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ANI March 22, 2020 Terrorist organisations like Jaish-e- Mohammed have become part of Pakistan strategy for wresting Kashmir from Indian control and maybe one of the greatest obstacles  to resolving the crisis in the valley, a US-based author said in a report for the  New York Times. Writing in the American publication, award-winning author Yudhijit Bhattacharjeeput forth a detailed narrative of how JeM founder and chief Masood Azhar has orchestrated attacks of violence against India over the past two decades following his release after the IC-814 hijack in the year 1999. The author said that Azhar's success in orchestrating a series of attacks on Indian soil in recent years has angered India to the point that eliminating him and his organisation has become a key strategic objective for India's security establishment. Last year, the JeM had claimed responsibility for the deadly Pulama terror attack that claimed the lives of 40 Indian Central Reserve Polic

Express March 22, 2020 Laura O' Calaghan In the past few days alone eight females and one male have been found dead in the Thrissur district of Kerala, Daily Star Online has reported. Rangers in the area have ruled out Kyasanur Forest Disease (KFD) or monkey fever. A team of experts at the National Institute of Virology in Pune carried out tests. The animals’ bodies were found in Mele Vettikkattiri near Attoor on Monday. The state has recently been hit by coronavirus and bird flu. Vets examined the bodies of the dead animals and found all the females had inflamed uteruses and their stomachs were empty. This raised fears of an undetermined sexual infection. Forest vet Dr David Abraham said: “There is a possibility that they would have got the infection from an alpha male monkey of that herd.” Earlier, four other monkeys were found dead in an orchard. And two monkeys were seen going “mad” in Puranpur Tehsil in Pilibhit. One animal bit an official

News 18 March 22, 2020 S uhas Munshi ,  Arunima Bodies of 17 security personnel, who went missing after a major encounter in Bastar's Sukma between Naxals and state forces, were found on Sunday. Seventeen security personal were injured in the attack. A 150-strong search party combed the jungles around Chintagufa, where the encounter broke out on Saturday afternoon, to locate the missing men. IG Bastar P Sunderraj told reporters in Bastar that a joint team of STF, DRG and CRPF's CoBRA team were ambushed by an estimated 250 strong Naxal force in Sukma's Minpa area on Saturday afternoon. "It was a joint operation of DRG, STF and CoBRA, in which more than 600 of our jawans were involved...It was a very tough encounter in which our estimate is around 250 Naxals were firing on our jawans from the other side." He added that 5 different teams of DRG and STF came under heavy fire but despite being trapped in an ambush the teams did not lose their composure an

the quint March 22, 2020 Seema Sirohi The Shakespearean cliché “What’s in a name” has a new answer: “Everything.” Yes, the “Wuhan virus” by any other name would be just as deadly but naming it for its place of origin is important and the right thing to do. The whole world – repeat the whole world – is suffering because China caused a global pandemic. It hid the facts in the early stages, destroyed samples, silenced its doctors who sounded the alarm, refused to share information with other countries in time and used its clout in the World Health Organisation to underplay the human-to-human transmission. The great Chinese cover-up allowed the virus to spread exponentially for weeks. In that time 5 million Wuhan residents were allowed to leave the city without any medical checks. They travelled within China, spreading the virus to other cities and ultimately to other countries. “China Lied, People Died” is a well-deserved Twitter hashtag for China’s malign behaviour. Count

Economic Times March 22, 2020 PTI Researchers at the  Indian Institute of Technology   here have developed a method to detect COVID-19 which can significantly reduce the test cost making it affordable for large sections. The  National Institute of Virology  (NIV), Pune is in the process of validating this test on clinical samples. The "probe-free detection assay" developed by the researchers at the prestigious institute's Kusuma School of Biological Sciences has been optimised and tested for sensitivity at the research laboratories of the Institute. According to the team, considering the scale of the ongoing pandemic, development of indigenous kits is the need of the hour. The central government on Saturday recommended that the maximum charge for each COVID-19 test by private laboratories should not exceed Rs 4,500. All private laboratories which have NABL accreditation for real-time PCR SA for RNA virus will be allowed to conduct COVID-19 t

