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WASHINGTON (TIP): States withspiking coronavirus cases still cancontain them by pausing their reopeningprocesses, rather than shutting down asecond time, one of the nation's topinfectious disease experts said Thursday,July 9.

Dr. Anthony Fauci's comments at anevent hosted by The Hill news outletcontrast with what he said a day earlier:that states with a serious coronavirusproblem "should seriously look atshutting down."

"Rather than think in terms of

reverting back down to a completeshutdown, I would think we need to getthe states pausing in their openingprocess," Fauci, director of the NationalInstitute of Allergy and InfectiousDiseases, told The Hill's Editor-at-LargeSteve Clemons on Thursday.

"If we can do that consistently, I willtell you, almost certainly, you're going tosee a down curve of those infections,"Fauci said. On Wednesday, July 8, Faucitold the Wall Street Journal that a secondshutdown might be the best move for

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BIDISHA ROY

NEW YORK (TIP): SandeepChakravorty, India's former ConsulGeneral in New York who left the cityJune 28 after completion of anoverwhelming successful tenure, hasbeen named the new joint secretary ofthe all-important AMS (Americas)division that handles all issues relatedto the US and Canada.

Mr Chakravorty served as India'sConsul General in New York fromAugust 2017 to June 2020. He wasimmensely popular in the Tri-Statecommunity for hisinnovative ideas,hard work and friendly approach.Beforejoining as Consul General of India inNew York, he was Ambassador of Indiato Peru. Sandeep Chakravorty, is amember of the Indian Foreign Service(IFS) since 1996. Before joining theGovernment of India, he worked forseveral years in organizations dealing

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India to Play Leading Role in Global Revival: PM Modi

BIDISHA ROY LONDON (TIP): In his first major

speech to a global audience since theCovid-19 pandemic,Prime MinisterNarendra Modi, July 9, assured theworld that India will play a leading rolein global revival in this crucial timewitha spirit of reform and rejuvenation.

At hismuch-anticipated inauguraladdress of India Global Week, biggestinternational event on India'sglobalization, the Prime Minister saidthat India is ready to do whatever it canto further global good and prosperity.

"In these times, it is natural to talkabout revival. It is equally natural tolink global revival and India. There isfaith that the story of global revival will

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WASHINGTON (TIP): In a pair ofhistoric rulings on Thursday, July 9, theU.S. Supreme Court rejected PresidentTrump's claim of absolute immunityunder the law. The vote was 7 to 2 incases involving grand jury andcongressional subpoenas for Trump'spre-presidential financial records.

The Supreme Court ruled that a NewYork prosecutor is entitled to seePresident Trump's private and businessfinancial records, ending an intenselegal battle waged by the president to

keep them secret.The court said Manhattan District

Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. had theauthority to subpoena the records fromTrump's private accounting firm. Trumphad claimed an immunity from criminalinvestigations while in office.

Vance is investigating whether theTrump Organization falsified businessrecords to conceal hush payments to twowomen, including pornographic filmactress Stormy Daniels, who claimedthey had sex with Trump before he tookoffice. Trump has denied those claims.

Vance is seeking, Trump's tax returns,among other records. The president hasrefused to make them public, unlikeprevious modern presidents. Becausethe records are for a grand juryinvestigation, they would not likely bedisclosed before the election. However, ina second decision on the House's requestfor similar information,

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US still ‘knee-deep’ in first wave of coronavirus, says Dr. FauciCoronavirus hot spots should pause reopening, not shut

down again, recommends infectious diseases expert

Dr. Fauci,one of the nation's top infectiousdisease experts said Thursday, July 9 that the

coronavirus hot spots should pausereopening

Supreme Court rules Manhattan prosecutormay see Trump's financial records

Sandeep Chakravorty Named New JointSecretary of AMS (Americas) Division

Mr Chakravorty, who as India's CG at NewYork was immensely popular in the Tri-State

community for his innovative ideas, hardwork and friendly approach, is appointed as

Jt. Secretary of Americas division

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contd form page 1India to Play Leading Role in

Global Revival: PM Modi have India playing a leading role. I see this closely

linked with two factors. The first is- Indian talent.World over, you have seen the contribution of India'stalent-force.This includes Indian professionals, doctors,nurses, bankers, lawyers, scientists, professors, ourhard-working laborers. Who can forget the Indian techindustry and tech professionals? They have beenshowing the way for decades. India is a power-house oftalent, that is eager to contribute, ever ready to learn.There is two-way synergy that is greatly beneficial", hesaid.

"The second factor is India's ability to reform andrejuvenate. Indians are natural reformers! History hasshown that India has overcome every challenge, be itsocial or economic. India has done so with a spirit ofreform and rejuvenation. The same sprit continuesnow", he affirmed.

India Inc. Group - the UK-headquartered media housebehind flagship publications 'India Global Business'and the recently-launched diaspora news network'iGlobal' - brought together some of the best strategicminds and experts in their respective fields.

With +75 sessions, +250 speakers and +5000participants from 49 countries, India Global Weekcements itself as the event where 'India Meets theWorld, and the World Meets India.

Prime Minister Modi tops a stellar list of speakers inpacked program across three days between July 9 and11, including External Affairs Minister Dr S.Jaishankar, Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal, IT &Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and Skills MinisterMahendra Nath Pandey, from India.

The line-up covers a special address by HRH ThePrince of Wales and several UK Cabinet Ministers,including Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, HomeSecretary Priti Patel, Health Secretary Matt Hancock,and International Trade Secretary Lizz Truss - allunderlining the centrality of India to a post-Covid, post-Brexit Britain.

Other international speakers on a diverse range oftopics, from geopolitics and business to culture anddiaspora, and across four country streams of Australia,Singapore, the UK and the US include Steve Waugh,Former Australian Cricketer; Dr Mukesh Aghi,President and CEO, US-India Strategic PartnershipForum; Chng Kai Fong, Managing Director, EconomicDevelopment Board, Singapore; and William Russell,Lord Mayor of the City of London. Other big highlightsinclude Kunal Nayyar, of 'The Big Bang Theory' fame,in conversation with Sadhguru, Founder, IshaFoundation; a conversation with Spiritual Leader SriSri Ravi Shankar; and an exclusive never-seenperformance by Madhu Nataraj and her team.

US still ‘knee-deep’’in first waveof coronavirus, says Dr. Fauci

states struggling with burgeoning coronavirus casesand hospitalizations.

"I think any state that is having a serious problem,that state should seriously look at shutting down,"Fauci told the newspaper in a podcast.

He did say Wednesday that simple steps short of fulleconomic lockdowns -- controlling crowds, wearingmasks and doing a better job at physical distancing --would help.

The country and some states are setting records foraverage daily officially reported cases, ICUs in hot spotsare reaching capacity, and most states are seeing spikes,recalling the uncertainty of months ago when the virusfirst broke out.

Another health expert echoed Fauci's initialcomment about second shutdowns.

"If you're not doing the ... things we've talked about inthe past to get this outbreak under control, startingwith test and trace ... your only option is to shut down,"Dr. Ali Khan, former director of the CDC's public healthpreparedness office said.

Climbing case numbers have motivated many statesto pause or roll back plans to reopen economies afterwidespread shutdowns in the spring.

The US reached more than 3 million coronaviruscases this week, according to data from Johns HopkinsUniversity. At least 33 states as of Thursday morninghave seen an upward trend in average daily cases -- anincrease of at least 10% -- over the last week.

Some states have recently reported alarming rates atwhich people are testing positive: 28% in Arizona; 26%in Texas; and 19% in Florida, according to The CovidTracking Project.

Previous recommendations for reopening economies,expressed by the CDC, called for test-positivity rates ofno greater than 20% just to reach first-phasereopenings, and less than 10% for fuller reopenings.

The country still is reckoning with job losses from thefirst stay-at-home orders. Though millions of jobs havecome back, 18.1 million Americans currently are oncontinued unemployment claims, meaning they filed atleast two straight weeks, the Department of Labor saidThursday, July 9.

And more than 3 million Americans appear to havelost jobs that aren't coming back any time soon,economists say.

Supreme Court rules Manhattanprosecutor may see Trump's

financial recordsthe court appeared to question the breadth of

congressional authority.The Supreme Court ruled that the lower court needs

to consider separation of power issues related to thecongressional subpoenas, suggesting that Congress didnot have unlimited powers to investigate the president.That ruling was also 7-2, with Roberts writing theopinion.

Trump was apparently enraged by the outcome,tweeting a string of criticism that "this is all a politicalprosecution," and "Courts in the past have given 'broaddeference.' BUT NOT ME!"

New York District Attorney Cyrus Vance issued astatement calling the decision in the grand jury case "atremendous victory for our nation's system of Justiceand its founding principle that no one - not even thepresident - is above the law."

Trump's personal attorney Jay Sekulow took a moreoptimistic tone than the president in his response to theSupreme Court rulings on the president's financialinformation.

"We are pleased that in the decisions issued today, theSupreme Court has temporarily blocked both Congressand New York prosecutors from obtaining thePresident's financial records. We will now proceed toraise additional Constitutional and legal issues in thelower courts," Sekulow said in a statement. (With inputsfrom agencies)

Sandeep Chakravorty NamedNew Joint Secretary of AMS

(Americas) Divisionwith forestry, environment and watershed

development issues in India.He has served in India's missions in Madrid, Bogota

and Dhaka. In the Ministry of External Affairs ofIndia, he served on several desks including working asPress Relations Officer as well as Private Secretary toMinister of State for External Affairs. He also served inthe Eurasia Division dealing with Central Asia and inthe East Asia Division dealing with China, Japan,Koreas and Mongolia. Before being appointed as India'sAmbassador to Peru and Bolivia, he was India's DeputyHigh Commissioner in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

He holds a Master Degree in Advanced Studies fromGeneva University and has an MA in Sociology. He hasa PG Diploma in Forestry Management from IndianInstitute of Forest Management (IIFM), Bhopal. Hegraduated in Physics from Delhi University.

The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has named 3new joint secretaries, or point persons including MrChakravorty, taking up some of the toughestassignments in the ministry.While Arindam Bagchi, anIFS officer of 1995 batch, will head the crucial northerndivision of MEA, which handles Bhutan and Nepalaffairs, J P Singh, an IFS officer of 2002 batch andexpert on Pakistan-Afghanistan affairs, has taken overas joint secretary of the high-profile Pakistan,Afghanistan and Iran (PAI) division.

NEW YORK (TIP): Rakesh Vohra,George A. Weiss and Lydia BravoWeiss University Professor at Penn,has won the 2020 SIGecom Test of TimeAward for his paper, "CalibratedLearning and CorrelatedEquilibrium."

The SIGecom Test of Time Awardrecognizes research published betweenten and twenty-five years ago that has,as the name suggests, stood the test oftime in its field. SIGecom is theAssociation for Computing

Machinery's Special Interest Group onEconomics and Computation, so itcelebrates work that has "significantlyimpacted research or applicationsexemplifying the interplay" of thosetwo topics.

Vohra's paper, originally publishedin the journal Games and EconomicBehavior in 1997, has served as anessential contribution to the literatureon game theory.

Vohra is a Penn Integrate Knowledgeprofessor with appointments in Penn

Arts and Sciences' Department ofEconomics and Penn Engineering'sDepartment of Electrical and SystemsEngineering. He works at theintersection of economics, systemsengineering, computer science andbusiness, and is the Co-Director of theWarren Center for Network & DataScience. He is best known for his workon forecasting in low informationenvironments and his manycontributions to the economic field ofmechanism design.

Indian Origin UPenn Professor Rakesh VohraWinsSIGecom Test of Time Award

Vohra's paper, originally published in thejournal Games and Economic Behavior in

1997, has served as an essential contributionto the literature on game theory

NEW YORK (TIP): Mayor Bill deBlasio , on July 9, announced that largeevents requiring a city events permitwill be canceled through September 30thas the City works to prioritize openspaces for public use. The City will notissue a permit for any event in a locationthat interferes with the Open Streets orOpen Restaurants program. Permits willalso be denied for all events larger thanone block, stage/video events thatrequire amplification, street fairs, and

events in parks that may unreasonablydiminish public use. The City will refundor defer fees paid in connection with adenied permit.

"As New York has begun its reopeningprocess, accessible open spaces are moreimportant than ever," said Mayor Bill deBlasio. "While it pains me to call offsome of the city's beloved events, ourfocus now must be the prioritization ofcity space for public use and thecontinuation of social distancing."

Events that do not conflict with OpenStreets or Open Restaurant areas and arefor locations one city block or smallercan still apply for a permit. The Mayor'sExecutive Order will require all permitapplicants to outline their plan to reducethe risk of transmission of COVID-19 atthe event site and clean the event spaceboth during and after the event.Applicants will be expected to addressthese concerns without utilizing Cityservices, personnel and resources.Demonstrations, religious events, andpress conferences will be exempt fromthe Executive Order and may receivepermits. This Executive Order will helpensure social distancing, allow forgreater public use of open space, addresstraffic flow concerns, and allocate Cityresources efficiently.

3THE INDIAN PANORAMAFRIDAY, JULY 10, 2020 NY/NJ/CT

Mayor De Blasio announces cancellation of large events through September 30th

"As New York has begun its reopeningprocess, accessible open spaces are moreimportant than ever," said Mayor Bill de

Blasio.

Governor Murphy Pushes Mask Orderin Outdoor Public Spaces When People

Cannot Social DistanceTRENTON, NJ (TIP): New Jersey

Governor Phil Murphy signedExecutive Order No. 163, whichrequires individuals to wear facecoverings in outdoor public spaceswhen it is not practicable to sociallydistance and keep a six-foot distancefrom others, excluding immediatefamily members, caretakers,household members, or romanticpartners, except where doing so wouldinhibit that individual's health, wherethe individual is under two years ofage, or in situations where individualscannot feasibly wear a face covering,such as when eating or drinking atoutdoor dining areas.

The Orderalso reiterates NewJersey's policy of requiring face coverings in indoor spaces that are accessible tomembers of the public, such as retail, recreational, and entertainment businesses,areas of government buildings open to the public, and mass transit buses, trains, andstations, again with exceptions for health reasons and children under two.

"As I've said before, we know this virus is a lot less lethal outdoors than indoors,but that does not mean it is not lethal," said Governor Murphy. "The hotspots we'reseeing across the nation and certain worrisome transmission trends in New Jerseyrequire us to do more. In the absence of a national strategy on face coverings, we'retaking this step to ensure that we can continue on our road back as one New Jerseyfamily."

New Jersey on Thursday, July 9 reported 28 new deaths due to COVID 19 and 354new positive tests. The Garden State has now reported 15,448 known deaths relatedto COVID-19 - 13,501 lab-confirmed and 1,947 probable - with 174,270 known cases inthe little more than four months since the state's first case was announced March 4.

Murphy on Thursday announced that he will direct money from the CoronavirusRelief Fund, established under the Federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and EconomicSecurity (CARES) Act, to support New Jersey food banks, which have been providingfamilies with food assistance at unprecedented rates during the COVID-19 pandemic.The total CARES Act funding amount will be $20 million, with $10 milliondistributed before August 2020 and an additional $10 million available beforeDecember 2020.

Governor Phil Murphy announces new funding tocombat food insecurity in New Jersey with

Senate President Sweeney, Assembly SpeakerCraig Coughlin, Senator Vin Gopal, Department of

Human Services Commissioner Carole Johnson,and Community FoodBank of New Jersey

President & CEO Carlos Rodriguez on Thursday.July 9th, 2020

Photo / Courtesy Governor's Office

New York to Decide by Early August ifSchools Can Reopen in September

Picture caption -NY Governor AndrewM. Cuomo announced July 8 that mallswill be allowed to reopen in New YorkState this Friday, July 10 under certainconditions while the state will decide byearly August if schools can reopen inSeptember

(Picture / courtesy Office of Governor)ALBANY, NY (TIP): New York

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announcedthat New York State will decide whetherschools will reopen in the fall during thefirst week of August. New York State isnow consulting with stakeholders onguidance, which will be finalized on July13. Plans to reopen schools are due on July31.

Cuomo on July 9 confirmed 584additional cases of novel coronavirus, bringing the statewide total to 399,513confirmed cases in New York State.

"New York continues to make progress fighting COVID-19 through a smart, data-driven approach and the thoughtful actions of everyday citizens, who've beenpracticing social distancing, mask wearing and hand washing," Governor Cuomosaid duringbriefing New Yorkers on the state's progress during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. "But the surge in new cases and hospitalizations throughout thecountry - and the potential for those people to bring the virus into New York -combined with the complacency we've seen in parts of our own state is a potentiallydeadly mix. We need to stay vigilant and smart so we don't go back to the hell weexperienced just two months ago. We are not out of the woods yet."

THURSDAY'S (JULY 9) DATA IS SUMMARIZED BRIEFLY BELOW:

The Governor also announced that all county fairs will be canceled until furthernotice out of an abundance of caution. Governor Cuomo previously announced thatthe New York State Fair will be canceled this summer.

Governor Cuomo also announced beginning Friday, July 10, malls can open inregions that have entered Phase IV of reopening if they have implemented anenhanced Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning - or HVAC - filtration systemand follow proper ventilation protocols.

NY Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announcedJuly 8 that malls will be allowed to reopen in

New York State this Friday, July 10 undercertain conditions while the state will decide

by early August if schools can reopen inSeptember

(Picture / courtesy Office of Governor)

● Patient Hospitalization - 851 (+10)● Patients Newly Admitted - 79 (-5)● Hospital Counties - 33● Number ICU - 173 (+7)

● Number ICU with Intubation - 98 (+1)● Total Discharges - 71,279 (+94)● Deaths - 8● Total Deaths - 24,959

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Indian American MITSchool of Science

Professor ReceivesTenure for 2020

BOSTON (TIP): Indian originYogesh Surendranath is among ninefaculty members in the MIT School ofScience who have been granted tenureby MIT.

Solving environmental challengesby studying and manipulatingchemical reactions is the focus ofYogesh Surendranath's research.Using chemistry, he works at themolecular level to understand how toefficiently interconvert chemical andelectrical energy. His fundamentalstudies aim to improve energy storagetechnologies, such as batteries, fuelcells, and electrolyzers, that can beused to meet future energy demandwith reduced carbon emissions.

Surendranath joined theDepartment of Chemistry in 2013 aftera postdoc at the University ofCalifornia at Berkeley. His PhD wascompleted in 2011 at MIT, and BS in2006 at the University of Virginia.Suendranath is also a collaborator inthe MIT Energy Initiative.

Indian American Congressman lashes outat Trump for withdrawing from WHO

PARMINDER AUJLA

SACRAMENTO (TIP): Indian originRep. Ami Bera, M.D. (D-CA) Chairman ofthe House Foreign Affairs Subcommitteeon Asia, the Pacific, and Nonproliferationheavily criticized President Trump afterhe formally withdrew the United Statesfrom the World Health Organization(WHO).

"Communities around the UnitedStates are grappling with increasingcases of coronavirus and instead offunding a national testing strategy andramping up testing and contact tracing,the President has chosen to cut testingand to shift the blame by withdrawing theUnited States from the WHO.No responsehas been perfect, including the WHO's.But the WHO is playing a critical role bycoordinating the global response andproviding important guidance andinformation about the virus. It is thisinformation and guidance that has helpedcountries in Europe and Asia tackle andcontain the virus. They bent the curve.Our cases are increasing. If the WHO is toblame: why has the U.S. been left behindwhile many countries from South Koreato New Zealand to Vietnam to Germanyreturn to normal?" he questioned.

That answer starts at the White House.Time and time again, even before COVID-

19, the President has downplayed thedanger of pandemics. They proposed cutsto the CDC and DoD pandemicpreparedness programs, which I helpedreverse. They disbanded the NationalSecurity Council office responsible forpreparing for these outbreaks, which Iopposed. They tried to cut funds to defeat

Ebola during an actual Ebola outbreak,which Congress rolled back. Is it anysurprise that when a pandemic came,this President was not prepared?Historically, the United States and theWorld Health Organization have workedhand in hand. We helped defeat smallpoxand nearly eliminated polio. We used tolead the world in combatting infectiousdisease. Those efforts aligned andsupported WHO's efforts. Not this time.America lost its best chance to defeat thisvirus once the President began tominimize the pandemic and shift blameonto others, instead of assumingresponsibility and actually leading ourcountry through this crisis. Today'sdecision comes as no surprise", hefurther added

Rep. Bera has been a leader inCongress on global health security. Hechaired the first congressional hearingon the coronavirus on Feb. 5th, soundedthe alarm after the TrumpAdministration disbanded the globalhealth security office in the NationalSecurity Council in 2018, and is amember on the CSIS Commission onStrengthening America's HealthSecurity, which in November 2019 made aseries of recommendations to preventpandemics.

If the WHO is to blame: why has the U.S. beenleft behind while many countries from South

Korea to New Zealand to Vietnam to Germanyreturn to normal? Bera questioned

Suendranath isalso a

collaborator inthe MIT Energy

Initiative

Indian Origin Founder of South AfricanHindu political party dies of Covid

JOHANNESBURG (TIP): JayrajBachu, a founding member and nationalleader of South Africa's only Hindupolitical party, has succumbed to Covid-19. He was 75.

The Durban resident Bachu wascremated on Saturday, July 4.

Bachu's son Umesh told the weeklySunday Tribune that his father passedaway less than a week after he wasadmitted to hospital after an antibioticscourse failed to address an influenzainfection.

"Unfortunately, on Friday evening Ireceived a call from the hospital to say hehad taken a turn for the worse. They saidtwo family members could go to thehospital, but by the time I got to thehospital my dad had passed on," Umeshtold the weekly.

"He was not at the stage where he wason a ventilator. Reality of the virus hitsyou when it happens close to home. Itwas devastating for my mom, me and mysiblings that we could not see him onelast time," he said.

Bachu had served in community andpolitical organizations for over fivedecades. Last year, he joined others toregister the Hindu Unity Movement(HUM) with the Independent ElectoralCommission.

He explained at the time that HUMwas established because there had notbeen a voice in provincial, national orlocal governments catering to the needsof the Hindu community.

"Existing Hindu religious and culturalorganizations are working from outsidegovernment to address the issues facingthe community, but we need someone onthe inside to get these issues addressedeffectively," Bachu said.

Bachu's lifelong friend Ram Maharaj,who is the national chairman of HUMand also the president of the SouthAfrican Hindu Dharma Sabha, saidBachu had endeared himself to thecommunity because of his positivity anddiplomatic approach to everything hedid.

Maharaj said Bachu had led the fightsince the 1980s to allow fireworks duringDiwali when there were plans bygovernment to ban its use at privatehomes.

Bachu is survived by wife, Renuka,children Vinod, Umesh, ReshmaHarinarain, Rinku Singh and a numberof grandchildren.

(Source: PTI)

Jayraj Bachuhad served in community andpolitical organizations for over five decades

Photo / courtesy Twitter@inanda884fm

Indian American Houston-Area Cardiologist Settles

AllegationsHOUSTON (TIP): Advanced

Cardiovascular Care Center P.A. and itsowner and administrator have agreed topay $400,000 to resolve allegations theyviolated the False Claims Act (FCA),announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K.Patrick. Owner Dr. Annie T. Varughese,57, and administrator Babu Varughese,64, both of Spring, conducted businessin three clinics located in Houston,Conroe and The Woodlands.

From June 4, 2013, through June 4,2016, the company submitted claims toMedicare for cardiology services. Theseincluded cardiac externalcounterpulsation treatments,transthoracic echocardiography studiesand duplex scans that were notreasonable and medically necessary.Therefore, they failed to meet theMedicare coverage and documentationrequirements.

Further, patient files lackeddocumentation that Varughese directlysupervised the cardiology services asMedicare requires. The company billedMedicare for services underVarughese's provider number when shewas not in the office and, at times, noteven in the United States. "Puttingfinancial gain ahead of medicalnecessity undermines the integrity ofthe Medicare program," said SpecialAgent in Charge Miranda Bennett ofthe Department of Health and HumanServices - Office of Inspector General(DHHS-OIG). (Read full story at

www.theindianpanorama.news)

Indian American Chargedwith Destruction of

Federal PropertyPORTLAND (TIP): An Indian

American is among seven people whohave been arrested and face federalcharges for their roles in weekend riotsat the Mark O. Hatfield U.S.Courthouse in Portland, ActingHomeland Security Investigation (HSI)Special Agent in Charge Eben Robertsand U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williamsannounced July 7.

According to court documents, sinceMay 26, 2020, protests in downtownPortland have regularly been followedby nightly criminal activity includingassaults on law enforcement officers,destruction of property, looting, arson,and vandalism.

Shant Singh Ahuja, 28, of Oceanside,California, is charged with destructionof federal property. On July 4, 2020,Ahuja is accused of willfullydestroying a closed-circuit videocamera mounted on the exterior of theHatfield Courthouse.

