First india ahmedabad edition-07 may 2020

ALL IN A
DAY’S WORK
A tired labourer tries to catch a
wink inside a large pipe during the
nationwide lockdown in Surat on
Wednesday. —ANI Photo
95,191
SAMPLES TESTED
88,566
0
NEGATIVE CASES
UNDER EXAMINATION
IN GUJARAT
DISTRICT TOTAL TOTAL NEW
CASES DEATHS DEATHS
AHMEDABAD 4716 298 25
VADODARA 421 31 1
SURAT 754 33 0
RAJKOT 62 1 0
BHAVNAGAR 82 5 0
ANAND 76 6 0
BHARUCH 31 2 0
GANDHINAGAR 83 5 1
PATAN 24 1 0
PANCHMANHAL 51 3 0
BANASKANTHA 64 1 0
NARMADA 12 0 0
CHOTA UDEPUR 14 0 0
KUTCH 7 1 0
MAHESANA 42 0 0
BOTAD 48 1 0
DAHOD 15 0 0
PORBANDAR 3 0 0
JAMNAGAR 5 1 0
MORBI 1 0 0
SABARKANTHA 10 2 1
ARAVALLI 22 2 0
MAHISAGAR 42 1 0
KHEDA 16 1 0
GIR SOMNATH 3 0 0
VALSAD 6 1 0
TAPI 2 0 0
NAVSARI 8 0 0
DANG 2 0 0
SURENDRANAGAR 1 0 0
DWARKA 3 0 0
JUNAGADH 2 0 0
TOTAL 6625 396 28
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GUJARAT
396
DEATHS
6,625
CONFIRMED CASES
USA 1,245,857 73,145 +874
SPAIN 253,682 25,857 +244
ITALY 214,457 29,684 +369
UK 201,101 30,076 +649
GERMANY 167,372 6,993 +13
RUSSIA 165,929 1,537 +86
TURKEY 131,744 3,584 +64
BRAZIL 116,299 7,966 +45
IRAN 101,650 6,418 +78
CHINA 82,883 4,633 +4
CANADA 63,375 4,223 +180
BELGIUM 50,781 8,339 +323
N’LANDS 41,319 5,204 +36
COUNTRY TOTAL TOTAL NEW
CASES DEATHS DEATHS
GLOBAL STATE
OF AFFAIRS
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Gujarat ropes in critical care experts to help State medicos
First India News
Gandhinagar: Even as
the corona positive
number rose to a whop-
ping 6,625 cases in Guja-
rat with 380 new pa-
tients during the last 24
hours, the State Gov-
ernment roped in criti-
cal care experts on
Wednesday to pay a
visit to the Intensive
Care Unit (ICU) of the
dedicated Covid-19 hos-
pital in Ahmedabad.
They will render their
expert services to the
state in this crisis.
As many as 380 new
cases were reported in
the State during the
past 24 hours, while 28
patients died and 119
others were discharged.
With this the total death
toll has increased to 396
and 1,500 people have
recovered and been dis-
charged so far.
Ahmedabad has re-
ported the highest num-
bers with 4,716 of the
total 6,625 cases so far,
298 deaths. As many as
778 have also been dis-
charged in the city.
Deputy Chief Minis-
ter Nitin Patel and sen-
ior bureaucrats had
meetings with the crit-
ical care experts on the
Ahmedabad civil hos-
pital campus, along
with senior doctors of
the Covid-19 hospital,
where they discussed
the treatment path and
conditions of some pa-
tients.
The experts then vis-
ited each patient and
discussed their cases
with the civil hospital
doctors. They also de-
liberated on the future
course of action. They
have offered to give
their services to Covid
hospital, Turn on P6
(From left to right) Additional Chief Secretary Pankaj Kumar (Revenue but, overseeing Health too),Anil
Mukim, Chief Secretary, Nitin Patel, Deputy Chief Minister and Jayanti Ravi, Principal Secretary (Health)
in a meeting with senior doctors and private practitioners at Ahmedabad Civil Hospital on Wednesday.
The State reported 380 new
corona positive cases and 28
deaths during last 24 hours
Corona cases
cross 50K
mark in India
New Delhi: The death
tollduetoCOVID-19rose
to 1,785 and the number
of cases climbed to
52,559 in the country on
Wednesday, registering
anincreaseof 126deaths
and 2,958 cases in the
last 24 hours, the Union
Health Ministry said.
Meanwhile, to bring
citizens with feature
phones and landlines
under the protection of
Aarogya Setu, an ‘Aaro-
gya Setu Interactive
Voice Response System
(IVRS)’ has been imple-
mented, the Ministry
said. This service is
available across the
country. It is a toll-free
service, where citizens
are asked to give a
missed call to the num-
ber 1921 and they will
get a call back request-
ing for inputs regarding
their health, Turn on P6
Aditi Nagar
New Delhi: Congress
president Sonia Gandhi
on Wednesday questioned
the government over the
criteria it adopted to judge
how long the COVID-19-in-
duced lockdown will con-
tinue. Addressing a meet-
ing of chief ministers of
states where the Congress
is in power, she asked
“what after May 17?”
India has been under
lockdown since March 25
to curb the spread of the
novel coronavirus. The
first and second phase of
the lockdown was from
March 25 to April 14 and
April 15 to May 3, respec-
tively. The third phase be-
gan from May 4 and would
end on May 17. Former
prime minister Manmo-
han Singh and former
Congress chief Rahul
Gandhi were part of the
meeting held through vid-
eo-conferencing.
“After May 17th, What?
and After May 17th, How?
What criteria is GoI (gov-
ernment of India) using
to judge how long the lock-
down is to continue...,”
Congress chief spokesper-
son Randeep Surjewala
quoted Turn on P6
WHAT AFTER MAY
17?: SONIA TO MODI New Delhi: Public
transport, which has
been shut since the first
lockdown announce-
ment on March 24, may
soon be in operation,
roadwaysministerNitin
Gadkari assured trans-
porters on Wednesday.
Opening of transport
and highways will go a
long way in instilling
confidence among the
public,saidtheminister,
addingthatpublictrans-
portmayopensoonwith
some guidelines.
He, however, cau-
tioned towards main-
taining social distance
and adopting all safety
measures like hand
wash, sanitising, face
masks, etc while operat-
ing buses and cars.
The minister was ad-
dressing the members
of Bus and Car Opera-
tors Confederation of
India through video
conferencing.
The nationwide lock-
down, necessitated by
the coronavirus out-
break,isinplacetillMay
17. No railway, flight ser-
vices are allowed in this
period.However,therail-
ways did run over 100
Shramik Special trains
to ferry stranded mi-
grants.
Gadkari expressed
confidence that the
country and its indus-
try will Turn on P6
Public transport to
roll out soon: Min
Congress President Sonia Gandhi chaired a meeting with Congress party
leaders via video conferencing, in New Delhi on Wednesday. —ANI
Nitin Gadkari
AI EVACUATION PLAN
DELAYED AS CREW TEST
REPORTS AWAITED
New Delhi: Air India’s maiden
evacuation flights to the UK and
the USA have been delayed for a
day as the COVID-19 test reports
of the national carrier’s crew
members are still awaited. Now,
Delhi to San Francisco flight,
which was earlier scheduled to
depart on May 7, will operate
on May 8 at around 3:30 am.
Mumbai to London flight has
also been delayed by a day. P7
HIZB’S DE FACTO CHIEF KILLED, PVT PHONES,
MOBILE INTERNET IN VALLEY SUSPENDED
Srinagar: Terror group Hizbul
Mujahideen’s de facto chief Reyaz Naikoo,
on the run for eight years, was killed on
Wednesday by security forces in his village
in Kashmir’s Pulwama district, police said.
Anticipating a law and order problem,
authorities suspended mobile telephone
services of private operators and mobile
internet services across the Valley. The
gunning down of the Hizbul commander,
a major breakthrough in the fight against
terror, comes three days after 8 security
personnel, were martyred in Handwara. P6
RSS TO CONDUCT ‘SOCIO-ECONOMIC
SURVEY’ OF MIGRANT LABOURERS
New Delhi: The RSS is conducting a “socio-economic survey” of
migrant labourers to know their condition better and also find out
whether they would like to remain in their villages or come back
to cities for work once the COVID-19 situation normalises, its
joint general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale said on Wednesday.
Interacting with foreign media via video conferencing, he said the
Sangh is helping local administration in crowd management and
providing food to migrant labourers. “We are also conducting a
survey to know whether migrant labourers would like to stay in
their villages or come back to cities for livelihood,” he said. When
contacted, Hosabale told PTI that this is a “socio-economic”
survey and the Sangh keeps on doing such surveys for a better
understanding of the society.
WORLD
2,61,703
DEATHS
37,80,522
CONFIRMED CASES
INDIA
52,559
CONFIRMED CASES
1,785
DEATHS
 Four post gradu-
ate medical students
and two Sabarmati jail
inmates have been in-
fected with Sars-COV-2.
 After Ahmedabad,
Surat Municipal Com-
missioner Banchhanidhi
Pani has prohibited sale
of vegetables and gro-
ceries in the city from
May 9 midnight till May
14 midnight.
 The Kheda district
administration has also
put a ban on sale of veg-
etables in Nadiad town
from Thursday morning.
IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS

MODI-MORRISON’S ‘VIRTUAL’
SUMMIT TO BOOST BOND
New Delhi: India is
planning to hold its
first ever bilateral vir-
tual summit where PM
Narendra Modi and his
Australian counterpart
Scott Morrison plan
to discuss a range of
issues including joint
fight against Covid and
Indo-Pacific partner-
ship. The two sides
plan to conclude a
range of pacts includ-
ing Mutual Logistics
Sharing Pact and in
areas of science &
technology and public
administration on the
occasion.
The Australian PM
was earlier scheduled
to visit Delhi in January
but postponed it due to
bush fires in Australia.
Later, a India visit was
contemplated in May
but that could not fruc-
tify due to the outbreak
of Covid-19. The two
leaders are planning to
hold their summit virtu-
ally in the near future.
Exact dates and
outcome of the summit
are being worked out,
sources said.
The virtual summit
may also be held in
both restricted and
delegation formats like
in-person summits. So
far, the Indian PM has
been part of virtual
summits in SAARC and
G-20 formats. Morrison
and Modi have been
in touch to discuss
measures to contain
outbreak of Covid-19.
In a phone call in April,
both leaders agreed
to remain attentive to
the wider significance
of the India-Australia
partnership, including
in the Indo-Pacific re-
gion, while they focus
on solving the present
health crisis.
The two leaders had
discussed the ongoing
Covid-19 pandemic and
the domestic response
strategies adopted by
their respective govern-
ments. They agreed on
the importance of bilat-
eral experience-sharing in
the context of this health
crisis, including collabo-
rative research efforts.
“Our Prime Ministers
have agreed to schedule
a virtual summit very
soon given they will
not be able to meet in
person...On top of lead-
ing a quick, decisive
and effective domestic
COVID-19 response,
Prime Minister Modi
has been active engag-
ing leaders and shaping
the world’s response
through calls and video-
conferences,” Austral-
ian High Commissioner
designate to India Barry
O’ Farrell said.
—Agencies
PM Narendra Modi with Australian PM Scott Morrison.
—FILE PHOTO
From home quarantine, Nehra likely
to be airlifted to Delhi on deputation
Gargi Raval
Ahmedabad: Put into
quarantine even as the
city appears to be fight-
ing an unequal battle
against the dreaded
coronavirus despite
being in an extended
lockdown, Ahmedabad
Municipal Commis-
sioner Vijay Nehra is
likely to get a deputa-
tion in New Delhi even
before his self-an-
nounced incarceration
ends in two weeks.
Coming as it has
when Gujarat’s prized
commercial capital
Ahmedabad has be-
come the next biggest
target of Covid-19 and
questions are being
raised over its handling
by the State Govern-
ment, Nehra’s exit to
thenationalcapitalmay
hardly be an elevation.
Highly placed sourc-
es in the State Secre-
tariat told First India
that Tuesday’s devel-
opments of putting
him under quar-
antine and get-
ting two expe-
rienced hands
-- former mu-
nicipal commissioner
Mukesh Kumar as the
new city chief and sen-
ior bureaucrat Rajiv
Gupta in an overall su-
pervisory capacity --
were not sudden.
