The Asian Star November 7 2020

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South Asian man arrested for voiolation of quarantine act A South Asian man has been arrested and charged after allegedly failing to follow quarantine orders once he returned to Canada from the United States. Police in the city say 47-year-old Makhan Singh Parhar was ticketed late last month for violating the Quarantine Act after re-entering the country. But even after receiving the ticket, police say he kept leaving his house. So, days later on Nov. 2, police arrested Parhar for “repeated violations under the Quarantine Act.” “Our priority is the safety of New Westminster residents,” said Sgt. Sanjay Kumar in a news release issued Thursday. “Violations of the Quarantine Act put others at risk. Travellers are required to self-isolate for 14 days whether or not they have symptoms. This is something we take very seriously.”

And Kumar said Parhar had been informed of the policy by the Canada Border Services Agency when he came home.

“It’s clear, after posting some videos on YouTube, that he chose to violate that, where he repeatedly went out into Continued on page 6

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Indian immigrants set new record for permanent residencies in Canada Indian immigrants accounted for one-fourth of the total permanent residencies granted by Canada in 2019, setting a new record. India was easily the largest source country for permanent residents (PR), with 85,593 admitted last year, a number that is larger than the total for the next four nations taken together. The data was revealed as the 2020 Annual Report on Immigration to Parliament was tabled. India has been the biggest source country since 2017, when it overtook China among PRs, but the numbers have jumped in recent years, with an increase of over 20% between 2018 and 2019.

Canada’s minister of immigration, refugees and citizenship Marco Mendicino also tabled the 2021‒2023 Immigration Levels Plan. The Canadian government is hiking the number of immigrants to be taken into the country between these years to make up for the projected shortfall this year due to the travel and other restrictions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

While the previous plan set targets of 351,000 PRs for 2021 and 361,000 for 2022, these have been increased to 401,000 and 411,000.

Most COVID-19 cases in Fraser Health region linked to known exposures, health authority says New COVID-19 infections in the Fraser Health region continue to drive rising case numbers in British Columbia as the health authority recorded 205 of the 335 cases detected provincewide on Wednesday. Dr. Elizabeth Brodkin, the chief medical health officer for Fraser Health, says 75 to 80 per cent of new cases are linked to a known exposure, leaving about 20 per cent of infections with an unknown

source. She says the primary places the illness is spreading are private households, including social gatherings and celebrations where it’s difficult to maintain safety measures, while transmission is also happening at work sites.

Brodkin told a news conference on Wednesday the timelines for contact tracing depend on the individual case and circumstance, but public health workers in Fraser Health are generally meeting their timelines for following up with

people who have been exposed to COVID-19.

The B.C. government has recorded another death related to the illness, bringing the death toll in the province to 273.

Health Minister Adrian Dix and provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry say in a joint statement the novel coronavirus doesn’t recognize regional borders.

“A small cluster in one region can quickly become an outbreak in another.

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New COVID-19 cases surge by record 425 in BC, number in hospital nears 100 For the first time since the start of the pandemic, British Columbia has reported more than 400 new cases of COVID-19 in a 24-hour period.

At a live briefing Thursday, provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry reported 425 new cases of the virus. The province’s death toll remained unchanged at 273.

The majority of the new cases were in the Fraser Health region (268) and Vancouver Coastal Health region (126).

Seven were on Vancouver Island, eight were in the Interior Health region and six were in the Northern Health region.

The number of patients in hospital also climbed to 97, the highest it’s been since April 27. Twenty-four people were in critical or intensive care.

Canada expands path to citizenship for foreigners, including refugees & illegal immigrants Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government is trying a new tactic to mitigate the economic damage from a dramatic drop in immigration: persuade foreigners already in the country to stay. Canada announced plans last week to make it easier for the more than 1 million temporary students, workers and asylum seekers now living in the country to become permanent residents, giving them a path to citizenship. In an interview Monday, Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino said it’s the logical way forward to make up for a decline in foreigners moving to Canada during the pandemic.

