First India-Lucknow Edition-07 May 2021

Sec 144 extended
in UP, Alvida Ki
Namaz today
Lucknow: Given a
deluge of Covid-19
cases, the UP
government has
extended the imple-
mentation of Sec-
tion 144 in the state
till June 5. This will
impact the Muslim
community during
Alvida Ki Namaz that
is to be observed
today (Friday). Luc-
know bases Islamic
Centre of India has
already appealed to
people to observe
Namaz in their
homes.Expanding Vax Blanket, UP Ropes-in 11 More Districts
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Chief Minis-
ter Yogi Adityanath de-
cided to expand the on-
going vaccination pro-
gramme to 11 more
districts in a phased
manner.
Uttar Pradesh has be-
come the first state to
start the third phase of
the Covid-19 vaccina-
tion drive to inoculate
people in the 18-44 age
group that begun on
Sunday in seven dis-
tricts that have more
than 9,000 active cases.
The districts include
Lucknow, Kanpur, Pray-
agraj, Varanasi, Gora-
khpur, Meerut, and Ba-
reilly. Apart from these
7 districts, the vaccina-
tion programme will
now start in Aligarh,
Agra, Ghaziabad, Jhan-
si, Moradabad, Saha-
ranpur, Firozabad, Ma-
thura, Ayodhya, Shah-
jahapur and Gautam
Budh Nagar.
In a another major
decision, the UP CM has
directed the authorities
to designate one oxygen
refiller in every district
for people recovering
from COVID-19 in home
isolation.
CM Yogi has also in-
structed the officials to
effectively implement
this system in every dis-
trict, and ensure that
patients who are in
home isolation are get-
ting oxygen support
whenever they need it.
Over 2,45,000 Turn to P6
CM CARES
JAB FOR ALL
In a high-level review
meeting on Thursday,
CM Yogi decided
that the vaccination
for people above 18
years of age will now
be conducted in all
the 17 Nagar Nigam
as well as Gautam
Budh Nagar from
next week.
CM Yogi Adityanath chairing a Covid-19 review meeting with ACS to CM SP Goyal and Principal Secretary to CM Sanjay Prasad
along with other officials in Lucknow on Thursday.
JAB, THE SAVIOUR Citizens wait to be vaccinated at a centre amid shortage of COVID-19 vaccines, in Thane near Mumbai on Thursday.
GONE WITH THE FLAMES A family member conducts last rites before cremation of a person who died of COVID, at a cremation Ground in New Delhi on Thursday.
—PHOTOS BY PTI
LIFELINE A family member of a covid patient rests as he waits
to refill an oxygen cylinder in Ajmer. —PHOTO BY ANAND SHARMA
4,12,431 NEW CASES;
NO END TO APATHY
3,980 DEATHS
SC: Prepare for 3rd wave
with enough oxy ‘ammo’
New Delhi: The Su-
preme Court Thursday
asked the Centre to
start preparing for the
third wave of coronavi-
rus pandemic by creat-
ing a buffer stock of
medical oxygen.
“We may enter stage
three and if we prepare
today, we may be able to
handle it. Whatever
stocks procured needs
to be sent to the hospi-
tals. It’s not about allo-
cating it to the state but
also the logistics to see
that it is distributed to
hospitals,” Bar and
Bench quoted Justice
Chandrachud as saying
during the hearing of
Centre’s response to
non-compliance of its
direction to supply 700
MT of oxygen to Delhi..
“What is the problem
in enhancing the supply
(of oxygen)? If it’s not
required then it can be
stored. But then it can
be said Turn to P6
New Delhi: PM Modi on
Thursday undertook a
comprehensive review of
the Covid-19 situation in
India. “He was given a de-
tailed picture on the Cov-
id outbreak in various
states and districts. He
was informed about the
12 states which have more
than 1 lakh active cases.
PM was also apprised
about the districts with
high disease burden,”
said PIB in a statement.
The statement also
said, “PM was briefed
about the ramping up of
healthcare infrastruc-
ture by the states. PM
directed that states
should be given help &
guidance about leading
indicators to ramp up
healthcare infrastruc-
ture.The need to ensure
quick Turn to P6
PM reviews
public health
response to
coronavirus
AJIT SINGH LOSES
BATTLE WITH COVID,
TRIBUTES POUR IN
New Delhi: Former
Union minister and
Rashtriya Lok Dal
(RLD)
leader
Ajit Singh
passed
away at a
Gurgaon
hospi-
tal on
Thursday
morning
battling COVID-19,
his family said. He
was 82. Turn to P6
Deserted Lal Chowk during a lockdown imposed in Srinagar.
PM Narendra Modi
RUSSIA APPROVES SINGLE-DOSE
SPUTNIK LIGHT COVID VACCINE
Moscow: A Health officials in Russia ap-
proved a single-dose version of the Sputnik
V coronavirus vaccine, the developers of the
shot said Thursday. The Russian Direct In-
vestment Fund (RDIF), which helped finance
the vaccine, said in a statement that Sputnik
Light “demonstrated 79.4 percent efficacy”
compared to 91.6 percent for the two-shot
Sputnik V. Meanwhile, the Kerala govern-
ment on Thursday announced a full lock-
down in the state from May 8 to 16 in view
of the rising cases in the second wave. The
decision was announced a day after the state
reported a record 41,953 infections.
Didi’s salvo at central mins on
Bengal violence, Nadda hits back
Kolkata: West Bengal
Chief Minister Mamata
Banerjee Thursday ac-
cused the central minis-
ters of inciting the post-
poll violence that has
erupted in the state after
election results were de-
clared on May 2. The CM
claimed that the BJP-led
NDA government at the
Centre is yet to come to
terms with its loss in the
state Assembly polls.
On the other hand,
BJP national president
J P Nadda accused the
TMC of targeting BJP
workers in the state af-
ter the convoy of Union
Minister V Muraleed-
haran was attacked in
west Midnapore earlier
today. Muraleedharan
has claimed the attack
was carried out by
“TMC goons”.
The ongoing tussle
between the two parties
finds its genesis in the
post-poll Turn to P6
CORONA
CATASTROPHE
UP
26,780
New cases
353
New fatalities
Madras HC remarks harsh but
can’t be expunged’: SC to EC
New Delhi: Lauding
the high courts for ef-
fectively supervising
covid management,
the Supreme Court re-
fused to expunge criti-
cal remarks of the Ma-
dras High Court hold-
ing the poll panel re-
sponsible for the surge
in COVID cases in the
country. It also trashed
the plea that media be
restrained from re-
porting observations
of judicial proceed-
ings, saying it will be a
“retrograde” act.
The court also said
the media cannot be
restrained from re-
porting observations
made during the
course of hearings.
“Courts have to re-
main alive to evolving
technology of media,
it is not good, if it is
restrained from re-
porting judicial pro-
ceedings,” the bench
headed by Justice DY
Chandrachud said.
UNION MINISTER V MURALEEDHARAN’S
CONVOY ATTACKED IN WEST MIDNAPORE
Kolkata: Union Minister of State for External Affairs
and BJP leader V Muraleedharan’s convoy was alleg-
edly attacked by locals in Panchkhudi area of West
Midnapore district Thursday, with the minister claim-
ing the attack was orchestrated by “TMC goons”. The
Union Minister, however, escaped unhurt. However,
TMC West Midnapore district president Ajit Maity
denied the minister’s allegations and said it was a
“spontaneous protest” by the people against the BJP.
Justice Chandrachud said the Centre’s formula for allocation of oxygen to
states needs a relook while calling for an “oxygen audit” across country
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New Delhi: The Southwest monsoon will
most likely hit Kerala on time, according
to the Extended Range Forecast (ERF)
released by the India Meteorological
Department on Thursday. The normal
date for the monsoon onset over Kerala
is June 1. About 70 per cent of the coun-
try’s annual rainfall is recorded between
June to September. “IMD’s ERF sug-
gests that the monsoon will arrive over
Kerala on time, around June 1. This is an
early indication,” tweeted M Rajeevan,
Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences on
Thursday. IMD releases ERF every Thurs-
day, with weather predictions made for
the upcoming four weeks over India. The
IMD is slated to release the second stage
monsoon Long Range Forecast (LRF) on
May 15. By then, the forecasters would
have greater confidence to share date.
MONSOON LIKELY TO HIT
KERALA ON TIME, I.E. JUNE
1, INDICATE WEATHERMEN
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First India Bureau
Lucknow:More than a
week after they were
asked by UP Chief Min-
ister Yogi Adityanath to
join the fight against
the Covid-19 pandemic,
1500 Ayush practition-
ers are making 80,000
people do deep-breath-
ing exercises and prac-
tise Yoga at home to de-
stress.
According to Dr
Ashok Dixit (Ayush De-
partment), the AYUSH
practitioners were
teaching Yoga Asanas
and techniques virtu-
ally to about these peo-
ple regularly. He said
even people who are
covid-negative are also
participating in theses
sessions and are being
taught about ways in
which they can boost
their immunity.
The doctors have
been providing health-
related tips and infor-
mation about ayurve-
dic and traditional
medicines and pre-
scriptions in simple
language with ease
among the masses
through the ‘AYUSH Ka-
vach’ mobile app and
Youtube. Dr Dixit said
the state has a total of
2104 AYUSH Hospitals,
out of which eight are
majorly well-equipped.
The work of distribut-
ing ‘Ayush Karha’ on
the instructions of CM
Yogi Adityanath to the
doorstep of all covid pa-
tients in home isolation
is being conducted in a
planned and organised
manner in collabora-
tion with the local ad-
ministration.
“Although there are
many other companies
in the market who have
been offering ‘Karha’,
there is an overwhelm-
ing demand for ‘Ayush
Karha’.
The Doctors are
working at a rapid pace
to provide Karha to eve-
ry patient as directed by
the CM, he said. Ayush
doctors have been asked
to coordinate with local
administration and the
Integrated Command
and Control Centre to
create awareness and
offer treatment.
There are currently
2.52 lakh people in home
isolation and doctors of
Ayush, homeopathy
and Unani have been given access to them to give them consultation. He further said that a
team comprising Ayush, Homeopathy
and Unani doctors has also been set up in each district and this team will give advice on health to people.
First India Bureau
Lucknow: UP govern- ment carried out rap- id antigen test of 69, 474 people with Cov- id-19 symptoms on the second day of the door-to-door mega campaign to prevent the deadly virus from spreading its tenta- cles in rural areas.
Out of these, 3551
were tested positive for Covid-19. The in- fected patients were then given medical kits and advised for home isolation.
The Samajwadi Party
and the Congress have been continuously tar- getting the ruling BJP government for not do- ing enough to contain Covid-19, which they al- lege has already gripped several villages. Conse- quently, on the instruc- tions of UP CM Yogi Adityanath, the author- ities decided to under- take a massive five-day drive from May 5 to deal with the virus spread in villages. The team
workers have started reaching the houses of patients to treat and counsel them. Door-to- door screening and test- ing of people is being conducted in 97000 rev- enue villages of the state by the monitoring committees. Under the special drive, an antigen test of 69,474 people, who were found to be symptomatic, was conducted.
The teams also ar-
ranged tele-consultation with the doctors for the patients infected with Covid-19. If required, the government has asked the teams to provide them with higher medi- cal facilities. The Monitoring Com- mittee and Rapid Re- sponse Teams have been provided with medical kits and antigen test kits.
During the cam-
paign, the teams are checking the oxygen level of people using a pulse oximeter and con- ducting other tests to know the health status of the villagers.
COVID HELP
After Yogi sermon, Ayush workers turnYogis
BJP leaders including CM Yogi Adityanath, State unit Chief
Swatantra Dev Singh, other leaders paid tribute to BJP’s
Associate General Secretary late Bhawani Singh on Thursday.
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Uttar
Pradesh Government
has given its nod to 25
per cent hike in the
salary or honorarium
to all healthcare,
frontline and sani-
tary workers to ac-
knowledge their con-
tribution to the ongo-
ing battle against the
Covid-19.
The decision was ap-
proved the State cabinet
which also decided to
appoint large scale para
medical staff on hono-
rarium to fight against
Covid-19, according to
sources who said an or-
der has been issued in
this regard.
It maybe recalled that
CM Yogi had announced
the incentive for doc-
tors, nurses, para medi-
cal staff and sanitary
workers in covid on
May 3.
Hospitals, whether reg-
ularly appointed or on
an outsourcing basis,
are currently being
paid 25 per cent extra on
the basic salary or hon-
orarium being paid to
them.
Incentive money will
be given to MBBS in-
terns, MSc nursing stu-
dents, B.Sc nursing stu-
dents, MBBS final year
and GNM students who
are posted on daily hon-
orarium as per require-
ment in covid hospitals
in Uttar Pradesh.
Principal Secretary
of Medical Education
Department Alok Ku-
mar said here on Thurs-
day that this incentive
amount will remain in
force from May 1 to July
31, 2021.
