VIJAYAWADA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 2021; PAGES 12 `3 RNI No.APENG/2018/764698 Established 1864 Published From VIJAYAWADA DELHI LUCKNOW BHOPAL RAIPUR CHANDIGARH BHUBANESWAR RANCHI DEHRADUN HYDERABAD *LATE CITY VOL. 3 ISSUE 190 *Air Surcharge Extra if Applicable www.dailypioneer.com Cyclone Yaas: P Aim to comply with P ‘Not part of any song in P Paradip port suspends operations 5 IT rules: Facebook 8 Bangarraju’ 11 In brief TDP leaders illegally Tata steel to continue Life in AP turns a struggle as salary for families of staff who die of Covid arrested, says Naidu n ata Steel has announced social prices skyrocket, Covid kills PNS VIJAYAWADA security schemes for the Lokesh asks Amit Tfamily members of employees Leader of the Opposition N affected by Covid-19. The company A CHANDRASEKHAR Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday Shah to stop Class X announced on Sunday that under the n ONGOLE wrote to Director General of Police, scheme, if an employee dies of Covid, PAGE 2 Gautam D Sawang, expressing his their family would receive their last- Living in Andhra Pradesh is getting strong objection to the 'illegal exams in AP drawn salary till the time the employee tougher by the day, with prices of Covid cases cases and arrests' of TDP former PNS n VIJAYAWADA would have turned 60. "Tata Steel's essential commodities going MLA BC Janardhan Reddy and best-in-class social security schemes beyond the reach of the common cross 16 lakh other leaders in the Kurnool dis- TDP national general secretary will help ensure an honourable man day by day. trict. Nara Lokesh on Tuesday wrote standard of living for their families, There is no control over prices of mark in AP Naidu demanded the DGP to to Union Home Minister Amit whereby the family will get the last cooking gas, power bills, fuel, veg- withdraw the cases and release the Shah, urging his intervention to drawn salary till 60 years of age of the etables, rice, oil, pulses, salt and so of which are climbing higher and TDP leaders unconditionally. impress upon the Andhra deceased employee/nominee," the on. This at a time Covid has run higher. “False cases were filed by the Pradesh Government to cancel company said in a statement. They will rampant and is proving to be cost- For a person making an honest police of Banaganapalli police sta- Class X and XI examinations in also be able to avail medical benefits ly even if one is not infected, what living, protein-rich foods like tion against Janardhan Reddy and view of the continuing threat and housing facilities. with people having to buy drugs, fruits, eggs, chicken, mutton — all his supporters. from the Coronavirus pandem- sanitisers, masks and vitamin of which are essential for a health Interestingly, the complainant ic. tablets just to build immunity. life and to boost immunity to fight along with his henchmen went to 2 WHO wants ‘more For most people the prices of Covid — are simply out of reach. attack the house of Janardhan essentials are more frightening prices of essentials prevalent in ly used by the middle class, has The situation is such that for Reddy,” Naidu wrote. info’ from BB for than Covid itself, since there is a January this year, merely five grown from Rs 110 to Rs 175 per most, dry fruits are something that He said that when the former “However, another six TDP chance that they might not be months ago, reveals a fact-sheet of kg. look good in pictures and are only MLA and his supporters resisted activists, whose names were men- listing of Covaxin infected, but there is no way that misery. The price of tur dal has ranged for the affluent. the attack, the attackers filed a false tioned in the FIR, have not been he World Health Organisation has they could survive without eating. In January of this year, a kg of from Rs 95 to Rs 120 per kg. Urad Prices of chicken have shot up case and within no time arrests produced in the court even after 24 said more information is required The situation is so dire that peanut oil could be bought at Rs dal now costs Rs 120 per kg, up from Rs 180 to Rs 250 per kg and were made at midnight of May 23. hours of their detention. The T from Bharat Biotech, which is more and more people from the 120 but one has to shell out Rs 175 from Rs 100 five months ago. mutton from Rs 600 to Rs 850 per The former chief minister told police are still holding Sreenu, seeking emergency use listing for its lower and middle classes are get- for the same quantity in May. If one were to scrounge enough kg. Eggs now cost Rs 75 per the DGP that many TDP leaders Diwakar, Vijay Reddy, Narasimha, Covaxin vaccine. The latest status of ting entrenched into debt traps, Likewise, the price of palm oil, money just to pay for the essen- dozen, up from Rs 50 five months and activists were arrested but only Pedda Husseni and Attar Shahid in Covid vaccines within WHO EUL/PQ and there seems to be no way out which is mostly used by the poor, tials, he or she would have to ago. BC Janardhan Reddy, Murali and illegal detention,” Naidu wrote. evaluation process' guidance of the quagmire. has gone up from Rs 95 to Rs 140 struggle to pay the power bill, buy Ramana have been produced document dated May 18 on the WHO A cursory comparison with the kg. Sunflower oil, which was wide- LPG, petrol and medicines prices 2 before the court within 24 hours. 2 website said Bharat Biotech submitted Expression of Interest on April 19 and that more information required . A pre- submission meeting is expected to be planned May-June 2021. According to Cyclone Yaas likely to make landfall the WHO, submissions to it for prequalification or listing under the emergency use procedure are confidential. near Odisha's Dhamra Port, says IMD

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Fugitive jeweller Severe cyclonic storm 'Yaas' is Bengal, Odisha evacuate lakhs to safety, Mehul Choksi likely to make landfall near Dhamra Port in Odisha's Bhadrak AP officials on high alert in coastal districts missing in Antigua district early on Wednesday morn- ehul Choksi - the 62-year-old ing, the India Meteorological PNS n BHUBANESWAR/KOLKATA Collectors of Visakhapatnam, fugitive diamantaire wanted Department (IMD) said. Vizianagaram and Srikakulam M by the CBI and Enforcement Dr Umashankar Das, a scientist West Bengal and Odisha have districts and reviewed the situ- Directorate in connection with ? at the Regional Meteorological evacuated lakhs of people from ation. 14,000 crore PNB loan fraud and Centre, Bhubaneswar said that the vulnerable areas to safety as Chief Secretary Aditya Nath money-laundering case - has gone landfall will most likely be between severe cyclonic storm 'Yaas' is Das, who was camping in missing in the Caribbean island nation Dhamra and Chandbali in the nearing the coast and is expect- Srikakulam, briefed the CM of Antigua and Barbuda, to which he district. ed to make landfall near on the prevailing situation in fled in 2018. Choksi's lawyer, Vijay IMD Director General Dr Dhamra Port in Bhadrak district the three north coastal dis- Aggarwal, said on Tuesday morning Mrutyunjay Mohapatra said that early on Wednesday morning. tricts. that his client is missing and that his 'Yaas' is likely to intensify into a In Andhra Pradesh, Chief All higher officials were sta- Survivors tended to after being rescued from the Sileru river on the Andhra Odisha border on Tuesday. family is looking for him. He also said Very Severe Cyclonic Storm Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy tioned in Srikakulam, border- Antiguan police had launched a (VSCS) by Tuesday evening and has asked Collectors of the ing Odisha, to closely monitor manhunt for the fugitive jeweller and Chandbali is likely to witness the three north coastal districts to the situation and take required his whereabouts are still unknown. maximum damage caused by it. be on a high alert. action, he said. "Rain has already started and will The Chief Minister conduct- 2 continue. Wind speeds in ed a videoconference with Two children among six dead as Kendrapara and Jagatsinghpur dis- TN seeks ban on ‘The tricts will reach around 80 kmph by landfall. maximum damage due to the Family Man 2’ over midnight," he said. "Big trees and electric poles may cyclone," Mohapatra said. He said the impact will be severe get uprooted. country boat capsizes in Sileru Eelam Tamil portrayal for six hours before and after the Chandbali is likely to witness the 2 PNS n VISAKHAPATNAM The recovered bodies were shift- lost balance and capsized in the he Tamil Nadu government on ed to the government hospital in river. Monday requested the Centre At least four migrant workers and Chitrakonda in Odisha for post- Three of those who managed to T to take immediate action two of their children drowned mortem. swim to safety alerted the local either to stop or ban the release of when the country boats they were Malkangiri district Collector Y officials about the mishap and res- ''The Family Man 2'' webseries on Political turmoil on travelling in, in the Sileru river cap- Vijay visited the accident spot and cue teams from the AP State Amazon Prime, saying it depicted the sized in the wee hours of Tuesday supervised the search operation Disaster and Fire Services Eelam Tamils in a "highly objectionable on the Andhra Pradesh-Odisha and later the shifting of bodies.\ Department were sent to the spot manner." Claiming there were border. In all, 11 people set sail in two for the search operation. "condemnable, inappropriate and the horizon for TDP According to sources, the inci- country boats to their native While the body of the two-year- malicious contents" in the serial, Tamil SNCN ACHARYULU Chairman MA Shariff and Deputy dent occurred near Guntavada Konduguda village in Malkangiri old child was retrieved from the Nadu IT Minister T Mano Thangaraj n HYDERABAD Chairman Reddy Subramanyam near Sileru dam. district of Odisha after midnight river in the morning, two more said the trailer released on social are due to retire by the end of this PAGE 2 Two more people were also on Monday. were fished out in the afternoon media was aimed at discrediting and Hectic political activity is expect- month. feared drowned in the mishap, but Initially, one of the boats cap- and three others late in the distorting the historical struggle of the ed in the next two months in Their retirements will pave the Liquor sales dip by their bodies were yet to be recov- sized in the river near Silerugunta evening. Eelam Tamils in Sri Lanka. "I would like Andhra Pradesh, and none of the way for the YSRCP to bag the top ered, while three others swam to close to the Odisha border and its Among those killed were two to state that the above serial has not developments would be to the lik- post in the Council, that of the 21 percent in safety, according to police sources. passengers started drowning. children aged two and four years, only hurt the sentiments of Eelam ing of the main Opposition Telugu Chairman. Rescue teams halted the search Others in the second boat tried police said. Tamils but also the feelings of the Desam Party. Sources say that YSRCP MLC operation late on Tuesday as dark- to rescue their fellow passengers, 2 people of Tamil Nadu in large-scale,” These political developments Shaik Mohammed Iqbal is the curfew-hit AP ness fell. but in the process their boat too he said in a letter to the Centre. may not only bring grief to the favourite for the post. However, if TDP, but leave the party that has Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan been a behemoth in the state for Reddy wants to give this post to a TODAY the past four decades struggling Muslim woman, party MLC from for survival. Kadapa Zakia Khanum will be Docs blame steroids use for ‘Black fungus’ ALMANAC By the end of this month, the made Council Chairperson. Month & Paksham: TDP stands to lose its position of If the Election Commission SNV SUDHIR She pointed out that Covid-19 Vaishakha & Shukla Paksha strength in the Legislative Council does not conduct the elections to n VIJAYAWADA virus causes a reduction in the Panchangam where it enjoys a majority. By the fill the vacancies in the Council in white blood cell levels in the body. month-end, as many as 15 MLCs the next month, the YSRCP will While the sudden spurt of black WBCs are the body's first line of Tithi : Purnima: 04:42 pm — one from the BJP, four from still bag the Council Chairperson fungus (Mucormycosis) cases defence against infections. Its fail- Nakshatram : Anuradha: 01:15 am (Next Day) YSRCP and 10 from TDP — will post with the help of other mem- across both the Telugu states has ure allows for Mucor to attack the Time to Avoid : (Bad time to start be completing their term. bers. increased anxiety levels among the body and spread in the body tis- any important work) The present strength of YSRCP Meanwhile, the Chief Minister general public, experts point out sues. Rahukalam : 12:13 pm – 01:50 pm in the Council is 18 and the TDP’s is keen to conduct the Assembly that Mucor is present in the oral "The current Covid manage- strength is 26 while three seats are session for around 15 days in July, and respiratory lining of healthy ment protocols require judicious Yamagandam : 07:22 am – 08:59 am vacant. if the Covid-induced situation is individuals and will only manifest but high dose steroid usage in those Varjyam : 07:41 am – 09:06 am If elections for the seats that are under control will comes to con- as an infection in those individu- patients whose lungs have got Gulika : 10:36 am - 12:13 pm vacant at present and will be trol. als who are on long term steroid affected. While helping to bring the vacant in the very near future are According to sources, the therapy. Covid-related damage under con- Good Time : (to start any important work) held, the YSRCP will sweep the YSRCP chief is keen that TDP Since steroids are being used in trol, the counter-effect of such Amritakalam : 04:07 pm – 05:31 pm polls. This will take its strength in supremo N Chandrababu Naidu is the treatment of Covid and those high dose steroids is suppression of Abhijit Muhurtham : NIL the Council to 34 while the TDP deprived of his Leader of the individuals who suffer from uncon- the body's immune mechanisms, numbers will decrease from 26 to Opposition status in the Assembly. trolled diabetes even after recovery which in turn makes our body 16. If Jagan is able to get some TDP are susceptible to black fungus more vulnerable to the adverse VIJAYAWADA Under normal circumstances, MLAs to desert the party, Naidu infection. effects of this black fungus," Dr WEATHER the Council Chairman is from the will be called a "group leader". "Mucormycosis can occur either immune system," said long-term steroid therapy, follow- Ganguly said. ruling party and Leader of It may be remembered that concurrent to Covid infection or in said Dr Anasua Ganguly Kapoor, ing organ transplantation, extensive She said that certain drugs called Forecast: mostly cloudy Opposition in the Upper House is YSRCP Rajya Sabha Member V the early post-recovery phase and senior ophthalmologist and oculo- burns and poly-trauma. "As the immuno-modulators used to treat Temp: 42/31 from main opposition party. In a Vijayasai Reddy has said that by affect the sinuses, eyes and brain. plasty specialist at the LV Prasad severity of the second wave is far severe cases of Covid-19 can cause Humidity: 34% strange twist, the AP Council has July 23, 2021 the TDP will receive Even though Mucor is present in Eye Institute, Vijayawada. more intense, more patients are immunosuppression. ICU admis- Sunrise: 05:41 am both the Chairman and Leader of a major setback. the oral and respiratory lining of The doctor said that generally, being put on steroids and oxygen, sions with long-term oxygen Sunset: 06:44 pm the Opposition from the TDP. It is possible he was referring to healthy individuals, it does not this infection occurs in patients and hence the increase in the cases inhalation may result in a drop in Current Weather Conditions But this situation won’t contin- Naidu’s Leader of the Opposition manifest as an infection in the pres- with uncontrolled diabetes, under- of Mucormycosis," Dr Ganguly oxygen mask hygiene. Updated may 25, 2021 5:00 PM ue for long — present Council status. ence of a healthy and intact going cancer chemotherapy, on said. 2 VIJAYAWADA | WEDNESDAY | MAY 26, 2021 vijayawada 02 Let wisdom prevail for the sake of future generations! he Andhra Pradesh ment of many teach- programme has been hit by people. Recently the Brazilian avirus. What is the prime government, while ers and non-academic Today we are facing an shortage of vaccines. Hopes of president was booked for not responsibility of a govern- Thandling the devas- staff. In other words, it unprecedented situation. So, it is flattening the curve by massive wearing mask at a public meet- ment in the case of students? tating second wave of will be a routine annu- vaccination have faded. It ing. Can we expect such things Is it promising a bright future Covid-19, must look al programme conduct- the prime responsibility of the AP seems it would take at least two in our country? Nor can the or ensuring a healthy life? closely at the potential PIN ed by the govern- government to first protect the years for the entire 130 crore government hope for disci- What would happen if many of impact of its strange POINT ment as if the days were people in the country to be pline in society overnight. So, these budding stars, in their policies on the future normal. But today we are lives of students of Class X. Then vaccinated. The much-await- lockdown is a necessary evil. first stage of academic career, generation. The government facing an unprecedented situ- comes the question of giving ed herd immunity can be In this context, where is the get infected by Covid -19 dur- would imperil the future gen- ation. So, it is the prime expected only after vaccinating need for the AP government to ing the annual public exami- eration if it goes ahead with its responsibility of the AP gov- students ‘better and bright future’. about 60-70% of people. So, conduct Class X public exam- nation forced on them? plans for conducting Class X ernment to first protect the lockdown is the only option to ination? AP Education The AP government must public examination. lives of students of Class X. stop movements of more than Minister A. Suresh has harp- address these points. There is Lakhs of students, who are Then comes the question of one billion people across the ing about the need to conduct no point in trashing opposi- in their teens, will have to giving students ‘better and pursue a bright future. If they would be wise on the part of M D RATNA KUMAR country. If one feels that the Class X examination for the tion parties’ demand for can- appear for the annual exami- bright future’. are attacked by the deadly the AP government to suspend Senior Journalist Covid-19 situation is under 'bright future' of the students, cellation of the scheduled Class nation in June 2021. These stu- The death toll due to the virus in their teens, there the schedule for Class X annu- control even for a brief period, despite there being an option X examination. It is not a dents may be accompanied by second wave of the coron- might be no sound health for al public examination. there is no doubt that it is sole- to promote students basing on question of succumbing to parents. Thousands of teach- avirus is considered to be 15 them in the future. So, the gov- Maintaining Covid-19 norms equipped or prepared. The ly due to strict enforcement of marks secured in quarterly, the pressure of opposition in ers will be required for invig- times more than that of the ernment has to ensure sound strictly during the examination State government cannot give lockdown in various parts of half yearly and pre-public this regard. It is a matter of ilation duties. Additional staff first wave. If there is no action health for students. is simply not possible for the assurance to parents that their the country. examinations. safety of lakhs of students, may be required to ensure plan to contain the raging More than 35 lakh people government and it cannot kids would not get affected by Adherence to Covid-19 For students, securing a their parents as well as acade- smooth conduction of the virus now, a catastrophic situ- have lost their precious lives ensure the safety for students. the virus during the examina- norms such as wearing masks, certificate alone is not enough mic and non-academic staff examination. The examina- ation cannot be averted later. across the globe due to multi- Conducting examinations by tions. maintaining social distance for their bright future. They involved the conduct of Class tion will be followed by valu- Students of Class X, who are in ple waves of Covid-19. Given observing Covid protocol is a Even on the vaccination individually and following need to be hale and hearty, X public examination. Let wis- ation of answer sheets. This the budding stage of their life, the frightening Covid-19 situ- challenging task, for which the front, AP too has been facing hand hygiene is ideal. That preferably without getting dom prevail over the govern- again requires the involve- should have sound health to ation across the country, it official machinery is not problems. The vaccination requires self-discipline among infected by the deadly coron- ment on this crucial matter! Covid cases cross Docs blame Liquor sales dip by 21pc in AP steroids use C PRADEEP KUMAR 10.70 per cent. the 16 lakh mark n VIJAYAWADA Revenue also dropped sig- for ‘Black nificantly in May. Liquor sales PNS n VIJAYAWADA The State government's deci- in April stood at Rs 1,531.97 sion to impose curfew to rein crore and from May 1 to 24 the Cumulative Covid-19 cases fungus’ in Covid-19 may or may not revenue generated was Rs crossed 16 lakh in Andhra Continued from Page 1 prove to be effective, but it has 1,318.17 crore indicating that Pradesh while recoveries definitely hit revenues from the the government has lost about touched the 14 lakh mark on If the patient has pre-existing, sale of liquor. 