The seeds were sown
in the middle of April,
when the corona posi-
tive cases started see-
ing a sudden spurt in
the State, with
Ahmedabad reporting
the maximum -- lock-
down or no lockdown.
Even the inter-minis-
terial Central team,
whichvisitedthecityas
the situation was wors-
ening, had expressed its
dissatisfaction over the
handlingof thecrisisin
thecity.Whataddedfuel
to the fire were Nehra’s
inconsistent public
statements and actions.
According to authen-
tic bureaucratic sourc-
es, even the top brass
was unhappy with Neh-
ra’s “abrasive” and
“unilateral” style, often
bypassing the hierar-
chy, and this was being
attributed to his per-
ceived proximity to
Chief Minister Vijay
Rupani and at one-time
to Prime Minister Nar-
endra Modi. The top au-
thorities also have had
to face embarrassment.
For instance, he de-
cided to defy the State
Government’s decision
to allow all neighbour-
hood and standalone
stores to open for busi-
ness or his public state-
ments that the city
would see eight lakh
cases by May-end or the
latest on Tuesday that,
“We have limited re-
sources for sample test-
ing and so everyone
can’t be tested.”
On many occa-
sions, the city’s
BJP leaders
have also com-
p l a i n e d
against him but these
were glossed over by
the State leadership be-
cause it was believed to
be closed to the Prime
Minister.
Nehra’s announce-
ment of going into self-
quarantine and the
State Government’s de-
cision to hand over his
batontoMukeshKumar
is being interpreted as a
respectfulexitforNehra
-- as well as a face-saver
for the Gujarat Govern-
ment which would not
wish to be seen as look-
ing for a scapegoat for
itsinepthandlingof the
unprecedented crisis.
Alreadyitisbeingdis-
cussed in the top eche-
lons that the State Gov-
ernment could have act-
ed swiftly enough when
the cases were rising
around mid-April itself.
On April 20, there were
1,248 positive cases and
38 deaths. In a space of a
fortnight, the number
grew three fold to 4,424
and the deaths by 7.8
times to 273. From the
concentrationof central
and south zones, the vi-
rus has spread its tenta-
cles across the city.
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Rupani requests Amit Shah to send AIIMS experts to Gujarat
First India News
Gandhinagar: From
effecting a change of
guard in the
Ahmedabad Munici-
pal Corporation and
shuffling bureaucrats
towards healthcare
duty, to requisitioning
central medical teams,
transporting workers
to foodgrains supply
-- the Vijay Rupani
Government is pulling
out all stops in its bat-
tle against Covid-19.
Continuing his ef-
forts, Chief Minister
Vijay Rupani on
Wednesday spoke to Un-
ion Home Minister
Amit Shah with a re-
quest to depute experts
to guide the medical
teams at the dedicated
Covid-19 hospitals. He
has requested to send
AIIMS Director Dr. Ran-
deep Guleria.
He has also urged
Shah to depute Apollo
Hospital’s (New Del-
hi) Dr. Rajesh Pandit
and Mumbai-based
pulmonologist Dr. Ro-
hit Pandit for a day, to
visit the dedicated
hospitals and guide
the medical teams on
treatment path for
the critical patients
and others. This will
give a moral boost to
the entire team.
Before this conversa-
tion, CM had detailed
discussions especially
about the Ahmedabad
situation with Deputy
CM Nitin Patel, K
Kailashnathan, Chief
Principal Secretary to
CM and Chief Secretary
Anil Mukim. They even
had a video conference
with doctors serving at
the Covid-19 hospital.
The State Govern-
ment has decided to
deploy State Trans-
port Corporation bus-
es to send diamond
workers from Surat to
their native districts
in Gujarat, besides
continuing to dispatch
migrants to their re-
spective States.
Ashwani Kumar, In-
formation and Broad-
casting Secretary and
Secretary to CM, said
in the last four days 39
trains were arranged
to take 46,000 migrant
workers safely to Oris-
sa, Uttar Pradesh, Bi-
har and Jharkhand. He
added that all district
collectors have been
instructed to ensure
that the required ar-
rangements are made
and no migrant worker
is left out. On Wednes-
day, 30 more trains
were pressed into ser-
vice to transport 82,800
passengers to these
states. On Thursday
more trains will be de-
ployed.
For diamond work-
ers, the state has de-
cided to deploy State
Transport buses so
that they can return to
their native districts
likeBhavnagar,Botad,
Amreli and other plac-
es in Gujarat.
From Thursday, free
rations for the above
poverty line (APL) fami-
lies for the month of
May will begin, in
which every family will
get 10 kg wheat, 3.5 kg
rice and one kg each dal,
sugar and salt free of
cost. This benefit will
reach to some 61 lakh
ration card holders.Chief Minister Vijay Rupani. —FILE PHOTO
WARM CHEMISTRY BETWEEN MODI & CYRIL
TO FOSTER SPECIAL INDO-AFRICAN BONDhe chemistry
b e t w e e n
South Afri-
can Presi-
dent Cyril
Ramaphosa and
Prime Minister Nar-
endra Modi should be
used to benefit both
countries as they
work towards recov-
ering their economies
post Covid-19, accord-
ing to South African
High Commissioner
to India Sibusiso Nde-
bele.
The diplomat was
participating in a webi-
nar organised on Tues-
day by CII and Exim
Bank that linked up
Indian and African
business leaders and
diplomats, who shared
ideas for recovering the
economies in both
countries that have
been severely impacted
by Covid-19.
The webinar, titled
“Africa Economic Up-
date - Covid & Beyond:
Focus Southern Afri-
ca”, was part of a se-
ries that will cover
the different regions
of the continent.
“As far as our bilat-
eral trade with India is
concerned, the institu-
tion of a fairly restric-
tive lockdown on both
sides has had an equal-
ly negative impact at a
time when our coun-
tries are determined to
increase trade links
between them,” Nde-
bele said. “As an im-
mediate impact,
there will be conges-
tion at the ports in
shipments while the
supply chain in dif-
ferent countries re-
turns to normal, de-
pending on the differ-
ent stages of the vi-
rus in their respec-
tive countries.
“The cordial relation-
ship between our two
countries needs to fully
deliver on its economic
potential,” Ndebele
said, adding that visits
by heads of state to each
other’s countries have
resulted in a unique
“chemistry” between
Ramaphosa and Modi.
“As both countries
move out of their re-
spective lockdowns and
new opportunities are
explored, we will need
to work together to en-
sure that we fully sup-
port the private sector
to realise these opportu-
nities and ensure that
our bilateral trade and
investment relations
hit new heights,” the
diplomat said. —Agencies
T
Prime Minister Narendra Modi with South African
President Cyril Ramaphosa. —FILE PHOTO
Vijay Nehra

BARRING MILK & MEDICINES,
ALL SHOPS SHUT FOR A WEEK
Experts panel to assess
Ahmedabad situation
First India News
Ahmedabad: The new-
ly appointed team of
Additional Chief Sec-
retary Rajiv Gupta and
Municipal Commis-
sioner Mukesh Kumar
to fight the coronavirus
in Ahmedabad has de-
cided to enforce a
stricter lockdown by
ordering all shops to
close down for a week
from Thursday. The
only exceptions are
pharmacies and those
selling milk.
This, however, creat-
ed a panic among the
peopleandallthestreets
of the city were looking
like a lockdown-free pe-
riod with a scramble to
buy essential items.
Issuing the order on
Wednesday under the
Epidemic Diseases Act,
1897, Mukesh Kumar
stated that even shops
selling fruits, vegeta-
bles and groceries shall
be closed for a week.
Also, all the banks in
the Red zones have been
asked to suspend all
work.
The officials also de-
cided to add nine more
private hospitals as des-
ignated COVID-19 hos-
pitals with a capacity
of 1,000 beds. A meeting
with the hospital ad-
ministration was con-
ducted by the deputy
municipal commission-
ers of the respective
zones on Wednesday
evening. In addition to
this, there would be 500-
bed Covid care centres
in each zone in a pri-
vate hotel of a 3-star
category.
The civic body has
decided to screen all the
super spreaders. Ac-
cording to their esti-
mate, there are 2,000
such individuals who
will be screened in four
days covering 500 per-
sons daily in each ward.
They will be tested, if
needed.
Since the hospitals
are overflowing with
patients, asymptomat-
ic and mild-sympto-
matic patients have
been allowed to stay at
their homes provided
they have separate
rooms and toilet facili-
ties as per the Govern-
ment guidelines.
Private clinics, nurs-
ing homes and hospi-
tals have been asked to
open their clinics with-
in 48 hours, else they
will lose their licenses.
Doctors have been re-
quested to operate
their clinics and treat
patients at Covid care
centers or those who
are at home (asympto-
matic).
Haresh Jhala
Gandhinagar: Wor-
ried over the leapfrog-
ging corona positive
cases, the State Govern-
ment has constituted a
three-member experts
committee to make a
grassroots assessment
of the situation in
Ahmedabad city and
suggest remedies to
check the spread.
This is the first time
that the government
has appointed a com-
mittee to study the co-
rona spread in any part
of the state. The com-
mittee has been asked
to submit its findings
within two to three days
of the commencement
of field study.
Additional Director
(Health) Dr. Dinkar
Rawal will be chairman
of the committee. He
has earlier headed the
epidemic department in
the Health Commission-
erate. Other members
areProf AMKadri,who
is head of Department
of Community Medi-
cineattheP.D.UGovern-
ment Medical College,
Rajkot, and Dr. Pradeep
Kumar, a retired profes-
sor from B J Medical
College. Both professors
are experts in preven-
tiveandsocialmedicine.
The State Health De-
partment has issued a
notification in this re-
gard three days ago an-
nouncing that the com-
mittee will visit all hot-
spot areas in the red
zones in the city, meet
field staff and gather
ground information
about their functioning,
the shortfalls in their
work, manpower availa-
bility and shortage of
equipment.
Based on this infor-
mation, the committee
will prepare a report
and submit it to the
State Government.
These experts have also
been asked to recom-
mend actions that need
to be taken to control
the spread of the virus.
The committee will
also be visiting hospi-
tals where corona pa-
tients are being treated
and will inquire if pa-
tients are facing any
problems in treatment.
It will recommend steps
to be taken to address
issues.
First India News
Ahmedabad: After a
month-long wait to
head back to their na-
tive state of Uttar
Pradesh, migrant work-
ers and their families
were left stranded for
several for hours prior
to their departure from
the city on Wednesday.
Also, most of the work-
ers who boarded the
train bound for Uttar
Pradesh from the Sa-
barmati railway station
were unaware of the
exact destination.
Narrating his plight,
Sunil Batham told First
India, “I received a call
from the mamlatdaar
office on Wednesday
morning and was asked
to reach the Riverfront.
I did as they asked and
reached there by 10.30
am along with my fam-
ily of four, where we
were stranded for
hours.”
He added, “At around
12.30 pm, we boarded a
bus and reached the
railway station at 1 pm.
We waited to board the
train for hours without
any food or water. No
arrangements were
made for us by the au-
thorities. I paid Rs2,400
to the mamlatdaar for
four tickets.”
AMC also designates nine private hospitals as dedicated COVID-19 hospitals
People took to the streets to stock up on vegetables and other groceries, after state government
announced the shutdown of all shops except milk and medicines, in Paldi area on Wednesday.
A medical team collects nasal swab samples of residents in
Jodhpur Gam and Malav Talav areas for COVID-19 testing in
Ahmedabad on Wednesday. —PHOTO BY HANIF SINDHI
Migrant workers quench their thirst as they wait for buses to
take them to the railway station on Wednesday.
First India News
Ahmedabad: With
Ahmedabad Municipal
Corporation (AMC)
commissioner Vijay
Nehra under self-quar-
antine, the ruling party
has resumed activity at
least on social media.
City mayor Bijal Patel
on Wednesday launched
the ‘healthyamdavad’
hashtag and activated
all her social media ac-
counts. Interestingly,
er Nehra was using the
hashtag ‘Amdavadfight-
scorona’, which was not
promoted by the mayor.
The rumour mill is
churning out several
stories about Nehra’s
abrupt leave but, the ac-
tual reason behind it
remains unclear.
