Regd. No. Indore MP/ICD 216/2018-2020 BHOPAL INDORE MUMBAI UJJAIN PUNE * $")+ ) $* *%'"( *%( ) !#! & %!& " % %$ !% $ $ !# !% #$ $ ". # #$ $%& ! "& $" & " # $! '$ ! # ". ! #! () ' !& &# *" DALIT FAMILY FACES ‘WRATH’ OF MINISTER’S RELATIVES THE CRIME: They had not voted in favour of BJP in bypolls to 28 Assembly seats held recently Seeking justice, a Dalit family from Jalwasa village has been living under the open sky outside police superintendent’s office in Shivpuri for past few days. The family is seeking justice and action against the relatives of a minister Suresh Dhakad Rathkheda, who allegedly were harassing them for not voting in favour of BJP in recently held by-polls. Dhakad, the loyalist of Rajya Sabha Jyotiraditya member Scindia, has won the byelection from Pohri Assembly seat. • “We are voters of Pohri as. sembly constituency We were asked to vote on the lotus symbol for BJP candidate Rathkheda in the recent bypoll, but we instead gave our vote to BSP candidate. Since then we’ve been subjected to continuous torture by the relatives of Rathkheda, who won the election.” “We’ve been physically tortured by the minister’s relatives as well as implicated in a false case by them, just for not having voted on the lotus symbol,” alleged Gyani, the elderly head of the family, while talking to the media. One of the female members of the same family, Varsha who has been cooking food under the open sky with her two-monthold child in lap said, “We’ll not go back to our village Jalwasa until we get justice from the police. If we went back to the village, we’ll again be tortured by the minister’s relatives for having not voted for him. Our efforts to get justice from the local police sta- tion haven’t yielded fruits, as the police too are working under the pressure of relatives of Rathkheda,” alleged Varsha. Shivpuri additional SP Pravin Bhuria said, “The complainant's family has met me and alleged being tortured by a Dhakad family in their village. They have also accused Dhakad family of getting them implicated in a false case.” The AJK police station in-charge has been directed to probe into the family’s allegations and act accordingly, added Bhuria.• ‘Govt never spoke about vaccinating entire country’ The government's talks on Tuesday with the agitating farmers did not cut any ice as the latter rejected outright a suggestion by Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar to set up a tripartite committee to discuss the new farm laws. The farmers insisted that the government first repeal all the three farm laws and promulgate an Ordinance giving a legal guarantee that it will continue with the Minimum Support Price. The MSP gives a farmer an assurance that he would get the minimum price from the government for his produce even if prices crash in the market. 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Chouhan informed Modi that state and district-level coordination committees had been formed to handle vaccination against Covid19. The Union Health Ministry on Tuesday said that the government had never spoken about vaccinating the entire country for the coronavirus pandemic. At a press Union briefing, health secretary Rajesh Bhushan said that there might not even be a need to vaccinate the entire population and that it is important to discuss such scientific issues, based on factual information only . "I just want to make this clear that the government has never spoken about entire the vaccinating . country It's important that we discuss such scientific issues, based on factual information only," Rajesh Bhushan said when asked about a timeline for inocu. lating the entire country ICMR DG Balram Bhargava also said: "It would depend on the efficacy of the vaccine and our purpose is to break the chain of virus transmission and if we are able to vaccinate critical mass of people and break that transmission then we may not have to vaccinate the entire population." The ICMR DG also added that role of masks in curbing the spread of the virus is vitally important and will continue even after the vaccination. "Role of mask is vitally important and that will continue even after the vaccination because we are starting with a small population at a time. Therefore mask will be protective and continue to be used so as to help in breaking the chain of viral transmission," he said. POSITIVE percentage now stands at 11.28 Corona cases scaled new height in Indore on Tuesday as 595 samples out 5,274 returned positive during the day . The increase in cases visà-vis Monday was 53. Rate of positive patients was recorded at 11.28% while city's corona tally went up to 43,286. Four deaths were also reported during the day, taking toll to 767. According to the bulletin released by CMHO, reports of total samples received till Tuesday night was 5,18,563. As many as 4,629 samples tested on negative Tuesday . Department took 5,280 more samples for testing, including 3,004 RTPCR samples and 2,276 Rapid Antigen Tests. As many as 4,556 patients are under treatment in various hospitals of the city . Total 37,963 patients have been discharged so far. As many as 308 patients were added to the dislist patients charged on Tuesday as reconciliation. Health officials said that these patients were discharged from hospitals without informing the health department. # $% "$%' ! '* % ' $ & !