Hindustan Times March 23, 2020 PTI Domestic stock trading on Monday resumed after a 45-minute halt, with equity benchmark Sensex plummeting further to 3,186 points and the broader Nifty sinking below 7,900 level. Stock exchanges paused trading for 45 minutes after Sensex plunged 10 per cent, hitting its lower circuit limit, within the first hour of opening of the session. As an automatic mechanism to curb freefall in the market, trading is halted in the market for 45 minutes when an exchange plunges 10 per cent before 1 pm. Continuing its downward spiral, domestic BSE Sensex was trading 3,185.84 points, down 10.65 per cent at 26,730.12. It hit an intra-day low of 26,645.83. Similarly, the NSE Nifty cracked 923.95 points, or 10.56 per cent, to 7,821.50 after resumption of trade. Axis Bank was the top loser on Sensex, cracking up to 21 per cent, followed by IndusInd Bank, ICICI Bank, Bajaj Finance, UltraTech Cement and Kotak Bank. Reference :  h ttps://www.hindust

HindustanTimes March 21, 2020 Associated Press As the fight against a new virus shifts to Europe and beyond, China is supplying millions of masks and other desperately needed items to struggling governments, hoping to build political ties and defuse criticism that it allowed the disease to spread early on. Serbia’s president plans to be at the airport this weekend to welcome a shipment of medical supplies from his “brother and friend,” Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Xi’s government has flown gloves and protective clothing to Liberia. It is sending 100,000 test kits to the Philippines. More than 10 flights carrying millions of masks and other supplies are bound for the Czech Republic this week. China, said Czech Interior Minister Jan Hamacek, is “the only country capable of supplying Europe with such amounts.” It’s part of an effort by the Communist Party to reshape the narrative, from one of early missteps to a nation that acted decisively to bring the outbreak under contro

Firstpost March 23, 2020 PTI The Income Tax department on Thursday raided at least 25 premises linked to Chhattisgarh government officials and others on charges of tax evasion, officials said. Those covered under the action include family members of a senior IAS officer in the state. About 25 premises are being raided as part of the action, they said. Sources said the premises linked to AK Tuteja, joint secretary in the state commerce and industry department, retired IAS officer and former chief secretary of the state Vivek Dhand and Raipur Mayor Ezaj Dhebar are being searched. Dhand is also the Chairman of Chhattisgarh Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA). Senior Congress MLA and party's state chief Mohan Markam said he came to know about the I-T raids at various locations, including his party mayor's premises and other officials, in Raipur through media. It is the survey of the I-T and details of it are being taken, he told reporters in the state as

DAWN Anwar Iqbal March 23,2020 The United States now has the third highest number of confirmed coronavirus cases after China and Italy, as the global infection figures surpassed the 300,000 mark on Sunday. Statistics collected by various monitoring agencies in Washington showed that by Sunday afternoon, the United States had a total of 38,138 confirmed cases, including 13,931 new ones. Total critical cases also rose to 708 while 396 people have already died of this fatal respiratory disease, including 94 new deaths. Globally, coronavirus had infected 319,675 by Sunday afternoon and caused 13,699 deaths. The respiratory virus, known officially as Covid-19, has reached every state in America since emerging in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December. It has also reached every continent except Antarctica. Physicians appearing on various US television channels warned that the total number of infected people could be much higher as people with mild symptoms do not report thei

India Today March 23, 2020 Countries cannot simply lock down their societies to defeat coronavirus, the World Health Organization's top emergency expert said, adding that public health measures are needed to avoid a resurgence of the virus later on. Dr Mike Ryan said: "What we really need to focus on is finding those who are sick, those who have the virus, and isolate them, find their contacts and isolate them," in an interview on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show. "The danger right now with the lockdowns ... if we don't put in place the strong public health measures now, when those movement restrictions and lockdowns are lifted, the danger is the disease will jump back up." Much of Europe and the United States have followed China and other Asian countries and introduced drastic restrictions to fight the new coronavirus, with most workers told to work from home and schools, bars, pubs and restaurants being closed. Mr Ryan said that the examples