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P rime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday morning sprang a major surprise by visiting Ladakh and sent a terse message to China that the era of “expansionism” is over , asserting that India’s quest for peace should be not be mis- construed as a sign of weak- ness. As the Line of Actual Control (LAC)in Ladakh remains tense for the seventh week, the Prime Minister also paid tributes to 20 Indian Army personnel who were killed in a bloody skirmish with the Chinese on June 15 in the Galwan valley. Addressing the troops in the forward areas of Nimu at a height of 11,000 feet in Ladakh, he said the era of expansionism is over and that India’s enemies have seen the “fire and fury” of its Armed forces. Tales of the bravery and valour of the Armed forces are echoing in every part of the country, he said in an obvious reference to the fight put up by the Indian soldiers in free for all on June 15. The Prime Minister said the world has taken note of India’s strength due to the “exemplary bravery” of the Armed forces in the recent weeks, adding history is proof that expansionists have either lost or perished. “The era of expansionism has come to an end. This is the era of development... History has proved that expansionist forces have either lost or were forced to turn back,” he said, without directly naming China. Incidentally, the Leh-based 14 Corps is also known as “fist and fury.” Modi further said, “Your courage is higher than the heights where you are serving today. When the safety of the country is in your hands, then there is a belief. Not only me, but the entire nation believes in you. We all are proud of you.” He was accompanied by Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat and Army Chief Gen MM Naravane. In his address, Modi spoke at length about how the virtues of peace, friendship and courage have been a part of India’s culture since time immemorial. He recalled that India has always given a befit- ting reply to anyone who has tried to disturb the prevailing atmosphere of peace and progress. The Prime Minister affirmed that India is commit- ted to peace and friendship but this commitment to peace should not be seen as India’s weakness. Today, India is becoming stronger, be it in naval might, air power, space power and the strength of our Army, he said, adding mod- ernisation of weapons and upgrading of infrastructure have enhanced the country’s defence capabilities manifold. A consensus has emerged on holding hybrid session of Parliament through physical and virtual platforms. The members would be allowed to be seated inside the chamber as well as the galleries on the Parliament premises, while others would join on web plat- form from either Central Hall or Balayogi Auditorium. Sources said the Monsoon Session of the Rajya Sabha is likely to start from August last week or September first week with most of the members being physically present while others joining virtually from Parliament premises only. A meeting chaired by Rajya Sabha Chairman and Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Friday discussed in detail various options to conduct the proceedings as members would have to observe the norm of physical distancing. Lahore: At least 20 Pakistani Sikh pilgrims returning from Nankana Sahib were killed when the driver of the mini-bus they were travelling reportedly tried to take a short cut to avoid a shut railway crossing and rammed the vehicle into a pas- senger train in Pakistan’s Punjab province on Friday. The mini- bus carrying around 26 Sikh pil- grims, all from Peshawar, hit the Shah Hussain Express which was coming from Karachi to Lahore at a crossing near Sheikhupura around 1.30 pm. Detailed report on P8 A n ill-planned police raid to arrest a notorious history- sheeter Vikas Dubey from his residence in Kanpur’s Bikaru village went awry as the cops were ambushed by the ganglo- rd’s henchmen leaving a Deputy SP, three sub-inspectors and four constables dead in the wee hours of Friday. Several teams have been formed and forensic and electronic sur- veillance teams, along with STF and ATS officials, have been pressed into service to track down the prime accused and his aides who managed to escape, taking advantage of the dark. Seven other police per- sonnel, including a Station House Officer Vinay Tewari, and a Home Guard, suffered gunshot wounds and are being treated at a Kanpur hospital where the condition of four was stated to be serious. Dubey is involved in 60- odd heinous crime cases and being a gram pradhan and zila panchayat chairman, his crim- inal activities are spread up to Allahabad, Gorakhpur and Kanpur Dehat. He is a known for extorting money from busi- nessmen and traders. Also, he is accused of killing BJP leader Santosh Shukla (State Minister rank) in Sheoli police station on November 11, 2001. He had been arrested by police in this case but during trial, as most of the witnesses turned hostile, he was acquitted. According to reports, police teams from Bithhoor Chaubeypur and Shivrajpur led by Circle Officer of Bilhaur, Devendra Misra, reached Bikru village in Chaubepur police cir- cle to arrest Dubey around 12.30 am on Friday. To thwart the force team, Dubey and his aides placed a JCB machine about 30 metres from his house. As officers and personnel alighted from their vehicles and approached the house, they faced a hail of bul- lets fired from sophisticated rifles and handguns from rooftops. The indiscriminate firing resulted in the death of Devendra Misra, Station Officer of Shivrajpur Mahesh Chandra Yadav, Mandhana outpost incharge Anoop Kumar Singh, sub-inspector Nebu Lal, constables Sultan Singh, Rahul, Bablu and Jitendra. Those who suffered gun- shot wounds were identified as SHO of Bithoor, Kaushlendra Pratap Singh, constables Ajay Singh Senger, Ajay Kashyap, Shiv Murat Nishad of Chaubepur police station, sub- inspectors Sudhakar Pandey and Vikas Babu and Homeguard Jairam Patel. In the ensuing melee, the assailants looted a rifle and two pistols from the police team. T aking exception to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remarks on Friday on “expan- sionism” in an obvious refer- ence to intrusions into Ladakh from across the Line of Actual Control (LAC), China responded by saying it is “groundless” to view Beijing as “expansionist”. “China has demarcated boundary with 12 of its 14 neighboring countries through peaceful negotiations, turning land borders into bonds of friendly cooperation. It’s groundless to view China as “expansionist”, exaggerate and fabricate its disputes with neighbours,” said Ji Rong, spokesperson of the Chinese Embassy in India. This response came short- ly after Modi in a surprise visit to Ladakh without referring to China said the era of “expan- sionism” is over. In Beijing, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said in reaction to the Prime Minister’s visit to Ladakh that “China and India are in communication with each other through military and diplomatic channels. Neither side should make any move that may complicate the border situation.” Meanwhile, China said “artificial blocks” to bilateral cooperation would harm India’s interests and that the two coun- tries should work together to uphold peace in their border region. Beijing will take neces- sary measures to uphold the rights of Chinese businesses in India, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry in Beijing told a news briefing. His comments came after India banned 59 apps, includ- ing TikTok, citing a threat a national security and as Modi visited Ladakh. In his monthly radio address Mann ki Baat , the Prime Minister had said, “Those who eyed Indian terri- tory in Ladakh have received a befitting response.” China has warned that India’s ban on China-linked apps amounts to a violation of WTO rules. P rime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday told the sol- diers injured in the violent face off with Chinese troops in Ladakh’s Galwan Valley last month that they gave a befitting reply. Interacting with the injured personnel at an Army hospital in Leh, he said their bravery will be a source of inspi- ration for 130 crore Indians for times to come. “The bravehearts who left us, have not gone without a rea- son. Together, you all also gave a befitting reply (karara jawab bhi diya hai),” he told the injured soldiers. New Delhi: In a strong support to India over its border stand- off with China in eastern Ladakh, Japan on Friday said it opposed “any unilateral” attempts to change the status quo in the region. After a meeting with Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla, Japanese Ambassador Satoshi Suzuki said Japan hoped for peaceful resolution of the row through dia- logues. “Had a good talk with FS Shringla. Appreciated his brief- ing on the situation along LAC, including GOI’s policy to pur- sue peaceful resolution. Japan also hopes for peaceful resolu- tion through dialogues. Japan opposes any unilateral attempts to change the status quo,” he said on Twitter. T he State recorded two more Covid-19 deaths from Ganjam district on Friday. With this, the total death toll in the State rose to 29. “Regret to report the demise of two Covid positive cases. A 66-year-old of Ganjam district, who was also a known case of hypertension and 40-year-old man of the district, who was also suffering from diabetes,” the Health and Family Welfare Department said. With the two casualties, the total number of deaths in Ganjam rose to 18. Meanwhile, the number of positive cases crossed the 8,000-mark on the day as the State recorded its highest sin- gle-day spike of 561 coron- avirus infections. With the new cases the total rose to Of the 561 cases, 425 were report- ed from quarantine centres while the remaining 136 were local contact cases. Ganjam reported the days highest of 283 cases followed by Cuttack 81, Rayagada 76, Khordha 26, Bargarh 21, Balangir 19, Mayurbhanj 10, Sambalpur eight, Keonjhar six, Jagatsinghpur six, Kalahandi five and Koraput five. Besides, Dhenkanal, Jajpur and Sundargarh districts reported three cases each and Jharsuguda and Kendrapada two each and Bhadrak and Puri one each. An NDRF personnel, who returned West Bengal, also tested positive. However, as many as 203 more patients recovered from the disease on Friday. With this, the total recoveries reached 5,705. Out of the 203 persons, 38 were from Ganjam district, 37 from Khordha, 19 from Gajapati, 18 from Cuttack, 18 from Jagatsinghpur, 12 from Sambalpur, 12 from Sundargarh, 10 from Dhenkanal, eight from Jajpur, seven from Baragarh, six from Mayurbhanj, five from Rayagada, three each from Baleswar and Kandhamal, two from Puri, and one each from Deogarh, Jharsuguda, Malkangiri, Keonjhar and Nabarangpur. I n a rapid swell in coronavirus cases, the State capital city reported as many as 24 new cases out of the 26 registered in Khordha district on Friday. Of the 24 new cases, 20 were reported from quarantine centres and the remaining four were local contacts, said the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC). Among the positive cases detected on the day, six are women. The quarantine cases included a 28-year-old man of Airport Colony linked with an earlier contact having travel history to New Delhi, a 37- year-old man of Kolathia linked with an earlier case with travel history to Delhi, two cases of a 38-year-old man and a 40-year-old man of Salia Sahi, two cases of an 18-year- old boy and a 42-year-old man, natives of other districts, with travel history to Visakhapatnam. Besides, a 38-year-old man with travel history to another district, a 28-year-old woman of Sailashree Vihar Phase -7 linked with an earlier positive case, a 40-year-old woman of Baramunda HB Colony with link to an earlier positive case, nine cases of Mancheswar linked with an earlier positive case and a 28-year-old man of Nayapalli and a 20-year-old railway staff with travel histo- ry to Delhi were also detected positive. The home quarantine cases included a 34-year-old woman and a 29-year-old woman and a 27-year-old woman, all staffs of a private hospital and a 38- year-old woman of the Khandagiri area. With the new cases, the total cases rose to 369 with 148 active ones. However, 15 patients recovered in the city on the day, taking the total recoveries to 216. Meanwhile, Cuttack city reported as many as 59 new cases on the day, increasing the total tally to 105. Out of the new cases, 56 were detected from institu- tional quarantine, one from home quarantine and two are local contact cases. The new cases included 53 patients and attendants of the Acharya Harihar Regional Cancer Center (AHRCC) two Covid warriors of the SCB Medical College Hospital and a Covid warrior of the AHRCC. T he State Government has determined the maximum price for RT-PCR Covid-19 test at four of the ICMR- approved private laboratories, the Health and Family Welfare Department informed on Friday. The price has been fixed at Rs 2,200, inclusive of GST and all other incidental charges, for individuals desirous of the test. The four private laboratories are Dept of Lab Services, Apollo Hospitals, Bhubaneswar; IMS & SUM Hospital, Bhubaneswar; InDNA Life Sciences Pvt Ltd, 2nd Floor, KIIT TBI, Bhubaneswar; and GenX Diagnostics, A19, Maharishi College Road, Sahid Nagar, Bhubaneswar. The tests would be conducted by the private laboratories under the supervision of RMRC, Bhubaneswar following the ICMR guidelines regarding the testing protocols for RT-PCR COVID-19 tests, the department said. PARADIP: As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to stifle the global supply chain, the maritime industry is no doubt facing a daunting task to func- tion smoothly. Despite all obstacles, the Paradip Port Trust (PPT) has come out with flying colours clocking a remarkable 25.73 million tonnes of cargo han- dling mark and Paradip becom- ing the No. 1 Major Port of India in Q1 of FY 2020-21. PPT Chairman Rinkesh Roy and Deputy Chairman AK Bose have conveyed their gratitude to all employees, trade unions, the State Government, importers, exporters, stevedores, steamer agents, port users and other stakeholders, with whose reg- ular support a new chapter could be written in the histo- ry of the port. PNS
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    Prime Minister NarendraModi on Friday morningsprang a major surprise byvisiting Ladakh and sent aterse message to China that theera of “expansionism” is over ,asserting that India’s quest forpeace should be not be mis-construed as a sign of weak-ness.

