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  • Belarusian airways to launch weekly flights on Delhi-Minsk route

    By Geeta Mohan: Belavia, the flag provider of Belarus, is all set to launch its maiden continuous flight connecting Minsk with Delhi on August 11. The service will initially function on a weekly foundation, with flights departing from Minsk on Fridays and from Delhi on Saturdays.

    From September 20, the flight schedule will embrace a further weekly flight on Wednesday from Minsk (from Delhi- on Thursday). The common flight length is predicted to be roughly seven hours, airline officers mentioned in a press launch.

    According to airline officers, the flight will take off from Minsk at 8:25 pm (native time) and land in Delhi at 5:35 am (native time). The return flight will depart from Delhi at 6:55 am and land in Minsk at 11:40 am.

    The fares begin from 319 Euros for a one-way ticket and 569 Euros for the spherical journey on the Minsk-Delhi-Minsk route.

    According to the officers of Belavia Airlines, the graduation of direct flights between Delhi-Minsk will give a needed enhance to industrial and political ties between India and Belarus.

    The announcement of the graduation of flights comes towards worldwide stress to boycott Belarus as a result of nation’s assist for Russia within the ongoing battle with Ukraine.

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  • Sanitised event lodge just for prime shuttlers as Delhi braces for India Open

    Despite the looming shadow of a 3rd wave, a doubling of reported circumstances over the previous 4 days and a weekend curfew, Delhi is about to host the India Open Super 500 event with the cream of Indian badminton — P V Sindhu, Kidambi Srikanth and Lakshya Sen — anticipated to compete on the IG Stadium.
    Newly topped males’s singles champion Loh Kean Yew of Singapore has already arrived for the January 11-16 meet, the place he’s seeded fifth.

    The prime Indonesian doubles pairing of former Olympic medallists Hendra Setiawan and Mohamad Ahsan, in addition to prime Malaysians Ong Yew Sin and Teo Ee Yi, have additionally flown in for the 12 months’s first World Tour occasion by which round 220 gamers are slated to participate.
    But with simply two days to go, a way of trepidation prevails as India’s largest badminton event, cancelled over the past two seasons, is not going to be absolutely coated by a “bio-secure bubble”. While the worldwide stars and prime Indians will likely be housed in a sanitised event lodge, numerous gamers who are usually not within the prime 25 in world rankings will likely be outdoors this loosely managed association.
    Hosts Badminton Association of India (BAI) have assured that they’re “doing everything humanly possible to hold a safe tournament”, and the occasion had obtained the go-ahead from the Delhi authorities, which was consulted by the world physique BWF when taking a name on whether or not the event ought to go forward.

    The value of official lodge lodging for the highest 25, and all different worldwide gamers, are being borne by the organisers whereas the remaining are anticipated to spend from their very own pockets, which has put the event lodge out of attain for many.
    “Most players have started arriving in New Delhi for the tournament. The foreign players as well as Indian players, ranked under Top-25 in the world, will be staying at the same hotel. All the participating players will be taking the necessary safety precautions right from their arrival in New Delhi as per protocol, and will be tested every day at the hotel and from there they will be having shuttle buses to come to the stadium, play matches and go back to the hotel again,” the BAI mentioned in a press release.
    The affiliation has tied up with a hospital to conduct speedy antigen assessments outdoors the stadium earlier than anybody is permitted entry to a three-level secured taking part in area. Besides, Denmark has carried out tournaments in an identical format beforehand.
    While French, Russian and Canadian gamers have withdrawn from the fray, the England squad pulled out after doubles specialist Sean Vendy and coach Nathan Robertson examined optimistic earlier than flying out from the UK Friday.
    BWF commentator Steen Scheichler additionally tweeted a few last-minute name towards travelling after testing optimistic. And, India’s singles star B Sai Praneeth and one other participant, Dhruv Rawat, examined optimistic previous to departure from Hyderabad and had been withdrawn from the occasion.
    It is learnt that numerous withdrawals may finally pile up from the preliminary entry record of three months in the past. The remaining image will likely be clear when the managers’ assembly takes place Monday, on condition that invitations have gone out to so far as No 40 on the reserves record.
    Sindhu leads India’s cost, and can almost definitely be challenged by World No 12 Thai Busanan Ongbamrungphan, who posted a departure image on Saturday from the Bangkok airport, captioning it “Wish me luck”. World champion Loh Kean Yew posted an image of his lodge room with the phrases: “Finally here.”
    The draw is teeming with Indians, some desperately risking journey and play searching for treasured rating factors which might be accessible in these irregular circumstances.