The Hatfield Federal Courthouse hasbeen a repeated target of vandalism,sustaining extensive damage. U.S.Marshals Service deputies and officersfrom the Federal Protective Service,HSI and U.S. Customs and BorderProtection (CBP) working to protectthe courthouse have been subjected tothreats; aerial fireworks includingmortars; high intensity laserstargeting officers' eyes; thrown rocks,bottles, and balloons filled with paintfrom demonstrators while performingtheir duties.

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58 Indian-origin executives employ over 3.6million globally, account for $1 trillion in revenue

NEW YORK (TIP): A group of 58Indian-origin executives heading variouscompanies across 11 different countries,including the US, Canada and Singapore,collectively employ more than 3.6 millionpeople and account for a combined USD 1trillion in revenue, USD 4 trillion inmarket capitalization, according to a listreleased by a US-based top Indiandiaspora organization.

Indian-origin business leaders arereaching the pinnacle of corporatesuccess in greater numbers than ever,many use their platforms for socialchange advocacy, said Indiaspora, anonprofit organization of global Indiandiaspora leaders from variousbackgrounds and professions.

The Indiaspora Business Leaders Listof 58 executives head companiesheadquartered across 11 differentcountries, including the US, Canada,England, and Singapore and thesecompanies have delivered annualizedreturns of 23 per cent during the tenureof these executives, outperforming theS&P 500 by 10 per cent.

These companies collectively employmore than 3.6 million worldwide andaccount for a combined USD 1 trillion inrevenue and USD 4 trillion in marketcapitalization.

"We wanted to capture this incrediblefeat that our community is achievingwith increasing numbers," saidIndiaspora founder MR Rangaswami, aSilicon Valley-based entrepreneur andinvestor.

"The impact that the Indian diaspora ishaving in the realm of business isremarkable. It's one of the reasons welaunched this project, and we hope our

lists will continue to raise the profile ofthose who have reached the very top oftheir fields while also serving as agentsfor positive change," Rangaswami said.

The stereotype of the Indian CEO issomeone who represents the tech sector,but this list of 58 CEOs dispels that myth,he said, adding that these leadersrepresent many different sectors,including banking, electronics,consumer goods, and consulting.

Releasing the list during a virtual pressconference, Rangaswami said that theseexecutives are as young as 37, all the wayto age 74 with the median age of theseexecutives being 54.

During this coronavirus pandemic,these companies have made lots ofhumanitarian aid contributions, andalso, they're taking care of theiremployees, their customers, their supplychain.

"So these companies are doing a lot torespond to COVID-19," Rangaswami said.

Many of the executives on the list havetaken an active position on issues likeBlack Lives Matter in making sure thatthey also stand along with the blackcommunity in terms of getting racialequality and racial justice, he said.

The list of Indian-origin CEOs includesimmigrants from India as well asprofessionals born in countries such asUganda, Ethiopia, England, and the US.

"I'm amazed to see how far we've comein terms of representation in business,"said Raj Gupta, former CEO of Fortune300 company Rohm and Haas, and one ofthe first executives of the Indiandiaspora to join the ranks of corporateleadership along with pioneers such asIndra Nooyi of PepsiCo and Dinesh

Paliwal of Harman International."There used to be only a handful of us

leading corporations. Now that we arereaching prominence, I am eager to seehow the next generation leaves its ownlegacy," said Gupta, an Indiasporamember, who serves as Chairman of twocompanies on the Business Leaders List,Aptiv and Avantor.

"It's inspiring to see so many leaders ofIndian heritage playing a significant rolein business and in society," said AjayBanga, President and CEO ofMastercard.

"Our culture and our values are acommon starting point. But it's what wedo with the opportunities presented to usthat make a difference. When we leaninto our diverse experiences to deal withchallenges like the pandemic or racialinjustice, we can have an even greaterimpact on the lives of those around us,"he said.

Indiaspora said that many of thesediaspora executives have led theircompanies in advancing social change byaddressing racial injustice, climate andsustainability justice, and thedisproportionate effects of COVID-19through policy and financial commitments.

Tech industry leader Sundar Pichai,CEO of Alphabet, has announced newgoals for racial equity, includingimproving leadership representation ofunderrepresented groups at Google, andan "economic opportunity package" forthe Black community.

Many of the leaders' companies havecreated or contributed funds in responseto COVID-19, with monetary andhumanitarian aid totaling more thanUSD 400 million, Indiaspora said.

The Indiaspora Business Leaders Listalso calls attention to the presence of aglass ceiling that women, includingIndian women, still face. Out of 1,000companies represented on the Fortune500 list, only 61 have women CEOs; theIndiaspora List has a marginally higherpercentage of women, yet includes onlyfive women out of the 58 leaders.

"It's an honor to join so manyoutstanding leaders on this year'sIndiaspora Business Leaders list, each ofwhom is making a meaningful impactwithin their industry," said ReshmaKewalramani, MD, CEO and President ofVertex Pharmaceuticals.

"As a physician and CEO dedicated tocreating transformative medicines thatimprove the lives of people with seriousdiseases, I believe deeply in the criticalrole a diverse and inclusive culture playsin being able to achieve that mission atVertex," she said. (Source: PTI)

Indian-origin business leaders , like IndraNooyi, are reaching the pinnacle of corporate

success in greater numbers than ever

WASHINGTON (TIP): US PresidentDonald J. Trump June 25 announced hisintent to nominateVijay Shanker, of theDistrict of Columbia, to serve as AssociateJudge on the District of Columbia Court ofAppeals.

Vijay Shanker serves as SeniorLitigation Counsel in the United StatesDepartment of Justice, Criminal Division,and as Deputy Chief of the AppellateSection. Before joining the Department ofJustice in 2012, Mr. Shanker was in privatepractice with the Washington, D.C., officesof Mayer Brown, LLP, and Covington &Burling, LLP. Upon graduation from lawschool, Mr. Shanker served as a law clerk toJudge Chester J. Straub on the United States Court ofAppeals for the Second Circuit. Mr. Shanker earnedhis B.A., cum laude, from Duke University and his J.D.from the University of Virginia School of Law, wherehe served as a Notes Editor for the Virginia LawReview and was inducted into the Order of the Coif.He has briefed and argued almost sixty federalappeals, including four en banc rehearings. Mr.Shanker is currently serving on detail as SeniorLitigation Counsel in the Criminal Division's FraudSection, where he investigates and prosecutesviolations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and

related offenses and advises attorneys andleadership on a range of legal issues andlitigation matters.

From October 2012 to February 2014, Mr.Shanker served in the Office of theAssistant Attorney General for theCriminal Division, first as Senior Counseland then as Acting Deputy Chief of Staffand Counselor to the Assistant AttorneyGeneral. Mr. Shanker has been awardedthe Attorney General's John MarshallAward, the Assistant Attorney General'sAward for Exceptional Service, and theAssistant Attorney General's Award forDistinguished Service.

Mr. Shanker received his Bachelor ofArts degree in public policy studies, cum laude, fromDuke University. He received his law degree from theUniversity of Virginia School of Law, where he wasnamed to the Order of the Coif and served as a NotesEditor on the Virginia Law Review. He was awardedthe Roger & Madeleine Traynor Prize for "thegraduate who has produced the best written work"and also the Law School Alumni Association BestNote Award. Following law school, Mr. Shankerclerked for the Honorable Chester J. Straub on theUnited States Court of Appeals for the SecondCircuit.

Indian American Vinay Kumar AppointedDistinguished Service Professor at

UChicagoCHICAGO (TIP): Prof Vinay Kumar has

been named the Lowell T. CoggeshallDistinguished Service Professor in theDepartment of Pathology at University ofChicago.

Kumar is a pioneer in the field of thecellular and molecular biology of naturalkiller cells and a global leader in medicaleducation. He was one of the first to proposethe existence of a novel subset of lymphoidcells with antileukemic activity, subsequentlyidentified as natural killer cells. His researchhas focused on understanding the origin anddifferentiation of these cells and their role inthe rejection of transplanted bone marrow.His group also discovered that mutations inthe human perforin gene give rise to severeand fatal disorders of immune dysregulation.This paradigm-shifting work has been recognized as a "pillar ofimmunology" by the Journal of Immunology.

He is the senior editor and co-author of five pathology textbooks,including Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease, whichhas been translated into more than 13 languages and is the mostwidely used pathology text in the world. He has received manyhonors for his research, including election as a fellow of theAmerican Association for Advancement of Sciences in 2004, andthe 2019 Gold Headed Cane Award, which is the highest honorgranted by the American Society for Investigative Pathology.

Prof Vinay Kumar hasbeen named the

Lowell T. CoggeshallDistinguished Service

Professor in theDepartment ofPathology at

University of Chicago

Indian American Vijay Shanker Nominated by Trumpas Associate Judge of Columbia Court of Appeals

Vijay Shanker isDeputy Chief of theAppellate Section ofthe Criminal Divisionat the United States

Department of Justice.

6 THE INDIAN PANORAMAFRIDAY, JULY 10, 2020NEW YORK

The GITCC in association with Consulate General of India,New York organizes 2nd edition of the Webinar Series

"Augmenting US India Trade Relations - 2020"NEW YORK (TIP): The Global Indian Trade and

Cultural Council in association with the ConsulateGeneral of India, New York organized the secondwebinar in the series "Augmenting US India TradeRelations - 2020" on July 1.

Welcoming the panelists, Mr. H.S.Panaser, President of The GlobalIndian Trade and Cultural Councilsaid, "US strategic and tradeaffairs experts feel that US andIndia will be key to futureproduction of medical suppliesand pharmaceuticals not only tofight Covid-19 crisis but longthereafter.

"In the United States, every seventh American is seenby an Indian doctor, which will soon be 6:1, signifyingthe contribution of the diaspora in the Americanhealthcare system. Today, as the world fights the coronapandemic and the US becomes its worst victim, withover 100,000 deaths and counting, health diplomacy hasemerged as the new unifier for the two democracies andthe driver for an intense partnership promising a bigrelief to the world with a timely vaccine against thecoronavirus.

"Global Indian Trade and Cultural Council wants toaccelerate and promote US India Relation in Healthcareindustry. We are helping in FDI, collaborations,mergers and technology transfers and researchers andstudents exchange programs. The US has alreadyidentified Indian pharmaceutical companies as one ofthe partners for mass productions to meet globaldemands. We were privileged to have CFO of BharatBiotech Mr. T Srinivas in our first Webinar and you willfind another Executive who are launching a Covidvaccine

Panelists included Devi Prasad Misra, Consul (Trade,Education and Commerce), Dr. Subroto Chatterjee, Dr.H. G. Koshia, Mr. Suresh Khanna, Mr.RoopeshBhargava, Mr. Anand Krishnamurthy, :Mr. GaryPasricha, Mr. Ajit Chawla, Prof. Indrajit S Saluja, andMr. H.S. Panaser

MR. DEVI PRASAD MISRA,

Consul Trade, Education andCommerce at the IndianConsulate in New Yorkparticipated briefly.

DR. SUBROTO

CHATTERJEE is a Professor ofPediatrics and medicine in thedivision of Cardiology at theJohns Hopkins University Schoolof a Medicine. His expertise is inthe area of heart disease andinflammation. He has publishedover 200 papers book chapters.

And has received international and national awards forhis discoveries and patents. He serves as a thoughtleader to Merck, Novartis and has founded severalBiotech companies

Prof Chatterjee said, "Studies show thatinflammation is the underlying factor among otherscontributing to excessive morbidity and mortality inCOVID-19 patients. And this pathology is attributable to

the release of cytokines subsequent to the binding ofthe virus to the angiotensin-2 receptors in white cellscirculating in the blood. One of these cytokines ,knownas interleukin-6(IL-6) bind to cells in the blood vessels -further amplifying the release of cytokines causingmulti-organ failure and death. Immunotherapy usingantibody against IL-6 /IL-6 receptors has shownpromise with delayed viral clearance and markedlyimproved recovery from infection and reducedhospitalization time."

DR. H. G. KOSHIA is workingas Commissioner at Food & DrugsControl Administration (FDCA),Gujarat, INDIA since January2009. Notified as Commissioner ofFood Safety of the Gujarat Statefrom 5th August 2011. Diverseexperience of 33 years inregulatory affairs working in

government and industry. Leading a cross-functionalteam of 1465 diverse regulatory experts to implement;enforce applicable regulation to regulate 4697 drugmanufacturers and 39865 sales units in Gujarat.

Hemant said, "The crisis has faded many boundariesand brought people and countries together to standunited against the fight! More so true when it comes tothe pharmaceutical industry - India has stood as astrong partner and friend with many countriesincluding the US and fulfilled the duty of 'Pharmacy ofthe World'. I see tremendous avenues of US-Indiacontinued partnership in biomedical & pharmaceuticalresearch and strengthen our regulatory & scientificrelationship further. Exchange of knowledge,technology, science, and talent are few to name."

MR. SURESH KHANNA,

Engineer by education, wasFounder Chairman ofM/s.Stabicon Life Sciences Pvt.Ltd. A Contract Research &Development Organization andDesignated Partner of M/s.Dossiers Solutions Services LLP,a leading Regulatory Affairs

Company. He is a Business Advisor and Member of theBoards of a few companies in both India and abroad.Currently he is a Steering Committee Member ofKDPMA, Chairman of Pharma Training Institute andPermanent Trustee of Karnataka PharmaceuticalTrust (KPT), a not for profit Organization, engaged inthe upliftment of Pharmacy Education in India.

Mr Suresh Khanna said "India stated that India has ahuge potential for providing Pharma Services whichpeople generally don't talk about. India has veryexperienced and qualified pool of professionals whocan assist in Formulation Product Development,Compiling Product Dossiers/API DMF's forregistration in markets worldwide, SOP Writing,Clinical/BE studies & Clinical Data Management,Validation protocols, setting up PharmacovigilanceCall etc. at a very competitive cost. These costs will beaffordable by many small and medium Centers scalecompanies in USA, thereby making them morecompetitive commercially worldwide. These servicesare akin to services provided successfully by Indiansoftware Industry worldwide."

MR. ROOPESH BHARGAVA

is an Experienced in leading andgrowing all sectors of a business( P h a r m a c e u t i c a l s /Nutraceuticals/ Vaccines) for thelast three decades with ProvenCredentials. He has servedCompanies like Sanofi as SeniorDirector / Besins Healthcare as

Managing Director and Bharat Serums & Vaccines asChief Operating officer till very recently .He has theexperience of having Worked in Greater India, Chinaand US markets. Currently, he is a consultant to thePharmaceutical Companiesto make it dynamic andProgressive organization. Possessing excellentcommunication skills and able to establish sustainableand profitable relationships with Customers, suppliersand stakeholders across the country.

He said "India and US have to augment each other toensure that best of the Medicines / Vaccines reach tofellow humans at an affordable price with excellentQuality. India Supplies 40% of total Generic medicinerequired by USA. The Capacity to Produce vaccinesalso lies with India as required. Hence faster approvalsand joint efforts by each other is the call of the day. Theadvantage which India has in terms of cost efficiency,Economic drivers, Policy support and Investments canbe fully leveraged under the trying circumstances for aWin- Win situation."

MR. ANAND

KRISHNAMURTHY, CEO,Coolsoft LLC, is a fast-growingcompany, focused on AI and ML itis providing consulting andapplication development servicesin Information Technology.COOLSOFT combines technicalexpertise with in-depth business

knowledge to provide the best solutions toorganizations in Healthcare, Transportation andTelecom.

Anand said "In the area of Pharmaceuticals, Scienceand technology will and should play a key role.Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning will assist usin finding new cures for diseases. This will aid indiscovery of cures for rare diseases where the ROI forthe drug companies is not significant. Technologiessuch as blockchain will aid in the fight againstcounterfeit drugs which will save lives lost due to fakedrug usage and administration. AI/ML and Genomicswill cause as much a change to the human race as theindustrial revolution did. More importantly, the closecollaboration between academia, researchers andphilanthropist between India and US should and willresult in making new and affordable drugs for now andthe future."

MR. GARY S. PASRICHA isthe managing partner of the lawfirm of Pasricha & Patel LLC. Hehas been practicing law for over25 years, specializing inrepresenting businesses andindividuals in business lawmatters such as contracting,mergers and acquisitions,

secured lending, import and export regulations, laborlaw, and business immigration

Garry presented a ppt on laws in US under Covid 19especially PPE

MR. AJIT CHAWLA is SVP &Global Head, Digital BusinessUnit, Birlasoft, a CK Birla groupcompany whose Missionstatement is "Making Societiesmore productive by helping ourcustomers run their business".Guided by the company mission,

"Both lives and livelihoods areimportant. Return-to-work strategies need to becomprehensive yet pragmatic. While on one side,organizations in sectors such as Pharmaceuticals whoengage in mission-critical operations

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7THE INDIAN PANORAMAFRIDAY, JULY 10, 2020 NY/NJ/CT

NEW YORK (TIP): AIR INDIA, Regional Officein New York , on July 9, announced that VandeBharat Mission Flights have been extended to

major metros in India.In a press release sent to The Indian Panorama,

the airline said: "Effective July 11 through July 19,VBM flights previously scheduled to terminate atDelhi will now continue to major metros in Indiaas per the following chart. To book one of thespecial VBM flights, you must go to Air IndiaWebsite at www.airindia.in after registration.You will be quarantined at the final destination,i.e. Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai,Hyderabad or Kochi".

Repatriations under Vande Bharat Mission

Cross 500,000NEW YORK (TIP): A record 5

lakh stranded Indians have returnedsafely to India under the VandeBharat Mission (VBM). The VBMoperations commenced on 7th May2020 and in less than two months5,03,990 stranded Indians from 137countries, including from remoteareas, have returned to their homes.Considering that the initial target tobring stranded Indians withcompelling reasons was only 2 lakh,this is a significant achievement.

Kerala received the largestnumber of stranded Indians (94,085),followed by Uttar Pradesh, Bihar,Tamil Nadu, West Bengal,Maharashtra, Karnataka, Gujaratand Andhra Pradesh. The largestnumber of stranded Indians returned by VBM flights are fromUAE (57,305), followed by Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia andUSA and from Nepal (91,193) have returned through land bordercheck posts.

The VBM involved 860 Air India flights; 1256 charter flights and8 Naval Ships. The stranded Indians returned by Air India were1,64,121; Indian Navy 3,987 in 8 ships from Maldives, Iran andColombo; chartered flights - 2,30,832 and foreign carriers - 3,969;about 60 air ambulances and 95,220 through land border check-posts from neighboring countries.

This massive operation was carried out with the active supportand cooperation of Indian Missions abroad, MoCA, MHA,MoHFW and State Governments. MEA designated senior officersas State Coordinators were in the forefront of these operationsensuring smooth coordination at all levels.

Govt of India's Vande Bharat Mission flights

extended to major metros

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Police, Women's Commission clearScribe of sexual misconduct

NEW YORK (TIP): TheNationalCommission for Women in NewDelhi has closed the sexual harassmentcase filed by an actress against seniorIndian-American journalist, Dr. PrakashM Swamy on the basis of a reportsubmitted by the Greater Chennai PoliceDepartment.

The Chennai Police has informed theCommission that it had closed the caseagainst the scribe for want of evidence.The complainant failed to produce anyproof of her alleged complaint. The casedrew media attention nationally andinternationally as the scribe is wellknown both in India and in the US. Theveteran journalist of 40 years standinghad also served as a diplomaticcorrespondent at the United Nations forover a decade.

According to a senior police officer inChennai, the case is nothing but aFacebook fight where both parties hadtraded charges and accusations againsteach other. The scribe, a leadinginvestigative journalist, was probing thealleged murder of the actress's husband.To seek revenge and to stop him frominvestigating the case, the actress hadfiled a false sexual harassmentcomplaint that the scribe had visited herhouse and tried to molest her.

In her social media posts, she wept andcriedfor help to punish the journalistand went on to claim that the

harassment continued via phone andinternet and that the journalist startedsending her derogatory messages viaWhatsApp, threatening to defame her.The extra actress and a group dancer,GayatriSainath also roped in her friendsin the social media to bolster her caseand damage the scribe's imagedeliberately.

The Chennai Commissioner ofPolice,who directed the DeputyCommissioner of Police (Mylapore) toinvestigate the case, has stated in hisfinal report sent to theCommission inDelhi that the police conducted athorough inquiry in the apartmentcomplex where the actress lived andinterrogated the neighbors of thecomplainant. It emerged that theapartment complex has a modernsecurity system whereby outsiders can'taccess without the residents'permission. The actress had failed toproduce any evidence of the allegedincident, the report said.

The scribe had earlier demandedCCTV footage of the apartment complexon the dates the actress alleged and alsothe guest register at the complex gatemaintained by the security staff insupport of her case but she could notproduce any credible evidence to proveher claim to him or to the police.

Read full story atwww.theindianpanorama.news

The Covid-19 pandemic has wreakedunprecedented havoc on mankindand across nations. The contagion

is global, and perhaps, requires acoordinated worldwide response. It hasblurred the distinction between thedeveloped and under-developed worldsand seems to be pushing for a new socio-economic world order.

The devastation caused by thepandemic is debated and feared byeveryone. Trade, business and industryhave been impacted in equal measure,though agriculture seems to have shownsome resilience to beat the ill-effects ofthe virus. The producers of food grainshave so far found their way through theshutdown. They have succeeded in theharvesting of winter crops and thesowing of summer crops despite thepandemic. Even the governments were atease in distributing grains in the face ofbroken food supply chains because ofsufficient buffer stocks. But the loss ofproducers of perishable commoditiessuch as fruits and vegetables, dairy andpoultry products could not be preventedowing to disruptions in transportationand demand contraction.

Likewise, loss of jobs, particularlythose in unorganized sectors could notbe avoided as production processeshalted and the markets were closed. Evenafter unlocking the markets, there arenot many buyers due to the decliningincome and liquidity crunch. Thegradual opening of businesses has,however, created hope for many in theMSME sector. The revival ofemployment in agriculture has somehowshown more promise than the othersectors of the economy.

Without undermining the losses thrustupon society and the economy, it has tobe admitted that the pandemic hascompelled the people for a change inbehavior that is otherwise difficult toachieve. Avoidance of non-essentialtravel and luxurious spending,maintenance of social distancing, handhygiene, and the wearing of the mask orany such thing that keeps one's healthassured or good and saves life are likedor at least not abhorred by the commonman. Even those who preferred freeloitering in groups are now maintainingsocial distancing.

At times, it was difficult to persuadepeople to take potable piped waterconnections, build toilets, avoid opendefecation, ensure safe food quality andmaintain sanitation in galis (lanes) andmohallas (localities). Today, the demandfor such basic services has increased.The communities are compelling for theprovisioning of these essentials. Theyare even ensuring surveillance on Covid-19 cases and travelers around theirvillages or habitations. Healthconsciousness has risen to a new high.Even the addicts are seeking treatmentto return to normal living, much to thedetriment of drug suppliers andpeddlers.

The pandemic has propelled the use ofdigital technology. Fintech, proptech,edutech, and agri-tech are now commonin day-to-day conduct of business.Digital education, unknown to over 90per cent of teachers, is now widelypreferred. During the recent harvestingand sowing of crops in Punjab, most

farmers were eager to be a part of digitalmessaging through WhatsApp or otherapps. They downloaded e-passes for thesale of their products and useddebit/credit cards more often than everbefore. The disrupted food supply chainswere also kicking, even in containmentareas, due to the use of digitaltechnology. The Amazons and Zomatoswere able to reach more householdsdespite restrictions.

Another satisfying change is thedecline in avoidable lavish spending onsocial occasions such as marriages andother such celebrations that areidentified as one of the major reasons forthe rising indebtedness amongst thefarmers and landless workers. Therestrictions on social extravaganza, triedmany times earlier, succeeded, thoughforcibly during the pandemic. No policyor programme could achieve this andhopefully, it will be maintained in thefuture.

The pandemic unlocked hidden energy

in governments. The lethargy andinertia in governance disappearedwithout any loss of time as the threat tolife and livelihood for the common manwas grave and hugely perilous. It led toprompt decision-making; rapid re-formulation of programs andadjustment of public policies tominimize, if not avoid, the devastationand provide immediate relief to theaffected vulnerable populations. Thequick proclamation of lockdown, rapidupgrade of health infrastructure, swiftidentification and resolution ofunrealized problems such as migrantworkers and fiscal stimulus are some ofthe outcomes of a new way of life and, ofcourse, governance.

The pandemic has surely led to a newnormal in our lives. It is different, butnot so unusual. It may sometimes appearto be absurd and restrictive, but is notreprehensible or difficult. In many ways,it has taught us discipline, care for oneanother, use of technology, financialresponsibility, and prudence in life.Covid-19 has made us realize values andsystems, some of which can be termed astraditional, concerning hygiene, health,education and even society andcommunities in which we live. 'Leaveyour shoes out'; 'Take off your shoes;'Spitting not allowed' or 'Wash yourhands', though may appear to be the newnormal, are not new or unfamiliarphrases for us. The pandemic hasperhaps enforced conduct that requiresthe use of new techniques andtechnologies with the widespreadadoption of old but otherwise normalsystems and practices, which were lost inour pursuits to grow, perhapsunknowingly. The pandemic has drivenus to a new world of work and living.

