogation revealed thatEkechukwu has been supplyingdrugs to his clients on regularbasis, the agency charged.

"It was learnt that hisclients from Himachal Pradeshhave been supplying cannabisin exchange of narcotics. Indocument verification of theaccused, it was revealed thatthey have been staying in Indiawithout valid passports andvisas," said the deputy directorgeneral.

"Records found that bothhave past involvement in crim-inal cases in the country andwere out on bail.During inves-tigation in drug traffickingcases of arrested Africannationals, the agency foundthat the accused were either"overstaying or entering the

country without valid visa orwere violating the terms andconditions of visa," he said.

"It was also learnt that theyusually enter India on tourist,business, medical or studentvisa," the deputy director gen-eral said.

"NCB Director GeneralRakesh Asthana took cogni-sance of this matter and deput-ed a dedicated team for enquiryin these cases under his closesupervision," he said.

Further probe is underwayin the latest case and the NCBis looking for the associates ofthe arrested Nigerians, he said.

The federal anti-narcoticsagency has expressed concernover the high number ofNigerian nationals involved indrug smuggling in the country.

Last year, around 100Nigerian and 31 Afghanistannationals were arrested in var-ious drug trafficking cases bythe NCB, according to an offi-cial data. This includes thearrests made by various statepolice units.

"The high involvement ofNigerian nationals in drug traf-ficking is a matter of con-cern," said deputy director gen-eral adding that the inquiries

also revealed that more than18,000 African nationals haveviolated visa norms in last fewyears and are overstaying inIndia.

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The Confederation of All IndiaTraders (CAIT) will hold a

video-conference with tradeassociations of Delhi to decidewhether or not to keep theDelhi markets open.

The development assumessignificance after a survey oftraders carried out by the con-federation showed that a major-ity of respondents favour closureof markets to stop the spread ofCovid-19.

CAIT on Friday had soughtthe opinion of 2,800 trade asso-ciations and prominent tradeleaders of Delhi. Out of this some2,610 responses were received.

On Saturday, the CAIT senta communication to UnionHome Minister Amit Shah,Union Health Minister DrHarshvardhan, Delhi LieutenantGovernor Anil Baijal and DelhiCM Arvind Kejriwal sharingconcerns of Delhi traders on fastspreading of Corona and hassought time for a meeting toapprise them about the serious-ness of the issue while urging fortheir immediate interventionafter a survey of the Delhi traderspoint towards utmost fear andinsecurity in the minds of Delhi

traders.CAIT Secretary General

Praveen Khandelwal said that theCAIT had sought the opinion ofDelhi trade associations throughan online survey whether or notDelhi markets are in a positionto remain open in the wake ofthe rapid increase in cases andalso in the backdrop of theSupreme Court taking seriouscognisance of the " horrendous,horrific and pathetic" state ofaffairs in Delhi hospitals.

Speaking on the matter,president of the Delhi Chapter ofCAIT Vipin Ahuja, said that theCAIT has convened a videoconference of leaders of promi-nent trade associations of Delhion Sunday afternoon where thesurvey report will be sharedand the trade leaders will take adecision whether or not to keepthe Delhi markets open.

Ahuja also said that thecurrent situation of Corona inthe National capital is veryalarming and serious and closureof markets is a big and importantissue and as such, a consultationis needed with all market asso-ciations and the CAIT is willingto join hands with theGovernment for combatingCovid in an effective manner.

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New Delhi MunicipalCouncil (NDMC) has

issued strict directions to allempanelled hospitals and labsfor providing Covid-19 treat-ment to its employees as peragreement between NDMCand hospitals and CGHSnorms without any denial.

A senior NDMC officialsaid that the decision was takenafter some of the employeesreported that they were deniedadmission in some of theempanelled hospitals. “Eitherthey are showing their inabil-ity or they are insisting theemployees make cash pay-ments despite the facts thatthere is a cashless treatmentagreement with hospitals andlabs under a liberalised medicalhealth scheme for its employ-ees,” he said.

The action of such hospi-tals and diagnostic labs is theviolation of terms and condi-tions of the agreement enteredin to with NDMC and proto-col of Indian Council ofMedical Research (ICMR), hesaid, adding that this has beenviewed very seriously by theNDMC higher authority andissued the strict directions tothe empanelled hospitals and labs.

NDMC has alreadyapproved the treatment ofCOVID-19 to beneficiaries ofLiberalized Medical HealthScheme of NDMC in allempanelled hospitals, labs anddiagnostic centers who shalltreat NDMC beneficiaries atCGHS rates of conservativemanagement for COVID-19.And thereafter hospitals orlabs raise the bill item wise cal-culation of expenditure to theNDMC, he said.

The official further saidthat the civic body has alreadyissued instructions to theempanelled hospitals that whiletreating the Covid-19 patient,the hospitals should follow theguidelines issued by theMinistry of Health and FamilyWelfare on the subject.

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The municipal health officerof the North Delhi

Municipal Corporation (NMC)on Saturday said he has testedpositive for Covid-19 and isadmitted to a private hospital.

A senior north corporationoffice said that his office hasbeen sanitised and contact isbeing traced. “Only one otherperson is showing signs offever. A close watch is beingkept on others,” he said.

Dr Ashok Rawat said hegot to know about the infectionon Friday. "Yes, I have testedpositive for COVID-19. We arein the frontline of this battle, sochances of such people gettinginfected are higher. I have gotmyself admitted to a privatehospital," he said.

Many civic officials, doc-tors, nurses, sanitation workersand other staffers of the munic-ipal corporations in Delhi havetested positive till date.

A junior engineeremployed with NMC died ofCOVID-19 on June 1.

In the South DelhiMunicipal Corporation, a san-itation worker succumbed tothe disease in late May.

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Following a quarrel overdrinking alcohol, a 56-year-

old security guard allegedlykilled and later burnt the bodyof another guard in southDelhi's CR Park area. Policesaid that the incident occuredon Friday.

According to a seniorpolice official, a police controlroom (PCR) call regarding theincident was received on Fridayat 1.25 pm following which anEmergency Response Vehicle(ERV) was dispatched for thespot.

"After reaching the spot,one security guard Imrat Singh,a resident of Madhya Pradesh,was found in the parking areaof a building. He told policethat he killed one SarnamSingh (56), a resident of UP, onFriday around 11 am afterconsuming liquor and laterburnt his body. The victim wasalso worked as a security guardin G.K-2 area," said the seniorpolice official.

"Thereafter, police found aburnt body in the basement ofthe house. A case of murderwas registered at C R Parkpolice station and the accusedhas been arrested," said thesenior police official.

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Dr Harsh Vardhan will meetDelhi Lieutenant GovernorAnil Baijal and Chief MinisterArvind Kejriwal along withmembers of the State DisasterManagement Authority(SDMA) to review the situationin the national Capital wherecorona cases have been increas-ing exponentially over the lastfew day.

Home Minister, Shri@AmitShah and HealthMinister, @drharshvardhan tohold meeting with@LtGovDelhi, CM Delhi &members of SDMA to reviewsituation in the capital regard-ing Covid-19 tomorrow, 14thJune at 11 am. Director AIIMSand other senior officers wouldalso be present," Shah's officetweeted.

Delhi is one of the worstaffected in India when it comesto coronavirus cases with more

than 36, 000 cases and over1200 deaths leaving behindMaharashtra and termed as‘Corona Capital’, in last last 24hours Delhi recorded highestsingle day spike with 2,137cases reported on Friday with71 deaths.

Earlier, Lt Baijal had writ-ten to Delhi chief secretary toensure thatt all major hospitals,nursing homes and clinics willhave to display the availabilityof Covid-19 and non covidbeds on large LED screens atthe entrance.

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New Delhi: The Delhi University will be set-ting up a School of Climate Change andSustainability (DSCC&S) under the Instituteof Eminence Scheme, which will take upresearch in priority areas related to the envi-ronmental challenges.

Professor C R Babu, an acclaimedEnvironmental Scientist, will head DSCC&S(honorary director).

He has also been the founder ofEnvironmental Teaching and Research inthe University of Delhi, a statement from thevarsity said.

Professor Inderjit Singh, an eminentplant ecologist of international repute, willact as Joint Director, DSCC&CC.

The Ministry of Human ResourceDevelopment provided supporting grants to

the varsity under its Institution of EminenceScheme for undertaking research in cuttingedge areas with a focus on the nationaldevelopment as well as to make the varsi-ty a world-class university, the statementadded.

"DSCC&S will take up research in pri-ority areas like how to make our cities cli-mate resilient? how to achieve sustainabil-ity in the face of environmental chal-lenges?" the statement said. The school willalso generate the much-needed manpow-er in areas that manage sustainable devel-opmental technologies in areas of energy,resource recycling, which include waste-water management and solid waste man-agement and resource enhancement so thatthe development is sustainable. PTI

Sangareddy (Telangana):Nineteen members of a fami-ly in Sangareddy district havetested positive for coron-avirus,health department offi-cials said here on Saturday.

They said a 55-year-oldwoman in Zaherabad wasadmitted to a private hospitalin Hyderabad earlier this weekwith multiple health problems.

Her swabs were collectedfor coronavirus tests on June 9,but she died the same day.

The woman was buried inthe town on June 10 with 25relatives attending the funeral.

Meanwhile her samplestested positive on June 10, fol-lowing which all the relativeswere put in isolation at the gov-

ernment hospital here andtheir swabs were sent toHyderabad for COVID-19tests.

Nineteen of the family test-ed positive on Friday andreports of six others are await-ed, the officials said.

Shanti Nagar colony, thearea where the woman and herrelatives lived, has beendeclared a red zone, officialssaid. PTI

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New Delhi: JharkhandIndependent MLA Saryu Royhas agreed to support the BJP'sRajya Sabha candidate in theJune 19 election, party MPNishikant Dubey said onSaturday.

With the support of Roy, aformer BJP leader, the saffronparty is inching closure toensuring victory of its nominee,state unit chief DeepakPrakash.

The BJP has 25 MLAs inthe 82-member JharkhandAssembly and requires supportof at least two more legislatorsto secure a Rajya Sabha seat.

Elections for two RajyaSabha seats from the state are

scheduled for June 19. The BJP,Congress and the JMM havefielded one candidate each,necessitating a contest.

"I requested Saryu Roy-ji tosupport his old friend DeepakPrakash. I am grateful to himthat he has accepted my

request," Dubey tweeted,adding that this has frustratedthe plans of the Congress tosecure a victory for its candi-date.

In response, Roy tweeted,"Nishikant ji's tweet matters. Iam no more confused. Betterget over the confusion rather letit be worst confounded (sic)."

When contacted by PTI,the Independent MLA said hewas responding to the BJP'srequest "in a positive manner".

The effective strength oflegislators for the Rajya Sabhaelection in Jharkhand is 79 astwo seats are vacant and onemember is nominated withoutvoting right. PTI

From Page 1The endorsement of the

lower house will now paveway for the Government toexpedite the process to replacethe political map in Nepal’snational emblem.

As soon as the Parliamentmeeting started on Saturdayafternoon, lawmakers fromdifferent political parties tookpart in deliberations on theBill. Most of the lawmakerswere wearing face mask andfollowed COVID-19 guide-lines.

“This is a historic occa-sion, when the land we lostduring the period of monar-chy is being returned underthe republican system. Nepaldoesn’t want to allow enmityto emerge with our southernneighbour from this issue,”said former Prime Ministerand president of ruling NCPPushpakamal Dahal.

“I am confident that thelong standing issue relating toland encroachment will beresolve once and for allthrough dialogue and diplo-matic efforts,” he added.

Expressing his party’s sup-port to the Bil l , NepaliCongress president SherBahadur Deuba said Nepalipeople have stood united onthe issue of nationality andterritorial integrity. As perthe Sugauli Treaty of 1816, theland east of Mahakali Riverbelongs to Nepal, he added.

The Government had reg-istered the Bill in Parliamenton May 22 and Minister forLaw, Justice and ParliamentaryAffairs ShivamayaTumabahangphe presented itbefore the House on May 24.

On June 9, Parliamentunanimously endorsed a pro-posal to consider theConstitution amendment Bill

to pave way for endorsing thenew political map amid theborder row with India.

Now, the Bill will be sentto the National Assemblywhere it will undergo a simi-lar process. The ruling NepalCommunist Party commandstwo-thirds majority in theNational Assembly.

The NA will have to givelawmakers 72 hours to moveamendments against the Bill’sprovisions, if any. After theNational Assembly passes theBill, it will be submitted to thePresident for authentication,after which the bill will beincorporated in theConstitution. The new mapwill be used in all officialdocuments including the coatof arms once the Presidentauthenticates it.

The ties between Indiaand Nepal came under strainafter Defence Minister

Rajnath Singh inaugurated80-km-long strategically cru-cial road connecting theLipulekh pass with Dharchulain Uttarakhand on May 8.Nepal reacted sharply to theinauguration of the roadclaiming that it passedthrough Nepalese territory.India rejected the claim assert-ing that the road lies com-pletely within its territory.

Meanwhile, IndianArmy Chief General M MNaravane on Saturday saidIndia has always had strongties with Nepal and they willremain strong in future.

“We have a very strongrelationship with Nepal. Wehave geographical, cultural,historical, religious linkages.We have very strong people-to-people connect. Our rela-tion with them has alwaysbeen strong and will remainstrong in the future,” he said.

From Page 1Priests of temples in

Mathura and Vrindavan includ-ing Mukut Mukharvind templein Govardhan, Gopi Nath tem-ple, Madan Mohan temple, SriRang Nathji temple has decidednot to open the temples for thepublic because they will not usesanitisers on the premises whichis mandatory as per the guide-lines. Priest of Gopi Nath tem-ple say they are against the alco-hol-based sanitisers.

In Mukut Mukharvind tem-ple in Mathura, the templecommittee has decided not toopen the temple as we will notallow the use of sanitisers on thetemple premises.

A priest of Madhya Pradesh’sBhopal Maa VaishnavadhamNav Durga Temple had alreadysaid that he is against the use ofsanitisers at places of religiousworship. In Indore sanitisation oftemples went ahead without the

use of any alcohol. Meanwhile,several temples and other reli-gious places are not allowed tobe opened due to the increasingnumber of Covid-19 cases.

The temple committee ofBanke Bihari mandir was initiallyhesitant of using sanitisers butnow they have now agreed.Padam Singh of Banke Biharitemple of Vrindavan said thatthey have initially hesitated usingof alcohol-based sanitiser onthe temple premises but now thetemple committee has agreed.Earlier, a prominent Islamiccleric at Dargah Aala Hazrat inBareilly has asked all its follow-ers and mosque heads to avoidusing alcohol-based sanitisers.Mufti Nashtar Farooqi of SunniMarkaz Darul Ifta, Dargah AalaHazrat has also opposed the sani-tisers as alcohol is prohibited inIslam. Similarly, MaulanaShahabuddin, the GeneralSecretary of All India Tanzeem

Ulama E Islam has issued anadvisory to all the mosquesunder its wing against the use ofalcohol-based sanitiser for clean-ing the holy place. “Alcohol isprohibited in Islam. Muslimsshould not use alcohol-basedsanitisers. A mosque will becomeimpure if alcohol-based sanitis-er is used for cleaning thepremises. We cannot makeGod`s home impure. Namaazcannot be offered at an impureplace,” Shahabuddin said in theadvisory.

VN Das of InternationalSociety for KrishnaConsciousness (ISKCON) saidthat they have not decided toopen temples as cases haveincreased. The final decisionwill be taken after the DelhiGovernment’s decision to thiseffect. Das said disinfectant tun-nels have been installed at thetemple for the public. Besidesthey need to train the security

staff with the latest guidelinesand make adequate arrange-ments inside the premises.

Temples in Ayodhya,Mathura, and Prayagraj wereopened in compliance with thehealth and Covid-19 protocol.Priests in almost all the templeswere found with faces coveredwith masks, hands in gloves. Thedevotees were allowed entry oneby one. Five devotees were notallowed at a time in any of thetemples. The Standard OperatingProcedures (SOPs) released bythe Ministry of Health andFamily Welfare mandated a min-imum of six feet physical dis-tancing, including wearing ofmasks, thermal screening fordevotees including a hand sani-tiser dispenser in the entrance.A World Health Organisationstandard hand sanitiser shouldcontain 70 per cent alcoholwhich helps kill the virus on thehands.

From Page 1The city has a total 9,647

dedicated Covid-19 beds in

State-run, central and privatehospitals. Of these, 5,402 areoccupied. The Delhi

Government has also startedthe process to identify com-munity halls and stadiumswhich can be converted intomakeshift Covid-19 hospitals.

From Page 1“Dr Vinod Paul, Member

NITI, convener of theEmpowered Group of MedicalEmergency Management Plan,made a detailed presentationon the current status and like-ly scenario of Covid-19 casesin the medium term. It wasobserved that out of the totalcases two-thirds are in 5 Stateswith an overwhelming pro-portion of cases in big cities.In view of the challengesbeing faced, particularly bythe large cities, it was dis-cussed to augment testing aswell as the number of bedsand services to effectivelyhandle the peak surge of dailycases,” said PMO in a state-ment.

The present and emerging

scenario of the Covid-19 dis-ease in the Capital was dis-cussed and the projections fornext 2 months were deliber-ated. The Prime Minister sug-gested that the Home Ministerand the Health Ministershould convene an emergencymeeting with Lt Governor,Chief Minister of Governmentof NCT Delhi in presence ofal l senior off icials ofGovernment of India,Government of Delhi andoff icials of MunicipalCorporations of Delhi to plana coordinated and compre-hensive response to handle thechallenge posed by risingcases of Covid-19, said PMO.

Now Shah wil l meetKejriwal and Delhi’s LtGovernor on Sunday.

From Page 1These observations came

in the backdrop of severalrounds of talks at military anddiplomatic levels between thetwo countries to resolve eye-ball to eyeball confrontation.

While Lt GeneralHarinder Singh and MajorGeneral Liu Lin met at theChushul point in Ladakh onJune 6, two Major Generalrank officers of the two armiesmet on Friday this week.More such parleys at variouslevels of commanders willtake place over the next fewdays to ensure that de-esca-lation takes place as soon as

possible.“I would like to assure

everyone that the entire situ-ation along our borders withChina is under control. Weare having a series of talkswhich started with CorpsCommander level talks whichwas followed up with meet-ings at the local level betweencommanders of equivalentranks,” Naravane toldreporters on the sidelines ofthe Indian Military Academy’s(IMA) Passing Out Parade inDehradun. He also said theongoing dialogue will sortout all the perceived differ-ences between the two coun-tries.

“As a result, a lot of dis-engagement has taken place

and we are hopeful thatthrough the continued dia-logue that we are having, allperceived differences that we(India and China) have will beset to rest,” the Army chiefsaid. He said both sides havebegun to disengage in aphased manner and theprocess has started from thenorth.

“Both sides are disengag-ing in a phased manner. Wehave started from the north,from the area of the GalwanRiver where a lot of disen-gagement has taken place. Ithas been a very fruitful dia-logue that we have had. Andas I said it will go on and thesituation will improve as wego on,” he said.

From Page 1 Talking about the ICMR sero-

survey, he said the sample size ofaround 26,400 people is quiteinadequate to capture the scale ofthe spread of the infection, espe-cially keeping in mind the largepopulation and the diversity of thecountry.

Leading virologist ShahidJameel said India reached thecommunity transmission stage along time ago.

“It’s just that the healthauthorities are not admitting it.Even ICMR’s own study of SARI(severe acute respiratory illness)showed that about 40 per cent ofthose who tested positive forSARS-CoV-2 did not have anyhistory of overseas travel or con-tact to a known case. If this is notcommunity transmission, whatis,” said Jameel. CEO of WellcomeTrust/Department of

Biotechnology’s India Allianceand best known for his extensiveresearch in Hepatitis E virus andHIV, Jameel said an importantpoint to consider is the sensitiv-ity and specificity of the test thatICMR has not revealed, and evena one per cent change wouldmake a big difference in theresults in areas of low prevalence.

On May 25, three medicalprofessional associations too hadsubmitted a joint statement toPrime Minister Narendra Modi,criticising the Government’s han-dling of the novel coronavirus epi-demic and making recommen-dations for the future.

Notably, among the signato-ries were Dr DCS Reddy, formerprofessor at the Institute ofMedical Sciences at BHU. He wasappointed as the head of theresearch group on epidemiologyand surveillance constituted bythe Indian Government’s NationalTask Force for Covid-19 on April6. Another member of theresearch group, Dr Shashi Kant,

professor and head of the Centrefor Community Medicine atAIIMS, New Delhi, has alsosigned the statement whereinthey said that the country isalready witnessing communitytransmission.

“It is unrealistic to expect thatCovid-19 pandemic can be elim-inated at this stage given thatcommunity transmission isalready well-established acrosslarge sections or sub-populationsin the country,” said the report.

The experts pointed out thathad the migrant persons beenallowed to go home at the begin-ning of the epidemic when thedisease spread was very low, thecurrent situation (of huge spurt incases) could have been avoided.

The returning migrants arenow taking infection to each andevery corner of the country;mostly to rural and peri-urbanareas, in districts with relativelyweak public health systems(including clinical care), said theexperts.

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Tandon, 85, had fever and complicationsrelated to urology. All necessary tests havebeen performed and he has been admittedin the ICU at the Medanta hospital, thesources said.

According to the director of the MedantaHospital, Rakesh Kapoor, his condition is sta-ble and there is no need to worry. He maybe discharged from hospital on Sunday.

According to BJP sources, Tandon ispresently in Lucknow which is also his homedistrict. He had also represented LucknowParliamentary seat in Lok Sabha and had alsobeen a minister in the Uttar Pradesh gov-ernment. PTI

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Korba: A couple allegedlycommitted Suicide after killingtheir one-and-half-year-olddaughter in Chhattisgarh'sKorba district, police said onSaturday.

The bodies of AshokKumar Ratre (28) and hisdaughter Eshi were foundhanging in one room whilethat of his wife Ragini wasfound hanging in anotherroom in their house in Sukrivillage under Dipka police sta-tion limits on Saturday morn-ing, said KL Sinha, CitySuperintendent of Police ofDarri.

"Prima facie it seems thecouple first killed their daugh-ter and then hanged them-selves. No suicide note hasbeen found at the spot," theCSP informed.

Ashok's father has said hisson, employed in a privatefirm, and Ragini had marriedthree years ago and the couplewas staying in a separate partof the house for the past oneyear, the official said.

"The father said Ashokand Ragini used to constantlyquarrel. Further probe intothe case is underway," Sinhasaid. PTI

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Jodhpur: Thousands of fishwere found dead in a pond inBaori subdivision of Jodhpur onSaturday apparently after thewater level receded due to theextreme heat, following whichvillagers pooled money to fill itwith the help of water tankers.

Residents of village Soylasaw the dead fish floating in thepond, known as Ghadia Nadi,and informed the administra-tion.

“I visited the pond todayand saw the dead fish. They dieddue to drying up of water andheating of the rocks," TahsildarDhannaram Godara said.

The official said that withthe help of locals he arranged 50water tankers so that theremaining fish could be saved.

“The immediate concernwas to save the remaining fish.Taking procedural measurescould have taken time, whichwould have killed all the fish inthe pond. So we decided to poolmoney for water and I beganwith �300 contribution,” Godarasaid.