14 per cent of its revenue. Tuesday even as the active poorly controlled diabetes, he In all there has been a drop Excise Deputy caseload dropped below the or she is more at risk of devel- of 21 percent in liquor sales in Commissioner B Arun Rao, two-lakh mark. oping Mucormycosis," Dr the state during the last two said that the government inten- In 24 hours ending 9 am on Ganguly added. months. tion was to close all the liquor Tuesday, the state reported Godavari 1,412, Kurnool 1,387 "Steroids should be used Sale of beer has gone down shops in the state in a phased 15,284 fresh cases of coron- and Anantapur 1,034 new very judiciously during active by 52 percent while 10 percent manner. avirus, 20,917 recoveries and cases in a day. Covid-19 infection, only less hard liquor has been sold Till now, one-third of the 106 deaths, a health depart- Seven districts reported less when the saturation in room due to the imposition of 18 shops have been closed and ment bulletin said. than 1,000 cases each, with air falls below 94,and that too hours curfew across the state. rates were increased by 50 The gross Covid-19 cases Kadapa logging the lowest under the care of an expert The state government has in a steep fall of sales compared high during the summer. But cases of beer was sold per day percent to discourage the tip- rose to 16,09,105, recoveries to 436. who can monitor for blood initiated various measures to to the previous month. currently there is a huge drop which was less. plers and bring good stan- 14,00754 and toll to 10,328, it Chittoor district reported 15 sugar level and treat prompt- bring down alcohol consump- A total of 21,31,558 cases of in the sale of beer due to var- As a result, beer sales fell by dards of living. said. The active caseload is fresh fatalities, Prakasam 11, ly," Dr Ganguly. tion in the state in a phased beer and liquor were sold in the ious reasons like the Covid sec- 52.37 percent, officials said. Permit rooms were totally now 1,98,023. West Godavari 10, Anantapur, Those under home isola- manner by removing belt state from April 1 to 24. ond wave and the curfew being Officials said that from April closed, earlier there was 9 East Godavari district con- East Godavari, SPS Nellore tion may not need any steroid shops, curbing illicit liquor From May 1 to 24, only imposed from 12 noon to 6 am. 1 to 30, liquor stores and bars hours permission to sell liquor tinued to report the highest and Visakhapatnam nine each, treatment. Hygiene of the sales and transportation, and 16,74,343 cases of liquor was From April 1 to 30, liquor together sold an average of and now it is brought down to number of new cases in the Kurnool and Vizianagaram oxygen masks and humidi- shortening sale hours. sold. As a result, liquor sales fell stores and bars together sold an 63,455 cases of liquor per day. 6 hours. Not only due to lock- state, logging 2,663 in 24 eight each, Srikakulam seven, fiers should be maintained With the curfew in place in by 21.45 percent, according to average of 28,184 cases of beer From May 5 to 24, an average down but due to Covid surge, hours. Guntur and Krishna five each. with utmost care," pointed the state, liquor shops are Excise department officials. a day, however from May 5 to of 56,665 cases per day were liquor sales have come down, Chittoor added 1,970, Kadapa had just one Covid-19 out another ophthalmolo- forced to close early, resulting Usually the sale of beer is May 24, an average of 13,423 sold. As a result, liquor sales fell said Arun Rao. Visakhapatnam 1,840, West death in 24 hours. gist. Cyclone Yaas likely to make... Lokesh asks Amit Living in AP gets... Continued from Page 1 (Odisha), 430 km south- Paschim Medinipur and Continued from Page 1 teacher from Santhapeta said southeast of Balasore North 24 Parganas districts the government was giving 10 Chief Minister Naveen (Odisha) and 420 km south- during the period. Shah to stop... The normal variety of man- kg of rice per month per per- Patnaik has rushed Odisha's southeast of Digha (West The system is likely to goes, a seasonal fruit, is being son. “So far so good. But Minister of State for Home, Bengal) at 5.30 am, it said. cause heavy rain over large Continued from Page 1 dents were also suffering from sold at Rs 400 to Rs 500 per other items like 1 kg dal and DS Mishra to Balasore to Squally wind speeds reach- parts of West Bengal and other academic burdens also dozen. 500 grammes of sugar are not monitor the situation in the ing 50-60 kmph gusting to 70 Odisha on Tuesday and Lokesh told Amit Shah that since March 2020, in terms of Anaga Subba Rao, a retired enough to last for a month. northern parts of the state. kmph are prevailing over Wednesday. TDP leaders the National Consultation incomplete syllabus, inade- bank employee and a resident And not many of us can buy Official sources said that north Bay of Bengal and 'Yaas' is also expected to organised by the Union quate learning practices, and of Lawyerpet, said low scale essentials from the retail mar- the evacuation process is along and off Andhra cause a storm surge of 2-4 illegally arrested.. Education Ministry had financial strain on their fam- employees, private employees ket,” she said. underway in full swing in the Pradesh-Odisha-West metres along the coastline of stressed the necessity for ilies because of loss of and day wagers are strug- Kurichedu Jhansi, a teacher, coastal districts and over Bengal-Bangladesh coasts, Purba Medinipur and 1-2 Continued from Page 1 cancelling Class X incomes under the gling just to survive. said it is next to impossible to 50,000 people have been the weatherman said. metres in South 24 Parganas. He demanded the DGP to exams even as over Covid impact. He also said that efforts survive if prices of essential taken to safe shelters till Wind speeds will increase The weatherman advised take action against the guilty 14 States across the Lokesh told taken by government offi- commodities continue to sky- noon. to 155-165 kmph gusting to fishermen against venturing officials responsible for the country and two Amit Shah that cials to rein in rising prices of rocket. The process will be com- 185 kmph over northwest out into the sea till further illegal detention of the TDP national boards despite requests essential commodities are too Meanwhile, Prakasam dis- pleted by afternoon, much Bay of Bengal and along and information. activists. “Also, the DGP (ICSE and CBSE) have from lakhs of stu- feeble to make a difference. trict Joint Collector J Venkata before 'Yaas' nears the coast, off north Odisha and adjoin- It warned of destruction to should take steps to uncon- cancelled the tests. dents, parents and “The situation would wors- Murali on Tuesday called a they said. ing West Bengal coasts thatched houses, extensive ditionally release all the ille- "However, the AP teachers, the AP government en if the government does not meeting with pulses, rice The evacuation of people including Jagatsinghpur, damage to kutcha dwellings gally detained TDP activists Government was preparing remained adamant and decid- wake up from its slumber millers and wholesalers at is being carried out keeping Kendrapara, Bhadrak, and some damage to pucca and restrain the police from to conduct the Class X exams ed to go ahead with the board and take action,” Subba Rao Prakasam Bhavan and asked in view the IMD's warning of Balasore districts of Odisha buildings in coastal and foisting false cases and from for 6.7 lakh students from June exams. When alternative said. them to reduce prices as much a tidal surge of around 2-4.5 during landfall, it said. adjoining interior districts of making illegal arrests,” he 7 and also bent on holding methods of evaluation were Lanka Prasanna, a private as possible. metres during the landfall. In Odisha's Mayurbhanj West Bengal. wrote. Class XI exams for 5 lakh stu- being explored, there was sim- 'Yaas' is likely to move district and West Bengal's The MeT Department also Naidu vowed that the TDP dents soon," Lokesh wrote. ply no need to conduct offline north-northwestwards and Purba Medinipur and South warned of bending or would wage a legal battle Expressing concern over exams in 3,000 to 4,000 exam intensify further into a VSCS 24 Parganas districts, wind uprooting of electric poles against the ruling YSRCP the AP govt's stubborn atti- centres, he wrote. This would during the next 12 hours, the speeds may increase to 100- and disruption of railway and the police to protect the tude, Lokesh appealed for spark multiple super spreader IMD said in its latest bulletin 120 kmph gusting to 145 services due to snapping of rights and interests of their Central intervention consider- events. issued at 9.10 am on Tuesday. kmph. power lines and signalling party leaders and activists ing how over 11.7 lakh stu- The new strains were The system has been mov- Wind speeds reaching 80- systems. across the State. He con- dents were facing the threat of known to be more virulent ing north-northwestwards at 90 kmph gusting to 110 The South Eastern demned the manner in which infections. The situation was among younger age groups. a speed of 10 kmph during kmph will prevail over Railways has announced the the police filed false cases and still precarious in AP with Lokesh expressed concern the past six hours. It lays cen- Odisha's Puri, Cuttack, cancellation of several pas- made false arrests of Covid positivity rate still above over the threat of a third wave tred around 320 km south- Khurda and Jajpur districts senger special trains till Janardhan Reddy and his fol- 20 percent," he wrote. that may affect students and southeast of Paradip and West Bengal's Jhargram, Wednesday. lowers. Lokesh said that these stu- teachers.

VIJAYAWADA BULLION RATES Bengal, Odisha evacuate... TS stares at revenue GOLD Two children among... ` Rs.49, 760 (10 gm) Continued from Page 1 said. Continued from Page 1 operations. He also asked the shortfall of Rs 4K-5K ` 10 Special Relief Commissioner officials to ensure proper treat- Except light rain, there has not of Odisha, P K Jena, said that The victims, all tribals, were ment to the victims. PNS n HYDERABAD the State was forced to impose SILVER been much impact in over 2.10 lakh people residing migrant workers who were He asked the Visakhapatn- lockdown on March 22 last ` 76, 200 (1kg) Srikakulam district. in kutcha houses in low-lying returning to their village am Collector and SP to speed With the ongoing lockdown year. The strict lockdown con- ` 200 Jharkhand has also sound- areas have been moved to Konduguda in Odisha from up the rescue operations. and the prospects of its further tinued for about 45 days, tak- ed an alert and is preparing for cyclone shelters. Hyderabad. Paderu YSRCP MLA extension expected to eat into ing a heavy toll on the state's the cyclone's impact. The highest number of evac- The workers reached Sileru Kottagulli Bhagyalakshmi 20-25 per cent of the expect- revenues. But the State was CHICKEN West Bengal Chief Minister uees are from Balasore district checkpost late on Monday spoke to the officials over ed revenues for May-June, it is lucky to stage a recovery from RATES `/KG Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday Disaster Response Force (74,132), followed by Bhadrak night but, fearing they might phone and enquired about the but natural for the TS Finance December onwards, and it said that her administration (NDRF) and State Disaster (73,103). be stopped by the AP police in incident. The MLA asked the Department to go through a ended the new financial year Dressed/With Skin `155 has evacuated over nine lakh Response Force (SDRF) per- Evacuation of people is also view of the ongoing Covid cur- District Collector, Integrated feeling of déjà vu! in better state than what was Without Skin `175 people to safe shelters. sonnel have been deployed underway in Cuttack, few, took country boats after Tribal Development Agency When the State govern- expected. Broiler at Farm `107 The Odisha government, and Army's help will be sought Kendrapara, Keonjhar, midnight for their onward Project Officer and local offi- ment presented a budget with For financial year 2021-22, on the other hand, said it has if required. Khurda, Jagastinghpur, Jajpur, journey to their native village. cials to provide relief measures an outlay of Rs.1.82 lakh crore the Telangana government pre- moved over 2 lakh people "We have evacuated at least Dhenkanal, Gajapati, Ganjam, In all, some 35 people start- for those who survived and for the last fiscal 2020-21, it sented yet another ambitious EGG from vulnerable areas in 9 lakh people to relief and Mayurbhanj, Nayagarh, Puri ed off in five country boats in ensure their safety. was by all means considered budget of Rs.2. 3 lakh crore on RATES `/100 coastal districts to safety. flood centres. There are 4,000 and Angul districts, he said. the Sileru river. Chitrakonda Tahsildar K an ambitious one, given the March 18, crossing the Rs 2 Banerjee said over 74,000 flood centres in the state,” she Jharkhand has evacuated Some of them safely reached Padmanava Dora said that preceding year's economic lakh mark for the first time. VIJAYAWADA 539 officers and workers and over said. people from vulnerable areas their destination, but ill fate fearing that they could under- slowdown. Perhaps, what the Although the pandemic was HYDERABAD 456 2 lakh policemen and civic vol- Kolkata Municipal in East and West Singhbhum struck the others. go Covid test at the border and State did not expect then was very much around, with rev- unteers have been deployed to Corporation Board of districts near the borders of Meanwhile, Minister for questioned by a patrolling the fast-spreading first wave of enues looking up, Telangana, VISAKHAPATNAM 355 mitigate the natural calamity in Administrators' chairman West Bengal and Odisha and health Alla Kali Krishna team, they tried to return to Covid-19 and its devastating like the rest of the country, was RETAIL PRICE `5.39 (IN VIJAYAWADA) West Bengal. Firhad Hakim is monitoring moved them to safety, a senior Srinivas asked the district their village through a water impact. For, barely two weeks under the impression that She said that National the situation from home, she official said. authorities to take up rescue route. after presenting the budget, Covid was under control.

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Rs 105 crore Anandaiah drug ‘miraculously released for Fire breaks out in HPCL Kadapa EMC plant, no injuries reported PNS n VIJAYAWADA cures’ student from Peddapalli PNS n VIJAYAWADA The State government on MARTHI SUBRAHMANYAM On this, Somireddy said Tuesday accorded adminis- A fire broke out at the newly- n NELLORE that he witnessed that a student trative sanction to APIIC Ltd constructed block in the from Manthani survived with for an amount of Rs 105 crore Hindustan Petroleum A student from Manthani, in Anandaiah medicine, which towards first instalment of 30 Corporation Limited (HPCL) Peddapalli Constituency of effectively worked in a few percent of its contribution for on Tuesday. Telangana survived following minutes. the YSR Electronic Manuf- After dense smoke was seen administration of Anandaiah At this point Jagan was acturing Cluster (EMC), billowing out of the refinery Ayurvedic drug. He survived asked by Somireddy to put pol Kopparthi project in Kadapa. and flames were sighted, the with the initiation of former tics aside even in the drug dis- Orders were issued last fire brigade was alerted. minister and TDP politburo tribution. He further said that year according approval to Fire personnel and police member Somireddy Chandra it seemed everyone responsi- APIIC to undertake and set- rushed to the spot and evacu- mohan Reddy. The followers, bility to distribute Anandaiah ting up of Electronic ated the employees. Five fire who were with Chandramohan s drugs to save the lives of the Manufacturing Cluster and to tenders were pressed into ser- Reddy, along with MLC patients. submit an application to the vice to put off the flames, Beeda Ravichandra Yadav were TDP National Secretary, Government of India for according to a source. amazed that the student recov- MLC Beeda Chandra said that approvals under the EMC-2.0 The HPCL stated that the ered in just 15 minutes after in the past the whole country Scheme notified by Ministry fire which broke out at its Vizag being administered eye drops said that he was stopped by the a tree. looked towards Krishna pat- of Electronics and Inform- plant has been brought under made by Anandaiah. police in the middle, but an Somireddy and Beeda nam because of the ation Technology (MeitY). control. It also clarified that HPCL fire mishap is sign of Later, the student Prakash auto driver arrived like a god Ravichandra, who were watch- Krishnapatnam port and again The orders included a there are no casualties in the said that he was in a life-threat and brought him there. He said ing the incident from a dis- today the whole country was request to the Centre to duly mishap that occurred at govt neglect, alleges CPM ning condition and that his rel- it was amazing that he survived tance and talking to the media, looking towards Krishna pat- sanction Rs 380.50 crore from around 3 pm on Tuesday. atives had brought him to with Anandaiah's drug rushed there. As soon as nam due to Anandaiah med- the total project cost of Rs HPCL tweeted, "A fire inci- PNS n VIJAYAWADA people could forget that Krishnapatnam as he did not and thanked him. Somireddy reached, his men icine. 730.50 crore as the State dent has occurred at one of the nightmare, the HPCL mishap believe he was alive. Initially, the police inter- immediately went to Earlier, a TDP delegation Government share. The crude distilleries of HPCL's CPM Greater Vizag secretary B has created panic among the He said most of the hospitals cepted the car carrying Prakash Anandaiah residence in the visited Krishnapatnam on Centre provides 50 percent of Visakha Refinery at 3 pm on Ganga Rao on Tuesday residents,” Ganga Rao said. in Peddapalli had charged at Krishnapatnam village. village, brought the medicine Tuesday. Under the leadership the project cost limited to Rs 25th May 2021. Safety mea- expressed concern over the fire He said that during the recent money in lakhs, but the result With that, the followers of and poured it in the student’s of Somireddy, Bida 350 crore as grant, under sures and firefighting were mishap that was reported from past, mishaps in industries have was not visible. The result was Somireddy went there and eyes. Not only did Prakash Ravichandra and Pellakoor EMC2.0 Scheme. activated. The fire has been the HPCL premises earlier in the become commonplace and not seen even during quaran- requested the police and sent recover after 15 minutes, but it Srinivasu Reddy, the leaders Meanwhile Software extinguished. There is no casu- day. The Left party leader said even private companies are not tine. the car into the village. The was also amazing that he examined the drug distribution Technology Parks of India, an alty or risk to the public. Other that a detailed inquiry should be following any safety norms. He said that as a last resort, patient’s mother tried to bring addressed the media. Prakash taking place locally. The inci- autonomous society under refinery operations are nor- initiated into the mishap in the “The state and the Central he came to Krishnapatnam him out from the car and take s mother thanked Somireddy dent that took place there on MeitY, approved setting up of mal." crude distillation unit and action governments are not taking any village after hearing the news him to Anandaiah’s residence, and Beeda Ravichandra for this occasion surprised even YSR EMC at Kopparthy with Workers at the plant said should be taken based on the action against the companies, of the drug of Anandaiah. He but the victim fell down under taking care of her son on time. the TDP leaders. an approved project cost of Rs that as soon as the alarm rang, report. He said that the project paving the way for such 748.76 crore excluding land they left the place as fire ten- to increase capacity in the crude mishaps to recur,” he added. cost and for providing finan- ders rushed in to douse the distillation unit had been taken “After the BJP came to power, cial assistance of Rs 350 crore. flames. up by L&T and inquiry should the safety standards of Covid patient The funding pattern is Dense plumes of smoke and cover the role of the company. industries and the powers of Cyclone Yaas: Ready for all financial assistance of Rs 350 flames were seen rising from Ganga Rao said that exactly one environmental organisations jumps to death crore by MeitY, Rs 18.26 the refinery. year ago, gas leakage from LG have weakened,” Ganga Rao crore contribution by APIIC District Collector Vinay Polymers was reported and it is said. He appealed to the Ltd and Rs 380.50 crore con- Chand said that the situation a nightmare among the people government to save the people exigencies, Collectors tell CM from hospital tribution by AP. is under control and people of Vizag. “Even before the of Vizag from such mishaps. The first, second and third need not worry. PNS n VIJAYAWADA building instalments of 30 percent, 40 Meanwhile, Home Minister percent and 30 percent Sucharita expressed shock dent. Officials told the Home They explained to her that Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan PNS n VIJAYAWADA respectively will be released over the incident. She spoke Minister that the accident the siren sounded immediate- Reddy on Tuesday held a by the Centre after AP releas- on the phone with HPCL took place at the old terminal ly after the accident and review meeting with collectors A 50-year-old man under- es its contribution. higher officials about the acci- of HPCL. employees were sent out. of Srikakulam, Vizianagaram going treatment for Covid- and Visakhapatnam districts 19 committed suicide at regarding the situation in the the Pinnamaneni CYCLONE YAAS wake of Cyclone Yaas and dis- Siddhartha Covid Care cussed the precautionary mea- hospital, Chinna Outupalli sures to be taken. village in Gannavaram During the review meeting, the mandal in Krishna district Chief Minister directed the on Tuesday. The victim Oil industry ready to meet the challenge district collectors and officials was identified as P to be on high alert and follow Roshaiah of Kothur village PNS n VIJAYAWADA arrangements to maintain ade- the updates of Meteorological in the district. Roshaiah quate POL, CNG, LPG stock at Department and act accord- was an agricultural labour. Merely two weeks after cyclone all the dealerships in the area ingly. He asked them to con- Srikakulam district to ensure no shortage of food. On May 16, he had tested Tauktae wreaked havoc and left expected to be hit by the cyclone. tinuously monitor the move- Collector E Nivas explained Electricity poles and trans- positive for the deadly behind a trail of destruction, Disaster Control Room at ment of the storm. the measures being taken in formers are also readily kept in infection and was admit- India is bracing for another corporate and divisional level Chief Secretary Adityanath the wake of cyclone Yaas. He case of any problem in power ted in the Covid Care hos- cyclone, Cyclone Yaas, likely to has been set up by the oil and Das attended the review meet- said they are coordinating with supply and that IMD alerts are pital for treatment. make landfall at north Odisha gas companies for close coor- ing from Srikakulam through Odisha officials and special being shared with Mandal According to police, he - West Bengal coast between dination with divisions and videoconference and briefed teams were placed in level officers. was also suffering from Paradip and Sagar Island on locations likely to be affected. the Chief Minister on the sit- Ichapuram so that if any prob- Visakhapatnam Collector V comorbidities. As there Wednesday evening. The companies are also uation in three districts. He lem arises in transportation of Vinay Chand said the situation was no improvement in As part of a major contin- organising internal meetings to Oil industry officials are in porarily suspended, and the said there is no major impact oxygen tankers, it can be is normal in the district and his health even after a gency plan, the Ministry of disseminate information to the close coordination with workers have been moved out at present in Srikakulam dis- immediately addressed. they are prepared in all sorts to week of treatment, Petroleum and Natural Gas is field-level officers about the Paradip and Haldia Port to ensure their safety. All ships trict except little rain. The Vizianagaram district deal with the cyclone. Roshaiah was depressed. taking all precautionary mea- approaching cyclone, its sever- authorities on the berthing carrying POL products and Chief Secretary added that all Collector Hari Jawahar Lal He said measures were being He finally took the sures to mitigate the impact of ity, impact, and the possible and de-berthing of vessels/ crude oil have been advised to the higher officials are sta- said no impact of the cyclone taken for uninterrupted power extreme step of jumping Cyclonic storm Yaas. The oil and devastation it can bring to the barges at jetties. Activities at all keep a safe distance