(The author is Chief Principal Secretary toPunjab CM)

By Suresh Kumar

8 THE INDIAN PANORAMAFRIDAY, JULY 10, 2020EDITORIAL

Guest Comment

Covid-19 has not only devastatedlives and livelihoods across theglobe, but also played havoc with

the academic calendar. Amid therestrictions necessitated by thepandemic, educational institutions havebeen engaging with students throughonline classes - a 'something is better thannothing' option that factors in the currentunfeasibility of in-person teaching. In amove betraying total disconnect with thesituation on the ground, the DonaldTrump administration has made ittougher for international students to stayand study in the US. America'sImmigration and Customs Enforcement

agency has said that it would not allowholders of student visas to remain in thecountry if their institution goes fullyonline for the upcoming fall season.These students face the risk ofdeportation if they don't shift touniversities and colleges offering a blendof in-person and online coursework.

The US State Department claims thatthis 'temporary accommodation' providesgreater flexibility to foreign students, butit's actually a coercive step that severelylimits their choices and forces them to'take it or leave it'. The rash decision willparticularly hit Indian and Chinese

nationals as the two countries togetheraccount for about half of the over 11 lakhinternational students in the US. WithIndia's Foreign Secretary Harsh VardhanShringla promptly expressing concernover the development, the US is likely tofind itself under increasing diplomaticpressure to do a rethink sooner than later.

The Trump administration has chosento play the 'us versus they' card monthsbefore the presidential elections. Thedivisive order, which has been challengedin a federal court by Harvard Universityand the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology (MIT), could prove to be

counterproductive in more ways thanone. Slamming the door on a large groupof foreigners would deprive America of amajor money-spinner at a time when itseconomy is in the doldrums. With no signof a let-up in the Covid crisis, USuniversities and colleges are justified inswitching to the online mode, albeit as anad hoc, stop-gap measure. Maintainingthe standards of education matters; sodoes the safety of students and teachers.The challenge lies in striking a balancebetween the two considerations.

(TRIBUNE, INDIA)

AS I SEE IT

Pandemic has ushered in the new normal

Failing students: America's visa curbs reek of coercion, bias

The pandemic unlocked hidden energy in governments. The lethargy andinertia in governance disappeared without any loss of time as the threat to

the common man's life and livelihood was perilous. It led to prompt decision-making, rapid re-formulation of programs and policies to minimize the

devastation and provide relief to the vulnerable population.

A new world: Covid has enforced conduct that requires the use of new technologies along withthe old but normal systems and practices

“We are now seeing thebeginning of movementsacross many parts of the

world, and particularlyacross Asia, objecting to

China's territorialambitions and its 'Belt

and Road' infrastructureprojects. But, given thesize of its economy and

its conventional andnuclear weapon

capabilities, China'sglobal influence will

remain significant. It willcontinue to work closely

with Pakistan toundermine and contain

Indian influence andpower. It will also seek

to undermine Indianinfluence in Nepal and

Bangladesh. Thus, whileour bilateral economic

restrictions on China areimportant, we shouldremember that China

will be influenced only ifwe work in coordinationwith other regional and

global powers. It is,nevertheless, imperative

that military anddiplomatic contacts and

dialogue with Chinashould continue, while

taking appropriatemeasures to meet the

security challenges wecontinue to face, in

Ladakh and elsewhere,across our borders with

China."

Prime Minister Modi visited Ladakhon July 3 to express the nation'sgratitude to the armed forces and

paramilitary for their role in defending thecountry, while facing serious challengesposed by China. His visit also came in thewake of seething public anger and calls forretribution, because parts of the Galwanvalley and the Pangong Tso had come underChinese control. Referring to China'sperfidy in seeking to expand its land andmaritime frontiers, Modi noted: 'Wheneverthe obsession for expansionist victoriestakes over someone, it causes dangers toworld peace.' He pointedly added:'Expansionism has been dangerous tomankind.'

China's disastrous invasion of Vietnam in1979, its ill-advised intrusions in Sikkim in1975, the serious setbacks in its intrusionsin Sumdorong Chu in Arunachal Pradeshin 1986, and in Doklam in 2017, havedemonstrated that China's army is notinvincible. The Chinese have refused todisclose their casualties in the Galwanmisadventure. Reliable western journalshave, however, disclosed that 43 Chinesesoldiers were killed in hand-to-handcombat. The Chinese must now understandhow a relatively small, but determinedgroup of Indian Army soldiers respondedstrongly, decisively and effectively, whentheir unarmed compatriots weretreacherously killed. Modi pointedly notedthat 'territorial expansionism' was thebiggest threat to humanity. He was alludingto China's arbitrary territorial claims onvirtually all its neighbors, including Japan,Taiwan, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, thePhilippines and even Russia, where someChinese are now reviving claims to theRussian port of Vladivostok, which hasbeen a part of Russia since 1860! China'spast actions, aimed at expanding itsfrontiers, will now meet greater oppositionfrom its immediate neighbors, across thewestern Pacific Ocean. China had thus far

overcome such opposition by a policy of'divide and rule', backed by crude threats tothose who disagree with it. Its 'disincentives'have included crude use of maritimemilitary power against countries likeVietnam, Brunei, the Philippines andIndonesia. The primary motive for suchbehavior is to have unchallenged access to11 billion barrels of untapped oil and 190trillion cubic feet of natural gas in the SouthChina Sea. China has used its powerful navyto take control of vast tracts of the sea, fromits ASEAN maritime neighbors.

Three days after Modi's visit to Ladakh,NSA Ajit Doval had detailed discussionswith Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.India's Special Representative announcedthat Doval and Wang Yi agreed to completethe ongoing disengagement along the LACand ensure de-escalation. This will reducecurrent tensions, but will it end the repeatedviolations of the LAC whose contours theChinese refuse to define? It would requirefurther negotiations to get China to pull outfrom Pangong Tso. This effort would have tobe complemented by active internationaldiplomacy that focuses on Chineseintransigence.

The leaders of ASEAN member states,meanwhile, have demanded that territorialand other differences should be settled inaccordance with the provisions of the UNConvention of the Law of the Seas(UNCLOS). They added: 'UNCLOS sets outthe legal framework within which allactivities in the oceans and seas must becarried out.' The International Court ofArbitration at The Hague had issued a clearruling in 2016 on a claim brought under theUNCLOS, against China, by the Philippines.The ruling was in favor of the Philippines.While China is a signatory to the treaty,which established the tribunal, it hasrefused to accept the verdict.

China cannot be pleased with theinternational diplomatic fallout of itsbehavior. US Secretary of State Mike

Pompeo launched a scathing attack onChina on June 25, averring that the USwould deploy additional forces in the Indo-Pacific Region in response to growingChinese threats to India and othercountries. He indicated that he had spokento his counterparts in the EU about threatsChina posed to its 'peaceful neighbors likeIndia'. He also alluded to Chinese threats toVietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia, and itsdisregard for maritime frontiers. Pompeo'swords have been accompanied by theunprecedented deployment of two USnuclear-powered aircraft carriers in theIndo-Pacific region. India should, in turn,promote greater maritime cooperationbetween members of the recently formedQuad grouping, comprising the US, Japan,India and Australia. This grouping ismoving towards coordinated actions tocounter Chinese territorial threats.

We are now seeing the beginning ofmovements across many parts of the world,and particularly across Asia, objecting toChina's territorial ambitions and its 'Belt andRoad' infrastructure projects. But, given thesize of its economy and its conventional andnuclear weapon capabilities, China's globalinfluence will remain significant. It willcontinue to work closely with Pakistan toundermine and contain Indian influence andpower. It will also seek to undermine Indianinfluence in Nepal and Bangladesh. Thus,while our bilateral economic restrictions onChina are important, we should rememberthat China will be influenced only if we workin coordination with other regional andglobal powers. It is, nevertheless, imperativethat military and diplomatic contacts anddialogue with China should continue, whiletaking appropriate measures to meet thesecurity challenges we continue to face, inLadakh and elsewhere, across our borderswith China.

(The author is Chancellor, Jammu CentralUniversity & former High Commissioner to

Pakistan)

9THE INDIAN PANORAMAFRIDAY, JULY 10, 2020 PERSPECTIVE

By G. Parthasarathy

Beating China at its gameCurbs are important, but India must work with other regional & global powers

An Indian American community group led by social and political activist Prem Bhandari ( wearing Modi jacket, second from right) protestedChinese aggression against India and called for boycott of Chinese products at the iconic Times Square in New York City , July 4.

10 THE INDIAN PANORAMAFRIDAY, JULY 10, 2020SOUTH ASIA

Maldives TourismMinister sacked overalleged sex offences

MALE (TIP): The MaldivesPresident has sacked the TourismMinister after female employees in hisoffice accused him of sexual offences,officials said on Thursday.

President Ibrahim Mohamed Solihhad called for the resignation ofTourism Minister Ali Waheed andthen sacked him after he failed to stepdown on his own, presidentialspokesman Ibrahim Hood said.

Police confirmed receivingcomplaints of sexual misconduct byWaheed. Waheed did not answer phonecalls seeking comment. Anarchipelago state in the Indian Ocean,Maldives is known for its luxurytourist resort islands. — AP

Pakistan’s KPK govtannounces Rs 1 cr

financial aid packagefor Sikhs killed in train-

bus accidentPESHAWAR (TIP): Pakistan’s

provincial government of KhyberPakhtunkhwa on Wednesdayannounced a financial assistancepackage of Rs one crore for thefamilies of the 21 Sikh pilgrims whowere killed in a train-bus accident lastweek. Special Assistant to KPK ChiefMinister on Minorities Wazir Zadamade this announcement during hisvisit to Bhai Joga Singh Gurdwara andexpressed condolences over the demiseof the Sikh pilgrims.

Each of the families of the PakistaniSikhs who were killed in the accidentwill be given Rs five lakh financialassistance, Zada said.Twenty-one Pakistani Sikh pilgrimswere killed when a minibus in whichthey were travelling was hit by a trainin Sheikhupura district in Pakistan’sPunjab province on Friday. “It was atragic incident and the entirehumanity was saddened over it. thegovernment of KPK stood by itsminorities in difficult times,” Zadasaid. In India, the ShiromaniGurdwara Parbandhak Committee(SGPC) has also announced Rs 1 lakhfinancial assistance to each of thefamilies of the Pakistani Sikhs killedin the accident. The SGPC, an apexgurdwara body, will also give Rs 50,000to each of those who were injured inthe accident. PTI

6 dead in clash betweenfactions of Bangladesh

ethnic groupDHAKA (TIP): Six people were

killed in a gunfight on Tuesdaybetween two factions of an ethnicgroup over control of a hilly region insoutheastern Bangladesh wherearmed gangs are active, police said.The clash took place between ParbatyaChattogram Jana Sanghati Samiti andits reformist faction, both dominatedby the influential Chakma tribe inBandarban district, police officialMobasser Hossain said. AP

Pak PM Imran inaugurates first-everinfectious diseases hospital as

COVID-19 cases cross 240,000ISLAMABAD (TIP): Prime Minister

Imran Khan inaugurated Pakistan’sfirst-ever specialised hospital forinfectious diseases here on Thursday tomeet the increasing challenges posed bythe coronavirus that has claimed nearly5,000 lives and infected over 240,000people in the country.

The 250-bed Isolation Hospital andInfectious Treatment Centre (IHITC) wasbuilt in a record 40 days.

Speaking to the media after theinauguration ceremony, Khan appealedto the people to follow social distancingon Eidul Azha, expected to be observedon July 31.

He said the “carelessness on EidulFitr” in May led to an increase in thenumber of patients and pressure onhospitals.

“Today, I want to make a special appealto you all: if we are careless on EidulAzha, the virus could spread again andthere could be a fresh spike in thenumber of infections. Hospitals willcome under pressure again,” said Khan,who was accompanied by Army chiefGeneral Qamar Javed Bajwa at theinauguration ceremony.

Khan also urged the people to followthe official guidelines and observe thefestival with simplicity.

“I appeal to the entire nation toobserve Eid with simplicity — for thesake of your country, its economy andespecially the elderly and at-riskmembers of the society,” he said.

Khan was briefed about the hospitalwhich is a state-of-the-art medicalfacility and was built at a cost of Rs 980million. The number of coronaviruscases in Pakistan crossed the 240,000-mark after 3,359 new infections weredetected in the last 24 hours, while 61people died of the disease, taking the

death toll to 4,983, the health ministrysaid on Thursday. According to theMinistry of National Health Services,the number of recovered patients hasreached 145,311.

The number of critically ill patients is2,193, out of which 435 are on ventilators.The death toll has reached 4,983 afteranother 61 people died due to the COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, the ministry said.

Out of the total 240,848 infections,Sindh has reported 99,362 cases, Punjab84,587, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa 29,052,Islamabad 13,731, Balochistan 11,052,Gilgit-Baltistan 1,605 and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir 1,459 cases.

A total of 1,491437 tests have beenconducted, including 24,333 in the last 24hours. Separately, the NationalCommand and Operation Centre (NCOC)decided to set up a committee in theinterior ministry to prevent the spread ofmisinformation about the deadly

coronavirus on social media.The committee led by Interior

Minister Ijaz Shah will prepare a legalframework to prevent and counter fakenews.

Also, Prime Minister Khan has calledfor strict implementation of thestandard operating procedures on theoccasion of Eidul Azha and duringMuharram. Meanwhile, Pakistanannounced on Thursday to reopen alleducational institutions in the countryfrom September 15. Education MinisterShafqat Mahmood told the media inIslamabad that educationalinstitutions would be allowed tooperate after implementation ofofficial guidelines. “The federalgovernment will formulate SoPs andshare with the provincial governments,and they will be authorised to close theinstitutions, which do not observe theSoPs,” he said. PTI

Suicide bombing attack in Afghanistan kill 7 policemenKABUL (TIP): A suicide car bomber

targeted an Afghan police convoy ineastern Nangarhar province on Tuesdaymorning, killing four officers, includinga police commander, a local official said.

Three other officers were killed in anattack in the country’s south.

The suicide bombing, which struck at amarket in the district of Khewa, alsowounded 11 people—nine civilians andtwo members of the security forces,according to Attahullah Khogyani, thespokesman for the provincial governor.

He identified the slain commander asMir Zaman; the other three officers wereZaman’s bodyguards.

No one immediately claimedresponsibility for the attack, but both theTaliban and the Islamic State group areactive in eastern Afghanistan, especiallyin Nangarhar. Afghanistan has seen arecent spike in violence, with mostattacks claimed by the local IS affiliate.

Earlier in May in the same district, anIS suicide bomber targeted the funeral ofa pro-government militia commanderand former warlord, killing 32 people andwounding 133. The dead in that attackincluded Abdullah Lala Jan, a provincialcouncil member. His father, Noor Agha, alawmaker, was wounded in the attack.

Also Tuesday, at least three policemenwere killed and three were wounded in

southern Zabul province wheninsurgents attacked their convoy inShinkia district, authorities said,blaming the Taliban for the attack.

The Afghan military has also beenlaunching attacks against the Taliban theDefense Ministry has so far refused togive details. The Taliban did notimmediately comment on the attacks inZabul. --- AP

11THE INDIAN PANORAMAFRIDAY, JULY 10, 2020 ADVERTISEMENT

NEW YORK (TIP): President DonaldTrump's niece offers a scathing portrayalof her uncle in a new book, blaming atoxic family for raising a narcissistic,damaged man who poses an immediatedanger to the public, according to a copyobtained by The Associated Press.

Mary L. Trump, a psychologist, writesthat Trump's reelection would becatastrophic and that "lying, playing tothe lowest common denominator,cheating, and sowing division are all heknows."

"By the time this book is published,hundreds of thousands of American liveswill have been sacrificed on the altar ofDonald's hubris and willful ignorance. Ifhe is afforded a second term, it would bethe end of American Democracy," shewrites in "Too Much and Never Enough,How My Family Created The World's MostDangerous Man." Mary Trump is thedaughter of Trump's elder brother, Fred

Jr., who died after a struggle withalcoholism in 1981 at 42. The book is thesecond insider account in two months topaint a deeply unflattering portrait of thepresident, following the release of formernational security adviser John Bolton'sbestseller.

In her book, Mary Trump, who isestranged from her uncle, makes severalrevelations, including alleging that thepresident paid a friend to take the SATs -a standardized test widely used for collegeadmissions - in his place.

She writes that his sister MaryanneTrump did his homework for him butcouldn't take his tests and he worried hisgrade point average, which put him farfrom the top of the class, would "scuttlehis efforts to get accepted" into theWharton School of the University ofPennsylvania, where he transferred aftertwo years at Fordham University in theBronx.

"To hedge his bets he enlisted JoeShapiro, a smart kid with a reputation forbeing a good test taker, to take his SATsfor him," she writes, adding, "Donald, whonever lacked for funds, paid his buddywell."

White House spokesperson SarahMatthews called the allegation"completely false."

Mary Trump also writes, in awe, ofTrump's ability to gain the support ofprominent Christian leaders and whiteevangelicals, saying: "The only timeDonald went to church was when the

cameras were there. It's mind boggling.He has no principles. None!"

White House press secretary KayleighMcEnany slammed the book Tuesday,saying, "It's ridiculous, absurdaccusations that have absolutely nobearing in truth."

Mary Trump traces much of her pain tothe death of her father when she was 16.The president, who rarely admitsmistakes, told The Washington Post lastyear that he regretted the pressure he andhis father had put on Fred Jr. to join thefamily business when his brother wantedto be a pilot instead.

"It was just not his thing. ... I think themistake that we made was we assumedthat everybody would like it. That wouldbe the biggest mistake. ... There was sortof a double pressure put on him," Trumptold the paper.

Yet as her father lay dying alone, MaryTrump claims, "Donald went to themovies." She says that, as a child, DonaldTrump hid favorite toys from his youngerbrother and took juvenile stunts - likeFred Jr. dumping a bowl of mashedpotatoes on his then-7-year-old head - soseriously that he harbored resentmentseven when his eldest sister, Maryanne,brought it up in her toast at his WhiteHouse birthday dinner in 2017.

She paints Trump, who often called her"Honeybunch," as a self-centerednarcissist who demanded constantadulation - even from his family - and hadlittle regard for family members' feelings.

Trump's crude rhetoric on thecampaign trail, she said, was nothingnew, reminding her "of every family mealI'd ever attended during which Donaldhad talked about all of the women heconsidered ugly fat slobs or the men,usually more accomplished or powerful,he called losers."

The book is, at its heart, a lengthypsychoanalysis of the Trump family by awoman trained in the field, who sees thetraits of her uncle that critics despise as anatural progression of behaviorsdeveloped at the knees of a demandingfather. For Donald Trump, she writes,"lying was defensive - not simply a way tocircumvent his father's disapproval or toavoid punishment ... but a way to survive."

Publisher Simon & Schusterannounced Monday that it would bepublishing the book two weeks early, onJuly 14, after a New York appellate courtcleared the way for the book's publicationfollowing a legal challenge.

Robert Trump, the president's youngerbrother, had sued Mary Trump, arguingin legal papers that she was subject to a20-year-old agreement between familymembers that no one would publishaccounts involving core family memberswithout their approval.

A judge last week left in place arestraint that blocked Mary Trump andany agent of hers from distributing thebook, but the court made clear it was notconsidering Simon & Schuster to becovered by the ruling. (Source: AP)

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Mary Trump's book offers scathingportrayal of President

Alleges that Donald Trump paid a friend to take SATs

Biden releases U.S.-centered economic plan,challenging Trump's 'America First' agenda

WASHINGTON (TIP): Joe Biden unveiled a proposalThursday, July 9, to spend $700 billion on Americanproducts and research, challenging President Trump's"America First" agenda with a competing brand ofeconomic nationalism and setting the stage for anelection-year showdown over the country's financialfuture.

The Biden campaign plan for manufacturing andinnovation aims to bring back jobs lost this year andcreate at least 5 million more with sweepinginvestments in domestic technology; reducedependence on foreign countries to supply criticalgoods; and implement trade and tax policies thatempower U.S. workers.

"When we spend taxpayers' money, when the federalgovernment spends taxpayers' money, we should use itto buy American products and support American jobs,"Biden said in a speech in Dunmore, Pa. Thepresumptive Democratic nominee spoke at a metalworks plant, delivering the first major element of whathis campaign says will be a four-part agenda tospearhead an economic recovery.

Biden says economy is 'at risk' under Trumppresidency

On July 2, presumptive Democratic presidentialnominee Joe Biden said that President Trump "badlybungled" the health and economic responses to

coronavirus. (Joe Biden/YouTube)"Enough is enough," said Biden. "It's time to reverse

the priorities in this country. It's time to help smallbusinesses, middle-class folks, manage their waythrough the pandemic."

Trump has been arguing for months that theeconomy will regain its momentum when businesses,restaurants and other operations are allowed to reopen,and he has pushed for that to happen quickly despitethe ongoing pandemic.

Biden's announcement prompted frustration by someTrump allies that it was released before the presidentannounced a similar "Buy American" proposal that hasbeen held up for months amid internal objections,according to current and former officials. Stephen K.Bannon, a former chief Trump strategist, said thepresident's team was "caught flat-footed."

Biden's pitch underscores a major shift by both majorparties away from embracing globalization and freetrade and toward protecting American workers andrevitalizing struggling domestic industries. Thosetrends have been accelerated by the coronaviruspandemic, which has wreaked havoc on the economy.

Biden contrasts his coronavirus plan with Trump'sDemocratic presidential nominee Joe Biden outlined

his points for managing coronavirus if elected, andcondemned Trump's response on June 30. (BlairGuild/The Washington Post)

"Biden does not accept the defeatist view that theforces of automation and globalization render ushelpless to retain well-paid union jobs and create moreof them here in America," says a statement by thecampaign detailing the plan.

The announcement suggests a recognition thatsupport for Trump's handling of the economy remainsa bright spot for the president in his otherwise weakpoll numbers. contd on Page 32

Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden

NEW YORK (TIP): Harvard and theMassachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT) on July 8 filed a lawsuit againstregulations barring foreign studentsfrom staying in the country if theirclasses are held entirely online. In thelawsuit, they asked the court to preventICE and DHS from enforcing the newguidance and to declare it unlawful.

On Monday, July 6 the federalgovernment announced modifications toits rule for international students takingonline courses in Fall 2020. The new rulewould provide that nonimmigrantstudents cannot be physically attendinguniversities in the United States if theyare taking all of their courses online inFall 2020. Under the rule, they will begiven a student visa only if they will betaking some courses in person, and ifthey are here and the pandemiccircumstances do not allow them to takean in-person course, they must eitherleave the United States or transfer toanother university offering in-personcourses.

"The announcement disrupts ourinternational students' lives andjeopardizes their academic and researchpursuits. ICE is unable to offer the mostbasic answers about how its policy willbe interpreted or implemented. And the

guidance comes after many US collegesand universities either released or arereadying their final decisions for the fall- decisions designed to advance theireducational mission and protect thehealth and safety of their communities";MIT President L. Rafael Reif wrote in anemail to the MIT community. "MIT'sstrength is its people - no matter wherethey come from. I know firsthand theanxiety of arriving in this country as astudent, excited to advance myeducation, but separated from my familyby thousands of miles. I also know thatwelcoming the world's brightest, mosttalented and motivated students is anessential American strength", he furtheradded.

Stanford is also joining the peer

institutions in an amicus brief tosupport Harvard and MIT in the lawsuit.The amicus brief will be filed shortly,pursuant to the court's briefingschedule.

"Our international students areimportant members of our community,with unique perspectives that greatlyenrich the learning environment for all.They deserve the chance to continuemaking progress toward their degrees.But actions like this don't only harminternational students: they damageuniversity communities and impede ourability to educate future leaders, drivediscovery and innovation, and fueleconomic progress", President ofStanford UniversityMarc Tessier-Lavigne said in a statement.

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IRS.gov is home to IRS Free File,"Where's My Refund?", the TaxWithholding Estimator and a host ofother convenient applications.Additional help is available inPublication 17, Your Federal IncomeTax, available on IRS.gov. Publication17 is also available as an eBook.

Taxpayers who have yet to file theirtax returns should file electronicallynow and choose direct deposit ifthey're getting a refund. Taxpayerswho owe for tax year 2019 can payanytime up to the July 15 due date.

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MIT and Harvard File Lawsuit against New ICE Regulations on Foreign Students

Ambassador Taranjit Singh Sandhu DiscussesEconomic and People-to-People Relations with

Governors of Washington and MichiganWASHINGTON (TIP): Ambassador of

India to the United States, Mr TaranjitSingh Sandhu interacted virtually withGovernor of Washington, Jay RobertInslee and Governor of Michigan,Gretchen Whitmeron 7 July 2020.

