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Imphal Times Supplementary issue Page No. 3
JFA expresses grief over No political speeches at Ram Mandir Bhoomi pujan function
journalist Prakash Kr
Jha’s demise By Raju Vernekar The bhoomi pujan will be
done by the PM between
Mumbai, Aug 3:
12:30 PM and 12:40 PM on
While Prime Minister the auspicious ‘abhijeet
IT News Narendra Modi will be muhurat’. There will be
Guwahati, Aug 3: attending the bhoomi pujan limited number of VIPs on
(ground-breaking ceremony) stage and at bhoomi pujan
Journalists’ Forum Assam for the Ram temple in spot, given social distancing
(JFA) expresses grief at the Ayodhya on 5 August, the norms and Covid-19
demise of senior scribe function will be religious and protocols. Modi will be in
Prakash Kr Jha last night (1 no political announcements Ayodhya, for nearly three
August 2020) at Guwahati will be made. hours and will leave for New
medical college hospital. Born According to sources, Modi Delhi by 2.30 PM.
in Bihar and started his will be reaching Ayodhya The Vishwa Hindu Parishad,
career in the media with the between 11 AM to 11.15 AM. has invited the select
Patna based independent becomes the tenth Assam On reaching Ayodya, he will invitees including RSS chief
nationalist English daily based media persons who offer prayers at “Hanuman Mohan Bhagwat, Uttar
Indian Nation (now defunct), died in the Covid-19 lockdown Garhi” for about three Pradesh chief minister Yogi
Jha also worked for Hindi daily period. Earlier the printer- minutes. He will be at Adityanath and Ram Temple
Sanmarg for its Kolkata publisher of Asomiya Khabar “Hanuman Garhi” totally for Trust head Nritya Gopal Das.
edition. Later he shifted to (Rantu Das) died on 3 July, 7 minutes and then will Some of these VIPs are
Guwahati to work for Hindi who incidentally became the proceed to the venue of the expected to speak on the
daily Uttarkal. Jha also worked first victim of novel corona main function. A team of occasion, the general
for two prominent Hindi virus infection in northeast SPGs has already reached secretary of the trust,
dailies Purbanchal Prahari and India, said JFA president Ayodhya ahead of Modi’s Champat Rai, said. Sunni Central Waqf Board being closely monitored in premises.
Dainik Purboday. He was Rupam Barua and secretary visit. Besides, the religious heads Chairman Jaffer Farukhi, local Ayodhya where, the number In Ayodhya, total cases have
proficient in translation from Nava Thakuria, adding that The Hanumangarhi temple, is of different faith including social worker Mohmed of positive cases has surged, crossed 1194 (544 active
English to Hindi language. Jha Assam also lost Ripul Kalita, the famous temple en route S h a n k a r a c h a r y a Shariff and Iqbal Ansari, the as testing has been increased cases). So far, 36,000 tests
(64) left behind his wife and Manik Sarma, Pijush Kanti to the proposed Ram temple. representing Hindus, the main litigant in ahead of the bhoomi pujan have been carried out and an
three daughters with a host of Das, Mozahedul Haque, It was visited earlier by Rahul heads of Sufi sect, the Ayodhya land dispute function. Many security-men over all positivity rate is 3% .
well-wishers. His cremation is Padmeswar Chitrakar, Bhaskar Gandhi in 2016, Priyanka Christianity, Jainism, case. The invitations have posted at the Janmabhoomi Fourteen people have died in
scheduled to take place in Dutta, Pranjal Hazarika and Gandhi in 2019 and their Sikhisms, Islam and been extended over premises are being tested to Ayodhya due to coronavirus
Bhootnath crematorium Dimpi Kashyap during the grandmother Indira Gandhi Buddhisms have been telephone. eliminate the possibility of any while the recovery rate stands
tomorrow.Prakash Kr Jha pandemic. many years ago. invited. The list also includes The coronavirus situation is infected person on the at53 percent.
