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giving prescient warnings about the risk of a new pandemic. Her lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology also discovered and studied the closestknown cousin to the coronavirus, though scientists note it would require decades of natural evolution to bridge the two. The WHO report says Shi told the visiting team that all field work is done with full protective equipment — which experts say would include N95 masks, Tyvek bodysuits, goggles and gloves. But in a June 2018 lecture, Shi said workers don’t do that in practice. “In most cases, we’d wear simpler protection, and it’s okay,” she said on a Chinese TED Talks-like program called Yixi. She said that’s because most bat-borne diseases cannot infect humans directly, only through an

afterward. Some wear thin surgical masks and rubber gloves as they work, while others are unmasked with bare hands. “Under what situation would we increase our protection? For instance, when there are too many bats in the cave, and lots of dust even as you’re entering,” she said. Shi kept a low profile at the pandemic’s onset, with her occasional interventions reflecting the pressures on her team. On Feb. 2, 2020, she posted to friends on WeChat that she “swore on her life” her lab was not involved in the outbreak. Three months later, she followed up with a post denying rumors she had defected to the West with intelligence files, as reported in the state-run Global Times.

Talking about their research, Dr Rahalkar said they do not know exactly if the virus had leaked but it is a strong hypothesis as our research point out towards a possible lab leak. “We started our research in April 2020. We found that a relative of SARS-CoV-2, RATG13, a coronavirus was collected from a mineshaft in Mojiang of Yunnan province in South China by the Wuhan Institute of Virology. We also found out that the mineshaft was infested with bats and six miners hired to clean the fecal matter were infected with pneumonialike illness,” said Dr Rahalkar. “Wuhan Institute of Virology and other labs in Wuhan are experimenting on the virus, and there is a suspicion that they did some changes in the genome of the virus, and it may be possible that the current virus was invented in the process,” she added.

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US to buy 500 m. Pfizer vaccines to share globally: Sources The US has faced mounting pressure to outline its global vaccine sharing plan. Inequities in supply around the world have become more pronounced, and the demand for shots in the US — where nearly 64 per cent of adults have received at least one dose — has dropped precipitously.

HiIndia Newsdesk The US will buy 500 million more doses of the Pfizer because it was in the public health and strategic interests Covid-19 vaccine to share through the global COVAX of the US. As Biden embarks on his first foreign trip, he is alliance for donation to 92 lower income countries and the aiming to show “that democracies are the countries that can African Union over the next year, a person familiar with best deliver solutions for people everywhere”. the matter said. “As he said in his joint session (address), we were the arsenal President Joe Biden was set to make the announcement of democracy’ in World War II,” Sullivan said. “We’re going Thursday in a speech before the start of the Group of Seven to be the arsenal of vaccines’ over this next period to help summit. Two hundred million doses — enough to fully end the pandemic.” protect 100 million people — would be shared this year, with The news of the Pfizer sharing plan was confirmed to The the balance to be donated in the first half of 2022, the person Associated Press by a person familiar with the matter, who said. National security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters spoke on condition of anonymity ahead of the president’s Wednesday that Biden was committed to sharing vaccines formal announcement.

Biden To Announce Major Covid Vaccine Sharing Plan Ahead Of G7 Summit Biden’s national security advisor, Jake Sullivan, told reporters aboard Air Force One that the president would kick things off with news of a major vaccine sharing initiative.

HiIndia Newsdesk United Kingdom: President Joe Biden will announce a major new initiative to vaccinate the world against Covid-19 ahead of a G7 summit, showcasing his brand of US leadership before going into a difficult meeting with Russia’s Vladimir Putin next week.

Biden landed in England on Wednesday for the start of his first foreign trip as president -- which features the G7 meeting, summits with NATO and the European Union in Brussels, and finally talks with Putin in Geneva. On the way, Biden’s national security advisor, Jake Sullivan, told reporters aboard Air Force One that the president would kick things off with news of a major vaccine sharing initiative. Sullivan would not give full details, but according to US media reports, the Biden administration is set to buy 500 million doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for international distribution. Doses will be aimed at developing countries, Sullivan said. “The president is focused on helping to lead the world because he believes it’s the right thing to, it’s what Americans do in times of need,” he said.

US super-rich ‘pay almost no income tax’ HiIndia Newsdesk

Details claiming to reveal how little income tax US billionaires pay have been leaked to a news website. ProPublica says it has seen the tax returns of some of the world’s richest people, including Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett. The website alleges Amazon’s Mr Bezos paid no tax in 2007 and 2011, while Tesla’s Mr Musk paid nothing in 2018. A White House spokeswoman called the leak “illegal”, and the FBI and tax authorities are investigating. ProPublica said it was analysing what it called a “vast trove of Internal Revenue Service data” on the taxes of the billionaires, and would release further details over coming weeks. While the BBC has not been able to confirm the claims, the alleged leak comes at a time of growing debate about the amount of tax paid by the wealthy and widening inequality. ProPublica said the richest 25 Americans pay less in tax - an average of 15.8% of adjusted gross income than most mainstream US workers. Jesse Eisinger, senior reporter and

The website says it has seen the tax returns of Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffet and Elon Musk

The website alleges Amazon’s Mr Bezos paid no tax in 2007 and 2011, while Tesla’s Mr Musk paid nothing in 2018. A White House spokeswoman called the leak “illegal”, and the FBI and tax authorities are investigating. editor at ProPublica, told the Today Programme: “We were pretty astonished that you could get [tax] down to zero if

you were a multi-billionaire. Actually paying zero in tax really floored us. Ultra-wealthy people can sidestep the system in an entirely legal way.” “They have enormous ability to find deductions, find credits and exploit loopholes in the system,” he said. So while the value of their wealth grows enormously through their ownership of shares in their company, that’s not recorded as income. But there’s more than that, he said: “They also take aggressive tax deductions, often because they have borrowed to fund their lifestyle.” He said US billionaires buy an asset, build one or inherit a fortune, and then borrow against their wealth. Because they don’t realise any gains or sell any stock, they’re not taking any income, which could be taxed. “They then borrow from a bank at a relatively low interest rate, live off that and can use the interest expenses as deductions on their income,” he said. The website said that “using perfectly legal tax strategies, many of the uberrich are able to shrink their federal tax bills to nothing or close to it” even as their wealth soared over the past few years.

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NEWS BREIF Biden revokes Trumpera ban on TikTok

HiIndia Newsdesk President Joe Biden on Wednesday revoked a Trump-era executive order that sought to ban the popular apps TikTok and WeChat and replaced it with one that calls for a broader review of a number of foreign-controlled applications that could pose a security risk to Americans and their data. On a call with reporters on Wednesday, administration officials said that the Trumpera order had not been carried out “in the soundest fashion” and that the new directive would establish “clear intelligible criteria” to evaluate national security risks posed by software applications connected to foreign governments, particularly China.

Missiles target U.S. troops, contractors in Iraqi army bases

HiIndia Newsdesk Multiple rockets have targeted two Iraqi military bases hosting USled coalition troops and foreign contractors, Iraqi security officials and the military said. Three rockets hit Balad airbase, north of Baghdad, on Wednesday without causing any casualties or damage, an Iraqi military statement said. The base housed foreign contractors. Hours later, at least one missile hit close to a military base next to Baghdad airport, two Iraqi security officials said. It was unclear whether the explosion was caused by a rocket or a drone strike.

Number of migrants at US border hits new record high

HiIndia Newsdesk The number of undocumented migrants reaching the US-Mexico border has hit the highest level in more than 20 years in the latest sign of the humanitarian crisis facing the Biden administration. US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said it caught 180,034 migrants, mostly single adults, in May. The number was up slightly from 178,854 in April and 172,000 in March. It was the biggest monthly total since April 2000 with increasing numbers coming from outside Central America.

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NEWS BREIF Govt may negotiate vaccine cost

HiIndia Newsdesk AFTER CHANGING its vaccine procurement policy, the Centre is likely to engage in renegotiations on the prices of Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin and Serum Institute of India’s Covishield. A senior government official said the revised procurement price per dose, which is currently Rs 150 for both vaccines, is “yet to be decided under the new system”. The Centre is finalising the contours of the pricing, the official said. The Finance Ministry, Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan, NITI Aayog Member (Health) Dr Vinod K Paul, Serum Institute of India and Bharat Biotech did not respond to queries on the issue.

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Bihar Health Department Revises COVID-19 Fatalities, Confirms More Than 9,000 Deaths According to the department, which had till the previous day stated the number of deaths to be under 5,500, as many as 3,951 deaths have been added to the number of deaths after verification. department which put the total number of fatalities caused by the pandemic at 9,429. According to the department, which had till the previous day stated the number of deaths to be under 5,500, as many as 3,951 deaths have been added to the number of deaths after verification. However, it was not specified as to when these additional deaths took place though a breakup was provided for all 38 districts. Going by the fresh figures, the number of lives lost in the second wave is close to 8,000 and a nearly six times increase in the deaths since April. Patna district bore the brunt of the outbreak, accounting for a total of 2,303 deaths. Muzaffarpur was a distant second with 609 fatalities. Patna also accounted for the highest number of 1,070 “additional deaths reported after verification”, followed by Begusarai (316), Muzaffarpur (314), East Champaran (391), and Chief Minister Nitish Kumars native Nalanda (222). HiIndia Newsdesk Altogether 7,15,179 people have been infected in the state so far Patna: The number of COVID-19 deaths in Bihar was on of whom more than five lakhs caught the contagion in the last Wednesday revised drastically upwards by the state health couple of months.

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FOR AT least the seventh year in a row, the BJP has topped the charts when it comes to receiving corporate and individual donations, latest data show. In 2019-20, the party received roughly Rs 750 crore in donations from companies and individuals, according to its contribution report submitted to the Election Commission (EC). This is at least five times more than what the Congress party received (Rs 139 crore). The NCP got Rs 59 crore, TMC Rs 8 crore, CPM Rs 19.6 crore, and the CPI Rs 1.9 crore in the same period. JP MP Rajeev Chandrasekhar’s Jupiter Capital, the ITC Group, real estate companies Macrotech Developers (earlier known as Lodha Developers) and B G Shirke Construction Technology, the Prudent Electoral Trust, and Jankalyan Electoral Trust were among the BJP’s biggest donors.