During the meeting with GovernorInslee, Ambassador Sandhu and GovernorInslee discussed the potential for furthercooperation in aerospace, IT, retail,healthcare & pharma, and agriculturalsectors. They discussed thecomplementarities, which can lead to jobcreation and mutual growth. Thediscussion also covered the importantcontributions of Indian and Indian-American companies, professionals andcommunity to the state of Washington

India and Washington State share agrowing trade and investmentrelationship. The total trade between Indiaand Washington State stood at US$ 1.23billion in 2019. Major Indian exportsinclude textiles, metals, computer andelectronics, fisheries. Major Indianimports from Washington aretransportation equipment (includingaerospace), agricultural products,computer and electronics and food &beverages. As per CII's report on survey ofIndian industry's footprint in the US, 14Indian companies have invested aroundUS$ 143 million in Washington State,

creating more than 4,167 jobs. Washington-based companies have also established astrong presence in India's defense, retail

and food & beverages sectors.During the interaction Governor of

Michiga, Ambassador Sandhu and

Governor Whitmer discussed the ways toenhance the mutually beneficial trade andinvestment partnership in sectors such asautomotive, manufacturing, aerospace,services and agriculture sectors.

India and Michigan have a robust tradeand investment relationship. The totaltrade between India and Michigan standsat US$ 2.49 billion (2019). Many Indiancompanies in IT, automotive, design,engineering & construction, lifesciences/pharma, manufacturing &energy sectors have invested in Michigan.As per CII's 2020 report on Indianinvestment in the U.S., 23 Indiancompanies have invested around US$ 453million in Michigan, thereby creating 3,971jobs. India is one of the few countriesidentified by the State of Michigan forbusiness development and mutualinvestments. Michigan EconomicDevelopment Commission regularlyconducts investment missions in India.

Ambassador Sandhu and GovernorWhitmer also noted the vibrant presenceof Indian community in Michigan,including a large number of Indianstudents in Universities/Colleges, andtheir contribution in strengthening thepartnership between India and the State ofMichigan.

(Based on a Press Release)

Ambassador Sandhu interacted virtually with Governor of Washington, Jay Robert Inslee andGovernor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer on 7 July 2020. - Photo / Courtesy Indian Embassy

14 THE INDIAN PANORAMAFRIDAY, JULY 10, 2020INDIA

LASHKAR BEHIND J&K SBJPLEADER’S KILLING: COPS

SRINAGAR (TIP): TheJ&K Police said the Lashkar-e-Toiba was behind thekilling of BJP leader WasimBari, his father and brotherin north Kashmir’sBandipora district yesterday,calling it a “pre-planned”attack.

“A Pakistan militant andlocal ultra Abid of the LeTwere involved in thekilling,” said IGP (Kashmir) Vijay Kumar. The policehave arrested all 10 personal security officers of theslain leader and decided to dismiss them fromservice. “It was a lapse on their part. They will bedismissed soon,” he said.

The IGP said from the CCTV footage, it seemed theattack was pre-planned as the militants had kept aclose watch on Bari’s movement. Bari was a memberof the BJP state executive committee, while hisfather and brother were office-bearers of the party.

ED attaches Rs 2,200 croreassets in Yes Bank case

NEW DELHI (TIP): The Enforcement Directorate(ED) today attached assets worth Rs 2,203 crore ofYes Bank co-founder Rana Kapoor and DHFL’sWadhawan brothers under the Prevention of MoneyLaundering Act (PMLA).

The probe agency said the present market value ofthese assets was more than Rs 2,800 crore, whichincluded immovable properties in India and abroad,bank accounts, investments, luxury vehicles, etc.These assets belong to Kapoor, Kapil Wadhawan andDheeraj Wadhawan and the entities controlled bythem, the ED said.

“The assets belonging to Kapoor and entitiesconnected to him amount to Rs 792 crore (the presentmarket value Rs 1,400 crore). These include anindependent residential building “Khursidabad” atCumbala Hill, three duplex flats at Napean Sea Road,a flat in the NCPA, Nariman Point; eight flats inIndia Bulls Blue, Worli in Mumbai and a bungalowat 40 Amrita Shergill Marg in New Delhi having amarket value of Rs 685 crore. All these propertieshave been attached,” it said.

Over 26k fresh cases, Indiainches closer to 8 lakh mark

NEW DELHI (TIP): Indiarecorded the highest single-dayspike of over 26,502 newcoronavirus cases and 475 deaths inthe last 24 hours, pushing the totaltally close to eight lakh with 21,604deaths, Health Ministrys's datarevealed on Friday.

According to the data, out of total7,93,802 cases, 4,95,513 haverecovered while 2,76,685 remainactive in the country. With moreCovid-19 patients recovering, thegap between the number ofrecovered cases and active cases hasincreased by two lakh.

The rate of recovery among theCovid-19 patients continues toincrease and has touched 62.42 percent. India, however, remains to bethe third worst-affected countryafter the US and Brazil.

During the last 24 hours, 2,83,659samples were tested, as the testinglab network continues to expand. Ason date, more than 1,119 labs haveenabled people to undergocoronavirus tests.

Maharashtra tops the chart andremains the worst hit state, withcases reaching up to 2,30,599 and9,667 casualties so far, of which 417occurred in the last 24 hours. TamilNadu remained the second worst hitwith a total of 1,26,581 cases,including 1,765 deaths.

With 2,187 new coronavirus casesand 45 deaths in the last 24 hours,the national capital on Thursdayrecorded a total tally of 1,07,051cases and 3,258 deaths.

States with more than 10,000 casesinclude Gujarat with 39,194 casesand 2,008 deaths, Uttar Pradesh

(32,362), Rajasthan (22,563), MadhyaPradesh (16,341), West Bengal(25,911), Haryana (19,369),

Karnataka (31,105), Andhra Pradesh(23,814), Telangana (30,946), Assam(14,032) and Bihar (13,944) cases.

CHINA’S CLAIM ON GALWAN EXAGGERATED,COMPLETE DISENGAGEMENT MUST: INDIA

NEW DELHI (TIP): Terming China’s claim on theGalwan valley as exaggerated and untenable, India onThursday said it was necessary to ensure at the earliestcomplete disengagement of troops along the Line of ActualControl (LAC) and de-escalation.

The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) took on itsChinese counterpart, who had quoted his Foreign Ministerand Special Representative (SR) for Border Affairs Wang Yias saying that the right and wrong of what happened in theGalwan valley was “very clear”.

Beijing had also sought to imply that it had ownershipover the Galwan valley where 20 Indian soldiers died in aclash with Chinese troops on June 15.

The MEA said it was hopeful that the dialogue betweendiplomatic and military officials of both sides would takeforward the process of disengagement and de-escalation, asagreed to by the SRs.

Addressing a press conference, MEA spokespersonAnurag Srivastava said India’s SR, NSA Ajit Doval, hadcategorically conveyed India’s position on the recentdevelopments along the LAC, including in the Galwanvalley area.

“The NSA emphasised that the Indian troops had alwaysadopted a very responsible approach towards bordermanagement. At the same time, our forces were deeplycommitted to ensuring India’s sovereignty and security,”he added, implying that Doval had indicated that Indianswere in a defensive and reactive mode.

During their conversation, the two SRs agreed that peace

and tranquillity in border areas were essential for theoverall development of bilateral relations.

Srivastava said they also shared the view that it wasnecessary to ensure at the earliest complete disengagementof the troops along the LAC and de-escalation in the India-China border areas for full restoration of peace andtranquillity in accordance with the bilateral agreements.

In line with the first phase of the disengagement processfrom friction points in eastern Ladakh, China’s PLA todaycompleted moving back its troops from the face-off sites inGogra and Hot Springs, sources said.

They said both sides had completed creation of a 3-kmbuffer zone in the three friction points of the Galwan valley,Gogra and Hot Springs as part of a temporary measureaimed at reducing the possibility of confrontation.

India exploring legal options inKulbhushan Jadhav case: MEA

NEW DELHI (TIP): India onThursday said it was exploringlegal options in the caserelating to Indian death-rowconvict Kulbhushan Jadhav, aday after Pakistan claimed thathe refused to file a reviewpetition against his sentence bya Pakistani military court oncharges of espionage.

“At this stage, we are assessing our legal options. Wewill do our utmost to protect the life of the Indiannational,” Spokesperson in the Ministry of ExternalAffairs Anurag Srivastava said at an online mediabriefing.

Jadhav, a retired Indian Navy officer, was sentencedto death by a Pakistani military court on charges ofespionage and terrorism in April 2017.

Weeks later, India approached the ICJ againstPakistan for denial of consular access to Jadhav andchallenging the death sentence. The ICJ, then,restrained Pakistan from executing him.

In July last year, the Hague-based court ruled thatPakistan must undertake an “effective review andreconsideration” of the conviction and sentence ofJadhav and also to grant consular access to Indiawithout further delay.

On Wednesday, Pakistan said Jadhav refused to filean appeal in the Islamabad High Court against hisconviction despite being offered the option.

CORONAVIRUS CASES

Eight states account for 90% ofCovid burden: Health Ministry

NEW DELHI (TIP): Even asCovid-19 cases topped 7,93,802, thegovernment said India was not incommunity transmission stage andit was only witnessing localoutbreaks amenable tocontainment.

The Health Ministry said 49 ofIndia’s 733 districts accounted for 80per cent of all Covid cases and 90 percent active infections. Likewise, 90per cent of disease burden camefrom just eight states (Maharashtra,Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Karnataka,Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar

Pradesh and Gujarat), while sixstates (Maharashtra, Delhi, Gujarat,Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh andWest Bengal) made up 86 per cent ofdeaths.

Meanwhile, the Centre said theDG ICMR’s letter mentioningAugust 15 launch for the ICMR-Bharat Biotech indigenous Covidvaccine was only meant to fast-trackthe processes to ensure speedylaunch. “Don’t read what’s not therein the letter,” the Health Ministrysaid, dialling down the August 15deadline.

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TABLIGHI JAMAAT: DELHICOURT GRANTS BAIL TO 76FOREIGNERS FROM 8COUNTRIES

NEW DELHI (TIP): A Delhi court on Thursdaygranted bail to 76 foreigners from eight countries whowere charge-sheeted for attending Tablighi Jamaatcongregation here allegedly in violation of visanorms, indulging in missionary activities illegallyand violating government guidelines issued in thewake of COVID-19 outbreak.

Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Gurmohina Kaurgranted the relief to the foreigners on furnishing apersonal bond of Rs 10,000 each.

Till date, 289 foreign nationals from 30 differentcountries, who were charge-sheeted in the case, havebeen granted bail by the court.

The police had in June filed 59 charge sheets,including supplementaries, against 956 foreignersbelonging to 36 different countries in the case.

The accused who were granted bail on Thursdaywill file their plea bargaining applications on Friday,said advocate Ashima Mandla, appearing for some ofthem.

Under plea bargaining, the accused plead guilty tothe offence, praying for a lesser punishment.

INDIA UPSET OVER USIMMIGRATION RULE FORSTUDENTS

NEW DELHI (TIP): India has conveyed itsconcerns to the US about a new immigration orderthat could force a large number of Indian students toreturn home, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA)said on Thursday.

“We have urged the US side that we need to keep inmind the role that educational exchanges and people-to-people relations have played in the development ofour relations,” MEA spokesperson Anurag Srivastavatold mediapersons. The Trump administration hasissued a new rule that bars foreign students fromremaining in the US if their universities are notholding in-person classes during the upcoming fallsemester because of Covid-19.

PM Modi to hold virtual summitwith EU next week

NEW DELHI (TIP): After holding summits withJapan, China and South Korea, the European Unionwill hold a virtual meeting with India on July 15, theMinistry of External Affairs announced here onThursday. The 15th meeting of the India-EuropeanUnion Summit will be co-chaired by Prime MinisterNarendra Modi and the President of the EuropeanCouncil Charles Michel; and the President of theEuropean Commission Ursula von der Leyen.

The summit will review India-EU cooperationcovering political and security relations, trade andinvestment and economic cooperation. The Summitis also expected to discuss developments around theCovid-19 pandemic and contemporary global mattersof interest to both sides. The last India-EU Summitwas held in October 2017.

In its report card on one year of Modi 2.0, the MEAhad spoken about a reorientation towards Europe, akey source for high-end technology, though little ofnote has been transferred to India.

Kanpur gangster Vikas Dubeyarrested for killing 8 cops shot

dead in encounterKANPUR (TIP): Gangster Vikas

Dubey was killed in an allegedencounter on Friday after a policevehicle carrying him from Ujjain toKanpur met with an accident and hetried to escape from the spot inBhauti area, a senior police officialsaid.

STF officials said there was anencounter as Vikas Dubey, arrestedfor killing eight policemen on July3, tried to escape when the vehicleoverturned early in the morning.

"Dubey was injured in theencounter and he was declared deadin the hospital," ADG Kanpurrange, J N Singh said.

After the accident, Dubeysnatched the rifle of an STFpersonnel and tried to flee but wassurrounded by the police team andhe was injured in an exchange offire.

He was rushed to the hospitalwhere he was declared dead.

The officer confirmed that Dubey"sustained injuries" but did notconfirm to what extent, saying itwould be revealed in thepostmortem report.

Senior Superintendent of Police(Kanpur) Dinesh Kumar P said thatthe accident took place on Fridaymorning when it was rainingheavily and the police vehicleoverturned near Kanpur.

"Some policemen accompanyingDubey were also injured in theincident," the SSP said.

He did not specify whether theywere injured in the accident orduring the encounter.

Eight policemen, including DSP

Devendra Mishra, were ambushedin Bikru village in Chaubeypurarea of Kanpur when they weregoing to arrest Dubey and fell tobullets fired from rooftops shortlyafter midnight on July 3.

Earlier, five members of Dubeygang were killed in separateencounters.

While on July 3, two of hisassociates, Prem Prakash Pandeyand Atul Dubey, were killed bypolice in an encounter in Kanpur,on July 8 the police killed anotheraide, Amar Dubey, who carried areward of Rs 50,000, in an encounterin Maudaha village in Hamirpurdistrict.

On July 9, two more aides ofgangster Vikas Dubey, wanted in

connection with the Kanpurambush, were killed in separateencounters in Kanpura and Etawahdistricts.

While Kartikeya alias Prabhatwas killed in Kanpur when he triedto flee from police custody, anotheraide of Vikas Dubey, Praveen aliasBauwa Dubey, was shot dead in anencounter in Etawah.

Kartikeya, who was arrested fromFaridabad on Wednesday, was beingbrought to Kanpur on transitremand when he snatched the pistolof a policeman and tried to flee.

Vikas Dubey, who was carrying areward of Rs five lakh oninformation leading to his arrest,was arrested from Ujjain in MadhyaPradesh on Thursday.

Vikas Dubey was arrested on Thursday at a temple in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh.

Govt sets up panel to probe RajivGandhi Foundation, Indira Gandhi TrustNEW DELHI (TIP): Days after

BJP alleged that Rajiv GandhiFoundation (RGF) received fundsfrom the embassy of People'sRepublic of China, the Centre hasset up an inter-ministerialcommittee to probe the fundingsRGF, Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trustand Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust.

The committee has been taskedwith a probe into funds received bythese organisations with respect toa suspected violation of thePrevention of Money LaunderingAct (PMLA), Foreign ContributionRegulation Act (FCRA), and theIncome Tax Act.

Sources said the committee willbe headed by a Special Directorfrom Enforcement Directorate (ED)and will have members from CIT,Income Tax Department; Ministryof Finance; Ministry of UrbanDevelopment, and Ministry ofHome Affairs.

In a statement, the MHA said onWednesday, "MHA sets up an inter-

ministerial committee to coordinateinvestigations into violation ofvarious legal provisions of PMLA,Income Tax Act, FCRA, etc by RajivGandhi Foundation, Rajiv GandhiCharitable Trust & Indira GandhiMemorial Trust. Spl. Dir of ED willhead the committee."

Sources said the committee willinvestigate all sources of funds,including those received fromforeign countries, in theseorganisations and see if theyadhered to laid down laws and rules.Sources said the committee willfirst call for all relevant documentswith regard to probe from these

organisations and then, if the needarises, call office bearers forquestioning.

The development assumessignificance as all the threeorganisations are headed byCongress president Sonia Gandhiand have top leaders of theCongress, including Rahul Gandhi,as members. RGF even has formerPrime Minister Manmohan Singhand former Finance Minister PChidambaram as members.

RGF's trustees include formerPrime Minister Manmohan Singhand Montek Singh Ahluwalia.

On June 25, the ruling BJP hadtargeted the Congress byquestioning a purported donationthat the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation(RGF) had received, with BJPpresident J P Nadda saying that thefoundation took $3,00,000 fromPeople’s Republic of China and theChinese embassy in 2005-06 to carryout studies that were not in thenational interest.

16 THE INDIAN PANORAMAFRIDAY, JULY 10, 2020VIRTUAL THEATER

WIPA PROGRAMS LAUNCH 2 WORKSHOPSBy Mabel Pais

NYYS-NJYS LAUNCH ARTIST STORIES SERIES"Especially in these challenging times, it ismore than essential to open our minds andcreate a safe space for learning on all levels." "Collaborating with fellow institutions like theNew York Youth Symphony for this 'ArtistStories Series' is a vital part of this ongoingendeavor."-Peter H. Gistelinck, Exec. Dir. -WIPA

A weekly virtual conversation series featuring Blackartists discussing the importance of equity, inclusion,and representation in the classical music world andmusic industry. This is free and open to the public.

The New York Youth Symphony (NYYS), and the NewJersey Youth Symphony (NJYS), a program of theWharton Institute for the Performing Arts (WIPA), willco-host an "Artist Stories Series", a series of weeklyone-hour virtual conversations exploring theimportance of equity, inclusion, and representation inthe classical music, jazz, and Broadway world.

Featured guest speakers include Toyin Spellman-Diaz, Kelly Hall-Tompkins, Jeff Scott, Carmen RubyFloyd, Sean C. Jones, and Weston Sprott discussingwhat it means to navigate a professional music career.

In addition to the sharing of personal experiences,the artists will have the opportunity to impart theirinsights into needed actions to reinforce accountabilityand pursue responsive outcomes in Americanorchestras, music education, and the music industry.Attendees are encouraged to submit questions for the

artists in advance, to be answered during a Q&Aportion of each session. The six-week webinar series isfree and open to the public.

"New York Youth Symphony is proud to partner withthe New Jersey Youth Symphony on the 'Artist StoriesSeries'," said Shauna Quill, Executive Director of theNYYS. "Both of our organizations are committed todiversifying the voices in music, and that begins bylistening to the artists currently in the field. Throughtheir stories and continued conversations, ourcommunities will be able to learn and grow."

"When we truly listen to understand, we learnsomething new. Through the "Artist Stories Series", wedesire to create a space where young people can listen toand learn from these remarkable artists and theirstories," said Helen H. Cha-Pyo, Artistic Director andPrincipal Conductor of the WIPA.

Schedule of EventsThe first event takes place on Wednesday, July 8 and

will feature oboist Toyin Spellman-Diaz, an originalmember of Imani Winds and hailed by the WashingtonPost for her "smooth, controlled tone and excellenttechnique." Winner of a Naumburg InternationalViolin Competition Honorarium Prize and featured inthe National Museum of African American History andCulture, Kelly Hall-Tompkins will appear on July 15.French horn player and Montclair State Universityfaculty member Jeff Scott will follow on July 22;Broadway and television star Carmen Ruby Floyd onJuly 29; and Sean C. Jones, the Richard and ElizabethCase Chair of Jazz at John Hopkins University'sPeabody Institute in Baltimore, on August 5. The serieswill conclude on August 12 with Weston Sprott,trombonist with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra andDean of the Preparatory Division at The JuilliardSchool where he leads Juilliard Pre-College and theMusic Advancement Program.

Each weekly webinar will be hosted on Zoom and livestreamed via YouTube on Wednesday evenings, July 8-August 12, from 7-8pm EST. Zoom login is available atwww.NJYS.org and www.nyys.org. Attendees maysubmit their questions online. For more information,call (908) 771-5544 or email info@njys.org.

About NYYSThe New York Youth Symphony (NYYS) is the most

awarded youth program of its kind in the nation,recognized for its innovative, tuition-free educationalprograms for talented young musicians. Founded in1963 as an orchestra to showcase the metropolitanarea's most gifted musicians ages 12-22, its activitieshave since grown to encompass programs in jazz,chamber music, conducting, composition, and musicaltheater composition, with performances at world classvenues including Carnegie Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center,and the Public Theater. Through its commissioningprogram, 'First Music', the NYYS has commissionedover 160 works from young composers since 1984.

About WIPAThe Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts'

(WIPA) mission is to provide the highest qualityperforming arts education to a wide range of studentsin a supportive and inclusive environment, wherestriving for personal excellence inspires and connectsthose they teach to the communities they serve.

Wharton is New Jersey's largest independent non-profit community performing arts education centerserving over 1,500 students through a range of classesand ensembles including the 15 ensembles of the NewJersey Youth Symphony, which serve 500 students ingrades 3 - 12 by audition. Beginning with 'Out of the BoxMusic' and 'Pathways' classes for young children,Wharton offers private lessons, group classes, andensembles for all ages and all abilities at thePerforming Arts School. With the belief in the positiveand unifying influence of music and the performingarts and that arts education should be accessible to allpeople regardless of their ability to pay, Whartonteaches all instruments and voice and has a robustmusical theater program. Based in Paterson, NewJersey, the Paterson Music Project is an El Sistema-inspired program of the Wharton Institute for thePerforming Arts that uses music as a vehicle for socialchange by empowering and inspiring children throughthe community experience of ensemble learning andplaying.

WIPA is located in Berkeley Heights, New Providenceand Paterson, NJ and reaches students from 10counties. All of Wharton's extraordinary facultymembers and conductors hold degrees in their teachingspecialty and have been vetted and trained to enabletheir students to achieve their personal best.

Artists featured in virtual classes - Photo / courtesy WIPA

"What separates our virtualworkshop from others is that allof our teachers and master classclinicians understand and teachthis music as a language. Jazz is alanguage and we at Wharton Artshave proven methods that will helpstudents significantly increasetheir fluency to achieve the mostin a short period of time."- JuliusTolentino, Director- JTole SummerJazz WorkshopThe New Jersey Youth Symphony(NJYS), a program of theWharton Institute for thePerforming Arts (WIPA), will holda summer jazz workshop on itsnationwide online learningplatform.

The JTole Summer Jazz Workshopat NJYS, July 13-25, led byaward-winning Jazz educator

Julius Tolentino, will include a star-studded lineup of guest artists andfaculty. Sean Jones, Chair of Jazz atPeabody Conservatory and JazzEducation Network President; KennyRampton, Founder of Jazz at LincolnCenter and Artistic Director of Jazz atLincoln Center's Jazz OutreachInitiative; Tia Fuller, Professor ofSaxophone at Berklee School of Musicand Mack Ave Recording Artist;Rodney Green, Educator, Composer,and Sound Designer; Michael Dease,Professor of Trombone at MichiganState University; and Helen Sung,Composer, Performer, and Educator,will join faculty members DavidGibson, Dave Schumacher, ShamieRoyston, and Matt Slocum for the two-week workshop.

Said JTole Summer Jazz Workshop

Director Julius Tolentino, "Whatseparates our virtual workshop fromothers is that all of our teachers andmaster class clinicians understand andteach this music as a language. Jazz is alanguage and we at Wharton Arts haveproven methods that will help studentssignificantly increase their fluency toachieve the most in a short period oftime."

In addition to master classes andprivate lessons, workshop participantswill experience virtual big band andcombo classes culminating in a virtualjazz festival on Sunday, July 26 where avideo project featuring the workshopparticipants will be released. For moreinformation and registration, visitWhartonArtsOnline.org. To learn moreabout the Wharton Institute for ThePerforming Arts, visit whartonarts.org

(Mabel Pais writes on The Arts andEntertainment, Social Issues, Health &

Wellness, and Spirituality)

NJYS: JTOLE SUMMER JAZZ WORKSHOP

Julius Tolentino - Photo / courtesy WIPA

17THE INDIAN PANORAMAFRIDAY, JULY 10, 2020 PBS FILMS

PBS FILMS STREAMING IN JULYBy Mabel Pais

"COOKED: Survival by Zip Code"

I've made films that explore heedlesscorporate behavior, the long-term impactand bio-accumulation of toxic chemical

exposure and one generation unwittinglypoisoning the next. These issues are aspersonal to me [especially in the case of myDES-related cancer] as they are universal."-Judith Helfand, Director-ProducerPBS TELEVISION SERIES INDEPENDENT LENS ON

MONDAY, JULY 13

AS COVID-19 PANDEMIC COLLIDES WITHEXTREME HEAT AND A NATIONAL DEMAND FORRACIAL JUSTICE, OVER 82 CITIES, COUNTIES, &STATES HAVE RECENTLY DECLARED RACISM APUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE, INCLUDING BOSTON,CHARLOTTE, DALLAS, DENVER, DURHAM,HARTFORD, KANSAS CITY, MILWAUKEE,PITTSBURGH & MORE ON THE WAY

At a moment when potentially historic heat wave isexpected to hit more than two-thirds of the continentalU.S. in the first several weeks of July, according to theNational Weather Service Climate Prediction Center

"COOKED: Survival by Zip Code" is Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand's ("The Uprising of'34", the Sundance award winning and 2x Emmynominated "Blue Vinyl", its Peabody Award-winningprequel "A Healthy Baby Girl", and "Everything's Cool")searing investigation into the politics of "disaster" - byway of the deadly 1995 Chicago heat wave, in which 739residents perished (mostly Black and living in the city's

poorest neighborhoods). The film blends the reportingof the 1995 Chicago heat wave with a potent argumentthat the best preparation for a disaster may start withinvesting in racial and economic justice.

