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679 new Covidcases reported,tally climbs to19369 in Haryana

Amarinder givesgo-ahead to setupplasma bank ascovid cases onrise

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Five youth killedin road mishapin BhatindaBATHINDA: Five youth diedon the spot and another sus-tained serious injuries in aroad mishap in this district onThursday.Six Jajal village youths weretravelling in a car and whentheir vehicle reached nearMour Mandi, it collided withan oil tanker, killing five ofthem on the spot.Another youth sustained seri-ous injuries in the mishap.

Veteran actorJagdeep laid to rest

MUMBAI: Veteran actor-co-median Jagdeep, best knownfor his role as Soorma Bhopaliin "Sholay", was laid to rest inthe presence of family andclose friends at a cemeteryhere on Thursday.Jagdeep, 81, died at his resi-dence in suburban Mumbaion Wednesday night.The veteran actor, whose realname was Syed IshtiaqAhmed Jafri, was laid to restat a cemetery in south Mum-bai's Byculla neighbourhoodat around 2.30 pm, a familysource told a news agency. There were around 10-12people in attendance., includ-ing sons, actor Jaaved, pro-ducer Naved, grandsonMeezaan, and industry col-league Johnny Lever.

Alliance Air toresume Delhi-Kulluflight from Jul 16MUMBAI: Alliance Air, awholly-owned subsidiary ofAir India, on Thursday said itwill resume its flight servicesto Kullu in Himachal Pradeshfrom New Delhi from July 16.The airline will deploy a 70-seater ATR aircraft to operatethe services on the route, Al-liance Air said in a statement.The flight will operate threetimes a week -- Monday,Thursday and Saturday. Itwill depart Delhi at 6.45 amand arrive in Kullu at 08.05am, the airline said, addingthe return flight will departKullu at 8.30 am and arrive inDelhi at 9.50 am.

58 Indian-origin executives employover 3.6 million people globally

AGENCYWASHINGTON, JUL 9

A group of 58 Indian-origin executives head-ing companies across 11 countries, includingthe US, Canada and Singapore, collectivelyemploy more than 3.6 million people and ac-count for a combined USD 1 trillion in rev-enue, according to a US-based top Indian di-aspora organisation. Indian-origin businessleaders are reaching the pinnacle of corporatesuccess in greater numbers than ever, manyuse their platforms for social change advoca-cy, said Indiaspora, a nonprofit organisation ofglobal Indian diaspora leaders from variousbackgrounds and professions. The IndiasporaBusiness Leaders List of 58 executives head

companies headquartered across 11 differentcountries, including the US, Canada, England,and Singapore and these companies have de-livered annualised returns of 23 per cent dur-

ing the tenure of these executives, outper-forming the S&P 500 by 10 per cent. Thesecompanies collectively employ more than 3.6million worldwide and account for a com-bined USD 1 trillion in revenue and USD 4trillion in market capitalisation. We wanted tocapture this incredible feat that our communi-ty is achieving with increasing numbers, saidIndiaspora founder MR Rangaswami, a Sili-con Valley-based entrepreneur and investor.The impact that the Indian diaspora is havingin the realm of business is remarkable. It's oneof the reasons we launched this project, andwe hope our lists will continue to raise theprofile of those who have reached the very topof their fields while also serving as agents forpositive change, Rangaswami said.

Disengagement from both sidescompleted at LAC, confirms ChinaDialogue will continue to de-escalate tension: Zhao

AGENCYBEIJING, JULY 9

China on Thursday said Chineseand Indian troops have taken "ef-fective measures" to disengage atthe Galwan Valley and other ar-eas along the Line of Actual Con-trol (LAC) in eastern Ladakh andthe situation is "stable and im-proving," days after the two sidesagreed on an expeditious with-drawal of soldiers from all thestandoff points.

The remarks by Chinese For-eign Ministry spokesman ZhaoLijian came a day after people inNew Delhi familiar with the de-velopments said that the Chinesemilitary removed all temporarystructures and completed with-drawal of its troops from the face-off site in Hot Springs in easternLadakh

Zhao told a media briefinghere that ?following the consen-sus reached at the commander-level talks, China, India bordertroops have taken effective meas-ures to disengage at the front-lineat the Galwan Valley and other ar-eas.?

The situation along the bor-der is stable and improving,? hesaid

Asked about further talks be-tween the two countries, Zhaosaid the two sides will continuedialogue and communicationthrough military and diplomaticchannels including by holdingmeeting of the Working Mecha-nism for Consultations and Coor-dination (WMCC) on the Sino-Indian border affairs.

We hope India will work to-

gether with us to take concrete ac-tion and implement the consensusreached and jointly work for de-escalation along the border,? thespokesman added.

The disengagement processof the troops on both sides beganon Monday morning after a near-ly two-hour telephonic conversa-tion between National SecurityAdvisor Ajit Doval and Chinese

Foreign Minister Wang Yi onSunday.

At the talks, the two sidesagreed on an expeditious with-drawal of troops from all thestandoff points to bring backpeace and tranquility in the re-gion. Doval and Wang are SpecialRepresentatives (SR) for theboundary talks.

Gangster VikasDubey arrested

from Ujjain templeAGENCYBHOPAL/LUCKNOW, JUL 9

Gangster Vikas Dubey, wanted inconnection with the Kanpur ambushin which eight policemen werekilled, was arrested from Ujjain inMadhya Pradesh on Thursday, an of-ficial said.

Madhya Pradesh Home MinisterNarottam Mishra confirmed the de-velopment. He told reporters thatDubey is in the state police's custodyin Ujjain. "Yes, we have arrested himand he is in our custody," the minis-ter said, without revealing how po-lice nabbed him.

The minister did not confirm ifthe gangster, carrying a reward of Rs5 lakh on information leading to hisarrest, was nabbed from within or out-side the Mahakal temple premises."Dont bring the temple into it. Insidethe temple or outside it... he is arrest-ed from Ujjain, Mishra said. "We willshare details after going deep into thematter. It is a matter of intelligenceand we cant reveal it now, the ministersaid, when reporters asked if a priestor a security guard had identified thegangster. "It is a big achievement forthe Madhya Pradesh police. Theywere on high alert after the Kanpur in-cident, Mishra said. Meanwhile, tem-ple sources said Dubey reached thetemple gate in the morning and pur-

chased a Rs 250 ticket from a counternear the police post. When he went toa nearby shop to buy 'prasad' for thedeity, the shop owner identified himand alerted police, they added. Whenthe policemen asked him his name, heloudly said "Vikas Dubey", followingwhich the cops and private securitypersonnel deployed at the templenabbed him, the sources said. Eyewit-nesses said Dubey was accompaniedby two associates. Police are yet toconfirm this account. Lauding Ujjainpolice for arresting Dubey, MadhyaPradesh Chief Minister Shivraj SinghChouhan tweeted, "Those who feelthat after going to the Mahakal tem-ple, their sins will be wiped out, theydo not know about the Mahakal.

Handed over to UP police

Modi invites worldcompanies to India

AGENCYNEW DELHI, JULY 9

Addressing a global audience for the firsttime since the outbreak of the coronaviruspandemic, Prime Minister Narendra Modion Thursday stressed on revival while link-ing global and Indian revival.

"In these times, it is natural to talk aboutrevival. It is equally natural to link global re-vival and India. There is faith that the storyof global revival will have India playing aleading role," the Prime Minister said whilespeaking at the India Global Week 2020.

The Prime Minister, through his speech,invited global companies to come and estab-lish their presence in India.

"India remains one of the most openeconomies in the world. We are laying a redcarpet for all global companies to come andestablish their presence in India. Very fewcountries will offer the kind of opportunitiesIndia does today," he said. Talking about In-dia's economy, the Prime Minister said, "Onthe one hand, India is fighting a strong battleagainst the global pandemic. With an in-creased focus on people's health, we areequally focussed on the health of the econo-my." The Prime Minister said that when India

talks of revival, "it is -- revival with care, re-vival with compassion, revival which is sus-tainable -- both for the environment and theeconomy". The Prime Minister also appreci-ated India's technological endeavours."Thanks to technology, every penny hasreached the beneficiaries directly. The reliefincludes providing free cooking gas, cash inthe bank accounts, free foodgrains to millionsof people and many other things," he added.The India Global Week 2020 is a three-dayvirtual conference, being held from July 9 toJuly 11. Themed 'Be The Revival: India and aBetter New World', it will have 5,000 globalparticipants from 30 nations being addressedby 250 global speakers across 75 sessions.

Amarinder seeks cancellationof final year college exams

SP JAINCHANDIGARH, JULY 9:

Terming the Covid situation in thestate non-conducive to theconduct of examinations,Punjab Chief MinisterCaptain Amarinder onThursday said that he shallwrite to Prime MinisterNarendra Modi and UnionHome Minister Amit Shahseeking cancellation of ex-ams in universities andcolleges in the interest andsafety of the students. The ChiefMinister said he will seek revoca-tion of the July 6 MHA orders oncompulsory conduct of final termsexams in the universities/collegesby September, and withdrawal of

the University Grants Commission(UGC) guidelines accordingly.

Covid cases in Punjab are in-creasing every day and are pro-

jected to peak in Septem-ber, Captain Amarinderpointed out, adding thathe was not ready to riskthe lives of the studentsin these circumstances.“How can we take therisk of exposing studentsby bringing them togeth-er for exams at this junc-ture?,” said the Chief

Minister. He further said that ex-ams could not be held in onlinemode, which the UGC had sug-gested as an option, since a largesection of the students in Punjab,especially in rural areas.

No communitytransmission of COVID-

19: Dr Harsh VardhanNEW DELHI, JULY 9

Union Health and Family Welfare Minister DrHarsh Vardhan on Thursday sought to quell fearsof community transmission of COVID-19 in thecountry, saying there isno such thing yet.

"During our discus-sions today, experts againstated that there is nocommunity transmissionin India. There may besome localised pocketswhere transmission ishigh but as a country,there's no communitytransmission," the UnionMinister said after a meeting of Group of Minis-ters in the national capital.

Observing that currently, India has the third-largest number of COVID-19 cases across theglobe, he said, "We need to understand this inperspective. We are the second most populatedcountry in the world. Currently, India has 538per million cases in India, as compared to therest of the world, which has an average of 1,453.Similarly, in terms of deaths, we have 15 casesper million compared to the world's average of68.7."

Further sharing the details of the steps takenby the government to fight the pandemic, headded, "We have the best recovery rate in theworld as well as the lowest fatality rate.

Hry to reducesyllabus forClasses 9 to 12CHANDIGARH: To makeup for the loss of studiesdue to the coronavirus pan-demic, the Haryana govern-ment has decided to reducethe syllabus of Classes 9 to12 in the current academicsession.Education Minister KanwarPal said the governmenthas instructed the Board ofSchool Education to set upa panel in coordination withthe State Council of Educa-tional Research and Train-ing, Gurgaon, to work outmodalities for it.The government believesthat in view of the coron-avirus situation, studentsshould not feel any kind ofburden or mental pressure,he said.It was a major factor takeninto consideration when thedecision was taken, whichwill be applicable to allschools affiliated to theboard, the minister said.

CLASSIFIEDI, Baljinder Kaur W/o Sh. I Janaki Naidu Kalla Spouse I, Hitherto Known As Ramneek I , H i t h e r t o K n o w n A s I, Gurdip Singh Aulakh S/o I, Jaspreet Kaur W/o Arjun Suri K e s a r S i n g h , Vi l l a g e Of Jc-388671h Nb/sub S S Wife Of Kanwaljit Singh Harbinder Singh Son Of Mohinder Singh R/o W.no.11 R/oh.no.5962 Gali No.21, Kandhargarh (sangrur) Appala Naidu Kalla R/o Residing At 2988, Gali Bhagwan Singh Residing At Chugha Road, Dharamkot, Moga Nawan Kot Amritsar 143001, Known Both Two Names I.e. Vill-rukminipuram, Distt Kassaian Wali, Old Gate, H.no. 18, Village Fattu Bhila, Punjab Pin-142042 Have Punjab India Have Changed My Baljinder Kaur And Binder V i s a k h a p a t n a m H a v e Jandiala Guru District Amritsar Babowal, Tehsil And Distt. Changed My Name To Gurdip Name After My Marriage From

Kaur. Both Names Are Of Changed My Name From Punjab Have Changed My Amritsar Punjab Have Changed Singh. Jaspreet Kaur To Jaspreet Suri. Mine. Janaki Naidu Kalla To Name And Shall Hereafter Be My Name And Shall Hereafter 63372 Note It

98726 K a l l a J a n a k i V i d e Known As Ramnik Bhatia. Be Known As Harvinder Singh. I, Rajinder Kaur D/o Jasmer Singh 72737Affidavit Dated 09-07-20 900020 900020 W/o Parminder Singh Saran R/o I, Virpal Kaur W/o Har Pal Before Executive Magistrate I, Hitherto Known As Navjot I, Hitherto Known As Maninder (moga Have Been Changed My Singh R/o Village Jhok Tahal Bti Singh Saini Son Of Satpal Singh Son Of Sarbjit Singh Name To Rajinder Kaur Saran. Singh, Tehsil & Distt Ferozepur

100078 Singh Saini Residing At Sandhu R/o Vpo Miran Kot 63372 152002 Have Changed My I No. 15326445 L/nk H.no.153, Partap Nagar, Kalan, Amritsar Punjab Have I, Jaswinder Singh Dhaliwal S/o Name To Veerpal Kaur. Please Bhaurao Nandavadekar G.t.road, Gurudwara Sahib Changed My Name And Shall Jagtar Singh & Soni Kaur Note It Unit 38 Aslt Engr Regt District Amritsar Punjab Have Hereafter Be Known As Dhaliwal W/o Jaswinder Singh 72737C / o 5 6 A p o H a v e Changed My Name And Shall Maninder Singh Sandhu Dhaliwal R/o Dhurkot Ransih I Hitherto Known As Kamal Changed My Daughter Hereafter Be Known As Navjot 900020 (moga) Have Changed Their Dua S/o Brij Bhushan Dua R/o Name From Shruti To Singh. I, Hitherto Known As Jasvinder Minor Daughter ’s Name H.no .5 Banda Bahadur S h r u t i B h a u r a o 900020 Kaur Wife Of Sarbjit Singh Manpreet Kaur Dhaliwal To Nagar, ja landhar 144008 Nandavadekar I, Hitherto Known As Jaspinder Sandhu R/o Vpo Miran Kot Manpreet Kaur. Punjab, India. Have Changed

100078 Kaur D/o Kartar Singh W/o Kalan, Amritsar Punjab Have 63372 My Name Shall Hereafter Be I No. 15326445 L/nk Sukhdev Singh Sandhu R/o Changed My Name And Shall I Kiran Bala W/o Mahinder Known As Kamal Kishore DuaBhaurao Nandavadekar H.no.539, A-block, Sandhu Hereafter Be Known As Kumar R/o 3332, Near Filli 72778Unit 38 Aslt Engr Regt Avenue, District Amritsar Gurmej Kaur Sandhu. Gate,agwar Ladhai, Jagraon,distt I Dev Ram S/o Maha Chand R/o C / o 5 6 A p o H a v e Punjab Have Changed My 900020 Ludhiana Have I.e. Kiran Bala Or V. Dhada Khurd P.o. Dhada Changed My Daughter Name And Shall Hereafter Be I, Hitherto Known As Sarbjit Dolly Now Both Name Are Same Kalan Tehsil Garhshankar ( Name From Khushi To Known As Jaspinder Kaur Singh Son Of Amar Singh R/o Person. Hoshiarpur ) Have Changed My K h u s h i B h a u r a o Sandhu Vpo Miran Kot Kalan, Amritsar 63372 Name To Ram Dev Nandavadekar 900020 Punjab Have Changed My 72778I Harnoor Kaur Sohi W/o

100078 I, Hitherto Known As Sunil Name And Shall Hereafter Be Sukhdeep Singh Gill R/o Bazurg I Charan Kaur W/o Dev Ram Kumar S/o Charanjit R/o Known As Sarbjit Singh Tehsil Jagraon Distt Ludhiana R/o V. Dhada Khurd P.o. Dhada H.no.8,7,27.5ft Road, Indra Sandhu. Have Changed My Name To Kalan Tehsil Garhshankar ( Colony, Maji tha Road, 900020 Harnoor Kaur Gill. Hoshiarpur ) Have Changed My District Amritsar Punjab I, Hitherto Known As Hemant 63372 Name To Kaur Charan Have Changed My Name Kumar Verma Son Of Sat Pal 72778I Saggar Singh Sidhu S/o Jagdev And Shall Hereafter Be Verma Residing At H.no.1095, Singh R/o Koir Singh Wala (bti) I, Aarti Sharma D/o Parveen Known As Sunil Gupta. Gali Gujjran, Chowk Baba Have Changed My Name As Kumar W/o Karan Dutta R/o

900020 Sahib, Amritsar Have Changed Saggar Singh. H.no.b-16/207/1, Mohalla I, Hitherto Known As Dev My Name And Shall Hereafter 63372 Shivniketan, Nawanshahr, Raj Aggarwal Son Of Hem Be Known As Hemant Verma. Distt. Sbs Nagar, Punjab, India I Jasmail Singh Sidhu S/o Saggar Raj Residing At H.no. 423, 900020 (144514) Declare That I Have Singh R/o Koir Singh Wala (bti) G a l i J a n d i a l a Wa l i , I , H i t h e r t o K n o w n A s Change My Name From Aarti Have Changed My Name As G . t . r o a d , D h a r i w a l , Ramandeep Singh Abbhoo Son Sharma To Aarti Dutta. After Jasmail Singh.Gurdaspur Punjab 143519 Of Hira Singh Employed As Marriage.63372Have Changed My Name C.t.o.a In Punjab National Bank 72778I Beant Kaur Sidhu W/o Saggar And Shall Hereafter Be Residing At E1/3043 Wadali Singh R/o Koir Singh Wala (bti) I, Subhash Chander S/o Duni Known As Dev Raj Goel. R o a d , H a rg o b i n d P u r a Have Changed My Name As Chand R/o 416, Master Tara

900020 Chheharta, Amritsar Punjab Singh Nagar, Jalandhar, Have Beant Kaur.I, Hitherto Known As Have Changed My Name And Changed My Name From 63372Prerna W/o Ranjit Singh Shall Hereafter Be Known As Subhash Chander To Subhash I, Balwant Singh S/o Mukand Residing At H.no.279, Ramandeep Singh.. Chander Gandhi.Singh R/o Vill: Ikolahi, Teh-Gali No.2, Dharampura, 900020 72778khanna (ludhiana) Have Changed C h h e h a r t a A m r i t s a r I, Subhash Kumar S/o Dyal My Name To Bant Singh. I Amarpreet Singh S/o Harbans Punjab Have Changed My Chand R/o Abadi Sant 63372 Singh Josan R/o 451/6, Guru Name And Shall Hereafter Nagar,verka, Amritsar Have Nanak Pura West, Jalandhar, I, Happy Kumar S/o Avtar Chand Be Known As Varinder Changed My Name To Subhash Punjab, India Have Changed My R/o Vill: Mohanwal Po. Kaur. Singh. Name From Amarpreet Singh Garhshankar (hoshiarpur) Pb,

900020 900020 Josan To Amarpreet Singh.India, Changed My Name To I, Hitherto Known As Indu I, Sudesh Kumar Luthra S/o 72778Jaskaran Sidhu.Bala Daughter Of Ashok Jagan Nath R/o H.no. 3048/17, 63372 I Banajotsna Majhi Spouse of Kumar Wife Of Kapil Ram Mohalla Bagichi Chowk N o . 1 5 1 3 0 3 2 9 A R H M I Bakshis Singh S/o Rur Singh R/o Arora Residing At H.no. Chira, Katra Karam Singh, Bhubaneswar Majhi Resident of Vpo Sathiala, Patti Jai Chand Ki, 4/937, Chand Avenue, Fgc Amritsar Have Changed My V P O B a d a b e r a n a , Te h . Tehsil Baba Bakala Sahib Road Amritsar Punjab Name From Sudesh Kumar Begunia,Distt. Khurda,State (amritsar).have Changed My Have Changed My Name Luthra To Sudesh Luthra. Odisha,Pin - 752061.Have Name Bakshis Singh To Bakhshis And Shall Hereafter Be 900020 Changed my Name from Singh. Please Note.Known As Sonia Arora. I, Urmila Luthra W/o Sudesh B a n a j o t s n a M a j h i To 90003

900020 Kumar Luthra R/o H.no. Banajyotsna Majhi and Changed I, Sinder Singh S/o Surain Singh 3048/17, Ram Mohalla my DOB from 16.June.1978 To R/o Village Ramana-ramani Bagichi Chowk Chira, Katra 16. may.1978Tehsil Nilokheri Distt Karnal. Karam Singh, Amritsar Have 98765(P)That My Insurance Policy No. Is Changed My Name From I Soni kumari D/o No. 172408135 In Which My Name Is Urmila Luthra To Urmil 15151875A Rank Hav. Ashok Sinder Singh, While Other Luthra. kumar R/o VPO Supi Distt. Documents Are Surender Singh. I

900020 J e h a n a b a d ( B i h a r ) . H a v e Should Be Known By Both The I , Ranjeet Singh S/o Changed my Daughter Name Names Of Sinder Singh And Sukhwant Singh R/o Vpo from Soni Kumari To Shreya Surender Singh.Bhakna Kalan, Distt. Amritsar kumari Vide Affidavit dated 100065Have Changed My Name 02.08.2019 & Affidavit Number I Amandeep Kaur W/o Gurpreet From Ranjeet Singh To Ranjit 09AA416823 Before Ambala Singh Khehra R/o Mohkam Wala Singh Cantt..@ Arian Wala (ferozepur) Have

900020 98765(P)Changed My Name To I, Guddu Yadav S/o Radhe Amandeep Kaur Khehra After Shyam R/o H.no. 1258 Marriage.Sector-11 Ranjit Nagar 98723Kharar Teh-kharar (sas I, Kashmir Kaur Spouse Of Nagar) Changed My Name To No.2451816 Ex Nk Kulwant Guddu Verma. Singh R/o Vill- Ludhupur, Po-

63372 Bhattian, Distt- Gurdaspur. Have I Ravinder Singh Alias Changed My Name From Varinder Singh S/o Ajit Singh Kashmir Kaur To Jasvir Kaur.Alias Jeet Singh R/o Village 100073Baddian, Teh. Giddarbaha, I, Harprit Kaur D/o No.2469749p Distt. Sri Muktsar Sahib Have Ex Hav Paramjit Singh R/o Vpo- Declare That I Am Known By Ghanie Ke Banger, Teh- Batala Distt- Both The Names. Gurdaspur. Have Changed My

63372 Name From Harprit Kaur To I, Jaswant Singh Toor S/o Harpreet Kaur.Mangal Singh R/o Vpo Jalal 100073Singh Wala, Manawan, I, Jasbir Kaur W/o Nazar Singh R/o Moga Punjab, Pin-152028 Village Varnala, Tehsil Patti, Distt. Have Changed My Name To Tarn Taran Have Changed My Name Jaswant Singh. To Sukhbir Kaur. Concerned Note.