    A compulsory Covid take a look at, every day for all gamers, match officers, BWF and BAI officers, help employees, distributors and others concerned, will occur outdoors the stadium. “Only after being tested negative will they be allowed inside the venue. BAI will not compromise on the safety of the players as well as others involved, and will be following all the Covid-19 guidelines given by the government,” the discharge mentioned.
    On Sunday, the capital reported 22,751 new circumstances with the positivity charge climbing to 23.53 per cent: 79,954 RT PCR and 16,724 Rapid assessments had been carried out and 17 deaths reported even because the every day case rely doubled from 10,665 on January 5.

  • Behind airport crowd surge: Bunching of overseas flight arrivals across the similar time

    Even as the federal government and operators are targeted on increasing the infrastructure at airports to take care of the rising crowds from worldwide flights, an evaluation of schedules on the nation’s high two worldwide airports — Delhi and Mumbai — factors to a bunching of worldwide flight arrivals throughout one a part of the day.
    At Delhi, as an illustration, of the 78 worldwide passenger flights that arrived on Monday, 37 had been scheduled to reach within the 8-hour window from 2am to 10 am. Similarly, at Mumbai, of the 51 worldwide passenger flights scheduled to reach on Tuesday, 30 arrived between 12 am and eight am.
    Notably, in sure two-hour blocks like 10 am to 12 pm, solely three flights arrived in Delhi and just one flight arrived in Mumbai, in line with data sourced from flight monitoring portal Flightradar24.
    In a tweet on Tuesday, Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia wrote: “Took stock of the preparedness, testing capacities, and the situation on the ground with regard to crowd management at both private and Airports Authority of India airports. Have put an action plan with 8 compliances on immigration queues, expanding RT-PCR service providers ramping up help desks & forex counters, along with seamless floor management. Rest assured, Ministry of Civil Aviation is monitoring the situation on a daily basis & passengers shall not face any inconvenience at airports”.

    The bunching of flights in sure time blocks is according to the pre-pandemic observe of worldwide flights arrivals however the air-bubble preparations introduced a chance for spaced-out scheduling of flights. In Delhi, 78 worldwide passenger flights arrived on Monday, in comparison with round 170 flights per day in December 2019. The December 2019 knowledge is sourced from the Airports Authority of India, and includes all worldwide plane arrivals together with passenger, cargo and chartered flights. Similarly, for Mumbai, there have been 51 worldwide passenger flight arrivals on Tuesday, in contrast with 117 arrivals in December 2019.
    Airline executives identified that it’s a tough process for airports to reschedule worldwide flights on condition that — firstly, when the variety of worldwide flights throughout a day reduces, the frequency of home flights will increase, and second the slot allocation additionally is dependent upon availability of take-off slots for airways within the origin nation.

    Mails despatched to Delhi International Airport Ltd (DIAL) and Adani Airports, which operates the Mumbai airport, went unanswered
    Following reviews of crowding at airports and the federal government’s intervention, DIAL CEO Videh Kumar Jaipuriar mentioned on Monday: “Delhi Airport has been making continuous enhancements in infrastructure and processes to manage the new screening norms for passengers arriving from at-risk countries”.
    Mumbai airport mentioned in an announcement: “At Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA), we have set up 100 registration counters and 60 sampling booths including 100 Rapid PCR machines. On 3rd December 2021, a total of 6732 international arrival passengers from at-risk & other countries successfully completed their arrival procedures”.

