YK MYK THE MISSING LINK BETWEEN ELON MUSK AND INDIAN ENTREPRENEURS OPINION Rs. 3 PATNA SATURDAY, 30 APRIL, 2022 PG-12, YEAR—8, ISSUE— 155 (RNI NO: BIHENG / 2014 / 59124) IPL 2022 MAKING THE RIGHT 'PITCH' FOR THRILLING CONTESTS SPORTS Morning India Thundering, rains predicted in parts of J’khand from May 1 Hemant Sutradhar SANJAY SAHAY AT A GLANCE PAKUR: MAN HANGS SELF AFTER BEATING WIFE TO DEATH PAKUR: A 38-year-old man allegedly hanged himself after beating his wife to death in Jharkhand's Pakur district, police said on Friday. The incident happened in Kotalpokhar village in Maheshpur police station area, they said. "The incident took place on Thursday night following a fight between the husband and the wife. The husband beat his wife to death. Then, he hanged himself from a guava tree near his house," said Maheshpur police station in-charge Sunil Kumar Ravi. The couple has six children. Ravi said he will personally provide rations to the children for a month. KEJRIWAL MEETS MAMATA BANERJEE IN DELHI NEW DELHI: Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal on Friday met his West Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee here, their first meeting after the recent assembly polls in five states. The two leaders met at the official residence of TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee and the meeting lasted for about half an hour. CORONA METER INDIA TOTAL CASES: 43,072,486 TOTAL DEATHS: 523,753 WORLD TOTAL CASES: 512,393,276 TOTAL DEATHS: 6,257,152 RANCHI: Several eastern districts of the state would witness isolated thunder with gusty wind reaching upto 30 to 40 kilometre per hour from Sunday. Among the districts are Godda, Sahibganj, Pakur, Dumka, Deoghar, Jamtara, Giridih, Dhanbad , Bokaro, East Singhbhum, West Singhbhum and SaraikelaKharsawan, Khunti, Ranchi, Ramgarh, Hazaribag and Koderma. The weather department stated that change in weather would bring down the temperature by three to four degree centigrade. It may be stated here that Jharkhand has witnessed scanty rainfall ever since March 1. According to the weather department 12 districts has registered no rainfall while the remaining 12 have recorded large deficient rains. Meanwhile heat wave would be registered at isolat- ed places in Garwah, Palamu, Chatra, Ranchi, West Singhbhum and East Singhbum on Saturday. Jamshedpur and Daltonganj witnessed heat wave with the daytime temperature reaching 44.1 degree centigrade and 45.7 degree centigrade respectively. Severe heat wave was recorded in Girdih district while severe warm night was recorded in Bokaro Thermal. IMD scientist SC Mandal stated Ranchi and the surrounding districts would witness partly cloudy sky with the possibility of light rainfall. The sky would remain clear from May 5. The fortnightly prediction have stated that overall above normal daytime temperature would be registered in the state and would remain in the range of 36 to 45 degree centigrade. The minimum temperature is also expected to remain above normal and would be between 25 and 27 degree centigrade. INDIA'S PEAK POWER DEMAND TOUCHES ALL-TIME HIGH 207,111 MW A clash erupted between two groups near in Patiala on Friday. ANI 4 injured in Patiala clashes, curfew imposed PATIALA: A curfew has been imposed in Punjab's Patiala where violent clashes took place between two groups earlier today leaving four persons injured. The curfew will remain in force from 7 pm on Friday till 6 am on Saturday (April 30). As per Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Patiala Nanak Singh, four people have been injured in the clash. Stones were hurled and swords were brandished as clashes broke out on Friday afternoon when the Shiv Sena was carrying out a march near Kali Mata temple in the city. The SSP also apprised that the groups did not have permission for the processions. "Police took suitable action, both the groups were intimated earlier that they aren't allowed to take out a procession. They sought permission but were refused. Four people were injured and an investigation is underway," Nanak Singh said. Further, he added that due to some rumours, the atmosphere of the procession became tense. Meanwhile, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann urged people to maintain law and order at all costs besides upholding the long traditional love, peace, brotherhood and harmony. As per an official statement from Chief Minister's office, Mann termed the incident as "highly deplorable" and "extremely unfortunate" and said that it needs to be condemned by one and all in the strictest possible words. Speaking to ANI, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha said, "I want to clarify that this unfortunate violent clash in Patiala today was not between two groups but the workers of two political parties - on one side, there were people from Shiv Sena and Congress and on the other side, people from Shiromani Akali Dal." He said that the anti-social elements of both parties got involved in this clash, created violence and attempted to soil the atmosphere of Punjab. "Any person attempting to disturb Punjab's peace will not be spared. Police have restored law and order