    As the Line of ActualControl (LAC)in Ladakhremains tense for the seventhweek, the Prime Minister alsopaid tributes to 20 IndianArmy personnel who werekilled in a bloody skirmish withthe Chinese on June 15 in theGalwan valley.

    Addressing the troops inthe forward areas of Nimu at aheight of 11,000 feet in Ladakh,he said the era of expansionismis over and that India’s enemieshave seen the “fire and fury” ofits Armed forces. Tales of thebravery and valour of theArmed forces are echoing inevery part of the country, hesaid in an obvious reference tothe fight put up by the Indiansoldiers in free for all on June15.

    The Prime Minister saidthe world has taken note ofIndia’s strength due to the“exemplary bravery” of theArmed forces in the recentweeks, adding history is proofthat expansionists have eitherlost or perished.

    “The era of expansionismhas come to an end. This is theera of development... Historyhas proved that expansionist

    forces have either lost or wereforced to turn back,” he said,without directly naming China.Incidentally, the Leh-based 14Corps is also known as “fist andfury.”

    Modi further said, “Yourcourage is higher than theheights where you are servingtoday. When the safety of thecountry is in your hands, thenthere is a belief. Not only me,but the entire nation believes inyou. We all are proud of you.”

    He was accompanied byChief of Defence Staff (CDS)General Bipin Rawat and ArmyChief Gen MM Naravane.

    In his address, Modi spokeat length about how the virtues

    of peace, friendship andcourage have been a part ofIndia’s culture since timeimmemorial. He recalled thatIndia has always given a befit-ting reply to anyone who hastried to disturb the prevailingatmosphere of peace andprogress.

    The Prime Ministeraffirmed that India is commit-ted to peace and friendship butthis commitment to peaceshould not be seen as India’sweakness. Today, India isbecoming stronger, be it innaval might, air power, spacepower and the strength of ourArmy, he said, adding mod-ernisation of weapons and

    upgrading of infrastructurehave enhanced the country’sdefence capabilities manifold.

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    Aconsensus has emerged onholding hybrid session ofParliament through physicaland virtual platforms. Themembers would be allowed tobe seated inside the chamber aswell as the galleries on theParliament premises, whileothers would join on web plat-form from either Central Hallor Balayogi Auditorium.

    Sources said the MonsoonSession of the Rajya Sabha is

    likely to start from August lastweek or September first weekwith most of the membersbeing physically present whileothers joining virtually fromParliament premises only.

    A meeting chaired by RajyaSabha Chairman and VicePresident M Venkaiah Naiduon Friday discussed in detailvarious options to conduct theproceedings as members wouldhave to observe the norm ofphysical distancing.

    Lahore: At least 20 PakistaniSikh pilgrims returning fromNankana Sahib were killedwhen the driver of the mini-busthey were travelling reportedlytried to take a short cut to avoida shut railway crossing andrammed the vehicle into a pas-senger train in Pakistan’s Punjabprovince on Friday. The mini-bus carrying around 26 Sikh pil-grims, all from Peshawar, hit theShah Hussain Express whichwas coming from Karachi toLahore at a crossing nearSheikhupura around 1.30 pm.

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    An ill-planned police raid toarrest a notorious history-sheeter Vikas Dubey from hisresidence in Kanpur’s Bikaruvillage went awry as the copswere ambushed by the ganglo-rd’s henchmen leaving aDeputy SP, three sub-inspectorsand four constables dead in thewee hours of Friday. Severalteams have been formed andforensic and electronic sur-veillance teams, along withSTF and ATS officials, havebeen pressed into service totrack down the prime accusedand his aides who managed toescape, taking advantage ofthe dark.

    Seven other police per-sonnel, including a StationHouse Officer Vinay Tewari,and a Home Guard, sufferedgunshot wounds and are beingtreated at a Kanpur hospitalwhere the condition of four wasstated to be serious.

    Dubey is involved in 60-odd heinous crime cases andbeing a gram pradhan and zilapanchayat chairman, his crim-inal activities are spread up toAllahabad, Gorakhpur andKanpur Dehat. He is a knownfor extorting money from busi-nessmen and traders.

    Also, he is accused ofkilling BJP leader SantoshShukla (State Minister rank) inSheoli police station onNovember 11, 2001. He hadbeen arrested by police in thiscase but during trial, as most ofthe witnesses turned hostile, hewas acquitted.

    According to reports,police teams from BithhoorChaubeypur and Shivrajpurled by Circle Officer of Bilhaur,Devendra Misra, reached Bikruvillage in Chaubepur police cir-cle to arrest Dubey around12.30 am on Friday.

