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NEW DELHI, FEB 27 (PTI): India on Thursday brought back 112 people from the coronavirus-hit Chinese city of Wuhan and another group of 124 from Tokyo who were on board a cruise ship infected by the deadly virus.

A C-17 Globemaster III transport aircraft of Indian Air Force evacuated 76 Indians and 36 foreign nationals from Wuhan while an Air India flight brought back the group of 124 people from Tokyo.

The foreign national evacuated from Wuhan included 23 from Bangladesh, six from China, two each from Myanmar and Maldives and one each from South Africa, USA and Madagascar.

Besides 119 Indians, the people evacuated from Japan included two from Sri Lanka and one each from Nepal, South Africa and Peru. The group was among 3,711 people who were on board the coronavirus-infected Diamond Princess ship when it docked at the Yokohama port near Tokyo on February 3.

“In line with India’s India evacuates 112 from China, 124 from Japan 112 evacuees including 36 foreign nationals who were air-lifted from Wuhan, China being quarantined by ITBP Quarantine Facility, at Chhawla Camp, New Delhi, Thursday. (PTI) neighbourhood first policy and Indo-Pacific vision, the special flight also evacuated five foreign nationals -- two Sri Lankans, one Nepalese, one South African and one Peruvian,” the External Affairs Ministry said.

Three Indian crew members didn’t board the Air India flight as they conveyed their wish to continue their stay on-board the cruise ship to complete the period of extended quarantine put in place by the Japanese government.

Out of the total 138 Indian nationals originally onboard Diamond Princess, 16 Indian crew members have tested positive for coronavirus and are receiving medical care at an onshore medical facility in Japan.

All the evacuees will undergo a 14-day quarantine at the facility set up by the Indian Army in Manesar.

India sent the C-17 Globemaster to Wuhan on Wednesday and it carried 15 tonnes of medical supplies for coronavirus-affected people in China.

On its return, the aircraft brought back 112 people including 23 citizens from Bangladesh, six from China, two each from Myanmar and the Maldives and one each from South Africa, the US and Madagascar.

Earlier, India had evacuated around 650 Indians from Wuhan in two Air India flights.

“In all 723 Indian nationals and 43 foreign nationals have been evacuated from Wuhan, China in these three flights,” the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said.

On the medical supplies delivered by India to China, the MEA said they will help augment the country’s efforts to control the coronavirus outbreak which has been declared as a public health emergency by the World Health Organisation.

“The assistance is also a mark of friendship and solidarity from the people of India towards the people of China as the two countries also celebrate 70th anniversary of establishment of diplomatic relations this year,” it said. BENGALURU, FEB 27 (PTI): Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday projected that the annual Indian defence exports will touch Rs 35,000 crore by 2024 from the current level of Rs 17,000 crore.

Singh also said he has no doubt about India emerging as among the three major economies of the world by 2030 andthe defence industries will have an important role to play.

“India’s defence export is growing. In the last two years our export has been Rs 17,000 crore but keeping in view your (Hindustan Aeronautics Limited) capacity in the successive years, I can say that by 2024 Rs 35,000 crore. I am confident about it,” the Defence minister said at the Karnataka ‘Rajyotsava’ event organised at the HAL here.

The minister told the gathering that India cannotremain dependent on imports for long and the Indian companies,especially defence public sector units, will have to play amajor pro-active role in achieving the goal of ‘Make In India’as envisaged by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

“We don’t want to see India as an importing nation. Instead, based on your strength, I can say that India is sure to become an exporting nation. Nobody can stop her,” Singh said.

In this regard, he hailed the HAL for being among those Defence public sector units, whose performance in operations and finances was excellent.

“By March 2019, the company’s turnover was Rs 19,705 crore and the HAL gave shareholders 198 per cent healthy dividend,” he said. Singh was all praise for Kambala runner Srinivas Gowda who shot into the limelight covering 100 metres in 9.55 seconds at a traditional sporting event held at Aikala near Moodbidri in Karnataka recently. Kambala is an annual race where people sprint 142m through paddy fields with buffalo.

