tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1058500151444938532024-03-07T09:01:52.109+05:30My School - I wishMy School - I wishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06860643351108210035noreply@blogger.comBlogger5212125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105850015144493853.post-26983683240889631502021-03-06T19:20:00.003+05:302021-03-06T19:20:52.148+05:30Analysis of Criminal Background, Financial, Education, Gender and other details of West Bengal Sitting MLAsDear Friends,
Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and West Bengal Election Watch have analyzed the criminal, financial and other background details of 282 out of 294 sitting MLAs. In the current assembly, 10 seats are vacant. Two MLAs namely SUDARSAN GHOSH DOSTIDAR of AITC and ALI IMRAN RAMZ of AIFB are not analysed due to unclear affidavits available on the ECI website at the time of making this report. This analysis is based on the affidavits submitted by the candidates prior to the 2016 Assembly elections and bye elections conducted thereafter.
For the complete reports in Hindi and English, please see: https://adrindia.org/content/west-bengal-assembly-election-2016-analysis-criminal-background-financial-education-gender
CRIMINAL BACKGROUND
MLAs with criminal cases: Out of 282 sitting MLAs analysed, 104(37%) MLAs have declared criminal cases against themselves.
MLAs with serious criminal cases: 90(32%) MLAs have declared serious criminal cases.
MLAs with declared cases related to murder: 7 MLAs have declared cases related to murder (IPC section 302).
MLAs with declared cases related to attempt to murder: 24 MLA has declared cases related to attempt to murder (IPC section 307).
MLAs with cases related to Crimes against Women: 10 MLAs have declared cases related to crimes against women (IPC Section-354).
Party wise sitting MLAs with criminal cases: 68(33%) out of 205 MLAs from AITC, 20(51%) out of 39 MLAs from INC, 11(46%) out of 24 MLAs from CPI(M), 3(50%) out of 6 MLAs from BJP and 1(100%) out of 1 each MLAs from CPI and Independent have declared criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.
Party wise sitting MLAs with serious criminal cases: 61(30%) out of 205 MLAs from AITC, 15(39%) out of 39 MLAs from INC, 10(42%) out of 24 MLAs from CPI(M), 3(50%) out of 6 MLAs from BJP and 1(100%) out of 1 MLA from Independent have declared serious criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.My School - I wishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06860643351108210035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105850015144493853.post-74719526208229333542021-03-05T21:55:00.001+05:302021-03-05T21:55:59.926+05:30Analysis of Criminal Background, Financial, Education, Gender and other details of Puducherry Sitting MLAs<p> <b style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: center;"><u><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">CRIMINAL BACKGROUND</span></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"></p><ul style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><span class="gmail_default"></span><b style="text-align: justify;"><i><u><span lang="X-NONE">MLAs with criminal cases:</span></u></i></b><b style="text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="X-NONE"> </span></i></b><span style="text-align: justify;">Out of </span><b style="text-align: justify;">30 </b><span style="text-align: justify;">sitting </span><span style="text-align: justify;">MLAs analysed, </span><b style="text-align: justify;">11 (</b><b style="text-align: justify;">37%) MLAs </b><span style="text-align: justify;">have declared criminal cases against themselves.<br /><br /></span></span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><i><u><span lang="X-NONE">MLAs with serious criminal cases:</span></u></i></b><b style="text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="X-NONE"> </span></i></b><b style="text-align: justify;">4 (13%) </b><span style="text-align: justify;">MLAs have declared serious criminal cases.<br /><br /></span></span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><b style="text-align: justify;"><i><u><span lang="EN-US">MLAs with declared cases related to murder: </span></u></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="text-align: justify;"> </span><b style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">1</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="text-align: justify;"> MLA has declared case related to murder <b>(IPC section 302)</b>.<br /><br /></span></span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><i><u><span lang="EN-US">MLAs with declared cases related to attempt to murder:</span></u></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="text-align: justify;"> </span><b style="text-align: justify;">1</b><span style="text-align: justify;"> MLA has declared case related to attempt to murder </span><b style="text-align: justify;">(IPC section 307)</b><span style="text-align: justify;">.<br /><br /></span></span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><i><u><span lang="X-NONE">Party wise </span></u></i></b><b style="text-align: justify;"><i><u>sitting </u></i></b><b style="text-align: justify;"><i><u><span lang="X-NONE">MLAs with criminal case</span></u></i></b><b style="text-align: justify;"><i><u><span lang="X-NONE">s:</span></u></i></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="text-align: justify;"> </span><b style="text-align: justify;">6 (40%)</b><span style="text-align: justify;"> out of 15 MLAs from </span><b style="text-align: justify;">INC, 2 (29%) </b><span style="text-align: justify;">out of 7 MLAs from</span><b style="text-align: justify;"> ALL INDIA N.R. CONGRESS, 1 (25%) </b><span style="text-align: justify;">out of 4</span><b style="text-align: justify;"> </b><span style="text-align: justify;">MLAs </span><b style="text-align: justify;"> </b><span style="text-align: justify;">from </span><b style="text-align: justify;">AIADMK </b><span style="text-align: justify;">and </span><b style="text-align: justify;">2 (67%) </b><span style="text-align: justify;">out of 3</span><b style="text-align: justify;"> </b><span style="text-align: justify;">MLA</span><b style="text-align: justify;"> </b><span style="text-align: justify;">from </span><b style="text-align: justify;">DMK </b><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: black; text-align: justify;">have declared criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.<br /><br /></span></span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><i><u><span lang="X-NONE">Party wise </span></u></i></b><b style="text-align: justify;"><i><u>sitting </u></i></b><b style="text-align: justify;"><i><u><span lang="X-NONE">MLAs with serious criminal cases: </span></u></i></b><b style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="X-NONE"> </span></b><b style="text-align: justify;">3 (20%)</b><span style="text-align: justify;"> out of 15 MLAs from </span><b style="text-align: justify;">INC and 1 (14%) </b><span style="text-align: justify;">out of 7 MLAs from</span><b style="text-align: justify;"> ALL INDIA N.R. CONGRESS </b><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: black; text-align: justify;">have declared </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; text-align: justify;">serious </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: black; text-align: justify;">criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.</span></span></li></ul>My School - I wishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06860643351108210035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105850015144493853.post-3614176734654669582021-03-04T12:31:00.002+05:302021-03-04T12:31:25.260+05:30India dropped from Freedom House’s list of 'free' countries<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #ee303b; font-family: NotoSerif-Bold; font-size: 20px;">Impartiality and competence of EC questioned</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: dimgrey; font-family: NotoSerif-Regular; font-size: 20px;">In its latest report the US watchdog observes that the free world had shrunk as a result and that the country was being driven towards 'authoritarianism'</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: NotoSerif-Regular, serif; font-size: 13pt;">“Under Modi, India
appears to have abandoned its potential to serve as a global democratic leader,
elevating narrow Hindu nationalist interests at the expense of its founding
values of inclusion and equal rights for all.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "NotoSerif-Regular",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“A new report from the
independent watchdog group Freedom House is sobering. Authoritarianism and
nationalism are on the rise around the world. Governments are becoming less
transparent and have lost the trust of the people…,” US secretary of state
Antony Blinken</span> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>said.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "NotoSerif-Regular",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> “India’s status
declined from free to partly free due to a multiyear pattern in which the Hindu
nationalist government and its allies have presided over rising violence and
discriminatory policies affecting the Muslim population and pursued a crackdown
on expressions of dissent by the media, academics, civil society groups, and
protesters.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "NotoSerif-Regular",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Some of the specific
reasons for the change in scores on various counts that resulted in India
losing its “free” status include the frequent use of the sedition law and other
charges to deter free speech, the restrictions on foreign funding of NGOs and
the action against Amnesty which resulted in it shutting shop in India, “the
unusual appointment of a recently retired chief justice to the upper house of
Parliament”, and the “excessively harsh” lockdown that triggered the
displacement of millions.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "NotoSerif-Regular",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> the Modi
government and its state-level allies continued to crack down on critics in
2020, and “their response to Covid-19 included a ham-fisted lockdown that
resulted in the dangerous and unplanned displacement of millions of internal
migrant workers”.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "NotoSerif-Regular",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It also took note of
the “corona jihad” narrative whereby “the ruling Hindu nationalist movement
also encouraged the scapegoating of Muslims, who were disproportionately blamed
for the spread of the virus and faced attacks by vigilante mobs”. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "NotoSerif-Regular",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Political rights and
civil liberties in the country have deteriorated since Narendra Modi became
Prime Minister in 2014, with increased pressure on human rights organisations,
rising intimidation of academics and journalists, and a spate of bigoted
attacks, including lynchings, aimed at Muslims. The decline only accelerated
after Modi’s reelection in 2019,” the report said.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "NotoSerif-Regular",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Last year, the
government intensified its crackdown on protesters opposed to a discriminatory
citizenship law and arrested dozens of journalists who aired criticism of the
official pandemic response. Judicial independence has also come under strain;
in one case, a judge was transferred immediately after reprimanding the police
for taking no action during riots in New Delhi that left over 50 people, mostly
Muslims, dead,” the report pointed out.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "NotoSerif-Regular",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It took note of the law
curbing inter-faith marriages in Uttar Pradesh.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "NotoSerif-Regular",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> it placed on record
questions raised about the impartiality and competence of the Election
Commission of India.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "NotoSerif-Regular",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“The Commission is
generally respected and had been thought to function without undue political
interference. In 2019, however, its impartiality and competence were called
into question. The panel’s decisions concerning the timing and phasing of
national elections, and allegations of selective enforcement of the Model Code
of Conduct, which regulates politicians’ campaign behaviour and techniques,
suggested bias toward the ruling BJP.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "NotoSerif-Regular",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The report flagged as a
cause of concern “the opaque financing of political parties, notably through
electoral bonds that allow donors to obscure their identities”.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "NotoSerif-Regular",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The report noted that a
great deal of corruption cases go unreported and unpunished, and “the
authorities have been accused of selective, partisan enforcement”. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "NotoSerif-Regular",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The delay in setting up
the Lokpal and Lokayuktas has been recorded, as also the diluting of the RTI
law by the Modi government. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "NotoSerif-Regular",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The attacks on the
media have found mention, and the perception that the Prime Minister’s call to
the media to help prevent the spread of “pessimism, negativity, and rumour
mongering” was a warning not to criticise officials’ management of the pandemic.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "NotoSerif-Regular",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Academic freedom has
significantly weakened in recent years, as intimidation of professors,
students, and institutions over political and religious issues has
increased.... Academics face pressure not to discuss topics deemed sensitive by
the BJP government, particularly India’s relations with Pakistan and conditions
in Indian Kashmir,” the report said.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "NotoSerif-Regular",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>The above are some excerpts of the Report which was published in the Telegraph of 4.3.21</b></span></p>My School - I wishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06860643351108210035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105850015144493853.post-69792225543836048642021-03-04T11:53:00.001+05:302021-03-04T11:53:25.356+05:30Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and Kerala Election Watch<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small; text-align: justify;">Dear Friends,</span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></p></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><b>Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR)</b> and <b>Kerala Election Watch</b> have analyzed the criminal, financial and other background details of </span><b style="text-align: justify;">132 </b><span style="text-align: justify;">out of</span><b style="text-align: justify;"> 140 </b><span style="text-align: justify;">sitting MLAs. In the current assembly, 4 seats are vacant. </span><span style="text-align: justify;">There are </span><b style="text-align: justify;">4</b><span style="text-align: justify;"> MLAs who have not been analysed due to unavailability of their properly scanned and complete affidavits, at the time of making this report. </span><u style="text-align: justify;">This analysis is based on the affidavits submitted by the candidates prior to the 2016 Assembly elections and bye elections conducted thereafter.</u></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><u style="text-align: justify;"><br /></u></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><span style="text-align: justify;">For the complete report in </span><b style="text-align: justify;">English</b><span style="text-align: justify;">, please see: </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://adrindia.org/content/kerala-assembly-election-2016-analysis-criminal-background-financial-education-gender-and&source=gmail&ust=1614925076241000&usg=AFQjCNFXjleMlDukSz1COruoDN4p_vPgUg" href="https://adrindia.org/content/kerala-assembly-election-2016-analysis-criminal-background-financial-education-gender-and" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://adrindia.org/<wbr></wbr>content/kerala-assembly-<wbr></wbr>election-2016-analysis-<wbr></wbr>criminal-background-financial-<wbr></wbr>education-gender-and</a></span></div><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: georgia, serif; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><u><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">CRIMINAL BACKGROUND</span></span></u></b></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt 18pt; text-align: justify;"></p><ul><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><b><u><span lang="X-NONE">MLAs with criminal cases:</span></u></b><b><span lang="X-NONE"> </span></b>Out of <b>132 </b>sitting MLAs analysed, <b>86(</b><b>65%) MLAs </b>have declared criminal cases against themselves.</span></li></ul><ul><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><b><u><span lang="X-NONE">MLAs with serious criminal cases:</span></u></b><b><span lang="X-NONE"> </span></b><b>28(21%) </b>MLAs have declared serious criminal cases.</span></li></ul><ul><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><b><u><span lang="EN-US">MLAs with declared cases related to murder: </span></u></b><span lang="EN-US"> </span><b><span lang="EN-US">2</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> MLAs have declared cases related to murder <b>(IPC section 302)</b>.