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COMMANDING OFFICER OF 16 BIHAR ARGUMENT OVER CHINESE POST ARMY SAYS CASUALTIES ON BOTH SIDES,
among personnel killed in Galwan in buffer zone sparked off clashes no word from Beijing on PLA losses

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Indian, Chinese
troops have
disengaged: Army;
late-night meeting
at PM’s residence

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MAN AMAN SINGH CHHINA Defence Minister Rajnath Singh at his residence in New Delhi on Tuesday. Anil Sharma; Soldiers at a makeshift transit camp before heading to Ladakh, near Baltal in J&K on Tuesday. Reuters
NEW DELHI, CHANDIGARH,
JUNE 16 SREENIVAS JANYALA &
INTHEworstflare-upontheLine BUSINESS AS USUAL 18 Modi-Xi meetings, pacts: killings As Delhi plans next steps, ARUN JANARDHANAN
HYDERABAD, CHENNAI, JUNE 16

breach consensus, dent diplomacy on the table: Chinese

of Actual Control in more than
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sonnel,includingthecommand- Babu, one of the 20 Army per-
ingofficerof 16Bihar,werekilled
Monday night in violent clashes
Unilateral bid by China to change stakes in Indian tech sonnel killed in a clash with
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Galwan valley of Ladakh where
disengagement of troops on ei-
ther side was underway.
TheArmysaidtherewereca-
sualties on both sides. Beijing
was silent on PLA losses.
This unprecedented and dan-
gerousturntothede-escalationef-
fortsontheLACsetthelineswork-
ing in the two capitals. On the
ground, Division Commanders
mettodefusethesituation.
In New Delhi, Defence
Minister Rajnath Singh, briefed
by the Army and the military
brass earlier in the day, went to
the Prime Minister’s residence
for a late night meeting where
they were said to have been
joined by Home Minister Amit
Shah, External Affairs Minister S
Jaishankar and Finance Minister
Nirmala Sitharaman.
The Army’s initial statement
Tuesday afternoon said an offi-
cer and two soldiers were killed,
but late at night a second state-
ment confirmed the loss of 20
lives on the Indian side.
“Indian and Chinese troops
have disengaged at the Galwan
area where they had earlier
clashed on the night of 15/16
June 2020. 17 Indian troops who
were critically injured in the line
of duty at the standoff location
and exposed to sub-zero tem-
peratures in the high-altitude
terrain have succumbed to their
injuries, taking the total that
werekilledinactionto20.Indian
Army is firmly committed to
protect the territorial integrity
and sovereignty of the nation,”
the Army said in the statement.
Army sources identified the
officer killed in the line of duty
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status quo along LAC, says MEA; India
should meet halfway, says Beijing
SHUBHAJIT ROY
NEW DELHI, JUNE 16
THE KILLING of 20 Indian Army
personnel, including a Colonel-
rank officer, along the Line of
Actual Control (LAC) has set off
considerable disquiet in South
Block.The“violentface-off”,New
Delhi said, happened as a result
of anattemptbytheChineseside
to“unilaterallychangethestatus
quo” along the Line of Actual
Control in Galwan valley.
The massive toll — biggest
since the 1967 border clash at
theIndia-ChinaborderatSikkim
and the first combat casualties
since 1975 — arising out of
Monday night’s violence, offi-
cials said, strikes at the heart of
every bilateral agreement and
understanding to maintain
peace and tranquility along the
PM Narendra Modi, Chinese
President Xi Jinping. AP file
India-China border since 1993.
It also throws up new chal-
lenges in the already fraught
road to de-escalation after 40
days of border stand-off — the
longest in the last three decades.
The Indian government, for
CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
ahead more
● fraught
PM NARENDRA Modi and
Chinese President Xi
Jinping have met at least
18 times since 2014. The
understanding of each
meeting, officials said, was
to strengthen bilateral ties
and keep peace. Monday’s
incident, officials said, not
only undermines the
diplomatic groundwork
but makes the road ahead,
including de-escalation,
more challenging.
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RESOLVE AND
PRUDENCE
BY ADHIR RANJAN
CHOWDHURY
PAGE 10
ANIL SASI
& P VAIDYANATHAN IYER
NEW DELHI, JUNE 16
AS NEW Delhi plans its nextmil-
itaryanddiplomaticstepstodeal
with the unprecedented LAC
standoff with China which cost
the lives of 20 Indian Armymen
Monday,onitstablewillbeafac-
tor that could also weigh in: the
rising appetite of Chinese in-
vestors in Indian technology
start-ups over the last five years.
WhileChinamaynotbeabig
investor in the traditional sense,
and business relations are
viewed more in terms of the
trade deficit that India suffers, it
istheneweconomyandstart-up
spacewhereChinahasincreased
its influence.
Over 2015-19, Chinese in-
vestors including Alibaba,
Tencent,TRCapitalandHillhouse
Capital, have invested over $5.5
billion in Indian start-ups, ac-
cording to Venture Intelligence
INSIDE
OPPN SEEKS CLARITY
ON BORDER FACEOFF
BOTH SIDES SPOKE
OF PEACEFUL
RESOLUTION IN
RECENT STATEMENTS
PAGE 7
thattracksprivateequity,venture
capital, M&A transactions and
valuations in India.
“We have been talking about
Chinese investments in the tech
space for some time now… My
concern has always been: Are
businessmen in their quest for
capitalawareof thepoliticalcon-
sequences? I mean, it comes
withstringsattached,”saidJabin
T Jacob, a Chinese studies re-
searcherandcurrentlyAssociate
Professor, Department of
International Relations and
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for posting to Hyderabad three
monthsback.Hecouldnotleave,
first due to the lockdown and
then tensions with China.
On Tuesday, as news came
of the death of their only child,
Colonel Santosh’s parents, who
live in Suryapet in Telangana,
said they had been expecting
him to come any day now with
his wife Santoshi and son
and daughter, with the lock-
down having been lifted a fort-
night ago.
“Santoshi and the children
were packing to shift to
Hyderabad from Delhi, and the
childrentoldushowexcitedthey
were that we would be nearer.
We were aware of the tensions
attheborderbutneverimagined
thiswouldhappen,”saidColonel
Santosh’s father B Upender.
Commanding Officer, 16
Bihar, Santosh had been serving
in Ladakh for one-and-a-half
years. Mother B Mallika said he
had always wanted to join the
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THE OUTBREAK
LOW-COST DRUG
TRACKING INDIA’S COVID CURVE In first meeting with
REDUCES DEATH RISK
AMONG PATIENTS ON
LOCKDOWN
DAY CASES:
84 3,43,091
RECOVERED:1,80,012 | DEATHS: 9,900
TESTS:59,21,069 | DOUBLINGRATE:19.62** CMs post Unlock 1.0,
PM focus is economy
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MUMBAI, JUNE 16
MAHARASHTRA’S COVID-19
death tally surged by 1,409 on
Tuesday, taking its total toll to
5,537, following a data reconcil-
iation process initiated by the
state government.
Of the 1,409, only 81 of the
deaths were reported on
Tuesday. The remaining 1,328
deaths have occurred since
March and been added to the
numbers now.
The death toll for Mumbai
went up by 917 on Tuesday, to a
total of 3,167. Similarly, of these
deaths, 55 occurred on Tuesday;
while 862 deaths since March
not registered as Covid fatalities
have been added to the tally
now. The Indian Express had re-
ported on Tuesday about 451
Covid deaths in Mumbai having
gone unreported.
The mortality rate in the
state, with 1,13,445 cases, now
stands at 4.8% (it was 3.7% ear-
lier) — much higher than the na-
tional average of 2.8%. The active
case count for the state is 50,044
(or 44.11% of the total). Mumbai
has 60,228 cases, 43.18%of them
(26,012) active.
Followingareconciliationex-
ercise that ended on June 6, a
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Meghalaya, Mizoram and
■ Maharashtra 1,10,744 2,786 3.25% 22.15 ASSERTING that India had bat- Sikkim) were present at the
tled the coronavirus pandemic meeting,heldovervideo-confer-
■ Gujarat 24,104 514 2.29% 31.47
effectively, as reflected in its low ence.Itwasalsoattendedbylieu-
■ Delhi 42,829 1,647 5.25% 13.72 mortality rate, Prime Minister tenant governors of Union terri-
■ Tamil Nadu 46,504 1,843 4.92% 14.64 NarendraModiTuesdaykeptthe toriesChandigarh,Andamanand
■ Bihar 6,662 187 3.47% 20.75 focus on the economy in his first Nicobar Islands, Dadra & Nagar
4.21%
round of meetings with chief Haveli, and Lakshadweep.
■ West Bengal 11,494 407 17.11
ministers post Unlock 1.0. Modi told the CMs to focus on
* Compounded Daily Growth Rate over last 7 days ** Calculated over 7-day growth
Claiming that green shoots both lives and livelihood now,
CONCERN CAUTION A GLIMMER were visible two weeks after the boost health infrastructure and
easing of the lockdown, the PM emphasise testing and tracing to
TAMIL NADU: HARYANA: The LADAKH: Just 6
Large numbers worst in the latest new cases on said the economy was expected keep Covid-19 in check, even as
daily. First to bring wave seems to be Monday, after 3 to pick up further in the coming they step up economic activities.
back full lockdown over, still reporting consecutive days daysandurgedstatestoworkto- “Decisionsneedtobetakenkeep-
in few districts high numbers daily of over 100 cases gether with the Centre for it. inginviewbothcurrentneedsand
Based on daily data by Centre, ICMR, state governments Chief ministers of Punjab, futurerequirements,”thePMsaid.
Kerala, Assam, Uttarakhand, CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
Delhi ACP’s husband dies of Covid: ‘He didn’t
step out of home... Can never forgive myself’
PAGE 1 Nagarandabusinessman,issur- different wards. The doctor
ANCHOR vived by his wife and their 26- called me and said that my hus-
year-oldsonwholivesinCanada. band needs to be put on ventila-
Kaur,57,ACP(CrimesAgainst tor support. I had a video call
Women) in the South-East dis- with my husband. He was
SOMYA LAKHANI trict of the Delhi Police, is also breathless and told me that his
NEW DELHI, JUNE 16 ACP (Covid Cell) of the district. oxygen level was dropping. He
On May 20, five days after Kaur showed me the monitor, the
“MYHUSBANDdidn'tstepoutof tested positive for the virus, her doctors in the room, and then
the house when the lockdown husband Singh tested positive, said he was having trouble
started, but I went out daily be- followed by the ACP's 80-year- speakingandthathewouldsend
cause of my job... I will never be old father on May 24. All of them ACP Surender Jeet Kaur with me WhatsApp messages."
able to forgive myself,” said had symptoms and while Kaur husband Charan Jeet Singh A day after he passed away,
AssistantCommissionerof Delhi and Singh were admitted to Kaur recalled the messages that
Police Surender Jeet Kaur on IndraprasthaApollohospital,her Singh sent her just before being
Tuesday, a day after her husband fatherwasadmittedtoMaxhos- Kaur told The Indian Express, put on ventilator support. “He
CharanJeetSingh,54,succumbed pital in Saket. On May 26, Kaur “I last spoke to my husband on startedsendingmedetailsof our
to Covid at a hospital in Delhi. returned home after recovering May 22 night, when we were finances, accounts... I told him to
Singh, a resident of Lajpat from the virus. both admitted in the hospital in CONTINUED ON PAGE 2

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PM focus is economy
“Therearealreadygreenshoots.Powerconsump-
tion which was earlier falling is going up. In May, fer-
tilisersalesdoubled,therehasbeenahealthyincrease
inkharif sowingincomparisontolastyear,themanu-
factureoftwo-wheelersisincreasing,digitalpayments
inretailsectorhavereachedpre-lockdownlevels,there
was an increase in toll collection in May, and exports
whichsawlossesforthreemonthshavebouncedback
to last year’s numbers,” Modi added.
TheCMssoughtmoresupportfromtheCentreboth
in battling the pandemic and in reviving their
economies.WhilePunjabwantedassistanceinimple-
menting the ‘One Nation One Ration Card’ scheme,
Arunachalsoughtfundsforconstructionof highways.
TripuraCMBiplabKumarDebwantedtheCentre’ssup-
port to meet its budgetary proposals.
PunjabCMAmarinderSinghsaidthefinancialcri-
sisinPunjabislikelytobeacute,witharoundRs25,000-
30,000croreshortfallinrevenuecollection.Hesaidthe
Centre should extend provision of free food grains to
the poor by six months and provide revenue grants to
statesforthreemonths.Hesoughtareviewofthe15th
FinanceCommissionreport.SinghalsoaskedthePMto
set up a high-powered group to formulate a coordi-
nated Centre-stateresponseonthe economic impact.
Modi praised Punjab’s micro-containment and
house-to-house surveillance model to prevent the
spreadof coronavirus,askingotherstatestoadoptthe
same. The PM asked states and UTs to focus on farm-
ing,horticulture,fisheriesandMSMEs,assertingmore
opportunities are opening up under Atmanirbhar
Bharat scheme. “Provisions have been provided for
timelycredittoMSMEs.Ifquickdisbursalofcredittoin-
dustriesisensuredthroughbankers’committees,these
industries will be able to start working quickly and it
could provide more job opportunities,” Modi said.
Modi assured new markets would be opened up
fororganic,bambooproductsandothertribalproceeds.
He urged states, especially the ones in the Northeast,
toidentifysuchproductsatblockanddistrictlevelsfor
better processing and more effective marketing.
Atthesametime,thePMcautioned,Indiacouldnot
dropitsguardoncoronavirus.Pointingoutthatthere-
covery rate in the country was over 50% and its mor-
talityrateamongthelowestintheworld,hesaidthebig
lesson learned from the lockdown period was that
Covid-19 could not do much damage if people were
disciplined and followed the rules.
“It’s unsettling to see the death of any Indian. But
it’s also true that we have the lowest mortality rate. It
givesusconfidencethatIndiacanmarchforward,lim-
itingitslossesandprotectingitseconomy,”hesaid,em-
phasisingtheimportanceofwearingfacemasks,wash-
ing hands regularly and using hand sanitisers.
“Donoteventhinkaboutleavingthehousewithout
masks.Anylapseintakingprecautionswillundoouref-
forts and weaken our fight against corona. We should
remember that the better we protect ourselves from
corona, the faster our economic revival will be.”
The CMs provided feedback on the health infra-
structureintheirstatesandeffortstoaugmentit.They
alsotalkedabouttheawarenesscampaignstheywere
running as well as their efforts to help migrant work-
ers who had returned, and to kickstart the economy.
In a letter sent ahead of the meeting, Kerala CM
Pinarayi Vijayan said embassies abroad should facili-
tate Covid-19 tests for those returning to the country,
andthosetestingpositiveshouldbeflownbackonsep-
arate flights. Kerala has seen a spike in cases as people
come back to the state from other countries.
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■4.6
18 meetings, pacts
thefirsttimesincethestand-off be-
gan, said that the Chinese side “de-
parted from the consensus to re-
spect the Line of Actual Control
(LAC) in the Galwan Valley”.
The Indian government’s state-
ment came after the Chinese
Foreign ministry said that “Indian
troops on Monday seriously vio-
latedtheconsensusofthetwosides
byillegallycrossingthebordertwice
andcarryingoutprovocativeattacks
on Chinese soldiers, resulting in se-
rious physical clashes”.
In effect, both New Delhi and
Beijing were accusing each other of
violatingordepartingfromthecon-
sensus.The“consensus”referredto
isabouttheJune6meetingbetween
Lt General-rank officials.
Indian Ambassador to China
Vikram Misri met Chinese Vice
Foreign minister Luo Zhaohui in
BeijingTuesdayinthewakeofthese
developments.
Giving an account of the situa-
tion,theMinistryofExternalAffairs’
official spokesperson Anurag
SrivastavasaidthatIndiaandChina
have been discussing, through mil-
itary and diplomatic channels, the
de-escalation in Eastern Ladakh.
SeniorCommandershadaproduc-
tive meeting on June 6 and agreed
on a process for such “de-escala-
tion”,hesaid.Subsequently,ground
commanders had a series of meet-
ings to implement the consensus
reached at a higher level, he said.
"While it was our expectation
thatthiswouldunfoldsmoothly,the
Chinesesidedepartedfromthecon-
sensus to respect the Line of Actual
Control(LAC)intheGalwanValley,”
the MEA spokesperson said.
“On the late-evening and night
of June 15, 2020 a violent face-off
happened as a result of an attempt
by the Chinese side to unilaterally
change the status quo there. Both
sides suffered casualties that could
have been avoided had the agree-
ment at the higher level been
scrupulously followed by the
Chinese side,” Srivastava said.
“Givenitsresponsibleapproach
tobordermanagement,Indiaisvery
clearthatallitsactivitiesarealways
within the Indian side of the LAC.
We expect the same of the Chinese
side,” he said.
“Weremainfirmlyconvincedof
the need for the maintenance of
peaceandtranquillityintheborder
areas and the resolution of differ-
encesthroughdialogue.Atthesame
time, we are also strongly commit-
ted to ensuring India’s sovereignty
and territorial integrity,” he said.
Earlierintheday,afterIndiasaid
thatithadlostoneArmyofficerand
two soldiers, China’s state-run
Global Times quoted People's
Liberation Army (PLA) Western
Theatre Command spokesperson
ColonelZhangShuiliashavingsaid:
“China always owns sovereignty
over the Galwan Valley region…
Indian troops seriously
violated…theconsensusmadedur-
ingthearmycommander-leveltalks
andharmedtherelationsofthetwo
militariesandthefeelingsofthetwo
countries' peoples.”
“India should stop all provoca-
tive actions, meet the Chinese side
halfway and come back to the right
path of solving disputes through
talks, Zhang said”, it reported.
The faceoff comes a day ahead
of the United Nations Security
Council’s elections scheduled for
June 17, where India is likely to be
elected—unopposed—forthenon-
permanent member’s seat for a 2-
year term, beginning January 2021.
The last such incident was re-
ported when four Indian soldiers
were ambushed and killed in
Tulung La in Arunachal Pradesh in
October 1975.
Officials said that the incident
dentsthediplomaticeffortinvested
in nurturing the relationship be-
tween Prime Minister Narendra
Modi and Chinese President Xi
Jinping.
Both have met at least 18 times
since Modi came to power in 2014.
Theseincludeone-on-onemeetings
ineachother’scountriesandonthe
sidelines of the multilateral sum-
mits. The PM has visited China five
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Reports says 1 officer,
2 Indian soldiers dead;
casualties on both sides
times as the PM, the most by any
Indian PM in the last 70 years.
Last year, when they met in
Mahabalipuramfortheirsecondin-
formal summit in October, it was
theirthirdmeetingsinceModi’sre-
election in May 2019.
Since1993,IndiaandChinahave
signedseveralbilateralagreements
and protocols to ensure peace and
tranquility in the India-China bor-
der areas.
Theseagreementsweretheout-
come of the re-building of the rela-
tionship with then Prime Minister
RajivGandhi’svisitin1988.In1993,
the first such agreement between
the two countries was signed dur-
ing then PM P V Narasimha Rao's
visittoChinaandhismeetingswith
Chinese Premier Li Peng. The out-
come was the 1993 agreement on
“Maintenance of Peace and
Tranquility along the Line of Actual
ControlintheIndia-Chinaborderar-
eas”.
Then followed the 1996
Agreementon“ConfidenceBuilding
MeasuresintheMilitaryFieldalong
the LAC”, which was signed during
ChinesePresidentJiangZemin’svisit
toIndiaandhismeetingswiththen
PM H D Deve Gowda. This was fol-
lowed by the Special
Representative-levelmechanismon
border dispute was established in
2003 when then PM Atal Bihari
Vajpayee went to China.
Thereafter, three pacts were
signed during then Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh’s 10-year stint —
2005ProtocolonModalitiesforthe
implementation of the Confidence
Building Measures in the Military
FieldalongtheLAC;the2012agree-
ment on the establishment of a
working mechanism for consulta-
tion and coordination on India-
China Border Affairs; and 2013
Border Defence Cooperation
Agreement.
Two of them were signed dur-
ing then Indian Ambassador to
China, S Jaishankar’s (now External
Affairs minister) stint in Beijing.
In addition to these pacts, Modi
and Xi have agreed that peace and
tranquility will be maintained in
two informal summits they have
held — in Wuhan (April 2018) and
Mahabalipuram (October 2019).
Col posted out
Army. “He had made up his mind
whileatschool.”From1993to2000,
he studied at Sainik School,
Korukonda, in Visakhapatnam dis-
trict, before joining the Army.
On Tuesday, as news of the
Colonel’s death in the clash in
Galwan Valley was conveyed to his
parentsfirstbySantoshiandthenthe
Army, their house in Suryapet was
surrounded by hundreds of people,
including shocked neighbours.
Upender said Santosh was an
ideal son, caring and devoted to
them.“Wheneverhecameonleave,
he would spend most of his time
with us.”
Havildar Palani, 40, who was
alsokilledintheclash,issurvivedby
his wife and two children. His
brotherIdayakani,alsoasoldier,in-
formed the family, belonging to
Kadukkalar village in
Ramanathapuram district of Tamil
Nadu, about his death.
The Havildar’s family told the
mediathathehadspokentohiswife
afewdaysagoandsaidhemightnot
be able to call for a few days.
Idayakani said Palani had served in
Rajasthan and Allahabad before his
Ladakh posting, and that he had
joined the Army inspired by Palani.
PTI quoted Suryapet district po-
liceRBhaskaranassayingSantosh’s
mortal remains were expected to
reach his native place on
Wednesday.
Santosh’sparentssaidtheywere
proud that “he sacrificed his life
whileprotectingthenation”.“Army
authoritiescalledussayinghemade
the supreme sacrifice in defence of
thecountry…Butpersonallyweare
heartbroken and cannot compre-
hend this tragedy,” said his father.
Breakingdown,motherMallika
added, “I am proud my son sacri-
ficedhislifeforourcountry,butasa
mother,Iamdevastated.Hewasthe
kind of person who wouldn’t think
twice before putting his life in dan-
TECH REVIEW
20 Armymen killed fighting back China
as Colonel B Santosh Babu, CO of
16 Bihar. The first confirmation of
theincidentcameintheafternoon
when the Army said: “During the
de-escalation process underway
in the Galwan Valley, a violent
face-off tookplaceyesterdaynight
with casualties on both sides.”
“The loss of lives on the Indian
side includes an officer and two
soldiers,”itsaid,addingthat“sen-
ior military officials of the two
sides are currently meeting at the
venue to defuse the situation.”
Rajnath Singh was briefed by
the Army at a meeting also at-
tended by Jaishankar, Chief of
Defence Staff General Bipin
Rawat, Army chief General MM
Naravane, Navy chief Admiral
Karambir Singh and IAF chief Air
Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria.
China’sstate-runGlobalTimes,
quoting the Foreign Ministry, said
there had been “serious physical
clashes”. In another tweet later, it
quoted the Chinese military
spokespersonmentioning“severe
clashes and casualties”.
On the table: Chinese stakes in Indian tech
Governance Studies, Shiv Nadar
University.
In purely FDI terms, China fig-
ures way down at 18th place on
India’s FDI charts below Hong
Kong, the UAE and Cyprus. But
over the last five years, Alibaba,
Tencent, Barings Asia and few
other Chinese investors, have
emerged as one of the biggest
funding blocs for start-ups in
India,joiningwell-establishedin-
vestors like Japan's SoftBank and
the US-based Sequoia.
“If you look at Chinese capital,
there is really no private sector in
China… The Chinese haven’t re-
ally parked money in India. The
Indianmarketisbig,thereisadeal
to be made,” said Jacob. Much of
theirinvestmentsarealsoincom-
panies riding the Indian con-
sumer boom. Private consump-
tion demand has been the
mainstay of the Indian economy,
accounting foralmost60 per cent
of the GDP.
Alibabahasputmoneyinpay-
ments company Paytm andfood-
delivery service Zomato; Chinese
internetgiantTencenthasbacked
car-hailing app Ola, Swiggy and
Byju’s. Shunwei Capital and
MorningsideVenturesareamong
other active funds, having in-
vested in start-ups that include
Bangalore-based Rapido and
ShareChat respectively.
In fact, Venture Intelligence
ger to save someone else’s. He was
like that since childhood… It is yet
tosinkinthatheisnomore;thathe
won’t greet me with ‘Amma’ again
in his booming voice.”
Chief Minister Edappadi K
PalaniswamiandOppositionleader
M K Stalin, among other leaders in
Tamil Nadu, condoled the death of
Palaniandtheothers.Thestategov-
ernmenthasdeclaredRs20lakhso-
latiumforPalani’sfamilyandprom-
ised a government job to a
dependent family member.
MDMK leader Vaiko called the
clash a part of China’s attempts to
divert attention from allegations
that it was behind the coronavirus
pandemic.
Mumbai toll surges
mismatch in death toll was noticed
by officials between state govern-
ment figures and the figures up-
loaded on an ICMR portal.
Subsequently, all districts were
told to update each patient’s case
details and upload the data. On
June 11, Health Secretary Dr
Pradeep Vyas had written to all
districts giving them time until
June 15 to update figures.
Senior officials said the data
reconciliation exercise is only
halfway through and more unre-
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This is the first time in the last
45 years that Indian or Chinese
troops have been killed on the
LAC. In 1975, an Indian patrol was
ambushed by the Chinese in
Arunachal Pradesh. Prior to that,
there was a violent showdown in
Nathu La in Sikkim in 1967 in
which88Indiansoldiersandover
300 Chinese soldiers were killed.
The Monday night incident,
according to officers, took place
in the area between the LAC and
junction of Galwan and Shyok
rivers to the west. Talks between
the two sides on disengagement
in the Galwan valley area were
held at Patrolling Point (PP) 14
which lies close to where the LAC
crosses the Galwan river.
Officerssaidthat,aspartof de-
escalation, the two sides had
agreedto create a ‘buffer zone’ – a
no-man’s land–betweentheLAC
and the junction of Galwan and
Shyok rivers. The Indian side was
supposed to stay to the west of
theriverjunctionandtheChinese
to theeastof theLAC --toprevent
INVESTMENTS
BY CHINESE
INVESTORS IN
INDIAN STARTUPS
Year No. of Amount
Deals ($million)**
2020* 15 263
2019 47 1,230
2018 49 1,340
2017 33 1,666
2016 18 315
2015 14 959
*YTD
**May include
approximation of values
in co-investments
Source: Venture Intelligence
data shows that at least 16 of the
29 unicorns (start-ups valued at
more than $1billion now) have at
least one Chinese investor.
In at least eight, the Chinese
firm is the lead investor.
Said former Commerce
Secretary Rajiv Kher: “So far, we
have been lacking a very specific
China-centric policy. Our policy
boiled down to anti-dumping
duty, safeguards and trade barri-
ers. It’s only now, in post-Covid
times, that we are looking at spe-
cific policies in at least a few sec-
ported deaths may emerge. Vyas
said, “We have over a lakh cases in
Maharashtra and entry for each
case has to be made… The govern-
ment has no intention to hide any
death. We will be declaring all
deaths as the process of cleaning
data continues.”
A senior state health official
said, “Districts have also been in-
structed to report deaths and cases
in real time, to ensure correct re-
porting.” Senior officials said in-
structions had come from Chief
Minister Uddhav Thackeray to
“transparently report all figures”
after the discrepancy first
emerged.
After Mumbai, the maximum
unreported deaths were found in
Thane (146); followed by Pune
(85); Solapur (51); Jalgaon (34);
Aurangabad (33); Nashik (28);
Akola (14); Raigad (14); Dhule (12)
and Palghar (11). A fewer number
of unreported deaths were found
in 14 other districts of
Maharashtra.
There is concern regarding
Thane, with 19,328 cases and 641
deaths now. Officials said private
laboratories that conducted tests
had accidentally entered Navi
Mumbai data under Mumbai dis-
trict and Thane Municipal
New Delhi
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An argument, officers said,
started over the position of
Chinese soldiers who had started
erecting a new post on the south-
ern bank of Galwan river in this
‘buffer zone’.
When the Commanding
Officer of 16 Bihar and his troops
insisted that the Chinese remove
the post, the situation quickly es-
calated, leading to physical vio-
lence. The Chinese side, officers
said,usedsticks,clubs,bats,bam-
boos with nails during the fight
and the Indian side too retaliated.
In the fight, some soldiers ei-
ther fell or were pushed into the
river, officers said. Some bodies
were recovered from the river
while others had signs of being
brutalised. A few soldiers died of
hypothermia.
Some Indian soldiers were
initially held captive by the
Chinese but were released after
the Major General level meeting.
Some of them had serious in-
juries, officers said.
tors: mobile manufacturing, ac-
tive pharmaceutical ingredients
and medical devices.”
Chinese smartphones like
Oppo and Xiaomi lead the Indian
market with an over 70 per cent
share,wayaheadof Samsungand
Apple in the branded cellphone
market.
Also,whilethenumberof cell-
phone and accessories manufac-
turingunitshasgoneupfromjust
two in 2014 to over 260 in 2019,
turning India into a major manu-
facturer and assembler of cell-
phone,thisindustryhasonlynow
started to diversify into compo-
nent manufacturing.
“If we are importing compo-
nents worth Rs 90,000 crore, we
are also domestically manufac-
turing Rs 1lakhcroreworth com-
ponents. Indian exports have
touched Rs 26,000 crore now,”
said Pankaj Mohindroo of the
Indian Cellular and Electronics
Association. The Production
Linked Incentive scheme to boost
domestic manufacturing has the
potential to make a difference, he
said.
On the bilateral trade front,
while India-China trade has
grownexponentially(from$3bil-
lion in 2000 to $95.54 billion in
2018),ithas,fromIndia’sperspec-
tive, resulted in the biggest single
trade deficit that New Delhi runs
with any country.
Corporation data separately. “The
procedure to clean data can take
days in Thane,” a health official
said.
When the Brihanmumbai
Municipal Corporation (BMC) was
asked about the data discrepancy
at a high-level meeting last week,
sources said, the BMC acknowl-
edged 451 ‘missing’ deaths in the
official tally. Simultaneously, a de-
cision was taken to officially direct
each district to reconcile their data.
“After the data had been en-
tered by each district, we began
the data cleaning process on
Monday evening. Several doctors
worked overnight to reconcile the
data,” a health official said.
Delhi ACP
stop and asked him why he was
telling me all this. He said I needed
to know... Maybe he feared he
wouldn'tcomeback.Iprayedevery
day, at temples, mosques, churches
andgurdwarasforhim.Iamdevas-
tated that he's gone. We were to
movetoCanadatolivewithourson
in2023aftermyretirement.Wehad
so many plans."
Kaur's brother Maninder
Ahluwalia said the hospital tried
plasmatherapybutSinghdidn'tre-
spondtothetreatment."Hehaddi-
Following the incident, ten-
sions ran high at all other loca-
tions on the LAC and troops from
both sides were moved forward
and deployed along the LAC.
Officers also said that the
Chinese were trying to make an
ingress in the Depsang plains
where they were said to have
built a road – an earlier attempt
in Depsang in 2013 was resolved
after 21 days.
Galwan is the site where the
current disengagement process
has begun. Last Saturday, General
Naravane told reporters that both
sides were disengaging in a
phasedmanner,andithadstarted
from the Galwan region.
“We have started from the
north, from the area of the
Galwan river, where a lot of dis-
engagement has happened… I
would notlike to usethewordre-
treated in any context. There is no
retreat. The correct word would
bedisengagement,andbothsides
are disengaging in aphasedman-
ner,” he said.
In 2018, the trade deficit was
peggedat$57.86billion.Indiawas
the seventh largest export desti-
nation for Chinese products in
that year, and the 27th largest ex-
porter to China.
KhersaidIndiamustlinktrade
policy to industrial policy. “The
tradepolicycannotbeseeniniso-
lation. The industrial policy must
have strategic objectives. We
need to expedite this… key sec-
tors, where we depend on
Chinese imports such as drugs
and pharmaceuticals, need to be
identified… and domestic capac-
ities built,” he said.
The government has already
moved in the direction with a
plan to revive state-owned drug
companies to domestically pro-
duce APIs.
While India’s DPIIT pegs FDI
inflows from China to India at a
paltry $2.38 billion, or just 0.51
per cent of total FDI inflows into
India between April 2000 and
March 2020, a Brookings report
in March estimates that Chinese
investments in India as having
risen sharply since 2014 until
when net investment was just
$1.5 billion.
The Brookings report uses
Chinese Ministry of Commerce
numbers to record that net in-
vestments have risen from $1.5
billion to $8 billion over the three
years since 2014.
abetes and high BP, but those were
always under control. We were
hopeful," he said.
Thecouple'ssonjoinedonvideo
call from Canada to watch his fa-
ther's last journey from the ambu-
lance to the entrance of the crema-
torium."Mysoncouldn'tattendhis
father's last rites because there are
noflights...It'ssounfortunate,"said
Kaur.
Friends and family remember
Singh as a "jolly, disciplined and
braveman”,whileKaursaidhewas
the "perfect partner". She said,
"When I was an SHO-rank officer, I
would work for 36 hours straight
somedays,andhewouldhandlethe
house and our son who was grow-
ingup.Iwouldmissfamilyfunctions
and important occasions but he
would always go and make up for
myabsence.Iwasabletodothisjob
fordecadesbecauseof hissupport."
On Tuesday afternoon, Singh
was cremated in the presence of
closefamilyandmembersofthepo-
licefraternity."TheDCPandtheJoint
CP called me daily to enquire about
my husband, other police officers
too. I am grateful for their support.
They didn't let me feel alone for a
single day," said Kaur.
Sofar,eightDelhiPoliceperson-
nel have died of Covid.