“A total of 50 water tankershave been emptied in the pondtoday. The water level of thepond has now risen substan-tially for the remaining fish to

survive comfortably”, saidGodara.

Besides this, water from atubewell and a pipeline hasalso been arranged to be pouredinto the pond after the routinesupply to the villagers, so that acertain water level could bemaintained in the pond.

"Since this is a rocky pond,there is no seepage of water. Butevaporation is very fast in thesummer,” said villagerKruparam.

He said that due to heavyrains last year, there was ade-quate water in the pond for thefish. PTI

Shahdol (MP): Six persons,including two women and aboy, were killed and four oth-ers injured on Saturday whenthe limestone quarry collapsedon them at Pasgari area nearhere in Madhya Pradesh, policesaid.

At least 20 people wereextracting limestone from themine at Papredi village, about100 kms away from the districtheadquarters, when the inci-dent occurred in afternoon.

"While five of them died onthe spot, another person suc-cumbed to his injuries on wayto hospital. Ten people escapedunhurt," said Beohari policestation inspector Anil KumarPatel.

The injured persons wereadmitted in the district hospi-tal, he said.

The police officer said localpeople dig limestones fromsuch quarries and use themeither for colouring their hous-es or for selling.

The mine area has beenclosed after the accident, Patelsaid.

District Collector SatendraSingh said the quarry was notillegal.

"People had dug it forextracting limestones," headded.

He said an aid of �5,000has been provided to kin of thedeceased to meet funeral andother expenses. PTI

Chandigarh: Taking note ofreports that some private hos-pitals in Punjab were chargingexorbitant amount fromCOVID-19 patients, the stategovernment will soon fixcharges for treatment, HealthMinister Balbir Singh Sidhusaid on Saturday.

The minister pointed outthat most of the COVID-19patients do not need any spe-cial treatment. They only needto be kept under observation,served food and medicines, hesaid.

He warned private hospi-tals overcharging coronaviruspatients of stringent actionand said that the government

reserves the right to withdrawthe land provided to hospitalsat highly concessional rates.

"The Punjab governmentwill soon fix the charges forCOVID treatment in the inter-est of both patients and privatehospitals," Sidhu was quoted assaying in a statement.

He said this is a crisiswhen everyone is fighting forsurvival and "some unscrupu-lous private hospitals havetried to resort to open andwanton loot of the helplesspatients".

"It is sad and shameful ontheir part that instead of mak-ing a positive contributiontowards fighting this pandem-

ic, some of these hospitalshave resorted to extortion,which will not be allowed atany cost," he said.

The minister has called ameeting on Monday to decidethe fee structure for treatmentof COVID-19 patients. Hesaid all factors will be takeninto consideration.

"We do not want the pri-vate hospitals to suffer anyfinancial losses, but we will notallow extortion at any cost andthat too during the time ofemergency," he said.

"And for sure, the treat-ment of a COVID patientshould not cost several lakhs ofrupees," Sidhu added. PTI

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New Delhi: Delhi Lt GovernorAnil Baijal on Saturday empow-ered health, revenue and policeofficials to impose fine up to Rs1,000 for violations of norms tocontain COVID-19.

Rule violations, includingnon-observance of quarantinerules, non-maintenance ofsocial distancing, not wearingface mask in public or work-places, spitting in public places,and consumption of paan,gutka and tobacco in publicplaces, will attract fine, accord-ing to a statement from the LtGovernor's office.

A fine of Rs 500 will beimposed for first-time offenceand a fine of Rs 1,000 for

repeat offence, the statementread.

"The Lt Governor empow-ers officers of health depart-ment, district magistrates,SDMs, officers authorised bythem, and sub-inspector andabove of Delhi Police to imposefines for violating norms in rela-tion to COVID-19," it said.

The move is aimed atensuring that guidelines forcontaining the spread ofCOVID-19 are followed strict-ly in letter and spirit, it said.

In case of failure to paypenalty on the spot, action willbe taken against the violatorsunder Section 188 IPC by autho-rised police officers. PTI

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COVID-19 patients have diedin Uttarakhand since Thursdayraising the fatalities in suchcases to 23 while 61 more peo-ple tested positive for the infec-tion on Saturday as the state'spandemic tally rose to 1,785.

The latest victims includea 58-year-old woman who diedat SMI Hospital, Dehradun onThursday, a 76-year-oldwoman who died at LD Bhatthospital, Kashipur on Fridaywhile two others died onSaturday in Udham SinghNagar and Pauri districtsrespectively, a state HealthDepartment bulletin here said.

The exact cause of death inall four corona cases is await-ed, the bulletin said. PTI

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Shimla: The Himachal Pradeshgovernment on Saturday saidpeople entering the State willhave to provide address proof,making it clear that those arriv-ing from the red zones will bequarantined.

A senior official said therehave been cases of people com-ing from red zones, which aremore seriously affected by coro-navirus, but claiming that theywere staying in a green zone.

This allowed them to godirectly to their Himachalhomes instead of first spendingtime at a quarantine centre.

The state also issued a

revised list of places with a highvirus load.

Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai,Ahmedabad, Thane, Pune,Hyderabad, Chengalpattu inTamil Nadu, Gurgaon, Jaipur,Jodhpur, Kolkata, Howrah andIndore are on this list.

Travellers from these placesmust go into quarantine first,Himachal Pradesh AdditionalChief Secretary (Health) R DDhiman said.

He said the system of issu-ing e-passes has also beenchanged, making it mandatoryfor applicants to provideaddress proof. PTI

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Amid speculations over yetanother lockdown in the

offing, Congress leader RahulGandhi on Saturday attackedthe Central Government overthe rise in coronavirus cases inIndia during the various phas-es of the lockdown.

He took a swipe at theGovernment on Twitter byposting the quote, “Insanity isdoing the same thing over andover again and expecting dif-ferent results'' - Anonymous.”

He also tagged graphs ofthe rise in Covid-19 cases inIndia in four different phases ofthe lockdown.

India on Thursday wentpast the United Kingdom interms of coronavirus cases tobecome the fourth worst-hitcountry, according to theWorldometer and Johns

Hopkins University data.On Friday, Rahul had

tweeted, “India is firmly on it'sway to winning the wrongrace. A horrific tragedy, result-ing from a lethal blend of arro-gance and incompetence.”

His attack on theGovernment on Saturday cameas India surpassed the threelakh-mark with the worst dailyspike of 11,458 infections, whilethe death toll too climbed to8,884 with 386 new fatalities.

India took 64 days to crossthe one lakh-mark from 100cases, then in another fortnightit reached the grim milestoneof two lakh cases.

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With Delhi witnessing asteep increase of Covid-

19 cases, Union Home MinisterAmit Shah has convened ameeting of Union HealthMinister Harsh Vardhan, DelhiLieutenant Governor AnilBaijal and Chief MinisterArvind Kejriwal and all top offi-cials of Delhi on Sunday. AIIMSDirector and senior doctors andall Sub Divisional Magistrates ofDelhi will attend the meetingconvened at 11am by the UnionHome Minister to discuss thecurrent scenario in Delhi andhealth infrastructure to tacklethe rising pandemic.

After this meeting Shah hasalso convened the meeting of allthree Municipal CorporationChairmen of Delhi with seniorofficials at 5pm, said UnionHome Ministry. Union HomeSecretary Ajay Bhalla will alsopart of these two meetings onSunday. At present Delhi is hav-ing more than 23,000 activepatients and 1300 people have

lost life due to Coronavirus. Onboth Supreme Court and DelhiHigh Court has expressed dis-pleasure on the handling ofdead bodies in Delhi and manypetitions are before the Courtson Delhi’s high treatments feescharged by private hospitals.

According to officials, themain agenda of the meeting ison the current situation andtackling of the crisis in thehealth sector in the nationalcapital, which is the worstaffected after Maharashtra.Many Resident Doctors are inup in arms in Delhi for non-

payment of salaries especiallyin the hospitals in North DelhiMunicipal Corporation.Resident Doctors alreadydeclared that they will submitmass resignation on June 16,if their three months salarydues are not paid. The meet-ing is expected to discuss onthe possible StandardOperating Procedures (SOP)to handle the patients and test-ing of the cases and to formu-late directions to private hos-pitals, which are facing alle-gations of fleecing Covid-19patients.

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That Covid-19 causes severecomplication to those suf-

fering from diabetes is a knownfact. But now there are emerg-ing evidences that suggest thatthe virus may actually triggerthe onset of the non-commu-nicable disease in a healthy per-son.

An international group of17 leading diabetes expertsinvolved in the CoviDiabRegistry project, a collaborativeinternational research initiative,have announced the establish-ment of a Global Registry ofnew cases of diabetes inpatients with Covid- 19.

The Registry aims tounderstand the extent and thecharacteristics of the manifes-tations of diabetes in patientswith Covid-19, and the best

strategies for the treatmentand monitoring of affectedpatients, during and after thepandemic, said a letter pub-lished in the New EnglandJournal of Medicine.

Clinical observations sofar show a bi-directional rela-tionship between Covid-19 anddiabetes. On the one hand, dia-betes is associated withincreased risk of Covid-19severity and mortality. Between20 and 30 per cent of patientswho died with Covod-19 havebeen reported to have dia-betes. On the other hand, new-onset diabetes and atypicalmetabolic complications ofpre-existing diabetes, includinglife-threatening ones, have beenobserved in people with Covid-19.

It is still unclear howSARS-Cov-2, the virus that

causes Covid-19, impacts dia-betes. Previous research hasshown that ACE-2, the proteinthat binds to SARS-Cov-2allowing the virus to enterhuman cells, is not only locat-ed in the lungs but also inorgans and tissues involved inglucose metabolism such as thepancreas, the small intestine,the fat tissue, the liver and thekidney.

Researchers hypothesisethat by entering these tissues,the virus may cause multipleand complex dysfunctions ofglucose metabolism. It has alsobeen known for many yearsthat virus infections can pre-cipitate type 1 diabetes.

Francesco Rubino,Professor of Metabolic Surgeryat King's College London andco-lead investigator of theCoviDiab Registry project, said:

"Diabetes is one of the mostprevalent chronic diseases andwe are now realizing the con-sequences of the inevitableclash between two pandemics.Given the short period ofhuman contact with this newcoronavirus, the exact mecha-nism by which the virus influ-ences glucose metabolism isstill unclear and we don't knowwhether the acute manifesta-tion of diabetes in thesepatients represent classic type1, type 2 or possibly a new formof diabetes".

Paul Zimmet, Professor ofDiabetes at Monash Universityin Melbourne and co-leadinvestigator in the CoviDiabRegistry project said: "We don'tyet know the magnitude of thenew onset diabetes in Covid-19and if it will persist or resolveafter the infection; and if so,

whether or not or Covid-19increases risk of future diabetes.

“By establishing this GlobalRegistry, we are calling on theinternational medical commu-nity to rapidly share relevantclinical observations that canhelp answer these questions".

Stephanie Amiel, Professorof Diabetes Research at King'sCollege London and a co-investigator of the CoviDiabRegistry project furtherexplained that the registryfocuses on routinely collectedclinical data that will help usexamine insulin secretorycapacity, insulin resistance andautoimmune antibody status tounderstand how Covid-19related diabetes develops, itsnatural history and best man-agement. Studying Covid-19-related diabetes may uncovernovel mechanisms of disease."

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Union Minister of MinorityAffairs Mukhtar Abbas

Naqvi on Saturday describedCongress a party “ fixed in feu-dal family photo” which isunable to see India’s toleranceand harmony dipped DNAand hit out at it for allegedlyadding to the problems of thecountry even at the time of seri-ous pandemic.

Naqvi, who slammedCongress leader Rahul Gandhifor his “ Intolerance in India”remark, accused the Congressof “ defaming” the country.

BJP leader and UnionMinister said the Oppositionparty remains “ fixed in feudalfamily photo frame” and isunable to realise that India’sDNA is full of tolerance andharmony.

Speaking to newspersons ,the Minority Affairs Minister

said “ ill-informed” leaders ofthe Opposition party shouldknow that the credo that “ allliving beings be happy” isIndia’s legacy and cultural com-mitment.

He was taking a swipe atCongress leader Rahul who ina conversation with former USdiplomat Nicholas Burns onFriday said the DNA of open-ness and tolerance that Indiaand the US were known for has“ disappeared” , and those cre-ating divisions are now claim-ing to be nationalists.

Naqvi said India doesn’tneed any certificate of “ DNAtest” from “prejudiced labora-tory of political hypocrisy” .

India’s cultural commit-ment to tolerance and harmo-ny has united such a largecountry with the thread ofunity in diversity, he said.

Naqvi said Prime MinisterNarendra Modi has been the “biggest victim” of intoleranceof “ bogus bashing brigade” formore than last one decade.

Even in a pandemic peri-od, the Congress and its lead-ers instead of becoming a partof the solution to problems arecreating “ political pollution” .

The Congress due to itspolitical bankruptcy has beeninvolved in defaming the coun-try even in these hours of cri-sis, the minister said.

On Friday BJP Nationalspokesperson and yet anothersenior BJP leader from Muslimcommunity Syed ShahnawazHussain had lashed out atRahul for alleging “ intoler-ance” in India.

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The National InvestigationAgency (NIA) has taken

over the Tania Parveen casefrom Kolkata police as the sus-pected Lashkar-e-Tayyeba(LeT) operative is believed tohave also been engaged inespionage and honey-trappingmodules.

The highly radicalisedParveen (21) was taken intocustody by NIA on Saturdayfrom Kolkata Central jail andis being brought to Delhi fordetailed interrogation.

She was allegedly involvedin honey-trapping modules

operated by the LeT at thebehest of Pakistan’s covertagency Inter-ServicesIntelligence (ISI) and supplieda number of SIMs of Indiantelecom operators to herPakistani handlers.

She is also alleged to havebeen using a Pakistani SIM foroperating WhatsApp groupsand other social media plat-forms besides some Pakistanichat groups.

Parveen was arrested onMarch 18 by the Special TaskForce (STF) of West Bengalfrom 24 Parganas district.

She is also suspected to beworking for LeT and ISI forespionage and recruitment ofgullible youth for the terroragenda.

A number of Armymen arealso suspected to have beentouch with her via social mediaplatforms like Facebook andthe questioning is likelyunearth the depth of the nexusshe enjoyed with the uniformedmen and the level of compro-mises by them, sources said.

During the questioning theNIA will seek to unravel thelarger network operated by

her. The agency will also seekto unmask her contacts withIndians and nefarious agendabehind such linkages.

The agency is also expect-ed to unravel any contacts ofParveen with other bannedterror groups like JamatulMujahideen Bangldesh (JMB)and the like.

Despite her arrest by theSTF in March, the case did notevoke media glare and theNIA took over the probe giventhe importance of the catch andbearing on national security, anofficial said.

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New Delhi: As the number ofCOVID-19 cases crossed thethree lakh-mark, the govern-ment on Saturday came out witha revised treatment protocol todeal with the deadly infection,allowing use of antiviral drugRemdesivir in moderate casesand Hydroxychloroquine inpatients during the early courseof the disease.

It also recommended anoff-label application ofTocilizumab, a drug that mod-ifies the immune system or itsfunctioning, and convalescentplasma for treating coronavirus-infected patients in moderatestage of the illness, besidesadding loss of smell or taste tothe list of COVID-19 symp-toms. In its revised 'ClinicalManagement Protocols forCOVID-19', the Union healthministry, in a turnaround fromits earlier decision, advised useof the anti-malarial drughydroxychloroquine in the earlycourse of the disease, whiledropping the use ofazithromycin in combinationwith HCQ in severe cases andthose requiring ICU manage-ment. Ten days after recordingtwo lakh COVID-19 cases,India surpassed the three lakh-

mark on Saturday with theworst daily spike of 11,458infections, while the death tolltoo climbed to 8,884 with 386new fatalities, according to theHealth Ministry.

India took 64 days to crossthe one lakh-mark from 100cases, then in another fortnightit reached the grim milestone oftwo lakh cases. It has nowbecome the fourth worst-hitnation with a caseload of3,08,993. Only US, Brazil andRussia have more cases.

Hydroxychloroquine hasdemonstrated in-vitro activityagainst SARS-CoV2 and wasshown to be clinically beneficialin several small single-centrestudies though with significantlimitations, the health ministrysaid. "Nonetheless, several largeobservational studies withsevere methodologic limita-tions have shown no effect onmortality or other clinicallymeaningful outcomes," therevised document said.

"As such, the evidence basebehind its use remains limitedas with other drugs and shouldonly be used after shared deci-sion making with the patientswhile awaiting the results ofongoing studies," it said. PTI

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personnel from several battal-ions have tested positive forcoronavirus in south Kashmir,officials said on Saturday.

The officials said the healthauthorities had collected sam-ples from CRPF personnel fromvarious battalions at Uranhall insouth Kashmir, out of whichtest results for 22 samples havecome out as positive.

They said these tests wereundertaken at SKIMS labora-tory here and were among thetotal 66 positive cases detectedvia tests conducted at the lab-oratory on Saturday.

None of these troopershave any recent travel history,the officials added.

The contact tracing of theCOVID-19 positive CRPFpersonnel has been started sothat those who came in contactwith them can be quarantined,they said.

This is the second time inthe last four days that a largenumber of paramilitary CRPFpersonnel have tested positivefor the coronavirus. On June 10,28 CRPF personnel had test-ed positive.

A 40-year-old CRPF per-sonnel, who had tested positivefor COVID-19, died at a hos-pital here on June 8. PTI

New Delhi: The southwestmonsoon reached Maharashtraand covered all of Odisha onSaturday, while light rainsoccurred in parts of north India,bringing the mercury down asthe weatherman predicted thatheatwave is unlikely in theregion till June 15.

In the national capital,cloudy skies and light rainsmade way for a pleasant weath-er. Cool, high-velocity windsalso swept across the city.

The SafdarjungObservatory, which providerepresentative figures for thecity, recorded a maximum of39.4 degrees Celsius, which isnormal for this time of the year.

There is a possibility oflight rains along with winds

gusting up to 40 kilometers perhour in the city on Sunday.

The maximum and mini-mum temperatures are expect-ed to settle at 39 and 30 degreesCelsius, the weather depart-ment said.

The region is not likely towitness a heat wave till June 15,said Kuldeep Srivastava, thehead of the regional forecastingcentre of the IndiaMeteorological Department.

In Rajasthan, the mercurydropped by one to two degreesCelsius in many cities.

Churu was the hottest placein the state with a maximumtemperature of 43.1 degreeCelsius, followed by 43 degreesCelsius in Jaisalmer, 42.4degrees Celsius in Bikaner, 41.8

degrees Celsius in Kota and 40.3degrees Celsius inSriganganagar.

Minimum temperature atmost of the places was record-ed between 25.1 and 32.4degrees Celsius, the meteoro-logical (MeT) department said.

Rain or thundershowersare likely to occur in parts of thestate over the next 24 hours, itsaid. The neighbouring Haryanaand Punjab, the maximum tem-perature hovered close to nor-mal limits, with their commoncapital Chandigarh receiving asharp spell of rain in the after-noon. Chandigarh recorded amaximum of 37.8 degreesCelsius, down one notch againstnormal limits, according to theMet department. PTI

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Chennai: The ruling AIADMKand the MDMK In Tamil Naduhave moved the Madras HighCourt seeking 50 per centreservation to Other BackwardClasses (OBCs) in seats formedical and dental coursessurrendered by the statetowards the all-India quota.

The opposition DMK hasalready filed a petition in thisregard citing Supreme Court'sdirection to approach the HighCourt.

The AIADMK representedby its Villupuram district sec-retary and Law Minister C VeShanmugam filed the petition.

MDMK founder-leaderVaiko has also approached thecourt with another petition.

In the affidavit, theAIADMK found fault with theCentre and said it was denyingreservation in state surren-

dered seats to All India Quota(AIQ) in the year 2018-19 and2019-20, adding that only 220OBC candidates were admittedto PG courses while they hada claim over 2,152 of the 7,982seats and only 66 OBC studentswere admitted in the under-graduate courses.

The petitioner submittedthere were 4,061 AIQ MBBSseats of which 50 per cent(2030) should have been filledby OBC candidates and for theyear 2020 of the 9,550 seatsunder AIQ 8,800 seats weresurrendered from colleges runby State governments.

Alleging that out of 8,800seats surrendered by States,not a single seat was given toOBCs, the AIADMK in itspetition said all the seats weretransferred to the general cat-egory which was unjustified

and unconstitutional.The petitioner further

alleged that the OBCs wererobbed off 10,000 seats in thelast three years at least andmany more during the pre-ceding years.

"The Union of India cannotbe permitted to turn a blind eyewhen a significant number ofmeritorious OBC students aredenied seats in the State cap-tured seats in All India Quota,"the AIADMK contended.

The petitioner sought for adirection to the Centre toreserve and allot 50 per cent ofthe seats for OBCs in admis-sion to the seats surrendered bythe State of Tamil Nadu to theall-India quota in under-grad-uate, post-graduate and diplo-ma medical and dental cours-es in Tamil Nadu in the forth-coming academic year. PTI

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New Delhi: A PIL has beenfiled by an NGO before theSupreme Court seeking adirection to the Centre to pre-pare, notify and implement a“national plan” as prescribedunder the DisasterManagement Act to deal withthe COVID-19 pandemic.

The petition, filed by theCentre for Public InterestLitigation (CPIL) throughadvocate Prashant Bhushan,has also sought a direction tothe Centre to transfer all con-tributions made to the PMCARES Fund, set up forCOVID-19 relief, to theNational Disaster ResponseFund (NDRF).

“In line with Section46(1)(b) of the DM (Disaster

Management ) Act, all presentand future collections, contri-butions, and grants for thefight against COVID-19should be credited towardsthe NDRF,” the PIL said.

“A National Plan underSections 10 and 11 of the DMAct must be prepared, notified,and implemented to deal withthe pandemic,” it said.

Pointing out that Indiahas assumed the fourth posi-tion in terms of the mostreported cases of COVID-19 inthe world, the petition seeksthat a minimum standard forrelief to be provided forCOVID-19 patients must alsobe laid down by the govern-ment in conformity withSection 12 of the Act. PTI

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Agartala/Itanagar: The CentralGovernment has advised to allthe eight northeastern States toset up e-office in a fixed timeand all technical and financialsupport to achieve the e-officemission to be implementedright from civil secretariat todistrict level in all the stateswould be provided by the cen-tre, officials said on Saturday.

Information TechnologyDepartment officials inAgartala and Itanagar said thatunion DoNER (Developmentof North Eastern Region)Minister Jitendra Singh whileaddressing a workshop through

webinar (videoconferencing)on Friday said that the progressof e-office in 75 CentralMinistries and Departmentsenabled the creation of a digi-tal central secretariat whichensured that work from homewas possible in the COVID-19lockdown period.

"The implementation of e-office in state secretariats ofnortheastern states would resultin creation of paperless state

secretariats in a time boundmanner where officers wouldbe empowered with virtual pri-vate networks, digital signaturecertificates and promote lesscontact governance," he said.

Singh said that the e-officeproject would fulfil the vision ofPrime Minister Narendra Modiof "Minimum Government,Maximum Governance" andwould ensure ease of adminis-tration, transparency and citi-zen-centric delivery mechanism.