    To thwart the force team,Dubey and his aides placed aJCB machine about 30 metresfrom his house. As officers andpersonnel alighted from theirvehicles and approached thehouse, they faced a hail of bul-lets fired from sophisticatedrifles and handguns fromrooftops.

    The indiscriminate firingresulted in the death ofDevendra Misra, Station

    Officer of Shivrajpur MaheshChandra Yadav, Mandhanaoutpost incharge AnoopKumar Singh, sub-inspectorNebu Lal, constables SultanSingh, Rahul, Bablu andJitendra.

    Those who suffered gun-shot wounds were identified asSHO of Bithoor, KaushlendraPratap Singh, constables AjaySingh Senger, Ajay Kashyap,Shiv Murat Nishad ofChaubepur police station, sub-inspectors Sudhakar Pandeyand Vikas Babu andHomeguard Jairam Patel.

    In the ensuing melee, theassailants looted a rifle and twopistols from the police team.

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    Taking exception to PrimeMinister Narendra Modi’sremarks on Friday on “expan-sionism” in an obvious refer-ence to intrusions into Ladakhfrom across the Line of ActualControl (LAC), Chinaresponded by saying it is“groundless” to view Beijing as“expansionist”.

    “China has demarcatedboundary with 12 of its 14neighboring countries throughpeaceful negotiations, turningland borders into bonds of

    friendly cooperation. It’sgroundless to view China as“expansionist”, exaggerate andfabricate its disputes withneighbours,” said Ji Rong,spokesperson of the ChineseEmbassy in India.

    This response came short-ly after Modi in a surprise visitto Ladakh without referring toChina said the era of “expan-sionism” is over.

    In Beijing, the ChineseForeign Ministry spokespersonZhao Lijian said in reaction tothe Prime Minister’s visit toLadakh that “China and Indiaare in communication witheach other through militaryand diplomatic channels.Neither side should make anymove that may complicate theborder situation.”

    Meanwhile, China said“artificial blocks” to bilateralcooperation would harm India’sinterests and that the two coun-tries should work together touphold peace in their borderregion. Beijing will take neces-sary measures to uphold therights of Chinese businesses inIndia, a spokesman for theForeign Ministry in Beijingtold a news briefing.

    His comments came afterIndia banned 59 apps, includ-ing TikTok, citing a threat anational security and as Modivisited Ladakh.

    In his monthly radioaddress Mann ki Baat , thePrime Minister had said,“Those who eyed Indian terri-tory in Ladakh have received abefitting response.”

    China has warned thatIndia’s ban on China-linkedapps amounts to a violation ofWTO rules.

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    “The bravehearts who leftus, have not gone without a rea-son. Together, you all also gavea befitting reply (karara jawabbhi diya hai),” he told theinjured soldiers.

    New Delhi: In a strong support to India over its border stand-off with China in eastern Ladakh, Japan on Friday said itopposed “any unilateral” attempts to change the status quo inthe region. After a meeting with Foreign Secretary HarshVardhan Shringla, Japanese Ambassador Satoshi Suzuki saidJapan hoped for peaceful resolution of the row through dia-logues. “Had a good talk with FS Shringla. Appreciated his brief-ing on the situation along LAC, including GOI’s policy to pur-sue peaceful resolution. Japan also hopes for peaceful resolu-tion through dialogues. Japan opposes any unilateral attemptsto change the status quo,” he said on Twitter.

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    As almost every second hos-pital and clinic across thecountry has been convertedinto Covid-19 facilities, it is thenon-Covid patients who are atthe receiving end. They are fac-ing the impact of this pandemicwith deteriorating health con-ditions due to inaccessibility forscreening, diagnostics andtreatment, health experts havepointed out.

    Dr Anil Jain, pulmonolo-gist, National Institute ofTuberculosis and RespiratoryDiseases (NITRD), Delhi, said,“As the novel coronavirus out-break continues to push thecountry’s healthcare systems,substantial health service dis-ruption in the country hasdecreased clinic visits by TBpatients drastically.

    “Thus, it is of high impor-tance that patients should getaccess to screening, diagnosticsand utilisation of advanced tech-niques like automated diagnos-tic instruments for early detec-tion and treatment to reduce TBtransmission and deaths.”

    According to the CentralTB Division’s Nikshay portal,capturing the real-time data, the

    diagnosis of new tuberculosiscases had witnessed a declineduring the pandemic due to theinaccessibility of screening anddiagnostic facilities.

    Dr Parimala Devi John,Consulting gyne specialist andcolposcopist, Fortis Hospitaltalked about the impact oflockdowns and travel restraintson cancer patients.

    “Lack of timely diagnosisand treatment also the fear ofcontracting the infection hadled to a surge of advanced casesacross the country.”

    Haematology specialist DrRahul Bhargava who had start-ed Virtual Hospital CancerRounds, was of the opinion thatthe telemedicine facility asone-step destination for onlineconsultation and cancer treat-ment management has been ofgreat help to the cancer patientsamid Covid pandemic.

    “During the initial lock-down phases, most of the

    scheduled chemotherapy ses-sions and cancer surgeries werepostponed. Even after the lock-down was relaxed, cancerpatients remained in the four-walls, as they are at a greaterrisk of Covid infections.

    “ In such a situation, ourvirtual hospital continueddelivering services and reach-ing out to the patients facinguncertainty,” said Dr Bhargava,who is also the serving Directorof Fortis Hospital’s BoneMarrow Transplant facility

    Dr. SPGanesan — HitechDiagnostics, Chennai felt thatwith the government’s decisionto lift the lockdown and open-ing of OPDs, there is a need tounderstand the importance oftaking strict precautionary mea-sures and follow guidelines forsafe specimen management.

    “Proper collection of spec-imens is the most importantstep in the laboratory diagno-sis of infectious diseases. Yet,equal importance needs to begiven to staff and patient safe-ty. It is important to treat everyspecimen as potential Covidspecimen and take proper pre-cautions while handling andcollecting blood & urine sam-ples,” he added.

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    Even though the monsoonhas covered the entire coun-try two weeks earlier thanusual, north and central Indiacontinue to face swelteringheat these days. The aboveaverage temperatures com-bined with high relative humid-ity has raised “discomfort”.

    The India MeteorologicalDepartment (IMD) on Fridaypredicted that over the next fivedays, northwest India, includ-ing Punjab, Haryana andChandigarh will experience“fairly widespread to wide-spread rainfall with isolatedheavy falls”.

    Meanwhile, moderate tointense thunderstorms andlightning are also very likelyover southeast Uttar Pradesh,Bihar, east Rajasthan, MadhyaPradesh, Chhattisgarh,Jharkhand, east Vidarbha andOdisha over the next 12 hours.According to the IMD, 16

    States have received normalmonsoon rains, nine excessrain and two large excess rainso far. Three States —Meghalaya, Sikkim and Goahave received over 1,000 mmrains so far.

    According to IMD offi-cials, the discomfort is morebecause of high humidity com-bined with high temperature.High humidity is expected inthis season. In northen States, anaverage humidity level is record-ed between 65 and 90 while ineastern States, and the averagehumidity level is recordedbetween 80 and 95 in July.

    “Relative humidity mea-sures the actual amount ofmoisture in the air as a per-centage of the maximumamount of moisture the air canhold,” officials added. In Delhi,the maximum temperature isrecorded 40 degree Celsiuswhile the humidity was 71 onFriday. In Chennai, humiditylevel was 95 while the average

    temperature was recorded 34degree Celsius. Kolkata record-ed humidity level 89 whileAhmedabad recorded humid-ity level 69 and average tem-perature 40 degree Celsius.

    India received 213.1 mmrain as against the normal of191.6mm, an increase of 11 percent from June 1 to July 4.Meghalaya has received 1149.6mm rain as against the normalof 893.1 mm so far whileSikkim received 1,000 mmrains as against the normal of473.5 mm this season. Thismeans Sikkim has receivedover 110 per cent more rainfallthis year. Goa also reported1,230.4 mm rains as against thenormal of 1016.1 mm.

    Bihar has received 62 percent more rains this year. It hasreceived 324.8 mm rain asagainst the normal of 200.8mm. The excess rainfall hascreated flood-like situations innorthern districts. Some majorrivers have started flowing

    above the danger mark. Waterlevel in other rivers has risen,threatening thousands of peo-ple living in low-lying areas. Atleast 28 of the State’s 38 districtsreceived large excess rain; sevendistricts recorded excess rainand three recorded normalrain in June. According toIMD’s annual rainfall reports,Bihar receives 1,027.6 mmrainfall in a normal monsoonyear; the average annual rain-fall through the year in all sea-sons is 1,205.6 mm.