“It was a clash of egos
over power and posi-
tion,” say sources.
“Ever since Nehra as-
sumed charge as
Ahmedabad municipal
commissioner, he has
never followed protocol.
Several meetings were
held in the AMC com-
missioner’sofficewhich
the mayor used to at-
tend, which is against
protocol. But, the mayor
never questioned it too,
which was suspicious,”
said a source.
However, as the
charge of the local civic
body has been handed
over to Mukesh Kumar
under the guidance of
Rajiv Gupta, the mayor
has come out of the
shadows and started
conducting video meet-
ings. She has also be-
come very active on so-
cial media and ex-
pressed her solidarity in
the fight against novel
coronavirus under the
newly roped in senior
IAS officers.
“Shewasnottweeting
and her social media
teams did not seem ac-
tive. But after Nehra
took a short break, so-
cial media is buzzing
with her tweets along
with a newly-launched
hashtag for COVID-19
‘healthyamdavad’. She
has categorically ig-
nored the hashtag used
byNehra,”saidasource.
On the other hand,
supporters of Nehra
have expressed their
concern regarding the
er’s health. There are
many rumours doing
the rounds about the
reason behind the AMC
commissioner’s 14-day
self-quarantine, with
one being novel corona-
virus, others blaming a
political party, it is un-
certain what led to Neh-
ra’s leave.
As Nehra goes on leave, mayor debuts ‘Healthy Amdavad’ hashtag
CLASH OF THE TITANS
Migrant workers
stranded for hours
prior to departure
Locusts likely to plague
Banaskantha farmers again
466 patients shifted to
COVID Care Centres in city
First India News
Palanpur: The Banas-
kantha district has re-
ceived an alert from
neighbouring states
about the possibility of
a locust attack in bor-
der villages of the dis-
trict. District authori-
ties had conducted a
meeting with the agri-
culture department on
Tuesday to prepare for
the locust attack.
District collector
Sandip Sagale along
with the Agriculture
and Locust Control Or-
ganization officers de-
cided to keep spraying
equipment and insecti-
cide on-hand to combat
the locust attack.
All prant officers and
village heads in the dis-
trict have also been
asked to remain vigi-
lant and inform the au-
thorities in the event of
a locust attack.
Interestingly, just
four months ago, lo-
custs had attacked
crops in several villag-
es in North Gujarat.
First India News
Ahmedabad: The state
government set up two
dedicated COVID-19
hospitals in the Civil
Hospital campus with a
combined capacity of
1,700 beds. Now, around
466 patients with mild
symptoms and asymp-
tomatic patients admit-
ted at the dedicated hos-
pital have been shifted
to various COVID Care
Centres around the city.
These patients will be
kept under observation
and undergo treatment
as per their condition.
It will also prevent them
from getting infected by
critical patients at the
dedicated hospital.
In the last three days,
127 patients have been
transferred to Samras
Hostel, 247 patients
have been asked to re-
main under home quar-
antine. Around 74 pa-
tients have been shifted
to various hospitals,
and 18 patients have
been transferred to
Tapi Hospital in Nikol.
Additional paramilitary forces to be deployed: DGP
First India News
Gandhinagar: In a bid
to implement strict
lockdown, the state
government has decid-
ed to increase the man-
power of the paramili-
tary forces deployed in
red zone and contain-
ment areas of
Ahmedabad, Vadodara
and Surat. In
Ahmedabad alone, 38
companies of the State
Reserve Police (SRP)
and paramilitary have
already been deployed.
“A total of seven par-
amilitary force compa-
nies have been ordered
by the central govern-
ment to help Gujarat
state police with the
implementation of the
lockdown. Of these, six
companies belong to
the Border Security
Force (BSF) and one
company is of the Cen-
tral Industrial Security
Force (CISF). One com-
pany of the Rapid Ac-
tion Force (RAF) is also
at the disposal of the
state police,” said Shi-
vanand Jha, director
general of police
(DGP).
The DGP added that
the state government
plans to seal contain-
ment areas in
Ahmedabad, Surat and
Vadodara. They will be
under the authority of
the paramilitary forces,
to ensure that public
movement is complete-
ly stopped.
Six paramilitary
companies will be sta-
tioned in containment
areas in Surat while,
two companies will
guard containment ar-
eas in Vadodara.
Additionally, DGP
Jha appealed to citizens
to avoid social and reli-
gious gatherings, to
help prevent spread of
Sars-Cov-2 infection. He
also asked private doc-
tors to open their prac-
tices and attend to pa-
tients and assured them
of police cooperation.
STAYING SAFE
BSF jawans patrol a street in Ahmedabad during lockdown.
A farmer using traditional methods to combat a locust attack. Samras Hostel on GMDC Road. —PHOTO BY HANIF SINDHI
AMC commissioner Vijay Nehra and Ahmedabad mayor Bijal Patel —FILE PHOTO
GUJARATAHMEDABAD | THURSDAY, MAY 7, 2020
—FILEPHOTO
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PERSPECTIVEAHMEDABAD | THURSDAY, MAY 7, 2020
CONG KEEPS UP
PRESSURE, FIRES
QUERIES AT BJP
he Congress Party kept up the
pressure on the ruling party at
the Centre raising questions
answers to which a large num-
ber of people are eager to know.
After raising the issue of “migrants being
made to pay railway fares for their return
journey”, Sonia Gandhi, the Working
president of the party, took on the BJP in
a video conference with chief ministers
of Congress-ruled states on Wednesday.
The first phase of the lockdown started on
March 24 and ended on April 4. It was extend-
ed till May 3 after which the government
thought it prudent to extend it by another two
weeks but allowed the phased opening of the
economy with a slew of curbs in place. The
corporate world and medium and small indus-
tries were not buoyed as they expected more.
As the third phase of lockdown ends on
May 17, Sonia asked, “What after May
17?” and “After May 17th how wanting to
know the criteria the Government of In-
dia is using to judge how long the lock-
down is to continue. Former Prime Min-
ister Manmohan Singh, who was also
present, backed Sonia and said, “CMs
need to deliberate and ask as to what is
the strategy of Government of India to
get the country out of lockdown.”
Former finance minister P. Chidambaram
accused the Centre of not allocation any
money, leaving the states “bleeding”.
Chief ministers who shared their nation-
al leaders’ concerns included Ashok Gehlot
of Rajasthan and Amarinder Singh of Pun-
jab. Gehlot reiterated his demand for a cen-
tral package to meet the economic crisis.
“Until extensive stimulus package is given,
how will the states and the country run?”
he asked. Saying that the states have repeat-
edly requested the prime minister for a
package, Gehlot pointed out that they were
yet to hear from the Union government.
Amarinder Singh raised the issue of clas-
sification of red, orange, and green zones
whichhasbecomeacontentiousissuebetween
the Centre and the governments of Delhi and
West Bengal. The Punjab CM said, “The con-
cern is that those sitting in Delhi are deciding
on the classification of Covid-19 zones without
knowing what is happening on the ground.”
Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh
Baghel also said that the states were fac-
ing a “dire economic crisis” and needed
“immediate economic assistance.
By raising these questions the Congress is
only repeating what it said after the exten-
sion of the lockdown beyond May 3. It then
wanted to know the purpose and the strategy
and whether the government of India will
persist with the lockdown until whatever
goals it has in mind are achieved.
Nobody can read the Union govern-
ment’s mind or intentions. So far it has
not given any hint of any financial pack-
age to states even as their revenue taps
have run dry putting millions of lives and
livelihoods at stake.
IN-DEPTH
T
GBTQ films
tend to provoke
debates about
authenticity, es-
pecially when it
comes to sex: should it be
represented explicitly or
not? Portrait of a Lady on
Fire (2019), the latest
award-winning film from
French director-screen-
writer Céline Sciamma,
refuses to choose, offering
instead a funny and sophis-
ticated response to the
politics of lesbian repre-
sentation.
Sciamma has a reputa-
tion for making films that
encourage audiences to
think differently about de-
sire. Her first three films,
Water Lilies (2007), Tom-
boy (2011) and Girlhood
(2014), avoid triumphant
coming out narratives. In-
stead, each follows the ten-
tative and ambivalent ex-
periences of their young
queer protagonists as they
negotiate hostile heter-
onormative worlds.
Sciamma’s latest film
turns from adolescent com-
ing-of-age drama to adult
lesbian romance. Set in
18th-century France, Por-
trait of a Lady on Fire cen-
tres on the painter Mari-
anne (Noémie Merlant) and
the reluctant portrait sub-
ject with whom she falls in
love. Resisting an arranged
marriage, Héloïse (Adèle
Haenel) refuses to pose for
a painting for her future
husband. Marianne is
hired ostensibly to be a
walking companion, but re-
ally to observe Héloïse and
paint her in secret.
Across scenes of Mari-
anne glancing surrepti-
tiously at her subject, the
film establishes a story of
desire. Héloïse’s reciprocal
gazes are freighted with
homoerotic meaning.
THE CODE
When the industry banned
explicit representations of
sex and so-called sex per-
version under the auspices
of the Production Code,
filmmakers responded by
developing a sophisticated
system for representing de-
sire and sex. A glance, ges-
ture, line of dialogue or
object could be coded with
sexual meaning. Because it
was “only” implicit or indi-
rect, that meaning could be
readily denied by Holly-
wood studios under pres-
sure to offer wholesome
entertainment.
Abdellatif Kechiche’s
Blue Is the Warmest Col-
our (2013) outraged some
lesbian critics for scenes
regarded as too explicit
and objectifying. On the
other hand, Luca Guadag-
nino’s decision in Call Me
By Your Name (2017) to
coyly pan to an open win-
dow rather than show sex
was castigated by influen-
tial critic D. A. Miller.
NOW YOU SEE IT,
NOW YOU DON’T
Sciamma has been criti-
cised for not being brave
enough to include an ex-
plicit sex scene in her film.
But the filmmaker insists
“there is a sex scene …
maybe you haven’t seen it”.
As the lovers lie in bed
together, Hélöise proposes
to Marianne they try a
tincture of psychedelic
herbs that promises to stop
time. With an arm
stretched upward, Hélöise
takes some ointment and
smears it along her armpit.
The film then cuts abrupt-
ly to a close-up image of
penetration. It’s puzzling
at first, but as the camera
drifts, we realise its source:
Hélöise’s finger held close
under Marianne’s armpit.
This visual joke plays on
our desires to see sex, de-
sires shaped in part by film
style and genre.
Sciamma’s film draws
attention to cinematic con-
ventions to upend what
counts as sex. In a brief,
startling, and exquisitely
erotic moment, Portrait of
a Lady on Fire plays with
how we see (and think we
see) sex between women.
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LGBTQ films tend
to provoke
debates about
authenticity,
especially when it
comes to sex:
should it be
represented
explicitly or not?
Death is as sure for that
which is born, as birth is for
that which is dead. Therefore
grieve not for what is
inevitable. —Bhagavad Gita
Spiritual
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When Congress party has
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especially in the oil and gas sector.
nvesting can be a simple exer-
cise, yet simplicity often eludes
us. Such is the noise in the fi-
nancial markets, created by
product-peddlers, that we are
often befuddled about the na-
ture of investing.
Studies have been showing
that a set of well-diversified
exchange-traded funds
(ETFs) or index funds, firm-
ly entrenched in the passive
investment space, can out-
perform the broad market
indices by a sizable margin.
The din around what makes
for a savvy investment often
leads us to believe that a com-
plex route is often better for in-
vestment. Of course, the view is
backed by financial institutions
that profit even as we transact.
When we benchmark a ma-
jority of retail investor portfo-
lios against the broad market
indices such as the Nifty50 or
the Sensex over time, we find
the portfolios lacking the per-
formance of the indices — a
cost we, investors, pay for com-
plicating our investments.
THE FORCES WHICH
PREVENT SIMPLICITY
THE BELIEF OF US
KNOWING THE FUTURE
Most of us think that we know
or will get to know what will
happen in the markets in the fu-
ture.Weconstantlytrytopredict
events that are often random.
What we cannot predict, we
expect some expert to tell us
about and end up taking ran-
dom bets on stocks and invest-
ment funds that we regret later.
THE WAY WE
SEE PROFIT AND LOSS
There is also the matter of
how we view profit and loss.