</span></span></li></ul><ul><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><b><u><span lang="EN-US">MLAs with declared cases related to attempt to murder:</span></u></b><span lang="EN-US"> </span><b>6</b> MLAs have declared cases related to attempt to murder <b>(IPC section 307)</b>.</span></li></ul><ul><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><b><u><span lang="EN-US">MLAs with declared cases related to Crime against Women: </span></u></b><b>1</b> MLA has declared cases related to Crime against Women <b>(IPC section 354)</b>.</span></li></ul><ul><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><b><u><span lang="X-NONE">Party wise </span></u></b><b><u>sitting </u></b><b><u><span lang="X-NONE">MLAs with criminal case</span></u></b><b><u><span lang="X-NONE">s:</span></u></b><span lang="X-NONE"> </span><b>51(91%)</b> out of 56 MLAs from <b>CPI(M), 12(63%) </b>out of 19 MLAs from<b> CPI, 9(45%) </b>out of 20<b> </b>MLAs <b> </b>from <b>INC, 5(28%) </b>out of 18 MLAs from<b> IUML </b>and <b>4(67%) </b>out of 6<b> </b>MLAs<b> </b>from <b>Independent </b><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: black;">have declared criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.</span></span></li></ul><ul><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><u><span lang="X-NONE">Party wise </span></u></b><b style="text-align: justify;"><u>sitting </u></b><b style="text-align: justify;"><u><span lang="X-NONE">MLAs with serious criminal cases: </span></u></b><b style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="X-NONE"> </span></b><b style="text-align: justify;">18(32%)</b><span style="text-align: justify;"> out of 56 MLAs from </span><b style="text-align: justify;">CPI(M), 3(16%) </b><span style="text-align: justify;">out of 19 MLAs from</span><b style="text-align: justify;"> CPI, 2(11%) </b><span style="text-align: justify;">out of 18 MLAs from</span><b style="text-align: justify;"> IUML </b><span style="text-align: justify;">and</span><b style="text-align: justify;"> 5(25%) </b><span style="text-align: justify;">out of 20</span><b style="text-align: justify;"> </b><span style="text-align: justify;">MLAs</span><b style="text-align: justify;"> </b><span style="text-align: justify;">from </span><b style="text-align: justify;">INC </b><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: black; text-align: justify;">have declared </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; text-align: justify;">serious </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: black; text-align: justify;">criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.</span></span></li></ul></div>My School - I wishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06860643351108210035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105850015144493853.post-18892674605762368192021-02-26T11:36:00.001+05:302021-02-26T11:36:52.726+05:30Unproven Claim of COVID-19 Cure with Ayurvedic Drug by Health Minister: PBT Files Complaint with U.P. Medical Council Seeking Cancellation of Dr. Harsh Vardhan’s Medical Registration for Violation of MCI Code of Ethics<p> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.93rem; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">on</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.93rem; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> </span><a href="http://pbtindia.com/archives/date/2021/02" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15.81px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s linear 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Tuesday, February 23, 2021</a></p><div class="entry-content" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: chaparral-pro, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 1.875em 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 2; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Indian health minister, Dr. Harsh Vardhan, who is also a bona fide allopathic medical doctor was in the news across the country for openly and publicly endorsing a new Ayurvedic drug, Coronil, manufactured by Patanjali Research Institute, standing next to the well-know Yoga-guru Swami Ramdev, claiming that this is the first medicine that can even cure COVID-19 infection. The problem is – this fantastic claim is based on flimsy, unsubstantiated data and without authentic approval by the “gold-standard” USA Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or Drug Controller General of India (DCGI). The Indian Medical Association (IMA), largest group of doctors of allopathic medicine, has also expressed their shock and severely criticized Dr. Vardhan for promoting unscientific Ayurvedic medicine for reasons that has nothing to do with the modern medical science.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 2; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Apart from being a registered medical practitioner, Dr. Vardhan is also a well-known, high-profile figure in Indian medicine being a top BJP leader and central minister of health. Innocent ordinary people and COVID-19 patients are likely to be misguided to purchase and take this new Ayurvedic drug with the false hope for a cure from COVID-19 when a doctor and central minister to the stature of Dr. Vardhan candidly endorses “Coronil”. The MCI Code of Ethics & Regulations, 2002 has provided categorical warnings for all registered doctors against endorsing any drugs that are not scientifically tested or authorized for use in modern allopathic medicine. Any public promotion of such dubious drugs by a doctor may be viewed as “unethical” for which a doctor’s medical license may be revoked temporarily or permanently. PBT lodged a formal complaint today with the U.P. Medical Council (where Dr. Vardhan did his MBBS and originally registered as a physician) seeking an immediate investigation and cancellation of Dr. Vardhan’s medical registration for unethical misconduct under Sections 1.1.1, 1.2.1, 6.1, 6.5 and 6.8(h) of MCI Code of Ethics & Regulations, 2002 (see PBT’s complaint to UPMC below).</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 2; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://pbtindia.com/archives/3635/u-p-med-council-complaint-feb-23-2021-dr-harsh-vardhan" rel="attachment wp-att-3636" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #bf9e3b; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s linear 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">U.P. Med. Council Complaint (Feb 23, 2021) Dr. Harsh Vardhan</a></p></div>My School - I wishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06860643351108210035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105850015144493853.post-80949345461867404622020-06-25T12:00:00.001+05:302020-06-25T12:02:19.344+05:30Coronil got approval to treat cough and fever, but Patanjali sold it as ‘Covid cure’<p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Faustina, Georgia, serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">New Delhi: </b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Patanjali’s Coronil, which the company’s founder Baba Ramdev </span><a href="https://theprint.in/health/just-45-healthy-cases-interim-results-no-peer-review-%e2%81%a0-how-patanjali-found-covid-cure/447540/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">has touted as a cure for Covid-19</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, was approved for boosting immunity and treating cough and fever and not as a treatment for coronavirus, ThePrint has learnt.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Faustina, Georgia, serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The state licensing authority (SLA) of Uttarakhand, which falls under the Ministry of AYUSH, is now ready to shoot off a letter to the Haridwar-based Patanjali Ayurveda in connection with its bid to brand Coronil as a cure for Covid-19.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Faustina, Georgia, serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The company faces charges under two Acts, the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940, and the Drugs and <a href="https://theprint.in/theprint-essential/all-about-magic-remedies-act-law-that-landed-patanjali-in-trouble-over-covid-cure-drug/447788/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Magic Remedies (Objectionable Advertisements) Act, 1954</a>, if proved guilty of making a false claim, the SLA told ThePrint.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Faustina, Georgia, serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">“We will be sending a letter to Patanjali by the end of the day today. We haven’t approved the product for Covid-19 but only to boost immunity and treat cough, fever,” Dr Y.S. Rawat, joint director, SLA, Uttarakhand, said over a call Wednesday. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Faustina, Georgia, serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Covid-19, which has triggered a pandemic around the world, currently has no proven cure.</p><div id="vdo_ai_div" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Faustina, Georgia, serif; margin-left: -176px; width: 789px;"><div id="_vdo_ads_player_ai_1334" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Faustina, Georgia, serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">“The company has to either prove how the drug could treat Covid-19 or else roll back the claim. Otherwise, we will suspend or cancel the licence given to Coronil,” he added.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Faustina, Georgia, serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Patanjali Ayurved spokesperson S.K. Tijarawala, however, told ThePrint that “everything is submitted well in order and as per the rules laid down by the government”.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Faustina, Georgia, serif; line-height: 35px; margin: 27px 0px 17px;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="3">How was the drug approved? </font></b></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Faustina, Georgia, serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The company applied for drug approval through an application dated 10 June. “The company had submitted the documents, as per the protocol including the formulation sheet (explaining the formula used to manufacture the drug), testing protocol (to check the efficacy of the drug) and label claim (which mentions that for what conditions the drug will be sold),” Rawat said. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Faustina, Georgia, serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The department, he added, followed the standard procedure for drug approval, “where an expert committee considered the application and approved the drug on 12 June”.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Faustina, Georgia, serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">“We had informed the company on the same day about the application clearance,” he said, adding that “the application was not complicated”.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Faustina, Georgia, serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">“The drug is made of ashwagandha, giloy and tulsi. While the first ingredient is known for immunity-boosting properties, tulsi and giloy are given for treating cough and fever, respectively,” he added. </span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Faustina, Georgia, serif; line-height: 35px; margin: 27px 0px 17px;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="3">Sections under which Patanjali could be booked </font></b></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Faustina, Georgia, serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The company could be charged under three sections of the two aforementioned Acts. According to Rawat, the firm is under the scanner for allegedly promoting the product with claims of “<a href="https://theprint.in/theprint-essential/all-about-magic-remedies-act-law-that-landed-patanjali-in-trouble-over-covid-cure-drug/447788/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">having magical properties</a>” to cure Covid-19, labeling the product with misleading information, and advertising the products with misleading information. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Faustina, Georgia, serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">“The letter, which we will dispatch in sometime, charges the company for breaking the rules under Section 161 and Rule 170 of Drugs and Cosmetics Act,” he said. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Faustina, Georgia, serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The charges, the officer said, pertained to “misleading consumers by printing wrong information on the label and… for inappropriate advertisements”. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Faustina, Georgia, serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">“The company will also be booked under </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Drugs and Magic Remedies Act (if proved guilty) as the company claims to ‘cure’ Covid,” he added.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Faustina, Georgia, serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The SLA will also be responding to a letter received from the Union Ministry of AYUSH Tuesday, where the latter had sought a response on the categories under which the drug was approved.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Faustina, Georgia, serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Faustina, Georgia, serif; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">“We will send the same letter to the ministry to showcase our action against the company.”</span></p>My School - I wishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06860643351108210035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105850015144493853.post-79905254370589990532020-06-06T12:15:00.002+05:302020-06-06T12:19:14.402+05:30Ahmedabad, Modi's City, Worse Record<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;">Though Delhi and Mumbai might seem to be worst off with the highest number of Covid-19 cases and deaths each day, Ahmedabad with less than half the population of these metros has the highest deaths per million population in the country. It also has the highest case fatality rate (CFR) — number of deaths per 100 cases — among the nine megapolises with populations of over 5 million. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;">At 115 deaths per million, Ahmedabad is much worse than Mumbai in second place with 80 deaths per million. Among the top metros, Bangalore seems to be doing the best with just one death per million. When it comes to CFR, Chennai’s 0.9 is the lowest among the nine mega cities. The data is as of Friday morning. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;">The comparison here is between the nine urban agglomerations — cities and their urban outgrowths, like Greater Mumbai or Greater Kolkata — in the country that has 5 million or more people living in them. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;">A low CFR is often seen as a result of extensive testing and hence detecting of a large number of positive cases. The higher the number of positive cases, the denominator, the smaller the CFR would be. Ahmedabad’s CFR of 6.9 has been explained by many as the result of inadequate testing. But the city’s deaths per million figure suggests shows there is more to the poor handling of Covid cases than just inadequate testing. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;">Even in absolute numbers, Ahmedabad which has recorded 953 deaths is second only to the Mumbai with 1,698 deaths. Delhi follows Mumbai with 650 deaths. Bangalore has recorded just 14 deaths so far and the least number of cases, just 428. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;">Though many cities have been trying to draw comfort from their recovery rates, epidemiologists have repeatedly pointed out that in an infection like Covid where over 90% of those infected are expected to recover, the share of those recovering can only rise steadily with the passage of time and hence recovery rates are a misleading measure for progress in the fight against the disease. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;">These nine urban agglomerations contribute over 1.3 lakh cases (nearly 60% of India’s total) and 4,299 deaths, over two-thirds of the country’s total. An urban agglomeration (UA) is continuous urban habitation that surrounds a city or the continuous geographical stretch of two or more cities which in many ways function as the same city. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;">Mumbai UA for instance is constituted by the Municipal Corporations of Mumbai, Thane, Navi Mumbai, Kalyan-Dombivali, Ulhasnagar and Mira Bhayandar. Similarly Kolkata UA spreads over the districts of Kolkata, North and South 24 Parganas, Hooghly and Howrah. Chennai UA has Chennai, Thiruvallur and Kancheepuram while Hydarabad UA includes Hyderabad, Rangareddy and Medak. Ahmedabad UA also includes Gandhinagar. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;">The 2020 population estimates for these UAs from the United Nation’s World Urbanisation Prospects was used to calculate the deaths per million. The census of India does not include Delhi’s satellite districts like Ghaziabad and Gurgaon in the Delhi UA and hence Delhi’s cases as well as population are only for Delhi state or the city of Delhi. Delhi’s 2020 population is taken from the census population projections for states. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;">The above is from TOI</span>My School - I wishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06860643351108210035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105850015144493853.post-90018092229701362262020-05-25T10:31:00.002+05:302020-05-25T10:31:35.224+05:30Migrant Workers<h1>
<span style="font-size: large;">No money for cremation’, burial at home</span></h1>