  • Mamata Banerjee meets Congress leaders in Delhi amid Opposition unity talks

    On her first go to to Delhi after the TMC’s resounding victory in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday met Congress leaders Kamal Nath and Anand Sharma amid a number of alerts of accelerating Opposition unity forward of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
    CM Banerjee can also be anticipated to satisfy Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Ram Nath Kovind. Earlier within the day, NCP chief Sharad Pawar mentioned he’s prone to meet Banerjee on Wednesday.
    The go to comes additionally at a time when Parliament is in session. Banerjee has mentioned that she intends to spend a while in Parliament and meet Opposition leaders.
    Banerjee meets Congress chief Anand Sharma in Delhi. (ANI)

    Last week, on the Trinamool’s annual Martyrs Day celebration, a bevy of Opposition leaders got here to pay their respects together with P Chidambaram and Digvijaya Singh of the Congress, Sharad Pawar, who Banerjee talked about repeatedly, and Supriya Sule of the NCP, Ram Gopal Yadav of the Samajwadi Party (SP), Manoj Jha of the RJD, Tiruchi Siva of the DMK and Priyanka Chaturvedi from the Shiv Sena.

    A senior Trinamool chief mentioned that whereas the conferences with the President and PM have been formalities, Banerjee’s go to this time was deliberate with a bigger Opposition plan in thoughts forward of the 2024 Lok Sabha problem. “I think it is clear to everyone in the opposition that 2024 is a very crucial election, and there is a big challenge. It is also a good sign that seriousness has set in now, when there is time to fight, and fall out, and come together; iron out the chinks as they say. With her decisive win of Narendra Modi, Banerjee will have a big role to play,” a frontrunner had mentioned.
    In Parliament, Opposition events have been protesting the latest allegations of snooping by the Union Government by the Israeli adware Pegasus, leading to adjournment of each the Houses a number of occasions. While TMC MP Shantanu Sen was suspended for tearing up IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw’s denial assertion, Opposition leaders are demanding a Supreme Court-monitored probe into the allegations.

    Moreover, the Opposition has additionally been elevating its voice over the farmers’ protest towards the three contentious farm legal guidelines.

  • Discoms’ excellent dues to gencos fall 15.2 per cent to Rs 82,305 crore in May

    Total excellent dues owed by electrical energy distribution utilities or discoms to energy producers fell 15.25 per cent to Rs 82,305 crore in May 2021 from a 12 months in the past.
    Distribution firms (discoms) owed a complete Rs 97,111 crore to energy era corporations in May 2020, based on portal PRAAPTI (Payment Ratification And Analysis in Power procurement for bringing Transparency in Invoicing of turbines).
    The excellent dues of discoms in direction of electrical energy producers have been rising year-on-year in addition to month-on-month for years displaying perennial stress within the energy sector until February this 12 months. It has began petering out from March 2021.
    Total dues in May elevated sequentially in comparison with Rs 77,203 crore in April this 12 months. The PRAAPTI portal was launched in May 2018 to herald transparency in energy buy transactions between turbines and discoms.
    In May 2021, the entire overdue quantity, which was not cleared even after 45 days of grace interval provided by turbines, stood at Rs 68,762 crore as towards Rs 84,691 crore in the identical month a 12 months in the past.
    The overdue quantity stood at Rs 63,050 crore in April this 12 months.

    Power producers give 45 days to discoms to pay payments for electrical energy provide. After that, excellent dues grow to be overdue and turbines cost penal curiosity on that typically.
    To give aid to energy era firms (gencos), the Centre enforced a fee safety mechanism from August 1, 2019. Under this mechanism, discoms are required to open letters of credit score for getting energy provide.

