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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
says they’ll allow many employees
to work from home permanently,
but they may not be able to keep
their big Silicon Valley salaries in
more affordable parts of country
In 8th straight cut, RBI slashes key
rate 40 basis pts to new all-time low
Moratorium On
Repayments
Extended 3 Mths
Mayur.Shetty@timesgroup.com
Mumbai: The Reserve Bank
of India (RBI) on Friday
unexpectedly cut key interest
rates by 40 basis points (100
basis points equal a percenta-
ge point) to a new low of 4%,
citing an assessment of a
GDP contraction in the cur-
rent fiscal year, amidst a “do-
uble whammy” of loss of pro-
duction as well as demand,
while expecting inflation to
harden during the first half
FULL COVERAGE: P 17
of the current financial year.
The eight straight reduc-
tion in repo rate — at which
RBI lends to banks — came at
least two weeks ahead of the
scheduled monetary policy
review. It’s the second “off-cy-
cle” rate cut by RBI, which ad-
vanced its June monetary po-
licy committee meeting to
May 20-22. It also allowed
lenders to extend an ongoing
moratorium on loan repay-
ment by another three mo-
nths to August 31.
‘Further reduction’, P 17
LOCKDOWN
DAY
60
5 migrants die
in 2 separate
accidents in UP
F ive migrant workers were
killed in two separate ac-
cidents in Uttar Pradesh on
Friday. Two died after a con-
tainer turned turtle on near
Bulandshahr, while three
were killed in Mirzapur.
Hotels, eateries
to open in K’taka?
K arnataka tourism mini-
ster CT Ravi said Friday
there could be “chaos” if hot-
els and restaurants didn’t op-
en coinciding with resumpt-
ion of flights Monday. P 11
Govt reply on PIL
on Zoom sought
T he SC sought the Cent-
re’s response to a PIL se-
eking a security audit of Zo-
om video application, fea-
ring it was posing a threat to
data security. P 14
OTHER TOP STORIES
China told India
about HK law
I n a bid to soften criticism,
China briefed key nations,
including India, before brin-
ging a tough national secu-
rity law for Hong Kong,
which Beijing says is to curb
secessionist sentiments. P 10
Burglar rapes
Jangpura woman
A burglar barged into a
house in Delhi’s Jang-
pura late on Sunday, and
then assaulted and raped a
woman when she refused to
give her ATM PIN. P 5
Sugar mills in
UP record their
highest output
E ven as most industries
had to go into lock-
down, UP’s sugar mills
went full throttle to produ-
ce 123 lakh tonnes of sugar
in this crushing season,
recording their highest
ever output, which is also
a record production by
any state, reports Pankaj
Shah. The output is all set
to increase as 39 of the 119
sugar mills are still run-
ning as nearly 10 more da-
ys are left in this crushing
season. Significantly, the
national production of su-
gar in this season fell by
nearly 62 lakh tonnes. P 10
Repo Rate
Cut To Lowest
5 8.8%
4% 4.4%
Current After
75bps
cut on
0
Mar 27
This is the 8th
successive rate cut,
with the repo rate
falling 2.5 percentage
points from 6.5% in
Aug 2018
Home loan rates set to fall to 15-yr low
Prabhakar.Sinha
@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: The RBI’s anno-
uncement of a cut in interest
rates is good news for home
loan borrowers with a secure
income, as interest rates in
this category will come down
by 40 basis points. This is the
lowest level in over 15 years.
Also, borrowers who are
facing income uncertainty
BCCI moves SC
for full 3-yr terms
for Sourav, Shah
Dhananjay.Mahapatra
@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: The BCCI has
moved the Supreme Court
seeking important changes
in its constitution that wo-
uld allow president Sourav
Ganguly and secretary Jay
Shah to complete their
three-year terms by duck-
ing the three-year cooling-
off period prescribed by the
Justice Lodha panel, appli-
cable to both from July and
June, respectively.
In the application filed
by treasurer Arun Singh
Dhumal, the BCCI said the-
se changes were approved
at the AGM on December 1
last year and it was seeking
leave of the SC to imple-
ment them by changing the
board’s constitution.
‘Criminal offence’, P 18
Covid coaches
to be redone
for Shramik Spl
Dipak Dash & Neha Shukla
New Delhi/Lucknow: Rail-
ways has decided to reconve-
rt around 3,200 sleeper and
general coaches, which were
turned into isolation ones
for Covid-19 patients, for use
in Shramik Special trains.
There are hardly any ta-
kers for the coaches and the-
re is demand for coaches as
railways resume trains with
AC and non-AC coaches.
In a communication on
Thursday, the Railway Boa-
rd said, “60% of isolation
coaches meant for interven-
tion of Covid-19 cases, may
be utilised for running of
Shramik Specials.”
More spl trains, P 18
Healthy elderly can fly; Aarogya
app not must for air travel: Puri
Saurabh.Sinha
@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: The Centre itera-
ted on Friday that domestic
flights to all places would re-
sume from Monday, despite
resistance from Tamil Nadu
and Maharashtra, and ter-
med as “impractical” calls for
quarantining domestic flyers
after they disembark.
Aviation minister Hardeep
Singh Puri said the healthy el-
derly wouldn’t be stopped from
flying and the use of Aarogya
Setu App was preferable, but
not mandatory, for air travel.
Airlines opened bookings
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The government of Dubai
prepares to open a new free
trade zone for e-commerce
named “Dubai Commercity”,
which will provide a base
for online retailers
Rate To
Consumer
Rate To
Industry
Current
A Year Ago
8.6%
7.5 %
7.4%
Cut to
from 8.4%
a year ago
(SBI one-year
marginal cost of
HDFC lowest SBI lowest
home loan rate rate lending)
Rate cuts not been fully Weighted average
passed on because lending rate on new
banks have increased rupee loans has fallen
gap between lending 114 basis points since
and deposit rates Feb 2019 —by 43 points
(called spread) in March 2020 alone
because of the Covid-19 lock-
down can avail of an additio-
nal three-month moratorium
to get their finances in order.
Those borrowers who ha-
ve not availed of a moratori-
um so far but are now facing
income pressure can still de-
fer their repayments for
three months. For a loan of Rs
30 lakh with a remaining ma-
turity of 15 years, the net ad-
ditional interest would be
PM announces `1,000cr
aid for Bengal; toll at 86
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Kolkata/New Delhi/Bhuba-
neswar: PM Narendra Modi
on Friday announced interim
assistance of Rs 1,000 crore to
West Bengal and Rs 500 crore to
Odisha after an aerial survey
of the devastation wrought by
cyclone Amphan, especially in
south Bengal, where the death
toll was revised to 86 after ag-
encies were able to reach areas
inaccessible for two days.
On his first trip outside
Delhi since the lockdown
started in March, Modi said
the loss of lives, homesteads,
infrastructure and standing
crops were a double whammy
for Bengal after being hit
hard by the Covid-19 pande-
mic. “However, West Bengal,
under Mamata ji, has tried to
fight strongly,” the PM said.
‘Twin challenges’, P 18
Stimulus package a
‘cruel joke’, says oppn
Subodh.Ghildiyal
@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: Accusing the Mo-
di government of “failure” in
tackling the Covid-19 pande-
mic and indulging in “mea-
ningless grand announce-
ments”, the opposition on Fri-
day termed the Rs 20 lakh crore
stimulus package as a “cruel
Uddhav says next 15
days are crucial, P 18
joke on the country” and de-
manded the Centre come out
with a revised stimulus that
would stimulate demand.
The opposition meeting
convened by Congress chief
Sonia Gandhi warned that the
post-Covid economic crisis co-
uld be catastrophic. It also ac-
QUARANTINE PROTOCOL ON LANDING
KERALA: 14 days at home
HARYANA: Gurgaon admin
insists on 14 days at home
ASSAM: 7 days institutional,
7 days at home
UP: 14 days at home
ANDHRA: 14 days at home
UTTARAKHAND: 10 days in govt
from Thursday after DGCA ok-
ayed a schedule of 8,216 weekly
domestic flights from Monday,
a third of the original summer
number of 24,643. All airlines
are taking bookings for travel
Over 5.1m cases reported worldwide,
including over 333,000 deaths. The US makes
up more than 1.5 million of those cases. Brazil
has become third worst-hit country, with its
biggest single-day toll on Thursday: 1,181
All borrowers
can opt for a
moratorium
Credit bureaus
can’t lower
credit score of
7.25 % those opting for
moratorium
Banks likely to
follow SBI and
cut interest
rate on savings
accounts
approximately Rs 2.34 lakh —
equal to eight equated month-
ly instalments (EMIs).
A part of this burden co-
uld come down because of the
reduction in interest rates.
For existing borrowers,
SBI’s interest rates on home
loan up to Rs 30 lakh will auto-
matically come down to 7%
from the existing 7.4%.
HDFC cuts rate, P 17
PM Modi expressed solidarity with
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee
Kin unable to retrieve
floating bodies in Kol
A mphan left 19 dead in Kol-
kata, 11 of whom were elec-
trocuted. These bodies were fo-
und floating for hours on the
waterlogged streets with no
one—not even family member-
s—able to retrieve them for fe-
ar of being electrocuted. P18
11 DEMANDS INCLUDE:
➤ 7,500 for 6 months to
families outside tax bracket
➤ 10kg foodgrains for same
period to needy families
➤ Reversal of all unilateral
policy decisions
➤ Release substantial
funds to states
➤ Spell out if govt has a
lockdown exit strategy
cused the Centre of “unabas-
hedly” usurping the powers of
states in the name of fighting
the pandemic. The 22 “like-
minded” parties also decided
to form a committee to chalk
out the protest plan for future.
‘Oppn negativism’, P 18
facility or hotel
GOA: Health minister
Vishwajit Rane wants
antibody testing of all
air passengers, has
written to ICMR
(Other states will decide
the protocol in the next
two days)
from May 25 except GoAir (Ju-
ne 1). Till 5 pm on Friday, over 1
lakh tickets were sold, 60,000
by market leader IndiGo alone.
‘Anxiety unfounded’, P 14
Scientists at Oxford University
have announced that they aim
to immunise 10,260 people
across Britain, including older
people and children, with
their vaccine candidate
Photo: AP/PTI
GDP forecast to
contract for 1st
time in 41 years
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The Indian econ-
omy is expected to contract
for the first time in nearly 41
years, while the outlook for
inflation remains uncertain,
the RBI’s assessment of the
economic situation showed
on Friday.
“...GDP growth in 2020-21
is estimated to remain in neg-
ative territory, with some
pick-up in growth impulses
from H2: 2020-21 onward,”
said RBI governor Shakti-
kanta Das.
If the contraction as fore-
cast by RBI and also by other
economists is realised, it will
be the first contraction for
Asia’s third-largest economy
since 1979-80, when GDP
growth shrank 5.2%. Several
investment banks, brokerag-
es and economists have pre-
dicted the economic growth
to remain flat or contract in
the range of 1.5% to 6.8%.
IMF’s April estimate, howev-
er, showed that India and Chi-
na will be the only countries
to display growth, while the
rest will contract. P 17
Army chief
visits Ladakh,
reviews ops
A rmy chief General M M
Naravane visited Lada-
kh on Friday to review the
operational situation along
the border with China, whi-
ch has witnessed troop build-
ups after clashes, a day after
the government said it rema-
ined “deeply committed to
ensuring India’s security
and sovereignty”. Gen Nara-
vane reviewed “forward pos-
ture of Indian troops” and
the ground situation. P10
Govt eases rules
to facilitate
travel for OCIs
K ept in abeyance in view of
the prohibition on inter-
national air travel, the home
ministry on Friday restored
the right of multiple-entry,
life-long visa facility to cer-
tain categories of Overseas
Citizens of India (OCIs) to fa-
cilitate their travel to the co-
untry, reports Bharti Jain.
Sources said they shall be
eligible for boarding Vande
Bharat flights and ships fer-
rying Indians home. P 14
Migrants make
up 72% of Bihar’s
load since May 3
B ihar’s returning mig-
rant workers have acco-
unted for 72% of the cases
recorded in the past 20 days.
Also, the number of cases
has doubled in just one we-
ek to 2,166 from 1,000 on May
15. According to the Bihar
Health Society, 1,184 mig-
rants have tested positive
since May 3, of whom 333 re-
turned from Delhi, 293 from
Maharashtra and 212 came
backfrom Gujarat. P 11
Army’s worry:
Should masks
match uniforms?
T he armed forces are fa-
cing a confounding ques-
tion: Should explicit orders
be issued to ensure their per-
sonnel wear masks that mat-
ch their uniforms? Senior
Army, Navy and IAF officers
haven’t yet been seen in pub-
lic wearing ‘stars’ on their
masks, similar to the ones
worn on their collar tabs, to
denote their ranks, reports
Rajat Pandit. The Southern
Naval Command in Kochi
has asked its men to wear co-
lour-coordinated masks:
White masks with white uni-
forms and navy blue or black
with other uniforms. P 10
INDIA’S LARGEST ENGLISH NEWSPAPER
China abandons GDP target
this year due to the “great
uncertainty” of the pandemic. Also
hikes defence budget to $179bn,
nearly 3 times that of India
66 KILLED
AS PLANE
CRASHES
INTO
KARACHI
LOCALITY
Volunteers search for survivors after the Airbus A-320 crash | REPORT, P 14
➤ A Pakistan International
Airlines plane from Lahore
with 91 flyers & 8 crew
members “loses both
engines” to technical fault,
crashes into residential area
before landing in Karachi
660 new cases in
Delhi, 4th peak in 4
days; deaths top 200
DurgeshNandan.Jha
@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: Fresh Covid-19
cases in Delhi touched anot-
her new peak on Friday, the
fourth in as many days, with
660 infections added to the ci-
ty’s virus count, which cros-
sed the 12,000 mark.
With this, 2,263 infections
have been recorded in the
past four days, more than a
third of the 6,214 active cases
in the city, indicating a surge
in infections. The city’s death
toll crossed 200, with 14 fatali-
ties reported in Friday, taking
the total to 208.
Epidemiologists predict
there may be a further rise in
cases over the next few days,
as the epidemic curve of Co-
vid-19 in Delhi is still rising.
Delhi has so far recorded
12,319 Covid-19 cases, the fo-
urth highest in the country
after Maharashtra (44,582),
6,300+ new cases, nearly
3k from Maha; 140 deaths
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Indian states re-
ported 6,339 new Covid-19 ca-
ses on Friday — the fourth pe-
ak in daily cases in as many
days and the first time that
more than 6,000 infections we-
re recorded within 24 hours —
on the back of another explo-
sion of cases in Maharashtra,
where 2,940 more people tes-
ted positive for the virus, the
highest single-day increase in
any state so far.
India has recorded 1,23,081
corona infections, with near-
ly a third of all active cases ha-
ving been declared in the past
four days alone, when 22,794
cases were added to the count.
The Covid-19 toll on Friday
was 140, with 63 deaths in Ma-
harashtra, 29 in Gujarat and
14 reported in Delhi. Daily de-
aths have remained above 130
for six consecutive days.
The country crossed a po-
sitive milestone when the
number of people who have
recovered from the infection
crossed 50,000 on Friday.
TN nears 15k mark, P 18
19-yr-old bride walks
80km to get married
Faiz.Siddiqui@timesgroup.com
Kanpur: Coronavirus may
have postponed thousands
of weddings in the country,
but it has failed to deter a 19-
year-old girl from walking
80km to reach the groom’s
place to exchange vows.
Goldy, from Kanpur De-
hat, decided to defy her pa-
rents when they put off her
marriage with Virendra Ku-
mar Rathore, 23, from Kan-
nauj for a second time after
the extension of lockdown.
Her sudden appearance
took Rathore’s family by
surprise, but they welcomed
➤ A video shows the plane
on fire hitting a mobile
tower before skidding off
rooftops of several
buildings; 25 houses in
locality damaged, cars
parked on streets burned
Nine containment
zones added in city
N ine new areas — three in
central and six in south-
west districts — were turned
into containment zones on
Friday, taking the total num-
ber in the city to 86. P 3
Wholesale tomato,
onion prices crash
W holesale prices of toma-
to and onion have cras-
hed in the last few weeks at
the Azadpur Agricultural
Produce Auction Committe-
e’s auction yard. P 2
Tamil Nadu (14,753) and Guja-
rat (13,273). On the brighter si-
de, 5,897 patients (48%) have
recovered from the disease.
‘Scale up infra’, P 4
MAHA CASELOAD CLOSE TO 45K
5 Worst-Hit States
New Cases on Friday (Total cases)
Maharashtra
Tamil Nadu
2,940 (44,582)
786 (14,753)
Delhi 660 (12,273)
Gujarat 363 (13,273)
Rajasthan 267 (6,494)
*Source: State govts
80% cases from 5
states, says Centre
E ven as India saw yet anot-
her 24-hour peak, the
Centre said the lockdown
helped limit the concentra-
tion of cases to a few states
and cities — 80% reported in
five states and 60% from the
cities of Mumbai, Delhi,
Chennai, Ahmedabad and
Thane. “The confinement of
Covid-19 to certain areas has
been due to actions taken du-
ring the lockdown,” Niti
member V K Paul said. P 12
Wearing face masks, they
exchanged vows on Thursday
her and the wedding was so-
lemnised with the consent of
both sides, maintaining so-
cial distancing.
Survived on water, P 18
➤ At least 66 people perish,
but it’s not clear if all are
flyers; 25-30 residents of the
area are in hospital. Among
two flyers found alive till
Friday night is Bank of
Punjab chief Zafar Masud
City tax revenue
doubles in 1 mth
due to liquor
sale, VAT on fuel
Atul.Mathur @timesgroup.com
New Delhi: A partial ope-
ning of the economy and le-
vy of special corona fee on li-
quor has had a positive im-
pact in Delhi with tax reve-
nue going up by almost
double in the first three we-
eks of May compared with
last month. While the city go-
vernment had collected Rs
323 crore as tax till April 23,
the revenue in May has cros-
sed Rs 600 crore so far. Howe-
ver, this is about 20% of what
was earned in May 2019.
Earlier this month, the
government had levied 70%
special corona fee on the
MRP of liquor bottles. The
value added tax (VAT) on die-
sel and petrol was also revi-
sed to 30%. Earlier, VAT on
diesel was 16.75% and 27%
on petrol. This helped shore
up some revenue.
`
`100cr from liquor, P 2
‘LOCKDOWN LIMITED
THE SPREAD OF VIRUS’
60%
of all cases
from 5 cities —
Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai,
Ahmedabad, Thane
90% of infections in
10 states
80% of all deaths
from five
states – Maharashtra,
Gujarat, MP, Bengal, Delhi
*Data released by govt
May have averted
37k-78k deaths: Govt
T he government on Fri-
day presented various
models that indicated India
may have averted an estima-
ted 14-29 lakh Covid-19 cases
and 37,000-78,000 deaths by
going into lockdown. Niti
Aayog member V K Paul,
who also heads the national
taskforce on Covid-19 mana-
gement, said the restric-
tions had significantly re-
duced the speed at which the
virus was spreading. P 12
Centre mulls
funding stalled
Amrapali flats
I n a relief to around 46,000
Amrapali homebuyers,
the Centre on Friday told the
SC that it is considering step-
ping in to provide funds to fi-
nish the stalled housing pro-
jects. Amid a funds crunch
with cautious buyers not pa-
ying their dues of Rs 3,600
SC allows ED to attach
properties of JP Morgan
in Amrapali case, P 6
crore and the NBCC refusing
to invest money, the SC had
earlier asked the Centre to
consider using its real estate
stress fund for construction
of the delayed projects. P 6

Shaheen Bagh opens for trade — after a 5-month ‘lockdown’
Anam.Ajmal@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: The streets of Sha-
heen Bagh bore a deserted look
on Friday, two days after shops
in the neighbourhood reope-
ned following a gap of five
months. The road, which was
once a booming wholesale mar-
ket, had been shut completely
since December 16, when a
small group of women came
out of their homes and sat on
the road to Kalindi Kunj to pro-
test against the alleged police
brutality on the students of Ja-
mia Millia Islamia.
“Nearly 200 shops in the
market have been shut for the
past five months. Even by
conservative estimates, tra-
ders have collectively suffered
a loss of over Rs 200 crore. Tra-
ders in the country have lost
Techie hangs
self over share
market losses
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Noida: A 35-year-old software
engineer, who had allegedly
run into huge losses because
of the share market tanking
during the lockdown and had
significant debts to repay, was
found hanging from a ceiling
fan in his fifth floor flat at a
housing society.
Police were alerted around
11am. The techie lived in Gar-
denia Gateway in Sector 75.
Police said the techie’s wife
was making tea in the kitchen
when he locked himself up in
a room and hanged himself.
“His wife told us he would
remain upset due to excessive
financial burden and his
home loan. He had invest-
ments of around Rs 50 lakh in
the share market where he
faced huge losses,” said Sector
49 station officer Dharmen-
dra Sharma.
The techie’s wife is also
a software engineer. They
have a two-year-old son. Both
were working from home dur-
ing the lockdown, police
sources said.
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Delhi witnesses
hottest day of the
season so far with
mercury soaring
to 43.8 degrees 43.8°
MAXIMUM
Celsius | 3
FORECAST Partly cloudy sky with possibility of thunder
Max temp- 42 degrees Celsius, Minimum- 25
SUNRISE 5.26AM (SUN)
SUNSET 7.10PM (SAT)
hope after being closed for
just two months of the lock-
down,” said Rohit Sankhayan,
secretary of the Shaheen Bagh
Market Association.
The small group of women
had come out of their homes
shaken by the images of vio-
lence, resulting in a leaderless
movement against the Citi-
zenship Amendment Act
(CAA). Hundreds of other wo-
men, including outsiders, had
joined in, converting the site
into a 24x7 sit-in protest, inspi-
ring similar such ‘baghs’ all
over the country. Even the Su-
preme Court had intervened in
the issue, appointing special
interlocutors to convince the
women to open up the road as
the vital stretch connected Del-
hi to Noida.
The size of the gathering
Wholesale price of tomato down Covid pulls the chain:
to as low as `1/kg at Azadpur Metro loses `10cr/day
Atul.Mathur@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: With negligible
demand from hotels and res-
taurants and restricted entry
for retail buyers in the mandi
complex, the wholesale pric-
es of tomato and onion have
crashed drastically in the last
few weeks at the Azadpur Ag-
ricultural Produce Auction
Committee’s auction yard.
While tomato, which sold
at Rs 4- 20 per kilo at Azadpur,
Asia’s biggest vegetable and
fruit auction yard, last year,
was available for up to Rs 6
per kilo on Friday, onion was
selling Rs 2 to 9.5 per kilo. In
May 2019, onion sold at up to
Rs 13 per kilo in the wholesale
market though the prices
surged in the following
months after inclement weat-
her destroyed the crop.
The retail prices of both
the kitchen staple, however,
remained high with local
shopkeepers pocketing hig-
her profit margins.
Both onion and tomato,
otherwise, have a high de-
JOIN
Government of NCT of Delhi
TIMES CITY
23.7°
MINIMUM
THE TIMES OF INDIA, NEW DELHI | SATURDAY, MAY 23, 2020
300 shanties in Kirti
Nagar gutted, hundreds
MOONRISE 5.50AM (SAT)
MOONSET 8.45PM (SUN)
left homeless | 5
Sanjeev Rastogi
IN DIRE STATE: Traders of the area claim to have collectively suffered a loss of over `200 crore
Photo: Piyal Bhattacharjee
ners source vegetables dire-
PRICES Rates in
per kg
Wholesale
2020
Retail
Price 2020
Wholesale
2019
ctly from Azadpur, he said.
Gautam Bhatia, a vegeta-
HIT ROCK Tomato 1.2–6 20-32 4–20 ble exporter, said the supply
BOTTOM
of onion to Singapore, Mala-
Onion 2-9.5 22-30 2–13 ysia, Dubai and Sri Lanka
➤ Wholesale prices has dropped drastically. “Th-
ere is no demand from these
recorded at Azadpur
countries. We are only send-
Mandi on May 21
ing a small quantity to Bang-
➤ Prices vary ladesh by train,” he said.
because of variety Azadpur not only caters
and quality to more than 80% of total de-
➤ Retail prices mand in Delhi, it also suppli-
also vary because es vegetables and fruits to va-
of the locality rious north Indian states.
But “due to restrictions, go-
ing to Delhi is difficult du-
ring the lockdown. We mana-
ged to source onion directly
from a farmer in Madhya Pr-
adesh. We will continue the
same arrangement even af-
mand in Delhi due to a large brought down the retail pri- ter the lockdown”, said Pra-
number of hotels, restau- ce. “The sale is just about 50- deep Kumar Kasana of Da-
rants and eating joints. 60% of the stock. On Thurs- myanti Trading, a wholesa-
Due to a good crop in Raja- day, we got a supply of about ler based in Greater Noida.
sthan, Madhya Pradesh and
Maharashtra, the supply of
600 tonnes, while the sale was
around 350-odd tonnes,” oni-
For social distancing,
APMC has restricted the ent-
onion at Azadpur is high. But on traders’ association secre- ry of retailers by issuing a
its export has crashed due to tary Shrikant Mishra said. fixed number of tokens daily,
the lockdown, which has also The restaurant and hotel ow- affectimg the sale further.
`100cr from
spl liquor fee
in just 15 days
Continued from P1
S
ources said the excise de-
partment earned nearly
Rs 100 crore as special
corona fee within just 15
days. With the Centre allowing
some relaxations in Lockdown
4.0, the department was able
to open about 150-odd
liquor vends in the city from
May 4. The new tax was levied a
day later.
With more liquor vends
likely to open from Saturday, of-
ficials said the tax collection is
expected to improve further.
“Apart from the corona fee on li-
quor and enhanced VAT on
fuel, a small amount was also
earned through registration
and stamp duty on the sale of
properties,” said an official.
Delhi government had opened
sub-registrar offices on May 4.
With the opening of mar-
kets, commercial establish-
ments and more, officials said
the city’s economic condition
was slowly improving. “We had
O
projected a total tax collection
of Rs 44,100 crore in 2020-21. But
the actual collection will be far
less,” said an official.
66 private liquor shops get govt’s
permission to resume operations
Atul.Mathur@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: The excise de-
partment on Friday ordered
opening of 66 private liquor
stores that sell foreign and In-
dian-made foreign liquor in
the capital.
This is in addition to abo-
ut 172 shops run by govern-
ment agencies that were allo-
wed to open from May 4.
Another 300-odd govern-
ment-run liquor stores
across the city are also in pro-
cess of starting operations.
An official said that 66 pri-
vate stores and 300-odd go-
vernment run will have to fol-
low the odd-even rule of ope-
ning of shops in the markets.
.'
r ,
The 172 shops that were given
permission to operate earlier
can open every day.
After Delhi government
issued fresh guidelines on va-
1 2 3 1 9
Covid keeps most at
home, only mosque
TOTAL COVID-19 CASES
staff members seen at
NEW ACTIVE prayers to mark the last
CASES
660
CASES
6,214 Friday of Ramzan | 6
DISCHARGED DEAD
5,897 208
had reduced to counter the shops started reopening on clothes. We don’t have any spa-
spread of Covid-19, with only fi- odd-even basis after the Delhi ce to store the collection either,
ve women remaining under government’s order for Lock- so we will have to dump them,”
the tent in the last few days of down 4.0. “We disinfected all said Wasim Khan, the owner of
its existence. Police removed the shops before opening them. a women's clothing brand.
all the protestors on March 24 Khan believes that there
after the lockdown was impo- was a “smear campaign” aga-
sed. Since then, signs that the A TRADER SAYS inst the neighbourhood, which
neighbourhood was once the has made people uncomfortab-
We suffered a loss of
centre of protests have been le with shopping in the area.
wiped off. Barring a huge wall
nearly `30 lakh “But we will continue our
mural of the iconic dadis, all because we could work,” he said.
slogans and have been white- not sell any of the Others point out that
washed and banners removed. winter clothes things will get better for the
However, it still appears that shopowners once border rest-
time has stood still at the Shahe- rictions between states are lif-
en Bagh market. There are very Masks and sanitisers have be- ted. “A lot of our shoppers ca-
few customers, most of the en distributed to every owner me from Noida. Since there is a
shops here still display their and salesmen. But there are no restriction on travel at the mo-
“winter collection”, having be- buyers,” he said. ment, we have not even seen
en unable to sell any of their wa- But shopkeepers have not 10% of the customers when
res since the protests forced the lost all hope. “We suffered a loss compared with the period befo-
shops to shut mid-December. of nearly 30 lakh because we re the protests,” said Danish,
According to Sankhayan, could not sell any of the winter another shop manager.
May Have To Defer Soft Loan Repayment
LOCKDOWN TAKES ITS TOLL ON METRO
DELHI METRO’S REVENUE All figures in Rs crore
Passenger Non-Passenger Total 62 DAYS
DELHI
2016-17 1,784 529 2,313 METRO
2017-18 2,616 536 3,152 HAS BEEN
CLOSED
2018-19 3,121 594 3,715
10cr 600cr 574cr 30 lakh
Approx per day Revenue that couldn’t be Last instalment paid to JICA Approx daily footfall
revenue loss earned during lockdown for the soft loan it provided before lockdown
Sidhartha.Roy around 30 lakh passengers, it during the lockdown, there
@timesgroup.com can be assumed that till has been fixed expenditure on
March 22, when operations staff salaries and the mini-
New Delhi: Apart from ope- came to a standstill, DMRC mum maintenance for kee-
rating the country’s largest was earning more than Rs 10
and busiest metro rail net- crore per day. By extrapola-
ping the rail system in wor-
king mode. “One also has to ta-
ke into account that we are not
work with a fair bit of efficien- tion, the company has missed
cy, Delhi Metro Rail Corpora- out on more than Rs 600 crore
tion has been a trendsetter of earnings because not only
incurring expenditure on po-
wer and other areas like the
when it comes to work cultu- has passenger revenue beco- way we did when passenger
re, best construction practi- me zero, but sources said inco- services were on,” he noted.
ces and a comfortable and de- me from other sources have Once DMRC resumes ope-
pendable public transport sy- also dried up with the pande- rations, it will have to follow
stem. However, another pio- mic affecting every sector, in- the central government’s gui-
neering achievement of cluding those that advertised delines on ensuring social dis-
DMRC — creating a in Delhi Metro. tancing among passengers,
self-sustainable The urban tra- and this is certain to fare col-
public transport
system — is under
threat after the
3 0 L in system has ma-
de operational
profits from day
lection. Also, non-fare reve-
nue will depend on market
conditions, which for the next
unexpected cessa- PASSENGERS one and despite be- few months doesn’t look pro-
tion of daily opera- USED METRO ing a capital-in- mising. Sources said that tho-
tion due to the Co- EVERY DAY tensive infrastruc- se who pay fixed amounts to
vid-19 lockdown. BEFORE ture project, has DMRC, such as parking cont-
LOCKDOWN
With Delhi Met- always paid back ractors, are themselves facing
ro closed for the the soft loans ta- financial difficulties, so the
public since March 22 as a me- ken from Japan International rail company has taken a sym-
asure to curb the spread of no- Cooperation Agency on time. pathetic view is not pressu-
vel coronavirus infection, the In the present financial year, ring anyone for payments.
train company has earned no DMRC has already repaid JI- “Senior officials are ta-
passenger revenue for 62 days CA Rs 573.98 as loan and inter-
and counting. In the financial est components till date. Sour-
king stock of the situation,
which is dynamic, and analy-
year 2018-19, DMRC had ear- ces, however, confided that sing the financial condition
ned Rs 3,121crore through fare DMRC might face problems in of DMRC,” the official said.
collection and Rs 594 crore paying the next instalments. “There is, however, no possi-
through non-passenger reve- “DMRC has made pay- bility of a fare hike even tho-
nue such as shop rentals, auc- ments since March 2020, but ugh we will be carrying fewer
tioning of advertisement future payments will depend passengers.” Though DMRC
rights, and so on. on the financial position of is silent on the issue, a request
Since the metro train net- the company once the opera- for a bailout from the central
work hasn’t seen a major ex- tion resumes,” confirmed an or state governments may al-
pansion in the last one year official. He added that while so be considered if its financi-
and daily ridership has been DMRC has earned no revenue al health deteriorates.
rious activities permitted in tion and Delhi Consumer’s
phase 4 of the lockdown earli- Cooperative Wholesale
er this week, which paved Store – while 389 are owned
way for opening of all liquor by private players.
shops except those located in Of these 389, about 150 are
shopping malls, the excise located in shopping malls
department had come up and not allowed to open at le-
with a separate standard ope- ast in this phase of lockdown,
rating procedure for stores which will remain in place
run by private operators. till May 31.
The excise department Officials said that the ope-
made it mandatory for the ow- ning of more shops will con-
ners of all private liquor sto- siderably reduce the pressu-
res to conduct a monthly stock re on a handful of stores that
recording activity between DEMAND IN OVERDRIVE were allowed to operate in the
May 19 and 21, and submit a city in the last phase of lock-
compliance report. Only those partment official. down. Huge crowds were wit-
stores that submitted the re- Of 863 liquor shops in Del- nessed out the liquor shops
port and an undertaking that hi, 475 are run by four govern- earlier this month forcing go-
the shop did not fall in a conta- ment corporations – Delhi vernment to start issuing e-
inment zone were to be given State Industrial and Infrast- tokens for people to book a ti-
the permission to operate. ructure Development Corpo- me slot at a shop to avoid the
“So far, only 66 stores ration, Delhi Tourism and crowd and the queue. The fa-
complied with our order and Transportation Develop- cility of e-tokens will remain
they have been given permis- ment Corporation, Delhi available only at govern-
sion,” said a senior excise de- State Civil Supplies Corpora- ment-run stores.
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Lockdown is no ground for rent waiver: HC In grip of heatwave,

Only Relaxation In Payment Schedule Can Be Considered, Court Tells Khan Market Tenant
Abhinav.Garg@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: The Covid-19
lockdown cannot be a ground
for tenants to seek rent waiver
by invoking the ‘force majeu-
re’ — act of God — clause, Del-
hi high court said on Friday.
Rejecting a plea by a Khan
Market tenant to waive off
rent during the lockdown,
Justice Prathiba M Singh laid
down parameters to deal with
various issues regarding rent
suspension due to the Co-
vid-19 crisis, interpreting In-
dian Contract Act and Trans-
fer of Property Act (TPA) —
the laws that govern tenancy
and leases and also have the
‘force majeure’ clause.
The pandemic “has had
largescale implications for
human life. Contractual rela-
tionships and jural relations-
hips between parties are se-
verely affected due to the
lockdown. The question as to
whether the lockdown would
entitle tenants to claim wai-
ver or exemption from pay-
ment of rent or suspension of
rent is bound to arise in thou-
sands of cases across the co-
untry”, Justice Singh noted.
The tenant had sought
waiver on the ground that the
commercial premises remai-
ned shut on the government’s
orders, which itself descri-
bed it as a ‘force majeure’
event. However, the court sa-
id the clause didn’t apply in
his case as there was no cont-
ract. Moreover, under TPA,
“there has to be complete
destruction of the property,
which is permanent in natu-
re, due to the force majeure
event”, it pointed out.
If a tenant wishes to retain
the premises and there is no
clause giving any respite in
the contract between him and
the landlord, the rent or the
monthly charges would be pa-
yable, the judge observed. The
“fundamental principle” will
be that if the contract has any
relief clause, “only then the te-
COURT SAYS
Temporary non-use of
premises due to the
lockdown... cannot
be construed as
rendering the lease
void under law
nant can claim the same”, she
emphasised. In its absence,
Justice Singh said, the only
concession can be deferred pa-
yment of rent.
‘Force majeure” is defi-
ned as “an event or effect that
can be neither anticipated
nor controlled” and accor-
ding to a dictionary, “the
term includes both acts of na-
ture (e.g. floods and hurrica-
nes) and acts of people (e.g.
riots, strikes and wars)”, the
court explained.
“Temporary non-use of
premises due to the lock-
down... cannot be construed
as rendering the lease void
under TPA. The tenant can-
not also avoid payment of
rent,” the judge said.
Only Delhi Rent Control
Act will apply in the case and
the plea is liable to be rejected
as while seeking suspension
of rent on the basis of a force
majeure event, the tenant do-
esn’t intend to surrender the
premises, the court observed.
However, “some postpo-
nement or relaxation in the
schedule of payment can be
granted owing to the lock-
down”, the court added and
directed that the use and oc-
cupation charges for March
would be paid on or before
May 30, 2020 and for April and
May, by June 25, 2020.
In 2017, a court ordered
the eviction of the tenant on
the plea of the landlord
who had given the premises
on rent in Februrary 1975
for Rs 300 via a lease deed. Fol-
lowing the Covid-19 lock-
down, the tenant moved the
waiver application.
city’s max at 43.8°C
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The capital on Fri-
day witnessed the hottest day of
the season so far with mercury
soaring to 43.8 degrees Celsius,
four notches above normal.
Palam and Lodhi Road,
meanwhile, touched a record
high temperature of 45.4 deg-
rees and 44.4 degrees, respec-
tively, and even witnessed he-
atwave conditions.
The previous highest this
season was on Thursday,
when Safdarjung recorded
42.7 degrees Celsius and Pa-
lam crossed 44 degrees.
A Met official said no sig-
nificant relief from heat co-
uld be expected till May 27. “At
Safdarjung station, which is
a few places in Delhi and its
neighbouring regions during
May 23-25. This is due to dry
and northwesterly winds pre-
vailing over northwest In-
dia,” the official added.
With the approach of fresh
western disturbance from
May 28, the city can expect so-
me relief, the official told TOI.
On Saturday, partly cloudy
sky is expected with possibility
of very light rain or thunders-
howers accompanied with gus-
ty winds. The maximum and
minimum temperatures will
be around 43 and 24 degrees Cel-
sius, respectively.
At 199, the air quality index
on Friday was in the ‘moderate’
category. System of Air Quality
and Weather Forecasting and

In broad daylight: Seller looted of 9 new areas declared red considered base for the city, Research, has forecast a signifi-
the temperature will be bet- cant increase in dust transport,
ween 42 and 44 degrees. Heat- which is expected to influence

zones, total goes up to 86 wave is likely to continue over Delhi’s air quality.

entire stock of mangoes worth `30k TIMES NEWS NETWORK anheri under Dwarka sub di-
vision, Puran Nagar and
Sadh Nagar in Palam Colony
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Only 7 months left for

TIMES NEWS NETWORK from the locality, saying
there was a loot of mangoes
New Delhi: A viral video has going on that they could par-
shown the ugly side of Delhi ticipate in.
with the frames catching the The video shot by a bys-
nasty episode of a fruit seller tander shows even cars stop-
in east Delhi being looted of ping and their owners co-
his entire stock of mangoes ming out to pilfer the mango-
worth Rs 30,000 after an initi- es from their broken crates.
al altercation with rickshaw As the vehicles stalled, the
pullers. A case was registered robbing spree led to a minor
New Delhi: The total num-
ber of containment zones
in the city reached 86 on Fri-
day after nine new areas
were declared as contain-
ment zones. All three phases
of Bapa Nagar were conver-
ted into containment zones
after more than three Covid-
positive cases were detected
from the areas under the cen-
tral district.
CAT
were also converted.
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on Friday, and police have de-
tained three of the men alle-
ged to be involved in the
shocking incident.
Chhotu had set up shop
on a pavement on the Patpar-
ganj road in Shahdara on
traffic congestion on the
stretch. Before Chhotu could
stop the freeloaders, he had
been looted of mangoes
worth Rs 30,000.
CAUGHT ON CAMERA Chhotu initially refused
to approach the cops and file a
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Thursday morning, hoping
to make some money by sel-
ling his 15 crates of mangoes.
The fruit seller told police on
Friday that he and his relati-
ve had an argument with a
group of rickshaw pullers,
who did not like the duo sel-
The dispute see- crates on the road. Se- complaint. However, a day la-
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SATURDAY, MAY 23, 2020