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A migrant woman gets emotional while boarding a bus to leave for Bihar, in Amritsar, on Sunday. (PTI)<br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Guddu Mandal, 30, who made a living as a ragpicker and
labourer, died allegedly in his sleep in Bhagalpur city on Friday — the
night after an epilepsy fit and after many days without a proper meal in
the lockdown that had left him without work.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>He was buried under the floor of his home, his family said, because they did not have any money to cremate him.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Guddu’s
younger brothers Om Prakash and Ajay who lived nearby used to drive
cycle-carts and, like him, had been without an income for the past two
months. </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>“We should have cremated him, but we did not have even a
single rupee with us. We waited for help. We begged at the doors of some
rich people in the area for some money, but they abused and shooed us
away. When we could not arrange for necessary objects for the last
rites, we dug the floor of the house and buried him,” Neeraj, a nephew
of Guddu, told reporters.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Guddu was a Hindu and adult Hindus in Bihar are cremated on a funeral pyre after a ritual bath and in new clothes.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>“We
all were suffering and managing to stay alive somehow. But my brother,
who suffered from epilepsy, was becoming weaker every passing day due to
lack of proper food. He had a fit of epilepsy on Friday. He recovered
after we massaged his body. He slept in the evening and we found him
dead on Saturday morning,” Ajay said.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Guddu used to earn around Rs
100 to Rs 200 daily depending on the work he got, but that stopped in
the lockdown. He started begging in the area for food and would get some
leftovers to see him through the day. His wife had left him years ago. </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Their neighbours were as poor as them and could not help, the brothers said. </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Guddu’s family blurted out to the neighbours that they had buried him, and police were alerted.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>“We
exhumed the body and sent it for post-mortem to see whether there was
any foul play in his death. He lived in a hut near the railway line and
worked as a labourer and a rag picker. He was suffering from epilepsy
and also used to consume some drugs. I cannot comment on how he died,
but he was buried inside the hut. They are poor people,” Ishachak
station house officer (SHO) S.K. Sudhanshu told The Telegraph.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Police officials said no injury was found on the body.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Now,
people in the area, social activists the ward councillors have agreed to
bear the expenses to cremate Guddu and provide ration for 15 days to
his family members.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Contacted, Bhagalpur district magistrate Pranav Kumar told The Telegraph
that “lack of money could be a reason for not cremating the body, but
the chances of it are meagre, or we can say less than one per cent
because government control rooms are there, our entire administration is
working, ward councilors are there, many civil society organisations
are also working here. It is difficult to believe that people will not
get help if they seek it.”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>The district magistrate said the police investigation would throw light on what actually happened.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Migrant on Shramik Express dies hungry</b></span><br />
<span class="leftSpace">By</span> <a href="https://www.telegraphindia.com/author/piyush-srivastava/100"> Piyush Srivastava</a> <span class="location">in Lucknow</span><br />
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<span class="location">Migrants arrive to board a special train to at Charbagh railway station in Lucknow on Sunday. (PTI</span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>46-year-old migrant labourer died on a Shramik Express train
on Saturday after having had nothing to eat or drink for 60 hours, a
nephew who was accompanying him has alleged.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Raveesh Yadav said no
food or water was served on the train — in violation of railway
regulations — which he and uncle Jokhan Yadav had boarded from Mumbai to
travel home to Machhlishahar in Jaunpur district, Uttar Pradesh.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>He
said the train had left the Lokmanya Terminal in Mumbai, where the duo
worked as construction labourers, at 7pm on May 20 and reached its
destination, Varanasi Cantonment station, around 7.30am on May 23.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>“But
my uncle, who was complaining of hunger and pain all over his body,
fainted half an hour before we reached Varanasi Cantonment and died
within a few minutes,” Raveesh, 25, told local reporters.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>“We weren’t carrying any food or water because we had heard the
railways were providing food packs and water bottles on the trains. Even
the other passengers in our compartment had no food or water left with
them, so nobody could help us. And there was no water in the train at
all.”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Ravi Prakash Chaturvedi, additional divisional railway
manager, Varanasi, denied that no food or water had been served on the
train.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>“The man died before the train reached Varanasi Cantonment
station. The GRP took the body in custody. Family members of the dead
man have said he was a heart patient and may have died because of that,”
he said.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Raveesh said: “Yes, my uncle was a heart patient but he died because he was hungry for more than 60 hours.”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>He
said he and his uncle had bought their tickets for Rs 940 each — adding
their voice to hundreds of returning migrants who have rebutted the
government claim that no fare was being charged from the labourers.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>“My
uncle was very hungry when we boarded the train. Despite having some
money in our pockets, we didn’t find any food or water to buy on our
way,” Raveesh said.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>“The train did not stop at any station till
Katni, Madhya Pradesh, which it reached after 18 hours. Nothing was
available at Katni station, where the train stood for more than three
hours.”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Raveesh added: “Later, at many stations, we requested the
Government Railway Police and railway officials to provide us water and
food. But they ignored us and wouldn’t let us step off the train. The
GRP was wielding lathis.”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>A day earlier, lack of communication
between railway and state authorities had compounded the misery of
home-bound migrants. A Jaunpur-bound Shramik train from Mumbai had
reached Kashi station in Varanasi at 1.30pm on Friday but was kept
waiting more than seven hours — just 40km from its destination.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Railway
sources said the Jaunpur authorities had refused to receive the train
saying they had not been informed about its arrival in advance.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>“We
are normally informed two days in advance about such trains so that we
can coordinate with the district administration and arrange buses to
ferry the passengers to their villages, where they are kept in
government quarantine for 14 days,” a railway official told reporters in
Jaunpur on condition of anonymity.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>“It was not possible for us to arrange about 20 buses for the 1,000-odd passengers within a few hours.”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Harikesh
Rai, officer in charge of the GRP unit at Kashi station, said: “Later,
it was decided the train would go to Mughalsarai, from where the
migrants would be taken to their homes.”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>The train reached Mughalsarai Junction around 9.30pm on Friday.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Chaturvedi, the ADRM Varanasi, told reporters: “There was some problem. If needed, an inquiry can be conducted.”</b></span>My School - I wishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06860643351108210035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105850015144493853.post-83873232578971217722020-05-25T10:02:00.001+05:302020-05-25T10:03:39.003+05:30Modi's Gujarat model in shambles<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Gujarat High Court has compared the situation in the state to the
“sinking Titanic”, bringing under glare the role of the administration
that has been handled with kid gloves by the Centre and its political
support system that had left no stone unturned to target Bengal chief
minister Mamata Banerjee.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b><br /></b></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>In Bengal, the Raj Bhavan has gone out of his way to needle Mamata.
In Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Gujarat, the governor won’t even think
of troubling chief minister Vijay Rupani.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Given a free hand, the
Rupani administration committed such blunders like introducing
artificial mechanised breathing machines as ventilators.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>The high
court has now struck hard. The court’s findings were unpalatable enough
to make the BJP, which is aggressively exposing the deficiencies in
states like Maharashtra and Bengal, look for a place to hide.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b><br /></b></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>In a 143-page order, the high court described Gujarat as “one of
worst affected states” in the country and pointed to “lack of PPE,
shortage of ventilators, ICUs and isolating wards.…”</b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Describing
the condition of Ahmedabad Civil Hospital as “pathetic”, Justices J.B.
Pardiwala and Ilesh Vora said the hospital “is as good as a dungeon,
maybe even worse than a dungeon”.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>The judges said “there is no
single command and control structure in Civil Hospital” and “the health
minister of Gujarat does not seem to be aware of what is going on, nor
appears to have ever visited the hospital”.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>The withering comments
have been earned in spite of reported oversight by the Prime Minister
and the fact that the nodal agency to manage the Corona crisis is the
Union ministry, headed by Amit Shah who is an MP from the adjacent
Gandhinagar. Four Assembly segments of Shah’s constituency fall in
Ahmedabad city.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b><br /></b></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>While Bengal is a poor state, Modi sold the Gujarat model to
establish his claim as the leader who can take India to newer heights of
development.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Congress spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi on Sunday
publicly made the comparison between Gujarat and Bengal. He said: “Are
the Prime Minister and the home minister even aware of what is happening
in their home state? If so, have they ever intervened, chastised or
punished the Gujarat government? Have they used similar standards,
similar adjectives, similar terms of endearment (sarcastically) and
similar inspection teams for Gujarat government as for the West Bengal
government? Why has the Gujarat governor not adopted the same intrusive
standards as his Bengal counterpart did?”</b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Singhvi also pointed out
that the Gujarat government had submitted in an affidavit to the high
court that “more number of tests will lead to 70 per cent of population
testing positive for Covid, thereby leading to fear psychosis!”</b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Asking
whether the same criteria were being applied throughout the country by
refusing to ramp up testing, Singhvi said: “Is this being done to
protect the image of the Prime Minister and the home minister? Is it not
playing with the lives of the people?”</b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b><br /></b></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Singhvi said the Gujarat government admitted in court that private
testing of Covid, even by authorised private institutions, had been
stopped. The court blasted the government for artificially controlling
infection data.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>The Ahmedabad hospital, which used the fake ventilator, has recorded the highest deaths in Gujarat.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Singhvi
said the Gujarat government was profiteering in crisis by selling N95
masks at Rs 65 against the procurement cost of Rs 49.61 (admitted in
court), at a straight profit arbitrage of 31 per cent.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Whether this is the same Gujarat model that Modi nurtured or successor Rupani distorted, it is difficult to guess.</b></span></span>My School - I wishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06860643351108210035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105850015144493853.post-56865221001734527522020-04-23T13:00:00.000+05:302020-04-23T13:00:51.471+05:30After UAE, missions in Doha and Muscat speak up <span class="leftSpace">By</span> <a href="https://www.telegraphindia.com/author/our-special-correspondent/57"> Our Special Correspondent</a> <span class="location">in New Delhi</span><br />
<span class="location"><br /></span>
<span class="location"><b>This is from The Telegraph </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>India’s embassies in Doha and Muscat warned social media
users against getting swayed by divisive fake news, stepping in after
the country’s envoy to the UAE had on Monday cautioned Indians living in
the Gulf nation against making religion-specific derogatory comments.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>The
embassies put out tweets over the past 24 hours as fake news peddlers
fished in troubled waters, seeking to fuel the “#CoronaJihad” narrative
that had caught the attention of the international media across the
globe, including in the Gulf.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>The warnings came days after the
human rights commission of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)
had on Sunday voiced concern about the hashtag.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>It was after this
that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had broken his silence on the
three-week-long sustained campaign by the Right-wing ecosystem to link
the Covid-19 pandemic with a particular community, saying the virus
“does not see” racial, religious or other differences before striking.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>The missions in Qatar and Oman intervened as the fake posts promoting
Islamophobia, and the equally fictitious accounts countering it with
warnings of a blowback, gained traction and posed a possible strain in
bilateral relations with countries where India has had a good standing
for long.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>“It is clear that fake identities are being used by
forces inimical to India to create divisions within our community.
Please understand the reality and do not get swayed by these malicious
attempts to sow discord. Our focus right now needs to be on COVID-19,”
the embassy in Qatar posted, referring to posts by a Twitter handle that
had two different profiles.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>The mission in Muscat stepped in
after a parody account of Omani princess Mona bint Fahad Al-Said posted a
tweet threatening expulsion of Indians. “In these challenging times, it
is important that we stay focussed and united in our fight against
COVID-19, and not get distracted by fake news on social media with
malicious intentions,” the mission tweeted.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>“The friendly
relations between India and Oman are underpinned by our shared values of
tolerance and pluralism. Let us all commit to maintaining unity and
social harmony at this critical juncture. As PM @narendramodi said: We
are in this together.” </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Mona Fahad had later posted a message to clear the air, which Indian ambassador Munu Mahawar acknowledged.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Some
of these fake posts were called out by fact-checker Alt News co-founder
Mohammed Zubair. “A lot of Pakistani social media users are changing
their profiles to look like Arabs (name, profile images), and tweeting
out in the lines that the Arabs did since the last few days. A lot of
people are falling for these fake profiles.”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Earlier, on Monday,
Pavan Kapoor, India’s ambassador to the UAE, had reminded Indian
nationals in the Gulf country that “discrimination is against our moral
fabric and the rule of law”, after some members of the Indian diaspora
were punished for their polarising social media posts that promoted
Islamophobia.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Retired diplomat Navdeep Suri pointed out that hate
speech emanating out of India provided fodder to those unhappy with the
India-UAE friendship.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>In a series of tweets, the former ambassador
to the UAE said the Gulf country had strong laws against hate speech.