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I N o . 1 5 3 2 6 4 4 5 L / n k Bhau rao Nandavadeka r Unit 38 Aslt Engr Regt C/o 56 Apo Have Changed My Son Name From Harsh To H a r s h B h a u r a o Nandavadekar

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DARSHAN.SHARMA the people that if anyone suspects TB, then NILOKHERI, JULY 9: they should go to the doctors and get

themselves examined so that the disease can SMO and TB Incharge of Civil Hospital be controlled in time.Nilokheri, Dr. Vandana Agarwal said that TB Today, TB patients at Nilokheri Civil i s a n i n f e c t i o u s d i s e a s e c a u s e d b y Hospital were given an air borne infusion tuberculosis bacteria. The most common control kit. In the face of social distancing, TB effect of this disease is on the lungs. The most patients were given 5 clothes masks, two bottles common is lung tuberculosis, which spreads of phenyl, a cup in which the patient will spit so through air from one person to another. that it cannot spread from place to place. Dr. During the coughing and sneezing of a TB Ashutosh Mittal, Dr. Pradeep Chaudhary, Shiv patient, the fine droplets coming out of the Kumar, Sanjay Kumar and Gaurav Kumar mouth and nose spread them. She appealed to MPHW were present on the occasion.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only

the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not,

when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Henry David Thoreau

BENGALURU: The M Chinnaswamy cricket stadium and the Bengaluru Palace in Karnataka will be converted into a COVID-19 care centre, informed the Chief Minister's Office (CMO) on Thursday. The Bangalore International Exhibition Centre was also recently converted into a COVID-19 care facility by the state government amid the rising number of COVID-19 cases. R Ashoka, the state's COVID management in charge said, "People of Bangalore need not panic. All necessary equipment and preparation are being arranged by the state. We have over 600 ambulances ready to take care of COVID patients." As per the data from the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Karnataka now has a total of 28,877 COVID-19 cases, including 16,531 active cases and 11,876 recoveries. 470 people have died of the infectious virus in the state so far.

Chinnaswamy Stadium to be turned into COVID-19 care centre

RENU AGGARWAL installed in the office to bring transparency in AMBALA, JULY 9: The SDM surprisingly the work of Tehsil. Apart from this, we are inspected the tehsil office of Narayangarh. going to start digital payment in tehsil so that The movement of some brokers in the tehsil there is no problem of currency. She said that was receiving oral complaints. The SDM all the employees have been strictly told that interacted with the people coming to the there should be no such complaints. SDM Tehsil office to get their work done and tried to Aditi said that we wanted to see in the tehsil that find out if people were facing any kind of whoever is coming here is not facing any problem. problem. SDM Aditi said that all the And if this is the case, they will come and tell us complaints related to the Tehsil are coming to that we will have the reason that if they are facing them verbally and when someone does not any problem, then we solve it. Along with putting a want to give a statement on the oral complaint box outside the tehsil office, a mobile complaint and does not want to give in writing number has been marked for computer fees and then it becomes a bit difficult to take action. complaints and a computer fee has been She said that CCTV cameras are being written about how much it costs.

SDM checks complaints of tehsil officeGet test done if TB is suspected: Dr. Vandanal

PUBLIC NOTICESWe , Rajinder Kumar S/o Ram Kumar & Rimpi Rani W/o Rajinder Kumar R/o Rajeev Colony , Ward No. -31 , Siwan Gate , Kaithal Declares That Our Son Atul And His Wife Sonu Are Out Of Our Control. We Disown Them From Our Movable - Immovable Properties. We Will Not Responsible For Any Work Of Them In Future.

84451I ,service No.1467979n Rank Ex Nk Joginder Singh S/o Sawarn Singh Resident Of Vpo Ibrah imwal Tehs i l Bholath District Kapurthala Punjab Declare That In My Service Documents My Wife’s Name And Her Date Of Birth Were Wrongly Entered Surender Kaur & Her Date Of Birth 08.02.1966. H e r C o r r e c t N a m e I s Surinder Kaur And Date Of Birth Is 10.02.1965.

98748I Smt. Satwinder Kaur Wife No.13746099m Ex Hav Late Mohinder Singh Resident Of Vpo Ibrah imwal Tehs i l Bholath District Kapurthala (punjab) Declare That In Service Documents Of My Husband My Name Spelling And Date Of Birth Were Wrongly Entered Satvender Kaur And Date Of Birth 21.03.1969 , My Correct Name Is Satwinder Kaur And Date Of Birth Is 15.02.1965.

98748I Balaur Singh Kunar S/O Bachan Singh R/O Vill. Kunar (Sangrur) Declare That My Son Hardeep Singh Kunar Is Out Of My Control. I Disown Him From My M o v a b l e / I m m o v a b l e Property. Anybody Deals With Him At Own His Risk.

63372I, Atma Ram S/o Amar Nath R/o W.No. 13 Prem Colony N a n d p u r S a h n e w a l (Ludhiana) changed my name & Address to Binder Ram S/o Amar Nath R/o H.No. 113 W.No. 13 Prem Colony Nandpur Sahnewal (Ludhiana).

63372I Rumi Kalita Spouse Of No. 15487019M, Rank SWR Mano Nath Unit 12 ARMD REGT C/O 56 APO Have Changed Name From Mani Kalita To Rumi Kalita.Vide A f f i d a v i t D a t e d 09/07/2020, ,Dis t t Cour t Patiala.

63372I No.353328F Rank Sub Rajinder Singh S/O Jang Singh R/O Village Satauj Teh Sunam Distt Sangrur Declare That In My Army Record My Daughter Name Wrongly Entered As Ravanpreet Kaur But Her Correct Name Is Ramanpreet Kaur And Her DOB Is 04.08.2002.

63372 I, Sunita Devi W/o Late: Raj K u m a r R / o N e a r G a s Agency Sector-12 Khanpur Teh-Kharar (SAS Nagar, Mohali) declare that my son G o u r a v a n d h i s w i f e Krishma are out of my control. So I disown with t h e m f r o m m y m o v e a b l e / i m m o v e a b l e property. If anybody dealing with them at his/her own risk.

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PUBLIC NOTICESI, Kamaljeet Kaur spouse of S. Mohinder Singh Rattan R/o New Abadi Akalgarh H a l w a r a ( A D ) D i s t t . Ludh iana , Pun j ab P in -141104 have changed my name from Kamaljeet Kaur to Kamaljit Kaur as per affidavit DOB 15-11-1944.

63372I, Sunita Devi W/o Late: Raj Kumar R/o Near Gas Agency Sector-12 Khanpur Teh-Kharar (SAS Nagar, Mohali) declare that my son Gourav and his wife Krishma are out of my control. So I disown w i t h t h e m f r o m m y m o v e a b l e / i m m o v e a b l e property. If anybody dealing with them at his/her own risk.

63372 We, Shankar Yadav S/o Sukhlal Yadav and Shama Devi W/o Shankar Yadav R/o H.No. 310 Bhamian Kalan (Ludhiana) declare that our son Satinder Kumar and his wife Kranti Yadav are out of our control. So I disown with them from our m o v e a b l e / i m m o v e a b l e property. If anybody dealing with them at his/her own risk.

63372I Bilkish Begum legally wedded wife of JC-246096 W R I S M a j ( C I K ) M o h a m m a d M a n a u m a r H u s s a i n r / o V P O Turkwalia, Tehsil Sadar , District Gorakhpur , UP-273165 who is serving in the Indian Army with 68 ARMD REGT that my actual & correct name Bilkish Begum is required to be entered in p l a c e o f w r o n g n a m e Bilkeesh Begum in the army record of my husnand vide affidavit no. 309349 at D i s t r i c t C o u r t , Kapurthala(PB.)

98706I, Karamveer S/o Amar Singh R/o Vill. Ramgarh Channo Ward No 5 Indri Tehsil Indri Distt. Karnal Decalre That My Son Sanjeev Kumar And His Wife Mohni Both Of Are Out Of Conrtol. So I Disown Wi t h T h e m F r o m M y M o v e a b l e / i m m o v e a b l e Property. If Anybody Dealing With Them At His/her Own Risk.

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PUBLIC NOTICEIt is brought to Notice of General Public that Mr. Pawan Kumar S/o Sh. Mohan Lal R/o H.No. B5-977 Near Shiv Math W.No. 08 Radha Swami Gali Barnala and owner of the house measuring 140 Sq. Yards, bearing property Unit No. P No. B-V-977 Radha Swami Street Back Side Shiv Math Barnala Tehsil & District Barnala & as per title deed, the property is bound as under having boundaries as per title deed: East: 70’ Krishan Lal West: 70’ Puskar Raj North: 18’ Street South: 18’ Shammy is availing Loan against this property. Anybody having objection regarding mortgage of property with Cholamandalam Investment & Finance Co. Ltd., may respond or raise objection within 7 days to R.P. Singh, Advocate, 75080-11581.

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Tarunbir Singh SokhiHAPPY BIRTHDAY

Vegetablemarket to remainclosed for 3 daysBUREAUAMBALA: SDM Aditya of Naraingarhsaid that the vegetable market has beenclosed for three days after a person as-sociated with the vegetable market wasfound to be corona positive. She saidthat instructions have been given toSMO Narayangarh to conduct a test bysampling all laborers and labourers ofvegetable market. Containment zoneshave been created in the positive casedetected areas and special instructionshave been given to the concerned au-thorities regarding their duties and sani-tation and cleanliness.In the past, instructions had been givento both the SMs of Narayangarh andShahzadpur in this regard that theyshould get more and more testing doneby sampling the people who are prone toinfection. Sanitisation work will be doneregularly in Narayangarh vegetable mar-ket for the next three days, for which in-structions have been given to the Secre-tary of the Market Committee. Todaysodium hypochlorite has been sprayed inthe vegetable market.The SDM said that 11 people are nowCorona positive in Narayangarh city.Therefore, people should take care ofthe precautions given by the Health De-partment and follow the rules of socialdistancing and keep two yards from eachother. Apply a mask, wash hands thor-oughly with soap and water for 20 sec-onds or use sanitiser.

Vinod Sharma's teamdistributes sanitiserBUREAUAMBALA: Continuing the campaignagainst Corona in Ambala city on thedirection of former Union Minister Vin-od Sharma, the work of distributingsanitiser bottles in rural and urban ar-eas of Ambala city continued on Thurs-day. This information was given byNaresh Sehgal, PA of Vinod Sharma.Naresh Sehgal along with his team onThursday distributed door-to-door sani-tiser bottles to the people in villageBalana. He informed that on the ordersof former Union Minister Vinod Shar-ma, three teams in Ambala city are dis-tributing bottles of sanitiser to the peo-ple in different eras. Naresh Sehgalsaid that Vinod Sharma has promisedthe people of Ambala that the threat ofthis coronavirus will continue until hisefforts are over from the people of Am-bala city.

Maintain distance toavoid Corona: GulatiROHIT LAMSARTARAORI: Yashpal Gulati, president ofthe Garments Association Taraori, saidthat the corona epidemic is a majorthreat and it has disrupted not only in-dustry businesses, but also employ-ment. In such a situation, we also havea responsibility that we all have to coop-erate fully to end this disaster. YashpalGulati, president of the Garments Asso-ciation Taravadi, was urging people toput on masks and use sanitizers fromtime to time to avoid corona infection inTaraori’s Main Bazaar. He said thatalong with the officers and employees ofthe district Karnal administration, the po-lice administration is fighting for thesafety of Corona on one side and on theother hand, we are also aware about theprevention of the epidemic like coronainfection.Common citizens have to cooperate forthis by taking some precautions and pre-cautions, so keep distance from peopleand use masks and sanitisers. YashpalGulati said that only by doing so, we cancooperate. He said that we have to keepa distance of two metres from the sickperson.

Saini hails decision toinclude Pal Gadariacommunity in SCISHIKA THAKURKURUKSHETRA: The demand for theinclusion of Pal Gadaria community inthe Scheduled Castes was being raisedfor a long time by the people of the com-munity. It was also raised prominently inthe Legislative Assembly several timesduring the tenure by former MLA fromLadwa, Dr Pawan Saini. But no notifica-tion was issued by the Haryana govern-ment for this for a long time. The PalGadaria society had been waiting for thenotification to be issued by the govern-ment for a long time, on which the nowHaryana government has issued a notifi-cation allowing the Pal Gadaria commu-nity to be included in the ScheduledCastes.

Dhanda launchescampaign to distributemasks, sanitisersCHANDIGARH: Haryana Minister ofState for Women and Child Develop-ment, Mrs. Kamlesh Dhanda, todaylaunched a campaign started by theHaryana State Women's Commission todistribute masks and sanitizers fromChandigarh so that people can be savedfrom getting affected due to Novel Coro-na Virus.Speaking on the occasion, she said thatto contain the COVID-19 infection, weshould strictly adhere to the guidelineswhich issued by time to time by Centreand State Government. Beside this, peo-ple should be made aware about thisPandemic, so that this Pandemic can beeradicated as soon as possible. She saidthat in this hour of crisis, Haryana StateCommission for Women has also playeda pivotal role to fight against this Pan-demic.The Minister said that the Central andState Government is alert about the safe-ty and facilities being given to the womenand is also committed to take stern ac-tion against those who commit crimesagainst women. She said that aware-ness campaigns for promoting equalityand respect of women being carried outso that a discrimination-free society canbe established.

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3HARYANAMC Commissioner checks cleaning of drainsRENU AGGARWALAMBALA: Municipal commissioner Partha Gupta on Thursday checked small and big drainsto Ambala city as well as ward numbers 3, 4, 5, near Ambika Devi temple, behind the numberthree post, under the cleanliness system in Ambala city. He inspected areas such as KumharMohalla, Bansa Wala Chauka, River Mohalla Chauka, Do Khamba Chauka, Hari Palace andRam Nagar, and checked other cleaning arrangements. Executive officer Virendra Singh wasalso present with him during this time. He issued necessary cleaning-related guidelines tothe cleaning inspectors / assistant cleaning inspectors present during the inspection and saidthat the cleaning of drains should be expedited so that people do not face any difficulty dur-ing the rainy days.

YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, FRIDAY, JULY 10, 2020

679 new Covid cases reported,tally climbs to 19369 in stateRecovery rate stands near 75 per cent

AGENCYCHANDIGARH, JUL 9

Haryana registered 679 freshCovid cases on Thursday, rais-ing the infection tally to 19,369in the state.

According to an officialhealth bulletin, 151 new caseshave been reported from Guru-gram district, 85 from Sonepat,46 from Rohtak, 24 each fromKarnal and Palwal, 21 from Pa-nipat, 16 from Jhajjar, sevenfrom Jind and two fresh caseseach from Yamunanagar andPanchkula districts.

Of the 282 fatalities tillnow, 102 deaths have been re-ported from Gurugram district,97 from Faridabad, 20 fromSonepat, twelve from Rohtak,eight from Karnal, 7 each fromPanipat and Hisar, 5 each fromAmbala and Rewari, 4 eachfrom Bhiwani, Jhajjar and Jind,3 from Palwal, while 1 deatheach was reported from Nuh,Charkhi Dadri, Kurukshetraand Mahendergarh districts.

Gurugram district leads the

number of infections in thestate with 6414 confirmed cas-es, followed by Faridabad4,926, Sonepat 1728, Rohtak864, Bhiwani 561, Rewari 477,Karnal 458, Jhajjar 420, Palwal410, Ambala 392, Mahender-garh 337, Hisar 330, Panipat309, Nuh 263, Kurukshetra180, Sirsa 161, Jind 142,Panchkula 131, Fatehabad 129,

Yamunanagar 126, Kaithal 122,Charkhi Dadri 89 and 21 US-returnee Haryana citizens.

Of the 3,37,318 samples,19,004 have tested positive and3,12,272 negative, while the re-sults of 6,042 samples areawaited. There are 4,585 activecases in the state.

A total of 14,137 patients,including 5,228 from Guru-

gram, 3,849 from Faridabad,1114 from Sonepat, 533 fromRohtak, 420 from Bhiwani, 332from Ambala, 303 from Palwal,283 from Karnal, 274 from Jha-jjar, 245 from Mahendergarh,203 from Hisar, 191 from Nuh,188 from Rewari, 165 from Pa-nipat, 117 from Kurukshetra,109 from Panchkula, 106 fromFatehabad, 102 from Sirsa, 100from Yamunanagar, 93 fromJind, 91 from Kaithal, 56 fromCharkhi Dadri and all 21 US re-turnees have been dischargedfrom hospitals so far.

As many as 1,11,266 pa-tients have been put under sur-veillance till date, of which62,742 have completed theirsurveillance period and only48,524 patients continue to beunder surveillance. The total19,004 positive cases included14 Italian nationals. Thirteen ofthem had been discharged aftertheir initial test came negativeand one later tested negative forCOVID-19. However, he dieddue to some other reason, thebulletin added.

KU organises online patriotic raganis programmeBUREAU KURUKSHETRA, JULY 9

India is a land of heroes. Millions ofbrave soldiers here are doing theirduty of protecting mother India onthe borders of the country. 130Crore citizens of the country arespending their lives with peace andhappiness due to their supreme scar-ifies.

VC Kurukshetra University Dr.Nita Khanna said this while inaugu-rating as a Chief Guest an online Pa-triotic-based Ragani program or-ganized by the Department of Youthand Cultural Affairs, KU on Thurs-day.

For the soldiers who have sacri-ficed their lives to protect MotherIndia, the whole country is bowingto their martyrdom today. On behalfof the Kurukshetra University fra-

ternity, I salute the soldiers whowere martyred in the Galvan Valley

on the Indo-China border, said Dr.Khanna.

The number of soldiers ofHaryana in the Indian Army is morethan 10 percent, which in itself re-flects the heroic and patriotic cul-ture of the state. The programmewill certainly motivate the youth tojoin Indian armed forces and infusein them a feeling of nationalism andpatriotism, said Dr. Nita Khanna.

Registrar, Dr. Bhagwan SinghChaudhary presented the welcomeaddress and Prof. Anil Vashistha,DSW, KU proposed the vote ofthanks.

The famous ragani singerSomvir Kathurwal and PreetiChaudhary enthralled the audiencewith their patriotic raganis. A largenumber of audience watched theprogramme on social media plat-forms in India and several othercountries, informed Dr. Maha SinghPoonia, Director, DYCA.

AGENCYCHANDIGARH, JUL 9

Haryana Director General of Police(DGP) Manoj Yadava on Thursdaysaid the number of heinous crimes, in-cluding murder, attempt to murder, da-coity, robbery, kidnapping for ransomin Haryana, declined 3.75 per cent inthe first half of 2020.

A total of 49,978 cas-es under IPC were report-ed between January andJune 2020 as against51928 cases during thecorresponding period of2019, he said, adding thatas many as 84.63 per centcases of murder, 100 percent of culpable homi-cide, 91.75 per cent of at-tempt to murder, 97.66per cent of hurt and 83.59 per cent ofkidnapping/abduction were success-fully worked out in first six months of2020.

Mr Yadava said that in overallterms, the crime against persons wentdown by 4.06 per cent during this pe-riod. The number of murder cases be-tween January and June went down to488 as compared to 590 in 2019, a dipof 17.28 per cent. However, the casesof attempt to murder also went downjust by 18 cases, from 467 to 449 dur-ing the same period.

Among more serious crimes, therewas a massive fall of 957 cases (18.56per cent) in cases of wrongful con-

finement of persons which went downfrom 5155 in 2019 to 4198 in 2020.Likewise, there was a drop of 23 cas-es in criminal trespass during the sameperiod. The cases of kidnapping/ab-duction of boys and men went down to88 cases in the first half of 2020 ascompared to 350 cases in 2019, a dipof 25.14 per cent.

Similarly, as far asthe crime against proper-ty concerned, there hasbeen a 9.67 per cent fallin the number of burgla-ry cases in January-June2020 as only 3258 caseswere registered as com-pared to 3607 cases in2019. However, there is adrastic fall in the numberof theft cases which re-duced from 11794 to

8123, a sharp drop of 31.12 per cent.The number of robbery cases also

fell from 667 to 500. There were 1023cases of snatching reported last year,but this year the count has stuck to670. Cases of dacoity too have been ina relatively better situation as it had re-duced by 10.66 per cent.

However, the section 188 of IPC,which deals with willful violation oflawful orders, has seen a sharp in-crease from 98 cases in 2019 to to4189 cases in 2020.

The DGP said that enhanced pa-trolling and close monitoring havehelped to bring down the crime rate.

Crime rate declined 3.75pc in first half of 2020,

says DGP Manoj Yadava

SHIV KUMAR SHARMAKARNAL, JULY 9

The government of India is taking a newturn in rural and horticulture and farm-ing. Due to this, self-employment sectorslike farming support, such as: livestock,horticulture, fruits and vegetables, main-ly as a means of earning more income tothe rural and farmers are growing. TheDepartment of Agriculture and Horticul-ture is engaged in promoting the PrimeMinister Self-Employment Scheme in allstates due to which the rural area of thecountry is getting beautified by the pos-sibilities of new jobs. In the comingyears, the income of farmers and ruralpeople will almost triple by adoptingnew measures.

Meeting farmers of Haryana, Punjab,Himachal and Rajasthan, Uttar Pradeshto know their opinion and keeping inmind the proposal suggested by them,with improved dairy, farmers to get goodprices for the horticultural fruits and veg-etables of the state governments andwithout pesticide the contribution of or-ganic farming is done. There was an op-portunity to meet Haryana HorticultureChief Dr. Arjun Singh Saini and his as-sociates Dr. Satyendra Yadav, Dr. Jogen-dra Singh, Dr. Samar Singh Vice Chan-cellor and DHO Abdul Razzaq etc. Ifound farmers earning up to one and ahalf lakh rupees on half an acre in theiradvanced agriculture and horticulture,

khumbhi (mushroom), ladyfinger, zuc-chini, ghee, brinjal, potato, lemon, etc.

Danvir Singh Rawat, a farmer from Pal-wal, stood by his field and showed it.

Govt to promote self-employment

Officials of Sanatan Sansad Math visit KarnalSHIV KUMAR SHARMANEW DELHI: Geeta Ahuja and Saroj Sharma, Haryana office bearers of Sanatan DharmaSansad Math visited the Uchani area of Karnal along with National President Bharat Prem.Uchani village in this area coming in the Karnal Municipal Corporation has a road around thevillage. There are obstacles on the way. The main roads of the village are covered with dirt,due to which there is a risk of spreading dengue or any major epidemic during the rainy days.The district administration is requested to remove the blockage from the Uchani village.Along with this, a lot of garbage can be cleaned due to which the whole village does nothave to suffer due to the mischief of a few people. Ahuja, in-charge of Haryana, has sent aletter of request to the corporation officials of the area and the corporation of Karnal, de-manding that the path of the village be repaired before the arrival of rain, as well as spray-ing to avoid mosquitoes.

Take action against officerswho do not act: Dhanda

RANVIR PARASHARKAITHAL, JULY 9

Kamlesh Dhanda, Minister of State for Women and Child De-velopment in the Haryana Government, said that under theleadership of Chief MinisterManohar Lal, the HaryanaGovernment is continuouslyworking for the uplift ofwomen. Taking another im-portant step in this direction,the government ensured 50per cent women participationin rural water and seweragecommittees being set up inthe state. 50 percent partici-pation of women will createconfidence in women andplay a decisive role in mak-ing them self dependent. Vil-lage water and seweragecommittee will be the axis ofdevelopment in the matter ofdevelopment works relatedto drinking water in rural areas.