SHORT TAKES
CISCE exam dates out No final goodbyes: Alone in death and beyond
T he Council for the Indian School
Certification Examinations (CISCE) will
be conducting the pending Board exams
With Family In Self-Isolation, Body Of 62-Year-Old From Assam Lies Unclaimed In Mortuary For 10 Days
for ICSE (Class X) and ISC (Class XII) from Pankhuri.Yadav@timesgroup.com cancer he had been battling for In fact, the family alleged that support of Dibyojit Dutta, gene- to Nigambodh Ghat for the fune-
July 1 to 14. For ISC students, eight exams two years. While here, the Covid The sexagenarian had they only learnt about his death ral secretary, Assam Association ral rites. However, the problems
were pending, while six were left for ICSE New Delhi: While alive, he suffe- lockdown was announced and he a few days after the event. in Delhi. Seeing how nobody was hadn’t quite ended. At the crema-
students due to the lockdown to control the red. After death, the body of the was left stranded at a relative’s
come to Delhi from Assam With no one at the hospital to willing to assist the family, Dutta torium, Dutta found a lengthy
Covid-19 pandemic. Students will have to 62-year-old from Assam languis- house in the city. A month into for better medical identify the body, Ranjit’s rema- volunteered to carry out the queue of mourners waiting with
wear masks and carry hand sanitisers. TNN hed in a hospital mortuary for his stay, he developed symptoms attention for the cancer he ins lay in a mortuary freezer for identification and visited the the bodies of Covid-19 victims
over 10 days while his family re- that seemed to indicate corona- over 10 days. Officials of Assam mortuary with Ranjit’s photo he they had brought to be cremated
had been battling for 2 yrs
Man dies in car fire mained in quarantine. Eventual-
ly, it was not the family that iden-
virus infection. When his condi-
tioned worsened, he was taken to
House, office of the state’s resi-
dent commissioner in Delhi, in-
had downloaded from Facebook.
He also asked for assistance from
at the CNG facility there, as man-
dated under central government

T he driver of a van was charred to death

on Thursday after the vehicle caught fire
on Mangolpuri flyover. Ram Kishan allegedly
tified his body and took it for the
final rites, but a stranger with a
Lok Nayak Hospital on April 28.
He tested positive for Covid-19 as
breathed his last on May 7. Du-
ring their quarantine period, the
tervened and tried to persuade an
uninfected member of the family
SPUNER (Special Police Unit for
North Eastern Region), a unit of
norms for Covid victims.
Dutta had to wait with the
Facebook photograph to help in did members of his family. members of his family reported to reach the hospital and identify Delhi Police. corpse for a long time — a body
got stuck due to his seat belt and suffered the identification. With his family and relatives having a tough time getting in to- the sexagenarian’s body and so Dutta identified the body of takes at least an hour to be redu-
severe burn injuries. It was found that the Ranjit (name changed) had in home isolation, Ranjit’s con- uch with the Covid nodal officer facilitate his cremation. But ulti- Ranjit from the many that had pi- ced to ashes by the gas flames —
van had a CNG cylinder fitted behind the come to Delhi from Assam for dition worsened into severe pne- and so did not get any updates mately, this couldn’t be done. led up in the hospital mortuary before there finally was peace for
driver’s seat, which could have been the better medical attention for the umonia at the hospital and he about the state of Ranjit’s health. The officials then sought the and made arrangement to take it the unfortunate Assamese.
cause of the fire. Two fire engines were

As number of cases soars, city

called, after which Ram Kishan was pulled
out with about 90% burns on his body. TNN
HC asks govts HC refuses to
3 held for killing ragpicker direct govt to
T hree vagabonds were arrested for
allegedly killing a ragpicker who was
abusing them and throwing sand on their
to keep tab on also sees jump in recovery rate disclose actual
food in north Delhi’s Sabzi Mandi, police
said on Friday. The accused were rising cases AlokKNMishra
Covid count
identified as Aslam Khan (47), Tejbhan
(40) and Ramesh (28). On Thursday, while Abhinav.Garg@timesgroup.com
@timesgroup.com
DELHI’S COVID FIGHT TIMES NEWS NETWORK

patrolling, cops saw the body of Momin, New Delhi: The rate of reco- Revised discharge policy for Covid-19 Severe cases New Delhi: Delhi high court
who had injury marks on his head. PTI New Delhi: The Centre and the AAP government very from the novel coronavi- ➤ Discharge only after clinical on Friday refused to entertain
must keep a tab on the number of Covid-19 cases in rus infection in the capital Very mild/mild/pre- recovery a plea seeking to scrap the de-
the capital and be ready with hospitals and labs, has improved in the past one symptomatic cases ath audit committee (DAC)
7 more cops test +ve Delhi high court has said. month — from 28.2% on April ➤ Discharge after
➤ The patient tested negative once
by RT-PCR after the resolution of and direct the AAP govern-
10 days of onset of symptoms
S even staff posted at the Wireless Control
Room of Delhi Police’s West district have
tested Covid-positive following which the
While declining to direct the two governments
to rope in more private hospitals in the fight aga-
inst the novel coronavirus and disposing of the pe-
27 to 47.9% on May 22.
A month ago, while around
100 people were recovering eve-
and no fever for 3 days
symptoms
➤ Over a week ago, the
ment to come out with actual
figures of Covid-19 cases and
the death count.
Moderate cases discharge guidelines were stricter.
district control room was shut on Thursday tition, a bench of Justices Hima Kohli and Subra- ry day, the count has now jum- ➤ Discharge after 10 days of The revised guidelines have also A bench of Chief Justice D
➤ If the fever is
night, police said. A staff posted at the monium Prasad observed that both the govern- ped to 300-400 people. Till Fri- symptoms onset if fever is pushed the recovery percentage N Patel and justice Prateek Ja-
resolved within 3
wireless control room tested positive four ments must have their hand on the pulse and keep day, 5,897 people out of a total of days and oxygen absent without antipyretics, lan, who heard the matter thro-
days ago, following which samples of other a tab on the number of cases, which has spiked in 12,319 positive Covid-19 cases saturation is maintained breathlessness resolved & no ugh videoconferencing, dispo-
staff were taken for testing. PTI Delhi in the past 48 hours. have recovered in Delhi. The without support oxygen is required sed of the petition but allowed
The plea had called for allowing rate is likely to cross 50% soon, the petitioner to approach the
Curbs to stay for courts more pathological laboratories in
the city for testing Covid-19 su- 2 k an official said.
The government gives the
➤ Discharge only after resolution
of clinical symptoms and if
the patient is able to maintain
➤ At the time of dis-
charge, patient
advised to isolate
court again at an “appropriate
time”. It was hearing a PIL filed

R estrictions on the functioning of Delhi

high court and district courts will
remain in place till May 31 due to the novel
spects. It cited recent press reports
to point out there were over 10,000 COVID BEDS
corona patients in Delhi alone, but AT LNJP, 500
credit to effective healthcare
services provided to fight no-
vel coronavirus. “I am so pro-
oxygen saturation for three
consecutive days
at home and self-
monitor health for 7 days
by All India Lawyers’ Union
that sought direction to Delhi
government to publish the data
coronavirus pandemic and only urgent not enough hospitals to provide AT RAJIV ud of our team of doctors and relating to confirmed cases of
matters will be heard. Earlier the medical facilities. It argued that in GANDHI nurses who have provided 1,500
How the no. of cases and recovery rate have grown 47.9% Covid-19 and deaths through a
restrictions were in place till May 23. PTI the present circumstances, private HOSPITAL the best possible treatment to Recoveries 12,319 daily bulletin.
1,200 (22 May)
hospitals should also be designa- our Covid patients. Delhi 28.2% The PIL said the govern-
900 Recoveries
Give cover to Sr citizens: HC ted Covid duty.
Appearing for Delhi government, additional
will soon have more recove-
red patients than the number 600
(27 Apr) Cumulative cases
5,897
ment claimed to have constitu-
ted DAC on April 20 and the fi-
3,108
D elhi high court said the AAP government
and the municipal corporations are
obligated to provide protected environment to
standing counsel Anuj Aggarwal informed the co-
urt that as per the revised guidelines, those pati-
ents with mild/pre-symptomatic cases, could go
of active cases,” chief mini-
ster Arvind Kejriwal tweeted
on Thursday evening.
300
0
877 Recoveries
gures are being released by the
committee after collecting the
data, but the huge discrepancy
27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
senior citizens and other residents living near into self-isolation if they have adequate facilities Many experts believe the Apr May May between the actual informa-
buildings occupied by health workers and at home and only if serious signs or symptoms fact that Delhi has a young po- tion provided by the various
directed the authorities to carry out emerge, should they be taken to a hospital. pulation has also been a key alth issues recovering from ries as India had a large youth symptoms onset and no fever hospitals and the figures being
sanitisation and fumigation in such areas. PTI Aggarwal further told the high court that as of factor behind fast recovery. Covid-19. Kusum Kanojia, a 55- population. “Around 70% of for three days. Even moderate released by Delhi government
now, Lok Nayak Hospital with 2,000 beds and Rajiv The Covid-19 cases star- year-old woman from east Del- Covid-positive persons in the cases can be discharged if fe- has not been explained
Gandhi Super-speciality Hospital with 500 beds, ted rising steadily in March hi who is diabetic and hyper- capital are young. Most of the- ver goes in three days and It said that Delhi govern-
G: :a were designated for the novel coronavirus treat- after many Indians arrived tensive along with renal issu- se people have very mild to oxygen saturation can be ma- ment can’t conceal from citi-
ment. Besides them, nine private hospitals have al- from abroad. A religious gat- es, was under acute respirato- mild symptoms, thus the rate intained without support. In zens the actual figures of the
so been treating patients suffering from Covid-19. hering also turned out to be a ry distress when she was bro- of recovery is fast,” he said. both cases, no RT-PCR test is spread of the virus and the de-
MAJ NARESH CHANDRA MISHRA This does not include those who are in self-isola- super spreader. On April 1, ught to RML Hospital. She An official said the revi- required; the patients are just ath toll. “The citizens have a
i 13 JAN 1956 to 04 MAY 2020
tion in terms of the guidelines dated May 10 issued only six persons out of the to- was put on ventilator for more sed discharge policy issued advised to isolate themselves right to know the correct facts
by the Union health ministry. tal 1,637 positive cases were than a week and then kept in on May 11by the Union health at home and self-monitor the- and take their own decisions
Mal Naresh Chandra Mishra (Retdl an ex offr of Delhi government told the high court current- discharged. Along with the the Covid ward for more than ministry had also led to a rise ir health for seven days. on the issues. The figures of
'SATV R PALTAN'left for h s heavenly abode on 04 May
2020. His contribution to the Unit and the Regt were
ly, two hospitals, LNJP and Rajiv Gandhi nationwide lockdown since one and a half months. Now in the rate. Earlier patients A doctor at Rajiv Gandhi new cases and death toll are
immense . He will be missed and fondl y remembered by Super-speciality, have about 2,500 beds, which March end, the low rate of re- she is back home. were discharged after two Super Speciality Hospital sa- being given by responsible me-
hs family, friends and comrades. In ths moment of will bring the existing strength of beds in all the covery created a sense of pa- Dr Harish Gupta, an elec- consecutive negative test re- id since the revised guideli- dical officers of the respective
sorrow , we share the grief of the bereaved family. designated hospitals to about 3,150. Similarly, the- nic among many people. ted member of Delhi Medical sults on RT-PCR, but now ve- nes had been implemented, hospitals. There is no relevan-
We pray to '4.xka Mata ' to bless the cerart ec soul and to re are 13 government pathological labs and 15 pri- Now, besides the higher ra- Council, said the rate of reco- ry mild, mild and pre-sympto- no discharged person had re- ce of DAC and the said com-
grant stru 'g :b and for..itLdc to i s `iril,, :c bci ' this 0,5 vate labs that are permitted to test Covid-19 cases, te, the city is also witnessing very in the country was bet- matic admitted patients can ported re-occurrence of any mittee is liable to be scrap-
In grief the government said. many people with serious he- ter than many western count- be sent home after 10 days of Covid symptom. ped,” the petition argued.
Commandin g Officer & all SEVENORS

1 Ggn to take
call on cabs,
Need to scale up health
SMT. SUDESH MALHOTRA Lt Cal Girish Mehta
IN LOVING MEMORY OF autos soon
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infra to avoid crisis: Docs
15.08.1932 - 23.05.2019 23.5.197O-288.2(114  Continued from P1 (30%) are admitted in hospitals –1,348 in govern-
Gurgaon: The Haryana go- ment hospitals and 487 in private ones. A total of
Dearest Girish , wishing

A
Missing you and your vernment has given the green doctor at a private hospital designated 196 patients have severe symptoms and compli-
smiling face. you a very Happy 50th light to private taxis, autos, e- for Covid-19 treatment said the city ur- cations associated with Covid-19 due to which
; Life has become dull birthday. You came to us
` 1t
rickshaws and maxi-cabs to gently requires more isolation beds for they either require ICU support or ventilators.
without you. Yours own as God's great gift. We ply in non-containment zones the rush of new cases. “If the number of cases continues to go up,
Jagdish Malhotra were blessed with between 7am and 7pm. The “In India, the fatality rate is much lower com- more hospitals will have to be designated for Co-
(Husband) receiving from you unbounded love and
happiness with most memorable and Gurgaon administration, ho- pared to other countries affected by the pandem- vid-19 treatment. Also, like in Mumbai, some
MR. PRITAM AHUJA wever, is expected to take a call ic. But we cannot be complacent. The health in- standardisation of money charged for treatment
cherishable times which make us feel you 19th Death Anniversary
are with us every moment of our lives. With We thought of you today but
on allowing public transport frastructure dedicated for the care of persons de- in private facilities is needed,” a doctor said.
IC-18266P (DOC -30.06.1963) lots of love Mehta family. that is nothing new.
in the next 4-5 days. veloping complications on contract- Maharashtra, which is worst affect-
We thought about you yesterday The resumption of services ing Covid-19 has to be scaled up ed by the Covid-19 epidemic with
0 2 0%
MAJ PP PARUTI (RETD) comes with a few riders. Accor- further to prevent a crisis situation. over 44,000 cases and 1517 deaths, on
and days before that too.
(17.10.1932 TO
_ 20.05 _
2020) We think of you in silence , ding to the government’s direc- We need to arrange for more isola- Thursday issued a revised notifica-
1 We often speak your name. tives, only three persons will be tion beds, oxygen support system tion to cap treatment charges for Co-
ASC fraternity prays to HAVILDAR GOKARAN SINGH All we have memories and OF PATIENTS HAVE
your picture in a frame. allowed in private cabs, and ventilators,” the doctor said. vid-19 and nearly 200 non-Covid pro-
the Almighty to grant Your memory is a keepsake autos and e-rickshaws, inclu- He added that already they were SEVERE SYMPTOMS cedures in private hospitals.
peace to the departed from which we will never part. ding the driver. Maxi-cabs, facing a shortage of beds due to THAT REQUIRE As per the order, the capped
soul & fortitude to the On 01May 2020 at Uri Sec- God has you in his arms , MONITORING
which form a crucial mode of which many suspected as well as rates will apply to 80% of hospital
bereaved family to bear tor, Jammu & Kashmir we have you in our hearts. transport for office-goers in ci- positive patients cannot be admit- beds, while the management can
this irreparable loss. Havildar Gokaran Singh And you shall stay there forever.
POLY " ' ^- W P ' " f -E
ties like Gurgaon, will be allo- ted. Delhi has 14 hospitals designat- charge their own prices for the re-
Lt Col CK Paruti(Retd) (Son) Mob 8800894153. was deployed as a
09896600007 wed to fill only 50% of their se- ed for Covid-19 treatment. maining 20%. The price capping will stay in ef-
House No. 1574 Arun Vihar Sector 37, Noida. Post Commander in a
DGST and all Members of ASC Association. ats. Both passengers and dri- Of these, Lok Nayak and Rajiv Gandhi Su- fect till August 31. Under the ceiling, no hospital
Forward Defended Locality along the Line of vers need to have the Aarogya per Specialty are state-run, Lady Hardinge can charge a Covid-19 patient more than Rs 9,000
Control. The brave soldier, undeterred by In Loving Memory of
Setu app in their phones. Medical College, Ram Manohar Lohia (RML), per day for an ICU bed with ventilator, Rs 7,500
heavy, unprovoked enemy initiated Cease
Fire Violation continued performing tasks As part of precautionary me- Safdarjung and AIIMS (Delhi and Jhajjar) are for an ICU bed without ventilator and Rs 4,000
assigned to him with indomitable valour and asures, drivers will have to ensu- run by the Centre. Eight others are private hos- for isolation in a routine ward.
attained martyrdom in the highest traditions re their vehicles are sanitised re- pitals. Among these are Max Smart, Apollo, Sir “Nearly 20% of Covid-19 patients have se-
AGE gularly, hand sanitisers are avai- Ganga Ram Kolmet and Sir Ganga Ram City, vere symptoms which require medical mon-
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of the Indian Army and the KUMAON
Regiment. We salute the ultimate sacrifice lable with them and they wear Maa Durga Charitable Trust, Batra, Fortis itoring. For this, a majority of patients re-
made by the hero who has presented an masks all the time. Social distan- Shalimar Bagh and Cygnus hospital. quire admission, especially those with pre-
example for all in uniform to emulate. cing will have to be maintained As per government’s data, Delhi has 6,214 ac- existing illnesses and complications like
CO & All Ranks of 21 KUMAON in all auto and taxi stands. tive cases of Covid-19 at present. Of these, 1,835 breathing difficulty,” a doctor said.
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Shri Dinesh Kumar Mehra

The silent joy of remembering a loved one.
The moments you shared together.
NAIK SHANKAR SINGH MERHA
Third Death Anniversary
Your memories are still
fresh as ever and we miss
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Colleagues. With all those whose lives the departed Soul has
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Merha was deployed
in a Forward Defended
you every moment. You
continue to be our source
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76-yr-old accused of minor’s rape gets bail due to Covid risk Burglar sneaks into
Aamir.Khan2
@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: A 76-year-old man
suffering from multiple ail-
ments but facing charges of a
minor’s rape that can attract a
maximum punishment of de-
ath penalty has been granted
interim bail as he is a “high risk
patient” in time of Covid-19.
Though the matter was
called “exceptional” by the
prosecutor, who opposed the
bail plea saying high court
directions didn’t allow for a
rape accused’s release, the
court observed that the accu-
sed has to safeguard himself
given his medical condition.
“Considering the Co-
vid-19 pandemic and the di-
rections of high court regar-
ding de-congestion of jails
for ensuring social distan-
cing, the accused/applicant
is granted interim bail for 45
days,” said additional dis-
trict judge Nikhil Chopra.
The septuagenarian was
stated to be suffering from chro-
nic kidney complications, renal
DISTRICT JUDGE SAYS
Considering the high
court directions on
de-congestion of jails,
the accused is granted
interim bail for 45 days
stones besides other ail-
ments. He was also declared a
“high-risk patient” during cur-
rent times given his prolonged
medical suffering and old age.
Though his counsel so-
ught bail relying on high co-
urt directions on de-conges-
tion of jails, the prosecutor
mainder of natural life), and
fine, or with death.
The prosecutor, therefore,
the court as she wasn’t in the
city and unwell too.
The health factor was
house in Jangpura,
referred to the same arguing
the man was facing heinous
charges under Section 6 (ag-
gravated penetrative sexual
stressed on the high court’s di-
rections on de-congestion of
jails while dealing with an ac-
cused convicted under Pocso
highlighted in the court or-
der as a “sufficient” ground
to entitle the man a 45-day in-
terim bail relief. “He should
rapes, assaults woman
assault) of Protection of Act and said the applicant not threaten, intimidate or TIMES NEWS NETWORK The cops were informed about
Children against Sexual Of- wasn’t eligible for the reprieve. influence the witnesses in the crime and an FIR was registe-
fences (Pocso) Act and Sec- The investigating officer any manner and should not New Delhi: The southeast dis- red for rape, criminal trespass and
tion 376 (punishment for ra- of the case informed the co- leave India without seeking trict police have arrested a 23-ye- assault against the accused. Four
pe) of IPC. Section 6 of the urt that the survivor’s mot- prior permission of the co- ar-old on charges of raping a wo- teams were formed to go after the
Pocso Act attracts rigorous her had opposed the bail plea, urt,” directed the court. man in Jangpura on Sunday. culprit. However, since the survi-
imprisonment for not less but could not appear — a The man was asked to sur- Police said that the rape took vor couldn't give a description of
than 20 years, but may extend mandatory aspect of bail he- render in jail after the expiry place in the intervening hours her assailant since he had masked
to imprisonment for life (re- arings in rape cases — before of 45 days, starting May 21. between Sunday and Monday. his face, police started going thro-
The accused, arrested on Fri- ugh the footage from the CCTV ca-

300 shanties gutted, Testing times ahead for fire

day, has been identified as Sonu, meras installed in the area.
who had police record of thefts. The accused was captured by
In her complaint, the wo- one of the cameras and an elec-
man claimed to have been stan- tronic route map of the roads he

dept as summer heat rises ding on her balcony and wat- took was created. Police infor-

hundreds homeless
Pankhuri.Yadav
@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: Around 300 shan-
ties in a slum in Kirti Nagar of
west Delhi were gutted on
Thursday night displacing
hundreds of people amid the
coronavirus pandemic and
lockdown. The fire broke out
around 11pm. Fire tenders had
a tough time reaching the spot
owing to the narrow lanes.
The slum residents TOI
spoke to said they would be sle-
eping on the rubble at night as
they had nowhere else to go.
Mohommad Naaz, who lived
alone, said he was asleep when
the fire started. He woke up af-
ter inhaling the smoke that
had entered his shanty.
“At first, I thought it was a
short circuit. But when I rus-
hed out I was shocked to see
flames all around me. People
started screaming and spil-
ling out of their homes. It was
difficult to find a safe spot be-
cause the fire was spreading
rapidly,” Naaz added.
Men, women and children,
everyone was seen trying to ex-
tract as many things as possible
from their houses. Kanhaiya
Paswan said, “I had Rs 10,000 in
HELPING HAND: Members of a gurdwara distribute food to the affected
my wallet, which I left inside in a
hurry to save my family. All that
money has now been reduced to
ashes. There is no place I can go.
Some people came here with fo-
od, but I’m not sure they’ll come
to help every day. We had been li-
ving here since the past 20 years.
We don’t know how the fire be-
gan. When the firemen started
dousing the blaze, a few gas cy-
linders exploded.”
When the fire started
spreading rapidly, a group of
six youths broke portions of a
few shanties to break the cha-
in and avert a worse tragedy.
Rohit, one of the youths who
carried out this task, said, “I live
nearby. When I heard people
screaming for help, I rushed to
Sanjay Sekhri
see what had happened. I saw the
blaze spreading towards my
area. Had it reached my place,
thousands more people would
have been homeless. At that mo-
ment, me and my friends decided
to break portions of our houses
to stop the run of the fire. Thank-
fully, our plan was a success.”
Delhi Fire Service said they
pressed 30 fire tenders into ser-
vice. The cooling operation to-
ok four hours. “We got a call at
11.30pm about the fire in a JJ
cluster at Kirti Nagar. A team
rushed to the location. Later,
more firefighters and fire engi-
nes from other stations were
called as the blaze was huge,”
said an officer. The cause of the
fire was yet to ascertained.
ching some video on her pho- mers were deployed to identify
ne, when the interloper ente- him by through features like his
TIMES NEWS NETWORK red her house. She alleged that built, walk and some other phy-
WHY SLUM FIRES PRECAUTIONS he caught hold of her and as- sical traits. Sonu was eventually
New Delhi:Delhi Fire Service HAPPEN SUGGESTED BY FIREMEN ked her to hand over the valu- identified as the culprit.
(DFS) will be on its toes for the ables she had in the house. After his arrest, he was pre-
➤ Houses are ➤ Use metal or non-
next few months to prevent lar- According to the complaint, sented before a magistrate and
made of plastic inflammable material to
ge-scale damage owing to bla- sheets and construct walls Sonu asked the woman for her interrogated before being sent
zes in slums. On average, the wooden planks ATM card and its PIN and beat into judicial custody at Tihar
department deals with 150 ➤ Secure power and gas her when she refused to share the- Jail. Sonu’s antecedents were ve-
slum fires every year caused ➤ Open power connections so there are se details. Angered by her resis- rified and his criminal record
due to the summer heat. lines and excessive no leakages tance, the accused allegedly over- confirmed. He will be asked to gi-
Fire officials said they use of electrical ➤ Replace housing material powered her and sexually assaul- ve his consent for a test identifi-
would be requesting JJ colo- cooling equipment every year as it dries up ted her. He also tried to strangle cation parade. Police are also in-
ny residents and Delhi Ur- ➤ Structures constructed after summer her during the act, the woman vestigating if Sonu was a party in
ban Shelter Improvement too close to each other ➤ Don’t keep inflammable material told police in her statement. He other similar crimes. As of now,
Board to be more careful sin- fled the house when the woman they have established only that
➤ Proximity to garbage ➤ Keep buckets of sand
ce most slums cannot be re- managed to raise an alarm. he was involved in thefts earlier.
and plastic or water near every slum
built due to the migration of
waste that colony to douse small
labourers. They would be vi-
siting a few slums to educate
residents about the measu-
tend to catch
fire because of
flames immediately
➤ Form a fire and emergency
14-day home isolation for all
res that could be taken to pre-
vent fire in summer after the
exposure to sunlight volunteer team within the colony
intercity passengers in Ggn
lockdown period gets over. rations need to run to stop worse if it’s a windy day. Gurgaon: Fliers landing at IGI airport May 25 onward will have
In the past 15 days, DFS has the fire from spreading. DFS The average response ti- to go into a mandatory 14-day home quarantine, the Gurgaon ad-
received 15 calls of fires in JJ chief Atul Garg said, “We me for the fire department is ministration said on Friday.
colonies. Most fires reported will be advising people aga- less than five minutes in It asked all intercity passengers, whether they are arriving by
in the months of May and Ju- inst running appliances for a most cases, but blazes in flights, trains or buses, to apply for a movement pass to enter the
ne occur due to short circuit long duration. Also, flam- slums have a tendency of city at least two days before their arrival date. The passes will be
in power units that were inac- mable material should not be spreading rapidly. Because issued online on the Saral Haryana portal. Deputy commissioner
tive during winter. In such co- kept on the roofs.” of this, the chances of fatali- Amit Khatri told TOI, “We advise all travellers entering Gurgaon
lonies, people use locally-ma- The peak hours — betwe- ties are higher, officials said. and coming via flights, trains or buses to apply for a movement
de room coolers and pedestal en 10am and noon — are “Most people don’t keep pass on saralharyana.gov.in under the category of scheduled
fans that do not have proper considered crucial as the safety equipment, such as a flight/train at least 48 hours in advance.” TNN
electrical wiring. number of calls suddenly bucket of water, which
Moreover, the dry weat- surges during this time can prove crucial in contai-
her can cause fires to spread due to the daytime heat. Fire- ning the blaze immediately. r :r r r I ii
to neighbouring houses. As a men said most fires were fo- Dry walls also aid in the fire
result, rescue operations ta- und to have originated from spreading within minutes,” Government of Andhra Pradesh
ke more time as parallel ope- garbage dumps. It gets a fire official said. Government Printing Press ,
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near AIIMS after 22 test +ve for Covid
Abhinav.Garg@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: Alarmed over 22 Covid-po-
sitive cases being found in a night
shelter run by Delhi Urban Shelter
Improvement Board (DUSIB) just out-
side AIIMS, Delhi high court on
Friday ordered an immediate inspec-
tion of the facility.
The court said the report of the in-
spection must be placed before the chi-
ef secretary, who will then take correc-
tive measures on the manner in which
the night shelter at AIIMS is being ma-
naged by DUSIB.
The court also demanded an expla-
nation why the 22 patients were sent to
far off hospitals for treatment instead
of AIIMS where they were receiving
non-Covid treatment.
“Since, the 22 people — who were
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which falls within the AIIMS lay. Malik, who has been regularly
premises, we are at loss to understand visiting the night shelter at AIIMS, had
as to why they were not taken to the AI- informed the court that there is no po-
IMS Covid facility, and why they have table drinking water facility and she
been shifted to far off hospitals,” a has been purchasing drinking water
bench of justices Vipin Sanghi and for the inmates. However, DUSIB
contested the claims and said enough
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AAP government, DUSIB and AIIMS facilities are being provided for the
to answer by May 27. inmates of the shelter.
The directions came after DUSIB, Malik had also alleged that the toi-
in a status report, disclosed that let facility at the night shelter is inade-
the patients who have tested positive quate and highly filthy. Though, the to-
for Covid-19 were shifted to Lok ilets are cleaned twice a day, due to lack
Nayak Hospital and Rajiv Gandhi Su- of water, they get soiled very fast, and
per Speciality Hospital, both run by there is also choking of the sewer line,
Delhi government. she had told court which was hearing a
The court also allowed a volunteer PIL on the plight of around a 100 outsta-
involved in helping the inmates of the tion patients and their attendants li-
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Online Auction
Kharian to Dimmi upto Jhamber Km. 0/0 to 21090 (Under Nabard
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SATURDAY, MAY 23, 2020

One-way paths to WFH-life balance, Emotional silence marks

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Gurgaon: The office you re-

turn to will be very different
from how you saw it last.
Companies that have be-
gun to power up their work
spaces as corporate India
prepares to slowly go back to
work are making significant
changes in keeping with the
one term that has stolen a
march over all others in 2020
— social distancing.
So, the quiet banter with a
colleague while poring over
Excel sheets on the monitor
will no longer be possible as
workstations get spaced out
(two will occupy space for
four). And your office social,
the cafeteria, is likely be a
much quieter place as the idea
of sending packaged meals di-
rectly to your work station or
cubicle is an idea many com-
panies are warming to.
Chance encounters with
co-workers you may find in-
teresting will be fewer — uni-
directional walkways being
incorporated into layouts
means your paths are unlike-
ly to cross. In any case, many
companies are planning to
keep a majority of their staff
in work-from-home mode.
Consulting firm KPMG
doesn’t plan on having more
than 33% staff in its offices to
begin with. “Till May 24, our
employees will continue to
work from home. Thereafter,
resumption will be in a
phased manner with only
33% of staff desks being oc-
cupied in office at any given
point in time,” Arjun Vaidya-
nathan, chief operating offi-
cer, KPMG, India.
Similarly, the regional of-
fices of Royal Bank of Scot-
land will operate with 10% of
their workforce in office.
HOW OFFICES PLAN TO ADAPT POST LOCKDOWN
FLIPKART
➤ Easy lane system on the premises to
ensure people move in a single file
➤ Monitoring movement within the
office to ensure social distancing
➤ Corridors and walkways made unidirectional
DELOITTE
➤ Only need-based visits to office,
staggered shifts, splitting teams
➤ Regular webinars for general
wellbeing, four physical fitness
sessions like yoga, zumba every day
➤ Special sessions for children
of employees
➤ Covid-19 reporting hotline
➤ Special attention to those living
alone and pregnant women
KPMG
➤ Only alternate seats to be occupied
➤ Desks assigned based on a
carefully designed plan
➤ Floor markings in common areas
Employees of a multina-
tional financial company in
Gurgaon recently received
emails saying some of them
might be working from home
till the end of this year, even if
the lockdown is lifted long be-
fore. “We have been told the
whole technology team
might have to work remotely
for the rest of the year. The
leadership has implied
they’re expecting to operate
with only 25% staff in office
in 2020,” said a Gurgaon-
based employee of the firm,
requesting anonymity.
Others are similarly
thinking on their feet, even
BPO firms, for whom work-
ing from home is a paradigm
shift. Miami-based Teleper-
formance, which has 70,000
and family members with
varied needs across the orga-
mu'atul Vida or Alvida Jum-
mah, Muslims congregate in
➤ Medical isolation rooms to nisation,” said a spokesper- mosques in large numbers to
be allocated son for Coca-Cola India. bid farewell to the holy
Randstand India, a recruit-
month. This year, the occa-
RBS ment consultant, has found sion was markedly different.
➤ Thermal imaging to identify that professionals who live Due to the Covid lockdown,
staff who may be running a high alone are finding it the hardest there were only mosque staff
temperature to cope with the new way of life. members at prayers, with the
➤ Packaged food served at the workstation “During our conversation faithful mostly at home. At
with organisations, we realised old Delhi’s Jama Masjid, Syed
➤ Staggered access to cafeteria that many of them have Ahmed Bukhari, the Shahi
TELEPERFORMANCE brought on board therapists Imam, prayed for the country
and psychiatrists to help single and an end to the pandemic.
➤ Multiple ‘Social Distancing Champions’ to employees or those staying Normally, the 17th century
be assigned who will monitor the movement of
alone with any kind of nega- Jama Masjid would have been
colleagues within the campus tive thoughts that they were ex- filled to capacity on Alvida Jum-
➤ Shifts to be evenly spaced out periencing,” said Sanjay Shet- mah, but on Friday, there were
so that there is never a crowd ty, head, strategic account man- just around 30 — all mosque
entering or leaving the premises agement, Randstand India. employees — to offer the special
At Deloitte, employees prayers, each standing at a dis-
COCA-COLA have the option of regular tance from the other instead of
➤ Medical concerns to be webinars for general well-be- shoulder-to-shoulder as usual.
addressed through Employee ing, four physical fitness ses- The Shahi Imam’s sermon
Assistance Program sions such as yoga and zumba reverberated in the empty
➤ HR to check on teams daily every day, special sessions for mosque. “We should say good-
children of employees and a bye to Ramzan with much lo-
➤ One-on-one connect with HR to identify indi-
confidential counselling ve and pray for our country
vidual needs and provide a support network helpline. “Our HR team
and the world, especially for
keeps a regular check on em- everyone who is troubled,”
employees in India, has em- “While we had introduced ployees who are living alone, said Bukhari. He broke down
braced this practice. laser guns to measure tem- as well as on pregnant wom- at several points when delive- (Top) Jama Masjid wears a deserted look; at Matia Mahal, a hub of
“Our ability to adopt perature, we are also explor- en. Help extended to the lat- ring his sermon, and was par- business during Ramzan, some shops open but trade fails to pick up
work-from-home is providing ing thermal imaging to effi- ter group includes connect- ticularly emotional when he
the anchor during the crisis, ciently and effectively identi- ing them with hospitals that said, “This is the first Ram- munity member to maintain easing of the lockdown
and until the day comes fy staff who may be running a are fully equipped for the zan when the mosques the social distancing, there was norms, it will probably take
where the company can safely high temperature. We plan to needs of the hour,” said SV world across remained emp- hardly any shopping or activi- over a month before we can
reopen at full capacity, we will have this facility available at Nathan, partner and chief ty. We couldn't welcome Ram- ty in the markets where Ram- open our restaurants and re-
be leveraging a phased ap- our entry or access points,” talent officer, Deloitte India. zan in a proper manner and zan is usually a busy time. “We sume our business activities.”
proach to keep our employees Maneesh Menda, head, HR, Most companies have also now the holy month is ending have been making our famous However, it was not only the
protected wherever possible,” RBS India. ensured Covid-19 treatment in a similar way too.” paneer jalebis for three days eateries that were closed. Many
said Aditya Arora, CEO, Tele- Following these discom- is covered under the medi- A day earlier, Mufti Mukar- now, there are very few custo- shop owners had opted not to
performance India. fiting norms with machine- claim policies for their em- ram, Imam of Fatehpuri Ma- mers,” said Mohammad Na- open their stores. There were
Within the office prem- like precision or working ployees. Industry watchers, sjid, had said in a video state- ved of the popular Kallan only a few who had reopened.
ises, changes are being envi- from home at the expense of a however, predict that even ment, “Pray on Jumu’atul Vida Sweet Shop in Matia Mahal. Umer sat patiently at his wo-
sioned to ensure social dis- work-life balance could exact with social distancing, cor- in the same way as you have do- Several restaurants in the men’s dress shop. “I have hardly
tancing. Other than unidi- a toll on employees. Some porate districts like Cyber ing every Friday for two area were all shut, with such got any customers for three da-
rectional walkways, like at have already begun to ad- City and Golf Course Road months. You need not come to establishments not permitted ys. People are not keen on ven-
Flipkart, this includes alter- dress that. “We have come up will not see their usual hus- the mosque to pray on Eid also.” yet to offer sit-in dining, only turing out as they are scared
nate seating, floor markings with a work-from-home tle-and-bustle at least till the While Firoz Ahmed takeaways. Mohammad As- about the virus and of the possi-
in common areas and encou- schedule to create a balance end of summer as work from Bakht, chancellor of Maulana lam of the well-loved Aslam’s bility of big crowds despite the
raging employees to bring between work, fun and well- home remains a key compo- Azad National Urdu Universi- Chicken Eatery was contemp- fact that the whole city is more
their own food. being, with daily checks and nent in business continuity. ty, Hyderabad, requested com- lative and said, “Despite the or less open now,” Umer said.