Canada expands path to citizenship for foreigners in bid to stem immigration drop “For those who are already in Canada and here on a temporary basis, it behooves us Continued on page 10

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Why has Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden pushed to release a statement in support of Indian-Americans and India? Why does President Donald Trump say America loves India and spends a large amount of money to appeal to the Indian-American voters to vote for him, according to a report by â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Politicoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, an American political journalism outfit? We can call it a mix of many factors, the need for India and US to come together due to the global geopolitical factors that reflects in US policies and statements of its leaders as well as the highly skilled Indian immigrant population in the US that is not only the wealthiest but is also becoming politically more proactive with Kamala Harris, a person of Indian origin as vice-presidential nominee. The Chinese threat has forced India and the US to come together. Chinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s expansionism is not only threatening Indiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s territorial sovereignty but is also challenging the role of the US as a responsible

power in global geopolitical security affairs. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is pushing many poor nations into a debt trap that China may use in future to develop its military bases overseas.

The increasingly belligerent nation is trying to create a China-dominated world order where it continues to remain a global manufacturing base while being able to colonise other countries, first by lending to them to create infrastructure facilities and then occupying them when they fail to repay the loan. India and the US realise they need to come together to create an alternate antiChina bloc for trade and security that will be in the line of a free and democratic world -- we can easily see this in the statements of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Trump or Biden. Can people of Indian origin expect an Indian-origin president in the US? That would have sounded like daydreaming before these polls, but not anymore.

Harris, who is partially of Indian and Jamaican origin but was raised by her Indian mother, is the running mate of Biden. If he is elected, she would be the first female, first Black and first AsianAmerican to become the US Vice-President.

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OPINION

Aaron Wudrick, contributor

Saturday, November 7, 2020

Trudeau’s cavalier attitude towards debt is troubling

It turns out that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau doesn’t think now is the time for a fiscal anchor to set some limits on government spending. That shouldn’t really surprise anyone, because he also didn’t think his first four years in office were the right time for one either.

Most Canadians will recall Trudeau’s 2015 election promise to balance the budget in 2019

and keep the debt to GDP ratio on a downward track. He proceeded to break both of those promises in spectacular fashion, at a time when the Canadian economy was growing. Spending still leapt by 20 per cent over five years, and the federal debt ballooned by $127 billion.

And all before the word “COVID-19” became a dreaded part of everyone’s vocabulary. Before,

Trudeau’s position has always been that when times are good governments should spend because they can. Now, he says when times are bad they should spend because they must. To his mind, there’s never a right time to worry about spending.

Now, some will point out that the pandemic is a unique situation. It certainly is. But that’s precisely why there need to be some limits placed on spending. It’s where the cliffs are most treacherous that you most need the guardrails. That wouldn’t prevent the government from spending to help families and businesses getting crushed by pandemicrelated economic upheaval. But it would at least provide some assurance to the majority of Canadians who worry the size of the deficit is getting out of control. Invoking the pandemic as an excuse to permit unlimited spending is also disingenuous. As the Throne Speech made clear, Trudeau is considering many new, breathtakingly expensive programs, such as government pharmacare and government daycare, that have absolutely nothing to do with the pandemic. A cynic might even suggest he’s using the crisis as a pretext to spend on whatever he feels like spending on.

Trudeau’s cavalier attitude towards debt is also troubling. Yes, low interest rates have been a lucky break and kept borrowing costs manageable – for now. But it is a reckless gamble to simply assume they will stay low indefinitely. The consequences of higher rates are significant: a recent C.D. Howe report concluded that a one-point increase in the effective interest rate will mean an additional ten billion dollars a year in interest payments.

Trudeau’s refusal to even include a fiscal anchor in the fiscal update expected next month is a mistake, especially after not producing a budget this year. Virtually everyone accepted the spring budget had to be postponed as the country was shut down and the pandemic was changing so rapidly that a budget made no sense. But this is no longer true and the country needs a proper fiscal framework. The pandemic, while not over, has become a new normal everyone trying to carry on life as best they can.

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Parliamentary budget officer rebukes Trudeau govt over spending secrecy Parliament’s budget watchdog has called out the Trudeau government for not providing information on billions of dollars in planned federal spending. The parliamentary budget office made clear its concerns about the Liberals’ spending secrecy in two separate reports released Wednesday.

The first accused the government of having failed to provide detailed information in its recent request to Parliament for $79 billion in added spending authority. While the government says most of the money is intended for COVID-19 relief, the PBO suggested Parliament’s ability to oversee government spending has been hamstrung by the Liberals’ secrecy. “While the sum of these measures is significant, the amount of information that is publicly available to track

this spending is lacking, thus making it more challenging for parliamentarians to perform their critical role in overseeing government spending and holding it to account,” reads the report. The budget office went on to note that the Liberals have yet to provide a complete list of COVID-19 measures announced so far, or updated estimates on how much those measures will cost. “This lack of data is not a result of it not being available,” the PBO report added. “The Department of Finance had been providing biweekly updates to the standing committee on finance, but stopped when Parliament was prorogued in August.” The budget office has taken it upon itself in recent months to start tracking the estimated costs of the government’s COVID-19 relief, with the most recent tally coming in at more than $176 billion this year.

