1. Union Home Minister Amit Shah launched BJP's poll campaign for upcoming Bihar elections via video conference and slammed opposition over politicizing migrants' crisis during COVID-19 pandemic. 2. Shah claimed his address was not related to Bihar polls but to consolidate fight against COVID-19. He criticized RJD workers for mocking BJP's symbolic applause for frontline workers. 3. India's COVID-19 cases crossed 2.5 lakh, with Maharashtra continuing to be the worst hit state. Jammu & Kashmir reported its highest single day spike of 620 cases.

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Union Home Minister and
former BJP president Amit
Shah on Sunday launched the
poll campaign for the year-end
Bihar Assembly polls address-
ing a political rally via video
conference and slammed the
Opposition for doing politics
over the migrants’ crisis in the
country in the wake of the
coronavirus pandemic.
Shah claimed that his
address has nothing to do with
Bihar elections but was just
another way to consolidate
fight against the pandemic.
He took a dig at Rashtriya
Janata Dal (RJD) workers who
clanked ‘thalis’ to ridicule BJP’s
symbolic measure to counter
coronavirus saying he was glad
that Opposition had finally
heard Prime Minister’s appeal
to show gratitude to Covid-19
fighters. Hours before Shah’s
virtual ‘Bihar Jansamvad Rally’,
RJD leaders and workers staged
protests, beating utensils and
blowing conches against what
their leader Tejashwi Yadav
dubbed as the ruling party’s cel-
ebration of the devastation
caused by Covid-19 and the
lockdown.
“The Opposition is doing
politics. What did it do for peo-
ple,” Shah asked at the virtual
rally.
He said Prime Minister
Narendra Modi’s welfare steps
such as cash transfer, free ration
helped the migrant workers in
at this time of the crisis.
“The Central Government
safely ferried 1.25 crore
migrants to their destinations
after health infrastructure was
ramped up to meet their
needs,” Shah said.
The former BJP president
started his address by saying,
“This virtual rally has nothing
to do with Bihar poll campaign,
aimed at connecting with peo-
ple in the fight against
Covid-19.”
“I must say that they final-
ly endorsed what PM Modi had
earlier appealed for the people
to coronavirus in India and
around the world. I salute
coronavirus warriors,” he said.
The Union Home Minister
said,“It’sthelandofBiharwhere
first Republic Government was
formed. This land of Bihar has
always led India.”
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Agroup of five terrorists led
by a top commander of
pro-Pakistan Hizbul
Mujahideen terror outfit were
eliminated in a successful oper-
ation by the joint teams of secu-
rity forces in the Reban area of
Shopian on Sunday.
Since January 2020, the
security forces have killed
over 90 terrorists, including
several top commanders, in
anti-terrorist operations.
During the intense gun-
fight, which continued for sev-
eral hours during the day, the
security forces eliminated all
the hiding terrorists without
suffering any collateral damage.
However, two houses in the
area were completely destroyed.
Incidents of stone pelting
were also reported in the area
to prevent the security forces
from carrying out anti-terror
operations.
At the same time, local
police officers were seen
making announcements
from loud speakers warning
people against stepping
out of their homes to
disrupt the anti-terrorist
operations.
An A++ category terrorist,
Farooq Ahmed Bhat alias Nali,
hailing from Yaripora in kul-
gam is believed to have been
killed in the encounter.
However, a police spokesman
claimed they were still ascer-
taining the identity of the ter-
rorists.
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Brazil’s Government has
stopped publishing a run-
ning total of coronavirus deaths
and infections in an extraordi-
nary move that critics call an
attempt to hide the true toll of
the disease in Latin America’s
largest nation.
The Saturday move came
after months of criticism from
experts saying Brazil’s statistics
are woefully deficient, and in
some cases manipulated, so it
may never be possible to gain
a real understanding of the
depth of the pandemic in the
country. Brazil’s last official
numbers showed it had record-
ed over 34,000 deaths related to
the coronavirus, the third-
highest number in the world,
just ahead of Italy.
It reported nearly 615,000
infections, putting it at the
second-highest, behind the
United States. Brazil, with
about 210 million people, is the
globe’s seventh most populous
nation.
On Friday, the federal
Health Ministry took down a
website that had showed daily,
weekly and monthly figures on
infections and deaths in
Brazilianstates.OnSaturday,the
site returned but the total num-
bers of infections for states and
the nation were no longer there.
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India’s Covid-19 caseload
zooms past 2.50 lakh on
Sunday, a week after crossing
the 1.75 lakh milestone, as
new infections touched 10,114
and 241 deaths in the last 24
hours. India at 2, 57, 238 is now
the fifth worst affected country
by the coronavirus pandemic
with over 7,207 total deaths.
While Maharashtra con-
tinue to hold the tag of the
badly-affected State, record-
ing 3,007 new cases and 120
deaths taking the total count to
85,975, including 37,390 dis-
charges and 3060 deaths,
Jammu Kashmir, for the
first time reported highest
spike of 620 more Covid-19
cases on Sunday, 37 from
Jammu division 583 from
Kashmir division. Total num-
ber of cases in the UT is now
at 4087, including 2830 active
cases, 1216 recovered and 41
deaths.
After Maharashtra, the sec-
ond-worst hit State, Tamil
Nadu saw 1,515 more coron-
avrius cases and 18 deaths, tak-
ing the total cases to 31,667
while the death count rose to
269.
Delhi reported 1282 more
cases in the last 24 hours. Total
number of cases in the nation-
al capital is now at 28936,
including 17125 active cases,
10999 recovered/dis-
charged/migrated 812
deaths.
The national capital is like-
ly to see at least one lakh
Covid-19 cases by end of June
as per a projection made by the
five-member committee
formed by the Delhi govern-
ment.
As many as 480 fresh cases
and 30 deaths were reported in
Gujarat in the last 24 hours,
taking the total number of
cases to 20,097 and toll to
1,249 while Kerala on Sunday
reported 107 new cases taking
the number of active cases in
the state to 1,095. 803 persons
have recovered in the state so
far.
Uttar Pradesh registered
370 fresh cases on Saturday,
taking the number of con-
firmed cases to 10,103 even as
the number of casualties rose to
268, with 11 fatalities.
Rajasthan was at sixth position
among worst-hit States as it
reported 262 new cases and 9
deaths on Sunday.
Total number of cases in
the State is now at 10599,
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2605 active cases and 240
deaths.
Madhya Pradesh recorded
9,228 cases with 399 death
while 93 new fresh cases and
one death was reported in
Punjab in the last 24 hours, tak-
ing total number of cases to
2608 and deaths to 51.
Odisha too reported its
highest single-day spike in
Covid-19 cases after 173 more
people tested positive for the
disease, taking the total tally in
the state to 2,781.
Of the 173 new cases, 150
were in quarantine centres,
where people returning from
different States are staying.
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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind
Kejriwal on Sunday
announced that the hospitals
run by the Delhi Government
and private entities will only
treat Delhiites during the coro-
navirus crisis while the city’s
borders will be reopened from
Monday.
Addressing an online
media briefing, Kejriwal said
the hospitals run by the Centre
will have no such restriction,
and if the people from other
states come to the national cap-
ital for specific surgeries, they
can get medical treatment at
private hospitals.
The announcement
comes a day after a five-
member panel constituted by
the AAP Government sug-
gested that the health infra-
structure of the city should be
used only for treating
Delhiites in view of the rag-
ing Covid-19 crisis.
Till March, all the hospitals
of Delhi were open to all. The
residents of Delhi never denied
treatment to any person ever,
the Chief Minister said, adding
that at any given time nearly
60-70 per cent of patients in
Delhi hospitals are from other
States.
“Nearly 7.5 lakh people
have sent their suggestions to
us and over 90 per cent people
want Delhi hospitals to treat
patients from the national
Capital during the coronavirus
pandemic.
“Hence, it has been decid-
ed that Government and pri-
vate hospitals in Delhi will
only treat patients from the
national Capital,” Kejriwal said.