Railway ticket counters open again Amrapali case: Centre may Rajesh Mehta
...SC allows
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TIMES NEWS NETWORK and another at the Railway

New Delhi: Queues were

back at ticket counters of
Board — will function only
in the first half of the day.
Like station platforms
step in to provide funds... properties of
Delhi’s railway stations on
Friday with thousands co-
ming on the first day to secu-
and trains, the premises of
all counters were also saniti-
sed before operations resu-
AmitAnand.Choudhary@timesgroup.com pali group, told the court that the finance ministry
has set in motion the process of financing Amrapali
JP Morgan
re reservation for trains med, said an official. The co- New Delhi: In what could come as a relief to aro- projects and pleaded the court to direct SBI Capital AmitAnand.Choudhary
scheduled to run from June 1. unters will also be periodi- und 46,000 Amrapali homebuyers, the Centre on to relax general parameters laid down by it and rele- @timesgroup.com
The counter services cally disinfected, he added. Friday told the Supreme Court that it is conside- ase the funds by end of June. He also informed the
are being restored in a pha- However, the station co- ring stepping in to provide funds to complete the court that UCO Bank has agreed to deal with unsold New Delhi: In a setback to
sed manner, the railway mi- unters are not the only place housing projects which could not be comp- units and proposed to fund those properties Mauritius-based firm JP Mor-
nistry has announced. At where people can buy tickets. leted as funds were allegedly diverted by through a consortium of banks. gan, the Supreme Court on Fri-
the moment, 20 ticketing
counters are available in
Delhi, each catering to QUEUING UP TO GO HOME
“Besides counters at sta-
tions, people can book or can-
cel tickets at post offices, Yat-
the Group and its directors.
After a bench of Justices Arun Mishra
and U U Lalit said the Centre should provide
4 6 The court, however, refrained from
passing order to the Centre and SBI Capi-
tal after the ASG assured the bench that he
day allowed the Enforcement
Directorate to attach its proper-
ties after the agency informed
hundreds of people, a rail- ri Ticket Suvidha Kendra li- funds for completion of Amrapali’s housing THOUSAND will seek instructions from the ministry the court that it detected Rs 187
way official said. While this is largely to book Out of the 20 counters in censees and through autho- projects which have been taken over by PEOPLE and inform the court next week on the de- crore as proceeds of crime in
“Social distancing is tickets, cancellations and Delhi, 18 are functioning in rised agents of IRCTC,” the NBCC, additional solicitor general Vikrama- INVESTED IN cision to be taken on the proposal. the firm’s financial transac-
AMRAPALI
maintained, and Railway all other procedures ticke- two shifts — from 8am to ministry has said. The zonal jit Banerjee told the court that the issue is alre- HOMES The estimated cost for construction of tions with the Amrapali group.
Protection Force and other ting counters would nor- 2pm and 2pm to 8pm, with railways have been instruc- ady under the consideration of the finance all housing projects is Rs 8,500 crore and Additional Solicitor Gene-
railway personnel are in mally carry out are also be- the staff changing after eve- ted to decide and notify ope- ministry and he will seek instructions on how amount recoverable from homebuyers ral Sanjay Jain told a bench of
place to ensure gaps are ing offered,” said a Nort- ry six hours. Two other co- ning of reservation counters much money could be given for the stalled projects. and buyers of commercial areas is Rs 3,700 crore, Justices Arun Mishra and U U
kept as people queue up. hern Railway official. unters — one at Parliament as per local conditions. Facing a fund crunch with cautious buyers not 43% of the cost. Though SC-appointed forensic Lalit that the agency, in its preli-
paying their dues of Rs 3,600 crore and NBCC refu- auditors submitted that around Rs 11,000 crore is minary investigation, had fo-
sing to invest money, the SC had earlier asked the the recoverable amount which is enough to bear und violation of rules and regu-
CIN: U45203MP2004SGCO16758 Centre to consider using its real estate stress the cost of the construction, the fund is not avai- lations in investments made by
M.P. ROAD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION LTD. fund, managed by SBI Capital, for construction of lable as the process of auctioning the Group’s as- the firm in the real estate group.
(M.P. State Highway Authority) the stalled projects. sets is on. Also, those who benefited from diver-
(Govt, of M.P. Undertaking) Senior advocate R Venkataramani, who was ap- sion of homebuyers’ money are not returning the The forensic audit
45-A , Arera Hills, Bhopal-462011 pointed as receiver to manage the affairs of Amra- funds despite court orders. report had revealed
1&: 0755-2527290/ 2765205 , Fax: 0755-2572643 , Website : mordc.nic.in
NCB No /MPRDC/Procu/ MPDRIISP/AIS/..../2020 Date : ....... 2020
that the firm had
INDIAN RAILWAY OPENS PASSENGER RESERVATIONS sold its shares worth
Invitation of National Competitive Bidding for Procurement of Cashless Insurance
Services in Five Districts of Madhya Pradesh SYSTEM (PRS) COUNTERS FOR RAILWAY PASSENGERS `140 crore to two
1. India (hereinafter called "Borrower ") has received financing from Asian Development Bank for Madhya Pradesh District
companies whose
Roads II Sector Project (Loan no.3437-IND). Part of this financing will be used for payments for the "Cashless Insurance Northern Railway has opened Reservation Counters at all major directors at that time
Serv ices in five districts of M.P, Bidding is open to Bidders from eligible source countries of the ADB, stations/cities for the passengers w.e.f 22.05.2020. The Division-wise were peons of the
2. M.P.Road Development Corporation Limited (the "Employer "), a fully owned Company of Government of Madhya Pradesh list of operational PRS Counters is as under:- Amrapali group
registered under Companies Act , 1956, invites sealed bids from eligible bidders for Procurement of Cashless Insurance
Services by appointment of insurer to provide the Cashless Insurance Services in five Districts of Madhya Pradesh , namely, PRS The apex court had orde-
Bhopal , Ind ore , Rew a , Satna and Chhindwara. The beneficiaries of the insurance scheme shall be the road accident victims in red ED probe against J P Mor-
Bhopal , Indore , Rewa , Satna and Chhindwara districts in the state of Madhya Pradesh , India and who have not been covered Meerut Cantt ., Deoband, Sonipat , Rohtak , Kurukshetra, Jind , Delhi Sarai Rohilla, gan after holding that the Rs
by the National Health Protection Scheme/ Ayushman Bharat Scheme or any other Government sponsored/Operated Health Ballabhgarh, Faridabad , Muradnagar, Modinagar, Meerut City, Muzzaffar Nagar, Panipat , 85 crore investment by the
Insurance Scheme in Madhya Pradesh. Karnal , Bahadurgarh, Delhi Cantt ., Gurgaon, Palam, Palwal , Jhajj ar, Greater Noida , Hazrat firm in Amrapali group thro-
Bid Security: Nil. Nizamuddin, Anand Vihar Terminal, Sahibabad , Nangloi, New Ghaziabad , Khatauli , Maur , ugh FDI and taking away Rs
Duration Of Services: 3 (Three) Years from date of Commencement. 140 crore by selling its shares
Mini Secreteriat Rohtah, Shakurbasti, Narwana , Central Admin Tribunal, Dwarka Court , Noli,
3. National Competitive bidding will be conducted in accordance with ADB's Single-Stage: Two- Envelope bidding procedure to shell companies at inflated
and is open to all bidders from eligible source countries. Saket Court, UPSC, Shamli , Jakhal, Mansa , Samli , Gohana , Kaithal, Pataudi Road, value was a ploy to divert ho-
4. Only eligible bidders meeting the qualification requirements specified in para 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3 of Section 3 (Evaluation and Shahbad Markanda & Tohana me-buyers’ money overseas.
Qualification Criteria) of the bidding document may participate in the bidding process. The court had accepted the
5. To obtain further information and inspect the Bidding Document, Bidders should contact the office of: PRS Locations over Delhi Area (20) findings of the SC-appointed
Managing Director forensic auditors who conclu-
IRCA, Delhi Main , Delhi Sahadra , Ghazibad , Noida , Nizamuddian, Okhla , Tuglakabad ,
M.P. Road Development Corporation Ltd. ded that the investment made
Lajpat Nagar , All India Medical Science , Sarojani Nagar , Kirti Nagar , Sakurbasti , Rohini , by J P Morgan was in viola-
45 A - Arera Hills, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh,
IndiaPin : 462 011 Subzi Mandi, Adarsh Nagar, Karkardoma , Parliament , Railway Board & Press Club of India tion of Foreign Exchange Ma-
Telephone : +91-755-2527 244/210/290/2765205 nagement Act (FEMA) and
Facsimile : +91-755-2572643 Companies Act in connivance
Email: mdmnr d c @ mn.nic.in or nroc u-m n r d c @mn.aov in PRS Locations over Ambala Division (11) with the Amrapali group.
6.To purchase the bidding documents bidders shall: Ambala , Chandigarh, Jagadhri , Kalka, Saharanpur , Patiala , Bathinda , Rajpura , Sirhind, Jain told the court that preli-
Write to address above requesting the Bidding documents for Cashless Insurance Services in five districts of M.P. Abohar & Una Himachal minary investigation against
the firm has been conducted
Pay a non-refundable fee of INR 50,000% (Rupees fifty thousand only) or USD 850 (US Dollars Eight Hundred Fifty only) in
the form of demand draft in favor of Managing Director Madhya Pradesh Road Development Corporation Limited payable at PRS Locations over Firozpur Division (14) and pleaded the bench to allow
any Scheduled Bank in Bhopal , Madhya Pradesh , India . If the Bidding Document is desired by courier/post , an additional sum the agency to attach its proper-
of INR 1 ,000/- for the dispatch of the Bidding Document anywhere in India or USD 100 for overseas delivery. The employer Jalandhar City, Ludhiana, Amritsar , Jammu Tawi, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra , Firozpur, ties as per Section 5 of the Pre-
shall promptly dispatch the Document by Courier/Post , but under no circumstances will it be held responsible for late delivery Jalandhar Cantt ., Phagwara , Pathankot, Pathankot Cantt , Udhampur , BEAS , Faridkot & Kathua vention of Money Laundering
or loss of documents so mailed. The Document shall be available for sale during office hours (1ST 1030 hrs.to 1ST 1730 Act. Allowing his plea, the court
hrs.) from 20th May 2020 to 20th July 2020. PRS Locations over Moradabad Division r permitted the agency to proce-
The Document is also available on our website www.mprdc.gov.1n.In case, the bidder submits the downloaded document , ed against the firm as per law.
it should be accompanied with a Demand Draft of INR 50 , 000/- (Rupees fifty, thousand only) or USD 850 (US Dollars Eight Amroha , Moradabad , Chandausi , Balamu , Dehradun , Hardoi , Shahjehanpur, Haridwar , The forensic audit report
Hundred Fifty only) in favor of Managing Director , Madhya Pradesh Road Development Corporation Limited payable at any Rishikesh , IIT Roorkee , Laksar , Jwalapur, Sitapur City, Anjhi Shahabad, Bareilly, Najibabad, had revealed that the firm had
Scheduled Bank in Bhopal , Madhya Pradesh , India. In case of any discrepancy between the documents downloaded by Nagina , Dharamnagar, Kotdwara & Rampur sold its shares worth of Rs 140
the prospective bidder and the Bidding Documents (hard copy) issued by MPRDC, the latter shall prevail. crore to two companies—Rud-
7. Deliver your Bid: PRS Locations over Lucknow Division (26) raksh and Neelkanth— whose
To the address above, directors at that time were pe-
Lucknow, Varanasi, Rae Bareli, Pratapgagh, Lalganj, Faizabad, Akbarpur, Manak Nagar, ons of the Amrapali group.
On or before the deadline 21st July 2020 ,1230 hrs (1ST).
Prayaga, Jaunpur, Barabanki , Alam Nagar, Phaphamau, Ayodhya, Unnao, Janghai, Amethi, J P Morgan had refuted alle-
Together with a Bid Security as per Clause 19 of ITB and Bid Data Sheet of the Bidding Document.
Sultanpur, Daryabad , Rudauli , Dalmau , Lalganj, Phulpur, Bhadohi , Gauriganj & Jais gations of violation of any law
Technical Bids will be opened on 21st July 2020, at/aft er 1230 hrs (IST) in the presence of bidders' representatives who in investing in Amrapali Group
choose to att end , whereas the Financial Bids shall remain sealed and unopened and shall be placed locked. The Financial Bids Note: All precautions like wearing masks/face covers , Social Distancing norms will and later selling its stake. But
of only Technically Responsive and Qualified Bidders shall be opened after Technical Bid Evaluation , whereas, the Financial Bids
of those Bidders whose Technical Bids are not responsive and qualified shall be returned unopened after the contract is have to be adhered while waiting to book tickets at the Reservation Counters the bench had rejected its plea
awarded . and held that FEMA rules prohi-

NORTHERN RAILWAY
bited transactions route adop-
In the event of the specified deadline for submission of Bid being declared a Government Holiday, the next official working day ted by the company to invest in
would be deemed as the last day for the Physical submission of bids. Helpline Amrapali. “We are in agreement
8. A Pre-bid meeting will be held at the Office of Managing Director , M.P.Road Development Corporation Ltd., 45-A , Arera Hills, No.182 Your Convenience - Our Concern with the findings of the forensic
Bho all M.P on 15th June 2020 at 1130 hrs. Pre-bid queries to be submitted by 11th June 2020 at 1130 hrs. Visit us at : nr.indianrailways .gov.in auditors,” it had said.
i Managing Director Pleas JoIn as an 1 1 1155/2020 SERVING CUSTOMERS WITH A SMILE
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LOCKDOWN
DOUBTS Online snags make Cook at AIIMS hostel dies of
Covid, resident doctors protest
WRITE
TO US for more taxing time DurgeshNandan.Jha
@timesgroup.com

New Delhi: A 54-year-old

To make your life easy during the coronavirus
lockdown, TOI invites its readers to send their
Property Tax Payments Complicated: Users
queries at www.toilockdownfaqs.com Vibha.Sharma@timesgroup.com
We will seek answers from the police and relevant New Delhi: With South and
authorities. We request you to keep your questions brief. North Delhi Municipal Cor-
You may also email your queries to lockdownfaqs@timesgroup.com porations making it manda-
tory for property owners to
submit fresh details and ma-
Answers by Delhi Police spokesperson additional
commissioner Mandeep Singh Randhawa
ke only online payment on
their new portals, taxpayers
are having a tough time, espe-
Q I am a psychiatrist with a residence-cum-
L CKDOWN clinic at Sector 18 of Rohini. My RWA has banned
cially at a time when no sup-
? FAQS port is available and camps
the entry of my patients into the society and I am aren’t being organised by the
unable to treat them. Since I come under essential services, can the civic bodies.
RWA do this? –Dr Bhupender Singh Arora People whom TOI spoke
Please give details on our helpline 23469526 or call 112. to found the system compli-
cated. It took time to generate
Q I don’t live in a containment zone but the police are still not new Unique Property Identi-
allowing groceries to be delivered at homes. They are forcing the fication Code (UPIC) IDs, ac-
delivery boys to keep the items at the gate of the colony. What cess old records and receipts
should I do? –Anonymous and pay tax. Residents said
Please give details on our COVID helpline 23469526 or call 112. the June 30 deadline was ab-
taxpayer,” added the general ID and password.
secretary of Mall Road Radha Krishan, south
Apartments RWA. corporation joint assessor &
Many south Delhi resi- collector, said, “Till date, peo-
dents raised similar apprehen- ple had been accessing their
sions. Sanjeev Nayyar, a char- property tax details through
tered accountant in S-Block multiple ways, including re-
Greater Kailash-I, said that he ference ID, UPIC, name, pro-
tried generating OTP twice af- perty address, etc. We don’t
ter filling in his personal deta- want the system to be confu-
ils, but the code didn’t come for sing. Now, once your mobile
number is verified, you can
log in and access all details
EX-P&I DIRECTOR SAYS through the UPIC ID. The sy-
stem will soon be made error-
We will soon organise free.” He added that on
camps and chances Thursday 500 people submit-
are that the deadline ted their tax successfully.
of June 30 will be The corporations said pe-
extended till Sept ople could contact the zonal
offices and assistance would
be provided to them. There
man working in the mess of an
AIIMS hostel has become the
latest casualty of Covid-19.
He was on the job, cooking
food for the resident doctors,
when the mess worker (name
withheld) complained about
breathing difficulty. “Within
minutes, his condition dete-
riorated and the man went in-
to acute respiratory distress.
We put him on ventilator
support immediately and ad-
ministered necessary medi-
cations but despite all efforts
the he could not be saved,” a
doctor said.
The deceased had all
symptoms of Covid-19, there-
fore his swab samples were
sent for testing. It was confir-
med that he was Covid-19 posi-
tive, sources said.
The resident doctors at the
hospital observed peace and lit
candles on Friday evening in
memory of the deceased, a resi-
dent of Orissa. “He used to stay
at the RP Centre hostel, which
is located within the hospital
campus,” doctors said.
All contacts of the decea-
sed, including doctors who at-
tended to him and his collea-
gues in the mess, may require
to observe home quarantine,
they added.
According to AIIMS Resi-
dent Doctors’ Association
(RDA), they have written to
the administration in the past
for regular screening and
other safety measures like
provision of thermal scanner,
sanitiser and masks etc for
the mess workers. “These de-
mands have fallen on deaf
ears and hence the fatal outco-
me,” the RDA has alleged, in a
letter to the institute director.
The resident doctors de-
manded resignation of the
hostel superintendent and
the senior warden over the is-
sue. “We also demand testing
of all mess workers and
residents by diligent contact
tracing to ensure such inci-
dence are not repeated,” the
RDA said, adding further
that compensation should be
provided to the grieving
family because the mess wor-
ker was serving the doctors
during the pandemic. Some of
the hospital doctors are also
demanding that the state
should step-in to provide
due compensation.
AIIMS did not comment
on the demands. Sources said
the deceased was working un-
der a private vendor hired to
run the hostel mess.
Earlier, more than 30 securi-
ty guards working at AIIMS
had tested positive for Covid-19.

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surd considering that many an hour. “By the time the are also plans to launch a hel-
Q Our neighbour is an orthopaedician. For the past few days, he hitches needed to be fixed. session had expired. SDMC
should stop experimenting
pline. However, when 82-ye-
ars-old Brig (Retd) SC Gupta,
RESTORES
Former municipal press
IA. TO RUN i i
has been practising from home and his patients are visiting him
from other areas. Is this allowed? Our fear is that some patients and information director De- and make the system robust. a resident of GK-I, called the
may be asymptomatic right now and later test positive –Kuldeep ep Mathur said that resi- My client tried to pay tax via zonal office on Thursday
Clinics are allowed to open. dents in his apartments were cheque, but the civic body refu- morning, he was told that the Ministry of Railways has decided that train services on Indian
Q I stay in Malviya frustrated with the new sed to accept it,” he added. site was not working and it Railways shall be partially restored w.e.f.1st June 2020.
Nagar. We have two regime. “No one succeeded in A north corporation would take a couple of days to
parks with open gyms in
Q I own a bookstore at a local market
for school and college textbooks. Am paying the tax. The most irri- official said they were upda- start functioning. “The also The following trains will originate /terminate on
the area. Since I cannot I allowed to open my store tating problem is the new ting the system and would so- refused to accept the tax by Northern Railway system: -
access my regular daily now? Is there any site summarily invalidating on visit residential areas to cheque,” he added.
gym, am I allowed to go the old reference and receipt help residents pay their tax. Asked about such pro-
restriction on timings?
and exercise in the open –GK Singh
numbers. North corporation A senior south corporation blems, an official said they Train No. & Train Name Stations Between
was supposed to make the official clarified that their would soon organise camps
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both the metro station and the railway station with the nearby Samaypur village.
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Fax: 0191-2674114; Telephone: 2674244; e-mail: mdnhmjk@ gmall,com
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NHM Help Line for Jammu Division : 18001800104 ; Kashmir Division : 18001800102 W" aTffif i
100 g * c / cFr ftifur wr4 (G+5) 02715/16 Sachkhand Express Hazur Sahib Nanded-Amritsar Jn.-Hazur Sahib Nanded
Notice Inviting Proposal(s) from ICMR approved Labs for
undertaking RT-PCR Testing, alongwith Reporting as per ICMR 1. 187 r
- WiF N?4 12.05.20 342.67 02724/23 Telangana Express New Delhi - Hyderabad Decan - New Delhi
Testing Protocols of Samples from J&K for COVID-19 2. 188 i ui 4 12.05 .20 337.45 02801/02 Purushottam Express Puri - New Delhi - Puri
In view of heavy in-flow of returnees to J&K , including students , labourers , etc. , and in ref- 3. 108 qfm c aFcft 4 16.05 .20 353 .34 02904/03 Golden Temple Mail Am ritsar Jn. - Mumbai Central - Amritsar Jn.
erence to the Standard Operating Procure (SOP) for regulating the movement of migrant 4. 109 wTq ftwq m 4 16.05.20 353.34 02916/15 Ashram Express Delhi Jn. -Ahmedabad Jn. - Delhi Jn.
workers , stranded students and others , as approved by the Competent Authority, propos-
al(s) are hereby invited from ICMR approved labs for undertaking RT-PCR testing, and 5. 44 Pm W4-q z 4 14.05.20 399.57 02926/25 Paschim Express Am ritsar Jn. - Bandra Terminus -Amritsar Jn.
reporting, of samples from J&K for COVID-19, in time-bound manner , strictly on following
6. 45 Uzi wo YaT 4 13.05 .20 389 .43
terms & conditions: 02963/64 Mewar Express H. Nizamuddin - Udaipur - H. Nizamuddin
a) Concerned Medical/ Para-Medical Staff at the designated COVID-19 facility(ies) shall 7. 14 jf r u m" qw 4 14.05 .20 326.96
collect the samples and pack the same , duly labeled , in transport container(s) having 8. 15 4 14.05.20 334 .96
05484/83 Sikkim Mahananda Exp. Delhi Jn. - Alipur Duar Jn. - Delhi Jn.
requisite temperature as per the protocol; -
b) Empanelled Lab(s) shall have to arrange for transportation of samples from the con- 9. 89 w w ff W79M 4 13.05.20 407.95 02805/06 A.P. Express Visakhapatnam - New Delhi - Visakhapatnam
cerned Healt h Institutions/ other Collection Centres to its respective Testing Site(s) at 10. 115 4 15 .05 .20 374.06 02182/81 Express H. Nizamuddin - Jabalpur - H. Nizamuddin
own cost and risk;
c) Samples, and patient details , will be provided by the State (Divisional) Surveillance 11. 33 P;H auTg i WNUF 4 13.05 .20 368.20
02217/18 Mahamana Express Varanasi - New Delhi - Varanasi
Officer(s), Jammu/ Kashmir; 12. 37 gfifuT Tgm 4 14.05 .20 356.77
d) Empanelled Lab(s) should take all precautions required for handling and transporta- A 09167/68 Sabarmati Express Ahmedabad Jn. - Varanasi Jn. - Ahmedabad Jn.
13. 65 TP i ) 12.05.20 367.50
tion of samples collected and make sure that the samples should reach to Testing Site 02553/54 Vaishali Express Saharsa Jn. - New Delhi - Saharsa Jn.
within 10-14 hours from collecting the sa mples ; 14 . 53 rfm a" 1 I Y 4 13 .05 .20 361 .66
e) Empanelled Lab(s) is required to provide a tool to reg ister/ track the samples;
150 pi t-q i4Rf / 4 5T fk d°i (G+8) 02381/82 Poorva Express Howrah Jn. - New Delhi - Howrah Jn.
f) Designated carrier of the Empaneled Lab(s) will collect packed samples from the
concerned Location(s), or any other location specified by the State (Divisional) 15. 186 vnvff f"r4r4 4 12.05 .20 521.66 02303/04 Poorva Express Howrah Jn. - New Delhi - Howrah Jn.
Surveillance Officer(s), Jammu/ Kashmir , and issue receipt of the same before trans-
porting the same to the Testing Site; 16. 189 f ii wrj r 41c +f7ci 4 13.05 .20 525.42 02557/58 Sapt Kranti Express Muzaffarpur Jn. - Anand Vihar (T) - Muzaffarpur Jn.
g) Empanelled Lab(s) shall ensure testing and reporting of samples strictly as per ICMR e4 16.05.20 517.67 05273/74 Satyagrah Express Raxaul Jn. - Anand Vihar (T) - Raxaul Jn .
protocol;
17. 106 afku cu
h) Reporting TAT would be between 24 to 36 Hours post receipt of samples at Testing 18. 107 fi
i af3ur 4 16.05.20 511.17 02219/20 Suhaildev Express Ghazipur City - Anand Vihar (T) - Ghazipur City
Site and reports will be shared with the respective State (Divisional) Surveillance
Officer(s), Jammu/ Kashmir . In view of sensitivity of the matter and exigency of 19. 105 jf m c -biZi'.iii4 16.05.20 516.08 02233/34 Express Ghazipur - Anand Vihar (T) - Ghazipur
reports , no payment shall be made for the samples reported after TAT; 20. 47 i afer 4 14.05.20 530.71 04673/74 Shaheed Express Jaynagar - Amritsar Jn. - Jaynagar
i) Empanelled Lab(s) will have to share test results with Govt.of J&K/ other Competent
Authority(ies)/ State (Divisional) Surveillance Officer(s), Jammul Kashmir , on daily 21. 48 f v 4
c 14.05.20 548.22 04649/50 Saryu Yamuna Express Jaynagar - Amritsar Jn . - Jaynagar
basis , through e-Mail(s); 22. 49 Pmr
i u +r3 4 14.05 .20 549.94 05955/56 Brahmputra Mail Dibru ga rh - Delhi Jn. - Dibrugarh
j) Empanelled Lab(s) will assign District-wise coordinators for smooth coordination with
concerned Chief Medical Officer(s), Epidemiologists , Microbiologists and IDSP; 23. 80 'virt u f i 4
_ 15.05.20 632.24
02283/84 Duronto Express Ernakulam Jn. - H. Nizamuddin - Emakulam Jn.
k) In case the Health & Medical Education Deptt., J&K augment the in-house testing 24. 91 c -F ,4 16.05.20 615.74
capabilities , job assigned to Empanelled Lab(s) may be suspended. If the need aris- 02285/86 Duronto Ex press Secunderabad Jn. - H. Nizamuddin - Secunderabad Jn.
es, Health & Medical Education Deptt./ NHM , J&K may consider to reduce/ increase 25. 11 r
- -Tff 4 13.05 .20 498.35
the total tests to be assigned to Empaneled Lab(s). In such case , rates and other 26. 12 z4 14.05.20 503.39
02091/92 Jan Shatabdi Express Dehradun - Kathgodam - Dehradun
Pm c
terms & conditions shall be re-negotiated and all such modifications shall be agreed 02053/54 Jan Shatabdi Express Haridwar Jn. - Amritsar Jn. - Haridwar Jn.
in writing; 27. 13 gfmt wq r ai'w 4 14.05.20 498.25
I) Empanelled Lab(s) will submit weekly Invoice(s) to respective State (Divisional) 28. 84 W9 4t 4 12 .05 .20 517 .29 02055/56 Jan Shatabdi Express New Delhi - Dehradun - New Delhi
Surveillance Officer(s), Jammu/ Kashmir , who will forward the bills, alongwith verified
reports of all the samples reported within TAT , to the State Healt h Society, NHM , J&K 29. 86 fri
c T > 4 12.05 .20 538.12 02057/58 Jan Shatabdi Express New Delhi - Una Himachal - New Delhi
for release of payment in favour of the Lab , on weekly basis; 30. 88 c t WTff #M7 4 13.05 .20 476.25 02065/66 Jan Shatabdi Express Ajmer - Delhi Sarai Rohilla -Ajmer
m) Cost of the proposed testing services will be met out from the funds provided under
31. 95 r-I z 4 13.05.20 512.08
"COVID- 19 Emergency Response and Healt h System Strengthening Preparedness 02059/60 Jan Shatabdi Express Kota Jn. - H. Nizamuddin - Kota Jn.
Package" ; 32. 96 zra'0cft 4 13.05.20 552.45
n) In order to ensure time bound reporting of all the samples , all such proposal(s) which 02565/66 Bihar Sampark Kranti Darbhanga Jn. - New Delhi - Darbhanga Jn.
are within the price range of 15% from the L-1, be accorded an opportunity to match 33. 106 j f ru o
c aI IT 4 15.05 .20 487.80
02917/18 Gujarat Sampark Kranti Ahmedabad Jn. - H. Nizamuddin -Ahmedabad Jn.
rate(s) with L-1, and in case any such proposer(s) is willing to match its rate(s) with 34. 31 fi
c ii Wrr 4 12.05.20 533.97
L-1, suitable opportunity will be provided to such proposer(s). 02779/80 Goa Express Vasco-da-Gama - H. Nizamuddin - Vasco-da-Gama
o) NMH, J&K reserves the right to split the total samples among the empanelled ICMR 200 Tw it ; / wT f rf'i f (G+11)
approved laboratories for undertaking testing and reporting. While sending/ allocating
the samples , preference may be g iven to a lab with large capacity that can be allo- 35. 175 ftti 4aft T 4 09.05 .20 653.57
cated for J&K; and
Train No. & Train Name Stations Between (Stoppage on NR)
36. 178 Pm _T 11.05 .20 653 .16
p) By submitting the proposal(s), concerned Labs agrees that NHM, J&K is not assuring 02555/56 Gorakhdham Express Gorakhpur-Hisar-Gorakhpur(via Barabanki,Lucknow, New Delhi)
any Minimum Order Quantity (MOO) and may discontinue the services , if required as 37. 179 gfcumo
c aag 4 11.05 .20 651.07
per the circumstances , without assigning any reasons therefor. Such discontinuation , 38. 180 Pm Fw-l VaT 4 11.05.20 637.04 09037/38 Avadh Express Bandra Terminus-Gorakhpur-Bandra Terminus (via Luc know City)
if required , shall not hamper release of any pending payments towards tests already 09039/40 Avadh Express Bandra Ter minus- Muzaffarpur -Bandra Terminus (via Lucknow City)
39. 181 gfc i o
c 3Ti+TZr 4 11.05.20 644.93
reported by the concerned Lab(s). 1
q) Current engagement shall remain valid till 30th June 2020 , unless terminated earlier . 40. 56 g(
i
; Wff 4ea 4 09.05 .20 663.83 09165/66 Sabarmati Express Ahmedabad - Darbhanga Jn. - Ahmedabad (via Lucknow)
If required , NHM , J&K may consider to extend the validity of the engagement beyond z 4 09 .05 .20
41. 57 Pm wm-q 739 .95 01016/15 Kushinagar Express Gorakhpur- Lokmanya Tilak (T ) - Gorakhpur (via Barabanki Jn.)
30th June 2020. Further , depending on the market conditions , and in the broader
interest of public healthcare , NHM J&K may request for downward revision of rate(s) 42. 65 i wvr TZ 4 12.05 .20 743.26
01061/62 Darbhanga Express Lokmanya Tilak (T)-Darbhanga - Lokmanya Tilak (T) (via Varanasi Jn.)
per test. All such changes shall be effective only after mutually agreed in writing, 43. 85 ufm !
c e T u 4 12.05.20 718.96
r) NHM, J&K reserves the right to cancel the notice without giving any reasons thereof 02792/91 Express Danapur - Secunderabad Jn. - Danapur (via Varanasi Jn.)
and not bound to accept the proposals received. 44. 45 i 4 06.05.20 685.64
09045/46 Tapti Ganga Express Surat - Chhapra - Surat (via Varanasi Jn.)
Detailed Proposal(s), with following format, shall reach to the undersigned on
if z tffz7 ftafar wr4 i (02 s )(G +8)
e-mail ID: from three (3) days from the date of this notice: Note : Reservation/ Booking in the above trains may be done
S, No. Part iculars Response from Proposer 45. 190 3f'c i W ifff T;rW;m 4 15.05 .20 1054.00
1. Name of ICMR Approved Lab 46. 191 -!Fff 4 t 4
through any PRS counter , IRCTC , Authorised Rail Travel
r
- 15.05.20 1062.18
2. Authorised representative & Name, Email and Phone No
47. 125 Cii a wRft 4 Agents and Common Service Centres etc.
3. Address 118.05.20 983.11

4. ICMR Approved 1D/ Reference No., if any 48. 127 c t c f3wff 9R 4 18 .05 .20 1025.27 Note :- For Time Table, frequency & stoppages of the above trains, passengers are requested to
contact Railway Enquiry No.139 or visit Indian Railways website www .enquiry .indianrail .gov.in l
5. Address of Lab where Testing and Report ing will be made 49. 43 c1T" =1 14 13.05 .20 1138.43
with respect to Samples from J&K
50. 46 Pm 4 14.05 .20 1123.12 Integrated Helpline No. 139 and Security Helpline No. 182

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6. Total Daily Testing Capacity of the Lab for COVID-19
TR;m aw4 15 .05.20
NORTHERN RAILWAY I
7. Daily capacity engaged for testing of COVID-19 work orders 51. Wff 1061.82
from other States/UTs us on
52. 17 Pm wTq _ z4 15.05.20 1082 .86 i iti
8. Daily capacity offered to be reserved for testing of COVID-19
samples from J&K 53. 113 -iT4-i
v 3^ira 4 15.05.20 1181.79
Plans to enhance testing capacity. If yes, details thereof
9. 54. 114 ci
i 7rzT 4 15.05.20 1136.79
10. Rates offered , inclusive of transportation cost , taxes/ other
55. 29 c t Fro Tr-TV to 4 12.05.20 1134.99 SERVING CUSTOMERS WITH A SMILE
charges , for testing & reporting of samples from J&K - Rate
per sample tested & reported
56. 30 `R wq-q z4 12 .05.20 1111.17
Proposal shall be submitted on the letter-head of ICMR approved laboratory and propos- 57. 34 si
i 4 13.05 .20 1120.36
al shall be duly signed by the authorised representative(s) of the lab. Proposal shall be
password protected. On the date of proposal opening, Proposal Evaluation Committee will 58. 54 s i Fro icaURF If 13.05 .20 1120.35
write an email to the authorised signatory of the laboratory, who have submitted the pro-
posal, for sharing of password of the proposal. Accordingl y, proposals shall be opened by
the Committee and rates quoted by the agencies will be documented and results shall be 4
published on the website www.jknhm.com. 1. 192 rem mvi 21.05.20 7173.37
Sd/- 3rrar#M w4
Mission Director 4t . . 3TOarvT
National Health Mission , J&K
No: SHS/NHM/J&K/COVID-19/ Dated: fkfff45 23 .052020 -TUa o (qf3. A.)
Tft0 -40 : 9454402717
RO No. DIPK-NB-356/20
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SATURDAY, MAY 23, 2020

Govt. of Bihar
Migrants sprayed
with disinfectants,
BMSICL
SDMC blames the
TENDER NOTICE
Tender for rate contract and supply of Drugs for different healthcare facilities
error on machine
of State of Bihar in view of Pandemic Emergency Situation prevailing due to TIMES NEWS NETWORK

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Novel Corona Virus (COVID- 19) outbreak for the year 2020-2022.
New Delhi: In an incident reminiscent of mig-
Notice Inviting Tender Ref No. : -BMSIC/DRUGS/20-05

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rant workers being sprayed with chemical disin-
(Only through E- Tender on website: -www.eproc .bihar.gov.in) fectants in UP’s Bareily, a group of migrants in
Bihar Medical Services and Infrastructure Corporation Limited (BMSICL) invites E-Bids from
Delhi, waiting for a ride home, faced almost a si-
the interested parties for "Tender for rate contract and supply of Drugs for different healthcare milar situation as they queued up at the scree-
facilities of State of Bihar in view of Pandemic Emergency Situation prevailing due to Novel ning centre in Lajpat Nagar on Friday evening.
Corona Virus (COVID-19) outbreak for the year 2020-2022", vide Notice Inviting Tender No.-
As the incident sparked outrage, the South
Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) blamed

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BMSIC/DRUGS/20-05. Detailed tender document containing eli gibility criteria, selection
mechanism , otherterms and conditions are available onthe websitewww.eproc.bihar.gov.in. the high pressure of jetting machine for the lap-
se. As Hemu Kalani Senior Secondary School in
Tender Schedule Lajpat Nagar-3, where the screening is going on

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for those registered to take Shramik Specials, is
Tender Reference No. BMSIC/DRUGS/20-05.
located inside a residential colony, locals deman-
Date and time for downloading of bid document Upto 13" June 2020 till 1500 Hrs.
ded a disinfection drive of the compound, gro-
Date of Pre-Bid Meeting 30" May 2020 at 14:30 Hrs. in Conference hall BMSICL, und and the road, said a spokesperson.