BC real estate agents asked to suspend open houses to protect clients from COVID 19 Real estate agents across British Columbia are being asked to temporarily stop holding open houses in an effort to curb the rise of COVID-19. The recommendation comes from the regulatory agencies overseeing B.C. real estate professionals as well as the provincial association representing Realtors.

Erin Seeley, the CEO of the Real Estate Council of B.C., says in a statement that real estate agents should use virtual tools to protect clients. “Protecting the public during the pandemic remains our top concern,” Seeley said. “Real estate professionals in B.C. have been very successful in using virtual tools to limit in-person interactions with clients,

and we encourage them to continue those innovative practices to keep themselves, their clients, and community members safe.”The association representing B.C. Realtors also encourage its members to keep using virtual technologies.

“With transmission rates increasing, Realtors can continue to show leadership in their communities by reducing in-person interactions, wearing masks and adapting to new public health guidelines and orders,” said Darlene Hyde, CEO of the B.C. Real Estate Association. The request to temporarily end open houses follows an order last week by the provincial health officer to limit the size of gatherings in private residences to the immediate household

Surrey & White Rock receive millions in pandemic funding The Cities of White Rock and Surrey have each received a funding boost to help deal with increased operating costs and lower revenue as a result of COVID‐19.

White Rock announced Nov. 4 it will receive a grant of $3.769 million under the provincial governments’ Safe Restart Grant for Local Governments.

Confirmation of the funding was received in a letter to the city from the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing, which is providing up to $425 million to assist local governments across B.C. affected by the ongoing pandemic. Mayor Darryl Walker said in a media release that he was “heartened, and grateful” for the provincial assistance.

“COVID-19 has impacted us all and has increased costs to the City while decreasing revenues,” he said. “The province is demonstrating the importance of levels of government working to get through this pandemic together.” City staff will work on incorporating potential options into the 2021 budget process, starting in December, the release stated. The city of Surrey, meanwhile, will receive nearly $15 million ($14,769,000) through the same program. “The City of Surrey has been working hard to safely navigate through the turbulent waters created by COVID-19,” said Mayor Doug McCallum, in a release, also issued Wednesday. “The $15 million in funding today helps to stabilize the sound foundation we have built for the city’s fiscal house. I want to extend my sincere thanks and appreciation to the federal and provincial governments for their support to Surrey and all municipalities.” Among eligible uses of the funding are making up revenue shortfalls; costs of reopening and operating facilities; emergency planning and response costs; bylaw enforcement and protective services like fire protection and police. The grant can also be used for computer and other electronic technology costs (to improve inter-connectivity

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Saturday, November 7, 2020 South Asian man arrested for voiolation of quarantine act From page 1 the public, putting others at risk,” Kumar said in an interview later in the day.

In a video posted to YouTube the day before Parhar’s arrest, he can be seen speaking at an anti-mask rally in downtown Vancouver, talking about his recent trip to the United States to attend Flatoberfest, which is a conference for people who believe the Earth is flat.

In the video, Parhar says he was given a form on the plane before landing at Vancouver International Airport.

“They give you a form that you gotta fill out. Now you gotta quarantine,” he says.

“They call it ‘quarantine,’ it’s not really quarantine, it’s self-imprisonment … put yourself in a jail and stay there.

Don’t interact with your friends, family, whatever. Stay inside and don’t have a life.”

Parhar also says in the video that police came to his house multiple times after he returned to Canada and on one occasion he wasn’t home, so he got a ticket.

“I go home … I live my life, because I’m not going to put myself in a prison, because I’m a free man with God-given rights,” he says.

Police say Parhar has been charged with three counts of contravening a section of the Quarantine Act. He’s currently still in custody.

Sgt. Kumar said Parhar appeared in court, and was advised he’d be kept in custody for the time being.

He couldn’t say for certain whether Parhar would remain in jail for the rest of the time he’s supposed to be isolating, saying that decision will be up to the court.