Private sector doc-
tors, retired doctors,
nurses, para medical
staff will also be en-
gaged on honorarium
basis. They will also be
paid 25 percent addi-
tional incentive money
thereon.
The cabinet decision
says that 10% addition-
al incentive will be paid
to the workers deployed
for testing of covid-19
samples in state hospi-
tals.
Payment will be
made on the basis of
duty days performed in
dedicated covid wards
and covid testing labs.
The period of active
quarantine will also be
added to duty days.
For the services of
private sector and re-
tired doctors, nurses,
para medical staff, the
release will be pub-
lished centrally by the
concerned depart-
ments, but the recruit-
ment process will re-
main decentralized
across Uttar Pradesh.
Yogi SpeaksYogi Speaks
GOOD NEWS: RECOVERIES SURPASS FRESH COVID CASES
Dudhwa on alert after man
attacked by tiger tests C+ve
Rural folds report
3551 corona cases
Gopal Giri
Lakhimpur Kheri:
The Dudhwa Tiger Re-
serve in Uttar Pradesh
was on alert after Asi-
atic lions were found
infected with the Coro-
na virus at a Hyderabad
zoo very recently.
However, the forest
administration became
even more active after a
youth attacked by a ti-
ger in the buffer zone of
Dudhwa Tiger Reserve
has been tested positive
for corona virus.
Recently a tiger had
attacked and injured a
41-year-old man who
was cutting grass at the
edge of the Bankeganj
forest range of Malani
range near Dudhwa Ti-
ger Reserve buffer zone
in Lakhimpur Kheri.
The man, suffered in-
juries in his back and
the eye.
The forest adminis-
tration after receiving
news of human-animal
conflict soon set up
camera traps in forests
of Dudhwa Tiger Re-
serve to monitor the
health of all wild ani-
mals in the reserve and
have been collecting
data on the health of
these animals ever
since.
Sanjay Pathak,
field director of Dud-
hwa Tiger Reserve
said that, recent re-
port of the man, who
was attacked by the
tiger and tested posi-
tive, has led the ad-
ministration to ram-
pup surveillance and
monitoring of health
of all wild animals
present in the Dudh-
wa Tiger Reserve.
—FILE PHOTO
SANITISATION ON THE GO!
A Municipal Corporation worker carries out sanitisation works near the CM house to
minimise the effect of the pandemic in nearby areas. It is to be noted that many ministers
and polticians reside in areas adjoining CM Yogi Adityanath’s residence in Lucknow.
State to get 1 crore
covid vaccination
doses by next week
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Uttar
Pradesh is all set re-
ceive one crore doses of
the vaccines by next
week. The State Gov-
ernment has placed or-
ders of 50,00,000 doses
each of Covaxin and
Covishield vaccines
and made an advance
payment to the manu-
facturers to overcome
shortage and ensure
regular supply of vials.
The UP government,
which has floated a
global tender to get 40
million doses of Covid
vaccines, has set May 21
deadline for submis-
sion of tenders. The
tender was published
on Wednesday by Uttar
Pradesh Medical Sup-
ply Corporation. The
date of downloading it
has been fixed on May 7.
CM Yogi has been
constantly monitoring
the Covid situation in
the state and issuing
necessary guidelines
from time to time to the
concerned officials to
ensure sufficiency of
necessary items, in-
cluding the vaccines
among others.
The instructions
have been issued to
monitor the vaccina-
tion campaign with an
aggressive three-
pronged strategy com-
prising of ‘investiga-
tion, treatment and vac-
cination’ to fight the
virus. People are turn-
ing up in large numbers
at the vaccination cen-
tres to take Covid vac-
cine doses.
The state govern-
ment has also started
immediate treatment
facilities at many Covid
hospitals, which has
eased the burden on the
health system.
Vaccination drive continues in Lucknow. —FILE PHOTO
The govt believes
that once there is
sufficient supply
of medicines, it
will be much
easier to win the
battle against the
pandemic.
Covid-19 tests being conducted in villages. —FILE PHOTO
CM Yogi greets health workers during an inspection in a hospital in Lucknow. —FILE PHOTO
HEALTHCARE & SANITATION
WORKERS TO GET 25% HIKE
Move to encourage medical, sanitation staff that has been working relentlessly during the pandemic
CM IN ACTION
C
M Yogi has ex-
pressed profound
grief on the death of
Chaudhary Ajit Singh,
RLD President and for-
mer Union Minister and
conveyed his heartfelt
condolences to the
bereaved family.
U
P CM Yogi Adity-
anath has directed
ofﬁ cials to extend the
Community kitchens al-
ready started in Lucknow
and Prayagraj districts
for the needy people to
other districts also.
C
hief Minister Yogi
Adityanath has asked
ofﬁ cials to provide 2
oxygen concentrators
to every police line and
PAC hospitals across
Uttar Pradesh.
U
P Chief Minister
Yogi Adityanath has
condoled the death of
Kailash Nath, Group Edi-
tor of daily newspaper
Tarun Mitra.
—PHOTO BY SUMIT KUMAR

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First India Bureau
Lucknow: The dread-
ed Coronavirus has
continued to wreak
havoc in the state kill-
ing large number of
people. On Thursday
also, the virus bugged
353 more people to
death continuing the
trend of more than 350
deaths in a single day.
With this, the death
toll from COVID-19 rose
to 14,501 in the state on
Thursday.
However, relief came
in the form of decline
in fresh cases which for
the first time in three
weeks, went below 27,
000. Precisely, 26780
people tested positive of
the virus in 24 hours.
This pushed the infec-
tion tally to 14,25,919, an
official said.
Additional Chief Sec-
retary Amit Mohan
Prasad also said 28,902
people have recovered
from the infection in
the past 24 hours.
“There are currently
2,59,844 active cases in
the state and the num-
ber of those who have
recovered stands at
11,51,571,” Prasad told
reporters here.
Prasad said since
April 30, when there
were 3,10,783 active
COVID-19 cases, the
number of such cas-
es have come
down by over
51,000 as recover-
ies have in-
creased.
Lucknow re-
corded a maxi-
mum of 1,865
fresh cases, followed by
1,303 new infections in
Moradabad, 1,227 in
Gautam Buddh Nagar,
1,167 in Meerut, 1,057 in
Budaun, 991 in Gorakh-
pur, 953 in Ghaziabad,
782 in Kanpur, 796 in
Varanasi, a health bul-
letin issued here said.
Covid onslaught continues in UP
50-bed private hospital with its
own oxy generation plants opens
A
50-bed private hospital for COVID-19 patients
with its own oxygen generation plants opened
on Thursday in Greater Noida in Gautam Buddh
Nagar district. Gautam Buddh Nagar in western UP
is one of the worst-hit districts in the state with an
ofﬁ cial death toll of 261 and over 8,300 active cases
of the Coronavirus. Hit hard by the pandemic, local
people have been claiming that there is a shortage
of healthcare resources like medicines, oxygen and
hospital beds, even as the district administration
refuted them.The multi-specialty Asclepius Hospital
is located at Haldoni Mod in Greater Noida and is
admitting patients from Gautam Buddh Nagar, Gha-
ziabad and Delhi, a statement said.The hospital’s
managing partner, Amit Jaiswal, said they installed
dedicated pressure swing adsorption (PSA) medical
oxygen generation plants to overcome the oxygen
crisis being faced in the Delhi-NCR.
RAINA’S SOS
SEEKS O2 FOR KIN
I
ndian cricketer Suresh Raina took to Twitter seeking leads for an oxygen
cylinder in Meerut for his 65-year-old aunt who is hospitalised with severe
lung infection and is Covid-19 positive. Raina also tagging CM Yogi Adity-
anath’s personal account in the tweet. “Urgent requirement of an oxygen
cylinder in Meerut for my aunt. Age – 65. Hospitalised with severe lung
infection.Covid +. SPO2 without support 70. SPO2 with support 91. Kindly
help with any lead,” tweeted Raina tagging the UP CM. Before UP ofﬁ cials
could respond. Suresh Raina’s SOS call on Twitter was answered by none
other than Bollywood actor Sonu Sood.
CLERIC GETS JABBED
Setting a positive precedent among members from the Muslim community, Shia cleric
Maulana Kalbe Jawad took the ﬁ rst dose of COVID19 vaccine in Lucknow on Thursday.
With this, Jawad also laid to rest fears that vaccine can’t be taken during the pious
Ramzan.
—ANI PHOTO
KEY
Highlights
COVID
VACCINE
The Abdul Kalam Technical University has said that the university and all
institutions afﬁ liated with it, will remain shut till May 15. A statement said
that online classes will also remain suspended during this period. Noted
Sanskrit scholar at AMU Prof Khalid Bin Yusuf has passed away after a
brief illness, a university statement said here on Thursday.
WHILE THE COVID CURFEW IN LUCKNOW WOULD HAVE BEEN
LIFTED BY THURSDAY, ROADS IN THE CITY REMAINED DESERT-
ED AFTER ITS EXTENSION TILL MONDAY. THIS HAS HIT THE
DAILY WAGERS BADLY.
THE COVID-19 VACCINATION IS GOING ON PROPERLY
AND OVER 1.32 CRORE DOSES HAVE BEEN ADMINISTERED
IN THE STATE SO FAR. THE VACCINE WASTAGE IS
CURRENTLY AT 0.39 PER CENT.
APART FROM THESE 7 DISTRICTS, THE VACCINATION PRO-
GRAMME WILL NOW START IN ALIGARH, AGRA, GHAZIABAD,
JHANSI, MORADABAD, SAHARANPUR, FIROZABAD, MATHU-
RA, AYODHYA, SHAHJAHAPUR AND GAUTAM BUDH NAGAR.
COVID-19 UPDATE
TOTAL CASES
14,25,919
TOTAL DEATHS
14,501
NEW CASES
27,000
NEW DEATHS
353
LUCKNOW 1,865
VARANASI 796
KANPUR 782
MEERUT 1,167
GKP 991
GAUTAM BUDDH
NAGAR 1227
G’BAD 953
RECOVERED 28,902
ACTIVE CASES 2,59,844
Janardan Misra
Lucknow: Uttar
Pradesh government
has extended its helping
hand for kids who lost
their parents due to Co-
rona infection. The
state government has
taken initiative to iden-
tify and help such kids
who lost their family in
epidemic and other kids
whose parents were in
home isolation and
there was nobody to
take care of them.
V Hekali Zhimomi,
principal secretary,
women and children de-
velopment department
has asked all district
magistrates of the state
to prepare list of kids
who were badly affect-
ed by the epidemic till
May 15.
The women welfare
department said that
surveillance commit-
tees formed in rural and
urban areas were of
great help to prepare
such list. Apart from
that Children Protec-
tion Committees formed
under leadership of vil-
lage Pradhan can gath-
er such information.
Helpline numbers
were issued to gather
information about
such orphans and af-
fected children. It was
reported that one can
provide information
about such kids on
Child line helpline
1098, Women helpline
181 and National Chil-
dren Rights Protec-
tion Commission’s
helpline 011-23478250.
Anyone cannot adopt
such kids without legal
proceedings. If any in-
fant was found at se-
cluded place or minor
kids who lost their par-
ents in Corona epidem-
ic, they cannot be adopt-
ed, kept or placed with-
out informing legal
bodies.
First India Bureau
Lucknow:As many as
137 policemen have died due to Coronavi- rus infection while 4117 policemen were still positive and 13824 policemen had defeated the virus and safely returned to their duty, said ad- ditional director gen- eral of police (law and order) Prashant Kumar.
UP police have com-
pleted big task of hold- ing Panchayat elec- tions recently peace- fully. The police have worked at containment zones, hospitals and other risky places to secure public from deadly virus. More than 66760 micro con- tainment zones were still active in UP while number of macro con- tainment zones was 13257. As many as 32706 policemen were de- ployed in theses con- tainment zones to se- cure people from the epidemic.
Several unpleasant
incidents occurred dur- ing Panchayat polls at several places across the state but police managed the situation with adequate force and maintained law and order.
Yogi Govt to provide shelter
to kids who lost their parents
137 police
personnel
have died of
C-19, says
ADG LO
PANEL FORMED
The women welfare
department said that
surveillance com-
mittees formed in
rural and urban areas
were of great help to
prepare such list.
First India Bureau
Greater Noida: A med-
ical oxygen generation
plant, which has been
donated by Italy to tack-
le the COVID-19 health
emergency in India,
was become functional
at a CAPF hospital lo-
cated in Greater Noida
on Thursday. This unit
can support 100 patients
at one time.
The machinery for
the plant was brought
to the country onboard
a special flight few days
back and the Centre had
deployed it at the CAPF
referral hospital that is
operated by the Indo-
Tibetan Border Police
(ITBP).
