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‘Badrinath Ki Entertainment........... Business................... Astrology ................... Health....................... Sports........................ Page 12 Page 14 Page 16 Page 17 Page 20 INDEX Thought of the Week: “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” - Thomas Edison INSIDE THIS ISSUE Indra’s memoir out in September Former PepsiCo CEO of 12 years Indra Nooyi has a memoir coming out this fall. Page 4 India activist Disha Ravi breaks silence on sedition arrest, says she felt ‘violated’. India activist breaks silence Page 9 Rhea Chakraborty’s bail chal- lenged in the Supreme Court by NCB. Page 12 Kohli help India level T20 series A belligerent 56 from Ishan Kis- han and an unbeaten 73 from Vi- rat Kohli helped the hosts to level T20 series. Page 20 Virat Kohli rues Actress Rhea’s bail challenged India Bulletin unbiased - unedited - unbeatable news delivered directly to you Saturday, March 20, 2021 Vol. 17 No. 8 Biweekly Midwest Edition www.indiabulletinusa.com FREE By Neha Arora and Rama Venkat NEW DELHI - India said on Wednesday its coronavirus im- munisation campaign would con- tinue with “full rigour” despite some concerns in Europe about the safety of the AstraZeneca vaccine it relies heavily upon as infections hit a three month high. The European Medicines Agen- cy is investigating reports of 30 cases of unusual blood disorders out of 5 million recipients of the vaccine in the region. Since starting the drive in mid-January, India has adminis- tered 36 million vaccine doses, which are mostly the AstraZen- eca shots developed with Oxford University and locally known as Covishield. “We have no signal of concern in this regard,” Vinod Kumar Paul, who heads a government committee on vaccines, told a news conference, adding that ex- perts in India had looked into the issue. “Covishield vaccination in the country will go on with full rigour.” The World Health Organization has said it is assessing whether medical events such as blood clots are related to the vaccination and urged anyone offered a vaccine to take one. AstraZeneca has said a review of safety data has shown no evidence of an increased risk of blood clots. Paul said as infections had risen in the country since early February, hitting a three-month high on Wednesday, the govern- ment was looking at accelerating the vaccination drive that also uses a homegrown shot created by Bharat Biotech and the state- run Indian Council of Medical Research. The federal health ministry has so far distributed to states 75.4 million vaccine doses, less than half of which have been given to frontline workers, the elderly and people above 45 with health conditions. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said quick action was needed to contain the surge, as the country’s infections tally hit 11.44 million, the third behind the United States and Brazil. “We need to soon stop the emerging second peak of corona,” he said in a virtual meeting with state leaders, urging them to in- crease testing and strictly monitor mask-wearing. “We need to take quick, decisive steps.” India’s cases jumped by 28,903 on Wednesday, the highest in- crease since Dec. 13. Deaths in- creased by 188, the highest in two months, to stand at 159,044. Modi said states needed to pro- actively ensure infections did not increase in the countryside, where healthcare facilities would fall short. Rural India is home to two- thirds of the country’s 1.35 billion people. The federal government has blamed crowding and a reluctance to wear masks for the spike, ruling out the virus mutations that have been a factor in Western countries. The recent increase has been led by the western state of Ma- harashtra, home to India’s commercial capital of Mumbai. Nearly 62% of infections in the past 24 hours and 46% of the deaths were reported by Ma- harashtra, which has ordered a lockdown in some districts and put curbs on cinemas, hotels and restaurants until end of the month. India backs AstraZeneca shot as India backs AstraZeneca shot as COVID-19 cases hit three-month high COVID-19 cases hit three-month high People board a passenger bus during rush hour at a bus terminal, amidst the coronavirus outbreak, in Mumbai. New Delhi is world’s most polluted capital for third straight year New Delhi is world’s most polluted capital for third straight year By Neha Arora NEW DELHI - New Delhi was the world’s most polluted capital for the third straight year in 2020, according to IQAir, a Swiss group that measures air quality levels based on the concentration of lung-damaging airborne particles known as PM2.5. India was home to 35 of the world’s 50 most polluted cit- ies, according to IQAir’s 2020 World Air Quality Report, which gathered data for 106 countries. The findings were based on the country’s annual average of par- ticulate matter PM2.5, airborne particles with less than 2.5 microns in diameter. Prolonged exposure to PM2.5 can lead to deadly diseas- es, including cancer and cardiac problems. In 2020, New Delhi’s average annual concentration of PM2.5 in a cubic meter of air was 84.1, the study said, more than double the level of Beijing, which averaged 37.5 during the year, making it the 14th most polluted city in the world. Air pollution caused an esti- mated 54,000 premature deaths in New Delhi in 2020, according to a recent study by Greenpeace South- east Asia Analysis and IQAir. W i s h i n g o u r R e a d e r s & A d v e r t i s e r s a C o l o r f u l H o l i ! Wishing our Readers & Advertisers a Colorful Holi!

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EntertainmentBusiness AstrologyHealth Sports

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EX

Thought of the Week ldquoOpportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like workrdquo - Thomas Edison

INSIDE THIS ISSUEIndrarsquos memoir

out in September

Former PepsiCo CEO of 12 years Indra Nooyi has a memoir coming out this fall Page 4

India activist Disha Ravi breaks silence on sedition arrest says she felt lsquoviolatedrsquo

India activist breaks silence

Page 9

Rhea Chakrabortyrsquos bail chal-lenged in the Supreme Court by NCB Page 12

Kohli help India level T20 series

A belligerent 56 from Ishan Kis-han and an unbeaten 73 from Vi-rat Kohli helped the hosts to level T20 series Page 20

Virat Kohli rues soft ball

Actress Rhearsquos bail challenged

India Bulletinunbiased - unedited - unbeatable news delivered directly to you

Saturday March 20 2021 Vol 17 No 8 Biweekly Midwest Edition wwwindiabulletinusacom FREE

By Neha Aroraand Rama Venkat

NEW DELHI - India said on Wednesday its coronavirus im-munisation campaign would con-tinue with ldquofull rigourrdquo despite some concerns in Europe about the safety of the AstraZeneca vaccine it relies heavily upon as infections hit a three month high

The European Medicines Agen-cy is investigating reports of 30 cases of unusual blood disorders out of 5 million recipients of the vaccine in the region

Since starting the drive in mid-January India has adminis-tered 36 million vaccine doses which are mostly the AstraZen-eca shots developed with Oxford University and locally known as Covishield

ldquoWe have no signal of concern in this regardrdquo Vinod Kumar Paul who heads a government committee on vaccines told a news conference adding that ex-perts in India had looked into the issue

ldquoCovishield vaccination in the country will go on with full rigourrdquo

The World Health Organization has said it is assessing whether medical events such as blood clots are related to the vaccination and urged anyone off ered a vaccine to take one AstraZeneca has said a review of safety data has shown no evidence of an increased risk of blood clots

Paul said as infections had

risen in the country since early February hitting a three-month high on Wednesday the govern-ment was looking at accelerating the vaccination drive that also uses a homegrown shot created by Bharat Biotech and the state-run Indian Council of Medical Research

The federal health ministry has so far distributed to states 754 million vaccine doses less than half of which have been given to frontline workers the elderly and people above 45 with health conditions

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said quick action was needed to contain the surge as the countryrsquos

infections tally hit 1144 million the third behind the United States and Brazil

ldquoWe need to soon stop the emerging second peak of coronardquo he said in a virtual meeting with state leaders urging them to in-crease testing and strictly monitor mask-wearing ldquoWe need to take quick decisive stepsrdquo

Indiarsquos cases jumped by 28903 on Wednesday the highest in-crease since Dec 13 Deaths in-creased by 188 the highest in two months to stand at 159044

Modi said states needed to pro-actively ensure infections did not increase in the countryside where healthcare facilities would fall

short Rural India is home to two-thirds of the countryrsquos 135 billion people

The federal government has blamed crowding and a reluctance to wear masks for the spike ruling out the virus mutations that have been a factor in Western countries

The recent increase has been led by the western state of Ma-harashtra home to Indiarsquos commercial capital of Mumbai

Nearly 62 of infections in the past 24 hours and 46 of the deaths were reported by Ma-harashtra which has ordered a lockdown in some districts and put curbs on cinemas hotels and restaurants until end of the month

India backs AstraZeneca shot as India backs AstraZeneca shot as COVID-19 cases hit three-month highCOVID-19 cases hit three-month high

People board a passenger bus during rush hour at a bus terminal amidst the coronavirus outbreak in Mumbai

New Delhi is worldrsquos most polluted capital for third straight yearNew Delhi is worldrsquos most polluted capital for third straight yearBy Neha Arora

NEW DELHI - New Delhi was the worldrsquos most polluted capital for the third straight year in 2020 according to IQAir a Swiss group that measures air quality levels based on the concentration of lung-damaging airborne particles

known as PM25India was home to 35 of the

worldrsquos 50 most polluted cit-ies according to IQAirrsquos 2020 World Air Quality Report which gathered data for 106 countries

The fi ndings were based on the countryrsquos annual average of par-ticulate matter PM25 airborne

particles with less than 25 microns in diameter Prolonged exposure to PM25 can lead to deadly diseas-es including cancer and cardiac problems

In 2020 New Delhirsquos average annual concentration of PM25 in a cubic meter of air was 841 the study said more than double the

level of Beijing which averaged 375 during the year making it the 14th most polluted city in the world

Air pollution caused an esti-mated 54000 premature deaths in New Delhi in 2020 according to a recent study by Greenpeace South-east Asia Analysis and IQAir

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HARIDWAR - Tens of thou-sands of Hindu devotees plunged into Indiarsquos Ganges river last Thursday as the country kicked off one of the worldrsquos largest re-ligious festivals even as offi cials reported the biggest spike in coro-navirus cases for three months

Hindu ascetics known as Naga sadhus many naked apart from a coating of ash and carrying swords or tridents led the bath-ers at the Kumbh Mela or pitcher festival in the northern town of Haridwar

All participants at this yearrsquos event that runs until the end of April are required to present a negative coronavirus test result before being allowed into the fes-tival grounds authorities said But there was little evidence of social distancing in place last Thursday as bathers jostled at the riverbank

Devout Hindus believe bathing in the waters of the Ganges ab-solves people of sins and during the Kumbh Mela brings salvation from the cycle of life and death

ldquoIt feels to good to bathe hererdquo

said 44-year-old Chandubhai Go-vindbhai Dabhi after emerging from the waters last Thursday ldquoHalf the people are wearing masks and half are not but we are not afraid of coronardquo

More than 22000 people had bathed in the holy river by 8 am (0230 GMT) police overseeing

the festival told Reuters partner ANI a number that was expected to rise signifi cantly throughout the day

Authorities said that more than 100 million people attended the festival in 2019 the last time it was held a fi gure that most expect will be lower this year

After an almost three-month lockdown last year that was one of the worldrsquos harshest India has relaxed almost all restrictions on movement since a peak in cases in September including reopening vast stadiums for cricket match-es one of the countryrsquos national obsessions

Tens of thousands of Hindu devotees take holy plunge in Ganges

Tens of thousands of Hindu devotees have plunged into Indiarsquos Ganges river as the country kicks off one of the worldrsquos largest religious festivals even as offi cials reported the biggest spike in coronavirus cases for three months

Amazon Prime Video to produce its first Bollywood film in India

NEW DELHI - Amazoncomrsquos Prime Video will co-produce a Bollywood fi lm it said on Wednesday marking the streaming giantrsquos foray into fi lm production in India

The south Asian nation is one of Amazonrsquos fastest grow-ing Prime Video markets where founder Jeff Bezos has said it is doing better than anywhere else in the world

Amazon Prime Video and two studios will produce ldquoRam Seturdquo a fi lm starring actor Akshay Ku-mar it said in a statement without mentioning a release date

ldquoWe are delighted to further take a step into co-producing by collaborating with a fi lm that highlights our Indian heritagerdquo said Vijay Subramanium the

head of content at Amazon Prime Video India

The fi lmrsquos title is the Hindi name for Adamrsquos Bridge a chain of limestone shoals linking the southern state of Tamil Nadu to the neighbouring island nation of Sri Lanka

Indian mythology holds that the bridge was built by an army led by the Hindu god-king Rama

In India Amazonrsquos Prime loy-alty program which off ers free delivery early access to deals during sales and free music and video streaming costs 999 rupees ($1377) a year

Despite its promise India is also a market in which Amazon recently had to issue a rare pub-lic apology for hurting religious sentiment over some scenes in its original TV series ldquoTandavrdquo

That controversy has put Bolly-wood Amazon Prime Video and rivals such as Netfl ix on edge prompting closer scrutiny of scripts for possible off ence to re-ligious sentiment in a key growth market

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By Ken Ritter

LAS VEGAS (AP) - A woman arrested in Las Vegas several days after an attack on an Uber driver in San Francisco that was widely viewed on social media agreed to be transferred in custody to California to face criminal charges

Malaysia Kingrsquos court appearance in Las Vegas came hours after police in San Francisco announced that Arna Kimiai 24 a woman seen with King in the Uber driver confrontation turned herself in to face rob-bery assault and battery conspiracy and other charges

Kimiairsquos attorney Seth Morris said Kimiai posted a $75000 bond to go free pending a future court appearance during which charges could be filed

Video provided by the driver showed a maskless woman later identified as Kim-iai coughing on him and grabbing his cellphone Police also said that as three women exited the vehicle one sprayed what was believed to be pepper spray toward the driver

In Las Vegas King 24 did not have a lawyer during her brief court appearance by closed-circuit video She agreed not to contest extradition She was not asked about the charges against her

King was arrested on a warrant from California accusing her of assault with a caustic chemical conspiracy assault and battery and a health and safety code violation

Justice of the Peace Eric Goodman said authorities from California have 30 days to take King into custody and told her she may also face felony charges in Las Vegas stemming from allegations that she and a man tried to use another personrsquos identi-fication to obtain funds from that personrsquos bank account

Court records show King was arraigned on burglary and conspiracy charges in that case and has a court date in May

The Uber driver Subhakar Khadka 32 was attacked after stopping his car when he realized one of three female passengers wasnrsquot wearing a mask police said

Woman in Uber driver attack to be returned to San FranciscoldquoAn altercation ensued largely captured

on videordquo San Francisco police said in a statement about Kimiairsquos arrest

At one point the video shows Kimiai coughing on Khadkas grabbing his cell-phone from the center dash area and ripping off Khadkasrsquo face mask

Khadkas regained possession of his phone but was sprayed with what was be-lieved to be pepper spray as the women got out of his car police said

Khadka later said he believed he was attacked because he is a South Asian im-migrant However authorities have not commented on the allegation and no hate crimes charges have been filed Khadka came to the US eight years ago and works to support his family in Nepal

Uber said in a statement that it had banned all three riders

A GoFundMe account to assist Khadka raised more than $97000 The San Fran-cisco Chronicle reported that he planned to spend the money pursuing legal action and to support his family

Former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi has memoir out in September

NEW YORK (AP) - Former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi has a memoir coming out this fall that her publisher is calling an ldquounvarnished takerdquo on her rise to be-coming one of the worldrsquos most powerful women

ldquoMy Life in Full Work Family and Our Futurerdquo will be published Sept 28 Portfolio Books announced Nooyi 65 will trace her life from her childhood in India to her experiences as an immi-grant at Yale Universityrsquos business school to her many achievements as the rare woman and person of color in the upper echelons of the corporate world

She worked at PepsiCo for 24 years 12 of them as CEO before stepping down in 2018 While she was CEO PepsiCorsquos revenues grew from $35 bil-lion to $635 billion and she became known for promoting such ldquogood for yourdquo snacks as Baked Layrsquos potato chips and Naked juices made of fruits and vegetables

The mother of two children she also spoke candidly while at PepsiCo of the difficulties in balancing commitments

ldquoAs I wrote lsquoMy Life in Fullrsquo I saw how my own story relates to our evolv-ing global economy and how it may

inform our progress on better integrat-ing work and family in the years aheadrdquo Nooyi said in a statement ldquoI hope this book inspires business leaders policy-makers and all women and men pas-sionate about easing the work-and-fam-ily burden to come together and create changerdquo

Portfolio is an imprint at Penguin Ran-dom House Financial terms for Nooyirsquos book were not disclosed She was rep-resented by Washington attorney Robert Barnett whose clients range from for-mer President Barack Obama to Nike co-founder Phil Knight

Owner of IT services company pleads guilty to defrauding New York State

ALBANY NY - Lakshmikanth Sri-puram age 37 of Monmouth Junction New Jersey pled guilty this month to wire fraud conspiracy in connection with a scheme to defraud New York State

Sripuram is the president of PIntegra LLC As part of his plea he admitted that between 2015 and 2017 he conspired with Co-Conspirator 1 a former employ-ee of the Office of the State Comptrol-ler (OSC) to fraudulently obtain money from OSC

In January 2015 OSC entered into a contract with a consortium of three companies to identify and hire computer

programmers for a project When OSC needed to hire a programmer it sent a request form to one of the three com-panies Each company then submitted a purportedly qualified applicant Fre-quently the applicants were employed by subcontractors including PIntegra

From January 2015 through October 2016 OSC hired 17 programmers for the project at hourly rates ranging from $80 to $120 In late 2016 OSC learned that many of the programmersrsquo refer-ences and work histories were not le-gitimate including those hired from PIntegra and launched an internal investigation

Indra Nooyi

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HEALTH amp SCIENCE5Saturday March 20 2021

NATIONAL NEWSIndia Bulletin

WASHINGTON DC - With assets worth tens of millions of dollars associate attorney gen-eral nominee Vanita Gupta is thus far the Biden administrationrsquos wealthiest political nominee that has publicly released a finan-cial disclosure form ABC News reported

The disclosure of Guptarsquos finan-cial interests came as she faced a rocky confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week

Gupta a civil rights attorney-

turned Justice Department nomi-nee has reported owning between $42 million and $187 million in assets and properties with her spouse in her disclosure report filed to the Office of Government Ethics She reported earning be-tween $902000 and $3 million in the past year the filing shows

The biggest chunks of her as-sets come from her shares in companies linked to her father Raj Gupta a corporate chairman and Wall Street financier with vast corporate interests

Associate Attorney General pick Gupta would be wealthiest member of Bidenrsquos administration

According to the filing Vanita Gupta owns between $11 mil-lion and $55 million in shares of Avantor a chemicals and ma-terials company headquartered in Pennsylvania for which Raj Gupta is the chairman of the board

She also reported owning be-tween $500000 and $1 million in shares of Aptiv an American-Irish-British auto parts company headquartered in Dublin Ireland for which Raj Gupta also serves as chairman

According to the report Gupta also owns between $950000 and $2 million in entities connected to the private equity firm New Mountain Capital for which her father has served as a senior ad-viser Raj Gupta has also served on the board of the Vanguard Group one of the biggest index fund companies and Vanita Gup-ta owns between $11 million and $49 million worth of Vanguard index funds which are com-monly owned by other political appointees

She holds much of those assets through family trusts she controls except for $5 million to $25 mil-lion in Avantor $500000 to $1 million in Aptiv and six-figures in New Mountain Finance Co which are under a brokerage account

In her ethics agreement provid-ed by the Biden transition team Vanita Gupta wrote that she would retain her financial interests in those companies but would resign from her position as co-trustee of her family trust

Vanita GuptaMan involved in IRS phone scam ordered to pay restitution

NEW YORK - A former Mas-sachusetts man who tried to flee to Canada to avoid a prison sen-tence for his role in a phone scam that bilked area residents out of hundreds of thousands of dol-lars has been ordered to pay more than $250000 in restitution

Ashokkumar ldquoAndyrdquo Patel formerly of Worcester was re-sponsible for helping steal more than $880000 but the identities

of many victims could not be traced prosecutors said in federal court The Telegram amp Gazette reported

Patelrsquos lawyer Vikas Dhar said Patel made less than $50000 for his role in the scheme

Patel pleaded guilty last Sep-tember to wire fraud and money laundering for his role in a com-plicated scheme in which foreign callers duped people into sending

them money by posing as IRS debt collectors

He was sentenced to more than three years in prison

But before he started serving the sentence he was apprehended by Canadian authorities in Octo-ber on the Canada-Washington after diving into a ditch He was indicted in November for con-tempt of court in connection with the alleged escape attempt

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India Bulletin

By Rajendra Jadhavand Rama Venkat

MUMBAI - New coronavirus infections in India rose by the most in more than three months as a second wave of the epidemic gathered momentum with Ma-harashtra the countryrsquos richest state accounting for two-thirds of the latest daily tally

Home to Indiarsquos commer-cial capital Mumbai the west-ern state reported 23179 of the countryrsquos 35871 new cases in

the past 24 hours and the fast spreading contagion in major industrial areas raised risks of companiesrsquo production being disrupted

Indiarsquos total cases stood at 1147 million the highest after the United States and Brazil Deaths rose by 172 to 159216 according to health ministry data released on Thursday

The countryrsquos first wave peaked in September at nearly 100000 cases a day with daily infections hitting a low of just

over 9000 early last monthCases have been rising in Ma-

harashtra since the reopening of most economic activities in Feb-ruary Mumbairsquos suburban trains which carry millions of people daily also resumed services

The state of 112 million peo-ple ordered a fresh lockdown in some districts and put curbs on cinemas hotels and restaurants until the end of the month after infections rose to a multi-month high earlier this week

New cases have more than doubled in the past two weeks in Maharashtrarsquos industrial towns such as Pune Aurangabad Na-shik and Nagpur known for their

automobile pharmaceutical and textile factories

ldquoWe have asked industries there to operate with minimum manpower as much possiblerdquo said a senior Maharashtra gov-ernment official declining to be named as he was not authorised to talk to the media ldquoMost of the IT companies have allowed their employees to work from homerdquo

Hospital beds and special CO-VID-19 facilities were filling up fast especially in Mumbai Nag-pur and Pune said another state official

Earlier this month more than 80 of oxygen and intensive-care beds in Maharashtra were

unoccupiedHalf a dozen other states such

as Punjab and Madhya Pradesh have also seen a rise in cases this month The government has blamed crowding and a re-luctance to wear masks for the rise

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday asked state leaders to quickly increase test-ing and expand vaccination to ldquostop the emerging second peak of coronardquo

India has administered more than 365 million vaccine dos-es since starting its immuni-sation drive in the middle of January

Maharashtra state suffers surge in COVID-19 cases

A health worker in personal protective equipment (PPE) collects a swab sample from a woman during a rapid antigen testing campaign for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a railway station platform in Mumbai

Pandemic pushes 32 million Indians out of middle class says Pew Research

By Manoj Kumar

NEW DELHI - Financial woes brought by last yearrsquos coronavi-rus pandemic have pushed about 32 million Indians out of the middle class undoing years of economic gains a report showed on Thursday while job losses pushed millions into poverty

The number of Indians in the middle class or those earn-

ing between $10 and $20 a day shrunk by about 32 million compared with the number that could have been reached in the absence of a pandemic the US-based Pew Research Centre said

A year into the pandemic the numbers of those in the middle class has shrunk to 66 million down a third from a pre-pan-demic estimate of 99 million it added

ldquoIndia is estimated to have seen a greater decrease in the middle class and a much sharper rise in poverty than China in the COVID-19 downturnrdquo the Pew Research Centre said citing the World Bankrsquos forecasts of economic growth

Nearly 57 million people had joined the middle income group between 2011 and 2019 it added

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By Krishna N Das

NEW DELHI - Indiarsquos main opposition Congress party on Tuesday hit out at Prime Minis-ter Narendra Modirsquos government for exporting nearly twice the number of coronavirus vaccine doses than immunisations con-ducted at home despite a surge in infections

India the worldrsquos biggest vac-cine maker has gifted or sold here 59 million locally produced doses compared with 33 million

doses given to its own people since its inoculation campaign began in mid-January

While some rich countries such as the United States are being accused of vaccine na-tionalism India is being lauded globally for sending shots to 71 countries mainly the AstraZen-eca vaccine as well as some of Bharat Biotechrsquos homegrown product

Many Indians however now want the government to make vaccines available to more of its

own people instead of only the elderly and those above 45 suf-fering from health conditions

ldquoThe priority of the Modi government is not the state but foreign nationsrdquo Congress said on Twitter using the tag India-NeedsMoreVaccines and accus-ing the premier of focusing on

ldquoPR over peoplerdquoldquoThe pace of vaccination in

states is slow due to the centrali-sation in vaccine distributionrdquo it said

Health Minister Harsh Vard-han told parliament that vac-cines were not being exported at the ldquoexpense of the people of

Indiardquo and that a balance was being struck

Indiarsquos immunisation drive has picked up significantly since Modi expanded it this month Still Bangladesh is vaccinat-ing more people relative to its population using India-made shots

India worldrsquos top vaccine maker criticised at home for exports as infections rise

A healthcare worker collects a swab sample from a woman amidst the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a bus station in New Delhi India on March 16 2021

India child rights group asks police to probe Netflix show lsquoBombay Begumsrsquo

By Abhirup Roy

MUMBAI - A government agency for child rights in In-dia on Tuesday asked police to investigate Netflix Incrsquos show ldquoBombay Begumsrdquo saying some scenes in the drama series violated laws meant to protect children letters seen by Reuters showed

The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCP-CR) has asked the US streaming giant to remove five ldquoobjection-ablerdquo scenes from the series and wrote to the police chief in Indiarsquos financial capital Mumbai to take action

ldquoYou are requested to investi-gateinquire and take deemed law-ful necessary actionrdquo NCPCRrsquos

chairperson Priyank Kanoongo wrote in the letter

A Mumbai police spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment Netflix de-clined to comment

ldquoBombay Begumsrdquo is a se-ries about five women from dif-ferent parts of society trying to get ahead in modern Mumbai formerly called Bombay It was released last week

In a separate letter to Netflix NCPCR asked the company to remove five scenes which it said violated Indian laws governing Juvenile Justice and the Protec-tion of Children from Sexual Of-fences

In the series children have been shown indulging ldquoin snort-ing drugs and taking inde-

cent pictures and selfies in the classroomrdquo NCPCR told Netflix

The child rights group first asked Netflix to stop streaming the series last week after review-ing complaints on Twitter As of Tuesday the show was still avail-able for viewing on Netflix in India

Netflix officials met the child rights agency on Tuesday to dis-cuss details of the scenes and objections from NCPCR which gave the company two days to consult its legal team

Video streaming platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video have recently faced a barrage of complaints around promoting obscenity or hurting religious sentiments in India a key growth market

HEALTH amp SCIENCE9

INTERNATIONAL NEWSIndia Bulletin

NEW DELHI - Indiarsquos new oversight of digital news platforms is drawing protest from the media industry and activists who fear the rules will curb press freedom in the worldrsquos largest democracy

India which has one of the worldrsquos biggest and most diverse media industries last month an-nounced the Intermediary Guide-lines and Digital Media Ethics Code aimed at pushing Big Tech fi rms such as Facebook to com-ply with content takedown orders However it also extends to news websites

The rules impose a three-tier regulatory mechanism requir-ing a grievance offi cer to resolve complaints and a government panel to have broad oversight The most senior government offi cial in the information and broadcast-ing ministry will also have emer-gency powers to order content be blocked

Media executives fear such oversight could lead to censor-ship of content seen as critical of

the government and three digi-tal news outlets have approached state courts

ldquoTheserules will signify the death of media independence in Indiardquo said Siddharth Varadara-jan editor of independent news website lsquoThe Wirersquo Its publisher has challenged the regulation in the Delhi High Court

LiveLaw a legal news web-site has challenged the rules in the Kerala High Court which this week said no coercive ac-tion should be taken against the website for non-compliance

The government says the new rules are aimed at achieving par-ity between digital media and print and TV news regulations Refer-ring to the rules for digital me-dia information and broadcasting minister Prakash Javadekar last month said ldquoevery freedom has to be responsible freedomrdquo

The number of online media outlets in India has increased in recent years but some journalists have complained they face intimi-

Indiarsquos digital media regulation sparks fears of curbs on press freedomdation for reporting stories critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his administration

Modirsquos administration says it favours press freedom

ldquoI think these rules will restrict and constrain press freedom as indeed freedom more gener-allyrdquo said Zoya Hasan a former professor of political science at New Delhirsquos Jawaharlal Nehru University

ldquoThis whole regulation is about control of digital media and other platforms as therersquos little tolerance for dissenting voicesrdquo

US think tank Freedom House recently said Modi and his party are driving India toward ldquoauthori-tarianismrdquo adding political rights and civil liberties had deteriorated since he came to power in 2014 The government called the re-port ldquomisleading incorrect and misplacedrdquo

On Thursday Javadekar said on Twitter that a group represent-ing leading newspapers and TV channels had welcomed the new

regulation and asked that their members ldquobe treated diff erentlyrdquo from digital-only news publishers

That has drawn criticism from

some smaller digital news outlets which have questioned why they are being ignored while seeking exemptions

Indiarsquos new oversight of digital news platforms is drawing protest from the media industry and activists who fear the rules will curb press freedom in the worldrsquos largest democracy

Saturday March 20 2021

India activist breaks silence on sedition arrest says she felt lsquoviolatedrsquo

By Alasdair Pal

NEW DELHI - An Indian climate activist linked to Greta Thunberg said she felt ldquoviolat-edrdquo by her arrest last month on sedition charges and her treat-ment by the media her fi rst comments on a case that sparked international criticism

Disha Ravi a 22-year-old vegan and member of Thun-bergrsquos Fridays for Future move-ment was charged in February over an online document about months-long protests by Indian farmers

Ten days after her arrest and following widespread criti-cism a court in Indiarsquos capital New Delhi granted her bail citing ldquoscanty and sketchy evi-dencerdquo that she was involved in

fomenting violenceldquoI had coerced myself into be-

lieving that the only way I would be able to live through this was by tricking myself into thinking that this wasnrsquot happening to merdquo Ravi said in a statement

ldquoMy actions were pronounced

guilty - not in the court of law but on fl at screensrdquo

Police say the document Ravi created stoked violence on Jan 26 Indiarsquos Republic Day when some protesting farmers broke free of a planned march and clashed with police

Angry at new agricultural laws they say benefi t large pri-vate buyers at the expense of growers tens of thousands of farmers have been camped on the outskirts of New Delhi since late last year

Swedish climate activist Thunberg popstar Rihanna and US activist Meena Harris the niece of Vice President Kamala Harris all tweeted in support of the protests last month drawing a rebuke from Indiarsquos foreign ministry

India frets over wastage of lsquoelixir-likersquo COVID-19 vaccinesNEW DELHI - About 65

of coronavirus vaccine doses in India are going to waste health offi cials said on Wednesday urging states to manage their im-munisation drives better to opti-mise use of what one called ldquothis elixir-like precious commodityrdquo

One reason for the wastage is that while many urban vaccina-tion centres have been crowded some rural sites have had to nudge people to get shots due to a lack of awareness among the public which can lead to vaccine wastage

Once a vaccine vial is opened doses need to be administered within four hours making it vital for health workers to coordinate the fl ow of recipients

The federal health ministry has distributed 754 million vac-cine doses to Indiarsquos states of which some 36 million doses

have so far been used India is using the AstraZeneca shot and another developed at home by Bharat Biotech

The government did not say how many doses had been wast-ed but the percentage fi gure suggests it could be more than 2 million a big number given that many countries have yet to start inoculating their citizens and India itself is only immunising priority groups

ldquoWastage of this elixir-like precious commodity the most important thing now for an indi-vidual or the country as a whole is absolutely wrongrdquo top health offi cial Vinod Kumar Paul told a news conference

The large states of Telan-gana Andhra Pradesh and Ut-tar Pradesh have seen wastage of 9-18 the government said

Disha Ravi

By Aftab Ahmedand Sankalp Phartiyal

NEW DELHI - India is likely to block its mobile carriers from using telecom equipment made by Chinarsquos Huawei two govern-ment officials said under pro-curement rules due to come into force in June

New Delhi is wary about awarding new technology busi-ness to Chinese firms both be-cause of security fears and a desire to get Indian manufactur-

ers to produce more telecoms equipment

A US campaign to curb Huawei has triggered bans or limits on the use of its equip-ment around the world but the situation in India has been amplified by strained rela-tions between New Delhi and Beijing over their shared border

Indiarsquos telecoms department said last Wednesday that after June 15 carriers can only buy certain types of equipment from

government-approved ldquotrusted sourcesrdquo and said New Delhi could also create a ldquono procure-mentrdquo blacklist Huawei is likely to feature on this embargoed list the two officials who declined to be named told Reuters

ldquoWe cannot prioritise econom-ic gains if an investment poses national security riskrdquo one of the officials said

The telecoms department which did not comment last Thursday about Huawei is yet to provide further details on the plans for trusted sources or a procurement blacklist

However a third official who also declined to be named told

Reuters that ZTE Corp another Chinese firm which has a smaller presence in India could also be excluded

Huawei and ZTE are un-der scrutiny for allegedly in-stalling ldquobackdoorrdquo vulner-abilities to spy for the Chinese government

Both have denied the allega-tions and Huawei has previously told Reuters it is ready to enter into a ldquono backdoorrdquo deal with India to allay security concerns

Huawei and ZTE did not im-mediately respond to requests for comment

Two of Indiarsquos three big tele-coms carriers Bharti Airtel and

Vodafone Idea use Huawei gear Any restriction on Huawei gear is likely to push up costs industry analysts say

The Chinese firmrsquos equipment and network maintenance con-tracts are typically cheaper than European competitors such as Ericsson and Nokia and there is limited availability of such gear in India

India has begun to fast-track approvals of some of the more than 150 Chinese investment proposals worth over $2 billion it had put on hold after a June standoff between the two neigh-bours on the disputed Himalayan border

India likely to block Chinarsquos Huawei over security fears officials

India Bulletin

India is likely to block its mobile carriers from using telecom equipment made by Chinarsquos Huawei two government officials said under procurement rules due to come into force in June UKrsquos Johnson to visit India at

end of April as part of policy lsquotiltrsquoLONDON - PM Boris Johnson

will visit India at the end of April in what will be his first major in-ternational trip after Britainrsquos exit from the European Union as part of efforts to boost UK opportuni-ties in the region his office said

Johnson had planned an Indian trip in January as part of efforts to speed up trade talks between the two nations but was forced to cancel amid a surge of COVID-19

infections at homeAt the time his office said he

had hoped to rearrange the visit before Britain hosted the meet-ing of leaders from the Group of Seven rich nations in June which Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is due to attend as a visitor

Johnsonrsquos government said it would ldquotiltrdquo its focus towards the Indo-Pacific region as part of its Integrated Review of government

policy for the coming years say-ing the area increasingly repre-sented the geopolitical centre of the world

Last month Britain made a for-mal request to join the Compre-hensive and Progressive Agree-ment for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) seeking membership of the 11-country bloc to open new avenues for post-Brexit trade and influence

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INTERNATIONAL NEWS

HEALTH amp SCIENCE11India BulletinSaturday March 20 2021

ADVERTORIAL

ldquoJAINISM A Resilient Path to Peacerdquo

The Federation of Jain Asso-ciations in North America (JAI-NA) will be celebrating its 21st Convention on the Fourth of July weekend mdash from July 1st to 6th 2021 Every two years this premier event brings together members of the Jain Community from across the world This year the virtual event is planned to be a global event and is expected to attract an even larger audience from the USA Canada India UK Australia UAE and many other countries

In face of all the turbulence throughout the world in the last year it is paramount for us to be vigilant compassionate tolerant and to ldquokeep the faithrdquo Jain-ism one of the ancient minor-ity religions has thrived worse than the pandemic based on its wisdom of Maitri (Amity) in-terdependence and honoring and respecting life at any cost The Convention will showcase our firm belief that spirituality enables us to sustain our sense of self and purpose through be-liefs principles values and morals Hence the theme for this yearrsquos Convention is ldquoJAINISM A Resilient Path to Peacerdquo

Convention Convener and First Vice President of JAINA Mr Haresh Shah of Delaware proudly shared that the attendee response has been overwhelming with more than 5000 registra-tions as of this writing Conven-tion Co-Convener and JAINA President Mr Mahesh Wadher of Los Angeles expressed his grati-tude for 100+ volunteers across 23 teams working day and night as ONE TEAM to make this convention the most memorable ever Convention Co-Convener Mr Bindesh Shah mentioned that the Convention will feature a state-of-the-art user-friend-ly and interactive conference platform with many features such as an online Main Hall 6 Breakout Rooms 4 Competi-tion Rooms and an Exhibition Hall

Enlightening discourses dis-cussion tracks and activities planned at this Convention will offer attendees a deeper under-standing of Jain principles and values while also helping the community with a roadmap to bounce back Youth participa-tion through JAINArsquos affiliate organizations Young Jains of America (YJA) Young Jain Pro-fessionals (YJP) as well as Jain

Announcing JAINA Convention 2021 July 1-6 2021Connect will be strongly pro-moted and encouraged There will be focused programs for all age groups children (ages 5-12) youth (ages 13-20) Jain Networking Forum (ages 21-29) and adults

Other featured events include the popular Jain Academic Bowl (JAB) a jeopardy style vo-cabulary game in which young Jains compete with other teams Jains Got Talent (JGT) and Vir-tual Tirthdham Darshan ndash A nar-rated Tirth Yatra of 12 major Jain Tirth of India broadcast live

Public Relations and Media Committee Chair Mr Vipul Shah of Chicago proudly con-firmed that spiritual dignitar-ies such as Acharya Ratna-sundersuri Maharaj Saheb Acharya Shri Mahashramanji Rashtrasant Gurudev Shree Namramuni Pramansagarji Maharaj Sadhvi Charitraarth Prabhaji and many others will enlighten us with their wisdom during the Convention Acharya Lokesh Muniji Acharya Chan-danaji and Bhattarak Charuke-ertiji will bless the Convention with their Ashirwad speeches While Gurudevshri Rakeshbhai Jhaveri will give the keynote

address other featured speakers include Shri Deepakbhai Desai Shri Gyanvatsal Swami Brahma Kumari Sister Shivani and Dr Veerendra Heggade The line-up of other prominent and inspi-rational speakers includes Dr Christopher Miller Dr Steven Southwick Rahul Kapoor Jain Motilal Oswal Dr Kumarpal Desai Dr Bipin Doshi and Dr Bimal Chajjer

The daily sessions and discus-sions will be well-complement-ed by refreshing Cultural Pro-grams in the evening including Jain Drama Rang De Sanskar - a high caliber humorous Hindi drama with famous actors amp an immense cast Jains Got Talent (JGT) and entertaining cultural performances from across the world A special Bollywood Musical ldquoSunheri Yaadeinrdquo will take us back 40 years of melodi-ous music to celebrate 40 Years Anniversary of JAINA

JAINA convention 2021 is an

invitation to all who aspire for a peaceful resilient recovery from the pandemic and to reweave the delicate fabric of humanity Since opening the registration on January 9th over 5000 at-tendees have already registered for the convention Come join us with our collective wisdom we will dream and create a non-violent future of Love Peace and Collaboration Your pres-ence and participation will help us ground in interconnection and solidarity and walk with you on the resilient path to peace we build together

For additional information about this convention and to register please visit us online at wwwjainaconventionorg

For Further Information please contact Mr Vipul Shah Chair of Public Relations and Press-Media Committee of JAINA Convention 2021 or its Co-Chair Mr Rahul Jain at prjainaorg

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Bollywood BeatDJ Aqeel and Farah Ali Khan are done

with their marriage

Actor Hrithik Roshanrsquos ex-wife Sussane Khanrsquos sister jewellery designer Farah Khan Ali has taken to social media to announce her separation from husband DJ Aqeel after 22 years of marriage In a lengthy post she spoke about how two people grow apart at times and that there is no bad bloodbetween them

The statement read ldquoSome-times two people grow apart Sometimes they outgrow each other It has been 9 years since my relationship with my hus-band Aqeel changed its status as a couple to just friends and to term it simply would be to state that we are ldquoHappily Sepa-ratedrdquordquo

ldquoWe will always be best friends to each other and par-ents to our wonderful children Azaan and Fizaa who love us both equally yet accept that we cannot be a couple any longer This was a mutual decision we took together involving two adults and there wasnrsquot any third person involved The reason we are announcing it publicly now is so that the ones who know us accept our situation grace-fully and always wish well for both of us especially because we hold no animosity of any kind towards one another and will al-ways be there for each otherrdquo it further read

ldquoAqeel is and will always be my family as I will be his We hope that all our well-wishers will accept our deci-sion maturely and not judge us for itrdquo

Bahubali now planned on a budget of 200 crores as Netflix scraps the already shot version of 100 croresNetflix is easily amongst the richest

digital platforms of the world According to our highly placed sources Netfl ix has scrapped the already shot Rs 100 crore version of the Netfl ix Original Bahubali Before The Beginning and have already begun work on a new version of the show this time around on double the cost of Rs 200 crores

ldquoNetfl ix was not satisfi ed with the prod-uct they had in hand and hence decided to scrap it completely They reworked on the script star-cast and technical team and are now reshooting Bahubali Before The Beginning on a never seen before unheard scale for their streaming They see the po-tential in Bahubali of being Indiarsquos answer to Game of Thrones and hence they have decided to take things a notch higher The overall budget for the new part is Rs 200 crore and if we add the scrap value the project now is worth Rs 300 crorerdquo a trade

source told Bollywood HungamaItrsquos produced by SS Rajamouli with

Netflix and is planned as a 9 episode two season limited series showcasing the rise of Shivagami set in the world of Mahishmati Itrsquos said to be a prequel to

Bahubali While the original cast was to feature Mrunal Thakur as Shivagami we still await an update if she will continue to play the queen or has she been replaced by someone else in this revamped Rs 200 crore version of the franchise

Emraan Hashmi says it has been his dream to work with Salman Khan

Emraan Hashmi is being said to be roped in by the makers of the Tiger franchise starring Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif While the latter two will be reprising their roles and Tiger and Zoya in Tiger 3 Emraan Hashmi is being said to play the antagonist marking his fi rst collaboration with the two stars and Yash Raj Films Being

one of the most coveted actors of the industry Salman Khan un-doubtedly is one of the favourites for every celebrity

Speaking about joining the franchise Emraan said that he would love to work in the fran-chise and it has always been a dream for him to work with Salman Khan

In October last year actress Rhea Chakraborty was grant-ed bail by the Bombay High Court after spending nearly two months in judicial cus-tody Her bail has now been challenged in the Supreme Court by the Narcotics Control Bureau(NCB) The case will be heard on Thursday

Rhea Chakraborty was sent to judicial custody last year for drug related charges in the death of her actor boyfriend Sushant Singh Rajput She was granted bail on the condi-tion that she submit a Rs 1 lakh bond and not leave the country without the permission of the court

Rhea Chakrabortyrsquos bail challenged in theSupreme Court by NCB

UNKNOWN FACTS ABOUTBOLLYWOODCELEBRITIES

Aamir Khanrsquos full name is Mohammed Aamir

Hussain Khan Despite being from the fi lm

industry Aamirrsquos parents were not keen on him entering Bollywood In 1984 Aamir worked in

his fi rst ever feature fi lm titled Holi

Very few people are aware of the fact that Kareena Kapoor gave her voice to the song Jab Nahi Aaye for the

fi lm Dev Kareena played a lead role in

the fi lm Unfortunately the movie didnrsquot do well

at the box-offi ce

Bollywood TriviaWhich actress debuted in

the fi lm lsquoKedarnathrsquo

Answer 1

1) Sara Ali Khan2) Katrina Kaif3) Tara Sutaria4) Ananya PandeyWho is the mother of actress

Janhvi Kapoor

Answer 3

1) Kareena2) Karisma3) Sridevi4) Madhuri

12 India Bulletin Saturday March 20 2021

ENTERTAINMENT

Bollywood Beat

The Brihanmumbai Mu-nicipal Corporation (BMC) revealed on their social media page that they have filed an FIR (First information report) against a Bollywood actor for not adhering to Covid-19 guidelines despite testing posi-tive for the deadly virus They even uploaded a picture of the FIR but the name of the celeb-rity was blurred Immediately it led people to speculate who the actor could be

However it has now come to light that the actor in question is Gauahar Khan As per the complaint filed at Oshiwara po-lice station a BMC officer has said that on the night of March 14 he was informed that Gaua-har Khan has tested positive for Coronavirus and yet shersquos not ready to get quarantined Hence the officer reached Gau-ahar Khanrsquos residence but she refused to open the door Later her husband answered from the flat and allegedly shouted at the BMC team

The complainant further states that the actress alleg-edly went out of her house for a shoot Hence the officer claims that she has exposed people to the deadly virus and thus contributed to itrsquos spread

As per a news report S Chai-tanya DCP (operations) and PRO of Mumbai Police has stated that Gauahar Khan has been charged under Sections 188 269 270 of the IPC 51B of NDMA Act 3 of Epidemic Diseases Act

BMC files FIR against

Gauahar Khan

Upcoming FilmsThalaivi

Kangana Ranautand Vijay Deverakonda

RadheSalman Khan

Disha Patani Jackie Shroff and Randeep Hooda

83Ranveer Singh

and Deepika Padukone

Atrangi ReAkshay Kumar Sara Ali Khanand Dhanush

MaidaanAjay Devgn Priyamani

and Keerthy Suresh

Bachchan PandeyAkshay Kumar Bobby Deol

and Riteish Deshmukh

Bell BottomAkshay Kumar Vaani Kapoor Huma Qureshi and Lara Dutta

Satyameva Jayate 2John Abraham Manoj Bajpai

and Divya Khosla Kumar

BrahmastraRanbir Kapoor Alia Bhatt and

Amitabh Bachchan

MOVIE REVIEW

Itrsquos been almost a year when theatres were asked to shut down due to rapid rise in the cases of Coronavirus in the country Two of the films play-ing in theatres at that point were Angrezi Medium produced by Dinesh Vijan and Kaamyaab directed by Hardik Mehta In an interesting turn of events Roohi the film that releases today and kickstarts the movie-watching season in cinemas is helmed by both these personalities So does Roohi manage to enter-tain and enthral the audiences Or does it fail to entice Letrsquos analyse

Roohi is the story of a pos-sessed girl Bhawra Pandey (Rajkummar Rao) and Kattanni Qureshi (Varun Sharma) work as crime journalists in a small town Baagadpur They also specialise in lsquopakdaai shaadirsquo aka bride kidnapping an accepted custom in Baagadpur One day their boss Guniya Shakeel (Manav Vij) orders them to kidnap a girl Roohi (Janhvi Kapoor) from a nearby town Mujaribaad Bhawra and Kattanni manage to kidnap Roohi while she is with her father (Rajesh Jais) As per the lsquopakdaai shaadirsquo custom af-ter the girl is kidnapped she is straight away taken to the mar-

riage venue Bhawra and Kat-tanni are also supposed to fol-low suit with Roohi But after the kidnap takes place Guniya calls them and tells them that the groomrsquos uncle has passed away suddenly Hence the mar-riage will now take place after a week Till then Bhawra and Kattanni are told to keep her as a hostage in an abandoned property in the hills of Ambiya-pur On the first night Bhawra goes to offer dinner to Roohi only to realize that she is pos-sessed Kattanni at first doesnrsquot believe but later even he sees the possessed side of Roohi However instead of being frightened Kattanni falls for the possessed Roohi Bhawra on the other hand is in love with the non-possessed Roohi He decides to help her and get the witch out of her body Kattanni however is averse to the idea as loves the possessed Roohi and if Bhawra succeeds the witch will leave Roohi forever What hap-pens next forms the rest of the film

Mrighdeep Singh Lamba and Gautam Mehras story is inter-esting and novel The writers try their best to bring some-thing new to the table Mrigh-deep Singh Lamba and Gautam Mehras screenplay however is interesting only in parts A few scenes are exceptional and bring the house down But the serious portions donrsquot make the desired impact Mrigh-deep Singh Lamba and Gautam Mehras dialogues are witty But the dialect is too authentic and is incomprehensible at many places

Roohi starts off on an interest-ing note depicting the concept of bride kidnapping in Baagad-pur that too through the eyes of a foreign reporter (Alexx ONell) The film gets better once Bhawra and Kattanni kid-nap Roohi and set base at the spooky abandoned factory The scene where Bhawra narrates about the possessed Roohi to

Kattanni is sure to raise laughs The scene where Kattanni in-stead of running away falls for the possessed Roohi is unique and unexpected It will bring smiles on the faces of the view-ers The interval comes at an in-teresting juncture Post-interval the film begins to fall but a few scenes especially of the marriage with the dog and Bhawrarsquos con-versation with the old lady (Sar-ita Joshi) add to the humour and madness The climax though unpredictable is disappointing

Talking of performances Ra-jkummar Rao is in his element as expected Due to his adorable performance one doesnrsquot hate him even though hersquos playing a kidnapper in the film And his comic timing is spot-on espe-cially in the scenes where hersquos running away from the possessed Roohi Janhvi Kapoor is a big surprise She hardly has any dia-logues but gets her act right with her expressions And she also is convincing as the witch Varun Sharma is marvellous and man-ages to raise laughs In the last 30 minutes however he doesnrsquot have much to do Manav Vij suits the part and his performance is

fair Sarita Joshi (credited in the film as Padma Shri Sarita Joshi) is hilarious and one wish-es that she had a longer screen time Alexx ONell is lovely Rajesh H Jais Anurag Arora (Tantrik) Sumit Gulati (Paras Roohirsquos groom in the end) are okay

Sachin-Jigars music is ap-propriate for the film and itrsquos theme Kiston comes suddenly but is soulful Bhootni is hilari-ous while Panghat is played in the end credits Nadiyon Paar is attached with the filmrsquos print be-fore the film starts It is the best song of the lot and well shot One wishes if it was a part of the filmrsquos narrative Ketan Sodhas background score is well wo-ven and also contributes to the horror quotient

On the whole Roohi rests on a unique concept fine perfor-mances and some interesting funny and horror sequences However the disappointing climax and difficult-to-under-stand dialect might affect the filmrsquos prospects at the box office

BannerMaddock Films

Jio Studios

ProducerDinesh Vijan

Mrighdeep Singh Lamba

DirectorHardik Mehta

StarringRajkummar RaoVarun SharmaJanhvi Kapoor

Music BySachin-Jigar

Released DateMarch 11 2021

Roohi

Rating

Celebrity BirthdaysMarch 21stRani Mukerji (1978)

March 23rdKangana Ranaut (1987)

March 24thEmraan Hashmi (1979)

March 25thYograj Singh (1958)

March 26thPrakash Raj (1965)

April 3rdPrabhu Deva (1973)

April 4thLisa Ray (1972)Simran Bagga (1976)

March 28thAkshaye Khanna(1975) Sandhya Mridul (1975)

March 30thNagesh Kukunoor (1967)

April 2ndAjay Devgn (1969) Kapil Sharma (1981)

13India BulletinSaturday March 20 2021

ENTERTAINMENT

Biz Briefs

Apple Inc has started the as-sembly of iPhone 12 in India the US tech giant said as the com-pany ramps up manufacturing operations in the worldrsquos sec-ond-biggest smartphone market

ldquoWe are proud to be starting production of iPhone 12 in India for our local customersrdquo Apple said in a statement without naming the supplier making the smartphone

The Indian unit of Applersquos Taiwanese contract manufac-turer Foxconn will assemble the device in its plant in southern Tamil Nadu state two sources familiar with the matter said

Foxconn did not immediately respond to a request for com-ment but has previously said it does not comment on client-specifi c work

Poscorsquos steel plant in India

faces disruption Operations at South Korean

steelmaker Poscorsquos plant in the Indian state of Maharashtra have been disrupted due to local pro-tests over labour and other issues police and sources told Reuters hampering the supply chain for automakers

A local politician leading the protests said they have blocked employees and goods from enter-ing the plant and will continue until Posco heeds to some of their requests which include giv-ing employment preference to lo-cal workers raising the wages of temporary employees and making them permanent

Reuters could not indepen-dently verify the extent of the production disruption at Poscorsquos plant

Apple starts iPhone 12 assem-

bly in India

HEALTH amp SCIENCEBUSINESS14 India Bulletin Saturday March 20 2021

By Nidhi Verma

NEW DELHI - India and the UAE on Wednesday discussed ways to strengthen energy coop-eration Indiarsquos oil minister Dhar-mendra Pradhan said despite the South Asian nation asking its re-fi ners to reduce their reliance on Middle Eastern oil

ldquo(We) discussed about new ar-eas of cooperation in the hydro-carbon sector and beyond and agreed to remain committed de-spite the challenges presented by Covid pandemicrdquo Pradhan said on Twitter after a virtual meeting with Sultan Al Jaber the chief executive of Abu Dhabi National Oil Co (ADNOC)

UAE is a key oil supplier to India and a partner in an Indian joint venture that plans to build a 12 million barrels per day (bpd) refi nery and petrochemical com-plex on the countryrsquos west coast

Last month the UAE was the

fi fth biggest oil supplier to In-dia which itself is the worldrsquos third biggest oil importer and consumer

Pradhan said he also discussed with Jaber ways of strengthen-ing and ldquoproviding momentum to (the) bilateral strategic en-ergy partnershiprdquo between the countries

India imports more than 80 of its oil needs a signifi cant amount of which comes from the Middle East

New Delhi has however asked refi ners to gradually reduce oil imports from the Middle East and diversify supplies after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its al-lies known as OPEC+ decided to extend most curbs into April

India has been hit hard by rising oil prices due to which minister Pradhan has repeatedly called on OPEC+ to ease supply curbs and has blamed Saudi Ara-

India and UAE vow to strengthen energy cooperation says minister

biarsquos voluntary cuts for contribut-ing to a spike in global oil prices

Responding to Pradhanrsquos re-quest Saudi Arabiarsquos energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman suggested India dip into strategic reserves fi lled with cheaper oil bought last year

The UAErsquos ADNOC is the only foreign company to which India has leased a part of it strategic petroleum reserves India does not allow the export of oil but has given permission to ADNOC to export part of its oil in Mangalore SPR in southern India

Tesla in talks with Indiarsquos Tata Power for EV charging infrastructure

BENGALURU - Tesla Inc is exploring an arrangement with Indian conglomerate Tata Sonsrsquo power generation unit Tata Pow-er to set up charging infrastruc-ture for electric vehicles in the country CNBC-TV18 reported citing sources

Shares of Tata Power rose 55 to their best closing level since June 2014 after the report which comes as the Palo Alto-based electric-car maker gears up for an India launch later this year with plans to import and sell its Model 3 electric sedan

Tesla will set up an electric-car manufacturing unit in the southern Indian state of Karna-taka according to a government document seen by Reuters

Indiarsquos Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan

The talks between Tata Power and Tesla are in the initial stages and no arrangements have been

fi nalised yet the report saidTata Powerrsquos electric vehicle

charging business constantly

explores growth opportunities but has not fi nalised any new agreements the company said in a statement to stock exchanges It also said the CNBC-TV 18 report was ldquofactually incorrectrdquo but did not elaborate

Tesla was not immediately available for comment

In January the US electric-car maker incorporated Tesla Motors India and Energy Private Ltd with its registered offi ce in the southern city of Bengaluru a hub for global technology companies

Tata Motors Ltd the carmak-ing unit of Tata Sons last week denied any tie-up with Tesla af-ter media reports suggested the two companies were discussing a partnership

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BUSINESSIndia Bulletin

By Aftab Ahmed and Nupur Anand

NEW DELHIMUMBAI - In-dia will propose a law banning cryptocurrencies fi ning anyone trading in the country or even holding such digital assets a senior government offi cial told

Reuters in a potential blow to millions of investors piling into the red-hot asset class

The bill one of the worldrsquos strictest policies against cryp-tocurrencies would criminalise possession issuance mining trading and transferring crypto-assets said the offi cial who has

India to propose cryptocurrency ban penalising miners tradersdirect knowledge of the plan

The measure is in line with a January government agenda that called for banning private vir-tual currencies such as bitcoin while building a framework for an offi cial digital currency But recent government comments had raised investorsrsquo hopes that

the authorities might go easier on the booming market

Instead the bill would give holders of cryptocurrencies up to six months to liquidate after which penalties will be levied said the offi cial who asked not to be named as the contents of the bill are not public

Offi cials are confi dent of get-ting the bill enacted into law as Prime Minister Narendra Modirsquos government holds a comfortable majority in parliament

If the ban becomes law India would be the fi rst major econo-my to make holding cryptocur-rency illegal Even China which has banned mining and trading

does not penalise possessionThe Finance Ministry did not

immediately respond to an email seeking comment

Bitcoin the worldrsquos biggest cryptocurrency hit a record high $60000 last Saturday nearly doubling in value this year as its acceptance for payments has in-creased with support from such high-profi le backers as Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk

In India despite government threats of a ban transaction vol-umes are swelling and 8 million investors now hold 100 billion rupees ($14 billion) in crypto-investments according to indus-try estimates No offi cial data is available

US becomes Indiarsquos second biggest oil supplier Saudi plunges to No 4

By Nidhi Verma

NEW DELHI - The United States overtook Saudi Arabia as Indiarsquos second biggest oil sup-plier after Iraq last month as refi ners boosted cheaper US crude purchases to record levels to off set OPEC+ supply cuts data from trade sources showed

The switch in supplies trig-gered by lower US crude de-mand coincided with Saudi Ara-biarsquos voluntary extra 1 million barrel per day (bpd) output cut on top of an agreement by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies (OPEC+) to maintain lower pro-duction

Indiarsquos imports from the United

States - the worldrsquos top producer - rose 48 to a record 545300 bpd in February from the prior month accounting for 14 of Indiarsquos overall imports last month the data obtained by Reuters showed

In contrast February imports from Saudi Arabia fell by 42 from January to a decade low of 445200 bpd the data showed Saudi Arabia which has consis-tently been one of Indiarsquos top two suppliers slipped to No 4 for the fi rst time since at least January 2006

Indiarsquos oil import data by coun-try from before 2006 is not avail-able to Reuters

ldquoUS demand was weak and refi neries were running at low rates so the US crude had to

go somewhere and Asia is the region which has seen rapid de-mand recoveryrdquo said Refi nitiv analyst Ehsan Ul Haq

ldquoChina has not been taking US oil because of (the) trade problem so India is the obvious choicerdquo he said

Iraq continued to be the top oil seller to India despite a 23 drop in purchases to a fi ve-month low of 867500 bpd the data showed

The UAE slipped to fi fth posi-tion from third in January while Nigeria rose to third from fi fth exporting 472300 bpd the most since Oct 2019

India shipped in 392 million bpd of oil in February a decline of 18 from January the data showed

India will propose a law banning cryptocurrencies fi ning anyone trading in the country or even holding such digital assets a senior government offi cial told Re-uters in a potential blow to millions of investors piling into the red-hot asset class

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Aries (March 21 to April 20)Someone will always be prettier Someone will always be smarter Someone will always be younger But they will never be you Itrsquos this ability to understand your uniqueness which will help you steer forward in an otherwise difficult week

Taurus (April 21 to May 21)When a storm is coming all other birds seek shelter The eagle alone avoids the storm by flying above it So in the storms of life be like an eagle and soar above your problems Keep your love life on top priority and everything else will fall into place with time

Gemini (May 22 to June 21)Life is not happening to you Life is responding to you The things you do the decisions you take the people you love or the people you hate they all make you into who you are

Cancer (June 22 to July 22)Sadness does not come from bad circumstances It comes from bad thoughts Although the circumstances are mixed around you you will have a tendency to make a mountain out of a mole hill

Leo (July 23 to August 22)Every time we get what we thought we wanted we realise that we want more This race towards more - more money more power more of everything is taking a toll on your energy level

Virgo (August 23 to September 23)One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness usually it comes back to you While your hard work is fruc-tifying now do not let the success take you away from compassion

Libra (September 24 to October 23)Best friends are like stars You donrsquot always see them but you know they are always there This week you will be in a nostalgic mood and miss good old times and old friends Rather than thinking about it pick up the phone and talk to friends you have not spoken in years or take a friend out on a cappuccino trip

Scorpio (October 24 to November 22)Learn to make peace with your past or else your future will become a constant battle that yoursquoll never win The highlight of the week will be letting go of things forgiving people forgetting wrong-doings and moving on in life

Sagittarius (November 23 to December 21)Chaos in the midst of chaos isnrsquot funny but chaos in the midst of order is Probably one of the toughest week this month wherein there will be a lot of confusion and haze around Advice Do not take stress

Capricorn (December 22 to January 20)Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realise you havenrsquot fallen asleep yet Thatrsquos the kind of nights you might witness this week owing to unforeseen issues and hurdles Your discipline and organisational skills will steer you forward and transform these hurdles into opportunities Aquarius (January 21 to February 19)Women get the last word in every argument Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument This is not the week for you to get into any arguments as it might jeopardise your frame of mind

Pisces (February 20 to March 20)Find out who you are and be that person Thatrsquos what your soul was put on this Earth to be Find that truth live that truth and everything else will come The week will be about introspection spirituality and matters related to the soul

WEEKLY HOROSCOPE(March 28 - April 3 2021)

HEALTH amp SCIENCEASTROLOGYIndia Bulletin

8 things AARP wants you to know before your second COVID-19 vaccine

If yoursquove already received your first dose of a two-dose COVID-19 vaccine congratulations - yoursquore well on your way to being protect-ed from the coronavirus But to be fully immunized itrsquos critical to get that second shot

William Schaffner MD an infectious diseases specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville Tennessee and medical director of the Nation-al Foundation for Infectious Dis-eases says ldquoWe have told every-one these vaccines are 95 percent effectiverdquo of the two-dose Moder-na and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines currently in use in the US ldquoBut theyrsquore only 95 percent effective if you indeed get that second doserdquo

Here are a few more things to know about the second dose

1 Your side effects will likely be stronger

Many people who had little to no reaction to the first vaccine dose are reporting that the second one packs a punch mdash surprising even those who study vaccines for a liv-ing

Greg Poland MD an infec-tious disease expert at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota and director of Mayorsquos vaccine re-search group had only mild symp-toms after his first dose But the second one left him shaking - liter-ally - with chills and a temperature of 101

ldquoI took one Tylenol and went to bed and woke up the next morning 90 percent improved and by mid-day I was back to normalrdquo Poland says ldquoThis is not an indication of something going wrong it is an indication of a vigorous immune responserdquo

There is no live virus in the vac-cine so you canrsquot get COVID-19 from being vaccinated

Participants in clinical trials of both vaccines had experiences similar to Polandrsquos In Pfizerrsquos clinical trial for instance 31 per-cent of participants ages 18 to 55 reported a fever after the second dose compared to only 8 percent after the first one Fatigue chills headache and musclejoint pain were also more common after the second injection for both vaccines

The good news is older adults were less likely to experience vac-cine reactions the data shows Among those age 55 and up in the Pfizer trial 22 percent experienced fever after the second dose and 3 percent had a temperature after the first dose

Schaffner recommends not making any big plans for the day after your scheduled vaccine appointment

2 You should avoid taking pain relievers before your shot

If yoursquove been hearing sto-ries about second-dose side ef-fects you may be tempted to take a pain reliever before your appointment

Thatrsquos not a good idea accord-ing to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) unless yoursquove been advised to do so by your doctor Pain relievers taken preemptively ahead of a shot could dampen the effective-ness of the vaccine Poland and Schaffner say

However itrsquos OK to take ac-etaminophen (Tylenol) or a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug like Advil or Motrin after your vaccine to treat side effects such as pain fever chills or headache

3 The timing between doses doesnrsquot need to be exact

The second dose of the Pfiz-er shot is supposed to be giv-en 21 days after the first for Moderna the recommended interval between doses is 28 days

However if you canrsquot get an appointment on the exact day mdash or if you have to miss your scheduled appointment for some reason mdash the CDC does allow some wiggle room Although the agency recommends trying to stick to the suggested interval it says the second dose can be given up to six weeks after the first

If your appointment is sched-uled earlier than the recommend-ed date ask for a later appoint-ment Schaffner advises ldquoYour immune response will work perfectly well if you take more timerdquo he says ldquoBut if you do it too early the second dose may not invoke an optimal responserdquo

4 Your second dose should be from the same manufacturer as your first

Doctors are already hearing from patients asking if they can get their second dose from a dif-ferent manufacturer often be-cause they realize the other type of vaccine is offered at a location thatrsquos more convenient But the CDC recommends against it The Moderna and Pfizer vaccines ldquoare not interchangeable with each other or with other COVID-19 vaccine productsrdquo the CDC says ldquoThe safety and efficacy of a mixed-product series have not been evaluatedrdquo

5 A rash at the injection site isnrsquot a reason to skip your second dose

If you experienced a rash at the injection site three to 10 days

after getting your first shot that doesnrsquot preclude you from getting your second shot the CDC says although it recommends getting it in the other arm

A small number of people have developed such rashes some-times called ldquoCOVID armrdquo af-ter vaccination Doctors say itrsquos likely a mild allergic reaction that can be treated with an over-the-counter antihistamine such as Benadryl

6 You should temporarily avoid all other vaccines

It might be time for your shin-gles or Tdap vaccine but you should hold off if you are between COVID-19 vaccine doses Be-cause therersquos no data on the safety and efficacy of COVID vaccines administered at the same time as other vaccines the CDC recom-mends avoiding other immuniza-tions in the two weeks before and after both doses

7 Full immunity is not immediate

It takes two weeks after your second dose for your body to build full protection to the virus After that you should have al-most zero chance of developing severe disease if you are exposed to someone with COVID-19 Schaffner says The CDC also says you no longer have to quar-antine if yoursquore exposed to some-one with COVID-19 mdash as long as you meet these criteria you donrsquot have symptoms and it hasnrsquot been more than three months since your second vaccine dose

One possible exception is immunocompromised people Schaffner says They will get some level of immunity he says ldquobut they may not reach the 95 percent because their immune system is already somewhat com-promised no matter how strong these vaccines arerdquo

8 You still need to wear a maskExperts agree you should con-

tinue to wear a mask and practice social distancing in public For one thing therersquos a small chance you could get sick even after yoursquove been vaccinated

In addition itrsquos possible that you could still carry the virus and silently transmit it to others who havenrsquot been vaccinated even if you donrsquot develop symptoms

And therersquos one more reason Until the country reaches herd im-munity mdash the point when a signif-icant portion of the population be-comes immune to a disease mdash itrsquos important for everyone to wear a mask to stop the spread of the virus Schaffner says

Saturday March 20 2021

Biden All US adults to be eligible for vaccines by May

By Jeff Mason

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden told US states last Thursday to make all adults eligible for a coronavirus vaccine by May 1 and urged Americans to stay vigi-lant or face more restrictions hours after he signed a $19 trillion stimulus bill into law

In a forceful but somber speech from the White House on the fi rst anniversary of the pandemic lockdown Biden said if Ameri-cans pulled together there could be a great-er sense of normalcy - and some backyard barbecue parties with small groups - on the US Independence Day holiday on July 4

That date is a new goal for the president and a projection of hope amid a pandemic that has killed more than 530000 people in the United States the most of any country

To achieve his summer target Biden said he needed Americansrsquo help

ldquoIf we donrsquot stay vigilant and the con-ditions change then we may have to rein-state restrictions to get back on trackrdquo he said in an evening address from the White House his fi rst in television prime time since becoming president

ldquoWersquove made so much progress This is not the time to let up Just as we are emerging from a dark winter into a hope-ful spring and summer is not the time to not stick with the rulesrdquo he said

Republicans swiftly criticized Biden for his cautious approach ldquoWhat America needs now is to fully reopen our economy and our classroomsrdquo House of Represen-tatives Republican leader Kevin McCarthy said on Twitter

Biden said he was ordering US states territories and tribes to make all adults eli-gible to receive a coronavirus vaccine by May 1 The White House has said it would have enough vaccine supply to vaccinate the adult population by the end of May About 10 of Americans so far have been fully vaccinated

Administration offi cials said he would deploy 4000 more troops to help with the vaccine eff ort bringing the total number to 6000 The White House is also seeking to expand the pool of people able to adminis-ter shots to include dentists optometrists paramedics veterinarians and medical stu-dents

Biden campaigned last year on a prom-ise that he would tackle the pandemic more eff ectively than Republican Presi-dent Donald Trump and he has sought to encourage and model behavior such as mask-wearing that Trump eschewed

In his speech Biden took a swipe at his

predecessor by saying the virus was ini-tially met with ldquodenials for days weeks then months that led to more deaths more infections more stress more lonelinessrdquo

Biden said hate crimes and harassment against Asian Americans must stop Trump repeatedly referred to the disease as the ldquoChina virusrdquo

Biden also encouraged Americans to keep up mitigation eff orts - wearing masks keeping social distance and prac-ticing good hygiene - to stop the virus and its variants from spreading A number of states have been loosening restrictions

as Americans like many people around the world grow weary of pandemic life

ldquoPhotos and videos from 2019 feel like they were taken in another era The last vacation The last birthday with friends The last holiday with extended familyrdquo Biden said recounting the toll the virus has wrought

He said the country would come away from the crisis stronger ldquoWe faced and overcame one of the toughest and darkest periods in this nationrsquos history - darkest wersquove ever knownrdquo he said

Moderna begins study of COVID-19 vaccine in kids

Moderna Inc has begun dosing patients in a mid-to-late stage study of its COV-ID-19 vaccine mRNA-1273 in children aged six months to less than 12 years the company said on Tuesday

The study will assess the safety and ef-fectiveness of two doses of mRNA-1273 given 28 days apart and intends to enroll about 6750 children in the United States and Canada

The vaccine has already been au-thorized for emergency use in

Americans who are aged 18 and older

In a separate study which began in De-cember Moderna is also testing mRNA-1273 in adolescents between 12 and 18 years old

The latest study is being conducted in collaboration with the National Insti-tute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA)

Mother who lost only son to rare COVID complication warns parents to look for early signs

SANTIAGO - By the time doctors real-ized that Lorena Navarretersquos son had a rare complication of COVID-19 that affl icts some children it was too late to save her 16-year-old Emilio

Lorena a single mother who lives in the southern Chilean city of Puerto Montt told the TVN network that her music-loving and sociable son died about a week after he fi rst complained of feeling tired and of a pain in his legs in late January

Within days he had developed livid blotches on his skin a high fever vomiting and dark urine

Doctors at the cityrsquos hospital overrun with severe COVID cases repeatedly tested him for COVID but with the results coming back negative were at a loss as to what was wrong with him

By the time his illness was identifi ed as Multisystem Infl ammatory Syndrome in Children it was too late Lorena could not be at her sonrsquos bedside because of strict health protocols but a social worker called to pass on the message that her son loved

her very much She asked the social worker to tell her son she would see him soon and that his pets were well

ldquoA doctor said that if I had faith I should pray because my son was very illrdquo said Na-varrete who works as a nurse technician ldquoThey had a diagnosis and it was PIMSrdquo

Multisystem Infl ammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) as PIMS is more com-monly known is a rare life-threatening syndrome linked to COVID-19

It usually appears between two and six weeks after infection even in asymptomatic cases of COVID-19

It shares symptoms with toxic shock and Kawasaki disease including fever rashes swollen glands conjunctivitis and in severe cases heart infl ammation and can cause multiple organ failure It is not always fatal if caught and treated early

The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention said in January that it was inves-tigating whether COVID variants were in-creasing the number or severity of cases fol-lowing anecdotal reports from some states

US President Joe Biden

HEALTH amp SCIENCE17India Bulletin

HEALTH amp SCIENCE

Saturday March 20 2021

By Anthony Deutsch and Caroline Copley

AMSTERDAM - Global health experts came under in-creasing pressure on Tuesday to clear up questions over the safety of AstraZenecarsquos CO-VID-19 shot as Sweden and Latvia joined countries suspend-ing their use in a further blow to Europersquos vaccination rollout

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said it was

investigating reports of 30 cases of unusual blood disorders out of 5 million recipients of the As-traZeneca vaccine In total 45 million COVID shots have been delivered across the region

The EU regulator will release its findings on Thursday but its head Emer Cooke said she saw no reason to change its recom-mendation of AstraZeneca - one of four vaccines that it has approved for use

ldquoThe benefits continue to

outweigh the risks but this is a serious concern and it does need serious and detailed scientific evaluationrdquo Cooke told a news conference

A World Health Organization (WHO) committee of experts was reviewing the cases and was expected to issue a statement by the end of the day a spokesman said

The EUrsquos largest members - Germany France and Italy - suspended use of AstraZenecarsquos vaccine on Monday pending the outcome of investigations into unusual cases of a rare cerebral thrombosis in people who had received it

The addition of Sweden and Latvia on Tuesday brought to 13 the number of EU countries to act since reports first emerged of thromboembolisms affect-ing people after they got the AstraZeneca shot

The WHO and EMA had ear-lier joined AstraZeneca in say-ing there is no proven link but some experts said the episodes of blood clots bleeding and low platelet counts in younger people seemed to indicate a causal con-nection to the AstraZeneca shot

ldquoThe benefits of vaccination significantly outweigh the risks especially for the elderlyrdquo said Karl Lauterbach health spokes-man for Germanyrsquos Social Democratic Party

ldquoBut it could be the case that the risks of the vaccine are high-er for certain patient groups such as young womenrdquo Lauterbach an epidemiologist whose party is part of the Berlin coalition told Deutschlandfunk radio in an interview

Other epidemiologists note that similar cases have not been found in unusual num-bers in Britain which began using AstraZeneca earlier and has given more than 10 million doses

ldquoA very likely explanation of at least some of the clotting dis-orders seen are a result of CO-VID-19 rather than the vaccinerdquo said Stephen Evans professor of pharmacoepidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

ldquoThere are published papers that make clear that these prob-lems definitely occur in COV-ID-19 and there is no doubt that all the vaccines in use prevent

that disease Hence the risk and benefit balance for the AstraZen-eca vaccine remains clearly in favour of its benefitsrdquo

In the EUrsquos largest states in-cluding Germany France Italy the Netherlands and Spain As-traZeneca has accounted for about 13-15 of shots given since the rollout began almost three months ago with Pfizer-BioNTech making up the major-ity according to official data

As one as the cheapest to be developed the AstraZeneca shot is set to be the mainstay of vac-cination programmes in much of the developing world

Governments say they acted on the AstraZeneca shot out of an abundance of caution - of 16 million people in Germany given the vaccine seven fell ill with a very rare cerebral vein thrombosis of whom three died

In a detailed analysis of its findings Germanyrsquos vaccine oversight body the Paul Eh-rlich Institute said six of the cases were in women of young or middle age - a number statis-tically significantly higher than normally expected

Health experts pore over AstraZeneca safety data as Europe reels from vaccine suspensions

Global health experts came under increasing pressure on Tuesday to clear up questions over the safety of AstraZenecarsquos COVID-19 shot as Sweden and Latvia joined countries suspending their use in a further blow to Europersquos vaccination rollout

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India Bulletin Saturday March 20 2021

India Bulletin 19Saturday March 20 2021

Kishan Kohli help India level T20 series against England

AHMEDABAD - A belliger-ent 56 off 32 balls from India debutant Ishan Kishan and an unbeaten 73 from captain Virat Kohli helped the hosts to a com-manding seven-wicket win over England in the second Twenty20 International in Ahmedabad on Sunday

Kishan 22 smashed leg-spinner Adil Rashid for two con-secutive sixes to get past fifty as India made short work of a 165-run target to win with 13 balls to spare and level the five-match

series at 1-1Indiarsquos chase of Englandrsquos

164-6 got off to a shaky start when Sam Curran sent back opener KL Rahul in the first over without scoring but it did not curb Kishanrsquos aggres-sion the left-hander hitting five fours and four sixes in total

There was plenty of entertain-ment for the sizeable crowd at the worldrsquos biggest cricket sta-dium with most fans not wear-ing masks in the stands as Kohli

and Kishan added 94 in nine overs

Rishabh Pant came in after the dismissal of Kishan who was dropped by Ben Stokes on 40 off Rashid and continued to pummel Englandrsquos bowlers with a 13-ball 26 during which he hit two sixes and an identical number of fours

Kohli who also survived a dropped chance by wicketkeeper Jos Buttler on 10 off Chris Jor-dan sealed the win with a four and a six in successive balls to

also get past 3000 runs in T20 internationals in the process

Jason Roy once again top-scored for England with a 35-ball 46 following up on his knock of 49 in their win in the first match last Friday

Put in to bat the right-hander gave the touring side a steady start with a 63-run stand for the second wicket with Dawid Malan after the loss of opening partner Buttler to seamer Bhu-vneshwar Kumar on the first delivery he faced

Roy hit four fours and two six-es in his knock before holing out in the deep off spinner Washing-ton Sundar who also sent back the dangerous Jonny Bairstow for 20

Fast bowler Shardul Thakur pegged back Englandrsquos hopes of a flourishing finish by dis-missing opposition captain Eoin Morgan and Stokes as India conceded just 35 off the last five overs

The third match of the series will be played on Tuesday

Virat Kohli

Rohit urges India debutants to lsquohave funrsquo against England in T20 series

After Suryakumar Yadav and Ishan Kishan earned their maiden call-ups to the Indian national team vice-captain Rohit Sharma stressed on the importance of playing with-out any pressure when they take on England in a Twenty20 series

Kishan and Suryakumar were named in the squad after plun-dering 516 and 480 runs re-spectively in the Indian Premier League last season where the pair played under Rohit for the

Mumbai Indians as they clinched their fifth title in November

ldquoI donrsquot want them to be think-ing about anythingrdquo Rohit told reporters on Wednesday ldquoThatrsquos how they bring their best perfor-mance out

ldquoHaving watched them closely for a few years now Irsquove realised itrsquos important for them to be part of this wonder-ful team a great setup I just want them to have fun and un-derstand what this team is all about

ldquoThese guys have done re-ally well in the last few years especially the last year Itrsquos just about carrying that form and putting it out there Itrsquos not go-ing to be that easy here they will be challenged every now and thenrdquo

For England itrsquos a much-awaited return to the squad for all-rounder Liam Livingstone who had similar success in Aus-traliarsquos Big Bash League where he scored 426 runs for Perth Scorchers

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Love Joy Passion Healing Renewal

Letrsquos create a vibrant and brighter future togetherHappy Holi from AARP

Letrsquos celebrate at aarporgaapi

Together we are beautiful

HARIDWAR - Tens of thou-sands of Hindu devotees plunged into Indiarsquos Ganges river last Thursday as the country kicked off one of the worldrsquos largest re-ligious festivals even as offi cials reported the biggest spike in coro-navirus cases for three months

Hindu ascetics known as Naga sadhus many naked apart from a coating of ash and carrying swords or tridents led the bath-ers at the Kumbh Mela or pitcher festival in the northern town of Haridwar

All participants at this yearrsquos event that runs until the end of April are required to present a negative coronavirus test result before being allowed into the fes-tival grounds authorities said But there was little evidence of social distancing in place last Thursday as bathers jostled at the riverbank

Devout Hindus believe bathing in the waters of the Ganges ab-solves people of sins and during the Kumbh Mela brings salvation from the cycle of life and death

ldquoIt feels to good to bathe hererdquo

said 44-year-old Chandubhai Go-vindbhai Dabhi after emerging from the waters last Thursday ldquoHalf the people are wearing masks and half are not but we are not afraid of coronardquo

More than 22000 people had bathed in the holy river by 8 am (0230 GMT) police overseeing

the festival told Reuters partner ANI a number that was expected to rise signifi cantly throughout the day

Authorities said that more than 100 million people attended the festival in 2019 the last time it was held a fi gure that most expect will be lower this year

After an almost three-month lockdown last year that was one of the worldrsquos harshest India has relaxed almost all restrictions on movement since a peak in cases in September including reopening vast stadiums for cricket match-es one of the countryrsquos national obsessions

Tens of thousands of Hindu devotees take holy plunge in Ganges

Tens of thousands of Hindu devotees have plunged into Indiarsquos Ganges river as the country kicks off one of the worldrsquos largest religious festivals even as offi cials reported the biggest spike in coronavirus cases for three months

Amazon Prime Video to produce its first Bollywood film in India

NEW DELHI - Amazoncomrsquos Prime Video will co-produce a Bollywood fi lm it said on Wednesday marking the streaming giantrsquos foray into fi lm production in India

The south Asian nation is one of Amazonrsquos fastest grow-ing Prime Video markets where founder Jeff Bezos has said it is doing better than anywhere else in the world

Amazon Prime Video and two studios will produce ldquoRam Seturdquo a fi lm starring actor Akshay Ku-mar it said in a statement without mentioning a release date

ldquoWe are delighted to further take a step into co-producing by collaborating with a fi lm that highlights our Indian heritagerdquo said Vijay Subramanium the

head of content at Amazon Prime Video India

The fi lmrsquos title is the Hindi name for Adamrsquos Bridge a chain of limestone shoals linking the southern state of Tamil Nadu to the neighbouring island nation of Sri Lanka

Indian mythology holds that the bridge was built by an army led by the Hindu god-king Rama

In India Amazonrsquos Prime loy-alty program which off ers free delivery early access to deals during sales and free music and video streaming costs 999 rupees ($1377) a year

Despite its promise India is also a market in which Amazon recently had to issue a rare pub-lic apology for hurting religious sentiment over some scenes in its original TV series ldquoTandavrdquo

That controversy has put Bolly-wood Amazon Prime Video and rivals such as Netfl ix on edge prompting closer scrutiny of scripts for possible off ence to re-ligious sentiment in a key growth market

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By Ken Ritter

LAS VEGAS (AP) - A woman arrested in Las Vegas several days after an attack on an Uber driver in San Francisco that was widely viewed on social media agreed to be transferred in custody to California to face criminal charges

Malaysia Kingrsquos court appearance in Las Vegas came hours after police in San Francisco announced that Arna Kimiai 24 a woman seen with King in the Uber driver confrontation turned herself in to face rob-bery assault and battery conspiracy and other charges

Kimiairsquos attorney Seth Morris said Kimiai posted a $75000 bond to go free pending a future court appearance during which charges could be filed

Video provided by the driver showed a maskless woman later identified as Kim-iai coughing on him and grabbing his cellphone Police also said that as three women exited the vehicle one sprayed what was believed to be pepper spray toward the driver

In Las Vegas King 24 did not have a lawyer during her brief court appearance by closed-circuit video She agreed not to contest extradition She was not asked about the charges against her

King was arrested on a warrant from California accusing her of assault with a caustic chemical conspiracy assault and battery and a health and safety code violation

Justice of the Peace Eric Goodman said authorities from California have 30 days to take King into custody and told her she may also face felony charges in Las Vegas stemming from allegations that she and a man tried to use another personrsquos identi-fication to obtain funds from that personrsquos bank account

Court records show King was arraigned on burglary and conspiracy charges in that case and has a court date in May

The Uber driver Subhakar Khadka 32 was attacked after stopping his car when he realized one of three female passengers wasnrsquot wearing a mask police said

Woman in Uber driver attack to be returned to San FranciscoldquoAn altercation ensued largely captured

on videordquo San Francisco police said in a statement about Kimiairsquos arrest

At one point the video shows Kimiai coughing on Khadkas grabbing his cell-phone from the center dash area and ripping off Khadkasrsquo face mask

Khadkas regained possession of his phone but was sprayed with what was be-lieved to be pepper spray as the women got out of his car police said

Khadka later said he believed he was attacked because he is a South Asian im-migrant However authorities have not commented on the allegation and no hate crimes charges have been filed Khadka came to the US eight years ago and works to support his family in Nepal

Uber said in a statement that it had banned all three riders

A GoFundMe account to assist Khadka raised more than $97000 The San Fran-cisco Chronicle reported that he planned to spend the money pursuing legal action and to support his family

Former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi has memoir out in September

NEW YORK (AP) - Former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi has a memoir coming out this fall that her publisher is calling an ldquounvarnished takerdquo on her rise to be-coming one of the worldrsquos most powerful women

ldquoMy Life in Full Work Family and Our Futurerdquo will be published Sept 28 Portfolio Books announced Nooyi 65 will trace her life from her childhood in India to her experiences as an immi-grant at Yale Universityrsquos business school to her many achievements as the rare woman and person of color in the upper echelons of the corporate world

She worked at PepsiCo for 24 years 12 of them as CEO before stepping down in 2018 While she was CEO PepsiCorsquos revenues grew from $35 bil-lion to $635 billion and she became known for promoting such ldquogood for yourdquo snacks as Baked Layrsquos potato chips and Naked juices made of fruits and vegetables

The mother of two children she also spoke candidly while at PepsiCo of the difficulties in balancing commitments

ldquoAs I wrote lsquoMy Life in Fullrsquo I saw how my own story relates to our evolv-ing global economy and how it may

inform our progress on better integrat-ing work and family in the years aheadrdquo Nooyi said in a statement ldquoI hope this book inspires business leaders policy-makers and all women and men pas-sionate about easing the work-and-fam-ily burden to come together and create changerdquo

Portfolio is an imprint at Penguin Ran-dom House Financial terms for Nooyirsquos book were not disclosed She was rep-resented by Washington attorney Robert Barnett whose clients range from for-mer President Barack Obama to Nike co-founder Phil Knight

Owner of IT services company pleads guilty to defrauding New York State

ALBANY NY - Lakshmikanth Sri-puram age 37 of Monmouth Junction New Jersey pled guilty this month to wire fraud conspiracy in connection with a scheme to defraud New York State

Sripuram is the president of PIntegra LLC As part of his plea he admitted that between 2015 and 2017 he conspired with Co-Conspirator 1 a former employ-ee of the Office of the State Comptrol-ler (OSC) to fraudulently obtain money from OSC

In January 2015 OSC entered into a contract with a consortium of three companies to identify and hire computer

programmers for a project When OSC needed to hire a programmer it sent a request form to one of the three com-panies Each company then submitted a purportedly qualified applicant Fre-quently the applicants were employed by subcontractors including PIntegra

From January 2015 through October 2016 OSC hired 17 programmers for the project at hourly rates ranging from $80 to $120 In late 2016 OSC learned that many of the programmersrsquo refer-ences and work histories were not le-gitimate including those hired from PIntegra and launched an internal investigation

Indra Nooyi

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HEALTH amp SCIENCE5Saturday March 20 2021

NATIONAL NEWSIndia Bulletin

WASHINGTON DC - With assets worth tens of millions of dollars associate attorney gen-eral nominee Vanita Gupta is thus far the Biden administrationrsquos wealthiest political nominee that has publicly released a finan-cial disclosure form ABC News reported

The disclosure of Guptarsquos finan-cial interests came as she faced a rocky confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week

Gupta a civil rights attorney-

turned Justice Department nomi-nee has reported owning between $42 million and $187 million in assets and properties with her spouse in her disclosure report filed to the Office of Government Ethics She reported earning be-tween $902000 and $3 million in the past year the filing shows

The biggest chunks of her as-sets come from her shares in companies linked to her father Raj Gupta a corporate chairman and Wall Street financier with vast corporate interests

Associate Attorney General pick Gupta would be wealthiest member of Bidenrsquos administration

According to the filing Vanita Gupta owns between $11 mil-lion and $55 million in shares of Avantor a chemicals and ma-terials company headquartered in Pennsylvania for which Raj Gupta is the chairman of the board

She also reported owning be-tween $500000 and $1 million in shares of Aptiv an American-Irish-British auto parts company headquartered in Dublin Ireland for which Raj Gupta also serves as chairman

According to the report Gupta also owns between $950000 and $2 million in entities connected to the private equity firm New Mountain Capital for which her father has served as a senior ad-viser Raj Gupta has also served on the board of the Vanguard Group one of the biggest index fund companies and Vanita Gup-ta owns between $11 million and $49 million worth of Vanguard index funds which are com-monly owned by other political appointees

She holds much of those assets through family trusts she controls except for $5 million to $25 mil-lion in Avantor $500000 to $1 million in Aptiv and six-figures in New Mountain Finance Co which are under a brokerage account

In her ethics agreement provid-ed by the Biden transition team Vanita Gupta wrote that she would retain her financial interests in those companies but would resign from her position as co-trustee of her family trust

Vanita GuptaMan involved in IRS phone scam ordered to pay restitution

NEW YORK - A former Mas-sachusetts man who tried to flee to Canada to avoid a prison sen-tence for his role in a phone scam that bilked area residents out of hundreds of thousands of dol-lars has been ordered to pay more than $250000 in restitution

Ashokkumar ldquoAndyrdquo Patel formerly of Worcester was re-sponsible for helping steal more than $880000 but the identities

of many victims could not be traced prosecutors said in federal court The Telegram amp Gazette reported

Patelrsquos lawyer Vikas Dhar said Patel made less than $50000 for his role in the scheme

Patel pleaded guilty last Sep-tember to wire fraud and money laundering for his role in a com-plicated scheme in which foreign callers duped people into sending

them money by posing as IRS debt collectors

He was sentenced to more than three years in prison

But before he started serving the sentence he was apprehended by Canadian authorities in Octo-ber on the Canada-Washington after diving into a ditch He was indicted in November for con-tempt of court in connection with the alleged escape attempt

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By Rajendra Jadhavand Rama Venkat

MUMBAI - New coronavirus infections in India rose by the most in more than three months as a second wave of the epidemic gathered momentum with Ma-harashtra the countryrsquos richest state accounting for two-thirds of the latest daily tally

Home to Indiarsquos commer-cial capital Mumbai the west-ern state reported 23179 of the countryrsquos 35871 new cases in

the past 24 hours and the fast spreading contagion in major industrial areas raised risks of companiesrsquo production being disrupted

Indiarsquos total cases stood at 1147 million the highest after the United States and Brazil Deaths rose by 172 to 159216 according to health ministry data released on Thursday

The countryrsquos first wave peaked in September at nearly 100000 cases a day with daily infections hitting a low of just

over 9000 early last monthCases have been rising in Ma-

harashtra since the reopening of most economic activities in Feb-ruary Mumbairsquos suburban trains which carry millions of people daily also resumed services

The state of 112 million peo-ple ordered a fresh lockdown in some districts and put curbs on cinemas hotels and restaurants until the end of the month after infections rose to a multi-month high earlier this week

New cases have more than doubled in the past two weeks in Maharashtrarsquos industrial towns such as Pune Aurangabad Na-shik and Nagpur known for their

automobile pharmaceutical and textile factories

ldquoWe have asked industries there to operate with minimum manpower as much possiblerdquo said a senior Maharashtra gov-ernment official declining to be named as he was not authorised to talk to the media ldquoMost of the IT companies have allowed their employees to work from homerdquo

Hospital beds and special CO-VID-19 facilities were filling up fast especially in Mumbai Nag-pur and Pune said another state official

Earlier this month more than 80 of oxygen and intensive-care beds in Maharashtra were

unoccupiedHalf a dozen other states such

as Punjab and Madhya Pradesh have also seen a rise in cases this month The government has blamed crowding and a re-luctance to wear masks for the rise

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday asked state leaders to quickly increase test-ing and expand vaccination to ldquostop the emerging second peak of coronardquo

India has administered more than 365 million vaccine dos-es since starting its immuni-sation drive in the middle of January

Maharashtra state suffers surge in COVID-19 cases

A health worker in personal protective equipment (PPE) collects a swab sample from a woman during a rapid antigen testing campaign for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a railway station platform in Mumbai

Pandemic pushes 32 million Indians out of middle class says Pew Research

By Manoj Kumar

NEW DELHI - Financial woes brought by last yearrsquos coronavi-rus pandemic have pushed about 32 million Indians out of the middle class undoing years of economic gains a report showed on Thursday while job losses pushed millions into poverty

The number of Indians in the middle class or those earn-

ing between $10 and $20 a day shrunk by about 32 million compared with the number that could have been reached in the absence of a pandemic the US-based Pew Research Centre said

A year into the pandemic the numbers of those in the middle class has shrunk to 66 million down a third from a pre-pan-demic estimate of 99 million it added

ldquoIndia is estimated to have seen a greater decrease in the middle class and a much sharper rise in poverty than China in the COVID-19 downturnrdquo the Pew Research Centre said citing the World Bankrsquos forecasts of economic growth

Nearly 57 million people had joined the middle income group between 2011 and 2019 it added

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By Krishna N Das

NEW DELHI - Indiarsquos main opposition Congress party on Tuesday hit out at Prime Minis-ter Narendra Modirsquos government for exporting nearly twice the number of coronavirus vaccine doses than immunisations con-ducted at home despite a surge in infections

India the worldrsquos biggest vac-cine maker has gifted or sold here 59 million locally produced doses compared with 33 million

doses given to its own people since its inoculation campaign began in mid-January

While some rich countries such as the United States are being accused of vaccine na-tionalism India is being lauded globally for sending shots to 71 countries mainly the AstraZen-eca vaccine as well as some of Bharat Biotechrsquos homegrown product

Many Indians however now want the government to make vaccines available to more of its

own people instead of only the elderly and those above 45 suf-fering from health conditions

ldquoThe priority of the Modi government is not the state but foreign nationsrdquo Congress said on Twitter using the tag India-NeedsMoreVaccines and accus-ing the premier of focusing on

ldquoPR over peoplerdquoldquoThe pace of vaccination in

states is slow due to the centrali-sation in vaccine distributionrdquo it said

Health Minister Harsh Vard-han told parliament that vac-cines were not being exported at the ldquoexpense of the people of

Indiardquo and that a balance was being struck

Indiarsquos immunisation drive has picked up significantly since Modi expanded it this month Still Bangladesh is vaccinat-ing more people relative to its population using India-made shots

India worldrsquos top vaccine maker criticised at home for exports as infections rise

A healthcare worker collects a swab sample from a woman amidst the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a bus station in New Delhi India on March 16 2021

India child rights group asks police to probe Netflix show lsquoBombay Begumsrsquo

By Abhirup Roy

MUMBAI - A government agency for child rights in In-dia on Tuesday asked police to investigate Netflix Incrsquos show ldquoBombay Begumsrdquo saying some scenes in the drama series violated laws meant to protect children letters seen by Reuters showed

The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCP-CR) has asked the US streaming giant to remove five ldquoobjection-ablerdquo scenes from the series and wrote to the police chief in Indiarsquos financial capital Mumbai to take action

ldquoYou are requested to investi-gateinquire and take deemed law-ful necessary actionrdquo NCPCRrsquos

chairperson Priyank Kanoongo wrote in the letter

A Mumbai police spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment Netflix de-clined to comment

ldquoBombay Begumsrdquo is a se-ries about five women from dif-ferent parts of society trying to get ahead in modern Mumbai formerly called Bombay It was released last week

In a separate letter to Netflix NCPCR asked the company to remove five scenes which it said violated Indian laws governing Juvenile Justice and the Protec-tion of Children from Sexual Of-fences

In the series children have been shown indulging ldquoin snort-ing drugs and taking inde-

cent pictures and selfies in the classroomrdquo NCPCR told Netflix

The child rights group first asked Netflix to stop streaming the series last week after review-ing complaints on Twitter As of Tuesday the show was still avail-able for viewing on Netflix in India

Netflix officials met the child rights agency on Tuesday to dis-cuss details of the scenes and objections from NCPCR which gave the company two days to consult its legal team

Video streaming platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video have recently faced a barrage of complaints around promoting obscenity or hurting religious sentiments in India a key growth market

HEALTH amp SCIENCE9

INTERNATIONAL NEWSIndia Bulletin

NEW DELHI - Indiarsquos new oversight of digital news platforms is drawing protest from the media industry and activists who fear the rules will curb press freedom in the worldrsquos largest democracy

India which has one of the worldrsquos biggest and most diverse media industries last month an-nounced the Intermediary Guide-lines and Digital Media Ethics Code aimed at pushing Big Tech fi rms such as Facebook to com-ply with content takedown orders However it also extends to news websites

The rules impose a three-tier regulatory mechanism requir-ing a grievance offi cer to resolve complaints and a government panel to have broad oversight The most senior government offi cial in the information and broadcast-ing ministry will also have emer-gency powers to order content be blocked

Media executives fear such oversight could lead to censor-ship of content seen as critical of

the government and three digi-tal news outlets have approached state courts

ldquoTheserules will signify the death of media independence in Indiardquo said Siddharth Varadara-jan editor of independent news website lsquoThe Wirersquo Its publisher has challenged the regulation in the Delhi High Court

LiveLaw a legal news web-site has challenged the rules in the Kerala High Court which this week said no coercive ac-tion should be taken against the website for non-compliance

The government says the new rules are aimed at achieving par-ity between digital media and print and TV news regulations Refer-ring to the rules for digital me-dia information and broadcasting minister Prakash Javadekar last month said ldquoevery freedom has to be responsible freedomrdquo

The number of online media outlets in India has increased in recent years but some journalists have complained they face intimi-

Indiarsquos digital media regulation sparks fears of curbs on press freedomdation for reporting stories critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his administration

Modirsquos administration says it favours press freedom

ldquoI think these rules will restrict and constrain press freedom as indeed freedom more gener-allyrdquo said Zoya Hasan a former professor of political science at New Delhirsquos Jawaharlal Nehru University

ldquoThis whole regulation is about control of digital media and other platforms as therersquos little tolerance for dissenting voicesrdquo

US think tank Freedom House recently said Modi and his party are driving India toward ldquoauthori-tarianismrdquo adding political rights and civil liberties had deteriorated since he came to power in 2014 The government called the re-port ldquomisleading incorrect and misplacedrdquo

On Thursday Javadekar said on Twitter that a group represent-ing leading newspapers and TV channels had welcomed the new

regulation and asked that their members ldquobe treated diff erentlyrdquo from digital-only news publishers

That has drawn criticism from

some smaller digital news outlets which have questioned why they are being ignored while seeking exemptions

Indiarsquos new oversight of digital news platforms is drawing protest from the media industry and activists who fear the rules will curb press freedom in the worldrsquos largest democracy

Saturday March 20 2021

India activist breaks silence on sedition arrest says she felt lsquoviolatedrsquo

By Alasdair Pal

NEW DELHI - An Indian climate activist linked to Greta Thunberg said she felt ldquoviolat-edrdquo by her arrest last month on sedition charges and her treat-ment by the media her fi rst comments on a case that sparked international criticism

Disha Ravi a 22-year-old vegan and member of Thun-bergrsquos Fridays for Future move-ment was charged in February over an online document about months-long protests by Indian farmers

Ten days after her arrest and following widespread criti-cism a court in Indiarsquos capital New Delhi granted her bail citing ldquoscanty and sketchy evi-dencerdquo that she was involved in

fomenting violenceldquoI had coerced myself into be-

lieving that the only way I would be able to live through this was by tricking myself into thinking that this wasnrsquot happening to merdquo Ravi said in a statement

ldquoMy actions were pronounced

guilty - not in the court of law but on fl at screensrdquo

Police say the document Ravi created stoked violence on Jan 26 Indiarsquos Republic Day when some protesting farmers broke free of a planned march and clashed with police

Angry at new agricultural laws they say benefi t large pri-vate buyers at the expense of growers tens of thousands of farmers have been camped on the outskirts of New Delhi since late last year

Swedish climate activist Thunberg popstar Rihanna and US activist Meena Harris the niece of Vice President Kamala Harris all tweeted in support of the protests last month drawing a rebuke from Indiarsquos foreign ministry

India frets over wastage of lsquoelixir-likersquo COVID-19 vaccinesNEW DELHI - About 65

of coronavirus vaccine doses in India are going to waste health offi cials said on Wednesday urging states to manage their im-munisation drives better to opti-mise use of what one called ldquothis elixir-like precious commodityrdquo

One reason for the wastage is that while many urban vaccina-tion centres have been crowded some rural sites have had to nudge people to get shots due to a lack of awareness among the public which can lead to vaccine wastage

Once a vaccine vial is opened doses need to be administered within four hours making it vital for health workers to coordinate the fl ow of recipients

The federal health ministry has distributed 754 million vac-cine doses to Indiarsquos states of which some 36 million doses

have so far been used India is using the AstraZeneca shot and another developed at home by Bharat Biotech

The government did not say how many doses had been wast-ed but the percentage fi gure suggests it could be more than 2 million a big number given that many countries have yet to start inoculating their citizens and India itself is only immunising priority groups

ldquoWastage of this elixir-like precious commodity the most important thing now for an indi-vidual or the country as a whole is absolutely wrongrdquo top health offi cial Vinod Kumar Paul told a news conference

The large states of Telan-gana Andhra Pradesh and Ut-tar Pradesh have seen wastage of 9-18 the government said

Disha Ravi

By Aftab Ahmedand Sankalp Phartiyal

NEW DELHI - India is likely to block its mobile carriers from using telecom equipment made by Chinarsquos Huawei two govern-ment officials said under pro-curement rules due to come into force in June

New Delhi is wary about awarding new technology busi-ness to Chinese firms both be-cause of security fears and a desire to get Indian manufactur-

ers to produce more telecoms equipment

A US campaign to curb Huawei has triggered bans or limits on the use of its equip-ment around the world but the situation in India has been amplified by strained rela-tions between New Delhi and Beijing over their shared border

Indiarsquos telecoms department said last Wednesday that after June 15 carriers can only buy certain types of equipment from

government-approved ldquotrusted sourcesrdquo and said New Delhi could also create a ldquono procure-mentrdquo blacklist Huawei is likely to feature on this embargoed list the two officials who declined to be named told Reuters

ldquoWe cannot prioritise econom-ic gains if an investment poses national security riskrdquo one of the officials said

The telecoms department which did not comment last Thursday about Huawei is yet to provide further details on the plans for trusted sources or a procurement blacklist

However a third official who also declined to be named told

Reuters that ZTE Corp another Chinese firm which has a smaller presence in India could also be excluded

Huawei and ZTE are un-der scrutiny for allegedly in-stalling ldquobackdoorrdquo vulner-abilities to spy for the Chinese government

Both have denied the allega-tions and Huawei has previously told Reuters it is ready to enter into a ldquono backdoorrdquo deal with India to allay security concerns

Huawei and ZTE did not im-mediately respond to requests for comment

Two of Indiarsquos three big tele-coms carriers Bharti Airtel and

Vodafone Idea use Huawei gear Any restriction on Huawei gear is likely to push up costs industry analysts say

The Chinese firmrsquos equipment and network maintenance con-tracts are typically cheaper than European competitors such as Ericsson and Nokia and there is limited availability of such gear in India

India has begun to fast-track approvals of some of the more than 150 Chinese investment proposals worth over $2 billion it had put on hold after a June standoff between the two neigh-bours on the disputed Himalayan border

India likely to block Chinarsquos Huawei over security fears officials

India Bulletin

India is likely to block its mobile carriers from using telecom equipment made by Chinarsquos Huawei two government officials said under procurement rules due to come into force in June UKrsquos Johnson to visit India at

end of April as part of policy lsquotiltrsquoLONDON - PM Boris Johnson

will visit India at the end of April in what will be his first major in-ternational trip after Britainrsquos exit from the European Union as part of efforts to boost UK opportuni-ties in the region his office said

Johnson had planned an Indian trip in January as part of efforts to speed up trade talks between the two nations but was forced to cancel amid a surge of COVID-19

infections at homeAt the time his office said he

had hoped to rearrange the visit before Britain hosted the meet-ing of leaders from the Group of Seven rich nations in June which Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is due to attend as a visitor

Johnsonrsquos government said it would ldquotiltrdquo its focus towards the Indo-Pacific region as part of its Integrated Review of government

policy for the coming years say-ing the area increasingly repre-sented the geopolitical centre of the world

Last month Britain made a for-mal request to join the Compre-hensive and Progressive Agree-ment for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) seeking membership of the 11-country bloc to open new avenues for post-Brexit trade and influence

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INTERNATIONAL NEWS

HEALTH amp SCIENCE11India BulletinSaturday March 20 2021

ADVERTORIAL

ldquoJAINISM A Resilient Path to Peacerdquo

The Federation of Jain Asso-ciations in North America (JAI-NA) will be celebrating its 21st Convention on the Fourth of July weekend mdash from July 1st to 6th 2021 Every two years this premier event brings together members of the Jain Community from across the world This year the virtual event is planned to be a global event and is expected to attract an even larger audience from the USA Canada India UK Australia UAE and many other countries