Kumar said to his knowledge Parhar was the only person the department has had to deal with in terms of the Quarantine Act. Anyone who returns to Canada after international travel is required to selfisolate and monitor themselves for symptoms of COVID-19.

Starting later this month, international travellers whose final destination is in Canada will be required to submit details about their quarantine plan and contact information electronically through the ArriveCAN app before boarding a flight into the country.

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Nanaimo man wins $2 million lottery A Nanaimo man was shocked to learn that he won the top prize on a BC/49 lottery ticket last week.

On Oct. 28, Brad Rowan used a previous lottery win to purchase his whopping $2 million ticket.

The Vancouver Island forestry worker won $1 from a Daily Grand ticket, then decided to use that winning to purchase a BC/49 lottery ticket.

Little did he know, the second ticket would win him millions. Later that day, he checked the BC/49 ticket online and discovered that he had won the lottery’s top prize.

He then rushed to tell his partner the good news.“Oh my God!” said Rowan’s partner, according to the BC Lottery Corporation (BCLC). “Then I called my boss – I told him

I was going to take the day off,” the forestry worker told the BCLC. Rowan says that he and his partner were already in the process of buying a home before the lottery ticket turned out to be a winner. Now, he expects the mortgage payments for the home will be well looked after.

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Saturday, November 7, 2020 Canada expands path to citizenship for foreigners,

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whether or not there’s a way to accelerate their pathway to becoming Canadian,” Mendicino told Bloomberg. Declining immigration is another blow to a Canadian economy that has relied heavily on foreigners to drive labour force growth and demand, particularly in major cities. In Toronto, for example, the drop in newcomers is already generating cracks in the city’s condo market. Canada relies on two tracks of migration in any given year: permanent residents and a much larger group of temporary residents. Both are down dramatically. After recording a net increase of 190,952 temporary residents last year, the first six months of 2020 has seen a net decrease of 18,221, according to Statistics Canada data. The permanent track has also been upended. Canada admitted just 128,430 permanent residents between January and August, about half the number from the same period last year. At the current pace, Canada will be about 150,000 permanent residents short of its target this year of 341,000.

That’s having an impact on Canada’s total population, which grew just 0.1 per cent in the three months through June, the second-lowest quarterly gain in records dating back to 1946.

Vancouver senior sentenced to life in prison for murder

A Vancouver senior has been sentenced to life in prison with no eligibility for parole for 13 years.

Leonard Landrick, who is in his 70s, was found guilty of second-degree murder in the 2017 homicides.

He was arrested the same day the bodies of Sandra McInnes and Neil Croker were found in a West End apartment building.

The victims and Landrick all lived in the same building on Morton Avenue, and were known to each other.

McInnes, who was 57, was on the building’s board, and Croker, 51, was the building manager.

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Transit police officer seriously injured in fiery crash in Surrey RCMP are thanking bystanders for rushing to help a Metro Vancouver Transit Police officer who was seriously injured in a fiery crash in Surrey, B.C., late Wednesday. Officers responded to reports of a collision near 128 Street and 93 Avenue shortly after 11 p.m. PT, according to RCMP Cpl. Joanie Sidhu at a media availability Thursday morning.

They found an unmarked police SUV and a sedan-type vehicle had collided with each other, then crashed into a fence and into the backyard of a home, Sidhu said.

Bystanders helped get the driver out of the SUV, which had caught fire. “We’d like to thank bystanders in the area who helped with removing the officer from the police vehicle

when it had caught fire,” Sidhu said. It’s not clear if the transit police officer’s injuries were sustained by the crash impact or as a result of the fire. Sidhu said the driver of the sedan sustained only minor injuries.

She said the investigaton is in its early stages but it appears the transit officer was en route to an unspecified emergency incident at the time of the crash.

A large police and fire services response late Wednesday night following reports of crash involving an unmarked transit police SUV and a white sedan in Surrey.

The RCMP’s traffic services unit is investigating all aspects of the crash, she said.