Wrestler Sushil Kumar Wanted Special Diet In Jail. Court Replied... HiIndia Newsdesk New Delhi: Sushil Kumar’s demands for a special diet and supplements in jail appear to be “desires and wishes”, not necessities, a Delhi court said on Wednesday as it rejected the jailed wrestler’s petition. “By the way of present application, the accused/applicant is not claiming any deficiency in a person’s daily diet, their quantities and the common source of nutrients as mentioned in Delhi Prisons Rules, 2018. Meaning thereby, the accused/applicant has been provided with a balanced and healthy diet,” the court said in its order. The court added that Sushil Kumar, accused of murdering a fellow wrestler, is not suffering from any disease. “The law should be equal and should be equally administered, that like should be treated alike,” the court observed.

India, China should help, not undercut each other: Envoy Sun Weidong

HiIndia Newsdesk Chinese Ambassador Sun Weidong has said that New Delhi and Beijing “need to help each other succeed instead of undercutting each other”, adding that the two sides “should respect each other, treat each other as equals, conduct dialogue and consultation and properly address

differences to find a mutually acceptable solution”. Sun said this at the celebrations of the centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on Wednesday. The remarks were made public on Thursday. Holding an online dialogue with Confederation of Young Leaders (CYL) and students and faculty from Indian universities, Sun said, “How will the China-India relations move forward? We need cooperation rather than confrontation. We need to help each other succeed instead of undercutting each other. At the moment, we should focus on tackling the pandemic, reviving the economy, improving people’s livelihood, and managing our own affairs well.

HiIndia Newsdesk New Delhi:The Union Health Ministry has issued clinical guidelines for the treatment of Covid-positive children amid concerns that a possible third wave of the coronavirus infections may target those aged below 18. In a detailed document titled ‘Comprehensive Guidelines for Management of COVID-19 in Children’, the ministry said antiviral drug Remdesivir is not recommended for children, and steroids should be used to treat only moderately severe and critically ill patients in hospital settings. “Remdesivir (an emergency use authorization drug) is NOT recommended in children…There is lack of sufficient safety and efficacy data with respect to Remdesivir in children below 18 years of age,” the document reads.

Mumbai building collapse: At least 11 dead as rescue efforts continue

HiIndia Newsdesk At least 11 people have been killed after a residential building collapsed in the western Indian city of Mumbai. Rescue efforts are underway as more people are feared trapped in the debris in Malad area, officials say. An investigation has been ordered but a minister said heavy rains could have caused the collapse on Wednesday night. Building collapses are not uncommon in India, especially during the monsoon season.

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Kapilon Sibal theasked Congress new digital rules taking effect the said day and for their response “ASAP, preferably today”. desperately needs reforms Platforms like Facebook,and WhatsApp and Twitter were given the party leadership three months to comply with the new rules that require them

had to listen. Yoga guru Ramdev on Wednesday said no one had the guts to arrest Social mediathem platforms to listen. were He alsogiven disapproved of him, his declaration coming what he dubbed “Prasada Ram politics three months to comply with the new on a day the Indian Medical based on personal gain” rather than rules that require them to appoint a Association appealed to the ideology. HiIndia Newsdesk Prime Minister to bookHiIndia the Newsdeskcompliance officer in India, set up a “I don’t want to comment on what the “owner of Patanjali The massive jump in India’s daily fatalities Newproducts” Delhi: As on the Congress processes response party leadership has done or not done. grievance mechanism and sedition to charges “spreading due to Covid-19 could be attributed Jitinfor Prasada’s switch to the BJP -- a high We have reached a stage in Indian down within 36 hours of fear” against Covid vaccination. Bihar, which, on Wednesday, added 3,951 profile exit that once again take exposes the content politics where decisions of this nature “Arrest to from kisi ka bhi nahin sakta Swami ko, -- the spotlight a legalisorder. fatalities thebaap backlog to its kar official party’sRamdev deep crisis on are not based on ideology at all. They lekin shor macha rahe hain India (Not saw evena someone’s father can cumulative death toll of 5,478. other members of the “G-23” or group are officer based on what Iset now ‘Prasada to appoint compliance in India, upcall a grievance arrest Swami but fatalities they are due makingofa noise), ” he told leaders massive jump Ramdev, of 6148 fresh 23 “dissident” who awrote Ram politics’ . Earlier it was Aaya Ram response mechanism and take down content within 36 hours reporters in Haridwar, when asked about to the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in the to#ArrestRamdev Sonia Gandhi calling for sweeping Gaya Ram. We have seen this happening of a legal order. nThe note from the Ministry of Electronics campaign Twitter. the last 24 on hours, as the country’s death reforms. Kapil Sibal, a prominent in WesttoBengal - suddenlyon people leave and IT askedruled the companies give information the status toll rose 359,676, the member of this club, emphatically “They areto demanding myUnion arrest. ministry Sometimes they call me a thug because they think BJP is going to of compliance and stressed: “Please confirm and share your of and family welfare’s (MoHFW) out a similar move, it would or health maha-thug. It doesn’t matter to me. I have become used to declaring succeed...You want to ”fight elections not response ASAP and preferably today itself. The companies data showed on Thursday morning. behave “Over my after dead body”. such things, ” Ramdev said. Calls for his arrest come on the basisdetails of yourofconvictions towards have to give the name and contact a chief compliance This is the highest number of fatalities however, Ramdev called allopathy a “stupid science”The andformer allegedUnion that Minister, an ideology but your conviction that ‘I officer, nodal contact person, a resident grievance officer recorded India to the Covid-19 seized chance to send out aa message lakhs hadin died afterdue taking allopathic medicines forthe Covid-19. might get something personally’ . and aitphysical of the company in India. pandemic in a single-day. to his party bosses, that is time address for

government as a “company sarkar”, an insinuation that its inflexibility on the new farm laws stemmed from its links to big business. “If this were a party sarkar (government), it would have yielded by now. But this is a company sarkar,” Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait said HiIndia Newsdesk in an online interaction with Bhubaneswar: The Rath Yatra in Puri journalists. will be held next month without the The event was hosted by the Indian attendance of devotees and under strict Women’s Press Corps on a day the Covid protocols. This will be the second farmers completed six months year in a row when the pandemic will of agitation on Delhi’s borders. cast its shadow on the celebrations that No so far come to to the drawresponse lakhs of has visitors every year a letter the farmers had written coastal town in Odisha. on Friday to theRelief PrimeCommissioner Minister Odisha Special towards Pseeking K Jena his saidintervention only servitors who have the resumption of talks with received their vaccine shots the and test government, whichwill broke on to negative for Covid be down allowed January take part 22. in the rituals.

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A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweaked his government’s Covid-19 vaccination policy and announced that states will receive free doses for inoculation of all above 18, revised guidelines for the same were released on Tuesday. The announcement came amid a chorus from states that the Centre should take over vaccine procurement, and probing questions recently from the Supreme Court. As per the revised guidelines, the Centre will buy 75 per cent of doses from vaccine makers, including 25 per cent of the state quota, and give it for free to state governments and union territories. As the Prime Minister said in his Monday address, no state government will have to spend on

vaccine procurement. However, the government has made it clear that the allocation of doses will depend on factors including the population of states and vaccine wastage. “Vaccine doses provided free of cost by the Government of India will be allocated to States/UTs based on criteria such as population, disease burden and the progress of vaccination. Wastage of vaccine will affect the allocation negatively,” a notification read. Domestic vaccine manufacturers will be given the option to provide vaccines directly to private hospitals. And Private hospitals will be allowed to levy a maximum of Rs 150 as service charge. As per the new rules, all citizens, irrespective of their income status, are entitled to free vaccination.

As per the revised guidelines, the Centre will buy 75 per cent of doses from vaccine makers, including 25 per cent of the state quota, and give it for free to state governments.

Nirmala Sitharaman Flags Glitches On New Tax Site, Tags Nandan Nilekani

Huge Internet Outage, Some Of World’s Biggest Sites Go Down HiIndia Newsdesk Multiple outages hit social media, government and news websites across the globe on Tuesday morning, with some reports pointing to a glitch at US-based cloud computing services provider Fastly. Reuters could not immediately confirm the issue affecting the sites. Fastly said it was investigating “the potential impact to performance with our CDN services,” according to its website. Most of Fastly’s coverage areas were facing “Degraded Performance”, the website showed.

The new e-filing website of the Income Tax Department, which received intense traffic since its launch, threw up technical difficulties for users. complaints from users on the new e-filing website of the Income Tax Department which was launched on Monday. She said she hoped Infosys and Mr Nilekani would not “let down our taxpayers in the quality of services being provided”. “The much awaited e-filing portal 2.0 was launched last night HiIndia Newsdesk 20:45hrs.I see in my TL grievances and glitches. Hope @Infosys New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today & @NandanNilekani will not let down our taxpayers in the tagged IT giant Infosys and its co-founder and chairman, quality of service being provided. Ease in compliance for the Nandan Nilekani, after receiving a large number of taxpayer should be our priority,” Ms Sitharaman tweeted.

‘Shut off oxygen for 5 minutes, India’s daily Covid caseload dips identified 22 who will die’ below one lakh after over two months According to information, the alleged incident took place on April 26 or April 27 when the state was facing a massive medical oxygen shortage. HiIndia Newsdesk The Agra administration has ordered seize the hospital and shift the patients a probe into a viral video in which the to another facility. An FIR is also likely owner of a private hospital in Agra is in the matter. The district administration, purportedly heard talking about an while denying there were 22 Covidrelated deaths on April 26-27 at the hospital, has ordered the ADM (City) and the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) to investigate the video and look into the matter. Agra DM Prabhu Narain Singh confirmed that the person heard in the video is Paras Hospital owner Arinjay Jain. “Boss, make them understand and start discharging (the patients) as there is no oxygen. Even the CM cannot arrange “experiment” in which the oxygen supply oxygen and this is the situation. We of 96 Covid patients at the hospital was started making some people understand allegedly shut off for five minutes and 22 on a personal level. Some remained a critical patients were identified whose pendulum, saying that they won’t leave. oxygen could be fully shut off. The I said no need to think too much and alleged incident took place on April 26 identify those whose oxygen can be shut or April 27 when the state was facing a off. Let us do a trial, let us do a mock drill. massive medical oxygen shortage. The video was made on April 28. The Uttar We will understand who will die and who will live,” the person is heard saying. Pradesh government has ordered to

HiIndia Newsdesk India reported less than one lakh new coronavirus infections after a gap of 63 days, while the daily positivity rate dropped to 4.62 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday. A single day rise of 86,498 cases were registered, the lowest in 66 days, taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 2,89,96,473. The COVID-19 death toll climbed to 3,51,309 with 2,123 daily deaths, the lowest in 47 days, the data updated at

8 am showed. A total of 81,466 new cases were recorded in a span of 24 hours on April 2. Also, 18,73,485 tests were conducted on Monday taking the total cumulative tests conducted so far for detection of COVID-19 in the countr y to 36,82,07,596. The daily positivity rate has dropped to 4.62 per cent . It has been less than 10 per cent for 15 consecutive days, the ministry said. The weekly positivity rate has declined to 5.94 per cent. The active cases reduced to 13,03,702 comprising 4.50 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has improved to 94.29 per cent. A net decline of 97,907 cases has been recorded in the COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours. Recoveries continue to outnumber daily new cases for the 26th consecutive day. The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 2,73,41,462 while the case fatality rate stands at 1.21 per cent, the data stated.

