YK MYK WEATHER TODAY MAX 28 C MIN 17 C THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA— BEDROCK OF GROWTH, STABILITY OPINION Sky will be clear. BUSINESS Morning India Rs. 3 KOLKATA WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV, 2020 PG-12, YEAR—7, ISSUE—188 (RNI NO: WBENG / 2014 / 56803) AT A GLANCE COHESIVE RETAIL POLICY CAN HELP CREATE 30L JOBS BY 2024: REPORT Frontline workers will be first to get Covid vaccine: PM MODI SAYS DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM NEEDS TO BE IN PLACE BEFORE VACCINE ARRIVES YOGI CABINET APPROVES DRAFT ORDINANCE ON RELIGIOUS CONVERSIONS LUCKNOW: The Yogi Adityanath-led government in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday approved the draft ordinance dealing with forced religious conversions, also known as 'love jihad'. Interestingly, the ordinance does not mention the term 'love jihad' and the draft has been named 'Vidhi Virudh Dharmantaran 2020'. The cabinet meeting held on Tuesday gave its nod to the proposed draft. The Bill is considered to be an anti-conversion law and it will stop individuals from converting people to other faiths by enticing or threatening. PG 5 UPGRAD ACQUIRES TGA, PLANS TO INVEST RS 100 CRORES KOLKATA: upGrad, India’s largest online higher education institute, today announced its entry into the country's hugely untapped test preparation market with the 100 per cent acquisition of 'The Gate Academy' (TGA), India’s premier coaching institute. TGA currently has 57 centers across various cities and towns and had 76 million video hours consumed by its almost 2 lakh enrolled learners for GATE and other entrance tests for various Public/Government Sector jobs. Today's strategic move marked the aggressive entry of higher edtech leader upGrad into the overall Test Prep market said upGrad Co-founders Ronnie Screwvala and Mayank Kumar through a statement, The current Data showed that just the Government Exam. CORONA METER INDIA TOTAL CASES: 9,194,510 TOTAL DEATH: 134,501 WORLD TOTAL CASES: 59,730,774 TOTAL DEATH: 1,405,753 NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that health and frontline workers will get priority when it comes to getting the Covid vaccine when it arrives, while asking for better centre-state cooperation for a seamless and transparent distribution mechanism. The Prime Minister was interacting with chief Ministers of all states and UTs after addressing CMs of eight worst-affected states. However, he subtly expressed his displeasure over the politics being played over the issue. The PM's assertion comes in the wake of a slew of vaccine makers reporting reasonable success rates. The Prime Minister, in no uncertain terms, made it clear that it is the "duty" of the nation to vaccinate frontline workers first. He also stressed that the vaccine distribution system must be transparent and thus allay the fears of many Indians. The PM is learnt to have said that the priority list will be created in three phases where health workers pressed into Covid duty will PM Narendra Modi during the virtual meeting through video conferencing in New Delhi, Tuesday. be the first to get the vaccine followed by police personnel, sanitation workers and the elderly population. And then, the PM is believed to have articulated, the vaccines will go to those with co-morbidities. The idea behind this is to ensure those who actually are in most dire need of the vaccine, get it first. Meanwhile, the Centre has already sought a list for all states and union territories of frontline workers -- doctors, nurses, medical assistants among others -- in their respective areas. He has asked states to start working on cold storage facilities for the vaccine, during the course of the virtual meeting today. To a query by a chief minister during the meeting about the status of the vaccine, Prime Minister Modi is believed to have said that the distribution system needs to be in place before the vaccine arrives. He refused to give any false hope while assuring that the scientists are doing their best. He also said no price for the vaccine has been decided upon, as yet. He said Two decomposed dead bodies recovered from a flat in Girish Park KOLKATA: There was an incident of road accident on R.G.Kar Road in the flyover in Ultadanga PS area on Tuesday at about 1.20 am. Pedestrian Susmita Dey (F/19yrs) resident of Ajoy Nagar, DumDum was injured. Tyre of the front wheel of a running L.G.V. burst suddenly and caused injury to the passing by pedestrian. She was undergoing treatment at R G Kar Medical College and Hospital. There was an incident of unnatural deaths in Girish Park PS area on Monday at about 6.50 pm. At the 2nd floor of a G+4 storied