3 THE OUTBREAK
THE INDIAN EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 2020
ATTACHED TO HOLY FAMILY HOSPITAL, WILL HAVE 120 BEDS INITIALLY
CM takes stock as hotel that went to court
begins Covid prep, says more being added
Chief Minister Kejriwal, Deputy CM Sisodia at The Suryaa hotel on Tuesday. Tashi Tobgyal
SOURAV ROY BARMAN
NEW DELHI, JUNE 16
FROM TRAINING staff to sanitis-
ing rooms — work is on in full
swingatTheSuryaahotelinNew
Friends Colony, which has been
attached to Holy Family Hospital
and was inspected by Chief
MinisterArvindKejriwalTuesday.
Accompanied by his deputy
ManishSisodia,theCMvisitedat
12pmandspentaround20min-
utes. They left after speaking to
doctors of the attached hospital.
The hotel has made available
90roomsforputtingup120beds.
Earlier,ithadmovedtheDelhiHC
against the government’s deci-
sion.
Kejriwal told reporters: “This
is a tough time for everyone, we
allneedtocometogethertofight
the virus. This facility should be
operational with 120 beds ini-
BRIEFLY
Forisolation
centres,RWAs
toberopedin
Gurgaon: With the num-
ber of Covid-19 cases in
Gurgaon crossing 3,500
on Tuesday, the district
administration is work-
ing towards motivating
RWAs and gram pan-
chayats in the district to
setupisolationcentresin
their own areas, where
residents who test posi-
tive but are asympto-
matic can be isolated. On
Tuesday,theGurgaonCivil
Surgeon deployed 14
nodal officers to coordi-
natewithprivatehospitals
to ensure better informa-
tion management.
ZafarulIslam
questioned
New Delhi: Delhi
Minorities Commission
chairman Zafarul Islam
Khan was questioned for
over two hours by Delhi
Police’s special cell at
Janakpuri on Tuesday in
connection with a sedi-
tion case registered
against him for his social
media post in April.
Multiple
suicides
NewDelhi:Severalsuicides
were reported in the capi-
tal on Monday and
Tuesday. This included
those of a 22-year-old DU
student at her south Delhi
residence, a 19-year-old
graphic design student at
Jamia Nagar, a man and a
woman aged 20 and 22 at
MayurViharphaseIII,and
a 30-year-old woman at
ChhattarpurEnclave.
Gurdwaras
offerspace
New Delhi: The Delhi Sikh
Gurdwara Management
Committee has written to
the chief minister offering
to create, run and operate
850 bedded Covid care
centres in Gurdwaras in
Delhi for those with mild
symptoms. ENS
tially in two-three days, and will
gradually be ramped up to 250-
300 beds. Around 30-35 hotels
will be requisitioned and around
3,000-3,500 beds will be added
to the total bed capacity.”
On his meeting with Union
Home Minister Amit Shah,
Kejriwalsaidallagencies,govern-
ments, and people will work to-
gether: “Nobody can work alone
to fight this pandemic.”
GreeshBindra,vice-president
(operations) of The Suryaa, told
The Indian Express that they ap-
proached court as the govern-
menthadissuedarequisitionor-
derforusingitspremisesonMay
29withoutinformingthem:“We
will extend full cooperation. But
thegovernmentcouldhavecom-
municated the decision in a bet-
ter way. Staffers have their own
fears as they have old parents,
children... Holy Family Hospital
will train around 70 staffers and
Stretched ambulance workers, lonely priest,
PPE shop as Nigam Bodh adapts to Covid
ASHNA BUTANI &
JIGNASA SINHA
NEW DELHI, JUNE 16
AS WORKERS prepared numer-
ous pyres every hour at
Nigambodh Ghat onTuesday af-
ternoon, announcements to
maintain social distancing and
keepcoronavirus at bay blended
with the sound of the Gayatri
Mantra.
Two ambulances were sta-
tionedrightoutsidethegrounds.
Rohtash (48) an attendant from
Lok Nayak Hospital, sat outside
nonchalantly. “We are given PPE
kits but I just took it off. In the
ambulance, I carried five-six
bodies today. In total, 16 bodies
have been brought from Lok
Nayak today.”
Most families asked the at-
tendants to allow them to see
the face of their loved ones one
last time, but Rohtash does not
allow it. “We are not permitted
toshowthefaceof thepersonaf-
ter we have carried it here. The
body is identified in the hospital
and a death certificate is made.
After that, we just have to carry
the bodies to the crematorium
and then to the pyre,” he said.
The job takes its toll, but
Rohtash has learnt to keep his
As city prepares for remaining Boards,
examination centres too face a test
SUKRITA BARUAH
NEW DELHI, JUNE 16
WITH THE CBSE board examina-
tions scheduled to restart in two
weeks amidst rising Covid cases
inDelhi,schoolsaregearingupto
keep their students and teachers
safe during the exams while the
education department said it is
still assessing the situation.
The class X and XII examina-
tions, conducted by the national
board, were halted in mid-
March as a precaution against
the spread of coronavirus. The
remaining papers are now
scheduled to begin on July 1.
According to a CBSE notifica-
tion, the designated examina-
tion centres that students had
provide PPE kits, masks, gloves.”
“WehaveacentralACsystem
but a panel headed by the AIIMS
Directorhasassuredthatitwon’t
beaproblem.Incasewedon’tget
asmanypatients,wehavetheop-
tion to approach the court as
keeping a hotel running involves
a lot of expense...,” said Bindra,
adding since the floors are car-
peted,afterdischargeofeverypa-
tient, a room will have to be
sealed for sanitisation for 48
hours.
HolyFamilyauthorities,who
accompanied the CM, said mild-
to moderate-category patients
will be brought to the hotel.
Anorderwasalsoissuedtoat-
tach Taj Mansingh Hotel with Sir
Ganga Ram Hospital.
Thesehotelsshallprovidereg-
ular services at a price not more
than Rs 5,000 for five-star hotels
and Rs 4,000 for four- or three-
star hotels per person per day.
Until two weeks ago, Sanjay was only involved in helping families as a pundit. Prem Nath Pandey
calmamidthechaos.“Itdoesnot
matter how a person has died —
it can be a burn, a murder or co-
rona.Wejusthavetodoourjob,”
he added, as he smoked with his
colleagues outside the ghat.
The smoke, ash and heat in-
side the ghat did not seem to af-
fect the workers.Every fewmin-
utes, 14-15 men carried carts of
The remaining exams will
begin on July 1. Abhinav Saha
been allotted before the lock-
down will no longer be usedand
students will write their exams
in their own schools.
Aneducationdepartmentof-
ficialsaid:“ThesituationinDelhi
is a matter of concern and the
March alert: For 100 beds in
hospitals, 400 needed outside
SOURAV ROY BARMAN
NEW DELHI, JUNE 16
AS EARLY as March 26, a high-
levelpanelhadtoldtopministers
of the Delhi government that
once the number of Covid cases
beginstospike,forevery100hos-
pitalbedsinthecapital,400beds
would be required in facilities
such as hotels, banquets and
dharamshalas.
These additional beds would
be needed for patients showing
mild symptoms of the disease,
the panel had told a meeting at-
tendedbyDeputyChief Minister
Manish Sisodia, Health Minister
Satyendar Jain, Health Secretary
Padmini Singla, and the heads of
hospitals designated as Covid fa-
cilities at the time.
The recommendation made
by the panel headed by Dr S K
Sarin, Director of the Institute of
Liver&BiliarySciences(ILBS),had
come up at a meeting on “hospi-
tal preparedness” that Chief
MinisterArvindKejriwalchaired
on April 3, official records show.
“Hon’ble Chief Minister re-
viewed the hospital prepared-
nessinlightofthereportsubmit-
ted by Dr S K Sarin, chairman of
the committee constituted for
hospital preparedness of Covid-
19. It was explained that in this
caseof increase in the number of
new patients per day for every
100 beds in the hospitals, 400
bedswouldberequiredinthefa-
woodenlogsfromoneendof the
ghattothecrematoriumground.
The ghat has a capacity to
cremate 101 bodies, of which 48
are reserved for Covid deaths.
Until two weeks ago, Sanjay
Sharma (50) was only involved
in helping families perform last
rites with “pooja and mantra” as
a pundit. Now, however, he is re-
Delhi Disaster Management
Authority will have to deliberate
if it is possible to conduct these
exams here, and convey the
same to the board… After that,
we will go by whatever is de-
cided and we can conduct the
sanitisation work within a
week… hundreds of our schools
are also currently engaged as ra-
tion distribution centres.”
Nevertheless, schools in the
city are gearing up keeping the
current schedule in mind.
“Theboardexaminationswill
give us an overview of our pre-
paredness for eventual re-open-
ing of the school, which is why
wearetakingourpreparationfor
these exams very seriously. We
already prepared our SOP 20
days ago. The entry to the school
cilityoutsidehospitalsforpersons
with minor symptoms of Covid-
19 infection,” said the minutes of
the meeting, signed by Special
Secretary (Health and Family
Welfare) S M Ali.
“As per the calculation in ac-
cordancewiththereportofDrSK
Sarin,for2,500hospitalbeds,the
requirementofbedsoutsidehos-
pitalswouldbe10,000.Thefacil-
itiesoutsidehospitalsmaybecre-
ated either in the hotels,
dharamshalaandbanquethalls,”
the minutes said.
It was only on May 29, nearly
two months after the meeting
chaired by Kejriwal, that the
Delhi government passed an or-
der identifying hotels that were
tobeattachedtohospitalsforpa-
tientsinfectedbythenovelcoro-
navirus.
OnJune1,districtmagistrates
were asked to look for large
spaces under their jurisdictions
where Covid facilities could be
set up.
One of the identified hotels,
thefive-starTheSuryaainsouth-
east Delhi’s New Friends Colony,
was inspected by the chief min-
ister on Tuesday. The Suryaa is
being converted into an exten-
sion of the Holy Family Hospital,
a dedicated Covid facility with
175 beds, of which 100 are cur-
rently occupied.
Ascasesrisesteeply,hospitals
have been admitting patients
with severe symptoms, and ad-
visingotherstoeitherquarantine
sponsiblefor conductingthe last
rites of those who died of Covid.
“I don’t have time for any-
thing. Can’t you see the number
of people coming? I can’t have
food or take breaks. Life is diffi-
cult,butIhavebeenchosentodo
this work,” he said.
Intheseasonof thevirus,cau-
tion is abundant, and a typical
has thermal screening, and im-
mediately upon entry, there will
be two-three touchless hand-
washing stations. Our speakers
willperiodicallyremindstudents
to maintain social distance, and
we have drawn markers on the
floor, indicating the direction in
which children should walk to
streamline their movement,”
said Jyoti Arora, principal of
MountAbuPublicSchool,Rohini.
While schools are preparing,
thereis also concernon whether
exams should be conducted
given the prevailing circum-
stances. “I will be placing masks
and water jugs outside each
classroom. The children’s hands
will be sanitised outside the
gates,” said the principal of a
government school in Rohini.
THE CITY
themselves at home or go to the
Covid care centres or Covid
health centres meant for those
with mild to moderate symp-
toms.
The Covid care centres in the
capital have a capacity of 5,974,
while the health centres, where
facilitiessuchasoxygenbedsare
available,canhouse344patients.
Delhi has so far 44,688 cases,
of whichover25,000remainac-
tive. A total of 16,500 individuals
havebeenlistedundertherecov-
ered/discharged/migratedcate-
gory, while 1,837 have died.
Of the 10,450 Covid beds
available in hospitals, 5,463 are
currently occupied. While 794
patients are in ICU, 197 are on
ventilator support.
Over the past few days, the
government has drawn up a list
of 77banquethallswhere11,229
beds can be put and 40 budget
hotels that can together accom-
modate another 4,628 beds. It
hasalsolookedataspiritualcen-
tre,whichcanhouse10,000beds
on its premises.
ThecasecountinDelhiispro-
jected to reach 1 lakh by the end
of thismonth,2.5lakhbyJuly15,
and 5.32 lakh by July 31. Some
15,000 beds are expected to be
neededbyJune30,33,000byJuly
15, and 80,000 by July 31.
The CM has, however, said
that after factoring in patients
from other states, as many as
65,000 beds will be needed by
July 15, and 1.5 lakh by July 31.
cremationislonger,harderwork.
Sharma breaks the wood into
smaller pieces and sets it on the
ground. Once ambulance work-
ers place the body on the pyre, it
is covered with more wooden
logs and cloth.
Each family follows its own
tradition — some wish for flow-
ers on top, some others earthen
potsnearthebodies.Afterchant-
ing mantras, the priest hands
over the flame to a family mem-
ber,cladinfullPPEkit.Thework-
ers wear cloth masks.
Amar Singh, a cremation at-
tendant appointed by the MCD,
said, “Workers cannot wear PPE
kitsintheburningghatsincethey
are combustible. But they are all
providedwithmasksandgloves.”
At the ghat entrance, Varun
Chauhan (26) sells a curious mix
of things — earthen pots, bottles
of ghee,andPPEs.“Isellkitsfrom
Rs 500 to Rs 2,500. These kits
come from factories across the
city. It has become compulsory
for the family member lighting
the pyre to wear a PPE. But there
are people who cannot afford it
andIgiveittothemforfree.There
wasadailywageworkerwholost
his wife this morning. I gave him
a kit with goggles and shoes for
free.Itisnotonlyaboutprofit,this
is life and death,” he said.
Jamia calls
off offline
exams
New Delhi: Jamia Milla Islamia,
whichhadearlierdecidedtohold
offline exams for final-year stu-
dents,hasreviseditsdecisionstat-
ing the move was “non-viable”
due to rising Covid cases.
Evaluationwillbedoneviaonline
exams or assignments. Unlike in
DU where online exams will be
conductedcentrallybytheuniver-
sity for all final-year students, at
Jamia,themodeofevaluationhas
been left to teachers.
In a notification Monday,
Jamia’s Controller of
Examinations said, “Keeping the
students health concern prime...
Jamia Millia Islamia has decided
not to have a face-to-face
exam/open-book exam etc in
July / August in Delhi for termi-
nal class students.” ENS
New Delhi
Hurdle in way to
eateries opening:
Rent negotiation
DLF,whichhas letspacetoasmanyas100bigrestaurant
brands,has offeredupto40%discounttotheseeateries. Express
DIVYA A
NEW DELHI, JUNE 16
MORETHANaweekafterthegov-
ernment allowed restaurants to
reopen,mostoftheminDelhiand
NCR continued to remain shut as
the rental disputes with their re-
spective landlords remained un-
resolved. While those in Khan
Market, Hauz Khas Village and
ConnaughtPlacearedealingwith
individual landlords, those in
malls and shopping arcades are
awaitingacollectivedealfromthe
respective leasing companies.
The Indian Express has learnt
that DLF Limited, which has let
space to as many as 100 big
restaurant brands in Delhi/NCR
at CyberHub (Gurgaon), Mall of
India (Noida), Emporio and
Promenade (Vasant Kunj), has
now offered up to 40% discount
totheseeateries,whilealsowaiv-
ing off rentals for three months
of the lockdown in some cases.
They have sentindividualletters
to various restaurants offering
themrentalcutsinvaryingslabs.
The National Restaurant
Association of India (NRAI) had
recentlywrittentothemalls,but
itspresident,AnuragKatriar,said
that so far, not many of them
have come up with a positive re-
sponse.Confirmingthedevelop-
mentaboutDLF,hesaid,“Wehad
HC directs contractor
to provide 250 PPEs
ANAND MOHAN J
NEW DELHI, JUNE 16
THE DELHI High Court has di-
rected a construction contractor
to supply 250 PPE kits to certain
government hospitals, a grave-
yardandacrematoriuminacase
related to unauthorised con-
struction.
The bench of Justice Najmi
Waziri was hearing a plea by
Chaudhary Ventures Pvt Ltd
against the sealing of two of its
properties at Kotla Mubarakpur
by the South Delhi Municipal
Corporationongroundsof unau-
thorised construction.
The South MCD had earlier
grantedthepetitioneranoppor-
tunitytorectifythesame.Thepe-
titioner then sought another
chance to carry out the rectifica-
tions. While the court allowed
the contractor four weeks to de-
sealthepropertyforduecompli-
ance,italsodirectedthemtosup-
plyPPEkitssinceitwasthe“need
ofthehour”forthoseinthefront-
line of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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elaborate discussions amongst
ourselves on the issue but have
decided that nothing else but a
revenue-sharing model would
beacceptabletous.Wearenotin
apositiontopayanykindof fixed
rentals hereon since we are not
assured of any fixed revenue.”
Katriar added that with night
curfew, closure of bars and social
distancing norms coming into
play, notwithstanding zero rev-
enue in the months gone by,
restaurateursinthecapitalareex-
pecting huge cuts in their profits
compared to last year. “In a city
like Delhi where cases are spi-
ralling everyday, there’s a possi-
bility of a case happening in a
restaurant.Howcanwebesureof
anyrevenuehenceforth?”hesaid.
AtConnaughtPlace,Japanese
restaurant Fuji and Garam
Dharam have made their exit
plans public. Umang Tewari,
owner of GaramDharam,said, “I
am planning to shut down the
CP outlet because it is a ground
floor property and rents are very
high. Talks are still on.”
Insiders said more than 40%
of restaurants in Delhi will be
shuteventually.Thoseoperating
in high-end markets such as CP,
Defence Colony and Khan
Marketaretheworsthitbecause
of the higher rents. “Many peo-
ple have folded up already,”
Katriar said.
“In view of the global pan-
demic, resulting in the country-
widelockdown,thereisconstant
apprehension of contracting the
disease from anyone. It is the
need of the hour that those en-
gaged in the frontlines of dealing
with the pandemic and the re-
sultant casualties are provided
protective gear. The petitioner
shallsupply250personalprotec-
tiveequipmentkitstothefollow-
inggovernmenthospitals,where
testingand/ortreatmentfacilities
for Covid-19 is being carried out,
so as to provide some protection
for the medical staff/healthcare
workers engaged in combating
the pandemic,” the order read.
The court has directed the
supply of 100 PPE kits to AIIMS,
25 kits each to the State TB
Training and Demonstration
Centre, Department of
Microbiology at National
Institute of TB, and Respiratory
Diseases, and 50 kits to Lok
Nayak Hospital. The Lodhi Road
Crematorium and Panj Peeran
graveyard are to be supplied
with 25 kits each.
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Jain admitted CASES INCH TOWARDS 45,000 HARYANA CM ANNOUNCES

to hospital,
tests negative
Health Minister Satyendar
Jain had developed fever
and low oxygen levels
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, JUNE 16
DELHI HEALTH Minister
Satyendar Jain was hospitalised
on Monday night after he devel-
oped breathlessness, fever and a
drop in oxygen levels. He has
tested negative for Covid-19.
Doctors said Jain will be tested
for Covid again on Wednesday.
Theministerwasadmittedto
Delhigovernment’sRajivGandhi
SuperSpecialityHospitalandwas
testedthere.Doctorssaidhiscon-
ditionisstable. Earlierintheday,
Jain (55) tweeted to inform that
he had been admitted to RGSSH,
a dedicated Covid facility.
“He was brought to the hos-
pital late night. A Covid test was
done and he tested negative,” a
seniorofficialatthehospitalsaid.
Chief Minister Arvind
Kejriwal tweeted, “You have
been serving the people day and
night, 24x7, without thinking
about your health. Take care and
get well soon.” Last week,
Kejriwal also tested negative for
Covid,afterdevelopingfeverand
a cough.
As deaths cross 1,800, rapid antigen tests ‘Cow slaughter
cases to be heard
to begin at capital’s containment zones by fast track courts’
ASTHA SAXENA &
KAUNAIN SHERIFF M
NEW DELHI, JUNE 16
DELHI'S COVID death rate
reached4.11%onTuesday,as437
new deaths were added to the
capital’s tally, taking the toll to
1,837. The national death rate on
Tuesday stood at 2.88%. Of the
437 deaths added to the toll, 93
were reported in the last 24
hours. Delhi saw 1,859 fresh
cases on Tuesday with the total
count at 44,688.
The Centre, meanwhile, gave
Delhi the nod to conduct rapid
antigen detection tests. The
ICMRchief BalramBhargavahad
written to the centre earlier on
the matter. In the letter,
Bhargava, Director-General,
ICMR, said ICMR had negotiated
the price of the kit. "The upper
Covid facilities at Hindu Rao hospital yet to take off
ABHINAV RAJPUT
NEW DELHI, JUNE 16
NORTH MCD’S Hindu Rao
Hospital is yet to start function-
ingasafull-fledgedCovidfacility
asitneedstorampupinfrastruc-
ture, which will take a week's
time,MayorAvtarSinghhassaid.
It was to be converted by
Tuesday.
Singhsaidhehasbeengivena
detailedlistof thingsthatneedto
CORONAVIRUS IN THE CAPITAL
TOTAL CASES: 44,688 | NEW CASES: 1,859
Cases
June 14 2,224
June 15 1,647
June 16 1,859
Total 25,002*
price cap negotiated bythe com-
mittee is Rs 450. As per decision
taken in today's meeting Delhi
maydeploythistestimmediately
in the containment zones at the
earliest," ProfBhargavawrote. As
perdiscussionsinareviewmeet-
ingSunday,UnionHomeMinister
Amit Shah said testing would
double by Tuesday and triple by
be fixed like the ACs, or procured
like 12,000 PPE kits. “We have
placed these issues before the
Delhi government; we are doing
as much as we can,” he said.
The 980-bed hospital, the
biggest under the MCD, with a
staff of 600 doctors, 350 nurses
and 300 allied workers, was
turned into a Covid facility on
Sunday. The order issued by the
Principal Secretary, Health and
Family Welfare department, di-
rected the medical superinten-
Recovered Deaths Tests
878 56 7,353
604 73 6,105
520 93 7,786
16,500 1,837 3,04,483
*Total active cases till June 15
June 20. Till last week, Delhi had
thecapacitytotest8,600samples
per day. As per figures in Delhi's
daily bulletin, 7,786 were con-
ducted in the last 24 hours, tak-
ing cumulative tests to 3,04,483.
Toenhancethetestingcapac-
ity in Delhi, all 11 districts have
beenassignedlabsforexclusively
testingsamplesfromtherespec-
dent of Hindu Rao Hospital “to
make all hospital beds available
toadmitCovidpatientsasperthe
laid down protocol by June 16”.
“In view of the projections of a
surge in Covid cases and the ne-
cessity to augment bed capacity
urgently…HinduRaoHospitalis
hereby declared as designated
Covid-19 hospital,” it said.
President of the Resident
Doctors’ Association
Abhimanyu Sardana said a
meeting was held with hospital
tive districts. "We have already
augmented our testing capacity
by adding the TRUENAT and CB
NAATtesting.Wearealsoadding
to the capacity by utilising anti-
gen testing which has been ap-
proved by ICMR. We are in talks
with the company to provide at
least 5,000-10,000 kits," Dr DK
Sharma,medicalsuperintendent
of AIIMS, told The Indian Express.
The Real-Time PCR (RT-PCR)
requires specialised lab facilities
andtakeatleast2-5hoursinclud-
ing the time and effort to trans-
portthesampletothesehigh-end
labs. The TRUENAT and CB NAAT
beingportablecanbeandarebe-
ing used in remote areas. The
Standard Q COVID-19 Ag detec-
tionkittakes15minutestoshow
results and can be conducted at
the site of sample collection in a
healthcare facility setting within
one hour of sample collection.
authorities during which they
raised concerns of having a sep-
arate donning and doffing area
for PPE kits, ACs being fixed and
proper arrangements made for
doctors to stay while on Covid
duty and during the 14-day
quarantine period.
A senior doctor said, “There
are other issues that need to be
fixed like increasing security,
staff and manpower. More ven-
tilators need to be purchased.”
AccordingtoNorthMCDoffi-
"We are waiting for the govern-
ment to give us a green signal for
starting the antibody testing.
Once permission is granted, the
testing capacity can go up by
1,000 samples a day," said a pri-
vatelabowner.TheDelhigovern-
ment'sLokNayakhospitalwhich
was earlier testing 300 samples
in a day has increased the testing
capacity to 400 samples per day.
Bhargava, in his letter, wrote:
"Since the gold standard RT-PCR
testhasessentialrequirementsin
terms of biosafety and biosecu-
rity as well as specialised equip-
ment ICMR had been exploring
alternate, quick and reliable op-
tionsfordiagnosisof COVID-19...,
ICMRandAIIMS,Delhiindepend-
ently evaluated the stand-alone
rapidpoint-of-careantigendetec-
tion assay for quick detection of
SARS-CoV2 developed by SD
Biosensor".
cials, of the hospital’s 980 beds,
37 are unavailable due to the
building being declared danger-
ous. The hospital has 17 ventila-
tors, 8 ICU beds, 4 HDU beds and
250 beds with oxygen.
Meanwhile, a day after shut-
ting its OPD, the hospital, in a
notification on Tuesday, said:
“All OPDs and emergency serv-
ices will run in Hindu Rao
Hospital till further orders. Only
sick patients in emergency will
be admitted.”
SAKSHI DAYAL
GURGAON, JUNE 16
CASES RELATED to cow slaugh-
ter will be heard in fast track
courts,aFreedomof ReligionBill
will be passed to bring about an
end to “forced conversions”, and
a ‘Dharmada Board’ will be
formed in areas where Hindus
are in a minority -- these were
some announcements made by
the Haryana Chief Minister
Manohar Lal Khattar during a
press conference in Nuh district
on Tuesday.
“The government is taking
steps towards ensuring social
harmony, while maintaining
brotherhood. In order to curb in-
cidents of cow slaughter within
the state and take strict and
timely action against the cul-
prits, a decision has been made
that all such matters will be
heard in a fast track court,”
Khattar said.
“Along with this if, for cow
protection, there is any need to-
bring about amendments in the
Haryana Gauvansh Sanrakshan
and Gausamvardhan Act, that
will also be resolved," the Chief
Minister added.
“In some areas, matters of
forced religious conversion have
been noticed. Action will be ini-
tiated against people involved in
adopting such tactics by passing
the Freedom of Religion Bill and
adoptingtheprovisionsinit…In
areas where Hindus are in a mi-
CM Khattar also said a Bill
will be passed to bring an
end to “forced conversions”
nority, a ‘Dharmada Board’ will
be constituted by the govern-
ment to oversee Hindu religious
estates. This task will be done
keeping in mind the demands
of the people living in the area,”
he said.
The Chief Minister was ad-
dressing themediaafter holding
a meeting of district officials and
representatives of various social
and religious organisations.
He also appealed to the pub-
lic to “maintain social harmony
while strengthening the broth-
erhood thathas been in place for
centuries”.
“There is a need to always re-
member that the country, state
and society belong to everyone.
It is not right to blame an entire
society for any untoward inci-
dent done by mischievous ele-
ments,” said Chief Minister
Khattar.