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Saturday, November 7, 2020 Ustad Jaswant Bhanwara Ji honoured Press release

A statue of Jaswant Bhanwara Ji, Martand Master (Music Sun) of Folk Music and Gurbani Sangeet is being erected by the Municipal Corporation, on Saturday 7th November in front of Punjabi Bhawan, Ludhiana near the statue of renowned poet Prof. Mohan Singh Ji. Ustad Jaswant Bhanwara Ji’s statue has been made by Manjit Singh Gill of Ghall Kalan (Moga). The statue service has been done by Mr.SPS. Oberoi. Ustad Jaswant Bhanwara Ji ran National Music College in Ludhiana from 1960 to 1990. Punjabi singers used to give audition for HMV here. Harcharan Grewal, Rajinder Rajan, Sudesh Kapoor, Ramesh Rangeela, Surinder Shinda, Daljit Kaiss, Karnail Gill, Rajinder Malhar, Sajan Raikoti, Manmohan Waris, Kamal Heer, Sangatar, Dr. Sukhnain, Ravinder Singh Vinkle, Syeda Bano and hundreds of other singers got trained for folk music under Ustad Bhanwara’s benevolent care and insights.

In Jalandhar, Hans Raj Hans, Ranjana, Sarabjit Kokewali, Jasbir Jassi, Manna Dhillon and many

other singers received folk music lessons bt Ustad Bhanwara Ji. Jaswant Bhanwara Ji was born in Bhangu Clan and He was native of village Khamano in Fatehgarh Sahib district. Besides having given music direction for famous Punjabi Film “Mele Mitra De”.

He also performed music directions to many programs for Doordarshan Kendra Jalandhar and Akashwani Jalandhar. The music for “Phulkari”,a national award winning documentary directed by Dr. Lakhwinder Johal in 1985, was also given by this legendary music teacher. Here it is worth mentioning that in 1987,Ustad Jaswant Bhanwara Ji composed music for Raj Kumar Tuli’s written and Jasdip kaur’s directed play –“Keema Malki” when Hans Raj Hans and Kumari Ranjana held audience spellbound in it’s stage performances. Gurdas Mann’s first LP record was composed by Jaswant Bhanwara in 1983.

Surjit Singh Madhopuri

LOCAL / NATIONAL

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NDP leader Jagmeet Singh proposes taxes on wealthy Canadians, excess profits in House of Commons motion New Democratic Party Leader Jagmeet Singh says his party will call for a new tax on wealthy Canadians and another on businesses that have profited excessively during the COVID-19 pandemic when it sets the topic of debate in the House of Commons on Thursday.

At a news conference today, Singh said

workers, families and small businesses shouldn’t bear the burden of paying down the public debt incurred by the federal government to fund COVID-19 support measures.

“To pay for the programs, the help that people need ... it should not be families, and people, and workers, and small businesses

who have struggled,” Singh told reporters.

“It should be those who have profited off the pandemic, it should be the ultrawealthy that contribute their fair share.”

The NDP will propose a motion calling for a tax on people with fortunes over $20 million on its first Opposition Day — when

Female passenger escorted off BC ferry for refusing to wear mask, causing ‘disturbance’

Possible COVID-19 ‘superspreader’ at BC dance school raises questions about learning cohorts The possibility of a COVID-19 superspreader event at a Chilliwack B.C. dance school is raising questions about how and when to isolate school cohorts amid possible exposures.

A COVID-19 superspreader event is when a person infects a large number of people at one location.

So far, 30 people have tested positive after an outbreak at Capella Dance Academy.

“This is certainly a significant outbreak and the good news is that all the cases associated with the outbreak have been identified and are isolating, as are their close contacts,” Dr. Elizabeth Brodkin, Fraser Health’s chief medical health officer, told reporters Tuesday.

“There are a number of exposures in the local schools but I want to emphasize those are only exposures, meaning that a person infected with COVID-19 was present in the school during their infectious period. So far there has been no transmission beyond the dance studio into the schools.”

Exposure and positive cases have been linked to 13 schools in Chilliwack.

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The text of the non-binding motion, viewed by CBC News, says the tax should be set at one per cent of a family’s wealth. It also calls for an “excess profit tax” on big corporations that the NDP says have been “profiteering” from the pandemic.

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Delta police were called to the Tsawwassen, B.C. ferry terminal Wednesday to remove an unruly passenger who allegedly refused to wear a mask.

BC Ferries implemented a mandatory mask policy in August.

According to Delta police, officers were called to the terminal around 11 a.m. for a report of a woman “who refused to wear a mask, who was causing a disturbance.”

Officers escorted the woman off the ferry “without issue” and transported her from the terminal, police said.

The incident delayed a sailing of the Spirit of BC serving the Tsawwassen to Swartz Bay route.

The incident came just hours after police were called to the Tsawwassen terminal for an unrelated matter.