In 1979, psychologists Daniel
Kahneman and Amos Tver-
sky published a paper titled,
“Prospect Theory: An Analy-
sis Of Decision Under Risk”
where they revealed that we,
humans, tend to make deci-
sions based on our perceived
loss or gain from an event,
rather than the actual out-
come. The prospect of a loss
weighsdownonusfarmorethan
the prospect of a gain, even if
they share the same probability
in an event or investment route.
What it does is make us less
willing to take risks with our
profits than with our losses. So,
we would be more likely to sell
a stock when we are making a
profit, avoiding the risk of a
possible decline in prices but
also forgoing the prospect of
further increase in prices.
We become risk-averse when
it comes to gaining and even
settle for meager profit, but
take on greater risk in trying to
limit our losses rather than
take a lesser loss on the chin.
THE FINANCIAL
MARKETPLACE
Thefinancialproductmarket-
ers keep coming up with com-
plex products peppered with
jargonlikesmartbeta,deriva-
tive instruments etc. that
sound intimidating and pre-
vent further questions. Sim-
ple products such as those in
passive investing strip away
excess service charges which
complex-sounding financial
products inevitably entail.
STABLE PASSIVE
ETF/INDEX PORTFOLIOS
GO A LONG WAY
Passive investing involves a
simple investment strategy
that takes little time, effort and
investment knowledge to out-
perform the markets.
The crux of such an invest-
ing route is to follow a bench-
mark market index and repli-
cate its performance. It banks
on the larger wisdom that gov-
erns macroeconomics and
eventually, regulates markets.
Hence, chances of unique dis-
asters get reduced.
With passive investments, an
investorcanjustinvestandforget.
Key products in passive in-
vesting include ETFs and in-
dex funds.
A Tavaga investor’s portfolio
is made up of six well-diversi-
fiedETFs.Wecomparedthefive-
year performance of the portfo-
lios of Tavaga’s user profiles
with that of Nifty. The chart
below shows actual returns on
those portfolios and proves that
pays to be a stable investor.
The portfolios’ performanc-
es in the Covid-19 crisis have
been highlighted in green —
theyholdtheirgrounddespite
the broader market crashes.
We further looked up the
portfolio returns of our users
across different investment pe-
riods, and it only reinforced the
benefits of passive investing.
THE IMPORTANCE
OF ASSET ALLOCATION
IN A PORTFOLIO
Our portfolio is as good as our
asset allocation. Asset alloca-
tion is the process of dividing
our investment money between
asset classes to minimise the
risk and maximize the return
on the portfolio.
It works on the principle of
negative correlations. For ex-
ample, if our portfolio consists
of two investment products,
and one of whose value goes up
when the other’s value suffers,
then it is beneficial. Because
the returns on such a portfolio
will be the weighted average
returns on both the assets,
while the risk in the portfolio
will be less than the weighted
average risk on both the assets.
This would mean we would get
higher returns with lower risk.
SOURCE: TAVAGA RESEARCH
WHY COMPLICATE
INVESTMENTS?
I
Studies have
been showing
that a set of
well-diversified
exchange-
traded funds
(ETFs) or index
funds, firmly
entrenched in
the passive
investment
space, can
outperform the
broad market
indices by a
sizable margin
PASSIVE INVESTING
INVOLVES A SIMPLE
INVESTMENT
STRATEGY THAT TAKES
LITTLE TIME, EFFORT
AND INVESTMENT
KNOWLEDGE
TO OUTPERFORM
THE MARKETS

INDIAAHMEDABAD | THURSDAY, MAY 7, 2020
New Delhi: Around 39
crore people have re-
ceived financial assis-
tance of Rs 34,800 crore
amid the COVID-19
lockdown under the
Pradhan Mantri Garib
Kalyan Package (PMG-
KP) as on May 5, the
government said.
These people re-
ceived the assistance,
which was announced
by Union Finance Min-
ister Nirmala Sithara-
man on March 26 to pro-
tect them from the im-
pact of the lockdown
due to COVID 19, via
digital payment infra-
structure.
The swift implemen-
tation of the free food
grain and cash payment
package under PMGKP
is being continuously
monitored by Central
and state governments.
Also, Fintech and digi-
tal technology have
been employed for swift
and efficient transfer to
the beneficiary. Rs
16,394 crore towards
payment of first install-
ment of PM-KISAN was
provided to 8.19 crore
beneficiaries. —ANI
`34,800 cr aid to 39 cr people under PMGKP
LENDING HELP
New Delhi: Union
Health Minister Harsh
Vardhan on Wednesday
held a meeting with the
officials of the states of
Gujarat and Maharash-
tra through video con-
ferencing to take stock
of the situation of COV-
ID-19 pandemic.
Speaking to the rep-
resentatives, the minis-
ter said that the situa-
tion in the states was a
matter of concern as at
least 36 districts were
affected by the COV-
ID-19 disease.
“Maharashtra and
Gujarat are states in the
country which is a mat-
ter of worry for us also
as 34 out of 36 districts
are affected from coro-
navirus. There are at
least 14,541 cases and
583 deaths that have
been reported from
here,” said the Minister.
“I will hold a meeting
with the Chief Minis-
ters also to discuss fur-
ther course of action to
control spread of the
virus in the state,” said
the Minister.
He also said that the
situation in Mumbai,
Pune, Thane, Nashik,
Aurangabad, Nagpur
and Solapur was more
worrying.
“We have to move to-
wards the direction of
making all districts as
green zones where no
case would be reported
in 21 days. This will be
possible for us through
proactive approach and
strong will power,” the
Minister said. —ANI
‘MAHA, GUJ, A MATTER OF WORRY FOR US’HealthMinisterHarshVardhansaidthatthesituationinthestateswasamatterofconcernas36districtswereaffectedbyCOVID-19
Bengaluru: The Kar-
nataka government an-
nounced an economic
relief package of Rs
1,610 crore for farmers,
MSMEs, handloom
weavers, autorickshaw
drivers and others
amid COVID-19 lock-
down. Addressing a
press conference, Kar-
nataka Chief Minister
BS Yediyurappa said,
“For more than one
and a half months,
workers in the unor-
ganised sector in the
state are facing tough
times due to the lock-
down. To address fi-
nancial difficulties
faced by them, a pack-
age of Rs. 1610 crore
will be released for
them as Covid-19 finan-
cial package.” —Agencies
KARNATAKA GOVT’S
`1,610 CR PACKAGE
New Delhi: Eighty-five
more personnel of BSF
tested positive for coro-
navirus, taking the total
to 152. With this, total
cases of COVID-19 in-
fection in BSF have sur-
passed those in CRPF,
which has recorded 137
cases so far.
Majority of infected
BSF personnel are from
Delhi with over 110 cas-
es. Rest of the infected
personnel are from the
Tripura frontier of the
force. The forceHQs,
whose two floors were
sealed two days back, is
“functional” from
Wednesday. On Tues-
day, at least 24 people
including military per-
sonnel were tested posi-
tive for Covid-19 at a
hospital in Delhi. —PTI
152 +ve cases
in BSF, CRPF
tally surpassed
New Delhi: The team at
Aarogya Setu app
stressed that no person-
al information of any
user has been proven to
be at risk and no data or
security breach has
been identified in the
COVID-19 contact trac-
ing app.
Reacting to an ethical
hacker’s claim that a se-
curity issue has been
found in the app, the
team said the app is
completely safe.The
Aarogya Setu team said
the app fetches a user’s
location by design and
store the location data
on the server in a se-
cure, encrypted and an-
onymised manner,
“when users submit
their contact tracing
data voluntary through
the app of when we
fetch tracing data of a
user after they have
turned COVID-19 posi-
tive.” It said that the ra-
dius parameters to spot
COVID-19 positive pa-
tients are fixed and can
take one of the five val-
ues: 500 metres, 1 km, 2
km, 5 kn and 10 km.
All this information
is already public, the
team said. —Agencies
Aarogya Setu teams claims
‘Indian users’ data safe’
New Delhi: With the
West Bengal govern-
mentnotadheringtothe
Centre’’s guideline on
goodstransportthrough
the India-Bangladesh
border, the Union Minis-
try of Home Affairs has
issued strict direction to
the state to implement it
“without any delay”.
The state government
wasalsoaskedtosubmit
a compliance report im-
mediately.
“You (West Bengal
government) are direct-
ed to allow cross land
border transportation
throughallIndo-Bangla-
desh borders without
any delay and send the
compliance report on
opening of cross land
borders, by today itself,”
Home Secretary Ajay
Bhalla said in the in-
struction circulated on
Tuesday.
The instructions were
issued following reports
thatgoodstrafficthrough
the India-Bangladesh
land border, falling in
West Bengal, had not re-
sumed. A large number
of trucks, carrying es-
sential supplies to Bang-
ladesh, were stranded at
differentbordercrossing
points. The Home Secre-
tary, in the letter, said: “I
amconstrainedtosaywe
have not received the
compliance report from
West Bengal.” —Agencies
‘Allow transport via Indo-Bangla border’
New Delhi: The SC
has sentenced three
people, held guilty of
contempt of court for
making “scurrilous
and scandalous allega-
tions” against two sit-
ting judges of the apex
court, to 3-month jail
observing that it was a
“concerted effort to
virtually hold the judi-
ciary to ransom”.
The top court had on
April 27 held advocate
Vijay Kurle, state pres-
ident of Maharashtra
and Goa of the Indian
Bar Association, advo-
cate Nilesh Ojha, Pres-
ident of the Indian Bar
Association and
Rashid Khan Pathan,
national secretary of
NGO Human Rights
Security Council,
guilty of contempt of
court for making scan-
dalous allegations
against the judges.
A bench of Justices
Deepak Gupta and An-
iruddha Bose heard on
May 4, via vc. —ANI
Dehradun: The Utta-
rakhand police regis-
tered a case against
some people who
spread a rumour about
the death of CM Triv-
endra Singh Rawat on
social media. “An un-
fortunate rumour has
been spread about the
CM on social media.
Dehradun SSP has
been asked to register
a case against the cul-
prits and arrest them,”
DG Ashok Kumar said.
Those spreading ru-
mours on social media
will not be spared un-
der any circumstances
and stringent action
will be taken against
them, he said.
“They have crossed
all limits. Stern action
will be taken against
those who spread the
rumour and those in-
volved in conspiracy,”
Kumar said. —PTI
3 sentenced for allegations against judges
People booked for rumours on U’khand CM’s death
New Delhi: Two days after filing
an FIR in the case, Delhi Police’s
Cyber Crime Cell arrested the ad-
min of the Instagram group ‘Bois
Locker Room’. The police have al-
ready apprehended a 15-year-old
boy in the case and questioned five
students in front of their parents
on Tuesday.
The CCC had lodged an FIR after
they knew of agroup, where teen-
age boys from schools allegedly
shared photos of girls. —PTI
New Delhi: The
ED filed a
c h a r g e s h e e t
against Yes Bank
co-founder Rana
Kapoor, arrested
on money laun-
dering charges,
in a special court
in Mumbai. The
former MD and CEO of Yes Bank
was arrested by ED on March 8 un-
der the PMLA. —PTI
BOIS LOCKER ROOM: INSTA
GROUP ADMIN HELD
YES BANK: CHARGESHEET
AGAINST RANA KAPOOR
Srinagar: In a major
operation, the Jammu
and Kashmir Police on
Wednesday killed Hiz-
bul Mujahideen’s oper-
ational commander, Ri-
yaz Naikoo, along with
his two other associ-
ates, in an encounter in
south Kashmir’s Pul-
wama district.
The police termed
the killing of Naikoo a
major success. Naikoo,
a former math teacher,
was the longest surviv-
ing militant active since
2012. He was catego-
rized A+++ rank mili-
tant and carried a cash
reward of Rs 12 lakh on
his head.
The police said the
operation to nab Naikoo
was launched Tuesday
night in Beighpora area
of Pulwama -- his home
village -- after the secu-
rity agencies received
inputs about the pres-
ence of militants in the
area. The operation was
monitored by senior po-
lice officers.
Naikoo’s killing
comes days after mili-
tants killed eight secu-
rity personnel includ-
ing an Army Colonel,
Major and an SHO in
two separate encoun-
ters in north Kashmir.