In face of all the turbulence throughout the world in the last year it is paramount for us to be vigilant compassionate tolerant and to ldquokeep the faithrdquo Jain-ism one of the ancient minor-ity religions has thrived worse than the pandemic based on its wisdom of Maitri (Amity) in-terdependence and honoring and respecting life at any cost The Convention will showcase our firm belief that spirituality enables us to sustain our sense of self and purpose through be-liefs principles values and morals Hence the theme for this yearrsquos Convention is ldquoJAINISM A Resilient Path to Peacerdquo

Convention Convener and First Vice President of JAINA Mr Haresh Shah of Delaware proudly shared that the attendee response has been overwhelming with more than 5000 registra-tions as of this writing Conven-tion Co-Convener and JAINA President Mr Mahesh Wadher of Los Angeles expressed his grati-tude for 100+ volunteers across 23 teams working day and night as ONE TEAM to make this convention the most memorable ever Convention Co-Convener Mr Bindesh Shah mentioned that the Convention will feature a state-of-the-art user-friend-ly and interactive conference platform with many features such as an online Main Hall 6 Breakout Rooms 4 Competi-tion Rooms and an Exhibition Hall

Enlightening discourses dis-cussion tracks and activities planned at this Convention will offer attendees a deeper under-standing of Jain principles and values while also helping the community with a roadmap to bounce back Youth participa-tion through JAINArsquos affiliate organizations Young Jains of America (YJA) Young Jain Pro-fessionals (YJP) as well as Jain

Announcing JAINA Convention 2021 July 1-6 2021Connect will be strongly pro-moted and encouraged There will be focused programs for all age groups children (ages 5-12) youth (ages 13-20) Jain Networking Forum (ages 21-29) and adults

Other featured events include the popular Jain Academic Bowl (JAB) a jeopardy style vo-cabulary game in which young Jains compete with other teams Jains Got Talent (JGT) and Vir-tual Tirthdham Darshan ndash A nar-rated Tirth Yatra of 12 major Jain Tirth of India broadcast live

Public Relations and Media Committee Chair Mr Vipul Shah of Chicago proudly con-firmed that spiritual dignitar-ies such as Acharya Ratna-sundersuri Maharaj Saheb Acharya Shri Mahashramanji Rashtrasant Gurudev Shree Namramuni Pramansagarji Maharaj Sadhvi Charitraarth Prabhaji and many others will enlighten us with their wisdom during the Convention Acharya Lokesh Muniji Acharya Chan-danaji and Bhattarak Charuke-ertiji will bless the Convention with their Ashirwad speeches While Gurudevshri Rakeshbhai Jhaveri will give the keynote

address other featured speakers include Shri Deepakbhai Desai Shri Gyanvatsal Swami Brahma Kumari Sister Shivani and Dr Veerendra Heggade The line-up of other prominent and inspi-rational speakers includes Dr Christopher Miller Dr Steven Southwick Rahul Kapoor Jain Motilal Oswal Dr Kumarpal Desai Dr Bipin Doshi and Dr Bimal Chajjer

The daily sessions and discus-sions will be well-complement-ed by refreshing Cultural Pro-grams in the evening including Jain Drama Rang De Sanskar - a high caliber humorous Hindi drama with famous actors amp an immense cast Jains Got Talent (JGT) and entertaining cultural performances from across the world A special Bollywood Musical ldquoSunheri Yaadeinrdquo will take us back 40 years of melodi-ous music to celebrate 40 Years Anniversary of JAINA

JAINA convention 2021 is an

invitation to all who aspire for a peaceful resilient recovery from the pandemic and to reweave the delicate fabric of humanity Since opening the registration on January 9th over 5000 at-tendees have already registered for the convention Come join us with our collective wisdom we will dream and create a non-violent future of Love Peace and Collaboration Your pres-ence and participation will help us ground in interconnection and solidarity and walk with you on the resilient path to peace we build together

For additional information about this convention and to register please visit us online at wwwjainaconventionorg

For Further Information please contact Mr Vipul Shah Chair of Public Relations and Press-Media Committee of JAINA Convention 2021 or its Co-Chair Mr Rahul Jain at prjainaorg

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Bollywood BeatDJ Aqeel and Farah Ali Khan are done

with their marriage

Actor Hrithik Roshanrsquos ex-wife Sussane Khanrsquos sister jewellery designer Farah Khan Ali has taken to social media to announce her separation from husband DJ Aqeel after 22 years of marriage In a lengthy post she spoke about how two people grow apart at times and that there is no bad bloodbetween them

The statement read ldquoSome-times two people grow apart Sometimes they outgrow each other It has been 9 years since my relationship with my hus-band Aqeel changed its status as a couple to just friends and to term it simply would be to state that we are ldquoHappily Sepa-ratedrdquordquo

ldquoWe will always be best friends to each other and par-ents to our wonderful children Azaan and Fizaa who love us both equally yet accept that we cannot be a couple any longer This was a mutual decision we took together involving two adults and there wasnrsquot any third person involved The reason we are announcing it publicly now is so that the ones who know us accept our situation grace-fully and always wish well for both of us especially because we hold no animosity of any kind towards one another and will al-ways be there for each otherrdquo it further read

ldquoAqeel is and will always be my family as I will be his We hope that all our well-wishers will accept our deci-sion maturely and not judge us for itrdquo

Bahubali now planned on a budget of 200 crores as Netflix scraps the already shot version of 100 croresNetflix is easily amongst the richest

digital platforms of the world According to our highly placed sources Netfl ix has scrapped the already shot Rs 100 crore version of the Netfl ix Original Bahubali Before The Beginning and have already begun work on a new version of the show this time around on double the cost of Rs 200 crores

ldquoNetfl ix was not satisfi ed with the prod-uct they had in hand and hence decided to scrap it completely They reworked on the script star-cast and technical team and are now reshooting Bahubali Before The Beginning on a never seen before unheard scale for their streaming They see the po-tential in Bahubali of being Indiarsquos answer to Game of Thrones and hence they have decided to take things a notch higher The overall budget for the new part is Rs 200 crore and if we add the scrap value the project now is worth Rs 300 crorerdquo a trade

source told Bollywood HungamaItrsquos produced by SS Rajamouli with

Netflix and is planned as a 9 episode two season limited series showcasing the rise of Shivagami set in the world of Mahishmati Itrsquos said to be a prequel to

Bahubali While the original cast was to feature Mrunal Thakur as Shivagami we still await an update if she will continue to play the queen or has she been replaced by someone else in this revamped Rs 200 crore version of the franchise

Emraan Hashmi says it has been his dream to work with Salman Khan

Emraan Hashmi is being said to be roped in by the makers of the Tiger franchise starring Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif While the latter two will be reprising their roles and Tiger and Zoya in Tiger 3 Emraan Hashmi is being said to play the antagonist marking his fi rst collaboration with the two stars and Yash Raj Films Being

one of the most coveted actors of the industry Salman Khan un-doubtedly is one of the favourites for every celebrity

Speaking about joining the franchise Emraan said that he would love to work in the fran-chise and it has always been a dream for him to work with Salman Khan

In October last year actress Rhea Chakraborty was grant-ed bail by the Bombay High Court after spending nearly two months in judicial cus-tody Her bail has now been challenged in the Supreme Court by the Narcotics Control Bureau(NCB) The case will be heard on Thursday

Rhea Chakraborty was sent to judicial custody last year for drug related charges in the death of her actor boyfriend Sushant Singh Rajput She was granted bail on the condi-tion that she submit a Rs 1 lakh bond and not leave the country without the permission of the court

Rhea Chakrabortyrsquos bail challenged in theSupreme Court by NCB

UNKNOWN FACTS ABOUTBOLLYWOODCELEBRITIES

Aamir Khanrsquos full name is Mohammed Aamir

Hussain Khan Despite being from the fi lm

industry Aamirrsquos parents were not keen on him entering Bollywood In 1984 Aamir worked in

his fi rst ever feature fi lm titled Holi

Very few people are aware of the fact that Kareena Kapoor gave her voice to the song Jab Nahi Aaye for the

fi lm Dev Kareena played a lead role in

the fi lm Unfortunately the movie didnrsquot do well

at the box-offi ce

Bollywood TriviaWhich actress debuted in

the fi lm lsquoKedarnathrsquo

Answer 1

1) Sara Ali Khan2) Katrina Kaif3) Tara Sutaria4) Ananya PandeyWho is the mother of actress

Janhvi Kapoor

Answer 3

1) Kareena2) Karisma3) Sridevi4) Madhuri

12 India Bulletin Saturday March 20 2021

ENTERTAINMENT

Bollywood Beat

The Brihanmumbai Mu-nicipal Corporation (BMC) revealed on their social media page that they have filed an FIR (First information report) against a Bollywood actor for not adhering to Covid-19 guidelines despite testing posi-tive for the deadly virus They even uploaded a picture of the FIR but the name of the celeb-rity was blurred Immediately it led people to speculate who the actor could be

However it has now come to light that the actor in question is Gauahar Khan As per the complaint filed at Oshiwara po-lice station a BMC officer has said that on the night of March 14 he was informed that Gaua-har Khan has tested positive for Coronavirus and yet shersquos not ready to get quarantined Hence the officer reached Gau-ahar Khanrsquos residence but she refused to open the door Later her husband answered from the flat and allegedly shouted at the BMC team

The complainant further states that the actress alleg-edly went out of her house for a shoot Hence the officer claims that she has exposed people to the deadly virus and thus contributed to itrsquos spread

As per a news report S Chai-tanya DCP (operations) and PRO of Mumbai Police has stated that Gauahar Khan has been charged under Sections 188 269 270 of the IPC 51B of NDMA Act 3 of Epidemic Diseases Act

BMC files FIR against

Gauahar Khan

Upcoming FilmsThalaivi

Kangana Ranautand Vijay Deverakonda

RadheSalman Khan

Disha Patani Jackie Shroff and Randeep Hooda

83Ranveer Singh

and Deepika Padukone

Atrangi ReAkshay Kumar Sara Ali Khanand Dhanush

MaidaanAjay Devgn Priyamani

and Keerthy Suresh

Bachchan PandeyAkshay Kumar Bobby Deol

and Riteish Deshmukh

Bell BottomAkshay Kumar Vaani Kapoor Huma Qureshi and Lara Dutta

Satyameva Jayate 2John Abraham Manoj Bajpai

and Divya Khosla Kumar

BrahmastraRanbir Kapoor Alia Bhatt and

Amitabh Bachchan

MOVIE REVIEW

Itrsquos been almost a year when theatres were asked to shut down due to rapid rise in the cases of Coronavirus in the country Two of the films play-ing in theatres at that point were Angrezi Medium produced by Dinesh Vijan and Kaamyaab directed by Hardik Mehta In an interesting turn of events Roohi the film that releases today and kickstarts the movie-watching season in cinemas is helmed by both these personalities So does Roohi manage to enter-tain and enthral the audiences Or does it fail to entice Letrsquos analyse

Roohi is the story of a pos-sessed girl Bhawra Pandey (Rajkummar Rao) and Kattanni Qureshi (Varun Sharma) work as crime journalists in a small town Baagadpur They also specialise in lsquopakdaai shaadirsquo aka bride kidnapping an accepted custom in Baagadpur One day their boss Guniya Shakeel (Manav Vij) orders them to kidnap a girl Roohi (Janhvi Kapoor) from a nearby town Mujaribaad Bhawra and Kattanni manage to kidnap Roohi while she is with her father (Rajesh Jais) As per the lsquopakdaai shaadirsquo custom af-ter the girl is kidnapped she is straight away taken to the mar-

riage venue Bhawra and Kat-tanni are also supposed to fol-low suit with Roohi But after the kidnap takes place Guniya calls them and tells them that the groomrsquos uncle has passed away suddenly Hence the mar-riage will now take place after a week Till then Bhawra and Kattanni are told to keep her as a hostage in an abandoned property in the hills of Ambiya-pur On the first night Bhawra goes to offer dinner to Roohi only to realize that she is pos-sessed Kattanni at first doesnrsquot believe but later even he sees the possessed side of Roohi However instead of being frightened Kattanni falls for the possessed Roohi Bhawra on the other hand is in love with the non-possessed Roohi He decides to help her and get the witch out of her body Kattanni however is averse to the idea as loves the possessed Roohi and if Bhawra succeeds the witch will leave Roohi forever What hap-pens next forms the rest of the film

Mrighdeep Singh Lamba and Gautam Mehras story is inter-esting and novel The writers try their best to bring some-thing new to the table Mrigh-deep Singh Lamba and Gautam Mehras screenplay however is interesting only in parts A few scenes are exceptional and bring the house down But the serious portions donrsquot make the desired impact Mrigh-deep Singh Lamba and Gautam Mehras dialogues are witty But the dialect is too authentic and is incomprehensible at many places

Roohi starts off on an interest-ing note depicting the concept of bride kidnapping in Baagad-pur that too through the eyes of a foreign reporter (Alexx ONell) The film gets better once Bhawra and Kattanni kid-nap Roohi and set base at the spooky abandoned factory The scene where Bhawra narrates about the possessed Roohi to

Kattanni is sure to raise laughs The scene where Kattanni in-stead of running away falls for the possessed Roohi is unique and unexpected It will bring smiles on the faces of the view-ers The interval comes at an in-teresting juncture Post-interval the film begins to fall but a few scenes especially of the marriage with the dog and Bhawrarsquos con-versation with the old lady (Sar-ita Joshi) add to the humour and madness The climax though unpredictable is disappointing

Talking of performances Ra-jkummar Rao is in his element as expected Due to his adorable performance one doesnrsquot hate him even though hersquos playing a kidnapper in the film And his comic timing is spot-on espe-cially in the scenes where hersquos running away from the possessed Roohi Janhvi Kapoor is a big surprise She hardly has any dia-logues but gets her act right with her expressions And she also is convincing as the witch Varun Sharma is marvellous and man-ages to raise laughs In the last 30 minutes however he doesnrsquot have much to do Manav Vij suits the part and his performance is

fair Sarita Joshi (credited in the film as Padma Shri Sarita Joshi) is hilarious and one wish-es that she had a longer screen time Alexx ONell is lovely Rajesh H Jais Anurag Arora (Tantrik) Sumit Gulati (Paras Roohirsquos groom in the end) are okay

Sachin-Jigars music is ap-propriate for the film and itrsquos theme Kiston comes suddenly but is soulful Bhootni is hilari-ous while Panghat is played in the end credits Nadiyon Paar is attached with the filmrsquos print be-fore the film starts It is the best song of the lot and well shot One wishes if it was a part of the filmrsquos narrative Ketan Sodhas background score is well wo-ven and also contributes to the horror quotient

On the whole Roohi rests on a unique concept fine perfor-mances and some interesting funny and horror sequences However the disappointing climax and difficult-to-under-stand dialect might affect the filmrsquos prospects at the box office

BannerMaddock Films

Jio Studios

ProducerDinesh Vijan

Mrighdeep Singh Lamba

DirectorHardik Mehta

StarringRajkummar RaoVarun SharmaJanhvi Kapoor

Music BySachin-Jigar

Released DateMarch 11 2021

Roohi

Rating

Celebrity BirthdaysMarch 21stRani Mukerji (1978)

March 23rdKangana Ranaut (1987)

March 24thEmraan Hashmi (1979)

March 25thYograj Singh (1958)

March 26thPrakash Raj (1965)

April 3rdPrabhu Deva (1973)

April 4thLisa Ray (1972)Simran Bagga (1976)

March 28thAkshaye Khanna(1975) Sandhya Mridul (1975)

March 30thNagesh Kukunoor (1967)

April 2ndAjay Devgn (1969) Kapil Sharma (1981)

13India BulletinSaturday March 20 2021

ENTERTAINMENT

Biz Briefs

Apple Inc has started the as-sembly of iPhone 12 in India the US tech giant said as the com-pany ramps up manufacturing operations in the worldrsquos sec-ond-biggest smartphone market

ldquoWe are proud to be starting production of iPhone 12 in India for our local customersrdquo Apple said in a statement without naming the supplier making the smartphone

The Indian unit of Applersquos Taiwanese contract manufac-turer Foxconn will assemble the device in its plant in southern Tamil Nadu state two sources familiar with the matter said

Foxconn did not immediately respond to a request for com-ment but has previously said it does not comment on client-specifi c work

Poscorsquos steel plant in India

faces disruption Operations at South Korean

steelmaker Poscorsquos plant in the Indian state of Maharashtra have been disrupted due to local pro-tests over labour and other issues police and sources told Reuters hampering the supply chain for automakers

A local politician leading the protests said they have blocked employees and goods from enter-ing the plant and will continue until Posco heeds to some of their requests which include giv-ing employment preference to lo-cal workers raising the wages of temporary employees and making them permanent

Reuters could not indepen-dently verify the extent of the production disruption at Poscorsquos plant

Apple starts iPhone 12 assem-

bly in India

HEALTH amp SCIENCEBUSINESS14 India Bulletin Saturday March 20 2021

By Nidhi Verma

NEW DELHI - India and the UAE on Wednesday discussed ways to strengthen energy coop-eration Indiarsquos oil minister Dhar-mendra Pradhan said despite the South Asian nation asking its re-fi ners to reduce their reliance on Middle Eastern oil

ldquo(We) discussed about new ar-eas of cooperation in the hydro-carbon sector and beyond and agreed to remain committed de-spite the challenges presented by Covid pandemicrdquo Pradhan said on Twitter after a virtual meeting with Sultan Al Jaber the chief executive of Abu Dhabi National Oil Co (ADNOC)

UAE is a key oil supplier to India and a partner in an Indian joint venture that plans to build a 12 million barrels per day (bpd) refi nery and petrochemical com-plex on the countryrsquos west coast

Last month the UAE was the

fi fth biggest oil supplier to In-dia which itself is the worldrsquos third biggest oil importer and consumer

Pradhan said he also discussed with Jaber ways of strengthen-ing and ldquoproviding momentum to (the) bilateral strategic en-ergy partnershiprdquo between the countries

India imports more than 80 of its oil needs a signifi cant amount of which comes from the Middle East

New Delhi has however asked refi ners to gradually reduce oil imports from the Middle East and diversify supplies after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its al-lies known as OPEC+ decided to extend most curbs into April

India has been hit hard by rising oil prices due to which minister Pradhan has repeatedly called on OPEC+ to ease supply curbs and has blamed Saudi Ara-

India and UAE vow to strengthen energy cooperation says minister

biarsquos voluntary cuts for contribut-ing to a spike in global oil prices

Responding to Pradhanrsquos re-quest Saudi Arabiarsquos energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman suggested India dip into strategic reserves fi lled with cheaper oil bought last year

The UAErsquos ADNOC is the only foreign company to which India has leased a part of it strategic petroleum reserves India does not allow the export of oil but has given permission to ADNOC to export part of its oil in Mangalore SPR in southern India

Tesla in talks with Indiarsquos Tata Power for EV charging infrastructure

BENGALURU - Tesla Inc is exploring an arrangement with Indian conglomerate Tata Sonsrsquo power generation unit Tata Pow-er to set up charging infrastruc-ture for electric vehicles in the country CNBC-TV18 reported citing sources

Shares of Tata Power rose 55 to their best closing level since June 2014 after the report which comes as the Palo Alto-based electric-car maker gears up for an India launch later this year with plans to import and sell its Model 3 electric sedan

Tesla will set up an electric-car manufacturing unit in the southern Indian state of Karna-taka according to a government document seen by Reuters

Indiarsquos Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan

The talks between Tata Power and Tesla are in the initial stages and no arrangements have been

fi nalised yet the report saidTata Powerrsquos electric vehicle

charging business constantly

explores growth opportunities but has not fi nalised any new agreements the company said in a statement to stock exchanges It also said the CNBC-TV 18 report was ldquofactually incorrectrdquo but did not elaborate

Tesla was not immediately available for comment

In January the US electric-car maker incorporated Tesla Motors India and Energy Private Ltd with its registered offi ce in the southern city of Bengaluru a hub for global technology companies

Tata Motors Ltd the carmak-ing unit of Tata Sons last week denied any tie-up with Tesla af-ter media reports suggested the two companies were discussing a partnership

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BUSINESSIndia Bulletin

By Aftab Ahmed and Nupur Anand

NEW DELHIMUMBAI - In-dia will propose a law banning cryptocurrencies fi ning anyone trading in the country or even holding such digital assets a senior government offi cial told

Reuters in a potential blow to millions of investors piling into the red-hot asset class

The bill one of the worldrsquos strictest policies against cryp-tocurrencies would criminalise possession issuance mining trading and transferring crypto-assets said the offi cial who has

India to propose cryptocurrency ban penalising miners tradersdirect knowledge of the plan

The measure is in line with a January government agenda that called for banning private vir-tual currencies such as bitcoin while building a framework for an offi cial digital currency But recent government comments had raised investorsrsquo hopes that

the authorities might go easier on the booming market

Instead the bill would give holders of cryptocurrencies up to six months to liquidate after which penalties will be levied said the offi cial who asked not to be named as the contents of the bill are not public

Offi cials are confi dent of get-ting the bill enacted into law as Prime Minister Narendra Modirsquos government holds a comfortable majority in parliament

If the ban becomes law India would be the fi rst major econo-my to make holding cryptocur-rency illegal Even China which has banned mining and trading

does not penalise possessionThe Finance Ministry did not

immediately respond to an email seeking comment

Bitcoin the worldrsquos biggest cryptocurrency hit a record high $60000 last Saturday nearly doubling in value this year as its acceptance for payments has in-creased with support from such high-profi le backers as Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk

In India despite government threats of a ban transaction vol-umes are swelling and 8 million investors now hold 100 billion rupees ($14 billion) in crypto-investments according to indus-try estimates No offi cial data is available

US becomes Indiarsquos second biggest oil supplier Saudi plunges to No 4

By Nidhi Verma

NEW DELHI - The United States overtook Saudi Arabia as Indiarsquos second biggest oil sup-plier after Iraq last month as refi ners boosted cheaper US crude purchases to record levels to off set OPEC+ supply cuts data from trade sources showed

The switch in supplies trig-gered by lower US crude de-mand coincided with Saudi Ara-biarsquos voluntary extra 1 million barrel per day (bpd) output cut on top of an agreement by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies (OPEC+) to maintain lower pro-duction

Indiarsquos imports from the United

States - the worldrsquos top producer - rose 48 to a record 545300 bpd in February from the prior month accounting for 14 of Indiarsquos overall imports last month the data obtained by Reuters showed

In contrast February imports from Saudi Arabia fell by 42 from January to a decade low of 445200 bpd the data showed Saudi Arabia which has consis-tently been one of Indiarsquos top two suppliers slipped to No 4 for the fi rst time since at least January 2006

Indiarsquos oil import data by coun-try from before 2006 is not avail-able to Reuters

ldquoUS demand was weak and refi neries were running at low rates so the US crude had to

go somewhere and Asia is the region which has seen rapid de-mand recoveryrdquo said Refi nitiv analyst Ehsan Ul Haq

ldquoChina has not been taking US oil because of (the) trade problem so India is the obvious choicerdquo he said

Iraq continued to be the top oil seller to India despite a 23 drop in purchases to a fi ve-month low of 867500 bpd the data showed

The UAE slipped to fi fth posi-tion from third in January while Nigeria rose to third from fi fth exporting 472300 bpd the most since Oct 2019

India shipped in 392 million bpd of oil in February a decline of 18 from January the data showed

India will propose a law banning cryptocurrencies fi ning anyone trading in the country or even holding such digital assets a senior government offi cial told Re-uters in a potential blow to millions of investors piling into the red-hot asset class

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Aries (March 21 to April 20)Someone will always be prettier Someone will always be smarter Someone will always be younger But they will never be you Itrsquos this ability to understand your uniqueness which will help you steer forward in an otherwise difficult week

Taurus (April 21 to May 21)When a storm is coming all other birds seek shelter The eagle alone avoids the storm by flying above it So in the storms of life be like an eagle and soar above your problems Keep your love life on top priority and everything else will fall into place with time

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Cancer (June 22 to July 22)Sadness does not come from bad circumstances It comes from bad thoughts Although the circumstances are mixed around you you will have a tendency to make a mountain out of a mole hill

Leo (July 23 to August 22)Every time we get what we thought we wanted we realise that we want more This race towards more - more money more power more of everything is taking a toll on your energy level

Virgo (August 23 to September 23)One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness usually it comes back to you While your hard work is fruc-tifying now do not let the success take you away from compassion

Libra (September 24 to October 23)Best friends are like stars You donrsquot always see them but you know they are always there This week you will be in a nostalgic mood and miss good old times and old friends Rather than thinking about it pick up the phone and talk to friends you have not spoken in years or take a friend out on a cappuccino trip

Scorpio (October 24 to November 22)Learn to make peace with your past or else your future will become a constant battle that yoursquoll never win The highlight of the week will be letting go of things forgiving people forgetting wrong-doings and moving on in life

Sagittarius (November 23 to December 21)Chaos in the midst of chaos isnrsquot funny but chaos in the midst of order is Probably one of the toughest week this month wherein there will be a lot of confusion and haze around Advice Do not take stress

Capricorn (December 22 to January 20)Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realise you havenrsquot fallen asleep yet Thatrsquos the kind of nights you might witness this week owing to unforeseen issues and hurdles Your discipline and organisational skills will steer you forward and transform these hurdles into opportunities Aquarius (January 21 to February 19)Women get the last word in every argument Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument This is not the week for you to get into any arguments as it might jeopardise your frame of mind

Pisces (February 20 to March 20)Find out who you are and be that person Thatrsquos what your soul was put on this Earth to be Find that truth live that truth and everything else will come The week will be about introspection spirituality and matters related to the soul

WEEKLY HOROSCOPE(March 28 - April 3 2021)

HEALTH amp SCIENCEASTROLOGYIndia Bulletin

8 things AARP wants you to know before your second COVID-19 vaccine

If yoursquove already received your first dose of a two-dose COVID-19 vaccine congratulations - yoursquore well on your way to being protect-ed from the coronavirus But to be fully immunized itrsquos critical to get that second shot

William Schaffner MD an infectious diseases specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville Tennessee and medical director of the Nation-al Foundation for Infectious Dis-eases says ldquoWe have told every-one these vaccines are 95 percent effectiverdquo of the two-dose Moder-na and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines currently in use in the US ldquoBut theyrsquore only 95 percent effective if you indeed get that second doserdquo

Here are a few more things to know about the second dose

1 Your side effects will likely be stronger

Many people who had little to no reaction to the first vaccine dose are reporting that the second one packs a punch mdash surprising even those who study vaccines for a liv-ing

Greg Poland MD an infec-tious disease expert at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota and director of Mayorsquos vaccine re-search group had only mild symp-toms after his first dose But the second one left him shaking - liter-ally - with chills and a temperature of 101

ldquoI took one Tylenol and went to bed and woke up the next morning 90 percent improved and by mid-day I was back to normalrdquo Poland says ldquoThis is not an indication of something going wrong it is an indication of a vigorous immune responserdquo

There is no live virus in the vac-cine so you canrsquot get COVID-19 from being vaccinated

Participants in clinical trials of both vaccines had experiences similar to Polandrsquos In Pfizerrsquos clinical trial for instance 31 per-cent of participants ages 18 to 55 reported a fever after the second dose compared to only 8 percent after the first one Fatigue chills headache and musclejoint pain were also more common after the second injection for both vaccines

The good news is older adults were less likely to experience vac-cine reactions the data shows Among those age 55 and up in the Pfizer trial 22 percent experienced fever after the second dose and 3 percent had a temperature after the first dose

Schaffner recommends not making any big plans for the day after your scheduled vaccine appointment

2 You should avoid taking pain relievers before your shot

If yoursquove been hearing sto-ries about second-dose side ef-fects you may be tempted to take a pain reliever before your appointment

Thatrsquos not a good idea accord-ing to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) unless yoursquove been advised to do so by your doctor Pain relievers taken preemptively ahead of a shot could dampen the effective-ness of the vaccine Poland and Schaffner say

However itrsquos OK to take ac-etaminophen (Tylenol) or a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug like Advil or Motrin after your vaccine to treat side effects such as pain fever chills or headache

3 The timing between doses doesnrsquot need to be exact

The second dose of the Pfiz-er shot is supposed to be giv-en 21 days after the first for Moderna the recommended interval between doses is 28 days

However if you canrsquot get an appointment on the exact day mdash or if you have to miss your scheduled appointment for some reason mdash the CDC does allow some wiggle room Although the agency recommends trying to stick to the suggested interval it says the second dose can be given up to six weeks after the first

If your appointment is sched-uled earlier than the recommend-ed date ask for a later appoint-ment Schaffner advises ldquoYour immune response will work perfectly well if you take more timerdquo he says ldquoBut if you do it too early the second dose may not invoke an optimal responserdquo

4 Your second dose should be from the same manufacturer as your first

Doctors are already hearing from patients asking if they can get their second dose from a dif-ferent manufacturer often be-cause they realize the other type of vaccine is offered at a location thatrsquos more convenient But the CDC recommends against it The Moderna and Pfizer vaccines ldquoare not interchangeable with each other or with other COVID-19 vaccine productsrdquo the CDC says ldquoThe safety and efficacy of a mixed-product series have not been evaluatedrdquo

5 A rash at the injection site isnrsquot a reason to skip your second dose

If you experienced a rash at the injection site three to 10 days

after getting your first shot that doesnrsquot preclude you from getting your second shot the CDC says although it recommends getting it in the other arm

A small number of people have developed such rashes some-times called ldquoCOVID armrdquo af-ter vaccination Doctors say itrsquos likely a mild allergic reaction that can be treated with an over-the-counter antihistamine such as Benadryl

6 You should temporarily avoid all other vaccines

It might be time for your shin-gles or Tdap vaccine but you should hold off if you are between COVID-19 vaccine doses Be-cause therersquos no data on the safety and efficacy of COVID vaccines administered at the same time as other vaccines the CDC recom-mends avoiding other immuniza-tions in the two weeks before and after both doses

7 Full immunity is not immediate

It takes two weeks after your second dose for your body to build full protection to the virus After that you should have al-most zero chance of developing severe disease if you are exposed to someone with COVID-19 Schaffner says The CDC also says you no longer have to quar-antine if yoursquore exposed to some-one with COVID-19 mdash as long as you meet these criteria you donrsquot have symptoms and it hasnrsquot been more than three months since your second vaccine dose

One possible exception is immunocompromised people Schaffner says They will get some level of immunity he says ldquobut they may not reach the 95 percent because their immune system is already somewhat com-promised no matter how strong these vaccines arerdquo

8 You still need to wear a maskExperts agree you should con-

tinue to wear a mask and practice social distancing in public For one thing therersquos a small chance you could get sick even after yoursquove been vaccinated

In addition itrsquos possible that you could still carry the virus and silently transmit it to others who havenrsquot been vaccinated even if you donrsquot develop symptoms

And therersquos one more reason Until the country reaches herd im-munity mdash the point when a signif-icant portion of the population be-comes immune to a disease mdash itrsquos important for everyone to wear a mask to stop the spread of the virus Schaffner says

Saturday March 20 2021

Biden All US adults to be eligible for vaccines by May

By Jeff Mason

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden told US states last Thursday to make all adults eligible for a coronavirus vaccine by May 1 and urged Americans to stay vigi-lant or face more restrictions hours after he signed a $19 trillion stimulus bill into law

In a forceful but somber speech from the White House on the fi rst anniversary of the pandemic lockdown Biden said if Ameri-cans pulled together there could be a great-er sense of normalcy - and some backyard barbecue parties with small groups - on the US Independence Day holiday on July 4

That date is a new goal for the president and a projection of hope amid a pandemic that has killed more than 530000 people in the United States the most of any country

To achieve his summer target Biden said he needed Americansrsquo help

ldquoIf we donrsquot stay vigilant and the con-ditions change then we may have to rein-state restrictions to get back on trackrdquo he said in an evening address from the White House his fi rst in television prime time since becoming president

ldquoWersquove made so much progress This is not the time to let up Just as we are emerging from a dark winter into a hope-ful spring and summer is not the time to not stick with the rulesrdquo he said

Republicans swiftly criticized Biden for his cautious approach ldquoWhat America needs now is to fully reopen our economy and our classroomsrdquo House of Represen-tatives Republican leader Kevin McCarthy said on Twitter

Biden said he was ordering US states territories and tribes to make all adults eli-gible to receive a coronavirus vaccine by May 1 The White House has said it would have enough vaccine supply to vaccinate the adult population by the end of May About 10 of Americans so far have been fully vaccinated

Administration offi cials said he would deploy 4000 more troops to help with the vaccine eff ort bringing the total number to 6000 The White House is also seeking to expand the pool of people able to adminis-ter shots to include dentists optometrists paramedics veterinarians and medical stu-dents

Biden campaigned last year on a prom-ise that he would tackle the pandemic more eff ectively than Republican Presi-dent Donald Trump and he has sought to encourage and model behavior such as mask-wearing that Trump eschewed

In his speech Biden took a swipe at his

predecessor by saying the virus was ini-tially met with ldquodenials for days weeks then months that led to more deaths more infections more stress more lonelinessrdquo

Biden said hate crimes and harassment against Asian Americans must stop Trump repeatedly referred to the disease as the ldquoChina virusrdquo

Biden also encouraged Americans to keep up mitigation eff orts - wearing masks keeping social distance and prac-ticing good hygiene - to stop the virus and its variants from spreading A number of states have been loosening restrictions

as Americans like many people around the world grow weary of pandemic life

ldquoPhotos and videos from 2019 feel like they were taken in another era The last vacation The last birthday with friends The last holiday with extended familyrdquo Biden said recounting the toll the virus has wrought

He said the country would come away from the crisis stronger ldquoWe faced and overcame one of the toughest and darkest periods in this nationrsquos history - darkest wersquove ever knownrdquo he said

Moderna begins study of COVID-19 vaccine in kids

Moderna Inc has begun dosing patients in a mid-to-late stage study of its COV-ID-19 vaccine mRNA-1273 in children aged six months to less than 12 years the company said on Tuesday

The study will assess the safety and ef-fectiveness of two doses of mRNA-1273 given 28 days apart and intends to enroll about 6750 children in the United States and Canada

The vaccine has already been au-thorized for emergency use in

Americans who are aged 18 and older

In a separate study which began in De-cember Moderna is also testing mRNA-1273 in adolescents between 12 and 18 years old

The latest study is being conducted in collaboration with the National Insti-tute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA)

Mother who lost only son to rare COVID complication warns parents to look for early signs

SANTIAGO - By the time doctors real-ized that Lorena Navarretersquos son had a rare complication of COVID-19 that affl icts some children it was too late to save her 16-year-old Emilio

Lorena a single mother who lives in the southern Chilean city of Puerto Montt told the TVN network that her music-loving and sociable son died about a week after he fi rst complained of feeling tired and of a pain in his legs in late January

Within days he had developed livid blotches on his skin a high fever vomiting and dark urine

Doctors at the cityrsquos hospital overrun with severe COVID cases repeatedly tested him for COVID but with the results coming back negative were at a loss as to what was wrong with him

By the time his illness was identifi ed as Multisystem Infl ammatory Syndrome in Children it was too late Lorena could not be at her sonrsquos bedside because of strict health protocols but a social worker called to pass on the message that her son loved

her very much She asked the social worker to tell her son she would see him soon and that his pets were well

ldquoA doctor said that if I had faith I should pray because my son was very illrdquo said Na-varrete who works as a nurse technician ldquoThey had a diagnosis and it was PIMSrdquo

Multisystem Infl ammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) as PIMS is more com-monly known is a rare life-threatening syndrome linked to COVID-19

It usually appears between two and six weeks after infection even in asymptomatic cases of COVID-19

It shares symptoms with toxic shock and Kawasaki disease including fever rashes swollen glands conjunctivitis and in severe cases heart infl ammation and can cause multiple organ failure It is not always fatal if caught and treated early

The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention said in January that it was inves-tigating whether COVID variants were in-creasing the number or severity of cases fol-lowing anecdotal reports from some states

US President Joe Biden

HEALTH amp SCIENCE17India Bulletin

HEALTH amp SCIENCE

Saturday March 20 2021

By Anthony Deutsch and Caroline Copley

AMSTERDAM - Global health experts came under in-creasing pressure on Tuesday to clear up questions over the safety of AstraZenecarsquos CO-VID-19 shot as Sweden and Latvia joined countries suspend-ing their use in a further blow to Europersquos vaccination rollout

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said it was

investigating reports of 30 cases of unusual blood disorders out of 5 million recipients of the As-traZeneca vaccine In total 45 million COVID shots have been delivered across the region

The EU regulator will release its findings on Thursday but its head Emer Cooke said she saw no reason to change its recom-mendation of AstraZeneca - one of four vaccines that it has approved for use

ldquoThe benefits continue to

outweigh the risks but this is a serious concern and it does need serious and detailed scientific evaluationrdquo Cooke told a news conference

A World Health Organization (WHO) committee of experts was reviewing the cases and was expected to issue a statement by the end of the day a spokesman said

The EUrsquos largest members - Germany France and Italy - suspended use of AstraZenecarsquos vaccine on Monday pending the outcome of investigations into unusual cases of a rare cerebral thrombosis in people who had received it

The addition of Sweden and Latvia on Tuesday brought to 13 the number of EU countries to act since reports first emerged of thromboembolisms affect-ing people after they got the AstraZeneca shot

The WHO and EMA had ear-lier joined AstraZeneca in say-ing there is no proven link but some experts said the episodes of blood clots bleeding and low platelet counts in younger people seemed to indicate a causal con-nection to the AstraZeneca shot

ldquoThe benefits of vaccination significantly outweigh the risks especially for the elderlyrdquo said Karl Lauterbach health spokes-man for Germanyrsquos Social Democratic Party

ldquoBut it could be the case that the risks of the vaccine are high-er for certain patient groups such as young womenrdquo Lauterbach an epidemiologist whose party is part of the Berlin coalition told Deutschlandfunk radio in an interview

Other epidemiologists note that similar cases have not been found in unusual num-bers in Britain which began using AstraZeneca earlier and has given more than 10 million doses

ldquoA very likely explanation of at least some of the clotting dis-orders seen are a result of CO-VID-19 rather than the vaccinerdquo said Stephen Evans professor of pharmacoepidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

ldquoThere are published papers that make clear that these prob-lems definitely occur in COV-ID-19 and there is no doubt that all the vaccines in use prevent

that disease Hence the risk and benefit balance for the AstraZen-eca vaccine remains clearly in favour of its benefitsrdquo

In the EUrsquos largest states in-cluding Germany France Italy the Netherlands and Spain As-traZeneca has accounted for about 13-15 of shots given since the rollout began almost three months ago with Pfizer-BioNTech making up the major-ity according to official data

As one as the cheapest to be developed the AstraZeneca shot is set to be the mainstay of vac-cination programmes in much of the developing world

Governments say they acted on the AstraZeneca shot out of an abundance of caution - of 16 million people in Germany given the vaccine seven fell ill with a very rare cerebral vein thrombosis of whom three died

In a detailed analysis of its findings Germanyrsquos vaccine oversight body the Paul Eh-rlich Institute said six of the cases were in women of young or middle age - a number statis-tically significantly higher than normally expected

Health experts pore over AstraZeneca safety data as Europe reels from vaccine suspensions

Global health experts came under increasing pressure on Tuesday to clear up questions over the safety of AstraZenecarsquos COVID-19 shot as Sweden and Latvia joined countries suspending their use in a further blow to Europersquos vaccination rollout

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India Bulletin Saturday March 20 2021

India Bulletin 19Saturday March 20 2021

Kishan Kohli help India level T20 series against England

AHMEDABAD - A belliger-ent 56 off 32 balls from India debutant Ishan Kishan and an unbeaten 73 from captain Virat Kohli helped the hosts to a com-manding seven-wicket win over England in the second Twenty20 International in Ahmedabad on Sunday

Kishan 22 smashed leg-spinner Adil Rashid for two con-secutive sixes to get past fifty as India made short work of a 165-run target to win with 13 balls to spare and level the five-match

series at 1-1Indiarsquos chase of Englandrsquos

164-6 got off to a shaky start when Sam Curran sent back opener KL Rahul in the first over without scoring but it did not curb Kishanrsquos aggres-sion the left-hander hitting five fours and four sixes in total

There was plenty of entertain-ment for the sizeable crowd at the worldrsquos biggest cricket sta-dium with most fans not wear-ing masks in the stands as Kohli

and Kishan added 94 in nine overs

Rishabh Pant came in after the dismissal of Kishan who was dropped by Ben Stokes on 40 off Rashid and continued to pummel Englandrsquos bowlers with a 13-ball 26 during which he hit two sixes and an identical number of fours

Kohli who also survived a dropped chance by wicketkeeper Jos Buttler on 10 off Chris Jor-dan sealed the win with a four and a six in successive balls to

also get past 3000 runs in T20 internationals in the process

Jason Roy once again top-scored for England with a 35-ball 46 following up on his knock of 49 in their win in the first match last Friday

Put in to bat the right-hander gave the touring side a steady start with a 63-run stand for the second wicket with Dawid Malan after the loss of opening partner Buttler to seamer Bhu-vneshwar Kumar on the first delivery he faced

Roy hit four fours and two six-es in his knock before holing out in the deep off spinner Washing-ton Sundar who also sent back the dangerous Jonny Bairstow for 20

Fast bowler Shardul Thakur pegged back Englandrsquos hopes of a flourishing finish by dis-missing opposition captain Eoin Morgan and Stokes as India conceded just 35 off the last five overs

The third match of the series will be played on Tuesday

Virat Kohli

Rohit urges India debutants to lsquohave funrsquo against England in T20 series

After Suryakumar Yadav and Ishan Kishan earned their maiden call-ups to the Indian national team vice-captain Rohit Sharma stressed on the importance of playing with-out any pressure when they take on England in a Twenty20 series

Kishan and Suryakumar were named in the squad after plun-dering 516 and 480 runs re-spectively in the Indian Premier League last season where the pair played under Rohit for the

Mumbai Indians as they clinched their fifth title in November

ldquoI donrsquot want them to be think-ing about anythingrdquo Rohit told reporters on Wednesday ldquoThatrsquos how they bring their best perfor-mance out

ldquoHaving watched them closely for a few years now Irsquove realised itrsquos important for them to be part of this wonder-ful team a great setup I just want them to have fun and un-derstand what this team is all about

ldquoThese guys have done re-ally well in the last few years especially the last year Itrsquos just about carrying that form and putting it out there Itrsquos not go-ing to be that easy here they will be challenged every now and thenrdquo

For England itrsquos a much-awaited return to the squad for all-rounder Liam Livingstone who had similar success in Aus-traliarsquos Big Bash League where he scored 426 runs for Perth Scorchers

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By Ken Ritter

LAS VEGAS (AP) - A woman arrested in Las Vegas several days after an attack on an Uber driver in San Francisco that was widely viewed on social media agreed to be transferred in custody to California to face criminal charges

Malaysia Kingrsquos court appearance in Las Vegas came hours after police in San Francisco announced that Arna Kimiai 24 a woman seen with King in the Uber driver confrontation turned herself in to face rob-bery assault and battery conspiracy and other charges

Kimiairsquos attorney Seth Morris said Kimiai posted a $75000 bond to go free pending a future court appearance during which charges could be filed

Video provided by the driver showed a maskless woman later identified as Kim-iai coughing on him and grabbing his cellphone Police also said that as three women exited the vehicle one sprayed what was believed to be pepper spray toward the driver

In Las Vegas King 24 did not have a lawyer during her brief court appearance by closed-circuit video She agreed not to contest extradition She was not asked about the charges against her

King was arrested on a warrant from California accusing her of assault with a caustic chemical conspiracy assault and battery and a health and safety code violation

Justice of the Peace Eric Goodman said authorities from California have 30 days to take King into custody and told her she may also face felony charges in Las Vegas stemming from allegations that she and a man tried to use another personrsquos identi-fication to obtain funds from that personrsquos bank account

Court records show King was arraigned on burglary and conspiracy charges in that case and has a court date in May

The Uber driver Subhakar Khadka 32 was attacked after stopping his car when he realized one of three female passengers wasnrsquot wearing a mask police said

Woman in Uber driver attack to be returned to San FranciscoldquoAn altercation ensued largely captured

on videordquo San Francisco police said in a statement about Kimiairsquos arrest

At one point the video shows Kimiai coughing on Khadkas grabbing his cell-phone from the center dash area and ripping off Khadkasrsquo face mask

Khadkas regained possession of his phone but was sprayed with what was be-lieved to be pepper spray as the women got out of his car police said

Khadka later said he believed he was attacked because he is a South Asian im-migrant However authorities have not commented on the allegation and no hate crimes charges have been filed Khadka came to the US eight years ago and works to support his family in Nepal

Uber said in a statement that it had banned all three riders

A GoFundMe account to assist Khadka raised more than $97000 The San Fran-cisco Chronicle reported that he planned to spend the money pursuing legal action and to support his family

Former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi has memoir out in September

NEW YORK (AP) - Former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi has a memoir coming out this fall that her publisher is calling an ldquounvarnished takerdquo on her rise to be-coming one of the worldrsquos most powerful women

ldquoMy Life in Full Work Family and Our Futurerdquo will be published Sept 28 Portfolio Books announced Nooyi 65 will trace her life from her childhood in India to her experiences as an immi-grant at Yale Universityrsquos business school to her many achievements as the rare woman and person of color in the upper echelons of the corporate world

She worked at PepsiCo for 24 years 12 of them as CEO before stepping down in 2018 While she was CEO PepsiCorsquos revenues grew from $35 bil-lion to $635 billion and she became known for promoting such ldquogood for yourdquo snacks as Baked Layrsquos potato chips and Naked juices made of fruits and vegetables

The mother of two children she also spoke candidly while at PepsiCo of the difficulties in balancing commitments

ldquoAs I wrote lsquoMy Life in Fullrsquo I saw how my own story relates to our evolv-ing global economy and how it may

inform our progress on better integrat-ing work and family in the years aheadrdquo Nooyi said in a statement ldquoI hope this book inspires business leaders policy-makers and all women and men pas-sionate about easing the work-and-fam-ily burden to come together and create changerdquo

Portfolio is an imprint at Penguin Ran-dom House Financial terms for Nooyirsquos book were not disclosed She was rep-resented by Washington attorney Robert Barnett whose clients range from for-mer President Barack Obama to Nike co-founder Phil Knight

Owner of IT services company pleads guilty to defrauding New York State

ALBANY NY - Lakshmikanth Sri-puram age 37 of Monmouth Junction New Jersey pled guilty this month to wire fraud conspiracy in connection with a scheme to defraud New York State

Sripuram is the president of PIntegra LLC As part of his plea he admitted that between 2015 and 2017 he conspired with Co-Conspirator 1 a former employ-ee of the Office of the State Comptrol-ler (OSC) to fraudulently obtain money from OSC

In January 2015 OSC entered into a contract with a consortium of three companies to identify and hire computer

programmers for a project When OSC needed to hire a programmer it sent a request form to one of the three com-panies Each company then submitted a purportedly qualified applicant Fre-quently the applicants were employed by subcontractors including PIntegra

From January 2015 through October 2016 OSC hired 17 programmers for the project at hourly rates ranging from $80 to $120 In late 2016 OSC learned that many of the programmersrsquo refer-ences and work histories were not le-gitimate including those hired from PIntegra and launched an internal investigation

Indra Nooyi

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HEALTH amp SCIENCE5Saturday March 20 2021

NATIONAL NEWSIndia Bulletin

WASHINGTON DC - With assets worth tens of millions of dollars associate attorney gen-eral nominee Vanita Gupta is thus far the Biden administrationrsquos wealthiest political nominee that has publicly released a finan-cial disclosure form ABC News reported

The disclosure of Guptarsquos finan-cial interests came as she faced a rocky confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week

Gupta a civil rights attorney-

turned Justice Department nomi-nee has reported owning between $42 million and $187 million in assets and properties with her spouse in her disclosure report filed to the Office of Government Ethics She reported earning be-tween $902000 and $3 million in the past year the filing shows

The biggest chunks of her as-sets come from her shares in companies linked to her father Raj Gupta a corporate chairman and Wall Street financier with vast corporate interests

Associate Attorney General pick Gupta would be wealthiest member of Bidenrsquos administration

According to the filing Vanita Gupta owns between $11 mil-lion and $55 million in shares of Avantor a chemicals and ma-terials company headquartered in Pennsylvania for which Raj Gupta is the chairman of the board

She also reported owning be-tween $500000 and $1 million in shares of Aptiv an American-Irish-British auto parts company headquartered in Dublin Ireland for which Raj Gupta also serves as chairman

According to the report Gupta also owns between $950000 and $2 million in entities connected to the private equity firm New Mountain Capital for which her father has served as a senior ad-viser Raj Gupta has also served on the board of the Vanguard Group one of the biggest index fund companies and Vanita Gup-ta owns between $11 million and $49 million worth of Vanguard index funds which are com-monly owned by other political appointees

She holds much of those assets through family trusts she controls except for $5 million to $25 mil-lion in Avantor $500000 to $1 million in Aptiv and six-figures in New Mountain Finance Co which are under a brokerage account

In her ethics agreement provid-ed by the Biden transition team Vanita Gupta wrote that she would retain her financial interests in those companies but would resign from her position as co-trustee of her family trust

Vanita GuptaMan involved in IRS phone scam ordered to pay restitution

NEW YORK - A former Mas-sachusetts man who tried to flee to Canada to avoid a prison sen-tence for his role in a phone scam that bilked area residents out of hundreds of thousands of dol-lars has been ordered to pay more than $250000 in restitution

Ashokkumar ldquoAndyrdquo Patel formerly of Worcester was re-sponsible for helping steal more than $880000 but the identities

of many victims could not be traced prosecutors said in federal court The Telegram amp Gazette reported

Patelrsquos lawyer Vikas Dhar said Patel made less than $50000 for his role in the scheme

Patel pleaded guilty last Sep-tember to wire fraud and money laundering for his role in a com-plicated scheme in which foreign callers duped people into sending

them money by posing as IRS debt collectors

He was sentenced to more than three years in prison

But before he started serving the sentence he was apprehended by Canadian authorities in Octo-ber on the Canada-Washington after diving into a ditch He was indicted in November for con-tempt of court in connection with the alleged escape attempt

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By Rajendra Jadhavand Rama Venkat

MUMBAI - New coronavirus infections in India rose by the most in more than three months as a second wave of the epidemic gathered momentum with Ma-harashtra the countryrsquos richest state accounting for two-thirds of the latest daily tally

Home to Indiarsquos commer-cial capital Mumbai the west-ern state reported 23179 of the countryrsquos 35871 new cases in

the past 24 hours and the fast spreading contagion in major industrial areas raised risks of companiesrsquo production being disrupted

Indiarsquos total cases stood at 1147 million the highest after the United States and Brazil Deaths rose by 172 to 159216 according to health ministry data released on Thursday

The countryrsquos first wave peaked in September at nearly 100000 cases a day with daily infections hitting a low of just

over 9000 early last monthCases have been rising in Ma-

harashtra since the reopening of most economic activities in Feb-ruary Mumbairsquos suburban trains which carry millions of people daily also resumed services

The state of 112 million peo-ple ordered a fresh lockdown in some districts and put curbs on cinemas hotels and restaurants until the end of the month after infections rose to a multi-month high earlier this week

New cases have more than doubled in the past two weeks in Maharashtrarsquos industrial towns such as Pune Aurangabad Na-shik and Nagpur known for their

automobile pharmaceutical and textile factories

ldquoWe have asked industries there to operate with minimum manpower as much possiblerdquo said a senior Maharashtra gov-ernment official declining to be named as he was not authorised to talk to the media ldquoMost of the IT companies have allowed their employees to work from homerdquo

Hospital beds and special CO-VID-19 facilities were filling up fast especially in Mumbai Nag-pur and Pune said another state official

Earlier this month more than 80 of oxygen and intensive-care beds in Maharashtra were

unoccupiedHalf a dozen other states such

as Punjab and Madhya Pradesh have also seen a rise in cases this month The government has blamed crowding and a re-luctance to wear masks for the rise

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday asked state leaders to quickly increase test-ing and expand vaccination to ldquostop the emerging second peak of coronardquo

India has administered more than 365 million vaccine dos-es since starting its immuni-sation drive in the middle of January

Maharashtra state suffers surge in COVID-19 cases

A health worker in personal protective equipment (PPE) collects a swab sample from a woman during a rapid antigen testing campaign for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a railway station platform in Mumbai

Pandemic pushes 32 million Indians out of middle class says Pew Research

By Manoj Kumar

NEW DELHI - Financial woes brought by last yearrsquos coronavi-rus pandemic have pushed about 32 million Indians out of the middle class undoing years of economic gains a report showed on Thursday while job losses pushed millions into poverty

The number of Indians in the middle class or those earn-

ing between $10 and $20 a day shrunk by about 32 million compared with the number that could have been reached in the absence of a pandemic the US-based Pew Research Centre said

A year into the pandemic the numbers of those in the middle class has shrunk to 66 million down a third from a pre-pan-demic estimate of 99 million it added

ldquoIndia is estimated to have seen a greater decrease in the middle class and a much sharper rise in poverty than China in the COVID-19 downturnrdquo the Pew Research Centre said citing the World Bankrsquos forecasts of economic growth

Nearly 57 million people had joined the middle income group between 2011 and 2019 it added

6 Saturday March 20 2021

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INTERNATIONAL NEWS

By Krishna N Das

NEW DELHI - Indiarsquos main opposition Congress party on Tuesday hit out at Prime Minis-ter Narendra Modirsquos government for exporting nearly twice the number of coronavirus vaccine doses than immunisations con-ducted at home despite a surge in infections

India the worldrsquos biggest vac-cine maker has gifted or sold here 59 million locally produced doses compared with 33 million

doses given to its own people since its inoculation campaign began in mid-January

While some rich countries such as the United States are being accused of vaccine na-tionalism India is being lauded globally for sending shots to 71 countries mainly the AstraZen-eca vaccine as well as some of Bharat Biotechrsquos homegrown product

Many Indians however now want the government to make vaccines available to more of its

own people instead of only the elderly and those above 45 suf-fering from health conditions

ldquoThe priority of the Modi government is not the state but foreign nationsrdquo Congress said on Twitter using the tag India-NeedsMoreVaccines and accus-ing the premier of focusing on

ldquoPR over peoplerdquoldquoThe pace of vaccination in

states is slow due to the centrali-sation in vaccine distributionrdquo it said

Health Minister Harsh Vard-han told parliament that vac-cines were not being exported at the ldquoexpense of the people of

Indiardquo and that a balance was being struck

Indiarsquos immunisation drive has picked up significantly since Modi expanded it this month Still Bangladesh is vaccinat-ing more people relative to its population using India-made shots

India worldrsquos top vaccine maker criticised at home for exports as infections rise

A healthcare worker collects a swab sample from a woman amidst the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a bus station in New Delhi India on March 16 2021

India child rights group asks police to probe Netflix show lsquoBombay Begumsrsquo

By Abhirup Roy

MUMBAI - A government agency for child rights in In-dia on Tuesday asked police to investigate Netflix Incrsquos show ldquoBombay Begumsrdquo saying some scenes in the drama series violated laws meant to protect children letters seen by Reuters showed

The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCP-CR) has asked the US streaming giant to remove five ldquoobjection-ablerdquo scenes from the series and wrote to the police chief in Indiarsquos financial capital Mumbai to take action

ldquoYou are requested to investi-gateinquire and take deemed law-ful necessary actionrdquo NCPCRrsquos

chairperson Priyank Kanoongo wrote in the letter

A Mumbai police spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment Netflix de-clined to comment

ldquoBombay Begumsrdquo is a se-ries about five women from dif-ferent parts of society trying to get ahead in modern Mumbai formerly called Bombay It was released last week

In a separate letter to Netflix NCPCR asked the company to remove five scenes which it said violated Indian laws governing Juvenile Justice and the Protec-tion of Children from Sexual Of-fences

In the series children have been shown indulging ldquoin snort-ing drugs and taking inde-

cent pictures and selfies in the classroomrdquo NCPCR told Netflix

The child rights group first asked Netflix to stop streaming the series last week after review-ing complaints on Twitter As of Tuesday the show was still avail-able for viewing on Netflix in India

Netflix officials met the child rights agency on Tuesday to dis-cuss details of the scenes and objections from NCPCR which gave the company two days to consult its legal team

Video streaming platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video have recently faced a barrage of complaints around promoting obscenity or hurting religious sentiments in India a key growth market

HEALTH amp SCIENCE9

INTERNATIONAL NEWSIndia Bulletin

NEW DELHI - Indiarsquos new oversight of digital news platforms is drawing protest from the media industry and activists who fear the rules will curb press freedom in the worldrsquos largest democracy

India which has one of the worldrsquos biggest and most diverse media industries last month an-nounced the Intermediary Guide-lines and Digital Media Ethics Code aimed at pushing Big Tech fi rms such as Facebook to com-ply with content takedown orders However it also extends to news websites

The rules impose a three-tier regulatory mechanism requir-ing a grievance offi cer to resolve complaints and a government panel to have broad oversight The most senior government offi cial in the information and broadcast-ing ministry will also have emer-gency powers to order content be blocked

Media executives fear such oversight could lead to censor-ship of content seen as critical of

the government and three digi-tal news outlets have approached state courts

ldquoTheserules will signify the death of media independence in Indiardquo said Siddharth Varadara-jan editor of independent news website lsquoThe Wirersquo Its publisher has challenged the regulation in the Delhi High Court

LiveLaw a legal news web-site has challenged the rules in the Kerala High Court which this week said no coercive ac-tion should be taken against the website for non-compliance

The government says the new rules are aimed at achieving par-ity between digital media and print and TV news regulations Refer-ring to the rules for digital me-dia information and broadcasting minister Prakash Javadekar last month said ldquoevery freedom has to be responsible freedomrdquo

The number of online media outlets in India has increased in recent years but some journalists have complained they face intimi-

Indiarsquos digital media regulation sparks fears of curbs on press freedomdation for reporting stories critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his administration

Modirsquos administration says it favours press freedom

ldquoI think these rules will restrict and constrain press freedom as indeed freedom more gener-allyrdquo said Zoya Hasan a former professor of political science at New Delhirsquos Jawaharlal Nehru University

ldquoThis whole regulation is about control of digital media and other platforms as therersquos little tolerance for dissenting voicesrdquo

US think tank Freedom House recently said Modi and his party are driving India toward ldquoauthori-tarianismrdquo adding political rights and civil liberties had deteriorated since he came to power in 2014 The government called the re-port ldquomisleading incorrect and misplacedrdquo

On Thursday Javadekar said on Twitter that a group represent-ing leading newspapers and TV channels had welcomed the new

regulation and asked that their members ldquobe treated diff erentlyrdquo from digital-only news publishers

That has drawn criticism from

some smaller digital news outlets which have questioned why they are being ignored while seeking exemptions

Indiarsquos new oversight of digital news platforms is drawing protest from the media industry and activists who fear the rules will curb press freedom in the worldrsquos largest democracy

Saturday March 20 2021

India activist breaks silence on sedition arrest says she felt lsquoviolatedrsquo

By Alasdair Pal

NEW DELHI - An Indian climate activist linked to Greta Thunberg said she felt ldquoviolat-edrdquo by her arrest last month on sedition charges and her treat-ment by the media her fi rst comments on a case that sparked international criticism

Disha Ravi a 22-year-old vegan and member of Thun-bergrsquos Fridays for Future move-ment was charged in February over an online document about months-long protests by Indian farmers

Ten days after her arrest and following widespread criti-cism a court in Indiarsquos capital New Delhi granted her bail citing ldquoscanty and sketchy evi-dencerdquo that she was involved in

fomenting violenceldquoI had coerced myself into be-

lieving that the only way I would be able to live through this was by tricking myself into thinking that this wasnrsquot happening to merdquo Ravi said in a statement

ldquoMy actions were pronounced

guilty - not in the court of law but on fl at screensrdquo

Police say the document Ravi created stoked violence on Jan 26 Indiarsquos Republic Day when some protesting farmers broke free of a planned march and clashed with police

Angry at new agricultural laws they say benefi t large pri-vate buyers at the expense of growers tens of thousands of farmers have been camped on the outskirts of New Delhi since late last year

Swedish climate activist Thunberg popstar Rihanna and US activist Meena Harris the niece of Vice President Kamala Harris all tweeted in support of the protests last month drawing a rebuke from Indiarsquos foreign ministry

India frets over wastage of lsquoelixir-likersquo COVID-19 vaccinesNEW DELHI - About 65

of coronavirus vaccine doses in India are going to waste health offi cials said on Wednesday urging states to manage their im-munisation drives better to opti-mise use of what one called ldquothis elixir-like precious commodityrdquo

One reason for the wastage is that while many urban vaccina-tion centres have been crowded some rural sites have had to nudge people to get shots due to a lack of awareness among the public which can lead to vaccine wastage

Once a vaccine vial is opened doses need to be administered within four hours making it vital for health workers to coordinate the fl ow of recipients

The federal health ministry has distributed 754 million vac-cine doses to Indiarsquos states of which some 36 million doses

have so far been used India is using the AstraZeneca shot and another developed at home by Bharat Biotech

The government did not say how many doses had been wast-ed but the percentage fi gure suggests it could be more than 2 million a big number given that many countries have yet to start inoculating their citizens and India itself is only immunising priority groups

ldquoWastage of this elixir-like precious commodity the most important thing now for an indi-vidual or the country as a whole is absolutely wrongrdquo top health offi cial Vinod Kumar Paul told a news conference

The large states of Telan-gana Andhra Pradesh and Ut-tar Pradesh have seen wastage of 9-18 the government said

Disha Ravi

By Aftab Ahmedand Sankalp Phartiyal

NEW DELHI - India is likely to block its mobile carriers from using telecom equipment made by Chinarsquos Huawei two govern-ment officials said under pro-curement rules due to come into force in June

New Delhi is wary about awarding new technology busi-ness to Chinese firms both be-cause of security fears and a desire to get Indian manufactur-

ers to produce more telecoms equipment

A US campaign to curb Huawei has triggered bans or limits on the use of its equip-ment around the world but the situation in India has been amplified by strained rela-tions between New Delhi and Beijing over their shared border

Indiarsquos telecoms department said last Wednesday that after June 15 carriers can only buy certain types of equipment from

government-approved ldquotrusted sourcesrdquo and said New Delhi could also create a ldquono procure-mentrdquo blacklist Huawei is likely to feature on this embargoed list the two officials who declined to be named told Reuters

ldquoWe cannot prioritise econom-ic gains if an investment poses national security riskrdquo one of the officials said

The telecoms department which did not comment last Thursday about Huawei is yet to provide further details on the plans for trusted sources or a procurement blacklist

However a third official who also declined to be named told

Reuters that ZTE Corp another Chinese firm which has a smaller presence in India could also be excluded

Huawei and ZTE are un-der scrutiny for allegedly in-stalling ldquobackdoorrdquo vulner-abilities to spy for the Chinese government

Both have denied the allega-tions and Huawei has previously told Reuters it is ready to enter into a ldquono backdoorrdquo deal with India to allay security concerns

Huawei and ZTE did not im-mediately respond to requests for comment

Two of Indiarsquos three big tele-coms carriers Bharti Airtel and

Vodafone Idea use Huawei gear Any restriction on Huawei gear is likely to push up costs industry analysts say

The Chinese firmrsquos equipment and network maintenance con-tracts are typically cheaper than European competitors such as Ericsson and Nokia and there is limited availability of such gear in India

India has begun to fast-track approvals of some of the more than 150 Chinese investment proposals worth over $2 billion it had put on hold after a June standoff between the two neigh-bours on the disputed Himalayan border

India likely to block Chinarsquos Huawei over security fears officials

India Bulletin

India is likely to block its mobile carriers from using telecom equipment made by Chinarsquos Huawei two government officials said under procurement rules due to come into force in June UKrsquos Johnson to visit India at

end of April as part of policy lsquotiltrsquoLONDON - PM Boris Johnson

will visit India at the end of April in what will be his first major in-ternational trip after Britainrsquos exit from the European Union as part of efforts to boost UK opportuni-ties in the region his office said

Johnson had planned an Indian trip in January as part of efforts to speed up trade talks between the two nations but was forced to cancel amid a surge of COVID-19

infections at homeAt the time his office said he

had hoped to rearrange the visit before Britain hosted the meet-ing of leaders from the Group of Seven rich nations in June which Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is due to attend as a visitor

Johnsonrsquos government said it would ldquotiltrdquo its focus towards the Indo-Pacific region as part of its Integrated Review of government

policy for the coming years say-ing the area increasingly repre-sented the geopolitical centre of the world

Last month Britain made a for-mal request to join the Compre-hensive and Progressive Agree-ment for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) seeking membership of the 11-country bloc to open new avenues for post-Brexit trade and influence

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HEALTH amp SCIENCE11India BulletinSaturday March 20 2021

ADVERTORIAL

ldquoJAINISM A Resilient Path to Peacerdquo

The Federation of Jain Asso-ciations in North America (JAI-NA) will be celebrating its 21st Convention on the Fourth of July weekend mdash from July 1st to 6th 2021 Every two years this premier event brings together members of the Jain Community from across the world This year the virtual event is planned to be a global event and is expected to attract an even larger audience from the USA Canada India UK Australia UAE and many other countries

In face of all the turbulence throughout the world in the last year it is paramount for us to be vigilant compassionate tolerant and to ldquokeep the faithrdquo Jain-ism one of the ancient minor-ity religions has thrived worse than the pandemic based on its wisdom of Maitri (Amity) in-terdependence and honoring and respecting life at any cost The Convention will showcase our firm belief that spirituality enables us to sustain our sense of self and purpose through be-liefs principles values and morals Hence the theme for this yearrsquos Convention is ldquoJAINISM A Resilient Path to Peacerdquo

Convention Convener and First Vice President of JAINA Mr Haresh Shah of Delaware proudly shared that the attendee response has been overwhelming with more than 5000 registra-tions as of this writing Conven-tion Co-Convener and JAINA President Mr Mahesh Wadher of Los Angeles expressed his grati-tude for 100+ volunteers across 23 teams working day and night as ONE TEAM to make this convention the most memorable ever Convention Co-Convener Mr Bindesh Shah mentioned that the Convention will feature a state-of-the-art user-friend-ly and interactive conference platform with many features such as an online Main Hall 6 Breakout Rooms 4 Competi-tion Rooms and an Exhibition Hall

Enlightening discourses dis-cussion tracks and activities planned at this Convention will offer attendees a deeper under-standing of Jain principles and values while also helping the community with a roadmap to bounce back Youth participa-tion through JAINArsquos affiliate organizations Young Jains of America (YJA) Young Jain Pro-fessionals (YJP) as well as Jain

Announcing JAINA Convention 2021 July 1-6 2021Connect will be strongly pro-moted and encouraged There will be focused programs for all age groups children (ages 5-12) youth (ages 13-20) Jain Networking Forum (ages 21-29) and adults

Other featured events include the popular Jain Academic Bowl (JAB) a jeopardy style vo-cabulary game in which young Jains compete with other teams Jains Got Talent (JGT) and Vir-tual Tirthdham Darshan ndash A nar-rated Tirth Yatra of 12 major Jain Tirth of India broadcast live

Public Relations and Media Committee Chair Mr Vipul Shah of Chicago proudly con-firmed that spiritual dignitar-ies such as Acharya Ratna-sundersuri Maharaj Saheb Acharya Shri Mahashramanji Rashtrasant Gurudev Shree Namramuni Pramansagarji Maharaj Sadhvi Charitraarth Prabhaji and many others will enlighten us with their wisdom during the Convention Acharya Lokesh Muniji Acharya Chan-danaji and Bhattarak Charuke-ertiji will bless the Convention with their Ashirwad speeches While Gurudevshri Rakeshbhai Jhaveri will give the keynote

address other featured speakers include Shri Deepakbhai Desai Shri Gyanvatsal Swami Brahma Kumari Sister Shivani and Dr Veerendra Heggade The line-up of other prominent and inspi-rational speakers includes Dr Christopher Miller Dr Steven Southwick Rahul Kapoor Jain Motilal Oswal Dr Kumarpal Desai Dr Bipin Doshi and Dr Bimal Chajjer

The daily sessions and discus-sions will be well-complement-ed by refreshing Cultural Pro-grams in the evening including Jain Drama Rang De Sanskar - a high caliber humorous Hindi drama with famous actors amp an immense cast Jains Got Talent (JGT) and entertaining cultural performances from across the world A special Bollywood Musical ldquoSunheri Yaadeinrdquo will take us back 40 years of melodi-ous music to celebrate 40 Years Anniversary of JAINA

JAINA convention 2021 is an

invitation to all who aspire for a peaceful resilient recovery from the pandemic and to reweave the delicate fabric of humanity Since opening the registration on January 9th over 5000 at-tendees have already registered for the convention Come join us with our collective wisdom we will dream and create a non-violent future of Love Peace and Collaboration Your pres-ence and participation will help us ground in interconnection and solidarity and walk with you on the resilient path to peace we build together

For additional information about this convention and to register please visit us online at wwwjainaconventionorg

For Further Information please contact Mr Vipul Shah Chair of Public Relations and Press-Media Committee of JAINA Convention 2021 or its Co-Chair Mr Rahul Jain at prjainaorg

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Bollywood BeatDJ Aqeel and Farah Ali Khan are done

with their marriage

Actor Hrithik Roshanrsquos ex-wife Sussane Khanrsquos sister jewellery designer Farah Khan Ali has taken to social media to announce her separation from husband DJ Aqeel after 22 years of marriage In a lengthy post she spoke about how two people grow apart at times and that there is no bad bloodbetween them

The statement read ldquoSome-times two people grow apart Sometimes they outgrow each other It has been 9 years since my relationship with my hus-band Aqeel changed its status as a couple to just friends and to term it simply would be to state that we are ldquoHappily Sepa-ratedrdquordquo

ldquoWe will always be best friends to each other and par-ents to our wonderful children Azaan and Fizaa who love us both equally yet accept that we cannot be a couple any longer This was a mutual decision we took together involving two adults and there wasnrsquot any third person involved The reason we are announcing it publicly now is so that the ones who know us accept our situation grace-fully and always wish well for both of us especially because we hold no animosity of any kind towards one another and will al-ways be there for each otherrdquo it further read

ldquoAqeel is and will always be my family as I will be his We hope that all our well-wishers will accept our deci-sion maturely and not judge us for itrdquo

Bahubali now planned on a budget of 200 crores as Netflix scraps the already shot version of 100 croresNetflix is easily amongst the richest

digital platforms of the world According to our highly placed sources Netfl ix has scrapped the already shot Rs 100 crore version of the Netfl ix Original Bahubali Before The Beginning and have already begun work on a new version of the show this time around on double the cost of Rs 200 crores

ldquoNetfl ix was not satisfi ed with the prod-uct they had in hand and hence decided to scrap it completely They reworked on the script star-cast and technical team and are now reshooting Bahubali Before The Beginning on a never seen before unheard scale for their streaming They see the po-tential in Bahubali of being Indiarsquos answer to Game of Thrones and hence they have decided to take things a notch higher The overall budget for the new part is Rs 200 crore and if we add the scrap value the project now is worth Rs 300 crorerdquo a trade

source told Bollywood HungamaItrsquos produced by SS Rajamouli with

Netflix and is planned as a 9 episode two season limited series showcasing the rise of Shivagami set in the world of Mahishmati Itrsquos said to be a prequel to

Bahubali While the original cast was to feature Mrunal Thakur as Shivagami we still await an update if she will continue to play the queen or has she been replaced by someone else in this revamped Rs 200 crore version of the franchise

Emraan Hashmi says it has been his dream to work with Salman Khan

Emraan Hashmi is being said to be roped in by the makers of the Tiger franchise starring Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif While the latter two will be reprising their roles and Tiger and Zoya in Tiger 3 Emraan Hashmi is being said to play the antagonist marking his fi rst collaboration with the two stars and Yash Raj Films Being

one of the most coveted actors of the industry Salman Khan un-doubtedly is one of the favourites for every celebrity

Speaking about joining the franchise Emraan said that he would love to work in the fran-chise and it has always been a dream for him to work with Salman Khan

In October last year actress Rhea Chakraborty was grant-ed bail by the Bombay High Court after spending nearly two months in judicial cus-tody Her bail has now been challenged in the Supreme Court by the Narcotics Control Bureau(NCB) The case will be heard on Thursday

Rhea Chakraborty was sent to judicial custody last year for drug related charges in the death of her actor boyfriend Sushant Singh Rajput She was granted bail on the condi-tion that she submit a Rs 1 lakh bond and not leave the country without the permission of the court

Rhea Chakrabortyrsquos bail challenged in theSupreme Court by NCB

UNKNOWN FACTS ABOUTBOLLYWOODCELEBRITIES

Aamir Khanrsquos full name is Mohammed Aamir

Hussain Khan Despite being from the fi lm

industry Aamirrsquos parents were not keen on him entering Bollywood In 1984 Aamir worked in

his fi rst ever feature fi lm titled Holi

Very few people are aware of the fact that Kareena Kapoor gave her voice to the song Jab Nahi Aaye for the

fi lm Dev Kareena played a lead role in

the fi lm Unfortunately the movie didnrsquot do well

at the box-offi ce

Bollywood TriviaWhich actress debuted in

the fi lm lsquoKedarnathrsquo

Answer 1

1) Sara Ali Khan2) Katrina Kaif3) Tara Sutaria4) Ananya PandeyWho is the mother of actress

Janhvi Kapoor

Answer 3

1) Kareena2) Karisma3) Sridevi4) Madhuri

12 India Bulletin Saturday March 20 2021

ENTERTAINMENT

Bollywood Beat

The Brihanmumbai Mu-nicipal Corporation (BMC) revealed on their social media page that they have filed an FIR (First information report) against a Bollywood actor for not adhering to Covid-19 guidelines despite testing posi-tive for the deadly virus They even uploaded a picture of the FIR but the name of the celeb-rity was blurred Immediately it led people to speculate who the actor could be

However it has now come to light that the actor in question is Gauahar Khan As per the complaint filed at Oshiwara po-lice station a BMC officer has said that on the night of March 14 he was informed that Gaua-har Khan has tested positive for Coronavirus and yet shersquos not ready to get quarantined Hence the officer reached Gau-ahar Khanrsquos residence but she refused to open the door Later her husband answered from the flat and allegedly shouted at the BMC team

The complainant further states that the actress alleg-edly went out of her house for a shoot Hence the officer claims that she has exposed people to the deadly virus and thus contributed to itrsquos spread

As per a news report S Chai-tanya DCP (operations) and PRO of Mumbai Police has stated that Gauahar Khan has been charged under Sections 188 269 270 of the IPC 51B of NDMA Act 3 of Epidemic Diseases Act

BMC files FIR against

Gauahar Khan

Upcoming FilmsThalaivi

Kangana Ranautand Vijay Deverakonda

RadheSalman Khan

Disha Patani Jackie Shroff and Randeep Hooda

83Ranveer Singh

and Deepika Padukone

Atrangi ReAkshay Kumar Sara Ali Khanand Dhanush

MaidaanAjay Devgn Priyamani

and Keerthy Suresh

Bachchan PandeyAkshay Kumar Bobby Deol

and Riteish Deshmukh

Bell BottomAkshay Kumar Vaani Kapoor Huma Qureshi and Lara Dutta

Satyameva Jayate 2John Abraham Manoj Bajpai

and Divya Khosla Kumar

BrahmastraRanbir Kapoor Alia Bhatt and

Amitabh Bachchan

MOVIE REVIEW

Itrsquos been almost a year when theatres were asked to shut down due to rapid rise in the cases of Coronavirus in the country Two of the films play-ing in theatres at that point were Angrezi Medium produced by Dinesh Vijan and Kaamyaab directed by Hardik Mehta In an interesting turn of events Roohi the film that releases today and kickstarts the movie-watching season in cinemas is helmed by both these personalities So does Roohi manage to enter-tain and enthral the audiences Or does it fail to entice Letrsquos analyse

Roohi is the story of a pos-sessed girl Bhawra Pandey (Rajkummar Rao) and Kattanni Qureshi (Varun Sharma) work as crime journalists in a small town Baagadpur They also specialise in lsquopakdaai shaadirsquo aka bride kidnapping an accepted custom in Baagadpur One day their boss Guniya Shakeel (Manav Vij) orders them to kidnap a girl Roohi (Janhvi Kapoor) from a nearby town Mujaribaad Bhawra and Kattanni manage to kidnap Roohi while she is with her father (Rajesh Jais) As per the lsquopakdaai shaadirsquo custom af-ter the girl is kidnapped she is straight away taken to the mar-

riage venue Bhawra and Kat-tanni are also supposed to fol-low suit with Roohi But after the kidnap takes place Guniya calls them and tells them that the groomrsquos uncle has passed away suddenly Hence the mar-riage will now take place after a week Till then Bhawra and Kattanni are told to keep her as a hostage in an abandoned property in the hills of Ambiya-pur On the first night Bhawra goes to offer dinner to Roohi only to realize that she is pos-sessed Kattanni at first doesnrsquot believe but later even he sees the possessed side of Roohi However instead of being frightened Kattanni falls for the possessed Roohi Bhawra on the other hand is in love with the non-possessed Roohi He decides to help her and get the witch out of her body Kattanni however is averse to the idea as loves the possessed Roohi and if Bhawra succeeds the witch will leave Roohi forever What hap-pens next forms the rest of the film

Mrighdeep Singh Lamba and Gautam Mehras story is inter-esting and novel The writers try their best to bring some-thing new to the table Mrigh-deep Singh Lamba and Gautam Mehras screenplay however is interesting only in parts A few scenes are exceptional and bring the house down But the serious portions donrsquot make the desired impact Mrigh-deep Singh Lamba and Gautam Mehras dialogues are witty But the dialect is too authentic and is incomprehensible at many places

Roohi starts off on an interest-ing note depicting the concept of bride kidnapping in Baagad-pur that too through the eyes of a foreign reporter (Alexx ONell) The film gets better once Bhawra and Kattanni kid-nap Roohi and set base at the spooky abandoned factory The scene where Bhawra narrates about the possessed Roohi to

Kattanni is sure to raise laughs The scene where Kattanni in-stead of running away falls for the possessed Roohi is unique and unexpected It will bring smiles on the faces of the view-ers The interval comes at an in-teresting juncture Post-interval the film begins to fall but a few scenes especially of the marriage with the dog and Bhawrarsquos con-versation with the old lady (Sar-ita Joshi) add to the humour and madness The climax though unpredictable is disappointing

Talking of performances Ra-jkummar Rao is in his element as expected Due to his adorable performance one doesnrsquot hate him even though hersquos playing a kidnapper in the film And his comic timing is spot-on espe-cially in the scenes where hersquos running away from the possessed Roohi Janhvi Kapoor is a big surprise She hardly has any dia-logues but gets her act right with her expressions And she also is convincing as the witch Varun Sharma is marvellous and man-ages to raise laughs In the last 30 minutes however he doesnrsquot have much to do Manav Vij suits the part and his performance is

fair Sarita Joshi (credited in the film as Padma Shri Sarita Joshi) is hilarious and one wish-es that she had a longer screen time Alexx ONell is lovely Rajesh H Jais Anurag Arora (Tantrik) Sumit Gulati (Paras Roohirsquos groom in the end) are okay

Sachin-Jigars music is ap-propriate for the film and itrsquos theme Kiston comes suddenly but is soulful Bhootni is hilari-ous while Panghat is played in the end credits Nadiyon Paar is attached with the filmrsquos print be-fore the film starts It is the best song of the lot and well shot One wishes if it was a part of the filmrsquos narrative Ketan Sodhas background score is well wo-ven and also contributes to the horror quotient

On the whole Roohi rests on a unique concept fine perfor-mances and some interesting funny and horror sequences However the disappointing climax and difficult-to-under-stand dialect might affect the filmrsquos prospects at the box office

BannerMaddock Films

Jio Studios

ProducerDinesh Vijan

Mrighdeep Singh Lamba

DirectorHardik Mehta

StarringRajkummar RaoVarun SharmaJanhvi Kapoor

Music BySachin-Jigar

Released DateMarch 11 2021

Roohi

Rating

Celebrity BirthdaysMarch 21stRani Mukerji (1978)

March 23rdKangana Ranaut (1987)

March 24thEmraan Hashmi (1979)

March 25thYograj Singh (1958)

March 26thPrakash Raj (1965)

April 3rdPrabhu Deva (1973)

April 4thLisa Ray (1972)Simran Bagga (1976)

March 28thAkshaye Khanna(1975) Sandhya Mridul (1975)

March 30thNagesh Kukunoor (1967)

April 2ndAjay Devgn (1969) Kapil Sharma (1981)

13India BulletinSaturday March 20 2021

ENTERTAINMENT

Biz Briefs

Apple Inc has started the as-sembly of iPhone 12 in India the US tech giant said as the com-pany ramps up manufacturing operations in the worldrsquos sec-ond-biggest smartphone market

ldquoWe are proud to be starting production of iPhone 12 in India for our local customersrdquo Apple said in a statement without naming the supplier making the smartphone

The Indian unit of Applersquos Taiwanese contract manufac-turer Foxconn will assemble the device in its plant in southern Tamil Nadu state two sources familiar with the matter said

Foxconn did not immediately respond to a request for com-ment but has previously said it does not comment on client-specifi c work

Poscorsquos steel plant in India

faces disruption Operations at South Korean

steelmaker Poscorsquos plant in the Indian state of Maharashtra have been disrupted due to local pro-tests over labour and other issues police and sources told Reuters hampering the supply chain for automakers

A local politician leading the protests said they have blocked employees and goods from enter-ing the plant and will continue until Posco heeds to some of their requests which include giv-ing employment preference to lo-cal workers raising the wages of temporary employees and making them permanent

Reuters could not indepen-dently verify the extent of the production disruption at Poscorsquos plant

Apple starts iPhone 12 assem-

bly in India

HEALTH amp SCIENCEBUSINESS14 India Bulletin Saturday March 20 2021

By Nidhi Verma

NEW DELHI - India and the UAE on Wednesday discussed ways to strengthen energy coop-eration Indiarsquos oil minister Dhar-mendra Pradhan said despite the South Asian nation asking its re-fi ners to reduce their reliance on Middle Eastern oil

ldquo(We) discussed about new ar-eas of cooperation in the hydro-carbon sector and beyond and agreed to remain committed de-spite the challenges presented by Covid pandemicrdquo Pradhan said on Twitter after a virtual meeting with Sultan Al Jaber the chief executive of Abu Dhabi National Oil Co (ADNOC)

UAE is a key oil supplier to India and a partner in an Indian joint venture that plans to build a 12 million barrels per day (bpd) refi nery and petrochemical com-plex on the countryrsquos west coast

Last month the UAE was the

fi fth biggest oil supplier to In-dia which itself is the worldrsquos third biggest oil importer and consumer

Pradhan said he also discussed with Jaber ways of strengthen-ing and ldquoproviding momentum to (the) bilateral strategic en-ergy partnershiprdquo between the countries

India imports more than 80 of its oil needs a signifi cant amount of which comes from the Middle East

New Delhi has however asked refi ners to gradually reduce oil imports from the Middle East and diversify supplies after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its al-lies known as OPEC+ decided to extend most curbs into April

India has been hit hard by rising oil prices due to which minister Pradhan has repeatedly called on OPEC+ to ease supply curbs and has blamed Saudi Ara-

India and UAE vow to strengthen energy cooperation says minister

biarsquos voluntary cuts for contribut-ing to a spike in global oil prices

Responding to Pradhanrsquos re-quest Saudi Arabiarsquos energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman suggested India dip into strategic reserves fi lled with cheaper oil bought last year

The UAErsquos ADNOC is the only foreign company to which India has leased a part of it strategic petroleum reserves India does not allow the export of oil but has given permission to ADNOC to export part of its oil in Mangalore SPR in southern India

Tesla in talks with Indiarsquos Tata Power for EV charging infrastructure

BENGALURU - Tesla Inc is exploring an arrangement with Indian conglomerate Tata Sonsrsquo power generation unit Tata Pow-er to set up charging infrastruc-ture for electric vehicles in the country CNBC-TV18 reported citing sources

Shares of Tata Power rose 55 to their best closing level since June 2014 after the report which comes as the Palo Alto-based electric-car maker gears up for an India launch later this year with plans to import and sell its Model 3 electric sedan

Tesla will set up an electric-car manufacturing unit in the southern Indian state of Karna-taka according to a government document seen by Reuters

Indiarsquos Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan

The talks between Tata Power and Tesla are in the initial stages and no arrangements have been

fi nalised yet the report saidTata Powerrsquos electric vehicle

charging business constantly

explores growth opportunities but has not fi nalised any new agreements the company said in a statement to stock exchanges It also said the CNBC-TV 18 report was ldquofactually incorrectrdquo but did not elaborate

Tesla was not immediately available for comment

In January the US electric-car maker incorporated Tesla Motors India and Energy Private Ltd with its registered offi ce in the southern city of Bengaluru a hub for global technology companies

Tata Motors Ltd the carmak-ing unit of Tata Sons last week denied any tie-up with Tesla af-ter media reports suggested the two companies were discussing a partnership

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By Aftab Ahmed and Nupur Anand

NEW DELHIMUMBAI - In-dia will propose a law banning cryptocurrencies fi ning anyone trading in the country or even holding such digital assets a senior government offi cial told

Reuters in a potential blow to millions of investors piling into the red-hot asset class

The bill one of the worldrsquos strictest policies against cryp-tocurrencies would criminalise possession issuance mining trading and transferring crypto-assets said the offi cial who has

India to propose cryptocurrency ban penalising miners tradersdirect knowledge of the plan

The measure is in line with a January government agenda that called for banning private vir-tual currencies such as bitcoin while building a framework for an offi cial digital currency But recent government comments had raised investorsrsquo hopes that

the authorities might go easier on the booming market

Instead the bill would give holders of cryptocurrencies up to six months to liquidate after which penalties will be levied said the offi cial who asked not to be named as the contents of the bill are not public

Offi cials are confi dent of get-ting the bill enacted into law as Prime Minister Narendra Modirsquos government holds a comfortable majority in parliament

If the ban becomes law India would be the fi rst major econo-my to make holding cryptocur-rency illegal Even China which has banned mining and trading

does not penalise possessionThe Finance Ministry did not

immediately respond to an email seeking comment

Bitcoin the worldrsquos biggest cryptocurrency hit a record high $60000 last Saturday nearly doubling in value this year as its acceptance for payments has in-creased with support from such high-profi le backers as Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk

In India despite government threats of a ban transaction vol-umes are swelling and 8 million investors now hold 100 billion rupees ($14 billion) in crypto-investments according to indus-try estimates No offi cial data is available

US becomes Indiarsquos second biggest oil supplier Saudi plunges to No 4

By Nidhi Verma

NEW DELHI - The United States overtook Saudi Arabia as Indiarsquos second biggest oil sup-plier after Iraq last month as refi ners boosted cheaper US crude purchases to record levels to off set OPEC+ supply cuts data from trade sources showed

The switch in supplies trig-gered by lower US crude de-mand coincided with Saudi Ara-biarsquos voluntary extra 1 million barrel per day (bpd) output cut on top of an agreement by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies (OPEC+) to maintain lower pro-duction

Indiarsquos imports from the United

States - the worldrsquos top producer - rose 48 to a record 545300 bpd in February from the prior month accounting for 14 of Indiarsquos overall imports last month the data obtained by Reuters showed

In contrast February imports from Saudi Arabia fell by 42 from January to a decade low of 445200 bpd the data showed Saudi Arabia which has consis-tently been one of Indiarsquos top two suppliers slipped to No 4 for the fi rst time since at least January 2006

Indiarsquos oil import data by coun-try from before 2006 is not avail-able to Reuters

ldquoUS demand was weak and refi neries were running at low rates so the US crude had to

go somewhere and Asia is the region which has seen rapid de-mand recoveryrdquo said Refi nitiv analyst Ehsan Ul Haq

ldquoChina has not been taking US oil because of (the) trade problem so India is the obvious choicerdquo he said

Iraq continued to be the top oil seller to India despite a 23 drop in purchases to a fi ve-month low of 867500 bpd the data showed

The UAE slipped to fi fth posi-tion from third in January while Nigeria rose to third from fi fth exporting 472300 bpd the most since Oct 2019

India shipped in 392 million bpd of oil in February a decline of 18 from January the data showed

India will propose a law banning cryptocurrencies fi ning anyone trading in the country or even holding such digital assets a senior government offi cial told Re-uters in a potential blow to millions of investors piling into the red-hot asset class

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Aries (March 21 to April 20)Someone will always be prettier Someone will always be smarter Someone will always be younger But they will never be you Itrsquos this ability to understand your uniqueness which will help you steer forward in an otherwise difficult week

Taurus (April 21 to May 21)When a storm is coming all other birds seek shelter The eagle alone avoids the storm by flying above it So in the storms of life be like an eagle and soar above your problems Keep your love life on top priority and everything else will fall into place with time

Gemini (May 22 to June 21)Life is not happening to you Life is responding to you The things you do the decisions you take the people you love or the people you hate they all make you into who you are

Cancer (June 22 to July 22)Sadness does not come from bad circumstances It comes from bad thoughts Although the circumstances are mixed around you you will have a tendency to make a mountain out of a mole hill

Leo (July 23 to August 22)Every time we get what we thought we wanted we realise that we want more This race towards more - more money more power more of everything is taking a toll on your energy level

Virgo (August 23 to September 23)One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness usually it comes back to you While your hard work is fruc-tifying now do not let the success take you away from compassion

Libra (September 24 to October 23)Best friends are like stars You donrsquot always see them but you know they are always there This week you will be in a nostalgic mood and miss good old times and old friends Rather than thinking about it pick up the phone and talk to friends you have not spoken in years or take a friend out on a cappuccino trip

Scorpio (October 24 to November 22)Learn to make peace with your past or else your future will become a constant battle that yoursquoll never win The highlight of the week will be letting go of things forgiving people forgetting wrong-doings and moving on in life

Sagittarius (November 23 to December 21)Chaos in the midst of chaos isnrsquot funny but chaos in the midst of order is Probably one of the toughest week this month wherein there will be a lot of confusion and haze around Advice Do not take stress

Capricorn (December 22 to January 20)Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realise you havenrsquot fallen asleep yet Thatrsquos the kind of nights you might witness this week owing to unforeseen issues and hurdles Your discipline and organisational skills will steer you forward and transform these hurdles into opportunities Aquarius (January 21 to February 19)Women get the last word in every argument Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument This is not the week for you to get into any arguments as it might jeopardise your frame of mind

Pisces (February 20 to March 20)Find out who you are and be that person Thatrsquos what your soul was put on this Earth to be Find that truth live that truth and everything else will come The week will be about introspection spirituality and matters related to the soul

WEEKLY HOROSCOPE(March 28 - April 3 2021)

HEALTH amp SCIENCEASTROLOGYIndia Bulletin

8 things AARP wants you to know before your second COVID-19 vaccine

If yoursquove already received your first dose of a two-dose COVID-19 vaccine congratulations - yoursquore well on your way to being protect-ed from the coronavirus But to be fully immunized itrsquos critical to get that second shot

William Schaffner MD an infectious diseases specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville Tennessee and medical director of the Nation-al Foundation for Infectious Dis-eases says ldquoWe have told every-one these vaccines are 95 percent effectiverdquo of the two-dose Moder-na and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines currently in use in the US ldquoBut theyrsquore only 95 percent effective if you indeed get that second doserdquo

Here are a few more things to know about the second dose

1 Your side effects will likely be stronger

Many people who had little to no reaction to the first vaccine dose are reporting that the second one packs a punch mdash surprising even those who study vaccines for a liv-ing

Greg Poland MD an infec-tious disease expert at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota and director of Mayorsquos vaccine re-search group had only mild symp-toms after his first dose But the second one left him shaking - liter-ally - with chills and a temperature of 101

ldquoI took one Tylenol and went to bed and woke up the next morning 90 percent improved and by mid-day I was back to normalrdquo Poland says ldquoThis is not an indication of something going wrong it is an indication of a vigorous immune responserdquo

There is no live virus in the vac-cine so you canrsquot get COVID-19 from being vaccinated

Participants in clinical trials of both vaccines had experiences similar to Polandrsquos In Pfizerrsquos clinical trial for instance 31 per-cent of participants ages 18 to 55 reported a fever after the second dose compared to only 8 percent after the first one Fatigue chills headache and musclejoint pain were also more common after the second injection for both vaccines

The good news is older adults were less likely to experience vac-cine reactions the data shows Among those age 55 and up in the Pfizer trial 22 percent experienced fever after the second dose and 3 percent had a temperature after the first dose

Schaffner recommends not making any big plans for the day after your scheduled vaccine appointment

2 You should avoid taking pain relievers before your shot

If yoursquove been hearing sto-ries about second-dose side ef-fects you may be tempted to take a pain reliever before your appointment

Thatrsquos not a good idea accord-ing to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) unless yoursquove been advised to do so by your doctor Pain relievers taken preemptively ahead of a shot could dampen the effective-ness of the vaccine Poland and Schaffner say

However itrsquos OK to take ac-etaminophen (Tylenol) or a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug like Advil or Motrin after your vaccine to treat side effects such as pain fever chills or headache

3 The timing between doses doesnrsquot need to be exact

The second dose of the Pfiz-er shot is supposed to be giv-en 21 days after the first for Moderna the recommended interval between doses is 28 days

However if you canrsquot get an appointment on the exact day mdash or if you have to miss your scheduled appointment for some reason mdash the CDC does allow some wiggle room Although the agency recommends trying to stick to the suggested interval it says the second dose can be given up to six weeks after the first

If your appointment is sched-uled earlier than the recommend-ed date ask for a later appoint-ment Schaffner advises ldquoYour immune response will work perfectly well if you take more timerdquo he says ldquoBut if you do it too early the second dose may not invoke an optimal responserdquo

4 Your second dose should be from the same manufacturer as your first

Doctors are already hearing from patients asking if they can get their second dose from a dif-ferent manufacturer often be-cause they realize the other type of vaccine is offered at a location thatrsquos more convenient But the CDC recommends against it The Moderna and Pfizer vaccines ldquoare not interchangeable with each other or with other COVID-19 vaccine productsrdquo the CDC says ldquoThe safety and efficacy of a mixed-product series have not been evaluatedrdquo

5 A rash at the injection site isnrsquot a reason to skip your second dose

If you experienced a rash at the injection site three to 10 days

after getting your first shot that doesnrsquot preclude you from getting your second shot the CDC says although it recommends getting it in the other arm

A small number of people have developed such rashes some-times called ldquoCOVID armrdquo af-ter vaccination Doctors say itrsquos likely a mild allergic reaction that can be treated with an over-the-counter antihistamine such as Benadryl

6 You should temporarily avoid all other vaccines

It might be time for your shin-gles or Tdap vaccine but you should hold off if you are between COVID-19 vaccine doses Be-cause therersquos no data on the safety and efficacy of COVID vaccines administered at the same time as other vaccines the CDC recom-mends avoiding other immuniza-tions in the two weeks before and after both doses

7 Full immunity is not immediate

It takes two weeks after your second dose for your body to build full protection to the virus After that you should have al-most zero chance of developing severe disease if you are exposed to someone with COVID-19 Schaffner says The CDC also says you no longer have to quar-antine if yoursquore exposed to some-one with COVID-19 mdash as long as you meet these criteria you donrsquot have symptoms and it hasnrsquot been more than three months since your second vaccine dose

One possible exception is immunocompromised people Schaffner says They will get some level of immunity he says ldquobut they may not reach the 95 percent because their immune system is already somewhat com-promised no matter how strong these vaccines arerdquo

8 You still need to wear a maskExperts agree you should con-

tinue to wear a mask and practice social distancing in public For one thing therersquos a small chance you could get sick even after yoursquove been vaccinated

In addition itrsquos possible that you could still carry the virus and silently transmit it to others who havenrsquot been vaccinated even if you donrsquot develop symptoms

And therersquos one more reason Until the country reaches herd im-munity mdash the point when a signif-icant portion of the population be-comes immune to a disease mdash itrsquos important for everyone to wear a mask to stop the spread of the virus Schaffner says

Saturday March 20 2021

Biden All US adults to be eligible for vaccines by May

By Jeff Mason

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden told US states last Thursday to make all adults eligible for a coronavirus vaccine by May 1 and urged Americans to stay vigi-lant or face more restrictions hours after he signed a $19 trillion stimulus bill into law

In a forceful but somber speech from the White House on the fi rst anniversary of the pandemic lockdown Biden said if Ameri-cans pulled together there could be a great-er sense of normalcy - and some backyard barbecue parties with small groups - on the US Independence Day holiday on July 4

That date is a new goal for the president and a projection of hope amid a pandemic that has killed more than 530000 people in the United States the most of any country

To achieve his summer target Biden said he needed Americansrsquo help

ldquoIf we donrsquot stay vigilant and the con-ditions change then we may have to rein-state restrictions to get back on trackrdquo he said in an evening address from the White House his fi rst in television prime time since becoming president

ldquoWersquove made so much progress This is not the time to let up Just as we are emerging from a dark winter into a hope-ful spring and summer is not the time to not stick with the rulesrdquo he said

Republicans swiftly criticized Biden for his cautious approach ldquoWhat America needs now is to fully reopen our economy and our classroomsrdquo House of Represen-tatives Republican leader Kevin McCarthy said on Twitter

Biden said he was ordering US states territories and tribes to make all adults eli-gible to receive a coronavirus vaccine by May 1 The White House has said it would have enough vaccine supply to vaccinate the adult population by the end of May About 10 of Americans so far have been fully vaccinated

Administration offi cials said he would deploy 4000 more troops to help with the vaccine eff ort bringing the total number to 6000 The White House is also seeking to expand the pool of people able to adminis-ter shots to include dentists optometrists paramedics veterinarians and medical stu-dents

Biden campaigned last year on a prom-ise that he would tackle the pandemic more eff ectively than Republican Presi-dent Donald Trump and he has sought to encourage and model behavior such as mask-wearing that Trump eschewed

In his speech Biden took a swipe at his

predecessor by saying the virus was ini-tially met with ldquodenials for days weeks then months that led to more deaths more infections more stress more lonelinessrdquo

Biden said hate crimes and harassment against Asian Americans must stop Trump repeatedly referred to the disease as the ldquoChina virusrdquo

Biden also encouraged Americans to keep up mitigation eff orts - wearing masks keeping social distance and prac-ticing good hygiene - to stop the virus and its variants from spreading A number of states have been loosening restrictions

as Americans like many people around the world grow weary of pandemic life

ldquoPhotos and videos from 2019 feel like they were taken in another era The last vacation The last birthday with friends The last holiday with extended familyrdquo Biden said recounting the toll the virus has wrought

He said the country would come away from the crisis stronger ldquoWe faced and overcame one of the toughest and darkest periods in this nationrsquos history - darkest wersquove ever knownrdquo he said

Moderna begins study of COVID-19 vaccine in kids

Moderna Inc has begun dosing patients in a mid-to-late stage study of its COV-ID-19 vaccine mRNA-1273 in children aged six months to less than 12 years the company said on Tuesday

The study will assess the safety and ef-fectiveness of two doses of mRNA-1273 given 28 days apart and intends to enroll about 6750 children in the United States and Canada

The vaccine has already been au-thorized for emergency use in

Americans who are aged 18 and older

In a separate study which began in De-cember Moderna is also testing mRNA-1273 in adolescents between 12 and 18 years old

The latest study is being conducted in collaboration with the National Insti-tute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA)

Mother who lost only son to rare COVID complication warns parents to look for early signs

SANTIAGO - By the time doctors real-ized that Lorena Navarretersquos son had a rare complication of COVID-19 that affl icts some children it was too late to save her 16-year-old Emilio

Lorena a single mother who lives in the southern Chilean city of Puerto Montt told the TVN network that her music-loving and sociable son died about a week after he fi rst complained of feeling tired and of a pain in his legs in late January

Within days he had developed livid blotches on his skin a high fever vomiting and dark urine

Doctors at the cityrsquos hospital overrun with severe COVID cases repeatedly tested him for COVID but with the results coming back negative were at a loss as to what was wrong with him

By the time his illness was identifi ed as Multisystem Infl ammatory Syndrome in Children it was too late Lorena could not be at her sonrsquos bedside because of strict health protocols but a social worker called to pass on the message that her son loved

her very much She asked the social worker to tell her son she would see him soon and that his pets were well

ldquoA doctor said that if I had faith I should pray because my son was very illrdquo said Na-varrete who works as a nurse technician ldquoThey had a diagnosis and it was PIMSrdquo

Multisystem Infl ammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) as PIMS is more com-monly known is a rare life-threatening syndrome linked to COVID-19

It usually appears between two and six weeks after infection even in asymptomatic cases of COVID-19

It shares symptoms with toxic shock and Kawasaki disease including fever rashes swollen glands conjunctivitis and in severe cases heart infl ammation and can cause multiple organ failure It is not always fatal if caught and treated early

The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention said in January that it was inves-tigating whether COVID variants were in-creasing the number or severity of cases fol-lowing anecdotal reports from some states

US President Joe Biden

HEALTH amp SCIENCE17India Bulletin

HEALTH amp SCIENCE

Saturday March 20 2021

By Anthony Deutsch and Caroline Copley

AMSTERDAM - Global health experts came under in-creasing pressure on Tuesday to clear up questions over the safety of AstraZenecarsquos CO-VID-19 shot as Sweden and Latvia joined countries suspend-ing their use in a further blow to Europersquos vaccination rollout

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said it was

investigating reports of 30 cases of unusual blood disorders out of 5 million recipients of the As-traZeneca vaccine In total 45 million COVID shots have been delivered across the region

The EU regulator will release its findings on Thursday but its head Emer Cooke said she saw no reason to change its recom-mendation of AstraZeneca - one of four vaccines that it has approved for use

ldquoThe benefits continue to

outweigh the risks but this is a serious concern and it does need serious and detailed scientific evaluationrdquo Cooke told a news conference

A World Health Organization (WHO) committee of experts was reviewing the cases and was expected to issue a statement by the end of the day a spokesman said

The EUrsquos largest members - Germany France and Italy - suspended use of AstraZenecarsquos vaccine on Monday pending the outcome of investigations into unusual cases of a rare cerebral thrombosis in people who had received it

The addition of Sweden and Latvia on Tuesday brought to 13 the number of EU countries to act since reports first emerged of thromboembolisms affect-ing people after they got the AstraZeneca shot

The WHO and EMA had ear-lier joined AstraZeneca in say-ing there is no proven link but some experts said the episodes of blood clots bleeding and low platelet counts in younger people seemed to indicate a causal con-nection to the AstraZeneca shot

ldquoThe benefits of vaccination significantly outweigh the risks especially for the elderlyrdquo said Karl Lauterbach health spokes-man for Germanyrsquos Social Democratic Party

ldquoBut it could be the case that the risks of the vaccine are high-er for certain patient groups such as young womenrdquo Lauterbach an epidemiologist whose party is part of the Berlin coalition told Deutschlandfunk radio in an interview

Other epidemiologists note that similar cases have not been found in unusual num-bers in Britain which began using AstraZeneca earlier and has given more than 10 million doses

ldquoA very likely explanation of at least some of the clotting dis-orders seen are a result of CO-VID-19 rather than the vaccinerdquo said Stephen Evans professor of pharmacoepidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

ldquoThere are published papers that make clear that these prob-lems definitely occur in COV-ID-19 and there is no doubt that all the vaccines in use prevent

that disease Hence the risk and benefit balance for the AstraZen-eca vaccine remains clearly in favour of its benefitsrdquo