    The IMD in its forecast saida cyclonic circulation also layover east Uttar Pradesh andneighbourhood while a north-south trough is running till east

    Vidarbha. This is most likely tocause fairly widespread to wide-spread rainfall/thundershowerwith isolated heavy to veryheavy falls over Central andadjoining east India during thenext five days, the IMD said.

    Meanwhile, due to highconvergence of strong moistwinds from the Arabian Seaalong the west coast and cycloniccirculation over south Gujaratand neighbourhood, fairly wide-spread to widespread rainfallwith isolated heavy to veryheavy falls are most likely to con-tinue over Gujarat, Konkan andGoa, Madhya Maharashtra andcoastal Karnataka over the nextfive days.

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    Amid coronavirus outbreak,HRD Minister RameshPokhriyal on Friday announcedthe decision to postpone theJEE Main and NEET 2020examinations. The JEE exam-ination will now be heldbetween September 1 to 6, JEEadvanced exam will be held onSeptember 27 and NationalEligibility-cum-Entrance Test(NEET) examination will beheld on September 13.

    “Keeping in mind the safe-ty of students and to ensurequality education we havedecided to postpone #JEE &#NEET examinations. JEEMain examination will be heldbetween 1st-6th Sept, JEEadvanced exam will be held on27th Sept & NEET examina-tion will be held on 13thSeptember,” the HRD Ministerannounced on Twitter.

    With this now it meansthat the results and counsellingexcercise and admission to theinstitutions will be completedby October end and Ministry

    sources a couple of educationstakeholders told The Pioneerthat session to the new sessionin higher education or techni-cal institutes will begin onlyfrom November first week.

    A panel constituted byUnion HRD Minister, has rec-ommended to postpone themedical entrance examinationand engineering entranceexamination in the wake of

    coronavirus pandemic. HRDministry had formed a panel tocheck the feasibility to conductthe examinations in July afterparents and students expressedconcerns about JEE and NEETexaminations in the wake ofCOVID-19 pandemic.

    Looking at the prevailingcircumstances and requestsreceived from students & par-ents appearing for JEE andNEEET examinations the com-mittee consisting of officialsfrom the National TestingAgency (NTA) and otherexperts was advised to reviewthe situation and submit its rec-ommendations latest Friday.

    While medical entranceexam — NEET — was sched-uled to held on July 26, the JEE(Mains), for admission in engi-neering colleges, was scheduledfrom July 18-23.

    The Central Board ofSecondary Education (CBSE)had last week cancelled some

    board exam papers scheduledfrom July 1 to 15. The movecame after group of parentsmoved the Supreme Courtraising concerns about Covid-19 exposure risk to students.

    “The Covid-19 pandemichas created a challenge as far asconducting exams is concernedand in India, the scale is huge.Therefore, for the future, NTAis looking at building capacityfor holding online exams,which candidates can take fromtheir homes,” a HRD Ministryofficial said.

    Students have been signingonline petitions and pursuingTwitter campaigns, andrequesting the Government topostpone the engineering andmedical entrance exams aswell. Parents of nearly 4,000NRI students based in WestAsia also filed a petition in theSupreme Court Wednesdaydemanding the NEET be post-ponement. They noted thatthere are no exam centres out-side India and internationaltravel is still restricted due tothe coronavirus pandemic.

    New Delhi: All the BJP Stateunits will give a video presen-tation of their “public out-reach” programme during thelast four months of coron-avirus pandemic before PrimeMinister Narendra Modi onSaturday and seek his “furtherguidance” on the issue.

    “All the BJP State units willgive a presentation on ‘SEVAHI SANGATHAN’ abhiyan tothe Prime Minister,” BJPGeneral Secretary Arun Singhsaid on Friday. It will be tele-cast on the Narendra Modiapplication and other digitalplatforms. Party president JPNadda, will be present duringthe videoconferencing.

    Singh said party will get fur-ther guidance from the PrimeMinister as how to move furtheron the issue. BJP leader first paidtribute to ‘martyred’ eightpolicemen in Uttar Pradeshand told the journalists that noculprits will be spared. PNS

    New Delhi: Union Housingand Urban Affairs MinisterHardeep Singh Puri on Fridaylaunched the “SwachchhSurvekshan 2021” — the sixthedition of the annual cleanlinesssurvey —and said the exercisethis year will focus on waste-water treatment and other para-meters. At the event, Puri saidthat every year, the “SwachchhSurvekshan” is redesigned inno-vatively to ensure the processbecomes more robust with focuson sustaining the behaviourchange.

    “Like in the last year, keep-ing in mind the ministry’sefforts towards ensuring sus-tainability of the sanitationvalue chain, the SS 2021 indi-cators focus on parameters per-taining to wastewater treatmentand reuse along with faecalsludge,” he said.

    The Minister alsoannounced a new category ofawards titled “Prerak DaaurSamman” as part of “SwachchhSurvekshan 2021”. The Prerak

    Daaur Samman has five addi-tional sub — categories —Divya(Platinum), Anupam (Gold),Ujjwal (Silver), Udit (Bronze),Aarohi (Aspiring) — with topthree cities being recognised ineach. According to the Ministry,state ranking will also beannounced under the survey, tobe measured based on theirfund utilisation and support torespective local bodies, amongothers.

    The Ministry said“Swachchh Survekshan 2020”had seen an unprecedentedparticipation of 1.87 crore citi-zens. The survey will categorisecities on the basis of six indica-tor-wise performance criteria —segregation of waste into wet,dry and hazard categories; pro-cessing capacity against wetwaste generated; processing andrecycling of wet and dry waste;construction & demolition(C&D) waste processing; per-centage of waste going to land-fills; and sanitation status ofcities. PNS

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    The Union Health Ministryhas revised guidelines forhome-isolation for Covid-19patients to include asympto-matic positive cases in the listof mild or pre-symptomaticcoronavirus infection cases.The move follows in view ofincreasing number of Covid-patients showing no sign ofvirus infection.

    Also, elderly patients above60 years and those with comor-bidities shall be allowed homeisolation only after proper eval-uation is done by a medicalofficer, as per the guidelinesissued by the Ministry.

    However, the patients whoare suffering from immunediseases (such as HIV, trans-plant recipients, cancer thera-py) will not be eligible forhome isolation.

    Additionally, elderlypatients who are aged above 60years and those with comor-bidities such as hypertension,diabetes, heart disease, chron-ic lung/liver/kidney diseasesand cerebro-vascular diseases(the primary concerns for coro-navirus) shall be allowed homeisolation only after proper eval-uation is done by a medicalofficer.

    The patients who go into

    home isolation will be dis-charged after a period of 10days since the onset of symp-toms, with no fever for threeconsecutive days, the guidelinesstressed.

    “Thereafter, the patient willbe advised to isolate at homeand self-monitor their healthfor further seven days. There isno need for testing after thehome isolation period is over,”as per the revised guidelines forhome isolation of verymild/pre-symptomatic/asymp-tomatic Covid-19 cases.

    According to the revised

    directive, asymptomaticpatients such as the ones whoare pre-symptomatic and/orhave very mild symptoms canchoose home isolation if theyhave the required self-isolationfacility at their residence so thatthey can avoid contact withtheir family members.

    Furthermore, patients alsohave to give an undertakingstating that after being diag-nosed as a confirmed/suspect-ed case of Covid-19, s/he shallvoluntarily undertake strictself-isolation at all times for theprescribed period.

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    After Bharat Biotech IndiaLtd, Ahmedabad-basedZydus Cadila Healthcare Ltdhas been given green signal toconduct phase 1 and 2 clinicaltrials of its indigenously devel-oped Covid-19 vaccine.

    Preclinical studies haveshown experimental vaccineproduced antibodies againstthe virus. The company isexpected to begin enrollment ofsubjects soon.

    The Drugs ControllerGeneral of India (DCGI) gavego ahead to Cadilla to conductphase I and phase II humanclinical trials after animal stud-ies were found satisfactory.

    The vaccine approvalprocess was accelerated afterrecommendation by the subjectexpert committee on Covid-19.

    “The company has sub-mitted data to DCGI based onanimal trial, they conducted.Animals like- mice, rabbits,guinea pigs, rats were used andthese animals developed anti-bodies against the virus,” asenior Government official wasquoted as saying to an agency.