“This applies to derogatory remarks against ALL religions.... Bilateral
ties are strong and will endure. But unnecessary controversy doesn’t
help.”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>The interventions by the three missions are an indication
of the traction the #CoronaJihad narrative has gained since the
Right-wing ecosystem tried to blame the spread of the pandemic on a
religious convention held by the minority community in March.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>The
hashtag had added to concerns fuelled by the debate on the new
citizenship matrix and the Delhi riots in February, and this was
articulated from the human rights platform of the OIC.</b></span></div>
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My School - I wishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06860643351108210035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105850015144493853.post-24799919951043259072020-04-23T12:26:00.000+05:302020-04-23T12:28:08.530+05:30What happened to India, asks UAE princess who called out hate mongering<span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="leftSpace">By</span> <a href="https://www.telegraphindia.com/author/furquan-ameen/62"> Furquan Ameen</a> <span class="location">in New Delhi</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="location"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="location"><b>This is from The Telegraph </b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Princess Hend Faisal Al Qassemi, a member of the United Arab
Emirates royal family whose criticism of hate mongering by an Indian led
others in her country to speak out, has said that the likes of Mahatma
Gandhi and Nelson Mandela were the role models to follow in times such
as these.</b></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>“There is no winner if this turns aggressive. We
have to follow the Nelson Mandela-Martin Luther-Gandhi way of doing
things,” said Al Qassemi. “We don’t need another Hitler, we need a new
Gandhi,” she told The Telegraph Online on Tuesday.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Al Qassemi, who was among the first to call out an Indian for posting
Islamophobic tweets, said that in the Emirates hate speech was a crime
and punishable offence.</b></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>On April 15, the princess used
screenshots of a now de-activated account of one Saurabh Upadhyay to
state that anyone who was openly racist and discriminatory in the UAE
would be fined and made to leave.</b></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Soon others followed
suit. Over the past few days, several influential Arabs across UAE went
about sharing hate speeches by Indian politicians and videos of the
February violence in north east Delhi.</b></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>This led to a
response by Prime Minister Narendra Modi followed by several ministers.
On April 19, the PMO tweeted quoting Modi: “COVID-19 does not see race,
religion, colour, caste, creed, language or borders before striking.”</b></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>The
next day, India’s ambassador to UAE Pavan Kapoor tweeted:
“Discrimination is against our moral fabric and the Rule of law. Indian
nationals in the UAE should always remember this.”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Union Minister Prakash Javadekar described it as a secular-communal
narrative being pushed deliberately while Union minority affairs
minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi declared that India was always a heaven for
minorities and Muslims.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>The princess, or “shaikha”, explained
the reason behind her April 15 tweet that resulted in a blitzkrieg of
support for her on twitter by Arab activists and intellectuals.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>“I
noticed an Indian making fun of my religion, my prophet, my country and
it’s achievements, ridiculed it’s accomplishments and was threatening
us on our land. I was shocked and I felt violated,” she said.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Al
Qassemi said that many Indians went after her, claiming she was
defending the Tablighi Jamaat, who were blamed for spreading the virus.
"To be honest, I’ve never heard of them (Tablighi Jamaat). I wasn’t
defending a political group in India. I was defending humans being
killed," she said.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>“What happened to India?” she said, implying
that this wasn't the country she knew. "Hinduism is one of the most
peaceful religions. Perhaps more than Islam, Christianity and Judaism,"
she added and recalled how she grew up watching Indian movies,
eventually picking up a bit of Hindi too.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>She said she has had Hindi-speaking classmates, colleagues, workers and managers and even has “India (Hend)” as her first name.</b></span>My School - I wishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06860643351108210035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105850015144493853.post-14627537946334130102020-04-22T20:08:00.000+05:302020-04-22T20:08:47.211+05:30Crisis started by virus, spread by govt: Bajaj<span class="leftSpace">By</span> <a href="https://www.telegraphindia.com/author/our-special-correspondent/57"> Our Special Correspondent</a> <span class="location">in Mumbai</span><br />
<span class="location"><br /></span>
<span class="location">The following is from The Telegraph </span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Rajiv Bajaj, the outspoken managing director of two-wheeler
maker Bajaj Auto, on Tuesday slammed the Narendra Modi government for
enforcing an “arbitrary lockdown” to stop the spread of the coronavirus
pandemic.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>“The lockdown is a
solution that is looking for a problem,” Bajaj told CNBC TV18 news
channel while accusing the government of deepening the country’s
economic crisis and perpetuating the misery of its citizens by
endangering their livelihood.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>“This crisis started with a virus; it is being propagated by the government,” the straight-talking industrialist added.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Bajaj
has been a severe critic of the Modi government and its policies and
had famously attacked the demonetisation exercise of 2016 which failed
to meet its professed objective of shaking down black money from the
deepest recesses of the economy.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>“All I want is the government to work logically and sensibly. I don’t
need a relief package. We don’t have a demand problem… we have a
governance problem,” said Bajaj, becoming the first major industrialist
to voice frustration with the Modi government’s handling of the latest
crisis.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Bajaj Auto, which has plants at Chakan in Pune, Aurangabad
and Pantnagar in Uttarakhand, has been battered by the lockdown,
exacerbating its troubles that had stemmed from an economy whose growth
rate had tumbled to less than 5 per cent in the last fiscal ended March
31.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Production at the two-wheeler maker has come to a complete
halt after the lockdown and its dealerships in the so-called green zone
areas have not been able to reopen even after the Centre partially
relaxed the restrictions on Monday.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Bajaj believes that herd
immunity — which in the case of coronavirus can be achieved only after a
sufficiently large number of people recover from infection — is the way
to go since the development of a vaccine is still two years away.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>The
Bajaj Auto boss said the authorities must allow everybody to return to
work except those above 60 years if they wanted the floundering economy
to recover.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>The IMF had recently forecast that India’s economic
growth would sink to 1.9 per cent this fiscal — its lowest level in five
decades — while the global economy would tip into recession with an
overall growth of minus 3 per cent.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Bajaj urged the government to scrap the rules under which a
dealership or a factory can be sealed for up to three months if an
employee is infected with Covid-19.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>“This is a draconian move and
is preposterous. We will take every precaution and you can inspect the
premises every day. Do not hold this sword over the heads of the
people,” he said.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>“You can start an inspector raj… please subject
us to checks over our practices. If there is something wrong, please
close us down for two days and allow us to comply with the rules. But
what is this? You are locking us completely down for three months….
Nobody will open (their plants) in the current situation,” Bajaj said.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>The
two-wheeler tycoon said the government’s move to relax restrictions
would not achieve the objective because it was fundamentally flawed.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>“We
have to first be allowed to open our dealerships. No dealership is now
open even in the green zones. The situation is arbitrary and erratic and
dealers are afraid to open up as they just don’t know what action they
will face from the police or other authorities,” he said during the interaction.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Bajaj
Auto’s plant in Pantnagar in Uttarakhand had received permission to
resume operations. But this provided little comfort, he said, since the
supply chains had not been restored and workers were not able to reach
the factory.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>The company recently said its employees had
volunteered to take pay cuts due to the unprecedented situation. Bajaj,
who has foregone his entire salary during the period of the lockdown,
said the company was working on a plan to save Rs 100-200 crore
annually.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>“We are tightening everything. We need to secure the
ship,” he said, adding that the demand in the automobile sector would
return sooner than what many believe once the lockdown ends. </b></span>My School - I wishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06860643351108210035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105850015144493853.post-28082330984553065082020-04-19T12:25:00.002+05:302020-04-19T12:25:45.995+05:30‘Beaten’ for stepping out for biscuits, UP teen dies 'Eyewitnesses said the cops beat Rizwan with batons and rifle butts'<br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>A teenaged boy, Mohammad Rizwan, whom policemen allegedly
beat up while he was trying to buy food, died on Saturday, becoming the
first fatality from purported police high-handedness in enforcing the
lockdown in Uttar Pradesh.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Rizwan’s father, Mohammed Israil, said his son had felt very hungry on Thursday night.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>“<i>Mera
babu Guruwar rat ko bahut bhookh lagi thi, toh chala gaya biscuit
kharidne. Police ne danda mar mar ke bahut ghayal kar diya</i> (My son
felt very hungry on Thursday night, so he stepped out to buy biscuits.
The police beat him and badly injured him),” a weeping Israil told
reporters outside the district government hospital on Saturday morning.
“The police, not the coronavirus, killed my son,” he said.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Villagers
at Chhajjapur in Ambedkar Nagar alleged the police had selectively
targeted a hungry Rizwan, 19, refusing to let him buy the biscuits
citing the lockdown restrictions.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>There were other customers at the grocery store whom the police
did not stop, claimed a villager, Munna, who said he was an uncle of
Rizwan.“Eyewitnesses said the cops beat Rizwan with batons and rifle butts. Some of them later brought him home,” Munna said.He
said panic buying by some people ahead of the lockdown — and lack of
supplies since then — had left most other households short of food
grains and, therefore, chronically underfed during the past few weeks.
