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No Cricket with Pak, Says India c m y k c m y k THE LARGEST CIRCULATED ENGLISH DAILY IN SOUTH INDIA HYDERABAD I FRIDAY I 27 SEPTEMBER 2019 WEATHER Max: 29OC WORLD TABLOID Min: 22OC Trump calls impeachment Tamannaah Bhatia will be seen as RH: 89% Rainfall: Nil probe by Democrats a ‘joke’ a kabaddi coach in her next film Forecast: Cloudy sky. 10 Rain, thundershowers deccanchronicle.com, facebook.com/deccannews, twitter.com/deccanchronicle, google.com/+deccanchronicle Vol. 82 No. 268 Established 1938 | 32 PAGES | `4.00 likely. Max/Min 31/22ºC ASTROGUIDE Must respect people’s sentiments: Jaishankar Vikari: Dakshinayana Tithi: Bhadrapada Bahula Rain brings muck, filth home Trayodasi till 7.30 am, Bhadrapada Bahula Chaturdasi City gets into clean-up mode; Met predicts rain for 24 hours till 3.45 am No cricket with (Saturday) T.S.S. SIDDHARTH | DC Star: Purvaphalguni till 1.03 am HYDERABAD, SEPT. 26 (Saturday) After two days of torren- Varjyam: 11 am to 12.24 pm tial rainfall, the city is Durmuhurtam: 8.32 am to 9.20 now busy cleaning up the am, 12.31 pm to 1.19 pm muck and filth huge flood- Pak, says India Rahukalam: 10.30 am to 12 pm ing by rainwater has HIJRI CALENDAR brought to its doorsteps. DC CORRESPONDENT follows a policy of implau- Muharram 27,1441 AH Over the last two days, with agency inputs sible deniability,” he said. PRAYERS humungous amounts of NEW DELHI,SEPT. 26 “They do it, they kind of silt, mud and construction pretend they don’t do it. Fajar: 5.06 am debris, which were Minister for external They know that that pre- Zohar: 12.17 pm dumped earlier on to affairs Subhramanyam tense is not serious, but Asar: 4.26 pm roadsides, have made its Jaishankar ruled out the yet they do it. So, how do Maghrib: 6.14 pm way over onto to the mid- possibility of India play- you address that and I Isha: 7.21 pm dle of the roads. ing cricket with Pakistan. think it’s a huge challenge SUNSET TODAY 6.09 PM A senior official from While referring to Islama- THE ISSUE is, for us,” he added. SUNRISE TOMORROW 6.06 AM the sanitation department bad’s support to terror- The external affairs min- said that most of the waste ism, Mr Jaishankar said how do I talk ister stressed the history MOONRISE TOMORROW 4.23 AM that was cleaned up was that New Delhi can’t take to a country of India and Pakistan was MOONSET TODAY 5.19 AM mud and sand that swept a “tea break” and say “let that is conducting not a normal history. up to the roadsides. He us go and play cricket” terrorism and Mr Jaishankar said that said that the rainwater with Pakistan. despite being a neighbour, COUNTER POINT could have brought the Speaking in New York which frankly I Pakistan will not trade mud along with it. Mithalinagar at Jillelaguda remains flooded for the second day on Thursday, follow- on Thursday, Mr Jaishan- would say follows a with India, is a member of Making matters worse ing the heavy downpour in the city. — P. SURENDRA kar said that the “domi- policy of the WTO but will not was the fact they were nating narrative of the implausible extend MFN status, even plastic bags and cups clog- would be too eager to now. But on inquiry, we department said the city relationship” between deniability.’’ though they are legally ging up the drains of the swim in rainwater accu- learnt that a lot of the would continue to witness New Delhi and Islamabad obliged to and New Delhi Panjagutta flyover, which mulated on a road. water was stopped from sparse amounts of rainfall “is of terrorism, suicide S. JAISHANKAR, did it. made way for the creation “Workers of the mon- entering the vents due to for the next 24 hours. bombings, violence and “You have a neighbour of an impromptu swim- soon teams cleared the plastic and paper waste,” then you say, ‘okay guys EAM who would not allow you ming pool of sorts, not Panjagutta flyover. There he added. ■ More reports tea break, let us go and connectivity. So we have, that any Hyderabadi is no water on the flyover Meanwhile, the Met on Page 2 play cricket’.” usual during the day.” for example, the potential He highlighted the Mr Jaishankar said the to use Pakistan to transit recent terror attacks in issue for India was not on to Afghanistan, Iran India at Uri, Pathankot, whether it talks to but they will not allow you and Pulwama and said Pakistan, but how it can that connectivity,” he ACB CORNERS that “it’s a very hard nar- talk to a country that is said. Such an attitude has Human rights panel yet rative to sell to people... conducting terrorism. “Of slowed down regionalism, It’s a democracy, senti- course everyone wants to largely because of a con- ments do matter and one talk to