The Chief Minister had last
week sought views of the peo-
ple in Delhi on the issue, while
announcing the decision to
close the city’s borders.
“Delhi’s health infrastruc-
ture is needed to tackle the
coronavirus crisis at the
moment,” Kejriwal said on
Sunday.
There are around 40 Delhi
Government-run hospitals in
the national Capital including
LNJP Hospital, GTB Hospital
and Rajiv Gandhi Super
Speciality Hospital.
Among the major Centre-
run hospitals in the city are
RML Hospital, AIIMS and
Safdarjung Hospital.
The Delhi Government
hospitals have around 10,000
beds while the Centre-run hos-
pitals have almost the same
number of beds, Kejriwal said,
adding that it will strike a bal-
ance and protect the interest of
those belonging to the nation-
al Capital and other States as
well.
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Only five per cent of patients
affected by Covid-19
require hospitalisation, Indian
Council of Medical Research
Director-General Balram
Bhargava said on March 22.
The Union Health
Ministry slightly revised the
figure on May 21. At a Press
briefing, Joint Secretary in the
Health Ministry Lav Agarwal
said out of the total number of
active Covid-19 cases in the
country, 6.39 per cent needed
hospital support. Out of these,
about 2.94 per cent needed
oxygen support, three per cent
intense care units (ICU), and
0.45 per cent required ventila-
tor support.
On June 6, Delhi had a
27,654 active cases. If we go by
the ICMR assessment of five
per cent hospitalisation
requirement, Delhi should
need around 1,400 beds. If we
follow the national trend of
hospitalisation of 6.3 per cent,
then Delhi should need around
1,700 beds.
On June 5, Delhi Health
Minister Satyendra Jain
claimed that Delhi has 5,000
hospital beds, nearly six times
more than what the State
required, going by the assess-
ments of the ICMR and Health
Ministry. That raised the all-
important questions: Why
crowding in the hospitals when
so many beds are on offer?
Now take the case of
Mumbai. According to a daily
Covid-19 report published by
the State Government, 16,801
coronavirus patients were
admitted in hospitals across
Maharashtra on Friday last
when the total number of cases
in the State stood at 80,000. It
means around 20 per cent of
the patient required hospitali-
sation in Maharashtra.
In Mumbai, which had
37,500 positive cases on Friday,
of the total bed capacity of
9,092 in dedicated units, 8,570
beds were occupied whereas of
the 1,097 ICU beds, except 20
all beds were occupied. In
addition, 378 patients were on
ventilators. That means around
10,600 hospitalisations, which
comes to more than 30 per cent
of the confirmed cases.
In Haryana, around 30 per
cent of the total Covid-19
patients were admitted in 12
health institutions as on Friday.
Of them, 12 patients, consti-
tuting less than 0.6 per cent of
the total active cases, are crit-
ically ill and have been put on
the ventilator and oxygen sup-
port. The reports from these
affected States make a mockery
of the ICMR estimate of the
hospitalisation requirement.
The figures also show that in all
these three States, four to five
times more patients have land-
ed in hospital as against the
national average.
What could explain such a
mad rush to hospitals in the last
few weeks? Panic of the
patients, the greed of hospitals,
connivance between labs and
hospitals, and a possible under-
reporting of cases.
A senior official of the
ICRM told The Pioneer on the
phone that 5-6 per cent hospi-
talisation is a universal trend.
He felt that throwing the hos-
pitals open for all patients was
the reason behind the highly
inflated figures in these
States.
“It’s not for me to comment
on this issue. Hospital author-
ities will better speak about it.
But I do feel that not all cases
require hospitalisation. In Japan
and several other counties,
they never admitted mild or
asymptomatic cases in hospi-
tals. Why are we doing it in
India?” he asked.
Not surprisingly, the Delhi
Government has directed hos-
pitals to discharge all mild and
asymptomatic patients and not
admit such cases in the future.
“Fever and coughing
would fall under mild symp-
toms. If a person’s breathing
rate is more than 15 counts in
a minute, it indicates moderate
Covid-19 infection whereas
over 30 breathing counts in a
minute would fall into the
severe category,” the Delhi
Health Minister said at a Press
conference on Saturday.
It’s shocking that the hos-
pitals kept admitting such cases
when the Union Health
Ministry on May 14 issued a set
of revised discharge guidelines
which said Covid-19 patients
with mild and moderate symp-
toms need not be tested before
discharge. The guidelines said
all mild and moderately-ill
patients should be discharged
without testing from hospital
10 days after onset of symp-
toms — if there is no fever and
no oxygen support needed for
three days.
New Delhi: Two days after an
FIR was filed against Sir
Ganga Ram Hospital (SGRH)
for allegedly violating Covid-
19 regulation norms, sources
at the facility on Sunday said
there was a “clerical mistake”
and the matter is “being sort-
ed out”.
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The Uttarakhand Congress
has accused the state gov-
ernment of surrendering meek-
ly before the novel Coronavirus
(Covid-19).
Talking with the media
persons at the state headquar-
ters of the Congress here on
Sunday, the vice president of
Uttarakhand unit of the party,
Surya Kant Dhasmana said
that the Trivendra Singh Rawat
government has come into a
surrender mode as things are
now getting out of its control.
Raising a question mark over
the functioning of the govern-
ment, he said that the conta-
gion of Covid-19 is continu-
ously spreading in the state.
He said that the state gov-
ernment has reduced the test-
ing rate of the samples and the
backlog of untested samples is
increasing.
Dhasmana said that the
condition of quarantine centres
is not improving even after the
reprimand of the Uttarakhand
High Court (HC).
He said that the number of
containment zones is increas-
ing in the state and Dehradun
district alone now has two
dozen containment zones.
He added that the Sabji
Mandis of the state have
become epicenters of the infec-
tion but sample testing is being
done only in Dehradun’s
Niranjanpur Sabji Mandi.
The Congress leader
demanded that the sample test-
ing should be undertaken in all
the Sabji Mandis of the state.
He suggested that the
chief minister Trivendra Singh
Rawat should convene a meet-
ing of all political parties and
take suggestions and ideas of
everyone.
He said that a task force for
Covid-19 should be constitut-
ed in Uttarakhand for effective
fight against the disease.
Dhasmana said that a long
term plan is needed to be pre-
pared and implemented for
Covid-19. He claimed that
though the Congress party is
always ready to cooperate, the
Uttarakhand government has
remained indifferent.
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nessed its biggest single-
day spike with 496 COVID-19
cases in the last 24 hours.
The state count crossed
4000 mark touching 4448 pos-
itive cases including 2946 active
patients. Four more deaths
were reported in Haryana tak-
ing the toll to 28.
A day before, the state had
recorded 355 cases of
Coronavirus while 316 were
reported on Friday.
The unlock 1.0 have been
the worst for the state, with
over 300 cases, on average,
recorded per day.
Due to the continuous
spike in cases, the case-dou-
bling rate in Haryana on
Sunday dipped to six days,
COVID positive rate increased
to 3.15 per cent and recovery
rate further dipped to 33.14 per
cent.
Till date, 1474 patients
(including 194 in the last 24
hours) have recovered and
have been discharged from
hospitals.
“Out of 496 fresh cases,
230 were reported from
Gurugram, 73 from Sonepat,
56 from Faridabad, 25 each
from Rohtak and Narnaul, 17
from Nuh, 15 from Bhiwani, 8
from Karnal, 7 from Ambala,
5 each from Palwal, Panchkula
and Fatehabad, 4 from Hisar
among other cases. All districts
except Charkhi Dadri report-
ed positive cases on Sunday,”
according to the state Health
Department’s evening bulletin.
On May 18, Haryana’s total
count of COVID patients had
reached 928, out of which 316
were active patients. However,
on May 31, the total count
crossed 2000 with 1023 active
cases. Under the unlock 1.0
which began this month, the
cases has crossed 4000-mark on
Sunday.
The worst-affected districts
of the state with the maximum
number of positive cases are
Gurugram with 1992 cases,
Faridabad with 676 cases and
Sonepat with 423.