    “Their animal trial datawas inspected thoroughly andwas found satisfactory. Andnow, DCGI has granted per-

    mission to Zydus Cadila toconduct Phase I & II clinicaltrial for COVID -19 vaccine onhumans after successful animaltrial,” the official added.

    On Tuesday, 30 June,India’s first Covid-19 vaccineCOVAXIN, developed byBharat Biotech InternationalLimited (BBIL) in collaborationwith the Indian Council ofMedical Research (ICMR) andthe National Institute ofVirology (NIV) received DCGInod to conduct Phase I and IIhuman clinical trials.

    Hyderabad based BharatBiotech said trials of the vac-cine are scheduled to beginacross India this month. COV-AXIN was developed usingthe SARS-CoV-2 virus strainisolated at NIV, Pune.

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    Congress president SoniaGandhi on Friday wrote toPrime Minister Narendra Modidemanding reservation for stu-dents from other backwardclasses (OBC) in the NationalEligibility-cum-Entrance Test(NEET) — the country’s soleentrance exam for undergrad-uate medical and dental stu-dents — in State institutionsunder the All India Quota. Shesaid OBC students have lost11,000 seats since 2017 due tothe denial of reservation.

    “I would like to bring toyour attention, denial of reser-vation for OBC candidatesunder All-India Quota beingfilled through NationalEligibility cum Entrance Test(NEET), in State/UT Medicaleducation institutions,” Soniawrote in the letter.

    “Under the All IndiaQuota, 15%, 7.5% and 10%seats are reserved for SC(scheduled caste), ST (sched-uled tribes) and EconomicallyWeaker Section candidatesrespectively, in both Centraland State/UT Medical educa-

    tion institutions. However,reservation for OBC candi-dates under All India Quota isrestricted to CentralInstitutions,” she added.

    Sonia Gandhi said thedenial of reservation to OBCstudents in State medical insti-tutions is a barrier to access ofmedical education for deserv-ing candidates.

    “In the interest of equityand social justice, I stronglyurge the Union Government toextend reservation for OBCcandidates in All India Quotaof medical and dental seats,

    even in the State/UT Medicaleducation institutions”.

    The All India Quota seatscomprise 15 per cent of allMBBS seats and 50 per cent ofPG medical seats surrenderedby State Governments to theCentre. Students from all acrossthe country can apply for thereservation.

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    The CRPF, the biggest para-miliatry in the world, hasfavoured allowing transgenderas a third gender along withmale and female for theentrance examination forrecruitment of officers.

    The move comes a dayafter the deadline for com-ments on the issue as sought bythe Centre expired onThursday. The Union Home

    Ministry had on Wednesdaycirculated a memorandum tothe CRPF, ITBP, SSB and CISFto offer comments for incor-porating transgender as a thirdgender in the rules for CAPF(Assistant Commandant)Examination, 2020 latest byThursday for taking a finalview on the matter.

    “We fully value the spirit ofthe order of Hon’ble SupremeCourt. CRPF already has agender neutral work environ-ment. In view of impendingpolicy guidelines of MHA, weshall make it further compat-ible as per the need,” a seniorCRPF official said on Friday.

    This is the view and rec-

    ommendation of CRPF onrecruitment of transgender inCAPF and the same has beenaccordingly communicated tothe Home Ministry, the CRPFofficial said.

    The BSF has already com-municated a positive responseon the issue of allowing trans-gender as candidate for takingthe entrance exanination of theAssistant commandant.

    The entrance for theAssistant Commandant is con-ducted by the Union PublicService Commission but theCentral Armed Police Forcesor the paramilitary forces havetheir separate rules for recruit-ment of the Directly Appointed

    Gazetted Officers or the cadreofficers who are the mainstayof the forces administrative andoperational structure.

    The SSB and ITBP arealso likely to follow suit infavouring the allowance of thetransgenders as a separate cat-egory into the recruitmentrules.

    Once the responses fromall the paramilitary forces arereceived, the Home Ministrywill take a consolidated viewon the issue of incorporatingtrasngender as a separate category besides male/femalein the recruitment rules of theparamilitary forces, officialssaid.

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    In yet another Black Friday,the total number of coron-avirus cases tested positive tilldate breached the 1,00,000mark while the day saw 64 per-sons succumbing to the pan-demic.

    The State has 42,955 activecovid-19 patients undergoingtreatment in various hospitalsas on Friday evening 6 pm. Thetotal number of persons diag-nosed with Covid-19 till datereached 1, 02721 as on Friday.

    The State also recorded onFriday 4,329 persons gettingdiagnosed with Covid-19. Outof this, Chennai alone tested2,082 patients while neighbor-ing districts of Chengalpet reg-

    istered 330 patients.Kancheepuram (121) andThiruvallur (172) continuedto be the danger zones alongwith Chennai, according tothe medical bulletin issued bythe Tamil Nadu Government.

    Out of the 64 deaths regis-tered in the State on Friday, 58had pre-existing comorbidityor chronic diseases. The deathtoll as on Friday in Tamil Nadustood at 1,385.

    Tamil Nadu continuedwith its aggressive testing pro-grammes and the day saw34,272 patients getting tested inthe 91 laboratories across theState. Till date the Governmenthas tested 1.21 million personsand counting. The number ofpersons got discharged fromthe hospitals following the cure

    from the pandemic reached58,378 on Friday.

    Madurai (287) and Theni(126) are the new headaches forthe State administration. Theniborders Kerala and there is pos-sibilities of coronavirus personscrossing over to Tamil Nadu viathe reserve forests and planta-tions. The districts with ruralambience and greeneries con-tinued to be safe places whichhave prevented the coronavirusfrom making any deep dent.

    Prsons in the age group of13-60 continued to be the mostvulnerable to covid-19 accord-ing to the bulletin. Out of thetotal number of persons diag-nosed with the pandemic, 85,305 belonged to this group.While the persons above theage of 60 accounted for 12,363

    cases, 5.052 kids in 0-12 agegroup too were found to beafflicted with coronavirus.

    With the vaccine meant forcovid-19 remaining a mirage,veteran physicians and publichealth specialists are of the viewthat the Government shouldtake into confidence practi-tioners of all branches of med-icine to work out a protocol. “InChennai itself more than 100covid-19 patients including apeople’s representative havebeen cured of this pandemic byAyurvedic medicine.

    But we do not want to pub-licize it through the media lestthe authorities think we are try-ing to promote something forour personal gains,” said aneminent physician on condi-tions of anonymity.

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    In a unique move the BengalGovernment has decided to slap law suitsagainst the violators of corona protocols.

    Unlike Maharashtra where the Statepolice have started imposing fines on thosewho do not wear masks the Bengal policehave been asked to take “other legal mea-sures” on the violators of corona protocols,sources said.

    “It has been seen that with the begin-ning of Lockdown – II the people havebecome reckless and are ignoring the pro-cedures that should be strictly adhered toby them while out of their homes…hence the administration has decided totake some measures,” a senior police offi-cer said. The police at various places onThursday stopped people not wearing

    masks, and took down their personaldetails including names, addresses andphone numbers.

    “There were many educated citizenswho were seen not following the rules. Letalone the less literate people,” said anoth-er officer from the New Alipore PoliceStation. The names of the violators ofcorona protocols will be noted and sum-mons will be sent to their respectiveaddresses with directions to appear beforethe nearest court where they will berequired to explain their conduct.

    “If they fail to convince the judge thenthe provisions of National DisasterManagement Act will apply against them,”an official said.

    Though no ruling Trinamool Congressleader would comment on why fines werenot being imposed against erring peoplea South Kolkata MLA said “perhaps theGovernment decided against imposingfines to avoid yet another financial con-troversy.”

    Meanwhile, BJP MP from HooghlyLocket Chatterjee has contacted the coro-na virus. The Bengali actor-turned-politi-cian who has been in self-quarantine forthe past one week tweeted on Thursday “Ihave tested positive for Covid-19 thismorning, having mild fever and was in self-isolation for the past one week. I will keepeveryone posted. All is well.”

    A close aide later said that her condi-tion was stable with mild fever. “She hasbeen keeping fine and is in isolation insideher home too. There is no need to worry.”

    A known star in Bengali moviesChatterjee had joined the TMC in 2012was inducted in the state Women’sCommission. Later she developed differ-ences with Chief Minister MamataBanerjee and joined the BJP in 2015 andbecame its Mahila Morcha chief.Subsequently she was elevated to the postof party general secretary. She won theHooghly parliamentary seat by defeatingsitting TMC MP Dr Ratna De Nag.