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HiIndia Newsdesk Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday appealed to people to follow Covid-appropriate behaviour amid the unlocking process in the national capital. “Many activities are resuming in Delhi from today. But take all the precautions to prevent corona completely - wear a mask, keep social distance and keep washing hands, there should be no laxity at all,” he said in a tweet in Hindi. “One has to stay away from corona infection and also bring the economy back on track,” the chief minister added. Jolted by the devastating second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the national capital moved slowly towards normal life as markets and malls reopened after nearly two months. The Delhi Metro, the lifeline of the city, also resumed service with 50 per cent seating capacity and nearly half of its train fleet running from early morning.

Centre Will Give Free Vaccines To States For 18+, Says PM Modi

HiIndia Newsdesk New Delhi: Prime Minister several weeks amid a shortage Narendra Modi today announced of vaccines. that the Centre would take back It was states that wanted control of vaccination from the decentralization, he said, states and provide free vaccines and that is why they were to all in the next two weeks. given 25 per cent vaccination “The Centre is taking back total responsibility. control of vaccination now, will He said India’s vaccine policy be implemented in next two had been a success because weeks. The Centre will give free of “good intentions and clear vaccines to states for all above policy”. 18. From June 21, the Centre “In 2014, India had 60% vaccine will provide free vaccines to coverage, we managed to take it states,” PM Modi announced in past 90% during our term,” PM an address to the nation. Modi said. This means those who want to pay can go to private hospitals, who can still buy 25 He said India’s fight against the second wave of the per cent of the doses directly from manufacturers. coronavirus was on. “Against an unseen, shapeshifting “75% of vaccination will be free and under the Centre, enemy, our biggest weapon is maintaining Covid 25% will be paid and by private hospitals,” he said. protocol like masks and distancing. Vaccines are our The Prime Minister also put out an emphatic defence safety armour,” he said. of his government’s vaccination policy, tackling However, he said, compared to the demand, the criticism by states and opposition parties over the past production is only limited.

“In 2014, India had 60% vaccine coverage, we managed to take it past 90% during our term,” PM Modi said.

Protesting Haryana farmers move India’s airline industry seen racking up $8 billion in Covid losses over two years into police station, cow in tow

HiIndia Newsdesk A standoff between farmers and authorities in Tohana, in Haryana’s Fatehabad district, intensified over the weekend, with hundreds of protesters moving into the town’s Sadar police station and erecting a tent on the premises. Keeping them company was an unwitting protester — a cow that one of the farmers had brought along

Covishield Produced More Antibodies

HiIndia Newsdesk New Delhi: The Covishield vaccine produced more antibodies than Covaxin, according to a preliminary study by Coronavirus Vaccine-induced Antibody Titre (COVAT) involving healthcare workers (HCW) who have received both doses of either of the two vaccines. Seropositivity rates to antispike antibody were significantly higher in Covishield recipients compared to Covaxin after the first dose, the study claimed.

because “there was no one back home to look after her”. The protesters have been demanding the release of two farmers who were arrested over a protest held on June 1 at the residence of Tohana’s JJP MLA Devender Babli. But with the two still in judicial custody, on Saturday, the farmers stepped up their protest with several of them, including over 60 women, spending the night on the two-acre police station campus. Farmer leaders Gurnam Singh Chaduni, Rakesh Tikait and Swaraj India president Yogendra Yadav also spent Saturday night with the protesters. On Sunday, Punjab farmer leader Joginder Singh Ugrahan joined the farmers.

the state of Indian airlines,” CAPA says tersely in its India Airline Outlook report for the financial year 2022. “The industry is standing on the edge of a cliff,” the aviation consulting firm adds. The twin Covid-19 waves have resulted in a “high level of solvency risk for most airlines which could impact the entire industry, including airports,” CAPA says. Airlines around the world have been HiIndia Newsdesk suffering badly from the pandemic but India’s aviation industry faces pandemic- the devastating second wave has pushed induced losses totalling some $8 billion the once high-flying Indian aviation for this year and last and is “standing on sector to the brink. the edge of a cliff,” the CAPA Centre for “Even airlines with “access to large Aviation warns in its yearly industry pools of money” are facing huge outlook. problems, it said. “We have run out of words to describe

UK’s first Lord Jagganath Hindu temple opens in Bath

HiIndia Newsdesk The first Hindu temple in the UK dedicated to Lord Jagganath has opened thanks to efforts by devotees. It has been set up at the former Culverhay School in Rush Hill, Bath by Shree Jagannatha Temple UK group and the Bath Hindu Community. Bath Hindu Community member Ashish Rajhansha said: “For us it’s like a dream of a lifetime that’s come true

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having a temple in Bath.” Lord Jagganath is celebrated with an annual festival in the summer. “We had this dream for a long time, about 15 to 17 years but it couldn’t have been possible without the help of Shree Jagannatha Temple UK,” said Mr Rajhansha, who lives in the city. Lord Jagganath is considered to be an incarnation of the second god in the Hindu triumvirate, Lord Vishnu, the preserver and protector of the universe. He is celebrated in the Jagganath Rath Yatra or Chariot Festival held in June or July. Devotees pull an idol of Lord Jagganath and his elder brother Balabhadra and sister Subhadra along on a colourful, decorated chariot through the streets.

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Veteran actor Dilip Kumar is ‘stable’ as he continues to be in hospital after complaining of breathlessness on Sunday. The 98-year-old actor is on oxygen support, and ‘not on ventilator’ as reported by some publications, a new update on his Twitter handle said. “Dilip Saab is on oxygen support – not on ventilator. He is stable. Waiting for few test results to perform pleural aspiration : Dr Jalil Parkar, chest specialist treating Saab,” said the health update on the official Twitter handle, which is run by Kumar’s wife Saira Banu and friend Faisal Farooqui.

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NEWS BREIF Indian students paying $4K for one-way fare to land in Canada

HiIndia Newsdesk Toronto– Despite a ban on direct international flights from India by Canada to check the spread of the new Delta variant of Coronavirus, Indian passengers and students are still landing in Toronto and other airports. The Delta variant accounts for more than 27 per cent of new cases in Ontario, as more international flights with Covid cases landed in Toronto last week. Sources in the travel industry say that people are skirting the ban on direct flights from India by using international airports in Muscat, Mexico City, Addis Ababa and Belgrade as transit points. International students from India are reportedly paying up to $4,000 for a one-way ticket to land in Canada via Doha and Addis Ababa.

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Indian-Americans regularly encounter discrimination: Survey

Wa s h i ng ton : In d i an - A m e r i c ans , who constitute the secondlargest immigrant group in the US, regularly encounter discrimination and polarisation, according to a survey released on Wednesday. The report, ‘Social Realities of Indian Americans: Results from the 2020 Indian American Attitudes Survey’ draws on the Indian-American Attitudes Survey (IAAS) -- a collaboration between the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Johns Hopkins-SAIS, and the University of Pennsylvania. The findings of the report are based on a nationally representative online survey of 1,200 Indian-American residents in the US -- the 2020 IAAS -- conducted between September 1 and September 20, 2020, in partnership with the research and analytics firm

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YouGov, it said in a statement. “IndianAmericans regularly encounter discrimination. One in two Indian Americans reports being discriminated against in the past one year, with discrimination based on skin colour identified as the most common form of bias. “Somewhat surprisingly, Indian-Americans born in the United States are much more likely to report being victims of discrimination than their foreignborn counterparts,” said the report. According to the report, IndianAmericans exhibit very high rates of marriage within their community. While eight out of 10 respondents have a spouse or partner of Indian-origin, US-born Indian-Americans are four times more likely to have a spouse or partner who is of Indian-origin but was born in the United States.

Industrialist Swraj Paul’s company to build large steel pipe mill In Texas HiIndia Newsdesk Houston: Bull Moose Tube, a subsidiary The plant will be set up in partnership of the London-headquartered Caparo with Germany-based SMS Group for g roup ow ne d by Ind i an - or i g i n design, automation and implementation industrialist Lord Swraj Paul, has of the mill. announced plans to build a 3,50,000 “There is likely to be a USD 200-250 tonne per year high speed steel and million investment in the plant,” the sprinkler pipe mill in Texas. 90-year-old UK-based entrepreneur The company plans to set up the plant said. The formal announcement of at Sinton and it is expected to go into the plant was made on June 4 and it production by early 2023. coincided with the birthday of Swraj Caparo chairman Swraj Paul told PTI Paul’s son Angad Paul, who passed over phone from London that the away in 2015 at 45 years of age. He ran proposed Texas plant would be its Caparo industries from 1996 as its chief seventh in the US and the eighth in executive officer. North America.

UAE-based Indians cancel summer holiday plans

HiIndia Newsdesk Dubai: S e veral United Arab Emirates (UAE)-based Indian expats have either cancelled or put their summer vacation plans on hold in the fear of getting stuck amid Covid-induced travel curbs, a media report said on Monday. The Khaleej Times report said the period between June to August are usually peak travel times for Indian expatriates, as they coincide with school summer holidays. “However, uncertainty over the ongoing suspension on incoming passengers from India, as well as the intensive vaccination campaign for teenagers in the UAE, are primary reasons for the low demand,” the report said citing travel agents and expats. Raheesh Babu, general manager of Musafir.com, an online travel agency, said: “Peak travels to India are closely tied with school holiday seasons. In this case, the UAE has announced a robust vaccination campaign for students aged 12-15. Parents are concerned that, if they travel over the summer, their children might miss their vaccination schedule.