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4" Floor, BSBCCL , Hospital Road, Shastri Nagar “Accordingly, as per the protocol, the disin-
Last date and time of submission of online bids 14" June 2020 by 18:00 Hrs. fectant spray-

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Last date and time for submission of original bid 161" June 2020 till 14:00 Hrs. ing was being
documents with EMD and Tender Fees done in the SDMC MAYOR SAYS
Date, Time and Place of opening of Technical 161" June 2020 (at 15:00 Hrs.) on the website of evening in It is likely that due to
Bid www.eproc .bihar.gov.in in the office of BMSICL and around
the school.
the pressure, our
Date and time of opening of Financial Bids To be announced later on www.bmsicl.govinand
But due to the worker may have lost
www.eproc. bihar.gov.in
pressure of control of the pipe. I,
Validity of Tender 180 Days
} Cost of the tender document Rs. 10000/- (Ten Thousand only) Non-refundable.
the machine, too, have faced a
the worker co- similar problem
Bid Processing Fee Rs 1180/-(One thousand one hundred eighty onl y) uld not mana-
Non- refundable.
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ge it for some
moments,”
GM (Procurement)
utmost concern and stepping out of PR-01463 ( Ni Ni 2020-21 BMSICL
the corporation claimed in a statement. The staff
have been asked to be more careful, the spoke-
s
home is not an option,we also advise sperson said. “The official present at the site apo-
logised to public,” he added.
you to stay at home and stay safe. SDMC mayor Sunita Kangra said she
had ordered an investigation. “But it is more
Meanwhile, we are always there to likely that due to the pressure, our worker may
have lost control. I was helping with disinfection
ensure that the search for your dream Govt. of Bihar in my ward and I, too, faced problem in control-
ling the pipe. My eyes were itching for half an ho-
home doesn't slow down.We are fully IT TTI r- 711
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prepared with all the options and
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+BM51CL The agencies use a diluted mixture of sodi-
um hypochlorite bleaching agent for disinfec-
rr: r r. rr tion. Sodium hypochlorite is the main ingredi-
TENDER NOTICE ent in laundry bleach. WHO has clearly prohibi-
Tender for rate contract and supply of Drugs/Medical Devices/Consumables for
ted spraying of alcohol, chlorine or such disin-
fecting agents on clothes and bodies. “Spraying
different healthcare facilities of State of Bihar in view of Pandemic Emergency Situation such a substance can be harmful to clothes or
prevailing due to Novel Corona Virus (COVID- 19) outbreak for the year 2020-2022. mucous membrane, eyes and mouth,” its adviso-
ry reads. The bleaching agent can cause irrita-
Notice Inviting Tender Ref No.: -BMSIC/ MEDICAL DEVICE/CONSUMABLES/20-0 1 tion and inflammation.
(Only through E- Tender on website : -www.eproc.bihar .gov.in) Spraying disinfectant on the streets, as prac-
Bihar Medical Services and Infrastructure Corporation Limited (BMSICL) invites E-Bids from the tised in some countries, does not eliminate the
interested parties for "Tender for rate contract and supp ly of Drugs/Medical new coronavirus and even poses a health risk,

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Devices/Consumables for different healthcare facilities of State of Bihar in view of Pandemic WHO has warned recently.
Emergency Situation prevailing due to Novel Corona Virus (COVID-19) outbreak for the year

LIFE BADLO 2020-2022", vide Notice Inviting Tender No.- BMSIC/MEDICAL DEVICE/CONSUMABLES/20-01.
Detailed tender document containing elig ibility criteria, selection mechanism, other terms and Don’t use open gyms
conditionsare available on the websitewww.eproc.bihar.gov.in.
Tender Schedule in parks, advise corpns
Tender Reference No. BMSIC/MEDICAL DEVICE/CONSUMABLES/20-01.
New Delhi: A day after deciding to open their
Date and time for downloading of bid 29`" May 2020 from 10:00 Hrs. to 22`^ June 2020 till
parks for restricted hours, the south and north
document 1500 Hrs.
Delhi municipal corporations have advised re-
Date of Pre -Bid Meeting 5'" June 2020 at 14:30 Hrs. in Conference hall
sidents not to touch open gym equipment and
BMSICL, 4' ^ Floor, BSBCCL , Hospital Road, Shastri Naga
Rated swings for children to contain the novel coro-
Download magicbricksapp now 4.3 eErRw Last date and time of submission of online bids 23nd June 2020 by 18:00 Hrs.
COW a* nWp Last date and time for submission of original 25 ° June 2020 till 14:00 Hrs .
navirus infection.
While the north corporation opened aro-
bid documents with EMD and Tender Fees und 6,000 parks on Friday, the other two civic
Date, Time and Place of opening of Technical 251b June 2020 (at 15:00 Hrs.) on the website of bodies will throw them open from Saturday.
Bid www.eproc. bihar.gov.in in the office of BMSICL. However, most corporation parks are located
Date and time of opening of Financial Bids To be announced later on www .bmsicl .gov.in and in residential areas and it will be difficult to

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Validity of Tender 180 Day s it, East Delhi Municipal Corporation will keep
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'ri ME:S OF Bid Processing Fee Rs 1180/-(One thousand one hundred eighty only) “Most of these 200 parks are located in
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HEALTH MINISTER HARSH VARDHAN TAKES IVANKA PRAISES GIRL WHO PEDALLED 1,200KM
CHARGE AS WHO EXECUTIVE BOARD CHIEF FROM GURGAON TO BIHAR WITH AILING DAD

Amid heightened tensions with Maldives tells

OIC it won’t Colour of masks presents
China, Army chief visits Ladakh back move
against India
military with tough poser
Rajat.Pandit@timesgroup.com taken to ensure a proper

Trip Follows Govt’s Assertion On Security & Sovereignty Sachin.Parashar

Rajat.Pandit@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: Army chief Gen-
eral M M Naravane visited La-
dakh on Friday to review the
operational situation along
the unresolved border with
China, which has witnessed
rival troop build-ups after vio-
lent clashes. His visit came a
day after the government as-
serted it remained “deeply
committed to ensuring India’s
security and sovereignty”.
Gen Naravane reviewed
“the forward posture of Indi-
an troops” and the ground sit-
uation with Northern Com-
mand chief Lt General Y K
Joshi and the Leh-based 14
Corps commander Lt Gen
Harinder Singh, among other
top officers, said sources.
The Army, despite being
contacted several times by
TOI, refused to say anything
about Gen Naravane’s half-a-
day-long visit. But sources said
the forward-deployed Indian
troops, with major reinforce-
ments from other areas for “a
second line of defence”, will
Gen Naravane reviewed
‘the forward posture of
Indian troops’ and the
ground situation with
Northern Command chief
Lt General Y K Joshi and
14 Corps commander
Lt Gen Harinder Singh,
sources said
continue to maintain their
“firm stance against yielding
any ground” to the People’s
Liberation Army (PLA) in the
confrontations along the Line
of Actual Control (LAC).
“The Northern Command
is on a high alert due to repeat-
ed provocations by the PLA.
But talks with China, through
military and diplomatic chan-
nels, are also under way to de-
fuse tensions. With regular
brigadier-level meetings at
border meeting points (BPMs)
and hotline talks between lo-
cal commanders, there is the
possibility the situation will
de-escalate in the coming
days,” said a source.
Both India and China have
pumped in additional troops,
built fortifications and
pitched tents at a few stretch-
es along the LAC in eastern
Ladakh, which include the
northern bank of Pangong
Tso, Demchok and Galwan
Valley areas, after the violent
clashes between the rival sol-
diers on May 5-6.
Full report on www.toi.in
@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: India’s strategi-
cally located neighbour in the
Indian Ocean, Maldives, has
come to its rescue before an in-
creasingly hostile Organisa-
tion of Islamic Cooperation
(OIC). Male told the OIC in an
address this week that sin-
gling out India for Islamopho-
bia would not just be factually
incorrect but also detrimental
to religious harmony in South
Asia. Male further declared
that it would not support any
action by the OIC which sin-
gled out India.
For New Delhi, the state-
ment coming out of the OIC
member-state is very reassur-
ing at a time when the organi-
sation, which describes itself
as the collective voice of the
Muslim world, has stepped up
attacks on India over not just
New Delhi: The armed
forces, amid guarding the
frontiers, maintaining op-
erational readiness and
helping civil administra-
tions combat the coronavi-
rus pandemic, are facing a
confounding new question:
Should explicit orders be is-
sued to ensure their person-
nel wear masks that match
their uniforms?
Senior officers of the Ar-
my, Navy and IAF, fortunate-
ly, have not yet been seen in
public wearing ‘stars’ on
their masks, akin to the ones
worn on their collar tabs, to
denote their ranks like some
of their police counterparts
are doing. The director-gen-
eral of police in a state, for
instance, made quite a
splash recently by wearing a
mask with ‘three stars’.
The Southern Naval
Command (SNC) in Kochi
No formal order has been
issued yet as masks are not
part of the traditional uniform
Corps and fire services per-
sonnel have to don khaki
masks to match their khaki
uniforms. Moreover, in
keeping with Kerala gov-
ernment directives, per-
sonnel found without
masks will be fined Rs 200
for the first time, and Rs
2,000 for repeat defaults.
“There was this problem
of personnel wearing all
dress code in the absence of
explicit orders. Many IAF of-
ficers in Air Headquarters
in New Delhi, for instance,
are donning blue masks to
match their uniforms. In the
Western Air Command,
which also has its headquar-
ters in the Capital, person-
nel are wearing white masks
with blue borders.
Army officers are gener-
ally wearing white or black
masks, while some have
been spotted wearing cam-
ouflage or ‘disruptive pat-
tern’ masks. “No explicit or-
ders have been issued yet be-
cause masks are not part of
the traditional uniform. But
yes, with wearing of masks
likely to become permanent
for the foreseeable future,
some orders might be need-
ed in the days ahead,” a se-
nior officer said.
In the past, the armed
forces have faced flak for

In run-up to HK law, China sought India help

Reuters
TNN & AGENCIES tus to J&K under Article 370.
China on Friday intro-
New Delhi: China briefed duced a national security law
key nations, including India, in Hong Kong that could be
before bringing in a tough na- the end of the much touted
tional security law for Hong “One country, Two systems”
Kong, which Beijing says is policy followed since the is-
aimed at curbing secessionist land reverted to Chinese rule
sentiments, sources said. The in 1997. “Your country main-
explanation was done to soft- tains close economic and
en the inevitable criticism. trade cooperation as well as
Hong Kong. We hope that your
government will understand
and support China’s relevant
practices,” it said.
The demarche said since
the return of Hong Kong to
China 23 years ago, “the Hong
Kong SAR has not acted out its
constitutional duty for nation-
al security in line with Chi-
na’s Constitution and the Ba-
developments in J&K but also
alleged discrimination
against Muslims.
The Maldives’s permanent
representative in New York,
Thilmeeza Hussain, said
while her country stood firm-
ly against Islamophobia, xe-
nophobia or any form of vio-
lence to promote political or
any other agenda, it also be-
lieved targeting a specific
country would be like side-
stepping the real issue.
“In this light, let me state
seems to have stolen a
march in the spit and polish
environs of the armed
forces by sternly directing
its personnel to wear col-
our-coordinated masks.
White masks with white
uniforms and navy blue or
black masks with other cer-
emonial uniforms, the “in-
ternal instructions” issued
by a unit there said.
The Defence Security
kinds of masks with differ-
ent colours and weird pat-
terns. The need was felt to en-
sure uniformity in uniforms
and for personnel to wear
comfortable cotton masks
instead of nylon or synthetic
ones in the hot muggy weath-
er,” a source said.
But officers here
stressed that it was not a
pan-Navy order, even
though some care is being
the propensity of a few gen-
erals, admirals and air mar-
shals to flaunt their rank
and status even while play-
ing golf or driving personal
cars. Pictures of a lieuten-
ant general going to im-
merse the ashes of a parent
in a VIP boat adorned with
three stars and a fluttering
flag, in particular, had at-
tracted critical attention a
few years ago.

123 lakh tonnes: Record sugar

Agency reports said Beij- people-to-people exchanges sic Law”. Hong Kong has be- that singling out India, the
ing had in its diplomatic mis- A pan-democratic legislator is with Hong Kong” the de- come a “notable source of largest democracy in the
sive reminded countries, in- taken away by security men as he marche said. “Hong Kong’s risk” to China’s national secu- world and a multicultural so-
cluding India, that “uphold- prosperity and long-term sta- rity, it said. “The legislation ciety and home to over 200 mil-
ing national security” in
Hong Kong Special Adminis-
trative Region (HKSAR) is
protests against new security
laws at a legislative council
meeting in Hong Kong on Friday
bility is in line with the com-
mon interests of the whole in-
ternational community, in-
for upholding national securi-
ty in the Hong Kong SAR is
purely China's internal affair.
lion Muslims, alleging Isla-
mophobia would be factually
incorrect. It would be detri-
output in UP amid lockdown
“purely China’s internal af- In August 2019, India had cluding your country, as well No foreign country may inter- mental to religious harmony Pankaj.Shah@timesgroup.com the last season. UP’s previ- UP accounts for 47% of the
fair and no foreign country briefed other nations’ envoys as protection of your coun- fere in this matter,” it said. in the South Asian region,” ous record was registered in total national output so far.
may interfere in this matter”. after withdrawing special sta- try’s legitimate interests in Full report on www.toi.in Hussain said, adding that Is- Lucknow: While most in- the 2017-18 season with an According to Indian
lam had existed in India for dustries faced a Corona-in- output of 120.45 lakh tonnes Sugar Mills Association,
centuries and that it was the duced lockdown, UP’s sugar of sugar. The output is all set about 40% of the factories
second-largest religion in In- mills went full throttle to to increase further as 39 of in central UP are still oper-
i i Haryana Medical Services Corporation Limited dia, accounting for 14.2% of produce 123 lakh tonnes of the total 119 sugar mills are ating, while in west UP
Bays no 59 -62, Sector -2 , Panchkula , Haryana
the country’s population. sugar in this crushing sea- still running as nearly 10 about 70% of the factories
General Public is hereby i n f o r m e d t h a t Website: www.hmsc1.nre.in. Ph. No: 0172- 2575578
The top diplomat, who is al- son, recording their highest more days are left in this are still running. Principal
one person Namely : Deepak , S/o: Public Notice so the Maldives’s ambassador ever output, which is also a crushing season. In con- secretary, cane develop-
K a r t a r Singh , Rio: H.No .9 , Chandpur ,
Haryana Medical Services Corporation Limited has recently procured to the US, further said “isolat- record production by any trast, only 16 mills were op- ment, Sanjay Bhoosreddy
K a l a n , D e l h i has been m i s s i n g /
following item on the rates and certification mentioned below:- ed statements by motivated state in a season. In UP, the erating after the third week said that despite the lock-
k i d n a p p e d since 16.05 .2020 from the
area of PS. Kanjhawala , Delhi. In this people and disinformation sugarcane crushing season of May last year. down, the state government
S. Name of Approved Rate per Certification
r e g a rd a case v i d e FIR/DD No . 174/ 20 , No Item Unit , Inclusive of campaigns” on social media is from October to May. Significantly, while UP ensured that the mills kept
U/s 365 IPC , dated 16 .05.2020 has GST , FOR H a r y a n a should not be construed as Records available with jacked up its production de- operating to crush canes
been registered at P.S. Kanjhawala , representative of the feelings the sugar department till spite the lockdown, the na- brought in by farmers.
Deepak 1. I n f r a Red Rs. 2875/- USFDA A pproved/
Delhi. The description of the missing; Thermal (3 Years replacement European CE/CE of 1.3 billion people. May 21 show that the output tional production of sugar In the current crushing
kidnapped person is as under: A g e : 43 years , Height: Scanner warranty) “Therefore, the Maldives so far is at least six lakh in this season fell by nearly season, the state govern-
5'6" , Face : R o u n d , Built: S t r o n g , C o m p l e x i o n : HMSCL is in the process of purchasing 2000 nos. approx. of cannot support any action tonnes more than 117 lakh 62 lakh tonnes - from 326 ment paid farmers nearly
Wheatish , Hair: Black , Wearing : Yellow colour T-shirt , within the OIC that singles out tonnes of sugar produced in lakh tonnes in the previous Rs 19,000 crore, which is
Infra Red Thermal Scanners on the certifications and condi-
green colour lower and blue colour slipper in feet. or targets India,” she added. the corresponding period of season to 264 lakh tonnes. 56% of the total dues.
Sincere efforts have been made by local police to trace tion mentioned above. Interested parties who are willing to
out the person but no clue has come to light so far, A n y supply Infra Red Thermal Scanners from ready stock and

GALL ER /A
person having any information or clue about this person capacity to supply within 4 days of issue of supply order with
kindly inform to the f o l l o w i n g .
Website : http//cbi.nic.in
cert ifications mentioned above , are requested to quote their
TIMES inter .' r
lowest rate which should belower or equal to the above mentioned
E-mail Id - cic@cbi .gov.in rates. Preference will be given to firm quoting lowest net rates
Ph.: 011-24368638, 24368641 SHO including all taxes, FOR Haryana. The successful part y will be
Fax No . 011-24368639 P.S. Kanjhawala , Delhi required to submit performance bank guarantee (d5/ of value
DP;139 ;`RD!2020 Ph.: 011-25951486, 8750870324 of supply order. For delay in supplies, penalty C 2.5% per week
will be applicable. HMSCL reserves the right to cancel the order
anytime in case of no/late delivery. IIRG M requirement of
a consultant for food
FORI> A BLE , WORK SPACES
The interested parties are requested to send their proposal on
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54,
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relevant documents before 09:OOAM on 29.05.2020 along with

APPEAL FOR IDENTIFICATI O N
General public is hereby informed
that an unidentified deadbody of
male Age : 35-40 years, Height :
5'4" , Comp lexion : Sallow ,
wearing black colour T-shrit and
green colour pant , was found dead
on 19.05.2020 in train accident at
Elect. Pole No. 15/28-30, Down
Railway Line, Near N a n g l o i
Railway Station , Delhi. In this regard a DD No. 01-A
dated 19.05.2020 u/s 174 Cr.P.C. has been lodged at
P.S. Sarai Rohilla Railway Station ,
2 samples of offered model for demonstration to Haryana
Medical Services Corporation Limited, Bays No 59
Sector-2 Panchkula before above mentioned date and time.
HOR
HMSCL reserves the right to revise or cancel the proposal HOME
anytime.
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I, Kriti Tyagi W / o Mr. Harsh
Ro no 80997 General Manager (Equipment) G u l a t i . R/ o A-801 , B a i r w a
For Managing Director , HMSCL Panchkula Bharti Classic Appartments,
Plot-24 , Sec-12, Dwarka-110078
have changed my name to Kriti
Tvaci Gulati.
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V a r i n d e r K u m a r Ri o 283/352 ,
Vishnu Garden , New Delhi- BUY NOW
GOVERNMENT OF GUJARAT
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THE TIMES OF INDIA, NEW DELHI *
SATURDAY, MAY 23, 2020 TIMES NATION 11
(
Returnees account for Bihar Urban Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd
2i

72% of Bihar’s Covid

cases in last 20 days The o n l i n e tenders for the
works invited vide this office
N. I . T. No . P W D / B W D /
Sheezan Nezami T . A / N IT / 2 0 1 9 - 2 0 / 7 9 3 - 8 5 2
TNN
dated 30/04/2020 published
Patna: Bihar’s migrant workers, vide R. O. No. 0197/2020-
who have returned to the state amid 2021(Classified) dated
the Covid lockdown, have accounted 01/05/2020 and Corrigendum
NIT No . 9 5 3 - 1 0 1 2
for an alarming 72% of the cases re-
corded in the past 20 days. 06/05/2020 published vide RO
The number of patients with nov- N o . 0 3 1 1/ 2 0 2 0 -
el coronavirus symptoms has dou- 2021 (Classified) dated
bled to 2,166 in just one week. The fig- 06/05/ 2020 in other Publication
Shimla . The work appearing at
ure was 1,000 on May 15.
According to information shared Sr. No.1 and 3 are hereby
postponed due to technical
on Friday by the Bihar Health Socie-
ty, so far 1,184 migrants have tested reasons . Now the start ing date
positive for the virus since May 3. for downloading of bids is
( A Govt . of Bihar Undertaking )
West Boring Canal Road , RajapurPul , Patna , Bihar - 800 001
-11
4 k RC
te l - 0612 -2506109, Fax No.0612-2506132, Website : http :// buidco.in
41k
Corrigendum - 2
Extension Of Bid Submission Date
Loan No. and Title : 2861-IND; Bihar Urban Development Investment
National Health Systems Resource Centre (NHSRC), New Delhi is seeking
applications from eligible candidates for the following positions;
Senior Consultant - Community Processes/Comprehensive Primary
Program - Tranche-1
Healthcare
This is with reference to the NIT No. - BUIDCo/PMU(ADB Project) Yo-227/20 -11dated
Consultant -Healthcare Technology
- 13.04.2020 advertisement PR.001116(Ni.Ni.) 2020-21 for the balance work of
Consultant - Public Health Administration (Legal)
BS/WS/01 in 4 groups (Package 1to 4) Improvement of Water Supply in Bhagalpur
The Terms of Reference (TOR) and other details of the positions are
dated Municipal Corporation. The bid submission date has been extended from 27 1" May' available on the websites www.nhsrcindia .org, www .mohfw .nic.in and
2020 to 03'° June ' 2020upto 03:00 PM (Wed nesday)&TechnicaI Bid will be opened on www.devnetjobsindia .org. Applications must reach by 12" June 2020 via
the same day at 03:30 PM. For more details like bid queries reply, Addendum & email in prescribed format only (as mentioned in TOR). Please ensure to
Corri gendum please visit our website :- www.buidco.in. and www .urban.bih.nic.in
mention post applied for in the application form , without which the
application will not be accepted.
S/d- Principal Administrative Officer, NHSRC
Additional Program Director
Ps. No . C0 1125 (Ni N 1 2 020 21 ADB Proj e ct , BUIDCo .
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onavirus cases on March 22. Thereaf-
ter, the state reported a steady in-
crease in the numbers which tou-
ched 400 on April 29. On May 3, the
state reported 517 coronavirus cases.
However, the number shot up by
1,649 between May 3 and May 22 with
the returning migrant workers test-
ing positive for the virus. So far, 333
migrant workers from Delhi, 293
from Maharashtra and 212 from Guj-
arat have tested positive.
With large number of migrants
testing positive for Covid-19, the state
health department has now classi-
fied the regions from where they are
coming back into three categories.
Delhi, Gujarat and Maharsahtra
have been kept in category ‘A’, others
19/05/2020 and deadline for Gh F\T R LCO C\ CIL FORRESE .ARCII IN AURV EDICS CIEVC ES ;
Migrants board a train at Danapur 1 ,r A USH A
s u b m i s s i o n of b i d s i s . I i Ln f aSB1n,1a L .- ,E : n i h n r r p a t M 1,A r u 3 i JI
railway station in Patna on Friday . i,.- .1a k- Cvc U BI.cl .e a .
1 9 / 0 6 / 2 0 2 0 i n s t e a d of New DOI
Office of Superintending Engineer
with lesser cases in category ‘B’ and
those with minimum or no cases in
02/06/2020 . All other Terms &
conditions shall be remained 1at Circle PWD Almora WALK-IN-INTERVIEW
category ‘C’. unchanged . The bidders are
advised to note other details of NATIONAI. COMPETITIVE BIDDING (E-Tendering) (Advertisement No. 02/2020)
The state has 2,344 beds in three
dedicated hospitals for the treatment
of coronavirus cases. Apart from
tenders from the department
website www .hptenders .gov. in
Short Term E-TENDER NOTICE It is proposed to conduct a walk-in-interview
these, there are 7,769 beds in care cen- Executive Engineer
The Superintending Engineer, 1" Circle , Public Works Department, Almora invites
tender through E-Tendering (Two Bid System) on behalf of Honourable Governor of through video conferencing on 03.06.2020 at
HPPWD Division Bhawarna Utt arakhand for following works, All other information will be available from dated
AYUSH Auditorium as per captioned address
tres and health centres dedicated to
Covid patients. An official said the Pin-176083, 26/05/2020 & onwards on website http://www.uktenders.gov.in
state has capacity to accommodate
15,000 patients as of now. “If the need
Tel:01894-247777
e-mail: eepwd-bhaw-
S.
No.
Name of work Cost of
Tender
Form
Earnest
Money
(Rupee
Validity
of
Tender
Time of
Comple.
tion
Contractor 's
Category of
Registration
for engagement of Senior Research Fellow
arises, quarantine centres will also
be used for the purpose. Since most
hp@gov.in
on behalf of Governor of H.P 1 Renewal work by SDBC In district Rs
in lakh)
7.00 60 12
for tendering
Category "A"
(Pharmacology) on contract basis. For
positive cases are asymptomatic,
they do not need to be admitted in
HIM SUCHANAAVAM
Atmore under Annual Maintenance
2020-21 (1) Aknora-Sharpathak
5000.00 +
18°x . GST
Lakh Days Months & Abov e
( Road works) eligibility Criteria, monthly remuneration and
other terms and conditions please log on to
JAN SAMPARK Motor Road in Km. 1 to 15 (Length
hospitals,” the official added. 15.00 Km.) (2) L.R. Saha Motor
Ad.t No useorz s2rzo Road in Km. 1 to 3 (Length 2,530 Km.)

Councils website www.ccras.nic.in.

(3) Almora.Bageshwar Motor Road in
Km. I to 6 district Almora. Length 5.30
NORTHERN RAILWAY Km. (Length 5.30 Km.)

Should hotels OPEN E-TENDER NOTICE

The Sr. Divisional Engineer-IV, Northern Railway, Delhi Division for and on behalf of
2 Renewal work by SDBC In district
Almora under Annual Maintenance
Rs
5000. 00 +
420
Lakh
60
Days
12
Months
Category "A"
& Above Assistant Director (Coordination)
202041 ( 1) Suwakhan-DhorarrChal 18% GST (Roadworks)

reopen? K’taka President of India invites E-Tenderonprescn bed form for the following work.
Invitation of tender through E-Tendering (E-Procurement Systems)
nichina Motor Road in Km. 1 to 12.
14 and 15 (Length 14.00 Km.)
CCRAS
davp 17216/11/0001/2021
(2) Aartola.lageshwar-Naini Motor

govt in a fix 1 Name of Work

with its
location
Providing/Laying of 1200mm dia DI carrier Pipes lines through
1500mm dia and 1700 mm dia MS casing pipesforwater suppl y
under Rly. Track at K.M.4/0-1 on JHI-PNP Section. (For
3
Road in Km. 1 to 3 (Length 3.00 Km.)
Renewal work by SDBC in district Rs 3-85 60 12 Category "B"
Almora under Annual Maintenance 5000 .00 + Lath Days Months & Above
BV.Shivashankar Municipal council , Jind) 2020-21( 1) Bageshwar-Girechina- 18%GST ( Roadworks)
@timesgroup.com 2 Approx cost of the work Rs. 1,43 ,45 ,682.71
Som eshwar Dwarah at-Vi man deshwar-
- Software Technology Parks of India
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Eira-Ranikhet Motor Road (Binta-
(An Autonomous Society under Ministry of Electronics
3 Earnest money Rs. 2 ,21 ,700.00 Someshwar Gireehina Section) in Km.
35 to 44 (Length . 10 Km.) (2) Koshi-
rr & Information Technology , Govt . of India)
Bengaluru: The Karnata-
4 Date and Time of submission Bidding State date Up to 15.00 hrs. on Ddaghat-(odchina.8agwalpokhar.Binta
ka government is in a dilem- of tender and opening of tender. 02.06.2020 opening of e-Tender at 15:00 Motor Road Km. 38 (Length 0.65 Km.) NOTIFICATION
ma over responding to the hrs. on 16.06.2020. 4 Renewal work by SDBC In district Rs 4.12 60 12 Category "A" This is with reference to the earlier notification uploaded on STPI web
demand of hotels and res- Bageshwar under Annual Maintenance 5000.00 + Lakh Days Months & Above portal w .r.t. the Employment Notice no. 2(2)/l/STPI - HQ/2019-20 dated
5 Website part iculars published e-tender, Above tender available on IREPS 2020-21 ( 1) Chandra Singh Sabi 184:GST (Road works)
taurants to restart full oper- 12.02.2020 for the post Member Technical Staff E-IV (Scientist 'E'),
notice location etc. comp lete details of site i.e. www .ireps.gov.ln Motor Road (Bageshwar-Kapkot Motor
tender can be seen and web site where
Member Technical Staff E-III (Scientist ' D') & Member Technical Staff E-II
ations, as the Centre is yet to Road ) in Km. 11 to 21 (Length. 11 Km.)
(Scientist ' C') and 2(3)/l/STPI-HC/2019-20 dated 15 .02.2020 for the post
the tender form can be downloaded (2) Kapkot-Pindari-Glac! er Motor Road
provide guidance on the is- in Km- 1 to 4 (Length. 4 Km.) Member Technical Staff E-1 (Scientist'B').
No. 128-W /260/Tender Notice/03/20-21/ W - IV Date: 22.05.2020 1162/2020 2. Management has decided to dispense with submission of duly signed-
sue. The industry has
SERVING CUSTOMERS WITH A SMILE RO 11647 Dated 22,05.2020
in application keeping in view of lockdown amid COVID-19 Epidemic.
threatened to halt food take-
However , each applicant would retain duly signed -in application alongwith
aways if the establishments
fart
him/her and submit the same at the time of appearing for physical
are not given approval to MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS personal interv iew or at the time of joining the post (if selected ) alongwith
originals documents for verification if interview would held virt ual. The
open their doors.
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filled-in application content and documents uploaded while applying
gency as domestic flights Advt. No. 15-02/2019-Restg. 31ld 4 RT online application.
are set to resume on May 25.
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system , of from the eligible class of contractor reg stered with HPPWD for the works
& Startups in Animal Science Sector as detailed in table.
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Sr. No.:- 1 Name of Work :- C/o link road Kuthera to Harlog via Dugli Tasli Km 0/0 to YW ftt U' TTUM 7 tc -flTff c c diF RM tdFT Z T 9 ?%U
IVRI - Pashu Vigyan Incubator , Izatnagar an Agri Business Incubator supported
8'0 (Sh:- C/o 4.00 mtr span RCC Slab culvert at RD 5/500.) Estimated Cost:- 31T4T1, fr
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and funded b y Rashtri ya Krishi Vikas Yojna-Remunerative Approaches for 9587721- Start ing date for downloading Bid :- 30-05-2020 Earnest Money:-
4. 395 f Wq 1 '
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Agriculture and Allied sector Rejuvenation (RKVY-RAFTAAR), Ministry of 16100/- Deadline for submission of Bid :- 16-06-2020
Agriculture and Farmers ' Welfare , Govt. of India invites app lications for its two Sr. No .:- 2 Name of Work :- C/o link road Dholag to Chiknar Balhi Mareta Silh gt&TT-20 15 z1 cfcl i
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programmes from Start-ups , Entrepreneurs , Smart Farmers and Students,
Durghat Nain near Salwer in Km 0/0 to 3/0 (Sh: '- Prov and laying M/T work in Km 010
to 1/0.) Estimated Cost:- 678931/- Starting date for downloading Bid :- 30-05- 35 ATFifd a f
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2020 Earnest Money :- 13600/- Deadline for submission of Bid:- 16-06-2020
1 . Start -ups , Entrepreneurs , Smart Farmers and Students having an innovative #'&TT- 101 / 1/t .3TTT .(37 )/LM-4/20 15-16 3" 5 5i11 f PTi
Sr. No.:- 3 Name of Work:- C'o Kanungo off ice cum Residence Building
Minimum Viable Product (MVP) in animal science and allied sector can apply Ghandalwin ( SH:- C/o Building portion including WS & SI etc. Estimated Cost:- fk-Tia5: TamT. i 21 TT , 2020 (3Q 79fim)
for Seed Stage Funding Programme "SAMRIDDHI-2020". After successful 8,03 ,666/- Start ing date for downloading Bid :- 30-05-2020 Earnest Money:-
completion of the two month workshop, selected start-ups will be eligible for 16100/- Deadline for submission of Bid :-16-06-2020

grant in aid of upto Rs. 25 Lakhs as per the RKVY-RAFTAAR guidelines. Sr. No.:- 4 Name of Work :- C/o one Nos. Type -III Quarter at Hatwar Sub Division
Section Bharari-ll ( SH:- C/o Building portion including WS & SI and septic tank. THE PANDAVAPURASAHAKARI
2. Start-ups , Entrepreneurs, Smart Farmers and Students having an innovative
idea in animal science and allied sector can apply for Agripreneurship
Estimated Cost :- 14.60 , 581/- Starting date for downloading Bid :- 30-05-2020
Earnest Money :- 29300/- Deadline for submission of Bid :- 16-06-2020 SAKKARE KARKHANE LIMITED
Sr. No.:- 5 Name of Work :-C/o Polytechnic College Building at Kalol (SH:- C/o work
Orientation Programme "NAVODAYA-2020". A stipend of Rs. 10,000/- shop block including WS & SI and Site development Estimated Cost:-
Pandavapura R.S. 571 435, Mandya District,
per month will be granted to the selected interns for 2 Months residential 2, 18,69 ,580/- Starting date for downloading Bid:- 30-05-2020 Earnest Monsy:- Karnataka State
workshop. After successful completion of internship, selected start-ups 2,51,200/- Deadline for submission of Bid:-16-06.2020
No.PSSK/ Lease/2019-20/CALL-2 Date 22.05.2020
will be eligible to apply for grant-in-aid up to Rs. 5 Lakhs for converting Sr. No .:- 6 Name of Work :- C/o Bridge over Nallah connected Auhar playground to
Auhar Rishikesh road (SH: C/o 900mm dia HPC c/o protection work to Bridge and Short Term Re-tender Notif Ication
their idea into prototype/product . clo 60mtr U-shape drain alw CC pavement.) Estimated Cost :- 7627991- Starting
date for downloading Bid :- 30-05-2020 Earnest Money :- 15,300'- Deadline for
Reg istrations for the above programmes are currentl y open- The registration submission of Bid:- 16-06-2020
Sub: Short term re-tendering of the Pandavapura
shall close on 06th June 2020 for "SAMRIDDHI-2020" and 30th June 2020 for The bidder are advised to note other detail of tenders from the department website Sahakari Sakkare Karkhane Limited , Pandavapura
"NAVODAYA-2020". For application Forms & other details visit: www.ivri .nic.in/ www. hpte nde rs. gov.l n
Mandya on LROT (Lease- Rehabilitate-Operate-
RabiDefault2.asox Executive Engineer
Name of the contact person: Dr. R.P. Singh , PI- CEO, RKVY-RAFTAAR-Agri
Ghumarwin Divn., Transfer ) basis.
HP-PWD ,Ghumarwin
Business Incubation (R-ABI) Scheme ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research On behalf of Governor of Himachal Pradesh. Ref:E-tender No. PSSK/ Lease / 2019 -20 dated:
Institute Izatnagar-243122 , Bareilly, (U.P.). Advt.noc5e2r21 05202 0
HIM SUCHANAAVAM JA N SAMPARK
20.03.2020

RAILWAY With reference to the above subject re-tendering of

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Tender Notice No.RE1UMB/EUAdvt ./203 OPEN E-TENDER NOTICE Dated : 18.05 .2020
leasing P S S K N on LROT ( L e a s e - R e h a b i l i t a t e -
ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES, NAGPUR Chief Project Director , Railway Electrification, Ambala Canlt For & on behalf of the President of India invites OPEN Operate-Transfer) basis through e-procurement as
Address: Plot no.2 , Sector -20 , MIHAN , Nagpur - 441108 , Website: www.aiimsnagpur .edu.in E-TENDER on web site www.ireps .gov.in for the following works Tenderer may submit their ori ginallrevised offer up to per KTPP Act is notified and the schedule dates are
No. AIIMS-NGP /Admin/Rect/Deputation /03/2020 Dated: 20 .05 .2020 prescribed closing time & date No tender will be accepted manually.
given below.
Applications are invited from Indian nationals for the following group "A" posts on deputation A pp. Cost Earnest Cost of tender Completion Date
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12 TIMES NATION * THE TIMES OF INDIA, NEW DELHI
SATURDAY, MAY 23, 2020

HC asks CBI to probe arrest of AP

doc who flagged PPE ‘shortage’
80% of Covid cases are in 5 states
Srikanth.Aluri@timesgroup.com
Centre Claims CONCENTRATED SPREAD ‘Lockdown prevented
Lockdown CURRENT ACTIVE CASES (as of 21st May)
Vijayawada: The Andhra Pradesh high court
on Friday ordered a CBI inquiry into the arrest
of senior anesthetist Dr Kolaventi Sudhakar,
are concentrated in a few states and cities/districts

Helped Limit Around 80% of cases are

in 5 states | Maharashtra,
Bihar and Karnataka
Over 60% of cases are
37,000-78,000 deaths’
who was suspended by the state for voicing con- Sushmi.Dey@timesgroup.com
‘Never set a date
cern over alleged shortage of masks and PPE
kits in Narsipatnam area hospital in Visakha-
Virus Spread and Madhya Pradesh
Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Delhi in 5 cities | Mumbai, Delhi,
Chennai, Ahmedabad & Thane New Delhi: Seeking to un- for zero cases’
patnam. He was posted at the hospital. The HC Sushmi.Dey@timesgroup.com Over 90% of cases are in Over 70% of cases are in derline the benefits of the
also ordered the CBI to register cases against all
police officials connected with the arrest and sub- New Delhi: On a day India
10 states | Maharashtra,
Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Delhi,
10 cities | Mumbai, Delhi,
Chennai, Ahmedabad,
lockdown that have been qu-
estioned in some quarters, R esponding to the
controversy over a graph
presented by him during an
mit an interim report within eight weeks. Dr Sudhakar during his arrest in Vizag on May 16 saw yet another 24-hour peak Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Thane, Pune, Indore, Kolkata, the Centre on Friday presen-
Sudhakar was arrested by Visakhapatnam in Covid-19 cases, the govern- Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Hyderabad and Aurangabad ted various models that indi- earlier presentation regarding
police on May 16 on allegations of misbehaviour, ny deviations from the report submitted earlier ment said the lockdown has cated India may have averted projection of growth rate of
obstructing the duties of police and abusing the by the chief secretary, the DGP, and the medical helped limit the concentra- Covid-19 deaths are concentrated in a few an estimated 14-29 lakh Co- coronavirus infections, Niti
chief minister and the prime minister.. Later, he certificate given by the Visakhapatnam go- tion of cases to a few states states and cities/districts vid-19 cases and 37,000-78,000 Aayog member and chairman of
was shifted to a mental health facility stating that vernment hospital’s doctor. The district judge and cities — 80% reported in deaths due to the infection. the empowered committee on
Over 80% of deaths are Andhra Pradesh Covid-19 Dr V K Paul has made it
he is mentally unstable. “When coronavirus hit in his report mentioned there were six injuries five states and 60% from the ci- and Karnataka
Presenting the analysis of
China I had warned that it will kill many people. on the doctor’s body. The affidavit filed by the ties of Mumbai, Delhi, Chen- in 5 states | Maharashtra, the first two phases of lock- clear the graph shown about a
No one listened to me. We had to wear a mask for 15 nai, Ahmedabad and Thane. Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Nearly 60% in 5 cities | down, Niti Aayog member month ago did not say any-
chief secretary and DGP mentioned only one.
West Bengal and Delhi Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Pune, where that cases will become
days,” Sudhakar told media while he was being The judge also attached photos with his report. Analysing active cases as (health) Dr V K Paul, said
bundled into an autorickshaw by police. He had The court also observed that videos submitted on May 21, Niti Aayog mem- Around 95% in 10 states Delhi and Kolkata restrictions had significant- “zero” by a particular date.
also attacked CM Jagan Mohan Reddy. by the officials seemed to be edited excerpts and ber Dr V K Paul said Maha- | Maharashtra, Gujarat, Around 70% in 10 cities | ly reduced the speed at which Dr Paul said he never made
Police they had found Sudhakar allegedly in not raw footage. The magistrate did not feel Dr rashtra, Tamil Nadu, Guja- Madhya Pradesh, West Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Pune, the virus was spreading. any such claim and apologised
an inebriated condition on a main road in the Sudhakar was mentally unstable whereas the of- rat, Delhi and Madhya Pra- Bengal, Delhi, Rajasthan, Delhi, Kolkata, Indore, Thane, “On April 3, we had 22.6% for any misunderstanding that
city. His hands were tied and he was dumped in- ficials stated that he was shifted to a mental hospi- desh accounted for most of Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Jaipur, Chennai and Surat new cases per day, the behavio- might have arisen. TNN
to a vehicle before being taken to a police sta- tal as he was not in a sound mental condition. the incidence and if over ur of the virus was exponenti-
tion. The anesthetist was half-naked when he Amicus curie P Veera Reddy said the issue ne- 90% cases were considered, al. But after April 4, there was tential drugs, vaccines and tre-
was arrested. The action had invited the wrath
of the Indian Medical Association (IMA).
eded to be investigated by an independent agency
as there were many unanswered questions, follo-
these came from 10 states.
“The confinement of Co-
It will be a long haul, early a clear slowing down and it
has now settled at 5.5%,” he sa-
atment besides stepping up re-
search, Dr Paul said.
Earlier, the HC had directed that Sudhakar vid-19 to certain areas has be- id. The lockdown was impo-
be produced before a magistrate and his state-
ment recorded. The HC, after examining the Vi-
wing which the court ordered a CBI inquiry. The
bench said the case registered against Dr Sudha-
kar by cops should also be transferred to the CBI.
en due to actions taken during
the lockdown. It enabled us to
reporting will be key: Govt sed on March 25, and Paul said
it took a time lag for its effects
Sharing the projections of
a no-lockdown scenario, Pra-
veen Shrivastava, secretary,
sakhapatnam district judge’s report, found ma- Full report on www.toi.in be more prepared for the futu- Sushmi.Dey@timesgroup.com to show up in terms of a decli- ministry of statistics, plan-
re,” Dr Paul said. Similarly, The actual ning rate of infection. ning and programme imple-
over 80% of deaths were re- Besides slowing the spread
ANTIVIRUS
New Delhi: Warning that trajectory of the mentation, cited models inclu-

Now, book ported from five states — Ma-

harashtra, Gujarat, Madhya
COVID-19 HAS BECOME AN INFODEMIC OF FAKE NEWS ON Pradesh, Bengal and Delhi
SOCIAL MEDIA. TOI HELPS YOU ZAP THE TRENDING LIES special AC and around 95% in 10 states,
the government said, indica-
Exercise won’t weaken your immune system trains a month ting much of the outbreak is
confined to limited areas.
the fight against Covid-19
was going to be a “long haul”,
the government stressed on
the need for early reporting
of cases for better clinical
management and to reduce
deaths from the infectious
disease will not
of the disease, the lockdown al-
lowed the government to line
ding ones prepared by Boston
Consulting Group, Public He-
depend on the virus, up resources in terms of he- alth Foundation of India, inde-
it is on us to decide alth infrastructure and medi-
cal workers, increased medi-
pendent economists and rese-
archers as well as by the mini-
depending on how
much we resist it
cal supplies and gain experien-
ce in containment measures. It
stry itself in partnership with
Indian Statistical Institute.

R WAs have reluctantly restored your freedoms, but

some social media posts are still trying to keep you in advance
“This is no small achieve-
ment. It also gives us the con-
disease. “The fight is going
to be a long haul and its pro-
by following good
health practices
also shortened the wait for po- Full report on www.toi.in

locked down. There’s one that claims exercise weakens

the immune system and can make you susceptible to the TIMES NEWS NETWORK
coronavirus. “Did you know that every time you perform
New Delhi: The railways on
an exhausting workout, you are temporarily suppressing
your immune system? As little as one hard workout can Friday revised norms for boo-
king of tickets in 15 pairs of
open you up to attacks by viruses and other diseases,” it
special AC trains, allowing
says. However, fact-checkers say the claim is based on the “open-
passengers to book tickets for
window theory” that was popular in the 1980s and 1990s. Studies in- one month in advance. It also
volving marathoners and ultra-marathoners showed that they were said that passengers with
more likely to fall sick soon after a hard training session. But it has no RAC tickets will be allowed to
relation to your morning walk or jog in the park, unless you run 42km
board these trains.
every morning. In fact, moderate daily exercise boosts immunity. The changes will come to
effect for tickets booked from
Should you wear a mask while you run? May 24 (Sunday) and for jour-
fidence to open up other are-
as. Despite being such a large
nation, due to lockdown, the
outbreak has remained con-
fined to limited areas,” Dr
Paul said. He added that a
lockdown could not last fore-
ver and an opening up needed
adoption of safe practices.
On Friday, the health mi-
nistry reported a total of
1,18,447 confirmed cases. Of
this, 66,330 were under active
medical supervision. In the
last 24 hours, 6,088 cases were
gress in India will depend
not just on the behaviour of DR V K JOHN SUMMARY OF VARIOUS ESTIMATES
the virus but also contain- NITI AAYOG MEMBER Cases averted Deaths averted
ment measures at the go- Estimate 1
(BCG) 36-70 L 1.2-2.1 L
vernment, community and cing and testing would be
individual level,” Niti Aay- key to keep Covid-19 cases Estimate 2 78,000
(PHFI)
og’s Dr V K Paul said. and deaths under control
Estimate 3
“The actual disease tra- in the coming days as the
(Two independent 23 L 68,000
jectory will not depend on lockdown is relaxed. Economist)
the virus, it is on us to decide “We have been able to ke-
depending on how much we ep cases and mortalities at Estimate 4
(Experts including 15.9 L 51,000
resist it by following good reasonable rates so far — so Scientists)
health practices,” he added. the key is to sustain the mo-
Estimate 5 20 L
Dr Paul also stressed mentum we have gained as 54,000
that early detection of ca- the lockdown measures are
(MoSPI/ISI)
(Range 14 – 29 lakh) (Range 37,000 – 78,000)
(Source:
MOSPI)

T hat’s a question runners face because it’s

hard to breathe through a mask, especially
in summer. The sensible thing is to wear a
neys scheduled from May 31.
Currently, the advance re-
servation period for these
added till Friday morning. ses, effective contact tra- gradually eased,” he said.