Among them was the family of Rizwan, he said.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>The Yogi Adityanath
government had announced plans to supply food grains to the poor at
their doorstep. However, many across the state are saying this isn’t
happening.“Most of the villagers here had had nothing to eat for
more than two days as they had not hoarded food grains at their homes
when the lockdown was announced from March 25,” Munna said.</b></span></div>
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>“We
were cooking whatever there was at our homes. Israil, a farmer, had not
much to cook. So he gave Rizwan some money and asked him to bring
biscuits, the only food available in the nearest shop.”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Avanish
Kumar Mishra, additional superintendent of police in charge of the area,
said: “We are collecting evidence with the help of CCTV cameras and
will not spare any policemen, if found guilty.”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Superintendent of
police Alok Priyadarshi said: “We are probing it seriously. Action will
be initiated against the accused soon.” </b></span>My School - I wishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06860643351108210035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105850015144493853.post-4906997436846064762020-04-19T10:34:00.001+05:302020-04-19T10:34:31.684+05:30Delhi share wall to stall ChinaA February report said Chinese FDI into India stood at $6.2b<br />
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<span class="leftSpace"> By</span> <a href="https://www.telegraphindia.com/author/r-suryamurthy/149"> R. Suryamurthy</a> <span class="location">in New Delhi</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>The Narendra Modi government on Saturday put in place a
regulatory oversight mechanism in a thinly disguised attempt to stop
Chinese investors from scooping up stakes in Indian companies whose
valuations may have gone through the wringer after the coronavirus
outbreak.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>The department for the
promotion of industry and internal trade (DPIIT) issued a press note
that said that foreign investments from countries that share a border
with India will require government approval from now on.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>The note,
which did not mention China, said the change in the policy governing
foreign direct investment was designed to curb “opportunistic takeovers
or acquisitions of Indian companies due to the current Covid-19
pandemic”.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>India shares land borders with seven countries: Pakistan, Bangladesh, China, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar and Afghanistan.</b></span><br />
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<figure class="imagezoomer"> <span class="image-and-copyright-container"> <img alt="" src="https://static.telegraphindia.com/library/THE_TELEGRAPH/image/2020/4/f4d1d0e4-8540-4fd3-b81d-d6d78631d0f8.jpg" title="" /> <i class="sprite imagezoom-icon imgView" data-bigimage="https://static.telegraphindia.com/library/THE_TELEGRAPH/image/2020/4/f4d1d0e4-8540-4fd3-b81d-d6d78631d0f8.jpg" data-target="#myModal" data-toggle="modal"></i> </span> <figcaption class="media-caption"> </figcaption> </figure><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Similar
restrictions were already in place for Bangladesh and Pakistan but had
till now not applied to China and the other neighbours.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>The Modi
government had changed its FDI policy in 2017 when it abolished the
Foreign Investment Promotion Board, raised the foreign investment limits
in most sectors, and permitted most investments through the so-called
automatic route.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Many analysts tried to link the sudden decision
to a disclosure last week that the People’s Bank of China had raised its
stake in mortgage financier HDFC Ltd to 1.01 per cent during the
quarter ended March 31 — which had set alarm bells ringing in the
corridors of power.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>The move to subject Chinese investors to a
higher level of scrutiny and a rigorous approval process could hurt FDI
flows into two sectors: telecom and technology start-ups.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>The
bigger worry for investors will be that any change in the beneficial
ownership of any Indian entity – directly or indirectly -- as a result
of a “transfer of ownership of any existing or future FDI” that falls
within the ambit of the new rules will “also require government
approval”.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>This opens the doors for government scrutiny of
cross-border transactions and offshore entities to check any contrived
shareholding structures involving tax haven-based entities.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Analysts
said the move could see the government demanding an ultimate investor
disclosure and scrutiny of all the FDI coming into the country,
including those coming through the automatic route.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>It normally
takes about five months to clear investment proposals made through the
approval route. This could widen with the change in the FDI regulations.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>The
move also came days after former Congress president Rahul Gandhi warned
that Indian corporate groups had become easy takeover targets because
of the economic slowdown and a meltdown in their valuations.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>“We
are living in extraordinary times and there is a heightened sense of
vulnerability. Given that every country is feeling vulnerable and no one
knows exactly what lies ahead, the Indian government seems to have
chosen to play safe with regard to investments in India by Chinese
companies,” said Saurabh Mukherjea, founder of Marcellus Investment
Managers.</b></span><br />
<b><span style="color: #351c75;">Start-ups face heat</span></b><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>The big question that
hangs in the air now is whether or not this will impact Huawei’s entry
into India with its 5G technology. US President Donald Trump has been
pressuring India to ban Huawei’s latest technology.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Several
countries in Europe including France, Germany and the UK have resisted
similar pressure from Trump. India has permitted Huawei to participate
in the 5G trials in India but it is still unclear whether the new FDI
changes will queer the pitch for the Chinese technology company.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Technology
start-ups could also face severe regulatory scrutiny. Reports suggest
that 18 among India’s top 30 unicorns -– a start-up valued at over $1
billion -– have Chinese investors.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Three large Chinese investors
-– the Alibaba group, Tencent Holdings and Xiaomi (Shunwei Capital) -–
have big stakes in Indian start-ups.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>The Alibaba group has stakes
in Bigbasket, PayTM, Rapido, Snapdeal and Zomato while Tencent has
investments in Byju’s, Flipkart, Hike, Ola and Swiggy. Xiaomi has a
footprint in Hungama, Rapido, Sharechat and ZestMoney.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>TikTok,
owned by ByteDance, is already one of the most popular apps in India and
has overtaken YouTube. Xiaomi handsets outsell Samsung smart phones;
Huawei routers are widely used in the country.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Bytedance has plans
to invest $1 billion in India. Chinese automakers including Great Wall
Motor Co Ltd and MG Motor, a unit of China’s SAIC, have said they also
intend to invest in the country.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>A February report by research group Gateway House said Chinese foreign direct investment into India stood at $6.2 billion.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Atul
Pandey, partner at Khaitan & Co, said: “The notification is not
restricted to prior approval for direct investments by Chinese firms and
also restricts any transfer of investments/ future FDI resulting in
beneficial ownership falling with Chinese firms.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>However, the mode
of computation of “beneficial ownership” is still unclear. “The
intention of the government is clear in wanting to evaluate Chinese
investments on a case-to-case basis. However, it is important to note
that this notification will have the force of law once necessary
amendments are introduced to the relevant regulations under the Foreign
Exchange Management Act (Fema).”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>He added: “The government could
seek ultimate investor disclosure in the reporting forms to identify who
is the actual/ ultimate beneficiary. Market regulator Sebi has already
asked for disclosure of beneficial ownership from all foreign portfolio
investors (FPIs) last week.”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Several countries have already
adopted similar restrictions to stop foreign investors from grabbing
control of domestic entities. Australia recently said all foreign
investment proposals would be assessed by a review board during the
coronavirus crisis to prevent a fire sale of distressed corporate
assets. Germany has taken similar measures.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Cyril Shroff, managing
partner at Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, said: “It is crucial to note that
this is not going to have a chilling effect on investment, given that
investments are only placed under the government route and not
restricted entirely.”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Analysts said disclosure norms currently
exist for investments coming from countries like Hong Kong, Singapore
and Mauritius to identify the ultimate beneficiary.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>The country
permits foreigners to directly invest in areas including oil exploration
and airports without having to seek government approvals.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>However,
there are 17 sectors including defence, telecom and pharmaceuticals
that require government approval if a foreign investor intends to invest
above a certain threshold.</b></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Proposals involving FDI exceeding Rs 50 billion must be placed before the cabinet committee on economic affairs.</b></span>My School - I wishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06860643351108210035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105850015144493853.post-17382658497756382822020-04-19T10:23:00.000+05:302020-04-19T10:23:17.626+05:30Trump backs protests against states<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>President Trump on Friday openly encouraged right-wing
protests of social distancing restrictions in states with stay-at-home
orders, a day after announcing guidelines for how the nation’s governors
should carry out an orderly reopening of their communities on their own
timetables.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>In a series of
all-caps tweets that started two minutes after a Fox News report on the
protesters, the President declared, “LIBERATE MICHIGAN!” and “LIBERATE
MINNESOTA!” — two states whose Democratic governors have imposed strict
social distancing restrictions. He also lashed out at Virginia, where
the state’s Democratic governor and legislature have pushed for strict
gun control measures, saying: “LIBERATE VIRGINIA, and save your great
2nd Amendment. It is under siege!”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>His stark departure from the
more bipartisan tone of his announcement on Thursday night suggested
Trump was ceding any semblance of national leadership on the pandemic,
and choosing instead to divide the country by playing to his political
base.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Echoed across the Internet and on cable television by
conservative pundits and ultraRight conspiracy theorists, his tweets
were a remarkable example of a President egging on demonstrators and
helping to stoke an angry fervour that in its anti-government rhetoric
was eerily reminiscent of the birth of the Tea Party movement a decade
ago.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>In another series of tweets on Friday, the President returned
again to the kind of rank partisanship that has characterised much of
his time in office, rekindling a fight with governor Andrew M. Cuomo of
New York, only days after heaping praise on him. Cuomo, he said, should
“spend more time ‘doing’ and less time ‘complaining’”.</b></span></div>
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>The retort
came after the governor said that New York could not fully re-open its
economy without more widespread testing and help from the federal
government. </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Even before Cuomo had finished speaking during his
televised daily briefing, Trump lashed out, tweeting, “We built you
thousands of hospital beds that you didn’t need or use, gave large
numbers of Ventilators that you should have had, and helped you with
testing that you should be doing.” He said Cuomo owed the federal
government a thank-you.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>“First of all, if he’s sitting home watching TV, maybe he should get up and go to work, right?” Cuomo responded in real time. </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>“Second, let’s keep emotion and politics out of this, and personal ego if we can. Because this is about the people.”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>The governor added that he had repeatedly thanked the federal government for its aid.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>“I don’t know what I’m supposed to do — send a bouquet of flowers?” Cuomo asked.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>In
unveiling guidelines on Thursday evening at the White House that
governors could use to decide when it was safe to phase out
restrictions, Trump had taken a more measured tone, emphasising that “we
are not opening all at once, but one careful step at a time”.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Trump’s
call for liberation from social distancing rules followed protests
around the country as protesters congregated in packed groups around
state capitols to demand that restrictions be immediately lifted and to
demonise their Democratic governors.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>In Michigan, protesters waved banners in support of Trump and protested governor Gretchen Whitmer by chanting, “Lock her up”.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>In
St Paul, Minnesota, a group calling itself “Liberate Minnesota” rallied
against stay-at-home orders in front of the home of governor Tim Walz,
demanding he “end this lockdown!” In Columbus, Ohio, protesters crowded
closely together as they pressed up against the doors of the state’s
Capitol.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Speaking on Friday evening at the White House, the
President expressed sympathy for the protesters for having to endure
what he called “too tough” social distancing orders in their states, and
he dismissed concerns that they could spread the virus by holding
demonstrations.</b></span>My School - I wishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06860643351108210035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105850015144493853.post-16817560031574995812020-04-16T19:57:00.000+05:302020-04-16T19:57:34.675+05:30TREATMENT OF COVID-19 PATIENTS BY “OFF-LABEL” HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE AND AZITHROMYCIN RAISES SERIOUS CONCERNS FOR CARDIOVASCULAR SIDE-EFFECTS: PBT FILES URGENT PIL IN SC SEEKING SAFETY CHANGES AND “INFORMED CONSENT”<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 24px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">
<span style="color: #351c75;">Treatment guidelines issued by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFQW) have recommended “off-label” use of highly controversial and unproven combination therapy with an anti-malarial drug, Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and broad-spectrum antibiotic, Azithromycin (AZM) for seriously ill ICU-bound COVID-19 patients. Serious warnings were issued last week through an urgent joint bulletin by American Heart Association (AHA), American College of Cardiology (ACC) and Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) in USA. Similar warnings for potential irregular heartbeat (arrhythmia), heart failure and possible death were also published last week by Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ). Also, a massive multi-national study with more than 300,ooo patients in USA, UK, Germany, Spain, Netherlands and Japan reported last week of increased “cardiac mortality” in patients receiving MCQ and AZM.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">The AHA/ACC/HRS bulletin cautioned doctors using MCQ and AZM on COVID-19 patients to take six specific precautionary therapeutic measures to prevent adverse effects and potential death, especially for patients with pre-existing heart conditions. PBT appealed repeatedly to the Health Ministry to make necessary changes in the treatment guidelines for COVID-19 patients receiving MCQ and AZM and to urgently implement the precautionary measures as advised by the top international cardiac expert bodies (AHA/ACC/HRS/CMAJ) but no action was taken. Compelled to file an urgent PIL in SC today, PBT has sought for immediate implementation of the precautionary measures advised by AHA/ACC/HRS. PBT has also sought that proper “informed consent” must be taken from COVID-19 patients before “off-label” use of MCQ and AZM after explaining all the risks involved as potential adverse effects of these drug combination.</span></div>
My School - I wishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06860643351108210035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105850015144493853.post-71872188764546412942020-04-16T09:49:00.000+05:302020-04-16T09:49:04.853+05:30Chinese research firm attached to PLA first to start 2nd clinical trial for coronavirus vaccine<span style="color: #351c75;"><b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">BEIJING: A Chinese research firm attached to the military has become the first organisation to enter the second clinical-trial stage in the global race to develop a vaccine for the </span><a href="https://health.economictimes.indiatimes.com/tag/coronavirus" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">coronavirus</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> infection, which has claimed nearly 120,000 lives across the world so far.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">China has approved three COVID-19 vaccine submissions for clinical trials, state-run Xinhua news agency quoted a Ministry of Science and Technology official as saying on Tuesday.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">An adenovirus vector vaccine, developed by a research team led by Major General Chen Wei of the </span><a href="https://health.economictimes.indiatimes.com/tag/institute+of+military+medicine" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Institute of Military Medicine</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> under the Academy of Military Sciences of the People's Liberation Army, was the first to be approved to enter clinical trial.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">The first phase of the clinical trial was completed at the end of March, and the second phase started on April 12.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">It is the first COVID-19 vaccine in the world that has entered the second phase of clinical trial, the Xinhua report quoting the </span><a href="https://health.economictimes.indiatimes.com/tag/world+health+organization" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">World Health Organization</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> as saying.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">On Sunday, the vaccine developed by the Institute of Biotechnology, </span><a href="https://health.economictimes.indiatimes.com/tag/academy+of+military+medical+sciences+of+china" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Academy of Military Medical Sciences of China</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">, entered Phase II of a human clinical trial with 500 volunteer participants.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">The eldest volunteer is a 84-year-old </span><a href="https://health.economictimes.indiatimes.com/tag/wuhan" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Wuhan</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> resident, Xiong Zhengxing, who completed the vaccination on Monday morning.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">The vaccine is developed by genetic engineering methods and is used to prevent diseases caused by novel coronavirus infections, state-run China Daily reported on Monday.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">The first phase of the vaccine clinical trial focused on its safety, while the second phase weighs more on its efficacy. Unlike the first phase, the second phase recruited more participants and introduced a placebo control group.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Volunteer recruitment for the vaccine began on Thursday. It is China's first candidate for the virus that entered clinical human testing. The Phase I trial was conducted in March.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Following the outbreak of COVID-19 in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, many other Chinese institutes are also stepping up efforts to develop vaccines for the deadly disease that has killed over 120,000 people and infected 1,929,000 across the globe.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">China has stepped up the process to finalise vaccines to counter COVID-19 after Kaiser Permanente research facility in Seattle and Washington stole the march and began human trials.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">On Monday, the WHO said a safe and effective vaccine would be needed to fully halt the spread of COVID-19.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">"Our global connectedness means the risk of re-introduction and resurgence of COVID-19 will continue," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual briefing from Geneva, stressing that "ultimately, the development and delivery of a safe and effective vaccine will be needed to fully interrupt transmission."</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">There is a global race to develop the vaccine. India's Serum Institute of India and Bharat Biotech lab are also developing vaccines besides firms in Australia and the UK.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Currently, there are no effective drugs for the deadly disease, although several candidate drugs are in clinical trials.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Scientists say China may have a head start on the development of the vaccine as it was the first to map out the genome sequence of the novel coronavirus after it surfaced in Wuhan city in December last year.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">China subsequently shared the genome sequence with the WHO, the US and other countries, setting off the race to develop the vaccine.</span></b></span>My School - I wishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06860643351108210035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105850015144493853.post-55830442892794086212020-04-15T20:39:00.001+05:302020-04-15T20:39:09.264+05:30Biological Weapons Convention INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT<span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">WRITTEN BY: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"></span><br />
