YK MYK SONIA IS STILL CLUELESS ON DEALING WITH FACTIONAL FIGHTS IN CONGRESS OPINION Rs. 5 RANCHI FRIDAY, 6 MAY, 2022 PG-12, YEAR—11, ISSUE—352 (RNI NO: JHAENG / 2012 / 44137) ‘I STRONGLY BELIEVE THAT HEALTH AND HAPPINESS GO HAND IN HAND’ PEOPLE & LIFE Morning India Criminals loot cash, India strongly objects to WHO’s claim of deaths jewellery from shop AT A GLANCE SC PERMITS RELEASE OF FILM ‘JHUND’ ON OTT, STAYS HC ORDER NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday permitted the release of Amitabh Bachchan-starrer Hindi movie 'Jhund' on the OTT platform on May 6 as it stayed the Telangana High Court status quo order. A bench of Justices Indira Banerjee and AS Bopanna stayed the interim order of status quo passed by the Telangana High Court on April 29. The movie will be released on ZEE5. In its order, the bench stated, "Prima facie appears that the impugned order is clearly against the balance of convenience. The High Court has overlooked the principles with regard to the grant of interim relief. In any case, claim if any of the Respondent is a money claim." HANSINI MATHAN RAJAN WINS U-13 GIRLS TITLE IN AUSTRIA NEW DELHI: Indian paddler Hansini Mathan Rajan has returned with two medals, including a gold in the U-13 girls event, from the World Table Tennis Youth Contender tournament held Austria. CORONA METER INDIA TOTAL CASES: 43,091,393 TOTAL DEATHS: 523,975 WORLD TOTAL CASES: 515,456,666 TOTAL DEATHS: 6,270,168 NEW DELHI: India has been consistently objecting to the methodology adopted by the WHO to project excess mortality estimates based on mathematical models, the Union Health Ministry said on Thursday. "Despite India's objection to the process, methodology, and outcome of this modelling exercise, the WHO has released the excess mortality estimates without adequately addressing India's concerns. India had also informed the WHO that in view of the availability of authentic data published through Civil Registration System (CRS) by Registrar General of India (RGI), mathematical models should not be used for projecting excess mortality numbers for India," it said. Based on reports submitted by states and UTs, Vital Statistics of India, based on the CRS, are published annually by the RGI and the last such national report for the year 2019 was published in June 2021 and for 2020, on May 3, 2022, a Ministry statement said, adding that India "firmly believes that such robust and accurate data generated through legal framework of a member state must be respected, accepted and used by WHO rather than relying on less than accurate mathematical SANJAY SAHAY CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC projection based on non-official sources of data". Underlining that the WHO till date has not responded to India's contention, it said that India had pointed out the inconsistencies in the criteria and assumption that WHO used to classify countries into Tier I and II as well as questioning the very basis for placing India in the latter, which India "doesn't deserve". It also noted that WHO CAA will be implemented once COVID ends: Amit Shah SILIGURI: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday slammed the Trinamool Congress for spreading rumours about the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and said that the Central government will implement it once the COVID-19 pandemic ends. The Home Minister, who is on a two-day visit to West Bengal, said that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee wants that the refugees who have come to Bengal should not get citizenship. "TMC is spreading rumours about CAA that it won't be implemented on the ground, but I would like to say that we will implement CAA on the ground the moment the COVID-19 pandemic ends. Mamata didi only wants that the infiltration continues and the refugees who have come to Bengal should not get citi- zenship. CAA was reality, is reality and is going to be a reality," said Shah, while addressing Paschim Bango Samman Samavesh in Siliguri, West Bengal. The CAA allows persecuted minorities belonging to the Hindu, Sikh, Jain, Buddhist, Parsi, and Christian communities from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan to avail Indian citizenship. Shah also thanked the people of Bengal for helping raise BJP's tally in Assembly to 77 from three and said that the party will continue to fight against the "atrocities" of TMC. had also admitted that data in respect of 17 Indian states was obtained from some websites and media reports to use in their mathematical model. "Throughout the process of dialogue, engagement and communication with WHO, WHO has projected different excess mortality figures for India citing multiple models, which itself raises questions on the validity and robustness of the models used," it said. The ministry also said