Department ofAdministrative Reforms andPublic Grievances SecretaryK.Shivaji while addressing the

workshop said that the entirenortheastern region has thenatural advantage of informa-tion technology savvy youthpower to implement the e-office in an effective manner.

DoNER Ministry SecretaryInder Jit Singh said that hisministry is the first in the gov-ernment of India to implement100 per cent e-office in pro-cessing of files.

The workshop on e-officefor northeastern states wasattended by Chief Ministers ofArunachal Pradesh, Nagaland,Sikkim and Meghalaya and theIT Ministers of Assam,

Manipur, Mizoram, andTripura. Chief Secretaries andsenior officials of NE states havealso attended the workshop.

Arunachal Pradesh ChiefMinister Pema Khandu saidthat by the year 2022, all officesof the state government includ-ing those in the districts wouldstart functioning as e-offices.

According to an officialstatement, welcoming the ini-tiative of the DoNER Ministryto push e-office in the north-east, Khandu asserted that it isthe only way out to curb cor-ruption and red-tapism in gov-ernance. IANS

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Panaji: Goa recorded its biggestdaily spike in coronavirus casesyet, as 60 more persons testedpositive, taking the state's activecases to 454, Health SecretaryNila Mohanan said onSaturday.

Mohanan said 26 of these60 cases were from the con-tainment zone in Mangor hillin South Goa.

“One person is critical. Hesuffered a heart attack andsuffers from a lung ailment. Heis currently on ventilator at theCovid hospital,” Mohanansaid.

On Saturday, the state for-mally designated Ghodemolin North Goa's Sattari sub- dis-trict as Goa's second contain-ment zone after a sudden spikein corona cases there. IANS

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Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa onSaturday inaugurated the Sardar Vallabhbhai

Academy, an institute for economically under-priv-ileged students to prepare for competitive exami-nations.

“The Sardar Vallabhbhai Academy is an initia-tive in association with the BBMP and the ChiefMinister's Urban Planning Project for the benefit ofpoor students in competitive examinations,” saidYediyurappa.

The academy will enable poor students to pre-pare for the Union Public Service Commission(UPSC) and Karnataka Public Service Commission(KPSC) examinations, for jobs such as IAS, IPS, IRS,Group I officers and others.

“The academy will benefit the poor studentspreparing for competitive exams,” said BruhatBengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP)Commissioner, B.H. Anil Kumar.

Similarly, as part of the Chief Minister's city plan,Yediyurappa also inaugurated an organic fertiliserunit.

Bengaluru South MP, Tejasvi Surya, and BBMPMayor, M. Goutham Kumar, were also present onthe occasion.

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Andhra Pradeshregistered its

highest single-daynumber of 186Covid-19 cases onSaturday. Earlier sin-gle-day high of 161cases was recordedon June 6.

With the num-ber of daily casesincreasing by a littleover 100 over thepast week, the state'scumulative tally hasrisen to 4,588 cases.

On Saturday, 42 peoplewere discharged from hospitals,raising the number of curedpersons to 2,641. The numberof active cases had climbed to1,865, the state nodal officerreported.

With two deaths reportedfrom the Krishna district in thepast 24 hours ending 9 a.m onSaturday, the Covid-19 toll inthe state increased to 82.

On Friday, the state's mor-tality rate stood at 1.42 per cent,ranking 12th among the states.The all-India mortality rate

was 2.86 per cent on Friday.According to the state

nodal officer, 14,477 tests wereconducted in the 24 hours.

The cumulative tally ofCovid-19 cases amongreturnees from other statesrose to 1,068 from the Friday's1,035 cases.

On Saturday, 3 new caseswere detected among foreignreturnees.

The number of active casesin this category was 180, withone person discharged onSaturday.

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In a significant developmentin the Gulmarg Land scam of

2009, Special Judge Anti-Corruption (North Kashmir)has issued directions to theAnti-Corruption Bureau tosubmit the supplementarychargesheet before the courtwithin a period of four monthsfrom the date of receipt of theorder.

Baseer Ahmad Khan, cur-rently an advisor to Lt-Gov GCMurmu, is one of the mainaccused in the land scaminvolving bureaucrats andsome prominent hoteliers ofKashmir.

Special judge (anti-cor-ruption) of Baramulla,Bandipora and Kupwara dis-tricts, Naseer Ahmad Darasked the ACB to file a sup-plementary chargesheet byOctober 10, taking into accountthe additional documentswhich were presented beforethe court.

According to the two

charge sheets, sub-judice beforethe trial court at Baramulla,there are 20 accused in theGulmarg land scam namelyMehboob Iqbal (IAS) the thenDivisional CommissionerKashmir, Baseer Ahmad Khan(IAS) the then DeputyCommissioner Baramullapresently Advisor to LieutenantGovernor J&K, Hoteliers ofKashmir Valley MushtaqAhmed Ganai alias Chaya,Mushtaq Ahmad Burza,Manzoor Ahmad Burza, SyedMusadiq Shah, MuhammadAfzal Khanday and severalmiddle rung Revenue Officialsthen serving in Baramulla andTangmarg area.

After hearing SeniorAdvocate Zaffar Ahmed Shahand Advocate Sheikh FarazIqbal and a battery of lawyersappearing for the high profileaccused and Special PublicProsecutor VOK, the SpecialJudge Anti-Corruption

Baramulla Naseer Ahmad Darobserved that the opinion ofthe Advocate General as well asthe communications/letters,the reference of which hasbeen given by the High Courtin its Para 14 are not undis-putedly part of the report filedin terms of Section 173 CrPCby the Vigilance Organization,Kashmir against the accusedpersons.

Furthermore, the referenceof other documents given bythe High Court in its orderdated 15-10-2018 appeared tohave been issued in the year2016 i.e. after presentation ofthe charge sheet before thisCourt and the fact of the mat-ter is that the charges againstthe accused persons are yet tobe framed.

The Court furtherobserved that these docu-ments/communications andthe other facts does not formthe part of the report u/s 173

CrPC, however, in view of theobservations made by the High Court in its orderdated 15-10-2018 regardingthese material/documents inmy opinion now assumesimportance.

The VigilanceO r g a n i z a t i o nKashmir/Investigating Officerof the case must have been theknowledge about the discover-ies and the developmentswhich have surfaced and takenplace in the instant case fromthe date of registration of theaforementioned FIR till date.

Although these documentsare not part of the report u/s173 Cr.P.C but assumes impor-tance in view of the facts andcircumstances of the case andin view of the developmentwhich has taken place after thepassing of the order by this Court vide dated 25-06-2016 and thereafter the obser-vations made by the HighCourt in the order dated 15-10-2018.

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As 30 persons succumbed tocovid-19 on a single day

and an all time high of 1,989persons testing positive for thepandemic on Saturday, TamilNadu Chief Minister EdappadiPazhaniswamy convened ameeting of top bureaucrats andthe expert team of medicaldoctors for Monday to takestock of the situation. The ChiefMinister who had gone to Salemhas rushed back to Chennaiafter learning about the newdevelopments.

The day also saw K Palani , AIADMK MLA repre-senting Sriperumbudur con-stituency getting admitted toMIOT Hospitals in Chennaiafter testing positive for Covid-19. Hospital spokesman saidthat the condition of the lawmaker remained stable. He isthe second MLA in Tamil Nadu

to get infected with the pan-demic after J Anbazhagan, theDMK MLA who died onWednesday.

M K Stalin, leader of theOpposition demanded onSaturday that Health MinisterDr Vijaya Baskar too should beremoved from the council ofMinisters. “He has failed toevolve a strategy to counter thepandemic and Tamil Nadu is

fast becoming the State withhighest number of covidpatients,” Stalin told reporters.

As on Saturday, Tamil Nadusaw the total number of personstested positive till date reaching42,687 while the number ofactive cases in the State 18,878,according to a bulletin issued bythe Government of Tamil Nadu.The day also saw the Ministerfor health announcing that2,000 new doctors and paramedical would be inducted intoservice to face shortage of qual-ified hands in government hos-pitals across the State.

The total number of casesdetected in Chennai alone tilldate reached 30,444 with theMetropolis accounting for 1,484of the positive cases tested onSaturday. 136 persons werefound to be afflicted with covidin nearby Chengalpettu dis-trict, one of the major industri-al hubs in the State.Kancheepuram (22) and

Thiruvallur ( 78) the otherneighbours of Chennai showedconsiderable decrease in thenumber of positive cases.

The dead included 24patients with co-morbid condi-tions ( who were suffering fromserious ailments like diabetesmellitus, kidney failure, hyper-tension and cardio vascularproblems.

Kerala registered 85 newcases of coronavirus on Saturdaywhile the hotspots in the Staterose to 118. The day also saw233 persons getting hospitalisedwhich took the number ofpatients undergoing treatmentfor coronavirus to 1,342.

While 53 out of the 85 whotested positive on Saturday wereexpatriates, 18 were those whoreturned to the State from otherparts of the country.

How ten persons were infected remained a mystery asthey could not give a properexplanation.

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An impressive AttestationParade was held at the

Ladakh Scouts RegimentalCentre(LSRC), Leh to markthe entry of 127 well trainedrecruits into the LadakhScouts Regiment as youngsoldiers on Saturday.

Due to the ongoingCovid-19 pandemic, the cer-emony was conducted with-out any military or civildignitaries or parents of therecruits following all thenorms and advisories issuedby the Ministry of HomeAffairs as well as by theIndian Army.

The attestation paradewith appropriate social dis-tancing in consonance withthe highest traditions of theIndian Army was reviewedby Col Rinchen Dorje,Commandant, LSRC.

The Young Soldiers,hailing from all regions ofLadakh, took oath in unisonto serve the Nation.

The Reviewing Officercongratulated them andurged them to devote their

life in service to the Nationas proud soldiers of theIndian Army.

He exhorted the YoungSoldiers to continue to strivehard in pursuit of excellencein all spheres and take a

solemn vow to uphold thesovereignty of the Nation.

The young Riflemenwere awarded medals fortheir outstanding perfor-mance during training. It

was indeed a proud momentfor the recruits who hailedfrom far flung areas to jointhe LADAKH SCOUTSRegiment as young soldiers.

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Two more terrorists weregunned down by the joint

teams of security focus inNipora Zadoora village ofKulgam district early Saturdaymorning without suffering anycollateral damage.

Meanwhile, a road open-ing party (ROP) of CRPFaverted a major tragedy bytimely detecting an IED on theBandipore-Srinagar highwayaround 6.30 a.m. An IED wasplanted to target the securityforces convoys passing throughthe area.

Since June 1, 25 terroristshave been gunned down by thesecurity forces in 8 anti-ter-rorist operations. Since January

2020, a total number of 95 ter-rorists have been eliminated bythe security forces in 'all out'operations in Jammu &Kashmir.

According to policespokesman, “Road openingparty of CRPF 3rd Bn spotteda gas cylinder fitted IED alongthe roadside at Lawdara cross-ing near Nadihal onBandipora-Srinagar highwayearly saturday morning”.Routine vehicular movementwas disrupted after the area wassealed by the security forces.

Teams of Bomb disposalsquad were rushed to the spotto diffuse the IED. After care-fully examining the IED circuitthe Bomb disposal squad det-onated the IED.

In Kulgam, the cordonand search operations werelaunched by the police, 19 RRand 18 Bn CRPF after receiv-ing inputs about the presenceof terrorists in the area.

Police spokesman said,“during the search operation,the terrorists were given theopportunity to surrender, how-ever instead they fired andlobbed grenades upon the jointsearch party, which was retal-iated leading to an encounter.

“In the ensuing encounter,two terrorists were killed andtheir bodies were retrievedfrom the site of encounter. Theidentification and affiliation ofthe killed terrorists is beingascertained”, police spokesmanadded.

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In a people friendly initiative, theMaharashtra Government on

Saturday slashed by 50 per cent ofthe “exorbitant charges” levied byprivate tests across the State.

Announcing 50 per cent cut incharges for Covid-19 tests in privatelaboratories, State Health MinisterRajesh Tope tweeted: “Henceforth,private laboratories acrossMaharashtra cannot charge morethan �2,200 per Covid-19 test. Incase of a swab sample collected fromhome, we have fixed �2800 as thetest charges. The significant decision taken by the StateGovernment will bring relief to theordinary people”.

Private laboratories across thestate have been charging anywherebetween �4,500 (for samples givenat the laboratories) and �5,200 (for

samples collected from home), thusmaking laboratory unaffordable forordinary people.

The State government has takenthe decision to slash the charges forCovid-19 tests in private laborato-ries following the recommendationof expert committee, headed by tophealth officials headed by Dr.Suhakar Shinde. The committee,which among others comprisedDr. Sadhna Tayde, Dr. AjayChandanwale and Prof. Amit Joshihad gone into the issue in detail.

“The Committee has recom-mended a maximum rate ofbetween �2,200 and �2,800 (forhome tests) which we have accept-ed and implemented,” Tope said,while talking to media persons.

Through the decision to slashthe Covid-19 test charges by half,the state government has sent mes-sage across to the private hospitals

who despite the prescribed normscontinue to indulge in profiteeringby charging both the Covid-19 andother patients heavily during thechallenging times of the pandemic.

The decision should be seen inthe context of the fact that a maxi-mum number of Covid-19 testshave been conducted inMaharashtra in comparison withother states in the state.

Currently, as many as 97 labo-ratories are functioning for Covid-19 diagnosis in the state – 55 labsrun by the government ones and 42private ones. Till Saturday evening,as many as 6,41,441 laboratorysamples have been tested in variouslabs across the state. From the totaltests conducted so far, 1,04,568samples have tested positive (16.3%)for Covid-19 until Saturday. Therehave so far been 3,830 deaths and3,427 infected cases.

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The Kerala Police on Saturdayissued look out notice for the

father-son duo of Abdul Kareem andRiyasudden, the main accused in thedeath of the pregnant elephant in thelast week of May in Mannarkkadu ofPalakkadu district. The delay in nab-bing the accused has given rise towidespread resentment in the Statewith people alleging political inter-ference in the investigation.

The 15-year-old elephant had agruesome death when she acciden-tally ate a coconut stuffed withexplosives planted by the father-sonduo along with Wilson, laborerworking in the estate. Wilson, hail-ing from Edavanna in Malappuramdistrict was held by the police and heaccepted his role in the crime.

According to Wilson, the explo-sive laden coconut was planted in theestate owned by Abdul Kareem totrap wild animals like pigs and por-cupine as the meat of these animalsare in demand. It was Riyasuddeenwho mobilized the explosives meant

for killing the animals.The elephant is believed to have

bitten the coconut and was injuredseriously. When it could not with-stand the attack by flies and swarms,the pachyderm entered a river in theforests where it died on May 26 as aresult of starvation. It could not chewfood or drink water because of thegrievous injuries in its mouth.

Though the police arrestedWilson immediately after the incidentcame to light, Kareem andRiyazudeen evaded the police andwent absconding. The mishap hadcreated a furor in Kerala because theforest officials and a section of themedia reported that the incident hadtaken place in Malappuram district.The Muslin League and variousIslamist organisations criticized it asan attempt to portray the Muslims inpoor light since Malappuram is aMuslim majority district.

Though the incident happened inPalakkadu-Malappuram border area,Wilson, Kareem and Riyazuddeen aresaid to be from Malappuramdistrict.

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of relief on Saturday, as thenumber of deaths came downto 113, while 3,427 people test-ed positive for Covid-19 in var-ious parts of the State.

After recording 149 deathson June 10, 152 on June 11 and127 on June 12, the number ofCovid-19 triggered deathsdropped to 113, taking thetotal number of deaths in thestate to 3830 in the state.With3437 fresh infections reportedfrom various parts of the state,the total number of infectedcases rose to a staggering1,04,568 in the state.

After taking into total 3.830deaths reported so far and47.796 patients dischargedfrom various hospitals eversince the outbreak of pandem-ic in the state, the state healthauthorities pegged the numberof “active cases” in the State at51,379.

Of the 113 deaths report-ed so far, Mumbai accountedfor 69 deaths, while there wereten deaths in Pune, eight eachin Navi Mumjbai, Solapur, sixin Panvel, three each in Thaneand Aurangabad, two in Laturand one each in Kalyan-Dombivli, Satara, Nanded andYavatmal.

As in the cases of

Maharashtra, the number ofdeaths dropped in Mumbaion Saturday.

After recording 97 deathseach on June 10 and 11 and 90deaths on June 12, the numberof deaths in Mumbai camedown to 69 on Saturday, takingthe total number of deaths into 2,113.

The number of Covid-19

positive patients went up by1,380 cases to touch 56,831now. The authorities peggedthe number of “active cases” inMumbai at 28763.

Of the 113 dead in the stateon Saturday, 73 were menwhile 40 were women. Sixtyfive of them were aged over 60years, 38 were from the agegroup 40 to 59 years and 10

were aged below 40 years.While information regard-

ing comorbidity status of 10patients was not available tillthe evening, 83 out of the rest103 patients (80.6%) had high-risk co-morbidities such asdiabetes, hypertension, heartdisease.

Currently, as many as 97laboratories are functioningfor Covid-19 diagnosis in thestate currently – 55 govern-ment-run and 42 private ones.Out of 6,41,441 samples sentto laboratories, 1,04,568 havetested positive (16.3%) forCovid-19 until Saturday.

The recovery rate in thestate is 47.2 per cent while thecase fatality rate in the state: 3.7per cent. Currently, 5,83,302people are in home quarantine.There are 79,074 beds availablein 1580 quarantine institutionswhile 28,200 people are ininstitutional quarantine.

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Alegislator of Telangana'sruling party Telangana

Rashtra Samithi (TRS) hastested positive for Covid-19while Finance Minister THarish Rao has gone into self-quarantine after his per-sonal assistant was foundinfected by the virus.

The legislator, who repre-sents a constituency in theunited Warangal district, wasadmitted to a corporate hospi-tal in Hyderabad late Friday.His condition is said to be sta-ble.

The MLA's family mem-bers and staff were quarantinedat a function hall in Hyderabad.The TRS leader, who lives withhis family in the state capital,had visited his constituency toattend various programmes.

The legislator had gone tothe constituency on June 2 toattend the TelanganaFormation Day celebrationsand again on June 5 to partic-ipate in another programme.

Health department offi-cials were trying to trace thosewho accompanied the MLA

during his visit to the con-stituency. The contacts werebeing traced through pho-tographs and videos taken dur-ing the programmes.

He is the first MLA fromTelangana to test positive forCovid-19. Meanwhile, Financeminister Harish Rao has goneinto self-quarantine after hispersonal assistant in his con-stituency Siddipet tested posi-tive. Though the minister and17 of his contacts tested nega-tive on Friday, he went into self-quarantine at his house as aprecautionary measure.Reports of some members ofthe minister's staff were stillawaited.

Siddipet district collector AP Venkatrami Reddy andYadadri Bhuvanagiri districtcollector AnithaRamachandran also went intoself-quarantine after the peoplethey met tested positive forCovid-19.

One of the villagers, whohad called on VenkatramiReddy two days ago withregard to the land acquisitionfor the Kondapochammasagarreservoir, tested positive.

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Kathmandu: Police in Nepalarrested 10 people, includingseven foreigners, on Saturday asdemonstrations against thegovernment’s handling of thecoronavirus crisis continuedwith hundreds of protestersgathering in the capital cityKathmandu, officials said.

The Himalayan nationimposed a complete lockdownin March after reporting its sec-ond confirmed coronaviruscase. But the number of infec-tions have since increased to5,062, with 16 deaths, and thegovernment has come underfire for not doing enough tocontain the outbreak.

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Bangkok: Researchers in Thailandbegan collecting samples from horse-shoe bats to test them for coronavirusamid concerns they may pose athreat to local residents, a govern-ment statement said on Saturday.

They plan to collect 300 bats overthree days from a cave in theChanthaburi province in the south-east of the country. The bats will bereleased following the tests.

Thailand has 23 species of thehorseshoe bat, but there has not beenan investigation before.

The source of the virus remainsa matter of debate after it emergedin China late last year.

The World Health Organization(WHO) in April said that all avail-able evidence suggests that it origi-nated in bats in China, but it was notclear how the virus had jumped thespecies barrier to humans.

The research team in Thailand includes SupapornWacharapluesadee, who identifiedthe country’s first case of COVID-19in January.

“The reason we need to investi-gate the horseshoe bat is becausethere are reports from China that theCOVID-19 virus is similar to thevirus found in the horseshoe bat,”Supaporn said.

Thailand was the first countryoutside China to record a case of thevirus. It has so far reported 3,134cases and 58 deaths.

Researchers from the NationalParks Department, ChulalongkornHospital and Kasetsart Universityentered the cave on Thursdayevening and re-emerged in the earlyhours of Friday with samples of batblood, saliva and feces. Investigatorswere concerned that villagers in thearea could be at risk of infection.

Locals have been known to eatbats, Supaporn said, adding adequateeducation and information pro-grams were needed. Agency

Sao Paulo: Brazil’s biggestmetropolis has an unorthodoxplan to free up space at its grave-yards during the coronavrispandemic: digging up the bonesof people buried in the past andstoring their bagged remains inlarge metal containers. SaoPaulo’s municipal funeral ser-vice said in a statement Fridaythat the remains of people whodied at least three years ago willbe exhumed and put in num-bered bags, then stored tem-porarily in 12 storage contain-ers it has purchased. The con-tainers will be delivered to sev-eral cemeteries within 15 days,the statement said.

Sao Paulo is one of theCovid-19 hot spots in LatinAmerica’s hardest-hit nation,with 5,480 deaths as ofThursday in the city of 12 mil-lion people. And some healthexperts are worried about a newsurge now that a decline inintensive care bed occupancy toabout 70% prompted MayorBruno Covas to authorize a par-tial reopening of business thisweek. The result has beencrowded public transport, longlines at malls and widespreaddisregard for social distancing.

Many health experts predictthe peak of Brazil’s pandemicwill arrive in August, havingspread from the big cities whereit first appeared into the nation’sinterior. Virus has so far killedalmost 42,000 Brazilians, andBrazil passed the UK to becomethe country with the world’s sec-ond highest death toll. AP

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With 46 people testing pos-itive for the novel coro-

navirus in the last three days inBeijing after a period of lull,officials in the Chinese capitalhave initiated “wartime” mea-sures, focusing on a wholesalefood market where the newcluster of infections werereported from.

The new cases at Xinfadiwholesale food market hasraised concern among the peo-ple as it supplies 90 per cent ofthe capital’s vegetables andmeat products catering toabout 20 million people.

Along with the Xinfadimarket six other markets wereclosed on Saturday.

Officials in Beijing foundthe coronavirus strand on achopping board of importedsalmon at the Xinfadi marketfollowing which the fish stocks

were removed from Chaoshifamarket, Carrefour and Wumartstores in the city.

China imports about80,000 tonnes of frozen salmonevery year. Chile, Norway,Faroe Islands, Australia andCanada are the main exportersto China.

Lin Li, chief scientist of ateam that monitors aquaticdisease and control inGuangdong Province, told theGlobal Times it is not possiblefor live salmon to be contam-inated with the virus as itbreeds in the ocean, neither canfrozen salmon be a source ofCovid-19 which can only existin active cells.