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Name of work : M/o ISBT at Kashmere Gate.
SH Renovation of DTIDC Office at Second
and Third Floor at ISBT Kashmere Gate
Estimated Cost : Rs. 54,47,704/-
Earnest Money : Rs. 1,08,954/-
Time Allowed : One Month
Last date of receipt : 26.06.2020
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& TABASSUM
BARNAGARWALA
NEW DELHI, MUMBAI, JUNE 16
AMID INSTANCES of patients
attempting to import antiviral
drug remdesivir from
Bangladesh for Covid-19 treat-
ment, India’s top drug regula-
tory body has said it will block
any supplies coming from
there illegally.
“There is no approval for
those companies (in
Bangladesh), so how can it be
imported?” a senior official with
the Central Drugs Standard
Control Organisation (CDSCO)
said, on condition of anonymity.
Adding that the regulator is
performingchecksonthequality
of remdesivir manufactured by
genericdrugmakersinIndia,the
officialadded,“Fornow,themain
focus is to stop such imports
(from unapproved suppliers).”
Demand for remdesivir, still
aninvestigationaldrugfor usein
treating coronavirus, has been
on the rise after Drug Controller
General of India Dr V G Somani
grantedemergencyuseapproval
for its supply to Gilead Sciences,
the firm that developed it, on
June 1. Approval was also given
toMumbai-basedKlineraGlobal
Services to import the product.
On June 13, the Indian
Council of Medical Research
came out with guidelines on the
use of remdesivir.
Yet,therehasbeenlittletono
supply from Gilead since it re-
ceivedtheapproval,accordingto
the official. It is unclear how
many vials, if any, have been im-
ported, as queries to Klinera and
Gilead remained unanswered.
In a release on June 3, Gilead
had stated there was “limited
global supply” of remdesivir and
Positive cases in every Central Ministry,
Secretaries to juniors work from home
SHYAMLALYADAV
NEWDELHI,JUNE16
AS THE government deals with
a surge in Covid cases, the pan-
demic hasn't left its corridors
untouched. At least a hundred
central government employees
have tested positive so far, with
many more under self-quaran-
tine/isolation.
Officialswhohavetestedpos-
itiveforCovidincludeaseniorof-
ficeroftheIncomeTaxSettlement
Commission, two secretaries, a
secretary-rank officer, an addi-
tional secretary-rank officer, two
joint secretaries and some direc-
tors, deputy secretaries, under-
secretaries and section officers. A
largenumberofthosewhotested
positiveincludejunioremployees
suchasMulti-TaskingStaff,atleast
two data entry operators and a
driver. An additional private sec-
retaryofaUnionministerhasalso
tested positive for the virus.
Besides, another Secretary is
that it anticipated new supply to
become available only in July.
In the meantime, the CDSCO
has been allowing generic drug
makers seeking approval to
manufacture and market their
copies of remdesivir to provide
samplestopatientson“compas-
sionate use grounds”.
The official added that six
Indianfirmshadappliedsofarto
the CDSCO for approval, and
their applications were being
processed “on priority”. “It is a
matter of a few days.”
Among patients for whom
remdesivir was sought for treat-
ment was former Maharashtra
MP Haribhau Jawale, who
passed away on Tuesday. Dr
Gautam Bhansali of Bombay
Hospital, who was treating him,
said Jawale,whowas 67andsuf-
fered from chronic asthma, had
pneumonia and after his oxygen
saturation levels stayed lower
than 90 the past few days, they
decided to give him remdesivir.
“He was going to be adminis-
tered the drug today. But he
passed away before that,” Dr
Bhansali said, while refusing to
say how they had procured it.
Fortis Flt Lt Rajan Dhall
Hospital in New Delhi has been
trying to get remdesivir for pa-
tients on compassionate
grounds, procuring it on dona-
tion from BDR Pharmaceuticals,
based in Delhi. “A lot of patients
are asking about this drug. We
have used it on three patients so
far,” Director, Pulmonology, at
the hospital Dr Vivek Nangia
said, adding that they had not
seen any improvement in sur-
vival rates of patients adminis-
tered the drug so far.
Patients have also been im-
portingthedrugforpersonaluse
from the US, EU and Dubai using
Rule 36 of the Drugs and
Cosmetics Rules, 1945, said a
under isolation while another of
hiscounterpartsreturnedtooffice
on Monday after two weeks of
isolation. At least three joint sec-
retaries and an additional secre-
taryareinhomequarantineafter
members of their staff or family
tested positive.
Almost every building hous-
ing key ministries — Krishi
Bhawan, Shram Shakti Bhawan,
ShastriBhawan,NirmanBhawan,
RailBhawanandNorthandSouth
Blocks—hasreportedCovidcases,
withsomeevenreportingdeaths.
In the Ministry of Housing and
Urban Affairs (MHUA), for in-
stance, there have been six cases
andtwodeathssofar.Onceacase
isreported,theofficeisclosedfor
48 hours and sanitised.
Yet,asaseniorMoHUAofficer
said, work goes on. “Most of the
senior officers have been coming
to office,” the officer said.
The head of a division in one
of the ministries said, “I have
asked my multi-tasking staff not
tocometooffice,thattheirsalary
MISSION: UNLOCKING OLD TIMES AFTER UNLOCK
Jora Singh (42) resumed his work repairing and selling locks after Unlock-1 began. His earnings are down to 20%, but
he continues his work, supporting his wife, four children and parents. He says he is mindful about washing his hands
after dealing with each customer, and keeps two sets of cloth to cover his face. Gurmeet Singh
senior Mumbai-based doctor.
This can be done on the basis of
a doctor’s prescription. “So far, I
am not aware of patients who
have imported the drug from
Bangladesh,” the doctor told The
Indian Express.
However, some medical pro-
fessionals and patients have
studied the possibility of doing
so in the past two weeks. “I was
consideringremdesivirasplanB
for one of my patients, whose
condition was severe. I knew it
was not easily available here, so
I tried to find suppliers. I heard it
waspossibletogetsuppliesfrom
Bangladesh, but I was not sure
whether it was legal,” a Delhi-
based doctor said. “Luckily, my
first option of treatmentworked
on the patient and I didn’t need
to import the drug.”
Mumbai, the largest hotspot
for Covid-19 in India, is also see-
ing high demand for the drug. A
doctor at Bhatia Hospital said
families of six patients had re-
quested that remdesivir be ad-
ministered to them. “Four were
able to procure it, how and at
what cost we don’t know,” a
senior doctor told The
Indian Express.
Infectious disease specialist
Dr Om Srivastava said he has
been approached by “several”
patients willing to procure
remdesivir on their own. “The
drug efficacy or stability is not
known… there may be adverse
reactionsinapatient.Ihavebeen
refusing all patients who have
requested to buy remdesivir on
their own,” he said.
Maharashtra FDA
CommissionerABUnhalemain-
tainedthat“thereisnosupplylo-
callyavailableinMaharashtrafor
remdesivir”. “If a patient’s rela-
tive couriers the medicine from,
say, the US, we cannot do any-
thing about it,” he added.
Almosteverybuildinghousingkeyministries—KrishiBhawan,
ShramShaktiBhawan,ShastriBhawan,NirmanBhawan,Rail
BhawanandNorthandSouthBlocks—hasreportedcases.
will be sent home.” Another offi-
cersaid,“Toavoidanykindofrisk,
now I make my tea and take files
to my seniors myself.”
A senior DoPT official, how-
ever, said the strain is showing.
"Whilewearedisposingof allur-
gent matters (court cases, RTI re-
quests,publicgrievances,VIPref-
erences, etc.), only about 60 per
centofroutinemattersgetcleared
because of staff shortage."
LUDHIANA:12:28PM
Low-cost drug reduces death risk
among patients on ventilator: UK study
KAUNAINSHERIFFM
NEWDELHI,JUNE16
RESEARCHERS LEADING the RE-
COVERYclinicaltrialintheUnited
KingdomonTuesdayannounced
that dexamethasone, an anti-in-
flammatory low-cost drug, re-
ducesdeathbyuptoone-thirdin
hospitalised patients diagnosed
with acute respiratory complica-
tions of Covid-19.
Calling it the “first drug to be
shown to improve survival” in
Covid-19, the researchers from
OxfordUniversityannouncedre-
sults of the dexamethasone arm
of the trial.
As part of the randomised
trial,2,104patientsenrolledwere
administered with 6 mg of the
drug for 10 days. The drug, re-
searchersfound,reduceddeaths
by one-third in ventilated pa-
tientsandbyone-fifthinpatients
receiving only oxygen.
“Based on these results, 1
(one) death would be prevented
by treatment of around 8 venti-
lated patients, or around 25 pa-
tientsrequiringoxygenalone,”the
university stated.
The drug, commonly used in
treatment of arthritis and im-
munesystemdisorders,however,
showed no benefit patients who
did not require respiratory sup-
port, it stated.
Dexamethasone is a corticos-
teroidthatreducesreleaseofsub-
stancesin the body thatcausein-
flammation.
InIndia,specialistspointedout
that another corticosteroid —
Methylprednisolone — is being
Archive
Among those who have been
working from home is a Union
minister, after an additional sec-
retaryrankofficerintheministry
tested positive.
Sources said a Secretary of a
ministry has had to adopt the
work from home strategy thrice,
eachtimeafteroneormoreofthe
stafftestedpositive.TheSecretary
continues to work from home.
Among the offices most af-
After swab collection in Noida on Tuesday. AP
used in a few Covid-19 patients
with severe symptoms.
“We have been using steroids
intheCovid-19treatment.Weare
not using it in the first 4-5 days,
when there are mild symptoms.
However, when inflammatory
markers are high, or when there
is oxygen requirement, we start
with steroids,” Dr S Chatterjee,
senior consultant (Internal
Medicine)atIndraprasthaApollo
Hospital, said.
Dr Chatterjee said: “In a few
patients, this is being done be-
tween day five and day nine.
These patients have shown im-
provement. However, in the ini-
tialstagesoftreatment,wearenot
using steroids. In our hospital we
are using Methylprednisolone.”
The UK results are part of the
fectedistheMinistryof Labourat
Shram Shakti Bhawan on Rafi
Marg, where 41 employees have
tested Covid positive. The build-
ing holds four departments -- Jal
Shakti,DepartmentofScienceand
Technology, Power, and Labour.
Said a senior officer in the
Labour ministry, “Most of the
staff are working from home.
Among the few who have been
turning up for work are Minister
Santosh Gangwar and Secretary
HeeralalSamaria.Aftertwoof his
typists tested positive, the min-
ister had to get two typists from
his home town Bareilly for rou-
tine office work.”
As cases go up, there have
been complaints of the lack of a
support system within the gov-
ernment set-up.
While every department has
anAdministrationwingthatusu-
allyhandlesproblemsof thestaff,
a senior official said the govern-
mentshouldhavedonebetter."In
a crisis situation such as this one,
the government should have ap-
RECOVERY (Randomised
Evaluationof COVid-19thERapY)
— the clinical trial that began on
March 2020 to examine a range
of tests for potential treatment
for Covid-19. “Given the public
health importance of these re-
sults, we are now working to
publishthe fulldetails as soonas
possible,” Oxford University
stated in a release.
Therandomisedclinicaltrial,
which has over 11,500 patients
enrolledfromover175NHShos-
pitals in the UK, is testing six
treatments.
The university stated that
dexamethasone was found to
havereducedthe28-daymortal-
ity rate by 17 per cent, with a
“highly significant” trend show-
ing “greatest benefit” among pa-
pointedanodalofficerattheDoPT
to compile positive cases among
central government staff. Also,
thereshouldhavebeensomecen-
tralisedmechanismtotakecareof
thosewhoenduptestingpositive."
An Under Secretary working
withaNorthBlockministry,who
testedpositivealongwithherhus-
band, recently wrote about her
harrowing experience of finding
a hospital bed. The message,
which was widely circulated on
WhatsApp groups of Central
Secretariat Service officials, read,
“Irealisedthatnomatterhowwell
connected you are, if you do not
know the highest authority per-
sonally,youaredoomed…Wethe
middle class, with money, with
everything are so helpless, think
ofthosewhohavenothing!Noso-
cial security, no money, no con-
nections and no back up... how
they must be enduring this kind
of situation.”
The Indian Express tried to
reachouttotheofficial,butgotno
response.
New Delhi
At his tattoo studio, Varun Mehta (27) conducts temperature
checks and daily sanitisation of premises. But income is down as
“people are scared, we are scared too”, he says. Abhinav Saha
Asolitaryorderinhand,MahadevShendge’sbusinesshas
nevertakensuchahit.Heisfightingthevirusbymaking
masksmandatory,andshoeskeptoutsidehisshop. Ashish Kale
tientsrequiringventilation.“Butit
isimportanttorecognisethatwe
found no evidence of benefit for
patientswhodidnotrequireoxy-
gen, and we did not study pa-
tientsoutsidethehospitalsetting.
Follow-up is complete for over
94% of participants,” it stated.
Peter Horby, professor of
Emerging Infectious Diseases in
NuffieldDepartmentofMedicine,
Oxford University, and one of the
chief investigators for the trial,
said: “Dexamethasone is the first
drugtobeshowntoimprovesur-
vival in Covid-19. This is an ex-
tremelywelcomeresult...(it)isin-
expensive,ontheshelf,andcanbe
used immediately to save lives
worldwide.”
FULL REPORT ON
www.indianexpress.com
US hands over first
shipment of 100
ventilators to India
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
NEW DELHI, JUNE 16
THE US on Tuesday handed over
to India 100 ventilators, valued
at about USD 1.2 million, as part
of President Donald Trump's of-
fer of assistance to New Delhi in
the fight against the Covid-19
pandemic.
US Ambassador to India
Kenneth Juster handed over the
first shipment of 100 ventilators
to Indian Red Cross Society
Secretary General R K Jain at an
event at the IRCS national head-
quarters here.
The USgovernment,through
the US Agency for International
Development (USAID), donated
the first shipment of 100 brand-
new, state-of-the-art ventilators
to India to assist its fight against
Covid-19, the American
Embassy said in a statement.
The ventilators, produced in
the United States by
WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM
NEWDELHI:3:53PM
PUNE: 2:30PM
Quarantine
stopped, Bihar
revises strategy
Patna: With quarantine centres
for returning migrant workers
closed in Bihar since Sunday, the
state government is revising its
testing strategy to detect Covid
cases, and as registration has
been stopped for people who
havecomefromoutsidethestate
after June 2, the Health
Department is banking on new
measuressuchasidentifyingvul-
nerablegroupsof returneesfrom
places such as Delhi, Mumbai,
Surat, Pune, Ahmedabad,
Gurgaon and Faridabad.
The Health Department is
alsocollectingsamplesfrompeo-
plewithCovid-19symptomsand
contacts of returnees.
According to officials, each
district has been given a target
depending on trends.
Bihar Deputy CM Sushil
Kumar Modi told The Indian
Express: “Going by past trends of
cases, the Health Department
has been visiting homes of mi-
grant workers discharged from
quarantine centres... We are also
taking random samples from
vulnerable groups identified by
districts.” ENS
Asymptomatic
patients in Jaipur
can stay at home
Jaipur: Asymptomatic Covid-19
patients in Jaipur are being al-
lowedtostayinhomequarantine,
subject to fulfillment of certain
conditions,healthdepartmentof-
ficials said on Tuesday.
“Patientswhodon’thavefever,
whose oxygen saturation is nor-
mal and are capable of following
alltherulesofhomeisolationwill
beallowedtostayathomeunder
strict monitoring. At present, we
have 19 such patients,” said Dr
Narottam Sharma, Chief Medical
andHealthOfficer,Jaipur.Hesaid
it is to ensure adequate institu-
tional facilities for symptomatic
patients. ENS
US Ambassador to India
Kenneth Juster handed over
the shipment to IRCS Secy
General R K Jain in Delhi.
Twitter/usaid_india
Massachusetts-based Zoll
Medical Corporation, reflect
leading-edge technology, are
compact and deployable, and
provide India with flexibility in
treating patients affected by the
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6 THE OUTBREAK
THE INDIAN EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 2020
Assam begins
surveillance
programme,
aims to check
50,000 for Covid
in 10 days
ABHISHEK SAHA
GUWAHATI, JUNE 16
ASSAM ON Tuesday began a tar-
geted surveillance programme
in all its districts by randomly
conducting coronavirus tests on
people working in truck parking
lots and unloading bays; front-
line district administrative, po-
lice and health officials; and
from family members of those
who had been released from in-
stitutional quarantine.
As part of the programme,
thegovernmentaimstotestover
50,000 samples in 10 days — be-
tween June 17 and 27.
The staff of hotels — includ-
ing receptionists and cleaners —
being used by the government
asquarantinecentreswouldalso
be included in this programme.
The state government has
also issued strict standard oper-
atingproceduresfordifferentes-
tablishments related to trucks.
According to health officials, it
has been found that a consider-
able number of cases in the state
are found to be connected to
people associated with incom-
ing trucks.
The elaborate guidelines in-
clude keeping detailed record of
all vehicles entering truck park-
ing lots, and not allowing the
driver and the handyman do not
leave the premises of the park-
inglot,otherthanforloadingand
unloading of their trucks.
Similar measures to limit the
contact of employees with the
drivers and handymen have
been prescribed for unloading
centres and godowns as well —
for instance, the management
has to ensure that there are sep-
arate spaces for truckers to cook
their food.
The government’s move
comes even as the state has seen
a spike in the number of Covid-
19 cases. As of Tuesday after-
noon, Assam reported over
4,300 coronavirus cases, with
eight deaths.
Use case load of 14 days earlier
to get death rate: researchers
ANURADHA
MASCARENHAS
PUNE, JUNE 16
ARGUING THAT the commonly
used method for calculating the
deathrateof Covid-19isnottruly
representative of the actual sit-
uation, a group of researchers
from Mumbai and
Thiruvananthapuram has sug-
gested that the actual mortality
could be even two times higher.
The death rate, also referred
to as case fatality ratio (CFR), is
calculated by dividing the total
number of deaths with the total
number of infections, and ex-
pressed as a percentage. For ex-
ample, India’s CFR on Monday,
with 9,990 deaths and 3.43 lakh
cases, can be calculated to be
2.91 per cent.
But the researchers from
International Institute of
GHAR BHEJO INITIATIVE
Not joining any party, only
motive is to help migrants
reach home, says actor
DIVYA GOYAL
LUDHIANA, JUNE 16
IN HIS first remarks about the
political controversy around his
Ghar Bhejo initiative, Bollywood
actor Sonu Sood said he has no
political ambitions and does not
wish to campaign for any party.
“I am not going to campaign
for BJP or any other party. I don’t
seemyselfcomfortabledoingany
such election campaigning...
Earlieralsotherehavebeenmany
such offers but I am not doing it,”
Sood told The Indian Express.
Asked if he would be joining
BJP or any other party, he said,
“These speculations going
around that I am going to join
BJP… these are not at all true. I
am not joining politics or any
other party. I was a qualified en-
gineer but became an actor.
HC grants bail ‘Focus is on domestic tourism... People
to 31 Tablighi have to get out of fear of travel’
members
from abroad
ARUN JANARDHANAN
CHENNAI, JUNE 16
THE MADRAS High Court has
given bail to 31 foreigners who
were arrested for taking part in
the Tablighi Jamaat activities in
alleged violations of their visa
norms and asked the govern-
ment to facilitate their return.
The Tamil Nadu Police ar-
rested them, including nationals
from Indonesia and Ethiopia, in
April for engaging in religious
preaching in several mosques
and villages in the state as part
of a nationwide crackdown.
Granting them bail, the
Madurai bench of the High
Court, however, refrained from
addressing them as Tablighis,
observing that such “categorisa-
tion can have serious pitfalls.”
“Justicing has to be an indi-
vidualised exercise. There are
scores of foreign Tablighis who
are presently in detention. They
hail from different countries.
Some of them are women. Quite
a few are senior citizens. They
are normal human beings. They
are nowstuck in alien surround-
ings. The petitioners came here
propelled by a sense of religious
idealism. But their mission went
awry. They are now eager to go
back to their families. They are
willing to file individual affi-
davits admitting that they had
violated the visa conditions.
They undertake that they will
not enter India for the next ten
years. They will make their own
arrangements for return by co-
ordinating with their respective
Embassies and Consulates,” said
the court.
Justice G R Swaminathan,
who granted them bail, said:
“Tablighi Jamaat has come un-
der severe and harsh criticism
for its reckless and irresponsible
Population Sciences (IIPS),
Mumbai, a deemed university
andautonomousorganisationun-
der the Ministry of Health and
Family Welfare, and
Thiruvananthapurm-based
Centre for Development Studies
(CDS),aresearchcentrebackedby
Kerala government and Indian
CouncilofSocialScienceResearch,
argue that this is erroneous.
In a study now available for
review,theresearcherspointout
that deaths today are of people
who got infected a few days ear-
lier. Also, even if infections sud-
denly stopped today, deaths
would continue for the next few
days, the victims being people
who are already infected or are
in hospitals. Therefore, they ar-
gue, the denominator to be used
in calculating CFR should not be
current caseload, but an earlier
caseload.
The researchers say that an
Sonu Sood
That’s what my focus is and I am
not joining any party.”
Sood acknowledged he is a
fan of Prime Minister Narendra
Modi.“Heisaninspiration.Ilook
up to him but that doesn’t mean
I am joining BJP,” he said.
Sood said the Ghar Bhejo
project was his own effort with
friend Neeti Goyal. He said, “My
only motive was to help mi-
grants reach home....”
conduct and rightly so.
“There are accusations that
itspuritanicalandrevivalistproj-
ect prepares the ground for
Islamic radicalisation. Of course,
thisnarrativehasbeencontested
by quite a few public intellectu-
als,” he said, citing a recent essay
by Upendra Baxi titled Exodus
Constitutionalism.
Aboutgrantingthembail,the
courtsaidoffenceswhichthepe-
titioners alleged to have com-
mitted were not similar to those
offences forwhichthere are lim-
itations in granting bail.
“Thecontinuedincarceration
of the petitioners is not going to
serve any purpose. Since the pe-
titioners are foreigners, it would
obviouslybedifficultforthemto
arrange local sureties. Therefore,
I direct that they shall be re-
leased on their own bond. The
bonds can be submitted to the
jurisdictional magistrates
through emails and the jurisdic-
tional magistrates are directed
toacceptthesameandalsoissue
appropriate release orders,” said
Justice Swaminathan.
Further, elaborating the sig-
nificance of granting them bail,
he said the right to leave any
country can be invoked during
times of armed conflict or emer-
gency. “The current pandemic
times are no different. The peti-
tioners fortunately have not
tested positive so far. The posi-
tion may be different tomorrow.
The lives of the petitioners may
be in danger. Times may be un-
certain but rights have to be cer-
tain,” said the order.
The court said the govern-
ment needs to facilitate their re-
turn. “Instead of doing so, if the
respondents insist on detaining
the petitioners and prosecuting
them, it can only be charac-
terised as unreasonable, unjust
and unfair,” the court said.
internationallyacceptedtimelag
to be used for this is 14 days.
According to them, the num-
ber of dead today need to be
measured against the caseload
of 14 days earlier to arrive at a
more accurate picture of the
mortality. If that yardstick is ap-
plied, the current CFR in India
jumps to 5.03 per cent.
For the study, data until May
14 had been used, and in that
case the CFR rose from 3.23 per
cent to 8.01 per cent.
“Casefatalityratioisillusivein
that the same with 14 days delay
for India is at least two times
higher,”SanjayMohanty,profes-
sorattheDepartmentof Fertility
Studies at IIPS Mumbai, said. He
also pointed to a study in 'The
Lancet' journal which had used
thesamemethodinMarchtocal-
culateCFRsofdifferentcountries.
FULLREPORTON
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CHHATTISGARH
Farmers find farmhands in migrant relatives, landless lose out
GARGI VERMA
MANENDRAGADH, JUNE 16
DASHRATH PATIL is busy laying
bricks, adding extra rooms to his
house in Siroli village of Koriya
for his sons who are expected to
be home in a week after return-
ing from Maharashtra.
“We are trying to create
space for everyone before the
rains," said Patil.
In Chhattisgarh, more than 2
lakh people have so far returned
from cities after lockdown sev-
ered their livelihood, and offi-
cialsexpectatleast70,000more.
The influx has made the chances
of finding work during the mon-
soon bleak. Thirty-year-old
Magru Patil is one among them.
“Iusedtoworkforthreefarm-
ersduringthesowingseasonand
wouldgetashareofgrainfromall
three that would help us survive
the year,” said Mangru. But for
this sowing season, one of the
farmers has refused to hire him.
UNION CULTURE and Tourism
Minister PRAHLAD SINGH
PATEL speaks to LIZ MATHEW
on the impact of the Covid-19
outbreak on the sector and the
government’s plans to reboot it.
Excerpts:
How are you assessing the
impact of the Covid-19
outbreak on the Indian
tourism sector?
Tourismisoneof thepromis-
ing sectors for India. The success
of tourismismeasuredbythein-
creasing number of tourist ar-
rivalsandforeignexchangeearn-
ings. The impact of Covid-19 on
thetourismsectorisaglobalphe-
nomenon.Ithastobeassessedin
termsofrevenuelossandjobloss.
TheFederationof Associationsin
Indian Tourism & Hospitality ...
hascomeupwithitsassessment
of the impact and presented to
the Ministry of Tourism.
What’s the post-pandemic
vision for the sector?
Thesectorhas toberebooted
at the earliest. This can happen
only when demand is revived.
The stimulus package an-
nounced by the government is
bound to have a positive impact
on overall revival of the various
sectors of economy, thus driving
employment growth and put-
ting money in hands of people.
This will trigger the demand for
travel.
Ourvisionistofirstmakeour
GETTING BACK TO NORMAL
Thermal screening of passengers at a suburban railway station on Tuesday. Ganesh Shirsekar
TO CORRECT QUARANTINE CENTRE SHORTFALL, PROVIDE EMPLOYMENT
Govt asks states to construct Gram
Panchayat buildings ‘in mission mode’
HARIKISHAN SHARMA
NEW DELHI, JUNE 16
FORESEEING A requirement of
“isolation/quarantinecentres”in
rural areas in wake of the pan-
demic, and in order to provide
employment to returning mi-
grant workers, the Centre has
asked states to utilise Finance
Commission funds to construct
community assets like Gram
Panchayat Bhawans in villages.
Inajointlettertothestatechief
secretaries, Panchayati Raj
“His nephews and their children
are here from the cities, so they
will have enough hands and
won't need me,” he said.
Mukesh Sai (23) from
Naugaon village had worked for
oneof thebigfarmersinPipariya
all his life. “Their nephews have
returnedandIwastoldbyoneof
themthattheywillnotneedme.
I am now looking for work in my
ownvillage.Onlywhenthesow-
ingbeginswillweknow,”hesaid.
Patil and several others have
MGNREGAcards.Hiswifeworks
at the construction of a bridge
that connects the village to the
mainroadtoManendragadh,the
closest town. The work, how-
ever, will stop soon as all MGN-
REGAworksareputonholddur-
ing the monsoon.
The labour crisis in villages is
deepenedbythebeliefofparents
that schools will not reopen in
nearfuture.Manyhavewelcomed
theadditionalhelpfromtheirchil-
dren lending a hand on the land.
According to Sudesh Tekam,
destinations safe. Today, when
the traveller is questioning the
very need for travel, mainly due
to fear of disease, we want to as-
sure that the places he is travel-
ling, staying and eating at are
safe.Withthisobjective,wehave
released a set of operational
guidelines for hotels and other
accommodations units, restau-
rants and tourism service
providers like tour operators,
travel agents, taxi operators etc.
The tourism sector knows
well how the dynamics of busi-
ness have changed and many
are...comingupwithinnovations.
This change of pace has
taught the tourism industry the
need to enable training, educa-
tion and development pro-
grammestohelptheminnovate,
organise and pioneer a new and
better business model... pre-
pared for any kind of adversity.
Travellers from abroad still
seem to be far away even if
the lockdown is completely
lifted and travel restrictions
are done away with. Is there
any plan to promote
domestic tourism?
Weknowthe revivalof inter-
national tourism will take some
time. Thus, our focus is on pro-
moting domestic tourism. The
Ministry of Tourism launched
Dekho Apna Desh before the
outbreak. We are going forward
withit...People haveto get outof
the fear of travel and this can
Secretary Sunil Kumar and Rural
DevelopmentSecretaryNagendra
Nath Sinha said, “As per available
information,itappearsthattheef-
fectofCovid-19pandemicislikely
tocontinueforsometimeatleast.
Hence, the requirement for con-
tinued establishment of isola-
tion/quarantine centres in rural
areas is likely persist in the near
foreseeable future...
“Itisreiteratedthattheafore-
said decision has been taken to
meet the key infrastructure
deficit in rural areas and to pro-
videimmediateemploymentop-
With the state government expecting up to 70,000 migrants
to return home, several quarantine centres are still empty.
convener of a farmer's body:
“Factory workers, construction
workers, everyone is back. Not
all of them can be employed in
farming. We have requested the
government to not stop the
MGNREGA work, and help gen-
erate job opportunities,” he said.
StateRuralDevelopmentand
PanchayatministerTSSinghDeo
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INTERVIEW
WITH
PRAHLAD SINGH
PATEL
UNION CULTURE AND
TOURISM MINISTER
start by encouraging them to
visitlocalneighbourhoodattrac-
tions, day excursions, weekend
getaways and driving holidays...
.... We are making efforts to
engage with our stakeholders
and citizens and to sustain their
interest in travelling within the
country once travel restrictions
arelifted.Aseriesof webinarson
tourism destinations in the
country is being organised with
the theme of Dekho Apna Desh.
Participants in these webinars
include tourism stakeholders,
students and the public...
…Wewill also be promoting
off-beat destinations and
portunities to skilled and un-
skilledmanpowercurrentlyavail-
able in rural areas through con-
vergence of central finance
commission and MGNREGS
funds,”thelettersaid.Italsocalled
for the construction work to be
completed within the current fi-
nancial year “in mission mode”.
Data available with the
Ministryof PanchayatiRajshows
that out of over 2.5 lakh village
panchayats across the country,
about 60,346 Gram Panchayats
— around a fourth — do not have
a Panchayat Bhawan.
believes that despite the influx,
all those who are seeking work
will get some kind of employ-
ment, even if the quality of work
mightdifferfrompreviousyears.
Chhattisgarhhasmanagedto
reach37%of itsMGNREGAtarget
in just two months of April and
May. With demand for jobs ris-
ing, the minister said the Centre
New Delhi
wildlife and wilderness destina-
tions as we anticipate the travel
to places which offer natural so-
cial distancing willget the atten-
tion of travellers in times to
come...
India is known for religious
tourist centres. Do you think
social distancing norms
could affect religious tourism
prospects?
For the purpose of safety and
to control the curve, we have to
take care of social distancing
norms.
Prime Minister Narendra
Modi, in his meeting with
chief ministers, said the
tourism industry will play a
key role in reviving the
economy. He also said both
the Centre and the states
would have to evolve
strategies. Have you had any
discussions with state
tourism ministers?
Right from the early days
when reports of the pandemic
started coming in, the Ministry
of Tourism was proactively up-
dating all states and industry
stakeholders on the guidelines
issued by the Ministry of
Health...ANationalTourismTask
Force has been constituted un-
der my chairmanship which has
all the state tourism ministers as
membersbesidesindustryasso-
ciations to look into measures to
be taken for revival and growth
Group of IIT-D teachers
to HRD: Higher education
institutes should induct
new students in January
RITIKA CHOPRA
NEW DELHI, JUNE 16
A GROUP of teachers at IIT-Delhi
have pitched for higher educa-
tion institutions to induct new
studentsinJanuary2021andput
off face-to-face classes for a year
in a proposal submitted to the
HRD Minister this month.
The declaration of the com-
ing autumn semester as a ‘zero
semester’, the proposal states,
would give institutions the time
to “complete the formalities” for
the current semester/academic
year, which was upended by the
Covid-19 outbreak, and upgrade
their infrastructure for online
teaching.
Asforthelostacademictime,
the teachers assure it can be
made up “within twelve to
eighteen months of the end of
the crisis”.
“This may be achieved
throughacombinationof,theju-
dicious use of existing online re-
sources (such as NPTEL and
Ekalavya), moving partly to the
flipped mode of instruction, re-
duction of vacation periods, cre-
ating online resources for pri-
maryschoolstudentsetc,”states
the proposal accessed by The
Indian Express.
Among the signatories to the
proposal is Nalin Pant, a profes-
sor at the department of chem-
istry at IIT-Delhi, who is also a
CASE COUNT
THE CHANGING PICTURE
A look at how Covid-19 case counts in states
are changing as migrants return home
KEY SAMPLES
STATES TESTED
■ Tamil Nadu 19,242
■ Rajasthan 13,038
■ Kerala 4,003
■ Andhra Pradesh 15911
■ Karnataka 7,936
■ Punjab 5,125
States’ data for last 24 hours, updated up to 9 pm on June 16
willhavetoincreasethebudget-
ary targets. “During the Covid
months or years, workers will
have insecurity about returning.
They will have to be given jobs
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of the sector.
Many countries have
announced financial
packages for the tourism
sector. Is our government
planning any package?
Prime Minister Narendra
Modi announced a special eco-
nomicandcomprehensivepack-
ageof Rs20lakhcrore…Hegave
a clarion call for Self-Reliant
India movement. He also out-
lined five pillars of Atmanirbhar
Bharat – economy, infrastruc-
ture, system, vibrant demogra-
phy and demand.
Post this package, a series of
reforms have been announced .
The initiatives of the govern-
ment provided to MSMEs, in-
cluding service sectors,hasbeen
highlighted to the industry.
The Prime Minister also said
the idea should be “to attract
world tourists to India.” Have
you thought of branding
India in a different way for
the post-Covid era?
We are working on new
campaign routes. This will be
primarilytofirsttellthat“Weare
Open”wheninternationaltravel
is allowed, then we also have to
haveacommunication,assuring
that our destinations are safe .
This will have the elements of
safety and hygiene that have
been put in place...
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member of the institute's Board
of Governors. He confirmed to
this newspaper that the docu-
ment was sent to the HRD min-
isterthismonthandalsosubmit-
ted to the IIT Council for
consideration,through theinsti-
tute's director.
The suggestion for the six-
month delay has been justified
on the ground that the return of
students to the classrooms can
put the teachers, their parents
and grandparents at risk. “Given
the typical arrangements in
classroomsandhostels,students
are likely to be super-spreaders
and even if they are not in the
vulnerablegroup,theycaneasily
spread the virus among those
who are vulnerable (e.g. teach-
ers, parents, grandparents etc.),”
the document reads.
The group has also argued
that the time till January 2021
should be utilised by the higher
education institutions to “come
together to pool resources and
develop strategies for optimal
online delivery and evaluation”.
“The emphasis should be on
ensuringthatstudentsinremote
areas and poor connectivity are
not left behind. For instance,
such students could be asked to
visit the nearest educational in-
stitution for online examina-
tions. Central institutions like
IITs,IISERs,DelhiUniv.etcshould
take the lead in this,” the pro-
posal states.
POSITIVE MIGRANTS FOREIGN
CASES ENTRANTS
1,515 58 2
235 43 NA
79 26 47
264 44 27
317 108 78
104 14 0
where they are since many
wouldnotwanttotravelback.So
definitely the central govern-
mentwillhavetostepinandhelp
us increase the targets,” he said.