Living with the pandemic: India-made Rakhis cause China
Community transmission has started!!! losses worth Rs 4,000 crore
August. No tuitions, no often come as a shock as two the spread. We must be IT Correspondent the month of Shravana (on not a single rakhi was
games, no meetings, and closely associating ready for any adverse Mumbai, Aug 3: a full moon day). imported from China. Even
nothing; meaning people individuals as that of a mother consequences, meaning On 10 June, the Chinese raw material was not
have to stay home at all times. and child would have different we must be prepared at all Even as “Raksha Bandhan”, Confederation of All India imported. The National
The dangers have heightened test results of COVID-19. times. The severity must was celebrated across the Traders (CAIT) had given a President of CAIT, B.C.
as certain places have recently Wherefore the mode of be heedfully realised; and country on Monday, most of call for celebrating Rakhi as Bhartia, and National
been declared as containment transmission is really baffling. with it the necessity to put the people preferred Indian “Hindustani Rakhi” this General Secretary Praveen
zones. With it, many localities One may ask if the doctors, our fight against the rakhis and there was also a year which has turned out Khandelwal said that
have been sealed with no organisations and pandemic into practice. trend of purchasing them on to be a success. With the according to an estimate
movements allowed. government are only jabbering Surely you can’t go line, due to social distancing cooperation of CAIT around around 50 crore rakhis are
Whatever the reasons or at something which they do shopping anymore, nor go protocol. one crore, Rakhis were made sold every year at about Rs
By - Janghaolun Haokip the failure in policies and not really know. In addition, out for fun. The directives According to reports, shop across the country using 6000 crore, while the China-
programmes to combat the everyone everywhere is clearly stated no outdoor keepers depended on Indian goods and made by made Rakhis or products
The #Imphaltimes spread of the pandemic, the talking about COVID-19; its activities except on really indigenous supplies and no women working in the worth around Rs 4000 crore
headline on day two of situation we are in right now remedies, such as drinking hot serious matters. imported Chinese rakhis commercial sectors, at were imported were being
august reads “Community is something which has raised water, garlic, exposure to sun, Inevitably, the reports were sold. It was stated to homes, and in Anganwadis. imported, for the past many
transmission has started, several troubling questions and the most recent ‘staying in the coming days will be a big blow to China-made CAIT had engaged woman years.
we should all take that are negatively affecting in water’ for a stipulated worsen, if not a terrible rakhis causing a an artisans to prepare rakhis About the next step to
responsibility in fighting the minds of the people. The amount of time without the indication towards an estimated loss to the tune of from seeds, pulses, rice, boycott Chinese goods,
COVID-19.” For the next elderly people I know are necessary evidence to imminent havoc. The Rs 4,000 crore, to the wheat and foodgrain, Bhartia and Khandelwal said
couple minutes I was always murmuring of ‘end- support their passionate guidelines will have more Chinese manufacturers madhubani paintings, that on 9 August (Quit India
wondering “but how?” the times’ and the ‘curse of the claims. lists included. But exporting rakhis to India. handicraft items and even movement Day), traders
next morning I read it in some gods’. Parents are worried Nevertheless, the entire whatever it is, stay calm. With this India also broke cow dung. The “Modi from all over the country will
other newspapers; the news about so many things, and on world wants the pandemic to Do something you love at the myth that it cannot rachis” were made in Delhi, start the “China Quit India”
was everywhere; COVID-19 the other hand the youths too go. But what do we do when it home, discover your successfully boycott Madhubani painting rakhi in campaign. On this day,
had intruded and claimed are regretting all the fun they worsens; when at first you hobbies or you could Chinese goods. Bihar, seed rakhi in Pune, traders will gather at more
our territory! would miss. The leaders may worry about people who are make your parents proud Raksha Bandhan is a fabric rakhi in Jaipur, tribal than 800 locations across
But how did the wheel as well be extremely perturbed coming home from across the by doing all the house traditional Hindu festival products rakhi in the country and shout the
turn when the recovery rate by this sudden spike in the country and abroad but now chores. Keep calm celebrated in India, Nepal Jamshedpur (Jharkhand) and slogan of ‘China Quit
was higher than the number effect of the pandemic. One you have to literally worry because the pandemic will and other parts of the the one using tea leaves was India’.
