https://twitter.com/mail_today NEW DELHI, Thursday, July 23, 2020 www.mailtoday.in / www.mailonline.in SEE PAGE 7 ‘‘ MODI ROLLS OUT RED CARPET FOR US FIRMS When the markets are open,when the opportunity is high and the options are many,can optimism be far behind! You can see the optimism when India rises in key business ratings. – NARENDRA MODI, PM Vol. 13 No. 250 | Pages 24 | ` 5.00 While India and US work through trade issues,we need to think bigger. The two countries have the ability to shape a larger global agenda. – S JAISHANKAR, EXTERNAL AFFAIRS MINISTER PM Narendra Modi delivers keynote address at the India Ideas Summit hosted by US-India Business Council. India has a chance to take global supply chains away from China and reduce its reliance on Chinese companies in areas of telecom,medical supplies and others. – MIKE POMPEO, US SECRETARY OF STATE ‘‘ INDIA IDEAS SUMMIT https://facebook.com/mailtoday PLASMABAZAAR MAKES AKILLING IN COVID-HIT CITY Exposed! Many cured patients & brokers sell ‘life saver’ to critically ill for up to `5 lakh amid huge demand-supply gap INDIA TODAY TV INVESTIGATION By Jamshed Khan, Md Hizbullah and Nitin Jain in New Delhi ‘This will not be tolerated. Plasma donation is a virtuous act. Anyone involved in its sale or purchase is guilty. We will take strict action against the sellers and the buyers.’ SATYENDAR JAIN, Delhi Health Minister PLASMA therapy, though not a magic bullet, has spurred a global drive to treat the Covid sick with the antibody-rich blood of recovered patients because of its promising results. But an India Today TV investigation has unearthed a growing black-market for the “life-saver” as despair drives families to buy anything they can to save loved ones battling the deadly and highly contagious disease. Invented in the 1890s to cure diphtheria, plasma Turn to Page 2 C VID-19 PTI PANDEMIC 37,724 CASES IN INDIA, TOTAL 11,92,915 648 MORE DEATHS, TOLL MOUNTS TO 28,732 1,227 CASES IN DELHI, TALLY NOW 1,26,323 29 MORE DEATHS, TOLL MOUNTS TO 3,719 A sero-survey to be held in Delhi every month now, next round from Aug 1 to 5. Recovery rate in country rises to 63.13% with record 28,472 Covid-19 patients recuperating in 24 hours. FULL COVERAGE ON PAGES 2-3 Water-logging seen on the Parliament House premises following heavy rain in New Delhi on Wednesday. A portion of Ashoka Road (inset) caved-in after about three hours of downpour PAGE that also led to traffic jams SIX on several key stretches. REPORTS ON