Forty-six people in Beijinghave tested positive for thecoronavirus over the last fewdays, the Global Times reportsaid. Local municipal officials,who addressed the media, saidthey could not rule out the pos-

sibility of additional cases inBeijing.

All the 46 positive caseswere connected to local mar-

kets but none have symptoms.They are under close medicalobservation, Pang Xinghuo,deputy director of the munic-

ipal centre for disease preven-tion and control, told a mediabriefing here on Saturday.

Of the 517 samples taken at

the Xinfadi wholesale marketin Beijing’s Fengtai district, 45people’s throat swabs testedpositive for the virus. Anotherperson connected to a marketin Beijing’s Haidian districtalso tested positive, the dailyreported.

Forty environmental sam-ples collected at the Xinfadimarket also tested positive.

Testing of some 10,000people who have connectionsto the market began after sixconfirmed cases of COVID-19were reported on Friday, fol-lowing a single new confirmedcase on Thursday.

The new cases havebrought a sense of disquiet inBeijing which in the last twomonths was being projected assafe. The government wentahead with its ten-dayParliament session and offi-cially relaxed the guard with themunicipal council recom-

mending the people to do awaywith masks.

In response to the emer-gency, Fengtai district has beenput on “wartime” activity withclose management of the 11residential areas aroundXinfadi market. Officials aremanning the area at all hours,the report said. Three schoolsand six kindergartens nearXinfadi market have stoppedclasses.

The risk level at Beijing’sXicheng district for its Yuetancommunity has risen from lowto medium. Beijing plans tocarry out widespread nucleicacid tests of people who havehad close contacts with theXinfadi market since May 30.

Currently, Beijing’s 98nucleic acid testing institu-tions can process 90,000 testsa day, which has met the needsfor testing in the capital, cityhealth commission spokesper-

son Gao Xiaojun said at apress conference.

The reopening of elemen-tary schools, which was sched-uled for Monday, has beenpostponed. Earlier, China’sNational Health Commission(NHC) said that 18 new con-firmed coronavirus cases werereported in the country onFriday, including six domesti-cally-transmitted cases inBeijing.

Also on Friday, seven newasymptomatic cases werereported, taking the total num-ber of such people in quaran-tine to 98, it said. As of Friday,the overall confirmed cases inChina had reached 83,075,including 74 patients who werestill being treated, with no onein severe condition.

In all, 78,367 people havebeen discharged after recoveryand 4,634 people have died ofCovid-19, NHC said.

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North Korea on Saturdayissued another angry state-

ment against Seoul, this timeexcoriating it for “nonsensical”statements on the stalled dia-logue about Pyongyang’snuclear weapons. South Koreahas been the target of a wave ofangry statements recently fromthe North, which has accusedSeoul of allowing defectors tolaunch leaflets critical of leaderKim Jong Un into its territory.

The latest statement was inresponse to a South Korean for-eign ministry official report-edly saying Seoul would con-tinue “efforts for denuclearisa-tion”, referring to the long-stalled nuclear talks betweenthe United States and NorthKorea.

“It is really preposterous tohear the balderdash of southKorean authorities... who donot have either any qualifica-tion to discuss, or... poke theirnoses into the matters between”Pyongyang and Washington,Kwon Jong Gun, the North’sforeign affairs official in chargeof negotiating with the US, saidin a statement.

Kwon denounced Seoul

for trying to “meddle” in theprocess in the statement, whichwas carried by North Korea’sofficial KCNA news agency andconcluded with the warning: “Itis better to stop a nonsensicaltalking about denucleariza-tion.” The broadside came a dayafter Pyongyang issued a sting-ing denunciation of the UnitedStates on the second anniver-sary of a landmark summit inSingapore where US PresidentDonald Trump shook handswith North Korean leader KimJong Un. ��� *�0�

Thousands gathered in Paristo denounce police brutal-

ity and discrimination.Shouts rose from the large-

ly black crowd as a group ofwhite extreme-right activistsclimbed a building andunfurled a huge banner denouncing “anti-whiteracism.” Others tried to tear itdown.

Police surrounded the area,bracing for potential violence.There’s been scattered clashesat largely peaceful demonstra-tions around France, inspiredby Black Lives Matter andglobal protests in the wake ofGeorge Floyd’s death.

The march in Paris was ledby supporters of Adama Traore,a 24-year-old French blackman who died in 2016. Traoredidn’t have his identity card onhim and reportedly ran as thepolice approached.

A huge portrait showed aface of half Traore, half Floyd.Traore’s sister Assa told thecrowd, “We are all demandingthe same thing — fair justicefor everyone.” She says herbrother was also handcuffedand held down by police beforehe died. A final report releasedlast month cleared three offi-cers of wrongdoing, triggeringrenewed protests. This week,the government banned choke-holds in France.

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America’s first-ever Hindulawmaker Tulsi Gabbard

has said that in this chaotictime, one can find certainty,strength, and peace inBhagavad Gita. In her messageCongresswoman from Hawaiisaid that it is a chaotic time andno one can say with certaintywhat tomorrow looks like.

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President Donald Trump ishighlighting the diversity of

West Point’s graduating classand appealing for America’snewest officers to uphold thecountry’s core values, a speechemphasizing unity at a timewhen the commander inchief ’s relationship with mili-tary leaders has becomestrained and questions havearisen about the role of soldiersin a civil society.

``You have come from thefarms and the cities, fromstates big and small, and from

every race, religion, color, andcreed. But when you enteredthese grounds, you becamepart of one team and one fam-ily, proudly serving oneAmerican nation,’’ Trump saysin prepared remarks releasedby the White House before hisaddress.

Trump’s commencementspeech to the 1,100 graduatingcadets during a global pan-demic comes as argumentsrage over his threat to useAmerican troops on U.S. soil toquell protests stemming fromthe killing of George Floyd bya Minneapolis police officer.

The president tells theClass of 2020 that “you becamebrothers and sisters pledgingallegiance to the same timelessprinciples, joined together in acommon mission: to protectour country, to defend ourpeople, and to carry on the tra-ditions of freedom, equalityand liberty that so many gavetheir lives to secure.” He saidthey “exemplify the power ofshared national purpose totranscend all differences andachieve true unity. Today, yougraduate as one class, and youembody one noble creed: duty,honor, country.”

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North Korea will take“action” against the South

and entrust its military to carryit out, Kim Yo Jong, the pow-erful sister of leader Kim JongUn, threatened Saturday in astatement carried by the KCNAnews agency. “I feel it is hightime to surely break with the

south Korean authorities. Wewill soon take a next action,”she said in the latest denunci-ation of Seoul. Since last weekthe North has issued a series ofvitriolic condemnations of theSouth over activists sendinganti-Pyongyang leaflets overthe border — something defec-tors do on a regular basis.

“By exercising my power

authorized by the SupremeLeader, our Party and the state,I gave an instruction to thearms of the department in chargeof the affairs with enemy to deci-sively carry out the next action,”said Kim Yo Jong, who is a keyadvisor to her brother. She added“right to taking next actionagainst enemy will be entrustedto the General Staff of our army.

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Oil India Ltd on Saturdaysaid it has suffered a pro-

duction loss of 638 tonnes ofcrude oil and 0.46 millionstandard cubic metres per dayof natural gas following ablowout and massive fire at awell in its Assam field.

Natural gas mixed withcondensate started flowinguncontrollably from one of thewells of the company-operatedBaghjan fields in Tinsukia dis-trict of Assam on May 27, 2020,leading to a blowout. The wellcaught fire on June 8, killingtwo fire fighters and injuring

one. The fire led to agitation by

locals at OIL assets, leading toshutting down of 66 oil wellsand 13 gas wells at some areasin Assam, the company said ina statement on Twitter.

“This led to a productionloss of 638 tonnes of crude oiland 0.46 mmscmd of naturalgas,” it said.

OIL said drilling andworkover operations werestopped or disrupted at fourlocations. Crude oil trans-portation through browseroperations were also hamperedin some areas.

The petroleum ministry

has constituted a three-mem-ber high-level committee toinquire into the incident. Thepanel will be headed by S C LDas, director general of theDirectorate General of

Hydrocarbons (DGH), a min-istry order of June 11 said. Itwill “identify the lapses in fol-lowing laid down protocolsand procedures which led tothe incident,” the order said.

The committee will also“recommend short and long-term measures to prevent therecurrence of such incidentsincluding identifying any gapsin laid down standard operat-ing procedure.”

The panel, which alsoincludes former ONGC chair-man B C Bora and formerONGC director T K Sengupta,will submit its report withinone month, the order said.

OIL said the fire has sincebeen contained to the well andit is trying to put out the fire.

Except at the well plintharea, the fire around the site hasbeen extinguished. However,the burning of gas at the wellmouth will continue till the wellis capped.

According to OIL, threefiremen - two from OIL Indiaand one from ONGC - jumpedin a water pool nearby whenthe fire broke out. While

the ONGC firemen gotinjured, two OIL India firemencould not save themselves.Their bodies have beenretrieved.

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The Government’s �20.97lakh crore rescue package

for the coronavirus-hit econo-my is not cast in iron and thereis scope to finetune it, thePM’s economic advisory coun-cil member Ashima Goyal saidon Saturday.

She also said theGovernment has to kickstartdemand to stimulate the econ-omy. “The (economic) packageis not cast-iron...There is scopeto finetune the economic pack-age,” she said while addressinga virtual seminar organised bythe PHD Chamber ofCommerce and Industry.

Goyal, a part-time mem-ber of the Economic AdvisoryCouncil to the Prime Minister(EAC-PM), added that much ofthe stimulus pertained to thefinancial sector and “sequenc-ing of demand and supply isvery important to stimulate theeconomy.”

The Government lastmonth unveiled a �20.97 lakhcrore economic package, whichincludes RBI’s �8.01 lakh croreworth of liquidity measures.

Finance Minister Nirmala

Sitharaman had announcedthe package in five tranches,which included �3.70 lakhcrore support for MSMEs, �75,000 crore for NBFCs and �90,000 crore for power distri-bution companies, free food-grains to migrant workers,increased allocation for MGN-REGS, tax relief to certain sec-tions and �15,000 crore allo-cated to the healthcare sector.

On revival of India’sgrowth, Goyal said theCOVID-19 pandemic is a tem-porary exogenous shock for theeconomy.

“We see a whole range ofeconomic growth forecasts...When human capital is intactthen you see a sharp recoveryafter the real shock,” Goyal, alsoa professor of economics at

IGIDR, said. The Indian economy grew

at its slowest pace in 11 yearsat 4.2 per cent in 2019-20.

The COVID-19 outbreakand subsequent lockdownshave severely disrupted eco-nomic activities.

S&P Global Ratings andFitch Ratings have said India’seconomy will shrink by 5 percent in the current fiscal, whileMoody’s has projected a con-traction of 4 per cent.

Commenting on India’sforeign exchange reservescrossing the USD 500 billionmark, Goyal said, ‘’Our foreignexchange reserves are bor-rowed reserves. Best way toincrease foreign exchangereserves is to attract invest-ment.”

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Union Minister NitinGadkari on Saturday said

he is not in favour of a reduc-tion in the minimum supportprice for crops. The Minister ofRoad Transport & Highwaysand MSME said he has alwaysstood and advocated lookingfor various ways and means toincrease farmers’ income,including through alternativeusage of their crops likepaddy/rice, wheat, sugarcane.

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SAIL Chairman Anil KumarChaudhary is in quaran-

tine after testing positive forCOVID-19, sources said onSaturday.

The total number ofCOVID cases in SAIL’s corpo-rate office here has grown five-fold to 25, they added.

“SAIL Chairman AKChaudhary is in quarantineafter he was tested positive forthe COVID virus. He was test-ed on June 1. A virus positiveperson had gone close to himin his office. Following whichtests were conducted for threeconsecutive days at the corpo-rate office,” one of the sourcessaid.

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The Government hasrestricted imports of tyres

used for cars, buses, lorries andmotorcycles, including radialand tubeless, in a move aimedat curbing imports and boost-ing domestic companies.

In all the categories,imports have been restrictedand will need permission. So,even after paying the customsduty, imports are not freelyallowed from other countries.The rules were notified by anamendment in the import pol-icy of pneumatic tyres by theDirectorate General of ForeignTrade (DGFT) under the

Union Commerce Ministry.Any goods under the

restricted category means animporter would require alicence or permission from theDGFT for imports.

Given the procedures andpermissions, these measureshave the effect to dissuadeimports.

Before the new policy,imports of tyres were allowedwithout any restrictions.

The Government recentlypitched for ‘AatmanirbharBharat’ pitch and coined the‘Go Vocal for Local’ slogan ina bid to make India self-suffi-cient in the post Covid phase.

Indian tyre manufacturers

have been demanding restric-tions on imports from Chinaand other destinations.

The restrictions are onimports of tyres used in stationwagons, racing cars, scooters,multi-cellular polyurethanetubeless tyres, and bicycles.Imports of these tyres wereworth $260.72 million in April-February 2019-20 as against$330.72 million in the sameperiod in 2018-19.

With demand slumpingduring the lockdown due to theCovid pandemic, domesticcompanies are seeking mea-sures to boost manufacturingwhich will also enhanceemployment opportunities.

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Tax evasion of �225 crorehas been detected by

Central GST intelligence offi-cers after they busted illegalpan masala manufacturingunits in Indore and arrestedthree persons for their involve-ment in the huge racket.

The officers of DirectorateGeneral of GST Intelligence(DGGI) and the Directorate ofRevenue Intelligence (DRI)conducted joint raids at 16 sus-pected illicit and undeclared

warehouses and residentiallocations in Indore and Ujjainbetween Tuesday and Friday,an official statement issued onSaturday said.

“Based on preliminaryinvestigations by DGGI, it hasbeen estimated that the accusedpersons and their associateshave evaded GST of around �225 crore on the goods soldillicitly during the period July,2019 till March, 2020,” it said.

The total duty implicationin this fraud is estimated to bearound �400 crore, the statement issued by the DGGIsaid.

“During the emergentmonths (April & May, 2020) ofpandemic lockdown also, thesepersons are believed to haveresorted to large scale illicit saleand supply of pan masala/tobacco,” it said, adding that

further investigation in thematter was continuing.

The statement said thatorganisers and mastermindsmade an unsuccessful attemptof disrupting the enforcementofficials by engaging a mob ofabout 20-30 people duringthe search at one of the resi-dential and later at a factorypremises on Thursday andFriday.

“However, both theseattempts to disrupt govern-ment function were effective-ly thwarted by the DGGIenforcement officers with time-ly and professional assistanceby Madhya Pradesh Police,who were always the part of thesearch operations throughout,”the statement said.

In view of the seriousoffences committed, threeaccused persons were arrested

on Friday, it said.The DGGI investigations

indicate that the mastermindsof this fraud had set-up eightcompanies in the real estate,hospitality and media sec-tors to launder illicit wealthgenerated from these busi-nesses.

The accused persons arebelieved to have used morethan 70 cargo trucks for orches-trating this GST fraud for thelast many years.

“The cargo trucks werefound to be bearing display of‘On Press Duty’ for ferrying theillicit consignments of panmasala/ tobacco and their rawmaterials within MadhyaPradesh and to neighbouringstates. The drivers were foundto be carrying identity cards ofa local Indore newspaper,” thestatement said.

The DGGI had recentlydetected an annual GST eva-sion of �18.77 crore and madeseizure of illicit goods andcash worth � 2.92 crore.

This had led to the arrest ofone Pakistani national residingin Indore.

In the latest operationnamed ‘Kark’, three indepen-dent groups found to beinvolved in large scale clan-destine manufacture, unde-clared supply and illicit sale ofpan masala/ tobacco withoutpayment of GST have beencovered by the enforcementagencies.

The operation was named‘Kark’ - considering the highGoods and Services Tax (Kar inHindi) loss and the reportedadverse effects of consumingillicit tobacco not subject tofood and safety standards lead-

ing to high prevalence of oralcancer (Kark) in India, thestatement said.

During the search opera-tion which was also conduct-ed in Jabalpur and Bhopal inaddition to Indore and Ujjain,unaccounted finished goods(branded pan masala andtobacco) and primary rawmaterial such as betel nuts, rawtobacco, essence and packingmaterial, have been seized inlarge quantities from unde-clared premises, said the state-ment issued by the AdditionalDirector General, DGGI,Bhopal.

The officers who conduct-ed raids in Indore and Ujjain,which are the state’s worstcoronavirus-affected areas, fol-lowed necessary social dis-tancing protocol and woregloves, masks and other pro-

tective equipment, the agencysaid.

“To avoid detection, themasterminds and organisers ofthis fraud had floated thepartnership/ proprietor-ship/HUF firms engaged inmanufacturing and trading ofpan masala and tobaccoowned on paper by threedummy persons. These threedummy persons had activelycolluded and knowingly par-ticipated in the GST fraud,” itsaid.

Certain masterminds ofthe fraud and financial benefi-ciaries have not joined theinvestigations, the DGGI said.

“They have been sum-moned by the central GSTintelligence department fortendering statements underthe provisions of Central GSTAct, 2017,” the probe agency

said. The sale and distribution of

pan masala and chewing tobac-co had been completely bannedacross India due to the pan-demic-induced lockdown fromMarch 25 considering its risk inspreading COVID-19 infec-tion.

“This detection and evi-dence collected by DGGI indi-cates that some unscrupulousmanufacturers, dealers mayhave, unfortunately, takenundue benefit of this emergentsituation.

The market informationsuggests that these bannedgoods were being sold andconsumed in some places with-in Madhya Pradesh andMaharashtra during the lock-down period, at 4-5 times theirusual market rates,” the state-ment said.

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Petrol and diesel prices con-tinued to rise through the

week with the two petroleumproducts getting dearer by 59and 58 paise per litre onSaturday.

The auto fuel prices havenow risen seven days in a rowwith pump prices of petrolincreasing by �3.90 and diesel by�4 per litre since Sunday. Allthrough the week petrol anddiesel prices have risen by about

60 paise per litre per day barringTuesday when the rise wasmarginally lower at 40 paise perlitre. Sources in oil marketingcompanies said that price risecould continue for few moredays as global product prices arefirming up with a pick up indemand following opening upof economies across the globepost Covid-19 related lock-down. Even global crude priceshave more than doubled fromApril levels at close to $40 a bar-rel level.

Also, OMCs are catching upon price levels that bring theproduct prices closer to inter-national benchmark rates. Theprice freeze of 83 days even witha substantial increase in exciseduty on petrol and diesel by theCentre, has increased the pricegap resulting in losses on sale ofproduct for OMCs.

The increase in retail priceson Saturday has been madeunder the dynamic pricing sys-tem for daily revision of fuelprices which OMCs resumed

after over 83 days break duringthe lockdown period.

In the national capital, theretail price of petrol increased by59 paise and diesel by 58 paiseper litre to �75.16 and � 73.39per litre respectively.

In other cities, the increasecould vary depending on the taxstructure on products.

IANS had published earli-er that daily price revision maybegin in June and retail pricesof petrol and diesel could go upto �5 a litre in phases.

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A48-year-old Pune-based stockmarket trader, Santosh Bakare,suffered a heart attack threeyears back and had to under-go angioplasty. Later, he was

diagnosed with Diabetes. To add to hiswoes, he gained weight. Just when Bakarehad reconciled to living with his ailments,his wife Sonali came across an advertise-ment on Facebook, saying ‘join this pro-gramme to completely reverse Diabetes’.

The couple decided to give it a try.“Because it was an ad, we were not fullyconvinced but as it was a matter of just�500, we registered for the session,”Sonali tells you.

After attending the session, the duowas convinced that the programme wouldwork wonders. Both registered for theIntense Reversal one-year programme inJanuary 2020. In a matter of two months,Bakare’s Diabetes was completely reversedand soon after, he went off medication too.

“I joined the programme to supportmy husband. Fortunately, my efforts did-n’t go in vain. I have been able to shed awhopping 20 kg in these four monthswhile Santosh has managed to lose 15 kg.Now when I stand in front of the mirror,I feel more beautiful than ever. I can’t putmy feelings into words,” Sonali adds.

Their 18-year-old son was apprehen-sive of about his parents and thought theywere caught in a hoax. “He kept telling usthat this would be of no help, but we toldhim we were just trying it out. In a mat-ter of days, the results were visible and hewas happy. The lifestyle modification thatwe have gone through has not onlyhelped us lose weight, but made us awareof our inner strength,” Bakare tells you.

The man who has made this happenis a Pune-based motivational doctor,Pramod Tripathi. He helms the organisa-tion Freedom From Diabetes with a net-work of doctors, specialists, nutritionistsand fitness experts based in Pune andMumbai.

Tripathi claims to have helped reverseDiabetes in around 6,000 people in thepast eight years. There is a reason why hechose to concentrate on Diabetes. “I havealways been a dreamer. I wanted to live apurposeful life. After completing MBBS,I kept searching for what I wanted to do.I did an MBA. Then got into corporateand stress management. I realised in thecorporate world people stay in touch withyou only for a while. My calling was to dosomething sustainable. My wife, aHomoeopath, would often talk abouthow every patient got benefit from med-ication, except Diabetics. This got methinking. I came across a book on revers-ing Diabetes and thought about doingsomething about it. We dug deeper andfound that it merely requires lifestylechanges. This is how I started experiment-ing. I conducted a three-months pro-gramme and kept evolving. I am not atrained endocrinologist. I did my diplo-ma in Diabetes management fromNanavati Hospital. But we have a huge fol-lowing today,” Tripathi tells you.

Interestingly, reversing Diabetes is nota miracle. It is a scientific and systemat-ic process. First, the patient needs tounderstand it’s root cause — in Type IIDiabetics mostly it is insulin resistance.Which generally comes from diet, lack ofexercise, and stress.

“We start by spending a couple ofhours helping them understand the dis-ease. They realise that Diabetes is just likefever, medicines can help bring it downbut the focus should be on eliminating thecause. That means, a patient can take lotsof medicines and insulin, but it would justwork like paracetamol which brings thefever down for 12 hours,” Tripathiexplains.

Once the patient understands thecause then there are four protocols imple-mented in a phased manner. It is the diet,exercise, inner transformation and themedical protocol.

For the diet segment, there are fourphases. “We start with giving up milk andmilk products and switching to smooth-ies instead and replacing white rice withbrown,” he says.

Each patient is assigned a doctor, adietician and a fitness expert. “Around 12per cent people become free from Diabetesin the second phase, which is the intro-ductory phase. This phase goes on forfour-12 weeks. Then comes the thirdphase — the acceleration phase, wherepeople start exercising at home. This phasecan go up to four-eight weeks. For peo-ple who are overweight, we extend thisphase by a couple of weeks. After theacceleration phase is over, we start thestress release module. I connect withpatients in the morning and we work onstress relieving strategies. The three com-mon emotions that we work on are anger,anxiety, and grief. This goes on for 28 days.If someone misses the live session then therecorded session is made available forhim,” Tripathi says.

Then comes the fourth phase whichis the maintenance phase. It focuses onmuscle building. “Just becoming thin isnot the solution. For the reversal to hap-pen and stay for long, one needs tobecome stronger from within. More pro-tein, more fruits and more oil are recom-mended in this phase. We set health goalsfor patients. When people take ownershipof their goals, it makes a difference. Forexample, if someone’s muscle is 23 per centthe focus should be on making it 25 percent. Every three months, the goals arereviewed. After five-six months, patientsare in cruise mode. They know what to doand what not. After a year, when they stepout of the programme, they know whatthey need to do for the rest of their life,”he tells you.