As many as 1.45 lakh sam-
ples have been tested till date
in Haryana. The report of 4719
samples is awaited, the state’s
bulletin stated. The active cases
in the state stood at 2946 while
1474 have recovered, it said.
The COVID-19 positive rate
stood at 3.15 percent, recovery
rate at 33.14 percent and the
doubling rate of Coronavirus
cases at 6 days on Sunday in
Haryana, the bulletin added.
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Punjab on Sunday recorded
a spike of whopping 94
fresh cases of the novel coron-
avirus in the past 24 hours, tak-
ing the state’s COVID-19 infec-
tion tally to 2,608. Besides, the
state also reported a death in
Ludhiana, taking the state’s
death toll to 51.
Another death was report-
ed from Patiala, but the same
was not recorded in the state’s
official health bulletin as yet.
Maximum cases were
reported from Amritsar (35)
and Jalandhar (23), accounting
for 61 percent on Sunday’s
infections. In addition,
Ludhiana reported 10 COVID-
19 cases, followed by seven in
Patiala, five in Sangrur, three
each in Gurdaspur and
Faridkot, two in Pathankot, one
each in Fatehgarh Sahib,
Hoshiarpur, Fazilka, SAS Nagar
(Mohali), and Barnala.
Of the 94 cases reported on
Sunday, maximum (42) were of
the contacts of the already
diagnosed positive cases, while
14 tested positive were those
retiring to Punjab from other
states or countries.
Four of Ludhiana’s 10 cases
were auxiliary nurse, two are
with ILI, and one was a contact
of an already diagnosed case,
while all seven cases of Patiala
have source of infection from
outside Punjab — including
one foreign returnee, and six
are inter-state travelers.
Sangrur’s five cases includ-
ed four people who came back
from other states. Fazilka’s lone
case had recently come back
from Gurugram. Fatehgarh
Sahib’s case had recently
returned from Delhi and
Hoshairpur’s patient had
recently returned from abroad.
Two of Faridkot’s three
cases were contacts of already
diagnosed cases, as were the
cases from Gurdaspur, Barnala
and SAS Nagar. Besides, 14
other people tested positive, but
these have not been counted in
the state tally.
A 65-year-old woman died
in Ludhiana’s Christian Medical
College and Hospital on
Sunday, a day after she tested
positive for COVID-19.
Patiala also reported a
death, although this has yet to
be added to the official state
count. A 46-year-old man from
Nabha died at Government
Rajindra Hospital on Sunday
afternoon from coronavirus.
His test results came back pos-
itive after his death, the officials
said. An employee of
Hindustan Unilever Limited,
he was admitted to the hospi-
tal on Saturday.
On Sunday, 14 more
patients recovered from the
COVID-19 including seven
from Pathankot, four from
Jalandhar, and three from
Patiala. Punjab now has 451
active cases, with 2106 patients
recovered and discharged, at a
recovery rate of 81 percent.
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Nineteen COVID-19
patients in Himachal
Pradesh recovered on Sunday,
taking the recovery rate in the
hill state to 52 per cent even as
the state also reported seven
fresh cases, including four in
Kangra, two in Hamirpur and
one in Mandi, officials said.
The total number of
COVID-19 cases in the state
stands at 408 and fatalities at
six. The number of patients
undergoing treatment is 188,
Additional Chief Secretary R D
Dhiman said.
On Sunday, eight patients
recovered in Kangra, followed
by four in Chamba, three each
in Bilaspur and Una and one in
Hamirpur district, Special
Secretary (Health) Nipun
Jindal said. The recoveries
include four patients who had
been shifted from Solan district
to a private hospital outside the
state.
Hamirpur has the highest
number of recoveries at 59, fol-
lowed by 58 in Kangra, 29 in
Una, 19 in Chamba, 16 in
Solan, 12 in Bilaspur, nine in
Mandi, eight in Shimla, three
in Sirmaur, and one in Kullu.
With 63 active cases,
Hamirpur tops the list, fol-
lowed by 50 in Kangra, 16 in
Solan, 13 in Una, 11 in
Chamba, 10 in Mandi, nine in
Bilaspur, eight in Sirmaur,
three each in Shimla and
Kullu, and two in Kinnaur.
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Urban Development
Minister Madan Kaushik
pulled up departmental offi-
cials and directed the Haridwar
district magistrate to get the
problems resolved within two
days, failing which FIRs should
be lodged against senior offi-
cers of the department con-
cerned.
Kaushik chaired a meeting
with officials of various depart-
ment regarding supply of con-
taminated drinking water and
other problems on Sunday.
Officials of Jal Sansthan, Peyjal
Nigam, AMRUT and other
departments concerned were
present in the meeting. The
Minister pulled up the officials
pointing out the frequency of
leakage and failure of depart-
ments to resolve issues even
after receiving complaints.
He said that if the problem
is not resolved within 48 hours
of the complaint, a case should
be filed against the top officers
of the department concerned.
He said that to prevent conta-
minated water supply, connec-
tions should be made to the
new line so that the problem
can be resolved permanently.
Significantly, complaints of
contaminated water supply are
being made consistently in
Haridwar. Leakage in supply
lines and overflowing sewers
are common complaints being
made by residents. The minis-
ter directed the Haridwar dis-
trict magistrate C Ravi Shankar
to ensure coordination among
the departments so that the
necessary action is taken with-
out delay.
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Corona infection is spread-
ing fast in Jharkhand due
to influx of migrant workers in
State. So far 1102 corona pos-
itive patients have been iden-
tified in State till filling of this
reports. On Sunday, 73 new
Covid-19 cases surfaced from
across the State, with Simdega
recording 13 and Lohardaga
recording maximum 11 posi-
tive cases.
Cases also surfaced from
Dhanbad, East Singhbhum,
Latehar, Koderma and other
districts. Majority of cases
reported on Sunday were of
migrant workers and they have
been put in home quarantine.
The count of migrants testing
positive from May 2 have gone
up to 822. Out of 1102 cases,
the number of active cases is
606, while 490 persons and
recovered from infection. The
death toll is seven.
Loharadga Deputy
Commissioner Akhanksha
Ranjan said, “All the corona
infected persons have been
admitted at Covid hospital and
all medical and security
arrangements are being taken.”
Lohardaga DC further said
the cases which were found on
Sunday are from Kairo and
Kuru block of districts. Earlier,
on Saturday a total of 116 peo-
ple tested positive for the coro-
navirus in the last 24 hours in
Jharkhand, taking the total
number of cases to 1,028 in the
State.
Though the number of
positive case in State has gone
up since May 2, the mortality
rate in State is still lower than
other states and national aver-
age. The state mortality rate is
0.63 per cent, while national
mortality rate is 2.81 per cent.
On one hand cases of
infection is increasing in dis-
tricts due to migration of peo-
ple from Maharashtra, Gujarat,
Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu
and other states, on the other
hand more areas are becoming
free from containment zones
in the State capital. Based on
state government directives,
seven areas of state were made
free from micro containment
zones. These areas were made
free from micro containment
zones as not a single case of
infection was found in last 21
days.
The seven containment
zones fall under Angara,
Argora, Mandar and Bariatu
police station areas. These areas
were made free from contain-
ment zones based on door-to-
door screening by medical
team in these micro contain-
ment zones.
Also the test of report of
people having symptoms of
corona infection was also found
to be negative. The Ranchi
deputy commissioner, Rai
Mahimapat Ray after the
release of seven micro con-
tainment zones once again
appealed the people to follow
lockdown guidelines seriously.
Ray said, “No one should vio-
late the rules of lock down, it
is necessary to protect every-
one. Follow social distancing
completely, use masks and san-
itizers.”
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Enforcement Directorate
(ED) is understood to have
decided to investigate bank
fraud worth around 38 crore in
Jharkhand State Cooperative
Bank Limited as sources con-
fided that the ED has sought
copy of the FIR and other
related documents from CID to
lodge a fresh case under pro-
visions of Prevention of Money
Laundering Act (PMLA).