“Italian Ambassador
to India Vincenzo De
Luca inaugurated the
plant at a ceremony
that was attended by
senior ITBP officers.
The plant has been in-
stalled and made opera-
tional at the hospital
campus within 48
hours,” a spokesperson
for the border guarding
force said. It will supply
medical oxygen to more
than 100 COVID-19 beds
available at this hospi-
tal, he added.
The Central Armed
Police Forces (CAPF)
hospital primarily ca-
ters to the personnel of
various police and para-
military organisations
that function under the
command of the Union
Home Ministry.
Luca spoke at the
event and said the plant
will be at this hospital
“permanently” and it
was a sign of friendship
and solidarity between
the two countries.
He also recounted
how some Italian tour-
ists in India were treat-
ed at the ITBP medical
camp when they con-
tracted the Coronavirus
infection last year.
“We do not forget this
(gesture by India) this
friendship and solidar-
ity with India will con-
tinue,” Luca said.
Senior ITBP officers
present on the occasion
said the government
and people of India
have “big gratitude” for
the human gesture
shown by Italy.
O2 unit donated by Italy starts functioning at ITBP-run hosp in G Noida

Italian
Ambassador to
India Vincenzo
De Luca
inaugurated the
plant at a
ceremony that
was attended
by the ITBP
officers
Italian Ambassador to India Vincenzo de Luca inaugurates oxygen plant at ITBP Referral Hospital in
Greater Noida on Thursday.
RAIL-
TALE!
A frontline worker spraying disinfectant
at the iconic Charbagh Railway Station
(NR) premises in order to keep it away
from the growing menace of Covid-19 on
Thursday. —
PHOTO BY SUMIT KUMAR

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CAUTION: THE
THIRD WAVE OF
COVID IS WAITING
TO STRIKE
he second Covid wave is raging
with all its ferocity. In the last 24
hours the positive cases once
again crossed the 4 lakh mark
while 3980 patients were reported
dead. This is when there are allegations of
under reporting of positive cases and fatali-
ties. The new 4.12 lakh cases pushed the
overall confirmed cases to 2, 10, 77, 410 while
the overall death toll stood at 2, 30, 168. Near-
ly 50 per cent of these fresh cases have been
reported from the state of Maharashtra
(57,640), Karnataka (50,112), Kerala (41,953),
Uttar Pradesh (31,111) and Tamil Nadu
(23,310). These figures were described as a
frightening new record for the country
which witnessed a slight dip from the last
high of 4.01 lakh cases. The country is being
battered by the pandemic even as some
states try to battle it out with short term
lockouts which may not be the panacea. As
the virus has now spread to villages due to
various factors one is left to wonder if the
advice of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the American
health expert, was worth implementing.
There should be a country-wide lockdown,
Dr. Fauci suggested. Even some of the high
courts pushed for a lockdown in their re-
spective states but the governments did not
heed their orders.
The second wave clearly caught the govern-
ment and the people unawares. Nobody an-
ticipated such a high positivity rate and how
it will expose the country’s health infrastruc-
ture. Barring those whose kin died looking
for a hospital bed or an oxygen cylinder and
those who could not get timely assistance as
their RT-PCR test wrongly declared them to
be negative, others cannot fathom the seri-
ousness of the virulent disease. In the name
of religion, politics and societal demands
they gather in huge numbers confident that
the virus won’t touch them. But nobody
knows who will be the next victim of the
Novelcorona virus.
If the situation looks catastrophic now
and nobody knows when the peak will come,
think of the Third Wave which is waiting
to strike. Prime Minister’s Principal Scien-
tific Adviser Dr. K. V. Vijay Raghavan
warned the other day that the third wave
was “inevitable” as the level of circulating
virus was very high. Dr. Raghavan, how-
ever, said that they were unable to predict
a time frame for it. The warning makes it
incumbent upon us to necessarily stick to
the Covid protocols.
The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the
Centre to be prepared for the third wave of
the pandemic and create a buffer of medical
oxygen the shortage of which compounded
the human misery in the second wave. Jus-
tice DY Chandrachud was quoted as saying,
“We may enter Stage 3 and if we prepare to-
day, we may be able to handle it,” and called
for an “oxygen audit” in the country.
IN-DEPTH
T
he SARS CoV-2
virus causes
COVID-19 pneu-
monia and hy-
poxaemia. Hy-
poxaemia is a lack of oxy-
gen in the blood – the most
important complication of
COVID-19 pneumonia and
a major cause of death.
A few antiviral drugs
have been effective in treat-
ing COVID-19 infection
however, in severe pneumo-
nia, oxygen relieves hypox-
aemia. It can allow time for
the infection to clear and
the lungs to heal. For many
people affected by COV-
ID-19, oxygen is lifesaving.
WHAT ARE THE
CHALLENGES
GETTING OXYGEN
TO PATIENTS?
Low and middle income
countries face huge hur-
dles in getting oxygen to
patients. In many coun-
tries proper systems to
supply oxygen have been
neglected for decades, de-
spite pneumonia being the
single biggest cause of hos-
pital admission in low and
middle income countries,
even before the pandemic.
An oxygen system in-
volves the equipment need-
ed to detect hypoxaemia
and give oxygen. This in-
cludes; a small device called
a pulse oximeter which is
essential to detect hypoxae-
mia, the source of oxygen
(of which there are several
options), other technical
equipment to give oxygen
(such as flow meters and
oxygen tubing), a small de-
vice called an oxygen ana-
lyser (which assesses the
purity of oxygen from the
source), and a power supply.
In addition to this, trained
health workers, biomedical
technicians and equipment
maintenance are vital.
The neglect of oxygen
systems has been partly
market failure, partly lack
of knowledge and anticipa-
tion, partly inertia.
In health care settings,
with no effective oxygen
systems, there is also usu-
ally been an under-resourc-
ing of other essential ser-
vices required to make a
hospital run safely – such as
power, water supply, sanita-
tion and infection control.
Until the pandemic,
some governments may
not have fully appreciated
that oxygen is lifesaving.
Or they may have been un-
prepared to invest in a
properly functioning oxy-
gen system.
Finally, a low priority has
been given to develop and
scale up oxygen relative to
new drugs, for which a pat-
ent can be taken out and big
pharmaceutical companies
can make a large profit.
Robust oxygen systems,
that would support a pan-
demic, take time to put in
place. The basics are the
oxygen source, and the op-
tions include gas cylinders,
oxygen concentrators and
oxygen generators.
Oxygen cylinders are lo-
gistically difficult and ex-
pensive to transport from
many private suppliers in
big cities, especially to re-
mote hospitals. A single oxy-
gen cylinder, which would
supply one person, may last for between 24 to 72 hours
depending on the severity
of hypoxaemia and how
much oxygen they need.
However, people with severe
COVID-19 often have hypox-
aemia for more than a week,
so a cylinder can run out.
Oxygen concentrators
can provide oxygen to up to
five children, or one or two
sick adults, at a time. They
provide a continuous
source of oxygen, drawn
from the air, so don’t need
refilling. They are relative-
ly cheap (about US$500-
US$1000), but require a reli-
able power supply (they can
be solar powered), some
training for staff, and main-
tenance. They are manufac-
tured in many places in-
cluding the US, Europe,
China, India and Russia.
SOURCE: THE CONVERSATION
WHAT STEPS MUST BE TAKEN TO SECURE OXYGEN
T
And whatever we ask we
receive from him, because
we keep his commandments
and do what pleases him.
—John 3:22
Spiritual
SPEAK
Top
TWEET
Prakash Javadekar
@PrakashJavdekar
Yet another attempt by @
RahulGandhi to deliberately mislead
the people. Knowing fully well that
the aid received has not only moved
fast and delivered at many places,
Mr. Gandhi cannot rise above his
petulance even at such times.
Dharmendra Pradhan
@dpradhanbjp
Condemn this cowardly act of
violence on @VMBJP ji by TMC
goons. Such brazenness can only be
a result of the patronage provided
by @MamataOfficial Didi. TMC is
disillusioned that carnage, terror and
bloodshed can break the spirit and
resolve of BJP and its cadre.
n 2004, a youngster
named Deepak Dad-
hti, an Engineer
from a middle-class
family launched a
start-up ‘Servo Con-
trols India’. He refused all the
offers received from US to pur-
sue his dream in IT space tech-
nology in India. He decided to
start his own business. A huge
investment was required to
create Surveillance Controls
and import machinery from
overseas. Deepak shared his
experience and said “At the be-
ginning with an investment of
INR 10 Lakh, I started to repair
the small parts in the form of
the hammer in Servo Controls.
After a few days, once the HAL
workshop was ready, the engi-
neers filled it with the saddle of
the nose and repaired Vaal
from it. This gave a boost to my
business.”
In 2009, Servo Controls start-
ed a new plant for leisure weld-
ing and embedding. “To con-
struct useful equipment for
AeroSpace, we (my company)
bought twelve acres of land for
the start-up. Today it has
reached a mark of INR 200
crores”, Deepak shared.
Deepak appreciates his em-
ployees for all the achieve-
ments of the company. When
the company was small, it was
not feasible for him to provide
good salaries to the employees.
To compensate for this, Deepak
decided to do partnership with
his employees, to keep the same
spirit and enthusiasm.
Employees who are willing to
take ownership are always
more likely to get recruited into
the company. Even after receiv-
ing an offer letter from HR,
each employee gave a personal
interview to Deepak, where he
checked the ability and the
skill- set of the candidate to del-
egate tasks accordingly. Ac-
cording to him, it is the employ-
ees who are responsible for the
growth and credibility of the
company. He says, “Our em-
ployees will never leave the
company for a higher salary”.
When people work hard,
their sincerity is visible auto-
matically and it does not have
to be proved. The new hard
work and perseverance of our
employees also spread far and
wide and it resulted in a phone
call from Tata company’s offi-
cials, who decided to choose us
as partners. Finally, after a few
meetings, they sealed a deal
with us, and there started our
association with Tatas. This
achievement made us realize
that employees are the greatest
asset to the company; each and
every employee contributes to
the growth of the organization.
We are now well versed in rec-
ognizing the skills and abilities
of our personnel and assign
the work accordingly.
If a start-up can have employ-
ees as growth partners, then
why not established compa-
nies? Most organizations have
a misconception that their em-
ployees leave the company sim-
ply because of salary incre-
ments. Employees will not leave
the company if they get a good
role and respect. In India, a
number of surveys have been
conducted on this topic. In one
of the surveys, it was clearly
mentioned that more than 80
percent of employees leave the
company, not because of dissat-
isfaction with salary but be-
cause of their Boss’s behavior
and the company’s work envi-
ronment. If the managers or
your Bosses are not able to view
the employees as partners in
progress, then the employees
will eventually start leaving the
organization.
Undoubtedly, if people like
their jobs, no one has to force
them to go to work. No one has
to supervise them. They will per-
form their duties on their own
and with utmost interest and
concentration. Their keen inter-
est in work will automatically
improve the results and help
them achieve more in less time.
My own experience says
that; while salaries and vari-
ous other perks attract employ-
ees, the reason for their exit
from the company has more to
do with workplace politics and
professional cold wars in the
company than anything else.
Unless the bosses understand
their responsibilities, employ-
ees will continue quitting the
company. You may have read
about companies where bosses
treat their employees as equals.
In such companies, attrition is
relatively low.
THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY
THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL
WHAT ENCOURAGES
AN EMPLOYEE?
I
Employees who are
willing to take
ownership are
always more likely
to get recruited
into the company.
Even after
receiving an offer
letter from HR,
each employee
gave a personal
interview to
Deepak, where he
checked the ability
and the skill- set of
the candidate to
delegate tasks
accordingly.
According to him,
it is the employees
who are
responsible for the
growth and
credibility of the
company
If a start-up can have
employees as growth
partners, then why not
established companies?
Most organizations have a
misconception that their
employees leave the
company simply because
of salary increments.
Employees will not leave
the company if they get a
good role and respect
BHAVESH
UPADHYAY
BUSINESS/ HR EXPERT

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EU, INDIA SET TO RESTART TRADE
TALKS AFTER NEARLY 8 YEARS
Brussels: The European
Union and India will agree
to restart long-stalled
trade talks at a leaders’
summit on Saturday,
an EU ofﬁ cial said, as
tensions with China spur
closer cooperation. “After
almost eight years of
the suspension of the
free trade talks, we will
agree to resume these,”
a senior EU ofﬁ cial told
in a brieﬁ ng ahead of the
summit. “This opens up
the way to a possible free
trade agreement between
us.” Momentum has been
growing for closer ties
between Europe’s 27-na-
tion bloc and the world’s
largest democracy in the
face of the rising might
of Beijing. Trade talks
between the two sides
were halted in 2013.