immediately." Chadha said. Further, the AAP MP informed that several people have been arrested in the matter. NEW DELHI: Amid severe heatwave sweeping across India, the peak power demand in the country touched an all-time high of 207,111 MW on Friday, the Ministry of Power said. "The maximum All India demand met touched 207111 MW at 14:50hrs today, an all time high so far!," the ministry tweeted. Power demand has been on the rise ever since the onset of the summer season this year. The power demand met this month up to April 28 increased by 12.1 per cent to 204.653 GW from 182.559 GW during same period previous year, the ministry said. The maximum allIndia demand met on Thursday was 204,653 MW. Meanwhile, Delhi Power Minister Satyendar Jain said on Friday that there is severe coal crisis across the country and many power plants have just one day's coal stoks left. Raising the alarm over the ongoing coal crisis, Jain said, "No (power) backup (is there)... (the) coal backup should be for over 21 days, but at many power plants, less than a day's (stock) is left." China allows some Indian students to return BEIJING: The Chinese side has expressed its willingness to consider facilitating the return of Indian students to China on a need-assessed basis, said the Indian Embassy in China on Friday. This comes after the meeting of External Affairs Minister of India, Dr. S. Jaishankar with the State Councilor and Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang Yi on 25 March. Notably, the Indian students pursuing medicine from Chinese Universities are unable to return to China to attend classes. In order to facilitate this, the Indian Embassy intends to prepare a list of such students which will be shared with the Chinese side for their consideration, said the Embassy in its statement. The Embassy also directed the Indian students to provide the necessary information by filling up a Google Form by May 8, 2022. "Once the collated information is shared with the Chinese side, they would consult relevant Chinese departments to verify the list and indicate whether the identified students can travel to China to complete the course. This coordination process would be carried out in a time-bound manner," read the statement. As per the Embassy, the Chinese side has also con- veyed that eligible students should unconditionally abide by the Covid-19 prevention measures, and has agreed to bear all expenses related to Covid-19 prevention measures by themselves. The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Thursday said that it has been regularly raising the issue of Indian students pursuing medicine from Chinese Universities being unable to return to China to attend classes, but has not gotten any positive response from the other side. The remarks were made by MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi in response to questions citing reports according to which China is facilitating the return of students from countries like Sri Lanka. "I have seen some reports, but I don't want to speculate here that some students are going back. We are concerned about students in India and on that, we don't have any movement yet... so if the Chinese are looking at options on how they can get students in, I sincerely hope, that Indian students would also benefit from that mechanism," Bagchi said. "As regards the issue of students, yes, this is something which has come up a couple of times. We have discussed, I think even on this forum we have responded. During the visit of Chinese FM Wang Yi, I think the EAM himself mentioned that we had taken it up," the MEA spokesperson added. Core industries growth slows to 4.3 pc in March NEW DELHI: Growth of India's eight core sectors, which include electricity, cement, steel, fertilisers and refinery, slowed to 4.3 per cent in March from 6 per cent in the previous months, the government data showed on Friday. The core industries sector growth has declined sharply due to the poor performance of coal, natural gas, crude oil and steel sectors. Coal output dropped by 0.1 per cent in March 2022 against 6.8 per cent growth recorded in the previous month. Crude oil production dropped by 3.4 per cent during the month the decline in production in the previous month was 2.2 per cent. According to data released by the Ministry of IT MAY TAKE 12 YEARS FOR INDIAN ECONOMY TO OVERCOME COVID LOSSES: RBI MUMBAI: The Indian economy is likely to take over 12 years to overcome the COVID-19 losses, according to a report released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday. PG 5 Commerce & Industry, the cumulative growth rate of Index of Eight Core Industries (ICI) during April-March 2021-22 was 10.4 per cent (provisional) as compared to the corresponding period of the last financial year. The growth data for February 2022 has been revised upward at 6 per cent from 5.8 per cent reported earlier. The final growth rate for December 2021 has been revised to 4.1 per cent from its provisional level of 3.8 per cent. The Office of Economic Adviser, Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade released the Index of Eight Core Industries (ICI) for the Month of March 2022. MORE ON PG 9