In the EUrsquos largest states in-cluding Germany France Italy the Netherlands and Spain As-traZeneca has accounted for about 13-15 of shots given since the rollout began almost three months ago with Pfizer-BioNTech making up the major-ity according to official data

As one as the cheapest to be developed the AstraZeneca shot is set to be the mainstay of vac-cination programmes in much of the developing world

Governments say they acted on the AstraZeneca shot out of an abundance of caution - of 16 million people in Germany given the vaccine seven fell ill with a very rare cerebral vein thrombosis of whom three died

In a detailed analysis of its findings Germanyrsquos vaccine oversight body the Paul Eh-rlich Institute said six of the cases were in women of young or middle age - a number statis-tically significantly higher than normally expected

Health experts pore over AstraZeneca safety data as Europe reels from vaccine suspensions

Global health experts came under increasing pressure on Tuesday to clear up questions over the safety of AstraZenecarsquos COVID-19 shot as Sweden and Latvia joined countries suspending their use in a further blow to Europersquos vaccination rollout

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India Bulletin Saturday March 20 2021

India Bulletin 19Saturday March 20 2021

Kishan Kohli help India level T20 series against England

AHMEDABAD - A belliger-ent 56 off 32 balls from India debutant Ishan Kishan and an unbeaten 73 from captain Virat Kohli helped the hosts to a com-manding seven-wicket win over England in the second Twenty20 International in Ahmedabad on Sunday

Kishan 22 smashed leg-spinner Adil Rashid for two con-secutive sixes to get past fifty as India made short work of a 165-run target to win with 13 balls to spare and level the five-match

series at 1-1Indiarsquos chase of Englandrsquos

164-6 got off to a shaky start when Sam Curran sent back opener KL Rahul in the first over without scoring but it did not curb Kishanrsquos aggres-sion the left-hander hitting five fours and four sixes in total

There was plenty of entertain-ment for the sizeable crowd at the worldrsquos biggest cricket sta-dium with most fans not wear-ing masks in the stands as Kohli

and Kishan added 94 in nine overs

Rishabh Pant came in after the dismissal of Kishan who was dropped by Ben Stokes on 40 off Rashid and continued to pummel Englandrsquos bowlers with a 13-ball 26 during which he hit two sixes and an identical number of fours

Kohli who also survived a dropped chance by wicketkeeper Jos Buttler on 10 off Chris Jor-dan sealed the win with a four and a six in successive balls to

also get past 3000 runs in T20 internationals in the process

Jason Roy once again top-scored for England with a 35-ball 46 following up on his knock of 49 in their win in the first match last Friday

Put in to bat the right-hander gave the touring side a steady start with a 63-run stand for the second wicket with Dawid Malan after the loss of opening partner Buttler to seamer Bhu-vneshwar Kumar on the first delivery he faced

Roy hit four fours and two six-es in his knock before holing out in the deep off spinner Washing-ton Sundar who also sent back the dangerous Jonny Bairstow for 20

Fast bowler Shardul Thakur pegged back Englandrsquos hopes of a flourishing finish by dis-missing opposition captain Eoin Morgan and Stokes as India conceded just 35 off the last five overs

The third match of the series will be played on Tuesday

Virat Kohli

Rohit urges India debutants to lsquohave funrsquo against England in T20 series

After Suryakumar Yadav and Ishan Kishan earned their maiden call-ups to the Indian national team vice-captain Rohit Sharma stressed on the importance of playing with-out any pressure when they take on England in a Twenty20 series

Kishan and Suryakumar were named in the squad after plun-dering 516 and 480 runs re-spectively in the Indian Premier League last season where the pair played under Rohit for the

Mumbai Indians as they clinched their fifth title in November

ldquoI donrsquot want them to be think-ing about anythingrdquo Rohit told reporters on Wednesday ldquoThatrsquos how they bring their best perfor-mance out

ldquoHaving watched them closely for a few years now Irsquove realised itrsquos important for them to be part of this wonder-ful team a great setup I just want them to have fun and un-derstand what this team is all about

ldquoThese guys have done re-ally well in the last few years especially the last year Itrsquos just about carrying that form and putting it out there Itrsquos not go-ing to be that easy here they will be challenged every now and thenrdquo

For England itrsquos a much-awaited return to the squad for all-rounder Liam Livingstone who had similar success in Aus-traliarsquos Big Bash League where he scored 426 runs for Perth Scorchers

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4NATIONAL NEWS

India Bulletin Saturday March 20 2021

By Ken Ritter

LAS VEGAS (AP) - A woman arrested in Las Vegas several days after an attack on an Uber driver in San Francisco that was widely viewed on social media agreed to be transferred in custody to California to face criminal charges

Malaysia Kingrsquos court appearance in Las Vegas came hours after police in San Francisco announced that Arna Kimiai 24 a woman seen with King in the Uber driver confrontation turned herself in to face rob-bery assault and battery conspiracy and other charges

Kimiairsquos attorney Seth Morris said Kimiai posted a $75000 bond to go free pending a future court appearance during which charges could be filed

Video provided by the driver showed a maskless woman later identified as Kim-iai coughing on him and grabbing his cellphone Police also said that as three women exited the vehicle one sprayed what was believed to be pepper spray toward the driver

In Las Vegas King 24 did not have a lawyer during her brief court appearance by closed-circuit video She agreed not to contest extradition She was not asked about the charges against her

King was arrested on a warrant from California accusing her of assault with a caustic chemical conspiracy assault and battery and a health and safety code violation

Justice of the Peace Eric Goodman said authorities from California have 30 days to take King into custody and told her she may also face felony charges in Las Vegas stemming from allegations that she and a man tried to use another personrsquos identi-fication to obtain funds from that personrsquos bank account

Court records show King was arraigned on burglary and conspiracy charges in that case and has a court date in May

The Uber driver Subhakar Khadka 32 was attacked after stopping his car when he realized one of three female passengers wasnrsquot wearing a mask police said

Woman in Uber driver attack to be returned to San FranciscoldquoAn altercation ensued largely captured

on videordquo San Francisco police said in a statement about Kimiairsquos arrest

At one point the video shows Kimiai coughing on Khadkas grabbing his cell-phone from the center dash area and ripping off Khadkasrsquo face mask

Khadkas regained possession of his phone but was sprayed with what was be-lieved to be pepper spray as the women got out of his car police said

Khadka later said he believed he was attacked because he is a South Asian im-migrant However authorities have not commented on the allegation and no hate crimes charges have been filed Khadka came to the US eight years ago and works to support his family in Nepal

Uber said in a statement that it had banned all three riders

A GoFundMe account to assist Khadka raised more than $97000 The San Fran-cisco Chronicle reported that he planned to spend the money pursuing legal action and to support his family

Former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi has memoir out in September

NEW YORK (AP) - Former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi has a memoir coming out this fall that her publisher is calling an ldquounvarnished takerdquo on her rise to be-coming one of the worldrsquos most powerful women

ldquoMy Life in Full Work Family and Our Futurerdquo will be published Sept 28 Portfolio Books announced Nooyi 65 will trace her life from her childhood in India to her experiences as an immi-grant at Yale Universityrsquos business school to her many achievements as the rare woman and person of color in the upper echelons of the corporate world

She worked at PepsiCo for 24 years 12 of them as CEO before stepping down in 2018 While she was CEO PepsiCorsquos revenues grew from $35 bil-lion to $635 billion and she became known for promoting such ldquogood for yourdquo snacks as Baked Layrsquos potato chips and Naked juices made of fruits and vegetables

The mother of two children she also spoke candidly while at PepsiCo of the difficulties in balancing commitments

ldquoAs I wrote lsquoMy Life in Fullrsquo I saw how my own story relates to our evolv-ing global economy and how it may

inform our progress on better integrat-ing work and family in the years aheadrdquo Nooyi said in a statement ldquoI hope this book inspires business leaders policy-makers and all women and men pas-sionate about easing the work-and-fam-ily burden to come together and create changerdquo

Portfolio is an imprint at Penguin Ran-dom House Financial terms for Nooyirsquos book were not disclosed She was rep-resented by Washington attorney Robert Barnett whose clients range from for-mer President Barack Obama to Nike co-founder Phil Knight

Owner of IT services company pleads guilty to defrauding New York State

ALBANY NY - Lakshmikanth Sri-puram age 37 of Monmouth Junction New Jersey pled guilty this month to wire fraud conspiracy in connection with a scheme to defraud New York State

Sripuram is the president of PIntegra LLC As part of his plea he admitted that between 2015 and 2017 he conspired with Co-Conspirator 1 a former employ-ee of the Office of the State Comptrol-ler (OSC) to fraudulently obtain money from OSC

In January 2015 OSC entered into a contract with a consortium of three companies to identify and hire computer

programmers for a project When OSC needed to hire a programmer it sent a request form to one of the three com-panies Each company then submitted a purportedly qualified applicant Fre-quently the applicants were employed by subcontractors including PIntegra

From January 2015 through October 2016 OSC hired 17 programmers for the project at hourly rates ranging from $80 to $120 In late 2016 OSC learned that many of the programmersrsquo refer-ences and work histories were not le-gitimate including those hired from PIntegra and launched an internal investigation

Indra Nooyi

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HEALTH amp SCIENCE5Saturday March 20 2021

NATIONAL NEWSIndia Bulletin

WASHINGTON DC - With assets worth tens of millions of dollars associate attorney gen-eral nominee Vanita Gupta is thus far the Biden administrationrsquos wealthiest political nominee that has publicly released a finan-cial disclosure form ABC News reported

The disclosure of Guptarsquos finan-cial interests came as she faced a rocky confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week

Gupta a civil rights attorney-

turned Justice Department nomi-nee has reported owning between $42 million and $187 million in assets and properties with her spouse in her disclosure report filed to the Office of Government Ethics She reported earning be-tween $902000 and $3 million in the past year the filing shows

The biggest chunks of her as-sets come from her shares in companies linked to her father Raj Gupta a corporate chairman and Wall Street financier with vast corporate interests

Associate Attorney General pick Gupta would be wealthiest member of Bidenrsquos administration

According to the filing Vanita Gupta owns between $11 mil-lion and $55 million in shares of Avantor a chemicals and ma-terials company headquartered in Pennsylvania for which Raj Gupta is the chairman of the board

She also reported owning be-tween $500000 and $1 million in shares of Aptiv an American-Irish-British auto parts company headquartered in Dublin Ireland for which Raj Gupta also serves as chairman

According to the report Gupta also owns between $950000 and $2 million in entities connected to the private equity firm New Mountain Capital for which her father has served as a senior ad-viser Raj Gupta has also served on the board of the Vanguard Group one of the biggest index fund companies and Vanita Gup-ta owns between $11 million and $49 million worth of Vanguard index funds which are com-monly owned by other political appointees

She holds much of those assets through family trusts she controls except for $5 million to $25 mil-lion in Avantor $500000 to $1 million in Aptiv and six-figures in New Mountain Finance Co which are under a brokerage account

In her ethics agreement provid-ed by the Biden transition team Vanita Gupta wrote that she would retain her financial interests in those companies but would resign from her position as co-trustee of her family trust

Vanita GuptaMan involved in IRS phone scam ordered to pay restitution

NEW YORK - A former Mas-sachusetts man who tried to flee to Canada to avoid a prison sen-tence for his role in a phone scam that bilked area residents out of hundreds of thousands of dol-lars has been ordered to pay more than $250000 in restitution

Ashokkumar ldquoAndyrdquo Patel formerly of Worcester was re-sponsible for helping steal more than $880000 but the identities

of many victims could not be traced prosecutors said in federal court The Telegram amp Gazette reported

Patelrsquos lawyer Vikas Dhar said Patel made less than $50000 for his role in the scheme

Patel pleaded guilty last Sep-tember to wire fraud and money laundering for his role in a com-plicated scheme in which foreign callers duped people into sending

them money by posing as IRS debt collectors

He was sentenced to more than three years in prison

But before he started serving the sentence he was apprehended by Canadian authorities in Octo-ber on the Canada-Washington after diving into a ditch He was indicted in November for con-tempt of court in connection with the alleged escape attempt

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India Bulletin

By Rajendra Jadhavand Rama Venkat

MUMBAI - New coronavirus infections in India rose by the most in more than three months as a second wave of the epidemic gathered momentum with Ma-harashtra the countryrsquos richest state accounting for two-thirds of the latest daily tally

Home to Indiarsquos commer-cial capital Mumbai the west-ern state reported 23179 of the countryrsquos 35871 new cases in

the past 24 hours and the fast spreading contagion in major industrial areas raised risks of companiesrsquo production being disrupted

Indiarsquos total cases stood at 1147 million the highest after the United States and Brazil Deaths rose by 172 to 159216 according to health ministry data released on Thursday

The countryrsquos first wave peaked in September at nearly 100000 cases a day with daily infections hitting a low of just

over 9000 early last monthCases have been rising in Ma-

harashtra since the reopening of most economic activities in Feb-ruary Mumbairsquos suburban trains which carry millions of people daily also resumed services

The state of 112 million peo-ple ordered a fresh lockdown in some districts and put curbs on cinemas hotels and restaurants until the end of the month after infections rose to a multi-month high earlier this week

New cases have more than doubled in the past two weeks in Maharashtrarsquos industrial towns such as Pune Aurangabad Na-shik and Nagpur known for their

automobile pharmaceutical and textile factories

ldquoWe have asked industries there to operate with minimum manpower as much possiblerdquo said a senior Maharashtra gov-ernment official declining to be named as he was not authorised to talk to the media ldquoMost of the IT companies have allowed their employees to work from homerdquo

Hospital beds and special CO-VID-19 facilities were filling up fast especially in Mumbai Nag-pur and Pune said another state official

Earlier this month more than 80 of oxygen and intensive-care beds in Maharashtra were

unoccupiedHalf a dozen other states such

as Punjab and Madhya Pradesh have also seen a rise in cases this month The government has blamed crowding and a re-luctance to wear masks for the rise

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday asked state leaders to quickly increase test-ing and expand vaccination to ldquostop the emerging second peak of coronardquo

India has administered more than 365 million vaccine dos-es since starting its immuni-sation drive in the middle of January

Maharashtra state suffers surge in COVID-19 cases

A health worker in personal protective equipment (PPE) collects a swab sample from a woman during a rapid antigen testing campaign for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a railway station platform in Mumbai

Pandemic pushes 32 million Indians out of middle class says Pew Research

By Manoj Kumar

NEW DELHI - Financial woes brought by last yearrsquos coronavi-rus pandemic have pushed about 32 million Indians out of the middle class undoing years of economic gains a report showed on Thursday while job losses pushed millions into poverty

The number of Indians in the middle class or those earn-

ing between $10 and $20 a day shrunk by about 32 million compared with the number that could have been reached in the absence of a pandemic the US-based Pew Research Centre said

A year into the pandemic the numbers of those in the middle class has shrunk to 66 million down a third from a pre-pan-demic estimate of 99 million it added

ldquoIndia is estimated to have seen a greater decrease in the middle class and a much sharper rise in poverty than China in the COVID-19 downturnrdquo the Pew Research Centre said citing the World Bankrsquos forecasts of economic growth

Nearly 57 million people had joined the middle income group between 2011 and 2019 it added

6 Saturday March 20 2021

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

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8 Saturday March 20 2021

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

By Krishna N Das

NEW DELHI - Indiarsquos main opposition Congress party on Tuesday hit out at Prime Minis-ter Narendra Modirsquos government for exporting nearly twice the number of coronavirus vaccine doses than immunisations con-ducted at home despite a surge in infections

India the worldrsquos biggest vac-cine maker has gifted or sold here 59 million locally produced doses compared with 33 million

doses given to its own people since its inoculation campaign began in mid-January

While some rich countries such as the United States are being accused of vaccine na-tionalism India is being lauded globally for sending shots to 71 countries mainly the AstraZen-eca vaccine as well as some of Bharat Biotechrsquos homegrown product

Many Indians however now want the government to make vaccines available to more of its

own people instead of only the elderly and those above 45 suf-fering from health conditions

ldquoThe priority of the Modi government is not the state but foreign nationsrdquo Congress said on Twitter using the tag India-NeedsMoreVaccines and accus-ing the premier of focusing on

ldquoPR over peoplerdquoldquoThe pace of vaccination in

states is slow due to the centrali-sation in vaccine distributionrdquo it said

Health Minister Harsh Vard-han told parliament that vac-cines were not being exported at the ldquoexpense of the people of

Indiardquo and that a balance was being struck

Indiarsquos immunisation drive has picked up significantly since Modi expanded it this month Still Bangladesh is vaccinat-ing more people relative to its population using India-made shots

India worldrsquos top vaccine maker criticised at home for exports as infections rise

A healthcare worker collects a swab sample from a woman amidst the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a bus station in New Delhi India on March 16 2021

India child rights group asks police to probe Netflix show lsquoBombay Begumsrsquo

By Abhirup Roy

MUMBAI - A government agency for child rights in In-dia on Tuesday asked police to investigate Netflix Incrsquos show ldquoBombay Begumsrdquo saying some scenes in the drama series violated laws meant to protect children letters seen by Reuters showed

The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCP-CR) has asked the US streaming giant to remove five ldquoobjection-ablerdquo scenes from the series and wrote to the police chief in Indiarsquos financial capital Mumbai to take action

ldquoYou are requested to investi-gateinquire and take deemed law-ful necessary actionrdquo NCPCRrsquos

chairperson Priyank Kanoongo wrote in the letter

A Mumbai police spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment Netflix de-clined to comment

ldquoBombay Begumsrdquo is a se-ries about five women from dif-ferent parts of society trying to get ahead in modern Mumbai formerly called Bombay It was released last week

In a separate letter to Netflix NCPCR asked the company to remove five scenes which it said violated Indian laws governing Juvenile Justice and the Protec-tion of Children from Sexual Of-fences

In the series children have been shown indulging ldquoin snort-ing drugs and taking inde-

cent pictures and selfies in the classroomrdquo NCPCR told Netflix

The child rights group first asked Netflix to stop streaming the series last week after review-ing complaints on Twitter As of Tuesday the show was still avail-able for viewing on Netflix in India

Netflix officials met the child rights agency on Tuesday to dis-cuss details of the scenes and objections from NCPCR which gave the company two days to consult its legal team

Video streaming platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video have recently faced a barrage of complaints around promoting obscenity or hurting religious sentiments in India a key growth market

HEALTH amp SCIENCE9

INTERNATIONAL NEWSIndia Bulletin

NEW DELHI - Indiarsquos new oversight of digital news platforms is drawing protest from the media industry and activists who fear the rules will curb press freedom in the worldrsquos largest democracy

India which has one of the worldrsquos biggest and most diverse media industries last month an-nounced the Intermediary Guide-lines and Digital Media Ethics Code aimed at pushing Big Tech fi rms such as Facebook to com-ply with content takedown orders However it also extends to news websites

The rules impose a three-tier regulatory mechanism requir-ing a grievance offi cer to resolve complaints and a government panel to have broad oversight The most senior government offi cial in the information and broadcast-ing ministry will also have emer-gency powers to order content be blocked

Media executives fear such oversight could lead to censor-ship of content seen as critical of

the government and three digi-tal news outlets have approached state courts

ldquoTheserules will signify the death of media independence in Indiardquo said Siddharth Varadara-jan editor of independent news website lsquoThe Wirersquo Its publisher has challenged the regulation in the Delhi High Court

LiveLaw a legal news web-site has challenged the rules in the Kerala High Court which this week said no coercive ac-tion should be taken against the website for non-compliance

The government says the new rules are aimed at achieving par-ity between digital media and print and TV news regulations Refer-ring to the rules for digital me-dia information and broadcasting minister Prakash Javadekar last month said ldquoevery freedom has to be responsible freedomrdquo

The number of online media outlets in India has increased in recent years but some journalists have complained they face intimi-

Indiarsquos digital media regulation sparks fears of curbs on press freedomdation for reporting stories critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his administration

Modirsquos administration says it favours press freedom

ldquoI think these rules will restrict and constrain press freedom as indeed freedom more gener-allyrdquo said Zoya Hasan a former professor of political science at New Delhirsquos Jawaharlal Nehru University

ldquoThis whole regulation is about control of digital media and other platforms as therersquos little tolerance for dissenting voicesrdquo

US think tank Freedom House recently said Modi and his party are driving India toward ldquoauthori-tarianismrdquo adding political rights and civil liberties had deteriorated since he came to power in 2014 The government called the re-port ldquomisleading incorrect and misplacedrdquo

On Thursday Javadekar said on Twitter that a group represent-ing leading newspapers and TV channels had welcomed the new

regulation and asked that their members ldquobe treated diff erentlyrdquo from digital-only news publishers

That has drawn criticism from

some smaller digital news outlets which have questioned why they are being ignored while seeking exemptions

Indiarsquos new oversight of digital news platforms is drawing protest from the media industry and activists who fear the rules will curb press freedom in the worldrsquos largest democracy

Saturday March 20 2021

India activist breaks silence on sedition arrest says she felt lsquoviolatedrsquo

By Alasdair Pal

NEW DELHI - An Indian climate activist linked to Greta Thunberg said she felt ldquoviolat-edrdquo by her arrest last month on sedition charges and her treat-ment by the media her fi rst comments on a case that sparked international criticism

Disha Ravi a 22-year-old vegan and member of Thun-bergrsquos Fridays for Future move-ment was charged in February over an online document about months-long protests by Indian farmers

Ten days after her arrest and following widespread criti-cism a court in Indiarsquos capital New Delhi granted her bail citing ldquoscanty and sketchy evi-dencerdquo that she was involved in

fomenting violenceldquoI had coerced myself into be-

lieving that the only way I would be able to live through this was by tricking myself into thinking that this wasnrsquot happening to merdquo Ravi said in a statement

ldquoMy actions were pronounced

guilty - not in the court of law but on fl at screensrdquo

Police say the document Ravi created stoked violence on Jan 26 Indiarsquos Republic Day when some protesting farmers broke free of a planned march and clashed with police

Angry at new agricultural laws they say benefi t large pri-vate buyers at the expense of growers tens of thousands of farmers have been camped on the outskirts of New Delhi since late last year

Swedish climate activist Thunberg popstar Rihanna and US activist Meena Harris the niece of Vice President Kamala Harris all tweeted in support of the protests last month drawing a rebuke from Indiarsquos foreign ministry

India frets over wastage of lsquoelixir-likersquo COVID-19 vaccinesNEW DELHI - About 65

of coronavirus vaccine doses in India are going to waste health offi cials said on Wednesday urging states to manage their im-munisation drives better to opti-mise use of what one called ldquothis elixir-like precious commodityrdquo

One reason for the wastage is that while many urban vaccina-tion centres have been crowded some rural sites have had to nudge people to get shots due to a lack of awareness among the public which can lead to vaccine wastage

Once a vaccine vial is opened doses need to be administered within four hours making it vital for health workers to coordinate the fl ow of recipients

The federal health ministry has distributed 754 million vac-cine doses to Indiarsquos states of which some 36 million doses

have so far been used India is using the AstraZeneca shot and another developed at home by Bharat Biotech

The government did not say how many doses had been wast-ed but the percentage fi gure suggests it could be more than 2 million a big number given that many countries have yet to start inoculating their citizens and India itself is only immunising priority groups

ldquoWastage of this elixir-like precious commodity the most important thing now for an indi-vidual or the country as a whole is absolutely wrongrdquo top health offi cial Vinod Kumar Paul told a news conference

The large states of Telan-gana Andhra Pradesh and Ut-tar Pradesh have seen wastage of 9-18 the government said

Disha Ravi

By Aftab Ahmedand Sankalp Phartiyal

NEW DELHI - India is likely to block its mobile carriers from using telecom equipment made by Chinarsquos Huawei two govern-ment officials said under pro-curement rules due to come into force in June

New Delhi is wary about awarding new technology busi-ness to Chinese firms both be-cause of security fears and a desire to get Indian manufactur-

ers to produce more telecoms equipment

A US campaign to curb Huawei has triggered bans or limits on the use of its equip-ment around the world but the situation in India has been amplified by strained rela-tions between New Delhi and Beijing over their shared border

Indiarsquos telecoms department said last Wednesday that after June 15 carriers can only buy certain types of equipment from

government-approved ldquotrusted sourcesrdquo and said New Delhi could also create a ldquono procure-mentrdquo blacklist Huawei is likely to feature on this embargoed list the two officials who declined to be named told Reuters

ldquoWe cannot prioritise econom-ic gains if an investment poses national security riskrdquo one of the officials said

The telecoms department which did not comment last Thursday about Huawei is yet to provide further details on the plans for trusted sources or a procurement blacklist

However a third official who also declined to be named told

Reuters that ZTE Corp another Chinese firm which has a smaller presence in India could also be excluded

Huawei and ZTE are un-der scrutiny for allegedly in-stalling ldquobackdoorrdquo vulner-abilities to spy for the Chinese government

Both have denied the allega-tions and Huawei has previously told Reuters it is ready to enter into a ldquono backdoorrdquo deal with India to allay security concerns

Huawei and ZTE did not im-mediately respond to requests for comment

Two of Indiarsquos three big tele-coms carriers Bharti Airtel and

Vodafone Idea use Huawei gear Any restriction on Huawei gear is likely to push up costs industry analysts say

The Chinese firmrsquos equipment and network maintenance con-tracts are typically cheaper than European competitors such as Ericsson and Nokia and there is limited availability of such gear in India

India has begun to fast-track approvals of some of the more than 150 Chinese investment proposals worth over $2 billion it had put on hold after a June standoff between the two neigh-bours on the disputed Himalayan border

India likely to block Chinarsquos Huawei over security fears officials

India Bulletin

India is likely to block its mobile carriers from using telecom equipment made by Chinarsquos Huawei two government officials said under procurement rules due to come into force in June UKrsquos Johnson to visit India at

end of April as part of policy lsquotiltrsquoLONDON - PM Boris Johnson

will visit India at the end of April in what will be his first major in-ternational trip after Britainrsquos exit from the European Union as part of efforts to boost UK opportuni-ties in the region his office said

Johnson had planned an Indian trip in January as part of efforts to speed up trade talks between the two nations but was forced to cancel amid a surge of COVID-19

infections at homeAt the time his office said he

had hoped to rearrange the visit before Britain hosted the meet-ing of leaders from the Group of Seven rich nations in June which Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is due to attend as a visitor

Johnsonrsquos government said it would ldquotiltrdquo its focus towards the Indo-Pacific region as part of its Integrated Review of government

policy for the coming years say-ing the area increasingly repre-sented the geopolitical centre of the world

Last month Britain made a for-mal request to join the Compre-hensive and Progressive Agree-ment for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) seeking membership of the 11-country bloc to open new avenues for post-Brexit trade and influence

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HEALTH amp SCIENCE11India BulletinSaturday March 20 2021

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ldquoJAINISM A Resilient Path to Peacerdquo

The Federation of Jain Asso-ciations in North America (JAI-NA) will be celebrating its 21st Convention on the Fourth of July weekend mdash from July 1st to 6th 2021 Every two years this premier event brings together members of the Jain Community from across the world This year the virtual event is planned to be a global event and is expected to attract an even larger audience from the USA Canada India UK Australia UAE and many other countries

In face of all the turbulence throughout the world in the last year it is paramount for us to be vigilant compassionate tolerant and to ldquokeep the faithrdquo Jain-ism one of the ancient minor-ity religions has thrived worse than the pandemic based on its wisdom of Maitri (Amity) in-terdependence and honoring and respecting life at any cost The Convention will showcase our firm belief that spirituality enables us to sustain our sense of self and purpose through be-liefs principles values and morals Hence the theme for this yearrsquos Convention is ldquoJAINISM A Resilient Path to Peacerdquo

Convention Convener and First Vice President of JAINA Mr Haresh Shah of Delaware proudly shared that the attendee response has been overwhelming with more than 5000 registra-tions as of this writing Conven-tion Co-Convener and JAINA President Mr Mahesh Wadher of Los Angeles expressed his grati-tude for 100+ volunteers across 23 teams working day and night as ONE TEAM to make this convention the most memorable ever Convention Co-Convener Mr Bindesh Shah mentioned that the Convention will feature a state-of-the-art user-friend-ly and interactive conference platform with many features such as an online Main Hall 6 Breakout Rooms 4 Competi-tion Rooms and an Exhibition Hall

Enlightening discourses dis-cussion tracks and activities planned at this Convention will offer attendees a deeper under-standing of Jain principles and values while also helping the community with a roadmap to bounce back Youth participa-tion through JAINArsquos affiliate organizations Young Jains of America (YJA) Young Jain Pro-fessionals (YJP) as well as Jain

Announcing JAINA Convention 2021 July 1-6 2021Connect will be strongly pro-moted and encouraged There will be focused programs for all age groups children (ages 5-12) youth (ages 13-20) Jain Networking Forum (ages 21-29) and adults

Other featured events include the popular Jain Academic Bowl (JAB) a jeopardy style vo-cabulary game in which young Jains compete with other teams Jains Got Talent (JGT) and Vir-tual Tirthdham Darshan ndash A nar-rated Tirth Yatra of 12 major Jain Tirth of India broadcast live

Public Relations and Media Committee Chair Mr Vipul Shah of Chicago proudly con-firmed that spiritual dignitar-ies such as Acharya Ratna-sundersuri Maharaj Saheb Acharya Shri Mahashramanji Rashtrasant Gurudev Shree Namramuni Pramansagarji Maharaj Sadhvi Charitraarth Prabhaji and many others will enlighten us with their wisdom during the Convention Acharya Lokesh Muniji Acharya Chan-danaji and Bhattarak Charuke-ertiji will bless the Convention with their Ashirwad speeches While Gurudevshri Rakeshbhai Jhaveri will give the keynote

address other featured speakers include Shri Deepakbhai Desai Shri Gyanvatsal Swami Brahma Kumari Sister Shivani and Dr Veerendra Heggade The line-up of other prominent and inspi-rational speakers includes Dr Christopher Miller Dr Steven Southwick Rahul Kapoor Jain Motilal Oswal Dr Kumarpal Desai Dr Bipin Doshi and Dr Bimal Chajjer

The daily sessions and discus-sions will be well-complement-ed by refreshing Cultural Pro-grams in the evening including Jain Drama Rang De Sanskar - a high caliber humorous Hindi drama with famous actors amp an immense cast Jains Got Talent (JGT) and entertaining cultural performances from across the world A special Bollywood Musical ldquoSunheri Yaadeinrdquo will take us back 40 years of melodi-ous music to celebrate 40 Years Anniversary of JAINA

JAINA convention 2021 is an

invitation to all who aspire for a peaceful resilient recovery from the pandemic and to reweave the delicate fabric of humanity Since opening the registration on January 9th over 5000 at-tendees have already registered for the convention Come join us with our collective wisdom we will dream and create a non-violent future of Love Peace and Collaboration Your pres-ence and participation will help us ground in interconnection and solidarity and walk with you on the resilient path to peace we build together

For additional information about this convention and to register please visit us online at wwwjainaconventionorg

For Further Information please contact Mr Vipul Shah Chair of Public Relations and Press-Media Committee of JAINA Convention 2021 or its Co-Chair Mr Rahul Jain at prjainaorg

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Bollywood BeatDJ Aqeel and Farah Ali Khan are done

with their marriage

Actor Hrithik Roshanrsquos ex-wife Sussane Khanrsquos sister jewellery designer Farah Khan Ali has taken to social media to announce her separation from husband DJ Aqeel after 22 years of marriage In a lengthy post she spoke about how two people grow apart at times and that there is no bad bloodbetween them

The statement read ldquoSome-times two people grow apart Sometimes they outgrow each other It has been 9 years since my relationship with my hus-band Aqeel changed its status as a couple to just friends and to term it simply would be to state that we are ldquoHappily Sepa-ratedrdquordquo

ldquoWe will always be best friends to each other and par-ents to our wonderful children Azaan and Fizaa who love us both equally yet accept that we cannot be a couple any longer This was a mutual decision we took together involving two adults and there wasnrsquot any third person involved The reason we are announcing it publicly now is so that the ones who know us accept our situation grace-fully and always wish well for both of us especially because we hold no animosity of any kind towards one another and will al-ways be there for each otherrdquo it further read

ldquoAqeel is and will always be my family as I will be his We hope that all our well-wishers will accept our deci-sion maturely and not judge us for itrdquo

Bahubali now planned on a budget of 200 crores as Netflix scraps the already shot version of 100 croresNetflix is easily amongst the richest

digital platforms of the world According to our highly placed sources Netfl ix has scrapped the already shot Rs 100 crore version of the Netfl ix Original Bahubali Before The Beginning and have already begun work on a new version of the show this time around on double the cost of Rs 200 crores

ldquoNetfl ix was not satisfi ed with the prod-uct they had in hand and hence decided to scrap it completely They reworked on the script star-cast and technical team and are now reshooting Bahubali Before The Beginning on a never seen before unheard scale for their streaming They see the po-tential in Bahubali of being Indiarsquos answer to Game of Thrones and hence they have decided to take things a notch higher The overall budget for the new part is Rs 200 crore and if we add the scrap value the project now is worth Rs 300 crorerdquo a trade

source told Bollywood HungamaItrsquos produced by SS Rajamouli with

Netflix and is planned as a 9 episode two season limited series showcasing the rise of Shivagami set in the world of Mahishmati Itrsquos said to be a prequel to

Bahubali While the original cast was to feature Mrunal Thakur as Shivagami we still await an update if she will continue to play the queen or has she been replaced by someone else in this revamped Rs 200 crore version of the franchise

Emraan Hashmi says it has been his dream to work with Salman Khan

Emraan Hashmi is being said to be roped in by the makers of the Tiger franchise starring Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif While the latter two will be reprising their roles and Tiger and Zoya in Tiger 3 Emraan Hashmi is being said to play the antagonist marking his fi rst collaboration with the two stars and Yash Raj Films Being

one of the most coveted actors of the industry Salman Khan un-doubtedly is one of the favourites for every celebrity

Speaking about joining the franchise Emraan said that he would love to work in the fran-chise and it has always been a dream for him to work with Salman Khan

In October last year actress Rhea Chakraborty was grant-ed bail by the Bombay High Court after spending nearly two months in judicial cus-tody Her bail has now been challenged in the Supreme Court by the Narcotics Control Bureau(NCB) The case will be heard on Thursday

Rhea Chakraborty was sent to judicial custody last year for drug related charges in the death of her actor boyfriend Sushant Singh Rajput She was granted bail on the condi-tion that she submit a Rs 1 lakh bond and not leave the country without the permission of the court

Rhea Chakrabortyrsquos bail challenged in theSupreme Court by NCB

UNKNOWN FACTS ABOUTBOLLYWOODCELEBRITIES

Aamir Khanrsquos full name is Mohammed Aamir

Hussain Khan Despite being from the fi lm

industry Aamirrsquos parents were not keen on him entering Bollywood In 1984 Aamir worked in

his fi rst ever feature fi lm titled Holi

Very few people are aware of the fact that Kareena Kapoor gave her voice to the song Jab Nahi Aaye for the

fi lm Dev Kareena played a lead role in

the fi lm Unfortunately the movie didnrsquot do well

at the box-offi ce

Bollywood TriviaWhich actress debuted in

the fi lm lsquoKedarnathrsquo

Answer 1

1) Sara Ali Khan2) Katrina Kaif3) Tara Sutaria4) Ananya PandeyWho is the mother of actress

Janhvi Kapoor

Answer 3

1) Kareena2) Karisma3) Sridevi4) Madhuri

12 India Bulletin Saturday March 20 2021

ENTERTAINMENT

Bollywood Beat

The Brihanmumbai Mu-nicipal Corporation (BMC) revealed on their social media page that they have filed an FIR (First information report) against a Bollywood actor for not adhering to Covid-19 guidelines despite testing posi-tive for the deadly virus They even uploaded a picture of the FIR but the name of the celeb-rity was blurred Immediately it led people to speculate who the actor could be

However it has now come to light that the actor in question is Gauahar Khan As per the complaint filed at Oshiwara po-lice station a BMC officer has said that on the night of March 14 he was informed that Gaua-har Khan has tested positive for Coronavirus and yet shersquos not ready to get quarantined Hence the officer reached Gau-ahar Khanrsquos residence but she refused to open the door Later her husband answered from the flat and allegedly shouted at the BMC team

The complainant further states that the actress alleg-edly went out of her house for a shoot Hence the officer claims that she has exposed people to the deadly virus and thus contributed to itrsquos spread

As per a news report S Chai-tanya DCP (operations) and PRO of Mumbai Police has stated that Gauahar Khan has been charged under Sections 188 269 270 of the IPC 51B of NDMA Act 3 of Epidemic Diseases Act

BMC files FIR against

Gauahar Khan

Upcoming FilmsThalaivi

Kangana Ranautand Vijay Deverakonda

RadheSalman Khan

Disha Patani Jackie Shroff and Randeep Hooda

83Ranveer Singh

and Deepika Padukone

Atrangi ReAkshay Kumar Sara Ali Khanand Dhanush

MaidaanAjay Devgn Priyamani

and Keerthy Suresh

Bachchan PandeyAkshay Kumar Bobby Deol

and Riteish Deshmukh

Bell BottomAkshay Kumar Vaani Kapoor Huma Qureshi and Lara Dutta

Satyameva Jayate 2John Abraham Manoj Bajpai

and Divya Khosla Kumar

BrahmastraRanbir Kapoor Alia Bhatt and

Amitabh Bachchan

MOVIE REVIEW

Itrsquos been almost a year when theatres were asked to shut down due to rapid rise in the cases of Coronavirus in the country Two of the films play-ing in theatres at that point were Angrezi Medium produced by Dinesh Vijan and Kaamyaab directed by Hardik Mehta In an interesting turn of events Roohi the film that releases today and kickstarts the movie-watching season in cinemas is helmed by both these personalities So does Roohi manage to enter-tain and enthral the audiences Or does it fail to entice Letrsquos analyse

Roohi is the story of a pos-sessed girl Bhawra Pandey (Rajkummar Rao) and Kattanni Qureshi (Varun Sharma) work as crime journalists in a small town Baagadpur They also specialise in lsquopakdaai shaadirsquo aka bride kidnapping an accepted custom in Baagadpur One day their boss Guniya Shakeel (Manav Vij) orders them to kidnap a girl Roohi (Janhvi Kapoor) from a nearby town Mujaribaad Bhawra and Kattanni manage to kidnap Roohi while she is with her father (Rajesh Jais) As per the lsquopakdaai shaadirsquo custom af-ter the girl is kidnapped she is straight away taken to the mar-

riage venue Bhawra and Kat-tanni are also supposed to fol-low suit with Roohi But after the kidnap takes place Guniya calls them and tells them that the groomrsquos uncle has passed away suddenly Hence the mar-riage will now take place after a week Till then Bhawra and Kattanni are told to keep her as a hostage in an abandoned property in the hills of Ambiya-pur On the first night Bhawra goes to offer dinner to Roohi only to realize that she is pos-sessed Kattanni at first doesnrsquot believe but later even he sees the possessed side of Roohi However instead of being frightened Kattanni falls for the possessed Roohi Bhawra on the other hand is in love with the non-possessed Roohi He decides to help her and get the witch out of her body Kattanni however is averse to the idea as loves the possessed Roohi and if Bhawra succeeds the witch will leave Roohi forever What hap-pens next forms the rest of the film

Mrighdeep Singh Lamba and Gautam Mehras story is inter-esting and novel The writers try their best to bring some-thing new to the table Mrigh-deep Singh Lamba and Gautam Mehras screenplay however is interesting only in parts A few scenes are exceptional and bring the house down But the serious portions donrsquot make the desired impact Mrigh-deep Singh Lamba and Gautam Mehras dialogues are witty But the dialect is too authentic and is incomprehensible at many places

Roohi starts off on an interest-ing note depicting the concept of bride kidnapping in Baagad-pur that too through the eyes of a foreign reporter (Alexx ONell) The film gets better once Bhawra and Kattanni kid-nap Roohi and set base at the spooky abandoned factory The scene where Bhawra narrates about the possessed Roohi to

Kattanni is sure to raise laughs The scene where Kattanni in-stead of running away falls for the possessed Roohi is unique and unexpected It will bring smiles on the faces of the view-ers The interval comes at an in-teresting juncture Post-interval the film begins to fall but a few scenes especially of the marriage with the dog and Bhawrarsquos con-versation with the old lady (Sar-ita Joshi) add to the humour and madness The climax though unpredictable is disappointing

Talking of performances Ra-jkummar Rao is in his element as expected Due to his adorable performance one doesnrsquot hate him even though hersquos playing a kidnapper in the film And his comic timing is spot-on espe-cially in the scenes where hersquos running away from the possessed Roohi Janhvi Kapoor is a big surprise She hardly has any dia-logues but gets her act right with her expressions And she also is convincing as the witch Varun Sharma is marvellous and man-ages to raise laughs In the last 30 minutes however he doesnrsquot have much to do Manav Vij suits the part and his performance is

fair Sarita Joshi (credited in the film as Padma Shri Sarita Joshi) is hilarious and one wish-es that she had a longer screen time Alexx ONell is lovely Rajesh H Jais Anurag Arora (Tantrik) Sumit Gulati (Paras Roohirsquos groom in the end) are okay

Sachin-Jigars music is ap-propriate for the film and itrsquos theme Kiston comes suddenly but is soulful Bhootni is hilari-ous while Panghat is played in the end credits Nadiyon Paar is attached with the filmrsquos print be-fore the film starts It is the best song of the lot and well shot One wishes if it was a part of the filmrsquos narrative Ketan Sodhas background score is well wo-ven and also contributes to the horror quotient

On the whole Roohi rests on a unique concept fine perfor-mances and some interesting funny and horror sequences However the disappointing climax and difficult-to-under-stand dialect might affect the filmrsquos prospects at the box office

BannerMaddock Films

Jio Studios

ProducerDinesh Vijan

Mrighdeep Singh Lamba

DirectorHardik Mehta

StarringRajkummar RaoVarun SharmaJanhvi Kapoor

Music BySachin-Jigar

Released DateMarch 11 2021

Roohi

Rating

Celebrity BirthdaysMarch 21stRani Mukerji (1978)

March 23rdKangana Ranaut (1987)

March 24thEmraan Hashmi (1979)

March 25thYograj Singh (1958)

March 26thPrakash Raj (1965)

April 3rdPrabhu Deva (1973)

April 4thLisa Ray (1972)Simran Bagga (1976)

March 28thAkshaye Khanna(1975) Sandhya Mridul (1975)

March 30thNagesh Kukunoor (1967)

April 2ndAjay Devgn (1969) Kapil Sharma (1981)

13India BulletinSaturday March 20 2021

ENTERTAINMENT

Biz Briefs

Apple Inc has started the as-sembly of iPhone 12 in India the US tech giant said as the com-pany ramps up manufacturing operations in the worldrsquos sec-ond-biggest smartphone market

ldquoWe are proud to be starting production of iPhone 12 in India for our local customersrdquo Apple said in a statement without naming the supplier making the smartphone

The Indian unit of Applersquos Taiwanese contract manufac-turer Foxconn will assemble the device in its plant in southern Tamil Nadu state two sources familiar with the matter said

Foxconn did not immediately respond to a request for com-ment but has previously said it does not comment on client-specifi c work

Poscorsquos steel plant in India

faces disruption Operations at South Korean

steelmaker Poscorsquos plant in the Indian state of Maharashtra have been disrupted due to local pro-tests over labour and other issues police and sources told Reuters hampering the supply chain for automakers

A local politician leading the protests said they have blocked employees and goods from enter-ing the plant and will continue until Posco heeds to some of their requests which include giv-ing employment preference to lo-cal workers raising the wages of temporary employees and making them permanent

Reuters could not indepen-dently verify the extent of the production disruption at Poscorsquos plant

Apple starts iPhone 12 assem-

bly in India

HEALTH amp SCIENCEBUSINESS14 India Bulletin Saturday March 20 2021

By Nidhi Verma

NEW DELHI - India and the UAE on Wednesday discussed ways to strengthen energy coop-eration Indiarsquos oil minister Dhar-mendra Pradhan said despite the South Asian nation asking its re-fi ners to reduce their reliance on Middle Eastern oil

ldquo(We) discussed about new ar-eas of cooperation in the hydro-carbon sector and beyond and agreed to remain committed de-spite the challenges presented by Covid pandemicrdquo Pradhan said on Twitter after a virtual meeting with Sultan Al Jaber the chief executive of Abu Dhabi National Oil Co (ADNOC)

UAE is a key oil supplier to India and a partner in an Indian joint venture that plans to build a 12 million barrels per day (bpd) refi nery and petrochemical com-plex on the countryrsquos west coast

Last month the UAE was the

fi fth biggest oil supplier to In-dia which itself is the worldrsquos third biggest oil importer and consumer

Pradhan said he also discussed with Jaber ways of strengthen-ing and ldquoproviding momentum to (the) bilateral strategic en-ergy partnershiprdquo between the countries

India imports more than 80 of its oil needs a signifi cant amount of which comes from the Middle East

New Delhi has however asked refi ners to gradually reduce oil imports from the Middle East and diversify supplies after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its al-lies known as OPEC+ decided to extend most curbs into April

India has been hit hard by rising oil prices due to which minister Pradhan has repeatedly called on OPEC+ to ease supply curbs and has blamed Saudi Ara-

India and UAE vow to strengthen energy cooperation says minister

biarsquos voluntary cuts for contribut-ing to a spike in global oil prices

Responding to Pradhanrsquos re-quest Saudi Arabiarsquos energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman suggested India dip into strategic reserves fi lled with cheaper oil bought last year

The UAErsquos ADNOC is the only foreign company to which India has leased a part of it strategic petroleum reserves India does not allow the export of oil but has given permission to ADNOC to export part of its oil in Mangalore SPR in southern India

Tesla in talks with Indiarsquos Tata Power for EV charging infrastructure

BENGALURU - Tesla Inc is exploring an arrangement with Indian conglomerate Tata Sonsrsquo power generation unit Tata Pow-er to set up charging infrastruc-ture for electric vehicles in the country CNBC-TV18 reported citing sources

Shares of Tata Power rose 55 to their best closing level since June 2014 after the report which comes as the Palo Alto-based electric-car maker gears up for an India launch later this year with plans to import and sell its Model 3 electric sedan

Tesla will set up an electric-car manufacturing unit in the southern Indian state of Karna-taka according to a government document seen by Reuters

Indiarsquos Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan

The talks between Tata Power and Tesla are in the initial stages and no arrangements have been

fi nalised yet the report saidTata Powerrsquos electric vehicle

charging business constantly

explores growth opportunities but has not fi nalised any new agreements the company said in a statement to stock exchanges It also said the CNBC-TV 18 report was ldquofactually incorrectrdquo but did not elaborate

Tesla was not immediately available for comment

In January the US electric-car maker incorporated Tesla Motors India and Energy Private Ltd with its registered offi ce in the southern city of Bengaluru a hub for global technology companies

Tata Motors Ltd the carmak-ing unit of Tata Sons last week denied any tie-up with Tesla af-ter media reports suggested the two companies were discussing a partnership

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BUSINESSIndia Bulletin

By Aftab Ahmed and Nupur Anand

NEW DELHIMUMBAI - In-dia will propose a law banning cryptocurrencies fi ning anyone trading in the country or even holding such digital assets a senior government offi cial told

Reuters in a potential blow to millions of investors piling into the red-hot asset class

The bill one of the worldrsquos strictest policies against cryp-tocurrencies would criminalise possession issuance mining trading and transferring crypto-assets said the offi cial who has

India to propose cryptocurrency ban penalising miners tradersdirect knowledge of the plan

The measure is in line with a January government agenda that called for banning private vir-tual currencies such as bitcoin while building a framework for an offi cial digital currency But recent government comments had raised investorsrsquo hopes that

the authorities might go easier on the booming market

Instead the bill would give holders of cryptocurrencies up to six months to liquidate after which penalties will be levied said the offi cial who asked not to be named as the contents of the bill are not public

Offi cials are confi dent of get-ting the bill enacted into law as Prime Minister Narendra Modirsquos government holds a comfortable majority in parliament

If the ban becomes law India would be the fi rst major econo-my to make holding cryptocur-rency illegal Even China which has banned mining and trading

does not penalise possessionThe Finance Ministry did not

immediately respond to an email seeking comment

Bitcoin the worldrsquos biggest cryptocurrency hit a record high $60000 last Saturday nearly doubling in value this year as its acceptance for payments has in-creased with support from such high-profi le backers as Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk

In India despite government threats of a ban transaction vol-umes are swelling and 8 million investors now hold 100 billion rupees ($14 billion) in crypto-investments according to indus-try estimates No offi cial data is available

US becomes Indiarsquos second biggest oil supplier Saudi plunges to No 4

By Nidhi Verma

NEW DELHI - The United States overtook Saudi Arabia as Indiarsquos second biggest oil sup-plier after Iraq last month as refi ners boosted cheaper US crude purchases to record levels to off set OPEC+ supply cuts data from trade sources showed

The switch in supplies trig-gered by lower US crude de-mand coincided with Saudi Ara-biarsquos voluntary extra 1 million barrel per day (bpd) output cut on top of an agreement by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies (OPEC+) to maintain lower pro-duction

Indiarsquos imports from the United

States - the worldrsquos top producer - rose 48 to a record 545300 bpd in February from the prior month accounting for 14 of Indiarsquos overall imports last month the data obtained by Reuters showed

In contrast February imports from Saudi Arabia fell by 42 from January to a decade low of 445200 bpd the data showed Saudi Arabia which has consis-tently been one of Indiarsquos top two suppliers slipped to No 4 for the fi rst time since at least January 2006

Indiarsquos oil import data by coun-try from before 2006 is not avail-able to Reuters

ldquoUS demand was weak and refi neries were running at low rates so the US crude had to

go somewhere and Asia is the region which has seen rapid de-mand recoveryrdquo said Refi nitiv analyst Ehsan Ul Haq

ldquoChina has not been taking US oil because of (the) trade problem so India is the obvious choicerdquo he said

Iraq continued to be the top oil seller to India despite a 23 drop in purchases to a fi ve-month low of 867500 bpd the data showed

The UAE slipped to fi fth posi-tion from third in January while Nigeria rose to third from fi fth exporting 472300 bpd the most since Oct 2019

India shipped in 392 million bpd of oil in February a decline of 18 from January the data showed

India will propose a law banning cryptocurrencies fi ning anyone trading in the country or even holding such digital assets a senior government offi cial told Re-uters in a potential blow to millions of investors piling into the red-hot asset class

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Aries (March 21 to April 20)Someone will always be prettier Someone will always be smarter Someone will always be younger But they will never be you Itrsquos this ability to understand your uniqueness which will help you steer forward in an otherwise difficult week

Taurus (April 21 to May 21)When a storm is coming all other birds seek shelter The eagle alone avoids the storm by flying above it So in the storms of life be like an eagle and soar above your problems Keep your love life on top priority and everything else will fall into place with time

Gemini (May 22 to June 21)Life is not happening to you Life is responding to you The things you do the decisions you take the people you love or the people you hate they all make you into who you are

Cancer (June 22 to July 22)Sadness does not come from bad circumstances It comes from bad thoughts Although the circumstances are mixed around you you will have a tendency to make a mountain out of a mole hill

Leo (July 23 to August 22)Every time we get what we thought we wanted we realise that we want more This race towards more - more money more power more of everything is taking a toll on your energy level

Virgo (August 23 to September 23)One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness usually it comes back to you While your hard work is fruc-tifying now do not let the success take you away from compassion

Libra (September 24 to October 23)Best friends are like stars You donrsquot always see them but you know they are always there This week you will be in a nostalgic mood and miss good old times and old friends Rather than thinking about it pick up the phone and talk to friends you have not spoken in years or take a friend out on a cappuccino trip

Scorpio (October 24 to November 22)Learn to make peace with your past or else your future will become a constant battle that yoursquoll never win The highlight of the week will be letting go of things forgiving people forgetting wrong-doings and moving on in life

Sagittarius (November 23 to December 21)Chaos in the midst of chaos isnrsquot funny but chaos in the midst of order is Probably one of the toughest week this month wherein there will be a lot of confusion and haze around Advice Do not take stress

Capricorn (December 22 to January 20)Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realise you havenrsquot fallen asleep yet Thatrsquos the kind of nights you might witness this week owing to unforeseen issues and hurdles Your discipline and organisational skills will steer you forward and transform these hurdles into opportunities Aquarius (January 21 to February 19)Women get the last word in every argument Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument This is not the week for you to get into any arguments as it might jeopardise your frame of mind

Pisces (February 20 to March 20)Find out who you are and be that person Thatrsquos what your soul was put on this Earth to be Find that truth live that truth and everything else will come The week will be about introspection spirituality and matters related to the soul

WEEKLY HOROSCOPE(March 28 - April 3 2021)

HEALTH amp SCIENCEASTROLOGYIndia Bulletin

8 things AARP wants you to know before your second COVID-19 vaccine

If yoursquove already received your first dose of a two-dose COVID-19 vaccine congratulations - yoursquore well on your way to being protect-ed from the coronavirus But to be fully immunized itrsquos critical to get that second shot

William Schaffner MD an infectious diseases specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville Tennessee and medical director of the Nation-al Foundation for Infectious Dis-eases says ldquoWe have told every-one these vaccines are 95 percent effectiverdquo of the two-dose Moder-na and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines currently in use in the US ldquoBut theyrsquore only 95 percent effective if you indeed get that second doserdquo

Here are a few more things to know about the second dose

1 Your side effects will likely be stronger

Many people who had little to no reaction to the first vaccine dose are reporting that the second one packs a punch mdash surprising even those who study vaccines for a liv-ing

Greg Poland MD an infec-tious disease expert at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota and director of Mayorsquos vaccine re-search group had only mild symp-toms after his first dose But the second one left him shaking - liter-ally - with chills and a temperature of 101

ldquoI took one Tylenol and went to bed and woke up the next morning 90 percent improved and by mid-day I was back to normalrdquo Poland says ldquoThis is not an indication of something going wrong it is an indication of a vigorous immune responserdquo

There is no live virus in the vac-cine so you canrsquot get COVID-19 from being vaccinated

Participants in clinical trials of both vaccines had experiences similar to Polandrsquos In Pfizerrsquos clinical trial for instance 31 per-cent of participants ages 18 to 55 reported a fever after the second dose compared to only 8 percent after the first one Fatigue chills headache and musclejoint pain were also more common after the second injection for both vaccines

The good news is older adults were less likely to experience vac-cine reactions the data shows Among those age 55 and up in the Pfizer trial 22 percent experienced fever after the second dose and 3 percent had a temperature after the first dose

Schaffner recommends not making any big plans for the day after your scheduled vaccine appointment

2 You should avoid taking pain relievers before your shot

If yoursquove been hearing sto-ries about second-dose side ef-fects you may be tempted to take a pain reliever before your appointment

Thatrsquos not a good idea accord-ing to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) unless yoursquove been advised to do so by your doctor Pain relievers taken preemptively ahead of a shot could dampen the effective-ness of the vaccine Poland and Schaffner say

However itrsquos OK to take ac-etaminophen (Tylenol) or a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug like Advil or Motrin after your vaccine to treat side effects such as pain fever chills or headache

3 The timing between doses doesnrsquot need to be exact

The second dose of the Pfiz-er shot is supposed to be giv-en 21 days after the first for Moderna the recommended interval between doses is 28 days

However if you canrsquot get an appointment on the exact day mdash or if you have to miss your scheduled appointment for some reason mdash the CDC does allow some wiggle room Although the agency recommends trying to stick to the suggested interval it says the second dose can be given up to six weeks after the first

If your appointment is sched-uled earlier than the recommend-ed date ask for a later appoint-ment Schaffner advises ldquoYour immune response will work perfectly well if you take more timerdquo he says ldquoBut if you do it too early the second dose may not invoke an optimal responserdquo

4 Your second dose should be from the same manufacturer as your first

Doctors are already hearing from patients asking if they can get their second dose from a dif-ferent manufacturer often be-cause they realize the other type of vaccine is offered at a location thatrsquos more convenient But the CDC recommends against it The Moderna and Pfizer vaccines ldquoare not interchangeable with each other or with other COVID-19 vaccine productsrdquo the CDC says ldquoThe safety and efficacy of a mixed-product series have not been evaluatedrdquo

5 A rash at the injection site isnrsquot a reason to skip your second dose

If you experienced a rash at the injection site three to 10 days

after getting your first shot that doesnrsquot preclude you from getting your second shot the CDC says although it recommends getting it in the other arm

A small number of people have developed such rashes some-times called ldquoCOVID armrdquo af-ter vaccination Doctors say itrsquos likely a mild allergic reaction that can be treated with an over-the-counter antihistamine such as Benadryl

6 You should temporarily avoid all other vaccines

It might be time for your shin-gles or Tdap vaccine but you should hold off if you are between COVID-19 vaccine doses Be-cause therersquos no data on the safety and efficacy of COVID vaccines administered at the same time as other vaccines the CDC recom-mends avoiding other immuniza-tions in the two weeks before and after both doses

7 Full immunity is not immediate

It takes two weeks after your second dose for your body to build full protection to the virus After that you should have al-most zero chance of developing severe disease if you are exposed to someone with COVID-19 Schaffner says The CDC also says you no longer have to quar-antine if yoursquore exposed to some-one with COVID-19 mdash as long as you meet these criteria you donrsquot have symptoms and it hasnrsquot been more than three months since your second vaccine dose

One possible exception is immunocompromised people Schaffner says They will get some level of immunity he says ldquobut they may not reach the 95 percent because their immune system is already somewhat com-promised no matter how strong these vaccines arerdquo

8 You still need to wear a maskExperts agree you should con-

tinue to wear a mask and practice social distancing in public For one thing therersquos a small chance you could get sick even after yoursquove been vaccinated

In addition itrsquos possible that you could still carry the virus and silently transmit it to others who havenrsquot been vaccinated even if you donrsquot develop symptoms

And therersquos one more reason Until the country reaches herd im-munity mdash the point when a signif-icant portion of the population be-comes immune to a disease mdash itrsquos important for everyone to wear a mask to stop the spread of the virus Schaffner says

Saturday March 20 2021

Biden All US adults to be eligible for vaccines by May

By Jeff Mason

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden told US states last Thursday to make all adults eligible for a coronavirus vaccine by May 1 and urged Americans to stay vigi-lant or face more restrictions hours after he signed a $19 trillion stimulus bill into law

In a forceful but somber speech from the White House on the fi rst anniversary of the pandemic lockdown Biden said if Ameri-cans pulled together there could be a great-er sense of normalcy - and some backyard barbecue parties with small groups - on the US Independence Day holiday on July 4

That date is a new goal for the president and a projection of hope amid a pandemic that has killed more than 530000 people in the United States the most of any country

To achieve his summer target Biden said he needed Americansrsquo help

ldquoIf we donrsquot stay vigilant and the con-ditions change then we may have to rein-state restrictions to get back on trackrdquo he said in an evening address from the White House his fi rst in television prime time since becoming president

ldquoWersquove made so much progress This is not the time to let up Just as we are emerging from a dark winter into a hope-ful spring and summer is not the time to not stick with the rulesrdquo he said

Republicans swiftly criticized Biden for his cautious approach ldquoWhat America needs now is to fully reopen our economy and our classroomsrdquo House of Represen-tatives Republican leader Kevin McCarthy said on Twitter

Biden said he was ordering US states territories and tribes to make all adults eli-gible to receive a coronavirus vaccine by May 1 The White House has said it would have enough vaccine supply to vaccinate the adult population by the end of May About 10 of Americans so far have been fully vaccinated

Administration offi cials said he would deploy 4000 more troops to help with the vaccine eff ort bringing the total number to 6000 The White House is also seeking to expand the pool of people able to adminis-ter shots to include dentists optometrists paramedics veterinarians and medical stu-dents

Biden campaigned last year on a prom-ise that he would tackle the pandemic more eff ectively than Republican Presi-dent Donald Trump and he has sought to encourage and model behavior such as mask-wearing that Trump eschewed

In his speech Biden took a swipe at his

predecessor by saying the virus was ini-tially met with ldquodenials for days weeks then months that led to more deaths more infections more stress more lonelinessrdquo

Biden said hate crimes and harassment against Asian Americans must stop Trump repeatedly referred to the disease as the ldquoChina virusrdquo

Biden also encouraged Americans to keep up mitigation eff orts - wearing masks keeping social distance and prac-ticing good hygiene - to stop the virus and its variants from spreading A number of states have been loosening restrictions

as Americans like many people around the world grow weary of pandemic life

ldquoPhotos and videos from 2019 feel like they were taken in another era The last vacation The last birthday with friends The last holiday with extended familyrdquo Biden said recounting the toll the virus has wrought

He said the country would come away from the crisis stronger ldquoWe faced and overcame one of the toughest and darkest periods in this nationrsquos history - darkest wersquove ever knownrdquo he said

Moderna begins study of COVID-19 vaccine in kids

Moderna Inc has begun dosing patients in a mid-to-late stage study of its COV-ID-19 vaccine mRNA-1273 in children aged six months to less than 12 years the company said on Tuesday

The study will assess the safety and ef-fectiveness of two doses of mRNA-1273 given 28 days apart and intends to enroll about 6750 children in the United States and Canada

The vaccine has already been au-thorized for emergency use in

Americans who are aged 18 and older

In a separate study which began in De-cember Moderna is also testing mRNA-1273 in adolescents between 12 and 18 years old

The latest study is being conducted in collaboration with the National Insti-tute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA)

Mother who lost only son to rare COVID complication warns parents to look for early signs

SANTIAGO - By the time doctors real-ized that Lorena Navarretersquos son had a rare complication of COVID-19 that affl icts some children it was too late to save her 16-year-old Emilio

Lorena a single mother who lives in the southern Chilean city of Puerto Montt told the TVN network that her music-loving and sociable son died about a week after he fi rst complained of feeling tired and of a pain in his legs in late January

Within days he had developed livid blotches on his skin a high fever vomiting and dark urine

Doctors at the cityrsquos hospital overrun with severe COVID cases repeatedly tested him for COVID but with the results coming back negative were at a loss as to what was wrong with him

By the time his illness was identifi ed as Multisystem Infl ammatory Syndrome in Children it was too late Lorena could not be at her sonrsquos bedside because of strict health protocols but a social worker called to pass on the message that her son loved

her very much She asked the social worker to tell her son she would see him soon and that his pets were well

ldquoA doctor said that if I had faith I should pray because my son was very illrdquo said Na-varrete who works as a nurse technician ldquoThey had a diagnosis and it was PIMSrdquo

Multisystem Infl ammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) as PIMS is more com-monly known is a rare life-threatening syndrome linked to COVID-19

It usually appears between two and six weeks after infection even in asymptomatic cases of COVID-19

It shares symptoms with toxic shock and Kawasaki disease including fever rashes swollen glands conjunctivitis and in severe cases heart infl ammation and can cause multiple organ failure It is not always fatal if caught and treated early

The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention said in January that it was inves-tigating whether COVID variants were in-creasing the number or severity of cases fol-lowing anecdotal reports from some states

US President Joe Biden

HEALTH amp SCIENCE17India Bulletin

HEALTH amp SCIENCE

Saturday March 20 2021

By Anthony Deutsch and Caroline Copley

AMSTERDAM - Global health experts came under in-creasing pressure on Tuesday to clear up questions over the safety of AstraZenecarsquos CO-VID-19 shot as Sweden and Latvia joined countries suspend-ing their use in a further blow to Europersquos vaccination rollout

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said it was

investigating reports of 30 cases of unusual blood disorders out of 5 million recipients of the As-traZeneca vaccine In total 45 million COVID shots have been delivered across the region

The EU regulator will release its findings on Thursday but its head Emer Cooke said she saw no reason to change its recom-mendation of AstraZeneca - one of four vaccines that it has approved for use

ldquoThe benefits continue to

outweigh the risks but this is a serious concern and it does need serious and detailed scientific evaluationrdquo Cooke told a news conference

A World Health Organization (WHO) committee of experts was reviewing the cases and was expected to issue a statement by the end of the day a spokesman said

The EUrsquos largest members - Germany France and Italy - suspended use of AstraZenecarsquos vaccine on Monday pending the outcome of investigations into unusual cases of a rare cerebral thrombosis in people who had received it

The addition of Sweden and Latvia on Tuesday brought to 13 the number of EU countries to act since reports first emerged of thromboembolisms affect-ing people after they got the AstraZeneca shot

The WHO and EMA had ear-lier joined AstraZeneca in say-ing there is no proven link but some experts said the episodes of blood clots bleeding and low platelet counts in younger people seemed to indicate a causal con-nection to the AstraZeneca shot

ldquoThe benefits of vaccination significantly outweigh the risks especially for the elderlyrdquo said Karl Lauterbach health spokes-man for Germanyrsquos Social Democratic Party

ldquoBut it could be the case that the risks of the vaccine are high-er for certain patient groups such as young womenrdquo Lauterbach an epidemiologist whose party is part of the Berlin coalition told Deutschlandfunk radio in an interview

Other epidemiologists note that similar cases have not been found in unusual num-bers in Britain which began using AstraZeneca earlier and has given more than 10 million doses

ldquoA very likely explanation of at least some of the clotting dis-orders seen are a result of CO-VID-19 rather than the vaccinerdquo said Stephen Evans professor of pharmacoepidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

ldquoThere are published papers that make clear that these prob-lems definitely occur in COV-ID-19 and there is no doubt that all the vaccines in use prevent

that disease Hence the risk and benefit balance for the AstraZen-eca vaccine remains clearly in favour of its benefitsrdquo

In the EUrsquos largest states in-cluding Germany France Italy the Netherlands and Spain As-traZeneca has accounted for about 13-15 of shots given since the rollout began almost three months ago with Pfizer-BioNTech making up the major-ity according to official data

As one as the cheapest to be developed the AstraZeneca shot is set to be the mainstay of vac-cination programmes in much of the developing world

Governments say they acted on the AstraZeneca shot out of an abundance of caution - of 16 million people in Germany given the vaccine seven fell ill with a very rare cerebral vein thrombosis of whom three died

In a detailed analysis of its findings Germanyrsquos vaccine oversight body the Paul Eh-rlich Institute said six of the cases were in women of young or middle age - a number statis-tically significantly higher than normally expected

Health experts pore over AstraZeneca safety data as Europe reels from vaccine suspensions

Global health experts came under increasing pressure on Tuesday to clear up questions over the safety of AstraZenecarsquos COVID-19 shot as Sweden and Latvia joined countries suspending their use in a further blow to Europersquos vaccination rollout

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Kishan Kohli help India level T20 series against England

AHMEDABAD - A belliger-ent 56 off 32 balls from India debutant Ishan Kishan and an unbeaten 73 from captain Virat Kohli helped the hosts to a com-manding seven-wicket win over England in the second Twenty20 International in Ahmedabad on Sunday

Kishan 22 smashed leg-spinner Adil Rashid for two con-secutive sixes to get past fifty as India made short work of a 165-run target to win with 13 balls to spare and level the five-match

series at 1-1Indiarsquos chase of Englandrsquos

164-6 got off to a shaky start when Sam Curran sent back opener KL Rahul in the first over without scoring but it did not curb Kishanrsquos aggres-sion the left-hander hitting five fours and four sixes in total

There was plenty of entertain-ment for the sizeable crowd at the worldrsquos biggest cricket sta-dium with most fans not wear-ing masks in the stands as Kohli

and Kishan added 94 in nine overs

Rishabh Pant came in after the dismissal of Kishan who was dropped by Ben Stokes on 40 off Rashid and continued to pummel Englandrsquos bowlers with a 13-ball 26 during which he hit two sixes and an identical number of fours

Kohli who also survived a dropped chance by wicketkeeper Jos Buttler on 10 off Chris Jor-dan sealed the win with a four and a six in successive balls to

also get past 3000 runs in T20 internationals in the process

Jason Roy once again top-scored for England with a 35-ball 46 following up on his knock of 49 in their win in the first match last Friday

Put in to bat the right-hander gave the touring side a steady start with a 63-run stand for the second wicket with Dawid Malan after the loss of opening partner Buttler to seamer Bhu-vneshwar Kumar on the first delivery he faced

Roy hit four fours and two six-es in his knock before holing out in the deep off spinner Washing-ton Sundar who also sent back the dangerous Jonny Bairstow for 20

Fast bowler Shardul Thakur pegged back Englandrsquos hopes of a flourishing finish by dis-missing opposition captain Eoin Morgan and Stokes as India conceded just 35 off the last five overs

The third match of the series will be played on Tuesday

Virat Kohli

Rohit urges India debutants to lsquohave funrsquo against England in T20 series

After Suryakumar Yadav and Ishan Kishan earned their maiden call-ups to the Indian national team vice-captain Rohit Sharma stressed on the importance of playing with-out any pressure when they take on England in a Twenty20 series

Kishan and Suryakumar were named in the squad after plun-dering 516 and 480 runs re-spectively in the Indian Premier League last season where the pair played under Rohit for the

Mumbai Indians as they clinched their fifth title in November

ldquoI donrsquot want them to be think-ing about anythingrdquo Rohit told reporters on Wednesday ldquoThatrsquos how they bring their best perfor-mance out

ldquoHaving watched them closely for a few years now Irsquove realised itrsquos important for them to be part of this wonder-ful team a great setup I just want them to have fun and un-derstand what this team is all about

ldquoThese guys have done re-ally well in the last few years especially the last year Itrsquos just about carrying that form and putting it out there Itrsquos not go-ing to be that easy here they will be challenged every now and thenrdquo

For England itrsquos a much-awaited return to the squad for all-rounder Liam Livingstone who had similar success in Aus-traliarsquos Big Bash League where he scored 426 runs for Perth Scorchers

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HEALTH amp SCIENCE5Saturday March 20 2021

NATIONAL NEWSIndia Bulletin

WASHINGTON DC - With assets worth tens of millions of dollars associate attorney gen-eral nominee Vanita Gupta is thus far the Biden administrationrsquos wealthiest political nominee that has publicly released a finan-cial disclosure form ABC News reported

The disclosure of Guptarsquos finan-cial interests came as she faced a rocky confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week

Gupta a civil rights attorney-

turned Justice Department nomi-nee has reported owning between $42 million and $187 million in assets and properties with her spouse in her disclosure report filed to the Office of Government Ethics She reported earning be-tween $902000 and $3 million in the past year the filing shows

The biggest chunks of her as-sets come from her shares in companies linked to her father Raj Gupta a corporate chairman and Wall Street financier with vast corporate interests

Associate Attorney General pick Gupta would be wealthiest member of Bidenrsquos administration

According to the filing Vanita Gupta owns between $11 mil-lion and $55 million in shares of Avantor a chemicals and ma-terials company headquartered in Pennsylvania for which Raj Gupta is the chairman of the board

She also reported owning be-tween $500000 and $1 million in shares of Aptiv an American-Irish-British auto parts company headquartered in Dublin Ireland for which Raj Gupta also serves as chairman

According to the report Gupta also owns between $950000 and $2 million in entities connected to the private equity firm New Mountain Capital for which her father has served as a senior ad-viser Raj Gupta has also served on the board of the Vanguard Group one of the biggest index fund companies and Vanita Gup-ta owns between $11 million and $49 million worth of Vanguard index funds which are com-monly owned by other political appointees

She holds much of those assets through family trusts she controls except for $5 million to $25 mil-lion in Avantor $500000 to $1 million in Aptiv and six-figures in New Mountain Finance Co which are under a brokerage account

In her ethics agreement provid-ed by the Biden transition team Vanita Gupta wrote that she would retain her financial interests in those companies but would resign from her position as co-trustee of her family trust

Vanita GuptaMan involved in IRS phone scam ordered to pay restitution

NEW YORK - A former Mas-sachusetts man who tried to flee to Canada to avoid a prison sen-tence for his role in a phone scam that bilked area residents out of hundreds of thousands of dol-lars has been ordered to pay more than $250000 in restitution

Ashokkumar ldquoAndyrdquo Patel formerly of Worcester was re-sponsible for helping steal more than $880000 but the identities

of many victims could not be traced prosecutors said in federal court The Telegram amp Gazette reported

Patelrsquos lawyer Vikas Dhar said Patel made less than $50000 for his role in the scheme

Patel pleaded guilty last Sep-tember to wire fraud and money laundering for his role in a com-plicated scheme in which foreign callers duped people into sending

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He was sentenced to more than three years in prison

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By Rajendra Jadhavand Rama Venkat

MUMBAI - New coronavirus infections in India rose by the most in more than three months as a second wave of the epidemic gathered momentum with Ma-harashtra the countryrsquos richest state accounting for two-thirds of the latest daily tally

Home to Indiarsquos commer-cial capital Mumbai the west-ern state reported 23179 of the countryrsquos 35871 new cases in

the past 24 hours and the fast spreading contagion in major industrial areas raised risks of companiesrsquo production being disrupted

Indiarsquos total cases stood at 1147 million the highest after the United States and Brazil Deaths rose by 172 to 159216 according to health ministry data released on Thursday

The countryrsquos first wave peaked in September at nearly 100000 cases a day with daily infections hitting a low of just

over 9000 early last monthCases have been rising in Ma-

harashtra since the reopening of most economic activities in Feb-ruary Mumbairsquos suburban trains which carry millions of people daily also resumed services

The state of 112 million peo-ple ordered a fresh lockdown in some districts and put curbs on cinemas hotels and restaurants until the end of the month after infections rose to a multi-month high earlier this week

New cases have more than doubled in the past two weeks in Maharashtrarsquos industrial towns such as Pune Aurangabad Na-shik and Nagpur known for their

automobile pharmaceutical and textile factories

ldquoWe have asked industries there to operate with minimum manpower as much possiblerdquo said a senior Maharashtra gov-ernment official declining to be named as he was not authorised to talk to the media ldquoMost of the IT companies have allowed their employees to work from homerdquo

Hospital beds and special CO-VID-19 facilities were filling up fast especially in Mumbai Nag-pur and Pune said another state official

Earlier this month more than 80 of oxygen and intensive-care beds in Maharashtra were

unoccupiedHalf a dozen other states such

as Punjab and Madhya Pradesh have also seen a rise in cases this month The government has blamed crowding and a re-luctance to wear masks for the rise

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday asked state leaders to quickly increase test-ing and expand vaccination to ldquostop the emerging second peak of coronardquo

India has administered more than 365 million vaccine dos-es since starting its immuni-sation drive in the middle of January

Maharashtra state suffers surge in COVID-19 cases

A health worker in personal protective equipment (PPE) collects a swab sample from a woman during a rapid antigen testing campaign for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a railway station platform in Mumbai

Pandemic pushes 32 million Indians out of middle class says Pew Research

By Manoj Kumar

NEW DELHI - Financial woes brought by last yearrsquos coronavi-rus pandemic have pushed about 32 million Indians out of the middle class undoing years of economic gains a report showed on Thursday while job losses pushed millions into poverty

The number of Indians in the middle class or those earn-

ing between $10 and $20 a day shrunk by about 32 million compared with the number that could have been reached in the absence of a pandemic the US-based Pew Research Centre said

A year into the pandemic the numbers of those in the middle class has shrunk to 66 million down a third from a pre-pan-demic estimate of 99 million it added

ldquoIndia is estimated to have seen a greater decrease in the middle class and a much sharper rise in poverty than China in the COVID-19 downturnrdquo the Pew Research Centre said citing the World Bankrsquos forecasts of economic growth

Nearly 57 million people had joined the middle income group between 2011 and 2019 it added

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INTERNATIONAL NEWS

By Krishna N Das

NEW DELHI - Indiarsquos main opposition Congress party on Tuesday hit out at Prime Minis-ter Narendra Modirsquos government for exporting nearly twice the number of coronavirus vaccine doses than immunisations con-ducted at home despite a surge in infections

India the worldrsquos biggest vac-cine maker has gifted or sold here 59 million locally produced doses compared with 33 million

doses given to its own people since its inoculation campaign began in mid-January

While some rich countries such as the United States are being accused of vaccine na-tionalism India is being lauded globally for sending shots to 71 countries mainly the AstraZen-eca vaccine as well as some of Bharat Biotechrsquos homegrown product

Many Indians however now want the government to make vaccines available to more of its

own people instead of only the elderly and those above 45 suf-fering from health conditions

ldquoThe priority of the Modi government is not the state but foreign nationsrdquo Congress said on Twitter using the tag India-NeedsMoreVaccines and accus-ing the premier of focusing on

ldquoPR over peoplerdquoldquoThe pace of vaccination in

states is slow due to the centrali-sation in vaccine distributionrdquo it said

Health Minister Harsh Vard-han told parliament that vac-cines were not being exported at the ldquoexpense of the people of

Indiardquo and that a balance was being struck

Indiarsquos immunisation drive has picked up significantly since Modi expanded it this month Still Bangladesh is vaccinat-ing more people relative to its population using India-made shots

India worldrsquos top vaccine maker criticised at home for exports as infections rise

A healthcare worker collects a swab sample from a woman amidst the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a bus station in New Delhi India on March 16 2021

India child rights group asks police to probe Netflix show lsquoBombay Begumsrsquo

By Abhirup Roy

MUMBAI - A government agency for child rights in In-dia on Tuesday asked police to investigate Netflix Incrsquos show ldquoBombay Begumsrdquo saying some scenes in the drama series violated laws meant to protect children letters seen by Reuters showed

The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCP-CR) has asked the US streaming giant to remove five ldquoobjection-ablerdquo scenes from the series and wrote to the police chief in Indiarsquos financial capital Mumbai to take action

ldquoYou are requested to investi-gateinquire and take deemed law-ful necessary actionrdquo NCPCRrsquos

chairperson Priyank Kanoongo wrote in the letter

A Mumbai police spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment Netflix de-clined to comment

ldquoBombay Begumsrdquo is a se-ries about five women from dif-ferent parts of society trying to get ahead in modern Mumbai formerly called Bombay It was released last week

In a separate letter to Netflix NCPCR asked the company to remove five scenes which it said violated Indian laws governing Juvenile Justice and the Protec-tion of Children from Sexual Of-fences

In the series children have been shown indulging ldquoin snort-ing drugs and taking inde-

cent pictures and selfies in the classroomrdquo NCPCR told Netflix

The child rights group first asked Netflix to stop streaming the series last week after review-ing complaints on Twitter As of Tuesday the show was still avail-able for viewing on Netflix in India

Netflix officials met the child rights agency on Tuesday to dis-cuss details of the scenes and objections from NCPCR which gave the company two days to consult its legal team

Video streaming platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video have recently faced a barrage of complaints around promoting obscenity or hurting religious sentiments in India a key growth market

HEALTH amp SCIENCE9

INTERNATIONAL NEWSIndia Bulletin

NEW DELHI - Indiarsquos new oversight of digital news platforms is drawing protest from the media industry and activists who fear the rules will curb press freedom in the worldrsquos largest democracy

India which has one of the worldrsquos biggest and most diverse media industries last month an-nounced the Intermediary Guide-lines and Digital Media Ethics Code aimed at pushing Big Tech fi rms such as Facebook to com-ply with content takedown orders However it also extends to news websites

The rules impose a three-tier regulatory mechanism requir-ing a grievance offi cer to resolve complaints and a government panel to have broad oversight The most senior government offi cial in the information and broadcast-ing ministry will also have emer-gency powers to order content be blocked

Media executives fear such oversight could lead to censor-ship of content seen as critical of

the government and three digi-tal news outlets have approached state courts

ldquoTheserules will signify the death of media independence in Indiardquo said Siddharth Varadara-jan editor of independent news website lsquoThe Wirersquo Its publisher has challenged the regulation in the Delhi High Court

LiveLaw a legal news web-site has challenged the rules in the Kerala High Court which this week said no coercive ac-tion should be taken against the website for non-compliance

The government says the new rules are aimed at achieving par-ity between digital media and print and TV news regulations Refer-ring to the rules for digital me-dia information and broadcasting minister Prakash Javadekar last month said ldquoevery freedom has to be responsible freedomrdquo

The number of online media outlets in India has increased in recent years but some journalists have complained they face intimi-

Indiarsquos digital media regulation sparks fears of curbs on press freedomdation for reporting stories critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his administration

Modirsquos administration says it favours press freedom

ldquoI think these rules will restrict and constrain press freedom as indeed freedom more gener-allyrdquo said Zoya Hasan a former professor of political science at New Delhirsquos Jawaharlal Nehru University

ldquoThis whole regulation is about control of digital media and other platforms as therersquos little tolerance for dissenting voicesrdquo

US think tank Freedom House recently said Modi and his party are driving India toward ldquoauthori-tarianismrdquo adding political rights and civil liberties had deteriorated since he came to power in 2014 The government called the re-port ldquomisleading incorrect and misplacedrdquo

On Thursday Javadekar said on Twitter that a group represent-ing leading newspapers and TV channels had welcomed the new

regulation and asked that their members ldquobe treated diff erentlyrdquo from digital-only news publishers

That has drawn criticism from

some smaller digital news outlets which have questioned why they are being ignored while seeking exemptions

Indiarsquos new oversight of digital news platforms is drawing protest from the media industry and activists who fear the rules will curb press freedom in the worldrsquos largest democracy

Saturday March 20 2021

India activist breaks silence on sedition arrest says she felt lsquoviolatedrsquo

By Alasdair Pal

NEW DELHI - An Indian climate activist linked to Greta Thunberg said she felt ldquoviolat-edrdquo by her arrest last month on sedition charges and her treat-ment by the media her fi rst comments on a case that sparked international criticism

Disha Ravi a 22-year-old vegan and member of Thun-bergrsquos Fridays for Future move-ment was charged in February over an online document about months-long protests by Indian farmers

Ten days after her arrest and following widespread criti-cism a court in Indiarsquos capital New Delhi granted her bail citing ldquoscanty and sketchy evi-dencerdquo that she was involved in

fomenting violenceldquoI had coerced myself into be-

lieving that the only way I would be able to live through this was by tricking myself into thinking that this wasnrsquot happening to merdquo Ravi said in a statement

ldquoMy actions were pronounced

guilty - not in the court of law but on fl at screensrdquo

Police say the document Ravi created stoked violence on Jan 26 Indiarsquos Republic Day when some protesting farmers broke free of a planned march and clashed with police

Angry at new agricultural laws they say benefi t large pri-vate buyers at the expense of growers tens of thousands of farmers have been camped on the outskirts of New Delhi since late last year

Swedish climate activist Thunberg popstar Rihanna and US activist Meena Harris the niece of Vice President Kamala Harris all tweeted in support of the protests last month drawing a rebuke from Indiarsquos foreign ministry

India frets over wastage of lsquoelixir-likersquo COVID-19 vaccinesNEW DELHI - About 65

of coronavirus vaccine doses in India are going to waste health offi cials said on Wednesday urging states to manage their im-munisation drives better to opti-mise use of what one called ldquothis elixir-like precious commodityrdquo

One reason for the wastage is that while many urban vaccina-tion centres have been crowded some rural sites have had to nudge people to get shots due to a lack of awareness among the public which can lead to vaccine wastage

Once a vaccine vial is opened doses need to be administered within four hours making it vital for health workers to coordinate the fl ow of recipients

The federal health ministry has distributed 754 million vac-cine doses to Indiarsquos states of which some 36 million doses

have so far been used India is using the AstraZeneca shot and another developed at home by Bharat Biotech

The government did not say how many doses had been wast-ed but the percentage fi gure suggests it could be more than 2 million a big number given that many countries have yet to start inoculating their citizens and India itself is only immunising priority groups

ldquoWastage of this elixir-like precious commodity the most important thing now for an indi-vidual or the country as a whole is absolutely wrongrdquo top health offi cial Vinod Kumar Paul told a news conference

The large states of Telan-gana Andhra Pradesh and Ut-tar Pradesh have seen wastage of 9-18 the government said

Disha Ravi

By Aftab Ahmedand Sankalp Phartiyal

NEW DELHI - India is likely to block its mobile carriers from using telecom equipment made by Chinarsquos Huawei two govern-ment officials said under pro-curement rules due to come into force in June

New Delhi is wary about awarding new technology busi-ness to Chinese firms both be-cause of security fears and a desire to get Indian manufactur-

ers to produce more telecoms equipment

A US campaign to curb Huawei has triggered bans or limits on the use of its equip-ment around the world but the situation in India has been amplified by strained rela-tions between New Delhi and Beijing over their shared border

Indiarsquos telecoms department said last Wednesday that after June 15 carriers can only buy certain types of equipment from

government-approved ldquotrusted sourcesrdquo and said New Delhi could also create a ldquono procure-mentrdquo blacklist Huawei is likely to feature on this embargoed list the two officials who declined to be named told Reuters

ldquoWe cannot prioritise econom-ic gains if an investment poses national security riskrdquo one of the officials said

The telecoms department which did not comment last Thursday about Huawei is yet to provide further details on the plans for trusted sources or a procurement blacklist

However a third official who also declined to be named told

Reuters that ZTE Corp another Chinese firm which has a smaller presence in India could also be excluded

Huawei and ZTE are un-der scrutiny for allegedly in-stalling ldquobackdoorrdquo vulner-abilities to spy for the Chinese government

Both have denied the allega-tions and Huawei has previously told Reuters it is ready to enter into a ldquono backdoorrdquo deal with India to allay security concerns

Huawei and ZTE did not im-mediately respond to requests for comment

Two of Indiarsquos three big tele-coms carriers Bharti Airtel and

Vodafone Idea use Huawei gear Any restriction on Huawei gear is likely to push up costs industry analysts say

The Chinese firmrsquos equipment and network maintenance con-tracts are typically cheaper than European competitors such as Ericsson and Nokia and there is limited availability of such gear in India

India has begun to fast-track approvals of some of the more than 150 Chinese investment proposals worth over $2 billion it had put on hold after a June standoff between the two neigh-bours on the disputed Himalayan border

India likely to block Chinarsquos Huawei over security fears officials

India Bulletin

India is likely to block its mobile carriers from using telecom equipment made by Chinarsquos Huawei two government officials said under procurement rules due to come into force in June UKrsquos Johnson to visit India at

end of April as part of policy lsquotiltrsquoLONDON - PM Boris Johnson

will visit India at the end of April in what will be his first major in-ternational trip after Britainrsquos exit from the European Union as part of efforts to boost UK opportuni-ties in the region his office said

Johnson had planned an Indian trip in January as part of efforts to speed up trade talks between the two nations but was forced to cancel amid a surge of COVID-19

infections at homeAt the time his office said he

had hoped to rearrange the visit before Britain hosted the meet-ing of leaders from the Group of Seven rich nations in June which Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is due to attend as a visitor

Johnsonrsquos government said it would ldquotiltrdquo its focus towards the Indo-Pacific region as part of its Integrated Review of government

policy for the coming years say-ing the area increasingly repre-sented the geopolitical centre of the world

Last month Britain made a for-mal request to join the Compre-hensive and Progressive Agree-ment for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) seeking membership of the 11-country bloc to open new avenues for post-Brexit trade and influence

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INTERNATIONAL NEWS

HEALTH amp SCIENCE11India BulletinSaturday March 20 2021

ADVERTORIAL

ldquoJAINISM A Resilient Path to Peacerdquo

The Federation of Jain Asso-ciations in North America (JAI-NA) will be celebrating its 21st Convention on the Fourth of July weekend mdash from July 1st to 6th 2021 Every two years this premier event brings together members of the Jain Community from across the world This year the virtual event is planned to be a global event and is expected to attract an even larger audience from the USA Canada India UK Australia UAE and many other countries

In face of all the turbulence throughout the world in the last year it is paramount for us to be vigilant compassionate tolerant and to ldquokeep the faithrdquo Jain-ism one of the ancient minor-ity religions has thrived worse than the pandemic based on its wisdom of Maitri (Amity) in-terdependence and honoring and respecting life at any cost The Convention will showcase our firm belief that spirituality enables us to sustain our sense of self and purpose through be-liefs principles values and morals Hence the theme for this yearrsquos Convention is ldquoJAINISM A Resilient Path to Peacerdquo

Convention Convener and First Vice President of JAINA Mr Haresh Shah of Delaware proudly shared that the attendee response has been overwhelming with more than 5000 registra-tions as of this writing Conven-tion Co-Convener and JAINA President Mr Mahesh Wadher of Los Angeles expressed his grati-tude for 100+ volunteers across 23 teams working day and night as ONE TEAM to make this convention the most memorable ever Convention Co-Convener Mr Bindesh Shah mentioned that the Convention will feature a state-of-the-art user-friend-ly and interactive conference platform with many features such as an online Main Hall 6 Breakout Rooms 4 Competi-tion Rooms and an Exhibition Hall

Enlightening discourses dis-cussion tracks and activities planned at this Convention will offer attendees a deeper under-standing of Jain principles and values while also helping the community with a roadmap to bounce back Youth participa-tion through JAINArsquos affiliate organizations Young Jains of America (YJA) Young Jain Pro-fessionals (YJP) as well as Jain

Announcing JAINA Convention 2021 July 1-6 2021Connect will be strongly pro-moted and encouraged There will be focused programs for all age groups children (ages 5-12) youth (ages 13-20) Jain Networking Forum (ages 21-29) and adults

Other featured events include the popular Jain Academic Bowl (JAB) a jeopardy style vo-cabulary game in which young Jains compete with other teams Jains Got Talent (JGT) and Vir-tual Tirthdham Darshan ndash A nar-rated Tirth Yatra of 12 major Jain Tirth of India broadcast live

Public Relations and Media Committee Chair Mr Vipul Shah of Chicago proudly con-firmed that spiritual dignitar-ies such as Acharya Ratna-sundersuri Maharaj Saheb Acharya Shri Mahashramanji Rashtrasant Gurudev Shree Namramuni Pramansagarji Maharaj Sadhvi Charitraarth Prabhaji and many others will enlighten us with their wisdom during the Convention Acharya Lokesh Muniji Acharya Chan-danaji and Bhattarak Charuke-ertiji will bless the Convention with their Ashirwad speeches While Gurudevshri Rakeshbhai Jhaveri will give the keynote

address other featured speakers include Shri Deepakbhai Desai Shri Gyanvatsal Swami Brahma Kumari Sister Shivani and Dr Veerendra Heggade The line-up of other prominent and inspi-rational speakers includes Dr Christopher Miller Dr Steven Southwick Rahul Kapoor Jain Motilal Oswal Dr Kumarpal Desai Dr Bipin Doshi and Dr Bimal Chajjer

The daily sessions and discus-sions will be well-complement-ed by refreshing Cultural Pro-grams in the evening including Jain Drama Rang De Sanskar - a high caliber humorous Hindi drama with famous actors amp an immense cast Jains Got Talent (JGT) and entertaining cultural performances from across the world A special Bollywood Musical ldquoSunheri Yaadeinrdquo will take us back 40 years of melodi-ous music to celebrate 40 Years Anniversary of JAINA

JAINA convention 2021 is an

invitation to all who aspire for a peaceful resilient recovery from the pandemic and to reweave the delicate fabric of humanity Since opening the registration on January 9th over 5000 at-tendees have already registered for the convention Come join us with our collective wisdom we will dream and create a non-violent future of Love Peace and Collaboration Your pres-ence and participation will help us ground in interconnection and solidarity and walk with you on the resilient path to peace we build together

For additional information about this convention and to register please visit us online at wwwjainaconventionorg

For Further Information please contact Mr Vipul Shah Chair of Public Relations and Press-Media Committee of JAINA Convention 2021 or its Co-Chair Mr Rahul Jain at prjainaorg

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Bollywood BeatDJ Aqeel and Farah Ali Khan are done

with their marriage

Actor Hrithik Roshanrsquos ex-wife Sussane Khanrsquos sister jewellery designer Farah Khan Ali has taken to social media to announce her separation from husband DJ Aqeel after 22 years of marriage In a lengthy post she spoke about how two people grow apart at times and that there is no bad bloodbetween them

The statement read ldquoSome-times two people grow apart Sometimes they outgrow each other It has been 9 years since my relationship with my hus-band Aqeel changed its status as a couple to just friends and to term it simply would be to state that we are ldquoHappily Sepa-ratedrdquordquo

ldquoWe will always be best friends to each other and par-ents to our wonderful children Azaan and Fizaa who love us both equally yet accept that we cannot be a couple any longer This was a mutual decision we took together involving two adults and there wasnrsquot any third person involved The reason we are announcing it publicly now is so that the ones who know us accept our situation grace-fully and always wish well for both of us especially because we hold no animosity of any kind towards one another and will al-ways be there for each otherrdquo it further read

ldquoAqeel is and will always be my family as I will be his We hope that all our well-wishers will accept our deci-sion maturely and not judge us for itrdquo

Bahubali now planned on a budget of 200 crores as Netflix scraps the already shot version of 100 croresNetflix is easily amongst the richest

digital platforms of the world According to our highly placed sources Netfl ix has scrapped the already shot Rs 100 crore version of the Netfl ix Original Bahubali Before The Beginning and have already begun work on a new version of the show this time around on double the cost of Rs 200 crores

ldquoNetfl ix was not satisfi ed with the prod-uct they had in hand and hence decided to scrap it completely They reworked on the script star-cast and technical team and are now reshooting Bahubali Before The Beginning on a never seen before unheard scale for their streaming They see the po-tential in Bahubali of being Indiarsquos answer to Game of Thrones and hence they have decided to take things a notch higher The overall budget for the new part is Rs 200 crore and if we add the scrap value the project now is worth Rs 300 crorerdquo a trade

source told Bollywood HungamaItrsquos produced by SS Rajamouli with

Netflix and is planned as a 9 episode two season limited series showcasing the rise of Shivagami set in the world of Mahishmati Itrsquos said to be a prequel to

Bahubali While the original cast was to feature Mrunal Thakur as Shivagami we still await an update if she will continue to play the queen or has she been replaced by someone else in this revamped Rs 200 crore version of the franchise

Emraan Hashmi says it has been his dream to work with Salman Khan

Emraan Hashmi is being said to be roped in by the makers of the Tiger franchise starring Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif While the latter two will be reprising their roles and Tiger and Zoya in Tiger 3 Emraan Hashmi is being said to play the antagonist marking his fi rst collaboration with the two stars and Yash Raj Films Being

one of the most coveted actors of the industry Salman Khan un-doubtedly is one of the favourites for every celebrity

Speaking about joining the franchise Emraan said that he would love to work in the fran-chise and it has always been a dream for him to work with Salman Khan

In October last year actress Rhea Chakraborty was grant-ed bail by the Bombay High Court after spending nearly two months in judicial cus-tody Her bail has now been challenged in the Supreme Court by the Narcotics Control Bureau(NCB) The case will be heard on Thursday

Rhea Chakraborty was sent to judicial custody last year for drug related charges in the death of her actor boyfriend Sushant Singh Rajput She was granted bail on the condi-tion that she submit a Rs 1 lakh bond and not leave the country without the permission of the court

Rhea Chakrabortyrsquos bail challenged in theSupreme Court by NCB

UNKNOWN FACTS ABOUTBOLLYWOODCELEBRITIES

Aamir Khanrsquos full name is Mohammed Aamir

Hussain Khan Despite being from the fi lm

industry Aamirrsquos parents were not keen on him entering Bollywood In 1984 Aamir worked in

his fi rst ever feature fi lm titled Holi

Very few people are aware of the fact that Kareena Kapoor gave her voice to the song Jab Nahi Aaye for the

fi lm Dev Kareena played a lead role in

the fi lm Unfortunately the movie didnrsquot do well

at the box-offi ce

Bollywood TriviaWhich actress debuted in

the fi lm lsquoKedarnathrsquo

Answer 1

1) Sara Ali Khan2) Katrina Kaif3) Tara Sutaria4) Ananya PandeyWho is the mother of actress

Janhvi Kapoor

Answer 3

1) Kareena2) Karisma3) Sridevi4) Madhuri

12 India Bulletin Saturday March 20 2021

ENTERTAINMENT

Bollywood Beat

The Brihanmumbai Mu-nicipal Corporation (BMC) revealed on their social media page that they have filed an FIR (First information report) against a Bollywood actor for not adhering to Covid-19 guidelines despite testing posi-tive for the deadly virus They even uploaded a picture of the FIR but the name of the celeb-rity was blurred Immediately it led people to speculate who the actor could be

However it has now come to light that the actor in question is Gauahar Khan As per the complaint filed at Oshiwara po-lice station a BMC officer has said that on the night of March 14 he was informed that Gaua-har Khan has tested positive for Coronavirus and yet shersquos not ready to get quarantined Hence the officer reached Gau-ahar Khanrsquos residence but she refused to open the door Later her husband answered from the flat and allegedly shouted at the BMC team

The complainant further states that the actress alleg-edly went out of her house for a shoot Hence the officer claims that she has exposed people to the deadly virus and thus contributed to itrsquos spread

As per a news report S Chai-tanya DCP (operations) and PRO of Mumbai Police has stated that Gauahar Khan has been charged under Sections 188 269 270 of the IPC 51B of NDMA Act 3 of Epidemic Diseases Act

BMC files FIR against

Gauahar Khan

Upcoming FilmsThalaivi

Kangana Ranautand Vijay Deverakonda

RadheSalman Khan

Disha Patani Jackie Shroff and Randeep Hooda

83Ranveer Singh

and Deepika Padukone

Atrangi ReAkshay Kumar Sara Ali Khanand Dhanush

MaidaanAjay Devgn Priyamani

and Keerthy Suresh

Bachchan PandeyAkshay Kumar Bobby Deol

and Riteish Deshmukh

Bell BottomAkshay Kumar Vaani Kapoor Huma Qureshi and Lara Dutta

Satyameva Jayate 2John Abraham Manoj Bajpai

and Divya Khosla Kumar

BrahmastraRanbir Kapoor Alia Bhatt and

Amitabh Bachchan

MOVIE REVIEW

Itrsquos been almost a year when theatres were asked to shut down due to rapid rise in the cases of Coronavirus in the country Two of the films play-ing in theatres at that point were Angrezi Medium produced by Dinesh Vijan and Kaamyaab directed by Hardik Mehta In an interesting turn of events Roohi the film that releases today and kickstarts the movie-watching season in cinemas is helmed by both these personalities So does Roohi manage to enter-tain and enthral the audiences Or does it fail to entice Letrsquos analyse

Roohi is the story of a pos-sessed girl Bhawra Pandey (Rajkummar Rao) and Kattanni Qureshi (Varun Sharma) work as crime journalists in a small town Baagadpur They also specialise in lsquopakdaai shaadirsquo aka bride kidnapping an accepted custom in Baagadpur One day their boss Guniya Shakeel (Manav Vij) orders them to kidnap a girl Roohi (Janhvi Kapoor) from a nearby town Mujaribaad Bhawra and Kattanni manage to kidnap Roohi while she is with her father (Rajesh Jais) As per the lsquopakdaai shaadirsquo custom af-ter the girl is kidnapped she is straight away taken to the mar-

riage venue Bhawra and Kat-tanni are also supposed to fol-low suit with Roohi But after the kidnap takes place Guniya calls them and tells them that the groomrsquos uncle has passed away suddenly Hence the mar-riage will now take place after a week Till then Bhawra and Kattanni are told to keep her as a hostage in an abandoned property in the hills of Ambiya-pur On the first night Bhawra goes to offer dinner to Roohi only to realize that she is pos-sessed Kattanni at first doesnrsquot believe but later even he sees the possessed side of Roohi However instead of being frightened Kattanni falls for the possessed Roohi Bhawra on the other hand is in love with the non-possessed Roohi He decides to help her and get the witch out of her body Kattanni however is averse to the idea as loves the possessed Roohi and if Bhawra succeeds the witch will leave Roohi forever What hap-pens next forms the rest of the film

Mrighdeep Singh Lamba and Gautam Mehras story is inter-esting and novel The writers try their best to bring some-thing new to the table Mrigh-deep Singh Lamba and Gautam Mehras screenplay however is interesting only in parts A few scenes are exceptional and bring the house down But the serious portions donrsquot make the desired impact Mrigh-deep Singh Lamba and Gautam Mehras dialogues are witty But the dialect is too authentic and is incomprehensible at many places

Roohi starts off on an interest-ing note depicting the concept of bride kidnapping in Baagad-pur that too through the eyes of a foreign reporter (Alexx ONell) The film gets better once Bhawra and Kattanni kid-nap Roohi and set base at the spooky abandoned factory The scene where Bhawra narrates about the possessed Roohi to

Kattanni is sure to raise laughs The scene where Kattanni in-stead of running away falls for the possessed Roohi is unique and unexpected It will bring smiles on the faces of the view-ers The interval comes at an in-teresting juncture Post-interval the film begins to fall but a few scenes especially of the marriage with the dog and Bhawrarsquos con-versation with the old lady (Sar-ita Joshi) add to the humour and madness The climax though unpredictable is disappointing

Talking of performances Ra-jkummar Rao is in his element as expected Due to his adorable performance one doesnrsquot hate him even though hersquos playing a kidnapper in the film And his comic timing is spot-on espe-cially in the scenes where hersquos running away from the possessed Roohi Janhvi Kapoor is a big surprise She hardly has any dia-logues but gets her act right with her expressions And she also is convincing as the witch Varun Sharma is marvellous and man-ages to raise laughs In the last 30 minutes however he doesnrsquot have much to do Manav Vij suits the part and his performance is

fair Sarita Joshi (credited in the film as Padma Shri Sarita Joshi) is hilarious and one wish-es that she had a longer screen time Alexx ONell is lovely Rajesh H Jais Anurag Arora (Tantrik) Sumit Gulati (Paras Roohirsquos groom in the end) are okay

Sachin-Jigars music is ap-propriate for the film and itrsquos theme Kiston comes suddenly but is soulful Bhootni is hilari-ous while Panghat is played in the end credits Nadiyon Paar is attached with the filmrsquos print be-fore the film starts It is the best song of the lot and well shot One wishes if it was a part of the filmrsquos narrative Ketan Sodhas background score is well wo-ven and also contributes to the horror quotient

On the whole Roohi rests on a unique concept fine perfor-mances and some interesting funny and horror sequences However the disappointing climax and difficult-to-under-stand dialect might affect the filmrsquos prospects at the box office

BannerMaddock Films

Jio Studios

ProducerDinesh Vijan

Mrighdeep Singh Lamba

DirectorHardik Mehta

StarringRajkummar RaoVarun SharmaJanhvi Kapoor

Music BySachin-Jigar

Released DateMarch 11 2021

Roohi

Rating

Celebrity BirthdaysMarch 21stRani Mukerji (1978)

March 23rdKangana Ranaut (1987)

March 24thEmraan Hashmi (1979)

March 25thYograj Singh (1958)

March 26thPrakash Raj (1965)

April 3rdPrabhu Deva (1973)

April 4thLisa Ray (1972)Simran Bagga (1976)

March 28thAkshaye Khanna(1975) Sandhya Mridul (1975)

March 30thNagesh Kukunoor (1967)

April 2ndAjay Devgn (1969) Kapil Sharma (1981)

13India BulletinSaturday March 20 2021

ENTERTAINMENT

Biz Briefs

Apple Inc has started the as-sembly of iPhone 12 in India the US tech giant said as the com-pany ramps up manufacturing operations in the worldrsquos sec-ond-biggest smartphone market

ldquoWe are proud to be starting production of iPhone 12 in India for our local customersrdquo Apple said in a statement without naming the supplier making the smartphone

The Indian unit of Applersquos Taiwanese contract manufac-turer Foxconn will assemble the device in its plant in southern Tamil Nadu state two sources familiar with the matter said

Foxconn did not immediately respond to a request for com-ment but has previously said it does not comment on client-specifi c work

Poscorsquos steel plant in India

faces disruption Operations at South Korean

steelmaker Poscorsquos plant in the Indian state of Maharashtra have been disrupted due to local pro-tests over labour and other issues police and sources told Reuters hampering the supply chain for automakers

A local politician leading the protests said they have blocked employees and goods from enter-ing the plant and will continue until Posco heeds to some of their requests which include giv-ing employment preference to lo-cal workers raising the wages of temporary employees and making them permanent