Naikoo took over the
reins of Hizbul Mujahi-
deen in 2017 after its
commander Yasin Itoo
was killed in an encoun-
ter in Shopian. Naikoo’s
sudden ascendance in
2017 took observers by
surprise as he had
maintained a low pro-
file since he had joined
militancy in 2012.
Naikoo took over the
command of Hizb when
its another commander,
Zakir Musa, parted
ways with the outfit and
and swore allegiance to
Al-Qaeda. —Agencies
Hizb Chief Riyaz Naikoo,
killed in J&K encounter
Army soldiers during an encounter with militants at Beighpora area in Pulwama dist of South Kashmir.
A large number of trucks carrying essential supplies were stranded at border crossing points.
K’taka CM BS Yediyurappa addresses a press meet in Bengaluru.
Hizb Chief Riyaz Naikoo
RECOVERED
IN THE COURTYARD
THE ACCUSED
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS SECY
BAJAJ IS RBI’S DIRECTOR
Mumbai: “The Central Government
has nominated Tarun
Bajaj, Secy, Dept of Eco-
nomic Affairs, Ministry
of Finance, as a Director
on the Central Board of
Reserve Bank of India
vice Atanu Chakraborty,” RBI said.
VALIDITY OF E-WAY BILL
EXTENDED TILL MAY 31
In a tweet, CBIC said, “Notiﬁcation
No. 40/2020-Central Tax issued to
extend the validity of e-way bills
till 31.05.2020 for all those e-way
bills which were generated on or
before 24.03.2020 and had expiry
between the period from 20.03.2020
to 15.04.2020.”
‘Ensure availability of
critical drugs for Corona’
New Delhi: The
ministry has for-
warded a list of 55
drugs for ICU man-
agement of novel
coronavirus patients
and a list of another
96 drugs for general
availability and
treatment of various
co-morbid conditions
The Union Minis-
try for Health and
Family Welfare
(MoHF&W) has writ-
ten to the All India
Organisation of
Chemists and Drug-
gists (AIOCD), say-
ing its member
should ensure avail-
ability of critical
drugs for manage-
ment of COVID-19
and other essential
drugs during these
‘challenging times.’
The ministry has
forwarded a list of 55
drugs for ICU man-
agement of novel
coronavirus patients
and a list of another
96 drugs for general
availability and
treatment of various
co-morbid condi-
tions. The list was
prepared following a
detailed exercise un-
dertaken by the Di-
rector General
Health Services.
The ministry also
acknowledged the
contribution of the
Indian Pharma
Trade channels dur-
ing these difficult
times. —Agencies

INDIAAHMEDABAD | THURSDAY, MAY 7, 2020
EMPANELMENT OF 1993 AND 1994
BATCH IAS DELAYED
Covid-19 has reportedly delayed the empanel-
ment of 1993 and 1994 batch IAS officers to the
rank of Additional Secretary by a month or two.
2.1988 BATCH IFS OFFICER TO
BE SECRETARY EMPANELMENT
OF 1988 BATCH
Indian Foreign Service officers to the rank of Secre-
tary has been made. About half a dozen officers of
this batch are believed to have been empanelled.
DMA WANTS INCREASE IN RETIREMENT
AGE OF SERVICE PERSONNEL
The Department of Military Affairs (DMA) has report-
edly made a proposal to the Parliament Committee
to increase retirement age of service personnel.
DEPUTATION TENURE OF HUKUM
SINGH MEENA EXTENDED
The deputation tenure of Hukum Singh Meena,
working as Joint Secretary in Department of Land
Resources, has been extended for a period of
three months beyond May 18, 2020. He is a 1992
batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.
DR ROUSHAN TO RETURN
TO GUJARAT IG SSB
Dr Prafulla Kumar Roushan is returning to the
parent Gujarat cadre after completion of central
deputation tenure. He is 1996 batch IPS officer.
RAJESH VERMA TO JOIN
AS SECRETARY, CORPORATE
AFFAIRS ON JUNE 1
Rajesh Verma will be taking over the charge as Sec-
retary, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, on June 1, 2020.
He is a 1987 batch IAS officer of Odisha cadre.
RAJESH CHATURVEDI TO JOIN
AS SECRETARY, CHEMICALS &
PETROCHEMICALS ON JUNE 1
Rajaesh Kumar Chaturvedi will be taking over
charge as Secretary, Department of Chemicals
and Petrochemicals on June 1, 2020. He is a
1987 batch IAS officer of MP cadre.
RAMESHWAR PRASAD GUPTA
TO JOIN AS SECRETARY,
EF&CC ON JUNE 1
Rameshwar Prasad Gupta will be taking over
charge as Secretary, Ministry of Environment,
Forest and Climate Change on June 1, 2020. He
is a 1987 batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre.
PRADIP KUMAR TRIPATHI TO JOIN
AS SECRETARY, STEEL ON JUNE 1
Pradip Kumar Tripathi will be taking over charge
as Secretary, Ministry of Steel, on June 1, 2020.
He is a 1987 batch IAS officer of J&K cadre.
WHY WERE ORDERS OF
B R SHARMA WITHDRAWN ?
The orders for appointment of former CS of J&K,
BR Sharma, as J&K Public Service Commission
(PSC) Chairman were issued only to be withdraw
within hours. He is former 1984 batch IAS officer.
TWO IAS OFFICERS GET NEW
ASSIGNMENTS IN ASSAM
Avinash Purushottam Das Joshi has been
appointed as Principal Secretary, Environment &
Forests and Excise with additional charge of Mines
& Minerals and Dr M Angamuthu was given an
additional charge of Commissioner & Secretary,
Sports & Youth Welfare in Assam.
MOHIT JAIN APPOINTED AS CIT
IN PCCIT OFFICE, MUMBAI
Mohit Jain has been appointed as CIT (OSD) in
the office of PCCIT, Mumbai Region. He is an
IRS-IT officer.
VIRENDER SINGH IS NEW DG, HOME
GUARDS IN DELHI GOVT
Virender Singh, Special CP, Security, has been
appointed as new Director General, Home Guards
in Delhi Govt. He is a 1991 batch IPS officer of
AGMUT cadre.
POWERGallery
New Delhi: Congress
leader Randeep Singh
Surjewala on Wednes-
day slammed the cen-
tral government for
r a i s i n g
“ i n s u r -
mounta-
ble” taxes
on petrol
and die-
sel, and
termed it
“econom-
ically anti-national”.
“The entire nation and
its 130 crore people are
fighting the COVID-19
pandemic today. The
poor migrant workers
and labourers, shop-
keepers, farmers, MS-
MEs are virtually pen-
niless, they are strug-
gling for every single
rupee. Yet, this draco-
nian government is
fleecing 130 crore Indi-
ans by raising insur-
mountable taxes on
petrol and diesel,” Sur-
jewala said.
“In times of this
COVID-19 pandemic as
also the economic crisis
that prevails across In-
dia, to fleece people of
India in this fashion is
economically anti-na-
tional. The manner and
fashion in which the il-
legal and forcible recov-
ery is being made from
people of India is an
example in itself which
has shocked the con-
science of each one of
us,” he added. Surjewa-
la said that on March 14,
Centre increased tax on
petrol and diesel by Rs 3
per litre.
“Yesterday again,
taxes on petrol was
raised by Rs 10/litre &
on diesel by Rs 13/li-
tre,” he said adding, “in
48 days, the Centre has
increased tax on diesel
by Rs 16 per litre and on
petrol by Rs 13 per li-
tre.” The Congress lead-
er stated that this in-
crease by itself will
lead to a recovery of Rs
1 lakh 40 thousand crore
annually from people of
India. —Agencies
Congslams‘draconian’govtovertaxesRaising ‘insurmountable’ taxes on petrol&diesel is an ‘economically anti-national’ move, said Surjewala
New Delhi: The Indian
Railways said that it
would have run a total
of 115 Shramik trains to
ferry migrants to their
home states by Wednes-
day, including 42
planned during the day.
Of these, 22 trains were
already en route to their
destinations by 1 pm.
“As per information
received on Tuesday,
we had run 38 special
trains. Today, we plan
to run 42 more trains.
Till 1300 hours, we had
run 22 of them. The to-
tal till now is 115
trains,” said a railway
official. —Agencies
New Delhi: Prime Min-
ister Narendra Modi
will participate in a vir-
tual Vesak global cele-
brations on Buddha
Purnima on Thursday.
He will deliver the key-
note address in the
morning, an official
statement said. Buddha
Purnima celebrations
are being held virtually
due to COVID-19 pan-
demic. The event is be-
ing organised in the
honour of the victims
and the frontline war-
riors of COVID-19.
The Ministry of Cul-
ture, in collaboration
with the International
Buddhist Confedera-
tion (IBC), a global Bud-
dhist umbrella organi-
zation, is holding a vir-
tual prayer event with
the participation of all
the supreme heads of
the Buddhist Sanghas
from around the world.
Prayer ceremonies
on the occasion will be
streamed live from the
Sacred Garden Lum-
bini (Nepal), Mahabo-
dhi Temple (Bodh-
gaya); Mulgandha Kuti
Vihara, Sarnath;
Parinirvana Stupa,
Kushinagar; Pirith
Chanting from Ruwan-
weli Maha Seya in the
historic Anuradhapu-
ra stupa premises, Sri
Lanka; Boudhanath,
Swayambhu, Namo
Stupa, Nepal, apart
from other popular
Buddhist sites. —PTI
New Delhi: Delhi HC
upheld the bail granted
to Sanjeev Chawla, who
was extradited to India
for his alleged involve-
ment in a match-fixing
racket, and dismissed a
plea filed by Delhi Police
challenging the trial
courtorderinthematter.
Justice Asha Menon
had, earlier this month,
reserved its order on
the plea seeking cancel-
lation of regular bail
granted to Chawla by a
sessions court on April
30. Senior advocate Vi-
kas Pahwa appeared for
Chawla in the hearing
held through vc. —ANI
115 Shramik
trains run so far
to ferry migrants
PM to address
Vesak event today
Delhi HC
upholds bail to
Sanjeev Chawla
New Delhi: National
air carrier Air India,
which is all set to
bring back Indian na-
tionals from the Gulf,
Europe and the United
States as part of a
mammoth exercise be-
ginning Thursday to
repatriate lakhs of
people, has advised all
operating cockpit and
cabin crew to stay in a
hotel until their COV-
ID-19 test turns out to
be negative.
“On the advice of
Govt of India, Air India
shall be operating spe-
cial flights to various
foreign stations for In-
dian nationals stranded
abroad as per the sched-
ule attached. The crew
which are part of evac-
uation flights have been
ordered to stay in a ho-
tel till his/her COV-
ID-19 test come out
negative. —ANI
Mandatory quarantine for Air India
evacuation crew till test is negative
New Delhi: Union Min-
isterJitendraSinghsaid
that elimination of top
HizbulMujahideencom-
mander Riyaz Naikoo
was a signal loud and
clear that those who
stand by gun, are con-
sumed by it. “India
stands by its Army! The
killingof RiyazNaikoois
a signal, loud and clear.
Those who stand by gun,
are consumed by gun,”
Singh said in a tweet.
In a major success, se-
curity forces killed Nai-
koo who was active in
the valley for almost
eight years. He was
killed in an operation
carried out by Indian
Army,CRPFandJammu
and Kashmir Police in
Beighpora area in Pul-
wama.Naikoo had Rs 12
lakh bounty on his head
and was in the hit list of
security forces. —ANI
New Delhi: The Cen-
tre rapped the West
Bengal government
over its COVID-19 man-
agement which it said
is characterised by a
very low rate of testing
and high mortality,
coupled with lockdown
violations like over-
crowding in markets,
people playing cricket
and bathing in rivers.
In a stern two-page
letter to West Bengal CS
Rajiva Sinha, Union
Home Secretary Ajay
Bhalla said stricter en-
forcement of lockdown
norms was necessary to
contain the spread of
coronavirus in the state.
The home secretary
said a strong surveil-
lance, testing regime
coupled with effective
use of ‘Aarogya Setu’
app could help curb the
spread of the virus. —PTI
India stands by its
Army: Jitendra Singh
Centre raps W Bengal
over COVID response
Jitendra Singh Ajay Bhalla
Gujarat ropes...