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The convention was signed in </span><a class="md-crosslink autoxref" href="https://www.britannica.com/place/London" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">London</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px;">, </span><a class="md-crosslink autoxref" href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Moscow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Moscow</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px;">, and Washington, </span><a class="md-crosslink autoxref" href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Washington-DC" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">D.C.</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px;">, on April 10, 1972, and thereafter was opened for signing by other states. The convention went into force on March 26, 1975, following the submission of 22 national instruments of ratification (such as passage by a national assembly). By 2013, 170 states and Taiwan had signed and ratified the BWC, and 10 states had signed but not ratified it. Sixteen member states of the </span><a class="md-crosslink autoxref" href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/United-Nations" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">United Nations</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px;"> had neither signed nor ratified the treaty by that time.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px;"><div>
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The BWC prohibits countries that have signed the treaty from developing, producing, stockpiling, acquiring, or retaining biological agents or toxins of types and in quantities that have no justification for protective, defensive, or other peaceful purposes. The treaty also bans any equipment or means of delivery that is designed to use biological agents or toxins for hostile purposes or armed conflict. It requires signatories to destroy biological weapons, agents, and production facilities within nine months of the treaty’s entry into force.</div>
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Unfortunately, the BWC does not yet contain provisions for verification of members’ <a class="md-dictionary-link md-dictionary-tt-off" data-term="compliance" href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/compliance" style="background: transparent; border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(20, 89, 157); box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none !important; vertical-align: baseline;">compliance</a>, and there has been evidence of significant cheating by some parties since the treaty went into effect. For example, the <span id="ref940560" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><a class="md-crosslink" href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Soviet-Union" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Soviet Union</a> engaged in a massive <a class="md-dictionary-link md-dictionary-tt-off" data-term="clandestine" href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clandestine" style="background: transparent; border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(20, 89, 157); box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none !important; vertical-align: baseline;">clandestine</a> biological weapons program in direct violation of the BWC from the day it signed the treaty in 1972. The illegal program was revealed by scientists formerly involved in the program and finally confirmed by <a class="md-crosslink autoxref" href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Russia" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Russia’s</a> first post-Soviet president, <span id="ref940561" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><a class="md-crosslink" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Boris-Yeltsin" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Boris Yeltsin</a>, who ordered the termination of all Russian offensive biological weapons programs in 1992.</div>
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The lack of a necessarily intrusive inspection and reporting system has left the states who are parties to the treaty with no strong <a class="md-dictionary-link md-dictionary-tt-off" data-term="assurance" href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/assurance" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(20, 89, 157); box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none !important; vertical-align: baseline;">assurance</a> that they can monitor and verify other members’ compliance with the terms of the BWC. Biological weapons programs can be easily concealed and need not require large numbers of personnel or large-scale physical plants. For instance, a clandestine weapons program can be hidden inside a perfectly legal vaccine-production facility or pharmaceutical plant. Weapons laboratories disguised in this way would give off few unique “signatures,” or telltale signs that illicit activity is taking place. Indeed, if “national technical means” (that is, spy satellites and other such systems) are the only methods used to verify BWC compliance and if more-traditional “human intelligence” (i.e., spies and defectors) is insufficient, a massive biological weapons program might take place in a country that has signed the BWC without any physical evidence coming to light. This lack of a verification procedure has led some critics of the BWC to argue that the best deterrent to being attacked with biological weapons is not a treaty at all but rather the recognized ability to retaliate in equal or greater measure.</div>
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Proponents of the BWC argue that the treaty provides an international norm for the world <a class="md-dictionary-link md-dictionary-tt-off" data-term="community" href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/community" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(20, 89, 157); box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none !important; vertical-align: baseline;">community</a>, making it understood by all that biological weapons are <a class="md-dictionary-link md-dictionary-tt-off" data-term="illegitimate" href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/illegitimate" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(20, 89, 157); box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none !important; vertical-align: baseline;">illegitimate</a> tools of statecraft or warfare. Therefore, if violations are detected, the international community can be more easily mobilized to pressure the offending regime into giving up the weapons lest it face military, economic, and diplomatic sanctions. The BWC, it is also argued, makes proliferation harder, slower, and more expensive for cheaters. Finally, it is argued that the presence of an international treaty on biological weapons may put pressure on even nonsignatory states to comply with the treaty or at least to restrict their biological weapons programs by creating an international norm against them.</div>
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My School - I wishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06860643351108210035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105850015144493853.post-77939587831979671362020-04-11T20:09:00.000+05:302020-04-11T20:09:04.666+05:30Having the right connections is beneficial in the share market also<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Having the right connections, especially when it is with the PM of a country helps you in the share market also. People realize that you have the right connection and they give a better discount to your company although the other company may have a reliable reputation and have a better pedigree.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Thus, although Tata Power has much better income and profit history, Adani Power is treated much better by the share market.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>I mention here two companies, both dealing in power. One is Adani Power and the other is Tata Power.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>I give below the December quarter figures of the two companies and the share price of both companies on 9.4.20</b></span><br />
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<td class="xl66" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 87pt;" width="116"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>(in Cr.)</b></span></td>
<td class="xl67" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>19-Dec</b></span></td>
<td class="xl67" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>19-Sep</b></span></td>
<td class="xl67" style="width: 51pt;" width="68"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>19-Jun</b></span></td>
<td class="xl67" style="width: 49pt;" width="65"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>19-Mar</b></span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Income Statement</b></span></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl63" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 87pt;" width="116"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Revenue</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>425.52</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>16.59</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 51pt;" width="68"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>31.9</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 49pt;" width="65"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>30.28</b></span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl63" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 87pt;" width="116"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Other
Income</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>255.21</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>245.38</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 51pt;" width="68"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>193.77</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 49pt;" width="65"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>233.28</b></span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl63" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 87pt;" width="116"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Total
Income</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>680.73</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>261.97</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 51pt;" width="68"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>225.67</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 49pt;" width="65"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>263.56</b></span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl63" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 87pt;" width="116"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Expenditure</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-738.81</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-330.23</b></span></td>
<td class="xl65" style="width: 51pt;" width="68"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-1,334.50</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 49pt;" width="65"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-317.26</b></span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl63" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 87pt;" width="116"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Interest</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-316.26</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-304.98</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 51pt;" width="68"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-287.85</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 49pt;" width="65"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-283.85</b></span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl63" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 87pt;" width="116"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>PBDT</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-58.08</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-68.26</b></span></td>
<td class="xl65" style="width: 51pt;" width="68"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-1,108.83</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 49pt;" width="65"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-53.7</b></span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl63" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 87pt;" width="116"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Depreciation</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-8.58</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-8.86</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 51pt;" width="68"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-8.93</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 49pt;" width="65"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-9.12</b></span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl63" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 87pt;" width="116"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>PBT</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-66.66</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-77.12</b></span></td>
<td class="xl65" style="width: 51pt;" width="68"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-1,117.76</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 49pt;" width="65"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-62.82</b></span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl63" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 87pt;" width="116"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Tax</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>--</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>--</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 51pt;" width="68"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>--</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 49pt;" width="65"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>--</b></span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl63" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 87pt;" width="116"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Net
Profit</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-66.66</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-77.12</b></span></td>
<td class="xl65" style="width: 51pt;" width="68"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-1,117.76</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 49pt;" width="65"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-62.82</b></span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl63" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 87pt;" width="116"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Equity</b></span></td>
<td class="xl65" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>3,856.94</b></span></td>
<td class="xl65" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>3,856.94</b></span></td>
<td class="xl65" style="width: 51pt;" width="68"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>3,856.94</b></span></td>
<td class="xl65" style="width: 49pt;" width="65"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>3,856.94</b></span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl63" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 87pt;" width="116"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>EPS</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-0.69</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-0.72</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 51pt;" width="68"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-3.42</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 49pt;" width="65"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-0.49</b></span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl63" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 87pt;" width="116"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>CEPS</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-0.15</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-0.18</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 51pt;" width="68"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-2.87</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 49pt;" width="65"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-0.14</b></span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl63" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 87pt;" width="116"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>OPM %</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-13.65</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-411.45</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 51pt;" width="68"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-3475.96</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 49pt;" width="65"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-177.34</b></span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl63" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 87pt;" width="116"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>NPM %</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-15.67</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-464.86</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 51pt;" width="68"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-3503.95</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 49pt;" width="65"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-207.46</b></span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;"></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="19" style="height: 14.25pt; mso-height-source: userset;">
<td class="xl68" colspan="3" height="19" style="height: 14.25pt;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Tata Power: Price
on 9.4.20 - 36.50</b></span></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 87pt;" width="116"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>(in Cr.)</b></span></td>
<td class="xl67" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>19-Dec</b></span></td>
<td class="xl67" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>19-Sep</b></span></td>
<td class="xl67" style="width: 51pt;" width="68"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>19-Jun</b></span></td>
<td class="xl67" style="width: 49pt;" width="65"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>19-Mar</b></span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Income Statement</b></span></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl63" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 87pt;" width="116"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Revenue</b></span></td>
<td class="xl65" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>1,932.22</b></span></td>
<td class="xl65" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>1,993.21</b></span></td>
<td class="xl65" style="width: 51pt;" width="68"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>2,036.54</b></span></td>
<td class="xl65" style="width: 49pt;" width="65"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>2,169.83</b></span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl63" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 87pt;" width="116"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Other
Income</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>1.32</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>121.07</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 51pt;" width="68"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>374.09</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 49pt;" width="65"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>99.62</b></span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl63" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 87pt;" width="116"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Total
Income</b></span></td>
<td class="xl65" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>1,933.54</b></span></td>
<td class="xl65" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>2,114.28</b></span></td>