Jharkhand Police had
lodged two separate FIRs in
2019 after discovering that the
then manager of Saraikela-
KharsawanbranchofJharkhand
StateCooperativeBankLimited;
Sunil Kumar Sathpathi in con-
nivance with some private per-
sons and bank officials had
sanctioned loan worth around
38 crore during 2011 and 2016.
Laterontheloanamountturned
NPA incurring heavy loss to the
bank which still doesn’t have
robust financial condition to
afford such loss.
Sanjay Dalmia a resident of
Saraikela was identified one of
the alleged beneficiaries of the
scam. Preliminary investigation
suggested that loan was grant-
ed without proper verification
and procedures were not fol-
lowed. Besides, no effort was
taken for the loan recovery.
Last month, the case was
transferred to CID for investi-
gation which arrested Satpathi.
CID so far has discovered fraud
of over Rs one crore and the
investigationisgoingon.Sources
in the premier investigative
agencysaidthatdocumentspro-
vided by CID are being scruti-
nized and a fresh case is likely to
be instituted within a fortnight.
As per the provisions of
PMLA; ED can take-up investi-
gation of any scheduled offense.
While CID will investigate
criminal conspiracy whereas
ED will investigate money laun-
dering aspect. The series of
scam in the cooperative bank
was exposed last year when
cooperative department set-up
acommitteetoinvestigatefinan-
cialanomaliesinseveralbranch-
es of the bank.
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The rapid increase of coron-
avirus cases in Gurugram
continued on Sunday with 230
fresh positive cases emerging in
the district.
On Saturday 129 positive
cases were reported in the dis-
trict with majority of them in
containment zones. Officials
said that on an average, 7 to 10
cases are appearing every hour
in Gurugram.
The total number of cases
has now reached 1,922 in the
district including 1,467 active
patients admitted in different
hospitals while 451 have been
cured and discharged.
The officials further said
that the condition of two
patients is extremely critical.
Gurugram district has already
registered 4 deaths.
We are registering more
than 100 cases everyday. It is a
concern for us. We are work-
ing hard to contain spread in
limited places, said a health
official.
According to officials, the
cases sharply increased from
May 26 when total cases were
just 317. Since then, health
officials have detected 20 cases
on May 27, 68 on May 28, 115
on May 29, 157 on May 30, 97
on May 31, June 1 saw 129
cases, June 2 at 160, June 3 at
132, 215 on June 4, June 5 at
153, 129 on June 6 and 230 on
June 7.
Gurugram district admin-
istration added 3 more con-
tainment zones on Friday as the
district now has 66 such zones
including 63 in Gurugram
block, 2 in Pataudi and 1 in
Sohna block.
The decision was taken
during a review meeting of dis-
aster management unit and
containment observation com-
mittee under chairmanship of
District Magistrate Amit
Khatri.
In view of the rising cases,
Khatri has suggested home
isolation.
It has been observed that
80% corona-infected patients
may recover from it if they fol-
low necessary guidelines of
the health department, Khatri
said.
The district administra-
tion has already constituted a
separate medical team which
will call every patient daily and
register progress reports. If
needed, the team will also visit
them for medical assistance, he
said.
Apart from this, Gurugram
MLA Sudhir Singla ordered an
inquiry in a death case of a
corona patient.
The victim was a resident
of Adarsh Nagar.
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The Noida on Sunday tested
fourty one more people
for coronavirus, pushing the
infection count in the district
to 632. So far, the Gautaum
Budh Nagar has reported eight
infection deaths.
According to Sunil Dohare,
the district surveillance officer,
on Sunday, 41 people tested
positive for COVID-19.
The total number of pos-
itive cases till date stands at 632
and 31 people were discharged
from hospitals after treatment,
taking the number of recovered
patient to 413 till date. There
are 211 active cases now, he
said.
According to a statement,
the fresh cases included three
minors, aged 12 and 14. Four
elderly people--aged 67, 68, 71
and 72 were also found infect-
ed with the virus, it said.
Among those discharged,
16 were under treatment at the
Government Institute of
Medical Sciences (GIMS); 10 at
Sharda Hospital; and five at
Kailash Hospital, all three in
Greater Noida.
The recovery rate of
patients on Sunday improved
to 65.34 per cent from 64.63
per cent the previous day,
according to official statistics.
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The Delhi Cong on Sunday
demanded to segregate dis-
trict-wise hospitals in the
NationalCapitalfortreatmentof
Covid-19 and non-Covid
patients to prevent them from
becoming hubs of coronavirus
infections.Congress Delhi unit
president Anil Kumar said that
the government created total
confusionamongpeopleandthe
medical fraternity by not segre-
gating Covid and non-Covid
hospitals.Patientsarenowafraid
ofvisitinghospitalsfortreatment
of other diseases, he said..
Kumar also accused the
Delhi Government of passing
thebucktodivertpeoples’atten-
tion. “The Covid cases in Delhi
have risen to 1329 per 10 lakh,
which is the highest in the
country and instead of ramping
up the testing facilities in
Delhi.TheKejriwalGovernment
keeps indulging in blame game
despitethefactthatthedoubling
rate of Covid cases in Delhi is
going up at a faster rate in 11.39
day,”hesaid.CriticisingtheDelhi
Government for “penalizing”
labs for conducting more Covid
tests,DelhiCongresstermedthe
decision to reduce the number
of testing labs is
“shocking”.“There are over
27,000CovidcasesinDelhiwith
761 deaths which is an alarming
situation but the government is
busy in creating chaos by intro-
ducing new guidelines. The
Congress president further said
that the five-member commit-
tee, appointed by the Delhi
Government has highlighted in
its report the need of at least
15000 beds by this month ded-
icated to treat Corona patients.
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Delhi Fire Services (DFS) on
Sunday said that the fire-
related calls have increased
since the mid week of May.
DFS Director, Atul Garg cited
the rise in temperature and eas-
ing of the lockdown for the
surge in fire-related calls.
There were 2,328 fire-relat-
ed calls in May as compared to
3,316 last year. In the starting
of May, the calls were compar-
atively less due to the strict
enforcement of lockdown, dur-
ing which factories and busi-
ness were shut, people were
mostly at homes and stepped
outside only in case of an
emergency or for essential
needs, said a DFS official.
But, later, there was an
increase in calls towards since
May 15, he said.
According to Garg, when
Delhi recorded a maximum of
47.6 degrees Celsius on May 26,
the department received 145
fire-related calls, which was the
highest for the month. The
same day, the city also wit-
nessed two major fire incidents.
However, no casualties were
reported, he said.
A major fire broke out in a
three-storey shoe factory at
Keshav Puram in northwest
Delhi in the early hours of May
26. Twenty-three fire tenders
were rushed to the spot and the
blaze was brought under con-
trol within four hours with the
help of around 50 firefighters.
The incident occurred
hours after around 250 shanties
were gutted in a blaze that
broke out at a Tughlaqabad vil-
lage in southeast Delhi around
12.50 am. The maximum fire
incidents were either reported
from shanties, buildings, shut
offices or houses either due to
short-circuit or leakage in LPG
cylinders among various other
reasons.
As malls, restaurants and
other avenues will reopen from
Monday, the Delhi Fire Services
has advised everyone to do ser-
vicing of air-conditioners and
other electrical appliances, as
well as the fire-fighting systems
checked before opening offices.
Garg said the fire depart-
ment was facing a two-fold
challenge to rescue the people
and also save the personnel
from the deadly coronavirus
disease (COVID-19).
In cases, where human life
is involved, our first priority is
to save the life with due pre-
cautions against Covid, the
official said. Presently, we
have an internal protocol that
is followed.
In case, rescue is needed,
two firefighters will venture
inside with proper gears like
mask, gloves, face shield. After
rescue, they will immediately
sanitise themselves thorough-
ly, Garg said. One such impor-
tant rescue-operation was car-
ried out at Cygnus Orthocare
hospital in south Delhi on
May 23.