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    In a first of its kind incident,a police constable posted atKolkata’s high-security Writers’Buildings allegedly shot himselfdead, police officials said inves-tigations were on to find out ifthere was any other reasonbesides what prima facie wasbeing suspected.

    Bishwajit Karak, a 34-Constable from WestMidnapore was posted alone atgate number 6 of the Writers’Buildings which served as theState secretariat till before ChiefMinister Mamata Banerjeeshifted the state headquartersto Nabanna.

    The incident reportedlyoccurred at 3.25 pm, sourcessaid adding Karak who was sit-

    ting on a chair right oppositethe Press corner shot himselfwith his service revolver.

    The bullet pierced throughhis jaw and went out of hishead.

    He was rushed to theCalcutta Medical College andHospital where he was declaredbrought dead by the doctors.The dead constable was onanti-depressants, sources in hisfamily said.

    “As per preliminary inves-tigation we have found that hewas on medication,” DeputyCommissioner (Central) NSudheer Kumar said addingCCTV footages would beexamined before coming toany final conclusion. Otherofficers said “prima facie itseems to be a case of suicide.”

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    Sattankulam Police Station which was in thenews recently for the custodial death of thefather-son duo of P Jeyaraaj and J Fenix con-tinued to hog limelight even after the arrestof the culprits on Thursday.

    By Friday, the Madras High Court askedthe revenue department which was managingthe day-to-day affairs of the Station to handit back to the police department.

    The Revenue administration, led by thedistrict collector, had taken over the police sta-tion last Monday following the direction of theMadras High Court to do so as a follow upto the complaint by the Judicial Magistrate whoheld the preliminary probe.

    The Judicial Magistrate was threatenedand insulted by the cops on duty when theformer went to the Station for the probe.

    The High Court expressed its displeasurewhen the Magistrate informed the Court whattranspired at the Station and asked the revenue

    department to take control of the police sta-tion till the officials of the Crime Branch-Crime Investigation Department (CB-CID) took charge of the station and the probe.

    The CB-CID which commenced its inves-tigation on Tuesday arrested on Thursday fourcops (an inspector, two sub-inspectors and aconstable) in connection with the deaths ofJeyaraaj and Fenix.

    Though initial reports said on Thursdaythat head constable Muthu Raj was arrested,he evaded the CB-CID net and escaped. Hehas been declared as ‘wanted’ by the CB-CIDand two special teams have been deployed toarrest him.

    According to a source in the intelligencedepartment, this is the first time in recent his-tory a police station had been handed over tothe revenue department by a court order toprevent tampering of documents by the cops.The entire police force attached to the stationhas been transferred.

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  • For the last two months, India andChina have been involved in a mil-itary and diplomatic stand-offalong the Line of Actual Control(LAC). The current skirmish is notisolated from the main politics of China. Itis but an extension of the Communist Partyof China’s (CPC) domestic policy. Thedevelopments at the border have come at atime when the CPC is facing internationalbacklash over the outbreak of the pandem-ic. Back home, too, the Chinese are frustrat-ed over the CPC’s role in covering up thespread of the Coronavirus in Wuhan city,which eventually led to the deaths of thou-sands of people. As per the database leakedfrom the National University of DefenceTechnology in Changsha city, China couldhave had 6,40,000 cases instead of the offi-cial 84,000. This revelation has furtheralienated the CPC from the Chinese people.

    What, however, is worrying is that 70years on, India’s Tibet dilemma remains.Before Tibet was invaded by China, there wasno sign of well-made road along the India-Tibet border. However, trade routes for packanimals existed. From Srinagar, a route runsto Leh and thence through Southern Tibetto Shigatse and Lhasa. From Lhasa, a much-used route goes to Chamdo. In short, therewas hardly any sign of a good road or anymajor bridge in Tibet. All of this changeddrastically after the Chinese invasion of Tibet.China became India’s new neighbour andwith this new development, the tranquilityacross the Himalayas was hijacked by anauthoritarian party-State.

    Ever since the invasion of Tibet, thedevelopment of strategic roads became a toppriority for the CPC. It undertook massiveinfrastructure development projects formore than two decades. And by 1975, Chinahad completed 91 highways totalling 15,800km, with 300 permanent bridges in outerTibet alone, effectively connecting 97 percent of the region’s counties by roads. Thenthe People’s Liberation Army (PLA) startedfocussing on Tibet. Ever since, the numberof exercises and overall military activities inthe Lanzhou and Chengdu military regionshave been noteworthy. In one of the earlyinstances, in October 2011, the PLA wasreported to have carried out two joint exer-cises in the Chengdu and Lanzhou militaryregions.

    The Global Times reported on January5, “In the new year exercises, the PLA TibetMilitary Command has deployed heli-copters, armoured vehicles, heavy artilleryand anti-aircraft missiles across the region:From Lhasa, capital of Tibet, with an eleva-tion of 3,700 metres to border defence front-lines with elevations of more than 4,000meters.” It further noted, “China’s latestweapons, including the Type 15 tank and thenew 155-millimetre vehicle-mounted how-itzer, were deployed in Tibet as the PLAbegan the first round of exercises in 2020.”Because of its continuous infrastructuredevelopment, today, the PLA is in a positionto carry out numerous military exercises

    even on the inhospitable terrainsof Tibet.

    One stone at a time: CPC’sterritorial strategy for futureclaims and control: Early in1995, after the PhilippinesGovernment discovered thatoctagonal bunker-type struc-tures were being constructedon a previously unoccupiedreef, the then Chinese ForeignMinister, Qian Qichen, hadclaimed that it was built by theauthorities of Hainan for theconvenience of Chinese fisher-men around the Spratly Island.Following this incident, therewas a series of diplomaticexchanges and visits by headsof both countries to satisfacto-rily resolve the issue. Despitenumerous diplomatic engage-ments, China continued toupgrade its physical presenceon the Mischief Reef. Laterthese structures became thebase for the CPC laying sover-eignty claim over the islands.

    On November 26, 2016,satellite images released by theAsia Maritime TransparencyInitiative (AMTI) showed aseries of hexagonal structuresnow in place on each of theseven islets. They appear to belarge anti-aircraft guns andclose-in weapons systems(CIWS), AMTI said. In fact, thisweapon system can also be usedon land to protect the militarybase. By 2018, the reef hadbeen turned into a militarised

    artificial island equipped withanti-ship cruise missiles.

    As it is said, “Old habits diehard.” Despite pressurising Indiato stop the construction of roadsin the Galwan Valley andPangong Tso, China continues todevelop an enhanced transportnetwork and military infra-structure across Tibet’s regionsbordering India. The IndianGovernment should not allowthe installation of any temporaryor permanent structures by thePLA on the disputed territory.Any physical structure, eithertemporary or permanent, builtby the PLA should be either dis-mantled or a similar structure beinstalled in the area claimed bythe CPC. Else, it may argue inthe future that the structures arenothing more than shelters forthe PLA soldiers lost in theGalwan Valley. And the con-struction of roads or any otherpermanent military installationnear the disputed border maybecome a source of future claimsand control by China.

    Dear CPC, home is whereyour threat is: In the history ofChina, the Chinese populationis a major factor for thedethronement of a number ofdynasties. China was not onlyinvaded many times by nomadicpeople from outside its bordersbut was also turned upsidedown many more times by itsown citizens, mainly peasants. Inall, there were 1,109 main mil-

    itary conflicts between theChinese and the northernnomads from 215 BC to AD1684 and as many as 225,887recorded armed rebellionsbetween 210 BC and AD 1910within China. In 20th centuryChina, there were two massmovements, mostly led byyoung students, scholars and lit-erary figures. Later, people fromall walks of life joined in. Thetwo crucial movements were:The 1919 May 4 Movement andthe Tiananmen Square protests.In both these movements, poorgovernance, rampant officials’corruption, high unemploy-ment rate were the main caus-es for the outburst.

    Before the TiananmenSquare protests, by October1988, the population of migrantlabourers in Beijing had reachedone million and was growingcontinuously. In Guangzhou,the capital of GuangdongProvince, more than 2.5 millionrural labourers flooded the cityover a short period betweenFebruary and March 1989. Notonly this, thousands of univer-sity graduates failed to get jobsof their interests and the unem-ployment rate was high. Risinginflation added to the woes. Allthese developments sowed theseeds of mass protests. In mod-ern times, too, despite the CPChaving an iron-fist control on theChinese people, between 1993and 2008, there were a total of

    614,100 protests across China. This year, with the CPC

    attempting to cover up informa-tion pertaining to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Chinese peo-ple realised the importance offreedom of expression andaccess to the free flow of infor-mation. It was the denial of theserights that led to the death of LiWenliang and the spread ofCoronavirus in China. Thispandemic didn’t take a long timeto spread and brought the glob-al economy to its nadir.