Reuters could not indepen-dently verify the extent of the production disruption at Poscorsquos plant

Apple starts iPhone 12 assem-

bly in India

HEALTH amp SCIENCEBUSINESS14 India Bulletin Saturday March 20 2021

By Nidhi Verma

NEW DELHI - India and the UAE on Wednesday discussed ways to strengthen energy coop-eration Indiarsquos oil minister Dhar-mendra Pradhan said despite the South Asian nation asking its re-fi ners to reduce their reliance on Middle Eastern oil

ldquo(We) discussed about new ar-eas of cooperation in the hydro-carbon sector and beyond and agreed to remain committed de-spite the challenges presented by Covid pandemicrdquo Pradhan said on Twitter after a virtual meeting with Sultan Al Jaber the chief executive of Abu Dhabi National Oil Co (ADNOC)

UAE is a key oil supplier to India and a partner in an Indian joint venture that plans to build a 12 million barrels per day (bpd) refi nery and petrochemical com-plex on the countryrsquos west coast

Last month the UAE was the

fi fth biggest oil supplier to In-dia which itself is the worldrsquos third biggest oil importer and consumer

Pradhan said he also discussed with Jaber ways of strengthen-ing and ldquoproviding momentum to (the) bilateral strategic en-ergy partnershiprdquo between the countries

India imports more than 80 of its oil needs a signifi cant amount of which comes from the Middle East

New Delhi has however asked refi ners to gradually reduce oil imports from the Middle East and diversify supplies after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its al-lies known as OPEC+ decided to extend most curbs into April

India has been hit hard by rising oil prices due to which minister Pradhan has repeatedly called on OPEC+ to ease supply curbs and has blamed Saudi Ara-

India and UAE vow to strengthen energy cooperation says minister

biarsquos voluntary cuts for contribut-ing to a spike in global oil prices

Responding to Pradhanrsquos re-quest Saudi Arabiarsquos energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman suggested India dip into strategic reserves fi lled with cheaper oil bought last year

The UAErsquos ADNOC is the only foreign company to which India has leased a part of it strategic petroleum reserves India does not allow the export of oil but has given permission to ADNOC to export part of its oil in Mangalore SPR in southern India

Tesla in talks with Indiarsquos Tata Power for EV charging infrastructure

BENGALURU - Tesla Inc is exploring an arrangement with Indian conglomerate Tata Sonsrsquo power generation unit Tata Pow-er to set up charging infrastruc-ture for electric vehicles in the country CNBC-TV18 reported citing sources

Shares of Tata Power rose 55 to their best closing level since June 2014 after the report which comes as the Palo Alto-based electric-car maker gears up for an India launch later this year with plans to import and sell its Model 3 electric sedan

Tesla will set up an electric-car manufacturing unit in the southern Indian state of Karna-taka according to a government document seen by Reuters

Indiarsquos Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan

The talks between Tata Power and Tesla are in the initial stages and no arrangements have been

fi nalised yet the report saidTata Powerrsquos electric vehicle

charging business constantly

explores growth opportunities but has not fi nalised any new agreements the company said in a statement to stock exchanges It also said the CNBC-TV 18 report was ldquofactually incorrectrdquo but did not elaborate

Tesla was not immediately available for comment

In January the US electric-car maker incorporated Tesla Motors India and Energy Private Ltd with its registered offi ce in the southern city of Bengaluru a hub for global technology companies

Tata Motors Ltd the carmak-ing unit of Tata Sons last week denied any tie-up with Tesla af-ter media reports suggested the two companies were discussing a partnership

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BUSINESSIndia Bulletin

By Aftab Ahmed and Nupur Anand

NEW DELHIMUMBAI - In-dia will propose a law banning cryptocurrencies fi ning anyone trading in the country or even holding such digital assets a senior government offi cial told

Reuters in a potential blow to millions of investors piling into the red-hot asset class

The bill one of the worldrsquos strictest policies against cryp-tocurrencies would criminalise possession issuance mining trading and transferring crypto-assets said the offi cial who has

India to propose cryptocurrency ban penalising miners tradersdirect knowledge of the plan

The measure is in line with a January government agenda that called for banning private vir-tual currencies such as bitcoin while building a framework for an offi cial digital currency But recent government comments had raised investorsrsquo hopes that

the authorities might go easier on the booming market

Instead the bill would give holders of cryptocurrencies up to six months to liquidate after which penalties will be levied said the offi cial who asked not to be named as the contents of the bill are not public

Offi cials are confi dent of get-ting the bill enacted into law as Prime Minister Narendra Modirsquos government holds a comfortable majority in parliament

If the ban becomes law India would be the fi rst major econo-my to make holding cryptocur-rency illegal Even China which has banned mining and trading

does not penalise possessionThe Finance Ministry did not

immediately respond to an email seeking comment

Bitcoin the worldrsquos biggest cryptocurrency hit a record high $60000 last Saturday nearly doubling in value this year as its acceptance for payments has in-creased with support from such high-profi le backers as Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk

In India despite government threats of a ban transaction vol-umes are swelling and 8 million investors now hold 100 billion rupees ($14 billion) in crypto-investments according to indus-try estimates No offi cial data is available

US becomes Indiarsquos second biggest oil supplier Saudi plunges to No 4

By Nidhi Verma

NEW DELHI - The United States overtook Saudi Arabia as Indiarsquos second biggest oil sup-plier after Iraq last month as refi ners boosted cheaper US crude purchases to record levels to off set OPEC+ supply cuts data from trade sources showed

The switch in supplies trig-gered by lower US crude de-mand coincided with Saudi Ara-biarsquos voluntary extra 1 million barrel per day (bpd) output cut on top of an agreement by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies (OPEC+) to maintain lower pro-duction

Indiarsquos imports from the United

States - the worldrsquos top producer - rose 48 to a record 545300 bpd in February from the prior month accounting for 14 of Indiarsquos overall imports last month the data obtained by Reuters showed

In contrast February imports from Saudi Arabia fell by 42 from January to a decade low of 445200 bpd the data showed Saudi Arabia which has consis-tently been one of Indiarsquos top two suppliers slipped to No 4 for the fi rst time since at least January 2006

Indiarsquos oil import data by coun-try from before 2006 is not avail-able to Reuters

ldquoUS demand was weak and refi neries were running at low rates so the US crude had to

go somewhere and Asia is the region which has seen rapid de-mand recoveryrdquo said Refi nitiv analyst Ehsan Ul Haq

ldquoChina has not been taking US oil because of (the) trade problem so India is the obvious choicerdquo he said

Iraq continued to be the top oil seller to India despite a 23 drop in purchases to a fi ve-month low of 867500 bpd the data showed

The UAE slipped to fi fth posi-tion from third in January while Nigeria rose to third from fi fth exporting 472300 bpd the most since Oct 2019

India shipped in 392 million bpd of oil in February a decline of 18 from January the data showed

India will propose a law banning cryptocurrencies fi ning anyone trading in the country or even holding such digital assets a senior government offi cial told Re-uters in a potential blow to millions of investors piling into the red-hot asset class

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Aries (March 21 to April 20)Someone will always be prettier Someone will always be smarter Someone will always be younger But they will never be you Itrsquos this ability to understand your uniqueness which will help you steer forward in an otherwise difficult week

Taurus (April 21 to May 21)When a storm is coming all other birds seek shelter The eagle alone avoids the storm by flying above it So in the storms of life be like an eagle and soar above your problems Keep your love life on top priority and everything else will fall into place with time

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Cancer (June 22 to July 22)Sadness does not come from bad circumstances It comes from bad thoughts Although the circumstances are mixed around you you will have a tendency to make a mountain out of a mole hill

Leo (July 23 to August 22)Every time we get what we thought we wanted we realise that we want more This race towards more - more money more power more of everything is taking a toll on your energy level

Virgo (August 23 to September 23)One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness usually it comes back to you While your hard work is fruc-tifying now do not let the success take you away from compassion

Libra (September 24 to October 23)Best friends are like stars You donrsquot always see them but you know they are always there This week you will be in a nostalgic mood and miss good old times and old friends Rather than thinking about it pick up the phone and talk to friends you have not spoken in years or take a friend out on a cappuccino trip

Scorpio (October 24 to November 22)Learn to make peace with your past or else your future will become a constant battle that yoursquoll never win The highlight of the week will be letting go of things forgiving people forgetting wrong-doings and moving on in life

Sagittarius (November 23 to December 21)Chaos in the midst of chaos isnrsquot funny but chaos in the midst of order is Probably one of the toughest week this month wherein there will be a lot of confusion and haze around Advice Do not take stress

Capricorn (December 22 to January 20)Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realise you havenrsquot fallen asleep yet Thatrsquos the kind of nights you might witness this week owing to unforeseen issues and hurdles Your discipline and organisational skills will steer you forward and transform these hurdles into opportunities Aquarius (January 21 to February 19)Women get the last word in every argument Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument This is not the week for you to get into any arguments as it might jeopardise your frame of mind

Pisces (February 20 to March 20)Find out who you are and be that person Thatrsquos what your soul was put on this Earth to be Find that truth live that truth and everything else will come The week will be about introspection spirituality and matters related to the soul

WEEKLY HOROSCOPE(March 28 - April 3 2021)

HEALTH amp SCIENCEASTROLOGYIndia Bulletin

8 things AARP wants you to know before your second COVID-19 vaccine

If yoursquove already received your first dose of a two-dose COVID-19 vaccine congratulations - yoursquore well on your way to being protect-ed from the coronavirus But to be fully immunized itrsquos critical to get that second shot

William Schaffner MD an infectious diseases specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville Tennessee and medical director of the Nation-al Foundation for Infectious Dis-eases says ldquoWe have told every-one these vaccines are 95 percent effectiverdquo of the two-dose Moder-na and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines currently in use in the US ldquoBut theyrsquore only 95 percent effective if you indeed get that second doserdquo

Here are a few more things to know about the second dose

1 Your side effects will likely be stronger

Many people who had little to no reaction to the first vaccine dose are reporting that the second one packs a punch mdash surprising even those who study vaccines for a liv-ing

Greg Poland MD an infec-tious disease expert at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota and director of Mayorsquos vaccine re-search group had only mild symp-toms after his first dose But the second one left him shaking - liter-ally - with chills and a temperature of 101

ldquoI took one Tylenol and went to bed and woke up the next morning 90 percent improved and by mid-day I was back to normalrdquo Poland says ldquoThis is not an indication of something going wrong it is an indication of a vigorous immune responserdquo

There is no live virus in the vac-cine so you canrsquot get COVID-19 from being vaccinated

Participants in clinical trials of both vaccines had experiences similar to Polandrsquos In Pfizerrsquos clinical trial for instance 31 per-cent of participants ages 18 to 55 reported a fever after the second dose compared to only 8 percent after the first one Fatigue chills headache and musclejoint pain were also more common after the second injection for both vaccines

The good news is older adults were less likely to experience vac-cine reactions the data shows Among those age 55 and up in the Pfizer trial 22 percent experienced fever after the second dose and 3 percent had a temperature after the first dose

Schaffner recommends not making any big plans for the day after your scheduled vaccine appointment

2 You should avoid taking pain relievers before your shot

If yoursquove been hearing sto-ries about second-dose side ef-fects you may be tempted to take a pain reliever before your appointment

Thatrsquos not a good idea accord-ing to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) unless yoursquove been advised to do so by your doctor Pain relievers taken preemptively ahead of a shot could dampen the effective-ness of the vaccine Poland and Schaffner say

However itrsquos OK to take ac-etaminophen (Tylenol) or a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug like Advil or Motrin after your vaccine to treat side effects such as pain fever chills or headache

3 The timing between doses doesnrsquot need to be exact

The second dose of the Pfiz-er shot is supposed to be giv-en 21 days after the first for Moderna the recommended interval between doses is 28 days

However if you canrsquot get an appointment on the exact day mdash or if you have to miss your scheduled appointment for some reason mdash the CDC does allow some wiggle room Although the agency recommends trying to stick to the suggested interval it says the second dose can be given up to six weeks after the first

If your appointment is sched-uled earlier than the recommend-ed date ask for a later appoint-ment Schaffner advises ldquoYour immune response will work perfectly well if you take more timerdquo he says ldquoBut if you do it too early the second dose may not invoke an optimal responserdquo

4 Your second dose should be from the same manufacturer as your first

Doctors are already hearing from patients asking if they can get their second dose from a dif-ferent manufacturer often be-cause they realize the other type of vaccine is offered at a location thatrsquos more convenient But the CDC recommends against it The Moderna and Pfizer vaccines ldquoare not interchangeable with each other or with other COVID-19 vaccine productsrdquo the CDC says ldquoThe safety and efficacy of a mixed-product series have not been evaluatedrdquo

5 A rash at the injection site isnrsquot a reason to skip your second dose

If you experienced a rash at the injection site three to 10 days

after getting your first shot that doesnrsquot preclude you from getting your second shot the CDC says although it recommends getting it in the other arm

A small number of people have developed such rashes some-times called ldquoCOVID armrdquo af-ter vaccination Doctors say itrsquos likely a mild allergic reaction that can be treated with an over-the-counter antihistamine such as Benadryl

6 You should temporarily avoid all other vaccines

It might be time for your shin-gles or Tdap vaccine but you should hold off if you are between COVID-19 vaccine doses Be-cause therersquos no data on the safety and efficacy of COVID vaccines administered at the same time as other vaccines the CDC recom-mends avoiding other immuniza-tions in the two weeks before and after both doses

7 Full immunity is not immediate

It takes two weeks after your second dose for your body to build full protection to the virus After that you should have al-most zero chance of developing severe disease if you are exposed to someone with COVID-19 Schaffner says The CDC also says you no longer have to quar-antine if yoursquore exposed to some-one with COVID-19 mdash as long as you meet these criteria you donrsquot have symptoms and it hasnrsquot been more than three months since your second vaccine dose

One possible exception is immunocompromised people Schaffner says They will get some level of immunity he says ldquobut they may not reach the 95 percent because their immune system is already somewhat com-promised no matter how strong these vaccines arerdquo

8 You still need to wear a maskExperts agree you should con-

tinue to wear a mask and practice social distancing in public For one thing therersquos a small chance you could get sick even after yoursquove been vaccinated

In addition itrsquos possible that you could still carry the virus and silently transmit it to others who havenrsquot been vaccinated even if you donrsquot develop symptoms

And therersquos one more reason Until the country reaches herd im-munity mdash the point when a signif-icant portion of the population be-comes immune to a disease mdash itrsquos important for everyone to wear a mask to stop the spread of the virus Schaffner says

Saturday March 20 2021

Biden All US adults to be eligible for vaccines by May

By Jeff Mason

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden told US states last Thursday to make all adults eligible for a coronavirus vaccine by May 1 and urged Americans to stay vigi-lant or face more restrictions hours after he signed a $19 trillion stimulus bill into law

In a forceful but somber speech from the White House on the fi rst anniversary of the pandemic lockdown Biden said if Ameri-cans pulled together there could be a great-er sense of normalcy - and some backyard barbecue parties with small groups - on the US Independence Day holiday on July 4

That date is a new goal for the president and a projection of hope amid a pandemic that has killed more than 530000 people in the United States the most of any country

To achieve his summer target Biden said he needed Americansrsquo help

ldquoIf we donrsquot stay vigilant and the con-ditions change then we may have to rein-state restrictions to get back on trackrdquo he said in an evening address from the White House his fi rst in television prime time since becoming president

ldquoWersquove made so much progress This is not the time to let up Just as we are emerging from a dark winter into a hope-ful spring and summer is not the time to not stick with the rulesrdquo he said

Republicans swiftly criticized Biden for his cautious approach ldquoWhat America needs now is to fully reopen our economy and our classroomsrdquo House of Represen-tatives Republican leader Kevin McCarthy said on Twitter

Biden said he was ordering US states territories and tribes to make all adults eli-gible to receive a coronavirus vaccine by May 1 The White House has said it would have enough vaccine supply to vaccinate the adult population by the end of May About 10 of Americans so far have been fully vaccinated

Administration offi cials said he would deploy 4000 more troops to help with the vaccine eff ort bringing the total number to 6000 The White House is also seeking to expand the pool of people able to adminis-ter shots to include dentists optometrists paramedics veterinarians and medical stu-dents

Biden campaigned last year on a prom-ise that he would tackle the pandemic more eff ectively than Republican Presi-dent Donald Trump and he has sought to encourage and model behavior such as mask-wearing that Trump eschewed

In his speech Biden took a swipe at his

predecessor by saying the virus was ini-tially met with ldquodenials for days weeks then months that led to more deaths more infections more stress more lonelinessrdquo

Biden said hate crimes and harassment against Asian Americans must stop Trump repeatedly referred to the disease as the ldquoChina virusrdquo

Biden also encouraged Americans to keep up mitigation eff orts - wearing masks keeping social distance and prac-ticing good hygiene - to stop the virus and its variants from spreading A number of states have been loosening restrictions

as Americans like many people around the world grow weary of pandemic life

ldquoPhotos and videos from 2019 feel like they were taken in another era The last vacation The last birthday with friends The last holiday with extended familyrdquo Biden said recounting the toll the virus has wrought

He said the country would come away from the crisis stronger ldquoWe faced and overcame one of the toughest and darkest periods in this nationrsquos history - darkest wersquove ever knownrdquo he said

Moderna begins study of COVID-19 vaccine in kids

Moderna Inc has begun dosing patients in a mid-to-late stage study of its COV-ID-19 vaccine mRNA-1273 in children aged six months to less than 12 years the company said on Tuesday

The study will assess the safety and ef-fectiveness of two doses of mRNA-1273 given 28 days apart and intends to enroll about 6750 children in the United States and Canada

The vaccine has already been au-thorized for emergency use in

Americans who are aged 18 and older

In a separate study which began in De-cember Moderna is also testing mRNA-1273 in adolescents between 12 and 18 years old

The latest study is being conducted in collaboration with the National Insti-tute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA)

Mother who lost only son to rare COVID complication warns parents to look for early signs

SANTIAGO - By the time doctors real-ized that Lorena Navarretersquos son had a rare complication of COVID-19 that affl icts some children it was too late to save her 16-year-old Emilio

Lorena a single mother who lives in the southern Chilean city of Puerto Montt told the TVN network that her music-loving and sociable son died about a week after he fi rst complained of feeling tired and of a pain in his legs in late January

Within days he had developed livid blotches on his skin a high fever vomiting and dark urine

Doctors at the cityrsquos hospital overrun with severe COVID cases repeatedly tested him for COVID but with the results coming back negative were at a loss as to what was wrong with him

By the time his illness was identifi ed as Multisystem Infl ammatory Syndrome in Children it was too late Lorena could not be at her sonrsquos bedside because of strict health protocols but a social worker called to pass on the message that her son loved

her very much She asked the social worker to tell her son she would see him soon and that his pets were well

ldquoA doctor said that if I had faith I should pray because my son was very illrdquo said Na-varrete who works as a nurse technician ldquoThey had a diagnosis and it was PIMSrdquo

Multisystem Infl ammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) as PIMS is more com-monly known is a rare life-threatening syndrome linked to COVID-19

It usually appears between two and six weeks after infection even in asymptomatic cases of COVID-19

It shares symptoms with toxic shock and Kawasaki disease including fever rashes swollen glands conjunctivitis and in severe cases heart infl ammation and can cause multiple organ failure It is not always fatal if caught and treated early

The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention said in January that it was inves-tigating whether COVID variants were in-creasing the number or severity of cases fol-lowing anecdotal reports from some states

US President Joe Biden

HEALTH amp SCIENCE17India Bulletin

HEALTH amp SCIENCE

Saturday March 20 2021

By Anthony Deutsch and Caroline Copley

AMSTERDAM - Global health experts came under in-creasing pressure on Tuesday to clear up questions over the safety of AstraZenecarsquos CO-VID-19 shot as Sweden and Latvia joined countries suspend-ing their use in a further blow to Europersquos vaccination rollout

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said it was

investigating reports of 30 cases of unusual blood disorders out of 5 million recipients of the As-traZeneca vaccine In total 45 million COVID shots have been delivered across the region

The EU regulator will release its findings on Thursday but its head Emer Cooke said she saw no reason to change its recom-mendation of AstraZeneca - one of four vaccines that it has approved for use

ldquoThe benefits continue to

outweigh the risks but this is a serious concern and it does need serious and detailed scientific evaluationrdquo Cooke told a news conference

A World Health Organization (WHO) committee of experts was reviewing the cases and was expected to issue a statement by the end of the day a spokesman said

The EUrsquos largest members - Germany France and Italy - suspended use of AstraZenecarsquos vaccine on Monday pending the outcome of investigations into unusual cases of a rare cerebral thrombosis in people who had received it

The addition of Sweden and Latvia on Tuesday brought to 13 the number of EU countries to act since reports first emerged of thromboembolisms affect-ing people after they got the AstraZeneca shot

The WHO and EMA had ear-lier joined AstraZeneca in say-ing there is no proven link but some experts said the episodes of blood clots bleeding and low platelet counts in younger people seemed to indicate a causal con-nection to the AstraZeneca shot

ldquoThe benefits of vaccination significantly outweigh the risks especially for the elderlyrdquo said Karl Lauterbach health spokes-man for Germanyrsquos Social Democratic Party

ldquoBut it could be the case that the risks of the vaccine are high-er for certain patient groups such as young womenrdquo Lauterbach an epidemiologist whose party is part of the Berlin coalition told Deutschlandfunk radio in an interview

Other epidemiologists note that similar cases have not been found in unusual num-bers in Britain which began using AstraZeneca earlier and has given more than 10 million doses

ldquoA very likely explanation of at least some of the clotting dis-orders seen are a result of CO-VID-19 rather than the vaccinerdquo said Stephen Evans professor of pharmacoepidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

ldquoThere are published papers that make clear that these prob-lems definitely occur in COV-ID-19 and there is no doubt that all the vaccines in use prevent

that disease Hence the risk and benefit balance for the AstraZen-eca vaccine remains clearly in favour of its benefitsrdquo

In the EUrsquos largest states in-cluding Germany France Italy the Netherlands and Spain As-traZeneca has accounted for about 13-15 of shots given since the rollout began almost three months ago with Pfizer-BioNTech making up the major-ity according to official data

As one as the cheapest to be developed the AstraZeneca shot is set to be the mainstay of vac-cination programmes in much of the developing world

Governments say they acted on the AstraZeneca shot out of an abundance of caution - of 16 million people in Germany given the vaccine seven fell ill with a very rare cerebral vein thrombosis of whom three died

In a detailed analysis of its findings Germanyrsquos vaccine oversight body the Paul Eh-rlich Institute said six of the cases were in women of young or middle age - a number statis-tically significantly higher than normally expected

Health experts pore over AstraZeneca safety data as Europe reels from vaccine suspensions

Global health experts came under increasing pressure on Tuesday to clear up questions over the safety of AstraZenecarsquos COVID-19 shot as Sweden and Latvia joined countries suspending their use in a further blow to Europersquos vaccination rollout

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India Bulletin Saturday March 20 2021

India Bulletin 19Saturday March 20 2021

Kishan Kohli help India level T20 series against England

AHMEDABAD - A belliger-ent 56 off 32 balls from India debutant Ishan Kishan and an unbeaten 73 from captain Virat Kohli helped the hosts to a com-manding seven-wicket win over England in the second Twenty20 International in Ahmedabad on Sunday

Kishan 22 smashed leg-spinner Adil Rashid for two con-secutive sixes to get past fifty as India made short work of a 165-run target to win with 13 balls to spare and level the five-match

series at 1-1Indiarsquos chase of Englandrsquos

164-6 got off to a shaky start when Sam Curran sent back opener KL Rahul in the first over without scoring but it did not curb Kishanrsquos aggres-sion the left-hander hitting five fours and four sixes in total

There was plenty of entertain-ment for the sizeable crowd at the worldrsquos biggest cricket sta-dium with most fans not wear-ing masks in the stands as Kohli

and Kishan added 94 in nine overs

Rishabh Pant came in after the dismissal of Kishan who was dropped by Ben Stokes on 40 off Rashid and continued to pummel Englandrsquos bowlers with a 13-ball 26 during which he hit two sixes and an identical number of fours

Kohli who also survived a dropped chance by wicketkeeper Jos Buttler on 10 off Chris Jor-dan sealed the win with a four and a six in successive balls to

also get past 3000 runs in T20 internationals in the process

Jason Roy once again top-scored for England with a 35-ball 46 following up on his knock of 49 in their win in the first match last Friday

Put in to bat the right-hander gave the touring side a steady start with a 63-run stand for the second wicket with Dawid Malan after the loss of opening partner Buttler to seamer Bhu-vneshwar Kumar on the first delivery he faced

Roy hit four fours and two six-es in his knock before holing out in the deep off spinner Washing-ton Sundar who also sent back the dangerous Jonny Bairstow for 20

Fast bowler Shardul Thakur pegged back Englandrsquos hopes of a flourishing finish by dis-missing opposition captain Eoin Morgan and Stokes as India conceded just 35 off the last five overs

The third match of the series will be played on Tuesday

Virat Kohli

Rohit urges India debutants to lsquohave funrsquo against England in T20 series

After Suryakumar Yadav and Ishan Kishan earned their maiden call-ups to the Indian national team vice-captain Rohit Sharma stressed on the importance of playing with-out any pressure when they take on England in a Twenty20 series

Kishan and Suryakumar were named in the squad after plun-dering 516 and 480 runs re-spectively in the Indian Premier League last season where the pair played under Rohit for the

Mumbai Indians as they clinched their fifth title in November

ldquoI donrsquot want them to be think-ing about anythingrdquo Rohit told reporters on Wednesday ldquoThatrsquos how they bring their best perfor-mance out

ldquoHaving watched them closely for a few years now Irsquove realised itrsquos important for them to be part of this wonder-ful team a great setup I just want them to have fun and un-derstand what this team is all about

ldquoThese guys have done re-ally well in the last few years especially the last year Itrsquos just about carrying that form and putting it out there Itrsquos not go-ing to be that easy here they will be challenged every now and thenrdquo

For England itrsquos a much-awaited return to the squad for all-rounder Liam Livingstone who had similar success in Aus-traliarsquos Big Bash League where he scored 426 runs for Perth Scorchers

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India Bulletin

By Rajendra Jadhavand Rama Venkat

MUMBAI - New coronavirus infections in India rose by the most in more than three months as a second wave of the epidemic gathered momentum with Ma-harashtra the countryrsquos richest state accounting for two-thirds of the latest daily tally

Home to Indiarsquos commer-cial capital Mumbai the west-ern state reported 23179 of the countryrsquos 35871 new cases in

the past 24 hours and the fast spreading contagion in major industrial areas raised risks of companiesrsquo production being disrupted

Indiarsquos total cases stood at 1147 million the highest after the United States and Brazil Deaths rose by 172 to 159216 according to health ministry data released on Thursday

The countryrsquos first wave peaked in September at nearly 100000 cases a day with daily infections hitting a low of just

over 9000 early last monthCases have been rising in Ma-

harashtra since the reopening of most economic activities in Feb-ruary Mumbairsquos suburban trains which carry millions of people daily also resumed services

The state of 112 million peo-ple ordered a fresh lockdown in some districts and put curbs on cinemas hotels and restaurants until the end of the month after infections rose to a multi-month high earlier this week

New cases have more than doubled in the past two weeks in Maharashtrarsquos industrial towns such as Pune Aurangabad Na-shik and Nagpur known for their

automobile pharmaceutical and textile factories

ldquoWe have asked industries there to operate with minimum manpower as much possiblerdquo said a senior Maharashtra gov-ernment official declining to be named as he was not authorised to talk to the media ldquoMost of the IT companies have allowed their employees to work from homerdquo

Hospital beds and special CO-VID-19 facilities were filling up fast especially in Mumbai Nag-pur and Pune said another state official

Earlier this month more than 80 of oxygen and intensive-care beds in Maharashtra were

unoccupiedHalf a dozen other states such

as Punjab and Madhya Pradesh have also seen a rise in cases this month The government has blamed crowding and a re-luctance to wear masks for the rise

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday asked state leaders to quickly increase test-ing and expand vaccination to ldquostop the emerging second peak of coronardquo

India has administered more than 365 million vaccine dos-es since starting its immuni-sation drive in the middle of January

Maharashtra state suffers surge in COVID-19 cases

A health worker in personal protective equipment (PPE) collects a swab sample from a woman during a rapid antigen testing campaign for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a railway station platform in Mumbai

Pandemic pushes 32 million Indians out of middle class says Pew Research

By Manoj Kumar

NEW DELHI - Financial woes brought by last yearrsquos coronavi-rus pandemic have pushed about 32 million Indians out of the middle class undoing years of economic gains a report showed on Thursday while job losses pushed millions into poverty

The number of Indians in the middle class or those earn-

ing between $10 and $20 a day shrunk by about 32 million compared with the number that could have been reached in the absence of a pandemic the US-based Pew Research Centre said

A year into the pandemic the numbers of those in the middle class has shrunk to 66 million down a third from a pre-pan-demic estimate of 99 million it added

ldquoIndia is estimated to have seen a greater decrease in the middle class and a much sharper rise in poverty than China in the COVID-19 downturnrdquo the Pew Research Centre said citing the World Bankrsquos forecasts of economic growth

Nearly 57 million people had joined the middle income group between 2011 and 2019 it added

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INTERNATIONAL NEWS

By Krishna N Das

NEW DELHI - Indiarsquos main opposition Congress party on Tuesday hit out at Prime Minis-ter Narendra Modirsquos government for exporting nearly twice the number of coronavirus vaccine doses than immunisations con-ducted at home despite a surge in infections

India the worldrsquos biggest vac-cine maker has gifted or sold here 59 million locally produced doses compared with 33 million

doses given to its own people since its inoculation campaign began in mid-January

While some rich countries such as the United States are being accused of vaccine na-tionalism India is being lauded globally for sending shots to 71 countries mainly the AstraZen-eca vaccine as well as some of Bharat Biotechrsquos homegrown product

Many Indians however now want the government to make vaccines available to more of its

own people instead of only the elderly and those above 45 suf-fering from health conditions

ldquoThe priority of the Modi government is not the state but foreign nationsrdquo Congress said on Twitter using the tag India-NeedsMoreVaccines and accus-ing the premier of focusing on

ldquoPR over peoplerdquoldquoThe pace of vaccination in

states is slow due to the centrali-sation in vaccine distributionrdquo it said

Health Minister Harsh Vard-han told parliament that vac-cines were not being exported at the ldquoexpense of the people of

Indiardquo and that a balance was being struck

Indiarsquos immunisation drive has picked up significantly since Modi expanded it this month Still Bangladesh is vaccinat-ing more people relative to its population using India-made shots

India worldrsquos top vaccine maker criticised at home for exports as infections rise

A healthcare worker collects a swab sample from a woman amidst the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a bus station in New Delhi India on March 16 2021

India child rights group asks police to probe Netflix show lsquoBombay Begumsrsquo

By Abhirup Roy

MUMBAI - A government agency for child rights in In-dia on Tuesday asked police to investigate Netflix Incrsquos show ldquoBombay Begumsrdquo saying some scenes in the drama series violated laws meant to protect children letters seen by Reuters showed

The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCP-CR) has asked the US streaming giant to remove five ldquoobjection-ablerdquo scenes from the series and wrote to the police chief in Indiarsquos financial capital Mumbai to take action

ldquoYou are requested to investi-gateinquire and take deemed law-ful necessary actionrdquo NCPCRrsquos

chairperson Priyank Kanoongo wrote in the letter

A Mumbai police spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment Netflix de-clined to comment

ldquoBombay Begumsrdquo is a se-ries about five women from dif-ferent parts of society trying to get ahead in modern Mumbai formerly called Bombay It was released last week

In a separate letter to Netflix NCPCR asked the company to remove five scenes which it said violated Indian laws governing Juvenile Justice and the Protec-tion of Children from Sexual Of-fences

In the series children have been shown indulging ldquoin snort-ing drugs and taking inde-

cent pictures and selfies in the classroomrdquo NCPCR told Netflix

The child rights group first asked Netflix to stop streaming the series last week after review-ing complaints on Twitter As of Tuesday the show was still avail-able for viewing on Netflix in India

Netflix officials met the child rights agency on Tuesday to dis-cuss details of the scenes and objections from NCPCR which gave the company two days to consult its legal team

Video streaming platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video have recently faced a barrage of complaints around promoting obscenity or hurting religious sentiments in India a key growth market

HEALTH amp SCIENCE9

INTERNATIONAL NEWSIndia Bulletin

NEW DELHI - Indiarsquos new oversight of digital news platforms is drawing protest from the media industry and activists who fear the rules will curb press freedom in the worldrsquos largest democracy

India which has one of the worldrsquos biggest and most diverse media industries last month an-nounced the Intermediary Guide-lines and Digital Media Ethics Code aimed at pushing Big Tech fi rms such as Facebook to com-ply with content takedown orders However it also extends to news websites

The rules impose a three-tier regulatory mechanism requir-ing a grievance offi cer to resolve complaints and a government panel to have broad oversight The most senior government offi cial in the information and broadcast-ing ministry will also have emer-gency powers to order content be blocked

Media executives fear such oversight could lead to censor-ship of content seen as critical of

the government and three digi-tal news outlets have approached state courts

ldquoTheserules will signify the death of media independence in Indiardquo said Siddharth Varadara-jan editor of independent news website lsquoThe Wirersquo Its publisher has challenged the regulation in the Delhi High Court

LiveLaw a legal news web-site has challenged the rules in the Kerala High Court which this week said no coercive ac-tion should be taken against the website for non-compliance

The government says the new rules are aimed at achieving par-ity between digital media and print and TV news regulations Refer-ring to the rules for digital me-dia information and broadcasting minister Prakash Javadekar last month said ldquoevery freedom has to be responsible freedomrdquo

The number of online media outlets in India has increased in recent years but some journalists have complained they face intimi-

Indiarsquos digital media regulation sparks fears of curbs on press freedomdation for reporting stories critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his administration

Modirsquos administration says it favours press freedom

ldquoI think these rules will restrict and constrain press freedom as indeed freedom more gener-allyrdquo said Zoya Hasan a former professor of political science at New Delhirsquos Jawaharlal Nehru University

ldquoThis whole regulation is about control of digital media and other platforms as therersquos little tolerance for dissenting voicesrdquo

US think tank Freedom House recently said Modi and his party are driving India toward ldquoauthori-tarianismrdquo adding political rights and civil liberties had deteriorated since he came to power in 2014 The government called the re-port ldquomisleading incorrect and misplacedrdquo

On Thursday Javadekar said on Twitter that a group represent-ing leading newspapers and TV channels had welcomed the new

regulation and asked that their members ldquobe treated diff erentlyrdquo from digital-only news publishers

That has drawn criticism from

some smaller digital news outlets which have questioned why they are being ignored while seeking exemptions

Indiarsquos new oversight of digital news platforms is drawing protest from the media industry and activists who fear the rules will curb press freedom in the worldrsquos largest democracy

Saturday March 20 2021

India activist breaks silence on sedition arrest says she felt lsquoviolatedrsquo

By Alasdair Pal

NEW DELHI - An Indian climate activist linked to Greta Thunberg said she felt ldquoviolat-edrdquo by her arrest last month on sedition charges and her treat-ment by the media her fi rst comments on a case that sparked international criticism

Disha Ravi a 22-year-old vegan and member of Thun-bergrsquos Fridays for Future move-ment was charged in February over an online document about months-long protests by Indian farmers

Ten days after her arrest and following widespread criti-cism a court in Indiarsquos capital New Delhi granted her bail citing ldquoscanty and sketchy evi-dencerdquo that she was involved in

fomenting violenceldquoI had coerced myself into be-

lieving that the only way I would be able to live through this was by tricking myself into thinking that this wasnrsquot happening to merdquo Ravi said in a statement

ldquoMy actions were pronounced

guilty - not in the court of law but on fl at screensrdquo

Police say the document Ravi created stoked violence on Jan 26 Indiarsquos Republic Day when some protesting farmers broke free of a planned march and clashed with police

Angry at new agricultural laws they say benefi t large pri-vate buyers at the expense of growers tens of thousands of farmers have been camped on the outskirts of New Delhi since late last year

Swedish climate activist Thunberg popstar Rihanna and US activist Meena Harris the niece of Vice President Kamala Harris all tweeted in support of the protests last month drawing a rebuke from Indiarsquos foreign ministry

India frets over wastage of lsquoelixir-likersquo COVID-19 vaccinesNEW DELHI - About 65

of coronavirus vaccine doses in India are going to waste health offi cials said on Wednesday urging states to manage their im-munisation drives better to opti-mise use of what one called ldquothis elixir-like precious commodityrdquo

One reason for the wastage is that while many urban vaccina-tion centres have been crowded some rural sites have had to nudge people to get shots due to a lack of awareness among the public which can lead to vaccine wastage

Once a vaccine vial is opened doses need to be administered within four hours making it vital for health workers to coordinate the fl ow of recipients

The federal health ministry has distributed 754 million vac-cine doses to Indiarsquos states of which some 36 million doses

have so far been used India is using the AstraZeneca shot and another developed at home by Bharat Biotech

The government did not say how many doses had been wast-ed but the percentage fi gure suggests it could be more than 2 million a big number given that many countries have yet to start inoculating their citizens and India itself is only immunising priority groups

ldquoWastage of this elixir-like precious commodity the most important thing now for an indi-vidual or the country as a whole is absolutely wrongrdquo top health offi cial Vinod Kumar Paul told a news conference

The large states of Telan-gana Andhra Pradesh and Ut-tar Pradesh have seen wastage of 9-18 the government said

Disha Ravi

By Aftab Ahmedand Sankalp Phartiyal

NEW DELHI - India is likely to block its mobile carriers from using telecom equipment made by Chinarsquos Huawei two govern-ment officials said under pro-curement rules due to come into force in June

New Delhi is wary about awarding new technology busi-ness to Chinese firms both be-cause of security fears and a desire to get Indian manufactur-

ers to produce more telecoms equipment

A US campaign to curb Huawei has triggered bans or limits on the use of its equip-ment around the world but the situation in India has been amplified by strained rela-tions between New Delhi and Beijing over their shared border

Indiarsquos telecoms department said last Wednesday that after June 15 carriers can only buy certain types of equipment from

government-approved ldquotrusted sourcesrdquo and said New Delhi could also create a ldquono procure-mentrdquo blacklist Huawei is likely to feature on this embargoed list the two officials who declined to be named told Reuters

ldquoWe cannot prioritise econom-ic gains if an investment poses national security riskrdquo one of the officials said

The telecoms department which did not comment last Thursday about Huawei is yet to provide further details on the plans for trusted sources or a procurement blacklist

However a third official who also declined to be named told

Reuters that ZTE Corp another Chinese firm which has a smaller presence in India could also be excluded

Huawei and ZTE are un-der scrutiny for allegedly in-stalling ldquobackdoorrdquo vulner-abilities to spy for the Chinese government

Both have denied the allega-tions and Huawei has previously told Reuters it is ready to enter into a ldquono backdoorrdquo deal with India to allay security concerns

Huawei and ZTE did not im-mediately respond to requests for comment

Two of Indiarsquos three big tele-coms carriers Bharti Airtel and

Vodafone Idea use Huawei gear Any restriction on Huawei gear is likely to push up costs industry analysts say

The Chinese firmrsquos equipment and network maintenance con-tracts are typically cheaper than European competitors such as Ericsson and Nokia and there is limited availability of such gear in India

India has begun to fast-track approvals of some of the more than 150 Chinese investment proposals worth over $2 billion it had put on hold after a June standoff between the two neigh-bours on the disputed Himalayan border

India likely to block Chinarsquos Huawei over security fears officials

India Bulletin

India is likely to block its mobile carriers from using telecom equipment made by Chinarsquos Huawei two government officials said under procurement rules due to come into force in June UKrsquos Johnson to visit India at

end of April as part of policy lsquotiltrsquoLONDON - PM Boris Johnson

will visit India at the end of April in what will be his first major in-ternational trip after Britainrsquos exit from the European Union as part of efforts to boost UK opportuni-ties in the region his office said

Johnson had planned an Indian trip in January as part of efforts to speed up trade talks between the two nations but was forced to cancel amid a surge of COVID-19

infections at homeAt the time his office said he

had hoped to rearrange the visit before Britain hosted the meet-ing of leaders from the Group of Seven rich nations in June which Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is due to attend as a visitor

Johnsonrsquos government said it would ldquotiltrdquo its focus towards the Indo-Pacific region as part of its Integrated Review of government

policy for the coming years say-ing the area increasingly repre-sented the geopolitical centre of the world

Last month Britain made a for-mal request to join the Compre-hensive and Progressive Agree-ment for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) seeking membership of the 11-country bloc to open new avenues for post-Brexit trade and influence

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HEALTH amp SCIENCE11India BulletinSaturday March 20 2021

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ldquoJAINISM A Resilient Path to Peacerdquo

The Federation of Jain Asso-ciations in North America (JAI-NA) will be celebrating its 21st Convention on the Fourth of July weekend mdash from July 1st to 6th 2021 Every two years this premier event brings together members of the Jain Community from across the world This year the virtual event is planned to be a global event and is expected to attract an even larger audience from the USA Canada India UK Australia UAE and many other countries

In face of all the turbulence throughout the world in the last year it is paramount for us to be vigilant compassionate tolerant and to ldquokeep the faithrdquo Jain-ism one of the ancient minor-ity religions has thrived worse than the pandemic based on its wisdom of Maitri (Amity) in-terdependence and honoring and respecting life at any cost The Convention will showcase our firm belief that spirituality enables us to sustain our sense of self and purpose through be-liefs principles values and morals Hence the theme for this yearrsquos Convention is ldquoJAINISM A Resilient Path to Peacerdquo

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Announcing JAINA Convention 2021 July 1-6 2021Connect will be strongly pro-moted and encouraged There will be focused programs for all age groups children (ages 5-12) youth (ages 13-20) Jain Networking Forum (ages 21-29) and adults

Other featured events include the popular Jain Academic Bowl (JAB) a jeopardy style vo-cabulary game in which young Jains compete with other teams Jains Got Talent (JGT) and Vir-tual Tirthdham Darshan ndash A nar-rated Tirth Yatra of 12 major Jain Tirth of India broadcast live

Public Relations and Media Committee Chair Mr Vipul Shah of Chicago proudly con-firmed that spiritual dignitar-ies such as Acharya Ratna-sundersuri Maharaj Saheb Acharya Shri Mahashramanji Rashtrasant Gurudev Shree Namramuni Pramansagarji Maharaj Sadhvi Charitraarth Prabhaji and many others will enlighten us with their wisdom during the Convention Acharya Lokesh Muniji Acharya Chan-danaji and Bhattarak Charuke-ertiji will bless the Convention with their Ashirwad speeches While Gurudevshri Rakeshbhai Jhaveri will give the keynote

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Bollywood BeatDJ Aqeel and Farah Ali Khan are done

with their marriage

Actor Hrithik Roshanrsquos ex-wife Sussane Khanrsquos sister jewellery designer Farah Khan Ali has taken to social media to announce her separation from husband DJ Aqeel after 22 years of marriage In a lengthy post she spoke about how two people grow apart at times and that there is no bad bloodbetween them

The statement read ldquoSome-times two people grow apart Sometimes they outgrow each other It has been 9 years since my relationship with my hus-band Aqeel changed its status as a couple to just friends and to term it simply would be to state that we are ldquoHappily Sepa-ratedrdquordquo

ldquoWe will always be best friends to each other and par-ents to our wonderful children Azaan and Fizaa who love us both equally yet accept that we cannot be a couple any longer This was a mutual decision we took together involving two adults and there wasnrsquot any third person involved The reason we are announcing it publicly now is so that the ones who know us accept our situation grace-fully and always wish well for both of us especially because we hold no animosity of any kind towards one another and will al-ways be there for each otherrdquo it further read

ldquoAqeel is and will always be my family as I will be his We hope that all our well-wishers will accept our deci-sion maturely and not judge us for itrdquo

Bahubali now planned on a budget of 200 crores as Netflix scraps the already shot version of 100 croresNetflix is easily amongst the richest

digital platforms of the world According to our highly placed sources Netfl ix has scrapped the already shot Rs 100 crore version of the Netfl ix Original Bahubali Before The Beginning and have already begun work on a new version of the show this time around on double the cost of Rs 200 crores

ldquoNetfl ix was not satisfi ed with the prod-uct they had in hand and hence decided to scrap it completely They reworked on the script star-cast and technical team and are now reshooting Bahubali Before The Beginning on a never seen before unheard scale for their streaming They see the po-tential in Bahubali of being Indiarsquos answer to Game of Thrones and hence they have decided to take things a notch higher The overall budget for the new part is Rs 200 crore and if we add the scrap value the project now is worth Rs 300 crorerdquo a trade

source told Bollywood HungamaItrsquos produced by SS Rajamouli with

Netflix and is planned as a 9 episode two season limited series showcasing the rise of Shivagami set in the world of Mahishmati Itrsquos said to be a prequel to

Bahubali While the original cast was to feature Mrunal Thakur as Shivagami we still await an update if she will continue to play the queen or has she been replaced by someone else in this revamped Rs 200 crore version of the franchise

Emraan Hashmi says it has been his dream to work with Salman Khan

Emraan Hashmi is being said to be roped in by the makers of the Tiger franchise starring Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif While the latter two will be reprising their roles and Tiger and Zoya in Tiger 3 Emraan Hashmi is being said to play the antagonist marking his fi rst collaboration with the two stars and Yash Raj Films Being

one of the most coveted actors of the industry Salman Khan un-doubtedly is one of the favourites for every celebrity

Speaking about joining the franchise Emraan said that he would love to work in the fran-chise and it has always been a dream for him to work with Salman Khan

In October last year actress Rhea Chakraborty was grant-ed bail by the Bombay High Court after spending nearly two months in judicial cus-tody Her bail has now been challenged in the Supreme Court by the Narcotics Control Bureau(NCB) The case will be heard on Thursday

Rhea Chakraborty was sent to judicial custody last year for drug related charges in the death of her actor boyfriend Sushant Singh Rajput She was granted bail on the condi-tion that she submit a Rs 1 lakh bond and not leave the country without the permission of the court

Rhea Chakrabortyrsquos bail challenged in theSupreme Court by NCB

UNKNOWN FACTS ABOUTBOLLYWOODCELEBRITIES

Aamir Khanrsquos full name is Mohammed Aamir

Hussain Khan Despite being from the fi lm

industry Aamirrsquos parents were not keen on him entering Bollywood In 1984 Aamir worked in

his fi rst ever feature fi lm titled Holi

Very few people are aware of the fact that Kareena Kapoor gave her voice to the song Jab Nahi Aaye for the

fi lm Dev Kareena played a lead role in

the fi lm Unfortunately the movie didnrsquot do well

at the box-offi ce

Bollywood TriviaWhich actress debuted in

the fi lm lsquoKedarnathrsquo

Answer 1

1) Sara Ali Khan2) Katrina Kaif3) Tara Sutaria4) Ananya PandeyWho is the mother of actress

Janhvi Kapoor

Answer 3

1) Kareena2) Karisma3) Sridevi4) Madhuri

12 India Bulletin Saturday March 20 2021

ENTERTAINMENT

Bollywood Beat

The Brihanmumbai Mu-nicipal Corporation (BMC) revealed on their social media page that they have filed an FIR (First information report) against a Bollywood actor for not adhering to Covid-19 guidelines despite testing posi-tive for the deadly virus They even uploaded a picture of the FIR but the name of the celeb-rity was blurred Immediately it led people to speculate who the actor could be

However it has now come to light that the actor in question is Gauahar Khan As per the complaint filed at Oshiwara po-lice station a BMC officer has said that on the night of March 14 he was informed that Gaua-har Khan has tested positive for Coronavirus and yet shersquos not ready to get quarantined Hence the officer reached Gau-ahar Khanrsquos residence but she refused to open the door Later her husband answered from the flat and allegedly shouted at the BMC team

The complainant further states that the actress alleg-edly went out of her house for a shoot Hence the officer claims that she has exposed people to the deadly virus and thus contributed to itrsquos spread

As per a news report S Chai-tanya DCP (operations) and PRO of Mumbai Police has stated that Gauahar Khan has been charged under Sections 188 269 270 of the IPC 51B of NDMA Act 3 of Epidemic Diseases Act

BMC files FIR against

Gauahar Khan

Upcoming FilmsThalaivi

Kangana Ranautand Vijay Deverakonda

RadheSalman Khan

Disha Patani Jackie Shroff and Randeep Hooda

83Ranveer Singh

and Deepika Padukone

Atrangi ReAkshay Kumar Sara Ali Khanand Dhanush

MaidaanAjay Devgn Priyamani

and Keerthy Suresh

Bachchan PandeyAkshay Kumar Bobby Deol

and Riteish Deshmukh

Bell BottomAkshay Kumar Vaani Kapoor Huma Qureshi and Lara Dutta

Satyameva Jayate 2John Abraham Manoj Bajpai

and Divya Khosla Kumar

BrahmastraRanbir Kapoor Alia Bhatt and

Amitabh Bachchan

MOVIE REVIEW

Itrsquos been almost a year when theatres were asked to shut down due to rapid rise in the cases of Coronavirus in the country Two of the films play-ing in theatres at that point were Angrezi Medium produced by Dinesh Vijan and Kaamyaab directed by Hardik Mehta In an interesting turn of events Roohi the film that releases today and kickstarts the movie-watching season in cinemas is helmed by both these personalities So does Roohi manage to enter-tain and enthral the audiences Or does it fail to entice Letrsquos analyse

Roohi is the story of a pos-sessed girl Bhawra Pandey (Rajkummar Rao) and Kattanni Qureshi (Varun Sharma) work as crime journalists in a small town Baagadpur They also specialise in lsquopakdaai shaadirsquo aka bride kidnapping an accepted custom in Baagadpur One day their boss Guniya Shakeel (Manav Vij) orders them to kidnap a girl Roohi (Janhvi Kapoor) from a nearby town Mujaribaad Bhawra and Kattanni manage to kidnap Roohi while she is with her father (Rajesh Jais) As per the lsquopakdaai shaadirsquo custom af-ter the girl is kidnapped she is straight away taken to the mar-

riage venue Bhawra and Kat-tanni are also supposed to fol-low suit with Roohi But after the kidnap takes place Guniya calls them and tells them that the groomrsquos uncle has passed away suddenly Hence the mar-riage will now take place after a week Till then Bhawra and Kattanni are told to keep her as a hostage in an abandoned property in the hills of Ambiya-pur On the first night Bhawra goes to offer dinner to Roohi only to realize that she is pos-sessed Kattanni at first doesnrsquot believe but later even he sees the possessed side of Roohi However instead of being frightened Kattanni falls for the possessed Roohi Bhawra on the other hand is in love with the non-possessed Roohi He decides to help her and get the witch out of her body Kattanni however is averse to the idea as loves the possessed Roohi and if Bhawra succeeds the witch will leave Roohi forever What hap-pens next forms the rest of the film

Mrighdeep Singh Lamba and Gautam Mehras story is inter-esting and novel The writers try their best to bring some-thing new to the table Mrigh-deep Singh Lamba and Gautam Mehras screenplay however is interesting only in parts A few scenes are exceptional and bring the house down But the serious portions donrsquot make the desired impact Mrigh-deep Singh Lamba and Gautam Mehras dialogues are witty But the dialect is too authentic and is incomprehensible at many places

Roohi starts off on an interest-ing note depicting the concept of bride kidnapping in Baagad-pur that too through the eyes of a foreign reporter (Alexx ONell) The film gets better once Bhawra and Kattanni kid-nap Roohi and set base at the spooky abandoned factory The scene where Bhawra narrates about the possessed Roohi to

Kattanni is sure to raise laughs The scene where Kattanni in-stead of running away falls for the possessed Roohi is unique and unexpected It will bring smiles on the faces of the view-ers The interval comes at an in-teresting juncture Post-interval the film begins to fall but a few scenes especially of the marriage with the dog and Bhawrarsquos con-versation with the old lady (Sar-ita Joshi) add to the humour and madness The climax though unpredictable is disappointing

Talking of performances Ra-jkummar Rao is in his element as expected Due to his adorable performance one doesnrsquot hate him even though hersquos playing a kidnapper in the film And his comic timing is spot-on espe-cially in the scenes where hersquos running away from the possessed Roohi Janhvi Kapoor is a big surprise She hardly has any dia-logues but gets her act right with her expressions And she also is convincing as the witch Varun Sharma is marvellous and man-ages to raise laughs In the last 30 minutes however he doesnrsquot have much to do Manav Vij suits the part and his performance is

fair Sarita Joshi (credited in the film as Padma Shri Sarita Joshi) is hilarious and one wish-es that she had a longer screen time Alexx ONell is lovely Rajesh H Jais Anurag Arora (Tantrik) Sumit Gulati (Paras Roohirsquos groom in the end) are okay

Sachin-Jigars music is ap-propriate for the film and itrsquos theme Kiston comes suddenly but is soulful Bhootni is hilari-ous while Panghat is played in the end credits Nadiyon Paar is attached with the filmrsquos print be-fore the film starts It is the best song of the lot and well shot One wishes if it was a part of the filmrsquos narrative Ketan Sodhas background score is well wo-ven and also contributes to the horror quotient

On the whole Roohi rests on a unique concept fine perfor-mances and some interesting funny and horror sequences However the disappointing climax and difficult-to-under-stand dialect might affect the filmrsquos prospects at the box office

BannerMaddock Films

Jio Studios

ProducerDinesh Vijan

Mrighdeep Singh Lamba

DirectorHardik Mehta

StarringRajkummar RaoVarun SharmaJanhvi Kapoor

Music BySachin-Jigar

Released DateMarch 11 2021

Roohi

Rating

Celebrity BirthdaysMarch 21stRani Mukerji (1978)

March 23rdKangana Ranaut (1987)

March 24thEmraan Hashmi (1979)

March 25thYograj Singh (1958)

March 26thPrakash Raj (1965)

April 3rdPrabhu Deva (1973)

April 4thLisa Ray (1972)Simran Bagga (1976)

March 28thAkshaye Khanna(1975) Sandhya Mridul (1975)

March 30thNagesh Kukunoor (1967)

April 2ndAjay Devgn (1969) Kapil Sharma (1981)

13India BulletinSaturday March 20 2021

ENTERTAINMENT

Biz Briefs

Apple Inc has started the as-sembly of iPhone 12 in India the US tech giant said as the com-pany ramps up manufacturing operations in the worldrsquos sec-ond-biggest smartphone market

ldquoWe are proud to be starting production of iPhone 12 in India for our local customersrdquo Apple said in a statement without naming the supplier making the smartphone

The Indian unit of Applersquos Taiwanese contract manufac-turer Foxconn will assemble the device in its plant in southern Tamil Nadu state two sources familiar with the matter said

Foxconn did not immediately respond to a request for com-ment but has previously said it does not comment on client-specifi c work

Poscorsquos steel plant in India

faces disruption Operations at South Korean

steelmaker Poscorsquos plant in the Indian state of Maharashtra have been disrupted due to local pro-tests over labour and other issues police and sources told Reuters hampering the supply chain for automakers

A local politician leading the protests said they have blocked employees and goods from enter-ing the plant and will continue until Posco heeds to some of their requests which include giv-ing employment preference to lo-cal workers raising the wages of temporary employees and making them permanent

Reuters could not indepen-dently verify the extent of the production disruption at Poscorsquos plant

Apple starts iPhone 12 assem-

bly in India

HEALTH amp SCIENCEBUSINESS14 India Bulletin Saturday March 20 2021

By Nidhi Verma

NEW DELHI - India and the UAE on Wednesday discussed ways to strengthen energy coop-eration Indiarsquos oil minister Dhar-mendra Pradhan said despite the South Asian nation asking its re-fi ners to reduce their reliance on Middle Eastern oil

ldquo(We) discussed about new ar-eas of cooperation in the hydro-carbon sector and beyond and agreed to remain committed de-spite the challenges presented by Covid pandemicrdquo Pradhan said on Twitter after a virtual meeting with Sultan Al Jaber the chief executive of Abu Dhabi National Oil Co (ADNOC)

UAE is a key oil supplier to India and a partner in an Indian joint venture that plans to build a 12 million barrels per day (bpd) refi nery and petrochemical com-plex on the countryrsquos west coast

Last month the UAE was the

fi fth biggest oil supplier to In-dia which itself is the worldrsquos third biggest oil importer and consumer

Pradhan said he also discussed with Jaber ways of strengthen-ing and ldquoproviding momentum to (the) bilateral strategic en-ergy partnershiprdquo between the countries

India imports more than 80 of its oil needs a signifi cant amount of which comes from the Middle East

New Delhi has however asked refi ners to gradually reduce oil imports from the Middle East and diversify supplies after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its al-lies known as OPEC+ decided to extend most curbs into April

India has been hit hard by rising oil prices due to which minister Pradhan has repeatedly called on OPEC+ to ease supply curbs and has blamed Saudi Ara-

India and UAE vow to strengthen energy cooperation says minister

biarsquos voluntary cuts for contribut-ing to a spike in global oil prices

Responding to Pradhanrsquos re-quest Saudi Arabiarsquos energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman suggested India dip into strategic reserves fi lled with cheaper oil bought last year

The UAErsquos ADNOC is the only foreign company to which India has leased a part of it strategic petroleum reserves India does not allow the export of oil but has given permission to ADNOC to export part of its oil in Mangalore SPR in southern India

Tesla in talks with Indiarsquos Tata Power for EV charging infrastructure

BENGALURU - Tesla Inc is exploring an arrangement with Indian conglomerate Tata Sonsrsquo power generation unit Tata Pow-er to set up charging infrastruc-ture for electric vehicles in the country CNBC-TV18 reported citing sources

Shares of Tata Power rose 55 to their best closing level since June 2014 after the report which comes as the Palo Alto-based electric-car maker gears up for an India launch later this year with plans to import and sell its Model 3 electric sedan

Tesla will set up an electric-car manufacturing unit in the southern Indian state of Karna-taka according to a government document seen by Reuters

Indiarsquos Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan

The talks between Tata Power and Tesla are in the initial stages and no arrangements have been

fi nalised yet the report saidTata Powerrsquos electric vehicle

charging business constantly

explores growth opportunities but has not fi nalised any new agreements the company said in a statement to stock exchanges It also said the CNBC-TV 18 report was ldquofactually incorrectrdquo but did not elaborate

Tesla was not immediately available for comment

In January the US electric-car maker incorporated Tesla Motors India and Energy Private Ltd with its registered offi ce in the southern city of Bengaluru a hub for global technology companies

Tata Motors Ltd the carmak-ing unit of Tata Sons last week denied any tie-up with Tesla af-ter media reports suggested the two companies were discussing a partnership

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BUSINESSIndia Bulletin

By Aftab Ahmed and Nupur Anand

NEW DELHIMUMBAI - In-dia will propose a law banning cryptocurrencies fi ning anyone trading in the country or even holding such digital assets a senior government offi cial told

Reuters in a potential blow to millions of investors piling into the red-hot asset class

The bill one of the worldrsquos strictest policies against cryp-tocurrencies would criminalise possession issuance mining trading and transferring crypto-assets said the offi cial who has

India to propose cryptocurrency ban penalising miners tradersdirect knowledge of the plan

The measure is in line with a January government agenda that called for banning private vir-tual currencies such as bitcoin while building a framework for an offi cial digital currency But recent government comments had raised investorsrsquo hopes that

the authorities might go easier on the booming market

Instead the bill would give holders of cryptocurrencies up to six months to liquidate after which penalties will be levied said the offi cial who asked not to be named as the contents of the bill are not public

Offi cials are confi dent of get-ting the bill enacted into law as Prime Minister Narendra Modirsquos government holds a comfortable majority in parliament

If the ban becomes law India would be the fi rst major econo-my to make holding cryptocur-rency illegal Even China which has banned mining and trading

does not penalise possessionThe Finance Ministry did not

immediately respond to an email seeking comment

Bitcoin the worldrsquos biggest cryptocurrency hit a record high $60000 last Saturday nearly doubling in value this year as its acceptance for payments has in-creased with support from such high-profi le backers as Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk

In India despite government threats of a ban transaction vol-umes are swelling and 8 million investors now hold 100 billion rupees ($14 billion) in crypto-investments according to indus-try estimates No offi cial data is available

US becomes Indiarsquos second biggest oil supplier Saudi plunges to No 4

By Nidhi Verma

NEW DELHI - The United States overtook Saudi Arabia as Indiarsquos second biggest oil sup-plier after Iraq last month as refi ners boosted cheaper US crude purchases to record levels to off set OPEC+ supply cuts data from trade sources showed

The switch in supplies trig-gered by lower US crude de-mand coincided with Saudi Ara-biarsquos voluntary extra 1 million barrel per day (bpd) output cut on top of an agreement by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies (OPEC+) to maintain lower pro-duction

Indiarsquos imports from the United

States - the worldrsquos top producer - rose 48 to a record 545300 bpd in February from the prior month accounting for 14 of Indiarsquos overall imports last month the data obtained by Reuters showed

In contrast February imports from Saudi Arabia fell by 42 from January to a decade low of 445200 bpd the data showed Saudi Arabia which has consis-tently been one of Indiarsquos top two suppliers slipped to No 4 for the fi rst time since at least January 2006

Indiarsquos oil import data by coun-try from before 2006 is not avail-able to Reuters

ldquoUS demand was weak and refi neries were running at low rates so the US crude had to

go somewhere and Asia is the region which has seen rapid de-mand recoveryrdquo said Refi nitiv analyst Ehsan Ul Haq

ldquoChina has not been taking US oil because of (the) trade problem so India is the obvious choicerdquo he said

Iraq continued to be the top oil seller to India despite a 23 drop in purchases to a fi ve-month low of 867500 bpd the data showed

The UAE slipped to fi fth posi-tion from third in January while Nigeria rose to third from fi fth exporting 472300 bpd the most since Oct 2019

India shipped in 392 million bpd of oil in February a decline of 18 from January the data showed

India will propose a law banning cryptocurrencies fi ning anyone trading in the country or even holding such digital assets a senior government offi cial told Re-uters in a potential blow to millions of investors piling into the red-hot asset class

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Aries (March 21 to April 20)Someone will always be prettier Someone will always be smarter Someone will always be younger But they will never be you Itrsquos this ability to understand your uniqueness which will help you steer forward in an otherwise difficult week

Taurus (April 21 to May 21)When a storm is coming all other birds seek shelter The eagle alone avoids the storm by flying above it So in the storms of life be like an eagle and soar above your problems Keep your love life on top priority and everything else will fall into place with time

Gemini (May 22 to June 21)Life is not happening to you Life is responding to you The things you do the decisions you take the people you love or the people you hate they all make you into who you are

Cancer (June 22 to July 22)Sadness does not come from bad circumstances It comes from bad thoughts Although the circumstances are mixed around you you will have a tendency to make a mountain out of a mole hill

Leo (July 23 to August 22)Every time we get what we thought we wanted we realise that we want more This race towards more - more money more power more of everything is taking a toll on your energy level

Virgo (August 23 to September 23)One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness usually it comes back to you While your hard work is fruc-tifying now do not let the success take you away from compassion

Libra (September 24 to October 23)Best friends are like stars You donrsquot always see them but you know they are always there This week you will be in a nostalgic mood and miss good old times and old friends Rather than thinking about it pick up the phone and talk to friends you have not spoken in years or take a friend out on a cappuccino trip

Scorpio (October 24 to November 22)Learn to make peace with your past or else your future will become a constant battle that yoursquoll never win The highlight of the week will be letting go of things forgiving people forgetting wrong-doings and moving on in life

Sagittarius (November 23 to December 21)Chaos in the midst of chaos isnrsquot funny but chaos in the midst of order is Probably one of the toughest week this month wherein there will be a lot of confusion and haze around Advice Do not take stress

Capricorn (December 22 to January 20)Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realise you havenrsquot fallen asleep yet Thatrsquos the kind of nights you might witness this week owing to unforeseen issues and hurdles Your discipline and organisational skills will steer you forward and transform these hurdles into opportunities Aquarius (January 21 to February 19)Women get the last word in every argument Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument This is not the week for you to get into any arguments as it might jeopardise your frame of mind

Pisces (February 20 to March 20)Find out who you are and be that person Thatrsquos what your soul was put on this Earth to be Find that truth live that truth and everything else will come The week will be about introspection spirituality and matters related to the soul

WEEKLY HOROSCOPE(March 28 - April 3 2021)

HEALTH amp SCIENCEASTROLOGYIndia Bulletin

8 things AARP wants you to know before your second COVID-19 vaccine

If yoursquove already received your first dose of a two-dose COVID-19 vaccine congratulations - yoursquore well on your way to being protect-ed from the coronavirus But to be fully immunized itrsquos critical to get that second shot

William Schaffner MD an infectious diseases specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville Tennessee and medical director of the Nation-al Foundation for Infectious Dis-eases says ldquoWe have told every-one these vaccines are 95 percent effectiverdquo of the two-dose Moder-na and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines currently in use in the US ldquoBut theyrsquore only 95 percent effective if you indeed get that second doserdquo

Here are a few more things to know about the second dose

1 Your side effects will likely be stronger

Many people who had little to no reaction to the first vaccine dose are reporting that the second one packs a punch mdash surprising even those who study vaccines for a liv-ing

Greg Poland MD an infec-tious disease expert at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota and director of Mayorsquos vaccine re-search group had only mild symp-toms after his first dose But the second one left him shaking - liter-ally - with chills and a temperature of 101

ldquoI took one Tylenol and went to bed and woke up the next morning 90 percent improved and by mid-day I was back to normalrdquo Poland says ldquoThis is not an indication of something going wrong it is an indication of a vigorous immune responserdquo

There is no live virus in the vac-cine so you canrsquot get COVID-19 from being vaccinated

Participants in clinical trials of both vaccines had experiences similar to Polandrsquos In Pfizerrsquos clinical trial for instance 31 per-cent of participants ages 18 to 55 reported a fever after the second dose compared to only 8 percent after the first one Fatigue chills headache and musclejoint pain were also more common after the second injection for both vaccines

The good news is older adults were less likely to experience vac-cine reactions the data shows Among those age 55 and up in the Pfizer trial 22 percent experienced fever after the second dose and 3 percent had a temperature after the first dose

Schaffner recommends not making any big plans for the day after your scheduled vaccine appointment

2 You should avoid taking pain relievers before your shot

If yoursquove been hearing sto-ries about second-dose side ef-fects you may be tempted to take a pain reliever before your appointment

Thatrsquos not a good idea accord-ing to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) unless yoursquove been advised to do so by your doctor Pain relievers taken preemptively ahead of a shot could dampen the effective-ness of the vaccine Poland and Schaffner say

However itrsquos OK to take ac-etaminophen (Tylenol) or a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug like Advil or Motrin after your vaccine to treat side effects such as pain fever chills or headache

3 The timing between doses doesnrsquot need to be exact

The second dose of the Pfiz-er shot is supposed to be giv-en 21 days after the first for Moderna the recommended interval between doses is 28 days

However if you canrsquot get an appointment on the exact day mdash or if you have to miss your scheduled appointment for some reason mdash the CDC does allow some wiggle room Although the agency recommends trying to stick to the suggested interval it says the second dose can be given up to six weeks after the first

If your appointment is sched-uled earlier than the recommend-ed date ask for a later appoint-ment Schaffner advises ldquoYour immune response will work perfectly well if you take more timerdquo he says ldquoBut if you do it too early the second dose may not invoke an optimal responserdquo

4 Your second dose should be from the same manufacturer as your first

Doctors are already hearing from patients asking if they can get their second dose from a dif-ferent manufacturer often be-cause they realize the other type of vaccine is offered at a location thatrsquos more convenient But the CDC recommends against it The Moderna and Pfizer vaccines ldquoare not interchangeable with each other or with other COVID-19 vaccine productsrdquo the CDC says ldquoThe safety and efficacy of a mixed-product series have not been evaluatedrdquo

5 A rash at the injection site isnrsquot a reason to skip your second dose

If you experienced a rash at the injection site three to 10 days

after getting your first shot that doesnrsquot preclude you from getting your second shot the CDC says although it recommends getting it in the other arm

A small number of people have developed such rashes some-times called ldquoCOVID armrdquo af-ter vaccination Doctors say itrsquos likely a mild allergic reaction that can be treated with an over-the-counter antihistamine such as Benadryl

6 You should temporarily avoid all other vaccines

It might be time for your shin-gles or Tdap vaccine but you should hold off if you are between COVID-19 vaccine doses Be-cause therersquos no data on the safety and efficacy of COVID vaccines administered at the same time as other vaccines the CDC recom-mends avoiding other immuniza-tions in the two weeks before and after both doses

7 Full immunity is not immediate

It takes two weeks after your second dose for your body to build full protection to the virus After that you should have al-most zero chance of developing severe disease if you are exposed to someone with COVID-19 Schaffner says The CDC also says you no longer have to quar-antine if yoursquore exposed to some-one with COVID-19 mdash as long as you meet these criteria you donrsquot have symptoms and it hasnrsquot been more than three months since your second vaccine dose

One possible exception is immunocompromised people Schaffner says They will get some level of immunity he says ldquobut they may not reach the 95 percent because their immune system is already somewhat com-promised no matter how strong these vaccines arerdquo

8 You still need to wear a maskExperts agree you should con-

tinue to wear a mask and practice social distancing in public For one thing therersquos a small chance you could get sick even after yoursquove been vaccinated

In addition itrsquos possible that you could still carry the virus and silently transmit it to others who havenrsquot been vaccinated even if you donrsquot develop symptoms

And therersquos one more reason Until the country reaches herd im-munity mdash the point when a signif-icant portion of the population be-comes immune to a disease mdash itrsquos important for everyone to wear a mask to stop the spread of the virus Schaffner says

Saturday March 20 2021

Biden All US adults to be eligible for vaccines by May

By Jeff Mason

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden told US states last Thursday to make all adults eligible for a coronavirus vaccine by May 1 and urged Americans to stay vigi-lant or face more restrictions hours after he signed a $19 trillion stimulus bill into law

In a forceful but somber speech from the White House on the fi rst anniversary of the pandemic lockdown Biden said if Ameri-cans pulled together there could be a great-er sense of normalcy - and some backyard barbecue parties with small groups - on the US Independence Day holiday on July 4

That date is a new goal for the president and a projection of hope amid a pandemic that has killed more than 530000 people in the United States the most of any country

To achieve his summer target Biden said he needed Americansrsquo help

ldquoIf we donrsquot stay vigilant and the con-ditions change then we may have to rein-state restrictions to get back on trackrdquo he said in an evening address from the White House his fi rst in television prime time since becoming president

ldquoWersquove made so much progress This is not the time to let up Just as we are emerging from a dark winter into a hope-ful spring and summer is not the time to not stick with the rulesrdquo he said

Republicans swiftly criticized Biden for his cautious approach ldquoWhat America needs now is to fully reopen our economy and our classroomsrdquo House of Represen-tatives Republican leader Kevin McCarthy said on Twitter

Biden said he was ordering US states territories and tribes to make all adults eli-gible to receive a coronavirus vaccine by May 1 The White House has said it would have enough vaccine supply to vaccinate the adult population by the end of May About 10 of Americans so far have been fully vaccinated

Administration offi cials said he would deploy 4000 more troops to help with the vaccine eff ort bringing the total number to 6000 The White House is also seeking to expand the pool of people able to adminis-ter shots to include dentists optometrists paramedics veterinarians and medical stu-dents

Biden campaigned last year on a prom-ise that he would tackle the pandemic more eff ectively than Republican Presi-dent Donald Trump and he has sought to encourage and model behavior such as mask-wearing that Trump eschewed

In his speech Biden took a swipe at his

predecessor by saying the virus was ini-tially met with ldquodenials for days weeks then months that led to more deaths more infections more stress more lonelinessrdquo

Biden said hate crimes and harassment against Asian Americans must stop Trump repeatedly referred to the disease as the ldquoChina virusrdquo

Biden also encouraged Americans to keep up mitigation eff orts - wearing masks keeping social distance and prac-ticing good hygiene - to stop the virus and its variants from spreading A number of states have been loosening restrictions

as Americans like many people around the world grow weary of pandemic life

ldquoPhotos and videos from 2019 feel like they were taken in another era The last vacation The last birthday with friends The last holiday with extended familyrdquo Biden said recounting the toll the virus has wrought

He said the country would come away from the crisis stronger ldquoWe faced and overcame one of the toughest and darkest periods in this nationrsquos history - darkest wersquove ever knownrdquo he said

Moderna begins study of COVID-19 vaccine in kids

Moderna Inc has begun dosing patients in a mid-to-late stage study of its COV-ID-19 vaccine mRNA-1273 in children aged six months to less than 12 years the company said on Tuesday

The study will assess the safety and ef-fectiveness of two doses of mRNA-1273 given 28 days apart and intends to enroll about 6750 children in the United States and Canada

The vaccine has already been au-thorized for emergency use in

Americans who are aged 18 and older

In a separate study which began in De-cember Moderna is also testing mRNA-1273 in adolescents between 12 and 18 years old

The latest study is being conducted in collaboration with the National Insti-tute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA)

Mother who lost only son to rare COVID complication warns parents to look for early signs

SANTIAGO - By the time doctors real-ized that Lorena Navarretersquos son had a rare complication of COVID-19 that affl icts some children it was too late to save her 16-year-old Emilio

Lorena a single mother who lives in the southern Chilean city of Puerto Montt told the TVN network that her music-loving and sociable son died about a week after he fi rst complained of feeling tired and of a pain in his legs in late January

Within days he had developed livid blotches on his skin a high fever vomiting and dark urine

Doctors at the cityrsquos hospital overrun with severe COVID cases repeatedly tested him for COVID but with the results coming back negative were at a loss as to what was wrong with him

By the time his illness was identifi ed as Multisystem Infl ammatory Syndrome in Children it was too late Lorena could not be at her sonrsquos bedside because of strict health protocols but a social worker called to pass on the message that her son loved

her very much She asked the social worker to tell her son she would see him soon and that his pets were well

ldquoA doctor said that if I had faith I should pray because my son was very illrdquo said Na-varrete who works as a nurse technician ldquoThey had a diagnosis and it was PIMSrdquo

Multisystem Infl ammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) as PIMS is more com-monly known is a rare life-threatening syndrome linked to COVID-19

It usually appears between two and six weeks after infection even in asymptomatic cases of COVID-19

It shares symptoms with toxic shock and Kawasaki disease including fever rashes swollen glands conjunctivitis and in severe cases heart infl ammation and can cause multiple organ failure It is not always fatal if caught and treated early

The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention said in January that it was inves-tigating whether COVID variants were in-creasing the number or severity of cases fol-lowing anecdotal reports from some states

US President Joe Biden

HEALTH amp SCIENCE17India Bulletin

HEALTH amp SCIENCE

Saturday March 20 2021

By Anthony Deutsch and Caroline Copley

AMSTERDAM - Global health experts came under in-creasing pressure on Tuesday to clear up questions over the safety of AstraZenecarsquos CO-VID-19 shot as Sweden and Latvia joined countries suspend-ing their use in a further blow to Europersquos vaccination rollout

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said it was

investigating reports of 30 cases of unusual blood disorders out of 5 million recipients of the As-traZeneca vaccine In total 45 million COVID shots have been delivered across the region

The EU regulator will release its findings on Thursday but its head Emer Cooke said she saw no reason to change its recom-mendation of AstraZeneca - one of four vaccines that it has approved for use

ldquoThe benefits continue to

outweigh the risks but this is a serious concern and it does need serious and detailed scientific evaluationrdquo Cooke told a news conference

A World Health Organization (WHO) committee of experts was reviewing the cases and was expected to issue a statement by the end of the day a spokesman said

The EUrsquos largest members - Germany France and Italy - suspended use of AstraZenecarsquos vaccine on Monday pending the outcome of investigations into unusual cases of a rare cerebral thrombosis in people who had received it

The addition of Sweden and Latvia on Tuesday brought to 13 the number of EU countries to act since reports first emerged of thromboembolisms affect-ing people after they got the AstraZeneca shot

The WHO and EMA had ear-lier joined AstraZeneca in say-ing there is no proven link but some experts said the episodes of blood clots bleeding and low platelet counts in younger people seemed to indicate a causal con-nection to the AstraZeneca shot

ldquoThe benefits of vaccination significantly outweigh the risks especially for the elderlyrdquo said Karl Lauterbach health spokes-man for Germanyrsquos Social Democratic Party

ldquoBut it could be the case that the risks of the vaccine are high-er for certain patient groups such as young womenrdquo Lauterbach an epidemiologist whose party is part of the Berlin coalition told Deutschlandfunk radio in an interview

Other epidemiologists note that similar cases have not been found in unusual num-bers in Britain which began using AstraZeneca earlier and has given more than 10 million doses

ldquoA very likely explanation of at least some of the clotting dis-orders seen are a result of CO-VID-19 rather than the vaccinerdquo said Stephen Evans professor of pharmacoepidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

ldquoThere are published papers that make clear that these prob-lems definitely occur in COV-ID-19 and there is no doubt that all the vaccines in use prevent

that disease Hence the risk and benefit balance for the AstraZen-eca vaccine remains clearly in favour of its benefitsrdquo

In the EUrsquos largest states in-cluding Germany France Italy the Netherlands and Spain As-traZeneca has accounted for about 13-15 of shots given since the rollout began almost three months ago with Pfizer-BioNTech making up the major-ity according to official data

As one as the cheapest to be developed the AstraZeneca shot is set to be the mainstay of vac-cination programmes in much of the developing world

Governments say they acted on the AstraZeneca shot out of an abundance of caution - of 16 million people in Germany given the vaccine seven fell ill with a very rare cerebral vein thrombosis of whom three died

In a detailed analysis of its findings Germanyrsquos vaccine oversight body the Paul Eh-rlich Institute said six of the cases were in women of young or middle age - a number statis-tically significantly higher than normally expected

Health experts pore over AstraZeneca safety data as Europe reels from vaccine suspensions

Global health experts came under increasing pressure on Tuesday to clear up questions over the safety of AstraZenecarsquos COVID-19 shot as Sweden and Latvia joined countries suspending their use in a further blow to Europersquos vaccination rollout

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Kishan Kohli help India level T20 series against England

AHMEDABAD - A belliger-ent 56 off 32 balls from India debutant Ishan Kishan and an unbeaten 73 from captain Virat Kohli helped the hosts to a com-manding seven-wicket win over England in the second Twenty20 International in Ahmedabad on Sunday

Kishan 22 smashed leg-spinner Adil Rashid for two con-secutive sixes to get past fifty as India made short work of a 165-run target to win with 13 balls to spare and level the five-match

series at 1-1Indiarsquos chase of Englandrsquos

164-6 got off to a shaky start when Sam Curran sent back opener KL Rahul in the first over without scoring but it did not curb Kishanrsquos aggres-sion the left-hander hitting five fours and four sixes in total

There was plenty of entertain-ment for the sizeable crowd at the worldrsquos biggest cricket sta-dium with most fans not wear-ing masks in the stands as Kohli

and Kishan added 94 in nine overs

Rishabh Pant came in after the dismissal of Kishan who was dropped by Ben Stokes on 40 off Rashid and continued to pummel Englandrsquos bowlers with a 13-ball 26 during which he hit two sixes and an identical number of fours

Kohli who also survived a dropped chance by wicketkeeper Jos Buttler on 10 off Chris Jor-dan sealed the win with a four and a six in successive balls to

also get past 3000 runs in T20 internationals in the process

Jason Roy once again top-scored for England with a 35-ball 46 following up on his knock of 49 in their win in the first match last Friday

Put in to bat the right-hander gave the touring side a steady start with a 63-run stand for the second wicket with Dawid Malan after the loss of opening partner Buttler to seamer Bhu-vneshwar Kumar on the first delivery he faced

Roy hit four fours and two six-es in his knock before holing out in the deep off spinner Washing-ton Sundar who also sent back the dangerous Jonny Bairstow for 20

Fast bowler Shardul Thakur pegged back Englandrsquos hopes of a flourishing finish by dis-missing opposition captain Eoin Morgan and Stokes as India conceded just 35 off the last five overs

The third match of the series will be played on Tuesday

Virat Kohli

Rohit urges India debutants to lsquohave funrsquo against England in T20 series

After Suryakumar Yadav and Ishan Kishan earned their maiden call-ups to the Indian national team vice-captain Rohit Sharma stressed on the importance of playing with-out any pressure when they take on England in a Twenty20 series

Kishan and Suryakumar were named in the squad after plun-dering 516 and 480 runs re-spectively in the Indian Premier League last season where the pair played under Rohit for the

Mumbai Indians as they clinched their fifth title in November

ldquoI donrsquot want them to be think-ing about anythingrdquo Rohit told reporters on Wednesday ldquoThatrsquos how they bring their best perfor-mance out

ldquoHaving watched them closely for a few years now Irsquove realised itrsquos important for them to be part of this wonder-ful team a great setup I just want them to have fun and un-derstand what this team is all about

ldquoThese guys have done re-ally well in the last few years especially the last year Itrsquos just about carrying that form and putting it out there Itrsquos not go-ing to be that easy here they will be challenged every now and thenrdquo

For England itrsquos a much-awaited return to the squad for all-rounder Liam Livingstone who had similar success in Aus-traliarsquos Big Bash League where he scored 426 runs for Perth Scorchers

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INTERNATIONAL NEWS

By Krishna N Das

NEW DELHI - Indiarsquos main opposition Congress party on Tuesday hit out at Prime Minis-ter Narendra Modirsquos government for exporting nearly twice the number of coronavirus vaccine doses than immunisations con-ducted at home despite a surge in infections

India the worldrsquos biggest vac-cine maker has gifted or sold here 59 million locally produced doses compared with 33 million

doses given to its own people since its inoculation campaign began in mid-January

While some rich countries such as the United States are being accused of vaccine na-tionalism India is being lauded globally for sending shots to 71 countries mainly the AstraZen-eca vaccine as well as some of Bharat Biotechrsquos homegrown product

Many Indians however now want the government to make vaccines available to more of its

own people instead of only the elderly and those above 45 suf-fering from health conditions

ldquoThe priority of the Modi government is not the state but foreign nationsrdquo Congress said on Twitter using the tag India-NeedsMoreVaccines and accus-ing the premier of focusing on

ldquoPR over peoplerdquoldquoThe pace of vaccination in

states is slow due to the centrali-sation in vaccine distributionrdquo it said

Health Minister Harsh Vard-han told parliament that vac-cines were not being exported at the ldquoexpense of the people of

Indiardquo and that a balance was being struck

Indiarsquos immunisation drive has picked up significantly since Modi expanded it this month Still Bangladesh is vaccinat-ing more people relative to its population using India-made shots

India worldrsquos top vaccine maker criticised at home for exports as infections rise

A healthcare worker collects a swab sample from a woman amidst the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a bus station in New Delhi India on March 16 2021

India child rights group asks police to probe Netflix show lsquoBombay Begumsrsquo

By Abhirup Roy

MUMBAI - A government agency for child rights in In-dia on Tuesday asked police to investigate Netflix Incrsquos show ldquoBombay Begumsrdquo saying some scenes in the drama series violated laws meant to protect children letters seen by Reuters showed

The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCP-CR) has asked the US streaming giant to remove five ldquoobjection-ablerdquo scenes from the series and wrote to the police chief in Indiarsquos financial capital Mumbai to take action

ldquoYou are requested to investi-gateinquire and take deemed law-ful necessary actionrdquo NCPCRrsquos

chairperson Priyank Kanoongo wrote in the letter

A Mumbai police spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment Netflix de-clined to comment

ldquoBombay Begumsrdquo is a se-ries about five women from dif-ferent parts of society trying to get ahead in modern Mumbai formerly called Bombay It was released last week

In a separate letter to Netflix NCPCR asked the company to remove five scenes which it said violated Indian laws governing Juvenile Justice and the Protec-tion of Children from Sexual Of-fences

In the series children have been shown indulging ldquoin snort-ing drugs and taking inde-

cent pictures and selfies in the classroomrdquo NCPCR told Netflix

The child rights group first asked Netflix to stop streaming the series last week after review-ing complaints on Twitter As of Tuesday the show was still avail-able for viewing on Netflix in India

Netflix officials met the child rights agency on Tuesday to dis-cuss details of the scenes and objections from NCPCR which gave the company two days to consult its legal team

Video streaming platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video have recently faced a barrage of complaints around promoting obscenity or hurting religious sentiments in India a key growth market

HEALTH amp SCIENCE9

INTERNATIONAL NEWSIndia Bulletin

NEW DELHI - Indiarsquos new oversight of digital news platforms is drawing protest from the media industry and activists who fear the rules will curb press freedom in the worldrsquos largest democracy

India which has one of the worldrsquos biggest and most diverse media industries last month an-nounced the Intermediary Guide-lines and Digital Media Ethics Code aimed at pushing Big Tech fi rms such as Facebook to com-ply with content takedown orders However it also extends to news websites

The rules impose a three-tier regulatory mechanism requir-ing a grievance offi cer to resolve complaints and a government panel to have broad oversight The most senior government offi cial in the information and broadcast-ing ministry will also have emer-gency powers to order content be blocked

Media executives fear such oversight could lead to censor-ship of content seen as critical of

the government and three digi-tal news outlets have approached state courts

ldquoTheserules will signify the death of media independence in Indiardquo said Siddharth Varadara-jan editor of independent news website lsquoThe Wirersquo Its publisher has challenged the regulation in the Delhi High Court

LiveLaw a legal news web-site has challenged the rules in the Kerala High Court which this week said no coercive ac-tion should be taken against the website for non-compliance

The government says the new rules are aimed at achieving par-ity between digital media and print and TV news regulations Refer-ring to the rules for digital me-dia information and broadcasting minister Prakash Javadekar last month said ldquoevery freedom has to be responsible freedomrdquo

The number of online media outlets in India has increased in recent years but some journalists have complained they face intimi-

Indiarsquos digital media regulation sparks fears of curbs on press freedomdation for reporting stories critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his administration

Modirsquos administration says it favours press freedom

ldquoI think these rules will restrict and constrain press freedom as indeed freedom more gener-allyrdquo said Zoya Hasan a former professor of political science at New Delhirsquos Jawaharlal Nehru University

ldquoThis whole regulation is about control of digital media and other platforms as therersquos little tolerance for dissenting voicesrdquo

US think tank Freedom House recently said Modi and his party are driving India toward ldquoauthori-tarianismrdquo adding political rights and civil liberties had deteriorated since he came to power in 2014 The government called the re-port ldquomisleading incorrect and misplacedrdquo

On Thursday Javadekar said on Twitter that a group represent-ing leading newspapers and TV channels had welcomed the new

regulation and asked that their members ldquobe treated diff erentlyrdquo from digital-only news publishers

That has drawn criticism from

some smaller digital news outlets which have questioned why they are being ignored while seeking exemptions

Indiarsquos new oversight of digital news platforms is drawing protest from the media industry and activists who fear the rules will curb press freedom in the worldrsquos largest democracy

Saturday March 20 2021

India activist breaks silence on sedition arrest says she felt lsquoviolatedrsquo

By Alasdair Pal

NEW DELHI - An Indian climate activist linked to Greta Thunberg said she felt ldquoviolat-edrdquo by her arrest last month on sedition charges and her treat-ment by the media her fi rst comments on a case that sparked international criticism

Disha Ravi a 22-year-old vegan and member of Thun-bergrsquos Fridays for Future move-ment was charged in February over an online document about months-long protests by Indian farmers

Ten days after her arrest and following widespread criti-cism a court in Indiarsquos capital New Delhi granted her bail citing ldquoscanty and sketchy evi-dencerdquo that she was involved in

fomenting violenceldquoI had coerced myself into be-

lieving that the only way I would be able to live through this was by tricking myself into thinking that this wasnrsquot happening to merdquo Ravi said in a statement

ldquoMy actions were pronounced

guilty - not in the court of law but on fl at screensrdquo

Police say the document Ravi created stoked violence on Jan 26 Indiarsquos Republic Day when some protesting farmers broke free of a planned march and clashed with police

Angry at new agricultural laws they say benefi t large pri-vate buyers at the expense of growers tens of thousands of farmers have been camped on the outskirts of New Delhi since late last year

Swedish climate activist Thunberg popstar Rihanna and US activist Meena Harris the niece of Vice President Kamala Harris all tweeted in support of the protests last month drawing a rebuke from Indiarsquos foreign ministry

India frets over wastage of lsquoelixir-likersquo COVID-19 vaccinesNEW DELHI - About 65

of coronavirus vaccine doses in India are going to waste health offi cials said on Wednesday urging states to manage their im-munisation drives better to opti-mise use of what one called ldquothis elixir-like precious commodityrdquo

One reason for the wastage is that while many urban vaccina-tion centres have been crowded some rural sites have had to nudge people to get shots due to a lack of awareness among the public which can lead to vaccine wastage

Once a vaccine vial is opened doses need to be administered within four hours making it vital for health workers to coordinate the fl ow of recipients

The federal health ministry has distributed 754 million vac-cine doses to Indiarsquos states of which some 36 million doses

have so far been used India is using the AstraZeneca shot and another developed at home by Bharat Biotech

The government did not say how many doses had been wast-ed but the percentage fi gure suggests it could be more than 2 million a big number given that many countries have yet to start inoculating their citizens and India itself is only immunising priority groups

ldquoWastage of this elixir-like precious commodity the most important thing now for an indi-vidual or the country as a whole is absolutely wrongrdquo top health offi cial Vinod Kumar Paul told a news conference

The large states of Telan-gana Andhra Pradesh and Ut-tar Pradesh have seen wastage of 9-18 the government said

Disha Ravi

By Aftab Ahmedand Sankalp Phartiyal

NEW DELHI - India is likely to block its mobile carriers from using telecom equipment made by Chinarsquos Huawei two govern-ment officials said under pro-curement rules due to come into force in June

New Delhi is wary about awarding new technology busi-ness to Chinese firms both be-cause of security fears and a desire to get Indian manufactur-

ers to produce more telecoms equipment

A US campaign to curb Huawei has triggered bans or limits on the use of its equip-ment around the world but the situation in India has been amplified by strained rela-tions between New Delhi and Beijing over their shared border

Indiarsquos telecoms department said last Wednesday that after June 15 carriers can only buy certain types of equipment from

government-approved ldquotrusted sourcesrdquo and said New Delhi could also create a ldquono procure-mentrdquo blacklist Huawei is likely to feature on this embargoed list the two officials who declined to be named told Reuters

ldquoWe cannot prioritise econom-ic gains if an investment poses national security riskrdquo one of the officials said

The telecoms department which did not comment last Thursday about Huawei is yet to provide further details on the plans for trusted sources or a procurement blacklist

However a third official who also declined to be named told

Reuters that ZTE Corp another Chinese firm which has a smaller presence in India could also be excluded

Huawei and ZTE are un-der scrutiny for allegedly in-stalling ldquobackdoorrdquo vulner-abilities to spy for the Chinese government

Both have denied the allega-tions and Huawei has previously told Reuters it is ready to enter into a ldquono backdoorrdquo deal with India to allay security concerns

Huawei and ZTE did not im-mediately respond to requests for comment

Two of Indiarsquos three big tele-coms carriers Bharti Airtel and

Vodafone Idea use Huawei gear Any restriction on Huawei gear is likely to push up costs industry analysts say

The Chinese firmrsquos equipment and network maintenance con-tracts are typically cheaper than European competitors such as Ericsson and Nokia and there is limited availability of such gear in India

India has begun to fast-track approvals of some of the more than 150 Chinese investment proposals worth over $2 billion it had put on hold after a June standoff between the two neigh-bours on the disputed Himalayan border

India likely to block Chinarsquos Huawei over security fears officials

India Bulletin

India is likely to block its mobile carriers from using telecom equipment made by Chinarsquos Huawei two government officials said under procurement rules due to come into force in June UKrsquos Johnson to visit India at

end of April as part of policy lsquotiltrsquoLONDON - PM Boris Johnson

will visit India at the end of April in what will be his first major in-ternational trip after Britainrsquos exit from the European Union as part of efforts to boost UK opportuni-ties in the region his office said

Johnson had planned an Indian trip in January as part of efforts to speed up trade talks between the two nations but was forced to cancel amid a surge of COVID-19

infections at homeAt the time his office said he

had hoped to rearrange the visit before Britain hosted the meet-ing of leaders from the Group of Seven rich nations in June which Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is due to attend as a visitor

Johnsonrsquos government said it would ldquotiltrdquo its focus towards the Indo-Pacific region as part of its Integrated Review of government

policy for the coming years say-ing the area increasingly repre-sented the geopolitical centre of the world

Last month Britain made a for-mal request to join the Compre-hensive and Progressive Agree-ment for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) seeking membership of the 11-country bloc to open new avenues for post-Brexit trade and influence

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INTERNATIONAL NEWS

HEALTH amp SCIENCE11India BulletinSaturday March 20 2021

ADVERTORIAL

ldquoJAINISM A Resilient Path to Peacerdquo

The Federation of Jain Asso-ciations in North America (JAI-NA) will be celebrating its 21st Convention on the Fourth of July weekend mdash from July 1st to 6th 2021 Every two years this premier event brings together members of the Jain Community from across the world This year the virtual event is planned to be a global event and is expected to attract an even larger audience from the USA Canada India UK Australia UAE and many other countries

In face of all the turbulence throughout the world in the last year it is paramount for us to be vigilant compassionate tolerant and to ldquokeep the faithrdquo Jain-ism one of the ancient minor-ity religions has thrived worse than the pandemic based on its wisdom of Maitri (Amity) in-terdependence and honoring and respecting life at any cost The Convention will showcase our firm belief that spirituality enables us to sustain our sense of self and purpose through be-liefs principles values and morals Hence the theme for this yearrsquos Convention is ldquoJAINISM A Resilient Path to Peacerdquo

Convention Convener and First Vice President of JAINA Mr Haresh Shah of Delaware proudly shared that the attendee response has been overwhelming with more than 5000 registra-tions as of this writing Conven-tion Co-Convener and JAINA President Mr Mahesh Wadher of Los Angeles expressed his grati-tude for 100+ volunteers across 23 teams working day and night as ONE TEAM to make this convention the most memorable ever Convention Co-Convener Mr Bindesh Shah mentioned that the Convention will feature a state-of-the-art user-friend-ly and interactive conference platform with many features such as an online Main Hall 6 Breakout Rooms 4 Competi-tion Rooms and an Exhibition Hall

Enlightening discourses dis-cussion tracks and activities planned at this Convention will offer attendees a deeper under-standing of Jain principles and values while also helping the community with a roadmap to bounce back Youth participa-tion through JAINArsquos affiliate organizations Young Jains of America (YJA) Young Jain Pro-fessionals (YJP) as well as Jain

Announcing JAINA Convention 2021 July 1-6 2021Connect will be strongly pro-moted and encouraged There will be focused programs for all age groups children (ages 5-12) youth (ages 13-20) Jain Networking Forum (ages 21-29) and adults

Other featured events include the popular Jain Academic Bowl (JAB) a jeopardy style vo-cabulary game in which young Jains compete with other teams Jains Got Talent (JGT) and Vir-tual Tirthdham Darshan ndash A nar-rated Tirth Yatra of 12 major Jain Tirth of India broadcast live

Public Relations and Media Committee Chair Mr Vipul Shah of Chicago proudly con-firmed that spiritual dignitar-ies such as Acharya Ratna-sundersuri Maharaj Saheb Acharya Shri Mahashramanji Rashtrasant Gurudev Shree Namramuni Pramansagarji Maharaj Sadhvi Charitraarth Prabhaji and many others will enlighten us with their wisdom during the Convention Acharya Lokesh Muniji Acharya Chan-danaji and Bhattarak Charuke-ertiji will bless the Convention with their Ashirwad speeches While Gurudevshri Rakeshbhai Jhaveri will give the keynote

address other featured speakers include Shri Deepakbhai Desai Shri Gyanvatsal Swami Brahma Kumari Sister Shivani and Dr Veerendra Heggade The line-up of other prominent and inspi-rational speakers includes Dr Christopher Miller Dr Steven Southwick Rahul Kapoor Jain Motilal Oswal Dr Kumarpal Desai Dr Bipin Doshi and Dr Bimal Chajjer

The daily sessions and discus-sions will be well-complement-ed by refreshing Cultural Pro-grams in the evening including Jain Drama Rang De Sanskar - a high caliber humorous Hindi drama with famous actors amp an immense cast Jains Got Talent (JGT) and entertaining cultural performances from across the world A special Bollywood Musical ldquoSunheri Yaadeinrdquo will take us back 40 years of melodi-ous music to celebrate 40 Years Anniversary of JAINA

JAINA convention 2021 is an

invitation to all who aspire for a peaceful resilient recovery from the pandemic and to reweave the delicate fabric of humanity Since opening the registration on January 9th over 5000 at-tendees have already registered for the convention Come join us with our collective wisdom we will dream and create a non-violent future of Love Peace and Collaboration Your pres-ence and participation will help us ground in interconnection and solidarity and walk with you on the resilient path to peace we build together

For additional information about this convention and to register please visit us online at wwwjainaconventionorg

For Further Information please contact Mr Vipul Shah Chair of Public Relations and Press-Media Committee of JAINA Convention 2021 or its Co-Chair Mr Rahul Jain at prjainaorg

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Bollywood BeatDJ Aqeel and Farah Ali Khan are done

with their marriage

Actor Hrithik Roshanrsquos ex-wife Sussane Khanrsquos sister jewellery designer Farah Khan Ali has taken to social media to announce her separation from husband DJ Aqeel after 22 years of marriage In a lengthy post she spoke about how two people grow apart at times and that there is no bad bloodbetween them

The statement read ldquoSome-times two people grow apart Sometimes they outgrow each other It has been 9 years since my relationship with my hus-band Aqeel changed its status as a couple to just friends and to term it simply would be to state that we are ldquoHappily Sepa-ratedrdquordquo

ldquoWe will always be best friends to each other and par-ents to our wonderful children Azaan and Fizaa who love us both equally yet accept that we cannot be a couple any longer This was a mutual decision we took together involving two adults and there wasnrsquot any third person involved The reason we are announcing it publicly now is so that the ones who know us accept our situation grace-fully and always wish well for both of us especially because we hold no animosity of any kind towards one another and will al-ways be there for each otherrdquo it further read

ldquoAqeel is and will always be my family as I will be his We hope that all our well-wishers will accept our deci-sion maturely and not judge us for itrdquo

Bahubali now planned on a budget of 200 crores as Netflix scraps the already shot version of 100 croresNetflix is easily amongst the richest

digital platforms of the world According to our highly placed sources Netfl ix has scrapped the already shot Rs 100 crore version of the Netfl ix Original Bahubali Before The Beginning and have already begun work on a new version of the show this time around on double the cost of Rs 200 crores

ldquoNetfl ix was not satisfi ed with the prod-uct they had in hand and hence decided to scrap it completely They reworked on the script star-cast and technical team and are now reshooting Bahubali Before The Beginning on a never seen before unheard scale for their streaming They see the po-tential in Bahubali of being Indiarsquos answer to Game of Thrones and hence they have decided to take things a notch higher The overall budget for the new part is Rs 200 crore and if we add the scrap value the project now is worth Rs 300 crorerdquo a trade

source told Bollywood HungamaItrsquos produced by SS Rajamouli with

Netflix and is planned as a 9 episode two season limited series showcasing the rise of Shivagami set in the world of Mahishmati Itrsquos said to be a prequel to

Bahubali While the original cast was to feature Mrunal Thakur as Shivagami we still await an update if she will continue to play the queen or has she been replaced by someone else in this revamped Rs 200 crore version of the franchise

Emraan Hashmi says it has been his dream to work with Salman Khan

Emraan Hashmi is being said to be roped in by the makers of the Tiger franchise starring Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif While the latter two will be reprising their roles and Tiger and Zoya in Tiger 3 Emraan Hashmi is being said to play the antagonist marking his fi rst collaboration with the two stars and Yash Raj Films Being

one of the most coveted actors of the industry Salman Khan un-doubtedly is one of the favourites for every celebrity

Speaking about joining the franchise Emraan said that he would love to work in the fran-chise and it has always been a dream for him to work with Salman Khan

In October last year actress Rhea Chakraborty was grant-ed bail by the Bombay High Court after spending nearly two months in judicial cus-tody Her bail has now been challenged in the Supreme Court by the Narcotics Control Bureau(NCB) The case will be heard on Thursday

Rhea Chakraborty was sent to judicial custody last year for drug related charges in the death of her actor boyfriend Sushant Singh Rajput She was granted bail on the condi-tion that she submit a Rs 1 lakh bond and not leave the country without the permission of the court

Rhea Chakrabortyrsquos bail challenged in theSupreme Court by NCB

UNKNOWN FACTS ABOUTBOLLYWOODCELEBRITIES

Aamir Khanrsquos full name is Mohammed Aamir

Hussain Khan Despite being from the fi lm

industry Aamirrsquos parents were not keen on him entering Bollywood In 1984 Aamir worked in

his fi rst ever feature fi lm titled Holi

Very few people are aware of the fact that Kareena Kapoor gave her voice to the song Jab Nahi Aaye for the

fi lm Dev Kareena played a lead role in

the fi lm Unfortunately the movie didnrsquot do well

at the box-offi ce

Bollywood TriviaWhich actress debuted in

the fi lm lsquoKedarnathrsquo

Answer 1

1) Sara Ali Khan2) Katrina Kaif3) Tara Sutaria4) Ananya PandeyWho is the mother of actress

Janhvi Kapoor

Answer 3

1) Kareena2) Karisma3) Sridevi4) Madhuri

12 India Bulletin Saturday March 20 2021

ENTERTAINMENT

Bollywood Beat

The Brihanmumbai Mu-nicipal Corporation (BMC) revealed on their social media page that they have filed an FIR (First information report) against a Bollywood actor for not adhering to Covid-19 guidelines despite testing posi-tive for the deadly virus They even uploaded a picture of the FIR but the name of the celeb-rity was blurred Immediately it led people to speculate who the actor could be

However it has now come to light that the actor in question is Gauahar Khan As per the complaint filed at Oshiwara po-lice station a BMC officer has said that on the night of March 14 he was informed that Gaua-har Khan has tested positive for Coronavirus and yet shersquos not ready to get quarantined Hence the officer reached Gau-ahar Khanrsquos residence but she refused to open the door Later her husband answered from the flat and allegedly shouted at the BMC team

The complainant further states that the actress alleg-edly went out of her house for a shoot Hence the officer claims that she has exposed people to the deadly virus and thus contributed to itrsquos spread

As per a news report S Chai-tanya DCP (operations) and PRO of Mumbai Police has stated that Gauahar Khan has been charged under Sections 188 269 270 of the IPC 51B of NDMA Act 3 of Epidemic Diseases Act

BMC files FIR against

Gauahar Khan

Upcoming FilmsThalaivi

Kangana Ranautand Vijay Deverakonda

RadheSalman Khan

Disha Patani Jackie Shroff and Randeep Hooda

83Ranveer Singh

and Deepika Padukone

Atrangi ReAkshay Kumar Sara Ali Khanand Dhanush

MaidaanAjay Devgn Priyamani

and Keerthy Suresh

Bachchan PandeyAkshay Kumar Bobby Deol

and Riteish Deshmukh

Bell BottomAkshay Kumar Vaani Kapoor Huma Qureshi and Lara Dutta

Satyameva Jayate 2John Abraham Manoj Bajpai

and Divya Khosla Kumar

BrahmastraRanbir Kapoor Alia Bhatt and

Amitabh Bachchan

MOVIE REVIEW

Itrsquos been almost a year when theatres were asked to shut down due to rapid rise in the cases of Coronavirus in the country Two of the films play-ing in theatres at that point were Angrezi Medium produced by Dinesh Vijan and Kaamyaab directed by Hardik Mehta In an interesting turn of events Roohi the film that releases today and kickstarts the movie-watching season in cinemas is helmed by both these personalities So does Roohi manage to enter-tain and enthral the audiences Or does it fail to entice Letrsquos analyse

