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Congress accuses BJP MP Tejasvi Surya, his uncle Ravi Subramanya of making money through vaccines

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NEW DELHI: The Congress on Saturday accused BJP MP Tejasvi Surya and his uncle Ravi Subramanya of making money through vaccines and demanded that an FIR be registered against them and they be removed as MP and MLA respectively.

Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera alleged that according to an audio tape leaked through social media, Subramanya purportedly took a bribe of Rs 700 per vaccine at a private hospital in Karnataka.

Surya is seen promoting the hospital in ads, he alleged.

“The membership of Tejasvi Surya from the parliament should be ended immediately, we owe the people of Karnataka. The membership of Ravi Subramanya, third-time MLA from Basavanagudi, should be ended right now,” he told reporters.

Khera alleged that a supervisor of a private hospital clearly tells a public member that per vaccination he will have to pay Rs 900 as Rs 700 of this have to be given to Ravi Subramanya, a BJP MLA from Basavanagudi in Karnataka, who is Surya’s uncle.

“These are shocking, startling revelations. It is like getting caught red handed. This is a private hospital. Earlier this week, BJP MP Tejasvi Surya, who is also the national president of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, had advertised his own picture along with this hospital, exhorting people to get vaccinated from this hospital,” he alleged.

“We want to ask Mr Prime Minister, this Tejasvi Surya is his blue-eyed boy. We demand answers, how on earth were vaccines being diverted from government hospitals to a private hospital,” he asked.

“There should be an FIR lodged against Surya and Subramanya, Mr Prime Minister,” the Congress leader said.

Citing the case of cash for questions in which members were expelled from Parliament, he said this is a case of cash for vaccines.

“Tejasvi Surya’s Parliament membership should be ended with immediately,” he demanded, adding, “If you want to save the lives of people of Karnataka, this is hardly any sacrifice for you Mr Prime Minister. This is the least you can do.”

Bengaluru gangrape case: Group sexually abused woman as she refused to repay Rs 5 lakh, say Cops

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BENGALURU: The Ramamurthy Nagar police, who are interrogating the suspects accused of sexually abusing and torturing a 24-year-old woman in the city recently, have unearthed that the victim had to repay a sum of Rs 5 lakh which she owed them, but was avoiding them whenever they sought repayment.

Meanwhile, the police will produce the victim before the magistrate on Monday to record her statement under Section 164 of CrPC, while all the accused will be sent to judicial custody, another officer added. The investigation team has already video-recorded the victim’s statement on Saturday.

Four days ago, a gang of seven Bangaladeshis, including two women, were arrested by the city police after video footage of the act emerged on social media in Assam, with that state’s police tweeting an alert across the North-East. A day later, however, two of the accused were shot at by Bengaluru police, after they allegedly tried to attack them in a bid of escape.

Petrol price up by 29 paise per litre; diesel by 26 paise a litre

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NEW DELHI: Diesel price on Monday went past the Rs 98-a-litre mark in a few places of Rajasthan as a relentless increase in fuel prices took rates to record-high levels.

Sri Ganganagar district of Rajasthan saw petrol price climb to Rs 105.24 a litre and diesel to Rs 98.08 per litre.

Fuel prices differ from state to state depending on the incidence of local taxes such as VAT and freight charges.

Rajasthan levies the highest value-added tax (VAT) on petrol in the country, followed by Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra. In Delhi, petrol comes for Rs 94.23 per litre and diesel is priced at Rs 85.15 a litre.

The price of petrol, which had already crossed the Rs 100-mark in several cities in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, breached the psychological barrier in Mumbai on Saturday.

Petrol now costs Rs 100.47 a litre in Mumbai and diesel comes for Rs 92.45 per litre. The increase in Monday is the 16th increase in prices since May 4, when state-owned oil firms ended an 18-day hiatus in rate revision they observed during assembly elections in states like West Bengal.

In 16 increases, petrol price has risen by Rs 3.83 per litre and diesel by Rs 4.42. Oil companies revise rates of petrol and diesel daily based on the average price of benchmark fuel in the international market in the preceding 15-days, and foreign exchange rates.

COVID-19 India Update:1.52 lakh fresh cases of in 24 hours lowest daily tally in 50 days

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NEW DELHI: India reported the lowest daily new coronavirus infections in 50 days with 1,52,734 cases, taking India’s total tally to 2,80,47,534, while the active caseload further declined to 20,26,092, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Monday.

Weekly positivity rate has declined to 9.04 per cent. The active cases have further reduced to 20,26,092, comprising 7.22 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has improved to 91.60 per cent.