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High alert in
Himachal districts
bordering China
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
SHIMLA, JUNE 16
SECURITY PERSONNEL in two
districts of Himachal Pradesh
that border China have been put
on alert following the face-off
between the Chinese and Indian
armies.
TheHimachalPradeshpolice
has issued an alert and an advi-
sory in the districts of Kinnaur
andLahaul-Spiti,andsecurityof-
ficialshavebeenaskedtotakeall
precautionary measures to en-
sure security of the local popu-
lation and also to collect intelli-
gence to plan the future course
of action,statepolicespokesper-
son SP Khushal Sharma said.
All state intelligence units
havealsobeenalerted,headded.
Personnel of the Indo-
Tibetan Border Police, which
guards the more-than-250 km
long border with China in these
two districts, have also been
asked to step up vigil.
Amid tension, train
taking workers
to Leh cancelled
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
RANCHI, JUNE 16
A SPECIAL train that was to carry
1,600 migrant workers on their
way to Leh from Dumka in Jhark-
handforconstructionworkofthe
BorderRoads Organisation(BRO)
wascancelledonTuesday,follow-
ing tensions between India and
Chinaintheregion,officialssaid.
Thiswasthesecondsuchtrain
afteraspecialtrainonJune13car-
ried a similar number of workers
on their way to Leh, following an
agreement between Jharkhand
government and BRO, they said.
Thetrainwascancelledkeep-
ing in view the safety of workers,
Dumka Deputy Commissioner
Rajeshwari B said. The train was
scheduledtoleaveDumkaaround
2pmandtakethemigrantwork-
ers till Jammu, from where the
BRO would have arranged trans-
port for them, officials said.
BJP MP appeals to
people to support
armed forces
Bengaluru: BJP MP Rajeev
Chandrasekhar on Tuesday
came out strongly against the
death of Indian Army personnel
inaface-off withChinesetroops.
In a series of tweets,
Chandrasekhar, a former mem-
beroftheParliamentaryStanding
CommitteeonDefence,hitoutat
China and the Communist Party
of China (CCP) over the incident.
The Rajya Sabha member
called upon people to “get be-
hind the men and women in our
armed forces and support them
strongly,unitedlyandpatiently.”
PTI
In recent statements, both sides spoke
of peaceful resolution of 7-week standoff started with physical brawl
KRISHN KAUSHIK
NEW DELHI, JUNE 16
MONDAY NIGHT'S violence be-
tweenIndianandChinesetroops
in the Galwan Valley area came
after repeated assurances from
both sides recently that the situ-
ationontheLineofActualControl
(LAC)wasundercontrol,andthat
they were working towards a
peaceful resolution of the seven-
week-old standoff.
Overthelast10days,sincethe
June 6 meeting between the
Corps Commanders of the two
armies, the Indianside has made
six statements and comments,
and the Chinese side three, say-
ing the situation was improving,
and that the countries were in-
volved in continuous talks.
Thesestatementsweremade
by Defence Minister Rajnath
Singh, the Ministry of External
Affairs, and Army Chief General
MMNaravaneontheIndianside,
andtheChineseforeignministry.
On Sunday, Defence Minister
Singh told a virtual rally for
Jammu and Kashmir that “while
Chinahasexpressedthedesireto
resolve the (LAC) issue through
talks,ourefforttooistofindaso-
lution to the trouble between
China and India through talks at
the military and diplomatic lev-
An Army convoy on the Srinagar-Leh national highway in Ganderbal district of Jammu & Kashmir on Monday. Reuters
LAC tension: Assurance amid clarity call
Caution key, BJP observes Oppn asks govt to be firm, seeks
strategic restraint in messaging clearer picture on situation
RAVISH TIWARI & LIZ
MATHEW
NEW DELHI, JUNE 16
THE INDIAN Army’s first combat
casualties in decades along the
LAC with China in Ladakh have
put the ruling BJP in a spot over
makinggooditspromiseof mus-
cular nationalism while control-
ling its jingoist reflexes, both of
whichhavebeentheparty’scall-
ingcardtodifferentiateitselffrom
domestic political competition.
BJP leaders, who have been
asked to avoid commenting on
Chinaandmakingprovocativere-
marks, now project the standoff
astheresultof adisplayof India’s
assertivestanceonitsborderssi-
nceNarendraModicametopow-
erin2014andtherecentspurtin
India's attempts to build border
infrastructure infuriating China.
BJP president J P Nadda has
treaded cautiously on the issue,
buttriedtoassurecadresthatthe
borders are safe under BJP rule.
AddressingavirtualrallyinKerala
earlierTuesday,hesaid,"Wehave
lost our brave Army men. I pay
homagetothem.Icanassureyou
that under the leadership of PM
Modi, India's territorial integrity
will not be compromised. We
now have the political will and
ourArmyisfullyequippedtotake
on any adversary."
Hetweetedlater,"Theborders
ofIndiaareandwillremainintact
1967 Nathu La conflict also
DefenceMinisterRajnathSingh;ArmyChief GenMMNaravane
els”.
Earlier, addressing a virtual
rally for Maharashtra on June 8,
he had said: “We want the
boundary dispute to be resolved
soon. At the moment, talks be-
tween India and China are hap-
pening at the military and diplo-
matic levels.”
The June 6 meeting of the
Corps Commanders “were very
positive”, Singh said, and “both
IndiaandChinahaveagreedthat
in the future too, the discussion
will continue on the boundary
dispute as well as the ongoing
tussle”.
On June 13, the Army Chief
spoke of phased disengagement
and continuous dialogue.
“We have started from the
north, from the area of the
Galwan river, where a lot of dis-
J P Nadda
under the prime-ministership of
Shri @narendramodi...”
While leaders maintain BJP
hasdecidedtoobserve“strategic
restraint on its communication”
onthisissue,theyinvokethe2017
Doklamface-offtoassertthatthe
Modi government will not blink.
This was evident from tweets by
B L Santhosh, general secretary
(organisation).“TheIndianforces
have engaged in an unprece-
dented face off with Chinese tro-
ops in Galwan valley & Pangong
TsoinLehregion.Indianeffortsat
buildinginfrastructureinanever
before scale increased Chinese
worries…,” he tweeted earlier in
theday.“Noweffortsareontode-
fuse the situation holding onto
our stand & continuing our road
building efforts. As a country it’s
time to stand with our forces &
Govt. Rest everything can wait.”
FortheBJP,whichisbracingto
face Opposition criticism, allow-
ingthegovernmenttohandlethe
engagementhashappened,”Gen
Naravane said after the Passing
out Parade at the Indian Military
Academy, Dehradun.
He would “not like to use the
word retreated in any context,
thereisnoretreat”,GenNaravane
said; rather, “the correct word
would be disengagement, and
both sides are disengaging in a
phased manner.”
“Wanttoassureeveryonethat
theentiresituationalongourbor-
der with China is under control,”
he said. “(Talks) which started
withtheCorpsCommanderlevel
talks... has been followed up by a
number of meetings at the local
level between commanders of
equivalent ranks. As a result of
this a lot of disengagement has
taken place, and we are hopeful
that through this continued dia-
situation in a mature way is the
best option, said a party leader.
A BJP functionary said, “We
will maintain a strategic restraint
inourcommunicationontheiss-
ueuntilitisresolved.”Herecalled
“we maintained similar restraint
forabout70daysduringDoklam”.
BJPleaderssaidthepartywas
conscious of Opposition barbs
about summit-level talks with
Beijing, but that would not lead
thepartytodeviatefromitscom-
mitment. They also asserted
there will be no concession from
the government until the pre-
April situation is restored.
“There will be a tit-for-tat on
thegroundirrespectiveofourex-
changesatthesummitlevel.Any
violationofunderstandingonthe
ground will be rebuffed with full
power,” said another BJP func-
tionaryaboutthebroadguidance
shared with party leaders.
“Diplomacy is a continuum.
So, there is nothing unusual in
those exchanges at the highest
level. But, at the ground level,
there will be no compromise,”
said a BJP leader.
Meanwhile,theBJPhasesche-
wedjingoism,withcommunica-
tion from the leadership during
rallies against jingoism against
China. Defence Minister Rajnath
Singh and Home Minister Amit
Shah, who addressed virtual ral-
lieslastweek,avoidedraisingthe
pitch against China even as they
invoked the surgical strikes.
logue that we are having, all per-
ceived differences that we have
will be set to rest.”
On June 11, MEA spokesper-
son Anurag Srivastava said the
Corps Commanders' meeting
“was in continuation of the
diplomatic and military engage-
ments which both sides have
maintained”, and “it was agreed
thatanearlyresolutionof thesit-
uation would be in keeping with
the guidance of the leaders
(Prime Minister Narendra Modi
and President Xi Jinping)”.
On June 7, in its first state-
ment after the meeting of the
Army commanders, the MEA
had said that the two countries
had “in recent weeks” main-
tained “communications
through established diplomatic
andmilitarychannelstoaddress
the situation in areas along the
India-China border”.The two
sides “will continue the military
and diplomatic engagements to
resolve the situation and to en-
sure peace and tranquility in the
border areas,” it said.
Earlier, after joint-secretary-
level discussions between the
two governments on June 5, the
MEA had said that India and
China“shouldhandletheirdiffer-
ences through peaceful discus-
sion bearing in mind the impor-
tance of respecting each other’s
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, JUNE 16
ASITbecameclearthatIndiansol-
diers were killed in a violent face-
off between Indian and Chinese
troops along the LAC in Ladakh,
Opposition parties on Tuesday
asked the central government to
be firm and stand up to Chinese
aggression, and sought clarity on
thegroundsituationattheborder.
TheCongressaccusedthegov-
ernment of being a mute specta-
tor when Chinese transgressions
were reported from three points
inLadakh.Congresscommunica-
tion department head Randeep
Surjewala said, “Will the PM and
RakshaMantritakethenationinto
confidence as to how our officers
andsoldierswerekilledwhenthe
Chinese were reportedly with-
drawing from our territory in the
Galwan Valley?... Will the Prime
Minister and Defence Minister
nowcomeforwardandtellthena-
tion as to how much of our terri-
toryhasbeenillegallyoccupiedby
the Chinese, post April/May
2020?”
SeniorCongressleaderandfor-
mer Home Minister P
Chidambaramalsoquestionedthe
silence of the Defence Ministry
and Prime Minister, and asked,
"CanyouimagineanyotherHead
of Governmentnotsayingaword
for 7 weeks since the intrusion of
foreigntroopsintoacountry?"
sensitivities, concerns and aspi-
rationsandnotallowthemtobe-
come disputes”.
China, too, has said that the
twocountrieswereintalkstore-
solve the boundary issue.
In her press conference on
June11,spokespersonforChina’s
foreign ministry Hua Chunying
said: “China and India have con-
ductedeffectivecommunication
andreachedagreementonprop-
erly handling the situation in the
west section of the China-India
boundary.”Bothsides“aretaking
actions in line with the agree-
menttoamelioratethebordersit-
uation”.
Adaypreviously,Huahadsaid
that “through diplomatic and
military channels, China and
India have recently had effective
communication and reached
agreementonproperlyhandling
the situation...”.
On June 8, she had invoked
theagreementreachedbetween
ModiandXi:“Bothsidesagreeto
implement the important con-
sensus of the two leaders, avoid
escalationof differencesintodis-
putes...Currentlytheoverallsitu-
ation in the border area is stable
andcontrollable.Bothsideshave
the willingness and capability to
properlyresolvetherelatedmat-
tersthroughnegotiationandcon-
sultation.”
P Chidambaram
"Theentirecountryisshocked
and agitated over the heinous
crimecommittedbyChinaagainst
India,whentalksaregoingon…,"
Leader of Congress in Lok Sabha
AdhirRanjanChowdhurytweeted
latenight."Ourmartyrs’bloodwill
notgoinvain,weneedtorespond
the enemy by the language they
understand...”
Earlierintheday,heaskedthe
PMtogiveChinaa“befittingretal-
iation”,whilePunjabCM Amarin-
der Singh said it is time the coun-
trystandsuptotheseincursions.
The CPM demanded an au-
thoritative statement on what
transpired. “It is imperative that
both the governments immedi-
atelyinitiatehigh-leveltalkstode-
fusethesituation,”itsaid.
BSPleaderDanishAliaskedthe
governmenttocomecleanonthe
situationandactswiftly.
Former Prime Minister H D
Deve Gowda of the JD(S) sought
anexplanationonhowIndiansol-
SUSHANT SINGH
NEW DELHI, JUNE 16
AS REPORTS of deaths of Indian
soldiers in a violent faceoff on
Ladakh border emerged, many
took solace from the fact that no
roundswerefiredduringthephys-
ical clash between the soldiers. It
certainly makes these deaths
morebrutalthanbeingshotat,but
it gives hope that an escalation to
kinetic means — rifles, howitzers,
rockets, missiles and fighter jets –
can still be avoided between the
twonuclearneighbours.
That, however, may be a false
hopeif historybetweentwosides
isaprecedenttogoby.Thelastmil-
itary skirmish between India and
China took place at Nathu La in
September 1967, and before it es-
calated to artillery guns and thre-
atsof fighterjets,therewasascuf-
fle between the soldiers of two
armies.Theclasheventuallyleft88
Indiansoldiersdeadandmorethan
300Chinesesoldierswerekilled.
TheIndiansidehaddecidedto
fencetheborderwiththreelayers
of barbed wire and started work
onAugust20.OnAugust23,about
75 Chinese in battle dress, carry-
ingriflesfittedwithbayonets,ad-
vanced slowly towards Nathu La
in an extended line, and stopped
attheborder.ThePoliticalComm-
issar — identifiable by a red patch
New Delhi
dierswerekilledduringade-esca-
lation process. “In national inter-
est, the PM and Raksha Mantri
shouldofferaclearerpicturetothe
nationontheborderissuewiththe
Chinese,”hesaid.
SP chief Akhilesh Yadav said
thegovernmenthadbeenindiffer-
ent to the threat from China and
soughtclarityonthegroundsitu-
ationinLadakh,whileCPIgeneral
secretary D Raja said the standoff
canberesolvedthroughtalks.
NCleaderOmarAbdullahsaid
that if the soldiers were killed by
the Chinese during a “de-escala-
tionprocess”,“imaginehowesca-
lated the situation must be in the
first place. This is what happens
when the media propagates the
governmentlinethataskingques-
tions is anti-national.” Later in the
day, he tweeted, “Here in lies the
problem with a very public own-
ership(inamarkeddeparturefrom
previousgovernments)ofthesur-
gical strikes after Uri & Pulwama.
How does one react to soldiers
deathsinLadakhatthehandsof a
much stronger force without ap-
pearingweakorreckless?”
NCP leader Sharad Pawar
tweetedlatenight,"Ourarmyoffi-
cers and jawans have lost their
lives while protecting our Nation
from Chinese incursions in the
Galwan Valley, Ladakh. May they
Rest in Peace. Our armed forces
will protect our borders with
courage and determination.
HeartfeltCondolences."
on his cap, and the only one who
could speak some English — read
outslogansfromaredbook,which
the rest of the party shouted after
him.TheIndiantroopswere“stan-
ding to”, watching and waiting.
After about an hour, the Chinese
withdrew.Buttheyreturnedlater,
andcontinuedtheirprotests.
OnSeptember5,asthebarbed
wirefencewasbeingupgradedto
a concertina coil, the Political
Commissarhadanargumentwith
theCommandingOfficerofthelo-
calinfantrybattalion,LtColonelRai
Singh. Work stopped, but was re-
sumed on September 7, which
provoked about 100 Chinese sol-
diers to rush up. A scuffle ensued.
Beaten down by the Jats, the
Chineseresortedtostone-pelting,
andtheIndiansrespondedinkind.
OnSeptember10,theChinese
sentacrossawarningthroughthe
Indian embassy: “The Chinese
Government sternly warns the
Indian Government: the Chinese
BorderDefenceTroopsareclosely
watchingthedevelopmentof the
situation along the China-Sikkim
boundary. Should the Indian tro-
opscontinuetomakeprovocative
intrusions,theIndianGovernment
mustbeheldresponsibleforallthe
graveconsequences.”
Thecorpscommanderhador-
dered the fence to be completed
onthe11th.Thatday,asworkstar-
ted, the Chinese came to protest,
WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM
Former Defence
Minister A K Antony
‘Suspect China
has some other
intention than
disrupting road
construction’
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, JUNE 16
A DAY after Indian Army person-
nel were killed in violent clashes
with Chinese troops in Ladakh,
formerdefenceministerandsen-
iorCongressleaderAKAntonyon
Tuesday said he suspects that
Beijing has some motive other
than disrupting construction of a
roadbyIndia.HesaidIndiashould
try to resolve the issue diplomat-
ically, but without losing an inch
of its land.
Antony demanded that the
Centre tell the nation about the
situationinLadakh.Hesaidnosol-
dierhadbeenkilledinattheIndia-
China border since 1975.
“I am awaiting the official re-
sponse of the Government of
India.ButIcansayveryclearlythat
the Chinese Army had in the last
fewweeksencroachedintoIndian
territoryin7-8strategiclocations
in Ladakh. They have withdrawn
from two-three locations after
military-level talks. But in some
strategic areas, including in
Pangong Tso Lake Area, the
Chinese Army — which had en-
croacheduponseveralkilometres
of Indianterritory—isstillthere."
Hesaidthetensioncanbede-
fusedonlyifthestatusquoanteis
restored.“ItwillbeatestforChina.
Whether China wants to restore
peacecanbesaidonlyifstatusquo
ante is restored…,” he said.
The former defence minister
further said he does not believe
that the present standoff is over
theconstructionofaroadbyIndia.
“My suspicion is that China
hassomeintentionotherthandis-
ruptingconstructionof aroad…I
cannot say anything more now
because I am a former defence
minister. I will wait for the re-
sponse from the Indian govern-
ment,” he told Malayalam televi-
sion channels.
He said the defence minister
or the external affairs minister
shouldtakethenationintoconfi-
dence and inform people about
what is happening.
Antonyalsostatedthatthede-
velopments in Nepal were very
serious,andthatthegovernment
should view the “provocation”
seriously.
led by the Political Commissar. Lt
ColRaiSinghwenttotalktothem.
Suddenly,theChineseopened
fire, and Singh fell to the ground,
injured.SeeingtheirCOhit,thein-
fantry battalion attacked the
Chinesepost.Theysufferedheavy
casualties, including two officers,
who were both given gallantry
awards.Soldiersintheopenwere
mowed down by Chinese ma-
chine gun fire. The Indians re-
sponded with artillery fire, and
pummelledeveryChinesepostin
the vicinity. Many more Chinese
perished in these heavy fire as-
saultsthanthenumberofIndians
who were killed in the initial en-
gagement. Taken aback by the
strong Indian response, the
Chinese threatened to bring in
warplanes. When the Indians re-
fusedtobackoff,theChinesenews
agencyXinhuadeniedtheseplans.
Having sent its message mili-
tarily,India,onSeptember12,deliv-
eredanotetotheChineseoffering
an unconditional ceasefire across
theSikkim-Tibetborderbeginning
5.30amonSeptember13.Thiswas
rejected, but the situation remai-
nedlargelypeacefuluntilthe14th.
On September 15, the Chinese
handed over bodies of Indian sol-
diers,sayingtheywereactinginthe
interestof“preservingSino-Indian
friendship”.OnOctober1,another
skirmisheruptedatChoLa,butthe
IndiansagainrepulsedtheChinese.
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SALUTE THE SOLDIER Vizag gas leak: LG Polymers yet to EC to crack whip Govt profiteering
off people: Sonia
respond to questions, says panel
on candidates filing
9408954P RFN MAITA BAHADUR RAI

calls for rollback

9408954P Rfn Maita Bahadur Rai of 1/11 Gorkha Rifles (BATALIK)
made the supreme sacrifice during ‘MIZO HILLS’ on 17 Jun 1969 in
a true act of valour. The brave soldier will always be remembered for
tee said.
SREENIVAS JANYALA “...Based on the replies and
of fuel price hike
false poll affidavits
his raw courage and indomitable team spirit.To this braveheart we
pledge that we shall always be guided by immortal spirit and make his HYDERABAD, JUNE 16 representations from the public,
name proud.
the committee decided to hold
IG & All Ranks of 1/11 Gorkha Rifles (BATALIK)
APROBEcommitteeappointedby moremeetingstoheargrievances EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE
the Andhra Pradesh government and assess industrial threat to authorities find the candidate NEWDELHI,JUNE16
Office of the Executive Engineer, Transmission toprobethestyrenegasleakatLG people in Visakhapatnam.” EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE has lied about her/his affi-
Line Maintenance Division-VI, Bemina, Polymer plant in Visakhapatnam Meanwhile, the Andhra gov- NEW DELHI, JUNE 16 davit, the Commission, HITTING OUT at the BJP govern-
Srinagar-J&K. Tele Fax: 0194-2492429 on May 7, which killed 12 people ernment has taken objection to sourcessaid,willpublicisethe ment over the latest increase in
E-mail: tlcdistpdd@gmail.com , psdfjkpddtlcd1@gmail.com and left hundreds injured, has the committee for referring to INAsignificantshiftinitsstand information in the interest of petrolanddieselprices,Congress
EXTENSION NOTICE-2nd complained the firm is yet to re- the gas leak as an accident. “We on dealing with false poll affi- transparency. president Sonia Gandhi Tuesday
NIT No. TLMD-VI/ 01 of 2020-21 Dt.23-04-2020 spond to questions posed to it. all know it was not an accident. davits, Election Commission Asked whether the EC accused the Centre of “profiteer-
(EXTENSION OF DATES) “We know that they read the The styrene leak was a result of a (EC)hasdecidedtostarttaking would also go to court based ing” off the people and said the
Due to poor response the date of bid submission for above NIT is
messages but they chose not to series of safety failures,” an offi- cognizance of complaints on outcome of the investiga- fuelpricehikesaresaddlingthem
extended as: reply,” a member of the commit- cial said. againstcandidatesfilingincor- tion,aseniorofficialsaid,“The with an additional burden of
A E-Bid Submission (end) 25.06.2020 upto 02.00 P.M. rect information on criminal EC would not like to go to “enormous magnitude” that is
date & Time history, assets and liabilities court. But the public informa- neither justified nor appropriate.
andeducationalqualifications. tion can be used by people to In a letter to Prime Minister
B Online Commercial and Technical 29.06.2020 at 04.00 P.M. Earlier, the EC used to en- approach the courts." Narendra Modi,
e-Bid opening date & Time courage complainants to Under Section 125A of RP Gandhi re-
C Online financial e-Bid opening Will be communicated to move court, under Section Act, a person found guilty of quested the in-
date & time (Only of the the Technically Qualified 125A of RP Act, in case they lyinginheraffidavitcanfacea creases in fuel
technically qualified bidders) Bidders felt they had a strong case. six-month prison term, or prices be rolled
In a statement issued on fine, or both. This punish- back so that the
All other terms and conditions shall remain same as per attached
Tuesday,theECsaidthatithas ment, the EC had told the benefit of low
SBD, BOQ and other documents uploaded on site
No: TLMD-VI/197-200 Executive Engineer now "reviewed this position" Supreme Court, is well short Sonia oil prices can be
Dated: 12.06.2020 TLMD-VI, JKPTCL andhenceforthreferthecom- of the requirement of mini- Gandhi passedontothe
DIPK-NB-717 Bemina Sgr. plaints to "the relevant inves- mumof twoyearsof sentence people. “If you
tigating authorities on a case- for attracting disqualification wish for them
INVITE - EOI to-case basis". under Section 8A of the elec- to be ‘self-reliant’, then do not
Office of the Commissioner of Fisheries In case the investigating tion law. WITHPTIINPUTS place financial fetters on their
(Gujarat State) ability to move forward…
Dr. Jivaraj Mehta Bhavan, Block No. 10, 3rd floor, Gandhinagar-382010 Please use the government’s
Commissioner of Fisheries, Government of Gujarat, Gandhinagar resources to put money di-
has notified various Fish Landing Centres (''FLC" for short) in the rectlyintothehandsof those
State of Gujarat. In the said FLCs, the Commissioner of Fisheries who need it in this time of
is intending to carry out maintenance dredging work for a period severe hardship,” she said.
of two years and one year extension, subject to approval. The said “I am deeply distressed
FLCs have been segregated in Cluster-wise, the details of which thatintheseexceedinglydif-
are mentioned as Annexure-I, which can be seen from the ficult times since the begin-
n-Procure website. ning of March, the govern-
1. Downloading start date and last date of online submission: ment has taken the wholly
From Dt. 17/06/2020 to Dt. 9/7/2020 up to 18.00 Hrs insensitive decision to in-
2. Pre bid meeting at Commissionarate of Fisheries, crease petrol and diesel
Gandhinagar : Dt. 24/06/2020 12.00 Hrs pricesonnolessthan10sep-
3. Last date and time of Submission of tender fee & documents arate occasions,” she said.
by Speed post only: Dt. 09/07/2020 up to 18:00 Hrs. “Yourgovernmentisseek-
4. Date and Time of technical bid opening: Dt. 10/07/2020 from ing to earn an additional rev-
12.00 Hrs onwards enue of nearly Rs 2,60,000
• Downloading of application document:· crorebytheseill-advisedhikes
https://fisheries.nprocure.com. inexcisedutyandincreasesin
• Price bid shall be invited only from the qualified parties later
the petrol of diesel. As it is,
on by the Commissioner of FIsheries.
people across the board are
• Necessary correction or additions, if found will be brought to
facing unimaginable hard-
notice an https://fisheries.nprocure.com.
• The Commissioner of Fisheries reserve the right to accept
shipsandwhattosayofwide-
or reject any or all tenders to be received without assign- spread fear and insecurity.
ment any reasons thereof. Thesepriceincreasesaresad-
INF/249/20-21 Commissioner of Fisheries dling our people with an ad-
ditional burden...” shesaid.

Government of Jammu & Kashmir

J&K Economic Reconstruction Agency (ERA)
Project Management Unit
Jhelum & Tawi Flood Recovery Project (JTFRP)
No:JTFRP/PMU/HMAP/2020/1378 Date: 15-06-2020
Director Technical, PMU JTFRP invites fresh tenders for supply, installation, commissioning and
Maintenance of Hydro Metereological Equipments for Implementation Of HMAP In Jammu &
Kashmir through www.jktenders.gov.in. Interested bidders may obtain further information and
download the bidding documents from www.jktenders.gov.in.
S. Name of Work Tender No. Bid Cost of
No. Security (Rs.) Document (Rs.)
1 Supply, Installation, Commissioning, Operation and 2020_jtfrp_ 90 Lacs Nil
Maintenance Of Hydro Metereological Equipments for 98340_1
Implementation Of HMAP In Jammu & Kashmir.
Bidding documents may be downloaded from www.jktenders.gov.in from 15.06.2020 to
04.08.2020. The last date for submission of online bids on www.jktenders.gov.in is
04.08.2020, 1400 hours.
Sd/-
(Iftikhar Kakroo)
DIPK-NB-719 Director Technical

GURGAON TECHNOLOGY PARK LTD.

Infocity, Sector-3, Opp. Hero Honda Factory, Gurgaon-12201
CIN: U36999HR1996SGC033491 I GST No. 06AABCG0363N1ZM
LETTER OF INTENT (LOI)
Notice inviting LOI for Appointment for Consultant for Landscape Design and Development
of Gurgaon Technology Park Limited, Infocity I & II, Sector-33 & 34, Gurugram.
GTPL intends to engage a Landscape Architect who can render services for Design and
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NIT for Appointment of Landscape Consultant for Design and Development/ Setup of
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includes, but is not limited to, any or all activities incidental to and required for the development
of the proposal at each stage which shall include the following:-
1. Carry out site analysis and prepare Conceptual Design for the Project with reference to
Company’s requirement and rough cost estimate for the project. TENDER NOTICE
2. Modify the conceptual design incorporating required changes as per site condition and pre- Sr. NAME OF NAME OF WORK/NOTICE/TENDER OPENING DATE AMOUNT/EMD WEBSITE OF THE BOARD NODAL OFFICER/CONTACT
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THE INDIAN EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 2020 EXPRESS NETWORK 9
Pak envoy summoned over PDP ex-MLA nephew
among 3 killed in gunfight
DELHI CONFIDENTIAL
‘torture’ of Indian officials of India strongly condemns and MEA stated. in criminal offences,” it said in a
ADIL AKHZER
SRINAGAR, JUNE 16

THE NEPHEW of a former PDP

SHUBHAJIT ROY
NEW DELHI, JUNE 16
A DAY after two staffers of the
Indian High Commission in
Pakistan,whowent“missing”for
most of Monday and “returned”
after India summoned Pakistan’s
Acting High Commissioner Syed
Haider Shah and issued a de-
marche, the government on
BELIEVE IN YESTERDAY Tuesday again summoned Shah
and lodged “a strong protest” on
WHILE ALMOST all unavoidable movement is restricted, Vice the two officials' “abduction and
PresidentMVenkaiahNaidutookajourneydownmemorylane torture” by Pakistan’s security
andsharedanostalgicpostonFacebook.Heurgedpeopleto“in- agencies for 10 hours.
vest modern life with the flavor of life of yesteryears for a com- Inastatement,theMinistryof
pletelivinginharmonywithsocietyandthenature”.Aspeople External Affairs (MEA) said that
stayisolated,Naidureminiscedaboutthetimeswhenlife“used thetwoIndianofficialsweresub-
to play out amidst a network of strong social relationships and jected to “interrogation, torture
bondswiththeattendantemotional,economicandsocialsecu- and physical assault resulting in
rity” and compared it to the “aloofness” of modern times. He grievous injuries to them”.
emphasised the need for good food habits and hygiene, and It stated: “They were video-
askedpeopletofollowbalancedliving,inharmonywiththena- graphed and coerced to accept a
ture and avoid excesses of all kinds for a better tomorrow. litany of fictitious allegations and
concoctedcharges.Thevehicleof
the High Commission, in which
they were travelling, was exten-
ATTENDANCE THREAT sivelydamaged.TheGovernment
deplores the action of the
Pakistaniauthoritiesinthisregard.
“Thispremeditated,graveand
provocative action on the part of
the Pakistani authorities, pre-
cededbyintensifiedsurveillance,
harassment and intimidation of
HighCommissionpersonnelover
the past several days, was de-
signedtoobstructanddisruptthe
normal functioning of the Indian
High Commission in Islamabad.
The attempt by Pakistani author-
ities to levy false accusations and
concoctedchargesontheofficials
of the High Commission is re-
jected in entirety.”
The MEA said that these ac-
tions by Pakistan not only consti-
tutean“egregiousviolation”ofthe
ViennaConventiononDiplomatic
Relations of 1961 but also the
‘CodeofConductfortreatmentof
Diplomatic/Consularpersonnelin
IndiaandPakistan',signedin1992
and reaffirmed by both sides in
March 2018. It is also “against all
established norms and practices
of diplomatic conduct”, the
“Ourgraveconcernsatthefact
thatthePakistanagenciesthreat-
enedtophysicallyharmmoreof-
ficials of the Indian Mission have
been shared. It has been high-
lighted that Pakistan is responsi-
ble for the safety and security of
the Indian High Commission, its
officials,staffmembers,theirfam-
iliesandproperties,”theMEAsaid.
It said that such continued
unilateral actions by Pakistan,
aimed at escalating tensions, will
notsucceedindivertingattention
from the core issue of Pakistan’s
continued hostile activities and
sponsorship of cross-border ter-
rorism against India.
ThePakistanForeignministry,
meanwhile, said it “categorically
rejects the irresponsible state-
ment and baseless allegations”
made by MEA in the case of “hit-
and-run” by the Indian High
Commissionofficials,andalleged
possession of fake currency. “The
MEA’s statement is a reprehensi-
ble attempt to distort facts and
deny culpability of these officials
statement.
According to the Pakistan
Foreignministry,thetwoofficials
were speeding and crashed their
carintoapedestrian,whowasse-
riouslyinjuredinthemishapand
was taken to hospital for treat-
ment. "The officials attempted to
flee...some passersby stopped
them and informed the police....
During investigation, fake cur-
rency was recovered from afore-
mentioned officials. The senior
Indian diplomat was reminded
that possession of fake currency
and'hit-and-run'afteranincident
are serious offences...”
The latest incident comes 10
days after reports emerged of
Pakistan'sISIpersonnelchasinga
vehicle in which India’s Acting
High Commissioner Gaurav
Ahluwalia was travelling in
Islamabad.
OnMay31,Indiahadexpelled
two officials of the Pakistan High
Commission in New Delhi on
charges of spying — the first such
move since 2016
legislator who joined militancy
last year and a top militant were
amongthreeHizbulMujahideen
affiliates killed Tuesday in an en-
counter in Shopian -- the fourth
big operation in the district since
last week.
“Today in Shopian we con-
ducted another excellent and
swift action-based operation in
which three terrorists were
gunneddown.Theoperationwas
jointlycarriedoutbypolice,Army
and CRPF in an orchard in
Shopian village. No collateral
damage occurred during the en-
counter,”IGPVijayKumarsaid.“It
wasaHizbulMujahideengroup.”
The slain militants have been
identified as Kamran Zahoor,
nephewofformerPDPMLCZafar
IqbalManhas,topHizbulmilitant
Zubair Ahmad Wani and
Muneeb-ul-Haq.
Kamran’s picture holding an
AK-47riflewaswidelycirculated
on social media in April.
“We tried to bring him back
FIRING BY PAKISTAN
IN TANGDHAR: ARMY
Srinagar: The Indian Army
Tuesday saidPakistani forces
violated the ceasefire in
Tangdhar sector of Kupwara
district. “Pakistan initiated an
Unprovoked Ceasefire
Violation along the LoC in
Tangdhar Sector .... Befitting
response was given,” said
Srinagar-based Defense
SpokespersonColonelRajesh
Kalia. ENS
buthedidn’tlisten,”Manhassaid.
“Zubair was a top Hizbul mil-
itant and active since 2017,” said
a police officer in south Kashmir.
Addressing the media in
Srinagar, joint forces said the op-
eration was launched in
Turkwagam village in the early
hours of Tuesday and it con-
cluded in the morning.
Major General A Sengupta,
General Officer Commanding of
south Kashmir-based Victor
Force, said “three terrorists were
eliminated in that area”.

ATAtimewhenmostofficesareencouragingworkfromhome,
acircularissuedbytheLokSabhaSecretariathasleftmanyem- PCI seeks J&K
Srinagar Mayor loses
ployees baffled. The circular says every employee who works
fromhomeshouldsubmitfilesonlythroughe-office,andthese
officialswillbeascertainedintermsofworksubmittedthrough
response on new no-confidence motion
e-officeonanygivenday.Everyday,thestaffhavetosubmitde- media policy
tails of work through email, and if no official work is transacted BASHAARAT MASOOD
onaparticulardaytheofficerconcernedwillbeconsideredab- SRINAGAR, JUNE 16 Junaid Azim
sent or on leave. If any officer does not submit the work due to EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE Mattu
non-availabilityofcomputer,oranyenablingfacility,theyshould NEW DELHI, JUNE 16 A YEAR-AND-A-HALF after he
attend office, or else they will be considered on leave. was elected Mayor of Srinagar,
THE PRESS Council of India has Junaid Azim Mattu was on porator,saw42votesinitsfavour

FRESH AMMO
taken note of the controversial Tuesday removed through a no- while 28 corporators abstained.
newmediapolicyannouncedby confidence motion. “Absolutely no doubt that
theJammu andKashmir admin- While corporators of Jammu @JKPC_ reached out to both
WITH THE lockdown having been considerably eased, the istration and sought comments and Kashmir People’s @INCIndia and @JKNC_ leader-
Congresswillnextweekbrainstormonaroadmapforresump- fromtheJ&KChief Secretaryand Conference,whichMattuisaffil- shiptoadoptacollective strategy
tion of normal political activities. A meeting of the Congress the Secretary of the Department iated to, and the Congress ab- todefeattheBJP-backedmotion.I
WorkingCommitteeisscheduledforJune23totakestockofthe of Information and Public stained, Mattu was voted out by personally did too! While PC and
emergingpoliticalsituation.Whilethepartyhasbeencriticising Relations. 42 Corporators in the 70- mem- INC upheld the floor strategy -
thegovernmentoverimplementationof thelockdownandthe In a statement issued on ber corporation. JKNCprovedtobeapivottoallow
economic distress triggered by it, developments in Ladakh and Tuesday, the PCI said that it has Mattuhasblamedthe“seem- the quorum,” Mattu said.
New Delhi's strain in ties with Kathmandu will provide fresh taken “suo-motu cognizance ingly unthinkable” coming to- “Here is where JKNC played
ammunition for the party to take on the government. With a with regard to provision con- gether of the BJP and National a pivotal role led by the incum-
largesectionof theleadershipof theviewthatthepartyshould BJP MLAs wait in a bus outside the party office in Jaipur on Tuesday before they were taken to cerning ‘Fake News’ in Media Conference (NC) for his removal. bent Dy mayor — it marked it’s
now resolve the leadership issue, it is to be seen whether CWC, a hotel, ahead of the Rajya Sabha elections scheduled on June 19. Rohit Jain Paras Policy-2020 of Govt. of Jammu The NC, however, has denied any attendance in full as opposed to
theparty'stoppolicy-makingbody,willgiveanyweighttothose and Kashmir”. role. Aftertheno-confidencewas abstention by JKPC and INC —
demands The Council said it has taken passed, Mattu tweeted, “...The hence completing the quorum

Rajasthan BJP shifts its MLAs note of the provisions regarding

“fake news” mentioned in the
seemingly unthinkable seems to
have happened as @JKNC_ and
for such a motion! Whether all
of them voted for BJP motion or

HC grants bail to
MediaPolicy2020whichautho- @BJP4India have come together not is irrelevant. Without pres-

to hotel ahead of RS elections rises “officers to decide on the

content of print, electronic and
other forms of media for ‘fake
in Srinagar...”.
The corporation has a
strength of 74, but four seats are
ence of @JKNC_ in today’s
‘Special Meeting’, the motion
would have failed by abstention