building, at 49/2B, Ram Dulal Sarkar Street, Kol-06. Biswajit Mitra (M/71 yrs.) S/oLate N. Mitra 49/2B, Ram Dulal Sarkar Street, Kol-06 and Shipra Mitra (F/68 yrs.) W/o-Biswajit Mitra 49/2B, Ram Dulal Sarkar Street, Kol6 were found dead. Police broke open the door and found both in decomposed state. These dead bodies were taken to R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital and declared brought dead there. No suicide note recovered so far. There was an incident of road accident on E. M. Bypass near Science City Gate No. 3 in Pragati Maidan PS area on Monday at about 3.35 pm. Kallol Ghosh (M/30 yrs.) a Civic Volunteer of Tiljala Traffic Guard was injured in the incident. A motor cycle dashed the on duty Civic Volunteer. He was taken to CNMC Hospital and discharged after necessary treatment. Local Police took charge of the involved M/Cycle along with the rider. There was an incident of unnatural deaths in Garfa Park PS area on Monday at about 8.50 pm. In a shanty at Garfa 3 Lane near Vivek Nagar Shishu Udyan Math, Kol-75 a Rickshaw Puller Dilip Sardar (M/43 yrs) was found hanging from bamboo structure with help of a piece of cloth. He was declared brought dead by the doctors of SSKM Hospital. No suicide note recovered so far. On the other hand, number of arrest for deliberate violation of Safety Restrictions since 24.11.2020: Total arrest– 33, people booked for not using face mask–77, people prosecuted for spitting in public place–07 Baisakhi amused and bewildered in Agnimitra's remarks KOLKATA: Baisakhi Banerjee, the close companion of former Kolkata Mayor Sovan Chatterjee, today took strong exception to the remarks of BJP state Women wing President and renowned fashion designer Agnimitra Paul describing it as amusing and bewildering. In a lengthy reply to the remarks of Paul about the importance of Banerjee in BJP following her joining the party last year along with the former Mayor and reportedly stating that she was no match to Sovan Chatterjee in terms of his political maturity and acume and importance within the BJP, Banerjee questioned the political background of Agrimitra Paul before joining BJP except that she was a well known Fashion Designer. 'If I remember correctly when Agnimitra Paul joined BJP, she had only one identity- a fashion designer of some repute. As far as I know you had no political identity, nor played any effective political role. Yet you are blessed to be entrusted with the mammoth job of heading Mohiia Morcha of BJP ', Banerjee in a long statement in her social media platform said here today. Referring to several other issues relating to Paul's steep rise in the political inner circle of BJP in West Bengal, Banerjee who till recently was the Principal of a city college, also pointed out that as a member of a political party she also fiercely appeared in a number of National local television channels. India has options but a decision will be taken on what he called 'scientific basis'. PM Modi also sought cooperation between the Centre and the states in the fight against Coronavirus. Sources say he expressed his displeasure about politics over the same. "I urge all the states to send their detailed plans soon on how they plan to take vaccines to the lowest levels. It will help us make informed decisions as your experiences are valuable," said the Prime Minister. India bans 43 Chinese mobile apps over national security concerns Hawker Sangram committee organise a rally at Kolkata Corporation.on Tuesday. Prabir Bhattacharya Subrata Mukherjee releasing Indian Postage Stamp at Kolkata press club on Tuesday. Prabir Bhattacharya Left front Chairman Biman Bose, CPI(M) State secretary Surja Kanta Mishra, CPI(M) leader Md. Salim paid tribute to Eminent artist Soumitra Chatterjee at his house in Kolkata onTuesday NEW DELHI: Continuing with its ban orders on Chinese apps, the Indian government on Tuesday blocked 43 new mobile apps, including shopping website AliExpress owned by e-commerce behemoth Alibaba. Other popular apps that have been banned include WeWorkChina, CamCard and Snack. These apps have been banned by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) for engaging in activities which are "prejudicial to the sovereignty and integrity of the country, defence, security of the state and public order". The ministry banned these apps based on reports received from the Indian Cyber Crime Co-ordination Centre, Ministry of Home Affairs. The Indian government had on September 2 banned 118 apps on national security concerns, including the immensely popular PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) Mobile, Baidu and couple of virtual private networks (VPNs) that allowed access