$) # $( While the Covid-19 graph in Indore again went northward in November after coming down in October, the biggest relief is that the mortality rate went below one per cent for the first time since the outbreak of the disease. To be precise, the morality rate stood at .95% in November. As many as 8,572 people were found infected with the coronavirus in November of which only 81 died. A closer look at the Covid19 data of Indore revealed that the death rate is on the decline with each passing month. The mortality rate was highest in June when it stood at 8.12 per cent. After that sample testing grew and so did the monthly figure of positive cases. But the death rate due to the disease had started climbing down. The mortality rate was 3.06 per cent in July and 1.49 per cent in August. Even in September which saw the highest number of positive cases the mortality rate was 1.56 per cent which fell to 1.15 per cent in October. Since March 25 when first five people were found infected with coronavirus in the city, the average till August end was 83.87 patients per day . In September, nearly 11,225 more patients were found infected with Covid19. The average of infected cases in September was . 366.7 per day In the first week of October also the cases were very high. The highest positivity rate was reported on October 7. Oxford vaccine trial gets nod The Union government on Tuesday said it had found no reason to stop the Oxford vaccine trials in India after reviewing a Chennai volunteer's allegation of serious adverse effects, including memory loss and change in behavior. The Adar Poonawalla-led Serum Institute of India also said the vaccine was "safe and immunogenic" and the Data and Safety Monitoring Board and the Ethics Committee had "independently cleared" the trials after examining the complaint. Each society sets its own threshold of tolerance, just as each society has its holy cows. Attorney General K. K. Venugopal has the onerous responsibility of drawing the red line when it comes to the Apex Court. This time he has given his nod to initiate contempt of court proceedings against comic artist Rachita Taneja for tweets which were perceived as an "audacious assault and insult to the institution” of the Supreme Court, reports Bar and Bench. A law student took umbrage at Taneja's offerings which the that suggested "Supreme Court of India was biased towards the ruling party" and drew the AG’s attention to transgressions. Sample this: After the Supreme Court granted interim bail to journalist Arnab Goswami, Taneja, who operates the twitter handle @sanitarypanels, tweeted a car, toon depicting the BJP the Supreme Court, and a reporter with the text "Tu Janta Nahi Mera Baap Kaun Hai" (you don't know who my father is). In his letter seeking permission to initiate contempt proceedings against the cartoonist, law student Aditya Kashyap attached an excerpt of another tweet dated August 7 this year, which stated, “Let’s not forget how we got here.” 'In the memory of the man of pleasure' In a scoff at Pakistan Father Founding Muhammad Ali Jinnah, an alcoholic drink seems to have been named after him suggesting that he had ‘enjoyed’ activities that are forbidden in Islam like pool billiards, cigars, pork sausages as well as fine scotch, whiskey and gin. A Twitter user posted photos of a bottle of gin named ‘Ginnah’ after Jinnah. The label on the bottle reads, “In the memory of the man of pleasure who he was: Ginnah”. The agency could not confirm the veracity of the bottle. However, several Twitter users have been posting about it with ‘#Ginnah’. Mohammed Ali Jinnah was born on December 25, 1876, in Karachi, now in Pakistan, but then part of British-controlled India. He campaigned for an independent Pakistan and became its first leader. He is known there as ‘Quaid-I Azam’ or ‘Great Leader’ in Pakistan. “Mohammed Ali Jinnah was the founder of Pakistan that came into being in 1947 as a secular state,” the back label of the bottle read. Navy successfully test-fires naval version of BrahMos missile A naval version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile was successfully test fired from a stealth destroyer of the Indian Navy in the Bay of Bengal on Tuesday as part of a series of trials of the weapon, officials said. A similar test firing of the missile was conducted by the Indian Navy in the Arabian Sea six weeks back. "The BrahMos anti-ship missile was successfully launched by INS Ranvijay and it hit the target ship at maximum range with pinpoint accuracy," Indian Navy Spokesperson Commander Vivek Madhwal said. BrahMos Aerospace, an India-Russian joint venture, produces the supersonic cruise missile that can be launched from submarines, ships, aircraft, or from land platforms.