    China, being the source ofthe virus, has been the worst-hiteconomically. In late April, areport by Shandong-basedZhongtai Securities BrokerageCompany in China concludedthat the unemployment rate inChina is at 20.5 per cent withsome 70 million people out ofwork. While the official jobs datareleased by China’s nationalbureau of statistics on May 15put the unemployment rate inApril at six per cent.

    Later, the report wasretracted and Li Xunlei, thedirector of the research unit ofZhongtai Securities, wasremoved from his post. Thisshows the CPC’s hyper-sensi-tivity towards unemploymentproblems in China. The onething that the CPC fears themost is the spectre of unem-ployment. During a conferenceon employment and entrepre-neurship related to generalcolleges and universities grad-uates on May 13, ChinesePremier Li Keqiang demandedmore emphasis be put on keygroups by offering college anduniversity graduates targettedjob-seeking services. One of themain reasons behind China’serratic behaviour in Asia is todivert the attention of aggriev-ed, frustrated and millions ofjobless people.

    Xi’s predecessor, Mao-Zedong, too, had declared a waron India on account of growingunpopularity in China becauseof his failure of the Great LeapForward, which led to the deathof around 45 million people.Bertil Linter, author of China’sIndia War, concluded that “theborder dispute was only anexcuse to launch the 1962 war.”To secure his power firmly andto divert the attention of theChinese people, war wasdeclared against India amid theCuban crisis. In a bid to divertthe attention of the Chinese peo-ple on account of joblessness,the CPC is behaving erraticallywith its neighbours. In otherwords, in the coming days,developments inside China willshape its foreign policy becausethe real threat for the rulingparty lies within.

    (The writer is is a formerresearch fellow at the Tibet Policy Institute)

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    As the Indian economy witnesses a majordownturn, predictably a negative growth, thedichotomy between monetary and fiscal pol-icy becomes an irritant. Monetary management byallowing for a nearly �13 trillion loan to the corpo-rate, MSME, agriculture and other sectors of theeconomy is a huge release of capital stuck in thebanking and non-banking sector. Arguably thiswould have turned the wheels of industrial produc-tion but COVID-19, with its multiple slowdowneffects, won’t allow it to happen. Critics have point-ed out that the absence of open chest financing ofGovernment debt and securities, as well as no last-resort cash support to about 14 crore jobless migrantworkers, have depressed the economy both in theshort and long-term. This impacts productive activ-ity negatively in the secondary and tertiary sectorsof the economy with falling demand.

    In the absence of fiscal stimuli, distressed andrisk assets in the market stand in the way of anyattempt at recovery. Monetary stimuli in theabsence of effective demand cannot boost the busi-ness cycle. A huge shortfall in revenue, from bothtax and non-tax sources, has only created a spurtin public debt and the consequent rate cut for con-trolling debt has created a precarious imbalancebetween real output and interest rates. Failing inter-est rates create a vicious cycle of inducing stress inasset-based funds that now have to look for stim-uli from financial institutions to survive from debt.In effect, resources of the Reserve Bank of India(RBI) and the available Government funds for loansrun the risk of turning into NPAs even in the short-term. So circulation of higher liquidity in situationsof Corona-induced insolvency presents a slipperyslope for the management of the macroeconomicpolicy.

    The stimulus package of �20 lakh crore formacroeconomic management has not shown signsof much-needed neutralisation of the liquidity trapby raising demand for credit. The package establish-es that there is no liquidity crunch and indeed India’sforeign reserve reaches a peak of over $500 billion,covering much of its import bill. In such a situation,the demand for Government securities and bondsshould have gone higher but the demand situationis such that it prods the investors to hold back suchsecurities. In contrast, the Reliance JIO deal, by rais-ing funds through rights issues in the stock mar-ket, received a preferential treatment from theMinistry of Corporate Affairs to only offset its hugedebt without corresponding expansion of the cred-it market, which could have helped the banks to off-set the situation of a liquidity trap. Had theGovernment issued new bonds and securitiesusing the cut in the rate and generated some addi-tional funds like its blue-eyed boy Reliance, thatwould have probably eased excess liquidity. Instead,given the increasing rate of macroeconomic unem-ployment, almost at 14 per cent, the need for addi-tional funds for employment generating activitiesby way of stimulus packages announced by theGovernment got immobile in the widening liquid-ity trap. The Government has already printed cur-rency notes worth �1.6 lakh crore and only succeed-ed in creating a good accounting ratio between itsincome, expenditure and debt instead of flinchingitself out of the liquidity trap.

    What can extricate the economy from the liq-uidity trap is the generation of demand, demand andmore demand. Significantly, two correlated and yethighly-fluctuating monetary instruments, likeIndia’s foreign reserve touching a record $500 bil-lion as external trade falls and the Government’s

    internal borrowings from the marketplummeting only to pull down reporates, present a hard picture of control offund flows. It is not clear how the RBI shallchannelise reinvestment of cheaper bor-rowings into production, while suchinvestments in the stock market at presentdo not ensure gains. It is in this grim sce-nario that the Centre’s declaration of flex-ibility in tax slabs to industries, as part ofthe stimulus package, only helps thebusinesses to keep afloat. Deflationarypressure continues unchecked in theproduct market as the Government scam-pers for attracting investment throughfloating rate bonds.

    The recent increase of employment inagriculture with the Centre’s �1.5 trillionpackage has generated some demand, yetit does not show signs of revival. Reversemigration from cities to rural areas is animmediate cause of such increaseddemand but last-mile delivery issues donot allow it to be an impact of theGovernment’s �1.5 lakh crore package. Ineffect, if one combines a stalemate in for-eign trade and piling reserve with fallingrates of investment and profit, the stimu-lus on the demand side cannot overcomethis simultaneous fall in both supply anddemand. Restarting the economy to off-set the slump in income and demand,combined with fresh doses of investmentin greenfield areas through stocks, are stillto gather much momentum against theearly signs of a recession. Recessionarytrends in the manufacturing sector com-bined with a deflationary fall in theWholesale Price Index produce a cascadeof compression in the economy, makingrating agencies predict negative GDPgrowth for at least the next two years.

    A very paradoxical question to ask is,does a programmatic infusion of demandas the stimulus package enforce austerityand fund crunch arising out of an inher-ited fiscal deficit at the level of nearly fiveper cent of the present GDP? The ques-

    tion could be further teetered by askingwhether recessionary trends at the macro-economic level require an open chest fund-ing for every sector of the economy, start-ing with the most distressed. The behav-iour of risk assets such as FranklinTempleton and DHFL withdrawing $25billion from the Indian stock market fur-ther depresses the already sluggishdemand. Does this recessionary symptomcause a decrease in the capacity of the Stateand the Government to respond to thechain of fiscal demands without saving itsback by generation of additional incomethrough revenue and extra-revenue routes?

    Possibly this question brings out thereason why the Centre is raising the pricesof petrol, diesel and other fuels when crudeprices are at the lowest. Could this be theonly means to generate extra revenue sothat fiscal deficit can be covered up andprofits made by oil companies could beused for funding a longer crisis? Given thelockdown-induced loss of capacity, theGovernment is adopting this easy route inspite of its deleterious impact on the pricesof essential goods. The situation returnsto the same vicious cycle as fall in income,investment, interest, wage and demandmake it impossible to revive the economydespite good supply side management interms of monetary policy. Post lockdown,the economy then looks like a quicksandthat eats up the stimulus without thedesired impact. The economy continuesto move in the trajectory of decline in realGDP and rates of profit. This lies beyondthe scope of monetary and fiscal readjust-ments as the Centre struggles to maintainthe fundamentals of the economy.

    Nothing could have been moretreacherous than the Chinese aggressionat this time of crisis. Though theGovernment is able to make large pay-ments for defence purchases such as �3 bil-lion to the US, �2.1 billion to Israel, �16billion to Russia, yet there is a seeming lackof funds for medical preparedness to fight

    COVID-19 and defence preparedness tofight China. With a heady mix of grow-ing income inequality, falling consump-tion and revenue and stressed assets inmoney markets, a Government with itshands full of funds does not have manyoptions to spend. As a result, the much-needed panacea of Direct Cash Transferto 25 crore migrant workers and otherrural labourers has not been taken up byan internally and externally-shakenGovernment.