to TikTok that was banned earlier. Other popular banned apps were Baidu Express Edition, ShareSave by Xiaomi, WeChat Work, Tencent Weiyun, Tencent Watchlist, Alipay, GO SMS Pro, ZAKZAK Pro and Live, Smart AppLock and Ludo World-Ludo Superstar, among others In July, the government barred 47 Chinese apps from operating in the country, which were largely clones of the 59 apps that were banned in June. On June 29, the government banned 59 Chinese apps, including TikTok, WeChat, UC Browser and Xiaomi's Mi Community, over national security concerns amid the border tussle in Eastern Ladakh which led to the death of 20 Indian soldiers in a bloody clash with Chinese PLA troops in the Galwan Valley in June. Other Chinese apps in the banned list were Club Factory, SHAREit, Likee, Mi Video Call (Xiaomi), Weibo, Baidu, BIGO LIVE and more. MORE ON PAGE 7 ‘Delhi Crime’ wins International Emmy for Best Drama Series T he web series Delhi Crime has won the Best Drama Series award at the 48th International Emmy Awards, held virtually this year owing to the ongoing Covid pandemic. The show becomes the first Indian programme to win an International Emmy. The news was confirmed by the International Emmy Awards on its official page on Twitter. ""The International Emmy for Drama Series goes to 'Delhi Crime' produced by @GoldenKaravan / @skglobalent / @NetflixIndia," tweeted @iemmys, with the tags #India!, #iemmys and #iemmyWIN. Writer-director Richie Mehta's seven-episode series has Shefali Shah in the central role of DCP Vartika Chaturvedi, and narrates the story of investigation in the aftermath of the heinous Delhi gang-rape of December 2012. Shefali posted a video on her official Instagram page that shows the award being announced. As soon as the show is declared winner in the Drama Series category, Shefali can be heard reacting with delirious joy. Although we don't see her in the video, she can be heard shrieking "Oh my God!" several times. "OMGGGGGGGGGGGG OMGGGGGGGGGGGG OMGGGGGGGGGGGG," she wrote as caption to the video. In his acceptance speech, writer-director Mehta thanked all the producers, the OTT platform Netflix that streams the show, the casting crew and the cast, with a special mention of Shefali Shah, his parents and wife, the Sundance Film Festival, and the Delhi police team headed by "Neeraj Kumar and the amazing Chhaya Sharma" that helped them bring the show alive. "The project was led by women, it was financed and put together and released by women, this crime was solved by women, this is for the courage of those women and all the women who not only endure the violence that so many men inflict on them, but then are tasked with solving the problem," said Mehta. He paid a special tribute to the victim and her mother. "Finally the fearless and tireless hero of all mothers and her daughter. Not a day goes by when I don't think about you both and what the world subjected you two to. And I hope none of us ever forget that," he said. The fictionalised crime drama series also features Rasika Dugal, Adil Hussain, Rajesh Tailang, Avijit Dutt, Gopal Dutt, Jaya Bhattacharya, Denzil Smith and Yashaswini Dayama in pivotal roles. Adil Hussain tweeted his congratulations to the whole team. "Delhi Crime wins the Emmy @iemmys International Awards for Best Drama. Congratulations @RichieMehta unmatchable @ShefaliShah dearest @rajeshtailang and whole team Big Big Congratulations!" he wrote, with smiley and fireworks emojis. "OMG .... #delhicrime grabs @iemmys. Congratulations to the whole team," tweeted Rajesh Tailang. IT IS BORN OUT OF SADNESS, ANGER: DIR MUMBAI: Indo-Canadian filmmaker Richie Mehta is humbled by the International Emmy win for his web series, Delhi Crime, and says it is the culmination of years of work by hundreds of people. Celebrating the win, Mehta, director and screenwriter of the series, said: "I never anticipated getting here -- it's the culmination of years of work by hundreds of people, sometimes in total isolation and defiance." "'Delhi Crime' is a complete labour of love, born out of sadness, anger, frustration, and ultimately, compassion. The entire team from start to finish should take a bow for giving their all to this vision," he added. The web series has won the Best Drama Series award at the 48th International Emmy Awards. The show has become the first Indian programme to win an International Emmy. The Netflix series is fictionalised version based on the horrific December 2012 Delhi bus gangrape case and follows the investigation by the Delhi Police. It captures the complexities of the scrutiny, and the emotional toll on the investigating team. Over six years of research went into the making of the series. PG 10