UP Congress chief EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE

EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
LUCKNOW, JUNE 16
THE LUCKNOW Bench of the
AllahabadHighCourtonTuesday
grantedbailtoUPCongressstate
president Ajay Kumar Lallu in a
case related to allegedly provid-
ing fake documents of buses,
which the party had arranged to
transport stranded migrant
labourersfromUPbordertotheir
homedistrictsduringthenation-
wide lockdown.
Lallu was arrested by
Lucknow police in Agra on May
20soonafterhewasgrantedbail
for holding protests.
Granting him bail on a per-
sonal bond and two sureties to
the satisfaction of the court,
JusticeAttauRahmanMasoodiof
the High Court termed the facts
of the case “peculiar” and said
“the trial court... seems to have
erred in rejecting the prayer for
bail... A case for grant of bail is
made out and more particularly
when Covid-19 is constantly
threatening human life”.
On June 1, a special MP-MLA
court in Lucknow had rejected
Lallu’sbailpleasayingthecharges
against the Congress leader were
“serious in nature”.
The High Court on Tuesday
said that while the courts of law
LIQOUR SMUGGLING, NEPAL’S CHANGING POLITICS BRING SLOW-CHILL IN RELATIONS OF BORDER VILLAGERS
Ajay Kumar
Lallu
must maintain a distance from
making an estimate of political
gain or loss, it is the duty of the
government and the Opposition
to deliver more solutions to pub-
licgrievancesinsteadofengaging
in conflicts.
Itisdisturbingthatthegovern-
ment and the Opposition party
are at loggerheads on an issue
whichhasnolegalsanctity,Justice
Masoodi said in his order.
The High Court also ques-
tioned the Congress offer to pro-
vide buses to the state govern-
ment to transport stranded
migrantworkersduringthecoro-
navirus lockdown.
It is true that the Prime
Minister and chief ministers had
solicited monetary support in
view of the pandemic, but there
wasno appeal foranyother serv-
ice like transportation, Justice
Masoodi said, adding there was
no occasion for any voluntary or-
ganisationorapoliticalorganisa-
tion to have offered transport
services or any other service not
solicitedbytheprimeministeror
chief minister of the state.
JAIPUR, JUNE 16
THE BJP moved its MLAs to a ho-
tel on Tonk Road on Tuesday,
ahead of Rajya Sabha elections
on June 19.
BJP state president Satish
Poonia said that unlike the
Congress, the BJP shifted its
MLAs for training purposes. “It
was decided long ago, and we
are not doing baarebandi (fenc-
ing) for 10-15 days. Our legisla-
tive party meet was already
scheduled for 11 am on 16th
(June). And there are several
MLAs who will vote (in RS polls)
for the first time. Several times
there has been cross-voting in
the state due to confusion. So I
feel it is important to train
Now, 3 UP teachers have same identity — Deepti Singh
MANISH SAHU
LUCKNOW, JUNE 16
DAYSAFTERunearthingascamin
Kasturba Gandhi Balika
Vidyalayas (KGBVs) in which the
documents of Gonda resident
Anamika Shukla were used for
multiple teacher appointments,
the Special Task Force (STF) of UP
Police on Tuesday said the docu-
ments of another woman —
Deepti Singh — were allegedly
used to give jobs to three KGBV
them,” Poonia told the
media here.
“Simultaneously,
month-long Atmanirbhar cam-
our
paign is running, so we will also
talk about organisational work.
Also, there is need to properly
train some new people in leg-
islative work,” Poonia said, dis-
missing claims that the BJP
feared poaching of its MLAs and
was thus shifting its MLAs.
“We will not indulge in fun
and frolic at a resort and musi-
cal evenings — there have been
more than 300 coronavirus
deaths and the government is
enjoying there, it means the
government is insecure. We are
not ‘herding’ our MLAs — we
will talk about issues and train
them,” he said, adding that
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s
teachers.Twoof themareposted
in Mainpuri, and one in Jaunpur.
On Monday, the STF arrested
the main accused, Pushpendra
Singh, and two others, taking the
numberofpeopleheldinconnec-
tion with the job scam to seven.
The other two were identified as
government employees Anand
and Ramnath.
ThepolicesaidSinghhadtold
them during interrogation that
Ramnath and Anand allegedly
helped him give the jobs to the
threeteachers.Thedocumentsof
achievements and local issues of
MLAs will also be discussed
“properly”.
The BJP MLAs were taken to
Crowne Plaza on Tonk road,
while Congress MLAs and their
supporting MLAs are at JW
Marriott on Delhi road.
Poonia distanced himself
from horse-trading allegations
by the Congress, saying that “no
MLA in Rajasthan is for sale.
Maybe they are for sale as per
them, but not as per us, be it an
MLA of any party”.
“People are asking me if the
government will fall. We don’t
need to; it will fall due to its own
actions,” he said.
The Congress is expected to
win two seats in the Rajya Sabha
while the BJP is expected to win
one seat.
apersonidentifiedasDeeptiSingh
were allegedly used. She is a
teacherinKaushambidistrict,ac-
cording to investigators.
TheDeeptiinJaunpurusedto
live with Singh, said the police.
“Duringtheprobe,wefoundthat
one Deepti posted at a school in
JaunpurwasclosetoPushpendra
Singh... The police collected de-
tailsabouther,andduringprelim-
inary inquiry found she was
working on the name of another
woman, namedDeepti. Wehave
yet to verify the real name of the
news’ and proceed against jour-
nalistsandmediaorganisations”
as “the matter affects the free
functioning of the press”.
The policy was announced
bytheJ&KgovernmentonJune2
tomonitoranddecidewhethera
news report is “fake”, “anti-na-
tional” or “unethical”, and take
actionagainstthejournalistsand
news organisations concerned.
It also makes it mandatory for
editors, publishers and key staff
to undergo background checks
before the organisations can be
empanelled for advertisements
or for accreditation for
journalists.
Toensurehealthyinteraction
withthepubliconlineandonso-
cial media, the policy also lays
down setting up of a Social
Media Cell in the department.
woman,whowasworkingonthe
name of Deepti in Jaunpur,” said
anofficerwhoispartoftheinves-
tigation.
“Wehaveyettocollectalldoc-
uments of the two women in
Mainpuri. Police traced the
woman Deepti whose educa-
tional documents were used by
the accused...” the officer added.
Meanwhile, a local court in
Gonda sent Singh, Anand and
Ramnath to judicial custody.
Anamika Shukla has lodged a
case in the district.
vacant. In the 2018 polls, 17
Congress candidates were
elected corporators, followed by
sixfromPeoplesConferenceand
four from the BJP. Later, some
IndependentCorporatorsjoined
Peoples Conference and BJP.
While the NC boycotted the
polls, some corporators later de-
clared allegiance to the party.
The no-confidence motion,
moved by an Independent cor-
HC quashes detention
of NC general secy
NAVEED IQBAL
SRINAGAR, JUNE 16
THE JAMMU and Kashmir High
Court on Tuesday quashed the
detentionof NationalConference
general secretary Ali
Mohammad Sagar.
Sagar’s lawyer Shariq Reyaz
told The Indian Express, “We had
arguedthatthegroundsforhisde-
tention were not supplemented
by any material. All that was held
against him was that he was op-
posedtotheideaof abrogationof
Article 370 and that sometime in
July 2019, he had held a meeting
with his party workers where he
hadsaid,if itisabrogated,wewill
go on mass agitation.”
Sagarwasfirstdetainedunder
provisionsofpreventivedetention
inAugust2019intherunuptothe
revocation of Jammu and
Kashmir’s special status. He was
charged under the Public Safety
Act in February this year.
— without an iota of doubt.”
“He (Mattu) should be re-
minded he was put on this chair
by the BJP and all of a sudden BJP
decidedtothinkotherwise,sohe
was brought down. It is all in the
house. The National Conference
has nothing to do with it,” NC
chief spokesman Aga Syed
Ruhullah said.
FULLREPORTON
www.indianexpress.com
“but they will wait for the order
andweareexpectinghimtobere-
leased tomorrow”.
National Conference vice-
president Omar Abdullah
tweeted that the quashing of
Sagar’s detention by the high
court “highlights the unjust & in-
defensible nature of the 5th Aug
detentions”.
Reiterating his call for PDP
president Mehbooba Mufti’s re-
lease, Omar said, “I hope
@MehboobaMufti’s legal team
take heart from today’s judge-
ment in the J&K High Court
quashingSagarSb’sPSAdetention
to pursue Ms Mufti’s case in the
Supreme Court with increased
determination & vigour. She de-
servestobefreedwithoutfurther
loss of time.”
Sagar’s son Salman Sagar
tweeted, “Extremely happy to let
all of you know that the PSA
against Sagar sb. has been
quashedbytheJ&KHighcourtaf-
ter the court proceedings which

‘Roti-beti’ ties in Bihar border villages feel strain of changing ties
Nepal,includingSitamarhi,where
SANTOSH SINGH last week’s firing by Nepal’s
JANAKI NAGAR (SITAMARHI), ArmedPoliceForce(APF)leftone
JUNE 16 persondead,havesomemember
ortheothermarriedintofamilies
DEFENCE MINISTER Rajnath on the other side, who are also
Singh's remarks on India-Nepal called Madheshis.
ties – that the relationship goes But dwindling marriage rela-
more than just between two tionssince2015,andtheextravigil
neighbours,boundasitisby“roti since Bihar implemented prohi-
aur beti” (bread and family ties bitiononApril1,2016,indicatesa
through weddings) — will res- growing chill, say locals in
onate with most people in dis- Sitamarhi.RamLaganRai,53,who
tricts of Bihar bordering Nepal. was freed from a nearly 20-hour
Although no official data has detention after fellow villager
been compiled, most villages on Vikesh Rai, 23, died in firing by
either side of the international Nepal forces last week, said his
border have marriage relation- wife,ShailendraDevi,anddaugh-
ships,ownplotsandevenhouses ter-in-law, Archana, come from
ontheotherside.Mostfamiliesin theadjoiningvillageinNepal.The
theeightBihardistrictsbordering tension, he said, is not good for
all these years — we share a simi-
lar culture, castes and surnames.
But things have been changing
fast over the last five years. Nepal
has suddenly started looking like
a different country; the friendly
APF is getting hostile,” he said.
Givinganaccountofthefreez-
ing relations, Sanjeet Yadav, who
returned from Ludhiana last
month, said less than 5 per cent
menandwomenfromhisvillage
Ram Lagan Rai with wife Shailendra Devi, who comes a marriedintofamiliesinNepalthis
village close to the border in Nepal. Santosh Singh season. “Till as recently as 7-8
yearsback,eitherthebrideorthe
groom came from that side in six
India and Nepal, who have been Sitamarhi–havemarriedwomen or seven out of 10 weddings.
“sharing roti and beti since ages”. villages in Nepal, and more than Whilepeoplefromoursidewould
Rai said nearly 70 per cent 30 per cent women from the vil- marry off fewer daughters in
meninhisvillage—JanakiNagar, lage are married to men from Nepal,thistrendof familiesthere
under Sonbarsa police station of Nepal. “We never felt the border finding a groom for their daugh-
ters in their own country is re-
cent,” Sanjeet said.
Anothervillager,ShivlalYadav,
blamedadditionalrestrictionsun-
der Bihar’s liquor prohibition.
An SSB officer agreed that
therehasbeenastraininrelation-
ship in the last five years.
“Dwindling marriage relation-
ships could have socio-cultural
andeconomicreasons,butweare
duty-boundtocheckliquorsmug-
gling,” the officer added.
SSB, IG, Sanjay Kumar said:
“...The recent firing was an aber-
ration.Localresidentsneedtotake
us into confidence. We were not
informedaboutthescuffle,butwe
reacted fast...”
FULLREPORTON
www.indianexpress.com
Reyaz stated that the court
held that “opposition to abroga-
tionof Article370cannotbyitself
took 6 hearings and finally the
judgement has been delivered.”
BesidesMufti,PDPleaderNaeem
be a basis for threat to public or- Akhtar, NC’s Hilal Lone and
der”. He said the court had di- People’s Conference chairman
rected the Additional Advocate Sajad Lone, among others, con-
General to release Sagar at once, tinue to remain in detention.
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American exceptionalism is missionary...
China's exceptionalism is cultural.
— HENRY KISSINGER

Resolve and prudence

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RAMNATH GOENKA
Chinese intrusion in Ladakh has created a challenge that
BECAUSE THE TRUTH INVOLVES US ALL
must be met. India must guard against complacence

AN INFLECTION POINT Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury

LACviolencebreachesunderstandingof Modi-Ximeetings.Delhi
LADAKH,INDIA’SCOLDdesert,isgettinghot- and set an example of valour and sacrifice. Nepal,Sikkim,BhutanandNEFA(Arunachal).
mustproceedwithcalmresolve,keepinglinestoBeijingopen ter because, even as we reel under the co- Similarly, there’s an air of complacency China wants to settle the boundary dis-

T
rona pandemic, China has transgressed the
HEBRUTALKILLINGof20IndiansoldiersbytheChineseArmyinthedeadliest Line of Actual Control. The tragic deaths of
escalationof violencebetween IndiaandChina ontheLAC in nearlyfour and 20 soldiers of the Indian Army on Monday in
half decadesputsaheavyquestionmarkonanalreadyfraughtprocess.Ithas the Galwan Valley, the first casualties of con-
the potential to vitiate and undermine the disengagement agreed upon only flictalongtheIndia-Chinaborderin45years,
a few days ago between senior military officers on both sides and harden the standoff be- underline the scale of the problem and the
challenge ahead.
tweenthetwocountries.Theprovocationisgrave—thisisnotthetolltakenbyanactof ter-
It's not going to be easy, it needs a united
rorbyanon-stateactor,butaclashbetweentwoarmies.YetIndiamustkeepaclearandde- and firm resolve. Since 1988, a robust diplo-
termined head. It needs to respond with calm deliberation and steely resolve. It must be matic offensive has been underway to nor-
fully prepared to escalate but it must not embark on such a course without a full assess- malise the India-China border situation and
ment of what transpired on the ground, or without hearing out what the Chinese leader- yet it has been long festering. As scientists
ship has to say — and being mindful of what lies ahead. and governments worldwide burn the mid-
night oil to fight the coronavirus, as millions
When two armies are fully mobilised and standing eyeball to eyeball, there is always
lose their loved ones and keep vigil in hospi-
the possibility of an accident that triggers an escalation that neither side wants. Monday tal wards, China has clearly twisted the crisis
night’s clashes came after both sides had publicly stated that the situation was under con- intoa strategic opportunity by taking advan-
trolandthatdisengagementhadbegunintheGalwanarea.TheChineseMinistryofForeign tage of the geo-political distraction.
AffairshasaccusedtheIndianArmyof violatingtheconsensusthatthetwosidesarrivedat, Sun Tzu’s dictum, that the supreme act
and New Delhi has accused Beijing of doing the same. Clearly, much is being lost in trans- of waris tosubdue the enemy without fight-
lationevenasChineseadventurismbreachestheunderstandingunderlinedinseveralmeet-
ing, is being tested by Beijing everywhere.
Near the Paracel archipelago, China inter-
ings between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping. New Delhi cepted and detained Vietnamese fishing
should activate all political lines of communication with Beijing, including the ones be- boats; declared two new municipal districts
tween the special representatives to the border negotiations and the foreign ministers, to to control the disputed islands; published
make this point and take it forward. Chinese names of 80 geographic and under-
Many in Delhi have been lulled into complacency by previous diplomatic successes water features in South China Sea; imposed
in defusing military crises in Depsang (2013), Chumar (2014) and Doklam (2017). But a fishing moratorium on other countries; in-
truded into Malaysia’s exclusive economic
Delhican’tignoretheprofoundchangeinBeijing’sworldviewandthenewsenseinBeijing
zone; crossed the median line in the Taiwan
that it can afford to take on all comers. Nor can Delhi turn a blind eye to President Xi Strait;andharassedcommercialvesselsfrom
Jinping’s political swagger, China’s growing assertiveness in the territorial disputes with the Philippines.
its neighbours, its simmering Cold War with the United States, and the PLA’s aggressive We cannot afford to continue preaching
postures on the ground. In other words, India’s political illusions about China are becom- peace at the cost of our territorial integrity.
ing increasingly unsustainable and Delhi has arrived at an inflection point in its policies Under the veneer of the Wuhan spirit fol-
lowed by the Mahabalipuram meeting,
toward Beijing. China, on its part, would be unwise to underestimate India’s political re-
China, with its egregious intrusion, has
solve, its capacity to come together amid a national crisis and the international coalition played its cards at our expense.
in its favour. If Beijing refuses to restore the status quo ante on the frontiers, it will push The government itself has been unusu-
India irrevocably towards a comprehensive and long-term political, diplomatic and mil- ally reticent on what actually transpired in
itary strategy of responding purposefully. the Hot Springs and Galwan area. It is a mat-
ter of great concern that Indian patrols were
denied conduct of their regular visits to the
Finger 8 area, which was not opposed till the
DISMAL IN JAIPUR
other day. In 1999, in the wake of the Lahore
bus ride, a euphoria was generated only to
evaporate after the Pakistani intrusionin the
Kargil Heights. We were caught napping but
Rajasthan’s resort politics amid the pandemic speaks about a Indian forces evicted the Pakistani intruders
China wants to settle the
boundary dispute on its own
terms. It has settled boundary
disputes with all its
neighbouring countries
except with India. We cannot
afford to be complacent by
holding two informal
summits, or more. In this
context, what is disturbing is
Nepal’s belligerent reaction on
the Lipulekh Pass for Kailash
Mansarovar. The strained ties
with Nepal are a diplomatic
setback for us much to the
advantage of China. India
should deploy all necessary
diplomatic resources to
restore the ‘roti-beti’
(intimate) relations with
Nepal. In addition to the
China-Pakistan economic-
corridor, the other threat is
the BRI (Belt and Road
Initiative) and predatory debt
diplomacy.
with regard to Sino-Indian relations when
multiple spots in east Ladakh have been
breached by the Chinese Army.
The question is: Why and how? Like the
Kargil Review Committee, which made a list
of recommendations, we need another re-
view committee to ascertain the lapses, if
any. We need to know why the country has
not been taken into confidence. Why have
the Opposition parties not been talked to?
The government should have convened an
all-party meeting for an exchange of views
with respect to the Chinese intrusion. For
each one of us, the interest of our nation is
paramount.
Ladakh is of vital strategic importance.
The Kargil conflict occurred here, the icy
heights of the Siachen glacier are here.
During the Congress regime led by Indira
Gandhi, Indian forces had launched
“OperationMeghdoot”in1984tocapturethe
Siachen Glacier which has been playing a
pivotal role in view of our security spectrum
given the hostile terrain of the Himalayas.
West of the Glacier lies Pakistan-occupied
Gilgit Baltistan, East of it lies China-occupied
Aksai Chin.
The strong presence of the Indian Army
in the Glacier has ensured that this space is
protected. Indeed, it was during the Kargil
war when the Indian Army was busy driv-
ing out Pakistani intruders, that China ex-
ploited the situation to extend a 5-km road
into Indian territory along the banks of
Pangong Lake. Pakistan has been pursuing
the policy of “bleeding India by a thousand
cuts”, while China is playing the tactic of nib-
bling away land, by taking recourse to the
deceptive rubric of “perception of claim
lines”.
There seem to be no limits to the Chinese
strategy of extending land towards India till
they are pushed back. The professed aim of
the Chinese establishment is to reclaim the
“Middle Kingdom”, which it asserts was lost
to foreign powers when China was weak. In
the 1950s, Mao Zedong had said that Tibet
(Xizang) is China’s right hand palm which is
detached from its five fingers — Ladakh,
pute on its own terms. It has settled bound-
ary disputes with all its neighbouring coun-
tries except with India. We cannot afford to
be complacent by holding two informal
summits, or more. In this context, what is
disturbing is Nepal’s belligerent reaction on
the Lipulekh Pass for Kailash Mansarovar.
The strained ties with Nepal are a diplomatic
setback for us much to the advantage of
China. India should deploy all necessary
diplomatic resources to restore the “roti-
beti” (intimate) relations with Nepal. In ad-
dition to the China-Pakistan economic-cor-
ridor, the other threat is the BRI (Belt and
Road Initiative) and predatory debt diplo-
macy. As India emerges as a force to be reck-
oned with globally, it has become an eye-
sore for China.
Under these circumstances, India should
continue its endeavours to consolidate its
solidarity and amity among neighbours and
all democratic powers of the world. China is
theonlynon-democraticmajorpower in the
world. It will leave no stone unturned in or-
der to make India vulnerable both externally
and internally.
India should maintain communal har-
mony in the country at all costs, embedded
with equity and prosperity. Defence pre-
paredness should be vigorously pursued to
insulate us from unpleasant surprises. And
powder must be kept dry to meet any even-
tualities, promptly. Last but not least, we
won’tbudgeevenaninchfromrestoringsta-
tus quo ante in east Ladakh where the trans-
gressions have taken place. China must re-
alise that there are limits to what fear and
intimidation can achieve. The dragon may
spit fire but the mighty elephant can extin-
guish it by shooting water through its trunk.
The tragic deaths of our brave and coura-
geous soldiers cannot and should not go in
vain. This is a time for firm resolve and pru-
dence, to stay united and determined in the
commitment to protect the integrity of the
nation and its people.
The writer is the leader of
Congress in Lok Sabha

disconnect between people and the political party

A
TAWDRY POLITICAL spectacle is unfolding in Rajasthan, even as the people of
the state, like elsewhere in the country and the world, are battling the coron-

avirusepidemic.AheadoftheRajyaSabhapollsonJune19,therulingCongress
partyhasparkedoverahundredMLAssupportingitsgovernmentinaluxury
resort near Jaipur. On Tuesday, the BJP followed suit by transporting its legislators to a hotel
inthecity.TheCongressleadershiphasclaimedthatthelegislatorsweremovedtotheresort
to shield them from poaching by the BJP, a claim the BJP dismisses while claiming that its
own MLAs are in the hotel for a two-day workshop to discuss and debate issues, including
voting inthe RSelection. Onshowisashockingdisconnect between the peopleandthepo-
litical parties. At a time when the people are reeling under a grave health and economic cri-
sis,theirelectedrepresentatives,whooughttobeintheforefrontof thebattletosecurelives
Anhad S Miglani and Sarthak Gupta
and livelihoods, are being herded in and out of hotels, under a cloud of mistrust and amid
THE HARYANA GOVERNMENT in May noti-
swirling rumours of cash offers. fied an amendment to its Official Language
ThedramainRajasthancomesinthebackdropof developmentsinGujarat,whereeight Act, brought in to compulsorily mandate the
Congress MLAs have resigned their seats ahead of the RS polls. The Congress has alleged use of Hindi in subordinate courts and tri-
that the resignations came at the behest of the BJP. The BJP has unsurprisingly refuted the bunals across the state. The move, as per the
allegationandaskedtheCongressnottoblameitforitsownfailuretoholdontoitslegisla- chief minister’s statement to the Assembly,
tors. Similar allegations and counter-allegations were made ahead of government forma- was to ensure that people get justice in
their own language, thereby making the
tioninMadhyaPradesh,MaharashtraandKarnatakarecently.Theonlydifferencewasthat
judicial system more litigant friendly.
the visible flight of the MLAs, in some cases to other states, and the alleged power-broker- Although there was never a bar on the use of
ingdidnottakeplaceinthemidstof apublichealthemergency.Currently,bothGujaratand Hindi in Haryana’s courts, English had been
Rajasthan have been hard hit by COVID-19. Gujarat, especially, has been visibly struggling the preferred choice in many courts and
in its fightback. districts.
Our legal system is an institutional inher-
Byallaccounts,theBJPhasbeenpursuingamajorityintheRajyaSabhasince2014.Onthe
other side, faced with the BJP’s unrelenting will to power, a divided and dispirited Congress
itance from the time of the British Raj — the
Englishlanguage,thus,ispartof aninextrica-
partycanonlycomplainaboutitsopponent’spredatoryinstinctsevenasitsownlegislators blefoundation.Suchwasthefamiliaritywith
jumpship,uninhibitedlyexploreotherpoliticaloptions.Thatthisdrearydramaplaysoutin English for official work that post-
the middle of a pandemic, uninterrupted, is a telling statement of a dismal politics discon- Independence, the Constituent Assembly
nected from the people’s concerns. chose to retain it, in addition to Hindi, as the
OfficialLanguageoftheUnion.Further,Article
348 of the Constitution was categorically
drafted to stipulate that proceedings in the
THE STANDS ARE EMPTY
highcourtsandtheSupremeCourtwouldbe
conducted in English, and that the authorita-
tive text of all acts, orders, rules and regula-
tions would be in English subject to
Disappearance of the home advantage in competitive sport Parliament enacting a law otherwise. It was
asserted that English had become critical to
could change the game, for better and worse the interpretation and application of laws,
LANGUAGE OF JUSTICE
Mandating of Hindi in Haryana’s lower courts will run up against challenges
There is no gainsaying the
fact that more people in
Haryana understand Hindi
better than they do English,
but conflating colloquial
convenience with the
technical exactitude required
for the application of law —
most of which is in English
— may lead to
counterproductive results. It
is important to note that
Haryana's own State Judicial
Examination continues to be
alyticalaccuracyasrequiredforlegalinterpre-
tation. Consequently, and in the absence of
any sustained effort to develop and enrich
Hindi for such a purpose, English continued
to be the language of choice for the legal
system.
There is no gainsaying the fact that more
people in Haryana understand Hindi better
thantheydoEnglish,butconflatingcolloquial
conveniencewiththetechnicalexactitudere-
quired for the application of law — most of
whichisinEnglish—mayleadtocounterpro-
ductive results. It is important to note that
Haryana’s own State Judicial Examination
continues to be conducted in English, with
Hindi only being a separate paper. Moreover,
the Bar Council of India’s Rules of Legal
Education prescribe English as the default
mediumofinstructionforalllawcourses,and
even those institutions which seek to allow
instruction in another language are required
to conduct a compulsory examination for
English proficiency. Such a systemic and in-
stitutionalisedpredominanceofthelanguage,
including within Haryana itself, is also cou-
pled with the fact that major laws, judicial
precedents,commentariesandotherlegalre-
sources are all primarily available in English
only.
While the Amendment does envisage six
quality of justice itself. Notably, a similar
amendment was brought in by Punjab in
2008, but if actual progress made on the
ground there is any indication of its success,
the Haryana government might want to re-
consider.
Interestingly, in 2007, when the law com-
mission had solicited the views of various le-
galluminariesontheintroductionof Hindiin
the SC and the high courts, Justice B N
Srikrishnahadfairlyremarkedthatunlesstwo
generationsof lawyersweretrainedinHindi,
such a move would not be feasible. It would
indeedbeidealforourjusticedeliverysystem
to function in the common tongue. But an is-
sue as important as this needs to be ap-
proachedfromapracticalstandpointdespite
its moral and emotive charm.
What is required is not an abrupt imposi-
tion of governmental choice, but the gradual
creation of an atmosphere for all stakehold-
erstomovetowardsadoptingthelanguagein
theirowninterest,andintheinterestofafairer
system of justice — the SC’s move to make its
judgmentsavailableinregionallanguagesisa
case in point. Of course, changes in attitudes,
systems and institutions take time, but these
will also offer a far more sustainable, just and
efficient manner of giving shape to the
Haryana government’s stated intention.

A
which too were originally drafted in English. months for building infrastructure and for
WAVEOF optimismsweepsEngland,asthePremierLeague is poisedtostart conducted in English, with
Hindi, or other Indian languages, could only trainingstaff,itisunlikelytobeadequatetime The writers are alumni of National Law
again, albeit without spectators screaming and clapping from the stands. be used for such a purpose once it developed Hindi only being a separate for lawyersand judges to effectively re-equip School, Bengaluru, and are currently
Though players will take some time to get used to the bewildering silence, thesamekindofcapacity,knowledgeandan- paper. themselves without compromising on the practising advocates based out of Chandigarh
they will eventually adjust to it. More worryingly, the absence of the crowd
could even out the home advantage, as it has seemed to do in the Bundesliga.
In these “ghost games”, there has been a massive downswing in results for home sides
intheleague.DataproducedbyGracenoteshowsthatbeforetheBundesligaclosed,home
teams won 43 per cent of the 223 games played, with 35 per cent being away wins and JUNE 17, 1980, FORTY YEARS AGO
22 per cent draws. However, upon resumption in empty stadiums, wins for home teams
have slumped to 21 per cent while away teams have won as many as half of their games. RAIL BUDGET ningstaffoftheDelhiDivisionoftheNorthern IMPHAL IMPASSE
Likewise, home teams have scored fewer goals — 1.23 per match, down from 1.74 before RAILWAY FARES AND freight rates have been Railwaywascalledofffollowinganagreement THETALKSBETWEENthePrimeMinisterand
the league’s suspension — in the silence of the stadium. What lifts the game, what makes raised steeply in the revised railway budget with the authorities. The agreement to end thenine-partydelegationfromManipurfailed
for1980-81presentedtotheLokSabhabythe the strike was signed following a four-hour- to thrash out a stand on the issue of foreign
players feel special, is the history etched into the walls, and the people that fill the stands.
railwayminister,KamlapatiTripathi.Thenew long discussion between the leaders or the nationals and Indian migrants in the state,
While great teams win irrespective of where the game is played and the sample size levies will bring the railways additional rev- All-India Loco Running Staff Association and sources said in Imphal. The meeting, which
of the survey is small — leaders Bayern Munich have won all six of their games including enueofRs204.24croreandenableittobridge R K Natesan, general manager, Northern tookplaceinDelhilastFriday,couldnotbring
three at home — a boisterous home crowd could make a lot of difference, a hostile crowd the budgetary gap, which has widened from Railway.Accordingtotheagreement,theloco out a categorical definition of a foreigner or a
could gnaw on the players’ mind. It’s why certain stadiums are feared, and it’s in these Rs 38.12 crore in March this year to Rs 161.53 runningstaffwilljoindutyatmidnight.Thisis final decision on the inner line system.
stands that some of the great sporting rivalries have originated. On the other hand, the crore in June and convert the deficit budget thefirsttimethattheRailwayshavesignedan Meanwhile,studentandyouthactivistsof the
into a surplus one. All categories of railway agreementwithanon-recognisedemployees CPItookoutaprocessioninImphaldemand-
evennessof acontestcouldmakegamesmoreintriguingandcompetitive.Untilthespec-
fares have been raised. association. M Menezes, chairman, Railway ing the expulsion of foreigners and restora-
tators start filling in, playing away from home wouldn’t be as taxing a proposition as it Board,however,toldnewsmenthatthesign- tionof theinnerlinesystem.UnlikeinAssam,
used to be. In times when every stream of life is forced to pause and recalibrate, so must LOCO STRIKE OFF ingoftheagreementdidnotamounttorecog- the CPI unit in Manipur has taken a stand in
football and footballers too. THE TEN-DAY-OLD STRIKE by the loco run- nition of the union. support of anti-foreigners agitation.