But there’s a catch. Different peoplerespond differently to the programme.There are 80-year-olds who with 20 to 30years’ long history of Diabetes but are nowdoing fine without medicines. However,everybody does not reach this stage.There are a total of seven levels to reverseDiabetes. Some may be able to reduce thesugar level in the beginning, while othersin the second stage when they start themedicines. The third stage is where theystop the medicine, 45 per cent people arecured by these three stages, the rest 60 percent people still need Insulin.

Tripathi’s annual batches have around800 people, out of which 100 are usuallyfrom Bangalore or Chennai. The moduleshave grown now in their presence toinclude patients from India and abroad.

But as Tripathi insists, merelyenrolling doesn’t serve the purpose. Onehas to be motivated as well. “It is all aboutinner clarity and motivation. If the patientwill listen to the advice superficially, hewill think he can’t do it. To overcome this,all patients go through a proper phase toenroll in our programme. This is the firstexperimentation phase for them, so thatthey have some clarity about the disease.There are two phases that they need to gothrough, Phase 1 is to see how theyrespond, and Phase 2 is for them to assesshow long they do it,” he tells you.

The diet phase can be exhausting forsome, but the good part is that thepatients know that they are not alone inthis. “We have a WhatsApp group ofpatients, doctors and dieticians. Thepatient can put in the query on the groupand within minutes a doctor responds.Patients can also keep in touch with otherpatients from around the world. There is

a cross-learn-ing process, theysee the reversal hap-pening in other patientswhich motivates them to follow theprotocols,” Tripathi explains.

The diet is an amalgamation ofAyurveda and Naturopathy mores. No onediet fits everyone.

Diabaetes come with a lot of relatedcomplications, but that does not serve asa setback. In some cases, the complicationscan be reversed too. “Complication andreversal of complication is something thatdoes happen to a certain degree, depend-ing on how advance the complication is.We have now 306 patients of kidney rever-sal. Right now I am handling a person offour creatinine, he has been comingdown to lower creatinine. Some degree ofreversal can happen. In 1.5 creatinine theresults are much better. We have a hugedatabase of kidney patients. So, we havean interesting and rewarding experiencewith kidney reversal. Retinopathy is morechallenging. But there has been mild tomoderate results in that as well, howeversome cases required allopathic interven-tion. Neuropathy is troublesome. But wehave people in dozen who have improved.Some of them take six months, while oth-ers take two years, depending upon thedegree of damage. In case of a bad dam-age, there is no reversal as well,” Tripathiexplains.

Tripathi admits he is dealing with a lotof challenges in making the reversalclaim for a disease globally known to defya cure. “These are both on medical andbehavioural levels. There are patientswho don’t go off insulin even after the pro-gramme. Some with long standingDiabetes may go off insulin but not ontablets. With that, a lot of emotional issuescome up. Patients don’t understand whythe results are not showing like in others.Then there are behavioural issues to behandled. When spouses join our pro-gramme, we encourage it because thereversal is much easier. If one person is fol-lowing the diet and their family is not sup-portive, the challenge increases. We havedone a lot of work on adult learning andbehaviour. What we found is there is onlyone Diabetic in the family and the resthave several other health issues. We con-nect all the issues with insulin resistanceand make the family sit together and lis-ten. Then it makes sense for them and theystart following our instructions.Behavioural challenges are more whenfamily members don’t buy the theory. Also,every case is different. We have handledso many cases so we know no two

Diabeticsare simi-

lar,” he tellsyou.

The cost ofthe programme is �500

for the orientation, which is of two hours."If someone signs up for the full year witha dietician and doctor, it costs �30,000. Ifa family member wants to join in, it is�6,000 with no dieticians. For those whocan’t afford to pay the full amount at onego, they can opt for instalment.

Amid the coronavirus scare, Tripathihas a few tips for Diabetics. “It is true thatDiabetics have a higher risk of gettinginfected with COVID-19, but, as long astheir sugar levels are under control —below 140, they are safe. Same for the peo-ple with blood pressure — it should beunder 130/090. After 140 the free radicalsstart accelerating and create inflammato-ry reactions in the body. If the sugar lev-els are under control, it becomes the pre-liminary protective shield. Ideally, we sug-gest BP levels under 110 but as long as theprevention is concerned below 130 is justas fine,” he tells you.

Ask 65-year-old Pune-basedmarathon runner Vasudha Chavhan andshe will tell you how Tripathi worked won-ders on her. She went to him with a his-tory of 14-year long Diabetes, but her ded-ication mixed with Tripathi’s expertisehelped her beat the disease back in 2015.

“My son told me about Tripathi andasked me to give it a try. He enrolled meinto the three-month programme. Withintwo weeks, my Diabetes got reversed andI was put off insulin. In the next fourweeks, I got rid of all Diabetes medicines,”Chavhan, who is not on any medicationfor five years now, tells you.

There was a time when Chavhan wasnot able to walk even a few steps. It wassheer dedication that helped her transitioninto a marathon runner at age 62. “In mythree-month programme, I was put on acustomised diet and was asked to do mildexercises. After the programme got over,Dr Tripathi motivated me to not give upand improve my stamina. I then startedtaking small steps in a nearby garden. Iused to walk an hour a day. Soon after,I had to fly to Melbourne to be withmy daughter. In those sixmonths, I worked out athome. I walked the tread-mill daily. By the time,I returned, I had start-ed walking properly.That got me thinkingabout joining a gym.Exercising thenbecame a habit. Soonafter all this, I partic-ipated in a 5Kmarathon, then 10Kwhich was followed by theLadakh Half Marathon,” sherecalls.

Chavhan’s decision ofbecoming a marathon runnerat 62 was supported by herhusband and two children. “Iremember when I took part inthe Ladakh Half Marathon, myson told me: ‘Mumma you madeall of us proud’. That was the win-ning moment for me,” she tells you.

The programme, she says, haschanged her inside out. There was nota single moment when she felt like giv-ing up. “I am not much of a foodie. Ididn't face any challenges. I followedthe diet and all the instructions. Theresults are visible,” she says.

Chavhan’s success mantra has been

patience, exercising and fol-lowing a diet. “To achievesomething, you have to give upsomething. Diet and exercisingplay a major role in the pro-gramme. You can’t cheat on that.Also, meditation is the key. Even now,I meditate for at least 20 minutes beforegoing to sleep,” she says.

She has a piece of advice for thosewho think lifestyle modifications are aHerculean task. “If I could do it at this agethen any one can. One just has to have thepassion for it. Since childhood, we offersweets and chocolates to children as atoken of appreciation. We teach them tobe a good human being, we want them todo good in academics, but when it comesto their health, we don’t pay much atten-tion. It is important that parents work ontheir child's fitness from an early age.Either enroll them into fitness pro-grammes or parents’ themselves shouldtake charge of it, so that children know theimportance of health and follow it for therest of their lives,” she says.

Bakare and Chavhan are not the onlyones whose transformation stories willleave you in awe. Take the case of SaranyaRao. This 37-year-old, Pune-based Infosysworker, went off her three-year longDiabetes medicines in just three days.

“My Diabetes was detected duringpregnancy with my second child. I had tobe both on insulin and tablets. In fact, Ihad to pump insulin three times a daywhich resulted in my skin turning purplebecause of the injections. Due to unsta-ble sugar levels, I had to deliver a prema-ture baby in eight months. After that I wason tablets for the next one-and-a-halfyears. I started gaining weight as well. Iweighed 82 kg. This made me feel lethar-gic and affected my work. I was constant-ly in angst about my rising sugar levels,”Rao says.

Rao, too, came to know aboutFreedom from Diabetes through Facebookads. “I started exploring. As I gatheredinformation, I started understanding howthings work. Convinced, I decided to jointhe intensive batch,” she says. Within threedays of joining the programme, her

Diabetes medicines stopped. “It feltthat I was on top of the world at that

time,” she tells you.As the programme

proceeded, she noticedimmense improvementin all aspects of herhealth. “My Hba1c

count (three-monthsugar average test)reduced from 6.7to 5.6, fasting

insulin reduced from15.7 to 2.6, all this just with-in two months. I lost a good 20

kg in five months,” she tellsyou.

It felt like magic, shesays. “Due to my breath-ing problem, I havebeen taking an inhalersince a very young age.

I don't know what it was butby following the protocol, my

breathing has improved and Ido not have to use an inhalerthat frequently,” she tells you.

Tripathi, meanwhile, ishappy to tell you he has foundhis want — curing people of ahitherto uncurable disease,

with a combination of scientif-ic lifestyle changes, strict diet

changes, upping fitness levels anda lot of motivational talk thatsomehow has been firing hispatients for stepping out of theirunhealthy comfort zones.

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Juventus reached the ItalianCup final on Friday after agoalless draw with 10-man

AC Milan in the semi-final, sec-ond leg in Turin on the dayfootball returned to Italy afterthree months away.

Serie A champions Juveadvanced on away goals toWednesday’s final in Romethanks to February’s 1-1 first-leg draw at the San Siro, despite

an under-par display against aMilan side who played 74 min-utes with a man less and whichfeatured a missed CristianoRonaldo penalty.

At the capital’s StadioOlimpico, Maurizio Sarri’s sidewill face either Napoli or InterMilan, the last side Juve facedbefore football entered into itscoronavirus-enforced hiatus inMarch.

“It was odd and difficult atthe start, playing in an empty

stadium after 90 days away,”said Leonardo Bonucci to pub-lic broadcaster RAI 1.

“We’ve shaken off a darkmoment for the whole world. Ihope being back will offer thefans at home a bit of hope andjoy. We want to give themsomething more onWednesday.”

A feisty start belied the twoteams’ long absence from thepitch, with Juve — missing thelikes of Giorgio Chiellini and

Gonzalo Higuain — roaring outof the blocks and Milan puttingin some questionable chal-lenges to try to stop themselvesfrom being overrun.

Juve should have beenahead in with just 15 minuteson the clock when AndreaConti clipped the ball in thepenalty area with his elbow andconceded a penalty after a VARcheck.

Ronaldo hit the woodworkwith the resulting spot-kick, but

while that should have been areprieve for the away side, theyfound themselves a man downseconds later when Ante Rebickicked Danilo in the head.

With Zlatan Ibrahimovicout injured and Samu Castillejosuspended, Stefano Pioli’s sidewere missing some firepower

going forward, butmanaged to createproblems for Juvedespite spending mostof the match on theback foot.

Hakan Calhanogluhad Milan’s best chance twominutes after the restart, flash-ing a free header wide, whileSimon Kjaer should have donebetter with another header 10minutes from the end.

However Juve also hadtheir chances, with Milan stop-per Gianluigi Donnarummadoing well to keep out BlaiseMatuidi’s thumping close rangeeffort on the half-hour mark,and two great efforts fromPaulo Dybala and Alex Sandrolate in the second half.

VIRUS DEAD TRIBUTEThe match was played on

the day Italy would have kickedoff Euro 2020 in Rome had thetournament not been post-poned for a year.

Both teams held a minute’ssilence before kick-off for thosewho lost their lives to the virusbefore breaking out intoapplause for healthcare workers,three of whom were stood inthe centre circle.

Juventus players warmedup before the match in T-shirtswith the message No Racism,while Milan wore tops on withBlack Lives Matter written onthem, in solidarity with globalprotests over the death ofGeorge Floyd.

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Bayern Munich’s Bundesligatitle celebrations were puton ice after Erling Haaland

scored in the fifth minute ofinjury time for BorussiaDortmund to beat FortunaDüsseldorf 1-0 on Saturday.

Dortmund’s last-gasp wincut the gap behind Bayern tofour points ahead of the seven-time defending champion’s lategame against visiting BorussiaMönchengladbach. Just threerounds remain after this week-end.

Dortmund labored for longperiods in Düsseldorf, whereAchraf Hakimi missed the vis-itors’ biggest chance in a one-on-one with goalkeeper FlorianKastenmeier, who also had lit-tle difficulty dealing with JulianBrandt’s effort.

Raphaël Guerreiro thoughthe’d equalized in the 65th, whenhe finished off a counterattackwith a volley pastKastenmeier.

However, the goalwas ruled out throughVAR after he wasadjudged to have con-trolled the ball with hisarm.

Düsseldorf substitute StevenSkrzybski struck the post twicein the closing stages.

But it was to be another sub-stitute, the 19-year-old Haaland,who powered home a headerfrom Manuel Akanji’s cross in

the 95th minute to keep aliveDortmund’s slim title hopes.

Bayern’s goal difference isvastly superior to Dortmund’s soa draw would have been little use

to Lucien Favre’s side.The Swiss coach

appeared to injure himselfin the celebrations. Last-placed Paderborn was vir-tually relegated in a 5-1defeat at home to Werder

Bremen, which moved justbehind Düsseldorf on goal dif-ference.

Düsseldorf is third frombottom in the relegation playoffplace. Paderborn has 20 points,while Bremen and Düsseldorfhave 28.

Also, Hertha Berlin was torue Dedryck Boyata’s sending offbefore the break as EintrachtFrankfurt came from behind towin 4-1, while city rival UnionBerlin boosted its survival hopesbeating Cologne 2-1.

Also, Freiburg came frombehind to draw in Wolfsburg2-2.

Earlier on Friday, two goalsin two minutes from Dani Olmogave RB Leipzig a 2-0 win atHoffenheim.

Spanish midfielder Olmofound the net after nine and 11minutes while substituteChristopher Nkunku was closeto a third in stoppage timewhen a shot came off the post.

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Ten-man Levante scored a98th-minute penalty on

Friday to snatch a 1-1 drawagainst Valencia as La Liga com-pleted its second day of fixtures sinceits return from the coronavirus suspen-sion.

It was a miserable night for theleague’s top-four hopefuls asGranada also came from behindto beat Getafe 2-1, meaningAtletico Madrid and RealSociedad have the chance tocapitalise on Sunday.

Valencia looked to havegrabbed a later winnerthemselves at an emptyMestalla when RodrigoMoreno diverted in at thenear post in the 89thminute.

But MouctarDiakhaby pulled downRuben Vezo deep intoinjury-time and GonzaloMelero made no mistake,equalising for Levante from the

spot. The visitors also hadRoger Marti sent off for a sec-ond yellow card in the 74thminute.

Granada, also playingbehind closed doors at Los

Carmenes, scored in the 70th and 79thminutes as a Djene Dakonam own-goaland Carlos Fernandez’s finish wiped outGetafe’s lead, given to them in the first

half by David Timor.Defeat means

Getafe stay fifth,handing Atletico the

chance to overtakethem if they can win

away at Athletic Bilbaoon Sunday.

Valencia remain sev-enth, three points of adriftof Real Sociedad, who are athome on Sunday toOsasuna.

Granada, who wereonly promoted last season,move up to eighth, with the

Europa League places now insight while Levante edge up to

12th.

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Zinedine Zidane wantsReal Madrid to treat their

remaining 11 games in LaLiga like a World Cup as theyaim to overhaul Barcelona towin their second league titlein eight years.

Real sit two pointsbehind Barca and returnafter three months awayagainst Eibar on Sunday,when they will play in theirnew training ground homeat the Alfredo di StefanoStadium.

La Liga is due to finishon July 19, meaning therewill be fixtures every daywhile clubs will be in actionalmost every three days forfive and a halfweeks.

Asked if feltlike the start of aWorld Cup, Zidane said onSaturday: “I like the compar-ison, I buy into it. My play-ers know what it’s like to playin the final stages of a World

Cup or EuropeanChampionship.

“The important thing isthe preparation and I thinkwe have prepared very, verywell. Our first match starts

tomorrow andwe will giveeverything. Ihave faith what

we have done with the play-ers and now we have to showit on the field.”

La Liga matches arebeing played behind closed

doors because of the coron-avirus pandemic, althoughleague president Javier Tebashas said stadiums could beallowed to be 10 to 15 percent full before the end of theseason.

“I don’t like playingwithout fans, that’s my opin-ion,” Zidane said. “But asalways, we have to adapt.This is the situation. There isa Government with peoplewho do their work and wehave to do ours.”

Real are playing at theAlfredo di Stefano Stadiumto allow renovation work tocontinue at the SantiagoBernabeu this summer.

The capacity is only6,000 which would mean farfewer fans could attend if theban is relaxed.

“My players want to playin front of an audience andright now, there isn’t one,”Zidane said. “But if those incharge say we can, well thenwe’ll see. I have been a play-er and I prefer to play withfans. But it is not an excuse,we are going to play well.”

Eden Hazard has beenincluded in the squad to faceEibar after he was able to usethe break to recover from afoot injury and MarcoAsensio is also availableagain after rupturing hiscruciate ligaments last year.

But Zidane said strikerLuka Jovic could miss therun-in after injuring his footat home and Lucas Vazquezis also out.

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Premier League will supportplayers taking a knee before

or during matches in protestagainst racial discrimination,while Black Lives Matter willreplace player names on the backof shirts for the first 12 games ofthe league’s restart next week.

“The League supports theplayers’ wish to have their namesreplaced by Black Lives Matteron the back of their shirts for thefirst 12 matches of the restarted2019/20 season,” the PremierLeague said in a statement.

“In addition, theLeague will support play-ers who ‘take a knee’ beforeor during matches.”

A statement by playersfrom all 20 clubs said:“We, the players, standtogether with the singular objec-tive of eradicating racial preju-dice wherever it exists, to bringabout a global society of inclu-sion, respect, and equal oppor-tunities for all, regardless oftheir colour or creed.

“This symbol is a sign ofunity from all Players, all staff,all clubs, all match officials andthe Premier League #blacklives-matter #playerstogether.”

Several matches inBundesliga have been precededby both teams taking a kneeprior to kick-off in recent weeks.

England international Jadon

Sancho was among the firstplayers to protest by showing at-shirt branded Justice for GeorgeFloyd during BorussiaDortmund’s rout of Paderbornlast month.

The Premier League willreturn with two matches on June17 as Manchester City hostArsenal and Sheffield Unitedtravel to Aston Villa.

A full round of 10 fixtureswill then take place betweenJune 19 and 22 with Black LivesMatter on the back of players'shirts.

For the remaining 80matches of the campaigna Black Lives Matter logowill feature on shirts alongwith a badge thankingBritain’s National HealthService for their workduring the coronavirus

crisis.Clubs in England’s top flight

have already made a number ofgestures in line with the anti-racism protests.

Liverpool showed their sup-port when their players posteda photograph at an Anfieldtraining session, where they alltook a knee.

Arsenal’s players did like-wise before Wednesday’s friend-ly against Brentford and wore T-shirts with a variety of messageson them, such as I can’t breathe,My skin is not a crime and I’mnot black but I stand with you.

����@������ Turkey’s SuperLig resumed officially on Fridaywith two games played behindclosed doors, after a nearlythree-month suspension.

The first game was playedin Istanbul between Fenerbahceand Kayserispor at 1800 GMT,and the other in western Turkeybetween Goztepe andTrabzonspor who are current-ly at the top of championship.

There were no supportersin Istanbul around the stadiumor in the neighbouring bars,which are usually crowded onmatch nights.

Although the games will beplayed behind closed doors, theTFF appeared optimistic fanscould return in the comingweeks “if the situation

improves”.The TFF hopes the Super

Lig will end on July 26. In total,there are 72 league games left inaddition to three Cup games.

Just four points separate thetop four in the championship.

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Next year’s Olympics will be safe despite thecoronavirus pandemic, Tokyo Governor

Yuriko Koike has said, pledging a “120-percenteffort” to ensure the first-ever postponed Gamescan go ahead.

Koike — who announced on Friday shewould stand for re-election next month — saidthe city was committed to holding the event asa “symbol of human triumph” over the virus, butadmitted it would be downsized.

“I will make a 120-percent effort,” Koike, 67,said in an interview, but declined to say how con-fident she was that the sporting extravaganzawould open as planned.

Tokyo 2020 became the first Olympics everpostponed in peacetime earlier this year as thecoronavirus marched across the globe, upend-ing lives and forcing the cancellation of sport-ing and cultural events.

They are now scheduled to begin on July 23,2021 — though they will still be known as the2020 Games — but medical experts have raisedconcerns that the delay will not be long enoughto contain the virus and hold the event safely.

Officials in Japan and from the InternationalOlympic Committee have warned it will not bepossible to postpone again.

Koike said she was continuing to “make all-out efforts in the battle against the virus to puton a Games that is full of hope”.

And she pledged an event “that is safe andsecure for athletes and fans from abroad as wellas for residents of Tokyo and Japan”.

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Former ManchesterUnited defender Rio

Ferdinand feels RedDevils are well-equippednow to break into the top-four when PremierLeague finally returnsnext week.

The former defenderbelieves ManchesterUnited have been aidedby the enforced break asinjured players like PaulPogba and MarcusRashford have returned tofull fitness during thetwo-month long hiatus.

“I reckon they shouldmake the top four —with that squad theyought to,” Ferdinand wasquoted as saying by TheSun.

“Paul Pogba is fitagain, as is MarcusRashford, there is talk

Pogba is looking reallygood in training.

“They haven’t lost inabout ten games andsigns of Ole’s good man-agement are coming tofruition now. I’ve neverlost faith in Ole despite allthe criticism he was get-ting.

“I believe in him andif he makes that top fourhe’ll have done a goodjob. He also still has theEuropa League to aimfor if we can get thatgoing again,” he added.

Manchester Unitedare currently placed atfifth spot in the leaguetable, three points behindFrank Lampard’s Chelsea,who occupy the finalChampions League posi-tion after 29 matches.

� ��� �I-League champions Mohun Bagan onSaturday decided against reopening its club tentin the wake of the spike in Covid-19 cases in thecity.

Kolkata has recorded over 1,000 cases in thepast 10 days, even as the number of positivepatients in Bengal surged past the 10,000 mark onFriday.

The Mariners’ tent was slated to reopen fromMonday but the club, who have merged withIndian Super League champions ATK, said in astatement that they are reversing their earlier deci-sion.

“The situation due to the Covid-19 pandem-ic is very serious and the rate of infected peopleis drastically increasing everyday. We regret toinform you that in view of the prevailing situationand for the safety of all our members and support-ers, the club management has decided not to openthe club tent from Monday,” the club said in a state-ment. “We are keeping a close watch on the situ-ation and will do periodical review,” it said. PTI

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Spurs faced Norwich Cityin a friendly with no spectatorsat the Tottenham HotspurStadium on Friday.

“It was a good trainingsession,” he told the club’s web-site following a match dividedinto four periods of 30 minutesto give more players the chanceof meaningful game time.

“We needed minutes, weneeded to know the feeling of

playing here without our sup-porters and to have this train-ing session with anotherPremier League team is the

best thing,” the Portugueseboss explained.

“We have to adapt to thisnew reality, which is what we

tried to do, to have a feelingof playing with an emptystadium.

“The points are there tofight for, and with or withoutfans, the points are there on thepitch and ourselves and Unitedwill have to fight for them.”

Spurs will have to win themajority of their nine remain-ing league games if they areto qualify for the ChampionsLeague. But in an encourag-ing sign for the north Londonclub, the likes of Harry Kane,Moussa Sissoko, Son Heung-min and Steven Bergwijn allfeatured against Norwichafter recovering from injuryduring lockdown.