of infections that showed may therefore believe that we about yourself too even while go. It will disappear just Indian subcontinent. On made in Tinsukia (Assam). On the other hand, after a
that the pandemic will have come to a somber mark you are staying put at home. as it appeared. It will this day, sisters tie rakhi or All these years, the Chinese long wait of 500 years, on
somehow go? If I remember in our fight against the What can you do when you relieve our hearts as much an amulet around their rakhis made of foam, faux, the foundation laying
right, the rate of recovery pandemic. are only worried about the as it had burdened. Those brothers’ wrists, as a symbol pearls, drops, threads and ceremony of the Ram temple
went as high as sixty per Furthermore, the recent front liners and people who of us who didn’t go in of a brother’s responsibility other decorative material in Ayodhya on 5 August 5,
cent which was very much rise in the impact is a matter of are working close to the with fate to the dark to care for and protect them. were in great demand. traders all over the country
on a positive note. concern not just because it ‘contained’ and ‘quarantined’ dungeon of the pandemic The festival is usually A variety of new-designer will light a lamp or clatter
Consequently, there was has threatened lives on an but now you literally do not will still be alive. We will celebrated on the last day of Rakhis were made from bells in their shops and
hope and I believe we were incomparably larger scale than know where the virus is and it once again live a normal the Hindu lunar calendar in Indian goods and this year homes.
all celebrating silently with the first wave, but also could strike you anytime and life.
eagerness of having to go because it came as a fire- from anywhere. One thing is And with a light heart: Monsoon to get active over
back to leading a normal life; service to the almost burning sure, even if the Pandemic There is no need to panic,
normal office hours, normal political scenario of the state. does not come to physically my friend, no need to be
schooling, normal activities, Had it not been COVID-19, the or biologically harm us, it has careless too. Take it easy parts of central and western
and normal fun among other state would now be already started doing a great and just be responsible,
normal-s. “#dashmurdabad” or harm to our mental and be a decent human being.
However, the news of “#dashmustresign”. It came in emotional health. It has Just stay home, do India from tomorrow
community transmission a time when the BJP rendered us victims of the something you love or if
came as a shocking shock government is challenged and imminent threat it poses to there is nothing you love
to many people. The once the Chief Minister is our health and our entire at all at home, just go out Agency north Bay of Bengal and three to four days and lash
high hopes now should die questioned. One may ask existence, not to forget to to your backyard or your New Delhi, Aug 3: move into Odisha, Goa, coastal Karnataka and
and people must once again whether it is a mere think about the validity, veranda, but the Chhattisgarh and Madhya Kerala with widespread
brace themselves for coincidence or the more credibility, and morality of washroom must remain The India Meteorological Pradesh, and then to central rainfall.
another wave of uncertainty critical and cynical our system of governance. your last option still, and Department (IMD) says the Maharashtra and Gujarat, The weather department has
due to the pandemic. In my intellectuals may ask if there But in the end, we have to if you plan to cross your monsoon will enter an active bringing heavy rainfall. issued a red warning for
village, we had to hold are any villainy links between live with it somehow. Be it the gate, please remember you phase over parts of central Jharkhand and Gangetic coastal Maharashtra and
another meeting wherein we the two. face of a political conspiracy are on a mission to and western India from West Bengal may also Goa for tomorrow. Heavy to
framed certain guidelines What is also puzzling about or be it a real threat, the exterminate the world. tomorrow bringing heavy receive moderate rainfall on very heavy rainfall is
that clearly professed that the pandemic is that its stated sudden spike has to be The pandemic will go, rains over the next three-four Tuesday and Wednesday. expected today over Mumbai
the time for being ‘normal’ modes of transmission, in endured somehow. People and humans will stay. Just days. A monsoon trough is likely and isolated extremely heavy
has yet again come to an most cases, belie what we must be cautioned to take make sure you deserve to It said, a low-pressure area to shift southwards and showers on Tuesday and
end, or at least up to sixth of witness in reality. The results precautions to help combat stay on. is likely to develop over the strengthen during the next Wednesday.