Roohi is the story of a pos-sessed girl Bhawra Pandey (Rajkummar Rao) and Kattanni Qureshi (Varun Sharma) work as crime journalists in a small town Baagadpur They also specialise in lsquopakdaai shaadirsquo aka bride kidnapping an accepted custom in Baagadpur One day their boss Guniya Shakeel (Manav Vij) orders them to kidnap a girl Roohi (Janhvi Kapoor) from a nearby town Mujaribaad Bhawra and Kattanni manage to kidnap Roohi while she is with her father (Rajesh Jais) As per the lsquopakdaai shaadirsquo custom af-ter the girl is kidnapped she is straight away taken to the mar-

riage venue Bhawra and Kat-tanni are also supposed to fol-low suit with Roohi But after the kidnap takes place Guniya calls them and tells them that the groomrsquos uncle has passed away suddenly Hence the mar-riage will now take place after a week Till then Bhawra and Kattanni are told to keep her as a hostage in an abandoned property in the hills of Ambiya-pur On the first night Bhawra goes to offer dinner to Roohi only to realize that she is pos-sessed Kattanni at first doesnrsquot believe but later even he sees the possessed side of Roohi However instead of being frightened Kattanni falls for the possessed Roohi Bhawra on the other hand is in love with the non-possessed Roohi He decides to help her and get the witch out of her body Kattanni however is averse to the idea as loves the possessed Roohi and if Bhawra succeeds the witch will leave Roohi forever What hap-pens next forms the rest of the film

Mrighdeep Singh Lamba and Gautam Mehras story is inter-esting and novel The writers try their best to bring some-thing new to the table Mrigh-deep Singh Lamba and Gautam Mehras screenplay however is interesting only in parts A few scenes are exceptional and bring the house down But the serious portions donrsquot make the desired impact Mrigh-deep Singh Lamba and Gautam Mehras dialogues are witty But the dialect is too authentic and is incomprehensible at many places

Roohi starts off on an interest-ing note depicting the concept of bride kidnapping in Baagad-pur that too through the eyes of a foreign reporter (Alexx ONell) The film gets better once Bhawra and Kattanni kid-nap Roohi and set base at the spooky abandoned factory The scene where Bhawra narrates about the possessed Roohi to

Kattanni is sure to raise laughs The scene where Kattanni in-stead of running away falls for the possessed Roohi is unique and unexpected It will bring smiles on the faces of the view-ers The interval comes at an in-teresting juncture Post-interval the film begins to fall but a few scenes especially of the marriage with the dog and Bhawrarsquos con-versation with the old lady (Sar-ita Joshi) add to the humour and madness The climax though unpredictable is disappointing

Talking of performances Ra-jkummar Rao is in his element as expected Due to his adorable performance one doesnrsquot hate him even though hersquos playing a kidnapper in the film And his comic timing is spot-on espe-cially in the scenes where hersquos running away from the possessed Roohi Janhvi Kapoor is a big surprise She hardly has any dia-logues but gets her act right with her expressions And she also is convincing as the witch Varun Sharma is marvellous and man-ages to raise laughs In the last 30 minutes however he doesnrsquot have much to do Manav Vij suits the part and his performance is

fair Sarita Joshi (credited in the film as Padma Shri Sarita Joshi) is hilarious and one wish-es that she had a longer screen time Alexx ONell is lovely Rajesh H Jais Anurag Arora (Tantrik) Sumit Gulati (Paras Roohirsquos groom in the end) are okay

Sachin-Jigars music is ap-propriate for the film and itrsquos theme Kiston comes suddenly but is soulful Bhootni is hilari-ous while Panghat is played in the end credits Nadiyon Paar is attached with the filmrsquos print be-fore the film starts It is the best song of the lot and well shot One wishes if it was a part of the filmrsquos narrative Ketan Sodhas background score is well wo-ven and also contributes to the horror quotient

On the whole Roohi rests on a unique concept fine perfor-mances and some interesting funny and horror sequences However the disappointing climax and difficult-to-under-stand dialect might affect the filmrsquos prospects at the box office

BannerMaddock Films

Jio Studios

ProducerDinesh Vijan

Mrighdeep Singh Lamba

DirectorHardik Mehta

StarringRajkummar RaoVarun SharmaJanhvi Kapoor

Music BySachin-Jigar

Released DateMarch 11 2021

Roohi

Rating

Celebrity BirthdaysMarch 21stRani Mukerji (1978)

March 23rdKangana Ranaut (1987)

March 24thEmraan Hashmi (1979)

March 25thYograj Singh (1958)

March 26thPrakash Raj (1965)

April 3rdPrabhu Deva (1973)

April 4thLisa Ray (1972)Simran Bagga (1976)

March 28thAkshaye Khanna(1975) Sandhya Mridul (1975)

March 30thNagesh Kukunoor (1967)

April 2ndAjay Devgn (1969) Kapil Sharma (1981)

13India BulletinSaturday March 20 2021

ENTERTAINMENT

Biz Briefs

Apple Inc has started the as-sembly of iPhone 12 in India the US tech giant said as the com-pany ramps up manufacturing operations in the worldrsquos sec-ond-biggest smartphone market

ldquoWe are proud to be starting production of iPhone 12 in India for our local customersrdquo Apple said in a statement without naming the supplier making the smartphone

The Indian unit of Applersquos Taiwanese contract manufac-turer Foxconn will assemble the device in its plant in southern Tamil Nadu state two sources familiar with the matter said

Foxconn did not immediately respond to a request for com-ment but has previously said it does not comment on client-specifi c work

Poscorsquos steel plant in India

faces disruption Operations at South Korean

steelmaker Poscorsquos plant in the Indian state of Maharashtra have been disrupted due to local pro-tests over labour and other issues police and sources told Reuters hampering the supply chain for automakers

A local politician leading the protests said they have blocked employees and goods from enter-ing the plant and will continue until Posco heeds to some of their requests which include giv-ing employment preference to lo-cal workers raising the wages of temporary employees and making them permanent

Reuters could not indepen-dently verify the extent of the production disruption at Poscorsquos plant

Apple starts iPhone 12 assem-

bly in India

HEALTH amp SCIENCEBUSINESS14 India Bulletin Saturday March 20 2021

By Nidhi Verma

NEW DELHI - India and the UAE on Wednesday discussed ways to strengthen energy coop-eration Indiarsquos oil minister Dhar-mendra Pradhan said despite the South Asian nation asking its re-fi ners to reduce their reliance on Middle Eastern oil

ldquo(We) discussed about new ar-eas of cooperation in the hydro-carbon sector and beyond and agreed to remain committed de-spite the challenges presented by Covid pandemicrdquo Pradhan said on Twitter after a virtual meeting with Sultan Al Jaber the chief executive of Abu Dhabi National Oil Co (ADNOC)

UAE is a key oil supplier to India and a partner in an Indian joint venture that plans to build a 12 million barrels per day (bpd) refi nery and petrochemical com-plex on the countryrsquos west coast

Last month the UAE was the

fi fth biggest oil supplier to In-dia which itself is the worldrsquos third biggest oil importer and consumer

Pradhan said he also discussed with Jaber ways of strengthen-ing and ldquoproviding momentum to (the) bilateral strategic en-ergy partnershiprdquo between the countries

India imports more than 80 of its oil needs a signifi cant amount of which comes from the Middle East

New Delhi has however asked refi ners to gradually reduce oil imports from the Middle East and diversify supplies after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its al-lies known as OPEC+ decided to extend most curbs into April

India has been hit hard by rising oil prices due to which minister Pradhan has repeatedly called on OPEC+ to ease supply curbs and has blamed Saudi Ara-

India and UAE vow to strengthen energy cooperation says minister

biarsquos voluntary cuts for contribut-ing to a spike in global oil prices

Responding to Pradhanrsquos re-quest Saudi Arabiarsquos energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman suggested India dip into strategic reserves fi lled with cheaper oil bought last year

The UAErsquos ADNOC is the only foreign company to which India has leased a part of it strategic petroleum reserves India does not allow the export of oil but has given permission to ADNOC to export part of its oil in Mangalore SPR in southern India

Tesla in talks with Indiarsquos Tata Power for EV charging infrastructure

BENGALURU - Tesla Inc is exploring an arrangement with Indian conglomerate Tata Sonsrsquo power generation unit Tata Pow-er to set up charging infrastruc-ture for electric vehicles in the country CNBC-TV18 reported citing sources

Shares of Tata Power rose 55 to their best closing level since June 2014 after the report which comes as the Palo Alto-based electric-car maker gears up for an India launch later this year with plans to import and sell its Model 3 electric sedan

Tesla will set up an electric-car manufacturing unit in the southern Indian state of Karna-taka according to a government document seen by Reuters

Indiarsquos Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan

The talks between Tata Power and Tesla are in the initial stages and no arrangements have been

fi nalised yet the report saidTata Powerrsquos electric vehicle

charging business constantly

explores growth opportunities but has not fi nalised any new agreements the company said in a statement to stock exchanges It also said the CNBC-TV 18 report was ldquofactually incorrectrdquo but did not elaborate

Tesla was not immediately available for comment

In January the US electric-car maker incorporated Tesla Motors India and Energy Private Ltd with its registered offi ce in the southern city of Bengaluru a hub for global technology companies

Tata Motors Ltd the carmak-ing unit of Tata Sons last week denied any tie-up with Tesla af-ter media reports suggested the two companies were discussing a partnership

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By Aftab Ahmed and Nupur Anand

NEW DELHIMUMBAI - In-dia will propose a law banning cryptocurrencies fi ning anyone trading in the country or even holding such digital assets a senior government offi cial told

Reuters in a potential blow to millions of investors piling into the red-hot asset class

The bill one of the worldrsquos strictest policies against cryp-tocurrencies would criminalise possession issuance mining trading and transferring crypto-assets said the offi cial who has

India to propose cryptocurrency ban penalising miners tradersdirect knowledge of the plan

The measure is in line with a January government agenda that called for banning private vir-tual currencies such as bitcoin while building a framework for an offi cial digital currency But recent government comments had raised investorsrsquo hopes that

the authorities might go easier on the booming market

Instead the bill would give holders of cryptocurrencies up to six months to liquidate after which penalties will be levied said the offi cial who asked not to be named as the contents of the bill are not public

Offi cials are confi dent of get-ting the bill enacted into law as Prime Minister Narendra Modirsquos government holds a comfortable majority in parliament

If the ban becomes law India would be the fi rst major econo-my to make holding cryptocur-rency illegal Even China which has banned mining and trading

does not penalise possessionThe Finance Ministry did not

immediately respond to an email seeking comment

Bitcoin the worldrsquos biggest cryptocurrency hit a record high $60000 last Saturday nearly doubling in value this year as its acceptance for payments has in-creased with support from such high-profi le backers as Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk

In India despite government threats of a ban transaction vol-umes are swelling and 8 million investors now hold 100 billion rupees ($14 billion) in crypto-investments according to indus-try estimates No offi cial data is available

US becomes Indiarsquos second biggest oil supplier Saudi plunges to No 4

By Nidhi Verma

NEW DELHI - The United States overtook Saudi Arabia as Indiarsquos second biggest oil sup-plier after Iraq last month as refi ners boosted cheaper US crude purchases to record levels to off set OPEC+ supply cuts data from trade sources showed

The switch in supplies trig-gered by lower US crude de-mand coincided with Saudi Ara-biarsquos voluntary extra 1 million barrel per day (bpd) output cut on top of an agreement by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies (OPEC+) to maintain lower pro-duction

Indiarsquos imports from the United

States - the worldrsquos top producer - rose 48 to a record 545300 bpd in February from the prior month accounting for 14 of Indiarsquos overall imports last month the data obtained by Reuters showed

In contrast February imports from Saudi Arabia fell by 42 from January to a decade low of 445200 bpd the data showed Saudi Arabia which has consis-tently been one of Indiarsquos top two suppliers slipped to No 4 for the fi rst time since at least January 2006

Indiarsquos oil import data by coun-try from before 2006 is not avail-able to Reuters

ldquoUS demand was weak and refi neries were running at low rates so the US crude had to

go somewhere and Asia is the region which has seen rapid de-mand recoveryrdquo said Refi nitiv analyst Ehsan Ul Haq

ldquoChina has not been taking US oil because of (the) trade problem so India is the obvious choicerdquo he said

Iraq continued to be the top oil seller to India despite a 23 drop in purchases to a fi ve-month low of 867500 bpd the data showed

The UAE slipped to fi fth posi-tion from third in January while Nigeria rose to third from fi fth exporting 472300 bpd the most since Oct 2019

India shipped in 392 million bpd of oil in February a decline of 18 from January the data showed

India will propose a law banning cryptocurrencies fi ning anyone trading in the country or even holding such digital assets a senior government offi cial told Re-uters in a potential blow to millions of investors piling into the red-hot asset class

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Scorpio (October 24 to November 22)Learn to make peace with your past or else your future will become a constant battle that yoursquoll never win The highlight of the week will be letting go of things forgiving people forgetting wrong-doings and moving on in life

Sagittarius (November 23 to December 21)Chaos in the midst of chaos isnrsquot funny but chaos in the midst of order is Probably one of the toughest week this month wherein there will be a lot of confusion and haze around Advice Do not take stress

Capricorn (December 22 to January 20)Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realise you havenrsquot fallen asleep yet Thatrsquos the kind of nights you might witness this week owing to unforeseen issues and hurdles Your discipline and organisational skills will steer you forward and transform these hurdles into opportunities Aquarius (January 21 to February 19)Women get the last word in every argument Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument This is not the week for you to get into any arguments as it might jeopardise your frame of mind

Pisces (February 20 to March 20)Find out who you are and be that person Thatrsquos what your soul was put on this Earth to be Find that truth live that truth and everything else will come The week will be about introspection spirituality and matters related to the soul

WEEKLY HOROSCOPE(March 28 - April 3 2021)

HEALTH amp SCIENCEASTROLOGYIndia Bulletin

8 things AARP wants you to know before your second COVID-19 vaccine

If yoursquove already received your first dose of a two-dose COVID-19 vaccine congratulations - yoursquore well on your way to being protect-ed from the coronavirus But to be fully immunized itrsquos critical to get that second shot

William Schaffner MD an infectious diseases specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville Tennessee and medical director of the Nation-al Foundation for Infectious Dis-eases says ldquoWe have told every-one these vaccines are 95 percent effectiverdquo of the two-dose Moder-na and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines currently in use in the US ldquoBut theyrsquore only 95 percent effective if you indeed get that second doserdquo

Here are a few more things to know about the second dose

1 Your side effects will likely be stronger

Many people who had little to no reaction to the first vaccine dose are reporting that the second one packs a punch mdash surprising even those who study vaccines for a liv-ing

Greg Poland MD an infec-tious disease expert at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota and director of Mayorsquos vaccine re-search group had only mild symp-toms after his first dose But the second one left him shaking - liter-ally - with chills and a temperature of 101

ldquoI took one Tylenol and went to bed and woke up the next morning 90 percent improved and by mid-day I was back to normalrdquo Poland says ldquoThis is not an indication of something going wrong it is an indication of a vigorous immune responserdquo

There is no live virus in the vac-cine so you canrsquot get COVID-19 from being vaccinated

Participants in clinical trials of both vaccines had experiences similar to Polandrsquos In Pfizerrsquos clinical trial for instance 31 per-cent of participants ages 18 to 55 reported a fever after the second dose compared to only 8 percent after the first one Fatigue chills headache and musclejoint pain were also more common after the second injection for both vaccines

The good news is older adults were less likely to experience vac-cine reactions the data shows Among those age 55 and up in the Pfizer trial 22 percent experienced fever after the second dose and 3 percent had a temperature after the first dose

Schaffner recommends not making any big plans for the day after your scheduled vaccine appointment

2 You should avoid taking pain relievers before your shot

If yoursquove been hearing sto-ries about second-dose side ef-fects you may be tempted to take a pain reliever before your appointment

Thatrsquos not a good idea accord-ing to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) unless yoursquove been advised to do so by your doctor Pain relievers taken preemptively ahead of a shot could dampen the effective-ness of the vaccine Poland and Schaffner say

However itrsquos OK to take ac-etaminophen (Tylenol) or a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug like Advil or Motrin after your vaccine to treat side effects such as pain fever chills or headache

3 The timing between doses doesnrsquot need to be exact

The second dose of the Pfiz-er shot is supposed to be giv-en 21 days after the first for Moderna the recommended interval between doses is 28 days

However if you canrsquot get an appointment on the exact day mdash or if you have to miss your scheduled appointment for some reason mdash the CDC does allow some wiggle room Although the agency recommends trying to stick to the suggested interval it says the second dose can be given up to six weeks after the first

If your appointment is sched-uled earlier than the recommend-ed date ask for a later appoint-ment Schaffner advises ldquoYour immune response will work perfectly well if you take more timerdquo he says ldquoBut if you do it too early the second dose may not invoke an optimal responserdquo

4 Your second dose should be from the same manufacturer as your first

Doctors are already hearing from patients asking if they can get their second dose from a dif-ferent manufacturer often be-cause they realize the other type of vaccine is offered at a location thatrsquos more convenient But the CDC recommends against it The Moderna and Pfizer vaccines ldquoare not interchangeable with each other or with other COVID-19 vaccine productsrdquo the CDC says ldquoThe safety and efficacy of a mixed-product series have not been evaluatedrdquo

5 A rash at the injection site isnrsquot a reason to skip your second dose

If you experienced a rash at the injection site three to 10 days

after getting your first shot that doesnrsquot preclude you from getting your second shot the CDC says although it recommends getting it in the other arm

A small number of people have developed such rashes some-times called ldquoCOVID armrdquo af-ter vaccination Doctors say itrsquos likely a mild allergic reaction that can be treated with an over-the-counter antihistamine such as Benadryl

6 You should temporarily avoid all other vaccines

It might be time for your shin-gles or Tdap vaccine but you should hold off if you are between COVID-19 vaccine doses Be-cause therersquos no data on the safety and efficacy of COVID vaccines administered at the same time as other vaccines the CDC recom-mends avoiding other immuniza-tions in the two weeks before and after both doses

7 Full immunity is not immediate

It takes two weeks after your second dose for your body to build full protection to the virus After that you should have al-most zero chance of developing severe disease if you are exposed to someone with COVID-19 Schaffner says The CDC also says you no longer have to quar-antine if yoursquore exposed to some-one with COVID-19 mdash as long as you meet these criteria you donrsquot have symptoms and it hasnrsquot been more than three months since your second vaccine dose

One possible exception is immunocompromised people Schaffner says They will get some level of immunity he says ldquobut they may not reach the 95 percent because their immune system is already somewhat com-promised no matter how strong these vaccines arerdquo

8 You still need to wear a maskExperts agree you should con-

tinue to wear a mask and practice social distancing in public For one thing therersquos a small chance you could get sick even after yoursquove been vaccinated

In addition itrsquos possible that you could still carry the virus and silently transmit it to others who havenrsquot been vaccinated even if you donrsquot develop symptoms

And therersquos one more reason Until the country reaches herd im-munity mdash the point when a signif-icant portion of the population be-comes immune to a disease mdash itrsquos important for everyone to wear a mask to stop the spread of the virus Schaffner says

Saturday March 20 2021

Biden All US adults to be eligible for vaccines by May

By Jeff Mason

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden told US states last Thursday to make all adults eligible for a coronavirus vaccine by May 1 and urged Americans to stay vigi-lant or face more restrictions hours after he signed a $19 trillion stimulus bill into law

In a forceful but somber speech from the White House on the fi rst anniversary of the pandemic lockdown Biden said if Ameri-cans pulled together there could be a great-er sense of normalcy - and some backyard barbecue parties with small groups - on the US Independence Day holiday on July 4

That date is a new goal for the president and a projection of hope amid a pandemic that has killed more than 530000 people in the United States the most of any country

To achieve his summer target Biden said he needed Americansrsquo help

ldquoIf we donrsquot stay vigilant and the con-ditions change then we may have to rein-state restrictions to get back on trackrdquo he said in an evening address from the White House his fi rst in television prime time since becoming president

ldquoWersquove made so much progress This is not the time to let up Just as we are emerging from a dark winter into a hope-ful spring and summer is not the time to not stick with the rulesrdquo he said

Republicans swiftly criticized Biden for his cautious approach ldquoWhat America needs now is to fully reopen our economy and our classroomsrdquo House of Represen-tatives Republican leader Kevin McCarthy said on Twitter

Biden said he was ordering US states territories and tribes to make all adults eli-gible to receive a coronavirus vaccine by May 1 The White House has said it would have enough vaccine supply to vaccinate the adult population by the end of May About 10 of Americans so far have been fully vaccinated

Administration offi cials said he would deploy 4000 more troops to help with the vaccine eff ort bringing the total number to 6000 The White House is also seeking to expand the pool of people able to adminis-ter shots to include dentists optometrists paramedics veterinarians and medical stu-dents

Biden campaigned last year on a prom-ise that he would tackle the pandemic more eff ectively than Republican Presi-dent Donald Trump and he has sought to encourage and model behavior such as mask-wearing that Trump eschewed

In his speech Biden took a swipe at his

predecessor by saying the virus was ini-tially met with ldquodenials for days weeks then months that led to more deaths more infections more stress more lonelinessrdquo

Biden said hate crimes and harassment against Asian Americans must stop Trump repeatedly referred to the disease as the ldquoChina virusrdquo

Biden also encouraged Americans to keep up mitigation eff orts - wearing masks keeping social distance and prac-ticing good hygiene - to stop the virus and its variants from spreading A number of states have been loosening restrictions

as Americans like many people around the world grow weary of pandemic life

ldquoPhotos and videos from 2019 feel like they were taken in another era The last vacation The last birthday with friends The last holiday with extended familyrdquo Biden said recounting the toll the virus has wrought

He said the country would come away from the crisis stronger ldquoWe faced and overcame one of the toughest and darkest periods in this nationrsquos history - darkest wersquove ever knownrdquo he said

Moderna begins study of COVID-19 vaccine in kids

Moderna Inc has begun dosing patients in a mid-to-late stage study of its COV-ID-19 vaccine mRNA-1273 in children aged six months to less than 12 years the company said on Tuesday

The study will assess the safety and ef-fectiveness of two doses of mRNA-1273 given 28 days apart and intends to enroll about 6750 children in the United States and Canada

The vaccine has already been au-thorized for emergency use in

Americans who are aged 18 and older

In a separate study which began in De-cember Moderna is also testing mRNA-1273 in adolescents between 12 and 18 years old

The latest study is being conducted in collaboration with the National Insti-tute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA)

Mother who lost only son to rare COVID complication warns parents to look for early signs

SANTIAGO - By the time doctors real-ized that Lorena Navarretersquos son had a rare complication of COVID-19 that affl icts some children it was too late to save her 16-year-old Emilio

Lorena a single mother who lives in the southern Chilean city of Puerto Montt told the TVN network that her music-loving and sociable son died about a week after he fi rst complained of feeling tired and of a pain in his legs in late January

Within days he had developed livid blotches on his skin a high fever vomiting and dark urine

Doctors at the cityrsquos hospital overrun with severe COVID cases repeatedly tested him for COVID but with the results coming back negative were at a loss as to what was wrong with him

By the time his illness was identifi ed as Multisystem Infl ammatory Syndrome in Children it was too late Lorena could not be at her sonrsquos bedside because of strict health protocols but a social worker called to pass on the message that her son loved

her very much She asked the social worker to tell her son she would see him soon and that his pets were well

ldquoA doctor said that if I had faith I should pray because my son was very illrdquo said Na-varrete who works as a nurse technician ldquoThey had a diagnosis and it was PIMSrdquo

Multisystem Infl ammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) as PIMS is more com-monly known is a rare life-threatening syndrome linked to COVID-19

It usually appears between two and six weeks after infection even in asymptomatic cases of COVID-19

It shares symptoms with toxic shock and Kawasaki disease including fever rashes swollen glands conjunctivitis and in severe cases heart infl ammation and can cause multiple organ failure It is not always fatal if caught and treated early

The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention said in January that it was inves-tigating whether COVID variants were in-creasing the number or severity of cases fol-lowing anecdotal reports from some states

US President Joe Biden

HEALTH amp SCIENCE17India Bulletin

HEALTH amp SCIENCE

Saturday March 20 2021

By Anthony Deutsch and Caroline Copley

AMSTERDAM - Global health experts came under in-creasing pressure on Tuesday to clear up questions over the safety of AstraZenecarsquos CO-VID-19 shot as Sweden and Latvia joined countries suspend-ing their use in a further blow to Europersquos vaccination rollout

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said it was

investigating reports of 30 cases of unusual blood disorders out of 5 million recipients of the As-traZeneca vaccine In total 45 million COVID shots have been delivered across the region

The EU regulator will release its findings on Thursday but its head Emer Cooke said she saw no reason to change its recom-mendation of AstraZeneca - one of four vaccines that it has approved for use

ldquoThe benefits continue to

outweigh the risks but this is a serious concern and it does need serious and detailed scientific evaluationrdquo Cooke told a news conference

A World Health Organization (WHO) committee of experts was reviewing the cases and was expected to issue a statement by the end of the day a spokesman said

The EUrsquos largest members - Germany France and Italy - suspended use of AstraZenecarsquos vaccine on Monday pending the outcome of investigations into unusual cases of a rare cerebral thrombosis in people who had received it

The addition of Sweden and Latvia on Tuesday brought to 13 the number of EU countries to act since reports first emerged of thromboembolisms affect-ing people after they got the AstraZeneca shot

The WHO and EMA had ear-lier joined AstraZeneca in say-ing there is no proven link but some experts said the episodes of blood clots bleeding and low platelet counts in younger people seemed to indicate a causal con-nection to the AstraZeneca shot

ldquoThe benefits of vaccination significantly outweigh the risks especially for the elderlyrdquo said Karl Lauterbach health spokes-man for Germanyrsquos Social Democratic Party

ldquoBut it could be the case that the risks of the vaccine are high-er for certain patient groups such as young womenrdquo Lauterbach an epidemiologist whose party is part of the Berlin coalition told Deutschlandfunk radio in an interview

Other epidemiologists note that similar cases have not been found in unusual num-bers in Britain which began using AstraZeneca earlier and has given more than 10 million doses

ldquoA very likely explanation of at least some of the clotting dis-orders seen are a result of CO-VID-19 rather than the vaccinerdquo said Stephen Evans professor of pharmacoepidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

ldquoThere are published papers that make clear that these prob-lems definitely occur in COV-ID-19 and there is no doubt that all the vaccines in use prevent

that disease Hence the risk and benefit balance for the AstraZen-eca vaccine remains clearly in favour of its benefitsrdquo

In the EUrsquos largest states in-cluding Germany France Italy the Netherlands and Spain As-traZeneca has accounted for about 13-15 of shots given since the rollout began almost three months ago with Pfizer-BioNTech making up the major-ity according to official data

As one as the cheapest to be developed the AstraZeneca shot is set to be the mainstay of vac-cination programmes in much of the developing world

Governments say they acted on the AstraZeneca shot out of an abundance of caution - of 16 million people in Germany given the vaccine seven fell ill with a very rare cerebral vein thrombosis of whom three died

In a detailed analysis of its findings Germanyrsquos vaccine oversight body the Paul Eh-rlich Institute said six of the cases were in women of young or middle age - a number statis-tically significantly higher than normally expected

Health experts pore over AstraZeneca safety data as Europe reels from vaccine suspensions

Global health experts came under increasing pressure on Tuesday to clear up questions over the safety of AstraZenecarsquos COVID-19 shot as Sweden and Latvia joined countries suspending their use in a further blow to Europersquos vaccination rollout

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India Bulletin Saturday March 20 2021

India Bulletin 19Saturday March 20 2021

Kishan Kohli help India level T20 series against England

AHMEDABAD - A belliger-ent 56 off 32 balls from India debutant Ishan Kishan and an unbeaten 73 from captain Virat Kohli helped the hosts to a com-manding seven-wicket win over England in the second Twenty20 International in Ahmedabad on Sunday

Kishan 22 smashed leg-spinner Adil Rashid for two con-secutive sixes to get past fifty as India made short work of a 165-run target to win with 13 balls to spare and level the five-match

series at 1-1Indiarsquos chase of Englandrsquos

164-6 got off to a shaky start when Sam Curran sent back opener KL Rahul in the first over without scoring but it did not curb Kishanrsquos aggres-sion the left-hander hitting five fours and four sixes in total

There was plenty of entertain-ment for the sizeable crowd at the worldrsquos biggest cricket sta-dium with most fans not wear-ing masks in the stands as Kohli

and Kishan added 94 in nine overs

Rishabh Pant came in after the dismissal of Kishan who was dropped by Ben Stokes on 40 off Rashid and continued to pummel Englandrsquos bowlers with a 13-ball 26 during which he hit two sixes and an identical number of fours

Kohli who also survived a dropped chance by wicketkeeper Jos Buttler on 10 off Chris Jor-dan sealed the win with a four and a six in successive balls to

also get past 3000 runs in T20 internationals in the process

Jason Roy once again top-scored for England with a 35-ball 46 following up on his knock of 49 in their win in the first match last Friday

Put in to bat the right-hander gave the touring side a steady start with a 63-run stand for the second wicket with Dawid Malan after the loss of opening partner Buttler to seamer Bhu-vneshwar Kumar on the first delivery he faced

Roy hit four fours and two six-es in his knock before holing out in the deep off spinner Washing-ton Sundar who also sent back the dangerous Jonny Bairstow for 20

Fast bowler Shardul Thakur pegged back Englandrsquos hopes of a flourishing finish by dis-missing opposition captain Eoin Morgan and Stokes as India conceded just 35 off the last five overs

The third match of the series will be played on Tuesday

Virat Kohli

Rohit urges India debutants to lsquohave funrsquo against England in T20 series

After Suryakumar Yadav and Ishan Kishan earned their maiden call-ups to the Indian national team vice-captain Rohit Sharma stressed on the importance of playing with-out any pressure when they take on England in a Twenty20 series

Kishan and Suryakumar were named in the squad after plun-dering 516 and 480 runs re-spectively in the Indian Premier League last season where the pair played under Rohit for the

Mumbai Indians as they clinched their fifth title in November

ldquoI donrsquot want them to be think-ing about anythingrdquo Rohit told reporters on Wednesday ldquoThatrsquos how they bring their best perfor-mance out

ldquoHaving watched them closely for a few years now Irsquove realised itrsquos important for them to be part of this wonder-ful team a great setup I just want them to have fun and un-derstand what this team is all about

ldquoThese guys have done re-ally well in the last few years especially the last year Itrsquos just about carrying that form and putting it out there Itrsquos not go-ing to be that easy here they will be challenged every now and thenrdquo

For England itrsquos a much-awaited return to the squad for all-rounder Liam Livingstone who had similar success in Aus-traliarsquos Big Bash League where he scored 426 runs for Perth Scorchers

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INTERNATIONAL NEWS

By Krishna N Das

NEW DELHI - Indiarsquos main opposition Congress party on Tuesday hit out at Prime Minis-ter Narendra Modirsquos government for exporting nearly twice the number of coronavirus vaccine doses than immunisations con-ducted at home despite a surge in infections

India the worldrsquos biggest vac-cine maker has gifted or sold here 59 million locally produced doses compared with 33 million

doses given to its own people since its inoculation campaign began in mid-January

While some rich countries such as the United States are being accused of vaccine na-tionalism India is being lauded globally for sending shots to 71 countries mainly the AstraZen-eca vaccine as well as some of Bharat Biotechrsquos homegrown product

Many Indians however now want the government to make vaccines available to more of its

own people instead of only the elderly and those above 45 suf-fering from health conditions

ldquoThe priority of the Modi government is not the state but foreign nationsrdquo Congress said on Twitter using the tag India-NeedsMoreVaccines and accus-ing the premier of focusing on

ldquoPR over peoplerdquoldquoThe pace of vaccination in

states is slow due to the centrali-sation in vaccine distributionrdquo it said

Health Minister Harsh Vard-han told parliament that vac-cines were not being exported at the ldquoexpense of the people of

Indiardquo and that a balance was being struck

Indiarsquos immunisation drive has picked up significantly since Modi expanded it this month Still Bangladesh is vaccinat-ing more people relative to its population using India-made shots

India worldrsquos top vaccine maker criticised at home for exports as infections rise

A healthcare worker collects a swab sample from a woman amidst the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a bus station in New Delhi India on March 16 2021

India child rights group asks police to probe Netflix show lsquoBombay Begumsrsquo

By Abhirup Roy

MUMBAI - A government agency for child rights in In-dia on Tuesday asked police to investigate Netflix Incrsquos show ldquoBombay Begumsrdquo saying some scenes in the drama series violated laws meant to protect children letters seen by Reuters showed

The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCP-CR) has asked the US streaming giant to remove five ldquoobjection-ablerdquo scenes from the series and wrote to the police chief in Indiarsquos financial capital Mumbai to take action

ldquoYou are requested to investi-gateinquire and take deemed law-ful necessary actionrdquo NCPCRrsquos

chairperson Priyank Kanoongo wrote in the letter

A Mumbai police spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment Netflix de-clined to comment

ldquoBombay Begumsrdquo is a se-ries about five women from dif-ferent parts of society trying to get ahead in modern Mumbai formerly called Bombay It was released last week

In a separate letter to Netflix NCPCR asked the company to remove five scenes which it said violated Indian laws governing Juvenile Justice and the Protec-tion of Children from Sexual Of-fences

In the series children have been shown indulging ldquoin snort-ing drugs and taking inde-

cent pictures and selfies in the classroomrdquo NCPCR told Netflix

The child rights group first asked Netflix to stop streaming the series last week after review-ing complaints on Twitter As of Tuesday the show was still avail-able for viewing on Netflix in India

Netflix officials met the child rights agency on Tuesday to dis-cuss details of the scenes and objections from NCPCR which gave the company two days to consult its legal team

Video streaming platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video have recently faced a barrage of complaints around promoting obscenity or hurting religious sentiments in India a key growth market

HEALTH amp SCIENCE9

INTERNATIONAL NEWSIndia Bulletin

NEW DELHI - Indiarsquos new oversight of digital news platforms is drawing protest from the media industry and activists who fear the rules will curb press freedom in the worldrsquos largest democracy

India which has one of the worldrsquos biggest and most diverse media industries last month an-nounced the Intermediary Guide-lines and Digital Media Ethics Code aimed at pushing Big Tech fi rms such as Facebook to com-ply with content takedown orders However it also extends to news websites

The rules impose a three-tier regulatory mechanism requir-ing a grievance offi cer to resolve complaints and a government panel to have broad oversight The most senior government offi cial in the information and broadcast-ing ministry will also have emer-gency powers to order content be blocked

Media executives fear such oversight could lead to censor-ship of content seen as critical of

the government and three digi-tal news outlets have approached state courts

ldquoTheserules will signify the death of media independence in Indiardquo said Siddharth Varadara-jan editor of independent news website lsquoThe Wirersquo Its publisher has challenged the regulation in the Delhi High Court

LiveLaw a legal news web-site has challenged the rules in the Kerala High Court which this week said no coercive ac-tion should be taken against the website for non-compliance

The government says the new rules are aimed at achieving par-ity between digital media and print and TV news regulations Refer-ring to the rules for digital me-dia information and broadcasting minister Prakash Javadekar last month said ldquoevery freedom has to be responsible freedomrdquo

The number of online media outlets in India has increased in recent years but some journalists have complained they face intimi-

Indiarsquos digital media regulation sparks fears of curbs on press freedomdation for reporting stories critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his administration

Modirsquos administration says it favours press freedom

ldquoI think these rules will restrict and constrain press freedom as indeed freedom more gener-allyrdquo said Zoya Hasan a former professor of political science at New Delhirsquos Jawaharlal Nehru University

ldquoThis whole regulation is about control of digital media and other platforms as therersquos little tolerance for dissenting voicesrdquo

US think tank Freedom House recently said Modi and his party are driving India toward ldquoauthori-tarianismrdquo adding political rights and civil liberties had deteriorated since he came to power in 2014 The government called the re-port ldquomisleading incorrect and misplacedrdquo

On Thursday Javadekar said on Twitter that a group represent-ing leading newspapers and TV channels had welcomed the new

regulation and asked that their members ldquobe treated diff erentlyrdquo from digital-only news publishers

That has drawn criticism from

some smaller digital news outlets which have questioned why they are being ignored while seeking exemptions

Indiarsquos new oversight of digital news platforms is drawing protest from the media industry and activists who fear the rules will curb press freedom in the worldrsquos largest democracy

Saturday March 20 2021

India activist breaks silence on sedition arrest says she felt lsquoviolatedrsquo

By Alasdair Pal

NEW DELHI - An Indian climate activist linked to Greta Thunberg said she felt ldquoviolat-edrdquo by her arrest last month on sedition charges and her treat-ment by the media her fi rst comments on a case that sparked international criticism

Disha Ravi a 22-year-old vegan and member of Thun-bergrsquos Fridays for Future move-ment was charged in February over an online document about months-long protests by Indian farmers

Ten days after her arrest and following widespread criti-cism a court in Indiarsquos capital New Delhi granted her bail citing ldquoscanty and sketchy evi-dencerdquo that she was involved in

fomenting violenceldquoI had coerced myself into be-

lieving that the only way I would be able to live through this was by tricking myself into thinking that this wasnrsquot happening to merdquo Ravi said in a statement

ldquoMy actions were pronounced

guilty - not in the court of law but on fl at screensrdquo

Police say the document Ravi created stoked violence on Jan 26 Indiarsquos Republic Day when some protesting farmers broke free of a planned march and clashed with police

Angry at new agricultural laws they say benefi t large pri-vate buyers at the expense of growers tens of thousands of farmers have been camped on the outskirts of New Delhi since late last year

Swedish climate activist Thunberg popstar Rihanna and US activist Meena Harris the niece of Vice President Kamala Harris all tweeted in support of the protests last month drawing a rebuke from Indiarsquos foreign ministry

India frets over wastage of lsquoelixir-likersquo COVID-19 vaccinesNEW DELHI - About 65

of coronavirus vaccine doses in India are going to waste health offi cials said on Wednesday urging states to manage their im-munisation drives better to opti-mise use of what one called ldquothis elixir-like precious commodityrdquo

One reason for the wastage is that while many urban vaccina-tion centres have been crowded some rural sites have had to nudge people to get shots due to a lack of awareness among the public which can lead to vaccine wastage

Once a vaccine vial is opened doses need to be administered within four hours making it vital for health workers to coordinate the fl ow of recipients

The federal health ministry has distributed 754 million vac-cine doses to Indiarsquos states of which some 36 million doses

have so far been used India is using the AstraZeneca shot and another developed at home by Bharat Biotech

The government did not say how many doses had been wast-ed but the percentage fi gure suggests it could be more than 2 million a big number given that many countries have yet to start inoculating their citizens and India itself is only immunising priority groups

ldquoWastage of this elixir-like precious commodity the most important thing now for an indi-vidual or the country as a whole is absolutely wrongrdquo top health offi cial Vinod Kumar Paul told a news conference

The large states of Telan-gana Andhra Pradesh and Ut-tar Pradesh have seen wastage of 9-18 the government said

Disha Ravi

By Aftab Ahmedand Sankalp Phartiyal

NEW DELHI - India is likely to block its mobile carriers from using telecom equipment made by Chinarsquos Huawei two govern-ment officials said under pro-curement rules due to come into force in June

New Delhi is wary about awarding new technology busi-ness to Chinese firms both be-cause of security fears and a desire to get Indian manufactur-

ers to produce more telecoms equipment

A US campaign to curb Huawei has triggered bans or limits on the use of its equip-ment around the world but the situation in India has been amplified by strained rela-tions between New Delhi and Beijing over their shared border

Indiarsquos telecoms department said last Wednesday that after June 15 carriers can only buy certain types of equipment from

government-approved ldquotrusted sourcesrdquo and said New Delhi could also create a ldquono procure-mentrdquo blacklist Huawei is likely to feature on this embargoed list the two officials who declined to be named told Reuters

ldquoWe cannot prioritise econom-ic gains if an investment poses national security riskrdquo one of the officials said

The telecoms department which did not comment last Thursday about Huawei is yet to provide further details on the plans for trusted sources or a procurement blacklist

However a third official who also declined to be named told

Reuters that ZTE Corp another Chinese firm which has a smaller presence in India could also be excluded

Huawei and ZTE are un-der scrutiny for allegedly in-stalling ldquobackdoorrdquo vulner-abilities to spy for the Chinese government

Both have denied the allega-tions and Huawei has previously told Reuters it is ready to enter into a ldquono backdoorrdquo deal with India to allay security concerns

Huawei and ZTE did not im-mediately respond to requests for comment

Two of Indiarsquos three big tele-coms carriers Bharti Airtel and

Vodafone Idea use Huawei gear Any restriction on Huawei gear is likely to push up costs industry analysts say

The Chinese firmrsquos equipment and network maintenance con-tracts are typically cheaper than European competitors such as Ericsson and Nokia and there is limited availability of such gear in India

India has begun to fast-track approvals of some of the more than 150 Chinese investment proposals worth over $2 billion it had put on hold after a June standoff between the two neigh-bours on the disputed Himalayan border

India likely to block Chinarsquos Huawei over security fears officials

India Bulletin

India is likely to block its mobile carriers from using telecom equipment made by Chinarsquos Huawei two government officials said under procurement rules due to come into force in June UKrsquos Johnson to visit India at

end of April as part of policy lsquotiltrsquoLONDON - PM Boris Johnson

will visit India at the end of April in what will be his first major in-ternational trip after Britainrsquos exit from the European Union as part of efforts to boost UK opportuni-ties in the region his office said

Johnson had planned an Indian trip in January as part of efforts to speed up trade talks between the two nations but was forced to cancel amid a surge of COVID-19

infections at homeAt the time his office said he

had hoped to rearrange the visit before Britain hosted the meet-ing of leaders from the Group of Seven rich nations in June which Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is due to attend as a visitor

Johnsonrsquos government said it would ldquotiltrdquo its focus towards the Indo-Pacific region as part of its Integrated Review of government

policy for the coming years say-ing the area increasingly repre-sented the geopolitical centre of the world

Last month Britain made a for-mal request to join the Compre-hensive and Progressive Agree-ment for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) seeking membership of the 11-country bloc to open new avenues for post-Brexit trade and influence

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INTERNATIONAL NEWS

HEALTH amp SCIENCE11India BulletinSaturday March 20 2021

ADVERTORIAL

ldquoJAINISM A Resilient Path to Peacerdquo

The Federation of Jain Asso-ciations in North America (JAI-NA) will be celebrating its 21st Convention on the Fourth of July weekend mdash from July 1st to 6th 2021 Every two years this premier event brings together members of the Jain Community from across the world This year the virtual event is planned to be a global event and is expected to attract an even larger audience from the USA Canada India UK Australia UAE and many other countries

In face of all the turbulence throughout the world in the last year it is paramount for us to be vigilant compassionate tolerant and to ldquokeep the faithrdquo Jain-ism one of the ancient minor-ity religions has thrived worse than the pandemic based on its wisdom of Maitri (Amity) in-terdependence and honoring and respecting life at any cost The Convention will showcase our firm belief that spirituality enables us to sustain our sense of self and purpose through be-liefs principles values and morals Hence the theme for this yearrsquos Convention is ldquoJAINISM A Resilient Path to Peacerdquo

Convention Convener and First Vice President of JAINA Mr Haresh Shah of Delaware proudly shared that the attendee response has been overwhelming with more than 5000 registra-tions as of this writing Conven-tion Co-Convener and JAINA President Mr Mahesh Wadher of Los Angeles expressed his grati-tude for 100+ volunteers across 23 teams working day and night as ONE TEAM to make this convention the most memorable ever Convention Co-Convener Mr Bindesh Shah mentioned that the Convention will feature a state-of-the-art user-friend-ly and interactive conference platform with many features such as an online Main Hall 6 Breakout Rooms 4 Competi-tion Rooms and an Exhibition Hall

Enlightening discourses dis-cussion tracks and activities planned at this Convention will offer attendees a deeper under-standing of Jain principles and values while also helping the community with a roadmap to bounce back Youth participa-tion through JAINArsquos affiliate organizations Young Jains of America (YJA) Young Jain Pro-fessionals (YJP) as well as Jain

Announcing JAINA Convention 2021 July 1-6 2021Connect will be strongly pro-moted and encouraged There will be focused programs for all age groups children (ages 5-12) youth (ages 13-20) Jain Networking Forum (ages 21-29) and adults

Other featured events include the popular Jain Academic Bowl (JAB) a jeopardy style vo-cabulary game in which young Jains compete with other teams Jains Got Talent (JGT) and Vir-tual Tirthdham Darshan ndash A nar-rated Tirth Yatra of 12 major Jain Tirth of India broadcast live

Public Relations and Media Committee Chair Mr Vipul Shah of Chicago proudly con-firmed that spiritual dignitar-ies such as Acharya Ratna-sundersuri Maharaj Saheb Acharya Shri Mahashramanji Rashtrasant Gurudev Shree Namramuni Pramansagarji Maharaj Sadhvi Charitraarth Prabhaji and many others will enlighten us with their wisdom during the Convention Acharya Lokesh Muniji Acharya Chan-danaji and Bhattarak Charuke-ertiji will bless the Convention with their Ashirwad speeches While Gurudevshri Rakeshbhai Jhaveri will give the keynote

address other featured speakers include Shri Deepakbhai Desai Shri Gyanvatsal Swami Brahma Kumari Sister Shivani and Dr Veerendra Heggade The line-up of other prominent and inspi-rational speakers includes Dr Christopher Miller Dr Steven Southwick Rahul Kapoor Jain Motilal Oswal Dr Kumarpal Desai Dr Bipin Doshi and Dr Bimal Chajjer

The daily sessions and discus-sions will be well-complement-ed by refreshing Cultural Pro-grams in the evening including Jain Drama Rang De Sanskar - a high caliber humorous Hindi drama with famous actors amp an immense cast Jains Got Talent (JGT) and entertaining cultural performances from across the world A special Bollywood Musical ldquoSunheri Yaadeinrdquo will take us back 40 years of melodi-ous music to celebrate 40 Years Anniversary of JAINA

JAINA convention 2021 is an

invitation to all who aspire for a peaceful resilient recovery from the pandemic and to reweave the delicate fabric of humanity Since opening the registration on January 9th over 5000 at-tendees have already registered for the convention Come join us with our collective wisdom we will dream and create a non-violent future of Love Peace and Collaboration Your pres-ence and participation will help us ground in interconnection and solidarity and walk with you on the resilient path to peace we build together

For additional information about this convention and to register please visit us online at wwwjainaconventionorg

For Further Information please contact Mr Vipul Shah Chair of Public Relations and Press-Media Committee of JAINA Convention 2021 or its Co-Chair Mr Rahul Jain at prjainaorg

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Bollywood BeatDJ Aqeel and Farah Ali Khan are done

with their marriage

Actor Hrithik Roshanrsquos ex-wife Sussane Khanrsquos sister jewellery designer Farah Khan Ali has taken to social media to announce her separation from husband DJ Aqeel after 22 years of marriage In a lengthy post she spoke about how two people grow apart at times and that there is no bad bloodbetween them

The statement read ldquoSome-times two people grow apart Sometimes they outgrow each other It has been 9 years since my relationship with my hus-band Aqeel changed its status as a couple to just friends and to term it simply would be to state that we are ldquoHappily Sepa-ratedrdquordquo

ldquoWe will always be best friends to each other and par-ents to our wonderful children Azaan and Fizaa who love us both equally yet accept that we cannot be a couple any longer This was a mutual decision we took together involving two adults and there wasnrsquot any third person involved The reason we are announcing it publicly now is so that the ones who know us accept our situation grace-fully and always wish well for both of us especially because we hold no animosity of any kind towards one another and will al-ways be there for each otherrdquo it further read

ldquoAqeel is and will always be my family as I will be his We hope that all our well-wishers will accept our deci-sion maturely and not judge us for itrdquo

Bahubali now planned on a budget of 200 crores as Netflix scraps the already shot version of 100 croresNetflix is easily amongst the richest

digital platforms of the world According to our highly placed sources Netfl ix has scrapped the already shot Rs 100 crore version of the Netfl ix Original Bahubali Before The Beginning and have already begun work on a new version of the show this time around on double the cost of Rs 200 crores

ldquoNetfl ix was not satisfi ed with the prod-uct they had in hand and hence decided to scrap it completely They reworked on the script star-cast and technical team and are now reshooting Bahubali Before The Beginning on a never seen before unheard scale for their streaming They see the po-tential in Bahubali of being Indiarsquos answer to Game of Thrones and hence they have decided to take things a notch higher The overall budget for the new part is Rs 200 crore and if we add the scrap value the project now is worth Rs 300 crorerdquo a trade

source told Bollywood HungamaItrsquos produced by SS Rajamouli with

Netflix and is planned as a 9 episode two season limited series showcasing the rise of Shivagami set in the world of Mahishmati Itrsquos said to be a prequel to

Bahubali While the original cast was to feature Mrunal Thakur as Shivagami we still await an update if she will continue to play the queen or has she been replaced by someone else in this revamped Rs 200 crore version of the franchise

Emraan Hashmi says it has been his dream to work with Salman Khan

Emraan Hashmi is being said to be roped in by the makers of the Tiger franchise starring Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif While the latter two will be reprising their roles and Tiger and Zoya in Tiger 3 Emraan Hashmi is being said to play the antagonist marking his fi rst collaboration with the two stars and Yash Raj Films Being

one of the most coveted actors of the industry Salman Khan un-doubtedly is one of the favourites for every celebrity

Speaking about joining the franchise Emraan said that he would love to work in the fran-chise and it has always been a dream for him to work with Salman Khan

In October last year actress Rhea Chakraborty was grant-ed bail by the Bombay High Court after spending nearly two months in judicial cus-tody Her bail has now been challenged in the Supreme Court by the Narcotics Control Bureau(NCB) The case will be heard on Thursday

Rhea Chakraborty was sent to judicial custody last year for drug related charges in the death of her actor boyfriend Sushant Singh Rajput She was granted bail on the condi-tion that she submit a Rs 1 lakh bond and not leave the country without the permission of the court

Rhea Chakrabortyrsquos bail challenged in theSupreme Court by NCB

UNKNOWN FACTS ABOUTBOLLYWOODCELEBRITIES

Aamir Khanrsquos full name is Mohammed Aamir

Hussain Khan Despite being from the fi lm

industry Aamirrsquos parents were not keen on him entering Bollywood In 1984 Aamir worked in

his fi rst ever feature fi lm titled Holi

Very few people are aware of the fact that Kareena Kapoor gave her voice to the song Jab Nahi Aaye for the

fi lm Dev Kareena played a lead role in

the fi lm Unfortunately the movie didnrsquot do well

at the box-offi ce

Bollywood TriviaWhich actress debuted in

the fi lm lsquoKedarnathrsquo

Answer 1

1) Sara Ali Khan2) Katrina Kaif3) Tara Sutaria4) Ananya PandeyWho is the mother of actress

Janhvi Kapoor

Answer 3

1) Kareena2) Karisma3) Sridevi4) Madhuri

12 India Bulletin Saturday March 20 2021

ENTERTAINMENT

Bollywood Beat

The Brihanmumbai Mu-nicipal Corporation (BMC) revealed on their social media page that they have filed an FIR (First information report) against a Bollywood actor for not adhering to Covid-19 guidelines despite testing posi-tive for the deadly virus They even uploaded a picture of the FIR but the name of the celeb-rity was blurred Immediately it led people to speculate who the actor could be

However it has now come to light that the actor in question is Gauahar Khan As per the complaint filed at Oshiwara po-lice station a BMC officer has said that on the night of March 14 he was informed that Gaua-har Khan has tested positive for Coronavirus and yet shersquos not ready to get quarantined Hence the officer reached Gau-ahar Khanrsquos residence but she refused to open the door Later her husband answered from the flat and allegedly shouted at the BMC team

The complainant further states that the actress alleg-edly went out of her house for a shoot Hence the officer claims that she has exposed people to the deadly virus and thus contributed to itrsquos spread

As per a news report S Chai-tanya DCP (operations) and PRO of Mumbai Police has stated that Gauahar Khan has been charged under Sections 188 269 270 of the IPC 51B of NDMA Act 3 of Epidemic Diseases Act

BMC files FIR against

Gauahar Khan

Upcoming FilmsThalaivi

Kangana Ranautand Vijay Deverakonda

RadheSalman Khan

Disha Patani Jackie Shroff and Randeep Hooda

83Ranveer Singh

and Deepika Padukone

Atrangi ReAkshay Kumar Sara Ali Khanand Dhanush

MaidaanAjay Devgn Priyamani

and Keerthy Suresh

Bachchan PandeyAkshay Kumar Bobby Deol

and Riteish Deshmukh

Bell BottomAkshay Kumar Vaani Kapoor Huma Qureshi and Lara Dutta

Satyameva Jayate 2John Abraham Manoj Bajpai

and Divya Khosla Kumar

BrahmastraRanbir Kapoor Alia Bhatt and

Amitabh Bachchan

MOVIE REVIEW

Itrsquos been almost a year when theatres were asked to shut down due to rapid rise in the cases of Coronavirus in the country Two of the films play-ing in theatres at that point were Angrezi Medium produced by Dinesh Vijan and Kaamyaab directed by Hardik Mehta In an interesting turn of events Roohi the film that releases today and kickstarts the movie-watching season in cinemas is helmed by both these personalities So does Roohi manage to enter-tain and enthral the audiences Or does it fail to entice Letrsquos analyse

Roohi is the story of a pos-sessed girl Bhawra Pandey (Rajkummar Rao) and Kattanni Qureshi (Varun Sharma) work as crime journalists in a small town Baagadpur They also specialise in lsquopakdaai shaadirsquo aka bride kidnapping an accepted custom in Baagadpur One day their boss Guniya Shakeel (Manav Vij) orders them to kidnap a girl Roohi (Janhvi Kapoor) from a nearby town Mujaribaad Bhawra and Kattanni manage to kidnap Roohi while she is with her father (Rajesh Jais) As per the lsquopakdaai shaadirsquo custom af-ter the girl is kidnapped she is straight away taken to the mar-

riage venue Bhawra and Kat-tanni are also supposed to fol-low suit with Roohi But after the kidnap takes place Guniya calls them and tells them that the groomrsquos uncle has passed away suddenly Hence the mar-riage will now take place after a week Till then Bhawra and Kattanni are told to keep her as a hostage in an abandoned property in the hills of Ambiya-pur On the first night Bhawra goes to offer dinner to Roohi only to realize that she is pos-sessed Kattanni at first doesnrsquot believe but later even he sees the possessed side of Roohi However instead of being frightened Kattanni falls for the possessed Roohi Bhawra on the other hand is in love with the non-possessed Roohi He decides to help her and get the witch out of her body Kattanni however is averse to the idea as loves the possessed Roohi and if Bhawra succeeds the witch will leave Roohi forever What hap-pens next forms the rest of the film

Mrighdeep Singh Lamba and Gautam Mehras story is inter-esting and novel The writers try their best to bring some-thing new to the table Mrigh-deep Singh Lamba and Gautam Mehras screenplay however is interesting only in parts A few scenes are exceptional and bring the house down But the serious portions donrsquot make the desired impact Mrigh-deep Singh Lamba and Gautam Mehras dialogues are witty But the dialect is too authentic and is incomprehensible at many places

Roohi starts off on an interest-ing note depicting the concept of bride kidnapping in Baagad-pur that too through the eyes of a foreign reporter (Alexx ONell) The film gets better once Bhawra and Kattanni kid-nap Roohi and set base at the spooky abandoned factory The scene where Bhawra narrates about the possessed Roohi to

Kattanni is sure to raise laughs The scene where Kattanni in-stead of running away falls for the possessed Roohi is unique and unexpected It will bring smiles on the faces of the view-ers The interval comes at an in-teresting juncture Post-interval the film begins to fall but a few scenes especially of the marriage with the dog and Bhawrarsquos con-versation with the old lady (Sar-ita Joshi) add to the humour and madness The climax though unpredictable is disappointing

Talking of performances Ra-jkummar Rao is in his element as expected Due to his adorable performance one doesnrsquot hate him even though hersquos playing a kidnapper in the film And his comic timing is spot-on espe-cially in the scenes where hersquos running away from the possessed Roohi Janhvi Kapoor is a big surprise She hardly has any dia-logues but gets her act right with her expressions And she also is convincing as the witch Varun Sharma is marvellous and man-ages to raise laughs In the last 30 minutes however he doesnrsquot have much to do Manav Vij suits the part and his performance is

fair Sarita Joshi (credited in the film as Padma Shri Sarita Joshi) is hilarious and one wish-es that she had a longer screen time Alexx ONell is lovely Rajesh H Jais Anurag Arora (Tantrik) Sumit Gulati (Paras Roohirsquos groom in the end) are okay

Sachin-Jigars music is ap-propriate for the film and itrsquos theme Kiston comes suddenly but is soulful Bhootni is hilari-ous while Panghat is played in the end credits Nadiyon Paar is attached with the filmrsquos print be-fore the film starts It is the best song of the lot and well shot One wishes if it was a part of the filmrsquos narrative Ketan Sodhas background score is well wo-ven and also contributes to the horror quotient

On the whole Roohi rests on a unique concept fine perfor-mances and some interesting funny and horror sequences However the disappointing climax and difficult-to-under-stand dialect might affect the filmrsquos prospects at the box office

BannerMaddock Films

Jio Studios

ProducerDinesh Vijan

Mrighdeep Singh Lamba

DirectorHardik Mehta

StarringRajkummar RaoVarun SharmaJanhvi Kapoor

Music BySachin-Jigar

Released DateMarch 11 2021

Roohi

Rating

Celebrity BirthdaysMarch 21stRani Mukerji (1978)

March 23rdKangana Ranaut (1987)

March 24thEmraan Hashmi (1979)

March 25thYograj Singh (1958)

March 26thPrakash Raj (1965)

April 3rdPrabhu Deva (1973)

April 4thLisa Ray (1972)Simran Bagga (1976)

March 28thAkshaye Khanna(1975) Sandhya Mridul (1975)

March 30thNagesh Kukunoor (1967)

April 2ndAjay Devgn (1969) Kapil Sharma (1981)

13India BulletinSaturday March 20 2021

ENTERTAINMENT

Biz Briefs

Apple Inc has started the as-sembly of iPhone 12 in India the US tech giant said as the com-pany ramps up manufacturing operations in the worldrsquos sec-ond-biggest smartphone market

ldquoWe are proud to be starting production of iPhone 12 in India for our local customersrdquo Apple said in a statement without naming the supplier making the smartphone

The Indian unit of Applersquos Taiwanese contract manufac-turer Foxconn will assemble the device in its plant in southern Tamil Nadu state two sources familiar with the matter said

Foxconn did not immediately respond to a request for com-ment but has previously said it does not comment on client-specifi c work

Poscorsquos steel plant in India

faces disruption Operations at South Korean

steelmaker Poscorsquos plant in the Indian state of Maharashtra have been disrupted due to local pro-tests over labour and other issues police and sources told Reuters hampering the supply chain for automakers

A local politician leading the protests said they have blocked employees and goods from enter-ing the plant and will continue until Posco heeds to some of their requests which include giv-ing employment preference to lo-cal workers raising the wages of temporary employees and making them permanent

Reuters could not indepen-dently verify the extent of the production disruption at Poscorsquos plant

Apple starts iPhone 12 assem-

bly in India

HEALTH amp SCIENCEBUSINESS14 India Bulletin Saturday March 20 2021

By Nidhi Verma

NEW DELHI - India and the UAE on Wednesday discussed ways to strengthen energy coop-eration Indiarsquos oil minister Dhar-mendra Pradhan said despite the South Asian nation asking its re-fi ners to reduce their reliance on Middle Eastern oil

ldquo(We) discussed about new ar-eas of cooperation in the hydro-carbon sector and beyond and agreed to remain committed de-spite the challenges presented by Covid pandemicrdquo Pradhan said on Twitter after a virtual meeting with Sultan Al Jaber the chief executive of Abu Dhabi National Oil Co (ADNOC)

UAE is a key oil supplier to India and a partner in an Indian joint venture that plans to build a 12 million barrels per day (bpd) refi nery and petrochemical com-plex on the countryrsquos west coast

Last month the UAE was the

fi fth biggest oil supplier to In-dia which itself is the worldrsquos third biggest oil importer and consumer

Pradhan said he also discussed with Jaber ways of strengthen-ing and ldquoproviding momentum to (the) bilateral strategic en-ergy partnershiprdquo between the countries

India imports more than 80 of its oil needs a signifi cant amount of which comes from the Middle East

New Delhi has however asked refi ners to gradually reduce oil imports from the Middle East and diversify supplies after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its al-lies known as OPEC+ decided to extend most curbs into April

India has been hit hard by rising oil prices due to which minister Pradhan has repeatedly called on OPEC+ to ease supply curbs and has blamed Saudi Ara-

India and UAE vow to strengthen energy cooperation says minister

biarsquos voluntary cuts for contribut-ing to a spike in global oil prices

Responding to Pradhanrsquos re-quest Saudi Arabiarsquos energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman suggested India dip into strategic reserves fi lled with cheaper oil bought last year

The UAErsquos ADNOC is the only foreign company to which India has leased a part of it strategic petroleum reserves India does not allow the export of oil but has given permission to ADNOC to export part of its oil in Mangalore SPR in southern India

Tesla in talks with Indiarsquos Tata Power for EV charging infrastructure

BENGALURU - Tesla Inc is exploring an arrangement with Indian conglomerate Tata Sonsrsquo power generation unit Tata Pow-er to set up charging infrastruc-ture for electric vehicles in the country CNBC-TV18 reported citing sources

Shares of Tata Power rose 55 to their best closing level since June 2014 after the report which comes as the Palo Alto-based electric-car maker gears up for an India launch later this year with plans to import and sell its Model 3 electric sedan

Tesla will set up an electric-car manufacturing unit in the southern Indian state of Karna-taka according to a government document seen by Reuters

Indiarsquos Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan

The talks between Tata Power and Tesla are in the initial stages and no arrangements have been

fi nalised yet the report saidTata Powerrsquos electric vehicle

charging business constantly

explores growth opportunities but has not fi nalised any new agreements the company said in a statement to stock exchanges It also said the CNBC-TV 18 report was ldquofactually incorrectrdquo but did not elaborate

Tesla was not immediately available for comment

In January the US electric-car maker incorporated Tesla Motors India and Energy Private Ltd with its registered offi ce in the southern city of Bengaluru a hub for global technology companies

Tata Motors Ltd the carmak-ing unit of Tata Sons last week denied any tie-up with Tesla af-ter media reports suggested the two companies were discussing a partnership

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BUSINESSIndia Bulletin

By Aftab Ahmed and Nupur Anand

NEW DELHIMUMBAI - In-dia will propose a law banning cryptocurrencies fi ning anyone trading in the country or even holding such digital assets a senior government offi cial told

Reuters in a potential blow to millions of investors piling into the red-hot asset class

The bill one of the worldrsquos strictest policies against cryp-tocurrencies would criminalise possession issuance mining trading and transferring crypto-assets said the offi cial who has

India to propose cryptocurrency ban penalising miners tradersdirect knowledge of the plan

The measure is in line with a January government agenda that called for banning private vir-tual currencies such as bitcoin while building a framework for an offi cial digital currency But recent government comments had raised investorsrsquo hopes that

the authorities might go easier on the booming market

Instead the bill would give holders of cryptocurrencies up to six months to liquidate after which penalties will be levied said the offi cial who asked not to be named as the contents of the bill are not public

Offi cials are confi dent of get-ting the bill enacted into law as Prime Minister Narendra Modirsquos government holds a comfortable majority in parliament

If the ban becomes law India would be the fi rst major econo-my to make holding cryptocur-rency illegal Even China which has banned mining and trading

does not penalise possessionThe Finance Ministry did not

immediately respond to an email seeking comment

Bitcoin the worldrsquos biggest cryptocurrency hit a record high $60000 last Saturday nearly doubling in value this year as its acceptance for payments has in-creased with support from such high-profi le backers as Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk

In India despite government threats of a ban transaction vol-umes are swelling and 8 million investors now hold 100 billion rupees ($14 billion) in crypto-investments according to indus-try estimates No offi cial data is available

US becomes Indiarsquos second biggest oil supplier Saudi plunges to No 4

By Nidhi Verma

NEW DELHI - The United States overtook Saudi Arabia as Indiarsquos second biggest oil sup-plier after Iraq last month as refi ners boosted cheaper US crude purchases to record levels to off set OPEC+ supply cuts data from trade sources showed

The switch in supplies trig-gered by lower US crude de-mand coincided with Saudi Ara-biarsquos voluntary extra 1 million barrel per day (bpd) output cut on top of an agreement by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies (OPEC+) to maintain lower pro-duction

Indiarsquos imports from the United

States - the worldrsquos top producer - rose 48 to a record 545300 bpd in February from the prior month accounting for 14 of Indiarsquos overall imports last month the data obtained by Reuters showed

In contrast February imports from Saudi Arabia fell by 42 from January to a decade low of 445200 bpd the data showed Saudi Arabia which has consis-tently been one of Indiarsquos top two suppliers slipped to No 4 for the fi rst time since at least January 2006

Indiarsquos oil import data by coun-try from before 2006 is not avail-able to Reuters

ldquoUS demand was weak and refi neries were running at low rates so the US crude had to

go somewhere and Asia is the region which has seen rapid de-mand recoveryrdquo said Refi nitiv analyst Ehsan Ul Haq

ldquoChina has not been taking US oil because of (the) trade problem so India is the obvious choicerdquo he said

Iraq continued to be the top oil seller to India despite a 23 drop in purchases to a fi ve-month low of 867500 bpd the data showed

The UAE slipped to fi fth posi-tion from third in January while Nigeria rose to third from fi fth exporting 472300 bpd the most since Oct 2019

India shipped in 392 million bpd of oil in February a decline of 18 from January the data showed

India will propose a law banning cryptocurrencies fi ning anyone trading in the country or even holding such digital assets a senior government offi cial told Re-uters in a potential blow to millions of investors piling into the red-hot asset class

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Aries (March 21 to April 20)Someone will always be prettier Someone will always be smarter Someone will always be younger But they will never be you Itrsquos this ability to understand your uniqueness which will help you steer forward in an otherwise difficult week

Taurus (April 21 to May 21)When a storm is coming all other birds seek shelter The eagle alone avoids the storm by flying above it So in the storms of life be like an eagle and soar above your problems Keep your love life on top priority and everything else will fall into place with time

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Cancer (June 22 to July 22)Sadness does not come from bad circumstances It comes from bad thoughts Although the circumstances are mixed around you you will have a tendency to make a mountain out of a mole hill

Leo (July 23 to August 22)Every time we get what we thought we wanted we realise that we want more This race towards more - more money more power more of everything is taking a toll on your energy level

Virgo (August 23 to September 23)One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness usually it comes back to you While your hard work is fruc-tifying now do not let the success take you away from compassion

Libra (September 24 to October 23)Best friends are like stars You donrsquot always see them but you know they are always there This week you will be in a nostalgic mood and miss good old times and old friends Rather than thinking about it pick up the phone and talk to friends you have not spoken in years or take a friend out on a cappuccino trip

Scorpio (October 24 to November 22)Learn to make peace with your past or else your future will become a constant battle that yoursquoll never win The highlight of the week will be letting go of things forgiving people forgetting wrong-doings and moving on in life

Sagittarius (November 23 to December 21)Chaos in the midst of chaos isnrsquot funny but chaos in the midst of order is Probably one of the toughest week this month wherein there will be a lot of confusion and haze around Advice Do not take stress

Capricorn (December 22 to January 20)Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realise you havenrsquot fallen asleep yet Thatrsquos the kind of nights you might witness this week owing to unforeseen issues and hurdles Your discipline and organisational skills will steer you forward and transform these hurdles into opportunities Aquarius (January 21 to February 19)Women get the last word in every argument Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument This is not the week for you to get into any arguments as it might jeopardise your frame of mind

Pisces (February 20 to March 20)Find out who you are and be that person Thatrsquos what your soul was put on this Earth to be Find that truth live that truth and everything else will come The week will be about introspection spirituality and matters related to the soul

WEEKLY HOROSCOPE(March 28 - April 3 2021)

HEALTH amp SCIENCEASTROLOGYIndia Bulletin

8 things AARP wants you to know before your second COVID-19 vaccine

If yoursquove already received your first dose of a two-dose COVID-19 vaccine congratulations - yoursquore well on your way to being protect-ed from the coronavirus But to be fully immunized itrsquos critical to get that second shot

William Schaffner MD an infectious diseases specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville Tennessee and medical director of the Nation-al Foundation for Infectious Dis-eases says ldquoWe have told every-one these vaccines are 95 percent effectiverdquo of the two-dose Moder-na and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines currently in use in the US ldquoBut theyrsquore only 95 percent effective if you indeed get that second doserdquo

Here are a few more things to know about the second dose

1 Your side effects will likely be stronger

Many people who had little to no reaction to the first vaccine dose are reporting that the second one packs a punch mdash surprising even those who study vaccines for a liv-ing

Greg Poland MD an infec-tious disease expert at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota and director of Mayorsquos vaccine re-search group had only mild symp-toms after his first dose But the second one left him shaking - liter-ally - with chills and a temperature of 101

ldquoI took one Tylenol and went to bed and woke up the next morning 90 percent improved and by mid-day I was back to normalrdquo Poland says ldquoThis is not an indication of something going wrong it is an indication of a vigorous immune responserdquo

There is no live virus in the vac-cine so you canrsquot get COVID-19 from being vaccinated

Participants in clinical trials of both vaccines had experiences similar to Polandrsquos In Pfizerrsquos clinical trial for instance 31 per-cent of participants ages 18 to 55 reported a fever after the second dose compared to only 8 percent after the first one Fatigue chills headache and musclejoint pain were also more common after the second injection for both vaccines

The good news is older adults were less likely to experience vac-cine reactions the data shows Among those age 55 and up in the Pfizer trial 22 percent experienced fever after the second dose and 3 percent had a temperature after the first dose

Schaffner recommends not making any big plans for the day after your scheduled vaccine appointment

2 You should avoid taking pain relievers before your shot

If yoursquove been hearing sto-ries about second-dose side ef-fects you may be tempted to take a pain reliever before your appointment

Thatrsquos not a good idea accord-ing to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) unless yoursquove been advised to do so by your doctor Pain relievers taken preemptively ahead of a shot could dampen the effective-ness of the vaccine Poland and Schaffner say

However itrsquos OK to take ac-etaminophen (Tylenol) or a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug like Advil or Motrin after your vaccine to treat side effects such as pain fever chills or headache

3 The timing between doses doesnrsquot need to be exact

The second dose of the Pfiz-er shot is supposed to be giv-en 21 days after the first for Moderna the recommended interval between doses is 28 days

However if you canrsquot get an appointment on the exact day mdash or if you have to miss your scheduled appointment for some reason mdash the CDC does allow some wiggle room Although the agency recommends trying to stick to the suggested interval it says the second dose can be given up to six weeks after the first

If your appointment is sched-uled earlier than the recommend-ed date ask for a later appoint-ment Schaffner advises ldquoYour immune response will work perfectly well if you take more timerdquo he says ldquoBut if you do it too early the second dose may not invoke an optimal responserdquo

4 Your second dose should be from the same manufacturer as your first

Doctors are already hearing from patients asking if they can get their second dose from a dif-ferent manufacturer often be-cause they realize the other type of vaccine is offered at a location thatrsquos more convenient But the CDC recommends against it The Moderna and Pfizer vaccines ldquoare not interchangeable with each other or with other COVID-19 vaccine productsrdquo the CDC says ldquoThe safety and efficacy of a mixed-product series have not been evaluatedrdquo

5 A rash at the injection site isnrsquot a reason to skip your second dose

If you experienced a rash at the injection site three to 10 days

after getting your first shot that doesnrsquot preclude you from getting your second shot the CDC says although it recommends getting it in the other arm

A small number of people have developed such rashes some-times called ldquoCOVID armrdquo af-ter vaccination Doctors say itrsquos likely a mild allergic reaction that can be treated with an over-the-counter antihistamine such as Benadryl

6 You should temporarily avoid all other vaccines

It might be time for your shin-gles or Tdap vaccine but you should hold off if you are between COVID-19 vaccine doses Be-cause therersquos no data on the safety and efficacy of COVID vaccines administered at the same time as other vaccines the CDC recom-mends avoiding other immuniza-tions in the two weeks before and after both doses

7 Full immunity is not immediate

It takes two weeks after your second dose for your body to build full protection to the virus After that you should have al-most zero chance of developing severe disease if you are exposed to someone with COVID-19 Schaffner says The CDC also says you no longer have to quar-antine if yoursquore exposed to some-one with COVID-19 mdash as long as you meet these criteria you donrsquot have symptoms and it hasnrsquot been more than three months since your second vaccine dose

One possible exception is immunocompromised people Schaffner says They will get some level of immunity he says ldquobut they may not reach the 95 percent because their immune system is already somewhat com-promised no matter how strong these vaccines arerdquo

8 You still need to wear a maskExperts agree you should con-

tinue to wear a mask and practice social distancing in public For one thing therersquos a small chance you could get sick even after yoursquove been vaccinated

In addition itrsquos possible that you could still carry the virus and silently transmit it to others who havenrsquot been vaccinated even if you donrsquot develop symptoms

And therersquos one more reason Until the country reaches herd im-munity mdash the point when a signif-icant portion of the population be-comes immune to a disease mdash itrsquos important for everyone to wear a mask to stop the spread of the virus Schaffner says

Saturday March 20 2021

Biden All US adults to be eligible for vaccines by May

By Jeff Mason

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden told US states last Thursday to make all adults eligible for a coronavirus vaccine by May 1 and urged Americans to stay vigi-lant or face more restrictions hours after he signed a $19 trillion stimulus bill into law

In a forceful but somber speech from the White House on the fi rst anniversary of the pandemic lockdown Biden said if Ameri-cans pulled together there could be a great-er sense of normalcy - and some backyard barbecue parties with small groups - on the US Independence Day holiday on July 4

That date is a new goal for the president and a projection of hope amid a pandemic that has killed more than 530000 people in the United States the most of any country

To achieve his summer target Biden said he needed Americansrsquo help

ldquoIf we donrsquot stay vigilant and the con-ditions change then we may have to rein-state restrictions to get back on trackrdquo he said in an evening address from the White House his fi rst in television prime time since becoming president

ldquoWersquove made so much progress This is not the time to let up Just as we are emerging from a dark winter into a hope-ful spring and summer is not the time to not stick with the rulesrdquo he said

Republicans swiftly criticized Biden for his cautious approach ldquoWhat America needs now is to fully reopen our economy and our classroomsrdquo House of Represen-tatives Republican leader Kevin McCarthy said on Twitter

Biden said he was ordering US states territories and tribes to make all adults eli-gible to receive a coronavirus vaccine by May 1 The White House has said it would have enough vaccine supply to vaccinate the adult population by the end of May About 10 of Americans so far have been fully vaccinated

Administration offi cials said he would deploy 4000 more troops to help with the vaccine eff ort bringing the total number to 6000 The White House is also seeking to expand the pool of people able to adminis-ter shots to include dentists optometrists paramedics veterinarians and medical stu-dents

Biden campaigned last year on a prom-ise that he would tackle the pandemic more eff ectively than Republican Presi-dent Donald Trump and he has sought to encourage and model behavior such as mask-wearing that Trump eschewed

In his speech Biden took a swipe at his

predecessor by saying the virus was ini-tially met with ldquodenials for days weeks then months that led to more deaths more infections more stress more lonelinessrdquo

Biden said hate crimes and harassment against Asian Americans must stop Trump repeatedly referred to the disease as the ldquoChina virusrdquo

Biden also encouraged Americans to keep up mitigation eff orts - wearing masks keeping social distance and prac-ticing good hygiene - to stop the virus and its variants from spreading A number of states have been loosening restrictions

as Americans like many people around the world grow weary of pandemic life

ldquoPhotos and videos from 2019 feel like they were taken in another era The last vacation The last birthday with friends The last holiday with extended familyrdquo Biden said recounting the toll the virus has wrought

He said the country would come away from the crisis stronger ldquoWe faced and overcame one of the toughest and darkest periods in this nationrsquos history - darkest wersquove ever knownrdquo he said

Moderna begins study of COVID-19 vaccine in kids

Moderna Inc has begun dosing patients in a mid-to-late stage study of its COV-ID-19 vaccine mRNA-1273 in children aged six months to less than 12 years the company said on Tuesday

The study will assess the safety and ef-fectiveness of two doses of mRNA-1273 given 28 days apart and intends to enroll about 6750 children in the United States and Canada

The vaccine has already been au-thorized for emergency use in

Americans who are aged 18 and older

In a separate study which began in De-cember Moderna is also testing mRNA-1273 in adolescents between 12 and 18 years old

The latest study is being conducted in collaboration with the National Insti-tute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA)

Mother who lost only son to rare COVID complication warns parents to look for early signs

SANTIAGO - By the time doctors real-ized that Lorena Navarretersquos son had a rare complication of COVID-19 that affl icts some children it was too late to save her 16-year-old Emilio

Lorena a single mother who lives in the southern Chilean city of Puerto Montt told the TVN network that her music-loving and sociable son died about a week after he fi rst complained of feeling tired and of a pain in his legs in late January

Within days he had developed livid blotches on his skin a high fever vomiting and dark urine

Doctors at the cityrsquos hospital overrun with severe COVID cases repeatedly tested him for COVID but with the results coming back negative were at a loss as to what was wrong with him

By the time his illness was identifi ed as Multisystem Infl ammatory Syndrome in Children it was too late Lorena could not be at her sonrsquos bedside because of strict health protocols but a social worker called to pass on the message that her son loved

her very much She asked the social worker to tell her son she would see him soon and that his pets were well

ldquoA doctor said that if I had faith I should pray because my son was very illrdquo said Na-varrete who works as a nurse technician ldquoThey had a diagnosis and it was PIMSrdquo

Multisystem Infl ammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) as PIMS is more com-monly known is a rare life-threatening syndrome linked to COVID-19

It usually appears between two and six weeks after infection even in asymptomatic cases of COVID-19

It shares symptoms with toxic shock and Kawasaki disease including fever rashes swollen glands conjunctivitis and in severe cases heart infl ammation and can cause multiple organ failure It is not always fatal if caught and treated early

The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention said in January that it was inves-tigating whether COVID variants were in-creasing the number or severity of cases fol-lowing anecdotal reports from some states

US President Joe Biden

HEALTH amp SCIENCE17India Bulletin

HEALTH amp SCIENCE

Saturday March 20 2021

By Anthony Deutsch and Caroline Copley

AMSTERDAM - Global health experts came under in-creasing pressure on Tuesday to clear up questions over the safety of AstraZenecarsquos CO-VID-19 shot as Sweden and Latvia joined countries suspend-ing their use in a further blow to Europersquos vaccination rollout

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said it was

investigating reports of 30 cases of unusual blood disorders out of 5 million recipients of the As-traZeneca vaccine In total 45 million COVID shots have been delivered across the region

The EU regulator will release its findings on Thursday but its head Emer Cooke said she saw no reason to change its recom-mendation of AstraZeneca - one of four vaccines that it has approved for use

ldquoThe benefits continue to

outweigh the risks but this is a serious concern and it does need serious and detailed scientific evaluationrdquo Cooke told a news conference

A World Health Organization (WHO) committee of experts was reviewing the cases and was expected to issue a statement by the end of the day a spokesman said

The EUrsquos largest members - Germany France and Italy - suspended use of AstraZenecarsquos vaccine on Monday pending the outcome of investigations into unusual cases of a rare cerebral thrombosis in people who had received it

The addition of Sweden and Latvia on Tuesday brought to 13 the number of EU countries to act since reports first emerged of thromboembolisms affect-ing people after they got the AstraZeneca shot

The WHO and EMA had ear-lier joined AstraZeneca in say-ing there is no proven link but some experts said the episodes of blood clots bleeding and low platelet counts in younger people seemed to indicate a causal con-nection to the AstraZeneca shot

ldquoThe benefits of vaccination significantly outweigh the risks especially for the elderlyrdquo said Karl Lauterbach health spokes-man for Germanyrsquos Social Democratic Party

ldquoBut it could be the case that the risks of the vaccine are high-er for certain patient groups such as young womenrdquo Lauterbach an epidemiologist whose party is part of the Berlin coalition told Deutschlandfunk radio in an interview

Other epidemiologists note that similar cases have not been found in unusual num-bers in Britain which began using AstraZeneca earlier and has given more than 10 million doses

ldquoA very likely explanation of at least some of the clotting dis-orders seen are a result of CO-VID-19 rather than the vaccinerdquo said Stephen Evans professor of pharmacoepidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

ldquoThere are published papers that make clear that these prob-lems definitely occur in COV-ID-19 and there is no doubt that all the vaccines in use prevent

that disease Hence the risk and benefit balance for the AstraZen-eca vaccine remains clearly in favour of its benefitsrdquo

In the EUrsquos largest states in-cluding Germany France Italy the Netherlands and Spain As-traZeneca has accounted for about 13-15 of shots given since the rollout began almost three months ago with Pfizer-BioNTech making up the major-ity according to official data

As one as the cheapest to be developed the AstraZeneca shot is set to be the mainstay of vac-cination programmes in much of the developing world

Governments say they acted on the AstraZeneca shot out of an abundance of caution - of 16 million people in Germany given the vaccine seven fell ill with a very rare cerebral vein thrombosis of whom three died

In a detailed analysis of its findings Germanyrsquos vaccine oversight body the Paul Eh-rlich Institute said six of the cases were in women of young or middle age - a number statis-tically significantly higher than normally expected

Health experts pore over AstraZeneca safety data as Europe reels from vaccine suspensions

Global health experts came under increasing pressure on Tuesday to clear up questions over the safety of AstraZenecarsquos COVID-19 shot as Sweden and Latvia joined countries suspending their use in a further blow to Europersquos vaccination rollout

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India Bulletin Saturday March 20 2021

India Bulletin 19Saturday March 20 2021

Kishan Kohli help India level T20 series against England

AHMEDABAD - A belliger-ent 56 off 32 balls from India debutant Ishan Kishan and an unbeaten 73 from captain Virat Kohli helped the hosts to a com-manding seven-wicket win over England in the second Twenty20 International in Ahmedabad on Sunday

Kishan 22 smashed leg-spinner Adil Rashid for two con-secutive sixes to get past fifty as India made short work of a 165-run target to win with 13 balls to spare and level the five-match

series at 1-1Indiarsquos chase of Englandrsquos

164-6 got off to a shaky start when Sam Curran sent back opener KL Rahul in the first over without scoring but it did not curb Kishanrsquos aggres-sion the left-hander hitting five fours and four sixes in total

There was plenty of entertain-ment for the sizeable crowd at the worldrsquos biggest cricket sta-dium with most fans not wear-ing masks in the stands as Kohli

and Kishan added 94 in nine overs

Rishabh Pant came in after the dismissal of Kishan who was dropped by Ben Stokes on 40 off Rashid and continued to pummel Englandrsquos bowlers with a 13-ball 26 during which he hit two sixes and an identical number of fours

Kohli who also survived a dropped chance by wicketkeeper Jos Buttler on 10 off Chris Jor-dan sealed the win with a four and a six in successive balls to

also get past 3000 runs in T20 internationals in the process

Jason Roy once again top-scored for England with a 35-ball 46 following up on his knock of 49 in their win in the first match last Friday

Put in to bat the right-hander gave the touring side a steady start with a 63-run stand for the second wicket with Dawid Malan after the loss of opening partner Buttler to seamer Bhu-vneshwar Kumar on the first delivery he faced

Roy hit four fours and two six-es in his knock before holing out in the deep off spinner Washing-ton Sundar who also sent back the dangerous Jonny Bairstow for 20

Fast bowler Shardul Thakur pegged back Englandrsquos hopes of a flourishing finish by dis-missing opposition captain Eoin Morgan and Stokes as India conceded just 35 off the last five overs

The third match of the series will be played on Tuesday

Virat Kohli

Rohit urges India debutants to lsquohave funrsquo against England in T20 series

After Suryakumar Yadav and Ishan Kishan earned their maiden call-ups to the Indian national team vice-captain Rohit Sharma stressed on the importance of playing with-out any pressure when they take on England in a Twenty20 series

Kishan and Suryakumar were named in the squad after plun-dering 516 and 480 runs re-spectively in the Indian Premier League last season where the pair played under Rohit for the

Mumbai Indians as they clinched their fifth title in November

ldquoI donrsquot want them to be think-ing about anythingrdquo Rohit told reporters on Wednesday ldquoThatrsquos how they bring their best perfor-mance out

ldquoHaving watched them closely for a few years now Irsquove realised itrsquos important for them to be part of this wonder-ful team a great setup I just want them to have fun and un-derstand what this team is all about

ldquoThese guys have done re-ally well in the last few years especially the last year Itrsquos just about carrying that form and putting it out there Itrsquos not go-ing to be that easy here they will be challenged every now and thenrdquo

For England itrsquos a much-awaited return to the squad for all-rounder Liam Livingstone who had similar success in Aus-traliarsquos Big Bash League where he scored 426 runs for Perth Scorchers

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HEALTH amp SCIENCE9

INTERNATIONAL NEWSIndia Bulletin

NEW DELHI - Indiarsquos new oversight of digital news platforms is drawing protest from the media industry and activists who fear the rules will curb press freedom in the worldrsquos largest democracy

India which has one of the worldrsquos biggest and most diverse media industries last month an-nounced the Intermediary Guide-lines and Digital Media Ethics Code aimed at pushing Big Tech fi rms such as Facebook to com-ply with content takedown orders However it also extends to news websites

The rules impose a three-tier regulatory mechanism requir-ing a grievance offi cer to resolve complaints and a government panel to have broad oversight The most senior government offi cial in the information and broadcast-ing ministry will also have emer-gency powers to order content be blocked

Media executives fear such oversight could lead to censor-ship of content seen as critical of

the government and three digi-tal news outlets have approached state courts

ldquoTheserules will signify the death of media independence in Indiardquo said Siddharth Varadara-jan editor of independent news website lsquoThe Wirersquo Its publisher has challenged the regulation in the Delhi High Court

LiveLaw a legal news web-site has challenged the rules in the Kerala High Court which this week said no coercive ac-tion should be taken against the website for non-compliance

The government says the new rules are aimed at achieving par-ity between digital media and print and TV news regulations Refer-ring to the rules for digital me-dia information and broadcasting minister Prakash Javadekar last month said ldquoevery freedom has to be responsible freedomrdquo

The number of online media outlets in India has increased in recent years but some journalists have complained they face intimi-

Indiarsquos digital media regulation sparks fears of curbs on press freedomdation for reporting stories critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his administration

Modirsquos administration says it favours press freedom

ldquoI think these rules will restrict and constrain press freedom as indeed freedom more gener-allyrdquo said Zoya Hasan a former professor of political science at New Delhirsquos Jawaharlal Nehru University

ldquoThis whole regulation is about control of digital media and other platforms as therersquos little tolerance for dissenting voicesrdquo

US think tank Freedom House recently said Modi and his party are driving India toward ldquoauthori-tarianismrdquo adding political rights and civil liberties had deteriorated since he came to power in 2014 The government called the re-port ldquomisleading incorrect and misplacedrdquo

On Thursday Javadekar said on Twitter that a group represent-ing leading newspapers and TV channels had welcomed the new

regulation and asked that their members ldquobe treated diff erentlyrdquo from digital-only news publishers

That has drawn criticism from

some smaller digital news outlets which have questioned why they are being ignored while seeking exemptions

Indiarsquos new oversight of digital news platforms is drawing protest from the media industry and activists who fear the rules will curb press freedom in the worldrsquos largest democracy

Saturday March 20 2021

India activist breaks silence on sedition arrest says she felt lsquoviolatedrsquo

By Alasdair Pal

NEW DELHI - An Indian climate activist linked to Greta Thunberg said she felt ldquoviolat-edrdquo by her arrest last month on sedition charges and her treat-ment by the media her fi rst comments on a case that sparked international criticism

Disha Ravi a 22-year-old vegan and member of Thun-bergrsquos Fridays for Future move-ment was charged in February over an online document about months-long protests by Indian farmers

Ten days after her arrest and following widespread criti-cism a court in Indiarsquos capital New Delhi granted her bail citing ldquoscanty and sketchy evi-dencerdquo that she was involved in

fomenting violenceldquoI had coerced myself into be-

lieving that the only way I would be able to live through this was by tricking myself into thinking that this wasnrsquot happening to merdquo Ravi said in a statement

ldquoMy actions were pronounced

guilty - not in the court of law but on fl at screensrdquo

Police say the document Ravi created stoked violence on Jan 26 Indiarsquos Republic Day when some protesting farmers broke free of a planned march and clashed with police

Angry at new agricultural laws they say benefi t large pri-vate buyers at the expense of growers tens of thousands of farmers have been camped on the outskirts of New Delhi since late last year

Swedish climate activist Thunberg popstar Rihanna and US activist Meena Harris the niece of Vice President Kamala Harris all tweeted in support of the protests last month drawing a rebuke from Indiarsquos foreign ministry

India frets over wastage of lsquoelixir-likersquo COVID-19 vaccinesNEW DELHI - About 65

of coronavirus vaccine doses in India are going to waste health offi cials said on Wednesday urging states to manage their im-munisation drives better to opti-mise use of what one called ldquothis elixir-like precious commodityrdquo

One reason for the wastage is that while many urban vaccina-tion centres have been crowded some rural sites have had to nudge people to get shots due to a lack of awareness among the public which can lead to vaccine wastage

Once a vaccine vial is opened doses need to be administered within four hours making it vital for health workers to coordinate the fl ow of recipients

The federal health ministry has distributed 754 million vac-cine doses to Indiarsquos states of which some 36 million doses

have so far been used India is using the AstraZeneca shot and another developed at home by Bharat Biotech

The government did not say how many doses had been wast-ed but the percentage fi gure suggests it could be more than 2 million a big number given that many countries have yet to start inoculating their citizens and India itself is only immunising priority groups

ldquoWastage of this elixir-like precious commodity the most important thing now for an indi-vidual or the country as a whole is absolutely wrongrdquo top health offi cial Vinod Kumar Paul told a news conference

The large states of Telan-gana Andhra Pradesh and Ut-tar Pradesh have seen wastage of 9-18 the government said

Disha Ravi

By Aftab Ahmedand Sankalp Phartiyal

NEW DELHI - India is likely to block its mobile carriers from using telecom equipment made by Chinarsquos Huawei two govern-ment officials said under pro-curement rules due to come into force in June

New Delhi is wary about awarding new technology busi-ness to Chinese firms both be-cause of security fears and a desire to get Indian manufactur-

ers to produce more telecoms equipment

A US campaign to curb Huawei has triggered bans or limits on the use of its equip-ment around the world but the situation in India has been amplified by strained rela-tions between New Delhi and Beijing over their shared border

Indiarsquos telecoms department said last Wednesday that after June 15 carriers can only buy certain types of equipment from

government-approved ldquotrusted sourcesrdquo and said New Delhi could also create a ldquono procure-mentrdquo blacklist Huawei is likely to feature on this embargoed list the two officials who declined to be named told Reuters

ldquoWe cannot prioritise econom-ic gains if an investment poses national security riskrdquo one of the officials said

The telecoms department which did not comment last Thursday about Huawei is yet to provide further details on the plans for trusted sources or a procurement blacklist

However a third official who also declined to be named told

Reuters that ZTE Corp another Chinese firm which has a smaller presence in India could also be excluded

Huawei and ZTE are un-der scrutiny for allegedly in-stalling ldquobackdoorrdquo vulner-abilities to spy for the Chinese government

Both have denied the allega-tions and Huawei has previously told Reuters it is ready to enter into a ldquono backdoorrdquo deal with India to allay security concerns

Huawei and ZTE did not im-mediately respond to requests for comment

Two of Indiarsquos three big tele-coms carriers Bharti Airtel and

Vodafone Idea use Huawei gear Any restriction on Huawei gear is likely to push up costs industry analysts say

The Chinese firmrsquos equipment and network maintenance con-tracts are typically cheaper than European competitors such as Ericsson and Nokia and there is limited availability of such gear in India

India has begun to fast-track approvals of some of the more than 150 Chinese investment proposals worth over $2 billion it had put on hold after a June standoff between the two neigh-bours on the disputed Himalayan border

India likely to block Chinarsquos Huawei over security fears officials

India Bulletin

India is likely to block its mobile carriers from using telecom equipment made by Chinarsquos Huawei two government officials said under procurement rules due to come into force in June UKrsquos Johnson to visit India at

end of April as part of policy lsquotiltrsquoLONDON - PM Boris Johnson

will visit India at the end of April in what will be his first major in-ternational trip after Britainrsquos exit from the European Union as part of efforts to boost UK opportuni-ties in the region his office said

Johnson had planned an Indian trip in January as part of efforts to speed up trade talks between the two nations but was forced to cancel amid a surge of COVID-19

infections at homeAt the time his office said he

had hoped to rearrange the visit before Britain hosted the meet-ing of leaders from the Group of Seven rich nations in June which Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is due to attend as a visitor

Johnsonrsquos government said it would ldquotiltrdquo its focus towards the Indo-Pacific region as part of its Integrated Review of government

policy for the coming years say-ing the area increasingly repre-sented the geopolitical centre of the world

Last month Britain made a for-mal request to join the Compre-hensive and Progressive Agree-ment for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) seeking membership of the 11-country bloc to open new avenues for post-Brexit trade and influence

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HEALTH amp SCIENCE11India BulletinSaturday March 20 2021

ADVERTORIAL

ldquoJAINISM A Resilient Path to Peacerdquo

The Federation of Jain Asso-ciations in North America (JAI-NA) will be celebrating its 21st Convention on the Fourth of July weekend mdash from July 1st to 6th 2021 Every two years this premier event brings together members of the Jain Community from across the world This year the virtual event is planned to be a global event and is expected to attract an even larger audience from the USA Canada India UK Australia UAE and many other countries

In face of all the turbulence throughout the world in the last year it is paramount for us to be vigilant compassionate tolerant and to ldquokeep the faithrdquo Jain-ism one of the ancient minor-ity religions has thrived worse than the pandemic based on its wisdom of Maitri (Amity) in-terdependence and honoring and respecting life at any cost The Convention will showcase our firm belief that spirituality enables us to sustain our sense of self and purpose through be-liefs principles values and morals Hence the theme for this yearrsquos Convention is ldquoJAINISM A Resilient Path to Peacerdquo

Convention Convener and First Vice President of JAINA Mr Haresh Shah of Delaware proudly shared that the attendee response has been overwhelming with more than 5000 registra-tions as of this writing Conven-tion Co-Convener and JAINA President Mr Mahesh Wadher of Los Angeles expressed his grati-tude for 100+ volunteers across 23 teams working day and night as ONE TEAM to make this convention the most memorable ever Convention Co-Convener Mr Bindesh Shah mentioned that the Convention will feature a state-of-the-art user-friend-ly and interactive conference platform with many features such as an online Main Hall 6 Breakout Rooms 4 Competi-tion Rooms and an Exhibition Hall

Enlightening discourses dis-cussion tracks and activities planned at this Convention will offer attendees a deeper under-standing of Jain principles and values while also helping the community with a roadmap to bounce back Youth participa-tion through JAINArsquos affiliate organizations Young Jains of America (YJA) Young Jain Pro-fessionals (YJP) as well as Jain

Announcing JAINA Convention 2021 July 1-6 2021Connect will be strongly pro-moted and encouraged There will be focused programs for all age groups children (ages 5-12) youth (ages 13-20) Jain Networking Forum (ages 21-29) and adults

Other featured events include the popular Jain Academic Bowl (JAB) a jeopardy style vo-cabulary game in which young Jains compete with other teams Jains Got Talent (JGT) and Vir-tual Tirthdham Darshan ndash A nar-rated Tirth Yatra of 12 major Jain Tirth of India broadcast live

Public Relations and Media Committee Chair Mr Vipul Shah of Chicago proudly con-firmed that spiritual dignitar-ies such as Acharya Ratna-sundersuri Maharaj Saheb Acharya Shri Mahashramanji Rashtrasant Gurudev Shree Namramuni Pramansagarji Maharaj Sadhvi Charitraarth Prabhaji and many others will enlighten us with their wisdom during the Convention Acharya Lokesh Muniji Acharya Chan-danaji and Bhattarak Charuke-ertiji will bless the Convention with their Ashirwad speeches While Gurudevshri Rakeshbhai Jhaveri will give the keynote

address other featured speakers include Shri Deepakbhai Desai Shri Gyanvatsal Swami Brahma Kumari Sister Shivani and Dr Veerendra Heggade The line-up of other prominent and inspi-rational speakers includes Dr Christopher Miller Dr Steven Southwick Rahul Kapoor Jain Motilal Oswal Dr Kumarpal Desai Dr Bipin Doshi and Dr Bimal Chajjer

The daily sessions and discus-sions will be well-complement-ed by refreshing Cultural Pro-grams in the evening including Jain Drama Rang De Sanskar - a high caliber humorous Hindi drama with famous actors amp an immense cast Jains Got Talent (JGT) and entertaining cultural performances from across the world A special Bollywood Musical ldquoSunheri Yaadeinrdquo will take us back 40 years of melodi-ous music to celebrate 40 Years Anniversary of JAINA

JAINA convention 2021 is an

invitation to all who aspire for a peaceful resilient recovery from the pandemic and to reweave the delicate fabric of humanity Since opening the registration on January 9th over 5000 at-tendees have already registered for the convention Come join us with our collective wisdom we will dream and create a non-violent future of Love Peace and Collaboration Your pres-ence and participation will help us ground in interconnection and solidarity and walk with you on the resilient path to peace we build together

For additional information about this convention and to register please visit us online at wwwjainaconventionorg

For Further Information please contact Mr Vipul Shah Chair of Public Relations and Press-Media Committee of JAINA Convention 2021 or its Co-Chair Mr Rahul Jain at prjainaorg

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Bollywood BeatDJ Aqeel and Farah Ali Khan are done

with their marriage

Actor Hrithik Roshanrsquos ex-wife Sussane Khanrsquos sister jewellery designer Farah Khan Ali has taken to social media to announce her separation from husband DJ Aqeel after 22 years of marriage In a lengthy post she spoke about how two people grow apart at times and that there is no bad bloodbetween them

The statement read ldquoSome-times two people grow apart Sometimes they outgrow each other It has been 9 years since my relationship with my hus-band Aqeel changed its status as a couple to just friends and to term it simply would be to state that we are ldquoHappily Sepa-ratedrdquordquo

ldquoWe will always be best friends to each other and par-ents to our wonderful children Azaan and Fizaa who love us both equally yet accept that we cannot be a couple any longer This was a mutual decision we took together involving two adults and there wasnrsquot any third person involved The reason we are announcing it publicly now is so that the ones who know us accept our situation grace-fully and always wish well for both of us especially because we hold no animosity of any kind towards one another and will al-ways be there for each otherrdquo it further read

ldquoAqeel is and will always be my family as I will be his We hope that all our well-wishers will accept our deci-sion maturely and not judge us for itrdquo

Bahubali now planned on a budget of 200 crores as Netflix scraps the already shot version of 100 croresNetflix is easily amongst the richest

digital platforms of the world According to our highly placed sources Netfl ix has scrapped the already shot Rs 100 crore version of the Netfl ix Original Bahubali Before The Beginning and have already begun work on a new version of the show this time around on double the cost of Rs 200 crores

ldquoNetfl ix was not satisfi ed with the prod-uct they had in hand and hence decided to scrap it completely They reworked on the script star-cast and technical team and are now reshooting Bahubali Before The Beginning on a never seen before unheard scale for their streaming They see the po-tential in Bahubali of being Indiarsquos answer to Game of Thrones and hence they have decided to take things a notch higher The overall budget for the new part is Rs 200 crore and if we add the scrap value the project now is worth Rs 300 crorerdquo a trade

source told Bollywood HungamaItrsquos produced by SS Rajamouli with

Netflix and is planned as a 9 episode two season limited series showcasing the rise of Shivagami set in the world of Mahishmati Itrsquos said to be a prequel to

Bahubali While the original cast was to feature Mrunal Thakur as Shivagami we still await an update if she will continue to play the queen or has she been replaced by someone else in this revamped Rs 200 crore version of the franchise

Emraan Hashmi says it has been his dream to work with Salman Khan

Emraan Hashmi is being said to be roped in by the makers of the Tiger franchise starring Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif While the latter two will be reprising their roles and Tiger and Zoya in Tiger 3 Emraan Hashmi is being said to play the antagonist marking his fi rst collaboration with the two stars and Yash Raj Films Being

one of the most coveted actors of the industry Salman Khan un-doubtedly is one of the favourites for every celebrity

Speaking about joining the franchise Emraan said that he would love to work in the fran-chise and it has always been a dream for him to work with Salman Khan

In October last year actress Rhea Chakraborty was grant-ed bail by the Bombay High Court after spending nearly two months in judicial cus-tody Her bail has now been challenged in the Supreme Court by the Narcotics Control Bureau(NCB) The case will be heard on Thursday

Rhea Chakraborty was sent to judicial custody last year for drug related charges in the death of her actor boyfriend Sushant Singh Rajput She was granted bail on the condi-tion that she submit a Rs 1 lakh bond and not leave the country without the permission of the court

Rhea Chakrabortyrsquos bail challenged in theSupreme Court by NCB

UNKNOWN FACTS ABOUTBOLLYWOODCELEBRITIES

Aamir Khanrsquos full name is Mohammed Aamir

Hussain Khan Despite being from the fi lm

industry Aamirrsquos parents were not keen on him entering Bollywood In 1984 Aamir worked in

his fi rst ever feature fi lm titled Holi

Very few people are aware of the fact that Kareena Kapoor gave her voice to the song Jab Nahi Aaye for the

fi lm Dev Kareena played a lead role in

the fi lm Unfortunately the movie didnrsquot do well

at the box-offi ce

Bollywood TriviaWhich actress debuted in

the fi lm lsquoKedarnathrsquo

Answer 1

1) Sara Ali Khan2) Katrina Kaif3) Tara Sutaria4) Ananya PandeyWho is the mother of actress

Janhvi Kapoor

Answer 3

1) Kareena2) Karisma3) Sridevi4) Madhuri

12 India Bulletin Saturday March 20 2021

ENTERTAINMENT

Bollywood Beat

The Brihanmumbai Mu-nicipal Corporation (BMC) revealed on their social media page that they have filed an FIR (First information report) against a Bollywood actor for not adhering to Covid-19 guidelines despite testing posi-tive for the deadly virus They even uploaded a picture of the FIR but the name of the celeb-rity was blurred Immediately it led people to speculate who the actor could be

However it has now come to light that the actor in question is Gauahar Khan As per the complaint filed at Oshiwara po-lice station a BMC officer has said that on the night of March 14 he was informed that Gaua-har Khan has tested positive for Coronavirus and yet shersquos not ready to get quarantined Hence the officer reached Gau-ahar Khanrsquos residence but she refused to open the door Later her husband answered from the flat and allegedly shouted at the BMC team

The complainant further states that the actress alleg-edly went out of her house for a shoot Hence the officer claims that she has exposed people to the deadly virus and thus contributed to itrsquos spread