Asking open-ended questions that push people todeeply consider what it might mean to redefine theterm "disaster" and reframe the concept of "resilience,"Helfand forges inextricable connections between thecataclysmic natural disasters we're willing to see andprepare for and the slow-motion disasters we're not -that is until an extreme weather event hits and they aremade exponentially more deadly and visible. Using acombination of chutzpah, humor and candor, Helfanddelves deep into one of our nation's biggest growthindustries: disaster preparedness.

Whether it's a deadly heat wave in Chicago orHurricanes Katrina, Sandy, Harvey or Maria, these

disasters reveal the ways in which class, race, and zipcode predetermine who lives and dies everyday,regardless of the weather and who gets hurt the worstand first in the wake of an "official disaster." In"COOKED" Helfand challenges herself and ultimatelyall of us to respond to the man-made disasters takingplace in towns and cities across the country before thenext unprecedented "natural" disaster hits.

Judith Helfand, director-producer of 'Cooked' says"The COVID-19 virus, the current crisis that is literallystopping our world dead in its tracks, is much deadlierfor some than others, and points to the underlying crisisand disease of acute systemic disparity and racism thatis there everyday and has been killing people daily fordecades. All the stats were there. The numbers forpeople and neighborhoods dying from or being crippledby asthma, diabetes, and heart disease and we did notmake that an emergency worthy of a declaration or astimulus package. If we had, this virus would not bekilling some neighborhoods more than others, peoplewould have been stronger to start with. COVID-19 is notan equal opportunity killer."

CREDITSDirector, Producer: Judith Helfand

Producer: Fenell Doremus

Editors: Simeon Hutner, David E. Simpson

Original Music: T. Griffin

"COOKED: Survival By Zip Code" is now streaming atPBS.org and on the free PBS Video App and will haveits national TV rebroadcast on PBS television seriesIndependent Lens on Monday, July 13 at 10:00 PM(Check local listings).

A scene from "Cooked."

Photo / Courtesy The 2050 Group

" WE ARE THE RADICAL MONARCHS "NATIONAL BROADCAST DEBUT PBS DOCUMENTARY

SERIES POV AND POV.ORG - JULY 20

We Are The Radical Monarchs" follows the twotrailblazing, queer women of color whocreated The Radical Monarchs, a more diverse

and inclusive alternative to the scout movement. Thefilm is set in Oakland, a city with a deep history ofsocial justice movements.

With bullhorns and protest signs at the ready, Co-Founders Anayvette Martinez and Marilyn Hollinquestjuggle the challenges to grow their organization after aviral explosion of interest in the Radical Monarch'smission to create and inspire a new generation ofactivists. The film takes us on a journey following thefirst troop of Radical Monarchs for over three years -before and after the 2016 Presidential election - at thefront lines of social justice as they complete units onsuch subjects as LGBTQ allyship, environment racism,and disability justice. The film also documents what itlooks like for the Co-Founders to respond to the national

and international desire for troops - to go from a groupof ten girls, to starting a movement.

"This is a women of color empowerment story at itscore; as an intersectional feminist and a filmmaker, it ismy intention to amplify women and girls' voices. TheRadical Monarchs give me hope for the future, and withthis film I can share that hope," said filmmaker LindaGoldstein Knowlton.

Co-Founder Martinez was inspired to create a diverseand inclusive group for her daughter, Lupita, and othergirls of color. Martinez and Hollinquest's work isanchored in the belief that adolescent girls of colorneed dedicated spaces and that the foundation for thisinnovative work must also be rooted in fierce inter-dependent sisterhood, self-love, and hope.

Instead of selling cookies, these formidable andoutspoken girls earn badges for units such as "RadicalBeauty," "Radical Bodies," and "Radical Roots." Atypical troop meeting may focus on discussing whatdefines Pride, or the gender spectrum, or what it meansto be an ally. Or it may find the girls meeting with anoriginal member of the Black Panthers, getting intoparks and the streets for protests, taking part in BlackLives Matter marches or even taking a road trip to theCalifornia legislature to advocate for highly pressingissues in their communities for their "RadicalAdvocacy" badge. For the inquisitive young women who

make up the first Radical Monarchs troop - including,eight-year-old Amia and Martinez's ten-year-olddaughter, Lupita - radical means respecting otherswhile still standing up for yourself.

"Radical means just being yourself. What makes youunique, what makes you pretty, what makes you cool.That's what radical is," says Amia.

And while it may be surprising to hear such confidentdeclarations coming from a group of tweens, it's only asample of the inner strength, the personal growth, andthe social awareness "We Are The Radical Monarchs"reveals.

"The dynamic young women in this film are thefuture, and the Co-Founders embody strength, vision,perseverance, and radical love that we should all aspireto. I'm so proud to celebrate their stories and importantperspectives in the season opener for the 33rd season ofPOV," said Justine Nagan, executiveproducer/executive director of POV/ AmericanDocumentary.

CreditsDirector, Producer: Linda Goldstein Knowlton

Producer, Editor: Katie Flint

Executive Producer: Grace Lee

Editor: Arielle Amsalem

Original Score: Gingger Shankar

Executive Producers for POV: Justine Nagan, ChrisWhite

POV Shorts Producer: Opal H. Bennett

(Mabel Pais writes on The Arts and Entertainment, SocialIssues, Health & Wellness, and Spirituality)

A scene from "We Are The Radical Monarchs."

Photo / Courtesy The 2050 Group

This is a women of color empowermentstory at its core; as an intersectionalfeminist and a filmmaker, it is my

intention to amplify women and girls' voices.The Radical Monarchs give me hope for thefuture, and with this film I can share thathope." - Linda Goldstein Knowlton, director-producer

Radical means just being yourself. Whatmakes you unique, what makes youpretty, what makes you cool. That's what

radical is," Amia, Radical Monarch

18 THE INDIAN PANORAMAFRIDAY, JULY 10, 2020BOLLYWOOD

Urvashi Rautela shares why herboyfriend does not exist

Actress and former beauty queen UrvashiRautela says her boyfriend is like "February 30"in a hilarious new post on social media.

Urvashi took to Instagram, where she shared apicture of herself. In the image, she is seen dressed ina light pink sweatshirt and blue jeans. She completedher look by leaving her tresses open and sportingminimum make-up. "My boyfriend is like theFebruary 30th. He doesn't exist," she wrote alongsidethe image.

She added: "VIRGIN BHANUPRIYA premiers JULY16th. Thanks a trillion guys for immense love for thetrailer. I LOVE YOU." Have a look right here:

Virgin Bhanupriya also features Gautam Gulati,Archana Puran Singh, Delnaaz Irani, Rajiv Gupta andBrijendra Kala, Niki Aneja Walia and Rumana Molla.

Bhanupriya, played by Urvashi, is a college-goingconservative girl who decides to lose her virginity. Shethinks it should be the easiest thing in today's world.However, all her attempts go in vain and, a soothsayerpredicts, it won't happen ever in her life. Whathappens next forms the crux of the story.

MIRA TO SHAHID: I FALL IN LOVEWITH YOU MORE EVERY DAY

Actor ShahidKapoor's wife MiraRajput has penned a

note for her hubby on theirfifth marriage anniversaryon Tuesday.

"5 years, 4 souls, 3 homes,2 babies and 1 beautifulfamily. There's nobody I'drather be on this journeycalled life than you mylove. I fall in love with youmore every day.

" And I'm the luckiest girlin the world to have thelove of my life be my bestfriend. Thank you foreverything, for being mystrength and for walkingthrough everythingtogether, hand in hand. Ilove you," she wrote.

Mira and Shahid gotmarried in 2015 in Delhiand had their first child,daughter Misha, in 2016.Two years later, theirsecond child, son Zain, wasborn.

In her post, Mira alsoreminded Shahid howwives are always right.

"You make me laugh likeno one else. And more oftenthan not I'm laughing atyou. Please don't forget.Wife is always right. Andthe three golden words willalways be 'I am sorry'. Tomany more years of us,"Mira quipped.

DEEPIKA PADUKONE IS GRATEFUL AS SHEAMASSES 50M FOLLOWERS ON INSTA

Apart from breaking records andreceiving numerous awards for hertalent, Deepika Padukone has added

a new feather in her hat. The actresscrosses the 50 million milestone onInstagram. She has a devoted following onsocial media, and legion of fans across theglobe.

Padukone is one of those stars whocelebrates her success with her fans andalways tries to communicate with them.Fans have always showered love andkeeping up with their love and adulation,various fans have created special videosand collages of the actress and the hardwork they have put in is commendable.

Taking the moment, the actress feelsblessed and expressed gratitude towards allthe love she received from her fans. She isvery grateful for all this love and isthanking all her fan clubs on social media.

The Piku star has amassed a captivesocial media following who puts thisplatform to good use. Be it speaking aboutthe importance of mental health or hersartorial choices, her fans listen to her andbelieve in her.

On the work front, Deepika Padukonewill next be seen in Shakun Batra'sdirectorial. Had the lockdown nothappened, the actress would be in SriLanka shooting for the same. She also has83 with Ranveer Singh coming up soon!

Taapsee Pannu is Back atWork Amid Coronavirus

Taapsee Pannu was juggling betweenvarious projects before coronavirus spreadhalted all shooting related activities in

Bollywood and internationally. Now, Taapsee isback at work and even shared a glimpse from hervanity to emphasise that she has startedshooting again. She can be seen getting her makeup done in a boomerang video that she posted onher Instagram stories. This also makes Taapseeone of the first actresses in the film industry toresume work amid coronavirus spread.

Meanwhile, it is not confirmed on what projectTaapsee has resumed work post lockdown. Shehad started filming for her thriller movie HaseenDillruba with Vikrant Massey earlier. She wasalso invested in prepping for Mithali Raj biopicShabaash Mithu and another sports movie titledRashami Rocket. It could be that Taapsee iscurrently shooting for some brand endorsement.We will have to wait to find out what project theactress has resumed work on for the first time inover 100 days.

HALLE BERRY NOT PLAYINGTRANSGENDER IN UPCOMING

FILM AFTER CRITICISM

Dwayne Johnsondethrones Kylie Jenner on Instagram rich list

Actor Dwayne Johnson hasdethroned business magnate KylieJenner off the top of the Instagram

rich list, after Kylie lost her ‘billionaire’status recently, according to Forbes.Johnson reportedly makes more than $1million per paid post on the social mediaplatform.

According to Mirror Online, this is thefirst time in four years that either aKardashian or a Jenner hasn’t dominatedthe list. The list is compiled annually byHopper HQ. While Johnson’s earningshave grown by 15%, Kylie’s have fallen bymore than 22%. While Johnsoncommands Rs 7.6 crore per post, Kyliemakes Rs 7.4 crore per post.

The actor, the highest-paid inHollywood according to Forbes, has 188million Instagram followers. Kylie,meanwhile, is the highest-paid celebrityin the world, and has 183 millionfollowers. Forbes recently stripped her ofher billionaire status, to which Kylie in atweet responded, “inaccurate statementsand unproven assumptions lol. I’ve neverasked for any title or tried to lie my waythere.”

19THE INDIAN PANORAMAFRIDAY, JULY 10, 2020 HOLLYWOOD

JULIA ROBERTS CELEBRATES 18TH WEDDINGANNIVERSARY WITH HUSBAND DANNY MODER

After facing criticism on taking up a role of atransgender character in an upcoming untitledHollywood film, actress Halle Berry is reported to

have pulled out.It started when in an Instagram live interview, the

Oscar-winning actress had revealed that she is in therunning for a role of a transgender person. She said,"[The film is about] a character where the woman is atrans character, so she's a woman that transitioned into aman” and added, “She's a character in a project I love thatI might be doing."

Soon after the news came out, Halle met with criticismon social media with people highlighting the problem ofthe cisgender actors playing transgender characters andnot giving a chance to actors from that community.

After the heavy criticism, Halle apologized and tweetedthat she was no longer considering the role. “Over theweekend I had the opportunity to discuss myconsideration of an upcoming role as a transgender man,and I’d like to apologize for those remarks. As a cisgenderwoman, I now understand that I should not haveconsidered this role, and that the transgendercommunity should undeniably have the opportunity totell their own stories,” she wrote on Twitter.

She added, “I am grateful for the guidance and criticalconversation over the past few days and will continue tolisten, educate and learn from this mistake. I vow to be anally in using my voice to promote better representationon-screen, both in front of and behind the camera.”

Halle Berry's decision to pull out was met with praisefrom GLAAD, with the organization tweeting, "We arepleased that @halleberry listened to the concerns oftransgender people and learned from them. Otherpowerful people should do the same. A good place to startis by watching @Disclosure_Doc to learn about transrepresentation in media."

Brad Pitt's next is a screenadaptation of 'The Bullet Train'

After garnering awards and praises for hisperformance in Quentin Tarantino's 'OnceUpon A Time In Hollywood' in 2019, Brad Pitt

will now star in David Leitch's new film. The film isthe big-screen adaptation of 'Bullet Train' which isbased on the Japanese novel 'Maria Beetle' by IsakaKotaro.

Leitch has previously helmed films like 'Deadpool 2'and 'Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw'.

In the novel, five assassins find themselves on a fast-moving bullet train from Tokyo to Morioka with onlya few stops in between. They discover their missionsare related to one another. The question they face is:"who will make it off the train alive and what awaitsthem at the terminal station?"

Antoine Fuqua, who originally developed theproject for Sony Pictures, will produce the project.Screenwriter Zak Olkewicz has adapted the book.

On the occasion of completing18 years as a married couple,American actor Julia

Roberts and husband Danny Moderexpressed their happiness on socialmedia on Saturday.

According to People Magazine,the pair celebrated theiranniversary with Roberts sharing asweet photo of her planting a kisson Moder's cheek.

The 'Pretty Woman' actor wrotealongside the photo, "18 years,"adding the hashtag #heckyes. The52-year-old actor and Moder wed in2002 after meeting on the set of the2000 film 'The Mexican', whereModer worked as a cameraman. Thepair are parents to 12-year-old sonHenry Daniel, and 15-year-old twinsHazel Patricia and Phinnaeus"Finn" Walter. Earlier this year, thecouple stepped out for a date night,attending pal Sean Penn's 10thannual CORE gala in Los Angeles.The 'Runaway Bride' actor wore aplaid green skirt suit for the nightout, while her cinematographerhubby opted for a classic black-and-white ensemble.

In 2017, Roberts told the outletthat she found her fairytale endingwith Moder. "I mean, every day my

husband walks in the door it's like arecurrence.

In an interview with Extra a yearlater, Roberts raved about herhusband, calling him an "awesomehuman being."

"If we go to work together and gohome together, all that work time,

when you come home and [say], 'Oh,honey, how was your day?' We did allthat in the day and in the car," shetold the outlet. "So when we gothome we got to put that all away,which was really delightful."

"We have so much fun," the'Notting Hill' star added.

20 THE INDIAN PANORAMAFRIDAY, JULY 10, 2020TRIBUTE

1939-2020

JAGDEEP: SOORMA BHOPALI LIVES ONVeteran actor and comedian

Jagdeep, who is best known for hisrole in ‘Soorma Bhopali’ in 1975

Ramesh Sippy's Sholay, died on 8 July2020 (Wednesday) in Mumbai due to age-related health issues. He was 81. He actedin around 400 films.

It’s well known that Jagdeep, bornSyed Ishtiaq Ahmed Jafri, joined theHindi film industry as a child artiste,and that his comic timing made himpopular as a comedian through most ofhis adult career. But not enough noticewas paid to the fact that he moved welland had a good singing voice. His briefstint as a leading man didn’t use theseskills: those films, especially AVM’sthree-hankie weepie Bhabhi, were heavywith emotion. And so he tipped over intocomedy, and there he stayed, cementinghis place as one of Bollywood’s top comicartistes.

You think of Jagdeep, and the firstthing that comes to mind is SoormaBhopali, the Sholay (1975) character whobecame so wildly popular that it nearlyeclipsed everything else he did. Flashback to that scene in which our heroes,Jai and Veeru, come upon SoormaBhopali telling a bunch of spellboundlisteners of how he beat the two with astick, and how he’s found out: his paan-stained teeth, that Bhopali lilt, andcomfort in a role meant strictly forlaughs, made his Soorma unforgettable.

Too many of the nearly 400 roles, oversix decades, that Jagdeep did wereinterchangeable. Broad, loud strokes forthe comic folk meant that their trackswere filled with gags, pratfalls, andbanana-peel humour: that was prettymuch the way of the comedy from the 50sto the 80s. A whole series of talentedcomics, including Johnny Walker,Mukri, Paintal, Mehmood, RajendraNath, Keshto Mukherjee, were type-cast,and forced to that one thing that theaudience wanted them to do. Jagdeep toofell into that trap of repeating himself,often using the same grins-and-grimaces,but he could always be relied upon tomake us laugh.

Some of his early roles are memorable.Bimal Roy’s Do Bigha Zameen and GuruDutt’s Aar Paar, as well as Hum PanchiEk Daal Ke showcased his talent: he wasa complete natural, and he had theability to be droll, and both those giftscame in handy in his long career. Heplayed a young, dapper Dilip Kumar inShikwa, an unreleased 1954 film; he wasequally comfortable in Ramsay Brother’shorror fests. One of his last significantroles was playing Salman Khan’s fatherin Rajkumar Santoshi’s 1994 film AndazApna Apna: he was looking distinctlyolder, but the familiar verve was verymuch there.

Jagdeep’s most famous avatar SoormaBhopali led him to produce a film of thesame name, but the 1988 film found notakers. The character lives on in ourmemories. ‘Par hamaara naam SoormaBhopali aise hi nahin hai’, said Jagdeep,in that scene. Sahi farmaaya, janaab.

EARLY LIFE AND FAMILYHe was born on 29 March, 1939

(Wednesday) in Datia, Madhya Pradesh,Central Provinces, British India. His realname or full name was Syed IshtiaqAhmed Jaffri. His father was Syed Yawar

Husain Jafri and Mother Kaneez Hyder.He married three times. Naseem Begamwas his first wife with whom he has a sonHussain Jaffery and two daughtersSuraiya Haffry and Shakira Shafi. Hethen married to Sughra Begam withwhom he has two sons named JavedJaffrey and Naved Jaffrey (on IndianTelevision both host the popular show

called Boogie Woogie). He then marriedto Nazima and has a daughter namedMuskaan Jaffrey. He lost his father whenhe was 5 years old. His debut film wasAfsana in which he played child artists'role and was paid 3INR.

CAREER AS AN ACTORAND COMEDIAN

He started his journey in cinema withthe film "Afsana" in 1951 as a child artistand the filmmaker was B.R. Chopra. Itwas his directorial debut. For Jagdeep asa child, the story was a riches-to-rags,whose family fortunes declined after hisfather's death and the partition. In one ofhis interview, he recalled how hismother, once used to servants and otherluxuries, raised him while working as acook in an orphanage. Jagdeep at ayoung age want to help his mother and atthe age of six or seven, he worked on thesets of "Afsana". He was spotted on thestreets of Mumbai. Three rupees as a feewas decided for the role but it wasdoubled when the actor got to mouth adialogue.

In an interview, Jagdeep's son JavedJaffery told "My father was a child whenhe was looking for a job after Partition.When someone asked him if he wantedto work in films, he said he is need of ajob of any kind. He was chosen from thestreets to star in a film as a child actor.He was destined to be in the industry, itwas fate."

After movie Afsana, he was keptpicking in films for big or small roles inAb Dilli Door Nahin, K A Abbas'sMunna, and Hum Panchi Ek Dal Ke. InJagdeep's career, the year 1957 was amilestone. He performed in a children'sfilm, Hum Panchi Ek Dal Ke and for this,he was awarded along with other artistsby Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the PrimeMinister of India.

As a comedian, he started his careerwith Bimal Roy's Do Bigha Zameenwhich was followed by TeenBahuraniyan (1968), Jeene Ki Raah(1969), Darpan (1970), Gora Aur Kala(1972), Ankh Micholi (1972), Insaaniyat(1974), Jaggu (1975), Chala Murari HeroBanne (1977) and many more. He alsoplayed a lead role as a hero in some filmsincluding Bhabhi with Nanda, Barkha.Do Bigha Zameen was followed by GuruDutt’s maiden production, Aar Paar(1954).

He also acted in Aasman, Bhaisahab,Dhake Ki Malmal, and Dhobi Doctor,which was Bimal Roy’s first production.He played the role of young Dilip Kumarin the film Shikwa. He was also in anegative role in the films Ek Masoomand Mandir-Masjid.

His most acclaimed comic role is thecharacter Soorma Bhoplai in the movieSholay. His famous dialogue in the film“Hamara Naam Soorma Bhopali AiseiNahi Hai. No doubt the film isconsidered one of the greatest movies ofBollywood. As a comedian, Jagdeep'scomic timing, big smile, unique voice,and facial expressions made his presencemandatory in films. As a comedian,Jagdeep knew how to make people smilethrough his performances. He acted inover 400 films. He is also known for hisappearances in several horror movies,mainly in projects of the RamsayBrothers.

Some of the hit songs that arepicturised on him are Paas baitho tabiyatbahal jayegi from Punarmilan, In pyar kirahon mein from the same film, Chal udja re Panchhi and Chali Chali re Patangfrom superhit movie Bhabhi, Aa GayeYaaro Jeene Ke from Phir wohi Raat.

He also directed a film titled SoormaBhoplai which was a pure entertainer.

Global coronaviruscases Thursdaytopped 12.39

million with 5.5 lakhdeaths and 6 millionrecoveries. The number ofcases is triple that ofsevere influenza illnessesrecorded annually,according to the WorldHealth Organization(WHO).

The United States,which has the maximumnumber of casesworldwide, reported morethan 59,000 new COVID-19cases on Wednesday — thebiggest increase everreported by a country in asingle day, according to aReuters tally. The US nowhas more than 3 millioninfections. China’s capitalcity Beijing, which hadrecently seen an uptick ininfections, appeared tomake headway instamping out theoutbreak, reporting nonew local cases for thethird day.

HONG KONG’S NEWOUTBREAK WORSENS;GERMANY SEES A DROP

An almost three-weeklull in local infections hascome to an abrupt end inHong Kong, with 19 newcases reported Wednesday.The government hasexpressed fears that thecity might be in the earlydays of a wider outbreak.It also found sixadditional locally-transmitted cases afterthe 4 pm cutoff time forthe daily count onWednesday, HK01reported.

Germany’s coronavirusinfection rate fell thesecond day in a row, whilethe number of new casesstayed far below the levelat the height of theoutbreak. Thereproduction factor — orR value — dropped to 0.70on Wednesday from 0.81the previous day,according to the latestestimate by the country’shealth body.

EU situation ‘very fragile’,health chief says

Stella Kyriakides, theEuropean Union healthcommissioner, said the 27-nation bloc mustanticipate a second viruswave and prepare steps tocontrol it. “The situationremains very fragile andwe see this in a number ofmember states,”Kyriakides told theEuropean Parliament in

Brussels. “A safe andeffective vaccine likelyremains the onlypermanent solution to thispandemic, but this is stillsome time away.”

The EU is “fullyengaged” in talks withp h a r m a c e u t i c a lcompanies to ensureadequate supplies for thebloc of any vaccines, shesaid.

Turkey to appoint

‘observers’ to ensuresocial distancing

Turkey is preparing toappoint “observers” atweddings and engagementparties to ensure thatsocial distancing practicesare adhered. HealthMinister Fahrettin Kocatold reporters following aweekly meeting of thecountry’s scientificadvisory council onWednesday that the

decision was reached afterseveral recent COVID-19outbreaks were tracedback to weddings. Turkeysaw an uptick in dailyconfirmed infections anddeaths in mid-June, afterit eased restrictions aimedat curbing the virus’spread. On Wednesday, thetotal number of infectionsin Turkey rose to 208,938.The death toll now standsat 5,282.