India’s COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16. It went past 60 lakh on September 28, 70 lakh on October 11, crossed 80 lakh on October 29, 90 lakh on November 20 and surpassed the one-crore mark on December 19.

India crossed the grim milestone of 2 crore on May 4. The cumulative number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in the country has exceeded 21.31 crore. A total of 21,31,54,129 doses have been administered through 30,28,295 sessions, according to the provisional report till 7 am on Monday.

The 3,128 new fatalities include 814 from Maharashtra, 493 from Tamil Nadu, 381 from Karnataka, 186 from Kerala, 142 from West Bengal, 138 from Uttar Pradesh and 127 from Punjab.

A total of 3,29,100 deaths have been reported so far in the country, including 94,844 from Maharashtra, 28,679 from Karnataka, 24,151 from Delhi, 23,754 from Tamil Nadu, 20,346 from Uttar Pradesh, 15,410 from West Bengal, 14,432 from Punjab and 13,016 from Chhattisgarh.

Bihar extends lockdown till June 8 curbs eased to facilitate business

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PATNA: The Bihar government on Monday extended the lockdown by another week, till June 8, but eased some of the restrictions in order to facilitate business activities.

“In view of the corona outbreak, a decision has been taken to extend the lockdown by a week, till June 8. However, some extra concessions will be made for business activities. People are requested to wear masks and maintain social distancing,” Kumar tweeted in Hindi.

Detailed guidelines regarding the extended period of the lockdown will be released later in the day, officials said.

The lockdown was first clamped from May 5 to 15, then extended till May 25 and again up to June 1.

Notorious HBT offender arrested,Recovered intact stolen gold ornaments Worth Rs.8.5 lakhs

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Pramesh Jain

The North Division police of Nandini layout police arrested a 21 year old youth for house break theft.The police recovered intact 194 gram of gold valuables worth Rs.8.5 lakhs from his possession.

The accused has been identified as,Dilip alias Kutty,21,resident of Laggere a welder by profession.

Senior officer told media persons,On May 24,the shop owner,Bharathi KP, registered a complaint in Nandini layout police station stating that when she went out of station the next day morning she received a call from her neighbour that someone has entered the house by breaking the door lock.

As soon she heard the news she returned back to Bengaluru and found that someone has break opened her door and made away with 194 grams of gold ornaments from her house.

Based on complaint the crime team swung into action the PSI,of Nandini layout,Naveed along with crime staff visited the house and inspected the area and after inspecting the area the team collected information from the complainant as does she has any doubt against anyone.

The complainant told that before leaving to Kanakapura she has informed about this to her regular customer who is regular customer of her shop who buys cigarettes so she said him to stock up the cigarette for 2 days.

The team Inspected the area and pressed into action and visited the neighborhood areas and after checking the CCTV cameras installed in the area the team got a vital clue as suspect persons footage.

The team showed the CCTV footage to the complainant after seeing the footage she recognised the person and said that he is her regular customer.

Based on the identification the team who were on patrolling on 28th May near Laggere area noticed a person moving suspiciously in the area and when our team checked that he is the same person to whom they are searching the team secured the suspect and took him to station for questioning.

During investigation the accused confessed the crime and the accused has been identified as, Dilip Kutty,21,a welder by profession and resident of  Laggere used to buy cigarettes from a grocery shop close to his house regularly,

And when he got to know that the owner of the house is not in station Dilip hatched a plan and robbed the house the same night and made away with the valuables .

During the interrogation he revealed that he had kept stolen valuables at his house since he could not dispose due to lockdown the team has recovered stolen 194 grams of gold ornaments worth of Rs.8.5 lakhs intact from his house where he has hided the gold after commiting crime and the equipment used in commiting crime has been recovered from him.

A case has been registered in Nandini layout police station and further investigation is on.

Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant has appreciated Addl CP West,Soumendhu Mukherjee,DCP North,Dharmendra Kumar Meena, ACP,Malleswaram sub-division,KS Venkatesh Naidu,PI,Venkategowda,PSI,Naveed,and his crime staff as, Umesh,Manjunath,Lokesh,Umesh, Abhishek,Basavanna and others has successfully nabbed the HBT offender and recovered gold ornaments intact and for the commendable job done by them a suitable reward will be given to the team he added.

In the last week, Satara has reported the 21. 93 percent positivity rate while Sindhudurg reported a 21.50 percent positivity rate. In Ratnagiri, the positivity rate is 19.89 percent while Raigad and Hingoli reported an 18.69 percent and 17.21 percent positivity rate

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Maharashtra’s average positivity rate initially was 24.26 percent from April 28 to May 5 but it came down to 22.57 percent in the week of May 5 to May 11. From May 12 to May 18, the positivity rate was 16.08 percent.