She said that a meeting will be held soon with the officialsin this direction and they will be given strict instructions towork with sincerity in this direction. Strict action will be takenagainst any kind of wrong act. Water problems in the area en-countered in Dark zone John are being worked on with seri-ousness and aim to bring them out of this mess. She said thatthe participation of women should be more than 50 per cent forthe formation of Rural Water and Sewerage Committee, be-cause the greater the participation of women, the more thechances of working seriously on these problems will increase.Women have to deal directly with the problem of water, so ac-tive participation of women is also necessary. She informedthat all projects related to drinking water supply are designed,implemented, supervised, monitored, operated, maintained,contracted, constructed, acquired, rehabilitated, rejuvenated,provided drinking water supply and sewerage system with nec-essary infrastructure for villages will be implemented on therecommendation of this committee.

MAIN PAL KASHYAPINDRI, JULY 9

In the auditorium of Block Developmentand Panchayat Officer Office of Indri,Karnal MP Sanjay Bhatia and MLARamkumar Kashyap of Indri jointly heardpublic hearing of the problems andcomplaints of the people of the as-sembly constituency. During this,MP Sanjay Bhatia while address-ing the people said that the creditgoes to Prime Minister NarendraModi for putting the country in thepath of progress and the name ofthe country in the first class coun-tries. He said that there are a lot ofproblems with the public and due to thepublic representatives elected by the peo-ple, people also have great expectationsfrom them and as a public representative,my aim is also that I can solve the prob-lems of more and more people.

In a public hearing programme, hun-dreds of people complained of grants ofdrains, streets, roads, dams, dams, puccahouses, yellow ration cards, transfers,electricity, water, development works andmost employment related and develop-ment works. They resolved most of theproblems and grievances on the spot anddirected the officials concerned to resolve

some problems immediately. He calledupon the youth to insist on adopting moreand more self-employment and to becomeself-sufficient as well as provide employ-ment to other people.

Presiding over the public hearing pro-gram, Indri MLA Ramkumar Kashyap

said that it is our good fortune that PrimeMinister Narendra Modi is striving dayand night to take the country and ChiefMinister Manohar Lal Pradesh on the pathof progress. He said that Chief MinisterManohar Lal has done the work of spread-ing the benefits of education in everyfield, education, agriculture and by imple-menting many developmental schemes.On this occasion, SDM of Indri Sumit Si-hag, Deputy Superintendent of PoliceRamesh Kumar, Tehsildar Darpan Kam-boj BDPO Angraj Singh Mor, SHO Sat-pal, BJP Mandal Amandeep Singh Virk,Aman Kheda.

Bhatia, Kashyap hearproblems of people

BJP MLA hits out at SurjewalaRANVIR PARASHARKAITHAL: Local BJP MLA Leela Ram hit out at former minister Randeep Singh Surjewala,saying that despite being an MLA in the previous government, Surjewala, who did not evensee the assembly in five years, is now talking of making laws for the reinstatement of PTIteachers. Listening to public problems, the MLA said that Randeep Singh Surjewala, beingan MLA from here, reached the assembly only 7 times during the first term of the BJP gov-ernment. Such representatives who have not raised the problems of the people have no rightto talk about people. On what basis are these teachers claiming reinstatement? He also saidthat presently Kaithal Assembly Constituency is continuously moving towards unprecedenteddevelopment under the leadership of the Chief Minister. Randeep Singh Surjewala is proba-bly finding the same thing difficult to digest. They are trying to draw the attention of the peo-ple by making rhetoric and shouting slogans, but the people of the assembly constituencyhave rejected them outright. The legislator took strong cognizance of the officers who solvedthe problems of the public and said that the officials of the departments providing basic facili-ties like electricity, water, education, roads and health and food grains to the general publiceither on priority basis to the problems of the people or they will be transferred. He said thatcomplaints are being received that officials of Police, Food Supply, Tehsil, Marketing Boardetc. are ignoring the needs of the public.

On the premises of SDO Office Division UHBVNL Nilokheri, a gate meeting was held toprotest against suspension of Rajinder Kumar LDC S / O Shri Ram Kishan, in whichSubdivision Nilokheri employees participated. Shouting slogans and demonstrations inprotest against the suspension, this gate meeting was presided over by Rajendra Tan-don, Pradhan Sub Unit MSEB Worker Union Region No. 292 Nilokheri, while NareshKumar Sub Unit Cashier conducted the stage operations in this gate meeting. Prab-hakar Chairman Sub Unit Mahavir Singh, Rajiv L / M Rampal L M Omprakash L / M Ra-jkumar LDC Deepak Kumar, Ashok Kapoor CA Mr. Sanjeev Kumar Deepak KumarSurendra Kumar Pramod Kumar L / M and Chiranjilal addressed the employees andsought to reinstate Rajinder LDC

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GAURAV GOELCHANDIGARH, JULY 9

Even as the state government pre-pared to launch its pilot Rapid Anti-gen Testing project in five of theworst affected districts from Friday,Punjab Chief Minister CaptainAmarinder Singh today gave thego-ahead for establishment of aPlasma Bank to facilitate Covidplasma therapy treatment, which isalready being carried out as anICMR trial project in the state’sgovernment hospitals.

Chairing a Video Conferencereview meeting of the Covid situa-tion in the state, the Chief Ministerapproved the establishment of thePlasma Bank under the supervisionand guidance of Dr Neelam Mar-waha, former Head of Blood Bankand Transfusion Medicine, who isalready involved in, and guiding,the Plasma Therapy Trials. ThePlasma Bank would serve as aready inventory source for serious-ly ill patients or those at risk of se-vere disease, and thus will enable awider range of adults to be treatedwith convalescent plasma. In total

15 patients have been recruited forthe trial, of whom 8 were givenplasma and rest 7 had been placedin control arm as per randomisationby ICMR. Five patients have re-covered completely and shall bedischarged soon. A total of 11donors have donated plasma so farof the 300 recovered patients, themeeting was informed.

Expressing concern over theincreasing violations of safetynorms in the state, many of themby political parties, the ChiefMinister said he will write to the

presidents of all the registered po-litical parties to seek their cooper-ation in checking large gatherings.He said he will also appeal tothem to avoid any actions thathave the potential to spreadCovid. Meanwhile, DGP DinkarGupta said the police had regis-tered cases against some of thepolitical parties for violation ofCovid safety norms and his de-partment was also planning towrite to all the parties not to in-dulge in such acts.

Pointing out that 258 caseshad been reported on Wednesday,with 11 PCS and other senior offi-cers, including CMO Sangrur,judges etc, infected so far, theChief Minister stressed the needto raise the guard even further. Of-fice staff, in particular, needs to bevery careful, he stressed. He askedChief Secretary Vini Mahajan toissue SOPs for Government Offi-cers’ meetings, visit to other of-fices etc, making it clear thatspread of infection among criticalmanpower due to casual attitudewas not acceptable. Underliningthe need for stricter enforcement

of the safety rules, the Chief Min-ister directed the DGP not go softon challans against violators. Themeeting was informed that asmany as 4882 challans were is-sued on Wednesday alone, mostlyfor not wearing masks. The ChiefMinister shared that his govern-ment had decided, under MissionFateh, to distribute 15 lakh masksamong the poor, of which 1 lakhwere currently being given outwhile orders had been placed forthe remaining. Dinkar also dis-closed that in view of the increasein number of cases, directions forsample testing in prisons had beenissued. Dinkar further revealedthat the e-registration process thatstarted from midnight on Mondayfor inbound travellers had alreadyseen 31959 registrations, of which4277 were from the hotspots(mainly Delhi). Home SecretarySatish Chandra apprised the ChiefMinister that the process of can-cellation of FIRs registeredagainst migrant workers for lock-down violation, as ruled by theSupreme Court, had begun in the state.

Amarinder gives go-ahead to set upplasma bank as covid cases on rise

First death due to corona in Sultanpur LodhiSULTANPUR LODHI (MK SHARMA ): A 54-yr-old man from Sultanpur Lodhi died due to corona virus epidem-ic. The case relates to Jwala Singh Nagar, in the city, where Ashok, a 54-yr-old man, was on dialysis for some time.Meanwhile, on July 8, after confirmation of Corona in him, he was taken to the private hospital in Jalandhar, wherehe died on the night itself during treatment. SMO Anil Kumar Manchada said that he was referred after the report camepositive during the investigation.

It is being told that the deceased person was a patient of kidney disease. According to Dr. Manchada, the Corona-born deceased person will be cremated by the medical team. Family will be included in the funeral as per the wish. Hesaid that at present about 10 people came in contact with the deceased and they have been quarantined, as well as teamshave been engaged to investigate other people as well.

OUR CORRESPONDENTKHARAR/ MOHALI,JULY 9

''It is an article of faith with theCongress Government led bythe Chief Minister, CaptainAmarinder Singh that noneedy person should be de-void of pension and the eligi-ble people should be providedpensions at their doorsteps.

As part of this, today publicwelfare camps were organizedin 50 wards of Mohali wherethe pension forms were filledand the eligible persons weredistributed sanction letters.''This was disclosed here todayby the Health and Family Wel-fare Minister, Punjab, and Mo-hali MLA Mr. Balbir SinghSidhu while commencing thedrive from the camp held infront of the Gurudwara SriKalgidhar Singh Sabha,

Phase-4. The minister alsoadded that in the camps heldtoday, the sanction letters withregard to the old age, widow,disabled and the dependentchildren pensions were dis-bursed. The Sarbat SehatBima Yojna cards were alsodistributed during the drive.The minister also visited thecamps held at phase-2 andmadanpura chowk and distrib-uted the pension sanction let-ters. He said that since owingto corona virus pandemic, thepeople are scared to visit theGovernment offices which iswhy the camps have been or-ganized for providing facilitiesto the people right at their doorsteps. The occasion also sawthe sanction letters distributedwith regard to the pensionssanctioned by the Social Secu-rity, Women and Child Devel-opment Department.

No eligible person tobe devoid of pension:

Balbir Singh Sidhu

Sukhbir Badal’sBirthday celebrated

KULBHUSHAN GARG GIDDARBAHA: On the birthday ofShiromani Akali Dal President SukhbirSingh Badal today, members ofShiromani Akali Dal's Political AffairsCommittee and Hardik Singh DimpyDhillon of Halka Giddarbaha, reachedthe village Badal specially to celebratehis birthday. They wished him a longlife and well-being. Dimpy Dhillon alsotook blessings from Shiromani AkaliDal chief and former Chief MinisterPrakash Singh Badal on the occasion.Dimpy Dhillon was also present on theoccasion along with his youngerbrother and senior Akali leaderSandeep Singh Sunny Dhillon andyouth leader Abhay Dhillon.

Constituency In-chargeSandhu celebrates Sukhbirbirthday at Raikot

HARPREET GILLRAIKOT: Shiromani Akali Dalcelebrated 58th birth anniversary offormer Deputy Chief Minister Punjaband National President of ShiromaniAkali Dal Sukhbir Singh Badal atRaikot constituency. Constituency in-charge Balwinder Singh Sandhu andall Akali workers from Dana MandiRaikot. Mr. Balwinder Singh Sandhu,Halqa Incharge and Mr. Akali leaderswished a long life and good health toMr. Sukhbir Singh Badal and wishedhim a Happy Birthday. Harpal SinghGrewal City President Shiromani AkaliDal, Dr. Ashok Sarma, JathedarKulwinder Singh Bhatti, Yaspal Bittu

Local Court issues arrestwarrant for 3 abscondingDera membersFARIDKOT: The Faridkot court hasissued arrest warrants against threeabsconding members of the DeraSacha Sauda's National Committee,after the sit named them as accused inthe case of theft of Bir of Guru GranthSahib from Gurudwara Burj JawaharSingh wala, in the charge sheet filed bythem. The SIT headed by DIG RSKhatra on Monday filed charge sheet inthe court against 11 persons includingDera head Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singhand three others of National committee,in the court of Chatin Sharam. Theabsconding national committeemembers against whom arrest warrantshave been issued were identified asSandeep Breta, Pardeep Kalar andHarsh Dhuri. Seven dera followers werealready arrested last week on Saturday,two of them released by the courtterming their arrest illegal as they werealready on bail by the Mohali court.The case dates back to June 1, 2015,when the 'Bir' (copy) of Guru GranthSahib was stolen and an FIR wasregistered next day at Bajakhana police.

CHANDIGARH, JULY 9

To further boost investmentsin agro-processing industry,the Invest Punjab has pre-sented Opportunities on“Agro-Processing sector” toshowcase the state’s agrarianeconomy with unlimited op-portunities and enormousgrowth potential in this fieldduring WEBINAR withJapan, organized by IndianEmbassy at Tokyo.

Taking part in the delib-erations during the webinar,the Additional CEO InvestPunjab Isha Kalia highlight-ed the strong existing ecosys-tem coupled with vast scopeof agro-processing industryacross the state for inward in-vestments including the col-laboration on use of high endtechnologies in Agriculture.

Pointing out further, ACEOsaid that such engagementshave not only given the Statean opportunity to understandthe expectations of the for-eign partners but also helpedin a more focused pitch to in-vestors. ighlighting the sig-nificance of webinars as use-

ful platforms especially dur-ing the difficult phase ofCOVID-19, ACEO InvestPunjab said these have cer-tainly proved to be instru-mental in wooing theprospective investors and en-trepreneurs to invest in Pun-jab. According to Isha Kalia,

Invest Punjab is participatingin series of global webinarsstarting with "India-JapanVC on Textile Sector: Chal-lenges & Emerging Opportu-nities” on June 10. The webi-nar brought in valuable view-points and sector specific in-formation from multiplestakeholders based out ofJapan and India.

During the said webinar,the then Additional ChiefSecretary Investment Promo-tion Vini Mahajan show-cased the presence of com-plete value chain of textilessector in Punjab. She alsohighlighted the indomitableentrepreneurial spirit of Pun-jab based industries which isevident by the current pro-duction of PPE kits, N95masks etc. Apart from these,a webinar on “Investment op-

portunities in Northern Statesof India” was held on July 1to showcase the opportunitiesavailable in the leading sec-tors of Punjab. Participatingin the deliberations during thewebinar, Isha Kalia said thatInvest Punjab focused on theunlimited opportunitiesavailable in the state in lead-ing sectors including Agro &Food processing, Textiles,Engineering, Pharma & med-ical devices.

Invest Punjab has a dedi-cated Japan Desk to facilitateJapanese investment in theState. Japan Desk at InvestPunjab is not only enhancingvisibility of Punjab in inter-national regions but also tak-ing its industry partners tothese platforms for effectivecollaborations and partner-ships.

JALANDHAR, JULY 9

Deputy CommissionerGhanshyam Thori has askedall officials to implementDrug Abuse Prevention Of-ficer (DAPO) and Buddyprogram in letter and spiritto make Jalandhar a drugfree district.

Chairing a meeting withthe Additional Deputy Com-missioners and Sub Divi-sional Magistrates at theDistrict AdministrativeComplex, the Deputy Com-missioner said that the stategovernment led by PunjabChief Minister CaptainAmarinder Singh is commit-ted to wiping out the drugmenace completely fromPunjab and told officials to

make a calendar of daily ac-tivities regarding the anti-drug campaign.

Thori stated them towork with full zeal and en-thusiasm in this cause by in-volving them personally inthe activities being carriedout under these programs.He said that the officialsmust interact with the peo-ple during their visits to per-

suade drug dependents forthe treatment in drug de-ad-diction and Ooat centres.He asked them to hold ameeting with master train-ers, cluster heads, NashaRoko Nigran Committees,DAPO volunteers who wereassigned the task of creatingawareness against drugabuse, identification ofusers, high-risk people.

Electricity workershold rally

KULJIT SINGH JANDIALA GURU: As per theprogram set by the Joint ForumPunjab, a huge rally was organized bythe Technical Services Union and theMinisterial Services Union at the officeof Powercom , Jandiala Guru divisionoffice under the chairmanship ofJaimal Singh Division Head.Addressing, the union leaders saidmanagement of Powercom and thePunjab government should cancel theelectricity bill 2020, the land of thethermal plant Bathinda should not besold. Pay band should be given fromDecember 1, 2011, implement oldpension, reduce the probation periodfrom 3 years to 2 years, implement thepay commission report soon, recruitvacant posts as regular and otherdemands of the government. HarjinderSingh Dudhala Leader Joint Forum,Dalbir Singh Johal Cashier Powerworker Punjab, Kuldeep Singh UddokeCircle Head, Balwinder Singh SandhuCircle Head, MSU, Gurvinder Singh,Bikramjit Singh, Mandeep Singh,Swarn Singh., Kabul Singh, JoginderSingh Sodhi, Amanjeet Singh.

State govt set to launch pilot rapid antigen testing in five districts

Invest Punjab presents opportunities on agro-processingsector to woo investments during webinar with Japan

DC directs officials to effectivelyimplement DAPO, buddy program

Navinder Singh felicitated asmarket committee chairman

ANIL VERMABATHINDA, JULY 9

Navinder Singh Navin Sidhu, newly appointed Chair-man, Market Committee, Talwandi Sabo Assembly con-stituency was today felicitated by the team of FinanceMinister Manpreet Singh Badal led by Jajit Singh JojoJohal. Accompanying him on the occasion were citypresident Arun Wadhawan, Congress leaders includingBaljinder Singh Thakedar were present. Johal said that itis a matter of great pleasure that a new team of youth in-cluding Chairman, Vice-Chairman is emerging in theMarket Committees with a passion to work in the publicinterest. The newly appointed Chairman Navinder SinghNavin Sidhu thanked the entire team including the Fi-nance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal.

ANIL VERMABATHINDA, JULY 9

On a call of PSEB Joint Fo-rum, power workers staged aprotest at the Divisional Of-fice, Urban Bathindaagainst the manage-ment of Powercomand the Punjab Gov-ernment for enforc-ing their perceivedlegitimate demandsin which leaders ofvarious fraternal or-ganizations also par-ticipated.

Employee leaderParkash Singh told that man-agement of Powercom hasbeen pursuing a policy of eva-sion for a long time instead ofimplementing the agreementsreached with the Joint Forum.The leaders announced a one-day strike on July 22 to cut offpower supply across the state.

Spokesperson Arun Kumar,Mohan Lal, Bhim Sen,Bhupinder Singh, BaljinderSingh said that the implemen-tation of Pay Band by the man-agement from 2011 should be

implemented on all the em-ployees without 23 years scaleand the withheld installmentsof DAshould not be reinstated.Rajinder Kumar, ParkashSingh, Dudh Nath, Ram Lal,Babu Ram, Sita Ram, Amrit-pal, Kishore Chand also ad-dressed the gathering.

Power workers hold protest

LOKESH WALIAGARHSHANKAR,JULY 9

A delegation of KandiSangharsh Committee ledby Darshan Singh MattuState Leader Kandi Sang-harsh Committee visitedthe office of SDM Gar-shankar today and a mem-orandum was handed overto Superintendent Kam-lesh Kumari.

Delegation demandedto stop illegal mining, re-pair Garhshankar NangalRoad, take action againsttrucks parked on the roadsnear Garhshankar TruckUnion. Dry trees of ZilaParishad should be cut

down, Forest Departmentshould plant new trees,Lockdown time fees ofprivate school childrenshould be waived, Lock-down time water and elec-tricity bills should bewaived. Bibi Subhash

Mattu, Jeet Ramgarhia,Mohan Singh Dayal,Padind Khareti Ram,Baldev Raj Badesron,Babu Singh, PatwariSingh and other leaderswere present on the occa-sion.

Kandi Sangharsh Committeehands over memo to SDM

CHET RAM RATAN NAWANSHAHAR, JULY 9

Ambedkar Sena of ShaheedBhagat Singh Nagar has de-manded arrest forthose responsible forvandalising Dr BhimRao Ambedkar’shouse in Mumbai.

President Bal-winder Mahe and Sec-retary Baldev Mahisubmitted a memoran-dum to Deputy Commissionerof Shaheed Bhagat Singh Na-gar Dr Sheena Agggarwal.Mahe said that there was an in-cident of demolition of the his-toric residence of Bawa Sahib.There is a lot of anger amongthe Dalit community regarding

this issue. He said that there isan Ambedkar Museum in thetwo-storeyed heritage bunga-low where a collection of morethan 50,000 books related to

Bawa Sahib has been found onthe picture relics. MakhanSingh Taharpuri, Happy Bha-tia, Paramjit Pamma Pradhan,Prithvi Chand, Raj KumarBali, Rakesh Kumar Kulathamand Sanjeev Bali were presenton the occasion.

Balwinder seeks arrest of personsresponsible for vandalising

Ambedkar’s house

KULWINDER BHATIANANGAL, JULY 9

In the program organized forspecial celebration of 66th es-tablishment anniversary ofHydel river , chairman BBMBDK Sharma distributes sweetson Hydel channel. On the oc-casion Chairman DK Sharmaflagged of the tractor trolly forthe use of this hydel channeland congrats to all employees.On the occasion chairmanSharma said that this river is

started in 8 July 1954 its inau-guration was done by Pt. Jwa-harlal Nehru. He said that bythis river we were distributingwater to Punjab, Haryana, Ra-jsthan and also on this river inkotla and Gangual electricityhas been made. BBMB alsomade fire station, value of 90lakhs. On this occasion for theresidence of employee's newcolonies inaugurated by chair-man and also DAV School'ssmart school's inaugurationhas been done.

BBMB celebrates 66thestablishments day

KULJIT SINGHJANDIALA GURU, JULY 9

As per the guidelines of Pun-jab Government and CivilSurgeon Amritsar DoctorNavdeep Singh and under thecampaign of Punjab Fightscorona Mission Fateh atCommunity Health CenterMananwala headed by SMOMananwala Doctor NirmalSingh, to elaborate people.

They were told that aftertouching anything, washhands or sanitize with soap,

cover the mask with a maskwhile going out of the house,keep social distance fromeach other so that the kronaprotects from the virus. Ifyou see any symptoms ofcough, fever, colds, breath-lessness, then do a Cronatest. This is done absolutelyfree at all block health cen-ters and district level hospi-tals. In order to strengthenthe strength of immunity wehave to take balanced diet,walk, right amount and sleepin the right time.

Mission Fateh campaignheld at community Health

Center Mananwala

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Nadaun Police Station ranked as one of bestPolice Stations of IndiaSHIMLA: Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur has congratulated the State Police ingeneral and Nadaun Police Station of district Hamirpur in particular for beingranked as one of the best Police Stations of the country and the best PoliceStation of the State. Chief Minister said that the Certificate of Excellence wasprovided to this Police Station by Union Home Minister Amit Shah. He said thatthe ranking of police stations is carried out by Ministry of Home Affairs,Government of India and the same was released by the Union Home Minister in aceremony during DGPs Conference recently. Director General of Police SanjayKundu presented this Certificate of Excellence received by him from Union HomeMinister to the Chief Minister here today.