BPCL, OTHER OIL PSUs SIGN
MOU FOR BADRINATH’S DEVP
Dehradun: To redevelop Badrinath Dham in Utta-
rakhand as a ‘Spiritual Smart Hill Town’, an MOU
was signed by the Oil and Gas PSUs and Shri
Badrinath Utthan Charitable Trust.The Oil and Gas
PSUs include Indian Oil,  BPCL,  HPCL,  ONGC
and GAIL. According to the MOU, the Oil and Gas
PSUs will be contributing Rs 99.60 crore in the
ﬁ rst phase of the developmental activities. The
MOU was signed in the presence of Uttarakhand
CM Tirath Singh Rawat, Minister of Petroleum&
Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan & others.
J&K: 3 TERRORISTS KILLED 1
SURRENDERS IN ENCOUNTER
Srinagar: Three Al-Badr terrorists were killed
while one surrendered before security forces dur-
ing an encounter in the Kanigam area of Shopian
district of J&K police said. Acting on a speciﬁ c
input regarding the presence of terrorists in the
Kanigam area of Shopian, a joint cordon and
search operation was launched by Police, 44RR
and 178Bn CRPF in the area, the police said in
a press statement. “During the search operation
as the presence of terrorists got ascertained they
were given an opportunity to surrender.
STALIN TO BE SWORN IN AS CM
ALONG WITH 33 MINISTERS TODAY
Chennai:  A total of 34
DMK lawmakers will be
sworn in as Ministers
at Raj Bhavan on Friday
morning including DMK
President MK Stalin as
the next Chief Minister
of the state. Governor
Banwarilal Purohit on
Thursday, released
the list of lawmakers,
who will be appointed
as ministers and their
portfolios.According to
Raj Bhavan, Stalin had
sent a list of persons to
be appointed as Min-
isters along with their
portfolios on Thursday.
Stalin’s Cabinet will
have two women. The
Ministerial list does
not include Stalin’s son
Udhayanidhi Stalin, who
has won from Chepauk-
Thiruvallikeni.
CENTRAL TEAM ARRIVES IN STATE FOR PROBE
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata says16 people have lost their lives in post-poll violence in the state
New Delhi: The Centre
on Thursday, deputed a
team of top bureau-
crats to West Bengal for
a fact-finding exercise
on the ongoing violence
in the state after TMC’s
thumping victory in the
recent assembly polls.
A four-member team
including - Additional
Secretary Home Minis-
try Govind Mohan, Ad-
ditional Secretary Edu-
cation Ministry Vinit
Joshi, Joint Director of
Intelligence Bureau Ja-
nardan Singh, and
(CRPF) IB, Nalin - ar-
rived in Kolkata to as-
sess the ground situa-
tion. Sources said the
team will meet top offi-
cials of the West Bengal
police apart from the
chief secretary and oth-
er bureaucrats in the
administration. It will
also make field visits to
some of the places
where violence has
been reported since
Sunday and talk to af-
fected families, sources
said. Chief Minister
Mamata Banerjee on
Thursday said that 16
people have lost their
lives in post-poll vio-
lence in the state. The
BJP has alleged that
TMC-backed goons
have killed a number of
its workers, attacked
women members, van-
dalised houses and loot-
ed shops.
Rejecting the
charges, Ba-
nerjee had
Wednesday
said violence and clash-
es were taking place in
those areas where BJP
candidates emerged
victorious in the assem-
bly polls.
Meanwhile, TMC Con-
gress MLA Firhad
Hakim hit out at the
Centre, saying, “They
should send vaccines
first, that’s the respon-
sibility of PM Modi. We
are grieved that some
people have died, and
action will be taken
against the culprits.
“But, what will happen
to the inoculation pro-
cess which is stalled be-
cause of the vaccine
crisis?.”
—PTI
Pro-tem speaker Subrata Mukherjee administers oath to
new MLAs inside the West Bengal Legislative Assembly, in
Kolkata on Thursday. —PHOTO BY PTI
Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb (2nd R) along with BJP workers displays placards during a
protest against alleged attack on the party workers in West Bengal, in Agartala on Thursday.
POST-POLL VIOLENCE IN WEST BENGAL
PM didn’t respond to my letter
over free Covid-19 vax: Didi
MHA seeks report from WB
Guv over law & order situation
Howrah: In a fresh at-
tack on PM Narendra
Modi, West Bengal CM
Mamata Banerjee said
that she has not re-
ceived any reply from
the Prime Minister over
her letter regarding the
free COVID-19 vaccina-
tion for all citizens.
“I have not got any
reply till now from PM
Modi over the issue of
free vaccination. He
must be busy,” Mamata
said. Earlier, Mamata
Banerjee had written to
the Prime Minister re-
questing free COVID
vaccination for all citi-
zens. “Why are they not
allotting Rs 30,000
crores for vaccines
when they are making
new Parliament and
statues, spending Rs
20,000 Cr. Where is the
PM CARES Fund?
Their leaders should
visit COVID hospitals,
instead of going plac-
es,” she said.
—ANI
New Delhi: The Min-
istry of Home Affairs
has asked West Bengal
Governor Jagdeep
Dhankhar to send a re-
port on the law and
order situation in the
state, said government
sources on Thursday.
The MHA has de-
puted a four-member
team, led by an Addi-
tional Secretary level
official including a
Central Reserve Police
Force (CRPF) official,
to assess the ground
situation in the state
amid the post-poll vio-
lence. On Wednesday,
Union Home Secretary
Ajay Bhalla wrote to
West Bengal Chief
Secretary reminding
him of the letter writ-
ten on May 3 to check
the post-poll violence
and also to provide a
report on the inci-
dents. The team is ex-
pected to prepare a re-
port on the facts be-
hind the violence
which took place after
the West Bengal elec-
tion results.
—PTI
Ex-Guv Tathagata Roy slams top
BJP leaders for Bengal poll debacle
New Delhi: Senior BJP
leader from Bengal and
former governor of
Meghalaya and Tripura,
Tathagata Roy virtually
lambasted the party’s
Bengal unit president
Dilip Ghosh and three
Central leaders for the
debacle in the recently
concluded assembly
polls. “Kailash-Dilip-
Shiv-Arvind (KDSA)
foursome have dragged
the names of our
respected PM and Home
Minister through mud
and have sullied the
name of the biggest po-
litical party in the world.
Sitting atop Agarwal
Bhavan of Hastings (W
Bengal BJP’s election
headquarters) and 7-star
hotels they have distrib-
uted tickets to incoming
garbage from TMC. Now
faced with abuse from
party workers they’re
staying put there, hop-
ing the storm will blow
over,” tweeted Roy who
has a long associa-
tion with the Rashtriya
Swayamsevak Sangh,
BJP’s ideological parent
organisation.
—PTI
IN THE COURTYARD
ABANDONED...
Ganga ghats wear a deserted look during a lockdown imposed to contain the spread of
the deadly COVID-19 infection, in Varanasi on Thursday. —PHOTO BY PTI
Benchmarks build on gains;
auto, IT stocks take charge
Mumbai: Equity gaug-
es Sensex & Nifty
notched up gains for the
second straight session,
boosted by hectic buy-
ing in auto, financial
and IT counters amid
firm global cues. Par-
ticipants cheered US
government’s decision
to back waiver of intel-
lectual property rights
for COVID-19 vaccines,
which can speed up the
vaccination drive in In-
dia & other emerging
economies, traders
said. BSE benchmark
Sensex closed higher by
0.56 % at 48,949.76. In
volatile trade, the
30-share index oscillat-
ed between a high of
49,011.31 & a low of
48,614.11 during the day.
Similarly, the broader
NSE Nifty ended with
gains of 0.73%. On
Sensex chart, Bajaj
Auto, HDFC, Tech Mahi-
ndra, Infosys, Nestle In-
dia & Titan were prom-
inent gainers.
—PTI
DABHOLKAR MURDER CASE:
Bombay High Court grants bail to Vikram Bhave
Mumbai: The Bombay
High Court granted
bail to Vikram Bhave,
who is one of the ac-
cused in the 2013 mur-
der of rationalist Nar-
endra Dabholkar.
Bhave is currently
lodged at the Yerwada
Central Jail and will be
released after submit-
ting a cash bond of Rs
1 lakh.
Arrested by the CBI,
Bhave is accused of
helping alleged sharp-
shooters in the case in
conducting a recce in
August 2019.
A division bench of
Justice S S Shinde and
Justice Manish Pitale
also said that Bhave
cannot leave the juris-
diction of the trial
court. He will have to
visit the police station
every day for a week a
& then twice a week
for next 2 months. He
will have to visit the
police station once eve-
ry week till the end of
the trial.Bhave had
filed an appeal in the
HC after the special
Court had rejected his
bail plea. The court re-
fused to accede to CBI’s
request seeking a stay
on bail. According to
CBI, arrested accused
Sachin Andure &
Sharad Kalaskar had
allegedly opened fire at
Dabholkar on Aug 20,
2013, when he was on a
morning walk on VR
Shinde bridge near
Omkareshwar temple
in Pune.
—Agencies
Accused Vikram Bhave (L) & Narendra Dabholkar (R)—FILE PHOTO
Anil Deshmukh’s plea against FIR:
Bombay HC seeks CBI’s response Won’t arrest IPS Shukla till
next hearing: Cops to HC
Mumbai: The Mumbai
police told Bombay
High Court that they
would not arrest IPS of-
ficer Rashmi Shukla till
the next date of hearing
of her plea challenging
an FIR registered by po-
lice in a case of alleged
illegal phone tapping.
Last month, the po-
lice issued two sum-
mons (on Apr 26 & Apr
28) to Shukla, asking
her to appear before
BKC cyber department
for recording her state-
ment. However, she had
skipped the summons.
—PTI
Mumbai: The Bom-
bay HC adjourned the
petition of former Ma-
harashtra Home Min-
ister Anil Deshmukh
in connection with an
FIR lodged against
him by the CBI on cor-
ruption charges.
The HC also refused
to give any interim
protection to Desh-
mukh from any coer-
cive action by the CBI.
It has asked CBI to file
its affidavit within 4
weeks in response to
the petition filed by
ex- Maharashtra
Home Minister. The
next hearing in the
matter will be after
the summer vacation
of the court. HC has
directed Deshmukh to
move the vacation
bench of the high
court on the basis of
the urgency of his
case if needed.
—ANI
Mamata Banerjee
Jagdeep Dhankhar

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Expanding Vax...
patients are under
home isolation right
now in UP. The third
phase of the nation-
wide Covid-19 vaccina-
tion programme for the
18-44 age group began
in seven districts of Ut-
tar Pradesh on May 1.
“Constant efforts
have led to a reduction
in vaccine wastage.
This needs to be im-
proved further. Around
68, 536 people in the age
group of 18-44 have been
vaccinated so far. Vac-
cine wastage is only 0.39
per cent in this category
because of the active
participation of people.
It needs to be brought to
zero,” said the UP CM.
Even as the recovery
rate is increasing in Ut-
tar Pradesh, he has put
a parallel focus on vac-
cination drive. UP has
become the first state to
administer a total of
1,32,55,955 doses of vac-
cines to its people.
SC: Prepare...
that there is no need
for oxygen panic. This
will be a buffer for Del-
hi,” he added.
His remark comes a
day after Dr K V Vijay
Raghavan, the Princi-
pal Scientific Advisor
to the Prime Minister,
said the third wave of
Covid-19 was “inevita-
ble” given the high lev-
els of the circulating
virus and that they
couldn’t predict a time
frame for it.
Solicitor General
Tushar Mehta, appear-
ing for the Centre, told
the court that it has en-
sured a supply of 730
MT to Delhi for treating
Covid-19 patients. He
also submitted a de-
tailed plan to the court
on the procurement and
supply of oxygen to
various states.
PM reviews...
and holistic contain-
ment measures were
also discussed. PM not-
ed that an advisory was
sent to the states to iden-
tify districts of concern
where case positivity is
10% or more & bed oc-
cupancy is more than
60% on either oxygen
supported or ICU beds.
PM also reviewed the
availability of medi-
cines. He was briefed
about the rapid aug-
menting of production
of medicines including
Remdesivir.”
PM reviewed the pro-
gress on vaccination
and the roadmap for
scaling up production
on vaccines in the next
few months. He was in-
formed that around 17.7
crore vaccines have
been supplied to the
states. PM also reviewed
the state wise trends on
vaccine wastage. PM
was briefed that around
31% of eligible popula-
tion over the age of 45
has been given atleast
one dose. PM spoke
about the need to sensi-
tise states that the speed
of vaccination doesn’t
come down.
Didi’s salvo...
violence that took place
hours after the TMC,
led by Mamata Baner-
jee, won its third suc-
cessive term in the state
on May 2. Several oppo-
sition parties, includ-
ing the BJP, have ac-
cused the TMC of car-
rying out attacks on the
cadre and offices of
their political oppo-
nents in the state.
On Thursday, Mama-
ta stated that at least 16
persons – mostly from
the BJP and the TMC
and one of the Samy-
ukta Morcha — died in
post-poll violence.