<td class="xl65" style="width: 51pt;" width="68"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>2,410.63</b></span></td>
<td class="xl65" style="width: 49pt;" width="65"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>2,269.45</b></span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl63" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 87pt;" width="116"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Expenditure</b></span></td>
<td class="xl65" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-1,571.30</b></span></td>
<td class="xl65" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-1,600.12</b></span></td>
<td class="xl65" style="width: 51pt;" width="68"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-1,725.65</b></span></td>
<td class="xl65" style="width: 49pt;" width="65"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-2,011.51</b></span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl63" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 87pt;" width="116"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Interest</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-378.43</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-385.38</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 51pt;" width="68"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-386.96</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 49pt;" width="65"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-444.33</b></span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl63" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 87pt;" width="116"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>PBDT</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>362.24</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>514.16</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 51pt;" width="68"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>684.98</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 49pt;" width="65"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>257.94</b></span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl63" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 87pt;" width="116"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Depreciation</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-188.45</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-162.07</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 51pt;" width="68"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-163.05</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 49pt;" width="65"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-160.57</b></span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl63" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 87pt;" width="116"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>PBT</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>173.79</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>352.09</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 51pt;" width="68"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>521.93</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 49pt;" width="65"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>97.37</b></span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl63" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 87pt;" width="116"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Tax</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>23.61</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-11.52</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 51pt;" width="68"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-23.28</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 49pt;" width="65"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>32.59</b></span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl63" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 87pt;" width="116"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Net
Profit</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>6.94</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>154.61</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 51pt;" width="68"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>296.51</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 49pt;" width="65"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>53.86</b></span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl63" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 87pt;" width="116"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Equity</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>270.5</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>270.5</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 51pt;" width="68"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>270.5</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 49pt;" width="65"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>270.5</b></span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl63" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 87pt;" width="116"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>EPS</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>-0.08</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>0.38</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 51pt;" width="68"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>1.06</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 49pt;" width="65"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>0.19</b></span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl63" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 87pt;" width="116"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>CEPS</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>0.72</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>1.17</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 51pt;" width="68"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>1.7</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 49pt;" width="65"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>0.79</b></span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl63" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 87pt;" width="116"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>OPM %</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>18.75</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>25.8</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 51pt;" width="68"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>33.63</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 49pt;" width="65"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>11.89</b></span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl63" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 87pt;" width="116"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>NPM %</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>0.36</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 46pt;" width="61"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>7.76</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 51pt;" width="68"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>14.56</b></span></td>
<td class="xl64" style="width: 49pt;" width="65"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>2.48</b></span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
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My School - I wishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06860643351108210035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105850015144493853.post-10353526517141720622020-04-11T16:54:00.000+05:302020-04-11T16:54:08.887+05:30Should China be Penalized for the outbreak of Wuhan-19?<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>It is said every cloud has a silver lining.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>What silver lining has the Wuhan-19 Virus have for the world?</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>1.It has brought out into the open germ warfare and viral warfare which we have been hearing for many years but have so far been unaware of the dangers. We had first heard rumblings of these during the Vietnam war when the USA was accused of using it against North Vietnam. We can thank China for opening our eyes.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Now that the world is aware of the repercussions, all the countries can sit under the auspicious of the UN and can draw up plans to STOP all such research.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>2. Since it is now established that the virus originated from Wuhan, it should be called Wuhan-19 virus and not COVID-19 as China would want the world to call it. This is to make future generations remember the harm that China has done to the world.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>3. It is now established that the Wuhan-19 virus originated from Wuhan, China. We have to now confirm beyond reasonable doubt whether it was intentionally released by China to destroy the world economy and become World Leader. This can be done only when things normalize and the different agencies of different countries, combine under the auspices of the UN to do a thorough enquiry.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>4. All countries in the world should combine to stop all business relations with China. I know, it will be difficult for the industries have to be set up. I noticed with shock, most of the countries including India do not have machinery to make protective equipments for fight against Wuhan -19. This will be the best time for India, under Modi's "Make in India" plan to make the complete range of equipments on war footing for our own use and for use of the countries in Europe and USA. This will provide works to thousands of our countrymen who can work from their homes with their tailoring machines and with textiles supplied by the government.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>5. Every Diwali and Holi Indians are exhorted to stop using Chinese colours, twinkling decoration lights and crackers. These are very small items compared to the total imports from China. The LED lights in our homes, the fans and other electric appliances, the mobile phones, the PCs , the Laptops, complete power plants, workshop machinery, Panels for solar energy etc. etc. I could continue and even 10 pages would not suffice for the list of items imported from China.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>I know it will be difficult to do without them for they come very cheap. My family itself is using Oppo phones. Let us decide on a date one year hence when we will all stop using Chinese products. Let it be the anniversary of the date the first Wuhan -19 virus patient was found in each country. On that day let all the citizens of the world destroy all the Chinese products in their homes. In the intervening one year let us get alternate products made from other countries or made by our own country. Knocked Down parts from China, assembled in India should be considered as Chinese products. For phones. let us all start using Nokia, Samsung or other Japanese or Taiwan Brands. The manufacturer should certify that no Chinese parts have been used.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>6. Our Industrialists who are importing consumer electricals in the Semi Knocked Down or Knocked Down or complete condition should stop immediately. No matter what the price, they should make everything in India. This will level the playing field for all. The government also should reduce their taxes and duties to make them competitive. All companies should certify that they are not importing anything from China.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>7. By the time this pandemic ends as per my estimate, at least 5 million people will have died all over the world from Wuhan - 19. China should be made to pay the penalty for all these deaths and the suffering caused to the people and the fall in economies of countries. of the world. The investments made by China in the different countries of the world to gain foothold should be confiscated and that investment should be considered Nil. The Dollars which China holds against trade imbalance with the USA should also be confiscated. This money which is confiscated should be used to revive the economies of those countries which have suffered most because of Wuhan-19 in terms of persons and economy. If the Chinese do not have these dollar credits, they will not be able to destabilize government around the world.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>8. All flights to and fro from China should be cancelled immediately. Let the world isolate China for the crime it has done against humanity.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>These are just a few of my suggestions. I know there are many bigger brains who can bring forth more ideas to punish China.</b></span>My School - I wishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06860643351108210035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105850015144493853.post-1586956785998827152020-04-10T15:14:00.001+05:302020-04-10T15:14:30.716+05:30How the Smallpox vaccine was discovered.<h1 id="content" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 2.125rem; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 0.75rem; margin-top: 1rem !important;">
<span style="color: #20124d;">History of Smallpox</span></h1>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">Origin of Smallpox</span></h2>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>The origin of smallpox is unknown. Smallpox is thought to date back to the Egyptian Empire around the 3<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.65em; line-height: 1.15; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">rd</span> century BCE (Before Common Era), based on a smallpox-like rash found on three mummies. The earliest written description of a disease that clearly resembles smallpox appeared in China in the 4<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.65em; line-height: 1.15; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">th</span> century CE (Common Era). Early written descriptions also appeared in India in the 7<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.65em; line-height: 1.15; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">th</span> century and in Asia Minor in the 10<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.65em; line-height: 1.15; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">th</span> century.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">Spread of Smallpox</span></h2>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>The global spread of smallpox can be traced to the growth and spread of civilizations, exploration, and expanding trade routes <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/smallpox/history/smallpox-origin.html" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;">over the centuries</a>.</b></span></div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.4rem;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><b>11<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.65em; line-height: 1.15; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">th</span> Century – Crusades further spread smallpox in Europe.</b></span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.4rem;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><b>15<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.65em; line-height: 1.15; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">th</span> Century – Portuguese occupation introduces smallpox into part of western Africa.</b></span></li>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.4rem;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><b>18<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.65em; line-height: 1.15; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">th</span> Century – Exploration by Great Britain introduces smallpox into Australia.</b></span></li>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">Early Control Efforts</span></h2>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>Smallpox was a devastating disease. On average, 3 out of every 10 people who got it died. Those who survived were usually left with scars, which were sometimes severe.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>One of the first methods for controlling the spread of smallpox was the use of variolation. Named after the virus that causes smallpox (variola virus), variolation is the process by which material from smallpox sores (pustules) was given to people who had never had smallpox. This was done either by scratching the material into the arm or inhaling it through the nose. With both types of variolation, people usually went on to develop the symptoms associated with smallpox, such as fever and a rash. However, fewer people died from variolation than if they had acquired smallpox naturally.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>The basis for vaccination began in 1796 when an English doctor named Edward Jenner observed that milkmaids who had gotten cowpox did not show any symptoms of smallpox after variolation. The first experiment to test this theory involved milkmaid Sarah Nelmes and James Phipps, the 9 year-old son of Jenner’s gardener. Dr. Jenner took material from a cowpox sore on Nelmes’ hand and inoculated it into Phipps’ arm. Months later, Jenner exposed Phipps a number of times to variola virus, but Phipps never developed smallpox. More experiments followed, and, in 1801, Jenner published his treatise “On the Origin of the Vaccine Inoculation,” in which he summarized his discoveries and expressed hope that “the annihilation of the smallpox, the most dreadful scourge of the human species, must be the final result of this practice.”</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>Global Smallpox Eradication</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>In 1959, the World Health Organization (WHO) initiated a plan to rid the world of smallpox. Unfortunately, this global eradication campaign suffered from lack of funds, personnel, and commitment from countries, as well as a shortage of vaccine donations. Despite their best efforts, smallpox was still widespread in 1966, causing regular outbreaks in multiple countries across South America, Africa, and Asia.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>The Intensified Eradication Program began in 1967 with a promise of renewed efforts. This time, laboratories in many countries where smallpox occurred regularly (endemic countries) were able to produce more, higher quality freeze-dried vaccine. A number of other factors also played an important role in the success of the intensified efforts, including the development of the bifurcated needle, establishment of a surveillance system to detect and investigate cases, and mass vaccination campaigns, to name a few.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>By the time the Intensified Eradication Program began in 1967, smallpox had already been eliminated in North America (1952) and Europe (1953), leaving South America, Asia, and Africa (smallpox was never widespread in Australia). The Program made steady progress toward ridding the world of this disease, and by 1971 smallpox was eradicated from South America, followed by Asia (1975), and finally Africa (1977).</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>In late 1975, Rahima Banu, a three-year-old girl from Bangladesh, was the last person in the world to have naturally acquired <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/smallpox/about/index.html" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;">variola major</a> and the last person in Asia to have active smallpox. She was isolated at home with house guards posted 24 hours a day until she was no longer infectious. A house-to-house vaccination campaign within a 1.5 mile radius of her home began immediately, and every house, public meeting area, school, and healer within 5 miles was visited by a member of the Smallpox Eradication Program team to ensure the illness did not spread. A reward was also offered to anyone for reporting a smallpox case.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>Ali Maow Maalin was the last person to have naturally acquired smallpox caused by variola minor. Maalin was a hospital cook in Merca, Somalia. On October 12, 1977, he accompanied two smallpox patients in a vehicle from the hospital to the local smallpox office. On October 22, he developed a fever. At first he was diagnosed with malaria, and then chickenpox. He was correctly diagnosed with smallpox by the smallpox eradication staff on October 30. Maalin was isolated and made a full recovery. Maalin died of malaria on July 22, 2013 while working in the polio eradication campaign.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>Janet Parker was the last person to die of smallpox. It was 1978, and Parker was a medical photographer at the Birmingham University Medical School in England and worked one floor above the Medical Microbiology Department where smallpox research was being conducted. She became ill on August 11 and developed a rash on August 15 but was not diagnosed with smallpox until 9 days later. She died on September 11, 1978. Her mother, who was providing care for her, developed smallpox on September 7, despite having been vaccinated on August 24. An investigation performed afterward suggested that Janet Parker had been infected either via an airborne route through the medical school building’s duct system or by direct contact while visiting the microbiology corridor one floor above.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>Almost two centuries after Jenner published his hope that vaccination could annihilate smallpox, on May 8, 1980, the 33<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.65em; line-height: 1.15; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">rd</span> World Health Assembly officially declared the world free of this disease. Eradication of smallpox is considered the biggest achievement in international public health.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>Following the eradication of smallpox, scientists and public health officials determined there was still a need to perform <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/smallpox/research/index.html" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;">research</a> using the variola virus. They agreed to reduce the number of laboratories holding stocks of variola virus to only four locations. In 1981, the four countries that either served as a WHO collaborating center or were actively working with variola virus were the United States, England, Russia, and South Africa. By 1984, England and South Africa had either destroyed their stocks or transferred them to other approved labs. There are now only two locations where variola virus is officially stored and handled under WHO supervision: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, and the State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology (VECTOR Institute) in Koltsovo, Russia.</b></span></div>