Jayanti Ravi, Principal
Secretary (Health),
said.
She said the death
rate is 5.8 per cent in
the state and that the
recovery rate has
jumped to 300 per
cent “and so people
should not worry
much.” Within a
week, the rate of re-
covery has improved.
On April 29, 93 pa-
tients had recovered
and total 527 were
discharged, while on
May 6 (Wednesday),
on a single day 119 pa-
tients have recovered
and a total 1,500 have
been discharged so
far.
Jayanti Ravi also ex-
plained that mortality
rate is high in the age
range of 60-plus and
those having other crit-
ical health issues. Till
now, 95,191 samples
have been tested and
5,559 samples were test-
ed during the last 24
hours. This is because
of pool sampling, she
added.
On Wednesday, 28 pa-
tients died and 13 of
them died because of
co-morbid conditions,
whereas 15 others suc-
cumbed exclusively to
Sars-CoV-2 infection.
This figure could be a
concern for the State
Government, given that
till now the death rate
of co-morbid patients
was higher.
In the past 24 hours,
291 positive cases and 25
of the 28 deaths were
from Ahmedabad.
Though the incharge
Municipal Commis-
sioner Mukesh Kumar
and Officer on Special
Duty Rajiv Gupta have
launched a series of
measures from Wednes-
day, it will take a while
to pay results.
Corona cases...
as per an official state-
ment. The questions
asked are aligned with
Aarogya Setu app, and
based on the responses
given, citizens will also
get an SMS indicating
their health status and
further alerts for their
health moving forward,
the statement added.
The service is imple-
mented in 11 regional
languages similar to
the mobile application.
The input provided by
the citizen will be made
part of Aarogya Setu
database and informa-
tion is processed to send
alerts to the citizen on
the action to be taken to
ensure their safety.
Public transport...
together win both the
battles – the one with
coronavirus, and the
one with economic
slowdown. Members of
the confederation made
suggestions for improv-
ing the condition of
public transport which
include extending in-
terest payment exemp-
tions, restarting public
transport, extending
age life limit, deferring
state taxes, extending
MSME benefits, extend-
ing insurance policy
validity, etc. —Agencies
What after...
Sonia Gandhi as saying
in the meeting to dis-
cuss the COVID-19 situ-
ation and the post-lock-
down work.
She thanked farmers,
particularly of Punjab
and Haryana, for ensur-
ing food security by giv-
ing bumper wheat pro-
duce despite all odds.
Former PM Manmo-
han Singh said, “We
need to know, as Soniaji
said, what will happen
after lockdown 3.0?”.
“Soniaji has already
pointed out. CMs need
to deliberate and ask as
to what is the strategy
of the government of
India to get the country
out of the lockdown,”
Singh asked.
Congress leader Ra-
hul Gandhi said the
central piece of the
strategy to fight
COVID-19 is to protect
the elderly as well as
those who are diabetic
and with heart condi-
tions.
Speaking at the meet-
ing, Punjab Chief Min-
ister Amarinder Singh
said he has set up two
committees, one to
strategise on how to
come out of the lock-
down and the other on
economic revival. Sonia
is also likely to discuss
the issue of migrant la-
bourers and workers
stranded at various
places and steps taken
by the states in bring-
ing them back to their
home states. —Agencies
FROM PG 1
ADHIR RANJAN IS NEW
PAC CHAIRMAN
New Delhi: Congress leader Adhir
Ranjan Chowdhury on Wednesday
took charge as Chairman of the
Public Accounts Committee of
Parliament in Delhi amid country-
wide COVID-19 lockdown. He was
appointed as the Chairperson of the
Committee for the term beginning
on May 1, 2020, and ending on
April 30, 2021. Chowdhury is the
only member from Congress in the
PAC from the House. Acc to LS Sec-
retariat, the appointment was made
by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla.
The fight against
coronavirus is becom-
ing a cause for serious
economic problem
for crores of our
brothers and sisters.
Instead of decreas-
ing the prices, at this
time, the decision of
the government to
increase the tax on
petrol and diesel by
Rs 10 and Rs 13 per
litre is improper and it
should be taken back.
—Rahul Gandhi,
Congress Leader
People should get the ben-
efits of the massive reduc-
tion in the prices of crude oil.
But the BJP government by
increasing the excise duty,
again and again, is putting
the benefits that should have
gone to people in its own
suitcase.People are not ben-
efiting and the money which
is collected is not being used
for workers, farmers, middle
class and industries. For
whom is the government
accumulating money?
—Priyanka Gandhi
Vadra, Cong Gen Secy
KOLKATA MEDICAL COLLEGE
CONVERTED INTO COVID-19 HOSP
BAN ON EXPORT OF
SANITIZERS
LIQUOR CAN
WEAKEN IMMUNITY
Workers prepare a quarantine center for non-critical COVID-19
patients at the Bombay Exhibition Centre in Goregaon in Mumbai.
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata
Banerjee on Wednesday said that Kolkata Medical
College would be converted into a full- fledged
Covid hospital in the wake of the rising number of
coronavirus cases. The hospital will be operational
from Thursday, (May 7,2020). “Keeping in view the
increasing need of ramping up specialised Covid
treatment in the State, we have decided to notify
Medical College, Kolkata as a full-fledged tertiary
level Covid Hospital, which will start functioning
from 7th May 2020 onwards,” the CM tweeted.
New Delhi: The Union
government banned the
export of alcohol-based
hand sanitizers to other
nations also grappling
with the coronavirus
pandemic. “Alcohol-
based hand sanitizers are
prohibited for exports,”
the Directorate General of
Foreign Trade (DGFT).
New Delhi: Dr Manish
Jain, a Senior Consult-
ant Psychiatrist at BLK
Hospital, said. “When
we consume alcohol
directly or indirectly it
increases our stress.
Alcohol use, especially
heavy use, weakens the
immune system and re-
duces the body’s ability
to cope with infectious
diseases.

TALKING POINTAHMEDABAD | THURSDAY, MAY 7, 2020
What Real Pandemic Aid Would Look Like
Many of these children
and their families live
in informal settlements,
in conditions that make
social distancing and
self-isolation impossible.
Many also have underly-
ing health conditions that
put them at increased
risk from COVID-19. And
many lack regular access
to basic services like
drinking water and elec-
tricity, while lockdowns
have ended vital school-
based meal programs.
Worst of all, many of the
world’s poorest and most
vulnerable people do
not have reliable access
to sanitation, let alone
health care.
Through our 100
million for 100 million
campaign’s work, I know
that children in Nairobi’s
informal “slum” settle-
ment of Mathare now
fear more than ever that
they will go hungry. In
India, we have opened the
doors of Mukti Ashram,
a rehabilitation facility for
rescued child laborers,
to take in street children
and to feed the local
community. All over the
world, communities and
civil-society groups are
showing compassion by
volunteering their time
and resources to protect
their poorer neighbors.
Nonetheless, the
situation calls for sig-
nificantly more action,
and on a much wider
scale. Nearly one in five
children worldwide lives
on less than $2 per day.
The International Labor
Organization reports
that tens of millions of
informal workers have
already become unem-
ployed as a result of the
pandemic. And the World
Food Program warns that
an additional 130 million
people could be pushed
to the brink of starvation
by the end of this year. All
of these trends indicate
that marginalized children
who were already at risk
of hunger could starve.
Government and
civil-society efforts to
eradicate child poverty
and end child labor must
be stepped up substan-
tially, both now and in
the months and years
following the immediate
crisis. Evidence from past
economic shocks shows
that in countries with in-
adequate or non-existent
social protections, many
more children will be
forced to work.
ECONOMIC IMPACT OF COVID-19VOLUNTEERING RESOURCES TO PROTECT POORER NEIGHBORS
As matters stand,
G20 countries have
committed more than
$5 trillion in spending to
mitigate the economic im-
pact of COVID-19. Some
of the world’s richest
corporations are benefit-
ing the most, and many
haven’t paid their fair
share of taxes for years.
Meanwhile, hard commit-
ments and support for the
world’s most marginalized
and vulnerable popula-
tions so far account for
only a tiny fraction of the
global financial response.
Vulnerable children and
families must receive a
proportional share. The
poorest 20% of humanity
should be accorded 20%
of the funds, which would
amount to a transfor-
mational $1 trillion. That
sum would cover the
United Nations’ appeal for
charitable giving to tackle
COVID-19, two years of
low-income countries’
debt repayments, and
two years of the an-
nual funding gap for the
Sustainable Development
Goals. The SDGs include
concrete programs to
improve access to health,
water, sanitation, and edu-
cation, which is crucial for
providing a better future
for marginalized children.
Even after covering
these outstanding costs,
there would still be
enough left to fund the
social safety nets needed
to prevent child labor. It
is safe to assume that
more than ten million lives
would be saved. That is a
response to the COVID-19
crisis that humanity could
be proud of.
Around the world, civil-
society groups and
ordinary people are doing
what they can to prevent
the world’s poorest and
most vulnerable
populations – particularly
children – from suffering
the worst of the
COVID-19 pandemic
I
n the space of
just a few
months, COV-
ID-19 has changed
our world beyond
r e c o g n i t i o n .
Wherever one
lives, one feels a
palpable sense of
fear. Yet we do not
all respond to fear
in the same way.
Though we all in-
stinctively want to
protect our loved
ones, in a deeply
unequal world,
not all of us have
the means to do so.
Among the most
painful conse-
quences of the
pandemic is that it
has or will hit the
world’s most vul-
nerable children
and their families
the hardest, driv-
ing many house-
holds that had es-
caped poverty
over the past two
decades back into
destitution. Child
laborers, out-of-
school children,
and young people
fleeing conflict or
disaster are par-
ticularly at risk.
So, I am urging all
G20 leaders to look
beyond their own bor-
ders, and to recognize
the urgent need for coor-
dinated international aid.
I am also calling on US
President Donald Trump
to reconsider his deci-
sion to freeze American
funding for the World
Health Organization. The
WHO is absolutely criti-
cal at the moment, and
it will continue to play a
vital role in supporting
basic health care, includ-
ing vaccinations for chil-
dren in less-developed
regions.
In every country hit by
COVID-19, one can find
stories of hope. Millions
of health workers are
providing front-line care
for the infected. Teachers
are continuing children’s
education online. Huge
new volunteer networks
are taking shape and
extending a helping hand
to those who lack access
to basic supplies, food,
and drinking water.
When so many ordi-
nary people are going
out of their way to show
compassion and assist
the poorest and most
vulnerable, it would
be utterly shameful if
national leaders did not
do the same.Govern-
ments must join us in
creating a safer world
for all our children. Let
this pandemic be the
moment when we com-
mit to genuine, enduring
change.
Moreover, a pan-
demic makes
this especially likely.
If adults in vulnerable
households die or are
incapacitated from
COVID-19, the task
of earning money to
survive will fall to their
children. So, unless
we act now, the crisis
could leave millions
more children vulner-
able to forced labor,
slavery, and trafficking,
followed by a lifetime
of illiteracy and poverty
for those who survive.
The long-term impact
on an entire genera-
tion of children will be
catastrophic.
LONG-TERM IMPACT ON CHILDREN WILL BE CATASTROPHIC
URGENT NEED FOR COORDINATED INTERNATIONAL AID
SOURCE: PROJECT SYNDICATE CONCEPT: DIVYA HEMNANI DESIGN: ABHISHEK GUPTA
Ayse Mehmet, whose
daughter Sonya Kaygan
died from coronavirus, has
tears wiped by her three-
year-old granddaughter,
also named Ayse, at her
home in Enfield, Britain.
—PHOTO BY REUTERS
A child wearing a face
mask sits on the shoulder
of an elderly man during
the nationwide lockdown,
imposed in the wake of the
coronavirus pandemic, at
Sion in Mumbai.
—PHOTO BY PTI

First India News
New Delhi: Veteran
Congress leader and
AICC treasurer Ahmed
Patel has alleged that
business lobbies are en-
suring that state gov-
ernments don’t permit
migrants to go home
after the Karnataka
government cancelled
the special trains for
them. The Congress
leader said that it is
“feudal” and a violation
of the fundamental
rights.