    The Centre had additionally given some breathers to discoms for paying dues to gencos in view of the COVID-19-induced lockdown. The authorities had additionally waived penal costs for late fee of dues.
    In May, the federal government introduced Rs 90,000 crore liquidity infusion for discoms beneath which these utilities would get loans at economical charges from Power Finance Corporation (PFC) and REC Ltd. This was a authorities initiative to assist gencos stay afloat.

  • Delhi oxygen audit splits Supreme Court panel, triggers firestorm by questioning peak demand

    An interim report of a sub-group, constituted by the Supreme Court final month for the oxygen audit of Delhi, has set off a political firestorm by questioning the Delhi authorities’s demand for liquid medical oxygen (LMO) through the peak of the second Covid-19 wave.
    The report, submitted to the Supreme Court, additionally led to division throughout the 5-member sub-group with two members, Delhi Principal Secretary (Home) BS Bhalla and Max Healthcare Clinical Director (Internal Medicine) Sandeep Budhiraja, lodging their dissent, even skipping considered one of its sittings. They flagged their objections in two separate notes.

    In a file noting of the Delhi Home Department, Bhalla Friday highlighted that the “interim report seems to have been sent to Government of India without making the requisite changes, without sharing again with the members of the sub-group, and without their formal approval”.
    He wrote that his “detailed objections/comments have been added at the end of the interim report just for posterity, leaving it to the reader to make the effort, if he/she so decides, to interpret the entire report together and make his/her conclusions. This is unfortunate and unacceptable.”
    “The interim report, as submitted, does not have the approval of all the members of the sub-group,” he wrote.
    The different three members of the sub-group are AIIMS Director Dr Randeep Guleria, Jal Shakti Ministry Joint Secretary Subodh Yadav and Controller of Explosives, PESO Dr Sanjay Kumar Singh.
    The Delhi authorities, following approval from Chief Secretary Vijay Dev, additionally conveyed to the SC-appointed panel that it was “sad and shocking to note that the sub-group arrived at sweeping conclusions… without any audit in the true sense”.
    As particulars of the interim report emerged Friday, the BJP and the Congress focused the AAP authorities, accusing Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal of “lying” through the peak of the second wave. Kejriwal hit again, saying when “you were addressing poll rallies, I spent sleepless nights to arrange oxygen”.
    An in depth studying of the report reveals that the variations within the LMO demand for Delhi through the second wave peak, from the final week of April to early May, are resulting from two separate formulation utilized by the Centre and the Delhi authorities.
    Under the Centre’s method, 50% of non-ICU oxygen beds are calculated as utilizing LMO. The Delhi authorities method, alternatively, says all non-ICU oxygen beds use oxygen. The two formulation had been mentioned through the seven conferences of the panel between May 10 and May 21.
    While ICU beds include oxygen services by default, hospitals even have non-ICU beds with oxygen for sufferers requiring excessive circulation oxygen with out related ICU help. A separate class of non-ICU, non-oxygen beds can also be maintained.
    The sub-group noticed that the Delhi authorities method would result in “overestimation” going by real-life expertise of main hospitals together with AIIMS.
    Countering this, Bhalla stated the Centre’s method was unsuitable as a result of most Covid sufferers admitted to hospitals required oxygen. “Doubts can be resolved only through on-ground audit, which the sub-group is yet to do,” he stated.
    Bhalla, Budhiraja and Chief Secretary Dev identified that the sub-group had not factored within the requirement of LMO for dwelling isolation sufferers, refillers, ambulances and small nursing properties.
    Members of the group affiliated with the Central authorities our bodies advisable that Delhi be supplied 300 MT each day on assured foundation and a further 100 MT by 4 pm on a regular basis primarily based on requirement, whereas Delhi insisted on assured each day allocation of 568 MT.
    A “compromise” was labored out on May 15 to allocate 500 MT each day to Delhi, the interim report famous.
    The one main level that the BJP picked to criticise the AAP pertains to the LMO consumption demand as on May 12.
    The report famous that on May 13, “it was discussed that there is a gross discrepancy (about 4 times) in that the actual oxygen consumption claimed (1140 MT) was about 4 times higher than the versus calculated consumption by formula for bed capacity (289 MT). It was noted that four hospitals in Delhi i.e. Singhal Hospital, Aruna Asaf Ali Hospital, ESIC Model Hospital, and Liferay Hospital have claimed extremely high oxygen consumption with very few beds and the claims appeared to be clearly erroneous, leading to extremely skewed information and significantly higher oxygen requirement for the entire state of Delhi. Actual consumptions were estimated by recalculation after replacing the claimed use figures for these 4 hospitals with expected use figures using the calculation formula.”
    In his dissent be aware, Bhalla sought to counter it, saying “requirement of oxygen for oxygen cylinders with home isolation patients, refillers and certain other establishments has also to be taken into account. Also, oxygen for non-Covid requirements and some buffer components need to be factored in while calculating the total oxygen requirement of Delhi. It is further an indisputable fact that 214 is not the sum total of hospitals/medical establishments catering to patients suffering from Covid-19. In fact, the figure is more than 260. Therefore, the entire basis of the assessment/quantification of the LMO requirement in Delhi has been made on incomplete data.”
    After factoring in these elements, the oxygen consumption was discovered to be 474 MT, as an alternative of 289 MT as claimed within the report, Bhalla stated.
    The remark made by the Additional Secretary, Department for Promotion of Indian Industry and Internal Trade that “it also appears that Govt of Delhi used a wrong formula and made exaggerated claims on 30th April” too was rejected by Bhalla who stated that the “demand for 700 MT was fully in line with guidelines of GOI.”