Mourinho, a former

Chelsea and ManchesterUnited manager, added: “Wedecided to mix them and togive almost the same amountof minutes to everyone.

“We didn’t want any play-ers to be into the limits offatigue and of course nobodyplayed the four periods...

“What we work on tacti-cally we do in the trainingground but the match wasmuch more about competing,getting minutes, intensity andit’s very important to do it andto have this last week withoutany injuries.

“We all know that in thesefirst matches, and in the friend-lies, there’s also the risk of get-ting some injuries.” AFP

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Five centrally contractedIndian cricketers includ-ing Cheteshwar Pujara,

Ravindra Jadeja and KL Rahulhave been issued notices byNational Anti-Doping Agency(NADA) for failing to disclosetheir whereabouts as the BCCIcited “password glitch” as thereason for delay.

The other players to havereceived the notice includewomen stars Smriti Mandhanaand Deepti Sharma, who areamong the five cricketers in the110 strong National RegisteredTesting Pool (NRTP).

Speaking to PTI, NADADG Navin Agarwal confirmedthat BCCI has sent an officialexplanation for their five NRTPplayers’ failure to submitwhereabouts.

“There are two ways to fillup the whereabouts form in theADAMS (Anti DopingAdministration & ManagementSystems) software. Either ath-lete does it himself or associa-tion fills it up on his or herbehalf,” Agarwal said.

“Now athletes in some dis-cipline aren’t educated enoughor do not have access to inter-net and find themselves unableto handle the whereaboutsclause of the ADAMS orupload the filled up form.

“They use assistance oftheir concerned federations.So federations have acceptedresponsibility of uploadingtheir whereabouts,” Agarwalsaid.

He said cricketers too attimes find it tough to completethe process on their own.

“Similarly in cricket also,although these people are wellqualified and they can do it,perhaps they don’t have thetime for whatever reasons, sothe federation concerned, theBCCI has taken upon itself the

responsibility of uploadingtheir whereabouts.”

So why didn’t BCCI uploadthe the three-month where-abouts this time?

“Well they have given anexplanation which appears tobe reasonable but a decisionwill be taken. They have saidthat there has been a glitch withregards to password inADAMS. Now they have saidthat issue has been resolved,”Agarwal added.

NADA DG added that“BCCI’s explanation will be dis-cussed as to whether it will becounted as one of three filingfailures or not. It will be decid-ed on the explanation givenand how they (BCCI) proceedfrom here.”

While country has beenunder lockdown, the rule tosubmit three months of where-abouts is mandatory.

Three such failures to dis-close leads to one Anti DopingRule Violation (ADRV), whichcould lead up to two years ofsuspension upon hearing.

While BCCI has “official-ly gagged” its employees fromtalking to the media, it could-n’t be ascertained that why asnormal a glitch as a passworderror took days to resolve.

A BCCI veteran, who hasbeen privy to cricket opera-tions, asked why the five crick-eters were not told to uploadthe form themselves.

“This was lockdown peri-od where they are not living outof suitcases. Some of the nameshave also engaged in multipleInstagram chats and podcastswhich their agents are manag-ing,” he said.

“If cricket operations teamwere having a glitch in fixingpassword, well the five crick-eters could have been asked todo so and they would havedone it individually with someguidance.

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Former Pakistan captainShahid Afridi on Saturday

said he has tested positive forCovid-19, becoming the firsthigh-profile cricketer to beinfected with the deadly virus.

“I’ve been feeling unwellsince Thursday; my body hadbeen aching badly. I’ve been test-ed and unfortunately I’m covidpositive. Need prayers for aspeedy recovery, InshaAllah,”Afridi announced on Twitter.

Afridi played for Pakistanbetween 1996 and 2018, featur-ing in 27 Tests (1716 runs and48 wickets), 398 ODIs (8064runs and 395 wickets) and 99T20Is (1416 runs and 98 wick-ets). He remains involved in thegame and was last seen on thefield in the Pakistan SuperLeague in March.

Afridi is also activelyinvolved in his charity work asthe head of a foundation namedafter him. Following the coron-avirus outbreak, he was seenoutdoors on many occasions,mainly for his charity work.

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Ben Stokes considers him-self to be “Scottie Pippen”to Joe Root’s “Michael

Jordan” as he is likely to leadEngland during the first Testagainst West Indies in regularskipper’s absence.

Root is a doubtful starter forthe first Test in July as he will berequired to undergo seven daysof self-isolation after attendingthe birth of his second child.

The first game of the three-Test series begins at the AegeasBowl from July 8 and Root’s wifeis due around the same time.

“There is a chance our skip-per Joe Root may miss a Test thissummer because he and his wifeare expecting their second child.That would mean me as vice-captain having to step up,” Stokeswrote in a column for DailyMirror.

“I’m the Scottie Pippen toJoe’s Michael Jordan. It is histeam,” he added referring to bas-ketball great Jordan and hisChicago Bulls team-matePippen, who were the subject ofa recent popular Netflix docu-series The Last Dance.

Root had earlier backedStokes for the role, saying he willbe a “fantastic captain”.

Stokes said he understandsRoot’s vision but he will make hisown calls during the match.

“What would be the point ofasking me to do the job if not forthis kind of situation?

“I understand where Joe istaking the team and how hewants to lead it. So although I’ll

make my own calls on the fieldand do the job as I see it as thegame evolves, everything elsewill very much be the same aswhen Joe is there.”

The Test rubber is likely toresume International cricketwhich was shutdown world-wide due to the coronavirus out-break.

Stokes said that it was men-tally challenging to maintainingmotivation during the lock-down.

“... I’m glad there is a Testseries to get ready for ... Eventhough I’ve been training hard

physically and kept in goodshape, lockdown hasn’t beenplain sailing. Throughout thisfull 13 weeks I’ve gone throughlots of emotions — some good,some not so good.

“My motivation has gone upand down and there have beentimes when it has been reallyhard to even think about play-ing. I’ve had periods where I’vegone for days without doing athing because I’ve thought,‘What’s the point?’

England cricketers were thefirst to resume training after thecoronavirus-forced hiatus and

Stokes said initially he found itdifficult to face Mark Wood inthe nets but he is looking to peakin time ahead of the openingTest.

“I know that cricket is near-ly there and I cannot wait to getback out there and have the first— possibly socially distanced —huddle on the field when it is justthe 11 of you going into thegame together,” he said.

“Getting properly Testmatch-ready is going to take a bitof time and that is what ourcamp at the Ageas Bowl will befor.

“But I don’t want to begood to go when I rock up there.I want to have a few things stillto work on to get up to full

speed. I have learnt from expe-rience that the time to peak is aday or two before a Test match,not three weeks out.”

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The iconic Sunil Gavaskarfeels realistic chances of

conducting a shortened IndianPremier League this year is inSri Lanka from early Septemberas Australia might end up host-ing the World T20 in Octoberhaving successfully flattenedthe Covid-19 curve.

The former India captainfeels that once the AustraliaGovernment has now formallyannounced that 25 per centcrowd can turn up for sportingevents, a World T20 in Octoberlooks more imminent than IPL.

“After the announcement bythe Australian Government,there seems to be a possibilityof conducting a World T20 inOctober. May be the teams willhave to reach three weeks ear-lier, have seven days of practicegames and also 14-day quaran-

tine,” Gavaskar told Aaj Tak.“If ICC believes that World

T20 can happen, then havingIPL looks difficult because itcould only be held if World T20is postponed but after theannouncement (by Australia

PM Scott Morrison), IPL inOctober looks difficult,” he said.

However a curtailed IPL inSeptember, may be in Sri Lankaor UAE, is a more practical solu-tion, the legendary opener said.

“September you can’t haveIPL in India due to monsoon.But may be in Sri Lanka from

early September with teamsplaying each other once insteadof double header. May be youcan think of that,” Gavaskar said.

He believes that playingcricket in a post Covid-19 worldwill be a different experience,especially if there aren’t any fansin the stadium.

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Former opener GautamGambhir feels Indian play-

ers lack “mental toughness” tohandle pressure in crunch sit-uations and cannot call them-selves world champions unlessthey prove themselves in big-ticket tournaments like theWorld Cup.

India won the ODI WorldCup twice in 1983 and 2011 buthave been knocked out in thesemifinal stage in four edi-tions, including the last two edi-tions in 2015 and 2019. In T20World Cups, India had tri-umphed in the inaugural edi-tion in 2007 and reached thefinals in 2014.

“What sets you apart frombeing a good player to being avery very good player in ateam squad is what you do onthose crucial games. I thinkprobably we have not been

able to handle the pressure,probably other teams have beenable to handle the pressurethat way,” Gambhir said on StarSports’ show Cricket Connected.

“If you look at all the semi-finals and finals, it just showswhen playing really well in theleague stage and you don’t playwell in the semi-finals orknockouts, it’s probably your

mental toughness as well.”Gambhir, who was part of

the 2011 World Cup which thecountry won after 28 years, saidIndia cannot call themselvesworld champions unless theyprove themselves.

“We can keep talking thatwe’ve got everything, we havethe ability to be the worldchampions, but till the time youdon’t go on the cricket field andprove that, you will never becalled the world champions,”the 38-year-old said.

“It’s just your ability inthose crunch situations. Inbilaterals and league stages youhave got probably a chance tomake the mistake, come toknockout stages, you don’t havea chance to do that, you makea mistake and you’re goingback home. That’s where beliefscome into play and that whereIndia lacks in all those crucialgames.”

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Former Pakistan captainSarfaraz Ahmed, who has

made a surprise comebacknearly eight months after hisouster, has said that the PCBleft it to the players to makethe final call on travelling toEngland for the Test and T20series.

“PCB CEO, Wasim Khanspoke individually to eachplayer and made it clear thatif we had any reservationsabout going to England in theCovid-19 situation we shouldlet him know without anyfear.

“He left the final call to usand obviously all of us musthave spoken to our familiesbefore deciding to go,” he saidin a media interaction onSaturday.

Batsman Haris Sohail isthe only player to have pulledout of the tour because hisfamily was not comfortableabout him touring England inthe existing scenario.

Left arm pacerMohammad Aamir also hadto pull out due to the expect-ed birth of his second child inAugust and with travellingrestrictions because of theCovid-19 pandemic, he wasunable to make the squad forthe T20 matches because ofthe SOPs for the series.

Asked about his come-back to the national squadafter being removed as cap-tain and player from thenational team in all three for-mats, Sarfaraz said it was alearning process for him.

“Obviously it is difficultto make a comeback after youhave once been a regularmember of the team and

then dropped.“But I think the good

thing is soon after I wasdropped I got busy playing indomestic cricket and then thePakistan Super League andthat helped me a lot keep myfocus on cricket and not letnegativity enter my mind,” hesaid. To a question, Sarfarazsaid he might have madesome mistakes as captain andhe was disappointed butinsisted he never thoughtabout leaving the game afterthe way he was dropped fromthe team.

“I will try to not repeatthe same mistakes and thegood thing is as captain I wasnever arrogant or thoughtmyself as different from theother players in the team.

“We have all shared thesame dressing room and weall know each other well so itwouldn’t be a problem adjust-ing back into the team undersomeone else’s captaincy,” hesaid.

He admitted that beingcaptain meant that he had totake pressure and he couldn’tthink much about his owngame and was always think-ing about the other players,their performances and the

results.“Now as a player I think

I can give more time andfocus on my own game andtry to play my part in helpingthe team get good results.”

Sarfaraz insisted that hehad no issues withMuhammad Rizwan nowbeing the number one wick-etkeeper in the team and hebeing the second choice.

“In the 90s also therewas a lot of competitionbetween Moin Khan andRashid Latif and in periodswhoever was number onegot preference. If I get achance to play again inEngland I am prepared andwill try to give my best.”

He also described thecoaching staff of Misbah-ul-Haq, Younis Khan, WaqarYounis and Mushtaq Ahmedas the strongest coachingteam he had ever seen withthe national side.

“It is the best coachingstaff given their combinedexperience and I think it willhelp the players a lot inEngland on such a long tour.It is a good opportunity forplayers and they should takeadvantage of the experienceof the coaches.”

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More than 20,000 fans wit-nessed the Otago

Highlanders edge a 28-27 thrilleragainst the Waikato Chiefs onSaturday as New Zealand wel-comed the return of Live sportafter the coronavirus.

The highest profile sportsfixture worldwide since the pan-demic, and one of the first withan unrestricted crowd, did notdisappoint, as Bryn Gatland’slast-gasp drop goal settled anail-biter in Dunedin.

Gatland drilled the win-ning points in the 79th minute,denying the Chiefs — who arecoached by his father, ex-Wales

boss Warren — after they hadsnatched the lead with theirown drop goal just a minute ear-lier. The Super Rugby Aotearoagame was played in a festivalatmosphere at the Forsyth BarrStadium just six days after NewZealand declared itself free ofCovid-19 and lifted restrictionson mass gatherings.

Gatland was only broughton to the bench for theHighlanders after Josh Ioanepulled out with a groin strain,and came on for his game-win-ning cameo near the end.

In a tense finish, DamianMcKenzie’s drop goal put theChiefs ahead, only for Gatlandto settle the contest with his long-

distance reply from nearly 40metres. “I never imagined itwould be like that,” Highlanderscaptain Ash Dixon said.

“It wasn’t perfect but wegutsed it out and playing a qual-ity side like the Chiefs we justkept trying to compete as muchas we could and managed to justbe on the right side of the ledgerat the end.”

As fans flowed through thegates there was no sign of facemasks or sanitiser — or the card-board cut-outs used to fill emptystadiums in other countrieswhere crowds are still barred.

“I don’t really have anyhealth concerns,” said one fan,who gave his name as Peter.

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Dhoni has captained CSKsince the inception of the IndianPremier League and the team hasgone on to become one of the mostsuccessful in the league, never fin-ishing outside the top four.

Bravo has said that much ofthe credit for the success goes toDhoni and team coach StephenFleming.

“I think a lot of credit for CSK’ssuccess has to be given to Dhoniand Fleming, obviously the own-ers, they trust both Fleming andDhoni, so there is no outsideinterference when it comes todecision making. Both are very bigstudents of the game, players loveMS and it’s an environment andfranchise that allows you to beyou,” Bravo told former Zimbabwe

player and commentator PommieMbangwa.

“MS Dhoni is the biggestsuperstar in cricket and in ourteam. He was one of the easiestpeople to interact with, outside ofthe cricket field, he is like playingvideo games, his door is open atall times, whenever you talk aboutthe biggest superstar and then youthink a person like Dhoni is themost humble of them all. CSK isa special team and we have themost loyal fans,” he added. IANS

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Dominoes may be an unusu-al way to get ready for

cricket but West Indies coachPhil Simmons believes the tra-ditional Caribbean past timewill help his squad’s moraleahead of their behind-closed-doors Test series with England.

The West Indies arrived inManchester on Tuesday andwill now spend several weeks atOld Trafford ahead of the firstTest at Southampton starting onJuly 8 before returning toLancashire’s headquarters forthe final two matches.

The three-Test series willmark the return of internation-al cricket following the coron-avirus shutdown.

But with Covid-19 stillvery much a reality in Britain,where the virus has killed morethan 50,000 people, playerswon’t be able to go out andabout as they would normallyafter training or a match day.

Simmons, while acknowl-edging the seriousness of thepandemic, said the likes ofWest Indies captain JasonHolder would ensure the squadremained in buoyant mood at

a trying time. “There’s alwaysdominoes — as you can imag-ine if you’ve been to theCaribbean that is a highlyexplosive form of entertain-ment,” Simmons told a confer-ence call on Saturday.

“We have a golf simulationcentre, we have cards, a fewthings the guys are enjoying.When you have characters likeJason Holder everyone is alwayslaughing and enjoying them-selves.” Simmons, himself aformer West Indies all-rounder,added: “The biggest challengeis boredom, but saying that inthis scenario — because ofdoing nothing, no cricket beingplay for the last however manymonths — that will take awhile to come into play.

“The guys are hungry, theywant to play and practise.”

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with the scheduled tournamentDown Under.“If we speak aboutthe T20 (World Cup), I feel it isthe decision of the AustralianBoard whether they will be ableto conduct the tournament,”Tendulkar told Aaj Tak.

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People, including children, watchingBollywood films are exposed to a

high and frequent volume of tobacco,alcohol and branded fast-food productplacement, according to the first-of-its-kind study, published in the scientificjournal PLOS One, by researchersfrom Vital Strategies and ImperialCollege, London.

While research in other parts of theworld has shown an association withthese products being used in films andaudience members also initiating use,the extent of such imagery inBollywood cinema had been less clear.

“Our study suggests thatBollywood films are contributing topromoting unhealthy behaviours intheir audience, particularly children,”says Dr Nandita Murukutla, VicePresident, Global Policy and Research,Policy, Advocacy and Communication,Vital Strategies.

She adds that she hope that thisstudy offers evidence and support toreduce the marketing of these products

in films given the known health prob-lems they cause, including obesity,heart disease and cancer.

Of the 300 films analysed from thetime period 1994-2013, 93 per cent ofthe films had at least one occurrenceof alcohol, 70 per cent had at least oneoccurrence of tobacco, and 21 per centfilms had at least one occurrence ofbranded fast food. Tobacco and alco-hol occurrences were more commonin films rated for older audiences (Arated films) whereas fast-food depic-tion was prominent in movies target-ed for all audiences (U and U/A ratedfilms). On average, tobacco productsor usage was depicted four times perfilm, alcohol was shown or used seventimes per film, and branded fast foodwas shown or used 0.4 time per film.Although depiction of tobacco inthese films fell during the 20-year peri-

od of analysis, the placement of alco-hol and branded fast food products sig-nificantly increased.

The researchers theorise that the

downward trend in tobacco promotionfrom the year 2004 could be attributedto the regulations related to tobaccoadvertising, promotions and spon-sorships under Cigarettes and OtherTobacco Products Act and WHOFramework Convention of TobaccoControl (FCTC). “The rise in numberof noncommunicable diseases acrossthe globe is linked with consumptionof tobacco, alcohol and ultra-processedfoods. Marketing strategies that pro-mote the consumption of these prod-ucts should be strictly regulated usingthe broad public health perspectivewith an aim to reduce the burden ofdeath and disease,” says ProfessorChristopher Millett, Public HealthPolicy Evaluation Unit, ImperialCollege, London.

According to the researchers, theiranalysis provides evidence for the

adoption of strong policy measures toprotect the health of movie-watchingaudiences, including:

Monitoring product placement ofunhealthy commodities and prohibitfunded product placement continu-ously on all mediums

Reviewing certifications of filmsbased on product placement ofunhealthy products. ‘A’ ratings to beconsidered for such instances

Removing Government subsidiesin case of any depiction of unhealthycommodities or violation that pro-motes unhealthy commodities.

Reaffirming WHO FCTC Article13 for tobacco and reaffirm the spiritof this article in placing restrictions onthe marketing of alcohol and unhealthyfoods.

“The association between the fre-quency and trend of unhealthy prod-ucts appearing in films becomes all themore important during the currentCOVID-19 crisis as industry reportshave indicated that there is a significantincrease in media consumption duringthis time,” says Dr Murukutla.

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It was the first series that I said yesto for an OTT project. Although, it was

not the first release; it took time, theywere looking for a platform to release iton. I took it up purely on merit. At thattime, OTT was still taking off and while

I was getting offers, I was trying to holdoff — looking for that something spe-

cial. When the makersapproached me with the

scripts, a great thingabout them was

they had all thenine scriptsready. I am

stickler for script. I don’t sign up unless Isee the it, by-an-large. They were greatscripts and got along with the creators andsigned up.�What made you take on work for anOTT platform?

I have been around in the industry fora long time. The only thing that I havesteered clear of is TV. The only thing thatI have done for it as The Great IndianComedy Show. I didn’t do TV becausethere was no end. It could go on indefi-nitely for years or end abruptly. That wasnot the kind of work-culture that I want-ed to be part of. When OTT started, a newculture came in where there are limitedseries. That’s what attracted me — that

finally we were doing mature work.�What are these special

episodes about?We have done five

micro editions that wehave shot during thequarantine period. Wewere supposed to havestarted shooting forSeason 2 but then thelockdown happeneddue to Coronavirus; it

has been stalled for now.These shot episodes are

a stop-gap arrangementthat we have done from by

shooting them in our homesand the creators have put them

together. These specials episodes are howwe, at Metro Park, are dealing with thelockdown.�How tough was it to shoot for itunder lockdown?

It was not tough for me since beforeI started acting, I had considerable expe-rience behind the camera. The know-howwas not the problem but definitely, therewas more work, since one was doingeverything — camera, costumes and dia-logue assistant — it was a little more workbut it was not intimidating to do handlecamera work.�How much fun did you have?

It was a lot of fun doing this series.There is a limit to how much one can enjoythis lockdown without work. I had reacheda point where it was a welcome change todo something, to create something. �What is the best part of playingKalpesh?

The best part is that he is an immi-grant. He is a Gujarati who has gone toNew Jersey, US and set up a life there andwhatever the conflicts arise because of that,the nostalgia and the challenges. This isthe most exciting part of playing Kalpesh.�What is your character in Hasmukhabout?

I play Jimmy, who is the manager toHasmukh. He is a scumbag but with aheart and teeth of gold. The film is a satireon the entertainment industry and small-town dreams — morality versus ambi-

tion.�Films or web series — which is moreattractive?

The things that matter is the script,part and the director. That is what I lookat. If I find the part to be interesting andfeel that my audience will like it, I imme-diately become interested. If I find a partthat I feel I can justice to, I become inter-ested. If it is a director that I get along withand have a nice affectionate relationship,or have the potential of becoming a goodrelationship, I get interested. I havenever cared whether it is film or a seriesof theatre.�How did you come on board forLootcase?

The movie is directed by RajeshKrishnan, he is an ad filmmaker of goodrepute. I have known him for a long time.He is a very funny person and the filmis an ensemble piece and he approachedme for one of the parts and I did itbecause the project is a manifestation ofthe director on paper and that exciting— to be part of his vision.�Now that films will not be releasingin theatres any time soon, will OTTplatforms be the new norm?

I certainly hope not. Although I havesaid that OTT platforms are a blessing inevery way one looks at them, theatres andcinemas have their own charm andhope that things are back to sooner thanlater with new regulations if we have to.

During lockdown, all that peoplecould talk about was whenwould the malls open and they

would be able to go for retail therapy.However, India has not been able tokeep its COVID-19 numbers in checkdespite the curfew measures that werein place. In fact, since the lockdowneased, the number of cases has seen asteady rise with the Capital recordingmore than 2000 cases in a single day.

However, the Delhi Governmenthas said that it has no intention to re-impose the lockdown. The news hasbrought in relief to a lot of people whowere tired of being cooped up at homeand also the mall owners in cities likeLucknow, Noida, Bengaluru andAhemdabad. But many feel that therewas no hurry to reopen the malls, giventhe present situation. Is it safe to visita mall amidst rising Corona cases? Thisis the question that needs to beaddressed foremost.

Nimish Arora, Director & InterimCEO, Select Citywalk, says that in cog-nizance of the new normal, the shop-ping centre is following strict standardoperating procedures as per theGovernment directives to ensureutmost safety. “The shopping centrehas introduced subtle changes indesign and layout across entrances andpublic spaces. Crowd control andfootfall are being kept as outlined bythe Government across the premisesand retail outlets to ensure that socialdistancing norms are followed cor-rectly. The shopping centre staff isdoing temperature checks at entrypoints, with visitors passing throughdisinfectant tunnels for additionalsafety if they are comfortable to walkthrough it,” he tells you.