Ajit singh..
Singh, a prominent
farmer leader and the
son of former prime
minister Chaudhary
Charan Singh, was di-
agnosed positive for
COVID-19 on April 20,
the family said in a
statement. “Chaudhary
Ajit Singh ji was diag-
nosed as COVID+ on the
20th April. He battled
his condition till the
very end and breathed
his last today morning,
the 6th of May, 2021,”
his son Jayant Chaud-
hary tweeted.
President Ram Nath
Kovind, Prime Minister
Narendra Modi, Con-
gress leader Priyanka
Gandhi Vadra, Uttar
Pradesh Chief Minister
Yogi Adityanath and Sa-
majwadi Party supremo
Akhilesh Yadav were
among several leaders
who condoled the death
of the Jat leader.
A message posted by
Jayant Chaudhary on
behalf of the family
said, “Throughout his
life journey, Chaudhary
Sahib was loved and re-
spected by many. He, in
turn cherished this
bond with all of you and
gave his best considera-
tion and efforts for your
welfare”.
“As our Nation con-
fronts the horrific pan-
demic, it is our humble
request to all those who
wish to pay their re-
spects, to please stay at
home as far as possible.
This would be the best
way to honour Chaud-
hary Sahib as well as all
those COVID warriors
who are working night
and day to protect us,”
he said.
FROM PG 1
LG ANIL PURI APPOINTED AS
ADDITIONAL SECRETARY, MILITARY
AFFAIRS
LG Anil Puri, AVSM, SM, VSM, has been
appointed as Additional Secretary, Department
of Military Affairs.
MAJ GEN K NARAYANAN APPOINTED
AS JOINT SECRETARY, MILITARY
AFFAIRS
Major General K Narayanan, SM, has been
appointed as Joint Secretary, Department of
Military Affairs.
RADM KAPIL MOHAN DHIR
APPOINTED AS JOINT SECRETARY,
MILITARY AFFAIRS
Rear Admiral Kapil Mohan Dhir, AVSM,
VSM, has been appointed as Joint Secretary,
Department of Military Affairs.
AIR MARSHAL HARDEEP BAINS
APPOINTED AS JOINT SECRETARY,
MILITARY AFFAIRS
Air Vice Marshal Hardeep Bains, AVSM,
VSM, has been appointed as Joint Secretary,
Department of Military Affairs.
FIVE UNDER SECRETARIES GET
NEW POSTINGS
Five Under Secretaries have been given new
postings following their repatriation from
deputation.
PK BALSAVAR APPOINTED
CVO, KIOCL
Prashanth Kumar Balsavar – who is presently
on deputation to the post of Managing Director
(MD) & Chief Executive Ofﬁ cer (CEO), India
International Convention and Exhibition Centre
Limited – has been selected for deputation as
Chief Vigilance Ofﬁ cer (CVO), Kudremukh Iron
Ore Company Ltd (KIOCL), Bengaluru, under the
Ministry of Steel, for May 24, 2023.
MANOJ KUMAR TO BE GM
(MECH.), RITES
Manoj Kumar, Chief Workshop Manager (CWM),
Rail Spring Karkhana (RSK), Gwalior Sithouli
(STLI), North Central Railway (NCR) has been
selected for deputation to Rail India Technical
and Economic Service Limited (RITES) as
General Manager (Mechanical) at Mozambique
for a period of three years.
SUNNY SINHA SENT TO BIHAR GOVT.
ON DEPUTATION
Sunny Sinha, Deputy Chief Vigilance Ofﬁ cer
(Dy. CVO), Stores, Hajipur, (HJP), East Central
Railway (ECR) has been selected for deputation
to the Government of Bihar on usual terms of
deputation, initially for a period of three years.
NIKHIL KG SHIFTED TO ICF
Nikhil KG has been transferred from Southern
Railway (SR) to ICF and posted in the cadre.
NK SHARMA MOVED AS PCMM,
COFMOW
Dr. Navneet Kumar Sharma has been transferred
from NR to COFMOW and posted as PCMM.
RL RANA POSTED AS PCMM,
CENTRAL RAILWAY
RL Rana, who is presently posted on CR, has
been posted as PCMM on the Railway itself.
DC BHUNIA TO BE POSTED ON
CLINICAL POST ON EASTERN
RAILWAY
Dr. DC Bhunia, who is presently posted on
Eastern Railway, will be posted on a clinical
post on the Railway itself on attaining the age of
superannuation.
FOUR POLICE OFFICERS GET NEW
POSTINGS IN DELHI
Four police ofﬁ cers, including two IPS ofﬁ cers,
have been given new postings in Delhi Police.
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AAI airports facilitate rapid delivery
of vax, oxygen, essentials Pan-India
Union Health Ministry issues revised guidelines regarding corona treatment protocols
New Delhi: The Air-
ports Authority of In-
dia on Thursday in-
formed that AAI Air-
ports facilitate the
rapid and safe delivery
of vaccines, oxygen
and essentials across
the country as the
country is battling
with the second wave
of coronavirus.
The Airports Author-
ity of India in collabo-
ration with its subsidi-
ary AAI Cargo Logis-
tics and Allied Services
Company Limited
(AAICLAS) is playing a
key role in facilitating
the rapid and safe deliv-
ery of large volumes of
doses of vaccines, oxy-
gen containers and oth-
er medical equipment
needed for the hospitals
and towards the vacci-
nation campaigns
across the country. “AAI
Airports Cargo termi-
nals have become an
important hub for the
storage, processing and
transportation of vac-
cines and other essen-
tials”, informed an of-
ficial statement.
“Jointly working
with airlines, various
state administrations
and other stakeholders
AAI Airports are ensur-
ing that there is no time
wasted in the unloading
of these vaccine con-
signments and they are
handed over to State
Health Department in
the shortest possible
time to maintain the
cold chain. The AAI
said the vaccines con-
signment weighing ap-
proximately 2,81,000
Kgs has been transport-
ed across 40 airports
through more than 400
flights by seven domes-
tic airlines. —
ANI
Vax consignments of over 2,81,000 Kgs has been sent to 40 airports.
Sri Lanka bans travellers
from India due to corona
Colombo: Sri Lanka on
Wednesday announced
that all arrivals from
India will be banned
with immediate effect
due to record rise in
Covid cases in India.
Several countries like
the UK, the UAE, Aus-
tralia & Singapore have
already banned travel-
lers from India as well
as other South Asian
countries. Sri Lanka’s
Civil Aviation Authori-
ty said that travellers
from India will not be
allowed to disembark in
Sri Lanka. The decision
was taken as coronavi-
rus continues to spread
rapidly in India.
—PTI
No test needed
for ‘Mild Covid’
under isolation
New Delhi: Union Health
Ministry on Thursday is-
sued revised norms with
mild symptoms, patient
under home isolation
will stand discharged
& end isolation after 10
days have passed from
onset of symptoms &
no fever for 3 days.
RESTRICTIONS! Passengers wearing protective facemasks arrive
at Bandaranaike International airport in Katunayake.
Sonia Gandhi to
hold VC with MPs
on Covid scenario
New Delhi: Senior
Congress leader Sonia
Gandhi will hold a
meeting with the par-
ty’s MPs in the LS on
Friday via VC at 11 am
to discuss the prevail-
ing Covid-19 situation
in the country.
Earlier, the interim
Congress president had
written a letter to PM
Narendra Modi alleg-
ing the new Covid vac-
cination was not only
‘discriminatory but
also complete abandon-
ment of youth’ and
urged government to
reverse the ill-consid-
ered decision. “It is sur-
prising that despite
harsh lessons of last
year & pain inflicted on
people, govt continues to
follow an arbitrary &
discriminatory policy,
which promises to exac-
erbate existing challeng-
es,” she wrote.
—ANI
Sonia Gandhi
MOST PEOPLE IN NEED OF OXYGEN
Govt refutes media reports alleging oxy
concentrators pending with Customs
RAGA TAKES JIBE AT GOVT OVER FUEL PRICE
New Delhi: On media reports that oxygen concentrators are pend-ing at the Customs warehouse for getting clearance from the au-thorities, the CBIC has clarified that there is no such pendency with the Customs and the “news is totally incor-rect”, the health minis-try said in a statement on Thursday.
In all, 3,000 oxygen
concentrators have been received from var-ious countries as global aid to support efforts.
“Of these Mauritius
has sent 200 oxygen con-centrators, Russia (20), UK has sent in 4 consign-ments, (95+120+280+174), 80 from Romania, 700 from Ireland, Thailand (30), China (1000) and Uzbekistan (151). In ad-dition, Taiwan has sent 150.
The oxygen concen-
trators are either deliv-ered to the identified tertiary care institu-tions or been dispatched for delivery. The relief material has been dis-patched through road and air too,” the state-ment read.
—PTI
Assure ‘no deaths’ if Delhi gets
700 tonnes oxy daily: Kejri
New Delhi: Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday said that his adminis- tration “won’t let anyone die” of oxygen shortage if it got the ear- marked 700 tonnes of supply every day from central govt.
“If we get an adequate supply of oxy - 700
tonnes - we will be able to set up 9k beds in Delhi. We will be able to cre- ate oxyubeds. I as- sure you that we will not let any-
one die to a shortage of oxy in Delhi,” he said.
Oxygen in K’taka
should be reserved
for state: Ex-CM
Bengaluru: Former
Karnataka Chief Minis-
ter and Leader of Oppo-
sition Siddaramaiah on
Wednesday said that ox-
ygen produced in state
should be reserved for
the state only, amid acute
oxygen crisis faced by
country due corona.
Update Covid data on portal: Khattar to hosps
Chandigarh: Haryana
CM Manohar Lal
Khattar on Thursday
directed that data re-
garding hospital beds,
number of patients,
and availability of oxy-
gen at all govt & pvt
hosps should be updat-
ed on an online portal.
He directed district ad-
ministrators to form
teams in order to moni-
tor the demand for oxy-
gen and the oxygen
tankers.
—ANI
Police personnel stand guard as an oxygen tanker arrives at Shakti Oxygen Plant, amid shortage of
the gas due to rising Covid-19 cases in Jalandhar on Thursday. —PHOTO BY ANI
The Northern Rail-
ways on Thursday
cancelled a slew of
Rajdhani, Shatabdi
and Duronto Ex-
press’, stating low
patronisation and
rising coronavirus
cases as the reason
behind decision.
Railways cancels
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MAN RECEIVES
CHALLAN OF
STOLEN BIKE
T
he issuing of ‘challan’ is not
often received with a happy
face but rather met with a lot of
arguments and anger but when a
person in Kanpur received a
message stating of fine being
imposed on his bike, his face lit
up and he rushed to the police
station. The backstory is that
Ashish Tiwari had lost his bike
stolen two and a half year ago and
was unable to track it even after
looking for it near and far. He in a
strange turn of events received a
message from the police that a
challan has been issued on his
bike’s registration number after
the person riding it was not
wearing any helmet. The owner of
the bike upon receiving the
message saved it and rushed to
the Barra police station where he
had previously filed a complaint
about his bike being stolen.
The challan issued for not wearing
helmet had stated that the challan
was issued in Sitapur, making it
obvious that the stolen bike was
being used by someone in that
area. Ashish had then contacted
the Sitapur police station
regarding the challan and got the
information that the challan was
issued by traffic police personnel
named Vishambhar Dayal Singh in
a rural area in the district Sitapur
and the name of the person
driving the stolen bike was Arun
Mishra. Ashish then reached out
to Barra Police station who have
initiated actions to recover the
stolen bike from rural area of
Sitapur. —Amit Baliyan
PANCHAYAT
RESULTS OPEN
BATTLE FOR ’22

T
he result of the Panchayat
election is out and while every
party out there has been boasting
of its success, the real success
has been achieved by the
independent candidates. The
Samajwadi Party has proved that
it is a strong contender in the
state and other parties like BSP,
Congress and AAP have achieved
success. The BJP party was able
to win good number of seats, but
the number is less than what they
had predicted to win. The party
had deployed MLAs, MPs and
senior leaders in order to thwart
chances of the opposition, but all
the preparations was undone due
to the internal politics. Experts
are of the view that with the 2022
assembly elections just around
the corner, all the political parties
will try their best to make sure
that their backed candidate
becomes the District President.
What is to be seen is that how
much benefit the BJP backed
candidates will get in the race for
District President due to the BJP
being in power in the state. The
BJP has in his hands a big fight
ahead of the 2022 assembly
elections because while the
Samajwadi Party has made
inroads in the Panchayat
elections, the Independent
candidates have also won an
unprecedented number of seats
in the Panchayat elections. The
fight for the upcoming 2022
assembly elections is surely
going to be a fierce one.