from the tioned in Srikakulam. has been seen in the district so supply to oxygen plants and from the third floor of the gas industry has made all entire supply chain. project sites have been tem- cyclone’s path. Adityanath Das said all mea- far and they are well prepared cylinder refilling plants. He hospital. On receiving sures were taken ensuring no to deal with the situation. He said all precautionary measures information, Aatkur police Covid patient is present in said all types of generators were taken in 80 hospitals Sub-Inspector G Srinivas temporary buildings. He said were arranged in 28 Covid where Covid patients are being Rao along with his team VIT-AP join to ensure no shortage of oxy- hospitals in the district and treated. He said alternative reached the spot, exam- Jagan credits Rs 1,820 crore gen, the officials have arranged that enough diesel was avail- preparations were made to ined the scene and regis- hands with generators and diesel readily in able to last for four days. He ensure uninterrupted supply of tered a case. Roshaiah is case of interruption in power said they have arranged gas power. survived by a wife and two Juniper to supply. cylinders in Covid care centres sons. under YSR crop insurance PNS n VIJAYAWADA e-crop platform get their share onset of next Kharif, ensuring boost skills of insurance directly with no that no farmer suffers due to PNS n VIJAYAWADA Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan middlemen, Jagan said. losses. Taking transparency in Covaxin 2nd dose on May 26, 27: Singhal Reddy on Tuesday credited Rs The Chief Minister said that governance to the next level, all Juniper Networks Cloud and 1,820.23 crore under 'YSR Free a total of Rs 3,788.25 crore was these details, compensation Automation Academy and PNS n VIJAYAWADA cine doses have come from the to the Hyderabad lab and Crop Insurance' scheme into spent on this crop insurance for the crop loss will be dis- School of Computer Science central government,” he said. results were yet to come. the bank accounts of 15.15 scheme alone in the last 23 played at RBKs for social audit and Engineering, VIT-AP Principal Medical and Health Singhal said there were no He said that experts from the lakh farmers who lost their months, including clearing and those missing out from the signed MoU on Tuesday. Secretary AK Singhal on reports of black fungus deaths Central Government, Central crop during 2020 Kharif. dues of Rs 715.84 crore left list can get enrolled at RBK Dr SV Kota Reddy, Vice- Tuesday said that a second in the state till date and 252 Council for Research in Speaking on the occasion, the pending by the previous gov- itself. Not just from seeds to Chancellor, VIT-AP said that dose of Covaxin will be admin- black fungus cases have been Ayurvedic Studies, Tirupati Chief Minister said that the ernment. marketing but RBKs also serve this collaboration will help istered to beneficiaries across identified across Andhra Ayurvedic College are examin- government has taken the Besides, the state govern- the purpose of crop purchas- faculty and students to get the state on May 26 and 27. Pradesh. “Till date, 3,000 ing the Krishnapatnam responsibility of supporting ment had spent Rs 83,000 ing centres, he said. Juniper training and certifi- “Instructions have been Amphotericin B injections Ayurvedic preparation. farmers during tough times crore towards farmer welfare in Jagan said that the state gov- cation. given to district collectors to have been sent to all districts He said in the wake of and thus brought in the free the last 23 months, whereas for ernment had credited Rs 1,038 This collaboration can make arrangements to vacci- to treat black fungus cases. Cyclone Yaas, oxygen was crop insurance scheme, with- Rythu Bharosa alone Rs 17,029 crore as input subsidy for those bring forth 10 industry cours- nate 90,000 people in two Earlier, 900 vials were distrib- drawn from the Centre in out levying the burden of pay- crore was spent. farmers who lost their crops in es with lots of research and days,” he said. uted and on Tuesday remain- addition to the daily alloca- ing the premium on farmers. The Chief Minister said that natural calamities, with no career opportunities in the Singhal said that Covishield ing 2,100 vials were distributed tions. Unlike the previous govern- the government has been delays ensuring that every cloud and networking space vaccines doses from the central across all the districts,” he said. In the past 24 hours, 767 ment, where the farmer had to working to safeguard the inter- farmer gets compensated in the most importantly, VIT-AP government for the month of Pertaining to Krishna pat- metric tonnes of oxygen has pay his share of the insurance ests of the farmers and thus same season. Besides these, the University Juniper pro- May have reached the State doses will be administered to nam Ayurvedic preparation, been drawn from the Centre. premium, the YSRCP govern- established 10,778 RBKs inte- government had spent Rs gramme certified students while 78,000 Covaxin doses people on Wednesday and Singhal said the Ayush com- “The Central government is ment has revamped the grating with village secretari- 18,342 crore for procuring will be given additional pri- were still awaited. “Currently, Thursday. The AP govern- missioner has inspected the allocating 590 metric tonnes of scheme by paying the entire ats to benefit the farmers. He paddy and Rs 4761 crore ority by the Juniper team dur- 1,17,980 doses of Covaxin are ment purchased 12,74,290 vac- preparation personally. He said oxygen to AP on a daily basis,” insurance premium ensuring said that loss in Kharif 2020 is towards purchasing other crops ing its recruitment which available, while 90,000 second cine doses while 4,35,990 vac- some of the samples were sent Singhal said. that all farmers enrolled in the being compensated by the and supporting the farmers. offers super dream jobs. Vendors advised to take advantage ‘Oxygen on Wheels' for Palasa Covid centre PNS n VIJAYAWADA from Jagananna Thodu scheme Based on a request from Srikakulam district Collector PNS n VIJAYAWADA of the Covid epidemic, all sec- J Niwas, the Indian Navy tors have been affected with provided on 'Oxygen on Vijayawada Municipal Corpo petty vendors, small traders, Wheels' plant to Palasa ration project officer Dr J street vendors and traditional Covid Care Centre on Aruna on Tuesday said that the professionals being severely Tuesday. State government has extend- affected. “Those who sell The 'Oxygen on Wheels' ed the 'Jagananna Thodu' goods in pushcarts and bas- designed by Naval Dockyard, scheme to all eligible petty ven- kets, those who do trade on was formally inaugurated at dors and they should make the footpaths, and those who sell the Palasa, Covid Care Centre best use of the scheme. goods on bicycles and vehicles by Minister of Animal Aruna on Tuesday reviewed are being given interest-free Husbandry and Dairy has been connected up with vides oxygen round the clock ‘Oxygen on Wheels’ is a tals and was formally the survey being conducted by that Jagananna Thodu scheme loans of up to Rs 10,000 each Development and Fisheries the oxygen pipeline in the for up to 12 patients admit- unique initiative launched by launched at Visakhapatnam the staff to identify petty ven- was a boon for petty vendors by banks,” Aruna said, advis- Seediri Appalaraju, in the pres- Covid Health Care Centre at ted in the hospital. the Naval Dockyard where- by Eastern Naval Command dors near Patamata Rythu and small traders who eke out ing petty vendors and small ence of Sub Collector Suraj Palasa by a team of special- The team has also trained in a PSA Oxygen Plant was (ENC) commander in chief, Bazaar under the VMC limits. their livelihood. traders to take advantage of the Ganore and the Naval team. ists from Naval Dockyard hospital staff in the operation integrated on a mobile plat- Vice Admiral AB Singh, on On the occasion, she said Aruna said that in the wake 'Jagananna Thodu' scheme. The 'Oxygen on Wheels' Visakhapatnam and it pro- of the plant. form to serve remote hospi- May 20. VIJAYAWADA | WEDNESDAY | MAY 26, 2021 vijayawada 04 10,982 farmers benefited from Tension prevails over digging fish ponds PNS n KAKINADA

Mild tension prevailed in Gorripudi village in the Karapa crop insurance: Minister Mandal of East Godavari district on Tuesday when a aqua farmer PNS n BHIMAVARAM tried to dig ponds in three acres in the Murikopora area. Minister for Housing The local people objected to Cherukuvada Sri Ranganatha digging the fish ponds as the rev- Raju on Tuesday said that the enue officials gave B-forms to ten Government launched YSR free people in front of the proposed and others obstructed the digging crop insurance to benefit the ponds. There was also a burial work. The dispute further escalat- farmers with an intention to help ground near the area where the ed and led to a clash. them at the time of investment to ponds were being dug. The local When Appalaraju, former raise crops. people alleged that the fish ponds president of the Society reached He interacted with the farmers were dug without permission. the spot in support of the land- in Turpupalem village in Poduru The dispute has been going on for lord, the issue became further mandal of Achanta constituency the past two days. complicated. The police swung in West Godavari district and On Tuesday, in a bid to con- into action and dispersed people took their reaction on the release tinue the digging work, the pond from the disputed site. of insurance claims to the farm- owner engaged some people and As the issue became a law and ers who lost their crops in the last two proclainers and tried to order problem, Revenue Kharif season. Giving the details, begin the work. There was a clash Inspector Pepakayala Macharao, Ranganatha Raju said that Rs when the local people prevented VRO D Bharani Kumar and fish- 13.07 crore was disbursed to them from doing digging work. eries Inspector R Nukaraju 10,982 farmers through the YSR The villagers feared that water ordered the landlord to sop the free Crop Insurance Scheme in seepage from the unauthorised digging work till the dispute was Achanta, Penugonda, ponds would cause damage to settled. The RI warned that cases Penumantra and Poduru mandals their houses as well as the ceme- would be filed if ponds were dug located in Achanta constituency. tery. Gandhi Mary, K Rama Rao without permission. He said Chief Minister YS 6,640 farmers to benefit in Nellore Jaganmohan Reddy had deposit- ed the insurance compensation by NELLORE: Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy on clicking the button in his office a Tuesday released a compensation of Rs 1,820.23 crore Attack on Youth attempts total of Rs. 1,820.23 crores into the to farmers in the state as part of the crop insurance, irrigation official, Probe ordered into bank accounts of 15.15 lakh District Collector Chakradhara Babu said. About 6,640 suicide farmers across the state as crop farmers would benefit in the district under YSR free crop insurance claim in the Kharif insurance. Addressing the media at the Tikkana Mandir Collector warns 2020. on the premises of the Collector's Office on Tuesday, he misuse of funds in PNS n MYLAVARAM Despite all the financial diffi- said that the paddy and turmeric farmers in the district encroachers culties with the corona, the gov- had lost their yields and they would receive the compen- A youth allegedly attempted ernment managed to credit the sation. He said the compensation would be given to the tists," he said. He said that as part of the input subsidy PNS n KADAPA Mylavaram MPP suicide after he was humil- claim amount under YSR free farmers before the coming season so that they can use it the farmers would be given seeds for nine lakh acres in iated and manhandled by crop insurance to the farmers' to buy seeds and fertilizers. "We were providing quality the district and even during the Covid crisis. On this District Collector C the SI. The youth alleged accounts to relieve the farmers seeds and fertilizers to the farmers through Rythu occasion, the Collector appreciated the staff of the secre- Harikiran warned that stern PNS n MYLAVARAM plaint, ZP CEO directed that Mylavaram SI Rambabu from crop losses due to difficul- Bharosa Kendras and we were also giving suggestions tariat and the staff of the Department of Agriculture action would be taken against Divisional Development has beaten him asking him ties caused by heavy rains, on agricultural techniques to the farmers through scien- worked diligently to collect crop damage details. those who attacked the offi- Embezzlement of funds Officer Jayachandra Gandhi to confess as an accused in droughts, pests and other natur- cers on duty in Kadapa dis- came to light in the to conduct a thorough the case of burning a two- al calamities. The Minister said trict. Mylavaram Mandal Praja probe into the scam and wheeler. that the Chief Minister was fulfill- On Tuesday, the Government al rains and typhoons in Kharif of free crop insurance beneficia- In a statement on Tuesday, Parishad office as the submit a report. The victim, Upputala Siva, ing all the promises made by him released Rs. 1,820.23 crore free 2020. ries as per the scheme at all the he said Irrigation depart- Administrative officer com- DDO Jayachandra said he committed suicide by during his Padayatra. The YSR crop insurance cover for 15.15 In addition, the farmers were YSR Farmer Assurance Centres so ment AEE Raghunath Reddy, plained to the Zilla Parishad Gandhi said that he would taking rat poison for fear of free Crop Insurance scheme lakh farmers towards the crop assisted at every stage of farming that farmers could check any who was on his way to CEO, who ordered a probe complete the inquiry into being beaten again. He would help farmers coming out insurance claim for the last year from sowing to yield procurement time. Gurralagadda to oversee the into the scam on Tuesday. MPDO in two days and alleged that the ASI came to from losses caused due to natur- Kharif, the Minister said. at the YSR Rythu Bharosa The government has taken removal of encroachments as MPP AO Muralimohan submit a report to the ZP him in the hospital and al calamities. The Minister said for the first Kendras (YSR Farmer Assurance responsibility to pay a complete part of the Buggavanka beau- complained that funds were CEO. taken his signature on the The government had released time in history the insurance Centres). The details of the crops premium on behalf of the farm- tification works was attacked misused in the MPP office The complainant, white paper after he attempt- Rs.3, 928 crores to 52.38 lakh compensation payments had been grown in the village were record- ers causing without any financial by some people, who in Krishna district pertain- Administrative Officer ed suicide. farmers as a first tranche of farm- paid so fast. With an aim to sup- ed in the e-crop and according- burden on the farmers and it was encroached the bunds on ing to election funds. In his Murali Mohan declined to The victim's mother ers guarantee scheme for the port the farmers, the YS ly, the crop insurance facility was the first of its kind in the coun- Monday evening. The AEE complaint, Muralimohan comment on the issue. Ramanamma complained to third consecutive year in a row Jaganmohan Reddy's government given to farmers. try. Ranganath Raju said the visited the area to supervise said MPDO D Subba Rao in He said that an inquiry the district SP seeking justice recently and it could be used as an had also released an input subsidy Ranganatha Raju said to ensure Jaganmohan Reddy government the Buggavanka works which connivance with some other would be held and he would and pleaded for protection. investment by farmers for raising of Rs 931 crore at the end of the transparency in the disburse- has released Rs 83,085.45 crore so would protect Kadapa city staff members resorted to not be able to say anything The victim was currently crops during Kharif season in the Kharif season for unprecedented ment of crop insurance claims, the far to the farmers through various from floods during the misappropriation of funds. at present and the superiors being treated at a private wake of the corona pandemic. crop damage caused by unseason- government was displaying the list schemes. floods. Reacting to the com- would reveal all the facts. hospital in Mylavaram. Lord Govindraja Swamy takes FIGHTING COVID TDP leader decries celestial ride on Bhogi Theru dearth of facilities PNS n TIRUPATI in hospitals On the eighth day of the ongo- ing annual Brahmotsavam of PNS n GUNTUR The ex-MLA alleged that Govindaraja Swamy, the idols the doctors were prescribing of Sridevi and Bhudevi with Telugu Desam Party costly medicines and asking Govindaraja Swamy magnifi- Narasaraopet parliamentary the patients to buy them from cently decorated with jewels president and former MLA medical stores outside the took a celestial ride on Bhogi GV Anjaneyulu said that the hospital. It was unfortunate Theru (chariot) instead of government has completely that the government was Rathotsavam in privacy failed to provide medical facil- unable to release funds even (Ekantam) here in the ities to the corona patients at for medicines to the patients. Govindrajaswamy temple on the government hospital in He lashed out at Chief Tuesday due to Covid guide- Vinukonda town. Minister YS Jaganmohan lines. District Collector Vivek Yadav inspecting a vaccination centre set up at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in Guntur on Tuesday. On Tuesday, he visited the Reddy that even thousands of Earlier Snapana corona ward at the Vinukonda people were falling prey to the Tirumanjanam was performed Swamy and His consorts and Chinna Jeeyarswamy, Dy Government hospital and Covid pandemic, he confined to the utsava idols (procession- Sridevi and Bhudevi. Tirumala EO Rajendrudu and other interacted with the corona himself to his home without al deities) of Govindaraja pontiffs Pedda Jeeyarswamy staff took part in the ritual. patients. The officials consoling the corona patients. Property registrations announced that 25 oxygen The Chief Minister should beds were set up, but there learn from his Telangana were not even 15 beds in the counterpart KCR who visited VASANTHOTSAVAM BEGINS hospital. The corona patients Gandhi hospital. The TDP TIRUPATI: stalled due to server down were facing hardships with a leader was accompanied by The celebrations of the annual Vasantothsavams commenced in Ekantam in Sri Padmavati dearth of health facilities in the PV Suresh, Babu Ushameen temple at Tiruchanoor as per Covid-19 guidelines. As a part of festivities, the utsava idol of Sri Padmavati PNS n Ammavaru was offered Snapana Tirumanjanam at the Ashirvada Mandapam in the afternoon followed by GUNTUR hospital, he said. Khan and others. Veda parayanam and procession inside the temple amidst Mangala vayidyam. Temple Dy EO Smt Kasturi Bai, Agama Advisor Sri Srinivasacharyulu, AEO Sri Prabhakar Reddy, temple priest Sri Babu Swamy, The registration of properties Superintendent Sri Madhu and other staffs were present. came to a standstill for the past four days across Andhra Pradesh following the technical issues with servers at the regis- trar offices. Reports reaching here that a similar situation pre- vailed in 294 sub-registrar offices in the state. The registra- tion process in the offices stalled due to the issues with the inter- net service. As a result, the government was reported that only 10 reg- Guntur sub-registrar DIG was losing crores of rupees istrations were held in each reg- Pamula Vijayalakshmi said that income because of the server istrar office earlier due to fluc- the problem of servers would be down. The Sub-Registrar tuations in the server and no resolved soon. She said efforts Offices were open only from registration activity was carried were being made to resolve the 7:30 to 11:30 am with the lock- out for the past four days. technical issue across the state down induced by the Covid. It Speaking to 'The Pioneer', in one or two days. Vengamamba Remembered Narasimha Jayanti celebrated at Puttakonda temple PNS n TIRUPATI PNS n KAKINADA Valmikadri. Over a period of new clothes and the temple worship, the priests handed The Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanam (TTD) offi- time, it became a Puttakonda. priests performed special ritu- them over to the villagers. cials paid floral tributes to the saint and poetess Lord Sri Narasimha Jayanti Devotees across the country als with tulsi leaves and various Deputy Commissioner of Matrusri Tarigonda Vengamamba at Vengamamba was celebrated with religious will throng the temple to wor- flowers. Revenue Medepalli Vijayaraju, Brindavan garden in Tirumala on Tuesday morn- fervour at the ancient temple at ship Lord Lakshmi Narasimha Prasadams such as temple administrator Vaddadi ing on the occasion of 291st Jayanti of Matrusri Puttakonda in Pedapudi man- Swamy of Puttakonda. chakrapongali, pulihara, dad- Sattibabu and genealogist PA Tarigonda Vengamamba. dal of East Godavari District As all the temples were dojanam, katte pongali, sana- Ananthacharya were present. The festivities of Jayanti utsavawas was held in on Tuesday. Narasimha closed due to corona, temple galu, dosas and fritters were Narasimha Jayanti was also cel- privacy (Ekantam) at Brindavan and later in the Jayanti celebrations will take priests BA Gopalacharya and offered to the Lord as ebrated in the temples of evening at Ranganayakula mantapam inside place every year on Vaishakha PB Gopalacharya opened the naivedyam. Since it was Korukonda Srivari temple instead of Narayanagiri Gardens in Chaturdashi and Swamivari temple on Tuesday morning to Swami's Jayanthi, all kinds of Lakshminarasimha Swamy, view of Covid pandemic. Jayanti was also known as mark Swami's Jayanthi. offerings dearer to him were Antarvedi Lakshminarasimha Sri Vengamamba, an ardent devotee of Anna Prasadam in Tirumala. The practice of san- Lakshminarasimha Chaturthi. The main deity was doused offered. Swamy and Muramalla Narasimha Swamy and Venkateswara Swamy was keertans of Annamacharya and Vengamamba are According to the legend, in panchamritas (five sacred Puttakonda Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy as a low-key born in 1730 at Tarigonda in Chittoor district and still continued in the Tirumala Srivari temple even the Lord had taken birth at an liquids) in the sanctum sanc- Narasimha Swami was also profile and all rituals were at attained Sajeeva Samadhi in 1817. She pioneered today. anthill on the hill. At that torum. known as the God of held in ekantham (privacy) due time it was known as The deity was adorned with Prasadam. After the solitary to the corona regulations. VIJAYAWADA | WEDNESDAY | MAY 26, 2021 nation 05