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Mahatma Gandhi’s great-granddaughter sentenced to 7 years in jail in S.Africa

HiIndia Newsdesk A 56-year-old great-granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi, who was accused in a six-million rand fraud and forgery case, has been sentenced to seven years in jail by a Durban court. Ashish Lata Ramgobin was found guilty by the court on Monday. She was acc us e d of def rauding businessman SR Maharaj after he advanced R6.2 million to her for allegedly clearing import and Customs duties for

a non-existent consignment from India. He was promised a share of profits. Lata Ramgobin, who is the daughter of noted rights activists Ela Gandhi and late Mewa Ramgobind, was also refused leave to appeal both the conviction and the sentence by the Durban Specialised Commercial Crime Court. When trial in the case against Lata Ramgobin started in 2015, Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) had said that she allegedly provided forged invoices and documents to convince potential investors that three containers of linen were being shipped in from India. At that time, Lata Ramgobin was released on a bail of 50,000 rand. On Monday, the court during the hearing was informed that Lata Ramgobin had met Maharaj, director of the New Africa Alliance Footwear Distributors, in August 2015. The company imports and manufactures and sells clothing, linen and footwear.

Indian sentenced to 14 months in prison for US$ 8,00,000 fraud

HiIndia Newsdesk A court in Seattle has sentenced an Indian national to 14 months in prison for defrauding his employer of nearly US$ 800,000 in used equipment sales, according to Acting US Attorney Tessa M Gorman. Arunkumar Singal, 42, pleaded guilty to wire fraud on January 3 and faces deportation after the completion of sentence. “You put everything at risk for one thing: to add to your wealth… You stopped because you were caught by law enforcement, but you continued to lie and deceive,” US District Judge Richard A Jones told Singal during the sentencing hearing on June 4. According to records filed in the case, in 2014 Singal was the director of Global Product Support at Spacelabs Healthcare Inc. The company was established in the 1950s to make medical monitoring devices for astronauts and then expanded its business to include medical monitoring devices for hospitals and clinics.

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Covid hospital cases rise above 1,000 in UK

HiIndia Newsdesk Thousands of government, news and social media websites across the globe were coming back online on Tuesday after being hit by a widespread hour-long outage linked to US-based cloud company Fastly Inc. High traffic sites including Reddit, Amazon, CNN, Paypal, Spotify, Al Jazeera Media Network and the The New York Times were out of commission, according to outage tracking website Downdetector. com. They came back up after outages that ranged from a few minutes to an hour.

Four members of Canadian Muslim family killed in hate crime

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HiIndia Newsdesk More than a thousand people are in hospital with Covid-19 in the UK as scientists warn of the risks of a third

wave in the face of the Delta variant. The size of that wave depends on how effective vaccines are at protecting

China Returns to Its Strict Covid Limits to Fight a New Outbreak

More than a thousand people are in hospital with Covid-19 in the UK as scientists warn of the risks of a third wave in the face of the Delta variant. against illness and death - and that is still uncertain. One million under 30s booked vaccine appointments in England on Tuesday. And more than half the adult population has had two doses, which offers the best protection against the variant. The government is due to decide whether to lift the last remaining restrictions in England on 21 June. Prof Neil Ferguson, virus modeller from Imperial College London whose predictions were key to the first lockdown in March 2020, has said that delaying unlocking would allow more people to be vaccinated. While a first dose gives some protection against the Delta variant, first detected in India, the second dose appears to give much more.

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HiIndia Newsdesk The driver of a pickup truck in London, Ontario, who ran down five pedestrians, killing four of them, chose his victims because they were Muslim, the police said on Monday. “There is evidence that this was a planned, premeditated act and that the family was targeted because of their Muslim faith,” said Detective Superintendent Paul Waight of the London Police at a news conference.

Australia says WTO should punish Chinese economic coercion

HiIndia Newsdesk The World Trade Organization should penalize bad behaviour when it occurs, Australia’s prime minister said Wednesday ahead of a Group of Seven leaders meeting in Britain where he hopes to garner support in a trade dispute with China. Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Australia would be working with others to buttress the role of the World Trade Organization and to modernise its rulebook where necessary.

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Newly built laboratories for nucleic acid testing in Guangzhou, China, on Thursday. The city tested almost its entire population of 18.7 million between Sunday and Tuesday. Credit...cnsphoto, via Reuters

HiIndia Newsdesk BEIJING — China appeared to get the between Sunday and Tuesday, some coronavirus under control nearly a of them for the second time. It has year ago. But hundreds of millions of also put neighborhoods with a total of Chinese people remain unvaccinated. more than 180,000 residents into total New variants of the coronavirus have lockdowns, with practically no one appeared, and questions remain about allowed out except for medical testing. whether China’s self-made vaccines can The early infections appear to have stop them. jumped from person to person at a The latest cases have been found in cluster of eateries. Each infected person Guangzhou, capital of the southern has infected more other people than in province of Guangdong. The authorities any previous outbreak that China has have blamed the Delta variant, which confronted, Zhang Zhoubin, deputy has caused widespread loss of life director of the Guangzhou Center in India. The city tested practically for Disease Control, said at a news its entire population of 18.7 million conference.

Israel approves flag march through Jerusalem’s Old City HiIndia Newsdesk Israel’s outgoing government has said a flag march by Israeli nationalists through Jerusalem’s Old City can happen next week pending police approval.The event had been due to take place this Thursday. But organisers cancelled it after Israeli police rejected the proposed route through the Muslim

Quarter, citing security concerns. Palestinians see it as a provocation. The militant group Hamas has warned the march could trigger a new round of conflict in Gaza should it proceed. At least 256 people were killed in Gaza and 13 people were killed in Israel during 11 days of fierce fighting between Israel and Palestinian militants last month.

New Zealand has been significantly praised for its handling of the crisis, so it’s no surprise that one of its cities has been named the world’s most livable city for 2021. While Auckland sits on top of the list, Austria’s Vienna, number one in both 2018 and 2019, has completely dropped out of the top 10 after being heavily affected by Covid, and now ranks 12. The index takes into account more than 30 qualitative and quantitative factors spanning five broad categories: stability (25%), healthcare (20%), culture and environment (25%), education (10%), and infrastructure (20%).

Nepal President, PM get SC notice in House dissolution case HiIndia Newsdesk Nepal’s Supreme C ou r t i ssu e d show cause notices on Wednesday to President Bidya Devi Bhandari and Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli in a case regarding the dissolution of the House of Representatives. As many as 30 cases were filed in the Supreme Court against the President’s refusal to entertain Opposition leader Sher Bahadur Deuba’s claim to form the government, and the reappointment of Oli as PM after endorsing his decision to dismiss the House last month.

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Parineeti

Sunil Grover: I am glad that makers are seeing the actor in me

“VERY UNHAPPY’ WITH HER WORK

arineeti Chopra admitted to doing scenes that she was not convinced about and said that there were many occasions when she ‘knew it was a bad film’ while shooting. Parineeti Chopra admitted to being ‘very unhappy’ with her work in the last five years. She said that there were times when she knew that she was part of a ‘bad film’ even while shooting for it. This year, Parineeti has already had three releases -- The Girl On The Train, Saina and Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar. While the first came out directly on Netflix, the other two got a compromised theatrical release, amid the Covid-19 pandemic, and have found a wider audience since their streaming release. In an interview with a leading daily, Parineeti admitted to doing scenes that she was not convinced about. “Yeah, many scenes in many films in the last five years. I was very unhappy with the work I was doing. I had faith in myself but the filmmakers just wouldn’t offer me the parts I was yearning for. I was signing films halfheartedly. I was in a constant state of dissatisfaction. I will be forever indebted to three directors--Amol Gupte (Saina), Dibakar Banerjee (Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar), and Ribhu Dasgupta,” she said.

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rover tells, “The challenging part was to be honest and simple, and to get into the character’s mindset. To play the part of a man who appears to be a simple guy [is not the same] as playing the role of a simple man. It is a thin line that separates them. This character has many layers, and portraying that is difficult. It took me a while, and many readings, to understand him.” Grover and the rest of the cast was put through a three-day workshop to build their chemistry. The actor, who also shed weight for the ZEE5 show, would wake up at 5 am to film the series, given that they had limited time on set amid the pandemic. “For actors like me, doing a murder mystery is a relief because I have only been doing comedy. I got some relief with Tandav, which was in contrast to what I have done before. Playing a character is one part, the prep work also excites me. To decode a character like this was a challenge. It’s great to escape being typecast, and [I am glad that] makers are seeing the actor in me.”

Sonali Bendre shares lessons from her battle with cancer

Kamaal Rashid Khan, aka KRK, seems to Reacting to the post, Sonali’s close friend and actor Hrithik Roshan’s be opening a bag of worms every day. After former wife Sussanne Khan commented: “You are my warrior princess involving Govinda in his legal tussle with Sonzyy.” Hrithik also applauded Sonali for her bravery. Salman Khan, and then taking a U-Turn, Actor Sonali Bendre recalled how her battle with cancer has made her he has now named Arjun Kapoor as his ally strong. On Instagram, Sonali shared few lessons during her battle with on Twitter. the deadly disease. In a tweet on Friday, KRK wrote, “Thank “How time flies... today when I look back, I see strength, I see weakness you so much @arjunk26 (Arjun Kapoor) but most importantly I see the will to not let the C word define how Bhai for your call and long discussion. Now my life will be after it... You create the life you choose. The journey is I understood that you are only my real friend what you make of it... so remember to take #OneDayAtATime and to in Bollywood. And you are only real MARD #SwitchOnTheSunshine #CancerSurvivorsDay,” she wrote. who is not scared of anyone. Now I will never Reacting to the post, Sonali’s close friend and actor Hrithik Roshan’s ever criticise your film.” KRK is amid a legal former wife Sussanne Khan commented: “You are my warrior princess battle with actor Salman Khan which started Sonzyy.” Hrithik also applauded Sonali for her bravery. after the Radhe actor filed a defamation suit Sonali was diagnosed with cancer in July 2018 and stayed in New York against Kamaal.Dr Mehbub Kapadia with his wifefor Seema a fewKapadia months, where she received treatment.

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Fast and Furious 9 crosses 250 million dollar mark worldwide

Gangs of Wasseypur trio Manoj Bajpayee, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, and Pankaj Tripathi reunite Actors Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Manoj Bajpayee, and Pankaj Tripathi are three of the finest actors in the film industry. The trio had last shared screen for Anurag Kashyap’s super hit film Gangs of Wasseypur (2012). Now, the trio is all set to reunite for an advertisement. Pankaj Tripathi, who is not a fan of doing endorsements agreed to act in an ad for a mustard oil as it would reunite him with his Gangs of Wasseypur co-stars. Reportedly, Nawazuddin and Pankaj shot for the ad in March before the second wave hit the country. As per reports, the two were excited to work with each other and were reminiscing their days working on Gangs of Wasseypur. The shoot of the day was wrapped up in a day. However, Manoj Bajpayee could not join the two as he had tested positive for COVID-19 at the same time. The actor shot his portion separately after recovering against a green screen. The ad will be released soon.