As per WHO advisory, seven

special trains being run to
mask when it is not possible to maintain a
6-foot gap from others, and take it off when connect Delhi with 15 big citi-
es is only seven days.
Even those on non-Covid
you have adequate space for yourself.
“RAC waiting list tickets
duty now eligible for HCQ
states, UTs should stay shut
will be issued in these trains
as per existing instructions
NATIONAL HEALTH MISSION applicable. However, wait-lis- Sushmi.Dey vid-19 patients and asymp-
ted passengers will not be allo-
ASSAM
@timesgroup.com tomatic healthcare work- PTI
wed to board these trains,” sa- ers working in non-Covid Pradeep.Thakur high, that may indicate that
No. NHf; l 18013 ?3 ?20 19-PR OC-NH la1+ ECF-123372!P-103 id a statement from the rail- New Delhi: Inan important hospitals or non-Covid ar- @timesgroup.com the state is only testing the
Date: 22-05-2020 way ministry. It also clarified decision, the health minis- eas of such hospitals or sickest patients and is not cas-
that there shall be no Tatkal try on Friday revised its ad- blocks, are now eligible for New Delhi: At least seven sta- ting a wide enough net to know
EXTENSION NOTICE booking for these trains. visory on use of hydroxy- prophylactic use of HCQ. tes and Union Territories — how much of the virus is spre-
This has reference to the e-tender No: NHMI 1 8 0131312 019-PR0C- The ministry said the first chloroquine (HCQ) as a The advisory said cau- Maharashtra, Gujarat, Delhi, ading within its communiti-
NHM/ECF-123372/P-77 Da- F 13-03-2020 for entering into rate contract chart will be prepared at least prophylactic for Covid-19 tion must be exercised in Telangana, Chandigarh, Ta- es,” the Johns Hopkins study
for supply ESSENTIAL CONSUMABLES & LINENS to health facilities four hours before scheduled de- infection, expanding the case of people with cardio mil Nadu and Bihar — would said. A low positivity rate may
under Depart ment of Health & Family Welfare Govt. of Assam. parture and second chart will drug’s use for asymptomat- rhythm disorders and hy- remain under lockdown with be suggestive of sufficient tes-
Details as below: be prepared at least two hours ic healthcare and frontline persensitivity to the drug. an increase in confirmed co- ting capacity and a strategy
Events Extended date before the scheduled departure. workers deployed in Covid The decision came af- ronavirus cases in the last two that is using the tests effective-
“Current booking shall be and non-Covid areas. ter the National Task weeks if a WHO advisory that ly by checking an adequate sec-
Start Date & Time for online Time: 2.00 pm & Date: 26105?2020
permitted in between first and As per the fresh adviso- Force for Covid-19 consti- says restrictions should not Migrant workers arrive along with tion of its population, it added.
submission of Bid and Offline second charts,” the ministry ry, issued after ICMR con- tuted by the ICMR re- be lifted if the positive rate is There may be some aber-
their bicycles at Jodhpur railway
Submission on Hard Copies said. Booking of tickets can be ducted tests on the use of viewed the use of HCQ for more than 5% is followed. station to board a special train rations, though. For instance,
End Date & Time for online Time: 2.00 pm & Date: 210612020 done from computerised PRS the medicine, all asympto- prophylaxis of SARS- A similar study by Johns for Jharkhand on Friday West Bengal, which has a low
submission of Bid and Offline counters including post offi- matic healthcare workers CoV-2 infection for “high- Hopkins University, based on positivity rate of 2%, has the
Submission on Hard Copies
ces, Yatri Ticket Suvidha involved in containment, risk population” based on the advisory issued on May 12, The WHO advisory, howe- highest case fatality rate
Kendra licencees and through such as Asha workers, mu- the emerging evidence on found only 50% of US states ver, needs to be seen in con- among all states at 9%. This
Date & Time for opening of Time: 4.00 pm & Date: 210612020
on-line booking including aut- nicipal employees and po- its safety and efficacy. qualifying for lifting of lock- text of contamination zones indicates that it may not be
Technical Bid horised agents of IRCTC. lice, those treating Co- Full report on www.toi.in down. In India, 21% of the 34 as entire states may not be af- testing enough or testing only
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REFERRED TO ABOVE SHALL REMAIN UNCHANGED. this category as they have the virus limited to hotspots analysis showed that West
Shc-
naiaa
over 5% positive cases per 100 and largely urban areas. But Bengal had carried out 71% of
Mission Director,NHM, Assam tests since May 7. Maharash- despite a zoning approach to its total tests of 1.11lakh so far
tra (18%), Gujarat (9%), Delhi easing restrictions, the WHO in the last fortnight alone. Te-
(7%), Telangana (7%), Chan- bar provides an indicator of langana, which has reported
E-TENDER NOTICE
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and Bihar (5%) continue to ha-
which states need to do more
to reduce rates of infection.
a high positivity rate, has no
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Bengaluru: A farmer taking a new crop
loan of up to Rs 3 lakh from any cooperative +ve, 1 for every
bank in Karnataka won’t be charged inter-
est. However, the government is yet to de-
cide whether to extend the benefit to all
6 patients
farmers or only small and marginal ones. Bharat.Yagnik@timesgroup.com
The decision was taken at a review
meeting chaired by chief minister BS Yedi- Ahmedabad: In an alarming
yurappa, which was attended by coopera- development, the number of
tion department officials. The government Covid-positive staffers at Gu-
will come out with the guidelines some- jarat Cancer Research Institu-
time next week. “About 24.5 lakh farmers te (GCRI) on the Civil Hospital
4148 will benefit from the extended scheme,” campus here has climbed to
said a senior department official. 102, clearly the highest among
According to the senior official, the de- hospitals in the state. Against
cision was taken to encourage pandemic- 600-odd Covid patients treated
hit farmers to take up agricultural activ- at the hospital, this calculates
ities in the upcoming Kharif season. to a ratio of one positive staf-

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THE TIMES OF INDIA, NEW DELHI *
SATURDAY, MAY 23, 2020
Group of experts
proposes 7-point
alternative plan to
beat Covid crisis
New Delhi: A group of intellec-
tuals have come together to propose
a 7-point plan of action— “Mission
Jai Hind”— to respond to the pre-
sent economic, health and humani-
tarian crisis in the wake of the coro-
navirus outbreak. They have pro-
posed an alternative approach, list-
ing some urgent steps that the
Centre and state governments must
take to rebuild lives and livelihood.
The plan calls for measures, in-
cluding help to migrants go back
home within 10 days; universal and
free healthcare for all Covid pa-
tients; universal access to expanded
ration for six months. It also calls
for enhanced job guarantee, com-
pensation for loss of job and a three-
month interest waiver for farmers,
small business and home loans.
In a statement, they claim that
the “stimulus package” announced
by the central government “virtual-
ly ignores the urgent need for eco-
nomic support to ordinary citizens
whose lives and livelihoods have
been shattered by the lockdown”.
It has been endorsed by promi-
nent economists, including Profes-
sors Pranab Bardhan, Deepak Nay-
yar, Jean Dreze, Abhijit Sen and
Jayati Ghosh among others. TNN
Govt allows 10kg
free foodgrain to
‘needy’ families
not under PDS
Dipak.Dash@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: The Centre on Friday
allowed states to provide 10 kg free
foodgrain to “needy” persons and
2 kg black gram (chana) per fam-
ily for May and June, who don’t
have any ration card and also
don’t fall in the migrant or strand-
ed migrant workers category.
The food ministry issued fresh
clarifications after Union minister
Ram Vilas Paswan held a mara-
thon meeting with ministers and
secretaries from states. Till now,
free grain and chana was made
available to only migrant workers
who don’t have ration cards.
“We have made it clear that free
food grain and chana under Atma
Nirbhar Bharat package will be ex-
tended to migrants, stranded mi-
grants and needy persons who don’t
have ration cards under NFSA or is-
sued by state government,” Paswan
tweeted attaching the official order.
He said states will be respon-
sible for identifying beneficiaries
and they need to send the list of
beneficiaries by June 15. Paswan
said, “Our aim is to see that none
is left hungry.”
U.P. Rajya Vidyut Utpadan
Nigam Ltd . Obra Thermal
Power Station Obra-Sone-
bhadra-231219. Notice Invit-
ing e-Bid . Tender No. MMC-
I/CPD-IV/FFS/2020-21. Online
e-Bids are invited for Install-
ation of Fire Protection System
on Turnkey basis at Obra "B"
Thermal Power Station , Obra,
Sonebhadra (U.P.). Last date
of online e-bid submission is
25/06/2020 (18:00 Hrs) and
Tech no-commercial bid will be
opened on 27/06/2020 at 16:30
Hrs or later. The E-M.D. and
Tender cost for e-bid submis-
sion is Rs. 45,00,000/- (Rs.
Forty Five Lakhs only) and
Rs. 5900/- (Rs. Five Thou-
sand Nine Hundred only)
respectively. Detailed specifi-
cation and terms & condition
are as per tender document
available on the e-tender web-
site. Bid shall be accepted
online only on e-tender website
https :// etender.up.nic.in. In-
formation related to extension
in due dates and corrigendum
if any shall be uploaded only
on the above website. Bidders
are advised to visit the website
on regular basis in order to
keep themselves updated.
Short Term E-Tender Notice.
Tender No. TO-353/SE(MMC-
ll)/ CPD-III/BTPS /2020- 2 1 .
Online e-Bids are invited for
the Supp ly of high pressure
seamless steel empty H2 gas
cylinder along with 5 year test
certificate. E-tender has been
published on 20.05.2020 UP
Govt. e-tender portal http://
etender.up.nic.in.Last date of
e-bid submission on 11.06.2020
at 18:00 Hrs. & Technical Bid
(Part-1) will be opened on
13.06.2020 at 18:00 Hrs. or
later. Estimated Cost of supply
will be approximately Rs.
24,00,000/- (Rupees Twenty
Four Lakhs) Only. The E.M.D.
and Tender cost for e-bid sub-
mission is Rs. 48 ,000/- Only
and Rs . 1180/- only respec-
tively. Total Quantity of supply
tender specification and other
terms & condition is as per ten-
der document available on the
e-tender portal. It may please
be noted that this is online bid
and shall be accepted online
only on website http://etender.
up.nic.in. Information related
to extension in due dates and
corrigendum if any shall be
uploaded only on the above
website. Bidders are advised to
visit the website on regular
basis in order to keep them-
selves update. (Superinten-
ding Engineer , MMC-I). Save
Electricity for Nation , RO 123
dt 22.05.2020
TIMES NATION 13
Biomed waste disposal a huge challenge now U’khand shunts
health secy, 20
TIMES NEWS NETWORK ways to collect, transport and
dispose of such waste and
tion control boards/com-
mittees to maintain records
sions under the BMW Man-
agement Rules, 2016. In case
others have given this re-
sponsibility to teams taking other officials
New Delhi: India has clear asked state pollution control of Covid-19 treatment of large volume of Covid-19 infection control measures. Kautilya.Singh@timesgroup.com
rules to deal with biomedi-
cal waste but the Covid-19
boards to adhere to it while
monitoring the entire proc-
wards, quarantine centres,
quarantines homes and en-
waste in remote areas, the
guidelines permit “use of
The UP government has
set up district-level commit- Dehradun: The Uttarakhand
pandemic has presented a ess. The guidelines had spe- sure proper collection and deep burial pits for disposal tees, headed by an addition- government late on Thursday
unique challenge where the cific dos and don’ts for hand- disposal of biomedical of yellow category waste”. al chief medical officer, to transferred 16 IAS officers, in-
country has to deal with an ing Covid-19 related waste — waste as per our guide- The guidelines recom- undertake infection control cluding health secretary Nit-
unestimated amount of categorised yellow for highly lines,” CPCB member secre- mend providing personal measures and monitor dis- ish Jha, besides five PCS offi-
such waste exclusively from infectious waste — at health- tary Prashant Gargava said. protective equipment to all posal of biomedical waste. cers. The list also includes the
dedicated Covid hospitals, care facilities, quarantine He added that the board workers engaged in dispos- The teams, including repre- names of officers, who hit
quarantine centres and camps/homes, home care fa- has launched a mobile app ing of such waste and man- sentatives from the UP pol- controversy recently in issu-
Municipal workers cremate
home quarantine facilities. cilities, sample collection — COVID19BMW — and date civic bodies to make pro- lution control board, are al- ing a pass to independent UP
body of a Covid patient in
The task has become all the centres, laboratories, isola- asked all biomedical waste visions of segregation of so expected to check waste MLA Amanmani Tripathi to
Maharashtra’s Karad on Friday
more difficult as many tion wards and Common Bio- generators to register on waste using colour-coded disposal in non-Covid pri- travel across districts during
states lack strict monitor- medical Waste Treatment gaged trained manpower this and submit data related bins, bags and containers. vate hospitals. the ongoing lockdown.
ing mechanisms. Facilities (CBWTF). for its collection from quar- to the Covid-linked waste. It advised agencies to Many states have de- The charge of secretary
The Central Pollution TOI found that many antine homes/centres and “This data is cross-checked treat faeces from Covid-19 ployed private agencies for health was withdrawn from
Control Board (CPCB) had is- states had assigned the job home care facilities. with states and CBWTFs on patients, who are unable to the job and asked the pollu- Jha and given to Amit Singh
sued a detailed guidelines in of collection and disposal of But who is responsible for a daily basis,” Gargava said. use toilets and if excreta is tion control boards to moni- Negi, who is also secretary
April on handing Covid-link- biomedical waste to private monitoring all these activ- According to the CPCB collected in diapers, as bio- tor it on a daily basis. finance. Similarly, the charge
ed biomedical waste and agencies and deployed dedi- ities to ensure that the guide- guidelines, in places with no medical waste. (With inputs from of commissioner transport
launched a dedicated mobile cated vehicles for waste lines are strictly followed to CBWTF, existing captive fa- Acouple of states have set Bengaluru, Chennai, Nag- was taken from Shailesh Ba-
app last week to track its col- transportation till the handle the high risk waste? cilities of any hospital may up dedicated mechanisms to pur, Chandigarh, Kolkata, gauli and given to Deependra
lection and disposal. CBWTFs. Civic bodies in “It is the responsibility be identified for disposal of monitor collection and dis- Patna, Bhubaneswar, Jai- Kumar Chaudhary.
It specified scientific many cities have also en- of the respective state pollu- Covid-19 waste as per provi- posal of Covid-19 waste while pur, Lucknow and Kochi) Full report on www.toi.in
U.P.R .V.U.N, L. E-Tender Notice: depositing Tender Cost through? site fees for participation in thei Opening Extended date of ten-:fees for participation in the e-:poration , Ashok Marg, Lucknow:36/MMC/EPD/CTPS/HTPS/20
E-Tenders are invited for the; RTGS (in the HTPS Account) &:: e-Tendering. The bidder must; der are as below:- Extended tendering. The bidder must by depositing requisite fees for 20 , Name of Supply: Procure-
followings supply/works items: Eamest Money through RTGS:also be registered with their Due date of submission of a-;also be registered with their !participation in the e-tendering. ment of HCL for WTP , DTPS,
in two parts. Part- I shall con-:(in the HTPS Account)/BG up Digital Signature Certificate:: Bid (Technical & Financial) at:D igital Signature Certificate The bidder must also be regis-;HIPS , Kasimpur Estimated
tain Tender Cost/Earnest money; to dated: 04.06.2020 up to (DSC) in the e-bidding system, : e-procurement website http://;(DSC) in the e-bidding system , tered with their Digital Signature; cost: Rs. 1,44,000.00, Earnest
and other necessary docu- 1 14:00 Hrs. Extended due date of after that the bidder can par tic- : etender .up.nic.in is 01.06, 2020; after that the bidder can pa rtic- i Certificate (DSC) in the e-bid-;money: Rs. 3000.00, Tender cost:
ments as per pre-qualifying; submission of hard copy of all ipat e in bid submission activity. upto 14.00 Hrs. , due date oflipate in bid submission activity. ding system, after that the bid- :: Rs. 118-00, Date of Starting of
conditions and Part -11 will con-;the requisite documents in the'Superintending Engineer, Ope-;submission of hard copy of all 14. E-Tender Notice No. ET-:der can participate in bid sub- E-bid submission: 22.04.2020,
tain price bid as per bill of office of undersigned maximum; ration & Maintenance Circle-IV , the requisite documents w i t h :: 33/BMD- 1/DTPS/O&MC- II/19-;mission activity. Superintending Extended Last Date of submis-
quantity. Tender specification: on dated: 06.06-2020- Tender ; Hdj. "D"T.P.S., Kasimpur - 8. E-:tender cost & earnest money in 20 , "Overhauling of APH , Seal; Engineer , Electricity Civil Main- : sion of E-bid: 08-06.2020 , Tender
may be downloaded from the opening Extended date , Part- A: Tender No. ET-07/O&MC-IV/D/;the office of undersigned: 01 .06.?trough , repairing of SCAPH tenance Circle , Kasimpur 17, shall be opened on Extended
website (http:// etender.up.nic.in):: 06.06.2020 at 16:00 Hrs, Note: TPS/EMD-11/C/TPS/2020-21 ,;2020 u p to 16:00 hrs. Part-I of'system etc. of Unit # 9, of 2x250:: Short Term E-Tender No. 03/;date: 09-06.2020 (Part - 1), 10.06-
and other specification details; The details for submission of Name of work: of "Cleaning of the Tender shall be opened on:MW , HTPS" for a period of one :ECMC/ECMD- I/HTPS/2020- : 2020 (Part-II) E-Tender ID -2020
-
can be seen on Nigam website; bids will be available on e-pro-;cable racks , cable Gallery & :date 02.06.2020 at 16:00 hrs year' under BMD-I 'D' TPS , 21 , Name of work: Monitoring RVUNL 457410_1 Eligibility Con-
www.uprvunl.org The contac-' curementwebsite: http://etender. ; site offices pert aining to EMD-Il and Part-II of the Tender shall H a r d u a g a n j Thermal Power of Environment Parameters at ditions:Only manufacturers heir
tors have to submit the hard :up.nic.in w.e.f. 18:00 Hrs. dated:- :: of 'C' T, P.S., Unit No: 7, Kasim- be opened on date 03.06,2020; Station " Estimated Cost R s .? H a r d u a g a n j Thermal Power authorized dealers/Experienced
copy before the schedule date/ :: 21 .02.2020. (2) The bidders !pur' as per scope of work", for at 16:00 Hrs." Note: The details ; 20 ,23,000.00 , Earnest Money ; Plant , Kasimpur Aligarh . Uttar; Supplier can participate in this
time in the concern office in .are ' required to be registered; the period of one year. Estimated: for submission of bids are; Rs. 40,500.00 , Cost of Tender ; Pradesh. Estimated cost As. tender. 25. Tender No. & Name
sealed envelope containing ; with U.P. Electronics Corporation , '; cost Rs, 2,98,940.00 (Rupees; available on the e-procurementidocument Rs. 2,000.00+360.00;10.41 Lac, Earnest money Rs. of Division: ET-41/MMC/EPD/
details of the tender mentioned; Ashok Marg, Lucknow by depo-?Two Lac Ninety Eight Thou sand; website: http://etender.up.nic.in-?(GST)=Rs. 2,360.00 Extended :21 ,000.00, Tender cost Rs. CTPS /HTPS/2020, Name of
on the envelope. Tender Notice; siting requisite fees for partici- Nine Hundred Forty Onl y), Ear-:(2) The bidders are required to :: date of tender are as below:- 1000.00+180.00 GST (Present Supp ly: Procurement of Distance
Harduaganj Thermal Powerpation in the e-Tendering. The; nest Money Rs. 5,979.00 (Rupees: be registered with U.P. Electro- ;Due date of Submission of e- Rate is 18/ °)=Rs, 1180.00 , Numerical Relay for Harduaganj-
Station Superintending Engineer ,; bidder must also be registered; Five Thousand Nine Hundred nics Corporation , Ashok Marg , ?Bid (Technical & Financial) at:Last date and time for submis-;
Operation & Maintenance Circe-;with their Digital Signature; Seventy Nine Only), Tender? Lucknow by depositing requi-e-procurement website http://sion of a-bid (http://etender.up. Etch 220KV feeder , HTPS ,
IV , Hdj. -D-T. P. S., Kasimpur. 1. Certificate (DSC) in the e bid- ;cost Rs- 300.00+54.00(GST)= site fees for participation in t h e : e t e n d e r . u p . n i c . i n : 08.06.2020:nic.in) 19.6.2020 upto 14.00 H rs., : Kasimpur Estimated cost: Rs.
Tender No. ET-08/O&MC-IV/;ding system , after that the bid-;354.00 (Rupees Three Hundred e-Tendering. The bidder must upto 14:00 Hrs., Due date of iOpening date/time (Part-1) 20-06. : 1 , 39,500.00, Earnest money:
EMD- I/Hdj. 'C'T.P .S./2020-21 .1 der can participate in bid sub-; Fifty Four only) Opening date also be registered with t h e i r ! depositing Tender Cost through 2020 at 16.00 Hrs. or later , : Rs. 2800.00, Tender
R . 28 T e cost: Rs.s
"Shifting, transportation & corn-;mission activity. 4. Tender No, of tender are as below:- Due ; Digital Signature Cert ificate RTGS (in the HTPS account) &' Time of Completion 12 Month , 11 8.00, Date of Sta rt ing of E-
missioning of 132KV/6.6KV , 20'ET-58/O&MC-IV/EMD-I/Hdj. 'C':date of submission of e-Bid (Tech- : (DSC) in the e-bidding system , Earnest Money through RTGS 18. E-Tender No. 04/ECMC/; subm ission:
on : 20t. 5 . 0 0,
MVA M/S CGLMake TransformerT.P.S./2019-20 "Removal , shif-:nical & Financial) at e-procure-;after that the bidder can partic-?(in the HTPS account)/B.G::ECMD-I/HTPS/2020 -21 , Name : D a a of
Date sf submissio n f E
from its foundation at Panki ting, laying etc of different sizeiment website http://etender.up -?ipate in bid submission activity - '08- 06.2020 up to 14:00 Hrs. ,:of work: Cleaning of main drain; L 1 bender ho l
TPS, Panki to Harduaganj TPS , of Power & Control cables" ,:nic. in: 23.06.2020 upto 14 ,00; Superintending Engineer, ECCC, Due date of submission of hard l in new colony, at Harduaganj ' opened on date: 19.06.2020 (Part-
Kasimpur , Aligarh after disman-: HTPS , Kas i m p ur ," for the peri- : Hrs. , Due date of depositing ; Kasimpur. 11 . E.T. No. 01/1copy of all the requisite docu-;Thermal Power Station , Kas i m-' I) 20, 06.2020 (Part -II ) E-Tender ID:
tling & shifting of 132KV/6.9KV , sod of one year" Estimated CostiTender Cost through RTGS (in:E000ECCD-l / 1X660MW/HTPS/ :ments in the office of under-spur Aligarh . Uttar Pradesh , :2020 RVUN L -470135_1 Eligibi-
10 MVA (10T) Transformer, which; Rs. 1,54,500.00 Earnest Money::the HTPS Account) & Earnest!2020-21 , Name of work "Hiring; signed: 10.06.2020, Tender Ope-;Estimated cost As. 14.72 Lac , lity Conditions: Only manufactur-
got damaged" as per scope of Rs. 3, 100.00 Cost of tender 'Money through RTGS (in theiCompute rs & Laser printers 3ining Date: Part-I 10.06.2020 at Earnest money Rs. 29 ,000.00, ers/their authorized dealers can
work , for the period of one: document: Rs. 200.00+Rs.36.00 HTPS Account)/BG up to in 1 in all offices of 1x660 MW:16:00 Hrs. Note: The details for ; Tender cost As. 1470.00+266.00 ::participate in this tender. 26.
month" Estimated Cost Rs. (GST)=Rs. 236.00 Opening date; dated: 23.06.2020 up to 14:00 : Harduaganj TPP Extn -11 Kasim-;submission of bids are avail- GST (Present Rate is 18%)= !Tender No. & Name of Division:
7,00,000.00 Earnest Money: Rs. of tender are as below:- Now'Hrs. Due date of submission of pur , Aligarh" , Estimated Cost able w.e.f. 23.03,2020 at 17:00 Rs. 1736.00 , Date and time for; ET-42/MMC/EPD/CTPS/HTPS/
14,000.00 Cost of tender docu-: Extended due date of Submis-: Hard Copy of all the requisite ; Rs. 10,08,283.00 (G.S.T. Extra); Hrs, in the bid document uploaded !submission of a-bid httpJ/etender.;2020, Name of Supply: Procure-
ment: As. 700.00+Rs. 126-00 sion of e-Bid (Technical & Finan-:documents in the office of under-:Earnest Money Rs. 20170.00, :on the e-procurement website::up.nic.in) 29,6.2020 upto 14.00 ment of LT cables & Aerial bun-
(GST)=Rs. 826.00 Opening date cial) at e-procurement website signed maximum on dated:; Tender Cost Rs.1010-00+182-00:http://etender.up.nic.in. (2) The Hrs., Opening date/time (Part-ached Cables for colony area
of tender areas below:- Due date :http://etender.up.nic. in: 04 .06 ,:25. 06 , 2020 , Tender opening (18% GST) As, 1192 .00 Lasflbidders are required to be reg - I ) 30.6,2020 at 16.00 Hrs. or:HT/LT line and sub-stations of
of Submission of a-Bid (Technical: 2020 up to 14:00 Hrs. , Due date:date 25.06.2020 at 16:00 Hrs .: date and time for submission oflistered with U, P . Electronics Cor-:later. Time of Completion 12:HTPS Kasimpur Estimated cost:
& Financial) at e-procurement: of depositing Tender Cost: Note: The details for submission!e-bid 23.06.2020 up to 02.00:poration , Ashok Marg, Lucknow: Month. 19. E-Tender No. 05/:As.19,48,950.00, Eamestmoney:
website http://etender.up.nic.in through RTGS (in the HTPS of bids will be available on e-pro-:Hrs, E-bid opening date/time by depositing requisite fees for;ECMC/ECMD-I/HTPS/2020-: As. 40,000.00, Tender cost: Rs.
dated: 25.06.2020 up to 14:00: Account) & Earnest Money curementwebsite: httpJ/etender. E(Part -I) 24.06.2020 at 04-001 participation in the e-tendering. 21 , Name of work: M&R of civil 2242,00 , Date of Starting of E-
Hrs. , Due date of depositing; through RTGS (in the HTPS :up.nic.in w.e.f.18:00 Hrs. dated:-:Hrs of later. Time of completion ; The bidder must also be regis- :works of non residential b u i l d - : b i d submission: 20 .052020 , Last
Tender Cost through RTGS (in'Account)/BG up to Extended ; 23.05.2020 , (2) The bidders 01 Year. Superintending Engineer, tered with their Digital Signature:ings of new colony, at Hard ua-I Date of submission of E-bid:
the HTPS Account) & Earnest: dated: 04.06.2020 up to 14:00:are required to be registered i Operation & Maintenance Circe-:Cert ificate (DSC) in the e-bid- :ganj Thermal Power Station ,:18.06.2020 , Tender shall beope-
Money through RTGS (in the; Hrs. due date of submission of with U.P. Electronics Corporation, ::11, 'D' TPS , Kasimpur. 12, E-;ding system , after that the bid- Kasimpur Aligarh. Uttar Pradesh. ned on date: 19-06.2020 (Part-
HTPS Account)/BG up to dated:; hard copy of all the requisite; Ashok Marg, Lucknow by deposi-:Tender Notice No. ET-02/O&MC-;der can participate in bid sub-;Estimated cost As. 16.76 Lac , : 1), 20.06.2020 (Part-11) E-Tender
25.06-2020 up to 14:00 Hrs.: documents in the office of under- ' ting requisite fees for participa-i1I 'D' TPS/BMD-I 'D' TPS/20-21 mission activity . 15. E-Tender ;Earnest money Rs. 33,000-00 ,:ID-: 2020_ R V U N L _ 470136_ 1
due date of submission of hard; signed maximum on Extended tion in the e-Tendering. The "Routine & Breakdown mainte-Notice No . ET-34/13M D-1/DTPS/ :Tender cost As, 1680 , 00+302 .00 Eligibi lity Conditions: Onl y manu-
copy of all the requisite docu- '.dated: 06.06.2020. Tender open-;bidder must also be registered ! nance of FO/LDO Pumps , HFO O&MC-Il/19-20 , "On line set-;GST (Present Rate is 18%)=Rs. facturers/their authorized deal -
ments in the office of under-;ing Extended date , Part-A ::: with their Digital Signature :: Heater , its pipeline & valves of ting of floating pressure of 1 982.00 , Date and time for sub- ers can participate in this ten-
signed maximum on dated:: 06.06.2020 at 16:00 Hrs. Note:: Cert ificate (DSC) in the a-bid- :Unit # 8 & 9, 2x250MW , HTPS ,:safety valves by Trevi test : mission of e-bid httpJ/etender, : der. 27. Tender No. & Name of
27.06.2020. Tender opening date,; The details for submission of:ding system, after that the bid-;A ligarh" for a period of one yea r' method of boiler No. 9 & 8 after : up- nic.in) 29.6.2020 upto 14-00;Division: ET-43/MMC/EPD/CTPS/
Part-A: 27.06.2020 at 16:00 Hrs.; bids will be available on e-pro-;der can participate in bid sub-:under BMD-l 'D'TPS, Harduaganj ; overhauling work" for a period; Hrs., Opening date/time (Part -;HTPS/2020 , Name of Supply:
Note: The details for submis-?curement website: http://etender mission activity. 9. E-Tender No.EThermal Power Station" Estima-?of one year" under BMD-1 'D' TPS ,: I) 30.6.2020 at 16.00 Hrs . or later . Supply, Installation and com-
sion of bids will be available on up.nic.in w.e.f. 18:00 Hrs. dated:- ET- 60/O&MC-IV/D/TPS/EMD-IV:ted Cost Rs. 8,15 ,000.00 , Ear- ?Harduaganj Thermal Power Time of Completion 12 Month . missioning of IRIG-B Hub in
:
e-procurement website: http://;21.02.2020. (2) The bidders C/TPS/2019-20, Name of work: :nest Money As. 16,300.00 Cost ; Station" Estimated Cost Rs. 20. E-Tender No, 06/ECMC/ : GPS synchronization at 220/
etender.up.nic.inw.e.f.18:00 Hrs.;are required to be registeredi of "Shifting of Motors/Rotors/ :ofTender document Rs. 800-00+ 1 3, 49,000.00, Earnest Money :ECMD-I/HTPS/2020-21 , Name :: 132KV substation of HTPS
dated:-21.05.2020. (2) The bid-;with U.P. Electronics Corporation ,? Stators & replacement of bear-:144.00 (GST)=Rs. 944.00 Open-? Rs. 7 ,000.00 , Cost of Tender ::of work: Removal and disposal
ders are required to be registered; Ashok Marg, Lucknow by deposi- ings of various motors & Lay-;ing date of tender are as below:-;document As. 500 ,00 +90 , 00' of malwa inside the backlane Estimated cost: As, 1,99, 500.00 ,
with U.P. Electronics Corpora- 's ting requisite fees for participa- ing, Dressing, Tagging, making ; Due date of Submission of e-;(GST)=Rs.590.00 Extended date ' gallery of residential and non Earnest money: As. 4,000.00 ,
tion , Ashok Marg, Lucknow byltion in the e-Tendering, T h e?en d Termination , making strai-;Bid (Technical & Financial) at:of tender are as below:- Due residential buildings of new Tender cost: As. 236.00 , Date
S ta oingf E-bid submission:
depositing requisite fees for; bidder must also be registered ight through joint & removal of e-procurement website http://; date of Submission of e-Bid;colony, at Harduaganj Thermal of Start
participation in the e-Tender-;with their Digital Signature old cable, of Unit No.-7 "C" etender.up.nic.in: 25.06.2020 (Technical & Financial) at e- :: Power Station , Kasimpur Aligarh. : 20.05.2020 , Last Date of s
ate o subb
ing. The bidder must also be; Certificate (DSC) in the e-bid- :T .P.S, H.T.P.S., Kasimpur' asiupto 14:00 Hrs. , Due date of :procure ment website http:// Uttar Pradesh , Estimated cost miss n of E- bid: 18.0 6.2020,
registered with their Digital ding system , after that the bid- ::per scope of work", for thepe ri- ; depositing Tender Cost through; etender .up.nic.in: 08.06.2020; Rs. 06.57 Lac , Earnest money Tender s be ope ned on date:
Signature Certificate (DSC) in'der can part icipate in bid sub-'od of one year, Estimated cost; RTGS (in the HTPS account) &'upto 14:00 Hrs. , Due date of?R s. 13,000.00 , Tender cost Rs. 1e h0 ( Part-1),
the e-bidding system , after that; mission activity. Superintending 'Rs. 04 ,56,487.00, Rs. 9, 130.00.: Earnest Money through RTGS depositing Tender Cost through 650.00+1 18.00 GST (Present (Part-11) E-Tender ID: 2020_
the bidder can participate in bid; Engineer, ECCC, Kasimpur. 5. Tender cost As. 500.00+90.00 (in the HTPS account)/B.G: RTGS (in the HTPS account) &:Rate is 18%)=Rs. 768.00, Date, RVUNL _470137_ 1 Eligibility
submission activity, 2 , Tender : E-Tender No. 06/ECCC/ECCD-: (GST)=590.00, Extended date : 25,06.2020 up to 14:00 Hrs, , Earnest Money through RTGS and time for submission of e-bid : Conditions: Only manufacturers/
No , ET-09/O&MC-IV/EMD-VHdj . III/HTPS/2019-20 , Name of work of Opening of tender are as Due date of submission of hard '(in the HTPS account)/B.G: http://etender.up.nic.in) 29.6.2020 their authorized dealers/Experien-
'C'T .P.S./2020-21. "Electrical! "Fire Fighting system installa-:below:- Due date of submission: copy of all the requisite docu-:08.06.2020 up to 14:00 Hrs. ,i upto 14.00 Hrs. , Openingdate/time :ced Suppliers can participate in
Maintenance Works in 220/:tion work around multistory of a-Bid (Technical & Financial) ments in the office of under- :Due date of submission of hard i(Part -I) 30.6.2020 at 16.00 H rs,:this tender, 28. Tender No. &
:
132KV Switchyards ," as per; towers and officer 's club in New'at e-procurement website http:H :signed: 27.06.2020 up to 14:00 copy of all the requisite docu- or later. Time of Completion 12 Name of Division: ET-44/MMC/
scope of work , for the period of !Colony Harduaganj Thermal :etender- up-nic-in: 03-06-2020 : Hrs., Tender Opening Date::ments in the office of under-;Month. 21. E-Tender No. 07/;EPD/CTPS/HTPS/2020 , Name
one yea r" Estimated Cost As.: Power Station , Kasimpur (Ali- upto 14.00 Hrs ., Due date of: Part -I 27.06.2020 at 16:00 Hrs .isigned: 10.06.2020 , Tender O p e -;E C M C / E C M D -I/ H T P S / 2 0 2 0 -: of Supply: Procurement of 11KV
7 , 43, 833.00 Earnest Money: garh)" , Estimated Cost Rs,:depositing Tender Cost through; : Note: The details for submis-:ning Date: Part-I 10.06.2020 at'.21 , Name of work: Roof treat-:Triple Pole Manually Operated
As. 14 ,900.00 Cost of tender; 41 ,73,777.00, Earnest Money Rs. RTGS (in the HTPS Account) & :sion of bids are available w.e.f . 16:00 Hrs. Note: The details for ment in residential buildings of Switch JP MO Switch) for
document: As. 700.00+Rs.:84,000.00, Tender Cost Rs, : Earnest Money through RTGS : 21,05 .2020 at 17:00 Hrs. in the :submission of bids are avail- new colony, at Harduaganj 11 KV line in colony area , HTPS
126.00 (GST)=Rs. 826.00 Ope-;4200.00+756.00 (18% GST) Rs.: (in the HTPS Account)/BG up bid document uploaded on the : able w.e.f. 23.03.2020 at 17:00 Thermal Power Station, Kasimpur;& 220 KV isolator jaw spares
ning date of tender are as'4956.00. Extended Last d ate to dated: 03.06.2020 upto :e-procurement website: http:/ /;Hrs . in the bid document; Aligarh. Uttar Pradesh . Estimated' for 220 KV Switchyard of HTPS
below:- Due date of Submission: and time for submission of e-:14:00 Hrs. Due date of submis-ietender.up.nic.in. (2) The bid-:uploaded on the e-procurement !cost As. 26.79 Lac , Earnest : Estimated cost: As. 1,08,000.00,
of a-Bid (Technical & Financial); bid (httpJ/etender.up.nic.in)15.06 .Esion of Hard Copy of all theiders are required to be regis-;website: http://etender.up. nic. in .:money As. 53,000.00 , Tender : Earnest money: As. 2,000.00,
at e-procurement website htt p://;2020 upto 02.00 Hrs., Extended; requisite documents in theitered with U.P. Electronics Cor- (2) The bidders are required toicost As. 3000.00+540.00 GST Tender cost: Rs. 118.00 , Date
etender.up.nic.in: 25.06.2020 :e-bid Opening date/time (Part - ' office of undersigned maximum :poration , Ashok Marg, Lucknow ';be registered with U.P. Electro- (Present Rate is 18%)=Rs.:of Start ing of E-bid submission:
up to 14:00 Hrs. , Due date of: l) 16.06.2020 at 04.00 Hrs. orl on dated: 05.06.2020. Tenderiby depositing requisite fees for:nics Corporation , Ashok Marg,:3540.00 , Date and time for sub-:20.05.2020 , Last Date of sub-
depositing Tender Cost through later , Time of completion 06 opening date 05.06 .2020 ati participation in the e-tendering. Lucknow by depositing requi-;mission of e-bid http://etender .; mission of E-bid: 18.06.2020 ,
:
RTGS (in the HTPS Account) & : Months. 6, E-Tender No. 10 16:00 Hrs. Note: The details forThe bidder must also be regis- site fees for participation in the :up. nic.in) 29.6.2020 upto 14.00: Tender shat be opened on date:
Earnest Money through R T G S 1E 0 0 0 / E C C D - I I I / 1X 6 6 0 M W / submission of bids will be avail-itered with their Digital Sign a- e-tendering. The bidder must: Hrs., Opening date/time (Part 19,06, 2020 (Part- 1), 20.06.2020
(in the HTPS Account)/BG up HTPS/2019-20 , Name of work; able on e-procurement website: ture Certificate (DSC) in the a-;also be registered with their 1) 30.6.2020 at 16.00 Hrs. or;(part -11) E-Tender ID: 2020
to dated: 25.06.2020 up to "Construction of RCC Road ,!http://etender.up.nic.in w.e.f -;bidding system, after that the Digital Signature Certificate later- Time of Completion 12' RVUNL _470139_ 1 Eligibility
14:00 Hrs. due date of submis-;drain , CISF Boundary Wall , in :18:00 Hrs. dated 03.03.2020: bidder can participate in bid sub-:(DSC) in the e-bidding system ,iMonth , Superintending Engineer ,; Conditions: Only manufacturers/
sion of hard copy of all the req-;new colony, Harduaganj Thermal; (ID No, 2020_RVUNL _441581_ 1) mission activity . 13. E-Tender after that the bidder can part ic- :MMC , Harduaganj 'D' TPS , ::their authorized dealers/Experien-
uisite documents in the office; Power Station Colony, Kasimpur(2) The bidders are required to Notice No. ET-03/O&MC -11 'D' ipate in bid submission activi ty .iKasimpur (Aligarh) 22 . E-Tendera ced Suppliers can part icipate in
of undersigned maximum on (Aligarh)", Estimated Cost Rs, :: be registered with U.P. Elect ro-:TPSBMD-'D' TPS/20-21, "Over-; 16. E-Tender Notice No. ET-35/ :: No.: ET-31/MMC/EPD/DTPS/: this tender. 29. Tender No. &
dated: 27.06.2020. Tender open-;4 ,29,88,502.25 , Earnest Money nics Corporation , Ashok Marg ,; hauling work of coal pipe of B M D -I/DTPS/O&MC- 11/19-20 ,:2020 , Name of Supply: Supp ly I Name of Division: ET-149/MMC/
:
ing date, Part -A: 27 .06.2020 at As. 8,68 , 000.00 , Tender Cost As, Lucknow by depositing r e q u i - ; U n i t # 9 'D' , TPS" for a period;"G. D. Test of ESP during over- :of MOT Level Transmitter for; EPD/GYPS/HTPS/2019 Name
16:00 Hrs. Note: The details for :: 15000.00+2700.00 (18% GST):site fees for participation in the ; of one year" under BMD-I 'D' hauling of Unit#9 & 8 , 2x250MW , ':Overhauling of Unit No . 8 of: of Suppl y: Procurement , of Fork
submission of bids will be avail Rs. 17700.00. Extended Lastie-Tendering. The bidder must:TPS, Harduaganj Thermal Power HTPS , Kasimpur' for a period :DTPS , Kasimpur , Estimated cost: ; Lift & H ydraulic Mobile crane
able on e-procurement website:; date and time for submission of also be registered with their; Station " Estimated Cost Rs. of one year" under BMD -l 'D' iRs.2 ,31,400,00 , Earnest money:: 12XW(2P) for E&MCD-I 1x660
,
http://etender.up.nic.in w.e.f.'e-bid on date 15.06.2020 up to Digita l Signature Certificate ; 3,82 ,000.00, Earnest Money TPS, Harduaganj Thermal Power Rs. 4000.00 , Tender cost: As.
18:00 Hrs. dated:- 21.05.2020.102.00 Hrs., Extended E-bid open-;(DSC) in the e-bidding system,; Rs. 7,650.00 Cost of Tender; Station" Estimated Cost Rs-;500.00+90.00 (GST). e-Bid : MW HTPS , Estimated cost: As.
(2) The bidders are required to ing date/time (Part- 1) 16.06.2020; after that the bidder can part ic- ;document As, 400.00+72.00i8 , 14 ,000.00 , Earnest Money ; online submission extended : 18,75 000.00, Earnest money:
be registered with U. P. Electro- at 04.00 Hrs. or later , Time of ipate in bid submission activity. 1 (GST)=Rs. 472.00 Opening date Rs. 16,300.00 Cost of Tender; End Date: 08.06,2020 Tender :: Rs. As. 338000.00,
.00, Tender
d r cost: Rs-
,00 , Dateof St arting
n i cs Cor p orat i on , Ashok Marg,; completion 09 month. Superin- ;' Superintending Engineer, O&MC-iof tender are as below:- Duedate;document As. 800.00+144.00 :: shall be opened on extended 212 5.00,
Lucknow by depositing requi-; tending Engineer , Coal Handling; III , HTPS , Kasimpur: 10. Tender:of Submission of a-Bid (Tech ni-; (GST)=Rs. 944.00 Extended date ?date: 10.06,2020 (Part-1) & 12.06. 1bid submissio n: 2 . 52020 , Lastt
site fees for participation in the; Circle, Kasimpur (Aligarh): 7 . No. & Name of Division: ST-11/:cal & Financial) at e-procure-;tender are as below:- Due date 2020 (Part-11) Eligibility Conditions: e: Dat bidt of suo submi ssion
0 of EE-bid :
e-Tendering. The bidder must;d Ten er No. ET-03/CHC/CHD O&MC-III/C&IMD-VDTPS/HTPS/ 'ment website http://etender. up. 'of Submission of a-Bid (Techni-;Only reputed Manufacturers/their 1 . 020 Te nder shall be
also be registered with their ? 'CTTPS/HTPS/2019-20 , "Day to?OH#8&9 & C&IMD-I , Name of :nic .in: 25.06.2020 upto 14:00 cal & Financial) at e-procure-iAuthorized Dealer can partici-? 8 on date: da 19-06 .20 20 (Part-
Digital Signature Cert ificate; day and routine maintenance! work: "Overhauling of Electrical Hrs, , Due date of depositingiment website http://etender .:pate in this tender. 23. E - )I 20 .06.2020 (Part ) E-Ten der
(DSC) in the e-bidding system ,; of Bull-Dozers". Estimated Cost'and Pneumatic actuators, SADC'Tender Cost through RTGS (in:up,nic.in: 08.06.2020 upto 14:00:Tender No .: ET-33/MMC/EPD/ ID: 2019_ RVUNL _412600_ 1
after that the bidder can panic- : Rs- 5.52 Lacs, Earnest Moneylsystem , SWAS System , Flame the HTPS account) & Earnest '; Hrs., Due date of depositing; DTPS/2020, Name of Supp l y: Eligibility Conditions: Onl y
ipate in bid submission activity.; Rs- 11040.00 , Cost of tender: Scanners , I gniters , Solenoid : Money through RTGS (in the:Tender Cost through RTGS (in :Supply of LT Motor Terminal: manufacturers/their authorized
3, Tender No. ET-57/O&MC-IV/: document Rs.600.00+Rs, 108.O0ivalves , Hot air gate, Pneumatic! HTPSaccount)/B.G. : 25.06 .2020ithe HTPS account) & Earnest : Plates & Cooling fans etc for dealers can participate in this
EMD-I/Hdj. 'C'T.P.S./2019-20. (GST)=Rs. 708.00. Extended; damper/Power cylinder , Hydra; up to 14:00 Hrs., Due date of Money through RTGS (in the O&M of DTPS , Kasimpur. Estima-;tender . Note:- For further details
"Cleaning works of various: Last date of E-bid submission: steps, temperature & pressure; submission of hard copy of all HTPS account)B.G: 08.06.2020:tedco st: Rs.7 ,17,889.00, Eamest: please log on our web site i.e.
Outdoor & Indoor equipment of 16.06.2020 up to 13:00 Hrs., : measurement system, Analyzers; the requisite documents in theiup to 14:00 Hrs., Due date of:money: As. 14000.00, Tender:http://etender.up.nic.in Tenders
'B' & 'C' TPS , Kasimpur ", for; Extended Date of Hard Copy (SOx, NO x, Dust , 02), Mill dis-: officeofundersigned : 27.06.2020 submission of hard copy of all cost: Rs. 500.00+90.00 (GST). are advised to send their hard
the period of one year" Estima-:Submission date 17 ,06.2020: charge valves , Seal air valves : up to 14:00 Hrs. , Tender Opening; the requisite documents in these-Bid online submission extend- :copy directl y to t h e conce rn ed
ted Cost As. 2,41 ,798.00 Ear-:up to 13:00 Hrs. and Date Of o f bowl mills , Vibration Monitor- Date: Part-I 27.06.2020 atiof fice ofundersigned: 10.062020, :edEndDate: 08.06.2020 Tender :tender ingauthority ofthe Circles/
nest Money: As. 4,850.00 Cost; opening Part-I 18.06.2020 aging System (VMS), ERV , C&1:16:00 Hrs. Note: The details forTender Opening Date: Part- I shall be opened on extended : Division. Who reserve the right
of tender document: Rs.:16:00 Hrs. Note:-The details forfie l d equipment of Coal Mill: submission of bids are avail-:10.06.2020 at 16:00 Hrs. Note: :date: 10.06.2020 (Part- 1) &:to reject any or all the tenders
300.00+Rs. 54.00 (GST)=Rs. :submission of bids will be avail-:reject system, C&I field equip-;able w.e.f. 21.05.2020 at 17:00 :The details for submission of:12.06.2020 (Part-11) Eligibilit y without assigning any reason
:
354.00 Opening date of tender : able on e-procurement website::ment of Ash Handling system,:Hrs . in the bid document uploa- ;bids are available w.e.f. 23.03.:Conditions: Only reputed Manu-:thereof. Superintending Engineer
:
are as below:- Now Extended! http:// etender . up.nic.in w.e.f , MAX -DCS etc of unit-8&9 , :dedonthee-procurement web-;2020 at 17:00 Hrs. in the bid ifacturers/their Authorized Dealer/ (H.Q.) ( H a r d u a g a n j Thermal
due date of Submission of e-:dated :- 20.05,2020 at 10:00 Hrs, : DTPS, HTPS, Kasimpur, Aligarh" ,; site: http ://etender.up.nic. in . (2) :document uploaded on the e- :experienced suppliers can par-;Power Station Kasimpur (Algarh)
Bid (Technical & Financial) at:(2) The bidders are required to Estimated cost: As. 21,06,919.00, : The bidders are required to beiprocurement website: http:// ticipateinthistender.Superinten- "Save Electricity Enhance Natio-
e-procurement website http:// be registered with U.P. Electro-; Earnest Money: Rs. 42,000.00 ; registered with U.P. Electronics etender.up.nic-in. (2) The bid-;ding Engineer, MMC, HTPS , nal Productivity" "F 22/34+f?0
etender-up -nic.in: 04-06.2020 :nics Corporation , Ashok Marg, only. TenderCost: Rs- 2, 100.00+ ; Corporation , Ashok Marg, Luck - ::ders are required to be regis-;Kasimpur (Aligarh) 24- Tender;a#'g o ( - 0 ) / F / -1(19)/20
up to 14:00 Hrs ., Due date of: Lucknow by depositing requi-:Rs . 380.00 (G.S.T .) Rs , 2 , 480.00.: now by depositing requisiteitered with U. P. Electronics Cor-: No , & Name of Division: ET -:f 20.05.2020