their neighbour. cern that that might inte- 17 OFFICIALS message [that] I don’t The issue is, how do I talk grate them more with want to give [is that] you to a country that is con- India’s economy, he said. to be split, plaints pile up do terrorism by night, and ducting terrorism and “So it’s a very challenging IN MED SCAM [then] it’s business as which frankly I would say neighbour.” IN BRIEF IREDDY SRINIVAS REDDY The HRC, which in par- wait for the relief. The COREENA SUARES | DC | DC ticular dealt with several Commission had earlier HYDERABAD, SEPT. 26 Trouble in store HYDERABAD, SEPT. 26 sensational cases and dealt the cases which delivered justice to the involved victims of police Dr Ch. Devika Rani, dir- CITIZENS IN The two Telugu States victims before the forma- cases, encounters, and ector, Insurance Medical EC defers bypolls for Vadra were divided, but amongst tion of Telangana state, attacks, and several vic- Services (IMS) has come New Delhi: The the unfinished agenda is has been completely non- tims received justice. under the scanner of Enforcement Directorate the division of the ersth- functional for last three The 10th Schedule of the Anti-Corruption Bureau TEARS: ONION on Thursday told the while Andhra Pradesh years, with the bifurcation State Re-organisation Act (ACB), besides 16 other Delhi High Court that it to 17 K’taka seats State Human Rights of the Commission still stipulates that the government officials, wanted custodial interro- Commission (HRC), pend- pending between Andhra Commission on Human including two other doc- PARMOD KUMAR | DC TOUCHES `58 gation of Robert Vadra ing which, the worst abuse Pradesh and TS. Thous- Rights should be divided tors holding key posi- NEW DELHI, SEPT. 26 S.A. ISHAQUI | DC because the “money of power and greatest of ands of victims from both into two; however, after tions. The ACB sleuths HYDERABAD, SEPT. 26 chain” in a case of citizen grievances — the Telugu states are close to 200 weeks, no carried out searches at 23 The Election Commission money laundering was abuse of human rights — awaiting justice to their progress has taken place. locations, including on Thursday told the The misery for Hydera- allegedly directly linked remain ignored. The HRC, grievances that were put The governments of AP office and residences of Supreme Court that it badis just increases. to him. Mr Vadra was not tasked with providing before the HRC. With and TS have completed 17 government officials, would defer the byelec- Already under an onsla- cooperating with the timely relief to distressed vacancies for several division of corporations besides four private per- tions to 17 Assembly seats ught from a plethora of investigation in the case, citizens, has become non- posts, including that of the and other organisations in sons. in Karnataka that fell difficulties — a health the agency added. Mr functional, as the bifurca- chairman, members, and 10th Schedule, but not the The ACB’s investiga- vacant after the disqualifi- ● BYPOLLS IN epidemic of viral fevers, Vadra is facing allega- tion of the Commission for executives have been not HRC. tion revealed that the cation of MLAs belonging Karnataka were to dengue and malaria, tions of money launder- the Telugu states is yet to filled from December 2016, ■ Page 5: CMs’s meet did director of IMS and other to the JD(S) and the incessant rainfall, water- ing in the purchase of a be finished. the victims were forced to not take up HRC split officials were involved in Congress after they defied be held on October logging, bad roads, and London-based property. making ‘fake indent’, fal- the party whip and stayed 21 and counting of below-par sewage and sification of records, vio- away from voting on the votes on October 24. water supply, people now ■ Report on Page 7 lating rules in purchase confidence motion by for- ● have a new cause for of medicines and surgi- mer chief minister H.D. SUPREME COURT tears — rising prices of BIG CRACK KTR bachcha, plays cal kits. It is estimated Kumaraswamy. to hold a final hear- onion. The retail price of Srini daughter that this has caused a The EC said this as a ing on October 22-23 onions has shot even loss of `9 crore to the bench comprising Justi- and decide on the above the high levels of IN PVNR government exchequer. ces N.V. Ramana, Sanjeev `55 for a while and is TNCA prez dirty politics: Uttam Following a complaint Khanna and Krishna petitions by 17 MLAs breached the `58 per kilo Chennai: Rupa Gurunath, filed with the Vigilance Murari decided to hold a challenging their dis- mark, the second time in daughter of former BCCI EXPRESSWAY S.N.C.N.
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