Cyclone Yaas: Vessels moved, oil and gas Rahul asks Don’t panic by colour of fungus, partymen to help people look for causes, risks: Experts installations in survival mode PNS n NEW DELHI PNS n NEW DELHI PNS n NEW DELHI Offshore oil and gas installa- Amid rising mucormycosis cases CYCLONE YAAS tions will go into what is called Congress among Covid patients and those Ships at anchorage have been a 'survival' mode — halting leader who have recovered from it, epi- asked to move to a safer area in movements and going into a Rahul demiologists Tuesday advised the sea while oil and gas instal- cocoon. Gandhi on people to not get panicked by the lations will go into 'survival' Ports, refineries and plants are Tuesday colour of the fungus causing it, mode as they brace for cyclone on high alert. appealed to and underlined the importance of Yaas to make landfall at north Indian Oil Corp (IOC), the party analysing the kind of infection, its Odisha-West Bengal coast. nation's biggest oil firm, stopped workers to causes and associated risk-factors. Cyclone Yaas, equivalent to a unloading crude oil at Paradip in provide all Health Minister Harsh category 3 hurricane, is the sec- Odisha and asked all ships to assistance in ensuring the Vardhan had said on Monday that ond severe storm in the span of move 250 nautical miles away safety of the people who 18 states have reported 5,424 cases about 10 days to hit Indian from the path of the cyclone. would be impacted by of mucormycosis, a life-threaten- coasts. The cyclone is set to make Both Paradip Port Trust and Cyclone Yaas. ing infection, prevalent among landfall sometime Wednesday Dhamra Port have asked all ves- Cyclonic storm Yaas is COVID-19 patients and those evening. sels at anchorage to move to a likely to make a landfall near who recovered from the viral dis- severe disease are invasive fungal "This is the first case of a per- A major contingency plan Cyclone Yaas: Paradip safer area in the sea, while those Balasore in north Odisha at ease. infection so that can occur when son having three variants of the has been put in place to mitigate alongside berths have been asked a speed of 155 kmph to 165 Beside Black Fungus cases, there is reduction or compromise fungus -- Black, White and the impact of the cyclone on oil port suspends operations to keep their main engines ready kmph, gusting to 185 kmph, White and Yellow fungus infec- in immunity. Yellow," he claimed. and gas installations, an official to move to sea at a short notice. around noon on May 26, the tions too were reported from dif- "So basic underlying phenom- He said the patient, a lawyer by statement said. PNS n PARADIP port area will be taken to a safe "Oil industry officials are in Met department had said on ferent parts of the country recent- enon is immunity or the ability to profession, had COVID-19 but Odisha coast has two major zone. "The authorities have been in close coordination with Paradip Monday. ly, which scientists say are also fight the fungal infection," he said. was in home isolation and ports at Dhamra and Paradip Paradip Port Trust (PPT) suspend- coordination with the Odisha gov- and Haldia Port authorities on "CycloneYaas is moving mucormycosis. Dr Samiran In Ghaziabad, a person was approached the hospital after and a huge oil refinery at ed its operations from 2 pm on ernment and the Jagatsinghpur the berthing and de-berthing of towards Bengal and Odisha Panda, the Head of Epidemiology detected with three variants of the enduring these problems for eight Paradip. West Bengal hosts a Tuesday as part of safety mea- district administration to take all vessels/barges at jetties. from the Bay of Bengal. I and Communicable Diseases at fungus -- Black, White and Yellow to 10 days. major port at Haldia. sures in view of the impending the precautionary measures," "Activities at all project sites appeal to Congress workers the Indian Council of Medical -- on May 24, claimed a doctor of "He is under treatment now. Oil and gas exploration and severe cyclone 'Yaas', which is Paradip Port Trust Chairman Vinit have been temporarily suspend- to provide all assistance Research (ICMR), said the use of a private hospital who is treating There is nothing to worry and the production installations are likely to cross Odisha coast on Kumar told reporters. Severe ed, and the workers have been ensuring safety of those "terms like black, green or yellow the 59-year-old patient in the fungus would be removed. Had designed to withstand cyclones. May 26, an official said. At least 12 cyclonic storm 'Yaas' is likely to moved out to ensure their safe- affected," Gandhi said in a fungus" is making people scared NCR city in Uttar Pradesh. he come to me after one or two There are also smaller ports vessels proceeded down to the make landfall near Dhamra Port in ty. All ships carrying petroleum tweet. and apprehensive. Yellow Fungus has been days' only, his problem would along the coast. deep sea so as to avoid the path of Bhadrak district early on products and crude oil have The former Congress chief Also, black fungus getting syn- observed in reptiles, such as have been resolved by now," "The oil and gas industry has the storm, he said, adding that all Wednesday morning, the India been advised to keep a safe dis- urged people to follow all pre- onymous with existing mucormy- lizards, but not in human beings, Tyagi said. made all arrangements to main- the trucks, dumpers and large Meteorological Department (IMD) tance from the cyclone's path," cautionary measures. cosis is complicating things, he claimed Dr B P Tyagi, an ENT He said fungi attack people tain adequate petroleum prod- cargo handling equipment in the said. the statement said. A massive evacuation drive said. (Ear, Nose, Throat) specialist at with compromised immunity uct, CNG, LPG stock at all the However, the industry is has been launched in all low- "For common people," he told Harsh Hospital in city's Raj Nagar and in this particular case, his dealerships in the area expected geared up to ensure a continu- lying areas and vulnerable PTI, "I will say not to be driven area. "The patient had come to me patient is a diabetic. to be hit by the cyclone," it said. The contingency plan drawn lations before wind speed ous supply of petroleum prod- storm-surge pockets, follow- by panic by colour -- black, yel- with conditions of extreme weak- Asked about the Yellow Fungus "Disaster Control Room at includes suspending all critical exceeds 60-80 kph, and all ves- ucts and other essential com- ing the IMD predicting a tidal low, white. Let us find what kind ness, giddiness, fever and nasal case, ICMR's Dr Panda said the Corporate and Divisional level operations once the cyclone sels at anchorage moved to safe modities, including medical oxy- surge of 2-4.5 metres during of fungal infection is the person discharge. The Yellow Fungus was specimen has to be studied to has been set up by the oil and gas intensity increases, shutdown areas away from the path of the gen, for continued COVID-19 the landfall of Yaas, officials infected with as most fungal detected during the endoscopy," ensure it indeed was yellow fun- companies." of identified oil and gas instal- cyclone. management. had said. infections that cause fatal or the doctor told PTI. gus which is seen in reptiles. TOOLKIT CASE ‘Look into crashing prices INDIA CORNER Cong seeks manipulated tags ‘Vaccinate tribal kids aged of horticulture produce’ under 5 against influenza’ ormer MLA Vivek Pandit, who on tweets of 11 Union ministers PNS n BENGALURU it is grown on nearly ten thou- Fheads a state committee on tribal sand acres," Gowda said. welfare, has appealed to the PNS n NEW DELHI stick as applied in other cases Former Prime Minister H D He added that he has read Maharashtra government to where the Twitter platform is mis- Deve Gowda on Tuesday urged similar reports of fruits, vegeta- administer anti-influenza vaccine to The Congress on Tuesday used to broadcast forged and fab- the Centre to look into the bles and flowers either being all children below the age of five demanded that Twitter affix ricated material...," he also said. problem of crashing prices of dumped, crushed or aban- years in the state's tribal region manipulated media tag to tweets This comes a day after Delhi horticulture produce in rural doned from Uttar Pradesh, before the upcoming monsoon of several union ministers for Police's Special Cell sent a notice areas because of a broken mar- Jharkhand, Maharashtra, season. Talking to reporters here allegedly spreading false and to Twitter India in connection ket network due to lockdown. Himachal Pradesh, Madhya on Monday, he said health experts malicious propaganda against with the probe into a complaint In a letter to Prime Minister Pradesh and Kerala. have indicated that the during the the party. about the alleged 'COVID toolk- Narendra Modi, the JD(S) "The reasons for the prices to rainy season, the influenza, also Congress general secretary it', asking it to share information supremo cited the multi-level fall are varied but in general, known as the common flu, may spread among children. The country and chief spokesperson Randeep based on which it had classified problems taking shape in rural the market network is broken, is already facing the COVID-19 crisis, he noted. Pandit said he has Surjewala wrote to Twitter's Lead a related tweet by BJP spokesper- India in the form of COVID access to markets have been written a letter to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, urging that for Legal, Policy and Trust and son Sambit Patra as "manipulat- infections reaching villages, hindered due to lockdowns," children below the age of five years be administered the vaccine Safety Vijaya Gadde and its ed media", with two police teams crashing horticulture prices the former Prime Minister against influenza in all tehsils and district collectors be made the Deputy General Counsel and descending on the microblogging and unemployment due to is affecting their small, yet self- said. Stating that the horticul- monitoring authority. He said the poor tribals cannot afford the anti- Vice President (Legal) Jim Baker, account." site's offices in Lado Sarai in Delhi reverse migration to the vil- sustained livelihoods," Gowda ture products are not served by influenza vaccines, which are priced between Rs 1,500 and Rs 2,000. seeking stern action against 11 "Hence, it becomes all the and in Gurgaon on Monday lages from the cities. wrote to Modi. the Minimum Support Price Therefore, the government should undertake a drive to administer the union ministers for allegedly more imperative to tag, 'manip- evening. These problems, according The veteran politician cited (MSP) mechanism, Gowda vaccines to all children free of cost before the commencement of the spreading false and forged docu- ulative media' (sic), on all such Earlier, Twitter tagged tweets of to Gowda, should not be an example of a Kolar APMC pointed out that the govern- monsoon season, he said. ments. tweets made by Ministers of the BJP leaders Sambit Patra and allowed to grow into a "heat- where the farmers dumped ments are already burdened Surjewala has alleged that the Government of India on the Gajendra Singh Shekhawat as ed social cauldron of unrest". their tomato produce because with vaccine procurement and "forged, fabricated material" and above referred forged toolkit doc- "manipulative media". "COVID reaching rural it did not fetch them a good building COVID infrastruc- the claims made under the ument created by the BJP," he said The Congress has accused BJP India is a worrying problem price. "The Kolar APMC ture and they are left with lit- Toolkit used by BJP to target #CongressToolkitExposed by var- in his complaint. leaders, including union minis- but crashing prices of horticul- receives tomatoes from five to tle funds to rush to the help of ious ministers are identical to the "It is reasonable to expect that ters, of misusing the Twitter plat- tural produce is delivering a six districts in South small and medium horticul- opponents, alleges Raut material that has already been the aforementioned individuals form to disseminate forged and twin blow to rural masses and Karnataka, and in Kolar alone ture farmers. marked as 'manipulated media' by will be dealt with the same yard- fabricated material. hiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Twitter. STuesday alleged that social media He alleged that the subject mat- Two more O2 or 'toolkits' were used by the BJP to ter of the forged Toolkit docu- Two Cong leaders get notices to Expedite policy on providing target opponents, adding that when it ment was created by certain BJP Express trains faced a backlash, it put pressure leaders to gain undue and wrong- join probe in ‘Covid toolkit' case through various ways. Raut ful political advantage by spread- ration to poor, HC tells Delhi made the comments while talking to ing potentially dangerous, false PNS n NEW DELHI ward," the officer said. A prilimi- reach Bengaluru PNS n NEW DELHI soon over 240 centres would be reporters here in connection with a and fabricated material through nary enquiry into the complaint PNS n BENGALURU opened across the national cap- notice sent by the Delhi Police to their Twitter handles against the The Delhi Police has served is still being carried out by the The Delhi High Court Tuesday ital to provide rations to the poor, Twitter India over the probe into a Indian National Congress and its notices to two Congress leaders Delhi Police's Special Cell team Two more Oxygen Express expressed hope that the Delhi gov- during the pandemic, without complaint about an alleged 'COVID leaders. in the ‘Covid toolkit' case, ask- and no FIR has been registered trains carrying 238.5 tonnes of ernment would expeditiously asking for any identification. toolkit'. The BJP had accused the The union ministers against ing them to join the probe into a in the matter yet, officials said. Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO), finalise its policy for providing "It is hoped that the respondent Congress of creating a 'toolkit' that seeks to tarnish the image of the whom the Congress has sought complaint in the matter, officials On Monday, the Delhi Police's have reached the city, the South ration to poor people, especially (Delhi government) will take country and Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the handling of the action are Giriaj Singh, Piyush said on Tuesday. A senior Special Cell sent a notice to Western Railway said on destitute women and disabled expeditious steps to finalise the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the Congress has denied the allegation Goyal, Smriti Irani, Ravi Shankar police officer confirmed that the Twitter India in connection with Tuesday. children, "so that they do not starve policy, so that people like the peti- and claimed the BJP is propagating a fake 'toolkit' to defame it. Last Prasad, Prahlad Joshi, notices were served to Congress the probe into a complaint about These were the eleventh and for want of food" during the pan- tioners here, including helpless week, Twitter labelled as "manipulated media" a tweet by BJP Dharmendra Pradhan, Ramesh social media head Rohan Gupta the alleged ''COVID toolkit'', ask- twelfth trains carrying the life demic. Justice Rekha Palli obser- women and disabled children, do spokesperson Sambit Patra on the alleged 'toolkit'. When asked about Pokhriyal Nishank, Thawarchand and party spokesperson MV ing it to share information based saving gas to Karnataka, and the vation came after the Delhi gov- not starve for want of food," the the issue, Raut said, "Social media or toolkit was used by the BJP Gehlot, Harsh Vardhan, Mukhtar Rajeev Gowda in connection on which it had classified a state so far, has received 1,420.64 ernment, represented by standing court said and listed the matter for previously. However, when it faced a backlash, it is carrying out raids, Abbas Naqvi and Gajendra Singh with the probe. "These are not related tweet by BJP spokesper- tonnes of LMO by Rail. counsel Santosh K Tripathi, said its hearing in July. apprehending some people or pressuring through various ways." Shekhawat. fresh notices. These notices son Sambit Patra as “manipulat- The 11th Oxygen Express, policy to provide ration and food The court was hearing a plea "We are watching it and enjoying it." he added. Surjewala said, "It is a matter were served around 8-9 days ed media”, officials had said. carrying 124.19 tonnes of LMO to the poor was underway and moved on behalf of seven fami- of fact that people tend to believe ago based on a complaint The police teams also descend- in six cryogenic containers that would be finalised soon. lies who lost earning members to 'true' and take on face value, any received from the Congress. ed on the microblogging site's started from Rourkela, Odisha The submission by the Delhi COVID-19 or lost jobs due to the information that is put up direct- They were asked to join the offices in Lado Sarai in Delhi at 09:30 pm on May 23, reached government came after the court pandemic and had no other Man sets up community kitchen ly by a Union Minister of the probe so that it could help us in and in Gurgaon Monday ICD Whitefield here at 06:10 am asked "what do you want them source of livelihood and were Government of India through carrying the investigation for- evening. today, a release from the South (poor people) to do? Beg for seeking ration facilities without to help poor migrants amid curbs his/ her official/ verified Twitter Western Railway said. food?" Tripathi told the court that any insistence on ration cards. risis brings out the best in people Cand a man from Mumbai has proved it as he has set up a community kitchen from his own ‘No reason to believe Covid will affect children in next wave' savings for the poor migrant workers suffering due to the COVID- PNS n NEW DELHI noticed more,” he said. COVID-19 management frame- these receptors are relatively less 19-induced restrictions. Faiyaz Arora, who is Director of work,” he added. in children as compared to Shaikh, who is in his mid 40s, lost There is no reason to believe that INCLEN Trust, said it is not pos- Some experts are highlighting adults. his job in August last year, but that children will be disproportion- sible to predict any third wave at the need for preparation warn- This is a hypothesis on why did not stop him from helping the poor families in Ambujwadi slum ately affected by the coronavirus this time. ing that children could be affect- the infection has been less locality at Malwani in suburban Malad. Now, his community kitchen in the coming weeks and months "But based on what the expe- ed by the third wave more than amongst children, he said. is providing food to around 500 people every day, Shaikh told PTI. or in the next wave, the head of rience is available from our own adults. "Those who floated this the- He is also providing them ration and medicines since last year, he a government working group country and that from other AIIMS Director Randeep ory said that children have so far said. Over one lakh migrant workers live in the Ambujwadi locality said, but stressed on the need for parts of the world, there is no Guleria has also said there was been not affected so perhaps they and their livelihood is dependent on daily wages. Shaikh said during additional resource inputs to reason to believe that children no indication that children will will be most affected in the the lockdown last year, he got help from some NGOs for ration and improve the paediatric Covid will be disproportionately affect- be severely or more affected in third wave but there is so far no medicines, but this time, he had to manage things on his own. services. ed in the coming weeks and the third wave of the pandemic. evidence that there will be severe "After I lost my got, I got around Rs 10 lakh from my company. I am In an interview with PTI, Dr months or in the next wave," he "If we see the data of the first infection in children or there will utilising that money to offer food to the migrants through the N K Arora, Chairman of India's said. and second waves, it is very sim- be more cases in them in the community kitchen and also providing them medicines," he said. COVID-19 Working Group of But he stressed on the need to ilar and it shows that children are upcoming wave," Guleria added. Shaikh said he came up with the idea of a community kitchen after the National Technical Advisory improve the paediatric Covid usually protected and even if The Indian Academy of seeing the sufferings of slum dwellers in Malwani. “The kitchen Group on Immunisation services and align with the rest a care provider with them. unique hospital care require- they get it, they only have mild Paediatrics recently said though must continue to feed the children and the needy,” he said. He said (NTAGI), said Indian data does of the COVID-19 management Similarly infected pregnant ments are being worked out. infection. And the virus hasn't children appear as susceptible as the community kitchen has also helped in providing employment to not show specific predilection of framework. women can deliver prematurely. "The country is already man- changed so there is no indication adults it is "highly unlikely that locals and at the same time, hygiene is also maintained. Shaikh said the currently circulating virus "It is absolutely necessary to I am given to understand that aging children and most Covid that children will be more affect- the third wave will predominant- his wife has also been running an English medium school in the strains either for the youth or appreciate that newborn, chil- treatment protocols are already care centres have provision but ed in the third wave," he told ly or exclusively affect children". area since the last 11 years where around 350 students are enrolled. paediatric age group. dren and pregnant women prepared and are under review there is need for additional reporters on Monday. “We need to be prepared with "The fees of students was waived off for three months last year, and "However, since the absolute require specific care facilities. by different paediatric groups resource inputs to improve the And there is this hypothesis more in-patient beds and inten- now for the entire year," he said. The locality where the school is numbers have increased, patients Children below 10 years will and associations," he said. paediatric Covid services and that the virus enters through sive care beds for children,” it situated comprises daily wagers and they don't give priority to the from both age groups are being need either mother or father or Arora said similarly the align with the rest of the ACE receptors in the body and said. education of their children, he said. VIJAYAWADA | WEDNESDAY | MAY 26, 2021 06