    Bhalla stated: “The manner in which the proceedings of the Sub-Group have been conducted suggests that the purpose of proceedings was to justify a pre-conceived and predetermined conclusion and narrative, to recommend a lower quantity of a LMO to Delhi, and to further portray an impression that the assessment by the GNCTD before the Hon’ble High Court of Delhi and the Hon’ble Supreme Court was exaggerated or not genuine.”
    “In our assessment, these fundamental errors in the approach of the sub-group goes to the root of the matter and was, therefore, highlighted from time to time during the course of proceedings of the sub-group. Unfortunately, the draft Interim Report instead of taking cognizance of the said concerns is proceeding to indicate the quantity of LMO to be allocated to Delhi. This, in our considered view, vitiates the entire exercise,” he stated.
    According to a file noting connected to the interim report, signed by OSD (Health) Ashish Kundra, hostile observations of the panel had been mentioned with Chief Secretary Dev and “it appears that the committee has not taken the totality of the picture into consideration.”

    Dev identified that SOS calls in Delhi stabilised solely after the typical each day provide of LMO crossed 550 MT, together with over 700 MT on someday. He described the proceedings of the group as “perfunctory desktop exercise, conducted hurriedly, without even conducting an audit of a single institution in the true sense”.
    Budhiraja wrote, “This (interim report) did not take into account oxygen cylinder refilling and non-Covid requirements of hospitals. It was suggested on the basis of actual consumption and not on basis of formula that O2 allocation for NCT Delhi be kept at 500 MT and then reviewed twice weekly thereafter. In the last subgroup meeting, it was decided not to discuss this agenda in the sub group, as an oxygen commissioner would be taking decision regarding oxygen allocation to states/UT. Also, I did not attend the meeting on May 18 after prior information to the group of the WhatsApp that minutes of the previous meeting on May 15 should be circulated. That was never done,” he stated.