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BRAZIL’S PRESIDENT SAYSDRUG PROVEN INEFFECTIVEAGAINST COVID WILL CURE HIM

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro says he isconfident that he will swiftly recover from thenew coronavirus thanks to treatment with

hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malaria drug that hasnot been proven effective against COVID-19.

Bolsonaro said he tested positive for the newcoronavirus on Tuesday after months of downplayingits severity while deaths mounted rapidly inside thecountry.

The president told reporters he underwent a lung X-ray on Monday after experiencing fever, muscle achesand malaise. As of Tuesday, his fever had subsided, hesaid, and he attributed the improvement tohydroxychloroquine.

He stepped back from the journalists and removedhis mask at one point to show that he looked well.

The 65-year-old right-wing populist who has beenknown to mingle in crowds without covering his faceconfirmed the results while wearing a mask andspeaking to reporters huddled close in front of him inthe capital, Brasilia.

WHO: Indoor airborne spread of coronavirus possible

The World Health Organisation is acknowledgingthe possibility that COVID-19 might be spread inthe air under certain conditions after more than

200 scientists urged the agency to do so.In an open letter published this week in a journal,

two scientists from Australia and the US wrote thatstudies have shown “beyond any reasonable doubtthat viruses are released during exhalation, talkingand coughing in microdroplets small enough toremain aloft in the air.”

The researchers, along with more than 200 others,appealed for national and international authorities,including WHO, to adopt more stringent protectivemeasures.

WHO has long dismissed the possibility that thecoronavirus is spread in the air except for certainrisky medical procedures, such as when patients arefirst put on breathing machines.

Gyms, pools in next round oflockdown ease up in UK

LONDON (TIP): Gyms, pools and sports facilitieswill be among the next set of public venues able toreopen as the UK government announced furthereasing up of its COVID-19 pandemic lockdownmeasures on Thursday.

UK Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden told reportersat a 10 Downing Street briefing that outdoor pools andlive shows can resume from this Saturday with socialdistancing in place and indoor gyms, sports facilitiesand pools will be able to reopen from the followingSaturday, July 25.

“We need to get this match fit to defeat this disease.It is time to eat out to help out,” said Dowden.

The Cabinet minister, however, warned that thegovernment would not hesitate to apply the brakes onthese further measures or impose localised lockdownsin the event of any spike in coronavirus cases.

“The reopening of gyms is the news millions acrossthe country have been waiting for with many peopledesperate to jump on a spinning bike or dive into apool,” said Dowden.

Worldwide Covid cases cross12.3 million, over 5.5 lakh dead

TRACKING THE VIRUSGLOBAL INDIA

Cases12,390,370

Cases793,802

Deaths557,411

Deaths21,604

China says it will not stage anyinternational sports for the rest ofthe year, apart from trials for the

2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijingand the neighboring city ofZhangjiakou. The order from theGeneral Administration of Sportsaffects at least six WTA tennis events,including the WTA Finals in Shenzhenin November. China also has four ATPtournaments lined up.

China has largely contained localtransmission of the coronavirus butremains on guard for imported cases.The General Administration of Sportscited ?science and order? in issuing itsplan to proceed on Thursday.

COVID-19 pandemic in Africa is nowreaching ‘full speed’

The COVID-19 pandemic in Africa isreaching “full speed,” the AfricaCenters for Disease Control andPrevention chief said Thursday, while aSouth African official said a singleprovince is preparing 1.5 million graves.

Just a day after confirmedcoronavirus cases across Africa

surpassed the half-million milestone thetotal was over 522,000 and climbing,with more than 12,000 deaths. Withtesting levels low, the real numbers areunknown.

South Africa has the most confirmedcases with over 224,000, and for the firsttime Gauteng province — home toJohannesburg and the capital, Pretoria— has the country’s most cases withover 75,000, or 33%.

CHINA CANCELS ALL INTERNATIONALSPORTS EVENTS FOR THE YEAR

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Oz halts HKextradition treaty

MELBOURNE (TIP): PrimeMinister Scott Morrison on Thursdayannounced the suspension ofAustralia's extradition treaty withHong Kong over the controversialChinese national security lawimposed there and offered visas to10,000 students and temporary skilledworkers from the former Britishterritory to start a new life in thiscountry.

The move came after ChinesePresident Xi Jinping last monthsigned a controversial legislation toimpose a national security law inHong Kong that allowed Beijing tocrackdown against dissent,criminalising sedition and curtailingprotests with punishments up to life inprison.

"Our decision to suspend theextradition agreement with HongKong represents an acknowledgementof the fundamental change ofcircumstances in relation to HongKong because of the new security law,which in our view undermines the'one country, two systems' framework,and Hong Kong's own basic law andthe high degree of autonomyguaranteed in the Sino-British JointDeclaration that was set out there,"Morrison said in Canberra. — PTI

Zealand MP quits overinformation leak

WELLINGTON (TIP): A NewZealand politician has resigned afteradmitting he leaked the names ofCovid patients to the media.

Conservative opposition lawmakerHamish Walker said Wednesday hewas sorry for his actions andwithdrawing his candidacy for theSeptember general election in a seat hewas expected to win.

Walker sent the details of 18 patientsto news outlets on condition heremained anonymous. He said he wasexposing a “significant privacy issue”for the government because the patientnames weren't password secured.

But news organisations said he’dgiven them the information to refuteclaims he was racist, after he'd earliersaid that active cases were comingfrom India, Pakistan and South Korea.— AP

Nepal’s ruling partyputs off meet again

KATHMANDU (TIP): A crucialmeeting of the ruling NepalCommunist Party to decide thepolitical future of beleagueredPrime Minister KP Sharma Oli wasonce again deferred on Wednesdaytill Friday to allow more time forthe top leaders to reach a power-sharing deal amid the heightenedintra-party rift and his anti-Indiaremarks.

The 45-member standing committeemeeting has been postponed till Friday,said Surya Thapa, the PrimeMinister's Press adviser. — PTI

Gyms, pools, sports venues in nextround of lockdown ease up in UK

LONDON (TIP): Gyms, pools andsports facilities will be among the nextset of public venues able to reopen asthe UK government announced furthereasing up of its COVID-19 pandemiclockdown measures on Thursday.

UK Culture Secretary Oliver Dowdentold reporters at a 10 Downing Streetbriefing that outdoor pools and liveshows can resume from this Saturdaywith social distancing in place andindoor gyms, sports facilities and poolswill be able to reopen from thefollowing Saturday, July 25.

“We need to get this match fit todefeat this disease. It is time to eat outto help out,” said Dowden.

The Cabinet minister, however,warned that the government would nothesitate to apply the brakes on thesefurther measures or impose localisedlockdowns in the event of any spike incoronavirus cases.

“The reopening of gyms is the newsmillions across the country have beenwaiting for with many people desperateto jump on a spinning bike or dive intoa pool,” said Dowden.

Under the guidance for reopening,gyms must use timed booking systemsto limit the number of people in thebuilding at one time and allow for

social distancing, while equipmentmust be spaced out and cleanedregularly.

All of these facilities have beenclosed since March 21 to help stop thespread of coronavirus.

The news comes as governmentfigures show that a further 85 people

have died with coronavirus across allsettings in the UK.

The Department of Health and SocialCare said 44,602 people had died inhospitals, care homes and the widercommunity after testing positive forcoronavirus in the UK as of Wednesdayevening. PTI

Japan battered by heavy rain, floods;nearly 60 dead

TOKYO (TIP): Pounding rain thatalready caused deadly floods in southernJapan was moving northeast Wednesday,battering large areas of Japan’s mainisland, swelling more rivers, triggeringmudslides and destroying houses androads.

At least 58 people have died in severaldays of flooding.

By Wednesday morning, parts ofNagano and Gifu in central Japan wereflooded by massive downpours.

Footage on NHK television showedswollen water in the Hida River gouginginto the embankment, destroying anational highway along the river. Inanother central Japanese city of Gero,river water rose to just below the bridgeabove it.

In a mountainous town of Takayama,several houses were hit by a mudslide,with uprooted trees and other debrisscattered around. It was not immediatelyknown what happened to their residents.

Across the country, about 3.6 millionpeople were advised to evacuate,although evacuation is not mandatoryand the number of people who actuallytook shelter was not provided.

As of Wednesday morning, the deathtoll from the heavy rain starting over theweekend had risen to 58, most of themfrom the hardest-hit Kumamotoprefecture. Four others were found inFukuoka, another prefecture on Kyushu,

Japan’s third-largest island.Though the rains were causing fresh

flooding threats in central Japan,flooding was still affecting the southernregion. And search and rescueoperations continued in Kumamoto,where 14 people are still missing.

Tens of thousands of army troops,police and other rescue workersmobilised from around the country toassist, and the rescue operations have

been hampered by the rains, flooding,mudslides and disruptedcommunications.

Japan is at high risk of heavy rain inearly summer when wet and warm airfrom the East China Sea flows into aseasonal rain front above the country. InJuly 2018, more than 200 people, abouthalf of them in Hiroshima, died fromheavy rain and flooding in southwesternJapan. — AP

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Landslide in China'sHubei buries nineafter heaviest rain inyears

BEIJING (TIP): A landslideburied nine people on Wednesday inChina's Hubei province, the People'sDaily newspaper reported, aftersome of the heaviest rain in decadesbrought floods that have killed morethan 100 people.

The landslide occurred inHuangmei County in the early hoursand efforts were being made torescue the people, the newspapersaid.

From June 1 to July 7,accumulated rainfall in the regionsof Hubei, Anhui, Zhejiang andChongqing has reached the highestlevels for this time of year since1961, with rainfall in some placestwo to three times higher thannormal, according to the ChinaMeteorological Administration.Reuters

Brazil Prez Bolsonarotests positive forCovid

SAO PAULO (TIP): BrazilianPresident Jair Bolsonaro said onTuesday he tested positive for Covid,adding in a television interview thathe was in good health despiterunning a fever.

The right-wing populist, who hasplayed down the severity of thevirus which he has called a "littleflu," took the test on Monday afterdeveloping symptoms.

In the interview broadcast onstate-run TV Brasil, Bolsonaro saidhe began feeling ill on Sunday andhad been takinghydroxychloroquine, an anti-malarial drug with unproveneffectiveness against Covid. With 1.6million confirmed cases and 65,000deaths, Brazil has the world'ssecond-largest outbreak.

Meanwhile, Melbourne and someother cities in Australia's Victoriastate have been ordered back intolockdown for six weeks startingWednesday after the state reported191 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24hours.

Residents have been advisedagainst leaving their homes apartfor four activities — purchasingessential items, medical care orcaregiving, exercise and study/work."The public health teams haveadvised me to reimpose stage 3 stay-at-home restrictions. Staying athome, except for the four reasons toleave, effective from midnighttomorrow night for a period of sixweeks,” Premier of Victoria DanielAndrews said on Tuesday.

Iran has announced its highestsingle-day spike in deaths from thecoronavirus, with 200 new fatalities.The spokesperson for the country'shealth ministry, Sima Sadat Lari,blamed the spike on citizens who “donot abide by restrictive measures”.— Agencies

Missing Seoul mayor’s body found after massive search

SEOUL / NEW YORK (TIP): MayorPark Won-soon's body was discovered inhills in northern Seoul early Friday, July10, more than seven hours after localauthorities launched a massive searchfor him.

His daughter called police onThursday afternoon and said her fatherhad given her "a will-like" verbalmessage before leaving their home hoursearlier. She said she decided to contactauthorities because she couldn't reachher father on the phone.

Police officer Lee Byeong-seok toldreporters that Park was last identified bya security camera at 10:53 a.m. at theentrance to the wooded hills stretchingacross northern Seoul, more than sixhours before his daughter called policeto report him missing. His cellphonesignal was last detected in the areabefore the phone was eventually turnedoff.

Circumstances surrounding hisdisappearance and death remainunclear.

The Seoul-based SBS televisionnetwork reported that one of Park'ssecretaries had lodged a complaint withpolice on Wednesday night over allegedsexual harassment such as unwantedphysical contact that began in 2017.

The SBS report, which didn't cite anysource, said the secretary told policeinvestigators that an unspecifiednumber of other female employees atSeoul City Hall had suffered similarsexual harassment by Park. MBCtelevision carried a similar report.

Both the Seoul Metropolitan PoliceAgency and Park's office said theycouldn't confirm the reports.

Park, 64, a longtime civic activist andhuman rights lawyer, was elected Seoulmayor in 2011. He became the city's firstmayor to be voted into a third term inJune last year. A member of PresidentMoon Jae-in's liberal Democratic Party,he has been considered a potentialpresidential candidate in the 2022elections.

As a lawyer, he was credited forwinning the country's first sexualharassment conviction. He has also beenan outspoken critic of Japan's colonial-era policies toward Korea, including themobilization of Korean and other

women as sex slaves for Japanesesoldiers.

Park also established himself as afierce opponent of former conservativePresident Park Geun-hye and openlysupported the millions of people whoflooded the city's streets in late 2016 and2017, calling for her ouster over acorruption scandal.

Seoul, a city of 10 million people, hasbeen a new center of the coronavirusoutbreak in South Korea since thecountry eased its rigid social distancingrules in early May. The mayor led anaggressive anti-virus campaign, shuttingdown thousands of nightspots andbanning rallies in major downtownstreets. (With inputs from agencies)

The body of the missing mayor of Seoul, Park Won-soon, has been found in the hills in northernSeoul after a massive search that lasted seven hours.

German intelligence warns againstgiving data to Chinese tech firms

BERLIN (TIP): Germany's domesticintelligence agency is warningconsumers that personal data theyprovide to Chinese payment companiesor other tech firms could end up in thehands of China's government.

In its annual report releasedThursday, the BfV agency noted thatChinese government offices have accessto data stored in China by companiessuch as Tencent, Alibaba “as well asother apps, web services and mobilityproviders such as for example (bikesharing) providers” that operate inGermany.

The head of the BfV, ThomasHaldenwang, said German's data isn'tsafe with Chinese companies becausethey were required by law to provide thedata to their government.

“Any customer here in Germany whouses such a system shouldn't besurprised if this data is abused inBeijing,” he told reporters. “We can onlywarn against this.”

Germany's top security official alsoexpressed concern about what he calledthe “hybrid threat” from China, which

included the purchase of key Germancompanies.

“When it comes to criticalinfrastructure, in the energy supply ornow with 5G lines, we have to considerhow we can protect ourselves," saidHorst Seehofer, Germany's interior

minister.Seehofer added that Germany has yet

to reach a “political decision” onwhether to let Chinese telecomequipment company Huawei supplyinfrastructure to German cell-phoneservice providers. AP

Pan-seared garlic andpepper mushrooms

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Tips to make home dusting easier

USE ICE ROLLER FORAMAZING SKIN BENEFITS

If you are a skincare aficionadothen you must be aware of the iceroller trend. Ice rollers are one of

the biggest trends in the beautymarket today. There are a lot of themout there and you must have spotted afew while shopping for your skincarecloset. If you haven't invested in an iceroller yet then you must.

Makes Your Skin Look Youthful

Wonder how do these Bollywoodcelebrities have such youthful skin?Well, ice therapy it is! Ice tightensyour skin and prevents it fromsagging. Using an ice roller is the bestway to keep your skin tight andbeautiful. Also, ice helps inpreventing signs of ageing likewrinkles and fine lines.

Reduces Puffiness On FaceIf you wake up with a puffy face

like me everyday then ice roller isyour best friend! If your face or undereyes look puffy in the morning thenusing an ice roller can help inreducing puffiness on the face. Also,ice rolling first thing in the morningmakes your skin feel fresh.

Shrinks PoresOpen, big pores make your skin

look dull. When you have open pores,dust and dirt start to accumulate andthis leads to breakouts. To shrink facepores, you need ice therapy. Ice rollinghelps in shrinking the pores whichfurther prevents dirt and makeupclogging your skin.

Reduces Acne RednessUsually, acne breakout makes your

skin go red and it can also lead toitching. Using an ice roller helps inreducing this redness and it alsocalms your skin.

Gives You A Defined Jaw Line

If no Yoga asanas or exercises arehelping you get that defined jawlinethen try ice rolling. When using it,make sure you concentrate on yourjaw. Regular usage can help you get amore defined jaw.

Relieves StressStress is one big reason why our

skin looks dull and tired. Ice rolling isa quick fix.

It helps in relieving stress and itmakes your skin feel super fresh andsoft.

Prevents Inflammation Inflammation can lead to a lot of

skin issues like acne and prematureageing. Ice roller helps in reducinginflammation, you should be using iteveryday.

Tones Face MusclesJust like the rest of our body, our

face muscles also need some toning.Some ice rolling can tone up your facemuscles and make your face lookmore defined.

Ceiling Fans & Light Fixtures

Don't just take a normal cloth duster and place theladder to clean ceiling fans or light fixtures. You canlose balance and if you are not tall enough, it makesthings more difficult. So instead get a bendable duster.The advantage here is that you can bend the duster andclean. Once you are done cleaning, remove themicrofiber cover and put it in the machine to wash.

WallsYou may not have realised this but your walls too

accumulate dust other than the spider webs. Wipe yourfingers on your wall and see the shade difference. Sodusting your walls is important especially when theyare light in colour. Don't just take a broom and clean asthat makes them dirtier. Take a flat head mop, amicrofiber cloth and spray on some water on it. Make a‘W’ pattern while cleaning as this will save your timeand you will be able to cover more space.

Door Frames, Corners & Moldings Cleaning door frames etc can be a task and this is

where you see a lot of spiderwebs as well. Take an oldsock that has lost elasticity or you don't use it and poutit on a pole and swipe from end to end. Voila! it will beclean in no time.

Delicate Antiques & ShowpiecesSpray some water on a small paintbrush or a makeup

brush and clean the delicate areas of your antiquepieces or carved decor items.

Bathroom Vents

This is one place that accumulates a lot of dust andgrime. Clean them with a vacuum cleaner with thebrush attached to it and watch all the dust vanish.

Dusting DirectionDust falls from top to bottom so first always clean the

highest point. Another way is spiral cleaning where yougo clockwise especially on moldings and paintingframes.

Microfiber ClothsDitch those cotton rags and get your hands on

microfiber cloths. They lessen the cleaning time and doa thorough job. These cloths are electrostaticallycharged, so they attract dust. They are highly absorbentand give you streak-free surfaces.

CONNOISSEUR’SCHOICE

By Tript Arora

Pa n - s e a r e dmushrooms areoffered as

snacks in bistros andbars. They are servedas sides to sizzlersand steaks as well.Alternatively, theycan be used in saladsor as pizza topping.They can even belayered on top of abread toast alongwith mozzarellacheese to make aquick, healthy snackfor kids. Mushroomsare a rich source of the B Vitamins. Mushrooms areexcellent for your gut, nervous system and hormonalsystem. Most people, be it vegetarians or non-vegetarians, like mushrooms.

Today, I am bringing to you a variety of pan-searedmushrooms with a dash of pepper and garlic.Mushrooms come in a many variety but we are usingbutton mushrooms today.

We needButton mushrooms- 200 grams, small size, Garlic- 10

pods, Baby onions- 5 to 6 cut into halves, Black pepper(freshly ground)- 1 tablespoon, Green chillies cut into 6pieces diagonally- 2, Oil of your choice (i prefer olive oil)-1 teaspoon, Butter- 2 teaspoon, Oregano- 1 teaspoon,Vinegar- half teaspoon

Lets begin Wash mushrooms in water to remove dirt and grime.

After cleaning, remove from water and pat-drythem with a towel.

Crush the garlic pods in mortel and pestle. Do notgrind them. Heat a pan, add butter and oil. Avoidburning butter. Immediately Add the crushedgarlic to it and saute for 1 minute. Do not let it burn.Add the cut onions, saute for maximum 1 minute.Do not let it change colour as it will cook furthermore with the mushrooms too.

Add whole mushrooms, only if a piece looks very bigas compared to the rest, then you can cut it to makeit look similar to the group. Otherwise wholemushrooms are the best. Add black pepper. Nowsaute continuously on high flame. The mushroomwill release water. When the released water driesup, this means that the mushrooms are done.

Add salt and slit green chillis. Mix well.Add oregano.Mix well. Add vinegar. Mix well. Turn off theflame. Pan-seared mushrooms are ready. Enjoy!You can eat it alone like a snack or inside asandwich. Or mixed with salad, whichever wayyou like.

Tips Do not keep the mushrooms immersed in water for

long, as they soak water like sponge. Salt should beparticularly added only at the end.

If salt is added beforehand then the mushroomswill release a crazy amount of water and willshrink in size. Mushrooms should not be over-cooked.

If they are, they will lose all their moisture andwill taste very dry. Do not place the lid at anystage, otherwise there will be too much water tohandle.

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COMMON HYPERTENSIONDRUGS MAY HELP LOWERCOLORECTAL CANCER RISK

Medications commonly prescribed to helppeople treat high blood pressure have beenfound with anti-cancer effects. Researchers

said that exposure to the drugs could help reduce therisk of developing colorectal cancer.

The new study, published in the journalHypertension, looked into the effects of angiotensinconverting enzyme inhibitor (ACE-i) and angiotensinII receptor blocker (ARB) medications. They aredesigned to manage conditions like heart failure, highblood pressure and heart disease.

ACE-i and ARB work by blocking the chemical calledangiotensin, which causes arteries to become narrow.Doctors usually provide these medications to helppeople lower their blood pressure.

Researchers have long been exploring the effects ofACE inhibitors and ARBs on cancer development.However, earlier studies faced challenges such ashaving a small number of patients, short-term follow-ups and conflicting findings, according to Wai Leung, aclinical professor of medicine at the University ofHong Kong.

The latest study tried to address those issues. Itlooked into health records of 187,897 adult patients inHong Kong and extended the analysis from 2005 to 2013.

All patients had a negative baseline colonoscopy forcolorectal cancer. The disease ranks as the third mostcommon cancer around the world and is the secondleading cause of cancer death.

Researchers found that the patients who tookhypertension medications, such as ACE-i and ARBs,had a 22 percent lower risk of having colorectal cancer.Majority of those who experienced anti-cancer effectswere aged 55 or older and those with a history of colonpolyps.

"Our results provide new insights on a potential roleof these medications for colorectal cancer prevention,"Leung, one of the study authors, said in a statement."This is the first study to show the potential beneficialeffects of ACE inhibitors and ARBs on colorectalcancer development, based on a large group of patientswho were colorectal cancer-free at the beginning of thestudy."

However, the researchers noted more studies areneeded to verify the potential benefits of hypertensionmedications on colorectal cancer risk. Leung hopesthat their findings will soon guide doctors inconsidering ACE-i and ARBs for patients with highblood pressure, heart failure and kidney diseases.

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SIGNS YOU'RE NOT EATINGENOUGH VEGETABLES

Low Mood

Vegetables are an importantsource of numerous vitamins andminerals needed for the body'scritical functions. She added thatnot eating enough vegetables andfocusing mainly on high-fat, high-carb or highly processed foods willresult in getting a burst of energyfollowed by a crash, resulting infatigue, memory loss and moodswings. Swapping these high-fatfoods for more nutrient-dense foodslike vegetables will prevent youfrom feeling that crash. It will alsogive you sustained energy for alonger period of time. Similarly, thevitamins and minerals found invegetables can play an importantrole in your mood regulation. Somestudies suggest that there is arelationship between diet and moodand diets low in fruits andvegetables are associated withhigher risk for depression.

Easily Feeling Hungry Adequate fiber from veggies helps

increase satiety, keeping you fullerfor longer while helping sustainenergy. She also added that by noteating enough vegetables, you maybe craving another meal or snackshortly after the food that you justconsumed.

Dull Skin Vsegetables are loaded with

antioxidants that can help protectyour body from free radicals, whichmay damage skin texture. Theauthor of "The Small Change Diet"added that many veggies like

tomatoes are packed with water,which can be hydrating for the skin.

Muscle CrampsMuscles need enough potassium

for smooth muscle contraction andthat muscle cramps and twitchescan happen due to extremely lowblood levels of the mineral. Fsruitsand vegetables are the best sourcesof potassium. The best vegetablesources of potassium includespinach, swiss chard and other darkleafy greens, in addition to sweetpotatoes.

Constipation Enough dietary fiber from

vegetables helps in adding more

bulk to waste and helps move wastemore quickly through theintestines.

High Stress Magnesium helps promote

relaxation by maintaining healthylevels of GABA, a neurotransmitterthat calms both the body and mind.This mineral also plays a role in thebody's stress response system andthat deficiency of it is linked tohigher stress and anxiety. Veggies,especially dark leafy greens likespinach, are one of the best sourcesof magnesium. So, not gettingenough veggies in your diet couldcertainly cause low blood levels ofthis mineral.

Scientists rule out asthma astrigger for Covid-19 severity

Asthma does not appear to increase the risk for aperson contracting Covid-19 or affect its severity,according to new research.