Govt providing everyhelp to boost industry:Vikram ThakurSHIMLA: Addressing the pressconference, Himachal PradeshIndustries Minister Vikram Thakur andBJP's Palak of Kangra parliamentaryconstituency said that in view ofCovid, for our MSME , The largestfinancial package of Rs 3 lakh crorehas been announced so far to providecollateral-free automatic loans to theentrepreneurs who have beenaffected under the Self-Reliant IndiaScheme to increase liquidity in themarket. If we talk from the industrialpoint of view, the main purpose of thiseconomic package, then I would liketo say that due to the shock causedby Covid, our industrial sector has topull out this region and take it to thepath of progress. So far, our MSMEsthrough banks working in HimachalPradesh. A loan of about Rs 1250crore has been disbursed toentrepreneurs under this economicpackage. Officials of our IndustriesDepartment, ever since this packagehas been announced, have beenmotivating entrepreneurs to takeadvantage of it along with banks, theAdditional Chief Secretary of theDepartment of Industries himself wentto Nahan last day to discuss theentrepreneurs and even today Goingto Solan where officers and bankofficials are coming from Hamirpur,Una and Bilaspur have also gone todiscuss. It is expected that a loan ofup to Rs 2000 crore in Himachal willbe disbursed to entrepreneurs underthe Emergency Credit Line GuaranteeScheme. Apart from this, a fund of 50thousand crores has been set upunder this self-sufficient package forthe units which are functioningproperly and want to expand in thefuture, but now the focus of banks ison giving emergency loans toentrepreneurs. is . Therefore, underthe Fund of Funds, banks have notstarted lending yet. Relief to MSMESfaced by pressure: 20 thousand croreschemes have been started to facepressure. So far, no such distributionhas been made by Himachal banksbecause this loan has to be given tothe same entrepreneurs whose debthas been default. • Changes in thedefinition of micro manufacturing andservices: About 99 percent enterpriseof our state under this provision. Thedefinition will come and benefit fromthe incentives received by the Centraland State Government. • EPF supportfor industries and workers: Theindustry of Himachal will definitelybenefit. It is also blasted by telling youthat this support of 24 percent hasbeen increased for the upcoming andthree months. Under this scheme,there are 5175 qualified institutions inHimachal Pradesh and 99672 workersare eligible. • Rs. 10 thousand crorefor the development of micro-foodprocessing enterprises and Rs. 15thousand crore rupees to developstructural facilities for animalhusbandry development, Rs. 20thousand crore for fishery value chain.Provision of Rs 8100 crore has beenmade for Rs 500 crore and socialinfrastructure for silence development.Himachal Pradesh has been a targetof 1191 units in which self-help groupsand women groups will be included. •During the Kovid-19 epidemic,Jharkhand state from Himachal wassent back to their home by 3918migrant workers by rail and buses.Apart from this, 15 workers ofHimachal were brought back fromJharkhand state.

LG condemns deadlyattack on BJP leaderin BandiporaSRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir LtGovernor G C Murmu on Thursdaycondemned the killing of BJP leaderSheikh Waseem Bari and two of hisfamily members in Bandipora district,saying the perpetrators of thecowardly act shall be brought tojustice. Bari, his father Bashir Ahmedand brother Umar Bashir were injuredwhen militants opened fire on themoutside Bari's shop near police stationBandipora at around 9 pm onWednesday.They were rushed to thedistrict hospital where theysuccumbed to injuries. In acondolence message, the Lt Governorhas said that the barbaric act of killinginnocent people is against humanityand the perpetrators of this cowardlyact shall be brought to justice, anofficial spokesman said. He saidMurmu expressed his deepestsympathies with the bereaved familyand prayed for eternal peace to thedeparted souls.

SKIMS conducts first everConvalescent PlasmaTherapy on COVID patientsSRINAGAR: In a remarkableachievement, S K Institute of MedicalSciences (SKIMS), Soura hasconducted the first ever ConvalescentPlasma Therapy (CPT) for COVID-19patients -- a medical proceduredoctors are using to treat novelCoronavirus diseases across theglobe. “SKIMS being the only referraltertiary care centre for both COVID-19as well as Non-COVID pathologiesand being a Deemed MedicalUniversity has been in the forefront tocombat COVID-19 Pandemic,”Assistant Director Public RelationsSKIMS Kulsoom Bhat said in astatement issued here on Thursday.She said COVID-19 Pandemic hascreated havoc all over the world andeven the Advanced Medical andHealthcare delivery systems havecollapsed.

HIMACHAL/JKCM dedicates developmental projects

worth Rs 44 crore in Shimla RuralAGENCYSHIMLA, JULY 9

Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakurinaugurated and laid foundationstones of developmentalprojects worth about Rs. 44crore in Shimla Rural VidhanSabha area of Shimla districtthrough video conferencingfrom Shimla today. Theprojects dedicated by the ChiefMinister include building ofGovernment Degree College,Dhami (16 Meel) constructed ata cost of Rs. 17.49 crore,additional building ofGovernment Senior SecondarySchool, Rampuri Keonthal builtat a cost of Rs. 1.11 crore,building of Government SeniorSecondary School, Oukharuconstructed at a cost of Rs. 2.95crore and building ofGovernment Senior SecondarySchool, Ougali built at a cost ofRs. 1.58 crore. Jai Ram Thakurlaid foundation stones of Rs.4.17 crore Gharog-Nalta linkroad, Rs. 5.41crore Baag-Kyalulink road and Rs. 1.90 croreShaltu (Nehra)-Dargot PrimarySchool to be constructed underNABARD. He also laidfoundation stones ofupgradation and metalling ofBaag –Kangari (Gharatnala)link road to be done at a cost ofRs. 4.83 crore and upgradationand metalling of Basantpur-Naltu link road to be executedby spending Rs. 4.10 croreunder Pradhan Mantri GramSadak Yojna. Chief Ministersaid that developmental

projects worth about Rs. 41crore were being executed inShimla Rural Vidhan Sabhaarea during the present tenure

of the State Government. Hesaid that to facilitate the peopleof the area SDM Office andBlock Medical Office was also

opened in Sunni whereas MiniSecretariat building wasconstructed at Dhami byspending Rs. 6.66 crore.

Adequate staff in health and educationalinstitutions will be ensured for Seraj areaSHIMLA: Chief Minister JaiRam Thakur while interactingwith people of Balichowki inSeraj area of Mandi districtdirected the officers to ensuretime bound completion ofvarious ongoingdevelopmental projects in thearea. Chief Minister said thatspecial thrust must be laid oncompletion of those projectswhich were about to completeso that they could be dedicatedto the people at the earliest. He

said that the Governmentwould provide adequate fundsfor their early completion. Hesaid that matters regardingFRA and FCA must beexpedited so that developmentdoes not get affected due torequirement of theseclearances. Jai Ram Thakursaid that the Governmentwould ensure adequateavailability of staff in healthand educational institutions ofthe area. He said that suitable

land be identified forconstruction of MiniSecretariat at Balichowki sothat different offices could beaccommodated at one place tofacilitate the people. ChiefMinister said that the COVID-19 crisis has adverselyaffected developmental worksin the State. He directed thedistrict administration to workwith utmost dedication tomake up for the time lost dueto pandemic.

AGENCYSHIMLA, JULY 9

Governor Bandaru Dattatraya saidthat Himachal Pradesh has benefitedimmensely through research,technology developed and productsproduced through available medicinalplants and herbs in the Himalayanarea by CSIR-Institute of HimalayanBioresource Technology (IHBT),Palampur. The institute has also madeits valuable contribution in the battleagainst COVID-19. The Governorwas addressing the scientists ofCSIR-IHBT Palampur as Chief Guestthrough video conferencing from RajBhavan on the occasion of CSIR-IHBT's 38th Foundation Week today.

While expressing happiness on9th ranking of CSIR by SCI MEGOInternational among 38 institutes andfirst rank among research institutes ofHimachal Pradesh, Governor saidthat this institute was promotingentrepreneurship with itstechnologies through MSMEs in thestate and country. He said that theinstitute has not only set up testinglabs for COVID-19 and is doing morethan 500 COVID tests daily, but alsoproviding equipment, consumableitems and training required to thestaff of medical colleges in Tanda,Chamba and Hamirpur in the state.He also expressed happiness that theinstitute had prepared alcohol-basedhand sanitizer and herbal soaptechnology and had also produced itextensively through localentrepreneurs. He also commendedthe efforts of the institution forpreparing packaged food for migrantlabourers and corona warriors and forworking in coordination with thelocal administration for itsdistribution. He assured theinstitution of cooperation by the StateGovernment in the research work on

COVID-19. Dattatraya said that theinstitution has played an importantrole in making Himachal Pradesh aleading state in the production ofaromatic oils under 'Aroma Mission'in the field of aromatic plants. Theannual production of aromatic oilfrom wild marigold is around 6.5tonnes and has earned Rs. 5.19 crore,benefitting 861 families. Heexpressed happiness that the institutestarted growing asafoetida crop forthe first time in the country, whichwill prove to be a game changer. Hesaid that Lilium cultivation started inLahaul would give farmers an income3-5 times more than traditional cashcrops. He said that the hydroponicand aeroponic technology by theinstitute would strengthen agriculturesector. He also expressed happinessover developing innovative ways ofusing bamboo wood. Besides this, healso congratulated the institute fordeveloping vitamin D-enrichedshiitake mushrooms, flow-hive forpopularizing honey production anddeveloping techniques to keepvegetables fresh and nutritional forlonger duration. On this occasion, theGovernor also released fourpublications of the institute.

Earlier, Dr. Sanjay Kumar,Director, CSIR-IHBT welcomed theGovernor and apprised him of theactivities of the Institute. FormerDirector of CSIR-IIIM Jammu, Prof.S.S. Handa the keynote speakerexpressed his views on thePhytopharmaceutical DrugDevelopment - New Regulations. Dr.Anil Khush, President of ResearchCouncil of IHBT, Vice-Chancellor ofAgricultural University Prof. AshokSaryal and other scientists were alsopart of this video conferencing.Secretary to the Governor RakeshKanwar was also present on theoccasion.

CSIR-IHBT organizes38th Foundation Week

Block Women Cong protestsagainst govt on health scam

PREETI RANAHAROLI, JULY 9

In Haroli Vidhan Sabha, underthe district Una, today the BlockMahila Congress has vigorouslyprotested against Himachalgovernment, which has tried totake its issues to the governmentby keeping the social distance inmind. At the time, thegovernment protested on the PPkit and sanitizer scam and at thesame time attacked thegovernment for the rise in theprice of diesel petrol and localissues like mining. There is a lotof drug trade in Lower Spiti.There was a demand to

withdraw the case of womenprotest in the state. Amemorandum was submittedto the Governor throughSDM Haroli today on allthese issues. Protestersincluded Block WomenHaroli President SubhadraChaudhary, Suman Rana,Sushma, Monica Rani, GeetaDevi, Asha Rani, Anju Bala,Urmila Devi, Daljit Kaur,Sunita Devi, Jyoti Princess,Vimala Devi, Kiran Bala,Suman, It included DistrictCongress President RanjitRana and Haroli CongressSpokesperson Vivek Bittualso.

Chandel promoted as AdditionalSecretary in Board of Education

PANKAJ KATNAUNA, JULY 9

Devendra Chandel, Principal,Government SeniorSecondary School, BasalDistrict Una, has beenpromoted to the post ofAdditional Secretary inHimachal Pradesh SchoolEducation BoardDharamshala. School staff,students and Gram Panchayathead Ramana Devi, formerhead Kamal and schoolmanagement committee

chairman Pawan Kumarcongratulated him on hispromotion. Devendra Chandelthanked CM Jai Ram Thakur,Education Minister SureshBhardwaj, Panchayati RajMinister Virendra Kanwar andformer BJP state presidentSatpal Satti. CongratulatingDevendra Chandel, Principalof School ManagementCommittee Pawan Kumar saidthat his tenure at Basal Schoolhas been excellent and he wasalways ahead in solving theproblems of the students.

Mathematics teacher RekhaSandeep, Shashi Mankotia,Sunita Saini OfficeSuperintendent, ShashiPathania, Ram Swaroop,Kalpana Yadav, KhushalChand, Sanjeev Kumar,Satwinder Kaur, SheelaKumari, Sushma Devi,Chaman Lal, Shiv Kumar,Champa Devi , Ritu Saini,Kiran Rana, Ram Dei, AlkaDevi, Mukesh Dhiman,Yashpal Raizada, Kanta Devi,Ambika, Anil DPE, Rakesh,Anita hailed his promotion.

SJVN signs MoU with NABARD

DINESH AGARWALSHIMLA, JULY 9

An MoU was signed in the presence of GeetaKapur, Director (Personnel), SJVN between SJVNFoundation, National Bank for Agriculture andRural Development (NABARD) and HillAgriculture & Rural Development PromotionSociety (HARP) for conducting Integrated TribalDevelopment Program for Bari and TrandaPanchayats of Nichar Block in Distt. Kinnaur(HP). This Integrated Tribal DevelopmentProgram for Bari and Tranda Panchayats situatedaround 1500 MW Nathpa Jhakri Hydro PowerStation will have financial implication of Rs.537.71 Lakh for a period of six years. For thisprogram, SJVN Foundation will extend financialsupport of Rs. 222.33 Lakh, NABARD will extendfinancial support of Rs. 165.72 Lakh andremaining amount will be the contribution of thevillagers in the form of Shramdaan/ Manpower.HARP will be the Project Implementing Agencyfor a period of six years.

Factory workers protest against management for salaryANWAR HUSSAINNALAGARH, JULY 9

Workers shouted slogansoutside the NalagarhLabour Office againstManpura-based Intex IndiaLtd company for notpaying salaries to workers,saying that the companymanagement has closed thecompany without tellingthem, due to which about100 workers have come onthe streets. Economiccondition of the workershas not deteriorated due to

non-payment of salary, theproblem of livelihood hasarisen in front of them,they added. They warnedthat if their full and final

account is not made, thenthey will sit on hungerstrike and fast unto deathand if any worker suffersany health related

problems during thisperiod, the companymanagement will beresponsible for this.President of BharatiyaMazdoor Sangh,Mailaram ChandelPradesh Member RajuBhardwaj Vice PresidentRanjit Thakur HemrajBalakishan, Hriday Ram,Charan Singh werepresent. Labour OfficerAmit Thakur said that thetwo sides were called fora mutual agreement onJuly 14.

Directionless Cong fails to play role of opposition: KanwarJYOTI SYALUNA, JULY 9

Rural Development,Panchayati Raj, Fisheriesand Animal HusbandryMinister Virender Kanwarsaid that the opposition isfailing to play its role andis only trying to confusethe people of HimachalPradesh. The leadership ofthe Congress isdirectionless and immatureand the leaders of theOpposition are constantlychanging their statements,due to which the entireclan of the Congress hasbeen disturbed. In a pressrelease issued today,

Virender Kanwar said thatthe Congress sometimestalks about opening thehotel, sometimes keepingit closed, which clearlyshows that there is adifference between thestatement and action of theopposition. He said thattourism activities havestarted in many states.Congress-ruled Rajasthanhas also opened the doors

of its state to tourists, so onwhat basis are Congressleaders protesting inHimachal Pradesh. Thegovernment has decidedto start tourism activitiesto save the hotel industry.Thousands of people aredirectly and indirectlyemployed through thehotel industry. Also, thesafety of the residents ofHimachal Pradesh is alsoa priority of the stategovernment, hence theHimachal Pradeshgovernment has madestrict SOPs for the hotelindustry and tourists andhotel managementvisiting here are required

to comply with them.According to theguidelines, only thetourist who came withthe negative report ofCorona just 72 hoursbefore, has been allowedto enter HimachalPradesh and it ismandatory for the touristto have at least 5 daysbooking in a hotel.Minister said that thestate government hasdecided to open thehotel, but is not beingforced to open any hotel.Hotel management isfree to decide at its ownlevel whether to open itsown hotel or not.

YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, FRIDAY, JULY 10, 2020

Attri coronated as Kharar Rotary Club PresidentKHARAR (OUR CORRESPONDENT): A special meeting of Rotary club Kharar was held

yesterday in which coronation of Sh Ashok Chand Attri as president of theclub was done. He had already been selected unanimously for the post ofpresident of Rotary club Kharar and will remain on the post till the end ofJune 2021. Besides Sh. Harinder singh was appointed Secretary,Sh. Gur-mukh Singh as Vice President and Sh Pawan Kumar Verma was appointedas cashier While speaking on the occasion Ashok Chand Attri stated that hewill remain dedicated to the service of the society and will specially remainfocused on environment friendly projects.The new team did its 1st projectby celebrating Annapurna day by distributing wheat flour bags among de-serving people.

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PU history deptholds webinarCHANDIGARH: The Department ofHistory, Panjab University,Chandigarh organized a Webinar andLecture with eminent academician,historian and linguist expert, Dr.Heeraman Tiwari on 08 July, 2020 onthe theme ‘Language of History andLanguage in History: An IntellectualTradition of Ancient India’. The Chiefpatron of the lecture, Vice-Chancellor,Professor Raj Kumar conveyed hisoverwhelming appreciation of theconsistent efforts of the Departmentof History in perpetuating academicefforts even in the times of theCorona Pandemic by inviting sucheminent academicians and thinkers toaddress the students, researchscholars and faculty members.Professor S. K. Tomar, the DeanStudents’ Welfare and HonoraryDirector of Human ResourceDevelopment Centre, PanjabUniversity, Chandigarh in hiswelcome address highlighted howevery successive step in the domainof knowledge makes him feel morehumbled and eager to learn more. Dr.Anju Suri, Professor and Chairpersonof the Department of History, Directorof the event, apprised the almost 90strong audience comprising facultymembers from PU and otheruniversities, students and researchersabout the Speaker and the theme.Professor Heeraman Tiwari who is aProfessor in Centre for HistoricalStudies School of Social Sciences,JNU, New Delhi, has pursued hishigher studies from Oxford University.

8 BSF jawans including onewoman among 11 corona+ve cases detected RAMESH KASHYAPFEROZEPUR: 11 cases of Corona+ve have been detected in Ferozepurincluding 8 BSF jawans of singlecheck post-Jallo Ke near Indo-Pakborder. Among 8 BSF jawans, one iswoman BSF jawan. As per theinformation, one jawan is infected dueto direct contact while the others arein contact with a positive cases.Earlier also one BSF official has beenreported as Corona positive, makingthe total to nine. With the detection ofnew 11 Corona positive cases, thetotal active cases have reached 54 inFerozepur district. So far, the activecases are 7 Mallanwala, 6Guruharsahai, 5 Mamdot, 1 Makhu,21 Talwandi and 12 at Zira. Due toan increased number of cases, theTalwandi and Zira towns have beenput under strict vigil restricting themovement by declaring as micro-containment zones. However, out ofthe total 142 positive cases in thedistrict, 84 Corona positive caseshave been cured and there had beenthree deaths also. Meanwhile, theDeputy Commissioner and HealthDepartment have made an appeal tothe people to follow the guidelines oncorona by staying at home, usingmasks, washing hands frequently andstop going out of the homeunnecessarily.

S. P. JAINKHARAR, JULY 9

Kharar MLA, KanwarSandhu has drawn the at-tention of the Punjab Gov-ernment to certain unfin-ished and neglected proj-ects at Radiala Village nearKharar in SAS Nagar Dis-trict. In a letter to Mr. Cha-ranjit Singh Channi, Minis-ter for Technical Education& Industrial Training, Pun-jab, the MLA has sought hisintervention in the unfin-ished and neglected proj-ects, which include the newITI building, defunct SevaKender, and a CommunityCentre.

Kanwar Sandhu saidthat the ITI building whichwas started on an approxi-mate three-acre plot almost10 years ago was lying un-finished and unless it wascompleted and put to use atthe earliest, it would soonfall apart. “The roofs areleaking and wild grassgrowing on roof tops. It is

possible that the building,which consists of 15-16rooms, is being used byanti-social elements/ drugaddicts at night,” he added.

The MLA said that Vig-ilance Inquiry into the newITI building should be com-pleted at the earliest. Clear-ly, the construction work onthe ITI building was under-taken without proper plan-ning, earthwork and level-ing as a result of which thebuilding is at a much lowerlevel than the area aroundit. He suggested that the

Vigilance Inquiry be put toa time frame and completedwithin 30 days.

Sandhu wanted a Com-mittee of technical expertsto be constituted to suggestways and means to put theITI building to use by cre-ating a water body/ rainharvesting reservoir aroundit. He demanded that theconstruction of the buildingshould be finished in thenext four months so that thecurrent Girls’ ITI at Radialabe shifted to the new build-ing by January 1, 2021.

Presently, the Girls’ ITI atRadiala (shifted fromKharar) was functioningfrom tin sheds which wereadded to an old schoolbuilding. The MLA sug-gested that a Girls StitchingCentre could be started inthe old building.

Sandhu said that anoth-er building of a Communi-ty Centre was also lyingunfinished in Radiala. Thefoundation stone of thiswas laid by S. Ujagar SinghBadali in August, 2015.“This project should also

be completed in a giventime frame by release ofrequisite funds, “ he added.

The MLA also visitedthe Seva Kender at Radialawhich was non-functionaland in a state of neglect.This is one of the centresclosed down by the Gov-ernment two years ago.Even though the buildingwas in fine shape, thedoors, furniture and equip-ment were lying brokenand littered all over theplace.

The door of the Kenderhad been broken open androom was being used fordefecation and to tie goatsand sheep by people. Thegenerator set was also in astate of neglect and may betaken away by people in thedays to come. Sandhu sug-gested that this and otherSeva Kenders in the Statebe re-started at the earliestso that the buildings couldbe put to use and the peoplecould avail of the servicesat their doorstep.

Kharar MLA seeks Miinister Channi’sintervention for Radiala Village

OUR CORRESPONDENTCHANDIGARH, JULY 9

Manoj Parida, Adviser to theAdministrator, UT, Chandi-garh attended a webinar onChandigarh Administration’sfighting Corona, organizedby Rayat College of Law.Dr. Charu Dureja, FacultyConvener & Ms. Purba June-ja compered the programme.

The participants askedseveral questions regardingsteps taken by ChandigarhAdministration in containingcorona. They also askedquestions about comparativejobs privileges between judi-ciary and civil service. TheAdviser mentioned about theunique steps taken in

Chandigarh like use of pub-lic buses for delivery of veg-etable and fruits at door-steps, facility of hotels forhealth workers, introductionof stickers in front of quaran-tined houses and successfuloperation in ending infectionin Bapu Dham Colony. Sev-eral Law students askedquestions about conduct ofexaminations during coronadays. They also asked fu-ture plans of Chandigarh Ad-ministration regarding fur-ther restrictions and relax-ations. Adviser, Manoj Pari-da inspired the studentsthrough motivational stories.He also stated that the Government alone cannotfight corona.

Chd Admn reviewscorona situation

ASI Avtal Lal distributesmasks and bananas tocorona patients

CHET RAM RATTANNAWANSHAHAR: ASI Avtar Lal, aresident of Vardi Village PadiMathwali, has set a new example ofhuman service by donating masksand bananas to all the patients ofGuru Nanak Hospital Dhahan Clare.

Need to be careful not topanic about Covid-19: DCHOSHIARPUR: DeputyCommissioner Mrs. Apneet Riyaitsaid that although the corona reportof SDM Hoshiarpur andCommissioner Municipal Corporationhas come positive, there was no

need to frighten theresidents of thedistrict. He said thatevery possible effortwas being made bythe districtadministration toprotect the people of

the district from this virus. He saidthat people can protect themselvesfrom this virus by taking precautions.The Deputy Commissioner said thatwhile taking precautionary measuresagainst the corona positive of the saidofficers, where they have beenisolated, the persons who came incontact with them are also beinginvestigated.

FIRs registered against4, warning given to 26

OUR CORRESPONDENTKHARAR/ MOHALI, JULY 9

''The District Administration is proceeding very hardagainst the people who are jumping the quarantine andputting the lives of other people at risk given the pres-ent situation in respect of the corona virus pandemic.''This was stated by the Deputy Commissioner Mr.Girish Dayalan here today. Giving the details, theDeputy Commissioner said that from the period rang-ing from 22nd June, 2020 till 7th July, 2020, the DistrictAdministration with the assistance of the Police au-thorities, has registered 4 FIRs under sections 188 deal-ing with the disobeying the order issued by a public ser-vant lawfully empowered to do so, Section 269, 270and 271 (Malignant Act likely to spread infection of dis-ease dangerous to life) against those jumping quaran-tine while strict warning has been issued to the 26 peo-ple. Explaining the mechanism further, the DC said thatthe people undergoing quarantine have to downloadcova app mandatorily and they are tracked further bycova admin portal. If a person jumps quarantine for thefirst time, then he/she is issued a warning but on re-peating the same offence, an FIR is registered.