www.dailypioneer.com facebook.com/dailypioneer | @TheDailyPioneer | instagram.com/dailypioneer/ PAPER WITH PASSION Foreboding future for Upmanship Ramdev’s attempts to run down other streams of medicine are not in good taste ‘minorities’ in Af-Pak BHOPINDER SINGH he controversy surrounding yoga guru Ramdev refuses to die down. It is his own doing. He has ranged himself against the world of allopathy by claiming that the Pakistan has bequeathed its cancerous approach onto the terror groups Talternative science of ayurveda that he practices is superior. He chose an unfor- tunate time — right in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic — for his derision of allopa- thy. The yoga guru called the allopathic treatment of Coronavirus a “tamasha (farce), in Afghanistan, and the future of minorities there is dark and foreboding bekaar (worthless) and diwaliya (lame duck)”. That was not all. Ramdev ridiculed the clamour for oxygen cylinders, wondering how can there be shortage of oxygen when A Jinnah’s first nom- inated Cabinet was God has filled the atmosphere with it. The doctors took umbrage at his words. The Indian more accommoda- Medical Association (IMA) formally protested and sought action against him. Top doc- tive as compared to Mthe Pakistani politics of today — tors said the disparaging remarks were frustrating to frontline medical workers. The doctors should not he nominated JN Mandal, a Hindu, as the first Law Minister; fall ill at all if allopathy is all-powerful, Ramdev Zafarullah Khan, an Ahmadiyya, remarked, his attack against allopathy unceasing. as the Minister for Foreign Affairs Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan finally intervened and many Shias (like Jinnah and wrote a letter to Ramdev, criticising the remarks himself) — a plurality that is unthinkable now. The Pakistani and asking him to withdraw them. The Minister said Military shared the spirit of the the yoga guru’s remarks were demoralising the med- times with the rise of General ical force, hurting doctors and people alike and that Musa Khan, a Shia Hazara, as the his explanations were unsatisfactory. Ramdev must Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistan Army (1958-1966). have realised he had gone too far this time, for he Another mercurial officer was promptly issued a statement withdrawing his Air Marshal SA Changezi, who remarks. The withdrawal was, however, not uncon- famously refused to meet Afghan ditional, with him insisting that he and his workers have also, by using ayurveda and King Zahir Shah during a visit to yoga, saved lives during the pandemic and this should be respected as well. Pakistan, owing to the perceived mistreatment of fellow Hazaras The very next day, he posted an open letter on his Twitter handle, posing questions in Afghanistan. Now, Pakistan’s to the IMA if allopathy offered permanent solutions for ailments like diabetes, hyper- slide towards religious intoler- tension, asthma, thyroid, arthritis and colitis. The post raged along those lines, repeat- ance has constitutionally declared edly pointing out that allopathy was unable to find permanent cures despite being a Ahmadiyyas as “non-Muslims”, formed by a Pakistani Taliban solidify itself. However, the 1998 — thousands of Hazaras whereas Shias and offshoots (20- commander, Hafiz Saeed dangers to suchlike “minorities” were searched out and killed in 200-year-old science. Strange that Ramdev chose the pandemic to run down allopa- 25 per cent of Pakistan’s popula- Khan — most members were are multiplied when the sover- a systemic house-to-house thy. There appears no reason other than trying to brand ayurveda as a superior sci- tion) are routinely attacked and formerly with the Pakistani eign Government itself runs the killing frenzy as the Taliban ence by criticising allopathy and promote his own products. He had no option but to persecuted. However, given the Taliban (Tehrik-i-Pakistan), risk of passing on to the likes was believed to shoot “any- withdraw his remarks, though he never meant to be sorry, given his combative tweet. even more conservative moorings mostly from the Orokzai of the Taliban, which seems thing that moved”. As always, across the Durand Line in Pashtun stock. Irrespective of likely with the leaving of the Pakistani hand in the Talibani It is but natural for competing alternative sciences to posture, but that is never at the Afghanistan, the discrimination of the groups, the Hazaras and US/NATO troops from advance was omnipresent as cost of ruining the reputation of the other. In India, where medical care is handled pri- minorities is more intense — the other Shias like Ismailis have Afghanistan. many Pakistani soldiers had marily by allopathy, there is a Ministry for propagation of indigenous, alternative med- imminent return of the Taliban in faced the brunt of relentless While sectarianism is one accompanied the Taliban icine systems called the Ministry of AYUSH — Ayurveda, Yoga, Naturopathy, Unani, Kabul signals not just the return persecution throughout histo- cut of endangered “minority” march. The Hazaras were of puritanical absolutism and ry, but for the relative reprieve status in Afghanistan, ethnic- apparently made to pay a price Siddha Sowa-Rigpa and Homoeopathy. Would the yoga guru have recommended any revisionism, but also the target- in the Hamid Karzai-Ashraf ity is the other. Therefore, the for the killing of several thou- one of his own people suffering from COVID-19 to reject allopathic treatment and seek ed brutality onto its Shia/Hazara Ghani dispensations. Tajik and Uzbek, who may be sand Taliban soldiers a year only alternative medicine therapy? This is the time of the pandemic when all medicine populace (approximately 15 per Across the unaccepted bor- essentially of Sunni denomina- earlier, after a failed attempt by systems are doing their best to control it or any aspect of it. These systems do not cent of the population). ders with Pakistan, the Shias tion, are not spared the wrath the Taliban to takeover Mazar- The recent car bombing in and Hazaras in particular, face IRRESPECTIVE of the Taliban or the Islamic i-Sharif in 1996. compete with one another, but complement one another, just as they ought to. front of the Sayed-al-Shuhda the brunt of terror groups like State-Khorasan Province. Such Now the dangerous snake school in the Hazara-dominated Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, who remain OF THE GROUPS, persistent animus and dimin- pit created and abetted by the PICTALK neighbourhood of Kabul horrif- committed to exterminate the THE HAZARAS AND ishment led the Hazaras to Pakistani “establishment” has ically killed 85, mostly schoolgirls Shias. These virulent sectarian OTHER SHIAS LIKE form their own militias like the managed to wear out the between 11 and 15 years, in an groups have close ideological now-fragmented, Abdul Ali US/NATO troops, the sectar- augury of the times ahead. ties with the Taliban (on both ISMAILIS HAVE Mazari’s Hezb-e-Wahdat, or ian and ethnic minorities in Despite the timeline of this attack sides) and have conducted FACED THE BRUNT the comparatively new Hazara Afghanistan are left vulnerable. coinciding with the holy month spectacular and deadly attacks warlord, Abdul Ghani Alipoor, Pakistan has bequeathed its of Ramadan, this area had earli- against the Shias — even the OF RELENTLESS who is now popularly seen as cancerous and manipulative er seen similar bloodshed with suicide bomber who killed for- PERSECUTION an effective vanguard against approach onto the warlords attacks on maternity hospitals, mer Pakistani Prime Minister THROUGHOUT the fury of the Taliban. But and other terror groups oper- schools and tutoring centres. Benazir Bhutto (who too was a these ethnic warlords are reck- ating in Afghanistan, and like While the Afghan Taliban did Shia) belonged to Lashkar-e- HISTORY, BUT FOR lessly volatile, fickle and its blood-soiled streets of deny any role in this specific Jhangvi. Quetta in Baluchistan THE RELATIVE known to shift allegiances Quetta — the augury of future attack and attributed it to anoth- is home to biggest settlement of REPRIEVE IN THE with the proverbial “exchange Afghanistan for “minorities” er group, Islamic State–Khorasan the oppressed Hazaras in of suitcases”, exposing their (like in Pakistan) is dark and Province, the beleaguered fate of Pakistan, as also the unfortu- HAMID KARZAI- community to severe persecu- foreboding. minorities like the Hazaras looks nate killing ground for most ASHRAF GHANI tion. The endless cycle of sec- (The writer, a military vet- ominous. Like the Taliban, which sectarian terror attacks — relay- DISPENSATIONS tarian wars in Afghanistan eran, is a former Lt Governor is a project of the Pakistani ing the inevitable dangers of the was exemplified by the reprisal of Andaman & Nicobar Islands “establishment”, the Islamic State- State recklessly pandering to attacks by the Taliban in and Puducherry. The views Khorasan Province was also majoritarian-sectarianism to Mazar-i-Sharif township in expressed are personal.) LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SOUNDBITE Devotees perform sewa (community service) at the Golden Temple in Amritsar PTI WHY WRITE TO THE EDITOR? The BJP Govt can Sir — According to Census 2011, the per- solve the farmers’ centage of youth in our country is 19.3 per Rural areas need awareness crisis with the stroke Wise up cent, yet our country is still developing. In of a pen. The only other words, we can surmise that the effi- face masks. This is because Corona is a viral difficulty is its ego ciency of our youth is not up to the mark. disease that has the potential to spread even and adamancy. As the farmers’ stir completes six months today, Our country, being the largest democracy through aerosols or air, besides touch or con- Congress leader it’s high time that it was simply called off in the world, has its own share of peculiar tact. Is there any guarantee that a normal and — Jaiveer Shergill problems. But the Government alone can’t healthy person would not be infected by get- ednesday, May 26, marks the completion of six months of the ongoing agi- be expected to solve all the problems. There ting vaccinated sitting in the same chair, Many attempts on our tation by the farmers, who have been out in strength against the Union are certain responsibilities that we, being the because it is usually used to seat all kinds of side over many, many Government. They have steadfastly been speaking out against the Centre “uni- youth of the nation, must shoulder. people, including those with minor symptoms? years, almost W For example, everyone is now blaming Similarly, the rooms of the vaccination decades, to improve laterally” passing the three farm laws. Their main demands have been that the three the Government for the mishandling of the centre are not sanitised properly. This is in spite [the] relationship with contentious laws be repealed and that the Centre assure them in writing that the con- second wave of COVID-19 in the country. of the fact that there is every possibility of those Russia did not have But how far is it justified? Are we, being the any rural people have been vaccinated (the) success they deserved. cept of the Minimum Support Price (MSP) would be left untouched. They have been against COVID-19 in the Loisingha coming in for inoculation to have been carry- adamant on these demands, studiously and laboriously rejecting any overtures by the citizens of this great country, performing our ing the virus. The main problem arises from duties honestly and diligently? How do you Mblock’s primary health care centres. European Commission President Government to call off their stir. In the meantime, a Hundreds of people over the age of 45 have the fact that there are fewer healthcare facili- — Ursula von der Leyen think will our country prosper with so many ties in the rural areas than in the cities. handful of State Governments, mainly belonging to internal transgressions taking place? been vaccinated. However, the number of chairs To begin with, when we read, we’ll auto- used while vaccinating them is only one, forc- Therefore, infection control is a far more impor- the camp of the Opposition parties, have been overt- tant necessity in the rural areas. The A parent, an idol, a matically develop an inclination towards ing the recipients to sit in the same chair. friend, a mentor — ly or covertly egging the cultivators on. The six-month Department of Health needs to take immedi- writing. When we write down our views, we Similarly, the table being used to diagnose peo- you were everything history of the farmers’ agitation has seen its share ate steps to be on the guard against such shod- unknowingly empower our brethrens. ple with minor symptoms is the same for peo- to me. Love you Dad, of hardships, violence, blood and gore. Since the days Writing to the Editor in newspapers is the ple from all walks of life. dy practices. The vaccination centres need to miss you. be sanitised and disinfected every day. The they first pitched their ramshackle tents on the Capital’s most fulfilling professional engagement Due to such behaviour on part of the Actor incoming public must be guided to get vacci- periphery as the mornings started getting chilly to we can get into. But, in order to write to the authorities, even healthy people are likely to — Sanjay Dutt nated one at a time and not crowd around the mounting the ramparts of the Red Fort in the forenoon newspapers, we must acquire the requisite get infected. The Government is urging the pub- knowledge first. When our writings get pub- lic to follow COVID-appreciate behaviour, vaccination station. Dhenkanal of January 26 this year, the agitating farmers and their lished, we get enormous confidence and that including obeying social distance and wearing Rajib Kumar Tripathy | I abide by all leaders have come a long way. acts as a further incentive to read and write instructions more. There’s no substitute to knowledge. the abject misgovernance by the MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES ARE NEXT PROBLEM conveyed to us At one point in time, when it seemed that the farm- through the group. I ers were getting frustrated with the ongoing impasse We have to read and write. Let’s educate the Government, thereby leaving the nation Sir — India, with its 135 crore-strong pop- vulnerable and empower them. This is how with a huge deficit in the fiscal of 2020-21. do not know how I and had started turning back from Delhi’s borders, Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh ulation, has become a sick country in all missed that we’ll all grow together. One wonders as to why no efforts are still aspects of the word, what with the second N Soumik | Bhubaneswar particular message Tikait’s copious tears succeeded in halting their homeward progress. Be that as it may, being made to address the issue of growing wave of the Coronavirus now giving way to (following COVID norms). the partial lockdown and the ravaging second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic drew unemployment even as restlessness among the White, Black and Yellow fungi. This is CONTROL RISING PRICES, JOBLESSNESS the youth and jobless people is growing by away from them whatever little attention or sympathy they had been garnering. Now, over and beyond the lack of medical facil- Pakistan bowler Sir — In the aftermath of the pandemic’s leaps and bounds. ities in the country, like vaccines, medical seizing the chance that the half-year milestone provides them, the farmer leaders are outbreak, the Centre and the State All in all, COVID’s second wave rav- — Naseem Shah out of their self-imposed hibernation. They are ostensibly making grand plans to mark Governments were engrossed in working aging the nation has doubled people’s pain oxygen and hospital beds. The result: More than 3 lakh people dead. India is being con- the occasion and, to this end, various protests have been planned across the country out a strategy in pursuit of electoral victo- and sufferings; it is time the Centre pon- I have done ry, following which they took their eyes off dered over the growing anger and unease sidered as the most unsafe country across mundane, stupid to observe May26 as “black day”. Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu has been fly- the other pressing issues like rising unem- amongst the unemployment people and the the globe. The other countries have asked films but I own all of ing a black flag on his house; SAD chief Sukhbir Badal says that Prime Minister Narendra ployment and economic slowdown. Amid rising prices of essentials. It must come out their citizens to leave India, besides banning them with pride. I Modi should be talking to the farmers; Kisan Morcha leaders have renewed their call to the raging virus, the Government was left with a focused plan for revival of the econ- their flights to and from here. It is time we own all of my insignificant work observe Wednesday as “black day” and at least 12 Opposition parties have come out with no option but to impose night curfew omy on a war footing so that it opens the Indians united to beat the virus. and then switch over to partial lockdown. door for employment as well as arrest the Bhagwan Thadani | Mumbai because that was in support of the farmers’ protest call. But in this critical period of the raging pandem- The truth remains that rapid job loss- price rise, otherwise the political cost for the part of my journey. ic, is this what the nation really wants, deserves? Shouldn’t we utilise our energies, our es on account of shutdowns and the rising Government would be substantial. Send your feedback to: Actor resources to do something better for our nation and its citizens? Think about it. prices of essential commodities are due to KR Srinivasan | Secunderabad [email protected] —Anupam Kher VIJAYAWADA | WEDNESDAY | MAY 26, 2021 07 www.dailypioneer.com facebook.com/dailypioneer | @TheDailyPioneer | instagram.com/dailypioneer/ FIRSTCOLUMN The system that DIFFERENT BOATS IN THE SAME STORM has failed us all RANDEEP SINGH SURJEWALA How the global pandemic reinforced the philosophy of ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam ' The Congress leadership had time and again tried to impress upon the PM the need to take timely and cogent steps, but the suggestions weren’t heeded he raging COVID pandemic is a test of lead- ership all over the world. There are countries SABLOK that have battled the virus and emerged AVNI stronger and there are those that have been foundT lacking in preparedness, empathy and gover- ince the outbreak of the Corona virus in 2020, different waves have come to affect different countries in differ- nance. It is regrettable that India falls in the catego- ent ways and degrees. The impact of the second ry of countries where the government completely S abdicated its responsibility and looked the other way wave,which has recently hit India, is much greaterthan the first as millions were left to fend for themselves, fight the wave. India successfully managed to contain the virus vis-à- virus and die. This unprecedented crisis worsened vis- the more developed countries, including US and Europe, on account of the government's ignorance, ego and in the first wave.In this prolonged phase of global pandemic, incompetence. what are the main lessons that the global community has come There are four ways to combat the COVID- 19 to learn, particularly from Indian initiatives? During the first wave, virus - testing, tracking, treatment and vaccination. It is a foregone conclusion that for a country like India, India under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi not the biggest global manufacturer of vaccines, inocu- only succeeded in tiding the challenge but also providedmed- lating our people on priority would be what any elect- ical and other assistance to more than 150 countries. And vac- ed government would opt to do. But not the Modi cine to 95 countries. Such gestures display the true spirit and government. So the focus here would be on what strength of Indians and that India cares for the world apart from could have been our most potent ammunition in this battle - vaccination- how we failed - and there are no signs of course correction yet. month, while Bharat Biotech produces The Central Government's acute shortage. It isn't just the oppo- After first warning of the COVID Tsunami as about 60 lakh doses a month. Both shameful neglect of duty has result- sition but people all across the coun- early as February 2020, Rahul Gandhi had suggest- companies can ramp up production ed in the States being forced to out- try are enraged and want to know why ed in August last year about a sound vaccine strat- only by end of July or beginning of bid each other. This insane competi- were Serology Surveys, warnings egy, that ensures equitable vaccination for all. The August. Sputnik V, the Russian vac- tion among the States is a creation of from experts, scientific advisors even Prime Minister and his team even failed to calculate cine approved by the government will the Central Government's failure to the Parliament's Standing Committee the dosages of vaccine required for our population. BUT EVEN AS US be manufactured in significant quan- procure vaccines for our people and on Health ignored? Why did we waste They had no idea as to how much vaccine could be INDIANS HAVE TO tities by Dr Reddys and six other labs instead putting the burden entirely on a year electioneering when we should produced in a month and were clueless about the WAIT IMPATIENTLY also by July end. No other foreign vac- States - both monetarily and in terms have instead been preparing for the investment and incentive manufacturers would BEFORE BEING cine has yet been approved for use or of availability. Ironically, at a time second wave? Why is the government need. So while most countries bought ample vaccines INOCULATED, imported for inoculation. Pfizer was when African nations have formed a so averse to sound advice? Why did protecting her own interests. This is a way of reinforcing the and had finished placing their fourth and fifth rounds dragged for lack of permission in Union to procure 22.2 crore doses of Dr Shahid Jameel, an eminent virol- Indian philosophy of “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam” (the world PRIME MINISTER of orders by August-October 2020, Indian govern- NARENDRA MODI February itself. This explains the vaccine from Johnson and Johnson, ogist on government's genome task is one family). In the first wave, the response of the interna- ment placed its first order of just 1.60 crore doses on EXPORTED OVER complete lack of vaccine strategy that a move that collectively gives them force quit? But the question that is on tional community towards India's initiatives was positive. The as late as January 11, 2021. would ensure enough and equitable better bargaining power, India's everyone's mind now is about how The world tapped multiple vaccines in the mar- 6.63 CRORE distribution of the vaccine. Central Government has created a prepared are we going to be for the second wave of the pandemic, unanticipated as it is, engulfed VACCINE DOSES India in an overwhelming manner.Given the virulence of the ket but the Modi government ended up creating a The only way to increase vacci- fastest fingers first situation for India's third wave, that's expected to hit chil- State duopoly - relying on just two vaccines - Covaxin OVERSEAS. AND nation is to either manufacture more States. Putting the onus on States to dren hard? What paediatric arrange- virus, a high number of people got infected in the second wave made by Bharat Biotech in partnership with ICMR NO, NOT ALL OF or allow more foreign vaccines to be pay higher prices for vaccines is ments are being made, given the many within a short time. As India grappled with shortage of essen- and Oxford University-Astra Zeneca's Covishield pro- THESE EXPORTS imported. Both suggestions have immoral and unethical. warning bells that have been issued? tial medical requirements during the second wave, there were- duced by Serum Institute of India. Even these two WERE UNDER been repeatedly made by the Congress It is the irrational and premature Unfortunately, instead of focus- many criticisms on the way India addressed the situation. sources were not fully utilized. India is presently vac- INTERNATIONAL leadership. But such letters haven't celebration that one needs to warn ing on the task at hand to save lives, One has to consider, and even take a relook, at many cinating under 16 lakh people everyday, which is DIPLOMACY, LARGE even been acknowledged - and some- against. Even as vaccination numbers the government, its key ministers and aspects of the situation. First,many developed countries, includ- steeply down from the peak in April. VOLUMES WERE times insolently responded to by fall steeply, the government's ambi- the BJP has chosen to indulge in cheap COMMERCIAL ing US, though possessing advanced infrastructure found it False claims won't mask the truth. As on May junior ministers. tious claims of 200 crore vaccine doses politics. Even after its lies have been 23, only 15.29 crore people got their first shot and CONSIGNMENTS. Meanwhile, a confused Modi to be available by December seems called out, its forgery flagged and its tough to address the situation in the initial phase of the first only 4.31 