The shopping centre is recom-mending visitors to adhere to all themeasures and wear masks. “A visitorregistration book is being maintainedfor record, and all visitors are beingadvised to have the Aarogya Setu appon their phones. The same checks arein place for mall staff and retail oper-ators. Exhaustive training of all supportstaff, F&B and retail outlets was con-ducted prior to opening for thesechecks and balances to be put in place,”Arora adds.

To ensure that social distancingnorms are followed inside the mall,markings for social distancing arepresent on escalators which will oper-ate on a limited capacity, with a max-imum of four people inside. The airconditioning is maintained as per theCentral Public Works Departmentguidelines.

Similarly, another shopping centreAmbience Mall, Vasant Kunj, is mak-ing sure that it keeps its premises infec-tion free.

“We are sanitising the premisesevery two hours. The frontline staff isprovided with PPE kits and sanitisersare placed at all entry points. As of nowonly 60 per cent of the stores are func-tional and the rest are gearing up to

open in the coming weeks,” aspokesperson of the mall tells you. Thestores are advised to not allow morethan 50 customers in one go.

The footfall, for obvious reasons,has seen a massive decline. “Now wehave around 8,000 people visiting themall daily as compared to 35,000 ear-lier, before Corona hit India. Onweekends, it was as high as 65,000 perday. However, keeping in mind the cur-rent situation the numbers are stillgood,” he says. The coming few weeks,he says, will not see any increase in vis-itors and that the mall is prepared forthat.

The DLF Avenue Saket mall is cur-rently operating with 50 per cent staff.Pushpa Bector, Head Retail, DLFAvenue Saket tells you that the mall hasdeployed automated system to keep acheck on the social distancing norms.

“For keeping a check on social dis-tancing norms we have automated sys-tems to control the footfall in the mall,apart from this, we have several tan-gible reminders for them to observe

social distance. From having floormarkers to continuously displayingsocial distancing messages on screens,we are constantly sending out thesevital messages. Additionally all our

retail partners are serving their cus-tomers as per the Government advi-sory which includes restricted cus-tomer presence in their individualstores as well to observe social dis-

tancing norms,” she says. Like the othertwo malls, DLF Avenue too is observ-ing low footfall. “Understandably thefootfall is low at present, and it supportsour stringent observation of social dis-tancing norms. The footfall is expect-ed to pick up as we go along when peo-ple realise that malls accord a higherdegree of safety compared to the highstreet owing to our ability to control theingress and thereby the internal envi-ronment at large,” Bector tells you.

One is told that the mall utilisedthe lockdown phase to establish newnorms and ensure to live up to the stan-dards. “Our customers are also edu-cating themselves and bringing thesepractises into their routine. As they willstart coming to the mall, and experi-ence the level of our preparedness firsthand for their safety, we are very surethat gradually and steadily positive cus-tomer sentiments are going to beboosted. Our target audience is dis-cerning, educated and widely travelledand I am sanguine that they feel a lotsafer at our malls,” Bector says.

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�How did you come up with Muskurayega India and Jeeta RaheIndia?

Muskurayega India was a song that Vishal (Mishra) bhai andI wrote when janta curfew was imposed in March. There were someprojects that we needed to complete and I stayed back with himat the studio. We got talking how doctors were the frontline war-riors. I also asked him was there no way that, as artists could dosomething. Then we realised that while we couldn’t treat people,we could make a song. A couple of days later we got a call and JackkyBhagnani and Akshay Kumar were planning something on simi-lar lines. I was asked to pen lyrics that could change the mindsetof the people. I knew that I would not used any negative wordsnor use the word Corona. I wrote about what people were miss-ing. The second song is the answer to many of the questions thatcropped up from the first song.�Does it take time for you to pen a song?

When I wrote Muskurayega India, it took me around 20 min-utes to pen down the words. I am not a fast writer. I take time towrite. When I have to pen words on a dhun, it takes me a day ortwo. Or if I have to come up with lyrics of my own, then also I taketime. But for these two songs, there was so much inside me that Iwanted to say that it didn’t take at all. Since both songs are patri-otic, I wrote them with a lot of emotion.�Do you choose certain words because you feel they may touchlisteners’ hearts?

When you write songs that have a patriotic touch, it is impor-tant that one chooses words that are simple to understand so thatthe common man understands the emotions behind it. If you usefancy words, it doesn’t find many takers. What can be more mun-dane than: Sadkon par hum naachegey. If one wants to reach themasses, one has to use their language.�You are also a scriptwriter. How did that happen?

I have written many shows for serials like Bharat Ki Shaan forDD National. Then there was a show with Manoj Bajpayee — SafarMazilon Ka, again for DD National. There are so many that I don’tremember more than half of them. At present, I was busy writingtwo scripts. Whenever I get an opportunity, I write scripts.�How does a Bihar boy come to Mumbai?

I come from a middle-class family from the State. My fatherwas a writer too though none of his work was ever released but hewould continue to write. I would read his diaries and got inspired.My parents always supported me when I said I wanted to write.However, people around me felt it was not the correct professionfor me. But to make it to Mumbai from a place where few knewthe meaning of the word lyrics, when I am today is due to God’sgrace. It was a tough journey but these life lessons are tests thattoughen you up.�How did you get interested in music?

I take writing as a medium that must reach masses and havean impact. I don’t write random lines and post them. Nor do I writepoetry. I want my writing to be fruitful. I feel songs have a widerreach and can impact people. I have released four songs during thelockdown and hope they have had the necessary impact. My fifthsong — a romantic number is also ready for release.�You have penned songs for films, TV and web series. Is thereis a difference when you sit down to write?

Sometimes there is a difference. When you write for a film,you have to keep in mind the charac-

ter in mind and then pen the words.But when you pen a single, there

are no restrictions. However, thesoul is the same and wordscome naturally to you.�When you write the lyrics,

you get a situational back-ground. Does that hamper cre-

ativity?We are professionals and have

to deliver according to the need ofthe film. We come in much later in

the picture for a film, the director hasbeen associated from day one. Yes,

there are heated discussions thatturn healthy to bring out the

best.�What kind of lyrics doyou like to pen?

I am an emotion-dri-ven writer. I didn’t cometo Mumbai to fill the gapin music. I have thou-sands of stories to tell.Whenever, I get thecharacter that fits thestory I narrate it. I havetoured the entire coun-try for more than ayear. I used to observe

people and want to telltheir stories.

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WORLDIt is not every day when one of cinema’s

most iconic names features in a film thatpremieres in the confines of your livingroom. Or right in your palm on your cel-lular phone screen. The news of Shoojit

Sircar’s new film Gulabo Sitabo with screen-leg-end Amitabh Bachchan and one of the bright-est sparks in Hindi movies today, AyushmaanKhurrana, ‘dropping’ on Amazon Prime Videoinstead of releasing at a theatre near you wasgreeted with an expected mix of enthusiasmand disdain. For the ticket-paying audience thathad begun to show signs of taking a keenerinterest in material that was being given a passby popular films in India, this was the logicalstep. But for theatre-owners and multiplexchains the move was nothing less than an indi-cation that the ground beneath their feet hadshifted. This development might be kind cour-tesy the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic thathas changed how we knew life but this waswaiting to happen.

In the recent past, the way films were beingconsumed had changed with audiences willingto paying a subscription fee to online streamingplatforms such as Netflix and Amazon PrimeVideo to get what it wanted. The means of pro-ducing films, too, had undergone a massivetransformation with the digital format replac-ing film across most industries but one onlyaspect of the entire chain remained largely thesame — exhibition. In 2017, Netflix’s Bright fea-tured Will Smith, one of the biggest box officestars in the world, and the writing was clear onthe wall the moment it skipped the traditionaltheatrical release. Cinema viewing experiencewas poised to change. In India, this momentseems to have arrived with the announcementof Sircar’s Gulabo Sitabo’s online premiere. Thiswas the first time that an A-list Hindi filmwould debut outside a movie hall and the reac-tion from the theatre owners indicates just howthis one small step for a filmmaker could wellbe the one giant leap for films. Leading cinemahall owners called the move a ‘mistake’ and theINOX multiplex chain expressed “extreme dis-pleasure and disappointment”, and said that itwill take “retributive measures in dealing withsuch fair-weather friends.”

Owing to a nation-wide lockdown severalready for release films were put on hold, whilethe trade went into a huddle to decide how todeal with the new normal. Initially, most pro-ducers believed that rescheduling the releasedates would resolve their predicament. Nearlyeveryone was convinced that such measureswould suffice. A few weeks later, the specula-tion that all the changes were nothing morethan temporary measures changed when thefear that cinema halls might not operate to fullcapacity any time soon pushed the trade to startexploring other forms of distribution besidesthe traditional theatrical release. The focus ofthe powers be of the film business when it cameto thinking of new mechanism to showcasefilms (read OTT) was largely on the two tent-pole films that were all set to hit the screenswhen life collided with the harsh reality ofCovid-19 — Rohit Shetty-directed and Akshay

Kumar starrer cop-drama Sooryavanshi andKabir Khan’s 83 that chronicled the story of the1983 Cricket World-Cup winning Indian squadwith Ranveer Singh portraying the legendaryKapil Dev.

This was not the first time when things hadcome to such a pass in the film industry. A fewyears ago, Kamal Haasan toyed with the idea ofreleasing Vishwaroopam on the DTH platformthe same day as the film was supposed to hitthe cinema halls. As expected, there was afurore by the theatre owners, who also threat-ened to boycott future Kamal Haasan films ifthe thespian went ahead. The reason thatHaasan perhaps considered the option mighthave to do with the potential ruffling of feath-ers that Vishwaroopam seemed capable of aftersome key scenes were objected to based onthem probably hurting religious sentiments.Finally, Haasan did not go-ahead and the deci-sion to release films featuring reigning super-stars on platforms other than cinema halls waspended. There were rumours that Haasan hadgotten an internal survey done and the num-bers did not predict the reality he had envi-sioned in terms of the film’s box office collec-tions.

The setting was rife with speculation asboth film producers and OTT platforms wereon the lookout for avenues and ways that wouldretain the viewer. While films could still playthe waiting game, in the manner of speaking,streaming platforms needed to ‘up the game’ asthe platform gained greater significance in thetimes of the lockdown where the viewing habitsof people underwent a further transformation.Thanks to their deep pockets, OTT platformscould easily get films packed with prestigiousnames on their roster. For a brief period, thegrapevine was abuzz with Akshay Kumar’sother film, Lakshmi Bomb, slated to release on22 May, becoming the first ‘big’ film to releaseexclusively on a streaming platform withrumours afloat that Disney+ and Hotstar VIPhad picked it up for its premium subscribers.Made on an approximate budget of �88 crore,Lakshmi Bomb was delayed in post-productiondue to the lockdown and the producers expect-ed it to be ready for online release by June end.The buzz only increased after the word got outthat Kabir Khan had reportedly been offered awhopping amount for a digital premiere of 83but Khan opted to weather the storm out andrelease his film in January 2021. In the end,Gulabo Sitabo emerged as the one that couldend up rewriting the rules of the game in moreways than one could imagine.

If one takes a hard look around then itbecomes clear that radical change in cinemahas only taken place when the consumption

model of the viewer has undergone a transfor-mation or none at all. In the late 1950s, whenlive television started to make its mark on sto-rytelling thanks to the then up and comingfilmmakers such as Robert Altman and SidneyLumet, studios in the United States hired themto make films. In the same way, when thecounter-culture and social unrest of the 1960s’

US became too much to ignore, studio honchosbrought in the first generation of film-schooleducated filmmakers such as Francis FordCoppola, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg andGeorge Lucas to make films. These movie bratsalong with Brain De Palma, Peter Bogdanovichand William Friedkin went on to lay the foun-dation of the “American New Wave” or NewHollywood. Later when VHS threatened toalter audiences’ preference, studios began toexperiment more when it came to themes. Onthe same lines, in the ‘post’ Coronavirus world,the way a movie is exhibited would have tochange. Much like a line from Mary Shelley’sFrankenstein — Nothing is so painful to thehuman mind as a great and sudden change —Bollywood and most popular cinemas in Indiawould not only need to accept the change butalso get ready for the new era.

With the Covid-19 pandemic now being aregular part of life, the film industry needed tore-look at its delivery mechanism and with thedecision to digitally release Gulabo Sitabo,Shoojit Sircar has stepped into the breach.Under normal circumstances, Ronnie Lahiriand Sheel Kumar, Sircar’s long-time collabora-tors and the producers on Gulabo Sitabo,wouldn’t have been forced to think out of thebox. But truth be told, the Sircar-Lahiri-Kumartrio is the ideal fit to lead the transition that isperhaps a once in a lifetime occurrence. Sircar’spenchant to pick up subjects that would makefor compelling storytelling is complemented byfrequent collaborator writer Juhi Chaturvediand the actors that he casts but it’s producingskills of Lahiri and Kumar that play a vital role.Lahiri and Kumars’ prowess when it comes toproducing films such as Madras Cafe (2013), anespionage drama that had a massive scale but avery tight budget and schedule, or Pink (2016)that did not instil faith in the distributorsdespite featuring a promising cast that was ledby Amitabh Bachchan and included Bengalicinema’s Dhritiman Chatterjee is the stuff ofMumbai industry folklore. Despite deliveringhits, Sircar’s producers rarely allow him to gooverboard when it comes to money but at thesame, they never cut corners when it comes tothe filmmaker’s vision. Made on an approxi-mate budget of �30-35 crores, Gulabo Sitabowould have been a sure-shot winner at the boxoffice considering the cast — Bachchan andKhurrana, and while an online release probablygot them more money upfront, the riskinvolved is considerable. Lahiri and Kumar, aswell as Sircar, are aware of the wrath of multi-plex owners and theatre chains, which couldcome back to haunt in the course of futurefilms, but this is probably the differencebetween trailblazers and the rest of the ilk.

The fight between cinema and onlinestreaming platforms has entered a newphase with the direct-to-home debut of

Gulabo Sitabo. Up until now, there would analmost two-month-long delay between the the-atrical and digital release of a Hindi film. A dayafter announcing the premiere of GulaboSitabo, Amazon Prime released a list of addi-

tional six films in Tamil, Hindi, Telugu,Kannada and Malayalam that would debutdirectly on its streaming service, a move thatonly makes things worse for theatre owners.Perhaps this is why Sircar’s decision has invitedsuch backlash from the movie theatre owners.In other words, the theatres would be on theedge because Sircar’s decision to skip a theatri-cal run is all set to usher in a new era in cinemaviewing. The decision by Tamil superstar andproducer Suriya to digitally release PonmagalVandhal that features his wife, Jyothika, alsoinvited a backlash against the actor. Theatreand multiplex owners threatened to block allfuture releases featuring Suriya if the actor wentahead. Now that the genie is out of the bottle,and this is no ordinary genie with Bachchanand the current toast of the critics, Khurrana,making an appearance on the ‘smaller’ screen,things are different. It’s not like Bachchan hasnot been on ‘TV’ earlier, in fact, the star hasbeen a television celebrity as well since the turnof the century when he started to host KaunBanega Crorepati, the Indian version of WhoWants to Be a Millionaire, and later in 2014, hefront-lined Yudh, a thriller mini-series made fortelevision. While Bachchan might not be thebox office phenomenon that he once was buthis aura continues to thrive and along withKhurrana it’s the perfect combination to intro-duce the audiences to a new epoch in the histo-ry of cinema in India. The way films were beingmade at the time when Bachchan debuted inSaat Hindustani (1969) was not too differentfrom the time India’s first talkie in India, AlamAra (1931). In a career spanning 51 years,Bachchan has survived the arrival of television,the onslaught of video piracy in the early tomid-1980s and the near-abandonment of cine-ma halls in the late 1980s, the mushrooming ofsatellite television, online piracy, and now he isat the forefront of the greatest tectonic shift inIndian cinema. When it comes to contempo-rary stars, Khurrana’s presence is almost a stan-dards-compliance mark. He is a rarity whoenjoys the best combination of critical acclaim,commercial success and recall with the averageviewer.

The decision of the exhibition format of afilm changes almost everything about the wayit’s made. Gulabo Sitabo might not have beenmade with the intention of releasing it onlinebut fate has a way of working things out. Whileplanning the film, Sircar’s cinematographerAvik Mukhopadhyay came up with the idea ofshooting the film with only one lens, the 30mmwide as it would let the viewer see everything inthe frame. Irrespective of whether he framed aclose-up or a sprawling long shot,Mukhopadhyay could capture all the details ofthe location and the people for Sircar to showthe Gulabo Sitabo’s the unique world the way hedesired. Little did the two know that theywould be opening a whole new world.

The writer is a film historian and author ofDark Star: The Loneliness of Being Rajesh

Khanna, The Film That Revived Hindi Cinemaand Rajneeti: A Biography of Rajnath Singh

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Sree Iyer’s book, Who painted myMoney White is a thinly-dis-guised suspense filled story ofactual events taking place underour very noses thanks to cor-

rupt politicians, accountants, terroroutfits and the land mafia.

Sree Iyer runs a print and You Tubeportal — PGurus, which has beenknown to investigate and print cuttingedge reports on corruption that rarely ifever are reported by the mainstreammedia. Iyer’s book NDTV Frauds actu-ally brought to the government’s atten-tion how one of the top media channelsof India was indulging in fraud, taxevasion and money laundering to thetune of millions of dollars. The CBIcases that have been filed against theowner of the company Prannoy Roy isgoing through our slow-paced courts.

Along the same lines, Who Paintedmy Money White? is a must read for theall those who want to know the breath-taking extent of corruption that tookplace between 2007 and 2014. Was itnot for a brave and honest bureaucrat,custom officials, sleuths and accoun-tants and a brilliant economist/lawyer,this story could not have been told?

In 2009, two containers full ofcounterfeit currency landed in the portof Cochin from Dubai. It was said to bea shipment of baby pampers but wasfound to be counterfeit currencyinstead. I cannot even begin to imaginehow much one container full of curren-cy would amount to leave alone two.

A special team of officers from theDepartment of Revenue Intelligence,Custom and Excise (DRI) intercepted it,busting a major counterfeit currencyracket which had its roots in Kasargodin Kerala with tentacles spreadthroughout the Middle East, Karachiand Pakistan. There seemed to aninvolvement also of Pakistan’s notoriousInterservice Intelligent Agency. A criti-cal fact that proves this theory is thatPakistan buys more currency paper andink than it needs for its own currency.

In fact, the counterfeit currency wasso close to the actual Indian currencybefore demonetisation that evenbankers got fooled. A seasoned auditorbased in Kerala affirmed that millionshad been flowing into India throughvarious channels which posed a majorsecurity challenge to India. This moneygoes towards strengthening theBreaking India forces from Islamists toMaoists to recruiting and arming terror

outfits that buy arms and bomb makingequipment.

Nobody knows for sure how manyearlier such container loads of counter-feit money may have got through butone thing is for certain that some of themoney was used to finance terror inIndia. It is alleged that Pakistan workedwith members of a banned Muslimorganisation in India. The Students’Islamic Movement of India (SIMI),banned in 2001, since it becameinvolved in radical Islamic terror sup-plying recruits to Indian Mujahideen(IM) and Pakistan-based terrorist

organisations.Over the years, SIMI leaders radi-

calised Muslim youths and formed net-works to train, plot and execute terror-ist attacks, often in close collaborationwith Pakistan’s covert agencies that havedirected violence against India.

At a convention in 2001, SIMI lead-ers, including Ashraf Jaffery, YasinFalahi, Jameel Siddiqui, Safdar Nagori,hailed al-Qaida boss Osama bin Ladenas a ‘brother’. Nagori’s faction was tobecome a major source of terrorrecruits.

The Indian government banned

SIMI as a “terrorist organisation” after9/11 but the real problem surfaced in2006, when Nagori, who is in jail since2008, shed all pretense of studentmobilisation and took to terrorist activ-ities. The SIMI leaders were religiouslymotivated, seeking to ‘liberate India’and “restore” an Islamic society — anideological goal they shared withLashkar.

According to Indian agencies, IMcarried out close to 30 bomb blasts incities like Delhi, Mumbai, Ahmedabad,Bangalore, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Patna,Varanasi and others killing over 200

people from 2006-07 till 2013. Mostattacks had the logistical support fromSIMI and Tauqeer attended meetingsand prepared material to be sent tomedia apart from providing hideouts.

In addition to funding terror out-fits, prime land on major highways inKerala were suddenly bought up by aminority community who seemed toget rich overnight. Meanwhile, a youngofficer in the Centre was asked to go toBrazil to buy up an old currency print-ing machine that was to come up forauction with others. The plot picks upwith various events which when joined

together paint a picture of how deepand corrosive Pakistan’s plans were andhow it had to be stopped.

I won’t give away the most hair-raising terror plot that happens towardsthe end and is stopped just in time byour super sleuths.

The book makes one’s head spinwith actual events that were happeningat a fast pace and never really made theheadlines in India. There was no inves-tigative reporter in India who persistedwith the counterfeit currency story andwas able to connect the dots too. WhoPainted by Money White?, describesperfectly what Mark Twain said —“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it isbecause Fiction is obliged to stick topossibilities; Truth isn’t.” It is moretruth that fiction but then I leave it tothe reader to decide.

The writer is a film maker, authorand journalist based in India. Her book

The Victoria Cross-A Love Story is afact-based account of World War II and

India from 1940s to 1975. She writes ablog titled No Free Lunch

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In an era of 280-characterattention-span and myriaddistractions, AbhinavAgarwal’s debut novelPredators and Prey is a 350

page fast-paced action-packedhigh octane compelling thriller,that holds its readers firmlytethered to the novel and to itsseat.

The novel revolves aroundthe pursuit of a NationalSecurity Agency’s (NSA) scien-tist Venkat. The Agency isresponsible for collecting andprocessing domestic and inter-national intelligence and coun-terintelligence data. Venkat acci-dentally stumbles into someincriminating informationabout some powerful people.Venkat, an Indian origin NSAemployee, ends up committing atheft of this valuable surveil-lance data from the Agency.After stealing the data, Venkatbecomes a fugitive and lands upin Delhi where he reaches out tohis old friend Riya who worksfor a media company. By thetime the information about thisdata theft comes to light in theUS, Indian, Pakistani, andChinese intelligence agenciesare after him as well as Riya. Inthis race against time, and athriller car ride from Delhi toGwalior enroute Jhansi, thereare elements of love, lust, jeal-ousy, corruption, friendship,loyalty, ethics, betrayal, etc…that make this novel joy to read.

Along the ride, readerscome in contact with a numberof characters. Each character ofthis novel is a case study in psy-chology and personality.

Agarwal introduces his charac-ters effortlessly in the story andmasterfully brings those charac-ters to life. Venkat’s character,for example, is introduced viaan engaging conversationbetween the NSA officers. Asthe story unfolds in front ofreaders’ eyes, so do charactersand it is hard to overlook someparallels in real-life. As the storyprogresses, we are exposed toplots and subplots, charactersand their strengths, weaknesses,and vulnerabilities. It is alsohard not to feel sympathy,anguish, and outright disgustfor some of them.