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My School - I wishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06860643351108210035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105850015144493853.post-73346224999046532442020-04-10T12:13:00.001+05:302020-04-10T12:13:18.735+05:30How NOT to wear a mask<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 10px;">
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>Almost overnight, masks in a variety of colours, styles and materials have appeared on the faces of people around us. While it’s good news that many people are doing their part to slow the spread of coronavirus, the bad news is that many people are wearing their masks wrong.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>“Wearing a mask takes some getting used to, for sure,” said Dr. Scott Segal, chairman of anesthesiology at Wake Forest Baptist Health in North Carolina, the US. “You are probably wearing it exactly right if it’s a little stuffy.”</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>One of the biggest mistakes people make is that they fidget with their masks, and pull them under their noses or completely off their faces to rest under their chins.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>Montecalvo, Lombardy, Italy. As I sit here in my involuntary isolation, it was just reported that overnight 743 more people died and 5.249 new cases have been reported. This brings the total cases of infection to 69,176 and the body count to 6,820. We take relief in knowing that 8,326 people have recovered so far. (Numbers as of 3/24, 8:30pm in Italy.)</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>Most towns here in Italy, from the upper reaches of the Alps to the ancient shores of Sicilia and Sardenia, while not deserted, are closer to being ghost towns than the bustling centers of tourism, business and daily life they were just a few weeks ago.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>Stores and shops have been shuttered. Restaurants and coffee shops no longer serve customers. Schools, universities, sporting arenas.. even our museums and theaters.. all closed. Even the Vatican City has closed its gates and armed patrols monitor the 20 foot tall walls that protect it!</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>Streets and roads are now empty for as far as the eye can see. Normally they would be filled with crazed Italian drivers in tiny cars and scooters (the ones that sound like demonic insects) darting here and there, reaching the limits of centrifugal force on our roundabouts. In the piazze of our towns and cities, there are now officially more pigeons than people.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>Many of us know someone who has been infected and recovered. Some of us know someone who did not recover.. now they are dead. But everyone knows someone who has been affected by this microscopic monster in one way or another.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>Sixty million of us are in lockdown.. it is like a war zone here. We are being held prisoner in our own homes by an unseen enemy that sneaked in unnoticed.. by most of us. As you will read in just a few more minutes, there were those who knew something like this was coming.. or at least they should have.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>So who is to blame? With all this craziness swirling like a whirlpool at our feet, I just had to find the blame answer. And so I have spent my free time (of which I have a lot in these days) digging and researching. I was literally shocked to discover how this has come to be.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>I am not going to bore you with talk of Patient ‘0’ who spread it to Patient ‘1’ and how mathematics efficiently explains the rapid expansion of infection. No.. I am going to tell you how (as I see it) the virus came to Italy.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>It has everything to do with communists. Allow me to explain.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>Beginning in about 2014, Matteo Renzi, the imbecile ex-mayor of Firenze (Florence) acting as the leader of the Partito Democratico (synonymous with the Italian Communist party), somehow managed to get himself elected as Italy’s Prime Minister. To give you a proper frame of reference, Matteo Renzi was so far left, he would make Barack Obama look like Barry Goldwater!</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>At the same time that Renzi was leading Italy into oblivion, strange things were happening in Italy’s economy. Banks were failing.. but not closing. Retirement ages were being extended.. for some reason the pension funds were dwindling or disappearing. The national sales tax we call IVA (Value Added Tax) rose from 18% to 20%, then to 21% and again to 22%.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>And in the midst of all this financial chicanery, the Chinese began furiously buying up Italian real estate and businesses in the North.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>Now the reason I mention Renzi and the Chinese together is that strange things were also going on between the governments of Italy and China. A blind eye was being turned to the way the Chinese were buying businesses in the financial, telecommunication, industrial and fashion sectors of Italy’s economy, all of which take place in Milano.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>To be brief. China was getting away with purchases and acquisitions in violation of Italian law and EU Trade Agreements with the US and the UK.. and no one in either of those countries (not Obama in the US or Cameron in the UK) said a thing in their country’s defense. As a matter of fact, much of it was hidden from the public in all three countries.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>In 2014, China infused the Italian economy with 5 billion through purchases of companies costing less than 100 million each. By the time Renzi left office (in disgrace) in 2016, Chinese acquisitions had exceeded 52 billion. When the dust settled, China owned more than 300 companies.. representing 27% of the major Italian corporations.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>The Bank of China now owns five major banks in Italy.. all of which had been secretly (and illegally) propped up by Renzi using pilfered pension funds! Soon after, the China Milano Equity Exchange was opened and much of Italy’s wealth was being funneled back to the Chinese mainland.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>Chinese state entities own Italy’s major telecommunication corporation (Telecom) as well as its major utilities (ENI and ENEL). Upon entry into the telecommunication market, Huawei established a facility in Segrate, a suburb of Milano. It launched is first research center there and worked on the study of microwaves which has resulted in the possibly-dangerous technology we call 5G.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>China also now owns controlling interest in Fiat-Chrysler, Prysmian and Terna. You will be surprised to know that when you put a set of Pirelli tires on your car, the profits are going to China. Yep.. the Chinese colossus of ChemChina, a chemical industry titan, bought that company too!</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>Last but not least is Ferretti yachts.. the most prestigious yacht builder in Europe. Incredibly, it is no longer owned by the Ferretti family.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>But the sector in which Chinese companies invested most was Italy’s profitable fashion industry. The Pinco Pallino, Miss Sixty, Sergio Tacchini, Roberta di Camerino and Mariella Burani brands have been acquired by 100%.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>Designer Salvatore Ferragamo sold 16% and Caruso sold 35%. The most famous case is Krizia, purchased in 2014 by Shenzhen Marisfrolg Fashion Company, one of the leaders of high-priced, ready-to-wear fashions in Asia.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>Throughout all of these purchases and acquisitions, Renzi’s government afforded the Chinese unrestricted and unfettered access to Italy and its financial markets, many coming through without customs inspections.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>Quite literally, tens of thousands of Chinese came in through Milano (illegally) and went back out carrying money, technology and corporate secrets.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>Thousands more were allowed to enter and disappeared into shadows of Milano and other manufacturing cities of Lombardy, only to surface in illegal sewing shops, producing knock-off designer clothes and slapping ‘Made In Italy’ labels on them. All with the tacit approval of the Renzi government.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>It was not until there was a change in the governing party in Italy that the sweatshops and the illegal entry and departure of Chinese nationals was stopped. Matteo Salvini, representing the Lega Nord party, closed Italy’s ports to immigrants and systematically began disassembling the sweatshops and deporting those in Italy illegally.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>But his rise to power was short-lived. Italy is a communist country.. socialism is in the national DNA. Ways were found to remove Salvini, after which the communist party, under the direction of Giuseppe Conte, reopened the ports. Immediately, thousands of unvetted, undocumented refugees from the Middle East and East Africa began pouring in again.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>Access was again provided to the Chinese, under the old terms, and as a consequence thousands of Chinese, the majority from Wuhan, began arriving in Milano.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>In December of last year, the first inklings of a coronavirus were noticed in Lombardy.. in the Chinese neighborhoods. There is no doubt amongst senior medical officials that the virus was brought here from China.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>By the end of January 2020 cases were being reported left and right. By mid-February the virus was beginning to seriously overload the Lombardy hospitals and medical clinics. They are now in a state of collapse.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>The Far-Left politicians sold out and betrayed the Italian people with open border policies and social justice programs. One of the reasons the health care system collapsed so quickly is because the Renzi government (and now continued under the Conte government) redirected funds meant to sustain the medical system, to pay for the tens of thousands of immigrants brought in to Italy against the will of the Italian people.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>If you remember the horrible earthquake that decimated the villages around Amatricia, in the mountains east of Rome in 2015, you would also remember how the world responded by sending millions of dollars to help those affected.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>But there is a law in Italy that prevents private donations to charitable Italian organizations. All money and donations received must be turned over to a government agency, who in turn is to appropriate the funds as needed. But that agency is corrupt just as are all the others.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>Most of the money never reached a single victim in the mountains. The Renzi government redirected the vast majority of those funds to pay for the growing immigrant and refugee costs.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>As the economy worsened under the burden of illegal immigration, compounded by gross government spending and incompetence, unemployment rose quickly.. especially among young people. The unemployment rate for men and women under age 35 is close to 40%.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>So more money was diverted from the health care system and used to pay what is known here as guaranteed income. Whether you work or not you are paid here, especially if you belong to the PD! The government simply raises taxes on those who do work.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>Let me give you a quick example of the height of insanity to which Italian taxation has risen. If you live in a building that has a balcony or balconies.. and any of those balconies cast a shadow on the ground, you must pay a public shadow tax! I will say no more!</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>The point I am trying to make here is that not only did the Chinese bring the virus to Italy (and the rest of the world) it was far-Left politics and policies that facilitated it.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>This should hopefully be a warning to Americans that while they work to rid themselves of the China Virus, they should just as vehemently endeavor to rid their government of any politician that circumvents the Constitution and ignores the laws of the land.. plain and simple.</b></span></div>
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<strong>Giacomino Nicolazzo is one of Italy’s most beloved writers. Born and raised in Central Pennsylvania, he lives in a small village in Lombardy where he writes his books.</strong></div>
My School - I wishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06860643351108210035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105850015144493853.post-70162410176343724012020-04-01T12:16:00.001+05:302020-04-01T12:16:29.785+05:30Losing the sense of smell seems to be a sign of Covid-19<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 10px;">
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>A mother who was infected with the coronavirus couldn’t smell her baby’s full diaper. Cooks who can usually name every spice in a restaurant dish can’t smell curry or garlic, and food tastes bland. Others say they can’t pick up the sweet scent of shampoo or the foul odour of kitty litter.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Anosmia, the loss of sense of smell, and ageusia, an accompanying diminished sense of taste, have emerged as peculiar telltale signs of Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, and possible markers of infection.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>British ear, nose and throat doctors, citing reports from colleagues around the world, recently called on adults who lose their sense of smell to isolate themselves for seven days, even if they have no other symptoms, to slow the disease’s spread. The published data is limited, but doctors are concerned enough to raise warnings.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>“We really want to raise awareness that this is a sign of infection and that anyone who develops loss of sense of smell should self-isolate,” Claire Hopkins, president of the British Rhinological Society, wrote in an email. “It could contribute to slowing transmission and save lives.”</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>She and Nirmal Kumar, president of ENT UK, a group representing ear, nose and throat doctors in Britain, issued a joint statement urging healthcare workers to use personal protective equipment when treating any patients who have lost their senses of smell, and advised against performing nonessential sinus endoscopy procedures, because the virus replicates in the nose and the throat and an exam can prompt coughs or sneezes that expose the doctor to a high level of virus.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Two ear, nose and throat specialists in Britain who have been infected with the coronavirus are in critical condition, Hopkins said. Earlier reports from Wuhan, China, where the coronavirus first emerged, had warned that ear, nose and throat specialists as well as eye doctors were infected and dying in large numbers.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>The British physicians cited reports from other countries indicating that significant numbers of coronavirus patients experienced anosmia, saying that in South Korea, where testing has been widespread, 30 per cent of 2,000 patients who tested positive experienced anosmia as their major presenting symptom (these were mild cases).</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>The American Academy of Otolaryngology recently posted on its website that mounting anecdotal evidence indicates that lost or reduced sense of smell and loss of taste are significant symptoms associated with Covid-19, and that they have been seen in patients who ultimately tested positive with no other symptoms.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Dr Rachel Kaye, an assistant professor of otolaryngology at Rutgers, said colleagues in New Rochelle, New York, US, which has been the centre of an outbreak, first alerted her to the smell loss associated with the coronavirus, sharing that patients who had first complained of anosmia later tested positive. “This raised a lot of alarms for me personally,” Kaye said, because those patients “won’t know to self quarantine”.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>In the areas of Italy most heavily affected by the virus, doctors say they have concluded that loss of taste and smell is an indication that a person who otherwise seems healthy is in fact carrying the virus and may be spreading it to others.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>“Almost everybody who is hospitalised has this story,” said Dr Marco Metra, chief of the cardiology department at the main hospital in Brescia, where 700 of 1,200 indoor patients have the virus. “You ask about the patient’s wife or husband. And the patient says, ‘My wife has just lost her smell and taste but otherwise she is well.’ So she is likely infected, and she is spreading it.”</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Several American patients who have had symptoms consistent with Covid-19 but have not been tested or are awaiting test results, described losing their senses of smell and taste, even though their noses were clear and they were not congested.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Andrew Berry, 30, developed a fever and body aches about 10 days ago, and then a sore throat and debilitating headaches. He tested negative for influenza and has not gotten the result of a coronavirus test taken four days ago, but his physician was convinced that he had the virus. Now, Berry said, he literally cannot smell the coffee. “I couldn’t smell the food that I was cooking, and I couldn’t taste the food that I was making,” said Berry, a tattoo artist based in Orlando, Florida, US.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Amy Plattmier, a woman from Brooklyn, US, was not tested for the coronavirus during a recent illness, but her husband then became sick and had a positive test. Plattmier said she usually had a very sensitive nose, but now could barely smell anything — not the bleach she was using to clean the counters or the dog’s accident in the bathroom, which she cleaned up.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>“Hopefully it’s not a prolonged effect,” Berry said. “I can imagine it changes the quality of life.</b></span></div>
My School - I wishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06860643351108210035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105850015144493853.post-77853291289764409222020-04-01T11:26:00.000+05:302020-04-01T11:26:49.505+05:30Didi donates Rs 5 lakh to PM relief fund<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday donated Rs 5 lakh each to the Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>The Bengal chief minister said the money was being taken out of her income from royalties. “I do not take any salary as an MLA or a Chief Minister & I have also foregone my MP Pension despite being a 7-time Member of the Parliament. I come from limited means. My primary source of income is from my creative pursuits, the royalties I generate from my music & books,” she wrote on Twitter.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>“Out of my limited resources, I am contributing Rs. 5 lakhs to the Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund & another Rs. 5 lakhs to the West Bengal State Emergency Relief Fund in an attempt to support our country’s efforts in fighting the Covid-19,” she added on the microblogging site.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>The Trinamul Congress chief — sources close to her said — donated to the PMNRF and not the PM-Cares Fund launched in the wake of the pandemic. There have been questions on the nature and level of transparency of the PM-Cares Fund and the need to set it up when the PMNRF already exists with a balance of Rs 3,800 crore.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>“The PM-Cares Fund is likely to turn out to be controversial, once the pandemic dust settles,” said a Trinamul source.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>“Didi (Mamata) wanted to contribute to the Centre’s efforts as well, but did not want to go down that road. She has kept the entire Bengal front of the fight against the pandemic free of politics and has been extending cooperation and support to the Centre’s initiatives. Therefore, the contribution,” he added. </b></span></div>
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