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The medical dictionary
defines a pandemic as a dis-
ease which spreads throughout
the whole country or the world,
affecting an exceptionally high
proportion of the population.
A true pandemic causes high
degree of mortality.
According to WHO data,
nearly 1.35 million people die
and almost 50 million people
suffer as a result of road traf-
fic accidents every year world-
wide. Compared to this the
Covid-19 pandemic has killed
over a quarter million people
and infected little over five mil-
lion in about five months.
On May 11, 2011, United
Nations declared the global
plan for the Decade of Action
for Road Safety 2011-2020.
The UN set a goal to halve the
number of global deaths and
injuries from road traffic acci-
dents by 2020 but it could not
be achieved. After almost a
decade, the third Global
Ministerial Conference on
Road Safety was convened at
the request of the UN general
assembly by the government of
Sweden and WHO in Febuary
2020. The theme of conference
was “Achieving Global Goals
2030” and it highlighted the
connection between road safe-
ty and many other sustainable
development goals. Similarly
the second world youth assem-
bly co-hosted by WHO, togeth-
er proclaimed “enough is
enough”.
A Sustainable
Development Goal (SDG) of a
specific stand-alone target in
the health goal was adopted to
reduce road traffic fatalities.
The goal was set to halve the
number of global deaths and
injury from road traffic acci-
dents (RTAs) by 2030. Our gov-
ernment has also set an ambi-
tious target to save human
lives on our roads. The road
safety target with global goals
is only going to be attained if
we seriously work for it.
Human resource is the
greatest resource in mankind
and our country is losing
almost 400 people every day on
the roads due to these acci-
dents. More than half of all
RTA deaths are among young
adults between 15 and 44 years
of age and males account for 73
per cent of the fatalities. Most
of them are bread winners for
their family. A research con-
ducted by us revealed that 90
per cent of these accidents
occurred due to the driver’s
negligence.
The main causes of these
accidents are overtaking,
speeding, drunken driving and
use of mobile phone while dri-
ving. We think that aggression
on the road is a common sce-
nario on Indian roads and it
seems that we take pride in
breaking the traffic rules. The
people are more adventurous
on the road in India than any-
where else in the world. All
these causes of accidents are
due to behavioural problem of
the drivers which should be
tackled to prevent road traffic
menace. Because of this aggres-
sive behaviour and violation of
traffic rules, the nation is los-
ing a lot in terms of human and
economic resource.
Another major problem
with the increasing number of
vehicles in India is the conges-
tion on the roads. Though, the
length of roads is increasing, it
is not in proportion to the
increasing number of vehicles.
Road network has grown only
by a third in the last decade
while number of vehicles has
multiplied three times exacer-
bating congestion. The total
number of vehicles in 1951
grew by 823 times to 252 mil-
lion in 2017.
More than a million people
are killed and millions are
being injured in RTAs each
year worldwide.
This situation is quite seri-
ous in India too. About five
lakh accidents occurring annu-
ally in India cause 1.5 lakh
deaths while one-fourth of
those who survive become per-
manently disabled and only
one fourth of them achieve
their pre injury status in spite
of the best treatment available
in our country.
According to WHO and
government of India report, in
our country, we lost around
50,000 people due to road traf-
fic accidents in the corre-
sponding four months last year
while with the Covid-19 pan-
demic this year in India the
death rate has decreased to
almost two and a half thousand
people only. If we compare the
deaths caused by road accidents
and Covid-19, the deaths in the
latter are almost negligible.
According to road trans-
port ministry report, two-
wheeler riders are the most
vulnerable lot and as many as
one-third (35.2%) of those
killed were two-wheeler riders
followed by car and jeep dri-
vers. Public transport is the
most-safe in current scenario in
our country.
If we want to reduce the
numbers of accidents in our
country then we have to first
reduce numbers of vehicles
and have to increase mass pub-
lic transportation. The num-
bers of accident have drastically
been reduced as per
Uttarakhand police reports and
that during lockdown in April
2020 the numbers of death due
to road traffic accidents was
almost zero. In another report
only 750 people were killed in
road crashes across the coun-
try between March 25 and
May 31. It proves that the road
traffic accidents are directly
proportional to the number of
vehicles on roads.
Following the ministerial
conference held in February
concluding with the Stockholm
Declaration, the new global
plan for Decade of Action
shifted to safe affordable, acces-
sible, sustainable mode of
transport like walking, cycling
and using public transport.
In our opinion whether
person dies due to Covid -19
pandemic or a traffic accident;
it is a loss to the family and ulti-
mately a loss to the nation. The
way the government, NGOs,
media and society at large have
shown enthusiasm and spent
resources to spread awareness
to contain Covid-19 pandem-
ic has been commendable. If a
fraction of it is spent on pre-
venting this road traffic epi-
demic then the resulting saving
human lives will be worthwhile.
The policy makers, admin-
istrators and public should
comprehend this and all should
try to control the RTA pan-
demic at each level. We all
should always remember and
remind others that prevention
is better than cure.
(The authors are
orthopaedic surgeons based
in Dehradun)
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tisation drive that ended on
Sunday, the Municipal
Corporation of Dehradun
(MCD) sanitised areas in 100
wards besides containment
zones, quarantine centres,
Covid care centres,
Niranjanpur Mandi and all the
major public places using over
six lakh litres of disinfectant.
On its first day, 50 wards were
sanitised by MCD with the help
of 56 tractors and four fire ten-
ders using 3.10 lakh litres of
one percentage sodium
hypochlorite solution.
On Sunday, areas in the
remaining 50 wards were sani-
tised with 3.15 lakh litres of dis-
infectant using 50 tractors. The
sanitation workers sanitised
containment zones, quaran-
tine centres and Niranjanpur
Mandi wearing PPE kits due to
high risk factor of Covid-19
contagion in these areas. For
this sanitation drive, MCD had
also brought 25 tankers from
Saharanpur. The MCD officials
stated that the corporation will
keep sanitising the city from
time to time in future too as per
the requirement.
The responsibility of sani-
tising residential areas was
given to the councillors some
weeks ago whereas MCD is
sterilising all high risk areas of
the city regularly, said chief
municipal health officer Dr
Kailash Joshi. Furthermore,
the corporation has received
over 50,000 litres of one per-
centage sodium hypochlorite
disinfectant twice from a Kota
based company free of cost in
last two months. According to
the officials, the MCD had to
bear only the transportation
cost of bringing disinfectant
from Kota to Dehradun. It is
pertinent to mention here that
the corporation commenced
this sanitisation drive on the
directions of the State
Government due to the
increasing number of Covid-19
patients in Dehradun in recent
days.
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The elephant population
estimation exercise in
Corbett tiger reserve, Rajaji
tiger reserve, Nandhaur wildlife
sanctuary and various forest
divisions of the state began on
the weekend.As part of the
three-day exercise to be under-
taken till June 8, on Sunday the
forest department teams count-
ed elephants in two shifts in
Corbett, Terai west forest divi-
sion, Ramnagar division,
Nandhaur wildlife sanctuary,
Terai east and Terai central for-
est divisions. The first shift was
conducted from 6 AM to 11
AM while the second shift
was held from 3 PM to 7 PM.
Corbett deputy director
Kalyani informed that tradi-
tional direct sighting system is
being used for counting the
pachyderms. Corbett is divid-
ed into Ramnagar and
Kalagarh divisions. During the
population estimation exer-
cise in 2015, 850 elephants were
counted in six ranges of
Ramnagar division while 186
elephants were counted in the
five ranges of Kalagarh.
The Terai east divisional
forest officer Nitish Mani
Tripathi said that counting of
elephants continued on the
second day on Sunday in the
division and Nandhaur wildlife
sanctuary.
It is pertinent to mention
here that in addition to Corbett
and Rajaji, elephants are being
counted in
12 forest divisions of the
western circle and Shivalik ele-
phant corridor. About 2,500
employees of the department
are involved in the population
estimation of the pachyderms.