As per a news report S Chai-tanya DCP (operations) and PRO of Mumbai Police has stated that Gauahar Khan has been charged under Sections 188 269 270 of the IPC 51B of NDMA Act 3 of Epidemic Diseases Act

BMC files FIR against

Gauahar Khan

Upcoming FilmsThalaivi

Kangana Ranautand Vijay Deverakonda

RadheSalman Khan

Disha Patani Jackie Shroff and Randeep Hooda

83Ranveer Singh

and Deepika Padukone

Atrangi ReAkshay Kumar Sara Ali Khanand Dhanush

MaidaanAjay Devgn Priyamani

and Keerthy Suresh

Bachchan PandeyAkshay Kumar Bobby Deol

and Riteish Deshmukh

Bell BottomAkshay Kumar Vaani Kapoor Huma Qureshi and Lara Dutta

Satyameva Jayate 2John Abraham Manoj Bajpai

and Divya Khosla Kumar

BrahmastraRanbir Kapoor Alia Bhatt and

Amitabh Bachchan

MOVIE REVIEW

Itrsquos been almost a year when theatres were asked to shut down due to rapid rise in the cases of Coronavirus in the country Two of the films play-ing in theatres at that point were Angrezi Medium produced by Dinesh Vijan and Kaamyaab directed by Hardik Mehta In an interesting turn of events Roohi the film that releases today and kickstarts the movie-watching season in cinemas is helmed by both these personalities So does Roohi manage to enter-tain and enthral the audiences Or does it fail to entice Letrsquos analyse

Roohi is the story of a pos-sessed girl Bhawra Pandey (Rajkummar Rao) and Kattanni Qureshi (Varun Sharma) work as crime journalists in a small town Baagadpur They also specialise in lsquopakdaai shaadirsquo aka bride kidnapping an accepted custom in Baagadpur One day their boss Guniya Shakeel (Manav Vij) orders them to kidnap a girl Roohi (Janhvi Kapoor) from a nearby town Mujaribaad Bhawra and Kattanni manage to kidnap Roohi while she is with her father (Rajesh Jais) As per the lsquopakdaai shaadirsquo custom af-ter the girl is kidnapped she is straight away taken to the mar-

riage venue Bhawra and Kat-tanni are also supposed to fol-low suit with Roohi But after the kidnap takes place Guniya calls them and tells them that the groomrsquos uncle has passed away suddenly Hence the mar-riage will now take place after a week Till then Bhawra and Kattanni are told to keep her as a hostage in an abandoned property in the hills of Ambiya-pur On the first night Bhawra goes to offer dinner to Roohi only to realize that she is pos-sessed Kattanni at first doesnrsquot believe but later even he sees the possessed side of Roohi However instead of being frightened Kattanni falls for the possessed Roohi Bhawra on the other hand is in love with the non-possessed Roohi He decides to help her and get the witch out of her body Kattanni however is averse to the idea as loves the possessed Roohi and if Bhawra succeeds the witch will leave Roohi forever What hap-pens next forms the rest of the film

Mrighdeep Singh Lamba and Gautam Mehras story is inter-esting and novel The writers try their best to bring some-thing new to the table Mrigh-deep Singh Lamba and Gautam Mehras screenplay however is interesting only in parts A few scenes are exceptional and bring the house down But the serious portions donrsquot make the desired impact Mrigh-deep Singh Lamba and Gautam Mehras dialogues are witty But the dialect is too authentic and is incomprehensible at many places

Roohi starts off on an interest-ing note depicting the concept of bride kidnapping in Baagad-pur that too through the eyes of a foreign reporter (Alexx ONell) The film gets better once Bhawra and Kattanni kid-nap Roohi and set base at the spooky abandoned factory The scene where Bhawra narrates about the possessed Roohi to

Kattanni is sure to raise laughs The scene where Kattanni in-stead of running away falls for the possessed Roohi is unique and unexpected It will bring smiles on the faces of the view-ers The interval comes at an in-teresting juncture Post-interval the film begins to fall but a few scenes especially of the marriage with the dog and Bhawrarsquos con-versation with the old lady (Sar-ita Joshi) add to the humour and madness The climax though unpredictable is disappointing

Talking of performances Ra-jkummar Rao is in his element as expected Due to his adorable performance one doesnrsquot hate him even though hersquos playing a kidnapper in the film And his comic timing is spot-on espe-cially in the scenes where hersquos running away from the possessed Roohi Janhvi Kapoor is a big surprise She hardly has any dia-logues but gets her act right with her expressions And she also is convincing as the witch Varun Sharma is marvellous and man-ages to raise laughs In the last 30 minutes however he doesnrsquot have much to do Manav Vij suits the part and his performance is

fair Sarita Joshi (credited in the film as Padma Shri Sarita Joshi) is hilarious and one wish-es that she had a longer screen time Alexx ONell is lovely Rajesh H Jais Anurag Arora (Tantrik) Sumit Gulati (Paras Roohirsquos groom in the end) are okay

Sachin-Jigars music is ap-propriate for the film and itrsquos theme Kiston comes suddenly but is soulful Bhootni is hilari-ous while Panghat is played in the end credits Nadiyon Paar is attached with the filmrsquos print be-fore the film starts It is the best song of the lot and well shot One wishes if it was a part of the filmrsquos narrative Ketan Sodhas background score is well wo-ven and also contributes to the horror quotient

On the whole Roohi rests on a unique concept fine perfor-mances and some interesting funny and horror sequences However the disappointing climax and difficult-to-under-stand dialect might affect the filmrsquos prospects at the box office

BannerMaddock Films

Jio Studios

ProducerDinesh Vijan

Mrighdeep Singh Lamba

DirectorHardik Mehta

StarringRajkummar RaoVarun SharmaJanhvi Kapoor

Music BySachin-Jigar

Released DateMarch 11 2021

Roohi

Rating

Celebrity BirthdaysMarch 21stRani Mukerji (1978)

March 23rdKangana Ranaut (1987)

March 24thEmraan Hashmi (1979)

March 25thYograj Singh (1958)

March 26thPrakash Raj (1965)

April 3rdPrabhu Deva (1973)

April 4thLisa Ray (1972)Simran Bagga (1976)

March 28thAkshaye Khanna(1975) Sandhya Mridul (1975)

March 30thNagesh Kukunoor (1967)

April 2ndAjay Devgn (1969) Kapil Sharma (1981)

13India BulletinSaturday March 20 2021

ENTERTAINMENT

Biz Briefs

Apple Inc has started the as-sembly of iPhone 12 in India the US tech giant said as the com-pany ramps up manufacturing operations in the worldrsquos sec-ond-biggest smartphone market

ldquoWe are proud to be starting production of iPhone 12 in India for our local customersrdquo Apple said in a statement without naming the supplier making the smartphone

The Indian unit of Applersquos Taiwanese contract manufac-turer Foxconn will assemble the device in its plant in southern Tamil Nadu state two sources familiar with the matter said

Foxconn did not immediately respond to a request for com-ment but has previously said it does not comment on client-specifi c work

Poscorsquos steel plant in India

faces disruption Operations at South Korean

steelmaker Poscorsquos plant in the Indian state of Maharashtra have been disrupted due to local pro-tests over labour and other issues police and sources told Reuters hampering the supply chain for automakers

A local politician leading the protests said they have blocked employees and goods from enter-ing the plant and will continue until Posco heeds to some of their requests which include giv-ing employment preference to lo-cal workers raising the wages of temporary employees and making them permanent

Reuters could not indepen-dently verify the extent of the production disruption at Poscorsquos plant

Apple starts iPhone 12 assem-

bly in India

HEALTH amp SCIENCEBUSINESS14 India Bulletin Saturday March 20 2021

By Nidhi Verma

NEW DELHI - India and the UAE on Wednesday discussed ways to strengthen energy coop-eration Indiarsquos oil minister Dhar-mendra Pradhan said despite the South Asian nation asking its re-fi ners to reduce their reliance on Middle Eastern oil

ldquo(We) discussed about new ar-eas of cooperation in the hydro-carbon sector and beyond and agreed to remain committed de-spite the challenges presented by Covid pandemicrdquo Pradhan said on Twitter after a virtual meeting with Sultan Al Jaber the chief executive of Abu Dhabi National Oil Co (ADNOC)

UAE is a key oil supplier to India and a partner in an Indian joint venture that plans to build a 12 million barrels per day (bpd) refi nery and petrochemical com-plex on the countryrsquos west coast

Last month the UAE was the

fi fth biggest oil supplier to In-dia which itself is the worldrsquos third biggest oil importer and consumer

Pradhan said he also discussed with Jaber ways of strengthen-ing and ldquoproviding momentum to (the) bilateral strategic en-ergy partnershiprdquo between the countries

India imports more than 80 of its oil needs a signifi cant amount of which comes from the Middle East

New Delhi has however asked refi ners to gradually reduce oil imports from the Middle East and diversify supplies after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its al-lies known as OPEC+ decided to extend most curbs into April

India has been hit hard by rising oil prices due to which minister Pradhan has repeatedly called on OPEC+ to ease supply curbs and has blamed Saudi Ara-

India and UAE vow to strengthen energy cooperation says minister

biarsquos voluntary cuts for contribut-ing to a spike in global oil prices

Responding to Pradhanrsquos re-quest Saudi Arabiarsquos energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman suggested India dip into strategic reserves fi lled with cheaper oil bought last year

The UAErsquos ADNOC is the only foreign company to which India has leased a part of it strategic petroleum reserves India does not allow the export of oil but has given permission to ADNOC to export part of its oil in Mangalore SPR in southern India

Tesla in talks with Indiarsquos Tata Power for EV charging infrastructure

BENGALURU - Tesla Inc is exploring an arrangement with Indian conglomerate Tata Sonsrsquo power generation unit Tata Pow-er to set up charging infrastruc-ture for electric vehicles in the country CNBC-TV18 reported citing sources

Shares of Tata Power rose 55 to their best closing level since June 2014 after the report which comes as the Palo Alto-based electric-car maker gears up for an India launch later this year with plans to import and sell its Model 3 electric sedan

Tesla will set up an electric-car manufacturing unit in the southern Indian state of Karna-taka according to a government document seen by Reuters

Indiarsquos Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan

The talks between Tata Power and Tesla are in the initial stages and no arrangements have been

fi nalised yet the report saidTata Powerrsquos electric vehicle

charging business constantly

explores growth opportunities but has not fi nalised any new agreements the company said in a statement to stock exchanges It also said the CNBC-TV 18 report was ldquofactually incorrectrdquo but did not elaborate

Tesla was not immediately available for comment

In January the US electric-car maker incorporated Tesla Motors India and Energy Private Ltd with its registered offi ce in the southern city of Bengaluru a hub for global technology companies

Tata Motors Ltd the carmak-ing unit of Tata Sons last week denied any tie-up with Tesla af-ter media reports suggested the two companies were discussing a partnership

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BUSINESSIndia Bulletin

By Aftab Ahmed and Nupur Anand

NEW DELHIMUMBAI - In-dia will propose a law banning cryptocurrencies fi ning anyone trading in the country or even holding such digital assets a senior government offi cial told

Reuters in a potential blow to millions of investors piling into the red-hot asset class

The bill one of the worldrsquos strictest policies against cryp-tocurrencies would criminalise possession issuance mining trading and transferring crypto-assets said the offi cial who has

India to propose cryptocurrency ban penalising miners tradersdirect knowledge of the plan

The measure is in line with a January government agenda that called for banning private vir-tual currencies such as bitcoin while building a framework for an offi cial digital currency But recent government comments had raised investorsrsquo hopes that

the authorities might go easier on the booming market

Instead the bill would give holders of cryptocurrencies up to six months to liquidate after which penalties will be levied said the offi cial who asked not to be named as the contents of the bill are not public

Offi cials are confi dent of get-ting the bill enacted into law as Prime Minister Narendra Modirsquos government holds a comfortable majority in parliament

If the ban becomes law India would be the fi rst major econo-my to make holding cryptocur-rency illegal Even China which has banned mining and trading

does not penalise possessionThe Finance Ministry did not

immediately respond to an email seeking comment

Bitcoin the worldrsquos biggest cryptocurrency hit a record high $60000 last Saturday nearly doubling in value this year as its acceptance for payments has in-creased with support from such high-profi le backers as Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk

In India despite government threats of a ban transaction vol-umes are swelling and 8 million investors now hold 100 billion rupees ($14 billion) in crypto-investments according to indus-try estimates No offi cial data is available

US becomes Indiarsquos second biggest oil supplier Saudi plunges to No 4

By Nidhi Verma

NEW DELHI - The United States overtook Saudi Arabia as Indiarsquos second biggest oil sup-plier after Iraq last month as refi ners boosted cheaper US crude purchases to record levels to off set OPEC+ supply cuts data from trade sources showed

The switch in supplies trig-gered by lower US crude de-mand coincided with Saudi Ara-biarsquos voluntary extra 1 million barrel per day (bpd) output cut on top of an agreement by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies (OPEC+) to maintain lower pro-duction

Indiarsquos imports from the United

States - the worldrsquos top producer - rose 48 to a record 545300 bpd in February from the prior month accounting for 14 of Indiarsquos overall imports last month the data obtained by Reuters showed

In contrast February imports from Saudi Arabia fell by 42 from January to a decade low of 445200 bpd the data showed Saudi Arabia which has consis-tently been one of Indiarsquos top two suppliers slipped to No 4 for the fi rst time since at least January 2006

Indiarsquos oil import data by coun-try from before 2006 is not avail-able to Reuters

ldquoUS demand was weak and refi neries were running at low rates so the US crude had to

go somewhere and Asia is the region which has seen rapid de-mand recoveryrdquo said Refi nitiv analyst Ehsan Ul Haq

ldquoChina has not been taking US oil because of (the) trade problem so India is the obvious choicerdquo he said

Iraq continued to be the top oil seller to India despite a 23 drop in purchases to a fi ve-month low of 867500 bpd the data showed

The UAE slipped to fi fth posi-tion from third in January while Nigeria rose to third from fi fth exporting 472300 bpd the most since Oct 2019

India shipped in 392 million bpd of oil in February a decline of 18 from January the data showed

India will propose a law banning cryptocurrencies fi ning anyone trading in the country or even holding such digital assets a senior government offi cial told Re-uters in a potential blow to millions of investors piling into the red-hot asset class

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Aries (March 21 to April 20)Someone will always be prettier Someone will always be smarter Someone will always be younger But they will never be you Itrsquos this ability to understand your uniqueness which will help you steer forward in an otherwise difficult week

Taurus (April 21 to May 21)When a storm is coming all other birds seek shelter The eagle alone avoids the storm by flying above it So in the storms of life be like an eagle and soar above your problems Keep your love life on top priority and everything else will fall into place with time

Gemini (May 22 to June 21)Life is not happening to you Life is responding to you The things you do the decisions you take the people you love or the people you hate they all make you into who you are

Cancer (June 22 to July 22)Sadness does not come from bad circumstances It comes from bad thoughts Although the circumstances are mixed around you you will have a tendency to make a mountain out of a mole hill

Leo (July 23 to August 22)Every time we get what we thought we wanted we realise that we want more This race towards more - more money more power more of everything is taking a toll on your energy level

Virgo (August 23 to September 23)One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness usually it comes back to you While your hard work is fruc-tifying now do not let the success take you away from compassion

Libra (September 24 to October 23)Best friends are like stars You donrsquot always see them but you know they are always there This week you will be in a nostalgic mood and miss good old times and old friends Rather than thinking about it pick up the phone and talk to friends you have not spoken in years or take a friend out on a cappuccino trip

Scorpio (October 24 to November 22)Learn to make peace with your past or else your future will become a constant battle that yoursquoll never win The highlight of the week will be letting go of things forgiving people forgetting wrong-doings and moving on in life

Sagittarius (November 23 to December 21)Chaos in the midst of chaos isnrsquot funny but chaos in the midst of order is Probably one of the toughest week this month wherein there will be a lot of confusion and haze around Advice Do not take stress

Capricorn (December 22 to January 20)Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realise you havenrsquot fallen asleep yet Thatrsquos the kind of nights you might witness this week owing to unforeseen issues and hurdles Your discipline and organisational skills will steer you forward and transform these hurdles into opportunities Aquarius (January 21 to February 19)Women get the last word in every argument Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument This is not the week for you to get into any arguments as it might jeopardise your frame of mind

Pisces (February 20 to March 20)Find out who you are and be that person Thatrsquos what your soul was put on this Earth to be Find that truth live that truth and everything else will come The week will be about introspection spirituality and matters related to the soul

WEEKLY HOROSCOPE(March 28 - April 3 2021)

HEALTH amp SCIENCEASTROLOGYIndia Bulletin

8 things AARP wants you to know before your second COVID-19 vaccine

If yoursquove already received your first dose of a two-dose COVID-19 vaccine congratulations - yoursquore well on your way to being protect-ed from the coronavirus But to be fully immunized itrsquos critical to get that second shot

William Schaffner MD an infectious diseases specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville Tennessee and medical director of the Nation-al Foundation for Infectious Dis-eases says ldquoWe have told every-one these vaccines are 95 percent effectiverdquo of the two-dose Moder-na and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines currently in use in the US ldquoBut theyrsquore only 95 percent effective if you indeed get that second doserdquo

Here are a few more things to know about the second dose

1 Your side effects will likely be stronger

Many people who had little to no reaction to the first vaccine dose are reporting that the second one packs a punch mdash surprising even those who study vaccines for a liv-ing

Greg Poland MD an infec-tious disease expert at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota and director of Mayorsquos vaccine re-search group had only mild symp-toms after his first dose But the second one left him shaking - liter-ally - with chills and a temperature of 101

ldquoI took one Tylenol and went to bed and woke up the next morning 90 percent improved and by mid-day I was back to normalrdquo Poland says ldquoThis is not an indication of something going wrong it is an indication of a vigorous immune responserdquo

There is no live virus in the vac-cine so you canrsquot get COVID-19 from being vaccinated

Participants in clinical trials of both vaccines had experiences similar to Polandrsquos In Pfizerrsquos clinical trial for instance 31 per-cent of participants ages 18 to 55 reported a fever after the second dose compared to only 8 percent after the first one Fatigue chills headache and musclejoint pain were also more common after the second injection for both vaccines

The good news is older adults were less likely to experience vac-cine reactions the data shows Among those age 55 and up in the Pfizer trial 22 percent experienced fever after the second dose and 3 percent had a temperature after the first dose

Schaffner recommends not making any big plans for the day after your scheduled vaccine appointment

2 You should avoid taking pain relievers before your shot

If yoursquove been hearing sto-ries about second-dose side ef-fects you may be tempted to take a pain reliever before your appointment

Thatrsquos not a good idea accord-ing to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) unless yoursquove been advised to do so by your doctor Pain relievers taken preemptively ahead of a shot could dampen the effective-ness of the vaccine Poland and Schaffner say

However itrsquos OK to take ac-etaminophen (Tylenol) or a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug like Advil or Motrin after your vaccine to treat side effects such as pain fever chills or headache

3 The timing between doses doesnrsquot need to be exact

The second dose of the Pfiz-er shot is supposed to be giv-en 21 days after the first for Moderna the recommended interval between doses is 28 days

However if you canrsquot get an appointment on the exact day mdash or if you have to miss your scheduled appointment for some reason mdash the CDC does allow some wiggle room Although the agency recommends trying to stick to the suggested interval it says the second dose can be given up to six weeks after the first

If your appointment is sched-uled earlier than the recommend-ed date ask for a later appoint-ment Schaffner advises ldquoYour immune response will work perfectly well if you take more timerdquo he says ldquoBut if you do it too early the second dose may not invoke an optimal responserdquo

4 Your second dose should be from the same manufacturer as your first

Doctors are already hearing from patients asking if they can get their second dose from a dif-ferent manufacturer often be-cause they realize the other type of vaccine is offered at a location thatrsquos more convenient But the CDC recommends against it The Moderna and Pfizer vaccines ldquoare not interchangeable with each other or with other COVID-19 vaccine productsrdquo the CDC says ldquoThe safety and efficacy of a mixed-product series have not been evaluatedrdquo

5 A rash at the injection site isnrsquot a reason to skip your second dose

If you experienced a rash at the injection site three to 10 days

after getting your first shot that doesnrsquot preclude you from getting your second shot the CDC says although it recommends getting it in the other arm

A small number of people have developed such rashes some-times called ldquoCOVID armrdquo af-ter vaccination Doctors say itrsquos likely a mild allergic reaction that can be treated with an over-the-counter antihistamine such as Benadryl

6 You should temporarily avoid all other vaccines

It might be time for your shin-gles or Tdap vaccine but you should hold off if you are between COVID-19 vaccine doses Be-cause therersquos no data on the safety and efficacy of COVID vaccines administered at the same time as other vaccines the CDC recom-mends avoiding other immuniza-tions in the two weeks before and after both doses

7 Full immunity is not immediate

It takes two weeks after your second dose for your body to build full protection to the virus After that you should have al-most zero chance of developing severe disease if you are exposed to someone with COVID-19 Schaffner says The CDC also says you no longer have to quar-antine if yoursquore exposed to some-one with COVID-19 mdash as long as you meet these criteria you donrsquot have symptoms and it hasnrsquot been more than three months since your second vaccine dose

One possible exception is immunocompromised people Schaffner says They will get some level of immunity he says ldquobut they may not reach the 95 percent because their immune system is already somewhat com-promised no matter how strong these vaccines arerdquo

8 You still need to wear a maskExperts agree you should con-

tinue to wear a mask and practice social distancing in public For one thing therersquos a small chance you could get sick even after yoursquove been vaccinated

In addition itrsquos possible that you could still carry the virus and silently transmit it to others who havenrsquot been vaccinated even if you donrsquot develop symptoms

And therersquos one more reason Until the country reaches herd im-munity mdash the point when a signif-icant portion of the population be-comes immune to a disease mdash itrsquos important for everyone to wear a mask to stop the spread of the virus Schaffner says

Saturday March 20 2021

Biden All US adults to be eligible for vaccines by May

By Jeff Mason

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden told US states last Thursday to make all adults eligible for a coronavirus vaccine by May 1 and urged Americans to stay vigi-lant or face more restrictions hours after he signed a $19 trillion stimulus bill into law

In a forceful but somber speech from the White House on the fi rst anniversary of the pandemic lockdown Biden said if Ameri-cans pulled together there could be a great-er sense of normalcy - and some backyard barbecue parties with small groups - on the US Independence Day holiday on July 4

That date is a new goal for the president and a projection of hope amid a pandemic that has killed more than 530000 people in the United States the most of any country

To achieve his summer target Biden said he needed Americansrsquo help

ldquoIf we donrsquot stay vigilant and the con-ditions change then we may have to rein-state restrictions to get back on trackrdquo he said in an evening address from the White House his fi rst in television prime time since becoming president

ldquoWersquove made so much progress This is not the time to let up Just as we are emerging from a dark winter into a hope-ful spring and summer is not the time to not stick with the rulesrdquo he said

Republicans swiftly criticized Biden for his cautious approach ldquoWhat America needs now is to fully reopen our economy and our classroomsrdquo House of Represen-tatives Republican leader Kevin McCarthy said on Twitter

Biden said he was ordering US states territories and tribes to make all adults eli-gible to receive a coronavirus vaccine by May 1 The White House has said it would have enough vaccine supply to vaccinate the adult population by the end of May About 10 of Americans so far have been fully vaccinated

Administration offi cials said he would deploy 4000 more troops to help with the vaccine eff ort bringing the total number to 6000 The White House is also seeking to expand the pool of people able to adminis-ter shots to include dentists optometrists paramedics veterinarians and medical stu-dents

Biden campaigned last year on a prom-ise that he would tackle the pandemic more eff ectively than Republican Presi-dent Donald Trump and he has sought to encourage and model behavior such as mask-wearing that Trump eschewed

In his speech Biden took a swipe at his

predecessor by saying the virus was ini-tially met with ldquodenials for days weeks then months that led to more deaths more infections more stress more lonelinessrdquo

Biden said hate crimes and harassment against Asian Americans must stop Trump repeatedly referred to the disease as the ldquoChina virusrdquo

Biden also encouraged Americans to keep up mitigation eff orts - wearing masks keeping social distance and prac-ticing good hygiene - to stop the virus and its variants from spreading A number of states have been loosening restrictions

as Americans like many people around the world grow weary of pandemic life

ldquoPhotos and videos from 2019 feel like they were taken in another era The last vacation The last birthday with friends The last holiday with extended familyrdquo Biden said recounting the toll the virus has wrought

He said the country would come away from the crisis stronger ldquoWe faced and overcame one of the toughest and darkest periods in this nationrsquos history - darkest wersquove ever knownrdquo he said

Moderna begins study of COVID-19 vaccine in kids

Moderna Inc has begun dosing patients in a mid-to-late stage study of its COV-ID-19 vaccine mRNA-1273 in children aged six months to less than 12 years the company said on Tuesday

The study will assess the safety and ef-fectiveness of two doses of mRNA-1273 given 28 days apart and intends to enroll about 6750 children in the United States and Canada

The vaccine has already been au-thorized for emergency use in

Americans who are aged 18 and older

In a separate study which began in De-cember Moderna is also testing mRNA-1273 in adolescents between 12 and 18 years old

The latest study is being conducted in collaboration with the National Insti-tute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA)

Mother who lost only son to rare COVID complication warns parents to look for early signs

SANTIAGO - By the time doctors real-ized that Lorena Navarretersquos son had a rare complication of COVID-19 that affl icts some children it was too late to save her 16-year-old Emilio

Lorena a single mother who lives in the southern Chilean city of Puerto Montt told the TVN network that her music-loving and sociable son died about a week after he fi rst complained of feeling tired and of a pain in his legs in late January

Within days he had developed livid blotches on his skin a high fever vomiting and dark urine

Doctors at the cityrsquos hospital overrun with severe COVID cases repeatedly tested him for COVID but with the results coming back negative were at a loss as to what was wrong with him

By the time his illness was identifi ed as Multisystem Infl ammatory Syndrome in Children it was too late Lorena could not be at her sonrsquos bedside because of strict health protocols but a social worker called to pass on the message that her son loved

her very much She asked the social worker to tell her son she would see him soon and that his pets were well

ldquoA doctor said that if I had faith I should pray because my son was very illrdquo said Na-varrete who works as a nurse technician ldquoThey had a diagnosis and it was PIMSrdquo

Multisystem Infl ammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) as PIMS is more com-monly known is a rare life-threatening syndrome linked to COVID-19

It usually appears between two and six weeks after infection even in asymptomatic cases of COVID-19

It shares symptoms with toxic shock and Kawasaki disease including fever rashes swollen glands conjunctivitis and in severe cases heart infl ammation and can cause multiple organ failure It is not always fatal if caught and treated early

The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention said in January that it was inves-tigating whether COVID variants were in-creasing the number or severity of cases fol-lowing anecdotal reports from some states

US President Joe Biden

HEALTH amp SCIENCE17India Bulletin

HEALTH amp SCIENCE

Saturday March 20 2021

By Anthony Deutsch and Caroline Copley

AMSTERDAM - Global health experts came under in-creasing pressure on Tuesday to clear up questions over the safety of AstraZenecarsquos CO-VID-19 shot as Sweden and Latvia joined countries suspend-ing their use in a further blow to Europersquos vaccination rollout

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said it was

investigating reports of 30 cases of unusual blood disorders out of 5 million recipients of the As-traZeneca vaccine In total 45 million COVID shots have been delivered across the region

The EU regulator will release its findings on Thursday but its head Emer Cooke said she saw no reason to change its recom-mendation of AstraZeneca - one of four vaccines that it has approved for use

ldquoThe benefits continue to

outweigh the risks but this is a serious concern and it does need serious and detailed scientific evaluationrdquo Cooke told a news conference

A World Health Organization (WHO) committee of experts was reviewing the cases and was expected to issue a statement by the end of the day a spokesman said

The EUrsquos largest members - Germany France and Italy - suspended use of AstraZenecarsquos vaccine on Monday pending the outcome of investigations into unusual cases of a rare cerebral thrombosis in people who had received it

The addition of Sweden and Latvia on Tuesday brought to 13 the number of EU countries to act since reports first emerged of thromboembolisms affect-ing people after they got the AstraZeneca shot

The WHO and EMA had ear-lier joined AstraZeneca in say-ing there is no proven link but some experts said the episodes of blood clots bleeding and low platelet counts in younger people seemed to indicate a causal con-nection to the AstraZeneca shot

ldquoThe benefits of vaccination significantly outweigh the risks especially for the elderlyrdquo said Karl Lauterbach health spokes-man for Germanyrsquos Social Democratic Party

ldquoBut it could be the case that the risks of the vaccine are high-er for certain patient groups such as young womenrdquo Lauterbach an epidemiologist whose party is part of the Berlin coalition told Deutschlandfunk radio in an interview

Other epidemiologists note that similar cases have not been found in unusual num-bers in Britain which began using AstraZeneca earlier and has given more than 10 million doses

ldquoA very likely explanation of at least some of the clotting dis-orders seen are a result of CO-VID-19 rather than the vaccinerdquo said Stephen Evans professor of pharmacoepidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

ldquoThere are published papers that make clear that these prob-lems definitely occur in COV-ID-19 and there is no doubt that all the vaccines in use prevent

that disease Hence the risk and benefit balance for the AstraZen-eca vaccine remains clearly in favour of its benefitsrdquo

In the EUrsquos largest states in-cluding Germany France Italy the Netherlands and Spain As-traZeneca has accounted for about 13-15 of shots given since the rollout began almost three months ago with Pfizer-BioNTech making up the major-ity according to official data

As one as the cheapest to be developed the AstraZeneca shot is set to be the mainstay of vac-cination programmes in much of the developing world

Governments say they acted on the AstraZeneca shot out of an abundance of caution - of 16 million people in Germany given the vaccine seven fell ill with a very rare cerebral vein thrombosis of whom three died

In a detailed analysis of its findings Germanyrsquos vaccine oversight body the Paul Eh-rlich Institute said six of the cases were in women of young or middle age - a number statis-tically significantly higher than normally expected

Health experts pore over AstraZeneca safety data as Europe reels from vaccine suspensions

Global health experts came under increasing pressure on Tuesday to clear up questions over the safety of AstraZenecarsquos COVID-19 shot as Sweden and Latvia joined countries suspending their use in a further blow to Europersquos vaccination rollout

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India Bulletin Saturday March 20 2021

India Bulletin 19Saturday March 20 2021

Kishan Kohli help India level T20 series against England

AHMEDABAD - A belliger-ent 56 off 32 balls from India debutant Ishan Kishan and an unbeaten 73 from captain Virat Kohli helped the hosts to a com-manding seven-wicket win over England in the second Twenty20 International in Ahmedabad on Sunday

Kishan 22 smashed leg-spinner Adil Rashid for two con-secutive sixes to get past fifty as India made short work of a 165-run target to win with 13 balls to spare and level the five-match

series at 1-1Indiarsquos chase of Englandrsquos

164-6 got off to a shaky start when Sam Curran sent back opener KL Rahul in the first over without scoring but it did not curb Kishanrsquos aggres-sion the left-hander hitting five fours and four sixes in total

There was plenty of entertain-ment for the sizeable crowd at the worldrsquos biggest cricket sta-dium with most fans not wear-ing masks in the stands as Kohli

and Kishan added 94 in nine overs

Rishabh Pant came in after the dismissal of Kishan who was dropped by Ben Stokes on 40 off Rashid and continued to pummel Englandrsquos bowlers with a 13-ball 26 during which he hit two sixes and an identical number of fours

Kohli who also survived a dropped chance by wicketkeeper Jos Buttler on 10 off Chris Jor-dan sealed the win with a four and a six in successive balls to

also get past 3000 runs in T20 internationals in the process

Jason Roy once again top-scored for England with a 35-ball 46 following up on his knock of 49 in their win in the first match last Friday

Put in to bat the right-hander gave the touring side a steady start with a 63-run stand for the second wicket with Dawid Malan after the loss of opening partner Buttler to seamer Bhu-vneshwar Kumar on the first delivery he faced

Roy hit four fours and two six-es in his knock before holing out in the deep off spinner Washing-ton Sundar who also sent back the dangerous Jonny Bairstow for 20

Fast bowler Shardul Thakur pegged back Englandrsquos hopes of a flourishing finish by dis-missing opposition captain Eoin Morgan and Stokes as India conceded just 35 off the last five overs

The third match of the series will be played on Tuesday

Virat Kohli

Rohit urges India debutants to lsquohave funrsquo against England in T20 series

After Suryakumar Yadav and Ishan Kishan earned their maiden call-ups to the Indian national team vice-captain Rohit Sharma stressed on the importance of playing with-out any pressure when they take on England in a Twenty20 series

Kishan and Suryakumar were named in the squad after plun-dering 516 and 480 runs re-spectively in the Indian Premier League last season where the pair played under Rohit for the

Mumbai Indians as they clinched their fifth title in November

ldquoI donrsquot want them to be think-ing about anythingrdquo Rohit told reporters on Wednesday ldquoThatrsquos how they bring their best perfor-mance out

ldquoHaving watched them closely for a few years now Irsquove realised itrsquos important for them to be part of this wonder-ful team a great setup I just want them to have fun and un-derstand what this team is all about

ldquoThese guys have done re-ally well in the last few years especially the last year Itrsquos just about carrying that form and putting it out there Itrsquos not go-ing to be that easy here they will be challenged every now and thenrdquo

For England itrsquos a much-awaited return to the squad for all-rounder Liam Livingstone who had similar success in Aus-traliarsquos Big Bash League where he scored 426 runs for Perth Scorchers

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By Aftab Ahmedand Sankalp Phartiyal

NEW DELHI - India is likely to block its mobile carriers from using telecom equipment made by Chinarsquos Huawei two govern-ment officials said under pro-curement rules due to come into force in June

New Delhi is wary about awarding new technology busi-ness to Chinese firms both be-cause of security fears and a desire to get Indian manufactur-

ers to produce more telecoms equipment

A US campaign to curb Huawei has triggered bans or limits on the use of its equip-ment around the world but the situation in India has been amplified by strained rela-tions between New Delhi and Beijing over their shared border

Indiarsquos telecoms department said last Wednesday that after June 15 carriers can only buy certain types of equipment from

government-approved ldquotrusted sourcesrdquo and said New Delhi could also create a ldquono procure-mentrdquo blacklist Huawei is likely to feature on this embargoed list the two officials who declined to be named told Reuters

ldquoWe cannot prioritise econom-ic gains if an investment poses national security riskrdquo one of the officials said

The telecoms department which did not comment last Thursday about Huawei is yet to provide further details on the plans for trusted sources or a procurement blacklist

However a third official who also declined to be named told

Reuters that ZTE Corp another Chinese firm which has a smaller presence in India could also be excluded

Huawei and ZTE are un-der scrutiny for allegedly in-stalling ldquobackdoorrdquo vulner-abilities to spy for the Chinese government

Both have denied the allega-tions and Huawei has previously told Reuters it is ready to enter into a ldquono backdoorrdquo deal with India to allay security concerns

Huawei and ZTE did not im-mediately respond to requests for comment

Two of Indiarsquos three big tele-coms carriers Bharti Airtel and

Vodafone Idea use Huawei gear Any restriction on Huawei gear is likely to push up costs industry analysts say

The Chinese firmrsquos equipment and network maintenance con-tracts are typically cheaper than European competitors such as Ericsson and Nokia and there is limited availability of such gear in India

India has begun to fast-track approvals of some of the more than 150 Chinese investment proposals worth over $2 billion it had put on hold after a June standoff between the two neigh-bours on the disputed Himalayan border

India likely to block Chinarsquos Huawei over security fears officials

India Bulletin

India is likely to block its mobile carriers from using telecom equipment made by Chinarsquos Huawei two government officials said under procurement rules due to come into force in June UKrsquos Johnson to visit India at

end of April as part of policy lsquotiltrsquoLONDON - PM Boris Johnson

will visit India at the end of April in what will be his first major in-ternational trip after Britainrsquos exit from the European Union as part of efforts to boost UK opportuni-ties in the region his office said

Johnson had planned an Indian trip in January as part of efforts to speed up trade talks between the two nations but was forced to cancel amid a surge of COVID-19

infections at homeAt the time his office said he

had hoped to rearrange the visit before Britain hosted the meet-ing of leaders from the Group of Seven rich nations in June which Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is due to attend as a visitor

Johnsonrsquos government said it would ldquotiltrdquo its focus towards the Indo-Pacific region as part of its Integrated Review of government

policy for the coming years say-ing the area increasingly repre-sented the geopolitical centre of the world

Last month Britain made a for-mal request to join the Compre-hensive and Progressive Agree-ment for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) seeking membership of the 11-country bloc to open new avenues for post-Brexit trade and influence

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ldquoJAINISM A Resilient Path to Peacerdquo

The Federation of Jain Asso-ciations in North America (JAI-NA) will be celebrating its 21st Convention on the Fourth of July weekend mdash from July 1st to 6th 2021 Every two years this premier event brings together members of the Jain Community from across the world This year the virtual event is planned to be a global event and is expected to attract an even larger audience from the USA Canada India UK Australia UAE and many other countries

In face of all the turbulence throughout the world in the last year it is paramount for us to be vigilant compassionate tolerant and to ldquokeep the faithrdquo Jain-ism one of the ancient minor-ity religions has thrived worse than the pandemic based on its wisdom of Maitri (Amity) in-terdependence and honoring and respecting life at any cost The Convention will showcase our firm belief that spirituality enables us to sustain our sense of self and purpose through be-liefs principles values and morals Hence the theme for this yearrsquos Convention is ldquoJAINISM A Resilient Path to Peacerdquo

Convention Convener and First Vice President of JAINA Mr Haresh Shah of Delaware proudly shared that the attendee response has been overwhelming with more than 5000 registra-tions as of this writing Conven-tion Co-Convener and JAINA President Mr Mahesh Wadher of Los Angeles expressed his grati-tude for 100+ volunteers across 23 teams working day and night as ONE TEAM to make this convention the most memorable ever Convention Co-Convener Mr Bindesh Shah mentioned that the Convention will feature a state-of-the-art user-friend-ly and interactive conference platform with many features such as an online Main Hall 6 Breakout Rooms 4 Competi-tion Rooms and an Exhibition Hall

Enlightening discourses dis-cussion tracks and activities planned at this Convention will offer attendees a deeper under-standing of Jain principles and values while also helping the community with a roadmap to bounce back Youth participa-tion through JAINArsquos affiliate organizations Young Jains of America (YJA) Young Jain Pro-fessionals (YJP) as well as Jain

Announcing JAINA Convention 2021 July 1-6 2021Connect will be strongly pro-moted and encouraged There will be focused programs for all age groups children (ages 5-12) youth (ages 13-20) Jain Networking Forum (ages 21-29) and adults

Other featured events include the popular Jain Academic Bowl (JAB) a jeopardy style vo-cabulary game in which young Jains compete with other teams Jains Got Talent (JGT) and Vir-tual Tirthdham Darshan ndash A nar-rated Tirth Yatra of 12 major Jain Tirth of India broadcast live

Public Relations and Media Committee Chair Mr Vipul Shah of Chicago proudly con-firmed that spiritual dignitar-ies such as Acharya Ratna-sundersuri Maharaj Saheb Acharya Shri Mahashramanji Rashtrasant Gurudev Shree Namramuni Pramansagarji Maharaj Sadhvi Charitraarth Prabhaji and many others will enlighten us with their wisdom during the Convention Acharya Lokesh Muniji Acharya Chan-danaji and Bhattarak Charuke-ertiji will bless the Convention with their Ashirwad speeches While Gurudevshri Rakeshbhai Jhaveri will give the keynote

address other featured speakers include Shri Deepakbhai Desai Shri Gyanvatsal Swami Brahma Kumari Sister Shivani and Dr Veerendra Heggade The line-up of other prominent and inspi-rational speakers includes Dr Christopher Miller Dr Steven Southwick Rahul Kapoor Jain Motilal Oswal Dr Kumarpal Desai Dr Bipin Doshi and Dr Bimal Chajjer

The daily sessions and discus-sions will be well-complement-ed by refreshing Cultural Pro-grams in the evening including Jain Drama Rang De Sanskar - a high caliber humorous Hindi drama with famous actors amp an immense cast Jains Got Talent (JGT) and entertaining cultural performances from across the world A special Bollywood Musical ldquoSunheri Yaadeinrdquo will take us back 40 years of melodi-ous music to celebrate 40 Years Anniversary of JAINA

JAINA convention 2021 is an

invitation to all who aspire for a peaceful resilient recovery from the pandemic and to reweave the delicate fabric of humanity Since opening the registration on January 9th over 5000 at-tendees have already registered for the convention Come join us with our collective wisdom we will dream and create a non-violent future of Love Peace and Collaboration Your pres-ence and participation will help us ground in interconnection and solidarity and walk with you on the resilient path to peace we build together

For additional information about this convention and to register please visit us online at wwwjainaconventionorg

For Further Information please contact Mr Vipul Shah Chair of Public Relations and Press-Media Committee of JAINA Convention 2021 or its Co-Chair Mr Rahul Jain at prjainaorg

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Bollywood BeatDJ Aqeel and Farah Ali Khan are done

with their marriage

Actor Hrithik Roshanrsquos ex-wife Sussane Khanrsquos sister jewellery designer Farah Khan Ali has taken to social media to announce her separation from husband DJ Aqeel after 22 years of marriage In a lengthy post she spoke about how two people grow apart at times and that there is no bad bloodbetween them

The statement read ldquoSome-times two people grow apart Sometimes they outgrow each other It has been 9 years since my relationship with my hus-band Aqeel changed its status as a couple to just friends and to term it simply would be to state that we are ldquoHappily Sepa-ratedrdquordquo

ldquoWe will always be best friends to each other and par-ents to our wonderful children Azaan and Fizaa who love us both equally yet accept that we cannot be a couple any longer This was a mutual decision we took together involving two adults and there wasnrsquot any third person involved The reason we are announcing it publicly now is so that the ones who know us accept our situation grace-fully and always wish well for both of us especially because we hold no animosity of any kind towards one another and will al-ways be there for each otherrdquo it further read

ldquoAqeel is and will always be my family as I will be his We hope that all our well-wishers will accept our deci-sion maturely and not judge us for itrdquo

Bahubali now planned on a budget of 200 crores as Netflix scraps the already shot version of 100 croresNetflix is easily amongst the richest

digital platforms of the world According to our highly placed sources Netfl ix has scrapped the already shot Rs 100 crore version of the Netfl ix Original Bahubali Before The Beginning and have already begun work on a new version of the show this time around on double the cost of Rs 200 crores

ldquoNetfl ix was not satisfi ed with the prod-uct they had in hand and hence decided to scrap it completely They reworked on the script star-cast and technical team and are now reshooting Bahubali Before The Beginning on a never seen before unheard scale for their streaming They see the po-tential in Bahubali of being Indiarsquos answer to Game of Thrones and hence they have decided to take things a notch higher The overall budget for the new part is Rs 200 crore and if we add the scrap value the project now is worth Rs 300 crorerdquo a trade

source told Bollywood HungamaItrsquos produced by SS Rajamouli with

Netflix and is planned as a 9 episode two season limited series showcasing the rise of Shivagami set in the world of Mahishmati Itrsquos said to be a prequel to

Bahubali While the original cast was to feature Mrunal Thakur as Shivagami we still await an update if she will continue to play the queen or has she been replaced by someone else in this revamped Rs 200 crore version of the franchise

Emraan Hashmi says it has been his dream to work with Salman Khan

Emraan Hashmi is being said to be roped in by the makers of the Tiger franchise starring Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif While the latter two will be reprising their roles and Tiger and Zoya in Tiger 3 Emraan Hashmi is being said to play the antagonist marking his fi rst collaboration with the two stars and Yash Raj Films Being

one of the most coveted actors of the industry Salman Khan un-doubtedly is one of the favourites for every celebrity

Speaking about joining the franchise Emraan said that he would love to work in the fran-chise and it has always been a dream for him to work with Salman Khan

In October last year actress Rhea Chakraborty was grant-ed bail by the Bombay High Court after spending nearly two months in judicial cus-tody Her bail has now been challenged in the Supreme Court by the Narcotics Control Bureau(NCB) The case will be heard on Thursday

Rhea Chakraborty was sent to judicial custody last year for drug related charges in the death of her actor boyfriend Sushant Singh Rajput She was granted bail on the condi-tion that she submit a Rs 1 lakh bond and not leave the country without the permission of the court

Rhea Chakrabortyrsquos bail challenged in theSupreme Court by NCB

UNKNOWN FACTS ABOUTBOLLYWOODCELEBRITIES

Aamir Khanrsquos full name is Mohammed Aamir

Hussain Khan Despite being from the fi lm

industry Aamirrsquos parents were not keen on him entering Bollywood In 1984 Aamir worked in

his fi rst ever feature fi lm titled Holi

Very few people are aware of the fact that Kareena Kapoor gave her voice to the song Jab Nahi Aaye for the

fi lm Dev Kareena played a lead role in

the fi lm Unfortunately the movie didnrsquot do well

at the box-offi ce

Bollywood TriviaWhich actress debuted in

the fi lm lsquoKedarnathrsquo

Answer 1

1) Sara Ali Khan2) Katrina Kaif3) Tara Sutaria4) Ananya PandeyWho is the mother of actress

Janhvi Kapoor

Answer 3

1) Kareena2) Karisma3) Sridevi4) Madhuri

12 India Bulletin Saturday March 20 2021

ENTERTAINMENT

Bollywood Beat

The Brihanmumbai Mu-nicipal Corporation (BMC) revealed on their social media page that they have filed an FIR (First information report) against a Bollywood actor for not adhering to Covid-19 guidelines despite testing posi-tive for the deadly virus They even uploaded a picture of the FIR but the name of the celeb-rity was blurred Immediately it led people to speculate who the actor could be

However it has now come to light that the actor in question is Gauahar Khan As per the complaint filed at Oshiwara po-lice station a BMC officer has said that on the night of March 14 he was informed that Gaua-har Khan has tested positive for Coronavirus and yet shersquos not ready to get quarantined Hence the officer reached Gau-ahar Khanrsquos residence but she refused to open the door Later her husband answered from the flat and allegedly shouted at the BMC team

The complainant further states that the actress alleg-edly went out of her house for a shoot Hence the officer claims that she has exposed people to the deadly virus and thus contributed to itrsquos spread

As per a news report S Chai-tanya DCP (operations) and PRO of Mumbai Police has stated that Gauahar Khan has been charged under Sections 188 269 270 of the IPC 51B of NDMA Act 3 of Epidemic Diseases Act

BMC files FIR against

Gauahar Khan

Upcoming FilmsThalaivi

Kangana Ranautand Vijay Deverakonda

RadheSalman Khan

Disha Patani Jackie Shroff and Randeep Hooda

83Ranveer Singh

and Deepika Padukone

Atrangi ReAkshay Kumar Sara Ali Khanand Dhanush

MaidaanAjay Devgn Priyamani

and Keerthy Suresh

Bachchan PandeyAkshay Kumar Bobby Deol

and Riteish Deshmukh

Bell BottomAkshay Kumar Vaani Kapoor Huma Qureshi and Lara Dutta

Satyameva Jayate 2John Abraham Manoj Bajpai

and Divya Khosla Kumar

BrahmastraRanbir Kapoor Alia Bhatt and

Amitabh Bachchan

MOVIE REVIEW

Itrsquos been almost a year when theatres were asked to shut down due to rapid rise in the cases of Coronavirus in the country Two of the films play-ing in theatres at that point were Angrezi Medium produced by Dinesh Vijan and Kaamyaab directed by Hardik Mehta In an interesting turn of events Roohi the film that releases today and kickstarts the movie-watching season in cinemas is helmed by both these personalities So does Roohi manage to enter-tain and enthral the audiences Or does it fail to entice Letrsquos analyse

Roohi is the story of a pos-sessed girl Bhawra Pandey (Rajkummar Rao) and Kattanni Qureshi (Varun Sharma) work as crime journalists in a small town Baagadpur They also specialise in lsquopakdaai shaadirsquo aka bride kidnapping an accepted custom in Baagadpur One day their boss Guniya Shakeel (Manav Vij) orders them to kidnap a girl Roohi (Janhvi Kapoor) from a nearby town Mujaribaad Bhawra and Kattanni manage to kidnap Roohi while she is with her father (Rajesh Jais) As per the lsquopakdaai shaadirsquo custom af-ter the girl is kidnapped she is straight away taken to the mar-

riage venue Bhawra and Kat-tanni are also supposed to fol-low suit with Roohi But after the kidnap takes place Guniya calls them and tells them that the groomrsquos uncle has passed away suddenly Hence the mar-riage will now take place after a week Till then Bhawra and Kattanni are told to keep her as a hostage in an abandoned property in the hills of Ambiya-pur On the first night Bhawra goes to offer dinner to Roohi only to realize that she is pos-sessed Kattanni at first doesnrsquot believe but later even he sees the possessed side of Roohi However instead of being frightened Kattanni falls for the possessed Roohi Bhawra on the other hand is in love with the non-possessed Roohi He decides to help her and get the witch out of her body Kattanni however is averse to the idea as loves the possessed Roohi and if Bhawra succeeds the witch will leave Roohi forever What hap-pens next forms the rest of the film

Mrighdeep Singh Lamba and Gautam Mehras story is inter-esting and novel The writers try their best to bring some-thing new to the table Mrigh-deep Singh Lamba and Gautam Mehras screenplay however is interesting only in parts A few scenes are exceptional and bring the house down But the serious portions donrsquot make the desired impact Mrigh-deep Singh Lamba and Gautam Mehras dialogues are witty But the dialect is too authentic and is incomprehensible at many places

Roohi starts off on an interest-ing note depicting the concept of bride kidnapping in Baagad-pur that too through the eyes of a foreign reporter (Alexx ONell) The film gets better once Bhawra and Kattanni kid-nap Roohi and set base at the spooky abandoned factory The scene where Bhawra narrates about the possessed Roohi to

Kattanni is sure to raise laughs The scene where Kattanni in-stead of running away falls for the possessed Roohi is unique and unexpected It will bring smiles on the faces of the view-ers The interval comes at an in-teresting juncture Post-interval the film begins to fall but a few scenes especially of the marriage with the dog and Bhawrarsquos con-versation with the old lady (Sar-ita Joshi) add to the humour and madness The climax though unpredictable is disappointing

Talking of performances Ra-jkummar Rao is in his element as expected Due to his adorable performance one doesnrsquot hate him even though hersquos playing a kidnapper in the film And his comic timing is spot-on espe-cially in the scenes where hersquos running away from the possessed Roohi Janhvi Kapoor is a big surprise She hardly has any dia-logues but gets her act right with her expressions And she also is convincing as the witch Varun Sharma is marvellous and man-ages to raise laughs In the last 30 minutes however he doesnrsquot have much to do Manav Vij suits the part and his performance is

fair Sarita Joshi (credited in the film as Padma Shri Sarita Joshi) is hilarious and one wish-es that she had a longer screen time Alexx ONell is lovely Rajesh H Jais Anurag Arora (Tantrik) Sumit Gulati (Paras Roohirsquos groom in the end) are okay

Sachin-Jigars music is ap-propriate for the film and itrsquos theme Kiston comes suddenly but is soulful Bhootni is hilari-ous while Panghat is played in the end credits Nadiyon Paar is attached with the filmrsquos print be-fore the film starts It is the best song of the lot and well shot One wishes if it was a part of the filmrsquos narrative Ketan Sodhas background score is well wo-ven and also contributes to the horror quotient

On the whole Roohi rests on a unique concept fine perfor-mances and some interesting funny and horror sequences However the disappointing climax and difficult-to-under-stand dialect might affect the filmrsquos prospects at the box office

BannerMaddock Films

Jio Studios

ProducerDinesh Vijan

Mrighdeep Singh Lamba

DirectorHardik Mehta

StarringRajkummar RaoVarun SharmaJanhvi Kapoor

Music BySachin-Jigar

Released DateMarch 11 2021

Roohi

Rating

Celebrity BirthdaysMarch 21stRani Mukerji (1978)

March 23rdKangana Ranaut (1987)

March 24thEmraan Hashmi (1979)

March 25thYograj Singh (1958)

March 26thPrakash Raj (1965)

April 3rdPrabhu Deva (1973)

April 4thLisa Ray (1972)Simran Bagga (1976)

March 28thAkshaye Khanna(1975) Sandhya Mridul (1975)

March 30thNagesh Kukunoor (1967)

April 2ndAjay Devgn (1969) Kapil Sharma (1981)

13India BulletinSaturday March 20 2021

ENTERTAINMENT

Biz Briefs

Apple Inc has started the as-sembly of iPhone 12 in India the US tech giant said as the com-pany ramps up manufacturing operations in the worldrsquos sec-ond-biggest smartphone market

ldquoWe are proud to be starting production of iPhone 12 in India for our local customersrdquo Apple said in a statement without naming the supplier making the smartphone

The Indian unit of Applersquos Taiwanese contract manufac-turer Foxconn will assemble the device in its plant in southern Tamil Nadu state two sources familiar with the matter said

Foxconn did not immediately respond to a request for com-ment but has previously said it does not comment on client-specifi c work

Poscorsquos steel plant in India

faces disruption Operations at South Korean

steelmaker Poscorsquos plant in the Indian state of Maharashtra have been disrupted due to local pro-tests over labour and other issues police and sources told Reuters hampering the supply chain for automakers

A local politician leading the protests said they have blocked employees and goods from enter-ing the plant and will continue until Posco heeds to some of their requests which include giv-ing employment preference to lo-cal workers raising the wages of temporary employees and making them permanent

Reuters could not indepen-dently verify the extent of the production disruption at Poscorsquos plant

Apple starts iPhone 12 assem-

bly in India

HEALTH amp SCIENCEBUSINESS14 India Bulletin Saturday March 20 2021

By Nidhi Verma

NEW DELHI - India and the UAE on Wednesday discussed ways to strengthen energy coop-eration Indiarsquos oil minister Dhar-mendra Pradhan said despite the South Asian nation asking its re-fi ners to reduce their reliance on Middle Eastern oil

ldquo(We) discussed about new ar-eas of cooperation in the hydro-carbon sector and beyond and agreed to remain committed de-spite the challenges presented by Covid pandemicrdquo Pradhan said on Twitter after a virtual meeting with Sultan Al Jaber the chief executive of Abu Dhabi National Oil Co (ADNOC)

UAE is a key oil supplier to India and a partner in an Indian joint venture that plans to build a 12 million barrels per day (bpd) refi nery and petrochemical com-plex on the countryrsquos west coast

Last month the UAE was the

fi fth biggest oil supplier to In-dia which itself is the worldrsquos third biggest oil importer and consumer

Pradhan said he also discussed with Jaber ways of strengthen-ing and ldquoproviding momentum to (the) bilateral strategic en-ergy partnershiprdquo between the countries

India imports more than 80 of its oil needs a signifi cant amount of which comes from the Middle East

New Delhi has however asked refi ners to gradually reduce oil imports from the Middle East and diversify supplies after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its al-lies known as OPEC+ decided to extend most curbs into April

India has been hit hard by rising oil prices due to which minister Pradhan has repeatedly called on OPEC+ to ease supply curbs and has blamed Saudi Ara-

India and UAE vow to strengthen energy cooperation says minister

biarsquos voluntary cuts for contribut-ing to a spike in global oil prices

Responding to Pradhanrsquos re-quest Saudi Arabiarsquos energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman suggested India dip into strategic reserves fi lled with cheaper oil bought last year

The UAErsquos ADNOC is the only foreign company to which India has leased a part of it strategic petroleum reserves India does not allow the export of oil but has given permission to ADNOC to export part of its oil in Mangalore SPR in southern India

Tesla in talks with Indiarsquos Tata Power for EV charging infrastructure

BENGALURU - Tesla Inc is exploring an arrangement with Indian conglomerate Tata Sonsrsquo power generation unit Tata Pow-er to set up charging infrastruc-ture for electric vehicles in the country CNBC-TV18 reported citing sources

Shares of Tata Power rose 55 to their best closing level since June 2014 after the report which comes as the Palo Alto-based electric-car maker gears up for an India launch later this year with plans to import and sell its Model 3 electric sedan

Tesla will set up an electric-car manufacturing unit in the southern Indian state of Karna-taka according to a government document seen by Reuters

Indiarsquos Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan

The talks between Tata Power and Tesla are in the initial stages and no arrangements have been

fi nalised yet the report saidTata Powerrsquos electric vehicle

charging business constantly

explores growth opportunities but has not fi nalised any new agreements the company said in a statement to stock exchanges It also said the CNBC-TV 18 report was ldquofactually incorrectrdquo but did not elaborate

Tesla was not immediately available for comment

In January the US electric-car maker incorporated Tesla Motors India and Energy Private Ltd with its registered offi ce in the southern city of Bengaluru a hub for global technology companies

Tata Motors Ltd the carmak-ing unit of Tata Sons last week denied any tie-up with Tesla af-ter media reports suggested the two companies were discussing a partnership

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BUSINESSIndia Bulletin

By Aftab Ahmed and Nupur Anand

NEW DELHIMUMBAI - In-dia will propose a law banning cryptocurrencies fi ning anyone trading in the country or even holding such digital assets a senior government offi cial told

Reuters in a potential blow to millions of investors piling into the red-hot asset class

The bill one of the worldrsquos strictest policies against cryp-tocurrencies would criminalise possession issuance mining trading and transferring crypto-assets said the offi cial who has

India to propose cryptocurrency ban penalising miners tradersdirect knowledge of the plan

The measure is in line with a January government agenda that called for banning private vir-tual currencies such as bitcoin while building a framework for an offi cial digital currency But recent government comments had raised investorsrsquo hopes that

the authorities might go easier on the booming market

Instead the bill would give holders of cryptocurrencies up to six months to liquidate after which penalties will be levied said the offi cial who asked not to be named as the contents of the bill are not public

Offi cials are confi dent of get-ting the bill enacted into law as Prime Minister Narendra Modirsquos government holds a comfortable majority in parliament

If the ban becomes law India would be the fi rst major econo-my to make holding cryptocur-rency illegal Even China which has banned mining and trading

does not penalise possessionThe Finance Ministry did not

immediately respond to an email seeking comment

Bitcoin the worldrsquos biggest cryptocurrency hit a record high $60000 last Saturday nearly doubling in value this year as its acceptance for payments has in-creased with support from such high-profi le backers as Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk

In India despite government threats of a ban transaction vol-umes are swelling and 8 million investors now hold 100 billion rupees ($14 billion) in crypto-investments according to indus-try estimates No offi cial data is available

US becomes Indiarsquos second biggest oil supplier Saudi plunges to No 4

By Nidhi Verma

NEW DELHI - The United States overtook Saudi Arabia as Indiarsquos second biggest oil sup-plier after Iraq last month as refi ners boosted cheaper US crude purchases to record levels to off set OPEC+ supply cuts data from trade sources showed

The switch in supplies trig-gered by lower US crude de-mand coincided with Saudi Ara-biarsquos voluntary extra 1 million barrel per day (bpd) output cut on top of an agreement by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies (OPEC+) to maintain lower pro-duction

Indiarsquos imports from the United

States - the worldrsquos top producer - rose 48 to a record 545300 bpd in February from the prior month accounting for 14 of Indiarsquos overall imports last month the data obtained by Reuters showed

In contrast February imports from Saudi Arabia fell by 42 from January to a decade low of 445200 bpd the data showed Saudi Arabia which has consis-tently been one of Indiarsquos top two suppliers slipped to No 4 for the fi rst time since at least January 2006

Indiarsquos oil import data by coun-try from before 2006 is not avail-able to Reuters

ldquoUS demand was weak and refi neries were running at low rates so the US crude had to

go somewhere and Asia is the region which has seen rapid de-mand recoveryrdquo said Refi nitiv analyst Ehsan Ul Haq

ldquoChina has not been taking US oil because of (the) trade problem so India is the obvious choicerdquo he said

Iraq continued to be the top oil seller to India despite a 23 drop in purchases to a fi ve-month low of 867500 bpd the data showed

The UAE slipped to fi fth posi-tion from third in January while Nigeria rose to third from fi fth exporting 472300 bpd the most since Oct 2019

India shipped in 392 million bpd of oil in February a decline of 18 from January the data showed

India will propose a law banning cryptocurrencies fi ning anyone trading in the country or even holding such digital assets a senior government offi cial told Re-uters in a potential blow to millions of investors piling into the red-hot asset class

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Aries (March 21 to April 20)Someone will always be prettier Someone will always be smarter Someone will always be younger But they will never be you Itrsquos this ability to understand your uniqueness which will help you steer forward in an otherwise difficult week

Taurus (April 21 to May 21)When a storm is coming all other birds seek shelter The eagle alone avoids the storm by flying above it So in the storms of life be like an eagle and soar above your problems Keep your love life on top priority and everything else will fall into place with time

Gemini (May 22 to June 21)Life is not happening to you Life is responding to you The things you do the decisions you take the people you love or the people you hate they all make you into who you are

Cancer (June 22 to July 22)Sadness does not come from bad circumstances It comes from bad thoughts Although the circumstances are mixed around you you will have a tendency to make a mountain out of a mole hill

Leo (July 23 to August 22)Every time we get what we thought we wanted we realise that we want more This race towards more - more money more power more of everything is taking a toll on your energy level

Virgo (August 23 to September 23)One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness usually it comes back to you While your hard work is fruc-tifying now do not let the success take you away from compassion

Libra (September 24 to October 23)Best friends are like stars You donrsquot always see them but you know they are always there This week you will be in a nostalgic mood and miss good old times and old friends Rather than thinking about it pick up the phone and talk to friends you have not spoken in years or take a friend out on a cappuccino trip

Scorpio (October 24 to November 22)Learn to make peace with your past or else your future will become a constant battle that yoursquoll never win The highlight of the week will be letting go of things forgiving people forgetting wrong-doings and moving on in life

Sagittarius (November 23 to December 21)Chaos in the midst of chaos isnrsquot funny but chaos in the midst of order is Probably one of the toughest week this month wherein there will be a lot of confusion and haze around Advice Do not take stress

Capricorn (December 22 to January 20)Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realise you havenrsquot fallen asleep yet Thatrsquos the kind of nights you might witness this week owing to unforeseen issues and hurdles Your discipline and organisational skills will steer you forward and transform these hurdles into opportunities Aquarius (January 21 to February 19)Women get the last word in every argument Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument This is not the week for you to get into any arguments as it might jeopardise your frame of mind

Pisces (February 20 to March 20)Find out who you are and be that person Thatrsquos what your soul was put on this Earth to be Find that truth live that truth and everything else will come The week will be about introspection spirituality and matters related to the soul

WEEKLY HOROSCOPE(March 28 - April 3 2021)

HEALTH amp SCIENCEASTROLOGYIndia Bulletin

8 things AARP wants you to know before your second COVID-19 vaccine

If yoursquove already received your first dose of a two-dose COVID-19 vaccine congratulations - yoursquore well on your way to being protect-ed from the coronavirus But to be fully immunized itrsquos critical to get that second shot

William Schaffner MD an infectious diseases specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville Tennessee and medical director of the Nation-al Foundation for Infectious Dis-eases says ldquoWe have told every-one these vaccines are 95 percent effectiverdquo of the two-dose Moder-na and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines currently in use in the US ldquoBut theyrsquore only 95 percent effective if you indeed get that second doserdquo

Here are a few more things to know about the second dose

1 Your side effects will likely be stronger

Many people who had little to no reaction to the first vaccine dose are reporting that the second one packs a punch mdash surprising even those who study vaccines for a liv-ing

Greg Poland MD an infec-tious disease expert at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota and director of Mayorsquos vaccine re-search group had only mild symp-toms after his first dose But the second one left him shaking - liter-ally - with chills and a temperature of 101

ldquoI took one Tylenol and went to bed and woke up the next morning 90 percent improved and by mid-day I was back to normalrdquo Poland says ldquoThis is not an indication of something going wrong it is an indication of a vigorous immune responserdquo

There is no live virus in the vac-cine so you canrsquot get COVID-19 from being vaccinated

Participants in clinical trials of both vaccines had experiences similar to Polandrsquos In Pfizerrsquos clinical trial for instance 31 per-cent of participants ages 18 to 55 reported a fever after the second dose compared to only 8 percent after the first one Fatigue chills headache and musclejoint pain were also more common after the second injection for both vaccines

The good news is older adults were less likely to experience vac-cine reactions the data shows Among those age 55 and up in the Pfizer trial 22 percent experienced fever after the second dose and 3 percent had a temperature after the first dose

Schaffner recommends not making any big plans for the day after your scheduled vaccine appointment

2 You should avoid taking pain relievers before your shot

If yoursquove been hearing sto-ries about second-dose side ef-fects you may be tempted to take a pain reliever before your appointment

Thatrsquos not a good idea accord-ing to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) unless yoursquove been advised to do so by your doctor Pain relievers taken preemptively ahead of a shot could dampen the effective-ness of the vaccine Poland and Schaffner say

However itrsquos OK to take ac-etaminophen (Tylenol) or a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug like Advil or Motrin after your vaccine to treat side effects such as pain fever chills or headache

3 The timing between doses doesnrsquot need to be exact

The second dose of the Pfiz-er shot is supposed to be giv-en 21 days after the first for Moderna the recommended interval between doses is 28 days

However if you canrsquot get an appointment on the exact day mdash or if you have to miss your scheduled appointment for some reason mdash the CDC does allow some wiggle room Although the agency recommends trying to stick to the suggested interval it says the second dose can be given up to six weeks after the first

If your appointment is sched-uled earlier than the recommend-ed date ask for a later appoint-ment Schaffner advises ldquoYour immune response will work perfectly well if you take more timerdquo he says ldquoBut if you do it too early the second dose may not invoke an optimal responserdquo

4 Your second dose should be from the same manufacturer as your first

Doctors are already hearing from patients asking if they can get their second dose from a dif-ferent manufacturer often be-cause they realize the other type of vaccine is offered at a location thatrsquos more convenient But the CDC recommends against it The Moderna and Pfizer vaccines ldquoare not interchangeable with each other or with other COVID-19 vaccine productsrdquo the CDC says ldquoThe safety and efficacy of a mixed-product series have not been evaluatedrdquo

5 A rash at the injection site isnrsquot a reason to skip your second dose

If you experienced a rash at the injection site three to 10 days

after getting your first shot that doesnrsquot preclude you from getting your second shot the CDC says although it recommends getting it in the other arm

A small number of people have developed such rashes some-times called ldquoCOVID armrdquo af-ter vaccination Doctors say itrsquos likely a mild allergic reaction that can be treated with an over-the-counter antihistamine such as Benadryl

6 You should temporarily avoid all other vaccines

It might be time for your shin-gles or Tdap vaccine but you should hold off if you are between COVID-19 vaccine doses Be-cause therersquos no data on the safety and efficacy of COVID vaccines administered at the same time as other vaccines the CDC recom-mends avoiding other immuniza-tions in the two weeks before and after both doses

7 Full immunity is not immediate

It takes two weeks after your second dose for your body to build full protection to the virus After that you should have al-most zero chance of developing severe disease if you are exposed to someone with COVID-19 Schaffner says The CDC also says you no longer have to quar-antine if yoursquore exposed to some-one with COVID-19 mdash as long as you meet these criteria you donrsquot have symptoms and it hasnrsquot been more than three months since your second vaccine dose

One possible exception is immunocompromised people Schaffner says They will get some level of immunity he says ldquobut they may not reach the 95 percent because their immune system is already somewhat com-promised no matter how strong these vaccines arerdquo

8 You still need to wear a maskExperts agree you should con-

tinue to wear a mask and practice social distancing in public For one thing therersquos a small chance you could get sick even after yoursquove been vaccinated

In addition itrsquos possible that you could still carry the virus and silently transmit it to others who havenrsquot been vaccinated even if you donrsquot develop symptoms

And therersquos one more reason Until the country reaches herd im-munity mdash the point when a signif-icant portion of the population be-comes immune to a disease mdash itrsquos important for everyone to wear a mask to stop the spread of the virus Schaffner says

Saturday March 20 2021

Biden All US adults to be eligible for vaccines by May

By Jeff Mason

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden told US states last Thursday to make all adults eligible for a coronavirus vaccine by May 1 and urged Americans to stay vigi-lant or face more restrictions hours after he signed a $19 trillion stimulus bill into law

In a forceful but somber speech from the White House on the fi rst anniversary of the pandemic lockdown Biden said if Ameri-cans pulled together there could be a great-er sense of normalcy - and some backyard barbecue parties with small groups - on the US Independence Day holiday on July 4

That date is a new goal for the president and a projection of hope amid a pandemic that has killed more than 530000 people in the United States the most of any country

To achieve his summer target Biden said he needed Americansrsquo help

ldquoIf we donrsquot stay vigilant and the con-ditions change then we may have to rein-state restrictions to get back on trackrdquo he said in an evening address from the White House his fi rst in television prime time since becoming president

ldquoWersquove made so much progress This is not the time to let up Just as we are emerging from a dark winter into a hope-ful spring and summer is not the time to not stick with the rulesrdquo he said

Republicans swiftly criticized Biden for his cautious approach ldquoWhat America needs now is to fully reopen our economy and our classroomsrdquo House of Represen-tatives Republican leader Kevin McCarthy said on Twitter

Biden said he was ordering US states territories and tribes to make all adults eli-gible to receive a coronavirus vaccine by May 1 The White House has said it would have enough vaccine supply to vaccinate the adult population by the end of May About 10 of Americans so far have been fully vaccinated

Administration offi cials said he would deploy 4000 more troops to help with the vaccine eff ort bringing the total number to 6000 The White House is also seeking to expand the pool of people able to adminis-ter shots to include dentists optometrists paramedics veterinarians and medical stu-dents

Biden campaigned last year on a prom-ise that he would tackle the pandemic more eff ectively than Republican Presi-dent Donald Trump and he has sought to encourage and model behavior such as mask-wearing that Trump eschewed

In his speech Biden took a swipe at his

predecessor by saying the virus was ini-tially met with ldquodenials for days weeks then months that led to more deaths more infections more stress more lonelinessrdquo

Biden said hate crimes and harassment against Asian Americans must stop Trump repeatedly referred to the disease as the ldquoChina virusrdquo

Biden also encouraged Americans to keep up mitigation eff orts - wearing masks keeping social distance and prac-ticing good hygiene - to stop the virus and its variants from spreading A number of states have been loosening restrictions

as Americans like many people around the world grow weary of pandemic life

ldquoPhotos and videos from 2019 feel like they were taken in another era The last vacation The last birthday with friends The last holiday with extended familyrdquo Biden said recounting the toll the virus has wrought

He said the country would come away from the crisis stronger ldquoWe faced and overcame one of the toughest and darkest periods in this nationrsquos history - darkest wersquove ever knownrdquo he said

Moderna begins study of COVID-19 vaccine in kids

Moderna Inc has begun dosing patients in a mid-to-late stage study of its COV-ID-19 vaccine mRNA-1273 in children aged six months to less than 12 years the company said on Tuesday

The study will assess the safety and ef-fectiveness of two doses of mRNA-1273 given 28 days apart and intends to enroll about 6750 children in the United States and Canada

The vaccine has already been au-thorized for emergency use in

Americans who are aged 18 and older

In a separate study which began in De-cember Moderna is also testing mRNA-1273 in adolescents between 12 and 18 years old

The latest study is being conducted in collaboration with the National Insti-tute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA)

Mother who lost only son to rare COVID complication warns parents to look for early signs

SANTIAGO - By the time doctors real-ized that Lorena Navarretersquos son had a rare complication of COVID-19 that affl icts some children it was too late to save her 16-year-old Emilio

Lorena a single mother who lives in the southern Chilean city of Puerto Montt told the TVN network that her music-loving and sociable son died about a week after he fi rst complained of feeling tired and of a pain in his legs in late January

Within days he had developed livid blotches on his skin a high fever vomiting and dark urine

Doctors at the cityrsquos hospital overrun with severe COVID cases repeatedly tested him for COVID but with the results coming back negative were at a loss as to what was wrong with him

By the time his illness was identifi ed as Multisystem Infl ammatory Syndrome in Children it was too late Lorena could not be at her sonrsquos bedside because of strict health protocols but a social worker called to pass on the message that her son loved

her very much She asked the social worker to tell her son she would see him soon and that his pets were well

ldquoA doctor said that if I had faith I should pray because my son was very illrdquo said Na-varrete who works as a nurse technician ldquoThey had a diagnosis and it was PIMSrdquo

Multisystem Infl ammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) as PIMS is more com-monly known is a rare life-threatening syndrome linked to COVID-19

It usually appears between two and six weeks after infection even in asymptomatic cases of COVID-19

It shares symptoms with toxic shock and Kawasaki disease including fever rashes swollen glands conjunctivitis and in severe cases heart infl ammation and can cause multiple organ failure It is not always fatal if caught and treated early

The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention said in January that it was inves-tigating whether COVID variants were in-creasing the number or severity of cases fol-lowing anecdotal reports from some states

US President Joe Biden

HEALTH amp SCIENCE17India Bulletin

HEALTH amp SCIENCE

Saturday March 20 2021

By Anthony Deutsch and Caroline Copley

AMSTERDAM - Global health experts came under in-creasing pressure on Tuesday to clear up questions over the safety of AstraZenecarsquos CO-VID-19 shot as Sweden and Latvia joined countries suspend-ing their use in a further blow to Europersquos vaccination rollout

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said it was

investigating reports of 30 cases of unusual blood disorders out of 5 million recipients of the As-traZeneca vaccine In total 45 million COVID shots have been delivered across the region

The EU regulator will release its findings on Thursday but its head Emer Cooke said she saw no reason to change its recom-mendation of AstraZeneca - one of four vaccines that it has approved for use

ldquoThe benefits continue to

outweigh the risks but this is a serious concern and it does need serious and detailed scientific evaluationrdquo Cooke told a news conference

A World Health Organization (WHO) committee of experts was reviewing the cases and was expected to issue a statement by the end of the day a spokesman said

The EUrsquos largest members - Germany France and Italy - suspended use of AstraZenecarsquos vaccine on Monday pending the outcome of investigations into unusual cases of a rare cerebral thrombosis in people who had received it

The addition of Sweden and Latvia on Tuesday brought to 13 the number of EU countries to act since reports first emerged of thromboembolisms affect-ing people after they got the AstraZeneca shot

The WHO and EMA had ear-lier joined AstraZeneca in say-ing there is no proven link but some experts said the episodes of blood clots bleeding and low platelet counts in younger people seemed to indicate a causal con-nection to the AstraZeneca shot

ldquoThe benefits of vaccination significantly outweigh the risks especially for the elderlyrdquo said Karl Lauterbach health spokes-man for Germanyrsquos Social Democratic Party

ldquoBut it could be the case that the risks of the vaccine are high-er for certain patient groups such as young womenrdquo Lauterbach an epidemiologist whose party is part of the Berlin coalition told Deutschlandfunk radio in an interview

Other epidemiologists note that similar cases have not been found in unusual num-bers in Britain which began using AstraZeneca earlier and has given more than 10 million doses

ldquoA very likely explanation of at least some of the clotting dis-orders seen are a result of CO-VID-19 rather than the vaccinerdquo said Stephen Evans professor of pharmacoepidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

ldquoThere are published papers that make clear that these prob-lems definitely occur in COV-ID-19 and there is no doubt that all the vaccines in use prevent

that disease Hence the risk and benefit balance for the AstraZen-eca vaccine remains clearly in favour of its benefitsrdquo

In the EUrsquos largest states in-cluding Germany France Italy the Netherlands and Spain As-traZeneca has accounted for about 13-15 of shots given since the rollout began almost three months ago with Pfizer-BioNTech making up the major-ity according to official data

As one as the cheapest to be developed the AstraZeneca shot is set to be the mainstay of vac-cination programmes in much of the developing world

Governments say they acted on the AstraZeneca shot out of an abundance of caution - of 16 million people in Germany given the vaccine seven fell ill with a very rare cerebral vein thrombosis of whom three died

In a detailed analysis of its findings Germanyrsquos vaccine oversight body the Paul Eh-rlich Institute said six of the cases were in women of young or middle age - a number statis-tically significantly higher than normally expected

Health experts pore over AstraZeneca safety data as Europe reels from vaccine suspensions

Global health experts came under increasing pressure on Tuesday to clear up questions over the safety of AstraZenecarsquos COVID-19 shot as Sweden and Latvia joined countries suspending their use in a further blow to Europersquos vaccination rollout

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India Bulletin Saturday March 20 2021

India Bulletin 19Saturday March 20 2021

Kishan Kohli help India level T20 series against England

AHMEDABAD - A belliger-ent 56 off 32 balls from India debutant Ishan Kishan and an unbeaten 73 from captain Virat Kohli helped the hosts to a com-manding seven-wicket win over England in the second Twenty20 International in Ahmedabad on Sunday

Kishan 22 smashed leg-spinner Adil Rashid for two con-secutive sixes to get past fifty as India made short work of a 165-run target to win with 13 balls to spare and level the five-match

series at 1-1Indiarsquos chase of Englandrsquos

164-6 got off to a shaky start when Sam Curran sent back opener KL Rahul in the first over without scoring but it did not curb Kishanrsquos aggres-sion the left-hander hitting five fours and four sixes in total

There was plenty of entertain-ment for the sizeable crowd at the worldrsquos biggest cricket sta-dium with most fans not wear-ing masks in the stands as Kohli

and Kishan added 94 in nine overs

Rishabh Pant came in after the dismissal of Kishan who was dropped by Ben Stokes on 40 off Rashid and continued to pummel Englandrsquos bowlers with a 13-ball 26 during which he hit two sixes and an identical number of fours

Kohli who also survived a dropped chance by wicketkeeper Jos Buttler on 10 off Chris Jor-dan sealed the win with a four and a six in successive balls to

also get past 3000 runs in T20 internationals in the process

Jason Roy once again top-scored for England with a 35-ball 46 following up on his knock of 49 in their win in the first match last Friday

Put in to bat the right-hander gave the touring side a steady start with a 63-run stand for the second wicket with Dawid Malan after the loss of opening partner Buttler to seamer Bhu-vneshwar Kumar on the first delivery he faced

Roy hit four fours and two six-es in his knock before holing out in the deep off spinner Washing-ton Sundar who also sent back the dangerous Jonny Bairstow for 20

Fast bowler Shardul Thakur pegged back Englandrsquos hopes of a flourishing finish by dis-missing opposition captain Eoin Morgan and Stokes as India conceded just 35 off the last five overs

The third match of the series will be played on Tuesday

Virat Kohli

Rohit urges India debutants to lsquohave funrsquo against England in T20 series

After Suryakumar Yadav and Ishan Kishan earned their maiden call-ups to the Indian national team vice-captain Rohit Sharma stressed on the importance of playing with-out any pressure when they take on England in a Twenty20 series

Kishan and Suryakumar were named in the squad after plun-dering 516 and 480 runs re-spectively in the Indian Premier League last season where the pair played under Rohit for the

Mumbai Indians as they clinched their fifth title in November

ldquoI donrsquot want them to be think-ing about anythingrdquo Rohit told reporters on Wednesday ldquoThatrsquos how they bring their best perfor-mance out

ldquoHaving watched them closely for a few years now Irsquove realised itrsquos important for them to be part of this wonder-ful team a great setup I just want them to have fun and un-derstand what this team is all about

ldquoThese guys have done re-ally well in the last few years especially the last year Itrsquos just about carrying that form and putting it out there Itrsquos not go-ing to be that easy here they will be challenged every now and thenrdquo

For England itrsquos a much-awaited return to the squad for all-rounder Liam Livingstone who had similar success in Aus-traliarsquos Big Bash League where he scored 426 runs for Perth Scorchers

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HEALTH amp SCIENCE11India BulletinSaturday March 20 2021

ADVERTORIAL

ldquoJAINISM A Resilient Path to Peacerdquo

The Federation of Jain Asso-ciations in North America (JAI-NA) will be celebrating its 21st Convention on the Fourth of July weekend mdash from July 1st to 6th 2021 Every two years this premier event brings together members of the Jain Community from across the world This year the virtual event is planned to be a global event and is expected to attract an even larger audience from the USA Canada India UK Australia UAE and many other countries

In face of all the turbulence throughout the world in the last year it is paramount for us to be vigilant compassionate tolerant and to ldquokeep the faithrdquo Jain-ism one of the ancient minor-ity religions has thrived worse than the pandemic based on its wisdom of Maitri (Amity) in-terdependence and honoring and respecting life at any cost The Convention will showcase our firm belief that spirituality enables us to sustain our sense of self and purpose through be-liefs principles values and morals Hence the theme for this yearrsquos Convention is ldquoJAINISM A Resilient Path to Peacerdquo

Convention Convener and First Vice President of JAINA Mr Haresh Shah of Delaware proudly shared that the attendee response has been overwhelming with more than 5000 registra-tions as of this writing Conven-tion Co-Convener and JAINA President Mr Mahesh Wadher of Los Angeles expressed his grati-tude for 100+ volunteers across 23 teams working day and night as ONE TEAM to make this convention the most memorable ever Convention Co-Convener Mr Bindesh Shah mentioned that the Convention will feature a state-of-the-art user-friend-ly and interactive conference platform with many features such as an online Main Hall 6 Breakout Rooms 4 Competi-tion Rooms and an Exhibition Hall

Enlightening discourses dis-cussion tracks and activities planned at this Convention will offer attendees a deeper under-standing of Jain principles and values while also helping the community with a roadmap to bounce back Youth participa-tion through JAINArsquos affiliate organizations Young Jains of America (YJA) Young Jain Pro-fessionals (YJP) as well as Jain

Announcing JAINA Convention 2021 July 1-6 2021Connect will be strongly pro-moted and encouraged There will be focused programs for all age groups children (ages 5-12) youth (ages 13-20) Jain Networking Forum (ages 21-29) and adults

Other featured events include the popular Jain Academic Bowl (JAB) a jeopardy style vo-cabulary game in which young Jains compete with other teams Jains Got Talent (JGT) and Vir-tual Tirthdham Darshan ndash A nar-rated Tirth Yatra of 12 major Jain Tirth of India broadcast live

Public Relations and Media Committee Chair Mr Vipul Shah of Chicago proudly con-firmed that spiritual dignitar-ies such as Acharya Ratna-sundersuri Maharaj Saheb Acharya Shri Mahashramanji Rashtrasant Gurudev Shree Namramuni Pramansagarji Maharaj Sadhvi Charitraarth Prabhaji and many others will enlighten us with their wisdom during the Convention Acharya Lokesh Muniji Acharya Chan-danaji and Bhattarak Charuke-ertiji will bless the Convention with their Ashirwad speeches While Gurudevshri Rakeshbhai Jhaveri will give the keynote

address other featured speakers include Shri Deepakbhai Desai Shri Gyanvatsal Swami Brahma Kumari Sister Shivani and Dr Veerendra Heggade The line-up of other prominent and inspi-rational speakers includes Dr Christopher Miller Dr Steven Southwick Rahul Kapoor Jain Motilal Oswal Dr Kumarpal Desai Dr Bipin Doshi and Dr Bimal Chajjer

The daily sessions and discus-sions will be well-complement-ed by refreshing Cultural Pro-grams in the evening including Jain Drama Rang De Sanskar - a high caliber humorous Hindi drama with famous actors amp an immense cast Jains Got Talent (JGT) and entertaining cultural performances from across the world A special Bollywood Musical ldquoSunheri Yaadeinrdquo will take us back 40 years of melodi-ous music to celebrate 40 Years Anniversary of JAINA

JAINA convention 2021 is an

invitation to all who aspire for a peaceful resilient recovery from the pandemic and to reweave the delicate fabric of humanity Since opening the registration on January 9th over 5000 at-tendees have already registered for the convention Come join us with our collective wisdom we will dream and create a non-violent future of Love Peace and Collaboration Your pres-ence and participation will help us ground in interconnection and solidarity and walk with you on the resilient path to peace we build together

For additional information about this convention and to register please visit us online at wwwjainaconventionorg

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Bollywood BeatDJ Aqeel and Farah Ali Khan are done

with their marriage

Actor Hrithik Roshanrsquos ex-wife Sussane Khanrsquos sister jewellery designer Farah Khan Ali has taken to social media to announce her separation from husband DJ Aqeel after 22 years of marriage In a lengthy post she spoke about how two people grow apart at times and that there is no bad bloodbetween them

The statement read ldquoSome-times two people grow apart Sometimes they outgrow each other It has been 9 years since my relationship with my hus-band Aqeel changed its status as a couple to just friends and to term it simply would be to state that we are ldquoHappily Sepa-ratedrdquordquo

ldquoWe will always be best friends to each other and par-ents to our wonderful children Azaan and Fizaa who love us both equally yet accept that we cannot be a couple any longer This was a mutual decision we took together involving two adults and there wasnrsquot any third person involved The reason we are announcing it publicly now is so that the ones who know us accept our situation grace-fully and always wish well for both of us especially because we hold no animosity of any kind towards one another and will al-ways be there for each otherrdquo it further read

ldquoAqeel is and will always be my family as I will be his We hope that all our well-wishers will accept our deci-sion maturely and not judge us for itrdquo

Bahubali now planned on a budget of 200 crores as Netflix scraps the already shot version of 100 croresNetflix is easily amongst the richest

digital platforms of the world According to our highly placed sources Netfl ix has scrapped the already shot Rs 100 crore version of the Netfl ix Original Bahubali Before The Beginning and have already begun work on a new version of the show this time around on double the cost of Rs 200 crores

ldquoNetfl ix was not satisfi ed with the prod-uct they had in hand and hence decided to scrap it completely They reworked on the script star-cast and technical team and are now reshooting Bahubali Before The Beginning on a never seen before unheard scale for their streaming They see the po-tential in Bahubali of being Indiarsquos answer to Game of Thrones and hence they have decided to take things a notch higher The overall budget for the new part is Rs 200 crore and if we add the scrap value the project now is worth Rs 300 crorerdquo a trade

source told Bollywood HungamaItrsquos produced by SS Rajamouli with

Netflix and is planned as a 9 episode two season limited series showcasing the rise of Shivagami set in the world of Mahishmati Itrsquos said to be a prequel to

Bahubali While the original cast was to feature Mrunal Thakur as Shivagami we still await an update if she will continue to play the queen or has she been replaced by someone else in this revamped Rs 200 crore version of the franchise

Emraan Hashmi says it has been his dream to work with Salman Khan

Emraan Hashmi is being said to be roped in by the makers of the Tiger franchise starring Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif While the latter two will be reprising their roles and Tiger and Zoya in Tiger 3 Emraan Hashmi is being said to play the antagonist marking his fi rst collaboration with the two stars and Yash Raj Films Being

one of the most coveted actors of the industry Salman Khan un-doubtedly is one of the favourites for every celebrity

Speaking about joining the franchise Emraan said that he would love to work in the fran-chise and it has always been a dream for him to work with Salman Khan

In October last year actress Rhea Chakraborty was grant-ed bail by the Bombay High Court after spending nearly two months in judicial cus-tody Her bail has now been challenged in the Supreme Court by the Narcotics Control Bureau(NCB) The case will be heard on Thursday

Rhea Chakraborty was sent to judicial custody last year for drug related charges in the death of her actor boyfriend Sushant Singh Rajput She was granted bail on the condi-tion that she submit a Rs 1 lakh bond and not leave the country without the permission of the court

Rhea Chakrabortyrsquos bail challenged in theSupreme Court by NCB

UNKNOWN FACTS ABOUTBOLLYWOODCELEBRITIES

Aamir Khanrsquos full name is Mohammed Aamir

Hussain Khan Despite being from the fi lm

industry Aamirrsquos parents were not keen on him entering Bollywood In 1984 Aamir worked in

his fi rst ever feature fi lm titled Holi

Very few people are aware of the fact that Kareena Kapoor gave her voice to the song Jab Nahi Aaye for the

fi lm Dev Kareena played a lead role in

the fi lm Unfortunately the movie didnrsquot do well

at the box-offi ce

Bollywood TriviaWhich actress debuted in

the fi lm lsquoKedarnathrsquo

Answer 1

1) Sara Ali Khan2) Katrina Kaif3) Tara Sutaria4) Ananya PandeyWho is the mother of actress

Janhvi Kapoor

Answer 3

1) Kareena2) Karisma3) Sridevi4) Madhuri

12 India Bulletin Saturday March 20 2021

ENTERTAINMENT

Bollywood Beat

The Brihanmumbai Mu-nicipal Corporation (BMC) revealed on their social media page that they have filed an FIR (First information report) against a Bollywood actor for not adhering to Covid-19 guidelines despite testing posi-tive for the deadly virus They even uploaded a picture of the FIR but the name of the celeb-rity was blurred Immediately it led people to speculate who the actor could be

However it has now come to light that the actor in question is Gauahar Khan As per the complaint filed at Oshiwara po-lice station a BMC officer has said that on the night of March 14 he was informed that Gaua-har Khan has tested positive for Coronavirus and yet shersquos not ready to get quarantined Hence the officer reached Gau-ahar Khanrsquos residence but she refused to open the door Later her husband answered from the flat and allegedly shouted at the BMC team

The complainant further states that the actress alleg-edly went out of her house for a shoot Hence the officer claims that she has exposed people to the deadly virus and thus contributed to itrsquos spread

As per a news report S Chai-tanya DCP (operations) and PRO of Mumbai Police has stated that Gauahar Khan has been charged under Sections 188 269 270 of the IPC 51B of NDMA Act 3 of Epidemic Diseases Act

BMC files FIR against

Gauahar Khan

Upcoming FilmsThalaivi

Kangana Ranautand Vijay Deverakonda

RadheSalman Khan

Disha Patani Jackie Shroff and Randeep Hooda

83Ranveer Singh

and Deepika Padukone

Atrangi ReAkshay Kumar Sara Ali Khanand Dhanush

MaidaanAjay Devgn Priyamani

and Keerthy Suresh

Bachchan PandeyAkshay Kumar Bobby Deol

and Riteish Deshmukh

Bell BottomAkshay Kumar Vaani Kapoor Huma Qureshi and Lara Dutta

Satyameva Jayate 2John Abraham Manoj Bajpai

and Divya Khosla Kumar

BrahmastraRanbir Kapoor Alia Bhatt and

Amitabh Bachchan

MOVIE REVIEW

Itrsquos been almost a year when theatres were asked to shut down due to rapid rise in the cases of Coronavirus in the country Two of the films play-ing in theatres at that point were Angrezi Medium produced by Dinesh Vijan and Kaamyaab directed by Hardik Mehta In an interesting turn of events Roohi the film that releases today and kickstarts the movie-watching season in cinemas is helmed by both these personalities So does Roohi manage to enter-tain and enthral the audiences Or does it fail to entice Letrsquos analyse

Roohi is the story of a pos-sessed girl Bhawra Pandey (Rajkummar Rao) and Kattanni Qureshi (Varun Sharma) work as crime journalists in a small town Baagadpur They also specialise in lsquopakdaai shaadirsquo aka bride kidnapping an accepted custom in Baagadpur One day their boss Guniya Shakeel (Manav Vij) orders them to kidnap a girl Roohi (Janhvi Kapoor) from a nearby town Mujaribaad Bhawra and Kattanni manage to kidnap Roohi while she is with her father (Rajesh Jais) As per the lsquopakdaai shaadirsquo custom af-ter the girl is kidnapped she is straight away taken to the mar-

riage venue Bhawra and Kat-tanni are also supposed to fol-low suit with Roohi But after the kidnap takes place Guniya calls them and tells them that the groomrsquos uncle has passed away suddenly Hence the mar-riage will now take place after a week Till then Bhawra and Kattanni are told to keep her as a hostage in an abandoned property in the hills of Ambiya-pur On the first night Bhawra goes to offer dinner to Roohi only to realize that she is pos-sessed Kattanni at first doesnrsquot believe but later even he sees the possessed side of Roohi However instead of being frightened Kattanni falls for the possessed Roohi Bhawra on the other hand is in love with the non-possessed Roohi He decides to help her and get the witch out of her body Kattanni however is averse to the idea as loves the possessed Roohi and if Bhawra succeeds the witch will leave Roohi forever What hap-pens next forms the rest of the film

Mrighdeep Singh Lamba and Gautam Mehras story is inter-esting and novel The writers try their best to bring some-thing new to the table Mrigh-deep Singh Lamba and Gautam Mehras screenplay however is interesting only in parts A few scenes are exceptional and bring the house down But the serious portions donrsquot make the desired impact Mrigh-deep Singh Lamba and Gautam Mehras dialogues are witty But the dialect is too authentic and is incomprehensible at many places

Roohi starts off on an interest-ing note depicting the concept of bride kidnapping in Baagad-pur that too through the eyes of a foreign reporter (Alexx ONell) The film gets better once Bhawra and Kattanni kid-nap Roohi and set base at the spooky abandoned factory The scene where Bhawra narrates about the possessed Roohi to

Kattanni is sure to raise laughs The scene where Kattanni in-stead of running away falls for the possessed Roohi is unique and unexpected It will bring smiles on the faces of the view-ers The interval comes at an in-teresting juncture Post-interval the film begins to fall but a few scenes especially of the marriage with the dog and Bhawrarsquos con-versation with the old lady (Sar-ita Joshi) add to the humour and madness The climax though unpredictable is disappointing

Talking of performances Ra-jkummar Rao is in his element as expected Due to his adorable performance one doesnrsquot hate him even though hersquos playing a kidnapper in the film And his comic timing is spot-on espe-cially in the scenes where hersquos running away from the possessed Roohi Janhvi Kapoor is a big surprise She hardly has any dia-logues but gets her act right with her expressions And she also is convincing as the witch Varun Sharma is marvellous and man-ages to raise laughs In the last 30 minutes however he doesnrsquot have much to do Manav Vij suits the part and his performance is

fair Sarita Joshi (credited in the film as Padma Shri Sarita Joshi) is hilarious and one wish-es that she had a longer screen time Alexx ONell is lovely Rajesh H Jais Anurag Arora (Tantrik) Sumit Gulati (Paras Roohirsquos groom in the end) are okay

Sachin-Jigars music is ap-propriate for the film and itrsquos theme Kiston comes suddenly but is soulful Bhootni is hilari-ous while Panghat is played in the end credits Nadiyon Paar is attached with the filmrsquos print be-fore the film starts It is the best song of the lot and well shot One wishes if it was a part of the filmrsquos narrative Ketan Sodhas background score is well wo-ven and also contributes to the horror quotient

On the whole Roohi rests on a unique concept fine perfor-mances and some interesting funny and horror sequences However the disappointing climax and difficult-to-under-stand dialect might affect the filmrsquos prospects at the box office

BannerMaddock Films

Jio Studios

ProducerDinesh Vijan

Mrighdeep Singh Lamba

DirectorHardik Mehta

StarringRajkummar RaoVarun SharmaJanhvi Kapoor

Music BySachin-Jigar

Released DateMarch 11 2021

Roohi

Rating

Celebrity BirthdaysMarch 21stRani Mukerji (1978)

March 23rdKangana Ranaut (1987)

March 24thEmraan Hashmi (1979)

March 25thYograj Singh (1958)

March 26thPrakash Raj (1965)

April 3rdPrabhu Deva (1973)

April 4thLisa Ray (1972)Simran Bagga (1976)

March 28thAkshaye Khanna(1975) Sandhya Mridul (1975)

March 30thNagesh Kukunoor (1967)

April 2ndAjay Devgn (1969) Kapil Sharma (1981)

13India BulletinSaturday March 20 2021

ENTERTAINMENT

Biz Briefs

Apple Inc has started the as-sembly of iPhone 12 in India the US tech giant said as the com-pany ramps up manufacturing operations in the worldrsquos sec-ond-biggest smartphone market

ldquoWe are proud to be starting production of iPhone 12 in India for our local customersrdquo Apple said in a statement without naming the supplier making the smartphone

The Indian unit of Applersquos Taiwanese contract manufac-turer Foxconn will assemble the device in its plant in southern Tamil Nadu state two sources familiar with the matter said

Foxconn did not immediately respond to a request for com-ment but has previously said it does not comment on client-specifi c work

Poscorsquos steel plant in India

faces disruption Operations at South Korean

steelmaker Poscorsquos plant in the Indian state of Maharashtra have been disrupted due to local pro-tests over labour and other issues police and sources told Reuters hampering the supply chain for automakers

A local politician leading the protests said they have blocked employees and goods from enter-ing the plant and will continue until Posco heeds to some of their requests which include giv-ing employment preference to lo-cal workers raising the wages of temporary employees and making them permanent

Reuters could not indepen-dently verify the extent of the production disruption at Poscorsquos plant

Apple starts iPhone 12 assem-

bly in India

HEALTH amp SCIENCEBUSINESS14 India Bulletin Saturday March 20 2021

By Nidhi Verma

NEW DELHI - India and the UAE on Wednesday discussed ways to strengthen energy coop-eration Indiarsquos oil minister Dhar-mendra Pradhan said despite the South Asian nation asking its re-fi ners to reduce their reliance on Middle Eastern oil

ldquo(We) discussed about new ar-eas of cooperation in the hydro-carbon sector and beyond and agreed to remain committed de-spite the challenges presented by Covid pandemicrdquo Pradhan said on Twitter after a virtual meeting with Sultan Al Jaber the chief executive of Abu Dhabi National Oil Co (ADNOC)

UAE is a key oil supplier to India and a partner in an Indian joint venture that plans to build a 12 million barrels per day (bpd) refi nery and petrochemical com-plex on the countryrsquos west coast

Last month the UAE was the

fi fth biggest oil supplier to In-dia which itself is the worldrsquos third biggest oil importer and consumer

Pradhan said he also discussed with Jaber ways of strengthen-ing and ldquoproviding momentum to (the) bilateral strategic en-ergy partnershiprdquo between the countries

India imports more than 80 of its oil needs a signifi cant amount of which comes from the Middle East

New Delhi has however asked refi ners to gradually reduce oil imports from the Middle East and diversify supplies after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its al-lies known as OPEC+ decided to extend most curbs into April

India has been hit hard by rising oil prices due to which minister Pradhan has repeatedly called on OPEC+ to ease supply curbs and has blamed Saudi Ara-

India and UAE vow to strengthen energy cooperation says minister

biarsquos voluntary cuts for contribut-ing to a spike in global oil prices

Responding to Pradhanrsquos re-quest Saudi Arabiarsquos energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman suggested India dip into strategic reserves fi lled with cheaper oil bought last year

The UAErsquos ADNOC is the only foreign company to which India has leased a part of it strategic petroleum reserves India does not allow the export of oil but has given permission to ADNOC to export part of its oil in Mangalore SPR in southern India

Tesla in talks with Indiarsquos Tata Power for EV charging infrastructure

BENGALURU - Tesla Inc is exploring an arrangement with Indian conglomerate Tata Sonsrsquo power generation unit Tata Pow-er to set up charging infrastruc-ture for electric vehicles in the country CNBC-TV18 reported citing sources

Shares of Tata Power rose 55 to their best closing level since June 2014 after the report which comes as the Palo Alto-based electric-car maker gears up for an India launch later this year with plans to import and sell its Model 3 electric sedan

Tesla will set up an electric-car manufacturing unit in the southern Indian state of Karna-taka according to a government document seen by Reuters

Indiarsquos Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan

The talks between Tata Power and Tesla are in the initial stages and no arrangements have been

fi nalised yet the report saidTata Powerrsquos electric vehicle

charging business constantly

explores growth opportunities but has not fi nalised any new agreements the company said in a statement to stock exchanges It also said the CNBC-TV 18 report was ldquofactually incorrectrdquo but did not elaborate

Tesla was not immediately available for comment

In January the US electric-car maker incorporated Tesla Motors India and Energy Private Ltd with its registered offi ce in the southern city of Bengaluru a hub for global technology companies

Tata Motors Ltd the carmak-ing unit of Tata Sons last week denied any tie-up with Tesla af-ter media reports suggested the two companies were discussing a partnership

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BUSINESSIndia Bulletin

By Aftab Ahmed and Nupur Anand

NEW DELHIMUMBAI - In-dia will propose a law banning cryptocurrencies fi ning anyone trading in the country or even holding such digital assets a senior government offi cial told

Reuters in a potential blow to millions of investors piling into the red-hot asset class

The bill one of the worldrsquos strictest policies against cryp-tocurrencies would criminalise possession issuance mining trading and transferring crypto-assets said the offi cial who has

India to propose cryptocurrency ban penalising miners tradersdirect knowledge of the plan

The measure is in line with a January government agenda that called for banning private vir-tual currencies such as bitcoin while building a framework for an offi cial digital currency But recent government comments had raised investorsrsquo hopes that

the authorities might go easier on the booming market

Instead the bill would give holders of cryptocurrencies up to six months to liquidate after which penalties will be levied said the offi cial who asked not to be named as the contents of the bill are not public

Offi cials are confi dent of get-ting the bill enacted into law as Prime Minister Narendra Modirsquos government holds a comfortable majority in parliament

If the ban becomes law India would be the fi rst major econo-my to make holding cryptocur-rency illegal Even China which has banned mining and trading

does not penalise possessionThe Finance Ministry did not

immediately respond to an email seeking comment

Bitcoin the worldrsquos biggest cryptocurrency hit a record high $60000 last Saturday nearly doubling in value this year as its acceptance for payments has in-creased with support from such high-profi le backers as Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk

In India despite government threats of a ban transaction vol-umes are swelling and 8 million investors now hold 100 billion rupees ($14 billion) in crypto-investments according to indus-try estimates No offi cial data is available

US becomes Indiarsquos second biggest oil supplier Saudi plunges to No 4

By Nidhi Verma

NEW DELHI - The United States overtook Saudi Arabia as Indiarsquos second biggest oil sup-plier after Iraq last month as refi ners boosted cheaper US crude purchases to record levels to off set OPEC+ supply cuts data from trade sources showed

The switch in supplies trig-gered by lower US crude de-mand coincided with Saudi Ara-biarsquos voluntary extra 1 million barrel per day (bpd) output cut on top of an agreement by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies (OPEC+) to maintain lower pro-duction

Indiarsquos imports from the United

States - the worldrsquos top producer - rose 48 to a record 545300 bpd in February from the prior month accounting for 14 of Indiarsquos overall imports last month the data obtained by Reuters showed

In contrast February imports from Saudi Arabia fell by 42 from January to a decade low of 445200 bpd the data showed Saudi Arabia which has consis-tently been one of Indiarsquos top two suppliers slipped to No 4 for the fi rst time since at least January 2006

Indiarsquos oil import data by coun-try from before 2006 is not avail-able to Reuters

ldquoUS demand was weak and refi neries were running at low rates so the US crude had to

go somewhere and Asia is the region which has seen rapid de-mand recoveryrdquo said Refi nitiv analyst Ehsan Ul Haq

ldquoChina has not been taking US oil because of (the) trade problem so India is the obvious choicerdquo he said

Iraq continued to be the top oil seller to India despite a 23 drop in purchases to a fi ve-month low of 867500 bpd the data showed

The UAE slipped to fi fth posi-tion from third in January while Nigeria rose to third from fi fth exporting 472300 bpd the most since Oct 2019

India shipped in 392 million bpd of oil in February a decline of 18 from January the data showed

India will propose a law banning cryptocurrencies fi ning anyone trading in the country or even holding such digital assets a senior government offi cial told Re-uters in a potential blow to millions of investors piling into the red-hot asset class

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Aries (March 21 to April 20)Someone will always be prettier Someone will always be smarter Someone will always be younger But they will never be you Itrsquos this ability to understand your uniqueness which will help you steer forward in an otherwise difficult week

Taurus (April 21 to May 21)When a storm is coming all other birds seek shelter The eagle alone avoids the storm by flying above it So in the storms of life be like an eagle and soar above your problems Keep your love life on top priority and everything else will fall into place with time