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11
THE INDIAN EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 2020
THE IDEAS PAGE
A moment of solidarity
Protests sparked by killing of George Floyd, across the world, draw attention to how much and how little
has changed on race and justice
Sanjib Baruah
THE WORLDWIDE PROTESTS against police
violenceandracialinjusticestirredbythepo-
licekilling,inasmallAmericancity,of George
Floyd — a black man few had heard of till re-
cently — has taken many people by surprise.
In Western European countries — espe-
ciallythosewithahistoryofcolonialconquest
— echoes of racially-discriminatory policing
athomehaveanimatedprotesters.Thisistrue
also of countries like Australia and New
Zealand that share with the United States a
historyof awhitesettlerpast.Thesearecoun-
trieswhere,astheAfricanthinkerMahmood
Mamdani puts it, settler colonialism was vic-
torious—unlikeAfricawherethesettlercolo-
nialism was defeated.
In some countries, domestic critics have
been suspicious of the cosmopolitan gesture
of fellow citizens protesting police brutality
andracialinjusticeinapowerfulandwealthy
foreign country. In India, critics have legiti-
mately called out the hypocrisy of elites who
express digital solidarity with American pro-
testers but ignore police violence and racial
prejudiceathome.Bollywoodcelebrities,says
one critic, “tweet for American lives but can't
tweet for Indian lives”.
Yet,apalpablesenseof politicalsolidarity
thatdrawsonasharedunderstandingofracial
injustice is amply evident in these protest
marches, vigils and painted murals. The sig-
nificanceofthisextraordinaryoutburstofsol-
idarity should not be minimised.
In the United States, there have been calls
for radical police reforms, and evidence of a
new willingness on the part of many in the
white majority for introspection of the coun-
try’s legacy of racial oppression. There is gen-
uineappreciationamongstBlackLivesMatter
activistsof gesturesof solidarityfromabroad.
Butfewobservershavebotheredtopayatten-
tiontotheglobalhistoryofracialthinkingand
the ideology of racial hierarchy that provides
the context for this moment of solidarity.
Perhaps the last time the world saw the
mobilisationof thisparticularformof nation-
state-transcending solidarity was in support
of the South African anti-Apartheid struggle.
Activists in both the global south and the
global north joined postcolonial state actors
—includingIndia—inacceptingtheviewthat
the Apartheid regime was an obvious case of
institutionalisedracismthatcouldbedisman-
tled only with concerted global action. This
formofsolidarityagainstracialviolence,how-
ever, has a much older history.
Prophetic political thinkers saw the need
foritmorethanacenturyago.FortheAfrican
American intellectual, W E B DuBois (1868-
1963), the race problem in America “is but a
local phase of a world problem.” His widely
quotedline,“theproblemof the20thcentury
istheproblemof thecolourline”captureshis
political vision.
In a 1915 essay, DuBois framed the issue
in global terms sharply laying out the racial
ideologybehindcolonialismandthescramble
foroverseasterritories. The“brutaltruth”be-
coming more and more evident to “the yel-
low, brown, and black men”, he wrote, is that
“a white man is privileged to go to any land
M Jagadesh Kumar
DEEP FAITH IN education and the process of
itsacquisitionhasbeenanancientpracticein
India, for that is the only way to happiness
and prosperity. As a prime centre of learning
in India, JNU has in the last year taken signif-
icant steps to maintain symphony with the
vision of the Indian government to become
an enviable institution.
As the Union government introduced
variousschemes,especiallyunderthePandit
Madan Mohan Malviya Mission on Teachers
and Training, JNU launched several pro-
grammes to contribute towards this vision
of India. Through its Office of Research and
Development, JNU encouraged and incen-
tivised its various schools and special cen-
tres to participate in research and teaching
andapplyforprojects,alsoof aninterdiscipli-
nary nature. Many teachers have success-
fully acquired such projects from funding
agencies both in the government and non-
government sectors. To facilitate interdisci-
plinary research, JNU has opened at least six
majorschoolsandspecialcentres,whichwill
acceleratethepaceof researchaswellaspro-
vide the necessary infrastructure for train-
ing the youth.
The School of Engineering, with its
unique programme of five-year dual-degree
courses,willaugmentthenewly-established
Atal Bihari Vajpayee School of Management
and Entrepreneurship. These two new
schools along with other schools of sciences
will benefitdirectly from the Atal Incubation
where advantage beckons and behave as he
pleases; the black or coloured man is being
moreandmoreconfinedtothosepartsof the
world where life for climatic, historical, eco-
nomic, and political reasons is most difficult
to live and most easily dominated by Europe
for Europe’s gain”.
Onsimilar lines,theIndiannationalistin-
tellectual, Lala Lajpat Rai (1865-1928) wrote
of “the right of the white man to inherit the
earth” being accepted as an indisputable ax-
iom. The white man can go to any part of the
worldwiththeassumptionthathewas“born
topossesstheearthandthatthecolouredman
wasborntobehishewerof woodanddrawer
of water, used if he needed him and thrown
aside if he did not need him”. While “every
riff raff of a European, not to speak of British
colonials,” he complained, “has free admit-
tanceintoIndia,”Indianssufferdoubly.Onthe
one hand, “his country is open to the compe-
titionof thewholeworld,”ontheotherhand,
“he is debarred from admittance even into
parts of the British dominion”.
Referring to the tenacious efforts by self-
governing white settler colonies such as
Canada and Australia to exclude Indians, de-
spite the shared bond of citizenship of the
British empire, Rai wrote prophetically — in
words reminiscent of DuBois’ famous line —
that “the dread of the Asiatic is the dominant
factintheworldtoday,anditwilllargelygov-
ern the politics of the 20th century.”
Itisremarkablehowmuchasymmetryin
global mobility, even after the end of empire,
continues to resemble the world of DuBois
and Rai. Instead of explicit racial restrictions,
we now have borders of rich democracies
guarded primarily by a passport and visa
regimethatcreatesaglobalhierarchyofpass-
ports.Thoseissuedbymostlywhiterichcoun-
tries — barring a couple of non-white ones —
giveprivilegedvisa-freeaccesstomanymore
countries than the passports of black and
brown poor countries. This covert form of
whiteprivilegeeludestheattentionofitsben-
eficiaries, but not of its black and brown vic-
tims.
DuBoisandRaiwerefriends. Asharedun-
derstandingof theinternationalnatureof the
race question was key to their friendship and
cooperation. The two first met during Rai’s
long stay in the United States during the First
World War. They met and conversed on sev-
University and Nation
JNU’sprogrammesandinitiativeschimewithalargervision forIndia
Centre(AIC),whichwas recentlyestablished
at JNU with the support of Niti Aayog. The
AIC aims to become the leader as an incuba-
tion centre in the country, facilitating re-
search and startups.
In its mission of self-reliance, which has
been driving its policies for several years but
celebratedrecentlyundertheCOVID-19pan-
demic, the Centre has been encouraging
many indigenous programmes in the coun-
try’s health and security infrastructure
throughthe Ayushministry.Recognisingthe
potential in these areas, JNU has opened
three new special centres and a degree pro-
gramme. The five-year BSC-MSc integrated
programmeinAyurvedabiologywillexplore
and exploit research in India’s traditional
knowledge of medicine and wellness. This
programme will become uniquelyattractive
because scholars and teachers from biolog-
ical sciences, humanities and social sciences
will be part of it. Experts from the newly es-
tablishedSchoolof SanskritandIndicStudies
will read and interpret medical knowledge
andpracticesavailableinancienttexts.Itwill
not only be an exciting combination of the
oldandthenew,butitwillpreparetheyouth
to become medical workers and future re-
searchers.
The Special Centre for North East Studies
will fulfil the ambition of the central govern-
ment to integrate the north-eastern regions
of India with the rest of the country and to
use the unique knowledge and skills of its
It is remarkable how much
asymmetry in global
mobility, even after the end
of empire, continues to
resemble the world of
DuBois and Rai. Instead of
explicit racial restrictions we
now have borders of rich
democracies guarded
primarily by a passport and
visa regime that creates a
global hierarchy of
passports. Those issued by
mostly white rich countries
— barring a couple of non-
white ones — give privileged
visa-free access to many
more countries than
passports of black and
brown poor countries.
people in various fields of research.
Two newspecialcentres— studiesindis-
aster research and national security — have
already begun their work in collaboration
with the home ministry and its nodal cen-
tre, the National Institute Disaster
Management,toprovideplatformsforpolicy,
researchandtraininginIndia’sdisasterman-
agement programmes and security analysis.
Forthousandsof years,Indiahasbelieved
that “wisdom alleviates misery”. Work to-
wardsIndia’seconomicandscientificgrowth
cannot be a luxury for any academic leader,
it must be the dharma for us who have been
tasked to impart training in the field of edu-
cation and scientific research. When I took
over as JNU’s vice-chancellor four years ago,
I had set myself the goal of intensifying aca-
demic and research activities. Every vice-
chancellor or director of an institute faces
impediments in fulfilling their mission— we
are a challenging, diverse society. But I have
also learnt that if one is committed to serv-
ing the nation, success will come. The pro-
grammes that I have tried to bring to JNU re-
quired both administrative and financial
support – and both the UGC and the MHRD
provided assistance when needed.
When COVID-19 struck our nation, JNU
quickly scrambled with the assistance of its
various academic administrators, deans,
chairpersons, indeed of all its teachers, to
keep every member of the university safe
and to continue with our academic activities
C R Sasikumar
eraloccasionsatDuBois’home,hisofficeand
in civic clubs.
Intheprefacetohis1916book,TheUnited
States of America: A Hindu’s Impressions and a
Study,RaiacknowledgesDuBois’help.Hislet-
ters of introduction opened doors to him in
exploring“theconditionsandproblemsofthe
coloured people.” The other prominent
African American figures that Rai acknowl-
edges for providing help and support in the
courseofhis“studyoftheNegroprobleminits
different phases” were Booker T Washington
—oneof themostinfluentialAfricanAfricans
ofthetimeandDubois’ideologicalrival—and
theeducatorJohnHope,thethenPresidentof
Morehouse College, the historically black
men’s college in Atlanta, Georgia.
Rai and DuBois maintained correspon-
dence after Rai returned to India in 1920. The
Crisis, the magazine of the National
AssociationfortheAdvancementof Coloured
People (NAACP), then edited by DuBois, re-
ported on the progress of the anti-colonial
movementinIndia;theircorrespondencein-
formed those articles. DuBois sought Rai’s
feedback on the draft of his novel, The Dark
Princess,regardedbysomeas“oneofthemost
significant moments” in the “history of Afro-
Asian internationalism”. The novel, said
DuBois in his letter to Rai accompanying the
draft, “touches India incidentally in the per-
son of an Indian princess”.
Included among the enclosures in the
same letter were six issues of The Crisis and,
significantly, “one picture of a lynching”. Rai
died in Lahore onNovember 17, 1928. The of-
ficial cause of death was a heart attack. But, it
was widely believed that the injuries he suf-
fered a few days earlier from the blows of a
police baton at a violently dispersed protest
demonstration precipitated his death.
On hearing the news, DuBois wrote a let-
ter to the editor of The Lahore People. “When
a man of his sort can be called a revolutionist
and beaten to death by a great civilised gov-
ernment,”hesaid,“thenindeedrevolutionbe-
comes a duty to all right-thinking men.”
Remarkably, the lesson that DuBois drew
from the circumstances of Lajpat Rai’s death
continues to resonate until this day — almost
a hundred years later.
The writer is Professor of Political Studies
at Bard College, New York
with as little disturbance as possible. A
COVID-19 Task Force was constituted in the
university which regularly advises the ad-
ministration on how to adjust to the pan-
demic. Following every advisory and guide-
line issued by the Centre and the state
government, the university facilitated the
safe evacuation of students from the cam-
pus and arranged safe accommodation for
thosestudents who couldnotmove out.JNU
arranged training programmes, where re-
quired, for teachers to move to online in-
struction. Soon, I was happy to note, all the
schoolsandcentresbeganengagingstudents
through various online platforms.
We are in constant discussion with JNU’s
academic administrators to find solutions to
any new problems that may present them-
selves.JNUhadalreadyintroducedpaperless
movementofadministrativefiles,andduring
thepandemic,eachmemberoftheuniversity
hasfounditextremelyeasytoreachouttothe
administration through the e-Office.
The initiatives taken over the past year
and more are aimed not only to facilitate
high-level teaching and research but also to
empowerandskillourcountry’syouthtobe-
come a self-reliant, self-employed and self-
sustaining human resource of our country.
TheseinitiativeschimeinwithAtmaNirbhar
Bharat, the latest clarion call by the Prime
Minister.
The writer is vice-chancellor of JNU
WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
“Pakistan is running into a full-on horror show which will not let up if the
government continues its policy of pleading and volunteer policing.” —DAWN
Chronicle of a
havoc foretold
Whyweren’tmigrantsassistedtogohomeearlier?Why
aretheybeingwooedbacknow?Therearenoanswers
Nalini Singh
AT 8 PM on March 24, there were 564 re-
ported COVID-19 cases in the country, with
Kerala clocking the highest number at 107,
andacountry-widetollof 10deaths.Atthat
hour,theCOVID-19caseloadamongthefour
toeightcrorecasualmigrantwagelabourers
was very low, and their chance of infecting
eachotherorpersonsintheirproximitywas
almost negligible.
Yet,theywereaskedtostayputandim-
mobilisethemselvesintheirurbanshelters
—aeuphemismfortheshantiestheycalled
“home”. As word spread that all the “facto-
ries” were pulling down shutters, they re-
alisedthattheyhadlosttheirinformaljobs.
Pauperisationloomed,especiallyinmetros
and cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Ahmedabad,
Surat, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bhatinda.
Overnight, lakhs of these dispossessed
workers started their 1,200-km journeys
home, on foot, cycle-carts, jugaad scooties,
cement mixers — scenes which have been
imprinted indelibly on the country’s con-
sciousness.
Ateachdistrictorstateborder,theywere
met with police lathis and bureaucratic ob-
stinacybecausetheprimeministerhadan-
nounced the world’s strictest lockdown at
four hours’ notice, which the police inter-
preted as licence to dominate the streets.
Remember that at this stage, the migrant
labourers plodding home had a very low
chance of contracting or spreading COVID-
19sincethecaseloadinthecountrywas564,
and asymptomatic occurrence of the virus
was proportionally slight.
While lakhs of migrants left on their
treacherous journeys home, crores of oth-
ers were not able to go back because they
had small children, pregnant women or
olderfamilymemberswiththem,orsimply
lackedthefewhundredrupeestheyneeded
for this journey. Soon their meagre savings
ran out, they were turfed-out by landlords,
who, of course, did not heed the govern-
ment’s “advisory” to forego rents, and
hordesof destitutefamiliesmovedtopave-
mentsorunderflyovers—luckyif onepub-
lic toilet was available for 1,000 persons.
Over the next eight weeks, at least two
crore migrants and families waited in such
alarming circumstances for government
helptoreturnhome.Datashowthatduring
these weeks, the COVID-19 virus made its
journeythroughcitiesatanexponentialrate,
from persons who had returned to India
from Wuhan, Italy, UK, Spain, the Middle
East and from thousands of foreigners who
congregatedfortheTablighiJamaatinDelhi.
The migrants who had to huddle to-
getherinunhygienicclustersbecamemore
susceptibletogettinginfected,andthenin-
fecting others. With each passing day, this
susceptibilitygalloped.Bythesecondweek
of May, when the Shramik Special trains
gathered pace and started transporting the
strandedworkersandtheirfamiliesbackto
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
NO REAL SECURITY
Thisreferstothereport,‘ShahvisitsLNJP,
says recovered should get good-health
certificates’(IE,June16).Thereisnomen-
tion if the certificates will be given after
serologicaltestsforthepresenceof anti-
bodies in the patients who have recov-
ered from COVID-19. The WHO has
warned that only around 2 to 3 per cent
of the population have actually devel-
opedantibodiesagainstCovid-19.There
is also no evidence that people who re-
coverhaveantibodiesthatprotectthem
againstasecondinfection.Thesecertifi-
cates may give false sense of security.
L R Murmu, Delhi
NEW HEGEMON
THISREFERSTOthearticle'Astatement
of power',(IE,June16).Chinaistryingto
open multiple fronts by its unprovoked
militaryactionsonlandandseaborders.
Theweakeningofglobalinstitutionsdue
to hasty US actions in renegotiating its
multipleinternationalcommitmenthas
perhaps given an ambitious China the
impetus to rejig global order.
Sudip Kumar Dey, Kolkata
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towns in states, the trains also transported
the virus as a free rider in a much heavier
“load” than if these casual labourers had
been assisted to return to their villages in
March. Quarantine centres at which the
Shramik Special passengers had been de-
tained, allegedly for seven to 14 days, were
so porous that several state governments,
such as Bihar, disbanded them.
Startlingly,therefore,thereversemigra-
tion of countless migrant labourers in May
and June has given a passage to the COVID-
19pathogentothecountry’spooresthinter-
lands in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh,
Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and districts in
West Bengal and Odisha. This would have
been almost completely mitigated if the
Shramik Specials had started in March. A
doctorinadistricthospitalinBiharsummed
up the current plight in the villages, “Public
koaamkeachaarkitarahCOVIDketelmein
duba diya gaya hai”. (The public has been
marinated in this COVID pathogen.)
“Chronology samajhiye”, to use a well-
known political phrase: In March, when
croresofthemigrantshadaverylowchance
of being infected or infecting their neigh-
bours in their home villages with the virus,
thegovernmentfrozetheirmovement,drag-
ging the ban on movement for excruciating
weeks.AndinMayandJuneanduptotoday,
whenthechanceofinfectionisexponentially
higher,bothtothemselvesandtheircontacts
in their villages, the government has now
provided trains and buses back to their
homes on “humanitarian” grounds.
There’s yet another twist. In the last 10
days, buses from Punjab, Andhra Pradesh
have reached villages in Bihar, Chattisgarh,
UP to fetch the migrants back to their origi-
nalworksitesforpaddysowingorcomplet-
ing irrigation projects. Construction firms,
such as the Prestige Group of Hyderabad,
have flown back carpenters from Patna.
Otherfirmsareflyingbackpainters,granite
workers,scaffoldingexpertsfromJharkhand
andWestBengal.Willthere-reversemigra-
tion be considered a formidable source of
COVID-19 infection in the cities? If so, then
whyaremigrantsbeingtransportedbackin
doubletrackShramikSpecials,andwhyare
theybeingfacilitatedtoreturntotheirwork-
places? But if they are not spreaders of in-
fection,whyweretheyandothersprevented
from returning home?
The COVID emergency had been build-
ingupsinceearlyJanuary,whentheMinistry
of Health claims it started tracking the virus
in China. But in the first three months of the
year, other priorities claimed our top lead-
ers’ attention — anti-CAA protests, US
PresidentDonaldTrump’svisit,includingthe
Moterastadiumcongregation,communalri-
ots, toppling of the MP government.
There is no evidence that the PMO, cab-
inet secretariat and various ministries had
startedimplementinganorderlyevacuation
of susceptible populations from the cities
(COVID-19 hotspots) since January, but 12
weekslaterwhenthefirstprecipitateaction
of the March 24 lockdown did come, it fell
it like a guillotine on India’s aspirational
poorestwhohadalmostnochanceofinfect-
ingothers.And,nowthesamemigrantsare
being wooed back. Who devised this irra-
tionalscheme?Whoapprovedit?Whowill
unmask the truth?
The writer is a senior journalist
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SHAH TAKES CHARGE
THIS REFERS TO the editorial, ‘As Delhi
fumbles’ (IE, June 15). Union Home
Minister Amit Shah deserves compli-
ments for taking charge of the deterio-
rating COVID situation in Delhi. Shah
held a series of meetings with the Delhi
government and leaders of all parties
in the city. However, if the situation in
Delhi does not improve soon, then
thought should be given for a stricter
lockdown.
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THE INDIAN EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 2020
The making of Covid isolation coaches
Across India, over 5,000 railway coaches have been
converted into isolation units for Covid patients.
A look at how the idea took shape, how the coaches
were redesigned, and where they will be deployed
AVISHEK G DASTIDAR
NEW DELHI, JUNE 16
ONSUNDAY,UnionHomeMinisterAmitShah,
after a meeting with Delhi Chief Minister
Arvind Kejriwal, declared that 500 Covid iso-
lation coaches would be deployed in Delhi. So
far, over 5,000 coaches have been converted
into Covid isolation coaches across India.
What are these coaches?
In March, Railways was sounded out by the
PMO and the government’s multi-ministerial
outbreak-containment apparatus that train
coachescouldalsobeusedasalastresorttokeep
isolatedpatients.Officialslaterclaimedtheidea
firstcamefromPrimeMinisterNarendraModi.
Sofar,5,321non-ACsleeperclasscoachesof
ICF variety (older design) have been converted
by the 16 zonal railways through their work-
shopsspreadacrossIndia.Thesearedeveloped
asCOVIDCareLevel1centres—aspertheHealth
Ministry classification of COVID facilities—
where suspected cases or those with mild
symptoms are to be kept. Suspected and con-
firmed cases will be kept in separate coaches.
Besides the 500 being deployed in Delhi,
Telangana has requested for 60 coaches in
three locations, and UP has requested in 24 lo-
cations. Many states are said to be informally
enquiring about the coaches in zones.
How were these coaches selected?
Early into the pandemic, health experts
wereof theviewthatair-conditionedenviron-
ments might aid the spread of the virus. Well-
ventilated,airyenvironmentswerethought to
besafer.India’sdecisiontousenon-ACcoaches
for islation has to be viewed in that context.
As per targets given to the 16 zonal rail-
ways,5,000oldercoaches,surplustoRailways’
operational needs, were marked for conver-
sion.Witheachcarrying16patients,thistrans-
lates into 80,000 isolation/quarantine beds.
Railways said it has set aside 20,000 coaches
and if needed, more conversions can be done.
How were they converted?
Eachsleepercoachisdividedintoeightbays
or “cabins”. The idea was to remove the middle
berths so that each bay carries two patients on
the lower berths — a capacity of 16 per coach.
Twoofthefourtoiletswereconvertedintobath-
rooms. The windows were covered with mos-
quitonets.Powerplugsocketswereinstalledfor
medicalequipmentineachbay.Andplasticcur-
tains were installed in every cabin. Each coach
also has oxygen cylinders. Each coach has been
convertedatacostaroundRs2lakh.Sothe5,321
coacheshavebeenconvertedatoverRs100crore.
What were the challenges faced?
The summer heat in the coach was always a
CORONAVIRUS DASHBOARD
Cases of pregnant
women infecting 299,594
United Kingdom
baby with Covid
found uncommon
2,123,124
THE FACT that pregnant womenwith Covid- US
19 can transmit the virus to thefoetus is now 232,992
well documented: a few such cases have Peru
been reported from around the world. Now,
a study has found that such transmission is 888,271
uncommon. Also, the rate of infection is no
Brazil
greater when the baby is born vaginally,
breastfed or allowed contact with the
mother. And babies that did test positive for
Covid-19, were mostly asymptomatic.
TOTAL CONFIRMED: 8,079,076
Source: Johns Hopkins University, updated at 11 pm on June 15 . JHU’s India tally and
The findings are published in BJOG: An
International Journal of Obstetrics and
Gynaecology.Thestudywasconductedbyex-
perts from the School of Medicine at the
University of
INDIA COUNT: 3,43,091 (9,900 DEATHS)
Nottingham,who
undertook a re- TOP 10 STATES
viewof49studies
looking into this
7,722
Haryana
topic. The studies
reviewed in- 12,981
PAPER cluded 666 Rajasthan
CLIP neonates (new-
born babies) and
655 women (as
NEW RESEARCH somewomende-
24,055
livered twins). Of Gujarat
the women who delivered their babies vagi-
nally, only eight out of 292 (2.7%) had a baby 1,10.744
whichtestedpositiveforCovid-19.Of the364 Maharashtra
women who had a caesarean, 20 (5.3%) had a
baby which tested positive for Covid-19. 7,213
The researchers referred to suggestions Karnataka
thatitwassafertohaveacaesarean,toisolate
the baby from the mother at birth and to for-
mulafeed,butfoundthere was verylittleev- UnionHealthMinistryupdateasof 11pm,June16.Somestatesmayhave
idence to support these guidelines. The find- reportedhighernumbers.Onlystates/UTswithatleastonecaselistedabove.
ingsshowthatneonatalCovid-19infectionis 1,29,313 PATIENTS DISCHARGED IN 33 STATES AND UNION TERRITORIES
uncommon, and also commonly asympto-
matic in those babies who are affected. Have a question on the COVID-19 outbreak and what you should/should not do?
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SIMPLY PUT QUESTION &ANSWER
5,000 coaches, up to 16 patients in each
The Covid isolation coaches are
designed for a capacity of 16
patients each — seated in the 2
matterofdiscussion,notonlyinRailwaysbutalso lower berths in each of the 8 cabins
intheEmpoweredGroupofSecretariesbasedon or bays (in some designs, the cabin
whoseinputsthecoacheswereconverted. is stripped of five of its six berths).
Several ideas were discussed, including A total of 215 stations have been
erecting shamianas over the coaches, or paint-
identified across India; coaches are
ing the roof with “solar reflective” paints.
Finally, it was decided the roof would be insu- to be deployed on states’ request.
latedin a number of coaches.Thetechnicalso-
lution was vetted by the Research Designs and
StandardsOrganisationof Railways.Asolution At Anand Vihar station, Delhi, a
has been developed by IIT Mumbai which
coach in the process of being
brings down the temperature in the coach by
several degrees. Railways has attached an AC converted. Prem Nath Pandey
coach as well, for doctors and medical staff.
Anotherquestionwashowtodisposeof toi- GENERAL
let waste if the coaches were in remote areas
andwhethersuchwastewaspotentiallyinfec- Mosquito nets on windows
tious. It was agreed that since chlorine tablets
areplacedinthechambersof thebiotoilets,the
risk was neutralised. In any case, bio-enzymes
inthetoilettankstakecareof thehumanwaste.
Another question was placement. The bat-
teries of the coaches need to be charged and Rail level DOCTOR’S CABIN: Middle berth removed, trays
the water needs to be replenished. Not all ar- and folding tables provided
eas in India might have such facilities. After
discussions with the Health Ministry, 215 sta- BATHROOM & TOILET Bath stool Door closed Bottle holders, coat hook
One Indian-style lavatory to be FIRST CABIN: permanently in each cabin
tionswereidentifiedacrossIndia.Theideawas
that being mobile units, they could be dis- converted into bathroom STORE/PARAMEDICS AREA
patched to any part of the country to pick up
patients and come back to their bases.
Of the215stations,Railwayswouldprovide
theirownhealthcareprofessionalsforpatients
in 85. In the other 130, states would have to
arrangedoctorsandmedicalstaff,asperapro-
Folding table
tocolissuedbytheHealthMinistry.Eachisola-
tion train will be tied to the nearest hospital. Four toilets; two of them to be Hospital curtains in Side berth will have clamps Dustbins with foot-
The Centre will not deploy these coaches at converted into bathrooms aisle at entry and exit for two oxygen cylinders operated lid in each cabin
will;stateswillhavetorequestforthem.Atleast
10coaches,oronetrain,willhavetobedeployed
in one place. States can request for more.
SLEEPER
The Ministry of Environment and Forest Bath stool
Side berth will have clamps Middle berth removed Bottle holders, coat
and Climate Change has provided a one-time
BATHROOM & TOILET for two oxygen cylinders in each cabin hook in each cabin
exemption from registration of train coaches
for the purpose of generating hospital waste. One Indian-style lavatory to be FIRST CABIN:
The state is supposed to dispose waste. converted into bathroom STORE/PARAMEDICS AREA
Railways will maintain the coaches, provide
linen and may provide food also, depending
on feasibility, if requested by states.
Will these be upgraded further?
NITI Aayog in early May proposed that in- Hospital
steadof mereCOVIDCareLevel1centres,some curtains in Folding Dustbins with
of these coaches should be upgraded to hospi- aisle at entry table foot-operated lid
tals,withoxygen,ICUandventilatorfacilities.It Height of tap raised to in each cabin
accommodate bucket; hand and exit
was also suggested that Railways could take
showers provided Mosquito nets on windows
helpfromprivatehospitalsfortheupgrade.Ina
meeting with Railways, NITI Member V K Paul,
whoisalsotheheadoftherelevantEmpowered
Committee, suggested that the coaches be up-
graded to Level II and III COVID Care Centres.
Railways discussed internally that such a task
PATIENT’S CABIN: Middle, upper berths removed;
would require months. One rake of Lifeline Rail level in this photo, fve of the six berths removed
Express, which is “hospital on wheels” with all
medical facilities, takes months to roll out.
Source: All information from Indian Railways
THIS WORD MEANS: DEXAMETHASONE
THE WORLD A badminton legend, a football star,
latest Covid drug: what’s common?
237,290
Italy 192,439
Iran
544,725
Russia
194,305
France
MIHIR VASAVDA
NEW DELHI, JUNE 16
RESEARCHERS LEADING a major clinical trial
intheUKannouncedonTuesdaythatthedrug
343,091 dexamethasone had been found to cut death
India ratesbyaroundathirdinthemostseverelyill
amongCovid-19patients.The“firstdrugtobe
244,328 shown to improve survival” in the pandemic
Spain
was hailed by British Prime Minister Boris
Johnson as “the biggest breakthrough yet” in
DEATH COUNT: 438,399 the fight against the novel coronavirus.
The low-cost, anti-inflammatory steroid Lee Chong Wei and Sergio Ramos (right) have used dexamethasone in the past
Health Ministry’s tally (below) may sometimes not match.
is well known in the world of sport.
Dexamethasone has been used for years by
sportspersons to hasten their rehabilitation drug for a sore throat. “I had severe sore ganisationDerSpiegelallegedRamostookthe
from injuries and recover from infections.
The drug is on the World Anti-Doping
throatandbeforetheIndianGrandPrix5last
year,IconsultedaprivatephysicianinPatiala
substancebeforethe2017ChampionsLeague
final.WhileWADArulesallowplayerstocon-
Agency’s (WADA's) list of prohibited sub- after taking permission from the team man- sumethedrugiftheyobtainaTherapeuticUse
REST OF INDIA
AndamanandNicobarIslands 41
AndhraPradesh 6456
stances,andsportspersonsfromSpainandReal agement.Thedoctorgavemetwomedicines, Exemption (TUE), Real Madrid’s team doctor
Madrid star Sergio Ramos to Malaysian bad- Moxitas 500 and beta dexamethasone. The did not include Ramos’ usage in his report.
ArunachalPradesh 91
minton legend Lee Chong Wei and, most re- dope test result is because of this medicine,” UEFAcalleditan‘administrativeerror’;noac-
Assam 4158
42,829 Delhi Bihar 6650 cently, Indian javelin thrower Davinder Singh PTI quoted him as saying earlier this week. tion was taken against Ramos.
Chandigarh 354
Kang, have been caught using it. Athletes are, In 2014, Lee Chong Wei reportedly used Navin Agarwal, director general of the
13,615UP
Chhattisgarh
DadraandNagarHaveli
1756
36 however, barred from using dexamethasone the drug to help speed up recovery follow- National Anti Doping Agency, said athletes
Goa 592 onlyduringcompetition—meaning,ifthesub- ing an injury he sustained before the World can use this drug if they take a TUE. “There is
HimachalPradesh 556
JammuandKashmir 5220 stanceisdetectedpriortoacompetition,itwill Championships that year. After he tested a provision in the WADA Code that for drugs
Jharkhand 1763 not be considered a doping offence. positive, he was handed a backdated eight- like these, you can take an exemption and
10,935 Kerala 2543
Dr Ashok Ahuja, former head of sports month ban, and was stripped of the silver useit.If anathletefollowstherules while ad-
MP Ladakh 555
Manipur 490 medicine at the Sports Authority of India medal he won at the Worlds. ministering this drug, he or she will not face
Meghalaya 44 (SAI),saiddexamethasoneisacorticosteroid, Acoupleofyearsago,theGermannewsor- a problem,” Agarwal said.
Mizoram 117
11,494 Nagaland 177 aneasilyavailablemedicinethatpreventsthe
West Bengal Odisha 4055 release of substances in the body that cause
Puducherry 202
Punjab 3267 inflammation. Its effects are frequently seen
46,504 Sikkim 68 within a day, and last for about three days.
Tamil Nadu Telangana 5193 “The drug is used when there is any in-
Tripura 1086
Uttarakhand 1845 flammation in the body due to infection or
injury. In sports, it is not permitted during
competitionbecauseithelpsalltheinfection
and inflammation to subsideand gives you a
feeling of well-being. It may not directly en-
hance performance, but it helps in quick re-
covery,” Dr Ahuja said.
Write to explained@indianexpress.com Kang, who has won an Asian
Championship bronze, has said he took the
New Delhi