SLAIN JOURNALIST JAMAL KHASHOGGI’S SONS FORGIVE HIS
KILLERS, LEGAL REPRIEVE FOR 5 SAUDI AGENTS FACING DEATH OF ‘HARRY POTTER’, SAYS SHE STARTED BOOK AT LONDON FLAT
Pak airliner carrying 99 crashes
into Karachi houses, 2 survive
Pilot Told Air Traffic Controllers He Had Lost Both Engines: Report
Omer Farooq Khan TNN
Islamabad: Several people
were killed and, miraculously,
two passengers survived, in-
cluding a top banker, when a
Pakistan International Airli-
nes aircraft with 99 people on
board, including crew, crashed
on Friday into a crowded resi-
dential area near the airport in
the port city of Karachi.
At least 60 people were kil-
led, according to Dawn, but it
was as yet unclear whether the
dead were all passengers or if
the toll included those on the
ground. “Forty-one dead are
confirmed...,” PIA CEO Air
Marshal Arshad Malik said.
One of the two confirmed
survivors is Zafar Masud, CEO
of Pakistan’s Bank of Punjab,
who had a fractured hip and
collar bone but no burns. The
other survivor is named Zuba-
ir. It was unclear at the time of
going to press if there were mo-
re than two survivors among
the passengers. During a me-
Poll shows Biden in the
lead, Trump lashes out
Chidanand.Rajghatta
@timesgroup.com
Washington: A Fox News poll
showing Democratic conten-
der Joe Biden leading against
President Trump by 8 points
heading into the November
election ignited fury in the no-
toriously tetchy incumbent ag-
ainst his favourite TV channel .
At a time the
US is passing
through an un-
precedented
health crisis
and economic
distress, Trump
shot off nearly a dozen tweets
and retweets on the poll, accus-
ing Fox News, a channel that is
for the most part cravenly de-
voted to him, of “doing noth-
ing to help Republicans, and
me get re-elected”. Amid grow-
ing politicisation of the coro-
navirus pandemic and its fal-
lout, he also demanded Fox
News to fire their “fake poll-
ster”, complaining that he had
never had a good Fox poll.
“Why doesn’t @FoxNews
put up the CNBC POLL or the
(believe it or not!) @CNN Poll?
Hope Roger A is looking down
Some states’ anxiety unfounded: Puri
 Continued from P 1
D
omestic passengers are
pre-cleared. Some of the
anxiety which is being
shown would have been there
at any time. Now we have been
under lockdown for 57 days
and are opening after three
days. Between March 25 and
June 1, what’s going to
change? We are going ahead
with this. And if some states
feel anxiety (about allowing
domestic flights) and quaran-
tine people for some days, that
is not practical. We would face
the same issue even if we were
to start on June 1,” Puri said.
The places opposing do-
mestic air travel from Mon-
day are “accepting trains and
the number of people coming
by air is very small. I person-
ally don’t see any problem
(with everyone coming on
board for domestic flights
from Monday),” he added.
“There’s tremendous pent-
up demand, as is visible from
the number of bookings made
in a few hours. We are not send-
ing passengers from abroad.
Even those coming from abro-
ad are doing so after taking all
precautions, and then states
have all quarantine facilities
for them. Here we are bringing
in (domestic) passengers who
are making declarations when
they do a web check-in. They
have to tick boxes about things
like not coming from a contain-
ment zone or not having tested
Covid-positive in the last two
months. Only if they fulfil
these conditions are they given
boarding cards,” Puri said.
About restricting the very
elderly from flying, the minis-
ter said: “This is an advisory
applicable not just to the elder-
ly but also to pregnant women
Volunteers look for survivors in the rubble of buildings in Karachi
dia talk, Sindh information mi-
nister Nasir Hussain Shah said
three passengers had survived.
Flight PK-8303, an Airbus
A320 flying from Lahore to Ka-
rachi, crashed in the city’s Mo-
del Colony in Malir area as it
was about to land at Jinnah In-
ternational Airport. In his last
conversation with the control
tower, the pilot can be heard sa-
ying: “We have lost (both) engi-
nes”, civil aviation authority
sources said, adding, they had
and watching what has hap-
pened to this once beautiful cre-
ation!” the president tweeted,
referring opinion polls in other
channels showing him leading,
and to the late Fox executive
Roger Ailes who had his back.
He went on to identify several
anchors who are mildly critical
of him as “real garbage”.
Trump’s jarring obsession
for ratings ca-
me even as the
pandemic is set
to become a key
electoral issue
in the election.
The Fox News
poll that agitated Trump shows
Biden leading against the presi-
dent 48-40 with 11% undecided.
Although there are five
months to go for the election
and such polls based on small
samples are known to be unre-
liable (as was seen in 2016), such
adverse numbers irks Trump.
Particularly galling for him
was the fact that the poll
showed Biden leading by 17
points among voters 65 and ol-
der, who are most affected by
the pandemic. Trump had won
this demographic by 7% in 2016.
Full report on www.toi.in
FLYING AGAIN
WEEKLY DOMESTIC FLIGHTS
IndiGo
SpiceJet
GoAir
1,403
2,492
831
2,108
Air India
703
1,830
AirAsia India
610
Vistara
1,616
539
Alliance Air 928
309
Rest 565
189
In a day of drama, Air India informs HC
middle-row seats won’t be kept vacant
I n a day of drama in a virtual proceeding, Bombay high court first
directed Air India to keep middle-row seats vacant as DGCA had
instructed in its March 23 “social distancing” circular, and later in
the evening, the airline informed HC that the ministry has
withdrawn that requirement through a fresh circularon Friday,
reports Swati Deshpande. On May 22, DGCA announced
recommencement of domestic operations from May 25 with fresh
guidelines. DGCA said its March 23 social distancing guidelines
“stand superseded”. When domestic flights restart, middle seats
won’t be left vacant. An HC bench modified its order and granted
liberty to the petitioner, Air India pilot Deven Kanani (51), to amend
his petition and challenge the new circular. The petition said social
distancing is the only preventive norm and the circular requiring a
vacant middle seat was binding on the airline. The Air India
counsel argued it was operating non-scheduled flights and theirs
was an operation to repatriate lakhs of Indians in a Vande Bharat
Mission, hence it was not binding.
and people with health issues.
Initially, only those who need
to travel will travel. If you are
aged and healthy and need to
travel, you can travel. Similar-
TIMES GLOBAL
J K ROWLING DEBUNKS EDINBURGH CAFE’S CLAIM TO BIRTHPLACE
AP
lost contact with the aircraft,
flown by Captain Sajjad Gul, a
minute before it was to land.
PIA’s CEO Malik said the pilot
in his last message had said
there was a technical fault
with the aircraft. “The pilot
was told that both runways we-
re ready for him to land. Howe-
ver, the pilot decided to do a go-
around. Why did he do that…
that we will find out,” he said
A video aired on TV chan-
nels showed the plane, on fire,
China boosts spending, takes FBremote
for permanent
up HK law at party congress F
C Growth forecast
hina’s top leaders on Fri-
day made a show of str-
skipped, but
ength to confront defia-
nce in Hong Kong and the eco-
nomic damage wrought by the
coronavirus outbreak.
On Hong Kong, the leader-
ship struck a hard line at the
annual meeting of China’s leg-
islature, unveiling a plan to im-
pose sweeping new security
laws that would place the terri-
tory more firmly under Beij-
ing’s thumb and crack down on
anti-government protests.
The party’s plan seeks to
prevent and punish secession,
subversion and foreign infil-
tration that it has blamed for
fuelling unrest in the city. The
legislation would also allow the
mainland’s feared security ag-
encies to set up their operat-
ions publicly in Hong Kong for
the first time, instead of operat-
ing on a limited scale in secrecy.
The bill, among the most
controversial items on the age-
nda of the National People’s
Congress in years, drew strong
rebukes. US secretary of state
Mike Pompeo condemned the
move, saying “the decision to
bypass Hong Kong’s well-estab-
3,632
4,209
10,895
Original summer
schedule
Restarting at 1/3rd
from Monday
TOTAL
24,643
8,216
Source: DGCA
ly, the use of the Aarogya Setu
App is also preferable, not
mandatory, for travel. A
healthy elderly person will not
be stopped from travelling”.
THE TIMES OF INDIA, NEW DELHI | SATURDAY, MAY 23, 2020
hitting a mobile tower before
skidding off the rooftops of se-
veral houses. Other footage
from TV stations showed a sce-
ne of devastation in the resi-
dential area, with plumes of
smoke rising from the crash si-
te. A number of vehicles par-
ked in narrow streets were also
burnt. Emergency workers we-
re facing difficulties due to the
crowds in the narrow streets.
PM Imran Khan said he
was “shocked and saddened”,
tweeting, “I am in touch with
the airline’s chief executive..”
The Airbus A320 has 180 se-
ats but due to the Covid-19 pan-
demic flights are operating wi-
th reduced capacity. Pakistan
has a troubled aviation safety
record. A number of crashes
have occurred in the past deca-
de and Friday’s incident is the
second plane crash for the Pa-
kistani carrier in less than fo-
ur years. In 2016, a PIA plane
burst into flames while flying
from Chitral hill station to Isla-
mabad, killing 47 on board.
workers
Getty Images
FRONTLINE: President Xi arrives
at the National People’s Congress
lished legislative processes and
ignore the will of the people of
Hong Kong would be a death
knell for the high degree of au-
tonomy Beijing promised.”
“Xi Jinping has torn away
the pretense of ‘one country,
two systems’,” pro-democracy
leader Lee Cheuk-yan said.
Hong Kong’s leader Carrie
Lam, however, said the law
“will not affect legitimate
rights enjoyed by residents”.
On the economy, premier Li
Keqiang promised higher sp-
ending to revive economy. Beij-
ing will give local governments
$280 billion to spend on meet-
ing goals like creating 9 million
new jobs, Li said. This is a frac-
tion of the stimulus packages
by US or Japan. AGENCIES
TIMES NATION
Govt relaxes rules to facilitate
travel of some OCI categories
Air travel bookings
open, not too many
takers on Day One
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Mumbai: Day One of open-
ing of domestic air travel
bookings from May 25 saw a
tepid response from passen-
gers, and tickets for most
routes were available
throughout the day at rea-
sonable fares. The fares are
capped and so there won’t be
any exorbitantly high rates
for the next three months till
August 24. But it is the sec-
ond air fare norm put out by
the government that works
as an indicator of sales.
According to the new
rules, airlines have to sell
40% seats at a fare that is low-
er than the mid-point of the
fare band. For instance, on
the Mumbai-Delhi route,
fare is capped between Rs
3,500 and Rs 10,000 and the
mid-point is Rs 6,700 (the
fares do not include taxes
and fees such as passenger
development fee and GST).
On Friday evening, al-
most 24 hours after bookings
for May flights were open
(prior to that tickets for trav-
el from June 1 were only
available), the cheapest
Mumbai-Delhi ticket for
travel on May 25 was priced at
Rs 6,300 (taxes included) for a
5.30am Air India flight. Since
passengers have to reach air-
port at least two hours before
departure an early morning
flight would have now fallen
Oxford vaccine
trial in phase II
London: Clinical trials to test
Oxford University’s new vac-
cine for Covid-19 have moved
to the second phase of the stu-
dy in which it will now be asse-
ssed in 10,260 people in the UK,
including elderly and child-
ren, reports Naomi Canton.
Andrew Pollard, head of
Oxford Vaccine Group, said
on Friday “the clinical studies
were progressing very well.”
Phase I, involved just over
1,000 adults aged 18–55, being
inoculated, following promi-
sing results on six monkeys.
Phase II involves expanding
the age range of volunteers by
testing the vaccine on people
aged 56 and older as well as
children of 5 to 12 years.
The announcement came
as scientists at China’s Ca-
nSino Biologic who are de-
veloping a similar vaccine
reported promising results
from their first-step testi-
ng, seeing hoped-for immu-
ne reactions and no serious
side effects in 108 people.
Both the CanSino and Oxford
vaccines are made in a same
way: They use a harmless vi-
rus to carry genes for the “spi-
ke” protein that coats the vi-
rus into the body, priming the
immune system to react if the
real infection comes along.
defence budget
sees a 6.6% rise
C
hina’s defence spending
this year will rise at the
slowest rate in three dec-
ades but will still increase by
6.6% from 2019, as the country
grapples with what it sees as
growing security threats and a
wilting economy. The figure,
set at 1.268 trillion yuan ($178.16
billion) — nearly three times
that of India — in the budget re-
leased on Friday, is closely wa-
tched as a barometer of how ag-
gressively the country will beef
up its military. Despite Co-
vid-19 outbreak, the armed
forces of China and the US ha-
ve remained active in the dis-
puted South China Sea and aro-
und Chinese-claimed Taiwan.
Amid coronavirus, China’s
economy shrank 6.8% in the fi-
rst quarter of 2020 compared
with a year earlier. The coun-
try omitted a 2020 growth tar-
get for the first time. REUTERS
PTI
Preparations under way at
Chennai airport as domestic
flights resume from May 25
in favour. One could also buy
an 8.40am AirAsia flight for
Rs 7,400, which is a fare just
above the mid-range since it
includes taxes. The Mumbai-
Delhi flights that crossed the
Rs 10,000 mark were those
that departed between 6.30
am onwards in the morning.
“Had the demand been
high, most morning depar-
tures would have sold out and
late evening departures wou-
ld have touched the Rs 10,000
mark. If the fares haven’t
crossed the mid-point band, it
means less than 40% tickets
have been sold on that partic-
ular flight,” said a travel
agent. Travel portals, though,
said they had received “an
overwhelming response on
nearly all metro routes”.
Dhruv Shringi of yatra-
.com said: “Bookings today
are trending at 40% of pre-Co-
vid levels. With the capping of
air fares, we hope bookings to
increase further.”
UK PM plans to end reliance
on Chinese imports: Report
B
ritish PM Boris Johnson
LOW RISK OF SPREADING
has instructed civil serv-
FROM SURFACES: CDC
ants to make plans to end
UK’s reliance on China for vi-
tal medical supplies and other
strategic imports in light of
the outbreak, The Times new-
spaper reported on Friday.
The plans, which have be-
en code named ‘Project De-
fend’, include identifying Bri-
tain’s main economic vulnera-
Stranded can stay
on in UK till July 31
T he UK government on Friday
announced extension of all
expiring or expired visas of fore-
ign nationals unable to return to
their home countries due to the
pandemic, until July 31. The ext-
ension will apply to anyone who-
se leave to remain in the UK exp-
ired after January 24, said home
secretary Priti Patel. UK will intr-
oduce a 14-day quarantine for
travellers arriving from abroad
from June 8, Patel said. PTI
bilities to potentially hostile
foreign governments as part of
a broader new approach to na-
tional security, the newspaper
acebook said on Thursday th-
at it would allow many emplo-
yees to work from home perman-
ently. But there’s a catch: They
may not be able to keep their big
Silicon Valley salaries in more aff-
ordable parts of the country. CEO
Mark Zuckerberg said during a
staff meeting that was livestre-
amed on his Facebook page that
within a decade as many as half
of the company’s over 48,000 em-
ployees would work from home.
“Coming out of this period, I exp-
ect that remote work is going to
be a growing trend as well.” NYT
Lancet study: HCQ
may harm patients
U S President Trump on Friday
continued to roil the country
with his controversial behaviour,
including canvassing for the anti-
malarial drug hydroxichloroquin-
ine and disdainfully abjuring ma-
sks, reports Chidanand
Rajghatta. Medical journal Lan-
cet published a study that backed
earlier reports that seriously ill
Covid patients treated with
hydroxychloroquine and chlo-
roquine were more likely to die or
develop dangerous heart arrhy-
thmias. But Trump claimed that
he had finished taking a course of
the medication and he was fine.
Bharti.Jain@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: The home minis-
try on Friday restored the
right of multiple-entry, life-
long visa facility to certain
categories of Overseas Citi-
zens of India (OCI) to facili-
tate their travel to the country.
The right was kept in abey-
ance in view of the prohib-
ition on international air trav-
el due to Covid-19 lockdown.
OCI categories that will
now be able to travel to India
include minor children born
to Indian nationals abroad
and holding OCI cards; OCI
cardholders who wish to come
to India on account of family
emergencies like death in
No feast after
boy’s death,
kin ostracised
Bhopal: A family in MP’s
Bundelkhand has been ostra-
cised by the community pan-
chayat after not being able to
perform the Terahvin (13th
day ritual) feast after the
death of their 15-year-old son
due to the lockdown. The fam-
ily is not even allowed to fetch
water from the village well in
this scorching summer.
Village sources said that a
500-strong Patel community
panchayat in Khajwa village of
Chhatarpur district decided to
ostracise Brijgopal Prasad Pa-
tel’s family till it organizes
‘mrityu bhoj’. Brijgopal,52,
has complained to police. His
son, Neeraj, had drowned in a
pond on March 9. TNN
GOD NOT ONLY PLAYS DICE, HE
ALSO SOMETIMES THROWS THE
DICE WHERE THEY CANNOT BE
SEEN — STEPHEN HAWKING
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
updated its guide on how the coronavirus spreads
➤ The CDC website now ➤ Though studies have
emphasises the virus “spreads shown that the virus
easily between people” but can last on surfaces
“does not spread easily like metal, plastic
in other ways”, like from and paper for several
contaminated surfaces or days, the virus usually
between people and animals degrades within hours
of being outside a host.
➤ The agency So it’s safe to receive
says the risk of packages or pick up
transmission from
surfaces is very low and
the newspaper but
one should regularly
may only be possible if a wash one’s hands with
person touches a surface with soap and disinfect
the virus and then touches frequently touched
their mouth, nose or eyes surfaces at home
➤ But CDC maintains that person-to-person
transmission — through respiratory droplets
expelled while coughing, sneezing and talking — is
the most common way the infection is spreading.
The risk is highest in crowded and enclosed spaces
like offices, religious sites and movie theatres
reported. The efforts are being tect Britain’s technological ba-
led by foreign secretary Domi- se, with the government revi-
nic Raab. Johnson told lawma- ew expected to include PPE and
kers he would take steps to pro- drugs, the report said. REUTERS
AROUND THE WORLD
AFP
ANGEL SHIELD: A school in Taiyuan, China, has asked students to
wear colourful wings on their backs, with the message, ‘Because I
love you, let’s keep one-metre distance.’ The wings were designed
and created by students and their parents from recycled materials
indicated Ardern was headed
PM’s popularity for a huge victory in Septem-
makes NZ oppn ber. Ardern took bold steps
when the virus arrived in New
rethink candidate Zealand, closing the border
and putting the country under
N ew Zealand PM Jacinda
Ardern has proved so pop-
ular during the
a strict lockdown. Her steps
have been successful, with
only two new infections repor-
pandemic that it ted over the past six days.
has prompted a
change of lea- Malaysia PM in home
dership in the quarantine: Malaysia PM
opposition party Muhyiddin Yassin will be home
just 4 months quarantined for 14 days after
from a general election. Todd an officer who attended a me-
Muller on Friday deposed eting with him this week tested
Simon Bridges as leader of the positive for Covid-19, the PM’s
National Party following two office said in a statement. Mu-
opinion polls for the party that hyiddin has tested negative.
ANI
OCI cardholders (not legally
minors) but whose parents are
Indian citizens living in India.
Sources said the above cat-
egories of overseas citizens
shall immediately be eligible
for boarding special ‘Vande
Bharat’ flights and ships fer-
rying stranded Indians home
from across the world.
The government had on
May 5 ordered that the right of
A woman waits to board a Vande multiple-entry, life-long visa fa-
cility for visiting India for any
flight from Toronto on Friday
purpose granted to persons re-
family; couples where one gistered as OCI shall continue
spouse is an OCI card-holder to be kept in abeyance till pro-
and the other is an Indian na- hibition on international air tr-
tional and they have a perma- avel of passengers from/to In-
nent residence in India; and dia is lifted by the government.
university students who are Full report on www.toi.in
SC seeks govt’s reply on
plea for Zoom app audit
TIMES NEWS NETWORK countries relating to securi-
ty and privacy issues arising
New Delhi: The Supreme from the use of Zoom app.
Court on Friday sought the She sought a ban on use of
Centre’s response to a PIL se- Zoom by the government till
eking a comprehensive techn- a security audit cleared the
ical and security audit of app and rules were framed.
Zoom video application, ap- “Zoom app practises data
prehending that the increase hoarding and cyber hoarding
in use of this app for video which includes mass storage
conferencing and webinars of personal data of its users...
was posing a serious threat to Further, there have been con-
privacy and data security. cerns about ‘zoombombing’
A bench headed by CJI S where an unauthorised per-
A Bobde asked the Union son or stranger joins a Zoom
government to file its re- meeting/chat session and
sponse to the PIL filed by causes disorder by saying of-
homemaker and part-time fensive things and even pho-
private tutor Harsh Chugh, to bombing by sharing por-
who appears to have devoted nographic and/or hate imag-
considerable time to cull out es,” Chugh alleged.
data about incidents in other Full report on www.toi.in

You’re Special
A businessman remained cheerful
even though he suffered one
catastrophe after another. First, his
son was in a serious accident, then
his daughter married a man of
questionable character, and finally
the lease to his store building was
not renewed. But he was not
perturbed. He told his friends that
his difficulties were signs of God’s
confidence in him.When asked to
explain his positive attitude, he
said that while he was in the
Armed Forces, the sergeant always
chose him for dangerous missions.
At first he complained, but a buddy
said to him, “He picks you because
he trusts you. He wouldn’t stake
the lives of the whole outfit on a
coward.”This statement opened the
eyes of the young man, and he
realised that God operates the
same way with His children. He
said, “From that moment on, I
have viewed my hardships as a sort
of pat on the back from God.” Are
you being buffeted by severe trials?
If so, my heart goes out to you. But
I want you to know that
congratulations are in order. God
can trust you with adversity.You
are someone special.
— East West Series
Hand Sanitiser
Recently, a call out was made for
hand sanitiser at my son’s
gymnastics club, where he competes
at the national level. As all the
shops in the neighbourhood were
closed due to lockdown, sanitisers
were nowhere to be found.Then I
remembered that I had two bottles
in a box in my car. I use them for
my food sampling job. At first, I
didn’t want to part with them. I
then realised that I was being
selfish, wanting to keep them for
our family. A voice within said:
‘God will provide! We already
have one bottle. Do we really need
the two extra when people out
there have none?’ Although a little
reluctant at first, I gave them away.
— brindlegirl, kindspring.org
Thank You
I decided to order takeout to do my
little part to support local
restaurants. I ordered through a
food delivery website.
Unfortunately, no driver showed up
at the restaurant to make the
delivery. I called the restaurant and
offered to pay for the food and have
the owner take the food for his own
family. I explained that I didn’t
need the food but had ordered it to
support his restaurant. He was
having none of that. He insisted on
bringing the food to me after the
restaurant closed. And he did just
that and more.When I looked
through my order, there was
something extra. It was sticky rice
with sliced mango around it, like a
flower.There was a note on the top
of the box that said, “Thank you
so much for your support.’
— Tina St John, thelily.com
THIS WEEK
May 24: Eid-ul-Fitr
May 26: Vinayaka Chaturthi
May 28: Skanda Sashti,
Agni Nakshatram ends
May 30: Masik Durgashtami
Dhumavati Jayanti
NEW DELHI, SATURDAY, MAY 23, 2020 SPIRITUAL PROMOTIONAL FEATURE
No One Ever Dies
Don’t fear death, for there is more to life than death, writes V S KRISHNAN
Caught In A Web
YOG GURU SURAKSHIT GOSWAMI
It is said that the universe is Nature de-
unreal and everything is God’s stroys what it
lila, play. Then why does it creates; this is its
S
ri Narayana Guru, the Ker- happen at all? Why does God simple r ule.
ala-born saint-reformer, was want to be entertained? Prakr iti is in
walking through the streets,
when he heard a wailing
— Vinithra, 25 years,Chennai constant flux,
hence our body,
sound from a house nearby. ■ God doesn’t do lila, play, for his en- mind, intellect
Apparently, a death had occurred tertainment; we create our own lilas and ego also ex-
there and relatives were crying bitter- and then blame God for them. God perience constant change.There is no
ly over the demise of their dear one. has a lot on his plate. He may not lila in that. People act according to
He moved on, feeling sympathy for have the time for playing different their vasanas, desires, and samskaras
them. After some days, when he hap- lilas with billions of people with and this results in raga dvesha,
pened to pass through the same street, divergent views and contrasting attachments and maliciousness.
he remembered the house where he emotions. When things don’t work out the way
had heard sobbing sounds earlier. We are caught in the web of our we want them to, we blame it on
But now no perceptible change own desires, hence maya. But the uni-
was visible there after the death we create our myri- ASK SURAKSHIT verse doesn’t work
that seemed to have brought pro- ad little lilas. If according to our
found sorrow. The initial shock things don’t turn out to be the way needs or desires; it has its own
of death seemed to have subsid- we had imagined, we blame God and laws.We can’t force our desires on the
ed and all normal activities His lila for our misery. cosmos.
went on as usual. ‘How soon Just like a spider who spins its We have to understand that lila is
and how smoothly we come to own web and later destroys it, we can actually ensconced in our chitta, con-
terms with death,’ wondered Sri also destroy the web of desires that sciousness. We should develop a
ARUNDYUTI DAS
Narayana Guru. engulfs us. Why not? Aren’t we the spiritual practice to be able to see it
What is death all about? Does ones who created it in the first place? and realise our real svarupa that is sat-
knowledge of death help us lead a bet- To break the illusion we have to go chit-ananda. ■
ter life? There were many studies on deeper within, because the lila maybe Send your questions to
the subject of death. It was young Na- external, but as its directors, we have st.editorial@timesgroup.com with subject
chiketa, son of Saint Vajasravas, who to find out what’s going on within. line: Ask Surakshit and state your age
went right into the abode of Dharma-
raja, the God of Death, to get to the started thinking what to do about it. known as Ramana Maharshi, the jiv-
bottom of the mystery surrounding The fear made him introspect. ‘What anmukta — liberated even while alive.
EID-UL-FITR
death. After having met Dharmaraja is death? What is it that is dying?’ This death experience is engraved at
and receiving advice from him, Na- He then dramatised the scene of
chiketa returned with the knowledge death. He pretended to be a corpse to
the entrance of Dakshinamurthy
Temple near Sri Ramanashramam in
Why Do We Fast During
that death happens only to the body make the experience as real as possible.
and not to the Atman, Self, which lives He held his breath and kept his mouth
on. “Atman is neither born nor does closed, pressing the lips tightly togeth-
Tiruvannamalai.
It’s a great wonder that even if we
hear about death, witness the death of
The Holy Month ?
it die. It did not er so that no sound our near and dear ones, in the corner MAULANA WAHIDUDDIN KHAN God has given him the freedom to
MYSTREE
spring from any-
thing and nothing
could come out. He
said to himself:‘This
sprang from it. The atman, which is body is dead. It will be carried to the
unborn and eternal, is not slain even crematorium, burnt and reduced to
when the body is destroyed,” said ashes. But with death of the body am
of our hearts, most of us still think
that our time of death will never
come. Even a person in advanced age
would be planning for a future ahead.
Even if he falls sick, he would like to
F asting is an exercise in self-dis-
cipline. During the month of
Ramzan, the believer abstains
from food and drink in the daytime
of his own free will. It is only after
choose the path that he wants to
tread. Notwithstanding this divine
gift of freedom of will, it is still the
desire of the Almighty that man
should, by his own choice, tread the
Yama Dharmaraja. Na jayate mriyate va I dead? Is the body ‘I’? This body is be taken to the best hospital. Is he not sunset that he satisfies his hunger path of obedience.
vipascit, Kathopanishad, 2:18. Once the silent and inert, but I feel the full force ignorant? and quenches his thirst. In this way, It is, therefore, to condition him
atman is realised, there is no death and of my personality and even the sound “No,” said Ramana Maharshi. It he builds up his self-control. By to follow the path of restraint that
no birth, either. of ‘I’ within myself, as apart from the is not due to ignorance that he thinks practising restraint for one month in the rule of fasting has been laid
Venkataraman, a youth from Ma- body. So, ‘I’ am a spirit, a thing tran- he would live on. Deep within, he has a year, he is able to lead a life of down. Not just an annual ritual, fast-
durai, once pondered over the ques- scending the body.The material body the knowledge that he is the deathless self-discipline in all matters for the ing is a form of training undergone
tion,‘What is death all about?’ It came dies but the spirit transcending it can- Self. He knows that the spirit within, rest of the year. every ninth month of the Muslim
while he was sitting alone in a room not be touched by death. That means the Self that shines as ‘I am’, would Apart from man, there are innu- year.
on the first floor of his uncle’s house, I am the deathless spirit, the inde- never die. He is unconsciously aware merable other things in the universe, It is not just a matter of tempo-
when suddenly a violent fear of death structible conscious entity.’ that the experience of ‘I am’, which is all of which — having no free will rarily enduring hunger and thirst, it
overwhelmed him. He felt he was go- The experience brought Self-re- not related to the body, is everlasting of their own — adhere strictly to is a lesson in the permanent practice
ing to die for no particular reason. He alisation to him and he came to be and eternal. ■ God’s law. Man, however, is not in of patience and tolerance through-
the same category as these things, for out one’s life. ■
A Month Of Revelation Blessing In Disguise
DEVDUTT PATTANAIK writes of the tradition of observing certain practices
during Ramzan that is regarded as the period of sacred revelations
T hese really
are unprece-
dented times.
We are all seeing the
effects of the Cov-
M
uslims say that Islam and the Gospel in id-19 pandemic
DR VISHAKHA TRIPATHI (LEFT)
began when the world the New Testa- sweeping across the
was created by Allah, ment is not a rev- world, caused by a
and Allah instructed all elation but a col- newly discovered
his angels to bow to Adam. All angels lection of four coronavirus. Isn’t it
did so, except Iblis and he was cast out; hagiographies on astonishing how
he became the leader of shaitans, de- the life of Jesus, something so small,
mons, who exist to prove that humans put down a cen- only visible under a microscope, has grace alone. He, who is seated with-
are incapable of obeying Allah. Iblis tur y after his brought the entire world to its in every living being and every par-
slipped into paradise in the mouth of crucifixion. But in the Islamic world- knees? Tragically, thousands have ticle of this universe, governs
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a serpent and tricked Adam and Hawa view, these are revelations. lost their lives and thousands more everything according to an immac-
to eat of the forbidden fruit. In the 17th century, Umaru Pul- have been displaced. Businesses have ulate law. Nothing happens by
Unlike the Christian lore, Allah lavar — Omar, the poet — composed closed, production has stopped, and chance or indiscriminately. We hear
forgave this transgression, but Adam the Cira Puranam, a hagiography on stock markets are shaky. People’s these words and even nod our head
and Hawa had to leave paradise as the life of Prophet Muhammad in livelihoods are in jeopardy and in agreement, nevertheless, when we
now their body, having consumed the Tamil, and described the four revela- many feel anxious and worried, look around, it seems that we are
forbidden fruit, was producing excre- IN THE 17TH CENTURY, UMARU tions as the ‘four Vedas’ of Islam, with fearful about how they will make facing challenges that are without
ment that had no place in paradise. the Quran being the only pure and ends meet. Our once rampant inde- parallel. Suffering and misery of one
Thus in Islam, there is no concept of PULLAVAR COMPOSED non-corrupted one. pendence and carefree lifestyle are kind or the other surrounds us and
Original Sin. Children are not born These four revelations took place now a taboo. Large gatherings are is befalling people in increasing
in sin. Children are born pure. Sex is THE CIRA PURANAM, A in the ninth month of the Islamic cal- out, and social distancing is in. The numbers throughout the world.
not something to be ashamed of. HAGIOGRAPHY ON THE LIFE OF endar, which we know as Ramzan. emotional strain is visible on peo- How can we move through these
When Adam and Hawa fell on ‘Ramzan’ is a Persian word. ‘Rama- ple’s faces and the dark cloud of de- unsettling times and maintain our
earth, the angel Jibril taught them PROPHET MUHAMMAD IN dan’ is an Arabic word. As petrodollars pression looms large on the horizon. equilibrium?
how to cultivate the land, set up have raised the power and status of My heart goes out to you all, es- Firstly, we must be strong. We
home and become intimate with each TAMIL, AND DESCRIBED THE Arabs in the 21st century, for the first pecially those grappling with per- must boldly face life’s challenges by
other. So within marriage, pleasure is FOUR REVELATIONS AS THE time after the early years of Islam, we sonal loss. I hope all of you are fol- believing in the words of the scrip-
good; it does not invoke guilt. During see a gradual sidelining of Persian ide- lowing the guidelines imposed by tures that God is ever benevolent
the Crusades, when Catholics fought ‘FOUR VEDAS’ OF ISLAM as and Persian vocabulary in the Is- the government and are adopting and ever merciful. He is the supreme
Muslims over Jerusalem, the Muslim lamic world. Words aside, the Islamic best practices to break the spread of protector. But His divine ways are
comfort with pleasure and sex led Islam says that Adam was the first calendar is lunar and so is shorter than the virus.Together, we will triumph. beyond our material comprehen-
Christian puritanical warrior-monks nabi, prophet. And the world has the solar calendar, which is why In the meantime, stay at home, stay sion. Therefore, what seems to us as
to conclude that Muslims were Dev- many prophets, nearly 1,24,000 as per Ramzan fasting is observed on differ- safe and don’t become complacent. a tough time is actually His grace in
il worshippers. It was a convenient some sources, and amongst them ent dates every year, sometimes in There is still a long road ahead. disguise. In time, we all will come to
propaganda and the beginnings of there are a few rasul, messengers, the summer and sometimes in winter, so As I sit wondering what to write, see the unique opportunity that has
Islamophobia. most prominent being Musa, we really don’t know in which season I am reminded of a deeply profound arisen — urging us to revise, reflect
Puritanical Christians dif- Moses, to whom the Tawrat, Allah spoke to his messengers. saying I first heard in my childhood or rediscover our faith in God. Our
ferentiated between the un- Torah, was revealed; Dawud, In India, many non-Hindus look — the Lord moves in mysterious ways. running has stopped and our oppor-
mar r ied Jesus and the David to whom the Zabur, forward to Ramzan as a time when Perhaps now, more than ever, our tunity to go within has started. If we
much-married Muhammad
as proof of Islamic hedonism.
Psalms, was revealed; Isa, Je-
sus, to whom the Injil, Gospel
they can feast on the evening Iftar
meal. It is also a very good way
faith in the words of God, His Saints
and our scriptures is being put to the
do, not only will our planet be reju-
venated, but we will rejuvenate our
Even today the west mocks was revealed and Muham- of bonding with non-Muslim ultimate test. How we all fare is in own true spiritual selves.
the idea that the Islamic par-
RAMZAN mad, the final prophet, to neighbours. If fasting makes us our own hands. May you all become brighter,
adise, Jannat, is a place of pleasure, whom the Quran was revealed. think of God, feasting reminds us of My father, Jagadguru Shri Kri- shining lights amid these times of
where young boys and girls serve We know that Psalms in the He- fellow human beings and the spirit of palu Ji Maharaj, always told us that darkness.
food, in a garden full of flowers and brew Bible is not a revelation but a brotherhood that creates unity and God is causelessly merciful. Behind HH Dr Vishakha Tripathi
fountains. collection of poems in praise of God, harmony. ■ His every word and in His every ac- President, Jagadguru Kripalu Parishat
tion there is nothing but grace and www.jkp.org.in
16 AN EPIPHANY OF IDEAS THE TIMES OF INDIA
SATURDAY, MAY 23, 2020