— Ahtesham Siddiqui
First India Bureau
Meerut: The labour
management in the
state has left a lot to be
desired as the adminis-
tration has not been
able to make use of
abundance labourers
in the state to expedite
development works
like Delhi-Meerut Ex-
pressway, Rapid Rail
project, Garbage Dis-
posal Plant, etc.
The state has seen
migrant labourers re-
turning to their home
state due to lockdown
like situations in other
state due to which these
laborers are currently
unemployed and in
search of livelihood in
their own state.
The district adminis-
tration could have made
use of this abundance
in the labor to expedite
some its major develop-
ment which are either
stopped or slowed down
due to lack of labour.
One of the reasons
provided for the slow-
ing down of work is
said to be due to lack of
labourers after many
tested positive for Co-
rona but the abundance
of workers flowing back
into the state has some-
what contradicted this
reasoning.
The administration
of Meerut has also
missed a step with re-
gards to work on roads,
as due to the lockdown
the movement of vehi-
cles have been reduced
and efforts could have
been taken to either lay
new roads or repair the
already laid ones with-
out interrupting traffic
whatsoever.
The administration
had previously decided
to create traffic diver-
sion near Transport
Nagar from May 5, so
that work related to
Rapid Rail could be un-
dertaken but recently
announced that the de-
cision has been post-
poned as many workers
have tested positive for
Covid.
The administration
could have considered
increasing manpower
in order to overcome
this situation as well
expedite the work.
Look towards migrant
labourers,
can expedite
development projects
ALL FOR LIVELIHOOD!
Labourers unload bananas from a truck at Mundera Market amid lockdown in Prayagraj on Thursday. —PHOTO BY PTI
‘Shocked’ wife consumes poison
after husband loses battle with covid
First India Bureau
Saharanpur: Corona
virus has left many peo-
ple devastated who saw
their own die. In one
such incident a shop
owner suffering from
Corona died while un-
dergoing treatment at
the Medical College.
Unable to bear the
shock, his wife commit-
ted suicide the next
morning by consuming
poisonous substance
leaving behind three
daughters.
Dimple Gurjar in
Saharanpur, Uttar
Pradesh originally
hailed from Jandhera
village in Rampur
Maniharan area. His
elder brother Sanjay
Verma told that he
had a Photostat shop
near DIG office on
court road.
He had been living
with his family for sev-
eral years in Punjabi
colony of Kotwali Sad-
ar Bazar area.
Three days back Dim-
ple was admitted to Sa-
haranpur Medical Col-
lege, Pilkhani, after
testing Corona positive.
He died late on Tuesday.
Unable to bear the
shock of her husband’s
death, businessman’s
wife Sunita consumed
poison in the early
hours of Wednesday.
As soon as the family
got information, Suni-
ta was rushed to a
nursing home where
she died.
Sunita’s elder daugh-
ter is nine years old
and the youngest
daughter is one-and-a-
half years old.
The funeral of the
businessman was done
as per Corona Guide-
line while the last rites
of his wife were per-
formed by kith and kin
in the village. Dimple’s
son had died about two
years ago after falling
from the roof.
Janardan Misra
Lucknow: On the com-
plaint of Chinhat CHC
superintendent Dr
Suresh Pandey, case
was registered against
director of Sun Hospi-
tal in Gomti Nagar and
others for misguiding
public about shortage
of oxygen.
District Magistrate
Abhishek Prakash di-
rected to register case
against Sun hospital
management for mis-
leading patients about
shortage of oxygen and
charging illegally way
too much for facilities.
DM had instructed
SDM Sadar Prafful Tri-
pathi to probe the mat-
ter and during investi-
gation it was revealed
that hospital had ade-
quate stock of oxygen
but to gain more profit
they were misleading
patients and charging
more than usual from
patients.
Several other com-
plaints were filed in
Gomti Nagar police sta-
tion against Sun Hospi-
tal management about
irregularities in bills
and charging more
than prescribed by gov-
ernment. While Sun
Hospital manager Akh-
ilesh Pandey said that
he requested for oxygen
supply for three days
and when administra-
tion was failed to pro-
vide oxygen supply,
they issued notice and
filed case against them
which was illegal. He
said that he managed
few cylinders from
nearby districts to save
life of patients but dis-
trict administration
did not provide oxygen
supply in time.
Earlier, Chief Minis-
ter Yogi Adityanath
had instructed to take
stringent actions
against the miscreants
involved in spreading
wrong information,
providing fake infor-
mation and charging
more than prescribed
from patients. It was re-
ported that several pri-
vate hospitals had re-
fused to take Covid-19
virus infected patients
despite of taking medi-
cal oxygen from gov-
ernment quota.
After instructions of
CM Yogi, Medical Edu-
cation minister Suresh
Kumar Khanna, Health
and Family welfare
minister Jai Pratap
Singh visited several
hospitals. It was alleged
that hospitals were
showing all beds occu-
pied while most of
them were vacant. Hos-
pitals were charging
huge amount from pa-
tients for these beds
with oxygen supply.
District administra-
tion team had raided at
Billah hospital in Bu-
landshahr and arrested
manager of the hospi-
tal for black-marketing
of oxygen cylinders
and illegal charging
from patients. After po-
lice raid medical staff
had escaped following
which health depart-
ment team was de -
ployed to take care of
patients.
Apart from fees from
patients, hospitals were
charging huge amount
for medicines, surgical
equipments and other
related items. Several
persons were arrested
for black-marketing of
oxygen cylinder and
other medical items.
More than 25 people
were arrested in capital
city while three per-
sons were arrested in
Kanpur for black-mar-
keting of oxygen cylin-
ders in past few days.
Crime branch team had
arrested three traders
for illegal trading of
oximeters, oxygen flow
meter, thermometer
and other protective
gears in Kanpur.
CASE AGAINST PRIVATE HOSP IN LUCKNOW FOR
MISGUIDING, HOAXING OXYGEN AVAILABILITY
zSeveral other complaints
were filed in Gomti Nagar
police station against Sun
Hospital management about
irregularities in bills and charg-
ing more than prescribed by
government.
zWhile Sun Hospital manager
Akhilesh Pandey said that he
requested for oxygen sup-
ply for three days and when
administration was failed to
provide oxygen supply, they
issued notice and filed case
against them which was illegal.
First India Bureau
Baghpat: As many as
30 jawans of Provin-
cial Armed Constabu-
lary (PAC) were in-
jured while 12 of
them received severe
injuries when the
truck carrying them
overturned at East-
ern Peripheral Ex-
pressway near Kan-
tha village here late
on Thursday evening.
Police sources here
said that PAC Jawans
were moving towards
Ghaziabad battalion
when their truck
overturned at periph-
eral expressway.
As many as 30
jawans injured in the
accident and they
were rushed to the
district hospital
where 12 of them
were stated to be in
critical condition.
30 PAC jawans hurt
after truck overturns

on Baghpat expressway
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With independents holding forte,
will rub of the green go BJP’s way?
UP police arrest 2,006 for
indulging in election riots
HC advances summer vacation, to
remain closed from May 10 to June 4
‘Compassionate appointment
applicable for DRDA employees’
SC agrees to hear
appeal filed by Azam
In indirect elections, 3050 wards members are to elect the district panchayat chiefs
First India Bureau
Lucknow: With frac-
tured mandate in Zila
Panchayat Wards elec-
tion independent win-
ners have emerged as
kingmakers in indirect
district panchayat
chairmanship elections.
In the indirect elec-
tions in 75 districts 3050
wards members are to
elect the district pan-
chayat chiefs. According
to information provided
by various political par-
ties, as the state election
commission does not
provide party-wise
breakup of the winners
in the party-less poll, of
the total 3050 wards the
Samajwadi Party has
been claiming victory
on 779 wards in alliance
with the Rashtriya Lok
Dal (RLD), BJP 579, Ba-
hujan Samaj Party (BSP)
361, Congress 76 and in-
dependents and smaller
parties 1255.
Similarly, there are
75852 kshetra panchayat
wards members who
will elect 826 block
chairpersons. General
voters have no role as
both elections are indi-
rect. Sources said that
the SEC may declare the
poll programme soon
provided the state gov-
ernment did not decide
the defer the exercise
for some time because
of pandemic. As per the
Allahabad High Court
order the process is to
be completed by May-
end. Amid claims and
counter claims between
the ruling BJP and SP
about the victory in zila
panchayat wards, hectic
lobbying has com -
menced to woo the inde-
pendents. The BJP vice
president Vijay Baha-
dur Pathak said that the
party was touch with
wards members to en-
sure victory in zila pan-
chayat and block pan-
chayat chairmanship.
In fact, the real victo-
ry would be demonstrat-
ed in these indirect elec-
tions. The party which
captures largest num-
ber of chairmanship
would be seen as real
victor. In the past also
the ruling parties have
been gainer in this indi-
rect election. Political
observers said here that
indirect election to the
posts of chairmen al-
ways witnessed intense
lobbying & blatant mis-
use of muscle and mon-
ey power to buy votes for
preferred candidates.
First India Bureau
Lucknow: The Uttar
Pradesh police have
booked 2,006 for indulg-
ing in election related
violence since panchay-
at poll schedule was an-
nounced on March 26.
The police have lodged
203 FIRs. Gorakhpur
with 73 FIRs topped the
zone in the state, while
Gorakhpur with one FIR
was at the other end.
In Gorakhpur, maxi-
mum number of per -
sons (565) were booked
for violence followed by
Agra zone with 414. Of
the 2,006 people named
as accused, 621 have
been arrested, while ef-
forts are underway to
arrest the remaining
accused.
Additional director
general of police, law
and order, Prashant Ku-
mar said since the an-
nouncement of the polls
the UP police geared up
to check violence both
before and after the
polls. As a result, the po-
lice detained 6,000 peo-
ple who created trouble
in previous phases of
panchayat elections,
while 7.28 lakh arms li-
cence holders had de-
posited their weapons.
Kumar also said the
Gangster Act was in-
voked against all those
who indulged in vio-
lence during the polls.
Their properties too
have been attached.The
ADG said that in some
districts candidates
poured water in ballot
boxes. “In some cases,
miscreants attacked the
police personnel on poll
duty,” he added.
First India Bureau
Lucknow: The Alla-
habad High Court on
Thursday issued a no-
tice, preponing the sum-
mer vacation of the
High Court and the Sub-
ordinate Courts.The va-
cation period, earlier
scheduled from June 1
till June 30, 2021 has
been advanced to begin
from May 10 until June
4, 2021.The Court has
ordered,”Summer Vaca-
tion in the High Court
of Judicature at Alla-
habad as well as its Luc-
know Bench and its Sub-
ordinate Courts be pre-
poned and observed
from 10.05.2021 to
04.06.2021 in lieu of
01.06.2021 to 30.06.2021
and the Calendars be
treated modified accord-
ingly. In related news,
the Chhattisgarh HC
shall remain for sum-
mer vacation from May
10 to June 5, 2021.The
Gujarat HC shall re-
main closed for Summer
Vacation from May 10,
2021 till June 6, 2021. The
vacation is divided into
four sections & two Sin-
gle Benches have been
notified for each Sec-
tion.Keeping in view the
deteriorating Covid-19
pandemic situation, the
Calcutta High Court has
also decided to prepone
the summer vacations
starting from May 24,
2021 to May 3, 2021.
First India Bureau
Lucknow: High Court
has held that the provi-
sions of compassionate appointment as con-
tained under the UP Recruitment of De -
pendents of Govern-
ment Servant Dying in
36 Harness Rules, 1974
are applicable upon
employees of the Dis-
trict Rural Develop-
ment Agency.
A Full Bench of Jus-
tices Ramesh Sinha,
Chandra Dhari Singh
and Manish Mathur
held thus in view of
paragraph 2(9) of the
Government Order
dated March 17, 1994,
which provides that in
respect of matters of
employment of DRDA
employees, for which
there is no specific pro-
vision in the said Gov-
ernment Order, such
employees would ordi-
narily be governed by
provisions as are ap-
plicable upon employ-
ees of the State Gov-
ernment. “A perusal of
the Government Order
does make it evident
that the service rules
applicable upon Gov-
ernment servants with
regard to appointment,
seniority, promotion,
reservation etc. have
been made applicable
upon employees of
the DRDA,” the Bench
observed.
First India Bureau
Lucknow: The Su-
preme Court on Thurs-
day issued Notice on bail pleas filed by Sa-
majwadi Party leaders
Mohammad Azam
Khan and his son Mo-
hammad Abdullah
Azam Khan, accused
of offences including
forgery and fraudu-
lently obtaining a per-
manent account and
passport number.
A three-judge bench
of Justices Rohintan
Fali Nariman, B.R. Ga-
vai and Hrishikesh Roy
has issued Notice in
the petition filed by
Azam Khan & his son.
The Allahabad High
Court had on Novem-
ber 26, 2020, dismissed
the bail application of
the father and son with
strong comments that
personal liberty has to
be weighed and bal-
anced with societal/
public interest at large,
and ensure that the
Course of Justice is
not thwarted by power-
ful and influential ac-
cused persons.