In the last week between May 19 to May 25, the positivity rate of the state was 11.06 percent.

Apart from these high alert and critical districts, there are 18 other districts that include Amaravati, Budhana, Pune, Nagpur etc whose positivity rate is more than the state average positivity. Maharashtra government has not allowed the positive patients of these districts to be under home isolation for the Covid-19 treatment.  The positive patients have to take treatment either in hospitals or the Covid care center.

In Maharashtra, there is a total of 3,14,338 active positive patients, out of it, 36 percent patients (1,14, 592) are taking treatment in hospitals 63 percent (2,59,668 ) are asymptomatic patients while 17.39 percent (54,680) are serious patients and 6.19 percent (19,465) patients are in ICU. Three percent of patients are on oxygen while 2.23 percent (7023) patients are on ventilators across the state.

The highest percentage of positive patients are reported from Pune – 45,655 (14.49%),  Mumbai – 28,074 (8.11%). Thane, Satara and Kolhapur contributes 21,949 (7.94%), 19,958 (6.34%) and 16,962 (5.38%) respectively, and are active positive patients registered in respective districts.

Maharashtra Health minister Rajesh Tope said that the situation improving but they cannot afford to lift the complete lockdown.

“The presently the positive cases are the same as was reported in the first Covid 19 wave’s peak in September. We have decided to extend the lockdown for more than 15 days after June 1. However, the restrictions will be also eased out where the positivity rate is lower than the state average. In Pune, the weekend lockdown is ended. Now, all shops will remain open on all days of the week,”

Mizoram facing financial crisis due to COVID-19 and other problems: CM Zoramthanga

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AIZAWL: Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga on Friday said the state is reeling under a financial crisis due to COVID-19 coupled with multiple problems, including the outbreak of the African Swine Fever (ASF).

He said that a severe drop in the quantum of revenue collection at the Centre due to the outbreak of COVID-19 has led to a significant reduction in the state’s share of taxes, which inevitably let the state suffered a financial crunch.

“I want you to be aware of the financial crisis faced by the state government. Though we have passed annual budget amounting to crores of rupees, the outbreak of COVID-19 has greatly reduced the quantum of revenue collection at the Central government, which in turn greatly affected our state’s share of taxes,” the chief minister said.

He said that the state’s share of taxes has dropped by Rs 1,500 crore during the fiscal 2020-2021.

The state’s financial crunch was aggravated by repayment of state’s liabilities amounting to Rs 150 crore and meeting the states matching share to the World Bank, he said.

He regretted that new development projects could not be executed from the state’s own source.

However, development projects funded by the Centre are being carried out smoothly as such funds could not be diverted to other purposes, he said.

The chief minister also said that the state has also experienced multiples crises amid COVID-19 spread.

He said that the outbreak of African Swine Fever (ASF), a massive wildfire in different parts of the state, and influx of people from Myanmar due to military coup have also inconvenienced the state.

Zoramthanga thanked the people for their collective efforts against COVID-19.

He lauded the medics, churches, NGOs, volunteers of village and local task forces and private doctors, nurses and medical experts, who volunteered to fight COVID-19, for extending invaluable help to the state government in its efforts to curtail the pandemic.

Five Gujarat cops booked for flouting COVID-19 norms at birthday bash

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BHUJ: A case has been registered against a police sub inspector and four constables in Kutch district of Gujarat for allegedly violating COVID-19 guidelines during a birthday party, officials said  on Saturday.The case was registered at Anjar police station on Friday night after a video of the incident that had occurred two weeks back, surfaced on social media platforms, they said.

“A total of six persons, including five policemen, were booked under IPC sections 269 (unlawful and negligent act likely to spread the infection of any disease dangerous to life) and 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant), and also sections of the Epidemic Diseases Act and Disaster Management Act,” an official of Anjar police station said.

The FIR was registered on Friday night, and further action is being taken, he said. Kutch (East) SP Mayur Patil said that the four constables were suspended soon after the video came to light, and the investigation into the case was handed over to the Deputy Superintendent of Police.

As per the details of the case, Deep Haribha, one of the accused, had thrown a surprise birthday party for his constable friend Babubhai Gareja at a farmhouse near Anjar on the night of May 14.

Four other policemen were among around eight persons invited to the party where they also burst fire crackers at midnight. “They flouted social distancing norms and none of them was wearing a face mask,” the official said.

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