A thought for today

We do not pass through the same door twice
Or return to the door through which we did not pass
TS ELIOT
A Package Without Content
Government’s package doesn’t deliver on fiscal relief, job and wage protection

Another Push
Abhishek Singhvi and Jaiveer Shergill for the next three months (beginning
April) to informal sector workers, aggre-
gating $43 billion (Rs 3.5 lakh crore).
Closer home, Japan adopted the ‘cash
But RBI’s arrows are having diminishing impact delivery’ model offering $930 to every
citizen. The Canadian government, by
its Canada Emergency Student Benefit

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eserve Bank of India governor Shaktikanta Das yesterday
(CESB), provided $1,250 per month to
indicated that national output may shrink this financial year, college going students, in addition and
he Indian government, in an

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which would make it the first such instance in four decades. attempt to paint a rosy picture not in derogation to any other benefits
His estimate came in the backdrop of an off-cycle meeting of the on a cactus canvas, has lauded they may be eligible for.
central bank’s monetary policy committee that lowered policy itself for achieving a lower It is difficult to imagine reasons
rate by 0.40 percentage points to 4%. Alongside, the committee said “doubling rate” and a lower preventing direct deposit of Rs 65,000
that RBI will be expansive in injecting liquidity for as long as it’s death rate in comparison to other crore (as suggested by ex-RBI governor
countries like the US, UK, Germany, Raghuram Rajan), amounting to merely
necessary to revive economic growth. The main message is that 0.325% of GDP, in the hands of the
France and Spain. Good as it always is to
the macroeconomic impact of the Covid-19 outbreak is more find a silver lining among dark pandemic migrant labour force. Or what hindered
severe than RBI initially anticipated. clouds, the administration must ‘take the launching of a ‘wage protection
To stabilise the situation, RBI will extend a moratorium on the good with the bad’ and adopt ‘best package’ for the MSME sector and a
payment of instalments of term loans practices’ of other countries qua efficacy ‘salary protection’ package for the middle
by another three months to end-August. and reach of its fiscal vaccine. Not and lower middle classes who have faced
practising global best practices and not the cold blast of unemployment? Or wai-
There are also other measures such as ver of interest on student loans totalling
adopting them in practice is a bad form
deferment of payment of interest on of preaching without practice. Rs 75,000 crore from public sector banks?
working capital loans for the same

The PM’s fiscal package, “instalmen-
duration. A noteworthy measure talised” by the FM, fails the core twin
announced by RBI is one that aims to tests of ‘proportionality and protection’,
ease the burden of states. Withdrawal in terms of intent and content, when
subjected to any global yardstick. Simple
rules of a consolidated sinking fund
nitty gritty analysis of the arithmetic
maintained by states have been eased yields the unpleasant verdict that the
to help them service their debt. This is direct Covid-related fiscal injection, at
the third time in less than two months that RBI has stepped in. the highest, does not exceed 1% of GDP.
A measure of the support is the Rs 9.42 trillion (4.6% of GDP) of Given the magnitude of the disaster
liquidity augmenting measures introduced since February. faced by humanity this depicts the same
tragic imbalance as between a quail and
Despite RBI’s willingness to pull out all the stops, the economic
an elephant, or between a mountain and
situation is grim. It’s partly because efficacy of monetary measures a molehill. The need of the hour was not
requires lending institutions to shed their reticence. The plethora of to confuse, confound or cover the reeling
measures have pushed average lending and deposit rates down but cre- common man in a maze of financial
dit growth is muted. The logjam can be broken only by fiscal measures. jugglery, verbiage, jargon or jumla, but
The government’s recent stimulus package had some fiscal measures to show the real colour of money (and
that too in his pocket), while providing
but RBI’s off-cycle meeting suggests these are inadequate. Finance
the economically wounded public a sense
minister Nirmala Sitharaman said she has an open mind on additional of instant justice, a true healing touch
measures. Unleash them, to revive private consumption. without the speed breakers of illusion
and delayed delivery.
Some international comparisons
payment moratorium, which neither
provides them with extra income nor
frees them from the vicious cycle of
interest loaded loan repayments.
In comparison, realising the impor-
tance of immediate surgery rather than
a band-aid approach, UK’s young FM Rishi
Sunak announced a ‘wage protection
package’ whereby the government
treasury will bear 80% of most categories
of workers’/ employees’ salary, totalling
up to £2,500 per employee per month,
provided that the employer retains the
staff. Similarly, the US has launched a
‘paycheck protection program’, which
gives the option to employers to avail
non-returnable loans, provided that 75%
of the loan amount is used for salary
payments or rehiring the staff, failing
which the loan has to be returned within
Chad Crowe
Fiscal prudence is not cast in stone.
Nor is it an ostrich in the sand doctrine,
oblivious of the storm surrounding it. If
printing money or increasing FRBM
limits to 6% is not done even during the
worst calamity to hit modern India, one
The need of the hour was not to wonders when it can be?
confuse, confound or cover the India, the birthplace of Buddha,
should have emulated his dictum of recei-
reeling common man in a maze ving wisdom, irrespective of its source. It
of financial jugglery, verbiage, had to have an eclectic approach of
adopting as many best practices available
jargon or jumla, but to show the globally as it could, subject to its capacity.
real colour of money while It cannot ride the shining steed of “super-
providing the economically power Indian nationalism” on the one
hand and behave like a mouse when it
wounded public a sense of comes to large heartedness for its depri-
instant justice ved and afflicted sections on the other.
Milton’s phrase “all is not lost”
the approach do. India has failed its must inspire the government to revisit,
devastated segments on both. restructure and relaunch the financial
Rather than keeping its most package, to not stand on form or ego and
vulnerable sections in the waiting lounge to make direct benefit transfers, demand
of uncertainty, the government should generation, kickstarting consumption

Covid Ke Side Effects illustrate the humongous inadequacy of

the Indian package in the global context.
For example, India has announced a
Rs 3 lakh crore Credit Guarantee Fund
Honey I shrunk the band, baaja, baraat to provide collateral free loan to 45 lakh
MSMEs (covering only 8% of the
2 years with a meagre 1% interest cost.
Further, under the US Cares Act,
passenger airline companies will receive
$25 billion direct aid to enable the
airline industry to continue to disburse
salaries and benefits to employees. The
have directly transferred Rs 7,500 into
Jan Dhan accounts and thrown a lifebuoy
in the form of monthly allowances to the
youth, fast drowning at the deep end of
the pool of unemployment. Brazil, by
contrast, launched an ‘emergency salary’
and job loss protection its telling
buzzwords and bylines, before every-
thing is indeed lost.
Abhishek Singhvi is an MP and senior
national spokesperson, Congress. Jaiveer
Shergill is an advocate and national spokes-

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ovid-19 has decisively shrunk the big fat Indian shaadi. Many existing 6 crore MSMEs) with a 12 month figures do not matter; the intent and programme disbursing $120 per month person, Congress. Views are personal
couples have postponed their weddings, or limited the event
to a few loved ones. Even celebrity events are now muted
affairs. ‘Bhallaladeva’ Rana Daggubati and Miheeka Bajaj recently
had a rather simple ‘roka’ without crowds. It is refreshing to see a
Stress caused by Covid-19 makes us doubly vulnerable:
couple affirm their commitment to each other simply. Could it make
weddings somehow sweeter and purer?
Our wedding industrial complex has grown
What the average person can do about it
in recent decades. What used to be a homemade
Deepak Chopra, Rudolph E Tanzi, diabetes, autoimmune illness, sleep, exercise and proper diet.
production has been handed over to different Michelle Williams, Ryan Castle, obesity, and heart disease. All of We don’t fully understand
professional departments – the decor, the food, William C Bushell, Kimberly these chronic illnesses are how the immune response,
the primping, the pictures and videos. The event Brouwer and Paul J Mills associated with measurable low linked to stress and inflamma-
has bloated, in its attempt to become the ‘one grade inflammation in the body. tion, can turn lethal. As a response
he Covid-19 pandemic The chronic low-grade to cuts, wounds, invading patho-

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perfect day’. Maybe it became more fun for the
has brought with it a
guests and more expensive for the hosts. It also
second pandemic, not of
acquired a vaguely inauthentic feel – there are disease but of stress. We
sangeets and lehengas in south Indian weddings, there are bridal all feel stress as added pressure.
showers and bachelor parties. And without being a killjoy, it’s worth This pressure registers psycholo-
wondering how much extra happiness these spectacular shows gically as worry and anxiety,
brought to the bride and groom, and whether the blowout shaadi while the body responds with
stress hormones. The overall
was the best way for their parents to express love.
stress response is designed to be a
Many of those who wanted to reform Indian society also short-term reaction. When stress
expressed it through stripped down weddings, cutting out the persists, however, it enters into the
rituals. But now, minimalism has been forced upon couples and mix of threats posed by Covid-19.
families in this pandemic and lockdown. How the shaadi rears So what can the average
back after Covid is over will have much to say about the social and person do to reduce the threat?
We advocate meditation,
economic change that this crisis has wrought.
yoga, and deep regular breathing
(Pranayama), which are practices
inflammation that develops
with advanced age has become
known as “inflammaging”. Most
people with chronic illness
unknowingly have low grade
inflammation. Recent research
points to a second finding: These
same disorders are often accom-
panied by persistent low grade
anxiety and depression.
In a crisis like the current pan-
demic, anxiety and depression
also begin to affect healthy people
due to stress. It has become incre-
asingly evident that low level
inflammation and chronic stress
lie at the heart of many disorders
that take years or even decades to
develop before symptoms appear
that can be treated by a physician.
Against this background,
which pertains to countless
people in modern society, there is
increased danger when acute ill-
ness strikes. In addition to the
elderly and chronically ill, Co-
they regulate well-known stress
hormones such as ACTH and
cortisol. Three major systems
are involved: the immune
system, central nervous system
and endocrine hormone system.
In the face of these connec-
tions, we are coming forward to
suggest that complementary
gens, and other threats, prior to
antibody formation, the body
first responds with inflammation
as a normal yet crucial healing
function. But it has long been
known that inflammation is
paradoxical. Acute inflamma-
tion can overreact, harming or
even killing the patient. (Instan-
ces of strokes and heart attacks
among young Covid-19 patients
might be linked to micro-cytoki-
ne storms in the brain and heart.)
The threat from low-grade
chronic inflammation was not
discovered until recently but
seems to be widespread. It is
unaccompanied by swelling,

Heart Of Darkness
available to anyone. They can be vid-19 is causing acute respiratory practices – deep breathing, yoga
easily done at home, with the in- illness and stroke sometimes lea- and meditation – can play an burning and redness of the skin
tention of returning to a relaxed, ding to death in seemingly other- important role during this that marks acute inflammation
balanced state. Paying attention
We advocate wise healthy younger people. The pandemic. These practices have and therefore goes undetected
meditation, yoga, and transition from SARS-CoV-2 been confirmed by hundreds of by the patient or physician.
Help for millions of migrant workers has to stress is always advisable, but
doubly so during this crisis. deep regular breathing infection to being diagnosed with scientific studies to bring down Preventing and addressing
been mangled in a bureaucratic maze There is a specific connection
(Pranayama), which are
Covid-19 is typically accompanied over-activity of the autonomic chronic low-grade inflammation
and its significant adverse conse-
that we’d like to explain. by a so-called “cytokine storm”. nervous system, calm the mind
Manoj Joshi First, a little background. practices available to Cytokines are proteins that are from anxiety, reduce the stress quences are urgent issues, even
Although Covid-19 is very easily major drivers of inflammation, response, regularise heartbeat, more urgent during a pandemic.
The Covid pandemic has revealed India’s heart of darkness,
anyone. They can be and their rapid increase, or and lower blood pressure. There seems to be every reason to
transmitted from person to per-
but it has also shown us its soul. It’s residing in heroes like Jyoti son, the risk of being hospitalised easily done at home, “storm” is one of the body’s Together, all of these diverse make the public aware how deep
Kumari, Anirudh Jhare and Mohammed Yakoob and scores of or dying primarily affects with the intention of immune responses to acute threat. benefits are associated with breathing, meditation, yoga and
other unnamed people who set aside their own travail to give people who are already at risk In addition, studies have reducing the invisible presence other healthy lifestyle practices
succour to fellow migrants hard scrabbling their way home. because of old age, infirmity, or
returning to a relaxed, connected pro-inflammatory of chronic low-grade inflamma- can help during this crisis and
Jyoti cycled 1,200 km from Delhi to Darbhanga, with her chronic diseases such as cancer, balanced state cytokines to the stress response; tion, especially if added to good long afterwards.
injured father as the pillion. Instead of heading home to Nagpur, Anirudh
pushed disabled Gayoor Ahmed’s tricycle for five days to his home in UP.
Pushed off a truck ferrying migrants, Yakoob refused to abandon the dying
dilbert Sacredspace
Amrit Kumar. No help was at hand as Yakoob cradled Amrit till his end.
Darkness is what is not easily visible. It is the casualness with which the Good Health
country was shut down in a couple of hours, putting millions of people through
an ordeal that will be remembered for generations. Whether it delayed Covid,
The Sanskrit word for health,
remains a matter of debate. swasthya, means being stabilised
The initial government fumble in handling Covid is understandable. This in the Self. When the mind is free
is a ‘novel’ or new virus, and its effects not clearly known. But by March 25, of fear, free of guilt, free of anger
there had been enough time to think of options and consequences. Perhaps our
allegedly grounded leaders and their allegedly experienced bureaucrats have and hatred, it has the power
no inkling of the role of tens of millions of migrant workers in the economy to heal the body of any
of their continent-sized country. Canute-like on March 29, the Union home ailment – there is a huge
secretary ordered the migrants to stop. Businesses were asked to pay them full
salary and landlords ordered not to demand rent.
power in consciousness.
That was in the make-believe world of North Block. In the real world, it was Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
each man for himself. For small businesses it was sink or swim. For millions of
workers it was about food and rent, here and now. Beyond the fatwa there was little

Anatomy Of The Divine Spiritual Fire

else. So the migrants decided to vote with their feet: Better to starve and die at
home than in some distant shanty, uncared and unmourned.
So just a step beyond darkness is the emptiness you can find
altcentre in the bureaucratic soul whose directive to help migrants
arrived as late as May 15 and who earlier had no compunction Jayant B Dave oxygen. They keep the mind in elevated of chosen deity, tranquillity of mind in a the greenhouse effect. The products of
charging destitute people rail fare with a “corona tax”, to reach home. ‘Empathy’ subtle state and keep the spiritual fire meditative state or flash of intuition emana- spiritual fire are innocuous and dissemina-

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and ‘compassion’ are not in the common vocabulary of our languages. They do not piritual fire refers to the flame of burning. If satsanga is not continuously ting from reflection on wisdom teaching te perennial peace and unalloyed bliss.
quite translate to daya and sahanubhooti, that are more about charity than self- knowledge in the heart, the kept up, the fire of spirituality goes out. Adi provides a proverbial spark. Once the fire is Scriptures refer to spiritual fire as fire of
realisation. But even charity, with notable exceptions, has been absent. Jnanamaya Pradeep says the Bhag- Shankara in Bhajagovindam Stotra says lit, flammable materials and oxygen are knowledge or a well-lit lamp. The Gita
Those who have lost everything and are still trying desperately to reach a wad Gita’s Dhyana verse. This is your that satsanga leads successively to non- required to keep the fire burning. conveys that just as blazing fire reduces fuel
place far away called home have been lathi charged, blocked at borders, cheated, essential and innermost Self, that is of the attachment, freedom from delusion, A strong spiritual impulse has to be to ashes, fire of knowledge turns all present
sent to camps and generally treated as subhumans. In a recent interview Naushad nature of peace and bliss. The phrase abidance in Self and finally, liberation generated for fire to proceed. For realised and accumulated actions to ashes. This
Forbes, the former CII president, suggests that had government accepted a spiritual fire is also common in Christianity while living. Whenever there is and evolved souls there is a steady means that all accumulated deep rooted
proposal to guarantee loans to companies by banks to fund wages during the and is deemed to cleanse, illumine and excessive influence of satsanga flow of brahmakara vrittis, samskara, impressions and vasanas, subtle
lockdown and also transferred money directly into their Jan Dhan accounts on uplift one’s being. While evolved souls keep and svadhyaya, spiritual fire divine thoughts, with extinc- desires, are burnt so that they do not germi-
a periodic basis, the workers would have been reassured. this fire burning, in ignorant persons, this becomes more voluminous tion of vishayakara vrittis, nate again and a seeker becomes free from
Now the government has come up with an allegedly vast stimulus, but it’s divine flame fades under the influence of and energetic. We normally worldly thoughts. This state is transmigration circle of birth and death.
mainly for the long run when, as Keynes said, we’ll be dead. Schemes have been maya/ avidya and gets extinguished. experience this spurt in tantamount to auto-ignition Equally important, the realised soul,
announced for migrants, though how they’ll work is a mystery. There has been Just as physical fire requires certain spiritual fire in the company temperature where no ignition knower of the Atman, passes beyond sor-
some black humour as well – the labour reforms of UP and MP. Given their ho- ingredients to keep the flame going, of spiritually evolved souls, spark is required. In fact, they row in this very birth – Tarati sokam at-
peless physical and human infrastructure, do they seriously think they will at- spiritual fire requires three ingredients to during a sadhana camp or abide in divine nature forever mavit iti, says the Chhandogya Upanishad.
tract Cisco or Apple by stiffing their already benighted workforce? initiate and sustain it. Noble thoughts concentrated spiritual practice in seclu- and spiritual fire is alive forever and there is Shvetashwatara Upanishad regards
Orders have borne no relation to reality or logic. Restart industry, but go to crossing the mind, latent spiritual sion like anushthan. no need for any ignition to take place. spiritual flame as identifying oneself with
jail if anyone gets infected. Fifty people can attend a wedding, but only 20 a impressions embedded deep in chitta, One has to transcend physical and The products of physical fire are oxide nitya nija svarupa, own essential nature,
funeral. Go through stringent social distancing till you reach your seat in the subconscious, and wisdom in buddhi, the psychological consciousness to cosmic, gases of various elements and remnant whereby enlightened soul attains realisa-
aircraft and then be jam-packed for the flight. But if you’re looking for a intellect – due to discretion and dispassion divine consciousness at least for a moment, inorganic ash. Gases such as carbon tion of oneness with Brahmn, Paramatma.
true blue bureaucratic maze, look no further than the shambolic evacuation of – serve as flammable materials. to enable ignition to occur. Joy derived from dioxide have many undesirable effects like Spiritual fire can be taken as both the means
migrants by rail – which is only halfway done. Satsanga and svadhyaya serve as rendering selfless service, devout worship causing global warming as they promote and end, the goal of divine life.
Room For Banks
To Cut Rates?
The moratorium gives us time to
evaluate each loan account and
assess if there is need for restructuring. The
uncertainty associated with the
pandemic, normalisation of
economic activity and relaxations
make it imperative that policy
response is calibrated and swift
RAJNISH KUMAR | CHAIRMAN, SBI
After 41 yrs, RBI sees GDP shrinking
Inflation Outlook Remains Uncertain, May Ease In Second Half: Central Bank 50,000 more for UK court to
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The Indian econo-
my is expected to contract for the
first time in nearly
41 years, while the
outlook for infla-
tion remains un-
certain, Reserve
Bank of India’s
(RBI’s) assessment of the econo-
mic situation showed on Friday.
RBI governor Shaktikanta
Dassaid, “It is in the growth out-
look that the MPC (monetary po-
licy committee) judged the risks
to be gravest. The combined im-
pact of demand compression
and supply disruption will de-
press economic activity in the
first half of the year. Assuming
economic activity gets restored
in a phased manner, especially
in second half of this year, and
taking into consideration favou-
rable base effects, it is expected
that the combination of fiscal,
monetary and administrative
measures being currently un-
dertaken would create condi-
tions for a gradual revival in acti-
Banks lead
sensex slide,
bonds up
after RBI cut
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Mumbai:The RBI’s assessment
of the economy that painted a
grim picture of almost no
growth this fiscal, credit freeze,
vanishing demand and chance
of price rise made investors jit-
tery. The resultant selling pulled
the sensex down by 260 points to
30,673, with financials leading
the slide. The rising tension bet-
ween the US and China, which
comprises issues related to the
Asian giant’s handling of the
coronavirus crisis and also tra-
des between the two, made glo-
bal investors cautious, which
also impacted trading in India,
market players said.
In the bond market, gilts gai-
ned marginally despite the RBI’s
rate cut decision as the central
and state governments’ huge
borrowings weighed on senti-
ment. The yield on the new 10-ye-
ar closed marginally softer at
5.74% from 5.77% on Thursday,
market data showed.
FEAR OF MORE
DEBT BURDEN
In the stock market, soon af-
ter the 40bps cut in repo, the sen-
sex jumped to an intraday high
of 31,108, but it soon lost ground,
entered negative territory and
then remained below the previo-
us close through the rest of the
session. Foreign funds net sold
stocks worth Rs 1,354 crore and
domestic institutions too were
net sellers at Rs 344 crore, BSE
data showed.
According to Siddhartha
Khemka, head (retail rese-
arch), Motilal Oswal Financial
Services, though the RBI’s rate
cut decisions and some others
were positive moves, there was
a fear in the market that the
burden on the banks may furt-
her increase. “Further, the RBI
failed to announce any relief
on restructuring of loans to
address the risk of rising asset
quality issues,” Khemka said.
Bharat Bond
ETF series 2
eyes `14k cr
Mumbai: To raise up to Rs
14,000 crore for the govern-
ment, Edelweiss Mutual Fund
is set to launch the second tran-
che of the Bharat Bond ex-
change-traded fund (ETF) in
July. The fund house will
launch two new series under
the ETF with two different ma-
turities, in April 2025 and in
April 2031, a release said.
The first tranche of the
bond ETF was launched in De-
cember 2019 through which it
had raised Rs 12,400 crore. The
base issue size of the second
tranche is Rs 3,000 crore, with a
green shoe option of Rs 11,000
crore. The ETF will track Nifty
Bharat Bond target maturity
indices, the fund house said.
Through bond ETFs, the
Centre sells government bonds
to the fund, which in turn sells
units to investors. TNN
TIMES BUSINESS
These are uncertain times. The extended
moratorium gives us time to review the
demand and supply situation. Restructuring can
wait, as we have to see how the cash
flows come back into the system.
Given the growth in deposits, there
is room to reduce rates
RAJKIRAN RAI | MD & CEO,
UNION BANK OF INDIA
Amazon
SBI
-6.80%
Goldman
-5%
delivery, supply
GDP growth (%) estimates for India (FY21)
-5%
Icra
* For 2020
IMF’s GDP growth (%) projections
COUNTRY & PROJECTIONS (Published in April)
2020
US -5.9
China
India
Russia -5.5
Brazil -5.3
South Africa -5.8
World -3
vity in second half of 2020-21.”
“Nonetheless, downside
risks to this assessment are
significant and contingent
upon the containment of the
pandemic and quick phasing
MORE BREATHING SPACE FOR BANKS, BUSINESSES
Measure | RBI’s Rs 15,000cr
90-day refinance facility for Sidbi
rolled over for additional 90 days
Impact | Gives more time to
disburse funds as loan pickup
has been delayed because of
an extended lockdown
M | Period of pre- as well as
post-shipment credit extended
to 15 months from 1 year
I | Exporters whose orders got
postponed because of Covid-19
can still fulfil them
M | Line of credit of Rs 15,000cr
for Exim Bank
I | Will give the institution more
headroom to fund exporters
Not repo linked, but HDFC
cuts rate on competition
 From P 1
S financial conditions
BI’s interest rates on ho-
me loan between Rs 30
lakh and Rs 75 lakh will
come down to 7.25% from
7.65%, and above Rs 75 lakh to
7.35% from 7.75%. For women
borrowers, the rates would be
further lowered by 5bps.
Since October 2019, when
home loan rates were linked
to the repo rate, interest has
been cut by 1.4 percentage po-
ints. The EMI on a Rs 30 lakh
loan is now down to Rs 19,959
from Rs 22,855 in October 2019
—a reduction of Rs 2,896.
Housing finance compa-
nies and those banks that ha-
ve not linked their home loan
rates to the repo rate may not
pass on the reduction in their
home loans. However, driven
by competition, HDFC has al-
ready brought down its rates
to 7.50%. To improve the
transmission of rates, the
RBI had forced banks to link
their interest rates on priori-
ty sector loans — including
Loan rejig will happen
only after lockdown ends
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Mumbai: Restructuring of lo-
ans may happen only after the
lockdown ends as it is only
then that banks will get an
idea of the cash flows of vario-
us borrowers. Meanwhile, the
Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
granted a host of regulatory
relaxations to banks to help
them tide over the crisis.
The RBI increased a bank’s
group exposure limit to 30%
from 25% of its capital base,
thereby enabling it to lend mo-
re to large business houses, in-
cluding public sector enterpri-
ses. The central bank also said
that lenders will get more time
to resolve defaults as the 180-
day moratorium period will
not be part of the 210-day dead-
line for resolving defaults. If
bad loans are not resolved in
seven months, banks need to
make additional provisions
out of their profits.
Lenders across the board
said that the RBI measures give
all parties a breather. Busines-
ses can focus on production and
to hire Pay $716m to
3 Chinese cos:
Anil Ambani
Nomura*
-5%
Moody’s
0%
Care Ratings: -1.5 to -1.6%
2021
4.7
1.2 9.2
1.9 7.4
3.5
2.9
4 that account for about 60% of
5.8
out of social distancing/lock-
downs. Given all these uncerta-
inties, GDP growth in 2020-21 is
estimated to remain in negati-
ve territory, with some pick-up
in growth impulses from H2:
Movement of repo & reverse
10 9
repo since last high (in %)
Repo
Reverse Repo bank dues
8
6
6
4
3.35
2
July 30, ’08 May 22, ’20
M | Time period for remittance
of payments by importers
doubled to 1 year
I | Will help importers whose
operating cycles expected to get
longer because of pandemic
M | Interest on working capital
deferred up to Aug 31
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST
RBI may extend
moratorium on
bank loans by
90 more days
Mayur.Shetty@timesgroup.com
Mumbai: With the Covid-19
lockdown being extended into
mid-M ay, ofthe moratorium on
The Times India on May 3, 2020
bank loans is likely to be further
home loan — to an external
benchmark rate (EBR). Most
of the banks chose repo rate
as their EBR.
On May 8, some of the
banks like SBI increased the
spread on home loan rates for
new borrowers by 20bps by in-
creasing the margin over and
above the benchmark rate of
7.05% pegged against the repo
rate. SBI did it, saying that due
to the pandemic, the credit
risk of borrowers had gone up
sales without worrying about
repayments, banks can start as-
sessing the prospects for each
borrower and the RBI gets time
to formulate a restructuring
scheme that will not result in
future bad loans. Sectors like
aviation, hospitality and tou-
rism-related businesses are se-
en as most stressed on account
of the lockdown.
Lenders say that a negati-
ve GDP growth would get
translated into non-perfor-
ASSESSING
CASH FLOWS
ming assets as incomes of in-
dividuals and businesses get
hit. The lowering of interest
rates would ease the burden.
“The entire effort of the go-
vernment and the RBI is to revi-
ve growth in the economy and,
at the same time, recognise the
difficulties that industries are
facing. All the measures around
reduction in repo rate, morato-
rium and increase in the limit
on group exposures will be help-
ful in revival of the economy,”
THE TIMES OF INDIA, NEW DELHI | SATURDAY, MAY 23, 2020
The rate cuts, moratorium extension,
deferment of interest on working
capital facilities and the relaxation in asset
classification will provide the
requisite balm to the economy.
The support shown to Exim Bank
& Sidbi will help boost sentiment
ZARIN DARUWALA |
CEO, STANCHART INDIA
2020-21onward,” said Das.
If the contraction as fore-
cast by the RBI and also by
other economists is realised, it
will be the first contraction for
Asia’s third-largest economy
since 1979-80, when GDP
growth shrank 5.2%. Several
investment banks, brokerages
and economists have predicted
the economic growth to remain
flat or contract in the range of
1.5% to 6.8%. IMF’s April esti-
mate, however, showed that In-
dia and China will be the only
countries to display growth,
while the rest will contract.
Das said domestic econo-
mic activity has been impacted
severely by the lockdown. The
top six industrialised states,
the industrial output, are large-
ly in red or orange zones. High
frequency indicators point to a
collapse in demand beginning
in March 2020 across both ur-
ban and rural segments, he sa-
id, adding that the robust farm
sector and predictions of healt-
hy monsoon rains augured
I | Businesses do not have to
immediately worry about
M | Interest payment on working
capital during deferment period
4
allowed to be capitalised
I | Borrower can repay over 6
months until March ’21 instead
of a one-shot payment
M | NBFCs that have adopted
stricter Indian Accounting
Standards (IndAS) can go for
board-approved norms for
recognising defaults
I | NBFCs will have flexibility
in granting loan relief to their
borrowers
FINDING A BOTTOM
HDFC’s best home loan
rate since last high (in %)
12 11.75
11
10
9
8
7.85
7 mittee voted with a 5-1 majori-
Aug 1, ’08 Mar 9, ’20
and so the bank had increased
the risk premium by 20bps.
Many banks argued that
the repo rate cut does not lo-
wer their cost of funds, but le-
ads to lowering of lending ra-
tes for existing borrowers.
Therefore, banks may resort
to raising spreads. A senior
banker said that the lowering
of the rates matching the pre-
sent round of reduction in the
repo rate would be circum-
vented by banks.
SBI chairman Rajnish Kumar
said. “Right now, the moratori-
um will take care of the situa-
tion around the cash flow dis-
ruptions. I would not be obses-
sed with one-time restructu-
ring at this particular point
when we have time till August
31,” he said.
While the RBI has allowed
banks to extend the moratori-
um, it is not clear how they will
respond to NBFCs. According
to Crisil director Krishnan Sita-
raman, liquidity challenges for
NBFCs, housing finance com-
panies and microfinance insti-
tutions may get accentuated if
banks don’t extend moratori-
um to them. The finance compa-
nies will have to provide an ex-
tended moratorium to their
borrowers, which could lead to
a mismatch in cash flows.
“Further, it is not expected that
they will get any moratorium
on their capital market debt re-
payments. The recent announ-
cements made on the guarantee
and partial guarantee schemes
will alleviate the concerns so-
mewhat,” he said.
takes place. There is a need to correct
the risk-aversion in the system.
There is a lot of liquidity in the
system. But because banks are
risk-averse, the funds are going
back to the central bank
KEKI MISTRY | VC & CEO, HDFC
well for the rural economy.
The RBI governor also
highlighted the precarious
condition of the global econo-
my, saying that by all counts,
the macroeconomic and finan-
cial conditions are austere. The
global economy is inexorably
headed into recession, he said.
Das said MPC assessed that
the inflation outlook is highly
uncertain. “The supply shock
to food prices in April may
show persistence over the next
few months, depending upon
the state of lockdown and the ti-
me taken to restore supply cha-
ins after relaxation.”
“Much will depend on sha-
pe of the recovery after Covid.
Accordingly, MPC is of the vi-
ew that headline inflation may
remain firm in first half of
2020-21, but should ease in the
second half, aided also by favo-
urable base effects. By Q3 and
Q4 of FY20-21, it is expected to
fall below target. Thus, the
MPC’s forward guidance on in-
flation is directional rather
than in terms of levels.”
Das indicates
possibility of
further rate
reduction
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I
t is in the growth outlook
that the monetary policy
committee judged the risk
to be the gravest... If the infla-
tion trajectory evolves as ex-
pected, more space will open
up to address the risks to
growth,” RBI governor Shak-
tikanta Das said, indicating to
the possibility of further re-
duction in rates.
With the government keen
on lenders passing on the be-
nefit of lower rates to borro-
wers, banks are set to pare de-
posit rates too as they seek to
keep their margins intact.
‘By all counts, the
macroeconomic and
are austere. The
global economy is
inexorably headed
into recession….GDP
growth in 2020-21 is
estimated to remain
in negative territory’
The monetary policy com-
ty to reduce the policy rate by
40 basis points from 4.4% to
4.0%. Consequently, the
Marginal Standing Facility
(MSF) rate and the Bank Rate
stand reduced to 4.25% from
4.65%. The reverse repo rate
stands reduced to 3.35% from
3.75%. The central bank has
cut the repo rate by a total of
115 bps since the lockdown be-
gan in late March.
“By all counts, the macroe-
conomic and financial condi-
tions are austere. The global
economy is inexorably hea-
ded into recession…. Given all
these uncertainties, GDP
growth in 2020-21 is estimated
to remain in negative territo-
ry,” said Das, while announ-
cing the interest rate cut over
a video broadcast.
FM asks PSBs
to implement
relief package
New Delhi: Finance minister
Nirmala Sitharaman on Fri-
day held a review meeting
with CEOs of
public sector
banks (PSBs) and
asked them to
implement the
‘Aatmanirbhar’
relief package to revive the
Covid-hit economy.
The meeting via video-
conferencing took place in the
backdrop of the Rs 21-lakh-
crore stimulus package anno-
uncement and the RBI coming
out with fresh measures, in-
cluding interest rate cuts.
The FM emphasised on the
quick disbursal of additional
loans to MSMEs, to simplify
process, formats and docu-
mentation, Indian Bank MD &
CEO Padmaja Chunduru said
after the meeting. AGENCIES
The 40bps rate cut is positive, we
have to see how transmission
Move Due To Spike In E-Orders
Digbijay.Mishra
@timesgroup.com
Bengaluru: Amid the gloom of
job cuts due to the impact of the
Covid-19 pandemic on busines-
ses, Amazon India is looking to
hire 50,000 seasonal, or tempo-
rary, roles for its fulfilment cent-
res and delivery network. These
include for part-time flexible
work, to meet rising consumer
demand for home deliveries.
The announcement comes
after the government allowed
online sale of both essential and
non-essentials in all zones —
red, orange and green — earlier
this week. Amazon did not sha-
re the breakup of how many of
the 50,000 are additions to its ex-
isting capacity and how many
were being hired to replace the
supply chain executives who ha-
ve returned to their hometowns
in the lockdown. An executive
briefed on the matter said that
50-60% of these hirings would
be new additions, while the rest
would be to fill the gap caused by
people who are yet to rejoin.
Amazon, through contracts,
employs over 1 lakh people
across delivery networks and
supply chain jobs in India,
which on average pay Rs 20,000-
25,000 per month. A large num-
ber of seasonal staff for delive-
ries are usually hired by online
retail companies during the fes-
tive sales around Diwali.
“It will be staggered hiring.
There was a drop of 30-40% in
supply chain positions due to
the migration during the lock-
Jio sells 2% stake
to KKR for $1.5bn
Reeba Zachariah &
Madhav Chanchani TNN
Mumbai/Bengaluru: Conti-
nuing with its string of share
sales in Jio Platforms to global
investors, Reliance Industries
(RIL) on Friday agreed to sell
2.32% in the telecom-cum-digi-
tal services company to US pri-
vate equity fund KKR for Rs
11,367 crore ($1.5 billion).
JOINING JIO
Shareholding in Jio after it
raised `78,562cr from 5 deals
KKR 2.32 General Atlantic
1.34
Vista 2.32 Silver Lake
1.15
9.99
(in %) 82.88
Facebook RIL
With this deal, KKR beco-
mes the fifth American inves-
tor in Jio, which so far has rai-
sed Rs 78,562 crore ($10.3 bil-
lion) from external parties.
Bloomberg had reported
that Saudi Arabia’s Public In-
vestment Fund too is exploring
Covid has hit income of
60% households: Survey
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Covid-19 has hit
the income of around 60% ho-
useholds across India, sho-
wed a survey. The study, con-
ducted by Nielsen across 12 ci-
ties, also discovered that
eight of every 10 respondents
had one or more mid- and big-
ticket items, such as domestic
travel or a durables purchase,
planned in the March-June
period. However, only 28% of
them wanted to go ahead with
their plans once the restric-
tions are relaxed, the rest ha-
ve either put their plans on
hold or cancelled them.
The pandemic claimed
other victims too. For instan-
ce, India’s fast-moving consu-
mer goods sales clocked a 34%
decline in April over the same
period last year, with traditio-
nal trade channels, including
kiranas, leading the sharp
Conversion of interest on working capital
loans for the moratorium period into term
loans will give a breather to borrowers. The time
period for repayment of that could have
been longer. Increase in group
exposure limits will help big companies
tide over hurdles in raising funds
PADMAJA CHUNDURU |
MD & CEO, INDIAN BANK
down. What is happening is a
lot of workforce from shop-
ping malls, retail outlets, ho-
tels and restaurants are being
supplied for these roles. They
might not be ideal for the role,
but that’s the best option for
now,” the source said.
SURGE IN DEMAND
50-60% of planned hiring will
add capacity to fleet size, rest
will meet drop in manpower who
migrated in lockdown
This will include
Amazon Flex, which
lets people deliver
on a part-time basis
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos had
announced 10 lakh new jobs by
2025 in India
An Amazon executive tweeted
that the highest demand spike
is in robotic vacuum cleaners
and dishwashers
The seasonal roles are typi-
cally anywhere from a mini-
mum of three months to about
a year. Responding to TOI’s que-
ry, an Amazon India spokesper-
son said it has made changes in
its operations for people to join
back, but “some of them (associ-
ates) have not been able to
return to work for various
reasons, given the situation
with the pandemic”.
“The duration of contracts
for these seasonal roles varies,
depending on the nature of the
role and the need of the busi-
ness at a given point in time,”
the spokesperson added.
an investment in Jio. Sources
said even Abu Dhabi’s Mubada-
la is in talks to acquire a stake in
the Indian company. An e-mai-
led query to Jio and Mubadala
elicited no response till the time
of going to the press.
Jio, which plans to list on the
stock exchanges in a few years,
offers global investors an attrac-
tive opportunity in the Indian
market where rapid digitisation
is expected to take place post-Co-
vid, said RIL. Jio is KKR’s lar-
gest investment in Asia to date
and comes more than three we-
eks after it announced plans to
purchase Shapoorji Pallonji’s fi-
ve solar energy units in India
for Rs 1,554 crore. Interestingly,
KKR also has an investment in
Jio’s telecom infrastructure ri-
val Bharti Infratel.
The relationship between
RIL chairman Mukesh Am-
bani and KKR’s co-founder
Henry Karvis goes back seve-
ral years, as the two had dis-
cussed potential collabora-
tion for shale gas assets in the
US in 2010. RIL has also back-
ed KKR India’s debt fund.
Jio’s equity valuation of
Rs 4.91lakh crore remains un-
changed with KKR’s propo-
sed investment.
CHANGING CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR
Allocation of
Monthly Income
Before Covid-19
During Covid-19
20%
Investments
16%
Savings (Cash at 25%
bank or hand) 27%
Loan/CC 19%
payments 18%
Monthly HH 36%
Expenses 39%
Low income: Up to 50,000 | Medium Income: 50,001-1 lakh | High Income:
Above 1 lakh | CC: Credit card | HH: Household Source: Nielsen
drop. Modern trade consis-
ting of departmental stores
and cash & carry stores, ho-
wever, continued to grow.
In foods, modern trade
Naomi Canton
London: Business tycoon and
former billionaire Anil Amba-
ni was on Friday ordered by a
UK court to pay three Chinese
banks $716 million (Rs 5,439
crore). The commercial court
of the High Court in London
gave a summary judgment
against Ambani,
chairman of Reli-
ance ADA Group,
after his defence
was struck down
because he failed
to make a conditional payment
of $100 million (Rs 759 crore) to
the court by March 20 this year.
A spokesperson for Amba-
ni said, “The matter pertains
to an alleged personal guaran-
tee for a corporate loan avai-
led by Reliance Communica-
tions (RCom) in 2012 for global
refinancing. It is emphasised
that it is not a personal loan of
Mr Ambani.”
ICBC (Industrial and Com-
mercial Bank of China) made
their claim based on an alle-
ged guarantee that was never
signed by Ambani and he has
consistently denied having
authorised anyone to execute
any guarantee on his behalf,
the spokesperson said.
The amount ordered to be
paid based on the alleged gua-
rantee will, in any case, redu-
ce substantially upon the im-
minent resolution of RCom’s
debt in accordance with the
Insolvency & Bankruptcy Co-
de, 2016, the spokesperson sa-
id, adding that as far as the
judgment of the UK court is
concerned, the question of
any enforcement in India does
not arise in the near future.
IBM’s global
layoffs hit
India too
Shilpa Phadnis & Avik Das TNN
Bengaluru: Within 50 days of
his taking charge, IBM CEO
Arvind Krishna has under-
taken a major layoff exercise
globally. This in-
cludes, sources
said, a few hund-
red jobs in India,
where IBM has
about a third of its
global strength of 350,000.
Many of those impacted are
said to be mid-level executives
including project managers
and above, some of who have
spent over a decade in the com-
pany. “I was asked to resign as
there aren’t enough projects. I
was given three months’ basic
salary as severance,” said an af-
fected employee, who spoke on
condition of anonymity.
IBM said in a statement,
“IBM’s work in a highly compe-
titive marketplace requires
flexibility to constantly remix
high-value skills, and our work-
force decisions are made in the
long-term interests of our busi-
ness.” IBM is seen to be wor-
king towards a sharper align-
ment with its priorities — clo-
ud and AI — even as it naviga-
tes the impact of the pandemic.
Impact on different income
groups (in % points)
Low Mid High
Income Income Income
-3 -3 -3
No Impact 1 3
-2 -1 No Impact
5 3 No Impact
shoppers reduced focus on sta-
ples, when they moved into the
lockdown period but continued
to shop for convenience items
such as noodles and frozen food.
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ICC focuses on umpires,