The department is also using
drones for the first time in this
exercise. It will be recalled
that there were 1559 elephants
in Uttarakhand during 2012
which increased to 1797 in
2015.
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After about three months,
the property tax collec-
tion will resume in Municipal
Corporation of Dehradun
(MCD) from today. To avoid
the risk of Covid-19 contagion,
the tax section of the corpora-
tion will operate in Town Hall.
On the directions of Dehradun
municipal commissioner Vinay
Shankar Pandey, the seats in
the Town Hall have been
marked with numbers to main-
tain proper distance among the
taxpayers and MCD officials.
Pandey informed that only 25
tokens will be issued to tax-
payers every day so that basic
guidelines like social distanc-
ing, use of masks and sanitis-
ers can be ensured. He also
added that no one would be
allowed to enter the MCD
premises without mask.
As informed earlier by tax
superintendent Vinay Pratap
Singh, tokens will be provided
to only those taxpayers who
will arrive between 10 AM
and 11:30 AM on working
days. Though only 25 people
will be allowed to submit the
tax in a day, additional tokens
will be issued to the remaining
people for the next day, said
Singh.
Pandey also appealed peo-
ple to deposit their property
taxes online safely from their
homes amid the Covid-19 pan-
demic. Considering the current
scenario, if any taxpayer is
incapable of depositing resi-
dential tax online or visit MCD
campus due to some reason,
they can contact the officials to
provide the facility at their
homes and the tax inspectors
will facilitate the process of tax
submission, informed deputy
municipal commissioner
Rohitash Sharma.
Moreover, those who could
not submit the property tax of
the year 2019-2020 by March
can submit it with 20 per cent
rebate till June 22. If the peri-
od of the rebate is not extend-
ed after this date, the remain-
ing taxpayers will have to sub-
mit the tax with a penalty. It is
also pertinent to mention here
that a taxpayer will have to
deposit the tax of the current
as well as the last financial year
if they have not submitted it
already by March. However, the
rebate is applicable to the tax-
payers of both years.
Furthermore, the MCD has not
issued a fixed last date till now
for the submission of the prop-
erty tax of the year 2020-2021
with 20 per cent rebate.
PNS/ Dehradun
The number of novel
Coronavirus (Covid-19)
patients in Uttarakhand
increased to 1355 on Sunday
with the state health depart-
ment reporting 52 new patients
of the disease. On the day, two
patients positive for Covid-19
died in Dehradun increasing
the tally of deaths to 13 in the
state. The state health author-
ities discharged 105 patients of
the disease from different hos-
pitals of the state after their
complete recovery. In
Uttarakhand, 528 patients have
so far won the war against the
disease.
In Dehradun, two Covid-
19 positive patients died on
Sunday. A 48 year old patient
died in Government Doon
Medical College (GDMC) hos-
pital on late Saturday night. In
another case, an 80 year old
patient also died in GDMC
hospital on Sunday. He was
referred from Kailash hospital,
Dehradun. Incidentally nine
out of 13 deaths so far in the
state have taken place in
Dehradun district.
On the day, 27 patients of
the disease were reported from
Haridwar district. This dis-
trict is showing a surge in
patients in last few days. In
Dehradun 11 patients of
Covid-19 were found while
six patients were reported from
Bageshwar district. In Tehri
three patients were found while
two patients each were report-
ed from Nainital and Udham
Singh Nagar district. In
Champawat, one patient of the
disease was reported.
On Sunday 64 patients
were discharged from hospitals
after recovery in Tehri district
while 13 patients were dis-
charged from Almora district.
Eleven patients were dis-
charged from Dehradun dis-
trict while 10 were discharged
from Uttarkashi district.
Similarly seven patients were
discharged from Hardwar dis-
trict.
The additional secretary,
state health dept, Yugal Kishore
Pant said that reports of 1118
samples were found negative
for the disease on Sunday. He
added that reports of 5905
samples are still awaited by the
department. On Sunday, a total
of 592 samples were collected
for COVID -19 testing. The
authorities have so far taken
swab samples of 37166 sus-
pected patients for COVID-19
test. Out of the total samples
taken, 4.43 percent samples
have been found positive for
the disease. The doubling rate
of disease in the state is 14.08
days while the recovery percent
in the state is now at 37.14. A
total of 23104 persons are kept
in institutional quarantine by
the state health dept.
With discharge of 105
patients, the number of active
patients in the state decreased
to 808 on Sunday. Dehradun
with 274 active cases is main-
taining its position at top of the
table of Covid-19 positive
active patients. Nainital district
is at second position with 189
active cases. Haridwar now
has 90 active cases while
Udham Singh Nagar has 44
active cases. Pithoragrah and
Champawat districts now have
43 and 38 active patients
respectively. Tehri now has 23
active patients left while
Bageshwar and Chamoli dis-
tricts have 22 active patients
each. Pauri now has 26 while
Almora has 12 active cases.
With recovery of 25 patients on
the day, the number of active
cases in Almora district
reduced to 25 on Saturday.
Rudraprayag now has 19 active
cases while Uttarkashi has six
active patients of the disease.
The state administration
has declared 52 areas in differ-
ent parts of the state contain-
ment zones. Dehradun dis-
trict has maximum number of
23 containment zone while 19
containment zones are in
Haridwar district.
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Even as the elephant
population estimation
exercise is underway
amidst the Covid-19 pan-
demic, wildlife lovers are
enthused with a recent
development which saw a
pachyderm venturing
into the mountainous
region of Narendranagar
forest division. It is being
stated that an elephant
ventured from the plains
of Rajaji national park to
the mountainous region
of Bemunda for the first
time. According to
departmental officials, an
increase in the elephant popu-
lation may be responsible for
elephants venturing into areas
they were not seen in earlier.
Till now, elephants were
seen in the jungles near
Narendranagar. However, for
the first time in recent history,
an elephant was recently seen
in the jungles of Bemunda on
the Rishikesh-Chamba high-
way. The forest department
personnel directed the ele-
phant back towards the plains.
About five days later, the ele-
phant was reported to have
returned to Rajaji. Officials
state that an elephant eats about
200 kilogrammes of fodder a
day and may cover a distance
of about 400 kilometres in a
week. It is being surmised that
the elephant must have reached
Bemunda while browsing along
the banks of the Henwal river
in Shivpuri.
The forest department has
planted Rohini, bamboo, Amla,
Bel, Amaltas, Arjun and Jamun
along the banks of the Henwal.
These are preferred by pachy-
derms among other animals
and birds.
Narendranagar divisional
forest officer Dharm Singh
Meena said that the population
of pachyderms has increased in
the Shivalik elephant reserve.
The jungles of Bemunda have
various trees and grasses pre-
ferred by the elephant. With
ample food and water, it is pos-
sible that the elephant may have
been checking out the area.
After properly monitoring the
elephant, it was directed back
towards its herd in the plains,
he added.
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The State Government has
issued guidelines for open-
ing of hotels and hospitality ser-
vices, restaurants, shopping
malls and religious places in the
state from Monday. While none
of these will be allowed to open
in containment zones and in the
municipal area of Dehradun, in
other areas these will be allowed
to open with observance of
detailed guidelines to ensure
social distancing, hygiene and
other aspects to prevent the
spread of Covid-19.
Regarding the Char Dham
shrines, the Char Dham
Devsthanam Board in consul-
tationwiththerespectivedistrict
administration and other stake-
holders,maydecidetoopenand
put necessary restrictions in
place in the interest of public
health. However, wide publici-
ty in advance, regarding the
restrictions on public darshan
and worship protocol shall be
made. Pilgrims from outside the
statewillnotbeallowedfornow.
AccordingtotheMinistryof
HomeAffairs(MHA)guidelines
for Unlock-1, hotels and hospi-
talityservices,restaurants,shop-
ping malls and religious
places/places of worship will be
allowed to open from June 8.