The team from Rutgers University in the US foundthat people with asthma – even those with diminishedlung function who are being treated to manageasthmatic inflammation – seem to be no worse affectedby SARS-CoV-2 than a non-asthmatic person.

“Older age and conditions such as heart disease, highblood pressure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease,diabetes and obesity are reported risk factors for thedevelopment and progression of COVID-19,” saidReynold A. Panettieri Jr, a pulmonary critical carephysician and director of the Rutgers Institute forTranslational Medicine and Science.

However, asthma is not yet proven as one such riskfactor.

“There is limited data as to why this is the case — ifit is physiological or a result of the treatment tomanage the inflammation,” said Panettieri Jr in apaper published in the Journal of Allergy and ClinicalImmunology.

Inhaled corticosteroids, which are commonly used toprotect against asthma attacks, also may reduce thevirus’ ability to establish an infection.

However, studies have shown that steroids maydecrease the body’s immune response and worsen the

inflammatory response.Children and young adults with asthma suffer mainly

from allergic inflammation, while older adults whoexperience the same type of airway inflammation canalso suffer from eosinophilic asthma — a more severeform.

In these cases, people experience abnormally highlevels of a type of white blood cell that helps the bodyfight infection, which can cause inflammation in theairways, sinuses, nasal passages and lower respiratorytract, potentially making them more at risk for aserious case of COVID-19.

26 THE INDIAN PANORAMAFRIDAY, JULY 10, 2020SCIENCE & TECH

ISRO releases image of Mars’biggest moon Phobos

The Mars Colour Camera (MCC) onboardISRO’s Mars Orbiter Mission has captured theimage of Phobos, the closest and biggest moon

of Mars. The image was taken on July 1 when MOMwas about 7,200 km from Mars and 4,200 km fromPhobos. “Spatial resolution of the image is 210 m.

This is a composite image generated from 6 MCCframes and has been color corrected,” ISRO said inan update along with the image.

Phobos is largely believed to be made up ofcarbonaceous chondrites.

According to ISRO, “the violent phase that Phoboshas encountered is seen in the large section gougedout from a past collision (Stickney crater) andbouncing ejecta.” “Stickney, the largest crater onPhobos along with the other craters (Shklovsky,Roche & Grildrig) are also seen in this image,” itsaid. The mission also known as Mangalyaan wasinitially meant to last six months, but subsequentlyISRO had said it had enough fuel for it to last “manyyears.”

THUNDERBOLT 4: THE NEXT-GEN HIGH-SPEED PERIPHERAL INTERFACE

Intel on Wednesday announcedThunderbolt 4, the next version ofThunderbolt interface which

combines video and data on a singlecable. The Santa Clara-headquarteredchipmaker released the specifications ofThunderbolt 4, but the interface will onlycome to PCs towards the end of this year.With the USB-C interface becoming thego-to USB connector on most high-endlaptops today, why do manufacturersneed to switch to Thunderbolt? What isthe advantage of Thunderbolt 4? Willyour next laptop come with Thunderbolt4? We answer all your questions in thisexplainer.

The history of ThunderboltIntel debuted Thunderbolt way back in

2009. Born as an Intel project called LightPeak, Thunderbolt is the one port to rulethem all. The idea behind theThunderbolt interface has always beento create a proprietary data and videotransfer protocol.Here’s how Intel describes

Thunderbolt:

Thunderbolt is the name of the high-speed protocol that dynamically switchesto adjust data and video bandwidthdepending on the device that you’veplugged in or the application that you’redoing.

Apple was the first company toexclusively use Thunderbolt in MacBookPro in 2011. During the same year, Applelaunched a Thunderbolt-capable iMacs.Unfortunately, other than Apple, veryfew PC vendors lapped up Intel’sThunderbolt. One big hindrance thatstopped major PC makers usingThunderbolt is that they need to obtain

certification from Intel. The high costalso stopped PC makers from adding amultipurpose connector into theirlaptops. Many also feared that Intelwould jack up the price once the protocolbecame accepted in the industry, after allthe chipmaker owned the standard, spec,and even supply.

Over the years, Thunderbolt hasevolved. The original supportedThunderbolt 10Gbit/s of bandwidth andused the Mini DisplayPort connector. Itwas faster than USB 3.0, which couldtransfer data at speeds up to 5Gbps.Thunderbolt 2 was announced in 2013,and offered 20Gbit/s. Again, Apple wasamong the first companies to releaseThunderbolt 2-capable products. Its 2013Retina Macbook Pro laptop became thefirst device to use Thunderbolt 2.

What is Thunderbolt 4?Thunderbolt 4, as the name suggests, is

the fourth version of the Thunderbolt

interface. It won’t be faster attransferring data than Thunderbolt 3which is capable of data transfer speedsof 40Gbit/s, but offers additionalfeatures. These include support for two4K displays or one 8K display(Thunderbolt 3 supports one 4K monitorat 60 Mhz) and fast storage speeds of 3000megabytes per second. With Thunderbolt4, users also get up to four ports – oneconnecting up to the computer and threemore ports that will downstream whenyou connect other devices to(Thunderbolt 3 had either one port ortwo ports). And for the first time,Thunderbolt 4 will support universal40GB/s cables up to 2 meters in length.

Which PCs includeThunderbolt 4?

Intel says Thunderbolt 4 will first besupported by its upcoming Tiger Lakemobile processors, slated to launch later

this year. This means we will seeThunderbolt 4-powered PCs startshipping either towards the end of theyear or early next year.

Is Thunderbolt/ Thunderbolt 4 thesame as USB-C?

No. Thunderbolt and USB-C look thesame because both have the samereversible port, but they are different.Thunderbolt/Thunderbolt 4 offers extrafeatures in comparison to USB-C, whichis widely adopted by PC vendors andaccessory makers. The point toremember is that USB-C does not matchThunderbolt in terms of transfer speeds.Thunderbolt 4 ports technically arebackward-compatible with USB-Cdevices. However, not all USB-C portssupport Thunderbolt 4 technology.

What’s the difference betweenUSB 4 and Thunderbolt 4?

Late last year, the USB PromoterGroup announced the finalspecifications of USB 4, the next versionof Universal Serial Bus, or USB ascommonly known. USB 4 introduces anumber of new features like it isdesigned to work in the same-shaped portas USB-C, transfer speeds of up to40GBps, backward compatibility withUSB 3 and 2 devices, and compatibilitywith Thunderbolt 4 and Thunderbolt 3devices.

Sure USB 4 is more advanced than theother generations of USB but both aretwo different protocols. It is important toknow that Thunderbolt 4 is built on PCIExpress (PCIe), meaning it moves largeamounts of data very quickly. USB 4doesn’t use PCIe.

CREATE TIKTOK-LIKE VIDEOS ONUSING INSTAGRAM REELS

Facebook has been testing Instagram Reels in a fewcountries including Brazil, Germany, and France.The feature now arrives in India. This is the best

time to bring Reels to the country as the governmentput a ban on TikTok and demand for short videoplatform has spiked.

Currently, Instagram Reels feature is being tested inIndia, and on the basis of the response will be rolled outto each and every user in the days to come.

With TikTok banned in India, homegrown shortvideo apps such as Roposo, Mitron, Chingari,Sharechat, and others are gaining wide popularity andmillions of users every day. Facebook will also use thisgolden opportunity to attract 200 million TikTok usersto Reels.

To check whether you have received the updatehead over to Google Play store and App store andcheck if a new update is available. If yes, connectthe phone to WiFi and install the update.After successfully updating the app open theInstagram camera.Reels option will be available right next toBoomerang, Superzoom, hands-free, and layout.Click on Reels and select audio from the InstagramMusic library. Facebook has partnered withprominent music labels to provide a vastcollection of songs to users so they can createinteresting Reels.Similar to TikTok, Reels also come with an optionto record original voice besides lipsyncing.Reels also let users add AR effects and provide

options like Timer, Speed to edit videos as requiredbefore sharing. Reels also let users re-record avideo and even delete it if needed.After creating their Reel, users can choose to shareit with either their followers or everyone onInstagram. Reels can be shared to Feed as well asExplore so everyone on Instagram can view it.Users with a Public Instagram account will be ableto share Reels on Explore. This will build a betterchance for the Reel to be seen and discovered bythe wider Instagram community. Private accountholders will be able to share Reel to Feed withfollowers or as Stories or DM.

The global economy is likely tocontract by 5.2 per cent in 2020with the coronanvirus still

spreading and the economicprospects of countries across theworld looking muted, says a report.

According to Dun andBradstreet’s Country Risk andGlobal Outlook Report, that covered132 countries, the wider globalcontext remains sombre and theglobal economy will not reach pre-pandemic levels of activity againbefore 2022.

“D&B is currently forecastingthat the global economy willcontract by 5.2 per cent in 2020 - thebiggest decline since the SecondWorld War and a far strongercontraction than the 1.7 per centrecorded in 2009 during the globalfinancial crisis,” the report said.The Asia Pacific region is unlikelyto shake off the economic effectsbefore the end of 2020, it added.

“Widespread quantitative easingmeans that financial asset pricesglobally are not reflecting the shockto fundamentals. But with manycountries easing their lockdowns, amore varied picture of upgradesand downgrades has emerged,”Dun & Bradstreet Chief EconomistArun Singh said.

Singh further noted that“worryingly, a sharp recession isstill forecast, and we expect that theworld economy will not attain pre-pandemic levels of activity before2022.” The report said any recoveryinto 2021 (even without a secondbout of the pandemic) is going to be

curtailed by several factors.Foremost will be the presence ofdegrees of social distancing(despite the easing of lockdowns)and higher levels of post-lockdownunemployment and poverty.

Meanwhile, the number of casesaround the world linked to COVID-19 has crossed 1.18 crore and thedeath toll has topped 5.44 lakh. InIndia, the death toll due to thedisease rose to 20,642 and thenumber of infections increased to7,42,417 on Wednesday.

Singh further said India’seconomy is expected to contractthis fiscal year after four decades ofpositive growth. “In March, wedowngraded India’s rating to DB5cfrom DB4d - both the magnitude ofthe downgrade and the risk level

are the highest since 1994,” Singhnoted.

DB5 means high risk and denotesthat “considerable uncertainty isassociated with expected returns.Businesses are advised to limittheir exposure and/or select highrisk transactions only.” Dun &Bradstreet’s Country RiskIndicator provides a comparative,cross-border assessment of the riskof doing business in a country. Therisk indicator is divided into sevenbands, ranging from DB1 to DB7,with DB1 being lowest risk.

Each band is subdivided intoquartiles (a-d), with ‘a’representing slightly less risk than‘b’ (and so on). Only the DB7indicator is not divided intoquartiles.

GOOGLE, AMAZON FUNNEL ATLEAST $25 MILLION TOCORONAVIRUS CONSPIRACYSITES: STUDY

Digital advertising platforms run by Google,Amazon.com Inc. and other tech companieswill funnel at least $25 million to websites

spreading misinformation about Covid-19 this year,according to a study released Wednesday.

Google’s platforms will provide $19 million, or $3out of every $4 that the misinformation sites get in adrevenue. OpenX, a smaller digital ad distributor,handles about 10% of the money, while Amazon’stechnology delivers roughly $1.7 million, or 7%, of thedigital marketing spending these sites will receive,according to a research group called the GlobalDisinformation Index.

GDI made the estimates in a study that analyzed adsrunning between January and June on 480 Englishlanguage websites identified as publishers of virusmisinformation. Some of the ads were for brandsincluding cosmetics giant L’Oreal SA, furniturewebsite Wayfair Inc. and imaging technologycompany Canon Inc. The data exclude social-mediaand online-video services, so the true total is likelymuch higher.

Properties of Nirav Modi WorthOver Rs 329 Crore Attached

The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday saidit has attached properties of diamond merchantNirav Modi worth Rs 329.66 crore, which now

stand confiscated to the central government under theFugitive Economic Offenders Act 2018 (FEOA).

The businessman and his uncle Mehul Choksi,among others, are being probed by the ED on moneylaundering charges in connection with $2 billionalleged bank fraud at a PNB branch in Mumbai.

"The confiscated properties are in the form of fourflats at the iconic building Samudra Mahal in Worli,Mumbai, one seaside farmhouse and land in Alibaug,a wind mill in Jaisalmer, a flat in London andresidential flats in UAE, shares and bank deposits,"said the central probe agency in a statement.

A special court in Mumbai had on June 8 authorisedthe ED to confiscate the assets.

Modi was declared a fugitive economic offenders bythe same court on December 5 last year.

"The ED has attached the properties worth Rs 329.66crore under the FEO Act, 2018, which now standsconfiscated to central government," it said.

The agency till now has attached assets worth Rs2,348 crore of Modi under the Prevention of MoneyLaundering Act (PMLA).

The 49-year-old is currently lodged in a UK jail afterbeing arrested in London in March last year and isfighting extradition to India.

27THE INDIAN PANORAMAFRIDAY, JULY 10, 2020 BIZ & FINANCE

Global economy to contract by5.2 percent in 2020: Report

Brooks Brothers files for bankruptcyNEW YORK (TIP):

Brooks Brothers, the 200-year-old menswearretailer that has dressed40 US presidents andunofficially became theoutfitter of Wall Streetbankers, has filed forbankruptcy.

The privately heldcompany had beenstruggling as businessattire grew more casualin recent years. But ithas been decimated bythe coronaviruspandemic, which sentdemand for suitsplummeting. Many working-from-home employees opted for far morerelaxed looks of T-shirts and sweatpants rather than pinstripe suitsand custom shirts.

"Although the pandemic has severely eroded the outlook for thebusiness, Brooks Brothers has long suffered from a failure todecisively adapt to changing trends," said Neil Saunders, the managingdirector of GlobalData Retail. "When it comes to tastes and style,Brooks Brothers has been swimming against the tide."

Brooks Brothers filed for Chapter 11 early Wednesday in a Delawarecourt. It had warned in June it would lay off nearly 700 workers inthree states and is seeking a buyer because coronavirus destroyed itsbusiness. The company has been evaluating various strategic options,including a potential sale. But it has struggled to find a buyer. Acompany spokesperson told CNN Business that it expects to "completethe sale process within the next few months."

The retailer is in the process of shuttering 20% of its 250 US stores.According to the bankruptcy filing, Brooks Brothers has secured $75million in financing to continue operating.

United Airlines warns36,000 workers theycould be laid off

United Airlines is warning 36,000employees — nearly half its USstaff — they could be furloughed

in October, the clearest signal yet ofhow deeply the virus pandemic ishurting the airline industry.

The outlook for a recovery in theairline industry has dimmed in justthe past two weeks, as infection ratesrise in much of the US and some statesimpose new quarantine requirementson travelers.

Airlines say they must shrink tomatch falling travel demand.American Airlines executives havesaid they could have 20,000 moreemployees than the airline will needthis fall.

United told employees Wednesdaythat not everyone who gets a layoffnotice will be furloughed. Thecompany said job losses could bereduced if enough employees acceptbuyouts or early retirement by adeadline next week.

The buyouts come at a price too,however. United said it would take a$300 million charge in the secondquarter to cover voluntary departuresso far. The company said it was unableto estimate the cost of workforcereductions for the rest of the year.

28 THE INDIAN PANORAMAFRIDAY, JULY 10, 2020ASTROLOGY

ARIES: Ganesha says you are in an indulgentframe of mind and there is non-stop partying onthe cards. There could also be many new alliancesand it will make sense to be discreet about them.There is passion and deep bonding as you soarwith the ecstasy of the moment. There are manyunusual aspects now as you also assess the periodthat have gone by.

TAURUS: Ganesha says you will also indulge instrange esoteric pursuits, to flights of fancy, thesupernatural, interest in spirits, witches, life-after-death, and occult phenomena. Ganesha wishes youwell. You are in a quandary: there are many roadsbefore you and you don't know which one to take.At one level, you want to focus on work and onanother level you want to get away from it all andholiday far away in the hills.

GEMINI: Ganesha says the sweet sound ofmoney in the bank, and the social standing andperquisites that come so easily to you are symbolsof success. You enjoy them and revel in the joy theybring you and your family. Once again, you surveythe rewards and seek to extend them further. Butthere are other concerns too. The health ofsomeone really close to you, possibly someoneolder like parents or in-laws, causes you concern.

CANCER: Ganesha says you will also beenthused by meditation and an assortment ofspiritual practices. Ganesha wishes you well.There are many pressures again. Your mind is in atwirl. At one level, you are enthused andrejuvenated. This can be a time of joy. There ispositive thinking as you brush up your image,spruce up your life, look at the brighter side, shopfor a new wardrobe, and generally project anattitude that spells out the material success youhave achieved and also your sense of inner worth.

LEO: Ganesha says the focus shifts to thefamily. There will be beautiful interactions andassociations that you will cherish forever. Youalso meet up with old friends and spend greatmoments in fond memories of wonderful timesgone by. At another level, you are also sloggingaway like someone possessed. You feel happy andreach out to all that is important and desirable.

VIRGO: Ganesha asks you to take chances, takea few calculated risks, but also plan for the future.It is important that you read the fine print whilesigning documents. There could be hidden clausesor conditions that could prove to be less thanfavorable in the long run. Your introspective,withdrawn mood will end now and you are raringto go. You display positive thinking and matchingaction. The results will speak for themselves.They do not need any elaboration.

LIBRA: Ganesha says there is a lot of traveland new associations. You will be drawn intofamily and property matters and there will beexpenses; there is also the risk of someone veryclose falling seriously sick. You will also be theconciliatory factor between erring factions. Thereis also an unusual hum in your life and everyonearound you joins in. You naturally feel greatlyenergized, optimistic and very enthusiastic.

SCORPIO: Ganesha says you will be a humandynamo, a powerhouse of energy ready to attaintargets. Many new ideas will emerge as you makeglorious plans for future success leading to joy.There is a renewed zest for life, lots of vigor andenergy, as you work exceptionally hard. Yoursuccess will be the envy of all. Ganesha is withyou. There are great moments with the family.Children bring joy and you will spend a lot of timewith them.

SAGITTARIUS: Ganesha says there couldbe an addition to the family, even theadoption of a girl child. I cannot be accuratehere as I do not have personal details butthese are the trends. This is an action-packed time without a doubt and you will bemaking the most of whatever falls on yourlap. You will have a strong inclination toindulge in all kinds of mental activity.

CAPRICORN: Ganesha says you look atnew avenues of self - expression andexplore new areas of knowledge. The familyand work angles are energized, bringingpower, money, joy and glory, but there is acertain restlessness that might provedangerous if it is not channelized properly.Do not give in to the urge to neglect eitheryour commitments or the people who matterto you.

AQUARIUS: Ganesha says there is travelon the cards and you make many newfriends. You could be furiously networkingand may be a huge success in multilevelmarketing, if you are involved in it. But youalso need more tact and diplomacy in yourdealings. This is not difficult but it doesn'tever harm to lay on the charm big time. Inthis period you have decided to come togrips with life.

PISCES: Ganesha says there is need fordetachment. The health / emotionalsituation of someone in the family is causefor concern. But the benefits of power andposition come your way and you compensatefor all the troubles hampering you. There isa great period with many significant trends.Ganesha is with you all the way.

Shree Ganeshaya Namah

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Weekly Horoscope July 13 - July 19, 2020

The Indian Panorama brings you Weekly and Birthday Horoscope from the World's mosttrusted astrologer Nastur Bejan Daruwalla.

July 13: Ganesha says to handle current stresses,you may have no better option than to turninward. Put your faith and trust in yourself, notoutside sources.

July 14:If a hint of good news or positivedevelopments came your way last night, youmight find your mind lingering on that theme. Atany rate, either that or something else gets yourimagination going.

July 15: Today looks promising, at least from thepoint of view of your social life. Include your

friends in activities or ask for their input. You'llfind that others are willing to lend a helping hand.

July 16: Radical ideas about money dealingsseem to work out better in theory than inpractice. It's best to scrutinize those and anyproposals in terms of the potential risk-rewardratio.

July 17: Efforts directed toward family and homerelated projects will yield excellent results. Act onpositive urgings to overcome problems or limitingconditions. Make improvements. Charity begins

at home.

July 18:There's tendency for talks that start outcasual to turn profound. Secrets have a way ofslipping out into the open, so watch what youreveal inadvertently. In all dealings, read betweenthe lines.

July 19: Ganesha says long - standingfrustrations could finally catch up with you,leading to an explosive confrontation. Don'toverreact. Lie low if you can; if not, at least staycalm and choose your battles wisely.

Birthday Horoscope July 13 - July 19, 2020

ASTROLOGER NASTUR BEJAN DARUWALLA

Saptarishi are the seven greatest sagesof the Vedic realm. They haveattained a semi-immortal status, that

of an exceedingly long lifespan due to theiryogic power and by the power of theirpenance. The seven holy sages wereassigned to be present through the fourgreat ages, to guide the human race. Theseseven sages or Sapta Rishis worked closelywith Lord Shiva to maintain the balanceon Earth.

They are the seven mind-born sons ofBrahma who live for a period of timeknown as a manvantara (306,720,000 EarthYears). During this period of time, theyserve as representatives of Brahma and atthe end of a manvantara, the universe getsdestroyed and Saptarishi merge in Godand the task of filling the Earth is given tonewly appointed Saptarishi.

All the Saptarishi are Brahmarishiswhich means they have completelyunderstood the meaning of Brahman.Usually, one cannot rise to the level of aBrahmarishi through merit alone, sincethe order was created divinely and isappointed by Lord Brahma. However,Vishwamitra rose to the position of aBrahmarishi through his own merit alone.He performed meditation and austerities(Tapasya) for tens of thousands of yearsand as a result, he was awarded the rank ofBrahmarishi from Bramha himself.

Brahmarishis are so powerful that theyare capable of defeating every weapon onearth, can forecast the future, and are notinfluenced by the circle of life and death.Saptarishis are greater even than thedevtas in power and piety are the highestin rank over Devatas and otherclassifications of Rishis such as Rajarishiand Maharishi.

Maharishi means ‘great sage’ inSanskrit and refers to one who has greatlyexpanded and refined senses. Their thirdeye is completely open and their intuitionis used to its fullest capacity. Theirattention and focus encompass the entireuniverse and yet they can still maintainincredibly precise detail in actions andthoughts. Rajarishi means ‘royal sage’ inSanskrit. It refers to one who is a king or aprince as well as a sage. A Rajarishi canleave the kingship and become a Rishisuch as Vishwamitra.

Seven Great SagesThe Saptarshi of the current

Manvantara according to BrihadaranyakaUpanishad are listed below in this article.Brihadaranyaka Upanishad is one of theearliest Upanishadic Hindu scriptures.

BharadwajaHe is one of the greatest sage in Vedic

times and also a descendant of sageAngirasa. His father is Devarsi Brihaspati.Sage Bharadwaja is the Author ofAyurveda. He is the father of GuruDronacharya and his ashrama still existsin Allahabad. He was also a master ofadvanced military arts, including theDevastras. His wife is Suseela with whomhe had a daughter named Devavarnini andson Garga.

Dronacharya (Guru of Pandavas andKauravas) was born as a result of hisattraction to Apsara.

According to some of the Puranas,

VashistaRishi Vasishta is one of the Saptarishi of

this Manvantara and husband ofArundathi. He is the mind-born son of

Lord Brahma and the Raja-guru of theSurya Vamsha or the Solar dynasty. He isthe author of Vasisht Samhita a treatise onelectional astrology. He and his family areglorified in a hymn in the Rig Veda.

Lord Rama once explains hisdisenchantment with worldly things andexpresses sadness at the miserable life as aworldly man to King Dasaratha afterreturning from a pilgrimage of holyplaces. Then the Sage Vasishta startsanswering the questions posed by LordRama. This is the context and content ofthe scripture called “Yoga Vasistha”.

GautamaGautama Rishi belongs to the lineage of

Angiras. His sons were Vamadeva,Nodhas, Shatananda and were one of theearliest writers on Law. He also authoredthe Gautama Dharma Sutra and The Rig &Sama Vedic mantras.

His wife was Ahalya, who was thedaughter of Lord Brahma. At theappropriate time, the Lord announced thatwhosoever goes around the Earth firstshall win Ahalya’s hand. Gautama Rishiwent around the divine cow thus fulfillingthe condition. Ahalya and Gautama Rishiwere married. Gautama Rishi was aperson without ego. When the people ofthe land suffered a draught, the Maharishiset out to meditate upon Lord Varuna.Pleased with his single-mindedness, LordVaruna appeared. The Rishi asked Varunafor rain. Lord Varuna explained “The Lawdemands that there should not be rain inthe place for this period of time. I cannotgo against the Law since all five forces aregoverned by Lord Shiva. Ask me anythingelse.” Maharishi immediately requestedfor an incessant supply of water in thereservoir. Thus Gautama Rishi savedmany people.