senior officials’ health in TWENTY20 WORLD CUP ‘Charge of criminal offence should
SOP for resumption
not disqualify BCCI members’
Arani.Basu@timesgroup.com
SET TO BE POSTPONED XFrom P1 cricket. Any provision which has a

New Delhi: The International Cricket
Council (ICC) has laid strong emphasis on
umpires and match officials in its guide-
lines for the resumption of cricket, keeping
in mind the threats posed by the Covid-19
pandemic. ICC’s medical committee has list-
ed the match officials, support staff and in-
dividuals above the age of 60 at the ground
as specific risks. “Cricket is officiated by
umpires on the field of play and their health
and well-being needs to be taken into full
consideration as they spend the greatest
amount of time in close proximity to play-
ers,” the guidelines read. “Participants, in
particular umpires, match referees and sup-
port staff may be considered vulnerable in-
dividuals that are at higher risk of severe ill-
ness. This includes older individuals (ap-
prox. 60+) and people of any age with under-
lying medical conditions such as cardiac,
kidney, diabetes, obesity, weak innate im-
munity, etc,” it added.
Therefore, it has been suggested that
players will not be sharing anything they
touch with the umpires during play. “Play-
ers and umpires should maintain social dis-
tancing on the field of play and that includes
no handing over of player items (cap, towels,
sunglasses, jumpers). Umpires may also be
encouraged to use gloves when handling the
ball,” the ICC document stated.
Other important points
14-day isolation training camps before travel.
 Consider appointing a Chief Medical Officer
and/or Biosafety Official who will be responsible
for implementing government regulations.
 Have adequate Covid-19-specific healthcare
facilities ready at venue and in close proximity.
GALLERY
‘IPL a money grab, T20 WC
should take precedence’
Melbourne: The IPL is just a “money
grab” and cannot be allowed to take
precedence over this year’s T20 World
Cup, feels former Australia skipper Allan
Border. There is speculation that the 13th
IPL, which was suspended indefinitely due
to the Covid-19 pandemic, might be con-
ducted in October-November if the T20
World Cup in Australia is postponed.
‘No commitment on SA tour’: The BCCI
has not made “any commitment” to tour
South Africa in August and there have only
been discussions about such a possibility,
Board treasurer Arun Dhumal said on
Friday, denying Cricket South Africa’s
claims of a confirmation.
‘On scale of 10, chance of India
touring Australia is 9’: There is a 9 out of
10 chance that India will make the trip
Down Under for a four-Test series later this
year, Cricket Australia chief executive
Kevin Roberts said trying to downplay the
uncertainty triggered by the Covid-19
pandemic.
Osaka becomes highest-earning
female athlete: Japan's Naomi Osaka
has surpassed Serena Williams as the
world's highest-paid female athlete,
raking in $37.4 million in prize money and
endorsements over the last year, accord-
ing to a business magazine. The 22-year-
old twice Grand Slam champion’s total is
the most ever earned by a female athlete
in a 12-month period. She earned $1.4
million more than Serena who had topped
the list for the last four years. AGENCIES
T
direct or an indirect effect of re-
It Could Make Way The Indian board wouldn’t mind a possible
IPL final on Diwali evening (November 15),
he draft constitution, pre-
pared by the committee of
stricting persons with rich and var-
ied experience, whereby they have
acquired and strengthened organis-
the same day that the final of the T20 World administrators and ap-
For IPL To Be Held In Cup would’ve been played. However, they will
first wait for ICC’s decision on this year’s T20
proved by the SC, had stipu-
lated a mandatory three-year cool-
ing capacity, finance generating ca-
pacity and administrative skills will
Oct-Nov Window World Cup. “Please remember that the deci-
sion on T20 World Cup is not BCCI’s to make.
ing period for anyone who had
served two terms in state cricket GANGULY
be to the detriment of the game of
cricket,” the BCCI said.
We have nothing to do with it. It has to be the associations or BCCI. Taking this It added that as an autonomous
K.ShriniwasRao@timesgroup.com ICC’s decision,” said BCCI treasurer Arun clause into account, Ganguly and body with self-governance rights, it
Thakur, underlining that the narrative being Shah would have to stay away from Cricket Council or any such interna- could not be precluded from effect-
Mumbai: Two days after the Indian Premier drawn by certain sections of the fraternity cricket management for three years tional body. It also proposed to do ing changes in its constitution keep-
League’s (IPL) former chief operating officer — that BCCI may be pushing for the postpone- starting from July and June this away with the CoA-prepared consti- ing in mind the demands of the time
(COO) Sundar Raman came out with a white ment — is a false one. year, respectively. Both were elected tution which disqualified any person and requested the SC to do away
paper, pointing out that world cricket cannot Meanwhile, the question remains as to unopposed in October last year. charged with a criminal offence from with the clause mandating it to seek
afford the cancellation of the T20 league and when will the T20 World Cup be held, if not becoming a member of BCCI. the apex court’s approval every time
any such move would result in a massive fi- between October and November this year? BCCI APPEAL IN SC The BCCI proposed that a person it effected a change in its constitu-
nancial loss for the cricketing world, it turns Here are the possibilities. should be disallowed from becoming tion with the vote of three-fourths
out the fate of this year’s T20 World Cup in A) Australia will want it from February- The board’s AGM approved that a member only if s/he has been con- members of the general body.
Australia is sealed. March next year, soon after India’s tour. How- the cooling-off period would apply victed in a criminal case and sen- “Neither preparation of draft
The 2020 edition of the T20 World Cup, sched- ever, BCCI is keen to host the IPL this year, to the president and the secretary tenced to three or more years in constitution by the CoA nor a direc-
uled to be played between mid-October and mid- followed by England’s tour of India in February- only if they had served two “con- prison. The board said these changes tion for its adoption (by the SC) can
November, is being postponed. An official call March, followed by the 2021 edition of the IPL. secutive terms at BCCI”, thus eras- were necessary for the smooth ad- either preclude, restrict or hinder
on this will be taken next week when the mem- Such a proposal won’t find favour with BCCI. ing their stints in state cricket as- ministration of cricket and to effec- the right of the general body to
ber boards of the International Cricket Council B) The BCCI is scheduled to host the 2021 sociations. While Ganguly was an tively utilise the administrative tal- amend the constitution in exercise
(ICC) get on a teleconference to discuss the im- edition of the T20 World Cup. Will the Indian office-bearer of the Cricket Asso- ent available in the three-tier district- of its amending powers conferred
mediate future of the tournament. board agree to a swap with Australia, allow ciation of Bengal, Shah had stints state-national cricket management. under the constitution itself and
The postponement of the 2020 edition would them to host the 2021 edition and host the India at the Gujarat Cricket Association. “The draft (constitution) was pre- passed in a duly convened meeting
make way for BCCI to perceive the idea of hosting edition in 2022? Unlikely, because India will Proposing another major change pared by persons who did not have of the general body. It is submitted
the 13th edition of the IPL more constructively. already be ‘obliging’ Australia with the tour in its constitution, the BCCI said dis- ground-level experience of function- that in exercise of the said power of
TOI can confirm that the Indian cricket board Down Under this year — a big money spinner qualification on other grounds ing of this three-tier structure in amendment, which is indisputably
— that relies on its T20 property to generate 3/4th for Cricket Australia which is on the verge of should be applicable only to member- which the transition of cricket ad- conferred upon the general body, the
of its entire revenue and 2/3rd of cricket’s global bankruptcy — unless, of course, politics of ship in the BCCI and its apex council ministrators is stage-wise, which is BCCI has amended some provisions
revenue — is not averse to the idea. cricket takes over. “After all, this is election and not extend to the International in the larger interest of the game of of its constitution,” it said.
In fact, sources say BCCI is keen to utilise season in ICC,” sources said.
the window available, subject to appropriate C) The BCCI will host the 2021 edition
Crammed BWF
Manu bats for online
directives from the central government. “The while Australia host the 2022 edition — a year
final word has to come from them (the govern- when there’s no ICC tournament scheduled.
ment). If the necessary permissions are there
and a window is available, why not? But let’s
“Now, that’s a decision that’ll most likely suit
everyone. Revenue-wise, it doesn’t make any
calendar slammed
not jump the gun, let’s cross that bridge when
we get there,” add sources.
difference to BCCI, so let’s see where that
goes”, they added.
by shuttlers
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shooting championship
@timesgroup.com Hindol.Basu@timesgroup.com father said, “Most elite shooters have
Shivpal keen to resume training H y d e r a b a d : A f t e r f ive
months of forced suspension,
New Delhi: Ace shooter Manu
Bhaker is spending the lockdown
the electronic target system installed.
It is linked with a laptop and scores
are uploaded real time online. There
should be steady Internet and laptop
international badminton is all days at her village
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A legitimate and natural question
derabad Open on August 11. Jhajjar. Manu’s
Biswajyoti.Brahma hard on fitness to stay on track Badminton World Federation father Ramk- is: What if someone is cheating?
@timesgroup.com for achieving my dream. But the (BWF) released a revamped ishen Bhaker “In the tournaments that I’ve
last two months ensured that all calendar on Friday. recently got an taken part, there was monitoring
New Delhi: When he clinched the hard work has gone down The calendar came for a lot electronic tar- happening. Actually, camera should
an Olympic berth in javelin in the drain. If I have to tell you the of criticism from players as get system in- be installed at the makeshift range,”
Potchefstroom, South Africa in truth, I will say, zindagi ka sabse well as Pullela Gopichand, stalled at the Manu suggested.
March, Shivpal Singh was con- kharab time kaat rahe hain (I am chief coach of Indian badmin- makeshift shoot- Her father added: “Online shoot-
fident he had it in him to be- going through the worst phase ton. “The schedule is too ing range in their ing championship is the future. It
come India’s first-ever Olym- of my life).” crammed — 22 tournaments in village home. The old machine was can be organized even better if an
pic medalist in track and field. The 24-year-old, who comes five months. When the world is an archaic manual machine prone to app is developed. Now one person
That he had secured the Olym- from a family of javelin throw- going through a crisis, to ex- frequent breakdowns and was caus- has to keep on recording on one’s
pic berth without “putting ers, struggles to contain his pect people to travel across the ing her “immense irritation”. mobile phone, while the shooter is
much pressure” on his body, disappointment whenever he world and play 22 tournaments Delighted by the reboot in her shooting. At present, the major neg-
was an indicator that he was looks back at his journey in week after week is expecting training, the teenaged star has start- ative points are computer failure or
on course to achieve his dream. Shivpal Singh the last few days. “The worst too much,” Gopichand said. ed preparing for the Tokyo Olympics Internet getting disconnected while
But just two months later, Shiv- part is that there’s no training. PV Sindhu said talk of re- with renewed vigour and optimism. the competition is on.”
pal is not sure anymore. the confines of the SAI cam- I was so fit, but I had nothing sumption was good news but “Practice is going on in full swing. Shooting has a realistic chance
pus in Patiala. “I have gained to do but to eat when I was in players would have to wait and The new electronic target system is of opening up its outdoor training
LOCKDOWN DIARIES five kilos,” Shivpal told TOI quarantine. And after that watch. “It is good that the season used at ISSF-supervised competi- facilities sooner than other disci-
ruefully. “When I last checked there’s hardly any fitness is going to start. But we don’t tions. There is not even one percent plines, as it is a non-contact sport
Shivpal had a throw of a few days back, I was 94 kilos. training. We do some physical know what happens as several of laxity on my part,” Manu told TOI with shooters in possession of their
85.47m in the ACNW League When I came here, I was 89.” activities, but that’s far from tournaments were cancelled at in an exclusive interaction from Go- equipment at all times. However,
Meeting in Potchefstroom, an When he was called back enough. Such things push you the last minute. I hope we can get ria. “There should be some competi- Manu wants no risk.
ef fort which would have from the Potchefstroom event in back. I sincerely hope that the a vaccine soon and be free from tion, though,” she added quickly. “Durghatna se der bhali (Better a
fetched a bronze at the 2016 mid-march in the wake of the restriction on training is lifted this virus,” she said. Manu vouched for online shooting delay in opening of the outdoor train-
Rio Olympics. Keshorn Wal- Covid-19 pandemic and put on and I am allowed to go back on Top star Saina Nehwal said championships to help Olympic- ing facilities than any kind of unto-
cott of Trinidad Tobago had quarantine for 14 days, he had the ground. I will work hard on Twitter: “5 months non stop bound elite shooters of the country ward incident),” she said. “When we
finished third in Rio with thought that the enforced break to regain my fitness.” travel...biggest question is get “much-needed competition”. go to the range, we come in contact
85.38m behind Kenya’s Julius was just a blip. Never did he He added: “We are staying what are the international “An online shooting champion- with miscellaneous things. There is
Yego (88.24m) and Thomas think that he won’t see his spear together in a mess here. We guidelines of travelling during ship will definitely help the Olym- a register that needs to be signed.
Rohler of Germany (90.30m) for the next two months. ”When have been taking food togeth- this #coronavirus pandem- pic-bound elite shooters. I had par- That comes in contact with several
The euphoria of Olympic I came from South Africa, I was er. All the athletes are staying ic??...tennis didn’t even come ticipated in two competitions before people. There are two-three wash-
qualification has already died thinking of the Federation Cups inside for last two months and out with any plan till October.” the lockdown. It will give us compe- rooms at the range. Let’s say 50 shoot-
down and Shivpal is now left and the Diamond Leagues. I had no outsiders are coming in. So P Kashyap was critical too. tition and valuable practice,” the ers are given entry, they’ll use the
pondering what could have so much confidence that I was what would is the problem if “22 events in five months. Ok. 18-year-old said. washrooms. So, till the time the
been as he desperately waits even thinking of winning an we go to the ground together Firstly, practice hasn’t begun Elaborating on how the online threat of virus is not over, it is better
for resumption of training in Olympic medal. I had worked for some training?” yet...five months non stop travel?” championship can be held, Manu’s to practice at home.”

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9-yr-old saw father 786 new cases, TN nears 15k-mark Opposition parties
floating in water, no playing politics  Continued from P 1
ANI
Meanwhile, Tamil Nadu’s
chief secretary on Friday

one dared help him W
Tamaghna.Banerjee
@timesgroup.com
Kolkata: Nine-year-old Arpi-
ta Gayen says she will never
be able to forget the night she
saw her father, visibly dead,
floating in the water near
their home, but no one from
her family — mother and un-
cles standing at a distance,
holding her hand tightly and
crying for help — stepping
forward to pull him out.
“I don’t know if I will ever
be able to make my daughter
understand why none of us
could go near her father’s
body,” said Aparna Gayen,
the widow of Pintu Gayen,
who was electrocuted while
wading through a water-
logged road near his home in
Behala on Wednesday.
Pintu, 37, was among the
19 casualties caused by cy-
clone Amphan in Kolkata, 11
of negativism: BJP
‘Bengal has to fight
twin challenges of
corona & cyclone’
 Continued from P 1
S taying home and social
distancing are the
safeguards against corona,
whereas moving out from
homes and reaching safer
places are advisable in case of
a cyclone. Bengal has to fight
the two challenges together,”
PM Modi said in an
eight-minute video message
from Basirhat in North
24-Parganas district.
Expressing solidarity with
Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee,,
he said, “The Centre was in
constant touch with the state
government and the two jointly
worked hard.” He announced
ex gratia of Rs 2 lakh to the
ith its highest addi-
tion in Covid-19 cases
in a single day so far,
Maharshtra’s total caseload
stood at 44,582, more than
three times higher than the
second worst-hit state, Tamil
Nadu, where 14,753 cases
have been reported.
This is the sixth day in a
row that Maharashtra has
added over 2,000 cases. Maha-
rashtra health minister Ra-
jesh Tope admitted that cases
were increasing and said the
focus was on reducing
deaths. “We have issued or-
ders to make available 80% of
the beds in private and charit-
able hospitals for Covid-19 pa-
tients and have also capped
During 12-hr journey, bride
survived only on water
 Continued from P 1
Security personnel conduct a flag march in Lucknow, asking people to
stay at home on the last Friday of Ramzan
treatment rates,” Tope said.
He said numbers were ris-
ing as a large number of cases
were coming in from densely-
populated areas in the state,
especially Mumbai. “For ev-
anyone,” Goldy told TOI.
She started before dawn
ery 10 lakh population, Maha-
rashtra has 332 cases and 11
deaths. Most of these deaths
were of people with other co-
morbidities, but we want to
reduce that too,” Tope said.
Railways to run more
Shramik Special trains
 Continued from P 1
held a meeting with senior of-
ficials on ways to handle the
flood of cases expected when
the Covid-19 epidemic peaks
in the state.
With 786 fresh cases on Fri-
day, the state’s tally is close to
15,000 and the toll reached 98,
with four more deaths. Chen-
nai recorded 569 cases as top
health, finance, revenue and
diasaster management offi-
cials brainstormed on in-
creasing hospital beds, care
centres, and quarantine facil-
ities in the city. The epidemic
was yet to peak in Delhi as
well, which saw its highest
single-day addition to the Co-
vid-19 count at 660.
Full report on www.toi.in
just need to add the middle
berth which was taken out
 Continued from P 1
A Centre cooperating
fter a marathon meet-
ing, the parties issued
an 11-point charter of
demands to the Centre,
prominent being payment of
a monthly amount of Rs
7,500 for six months to fam-
ilies outside the income tax
bracket, distribution of 10kg
of foodgrains for a similar
period to needy families and
“reversal of all unilateral
policy decisions, particular-
ly the annulment of labour
laws”.
The gathering also asked
the Centre to release sub-
stantial funds to the states,
urgently restore “parlia-
mentary functioning and
oversight” and to spell out if
it had an exit strategy from
the lockdown.
The high-powered delib-
erations included Rahul
Uddhav: Maha govt,
to tackle Covid-19
M aharashtra had good
levels of cooperation
with the Centre in fighting the
Covid-19 pandemic and this
was needed as states and the
central government together
had to combat
the disease,
chief minister
Uddhav
Thackeray told
a meeting of
opposition
parties on Friday. Thackeray,
who participated in a meeting
called by Congress chief Sonia
Gandhi, said the next 15 days
would be crucial in deciding
the course of the disease. He
explained steps taken to
counter the spread of the

of whom were electrocuted,
and whose bodies were found
floating on the city’s water-
logged streets. Pintu last
spoke to Aparna at 9pm on
Wednesday when he left his
office in with three of his col-
leagues. He was leading the
group, walking through the
waterlogged road, when he
fell down in the water and be-
gan screaming for help. But
no one dared to pull him out.
“He was lying there till mid-
families of the deceased and Rs
50,000 to the injured from the
PM’s Relief Fund.
Full report on www.toi.in
night. No one was allowed to
pull him out. The CESC staff
came after repeated com-
plaints. After disconnecting
live wires from three fallen
electric poles, we could final-
ly bring him out. He was long
dead by then,” Aparna said.
Full report on www.toi.in
O A
ur marriage was fixed
for May 4, which got
postponed due to the
lockdown. We were expect-
ing relief after Lockdown
3.0, which was to end on May
17. But unfortunately, it was
extended till the end of the
month. When our parents
decided to defer our mar-
riage again, I decided to not
let the pandemic come in the
way of our wedding. I left my
house without informing
on Wednesday and reached
her groom’s house late in the
evening. “After covering a
distance of 80km, I reached
Virendra’s house and got
married on Thursday at the
village temple with the con-
sent of our family mem-
bers,” she said.
With a small bag contain-
ing clothes and belongings,
Goldy walked for 12 hours
with no food. “I survived on-
ly on water,” she added.
round Rs 2 lakh was
spent to remodel each
coach for Covid-care,
officials said. The railways
had converted 5,321 coaches,
though the plan was to have
20,000 such Covid isolation
coaches. The health minis-
try provided funds to rail-
ways for conversion of
coaches. Officials said it
won’t take long to reconvert
the coaches to be used for
passenger movement. “We
in the case of sleeper coach-
es,” said an official.
Some of the other aspects
which need to be redone in
these coaches include taking
out curtains and restoration
of toilets. To accommodate
Covid-infected persons each
coach had bathroom and oth-
er facilities. The national
transporter has also an-
nounced to run more Shra-
mik Special trains.
Full report on www.toi.in
Gandhi, chief ministers
Uddhav Thackeray, Hemant
Soren, Mamata Banerjee
and regional satraps like
Sharad Pawar, DMK presi-
dent MK Stalin, Tejashwi
Yadav of RJD, NC’s Omar
Abdullah and CPM general
secretary Sitaram Yechury.
Meanwhile, BJP on Fri-
day accused opposition par-
ties of doing “politics of neg-
ativism” at a time when the
country was battling the cor-
pandemic and the measures
that have been found
effective, Shiv Sena
sources said. TNN
onavirus crisis.
Union minister Prakash
Javadekar said several non-
BJP governed states were
not giving permission to ply
trains to evacuate migrant
labourers, who were being
forced to march on foot.
Full report on www.toi.in
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Title
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The best of locked-down creativity

my bachpan ki Eid: Anjum Fakih

2 Mere Rashke Qamar Badshaaho COUNTDOWN:
3 Chalti Hai Kya 9 Se12 Judwaa 2 BEST OF 2017
@skidarstudios
4 Badrinath Ki Dulhaniya Badrinath Ki Dulhaniya
5 The Humma Song OK Jaanu
6 Main Tera Boyfriend Raabta
Unnati.Joshi@timesgroup.com 7 Galti Se Mistake Jagga Jasoos
8 Maine Tujhko Dekha Golmaal Again
amzan might have started on April 24 for all of us,

R but for Anjum Fakih, it began almost two weeks

early. The actress, who started keeping rozas from
April 9, tells us, “You can call it a sign of prosperity, but I
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Zalima
Phir Bhi Tumko Chahunga
Raabta
Hawaayien
Raaes
Half Girlfriend
Raabta
Jab Harry Met Sejal Ajay Devgn and Ileana
had gained a few kilos before the lockdown (laughs). And D’Cruz in Baadshaho
13 Tamma Tamma Badrinath Ki Dulhaniya
because of the nature of my work, I was a little con- Mere Rashke Qamar
14 Oonchi Hai Building Judwaa 2
cerned about it. So I started fasting from Shab-e- 2017 was definitely the year of Tanishk
15 Nachdi Phira Secret Superstar
Barat. I am not only using this time to grow spir- Bagchi. Four out of the top five songs on
16 Ullu Ka Pattha Jagga Jasoos
itually, but to also take care of my health.” our charts belonged to him. Two were
Keeping up with the healthy way of life, An- 17 Ghoomar Padmaavat recreations, The Humma Song and Mere
jum had a special iftar this time. “Earlier we used 18 Radio Tubelight Rashke Qamar, one was inspired by a
19 Ding Dang Munna Michael folkish tune in Badrinath Ki Dulhania, and
to devour a lot of delicious, but oily food items the top song, the No.1 was an original,
during iftar. I remember, the dastarkhwan used to 20 Mercy Mercy
Baarish from Half Girlfriend. Tanishk later
be filled with delicacies. Now, we have all grown to be he went on to take the No.1 position next
health-conscious and my mom has learnt to cook some year in 2018 as well with Dilbar.
Konkani dishes with a healthy twist. So we had healthy Source: Radio Mirchi
iftar this time.”

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The lockdown hasn’t shaken her spirits. In fact, the
actress plans to celebrate the festival like she used to PANDEMIC AFFIRMATION
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TIMES KAKURO LOOP THE LOOP THE DAILY CROSSWORD
Level: Easy
Rules
■ Connect adjacent dots with vertical or
horizontal lines, creating a single loop
(Fig A).
■ Crossovers or branches are not allowed
(As shown by dotted lines in Fig B).
■ Numbers in the puzzle indicate the num- Not allowed
(Fig B)
ENGINEERING | MANAGEMENT | MEDIA | LAW ber of lines that
(Fig A)

should surround
SUDOKU CHALLENGE it, while empty
Level: Medium cells may be sur-
HOW TO PLAY rounded by any
number of lines.
Fill in the grid ■ You can’t draw
so that every lines around ze-
horizontal row, roes.
every vertical ■ Each puzzle has
column and just one unique
every 3x3 box solution.
contains the How to begin: Ex-
digits 1-9, ample (Fig A) - Be-
without H O W T O P L AY Note: A digit cannot ap-
pear more than once in gin with the zero
repeating the next to 3. Since no
numbers in the The numbers in the coloured squares refer any particular digit com-
to the sums of the digits that you must fill bination. For instance in lines can be drawn
same row, around zero, mark
column or into the empty spaces directly below or to the example, we cannot
have the combination of crosses around it,
box.You can’t the right of the coloured square containing as shown. Now there is a cross in one space around 3. So we know the three
change the 8+4+8 for 20.
the number. For instance, in the given ex- lines of 3 can only be drawn in the remaining three spaces. Next, these lines
digits already ample, the 2 boxes below 12 must contain can only be extended in one direction each. Continue, using the same logic.
20
given in the 2 digits that add upto 12, whereas for 20, 12 Hints: Keep eliminating possibilities by marking crosses in spaces between
grid. Every dots where a line isn’t possible, i.e., if you have already completed required
puzzle has the 3 boxes placed horizontally next to it
Example lines or where a line
one solution. must add upto 20. No zeroes are used here,
only the digits one through nine. extension may create a branch or cause a deadend (Fig B)
ANIMAL CRACKERS
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letters in the cir- ___ ____ it - Vir-
letter to each cles to form the
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answer to the rid-
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words ENRUGG indicated MINDBENDER
Each pair of definitions is for two words, where the second word is the first
word with a letter deleted (example: brand & band). The length of the first
SPELLATHON word in each pair is provided, along with the position of the deleted letter to
obtain the second word.
Today’s Ratings: 1) something absurd or ridiculous (5 letters) & (delete 4th letter) money paid
18-average 20-good 22-outstanding for transportation
2) a type of fruit (6 letters) & (delete 1st letter) a place for shooting practice
L How many words of four or more letters can 3) a dead body (6 letters) & (delete 3rd letter) a thicket of small trees or
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ARIES March 20 - April 18 This is the right for you. However, some roadblocks keep Tricky time for Librans as you need to take plans for the future will be made, but as Venus
time to pursue contacts and try to get coming in between. However, today is good utmost care of your health. Research ori- retrogrades, don’t execute them till June end.
what you want out of them. If you don’t ask, for initiating public relations activity and get- ented assignments shall keep you busy. AQUARIUS January 20 - February 18 Do-

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you won’t get. The financial position ting in touch with people that matter. Though your mind will be very creative and mestic matters look good, you will become
starts improving and you will be sought for LEO July 22 - August 21 The work you do aggressive, success is not guaranteed. more commanding and authoritative in your
your opinions. now gets highlighted and recognised across SCORPIO October 23 - November 20 Small professional approach, taking decisions from
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TAURUS April 19 - May 19 Good exposure a broad spectrum. You will make some travel may be necessary. It may be lockdown, home. Unpopular decisions may have to be
and limelight seem probable, even if it may amendments in your work style and office. but you need a slight change in your sur- taken by you. Health of mother may cause
be on a digital platform during the lockdown. Contacts from abroad will influence your pro- roundings now. Secret meeting between some concern, though it will be manageable. MINDBENDER
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BIRTHDAY TODAY GEMINI May 20 - June 20 Expenses mount, spondence and communication keep you SAGITTARIUS November 21-December 20 put you on centre stage. Communication will SPELLATHON
Answer: Trust one who

Y ou tend to become self-righteous at times. Pay

attention to what others think about a situation.
Tip: Your lucky colours are orange and white. Your
you have no control of what’s happening on
the financial front. Health of your father needs
occupied. Injuries to your neck and thighs
are possible. Money matters may get some-
Health needs care today as Moon joins Venus
and Mercury in your sixth house. Fitness or
be your main focus and you shall be quite
busy on mails or correspondence. Occult
WHATZIT?
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slime, slit, smile, smite, stile, tile, time
list, mile, mist, mite, silt, simile, site, slim,
zah, grunge
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lucky gems are turquoise and opal attention now. Be careful for your bones, if what complicated and wrong financial hygiene related matters will occupy your matters may interest you as many planets ELITISM, emit, isle, islet, item, lime, limit,
You share your birthday with: Samir Kochhar you are exercising at home. decisions taken now can have impact in mind. Health of your spouse may to suffer. including the Moon move in the eighth house.
CANCER June 21 - July 21 It is a time of the long run. CAPRICORN December 21 - January 19 You need to be careful of misunderstanding
gain for you, as many openings look good LIBRA September 22 - October 22 This is a time for affairs to build up. Exotic with women now.
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My cooking It was tough working on KGF

in lockdown Chapter 2, but I enjoyed the
has a lot of process, says Sanjay Dutt
jugaad: Richa
Renuka.Vyavahare@timesgroup.com
After four decades in Hindi cinema, the
actor is set to make his debut down south
Prathamesh Bandekar

he lockdown has made people the pressure, as he is the new en-

T
Rachana.Dubey@timesgroup.com
get closer to the kitchen fires, trant in the sequel, Sanjay shares,
and Richa Chadha is no ex- efore the lockdown, San- “I never feel pressure from my
ception. The actress, too, is busy hon-
ing her culinary skills, but with a twist.
While many Bollywood celebs have
RICHA CHADHA
B jay Dutt was busy with
several projects, including
his debut in the Kannada film in-
audience. As a creative person, I
put pressure on myself to do my
best, so that I continue to grow
been sharing images of the sumptu- dustry, KGF Chapter 2, in which as an actor. I’m excited to make
ous meals they’ve whipped up, Richa, he plays the antagonist. At 60, San- my debut in the South Indian
on the other hand, has no filter. She jay is eager to try something new. film industry.”
has been putting up hilarious pictures Talking about this experience, Bollywood actors such as Alia
of her misadventures in the kitchen. Sanjay says, “As an actor who has Bhatt, Ajay Devgn, Kangana Ra-
She says, “I’m not one of those peo- been in the business for four naut and Shraddha Kapoor, too,
ple who believe that cooking is thera- decades, I feel a lot has changed. are expanding their boundaries
peutic (laughs). I don’t like cooking, There is professionalism and cor- by working in films made in dif-
but I manage to make good food. poratisation that wasn’t there ear- ferent languages. Sanjay says,
Maybe because I like to eat good food, lier in the industry. Work avenues “Language or boundaries are
somehow what I cook turns out to be have opened with the entry of dig- never a barrier for an artiste.
nice. However, the process ital platforms. It’s a great time to There is so much to explore,
is not fun and I don’t enjoy be an actor.” and the more you learn, the
cooking.For me,it’s all very KGF Chapter 1, headlined by more you grow. I have always
experimental.” Yash, was well-received by peo- loved Hindi cinema, but as
Speaking about her ex- ple. When asked whether he feels an actor, there is more than
periments in the kitchen, just one platform. Why
she says, “Pakaana kuch should one restrict one-
aur tha, lekin kuch aur hi Richa Chadha says that self to one genre or lan-
ban gaya – it happens to me her cooking involves a lot I HAVE ALWAYS guage? We have such
every day! I have no expec- of jugaad, and it’s very LOVED HINDI beautiful content coming
experimental
tations from my dishes be-
cause I have no reference
CINEMA, BUT AS from our regional lan-
guages and different
point. For me, it’s just about lot of jugaad. Having said that, AN ACTOR, THERE platforms. I am happy
making something for lunch during the lockdown, every- IS MORE THAN JUST that I am acting in a film
and dinner that is edible. one is doing that because baa- made in another lan-
Once I was trying to make an har sabzi khareedne roz kaun ONE PLATFORM. guage. It was a little tough, SANJAY DUTT
aloo dish, but when it didn’t jayega? Also, everything that WHY SHOULD ONE but I enjoyed the process. In
taste nice, I added grated co- you want is not available. fact, the challenge made it all
conut, rai (mustard seeds) and Everyone’s making food out
RESTRICT ONESELF the more exciting. I felt like a
curry leaves in it. It turned of whatever is easily available TO ONE GENRE OR kid learning something new
into an awesome dosa ka in the kitchen.” LANGUAGE? on the sets of the film.”
masala. So, my cooking has a

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of a person. Not just this year,
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