Issuingguidelinesforthison
Sunday evening, the State gov-
ernment has directed that all
hotels and hospitality services
shall be allowed to open in the
state. However, all such enter-
prises in containment zones of
the state and municipal area of
Dehradun shall remain closed
till further orders. Hotel man-
agement shall not entertain
bookingsfromhigh-loadCovid-
19 infected cities of other states
while ensuring minimum seven
days booking of persons from
non high load cities. Hotels will
take a written undertaking from
customersthattheywillnotvisit
any public premises or tourist
attractions in State during their
stay in the hotel. Additionally,
the hospitality enterprises will
strictly adhere to the standard
operating procedures (SOPs)
prepared by the state’s tourism
department.
All restaurants except in
containment zones and munic-
ipal area of Dehradun will be
allowed to open from 7 Am to
7 PM. Restaurant owners shall
ensure a record of all customers
and waiters specifying the date
the time. Additionally, the
restaurant management shall
also strictly adhere to the SOPs
prepared by the tourism depart-
ment. Similarly, malls will be
allowed to open from 7 AM to
7 PM except in containment
zones and municipal area of
Dehradun.
Prior to opening, the mall
managementshallgiveanunder-
taking to the district adminis-
tration regarding the measures
taken for preventing the spread
ofCovid-19andstrictadherence
to guidelines issued by CPWD
for air-conditioning and those
issued by MoHFW and MHA
fornormsofsafetyandsocialdis-
tancing. Only 50 per cent of the
shopsinamallwillbeopenedon
any given day till further orders.
The district administration in
consultationwiththemallman-
agement, may decide to put
necessary restrictions on the
maximum number of people to
beallowedintheinterestofpub-
lic health. The malls will strict-
ly adhere to SOPs issued by
MoHFW.
Regarding religious places
and places of worship, the
boards/trusts/management
committees will be allowed to
open such sites from 7 AM to 7
PM. However, all such sites in
containment zones and munic-
ipal area of Dehradun will
remainclosedtill furtherorders.
The district administration in
consulation with the managing
bodies concerned may decide to
put necessary restrictions in
place in the interest of public
health. The restrictions shall be
widely publicised in advance.
Regarding the Char Dham
shrines, the Devsthanam Board
in consultation with district
administration and other stake-
holders may decide to open and
put necessary restrictions in
place. The restrictions shall be
publicised widely in advance.
Additionally, pilgrims from out-
sidethestateshallnotbeallowed
till further orders. Further, the
management of religious places
shall strictly adhere to the SOP
issued by MoHFW.
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Following continuous set-
backs in the terror ranks
due to sustained liquidation of
ultras, including Hizbul
Mujahideen’s Riyaz Naikoo
recently, the terror groups have
sought to forge an alliance to
boost the dwindling morale of
the cadres as well as develop
fertile atmosphere for the
recruitment of gullible youth
into the jehadi fold.
In their bid to instil fresh
dose of confidence amongst the
demoralised cadres the groups
have been directed to carry out
suicide attacks against the
forces and resist the setting up
of Hindu colonies following the
abrogation of Article 370 that
granted special status to Jammu
Kashmir.
Hizbul Mujahideen chief in
Valley Gazi Haider has in a
statement urged all the
Kashmiri fighters of terror
groups like Lashkar-e-Tayyeba
(LeT), Jasih-e-Mohammad
(JeM), Ansar Ghazwatul Hind,
Tehreek ul Mujahideen, Al
Umar Mujahideen, Al Bad and
The Resistance Front are
directed to do only suicide
attacks on the Indian forces.
Everyone is directed to do
suicide attacks like Lethpora
attack because the forces are
not even handing over the
bodies of the terrorist killed in
the Valley to their families,
according to the statement cir-
culated in the Valley, a copy of
which has also been recovered
by the security agencies.
The Hizbul has also artic-
ulated the setting up of Hindu
colonies in Kashmir as rallying
point to amalgamate cadres of
different groups.
While there is no propos-
al to set up any Hindu colonies
as such, the terrorist groups are
seeking to amalgamate the
cadres amid the continuous
reverses at the hands of the
security forces by claiming that
such colonies pose a challenge
to save Islam.
The Hizbul Mujahideen
has been at the receiving end
among the terrorist groups
because of its links with the
Indian Army with which it has
played friendly cricket match-
es in the past and has been a
major source of inputs for
eliminating terror comman-
ders of other groups.
Terror groups like JeM and
LeT are also suspicious of the
Hizbul’s role in leaking infor-
mation about its leaders and
the ISI had recently plotted to
eliminate Hizbul chief Syed
Salahuddin whose family
members have been beneficia-
ries of government jobs and
facilitation from the forces in
the Valley.
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The State Governments have
so far lifted more than
105.10 lakh metric tonnes
(LMT) of foodgrains under
the Pradhan Mantri Garib
Kalyan Anna Yojana
(PMGKAY) under which 88
crore people in the country
would be given free ration for
three months. For the month of
April 36.98 LMT (92.45 %), for
the month of May 34.93 LMT
(87.33%) and for the month of
June 6.99 LMT (17.47) has
been distributed.
AccordingtotheMinistryof
FoodandConsumerAffairs,the
Centre is bearing 100 percent
financial burden of approxi-
matelyRs46,000croreunderthis
scheme. Wheat has been allo-
catedto6States/UTs,—Punjab,
Haryana, Rajasthan,
Chandigarh, Delhi and Gujarat
andricehasbeenprovidedtothe
remaining States/UTs, it said.
As regards Pulses, the
total requirement for the three
months is 5.87 LMT. The
Centre is bearing 100% finan-
cial burden of approximately Rs
5,000 crore under this scheme.
So far, 4.71 LMT Pulses have
reached the States/UTs, while
2.67 LMT pulses has been dis-
tributed, the Ministry said in
a statement.
Officials say that Bihar,
Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra,
and West Bengal are among the
states that have fallen behind in
distributing their April quota of
free pulses under the Prime
Minister’s Garib Kalyan pack-
age, even though two months
have lapsed since the scheme
came into force.
Overall, States have man-
aged to distribute less than half
the pulses received by them
from the Centre, say officials.
West Bengal is among the
worst performers. The State
had to distribute 14,500 tonnes
of free pulses under the Garib
Kalyan package in each of the
three months, but until the end
of May. From April to June,
states had to distribute around
1,90,000 tonnes of pulses each
month, but in some states,
even the April quota has not
been distributed, although two
months have lapsed.
As per the data of Food
Corporation of India, it cur-
rently has 269.79 LMT rice and
537.46 LMT wheat. Hence, a
total of 807.25 LMT food grain
stock is available (excluding the
ongoing purchase of wheat
and paddy, which have not yet
reached the Godown). About
55 LMT food grains is required
for a month under National
Food Security Act and other
welfare schemes.
Besides, a total of 13.01
LMT pulses (Toor-6.07 LMT,
Moong-1.62 LMT, Urad-2.42
LMT, Bengal Gram-2.42 LMT
and Masur-0.47 LMT) is avail-
able in the buffer stock as on
June 4, 2020.
New Delhi: A plea has been
filed in the Supreme Court
seeking probe by the CBI or a
special investigation team (SIT)
into the recent death of a preg-
nant wild elephant after it ate
a fruit containing firecrackers
in Kerala’s Silent Valley Forest.
The 15-year-old elephant
fell victim to an act of human
cruelty after the fruit filled
with powerful crackers, offered
allegedly by locals, exploded in
her mouth when she chomped
it. The elephant died in the
Velliyar River on May 27.
The plea filed in the apex
court has alleged that prima
facie it appeared to be a cal-
culated and organised racket
to kill elephants and that the
authorities have failed to pre-
vent such killings of protected
animals.
Referring to media reports,
the plea filed by Delhi-based
advocate Avadh Bihari Kaushik
has said that in April this year
a similar incident had come to
light in which an elephant,
which was found with mouth
injuries in Pathanapuram for-
est range in Kerala’s Kollam dis-
trict, had died.
The plea has also urged the
apex court to call for the entire
record of these cases along with
similar incidents, if any, regard-
ing killing of elephants in
Kerala and in other states.
