Train runs over man, he remains safe

Train runs over man, he remains safe

Harveer Dabas TNN

Bijnor:02.12.2021

Umesh Jain, 60, escaped unscathed after he was run over by a goods train. Jain had fallen on a railway track at Dhampur railway station in Bijnor. He was unable to muster enough strength to get up because of a prolonged illness.

He was later rescued by the government railway police.

“I was trying to cross when I lost balance and fell on the track. I couldn’t get up even when I saw the train approaching. I laid down on the tracks remembering god. The last thing I heard was a loud rattling sound,” Jain, who is a hawker, said.

Dhampur’s GRP chowki in-charge, Ranveer Singh, said, “The train driver sent a message to the control room and informed them about a body on the track. When we reached, Jain was lying straight with his face down. We overturned him and found him in a semi-conscious state with a rapid heartbeat.”

Singh said the goods train comprised 48 wagons. “We informed Jain’s family members and they rushed to the railway station and took him to a private hospital. They said his condition is normal,” he added.

Sources said the train ran over him for roughly 45 seconds.

LU students learn to spot ‘fake news’

‘VERIFY FACTS, PIXES’

LU students learn to spot ‘fake news’

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Lucknow:02.12.2021

Students of Lucknow University were on Wednesday taught various techniques to identify fake news. They were told by teachers to forward only authentic news and information on social media platforms.

The techniques were taught to students during a workshop on ‘fake news’ held as part of cyber awareness campaign in the zoology department.

Head of journalism and

mass communication department Prof Mukul Srivastava informed students how they can identify fake news and morphed photographs on social media. Apart from fact checking, people should also use their ‘common sense’ to identify fake news and verify facts before forwarding anything on social media, he said.

Head of the zoology department Prof Sudhir Kumar, who was the chief guest on the occasion, said that the virtual world is as important as the real world.

After politics and history, the target of fake news and trolls are science subjects in which pseudosciences are projected as science and perception as history, he added.

Forms to be submitted at Collectorate

Forms to be submitted at Collectorate

Lucknow: 02.12.2021

According to the district administration, the official figure of coronavirus victims in Lucknow is 2,651. The state government has released funds for all these. An applicant needs to submit the form at room number 54 on the second floor at Collectorate along with Covid and death certificates. If there is no Covid certificate, the claims will be verified by an expert team. “If a family is denied a form at room number 54, they can visit my office. As many families don’t have Covid certificates, the directive says that a medical summary or note of symptomatic treatment will be acceptable for ex gratia sans Covid report. We will also allow submission of applications where there is no medical record. Such applications will be verified by an expert team,” said additional district magistrate (finance) Bipin Mishra. TNN

Suspected Covid treatment record enough to apply for death ex gratia

Suspected Covid treatment record enough to apply for death ex gratia

Arvind.Chauhan@timesgroup.com

Lucknow:02.12.2021

Families of patients who succumbed to suspected Covid-19 will be able to apply for ex gratia of Rs 50,000 even if there is no certificate confirming a Covid death. Medical records or doctor’s certificate detailing treatment of symptoms of Covid will be acceptable for claim, said an order from the state government on Wednesday.

Such applicants will have to submit whatever medical summary or doctor’s note they have indicating suspected coronavirus infection. However, the claim would be verified by a panel of experts. It would also only be applicable if a patient has succumbed within 30 days of treatment.

Further, responding to a query from TOI, additional district magistrate (finance) Bipin Mishra, the nodal officer for the Rs 50,000 ex gratia disbursal, said that even if there are no medical records at all, the application would be accepted.

In an investigation, TOI had found that there were many such patients who succumbed at home. In remote villages, victims died at clinics or private hospitals, often run by quacks. Such families had no document except for a death certificate to file for ex gratia claim.

The assurance from the administration has brought a ray of hope to scores of families which had followed the state government’s directives of home treatment in the absence of oxygen-supported beds in hospitals.

One such family is that of Sunita Singh’s. Her husband Sunit died in April and since then, life has been extremely difficult for Sunita and her three children. As Sunita is illiterate, her two daughters-—Saumya (18) and Shubhi

(15)—have become breadearners by taking tuition classes. The family till now could not receive any financial aid from the government because they had no medical summary or doctor’s note saying their father died of suspected coronavirus.

“There were no oxygen beds available at the time. We all were infected and took medicines (Ivermectin and Paracetamol) as advised by state health authorities. However, my father’s condition kept deteriorating and he succumbed on April 17, at a non-Covid hospital. Doctors did not give any medical summary, fearing action for admitting a Covid patient,” said Saumya, a student of LU. They live in a rented accommodation in Para.

“We have also applied for claims under Mukhyamantri Bal Vikas Yojana (Samanya) for non-Covid orphan and widow pension but have not received anything till now. On compassionate grounds, our landlord and children’s school waived off rent and fee for a year,” said Sunita.

Daily wage labourer Sanjeevan Lal (45) succumbed to suspected Covid on May 3. He is survived by his wife and five children. His eldest daughter Pooja (17) and wife Rajkumari had taken him to a local clinic in Bada Kasmandi village.