Kareena Kapoor Khan asks for 12 crore to do Sita’s role!

The ninth Fast and Furious movie, F9, has crossed the 250 million dollars mark globally as per Variety. This is some achievement, since the film is yet to release in many major markets including North America, India, Europe, and others. From China alone, the film has collected 203 million dollars, said Variety. Earlier the film opened globally with 160 million dollars worldwide. The film brings back Vin Diesel’s Dom Toretto. Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, John Cena, Jordana Brewster, Nathalie Emmanuel, Sung Kang, Helen Mirren and Charlize Theron also star in F9. Justin Lin, who has also directed four other movies in the franchise, returns to helm F9. He has also penned the screenplay with Daniel Casey. The official synopsis of F9 reads, “Vin Diesel’s Dom Toretto is leading a quiet life off the grid with Letty and his son, little Brian, but they know that danger always lurks just over their peaceful horizon. This time, that threat will force Dom to confront the sins of his past if he’s going to save those he loves most. His crew joins together to stop a world-shattering plot led by the most skilled assassin and high-performance driver they’ve ever encountered: a man who also happens to be Dom’s forsaken brother, Jakob (John Cena, the upcoming The Suicide Squad).” F9 received positive to mixed critical reception. Currently, it holds a score of 69 per cent at Rotten Tomatoes. The critical consensus reads, “F9 sends the franchise hurtling further over the top than ever, but director Justin Lin’s knack for preposterous set pieces keeps the action humming.”

The Kapil Sharma Show to come back soon, reveals Krushna Abhishek

Dilip Kumar sahab’s health is stable and he should be discharged soon: Saira Banu

areena Kapoor Khan has truly been the last superstar heroine who has managed to deliver big blockbusters even post marriage and motherhood. And even post her second delivery, she is on the list of all the top filmmakers’ wanting to sign her! Kareena was approached by the makers of the upcoming mythological period saga Sita. Alaukik Desai had taken the film to Bebo a few months ago. While Kareena loved the part, she was taking her time to give the nod. A source informed Bollywood Hungama, “Kareena will shoot for Veere Di Wedding 2 and Hansal Mehta’s film first because they are smaller films that will be completed in one month’s time each. Sita will need at least 8-10 months of prep, shoot and production. So she will be completely consumed by one film at that point but Bebo also realises that this will be her biggest magnum opus till date, as it’s a retelling of Ramayana from Sita’s point of view.” While all this is fine, she has demanded a whopping figure to star in the project. “Bebo who usually asks in the Rs. 6-8 crores range for her films has quoted a sum of Rs. 12 crores which has put the producers in a tizzy. In fact, right now, they are sidering their decision and also taking the film to a younger s, as well. But talks are on and Bebo remains the first choice.”

Krushna recently took to his Instagram handle and shared a throwback video from the first episode shoot. In the video, he can be seen performing as Sapna. “Our first episode, was so excited and nervous too, first time had asked 1 crore do na, can’t wait to resume we r gonna come soon (sic),” he wrote along with the video. Meanwhile, Kapil had announced in March that they are planning to add more people to their team. “I am excited and happy to welcome new talent - actors and writers on The Kapil Sharma Show. Looking forward to meeting like-minded and talented individuals who have the right passion towards entertainment,” he had announced. The show stars Krushna Abhishek, Kiku Sharda, Bharti Singh, Sumona Chakravarti, Chandan Prabhakar, and Archana Puran Singh with the main host Kapil Sharma.

Actor Saira Banu on Monday took to Twitter to share an health update about her husband and legendary actor Dilip Kumar. She also urged fans not to believe in rumours surrounding the health of the 98-year-old Bollywood actor. Saira Banu’s note read, “Past few days my beloved husband, Yousuf Khan, has been unwell and recuperating at a hospital in Mumbai. Through this note, I want to thank all of you for keeping him in your prayers and for all the love and affection. My husband, my Kohinoor, our Dilip Kumar Sahab’s health is stable and doctors have assured me that he should be discharged soon. I urge you to not believe in rumors. While I ask you to pray for Sahab’s health, I am praying that the Almighty keep all of you safe and healthy during this pandemic. Sincerely Saira Banu Khan. Dr Jalil Parkar, who is one of the doctors treating Dilip Kumar, interacted with the media on Monday evening. He told reporters, “His health is much better now. His oxygen saturation has improved. The fluid has reduced and his breathing difficulty has also reduced.”

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Lockdown for 10 more days in Telangana; relaxation from 6 am to 6 pm

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The Cabinet gave approval to set up special food processing zones in the nine undivided districts except Hyderabad

HiIndia Newsdesk HYDERABAD: The state Cabinet on Tuesday decided to extend the lockdown by 10 more days from Wednesday with more relaxation period from 6 am to 5 pm, when shops and

Heroin worth Rs 78 crore seized at Hyderabad Airport HiIndia Newsdesk In t wo s e p ar ate i nc i d e nt s , t he Department of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has seized about 12 kilograms of heroin worth around Rs 78 crore in the international grey market from two woman drug-peddlers at Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi International Airport. The two women passengers from Uganda and Zambia concealed heroin in their checked-in baggage. The woman from Uganda was detained on June 5 when she came to the airport to collect her baggage which she claimed was missing. She had arrived in Hyderabad from Zimbabwe via Johannesburg and Doha a few days ago. Upon examining the baggage, the officials found white powder suspected to be a narcotic substance concealed in the sides. It was tested and found to be heroin.

establishments will down their shutters. A grace period of an hour till 6 pm will be given for people to return home and strict lockdown will be enforced from 6 pm to 6 am. However, it was decided that in Sathupalli, Madhira, Nalgonda, Nagarjunasagar, Munugode, Devarakonda and Miryalaguda Assembly segments, the existing lockdown from 1 pm to 6 am will be extended for 10 more days. Officials of the medical and health department toured these segments to assess ground-level situation and found that the Coronavirus spread had not come under control and recommended that the government continue the existing lockdown as it is.

TS to divert more funds for health and police in Covid times

HiIndia Newsdesk Hyderabad: With the second wave of Covid-19 hurting government finances, the state Budget numbers are set for

major revisions for the third consecutive year. Substantial sums have to be kept apart for expenditure in the health sector and for subsidized distribution of food for poor for a few more months. The impact of the pandemic on state economy and government finances would come up for discussion at the Cabinet meeting on Tuesday. Officials said decisions on increasing budget funds for health and police departments to fight Covid19 and cutting down funds for a few other departments are likely.

Private hospitals in Telangana in fix as COVID patients turn up for refund

COVID fatality rate among docs one of the lowest in Karnataka HiIndia Newsdesk Bengaluru: Karnataka Health Minister K Sudhakar on Tuesday said nine doctors have lost their lives to COVID-19 during the second wave of the pandemic, which is one of the lowest among medical practitioners in the country. Sharing details on his Twitter handle, Sudhakar said, “Karnataka has one of the lowest mortality rates among doctors during the second wave. Of the 646 doctors, who succumbed to Covid-19 in the country, Karnataka accounts for 9. This is a testimony to steps taken by our Government in protecting Covid Warriors.” According to the Indian Medical Association, the highest is Delhi with 109 deaths followed by Bihar 97 and UP 79. Karnataka on Monday reported 11,958 fresh COVID infections and 340 deaths while there are 2,38,824 active cases.

HiIndia Newsdesk HYDERABAD: In a clear case of Hyderabad, members of small hospitals misinformation, 10 persons who were condemned this action in the district treated for Covid-19 turned up at five and wanted to know on what basis this small private hospitals in Siddipet on was being done. Tuesday, demanding refund of the Dr C.R.K. Prasad, senior member of excess fee they paid for treatment in THANA said, “Revenue officials are those hospitals. calling the patients and their relatives These hospitals are parts of the stating that they are going to be Telangana Hospitals and Nursing refunded but it is wrong. There was Homes Association (THANA) which commotion at the hospitals. On what contacted its head office in Hyderabad basis is it being done as there are no to verify if there are any orders issued orders from the government? When the with regards to the refund of fee. In fact, rates of the government are not feasible, there is no government order for refund the authorities have been apprised of the but respective legal teams are looking same and the association is waiting for into complaints on a case-to-case basis them to get back.”. In a back-to-back online meeting in

HiIndia Newsdesk Tamil Nadu Health Minister M Subramanian on Tuesday warned of ‘strict police action’ against individuals who attacked doctors, nurses if a COVID-19 patient succumbed to the virus at a hospital. He noted that doctors, nurses and the government were working on a ‘war-footing’ to save the lives of people amid the COVID-19 pandemic and said even doctors tried their best to save a life even at critical moments. Briefing reporters after identifying land for setting up a multi-specialty hospital at the King Institute of Preventive Medicine and Research campus in Chennai, he said it has come to the notice of the government that relatives and some individuals of a patient who died due to COVID-19 attacked doctors, nurses and the staff of a hospital.

Pvt hospitals urge govt to ensure ‘equitable distribution’ of Covid vaccines

HiIndia Newsdesk Alleging that a few hospitals, especially those that are part of large chain of corporates, have taken a “lion’s share of state’s quota of Covid-19 vaccines”, the Private Hospitals and Nursing Homes Association (PHANA) in Karnataka Tuesday urged the state government to appoint a nodal officer to streamline the process. According to PHANA Secretary Dr Rajashekar Y L, small and mediumscale private hospitals in the state are finding it hard to procure vaccines directly from the manufacturers. “Such hospitals are finding it difficult to place huge orders as per the demands raised by the vaccine manufacturers. With no retailer in between, these hospitals are forced to stay out of the vaccination process,” he told. Meanwhile, PHANA President Dr Prasanna H M urged the government to address such issues at the earliest. “It was these hospitals that dared the second wave and supported the government to contain the pandemic. Now, government inaction is serving them injustice,” he said.

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Sunil Chhetri overtakes Lionel Messi with vital brace in India’s win over Bangladesh The 36-year-old Chhetri, who helped India register a first win in the FIFA 2022 World Cup qualifiers, is only behind Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo in the active international goalscorer list. HiIndia Newsdesk India’s Sunil Chhetri, who struck Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo a brace in his team’s 2-0 win over (103) in the active international Bangladesh in Doha, overtook goalscorer list. Chhetri also Argentina’s Lionel Messi on moved up in the men’s all-time list Monday to become the second- of international goalscorers and is highest active international now on 11th. He is just behind the goalscorer with 74 goals. trio of Hungary’s Sandor Kocsis, The 36-year-old striker, who Japan’s Kunishige Kamamoto, and helped India register a first Kuwait’s Bashar Abdullah, who all win in the FIFA 2022 World have 75 goals. Cup qualifiers, is only behind

Three-week break for Indians after WTC final

HiIndia Newsdesk The Indian team management has decided to give a three-week break to its players after the World Test Championship final in a bid to address the mental fatigue factor that might be triggered by lengthy spells in a bio-bubble. The WTC final against New Zealand will be held from June 18-22 at the Ageas Bowl in Southampton and the Indian squad will disperse for close to three weeks before regrouping at some point to prepare for the five-match series against England starting in Nottingham from August 4.