crore Indians have been fully vaccinated, ALL OF THIS government, which is lobbying for unreal. Experts are not willing to buy fraud termed as manipulated media wave.Implied, given the virulent nature and transmission rate which is around three percent of our population. This FOR MOMENTARY patent waiver by global vaccine majors this yet. Some senior virologists have by independent fact checkers and of the virus, infrastructural needs are falling short to tackle the pales in comparison to America's 39% fully vacci- GLORY AND at the WTO, argued against compul- in fact already raised the red flag on social media giants like Twitter - the situation everywhere, including India. Critics opine that vac- nation rate or UK's 33%. What is even more worry- APPLAUSE FOR sory licencing at the Supreme Court, nasal and DNA vaccines that are being ruling party refuses to give up. It has cine diplomacy has impaired India's interests.It should not be ing is the fact that under one crore out of 62 crore MR MODI? a position it changed after much pub- spoken about and given the past track now resorted to intimidation. But it overlooked that the assistance that many countries received Indians between the age group of 18-44 years have lic furore. Sections 92 and 100 under records, they are rightly apprehensive will refuse to answer pertinent ques- on account of India's Vaccine Maitri facilitated the process of received the first dosage, a task that has been callous- India's Patent Act 1970 provide for of the targets being achieved. tions on the disease, series of missteps, ly left for States to perform. While this goes to print, Compulsory licences. Simply put, gov- To top it, a beaming picture of the misgovernance, acute shortage of life vaccination in the world. This ensured the shared goal of cre- States like Delhi and Telangana have suspended vac- ernment can declare compulsory Prime Minister on the vaccine certifi- savings drugs, vaccines and oxygen. ating equal and affordable access tomedicines and vaccines, cination drive for those under 45 years, due to the licensing for any patented product cate is a grim reminder of the single It has no answers for mismatch in particularly for people living in the world's poorest countries- paucity of vaccine availability. during national or extreme emer- nuggets reason why India has failed ground realities and the official death a reflection of the philosophy of ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’. But even as Indians have to wait impatiently gency-which will allow domestic - OVER CENTRALISATION. Be it figures across some of the BJP-ruled As India reels under the second wave, many leaders, includ- before being inoculated, Prime Minister Modi manufacturing of patented items and procurement and mapping of oxygen, States. The party is tongue tied about ing Australian Prime Minister and US President, applauded gen- exported over 6.63 crore vaccine doses overseas. And ensure steady supply. Royalty to the distribution of vaccines, essential dead bodies buried across river beds. erosity displayed by India. Following India's footsteps, a num- no, not all of these exports were under internation- The author is All patent holder is paid by the controller drugs and ventilators - the central gov- Its sheer shamelessness to level charges al diplomacy, large volumes were commercial con- India Congress general of patents or the High Court, ernment has refused to treat States as against the opposition is a desperate ber of countries have come forward to provide help to India, signments. How can an elected government commit Committee General if negotiations fail. After procrastinat- partners in this battle. PM's mono- attempt to divert attention- but its all including Australia, US, Germany, Saudi Arabia, France, UK, the sin of prioritising anyone before its own citizens? Secretary and Chief ing for nearly a month, the govern- logues after every meeting with the in vain - the destruction on account Kazakhstan, Singapore and others. Since the last week of April All of this for momentary glory and applause for Mr Spokesperson of ment finally invited applications to Chief Ministers exemplifies why dia- of government's apathy is apparent all when the pandemic situation in India turned serious, India Modi? the Congress Party. manufacture patented vaccines, but logue is so essential. around us. received international assistance in the form of supplies such Before moving any further - let's take stock of The views expressed who is responsible for precious time It is ironic how India, the largest Mr Modi, call yourself what you as ventilators and oxygen concentrators and medicine. There the vaccine availability in India. Serum Institute's pre- are personal. that has been wasted and the lives this manufacturer of oxygen, drugs and may. But you are the system that has sent production capacity is about six crore doses every indecision has cost? vaccines has lost precious lives due to failed us all. is no doubt that the global pandemic has provided valuable lessons to the entire humanity. Challenges in contemporary times are becoming more complex and cannot be addressed POINTCOUNTERPOINT solely by any single country. It requires collective efforts of all countries. As such any act of compassion can go a long way to save the family. Undoubtedly, India has shown the world WE HAVE SPOKEN TO PFIZER AND MODERNA FOR KEJRIWAL HAD CLAIMED ON APRIL 26 THAT HIS the path of compassion and to openly embrace the world as VACCINES, AND BOTH THE MANUFACTURERS GOVERNMENT WOULD ORDER 1.34 CRORE VACCINES. a family, which is the core philosophy of ‘Vasudhaiva HAVE SAID THEY WILL DEAL WITH THE CENTRE. NOW HE’S SAYING HE HAS NOTHING. Kutumbakam’. Now, the world has come to realize that the glob- — DELHI DEPUTY CHIEF MINISTER — BJP SPOKESPERSON al pandemic warrants collective and coordinated efforts. (The author is Senior Researcher, Public Policy Research MANISH SISODIA SAMBIT PATRA Centre, New Delhi. The views expressed are personal.) Travel and tourism are inherent traits of humankind International travel is likely to remain affected for quite some time but domestic tourism may witness a surge in the near future he COVID-19 pandem- fear. Who could have imag- Majority of passenger trains varietymay start thriving. ture is likely to alleviate ic is all about social dis- ined that bright wintry morn- are docked since COVID-19 People may travel for a differ- decades of congestion on the Ttancing and curbing ing that the coronavirus would onset and there is palpable fear ent experience, a change of tracks and increase overall travel to the extent of restrict- soon start wreaking havoc. among people of getting environment and feeling the capacity. On the aviation front, ing movement beyond the March 22, 2020, when the infected in this mode of trav- outside, but they may not the UDAN scheme has already front door of homes. Travel in lockdown was first announced el. This fear may weigh heavy exactly like visiting tourist given a new dimension to air these times is almost an oxy- is a date difficult to forget. on the minds of travellers sites. And obviously for rea- travel and going forward moron. With no end of the ASHWANI LOHANI Suddenly we were confined who are likely to prefer air sons of social distancing, would add to the same in pandemic yet in sight, the indoors. But people adjusted travel that takes much less resorts would take precedence increasing measure. options are either to sit at fairly quicklyto the first wave time and is safer with con- over conventional hotel type Regardless of the forecasts home, or move about with of coronavirus and eventual- trolled air flows and HEPA fil- accommodation and traffic by different soothsayers, we precautions and restrictions or ly resumed going out, even out ters. Short distance Shatabdi to non-city hotels may witness need to prepare for a future be an eternal optimist and plan of cities on short-term holi- type travel may sustain but an increase as compared to city that would definitely witness for the post COVID-19 era days. Going to Maldives, a long-distance travel is likely to hotels. a resurgence in tourism, albeit when pent up desiresto go out nation that remained unaffect- habits of people with the tances from their homes. Delhi be impacted in the short to The efforts of of a changed mix. We need to would suddenly find an ed by the virus for a long time, majority seeking an experience and its surroundingswould medium term. International Air Transport focus on and build tourist uncontrollable opening. became a fashion statement. within the country's tourist perhaps witness a lot of road Domestic air travel may Association towards initiating infrastructure innovatively and I clearly remember the But the virus returned with a destinations, at least in the travel to hill stations in even go up now, but interna- Covid passportsare commend- put in place systems for 30th and 31st of January last vengeance this April. short-term. Himachal and Uttarakhand. tional travel may continue to able and need to be imple- improving tourist informa- year when the first rescue International travel is like- The “Aas Paas” brand of And similar could be the state be impacted for sometime. mented at the earliest after tion and facilitation. Incidents flights took off majestically ly to be affected for quite tourism piloted by the state of of affairs almost all round the And both aircrafts and trains working out the modalities. like the ongoing pandemic from the Delhi airport for The author is former some time, atleast till the vac- Madhya Pradesh almost a country. Cross-country move- would have to aggressively The operation of private must be regarded as tempo- Wuhan, to bring back the Chairman & Managing cination drive gathers momen- decade ago is likely to witness ment for tourism in all prob- follow COVID-19 sanitation passenger carrying trains may rary setbacks; the sector would stranded Indians. There was a Director, Air India and tum and covers the majority of a resurgence. People are more abilitymay witness a decline by protocols regardless. in the future give a new bounce back much faster than nationalistic fervour and a former Chairman, our population.Till then likely to feel safe and confident train or road in favour of air Visits to tourist sites would dimension to passenger com- others once things improve. feeling of accomplishment Railway Board. The views domestic tourism may witness in exploring nearby places travel. definitely remain affected fort and overall experience. With vaccination gathering when the Boeing 747s took off expressed are personal. a surge. Many of us visualize and seeking a different expe- Rail travel in my view though tourist destinations And the planned rapid pace of pace, good times have to and there was no feeling of a distinct change in the travel rience within drivable dis- may take a long-term hit. especially of the hill station adding to the fixed infrastruc- return. VIJAYAWADA | WEDNESDAY | MAY 26, 2021 Money 08 ‘India's GDP to grow at 1.3 Sensex, Nifty end flat on per cent in March quarter’ PNS n MUMBAI

The country's GDP is likely to profit booking in financials grow at 1.3 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2020-21 and PNS n MUMBAI Binod Modi, Head may see a contraction of Strategy at Reliance around 7.3 per cent for the full Equity benchmarks Securities. financial year, according to Sensex and Nifty ended Notably, metal stocks an SBI research report on a flat note after witnessed recovery as 'Ecowrap'. range-bound trade on sharp correction in last The e-National Statistical Tuesday as investors couple of days brought Office (NSO) will release the 'nowcasting model' with 41 FY22 as compared to loss of Rs booked profits at high- investors' interest back GDP estimates for the March high-frequency indicators 11 lakh crore in Q1 FY21," it er levels following the to metal companies, 2021 quarter and provisional associated with industry activ- said. market's sharp recovery which have report annual estimates for the year ity, service activity, and glob- Real GDP loss would be in over the past few ses- robust earnings per- 2020-21 on May 31. al economy in collaboration the range of Rs 4-4.5 lakh crore sions. formance in 4Q FY21 "Based on our 'nowcasting with State Bank Institute of and, hence, real GDP growth The 30-share BSE and guided healthy model', the forecasted GDP Leadership (SBIL), Kolkata. would be in the range of 10-15 Sensex settled 14.37 performance in ensu- growth for Q4 would be The report said that going by per cent (as against RBI fore- points or 0.03 per cent ing quarters, he added. around 1.3 per cent (with the estimate of 1.3 per cent cast of 26.2 per cent), it said. lower at 50,637.53, He, however, stated downward bias) as against GDP growth, India would still The research report further while the broader NSE that investors will con- NSO (National Statistical be the fifth-fastest-growing said both deposits and credit of Nifty advanced 10.75 tinue to focus on trajec- Office) projection of a negative country among 25 nations all the banks declined in April points or 0.07 per cent tory of daily COVID- (-)1 per cent," the research that have released their GDP and May. However, the trend to 15,208.45. 19 cases and vaccina- report said. numbers so far. It said one like- in deposits has changed from Asian Paints was the tion ramp up in the "We now expect GDP ly consequence of any upward FY21. top gainer in the Sensex country in the near decline for the full year (FY revision in FY21 estimates is a Deposits had increased by a pack, advancing over term, and possible 2020-21) to be around 7.3 per concomitant decline in FY22 staggering Rs 2.8 lakh crore in 3 per cent, fol- withdrawal of restric- cent (compared to our earlier GDP estimates. "Our estimates 2020-21; and in the current lowed by Titan, tions in a phased man- prediction of minus 7.4 per now indicate that there might financial year, it has already Bajaj Finserv, ner by states from next cent)," it said. State Bank of be nominal GDP loss of up to increased by Rs 1 lakh crore till ONGC, Infosys week should boost India (SBI) has developed a Rs 6 lakh crore during Q1 May 7. and TCS. market mood. On the other Elsewhere in Asia, hand, HDFC Bank, bourses in Shanghai, Axis Bank, Reliance Hong Kong, Seoul and MONEY MATTERS Industries, IndusInd Tokyo ended on a pos- Delhi Airport Bank, HDFC and ITC itive note. were among the lag- Equities in Europe handled 100 Barclays cuts India's FY22 gards. were largely trading "Domestic equities with gains in mid-ses- relief flights traded in a range. sion deals. GDP estimate to 9.2 per cent While BFSIs witnessed Meanwhile, interna- British brokerage on some profit-booking tional oil benchmark in last month Tuesday cut India's FY22 after sharp recovery Brent crude was trad- PNS n HYDERABAD AGDP growth estimate by a recorded in last couple ing 0.50 per cent lower sharp 0.80 per cent to 9.2 per of trading days, others at USD 68.03 per bar- GMR group-run Delhi cent, saying the economic impact traded positively," said rel. International Airport has of the second wave of infections handled 100 COVID-19 has been deeper than initially relief flights in the last one expected. Barclays chief India month, which have car- economist Rahul Bajoria also ried 1,750 metric tonnes mentioned the slow pace of vaccinations in the country and the (MT) of relief cargo from rolling lockdowns across many states for the estimate. It can be Bajaj Electricals posts Govt to set up National Mission over 36 international des- noted that the last month has seen a slew of similar forecasts from tinations. analysts, even as the RBI maintained its estimate of a 10.5 per cent During the second growth in real GDP. The analysts' estimates range from 8.5 per cent on biomass use in power plants wave of the pandemic, the to a little above 10 per cent. The higher growth number has been Rs 54 cr profit for Mar PNS n NEW DELHI airport ensured efficient made possible by a low base of FY21, where the economy and swift handling of contracted by over 7.5 per cent. "Although India's second COVID-19 PNS n NEW DELHI and construction) segment The power ministry on medical aid being wave has started to recede, the related economic costs have been has achieved a total revenue Tuesday said it has decide to received from across the larger owing to the more stringent lockdowns implemented to Bajaj Electricals on Tuesday of Rs 283 crore in the fourth set up a National Mission on world, with active support contain the outbreak… we lower our FY 2021-22 GDP growth reported a consolidated net quarter of last fiscal as use of biomass in coal- based from its stakeholders, forecast a further 0.80 per cent, to 9.2 per cent," Bajoria said. profit of Rs 54.26 crore for against Rs 554 crore, a thermal power plants in order Delhi International the quarter ended March 31, decline of 48.9 per cent over to address the issue of air pol- Airport Ltd (DIAL) said 2021. a year ago. lution due to farm stubble in a release on Tuesday. It had registered a net loss Bajaj Electricals Chairman burning and to reduce carbon The country's busiest Gold declines Rs 102, silver of Rs 81 lakh in the January- and Managing Director footprints. airport is the largest March period of the previous Shekhar Bajaj said that the This would further support cargo hub airport of also tumbles Rs 269 financial year. consumer products business the energy transition in the south Asia region, with old dipped Rs 102 to The company's total rev- has delivered a strong perfor- country and its target to move two integrated cargo ter- Rs 48,025 per 10 enue from operations in mance in this quarter, despite towards cleaner energy to handle the higher amount of Mission are under finalization. minals having an annu- Ggram in the national January-March 2021 stood at a sharp rise in commodity sources, Ministry of Power silica, alkalis in the biomass It is being envisaged that the al handling capacity of capital on Tuesday amid Rs 1,258.47, down 3.24 per prices and a weakening of said in a statement. pellets. The Mission would Mission would have a Steering 1.8 million MT, which is rupee appreciation, cent as against Rs 1,300.66 overall demand sentiment. The National Mission will also facilitate overcoming the Committee headed by scalable to 2.3 million according to HDFC crore in the year-ago period, "Our EPC segment has have objectives including constraints in supply chain of Secretary (Power) comprising MT. With the handling of Securities. In the the company said in a BSE further reduced its loss, while increasing the level of co-fir- bio mass pellets and agro- all stakeholders including rep- 100th relief flight on previous trade, the filing. continuing to focus on exe- ing from present 5 per cent to residue and its transport up to resentatives from Ministry of Tuesday, the airport precious metal had closed Its consumer products seg- cution and working capital. higher levels to have a larger the power plants, the statement Petroleum & Natural Gas , recorded the highest at Rs 48,127 per 10 ment has earned a total rev- "On a full-year basis, share of carbon neutral power said. Ministry of New & Renewable movements of COVID gram. Silver also declined enue of Rs 975 crore as despite it being a pandemic- generation from thermal It would also consider reg- Energy etc. relief aid among all Rs 269 to Rs 70,810 per against Rs 747 crore a year impacted year, we have deliv- power plants. ulatory issues in biomass co- The Executive Committee domestic airports amid kilogram from Rs 71,079 ago, a growth of 30.6 per ered strongly to our overall It would also take up firing. would be headed by Member the pandemic, DIAL per kilogram in the previous trade. "Spot gold prices for 24 carat in cent. Bajaj Electricals' EPC strategy in line with our research and development The modalities of operation (Thermal), CEA (Central said. Delhi were down by Rs 102 pressured by rupee appreciation," (engineering, procurement long-term vision," he added. (R&D) activity in boiler design and structure of the Nation Electricity Authority). according to HDFC Securities, Senior Analyst (Commodities), Tapan Patel. The Indian rupee strengthened by 13 paise to 72.83 against the US dollar in early trade on Tuesday. In the international market, gold was trading higher at USD 1,882.50 per ounce, while silver IIFT completes placement Shibulal buys Benz GLA, AMG GLA was flat at USD 27.67 per ounce. Infosys shares of MBA (IB) 2019-21 batch worth Rs 100 cr launched at Rs 42.10L IBM partners top Indian PNS n NEW DELHI MBA (IB) Programme. The PNS n NEW DELHI online purchase, Mercedes- placements witnessed an Benz India said in a statement. academic institutions The Indian Institute of Foreign average CTC of Rs 21.08 from his wife German luxury carmaker Originally, the GLA was ech giant IBM on Tuesday Trade (IIFT), under the com- lakh per annum. The high- PNS n NEW DELHI Mercedes-Benz on Tuesday scheduled to be launched in said it has partnered with merce ministry, on Tuesday, est CTC offered stood at Rs launched two SUVs - the all- April but has been delayed to T11 top-tier academic said it has concluded the 46.5 lakh per annum," the Infosys co-founder S D new GLA and AMG GLA 35 the end of May due to the dis- institutions including the placements for the 2019-21 institute said in a statement. Shibulal has bought shares 4M in India with introducto- ruption caused by the pan- Indian Institute of Science batch of its flagship MBA in Prof Manoj Pant, IIFT worth Rs 100 crore of the IT ry prices starting at Rs 42.10 demic. (IISc) Bangalore and IIT the International Business pro- Director said that the insti- major from wife Kumari lakh after being delayed by the "However, based on increas- Kharagpur to allow over-the- gramme with an average CTC tute offers the best of the tal- Shibulal through an open second wave of the COVID-19 ing customer demand, to sus- cloud access to its quantum of Rs 21.08 lakh per annum. ent available in the country market transaction. pandemic. tain the business continuity systems in a bid to accelerate It said that the sales and Auto, Cipla, Dabur, Eli Lilly, to the corporate sector and "...We are hereby informing Both these SUVs will be and support the economic advanced training and research in quantum computing. The faculty marketing domain attracted GSK, HUL, ITC, L'Oréal, the Indian and multination- you about the sale of 7,45,150 available in dealerships across sustenance of the retail net- and students of these 11 institutions will be able to access IBM the highest percentage of Paytm, and Tata Steel. al businesses, in turn, have equity shares of Infosys to S India where business is oper- work, the company has decid- quantum systems, quantum learning resources, and quantum tools offers and witnessed keen "IIFT recently concluded continued to show faith and D Shibulal by way of block ational, besides being available ed to offer these two new over IBM Cloud for education and research purposes that will allow participation from brands the final placements for the confidence in the candi- sale on May 24, 2021," at the company's web store for products for the customers in them to work on actual quantum computers and programme them like Airtel, Amway, Bajaj 2019-21 batch of its flagship dates. Kumari Shibulal said. those customers who prefer an the market," it said. using the Qiskit open-source framework, a statement said. The collaboration will be part of the IBM Quantum Educators programme that helps faculty in the quantum field connect with one another and provides them with resources to enable quality Triumph drives in Aim to comply with IT rules: FB educational experiences, it