Agarwal shows an uncannyattention to details in his story-

telling. The novel is a journey ineducation. As the reader flipsthe pages she gets educated in aplethora of subjects — fromcomputer systems to surveil-lance technology; from sophisti-cated weapons to vehicles; fromtidbits from the Mahabharata togeopolitics. For example, Deva’sdescription of the chip (p 37) isas technical as it is detailed. Themost significant part of thisdescription is that it is presentedseamlessly in the form of a dia-log which makes such dry tech-nical details more palatable toordinary readers:

“Sir, it is an IC — integratedcircuit with PLCC surfacemount. It has three lines of

marking on the chip. The firstlie is the manufacturer’s name,then come the alpha-numericcharacters for the part number,revision, and so on…,” hetrailed off for a few seconds,and then resumed. “If I am notmistaken, it is an SoC — Systemon a Chip. This means it is notjust a simple IC, but a micro-processor, and it should alsocontain a graphics processingunit, though I can’t say for sure.It will have memory blocks —how much memory is tough totell without a probe. It may alsohave a WiFi module, and othercomponents.”

Some of the most vivid andgripping descriptions the novel

carries is of corruption in highplaces. Delhi, Lutyens Delhi, orDelhi Durbar is described as aneternal whorehouse. Over aperiod of time, Delhi has devel-oped an impervious and unac-countable ruling class. “Kingshave sat on the throne andreigned but rarely ruled,”declares Neeraj, one of the maincharacters in the novel. “PrimeMinisters have come, and PrimeMinisters have moved on. We,on the other hand, sir ji, havebeen the only constant in thisland for a thousand years.”, hecontinues.

Agarwal’s characters floateffortlessly and effectively incode-switching and code-mix-

ing — between English andHindi. These communicativetools are part and parcel of amultilingual society like Indiaand the author does an excel-lent job of showcasing itthroughout the novel. Some ofthe Hindi proverbs (boye beejbabul ke to aam kahan se hoe)used in this manner are so aptthat it is hard to find anEnglish substitute for them. Inaddition, they are never out ofplace either.

The novel delves a greatdeal into geo-politics, specifi-cally of the Indian subconti-nent. It gives a glimpse of therising Chinese power and itspolitical ambitions. We alsohave Pakistan, its notoriousInter Services Intelligence, theISI, and its subversive reachthroughout India. The noveloccasionally dips into India’scultural heritage to makenuanced points. For example,

the novel makes a few refer-ences to the Mahabharata, thegreat epic, and the BhagavadGita.

This fast-paced drama losessome steam towards the endand the reader may feel themelancholy fatigue as she flipsthe last few pages. However, thisis not a handicap that can beheld against the first-time nov-elist. Predator and Prey is a well-written fiction and a great read.

The writer is a linguist whowrites frequently on the topics ofIndic Knowledge Tradition, lan-

guage, culture, and currentaffairs. He is a JNU and the

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumnus

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— Rabindranath Tagorein his Nobel Prize AcceptanceSpeech

We human beings, havingendured the eighteenth

century: the Age of Reason;nineteenth: the Age of Progress;twentieth: the Age of Anxiety,as author James C Colemancalled them, have recentlyentered twenty-first century.What this century will bedubbed as when it is over, nonecan predict but as of now, we,the current generation people,are confronted with the timesthat evoke awe, agony andhelplessness. Coronavirus withits gigantic hold world over hasasserted human beings are notinvincible and it’s not alwayseasy to muddle through. Thedeadly virus has brought uscloser to our inescapable finite-ness and futility.

One shudders at watchingghostly backdrop of fast-spreading coronavirus and ourinability in trammeling it. Thishuman plight is daring us inthis technological age that hasmade human life so luxuriousand comfortable, at least for afew. We are so attuned to greatdisruptions and upheavals thatthese pass off while many of usstay unruffled from suchtumults. Excessive global com-petitiveness has led to imper-sonal bonding and shatteredour faith in traditional beliefsand values. “Coronavirus”, as asaintly figure and temple priestfrom Gorakhpur, Rajiv Baba,aptly puts it, “Ne Dharti KaHulchul Khatam Kar Diya Hai.”(Coronavirus has ended thebustling of the earth.)

It might be of some rele-vance to refer to Swiss psychi-atrist Carl Gustav Jung’s essay“WOTAN” published in 1936.Coronavirus seems to havesome traits in common withWotan. Jung defines Wotan as“a restless wanderer who cre-ates unrest and stirs up strife,now here, now there, andworks magic.” Coronaviruseshave conveniently usurpedWotan’s wandering role seizing,to use Jung’s words, “everythingin its path.”

Coronavirus further sharesanother trait with Wotan: a traitJung calls the “Ergriffener”connoting “a state of beingseized or possessed.” Coronaacts as “Ergreifer”: one whoseizes. Whether it is like anErgriffener or not is a mysteryto be unraveled by future dis-covery of its true nature, sourceof its birth and treatment; itseizes is a fact more than sev-enty three lakh affected casesand more than four lakh deathsglobally towards the begin-ning of second week of June2020 bear testimony to. LikeWotan, corona has been creat-ing, cutting across man-madeboundaries, frenzy and stormunleashing fear, agony, severeanxiety and deaths. Ourassumptions about modernworld being a reasonable placeto live are now dwindling andfoundational questions aboutindividual and collective life arebound to be pondered oversooner or later. Our belief inour indomitability emanatingfrom technologically and med-ically accelerated societies hasreceived an enormous jolt.

Jung writes about man’stendency to regard anythingunexpected coming as comingfrom outside but real. Theidea that anything can be realbut not coming from outsidehas been slowly dawning uponcontemporary world. Drawingan analogy, one can argue thatthis disaster called coronavirusis real and has come frominside the society. Fast deplet-ing natural resources likeforests, water, soil, etc, questionour sanctity in using these. Wehardly bother to account forthese. Natural ResourceAccounting has not receivedglobally the attention itdeserves. It is still in a nascentstage. The accounting of nat-ural resources while calculatingGDP will yield better index ofeconomic activities and help uscontrol all sorts of ecologicalviolations and pollution whichhave been eroding environ-mental resources putting thelife-support system of livingbeings at great risk. Added toit is the brutal killing of ani-

mals, including wild ones, formeat consumption. These canbe thought of as examples ofpossible sources of disasterswhich are real and come frominside. This realisation is oneway of rescuing mankind fromits own created perils.

How to curb the wander-er? Jung offers an answer, “... arock crashing down the side ofa hill, until it is stopped by anobstacle stronger than itself.”How to stop spread of coron-avirus? Lockdown. India hasbeen second to no other coun-try in showing path to theworld in times of mass dis-traught and anguish. Whiledeveloped countries with verymodern healthcare facilitiesare blamed for not resorting tolockdown at early stages ofspread of virus, the mostimportant thing that happenedin India is implementation ofstay-at-home order early on,when very few people weresick. Prime Minister of IndiaNarendra Modi took a seminaldecision announcing “JantaCurfew” to be observed by allthroughout the country. OnMarch 22, 2020, the countrywore a deserted look indicatinghow meticulously peopleadhered to Prime Minister’s callfor “Janta Curfew”. Then theyunanimously followed anoth-er advice of the Prime Minister.Sharp at 5 pm the same day,people in unison came outstanding in balconies or infront of their houses clapping,ringing bells, blowing conchshells and beating metal plates.The collective sound thun-dered and its well spread outvibrations felt far afield. Thepeople of India showed theywere one with the PrimeMinister. It was followed byanother announcement onMarch 24, 2020, by the PrimeMinster regarding 21 daysnationwide lockdown that laiddown a uniform policy for allStates to follow. Essential ser-vices like food supplies, med-icines, milk and similar serviceswere allowed. People wereadvised to stay home and notto indulge in social gatherings.The result has been incredible:country has witnessed theworld’s most-wide-rangingCovid-19 lockdown.

On April 3, 2020, thePrime Minister in his messageexhorted people, “On the 5th ofApril, at 9 pm, turn off all thelights in your homes, stand atyour doors or in your balconiesand light diyas or candles,torches or mobile flash lightsfor 9 minutes.” It would wardoff darkness spread by coron-avirus. When done, the PrimeMinister continued, “We willexperience the superpower oflight, clearly illuminating thecommon purpose we are allfighting for.” On 5th night mil-

lions of diyas, candles, torchesand mobile flashes illuminedevery nook and corner of thecountry. Collective light was inample display in the collectivefight against “the darknessspread by the coronavirus crisis”.

Impact of lockdown:Indian experience —Lockdown was further extend-ed beyond 21 days in variousphases. In any country lock-down never represented nor-mal times; we were and still aregrappling with abnormal timeshistory has bestowed on us.Many and regular episodes,organised on various TV chan-nels, particularly on DDNational where Union HealthMinister with his officials anddoctors explained about Covid-19 and how to escape it, con-tributed immensely to spreadof public awareness about thedisease. Equally importantly,these talks dispelled unfound-ed fears and rumours. Oneimportant outcome of lock-down has been conversion offear into mass awareness. Whatwe were conveyed; what wewere expected to learn andwhat we have learnt are 1)Social distancing: Stay at least6 feet away from other peopleand avoid large groups. 2)Facemasks: Wear a facemask orhandkerchief or gamcha cov-ering nose and mouth, espe-cially in public areas. 3) Stay-at-home requiring people toremain in their homes unlessthey have an essential job, orare doing an essential task andwork from home. 4)Quarantine: If one has beenexposed to the coronavirus orgets sick with Covid-19, onecan be placed in a mandatory14-day (or longer) quarantine.5) Isolation: If someone inone’s home starts to feel sick, heshould isolate himself insidethe home, using a differentbedroom or bathroom, if pos-sible. 6) Hand hygiene andcough etiquette.

Very importantly, duringlockdown, as A Surya Prakash,well-known author and colum-nist wrote in his article“Perception Matters” (ThePioneer dated June 3, 2020), thePrime Minister, “had a hands-on approach towards energis-ing the healthcare system, tack-ling pharma-related issues andcoordinating with variousChief Ministers through fort-nightly meetings.” Much suc-cess is seen. Compared to othercountries where corona-affect-ed cases and deaths have beenvery high, India is on way toeffectively control the spread ofvirus. At present lockdownhas proved to be very effectiveweapon against coronavirus.Aforementioned componentsof lockdown have reallychanged things. It’s important

to remember that every singleone of us is susceptible to thisinfection and there are no vac-cines or antivirals. Hospitalsand clinics are not able tohandle all of us being sick at thesame time. The crux of lock-down has been to convincepeople that we just cannot letthe virus run its course. Earlylockdown in India has provedto be very beneficial for soci-ety and people. It has helped inidentification of hotspots forbetter control and tackling.While around March 25, therate of positive cases were dou-bling within two to three days,the decision of Prime Ministerfor early lockdown has unques-tionably improved the doublingrate of the Covid-19 positivecases to 12-13 days as of now.Staying home has saved mostlives.

For example, as per theinformation available on June10, 2020, (Worldometer’sCovid-19 data), while globally,the number of cases was73,23,799 with 4,13,733 deaths,number of cases in India were2,76,146 with 7,750 deaths.Further analysis of informationavailable on this site indicatesthat while total number ofcases as percentage of totalpopulation in the USA, Spain,the UK, Italy have been 0.61%,0.61%, 0.42% and 0.38%; inIndia it is 0.02%. Similarly, thenumber of deaths as percent-age of total cases in the USA,the UK, Italy, and Spain hasbeen 5.58%, 14.13%, 14.45%,and 9.38% respectively, while inIndia it has been 2.8%. InIndia looking at total numberof Covid-19 cases alone maygive misleading perceptions.Economists point out that bet-ter index for comparison isCovid cases per capita andCovid deaths per capita and interms of both India is doingwell. These read with the totalrecovery rate of 48.49% estab-lish positive impact of earlylockdown in the country.

Lockdown, standard of liv-ing and Christopher Bliss onmigration and flight

Economists have limitedthe term standard of living toa narrow economic meaning.It’s now argued vigorously thatstandard of living shouldembrace all aspects of qualityof life. This approach has greatappeal. It also evades awk-ward delineation problems.Given this, let us admit thispandemic has unrolled a darkside particularly in developingcountries: existence of inequal-ities between rich and poor.Poor people are vulnerablebecause they don’t have suffi-cient resource base.

There is no dearth of dif-ferences between the rich/mid-dle class and poor class in thefulfillment of some of the most

basic needs like meeting nutri-tional requirements, escapingavoidable diseases, proper shel-ter, proper clothing, being ableto travel, and proper education.In a poor community theresources needed to participatein the standard activities of thecommunity might be very lit-tle. In such a community theperception of poverty is pri-marily concerned with thecommodity requirements offulfilling nutritional needs andsome needs of being clothed,sheltered and free from disease.In India particularly during lastsix years through various wel-fare schemes, a lot has beendone with great success toenhance the resource base ofpoor and deprived peoplethereby empowering them.Unfortunately now this pan-demic has disturbed, at least tosome extent, the equilibriumhas already reached. A renewedvigorous exercise is needed torestore things to pre-pandem-ic period.

In the context of much dis-cussed issue of migrant work-ers, it is imperative to refer toworks of Professor ChristopherBliss of Oxford University, anexpert on international eco-nomics and standard of living,who in his pioneering essay“Lifestyle and the Standard ofLiving” has coined a term,“lifestyle” and used “lifestyle”gaps to study, inter-alia, migra-tion and standard of living. Hemakes a fine distinctionbetween “migration” and“flight”. He writes, “…migrationis motivated by economic con-siderations. The migrationmotivated by personal safety, orto avoid maltreatment, may becalled flight. The distinctionbetween economic migrationand flight is difficult to admin-ister… However, migrants dohave multiple and ambiguousmotives.” Professor Bliss eluci-dates his views on standard ofliving by giving an example. Letus consider a rich individualhaving an untreatable diseasewhich interferes with his enjoy-ment in life. That rich individ-ual does not have a low stan-dard of living. Rather he has ahigh standard of living but heis in poor health. Rich indi-vidual’s case of ill health is“accidental” and his poorhealth excluded from the stan-dard of living. When it comesto a poor person, his ill healthis a consequence of materialdeprivation and his poor healthis included.

Migration is movement ofpeople driven by a desire forhigher income and economicbetterment. Economic litera-ture on migration takes a sim-ple view of the economicincentives and other attractionswhich urbane life offers andwhich causes migration. Of

course most influential modelsinclude uncertainty concerningthe realisation of the improvedincome which the new placepromises. However, it is diffi-cult to quantify the differencebetween a city and a rural stan-dard of living. Harris andTodaro hold the view that theexpected real wage-differentialbetween urban and rural areasis the principal determinant ofmigration decision and it isonly the risk of unemploymentthat deters migrants. When itcomes to comparing standardsof living in rural area and in thecity, conceptual problems areencountered. For example, thecity has better education facil-ities and better housing butthese cost more. Professor Blissbelieves that weighing thesedifferences is an issue of the citylifestyle versus the rural lifestyleitself. This vital fact has got tobe considered while gaugingand tackling economic impactof Covid-19 on migrant work-ers and persons of lower stra-ta of society whose quality oflife suffers due to this.

The moot point, in thecontext of Covid-19 and move-ment of poor people fromcities to their homes, is whetherthis distinction as brought outby Professor Bliss has any pol-icy implications in current sce-nario? It’s all the more impor-tant as the psychological com-ponents of behavior of amigrant (it is one way move-ment from original destinationfor economic betterment) aredifferent from the one whoresorts to flight (it is reversemovement towards originaldestination).

The response of theGovernment to the pandemicin many countries is focused toprovide support for individu-als, households and business-es. Ensuring minimum andregular income to migrantworkers and people of lowerstrata of society is necessary sothat they are not compelled torun around for a living whichin turn makes them more vul-nerable as much to impover-ishment as to any diseaseincluding Covid-19. The realopportunities that an individ-ual pursues depend not only onhis resource base, but also ona variety of factors that influ-ence the extent to which he canuse his resource base to usefuleffect. This aspect needs to belooked into.

Prime Minster NarendraModi announced on May 12,2020, a massive economicpackage of �20 lakh crore. Thecombined package intendedto benefit labourers, farmers,cottage industries, honest tax-payers, MSMES, works out to10 per cent of the GDP, mak-ing it among the most sub-stantial in the world. “The

package will have emphasison land, labour, liquidity andlaws, and will pave the way fora self-reliant India,” the PrimeMinister said. Following this,the Government of India, inter-alia, has taken strong stepstowards mitigating the prob-lems of migrant workers, smallfarmers and poorer sections ofsociety. For instance, theGovernment will spend Rs3,500 crore to provide freefood grains and pulses for twomonths to 8 crore migrantworkers not having any rationcard. Migrant workers not pos-sessing ration cards will getmonthly ration of 5 kg rice orwheat per person and one kgchanna per family per monthfree of cost for next twomonths. Under “One NationOne Ration Card” scheme,National Portability RationCard can be used in any rationshops across the country. ByAugust 2020, 67 crore benefi-ciaries in 23 States covering87% of persons covered underNational Food security Actwill get benefit. By March2021, the plan is to cover 100per cent. This will enable themigrant workers working inother States to get rationthrough the PDS. UnderPradhan Mantri Awas Yojana,the Government funded hous-ing in the cities will be con-verted into affordable rentalaccommodations for migrantsworkers. This will be done inPPP mode on concessionairebasis. It will help migrant work-ers and urban poor to live incities by paying reasonablerents at Government com-plexes. With a view to revivingbusinesses of street vendors,there is a special scheme toavail �5,000 crore micro-cred-it facility providing them�10,000 as initial working cap-ital. Given inadequate financialresources of small and mar-ginal farmers, the Governmentannounced release of �30,000crore additional capital emer-gency funds through NABARDfor post-harvest Rabi and cur-rent Kharif related require-ments. Under Kisan CreditCard Scheme, �2 lakh croreconcessional credit to boostfarming activities will be giventhat will benefit 2.5 crore farm-ers. These measures will cer-tainly go a long way in helpingmigrant workers, small farm-ers and other weaker sectionsof society to cope with adverseeffects of Covid-19 therebyensuring their standard of liv-ing does not suffer due to thepandemic.

Towards the end let us tryto answer an uncoiling ques-tion. What is the lesson we haveto learn from Covid-19? Many.But one of the most importantlessons this outbreak is goingto leave behind is: in order to

live in contemporary world awell-defined and fulfilling life,we need to revive forgottenwisdom of ancient ages. Ratherthan questioning long-accept-ed assumptions about life oftranquility and brotherhood,the time has come to get backto these. After all, this deadlyvirus has taught us: the worldis one, we human beings areone, sufferings and deathsknow no discrimination, wesink or sail together.Philosopher and thinker ErichFromm laments the fact thatdespite man being aware of therisks and dangers of his exis-tence, his insufficient defenses,uncertainty and fragmentaryknowledge, he hardly workstowards “a rebirth of human-ism” which attains inner trans-formation of mind and morematured sense of responsibili-ty towards each other. This isthe need of the hour. In case ofcoronavirus, too, the worldwill learn from India and as amatter of fact has already start-ed learning and as it happensRabindranath Tagore’s words,“When a light is lighted itcannot be held within a shortrange. It is for the whole world,”get vividly painted before us.

(Born in Gorakhpur in1960, KK Srivastava did hisMasters in Economics fromGorakhpur University in 1980and joined Indian Audit &Accounts Service in 1983. He isa poet and writer. His fourthbook “Soliloquy of a SmallTown Uncivil Servant”: a liter-ary non-fiction published inMarch 2019 by RupaPublications, New Delhi, hasreceived international acclaim inliterary field. Currently he isAdditional Deputy Comptrollerand Auditor General in theoffice of Comptroller & AuditorGeneral of India. Viewsexpressed here are his personalviews)

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issues, I will now give you an insight intothe chemistry of mind. As explained ear-lier, we begin life with inherent desireand mind trends, coming as they may asa carryover from the past birth.Accordingly, mind involuntarily developsindividual specific beliefs that set intomotion desire trends, which in turn,excite corresponding thoughts. Some ofthese thoughts gravitate, following pro-cessing in the laboratory of mind, andtranslate into actions. Not all thoughtstranslate into action though. The weakerones die out on the way. But there can’tbe any action without being driven bythoughts. That’s why it is said: “Watchyour thoughts, they become words;watch your words, they become action;watch your actions, they become habit;watch your habits, they become yourdestiny.”

Evidently, the intent, character andcontent of the desire trends and thoughtsexcited, define the quality of fruits ofaction thereto, we become due for —enjoying or frustrating whatever. The feelthereof, get relayed and added on to our

memory, which further modifies ourthought process, with related future ram-ifications. This way, we remain stuck tothe self-created circuitous web ofthoughts and feelings of our own mak-ing, ordinarily difficult to find escape.Now, how to go beyond?

Your mind is empowered to self-reflect and figure out from its ongoingtrends the fault lines and indwellingpotential lying dormant thus far. Youneed to first identify and acknowledgethem, and then make necessary amendsthrough fresh educative inputs. Also,hone indwelling potential and improveyour creative abilities. See, how wonder-ful instrument mind is, that it can see itsown image in its self-created mirror. Theirony, however, is that many a times aperson may be armed with a talent, buthe may not be aware of. A couple ofyears back a young man came seekingguidance on his career prospects. He wasadvised to pursue a career that involveshis language skill, such as media. Theyoung man countered: “Sir, you seem tohave read my potential wrong, as my lan-guage is not good, nor I am keen aboutpursuing such a career. I would ratherprefer managerial job.”

“Even to successfully pursue yourmanagerial assignment, you need a goodcommunication skill. Why not workupon your language while preparing forentry into a business school?” I suggest-ed. That got into his head. Three monthslater, he came back: “Sir, I now realisethat I can write well with clarity. Should Itake up journalism?” “You are well suitedto a such a career”. I added. He has beensuccessfully pursuing journalism formore than 17 years now.

The paradox, however, is that moreoften, your sense of ego plays the spoiler.It won’t let you dispassionately acknowl-edge your shortcomings. It may rathertry to make you justify it, as if, thatwould be your identity. Here againcomes the role of a learned Guru. He willfirst show your mirror image with all itsgood and bad. He may then give you aprocess and then lead you through. Hedoesn’t do a miracle. He rather lets yougrow in your own right. The process callsfor taking your attention away from theouter world and turn it inward. As youlook within, you may come across athought crowd gathered at the subcon-scious level. Left to itself, you may keepunmindfully flirting with them, like awild monkey randomly hopping from

one branch of a tree to the other. Youneed to train your mind to remain disen-gaged from those thoughts whether goodor unpleasant. Remember, you may getaffected only when you pay attention tosomething. As your monkey mind settlesdown over a period of time, sincerelypursuing the process on a regular basis,you will strike upon still deeper layers ofmind. That may give you an insight intoyour inherent mind traits. Guru keepshelping you all through the run of theprocess with his educative insights thatmay help you get over your inherentinfirmities. Through sustained efforts,over a period of time, mind gets purifiedof its limitations, making available its fulllandscape with its wholesome powers.Following which, the Guru makes youexplore and realise holistically thedynamics of life, which helps redefineyour thought process. You are nowequipped to exercise your freewill optionto come out of the binds of fate andreshape it afresh.

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