  • High Court seeks Centre’s response on Delhi govt’s request for Army’s help

    The Delhi High Court on Monday directed the Centre to apprise it of motion taken, if any, on Delhi authorities’s request for Army’s help in organising hospitals with oxygen and ICU beds. On Saturday, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia wrote to Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh requesting the Army’s assist.
    The excessive court docket is listening to pleas on oxygen scarcity and different points associated to the continued Covid disaster in Delhi. On Sunday, some hospitals within the nationwide capital despatched determined SOS calls to authorities to replenish their dwindling shares.
    The Delhi authorities has been demanding 976 metric tonnes of oxygen from the Centre towards the present allotted 590 MT quota. According to the official information, the capital had bought 305 MT of oxygen on April 25, adopted by 408 MT on April 26, 398 MT on April 27, 431 MT on April 28 and 409 MT on April 29.
    In the final 24 hours, Delhi recorded 407 virus deaths and over 20,000 circumstances with a positivity price of 28.33 per cent.
     

  • 15-year-old lady killed by brother in UP: police

    A 15-YEAR-OLD died, allegedly after her brother hit her on the pinnacle with a stick in a match of rage, following a heated alternate between the 2 in Bulandshahr on Wednesday, the police mentioned on Saturday.
    The brother, additionally a minor, then took the assistance of their elder brother to bury the physique, the police mentioned. The lady’s physique was dug out of a subject on Saturday after the police was knowledgeable of her disappearance.
    “Three days ago, the girl was working with her elder brother in a field near her house. Prima facie, it appears the two had an argument, following which the brother hit her with a stick on her head, leading to her death. A second brother was also part of the murder conspiracy – he has been arrested. We are trying to ascertain the motive,” Circle Officer, Khurja, Suresh Kumar mentioned.

    The lady lived along with her household in a village in Khurja and would accompany her brother, one yr elder to her, to the fields.
    Around 7 pm on Wednesday, the brother allegedly attacked the lady fatally with a stick following an argument. As the lady collapsed, the accused allegedly instructed their elder sibling in regards to the incident. The elder brother helped the accused bury the physique after wrapping it in a bit of material, police mentioned.
    “My only fault was that I helped my younger brother, who killed our sister. I do not know why it happened, but he did it,” the elder sibling mentioned after his arrest on Saturday.
    Local residents, nonetheless, alleged that the lady could have been a sufferer of “honour killing”.

  • Delhi info 407 coronavirus cases; dying toll reaches 10,941

    Picture Supply : PTI Delhi info 407 coronavirus cases; dying toll reaches 10,941
    Delhi recorded as many as 407 current coronavirus cases on Sunday. With this, the tally of COVID-19 cases inside the nationwide capital has reached over 6.43 lakh, whereas the dying toll mounted to 10,941. Two fatalities have been recorded in the ultimate 24 hours, in accordance with the latest bulletin issued by the Delhi properly being division.

    In holding with a properly being bulletin issued by the Delhi authorities, 68,223 COVID-19 exams had been carried out inside the remaining 24 hours.

    The case tally stands at 6,43,696 inside the nationwide capital. The number of energetic cases is 2,262, of which 1,270 are in dwelling isolation.

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  • Delhi information 431 coronavirus circumstances; demise toll reaches 10,936

    Image Source : PTI Delhi information 431 coronavirus circumstances; demise toll reaches 10,936
    Delhi recorded as many as 431 recent coronavirus circumstances on Friday. With this, the tally of COVID-19 circumstances within the nationwide capital has reached over 6.42 lakh, whereas the demise toll mounted to 10,936. Two fatalities have been recorded in the final 24 hours, in response to the most recent bulletin issued by the Delhi well being division.
    According to a well being bulletin issued by the Delhi authorities, 72,031 COVID-19 assessments have been carried out within the final 24 hours.
    The case tally stands at 6,42,870 within the nationwide capital, together with 6,29,841 sufferers who’ve both been discharged or have migrated or recovered.
    The variety of energetic circumstances is 2,093, of which 1097 are in residence isolation.

     
    Delhi studies 431 new #COVID19 circumstances, 356 recoveries and a pair of deaths. 
    Total circumstances 
    Total recoveries Death toll 10,936Active circumstances 
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