He said there are many talents hidden in India who need to be brought out and HAL has a role in discovering them and providing them a platform to grow and prosper. The minister also recalled the iconic personalities born in Karnataka right from Hindustani classical singers Gangubai Hangal, Bhimsen Joshi, 12th century social reformer Basaveshwara and Field Marshal K M Cariappa.

The atmosphere in Karnataka is conducive for science and technology, which provided base for HAL to have its headquarters here in Bengaluru, he noted. India’s annual defence exports to touch Rs 35,000 cr by 2024: Rajnath Rajnath Singh

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DP-1510 THIRUVANAN - THAPURAM, FEB 27 (PTI): Kerala’s great granny, Bhageerathi Amma, who recently won the accolades of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his ‘Man Ki Baat’ radio address for clearing fourth-level examination at the age of 105, is now set to get her Aadhaar card.

Hailing from southern district of Kollam, the centenarian woman had scripted history by becoming the oldest ‘equivalency learner’ by winning the fourth standard equivalency examination conducted by the state-run Kerala State Literacy Mission (KSLM). While expressing happiness over the prime minister mentioning her name in his monthly radio address last week, Bhageerathi Amma had said her only sorrow was that she was yet to get her Aadhaar card.

The chances of getting government welfare pension were gone as she had no Aadhaar card, the granny said.

The officials of a nationalised bank, who came to know about the plight of the woman through media, recently visited her at her home and completed all necessary procedures to get her enrolled in Aadhaar. She has now got the acknowledgement receipt for the Aadhaar enrolment and the card is expected to be issued in the next two days, a KSLM official said. “Bhageerathi Amma tried to get Aadhaar card before also but unfortunately she could not make it due to technical reasons. Her fingerprint and retinal scan could not be taken due to old age,” the official told PTI.

While narrating the story of Bhagirathi Amma, Modi had said in his radio address that, “If we wish to progress in life, we should develop ourselves, if we wish to achieve something in life, the first pre-condition for that is the student within us must never die.”

The woman had appeared for the examination, conducted by the state literacy mission, at Kollam last year and the result was announced recently.

The woman, who had always yearned to study and gain knowledge, had to give up her dream of educating herself after her mother died as she had to take care of her younger siblings.

Bhageerathi Amma had left formal education in class three at the age of 9.

Due to her advanced age, she had difficulty in writing the exams and took three days to complete the three question papers on environment, mathematics and Malayalam, literacy mission sources said. After PM’s praise, ‘oldest learner’ Bhageerathi set to get Aadhaar NEW DELHI, FEB 27 (PTI): A team of CBI officials on Thursday brought back a toddler who was taken to Dubai by her defiant father in an alleged violation of Delhi High Court order.

Three-year-old Raina was taken away by her father Aman Lohia amid a custody battle with his wife Kiran Kaur Lohia and directives of the Delhi High Court to not leave the country, officials said.

On the directions of the Supreme Court, a team of CBI officials had gone to Dubai where it coordinated with local authorities to ensure safe return of the three-year old girl and her father to Delhi. The agency has informed the apex court about its compliance action and will produce the child before it on Friday, the officials said.

The child is in the care of the agency, they said.

The high court had granted the girl’s custody to the mother with a parenting plan according to which Aman could meet Raina for some hours on three days a week.

The court had also asked him to deposit his passport, which he did, the officials said.

On August 24 last year, when the girl had come to meet Aman as per the parenting plan, he took her, along with family confidant Pawan Kumar and maid Shiuratia Debi, to Dubai using a circuitous route via Nepal and other gulf countries. He used a passport of the Commonwealth of Dominica, a Caribbean country.

Considering “international ramifications”, the Delhi High Court had handed over the probe to the CBI which had registered a case.

The matter had reached the Supreme Court through a petition filed against a high court order. CBI brings back child who was taken to Dubai by her father in defiance of HC order Bhageerathi Amma

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