While replying to ar-
guments made by the
Counsel for the petition-
ers that ingredient of
the offence (forgery) is
not made out taking the
allegation and evidence
on face value, the High
Court had said, the evi-
dence at the stage of
bail cannot be scruti-
nized and discussed.
As bigwigs locked horns in UP Panchayat Polls, BJP & SP have emerged as biggest gainers.
—FILE PHOTO
LAW AND ORDER
The police suc-
cessfully clamped
lockdown after the
polls and took action
against those who
took out winning
processions. Five
such incidents were
reported, ADG added.
WARY GHAT
The internationally renowned Dashshwamedh Ghat of Varanasi wears a deserted look signifying the impact Covid has had on
the lives of people in India. The Ghat is otherwise one of the most happening places in the land of Lord Shiva.
‘CANNOT DIRECT ALLAHABAD HC TO
DISPOSE OF CASE IN SPECIFIC TIME’
T
he Supreme Court bench of Justices Vineet
Saran and Dinesh Maheshwari on Wednesday
dismissed a writ petition filed under Article 32 of
the Constitution, in which the petitioner had asked
for direction to the Allahabad High Court to dispose
of a writ petition in three months. The top court
said that it cannot direct the high court to expedite
a matter, specifically within three months that the
petition has asked for. The petitioner had asked the
high court to quash the order of the Chief Executive
Officer, who had rejected the petitioner’s represen-
tation for the construction of that 45 m road over
Arazi Khasra no.311 and 322 in the village.
Azam Khan with his family.
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Pushpraj
Singh, ADM Protocol
who threatened to put
BJP’s Metropolitan
President in place after
a heated shuffle between
two, issued transfer or-
ders. On Tuesday when
the winning candidates
were getting their cer-
tificates at the Collector-
ate, BJP metropolitan
president Bhanu Ma-
hajan reached the spot
along with his support-
ers complaining of de-
lay in the delivery of
certificates. Bhanu Ma-
hajan stated that he had
come to the Collectorate
to seek reason behind
delay as many candi-
dates have complained
to him about it. What fol-
lowed was a shuffle be-
tween ADM Protocol &
Metropolitan President
was video graphed by
people nearby.
The ADM in the video
could been saying to the
Metropolitan President
that he is not bigger sup-
porter of BJP than him
& that he can take away
his addiction of power
in a jiffy. The chaotic
situation was calmed
down by the MLA of Et-
madpur, Ram Pratap
Chauhan who inter -
vened between the two
but the damage was al-
ready done as the whole
ordeal was captured by
people nearby on their
phones. The scene in
front of the Collectorate
had turned chaotic due
to the shuffle as after
seeing the attitude of
the ADM, every worker
of the party demanded
action against the ADM.
Following this, ADM
Protocol Pushparaj Sin-
gh was on Thursday
transferred and ap-
pointed as the Deputy
Housing Commissioner.
Caught in the power tussle, ‘BJP supporter’ ADM gets transferred
Pushpraj Singh, ADM Protocol who
threatened to put BJP’s Metropolitan
President in place issued transfer orders
Metropolitan President Bhanu Mahajan in an orange shirt in
discussion with ADM Protocol Pushpraj Singh in white shirt.
‘BSP PERFORMANCE
WAS ENCOURAGING’
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Bahujan
Samaj Party (BSP)
chief Mayawati on
Thursday said that
despite compli-
cations by ri-
val parties
in the Uttar
Pradesh
panchayat
polls, the per-
formance of the
party has been “en-
couraging”.
BSP performance
was encouraging
and the results will
infuse new energy
and enthusiasm in
people for the As-
sembly elections,”
she said in a state-
ment issued in Luc-
know.
Congratu-
lating the
party work-
ers, Mayawa-
ti said that
most of the in-
dependent candi-
dates who have suc-
ceeded in defeating
rival party candi-
dates are those
backed by the BSP.

n aspiring model from
the dream city Mumbai,
Omni Thakkar has em-
barked on a special jour-
ney in the world of glam-
our. Omni Thakkar be-
gan her journey on a
quirky road, she mentions, “I
studied Commerce, but, deep
down I knew that glamour
was the ultimate place that I
would imagine myself to be. I
groomed myself as a makeup
artist and a hairstylist, which
slowly paved the way for me.”
In the past couple of years,
Omni has walked the ramp
for famous designers and
is slowly entering the
world of silver screens
with appearance
roles. She was
last seen in the
movie, ‘Ma-
laal’ by
Sanjay Leela Bhansali.
As a model, she has won the
title of ‘Face of India 2020’
and was also one of the top 13
contestants among 26 coun-
tries in the Face of Asia.
Our lifestyle has changed
since the pandemic and so did
the fashion industry. To find
motivation beneath the cha-
os, she spends her time read-
ing about people that inspire
her, exercising, keeping in
touch with people who care
for her better future and by
spending few moments alone.
She has been in the glamour
industry as a model for the
past two and a half years and
strives to establish herself as
an eminent personality.
Omni Thakkar believes in
the power of positivity and
moving further, she says,
“Following your passion and
your dreams in life is the
only way to live. Because
when you do that you’ll
never run out of motiva-
tion and inspiration and
love each day of your
life.”
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CITY FIRST IN CONVERSATION WITH OMNI THAKKAR, WHO HASN’T HAD IT
EASY, FROM STUDYING COMMERCE TO BECOMING A HAIRSTYLIST, OMNI
IS STEPPING FURTHER INTO THE WORLD OF MODELLING AND BEYOND!
SUSHMITA AIND
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A
To InfiniteTo Infinite
DREAMSDREAMS

imanshu Kalia
drives his ambu-
lance through the
deserted streets of
New Delhi trans-
porting corona pa-
tients to various
hospitals. His wife Twinkle
Kalia rests at home with
breast cancer and sadly
cannot accompany him
through she is an ambu-
lance driver herself.
Throughout the day Himan-
shu serves countless volun-
tarily and even arranges for
free blood donation.
Sangita Reddy smiles as
the edgewise flowers greet
her every morning. She is
pained at the sight of in-
creasing corona tragedies
and thinks about how best
universal health insurance
can be implemented. To
many, her idea may sound
calculating on the hypothet-
ical. Yet she is undaunted in
her noble mission.
These are just two exam-
ples of selfless works and
thought processes that can
benefit countless if con-
ducted in structural man-
ners nationwide. The sec-
ond corona wave has been
more disastrous than the
earlier one resulting in
countless getting affected
and large numbers suc-
cumbing.
Indian healthcare is on
the verge of collapse with
cities like Delhi, Kolkata
and Mumbai having acute
oxygen crisis. Patients are
found lying on the streets
uncared as hospitals are
running short of beds. A
health emergency may be
proclaimed at any time.
Yet we notice a severe dif-
ference in expenditures at
government and corporate
hospitals. Almost eighty-
five per cent of the Indian
population cannot afford
the high rates at private
hospitals. So they flood the
government healthcare
centres and try for their fa-
cilities. This disparity in
treatment costs is tragic
and no one has ever tried to
end it.
The age-old saying that
facilities act government
hospitals are not up to the
mark and corporate hospi-
tals are better is now prosti-
tuted. Many genii of medi-
cal science are still with
government hospitals.
Many corporate hospitals
also no doubt possess high-
level medical practitioners
and facilities
The only way the gap ex-
isting between these two
classes of hospitals is by
bridging them. It is in mak-
ing the best of treatment
available to every Indian at
economic costs. Universal
health insurance is one
positive way by which the
impossible can be made
possible.
Overburdened govern-
ment doctors many times
commit gross mistakes in
treatments. Corporate hos-
pitals also are notoriously
reputed for charging larger
than life amounts. The West
Bengal Clinical Establish-
ment Act of 2017 has cer-
tainly harnessed the state’s
private healthcare not to
burden patients with high
costs.
It is high time the Union
Ministry thought of and
implemented a series of
measures to get govern-
ment and private hospitals
under a common umbrella.
Costs should be equal in
both sectors and the funda-
mental right to healthcare
be extended to every citi-
zen. A Utopian, unrealistic
concept initially. But a so-
cialism oriented approach
sans authoritarian hard-
ships can make it possible.
Prices of Covid vaccines
should be made one for all.
A socialist view does not
indicate that by uniform
pricing of hospital rates
and vaccination others may
be at loss.
Once referring to the
cholera epidemic late Dr
B.C.Roy stated that it can be
controlled when healthcare
takes prominence over poli-
tics. In India, at present, it
is difficult to imagine the
ruling party and opposition
joining hands to fight coro-
na sans vested interests.
If it does happen, Himan-
shu Kalia will be truly re-
warded, Sangita Reddy’s
dream comes true bridging
the gap between govern-
ment and corporate hospi-
tals.
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FACE OF THE DAY
NORA JOHNSON, Model
LEO
JULY 24 - AUGUST 23
Those new on the job will
have to strive hard to show
their worth. A family
youngster may look up to
you for help and guidance. A lot of
enjoyment is in store for those
planning a vacation. You gel well with
a new acquaintance. Self-discipline
may help you achieve ﬁ tness.
LIBRA
SEPT 24 - OCTOBER 22
A family elder will be full of praise for the help you are rendering. A well-planned trip promises a great time.
Day seems favourable for builders and property dealers. Academic pursuits will be fruitful. Taking up a regular ﬁ tness routine will help you get into shape.
ARIES
MAR 21 - APR 20Clarity of mind and retentive power will help you forge ahead on the academic front. Those
wanting to rent out their premises are likely to ﬁ nd an ideal party. Getting unwell due to changing weather cannot be ruled out for some.
SAGITTARIUS
NOV 23 - DEC 22A piece of good news will spread excitement in the family. Much fun awaits some in a journey. Start
saving for renovating an old house. Joining coaching classes for improving academic performance is foreseen. Positive steps may be required to be taken to restore perfect health.
GEMINI
MAY 21 - JUNE 21You may enjoy yourself at work more than usual today, because of the changed environment.
Family and ﬁ nances can get you thinking and contemplating. Chance of moving to a new location on transfer is likely for some. A property matter is likely to be resolved.
AQUARIUS
JAN 21 - FEB 19You are likely to assist someone who is trying to make a mark in a speciﬁ c ﬁ eld. A new idea on the
home front looks promising but needs to be given shape. You will get the opportunity to acquire new property at a good price. Health may become a concern.
TAURUS
APR 21 - MAY 20A difﬁ cult task at work will be completed by you in a jiffy, so expect all difﬁ cult jobs to come your way!
Some of you may feel the home environment serene and restful. There is a fair chance of some property getting allotted to you. Good health is assured.
CAPRICORN
DEC 23 - JAN 20Your efforts at work will be richly rewarded by getting noticed by those who matter. Some changes on
the domestic front cannot be ruled out. A property matter you had been worried about will be amicably settled. Getting quality time at home will help in focussing on activities.
VIRGO
AUG 24 - SEP 23A long journey will prove enjoyable in more ways than one! Those selling property may ﬁ nd the
market hot but may not ﬁ nd many takers. Some of you are likely to enjoy a special place on the social front. Health may become a concern. You will need to muster your powers.
CANCER
JUNE 22 - JULY 23Things are likely to move favourably on the professional front. Efforts may be required to get
something done at home. A good time is foreseen for those travelling overseas. Maintain conﬁ dentiality regarding a property deal being negotiated by you.
PISCES
FEB20 - MARCH 20You may ﬁ nd it difﬁ cult to convince a family member regarding something you want to achieve. Choose
your mode of conveyance carefully for a safe journey. A sale of property may get good response. A friendly bet with a friend or a colleague may turn into a ﬁ ght, so be careful.
SCORPIO
OCT 23 - NOVEMBER 22This is the day when you can venture forth to ask for a personal favour from higher ups at work.
Homemakers can feel burdened with household chores. An out of town ofﬁ cial trip may give some respite to those wanting a change from their dull routine.
YOUR
DAY
Horoscope by
Saurabbh Sachdeva
treatments. Corporate hos-
BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND
CORPORATE HOSPITALS
RANJAN DAS
GUPTA
[email protected]
H
The only solution is
by bridging the gap
existing between
these two classes
of hospitals and
making the best
treatment available
to every Indian at
economic costs!

E
veryone is stepping forward and trying to
help each other amid this pandemic. Amid
this all, actress Jacqueline Fernandez has
also supported this campaign and distrib-
uted meals to the poor people in Mumbai today.
She even shared pictures on her social handle and
urged people to do the same for the needy. Sharing
the pictures on her official Instagram handle, she
wrote, “Mother Teresa once said, “Peace begins
when the hungry
are fed.”
