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The Hindu, R. Prasad, January 14, 2020 A novel coronavirus has been identified in 41 people in Wuhan City, Hubei Province of China On December 31, 2019, China informed the World Health Organization (WHO) of a cluster of cases of pneumonia of unknown cause in Wuhan City, Hubei Province of China. A few patients in Wuhan had been suffering from respiratory illnesses such as pneumonia since December 8, 2019. Besides providing care, Chinese public health officials began carrying out environmental assessments at the wholesale market and trying to identify the microbe causing the outbreak. How was the virus identified as coronavirus? On January 9, 2020, the WHO issued a statement saying Chinese researchers have made “preliminary determination” of the virus as a novel coronavirus in a person with pneumonia. The researchers were able to determine the virus by sequencing the genome of the novel virus using an isolate taken from an infected patient. “Preliminary identification of a

The Hindu, Sidharth Yadav, January 15, 2020 The Madhya Pradesh government plans to fight microbial resistance by setting up surveillance systems to track drug use in humans and in agricultural fields, curbing the spread of infections in hospitals, and regulating the poultry industry. The second State after Kerala to develop an action plan, it will assist seven other States in February to chalk out strategies. With a surveillance system for animals up and running, the government is going to rope in 13 government colleges, two divisional laboratories and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhopal to track resistance in humans now, said Pankaj Shukla, Joint Director, National Urban Health Mission, one of the authors of the action plan. State-wide database At the hospitals, he explained, microbiologists would perform culture tests on samples taken from patients to single out resistant bacteria, and as a result develop a State-wide database. “Accordingly,

The Hindu, Lahore,  January 14, 2020 The Counter Terrorism Department had registered 23 FIRs against Saeed and his accomplices on the charges of terror financing in different cities of Punjab province and arrested him on July 17 Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed on Tuesday pleaded “not guilty” in two terror financing cases against him as the Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD) chief finally recorded his statement in a Pakistani anti-terrorism court here. The Counter Terrorism Department had registered 23 FIRs against Saeed and his accomplices on the charges of terror financing in different cities of Punjab province and arrested him on July 17. He is held at the Kot Lakhpat jail in Lahore. Saeed-led JuD is believed to be the front organisation for the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) which is responsible for carrying out the 2008 Mumbai attack that killed 166 people, including six Americans. At a hearing on January 10, a questionnaire was handed over to Saeed by a Pakistani anti-terrorism

Bar & Bench, January 14, 2020 The Delhi High Court today directed the Delhi Police to summon and seize mobile phones of the members of the two WhatsApp groups, namely 'Friends of RSS' and 'Unity against Left', who were allegdly involved in planning the attack against the teachers, staff and students of the Jawaharlal Nehru University on January 5. The Court also asked WhatsApp and Google to preserve and provide information related to the violence to the Delhi Police in accordance with their company policies,  NDTV has reported. The JNU Administration was also directed by the Court to provide to provide the CCTV footage of the violence sought by police, at the earliest. The order was passed by a Single Judge Bench of Justice  Brijesh Sethi  in a petition by JNU professors, Ameet Parameswaran, Atul Sood, Shukla Vinayak Sawant, seeking preservation of all relevant material, data, information and evidence pertaining to the violence that

Business Standard, Surajeet Das Gupta, January 15, 2020 Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio Infocomm and Delhi-based UV Asset Reconstruction Company (UVARC) are learnt to have emerged the highest bidders for the assets of  Reliance Communications  (RCom) and its subsidiaries, according to banking sources. The combined bid amount is Rs 21,000 crore. The Anil Ambani-run company went through the insolvency process, and was referred to the  National Company Law Tribunal  (NCLT) in May last year after an offer from Reliance Jio to buy its assets did not find favour with the creditors. The conditions imposed by the department of telecommunications too were a hindrance. The resolution professional (RP) was appointed in June. Sources say in a meeting of the committee of creditors (CoC), which ended late in the evening on Monday, Reliance Jio, part of Reliance Industries, agreed to marginally up its earlier offer and is willing to pay about Rs 4,700 crore for the tower and