CHANDIGARH, JULY 9

Department of CommunityMedicine and SPH, PGIMER,Chandigarh and MunicipalCorporation of Chandigarhhad jointly initiated a projectentitled “Convergence of ini-tiative of Women, Child andSocial development agenciesof Chandigarh for main-streaming Street Vendors’Welfare through integratedtraining enterprise of its Mu-nicipal Corporation with spe-cial focus on street food hy-giene”.

As a part of this project,20 workshops were held inphase 1 and capacity buildingof more than 600 street foodvendors has been done. Now,second phase of this project

has also been sanctioned. As apart of this project the pilotmodel smart food cart de-signed under the supervisionof Dr Kumar Pushkar, guidedby Dr Amarjeet Singh and Dr

Sonu Goel, Department ofCommunity Medicine andSPH, PGIMER, Chandigarhwas gifted as an award to MrPawan, a street food vendoroperating near the Elante

Mall. His cart scored the high-est on the checklist devised byDr Pushkar. The team has alsodesigned a cart for ‘tea ven-dors’ (Chai ki Chuski Cart)which was duly launched byShri KK Yadav, IAS, Com-missioner, Municipal Corpo-ration, Chandigarh. Mr. VivekTrivedi S.D.O. MCC activelycontributed in finalizing thecart design. Now the 3 rd cartfor ‘golgappa/chaat’ (Chandi-garh ki Chatpatti Chaat Cart)sellers has also been fabricat-ed by Mr Raghuveer.

These were gifted as anaward to Mrs. Nutan (operat-ing her tea stall in front of PGIgate) and Mr. Dinesh Kumar(doing business from Sector44) respectively on 9 th July,2020 by Shri KK Yadav. Mr.

Sorabh K. Arora, Joint Com-missioner, Municipal Corpo-ration, Chandigarh, Dr. ArunAggarwal, Professor and DrIshwarpreet from Departmentof Community Medicine andSchool of Public Health alsoattended the event. These pi-lot smart food carts have beendesigned with many foodsafety features as per the man-date of the byelaws specifiedby MCC Chandigarh. Theseare made up of stainless steelmaterial. There are numerousfood safety features such asslot for drinking water, a des-ignated place for storing rawand cooked food separately,facilities for keeping soap,space for keeping apron, capsand gloves. It has gas cylinder/ stove provision.

OUR CORRESPONDENTKHARAR, JULY 9

The Kharar Municipal Council today removed ille-gal occupation of land worth crores of rupees at vil-lage Khanpur which falls under its jurisdiction. Hi-manshu Jain, SDM, Kharar said that area of this landis 3 bighas and 2 biswas and constructions have alsobeen done in it.

He said that the demarcation of the land was donefew day ago and it was found that this land belongsto Municipal Council Kharar. He said that today theland has been taken over by the council and a signboard about this has been installed on the spot.Meanwhile, Harpreet Singh, SDO Municipal Coun-cil said that the permanent structures have been con-structed on some portion of this land. Notices are be-ing issued by the council to the concerned to re-move this permanent structures .

Kharar Municipal Councilremoves illegal occupation of

land worth crores of rupees DALJEET AJNOHAHOSHIARPUR, JULY 9

During the lockdown, the re-ligious camps and organiza-tions of the district played aleading role in helping theneedy and did everythingpossible to stop thespread of Covid-19.Deputy CommissionerApneet Riyait said thatapart from Dera Radha-Swami Satsang Beas,Dhan Guru Ram DasSahib Langar Seva So-ciety, many other derasand religious organiza-tions have been suc-cessful in 'MissionFateh' and cooperatingwith the administration dur-ing the difficult period ofCovid-19. Assistance hasbeen provided to those inneed. Deputy CommissionerSmt. Apneet Riyait said thatthe service rendered by DhanGuru Ram Das Sahib LangarSeva Society Seva SthanPurhiran in this difficult time

has set a unique example ofhumanity. He said that fromMarch 24 to June 30, the SevaSociety has distributed langarto more than one and halflakh people daily. He said thatBaba Manjit Singh Ji andButa Singh, Chief Servants of

Seva Society had providedlangar service to the needy.He said that the Seva Societyhad set up a state-of-the-artmachine to prepare langarand deliver it to the people bydelivering langar to the needyat various places in the cityand villages in a hygienicmanner. Gone.

Deras, religious institutionsgive all possible support

to Admn : DC

CHANDIGARH, JULY 9

The Social Justice, Empow-erment and Minorities Wel-fare Minister of Punjab Mr.Sadhu Singh Dharmsot to-day emphasized that vari-ous Complaints/ problemsof the people belonging tothe Minorities of the stateneeds to be resolved soonso that there is no delay ingetting them justice.

During a meeting withthe Chairman and membersof the Punjab State Minori-ties Commission today at

Punjab Bhawan, Mr.Dharmsot appealed to theCommission to expedite theresolution of the Com-plaints/issues of the Minori-ties of the state. He said thateven today, there are a lot ofissues confronted by theMinorities which needs tobe strictly stopped.

He said that eventhough the law is doing itsjob properly, it is the priori-ty of the state governmentto resolve the issues of theworking class on a prioritybasis. Dharmsot assured the

commission members to re-solve at the earliest differ-ent demands and other is-sues raised by the Commis-sion. The meeting was at-tended by Prof. EmanualNahar, Chairman of thePunjab State MinoritiesCommission, Senior ViceChairman Mohammad Rafi,Vice Chairman Hans Raj,Legal Advisor AngelinaBrar, Director, Social Jus-tice, Empowerment and Mi-norities Davinder Singh and senior officers of thedepartment.

Problems, complaints of minorities shouldbe resolved in timely manner, says Dharmsot

PRITPAL SIGNHSHAHKOT, JULY 9

In the fight against Corona,SDM Dr. Sanjeev Sharma hasbeen affected by CoronaVirus. He had given samplefor corona test atCHC Shahkot onTuesday, which wasreported positive onThursday. After thetest came positive,all the employees ofthe Tehsil Complexhave been asked toremain quarantinedat home. Coronatest of all the employees willbe done on Friday at CHCShahkot.

Senior Medical OfficerDr. Amardeep Singh Duggalsaid that SDM Sanjeev Shar-

ma was reported Corona Pos-itive on Thursday. All thepeople working in the tehsilcomplex have been asked tostay at home. SDM Sharmahas no symptoms of Corona.So, he is being quarantined at

Rest house andhis health is beingmonitored. Allemployees whocome in contactwith him will un-dergo a Coronatest on Friday.The departmentalteam would alsoput up stickers

outside the homes of all. Dr.Duggal said that no other per-son from Shahkot block camepositive on Thursday whilethe report of 14 people camenegative.

SDM Shahkot tests positive for covid-19, quarantined at rest house

Mobile recovered from gangsterin Ferozepur jail, unabated

recoveries exposed lax securityRAMESH KASHYAPFEROZEPUR, JULY 9

Though jail premises have been sealed, the recovery ofmobile phones from inside the jail remains unabatedexposing la security in the prison. During the searchoperation, one mobile of Redmi brand touch screenalong with two SIMs has been recovered from Gang-ster prisoner Sukhchain Singh lodged in Central JailFerozepur. Jail had been in headlines in the past also forrecovery of mobiles and other banned items from insidethe jail despite strict vigil putting a question mark on thesecurity arrangements. Mobile is one of the most want-ed banned item inside the jail for inmates to remain incontact with their associates, by the criminals. Recent-ly, a video of dancing of inmates inside the jail, wasmade viral on social media and two bikers had throwna mobiles and other material wrapped in a red bag fromoutside over the jail walls. With the passage of time,the jail campus is surrounded by high rising buildingwhich too posed a threat to the security of the jail.

RAMESH KASHYAPFEROZEPUR, JULY 9

Under Mission Fateh, 1.28minutes, animated movie, us-ing animation techniques,has been produced by Cha-ranjit Singh Chahal - ateacher of the education de-partment in which people areexplained differently to useprecautions against coronavirus.

Charanjit Singh, ETTteacher posted at GovernmentPrimary Smart School, Tootsaid that this animation (car-toon) has been planned in as-sociation with the DEO Pri-mary Rajiv Chhabra andDeputy DEO SukhwinderSingh. In this video, the peo-

ple and children have beentold to always wear a maskwhile going out of the house,to keep a distance of 6 feetfrom one person to another, towash their hands with soapfrom time to time and to usesanitizer. The video also tellsthe children to download theCOVA app on their mobilephones.

Deputy Commissioner,Gurpal Singh Chahal appreci-ated the innovative idea of theteacher and shared with theEducation Department whofurther posted on its officialpage besides sharing onWhatsApp groups of all gov-ernment high schools and pri-mary schools and onYouTube.

Two more pilot model smart street food carts released

Govt teacher produces 1.28minute meaningful animated

cartoon movie on corona

Meeting ofhorticulture workers

union held ISHA UPADHYAYCHANDIGARH, JULY 9

Meeting of HorticultureWorkers Union, Chandi-garh took place under thebanner of Joint ActionCommittee, ChandigarhAdministration and MCEmployees and Workers ,Chandigarh in Sector 23.Horticulture Union mem-bers who have been electedas officials of the MemberJoint Action Committeewere honored by the JointAction Committee. On thisoccasion, Ashwani Kumar,the Convenor of Joint Ac-tion Committee said that alot of machinery in the Hor-ticulture Department wasdamaged which should berepaired soon.

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YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, FRIDAY, JULY 10, 2020

HRD Minister dismisses criticism on deletion ofCBSE chaptersNEW DELHI: Terming as a "one-time measure" the deletion of several chapters fromthe syllabus of Higher Secondary classes, Human Resource Development MinisterRamesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' on Thursday dismissed reactions to the move as building"a concocted narrative". Stating that "there has been a lot of uninformed commentaryon the exclusion of some topics from CBSE syllabus", the Minister responded tocriticism from some quaters on the move, saying that the problem with thesecomments was that "they resort to sensationalism by connecting topics selectively toportray a false narrative". "Exclusions are a 1-time measure for exams due to COVID-19. While it's easy to misconstrue exclusion of 3-4 topics like nationalism, local govt,federalism & build a concocted narrative, a wider perusal of different subjects willshow that this is happening across subjects," Pokhriyal said in a tweet.

7Prof. Dr. Atima SharmaDwivedi appreciatesKMVites for distributing40000 masks

HARPREET SINGH LEHALJALANDHAR: Kanya Maha Vidyalaya-Principal Prof. Dr. Atima SharmaDwivedi honoured the students of KMVwho accomplished the onerous task ofstitching the 40000 masks for the peopleduring the COVID 19 pandemic. ProfDwivedi averred that KMV is aninstitution which have always worked forthe various social causes prevalent inthe society. Madam Principal assertedthe fact that realising that people in thevillages and slums do require the facemasks, I have made an appeal to theteachers and students of KMV, to joinhands and contribute in the war againstcoronavirus. We can now say that eachof them has put her best in serving thesociety in these difficult times. Togetherwe will win this battle against theCoronavirus.

HMV organises liveworkshop on ‘RadioProduction Techniques’

JALANDHAR: Hans Raj Mahila MahaVidyalaya successfully organized LiveWorkshop on “Radio ProductionTechniques” through facebook live underDigital Counseling. Around 350participants were registered for thisworkshop. Workshop moderator Dr.Anjana Bhatia welcomed all theparticipants through facebook live andtold them about the college. PrincipalProf. Dr. Ajay Sareen said that HMVtakes care of the holistic growth of thestudents. Head of Mass Communication& Video Production Department RamaSharma gave a complete presentation ofdepartment and its achievements. JyotiSehgal, Assistant professor told theparticipants about Radio ProductionTechniques. Principal Prof. Dr. AjaySareen congratuled ProgramCoordinator Meenakshi Syal, expertsRama Sharma, Jyoti Sehgal, Technicalteam incharge Jagjit Bhatia and hisentire team for the success of theworkshop.

Seven more COVID-19deaths in RajasthanJAIPUR: Rajasthan reported sevenmore COVID-19 deaths and 149 freshcases of coronavirus infection onThursday, taking the death toll to 489and total tally to 22,212, officials said.There are 4,846 active cases in thestate. While three deaths were reportedin Pali, two were in Jodhpur, one each inNagaur and Udaipur. In Jaipur alone, thedeath toll due to coronavirus infectionhas increased to 169 followed by 64 inJodhpur, 40 in Bharatpur, 26 in Kota, 22in Ajmer, 18 in Bikaner, 15 in Nagaur, 15in Pali and 11 in Dholpur. According anofficial report, 29 new cases werereported in Nagaur, 25 in Jaipur, 21 inAlwar, 20 in Ajmer, 16 in Bharatpur, 13in Bikaner, 11 in Dausa and eight inJhunjhunu besides cases in otherdistricts. A total of 16,504 people havebeen discharged after treatment.

Four UP criminalsnabbed in MP'sKhandwa, probe onKHANDAWA: The Special Task Force(STF) of Indore on Wednesday arrestedfour criminals from Uttar Pradesh, whowere returning after buying weapons fromIndore. They were intercepted andnabbed in Khandwa district. Speaking toreporters, Superintendent of Police, STF,Khandwa, Padmavilochan Shukla, said,"We got information that some criminalswere in Indore to buy some weapons,after which two teams were formed. Theywere travelling in an Innova car, whichwas intercepted in Khandwa. Uponchecking we found that they were carryingweapons like local pistols and magazineswith them. It was also found that the fourhad past criminal records as well." SPShukla further said that the criminals werepresented in the court, after which theywere given four-day custody.

9 new coronaviruscases take Dharavi'stally to 2,347MUMBAI: Nine new cases of coronaviruswere recorded in Mumbai's slum colony ofDharavi, taking the tally to 2,347 onThursday, the city civic body said. TheBrihanmumbai Municipal Corporation(BMC) has stopped disclosing the numberof deaths, if any, in the slum- dominatedarea since the past few days. With ninenew cases of coronavirus, Dharavi's countstood at 2,347, a BMC official said. Hesaid Dharavi has only 291 active COVID-19 cases, while 1,815 patients haverecovered and discharged from COVID-19 facilities. Dharavi, once a COVID-19hotspot, recorded less number of casesthan Dadar and Mahim areas, which alsofall under the G-north civic ward thathouses the sprawling slum colony.

With support of its people, UP overcamecoronavirus apprehensions: PM Modi

AGENCYNEW DELHI, JULY 9

Prime Minister Narendra Modiwhile interacting withrepresentatives of NGOsbelonging to Varanasi onThursday said that a state likeUttar Pradesh overcame theapprehensions of the worst-casescenario of COVID-19 becauseof public support. "100 yearsago, a similar pandemichappened, it is said that backthen the population was not thisbig in India. Even then, at thattime, India was one of thecountries which had the mostdeaths. That is why the wholeworld was concerned for Indiathis time," the Prime Ministersaid, at the interaction heldthrough video conferencing."So this time around, when thepandemic hit India, everyonewas concerned and now Indiahas a huge population. Expertswere raising questions on India,saying this time also thesituation will get worse butwhat happened? Uttar Pradesh,a state with population 23-24crores, with support of itspeople overcame all theseapprehensions," he added.

Further hailing UttarPradesh's efforts in containingthe spread of COVID-19, thePrime Minister compared thestate to Brazil and said, "A hugecountry like Brazil, with asimilar population to UttarPradesh, has suffered around65,000 deaths due to COVID-19. While in Uttar Pradesh,around 800 people have losttheir lives, it means many liveshave been saved in the state."

"Uttar Pradesh has not onlycontrolled the rate oftransmission but those whowere infected by COVID-19 arealso recovering quickly and thereason behind this success is theawareness displayed by greatpeople like you. It is because ofthe values that you were able togive the strength to everyperson in society to fight againstcoronavirus," the PrimeMinister added.

As per the Union Healthand Family Welfare Ministry,Uttar Pradesh has 31,156COVID-19 cases of which,9,980 patients are active caseswhile 20, 331 patients havebeen cured or discharged. Therehave been 845 deaths due toCOVID-19 in the state.

Blessings of Lord Bholenath ensured thatVaranasi filled with hope, enthusiasm

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi in interaction withrepresentatives of NGOs belonging to Varanasi, via videoconferencing, on Thursday said that due to the blessings of LordBholenath the city is filled with hope and enthusiasm despite theCOVID-19 crisis. "This is the month of Sawan, in such a situationspeaking with the people from Varanasi seems like a visit to LordBholenath. This is the blessings of Lord Bholenath that evenduring the COVID-19 crisis, our Varanasi is filled with hope andenthusiasm," said Prime Minister Modi. "Our Varanasi has foughtthrough this challenging time with immense bravery. Today'sinteraction is proof that no matter how big the crisis, the livelinessof the people here is unmatched. The coronavirus is nothing infront of the city that provides energy to the entire world," headded. "All those who worked during this COVID-19 crisis, it isnot that they only carried out their responsibilities.

SC pulls up Maharashtragovernment on plightof migrant labourers

AGENCYNEW DELHI, JULY 9

The Supreme Court on Thursdaypulled up Maharashtragovernment for filing an affidavitstating that all is fine in the state.

A Bench of Justices AshokBhushan, Sanjay Kishan Kaul andMR Shah was hearing the suomoto cognisance the apex courttook and some PILs filed on theplight of migrant labourers whoare stranded in different parts ofthe country. The top court statedthat it cannot accept Maharashtra'sapproach that all migrants areprovided food and that it has noknowledge of any deficiency indealing with migrant workers andnone of them are left to be senthome. It further observed that it isobligation of the State governmentto identify migrant workers inneed and not getting food and,who want to go home.

The Supreme Court has askedMaharashtra government to fileproper affidavit and adjourned thematter for further hearing on nextFriday. During the hearing, senioradvocate Kapil Sibal told theBench that a national plan forCOVID-19 is needed. SolicitorGeneral Tushar Mehta said that thenational plan for COVID

management as sought in apetition filed by the Centre forPublic Interest Litigation (CPIL)through advocate PrashantBhushan is already on record.Mehta stated that government hasCOVID-19 containment plan also.The apex court stated that the sameissue had come up earlier also andat that time, national plan was notplaced on record, now they'veplaced it. Supreme Court toldSolicitor General Tushar Mehta tosupply the affidavit detailing theissues to other parties. Mehtastated that the latest affidavit wasfiled on July 6. He said that in theaffidavit it was stated that themigrants who wanted to leaveearlier have now decided to stayback in the cities of theiremployment as the state opened upemployment opportunities. FromMay 1, around 3,50,000 workerscame back to work again, Mehtainformed.

Commandos deployed in Poonthura asCOVID-19 cases surge in coastal belt

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JULY 9

A team of 25 commandoswas deployed in Poonthuraon Wednesday after 119COVID-19 positive caseswere reported from the 600samples tested in five days.

The coastal belt ofPoonthura is becoming amajor hotspot of coronaviruswith the recent outbreak.

State Police ChiefLoknath Behara said that theCoast Guard, CoastalSecurity, and MarineEnforcement have beeninstructed to prevent theboats from fishing inPoonthura to Tamil Nadu andvice versa.

"The coastal belt ofPoonthura was instructed toimplement a very strict triplelockdown. SAPCommandant-in-Charge L.Solomon will lead 25

member commandos forspecial duty in the coastalregion," the DGP said.

He added that DeputyCommissioner Divya VGopinath and AssistantCommissioner AishwaryaDongre will lead the policeoperations in Poonthura.ADGP Sheikh DarveshSaheb will oversee theoperations. Police in both

Kerala and Tamil Nadu willensure that no one crosses theborder fromThiruvananthapuram toKanyakumari or the otherway around. State PoliceChief Loknath Behra spoketo Tamil Nadu DGP JKTripathi over the phone onthe issue. Against thebackdrop of the outbreak ofthe coronavirus cases, a high-

level meeting was chaired byChief Minister PinarayiVijayan on Wednesday,which was attended by ChiefSecretary, the HealthSecretary, the Police Chiefand the District Collector ofThiruvananthapuram.

In the meeting, it wasdecided to strictly preventpeople from reachingPoonthura from outside.Coastal police have beenadvised to stop people fromreaching Poonthura by seaand the borders will besealed. The districtadministration will provideall necessary assistance to thepeople of the region.

The total number ofpositive cases in Keralastands at 6,195 of which,2,609 patients are activecases, 3,559 patients havebeen cured/discharged while27 patients have succumbedto the virus.

SHIV KUMAR SHARMAKARNAL, JULY 9

Cleanliness is the distance ofdevelopment, only clean citizens lay thefoundation of clean society. Fecal wastemanagement can also play a decisiverole in maintaining sanitation. ODFPlus activities under Swachh BharatMission Gramin also include sewagemanagement. If the black water comingout of the septic tank in the villages isprevented from going into the drainsand the cleaning of the septic tank isdone from time to time, then the watercan be saved.

Additional Deputy Commissioner,Ashok Kumar Bansal said this during aone-day orientation workshop organisedkeeping in view the social distance inthe office of Block Nilokheri. He saidthat till now cleaning of septic tankswas done by private persons at anarbitrary rate, but now under the sewagemanagement project of HaryanaGovernment, the cleaning of septictanks will be done through a suction

machine at the government rate. Agovernment rate of Rs 800 has been setfor this. On this occasion, NareshKumar of the Swachh Bharat MissionGramin, Nodal Officer of the projectRajiv Kumar Sharma, District ProgramManager Rajkumar Sandhu, BDPOJagbir Dalal, Block Coordinator RenuKamboj, All Sarpanch, VillageSecretary, SDO of Panchayati Raj andJE were also present.

Sewage managementnecessary: Bansal

Birthday of plants celebratedGURMEET KASHYAPKARNAL, JULY 9

The birthday of the saplingsplanted 3 years ago wascelebrated by the SamarpanManav Seva Samiti. President ofSamiti Dilbag Kadian said thatexactly 3 years ago, under theinspiration of Geeta ManishiSwami Gyananandji Maharaj, 70saplings were planted in front ofITI Chowk, Karnal BhatiaMotors, most of them havegrown up, they have become trees, today the third of thoseplants It was a birthday. This birthday cake was celebrated bycutting. Kadian said that Swamiji has planted millions of treesall over the country with inspiration. He expressed specialgratitude to Bhatia Motors who maintained these plants andhelped to make the area green by removing the dirt that hadspread there. He told that this is the best time to plant trees,after the monsoon, we should plant more and more trees. Thenext 3 months are the best time to plant trees and the trees areprovided by the government free of cost or at a very low price,the only need is to take care of these trees. Gaurav Bhatia,Himanshu Dingra, Sandeep Kumar Rajesh, Ravi, Sourav,Vinay, Surendra, Balwinder, Pankaj, Manoj etc. were presenton the occasion.