Ahead of Tokyo Olympics, a virologist’s warning

HiIndia Newsdesk The International Olympic Committee is confident about conducting the Tokyo Olympics 2021, but the chorus against the Games is growing louder. Adding to the list of several Japanese citizens against the mega event, a renowned virologist has warned against the risks involved. Hiroshi Oshitani, professor at Tohoku University, hinted at the fact that the post-event complications could be severe. “The government and the organising committee, including the IOC (International Olympic Committee), keep saying they’re holding a safe Olympics. But everybody knows there is a risk. It’s 100 per cent impossible to have an Olympics with zero risk…of the spread of infection in Japan and also in other countries after the Olympics. There are a number of countries that do not have many cases, and a number that don’t have any variants. We should not make the Olympics to spread the virus to these countries,” Oshitani told The Times London.

Ollie Robinson suspended as old Islamophobic, sexist tweets resurface New Delhi: After an impressive start to his Test cricket career, English bowler Ollie Robinson has been suspended from all international games by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) pending a disciplinary investigation into tweets he posted in 2012-2013. “He will not be available for selection for the LV Insurance second Test against New Zealand starting at Edgbaston on Thursday 10 June. Robinson will leave the England camp immediately and return to his county,” the ECB said in a statement issued Sunday. Robinson had just made his Test debut in the match against New Zealand at Lords, which concluded in a draw Sunday.

British PM Boris Johnson wants ECB to reconsider Ollie Robinson suspension for racist tweets

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Unseeded Tamara Zidansek reaches French Open semifinals HiIndia Newsdesk

Before the French Open, Tamara Zidansek had never advanced past the second round at any Grand Slam. The former snowboarder has now become the first woman from Slovenia to reach the semifinals at a major tournament. Spurred on by the vocal support of her coaching team on Court Philippe Chatrier, the 85th-ranked Zidansek defeated Spanish rival Paula Badosa 7-5, 4-6, 8-6 Tuesday at the clay-court tournament.

Indian swimmers cleared for Olympic qualifying events

HiIndia Newsdesk A three-member Indian swimming team, including Srihari Nataraj, will leave for Serbia on Tuesday night to compete in the Belgrade Trophy, a FINAaccredited Olympic qualifying event. The event is scheduled to be on June 19 and 20. Sajan Prakash is presently training in Dubai and is expected to join the team in Belgrade by June 12.

British Prime Minister Boris J o h n s o n’s s p o k e s p e r s o n on Monday said the PM is “supportive” of the culture secretary’s view that England and Wales Cricket Board should reconsider the suspension of pacer Ollie Robinson for posting racist and sexist tweets back in 2012. Oliver Dowden, the UK government’s secretar y for culture, sports, digital and media, said the ECB has gone “over the top” in its punishment of Robinson. Fast bowler Robinson was on Sunday suspended from international cricket pending an investigation into his tweets he posted as a teenager years ago. “Ollie Robinson’s tweets were offensive and wrong,” Mr Dowden wrote on Twitter.

‘People will make all sorts of comments against us, has to be nipped in the bud’: Farokh Engineer Former India and Lancashire wicketkeeper Farokh Engineer says he shook his head in disbelief while reading the morning newspaper. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s disapproval, conveyed via his spokesperson, of seamer Ollie Robinson’s suspension by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) for racist and sexist tweets got Engineer’s goat. “I am reading in the papers about Boris Johnson. I think it is absolute rubbish for a prime minister to lend his name to such a statement. Punish the fellow (Robinson). I think the ECB has done absolutely the right thing by suspending him. He has committed an error of judgement, he should pay for it. It will be a deterrent,” Engineer tells.

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Illinois Reopening Plan: Full Reopening of Businesses and Activities Throughout Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s Restore Illinois plan will mean the full reopening of all businesses and activities for the first time since the governor issued the stay-at-home order in March 2020.

HiIndia Newsdesk CHICAGO, IL – While preventive measures are still being recommended to keep the state on track to defeat the coronavirus, Illinois is on pace to fully reopen June 11. Phase 5 of Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s Restore Illinois plan will mean the full reopening of all businesses and activities for the first time since the governor issued the stay-at-home order in March 2020. As of Friday, 65 percent of Illinoisans have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, which is safe and free to all Illinois residents 12 and older. Here are 6 things to know about Illinois’ reopening plan: 1) Masks for fully vaccinated people: While businesses and municipalities may continue to require face masks and social distancing, according to the latest state and federal guidance, fully vaccinated people can ditch the face mask in indoor and outdoor settings. At outdoor businesses, unvaccinated people may choose not to wear a face mask if they can maintain a six-foot social distance while outdoors.

2) Masks for the unvaccinated: Unvaccinated people should continue to wear face masks in large crowds, especially when children are present. Immunocompromised people should also continue to wear face masks and practice social distancing. 3) Where everyone should still wear a mask: In accordance with CDC guidelines, there are still a handful of places where fully vaccinated and

unvaccinated people should all continue to wear face masks and practice social distancing, such as public transportation, congregate settings, and health care facilities, among others, and where required by federal, state, county and municipal laws and ordinances. 4) Capacity limits: Remaining capacity limits, social distancing guidelines and health mandates will be lifted for businesses, large-scale events, conventions, amusement parks, and seated-spectator venues, which will be able to operate at full capacity, just in time to take advantage of Great America’s Tsunami Surge 8-story “water coaster,” or catch a Cubs or Sox game. 5) Schools: Students, staff, and faculty in schools, day care settings, and educational institutions should continue to follow the COVID-19 guidelines of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services and Illinois State Board of Education. 6) Businesses: All businesses and venues should continue to support social distancing to the greatest extent possible, especially in indoor settings. Best practices should be applied at such places as concession lines, public restrooms, and lines/queuing.

Cap Reached for Additional Returning Worker H-2B Visas for FY 2021

HindusIndian Feel Cow LeatherAmerican Business Council Handbags Named as “BRAHMIN” Highly Insensitive [IABC] Sends Shipments Of Lifesaving The final date for filing petitions requesting Medical Equipment To India Northern Triangle nationals who are exempt from the returning worker requirement is July 8, 2021 HiIndia Newsdesk

FAIRHAVEN, MSHindus feel that HI INDIA NEWS DESK associating luxury CHICAGO, IL -Indian handbags made of American Business Council [IABC] cow leather with “ B r a h m i n” w a s – a non-profit registered organization very inappropriate, based in Chicago USA – marshaled and are urging its resources through community he Fairhaven partnership and acquired a tstock(Massachusetts) headquartered national brand pile of oxygen concentrator units, Brahmin Handbags converters, surgicalto consider gowns, changing masks, the name. Distinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a digital thermometers, oximeters, statement in Nevada today, said that cow, the seat of and hand sanitizers and promptly many deities, was sacred and had long been venerated dispatched them to India with the in Hinduism. Priesthood had been traditionally mission to save lives inbyHinduism; deliveringand inscribing assigned to brahmins the indispensable life-saving medical “Brahmin” on a designer handbag made from a killed equipment. After the first shipment cow was quite out-of-line and was painful to the Hindu was dispatched, this second shipsentiments.

HiIndia Newsdesk WASHINGTON, DC- Under the recently announced H-2B supplemental cap temporary final rule, USCIS has received enough petitions to reach the cap for the additional 16,000 H-2B visas made available for returning workers only. We continue to accept petitions for H-2B nonimmigrant workers for the additional 6,000 visas allotted for nationals of Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador (collectively called the Northern Triangle).

We began accepting H-2B petitions on May 25 under the temporary final rule increasing the cap by up to 22,000 additional H-2B nonimmigrant visas through the end of the fiscal year (FY) 2021. Of the 22,000 additional visas, 16,000 were available only for returning workers. The remaining 6,000 visas are initially set aside for nationals from the Northern Triangle who are exempt from the returning worker requirement. In the first five business days of filing, we received petitions for more beneficiaries than the additional 16,000 visas made available for H-2B returning workers. In accordance with DHS regulations, we used a computer-generated process to conduct a random selection of petitions to meet the 16,000 returning worker allotment for FY 2021.

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NEWS BREIF Sikh CommunityIllinois of Chicago and City American Teluguof Association donated 400 Oxygen Units in India Hosts a Farewell Luncheon Chicago fully reopened

HiIndia Newsdesk CHICAGO, IL- Members of partnership with the Sikh the Chicago Sikh community community in their noble hosted a luncheon in honor cause. The newly appointed of Maj or Nanc y Powe rs , officers Mr. and Mrs Hughes Executive Director, Freedom to replace the Powers were also Center Program Development present at the luncheon and HiIndia Newsdesk O f f i c e r, S a lv at i on Ar my, assured everyone to continue LAS VEGAS, NV – American Harbor Light Center, Chicago, the close relationship with Telugu Association a burgeoning and her husband Major Merrill the Sikh community in the Telugu organization on its altruistic Powers, Administrative Officer, future as well. A “Lifetime mission displaying a passion for Salvation Army Harbor Light Achievement Award” was humanity donated 400 Oxygen Center, Chicago, on May given to the Sikh Religious concentrator units to the government 27, 2021, at the Maharaja Society of Palatine in July hospitals and to the people of AP Restaurant, Rosemont, Illinois, 2019 by the Salvation Army. and Telangana states as part of its more than twenty members attended the event. The Powers Sikh Community of Chicago highly valued Major Powers’ COVID-19 disaster relief efforts. In are being promoted as City Commanders of Salvation Army friendship during their 20 years of service at Harbor Light a press release, President Bhuvanesh and moving to Wichita Kansas after 20 years of service in Center, and will certainly miss Major Nancy Powers and Boojala quotedGov. that J.B. “OurPritzker. thoughts Chicago on as Illinois Chicago. Major Merrill Powers, but wished themMayor all theLori bestLightfoot in their looks and prayers are with India. ATA has Mr. and Mrs. Powers were honored with a plaque by the Sikh next assignment in Kansas. sent 400 Oxygen Concentrators to community to appreciate their services to humanity and ake off masks and breathe a sigh of relief most settings. received at least onethe dose, thestates daily as vaccination both Telugu of now.