Gemini (May 22 to June 21)Life is not happening to you Life is responding to you The things you do the decisions you take the people you love or the people you hate they all make you into who you are

Cancer (June 22 to July 22)Sadness does not come from bad circumstances It comes from bad thoughts Although the circumstances are mixed around you you will have a tendency to make a mountain out of a mole hill

Leo (July 23 to August 22)Every time we get what we thought we wanted we realise that we want more This race towards more - more money more power more of everything is taking a toll on your energy level

Virgo (August 23 to September 23)One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness usually it comes back to you While your hard work is fruc-tifying now do not let the success take you away from compassion

Libra (September 24 to October 23)Best friends are like stars You donrsquot always see them but you know they are always there This week you will be in a nostalgic mood and miss good old times and old friends Rather than thinking about it pick up the phone and talk to friends you have not spoken in years or take a friend out on a cappuccino trip

Scorpio (October 24 to November 22)Learn to make peace with your past or else your future will become a constant battle that yoursquoll never win The highlight of the week will be letting go of things forgiving people forgetting wrong-doings and moving on in life

Sagittarius (November 23 to December 21)Chaos in the midst of chaos isnrsquot funny but chaos in the midst of order is Probably one of the toughest week this month wherein there will be a lot of confusion and haze around Advice Do not take stress

Capricorn (December 22 to January 20)Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realise you havenrsquot fallen asleep yet Thatrsquos the kind of nights you might witness this week owing to unforeseen issues and hurdles Your discipline and organisational skills will steer you forward and transform these hurdles into opportunities Aquarius (January 21 to February 19)Women get the last word in every argument Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument This is not the week for you to get into any arguments as it might jeopardise your frame of mind

Pisces (February 20 to March 20)Find out who you are and be that person Thatrsquos what your soul was put on this Earth to be Find that truth live that truth and everything else will come The week will be about introspection spirituality and matters related to the soul

WEEKLY HOROSCOPE(March 28 - April 3 2021)

HEALTH amp SCIENCEASTROLOGYIndia Bulletin

8 things AARP wants you to know before your second COVID-19 vaccine

If yoursquove already received your first dose of a two-dose COVID-19 vaccine congratulations - yoursquore well on your way to being protect-ed from the coronavirus But to be fully immunized itrsquos critical to get that second shot

William Schaffner MD an infectious diseases specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville Tennessee and medical director of the Nation-al Foundation for Infectious Dis-eases says ldquoWe have told every-one these vaccines are 95 percent effectiverdquo of the two-dose Moder-na and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines currently in use in the US ldquoBut theyrsquore only 95 percent effective if you indeed get that second doserdquo

Here are a few more things to know about the second dose

1 Your side effects will likely be stronger

Many people who had little to no reaction to the first vaccine dose are reporting that the second one packs a punch mdash surprising even those who study vaccines for a liv-ing

Greg Poland MD an infec-tious disease expert at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota and director of Mayorsquos vaccine re-search group had only mild symp-toms after his first dose But the second one left him shaking - liter-ally - with chills and a temperature of 101

ldquoI took one Tylenol and went to bed and woke up the next morning 90 percent improved and by mid-day I was back to normalrdquo Poland says ldquoThis is not an indication of something going wrong it is an indication of a vigorous immune responserdquo

There is no live virus in the vac-cine so you canrsquot get COVID-19 from being vaccinated

Participants in clinical trials of both vaccines had experiences similar to Polandrsquos In Pfizerrsquos clinical trial for instance 31 per-cent of participants ages 18 to 55 reported a fever after the second dose compared to only 8 percent after the first one Fatigue chills headache and musclejoint pain were also more common after the second injection for both vaccines

The good news is older adults were less likely to experience vac-cine reactions the data shows Among those age 55 and up in the Pfizer trial 22 percent experienced fever after the second dose and 3 percent had a temperature after the first dose

Schaffner recommends not making any big plans for the day after your scheduled vaccine appointment

2 You should avoid taking pain relievers before your shot

If yoursquove been hearing sto-ries about second-dose side ef-fects you may be tempted to take a pain reliever before your appointment

Thatrsquos not a good idea accord-ing to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) unless yoursquove been advised to do so by your doctor Pain relievers taken preemptively ahead of a shot could dampen the effective-ness of the vaccine Poland and Schaffner say

However itrsquos OK to take ac-etaminophen (Tylenol) or a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug like Advil or Motrin after your vaccine to treat side effects such as pain fever chills or headache

3 The timing between doses doesnrsquot need to be exact

The second dose of the Pfiz-er shot is supposed to be giv-en 21 days after the first for Moderna the recommended interval between doses is 28 days

However if you canrsquot get an appointment on the exact day mdash or if you have to miss your scheduled appointment for some reason mdash the CDC does allow some wiggle room Although the agency recommends trying to stick to the suggested interval it says the second dose can be given up to six weeks after the first

If your appointment is sched-uled earlier than the recommend-ed date ask for a later appoint-ment Schaffner advises ldquoYour immune response will work perfectly well if you take more timerdquo he says ldquoBut if you do it too early the second dose may not invoke an optimal responserdquo

4 Your second dose should be from the same manufacturer as your first

Doctors are already hearing from patients asking if they can get their second dose from a dif-ferent manufacturer often be-cause they realize the other type of vaccine is offered at a location thatrsquos more convenient But the CDC recommends against it The Moderna and Pfizer vaccines ldquoare not interchangeable with each other or with other COVID-19 vaccine productsrdquo the CDC says ldquoThe safety and efficacy of a mixed-product series have not been evaluatedrdquo

5 A rash at the injection site isnrsquot a reason to skip your second dose

If you experienced a rash at the injection site three to 10 days

after getting your first shot that doesnrsquot preclude you from getting your second shot the CDC says although it recommends getting it in the other arm

A small number of people have developed such rashes some-times called ldquoCOVID armrdquo af-ter vaccination Doctors say itrsquos likely a mild allergic reaction that can be treated with an over-the-counter antihistamine such as Benadryl

6 You should temporarily avoid all other vaccines

It might be time for your shin-gles or Tdap vaccine but you should hold off if you are between COVID-19 vaccine doses Be-cause therersquos no data on the safety and efficacy of COVID vaccines administered at the same time as other vaccines the CDC recom-mends avoiding other immuniza-tions in the two weeks before and after both doses

7 Full immunity is not immediate

It takes two weeks after your second dose for your body to build full protection to the virus After that you should have al-most zero chance of developing severe disease if you are exposed to someone with COVID-19 Schaffner says The CDC also says you no longer have to quar-antine if yoursquore exposed to some-one with COVID-19 mdash as long as you meet these criteria you donrsquot have symptoms and it hasnrsquot been more than three months since your second vaccine dose

One possible exception is immunocompromised people Schaffner says They will get some level of immunity he says ldquobut they may not reach the 95 percent because their immune system is already somewhat com-promised no matter how strong these vaccines arerdquo

8 You still need to wear a maskExperts agree you should con-

tinue to wear a mask and practice social distancing in public For one thing therersquos a small chance you could get sick even after yoursquove been vaccinated

In addition itrsquos possible that you could still carry the virus and silently transmit it to others who havenrsquot been vaccinated even if you donrsquot develop symptoms

And therersquos one more reason Until the country reaches herd im-munity mdash the point when a signif-icant portion of the population be-comes immune to a disease mdash itrsquos important for everyone to wear a mask to stop the spread of the virus Schaffner says

Saturday March 20 2021

Biden All US adults to be eligible for vaccines by May

By Jeff Mason

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden told US states last Thursday to make all adults eligible for a coronavirus vaccine by May 1 and urged Americans to stay vigi-lant or face more restrictions hours after he signed a $19 trillion stimulus bill into law

In a forceful but somber speech from the White House on the fi rst anniversary of the pandemic lockdown Biden said if Ameri-cans pulled together there could be a great-er sense of normalcy - and some backyard barbecue parties with small groups - on the US Independence Day holiday on July 4

That date is a new goal for the president and a projection of hope amid a pandemic that has killed more than 530000 people in the United States the most of any country

To achieve his summer target Biden said he needed Americansrsquo help

ldquoIf we donrsquot stay vigilant and the con-ditions change then we may have to rein-state restrictions to get back on trackrdquo he said in an evening address from the White House his fi rst in television prime time since becoming president

ldquoWersquove made so much progress This is not the time to let up Just as we are emerging from a dark winter into a hope-ful spring and summer is not the time to not stick with the rulesrdquo he said

Republicans swiftly criticized Biden for his cautious approach ldquoWhat America needs now is to fully reopen our economy and our classroomsrdquo House of Represen-tatives Republican leader Kevin McCarthy said on Twitter

Biden said he was ordering US states territories and tribes to make all adults eli-gible to receive a coronavirus vaccine by May 1 The White House has said it would have enough vaccine supply to vaccinate the adult population by the end of May About 10 of Americans so far have been fully vaccinated

Administration offi cials said he would deploy 4000 more troops to help with the vaccine eff ort bringing the total number to 6000 The White House is also seeking to expand the pool of people able to adminis-ter shots to include dentists optometrists paramedics veterinarians and medical stu-dents

Biden campaigned last year on a prom-ise that he would tackle the pandemic more eff ectively than Republican Presi-dent Donald Trump and he has sought to encourage and model behavior such as mask-wearing that Trump eschewed

In his speech Biden took a swipe at his

predecessor by saying the virus was ini-tially met with ldquodenials for days weeks then months that led to more deaths more infections more stress more lonelinessrdquo

Biden said hate crimes and harassment against Asian Americans must stop Trump repeatedly referred to the disease as the ldquoChina virusrdquo

Biden also encouraged Americans to keep up mitigation eff orts - wearing masks keeping social distance and prac-ticing good hygiene - to stop the virus and its variants from spreading A number of states have been loosening restrictions

as Americans like many people around the world grow weary of pandemic life

ldquoPhotos and videos from 2019 feel like they were taken in another era The last vacation The last birthday with friends The last holiday with extended familyrdquo Biden said recounting the toll the virus has wrought

He said the country would come away from the crisis stronger ldquoWe faced and overcame one of the toughest and darkest periods in this nationrsquos history - darkest wersquove ever knownrdquo he said

Moderna begins study of COVID-19 vaccine in kids

Moderna Inc has begun dosing patients in a mid-to-late stage study of its COV-ID-19 vaccine mRNA-1273 in children aged six months to less than 12 years the company said on Tuesday

The study will assess the safety and ef-fectiveness of two doses of mRNA-1273 given 28 days apart and intends to enroll about 6750 children in the United States and Canada

The vaccine has already been au-thorized for emergency use in

Americans who are aged 18 and older

In a separate study which began in De-cember Moderna is also testing mRNA-1273 in adolescents between 12 and 18 years old

The latest study is being conducted in collaboration with the National Insti-tute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA)

Mother who lost only son to rare COVID complication warns parents to look for early signs

SANTIAGO - By the time doctors real-ized that Lorena Navarretersquos son had a rare complication of COVID-19 that affl icts some children it was too late to save her 16-year-old Emilio

Lorena a single mother who lives in the southern Chilean city of Puerto Montt told the TVN network that her music-loving and sociable son died about a week after he fi rst complained of feeling tired and of a pain in his legs in late January

Within days he had developed livid blotches on his skin a high fever vomiting and dark urine

Doctors at the cityrsquos hospital overrun with severe COVID cases repeatedly tested him for COVID but with the results coming back negative were at a loss as to what was wrong with him

By the time his illness was identifi ed as Multisystem Infl ammatory Syndrome in Children it was too late Lorena could not be at her sonrsquos bedside because of strict health protocols but a social worker called to pass on the message that her son loved

her very much She asked the social worker to tell her son she would see him soon and that his pets were well

ldquoA doctor said that if I had faith I should pray because my son was very illrdquo said Na-varrete who works as a nurse technician ldquoThey had a diagnosis and it was PIMSrdquo

Multisystem Infl ammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) as PIMS is more com-monly known is a rare life-threatening syndrome linked to COVID-19

It usually appears between two and six weeks after infection even in asymptomatic cases of COVID-19

It shares symptoms with toxic shock and Kawasaki disease including fever rashes swollen glands conjunctivitis and in severe cases heart infl ammation and can cause multiple organ failure It is not always fatal if caught and treated early

The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention said in January that it was inves-tigating whether COVID variants were in-creasing the number or severity of cases fol-lowing anecdotal reports from some states

US President Joe Biden

HEALTH amp SCIENCE17India Bulletin

HEALTH amp SCIENCE

Saturday March 20 2021

By Anthony Deutsch and Caroline Copley

AMSTERDAM - Global health experts came under in-creasing pressure on Tuesday to clear up questions over the safety of AstraZenecarsquos CO-VID-19 shot as Sweden and Latvia joined countries suspend-ing their use in a further blow to Europersquos vaccination rollout

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said it was

investigating reports of 30 cases of unusual blood disorders out of 5 million recipients of the As-traZeneca vaccine In total 45 million COVID shots have been delivered across the region

The EU regulator will release its findings on Thursday but its head Emer Cooke said she saw no reason to change its recom-mendation of AstraZeneca - one of four vaccines that it has approved for use

ldquoThe benefits continue to

outweigh the risks but this is a serious concern and it does need serious and detailed scientific evaluationrdquo Cooke told a news conference

A World Health Organization (WHO) committee of experts was reviewing the cases and was expected to issue a statement by the end of the day a spokesman said

The EUrsquos largest members - Germany France and Italy - suspended use of AstraZenecarsquos vaccine on Monday pending the outcome of investigations into unusual cases of a rare cerebral thrombosis in people who had received it

The addition of Sweden and Latvia on Tuesday brought to 13 the number of EU countries to act since reports first emerged of thromboembolisms affect-ing people after they got the AstraZeneca shot

The WHO and EMA had ear-lier joined AstraZeneca in say-ing there is no proven link but some experts said the episodes of blood clots bleeding and low platelet counts in younger people seemed to indicate a causal con-nection to the AstraZeneca shot

ldquoThe benefits of vaccination significantly outweigh the risks especially for the elderlyrdquo said Karl Lauterbach health spokes-man for Germanyrsquos Social Democratic Party

ldquoBut it could be the case that the risks of the vaccine are high-er for certain patient groups such as young womenrdquo Lauterbach an epidemiologist whose party is part of the Berlin coalition told Deutschlandfunk radio in an interview

Other epidemiologists note that similar cases have not been found in unusual num-bers in Britain which began using AstraZeneca earlier and has given more than 10 million doses

ldquoA very likely explanation of at least some of the clotting dis-orders seen are a result of CO-VID-19 rather than the vaccinerdquo said Stephen Evans professor of pharmacoepidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

ldquoThere are published papers that make clear that these prob-lems definitely occur in COV-ID-19 and there is no doubt that all the vaccines in use prevent

that disease Hence the risk and benefit balance for the AstraZen-eca vaccine remains clearly in favour of its benefitsrdquo

In the EUrsquos largest states in-cluding Germany France Italy the Netherlands and Spain As-traZeneca has accounted for about 13-15 of shots given since the rollout began almost three months ago with Pfizer-BioNTech making up the major-ity according to official data

As one as the cheapest to be developed the AstraZeneca shot is set to be the mainstay of vac-cination programmes in much of the developing world

Governments say they acted on the AstraZeneca shot out of an abundance of caution - of 16 million people in Germany given the vaccine seven fell ill with a very rare cerebral vein thrombosis of whom three died

In a detailed analysis of its findings Germanyrsquos vaccine oversight body the Paul Eh-rlich Institute said six of the cases were in women of young or middle age - a number statis-tically significantly higher than normally expected

Health experts pore over AstraZeneca safety data as Europe reels from vaccine suspensions

Global health experts came under increasing pressure on Tuesday to clear up questions over the safety of AstraZenecarsquos COVID-19 shot as Sweden and Latvia joined countries suspending their use in a further blow to Europersquos vaccination rollout

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India Bulletin Saturday March 20 2021

India Bulletin 19Saturday March 20 2021

Kishan Kohli help India level T20 series against England

AHMEDABAD - A belliger-ent 56 off 32 balls from India debutant Ishan Kishan and an unbeaten 73 from captain Virat Kohli helped the hosts to a com-manding seven-wicket win over England in the second Twenty20 International in Ahmedabad on Sunday

Kishan 22 smashed leg-spinner Adil Rashid for two con-secutive sixes to get past fifty as India made short work of a 165-run target to win with 13 balls to spare and level the five-match

series at 1-1Indiarsquos chase of Englandrsquos

164-6 got off to a shaky start when Sam Curran sent back opener KL Rahul in the first over without scoring but it did not curb Kishanrsquos aggres-sion the left-hander hitting five fours and four sixes in total

There was plenty of entertain-ment for the sizeable crowd at the worldrsquos biggest cricket sta-dium with most fans not wear-ing masks in the stands as Kohli

and Kishan added 94 in nine overs

Rishabh Pant came in after the dismissal of Kishan who was dropped by Ben Stokes on 40 off Rashid and continued to pummel Englandrsquos bowlers with a 13-ball 26 during which he hit two sixes and an identical number of fours

Kohli who also survived a dropped chance by wicketkeeper Jos Buttler on 10 off Chris Jor-dan sealed the win with a four and a six in successive balls to

also get past 3000 runs in T20 internationals in the process

Jason Roy once again top-scored for England with a 35-ball 46 following up on his knock of 49 in their win in the first match last Friday

Put in to bat the right-hander gave the touring side a steady start with a 63-run stand for the second wicket with Dawid Malan after the loss of opening partner Buttler to seamer Bhu-vneshwar Kumar on the first delivery he faced

Roy hit four fours and two six-es in his knock before holing out in the deep off spinner Washing-ton Sundar who also sent back the dangerous Jonny Bairstow for 20

Fast bowler Shardul Thakur pegged back Englandrsquos hopes of a flourishing finish by dis-missing opposition captain Eoin Morgan and Stokes as India conceded just 35 off the last five overs

The third match of the series will be played on Tuesday

Virat Kohli

Rohit urges India debutants to lsquohave funrsquo against England in T20 series

After Suryakumar Yadav and Ishan Kishan earned their maiden call-ups to the Indian national team vice-captain Rohit Sharma stressed on the importance of playing with-out any pressure when they take on England in a Twenty20 series

Kishan and Suryakumar were named in the squad after plun-dering 516 and 480 runs re-spectively in the Indian Premier League last season where the pair played under Rohit for the

Mumbai Indians as they clinched their fifth title in November

ldquoI donrsquot want them to be think-ing about anythingrdquo Rohit told reporters on Wednesday ldquoThatrsquos how they bring their best perfor-mance out

ldquoHaving watched them closely for a few years now Irsquove realised itrsquos important for them to be part of this wonder-ful team a great setup I just want them to have fun and un-derstand what this team is all about

ldquoThese guys have done re-ally well in the last few years especially the last year Itrsquos just about carrying that form and putting it out there Itrsquos not go-ing to be that easy here they will be challenged every now and thenrdquo

For England itrsquos a much-awaited return to the squad for all-rounder Liam Livingstone who had similar success in Aus-traliarsquos Big Bash League where he scored 426 runs for Perth Scorchers

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Bollywood BeatDJ Aqeel and Farah Ali Khan are done

with their marriage

Actor Hrithik Roshanrsquos ex-wife Sussane Khanrsquos sister jewellery designer Farah Khan Ali has taken to social media to announce her separation from husband DJ Aqeel after 22 years of marriage In a lengthy post she spoke about how two people grow apart at times and that there is no bad bloodbetween them

The statement read ldquoSome-times two people grow apart Sometimes they outgrow each other It has been 9 years since my relationship with my hus-band Aqeel changed its status as a couple to just friends and to term it simply would be to state that we are ldquoHappily Sepa-ratedrdquordquo

ldquoWe will always be best friends to each other and par-ents to our wonderful children Azaan and Fizaa who love us both equally yet accept that we cannot be a couple any longer This was a mutual decision we took together involving two adults and there wasnrsquot any third person involved The reason we are announcing it publicly now is so that the ones who know us accept our situation grace-fully and always wish well for both of us especially because we hold no animosity of any kind towards one another and will al-ways be there for each otherrdquo it further read

ldquoAqeel is and will always be my family as I will be his We hope that all our well-wishers will accept our deci-sion maturely and not judge us for itrdquo

Bahubali now planned on a budget of 200 crores as Netflix scraps the already shot version of 100 croresNetflix is easily amongst the richest

digital platforms of the world According to our highly placed sources Netfl ix has scrapped the already shot Rs 100 crore version of the Netfl ix Original Bahubali Before The Beginning and have already begun work on a new version of the show this time around on double the cost of Rs 200 crores

ldquoNetfl ix was not satisfi ed with the prod-uct they had in hand and hence decided to scrap it completely They reworked on the script star-cast and technical team and are now reshooting Bahubali Before The Beginning on a never seen before unheard scale for their streaming They see the po-tential in Bahubali of being Indiarsquos answer to Game of Thrones and hence they have decided to take things a notch higher The overall budget for the new part is Rs 200 crore and if we add the scrap value the project now is worth Rs 300 crorerdquo a trade

source told Bollywood HungamaItrsquos produced by SS Rajamouli with

Netflix and is planned as a 9 episode two season limited series showcasing the rise of Shivagami set in the world of Mahishmati Itrsquos said to be a prequel to

Bahubali While the original cast was to feature Mrunal Thakur as Shivagami we still await an update if she will continue to play the queen or has she been replaced by someone else in this revamped Rs 200 crore version of the franchise

Emraan Hashmi says it has been his dream to work with Salman Khan

Emraan Hashmi is being said to be roped in by the makers of the Tiger franchise starring Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif While the latter two will be reprising their roles and Tiger and Zoya in Tiger 3 Emraan Hashmi is being said to play the antagonist marking his fi rst collaboration with the two stars and Yash Raj Films Being

one of the most coveted actors of the industry Salman Khan un-doubtedly is one of the favourites for every celebrity

Speaking about joining the franchise Emraan said that he would love to work in the fran-chise and it has always been a dream for him to work with Salman Khan

In October last year actress Rhea Chakraborty was grant-ed bail by the Bombay High Court after spending nearly two months in judicial cus-tody Her bail has now been challenged in the Supreme Court by the Narcotics Control Bureau(NCB) The case will be heard on Thursday

Rhea Chakraborty was sent to judicial custody last year for drug related charges in the death of her actor boyfriend Sushant Singh Rajput She was granted bail on the condi-tion that she submit a Rs 1 lakh bond and not leave the country without the permission of the court

Rhea Chakrabortyrsquos bail challenged in theSupreme Court by NCB

UNKNOWN FACTS ABOUTBOLLYWOODCELEBRITIES

Aamir Khanrsquos full name is Mohammed Aamir

Hussain Khan Despite being from the fi lm

industry Aamirrsquos parents were not keen on him entering Bollywood In 1984 Aamir worked in

his fi rst ever feature fi lm titled Holi

Very few people are aware of the fact that Kareena Kapoor gave her voice to the song Jab Nahi Aaye for the

fi lm Dev Kareena played a lead role in

the fi lm Unfortunately the movie didnrsquot do well

at the box-offi ce

Bollywood TriviaWhich actress debuted in

the fi lm lsquoKedarnathrsquo

Answer 1

1) Sara Ali Khan2) Katrina Kaif3) Tara Sutaria4) Ananya PandeyWho is the mother of actress

Janhvi Kapoor

Answer 3

1) Kareena2) Karisma3) Sridevi4) Madhuri

12 India Bulletin Saturday March 20 2021

ENTERTAINMENT

Bollywood Beat

The Brihanmumbai Mu-nicipal Corporation (BMC) revealed on their social media page that they have filed an FIR (First information report) against a Bollywood actor for not adhering to Covid-19 guidelines despite testing posi-tive for the deadly virus They even uploaded a picture of the FIR but the name of the celeb-rity was blurred Immediately it led people to speculate who the actor could be

However it has now come to light that the actor in question is Gauahar Khan As per the complaint filed at Oshiwara po-lice station a BMC officer has said that on the night of March 14 he was informed that Gaua-har Khan has tested positive for Coronavirus and yet shersquos not ready to get quarantined Hence the officer reached Gau-ahar Khanrsquos residence but she refused to open the door Later her husband answered from the flat and allegedly shouted at the BMC team

The complainant further states that the actress alleg-edly went out of her house for a shoot Hence the officer claims that she has exposed people to the deadly virus and thus contributed to itrsquos spread

As per a news report S Chai-tanya DCP (operations) and PRO of Mumbai Police has stated that Gauahar Khan has been charged under Sections 188 269 270 of the IPC 51B of NDMA Act 3 of Epidemic Diseases Act

BMC files FIR against

Gauahar Khan

Upcoming FilmsThalaivi

Kangana Ranautand Vijay Deverakonda

RadheSalman Khan

Disha Patani Jackie Shroff and Randeep Hooda

83Ranveer Singh

and Deepika Padukone

Atrangi ReAkshay Kumar Sara Ali Khanand Dhanush

MaidaanAjay Devgn Priyamani

and Keerthy Suresh

Bachchan PandeyAkshay Kumar Bobby Deol

and Riteish Deshmukh

Bell BottomAkshay Kumar Vaani Kapoor Huma Qureshi and Lara Dutta

Satyameva Jayate 2John Abraham Manoj Bajpai

and Divya Khosla Kumar

BrahmastraRanbir Kapoor Alia Bhatt and

Amitabh Bachchan

MOVIE REVIEW

Itrsquos been almost a year when theatres were asked to shut down due to rapid rise in the cases of Coronavirus in the country Two of the films play-ing in theatres at that point were Angrezi Medium produced by Dinesh Vijan and Kaamyaab directed by Hardik Mehta In an interesting turn of events Roohi the film that releases today and kickstarts the movie-watching season in cinemas is helmed by both these personalities So does Roohi manage to enter-tain and enthral the audiences Or does it fail to entice Letrsquos analyse

Roohi is the story of a pos-sessed girl Bhawra Pandey (Rajkummar Rao) and Kattanni Qureshi (Varun Sharma) work as crime journalists in a small town Baagadpur They also specialise in lsquopakdaai shaadirsquo aka bride kidnapping an accepted custom in Baagadpur One day their boss Guniya Shakeel (Manav Vij) orders them to kidnap a girl Roohi (Janhvi Kapoor) from a nearby town Mujaribaad Bhawra and Kattanni manage to kidnap Roohi while she is with her father (Rajesh Jais) As per the lsquopakdaai shaadirsquo custom af-ter the girl is kidnapped she is straight away taken to the mar-

riage venue Bhawra and Kat-tanni are also supposed to fol-low suit with Roohi But after the kidnap takes place Guniya calls them and tells them that the groomrsquos uncle has passed away suddenly Hence the mar-riage will now take place after a week Till then Bhawra and Kattanni are told to keep her as a hostage in an abandoned property in the hills of Ambiya-pur On the first night Bhawra goes to offer dinner to Roohi only to realize that she is pos-sessed Kattanni at first doesnrsquot believe but later even he sees the possessed side of Roohi However instead of being frightened Kattanni falls for the possessed Roohi Bhawra on the other hand is in love with the non-possessed Roohi He decides to help her and get the witch out of her body Kattanni however is averse to the idea as loves the possessed Roohi and if Bhawra succeeds the witch will leave Roohi forever What hap-pens next forms the rest of the film

Mrighdeep Singh Lamba and Gautam Mehras story is inter-esting and novel The writers try their best to bring some-thing new to the table Mrigh-deep Singh Lamba and Gautam Mehras screenplay however is interesting only in parts A few scenes are exceptional and bring the house down But the serious portions donrsquot make the desired impact Mrigh-deep Singh Lamba and Gautam Mehras dialogues are witty But the dialect is too authentic and is incomprehensible at many places

Roohi starts off on an interest-ing note depicting the concept of bride kidnapping in Baagad-pur that too through the eyes of a foreign reporter (Alexx ONell) The film gets better once Bhawra and Kattanni kid-nap Roohi and set base at the spooky abandoned factory The scene where Bhawra narrates about the possessed Roohi to

Kattanni is sure to raise laughs The scene where Kattanni in-stead of running away falls for the possessed Roohi is unique and unexpected It will bring smiles on the faces of the view-ers The interval comes at an in-teresting juncture Post-interval the film begins to fall but a few scenes especially of the marriage with the dog and Bhawrarsquos con-versation with the old lady (Sar-ita Joshi) add to the humour and madness The climax though unpredictable is disappointing

Talking of performances Ra-jkummar Rao is in his element as expected Due to his adorable performance one doesnrsquot hate him even though hersquos playing a kidnapper in the film And his comic timing is spot-on espe-cially in the scenes where hersquos running away from the possessed Roohi Janhvi Kapoor is a big surprise She hardly has any dia-logues but gets her act right with her expressions And she also is convincing as the witch Varun Sharma is marvellous and man-ages to raise laughs In the last 30 minutes however he doesnrsquot have much to do Manav Vij suits the part and his performance is

fair Sarita Joshi (credited in the film as Padma Shri Sarita Joshi) is hilarious and one wish-es that she had a longer screen time Alexx ONell is lovely Rajesh H Jais Anurag Arora (Tantrik) Sumit Gulati (Paras Roohirsquos groom in the end) are okay

Sachin-Jigars music is ap-propriate for the film and itrsquos theme Kiston comes suddenly but is soulful Bhootni is hilari-ous while Panghat is played in the end credits Nadiyon Paar is attached with the filmrsquos print be-fore the film starts It is the best song of the lot and well shot One wishes if it was a part of the filmrsquos narrative Ketan Sodhas background score is well wo-ven and also contributes to the horror quotient

On the whole Roohi rests on a unique concept fine perfor-mances and some interesting funny and horror sequences However the disappointing climax and difficult-to-under-stand dialect might affect the filmrsquos prospects at the box office

BannerMaddock Films

Jio Studios

ProducerDinesh Vijan

Mrighdeep Singh Lamba

DirectorHardik Mehta

StarringRajkummar RaoVarun SharmaJanhvi Kapoor

Music BySachin-Jigar

Released DateMarch 11 2021

Roohi

Rating

Celebrity BirthdaysMarch 21stRani Mukerji (1978)

March 23rdKangana Ranaut (1987)

March 24thEmraan Hashmi (1979)

March 25thYograj Singh (1958)

March 26thPrakash Raj (1965)

April 3rdPrabhu Deva (1973)

April 4thLisa Ray (1972)Simran Bagga (1976)

March 28thAkshaye Khanna(1975) Sandhya Mridul (1975)

March 30thNagesh Kukunoor (1967)

April 2ndAjay Devgn (1969) Kapil Sharma (1981)

13India BulletinSaturday March 20 2021

ENTERTAINMENT

Biz Briefs

Apple Inc has started the as-sembly of iPhone 12 in India the US tech giant said as the com-pany ramps up manufacturing operations in the worldrsquos sec-ond-biggest smartphone market

ldquoWe are proud to be starting production of iPhone 12 in India for our local customersrdquo Apple said in a statement without naming the supplier making the smartphone

The Indian unit of Applersquos Taiwanese contract manufac-turer Foxconn will assemble the device in its plant in southern Tamil Nadu state two sources familiar with the matter said

Foxconn did not immediately respond to a request for com-ment but has previously said it does not comment on client-specifi c work

Poscorsquos steel plant in India

faces disruption Operations at South Korean

steelmaker Poscorsquos plant in the Indian state of Maharashtra have been disrupted due to local pro-tests over labour and other issues police and sources told Reuters hampering the supply chain for automakers

A local politician leading the protests said they have blocked employees and goods from enter-ing the plant and will continue until Posco heeds to some of their requests which include giv-ing employment preference to lo-cal workers raising the wages of temporary employees and making them permanent

Reuters could not indepen-dently verify the extent of the production disruption at Poscorsquos plant

Apple starts iPhone 12 assem-

bly in India

HEALTH amp SCIENCEBUSINESS14 India Bulletin Saturday March 20 2021

By Nidhi Verma

NEW DELHI - India and the UAE on Wednesday discussed ways to strengthen energy coop-eration Indiarsquos oil minister Dhar-mendra Pradhan said despite the South Asian nation asking its re-fi ners to reduce their reliance on Middle Eastern oil

ldquo(We) discussed about new ar-eas of cooperation in the hydro-carbon sector and beyond and agreed to remain committed de-spite the challenges presented by Covid pandemicrdquo Pradhan said on Twitter after a virtual meeting with Sultan Al Jaber the chief executive of Abu Dhabi National Oil Co (ADNOC)

UAE is a key oil supplier to India and a partner in an Indian joint venture that plans to build a 12 million barrels per day (bpd) refi nery and petrochemical com-plex on the countryrsquos west coast

Last month the UAE was the

fi fth biggest oil supplier to In-dia which itself is the worldrsquos third biggest oil importer and consumer

Pradhan said he also discussed with Jaber ways of strengthen-ing and ldquoproviding momentum to (the) bilateral strategic en-ergy partnershiprdquo between the countries

India imports more than 80 of its oil needs a signifi cant amount of which comes from the Middle East

New Delhi has however asked refi ners to gradually reduce oil imports from the Middle East and diversify supplies after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its al-lies known as OPEC+ decided to extend most curbs into April

India has been hit hard by rising oil prices due to which minister Pradhan has repeatedly called on OPEC+ to ease supply curbs and has blamed Saudi Ara-

India and UAE vow to strengthen energy cooperation says minister

biarsquos voluntary cuts for contribut-ing to a spike in global oil prices

Responding to Pradhanrsquos re-quest Saudi Arabiarsquos energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman suggested India dip into strategic reserves fi lled with cheaper oil bought last year

The UAErsquos ADNOC is the only foreign company to which India has leased a part of it strategic petroleum reserves India does not allow the export of oil but has given permission to ADNOC to export part of its oil in Mangalore SPR in southern India

Tesla in talks with Indiarsquos Tata Power for EV charging infrastructure

BENGALURU - Tesla Inc is exploring an arrangement with Indian conglomerate Tata Sonsrsquo power generation unit Tata Pow-er to set up charging infrastruc-ture for electric vehicles in the country CNBC-TV18 reported citing sources

Shares of Tata Power rose 55 to their best closing level since June 2014 after the report which comes as the Palo Alto-based electric-car maker gears up for an India launch later this year with plans to import and sell its Model 3 electric sedan

Tesla will set up an electric-car manufacturing unit in the southern Indian state of Karna-taka according to a government document seen by Reuters

Indiarsquos Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan

The talks between Tata Power and Tesla are in the initial stages and no arrangements have been

fi nalised yet the report saidTata Powerrsquos electric vehicle

charging business constantly

explores growth opportunities but has not fi nalised any new agreements the company said in a statement to stock exchanges It also said the CNBC-TV 18 report was ldquofactually incorrectrdquo but did not elaborate

Tesla was not immediately available for comment

In January the US electric-car maker incorporated Tesla Motors India and Energy Private Ltd with its registered offi ce in the southern city of Bengaluru a hub for global technology companies

Tata Motors Ltd the carmak-ing unit of Tata Sons last week denied any tie-up with Tesla af-ter media reports suggested the two companies were discussing a partnership

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By Aftab Ahmed and Nupur Anand

NEW DELHIMUMBAI - In-dia will propose a law banning cryptocurrencies fi ning anyone trading in the country or even holding such digital assets a senior government offi cial told

Reuters in a potential blow to millions of investors piling into the red-hot asset class

The bill one of the worldrsquos strictest policies against cryp-tocurrencies would criminalise possession issuance mining trading and transferring crypto-assets said the offi cial who has

India to propose cryptocurrency ban penalising miners tradersdirect knowledge of the plan

The measure is in line with a January government agenda that called for banning private vir-tual currencies such as bitcoin while building a framework for an offi cial digital currency But recent government comments had raised investorsrsquo hopes that

the authorities might go easier on the booming market

Instead the bill would give holders of cryptocurrencies up to six months to liquidate after which penalties will be levied said the offi cial who asked not to be named as the contents of the bill are not public

Offi cials are confi dent of get-ting the bill enacted into law as Prime Minister Narendra Modirsquos government holds a comfortable majority in parliament

If the ban becomes law India would be the fi rst major econo-my to make holding cryptocur-rency illegal Even China which has banned mining and trading

does not penalise possessionThe Finance Ministry did not

immediately respond to an email seeking comment

Bitcoin the worldrsquos biggest cryptocurrency hit a record high $60000 last Saturday nearly doubling in value this year as its acceptance for payments has in-creased with support from such high-profi le backers as Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk

In India despite government threats of a ban transaction vol-umes are swelling and 8 million investors now hold 100 billion rupees ($14 billion) in crypto-investments according to indus-try estimates No offi cial data is available

US becomes Indiarsquos second biggest oil supplier Saudi plunges to No 4

By Nidhi Verma

NEW DELHI - The United States overtook Saudi Arabia as Indiarsquos second biggest oil sup-plier after Iraq last month as refi ners boosted cheaper US crude purchases to record levels to off set OPEC+ supply cuts data from trade sources showed

The switch in supplies trig-gered by lower US crude de-mand coincided with Saudi Ara-biarsquos voluntary extra 1 million barrel per day (bpd) output cut on top of an agreement by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies (OPEC+) to maintain lower pro-duction

Indiarsquos imports from the United

States - the worldrsquos top producer - rose 48 to a record 545300 bpd in February from the prior month accounting for 14 of Indiarsquos overall imports last month the data obtained by Reuters showed

In contrast February imports from Saudi Arabia fell by 42 from January to a decade low of 445200 bpd the data showed Saudi Arabia which has consis-tently been one of Indiarsquos top two suppliers slipped to No 4 for the fi rst time since at least January 2006

Indiarsquos oil import data by coun-try from before 2006 is not avail-able to Reuters

ldquoUS demand was weak and refi neries were running at low rates so the US crude had to

go somewhere and Asia is the region which has seen rapid de-mand recoveryrdquo said Refi nitiv analyst Ehsan Ul Haq

ldquoChina has not been taking US oil because of (the) trade problem so India is the obvious choicerdquo he said

Iraq continued to be the top oil seller to India despite a 23 drop in purchases to a fi ve-month low of 867500 bpd the data showed

The UAE slipped to fi fth posi-tion from third in January while Nigeria rose to third from fi fth exporting 472300 bpd the most since Oct 2019

India shipped in 392 million bpd of oil in February a decline of 18 from January the data showed

India will propose a law banning cryptocurrencies fi ning anyone trading in the country or even holding such digital assets a senior government offi cial told Re-uters in a potential blow to millions of investors piling into the red-hot asset class

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Aries (March 21 to April 20)Someone will always be prettier Someone will always be smarter Someone will always be younger But they will never be you Itrsquos this ability to understand your uniqueness which will help you steer forward in an otherwise difficult week

Taurus (April 21 to May 21)When a storm is coming all other birds seek shelter The eagle alone avoids the storm by flying above it So in the storms of life be like an eagle and soar above your problems Keep your love life on top priority and everything else will fall into place with time

Gemini (May 22 to June 21)Life is not happening to you Life is responding to you The things you do the decisions you take the people you love or the people you hate they all make you into who you are

Cancer (June 22 to July 22)Sadness does not come from bad circumstances It comes from bad thoughts Although the circumstances are mixed around you you will have a tendency to make a mountain out of a mole hill

Leo (July 23 to August 22)Every time we get what we thought we wanted we realise that we want more This race towards more - more money more power more of everything is taking a toll on your energy level

Virgo (August 23 to September 23)One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness usually it comes back to you While your hard work is fruc-tifying now do not let the success take you away from compassion

Libra (September 24 to October 23)Best friends are like stars You donrsquot always see them but you know they are always there This week you will be in a nostalgic mood and miss good old times and old friends Rather than thinking about it pick up the phone and talk to friends you have not spoken in years or take a friend out on a cappuccino trip

Scorpio (October 24 to November 22)Learn to make peace with your past or else your future will become a constant battle that yoursquoll never win The highlight of the week will be letting go of things forgiving people forgetting wrong-doings and moving on in life

Sagittarius (November 23 to December 21)Chaos in the midst of chaos isnrsquot funny but chaos in the midst of order is Probably one of the toughest week this month wherein there will be a lot of confusion and haze around Advice Do not take stress

Capricorn (December 22 to January 20)Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realise you havenrsquot fallen asleep yet Thatrsquos the kind of nights you might witness this week owing to unforeseen issues and hurdles Your discipline and organisational skills will steer you forward and transform these hurdles into opportunities Aquarius (January 21 to February 19)Women get the last word in every argument Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument This is not the week for you to get into any arguments as it might jeopardise your frame of mind

Pisces (February 20 to March 20)Find out who you are and be that person Thatrsquos what your soul was put on this Earth to be Find that truth live that truth and everything else will come The week will be about introspection spirituality and matters related to the soul

WEEKLY HOROSCOPE(March 28 - April 3 2021)

HEALTH amp SCIENCEASTROLOGYIndia Bulletin

8 things AARP wants you to know before your second COVID-19 vaccine

If yoursquove already received your first dose of a two-dose COVID-19 vaccine congratulations - yoursquore well on your way to being protect-ed from the coronavirus But to be fully immunized itrsquos critical to get that second shot

William Schaffner MD an infectious diseases specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville Tennessee and medical director of the Nation-al Foundation for Infectious Dis-eases says ldquoWe have told every-one these vaccines are 95 percent effectiverdquo of the two-dose Moder-na and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines currently in use in the US ldquoBut theyrsquore only 95 percent effective if you indeed get that second doserdquo

Here are a few more things to know about the second dose

1 Your side effects will likely be stronger

Many people who had little to no reaction to the first vaccine dose are reporting that the second one packs a punch mdash surprising even those who study vaccines for a liv-ing

Greg Poland MD an infec-tious disease expert at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota and director of Mayorsquos vaccine re-search group had only mild symp-toms after his first dose But the second one left him shaking - liter-ally - with chills and a temperature of 101

ldquoI took one Tylenol and went to bed and woke up the next morning 90 percent improved and by mid-day I was back to normalrdquo Poland says ldquoThis is not an indication of something going wrong it is an indication of a vigorous immune responserdquo

There is no live virus in the vac-cine so you canrsquot get COVID-19 from being vaccinated

Participants in clinical trials of both vaccines had experiences similar to Polandrsquos In Pfizerrsquos clinical trial for instance 31 per-cent of participants ages 18 to 55 reported a fever after the second dose compared to only 8 percent after the first one Fatigue chills headache and musclejoint pain were also more common after the second injection for both vaccines

The good news is older adults were less likely to experience vac-cine reactions the data shows Among those age 55 and up in the Pfizer trial 22 percent experienced fever after the second dose and 3 percent had a temperature after the first dose

Schaffner recommends not making any big plans for the day after your scheduled vaccine appointment

2 You should avoid taking pain relievers before your shot

If yoursquove been hearing sto-ries about second-dose side ef-fects you may be tempted to take a pain reliever before your appointment

Thatrsquos not a good idea accord-ing to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) unless yoursquove been advised to do so by your doctor Pain relievers taken preemptively ahead of a shot could dampen the effective-ness of the vaccine Poland and Schaffner say

However itrsquos OK to take ac-etaminophen (Tylenol) or a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug like Advil or Motrin after your vaccine to treat side effects such as pain fever chills or headache

3 The timing between doses doesnrsquot need to be exact

The second dose of the Pfiz-er shot is supposed to be giv-en 21 days after the first for Moderna the recommended interval between doses is 28 days

However if you canrsquot get an appointment on the exact day mdash or if you have to miss your scheduled appointment for some reason mdash the CDC does allow some wiggle room Although the agency recommends trying to stick to the suggested interval it says the second dose can be given up to six weeks after the first

If your appointment is sched-uled earlier than the recommend-ed date ask for a later appoint-ment Schaffner advises ldquoYour immune response will work perfectly well if you take more timerdquo he says ldquoBut if you do it too early the second dose may not invoke an optimal responserdquo

4 Your second dose should be from the same manufacturer as your first

Doctors are already hearing from patients asking if they can get their second dose from a dif-ferent manufacturer often be-cause they realize the other type of vaccine is offered at a location thatrsquos more convenient But the CDC recommends against it The Moderna and Pfizer vaccines ldquoare not interchangeable with each other or with other COVID-19 vaccine productsrdquo the CDC says ldquoThe safety and efficacy of a mixed-product series have not been evaluatedrdquo

5 A rash at the injection site isnrsquot a reason to skip your second dose

If you experienced a rash at the injection site three to 10 days

after getting your first shot that doesnrsquot preclude you from getting your second shot the CDC says although it recommends getting it in the other arm

A small number of people have developed such rashes some-times called ldquoCOVID armrdquo af-ter vaccination Doctors say itrsquos likely a mild allergic reaction that can be treated with an over-the-counter antihistamine such as Benadryl

6 You should temporarily avoid all other vaccines

It might be time for your shin-gles or Tdap vaccine but you should hold off if you are between COVID-19 vaccine doses Be-cause therersquos no data on the safety and efficacy of COVID vaccines administered at the same time as other vaccines the CDC recom-mends avoiding other immuniza-tions in the two weeks before and after both doses

7 Full immunity is not immediate

It takes two weeks after your second dose for your body to build full protection to the virus After that you should have al-most zero chance of developing severe disease if you are exposed to someone with COVID-19 Schaffner says The CDC also says you no longer have to quar-antine if yoursquore exposed to some-one with COVID-19 mdash as long as you meet these criteria you donrsquot have symptoms and it hasnrsquot been more than three months since your second vaccine dose

One possible exception is immunocompromised people Schaffner says They will get some level of immunity he says ldquobut they may not reach the 95 percent because their immune system is already somewhat com-promised no matter how strong these vaccines arerdquo

8 You still need to wear a maskExperts agree you should con-

tinue to wear a mask and practice social distancing in public For one thing therersquos a small chance you could get sick even after yoursquove been vaccinated

In addition itrsquos possible that you could still carry the virus and silently transmit it to others who havenrsquot been vaccinated even if you donrsquot develop symptoms

And therersquos one more reason Until the country reaches herd im-munity mdash the point when a signif-icant portion of the population be-comes immune to a disease mdash itrsquos important for everyone to wear a mask to stop the spread of the virus Schaffner says

Saturday March 20 2021

Biden All US adults to be eligible for vaccines by May

By Jeff Mason

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden told US states last Thursday to make all adults eligible for a coronavirus vaccine by May 1 and urged Americans to stay vigi-lant or face more restrictions hours after he signed a $19 trillion stimulus bill into law

In a forceful but somber speech from the White House on the fi rst anniversary of the pandemic lockdown Biden said if Ameri-cans pulled together there could be a great-er sense of normalcy - and some backyard barbecue parties with small groups - on the US Independence Day holiday on July 4

That date is a new goal for the president and a projection of hope amid a pandemic that has killed more than 530000 people in the United States the most of any country

To achieve his summer target Biden said he needed Americansrsquo help

ldquoIf we donrsquot stay vigilant and the con-ditions change then we may have to rein-state restrictions to get back on trackrdquo he said in an evening address from the White House his fi rst in television prime time since becoming president

ldquoWersquove made so much progress This is not the time to let up Just as we are emerging from a dark winter into a hope-ful spring and summer is not the time to not stick with the rulesrdquo he said

Republicans swiftly criticized Biden for his cautious approach ldquoWhat America needs now is to fully reopen our economy and our classroomsrdquo House of Represen-tatives Republican leader Kevin McCarthy said on Twitter

Biden said he was ordering US states territories and tribes to make all adults eli-gible to receive a coronavirus vaccine by May 1 The White House has said it would have enough vaccine supply to vaccinate the adult population by the end of May About 10 of Americans so far have been fully vaccinated

Administration offi cials said he would deploy 4000 more troops to help with the vaccine eff ort bringing the total number to 6000 The White House is also seeking to expand the pool of people able to adminis-ter shots to include dentists optometrists paramedics veterinarians and medical stu-dents

Biden campaigned last year on a prom-ise that he would tackle the pandemic more eff ectively than Republican Presi-dent Donald Trump and he has sought to encourage and model behavior such as mask-wearing that Trump eschewed

In his speech Biden took a swipe at his

predecessor by saying the virus was ini-tially met with ldquodenials for days weeks then months that led to more deaths more infections more stress more lonelinessrdquo

Biden said hate crimes and harassment against Asian Americans must stop Trump repeatedly referred to the disease as the ldquoChina virusrdquo

Biden also encouraged Americans to keep up mitigation eff orts - wearing masks keeping social distance and prac-ticing good hygiene - to stop the virus and its variants from spreading A number of states have been loosening restrictions

as Americans like many people around the world grow weary of pandemic life

ldquoPhotos and videos from 2019 feel like they were taken in another era The last vacation The last birthday with friends The last holiday with extended familyrdquo Biden said recounting the toll the virus has wrought

He said the country would come away from the crisis stronger ldquoWe faced and overcame one of the toughest and darkest periods in this nationrsquos history - darkest wersquove ever knownrdquo he said

Moderna begins study of COVID-19 vaccine in kids

Moderna Inc has begun dosing patients in a mid-to-late stage study of its COV-ID-19 vaccine mRNA-1273 in children aged six months to less than 12 years the company said on Tuesday

The study will assess the safety and ef-fectiveness of two doses of mRNA-1273 given 28 days apart and intends to enroll about 6750 children in the United States and Canada

The vaccine has already been au-thorized for emergency use in

Americans who are aged 18 and older

In a separate study which began in De-cember Moderna is also testing mRNA-1273 in adolescents between 12 and 18 years old

The latest study is being conducted in collaboration with the National Insti-tute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA)

Mother who lost only son to rare COVID complication warns parents to look for early signs

SANTIAGO - By the time doctors real-ized that Lorena Navarretersquos son had a rare complication of COVID-19 that affl icts some children it was too late to save her 16-year-old Emilio

Lorena a single mother who lives in the southern Chilean city of Puerto Montt told the TVN network that her music-loving and sociable son died about a week after he fi rst complained of feeling tired and of a pain in his legs in late January

Within days he had developed livid blotches on his skin a high fever vomiting and dark urine

Doctors at the cityrsquos hospital overrun with severe COVID cases repeatedly tested him for COVID but with the results coming back negative were at a loss as to what was wrong with him

By the time his illness was identifi ed as Multisystem Infl ammatory Syndrome in Children it was too late Lorena could not be at her sonrsquos bedside because of strict health protocols but a social worker called to pass on the message that her son loved

her very much She asked the social worker to tell her son she would see him soon and that his pets were well

ldquoA doctor said that if I had faith I should pray because my son was very illrdquo said Na-varrete who works as a nurse technician ldquoThey had a diagnosis and it was PIMSrdquo

Multisystem Infl ammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) as PIMS is more com-monly known is a rare life-threatening syndrome linked to COVID-19

It usually appears between two and six weeks after infection even in asymptomatic cases of COVID-19

It shares symptoms with toxic shock and Kawasaki disease including fever rashes swollen glands conjunctivitis and in severe cases heart infl ammation and can cause multiple organ failure It is not always fatal if caught and treated early

The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention said in January that it was inves-tigating whether COVID variants were in-creasing the number or severity of cases fol-lowing anecdotal reports from some states

US President Joe Biden

HEALTH amp SCIENCE17India Bulletin

HEALTH amp SCIENCE

Saturday March 20 2021

By Anthony Deutsch and Caroline Copley

AMSTERDAM - Global health experts came under in-creasing pressure on Tuesday to clear up questions over the safety of AstraZenecarsquos CO-VID-19 shot as Sweden and Latvia joined countries suspend-ing their use in a further blow to Europersquos vaccination rollout

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said it was

investigating reports of 30 cases of unusual blood disorders out of 5 million recipients of the As-traZeneca vaccine In total 45 million COVID shots have been delivered across the region

The EU regulator will release its findings on Thursday but its head Emer Cooke said she saw no reason to change its recom-mendation of AstraZeneca - one of four vaccines that it has approved for use

ldquoThe benefits continue to

outweigh the risks but this is a serious concern and it does need serious and detailed scientific evaluationrdquo Cooke told a news conference

A World Health Organization (WHO) committee of experts was reviewing the cases and was expected to issue a statement by the end of the day a spokesman said

The EUrsquos largest members - Germany France and Italy - suspended use of AstraZenecarsquos vaccine on Monday pending the outcome of investigations into unusual cases of a rare cerebral thrombosis in people who had received it

The addition of Sweden and Latvia on Tuesday brought to 13 the number of EU countries to act since reports first emerged of thromboembolisms affect-ing people after they got the AstraZeneca shot

The WHO and EMA had ear-lier joined AstraZeneca in say-ing there is no proven link but some experts said the episodes of blood clots bleeding and low platelet counts in younger people seemed to indicate a causal con-nection to the AstraZeneca shot

ldquoThe benefits of vaccination significantly outweigh the risks especially for the elderlyrdquo said Karl Lauterbach health spokes-man for Germanyrsquos Social Democratic Party

ldquoBut it could be the case that the risks of the vaccine are high-er for certain patient groups such as young womenrdquo Lauterbach an epidemiologist whose party is part of the Berlin coalition told Deutschlandfunk radio in an interview

Other epidemiologists note that similar cases have not been found in unusual num-bers in Britain which began using AstraZeneca earlier and has given more than 10 million doses

ldquoA very likely explanation of at least some of the clotting dis-orders seen are a result of CO-VID-19 rather than the vaccinerdquo said Stephen Evans professor of pharmacoepidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

ldquoThere are published papers that make clear that these prob-lems definitely occur in COV-ID-19 and there is no doubt that all the vaccines in use prevent

that disease Hence the risk and benefit balance for the AstraZen-eca vaccine remains clearly in favour of its benefitsrdquo

In the EUrsquos largest states in-cluding Germany France Italy the Netherlands and Spain As-traZeneca has accounted for about 13-15 of shots given since the rollout began almost three months ago with Pfizer-BioNTech making up the major-ity according to official data

As one as the cheapest to be developed the AstraZeneca shot is set to be the mainstay of vac-cination programmes in much of the developing world

Governments say they acted on the AstraZeneca shot out of an abundance of caution - of 16 million people in Germany given the vaccine seven fell ill with a very rare cerebral vein thrombosis of whom three died

In a detailed analysis of its findings Germanyrsquos vaccine oversight body the Paul Eh-rlich Institute said six of the cases were in women of young or middle age - a number statis-tically significantly higher than normally expected

Health experts pore over AstraZeneca safety data as Europe reels from vaccine suspensions

Global health experts came under increasing pressure on Tuesday to clear up questions over the safety of AstraZenecarsquos COVID-19 shot as Sweden and Latvia joined countries suspending their use in a further blow to Europersquos vaccination rollout

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India Bulletin 19Saturday March 20 2021

Kishan Kohli help India level T20 series against England

AHMEDABAD - A belliger-ent 56 off 32 balls from India debutant Ishan Kishan and an unbeaten 73 from captain Virat Kohli helped the hosts to a com-manding seven-wicket win over England in the second Twenty20 International in Ahmedabad on Sunday

Kishan 22 smashed leg-spinner Adil Rashid for two con-secutive sixes to get past fifty as India made short work of a 165-run target to win with 13 balls to spare and level the five-match

series at 1-1Indiarsquos chase of Englandrsquos

164-6 got off to a shaky start when Sam Curran sent back opener KL Rahul in the first over without scoring but it did not curb Kishanrsquos aggres-sion the left-hander hitting five fours and four sixes in total

There was plenty of entertain-ment for the sizeable crowd at the worldrsquos biggest cricket sta-dium with most fans not wear-ing masks in the stands as Kohli

and Kishan added 94 in nine overs

Rishabh Pant came in after the dismissal of Kishan who was dropped by Ben Stokes on 40 off Rashid and continued to pummel Englandrsquos bowlers with a 13-ball 26 during which he hit two sixes and an identical number of fours

Kohli who also survived a dropped chance by wicketkeeper Jos Buttler on 10 off Chris Jor-dan sealed the win with a four and a six in successive balls to

also get past 3000 runs in T20 internationals in the process

Jason Roy once again top-scored for England with a 35-ball 46 following up on his knock of 49 in their win in the first match last Friday

Put in to bat the right-hander gave the touring side a steady start with a 63-run stand for the second wicket with Dawid Malan after the loss of opening partner Buttler to seamer Bhu-vneshwar Kumar on the first delivery he faced

Roy hit four fours and two six-es in his knock before holing out in the deep off spinner Washing-ton Sundar who also sent back the dangerous Jonny Bairstow for 20

Fast bowler Shardul Thakur pegged back Englandrsquos hopes of a flourishing finish by dis-missing opposition captain Eoin Morgan and Stokes as India conceded just 35 off the last five overs

The third match of the series will be played on Tuesday

Virat Kohli

Rohit urges India debutants to lsquohave funrsquo against England in T20 series

After Suryakumar Yadav and Ishan Kishan earned their maiden call-ups to the Indian national team vice-captain Rohit Sharma stressed on the importance of playing with-out any pressure when they take on England in a Twenty20 series

Kishan and Suryakumar were named in the squad after plun-dering 516 and 480 runs re-spectively in the Indian Premier League last season where the pair played under Rohit for the

Mumbai Indians as they clinched their fifth title in November

ldquoI donrsquot want them to be think-ing about anythingrdquo Rohit told reporters on Wednesday ldquoThatrsquos how they bring their best perfor-mance out

ldquoHaving watched them closely for a few years now Irsquove realised itrsquos important for them to be part of this wonder-ful team a great setup I just want them to have fun and un-derstand what this team is all about

ldquoThese guys have done re-ally well in the last few years especially the last year Itrsquos just about carrying that form and putting it out there Itrsquos not go-ing to be that easy here they will be challenged every now and thenrdquo

For England itrsquos a much-awaited return to the squad for all-rounder Liam Livingstone who had similar success in Aus-traliarsquos Big Bash League where he scored 426 runs for Perth Scorchers

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Bollywood Beat

The Brihanmumbai Mu-nicipal Corporation (BMC) revealed on their social media page that they have filed an FIR (First information report) against a Bollywood actor for not adhering to Covid-19 guidelines despite testing posi-tive for the deadly virus They even uploaded a picture of the FIR but the name of the celeb-rity was blurred Immediately it led people to speculate who the actor could be

However it has now come to light that the actor in question is Gauahar Khan As per the complaint filed at Oshiwara po-lice station a BMC officer has said that on the night of March 14 he was informed that Gaua-har Khan has tested positive for Coronavirus and yet shersquos not ready to get quarantined Hence the officer reached Gau-ahar Khanrsquos residence but she refused to open the door Later her husband answered from the flat and allegedly shouted at the BMC team

The complainant further states that the actress alleg-edly went out of her house for a shoot Hence the officer claims that she has exposed people to the deadly virus and thus contributed to itrsquos spread

As per a news report S Chai-tanya DCP (operations) and PRO of Mumbai Police has stated that Gauahar Khan has been charged under Sections 188 269 270 of the IPC 51B of NDMA Act 3 of Epidemic Diseases Act

BMC files FIR against

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MOVIE REVIEW

Itrsquos been almost a year when theatres were asked to shut down due to rapid rise in the cases of Coronavirus in the country Two of the films play-ing in theatres at that point were Angrezi Medium produced by Dinesh Vijan and Kaamyaab directed by Hardik Mehta In an interesting turn of events Roohi the film that releases today and kickstarts the movie-watching season in cinemas is helmed by both these personalities So does Roohi manage to enter-tain and enthral the audiences Or does it fail to entice Letrsquos analyse

Roohi is the story of a pos-sessed girl Bhawra Pandey (Rajkummar Rao) and Kattanni Qureshi (Varun Sharma) work as crime journalists in a small town Baagadpur They also specialise in lsquopakdaai shaadirsquo aka bride kidnapping an accepted custom in Baagadpur One day their boss Guniya Shakeel (Manav Vij) orders them to kidnap a girl Roohi (Janhvi Kapoor) from a nearby town Mujaribaad Bhawra and Kattanni manage to kidnap Roohi while she is with her father (Rajesh Jais) As per the lsquopakdaai shaadirsquo custom af-ter the girl is kidnapped she is straight away taken to the mar-

riage venue Bhawra and Kat-tanni are also supposed to fol-low suit with Roohi But after the kidnap takes place Guniya calls them and tells them that the groomrsquos uncle has passed away suddenly Hence the mar-riage will now take place after a week Till then Bhawra and Kattanni are told to keep her as a hostage in an abandoned property in the hills of Ambiya-pur On the first night Bhawra goes to offer dinner to Roohi only to realize that she is pos-sessed Kattanni at first doesnrsquot believe but later even he sees the possessed side of Roohi However instead of being frightened Kattanni falls for the possessed Roohi Bhawra on the other hand is in love with the non-possessed Roohi He decides to help her and get the witch out of her body Kattanni however is averse to the idea as loves the possessed Roohi and if Bhawra succeeds the witch will leave Roohi forever What hap-pens next forms the rest of the film

Mrighdeep Singh Lamba and Gautam Mehras story is inter-esting and novel The writers try their best to bring some-thing new to the table Mrigh-deep Singh Lamba and Gautam Mehras screenplay however is interesting only in parts A few scenes are exceptional and bring the house down But the serious portions donrsquot make the desired impact Mrigh-deep Singh Lamba and Gautam Mehras dialogues are witty But the dialect is too authentic and is incomprehensible at many places

Roohi starts off on an interest-ing note depicting the concept of bride kidnapping in Baagad-pur that too through the eyes of a foreign reporter (Alexx ONell) The film gets better once Bhawra and Kattanni kid-nap Roohi and set base at the spooky abandoned factory The scene where Bhawra narrates about the possessed Roohi to

Kattanni is sure to raise laughs The scene where Kattanni in-stead of running away falls for the possessed Roohi is unique and unexpected It will bring smiles on the faces of the view-ers The interval comes at an in-teresting juncture Post-interval the film begins to fall but a few scenes especially of the marriage with the dog and Bhawrarsquos con-versation with the old lady (Sar-ita Joshi) add to the humour and madness The climax though unpredictable is disappointing

Talking of performances Ra-jkummar Rao is in his element as expected Due to his adorable performance one doesnrsquot hate him even though hersquos playing a kidnapper in the film And his comic timing is spot-on espe-cially in the scenes where hersquos running away from the possessed Roohi Janhvi Kapoor is a big surprise She hardly has any dia-logues but gets her act right with her expressions And she also is convincing as the witch Varun Sharma is marvellous and man-ages to raise laughs In the last 30 minutes however he doesnrsquot have much to do Manav Vij suits the part and his performance is

fair Sarita Joshi (credited in the film as Padma Shri Sarita Joshi) is hilarious and one wish-es that she had a longer screen time Alexx ONell is lovely Rajesh H Jais Anurag Arora (Tantrik) Sumit Gulati (Paras Roohirsquos groom in the end) are okay

Sachin-Jigars music is ap-propriate for the film and itrsquos theme Kiston comes suddenly but is soulful Bhootni is hilari-ous while Panghat is played in the end credits Nadiyon Paar is attached with the filmrsquos print be-fore the film starts It is the best song of the lot and well shot One wishes if it was a part of the filmrsquos narrative Ketan Sodhas background score is well wo-ven and also contributes to the horror quotient

On the whole Roohi rests on a unique concept fine perfor-mances and some interesting funny and horror sequences However the disappointing climax and difficult-to-under-stand dialect might affect the filmrsquos prospects at the box office

BannerMaddock Films

Jio Studios

ProducerDinesh Vijan

Mrighdeep Singh Lamba

DirectorHardik Mehta

StarringRajkummar RaoVarun SharmaJanhvi Kapoor

Music BySachin-Jigar

Released DateMarch 11 2021

Roohi

Rating

Celebrity BirthdaysMarch 21stRani Mukerji (1978)

March 23rdKangana Ranaut (1987)

March 24thEmraan Hashmi (1979)

March 25thYograj Singh (1958)

March 26thPrakash Raj (1965)

April 3rdPrabhu Deva (1973)

April 4thLisa Ray (1972)Simran Bagga (1976)

March 28thAkshaye Khanna(1975) Sandhya Mridul (1975)

March 30thNagesh Kukunoor (1967)

April 2ndAjay Devgn (1969) Kapil Sharma (1981)

13India BulletinSaturday March 20 2021

ENTERTAINMENT

Biz Briefs

Apple Inc has started the as-sembly of iPhone 12 in India the US tech giant said as the com-pany ramps up manufacturing operations in the worldrsquos sec-ond-biggest smartphone market

ldquoWe are proud to be starting production of iPhone 12 in India for our local customersrdquo Apple said in a statement without naming the supplier making the smartphone

The Indian unit of Applersquos Taiwanese contract manufac-turer Foxconn will assemble the device in its plant in southern Tamil Nadu state two sources familiar with the matter said

Foxconn did not immediately respond to a request for com-ment but has previously said it does not comment on client-specifi c work

Poscorsquos steel plant in India

faces disruption Operations at South Korean

steelmaker Poscorsquos plant in the Indian state of Maharashtra have been disrupted due to local pro-tests over labour and other issues police and sources told Reuters hampering the supply chain for automakers

A local politician leading the protests said they have blocked employees and goods from enter-ing the plant and will continue until Posco heeds to some of their requests which include giv-ing employment preference to lo-cal workers raising the wages of temporary employees and making them permanent

Reuters could not indepen-dently verify the extent of the production disruption at Poscorsquos plant

Apple starts iPhone 12 assem-

bly in India

HEALTH amp SCIENCEBUSINESS14 India Bulletin Saturday March 20 2021

By Nidhi Verma

NEW DELHI - India and the UAE on Wednesday discussed ways to strengthen energy coop-eration Indiarsquos oil minister Dhar-mendra Pradhan said despite the South Asian nation asking its re-fi ners to reduce their reliance on Middle Eastern oil

ldquo(We) discussed about new ar-eas of cooperation in the hydro-carbon sector and beyond and agreed to remain committed de-spite the challenges presented by Covid pandemicrdquo Pradhan said on Twitter after a virtual meeting with Sultan Al Jaber the chief executive of Abu Dhabi National Oil Co (ADNOC)

UAE is a key oil supplier to India and a partner in an Indian joint venture that plans to build a 12 million barrels per day (bpd) refi nery and petrochemical com-plex on the countryrsquos west coast

Last month the UAE was the

fi fth biggest oil supplier to In-dia which itself is the worldrsquos third biggest oil importer and consumer

Pradhan said he also discussed with Jaber ways of strengthen-ing and ldquoproviding momentum to (the) bilateral strategic en-ergy partnershiprdquo between the countries

India imports more than 80 of its oil needs a signifi cant amount of which comes from the Middle East

New Delhi has however asked refi ners to gradually reduce oil imports from the Middle East and diversify supplies after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its al-lies known as OPEC+ decided to extend most curbs into April

India has been hit hard by rising oil prices due to which minister Pradhan has repeatedly called on OPEC+ to ease supply curbs and has blamed Saudi Ara-

India and UAE vow to strengthen energy cooperation says minister

biarsquos voluntary cuts for contribut-ing to a spike in global oil prices

Responding to Pradhanrsquos re-quest Saudi Arabiarsquos energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman suggested India dip into strategic reserves fi lled with cheaper oil bought last year

The UAErsquos ADNOC is the only foreign company to which India has leased a part of it strategic petroleum reserves India does not allow the export of oil but has given permission to ADNOC to export part of its oil in Mangalore SPR in southern India

Tesla in talks with Indiarsquos Tata Power for EV charging infrastructure

BENGALURU - Tesla Inc is exploring an arrangement with Indian conglomerate Tata Sonsrsquo power generation unit Tata Pow-er to set up charging infrastruc-ture for electric vehicles in the country CNBC-TV18 reported citing sources

Shares of Tata Power rose 55 to their best closing level since June 2014 after the report which comes as the Palo Alto-based electric-car maker gears up for an India launch later this year with plans to import and sell its Model 3 electric sedan

Tesla will set up an electric-car manufacturing unit in the southern Indian state of Karna-taka according to a government document seen by Reuters

Indiarsquos Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan

The talks between Tata Power and Tesla are in the initial stages and no arrangements have been

fi nalised yet the report saidTata Powerrsquos electric vehicle

charging business constantly

explores growth opportunities but has not fi nalised any new agreements the company said in a statement to stock exchanges It also said the CNBC-TV 18 report was ldquofactually incorrectrdquo but did not elaborate

Tesla was not immediately available for comment

In January the US electric-car maker incorporated Tesla Motors India and Energy Private Ltd with its registered offi ce in the southern city of Bengaluru a hub for global technology companies

Tata Motors Ltd the carmak-ing unit of Tata Sons last week denied any tie-up with Tesla af-ter media reports suggested the two companies were discussing a partnership

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BUSINESSIndia Bulletin

By Aftab Ahmed and Nupur Anand

NEW DELHIMUMBAI - In-dia will propose a law banning cryptocurrencies fi ning anyone trading in the country or even holding such digital assets a senior government offi cial told

Reuters in a potential blow to millions of investors piling into the red-hot asset class

The bill one of the worldrsquos strictest policies against cryp-tocurrencies would criminalise possession issuance mining trading and transferring crypto-assets said the offi cial who has

India to propose cryptocurrency ban penalising miners tradersdirect knowledge of the plan

The measure is in line with a January government agenda that called for banning private vir-tual currencies such as bitcoin while building a framework for an offi cial digital currency But recent government comments had raised investorsrsquo hopes that

the authorities might go easier on the booming market

Instead the bill would give holders of cryptocurrencies up to six months to liquidate after which penalties will be levied said the offi cial who asked not to be named as the contents of the bill are not public

Offi cials are confi dent of get-ting the bill enacted into law as Prime Minister Narendra Modirsquos government holds a comfortable majority in parliament

If the ban becomes law India would be the fi rst major econo-my to make holding cryptocur-rency illegal Even China which has banned mining and trading

does not penalise possessionThe Finance Ministry did not

immediately respond to an email seeking comment

Bitcoin the worldrsquos biggest cryptocurrency hit a record high $60000 last Saturday nearly doubling in value this year as its acceptance for payments has in-creased with support from such high-profi le backers as Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk

In India despite government threats of a ban transaction vol-umes are swelling and 8 million investors now hold 100 billion rupees ($14 billion) in crypto-investments according to indus-try estimates No offi cial data is available

US becomes Indiarsquos second biggest oil supplier Saudi plunges to No 4

By Nidhi Verma

NEW DELHI - The United States overtook Saudi Arabia as Indiarsquos second biggest oil sup-plier after Iraq last month as refi ners boosted cheaper US crude purchases to record levels to off set OPEC+ supply cuts data from trade sources showed

The switch in supplies trig-gered by lower US crude de-mand coincided with Saudi Ara-biarsquos voluntary extra 1 million barrel per day (bpd) output cut on top of an agreement by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies (OPEC+) to maintain lower pro-duction

Indiarsquos imports from the United

States - the worldrsquos top producer - rose 48 to a record 545300 bpd in February from the prior month accounting for 14 of Indiarsquos overall imports last month the data obtained by Reuters showed

In contrast February imports from Saudi Arabia fell by 42 from January to a decade low of 445200 bpd the data showed Saudi Arabia which has consis-tently been one of Indiarsquos top two suppliers slipped to No 4 for the fi rst time since at least January 2006

Indiarsquos oil import data by coun-try from before 2006 is not avail-able to Reuters

ldquoUS demand was weak and refi neries were running at low rates so the US crude had to

go somewhere and Asia is the region which has seen rapid de-mand recoveryrdquo said Refi nitiv analyst Ehsan Ul Haq

ldquoChina has not been taking US oil because of (the) trade problem so India is the obvious choicerdquo he said

Iraq continued to be the top oil seller to India despite a 23 drop in purchases to a fi ve-month low of 867500 bpd the data showed

The UAE slipped to fi fth posi-tion from third in January while Nigeria rose to third from fi fth exporting 472300 bpd the most since Oct 2019

India shipped in 392 million bpd of oil in February a decline of 18 from January the data showed

India will propose a law banning cryptocurrencies fi ning anyone trading in the country or even holding such digital assets a senior government offi cial told Re-uters in a potential blow to millions of investors piling into the red-hot asset class

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Aries (March 21 to April 20)Someone will always be prettier Someone will always be smarter Someone will always be younger But they will never be you Itrsquos this ability to understand your uniqueness which will help you steer forward in an otherwise difficult week

Taurus (April 21 to May 21)When a storm is coming all other birds seek shelter The eagle alone avoids the storm by flying above it So in the storms of life be like an eagle and soar above your problems Keep your love life on top priority and everything else will fall into place with time

Gemini (May 22 to June 21)Life is not happening to you Life is responding to you The things you do the decisions you take the people you love or the people you hate they all make you into who you are

Cancer (June 22 to July 22)Sadness does not come from bad circumstances It comes from bad thoughts Although the circumstances are mixed around you you will have a tendency to make a mountain out of a mole hill

Leo (July 23 to August 22)Every time we get what we thought we wanted we realise that we want more This race towards more - more money more power more of everything is taking a toll on your energy level

Virgo (August 23 to September 23)One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness usually it comes back to you While your hard work is fruc-tifying now do not let the success take you away from compassion

Libra (September 24 to October 23)Best friends are like stars You donrsquot always see them but you know they are always there This week you will be in a nostalgic mood and miss good old times and old friends Rather than thinking about it pick up the phone and talk to friends you have not spoken in years or take a friend out on a cappuccino trip

Scorpio (October 24 to November 22)Learn to make peace with your past or else your future will become a constant battle that yoursquoll never win The highlight of the week will be letting go of things forgiving people forgetting wrong-doings and moving on in life

Sagittarius (November 23 to December 21)Chaos in the midst of chaos isnrsquot funny but chaos in the midst of order is Probably one of the toughest week this month wherein there will be a lot of confusion and haze around Advice Do not take stress

Capricorn (December 22 to January 20)Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realise you havenrsquot fallen asleep yet Thatrsquos the kind of nights you might witness this week owing to unforeseen issues and hurdles Your discipline and organisational skills will steer you forward and transform these hurdles into opportunities Aquarius (January 21 to February 19)Women get the last word in every argument Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument This is not the week for you to get into any arguments as it might jeopardise your frame of mind

Pisces (February 20 to March 20)Find out who you are and be that person Thatrsquos what your soul was put on this Earth to be Find that truth live that truth and everything else will come The week will be about introspection spirituality and matters related to the soul

WEEKLY HOROSCOPE(March 28 - April 3 2021)

HEALTH amp SCIENCEASTROLOGYIndia Bulletin

8 things AARP wants you to know before your second COVID-19 vaccine

If yoursquove already received your first dose of a two-dose COVID-19 vaccine congratulations - yoursquore well on your way to being protect-ed from the coronavirus But to be fully immunized itrsquos critical to get that second shot

William Schaffner MD an infectious diseases specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville Tennessee and medical director of the Nation-al Foundation for Infectious Dis-eases says ldquoWe have told every-one these vaccines are 95 percent effectiverdquo of the two-dose Moder-na and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines currently in use in the US ldquoBut theyrsquore only 95 percent effective if you indeed get that second doserdquo

Here are a few more things to know about the second dose

1 Your side effects will likely be stronger

Many people who had little to no reaction to the first vaccine dose are reporting that the second one packs a punch mdash surprising even those who study vaccines for a liv-ing

Greg Poland MD an infec-tious disease expert at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota and director of Mayorsquos vaccine re-search group had only mild symp-toms after his first dose But the second one left him shaking - liter-ally - with chills and a temperature of 101

ldquoI took one Tylenol and went to bed and woke up the next morning 90 percent improved and by mid-day I was back to normalrdquo Poland says ldquoThis is not an indication of something going wrong it is an indication of a vigorous immune responserdquo

There is no live virus in the vac-cine so you canrsquot get COVID-19 from being vaccinated

Participants in clinical trials of both vaccines had experiences similar to Polandrsquos In Pfizerrsquos clinical trial for instance 31 per-cent of participants ages 18 to 55 reported a fever after the second dose compared to only 8 percent after the first one Fatigue chills headache and musclejoint pain were also more common after the second injection for both vaccines

The good news is older adults were less likely to experience vac-cine reactions the data shows Among those age 55 and up in the Pfizer trial 22 percent experienced fever after the second dose and 3 percent had a temperature after the first dose

Schaffner recommends not making any big plans for the day after your scheduled vaccine appointment

2 You should avoid taking pain relievers before your shot

If yoursquove been hearing sto-ries about second-dose side ef-fects you may be tempted to take a pain reliever before your appointment

Thatrsquos not a good idea accord-ing to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) unless yoursquove been advised to do so by your doctor Pain relievers taken preemptively ahead of a shot could dampen the effective-ness of the vaccine Poland and Schaffner say

However itrsquos OK to take ac-etaminophen (Tylenol) or a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug like Advil or Motrin after your vaccine to treat side effects such as pain fever chills or headache

3 The timing between doses doesnrsquot need to be exact

The second dose of the Pfiz-er shot is supposed to be giv-en 21 days after the first for Moderna the recommended interval between doses is 28 days

However if you canrsquot get an appointment on the exact day mdash or if you have to miss your scheduled appointment for some reason mdash the CDC does allow some wiggle room Although the agency recommends trying to stick to the suggested interval it says the second dose can be given up to six weeks after the first

If your appointment is sched-uled earlier than the recommend-ed date ask for a later appoint-ment Schaffner advises ldquoYour immune response will work perfectly well if you take more timerdquo he says ldquoBut if you do it too early the second dose may not invoke an optimal responserdquo

4 Your second dose should be from the same manufacturer as your first

Doctors are already hearing from patients asking if they can get their second dose from a dif-ferent manufacturer often be-cause they realize the other type of vaccine is offered at a location thatrsquos more convenient But the CDC recommends against it The Moderna and Pfizer vaccines ldquoare not interchangeable with each other or with other COVID-19 vaccine productsrdquo the CDC says ldquoThe safety and efficacy of a mixed-product series have not been evaluatedrdquo

5 A rash at the injection site isnrsquot a reason to skip your second dose

If you experienced a rash at the injection site three to 10 days

after getting your first shot that doesnrsquot preclude you from getting your second shot the CDC says although it recommends getting it in the other arm

A small number of people have developed such rashes some-times called ldquoCOVID armrdquo af-ter vaccination Doctors say itrsquos likely a mild allergic reaction that can be treated with an over-the-counter antihistamine such as Benadryl

6 You should temporarily avoid all other vaccines

It might be time for your shin-gles or Tdap vaccine but you should hold off if you are between COVID-19 vaccine doses Be-cause therersquos no data on the safety and efficacy of COVID vaccines administered at the same time as other vaccines the CDC recom-mends avoiding other immuniza-tions in the two weeks before and after both doses

7 Full immunity is not immediate

It takes two weeks after your second dose for your body to build full protection to the virus After that you should have al-most zero chance of developing severe disease if you are exposed to someone with COVID-19 Schaffner says The CDC also says you no longer have to quar-antine if yoursquore exposed to some-one with COVID-19 mdash as long as you meet these criteria you donrsquot have symptoms and it hasnrsquot been more than three months since your second vaccine dose

One possible exception is immunocompromised people Schaffner says They will get some level of immunity he says ldquobut they may not reach the 95 percent because their immune system is already somewhat com-promised no matter how strong these vaccines arerdquo

8 You still need to wear a maskExperts agree you should con-

tinue to wear a mask and practice social distancing in public For one thing therersquos a small chance you could get sick even after yoursquove been vaccinated

In addition itrsquos possible that you could still carry the virus and silently transmit it to others who havenrsquot been vaccinated even if you donrsquot develop symptoms

And therersquos one more reason Until the country reaches herd im-munity mdash the point when a signif-icant portion of the population be-comes immune to a disease mdash itrsquos important for everyone to wear a mask to stop the spread of the virus Schaffner says

Saturday March 20 2021

Biden All US adults to be eligible for vaccines by May

By Jeff Mason

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden told US states last Thursday to make all adults eligible for a coronavirus vaccine by May 1 and urged Americans to stay vigi-lant or face more restrictions hours after he signed a $19 trillion stimulus bill into law

In a forceful but somber speech from the White House on the fi rst anniversary of the pandemic lockdown Biden said if Ameri-cans pulled together there could be a great-er sense of normalcy - and some backyard barbecue parties with small groups - on the US Independence Day holiday on July 4

That date is a new goal for the president and a projection of hope amid a pandemic that has killed more than 530000 people in the United States the most of any country

To achieve his summer target Biden said he needed Americansrsquo help

ldquoIf we donrsquot stay vigilant and the con-ditions change then we may have to rein-state restrictions to get back on trackrdquo he said in an evening address from the White House his fi rst in television prime time since becoming president

ldquoWersquove made so much progress This is not the time to let up Just as we are emerging from a dark winter into a hope-ful spring and summer is not the time to not stick with the rulesrdquo he said

Republicans swiftly criticized Biden for his cautious approach ldquoWhat America needs now is to fully reopen our economy and our classroomsrdquo House of Represen-tatives Republican leader Kevin McCarthy said on Twitter

Biden said he was ordering US states territories and tribes to make all adults eli-gible to receive a coronavirus vaccine by May 1 The White House has said it would have enough vaccine supply to vaccinate the adult population by the end of May About 10 of Americans so far have been fully vaccinated

Administration offi cials said he would deploy 4000 more troops to help with the vaccine eff ort bringing the total number to 6000 The White House is also seeking to expand the pool of people able to adminis-ter shots to include dentists optometrists paramedics veterinarians and medical stu-dents

Biden campaigned last year on a prom-ise that he would tackle the pandemic more eff ectively than Republican Presi-dent Donald Trump and he has sought to encourage and model behavior such as mask-wearing that Trump eschewed

In his speech Biden took a swipe at his

predecessor by saying the virus was ini-tially met with ldquodenials for days weeks then months that led to more deaths more infections more stress more lonelinessrdquo

Biden said hate crimes and harassment against Asian Americans must stop Trump repeatedly referred to the disease as the ldquoChina virusrdquo

Biden also encouraged Americans to keep up mitigation eff orts - wearing masks keeping social distance and prac-ticing good hygiene - to stop the virus and its variants from spreading A number of states have been loosening restrictions

as Americans like many people around the world grow weary of pandemic life

ldquoPhotos and videos from 2019 feel like they were taken in another era The last vacation The last birthday with friends The last holiday with extended familyrdquo Biden said recounting the toll the virus has wrought

He said the country would come away from the crisis stronger ldquoWe faced and overcame one of the toughest and darkest periods in this nationrsquos history - darkest wersquove ever knownrdquo he said

Moderna begins study of COVID-19 vaccine in kids

Moderna Inc has begun dosing patients in a mid-to-late stage study of its COV-ID-19 vaccine mRNA-1273 in children aged six months to less than 12 years the company said on Tuesday

The study will assess the safety and ef-fectiveness of two doses of mRNA-1273 given 28 days apart and intends to enroll about 6750 children in the United States and Canada

The vaccine has already been au-thorized for emergency use in

Americans who are aged 18 and older

In a separate study which began in De-cember Moderna is also testing mRNA-1273 in adolescents between 12 and 18 years old

The latest study is being conducted in collaboration with the National Insti-tute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA)

Mother who lost only son to rare COVID complication warns parents to look for early signs

SANTIAGO - By the time doctors real-ized that Lorena Navarretersquos son had a rare complication of COVID-19 that affl icts some children it was too late to save her 16-year-old Emilio

Lorena a single mother who lives in the southern Chilean city of Puerto Montt told the TVN network that her music-loving and sociable son died about a week after he fi rst complained of feeling tired and of a pain in his legs in late January

Within days he had developed livid blotches on his skin a high fever vomiting and dark urine

Doctors at the cityrsquos hospital overrun with severe COVID cases repeatedly tested him for COVID but with the results coming back negative were at a loss as to what was wrong with him

By the time his illness was identifi ed as Multisystem Infl ammatory Syndrome in Children it was too late Lorena could not be at her sonrsquos bedside because of strict health protocols but a social worker called to pass on the message that her son loved

her very much She asked the social worker to tell her son she would see him soon and that his pets were well

ldquoA doctor said that if I had faith I should pray because my son was very illrdquo said Na-varrete who works as a nurse technician ldquoThey had a diagnosis and it was PIMSrdquo

Multisystem Infl ammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) as PIMS is more com-monly known is a rare life-threatening syndrome linked to COVID-19

It usually appears between two and six weeks after infection even in asymptomatic cases of COVID-19

It shares symptoms with toxic shock and Kawasaki disease including fever rashes swollen glands conjunctivitis and in severe cases heart infl ammation and can cause multiple organ failure It is not always fatal if caught and treated early

The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention said in January that it was inves-tigating whether COVID variants were in-creasing the number or severity of cases fol-lowing anecdotal reports from some states

US President Joe Biden

HEALTH amp SCIENCE17India Bulletin

HEALTH amp SCIENCE

Saturday March 20 2021

By Anthony Deutsch and Caroline Copley

AMSTERDAM - Global health experts came under in-creasing pressure on Tuesday to clear up questions over the safety of AstraZenecarsquos CO-VID-19 shot as Sweden and Latvia joined countries suspend-ing their use in a further blow to Europersquos vaccination rollout

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said it was

investigating reports of 30 cases of unusual blood disorders out of 5 million recipients of the As-traZeneca vaccine In total 45 million COVID shots have been delivered across the region

The EU regulator will release its findings on Thursday but its head Emer Cooke said she saw no reason to change its recom-mendation of AstraZeneca - one of four vaccines that it has approved for use

ldquoThe benefits continue to

outweigh the risks but this is a serious concern and it does need serious and detailed scientific evaluationrdquo Cooke told a news conference

A World Health Organization (WHO) committee of experts was reviewing the cases and was expected to issue a statement by the end of the day a spokesman said

The EUrsquos largest members - Germany France and Italy - suspended use of AstraZenecarsquos vaccine on Monday pending the outcome of investigations into unusual cases of a rare cerebral thrombosis in people who had received it

The addition of Sweden and Latvia on Tuesday brought to 13 the number of EU countries to act since reports first emerged of thromboembolisms affect-ing people after they got the AstraZeneca shot

The WHO and EMA had ear-lier joined AstraZeneca in say-ing there is no proven link but some experts said the episodes of blood clots bleeding and low platelet counts in younger people seemed to indicate a causal con-nection to the AstraZeneca shot

ldquoThe benefits of vaccination significantly outweigh the risks especially for the elderlyrdquo said Karl Lauterbach health spokes-man for Germanyrsquos Social Democratic Party

ldquoBut it could be the case that the risks of the vaccine are high-er for certain patient groups such as young womenrdquo Lauterbach an epidemiologist whose party is part of the Berlin coalition told Deutschlandfunk radio in an interview

Other epidemiologists note that similar cases have not been found in unusual num-bers in Britain which began using AstraZeneca earlier and has given more than 10 million doses

ldquoA very likely explanation of at least some of the clotting dis-orders seen are a result of CO-VID-19 rather than the vaccinerdquo said Stephen Evans professor of pharmacoepidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

ldquoThere are published papers that make clear that these prob-lems definitely occur in COV-ID-19 and there is no doubt that all the vaccines in use prevent

that disease Hence the risk and benefit balance for the AstraZen-eca vaccine remains clearly in favour of its benefitsrdquo

In the EUrsquos largest states in-cluding Germany France Italy the Netherlands and Spain As-traZeneca has accounted for about 13-15 of shots given since the rollout began almost three months ago with Pfizer-BioNTech making up the major-ity according to official data

As one as the cheapest to be developed the AstraZeneca shot is set to be the mainstay of vac-cination programmes in much of the developing world

Governments say they acted on the AstraZeneca shot out of an abundance of caution - of 16 million people in Germany given the vaccine seven fell ill with a very rare cerebral vein thrombosis of whom three died

In a detailed analysis of its findings Germanyrsquos vaccine oversight body the Paul Eh-rlich Institute said six of the cases were in women of young or middle age - a number statis-tically significantly higher than normally expected

Health experts pore over AstraZeneca safety data as Europe reels from vaccine suspensions

Global health experts came under increasing pressure on Tuesday to clear up questions over the safety of AstraZenecarsquos COVID-19 shot as Sweden and Latvia joined countries suspending their use in a further blow to Europersquos vaccination rollout

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India Bulletin 19Saturday March 20 2021

Kishan Kohli help India level T20 series against England

AHMEDABAD - A belliger-ent 56 off 32 balls from India debutant Ishan Kishan and an unbeaten 73 from captain Virat Kohli helped the hosts to a com-manding seven-wicket win over England in the second Twenty20 International in Ahmedabad on Sunday

Kishan 22 smashed leg-spinner Adil Rashid for two con-secutive sixes to get past fifty as India made short work of a 165-run target to win with 13 balls to spare and level the five-match

series at 1-1Indiarsquos chase of Englandrsquos

164-6 got off to a shaky start when Sam Curran sent back opener KL Rahul in the first over without scoring but it did not curb Kishanrsquos aggres-sion the left-hander hitting five fours and four sixes in total

There was plenty of entertain-ment for the sizeable crowd at the worldrsquos biggest cricket sta-dium with most fans not wear-ing masks in the stands as Kohli

and Kishan added 94 in nine overs

Rishabh Pant came in after the dismissal of Kishan who was dropped by Ben Stokes on 40 off Rashid and continued to pummel Englandrsquos bowlers with a 13-ball 26 during which he hit two sixes and an identical number of fours

Kohli who also survived a dropped chance by wicketkeeper Jos Buttler on 10 off Chris Jor-dan sealed the win with a four and a six in successive balls to

also get past 3000 runs in T20 internationals in the process

Jason Roy once again top-scored for England with a 35-ball 46 following up on his knock of 49 in their win in the first match last Friday

Put in to bat the right-hander gave the touring side a steady start with a 63-run stand for the second wicket with Dawid Malan after the loss of opening partner Buttler to seamer Bhu-vneshwar Kumar on the first delivery he faced

Roy hit four fours and two six-es in his knock before holing out in the deep off spinner Washing-ton Sundar who also sent back the dangerous Jonny Bairstow for 20

Fast bowler Shardul Thakur pegged back Englandrsquos hopes of a flourishing finish by dis-missing opposition captain Eoin Morgan and Stokes as India conceded just 35 off the last five overs

The third match of the series will be played on Tuesday

Virat Kohli

Rohit urges India debutants to lsquohave funrsquo against England in T20 series

After Suryakumar Yadav and Ishan Kishan earned their maiden call-ups to the Indian national team vice-captain Rohit Sharma stressed on the importance of playing with-out any pressure when they take on England in a Twenty20 series

Kishan and Suryakumar were named in the squad after plun-dering 516 and 480 runs re-spectively in the Indian Premier League last season where the pair played under Rohit for the

Mumbai Indians as they clinched their fifth title in November

ldquoI donrsquot want them to be think-ing about anythingrdquo Rohit told reporters on Wednesday ldquoThatrsquos how they bring their best perfor-mance out

ldquoHaving watched them closely for a few years now Irsquove realised itrsquos important for them to be part of this wonder-ful team a great setup I just want them to have fun and un-derstand what this team is all about

ldquoThese guys have done re-ally well in the last few years especially the last year Itrsquos just about carrying that form and putting it out there Itrsquos not go-ing to be that easy here they will be challenged every now and thenrdquo

For England itrsquos a much-awaited return to the squad for all-rounder Liam Livingstone who had similar success in Aus-traliarsquos Big Bash League where he scored 426 runs for Perth Scorchers

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Biz Briefs

Apple Inc has started the as-sembly of iPhone 12 in India the US tech giant said as the com-pany ramps up manufacturing operations in the worldrsquos sec-ond-biggest smartphone market

ldquoWe are proud to be starting production of iPhone 12 in India for our local customersrdquo Apple said in a statement without naming the supplier making the smartphone

The Indian unit of Applersquos Taiwanese contract manufac-turer Foxconn will assemble the device in its plant in southern Tamil Nadu state two sources familiar with the matter said

Foxconn did not immediately respond to a request for com-ment but has previously said it does not comment on client-specifi c work

Poscorsquos steel plant in India

faces disruption Operations at South Korean

steelmaker Poscorsquos plant in the Indian state of Maharashtra have been disrupted due to local pro-tests over labour and other issues police and sources told Reuters hampering the supply chain for automakers

A local politician leading the protests said they have blocked employees and goods from enter-ing the plant and will continue until Posco heeds to some of their requests which include giv-ing employment preference to lo-cal workers raising the wages of temporary employees and making them permanent

Reuters could not indepen-dently verify the extent of the production disruption at Poscorsquos plant

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HEALTH amp SCIENCEBUSINESS14 India Bulletin Saturday March 20 2021

By Nidhi Verma

NEW DELHI - India and the UAE on Wednesday discussed ways to strengthen energy coop-eration Indiarsquos oil minister Dhar-mendra Pradhan said despite the South Asian nation asking its re-fi ners to reduce their reliance on Middle Eastern oil

ldquo(We) discussed about new ar-eas of cooperation in the hydro-carbon sector and beyond and agreed to remain committed de-spite the challenges presented by Covid pandemicrdquo Pradhan said on Twitter after a virtual meeting with Sultan Al Jaber the chief executive of Abu Dhabi National Oil Co (ADNOC)

UAE is a key oil supplier to India and a partner in an Indian joint venture that plans to build a 12 million barrels per day (bpd) refi nery and petrochemical com-plex on the countryrsquos west coast

Last month the UAE was the

fi fth biggest oil supplier to In-dia which itself is the worldrsquos third biggest oil importer and consumer

Pradhan said he also discussed with Jaber ways of strengthen-ing and ldquoproviding momentum to (the) bilateral strategic en-ergy partnershiprdquo between the countries

India imports more than 80 of its oil needs a signifi cant amount of which comes from the Middle East

New Delhi has however asked refi ners to gradually reduce oil imports from the Middle East and diversify supplies after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its al-lies known as OPEC+ decided to extend most curbs into April

India has been hit hard by rising oil prices due to which minister Pradhan has repeatedly called on OPEC+ to ease supply curbs and has blamed Saudi Ara-

India and UAE vow to strengthen energy cooperation says minister

biarsquos voluntary cuts for contribut-ing to a spike in global oil prices

Responding to Pradhanrsquos re-quest Saudi Arabiarsquos energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman suggested India dip into strategic reserves fi lled with cheaper oil bought last year

The UAErsquos ADNOC is the only foreign company to which India has leased a part of it strategic petroleum reserves India does not allow the export of oil but has given permission to ADNOC to export part of its oil in Mangalore SPR in southern India

Tesla in talks with Indiarsquos Tata Power for EV charging infrastructure

BENGALURU - Tesla Inc is exploring an arrangement with Indian conglomerate Tata Sonsrsquo power generation unit Tata Pow-er to set up charging infrastruc-ture for electric vehicles in the country CNBC-TV18 reported citing sources

Shares of Tata Power rose 55 to their best closing level since June 2014 after the report which comes as the Palo Alto-based electric-car maker gears up for an India launch later this year with plans to import and sell its Model 3 electric sedan

Tesla will set up an electric-car manufacturing unit in the southern Indian state of Karna-taka according to a government document seen by Reuters

Indiarsquos Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan

The talks between Tata Power and Tesla are in the initial stages and no arrangements have been

fi nalised yet the report saidTata Powerrsquos electric vehicle

charging business constantly

explores growth opportunities but has not fi nalised any new agreements the company said in a statement to stock exchanges It also said the CNBC-TV 18 report was ldquofactually incorrectrdquo but did not elaborate

Tesla was not immediately available for comment

In January the US electric-car maker incorporated Tesla Motors India and Energy Private Ltd with its registered offi ce in the southern city of Bengaluru a hub for global technology companies

Tata Motors Ltd the carmak-ing unit of Tata Sons last week denied any tie-up with Tesla af-ter media reports suggested the two companies were discussing a partnership

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BUSINESSIndia Bulletin

By Aftab Ahmed and Nupur Anand

NEW DELHIMUMBAI - In-dia will propose a law banning cryptocurrencies fi ning anyone trading in the country or even holding such digital assets a senior government offi cial told

Reuters in a potential blow to millions of investors piling into the red-hot asset class

The bill one of the worldrsquos strictest policies against cryp-tocurrencies would criminalise possession issuance mining trading and transferring crypto-assets said the offi cial who has

India to propose cryptocurrency ban penalising miners tradersdirect knowledge of the plan

The measure is in line with a January government agenda that called for banning private vir-tual currencies such as bitcoin while building a framework for an offi cial digital currency But recent government comments had raised investorsrsquo hopes that

the authorities might go easier on the booming market

Instead the bill would give holders of cryptocurrencies up to six months to liquidate after which penalties will be levied said the offi cial who asked not to be named as the contents of the bill are not public

Offi cials are confi dent of get-ting the bill enacted into law as Prime Minister Narendra Modirsquos government holds a comfortable majority in parliament

If the ban becomes law India would be the fi rst major econo-my to make holding cryptocur-rency illegal Even China which has banned mining and trading

does not penalise possessionThe Finance Ministry did not

immediately respond to an email seeking comment

Bitcoin the worldrsquos biggest cryptocurrency hit a record high $60000 last Saturday nearly doubling in value this year as its acceptance for payments has in-creased with support from such high-profi le backers as Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk

In India despite government threats of a ban transaction vol-umes are swelling and 8 million investors now hold 100 billion rupees ($14 billion) in crypto-investments according to indus-try estimates No offi cial data is available

US becomes Indiarsquos second biggest oil supplier Saudi plunges to No 4

By Nidhi Verma

NEW DELHI - The United States overtook Saudi Arabia as Indiarsquos second biggest oil sup-plier after Iraq last month as refi ners boosted cheaper US crude purchases to record levels to off set OPEC+ supply cuts data from trade sources showed

The switch in supplies trig-gered by lower US crude de-mand coincided with Saudi Ara-biarsquos voluntary extra 1 million barrel per day (bpd) output cut on top of an agreement by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies (OPEC+) to maintain lower pro-duction

Indiarsquos imports from the United

States - the worldrsquos top producer - rose 48 to a record 545300 bpd in February from the prior month accounting for 14 of Indiarsquos overall imports last month the data obtained by Reuters showed

In contrast February imports from Saudi Arabia fell by 42 from January to a decade low of 445200 bpd the data showed Saudi Arabia which has consis-tently been one of Indiarsquos top two suppliers slipped to No 4 for the fi rst time since at least January 2006

Indiarsquos oil import data by coun-try from before 2006 is not avail-able to Reuters

ldquoUS demand was weak and refi neries were running at low rates so the US crude had to

go somewhere and Asia is the region which has seen rapid de-mand recoveryrdquo said Refi nitiv analyst Ehsan Ul Haq

ldquoChina has not been taking US oil because of (the) trade problem so India is the obvious choicerdquo he said

Iraq continued to be the top oil seller to India despite a 23 drop in purchases to a fi ve-month low of 867500 bpd the data showed

The UAE slipped to fi fth posi-tion from third in January while Nigeria rose to third from fi fth exporting 472300 bpd the most since Oct 2019

India shipped in 392 million bpd of oil in February a decline of 18 from January the data showed

India will propose a law banning cryptocurrencies fi ning anyone trading in the country or even holding such digital assets a senior government offi cial told Re-uters in a potential blow to millions of investors piling into the red-hot asset class

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Aries (March 21 to April 20)Someone will always be prettier Someone will always be smarter Someone will always be younger But they will never be you Itrsquos this ability to understand your uniqueness which will help you steer forward in an otherwise difficult week

Taurus (April 21 to May 21)When a storm is coming all other birds seek shelter The eagle alone avoids the storm by flying above it So in the storms of life be like an eagle and soar above your problems Keep your love life on top priority and everything else will fall into place with time

Gemini (May 22 to June 21)Life is not happening to you Life is responding to you The things you do the decisions you take the people you love or the people you hate they all make you into who you are

Cancer (June 22 to July 22)Sadness does not come from bad circumstances It comes from bad thoughts Although the circumstances are mixed around you you will have a tendency to make a mountain out of a mole hill

Leo (July 23 to August 22)Every time we get what we thought we wanted we realise that we want more This race towards more - more money more power more of everything is taking a toll on your energy level

Virgo (August 23 to September 23)One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness usually it comes back to you While your hard work is fruc-tifying now do not let the success take you away from compassion

Libra (September 24 to October 23)Best friends are like stars You donrsquot always see them but you know they are always there This week you will be in a nostalgic mood and miss good old times and old friends Rather than thinking about it pick up the phone and talk to friends you have not spoken in years or take a friend out on a cappuccino trip

Scorpio (October 24 to November 22)Learn to make peace with your past or else your future will become a constant battle that yoursquoll never win The highlight of the week will be letting go of things forgiving people forgetting wrong-doings and moving on in life

Sagittarius (November 23 to December 21)Chaos in the midst of chaos isnrsquot funny but chaos in the midst of order is Probably one of the toughest week this month wherein there will be a lot of confusion and haze around Advice Do not take stress

Capricorn (December 22 to January 20)Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realise you havenrsquot fallen asleep yet Thatrsquos the kind of nights you might witness this week owing to unforeseen issues and hurdles Your discipline and organisational skills will steer you forward and transform these hurdles into opportunities Aquarius (January 21 to February 19)Women get the last word in every argument Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument This is not the week for you to get into any arguments as it might jeopardise your frame of mind

Pisces (February 20 to March 20)Find out who you are and be that person Thatrsquos what your soul was put on this Earth to be Find that truth live that truth and everything else will come The week will be about introspection spirituality and matters related to the soul

WEEKLY HOROSCOPE(March 28 - April 3 2021)

HEALTH amp SCIENCEASTROLOGYIndia Bulletin

8 things AARP wants you to know before your second COVID-19 vaccine

If yoursquove already received your first dose of a two-dose COVID-19 vaccine congratulations - yoursquore well on your way to being protect-ed from the coronavirus But to be fully immunized itrsquos critical to get that second shot

William Schaffner MD an infectious diseases specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville Tennessee and medical director of the Nation-al Foundation for Infectious Dis-eases says ldquoWe have told every-one these vaccines are 95 percent effectiverdquo of the two-dose Moder-na and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines currently in use in the US ldquoBut theyrsquore only 95 percent effective if you indeed get that second doserdquo

Here are a few more things to know about the second dose

1 Your side effects will likely be stronger

Many people who had little to no reaction to the first vaccine dose are reporting that the second one packs a punch mdash surprising even those who study vaccines for a liv-ing

Greg Poland MD an infec-tious disease expert at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota and director of Mayorsquos vaccine re-search group had only mild symp-toms after his first dose But the second one left him shaking - liter-ally - with chills and a temperature of 101

ldquoI took one Tylenol and went to bed and woke up the next morning 90 percent improved and by mid-day I was back to normalrdquo Poland says ldquoThis is not an indication of something going wrong it is an indication of a vigorous immune responserdquo

There is no live virus in the vac-cine so you canrsquot get COVID-19 from being vaccinated

Participants in clinical trials of both vaccines had experiences similar to Polandrsquos In Pfizerrsquos clinical trial for instance 31 per-cent of participants ages 18 to 55 reported a fever after the second dose compared to only 8 percent after the first one Fatigue chills headache and musclejoint pain were also more common after the second injection for both vaccines

The good news is older adults were less likely to experience vac-cine reactions the data shows Among those age 55 and up in the Pfizer trial 22 percent experienced fever after the second dose and 3 percent had a temperature after the first dose

Schaffner recommends not making any big plans for the day after your scheduled vaccine appointment

2 You should avoid taking pain relievers before your shot

If yoursquove been hearing sto-ries about second-dose side ef-fects you may be tempted to take a pain reliever before your appointment

Thatrsquos not a good idea accord-ing to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) unless yoursquove been advised to do so by your doctor Pain relievers taken preemptively ahead of a shot could dampen the effective-ness of the vaccine Poland and Schaffner say

However itrsquos OK to take ac-etaminophen (Tylenol) or a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug like Advil or Motrin after your vaccine to treat side effects such as pain fever chills or headache

3 The timing between doses doesnrsquot need to be exact

The second dose of the Pfiz-er shot is supposed to be giv-en 21 days after the first for Moderna the recommended interval between doses is 28 days