that India objected to the use of Global Health Estimates (GHE) 2019 in one of the models used by WHO for calculating excess mortality estimates for India. "GHE itself is an estimate. Therefore, a modelling approach which provides mortality estimates on the basis of another estimate, while totally disregarding the actual data available within the country, exhibits lack of academic rigour." DELIMITATION COMMISSION SUBMITS REPORT: RECOMMENDS 43 ASSEMBLY SEATS FOR JAMMU, 47 FOR KASHMIR NEW DELHI: The Delimitation Commission for Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday finalised the delimitation order and submitted it to the Election Commission of India wherein it has recommended 43 Assembly seats for Jammu division and 47 seats to the Kashmir region. For the first time, nine Assembly Constituencies (ACs) have been reserved for the Scheduled Tribes, out of which, six are in Jammu region and three in Kashmir. The constitution of the erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir state had no provision for the reservation of seats for STs. CM initiates a football culture in J’khand by encouraging women football players MI NEWS SERVICE RANCHI: Anjali Munda, Salina Kumari, Sudha Ankita Tirkey, Astam Oraon, Poornima Kumari, Neetu Linda and Anita Kumari all seven women soccer players from Jharkhand have been selected among the 33 for the Under-17 FIFA World Cup 2022 special camp. At present, all of them are receiving training in the training camp being organized at Jamshedpur. Out of these, the best 18 players will be selected for the Under-17 FIFA World Cup team 2022. These daughters of the soil are a matter of pride for our state Jharkhand. They showed tremendous courage and patience during the pandemic times. Now, they are all set to represent the nation. The state government under the leadership of Chief Minister Hemant Soren has also shown the much needed willingness to make their dreams come true. Support shall be extended to the selected candidates coming out of the camps by the Department of Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sports and Youth Affairs. Expressing gratitude to the Chief Minister, Poornima, selected for the Under-17 FIFA World Cup said that they were taken care of during the pandemic period before that their training was affected due to covid infection at Goa. There was also a problem related to food. But the Chief Minister gave instructions for training them here in Jharkhand itself. She says she hails from Gumla and her village did not have the facilities for practice especially for the girls playing football yet she played. She has been playing for three years now. It is a pleasure for her to be a part of the training camp for the Under-17 FIFA World Cup 2022. RANCHI: Armed criminals on Thursday afternoon looted jewelries, cash and clothes worth over 25 lakhs from a shop in the Burdwan compound under the Lalpur police station area in Ranchi city. Police teams along with the city SP Anshuman Kumar arrived at the spot and conducted the initial investigation. The administration alerted all the police stations of the city and instructed the officers-in-charge to conduct anti-crime checking. The criminals were, however, not arrested till evening. The criminals had entered the Kangan Jewellers comprising jewellery and clothes wings in the afternoon. They first went to the clothes section and asked for clothes with high prices. Soon they took out a gun and asked the owner and the employees to stand facing the wall or else they would shoot. Two of the criminals went to the jewelry section and took the owner under control to loot the jewelries and the cash. After thoroughly searching the premises and picking the costly items the criminals fled away on bike. Even as the criminals took away the closed circuit television camera equipment police have clues of the criminals from the CCTV installed in the nearby areas. City SP said that police have gathered vital leads regarding the incident. He expressed hope that the criminals would be caught soon. Several police teams including the forensic science laboratory unit carried out investigation on the spot. RAHUL GANDHI LEAVES NEPAL AFTER 'CONTROVERSIAL' TRIP KATHMANDU: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi left for home from Kathmandu on Thursday evening after his 'controversial' stay in Nepal. Rahul Gandhi had arrived in Kathmandu on Monday to participate in the wedding function of his friend, Sumnima Udas, who earlier worked with the CNN and is believed to have become friends with the Congress leader when she was posted as India correspondent for the news channels. Soon after landing in Kathmandu, Rahul Gandhi was spotted at a nightclub with some friends of Sumnima on Monday night, triggering a myriad of reactions in India with the BJP.