Ahmed Patel tweet-
ed, “First Karnataka
and now Gujarat,
some business lobbies
are ensuring state
govt doesn’t permit
migrants to return to
their families.” The
Congress leader said
that this is a violation
of their fundamental
rights. “To hold them
against their will is a
violation of human
and fundamental
rights. Its a feudal
mindset. Do migrants
not get a choice be-
cause they are poor?”
said Patel.
The Karnataka gov-
ernment has cancelled
the trains for the mi-
grants and has written
to the Railways not to
operationalise these
trains. The state wants
to revive the economy
and lift the lockdown
partially and the work-
force is needed for this.
According to guide-
lines under the ex-
tended lockdown
since Monday till
May 17, the State
Government allowed
manufacturing and
services to function,
keeping social dis-
tancing, wearing of
masks and sanitiza-
tion mandatory.
The decision re-
portedly came after
the builders associa-
tion told the Chief
Minister that they
had paid the migrant
workers and given
them facilities to re-
sume construction
activities. The Chief
Minister asked R.
Ashok and Suresh
Kumar -- both Minis-
ters -- to convince the
migrant workers to
stay back as construc-
tion and other eco-
nomic activities had
resumed.
Around 10,000 mi-
grant workers left Ben-
galuru in eight special
trains since Sunday
for their states, while
hundreds of local mi-
grants were ferried in
the state-run buses to
their native places
since Saturday.
The perfect balance is
contentment in what you have
and striving for more. If you are
not grateful for what you have then ‘more’
will also not be enough.
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2NDFRONT
Business lobby not allowing migrants to go home: Patel
First India News
Surat/Ahmedabad:
With the government
easing the lockdown in
parts of the country
early this week, the dia-
mond industry sees
some light at the end of
the tunnel.
According to a re-
port by the Gems and
Jewellery Export Pro-
motion Council
(GJEPC), a handful of
manufacturing units
have started their op-
erations in Surat and
ten shipments have
already been export-
ed to Hong Kong from
Surat Hira Bourse.
One of the shipments
worth Rs 2 billion be-
longs to one of the big-
gest diamond manufac-
turers in India. Later,
another consignment
worth Rs 3 billion was
shipped to Hong Kong
via Mumbai.
However, as the
lockdown restrictions
continue in Mumbai,
the GJEPC has been
having discussions
with the authorities
concerned to start re-
suming work in
SEEPZ SEZ and
GJEPC estimates that
around 30 per cent of
India’s annual ex-
ports are waiting to
be executed.
Meanwhile, around
16 industry associa-
tions in Gujarat have
asked the State Govern-
ment to allow them to
cut salaries of their em-
ployees in the range of
30-50 percent. These in-
dustries have also asked
the government not to
allow migrant workers
whose salaries have al-
ready been paid during
the Covid-19 lockdown
to return home.
The Gujarat Cham-
ber of Commerce and
Industry’s (GCCI) Re-
gional Council has
written a letter to
Chief Minister Vijay
Rupani requesting
the government to al-
low the industries to
cut salaries of their
workers including
daily wagers. This let-
ter was written on be-
half of all the 16 in-
dustry associations.
Claiming that the in-
dustries are in a huge
financial crisis due to
the lockdown, GCCI
president Durgesh
Buch, in the letter, sug-
gested that the daily
wagers be given sala-
ries at par with MNRE-
GA workers or with
minimum wages which
is around Rs 200-350 per
day. Those earning up
to Rs 20,000 should be
given only 70 per cent
of their existing sala-
ries and those earning
more than Rs 20,000
should be given only 50
per cent of the salaries,
the letter said.
“While on one
hand, the production
is almost at a stand-
still, the units have to
bear some fixed ex-
penditure like bank
EMIs, rents and sala-
ries,” the letter stat-
ed adding that the
industries are find-
ing it difficult to con-
tinue paying full sal-
aries.
As many as 16 industry associations have represented to Gujarat CM to allow them to enforce salary cuts
Diamondfirmsseerayofhope,finally
A diamond cutting and polishing unit in its heyday.
EXISTENTIAL CRISIS!
Cong blames ‘Namaste Trump’
event for corona spread in Guj
First India News
Ahmedabad: The Guja-
rat Congress on Wednes-
day alleged that the ‘Na-
maste Trump’ event or-
ganised by the Gujarat
Government on Febru-
ary24herewasprimarily
responsible for the
spread of coronavirus in
the State.
State Congress Presi-
dent Amit Chavda de-
manded an independent
probe through a Special
Investigation Team (SIT)
into this and stated that
his party will approach
the Gujarat High Court
soon against the govern-
ment’s “criminal negli-
gence”. However, the
state BJP unit dismissed
theallegationasbaseless,
saying the event was or-
ganised well before the
World Health Organisa-
tion (WHO) declared
COVID-19asapandemic,
and the first coronavirus
case in the state was re-
ported nearly a month
after the event.
On February 24, US
President Donald
Trump along with
Prime Minister Naren-
dra Modi took part in
road show in
Ahmedabad, which
was attended by thou-
sands of people. After
the road show, the two
leaders addressed a
gathering of over one
lakh people at Motera
cricket stadium, run
by Gujarat Cricket As-
sociation (GCA). The
State reported its first
coronavirus cases on
March 19, when sam-
ples of a man from Ra-
jkotandawomanfrom
Surat tested positive
for the disease.
In a video message,
Chavdasaid,“InJanuary
itself, WHO clearly had
asked all the countries to
refrain from organising
largegatherings.Despite
suchwarnings,‘Namaste
Trump’ was planned for
political gains.”
Amit Chawda, Gujarat Congress President.
Frustrated with
lockdown, man
kills himself
First India News
Ahwa: A 22-year-old
man from Maharashtra,
who was at a relative’s
house in Dangs district
of Gujarat, allegedly
hanged himself after
the lockdown was ex-
tended till May 17, po-
lice said.
Police said the de-
ceased Siddharth
Bhalerao, from
Dharan village in Jal-
gaon district of Maha-
rashtra, came to visit
his uncle Hitesh Bi-
rade in Ahwa town in
Dang in March.
Birade, who works
with the public works
departmentinAhwa,in-
vited Bhalerao to attend
the Dangs Darbar Festi-
val in the second week
of March. Later, the
lockdown was an-
nounced and he could
not return home.
On Monday evening,
Birade and his family
had gone to the neigh-
bouring village and saw
Bhalerao hanging when
they returned.
SUPER SPREADERS
Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation’s medical team and police in process to shift nearly two dozen Covid-19
positive vegetable vendors to hospital in Bhaipura area of the city.
First India News
Anand: Two policemen
and an ambulance driv-
er were injured when a
mob allegedly attacked
them to prevent a civic
team from performing
the last rites of a Cov-
id-19 victim at a crema-
torium in Gujarat’s
Anand district, officials
said on Wednesday.
The incident took
place in Vallabh Vidy-
anagartownonTuesday
night, following which
56 people residing near
the electric crematori-
um were arrested, Dep-
uty Superintendent of
Police B D Jadeja said.
“Nearly 100 locals
residing near the cre-
matorium in Hariom
Nagar area gheraoed
a Khambhat civic
team that reached
there with the body of
a person who died of
coronavirus at a hos-
pital in Karamsad,”
he said.
They asked the civic
personnel to take the
body somewhere else,
claiming its cremation
will spread coronavirus
in the area, Jadeja said.
Earlier, the mob,
armed with sticks and
stones, allegedly at-
tacked the driver of the
ambulance in which the
body was kept. The lo-
cals also broke window
panes of a car belonging
to the Khambhat mu-
nicipality, police sub-in-
spector T R Gadhvi said.
Two cops attacked
in Anand district
Ayurveda‘elixircures’2Covid-hitmen
First India News
Surat: Two survivors
of novel coronavirus
namely Dr Dharti
Thummar of Punagam
area and Mitesh Mistry,
resident of Katargam
area, defeated the virus
by choosing to follow a
course of ayurvedic
medication.
Both patients were
kept in isolation at
the Civil Hospital af-
ter they corona tested
positive and were
started on a course of
allopathic medicines.
However, both of
them opted for ayur-
vedic medicines on
advice of a private
physician.
Elaborating on her
decision to choose
ayurvedic medicines,
Thummar said, “After
my report came back
positive, I just took
ayurvedic vati and
churna on advice of
an ayurvedic doctor.
Then both my test re-
ports came back neg-
ative and I was sent
home.”
“I had a sore throat,
head and back ache,
and I went to the doctor
for a check-up. Later, I
was asked to get tested
and my report came
back positive. However,
I chose to follow ayur-
vedic course of medica-
tion and eventually
both my reports came
back negative,” said
Mistry.
Corona survivors Dr Dharti Thummar and Mitesh Mistry.
3 cops, 11
prisoners
test corona
positive
First India News
A h m e d a b a d :
Three policemen
and 11 prisoners
have been tested
positive for coro-
navirus at the cen-
tral jail
Ahmedabad.
Deputy Super-
intendent of Po-
lice (Jails) DV
Rana said earlier
six had tested
positive after
they were
brought from
different police
stations of the
city to the jail
while six other
new entrants
tested positive
on Tuesday.
Rana said all of
them have been
shifted to hospital
for treatment. Jail
officials said
three policemen
who were involved
in checking pris-
oners while they
are being taken
inside also tested
positive for Cov-
id-19.
Rana added
that the three
policemen are
among those
who were quar-
antined when
five prisoners
were brought to
jail on April 30.
First
Karna-
taka
and now Guja-
rat, some busi-
ness lobbies are
ensuring state
government
doesn't permit
migrants to re-
turn to their
families.
—Ahmed Patel

REALITY SHOWS ACROSS THE TELEVISION WORLD HAVE BEEN
HIT BY CORONA LOCKDOWN. CITY FIRST TAKES A PEEK AT
ANOTHER REALITY SHOW AND THE LOCKDOWN IMPACT!
ove Island has re-
portedly been hit by
yet another crisis
amid concerns coro-
navirus may stop
the series from go-
ing ahead. After ITV
bosses hinted the series may
be axed this year as it would
send the wrong signal to
viewers, sources are now
claiming the ITV2 is strug-
gling to get insurance to be
filmed in Mallorca. It’s re-
ported that bosses are consid-
ering asking its stars to iso-
late for two weeks before
filming starts this summer,
but without insurance, pro-
duction could be shut down
completely. ‘The current plan
is to fly crew and contestants
out to Majorca two weeks be-
fore filming starts and then
isolate everyone. But even
with these measures, insur-
ance companies won’t offer
cover. ‘ITV can’t do the series
without insurance. If the se-
ries is airing and even just
one person tests positive for
the virus, the whole thing
would have to be shut down
immediately.’
Love Island is a British
dating reality series. It is a
revival of the earlier celeb-
rity series of the same name,
which aired for two series in
2005 and 2006 on ITV. The se-
ries is narrated by Iain Stir-
ling, and was hosted by Caro-
line Flack until 2019; Laura
Whitmore began presenting
the series in 2020. In 2018, it
won a BAFTA Award for
Best Reality and Construct-
ed Factual show.
Love Island involves a
group of contestants, re-
ferred to as Islanders, living
in isolation from the outside
world in a villa in Mallorca,
constantly under video sur-
veillance.[38] To survive in
the villa the Islanders must
be coupled up with another
Islander, whether it be for
love, friendship or money, as
the overall winning couple
receives £50,000. On the first
day, the Islanders couple up
for the first time based on
first impressions, but over
the duration of the series,
they are forced to “re-cou-
ple” where they can choose
to remain in their current
couple or swap and
change.
Any Islander who re-
mains single after the
coupling is eliminat-
ed and dumped from
the island. Island-
ers can also be
eliminated via a
public vote, as
during the series
the public vote
through the Love
Island app available
on smartphones for their
favourite couple, or who
they think is the most
compatible. Couples
who receive the fewest
votes risk being elimi-
nated. Often a twist
has occurred where it
has been up to the Is-
landers to eliminate
couples. During the fi-
nal week, the public
vote for which couple
they want to win the se-
ries and therefore take
home £50,000.
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LAND OF LOVE
NEHAL NAYAR
nehal.nayar@firstindia.co.in

AJAI V SINGH
s it time to finally bell
the cat. It’s been close to
20 years, of global mur-
mur of corruption fash-
ion has brought about.