480 yoga volunteerprotest at secretariat

SHIV KUMAR SHARMAKARNAL, JULY 9

480 Yoga Volunteers of the state, who arelooking for appointment in the AYUSHDepartment, have sat on a dharna in front of theDistrict Secretariat in Karnal. Thursday was thesecond day of dharna. Yoga Volunteers shoutedslogans against the government and theDepartment of AYUSH. There was also a lot ofanger in the Women's Yoga Volunteer. State VicePresident of Yoga Teachers AssociationHaryana Deepak Badola and Kuldeep Arya saidthat they were shocked when they came to knowthat 1000 Yoga Volunteers will be recruited bythe Ayush Department. In the process of new

recruitment by the Ayush Department, there wasno mention of the Volunteer imposed by theSports Department in 2019. These 480volunteers were to be appointed in theDepartment of AYUSH from December 1,2019. All 480 volunteers should be appointed bythe Department of AYUSH. He has no objectionto the new recruits but according to the decisiontaken earlier, 480 Volunteers should beappointed first. If there is a delay in givingemployment, the yoga volunteers will not beafraid to make more protest. Kuldeep, Deepak,Rajesh, Suman, Ritu, Satish Kumar, MohanSharma, Davindra Kumar, Jeet Ram, KuldeepShyokand, Reena, Urmil, Sunil and SaritaBalayan were present on the occasion.

Anger destroysconscience: Muni

SHIV KUMAR SHARMAKARNAL, JULY 9

Deputy promoter Piyush Muni Ji Maharaj said thatwhen a person becomes cruel under the guise ofanger, the purity of the heart escapes from within.When there is anger, there is no difference betweena scholar and a fool. Anger arises due to any ad-

verse circumstances. Onecan be rooted and consciousfor adverse situations. Go-ing deep and thinking, it isknown that there is only asense of anger in the distur-bance root. For example, ifa servant is harmed, an un-favorable environment un-

folds against the will, or if a kindred person walksagainst him, then it is natural to feel discontented.This happens because when we do not get what wewant, we get upset. In fact, anger arises for this rea-son. The existence of anger in the mind of everyperson of the world remains in more or less form.Someone's anger is intense and someone's heart isslow. Some's anger lasts for a long time.

SATNAM SINGH CHATHALADWA, JULY 9

Haryana Sports Minister SandeepSingh said that the Sant Samaj hasalways acted as a pioneer of thesociety. Not only the defence ofreligion, but saints have animportant contribution in thedevelopment of the nation. Thegovernment pays full respect to thesaint tradition. That is why religiousprograms have increased in the BJPgovernment. Along with celebratingthe birth anniversary of great men ofall religions, the state governmenthas also given a grand look tosports. Sports Minister had come tovisit Brahm Akhandi Mandi SahibSant Baba Gurvinder Singh. He saidthat the Udasi Trust hasstrengthened people’s hands during

the Corona period by serving theneedy as well as helping thegovernment. That is why they havearrived here to express theirgratitude to Sant Baba GurvinderSingh Mandi on behalf of HaryanaGovernment. Sant Baba Gurvinder

Singh Mandi said that the SportsMinister is young and he has gonethrough that period.

He endured the financialtightness, disability and all theexperiences that make a personmature. Therefore, the second lifethat God has given him should bededicated to the service ofhumanity. There can be no better jobthan this. Sant Baba GurvinderSingh Mandi inspired the SportsMinister to strengthen the educationof the daughters in the area and tobring the youth of the rural areas tothe sports to remove them from drugand negativity. Sant Baba Mandisaid that the government can expectany support from the Sant Samajand Mandi Sahib Trust to befulfilled for the welfare of thedaughters and the youth.

Saints contributed to nation building: Sandeep

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In one stroke of penning a directive to strip interna-tional college students of their visas if their courseof study was entirely online, the Donald Trump-ad-

ministered United States has thrown more than a mil-lion lives into uncertainty, that too in the time of thepandemic. Among the 10 lakh students who were is-sued visas to US last year, there are at least two lakhyoung Indians who may face the distressing prospectof being deported at a time when there are no flightshome and at the cost of several lakhs of rupees spent incollege fees, getting to the US and setting up theirlodging. The Trump administration may be doing thisto force universities into early reopening and fillingdormitories and populating classrooms as a way ofthrusting normality, but at a particularly difficult timewhen the virus is rebounding even as the US reopens.It is clear that the move goes far beyond domestic com-pulsions. The xenophobic outlook of the Trump regimeis once again exposed, the trait already made evident inrestrictive moves made against work visas in June. Theaction against foreign students can be interpreted asblatantly racist too as a majority of students who willbe affected are Chinese (about 3,70,000), Indians(2,02,000) and South Koreans (52,000) who enrolled in2018-19. The pattern of hostility to immigrants, fuelledon in the Trump years that began with the idea of aMexican Wall, is clear. This could mean not only theend of pursuit of studies in the US but also evaporationof the “American Dream” for many youth who will bemissing job opportunities, which may have been agood reason why they chose to study in the US. For-eign students, many of whom who pay full tuition fees,are also estimated to contribute upwards of $30 billiona year to the US economy while supporting about halfa million jobs in and around academia. US varsitiesmay innovate in offering inperson classes in hybridcourses and students residing in the US may just findways past the regulations. But what is destroyed aslakhs of young people agonise over regulations that putthem in the crosshairs is the old belief in America asthe land of opportunity. In narrow-minded pandering toAmerican sentiment favouring the reduction of legalimmigration to the US, the country could be shootingitself in the foot. Nothing will, however, cut ice withthe US President when he is seeking re-election. Everymanoeuvre that projects itself as putting America,Americans and US jobs first can be traced to one man’sambition to remain in the White House. The studentvisa restrictions could be seen as primarily hitting atChina, derided now as the source of the Covid-19 pan-demic and consequent fall of the global economy.

Trump’s 2nd term price: 2lakh education dreams

YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, FRIDAY, JULY 10, 2020

Editorial

Literature & HealthAfrican workers upset over

exploitation by Chinese firmsChina is supposedly stomping

new grounds in Africa, par-ticularly, with significant in-

terests in the mining industry. Butthe anger over the treatment ofAfrican workers in Chinese miningcompanies has triggered a burgeon-ing diplomatic crisis and exposedthe exploitation as well as unethicalpractices adopted by Chinese em-ployers in the African nation.

The recent incident of shootingof Zimbabwean workers by theChinese mine owners, once again,has been dogged by controversywith gross human rights violationsand safety norms for mining work-ers. On July 1, a Zimbabweanrights group slammed Chinese-runmining companies of "rampantabuse" after two workers were shotand wounded, allegedly by theirChinese boss, after they com-plained about outstanding wages.

The incident was captured onvideo and shared on Twitter whichfurther caused a widespread rage inthe country. The Chinese nationalhas been charged with attemptedmurder and released on bail.

"The problem of ill-treatmentof workers is systematic and wide-spread and what that shooting didwas to expose the rampant abuse ofworkers. Wages are often very lowand in many cases are not paid ontime. If someone tries to exercisetheir right as a worker and demand

what is due to them get assaulted orshot," Zimbabwe EnvironmentalLawyers Association (ZELA) saidin a statement.

Forced labour and torture in thediamond mining industry, and oth-er mining activities are rampant inChinese controlled mining firms.

Zimbabwe is a dependent part-ner with China providing thelargest market for its exports andmuch-needed support to its fragileeconomy. Chinese companies lookfor a good return of their invest-ment and hence, they exploit thecountry's economic condition andthe workforce. In 2019, the Zim-babwe government signed a hugemining deal with a Chinese firmTsignchan worth USD 2 billion toextract iron ore, chrome, coal, nick-el and other natural resources. Asper the Brookings Report of 2016,there are at least 10,000 Chinesepeople in Zimbabwe and most ofthem are involved in mining, tele-com and construction sectors. Chi-nese presence in such large num-bers in the country cause tensionsamong locals. In February, a groupof local miners at a Matobo-basedfirm in Matabeleland Southprovince complained of their firingfrom jobs by Chinese employers ina court. Workers accused their Chi-nese employer of gross humanrights abuses ranging from beatingand unfair dismissals.

According to a new study, young children withnarrow retinal artery diameters were more likelyto develop higher blood pressure, which made

them more vulnerable to develop retinal microvascularimpairment during early childhood. The first study toshow this connection in children was published todayin Hypertension, an American Heart Association jour-nal.

High blood pressure, themain risk factor for the devel-opment of cardiovascular dis-ease (CVD), can manifest asearly as childhood, and theprevalence of high blood pres-sure among children continuesto rise. In previous studies,analysis of blood vessels in theretina has shown promise as apredictor of CVD risk amongadults. In the study titled,"Retinal Vessel Diameters andBlood Pressure Progression inChildren," researchers sought to predict the develop-ment of high blood pressure in children over four yearsbased on retinal blood vessel measurements.

"Hypertension continues as the main risk factor forthe development of cardiovascular diseases and mortal-ity," says Henner Hanssen, M.D., the study's lead au-thor and a professor in the department of sport, exerciseand health at the University of Basel in Switzerland."Primary prevention strategies are needed to focus onscreening retinal microvascular health and blood pres-sure in young children in order to identify those at in-creased risk of developing hypertension. The earlier wecan provide treatment and implement lifestyle changesto reduce hypertension, the greater the benefit for thesechildren." Researchers screened 262 children ages sixto eight from 26 schools in Basel, Switzerland, in 2014,

for baseline blood pressure and retinal arterial measure-ments. Both measures were taken again in 2018. Bloodpressure measurements at both baseline and follow-upwere performed in a sitting position after a minimum offive minutes of rest and were categorized based on theAmerican Academy of Pediatrics' blood pressureguidelines. These guidelines utilize the same measure-ments as the American Heart Association/American

College of Cardiology 2017Guideline for the Prevention,Detection, Evaluation, andManagement of High BloodPressure in Adults.

Results from the analysisindicate:

- Children with narrowerretinal vessel diameters atbaseline developed higher sys-tolic blood pressure at follow-up;

- Retinal vessel diameterscould explain 29 -31 per cent

of the changes in systolic blood pressure progressionbetween 2014 and 2018;

- Children with higher blood pressure levels atbaseline developed significantly narrower arteriolar di-ameters at follow-up, depending on weight and car-diorespiratory fitness; and

- Initial blood pressure measures explained 66-69per cent of the change in retinal arteriolar diameterfrom baseline to follow-up.

"Early childhood assessments of retinal microvas-cular health and blood pressure monitoring can im-prove cardiovascular risk classification. Timely pri-mary prevention strategies for children at risk of devel-oping hypertension could potentially counteract itsgrowing burden among both children and adults," saidHanssen.

AHindu temple plannedfor Islamabad, thecity's first, was sup-

posed to be a symbol of tol-erance for Pakistan. But vio-lence and controversy haveturned it into an emblem ofthe country's troubled rela-tionship with its religiousminorities.

On July 5, the local de-velopment authority in Is-lamabad stopped the con-struction of the boundarywall on the plot allotted tothe Shri Krishna Mandir. Ac-cording to the authority'sspokesperson Mazhar Hus-sain, the action was takenbecause a building plan hadnot been submitted to the au-thority, The New York Timesreported.

"Any construction takingplace in Islamabad, residen-tial or commercial, requiresa building plan (map) to beapproved," he was quoted assaying by local media.

When Pakistan's formergovernment allotted land forthe temple in 2018, Muslimdemonstrators quicklycamped out on the plot, re-fusing to allow a Hindustructure to be built in Islam-abad, according to The NewYork Times.

But the temple's Hinduadvocates seemed to prevailand the temple's first founda-tion stones were laid lastmonth. Days later, PrimeMinister Imran Khan or-dered the government to pro-vide about USD 1.3 millionfor the temple's construction,

roughly a fifth of what isneeded. However, Muslimclerics stepped in again andthings started changing. Sev-eral clerics ruled that noHindu temple should be builtbecause Pakistan is a Mus-lim country. Citizens de-nounced the government forusing their taxes to providefunding for the temple. Me-dia outlets openly cam-paigned to shut the projectdown. Under mounting pres-sure, the government latelast week backtracked fromits initial pledge to donatemoney to the temple's con-

struction, instead of askingfor guidance from the Coun-cil of Islamic Ideology onwhether to give the grant.

The violence over the is-sue reached heights on Sun-day when a group of mendestroyed the partially con-structed wall around thetemple's land, claiming itwas their Islamic duty to doso. They gleefully filmedtheir exploits and posted iton social media. Unfortu-nately, none of the vandalshave been arrested. In a mat-ter of just two weeks, thehope surrounding Islam-

abad's first Hindu templewas derailed, in a similar asmany aspirations that theImran Khan government haddelivered on the religiouscoexistence when he hadpromised when he won elec-tions in 2018, The New YorkTimes reported. In his elec-tion campaign, the cricketer-turned-politician had prom-ised to improve conditionsfor Pakistan's religious mi-norities, often treated as sec-ond-class citizens and tar-getted in attacks by Islamicfundamentalists with fewrepercussions. He had also

vowed to restore their placesof worship. Khan seemed tomake good on his promiselate last year when the gov-ernment reopened one ofSikhism's holiest shrines, the500-year-old Gurdwara Dar-bar Sahib Kartarpur.

But the latest move overthe construction of Hindutemple in the capitalprovince once again marredefforts of Imran Khan'spromise to religious toler-ance. Although Hindus arebetween two and four percent of Pakistan's popula-tion, Islamabad does not

have a temple for them toworship in. If their relativesdie, they must travel longdistances with the body toHindu-run cremation facili-ties to perform traditionalburial rites.

As of now, Islamabad'sHindu Panchayat has haltedthe construction and decidedto visit the local authorityoffice this week to discussthe matter further. HinduPanchayat President PritamDas told SAMAA newsagency that the panchayathad already submitted an ap-plication addressed to theauthority regarding theboundary wall constructionon June 19, but got no re-sponse from them. The ap-plication said that theboundary wall was beingbuilt to secure the posses-sion of the plot.

Last Friday, the coun-try's religious affairs min-istry, in a press conference,said that it only "releasesfunds for the renovation andrehabilitation of minority'sworship places", not forconstruction.

This, however, is not theonly problem faced by thepanchayat during the tem-ple's construction. In a tweeton Saturday, PTI MNA LalChand Malhi said the HinduPanchayat has announcedthat it is discontinuing thetemple's construction, evenif the local authority now al-lows it, due to recent casesof violence and destructionof its site.

Pakistan’s relationship withminorities under scanner

Children with high BP morevulnerable to eye issues

Parents may worry that spend-ing time on their smartphoneshas a negative impact on their

relationships with their children.However, a new comprehensiveanalysis, published in the Journal ofChild Psychology and Psychiatry,found that this is unlikely to be thecase.

In the analysis of data from3,659 parent-based surveys, the au-thors tested 84 different possibili-ties to assess whether smartphoneuse was associated with parenting,and they found little evidence. Ac-cordingly, they explored whetherthe effect of phone use on parentingdepended on whether it displacedtime with family and was associat-ed with family conflict.

At low levels of displacing timewith family, more smartphone usewas associated with better (not

worse) parenting. The authors notedthat especially considering diversefamily environments, smartphonesplay multiple roles in family life,and when not heavily impacting onfamily time, may have a positiverole in parenting.

"The challenge with much ofthe technology-family literature isthat has mainly stemmed from an

assumption of risk and problems.As a result, small and uneven find-ings can become the focus of media,policymakers, and parents," saidlead author Kathryn L. Modecki,PhD, of Menzies Health InstituteQueensland, Griffith University, inAustralia. "This is an issue becauseit can cloud our insight as we focuson ways to meaningfully assist par-ents and families to enhance posi-tive outcomes." Thus, Dr. Modeckiand her colleagues used a transpar-ent approach that mapped a myriadof ways that smartphones could linkto family wellbeing. "We foundvery little evidence of problems andhope these data help move us to-wards more constructive and nu-anced conversations around fami-lies' diverse experiences with tech-nology, actual risks associated withparenting.

Effects of smartphone use on parenting

Covid speaking ! "Me Covid ! here on,Speaking from Wuhan,A sui- generis creation,With world wide planFirst, I'll visit Milan or Spain!Either by aircraft or train,I'll build home, soon,In blood, throat or brain

Identity of man, shall concealFull, with my zest and zealI'll feel not, a little ashamedOffering malady, ugly or dameI fear, doctor may catch me hold!Altering coat, I'll gift booster doseAll, will scatter distant apart,Some on foot and else on dartEre long, I'll make world haultLeaving chaos, helter and skelterMaking economies, all to shatter,Workless - helpless and squatterAptly I'll mock, all world powers!Forcing them, to scream on knees,And turning reservoir of diseaseFor long , nothing shall work,How awesomely, one may assertAlike virtues vested in me, inert,Warmly, I promise to deliver,All culprits, with summon to quiverI reserve power, to alter world orderAnd reverting sequence, whatsoeverI'll dare ept, revive all old values,Making weapon or arsenal devalueIt'll be my duty, fair and square,No unruly at all, be spared!"

POEMS

Dr. Ashwani Kumar

By : Ashwani Sharma, PrincipalGov't Degree College

DhanetaDist. Hamirpur, H.P.

handigarh : Dell Technologiesannounced today that it is bringing its new XPS 13 and XPS 15 premium consumer Claptops to India. Redesigned to achieve a superior

computing experience with premium materials, a smaller and thinner profile, and a larger display, the new XPS range offers the latest technology innovations in aggressive form factors. For customers that value maximum screen space, XPS is delivering its latest engineering feat — virtually borderless InfinityEdge display, leading the way for even smaller form factor than their predecessors. With a larger 16:10 display ratio, the new XPS 13 and XPS 15 offer more screen space to multitask throughout the day and catch all the details of the latest binge-worthy show. Paired with best-in-class visual features including100% sRGB color gamut reproduction in the XPS 13 and up to 100% Adobe RGB in XPS 15, 500-nits of brightness, andupto4K+ resolution screen, these displays provide precise detail and sharp images well suited for content creation. When it comes to powering content creation, the XPS 15 is recognized as the smallest 39.6 cm (15.6-inch) performance class laptop1. With the latest 10th Gen Intel Core Processors, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti graphics, with up to 21-hour battery life, creative enthusiasts can easily edit photos for Instagram, render 4K videos or create original sounds their choice DAW.Additionally, XPS configurations that show the Creator Edition badge have been carefully selected to provide a smooth experience for hobbyists.

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SHORT TALKS

IntrCity RailYatri re-starts SmartBus between Punjab and Delhi with Safe+ Features HEALTH/NEWS

YUGMARG, CHANDIGARH, FRIDAY, JULY 10, 2020

CHANDIGARH : Universal Music India (UMI), a division of Universal Music Group (UMG), the world leader in music-based entertainment, today announced an exclusive multi-year, global distribution deal with leading Indian music company Desi Melodies. Founded in Mohali, in the Punjab region of northern India by Jaani (Lyricist, Singer) and Arvindr Khaira (Director, Filmmaker) – Desi Melodies has quickly become one of the most popular and respected companies in the Indian entertainment industry today and has led the contemporary wave of global Punjabi music success in recent years. Effective immediately, Universal Music India will exclusively distribute all audio recordings from the broad and hugely popular Desi Melodies label catalog, including past releases, future non-film releases and all other projects.

Universal music India to exclusively distribute desi melodies’

ith the COVID 19 pandemic folk artistes and musicians, where they raging on, the worst are entertaining the audience with their Wimpacted groups have been talent in these extraordinarily difficult

artistes in the performing arts or for that times. The online concertes are matter even artists engaged in and witnessing chat sessions, musical propagating any kind of visual art form. concerts with folk artistes, as they COVID 19 has resulted in a situation uphold India's age-old traditions.of utmost distress for them. The reason: Nisha Luthra added, “We have been they cannot showcase their art forms in helping the needy artistes with nominal front of audiences as congregations are amounts for groceries & basic needs. not allowed, this has hit their primary But since the government bodies are source of income hard. not coming forward with any kind of In an endeavor to bring back "theatre, help for our theatre or folk artistes, we folk artistes and visual artists" on an planned to turn to digital platforms to even keel,'The Narrators'- a city-based help artistes' stay connected with performing arts group has initiated a audiences.”unique online campaign ‘Save The Art Nisha urged the audiences to watch the & The Artiste’. online concerts and contribute to Nisha Luthra, co-founder of 'The reviving the art industry. She also made Narrators' said , “We have initiated this a fervent appeal to government bodies online campaign with the collaboration to come forward and help the artistes in of other art & theatre organizations of tricity who are only dependent on their the tricity. 'The Narrators’ which is creative skills to make a living.associated with 'Tricity Artists' It is noteworthy that the ‘The Association' has a list of more than 100 Narrators’ has held several online artistes within tricity who are mainly sessions, wherein Punjabi folk artistes, engaged in theatre or are in the creative Sufi & qawaali artistes, Rajasthani folk and performing fields. The association groups and a Himachali folk singer

Academy and Chandigarh has apprised various cultural and mesmerized the online audience with Administration too, but all this has been government departments about the their spellbinding performances.in vain, as no one in a position of power plight of artistes in performing arts as Nisha summed it up this way , “It is has retorted to the SOS messages sent also visual artists. This has been done important to save art and artistes' as art to them. ” through a letter written to the is the only way to uplift the spirit of the Meanwhile, the online campaign is Department of Cultural Affairs, nation during these trying times.” providing a digital platform for theatre, Haryana, Chandigarh Sangeet Natak

handigarh: Chitkara University becomes the first university in the region to offer an M. Tech program in Automotive CEngineering in collaboration with apex government automotive

research and testing organization ARAI, Pune. The past decade has witnessed a steadily increasing demand and change in customer preference for automotive vehicles. Add to it, stringent emission norms, the rise of urban metros, rising fuel prices, and increasing customer income – all of which has led to the demand for automotive talent skyrocketing like never before. As per the industry reports, India is slated to become a global leader in shared mobility and electric vehicles by the year 2030, which can be attributed to a rising middle class, increased FDI ($23.3 bn in 2019-2020), and conducive government policies. All this is going to prompt automotive manufacturers to focus more on new vehicle development, developing testing capabilities, and redesigning supply chains.To cater to the talent crunch in the automotive industry and to contribute in nation-building, Chitkara University has custom created an M. Tech Program in Automotive Engineering in collaboration with Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI), Pune, wherein students will get an opportunity to undergo one-year immersive training at ARAI, Pune Campus in some of India’s finest testing labs, as a part of their course. This exposure in the automotive hub of India won’t only equip them with the industry’s best practices and cutting-edge knowledge but also transform them into a sought-after talent in the job market.

Bharti AXA Life Insurance Rolls out Health and Life Secure with Triple Benefits of Protection

BYJU’S aims at redefining tuitions, launches ‘BYJU’S Classes’

handigarh : Global smartphone brand vivo announced its entry Cinto the premium smartphone

segment in India. The company plans to expand its product portfolio with the camera-centric X-series in India that aims to provide a premium photography experience with a balance of technology and user-centric design. The soon-to-be-launched X-series is a realization of vivo's commitment to premium design elements and innovation. Under the X-series, vivo shall launch a series of premium smartphones - X50 and X50 Pro, which will feature professional-grade camera technologies that will offer a delightful mobile photography experience. As a consumer-centric brand, vivo has successfully catered to the diverse needs of Indian consumers and offered cutting-edge technology solutions to provide an ultimate smartphone experience. Expressing excitement on the upcoming launch, Nipun Marya, Director - Brand Strategy, vivo India, said, "There has been a shift in the needs of consumers in the last few years. With a growing appetite for premium smartphones, consumers are looking for a premium device that elevates their smartphone experience.