added. PNS n NEW DELHI we are working to implement No major impact of Covid on operational processes and Bonneville Bobber Facebook on Tuesday said it is improve efficiencies”. PNS n NEW DELHI Business Head Shoeb Farooq working to implement opera- Facebook remains commit- client deliverables: Infosys said. With the launch of the tional processes and aims to ted to people's ability to freely T major Infosys on British premium motorcycle Bobber, the company's classic comply with the provisions of and safely express themselves Tuesday said it has seen brand Triumph Motorcycles line-up now has an overall of the IT rules that come into on our platform, the Ino major impact on client on Tuesday said it has nine motorcycles including effect from May 26. spokesperson added. deliverables due to the launched the updated version three special editions which, by The social media giant, how- The company, however, did ongoing pandemic, and has of Bonneville Bobber in India far is the largest modern clas- ever, said it continues to discuss not divulge additional details. been working proactively priced at Rs 11.75 lakh. sic portfolio offered by a pre- a “few of the issues which need According to sources close with clients to mitigate any The 2021 Bonneville mium manufacturer in the more engagement” with the appointment of a chief compli- these social media companies to the development, provi- potential impact.The Bobber comes with enhanced country offering motorcycles government. ance officer, nodal contact losing their intermediary sta- sions around voluntary verifi- Bengaluru-based company engine performance, technol- from 900 cc up to a 1,200 cc The comments assume sig- person and resident grievance tus that provides them exemp- cation, 24-hour timeline to has also enabled vaccination for 14,150 employees and their family ogy and equipment. platform, he added. The new nificance as social media com- officer. tions from liabilities for any remove content flagged for members through its centres, and is in the process of setting up "The Triumph Bobber has Bobber comes powered with panies are facing the deadline IT Ministry sources said third-party information and nudity etc and setting up a additional facilities across its campuses in India. Besides, Infosys is always had a demand among Triumph's latest generation of May 25 to comply with the that appointment of a griev- data hosted by them. In a process and time bound griev- providing financial support, exploring training and job opportunities Indian customers and due to Bonneville 1,200 cc engine new guidelines for digital plat- ance officer would be a key statement on Tuesday, a ance redressal mechanism has for the next of kin and offering necessary assistance to support this we decided to bring the which generates a peak power forms. The new rules were requirement from day-one of Facebook spokesperson said: been put in place, while meet- dependents of deceased staff members. "We continue to operate in Bobber back after a gap of one of 78PS. The 2021 Bobber announced in February which rules coming into effect, given “We aim to comply with the ing requirements like genera- a remote model across our offices and see no major impact on our year. The 2021 Bobber features also exceeds EURO 5 require- requires large social media the importance of public inter- provisions of the IT rules and tion of monthly compliance client deliverables due to the ongoing health situation. In few new updates, with the blacked ments, giving lower emissions platforms like Twitter, face for complaints, and need continue to discuss a few of the reports and appointment of instances, where we have had challenges, we have been working out finishing giving the motor- than the previous generation, Facebook, Instagram and for an acknowledgement sys- issues which need more chief compliance officer, nodal proactively with our clients to mitigate any potential impact," Infosys cycle a more stunning appeal," and improved fuel economy, WhatsApp to follow addition- tem for requests. Non-compli- engagement with the govern- contact person and resident said in a statement. Triumph Motorcycles India the company noted. al due diligence, including the ance with rules would result in ment. Pursuant to the IT rules, grievance officer is underway. 9

Vijayawada Wednesday May 26, 2021 what’s brewing? A MELTING GET, SET, BINGE! POT FOR DARK CHOCOLATE & BEETROOT BROWNIE, COMICS, With more and PUDDING WITH CASSIS CREAM more cases of FOOD AND Covid-19, it's What you need Cocoa solid dark chocolate: 100 gm safer to stay Egg: 2 home and whip Muscovado sugar: 125 gm TRAVEL Vanilla extract: 1 tsp aunched in 2020, blogs on social media. up delicious food Melted butter: 125 gm ‘Graphic According to Goethe Travelogues’ Institut, GT Culinary is a in a hygienic Cocoa powder: 40 gm l proves to be a one of its kind expedition Self-rising flour: 40 gm remarkable stage where professional chefs environment — Grated and cooked beetroot: 150 gm for comics and and avid travel bloggers graphic novels portraying from different cultures and in our own Double cream: 200 ml travel. Their culinary sec- cities come together for a Cassis liquor: 2 tbsp tion is a trans-regional plat- tryst with gastronomy, trav- kitchens! So Icing sugar (optional) form that documents the el, and comics. expedition and see the #Culinary journey together travel experiences of comic Through vivid experi- world through their eyes — in Dehli. The adventure ditch ordering artists across geographies ences and resulting sketch- from shopping for ingredi- begins at a Bengali market Method and highlights and identi- es, the project demonstrates ents to preparing the dish in Mini Kolkata. There they out, don that In a separate bowl, whisk and bake for 20 minutes. fies recurring topics and graphic cooking and deliv- step by step in times when shop for Shukto and Methi For the brownie: together the eggs, sugar and The puddings are done new artists, thus presenting Chicken — one dish from apron, and make Pre-heat the oven to 180 vanilla until thick and when well risen and the sur- and creating treasures in Punjab, and one from degree C. foamy. face is cracked. this field of art. 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With some highly Bharat Thakur anticipated projects BARKHA SINGH AND HER under her belt, Barkha makes India proud Singh, the child artiste who played young STELLAR ACTING CHOPS Kareena Kapoor in Mujhse Dosti Karoge, here was a familiar catalysing a new era of creativity. The actress shares how she looked generation’s cool kid who’s work- sense of ease as it felt As others struggle to come to at the role when she landed it. ing against the odds to innovate, can't feel more like a session of catch- grips with the new normal possi- “What I did was more like a sum- create, connect, and inspire and t up without the added bility, she Barkha has begun to mer vacation thing. Mujhse Dosti there seems to be absolutely noth- optimistic. In her free- effort of trying to navi- embrace what she sees as an Karoge happened in the summer ing that can stop her! gate a questionnaire. unprecedented opportunity for a break between my third and spoken spirit, the sia Inc. 500, a well-known digital Barkha was last seen in the film creative revolution. She adds, “I fourth standard. I was like ‘let’s go platform, in association with the Murder Meri Jaan where she plays am thankful to my productive to Switzerland and Manali and young actor talks about government of Malaysia and the role of a con artist who gets meditation hours that continue to meet Hrithik, Kareena and Rani’, A Commonwealth Youth, Malaysia, married to a top cop. While she’s fuel me with new ideas for content ‘cause why not!” she chuckles. honoured Dr. Bharat Thakur, had many note-worthy outings on everyday, atleast for a basic daily- Barkha agrees that OTT is the her time of reflection Spiritual Master, and the big and small screens, also routine as it keeps me composed. new in-thing now, but both the Philanthropist with the ‘Award Of Excellence having to steer through the ongo- In fact, I have a lot of content small screen and the digital and breaking new in Art, Yoga Philanthropy’ in a recently held ing pandemic, her humility is available in my bank but the only platform come with their fair virtual event. unfettered. “I was shooting for a thing that's holding me back is the share of challenges. Having ground to The Dr. Bharat Thakur, who also happens to be travel show and the pandemic sensitive period — I see people worked in a few digital the spouse of actress Bhumika Chawla, is the went out of control, I had to rush losing their loved ones and there’s series which include Pioneer's SHIKHA face of modern India. TIME magazine called back. Then there was this one year a race for even basic needs out Engineering Girls, Please him the “Living Himalayan Master. of doing absolutely nothing, all of there.” Find Attached and Manoj DUGGAL. At the tender age of four years, he was us regardless of status, were About Murder Meri Jaan that Bajpayee-starrer Silence... taken to the Himalayas by his master, locked inside. While we could see made her what she is today, the Can You Hear It?, shares, Sukhdev Brahmachari. a ray of beaming hope in the mid- actress shared, “Muder Meri Jaan “Five years ago, nobody He who has his yoga centers in Hyderabad, dle of all this chaos with shootings has been a saving grace for me! even knew OTT exist- New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Gurgaon, being resumed, I didn’t hold With a super fun, fast paced story- ed. But today, I have Dubai, and Moscow, has conducted over myself back and shot three line, eccentric characters and the subscribed to all the 10,000 yoga and meditation sessions for lead- tremendous projects back-to- hilarious circumstances that they major OTT platforms! ing corporates, celebrities, and leaders world- back. I thought ‘who knows, we find themselves in, it’s all a com- There’s content for wide and the founder of ‘Artistic Yoga.’ could get stuck again’ and here we plete entertainment package. My everyone, every age, Adapting ancient yoga techniques and pos- are, in a another lockdown.” character Sonal is an innocent- every preference, every tures to suit new lifestyle requirements, this Talking about how’s she’s coping looking, but very sharp young girl demographic. The system of Yoga works on all aspects of fitness with it all, the actress shares, “My with a long criminal history that industry is so dynamic — strength, flexibility, stamina, balance, and work-out is what is keeping me includes duping men after marry- that it keeps revamp- agility. Artistic Yoga is today taught across sane these days! Whenever you ing them. You never know what’s ing itself, hence, you 30+ countries from acorss the world. switch on the television set or on her mind. Things turn awry gotta keep up with the Michael Douglas has practiced his brand of open the newspaper, it’s heart- when her latest catch is none latest trend or else Yoga, meditation, and philosophy, Boris breaking to visualise what’s hap- other than a police officer himself, you’ll stay behind. We Becker, cricketer Shane Warne, people in pening outside. Even creating con- resulting in a series of difficult have episodic content on business Sunil Bharti Mittal and Ratan Tata, tent online has become a hum- and funny situations for both of OTT where we have the musician Anoushka Shankar, and also mem- drum now, but the second wave them.” Growing up, she found the power to choose content that we bers of the Indian Film Industry like Kareena has forced me to have some me- character roles of con-artists to be want to see, be it of any genre. It Kapoor Khan, Bipasha Basu, Sridevi, time. I don’t think at the moment very glamorous for some uncanny has a huge reach. It is not limited Anushka Shetty, Salman Khan, and David it’s a conducive environment for reason, but now when she got the to one country Dhawan also practiced his brand of Yoga. people out there to even consume opportunity to play it for herself, or place! There Bharat Thakur has conducted many overtly-funny content online, it’s a she enacted an in-depth personal- are greater Meditation workshops (called Tapasya — lit- bit of a lull-time for the industry ity of a con-woman who’s not so opportunities erally “burning with an intense desire to too, because it gets difficult to cre- easy to be identified as one! for so many reach the divine”). ate variety of content within a Though the shoot was hectic for projects and an In this two-day workshop, Bharat uses confined space!,” shares the her amid the signs of second wave actor can also meditation techniques from diverse systems YouTuber. already approaching the country, decide to pick such as Sufism, Zen Buddhism, and Yoga. Even though there’s a pandemic the good thing that happened was and choose,” The student is guided in finding a Yoga style looming outside, the actress still the she got acquainted to the city shares the they believe is right for them; Hatha Yoga, swears by the pedagogy of creativ- of Bhopal in no time. actress who’s Dhyana Yoga, or Bhakti Yoga. ity no matter what, only that it Mujhse Dosti Karoge! was her also an animal “It’s my honour and privilege to receive the doesn’t overboard the populace. first acting job that starred activist. She’s award. This shows the increasing awareness The pandemic definitely is Hrithik Roshan and Rani Mukerji. the current of art, heritage, and yoga, which is the need of the hour. I will continue to contribute to these fields to the fullest of my capacity,” said Dr. Thakur upon receiving the award. Journalist, exposure has given me a won- My bigger concern is that speaker and derful platform to immerse nowadays people are more myself in worlds and cultures concerned about owning a award-winning different from mine. It’s made book than consuming it, in a me sensitive to what sets peo- phenomenon known as antili- author Meghna ple apart and brings them brary. That’s fine, as long as it YOUR BODY, together. I think travelling is translates into sales for pub- Pant tells The the best way to absolve your- lishing houses, bookstores and self from who you are. You authors, but if you want to go Pioneer in a realise the smallness of your back to reading, it’s not an fears and the largeness of your either-or. Don’t get FOMO tête-à-tête that Right’. Along the way, Ladoo smiles. (fear of missing out). must figure out whether As a child, I also read a lot. Prioritise. Read during the she wrote The motherhood means marriage, From Enid Blyton, Sidney weekends when you have time whether being a single mother Sheldon, Jeffery Archer, to immerse yourself in a book. Terrible, means loneliness, whether ‘my Somerset Maugham, Ruskin Binge-watch during weekdays Horrible, Very body, my rules’ apply to Bond, Shakespeare and RK after work. Read in the morn- women, and whether doing YOUR CHOICE Narayan, the typical fare that ings, watch at night. Read a something scandalous is out- Indian children growing up in book whose series you just Bad Good rageous or courageous. We the 80s-90s were given to read. watched. You can read and talk to the author of the book of this novel. To debunk biological child. Motherhood Gone With The Wind was the watch, without compromising News to — The Terrible, Horrible, Very everything we’ve been taught is more about emotions than first book I stayed up till six in one for the other. Bad Good News — Meghna about motherhood, marriage biology, so we cannot judge in the morning reading, and till Change is inevitable, let’s debunk Pant, to find out the answers. and the biological clock. what way a woman wants to today I don’t think there is a celebrate it instead of dimin- everything Excerpts: The plot says, “This have a child — whether it’s book as perfect as that or a ishing it. How did you conceptu- humorous yet inspiring through surrogacy, IVF, adop- character as finely etched out Reports implied that we’ve been alise The Terrible, story of a small-town tion or the traditional way. as Scarlett O’Hara. Reading your book will soon be Horrible, Very Bad Good woman’s fight against Is comedy a good way has ha d a definitive impact on seen as a feature film, taught about News? What went into social stigma will res- to address social my writing. Badnam Ladoo. Do you its research? onate with every woman issues? What does the future of think film adaptations do motherhood, and man.’ How and why the written world look justice to the books After I found myself child- do you think so? It’s the only way to commu- like since we are they’re based on? Why marriage and less and single at the age of 33, nicate the truth without being swamped by digital or why not? I spend years torturing myself I think women’s issues are offensive or pedantic. entertainment? the biological and allowed society to shame everyone’s issues, and humour How did you come up The book is under develop- me for my ‘failure’. Despite is essential for every gender as with the title? I don’t buy into the compe- ment with a big studio. Films having a good career, living we try to survive thisdeadly tition between OTT and take time to gestate, on aver- clock around the world, surviving pandemic. It is inspired by a sweet books. I think that both books age two to three years, and an abusive relationship, pub- Mainstream cinema is shop I saw in Lucknow, where and OTT are going to co-exist more during the pandemic. lishing books and winning now gradually warming my parents sometimes live. in the future. A good story So, we’ll have to be patient. hirty-four-year-old awards, I let myself be told up to the idea that there The protagonist’s pet name is must be told no matter what But this is a film that people Ladoo, a simple, that I wasn’t woman enough is no set age for mother- Ladoo and she becomes bad- its medium is. will love because it’s entertain- middle-class divorcee until I’d had a child. I was hood with films like nam after she decides to I also think that OTT plat- ment with insight. from Rishikesh, Ladoo. Fortunately, I met a Badhaai Ho... How do become a mother without get- forms are a fantastic way to Books need only one per- t wants only one thing wonderful man, got married, ting married first. scale your book and talent, if son — the author — in order you think your book can from life — a baby. and — at age 37 and 39 — I help shape public per- How have your forma- they fit, to a larger audience to work. But film adaptations She eats gondh halwa, drinks had two beautiful daughters. ception of pregnancy tive years influenced than you ever imagined. need many people to come badam milk and takes folic After all the cautionary tales after a certain age? your writing? Therefore, as a writer, I see together to work. Adaptations acid to slow down her ticking I’d been fed my entire life, of OTT as an opportunity and can lift the book but never biological clock and become the difficulty older women I want women to know that To be able to sit down and not a threat. diminish it. the world’s most fertile have conceiving, I’d braced ‘my body, my rules’ apply to write about the world, it’s cru- We cannot hold it against For example, I think films woman. When an accidental myself for futility. But both my each and every one of them. cial to first stand up and see someone that, if after a long like Guide, The Namesake, 7 meeting with a gynecologist pregnancies were natural and Let no one tell you if you what’s out there. My parents day at work, they want to Khoon Maaf, Omkara and 3 reveals that her ‘eggs are dry- smooth. I worked till the day should have children, when biological clock — and yet have simply adopted a worked for the government, so decompress by watching Idiots have been better than ing up and finding a sperm of my delivery. you should have them, how assumes a wide distance when child and fulfil her own I’ve seen most of India (20 rather than reading a book. the books, while films like donor is her last chance of This led me to the obvious you should have them, and a woman’s body is beaten, desire of being a mother states). My studies and jobs But humans need both senso- Slumdog Millionaire, Mistress having a child, Ladoo races question: Was everything I’d what to do after you have raped, mutilated or killed, just while, at the same time, have taken me from Zurich to ry and semantic experiences of Spices and Atlas Shrugged against time to find the right been told about pregnancy them. Society is opinionated because she’s a woman. Your giving a child a home? Singapore to New York and to grow. That’s where books did nothing for the books, but father for the baby, whose and fertility a lie? It would about everything a woman body, your choice — that’s the Does your book address Dubai. I’ve travelled to 34 come in. The joy of holding a could not take away from kundali matches hers, while seem so. Women’s bodies are does with her body — from main message of the book. this thought? countries across four conti- book, of smelling it, of snug- them being classics. addressing her own mixed stronger than they’re given the way she chooses to dress, Why did it not occur to The book addresses this. nents and lived in eight differ- gling with it under your blan- (The book has been pub- feelings about whether ‘Mr credit for. That’s why I wrote pleasure herself, the hours she Ladoo that she could Ladoo wants to experience ent cities. As a result, I’ve lived ket, can never be replicated by lished by Penguin Random Right Donor’ can also be ‘Mr about Ladoo, the protagonist occupies in public space to her pregnancy and have her own in more than 30 homes. This digital entertainment. House India.) VIJAYAWADA | WEDNESDAY | MAY 26, 2021 sport 11 IPL to resume from Sept 3rd week in UAE Remaining 31 matches will be completed in three-week window with 10 doubles-headers