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THE INDIAN EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 2020
TOPOFTHE
WORLD
Sarah Hegazi
CANADA
Heldforwaving
rainbowflag,
gayEgyptian
takesherlife
Cairo: When the openly
gay frontman of a hugely
popular Lebanese pop
group strutted onto the
stage of a Cairo summer
festival in 2017, rainbow
flags lifted in the air, and
somethingsparkedinside
SarahHegazi. As alesbian
in a country where ho-
mosexuality is taboo,
here was a glimmer of
freedom. She raised both
hands in the air and
hoisted her own rainbow
flag aloft. A friend cap-
tured the moment on
camera. It was the start of
her undoing. After the
event, dozens were ar-
rested, including Hegazi
— the start of a desperate
trajectory, marked with
violence, despair and ex-
ile, that culminated in
tragedy when the 30-
year-old Egyptian took
her life in Canada.
USA
VoiceofAmerica
directorsquitas
Trumpnominee
takescharge
Washington: The top two
directors at Voice of
America resigned on
Monday, just as President
Donald Trump’s ap-
pointee began his role as
chief executive of the par-
ent organisation of the
government-run broad-
caster. In a resignation let-
ter to staff reported by
VOA, Director Amanda
Bennett and her deputy,
Sandra Sugawara, said the
appointment of Michael
Pack won’t change any-
thingabout“yourpassion,
your mission, your in-
tegrity”.ButtheysaidPack
should be able to choose
his own directors.
USA
Manaccusedof
being‘Golden
StateKiller’to
pleadguilty
Sacramento: A man ac-
cused of being the rapist
and killer who terrorised
California residents in the
1970s and 1980s has
agreed to plead guilty to
dozens of crimes in return
forbeing spared the death
penalty. Joseph DeAngelo,
a former policeman ac-
cused of being the Golden
State Killer, is expected to
plead guilty on June 29
and be sentenced to life
without possibility of pa-
role. DeAngelo is sus-
pected of at least 13 mur-
ders and more than 50
rapes across California.
THE DECISION ON WHAT TO DO WITH THE STATUES COULD HAVE FAR-REACHING IMPLICATIONS
These statues were toppled. What will happen to them now?
NINA SIEGAL
JUNE 16
GUIDO GRYSEELS has been get-
tingcallsforaweek,askingifhe’d
give some statues a new home.
He’s the director of the Africa
Museum in Tervuren, Belgium,
and his institution, originally
founded by Leopold II, might
seemlikealogical placetohouse
monuments to the 19th-century
king whose reign in Congo saw
the murder and mutilation of at
FEARS OVER COVID-19 SECOND WAVE IN CHINA
Beijing, other provinces impose
travel curbs as virus cases mount
LUSHA ZHANG
& RYAN WOO
BEIJING, JUNE 16
THE CHINESE capital banned
high-risk people from leaving
and curbed public transport on
Tuesday to stop the spread of
the most serious coronavirus
flare-up since February, which
has stoked fears of a second
wave of infections.
Thefinancialhubof Shanghai
demanded some travellers from
Beijing be quarantined for two
weeks,as27newCovid-19cases
took the capital’s current out-
break to 106 since Thursday.
The coronavirus was first
identified in December at a
seafood market in Wuhan, capi-
tal of the central Chinese
province of Hubei, and has since
spread around the world, infect-
ing more than 8 million people
and killing more than 436,000.
The new outbreak in Beijing
has been traced to the sprawling
Xinfadi wholesale food centre in
the southwest of Beijing where
thousands of tonnes of vegeta-
bles, fruit and meat change
hands each day.
As of Monday, Beijing had
designated 22 neighbourhoods
as medium-risk areas, requiring
them to subject people entering
to temperature checks and reg-
istration.
So-called high-risk groups in
Beijing, including people who
are close contacts of confirmed
cases, are not allowed to leave
the city, state media reported,
citing municipal officials.
All outbound taxi and car-
hailing services have been sus-
pended.Somelong-distancebus
routes between Beijing and
nearby Hebei and Shandong
‘Virus mutation increases infection chance’
REUTERS
JUNE 16
A SPECIFIC mutation in the new
coronavirus can significantly
increase its ability to infect
cells, according to a study by US
researchers.
The research may explain
why early outbreaks in some
partsof the worlddid notend up
overwhelminghealthsystemsas
much as other outbreaks in New
York and Italy, according to ex-
perts at Scripps Research.
Edén Pastora, ‘Commander
Zero’ in Nicaragua, dies at 83
ROBERT D MCFADDEN
JUNE 16
EDÉN PASTORA, a hero of the
1979 Sandinista revolution in
Nicaraguawhowasknownbyhis
nom de guerre, “Commander
Zero” — and who later turned
against his victorious comrades-
in-arms in a long counterrevolu-
tionarywarofwordsandguerrilla
attacksthatfailedtobudgetheso-
cialist regime in Managua — died
earlyTuesdayinamilitaryhospi-
tal in that capital city. He was 83.
His wife told a local newspa-
per that the cause was bron-
chopneumonia.
Pastora, in a life of danger and
adventurethatstretchedfromthe
junglesoftheMiskitoCoasttothe
least 10 million Africans.
Heisprettytentativeaboutthe
offers. After protesters dumped
paintonastatueofLeopoldIIinthe
cityofAntwerpandthensetitafire
twoweeksago,otherLeopoldstat-
ues have been vandalised and
morethan78,000signatureshave
beenaddedtoapetitiontoremove
all of the monuments to the king
inBelgium.
Gryseels estimates that there
are somewhere between 300 to
400 of them, and he is worried
aboutturninghismuseum,which
New outbreak’s
uncertain origin
THE NEW outbreak of
Covid-19 in Beijing, which
began from a wholesale
market, has China worried
about a second wave of in-
fections and deaths.
Chinese state-run media re-
ported that the outbreak
originated from packages of
salmon imported from
Europe. It was reported that
the virus was found on
chopping boards used to
cut up the fish. However,
the WHO has said this was
not its “primary hypothe-
sis”, adding that the origin
of the outbreak wasn’t yet
clear. According the WHO,
any link to Europe can be
ascertained only after China
releases the genetic se-
quencing of the virus that
caused the latest outbreak.
provinces were halted.
Atleastthreeshuttlebusserv-
icesfromHebeiandanotherfrom
InnerMongoliatoBeijing’sCapital
Airport, a major regional transit
hub,weresuspended.Busservices
from Hebei to Daxing, Beijing’s
othermajorairport,werereduced.
Concerned about contagion
risks, many provinces have im-
posed quarantine requirements
onvisitorsfromBeijing.Inthelast
three days, Hebei, Liaoning and
Sichuan had new cases linked to
the Beijing market. REUTERS
The mutation, named
D614G, increased the
number of ‘spikes’ on
the coronavirus. Those
spikes allow the virus to
bind to and infect cells
The mutation, named
D614G, increased the number of
“spikes” on the coronavirus —
which is the part that gives it its
distinctive shape. Those spikes
halls of Congress in Washington,
was instrumental in toppling the
militarydictatorshipofAnastasio
Somoza DeBayle, the last of the
lineinarepressivefamilydynasty
that had ruled the country for
nearly a half century.
But deprived of a major role
intherevolutionarygovernment
hastriedtoworkthroughitsown
colonial associations in recent
years,intoacemeteryofLeopolds.
“I could maybe take a few of
these statues here and make
some kind of contemporary art
out of them,” he said in an inter-
view. “But I don’t want to have
theoppositeeffectandmakethis
a place where Leopold admirers
come to pray.”
Since June 11, when a British
monument to the 17th-century
slave trader Edward Colston was
toppled by protesters and tossed
Residentslineuptogettestedatacentresetupoutsidea sports facilityin Beijing,Tuesday. AP
New Zealand no longer
Covid-free, 2 test positive
PRAVEEN MENON
WELLINGTON, JUNE 16
IT TOOK just eight days for New
Zealand to lose its Covid-free
status when two women who
had been given permission to
leave quarantine early after ar-
riving from abroad tested posi-
tive for the coronavirus, author-
ities said on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Jacinda
Ardern, who has enjoyed enor-
mous popularity for her success
at ridding the country of coron-
avirus infection, said the govern-
ment would review what hap-
pened,butthatitwasclearchecks
are what allow the virus to bind
to and infect cells.
“Thenumber—ordensity—of
functional spikes on the virus is 4
or5timesgreaterduetothismu-
tation,”saidHyeryunChoe,oneof
the senior authors of the study.
The researchers say that it is
still unknown whether this
smallmutationaffectsthesever-
ity of symptoms of infected peo-
ple, or increases mortality.
The researchers conducting
labexperimentssaythatmorere-
search,includingcontrolledstud-
ies — widely considered a gold
AP
he had helped to install, and dis-
illusionedbyitsMarxist-Leninist
tendencies,Pastorawentintoex-
ile and for years challenged the
regime,ledbyDanielOrtega,first
with an international campaign
of political pressures, and later
with hit-and-run guerrilla at-
tacks inside Nicaragua. NYT
The plinth of the statue of
Edward Colston in Bristol
were not adequate in this case.
“Vigorous testing is now tak-
ing place across those who were
in the quarantine facility at the
same time, and those who may
have had any, even the remotest
chance of contact (with the
women),” Ardern said.
Last week. New Zealand had
becomeoneof thefirstcountries
in the world to return to pre-
pandemic normality.
The new cases ended a 24-
day streak of no new infections
in the country. Health Minister
DavidClarksaidhewassuspend-
ingallexemptionstothequaran-
tinerulesuntilhehadconfidence
in the system. REUTERS
standard for clinical trials, needs
to be done to confirm their find-
ings from test tube experiments.
Older research has showed
that the coronavirus SARS-CoV-
2 is mutating and evolving as it
adapts to its human hosts. The
D614G mutation in particular
has been flagged as an urgent
concern because it appeared to
be emerging as a dominant
mutation.
TheScrippsResearchstudyis
currently undergoing peer re-
view and was released on Friday
amid reports of its findings.
After weeks of protests, Trump
signs order on police reform
JILL COLVIN, LISA
MASCARO & ZEKE MILLER
WASHINGTON, JUNE 16
FOLLOWING WEEKS of national
protestssincethedeathofGeorge
Floyd,USPresidentDonaldTrump
signed an executive order on
policing Tuesday that would en-
courage better police practices
and establish a database to keep
track of officers with a history of
excessiveuse-of-forcecomplaints.
In Rose Garden remarks,
Trump stressed the need for
higherstandardsandcommiser-
ated with mourning families,
even as he hailed the vast major-
ityofofficersasselflesspublicser-
vantsandheldhislaw-and-order
line, while criticising Democrats.
into the harbour in Bristol,
England,dozensof statuesof his-
torical figures associated with
colonialismandslaveryhavebeen
pulleddown,beheaded,scorched
or removed from their plinths —
in Britain, Belgium, New Zealand
and the United States.
Confederate statues, which
have long been a source of ten-
sioninAmericancities,havealso
come under renewed attack as
Black Lives Matter protests have
swept the country.
As statues fall around the
HONG KONG
LAM URGES PROTESTERS TO STOP
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam on Tuesday urged opponents of Beijing’s plan to im-
pose national security legislation in the financial hub to stop “smearing” the effort, say-
ing those who did were “the enemy of the people”. “The vast majority want to restore
stability, and have safety, satisfaction and employment,” she said.
Moscow reopens
museums and
terraces as it
rolls back curbs
GABRIELLE
TÉTRAULT-FARBER
MOSCOW, JUNE 16
MUSCOVITES RETURNED to mu-
seums and restaurant terraces on
Tuesday for the first time in more
than two months as the Russian
capital rolled back more coron-
aviruscurbsdespitestillrecording
over1,000newinfectionsdaily.
Libraries and zoos in the city
of nearly 13 million people were
alsoreopening,albeitwithlimits
on numbers.
Dentistswere getting back to
business too and sports events
were allowed, though venues
had 10% capacity limits.
Kremlin critics have accused
the authorities of lifting restric-
tionstoofasttopavethewayfora
nationwide vote on reforms that
would allow President Vladimir
Putin to run again for president
twiceafter2024whenhiscurrent
term ends. Voting will take place
over a seven-day period, culmi-
nating on July 1. The Kremlin has
denied decisions to ease curbs
were politically motivated.
Moscowbegantoliftitslock-
down last week, allowing resi-
dents to leave homes and use
public transport and vehicles
without restrictions. REUTERS
“Reducing crime and raising
standards are not opposite
goals,” hesaidbefore signing the
order flanked by police.
TrumpandtheGOPhavebeen
rushing to respond to the mass
demonstrations against police
brutalityandracialprejudicethat
have raged for weeks across the
countryinresponsetothedeaths
of Floyd and other black
Americans. It’s a sudden shift for
the Republican Party that shows
how quickly the protests have
changedthepoliticalconversation
andpressuredWashingtontoact.
But Trump has continued to
emphasise his supportfor police
and even on Tuesday, railed
against those who committed
violence during the largely
peaceful protests. AP
world in symbolic revolt against
the histories of slavery and colo-
nialism, city and town leaders,
museum officials and historians
faced with these toppled monu-
ments are asking, Now what?
Should they be cleaned up
and moved into the safety of a
museum? Should their scars be
kept or cleaned off?
The answers to these ques-
tions will have implications for
how future generations remem-
ber both the history the statues
were designed to represent and
New Delhi
North Korea blows up
inter-Korea liaison
office, raising tensions
KIM TONG-HYUNG
& HYUNG-JIN KIM
SEOUL, JUNE 16
NORTHKOREAblewupaninter-
Korean liaison office building
just north of the heavily armed
border with South Korea on
Tuesday in a dramatic display of
anger that sharply raises ten-
sions on the Korean Peninsula
and puts pressure on
Washington and Seoul amid
deadlocked nuclear diplomacy.
The demolition of the build-
ing, which is located on North
Korean territory and had no
South Koreans working there, is
largely symbolic. But it’s still
likelythemostprovocativething
NorthKoreahasdonesinceiten-
tered nuclear diplomacy in 2018
after a US-North Korean stand-
off had many fearing war. It will
pose a serious setback to the ef-
forts of liberal South Korean
President Moon Jae-in to restore
inter-Korean engagement.
North Korea’s official
Korean Central News Agency
Smoke seen from the North Korean border town of Kaesong
after the country blew up an inter-Korean liaison office on
its side of the border. AP
EU opens investigation
into Apple’s App Store
ADAM SATARIANO
LONDON, JUNE 16
APPLE’S APP Store helped usher
in the smartphone economy,
leadingtothebirthof now-ubiq-
uitous services such as
Instagram, Uber and Candy
Crush, and providing a transfor-
mative new way for people to
shop from their phones.
But for companies that
wanted to offer their products
through Apple’s digital store,
therehasalwaysbeenacatch:To
reach customers, you had to
agree to Apple’s terms and con-
ditions,includingsharingcertain
Man shot at
during protest
AMANwasshotMondaynightas
protesters in New Mexico’s
largest city tried to tear down a
bronze statue of a Spanish con-
quistador outside the
Albuquerque Museum, prompt-
ing the city to announce that the
statuewouldberemoveduntilof-
ficials determine the next steps.
The man was taken to a hospital
andwaslistedincriticalbutstable
condition late Monday, said
Albuquerque police spokesman
GilbertGallegos. Theshootingoc-
cured after a confrontation
erupted between protesters and
armed men trying to protect the
statue of Juan de Oñate. AP
this current moment.
Julian Maxwell Hayter, an as-
sociateprofessorattheUniversity
of Richmond, in Virginia (where
protesters have assailed a monu-
ment of Confederate Gen. Robert
E.Lee),saidit’scrucialthatweuse
thistimetodiscusswhatthestat-
ues represent.
“It would be a missed oppor-
tunity not to have a discussion
about what these statues repre-
sented and how what they rep-
resent resonates profoundly in
the present,” he said. NYT
WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM
said the nation destroyed the
office in a “terrific explosion”
because its “enraged people”
were determined to “force (the)
human scum and those, who
have sheltered the scum, to pay
dearly for their crimes,” appar-
ently referring to North Korean
defectors who for years have
floated anti-Pyongyang leaflets
across the border.
The agency did not detail
how the office in the North
Korean border town of Kaesong
was destroyed.
Photos from the South’s
Yonhap News Agency showed
smoke rising from what ap-
peared to be a complex of build-
ings. The agency said the area
was part of a now-shuttered in-
ter-Koreanindustrialparkwhere
the liaison office was located.
The North also said it has cut
off all government and military
communication channels with
the South while threatening to
abandon bilateral peace agree-
ments reached during North
KoreanleaderKimJongUn’sthree
summits with Moon in 2018. AP
data with the company and giv-
ing them a percentage of any fu-
ture sales made through the
iPhone or iPad app.
NowEuropeanregulatorsare
questioning whether Apple’s
terms go too far.
On Tuesday, the European
Commission,theexecutivebody
oftheEuropeanUnion,saidithad
opened a formal antitrust inves-
tigation to determine if the rules
Apple imposes on app develop-
ersviolatecompetitionrules.The
commissionsaiditalsolaunched
a separate investigation to see
whether Apple is boxing out ri-
vals to its mobile payments sys-
tem, Apple Pay. NYT
African nations
approach UN,
seek scrutiny of
US over racism
ASSOCIATED PRESS
GENEVA, JUNE 16
AFRICAN NATIONS have pre-
pared a draft resolution at the
UN’stophumanrightsbodythat
singlesout theUnited States and
would launch intense interna-
tional scrutiny of systemic
racism against people of African
descent in the wake of recent
high-profile killings of blacks by
American police.
The draft text, a copy of
which has been obtained by The
Associated Press, could become
thecenterpieceforanurgentde-
bate hastily scheduled for
Wednesday for the Geneva-
based Human Rights Council.
It calls for a Commission of
Inquiry — the rights body’s most
powerful tool to inspect human
rights violations — to look into
“systemicracism”andallegedvio-
lations of international human
rights law and abuses against
“Africans andof peopleof African
descent in the United States of
America and other parts of the
worldrecentlyaffectedbylawen-
forcementagencies”especiallyen-
countersthatresultedindeaths.
Such work would be carried
out“withaviewto bringingper-
petratorstojustice”,saidthetext,
circulated by the Africa Group in
the council. The breadth of sup-
portforthemeasurewasnotim-
mediately clear.
The United States’ mission
in Geneva declined immediate
comment on the draft
resolution.
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Son of Hari Singh Moorjani
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Son of Hari Singh Moorjani
residing at-C2A/212,Pkt-16,
Janakpuri,New Delhi,have
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Moorjani alias Vinay Kumar
Moorjani alias Vinay Kumar
Son of Hari Singh Moorjani
residing at-C2A/212,Pkt-16,
Janakpuri,New Delhi,have
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I, Arneet Kaur Bawa W/o-
Amarpreet Singh R/o-J-150,3rd-
Floor,Near-Shakti
Mandir,Vishnu-Garden N.Delhi-
110018.have changed my name
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SINGH R/O 1871/15,
GOVINDPURI EXTENSION,
KALKAJI,DELHI-110019. HAVE
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I, Bachan Singh S/o Late Shri.
Rattan Singh Bisht, R/o P-11,
Hauz Khas Enclave, New Delhi-
110016 have changed my name
to Bachan Singh Bisht for all
future purposes.
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I, CHRISTINA SELVYA RAJ,.D/O
MANI RAJA CHANDRA SEKHAR,
H.NO—RZF-1/72, UG.FLOOR
STREET.NO.1 MAHAVIR-
ENCLAVE N.DELHI-
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CHRISTINA RAJ,for
all,purposes.
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I, PARVINDER KAUR DEO. W/O
JASBIR SINGH, H.NO-123/12
SAROJNI-PARK SHASTRI-
NAGAR DELHI-110031, changed
my name to PARVINDER KAUR
Permanently.
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I,Ram Kishan S/o Late Kanchan
Singh R/o-A-604 B, Gali No-7,
Meet Nagar, Sabhapur Delhi-
110094,have changed my minor
son’s name from Priyanshu to
Aryan Singh for all future
purposes
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I, hitherto known as Jarina W/o-
Washim,Residing at,B-518,B-
Block,Udham Singh-Park,
Wazirpur-Industrial-Area,
Delhi-110052,have changed my
name and shall hereafter be
known as Ishrat Jahan.
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I, hitherto known as CHINKI
KANOJIA S/o. Sh. Mohan Lal
Kanojia R/o RZ-C-10/7B, Gali
no. 21, Sadh Nagar, Palam
Colony, New Delhi-110045 have
changed my name and shall
hereafter be known as AKASH
KANOJIA.
0040539423-1
I, Jasmeet Sing S/o-Ravinder
Singh R/o-C-24, Old-DLF Sector-
14, Gurgaon (Haryana)-
122001,have changed my name
to Jasmeet Singh,for all
purposes.
0040539498-1
I, Yogender Singh S/o Om
Prakash R/o-53/3, Gali No.3,
Tulsi-Colony, Kanker-Khera,
meerut have changed my
name to Yogendra Singh for all
purposes.
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I, PRANAY GOVIND MATHUR, S/O
ADESH GOVIND MATHUR R/O-
65/61, URBAN-VILLAGE, DELHI,
CANTT-110010.have changed
my name,from PRANAY
GOVIND MATHUR to PRANAY
MATHUR,for all,future
purposes.
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I, Shilpi Mehendiratta D/o-
Surinder Mehendiratta R/o-A-
119, 2nd-Floor , Ramapark
D.K.Mohan-Garden, Uttam-
Nagar, New-Delhi-110059,have
wrongly-written my father’s
name in my Passport & other-
educational documents as
Surinder Kumar
Mendiratta.The correct-name
of my father is Surinder
Mehendiratta.
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I, REKHA BISHT W/O-JC-350902K
SUB MAJ RAMESH CHANDRA
R/O-6A NEW-BASTI, PO+TEH-
CLEMENT TOWN,DISTT-
DEHRADUN(U.K)have changed
my name,from REKHA BISHT to
REKHA JOSHI,for all
future,purposes vide-affidavit
No.2889 dated-12/06/2020
Before-Notary
Public,Dibrugarh.
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I, Parmod Kumar S/O Prem
Singh R/O-H.NO.-
437/9,Vivekanand
Nagar,Bahadurgarh,Jhajjar-
124507,Haryana,Have
Changed my Name to Parmod
Kumar Saroha.
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I, Subash E, S/o Elaiappan R/o R-
27, East Vinod Nagar Delhi-
110091 have changed my name
to Elaiappan Subhash.
Henceforth I will be known as
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future purpose
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SULTAN AHSRAF R/O V-1/59
A,BUDH VIHAR PHASE-1,DELHI-
110086. CHANGED MY NAME
TO SYED AKBAR ASHRAF.
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I, Mohita Abhijit Paul W/o
Abhijit Paul R/o H-1071, Gaur
Grandeur, Sector-119, Noida,
G.B.nagar, UP-201301, have
changed my name to Mohita
Paul. 0040539177-1
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Village-Chamrawali
Bodaki,Dadri, G.B.Nagar
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PUBLIC NOTICE
This is inform the general public
at large that my clients Sh.
Sudhir Kumar Tyagi S/o Late Sh.
Rameshwar Dayal & Smt. Kavita
Tyagi W/o Sh. Sudhir Kumar
Tyagi both R/o-M-76, Jagat Ram
Park, Laxmi Nagar Delhi have
disowned & serve all relations
with their daughter Maturity
Tyagi from their all moveable
and immovable assets as she is
not under their control and
person dealing with her shall be
doing so at his/her own risks and
consequences and my clients
will not be held liable for any of
her acts & deeds.
Sanjay Soti
Advocate
PUBLIC NOTICE
My Clint SHRI SHANKAR LAL SON OF SHRI
DEVI DAYAL R/O HOUSE NO. 167-C,
BLOCK-UU, PITAMPURA, DELHI-110034,
have debarred his son KOMAL KISHORE &
his daughter-in-law MANJU, from all
moveable and immovable properties/asets,
and their personal life. Anybody dealing with
them civil and criminal matters shall be doing
at his/her/ their all risks, cost and
responsibility, and have severed all relation
from them due to their misconduct, bad
behavior, bad company and bad intentions,
Any person dealing with them or severally
shall be doing so at their own risk. My client
shall not be responsible in any manner for
any kind of legal-illegal act, deed done by
them.
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PUBLIC NOTICE
MAY IT BE KNOWN TO GENERAL PUBLIC
NOTICE THAT my client Shri Mohan Shyam
Sharma S/o Late Makkhan Lal Sharma R/o
House no 11, Street no 21D, Molar band
Extension, Badarpur, New Delhi-110044 do
hereby severe all their social relations and
debar his son Shri Yoginder Sharma, S/o
Mohan Shyam Sharma, whose whereabouts
are at present not known to our Clients from
all their movable property and immovable
property since the above named persons
were disobedient, disrespectful and nor under
their commands, and also disrespectful
towards other family members. Whoever will
deal with the above named persons w.e.f
today will deal at his/her own risk, cost and
consequences. My clients will not be liable for
any of their acts, deals and transactions etc.
with immediate effect.
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New Delhi - 110048 Mob. - 9650310194
PUBLIC NOTICE HARYANA MEDICAL SERVICES CORPORATION LIMITED
(A Government of Haryana Undertaking)
General Public hereby informed that my
Client Ms. Raj Rani, W/o. Late. Ashok
Sharma, R/o. WZ -1236, Behind Shiv Mandir, Bays No. 59-62, Sector-2, Panchkula
Palam, Village New Delhi-110045 is
disowning and disinheriting his son namely Phone: 0172-2567945
Mohit Sharma and his wife Ms. Jaya Sharma
as they have become disobedient, wayward
and out of control hence I am disowning both
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them in any manner shall so so at his /her
own risk and consequences. My clientess will Online Short Term Tender for the Rate
Contract for Supply of urgent Medicines
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(ADVOCATE) to Various Hospitals of Government of
E.no. D/1030/2006
Haryana for a Period of Six Months for
“Group A” Medicine and Documents can
be downloaded from 15.06.2020
onwards on e-Procurement portal
www.etenders.hry.in.
For Managing Director,
81289/HRY
HMSCL, Panchkula.
PUBLIC NOTICE
Public notice is given to the general
public that my clients namely Sh.
Mohd Zahid Slo Late Shri Ayyub and
Smt, Jawahar Begum W/o Mohd
Zahid both R/o H. No. 1047, Gali
Madarsa Hussain Bakash, Bazar
Matia Mahal Jama Masjid Delhi-6,
have severed their all relations with
their son namely Mohd Rahid and his
wife namely Hina W/o Mohd Rahid
D/o Mohd Hussain and their children
namely Aina; Ayaan; Arhan, Abdullah.
They have disowned them from all
their movable and immovable
properties and my clients shall not be
held responsible for any act of them
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Ch. No. 618, Western Wing
Tis Hazari Courts, Delhi-110054
PUBLIC NOTICE
My client Smt. Urmila Devi W/o Late
Sh. Dayanand Sharma R/o RZ-157,
G/F, Gali No. 35, Sadh Nagar, Palam
Colony, New Delhi-45 has severed all
relations with her son Surender Kumar,
his wife Kavita and their children for all
purposes and has disowned & debarred
them from her all movable & immovable
properties due to disobedience and my
client shall not be responsible for any
acts & deeds done by them. Government of Jammu & Kashmir
MAHENDER SINGH YADAV
ADVOCATE
OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE ENGINEER
Lawyers Chamer No. 636 TRANS. LINE MAINTENANCE DIVISION-7, JKPTCL BEMINA, SRINAGAR-190010
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Mob. No. 9818463962
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e-NIT No: TLMD-7/13 Dated: 13.06.2020
PUBLIC NOTICE For and on behalf of the Lt. Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, the Executive Engineer Transmission Line Maintenance Division-
know to all men that my clients Sh. Surender 7 Bemina, Srinagar, hereby Invites online e-Tenders under Two (02) Bid System i.e. (i) Technical Bid & (ii) Financial Bid, valid for
Singh S/o Lt. Nahar Singh Pradhan R/o RZ
65 Dabri Extn Main, Gali No.5, Dada Dev
365 days, from experienced, financially sound registered Electrical Contractors of Class “AAY” having requisite experience of the
relevant tendered works as per Terms, Conditions, Technical Specifications and Schedules thereto mentioned in Standard
Hospital, Dabri Village, Dabri, South West
Delhi-110045 and his wife Smt. Suresh Bidding Document, for the works detailed below.
The complete Bidding process is online wherein furnishing of Hard Copies of Bids immediately after submission of e-Tenders
Kumari here by debarred and disowned their
son namely Sh. Jaideep Solanki and his wife is dispensed with and same shall be obtained only from the Bidder who is declared as Lowest (L-1) after opening of Financial
Smt. Sudha and Grand son Mst. Hardeep
Bids. The Cost of Tenders shall be deposited into Government Treasury in the shape of e-Challan/Treasury Challan/Receipt
Solanki from all their moveable and
under MH: 0801 PDD-Misc. Revenue
immoveable properties. My clients shall not
be responsible in any manner for any Scan copy of original Bid Security/EMD instrument in the shape of CDR/BG pledged to the Executive Engineer TLMD-7 JKPT-
act/deed done by Sh. Jaideep Solanki and his CL Bemina Srinagar shall be uploaded along with other requisite credentials as per SBD stipulations. However, after opening of
wife Smt. Sudha Any person dealing with
them shall deal at his/her own risk and costs.
Price Bids the Original CDR/BG shall be obtained from the lowest Bidder.
Sanjay kaushik
Advocate
Sr. Description of Work Qty. Estimated EMD Cost of Tender Period GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
No. Cost Documents
Chamber no.1328 lawyer chamber Block
Rohini Court Delhi (in Lacs) (Non-refundable) OFFICE OF THE MEDICAL
MOB:-9958744476
1. Preventive/Routine Breakdown Annual Maintenance As per 17.05 2% of the 1000.00 FY SUPERINTENDENT
Contract (AMC) Item-Wise Rates for 320 MVA BOQ Estimated 2020-21
PUBLIC NOTICE 220/132kV & 100 MVA, 132/33kV Grid Station Cost SAFDARJUNG HOSPITAL & V.M.M.C
My Clients Rakesh Kumar Arora & Rajni
Alusteng and 220kv D/c Zainakote-Alusteng
Transmission Line for the Financial Year 2020-21
NEW DELHI-110029
(Husband & Wife) R/o-48-A, Street No.
5, West Azad Nagar Delhi-110051
1. The Bidding Documents consisting of Pre-Qualifying Requirements/Eligibility Criteria, Specifications, Bill of Quantities
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hereby severe all their relations from
their son Ashish Arora & his wife Jyotika (BOQ), set of Terms and Conditions of the contract and other related details can be seen/downloaded from the J&K State EXPRESSION OF INTEREST (EOI)
Arora (Tisha Arora) on account of their Government's website as per Scheduled of dates & times given below: Medical Superintendent, VMMC & Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, on behalf of the
illegal & threatened action & also debar
President of India invites qualified signage design and signage solutions consultants/firms
them from their movable & immovbale (i) Date of Issue of Tender Notice 13.06.2020 (16.00 hrs.)
properties. Anybody dealing with them and architects to submit proposals and recommendations for complete signage system for
shall be doing so entirely at their cost &
(ii) Online Start Date of Downloading of Tender Documents 14.06.2020 (13.00 hrs.) the entire campus of VMMC & Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi. Manual bids shall not be
my clients will not be responsible for (iii) Online Start Date & Time of e-Bid Submission 15.06.2020 (10.00 hrs.) accepted. Only online bids shall be accepted.
their acts & deeds.
Sd/- (iv) Online Last Date & Time of e-Bid Submission 29.06.2020 (16.00 hrs.) SCHEDULE FOR EOI
Pawan Chaudhary Sr. No. Particulars Date Time
Advocate (v) Online Techno-Commercial Bids Opening Date & Time 30.06.2020 (13.00 hrs.)
EN. D 2235/2004 1 Published Date 16-06-2020 4.00 PM
Office:- 204, DA-9, Enkay House, (vi) Date and Time of Opening of Price e-Bid The Date & Time of Opening of Price e-Bids shall be 2 Bid Document Download/Sale Start Date 16-06-2020 4.00 PM
Main Vikas Marg, (Only of the Technically Qualified Bidders) Notified Separately.
Shakarpur, Delhi-110092 3 Date
Bid Submission Start 16-06-2020 4.00 PM
2. The Techno-Commercial Bids of all participating Bidders shall be opened online in the office of Executive Engineer, TLMD- 4 Pre Bid Meeting Date 01-07-2020 2.30 PM
7 Bemina Srinagar. The date & time of opening of Price Bids shall be notified on J&K Government's website http://www.jkten-
PUBLIC NOTICE ders.gov.in and conveyed to the Bidders automatically through e-mail message on their e-mail address.
5 Bid Document Download/Sale End Date 14-07-2020 10.30 AM
3. Before participating in the online Bids, the intending Bidders shall get acquainted with the sites of work and local conditions 6 Bid Submission End Date 14-07-2020 10.30 AM
Be it known to all that our client
namely Mrs. Leena Anand W/O Mr. thereof. 7 Bid Opening Date 15-07-2020 10.30 AM
Pushkar Anand D/O Mr. Shiv Prasad 4. Clarifications, if any, can also be sought from the office of the undersigned on e-Mail: tlmd7.jkptcl@gmail.com or on Phone
Rohtagi R/O C-104, Vikas Puri, Note:- The detailed information and tender document are available on the website:
No.: 0194-2491339 during the working hours.
Delhi-110018; in her full senses and 5. The Department reserves the right to reject any or all the Bids at any stage without assigning any reason thereof. www.vmmcsjh.nic.in or www.eprocure.gov.in
without any pressure has severed all
Sd/-
her relations from her husband Sd/-
No. TLMD-7/264-66 Dated: 13.06.2020 Executive Engineer,
namely Sh. Pushkar Anand S/O Sh. Medical Superintendent
Kanwal Anand Premanent R/O AG-
DIPK-NB-715 TLMD-7, Bemina, Sgr.
davp17145/11/0001/2021 VMMC & SJH
1/101 D, Vikas Puri, Delhi-110018.
Now from today onwards, our client
shall have no family relationship with GOVERNMENT OF TAMILNADU
him for all indents and purposes
(except the maintenance and
alimony rights). Our client debars/
PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
disowns her husband as well as her 5th EXTENSION NOTIFICATION DATE: 16.06.2020
in-laws from her all movable and
immovable properties with
Tamil Nadu Urban Health Care Project (Supported by JICA)
immediate effects. Our client shall Name of work: Construction of New Secondary Care Hospital Block and additional facilities
not have any concern or link with her including furniture and furnishing excluding medical equipments at Proposed Avadi Secondary
husband and her in-laws or their Care Hospital, Thiruvallur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
legal heirs, as their acts are
Last date for submission of Pre-Qualification Application mentioned in the Notice NIT No. 45/2019-
prejudicial, harmful and adverse to
2020/BCMC/MW/CHENNAI Dated: 16.03.2020.
the rights and interest of our client.
Anybody dealing with her husband Extended as follows:
(and also her in-laws) shall be doing Last date of submission of Pre-Qualification Application – 22.07.2020 at 3.00 PM.
so entirely at his/her own risk and
consequences and our client shall Pre-Qualification Application opening date – 22.07.2020 at 3.30 PM.
not be bound for any kinds of their Further details may be downloaded from the following websites.
acts, deeds, dealings and mischief http://www.tenders.tn.gov.in, and www.tntenders.gov.in.,
past, present or future, social as well
as business etc. Superintending Engineer, PWD., (i/c)
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/AUTH
CLOSING DATE
(TIME)
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No. CORP./AUTH BOARD CORP./AUTH CONTACT DETAILS/E-MAIL
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KARNAL INSTALLATION OF 1 NO. TUBEWELL IN NGM AT
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15 ECONOMY
THE INDIAN EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 2020
FIRST INSTALMENT OF ADVANCE TAX COLLECTION DECLINES OVER 76%
Netdirecttaxmop-upfalls32.3%in
Juneqtronlockdown,highbaseeffect
ENSECONOMICBUREAU
NEW DELHI, JUNE 16
THEFIRSTinstalmentof advance
tax collections declined by over
76 per cent, dragging the net di-
recttax collections down by 32.3
per cent for the April-June quar-
ter,reflectingtheexacerbationof
economicslowdownandimpact
of suspensionof economicactiv-
ity during the lockdown against
the COVID-19 pandemic.
Corporate advance tax
slumped by nearly 80 per cent,
while the advance payment for
personal income tax fell by
about 64 per cent, income tax
officials said.
Individualandcorporatetax-
payers are required to pay ad-
vance tax in four instalments. By
HQ being shifted, almost
1/5th laid off within 5 mths
of Sachin Bansal acquiring
DHFL General Insurance
SANDEEPSINGH
NEWDELHI,JUNE16
EVEN AS the decision by Sachin
Bansal(Flipkartco-founder)toac-
quire DHFL General Insurance
(now Navi General Insurance) in
January 2020 initially came as a
breather for employees of the
company, who were earlier un-
nervedbytheliquiditysituationof
DHFL Group, it hasn’t turned out
to be a fruitful one for many.
Within five months of the acqui-
sition,Bansalhasannouncedtore-
locate company headquarters
from Mumbai to Bengaluru by
December31,andhasalsolaid-off
over 40 employees (nearly one-
fifth of the total employee
strength) including the CEO and
other senior and mid-manage-
mentofficials.
Inarecentwebinaraddressto
123 employees at Navi General
Insurance, Bansal said, “Today
therewereafewlayoffs thathap-
pened at COCO (brand of Navi
GeneralInsurance)andwehadto
ask a few people to go ... This was
importanttodoatthisjuncturebe-
cause we are thinking of new
strategiesforCOCO.Wehadtodo
peoplerationalisationactivitybe-
cause not everybody was fitting
intothefuturestrategythatweare
thinkingof.”
He,however,triedtoallayfears
BRIEFLY
India9thlargest
recipientofFDI
United Nations: India re-
ceived $51 billion in foreign
investmentin2019andwas
theworld’s9thlargestrecip-
ient of foreign direct invest-
ments(FDI)in2019,accord-
ing to a report by the UN
Conference on Trade and
Development(UNCTAD)re-
leased on Monday.
SBIplanning
`20Kcrmop-up
New Delhi: SBI Tuesday said
itwillseekshareholders'ap-
provalinmid-Julytoraiseup
to Rs 20,000 crore equity
capital via various means in
thecurrentfiscal.Italsosaid
it has sold 2.1 per cent stake
of its stake in subsidiary SBI
LifeInsuranceCompany. PTI
Creditlineby
CentralBank
New Delhi: Central Bank of
India has introduced a
Guaranteed Emergency
Credit Line to customers
who are availing working
capital/term loan facilities.
AKJanatakes
overasIGLMD
New Delhi: AK Jana Tuesday
took over as managing di-
rector of Indraprastha Gas
Ltd (IGL). ENS
SENSEX: 33,605.22 ▲ 376.42 NIFTY: 9,914.00 ▲ 100.30 NIKKEI: 22,582.21 ▲ 1,051.26 HANG SENG: 24,344.09 ▲ 567.14 FTSE: 6,220.78 ▲ 156.08 DAX: 12,276.49 ▲ 365.14
Govt will need to
relook budgeted
tax targets
THE FIRST instalment of advance tax collections for 2020-
21 is three-fourth of the amount collected last year, with
advance corporate tax slumping at an even higher rate of
80 per cent. The government now faces a tough task of
carrying out its expenses with the lower revenue stream
projections by corporates and individuals. It also implies
that the government will now have to take a quick relook at
its budgeted tax targets for this fiscal given that an asking
rate of 12.7 per cent (now nearly 28 per cent compared to
last year’s actuals) looks unsustainable.
June 15, they are required to pay
15percentoftheirtaxliability,45
per cent by September 15 and
among the remaining staff.
“Whoever was part of the lay off
has been already asked to go and
allofyouwhoarepresenthereare
notpartofthatandwewantyouto
continue with Coco and we want
you to build your career here,” he
said, asking them to move to
Bengaluru.
The assurancefromthe chair-
man and other senior manage-
ment, however, has done little to
instil faith as many feel they may
lose their job. “They are asking us
to move to Bengaluru. We risk
everything when we move from
Mumbai to Bengaluru as
Bengaluruisnotahubofinsurance
companies,” said a senior official.
While the company did not to re-
spond to an e-mail sent to Sachin
Bansalandthecompany,asource
said since Navi is being built as a
highlytechnology-drivenfinancial
servicescompany,thereforemov-
ing HQ to Bengaluru is a strategic
decision. He added as part of this
decisionandinlinewithNavi’sfu-
ture strategy, there were a num-
ber of redundancies in roles and
thesepeoplewere‘letgo’.
Bansal said, “There are vacan-
ciesatseniorandmiddlemanage-
mentlevelsthathavebeencreated
...anditisforallofyoutograbthat
opportunity.”Headdedhelikesto
promote people from within the
organisationtoseniorpositionsin-
steadof goingforexternalhiring.
Baghjan fire: IOWU wants pvt contractors out ATF price hiked by 16.3%;
KARUNJITSINGH
NEWDELHI,JUNE16
THE INDIAN Oil Workers Union
(IOWU)hasdemandedthatrepair
and maintenance of gas wells at
OilIndia(OIL)bedoneonlybyOil
Indiaworkersaftertheblowoutat
OIL’s Baghjan oil field and subse-
quent fire, which has led to the
death of two OIL firefighters.
Economy faces ‘significant
uncertainty’: US Fed chief
ASSOCIATEDPRESS
WASHINGTON, JUNE 16
FEDERAL RESERVE Chairman
Jerome Powell warned Tuesday
thattheUSeconomyfacesadeep
downturn with “significant un-
certainty” about the timing and
strength of a recovery. He cau-
tioned that the longer the reces-
sion lasts, the worse the damage
thatwouldbeinflictedonthejob
market and businesses.
In testimony to Congress,
Powell stressed that the Fed is
committed to using all its finan-
BNP Paribas to shut onshore
wealth management business
Mumbai:BNPParibashasdecided
to shutdownitswealth manage-
mentbusinessinIndiathathasas-
sets under management of $14.5
billion, officials said on Tuesday.
The entity said the move is
driven by strategic reasons,
then 30 per cent and 25 per cent
oftheirliabilityinthenexttwoin-
stallmentsdueDecember15and
AMID RISING SINO-INDIAN BORDER TENSION
China’s GWM signs MoU with
Maharashtra, to invest $1 bn
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
NEW DELHI, JUNE 16
CHINESEAUTOmajorGreatWall
Motor(GWM) onTuesdaysaidit
has signed a memorandum of
understanding with the
Maharashtra government for its
manufacturing facility in the
state which it had acquired from
General Motors (GM).
Thecompanyhascommitted
an investment of $1 billion
(about Rs 7,600 crore) in India in
a phased manner with an esti-
mated employment for over
3,000 people.
“Thiswouldbea highlyauto-
mated plant in Talegaon (near
Pune) with advanced robotics
technology integrated in many
of the production processes,”
Parker Shi, managing director of
Indian subsidiary of GWM, said
Sensex gains 376 pts despite border tension Decision on international flights in July: Puri
ENSECONOMICBUREAU
MUMBAI,JUNE16
DOMESTIC STOCK markets on
Tuesdayralliedbyover1percent
despite the escalation in border
tensionbetweenIndiaandChina.
Though the market remained
volatile, the Sensex rose 376
points to 33,605.22 and the NSE
Nifty gained 100 points at 9,914.
Wellnumber5oftheBaghjan
oilfieldsufferedablowoutonMay
27duringa‘workover’procedure
aimed at extending the produc-
tivityof thewell,handledbyJohn
Energy Private Ltd, contracted by
OIL for the process.
“We have demanded that all
such private contractors be re-
moved,” said Bhaskar Bora, gen-
eralsecretary,IOWU.Borasaidin-
ternal manpower should be
JeromePowelldeliveredthe
firstof twodaysof
semi-annualcongressional
testimony,onTuesday. File
cialtoolstocushiontheeconomic
damage from the coronavirus.
whereinitwantstofocusonbusi-
nesses like corporate and institu-
tional banking, and cannot be
linked to the COVID-19 crisis. As
perofficialsintheknow,thereare
about 60 people working for the
business in India. PTI
March 15, respectively.
The fall in advance tax collec-
tions are also on a higher base, as
byJunelastyear,advancetaxpay-
mentshadbeenmadeontheba-
sis of old tax rates since the deci-
sion to lower the corporate tax
rate was announced later in
September.
Thezone-wisebreakupofnet
direct tax collections for April-
June quarter showed a 42.9 per
cent decline in collections from
Delhi,52.2percentdeclineincol-
lectionsfromChennai,and43per
cent decline in collections from
Hyderabad. However, Mumbai
zone recorded a 4.8 per cent rise
in net direct tax collections dur-
ing the same period, while
Bengaluru recorded a rise of 16.2
per cent.
For2020-21, the government
‘WILL CREATE JOBS FOR 3,000 PEOPLE’
■ Great Wall Motor has
committed an investment
of $1 billion in India in a
phased manner with an
estimated employment for
over 3,000 people
in a statement.
“Overallwearecommittedto
$1 billion of investment in India
in a phased manner, which is di-
rected towards manufacturing
world class intelligent and pre-
mium products, R&D centre,
building supply chain and pro-
viding jobs to over 3,000 people
in a phased manner,” he added.
In January this year, GWM
had signed an agreement to ac-
quire the plant from GM.
The factory has facilities like
However, the rupee dropped
by 17 paise to close at a fresh six-
week low of 76.20 against the US
dollar due to outflows by foreign
portfolio investors (FPIs). While
FPIspulledRs1,478croreTuesday,
domestic institutions accumu-
lated stocks worth Rs 1,161 crore.
Vinod Nair, Head of Research,
Geojit Financial Services, said,
“The border dispute between
IndiaandChinaresultedinvolatil-
developed to handle all well-re-
lated work and that private con-
tractors did not have the experi-
encethatOIL’sownworkershave.
BorasaidtheOILshouldbuild
capacity to handle all such sensi-
tive well-related work in-house
throughrecruitmentandtraining.
OIL and John Energy Private
Ltddidnotrespondtoemailedre-
quests for comment as of press
time Tuesday.
Insurance cover
for mental
illnesses: SC
seeks response
from govt, Irdai
New Delhi: The Supreme Court
Tuesday issued notice to the
Centre and the Insurance
Regulatory Development
Authority (Irdai) on a plea which
said insurance companies were
notprovidinginsuranceformen-
tal illness and the latter was not
doing anything to make them
comply.
A Bench of Justices RF
Nariman, Navin Sinha and BR Tender No.
Gavai sought responses on the
plea by advocate Gaurav Kumar
Bansal who contended that
Section 21 (4) of Mental Health
Act2017providedforinclusionof
mental illness in insurance poli-
cies but has never been followed.
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had set a target of Rs 6.81 lakh
crore from corporate tax, Rs 6.38
lakh crore from income tax and
security transaction tax. The
growthratefortotaldirecttaxcol-
lections for 2020-21 has been
pegged at a high asking rate of
12.7 per cent, which has risen to
nearly28percentfromtheactual
collections in 2019-20.
Sticking to the Budget targets
in April, the Central Board of
DirectTaxes(CBDT)hadfixedre-
gion-wisetargetsforpersonalin-
come tax and corporate taxes for
2020-21, with Mumbai account-
ing for around 31 per cent of the
total country’s target of Rs 13.19
lakh crore. Delhi’s share in the
overall target is the second high-
est with the target set at Rs 1.89
lakh crore or 14.3 per cent of the
overall target.
■ The factory has facilities
like logistics distribution
centre, training centre,
project management
building, and
administrative building
logistics distribution centre,
training centre, project manage-
ment building, administrative
office building and public facili-
ties centre. GMW will produce
its EV and SUV models at the
plant.
At the Auto Expo held in
February this year, GWM had
said it also planned to invest in
battery research and develop-
ment and manufacturing in
India to reinforce and accelerate
“India’s ElectrificationStrategy”.
ity in the stock markets. This was
in spite of steady global markets
following the announcement of
the US Fed Reserve’s expanded
bond-buying programme.
Investors seem to have set aside
thenewsemergingfromthebor-
derandarestillhopingthatliquid-
itywillkeepproppingupthemar-
kets for the time being.” While
FPIs were sellers, domestic insti-
tutions supported the market.
petrol up 47p, diesel by 93p
New Delhi: Aviation turbine fuel
(ATF)priceTuesdaywashikedby
16.3 per cent while petrol price
wasraisedby47paiseperlitreand
that of diesel by a record 93 paise
on the back of firming global oil
rates. ATF price was hiked by Rs
5,494.5 per kilolitre (kl) to Rs
39,069.87 per kl in Delhi, as per a
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Govt’s reasons behind seeking CDR
— checking for ‘illegal setups’, fraud
numbers — go against its own claims
PRANAVMUKUL
NEWDELHI,JUNE16
REQUESTS FOR bulk call data
records(CDRs)bythecentralgov-
ernment, which it said were be-
ing made with an aim to address
issues pertaining to poor quality
of services, have also been made
for reasons beyond fixing the call
drop issue.
In response to Right to
Information(RTI)queriesfiledby
theInternetFreedomFoundation
(IFF), several local units of the
Department of Telecommunic-
ations (DoT) have conceded that
the official purposes for seeking
CDR details from telecom opera-
torsincludedcheckingforany“il-
legal telecom setups”, “detecting
numbersinvolvedingreymarket
telecomactivities”,and“analysing
data of incoming international
long distance (ILD) calls having
impropercallerlineidentification
(CLI)”.Noneoftheresponsesme-
ntion the call drop issue as a rea-
sonforrequisitioningcallrecords.
Furthermore, these requests
havenotbeenmadeunderthele-
gal provision that the Ministry of
Communicationscitedinitsclar-
ification to The Indian Express’
March18reportthattelecomop-
erators had raised questions of
surveillanceandallegedviolation
ofuserprivacyguidelineswiththe
government seeking CDRs of all
mobilesubscribersacrossseveral
pocketsofthecountryforspecific
days.Initssubsequentstatement
then, the Communications
Ministryhadsaid:“Thereisnoin-
fringement of privacy of any per-
son. No personal details are col-
lected.There is no tracking of any
phone number.”
However, in response to IFF’s
RTIrequest,theHaryanaLicensed
Service Area (LSA) said the CDRs
were sought from operators to
check for any possibility of any il-
legal telecom setups in the LSA
andtofindanyinvalidIMEI,orin-
ternational mobile equipment
identity, numbers and non-gen-
uineIMEInumbersaccessingthe
network. To seek these records,
theHaryanaLSAsaidthattheen-
ENSECONOMICBUREAU
NEWDELHI,JUNE16
INDICATING THE Centre’s first
steps towards resuming interna-
tional passenger flights, Civil
Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh
PuriTuesdaysaidIndiawilldecide
on resumption in July if coron-
avirusbehavedinthepredictable
mannerandvariousstakeholders
pricenotificationbystate-owned
oil marketing companies.
Petrol and diesel prices saw a
hike for the 10th straight day.
Petrol price in Delhi was hiked to
Rs 76.73 per litre from Rs 76.26,
whiledieselwashikedtoRs75.19
a litre from Rs 74.26, the notifica-
tion said. PTI
Due date
30.06.2020
30.06.2020
of 16/20
MVA
New Delhi
RUPEE
`76.20
InitsRTIqueries,the
InternetFreedom
Foundationaskedover
12localunitsof theDoT
andDoTheadquarters
fordetailspertainingto
CDRrequestsmade
betweenDecember2019
andFebruary2020
ablinglegalprovisionswereCond-
ition 9 of Chapter 1 of the Unified
LicenceAgreementandtheCond-
ition39.20ofChapterVIoftheUn-
ifiedLicenceAgreement.Similarly,
the data sought by Kolkata LSA
wasbasedonaletterbytheDoT’s
security wing to the local unit.
E-mailqueriessenttoMinister
ofCommunicationsRaviShankar
Prasad and Telecom Secretary
Anshu Prakash did not elicit a re-
sponse.InitsRTIqueries,IFFasked
morethan12localunitsoftheDoT
as well as the DoT headquarters
for details pertaining to CDR re-
questsmadebetweenDecember
2019 and February 2020, includ-
ingthe officialpurposeforseeking
theCDR,theenablinglegalprovi-
sions, the dates for which CDRs
were sought and the duration on
those dates for which the details
were sought.
Among the requests, only
Haryana,KolkataandKeralaLSAs
responded with details of CDRs
sought, while Shillong and Pune
units said no CDRs were sought.
As per sectoral and legal ex-
perts,evenastheCentrehassou-
ght CDR details beyond its stated
objective,itsmovetocollect“ano-
nymised”CDRdetailsfromtelcos
to address call drop issues is also
in contravention with its own
guidelines.OnApril2last,theDoT
issuedastandardoperatingproc-
edure for obtaining CDR details
fromtelecomserviceproviders,a
copyofwhichhasbeenreviewed
by The Indian Express.
“The Licensor including its
field representative units (here-
inafter referred as “Licensor”)
seekingtheCDR...shouldfirstas-
certain the identity of the sub-
came on board with the plan.
“I am often asked, when can
you start international civil avia-
tion? If you leave it to me, and if
the ecosystem works, and if we
havethepredictabilityintermsof
behaviour of the virus, I think in
the coming month we should
starttakingthedecision.Butthose
decisionswillnotbetakenbythe
India civil aviation ministry,”
Puri said.
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scriber, examine the justification
carefully and maintain utmost
confidentiality while obtaining
CDR,” the guidelines stipulate. In
theirlettertotheDoTSecretaryon
February 12, telcos had pointed
outthatinallthemonthlyaswell
asadhocbulkCDRdetailssought
byvariouslocalunitsofDoT,“nei-
ther the intended purpose for re-
quirement of CDRs is mentioned
nor the identity of the
subscriber(s)”.
The SOP stipulates that DoT
mayasktheoperatorsforCDRde-
tails “for proper conduct of tele-
graphortodetectgreymarket/il-
legal telecom operations or in a
publicgrievancecaseoranyother
purpose(s) as mentioned in the
instructions issued from time to
timeunderrelevantprovisionsof
licensing terms & conditions”.
“CDR received shall not be
used for any other purpose other
than the intended purpose men-
tioned while seeking”, it adds.
SpeakingtoTheIndianExpress,
IFF’s executive director Apar
Gupta said call drops weren’t the
justification in the correspon-
dence with any of the telecom
providers. “They are not seeking
pure CDR records, they are seek-
ing data rich information and the
two elements which are omitted
are merely the name of the sub-
scriber and the residential ad-
dress,” he said.
The DoT is empowered by
threelegalprovisionstoseekCDR
details. First is the Condition 9 of
Chapter 1 of the Licence
Agreement, second is Condition
39.20of ChapterVIof theLicence
Agreement and the third is Rule
419oftheIndianTelegraphRules,
1951.“Becauseofthelackofadata
protectionlaw,itisverylikelythat
thisinformationcanbetransmit-
ted. These are bulk CDR details ...
information which is queried on
a rolling basis again and again on
amonthlybasisfor3-4monthsat
least in Kolkata, especially inter-
national incoming, raises a very
high degree of chance and suspi-
cion that this in fact is an act of
mass surveillance,” Gupta said.
Full report on
www.indianexpress.com
Meanwhile, the Directorate
General of Civil Aviation said
Tuesday that a total of 2.81 lakh
passengerstravelleddomestically
and load factor of airlines re-
mainedlowbetweenMay25and
May31.Loadfactormeasuresthe
percentageofseatsoccupiedinan
airline’sflights.Indiaresumeddo-
mestic passenger flights on May
25afteragapoftwomonthsamid
the coronavirus pandemic.
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About 1.3 million children will get free school meal vouchers during the
holidays, following a campaign by Manchester United forward Marcus
Rashford. The 22-year-old welcomed the six-week voucher for eligible
children, saying: “Look at what we can do when we come together.”
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With empty stands, broadcasters and tech firms bank on Augmented Reality to boost fan experience
GAURAV BHATT
NEW DELHI, JUNE 16
IT WASN’T long ago that the FIFA video game
series boasted a selling point in the ‘realistic
noise’feature;real‘oohsandaahs’,chantsand
cheerscapturedbymicrophonesdottedaround
stadiumsworldwide.Thesamerecordingsare
nowbeingusedtoenlivenLaLigaandPremier
Leaguematchesbehindcloseddoors.
Inthepost-pandemicage,theevolutionof
sportsbroadcastinghascomefullcircle.
Cardboard cutouts, Zoom videoconfer-
ences,piped-invideogameaudioandCGIover-
lays. Broadcasters and leagues have tried out
anythingandeverythingthatwouldaidasport-
starvedfan’ssuspensionof disbelief.
Next in line are AR/VR — long the buzz
acronyms of executives and entrepreneurs —
which are now touted as game-changers for
broadcastersravagedbyemptystandsanddis-
ruptedseasons.
Firstacrashcourse.AugmentedReality(AR)
superimposesacomputer-generatedimageon
a user’s view of the real world. VR (Virtual
Reality) simply creates a simulated image for
the user. But before looking ahead at how the
tech will change sports, it’s important to take
stockof pastlearningsandchallenges.
Bringing fans to the stadium
Sinceitsresumption,LaLigagamesarebe-
ingtelecastedwithwhatisanaugmented‘au-
dience’;astatictexturethatresemblesacrowd.
Itonlyworksonthebroadcastcamerathough,
soanyjarringangleswitchtearsawaytheillu-
sionandthesimulatedblanketof‘fans’.Thevir-
tualspectatorsaren’tvisibleindividuallyeither,
whichmeansit’sjustswathesof colour.
GudjonGudjonsson,CEOofOZSports,pres-
ents a more sophisticated option. The com-
pany’s ‘OZ Connected Stadium’ system is al-
readyinstalledatseveralsportsvenues,helping
out with VAR and player tracking. They have
nowdevelopedanAR-enabledoptionthatlets
fansappearintheirfavouriteseats.
“Wewantedtobringthelowerleaguespre-
miumWorldCupproductionexperiences.We
startedourjourneyimaginingayouthtourna-
mentlookinglikethefinalsof theWorldCup,”
says Gudjonsson. “The only thing that was
missingwerethe60,000spectators...”
OZSportsthushelpsconjurethespectators.
Fanssignuponawebsitehostedbytheleague
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ortherightsholder,andaccordingtobranding
guidelines,getthemselves“realistichumanor
fantasy-themedavatars.”Broadcasterscanthen
choose to overlay the said avatars on empty
seats, or instead opt to digitise the entire sta-
diumintoasci-fi,fantasysetting.
AR’s rise has coincided with the advent of
5G. Last March, Korean operator SK Telecom
putupafire-breathingARdragonaboveabase-
ballstadium,visibleonthegiantscreenaswell
asall5G-enableddevices.DallasCowboyshave
beendrivingthetechinAmericanfootball,and
fans can catch glimpses of 36-foot high holo-
gramsof playersontheirdevices.
Sky has long plotted to use AR in football
broadcast to fend off rivals Amazon and BT
Sport. The plan gained momentum after the
successful coverage of The Open last summer,
where 120 cameras captured selected golfers’
swings.Asaresult,analystscouldwalkaround
alife-size3Drenderof RoryMcIlroy.
Adefiniteapplicationofthetechnologycan
be in cricket, where microscopic scrutiny of
Illustration: Suvajit Dey
bowlingactionsandbattingstancesremainsa
key part of the reportage. But unless the tech-
nology is able to pluck out players from a live
game and recreate them in the studio, it re-
mainsagimmickforcontrolledenvironments.
Bringing stadium to the fans
Basketball,byvirtueofitssmallerscale,has
long been the petri dish for broadcasting ex-
periments.TheNBAhasalreadybeentelecast-
ing games in VR to headset owners and, more
importantly, treating it like an actual produc-
tionratherthananadd-on.Youcanlookaround
freely, follow the breakaways as they happen,
changetheangletowatchadunk,andturnyour
head to look at the Hollywood A-lister sitting
nexttoyou.Scoresarein-built,youlookfarleft
or far right to bring up points, rebounds etc, or
lookuptocheckthescoreboardandtime.
Lastmonth,Appleconfirmeditspurchaseof
NextVR, becoming the latest heavyweight to
move into the field. Sony has been a player
throughitsPlayStationsubsidiaryandthetech
is expected to get a serious upgrade when the
latestedition,PS5,launchesthiswinter.Google
andInteltoohavebeenheavilyinvolved.
SankarJayaram—who,alongsidewifeUma
-hasbeenworkingonthetechnologyforclose
tothreedecadesandhelpedIntelformtherela-
tionshipwithNBA,NFLandtheOlympics—says
“VRhasalreadybeeninplayformanyyearsnow
indifferentforms.”“Fromlivestreamingofim-
mersiveVRmediatosharingalargescreenwith
multiple people remotely. Covid-19 could be a
shotinthearmfortheseremotebutimmersive
experiences and as sports start back up across
theworldwithemptystadia,”saysSankar.
Butwithhighcosts(top-tierheadsetsrange
from`30,000to`1.5lakh)massconsumptionof
VRremainsadistantdream.
What the fans want
Thenthere’sthebiggestvariable—thecon-
sumers. Teething troubles of dealing with
cutouts and Zoom have been accentuated by
prankster fans. Australia’s National Rugby
League had to rework their ‘Fan in the Stands’
initiativeaftercardboardcutoutsofprolificse-
rial killer Harold Shipman and Dominic
Cummings — the much-criticised advisor to
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson — made
theirwayintotheseats.Tomakemattersworse,
broadcastersFoxrana‘comedy’sketchsuper-
imposingAdolf Hitlerinthestands.
DanishSuperligaclubAGFArhauswasmore
successful, with giant video walls showcasing
supportersconnectedviaZoom.Buteventheir
warymoderatorsweretwiceleftred-faced.
“I’m proud to say we only had two people
who were kicked out,” Arhaus' media chief
SorenCarlsensays.“Theywereshowingsome
partsofthebodyyou’renotsupposedtoshow.”
But giving officials the power to pick and
choose each fan inside the stadium could rob
footballofitsheterogeneity.Gudjonsson,asup-
porter of the Iceland football team, knows too
welltheimportanceof fanexpression.
“Therivalryandchantsarewhatcreatethe
storytelling.Theirpassionisneededonthefield
too,” assures Gudjonsson. “Until now, the fans
in the stadium and those watching on TV are
twoveryseparategroups.Wewanttoconnect
those two to create one huge audience that
drivestheoverallmatchdayexperience.”
Carlsen agrees that AR/VR could work as
add-ons,butcouldneverreplacetherealthing.
“Thistechnologycanbeusedwhenwecit-
izensarenotallowedtobetogether.ButIdon’t
thinkwe’llseeafuturewherepeoplearestay-
inghome,puttingonsomeVRgogglesorwhat-
ever, and then you will watch the game,” says
Carlsen.“Afanissupposedtobeatthestadium.”
spitting, no nose-digging
SHAMIKCHAKRABARTY
KOLKATA,JUNE16
WITH THE Premier League restarting on
Wednesday,behindcloseddoors,theauthor-
itieshaveissuedstrictprotocolstoensure“sta-
diums are as safe as possible for everybody
present”. Here’s the low-down:
Howarematchvenuesbeingmadesafe?
Tostartwith,notmorethan300peoplecan
bepresentatastadiumonamatchday.Safety
measures have been put in place after doing
Covid-19stadiumriskassessments.Clubshave
been directed to “establish a security plan to
ensureaccesstothestadiumisonlygrantedto
accredited individuals”.
Howwillteamstraveltomatches?
Teams can travel “via car, coach, plane or
train”,butsocial-distancinghygieneprotocols
havetobeadheredto.Peopledrivingtheirown
vehicleshouldtravelalone.AspertheUKgov-
ernmentlegislations,“hotelsshouldbefores-
sential use only”.
Whatisstadiumzoning?
For the rest of the season, stadiums have
been divided into three zones – Red, Amber
andGreen.RedZoneincludes“thepitch,tech-
nical area, tunnel and dressing rooms”. It is
meant for only those who have undergone
Covid tests in the five days prior to a match.
With regards to Amber Zone, as per the
PremierLeagueguidelines:“Thiscoversallar-
easof thestadiuminteriorwiththeexception
of the RedZone, including stands, concourses
andpitch-sideinterviewareas.”GreenZoneis
theareaoutsidethestadiumwithaccesscon-
trol points, parking lot etc.
Whataboutdisinfectingthevenue?
Clubs,hometeamstobeprecise,willbein
charge of this. Everything, from goal posts to
match ball, dugouts, corner poles and flags,
substitutionboardsandchangingfacilitieswill
have to be disinfected.
Howisthetestingprogramme?
The Premier League commenced its
Covid-19 testing programme on May 17,
“with tests of players and staff at all 20 clubs
conducted twice weekly”. If someone tests
positive, he/she must go into self-isolation
for sevendays. Thewholeteam will nothave
to be quarantined.
Whatarethedosanddon’tsonthepitch?
Spitting and/or nose-clearing are banned.
Players will have to maintain distance during
goalcelebrations.Handshakesarenotallowed.
“Nomassconfrontations”havebeenordered.
Dotheplayersneedtowearfacemasks?
ThePremierLeaguesays:“Attendeeswith
theexceptionof playersandcoachingstaff on
team benches must wear face coverings. This
willalsobewaivedatcertaintimesforbroad-
castpresentersandcommentators,underso-
cial-distancing guidelines”.
Whatarethedressingroomprotocols?
Dressing rooms for players and officials
shouldhave“adequatespace”toensuresocial
distancing.Ifthisrequiresadditionalroomsto
be added, clubs will have to arrange that.
Willtheteamsenterthepitchtogether?
No, it will be staggered for players and of-
ficials.“Thereshouldbenocongregationinor
around the tunnel area at any time”. At some
venues, different tunnels could be used.
Willtherebeballboys?
No.Sparematchballswillbetherearound
the pitch and referees will offer guidance “in
managing the process”.
Willthetechnicalarealookdifferent?
Itwillbeexpandedtoensuresocialdistanc-
ing.Fivesubstitutescanbeusedpermatchin-
stead of three and nine players can sit on the
bench rather than seven.
Whatabouton-pitchmedicaltreatment?
Teammedicsandparamedicswillhaveto
wear“appropriatePPE,includingasurgicalface
mask,disposableglovesandadisposableplas-
ticapron”.Twomemberswillbepermittedin
the Red Zone as stretcher bearers.
Aremediainterviewspermitted?
Post-matchinterviewsarepermitted,but
social distancing protocols have to be ad-
hered to. Huddle interviews are banned.
Post-match pressers will be virtual.
Howoftenarematchofficialsbeingtested?
The Premier League says: “They are now
being tested at the same regularity as
Premier League players, and will follow the
exact same protocols.”
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CROSSWORD 4146
ACROSS
1 How to amuse motorists?
Hardly! (6)
4 Tissue of lies about sailor girl
(6)
9 Cut favourite piece from the
paper (7)
10 Land part in Diamond Lil
(5)
11 Horses of a Scots regiment
feed on grass we hear
(5)
12 Kit turns sour with the
hardships of life (7)
13 Promising enterprise (11)
18 Opportunity given to a
number in the church (7)
20 It’s most pleasant back in the
precinct (5)
22 Emile provides something
fragrant (5)
23 Set aside for the listener to
note (7)
24 Can you beat it for personal
adornment? (6)
25 Dreads moving snakes (6)
SolutionsCrossword4145:Across: 1Machete,5Ambit,8Soundingboard,9Set
on,10Sweeten,11Damask,12Chocks,15Lorelei,17Genii,19Fairtreatment,20
Lilts,21Traitor.Down:1Moses,2Courts-martial,3Endings,4Ernest,5Amble,6
Beautycontest,7Tidings,11Doleful,13Hightea,14Direct,16Lotus,18Inter.
JUMBLED WORDS
DAY TODAY
ARIES (Mar 21 - Apr 20)
It’s a day for
movement and
communication.
Your secret
nomadic tendencies may
emerge, making you even
more restless, but what is
really at stake is your ability to
digest the facts and express
yourself clearly and
persuasively. Try to see the big
picture, just for a change.
TAURUS (Apr 21 - May 21)
Business and
financial choices are
looming, as they
CALVIN & HOBBES by Bill Watterson seem to do about
once a month! This time round
though, you may be able to
settle questions which date
back anything up to a year, and
even plan for the next twelve
months. Plus, a new element
DOWN enters in the form of a desire to
1 To perform with wisdom - do good.
that’s the job of a doctor
(6) GEMINI (May 22 - June 21)
2 Say there’s nothing in sin The Moon is making
(5) friends and
3 A quick reply by one who is colleagues think
foiled (7) again. Or, at least, a
5 A weapon attached to a rifle guilty conscience might be
perhaps (5) stirring. It’s therefore an ideal
6 Arab that is bound to be a moment for considering the
wanderer (7) successes and failures
7 I sail out East to act as a go- of the past six to twelve
between (6) months and working out how
8 Dishonest retailer? (11)
14 Certainly it’s not far eastern in
MARVIN by Tom Armstrong to do things better over the
coming year.
origin (7)
CANCER (June 22 - July 23)
15 A sort of colour relationship?
There is a lot to be
(7)
said for closing your
16 Bill has a little money in a
eyes and not taking
manner of speaking (6)
too much notice of
17 Stops and rests, say (6)
other people’s silly gossip and
19 Company about to broadcast
rumours. One way for you to
in Egypt (5)
get the best out of the day
21 Hunt for a groovy way to
is to get involved in a
decorate (5)
charitable enterprise, or just
do your bit to make the world
a better place.
LEO (July 24 - Aug 23)
No one seems
willing to share your
burdens or even
offer you much-
needed moral support. This is as
DifficultyLevel2s
it should be, for Saturn is
teaching you a very valuable
SOLUTION SUDOKU 4141
BY PETER VIDAL
LIBRA (Sep 24 - Oct 23)
Although the Moon
is indicating an
increase in tension,
on this particular
occasion it is helpfully aligned
to your sign. You may therefore
usefully widen your vistas and
plan adventurous moves. Make
peace your priority, and see
to it that you prosper by
making friends.
SCORPIO (Oct 24 - Nov 23)
No matter what
other people have or
have not done, you
will have to stop
judging them and concentrate
instead on your own motives. If
you have been relying on
financial or business values, you
should now think again,
especially if a matter of the
heart is involved.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov 24 - Dec 22)
The Moon’s key
aspects align almost
exactly with the
heart of that
sensitive region of your chart
responsible for being of
service to others. You may be
able to take the initiative, but
rather more likely is the
prospect that partners will
seize the limelight in ways you
never thought possible.
CAPRICORN (Dec 23 - Jan 20)
Stay busy. Today’s
dominant planetary
aspect puts the
emphasis fairly and
squarely on work, and even at
home you should concentrate
on dealing with whatever
backlog of chores has built up.
It’s all a matter of clearing the
decks, and making space for
future pleasures.
AQUARIUS (Jan 21- Feb 19)
Your pleasure zones
are being stimulated
by the Moon, and the
result could be
frustration if you are absolutely
tied to your routine,
but a splendid day if you are
able to break out of a rut. Of
course, if you take a risk, you