Officers were called around 7:20 a.m. after a man who’d been denied boarding allegedly ran through traffic and into the ocean in what police described as a mental health incident.

Wednesday wasn’t the first time police were called to a BC Ferries property due to a dispute over the company’s mask policy.

Most COVID-19 cases in Fraser Health region linked to known exposures, health authority says Brodkin told a news conference on Wednesday the timelines for contact tracing depend on the individual case and circumstance, but public health workers in Fraser Health are generally meeting their timelines for following up with people who have been exposed to COVID-19. The B.C. government has recorded another death related to the illness, bringing the death toll in

the province to 273. Health Minister Adrian Dix and provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry say in a joint statement the novel coronavirus doesn’t recognize regional borders.

“A small cluster in one region can quickly

become an outbreak in another. That is why provincewide orders are in place throughout B.C. and why we all need to use our layers of protection all the time,” the statement says. Several sports teams in Chilliwack, B.C., which falls within the Fraser

Health region, have suspended or wrapped up their seasons in order to help curb the spread of COVID-19 in the community. The Chilliwack minor hockey and ringette associations have paused play until further notice, while the Cheam Skating Club has cancelled its programming until at least Saturday and the Chilliwack Minor Football Association has called off the rest of its season.

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Leading advocacy committee applauds ‘historic election’ of Indian-Americans in 2020 Election A leading Indian-American advocacy and political action committee has applauded the “historic election” of Indian-American candidates in the 2020 US elections, saying voters and candidates from the community demonstrated their burgeoning power and influence across key battleground states.

As many as 14 candidates of Indian-descent, endorsed by the political action committee IMPACT, were elected in the November 3 elections. Among these are Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi re-elected for a third term to the US House of Representatives, winning the

Tv personality Arnab Goswami spends night at school designated as jail’s Covid centre Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami, arrested for allegedly abetting the suicide of an interior designer, spent the night at a local school which has been designated as a Covid centre for the Alibaug prison, an official said on Thursday. A court at Alibaug in Maharashtra’s Raigad district on Wednesday remanded Goswami and two other accused in judicial custody till November 18 in a 2018 abetment to suicide case. Police had sought Goswami’s custody for 14 days, but the court held that custodial interrogation was not required.

8th District of Illinois, which includes Chicago’s west and northwest suburbs and Congressmen Ro Khanna and Ami Bera. The executive director of IMPACT, Neil Makhija, in a statement applauded this year’s historic election for Indian American candidates and voters.

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Thankful to police for action against journalist Arnab Goswami: Anvay Naik’s family Soon after Alibag police arrested Editor-in-Chief of RepublicTV Arnab Goswami for abetting the suicide of 53-yearinterior designer Anvay Naik and his mother Kumud Naikin 2018, his wife and daughter Akshata and Adnya Naik thanked the Maharashtra police for taking action in the case.

“We can’t forget the year 2018. We want to thank Maharashtra Police for standing by a daughter of Maharashtra,” Akshata told reporters. “My husband in his suicide note had mentioned three names but no action was taken against them.

Former Chief Secretary of Delhi M Kutty was on Thursday appointed chairperson of the Commission for Air Quality Management in National Capital Region and Adjoining Areas, according to a Personnel Ministry order.

Professor Mukesh Khare, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi and Ramesh KJ, Ex-Director General, India Meteorological Department (IMD) have been appointed as the full-time technical members of the Commission, it said.

Arvind Kumar Nautiyal, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change will be the full-time member of the panel, the order said.

They have been appointed for a term of three years, the date of assumption of charge of the post, or until attainment of the age of 70 years, it said.

Faced with rising air pollution in Delhi-NCR, the Centre had on October 29 introduced a new law through an ordinance that puts in place a powerful oversight body and provides for up to five years jail term and ₹ one crore fine for violators with immediate effect.

50,210 new Covid-19 cases, tally reaches to 83.64 lakh India’s COVID-19 tally climbed to 83.64 lakh with 50,210 new cases in a day, while 77,11,809 people have recuperated so far pushing the national recovery rate to 92.2 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry data on Thursday.

The total coronavirus cases mounted to 83,64,086 and the death toll climbed to 1,24,315, with the virus claiming 704 lives in a span of 24 hours in the country, the data

IMPACT said the 2020 election featured a record number of Indian American candidates running in key state and federal races across the country, as well as the first Indian-American to be on a presidential ticket, in vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris.

per cent of the total caseload, the data stated.