Airtel Thanks app now availablein Hindi & Punjabifor Airtel Prepaid customersCHANDIGARH: As part of its mission to simplify the customer journey through innovative digital interventions, Bharti Airtel (“Airtel”) today announced the launch of Hindi & Punjabi support on Airtel Thanks app for prepaid customers. The feature is LIVE on Android & will be available on iOS shortly.With increasing smartphone penetration, particularly in smaller towns and villages, customers are looking for vernacular online experience. This new feature on Airtel Thanks app will drive more adoption as well as make the user experience simpler and highly interactive for Airtel customers by removing language barriers. Airtel Thanks app is the digital gateway to all Airtel services. It comes with a customised interface – Silver, Gold, Platinum – based on customer ARPU. The app allows Airtel smartphone customers to access Digital Self Care - make recharges, bill payments, checking real time data usage/balance details. Customers can also log service related issues through the app in a matter of few clicks. The app also offers access to digital payments and financial services along with preview of Airtel’s digital

Chitkara University to offer M. Tech Automotive Engineering in

collaboration with ARAI, Pune

SHIMLA: Bharti AXA Life Insurance, a joint venture between Bharti Enterprises, one of India’s leading business groups, and AXA, one of the world’s largest insurance companies, today announced the launch of its first-of-its-kind Health and Life Secure, an inclusive protection solution with triple benefits of life cover, hospitalization and critical illness amid COVID19.Health and Life Secure is an all-in-one protection solution that offers financial security and comprehensive health and critical illness coverage as a key differentiator in the domestic insurance market. ‘’In view of the unprecedented environment and the fear arising out of the Corona virus infection and disease, Health and Life Secure is the need of the hour that addresses customers’ requirements of life protection, hospitalisation and critical illness benefits. The unique proposition of this all-embracing solution is that it offers financial security and support for managing health and critical illness expenses as well. This is in line with our vision and strategy to offer best-in-class insurance solutions to the customers,’’ said Mr. Parag Raja, Managing Director and CEO, Bharti AXA Life Insurance.

Amritsar : With ease in lockdown and resumption of intercity mobility, IntrCity RailYatri, India’s largest intercity mobility brand has resumed its SmartBus services between Amritsar and Delhi. The company has introduced the Safe+ initiative to ensure the safety of its travelers, crew and driver-partners. Additionally, IntrCity RailYatri has also launched Covid-19 Insurance as an add-on for its travelers. Commenting on the new safe+ initiatives on IntrCity SmartBus, Mr. Manish Rathi, Co-founder and CEO IntrCity RailYatri said, “When Covid-19 hit India and the first lockdown was announced, we realized that life as we knew it will change. We reached out to travelers and did an extensive survey which clearly stated that our travelers wanted hygiene, sanitization and social distancing are a mandate to make them feel safe and travel with us.

u r u g r a m : S h r i Vi s h w a k a r m a S k i l l GUnivers i ty, the f i rs t

government skill university of India, which has pioneered in promoting skill centric education system through its innovative Industry Integrated dual education model has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Instrumentation Automation Surveillance Communication Sector Skill Council on 8th July ,2020. Through this MoU, SVSU and IASC SSC will work jointly to establish the programme and exchange of expertise in the field of Instrumentation and Automation. On this occasion, the Hon’ble Vice Chancellor of SVSU, Shri Raj Nehru ji, highlighted the necessity of skill based programmes for enhancing the employability of the youth and how automation can be constructively utilised to develop platforms of digital learning, which is the need of the time. The MoU was signed by the worthy Registrar of SVSU Prof (Dr) R S Rathore and Mr. A Balamurugan, Vice President (Operations) of IASC SSC in the presence of Ms. Ruchi Jain (BDM) and Ravi Sinha (ADD IID, SVSU)

MoU signed in between SVSU and IAS Communication Sector Skill Council

handigarh : BYJU’S, the world’s most valuable edtech company, announced the launch of C‘BYJU’S Classes’ - a comprehensive online

tutoring program that aims at redefining tuitions for school students. With this, students now have access to scheduled online classes from India’s best teachers, instant doubt resolution and one-on-one guidance from dedicated mentors, all from the comfort and safety of their homes. In a first-of-its-kind offering, ‘BYJU’S Classes’ aims at providing students all the benefits of personalized after-school tuition classes at their fingertips. Divya Gokulnath, Co-founder, BYJU’S and a passionate teacher herself, will also be taking these classes. Announcing this launch, she said, “As the world gears up to embrace the new normal, we believe that a student’s education must be a priority in every sense. Our new product, ‘BYJU’S Classes’ will offer what every student and parent needs today - access to classes from the best teachers in the country, instant doubt resolution and a personalised one-on-one mentor to guide them along their learning journey.” Divya further added, “It has been heartening to see the education industry come together during this unexpected and difficult crisis. However, online learning is not about directly converting offline learning online - it’s about using technology as an enabler to make learning engaging and effective.

Caught in the web of love and revenge, COLORS’ presents Ishq Mein MarjaawanAll is fair in love and war says the adage. But to what extent one can go to prove their true love? What price can they pay for their love? And what happens when love becomes the biggest gamble of your life? Riddhima’s (played by Helly Shah) path to love is nothing less than a bed of thorns as she must first quench Kabir’s (played by Vishal Vashishtha) thirst for revenge before she unites with him. Mired in deceit and lies, COLORS’ romantic thriller Ishq Mein Marjaawan will compel you to change your perception of love. Once again, it will take viewers on the journey of love and revenge through the lives of Riddhima (played by Helly Shah), Kabir (played by Vishal Vashishtha) and Vansh (played by Rahul Sudhir). Produced by Inspire Films, the show premieres on 13th July,2020 and will air every Monday to Friday at 7:00 pm only on COLORS. Nina ElaviaJaipuria, Head, Hindi Mass Entertainment and Kids TV Network, Viacom18, said, “At COLORS, we continue to live upto the promise of viewers first and the launch of Ishq Mein Marjaawan is an endeavor in the same direction.

handigarh : Samsung India today announced pre-booking details for the much-awaited BTS editions of Galaxy S20+ and CGalaxy Buds+ in India. Resulting from a collaboration between

Samsung and the global pop music and cultural sensation BTS, the special edition Galaxy S20+ and Galaxy Buds+ will be available for pre-booking in India from July 1.The Galaxy S20+ BTS edition features a purple glass and metal exterior. The Galaxy Buds+ BTS edition and Buds+ charging case, also available in purple, carry the band’s logo and purple heart iconography, allowing fans in India to show their devotion through their smartphone and wearables.“At Samsung, our endeavour is to offer unique and exclusive experiences keeping in mind our consumers’ ever evolving choices. K-Pop is seeing an unprecedented fan following in India and we are very excited to announce the launch of the BTS editions of Galaxy S20+ and Galaxy Buds+ which now give fans an exclusive opportunity to connect more closely with their favourite band. The Galaxy S20+ BTS edition is the exciting new entrant in our flagship portfolio and we look forward to bringing more such offerings to our young consumers," said Aditya Babbar, Director, Mobile Business, Samsung India. Galaxy S20+ BTS edition comes with pre-installed BTS-inspired themes and a fan community platform, Weverse. Right in the box, the device comes with decorative stickers to allow fans to further personalise their devices, and photo cards featuring pictures of the band members for fans to keep. Featuring the same great pro-grade camera that Galaxy S20+ owners around the world use to capture their lives and tell their stories, the device provides new ways for BTS and their Indian fans to feel more closely connected than ever before.

PRAHAR calls for industrial growth in remote regionshandigarh: Public Response Against Helplessness and Action for Redressal (PRAHAR) , an NGO dedicated towards finding solutions for problems of the helpless, on Thursday called Cfor a comprehensive national strategy targeting accelerated industrial growth in remote

regions of India to bring relief to workforce which has receded there because of the COVID-19 pandemic. This call-for-action is part of the NGO’s recently launched ‘National Movement for Livelihood Resurrection’ campaign in the COVID-19 era. Abhay Raj Mishra, President and National Convenor, PRAHAR said, Covid-19 lockdowns have led to unprecedented reverse migration of workers in India. Also, the pandemic has caused mass-scale destruction of livelihoods in urban regions. Instead of continuing to push for industrial growth in corridors near urban centres, we need to incentivize expansion and setting up of new industries in remote regions with abundant labour workforce. He further said that there is statistical evidence that one organized sector direct employment in a poor region triggers 10 or more new indirect livelihoods as compared to only average 4 livelihoods in developed regions. Therefore, this is an opportune time for India to also adopt a reverse industrialization strategy to compliment reverse migration of its workforce. Meanwhile Sattva Consulting has conducted a ground-research in the Kalahandi district of Odisha which has revealed significant socio-economic transformation.

Dell Technologies brings the XPS experience to India with the

launch of XPS 13 and XPS 15

COVID 19: Artistes' write to administration about plight, get no response

Unacademy acquires PrepLadder for $50MGurgaon – Unacademy, India's largest learning platform, today announced the acquisition of PrepLadder, a leading postgraduate medical entrance exam preparation platform for $50M. This acquisition will further strengthen Unacademy’s presence in medical entrance examination categories such as NEET PG and FMGE. As a part of its inorganic growth strategy, Unacademy had recently acquired Kreatryx and taken over the custodianship of CodeChef. Started in 2016, PrepLadder specializes in medical examinations and provides access to education services and preparation material for exams such as NEET PG, AIIMS PG, NEET SS, and FMGE. Founded by Deepanshu Goyal, Vitul Goyal, and Sahil Goyal, the company was built with the vision to provide affordable and quality education to students preparing for postgraduate medical entrance exams across the country. Currently, PrepLadder has expert educators teaching over 85,000 active subscribers. As we strengthen our position as a market leader in the test prep market, bringing PrepLadder on board will play a strategic role for Unacademy in the medical entrance examinations category. At Unacademy, we have been working towards democratizing education and this acquisition is a step towards achieving that goal. The exponential growth in Unacademy’s subscriber base is a testament to the increasing demand for quality online education and our consistent efforts. I look forward to working with the PrepLadder team as they become a part of the Unacademy Group.” stated Gaurav Munjal, Co-Founder, and CEO, Unacademy.

handigarh :The talent and luck are two driving forces for success. There are very few people who are blessed Cenough that their talent meets with luck and get that

golden chance to shine in this glamour world. One such talented and lucky artist who has definitely ruled music charts

with his sheer talent is ‘Deep Moneey’.After giving humongous hits in both Punjabi industry and Bollywood like Saadi Gali, N a i n a D a N a s h a , Majnu,Heeriye to name a few, he has released his next romantic track ‘Baarish’. Deep Moneey has given his vocals to the song as well as the music of the song is also g i v e n b y h i m o n l y. Pollywood and Bollywood

actress Ihana Dhillon featured in the video whose last song has recently hit 100 million on YouTube. Lyrics of the song have been penned by Roohkaar. The video of the song has been directed by Tru Makers. Gem Tunes has produced the whole project. Rao Inderjeet Singh and Pardeep Nagar has presented this song.

Deep Moneey’s ‘Baarish’ will rule the hearts of audiences

Samsung to Open Pre-Booking for BTS Editions of Galaxy S20+,

Galaxy Buds+ in India

vivo announces its entry into premium

smartphone segment

odafone and BT said they would need a minimum of five years to remove equipment made by Huawei from their British networks, with Vodafone putting the cost of Vdoing so in the "single figure billions" of pounds range.

Andrea Dona, head of networks Vodafone UK, told a committee of lawmakers the operator needed to have a "sensible time scale" of several years to implement any further Huawei restrictions, with a minimum transitional plan spanning five years.Rival BT told the same committee it needed a minimum of five years, and ideally seven, to remove Huawei from its network. BT was already trialing switching some network sites from Huawei to other vendors, its chief technology officer Howard

Watson said. Britain granted Huawei a limited role in its future 5G networks in January, but ministers have since said the introduction of US sanctions could have a significant impact on its ability to securely supply crucial pieces of networking equipment. As a result, Britain is again reviewing what role Huawei should play in its telecom networks. Huawei told the same committee it was too early to quantify what impact the sanctions would have on its operations, and no hasty decisions should be made.

Vodafone and BT Need Five Years Minimum to Remove Huawei

EPCH Unveils its partnership with BAA & Poly9 to bring Virtual 3D Exhibit for Buying Agencies,

Exporters & Manufacturershandigarh, 9 July – Rohit Kuthiala, CSO at Poly9 presented their Virtual Exhibit platform on a Webinar titled “Showcase, Elaborate and Finalize CProducts virtually with Customers” co-hosted by EPCH and BAA on July

1st 2020. With COVID 19 pandemic, when international travel has been restricted, buyers are unable to make product selections and finalization via physical buyer visits as was being done in the past. The world has tremendously changed especially at the workplace into a totally virtual sphere. EPCH has been at the forerunner in ensuring how vendors and manufacturers organizing a Virtual Show for the exporter community of India, BAA has been continuously working to ensure a virtual platform where vendors, and buying agencies can showcase their products. This Webinar is an effort to bring to the industry a virtual product creation and showcase platform that will not just showcase but also helps in finalizing the product with customer with on the fly customization, and the ability to capture and structure all such conversations on 100s of products with multiple clients so nothing falls through the cracks. The Poly9 Co-Act platform enables Buyers to access Supplier products online in interactive virtual showrooms, view products and material with a single click in realistic 3D and even place products in front of them using Augmented Reality on compatible devices, thus helps reduce physical sampling to a very large extent thus saving time, effort and costs for all.Over the past 3 years, Poly9 has developed an end to end concept to shelf platform for Home and Lifestyle product showcasing, visualization, customization and selection without making physical samples. Mr. Rohit Kuthiala, Chief Strategy Officer at Poly9 presented the platform core features to the audience of over 300 webinar attendees.

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Kangana Ranaut lashes out at Pooja Bhatt's 'nepotism'

ctor Kangana Ranaut's team on not like to pay artists." "For your info @PoojaB1972 Kangana Wednesday lashed out at actor "Dear @PoojaB1972, #AnuragBasu had also auditioned for Pokiri, Aand filmmaker Pooja Bhatt after had keen eyes to spot Kangana's alongside Gangster & got selected for

she addressed the accusations of talent, everyone knows Mukesh Bhatt that as well. Pokiri went on to become nepotism on her family production does not like to pay artists, to get an all-time blockbuster, so your thinking banner - Vishesh Films- by stating that talented people for free is a favour that because of Gangster she is who the banner has always launched many studios do on themselves but that she is is totally not working. Water finds newcomers in the film industry including doesn't give your father a license to it's level," she tweeted.the 'Queen' actor. throw chappals at her," Kangana's team In a series of tweets, Bhatt had earlier "As for Kangana Ranaut-She is a great tweeted. given her stance on accusations of talent, if not, she wouldn't have been "Call her mad and humiliate her. He nepotism on the Bhatt family and had launched by Vishesh films in also announced her "tragic end", Also said that nepotism accusations on "Gangster".Yes, Anurag Basu why was he so invested in Sushant Vishesh Films, is laughable as they discovered her, but Vishesh Films Singh Rajpoot's and Rhea's have been launching new talents in the backed his vision and invested in the relationship? Why did he announce his industry.film. No small feat. Here's wishing her end too, some of the questions you The debate on nepotism has been the very best in all her endeavours," must ask him (2/2) @PoojaB1972," the rekindled after Bollywood actor Sushant Pooja Bhatt had tweeted. team added. Singh Rajput's demise who was found Responding to the tweet, actor The 'Tanu Weds Manu' actor's team dead earlier last month in his Mumbai Kangana Ranaut's team said that hiring then ended the debate by stating that house.newcomers "for free" is a favour that Kangana has also auditioned for Several reports of Sushant being a many production houses do for their another film 'Pokiri' alongside victim of nepotism in the Indian film own good and also alleged that 'Gangster' and it isn't 'Gangster' that industry has been doing rounds on

filmmaker Mukesh Bhatt "does made her a star. social media.

Akhtar, Madhuri, others condole actor Jagdeep's demise

everal Bollywood celebrities #JagdeepSahab."expressed sorrow over the Akhtar's actor-director son Farhan Sdemise of veteran Bollywood Akhtar also mourned the loss of the

actor Jagdeep who breathed his last on comic actor.Wednesday. Veteran poet and lyricist "RIP Jagdeep Sahab .. thank you for the Javed Akhtar took to Twitter to condole years of entertainment and laughs. the demise of 'Soorma Bhopali' of Deepest condolences to Javed, Naved famous classic 'Sholay.' "Jagdeep saheb & the family," tweeted Akhtar.had first appeared on the screen as a Actor Shilpa Shetty who shared the winsome child Artiste in films like Do screen space with the late legendary bigha Zameen. As a young man, he actor in the film 'Rishtey' took to played highly emotional n dramatic roles Instagram to mourn his demise with a in films like Bhabi, patang. Comedy was still from the film featuring her and the his second successful inning. Great late actor. "Extremely saddened by the talent, underused. Goodbye sir," he news of Jagdeep ji's demise. I had the tweeted. good fortune to share screen space with Akhtar's actor wife Shabana Azmi too him in Rishtey, such wonderful comic mourned the demise of the late actor timing, in his inimitable style and an @jaavedjaaferi @navedjafri_boo & the Lauding Jagdeep's on-screen work, and said, "Deepest condolences to even more wonderful human being," she entire family. Sending love, prayers, & Dhak Dhak girl Madhuri Dixit Nene @jaavedjaaferi @NavedJafri_BOO and wrote in the caption. strength to cope with this difficult loss extended condolences to the family of the entire family on the passing away of "Heartfelt condolences to @meezaanj, #RIPJagdeepJi," she added. the late actor.

hrowing light on how yoga helps in keeping the mind healthy, actor TJacqueline Fernandez on Wednesday

posted a video of herself performing different yoga asanas and giving major fitness

motivation to her fans.The 'Kick' actor took to Instagram to post

the video where she is seen acing some of the toughest Yoga moves.

In the video, Jacqueline is seen donning a black coloured yoga pants with a pink

and grey coloured sports bra.The 'Drive' actor penned down a caption

explaining how Yoga helped her deal with anxiety issues."I have been dealing with some major anxiety these past few

weeks.

. however being

consistent with yoga

has taught me the

valuable lesson of being in the

moment and what's even more

important.. gratitude.. for life and

being alive.. have a great day everyone! Namaste," she

wrote in the caption.Jacqueline is one of the Bollywood actors who keep motivating people to stay fit and perform physical activities like yoga.

Jacqueline on how Yoga helps her deal with anxiety

Shilpa Shetty gets nostalgic as action-thriller 'Dus'

clocks 15 yearshe action-thriller movie 'Dus' boasting an ensemble cast, including Sanjay Dutt, TAbhishek Bachchan, Shilpa Shetty,

Sunil Shetty, and others has completed 15 years of its release today.The 'Dhadkan' actor, Shilpa Shetty, on Wednesday celebrated the occasion of her "special" film by reposting on Instagram a video that was earlier shared by actor Sanjay Dutt. Alongside the clip, that featured several snippets from the movie, Shetty recalled the fond memories attached with the 2005 released multi starrer flick. Taking to the Instagram stories, she wrote: "Such a special film, such wonderful memories, and an absolutely delightful team that I worked with ...Can't believe it's been 15 years already!"Earlier in the day, the 'Rocky' actor, Dutt, shared the special video on Instagram to mark the 15-year-completion of the movie and expressed his "absolute delight" to have worked on the film.Directed by Anubhav Sinha and produced by Nitin Manmohan, the action thriller film is based on the Indian Special Investigation Team (SIT) Officers. The movie also stars Zayed Kha, Dia Mirza, and Esha Deol in lead roles. The plot of the film follows the head of the ATC, played by Dutt, and his team, as they embark on a mission to prevent a deadly terrorist attack planned by an international terrorist and criminal. The incident was to take place on 10 May, thus explaining the name of the film. The movie was widely loved by the audience upon release and was a commercial, critical success at the box office.

Paolo Sorrentino to direct 'The Hand of God' for Netflix

talian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino is all set to write and direct the feature film 'The Hand of God' for INetflix. The upcoming project will be bankrolled by

Lorenzo Mieli for The Apartment Pictures, a Fremantle company, with Sorrentino. The plot details of the flick are not yet revealed; however, it is based on an original idea by the director, taking Sorrentino back to his hometown of Naples, for the shoot. His debut feature 'One Man Up' released in 2001, was filmed in the southern Italian city. "I am excited at the idea of filming in Naples again exactly twenty years after my first film.

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Yes Bank to raise upto Rs 15,000 crorethrough FPO; offer toopen on Jul 15NEW DELHI: Private sector lenderYes Bank on Thursday said it has fileda red herring prospectus to raise up toRs 15,000 crore through issuance offresh equity shares in its further publicoffering (FPO). The offer will open onJuly 15, 2020 and close on July 17,2020. Earlier this week Yes Bank hadreceived approval from the capital-raising committee (CRC) of its boardof directors to raise funds through theoffering. "The bank has filed a redherring prospectus dated July 7, 2020(RHP), in connection with the offer,with the Registrar of Companies,Maharashtra at Mumbai," Yes Banksaid in a regulatory filing. Yes banksaid the offer size of the FPO is Rs15,000 crore, by way of a fresh issueof equity shares, including anemployee reservation portion of up toRs 200 crore. The executivecommittee of State Bank of India'scentral board has given approval for amaximum investment of up to Rs1,760 crore in the FPO of Yes Bank,an SBI statement said on Wednesday.On March 13, the government hadapproved a bailout plan for Yes Bank.Under the plan, Yes Bank hadreceived around Rs 10,000 crore fromeight financial institutions, including Rs6,050 crore from SBI. On Tuesday,Yes Bank had said a meeting of theCRC of the bank is scheduled to beheld on or after July 10, 2020, toconsider and approve, amongst otherthings, the price band and discount, ifany. Shares of Yes Bank were trading2.49 per cent higher at Rs 26.75apiece on BSE.

Hitachi ABB Power Gridswins Rs 120 crore orderfor Indian RailwayselectrificationBENGALURU: In an order worth Rs120 crore, Hitachi ABB Power GridsIndia will be delivering its transformersto the government's ChittaranjanLocomotive Works (CLW) for theproduction of 400 passenger andfreight locomotive engines. HitachiABB Power Grids said it continues tocontribute to the country's mission tobe the world's first net-zero carbonemitter by the end of the decade. "Theorder from CLW is a prestigious onefor Hitachi ABB Power Grids. Itstrengthens a two-decades-longpartnership with the customer andenables us to contribute further toIndia's mission to advance theeconomy in a responsible manner,"said N Venu, Managing Director ofHitachi ABB Power Grids India."Railways are the backbone ofenvironmentally-sustainable transportand our pioneering technology willhelp successfully balance energyexpansion with the reduction ofemissions," he said in a statement onThursday. For Railways, electricenergy is supplied as high voltage tothe catenary feeder substations. Thetransformers reduce the voltage to asuitable level before feeding it to therailway catenary conductors used bylocomotives. Different railwayelectrification systems demanddifferent kinds of transformers. Forthis project, Hitachi ABB Power GridsIndia is delivering transformers splitbetween the 6,531 kilo-voltampere(kVA) for CLW's goods locomotiveengines and the 7,775 kVA forpassenger. These transformers feedpower to essential train functions(traction, lighting, heating andventilation, brakes, signalling andcommunication). They are a criticallink in the traction chain, drivingtrain performance and operatorservices. Hitachi ABB Power Gridsemploys around 36,000 people in 90countries. Headquartered inSwitzerland, the business servesutility, industry and infrastructurecustomers across the value chain,and emerging areas like sustainablemobility, smart cities, energy storageand data centres.