“We weren’t aware that the clinic was run by a quack. My father had all symptoms of corona, but since we don’t have certificates, we couldn’t apply for ex gratia,” said Pooja, who dropped out of school to work as domestic help to support the family.

Omicron grounds Dec 15 plan to resume regular int’l flights

Omicron grounds Dec 15 plan to resume regular int’l flights

Flights Within Air Bubbles Will Continue: DGCA

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi:02.12.2021

Regular international flights to and from India are unlikely to resume from December 15, as originally scheduled, due to uncertainty over the impact of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 on the course of the pandemic, the country's civil aviation regulator said on Wednesday.

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) will notify the new date “in due course”, depending on how the situation unfolds. International flights within air bubbles with 31 countries will continue till scheduled flights resume.

“In view of the evolving global scenario with the emergence of new variants of concern, the situation is being watched closely in consultation with all stakeholders and an appropriate decision indicating the effective date of resumption of scheduled commercial international passenger services shall be notified in due course,” DGCA said.

UP launches 6-day focused Covid-19 testing campaign

Lucknow:

To zero in on possible carriers of Omicron variant of coronavirus, the Uttar Pradesh government launched a focused six-day testing drive on Wednesday.

The campaign aims at intensifying testing and conducting focused activities in vulnerable pockets, reports Shailvee Sharda.

Additional chief secretary (ACS), health and family welfare, Amit Mohan Prasad said while prevention and adherence to Covid-19 protocol was the best defence against the virus, including the new strain Omicron, surveillance activities had been intensified and focused testing was being carried out in the state. P 6

Omicron may weaken demand for int’l flights again

India had only last week announced graded resumption of regular international flights from December 15, nearly 21 months after all air travel had been suspended on March 23 last year. Limited flights operating within air bubbles since international travel resumed worldwide have sent fares skyrocketing. It isn’t uncommon now for oneway fares to be higher than return fares for peak season. Omicron could weaken demand for international flights again. Resumption of regular scheduled flights might also get indefinitely delayed.

Quarantine fears see many int’l travellers cancel trips

Quarantine fears see many int’l travellers cancel trips

Mumbai: 02.12.2021

It was déjà vu for international travellers as well as the travel industry as Wednesday brought a spate of flight cancellations and rescheduling even as social media was inundated with queries from worried passengers about hotel quarantine, much like the past two pandemic summers.

Late on Tuesday night, the Maharashtra government had imposed new entry restrictions, among which was a mandatory week-long hotel quarantine for passengers arriving from or even transiting from “at-risk” countries. Prashant Pitti, co-founder, EaseMyTrip, said: “People were gradually opening up to the idea of international travel. In comparison with January-March 2021, we had witnessed a 50% jump in international travel bookings.”

A travel agent, requesting anonymity, said most cancellations and rescheduling came from students and passengers arriving and transiting from the UK and Europe. For those who have decided to go ahead with the India trip, booking hotels for quarantine is a problem. Social media queries poured in as confused passengers booked on international flights sought answers. TNN

அரசு பஸ்சில், கோழிக்கும் அரை டிக்கெட் வாங்கி பயணித்த விவசாயி

அரசு பஸ்சில், கோழிக்கும் அரை டிக்கெட் வாங்கி பயணித்த விவசாயி

Updated : டிச 01, 2021 04:24 | Added : நவ 30, 2021 22:04





கொப்பால்: விவசாயி ஒருவர் அரசு பஸ்சில்,கோழிக்கும் அரை டிக்கெட் வாங்கி பயணித்தார்.

கொப்பாலை சேர்ந்தவர் ராமப்பா, 45. விவசாயியான இவர், கடந்த 28ல் ஹைதராபாத்தில் இருந்து கொப்பால் கங்காவதிக்கு அரசு பஸ்சில் கோழியுடன் பயணித்தார்.அப்போது டிரைவர், 'கோழிக்கும் அரை டிக்கெட் வாங்க வேண்டும்' என, கூறியுள்ளார்.அதன்படி, 463 ரூபாய் கொடுத்து கோழிக்கும் தனியாக டிக்கெட் பெற்று பயணித்தார்.

ஒரு கோழியின் விலையை 300 ரூபாய் முதல் 400 ரூபாய் மட்டுமே இருக்கும். ஆனால் 463 ரூபாய் கொடுத்து பயணித்துள்ள இந்த கோழி, சமூக வலைதளங்களிலும் பரவி பரபரப்பை ஏற்படுத்தி உள்ளது.

இது குறித்து கண்டக்டர் அனிஷ் கூறுகையில், “ஹைதராபாத்தில் இருந்து கொப்பாலுக்கு வந்த ஒருவர், கோழியுடன் பஸ்சில் ஏறினார். கோழிக்கும் டிக்கெட் வாங்க வேண்டும் என கூறியதால் அவர் வாங்கி பயணித்தார். இது வழக்கமாக உள்ளது தான்,” என்றார்.