Instructions lesson, which is to stand on have to be happy with the

Givenbelowarefourjumbledwords.Solvethejumblestomakeproperwordsandmovethemto TosolveaSudokupuzzle, your own two feet. Once you’ve consequences, however
therespectivesquaresbelow.Selectthelettersintheshadedsquaresandjumblethemtoget everydigitfrom1to9 learnt that, Jupiter will confer they result.
SUDOKU 4142

theanswerforthegivenquip. mustappearineachofthe its rewards.

Eaglescomeinallshapesandsizes,butyouwillrecognizethemchieflybytheir____.-E.F. PISCES (Feb 20 - Mar 20)
nineverticalcolumns,in VIRGO (Aug 24 - Sep 23) On no account
Schumacher(9)
eachoftheninehorizontal Today’s ambitious should you allow
MZAEI TESTAE rowsandineachofthe Moon has a upsets or disputes in
nineboxes. powerful your personal life to
professional disturb the status quo. The
pattern. It’s one of those point is that even though you
HIMST CINTDU DifficultyLevel
aspects which advises you to may feel unsettled over the next
press ahead with all worldly forty-eight hours, the pressures
1s=Veryeasy;2s=Easy; ambitions, including anything should soon evaporate.
3s=Medium;4s=Hard; which will bring recognition in And if you’re planning for the
attitudes. - E. F. Schumacher 5s=VeryHard;6s= your community. Does that long-term, take a look at your
Answer: Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their Genius attract you? I hope so. cash-flow.
SOLUTION: MAIZE, SMITH, ESTATE, INDUCT

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