Flipkart picks up minoritystake in Arvind Youth Brandfor Rs 260 croreBENGALURU: E-commercemarketplace Flipkart on Thursdayannounced an investment of Rs 260crore to pick up a minority stake inArvind Fashions recently-formedsubsidiary Arvind Youth Brands whichowns the Flying Machine brand.Through the investment, the FlipkartGroup and Arvind Fashions will workcollaboratively to identifyopportunities and synergies toinnovate and develop products withstrong value propositions at attractiveprice points. "Flying Machine is abrand that is known in householdsacross India, popular with the youthand synonymous with value andstyle," said Kalyan Krishnamurthy,Chief Executive Officer of FlipkartGroup. "Through this investment, welook forward to partnering with theteam at Arvind Youth Brands tocontinue to grow the market for itsportfolio of products and enhance thestrong brand equity that has beenbuilt over the last few decades," hesaid in a statement. The transactionis subject to customary conditionsprecedent. Metta Capital Advisorsacted as the financial advisors toArvind Fashions for the transaction.Arvind Fashions is India's leadingcasual and denim player, a lifestylepowerhouse with a strong portfolio offashion brands catering to consumersacross sub-categories and pricepoints.

BHEL commissions first solar PV plant forrail traction applicationNEW DELHI: Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) has successfullycommissioned a 1.7-megawatt solar photovoltaic plant at Bina in MadhyaPradesh for the Indian Railways. The plant will directly feed power to tractionsystems of Indian Railways. BHEL said the project is a landmark achievementas this is the first time that solar power is being directly used for tractionapplications. The project was installed and commissioned in four-and-a-halfmonths from the date of the joint land survey with Indian Railways for the Binalocation. "The project is a unique example of the joint working of IndianRailways and BHEL in the field of rail transportation. This development marksa major step of merging the advantages of renewable energy in the railwaysector in an unprecedented way," said BHEL in a statement on Thursday.

Sensex rallies 409 pts;Nifty tops 10,800-level

AGENCYMUMBAI, JUL 9

Resuming its upmove after a day'sbreather, equity benchmark Sensexrallied 409 points on Thursday,tracking gains in index-heavyweights HDFC twins andReliance Industries amid positivecues from overseas markets.

After touching a peak of36,806.30 during the day, the 30-share index settled 408.68 points, or1.12 per cent, higher at 36,737.69.

The NSE Nifty jumped 107.70points, or 1.01 per cent, to finish at10,813.45.

Bajaj Finance was the top gainerin the Sensex pack, spurting around4 per cent, followed by SBI, TataSteel, HDFC, Bajaj Finserv, HCLTech and M&M.

On the other hand, ONGC, TechMahindra, TCS, HUL and Marutiwere among the laggards. Accordingto Narendra Solanki, Head- EquityResearch (Fundamental), AnandRathi, Indian markets opened on apositive note following upbeat Asiancues as positive economic data fromChina added to the momentum.

During afternoon session, thebenchmarks scaled crucial levels assentiments remained firm, he added.Bourses in Shanghai, Hong Kong,Tokyo and Seoul ended

with significant gains. Stockexchanges in Europe too opened ona positive note.

Meanwhile, international oilbenchmark Brent crude futures

inched up 0.05 per cent to USD43.31 per barrel.

On the currency front, the rupeesettled 3 paise higher at 74.99against the US dollar.

Rupee ends at 74.99 against USDMUMBAI: The Indian National Rupee (INR) on Thursday rosemarginally by two paise against the US Dollor to close at 74.99, on sellingof US Dollar by bankers and exporters, dealers at the Forex Market said onThursday. After declining by eight paise on Wednesday, the INR moved upby six paise to reach a high of 74.95 during during early trade, the rupeefinally settled at 74.99, up by two paise as compared to its last closing. Therupee registered an intra day high and low of 75.05 and 74.93 respectivelyagainst the US dollar. The Rupee's recovery is attributed to a weak Dollaras against other world currencies, and rebounding of the equity market.

Tata Steel reports steep fall in Q1production, sales due to COVID-19AGENCYMUMBAI, JULY 9

Tata Steel said on Thursdayits production and salesvolumes in the first quarterended March were lower asthe outbreak of COVID-19and ensuing mobilityrestrictions severallyimpacted industrial activityand consumer sentimentacross all geographies. Theproduction volumes in Indiafell to 2.99 million tonnes inQ1 FY21 from 4.5 milliontonnes in Q1 FY20, in Europeto 2.14 million tonnes from2.65 million tonnes and insoutheast Asia to 0.39 milliontonnes from 0.57 milliontonnes. On the other hand,sales volumes in India weredown to 2.92 million tonnesfrom 3.96 million tonnes inQ1FY20, in Europe to 1.94million tonnes from 2.26million tonnes and insoutheast Asia to 0.42 milliontonnes from 0.62 milliontonnes. In India, capacityutilisation of upstreamfacilities was adjusted toabout 50 per cent level inApril while downstream unitswere closed. "With thephased opening of theeconomy, utilisation levelshave been ramped upgradually to around 80 percent level by end of June.Downstream facilities havealso been restarted and are

being ramped upprogressively, the companysaid in a statement. Tocounter the closure of theIndian markets in April andMay, exports were ramped upsignificantly by tapping newmarkets and improving thesupply chain capability andwill constitute around 50 percent of total sales volume inQ1 FY21. While April andMay sales were lower, salesimproved significantly inJune as economic activityresumed in India. With thecontinued opening of theeconomy and theimprovement in domesticdemand, the proportion ofdomestic sales will increasefrom Q2. While urbanmarkets are showing slowrecovery, retail sales --especially in rural markets --are seeing an improvement indemand. The company said

while Europe did not imposea complete lockdown, theweak macroeconomicsituation was furtherimpacted by the Covid-19outbreak. In line with thisenvironment, productionlevels in Europe were rampeddown to around 70 per centutilisation. Key steel-consuming sectors such asautomotive and constructionsector continue to be underpressure though the demandfor packaging material hasbeen robust. "Tata Steel isclosely monitoring thesituation and takingappropriate actions as per thedirections issued by theregulatory authorities fromtime to time keeping in viewthe health and safety of itsemployees and thecommunity and the interestsof its customers and otherstakeholders," it said.

No restrictions on Indian passport renewalapplications in Abu Dhabi from July 15

ABU DHABI, JULY 9

The Indian Embassy here onWednesday said it hasdecided to remove allrestrictions on passportrenewal applications to besubmitted at BLSInternational Centres witheffect from July 15.

The embassy said that itwill enable concernedapplicants to avail passportrenewal service as waspracticed earlier. Thepassport services weresuspended in the wake of theCOVID-19 outbreak and atemporary ban oninternational arrivals in India.

"Keeping in view ofrecent relaxation inrestrictions relating to Covid-19 pandemic beingimplemented by UAE

Authorities, the Embassy ofIndia, Abu Dhabi, further toour advisory dated June 21,2020, has decided to removeall restrictions on passportrenewal applications to besubmitted at BLSInternational centres w.e.f15,072020 (Wednesday)thereby enabling theconcerned applicants to avail

passport renewal service aswas practiced earlier to ourfirst advisory in this regarddated March 19, 2020," anadvisory by the embassyread. However, the Embassysaid that its advisory datedJune 17 conveying relaxationby exempting the physicalpresence of senior citizen(above 60 years), minor

children (below 12 years),pregnant women anddifferently abled applicantsat the time of the submissionof passport application maycontinue till furtherimprovement in the situation.

"All applicant arerequested to continue tomaintain appropriate socialdistancing norms inaccordance with local rulesand regulations and wearface masks and hand gloveswhile visiting BLS centres inAbu Dhabi and Al Ain," theembassy said.

Last month, BLSInternational, the outsourcedagency providing Indian visaand passport applicationprocessing services, hasstarted an online appointmentbooking system at all 10centres.

After India, Australia to ban TikTok over data security threatAGENCYSYDNEY, JULY 9

Following India and the US,several Australian legislatorsare proposing to ban TikTok asthey too fear the app was beingused by the Chinesegovernment to collect users'data, reported the South China

Morning Post.Recently, Liberal Senator

Jim Molan said TikTok wasbeing "used and abused" by theChinese government. LaborSenator Jenny McAllister hasreportedly demanded theTikTok's representatives to facethe Select Committee onForeign Interference through

Social Media.While TikTok continues to

refute the allegations, the movehas sparked questions on

whether China can really getaccess to users' data fromTikTok?

The South China MorningPost reported that though theTikTok owner ByteDance haveconstantly claimed that its datais stored in servers in the USand Singapore but it is not adifficult task for the Chinese

government to get access to thedata. In January, the companywas reported as saying: "Youshould understand that no datastorage system or transmissionof data over the Internet or anyother public network can beguaranteed to be 100 per centsecure."

Further, if a TikTok user

decides to delete their contentfrom their device, or even acertain country's governmentimposes a ban on the app, thedata would not beretrospectively erased. It isbecause once the information istransferred, it is impossible toretract without the help of thecompany.

UN Council rejects Russia bid to limit Syrian aid deliveriesUNITED NATIONS, JUL 9

The UN Security Council onWednesday overwhelminglyrejected a Russian resolutionthat would have cut back thedelivery of humanitarian aid toSyria's mainly rebel-held

northwest to just one crossingpoint from Turkey. Westerncountries that voted against theresolution have insisted onkeeping the two currentcrossings from Turkey, withstrong backing from UNSecretary-General Antonio Guterres and humanitarian

groups. UN humanitarian chiefMark Lowcock has called thetwo crossings from Turkey alifeline for millions of civilianswhom the UN cannot reach byother means. The Russianresolution needed a minimumof nine yes votes in the 15-

member council for approval,but Moscow got support fromonly three other countriesChina, Vietnam and SouthAfrica. Its failure to get the ninevotes meant the US, UK andFrance didn't need to considerusing their veto.

Amid rising COVID-19 cases in US, airlinesbook flights to full capacity: Senator

WASHINGTON, JULY 9

As per the latest update by the JohnsHopkins University, a total of 3,055,004people in the US have tested positive forcoronavirus and 132,309 deaths havebeen reported so far. However, severalUS airline continues to violate the socialdistancing norms by booking flights tofull capacity. Recently, Senator JeffMerkley revealed American Airlines ofviolating social distancing norms bybooking flights to capacity.

"@AmericanAir: how manyAmericans will die because you fillmiddle seats, with your customersshoulder to shoulder, hour after hour.This is incredibly irresponsible. Peopleeat and drink on planes and must takeoff masks to do so. No way you aren'tfacilitating spread of COVIDinfections," Merkley tweeted.

"They're breathing inches from yourown nose and mouth, they're taking offtheir mask to eat or to drink," he wasquoted as saying to The Washington

Post. "It feels like a pretty high-risksituation." His tweets drew criticismsagainst the airlines violating the socialdistancing norms. Several Twitter userseven questioned why members of thegovernment like Merkley could not takeany action in the matter. Later in atweet, the Senator said, "A lot of folksreacted to my tweet yesterday about theirresponsible sale of middle seats onplanes saying, "Wouldn't it be nice ifsomeone in the Senate did somethingabout it? " "I will introduce a Bill to banthe sale of middle seats through thispandemic. And I'll work with colleaguesto include it in a package of airlineaccountability reforms they arecrafting," he added.

Heavy rain hits sceniccentral Japan, more

damage in southTOKYO, JUL 9

Flooding and mudslides have stranded hundreds ofpeople in scenic hot springs and hiking areas incentral Japan, while rescue workers searched onThursday for more people missing in the disasterthat already has killed nearly 60 people in asouthern region. Parts of Nagano and Gifu,including areas known for scenic mountain trailsand hot springs, have been flooded by massivedownpours. More than 300 people, including hotelemployees and visitors, were trapped inKamikochi, as floods and mudslides hit a mainroad connecting the town to Matsumoto, anothertourist destination in Nagano. All of the strandedpeople were safe, prefectural officials said.

In neighbouring Gifu, hundreds were alsoisolated in the hot spring towns of Gero andOntake. As of Thursday morning, the death tollfrom the heavy rains which started over theweekend had risen to 59, most of them fromhardest-hit Kumamoto prefecture on Japan's thirdlargest island of Kyushu. Searching continued for14 still missing in Kumamoto. Hundreds ofthousands of people were in areas underevacuation advisories, but leaving wasn'tmandatory and the number who sought shelter wasnot known. Japan is at high risk of heavy rain inearly summer when wet and warm air from theEast China Sea flows into a seasonal rain frontabove the country.

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FIRST TEST, DAY 2England name 24-man training groupfor Ireland seriesLONDON: England National CricketSelectors on Thursday picked a 24-member 'behind-closed-doors train-ing group' for the upcoming ODI se-ries against Ireland.The group will go into camp at theAgeas Bowl on July 16 with thethree-match ODI series against Ire-land set to start on July 30. PatBrown (back), Chris Jordan (rightarm) and Dawid Malan (right calf)were not considered for selectiondue to injury.The group, along with a separatewhite-ball management team, willlive, prepare and train on-site at theAgeas Bowl. Two intra-group warm-up matches will take place on July21 and July 24. A final Englandsquad for the Ireland series, plus anumber of reserves, will be namedat a later date.Behind-Closed-Doors ODI TrainingGroup: Eoin Morgan (captain),Moeen Ali, Jonathan Bairstow, TomBanton, Sam Billings, HenryBrookes, Brydon Carse, Tom Cur-ran, Liam Dawson, Ben Duckett,Laurie Evans, Richard Gleeson,Lewis Gregory, Sam Hain, TomHelm, Liam Livingstone, Saqib Mah-mood, Matthew Parkinson, AdilRashid, Jason Roy, Phil Salt, ReeceTopley, James Vince, David Willey.National Selector Ed Smith saidthey have a "real depth" in thesquad and look forward to hostingIreland for the series."Even with several multi-formatplayers unavailable for the IrelandODIs due to their Test commit-ments, there is real depth to Eng-land's white ball-playing talent,"Smith said in a statement."Again, everyone at England cricketwould like to thank all the countycoaches and support staff who havehelped these players in the lead upto the behind-closed-doors trainingcamp. We now look forward to host-ing Ireland and continuing to devel-op our white ball strength in depth,"he added.

Greenwood is thebest finisher: Phil FodenMANCHESTER : Manchester City'sPhil Foden praised ManchesterUnited's midfielder Mason Green-wood, saying the Reds teenager isthe best finisher he has ever seen.The 18-year-old has played a vitalrole in the Red Devils' latest victo-ries against Brighton andBournemouth, scoring three goalsand registering an assist over thetwo matches."Mason Greenwood, the best I'veseen finishing wise. He's both foot-ed. In and around the box, he's al-ways going to score," Foden toldPremier League Uncut on their offi-cial YouTube channel."High up finishing wise (comparedto Sergio Aguero). For his age, he'sunbelievable. I don't know how hedoes it, to be honest. Just the righttype of shot, you know what I mean.He knows when to finesse or lace itand he shoots quick, the keeper isnever stable or set," he added.The attacker has netted 15 times in41 appearances in all competitionsthis season.Greenwood is not the only player toearn Foden's praises, as he singledout Chelsea winger Callum Hudson-Odoi for his dribbling skills and hisBlues team-mate Reece James."He's rapid. I've played with him be-fore. He's a talented player and he'squick off the mark. He uses it well.Callum is very good at dribbling, tobe honest. One vs ones, out wide inthose areas, he's unbelievable," hesaid.

DPL likely to resumeamid COVID-19threatDHAKA: The Dhaka PremierLeague's 2019-20 season will likelyto resume at two specific hubs amidCOVID-19 pandemic, as discussedin a virtual meeting between theBangladesh Cricket Board (BCB)and several Bangladeshi cricketersand the players' association.Kazi Inam Ahmed, chairman of thecricket committee of the Dhaka Me-tropolis team, said that there hasbeen an attempt to ensure that theboard, the clubs and the players re-main prepared to resume the leaguein two-weeks' notice, whenever thatmight be."Players want to get back to playingbut the BCB has to decide after talk-ing to different government bodiesand agencies. We cannot mention aparticular date because we haven'treached that stage yet. But I wantthe clubs to be prepared for a two-weeks' notice. The same goes forplayers and our facilities. We haveto get things in order now so that wecan turn things around in a shorttime," ESPNcricinfo quoted Ahmedas saying.

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AGENCYNEW DELHI, JUL 9

Legendary Indian skipper Mithali Rajfeels the COVID-19 forced break mayhave pushed back the growth ofwomen's cricket by at least two years.

Mithali, Indian women's ODI cap-tain and the world's highest run-getter in50-over cricket, also said that a full-fledged women's IPL is still at least threeyears away although a fourth team canbe added for the Challenger series.

"Unfortunately, women's cricketmay have been set back by a couple ofyears by this pandemic as some of themomentum that had been built betweenIndia's success in World Cup 2017 andWorld T20 2020 has been lost," the 37-year-old Raj said during a webinar.

She was speaking at the 'Re-Settingthe Sports Ecosystem: Opportunities inThe New Normal World' at FICCI

FRAMES.Mithali said that she had had talks

with the BCCI brass with regards to a

dedicated calendar for the women's na-tional team.

"However, we have had discussionswith BCCI to draw up a firm calendarfor the Indian women's team so that fanscan regularly cheer for the team.

"The plans have obviously been dis-rupted but we believe we can re-buildquickly. I think a full-fledged Women'sIPL is still 2-3 years away but we wouldcertainly look to have a fourth team inthe Women's Challenge that is playedconcurrently with the IPL," said one ofthe game's icons.

During the webinar, DG (SAI)Sandip Pradhan said that the emphasiswill be to present India's indigenoussports in a new avatar, which will "fur-ther open up opportunities for Indianstart-ups".

Pradhan spoke about re-setting thepriorities.

"Being physical while leveragingdigital is the new normal, so we need tore-set, re-invent and re-work our priori-ties.

"The SAI is organizing several on-line sports classes in association with theNational Sporting Federations, whichincludes interactive sessions with youngathletes about their techniques and howto develop their overall physical skillsand mental abilities."

The IOA president Narinder Batrasaid, "Corporates must adopt at least oneIndian sport and broadcasters must allo-cate considerable time to promote them.

"Companies must realize that thewave of one athlete performing well canindirectly impact lakhs of others."

COVID-19 may have pushed back growth of cricket: Mithali

AGENCYSOUTHAMPTON, JUL 9

The West Indian skipper Jason holderpierced through the English batting or-der on the second day of first teast beingplayed here . The hosts were bowled outfor 204 in 67.3 overs. Holder claimed sixwickets whereas Gabriel claimed 4wickets. The English batsmen lookeduncomfortable fron the beginning of dayand could not able to resist the West In-

dian pace attack. They lost wickets afterregular intervals. Stokes was the highestscorer from England team. He con-tributed 43 followed by Butller(35).Burns made 31. Jason Holder bowled 20overs and showed his full faith on hismate Gabriel.

Earlier the decision of stand-in Eng-land captain Ben Stokes to bat first underforecast overcast skies was looking mis-guided as the top order struggled to dealwith the pace and seam movement of

Shannon Gabriel (3-38) and Jason Hold-er (2-24). It could have been much worsefor England, too, with Stokes dropped bya diving Kemar Roach at long leg min-utes before lunch when the score was 89-5. After England resumed on 35-1,Gabriel bowled Joe Denly for 18 andthen sent another full delivery down thattrapped Rory Burns (30) in front of thestumps. A not-out decision was given bythe on-field umpire but that was reversedon review, with Hawk-Eye having the

ball hitting leg stump. By that stage,Gabriel had removed England's top threefor figures of 3-34.

Holder replaced his strike bowler af-ter a five-over stint and was just as ef-fective, despite bowling slightly shorterand slower. The captain generatedenough movement to deceive Zak Craw-ley (10) as the batsman fell away andmissed the ball, clipping his pad with hisbat instead. Again, the umpire said notout but a review again showed the ball

hitting leg. Ollie Pope hit a beautifuldrive through the covers for four but wasout soon after, edging Holder behind af-ter more seam movement off a shorterball that Pope could have left because ofits height. An almost perfect morning forWest Indies, played in eerie silence be-cause of the absence of spectators due tothe coronavirus pandemic, was spoiledby the spilled catch by Roach as he racedin off the boundary to reach a miscuedpull by Stokes.

Holder derails English batting

Asia Cup 2020 postponeddue to COVID-19 pandemicAGENCYDUBAI, JULY 9

The Asian Cricket Council(ACC) on Thursday an-nounced the postponement ofthe Asia Cup 2020 due to thecoronavirus pandemic.

In a statement, ACC saidthat its Executive Board meton multiple occasions to eval-uate the impact of theCOVID-19 pandemic on theAsia Cup tournament whichwas scheduled to take place inSeptember this year.

"From the onset theBoard was keen on organis-ing the tournament as per theoriginal schedule. However,travel restrictions, country-specific quarantine require-ments, fundamental healthrisks and social distancingmandates have posed as sub-stantial challenges to theholding of the Asia Cup," thestatement read.

"Above all, the risks re-lated to health and safety ofparticipating players, supportstaff, commercial partners,

fans and the cricketing com-munity were deemed to besignificant. Accordingly, theBoard, after careful consider-ation of all the above factors,has determined that the AsiaCup 2020 be postponed," itadded.

ACC further stated thatconducting the event in a re-sponsible manner remainstheir priority and the Board ishopeful that the tournamentwill be held in 2021. "The

ACC is currently working to-wards securing June 2021 asa suitable window for thesame," it said.

ACC then added thatPakistan Cricket Board(PCB) has exchanged hostingrights for the tournament withSri Lanka Cricket (SLC) andconsequently, SLC will nowhost the rescheduled AsiaCup expected in June 2021while the PCB will host theAsia Cup 2022.

AGENCYBRIGHTON, JULY 9

After scoring a brace againstBrighton, Liverpool's MohamedSalah has joined a trio of Liverpoollegends in a prestigious club. TheEgypt international scored twice asthe Premier League champions de-feated Brighton 2-1 in the ongoingPremier League. Salah has also nowreached 100 goal involvements forLiverpool in the Premier League,tallying 73 goals and 27 assists toachieve the feat in only 104 appear-ances, Goal.com reported.

In the 2019-20 season, Salah has

scripted nine assists, only behindteammate Trent Alexander-Arnoldand Manchester City's Kevin DeBruyne. In the match against

Brighton, Liverpool, who has al-ready secured the Premier Leaguetitle, got its first goal in the sixthminute of the match as Salah regis-tered the strike.

Two minutes later, Jordon Hen-derson increased the lead for Liver-pool as he registered the second goalfor the Reds.

After managing to hang on inthe first half, Brighton was able topeg one goal back just before thehalf time as Leandro Trossard regis-tered the strike, bringing the score-line to 1-2. The ball possession wasmaintained by Liverpool in the sec-ond half.

Salah registers 100 goalinvolvement for Liverpool

AGENCYNEW DELHI, JULY 9

As the international cricket re-turned to action on Wednesday, In-dian cricketers Rohit Sharma andAjinkya Rahane expressed theirdesire to get back on the field and

resume cricket."So nice to see that cricket is

back! Good luck to both theteams! Can't wait to get back onthe field again #ENGvWI," Ra-hane tweeted.

On the other hand, Sharmawrote: "Cricket is back Positive

scenes coming out from UK. Sogood to finally see some cricketbeing played. Wishing both teamsthe best. Can't wait to be out theremyself #EngVsWI." A Test matchbetween England and West Indiesmarked the resumption of interna-tional cricket.

Rohit, Rahane eagerly waiting to get backon field as international cricket resumes