And that there is an ur-
gent need of an over-
haul. Though the noise levels
to achieve this desire have
grown, yet no action has been
taken to correct the process.
Yes it’s not an easy solution or
a step to correct, considering
the size we are dealing with,
we wouldn’t even know where
to start. We are talking about
a global size of a Trillion dol-
lar. A global industry that not
only supports livelihoods, but
economies of countries like
Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Viet-
nam, parts of America, Cen-
tral America and list goes on.
Others that activist on the
street there has been hardly
any serious attempt to change
the system. How do you even
disturb this system. Unless its
shut down and starts again.
So, can the forced isolation
be the very reboot this global
industry needs? Can this be
the start of a new normal in
fashion.
While fashion has an im-
mense positive impact, its hy-
per consumption has done
just the opposite, it has not
only degraded societal values
but also negatively impacted
the environment. This impact
has been shown in media and
has not left a good taste with
the consumers. If we pull
back and see, in the last 6
months, the events around us
may have been an indirect im-
plication of our current buy-
ing behaviour. The Australian
bush fires, that brought to fore
the environmental degrada-
tion as a result of climate af-
fect.
Hence by the time we got hit
by the pandemic, we felt sore,
and the lock downs took away
the desire to dress up. And
‘Fashion’ that originally pre-
pared us to be presented in the
society in a certain manner,
being an important aspect of
self expression, was now shut
inside our houses. It certainly
took a beating.
Now, the only way you could
appear outside was masked
and probably in a PPE (Per-
sonal Protection Equipment),
which covers in layers what
you are wearing. To me it is a
prophetic sign that no one
wants to see fashion its cur-
rent state. In a way this got
further confirmed when the
biggest fashion houses of the
world started converting their
fashion accessory production
lines to create sanitizers in-
stead of perfumes, face masks
and even PPE, while it was
their way of being compas-
sionate and helping out the
front line workers. To me this
carried a far deeper meaning,
of what a fashion supply
chain should look like in its
new avatar, where compas-
sion and personalization has
to be once again the basis of
creating fashion. There is an
emotional relationship in the
purchase of fashion, its a re-
lationship between the wear-
er and its creator of a design
aesthetics that connects the
two. It is made visible through
a piece of clothing. This rela-
tionship of fashion is what got
compromised when rational
discount driven stimulation to
drive big numbers of clothes
into your wardrobe became
the main objective of big fash-
ion houses, giving birth to Hy-
per consumption. Where the
value of discount overtook
the value of design, disturb-
ing the very equation that
fashion was based upon
since last few hun-
dred years.
The shutdown
maybe the cata-
lyst to shut the
engine off, re-
boot and start
again. With factories
and retail closed down
completely, fashion
which is part of
the basic societal
need of food,
clothing and shel-
ter, rise once
again with the ba-
sic principals of
first the solution
inspired by de-
sign. Design-
ers need to re-
focus on the
wardrobe and
create a solu-
tion, which
is fashioned
to connect
with an indi-
vidual’s self-
expression.
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YOUR
DAYHoroscope by
Saurabbh Sachdeva
LEO
JULY 24 - AUGUST 23
You are on with your fitness
regime and you will surely
get the results you
desperately desire. Going
abroad for settlement is on cards and
you must start with your preparations.
On domestic front, you will be quite in
demand and lots of things will keep
you busy.
LIBRA
SEPT 24 - OCTOBER 22
Money is flowing into your
life from all directions and
your spouse is your lucky
charm. You must not be a
part of any controversies and you
know someone close to you involved
then guide them and show them a
way out. A new vehicles is on cards,
may also come as a gift.
ARIES
MAR 21 - APR 20
You are an outstanding
home maker and you take
care of your kids like no
one can. You are very
close to your parents and may visit
them frequently going forward. On
professional front, you will get the
break that you have been expecting.
You may get a job offer.
SAGITTARIUS
NOV 23 - DEC 22
Those involved in export and
import business will see a
hike. You will complete all
your pending task today. On
personal front, you will manage to
sustain a peaceful environment at
home. You will be very busy today on
social front, as you can expect some
calls from friends today.
GEMINI
MAY 21 - JUNE 21
You may feel challenged on
work front but its an
healthy competition which
will help you realise your
true potential. On domestic front, do
not indulge in any kind of argument
with your parents just for the sake of
it, sometime you need to understand
their concern.
AQUARIUS
JAN 21 - FEB 19
On professional front, you
have already proved your
metal and your career is
going great. Your friends
may be helping but can also
manipulate you sometimes so be
careful. Those who matters will always
understand you and those you don’t,
you should not care about them.
TAURUS
APR 21 - MAY 20
You may feel financially
secure but your ambitions
have take away your sleep
of the night, try and relax
and sometime take it easy. You will
soon meet a friend who can
understand you and whose company
will make you happy. Remember
somethings take time.
CAPRICORN
DEC 23 - JAN 20
You are great when it come
to money management and
you have a big heart for
others. You will success-
fully complete the project, which kept
you occupying for long. Today is a
very auspicious day for any kind of
inauguration. You will be involved in
lot of charity.
VIRGO
AUG 24 - SEP 23
You are very jovial and
kind hearted person. You
are a very nice parent and
always understand your
kids but you must know when to
stop pampering. You may bring a pet
to your house and it will be the best
decision in the recent times. You may
feel a lot of pressure from family.
CANCER
JUNE 22 - JULY 23
Your new business is
doing good but you need
to have some patience
when it comes to profit.
Your child may need your serious
counselling so show them you are
there. You make take your family
along on a work trip. Its time to take
your love life to next level.
PISCES
FEB20 - MARCH 20
You may find yourself in a
very perplexed position
when it comes to money,
unable to decide whether
to spend money on fun to have an
image in your circle or to be an odd
one out. Your teachers will be
extremely impressed with you. You
will enjoy your parents company.
SCORPIO
OCT 23 - NOVEMBER 22
You will feel very refresh
and energetic today. You
worry without any reason
so relax and enjoy what
you have. You may get an unexpect-
ed career call that will change your
life forever. Your spouse will pamper
you in many ways today. You are
very satisfied with everything.
Can Isolation Change
FASHION
FOR GOOD?
I
Ajai V Singh

P
arineeti Chopra has
stepped forward to
do more amid the
COVID-19crisis.She
has decided to go on a vir-
tual coffee date with peo-
ple to raise funds that
will feed 4000 family
membersof 1000daily
wage earners of our
country. Chopra has
come on board to
help raise funds
for GiveIndia’s
Mission:Ration
Kit that aims at delivering food
to those most affected by the cri-
sis.
The ‘Ishaqzaade’ star’s cam-
paign will see ration kits con-
tainingdal,rice,atta,salt,masa-
la, tea, sugar, oil, etc, to sustain
a family of 4 people, be distrib-
uted to families in Maharash-
tra, Rajasthan, Bihar and Tamil
Nadu. The ‘Namaste England’
star, who is doing this in asso-
ciation with Arjun Kapoor’s sis-
ter Anshula’s breakthrough
charity initiative Fankind, said,
“There are millions of
unemployed daily wage
earners who are strug-
gling to make two ends
meet today due to the
coronavirus crisis in our
country. During the COV-
ID-19 national lockdown,
they are unable to earn and
that is putting them at high
risk! Fankind, GiveIndia
and I have come together to
try and help them and their
families by providing them
with ration kits.” —ANI
W
ith his next movie,
Tom Cruise is going
out of the world, liter-
ally! The Hollywood
star is reportedly in talks with
NASA and Elon Musk’s space com-
pany SpaceX for an action adventure
movie, which will be shot in space.
Cruise and Musk’s aviation company
Space X are working on a project with NASA that would be
the first narrative feature film to be shot in outer space.
Being described as an action adventure, the film will be
shot aboard a real SpaceX vessel. The report states that the
project is in its early stage, and no studio is attached yet.
The Hollywood star, 57, has carved a reputation for taking
extreme risks to pull off jaw dropping stunt sequences,
mostly in the ‘Mission: Impossible’ franchise. —IANS
s she is spending time at home during the
lockdown imposed to prevent the spread of
coronavirus, Deepika Padukone on
Wednesday took out a moment to thank
‘music’whichhasbeenaconstantcom-
panion for many during the period.
The ‘Piku’ actor took to Insta-
gram to share a picture of her piano and
penned a caption dedicated to music and
describing how life would have been in-
complete without it.
“Thank you for the music, the songs
I’m(NOT)singing... Thanks for all the joy
they’re bringing. Who can live without it?
I ask in all honesty,” she wrote in her cap-
tion. “What would life be? Without a song
or a dance, what are we? So I say thank
you for the music, For giving it to me...
music,” her caption further read.
The picture of Padukone’s piano also fea-
turedherphotographskeptonthetopof the
piano. The 34-year-old actor has been shar-
ing such insights from her daily life ever
since the beginning of the lockdown. —ANI
D
ays after the de-
mise of her super-
star husband Ri-
shi Kapoor, veter-
an actor Neetu Kapoor
on Tuesday penned down
a long heart-touching
gratitude note for the
family of Mukesh Am-
bani with a throwback
picture of Rishi Kapoor,
herself, Mukesh Ambani
and his wife Neeta Am-
bani.
She took to Instagram
and said,
“For us, as a family, the
last two years have been
a long journey. There
were good days, there
were a couple of bad days
too.. needless to say, it
was full of high emo-
tion,” reads the caption.
She then indicated the
tough journey of Rishi
Kapoor’s battle with can-
cer and said that the jour-
ney would have been dif-
ficult to complete with-
out the support of the
Ambani family.
Thanking the family,
Kapoor wrote, “Over the
last seven months every
member of the family
has gone above and be-
yond in every way possi-
ble to care for our beloved
Rishi and ensure he expe-
rienced as little discom-
fort as possible.”
Terming each member
of the Ambani family as
their guardian angels,
the 61-year-old the actor
said that the Kapoor fam-
ily is blessed to have them
as their well-wishers.
“To Mukesh Bhai, Nita
Bhabhi, Akash, Shloka,
Anant, and Isha - you
have been our guardian
angels on this long and
trying experience - what
we feel for you cannot be
measured,” Kapoor said.
The Kapoor and Am-
bani families have been
close friends for a long
time and the friendship
grew even closer during
Rishi Kapoor’s battle
with cancer. —ANI
ETCwww.firstindia.co.in I www.firstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefirstindia I facebook.com/thefirstindia I instagram.com/thefirstindia AHMEDABAD | THURSDAY, MAY 7, 2020
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AMBANIS, THE GUARDIAN ANGELS!
EXCITED
FOR FUTURE!
S
inger Katy
Perry, who is
expecting a
baby with fi-
ance Orlando Bloom,
says she misses
drinking alcoholic
beverages during
pregnancy. The
35-year-old star made
the comment while
filming a Facebook
Live video. She told
fans: “I’m not com-
plaining, but I can’t
drink because I’m
pregnant. Some of
you already have a
cocktail getting
ready or you have
your favourite IPA. I
mean, honestly, just
Bud Light with a lit-
tle lime, I’m very ex-
cited for the future
when that can hap-
pen. Which will be
years, probably.”
During the chat, she
also admitted she
probably wasn’t go-
ing to be able to have
a baby shower due to
the coronavirus pan-
demic. “I know not
everyone does a ba-
bymoon or a baby
shower. But I’m not
sure I’m gonna be
able to do any
of that,”
s h e
said.
—IANS
CONSTANT
COMPANION!
A
FIGHT
BULLYING!
I
n a first of its kind Internation-
al venture, youth icons Ananya
Panday and international vo-
calist and guitarist from ‘The
Vamps’ James McVey are all set to
come together on the former’s ‘So
Positive’ platform to raise aware-
ness about social media bullying.
The live session will be hosted on
8 May, 2020 at 7 pm.
James McVey, lead guitarist of
the internationally renowned
British band ‘The Vamps’, is
known globally for spreading so-
cial media positivity. The coming
together of the two, Panday and
McVey, marks a collaboration that
goes beyond the confines of lan-
guage and geography. —Agency
Out of the World!
WANNA DATE PARI?
Nita and Mukesh Ambani with Rishi and Neetu Kapoor
Ananya Panday
Deepika Padukone;
(inset) Her Instagrampost
Tom Cruise
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