PTI n NEW DELHI which was a build-up to the side’s World T20 preparations. he postponed Indian Premier “The series can’t be held and in Indian squads begin hard quarantine League will resume tentative- any case there can’t be any better Tly on September 18 or 19 in preparation for the T20 World Cup PTI n MUMBAI the hosts in one Test, three ODIs the UAE with as many as 10 dou- than playing a high intensity tourna- and as many T20Is starting June ble-headers expected to be played ment like IPL. Since the T20 World ndia captain Virat Kohli, his 16. during a three-week window, a Cup will start within a week or 10 Iwhite-ball deputy Rohit Sharma “Wriddhiman and Prasidh senior BCCI official told PTI on days after completion of the IPL, the and head coach Ravi Shastri joined Krishna joined the bubble two Tuesday. SA series can only be held at a later the England-bound squad’s bio- days back after recovering fully The final might be held on date. bubble on Tuesday as it began its from Covid-19. Mumbaikars like October 9 or 10. The three-week “There is a chance that India eight-day hard quarantine along Virat, Rohit and coach Shastri have window will be enough for the might play extra games when they with the women’s team here. all now joined the bubble,” a league to complete its remaining 31 tour South Africa early next year,” the The Indian women’s team BCCI source confirmed. games for the season, a win-win sce- source said. members also entered their eight- It is learnt that approval for nario for all the primary stakehold- day hard quarantine at the Grand allowing the players’ families is still ers including the BCCI, franchises NZ TESTS COULD BE SHIFTED Hyatt in Mumbai located near the awaited but the BCCI is hopeful and broadcasters. The India home season also international airport. that it would be done soon. The IPL was postponed on had a two Test series against New The teams are expected to fly “We can’t have our players May 4 after multiple Covid-19 cases Zealand in November and the dates out on June 2 after all the playing being away from their families for inside its bio-bubble came to light. of which could be shifted depending and non-playing members return three months and that too in a “The BCCI has spoken to all the upon when the T20 World Cup ends. three negative RT-PCR results. bubble. That’s never great for stakeholders and the likely start While BCCI, as of now, will not The men’s team will first take mental health,” the source said. could be between September 18th to give up its hosting rights and wait on New Zealand in the World Test The negotiation on quarantine 20th. Since September 18 is a how the Covid-19 situation in India Championship final against New duration once the side reaches Saturday and 19 a Sunday, it is more pans out, there is very little chance Zealand from June 18 before a full England is still on and the hard likely that you would want to re-start that countries will want to travel to series against England. The quarantine (confined to hotel it on a weekend date,” the official India which is facing its worst health women are scheduled to take on rooms) could be shortened. said on conditions of anonymity. emergency since independence. “Similarly, October 9th or 10th will be the final as it’s a weekend. We Similarly, the West Indies players are finalising the itinerary and there THE INDIAN TEAM'S LAST will also fly in after completing the will be 10 double headers and seven TEST MATCH AGAINST Caribbean Premier League engage- My heart sank when everyone left: Seifert recalls Covid in IPL evening matches along with four ments. There will be three-day main games (two qualifiers, one ENGLAND IS SET TO quarantine for players arriving from PTI n AUCKLAND “I got pulled aside and told I’d IPL bubble though. IPL, is presently undergoing his 14- eliminator and the final), which FINISH ON SEPTEMBER 14 UK and the Caribbean,” the source tested positive and my heart sank “Talking to some of the day mandatory quarantine here completes the list of 31 matches,” the said. ew Zealand cricketer Tim straight away when everyone left. English boys that were over there following his return to New official added. AT MANCHESTER AND ON A franchise official confirmed NSeifert’s world stopped for a I was the only overseas player basi- before the IPL … everything that Zealand after recovering from the The Indian team’s last Test THE NEXT DAY, THE that a communication from BCCI moment and heart sank when he cally still left in India out of the they were saying was doing well. deadly virus. match against England is set to fin- WHOLE TEAM (SAVE has come on the matter. tested positive for Covid-19 dur- whole tournament. That’s when You only kind of heard good He had to stay back in India ish on September 14 at Manchester “We have been told by the ing the now suspended IPL but the things got a little bit real,” an emo- things, the structures, all the plans even after the suspension of the and on the next day, the whole team HANUMA VIHARI & BCCI to be ready for the tourna- wicket-keeper said he never felt tional Seifert told the New Zealand that have been put in place,” Seifert league as he contracted the virus (save Hanuma Vihari and ABHIMANYU EASWARAN) ment. We have been given a vulnerable inside the tournament’s Herald. said. just 24 hours before he was to fly Abhimanyu Easwaran) will be flown September 15 to 20 window,” a team bio-bubble. “The world stops a little bit, I “That was a good point of view back home with fellow New to UAE in a chartered flight for a WILL BE FLOWN TO UAE IN official said. Seifert, however, insisted that just couldn’t really think what was for a player to go over there, and Zealand players. “bubble to bubble” transfer. A CHARTERED FLIGHT FOR his Covid-19 ordeal will not deter next and that’s the scary part of it to be honest the whole time while His statement was in contrast “The Indian team and the SA SERIES CANCELLED him from travelling to India again — you hear about things, and I I was over there (in India), the bub- to some other IPL players, includ- English players who will be available A ‘BUBBLE TO BUBBLE’ The BCCI has decided to can- for future assignments, including thought that was going to happen ble felt good... Felt safe.” ing Australian Adam Zampa, who will fly in the same charter flight TRANSFER cel India’s T20 series against South the T20 World Cup to be held later to me.” Seifert, who was part of the said he felt vulnerable inside the from Manchester to Dubai. Africa scheduled in September, this year. Seifert was all praise for the Kolkata Knight Riders team in the bio-bubble. Naseem Shah out of PSL I see next 3-4 years as my prime: Unadkat Southgate includes Trent in for protocols breach PTI n NEW DELHI four years I will be at my prime,” ited overs tour in July. Unadkat said. “I know the life of a fast England provisional squad PTI n KARACHI ment. eft-arm pacer Jaydev “I’ve been taking those bowler is quite limited, but I still The 19-year-old Shah has LUnadkat sees himself in his wickets as well, it actually proves have that much time and all I AFP n LONDON a return to form in the final he Pakistan Cricket Board appeared in nine Tests. prime for the next 3-4 years and the fact that I am in a good space can do now is, prepare for the weeks of the season. Thas barred fast bowler The PCB had asked all the repeated snubs from the Indian and I’m finding ways to get peo- next season, or whatever is ncapped defenders Ben England face Austria on Naseem Shah from playing in players travelling in chartered team selectors will not deter him ple out on different tracks in dif- coming up, even if anything UGodfrey and Ben White June 2 and Romania four days the remaining matches of flights from Karachi and Lahore from “pushing his limits”. ferent conditions. And because comes up before the next season, were among the provisional 33- later in pre-tournament friend- Pakistan Super League in Abu to assemble at the team hotels on The 29-year-old, whose only of that, I do believe that my time I will be more than ready to take man squad for Euro 2020 lies at Middlesbrough’s Dhabi for breach of Covid-19 May 24 with negative reports of Test appearance came in 2010 will come. it. named by England manager Riverside Stadium. protocols before departure from RT-PCR tests taken not more and last played for India in 2018, “The selection again is a “I just feel more motivated Gareth Southgate on Tuesday. The Three Lions begin the country. than 48 hours prior to their had led Saurashtra to their tricky thing and normally you than ever to keep doing what I Southgate has a week their Euro 2020 campaign The Board has released arrival. “Naseem presented a maiden Ranji Trophy title in would have performance of am doing to keep taking wick- before he has to trim his squad against Croatia on June 13 Shah of Quetta Gladiators from PCR report from a test conduct- 2020 with a record-breaking 67 India A tours to consider besides ets, keep pushing my own lim- to 26 for the finals which start before facing Scotland and the isolation in Lahore after he ed on May 18. Upon submission wickets in the season. domestic cricket but that hasn’t its and pushing those standards on June 11. Czech Republic in Group D. arrived at the designated hotel of the report, he was placed into With no red ball cricket pos- happened in pandemic.” higher and higher.” The England boss will with a non-compliant RT-PCR isolation on a separate floor sible in the country since then A chunk of those 67 wick- After not having the best of hope to avoid any injuries, PROVISIONAL SQUAD test result. before being released following due to the pandemic, Unadkat in the standbys for the UK tour. ets in 2019-2020 Ranji Trophy times in the IPL last year, with 12 of the provisional Goalkeepers: Jordan Pickford, “As such, the fast bowler will a decision made by a three- has been left disappointed by “I will be biased if I talk came on the flat Rajkot track, Unadkat had a decent outing in squad involved in European Dean Henderson, Sam not be travelling to Abu Dhabi, member panel on the recom- non selection for the Australia about my selection (non selec- both with the new and old ball. the now suspended 2021 edition. finals this week. Johnstone, Aaron Ramsdale. United Arab Emirates, on 26 mendation of the independent tour, the home series against tion in this case). I genuinely It remains to be seen if Unadkat He took four wickets in as many Manchester United take Defenders: Luke Shaw, Harry May and is now out of the com- Medical Advisory Panel for England and now the UK tour. believe that I am in a phase of finds a place in India’s second games including a three-wicket on Villarreal for the Europa Maguire, Ben Chilwell, petition,” the PCB said in a state- PSL,” the PCB said. He doesn’t even even figure my career where the next three, string squad for Sri Lanka lim- haul against Delhi Capitals. League on Wednesday Reece James, John Stones, before Manchester City Kyle Walker, Tyrone and Chelsea face off in an Mings, Conor Coady, shortpasses all-English Champions Kieran Trippier, Trent League final on Saturday. Alexander-Arnold, Ben GATTUSO CHOOSES FIORENTINA Stimac could get extension till Sept United and Godfrey, Ben White. FLORENCE: Gennaro Gattuso was Liverpool captains Midfielders: appointed Fiorentina coach on Tuesday, less PTI n NEW DELHI for a two-year term, and has had Harry Maguire Declan Rice, Jesse than 48 hours after announcing he was mixed results since. and Jordan Lingard, Jordan leaving Napoli. “Gennaro Gattuso will be the he All India Football Federation’s While the team may have won just Henderson as Henderson, new coach of Fiorentina,” president Rocco Ttechnical committee could recom- a solitary game in 12 outings under the well as Leeds Kalvin Phillips, Commisso announced on the Tuscan club's mend an extension of national team former West Ham United defender, midfielder Mason website, which added that the new coach coach Igor Stimac’s contract till the Stimac has given opportunities to Kalvin Phillips Mount, Jude would take up his position on July 1. playoffs of the 2023 AFC Asian Cup many promising youngsters in the are all included Bellingham, Qualifiers in September. team with the freedom to express in Southgate’s James Ward- MAGUIRE DOUBTFUL FOR FINAL The Croatian World Cupper’s themselves on the field. squad despite Prowse. GDANSK: Manchester United captain Harry contract is up for renewal, having “The technical committee will dis- injury doubts. Forwards: Maguire is a major doubt for Wednesday's served his two-year tenure after being cuss and decide on the contract exten- Liverpool’s Phil Foden, Raheem Europa League final against Villarreal after appointed to the top job in May 2019. other issues, it is likely to discuss sion of national team head coach Igor Trent Sterling, Jack Grealish, sitting out his side's training session in The AIFF has summoned its Stimac’s extension till September,” a top Stimac till the September FIFA win- Alexander- Harry Kane, Marcus Gdansk on Tuesday. technical committee for a meeting on AIFF source told PTI on Tuesday. dow,” another federation source said. Arnold is Rashford, Mason Friday, when they will discuss a raft of One of the most high-profile The current contract of Stimac, among four Greenwood, Jadon JEREMY FINISHES 4TH Novak Djokovic returns ball to Mats Moraing issues, besides Stimac’s future. coaches to manage the Indian men’s who had coached Croatia to the 2014 right-backs amid specu- Sancho, Dominic TASHKENT: India's teenage weightlifter during their match of the Belgrade Open tourney “The technical committee has national football team, Stimac was FIFA World Cup in Brazil, was valid lation he is set to miss out Calvert-Lewin, Bukayo Jeremy Lalrinnunga's Olympic hopes took a in Belgrade on Tuesday AP been called on Friday and among appointed to the top post in May 2019 till May 15. on the final squad despite Saka, Ollie Watkins. hit on Tuesday as he missed the podium by a whisker in the Junior World C’ships. The 18-year-old heaved 135kg in snatch and 165kg in clean and jerk for a total of 300kg, missing out on a third place finish by a I want a trophy with France: Benzema Flick appointed to succeed Löw kilogram in the 67kg category. AFP n PARIS Madrid with 29 goals this anyone’s place. ... I am here to a national team which has strug- from Löw, who will leave the job 5TH SUCCESSIVE MEDAL FOR SHIVA term, passing 20 league goals bring what I know.” Former Bayern Munich gled in recent years. after 15 years in charge, a year DUBAI: Seasoned Indian boxer Shiva Thapa eal Madrid’s Karim in all three seasons since France kick off their Euro boss will take Germany The new boss will take over before his contract ends. (64kg) secured his fifth successive medal at RBenzema said he’s target- Cristiano Ronaldo left for 2020 campaign against three- after the European “He was top of my wish list the Asian C’ships by advancing to the semis ing a trophy with France after Juventus in 2018. time winners Germany in charge after Euro 2020 Championship, and is expected from the very start,” said nation- after out-punching Kuwait's Nader Odah in he was recalled to their pro- He added: “I’m not com- Munich on June 15, and also to take charge of his first game al team director Oliver Bierhoff. the last-eight stage on Tuesday. visional Euro 2020 squad fol- ing to the French team to face Hungary and holders AFP n BERLIN in a World Cup qualifier against “Together we have one aim: lowing a controversial, six- overshadow anyone or to take Portugal in Group F. Liechtenstein on September 2. to get back to the top of world IND-ENG 3RD T20 RESCHEDULED year international exile. utgoing Bayern Munich The 56-year-old has long football,” he added. LONDON: The third women's T20 between The prolific star, side- Ocoach Hansi Flick will suc- been the favourite to take over Flick, who also worked as India and England at the Cloudfm County lined by Les Bleus since 2015 ceed his former boss Joachim DFB sporting director between Ground in Chelmsford has been advanced over his alleged role in a Italy still hopeful about Verratti Löw in the Germany dugout 2014 and 2017, has made a by a day to July 14 for broadcast purposes. blackmail plot, missed out on after Euro 2020, the German name for himself as one of France’s 2018 World Cup win Rome: One week before man- the other players coming back Football Association (DFB) Europe’s top coaches in two glit- RAMKUMAR PROGRESSES and their run to the Euro 2016 ager Roberto Mancini has to from injuries, we have already announced on Tuesday, herald- tering years at perennial PARIS: India's Ramkumar Ramanathan final on home soil. name his final 26-man squad, carried out checks and we ing a new era for an ailing giant Bundesliga champions Bayern advanced to the men's singles second Benzema, 33, told Italy remain hopeful that mid- can’t exclude a recovery for of world football. Munich. round of the French Open Qualifiers but L’ E q u i p e he was “proud” of his fielder Marco Verratti could any of them,” said team doc- “It’s all gone surprisingly After taking over from pre- Prajnesh Gunneswaran crashed out call-up, which followed talks play a part in Euro 2020 tor on Tuesday. “The knee is quickly, but I am very happy to decessor Niko Kovac with the following his first-round defeat on Tuesday. with France coach Didier Benzema, who has 27 despite a knee injury. The 28- not bad. We can also possibly be Germany coach from the club in a mid-season crisis, he Deschamps earlier this goals in 81 International year-old was ruled out for imagine the chance that he autumn,” said Flick, 56, after led Bayern to only their second HOCKEY STADIUM RENAMED month. appearances, was last week “four to six weeks” by PSG two will be used once the Euro has signing a three-year contract to ever treble in 2020. CHANDIGARH: The Mohali International “I want to win a trophy named as this season’s best weeks ago and is unlikely to be started.” Verratti missed Euro succeed Löw. The following year, he took Hockey Stadium was on Tuesday officially with the French team,” he French foreign-based player fit in time for the opening 2016 with injury. Italy failed Flick, who was Löw’s assis- the club to a ninth successive renamed after the legendary Balbir Singh Sr said, adding that he hoped to by the country’s players’ asso- match against Turkey on June to qualify for the 2018 World tant coach when Germany Bundesliga title, his seventh on the occasion of his first death “bring a little bit extra” to the ciation. 11. “Regarding Verratti and cup. AFP won the 2014 World Cup, will trophy in just 18 months in the anniversary. Agencies World Cup-winners. He top-scored for Real now be charged with reviving Munich dugout. 12

Vijayawada Wednesday May 26, 2021 tollywood NO OTT, ONLY BIG SCREENS FOR MOST ELIGIBLE BACHELOR

khil Akkineni and Pooja Hegde’s romantic drama Most Eligible Bachelor is one of the most talked- A about films ever since the release of its trailer. With the film facing a lot of hurdles, rumours have popped up regarding its release. Recently there was a strong buzz in the film industry that the makers are mulling a release over an OTT platform but the producers have officially released a press note and put to rest all those rumors. The producers of Most Rao Ramesh plays CBI Eligible Bachelor confirmed that the movie will be coming out in theatres at all costs. According to the makers, the scenes between the lead pair, have come out very well, which is going officer in KGF: Chapter 2 to be the highlight of Akhil and Pooja Hegde-starrer. ction drama KGF: makers of KGF: Chapter 2 are now out that Ramesh has a Most Eligible Bachelor is helmed by Chapter 2, which stars released his first look poster from powerful role in the Prashanth ‘Bommarillu’ Baskar, presented by Yash and Sanjay Dutt the film and confirmed that he is Neel magnum opus. Allu Aravind, and produced by A in the lead roles, is playing the role of a CBI Officer The makers have already Bunny Vas under ‘GA2 Pictures’ being directed by Kanneganti Raghavan. released the first glimpse of banner. The music for the film Prashant Neel and is Prashanth Neel, the helmer of Sanjay Dutt’s character from the has been composed by Gopi one of the much-hyped movies of KGF: Chapter 2, took to his film. He will be seen playing the Sunder and the cinematog- the Indian film industry. The first Twitter and shared a specially primary antagonist which was raphy is being handled by part of KGF was a blockbuster at designed newspaper article, and only teased in the first part of Pradeesh Varma. The the box office so expectations are said, “Wishing the versatile actor KGF. He is playing the character shooting of the soaring high on this upcoming Rao Ramesh sir a very safe Adheera. Bollywood actress of upcoming film is on drama which has Srinidhi Shetty Happy Birthday. Here is a Mohra fame Raveena Tandon too the verge of comple- in the female lead role. glimpse of Kanneganti Raghavan is playing a crucial role in the tion and the last On Rao Ramesh’s birthday, the in KGF: Chapter 2. (sic)” Reports film. schedule is expected to commence very soon. Ala Vaikuntha purram- loo.. actress Pooja Hegde is said to be playing a stand- up comedian in Most Eligible Bachelor whereas Akhil will be seen as an NRI who returns to India in pursuit of his part- ner.

A ‘small’ tale Not part of any song in Bangarraju: Payal Rajput

efore rising to stardom Athidhi. with Ajay Bhupathi’s Not very long ago, there was a directorial venture RX strong buzz in the film industry B 100, Punjabi beauty that Payal Rajput will be seen Payal Rajput sweat it shaking a leg in Nagarjuna’s hard in the showbiz upcoming Telugu film world for nearly 7 years. During Bangarraju, which is a sequel to her initial days in Mumbai, Payal Soggade Chinni Nayana. essayed supporting roles in a Now Payal Rajput has officially number of Hindi television serials confirmed that she is not part of and eventually made her silver Bangarraju, by sharing a post on screen debut with the Punjabi her microblogging page, “Posting film Channa Mereya, a remake of just to make clear I’m not going to Marathi blockbuster Sairat, which be part of any song.” was released in 2017. After kick- The movie Bangarraju will be ing off 2020 with her fantastic directed by Kalyan Krishna and performance as a deaf-mute girl will be backed by Nagarajuna’s in Mass Maharaja Ravi Teja star- Annapurna Studios. Once again rer Disco Raja, Payal was appreci- Ramya Krishna will be seen work- ated for her act in Anaganaga O ing with Nag in this film.

etting the premise of these issues,” said debutant the film through a director Karthik Rapolu. parents’ point of Gandhi, of Venkatadri view, Ek Mini Katha Express fame, added, “This S journeys through story is very close to my heart. some of the hilarious I wanted to write something ‘incidents’ of Santosh Shobhan’s that is unique and hasn’t been life. Santosh suffers from a psy- explored in the past. I also chological problem that causes decided to not give the film a him to be insecure about his serious tone, purely because it ‘size’, which leads to some life- becomes preachy. Issues like altering dilemmas. Struggling these, when addressed in a to find a solution, Santosh is at light-hearted manner become loggerheads with fate and eras- conversational and more opular Telugu actor Jr me a lot,” he said. es the idea of marriage alto- acceptable. I am glad that this NTR on Tuesday said The Aravinda Sametha star gether, until he meets Amrutha film is releasing on an OTT JR NTR he has tested negative believes “will power” is the (essayed by Kavya Thapar), platform, we will be able to ini- for the novel coron- biggest weapon in the fight with whom he falls in love. Is tiate this conversation with so P avirus. against the deadly virus. there nothing a ‘love story’ can- many more people.” The 38-year-old “Covid 19 needs to be taken not solve? Talking about his character, TESTS actor, who was diagnosed with very seriously. But it is also a “A story like this needs fine Santosh shared, “It was an Covid-19 on May 10, took to disease that can be beaten with storytelling and proper repre- absolute riot while filming this Twitter to inform his fans that good care and a positive frame sentation, and I feel fortunate film. The writing, the direction he has recovered and thanked of mind. Your will power is to have collaborated with was so spot on, that playing the NEGATIVE them for their wishes. your biggest weapon in this Merlapaka Gandhi, who is the character came easily to me. “Happy to state that I’ve test- fight. Stay strong. Do not writer of this film and an The fact that this topic is so ed negative for Covid-19 Thank panic,” he said, urging everyone accomplished director himself. ingrained in reality made it you everyone for all the wishes,: to wear a mask and to remain Watching actors like Santosh, easy to portray the finer FOR he wrote. indoors. Kavya, and Brahmaji bring to nuances of such a character. The actor also expressed his Jr NTR will next be seen in life a simple yet relevant situa- The film is an absolute delight, gratitude to the team of doctors filmmaker SS Rajamouli’s peri- tion so seamlessly was a whole- and I can’t wait for the audi- at the city’s KIMS Hospitals and od action drama RRR, slated to some experience. Ek Mini ence to watch it.” COVID-19 Tenet Diagnostics. be released in theatres on Katha will not only make audi- (Ek ini Katha premieres “Their excellent care helped October 13. ences laugh but will also make tomorrow on Amazon Prime them ponder about some of Video.)