    One requires a proper framework tounderstand such a dysfunctional state ofthe economy. Economist Thomas Piketty’sfamous thesis on India’s growth story, interms of the falling contribution of peo-ple at the bottom and an artificial attemptby the Government to keep rate of inter-est lower than the rate of return from cap-ital, seems to dominate the money mar-ket. The absence of an appropriate schemefor re-distribution of profit and income forsocial good turns advantages in themoney market ineffective as prognosticat-ed by Piketty and Paul Krugman.

    In the deflationary pressure inducedby the pandemic, what remains inexplic-able is the hoarding of funds, which cre-ates a suffocating liquidity trap in the mar-ket. Piketty’s suggestion that India shouldinitiate a universal basic income schemecould have balanced out this excess liquid-ity in favour of increased demand had theGovernment succeeded in kicking off theeconomy at the level of pre-lockdown pro-ductivity.

    Instead, the Government’s austeremove to curtail public expenditure due torevenue shortfall is in sync with the exist-ing recessionary trend in the economy. TheChinese perception of this economicrecession is the salient factor that promptsChina to create a war-like situation withIndia in the interest of augmenting its owninternal demands.

    (The writer is a Political Economy ana-lyst and Philosopher based in Shillong)

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    Though the economic fallout ofthe pandemic is more vivid, itsimpact has political dimensions,too. Many short-term measuresimposed now may have a long-terminfluence on both national and inter-national governance and political ide-ology. The political impact, in thenational context, seems to be arisingout of four factors: Nature of responseby countries; manner of response;deepening of societal fault lines andnature of the regimes vis-à-vis theireffectiveness in controlling the virus.

    It might impact the world order,too, due to the shifting of the balanceof power and the ideological debate on

    global cooperation vs isolationismand liberalism vs authoritarianism.

    Normally, the response to a dis-aster is 3R: Rescue, Relief andRehabilitation. But in the case of theCorona, a fourth R has crept in and thisis Regulation. The lockdown resultedin complete disruption of all move-ment, the economy and personal lib-erty. Across countries, not only theframework of regulations but themanner of imposition has a commonpattern.

    The executive, with or without theconsent of the legislature and otherstakeholders, gave itself absolute pow-ers and responded by executivedecrees. The differential impact of sud-den economic disruption on differentstrata of society has exacerbated thestrain across the existing societal faultlines of rich vs poor, urban vs rural,region vs region, local vs migrants,employer vs employees and so on.

    The crisis has also fuelled debateon the effectiveness of authoritarianregimes vis-à-vis democracies as major

    democracies like the US, Germany andItaly faltered in their effort whileauthoritarian regimes of Singapore andVietnam controlled the virus well.Now, let us see the likely impact. Thefirst political impact is the centralisa-tion of power. The ruling elite inHungary, the Philippines, China, ElSalvador and Uganda have used thecrisis to accredit themselves withemergency powers, moving them fur-ther away from democracy. In India,the invoking of the National DisasterManagement Act, too, resulted incentralisation of powers in the nation-al executive.

    The second is the abridgment offundamental rights, expanded Statesurveillance and banishing of protests.In Hungary, Jordan, Chile, Thailandand so on, punishments were pre-scribed for spreading misinformation,which opens the possibility of muz-zling any voice of dissent. Invasive sur-veillance systems in Israel, SouthKorea and Singapore, unthinkableearlier, are being hailed as effective

    measures for slowing infections. Plus, the social strains caused by

    economic disruption may changepolitical alignments and the landscapeof political debate by creating morefractured societies. The spirit of fed-eralism has also been impacted due toexcessive centralisation of power.

    Another impact of this outbreakmay be reduction in the influence ofthe neo-liberal trend of decreasing roleof the State, considering the strong,dominant and pivoting role played bythe State to counter the virus. Giventhe experience of the current crisis, itwill be difficult to argue that the pri-vate sector and philanthropy can be asubstitute for a competent State dur-ing a national emergency.

    While it may be argued that theseare emergency measures and wereneeded to tackle an unprecedented sit-uation with a firm hand, it cannot bepredicted with certainty that all thesemeasures will be done away with oncethe crisis is over. More so because thiscontagion is going to stay for some

    time. The longer it prevails, the moredifficult it will be to dismantle emer-gency powers. Forget about authori-tarian or tending to be authoritarianregimes, it may tempt even democra-tically-elected governments to contin-ue the emergency measures in thesame or modified form, to centralisepowers and strengthen their hold onthe polity, given the comfort it providesto the ruling elite. The most danger-ous possibility is posed by the use ofhigh-end technologies for surveil-lance, which opens up many possibil-ities for misuse during normal times,too.

    The current crisis has also broughtto the fore the debate over the futureof a new world order. There may betwo types of impacts on the worldorder. First may be the shift in balanceof power and resultant shifting dom-inance over international organisa-tions. The second might be a boost tothe ideology of isolationism vis-à-visglobal cooperation and authoritarian-ism vis-à-vis liberal democracy.

    The global distribution of powerseems to be shifting away from the USand Europe, which are faring badly incontaining the disaster as compared tothe East Asian countries which havefared well. The slogan of “AmericaFirst” under the Trump presidency andits unwillingness to take the positionof a global leader, before and duringthe pandemic, has led to the beginningof China’s dominance and aggressionin the new world order. Beijing wasalready silently working towards dom-ination in the economic order, globaltrade balance and supply chains,spreading hegemony over the rulingelite of developing countries, in Africaand Asia through debt-trap diploma-cy and more recently in capturing theUnited Nations institutions. The out-break has only accelerated this process.

    At the ideological level, the disrup-tion of global supply chains, the lead-ing role of State actors and centralis-ing tendencies may lead to a domi-nance of nationalist, isolationist andilliberal ideologies on the internation-

    al arena. Globally, at the national level,we may see a rise in authoritarian, cen-tralising tendencies and changingpolitical landscape on account of frac-tured societies. At the internationallevel, in the absence of a change in USpolicy and its hesitation in providinga rallying point for liberal democracies,it would be a free road for China toadvance its ideology, technology andpolitico-economic dominance in theemerging world order.

    Some scholars point to the lack ofgoodwill of China as a counter argu-ment to its rising influence but wemust remember that global politics isnot a popularity contest. Hard politi-co-economic facts cannot be ignored.Second, the failure to ensure globalcooperation in tackling the pandem-ic may lead to rising nationalist andisolationist tendencies and wear out theeffectiveness of international organi-sations.

    (The writer is a senior IAS officerserving in Bihar. Views expressed hereare personal)

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    The city has more than22,000 cases and Gautengprovince, which also includesthe capital, Pretoria, now hasnearly 30 per cent of the coun-try's cases.

    South Africa has Africa'smost confirmed cases withmore than 168,000. AP

    Paris: The Paris appeals courton Friday upheld a decision toend a years-long investigationinto the plane crash that sparkedRwanda's 1994 genocide, citinglack of sufficient evidence.

    The probe has damagedFrance-Rwanda relations foryears, because it targeted sev-eral people close to currentRwandan President PaulKagame. His supportersdenounce the investigation asan attempt to exonerateFrance's suspected role in thegenocide. AP

    Manila: The Philippine foreignsecretary warned China onFriday of “the severestresponse” if ongoing Chinesemilitary exercises in the dis-puted South China Sea spillover to Philippine territory.

    Foreign Secretary TeodoroLocsin Jr said China's People'sLiberation Army has been stag-ing exercises off the ParacelIslands since July 1 and Chinesemaritime officials have pro-hibited all vessels from navi-gating within the area of themaneuvers.

    After checking the coordi-nates of the no-entry zone,where the Chinese militarymaneuvers are being staged,Locsin said the waters off theParacels, which are also claimedby Vietnam, “do not impinge onPhilippine territory” althoughhe raised some concern.

    “Should the exercises spillover to Philippine territory,then China is forewarned thatit will be met with the severestresponse, diplomatic and what-ever else is appropriate,” Locsinsaid in a statement withoutelaborating.

    The Philippine warning toChina over their territorialconflicts is the strongest so farthis year and comes despite animprovement in relations sincePresident Rodrigo Duterte took

    office in 2016.Vietnam protested in April

    after a Chinese coast guard shiprammed and sank a boat witheight fishermen off the ParacelIslands. The Philippines backedVietnam and protested twonew territorial districtsannounced by China in largeswaths of the sea, adding thatChina's assertive actions weretaking place while the regionwas preoccupied with the coro-navirus pandemic.

    Locsin said those territori-al districts in the disputed waterswere “null and void” for beingdevoid of basis in internationallaw. “This is the problem withplaying fast and loose with his-torical narratives and historicalnames,” Locsin said. “They openthemselves to error; unless thereal purpose is to excuse un


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