According to the ICMR, a cumulative total of 11,42,08,384 samples have been tested up to November 4, with 12,09,425 samples being tested on Wednesday.

updated at 8 am showed.

The COVID-19 case fatality rate was recorded at 1.49 per cent.

There are 5,27,962 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country, which comprises 6.31

Of the 704 new fatalities reported, 300 are from Maharashtra, 55 from West Bengal, 51 from Delhi, 50 from Chhattisgarh, 34 from Karnataka, 30 from Tamil Nadu and 28 from Kerala.

Out of the 1,24,315 deaths recorded so far in the country, 44,548 are from Maharashtra, followed by 11,281 from Karnataka, 11,244 from Tamil Nadu, 7,104 from Uttar Pradesh, 7,068 from West Bengal, 6,744 from Andhra Pradesh, 6,703 from Delhi.

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Covid-19 pandemic can be prevented for avoiding physical entrance test: HC Punjab and Haryana High Court made it clear that the prevailing Covid-19 pandemic can be a ground for avoiding a physical entrance test. The assertion came as the High Court dismissed petitions for setting aside Panjab University’s October 1 decision upholding the scrapping of all entrance tests for admission to professional courses, including undergraduate law entrance examination and

from carrying out the admissions on the basis of marks obtained in the Class XII examination.

The Bench of Justice Augustine George Masih and Justice Ashok Kumar Verma asserted that this being an exceptional, unexpected and peculiar circumstance, the opinion formed by a committee constituted by the respondent university was fully justified.

The committee had held that the congregation

of a large number of people at the only centre the university had for holding the examination could cause the spread of coronavirus. As such, it was neither suitable nor feasible to hold the entrance test in accordance with the UGC guidelines, directives/standard operating procedures issued by the Ministry of Human Resource Development and the Ministry of Home Affairs.

The Bench added that the conclusion was

Over 30,000 farm fires in Punjab, air quality worsens

Punjab faces power cuts due to coal shortage

The state’s air quality touched a new low in many districts of the state following many farm fire cases in the paddy heartlands of Malwa belt. People complained of uneasiness in breathing in several parts. Smoggy conditions prevailed in many parts of the state on Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning.

At one point of time on Wednesday morning, Patiala recorded “very poor” air quality at 326 while, at the same time, Delhi air quality was 325. With over 30,000 farm fires in Punjab, the air quality has taken a hit across the state. “I was travelling home in my car with my family after a function and could not see anything on the road at around 10.30 am,” said Ludhiana resident Naresh Handa. Similar views were expressed by residents in Patiala, Malerkotla, Khanna and Mandi Gobindgarh. “There was unease in breathing inside the house too. Despite air purifier in my room, it was tough,” said Malerkotla resident Waseem Anwar Khan.Even as Punjab claims not to be solely responsible for Delhi’s poor air quality, the situation in Patiala, Ludhiana and Mandi Gobindgarh districts is almost similar to that in Delhi.

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The Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL), which is facing coal shortage due to farmers’ agitation, is imposing power cuts ranging from four to five hours in villages and one to two hours in cities. Criticising the PSPCL, former senior officials said, “Despite adequate power in the open market, the PSPCL is imposing outages.”

Patiala, Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Sangrur and Amritsar cities faced power cuts on Wednesday morning.

The PSPCL claims that it faces a shortfall of 1,000 MW of power following closure of private thermal plants.

Meanwhile, Punjab has started a unit each of its own thermal plants at Ropar and Lehra Mohabbat, which are supplying power but at over Rs 4 per unit as compared to Rs 3 per unit available through exchange.

The situation worsened on Tuesday when one unit of GVK that was operational around noon headed for shutdown by 5 pm when the coal stock almost ran out.

2 gangsters arrested for Balwinder’s murder Claiming to have cracked the murder case of Shaurya Chakra awardee Balwinder Singh, the Tarn Taran police today arrested 11 persons.

However, the three main accused, identified as Gurjeet Singh Bhaa, Sukhdeep Singh Bura and Sukhmeet Pal Singh, are still at large.

Addressing a press conference here today, Hardial Singh Mann, DIG, Ferozepur Range, who headed the three-member special

not unfounded that even residents and other students on the university campus would be put to risk, apart from the staff invigilators, candidates and those accompanying them.