However if you canrsquot get an appointment on the exact day mdash or if you have to miss your scheduled appointment for some reason mdash the CDC does allow some wiggle room Although the agency recommends trying to stick to the suggested interval it says the second dose can be given up to six weeks after the first

If your appointment is sched-uled earlier than the recommend-ed date ask for a later appoint-ment Schaffner advises ldquoYour immune response will work perfectly well if you take more timerdquo he says ldquoBut if you do it too early the second dose may not invoke an optimal responserdquo

4 Your second dose should be from the same manufacturer as your first

Doctors are already hearing from patients asking if they can get their second dose from a dif-ferent manufacturer often be-cause they realize the other type of vaccine is offered at a location thatrsquos more convenient But the CDC recommends against it The Moderna and Pfizer vaccines ldquoare not interchangeable with each other or with other COVID-19 vaccine productsrdquo the CDC says ldquoThe safety and efficacy of a mixed-product series have not been evaluatedrdquo

5 A rash at the injection site isnrsquot a reason to skip your second dose

If you experienced a rash at the injection site three to 10 days

after getting your first shot that doesnrsquot preclude you from getting your second shot the CDC says although it recommends getting it in the other arm

A small number of people have developed such rashes some-times called ldquoCOVID armrdquo af-ter vaccination Doctors say itrsquos likely a mild allergic reaction that can be treated with an over-the-counter antihistamine such as Benadryl

6 You should temporarily avoid all other vaccines

It might be time for your shin-gles or Tdap vaccine but you should hold off if you are between COVID-19 vaccine doses Be-cause therersquos no data on the safety and efficacy of COVID vaccines administered at the same time as other vaccines the CDC recom-mends avoiding other immuniza-tions in the two weeks before and after both doses

7 Full immunity is not immediate

It takes two weeks after your second dose for your body to build full protection to the virus After that you should have al-most zero chance of developing severe disease if you are exposed to someone with COVID-19 Schaffner says The CDC also says you no longer have to quar-antine if yoursquore exposed to some-one with COVID-19 mdash as long as you meet these criteria you donrsquot have symptoms and it hasnrsquot been more than three months since your second vaccine dose

One possible exception is immunocompromised people Schaffner says They will get some level of immunity he says ldquobut they may not reach the 95 percent because their immune system is already somewhat com-promised no matter how strong these vaccines arerdquo

8 You still need to wear a maskExperts agree you should con-

tinue to wear a mask and practice social distancing in public For one thing therersquos a small chance you could get sick even after yoursquove been vaccinated

In addition itrsquos possible that you could still carry the virus and silently transmit it to others who havenrsquot been vaccinated even if you donrsquot develop symptoms

And therersquos one more reason Until the country reaches herd im-munity mdash the point when a signif-icant portion of the population be-comes immune to a disease mdash itrsquos important for everyone to wear a mask to stop the spread of the virus Schaffner says

Saturday March 20 2021

Biden All US adults to be eligible for vaccines by May

By Jeff Mason

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden told US states last Thursday to make all adults eligible for a coronavirus vaccine by May 1 and urged Americans to stay vigi-lant or face more restrictions hours after he signed a $19 trillion stimulus bill into law

In a forceful but somber speech from the White House on the fi rst anniversary of the pandemic lockdown Biden said if Ameri-cans pulled together there could be a great-er sense of normalcy - and some backyard barbecue parties with small groups - on the US Independence Day holiday on July 4

That date is a new goal for the president and a projection of hope amid a pandemic that has killed more than 530000 people in the United States the most of any country

To achieve his summer target Biden said he needed Americansrsquo help

ldquoIf we donrsquot stay vigilant and the con-ditions change then we may have to rein-state restrictions to get back on trackrdquo he said in an evening address from the White House his fi rst in television prime time since becoming president

ldquoWersquove made so much progress This is not the time to let up Just as we are emerging from a dark winter into a hope-ful spring and summer is not the time to not stick with the rulesrdquo he said

Republicans swiftly criticized Biden for his cautious approach ldquoWhat America needs now is to fully reopen our economy and our classroomsrdquo House of Represen-tatives Republican leader Kevin McCarthy said on Twitter

Biden said he was ordering US states territories and tribes to make all adults eli-gible to receive a coronavirus vaccine by May 1 The White House has said it would have enough vaccine supply to vaccinate the adult population by the end of May About 10 of Americans so far have been fully vaccinated

Administration offi cials said he would deploy 4000 more troops to help with the vaccine eff ort bringing the total number to 6000 The White House is also seeking to expand the pool of people able to adminis-ter shots to include dentists optometrists paramedics veterinarians and medical stu-dents

Biden campaigned last year on a prom-ise that he would tackle the pandemic more eff ectively than Republican Presi-dent Donald Trump and he has sought to encourage and model behavior such as mask-wearing that Trump eschewed

In his speech Biden took a swipe at his

predecessor by saying the virus was ini-tially met with ldquodenials for days weeks then months that led to more deaths more infections more stress more lonelinessrdquo

Biden said hate crimes and harassment against Asian Americans must stop Trump repeatedly referred to the disease as the ldquoChina virusrdquo

Biden also encouraged Americans to keep up mitigation eff orts - wearing masks keeping social distance and prac-ticing good hygiene - to stop the virus and its variants from spreading A number of states have been loosening restrictions

as Americans like many people around the world grow weary of pandemic life

ldquoPhotos and videos from 2019 feel like they were taken in another era The last vacation The last birthday with friends The last holiday with extended familyrdquo Biden said recounting the toll the virus has wrought

He said the country would come away from the crisis stronger ldquoWe faced and overcame one of the toughest and darkest periods in this nationrsquos history - darkest wersquove ever knownrdquo he said

Moderna begins study of COVID-19 vaccine in kids

Moderna Inc has begun dosing patients in a mid-to-late stage study of its COV-ID-19 vaccine mRNA-1273 in children aged six months to less than 12 years the company said on Tuesday

The study will assess the safety and ef-fectiveness of two doses of mRNA-1273 given 28 days apart and intends to enroll about 6750 children in the United States and Canada

The vaccine has already been au-thorized for emergency use in

Americans who are aged 18 and older

In a separate study which began in De-cember Moderna is also testing mRNA-1273 in adolescents between 12 and 18 years old

The latest study is being conducted in collaboration with the National Insti-tute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA)

Mother who lost only son to rare COVID complication warns parents to look for early signs

SANTIAGO - By the time doctors real-ized that Lorena Navarretersquos son had a rare complication of COVID-19 that affl icts some children it was too late to save her 16-year-old Emilio

Lorena a single mother who lives in the southern Chilean city of Puerto Montt told the TVN network that her music-loving and sociable son died about a week after he fi rst complained of feeling tired and of a pain in his legs in late January

Within days he had developed livid blotches on his skin a high fever vomiting and dark urine

Doctors at the cityrsquos hospital overrun with severe COVID cases repeatedly tested him for COVID but with the results coming back negative were at a loss as to what was wrong with him

By the time his illness was identifi ed as Multisystem Infl ammatory Syndrome in Children it was too late Lorena could not be at her sonrsquos bedside because of strict health protocols but a social worker called to pass on the message that her son loved

her very much She asked the social worker to tell her son she would see him soon and that his pets were well

ldquoA doctor said that if I had faith I should pray because my son was very illrdquo said Na-varrete who works as a nurse technician ldquoThey had a diagnosis and it was PIMSrdquo

Multisystem Infl ammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) as PIMS is more com-monly known is a rare life-threatening syndrome linked to COVID-19

It usually appears between two and six weeks after infection even in asymptomatic cases of COVID-19

It shares symptoms with toxic shock and Kawasaki disease including fever rashes swollen glands conjunctivitis and in severe cases heart infl ammation and can cause multiple organ failure It is not always fatal if caught and treated early

The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention said in January that it was inves-tigating whether COVID variants were in-creasing the number or severity of cases fol-lowing anecdotal reports from some states

US President Joe Biden

HEALTH amp SCIENCE17India Bulletin

HEALTH amp SCIENCE

Saturday March 20 2021

By Anthony Deutsch and Caroline Copley

AMSTERDAM - Global health experts came under in-creasing pressure on Tuesday to clear up questions over the safety of AstraZenecarsquos CO-VID-19 shot as Sweden and Latvia joined countries suspend-ing their use in a further blow to Europersquos vaccination rollout

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said it was

investigating reports of 30 cases of unusual blood disorders out of 5 million recipients of the As-traZeneca vaccine In total 45 million COVID shots have been delivered across the region

The EU regulator will release its findings on Thursday but its head Emer Cooke said she saw no reason to change its recom-mendation of AstraZeneca - one of four vaccines that it has approved for use

ldquoThe benefits continue to

outweigh the risks but this is a serious concern and it does need serious and detailed scientific evaluationrdquo Cooke told a news conference

A World Health Organization (WHO) committee of experts was reviewing the cases and was expected to issue a statement by the end of the day a spokesman said

The EUrsquos largest members - Germany France and Italy - suspended use of AstraZenecarsquos vaccine on Monday pending the outcome of investigations into unusual cases of a rare cerebral thrombosis in people who had received it

The addition of Sweden and Latvia on Tuesday brought to 13 the number of EU countries to act since reports first emerged of thromboembolisms affect-ing people after they got the AstraZeneca shot

The WHO and EMA had ear-lier joined AstraZeneca in say-ing there is no proven link but some experts said the episodes of blood clots bleeding and low platelet counts in younger people seemed to indicate a causal con-nection to the AstraZeneca shot

ldquoThe benefits of vaccination significantly outweigh the risks especially for the elderlyrdquo said Karl Lauterbach health spokes-man for Germanyrsquos Social Democratic Party

ldquoBut it could be the case that the risks of the vaccine are high-er for certain patient groups such as young womenrdquo Lauterbach an epidemiologist whose party is part of the Berlin coalition told Deutschlandfunk radio in an interview

Other epidemiologists note that similar cases have not been found in unusual num-bers in Britain which began using AstraZeneca earlier and has given more than 10 million doses

ldquoA very likely explanation of at least some of the clotting dis-orders seen are a result of CO-VID-19 rather than the vaccinerdquo said Stephen Evans professor of pharmacoepidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

ldquoThere are published papers that make clear that these prob-lems definitely occur in COV-ID-19 and there is no doubt that all the vaccines in use prevent

that disease Hence the risk and benefit balance for the AstraZen-eca vaccine remains clearly in favour of its benefitsrdquo

In the EUrsquos largest states in-cluding Germany France Italy the Netherlands and Spain As-traZeneca has accounted for about 13-15 of shots given since the rollout began almost three months ago with Pfizer-BioNTech making up the major-ity according to official data

As one as the cheapest to be developed the AstraZeneca shot is set to be the mainstay of vac-cination programmes in much of the developing world

Governments say they acted on the AstraZeneca shot out of an abundance of caution - of 16 million people in Germany given the vaccine seven fell ill with a very rare cerebral vein thrombosis of whom three died

In a detailed analysis of its findings Germanyrsquos vaccine oversight body the Paul Eh-rlich Institute said six of the cases were in women of young or middle age - a number statis-tically significantly higher than normally expected

Health experts pore over AstraZeneca safety data as Europe reels from vaccine suspensions

Global health experts came under increasing pressure on Tuesday to clear up questions over the safety of AstraZenecarsquos COVID-19 shot as Sweden and Latvia joined countries suspending their use in a further blow to Europersquos vaccination rollout

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India Bulletin 19Saturday March 20 2021

Kishan Kohli help India level T20 series against England

AHMEDABAD - A belliger-ent 56 off 32 balls from India debutant Ishan Kishan and an unbeaten 73 from captain Virat Kohli helped the hosts to a com-manding seven-wicket win over England in the second Twenty20 International in Ahmedabad on Sunday

Kishan 22 smashed leg-spinner Adil Rashid for two con-secutive sixes to get past fifty as India made short work of a 165-run target to win with 13 balls to spare and level the five-match

series at 1-1Indiarsquos chase of Englandrsquos

164-6 got off to a shaky start when Sam Curran sent back opener KL Rahul in the first over without scoring but it did not curb Kishanrsquos aggres-sion the left-hander hitting five fours and four sixes in total

There was plenty of entertain-ment for the sizeable crowd at the worldrsquos biggest cricket sta-dium with most fans not wear-ing masks in the stands as Kohli

and Kishan added 94 in nine overs

Rishabh Pant came in after the dismissal of Kishan who was dropped by Ben Stokes on 40 off Rashid and continued to pummel Englandrsquos bowlers with a 13-ball 26 during which he hit two sixes and an identical number of fours

Kohli who also survived a dropped chance by wicketkeeper Jos Buttler on 10 off Chris Jor-dan sealed the win with a four and a six in successive balls to

also get past 3000 runs in T20 internationals in the process

Jason Roy once again top-scored for England with a 35-ball 46 following up on his knock of 49 in their win in the first match last Friday

Put in to bat the right-hander gave the touring side a steady start with a 63-run stand for the second wicket with Dawid Malan after the loss of opening partner Buttler to seamer Bhu-vneshwar Kumar on the first delivery he faced

Roy hit four fours and two six-es in his knock before holing out in the deep off spinner Washing-ton Sundar who also sent back the dangerous Jonny Bairstow for 20

Fast bowler Shardul Thakur pegged back Englandrsquos hopes of a flourishing finish by dis-missing opposition captain Eoin Morgan and Stokes as India conceded just 35 off the last five overs

The third match of the series will be played on Tuesday

Virat Kohli

Rohit urges India debutants to lsquohave funrsquo against England in T20 series

After Suryakumar Yadav and Ishan Kishan earned their maiden call-ups to the Indian national team vice-captain Rohit Sharma stressed on the importance of playing with-out any pressure when they take on England in a Twenty20 series

Kishan and Suryakumar were named in the squad after plun-dering 516 and 480 runs re-spectively in the Indian Premier League last season where the pair played under Rohit for the

Mumbai Indians as they clinched their fifth title in November

ldquoI donrsquot want them to be think-ing about anythingrdquo Rohit told reporters on Wednesday ldquoThatrsquos how they bring their best perfor-mance out

ldquoHaving watched them closely for a few years now Irsquove realised itrsquos important for them to be part of this wonder-ful team a great setup I just want them to have fun and un-derstand what this team is all about

ldquoThese guys have done re-ally well in the last few years especially the last year Itrsquos just about carrying that form and putting it out there Itrsquos not go-ing to be that easy here they will be challenged every now and thenrdquo

For England itrsquos a much-awaited return to the squad for all-rounder Liam Livingstone who had similar success in Aus-traliarsquos Big Bash League where he scored 426 runs for Perth Scorchers

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BUSINESSIndia Bulletin

By Aftab Ahmed and Nupur Anand

NEW DELHIMUMBAI - In-dia will propose a law banning cryptocurrencies fi ning anyone trading in the country or even holding such digital assets a senior government offi cial told

Reuters in a potential blow to millions of investors piling into the red-hot asset class

The bill one of the worldrsquos strictest policies against cryp-tocurrencies would criminalise possession issuance mining trading and transferring crypto-assets said the offi cial who has

India to propose cryptocurrency ban penalising miners tradersdirect knowledge of the plan

The measure is in line with a January government agenda that called for banning private vir-tual currencies such as bitcoin while building a framework for an offi cial digital currency But recent government comments had raised investorsrsquo hopes that

the authorities might go easier on the booming market

Instead the bill would give holders of cryptocurrencies up to six months to liquidate after which penalties will be levied said the offi cial who asked not to be named as the contents of the bill are not public

Offi cials are confi dent of get-ting the bill enacted into law as Prime Minister Narendra Modirsquos government holds a comfortable majority in parliament

If the ban becomes law India would be the fi rst major econo-my to make holding cryptocur-rency illegal Even China which has banned mining and trading

does not penalise possessionThe Finance Ministry did not

immediately respond to an email seeking comment

Bitcoin the worldrsquos biggest cryptocurrency hit a record high $60000 last Saturday nearly doubling in value this year as its acceptance for payments has in-creased with support from such high-profi le backers as Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk

In India despite government threats of a ban transaction vol-umes are swelling and 8 million investors now hold 100 billion rupees ($14 billion) in crypto-investments according to indus-try estimates No offi cial data is available

US becomes Indiarsquos second biggest oil supplier Saudi plunges to No 4

By Nidhi Verma

NEW DELHI - The United States overtook Saudi Arabia as Indiarsquos second biggest oil sup-plier after Iraq last month as refi ners boosted cheaper US crude purchases to record levels to off set OPEC+ supply cuts data from trade sources showed

The switch in supplies trig-gered by lower US crude de-mand coincided with Saudi Ara-biarsquos voluntary extra 1 million barrel per day (bpd) output cut on top of an agreement by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies (OPEC+) to maintain lower pro-duction

Indiarsquos imports from the United

States - the worldrsquos top producer - rose 48 to a record 545300 bpd in February from the prior month accounting for 14 of Indiarsquos overall imports last month the data obtained by Reuters showed

In contrast February imports from Saudi Arabia fell by 42 from January to a decade low of 445200 bpd the data showed Saudi Arabia which has consis-tently been one of Indiarsquos top two suppliers slipped to No 4 for the fi rst time since at least January 2006

Indiarsquos oil import data by coun-try from before 2006 is not avail-able to Reuters

ldquoUS demand was weak and refi neries were running at low rates so the US crude had to

go somewhere and Asia is the region which has seen rapid de-mand recoveryrdquo said Refi nitiv analyst Ehsan Ul Haq

ldquoChina has not been taking US oil because of (the) trade problem so India is the obvious choicerdquo he said

Iraq continued to be the top oil seller to India despite a 23 drop in purchases to a fi ve-month low of 867500 bpd the data showed

The UAE slipped to fi fth posi-tion from third in January while Nigeria rose to third from fi fth exporting 472300 bpd the most since Oct 2019

India shipped in 392 million bpd of oil in February a decline of 18 from January the data showed

India will propose a law banning cryptocurrencies fi ning anyone trading in the country or even holding such digital assets a senior government offi cial told Re-uters in a potential blow to millions of investors piling into the red-hot asset class

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Aries (March 21 to April 20)Someone will always be prettier Someone will always be smarter Someone will always be younger But they will never be you Itrsquos this ability to understand your uniqueness which will help you steer forward in an otherwise difficult week

Taurus (April 21 to May 21)When a storm is coming all other birds seek shelter The eagle alone avoids the storm by flying above it So in the storms of life be like an eagle and soar above your problems Keep your love life on top priority and everything else will fall into place with time

Gemini (May 22 to June 21)Life is not happening to you Life is responding to you The things you do the decisions you take the people you love or the people you hate they all make you into who you are

Cancer (June 22 to July 22)Sadness does not come from bad circumstances It comes from bad thoughts Although the circumstances are mixed around you you will have a tendency to make a mountain out of a mole hill

Leo (July 23 to August 22)Every time we get what we thought we wanted we realise that we want more This race towards more - more money more power more of everything is taking a toll on your energy level

Virgo (August 23 to September 23)One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness usually it comes back to you While your hard work is fruc-tifying now do not let the success take you away from compassion

Libra (September 24 to October 23)Best friends are like stars You donrsquot always see them but you know they are always there This week you will be in a nostalgic mood and miss good old times and old friends Rather than thinking about it pick up the phone and talk to friends you have not spoken in years or take a friend out on a cappuccino trip

Scorpio (October 24 to November 22)Learn to make peace with your past or else your future will become a constant battle that yoursquoll never win The highlight of the week will be letting go of things forgiving people forgetting wrong-doings and moving on in life

Sagittarius (November 23 to December 21)Chaos in the midst of chaos isnrsquot funny but chaos in the midst of order is Probably one of the toughest week this month wherein there will be a lot of confusion and haze around Advice Do not take stress

Capricorn (December 22 to January 20)Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realise you havenrsquot fallen asleep yet Thatrsquos the kind of nights you might witness this week owing to unforeseen issues and hurdles Your discipline and organisational skills will steer you forward and transform these hurdles into opportunities Aquarius (January 21 to February 19)Women get the last word in every argument Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument This is not the week for you to get into any arguments as it might jeopardise your frame of mind

Pisces (February 20 to March 20)Find out who you are and be that person Thatrsquos what your soul was put on this Earth to be Find that truth live that truth and everything else will come The week will be about introspection spirituality and matters related to the soul

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HEALTH amp SCIENCEASTROLOGYIndia Bulletin

8 things AARP wants you to know before your second COVID-19 vaccine

If yoursquove already received your first dose of a two-dose COVID-19 vaccine congratulations - yoursquore well on your way to being protect-ed from the coronavirus But to be fully immunized itrsquos critical to get that second shot

William Schaffner MD an infectious diseases specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville Tennessee and medical director of the Nation-al Foundation for Infectious Dis-eases says ldquoWe have told every-one these vaccines are 95 percent effectiverdquo of the two-dose Moder-na and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines currently in use in the US ldquoBut theyrsquore only 95 percent effective if you indeed get that second doserdquo

Here are a few more things to know about the second dose

1 Your side effects will likely be stronger

Many people who had little to no reaction to the first vaccine dose are reporting that the second one packs a punch mdash surprising even those who study vaccines for a liv-ing

Greg Poland MD an infec-tious disease expert at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota and director of Mayorsquos vaccine re-search group had only mild symp-toms after his first dose But the second one left him shaking - liter-ally - with chills and a temperature of 101

ldquoI took one Tylenol and went to bed and woke up the next morning 90 percent improved and by mid-day I was back to normalrdquo Poland says ldquoThis is not an indication of something going wrong it is an indication of a vigorous immune responserdquo

There is no live virus in the vac-cine so you canrsquot get COVID-19 from being vaccinated

Participants in clinical trials of both vaccines had experiences similar to Polandrsquos In Pfizerrsquos clinical trial for instance 31 per-cent of participants ages 18 to 55 reported a fever after the second dose compared to only 8 percent after the first one Fatigue chills headache and musclejoint pain were also more common after the second injection for both vaccines

The good news is older adults were less likely to experience vac-cine reactions the data shows Among those age 55 and up in the Pfizer trial 22 percent experienced fever after the second dose and 3 percent had a temperature after the first dose

Schaffner recommends not making any big plans for the day after your scheduled vaccine appointment

2 You should avoid taking pain relievers before your shot

If yoursquove been hearing sto-ries about second-dose side ef-fects you may be tempted to take a pain reliever before your appointment

Thatrsquos not a good idea accord-ing to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) unless yoursquove been advised to do so by your doctor Pain relievers taken preemptively ahead of a shot could dampen the effective-ness of the vaccine Poland and Schaffner say

However itrsquos OK to take ac-etaminophen (Tylenol) or a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug like Advil or Motrin after your vaccine to treat side effects such as pain fever chills or headache

3 The timing between doses doesnrsquot need to be exact

The second dose of the Pfiz-er shot is supposed to be giv-en 21 days after the first for Moderna the recommended interval between doses is 28 days

However if you canrsquot get an appointment on the exact day mdash or if you have to miss your scheduled appointment for some reason mdash the CDC does allow some wiggle room Although the agency recommends trying to stick to the suggested interval it says the second dose can be given up to six weeks after the first

If your appointment is sched-uled earlier than the recommend-ed date ask for a later appoint-ment Schaffner advises ldquoYour immune response will work perfectly well if you take more timerdquo he says ldquoBut if you do it too early the second dose may not invoke an optimal responserdquo

4 Your second dose should be from the same manufacturer as your first

Doctors are already hearing from patients asking if they can get their second dose from a dif-ferent manufacturer often be-cause they realize the other type of vaccine is offered at a location thatrsquos more convenient But the CDC recommends against it The Moderna and Pfizer vaccines ldquoare not interchangeable with each other or with other COVID-19 vaccine productsrdquo the CDC says ldquoThe safety and efficacy of a mixed-product series have not been evaluatedrdquo

5 A rash at the injection site isnrsquot a reason to skip your second dose

If you experienced a rash at the injection site three to 10 days

after getting your first shot that doesnrsquot preclude you from getting your second shot the CDC says although it recommends getting it in the other arm

A small number of people have developed such rashes some-times called ldquoCOVID armrdquo af-ter vaccination Doctors say itrsquos likely a mild allergic reaction that can be treated with an over-the-counter antihistamine such as Benadryl

6 You should temporarily avoid all other vaccines

It might be time for your shin-gles or Tdap vaccine but you should hold off if you are between COVID-19 vaccine doses Be-cause therersquos no data on the safety and efficacy of COVID vaccines administered at the same time as other vaccines the CDC recom-mends avoiding other immuniza-tions in the two weeks before and after both doses

7 Full immunity is not immediate

It takes two weeks after your second dose for your body to build full protection to the virus After that you should have al-most zero chance of developing severe disease if you are exposed to someone with COVID-19 Schaffner says The CDC also says you no longer have to quar-antine if yoursquore exposed to some-one with COVID-19 mdash as long as you meet these criteria you donrsquot have symptoms and it hasnrsquot been more than three months since your second vaccine dose

One possible exception is immunocompromised people Schaffner says They will get some level of immunity he says ldquobut they may not reach the 95 percent because their immune system is already somewhat com-promised no matter how strong these vaccines arerdquo

8 You still need to wear a maskExperts agree you should con-

tinue to wear a mask and practice social distancing in public For one thing therersquos a small chance you could get sick even after yoursquove been vaccinated

In addition itrsquos possible that you could still carry the virus and silently transmit it to others who havenrsquot been vaccinated even if you donrsquot develop symptoms

And therersquos one more reason Until the country reaches herd im-munity mdash the point when a signif-icant portion of the population be-comes immune to a disease mdash itrsquos important for everyone to wear a mask to stop the spread of the virus Schaffner says

Saturday March 20 2021

Biden All US adults to be eligible for vaccines by May

By Jeff Mason

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden told US states last Thursday to make all adults eligible for a coronavirus vaccine by May 1 and urged Americans to stay vigi-lant or face more restrictions hours after he signed a $19 trillion stimulus bill into law

In a forceful but somber speech from the White House on the fi rst anniversary of the pandemic lockdown Biden said if Ameri-cans pulled together there could be a great-er sense of normalcy - and some backyard barbecue parties with small groups - on the US Independence Day holiday on July 4

That date is a new goal for the president and a projection of hope amid a pandemic that has killed more than 530000 people in the United States the most of any country

To achieve his summer target Biden said he needed Americansrsquo help

ldquoIf we donrsquot stay vigilant and the con-ditions change then we may have to rein-state restrictions to get back on trackrdquo he said in an evening address from the White House his fi rst in television prime time since becoming president

ldquoWersquove made so much progress This is not the time to let up Just as we are emerging from a dark winter into a hope-ful spring and summer is not the time to not stick with the rulesrdquo he said

Republicans swiftly criticized Biden for his cautious approach ldquoWhat America needs now is to fully reopen our economy and our classroomsrdquo House of Represen-tatives Republican leader Kevin McCarthy said on Twitter

Biden said he was ordering US states territories and tribes to make all adults eli-gible to receive a coronavirus vaccine by May 1 The White House has said it would have enough vaccine supply to vaccinate the adult population by the end of May About 10 of Americans so far have been fully vaccinated

Administration offi cials said he would deploy 4000 more troops to help with the vaccine eff ort bringing the total number to 6000 The White House is also seeking to expand the pool of people able to adminis-ter shots to include dentists optometrists paramedics veterinarians and medical stu-dents

Biden campaigned last year on a prom-ise that he would tackle the pandemic more eff ectively than Republican Presi-dent Donald Trump and he has sought to encourage and model behavior such as mask-wearing that Trump eschewed

In his speech Biden took a swipe at his

predecessor by saying the virus was ini-tially met with ldquodenials for days weeks then months that led to more deaths more infections more stress more lonelinessrdquo

Biden said hate crimes and harassment against Asian Americans must stop Trump repeatedly referred to the disease as the ldquoChina virusrdquo

Biden also encouraged Americans to keep up mitigation eff orts - wearing masks keeping social distance and prac-ticing good hygiene - to stop the virus and its variants from spreading A number of states have been loosening restrictions

as Americans like many people around the world grow weary of pandemic life

ldquoPhotos and videos from 2019 feel like they were taken in another era The last vacation The last birthday with friends The last holiday with extended familyrdquo Biden said recounting the toll the virus has wrought

He said the country would come away from the crisis stronger ldquoWe faced and overcame one of the toughest and darkest periods in this nationrsquos history - darkest wersquove ever knownrdquo he said

Moderna begins study of COVID-19 vaccine in kids

Moderna Inc has begun dosing patients in a mid-to-late stage study of its COV-ID-19 vaccine mRNA-1273 in children aged six months to less than 12 years the company said on Tuesday

The study will assess the safety and ef-fectiveness of two doses of mRNA-1273 given 28 days apart and intends to enroll about 6750 children in the United States and Canada

The vaccine has already been au-thorized for emergency use in

Americans who are aged 18 and older

In a separate study which began in De-cember Moderna is also testing mRNA-1273 in adolescents between 12 and 18 years old

The latest study is being conducted in collaboration with the National Insti-tute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA)

Mother who lost only son to rare COVID complication warns parents to look for early signs

SANTIAGO - By the time doctors real-ized that Lorena Navarretersquos son had a rare complication of COVID-19 that affl icts some children it was too late to save her 16-year-old Emilio

Lorena a single mother who lives in the southern Chilean city of Puerto Montt told the TVN network that her music-loving and sociable son died about a week after he fi rst complained of feeling tired and of a pain in his legs in late January

Within days he had developed livid blotches on his skin a high fever vomiting and dark urine

Doctors at the cityrsquos hospital overrun with severe COVID cases repeatedly tested him for COVID but with the results coming back negative were at a loss as to what was wrong with him

By the time his illness was identifi ed as Multisystem Infl ammatory Syndrome in Children it was too late Lorena could not be at her sonrsquos bedside because of strict health protocols but a social worker called to pass on the message that her son loved

her very much She asked the social worker to tell her son she would see him soon and that his pets were well

ldquoA doctor said that if I had faith I should pray because my son was very illrdquo said Na-varrete who works as a nurse technician ldquoThey had a diagnosis and it was PIMSrdquo

Multisystem Infl ammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) as PIMS is more com-monly known is a rare life-threatening syndrome linked to COVID-19

It usually appears between two and six weeks after infection even in asymptomatic cases of COVID-19

It shares symptoms with toxic shock and Kawasaki disease including fever rashes swollen glands conjunctivitis and in severe cases heart infl ammation and can cause multiple organ failure It is not always fatal if caught and treated early

The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention said in January that it was inves-tigating whether COVID variants were in-creasing the number or severity of cases fol-lowing anecdotal reports from some states

US President Joe Biden

HEALTH amp SCIENCE17India Bulletin

HEALTH amp SCIENCE

Saturday March 20 2021

By Anthony Deutsch and Caroline Copley

AMSTERDAM - Global health experts came under in-creasing pressure on Tuesday to clear up questions over the safety of AstraZenecarsquos CO-VID-19 shot as Sweden and Latvia joined countries suspend-ing their use in a further blow to Europersquos vaccination rollout

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said it was

investigating reports of 30 cases of unusual blood disorders out of 5 million recipients of the As-traZeneca vaccine In total 45 million COVID shots have been delivered across the region

The EU regulator will release its findings on Thursday but its head Emer Cooke said she saw no reason to change its recom-mendation of AstraZeneca - one of four vaccines that it has approved for use

ldquoThe benefits continue to

outweigh the risks but this is a serious concern and it does need serious and detailed scientific evaluationrdquo Cooke told a news conference

A World Health Organization (WHO) committee of experts was reviewing the cases and was expected to issue a statement by the end of the day a spokesman said

The EUrsquos largest members - Germany France and Italy - suspended use of AstraZenecarsquos vaccine on Monday pending the outcome of investigations into unusual cases of a rare cerebral thrombosis in people who had received it

The addition of Sweden and Latvia on Tuesday brought to 13 the number of EU countries to act since reports first emerged of thromboembolisms affect-ing people after they got the AstraZeneca shot

The WHO and EMA had ear-lier joined AstraZeneca in say-ing there is no proven link but some experts said the episodes of blood clots bleeding and low platelet counts in younger people seemed to indicate a causal con-nection to the AstraZeneca shot

ldquoThe benefits of vaccination significantly outweigh the risks especially for the elderlyrdquo said Karl Lauterbach health spokes-man for Germanyrsquos Social Democratic Party

ldquoBut it could be the case that the risks of the vaccine are high-er for certain patient groups such as young womenrdquo Lauterbach an epidemiologist whose party is part of the Berlin coalition told Deutschlandfunk radio in an interview

Other epidemiologists note that similar cases have not been found in unusual num-bers in Britain which began using AstraZeneca earlier and has given more than 10 million doses

ldquoA very likely explanation of at least some of the clotting dis-orders seen are a result of CO-VID-19 rather than the vaccinerdquo said Stephen Evans professor of pharmacoepidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

ldquoThere are published papers that make clear that these prob-lems definitely occur in COV-ID-19 and there is no doubt that all the vaccines in use prevent

that disease Hence the risk and benefit balance for the AstraZen-eca vaccine remains clearly in favour of its benefitsrdquo

In the EUrsquos largest states in-cluding Germany France Italy the Netherlands and Spain As-traZeneca has accounted for about 13-15 of shots given since the rollout began almost three months ago with Pfizer-BioNTech making up the major-ity according to official data

As one as the cheapest to be developed the AstraZeneca shot is set to be the mainstay of vac-cination programmes in much of the developing world

Governments say they acted on the AstraZeneca shot out of an abundance of caution - of 16 million people in Germany given the vaccine seven fell ill with a very rare cerebral vein thrombosis of whom three died

In a detailed analysis of its findings Germanyrsquos vaccine oversight body the Paul Eh-rlich Institute said six of the cases were in women of young or middle age - a number statis-tically significantly higher than normally expected

Health experts pore over AstraZeneca safety data as Europe reels from vaccine suspensions

Global health experts came under increasing pressure on Tuesday to clear up questions over the safety of AstraZenecarsquos COVID-19 shot as Sweden and Latvia joined countries suspending their use in a further blow to Europersquos vaccination rollout

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India Bulletin Saturday March 20 2021

India Bulletin 19Saturday March 20 2021

Kishan Kohli help India level T20 series against England

AHMEDABAD - A belliger-ent 56 off 32 balls from India debutant Ishan Kishan and an unbeaten 73 from captain Virat Kohli helped the hosts to a com-manding seven-wicket win over England in the second Twenty20 International in Ahmedabad on Sunday

Kishan 22 smashed leg-spinner Adil Rashid for two con-secutive sixes to get past fifty as India made short work of a 165-run target to win with 13 balls to spare and level the five-match

series at 1-1Indiarsquos chase of Englandrsquos

164-6 got off to a shaky start when Sam Curran sent back opener KL Rahul in the first over without scoring but it did not curb Kishanrsquos aggres-sion the left-hander hitting five fours and four sixes in total

There was plenty of entertain-ment for the sizeable crowd at the worldrsquos biggest cricket sta-dium with most fans not wear-ing masks in the stands as Kohli

and Kishan added 94 in nine overs

Rishabh Pant came in after the dismissal of Kishan who was dropped by Ben Stokes on 40 off Rashid and continued to pummel Englandrsquos bowlers with a 13-ball 26 during which he hit two sixes and an identical number of fours

Kohli who also survived a dropped chance by wicketkeeper Jos Buttler on 10 off Chris Jor-dan sealed the win with a four and a six in successive balls to

also get past 3000 runs in T20 internationals in the process

Jason Roy once again top-scored for England with a 35-ball 46 following up on his knock of 49 in their win in the first match last Friday

Put in to bat the right-hander gave the touring side a steady start with a 63-run stand for the second wicket with Dawid Malan after the loss of opening partner Buttler to seamer Bhu-vneshwar Kumar on the first delivery he faced

Roy hit four fours and two six-es in his knock before holing out in the deep off spinner Washing-ton Sundar who also sent back the dangerous Jonny Bairstow for 20

Fast bowler Shardul Thakur pegged back Englandrsquos hopes of a flourishing finish by dis-missing opposition captain Eoin Morgan and Stokes as India conceded just 35 off the last five overs

The third match of the series will be played on Tuesday

Virat Kohli

Rohit urges India debutants to lsquohave funrsquo against England in T20 series

After Suryakumar Yadav and Ishan Kishan earned their maiden call-ups to the Indian national team vice-captain Rohit Sharma stressed on the importance of playing with-out any pressure when they take on England in a Twenty20 series

Kishan and Suryakumar were named in the squad after plun-dering 516 and 480 runs re-spectively in the Indian Premier League last season where the pair played under Rohit for the

Mumbai Indians as they clinched their fifth title in November

ldquoI donrsquot want them to be think-ing about anythingrdquo Rohit told reporters on Wednesday ldquoThatrsquos how they bring their best perfor-mance out

ldquoHaving watched them closely for a few years now Irsquove realised itrsquos important for them to be part of this wonder-ful team a great setup I just want them to have fun and un-derstand what this team is all about

ldquoThese guys have done re-ally well in the last few years especially the last year Itrsquos just about carrying that form and putting it out there Itrsquos not go-ing to be that easy here they will be challenged every now and thenrdquo

For England itrsquos a much-awaited return to the squad for all-rounder Liam Livingstone who had similar success in Aus-traliarsquos Big Bash League where he scored 426 runs for Perth Scorchers

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Aries (March 21 to April 20)Someone will always be prettier Someone will always be smarter Someone will always be younger But they will never be you Itrsquos this ability to understand your uniqueness which will help you steer forward in an otherwise difficult week

Taurus (April 21 to May 21)When a storm is coming all other birds seek shelter The eagle alone avoids the storm by flying above it So in the storms of life be like an eagle and soar above your problems Keep your love life on top priority and everything else will fall into place with time

Gemini (May 22 to June 21)Life is not happening to you Life is responding to you The things you do the decisions you take the people you love or the people you hate they all make you into who you are

Cancer (June 22 to July 22)Sadness does not come from bad circumstances It comes from bad thoughts Although the circumstances are mixed around you you will have a tendency to make a mountain out of a mole hill

Leo (July 23 to August 22)Every time we get what we thought we wanted we realise that we want more This race towards more - more money more power more of everything is taking a toll on your energy level

Virgo (August 23 to September 23)One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness usually it comes back to you While your hard work is fruc-tifying now do not let the success take you away from compassion

Libra (September 24 to October 23)Best friends are like stars You donrsquot always see them but you know they are always there This week you will be in a nostalgic mood and miss good old times and old friends Rather than thinking about it pick up the phone and talk to friends you have not spoken in years or take a friend out on a cappuccino trip

Scorpio (October 24 to November 22)Learn to make peace with your past or else your future will become a constant battle that yoursquoll never win The highlight of the week will be letting go of things forgiving people forgetting wrong-doings and moving on in life

Sagittarius (November 23 to December 21)Chaos in the midst of chaos isnrsquot funny but chaos in the midst of order is Probably one of the toughest week this month wherein there will be a lot of confusion and haze around Advice Do not take stress

Capricorn (December 22 to January 20)Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realise you havenrsquot fallen asleep yet Thatrsquos the kind of nights you might witness this week owing to unforeseen issues and hurdles Your discipline and organisational skills will steer you forward and transform these hurdles into opportunities Aquarius (January 21 to February 19)Women get the last word in every argument Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument This is not the week for you to get into any arguments as it might jeopardise your frame of mind

Pisces (February 20 to March 20)Find out who you are and be that person Thatrsquos what your soul was put on this Earth to be Find that truth live that truth and everything else will come The week will be about introspection spirituality and matters related to the soul

WEEKLY HOROSCOPE(March 28 - April 3 2021)

HEALTH amp SCIENCEASTROLOGYIndia Bulletin

8 things AARP wants you to know before your second COVID-19 vaccine

If yoursquove already received your first dose of a two-dose COVID-19 vaccine congratulations - yoursquore well on your way to being protect-ed from the coronavirus But to be fully immunized itrsquos critical to get that second shot

William Schaffner MD an infectious diseases specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville Tennessee and medical director of the Nation-al Foundation for Infectious Dis-eases says ldquoWe have told every-one these vaccines are 95 percent effectiverdquo of the two-dose Moder-na and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines currently in use in the US ldquoBut theyrsquore only 95 percent effective if you indeed get that second doserdquo

Here are a few more things to know about the second dose

1 Your side effects will likely be stronger

Many people who had little to no reaction to the first vaccine dose are reporting that the second one packs a punch mdash surprising even those who study vaccines for a liv-ing

Greg Poland MD an infec-tious disease expert at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota and director of Mayorsquos vaccine re-search group had only mild symp-toms after his first dose But the second one left him shaking - liter-ally - with chills and a temperature of 101

ldquoI took one Tylenol and went to bed and woke up the next morning 90 percent improved and by mid-day I was back to normalrdquo Poland says ldquoThis is not an indication of something going wrong it is an indication of a vigorous immune responserdquo

There is no live virus in the vac-cine so you canrsquot get COVID-19 from being vaccinated

Participants in clinical trials of both vaccines had experiences similar to Polandrsquos In Pfizerrsquos clinical trial for instance 31 per-cent of participants ages 18 to 55 reported a fever after the second dose compared to only 8 percent after the first one Fatigue chills headache and musclejoint pain were also more common after the second injection for both vaccines

The good news is older adults were less likely to experience vac-cine reactions the data shows Among those age 55 and up in the Pfizer trial 22 percent experienced fever after the second dose and 3 percent had a temperature after the first dose

Schaffner recommends not making any big plans for the day after your scheduled vaccine appointment

2 You should avoid taking pain relievers before your shot

If yoursquove been hearing sto-ries about second-dose side ef-fects you may be tempted to take a pain reliever before your appointment

Thatrsquos not a good idea accord-ing to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) unless yoursquove been advised to do so by your doctor Pain relievers taken preemptively ahead of a shot could dampen the effective-ness of the vaccine Poland and Schaffner say

However itrsquos OK to take ac-etaminophen (Tylenol) or a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug like Advil or Motrin after your vaccine to treat side effects such as pain fever chills or headache

3 The timing between doses doesnrsquot need to be exact

The second dose of the Pfiz-er shot is supposed to be giv-en 21 days after the first for Moderna the recommended interval between doses is 28 days

However if you canrsquot get an appointment on the exact day mdash or if you have to miss your scheduled appointment for some reason mdash the CDC does allow some wiggle room Although the agency recommends trying to stick to the suggested interval it says the second dose can be given up to six weeks after the first

If your appointment is sched-uled earlier than the recommend-ed date ask for a later appoint-ment Schaffner advises ldquoYour immune response will work perfectly well if you take more timerdquo he says ldquoBut if you do it too early the second dose may not invoke an optimal responserdquo

4 Your second dose should be from the same manufacturer as your first

Doctors are already hearing from patients asking if they can get their second dose from a dif-ferent manufacturer often be-cause they realize the other type of vaccine is offered at a location thatrsquos more convenient But the CDC recommends against it The Moderna and Pfizer vaccines ldquoare not interchangeable with each other or with other COVID-19 vaccine productsrdquo the CDC says ldquoThe safety and efficacy of a mixed-product series have not been evaluatedrdquo

5 A rash at the injection site isnrsquot a reason to skip your second dose

If you experienced a rash at the injection site three to 10 days

after getting your first shot that doesnrsquot preclude you from getting your second shot the CDC says although it recommends getting it in the other arm

A small number of people have developed such rashes some-times called ldquoCOVID armrdquo af-ter vaccination Doctors say itrsquos likely a mild allergic reaction that can be treated with an over-the-counter antihistamine such as Benadryl

6 You should temporarily avoid all other vaccines

It might be time for your shin-gles or Tdap vaccine but you should hold off if you are between COVID-19 vaccine doses Be-cause therersquos no data on the safety and efficacy of COVID vaccines administered at the same time as other vaccines the CDC recom-mends avoiding other immuniza-tions in the two weeks before and after both doses

7 Full immunity is not immediate

It takes two weeks after your second dose for your body to build full protection to the virus After that you should have al-most zero chance of developing severe disease if you are exposed to someone with COVID-19 Schaffner says The CDC also says you no longer have to quar-antine if yoursquore exposed to some-one with COVID-19 mdash as long as you meet these criteria you donrsquot have symptoms and it hasnrsquot been more than three months since your second vaccine dose

One possible exception is immunocompromised people Schaffner says They will get some level of immunity he says ldquobut they may not reach the 95 percent because their immune system is already somewhat com-promised no matter how strong these vaccines arerdquo

8 You still need to wear a maskExperts agree you should con-

tinue to wear a mask and practice social distancing in public For one thing therersquos a small chance you could get sick even after yoursquove been vaccinated

In addition itrsquos possible that you could still carry the virus and silently transmit it to others who havenrsquot been vaccinated even if you donrsquot develop symptoms

And therersquos one more reason Until the country reaches herd im-munity mdash the point when a signif-icant portion of the population be-comes immune to a disease mdash itrsquos important for everyone to wear a mask to stop the spread of the virus Schaffner says

Saturday March 20 2021

Biden All US adults to be eligible for vaccines by May

By Jeff Mason

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden told US states last Thursday to make all adults eligible for a coronavirus vaccine by May 1 and urged Americans to stay vigi-lant or face more restrictions hours after he signed a $19 trillion stimulus bill into law

In a forceful but somber speech from the White House on the fi rst anniversary of the pandemic lockdown Biden said if Ameri-cans pulled together there could be a great-er sense of normalcy - and some backyard barbecue parties with small groups - on the US Independence Day holiday on July 4

That date is a new goal for the president and a projection of hope amid a pandemic that has killed more than 530000 people in the United States the most of any country

To achieve his summer target Biden said he needed Americansrsquo help

ldquoIf we donrsquot stay vigilant and the con-ditions change then we may have to rein-state restrictions to get back on trackrdquo he said in an evening address from the White House his fi rst in television prime time since becoming president

ldquoWersquove made so much progress This is not the time to let up Just as we are emerging from a dark winter into a hope-ful spring and summer is not the time to not stick with the rulesrdquo he said

Republicans swiftly criticized Biden for his cautious approach ldquoWhat America needs now is to fully reopen our economy and our classroomsrdquo House of Represen-tatives Republican leader Kevin McCarthy said on Twitter

Biden said he was ordering US states territories and tribes to make all adults eli-gible to receive a coronavirus vaccine by May 1 The White House has said it would have enough vaccine supply to vaccinate the adult population by the end of May About 10 of Americans so far have been fully vaccinated

Administration offi cials said he would deploy 4000 more troops to help with the vaccine eff ort bringing the total number to 6000 The White House is also seeking to expand the pool of people able to adminis-ter shots to include dentists optometrists paramedics veterinarians and medical stu-dents

Biden campaigned last year on a prom-ise that he would tackle the pandemic more eff ectively than Republican Presi-dent Donald Trump and he has sought to encourage and model behavior such as mask-wearing that Trump eschewed

In his speech Biden took a swipe at his

predecessor by saying the virus was ini-tially met with ldquodenials for days weeks then months that led to more deaths more infections more stress more lonelinessrdquo

Biden said hate crimes and harassment against Asian Americans must stop Trump repeatedly referred to the disease as the ldquoChina virusrdquo

Biden also encouraged Americans to keep up mitigation eff orts - wearing masks keeping social distance and prac-ticing good hygiene - to stop the virus and its variants from spreading A number of states have been loosening restrictions

as Americans like many people around the world grow weary of pandemic life

ldquoPhotos and videos from 2019 feel like they were taken in another era The last vacation The last birthday with friends The last holiday with extended familyrdquo Biden said recounting the toll the virus has wrought

He said the country would come away from the crisis stronger ldquoWe faced and overcame one of the toughest and darkest periods in this nationrsquos history - darkest wersquove ever knownrdquo he said

Moderna begins study of COVID-19 vaccine in kids

Moderna Inc has begun dosing patients in a mid-to-late stage study of its COV-ID-19 vaccine mRNA-1273 in children aged six months to less than 12 years the company said on Tuesday

The study will assess the safety and ef-fectiveness of two doses of mRNA-1273 given 28 days apart and intends to enroll about 6750 children in the United States and Canada

The vaccine has already been au-thorized for emergency use in

Americans who are aged 18 and older

In a separate study which began in De-cember Moderna is also testing mRNA-1273 in adolescents between 12 and 18 years old

The latest study is being conducted in collaboration with the National Insti-tute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA)

Mother who lost only son to rare COVID complication warns parents to look for early signs

SANTIAGO - By the time doctors real-ized that Lorena Navarretersquos son had a rare complication of COVID-19 that affl icts some children it was too late to save her 16-year-old Emilio

Lorena a single mother who lives in the southern Chilean city of Puerto Montt told the TVN network that her music-loving and sociable son died about a week after he fi rst complained of feeling tired and of a pain in his legs in late January

Within days he had developed livid blotches on his skin a high fever vomiting and dark urine

Doctors at the cityrsquos hospital overrun with severe COVID cases repeatedly tested him for COVID but with the results coming back negative were at a loss as to what was wrong with him

By the time his illness was identifi ed as Multisystem Infl ammatory Syndrome in Children it was too late Lorena could not be at her sonrsquos bedside because of strict health protocols but a social worker called to pass on the message that her son loved

her very much She asked the social worker to tell her son she would see him soon and that his pets were well

ldquoA doctor said that if I had faith I should pray because my son was very illrdquo said Na-varrete who works as a nurse technician ldquoThey had a diagnosis and it was PIMSrdquo

Multisystem Infl ammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) as PIMS is more com-monly known is a rare life-threatening syndrome linked to COVID-19

It usually appears between two and six weeks after infection even in asymptomatic cases of COVID-19

It shares symptoms with toxic shock and Kawasaki disease including fever rashes swollen glands conjunctivitis and in severe cases heart infl ammation and can cause multiple organ failure It is not always fatal if caught and treated early

The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention said in January that it was inves-tigating whether COVID variants were in-creasing the number or severity of cases fol-lowing anecdotal reports from some states

US President Joe Biden

HEALTH amp SCIENCE17India Bulletin

HEALTH amp SCIENCE

Saturday March 20 2021

By Anthony Deutsch and Caroline Copley

AMSTERDAM - Global health experts came under in-creasing pressure on Tuesday to clear up questions over the safety of AstraZenecarsquos CO-VID-19 shot as Sweden and Latvia joined countries suspend-ing their use in a further blow to Europersquos vaccination rollout

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said it was

investigating reports of 30 cases of unusual blood disorders out of 5 million recipients of the As-traZeneca vaccine In total 45 million COVID shots have been delivered across the region

The EU regulator will release its findings on Thursday but its head Emer Cooke said she saw no reason to change its recom-mendation of AstraZeneca - one of four vaccines that it has approved for use

ldquoThe benefits continue to

outweigh the risks but this is a serious concern and it does need serious and detailed scientific evaluationrdquo Cooke told a news conference

A World Health Organization (WHO) committee of experts was reviewing the cases and was expected to issue a statement by the end of the day a spokesman said

The EUrsquos largest members - Germany France and Italy - suspended use of AstraZenecarsquos vaccine on Monday pending the outcome of investigations into unusual cases of a rare cerebral thrombosis in people who had received it

The addition of Sweden and Latvia on Tuesday brought to 13 the number of EU countries to act since reports first emerged of thromboembolisms affect-ing people after they got the AstraZeneca shot

The WHO and EMA had ear-lier joined AstraZeneca in say-ing there is no proven link but some experts said the episodes of blood clots bleeding and low platelet counts in younger people seemed to indicate a causal con-nection to the AstraZeneca shot

ldquoThe benefits of vaccination significantly outweigh the risks especially for the elderlyrdquo said Karl Lauterbach health spokes-man for Germanyrsquos Social Democratic Party

ldquoBut it could be the case that the risks of the vaccine are high-er for certain patient groups such as young womenrdquo Lauterbach an epidemiologist whose party is part of the Berlin coalition told Deutschlandfunk radio in an interview

Other epidemiologists note that similar cases have not been found in unusual num-bers in Britain which began using AstraZeneca earlier and has given more than 10 million doses

ldquoA very likely explanation of at least some of the clotting dis-orders seen are a result of CO-VID-19 rather than the vaccinerdquo said Stephen Evans professor of pharmacoepidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

ldquoThere are published papers that make clear that these prob-lems definitely occur in COV-ID-19 and there is no doubt that all the vaccines in use prevent

that disease Hence the risk and benefit balance for the AstraZen-eca vaccine remains clearly in favour of its benefitsrdquo

In the EUrsquos largest states in-cluding Germany France Italy the Netherlands and Spain As-traZeneca has accounted for about 13-15 of shots given since the rollout began almost three months ago with Pfizer-BioNTech making up the major-ity according to official data

As one as the cheapest to be developed the AstraZeneca shot is set to be the mainstay of vac-cination programmes in much of the developing world

Governments say they acted on the AstraZeneca shot out of an abundance of caution - of 16 million people in Germany given the vaccine seven fell ill with a very rare cerebral vein thrombosis of whom three died

In a detailed analysis of its findings Germanyrsquos vaccine oversight body the Paul Eh-rlich Institute said six of the cases were in women of young or middle age - a number statis-tically significantly higher than normally expected

Health experts pore over AstraZeneca safety data as Europe reels from vaccine suspensions

Global health experts came under increasing pressure on Tuesday to clear up questions over the safety of AstraZenecarsquos COVID-19 shot as Sweden and Latvia joined countries suspending their use in a further blow to Europersquos vaccination rollout

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India Bulletin 19Saturday March 20 2021

Kishan Kohli help India level T20 series against England

AHMEDABAD - A belliger-ent 56 off 32 balls from India debutant Ishan Kishan and an unbeaten 73 from captain Virat Kohli helped the hosts to a com-manding seven-wicket win over England in the second Twenty20 International in Ahmedabad on Sunday

Kishan 22 smashed leg-spinner Adil Rashid for two con-secutive sixes to get past fifty as India made short work of a 165-run target to win with 13 balls to spare and level the five-match

series at 1-1Indiarsquos chase of Englandrsquos

164-6 got off to a shaky start when Sam Curran sent back opener KL Rahul in the first over without scoring but it did not curb Kishanrsquos aggres-sion the left-hander hitting five fours and four sixes in total

There was plenty of entertain-ment for the sizeable crowd at the worldrsquos biggest cricket sta-dium with most fans not wear-ing masks in the stands as Kohli

and Kishan added 94 in nine overs

Rishabh Pant came in after the dismissal of Kishan who was dropped by Ben Stokes on 40 off Rashid and continued to pummel Englandrsquos bowlers with a 13-ball 26 during which he hit two sixes and an identical number of fours

Kohli who also survived a dropped chance by wicketkeeper Jos Buttler on 10 off Chris Jor-dan sealed the win with a four and a six in successive balls to

also get past 3000 runs in T20 internationals in the process

Jason Roy once again top-scored for England with a 35-ball 46 following up on his knock of 49 in their win in the first match last Friday

Put in to bat the right-hander gave the touring side a steady start with a 63-run stand for the second wicket with Dawid Malan after the loss of opening partner Buttler to seamer Bhu-vneshwar Kumar on the first delivery he faced

Roy hit four fours and two six-es in his knock before holing out in the deep off spinner Washing-ton Sundar who also sent back the dangerous Jonny Bairstow for 20

Fast bowler Shardul Thakur pegged back Englandrsquos hopes of a flourishing finish by dis-missing opposition captain Eoin Morgan and Stokes as India conceded just 35 off the last five overs

The third match of the series will be played on Tuesday

Virat Kohli

Rohit urges India debutants to lsquohave funrsquo against England in T20 series

After Suryakumar Yadav and Ishan Kishan earned their maiden call-ups to the Indian national team vice-captain Rohit Sharma stressed on the importance of playing with-out any pressure when they take on England in a Twenty20 series

Kishan and Suryakumar were named in the squad after plun-dering 516 and 480 runs re-spectively in the Indian Premier League last season where the pair played under Rohit for the

Mumbai Indians as they clinched their fifth title in November

ldquoI donrsquot want them to be think-ing about anythingrdquo Rohit told reporters on Wednesday ldquoThatrsquos how they bring their best perfor-mance out

ldquoHaving watched them closely for a few years now Irsquove realised itrsquos important for them to be part of this wonder-ful team a great setup I just want them to have fun and un-derstand what this team is all about

ldquoThese guys have done re-ally well in the last few years especially the last year Itrsquos just about carrying that form and putting it out there Itrsquos not go-ing to be that easy here they will be challenged every now and thenrdquo

For England itrsquos a much-awaited return to the squad for all-rounder Liam Livingstone who had similar success in Aus-traliarsquos Big Bash League where he scored 426 runs for Perth Scorchers

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Biden All US adults to be eligible for vaccines by May

By Jeff Mason

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden told US states last Thursday to make all adults eligible for a coronavirus vaccine by May 1 and urged Americans to stay vigi-lant or face more restrictions hours after he signed a $19 trillion stimulus bill into law

In a forceful but somber speech from the White House on the fi rst anniversary of the pandemic lockdown Biden said if Ameri-cans pulled together there could be a great-er sense of normalcy - and some backyard barbecue parties with small groups - on the US Independence Day holiday on July 4

That date is a new goal for the president and a projection of hope amid a pandemic that has killed more than 530000 people in the United States the most of any country

To achieve his summer target Biden said he needed Americansrsquo help

ldquoIf we donrsquot stay vigilant and the con-ditions change then we may have to rein-state restrictions to get back on trackrdquo he said in an evening address from the White House his fi rst in television prime time since becoming president

ldquoWersquove made so much progress This is not the time to let up Just as we are emerging from a dark winter into a hope-ful spring and summer is not the time to not stick with the rulesrdquo he said

Republicans swiftly criticized Biden for his cautious approach ldquoWhat America needs now is to fully reopen our economy and our classroomsrdquo House of Represen-tatives Republican leader Kevin McCarthy said on Twitter

Biden said he was ordering US states territories and tribes to make all adults eli-gible to receive a coronavirus vaccine by May 1 The White House has said it would have enough vaccine supply to vaccinate the adult population by the end of May About 10 of Americans so far have been fully vaccinated

Administration offi cials said he would deploy 4000 more troops to help with the vaccine eff ort bringing the total number to 6000 The White House is also seeking to expand the pool of people able to adminis-ter shots to include dentists optometrists paramedics veterinarians and medical stu-dents

Biden campaigned last year on a prom-ise that he would tackle the pandemic more eff ectively than Republican Presi-dent Donald Trump and he has sought to encourage and model behavior such as mask-wearing that Trump eschewed

In his speech Biden took a swipe at his

predecessor by saying the virus was ini-tially met with ldquodenials for days weeks then months that led to more deaths more infections more stress more lonelinessrdquo

Biden said hate crimes and harassment against Asian Americans must stop Trump repeatedly referred to the disease as the ldquoChina virusrdquo

Biden also encouraged Americans to keep up mitigation eff orts - wearing masks keeping social distance and prac-ticing good hygiene - to stop the virus and its variants from spreading A number of states have been loosening restrictions

as Americans like many people around the world grow weary of pandemic life

ldquoPhotos and videos from 2019 feel like they were taken in another era The last vacation The last birthday with friends The last holiday with extended familyrdquo Biden said recounting the toll the virus has wrought

He said the country would come away from the crisis stronger ldquoWe faced and overcame one of the toughest and darkest periods in this nationrsquos history - darkest wersquove ever knownrdquo he said

Moderna begins study of COVID-19 vaccine in kids

Moderna Inc has begun dosing patients in a mid-to-late stage study of its COV-ID-19 vaccine mRNA-1273 in children aged six months to less than 12 years the company said on Tuesday

The study will assess the safety and ef-fectiveness of two doses of mRNA-1273 given 28 days apart and intends to enroll about 6750 children in the United States and Canada

The vaccine has already been au-thorized for emergency use in

Americans who are aged 18 and older

In a separate study which began in De-cember Moderna is also testing mRNA-1273 in adolescents between 12 and 18 years old

The latest study is being conducted in collaboration with the National Insti-tute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA)

Mother who lost only son to rare COVID complication warns parents to look for early signs

SANTIAGO - By the time doctors real-ized that Lorena Navarretersquos son had a rare complication of COVID-19 that affl icts some children it was too late to save her 16-year-old Emilio

Lorena a single mother who lives in the southern Chilean city of Puerto Montt told the TVN network that her music-loving and sociable son died about a week after he fi rst complained of feeling tired and of a pain in his legs in late January

Within days he had developed livid blotches on his skin a high fever vomiting and dark urine

Doctors at the cityrsquos hospital overrun with severe COVID cases repeatedly tested him for COVID but with the results coming back negative were at a loss as to what was wrong with him

By the time his illness was identifi ed as Multisystem Infl ammatory Syndrome in Children it was too late Lorena could not be at her sonrsquos bedside because of strict health protocols but a social worker called to pass on the message that her son loved

her very much She asked the social worker to tell her son she would see him soon and that his pets were well

ldquoA doctor said that if I had faith I should pray because my son was very illrdquo said Na-varrete who works as a nurse technician ldquoThey had a diagnosis and it was PIMSrdquo

Multisystem Infl ammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) as PIMS is more com-monly known is a rare life-threatening syndrome linked to COVID-19

It usually appears between two and six weeks after infection even in asymptomatic cases of COVID-19

It shares symptoms with toxic shock and Kawasaki disease including fever rashes swollen glands conjunctivitis and in severe cases heart infl ammation and can cause multiple organ failure It is not always fatal if caught and treated early

The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention said in January that it was inves-tigating whether COVID variants were in-creasing the number or severity of cases fol-lowing anecdotal reports from some states

US President Joe Biden

HEALTH amp SCIENCE17India Bulletin

HEALTH amp SCIENCE

Saturday March 20 2021

By Anthony Deutsch and Caroline Copley

AMSTERDAM - Global health experts came under in-creasing pressure on Tuesday to clear up questions over the safety of AstraZenecarsquos CO-VID-19 shot as Sweden and Latvia joined countries suspend-ing their use in a further blow to Europersquos vaccination rollout

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said it was

investigating reports of 30 cases of unusual blood disorders out of 5 million recipients of the As-traZeneca vaccine In total 45 million COVID shots have been delivered across the region

The EU regulator will release its findings on Thursday but its head Emer Cooke said she saw no reason to change its recom-mendation of AstraZeneca - one of four vaccines that it has approved for use

ldquoThe benefits continue to

outweigh the risks but this is a serious concern and it does need serious and detailed scientific evaluationrdquo Cooke told a news conference

A World Health Organization (WHO) committee of experts was reviewing the cases and was expected to issue a statement by the end of the day a spokesman said

The EUrsquos largest members - Germany France and Italy - suspended use of AstraZenecarsquos vaccine on Monday pending the outcome of investigations into unusual cases of a rare cerebral thrombosis in people who had received it

The addition of Sweden and Latvia on Tuesday brought to 13 the number of EU countries to act since reports first emerged of thromboembolisms affect-ing people after they got the AstraZeneca shot

The WHO and EMA had ear-lier joined AstraZeneca in say-ing there is no proven link but some experts said the episodes of blood clots bleeding and low platelet counts in younger people seemed to indicate a causal con-nection to the AstraZeneca shot

ldquoThe benefits of vaccination significantly outweigh the risks especially for the elderlyrdquo said Karl Lauterbach health spokes-man for Germanyrsquos Social Democratic Party

ldquoBut it could be the case that the risks of the vaccine are high-er for certain patient groups such as young womenrdquo Lauterbach an epidemiologist whose party is part of the Berlin coalition told Deutschlandfunk radio in an interview

Other epidemiologists note that similar cases have not been found in unusual num-bers in Britain which began using AstraZeneca earlier and has given more than 10 million doses

ldquoA very likely explanation of at least some of the clotting dis-orders seen are a result of CO-VID-19 rather than the vaccinerdquo said Stephen Evans professor of pharmacoepidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

ldquoThere are published papers that make clear that these prob-lems definitely occur in COV-ID-19 and there is no doubt that all the vaccines in use prevent

that disease Hence the risk and benefit balance for the AstraZen-eca vaccine remains clearly in favour of its benefitsrdquo

In the EUrsquos largest states in-cluding Germany France Italy the Netherlands and Spain As-traZeneca has accounted for about 13-15 of shots given since the rollout began almost three months ago with Pfizer-BioNTech making up the major-ity according to official data

As one as the cheapest to be developed the AstraZeneca shot is set to be the mainstay of vac-cination programmes in much of the developing world

Governments say they acted on the AstraZeneca shot out of an abundance of caution - of 16 million people in Germany given the vaccine seven fell ill with a very rare cerebral vein thrombosis of whom three died

In a detailed analysis of its findings Germanyrsquos vaccine oversight body the Paul Eh-rlich Institute said six of the cases were in women of young or middle age - a number statis-tically significantly higher than normally expected

Health experts pore over AstraZeneca safety data as Europe reels from vaccine suspensions

Global health experts came under increasing pressure on Tuesday to clear up questions over the safety of AstraZenecarsquos COVID-19 shot as Sweden and Latvia joined countries suspending their use in a further blow to Europersquos vaccination rollout

Thurs 9am-630pm amp Sat 9am-4pmMon-Wed Fri 9am-6pm

Sunday Closed

18HEALTH amp SCIENCE

India Bulletin Saturday March 20 2021

India Bulletin 19Saturday March 20 2021

Kishan Kohli help India level T20 series against England

AHMEDABAD - A belliger-ent 56 off 32 balls from India debutant Ishan Kishan and an unbeaten 73 from captain Virat Kohli helped the hosts to a com-manding seven-wicket win over England in the second Twenty20 International in Ahmedabad on Sunday

Kishan 22 smashed leg-spinner Adil Rashid for two con-secutive sixes to get past fifty as India made short work of a 165-run target to win with 13 balls to spare and level the five-match

series at 1-1Indiarsquos chase of Englandrsquos

164-6 got off to a shaky start when Sam Curran sent back opener KL Rahul in the first over without scoring but it did not curb Kishanrsquos aggres-sion the left-hander hitting five fours and four sixes in total

There was plenty of entertain-ment for the sizeable crowd at the worldrsquos biggest cricket sta-dium with most fans not wear-ing masks in the stands as Kohli

and Kishan added 94 in nine overs

Rishabh Pant came in after the dismissal of Kishan who was dropped by Ben Stokes on 40 off Rashid and continued to pummel Englandrsquos bowlers with a 13-ball 26 during which he hit two sixes and an identical number of fours

Kohli who also survived a dropped chance by wicketkeeper Jos Buttler on 10 off Chris Jor-dan sealed the win with a four and a six in successive balls to

also get past 3000 runs in T20 internationals in the process

Jason Roy once again top-scored for England with a 35-ball 46 following up on his knock of 49 in their win in the first match last Friday

Put in to bat the right-hander gave the touring side a steady start with a 63-run stand for the second wicket with Dawid Malan after the loss of opening partner Buttler to seamer Bhu-vneshwar Kumar on the first delivery he faced

Roy hit four fours and two six-es in his knock before holing out in the deep off spinner Washing-ton Sundar who also sent back the dangerous Jonny Bairstow for 20

Fast bowler Shardul Thakur pegged back Englandrsquos hopes of a flourishing finish by dis-missing opposition captain Eoin Morgan and Stokes as India conceded just 35 off the last five overs

The third match of the series will be played on Tuesday

Virat Kohli

Rohit urges India debutants to lsquohave funrsquo against England in T20 series

After Suryakumar Yadav and Ishan Kishan earned their maiden call-ups to the Indian national team vice-captain Rohit Sharma stressed on the importance of playing with-out any pressure when they take on England in a Twenty20 series

Kishan and Suryakumar were named in the squad after plun-dering 516 and 480 runs re-spectively in the Indian Premier League last season where the pair played under Rohit for the

Mumbai Indians as they clinched their fifth title in November

ldquoI donrsquot want them to be think-ing about anythingrdquo Rohit told reporters on Wednesday ldquoThatrsquos how they bring their best perfor-mance out

ldquoHaving watched them closely for a few years now Irsquove realised itrsquos important for them to be part of this wonder-ful team a great setup I just want them to have fun and un-derstand what this team is all about

ldquoThese guys have done re-ally well in the last few years especially the last year Itrsquos just about carrying that form and putting it out there Itrsquos not go-ing to be that easy here they will be challenged every now and thenrdquo

For England itrsquos a much-awaited return to the squad for all-rounder Liam Livingstone who had similar success in Aus-traliarsquos Big Bash League where he scored 426 runs for Perth Scorchers

What would you do for her future

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Manu 630-677-3635

MOTEL FOR SALE42 room Budget Inn MotelLocated on I-70 Exit 188Asking price $551000

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or other professionals

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Proudly serving the community with over 30 years experience

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By Anthony Deutsch and Caroline Copley

AMSTERDAM - Global health experts came under in-creasing pressure on Tuesday to clear up questions over the safety of AstraZenecarsquos CO-VID-19 shot as Sweden and Latvia joined countries suspend-ing their use in a further blow to Europersquos vaccination rollout

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said it was

investigating reports of 30 cases of unusual blood disorders out of 5 million recipients of the As-traZeneca vaccine In total 45 million COVID shots have been delivered across the region

The EU regulator will release its findings on Thursday but its head Emer Cooke said she saw no reason to change its recom-mendation of AstraZeneca - one of four vaccines that it has approved for use

ldquoThe benefits continue to

outweigh the risks but this is a serious concern and it does need serious and detailed scientific evaluationrdquo Cooke told a news conference

A World Health Organization (WHO) committee of experts was reviewing the cases and was expected to issue a statement by the end of the day a spokesman said

The EUrsquos largest members - Germany France and Italy - suspended use of AstraZenecarsquos vaccine on Monday pending the outcome of investigations into unusual cases of a rare cerebral thrombosis in people who had received it

The addition of Sweden and Latvia on Tuesday brought to 13 the number of EU countries to act since reports first emerged of thromboembolisms affect-ing people after they got the AstraZeneca shot

The WHO and EMA had ear-lier joined AstraZeneca in say-ing there is no proven link but some experts said the episodes of blood clots bleeding and low platelet counts in younger people seemed to indicate a causal con-nection to the AstraZeneca shot

ldquoThe benefits of vaccination significantly outweigh the risks especially for the elderlyrdquo said Karl Lauterbach health spokes-man for Germanyrsquos Social Democratic Party

ldquoBut it could be the case that the risks of the vaccine are high-er for certain patient groups such as young womenrdquo Lauterbach an epidemiologist whose party is part of the Berlin coalition told Deutschlandfunk radio in an interview

Other epidemiologists note that similar cases have not been found in unusual num-bers in Britain which began using AstraZeneca earlier and has given more than 10 million doses

ldquoA very likely explanation of at least some of the clotting dis-orders seen are a result of CO-VID-19 rather than the vaccinerdquo said Stephen Evans professor of pharmacoepidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

ldquoThere are published papers that make clear that these prob-lems definitely occur in COV-ID-19 and there is no doubt that all the vaccines in use prevent

that disease Hence the risk and benefit balance for the AstraZen-eca vaccine remains clearly in favour of its benefitsrdquo

In the EUrsquos largest states in-cluding Germany France Italy the Netherlands and Spain As-traZeneca has accounted for about 13-15 of shots given since the rollout began almost three months ago with Pfizer-BioNTech making up the major-ity according to official data

As one as the cheapest to be developed the AstraZeneca shot is set to be the mainstay of vac-cination programmes in much of the developing world

Governments say they acted on the AstraZeneca shot out of an abundance of caution - of 16 million people in Germany given the vaccine seven fell ill with a very rare cerebral vein thrombosis of whom three died

In a detailed analysis of its findings Germanyrsquos vaccine oversight body the Paul Eh-rlich Institute said six of the cases were in women of young or middle age - a number statis-tically significantly higher than normally expected

Health experts pore over AstraZeneca safety data as Europe reels from vaccine suspensions

Global health experts came under increasing pressure on Tuesday to clear up questions over the safety of AstraZenecarsquos COVID-19 shot as Sweden and Latvia joined countries suspending their use in a further blow to Europersquos vaccination rollout

Thurs 9am-630pm amp Sat 9am-4pmMon-Wed Fri 9am-6pm

Sunday Closed

18HEALTH amp SCIENCE

India Bulletin Saturday March 20 2021

India Bulletin 19Saturday March 20 2021

Kishan Kohli help India level T20 series against England

AHMEDABAD - A belliger-ent 56 off 32 balls from India debutant Ishan Kishan and an unbeaten 73 from captain Virat Kohli helped the hosts to a com-manding seven-wicket win over England in the second Twenty20 International in Ahmedabad on Sunday

Kishan 22 smashed leg-spinner Adil Rashid for two con-secutive sixes to get past fifty as India made short work of a 165-run target to win with 13 balls to spare and level the five-match

series at 1-1Indiarsquos chase of Englandrsquos

164-6 got off to a shaky start when Sam Curran sent back opener KL Rahul in the first over without scoring but it did not curb Kishanrsquos aggres-sion the left-hander hitting five fours and four sixes in total

There was plenty of entertain-ment for the sizeable crowd at the worldrsquos biggest cricket sta-dium with most fans not wear-ing masks in the stands as Kohli

and Kishan added 94 in nine overs

Rishabh Pant came in after the dismissal of Kishan who was dropped by Ben Stokes on 40 off Rashid and continued to pummel Englandrsquos bowlers with a 13-ball 26 during which he hit two sixes and an identical number of fours

Kohli who also survived a dropped chance by wicketkeeper Jos Buttler on 10 off Chris Jor-dan sealed the win with a four and a six in successive balls to

also get past 3000 runs in T20 internationals in the process

Jason Roy once again top-scored for England with a 35-ball 46 following up on his knock of 49 in their win in the first match last Friday

Put in to bat the right-hander gave the touring side a steady start with a 63-run stand for the second wicket with Dawid Malan after the loss of opening partner Buttler to seamer Bhu-vneshwar Kumar on the first delivery he faced

Roy hit four fours and two six-es in his knock before holing out in the deep off spinner Washing-ton Sundar who also sent back the dangerous Jonny Bairstow for 20

Fast bowler Shardul Thakur pegged back Englandrsquos hopes of a flourishing finish by dis-missing opposition captain Eoin Morgan and Stokes as India conceded just 35 off the last five overs

The third match of the series will be played on Tuesday

Virat Kohli

Rohit urges India debutants to lsquohave funrsquo against England in T20 series

After Suryakumar Yadav and Ishan Kishan earned their maiden call-ups to the Indian national team vice-captain Rohit Sharma stressed on the importance of playing with-out any pressure when they take on England in a Twenty20 series

Kishan and Suryakumar were named in the squad after plun-dering 516 and 480 runs re-spectively in the Indian Premier League last season where the pair played under Rohit for the

Mumbai Indians as they clinched their fifth title in November

ldquoI donrsquot want them to be think-ing about anythingrdquo Rohit told reporters on Wednesday ldquoThatrsquos how they bring their best perfor-mance out

ldquoHaving watched them closely for a few years now Irsquove realised itrsquos important for them to be part of this wonder-ful team a great setup I just want them to have fun and un-derstand what this team is all about

ldquoThese guys have done re-ally well in the last few years especially the last year Itrsquos just about carrying that form and putting it out there Itrsquos not go-ing to be that easy here they will be challenged every now and thenrdquo

For England itrsquos a much-awaited return to the squad for all-rounder Liam Livingstone who had similar success in Aus-traliarsquos Big Bash League where he scored 426 runs for Perth Scorchers

What would you do for her future

Contact Job Joseph LUTCFRequest a Quote

(847)-966-7990 8432 NWaukegan Rd Morton Grove IL 60053wwwfamersagentcomjjoseph

We Are Farmers

Auto Home Life Commercial Annuities Rollovers Mutual Funds College Saving PlansIRAs Retirement401(k)

Job Joseph is registered with and securities oered through Farmers Financial Solutions LLC Member FINRA amp SIPC

G I F T E D PSYCHIC READER ANNA

bull 30 years of experience

bull Specializing in reuniting lost love

bull Stops break-ups and removes all obstacles

bull Stops depression bull Stops depression and stress anxiety

bull Never have failed a case

ALL TYPES OF READINGS

FOR

$25

ONE FREE QUESTION CALL NOW

312-477-9494

20 India BulletinSPORTS

Saturday March 20 2021

offers affordable advertising ratesCall today and watch your business grow

847-674-7941

A middle aged live in full time nanny needed to take care of a newborn and a two year old toddler (who goes to daycare) in Springfield Illinois (about three hours drive from Chicago) Help with housekeeping and meal preparation

Salary negotiableText or Call (619) 381-9008

NANNY WANTED

A unique combination of Indian Restaurant

and Grocery Store for sale in Lake County IL Established

business in a rich neighborhood

Call 224-513-1051 for details

Restaurant and Grocery Store for Sale

Super 8 Motel for sale in Bloomington

area Illinois

40 Rooms renovated located on I-55

halfway between Chicago and St Louis

2 BR managers ( Owner ) Apt Asking price

$1050000

Serious buyers only

Illinois Motel For Sale

Please call

Manu 630-677-3635

MOTEL FOR SALE42 room Budget Inn MotelLocated on I-70 Exit 188Asking price $551000

Call Saroj at 1-636-456-7272

Front desk clerk wanted for a small Chicago motel

773-842-5474 after 5 pm Gujarati and English speaking preferred

Call 708-629-5199 or

Free living accommodations Must

have legal status

Pharmacy Expert Data Entry Experience only

Experience necessary on Micromerchant (Prime RX)

Full time hourly salary $20-23hour --

location of work Newark NJEmail resume

gioprxgmailcom 973-768-8923

HELP WANTED

Advertise in this space for only

$30per issue (4 issue minimum)

or $35 per issue(2 issue minimum)

with advance payment

Franchise Motel in Moline IL (2 hr from Chicago) needs following people (legal status must)

Motel Help

Email qismkrupagmailcomPh 630-699-2880 (After 5 pm Mon-Fri)

- Front Desk ClerkManager (EnglishBasic computer knowledge required) - House Keeper - Breakfast Attendant

Will provide housing accomodation

Contact by

Sunni Muslim Hyderabadi parents inviting proposal for their US Citizen daughters

Electrical engineers BSMSBeautiful 2830 years seeking well cultured

decent handsome boys doctors engineers high end IT

or other professionals

Please email with recent picture and bio data to amerk1956gmailcom

MATRIMONIAL

Looking for Tandoori Cook in upstate New York

Call Baldev at

607-592-1162

TANDOORI COOKHELP WANTED

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$30per issue (4 issue minimum)

or $35 per issue(2 issue minimum)

with advance payment

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$30per issue (4 issue minimum)

or $35 per issue(2 issue minimum)

with advance payment

Hindu Punjabi parents seek suitable match for handsome

365-6 MBAMS (Finance) nicely employed son Please

respond with bio-data amp picture

Matrimonial

Email at hindustyle99hotmailcom

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$30per issue (4 issue minimum)

or $35 per issue(2 issue minimum)

with advance payment

21India BulletinSaturday March 20 2021

MARKET PLACE

off ers aff ordable advertising ratesCall today and watch your business grow

847-674-7941

Furnished with AC refrigerator microwave

Everything availableClose to Devon Ave in Chicago

Beautiful area

Call 918-428-9184 or 773-425-4049

Roommate Needed

We accept name change ads

Call

847-674-7941 For pricing amp details

25 Years of Professional amp Trustworthy ServiceAir - Cruises - Tours

wwwnatrajtravelcomEmail infonatrajtravelcom

NATRAJ TRAVEL INC

Advertise in this space for only

$30per issue (4 issue minimum)

or $35 per issue(2 issue minimum)

with advance payment

IN SCHAUMBURG AREAASKING $150K

CALL JOSH

1-309-648-0921

FRANCHISE HAIR CUT SALON FOR SALE

Hyderabad-INDEPENDENT PLOT for

sale HABSIGUDA 460 SqYds 2 sided

road of 30 ft wide on North East facing

plot Ravindra Nagar Colony Only serious

buyers Payment preferred in US dollars

+91 7288914738

Whatsapp

US 773-817-3632

Hyderabad Plot For SaleAdvertise in this space for only

$30per issue (4 issue minimum)

or $35 per issue(2 issue minimum)

with advance payment

Groom Wanted Tamil Hindu Nadar(Caste No bar) settled in Kerala BEMBA 38 year old issue less divorcee 52 132 lbs working in Chicago IL seeks professionally qualified grooms

Please email the profiles to

rgroomsearchgmailcom

MATRIMONIALMotel in Upstate New York

looking for a Full Time Front Desk Person Must be able to speak English

and is good in Math

Call 845-300-5335

HELP WANTED

Advertise in this space for only

$30per issue (4 issue minimum)

or $35 per issue(2 issue minimum)

with advance payment

Wanted Live-In female aide for 82y old Indian lady in Pembroke Pines FL Required personal care toileting amp cleaning Optional Indian or Asian cooking light chores Very competitive salary

Kiran 925-818-2182

WANTED LIVE-IN FEMALE AID

Advertise in this space for only

$30per issue (4 issue minimum)

or $35 per issue(2 issue minimum)

with advance payment

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or $35 per issue(2 issue minimum)

with advance payment

India Bulletin22 Saturday March 20 2021

MARKET PLACE

HELP WANTEDFull Time or Part Time

Gujarati female housekeeper wanted for cleaning laundry

and vegetarian cooking in Northbrook IL

Legal US resident only

To inquire Call 847-530-1841email housekeeperwanted7gmailcom

Email housekeeperwanted7gmailcom

India Bulletin 23Saturday March 20 2021

6810 Route 53 Woodridge IL 605176810 Route 53 Woodridge IL 605176810 Route 53 Woodridge IL 60517630 | 739 | 7000630 | 739 | 7000630 | 739 | 7000

wwwdirectfloorsnetwwwdirectfloorsnetwwwdirectfloorsnet

RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL

bull CARPET bull TILE bull HARDWOOD bull CUSTOM AREA RUGS bull WINDOW TREATMENTS

bull GRANITE COUNTERTOPS amp more

ldquoWe Care What You Walk Onrdquo

Mon amp Wed 9am to 6pm I Tues amp Thurs 9am to 8pm I Fri amp Sat 9am to 5pm Come visit our new 18000 sq ft showroom

Proudly serving the community with over 30 years experience

NEWLOCATION

India Bulletin24 Saturday March 20 2021

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India Bulletin 19Saturday March 20 2021

Kishan Kohli help India level T20 series against England

AHMEDABAD - A belliger-ent 56 off 32 balls from India debutant Ishan Kishan and an unbeaten 73 from captain Virat Kohli helped the hosts to a com-manding seven-wicket win over England in the second Twenty20 International in Ahmedabad on Sunday

Kishan 22 smashed leg-spinner Adil Rashid for two con-secutive sixes to get past fifty as India made short work of a 165-run target to win with 13 balls to spare and level the five-match

series at 1-1Indiarsquos chase of Englandrsquos

164-6 got off to a shaky start when Sam Curran sent back opener KL Rahul in the first over without scoring but it did not curb Kishanrsquos aggres-sion the left-hander hitting five fours and four sixes in total

There was plenty of entertain-ment for the sizeable crowd at the worldrsquos biggest cricket sta-dium with most fans not wear-ing masks in the stands as Kohli

and Kishan added 94 in nine overs

Rishabh Pant came in after the dismissal of Kishan who was dropped by Ben Stokes on 40 off Rashid and continued to pummel Englandrsquos bowlers with a 13-ball 26 during which he hit two sixes and an identical number of fours

Kohli who also survived a dropped chance by wicketkeeper Jos Buttler on 10 off Chris Jor-dan sealed the win with a four and a six in successive balls to

also get past 3000 runs in T20 internationals in the process

Jason Roy once again top-scored for England with a 35-ball 46 following up on his knock of 49 in their win in the first match last Friday

Put in to bat the right-hander gave the touring side a steady start with a 63-run stand for the second wicket with Dawid Malan after the loss of opening partner Buttler to seamer Bhu-vneshwar Kumar on the first delivery he faced

Roy hit four fours and two six-es in his knock before holing out in the deep off spinner Washing-ton Sundar who also sent back the dangerous Jonny Bairstow for 20

Fast bowler Shardul Thakur pegged back Englandrsquos hopes of a flourishing finish by dis-missing opposition captain Eoin Morgan and Stokes as India conceded just 35 off the last five overs

The third match of the series will be played on Tuesday

Virat Kohli

Rohit urges India debutants to lsquohave funrsquo against England in T20 series

After Suryakumar Yadav and Ishan Kishan earned their maiden call-ups to the Indian national team vice-captain Rohit Sharma stressed on the importance of playing with-out any pressure when they take on England in a Twenty20 series

Kishan and Suryakumar were named in the squad after plun-dering 516 and 480 runs re-spectively in the Indian Premier League last season where the pair played under Rohit for the

Mumbai Indians as they clinched their fifth title in November

ldquoI donrsquot want them to be think-ing about anythingrdquo Rohit told reporters on Wednesday ldquoThatrsquos how they bring their best perfor-mance out

ldquoHaving watched them closely for a few years now Irsquove realised itrsquos important for them to be part of this wonder-ful team a great setup I just want them to have fun and un-derstand what this team is all about

ldquoThese guys have done re-ally well in the last few years especially the last year Itrsquos just about carrying that form and putting it out there Itrsquos not go-ing to be that easy here they will be challenged every now and thenrdquo

For England itrsquos a much-awaited return to the squad for all-rounder Liam Livingstone who had similar success in Aus-traliarsquos Big Bash League where he scored 426 runs for Perth Scorchers

What would you do for her future

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G I F T E D PSYCHIC READER ANNA

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A unique combination of Indian Restaurant

and Grocery Store for sale in Lake County IL Established

business in a rich neighborhood

Call 224-513-1051 for details

Restaurant and Grocery Store for Sale

Super 8 Motel for sale in Bloomington

area Illinois

40 Rooms renovated located on I-55

halfway between Chicago and St Louis

2 BR managers ( Owner ) Apt Asking price

$1050000

Serious buyers only

Illinois Motel For Sale

Please call

Manu 630-677-3635

MOTEL FOR SALE42 room Budget Inn MotelLocated on I-70 Exit 188Asking price $551000

Call Saroj at 1-636-456-7272

Front desk clerk wanted for a small Chicago motel

773-842-5474 after 5 pm Gujarati and English speaking preferred

Call 708-629-5199 or

Free living accommodations Must

have legal status

Pharmacy Expert Data Entry Experience only

Experience necessary on Micromerchant (Prime RX)

Full time hourly salary $20-23hour --

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- Front Desk ClerkManager (EnglishBasic computer knowledge required) - House Keeper - Breakfast Attendant

Will provide housing accomodation

Contact by

Sunni Muslim Hyderabadi parents inviting proposal for their US Citizen daughters

Electrical engineers BSMSBeautiful 2830 years seeking well cultured

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or other professionals

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MATRIMONIAL

Looking for Tandoori Cook in upstate New York

Call Baldev at

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Kiran 925-818-2182

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Proudly serving the community with over 30 years experience

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Kishan Kohli help India level T20 series against England

AHMEDABAD - A belliger-ent 56 off 32 balls from India debutant Ishan Kishan and an unbeaten 73 from captain Virat Kohli helped the hosts to a com-manding seven-wicket win over England in the second Twenty20 International in Ahmedabad on Sunday

Kishan 22 smashed leg-spinner Adil Rashid for two con-secutive sixes to get past fifty as India made short work of a 165-run target to win with 13 balls to spare and level the five-match

series at 1-1Indiarsquos chase of Englandrsquos

164-6 got off to a shaky start when Sam Curran sent back opener KL Rahul in the first over without scoring but it did not curb Kishanrsquos aggres-sion the left-hander hitting five fours and four sixes in total

There was plenty of entertain-ment for the sizeable crowd at the worldrsquos biggest cricket sta-dium with most fans not wear-ing masks in the stands as Kohli

and Kishan added 94 in nine overs

Rishabh Pant came in after the dismissal of Kishan who was dropped by Ben Stokes on 40 off Rashid and continued to pummel Englandrsquos bowlers with a 13-ball 26 during which he hit two sixes and an identical number of fours

Kohli who also survived a dropped chance by wicketkeeper Jos Buttler on 10 off Chris Jor-dan sealed the win with a four and a six in successive balls to

also get past 3000 runs in T20 internationals in the process

Jason Roy once again top-scored for England with a 35-ball 46 following up on his knock of 49 in their win in the first match last Friday

Put in to bat the right-hander gave the touring side a steady start with a 63-run stand for the second wicket with Dawid Malan after the loss of opening partner Buttler to seamer Bhu-vneshwar Kumar on the first delivery he faced

Roy hit four fours and two six-es in his knock before holing out in the deep off spinner Washing-ton Sundar who also sent back the dangerous Jonny Bairstow for 20

Fast bowler Shardul Thakur pegged back Englandrsquos hopes of a flourishing finish by dis-missing opposition captain Eoin Morgan and Stokes as India conceded just 35 off the last five overs

The third match of the series will be played on Tuesday

Virat Kohli

Rohit urges India debutants to lsquohave funrsquo against England in T20 series

After Suryakumar Yadav and Ishan Kishan earned their maiden call-ups to the Indian national team vice-captain Rohit Sharma stressed on the importance of playing with-out any pressure when they take on England in a Twenty20 series

Kishan and Suryakumar were named in the squad after plun-dering 516 and 480 runs re-spectively in the Indian Premier League last season where the pair played under Rohit for the

Mumbai Indians as they clinched their fifth title in November

ldquoI donrsquot want them to be think-ing about anythingrdquo Rohit told reporters on Wednesday ldquoThatrsquos how they bring their best perfor-mance out

ldquoHaving watched them closely for a few years now Irsquove realised itrsquos important for them to be part of this wonder-ful team a great setup I just want them to have fun and un-derstand what this team is all about

ldquoThese guys have done re-ally well in the last few years especially the last year Itrsquos just about carrying that form and putting it out there Itrsquos not go-ing to be that easy here they will be challenged every now and thenrdquo

For England itrsquos a much-awaited return to the squad for all-rounder Liam Livingstone who had similar success in Aus-traliarsquos Big Bash League where he scored 426 runs for Perth Scorchers

What would you do for her future

Contact Job Joseph LUTCFRequest a Quote

(847)-966-7990 8432 NWaukegan Rd Morton Grove IL 60053wwwfamersagentcomjjoseph

We Are Farmers

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Job Joseph is registered with and securities oered through Farmers Financial Solutions LLC Member FINRA amp SIPC

G I F T E D PSYCHIC READER ANNA

bull 30 years of experience

bull Specializing in reuniting lost love

bull Stops break-ups and removes all obstacles

bull Stops depression bull Stops depression and stress anxiety

bull Never have failed a case

ALL TYPES OF READINGS

FOR

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20 India BulletinSPORTS

Saturday March 20 2021

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Salary negotiableText or Call (619) 381-9008

NANNY WANTED

A unique combination of Indian Restaurant

and Grocery Store for sale in Lake County IL Established

business in a rich neighborhood

Call 224-513-1051 for details

Restaurant and Grocery Store for Sale

Super 8 Motel for sale in Bloomington

area Illinois

40 Rooms renovated located on I-55

halfway between Chicago and St Louis

2 BR managers ( Owner ) Apt Asking price

$1050000

Serious buyers only

Illinois Motel For Sale

Please call

Manu 630-677-3635

MOTEL FOR SALE42 room Budget Inn MotelLocated on I-70 Exit 188Asking price $551000

Call Saroj at 1-636-456-7272

Front desk clerk wanted for a small Chicago motel

773-842-5474 after 5 pm Gujarati and English speaking preferred

Call 708-629-5199 or

Free living accommodations Must

have legal status

Pharmacy Expert Data Entry Experience only

Experience necessary on Micromerchant (Prime RX)

Full time hourly salary $20-23hour --

location of work Newark NJEmail resume

gioprxgmailcom 973-768-8923

HELP WANTED

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$30per issue (4 issue minimum)

or $35 per issue(2 issue minimum)

with advance payment

Franchise Motel in Moline IL (2 hr from Chicago) needs following people (legal status must)

Motel Help

Email qismkrupagmailcomPh 630-699-2880 (After 5 pm Mon-Fri)

- Front Desk ClerkManager (EnglishBasic computer knowledge required) - House Keeper - Breakfast Attendant

Will provide housing accomodation

Contact by

Sunni Muslim Hyderabadi parents inviting proposal for their US Citizen daughters

Electrical engineers BSMSBeautiful 2830 years seeking well cultured

decent handsome boys doctors engineers high end IT

or other professionals

Please email with recent picture and bio data to amerk1956gmailcom

MATRIMONIAL

Looking for Tandoori Cook in upstate New York

Call Baldev at

607-592-1162

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or $35 per issue(2 issue minimum)

with advance payment

Hindu Punjabi parents seek suitable match for handsome

365-6 MBAMS (Finance) nicely employed son Please

respond with bio-data amp picture

Matrimonial

Email at hindustyle99hotmailcom

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$30per issue (4 issue minimum)

or $35 per issue(2 issue minimum)

with advance payment

21India BulletinSaturday March 20 2021

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847-674-7941

Furnished with AC refrigerator microwave

Everything availableClose to Devon Ave in Chicago

Beautiful area

Call 918-428-9184 or 773-425-4049

Roommate Needed

We accept name change ads

Call

847-674-7941 For pricing amp details

25 Years of Professional amp Trustworthy ServiceAir - Cruises - Tours

wwwnatrajtravelcomEmail infonatrajtravelcom

NATRAJ TRAVEL INC

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IN SCHAUMBURG AREAASKING $150K

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1-309-648-0921

FRANCHISE HAIR CUT SALON FOR SALE

Hyderabad-INDEPENDENT PLOT for

sale HABSIGUDA 460 SqYds 2 sided

road of 30 ft wide on North East facing

plot Ravindra Nagar Colony Only serious

buyers Payment preferred in US dollars

+91 7288914738

Whatsapp

US 773-817-3632

Hyderabad Plot For SaleAdvertise in this space for only

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India Bulletin22 Saturday March 20 2021

MARKET PLACE

HELP WANTEDFull Time or Part Time

Gujarati female housekeeper wanted for cleaning laundry

and vegetarian cooking in Northbrook IL

Legal US resident only

To inquire Call 847-530-1841email housekeeperwanted7gmailcom

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6810 Route 53 Woodridge IL 605176810 Route 53 Woodridge IL 605176810 Route 53 Woodridge IL 60517630 | 739 | 7000630 | 739 | 7000630 | 739 | 7000

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RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL

bull CARPET bull TILE bull HARDWOOD bull CUSTOM AREA RUGS bull WINDOW TREATMENTS

bull GRANITE COUNTERTOPS amp more

ldquoWe Care What You Walk Onrdquo

Mon amp Wed 9am to 6pm I Tues amp Thurs 9am to 8pm I Fri amp Sat 9am to 5pm Come visit our new 18000 sq ft showroom

Proudly serving the community with over 30 years experience

NEWLOCATION

India Bulletin24 Saturday March 20 2021

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offers affordable advertising ratesCall today and watch your business grow

847-674-7941

A middle aged live in full time nanny needed to take care of a newborn and a two year old toddler (who goes to daycare) in Springfield Illinois (about three hours drive from Chicago) Help with housekeeping and meal preparation

Salary negotiableText or Call (619) 381-9008

NANNY WANTED

A unique combination of Indian Restaurant

and Grocery Store for sale in Lake County IL Established

business in a rich neighborhood

Call 224-513-1051 for details

Restaurant and Grocery Store for Sale

Super 8 Motel for sale in Bloomington

area Illinois

40 Rooms renovated located on I-55

halfway between Chicago and St Louis

2 BR managers ( Owner ) Apt Asking price

$1050000

Serious buyers only

Illinois Motel For Sale

Please call

Manu 630-677-3635

MOTEL FOR SALE42 room Budget Inn MotelLocated on I-70 Exit 188Asking price $551000

Call Saroj at 1-636-456-7272

Front desk clerk wanted for a small Chicago motel

773-842-5474 after 5 pm Gujarati and English speaking preferred

Call 708-629-5199 or

Free living accommodations Must

have legal status

Pharmacy Expert Data Entry Experience only

Experience necessary on Micromerchant (Prime RX)

Full time hourly salary $20-23hour --

location of work Newark NJEmail resume

gioprxgmailcom 973-768-8923

HELP WANTED

Advertise in this space for only

$30per issue (4 issue minimum)

or $35 per issue(2 issue minimum)

with advance payment

Franchise Motel in Moline IL (2 hr from Chicago) needs following people (legal status must)

Motel Help

Email qismkrupagmailcomPh 630-699-2880 (After 5 pm Mon-Fri)

- Front Desk ClerkManager (EnglishBasic computer knowledge required) - House Keeper - Breakfast Attendant

Will provide housing accomodation

Contact by

Sunni Muslim Hyderabadi parents inviting proposal for their US Citizen daughters

Electrical engineers BSMSBeautiful 2830 years seeking well cultured

decent handsome boys doctors engineers high end IT

or other professionals

Please email with recent picture and bio data to amerk1956gmailcom

MATRIMONIAL

Looking for Tandoori Cook in upstate New York

Call Baldev at

607-592-1162

TANDOORI COOKHELP WANTED

Advertise in this space for only

$30per issue (4 issue minimum)

or $35 per issue(2 issue minimum)

with advance payment

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$30per issue (4 issue minimum)

or $35 per issue(2 issue minimum)

with advance payment

Hindu Punjabi parents seek suitable match for handsome

365-6 MBAMS (Finance) nicely employed son Please

respond with bio-data amp picture

Matrimonial

Email at hindustyle99hotmailcom

Advertise in this space for only

$30per issue (4 issue minimum)

or $35 per issue(2 issue minimum)

with advance payment

21India BulletinSaturday March 20 2021

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off ers aff ordable advertising ratesCall today and watch your business grow

847-674-7941

Furnished with AC refrigerator microwave

Everything availableClose to Devon Ave in Chicago

Beautiful area

Call 918-428-9184 or 773-425-4049

Roommate Needed

We accept name change ads

Call

847-674-7941 For pricing amp details

25 Years of Professional amp Trustworthy ServiceAir - Cruises - Tours

wwwnatrajtravelcomEmail infonatrajtravelcom

NATRAJ TRAVEL INC

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$30per issue (4 issue minimum)

or $35 per issue(2 issue minimum)

with advance payment

IN SCHAUMBURG AREAASKING $150K

CALL JOSH

1-309-648-0921

FRANCHISE HAIR CUT SALON FOR SALE

Hyderabad-INDEPENDENT PLOT for

sale HABSIGUDA 460 SqYds 2 sided

road of 30 ft wide on North East facing

plot Ravindra Nagar Colony Only serious

buyers Payment preferred in US dollars

+91 7288914738

Whatsapp

US 773-817-3632

Hyderabad Plot For SaleAdvertise in this space for only

$30per issue (4 issue minimum)

or $35 per issue(2 issue minimum)

with advance payment

Groom Wanted Tamil Hindu Nadar(Caste No bar) settled in Kerala BEMBA 38 year old issue less divorcee 52 132 lbs working in Chicago IL seeks professionally qualified grooms

Please email the profiles to

rgroomsearchgmailcom

MATRIMONIALMotel in Upstate New York

looking for a Full Time Front Desk Person Must be able to speak English

and is good in Math

Call 845-300-5335

HELP WANTED

Advertise in this space for only

$30per issue (4 issue minimum)

or $35 per issue(2 issue minimum)

with advance payment

Wanted Live-In female aide for 82y old Indian lady in Pembroke Pines FL Required personal care toileting amp cleaning Optional Indian or Asian cooking light chores Very competitive salary

Kiran 925-818-2182

WANTED LIVE-IN FEMALE AID

Advertise in this space for only

$30per issue (4 issue minimum)

or $35 per issue(2 issue minimum)

with advance payment

Advertise in this space for only

$30per issue (4 issue minimum)

or $35 per issue(2 issue minimum)

with advance payment

India Bulletin22 Saturday March 20 2021

MARKET PLACE

HELP WANTEDFull Time or Part Time

Gujarati female housekeeper wanted for cleaning laundry

and vegetarian cooking in Northbrook IL

Legal US resident only

To inquire Call 847-530-1841email housekeeperwanted7gmailcom

Email housekeeperwanted7gmailcom

India Bulletin 23Saturday March 20 2021

6810 Route 53 Woodridge IL 605176810 Route 53 Woodridge IL 605176810 Route 53 Woodridge IL 60517630 | 739 | 7000630 | 739 | 7000630 | 739 | 7000

wwwdirectfloorsnetwwwdirectfloorsnetwwwdirectfloorsnet

RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL

bull CARPET bull TILE bull HARDWOOD bull CUSTOM AREA RUGS bull WINDOW TREATMENTS

bull GRANITE COUNTERTOPS amp more

ldquoWe Care What You Walk Onrdquo

Mon amp Wed 9am to 6pm I Tues amp Thurs 9am to 8pm I Fri amp Sat 9am to 5pm Come visit our new 18000 sq ft showroom

Proudly serving the community with over 30 years experience

NEWLOCATION

India Bulletin24 Saturday March 20 2021

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off ers aff ordable advertising ratesCall today and watch your business grow

847-674-7941

Furnished with AC refrigerator microwave

Everything availableClose to Devon Ave in Chicago

Beautiful area

Call 918-428-9184 or 773-425-4049

Roommate Needed

We accept name change ads

Call

847-674-7941 For pricing amp details

25 Years of Professional amp Trustworthy ServiceAir - Cruises - Tours

wwwnatrajtravelcomEmail infonatrajtravelcom

NATRAJ TRAVEL INC

Advertise in this space for only

$30per issue (4 issue minimum)

or $35 per issue(2 issue minimum)

with advance payment

IN SCHAUMBURG AREAASKING $150K

CALL JOSH

1-309-648-0921

FRANCHISE HAIR CUT SALON FOR SALE

Hyderabad-INDEPENDENT PLOT for

sale HABSIGUDA 460 SqYds 2 sided

road of 30 ft wide on North East facing

plot Ravindra Nagar Colony Only serious

buyers Payment preferred in US dollars

+91 7288914738

Whatsapp

US 773-817-3632

Hyderabad Plot For SaleAdvertise in this space for only

$30per issue (4 issue minimum)

or $35 per issue(2 issue minimum)

with advance payment

Groom Wanted Tamil Hindu Nadar(Caste No bar) settled in Kerala BEMBA 38 year old issue less divorcee 52 132 lbs working in Chicago IL seeks professionally qualified grooms

Please email the profiles to

rgroomsearchgmailcom

MATRIMONIALMotel in Upstate New York

looking for a Full Time Front Desk Person Must be able to speak English

and is good in Math

Call 845-300-5335

HELP WANTED

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or $35 per issue(2 issue minimum)

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Wanted Live-In female aide for 82y old Indian lady in Pembroke Pines FL Required personal care toileting amp cleaning Optional Indian or Asian cooking light chores Very competitive salary

Kiran 925-818-2182

WANTED LIVE-IN FEMALE AID

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$30per issue (4 issue minimum)

or $35 per issue(2 issue minimum)

with advance payment

Advertise in this space for only

$30per issue (4 issue minimum)

or $35 per issue(2 issue minimum)

with advance payment

India Bulletin22 Saturday March 20 2021

MARKET PLACE

HELP WANTEDFull Time or Part Time

Gujarati female housekeeper wanted for cleaning laundry

and vegetarian cooking in Northbrook IL

Legal US resident only

To inquire Call 847-530-1841email housekeeperwanted7gmailcom

Email housekeeperwanted7gmailcom

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wwwdirectfloorsnetwwwdirectfloorsnetwwwdirectfloorsnet

RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL

bull CARPET bull TILE bull HARDWOOD bull CUSTOM AREA RUGS bull WINDOW TREATMENTS

bull GRANITE COUNTERTOPS amp more

ldquoWe Care What You Walk Onrdquo

Mon amp Wed 9am to 6pm I Tues amp Thurs 9am to 8pm I Fri amp Sat 9am to 5pm Come visit our new 18000 sq ft showroom

Proudly serving the community with over 30 years experience

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