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Sewa International to Build 100 Oxygen Generation Plants in India

– except where required by federal, state, Social distancing: Businesses no longer need rates have dropped. local, tribal, or territorial laws, rules and to enforce social distancing rules in seated venues “The vaccine is giving us our freedoms back regulations, including local business and worksuch as restaurants and theaters. They no longer and allowing us to move to Phase 5,” said Illinois place guidance and Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s mandates. need to do daily health screenings of employees. Department of Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Following weeks of steady decline in new Capacities can return to normal. Ezike. “Let’s keep the vaccination momentum gopositive COVID-19 cases and key hospitalization Gatherings: Conventions, festivals, concerts, ing so we can put this pandemic in the rearview metrics, and with over half of residents 12 and ballgames and other large gatherings can return mirror and not look back.” older fully vaccinated, Illinois is set to reopen to normal without capacity limits. Same with Pritzker in early May predicted June 11 would June 11 – with some rules still in place. weddings, funerals, church services and parties. be the return to the new normal, but that didn’t “Thanks to the hard work of residents across McCormick Place convention center in Chicago stop him from issuing his 16th state disaster the state, Illinois will soon resume life as we knew is reopening with 122 events, 1,000 workers and proclamation to extend his emergency powers it before – returning to events, gatherings, and a an expected 1.9 million conventioneers headed until June 26. At the end of the current 30-day fully reopened economy, with some of the safety there. declaration, Pritzker will have wielded emergency guidelines we’ve adopted still in place,” said Gov. Schools: Masks on inside. No masks required powers for 474 consecutive days without state J.B. Pritzker. outside, in most situations. In-person learning is lawmakers weighing in on his mandates or poliHere are the details of what Pritzker calls expected to resume with the new school year. cies. “Phase 5,” which is not exactly back to normal, Work: Social distancing is still recommended Most states have not allowed emergency and begins June 11. to the extent possible. Workplaces may have adpowers to last indefinitely. Emergency execuMasks: They are still recommended for unditional requirements on masks and health rules, tive powers are meant to allow the governor to vaccinated people. They are required on public but those will not be state mandates. quickly address a disaster in a way that a deliberaHiIndia Newsdesk transit including in terminals, in schools, day Learn more about Phase 5 and recommended tive body such as the General Assembly simply HiIndia Newsdesk cares, health care settings and congregate settings public health practices by visiting the Illinois cannot. But when the disaster more than aparts year CHICAGO, IL – The meeting of Bhartiya Senior Citizens of HOUSTON, TX- Sewa International will be funding generation capability equitablyis to different such as prisons or nursing homes. Businesses Department of Public Health’s website. old, there is little reason for rules to be dictated Chicago was held on Saturday 29th at Rana Reagan Hall from the installation of 100 oxygen generation plants in of the country bridging the urban and rural divide and pm local require moreacross thanIndia half of Illinoisans 12 and thanhealthcare debated and implemented by elected 3:30 inmunicipalities which Mother’smay Day,still Gujarat Daymasks, was organized. While hospitals to ease oxygen age scarcity in the rather in India’s sector. but program vaccinated remove their Rakshika masks in Anjaria up arecountry, fully vaccinated and about The waspeople begun can by BSC Secretary according and to a press release.60% It hashave ordered representatives. “Based on our reading of the current situation,

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India reports more than 6,000 daily Covid deaths highest ever in the world

who died on the way to the hospi- ened by the fact that death rates estimates as exaggerated. But the to provide high-impact reporting tal. Similar accusations have been in many countries, for example in main opposition Congress party that can counter misinformation levelled at other state governments Brazil and the US, are several times said other states must follow Bihar’s and offer an authoritative, trustexample and conduct a review of worthy source of news for everyone. after a recent coronavirus surge re- higher than in India. While India’s official Covid-19 deaths over the past two months. With no shareholders or billionaire sulted in crematoriums being overdeath toll stands at 359,676, C-Voter, “This proves beyond a doubt govern- owner, we set our own agenda and whelmed in many places and hunan Indian research and polling agenment has been hiding Covid deaths,” provide journalism that’s free from dreds of bodies being dumped in cy, estimated last month that at least said Shama Mohamed, rivers or buried in shallow graves. HiIndia Newsdesk a Congress commercial and political influence. 1.8 million Indians may have died spokesperson, adding that an audit When it’s never mattered more, we The newly reported deaths had IL – An Indiannumbers American Goldwater build a prototype of the first living cell, according to the report. from Covid-19. If these are recent should also be ordered in the big occurred last month and state offi- CHICAGO, canresearch investigate and challenge withScholar from the University of Illinois at Chicago, Ashma Pandya produced her first publication as a senior accurate, it would mean that India states of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya cials were investigating the lapse, a Pandya, out fear or favour. is hoping to build the first living cell prototype. in high school. The co-authored book chapter correlating been college by far the worst-hit Pradesh district health official said, blaming Thehas Unlike many was others, we have honors member, the country. university said in an and AprilGujarat. antibiotic resistance to bacterial evolution informed by “Under-reporting is a widespread … All we India have a small favour to ask.Bioinformatics the oversight on private hospitals. 26 report, maintainedCentre our within choice: to keep held a human brain in her hands at the her internship at the the Council problem, not necessarily Through these of challenging times, “These deaths occurred 15 days ago Institute of Medical Sciences indeliberate, New Delhi during her junior Scientific and Industrial Research’s Institute ofopen Microbial Guardian journalism for all often because of inadequacies,” said millions rely on the Guardian for thereaders, and were only uploaded now in the year of high school. The experience led her to a question. Technology in India, university noted. of where they live regardless did life first emerge a primordial soup ofjournalism Shortly after family immigrated from to Naperville Rajib Dasgupta, headfrom of the Centre chemical independent that her stands government portal. Action will be “How or what they canIndia afford to pay. We peptide chains and amino acids?” she wondered, according in August 2019, she continued this research interest at the of Social Medicine and Community for truth and integrity. Readers from do this because we believe in taken against some of the private inforto the report. The question has driven her pursuit of science University of Illinois Chicago. Health at New Delhi’s Jawaharlal 180 countries chose to support us mation equality, where everyone hospitals,” said the official, who deeventually evolved into“In a dedicated research mission — more to University. the rural financially than 1.5 million deserves to read accurate news and clined to be identified as he was not andNehru context, whatever states may say or times in 2020. authorised to speak to the media. thoughtful analysis.

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fter Michael Phelps heard on Monday that Naomi Osaka had pulled out of the French Open, and he read her Instagram message explaining why—Osaka cited “feeling vulnerable and anxious” in Paris, and revealed that she has suffered from “long bouts” of depression since defeating Serena Williams at the 2018 U.S. Open—a bunch of thoughts rushed into his head. Phelps is the greatest swimmer of alltime, winner of 23 Olympic gold medals. But no amount of winning staved off his depression and contemplation of suicide. Phelps, who has gone public with his struggles and emerged as one of the foremost mental health advocates in sports, could sense that Osaka’s revelations, and decision to forgo a shot at another Grand Slam title to take a mental health break, were a big deal. Osaka is a certified global superstar, the highest-paid female athlete on the planet with a huge social media imprint and endorsements from brands like Nike, Nissan and Louis Vuitton. “I felt very happy after reading her message because she’s showing that vulnerability, she’s showing a side of her that we haven’t seen before, and that’s so powerful,” Phelps tells. “It’s definitely going to be a game-changer in mental health moving forward.” Through the size of her platform, however, and her decision to choose well-being over pursuit of a Grand

According to the British Journal of Sports Medicine, the reported prevalence of mental health symptoms and disorders in elite male athletes in team sports varies from 5% for burnout and alcohol use to 45% for anxiety and depression. Slam title, Osaka offers the promise of bringing mental health awareness— both inside and outside of sports—to an entirely new level. “It’s groundbreaking,” says Lisa Bonta Sumii, a therapist with Galea Health, a company that connects athletes with mental health providers. “She has prioritized mental health, and has said so. And that’s a great example.” Osaka’s move also marks the latest step in her stunning personal evolution. Few could have imagined that in less than three years, the shy then-20-year-old who apologized to Serena Williams, through tears, after beating her at the 2018 U.S. Open, would find her voice as both a social activist—at last year’s U.S. Open, which she won, Osaka wore masks honoring seven Black Americans killed in recent years—and proponent of mental health. “It goes to show that you don’t have to be this charismatic really extroverted person to be an advocate,” says Bonta Sumii. “She’s said minimal things here. It’s the act. Our behavior can be a form of advocacy.” “To me, this looked like a woman who was setting a boundary and saying I’m not going to put myself in those situations where I’m likely to experience increased risk of harm for my mental health,” says Katherine Tamminen.

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‘This Will 100% Save Somebody’s Life.’ Athletes See a Turning Point for Mental Health After Naomi Osaka Takes a Stand at the French Open “We might be number one in the world and we might be one of the greatest of all time, but we’re human beings,” he says. “We deal and we feel with emotions just like you do. And we go through depression or anxiety or struggle with other things, just like everybody else does. Just because we’re number one in the world doesn’t make us invincible. - Phelps Anxiety caused Mardy Fish, a former top-10 U.S. tennis player, to drop out of a U.S. Open match against Roger Federer in 2012. “It’s incredibly naive to think that that someone that just makes a lot of money or is very successful at their career, doesn’t have stress,” says

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In taking this stance, Osaka offers a valuable lesson for anyone experiencing anxiety. “For all of us, it’s important to take a look at these different things going on in our lives and say, you know, here are the things I’m willing to work with, and here’s where I’m not,” says Tamminen. Fish. “Everyone is entitled to their own stresses.” Phelps, who has had more success than nearly any athlete in history, says winning cannot erase your emotions. “We might be number one in the world and we might be one of the greatest of all time, but we’re human beings,” he says. “We deal and we feel with emotions just like you do. And we go through depression or anxiety or struggle with other things, just like everybody else does. Just because we’re number one in the world doesn’t make us invincible.” Pappas, who is now partnering with the online therapist directory Monarch, sees Osaka as someone who can help us move away from the win-at-allcosts ethos in sports. “This could be epiphanal,” says Pappas. “It takes a certain type of person, a certain type of energy to be like ‘Oh wow, let’s never go back.’ And we’ve seen that in other things over time, when we’ve never gone back to this, we’ve never gone back to that. And perhaps this is one of those turning points where we only go forward and forgive ourselves.” Phelps is retired from the pool. But as the Tokyo Olympics approach, with Osaka still the face of the Games for the host country, he’ll be watching from a new perspective. He predicts that Osaka, having spoken her truth, will feel a great sense of relief. And she’ll help others find their truths too. “I know how I struggled, for years, of not wanting to dive into the stuff I was holding onto,” says Phelps. “When I opened up and really started talking about it, I felt freer. This will 100% save somebody’s life. That’s something that’s bigger than we can ever imagine.”