—Agency
O
ver the past few
weeks, the release
of Salman Khan
and Disha Patani
starrer Radhe: Your Most
Wanted Bhai has been the
talk of the town. Disha
expressed how ‘painful’ it
has been to see so much
suffering all around amid
the COVID 19 crisis. Talk-
ing about Radhe, Disha ex-
pressed that she along with the
team were ‘glad’ to be offering
some entertainment amid the
‘tough times’ with the film’s
multi-platform release. Fur-
ther, she praised Salman and
said he is very ‘inspiring.’
—Agency
ETC
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W
hile Sharon
Carter’s
(Emily Van-
Camp) fan-
base is growing expo-
nentially after show-
ing off her badass
side in The Falcon
and the Winter Sol-
die. We’re talking
about the contro -
versial and heavily
discussed kiss
shared between
Steve Rogers aka
Captain America
(Chris Evans) and
Carter in Captain
America: Civil War.
While some felt weirded
out by the kiss because
Sharon is Steve’s first love
Peggy Carter’s niece, oth-
ers felt the romantic mo-
ment was too rushed and
didn’t make sense in terms
of storytelling.
—Agency
A
mid the second COVID 19 wave,
shoots have come to a halt
and work also seems to
have come to a standstill.
While Aamir Khan and Karee-
na Kapoor Khan starrer Laal
Singh Chaddha was complet-
ed before the second wave
hit, certain war portions
were left to be shot. But, due
to the Galwan Valley clash
in 2020, the shoot was
called off. Now, it is
being reported that
the superstar is all
set to resume shoot-
ing for War sequences
in the coming months
in Kargil. —Agency
Calm brings
CLARITY
A
mong the stars who have man-
aged to leave an
indelible im-
print on people’s hearts,
Sushmita Sen’s name
shines right at the top.
The former beauty
queen recently hared a
beautiful photo cap-
tured and left fans in
awe. Sushmita
wrote, “Calm brings
clarity!! Clarity
leads to construc-
tive action!! Life is
an ‘insight’ job...
lived inside
out!!!”
—Agency
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enry Golding
has now joined the cast of
Netflix’s up-
coming adap-
tation of Jane
Austen’s Per-
suasion. It was an-
nounced on Wednes-
day that the Crazy
Rich Asians star will
be starring alongside
Dakota Johnson in the
film. While Johnson
essays the lead role
of Anne Elliot, Hen-
ry will be playing
Mr. Elliot in the
film. The film is
all set to go on the
floors soon and
hence the cast is
now being con-
firmed.
—Agency
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NEWNEW
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FIRST
LOVE
Mammoth Amount
Highly Trained Assassin
‘Loki’ release preponed
Mother hospitalised
Paying Gratitude
Jacqueline’s Big
SUPPORT
GLADGLAD to to
entertainentertain
Time to begin!
K
hloe Kardashian and Kris Jenner paid
a huge sum for their side-by-side resi-
dences in Hidden Hills, in the San Fer-
nando Valley of Los Angeles. A sum of
USD 37 million was paid by the mother-daugh-
ter duo. Khloe and Kris bought the adjacent
mansions in December2020, and according to
estimates, the two homes have a total square
footage of 26,000 square feet. —Agency
B
lake Live-
ly has booked
her next
project; Netflix’s
feature film adap-
tation of Lady
Killer, the Dark
Horse Comics se-
ries. She’s to star
as a highly
trained assassin
in the series adap-
tation. Her latest
Hollywood ven-
tures like The Rhythm Section and A Simple
Favor are an indication of her having a knack
for portraying characters that are “secret
murderers.” In Lady Killer, Lively will play
the titular role of Josie Schuller, a perfect
1950’s housewife by all appearances. —Agency
T
he release of Marvel Studios’ upcom- ing series Loki, starring Tom Hid-
dleston and Owen Wilson, has been preponed. Disney is bringing back
the fan-favorite villain Loki as a series on the OTT platform and fans have all the more rea-
sons to be excited. Loki was initially sup-
posed to debut on 11 June but instead of that, it will now release episode 1 of the first sea-
son on 9 June. —Agency
B
ollywood singer and musician Arijit Singh’s mother has been hospitalised
in Kolkata. She was not keeping well
for some time. The reason behind her
hospitalisation is not known till now. The
family has not released any statement. But
the news came to light when Dil Bechara ac-
tress Swastika Mukherjee shared a post on
her Instagram handle appealing to fans to
donate blood. —Agency
A
mid this pandem-
ic situa-
tion, ce-
lebrities are try- ing to help com- mon people in all
possible ways.
Actor Harsh-
vardhan Rane
also came for-
ward and lent his
support by selling his bike to procure oxygen
cylinders. And now, in his recent post, he has
thanked everyone for supporting him in this
campaign. The actor also mentioned that a
few more are also expected to reach their
destination soon. —Agency
Khloe Kardashian and Kris Jenner
Blake Lively
Tom Hidleston
Arijit Singh
Harshvardhan Rane
Aamir Khan
Kareena Kapoor Khan
Jacqueline Fernandez
Sushmita Sen
...her post
...her post
Disha Patani
Dakota Johnson
Sharon Carter

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CITY BUZZGET VACCINATED
STAY MASKED
T
he second wave
of Coronavirus is
here. While we
are taking all the
precautions like using
sanitisers and masks, is
it sufficient for our body
to fight against Cov-
id-19? The answer is 'No'.
Until and unless our
body is internally
strong, precautions will
not be able to protect us.
We need to boost our
immunity. If we will be
successful in this,
then only taking
proper precautions
can save us from this
virus. But the question
is- How to boost immu-
nity? So here are a few
steps which need to be
followed:
NO COMPROMISE WITH
SLEEP
Less sleep will
impair bodily
functions and
make you feel
tired. 7-8 hours
of sleep is re-
quired daily
which helps the
body to develop
a better im-
mune system.
IPS Dr Sanjay
M Tarade
celebrated his
birthday on
Thursday, May
6. We wish him
all the best!
Arushi Singh, 21,
who is pursuing
BA LLB second
year from Lucknow
University, won
the recently held
election to the post
of Gram Sabha
Pradhan at village
Seheriya, Wazirganj
block in Gonda
district. “It was like
a dream come true.
I was declared the
winner at around
1.30 pm and
soon friends and
relatives started
calling,” said
Arushi.
HAPPY B’DAY!PROUD MOMENT!FIGHT AGAINST COVID-19!
After a meeting held at the Integrated Covid Command & Control Centre (ICCC), Kanpur on Thursday, IAS Raj Shekhar informed that ICCC will change according to the
need of the hour now. Ten thousand 'automated voice calls' will be placed to the home isolation patients daily. The officials in charge of managing Covid patients in home isolation will ensure they get connected to a doctor within 24 hours of being diagnosed. Queries raised by the patients will be answered by the medical officers within 24 hours of a patient testing positive, providing pulse oximeters, and maintaining records.
ope, a four-letter
word that instils
faith, positivity
and belief in the
time of a global
pandemic where
we have to iso-
late ourselves for our
safety. It gives strength,
power and agility to
fight a virus and its
mutating cronies.
The stir of panic
caused by rising num-
bers of cases, preceding
lockdowns takes a toll
on everyone. Especially,
if you’re Covid positive
and in quarantine.
But not all is lost, the
zeal to live and look for-
ward is the way to life
and people know that as
they fight and recover
from this virus affliction.
City First spoke to a
few coronavirus survi-
vors in the city who
shared their stories as a
Covid-19 patient!
MONICA
PRABHAKAR
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H
MANSI BACHANI
[email protected]
Education for
the Destitute
CITY FIRST
I
t is heartbreaking to
see the people bat-
tling the novel
coronavirus dai-
ly but what hurts,
even more, is the edu-
cation of the young and
penniless being hin-
dered due to Covid-19.
In a recently held
board meeting, Presi-
dent of the State Em-
ployees Joint Council
and Chairman of
Narayan Group of In-
stitutions, Etawah, Er
Hari Kishore Tiwari
announced that the
Narayan Group of In-
stitutions will help
complete higher educa-
tion of children during
the pandemic.
During the early stag-
es of Covid-19, the insti-
tute has lent its support
to society by converting
its Narayan College of
Science and Arts into
an isolation ward of
level 2. They also pro-
vided food, medicines
and other necessities to
the elderly via several
mobile motorcycle
teams.
Dr Dharmendra
Sharma, Principal,
Narayan College of Sci-
ence and Arts Etawah
told the press, Hari
Kishore Tiwari is work-
ing on many more such
schemes which have
been discussed. As soon
as the resources are re-
plenished, the Narayan
Group of Institution
will be seen with the so-
ciety at every step.
—[email protected]
T
he world of paint-
ing falls short
whenever Indian
art history is
looked at or rather ad-
mired. Displaying an es-
sence of tradition and fu-
sion of various cultures,
artist Kamal Swami exe-
cutes his delicate brush-
work into miniature art
paintings. Miniature art
is a genre that focuses on
art (especially painting,
engraving and sculpture)
in much smaller-than-
usual sizes. A piece of
miniature art is capable
of being held in the palm
of the hand, it usually cov-
ers less than 100 cm². A
self-taught artist, Kamal
draws his inspiration
from his surroundings,
the world of nature, Ra-
jasthani culture and
Mughal heritage among
others. He defines his col-
lection of artwork as
‘Maasa Miniature Arts’.
The artist mentions,
“Through miniature
paintings, I get a deeper
insight about my subject.
There are things that are
hidden in art as well as
real life, we just need to
pay closer attention.”
THE ELEPHANT
The painting depicts an
elephant decorated
with ornaments. Dur-
ing the old times, ele-
phants would often be-
come a part of a tableau
that would be carried
out in the cities. A sym-
bol of celebration and
happiness.
THE TREE
OF LIFE
Trees are a symbol of
growth and learning.
The following painting
represents an old ideol-
ogy standing strongly
on its roots. A careful
note on the representa-
tion of each leaf.
TWEDDING
FESTIVITIES
Weddings are a huge af-
fair. Everybody dreams
of a fairytale wedding. In
the following painting,
the artist has focused
upon one of the chariots
that would become a part
of the festivity.
SUFISM
One of the greatest parts
of literature is also in-
spired by the mystics.
Finding a mystic in a
muse, the artist has
drawn attention to their
lives and added colours
to their expressions.
MAASA MINIATURE ARTS
SUSHMITA AIND
[email protected]
Boost immunity
against coronavirus
PROPER
DIET
Eat fewer carbohy-
drates which will
help in controlling
the blood sugar
level and increase
the amount of pro-
tein, green vegeta-
bles, fruits and also
some natural im-
munity boosters
like ginger, goose-
berries (amla) and
& turmeric. If
needed, supple-
ments for vitamin
and zinc should
also be taken.
Regular Exercise
STAY HYDRATED
Drinking 8-10 glasses of water daily flushes out toxins from
the body and decreases the
chances of flu.
Exercise plays a vital role in im-
proving immunity. Everyone
should exercise for at least 30-45
minutes daily depending upon
their stamina. If you need a guide,
many youtube channels and on-
line classes are available these
days for working out at home.
BATTLING COVID
WITH HOPE
City First spoke to a
few COVID-19
survivors in the city
who shared their
stories of the battle
with the Coronavirus
and victories along
with their coping
mechanism during
isolation!
I was diagnosed with Covid that came as a
shock as I hadn’t stepped out in weeks. Be-
fore I could process it, I was asked to pack
my bag for 14 days
and leave for the
hospital. I couldn’t
bear the distress
around me when I
reached the hospi-
tal. So, I shifted my
focus & started read-
ing mythological
books and manifest-
ing hope to myself that I am alright and
soon go home. And four days later, I did. It
was a lesson for me to appreciate what I have
and be grateful. —Roshni Gupta
Trying to live life as normal, I tested Covid positive and the only thing that motivated
me every morn-
ing and before
going to bed
was my 5yr old
nieces who
asked me about
my well being
and gave me
faith that I’ll
get well soon. I
took medically
prescribed
treatment and took the opportunity to con-
nect with myself and recover in almost no
time. (2 weeks) —Aalok Chauhan
During the second wave, I was diagnosed
with COVID. I had a high fever for a week
and extreme weakness followed by nausea
and hypersomnia.
Then I decided to
change this routine
and made steam
and protein-rich
food my top priority,
along with yoga
and breathing exer-
cises to keep my
lungs strong. To re-
main positive, I read a book, watered
plants, did video calls and stayed off social
media to maintain my mental sanity and to
feel normal. —Shalini Kanaujia
The news of being Covid positive brought
gloom around my house as I had to stay away
from my wife,
which wasn’t
easy. The thought
of losing every-
thing became
real. Then I real-
ised it’s not the
time to feel sorry
for myself, and re-
membered my
wife and the hope
& motivation she
gave me through video calls helped me recov-
er from this and be with her along with the
medicines & healthy diet. —Rishabh Nigam
Dr Dharmendra Sharma
Kamal Swami

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