“The scrapping of the entrance examination, as it could lead to the spread of the virus, appears to be in public interest, which cannot be faulted in the light of the above facts and circumstances.

investigation team, said the exact motive behind the crime was yet to be ascertained.

“Gurdaspur-based criminals Sukhraj Singh Sukha and Ravinder Singh Gyaan were brought on a production warrant from a

Patiala jail a few days back. They revealed that Balwinder was killed at the behest of Sukhmeet Pal Singh, alias Sukh Bhikhariwal,” he said.

The DIG said as per

the CCTV footage, the two assailants came on a motorcycle to kill Balwinder which was later thrown into the Sutlej. The vehicle had now been recovered. “After committing the crime, Bhaa and Bura fled to Ludhiana. A manhunt is on to nab them. During their stay in the Salem Tibri area in Ludhiana, they were sheltered by their local accomplices. They kept

on changing their hideouts. We have arrested those who gave them mobiles, food & money.

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Pakistan Pakistan cannot afford to go into Covid-19 lockdown again: Prime Minister Imran Khan Prime Minister Imran Khan said Tuesday Pakistan could not afford to go for another coronavirus lockdown despite officials monitoring the pandemic warning that the second wave of COVID-19 has already hit the country.

Addressing a Cabinet meeting here in the federal capital, PM Imran Khan said the provincial governments needed to ensure the implementation of the Trace, Test &

Quarantine (TTQ) and smart lockdown strategies pertaining to the coronavirus.

The premier urged everyone to strictly follow the preventive measures against the novel coronavirus. “The country cannot afford lockdown again,” he said after a Cabinet meeting he was presiding over was briefed on the COVID-19 situation across the nation.

Muslims come to rescue of Hindu temple vandalise by mob in Karachi Mostly reported from remote areas of the Sindh province in Pakistan, these attacks have now reached the provincial capital, the port city of Karachi where a vicious attack was carried out on Tuesday.

This time it was a Hindu temple, in Karachi’s century old neighbourhood that houses over 300 Hindu families, which was vandalized.

Seetal Das Compound, located in Karachi’s old city area is in the grip of fear.

An angry mob attempted to attack the compound, located near Lee market in Lyar area. As per residents, belonging to the Hindu community, scores of men had assembled outside the compound’s only gate at around 9 p.m.

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Investing in darly sarning system is important to save lives - Usamate

Minister for Lands and Mineral Resources Jone Usamate says it is important to invest in the Early Warning System, resilient infrastructure and education of our citizens to save lives and to know what to do when there is a tsunami alert.

While launching the World Tsunami

Awareness Day 2020 in Labasa today, Usamate says this year’s Tsunami Day observance promotes target (e) of the “Sendai Seven Campaign” which focuses on promoting national and local risk reduction plans.

People should enjoy human dignity and rights no matter what their transgression – Ashwin Raj

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Human Rights and Anti Discrimination Director, Ashwin Raj says they have seen a number of conversations around Fiji where people think that if somebody has committed a heinous crime then they do not deserve the kind of human rights that is afforded to anybody else. He made these comments during the graduation of 21 Fiji Corrections Service officers who completed the e-learning course on the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners and the application of Nelson Mandela Rules.

Human Rights and Social Welfare try to secure housing for evicted Nadi family The Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Commission is working closely with the Department of Social Welfare to secure housing for the Nadi family of seven including a 3 weeks old baby and a 74-year-old grandmother who were arbitrarily evicted by their landlord in Nadi last week.

The Commission says the family was subjected to inhumane treatment as their landlord had forcibly removed them from their rented home without a court order.

Militant fire from Afghanistan kills soldier - says Pak army Militant gunfire from across the border with Afghanistan on Tuesday killed a Pakistani soldier and wounded two others, Pakistan’s military said, the latest in militant attacks on troops in the region.

The attack targeted a border post in the village of Manzaikai in southwestern Baluchistan province, the military said in

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The military provided no further details, but Pakistan and Afghanistan often accuse each other of turning a blind eye to militants operating along their shared porous frontier.

New MGM High School complex to benefit more than 900 students More than 900 students of Mahatma Gandhi Memorial High School will benefit from their new complex which was opened by Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama today.

The cost of the complex is in excess of $5 million.

Gujarat Education Society of Fiji President Kamlesh Kumar says the complex

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Kumar says with the additional classrooms, the school will be able to place an additional stream of classes in the future which would increase the student capacity at the school.

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