It has sought a direction for
transferring the case of killing
of the pregnant elephant and
similar incidents to the CBI
under the constant monitor-
ing of the top court.
The plea has said that alter-
natively, the court should direct
setting up of an SIT, headed by
a former judge of the apex
court, to probe into the cases of
repeated killings of elephants in
various parts of the country.
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At least three persons in the
National Investigation
Agency (NIA), including a ter-
ror accused, Hina Bashir
Beg have tested positive for
Covid-19.
About 30 other persons,
including the entire probe team
and Control Room personnel,
have home been home quar-
antined.
Meanwhile CBI SP Rohit
Kapoor has also tested positive
for Covid-19, his doctor wife
and mother have also also
infected with the novl
Coronavirus. Residents of the
CBI colony here who have
been traced to be in contact
with the infected official have
been advised home quarantine
for 14 days.
After the Central
Paramilitary forces that have so
far reported over 1,300 positive
cases, the infection is now
spreading to the Central Police
Organisations (CPOs).
Besides the CPOs like NIA
and CBI, the Bureau of Police
Research and Development, a
federal think tank on police
reforms, has reported one pos-
itive case besides four cases in
the National Disaster Response
Force (NDRF).
The elite Central paramil-
itary force National Security
Guards has also reported 18
Covid-19 positive cases. All
these NSG personnel besides
those in the BPRD and NIA
are undergoing treatment at the
CAPF Referral Hospital of the
ITBP at Greater Noida here.
Beg was presented before a
designated court here on
Sunday. The court directed
immediate hospitalisation of
the accused in the ISIS
Khorasan terror case.
Besides quarantining the
persons in contact with Beg or
the officials involved in ques-
tioning her, the agency has also
closed the Control Room at the
NIA headquarters here fol-
lowing the report of infection.
Reports of others are also
awaited, sources said.
The CAPF Referral
Hospital, Greater Noida is cur-
rently managing treatment of
23 ITBP, seven BSF and 13
CRPF personnel besides a civil-
ian and seven family members
of paramilitary personnel
including five of ITBP men and
one each of CRPF and SSB per-
sonnel.
Presently, there are 26
active Covid19 positive cases in
ITBP and 186 others have
recovered from the disease.
Beg, (39), a Kashmiri
woman was arrested by the
Delhi police in early March on
suspicion of being associated
with Islamic State and organ-
ising anti-CAA protests.
The NIA had taken cus-
tody of Beg and her husband
Jahanzaib Sami (36) on May 29
in connection with its probe
into the Islamic State
(Khorasan) terror conspiracy
case involving Hyderabad-
based youth Abdullah Basith.
Before taking the duo’s
custody custody, the NIA had
got them tested for Covid-19
and they were found negative.
However, during interrogation
Beg developed symptoms and
was tested again along with her
husband and Basith. While
the two other accused tested
negative, Beg contracted the
infection. She has. now been
shifted to LNJP Hospital here
for Covid management.
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The India Meteorological
Department (IMD) on
Sunday said low-pressure area
is likely to be formed over east-
central Bay of Bengal in the
next 48 hours. And under its
influence, widespread rainfall
is expected in Odisha, north
Andhra Pradesh and Telangana
from June 9 to 11.
According to IMD, outh-
west monsoon is said to arrive
in Mumbai by June 11. As a
low-pressure area is forming
over the Bay of Bengal around
June 8, it is expected to increase
rainfall over the coast, includ-
ing Mumbai.
The IMD said the low-
pressure area will become more
marked in the next 24 hours
and will move west-northwest-
wards. The IMD predicted
heavy to very heavy rainfall
over Odisha, north coastal
Andhra Pradesh, Telangana,
Vidarbha region of
Maharashtra, Gangetic West
Bengal, and Gujarat between
June 9 and June 11. The IMD
said that a low pressure area was
likely to develop over east cen-
tral Bay of Bengal during the
next 48 hours. It is likely to
move west-northwestwards and
become more marked during
subsequent 24 hours, it said.
The Western Disturbance
as a trough persists as also
cyclonic circulation over north-
west Rajasthan neighbour-
hood, north Punjab, Bihar and
adjoining East Uttar Pradesh,
northeast Uttar Pradesh
neighbourhood and Central
Gujarat. A cyclonic circulation
lies over Southeast Arabian
Sea off Kerala Coast at 5.8 km
above mean sea level.
Mrutyanjay Mohapatra,
Director General, IMD said, It
is a positive development as it
will allow the further advance-
ment of monsoon, and most
probably it will meet its new
normal onset date of June 11
for Mumbai.
The IMD also predicted
heavy rainfall in the Vidarbha
region, Gangetic West Bengal,
Gujarat and South Madhya
Pradesh on June 10 and 11.
It added the southwest
monsoon has advanced to
south Karnataka, and condition
are becoming favourable for its
advancement into parts of
Maharashtra, Telangana and
coasta, Andhra Pradesh. The
Northern Limit of Monsoon
(NLM) now passes
throughKarwar, Shimogha,
Tumukuru, Chittoor and
Chennai.
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Over 800 central monuments
across the States that dou-
ble up as places of worship will
be opened to the public starting
Monday, after being closed
since March due to the Covid-
19 pandemic and lockdown.
Union Culture Minister
Prahald Singh Patel tweeted
that the Ministry, under which
the Archaeological Survey of
India (ASI) functions, had
decided to open certain monu-
ments and that safety proce-
dures announced by the Union
Health and Family Welfare and
Home ministries would apply.
He said all coronavirus-
related protocols on temples and
places of worships issued by the
Union Health Ministry will be
followed by the monument
authorities. Wearing masks,
social distancing and online
booking might be made the
norm at such sites for visitors.
In directions to the ASI, the
Ministry wrote that the
Centrally-protectedmonuments
under worship would be
opened to the public. The gov-
ernment had decided last week
to open all places of worship
from Monday. The remaining
monuments of the ASI’s total
3,691 protected sites, including
the Taj Mahal in Agra, will
remainclosedtovisitorsfornow.
According to a list of 821
monuments released by the
Ministry, 114 were in the North
region, 155 in Central, 170 in
West, 279 in South and 103 in
East.
While the Taj Mahal will
remain shut, the Fatehpuri
Masjid on the south-west cor-
ner of its entrance, the mosque
inside its premises and the
Kali masjid near it will be
opened. In Delhi, Friday
prayers would be allowed in the
Qutub archaeological area and
at Afsah-wala-ki Masjid outside
the west gate of Humayun’s
Tomb, the list said.
The Shankaracharya temple
in Srinagar, the gurdwara in
Bhatinda Fort in Punjab, the
Buddhist monastery in
Lamayuru, Leh and St. Mary’s
Church in Fort St. George in
Chennai would also be opened.
The 3,691 Centrally-protected
monuments and archaeological
sites maintained by the ASI were
shut from March 17 in view of
the Covid-19 crisis.
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The Central Reserve Police
Force (CRPF) has report-
ed the third Covid-19 related
death among its ranks. A
jawan suffering from cancer
succumbed to Covid-19 a
couple of days ago, taking the
total number of deaths due to
the disease in the country’s
largest paramilitary force to
three, officials said on Sunday.
They said the jawan, a
constable of the 141st battal-
ion, died at a hospital here on
Friday.
The jawan was under
treatment for oropharyngeal
cancer since April and was
later found infected with the
novel coronavirus that claimed
his life, the officials said.
This is the third death due
to Covid-19 in CRPF, which
has about 3.25 lakh personnel,
and 11th among the Central
Armed Police Forces (CAPFs),
or the paramilitary forces.
The Central Industrial
Security Force has reported
four deaths, the Border
Security Force two and the
Sashastra Seema Bal and the
Indo-Tibetan Border Police
one each.
The CAPFs, according to
the latest data, had over 1,550
coronavirus cases, out of
which more than 1,100 have
recovered.
These forces, with a com-
bined strength of about 10
lakh, are deployed in a variety
of roles in internal security and
border guarding domains
under the Union Home
Ministry.
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