AtriSage Atri is one of the Saptarishi in the

current Manvantara and a son of Brahma.He is one among the Sages whopropounded the sacred thread (Poonal).

Sage Atri’s wife is Anusuya, anembodiment of chastity. He is consideredto be one of the great discoverers of sacredmantras. Atri Samhita and Atri Smriti aretwo works of the great sage.Anasuya isknown for chastity. One day Trimurtydecided to test and arrives at her home asBrahmins.

They ask her to serve food in naked. Sheagrees and converts them into kids.Surprised with the power of her chastitytrinity of gods requests to give theiroriginal form and hence she becomes theirmother. Anasuya gave birth to LordDattatreya as an avatar of Trinity –Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva.

KashyapaKashyapa Rishi is one of the most

popular ancient Rishi and Saptarishi. Heis the son of Rishi Marichi and grandsonof Brahma. He was the father of Devas,Asuras, Nagas, garudas, Vamana, Agni,Adityas, Daityas, Aryaman, Mitra, Pusan,Varuna, and all Humanity. He is theprogenitor, Prajapati. He was an author ofKashyapa Samhitha which is a classicalreference book in the field of AyurvedicPaediatrics, Gynecology, and Obstetrics.

In the story of King Parikshith killed bySerpent Takshaka, Kashyapa arrives tostop it when Takshaka challenges him bybiting a tree and turning it into ashes.Kashyapa restores the tree with his yogicpowers and defeats the serpent. However, itexplains the curse of Brahmin Boy andtells that consequences have to be faced.Sage understanding the future of Kingleaves the place taking offerings fromTakshaka. Soon he realizes that what doneis not correct and visits Tirupathi forgetting rid of sin.

JamadagniJamadagni is the father of

Parashurama, the sixth avatar of Vishnu.Also the descendant of sage Bhrigu one ofthe Prajapatis created by Brahma. His wifewas Renuka, who used to fetch water fromthe river in an unbaked clay pot with thepower of her chastity. One day her heartwas filled with desire when a group ofGandharvas is passing in the sky. The potdissolved. She being afraid of her husbanddoesn’t come home. Jamadagni knowingthis from his yogic powers asksParashurama to kill her mother which hedid.

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29THE INDIAN PANORAMAFRIDAY, JULY 10, 2020 SPIRITUALITY

30 THE INDIAN PANORAMAFRIDAY, JULY 10, 2020MISCELLANY

The GITCC in association with Consulate General of India,New York organizes 2nd edition of the Webinar Series

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Prof. Saluja said there were enough areas andopportunities for cooperation between US and India. Heunderlined the present geopolitical scenario in whichChina which has hitherto been monopolizing tradewith US , has fallen out with the nation whichcontributed most to its growth. It is an opportune timefor India to take advantage of the situation and broadenits manufacturing base to substitute China for US needsof products from pins to toys to electronics etc.

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"In a continued effort of this series ofwebinars we are trying to get representativesfrom The Indian Council of Medical Research,Ministry of Health and Ministry of Chemicals,Government of India to join our webinar andaddress The Indian diaspora connected to thehealth care industry in the United States",Panaser concluded. .

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Biden releases U.S.-centeredeconomic plan, challenging

Trump's 'America First' agendaAnd it reflects the success of Trump's longtime

message that protecting American workers is moreimportant than ensuring a free flow of trade.

Trump's rise in 2016 was built heavily on promises ofbringing back American jobs, as well as blamingimmigrants for hurting American workers. Aspresident, he has stoked a trade war with China andimposed tariffs that flew in the face of his party'sorthodoxy. Biden, who once supported the NorthAmerican Free Trade Agreement and Trans-PacificPartnership, has focused his campaign on prioritizingAmerican industries, following the lead of Sen. BernieSanders (I-Vt.), the democratic socialist who was his toprival for the Democratic nomination, and Sen. ElizabethWarren (D-Mass.) who released a "Plan For EconomicPatriotism" during the primary and has undergonevetting by Biden's campaign to be his running mate.

Biden and Warren's teams consulted closely on thenew plan, according to two people with knowledge ofthe situation, who spoke on the condition of anonymityto describe private talks.

Biden's plan also reflects the growing alarm sparkedby the coronavirus pandemic about the inability ofAmerican companies to produce enough medicalsupplies during a national emergency.

His new platform focuses heavily on using the powerof the federal government to promote a U.S. domesticmanufacturing base. He is advocating a $400 billionprocurement initiative over four years to spur demandfor American products and services, as well as a $300billion investment in U.S. research and breakthroughtechnologies. Half of the $300 billion is in clean-energyinitiatives that were previously announced, thecampaign said.

Before Biden spoke, he toured the plant with Sen.Robert P. Casey Jr. (D-Pa.) and plant owner RobertMcGregor. "How are you, man?" Biden asked a worker."I keep distance," the worker said. Biden wore a facemask throughout the tour.

Later, he delivered his remarks outside at a coveredloading dock. Circles were placed in front of his lecternto encourage listeners to stay within them andmaintain social distancing. Reporters had theirtemperatures taken and were asked coronavirusscreening questions as they entered.

The plan, which represents one of Biden's mostdetailed general election policy prescriptions, also callsfor the government to launch a 100-day "supply chainreview" that could require federal agencies to buy onlymedical supplies and other goods manufactured in theUnited States. On the Republican side, White Houseadvisers and allies worried about Biden's "BuyAmerica" push, with Bannon saying on his radioprogram that the Democrat's rollout could help him insuch states as Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin,which Trump narrowly won in major 2016 upsets.

"This is very disturbing. .?.?. They are essentiallytrying to steal the Trump program of 2016 and steal thatplaybook. For some reason, the White House and thecampaign have been caught flat-footed," Bannon said."Biden has very smart people around him, particularlyon the economic side."

Trump aides said the president remains the obviousperson to reignite the economy as he has done before."President Trump's policies of lower taxes,deregulation, reciprocal trade and energy

independence built a booming economy once, and theywill do so again under his leadership," said Judd Deere,a White House spokesman.

White House officials led by senior Trump adviserPeter Navarro have drafted an executive orderrequiring federal agencies to buy medical supplies andpharmaceuticals produced in America.

That executive order has languished for months,however, amid objections by some of Trump's othersenior advisers, including Treasury Secretary StevenMnuchin and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, whohave warned that it could lead China to limit the supplyof personal protective equipment, or PPE, that it issending to the United States.

Some analysts said Navarro's executive order couldnow be signed swiftly, but it remained unclearThursday when or if that would happen.

Both campaigns are gearing up for a clash over theeconomy, a normally dominant theme in presidentialelections. Trump argues that he built a boomingeconomy before the coronavirus outbreak and could doit again. Biden blames Trump for his erratic reaction tothe pandemic and frequent flouting of public healthadvice, which he says fueled the alarming rate ofinfections and badly damaged the economy as a result.

More broadly, Biden, who holds a significant lead inthe polls, is seeking to close off any possible openingsfor Trump to make the race more competitive. In themonths ahead, he plans to unveil proposals oninfrastructure, caregiving and education, and racialequality, all part of what he bills as the "Build BackBetter" plan.

In Thursday's proposal, Biden is calling for closingloopholes around existing "Buy American" clauses;eliminating waivers in Buy American provisions; andcracking down on false advertising of "Buy American"goods. To finance the ongoing costs of his economicagenda, Biden's campaign says he will reverse some ofTrump's tax cuts for corporations and impose"common-sense tax reforms that finally make sure thewealthiest Americans pay their fair share." Thecampaign declined to provide a more detailedaccounting of how it would pay for the $700 billion inspending it is laying out Thursday.

A senior Biden campaign official said more specificdetails would be released once the full plan is out,speaking on the condition of anonymity because thecampaign did not authorize the person to speak on therecord. Those details would include a stimulusinvestment, which Biden believes will be needed, andcontinuing costs, the official said.

Biden often touts his central role in the Obamaadministration, but he has been less eager to tout theadministration's championing of the Trans-PacificPartnership (TPP), which proved controversial with theparty's union base. Labor leaders said it did too little torequire America's partners improve theirenvironmental and labor standards.

Trump highlighted the shortcomings of the TPP andother trade deals in his 2016 campaign and rejected itupon taking office. "Trade negotiations over big tradedeals is something that in sequence will follow adramatic set of domestic investments," said the seniorBiden campaign official.

Biden has said he wants to renegotiate theagreement, which includes several Asian countries andwhich supporters say could serve as a bulwark againstChina's influence. Thursday's plan calls for using taxdollars to "stand up to the Chinese government's abuses,insist on fair trade, and extend opportunity to allAmericans." (Read full story at

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33THE INDIAN PANORAMAFRIDAY, JULY 10, 2020 TRAVEL

Monsoons in India are unique asthe country is blessed withbountiful rains from June to

August. Surroundings that have becomeparched due to the sweltering heat ofMay, burst with life due to the abundanceof moisture. It’s no surprise that thisseason has been immortalized in our folksongs, movies, plays, and ancient texts.Instead of staying in your home in thiswet spell, venture out to the placesfeatured below. You will not bedisappointed. Here are the top monsoondestinations in India listed only for you.

Lonavala, MaharashtraIf you love being engulfed by wet, rain

clouds, then Lonavla in Maharashtra isthe place to be this monsoon. Snuggledup in the upper reaches of the WesternGhats, a short trip to, or a stay in thisquaint little town is sure to refresh yoursenses. Famous for its cool weather, thisBritish-era town bursts with greenerycome rainy season. With the option ofcruising down the Mumbai-PuneExpressway or using the NationalHighway 4, your journey to Lonavalawill be just as memorable as thedestination itself. Don’t miss theopportunity to travel to Amby Valley,when in Lonavala – the road thatconnects you to that place is simplymagical in the rains. Don’t miss out onthis; There is a reason Lonavala tops ourlist of best monsoon destinations inIndia.

Kodaikanal, Tamil NaduDoes the thought of losing yourself in

acres of greenery in the rains excite you?If yes, then you must visit Kodaikanal inthe months of July and August.

In this season, the entire hill stationlooks fresh. The delightful scent of rain-drenched mud wafts through the trees,rejuvenating your senses. Kodaikanal inthis season is dream come true forserious and amateur photographersalike. Here, you have the opportunity tosnap up enchanting pictures of mist-covered hills and surroundinglandscapes while the sun plays hide andseek with clouds. Bear Shola and SilverCascade Waterfalls near the hill stationboom with gushing water in themonsoons, which will remind you ofyour favourite wallpaper.

Coorg, KarnatakaOften called as Scotland of India,

Coorg in Karnataka is famous for itspicturesque hilly setting.

Travel up the hills beyondKushalnagar in the rains, and you arebound to be surrounded by theubiquitous fog that reduces yourvisibility to near nothingness.Fortunately, you will see very few fellowtravellers on the road, so your journeywill be a pleasant one. On the way up,every bit of earth is guaranteed to begreen. If there are no clouds blockingyour view, then you will get to see distanthills that are enveloped with clouds.

Upon reaching your destination, youmay choose to relax in a warm Coorgihouse or trek up the Thadiyandamolpeak. Whatever your preference, you arebound to enjoy it.

Shillong, MeghalayaIf you wish to rendezvous with the

monsoon clouds, then a visit to Shillongin Meghalaya should be on your bucketlist. When the state itself is called the‘Abode of the Clouds’, you can guesswhat’s coming your way in the monsoon.

Such is the intensity of the rain on theway up that it can slow down the worldaround you. Cars, people,animals…everyone has to bow down toMother Nature in Meghalaya.

Once in Shillong, you must make yourway to the Elephant Falls that cascadeswith the sound of thunder.

Pondicherry Although Pondicherry, fondly called as

Pondy, is famous for its beaches, a visit tothe union territory in the monsoonenables you to enjoy the lush fields andsurrounding hilly terrains that areexploding with greenery.

Walking down Pondy’s PromenadeBeach in the rains, you are bound to bedrenched by raging waves of Bay ofBengal that splash over the walls. Sullengrey, moisture-laden clouds that hanglow from the skies will greet you inPondy this season. Another advantage ofvisiting Pondicherry in the rains is thatthere are very few tourists. So go aheadand enjoy some Indo-French cuisine withsome liquor while the world movesslowly around you in the rains.Pondicherry surely tops the list ofmonsoon destinations in India,

If relaxing on a vacay is what youprefer, then a visit to the AurovilleUniversal City is a must, where you canmeditate amidst verdant green lawnswhile clouds pour around.

Ranikhet, UttarakhandRanikhet is a charming hill station

that is located in the state ofUttarakhand, which is famous for itsamazing natural beauty. Literallymeaning ‘Queen’s meadow’, the quainttown offers majestic views of pine treesin the lush green forests below.

Come monsoons, clouds streamthrough the forests, showing you the faceof the hill station like never before. Awalk through the verdant hillsides inthis season is guaranteed to beinvigorating. A word of advice – visitthis hill station in the early monsoon asthe risk of landslides increasesexponentially when it pours heavily.

Enjoy the emerald beauty of BhaluDam, the tranquil ambience ofHaidakhan Temple and the 8th-centuryshrine of Jhula Devi.

MONSOON DESTINATIONS

HOCKEY INDIA TOLD TO ELECTNEW PRESIDENT

NEW DELHI (TIP): It seems the Sports Ministryhas finally decided to act tough against thoseNational Sports Federations who have been floutingthe National Sports Development Code, 2011. TheMinistry, through its under-secretary Raju Bagga,has asked Hockey India to hold fresh elections as itdeems M Mustaque Ahmed’s election for a third terma violation of the Sports Code.

Prior to taking over as HI president, as per records,Ahmed has served two terms at HI — as treasurer in2010-2014 and secretary general in 2014-2018. “HI isdirected to conduct fresh election by 30.09.2020 for theremaining term i.e upto 30.09.2022 and inform thesame to the Department,” Bagga said in his letterdated July 6.

In February last year as well, the Sports Ministryhad questioned Mustaque’s election. In its reply, HIsecretary general Rajinder Singh had said that sinceHI was not recognised in 2010, the Ministry shouldn’tconsider Mustaque’s tenure as treasurer as his firstterm.

Ganguly announcescancellation of Asia Cup

NEW DELHI (TIP): BCCI president SouravGanguly on Wednesday announced the cancellationof the Asia Cup, which was scheduled to be held inSeptember.

"Asia Cup cancel ho chuka hai, joh September metha (Asia Cup, which was to be held in September, hasbeen cancelled)," Ganguly told 'sports tak' in anInstagram live session.

There was no definitive word on the host country ofthe tournament.

With T20 World Cup in October-November alsounlikely to go ahead in Australia due to the COVID-19pandemic, Asia Cup's cancellation allows the BCCI tohave a full-fledged IPL in the same window.

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), however, has not yetmade any announcement regarding the tournament'scancellation.

PCB CEO Wasim Khan had earlier said that theywould object to any change in the dates of the AsiaCup to accommodate the cash-rich IPL.

The Asian Cricket Council (ACC) met last month todecide on the road ahead for the continental eventbut no decision was taken.

India has the third largest load of coronaviruscases with more than 7.5 lakh infections reported sofar.

In the same show, former skipper was asked aboutwhen the Indian team would be seen in action next.The Virat Kohli-led team last played in March.

34 THE INDIAN PANORAMAFRIDAY, JULY 10, 2020SPORTS

HOLDER WINS EARLY BATTLE WITH STOKES ASWINDIES TAKE CONTROL

SOUTHAMPTON (TIP): WestIndies captain Jason Holder took acareer-best 6-42 and won the firstround of his private duel withEngland allrounder Ben Stokes asthe touring side took control of thefirst Test at the Ageas Bowl onThursday.

Holder capitalized on morefavourable bowling conditionsunder overcast skies on Day 2 toclaim his seventh five-wicket haul —and sixth in his last 10 tests — andhelp dismiss England for 204.

One of his wickets was Stokes, thestand-in England captain, who wasdropped twice before getting drawnforward by Holder and edgingbehind for a team-high 43.

Shannon Gabriel used his paceand fuller length to nab the firstthree England wickets and then thelast — of James Anderson, who puton a potentially crucial 30 runs withDom Bess (31 not out) for the finalwicket — to finish with 4-62.

The West Indies was 57-1 in replyafter 19.3 overs when bad lightstopped play just before 6 p.m. localtime in Southampton. The teamsnever got back on the field.

Holder vs. Stokes has been billedas the biggest subplot of the seriesand the world’s top two allroundershave already made their mark on aseries being played in an isolatedenvironment with no fans because

of the pandemic.While Stokes rode his luck

somewhat in scoring highest forEngland, Holder immediatelysettled into a rhythm with hisaccurate fast-medium bowling to ripthrough the middle and bottomorder after the hosts resumed on 35-1.

In one spell, when Holder took hisfifth wicket by reviewing an lbwdecision against Jofra Archer (0)that was initially given not out, theWest Indies captain took 3-1 in 14

balls. “My patience has definitelyincreased,” Holder said. “Before, Iwas trying to bowl too manydeliveries in one spell.

“I look at consistency, andpatience was one of the things I waslacking. Using the crease issomething I strive to do — and usingthe angles at the point of delivery.When you’re not as quick as somepeople, you’ve got to be skilful.”Holder also said he definitelywouldn’t have batted first had WestIndies won the toss.

Djokovic accuses critics of ‘witch-hunt’, undecided on US Open

BELGRADE (TIP): Novak Djokovic has accusedcritics of subjecting him to a "witch-hunt" after hisregional Adria Tour tennis event ended in a novelcoronavirus fiasco and said he was still uncertainwhether he would play at the August 31-September 13US Open.

Images and videos of the players hugging at the net,playing basketball together and partying at thetournament were posted on social media.

World No. 1 Djokovic, fellow Serb Viktor Troicki,Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov and Croatian Borna Coricall tested positive for the virus and the event had to becalled off.

Djokovic, who tested positive for COVID-19 after theAdria Tour's second leg in Croatia, pulled no punches inslamming his peers and pundits who said he wasirresponsible to stage the event amid the pandemic.

"I can only see criticism lately and much of it ismalicious," Djokovic told Wednesday's issue of Serbia'sdaily Sportski Zurnal.

"It's obviously more than just criticism, it's like anagenda and a witch-hunt are on. Someone has to takethe fall, a big name,” he said.

"I still haven't decided whether I will play in the U.S.Open, the upsurge in registered COVID-19 cases in theUnited Staes and New York in particular are notplaying into the event's hands," added Djokovic whowas back in training on Tuesday with Troicki.

Djokovic tested negative after the second test he tooklast week and, having conceded after the failedtournament that it came too soon, he reiterated that hehad acted in good faith.

"My intention was pure, I was whole-heartedlycommitted to organising a humanitarian event to helpplayers and tennis federations in the (Balkan) region,"he said.

"We complied with all the laws and regulations. Butwe've learned our lessons and some things could haveprobably been done in a different way."

WASHINGTON (TIP): The surge incoronavirus cases in the United States,which has set new daily-case recordsfive times in the past nine days, is beingdriven largely by states that wereamong the first to ease virusrestrictions as they moved to reopentheir economies.

Florida has seen its average newdaily cases increase more than tenfoldsince it began reopening in early May.Cases in Arizona have jumped by 858percent since beginning to reopen May8. Cases in Texas have risen by 680percent since beginning to reopen May1.

Epidemiologists had warned thatreopening could lead to waves of newinfections if it was done before thevirus was contained, and before contacttracing was sufficiently ramped upenough to contain future outbreaks.

The trajectory taken by many statesthat pushed to reopen early offers a

cautionary tale.South Carolina, one of the first states

to let retail stores reopen, has seen itsaverage daily case count rise to 1,570, upfrom 143 from when the state began toreopen in late April, a 999 percent

increase. And in Georgia, where thegovernor's moves to reopen swiftly inlate April were criticized as tooaggressive by Mr. Trump - who hadgenerally been pushing states to movefaster to reopen - cases have risen by 245

percent.Now the U.S. is debating when and

how to reopen school classrooms -which Mr. Trump is pushing forstrongly, even as school districts,teachers and some parents expressconcerns - and which steps should betaken by states that have become hotspots, from reimposing restrictions toordering people to wear masks.

Many of the states that bore the bruntof cases in March and April but wereslower to reopen have seen significantdecreases in reported cases since.Average daily cases in New York aredown 52 percent since the state began toreopen in late May, and they are down83 percent in Massachusetts.

There are exceptions, though.California, once seen as a model forhow to contain the virus, has seen analarming increase in new cases, whichare up 275 percent since May 25.

(With input from agencies)

35THE INDIAN PANORAMAFRIDAY, JULY 10, 2020 MISCELLANY

Nyc Emergency Management advises New Yorkers toprepare for Potential Effects of Tropical Storm Fay

Heavy Rain Showers and High Winds Forecast for Friday, July 10

NEW YORK (TIP): The NationalWeather Service has issued a TropicalStorm Warning for NYC from 6 a.m.Friday, July 10 through 2 a.m. Saturday,July 11.

With Fay's track expected to impactNYC, NWS is forecasting moderate toheavy rain to move into the area earlyFriday morning, continuing throughoutthe afternoon before tapering off aroundmidnight Saturday. A total of 1 to 2inches of rain is forecast with thissystem, with locally higher amounts of 2to 4 inches possible. Severethunderstorms cannot be ruled out withthis system. High winds are also in theforecast on Friday, with sustained winds35 mph to 45 mph and gusts up to 50 mph.Winds are expected to taper offovernight Friday into early Saturdaymorning. There is also the potential forhigh surf on Friday, with a high risk ofdangerous rip currents on Friday andSaturday.

"We are working closely with NationalWeather Service to monitor TropicalStorm Fay and the potential impacts itmay have to New York City," said NYCEmergency Management CommissionerDeanne Criswell. "This storm isexpected to bring strong winds andheavy rain tomorrow, so make sure yousecure loose objects like garbage cansand patio furniture, charge cell phonebatteries and other devices, and takeother necessary precautions."

New Yorkers are encouraged to reportclogged catch basins and areas ofstanding water to 311 (212-639-9675 forVideo Relay Service, or TTY: 212-504-4115). The City's Downed Tree TaskForce has also been notified. This multi-agency task force is responsible forcoordinating the response to a largedowned tree event.

Safety Tips● If you live in a flood-prone area, keep

materials such as sandbags, plywood,plastic sheeting, and lumber on handto help protect your home.

● If you have a disability or access orfunctional need, make sure your planaddresses how your needs may affectyour ability to evacuate, shelter inplace, or communicate withemergency workers. Arrange helpfrom family, friends, or serviceproviders if you will need assistance.

● When outside, avoid walking anddriving through flooded areas. As fewas six inches of moving water canknock a person over. Six inches ofwater will reach the bottom of mostpassenger cars, causing loss ofcontrol and possible stalling. One ortwo feet of water can carry away avehicle.

● Stay out of any building if it issurrounded by floodwaters.

● If you see downed electrical wires, donot go near them. Never attempt to

move or touch them with any object.Be mindful that tree limbs, leaves, orwater can cover downed wires fromview. Always stay away from downedpower lines because they could be live.

● Report downed wires immediately. Ifa power line falls on your car whileyou are in it, stay inside the vehicleand wait for emergency personnel.

Power Outages● To prepare for a possible power

outage, charge cell phone batteries,gather supplies, and turn yourrefrigerator and freezer to a coldersetting. If you lose power, items thatneed refrigeration will stay cooler forlonger.

● Make sure your flashlights and anybattery-operated radios or televisionsare working. Keep extra batteries.

● If you lose power & have a disability,access and functional needs or useLife Sustaining Equipment (LSE) &need immediate assistance, dial 911.

● Do not use generators indoors.● Check on friends, relatives, and

neighbors, especially older adults andpeople with disabilities, access andfunctional needs, or healthconditions. Help them to prepare ifneeded.

Prepare for Strong WindsStrong winds can bring down trees

and power lines and can turn unsecured

objects into dangerous projectiles. Toprotect against the hazard of strongwinds, New Yorkers should:● Check the area immediately

surrounding your home forunsecured objects or potentiallydangerous conditions. Tree limbs,garbage cans, yard debris, or othermaterials that can be moved by thewind are potential projectiles aimedat your home or parked vehicle.

● Bring inside loose, lightweight objectssuch as lawn furniture, potted plants,garbage cans, garden tools and toys.

● Anchor objects that would be unsafeoutside, such as gas grills or propanetanks.

● Close up and secure patio furniture.● Secure retractable awnings.● Remove aerial antennas and satellite

television dishes.

Stay InformedBefore and during an emergency, the

City will send emergency alerts andupdates to New Yorkers through variouschannels including Notify NYC, theCity's free emergency notificationsystem. Through Notify NYC, NewYorkers can receive phone calls, textmessages, and/or emails alerts abouttraffic and transit disruptions and otheremergencies. To sign up for Notify NYC,call 311, visit NYC.gov/NotifyNYC , orfollow @NotifyNYC on Twitter.

(Based on a Press Release)

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