“Everyone has a vote and a say, I think it’s really weird that athletes get told to just stick to sports,” Osaka said at Wednesday’s Talks. “You would never go up to a barber and say just stick to cutting hair. It’s a weird stigma that gets attached and I don’t even know where it comes from.”

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Around the world, many people have struggled with self-love, with the idea of embracing themselves completely and unconditionally — including the parts they are not particularly proud of. While many celebrities, too, have opened up about their struggles with loving themselves, it has become the need of the hour now. In the pandemic, many of us feel overwhelmed every day, and Ankita Konwar shares a guide on how we can feel less so. She shares eight ways in which we can love ourselves more, and husband Milind Soman also approves. He has commented on her Instagram post saying, “Will do all”. • Create a short and simple daily affirmation. When you see your reflection, whenever that may be, be sure to greet it like a loving friend. • Learn how to say no sometimes. It’s necessary that you stay true to yourself and NO, it doesn’t make you a bad person! • Take time to calm your mind. Remember, you have come so far, you’re gonna get through this too. • Dance! Whenever, wherever, however. • Embrace the things that make you different, warts and all. • Say YES to new adventures, new experiences that unfold your way. • Exercise! Take out at least 15 minutes for yourself everyday. • Laugh. As much, as loud as you can.

Mouni Roy’s fashion picks have always been a head-turner. The actor’s wardrobe is full of various silhouettes, be it ethnic ensembles or floral dresses or co-ord printed outfits. However, her affinity for traditional looks has always made our jaws hit the floor. Recently, the star posted pictures of herself wearing a yellow floral printed sharara set, and it is the perfect look for summer. Taking to her social media account, Mouni posted pictures of herself dressed in the sharara set. The ensemble is from the designer label Aachho and Mouni looked exceptional in it. The ethnic look featured a sleeveless cotton kurti adorned with floral prints in different hues and silver gota work on the hems. The top had a fitted silhouette till the torso followed by a flowy ghera, which gave the ensemble a dreamy look.

“I was so grateful about having the opportunity to play a gentleman who saw a young man folding into himself as a result of the persecution of his community and taking that opportunity to uplift him and tell him that he mattered.” n his speech Ali said that it is crucial to embrace the details that make us all so different and we must take these opportunities to build a better, more acceptable and stronger society. Ali, who himself faced persecution for converting to Islam in 2000, added a personal anecdote to his speech. “My mother is a (Christian) Minister, I’m a Muslim, she didn’t do back-flips when I called her to tell her that I converted 17 years ago. But I tell you now, we put things to the side, I’m able to see her, and she’s able to see me now, we love each other and the love is grown.”

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Brooke Shields’ daughter wears her iconic red 1998 Golden Globes dress to prom Vegan diet has been gaining a lot of attention lately as a way of eating healthy while protecting the planet. If you are new to this form of diet and looking for a healthy vegan meal, we have got you covered.

Ingredients: For dough 1½ cups – Whole wheat flour 1 tsp – Dried fenugreek leaves Salt to taste 2-3 tbsp – Oil ½ cup – Water For vegan paratha

2 tbsp – Oil 1 – Onion, chopped 1-2 – Green chillies Salt to taste ½ tsp – Red chilli powder ½ tsp – Coriander powder ¼ tsp – Garam masala powder ½ tsp – Sugar 200 gm – Tofu 2 tbsp – Coriander leaves ½ – Lemon

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*In a bowl, add flour, dried fenugreek leaves, salt, oil and water. Knead the dough and set it aside for 10 minutes. *In a pan, heat oil. Add the chopped onion and green chillies. Saute till translucent. Add some salt as per requirement, followed by red chilli powder, coriander powder,garam masala powder and sugar. Mix and allow it to cool. Empty it in a bowl. *In the bowl, add grated tofu, lemon and coriander leaves. Mix the ingredients. *Add portions of the mixture in each of the dough balls and roll. Make parathas and serve them hot.

Actor Brooke Shields recently took to Instagram to share a ‘proud mama’ post. Her daughter Rowan Francis Henchy wore Shield’s iconic red dress from her 1998 appearance at the Golden Globes to her prom. Sharing a picture of Rowan looking lovely in the red satin off-shoulder dress, Shields wrote, “I thought it was a special night when I was nominated for a Golden Globe and wore this dress in 1998, but nothing could have prepared me to see my daughter wearing it to her prom proud mama!”

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“Anytime there is an infectious disease outbreak it is important to investigate its origin,” says Amesh Adalja, an infectious disease physician and senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security who did not contribute to the letter in Science. “The lab-leak hypothesis is possible—as is an animal spillover,” he says, “and I think that a thorough, independent investigation of its origins should be conducted.”

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COVID-19 lab-leak hypothesis

Unanswered questions The origins of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 and has infected more than 171 million people, killing close to 3.7 million worldwide as of June 4, remain unclear. Many scientists, including those that participated in the WHO’s months-long investigation, believe the most likely explanation is that that it jumped from an animal to a person—potentially from a bat directly to a human, or through an intermediate host. Animal-to-human transmission is a common route for many viruses; at least two other coronaviruses, SARS and MERS, were spread through such

Three researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology fell sick in November 2019 and sought hospital care, according to a U.S. intelligence report zoonotic spillover. Recently disclosed evidence, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, has added fuel to the fire: Three researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology fell sick in November 2019 and sought hospital care, according to a U.S. intelligence report. In the final days of the Trump administration, the State Department released a statement that researchers at the institute had become ill with “symptoms consistent with both COVID-19 and common seasonal illness.” Most epidemiologists and virologists who have studied the novel coronavirus believe that it began spreading in November 2019. China says the first confirmed case was on December 8, 2019. During a briefing in Beijing this week, China’s foreign ministry spokesperson, Zhao Lijian, accused the U.S. of “hyping up the theory of a lab leak,” and asked, “does it really care about the study of origin tracing, or is it trying to divert attention?” Zhao also denied the Wall Street Journal report that three people had gotten sick. A report on the origins of COVID-19 by a US government national laboratory concluded that the hypothesis claiming the virus leaked from a Chinese lab in Wuhan is plausible and deserves further investigation, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the classified document. The study was prepared in May 2020 by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California and was referred by the State Department when it conducted an inquiry into the pandemic’s origins during the final months of the Trump administration, the report said. Lawrence Livermore’s assessment drew on genomic analysis of the COVID-19 virus, the Journal said. Lawrence Livermore declined to comment on the Wall Street Journal

China has accused the US of “spreading conspiracy theories” after US President Joe Biden asked officials to ‘redouble’ their efforts to probe the origin of the Covid-19 pandemic. This came amid growing calls for a full scale probe of whether the coronavirus may have escaped from China’s bio lab What have experts said?

The evidence adds up to a serious case that the SARS2 virus could have been created in a lab, from which it then escaped, wrote Wade, who refers to SARS-CoV-2 virus as SARS2 in short. Earlier this month, a group of leading UK and US scientists called for more investigation to determine the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the theory of an accidental release from a lab in Wuhan.

China’s ‘Bat Woman’ under scrutiny as coronavirus lab-leak theory gets another look

Dubbed China’s “Bat Woman,” Shi has intermediary animal. been the country’s star coronavirus To illustrate, she showed slides of her researcher, identifying multiple new team spreading out nets in a cave SARS-like viruses over the years and to catch bats and sorting samples giving prescient warnings about the afterward. Some wear thin surgical risk of a new pandemic. Her lab at masks and rubber gloves as they work, the Wuhan Institute of Virology also while others are unmasked with bare discovered and studied the closest- hands. known cousin to the coronavirus, “Under what situation would we though scientists note it would increase our protection? For instance, require decades of natural evolution when there are too many bats in to bridge the two. the cave, and lots of dust even as The WHO report says Shi told the you’re entering,” she said. Shi kept a visiting team that all field work is low profile at the pandemic’s onset, done with full protective equipment — with her occasional interventions which experts say would include N95 reflecting the pressures on her team. masks, Tyvek bodysuits, goggles and On Feb. 2, 2020, she posted to friends gloves. But in a June 2018 lecture, Shi on WeChat that she “swore on her said workers don’t do that in practice. life” her lab was not involved in the “In most cases, we’d wear simpler outbreak. Three months later, she protection, and it’s okay,” she said on followed up with a post denying a Chinese TED Talks-like program rumors she had defected to the West called Yixi. She said that’s because with intelligence files, as reported in most bat-borne diseases cannot infect the state-run Global Times. humans directly, only through an

US experts, meanwhile, remain cautious as to the origin of the pandemic. Dr Anthony Fauci, a White House coronavirus adviser, said he and most others in the scientific community “believe that the most likely scenario is that this was a natural occurrence, but no one knows that 100% for sure.” “And since there’s a lot of concern, a lot of speculation and since no one absolutely knows that, I believe we do need the kind of investigation where there’s open transparency and all the information that’s available, to be made available, to scrutinize,” Fauci said at a Senate hearing. The truth may never be known, said Scott Gottlieb, a former head of the Food and Drug Administration. Research into the origins of the virus is critically important, said Arinjay Banerjee, a virologist at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization in Saskatchewan, Canada, because, “If you don’t know where it came from, how are you going to stop it from spreading it again?” report. President Joe Biden said last month he had ordered aides to find answers to the origin of the virus. US intelligence agencies are considering two likely scenarios - that the virus resulted from a laboratory accident or that it emerged from human contact with an infected animal - but they have not come to a conclusion, he said. Pune-based scientist couple, Dr. Rahul Bahulikar and Dr Monali Rahalkar said their theory that was initially dismissed as a conspiracy has again grabbed global attention after the US President Joe Biden ordered a probe into it. Talking about their research, Dr Rahalkar said they do not know exactly if the virus had leaked but it is a strong hypothesis as our research point out towards a possible lab leak. “We started our research in April 2020. We found that a relative of SARS-CoV-2, RATG13, a coronavirus was collected from a mineshaft in Mojiang of Yunnan province in South China by the Wuhan Institute of Virology. We also found out that the mineshaft was infested with bats and six miners hired to clean the fecal matter were infected with pneumonialike illness,” said Dr Rahalkar. “Wuhan Institute of Virology and other labs in Wuhan are experimenting on the virus, and there is a suspicion that they did some changes in the genome of the virus, and it may be possible that the current virus was invented in the process,” she added.

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